By Fred Topel | Image property of Paramount Pictures, MTV Films.
Ryan Dunn and Knoxville in Jackass Number Two
One of the most sympathetically painful gags in Jackass: Number Two is the ice horse. Ryan Dunn rests his naked scrotum on a carved ice sculpture. Think of the old tongue on the train tracks legend. The stunt as planned was much different.
Ryan Dunn Talks Ice Horses in Jackass: Number Two
“I was so angry that day,” said Dunn. “Basically I wrote a bit where I wanted to have them make a car out of ice, because my brother-in-law is an ice-carver and I dabble in it. So I was like you get enough pieces of ice I can actually weld it together and make a car and they’re like, ‘Uh, that’s too complicated.’ So they decided to make ice horses. So I was like, ‘All right but make sure the ice horses have legs or else you’re going to have this big piece of ice and it’s not going to slide down dry grass.”
The ice horses were not as elaborate as Dunn hoped. “It shows up and it was just two blocks of ice with horse heads. And I’m like, ‘It’s not going to work. We’re going to go all the way to the top of that mountain to go nowhere because they’re not going to slide on grass. I’s not going to happen.’ Everybody’s like, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ We get all the way up there and it was going to be Knoxville and Dico [Brandon Dicamillo] to go down. They get on it just like [stay still]. It was supposed to be a race. It didn’t move a bit. They got on it and were like, ‘uh.’
Once they were stuck at the top, they had to do something. “And I’m like we came all the way up here, I told you that. And then they’re just all sitting around and I’m like, ‘well, we climbed all the way to the top of this friggin mountain for no reason,’ and then that’s when the bit just kind of evolved. I was like I bet I could get my nuts stuck to that.”
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