>> i got it! yeah, buddy! there's more to life. it is just those limit moments. >> viral videos. >> oh, my god. what happened? what happened to that guy? >> uploaded daily-of- everybody wants to see stuff that goes slightly awry. >> viewed by millions. >> how can this not go viral. >> looks are deceiving. >> a lot of people debating, is this real or fake. >> you're my wife? holy -- >> how could he not remember who

his wife is. he's just like, yeah, a bird. >> we'll let you in on the truth. >> fake. that's my impression of everyone on youtube. fake. >> 21 seconds. >> "caught on camera," viral videos, true or false. extreme sports videos, they leave our heart pounding and adrenaline pumping. purchase i think we love them because we're living through them without having to risk your life. >> there's that level of jackass oh my god, i can't believe that just happened. >> no one can believe what happened in the next video. >> you see this high bar sitting on the edge of the cliff. this guy is hanging from it. >> as we know, base jumping has gotten pretty boring these days. you need to do things to make it

more exciting. >> one might think that the setup crew would make sure the high bar is extra study. as he's flipping, suddenly the high bar up and collapses. >> you're wondering, is he falling to his death. you don't really see it. >> oh, my god. what happened to that guy? >> the base jump gone bad leaves millions on their seats hoping the video is fake. >> this could be fake. the cliff could have a level below it we haven't seen. he could have fallen 2 feet. >> there's something about his reaction that seems fake. i couldn't understand why a guy who just saw his buddy fly off the cliff doesn't get up. >> i thought it was real. something people do, set up a high bar to make it even

scarier. >> a demonstration of newton's laws. >> sir isaac would be proud. we've got another camera angle showing the terrifying tumble is, in fact, legit. the stunt gone wrong is performed by base jumper richard henriksson for norwegian television show, "normal madness." >> a lot of viral video shows speaks to our deepest instinct of wanting to see and wincing between our fingers. anything that taps into that is powerful viewing. >> have no fear, the other camera shows him surviving the nearly 4,000 foot fall. luckily he keeps his composure, opens his parachute and lands without a scratch. it could be worse. his head comes within inches of slamming into the rock face. seconds later the apparatus comes crashing down, narrowly missing the base jumper. >> after this, they probably all had a talk about what we could have done differently.

people make mistakes but this is a big mistake. >> you don't have to be on a mountainside to risk life and limb. you can be in your own bedroom. >> hi, guys, it's drew here. >> say i'm doing black friday. >> hey, guys, what's going on? >> i have had entire -- >> a shopper trend known to rake in millions of hits. >> a haul video, not h-a-l-l, h-a-u-l. someone acquires a bunch of stuff and shows everyone on youtube what they got. >> i got these pants, you can see the calls. >> they call them hall videos because they have hauled bags of stuff home. >> it's a form of validation, it makes them feel good about what they acquired. >> in 2013 a bizarre hall video surfaces and leaves viewers shopping for answers.

>> like i said before, i'll get it fixed. i know. >> we had this guy with sort of a biker stash thing going on. >> if you like knives, this is a wizard knife. >> wizard, of course. everyone knows wizards have a different kind of noif. >> look at the handle. >> i'm wondering where in the depths of ebay he found that knife. >> and i bought a 500 rail -- >> hopefully he lives on the top floor of his building. >> ma? >> i'm kind of getting the impression oh, god, he's just shot his mother in the room upstairs. >> ma? >> my first reaction was real. it's within the realm of

possibility that something like this could happen. >> it just seems like he's awful relaxed about the whole thing, which led me to believe he was fake. >> not enough stuff falls down from the ceiling. i know when you shoot a ceiling, a lot of stuff comes down because i've shot quite a few ceilings. college man. you know, it's college, what are you going to do? >> ma? >> don't worry, mom is okay. the video is 100% fake. the trigger happy trickster is comedian jess webber. >> i love doing standup, improv and writing sketches. >> to get his name out, jess creates a youtube channel called webber's way. >> we just make up funny stories, do skits, stuff like that. we try to make fun of every situation we see on tv and the internet. >> jess decides to tall on the hall video with a bang. he grows a moustache and compiles an arsenal of weapons. >> the gun i had in the beginning, that was just a

pellet gun. the knife is actually a wizard knife. i did buy it at a flea market like 15 years ago. the shotgun is compressed air that shoots a plastic pellet. >> jess uses an intricate method to create the ceiling debris. who are we seeing, it's done with a tv antenna and some paper towels. >> i had the appear tena come out like this and i would tape the paper towel like this. i had pits of paper towel on top. so when i shot the shotgun, the pellet would hit the paper towel and all the pieces would fall down. >> the makeshift special effect has a few kinks. >> i would shoot it and nothing would come down. >> jess perfects the system and it's time to roll on the action. >> that's how you do it. >> everything was improvised. it took four or five takes to get it right. >> after about an hour of

shooting, jess nails the performance. he adds some finishing touches in edit. >> i did the muzzle flash. i put that in, the smoke. that's all fake. and sound effects for the gun and sound effects for hitting the ceiling and making that sound of it crumbling down pref jess uploads the video to his page and soon it's the shotgun blast heard around the internet. >> this is one of those you have to watch videos. it's either going to be funny or horrible but either way i'm watching it. >> everyone wants to see stuff that goes slightly awry. >> ma? >> bam, it happens and surprises you. >> viewers fire off comments debating the value idahoity of this hall video gone bad.

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hunting. it's a sport that requires patience, accuracy, and a keen eye. but many can't believe their own eyes when they see this field video. >> coming at you -- >> oh, my gosh! >> what happened? >> i just got it on camera. >> we open with a guy in hunting gear. kind of walking in a field. and you see this bird going right for this hunter.

>> coming at you -- >> oh, my god! >> all of a sudden, he's caught it in his hand. >> it's so baller. he just caught a bird in the air. holds it up like -- i'm expecting a building to blow up behind him. >> it is probably one of the manliest things that was caught on camera. >> coming at you -- >> but is it too manly to be true? >> i feel like birds have better instincts than to be caught by a human hand. >> he's a little too cool and collected about it. if i caught a bird, i'd be like, what? what? i caught a bird! he's just like, yeah. caught a bird. >> unbelievable as it may seem, the man with the cat-like reflexes is totally real. >> oh, my god! >> why does this guy have a gun? he clearly doesn't need a gun. he just needs his hands. >> the hunter is pastor matt carter of the austin stone church in austin, texas. matt's church has more than

7,000 members, including nfl quarterback colt mccoy. >> he started coming to my church here in austin. we just developed a friendship. >> in may, 2013, colt and matt published a book called "the real win." >> we talk a lot about what it's like to be good husband and a good father. >> the co-authors head to the great outdoors to film a hunting and fishing companion video series for the book. matt's 12-year-old son, j.d., tags along for the adventure. >> it was really great bonding time with me and my dad. we had been quail hunting the whole day, and we were pretty much done. >> they were trying to get some reflective roll of matt walking through the field at the end of the hunt. >> suddenly an unexpected guest star makes an appearance. >> i just looked up, and i saw this quail flying right at me. >> coming at you. coming at you. >> my dad shifts the gun to his left hand. >> and i instinctively threw my hand up and caught it. >> oh, my god!

>> i just got that on camera. sweet catch. >> believe it or not, what went through my head was i just did something that my grandkids are going to talk about. >> if i hadn't just seen it with my own eyes, i would have never believed it. >> that was cool. >> no one is going to believe this. no one -- i don't believe it, and i'm watching it right now. >> kind of my first reaction was when we realized one of the camera guys caught it on film, man, we've got to get this on youtube. >> after a photo shoot, matt frees the bird. days later he uploads the video with an ad for the real win at the end. soon he finds out that a bird in the hand is worth millions of hits. >> it's not every day you reach out and catch a bird. of course it's going to go viral. >> oh! >> oh, my god! >> you will never see someone catch a bird with their hand like that. and a reaction so understated and bad ass. this is like a once -- not even

a lifetime, an earth time. it will not happen again. >> the clip flies up the viral charts, and copies of "the real win" fly off the bookshelves. >> people walk up and say, "you're the quail guy" or "you're the bird guy" or "you're the bird man." yeah, i've got not notoriety for it. >> book sales and internet fame aside, the video has done something even more special -- >> i already thought highly of my dad. i mean, he's a pastor. he's an author, he's my football coach. and now that his video's gone viral, i think even more highly of him. he's awesome. >> oh, my god! >> now, let's go even deeper into the wild. online viewers bear witness to a video that leaves them pawing for answers. >> start out with a guy who's left is gopro out on a river. >> the gopro camera shoots really high-definition videos. it's really compact in size, makes it portable and concealable.

>> this one bear approach the camera, and all of a sudden the gopro is in his mouth. >> get a very, very close-up view of what you would experience if you were being eaten alive by a bear. >> what we learned from this is that a grizzly's mouth is absolutely disgusting. it's gross. >> eventually, the grizzly loses interest in the gopro and looks for another snack. are we witnessing a real wildlife moment, or is this not your average bear? >> this one definitely fake. you can tell these are people in bear suits. as someone who has raised grizzlies from cub to full grown for years, i can tell you this say fake 100%. >> actually, the bear is real. but is the situation a setup? how on earth does the gopro get the inside story on those huge chompers? >> i feel like he had to have put something on the camera to make it want to eat it that badly. >> did he smear some salmon on it, or, you know, gravy? side of beef? >> incredibly, no bait is used.

the video simply captures a bear who's ready for his closeup. >> we know what grizzly bears' favorite food is now -- expensive electronics. >> the grizzly man who scores the once-in-a-lifetime shot is naturalist guide brad josephs. >> i guide photographers and film crews to see, view, photograph, and film bears. >> for more than a decade, brad has conducted those tours on the alaskan peninsula. >> they come together in great numbers because of the food source. it's definitely the best place that you can go to see bears up close. >> and that's a rare sight these days. poaching and habitat laws among other issues have put the majestic grizzly bear on the endangered species list. >> on the alaska peninsula, they haven't been hunted. it's remote, so the general public doesn't go there. we can get in to areas and see bears up close. you just can't do that anywhere else. >> in the spring of 2013, brad is leading a tour of photographers when he decides to

set up his gopro camera. >> i knew a stretch of bear trail that that intersects the river. a great spot for bears to happy in and try and get a fish. i placed the go pro on a rocky area. i didn't want the bear to see the camera. i wanted to get its natural behavior. >> brad moves about 50 yards away to keep a safe distance. he soon gets more than he bargained for. >> it mother frames herself perfectly and turns and looks over. sure enough, the cub follows her. the cub was bored and curious, checking everything out. the cub looks straight at the camera, then the bear decided to taste it and chew on it a little bit. my heart sank because i thought, uh-oh, we just lost another gopro. pro. >> after giving the gopro a serious tongue bath, the cub moves on. brad grabs the camera and is relieved to find it in one piece. >> pick it would up and looked, my gosh, it was still recording. i couldn't believe it when i saw it, and i've seen every piece of bear footage ever filmed. said, wow, i got something pretty special here.

>> brad hopes others find it special, too, and uploads the video to his youtube page with the intriguing title "a grizzly ate my gopro." >> a catchy title generally helps. so "a grizzly bear ate my go pro" caught attention. >> including the attention of skeptics what can't bear the fact that the video is legit. many are convinced brad lured to the cub to its viral debut. >> one of the reactions i often get when people view this, wow, what did you put00o on the camera or something? of course i didn't because that, first of all, is illegal. second of all, if you give a bear any kind of a food reward or something, then they can become very dangerous. >> "a grizzly ate my gopro" becomes wildly successful, gaining millions of hits. >> i think it went viral because it was fun to see the inside of a bear's mouth. who can say they've got than close and lived to tell the tale. >> i just hope that it grabbed people's attention enough for them to say, you know, bears are a really neat animal.

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a man purporting to be the fruit ninja slices and dices his way to viral stardom. you had fast can you possibly cut a watermelon? >> starting with a guy who's going to chop a watermelon in record speed. his friend is taping him. >> cut a watermelon in 20-second challenge. >> it's hot. it's summer. people want their watermelon. they want it now! >> watermelon in 30 seconds or less. >> he's cutting in a zen state of concentration like he's got it. he has the power of the watermelon. >> you're at ten seconds. >> i was imagining his fingers getting chopped off.

>> you cut it in 20 seconds, but you also lost a few finger. >> 21 seconds. >> uh! >> that seems like a machine could do that job better than a human until we met this guy. and it's pretty clear that no machine has these skills. >> but it's that machine-like precision that leads many to wonder if the human cuisineart is not what he seems. >> i see why people think, oh it really took 40 seconds and he sped it up. >> i think we're used to suspension of disbelief around fad preparation than other types of videos. we understand when someone puts in a cake pan and pulls out the cake, there's a premade cake in the oven. >> others think it's pure talent. >> i had no doubt whatsoever about this man. i saw a hero right from the get go. honestly, if it were fake, i would be devastated,

heartbroken. don't tell me it's fake. >> let's cut to the chase. >> i'm matt jones and my video of me cutting a watermelon in 21 seconds is absolutely real. >> matt and his buddy work in the produce department of a grocery store in orlando, florida. to make the time pass and have fun whale making fruit salads in bulk, they create a case race. >> a case race is where you take an entire case of fruit, be it cantaloupe, pineapple, strawberries, and you try to cut that case as fast as you can. >> he's got his cutting board and knife, and i got my cutting board and knife. on the count of three, we both start going. the last one to finish loses, obviously. the winner gets absolutely nothing. it's just fun. >> i have gotten so close to beating matt, but he always finds a way to beat me, even if i'm ahead. >> once you've gone it thousands of time, it's clockwork, secondhand nature.

>> thousands of times, and matt still has all ten fingers. >> i've not had any accidents at work cutting fruit. but i have had an accident outside of work cutting fruit at a party. made a big mess all over the table. >> word gets out on matt's quick-cut heroics. >> i told my friends, man, you should see, i can cut watermelon in less than 30 seconds. they kind of didn't believe me. one day at work, i told kurt, hey, take my phone, film me doing one of these watermelons real fast. >> i said, yeah, sure, i'd love to see you fail on camera. 21 seconds. >> it was originally intended just to show friends and family when i got home. >> his friends thought it was awesome. we put it on youtube. it blew up. >> over five million views on this thing. 30-second-long video. that would be, what, 2.5 million minutes of human time watching this guy cut a watermelon. >> you're at ten seconds. >> many accept the 21-second challenge as fact, but think

they can beat the time. >> this is first attempt at a speedy watermelon cutting. >> so no watermelon is safe. >> the general principle of one upmanship is kind of the engine of the internet mean culture. >> ready? >> it's -- oh, that's impressive, but i can kind of do it better. >> one, two, three, four, five -- >> i kept going, watch out for your fingers. watch out for your fingers. >> this is already going pretty bad. >> kind of made matt's video look better. >> this is how to cut a watermelon in like three hours. >> so far nobody has really beaten it. as far as i know 21 seconds is the quickest youtube has to offer right now. >> we here at "caught on camera" aren't satisfied with that. not only do we want to see this feat of human achievement with our own eyes, we want matt to

shatter his own youtube record. >> safety and sanitary first. >> ready, and go -- ♪ >> 19.9. a new record. >> that's a "caught on camera" exclusive, 19.9 seconds, beating my old record. coming up -- >> thanks, everybody, for coming out to the no underwear subway ride. >> do these commuters bare it all? >> who would want to put their hand on a subway pole, let alone naked butt cheek on a subway seat.

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everyone, we're about to do our no underpants subway ride. i want you to be on your best behavior. >> if the train gets crowded, make sure you don't rub your genitals up against anybody else. it's not legal to be completely naked in the new york subway system, as far as we know. >> i'm thinking yeah, it is. you cannot have your stuff out in the open on the subway. >> everybody ready to take their underwear off? >> then all of a sudden they start stripping down. everyone's walking around with their underpants off. >> my favorite moment is where two guys take their pant off, and one guy gets up and leaves the seat like there's no way he's going to sit and be in front of that business. >> this is the guy reading the paperback book. and they're going about their daily subway routine commuting. >> i was a little unsure whether it was real or not. >> it's the new york city subway. this just happens here. >> you know, some people call that thursday on the l train line. >> you do see genuine reactions of disgust or discomfort from

other swi subway riders, so you would think that maybe this is real. >> i thought it had to be fake because if it was real it would have been shot cloverfield style with people running away. i can't imagine all of these people actually agreeing to take off their underwear. people barely like to put their hands on a subway pole let alone a naked butt cheek on a subway seat. >> we're ready to bare it all. thankfully the no underpants ride is totally phony. the bottomless community is the brainchild of the jokesters at improv everywhere. >> improv everywhere is a new york city-based prank collective. we cause scenes of chaos and joy in public spaces. >> those scenes including 200 participants freezing in place at grand central station as well as a scene where there's an impromptu lunchtime musical. ♪ >> improv everywhere members are

no strangers to viral videos. their youtube page has more than 1.6 million subscribers and hundreds of millions of views. >> it's a great platform to share what we do and have other people enjoy it, that. >> one of the comedy crew's most popular stunts is their annual no-pants subway ride. >> it started back in 2002. it's the middle of winter. you've got guys in winter coats, winter hats, scarfs, gloves. but of course, no pants. every year. >> it's even gone international with participants posting videos for the whole world to see. >> so almost everywhere where there's a subway system on a certain sunday in january, you'll find people riding the train in their underwear. >> in 2010, the pranksters want to take their no-pants tradition one step further. >> every year we do an april fools' day prank. to sort of celebrate our fans. >> i got the idea to do a no underwear subway ride. make it seem like we had taken

our no pants subway ride to the next level. >> we had a good group of volunteers that were willing and accepting of the idea of appearing to not have any underwear on in the subway. everyone was required to bring their own flesh-colored underwear. that enabled us to blur the footage after the fact. making it seem like people were riding the train completely naked. >> the company knows it takes a lot to shock new yorkers. they take step to make sure they get the reactions they want. >> i had some actors in on it so they would give more over-the-top reactions to fit with how you might react. >> if you look closely, you can actually see this disgusted commuter without undies moments later. >> 40% were riders we filmed with a hidden camera.

>> one of my favorite reactions is where one of our performers is leaning over a subway map. her reaction is so hilarious. she's just laughing. i love it. >> on april fools' day, with all of the blurs in place, the video goes live. the train riders in the raw collects more than six million views. >> how could this not go viral? there's a little fascination with the stuff down there, and people want to see it. not mine specifically. but other people's. >> there was a big debate over whether it was real or not. >> a lot of people were fooled and thought this was crossing the line even for us. >> i had a couple of relatives who were upset, who believed it, thought, you know, i like charlie's videos, but this is too far. >> 24 hours after watching the clip, improv everywhere members fess up. >> we released the uncensored no underwear subway ride. it was an even more provocative title than the first one. the uncensored no underwear subway ride is people wearing skin-colored boxers. >> anyone who believed there

really was a no underwear subway ride and watched the uncensored one and didn't see genitals would be very upset. i know i would be. i go on the internet for one thing, genitals. when they're not there, i'm furious. >> not surprisingly, curious people pushed the uncensored version past the original on the view counter. >> the video probably continues to get views just due to search terms, sadly. i think people that search for no underwear and get our video probably end up disappointed. >> so after no pants and no underwear, what else can we expect from improv everywhere? >> i don't know if there's something you could do to sort of top that. i feel like once you reached taking your pants off, there's really nowhere to go from there. coming up -- there's an app for just about everything these days. but what about this? >> this one really stumped me, because it looks so real. then your mind starts going how did they do that. >> when "caught on camera viral videos true or false" continues.

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smartphones seem to be able to do almost everything these days. but can they do this? >> there is a display of 10,000 iphone 5s just lined up in a domino setup. >> ah! >> it's working! >> they make an elaborate curly q pattern, it's tipping over. it's very cool. >> the coolest part, when it goes into an elevator, the elevator goes up and it keeps going up to the next floor. >> which brought the trick up just a notch. it wasn't just one floor. it was two floors now. >> then it finally resolves with this big kind of mural of iphones. >> so is this the real domino

effect, or domino special effect? >> it was just like too perfectly timed. it looked suspiciously perfect. >> this one really stumped me because it looks so real. and it's so precise. then your mind start going how did they do that. >> it's so many iphones, that's more iphones than there are in the world, i'm pretty sure. >> fake, that's my impression, of everyone on youtube. fake! >> we hear you loud and clear. the video of the tumbling iphones is completely false. the domino display comes from the creative minds at atmo studio in san francisco. >> visual effects, animation, and viral videos and other kind of digital content. >> that content includes concept videos for the latest apple products. >> we like to visualize what we want to see in the next iphone as opposed to what's rumored. a lot of times our concepts are

too farfetched. >> this futuristic video grabs more than 68 million hit and leaves tech geeks wanting more. >> they think we made this iphone so they wanted to buy it from us. we did get a ton of emails all over the world actually, dubai, sending e-mails saying money is not an issue. >> in march, 2013, the team brainstorms a new video. their goal is to publicize atma as far as showcase nearfield communication. >> the technology is the idea of one device passing to another through a physical connection. the idea of dominos was a great way to show that. >> here we go -- >> the designers don't have 10,000 iphones to spare. in fact, there's only one real phone in the entire video. can you spot it? >> it was just one iphone right at the beginning of the video just so that something tactile for the person to touch. >> the other 9,999 iphones are made using computer-generated

animation. >> we usually start with a clean plate. we shoot the actors on the set, and then we go through and add in our c.g. elements. >> these markers were intentional. we can create a path of where we want the dominoes to travel. we've populated the entire shot with proxy geometry representations of what an iphone would look like, and at a later stage, we can take those cubes and replace them with higher resolution iphone geometries. >> the elevator scene was shot like other shots. we shoot a nice, clean plate, so we get the elevator and actor in context. >> we add in cgi, make sure the lighting is matching correctly, blur the background a little bit to sell the fact iphones are here and deemphasizing the background. >> for the big finale of the video, we set a camera up high and wide. and we see the wave of crashing iphones. once they've all settled and we

have basically a 10, 20 foot screen that we're now able to display whatever content we wanted to. >> the 80-second video takes more than 1,300 hours to produce. all of that hard work pays off. on april 17th, 2014, they real the video online and it soon reaches more than 7.5 million views. hopes topple when people who believe the video is real find out the truth. >> the most common comment or emails that we get is can i have one iphone out of the 10,000. there's others where people are bashing us because we -- they think we spent a lot of money in trashing these iphones. we send an e-mail saying this is not real. no iphones were harmed, again, in the making of this video. >> i think it's a win/win for this company. if they had managed to make it real iphones falling, that would have been incredible. the fact that they made it with cgi makes it that much more incredible. they win either way. coming up, forgetting your anniversary is one thing.

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there's this little treat at the end. >> can kids this cute really be this naughty? >> i could picture two boys being bored, their mom says, "go play out," they decide to take a trampoline and, you know, try and jump over cars. >> i think it was fake because i doubt a car would continue driving when they see a little kid on a trampoline getting ready to jump over it. >> well, it does seem like one of those stupid things kids might try. as kids, we don't really think about the consequences of what we're doing. >> well, we've got the little scamp here to give us the truth. >> hi, i'm richard. >> i'm smith. our video was a fake. >> 14-year-old mikel and his 15-year-old cousin look familiar, it's because this isn't the first time they have tried to fake us out. the tablecloth trick gone wrong is a viral ad created for the gop vaudeville theater in germany.

>> you could compare to cirque du soleil in america. >> the video is an internet juggernaut gaining more than 20 million hits. the video's directors, norman krueger and dominic yunker, brainstorm another misadventure for the daring duo. >> had to be more extreme. it had to be bigger. and so i thought about this -- this car crash. >> before they create the big smash, the guys add legitimacy by filming a series of other trampoline stunts. >> jumping over a dog. jumping into a swimming pool. jumping over a cow. >> everything up to the car is real. >> like the long con. if the first three or four videos seem very real and are real, you have to believe that the last one is real, too. >> for the grand finale, the directors lock down the camera and shoot three different actions.

>> we set the camera up, then you don't move it the whole day because you make different shots and you combine them in the post production. >> >> first up is michel jumping on and off the car. instead of a vehicle, he leaps on to garbage cans which are approximately the same height. palette -- palets are added on top for traction. [ speaking foreign language ] >> next up, the guys shoot the first car screeching to a halt. >> it took five, six times before we have the car in the right position. >> the driver exits the vehicle. the crew leaves it in place and then sets up for the climactic crash. >> we only had one try because then the car was crashed. i said, norman, you have to drive much faster than you think you should because we have only

this one shot. and so it was 20 kilometers per hour into the car. it was everything i wanted. >> with filming complete, norman and dominic start editing. they layer the three shots on top of each other. isolating michel and removing the garbage cans using a complex process call the compositing. >> compositing it has to be done frame by frame so it took a lot of time. >> they launch the clip. viewers jump at the chance to watch their latest exploit. >> people just want to share the mess unfolding. you know good can't come from jumping on a trampoline on to a car, and then of course it doesn't. >> internet detectives scour the video for clues to fakery and catch a mistake. can you spot it?

>> look at the shadow of the car. in the moment of the crash, it doesn't move. no! no! how could we be so blind? >> mistake aside, the trampoline trick just adds to the internet legend of michel and sven. it looks like that legend will live on. from crafty kids to a spacey spouse. let's face it, when you just had surgery, you probably don't want to be trending on the internet. >> oh, my -- ow! >> there is this whole genre online of people coming out of anesthesia and the strange things that can happen. >> it's one thing to act loopy, but is it possible to have absolutely no memory of your spouse? >> my name's candace. i'm your wife. >> you're my wife? >> yeah. >> holy [ bleep ] [ laughter ] >> this guy has just woken up from surgery.

he's really hazy and groggy. >> he's apparently talking to his wife. >> all of a sudden, he's gushing over this lady. >> man, you are eye candy. whoa. you might be the prettiest woman i've ever seen. are you a model? how long have we been married? >> a long time. >> oh, my good. i hit the jackpot. >> this is the most frustrating video in the world. because she never flips the camera around. >> whoa. your teeth are perfect. >> i want to see the jackpot. >> turn around -- >> no. >> a good thing he was saying how beautiful she was instead of like -- oh, man, you're my wife? this is what i settled for? >> did i get you that ring? >> uh-huh. >> man, i must have been really

liking you. >> the hazy husband goes viral and make wives swoon around the world. >> i think this probably went viral because it's the opposite of most things you see on line which are cynical and awful and being mean. >> man, have we kissed yet? >> it was just an adorable video that people wanted to share because it made them feel good. >> but is it too good to be true? >> a lot of people were debating is this real, is this fake. and trying to gauge whether this could actually happen. >> how could he not remember who his wife was. he didn't fall off a horse and forget who everyone was. >> do we call each other baby? >> my first impression was that this was real. he really does look like a guy coming out of anesthesia. it seems like a very genuine moment. >> well, it seems genuine because it is. >> you just can't fake being that high. the best actor in the world -- daniel day lewis could not fake being that high. >> we get to meet the prettiest

girl in the world when jason mortensen and his wife stop by the "today" show. >> how is it that you were videotaping that moment? >> he had been acting like that for about 20 minutes before i pulled out my phone. so i finally realized, i need to get this on video so he can see how he acts. >> jason, do you remember any of this as you watch it? >> no. i've had surgeries previously, i guess i've been a weirdo during all of them. thank goodness she had the sense to pull out a camera this time. >> there have people who have questioned the authenticity of this. but we talked to your surgeon yesterday. he said while it's unusual, he said some people can have this reaction. what do you make of all the reaction, the skeptics out there? >> he genuinely didn't remember a thing about that when i showed him the video. >> this guy scored major brownie points with his wife and major brownie points with women all over the world.

>> oh, my god. i hit the jackpot. >> this is a great guy. she actually hit the jackpot, too. xx >> sizzling 2,000 degree lava decimates a village. >> lava is a winner when it comes to man versus lava. >> a lightning bolt makes a direct hit. >> oh, my god! >> wild, time lapse footage of a mammoth dust storm. >> it spanned from one side of the horizon to the other. >> baseball-sized hail storms. massive wildfires. >> it looked apocalyptic to me. >> mother earth at her