Rob & Big

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Rob & Big
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Genre Reality
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  • Christopher "Big Black" Boykin
  • Jeff Tremaine
  • Rob Dyrdek
  • Ruben Fleischer
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Theme music composer Harry Nilsson
Opening theme "Best Friend"
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 31 (list of episodes)
Production
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Camera setup Multiple
Running time 22 to 24 minutes
Release
Original network MTV
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original release November 4, 2006 (2006-11-04) –
April 15, 2008 (2008-04-15)
Chronology
Followed by Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory
External links
Website

Rob & Big is an American reality television series that follows the lives of professional skateboarder/actor/producer Rob Dyrdek and his best friend and bodyguard Christopher "Big Black" Boykin.[1][2] It premiered on November 4, 2006,[3][4] and concluded on April 15, 2008, after three seasons. Rereuns of the series air on the MTV sister network, MTV2. The series was followed-up with Fantasy Factory.

Synopsis

Most episodes of the show follow a central task or event in the daily life of Rob and Big, such as: attempting to break Guinness world records, having their home exorcised, skateboarding, and random things such as buying 12 remote-control helicopters, and Rob's obsession with a net gun. Also, during the show the two of them purchased two animals, a mini horse named "Mini horse" and a bulldog named "Meaty."[5]

Cast

Main

Supporting

  • Patricia Dyrdek, Rob's mother
  • Gene Dyrdek, Rob's father
  • Otis "Big Zeus" Walton, A member of Big and Bam Bam's rap group - The Chunky Boyz
  • Steve Berra, Rob's friend and fellow skateboarder

Fantasy Factory

A one-hour series finale situated around Rob learning that Big's longtime girlfriend is pregnant, and Big moving out of the house to focus on becoming a father. However, two years later in an interview with friend and fellow MTV star Johnny Knoxville, Dyrdek gave more reasons as to why the show ended.

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I think I quit real early, midway through the third season. They taxed us, you can't film reality TV for nine months, it's psycho. I think towards the end it was such was just such a grind that, really, I was ready to move on. It's like, I live on the set. You know what I mean? [The crew] had one room for a control room, [Big Black] had his room, only he didn't live there, so really it was like I lived in a one bedroom with the lights in everywhere, and just dirty from people, and it was like Pee-wee's Playhouse, and I just slowly lost it, you know, was just so sick of it.[6]

Rob & Big returned to MTV with the reality television show, Fantasy Factory, which is currently in its seventh season.

Episodes

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Season Episodes Originally aired DVD release date
Season premiere Season finale Region 1
1 8 November 2, 2006 December 21, 2006 January 8, 2008
2 8 May 22, 2007 July 10, 2007 January 8, 2008
3 15 January 8, 2008 April 15, 2008 September 23, 2008

References

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  6. "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, with Rob Dyrdek" on YouTube

External links