The Impractical Jokers' Pitch To The Network Was Actually Pretty Easy

As is the case with most television shows, the pilot for "Impractical Jokers" is a bit different from what the series would ultimately become. In fact, the show's original pilot featured a vastly different title: "Mission: Uncomfortable." The intro sequence was also entirely different, and so was the whole aesthetic of the show. Sadly, we don't know how different this episode truly is since this version of the pilot never made it to air. Outside of the intro sequence and a handful of clips, it has never made it to the public.

Thus, the "Mission: Uncomfortable" unaired pilot is considered to be lost media, which, for those unfamiliar, is exactly what it sounds like. There's a massive online community dedicated to finding such pieces of media history, with searches dedicated to lost movies, TV shows, video games, music, and more. As one could imagine, there are those on the hunt for this missing "Impractical Jokers" episode, with chats like the one started by Redditor u/gamerguy287 bringing these like-minded individuals together to pool their knowledge. One can only hope that their search efforts yield tangible results someday.

While the lost media community searches high and low for the unaired "Mission: Uncomfortable" pilot, expect "Impractical Jokers" to resume its reign of small-screen dominance for years to come.