The Funniest Reality TV Show Moments Are Going Viral Again

Reality shows have brought some of the most chaotic, cringe-worthy, and hilarious moments to television at the peak of the early aughts. Even after all this time, clips from those iconic and unforgettable shows still find a way to crack us up just as much as they did the first time we watched them.

This week, X user @NATERERUN sparked a viral trend with the prompt, “quote this with the funniest Reality tv show moment you’ve ever watched!” 

Within hours, timelines were flooded with responses from the wildest, most binge-worthy moments in TV history, including clips from Jersey Shore, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Catfish, Love & Hip Hop and more.

Here are some of the best reality TV show moments, as shared by fans online.

Jersey Shore introduces the “grenade whistle.”

In a drunken haze, some of the guys from Jersey Shore would occasionally bring back girls to the house who weren’t up to their standards—at least not those of Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino in the above clip, hence the name “grenades.”

The crew introduced a method, the “grenade whistle,” to get those ladies to vacate the premises along with any of their unsought friends who might be straggling along.

A Catfish gets his toupee snatched.

For Catfish’s seventh season, guest star Kimiko Glenn joins Nev Schulman in helping a man named Matthew find his online lover, Chance. The confrontation took a completely unexpected turn when Chance claims that Matthew is also a catfish, before tearing off his hairpiece in an attempt to humiliate him.

Gus and Jeremiah’s fight on Floribama Shore.

One of the most pointless, absolutely unserious fights between these two shirtless best friends didn’t go very far, as security intervened before they could get near each other. The glorified shouting match and Codi’s commentary made this moment one for the books.

The Chicken Nugget King has a meltdown on Wife Swap.

King Curtis, the loveable six-year-old kid whose love for chicken nuggets, bacon, and other processed food, became immortalized in the memeosphere thanks to this moment from a 2009 episode of Wife Swap. We’ll always remember how he lost his mind watching swapped wife Joy throw out his favorite foods.

JWoww tells Angelina she “can stay and get your ass beat.”

In this clip, Jennifer “JWoww” Farley accused Angelina Pivarnick of “talking shit” to some of Farley’s friends in Long Island. Pivarnick denies the claim and insists she wants to be cool with everyone. That response wasn’t enough for JWoww who lets her know she can “get [her] ass beat” over and over again.

Saaphyri Windsor’s got lip balm and prayers on Flavor of Love.

Moments after a physical altercation with Renee "H-Town" Austin on the second season of Flavor of Love, Saaphyri Windsor bizarrely offered her teary co-star some lip chap before firing off a series of unhinged prayers.

“Lord, please forgive me for beating this bitch ass today. Lord, forgive me for thinking about beating her ass again. Please rebuke all these demons that’s in this house,” she said.

“Todd Kraines” terrorizes Kris Jenner with constant phone calls.

Scott Disick pulled off one of the most lighthearted and equally annoying moments on Keeping Up With the Kardashians when he prank-called his then-mother-in-law Kris Jenner as his alter ego, Todd Kraines. The lore is Kraines is supposedly one of the Kardashian clan’s oldest family friends. But the prank goes a step too far when Kraines apparently shows up to Jenner’s residence, which nearly sends her over the edge.

Can’t get enough? Here are a few more hilarious reality TV moments to keep you rolling in laughter.