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Previously on Impractical Jokers Season 1 Episode 7 "Episode 7", The guys analyze hand-writing at the mall, steal food from buffet plates, teach foreign languages to potential students, and dance with strangers at the park. On this week's Episode title "Episode 8", Four friends will compete in awkward and outrageous hidden-camera hijinks. At the end of each episode, the losing competitor will have to attempt a mortifying challenge. What kind of games and stunts will the pranksters take part in this time around? Who will be the loser?Impractical Jokers is a reality/prank television series which premiered on truTV on December 15, 2011. It follows the four members of the comedy troupe The Tenderloins as they coerce one another into doing public pranks while being filmed by hidden cameras. The show differs from other prank television programs in that the stars of Impractical Jokers do not know the details of the prank until the moment they are performing it on strangers. While one cast-member performs the prank, the other three comedians in the troupe are behind the scenes feeding lines to their friend via a microphone. The lines fed to the prankster are meant to create a humorous or awkward exchange between the prankster and the stranger being pranked.The cast of Impractical Jokers has been friends with each other since high school. Their live improv comedy troupe, The Tenderloins, was formed in 1999. However, their television debut occurred only recently. In 2008 they filmed a pilot episode for a scripted sitcom meant to be broadcast by SpikeTV, but the show fell through. TruTV announced the series Impractical Jokers on April 12, 2011, 8 months before the show's debut. one of the show's stars, James Murray, explained how the hidden camera format made sense based on their skills. "We needed to find the right format...thing is, we've been doing this for years, but when it's on camera, the embarrassment is amplified."Before every challenge, the four comedians outline the rules of the challenge. Challenges are often simply for one member to say whatever line is fed to him, although some challenges include more complex rules such as successfully convincing a random stranger to say or do a certain thing. After the challenge is established, each member of the troupe takes a turn performing the challenge while the other three members watch and listen via a hidden camera and mic on the cast-member performing the prank. The location in which the challenge takes place is usually a public area such as a city park or a boardwalk. Although the criteria of each challenge is the same for each of the four comedians, the outcome is often very different depending on what lines are fed to them from the others.Throughout each episode, a tally is kept for each time one of the comedians fails at his task. After roughly four challenges, a loser is determined based on number of challenges failed. The loser is instructed to complete a short task at the end of the episode which is often more embarrassing than the previous four challenges.
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