Unplanned America

Gonzo, Nick and Parv make their way to Seattle where they go on street patrol with Phoenix Jones and his rag-tag crew of real life crime fighters, known as the Rain City Superheroes, to learn the motivations behind the masked vigilantes much ridiculed actions. Later in the episode the guys pay a visit to the Real Doll factory in southern California, where frighteningly life-like sex dolls are made to order for discerning customers.

Nick, Gonzo and Parv head to southern Illinois to attend the lawless 'Gathering of The Juggalos' music festival, notorious with fans of horror-core hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse. The fans, known as Juggalos and classified as a gang by the FBI, wear clown make-up, dress in horror-themed outfits, carry weapons and trade prescription drugs but the crew realise that there’s much more than meets the eye when it comes to the “Juggalo Family”. From the Gathering the boys head east to New York City to dive headfirst into the gay, African-American/Latino underground ballroom dance scene. These intense dance battles and Zoolander-esque “walk-offs” are like nothing they’ve ever witnessed but they quickly learn that these aren’t your regular dance crews, but more like surrogate families for the oft ostracised youth.

With Kanye West’s former manager John Monopoly as their guide, Nick, Gonzo and Parv find themselves on the dangerous streets of south-side Chicago. In Chicago, they discover that music is the only way to escape the ghettos for many of the young rappers who are the face of the burgeoning rap scene. Inspired by what they have witnessed in Chicago, the crew round out their hip hop education when Parv has his portrait graffitied on the side of a building in LA, and a jealous Gonzo replies with his very own self-portrait at Venice Beach.

The boys are thrown in to the deep-end of the L.A. porn scene as they are invited on to the set of Austin Powers XXX for three days, where beautiful women and well-hung men disrobe in the hyper- real adult movie world. In contrast with this fantasy world, the boys then find themselves in the midst of an 10,000-strong nude bike ride in Portland where the human body in all it’s various shapes and sizes is celebrated. While nudity is the order of the day these two exhibitionist scenes couldn’t be more different.

In Detroit, Gonzo, Parv and Nick find a city that appears to be on the brink of extinction, but are soon inspired by the proud locals who are rejuvenating the city, using the abandoned buildings and many vacant lots to create a new type of urban community where innovation and collaboration is key. Later in the episode, while on a journey through the California Desert on a search for the mysterious, man-made Salvation Mountain, they discover Slab City, an off-the-grid community of misfits, artists, drug addicts and hippies who have shied away from mainstream society to create their own self governed, self styled, community.

Take it as a final glimpse of the Unplanned madness that can happen when you throw away your Lonely Planet guide. An abandoned ghost town, laying ice on a cryogenically frozen man, spring break stun guns, lassoing lessons from 10yr olds, football tailgating parties, teaming up with UFO Chasers in the Californian desert, a GI Joe camp set up by Vietnam Vets in a Texas border town and dodgy meals from the road make up this final installment of series one of Unplanned America.