About this season
Crossballs: The Debate Show is a Comedy Central television show which poked fun at cable news networks' political debate shows, especially CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. In each episode, comedians posing as experts on a particular subject would debate two real commentators. The true experts were unaware that the show was a sham. Topics ranged from reality television to religion to violence in video games. It debuted on July 6, 2004 and ran for eight weeks. It aired Tuesday-Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET. The twenty-third and final episode aired on August 24, 2004. Show number 24 was taped but never aired, after one of the unsuspecting guests, James March, threatened to sue Comedy Central.
Episodes (24)
1. Reality TV
Aired 6 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issue: Reality TV craze
2. Driving in America
Aired 7 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Teenage drivers, senior drivers, drunk driving.
3. Drugs
Aired 8 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Legalization of marijuana, consequences of using drugs, drug use among teens.
4. Vegetarian or Vegetarded
Aired 13 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Veganism, healthy foods.
5. FCC or F-YOU-CC
Aired 14 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Indecent exposure on television, innapropriate content of music, TV, and movies and how it affects our youth.
6. America vs. Aliens
Aired 15 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Immigration to the United States, problem with illegal immigrants, American tourist behavior.
7. Grand Theft Apocalypse?
Aired 20 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Video game obsession among adults and youth, violence in games, lack of educational value in games.
8. Fashion: Gay Conspiracy?
Aired 21 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Fashion choices among US people, gay people in the fashion industry, exposing skimpier fashions to youth.
9. Love Thy Gay-bor
Aired 22 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Gay marriage in the US, rights of gay couples, and fighting for gay rights.
10. Clones of Contention
Aired 27 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Cloning of animals and humans in the US and the good and bad things associated within.
11. Frat-tastic or Frat-tastrophe?
Aired 28 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Behavior of college students in fraternities and sororities, grades, and dormitories.
12. Sports Stars: Monsters?
Aired 29 July 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Salaries of athletes, recent legal problems of sport icons, and safer sports for youth.
13. Tipping: Chinese City?
Aired 3 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Cusine, tipping in restaurants.
14. Makeovers for Jesus?
Aired 4 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issue: Religion in society and throughout the world.
15. Flabulous or Fat-tastrophe?
Aired 5 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Overweight people in society, fast food, weight loss & diets.
16. Music in America
Aired 10 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Decline of the music industry, downloading music, explicit lyrics, rap music.
17. Healing Through Porn?
Aired 11 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Pornographic images & video, strip clubs, sexual influence.
18. Crime and Funishment?
Aired 12 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Crime in America, prison system, treatment of convicts.
19. Plastic Surgery: Nip-pocalypse?
Aired 17 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Plastic surgery, demand for perfection in society.
20. Hellphones vs. Interthreat
Aired 18 August 2004 • 30 min
Major issues: Cell phones, computers, advanced technology.
21. Mother Earth: Bitch?
Aired 19 August 2004 • 30 min
22. Voting Electible Dysfunction
Aired 24 August 2004 • 30 min
23. Sex Battle USA
Aired 25 August 2004 • 30 min