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📊 Series Specifications
Network Comedy Central
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 24
Original Language EN
Creator Matt Besser
Crossballs: The Debate Show (2004)
Created by Matt Besser
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
Crossballs: The Debate Show is a Comedy Central television show which poked fun at cable news networks' political debate shows, especially CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. In each episode, comedians posing as experts on a particular subject would debate two real commentators. The true experts were unaware that the show was a sham. Topics ranged from reality television to religion to violence in video games. It debuted on July 6, 2004 and ran for eight weeks. It aired Tuesday-Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET. The twenty-third and final episode aired on August 24, 2004. Show number 24 was taped but never aired, after one of the unsuspecting guests, James March, threatened to sue Comedy Central.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Crossballs season 1)
24 Episodes E2 Driving in America
Major issues: Teenage drivers, senior drivers, drunk driving.
E3 Drugs
Major issues: Legalization of marijuana, consequences of using drugs, drug use among teens.
E5 FCC or F-YOU-CC
Major issues: Indecent exposure on television, innapropriate content of music, TV, and movies and how it affects our youth.
E6 America vs. Aliens
Major issues: Immigration to the United States, problem with illegal immigrants, American tourist behavior.
E7 Grand Theft Apocalypse?
Major issues: Video game obsession among adults and youth, violence in games, lack of educational value in games.
E8 Fashion: Gay Conspiracy?
Major issues: Fashion choices among US people, gay people in the fashion industry, exposing skimpier fashions to youth.
E9 Love Thy Gay-bor
Major issues: Gay marriage in the US, rights of gay couples, and fighting for gay rights.
E10 Clones of Contention
Major issues: Cloning of animals and humans in the US and the good and bad things associated within.
E11 Frat-tastic or Frat-tastrophe?
Major issues: Behavior of college students in fraternities and sororities, grades, and dormitories.
E12 Sports Stars: Monsters?
Major issues: Salaries of athletes, recent legal problems of sport icons, and safer sports for youth.
E13 Tipping: Chinese City?
Major issues: Cusine, tipping in restaurants.
E14 Makeovers for Jesus?
Major issue: Religion in society and throughout the world.
E15 Flabulous or Fat-tastrophe?
Major issues: Overweight people in society, fast food, weight loss & diets.
E16 Music in America
Major issues: Decline of the music industry, downloading music, explicit lyrics, rap music.
E17 Healing Through Porn?
Major issues: Pornographic images & video, strip clubs, sexual influence.
E18 Crime and Funishment?
Major issues: Crime in America, prison system, treatment of convicts.
E19 Plastic Surgery: Nip-pocalypse?
Major issues: Plastic surgery, demand for perfection in society.
E20 Hellphones vs. Interthreat
Major issues: Cell phones, computers, advanced technology.
E21 Mother Earth: Bitch?
E22 Voting Electible Dysfunction
E23 Sex Battle USA
E24 Pistol Whipped America