Impractical Jokers (season 9)

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Impractical Jokers
Season 9
Country of originUnited States
Release
Original networktruTV
Original releaseFebruary 4, 2021 (2021-02-04) –
present
Season chronology
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The ninth season of Impractical Jokers premiered on February 4, 2021. Part of the season was filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic suspended operations in March 2020.[1] Filming and production resumed in September and continued as late as December.[2] The aftershow After Party season 4 was postponed, and debuted with "Space Oddity" on April 15, 2021.[3] Following "The Prince and Me" episode, the season resumed on July 8, where there would be 16 episodes where cast member Sal Vulcano will be referred to as Prince Herb.[4]

Episodes[]

See also: List of Impractical Jokers episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		Title [3]Original air date [3]Losing Joker(s)U.S. viewers
(millions)
2061"You Dirty Dog"February 4, 2021 (2021-02-04)Joe0.60[5]

The Jokers work as audio engineers at a recording studio with strangers and a mic controlled by the other guys. They shop at a grocery store with their fake wives, doing what the other guys tell them. Jameela Jamil from their show The Misery Index guest stars as Q's wife.

Punishment: Joe informs customers at a dog daycare center that his dog had sex with their dog.

  • This is the first time in Impractical Jokers history that a new season starts with Joe being punished.
2072"The Bachelor Party"February 11, 2021 (2021-02-11)Murr0.47[6]

The Jokers act as photographers for an outdoor shoot with a model,[a] but must say and do what the other Jokers tell him. A focus group votes on which Joker gives the better proposal for a children's cartoon.

Punishment: A urologist (known simply as Dr. K) inserts a catheter into Murr's penis. The Jokers then have Murr go on a zipline while using the catheter. Murr's fiancee[b] Melyssa then arrives to remove the catheter, and Dr. Frank Contacessa returns to give him a prostate exam.
2083"Drive, Drive, Drive"February 18, 2021 (2021-02-18)Q0.47[7]

The Jokers act as receptionists but must say and do what the other Jokers tell him. Then, the Jokers team up and give presentations made by the other team. One of the Jokers on each team gives the presentation, while the other sits with the focus group and tries to help the presenter out. The team with the least votes at the end loses.

Punishment: The guys hijack Q's day off by having him drive all over the New York City metro area to pick up and deliver food to each of them, taking advantage of the fact that they now all live far apart from each other. While Q does this, he must drive a car in which animatronic puppets have been installed in the passenger and back seats; they sway back and forth singing the same 16-second song on repeat. After over 11 hours on the road, the punishment finally ends when a frazzled Q delivers food to Murr.
2094"Poetry Slammed"February 25, 2021 (2021-02-25)Sal0.52[8]

The guys try not to laugh during a fake documentary alongside strangers at DeKalb Market Hall. They play a round of "Did I Overreact?" in a waiting room.

Punishment: Sal has to attend a Gotham Writers poetry slam event where he has to harshly criticize (using the other Jokers' comments) each of the attendees' poems, and at the end, present a poem himself written by the other Jokers.
2105"Bleach for America"March 4, 2021 (2021-03-04)Murr0.57[9]

The Jokers act as receptionists and must read a list of gag names without laughing. They team up to give presentations about homeschooling designed by the other Jokers. Whichever duo gets the fewest approvals loses.

Punishment: Murr becomes a national spokesperson for the Shiney Hiney anal bleaching kit. The other Jokers show him all the promotional campaigns including his picture on the product, direct mail coupons, a print ad in Page Six of the New York Post, a roadway billboard in New Jersey, and Instagram video ad.
2116"Smashing Success"March 11, 2021 (2021-03-11)Sal0.56[10]

The Jokers attempt to hire candidates for a security job despite some strange facilities. They then act as an artist-in-residence doing and saying what they're told in front of volunteers who are assembling and painting their furniture.

Punishment: Sal loses the artist challenge and, as an impromptu punishment, he is forced to destroy the furniture that his volunteers have been working on.
2127"Pity in Pink"March 25, 2021 (2021-03-25)Murr0.48[11]

The Jokers convince strangers to give them a $20 bill they found off the floor of D'Agostino Market with a bizarre reason. They then go head-to-head presenting subscription services to panelists.

Punishment: Murr finds that his entire yard has been dyed pink and he has two hours to clean it up using a push mower before Home and Garden magazine arrives for a photo shoot. The Jokers also bring in folks dressed up as pink moles. The photographer eventually arrives, but it is guest Rob Emmer who takes a Polaroid shot.
213-"Twists and Turns"April 1, 2021 (2021-04-01)clip show0.44[12]
Highlights of some of the Jokers' top punishments where there was a "Well..." plot twist in the situation.
214-"Highlights from the High Seas"April 8, 2021 (2021-04-08)clip show0.31[13]

The Jokers show off some of the activities and highlights of one of their theme cruises; and present a top ten clip show of travel moments.
10) Q's Rodeo Punishment ("Bigger in Texas")
9) Keeping it Wheel' Challenge ("Welcome to Miami")
8) Joe's Belly Flop Punishment ("Cruisin For a Bruisin")
7) Murr's Surprise ("Cruisin For a Bruisin")
6) Lonely Herb ("Welcome to Miami")
5) Hungry Mermaid ("Welcome to Miami")
4) Q' Old West Punishment ("The Good, The Bad, The Punished")
3) Hawaiian Harmony ("Paradise Lost")
2) Bog Monster of Louisiana ("The Big Uneasy")

1) Q's Tram Punishment ("The Show Stopper")
2158"Space Oddity"April 15, 2021 (2021-04-15)Murr0.48[14]

The Jokers go head-to-head tournament style providing answers to their focus group questionnaire; the moderator chooses which one they like better. Then at a food hall, they have to get a stranger to approve of their apology letter. Originally the apologies were prepared by the other guys, but after Murr finds he has to read his own letter, he makes the others do the same.

Punishment: Murr pretends to be an astronaut aboard the International space station in a Zoom call with some elementary school students. But to simulate the zero gravity, he is hooked onto a contraption that rotates him upside down, and he has to try various activities.

  • Joe was absent for the second challenge
2169"OK Zoomer"April 22, 2021 (2021-04-22)Joe0.54[15]

The Jokers pose as job references on a Zoom call while being messaged and messed with by the other guys. They then pitch their memoirs to strangers in order to get a high rating.

Punishment: Joe must get up in the middle of the night to stream a video where he gives the traffic conditions and odd news for a morning show in Australia. He must also eat a (vegan) meat pie and play the didgeridoo. He must do it for four nights in a row.[c]
21710"The Prince and Me"April 29, 2021 (2021-04-29)Prince Herb (Sal)0.34[18]

The Jokers try not to laugh as past life therapists. Then they must get approval from a stranger to send a goofy email.

Punishment: At Times Square, the Jokers announce that Sal is going to be renamed Prince Herb for the rest of the season. He then gets both his ears pierced and outfitted with cubic zirconia earrings.[d]
21811"Breaking Wind Beneath My Wings"July 8, 2021 (2021-07-08)Joe0.41[19]

The Jokers pitch each other's television show ideas to a panel group. They offer a choice of focus groups for an individual to pick what they prefer.

Punishment: As part of a charity event, the jokers take advantage of Joe's terrible singing voice by making him serenade a thousand online viewers with his rendition of the power ballad "Wind Beneath My Wings".
21912"Prince + Charming"July 15, 2021 (2021-07-15)MurrTBA

The Jokers must persuade a temp worker to pretend to be their senior vice president for a meeting with some Japanese investors, and get the hire to agree to join them for dinner. They try to get a good rating for their online dating profiles.

Punishment: Murr dresses up as Indiana Jones and has to play the snake charmer song on the flute in order to be allowed to leave a pit that becomes occupied by snakes.
22013"I’m Having The Best Time"July 22, 2021 (2021-07-22)Murr0.46[20]

The Jokers work as television commercial actors at the golf driving range, doing what the others tell him to do. The other Jokers who didn't go last time pitch their memoirs to strangers in order to get a high rating.

Punishment: Murr participates in a technology expert panel but the other Jokers control what Murr can or cannot hear by pumping static noise into his headphones, and feed him what to say. They then enable him to hear and he has to defend his contextually inappropriate answers..
22114"Documentary No!"July 29, 2021 (2021-07-29)Q and Prince Herb (Sal)TBA

Each Joker dresses up as a character for an interview and must do what the other Jokers tell him. Later the Jokers must convince a stranger to listen to him read three of his daughter's diary entries.

Punishment: Q and Prince Herb act as motivational speakers presenting in front of a small audience but they take a break every so often to try to pump each other up but the antics are shown to that audience with a two-way mirror.
22215"Food, Air, Toilet"August 5, 2021 (2021-08-05)Prince Herb (Sal)TBA

The Jokers pitch their inventions to a worker to see if it is ready to present to their boss. Then they share more online dating profiles to get a good rating.

Punishment: Prince Herb attends an audition but must say and do what the others tell them with regard to the cold reading of the scripts.
22316"A Tasteful Episode"August 12, 2021 (2021-08-12)Joe0.43[21]

The Jokers go head-to-head tournament style providing answers to their product sampling questionnaire; with the moderator choosing which one they like better. Then the pairs of Jokers give presentations about life hacks.

Punishment: Joe gives a presentation to some educators about women's bodies while he is wearing a Slim Goodbody-type of anatomical costume.
22417"Moist Richard"August 19, 2021 (2021-08-19)Q0.42[22]

The Jokers persuade a focus group participant to sign off on different contract items that were written by the other guys. The Jokers must get a stranger to listen to their reading their daughter's diary entries.

Punishment: Q gets a person to join him to do a podcast with content created by the other Jokers. However, after an hour of doing this podcast, Q finds out what his real punishment was, which was that all of his clothes were taken out of his house and donated to charity.

Notes[]

  1. ^ The outdoor shoot was at Snug Harbor in Staten Island[1]
  2. ^ Murray's wedding was in September 2020.
  3. ^ Joe's punishment was dated from February 9-12, 2021
  4. ^ News of renaming Sal to Prince Herb started in February 2021 on the news media and related talk shows.[16][17]

References[]

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