Tonight MTV premeired a new show called "Pranked" I was not a fan.

Prank shows have a long standing tradition on television from the origional "Candid Camera" to "Trigger Happy TV" prank shows have certainly earned their place in Television.

The Main Problem that I have with "Pranked" is that it uses amateur videos while at the same time telling people not to send in their own videos. Am I the only one getting a mixed message here? There are a lot of pranks that have the potential for danger and serious consequences, so it's understandable why MTV insists that no one try to recreate these pranks send videos to them. Yet by creating a show that takes all of it's videos off of youtube it is encouraging people to do potentially dangerous stunts.

Now not all of the pranks shown on tonight's episode were dangerous. Some of them were classic good clean fun like rigging a sink to spray the person who turns it on next, yet a few of the pranks were dangerous and downright disturbing. I saw more then two clips that could have resulted in serious injuries.

Pranks aside, the hosts of the show are annoying. I completely understand why MTV chose Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld from CollegeHumor.com to host the show. The is a legendary prank war that went on between Amir and Streeter, all of it caught on camera and available for viewing on http://www.collegehumor.com/tag:prank-war/articles. While the prank war between the two is brilliant and hilarious, their hosting skills are sub-par. Their rhetoric is spiked with infantile humor and meaningless gags that just aren't funny.

Honestly I think this is a show to skip. You can find any of the videos featured on the show on youtube, and you won't be forced to listen to the stupid banter between the hosts.