No way. Its ALL fake. I worked on the show......toally fake
shareMy friends and I ran into Extreme Akim at a bar in Columbia, SC and got *beep* up as hell with him. He is a crazy son of a bitch.
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I just saw The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and there was an actor with a small part that I recognized from the show. He was in the episode that featured two gay guys in which one didnt feed the dog when his BF went out of town. Therefore the guy is an actor which leads me to beleive that the show is fake.
"TV ugly. Not ugly ugly."
Dude, this show is now being so fake!
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Akim is VERY cool. There are a few of his verdicts I haven't really liked, but most of them are GREAT!
shareI dunno how it's actually "fake" But there was this one episode where this daughter was a real brat to her mother and went out with these 3 boys who were 18 and carried guns and she was 14 - 15 and sleeping with them which could have the guys go to jail. She smoked and drank and accused her mother for her problems.
Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight?
I just saw that episode yesterday! That one is SOOOOOOO fake. There's a part where she is taking a ride with a policman and she talks about smoking pot and how it isn't harmful when the cop arrests a crazy guy, for sure an actor, who, loew and behold, has a big bag of weed when he clearly isn't stoned. He was either on something like PCP, or crazy, or just an actor considering that they didn't blur his face.
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oh *beep* i just saw that episode today and had to find this show. this show is so terrible. i'd seen 5 minutes of it once before, but that's when i knew this was fake; in real life, the guy on "weed" would have been shot after 12 seconds of flailing around with a gun in his hand.
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It's fake. Read the disclaimer at the end of the show. It says it is for entertainment purposes and that "Extreme Akim" is an actor and not a judge (but he was once a practicing attorney). Plus you have to be curious about a show that was once sponsored by National Lampoon.
It's like the old courtroom shows of the 80s like Divorce Court, Superior Court, The Judge, and Trial by Jury.
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yeah but these judge joe brown and judge judy arent real either... they go and find court cases and say that they will pay however they find the case and if the winner is the defendant they get the money they are being sued for. i know a guy who went on joe brown.
I dont have a drinking problem I have a YOU problem.
Shows like Joe Brown and Judy are real in the sense that they are unscripted and the participants really do present their case and are judged. And normal courtroom procedures are followed.
But yes, they are all paid to be on the show in that any money awarded is paid for by the producers.
In this show, Eye for an Eye, it has to be all fake. I watched a show where the producers say that they drugged a guy's food before taping. That would be grossly illegal to do no matter what kind of waiver the participant signed. Therefore, the person had to be a paid actor, he was never actually drugged, and was just acting.
But the show is funny to laugh at.
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I don't think it's real. Sometimes, u can see past defendants sitting in the audience. And beside, I would assume that the verdicts fall under "cruel and unusual punishment" which is unconstitional.
shareThe episodes are taped consecutively. Litigants are not prevented from sitting in the audience to watch other cases being tried. Occasionally a standin must be used for (for example) a witness who is unwilling to appear personally on television, or whose job prevents them from coming to Dallas for the taping.
shareIn exchange for having their cases tried in Extreme Akim's court, the litigants sign what is essentially a "binding arbitration" agreement where they agree in advance to whatever verdict Akim hands down. That's how the verdict carries the weight of law.
shareSeriously, who are you trying to fool? There is NOTHING legitimate about this show. They are all actors and lousy ones at that. No one over the age of 8 or with an IQ over 55 could possibly think this crap is real.
I love how the judge always gets a "Perry Mason" moment where he cracks the case. That's hilarious.
PS. the disclaimer at the end says "staff and participants my be individuals who are compensated for their ROLES on the program". Since when are plantiffs and defendants considered "roles"?
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it's totally fake.
my ex-girlfriend and i went to a taping because it is filmed in dallas where we live. they pay every audience member who stays for an entire day of taping $50. a lot of people don't stay, however, because it's just really boring.
even though we were in the audience and witnessed a lot of flaws and second takes the director and producers still insisted to us that it is 100% real.
i know for a fact it's fake.
Show looks completely fake to me. This show and Cheaters.
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