Rob & Big

Rob & Big
Rob & Big title screen
Created by	Rob Dyrdek Chris Boykin
Starring	Rob Dyrdek Christopher "Big Black" Boykin Drama (Rob's assistant/cousin) Bam Bam (Black's friend) "Meaty" (pet bulldog) "Mini Horse" (pet miniature horse)
Country of origin	U.S.
Original language	English
No. of episodes	16 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Ruben Fleischer Jeff Tremaine
Running time	21 minutes
Original release
Network	MTV
Release	November 2, 2006 – Present

Rob & Big is a reality comedy series, produced by Ruben Fleischer, that premiered on November 2, 2006 on MTV. It follows the lives of professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek and his best friend/body guard Christopher "Big Black" Boykin.

The show is currently in its second season according to executive producer, Jeff Tremaine. The show helped MTV2 achieve its highest rated day in channel history on January 15, 2007. The first full season reached over 70 million total viewers, and was ranked #1 in its time period. During a current clips show of the second season in July 2007, a third season was announced, with Rob stating he is taking it to another level.

Season 1

First Episode/ Moving In

In the first episode, Rob and Big set out to adopt a baby bulldog. Rob thought since it was basically made up of meat, they should just call him Meat Bag (A.K.A Meaty). They later they try to use Meaty to pick up some chicks. Two ladies ask if they are gay after finding out that they live with each other. They laugh it off and Big proclaims how big Rob's rectum would be if they were. The women later attend the party, where Rob hired the Academy Award Winning group Three 6 Mafia to perform. Big prepares a concoction containing Pepto Bismol and some antacidto fight off any hangover that might occur. After this first episode we see that Rob and Big are meant to be.

Second Episode/ Go Skate Day

In the second episode, it is Go Skate Day. Rob dosen't understand Big Blacks "22"'s so they go to a local tailor to have then measure Big Blacks "22" arms, and they are 22 inches. Rob tries to get Big Black on a skateboard and buys him a Dogtown-style board that fits him. They then witness Tyson the skateboarding bulldog and try to get Meaty to skateboard. They make an appointment to meet with Tyson and his owner at a park later on.

Rob and Big go to the DC shoes skateboarding fair at the south County Fair Mall and get pulled over by the police. They decided to drive to the mall and pull over because they are in the middle of traffic, while getting tailed by the cops they play Chamillionaire's "Ridin' Dirty" on the radio. Rob jokes that they were pulled over for "ridin' dirty."

Rob and Big then meet Tyson the skateboarding bulldog and his owner in an attempt to teach Meaty how to skate. This plan fails as Meaty does not seem to want to learn how to skateboard. Rob compares it to being like a child not wanting to follow in a father's footsteps. He throws Meaty's skateboard and appears to give up on the dream of Meaty becoming a skateboarding bulldog. However he does eventually ride later on.

Third Episode/ Travel

In the third episode, Rob and Big go to Vancouver to be motion captured for an EA Sports skating game (Titled skate., out on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3) as well as play a round of skateboard hockey with the game designers. They also try to hit up some Canadian style skate hockey, and they win. Rob decides to visit his parents in his hometown of Kettering, Ohio. Rob, Big, and Rob's family also go to the skate park co-named (with DC Shoes) in his honor. Rob and Big also visit Kings Island theme park. One ride Big Black can't fit into and he comically says "Size discrimination"! Then they go back home to Meaty.

Fourth Episode/ Let's Get Physical

Rob sets out to help Big Black lose weight. Normal scales are not able to weigh Big (instant overload), so Rob takes Big to Curves but even their scale is not able to weigh Big, so Rob takes him to a Recycling Center. They find out he weighs 416 lbs. Big Black gets hypnotized in order to help him stay motivated to lose weight, and then they go to see a nutritionist, but Rob doesn't agree with the program she recommended (moderation), so Rob buys Big a bike, and starts boot camp with Big. After a quick montage, he reweighs at the same weight. Rob is visually disappointed in Big's lack of weight loss. Despite Rob's advice of dismissing the nutritionist as a fraud, Big decides to revisit her as he believes that she understands him. Rob accuses Big's trip as an excuse to have another look at the "pretty nutritionist". The Nutritionist tells Big "Christopher Boykin" that he could feel free to a have burger once a month and only one burger. When Big returns home with his fast food burger, Rob is disappointed and realizes that Big will never lose weight.

Fifth episode/ Happy Birthday

It is Rob's birthday. The show opens with Big, Bam Bam, and Drama putting a birthday hat and glasses on Meaty's butt, then laying Meaty on a sleeping Rob's face, backside first. Later, the boys notice a smell in the house that seems to be emanating from Meaty's "trapdoor", which culminates in Rob sending him to a pet groomer. The groomers cannot fix the smell, even though they have washed it multiple times. Now they think that Meaty has a dysfunctional anal gland. Rob and Big get tattooed. Rob gets the word "relentless" on his left forearm and Big gets the "double B's" on his left as well. Big Black competes in a hot wing eating competition to get Rob a trophy for his Birthday and loses. Then Rob and Big Black's friend Bam Bam steals the trophy by putting it under his shirt. They then go to a club for Rob's party and the episode ends with them having a food fight with Rob's birthday cake. Rob gets thrown into the pool 4 times in this episode, and he jumped in once himself. Rob's cousin Drama is left cleaning up the kitchen after the food fight.

Sixth episode/ Making the House a Home

Rob decides it time to redecorate Black's bedroom because it looks like a "hotel room". He and Big Black go and buy a new bed for Black, and while in the mattress store, Rob jumps on all of the beds inbetween play wrestling with Big Black. They then buy wallpaper to go in Black's room it is called "golden dawn". Rob also buys a handcarved wooden tiger for Black's room as the final touch, much to Black's initial chagrin, Big Black says it has a "gimpy paw", and looks like a "retarded tiger". Rob decides he wants a skate park in the backyard and has his friend, Brent Kronmueller, to build it for him. Rob wants to get a family portrait that imitates the famous Death Row Records picture featuring Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight, and Snoop Dogg. Meaty then eats a chicken bone out of the garbage and it gets stuck in his stomach. So Rob and Big Black rush him to the animal hospital where they find out that he had a stress-induced seizure and does have a chicken bone stuck in his stomach. The doctor keeps him overnight so he can pass the bone, Rob feels like a bad parent, and Big says "its touch when one of your homies is down". The next morning Rob and Big Black pick up Meaty after the doctor gives Meaty a clean bill of health. The skate park is finished and they finally get Meaty to skateboard. The family portraits come back and Rob hangs them in the pool room.

Seventh episode/ Securtiy

The episode begins with Rob taping pillows and cushioning to Big Black so he can try to come in on a quarter pipe, but Big falls. Meaty is continuing his rebellious behavior. For the second time that day, he has defecated inside the house. Rob discusses this with Big, and they decide to bring in an animal psychic. She claims that Meaty is missing a mother figure, or a female presence in the household. Rob and Big decide to go to a matchmaker to find themselves two possible female companions (both for themselves, and for Meaty). They go to "Meet A Mate", and get set up with Annie [1] (for Rob) and Regla (for Big). They are both singers in a punk-rock band called Shut Up Marie. As Big describes them, "they sound like duds." The girls arrive in a white stretch Chrysler 300, and the boys are immediately skeptical, but leave on the dates anyway. The boys first raid the limo's liquor to ease the pain of their experience. The first stop on the date is a mini-golf course. Next is a karaoke bar, where Rob and Big sing a rendition of Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory" while just slightly inebriated. The next day, Rob tells Big that Annie lied about her age to Meet A Mate. Though the boys thought she was 27 years old, according to her drivers license she was 37. They decide that dating services aren't for them, so they decide to try to pluck a mom off of Myspace.

Eighth Episode / Season Finale/ Do Work

Rob has a nightmare in which Big Black fails to protect him, resulting in his being shot several times while riding in his "royal blue truck" (in the dream). This causes Rob to think that Black isn't able to protect him. Rob goes to a lawyer and has a last will and testament written up to make sure his belongings end up with the correct people. Big Black is determined to show Rob that he still has his back so he takes Rob through a series of tests to prove it. First, he takes Rob to the LA County Raceway to show him that he can outrun the police if the situation arises. They do many simulations of speeing away from the cops. They then go to a karate school where Black shows off his martial arts skills, Big flips rob over his shoulder and onto the floor. Rob took some damage to know that he is safe. Finally, Big Black takes Rob to a paintball course because it's the closest to actual gunfire he could get. Rob and Black face off against two female instructors and Rob and Big Black beat them. When they return to the house Black pretends Drama (Rob's Cousin) was a burglar and shoots him with the paintball gun.

Season 2

First Episode/ Meaty and Mini

After meaty pees on the floor right in front of Rob and Big, Rob decides that Meaty needs a companion. Rob, Big, and Meaty go to a miniature horse farm to buy a horse. They purchase a horse they dub "Mini-Horse". Mini stays in the living room for the night and Rob ahs to pick up the "dusty poo" htat Mini left for him. Rob and his friends have one last session on his skate ramps before they are taken down to make room for a horse stable that is a replica of Rob and Bigs current house titled "3 layers of heaven". Rob also debates over throwing away a leather jacket that he bought later throwing out after getting Mini-Horse. Rob and Big dress up in their ranch gear and give Mini a proper welcome to his new stable. The episode ends with Rob riding a skateboard with his new horse.

Second Episode/ Time Travel

In the second episode of Rob & Big, Rob takes out a time machine that he had bought before Big had moved in. Rob puts the time machine on Big however the time machine does not work. They call up the maker of the time machine Steven Gibbs and they ask him how to work it. He says he will not meet them in person because he is afraid they are aliens. Rob then finds another time traveler and they fly to Montreal to meet the time traveler, Dr. Z. While Dr. Z works on the Time Machine, Rob and Big have some fun in the Canada winter and go sleding. Then they go to a costume stor to get the right appareal for the 1972 era Big wants to go to. When they arrive to Dr. Z's Big is wearing a disco outfit and Rob is dressed normally, they are unable to time travel and they return to California. They also buy a horse trailer in this episode to move "mini horse" around. Big takes the trailer to a paint shop before going to Montreal. When they come back to Hollywood, the side has black trash bags. Big takes the bags off and says, "This is how we would look time traveling in the Roman ages". The trailer has a picture of Rob and Big in both in very muscular bodies, Rob has a mustache and Big has three "ribletts" as his lateral dorsi muscles.

Third Episode/ Mississippi

In the third episode, Big wants to take Rob to his family reuniono in Wiggins, Mississippi. When they first arrive in Wiggins they stop at Aunt Lous house to have some southern cookin'. Rob stays there for the night in "the barney room". The next day Rob and Big try to find a skate spot, but all they find is a concrete cylinder to play on. Then the mayor (Mayor Maddox of Raleigh Mississippi) drives by and asks what skateboarding is. Next Rob and Big stop at Big Blacks old High school Stone High School and pump up the school for a football game. Rob enters the guymnasium wearing the school mascot Tomcat, and surprises the crowd by takin off the costume to show that it is Rob. Rob and Big then stop at Scott Country CO - OP Farm and Garden Center to get some farming apperal. Then with their new gear they go pulp woodin' with Bigs cousin Repp Jones. Big is able to carry large trees, while rob can only carry a limb enough to make toilet paper. They finally stop to ride bulls, but then Big Black chickens out and Rob is left to do the "dirty work". Tony Smart (professional bull rider) get Rob ready for his ride. Rob gets nervous but hangs on for an amazing 7 - 8 seconds. The next day, Sunday, Rob and Big have to go to church, but Rob forgot his suit. In desperate needs they go to uncle Jerry and borrow a suit from him. Uncle Jerry is a little eccentric, ironicly Rob fits perfectly into uncle Jerry's suits. They go to church and pray to Big Blacks mom(deceased) ,Hattie Mae Windam - Boykin. Then they continue to the Family Reunion where Rob is in a three-legged race with Uncle Jerry, they lose. Rob and Big go back to California to see Meaty and Mini.

Fourth Episode/ New Assistant

Drama, Rob's cousin and assistant, starts slacking on his job, so Rob threatens to fire him. Rob creates a Waiver to scare Drama that he might loose his job. Then Rob goes to a Mini Horse trainer to help Mini control his attitude. So they set up a play date with other Mini Horses so Mini has friends. Rob and Big Black interview a professional assistant to replace Drama, but are not impressed. To instill a greater appreciation for his job and work ethic into Drama, Rob forces him to work for a day at a fast food restaurant called Hamburger Central. After a few hours of work, Rob and Big pick Drama up and take Mini Horse for a "play date" with some other horses, and Mini is happy.

Fifth Episode/ Black Lavender

To start the episode Big throws Rob down onto a couch, then Big jumps down to join him, and breaks the couch. Big Black comes out of retirement after 15 years to perform on the Male Review stage as Black Lavender...an alias he went by as a male stripper for a short time in the early 90's. First Rob and Big go out hair hunting at the Hair Club for Men, then the local wig shop. Later, Big Black rehearses at the house with a "close, personal" female friend. After she oils his chest, he runs through his routine to see what she thinks. Big Black surprises everyone when a Rick James wig he ordered shows up in the mail it was oily and felt like real hair.The big night arrives and Big Black and the boys hit up the strip joint called La Bare and turn the house out! Black proves to be super agile for a big man, and puts on an impressive show that is impossible to forget.

Sixth Episode/ Tampa

Rob Dyrdek competes in the Tampa Pro competition for the first time after five years. Competing with him is fellow skate teammate Steve Berra. After a skate session at Berra'a warehouse, Rob makes a $5000 bet with Berra that he will do better in the competition, despite having lost to him five years ago. Rob also requests all $5000 to be in singles and to be delivered the day of the competition, so, in the case that he wins, he will be able to "make it rain" with singles. Rob, Berra, Big Black, and Bam-Bam head down to Tampa for the competition, as well as to have some fun, such as riding on the Manta Ray, ollieng and kickflipping gators, and hanging out at the Bro Bowl. At the competition, Rob ends coming in 7th while Berra is in 35th, due to several bails in his runs, making Rob the winner. Rob calls everyone out to the vert ramp, and says that the weather is 100% chance of rain (of singles that is) where he and Berra, Big Black, and Bam-Bam throw the money out into crowd. In the end Steve barra only ends up with $1 of his $5000.

Seventh Episode/ Bobby Light

Rob Dyrdek decides he wants to make an R&B song called "Dirty Girl" and make a low budget music video using the pseudonym "Bobby Light." So he buys suits and wigs to provide the look for the sensational Bobby Light. Rob tries to prove to his friends that he is an R&B sensation. And he and Big Black decides to bring Uncle Jerry out to Los Angeles to be in the music video & to show him a good time. The video shows Rob as Bobby Light, with Big Black, his friends Bam Bam, Drama (who is called Drama Beats in the video), Uncle Jerry, a dirty girl, and his pets Meaty & Mini Horse. Uncle Jerry sings "You a dirty girl, you a dirty girl." in the music video. They show Uncle Jerry a great time in LA before he went back home Rob and Big Black made a scrap book for Uncle Jerry to remember the experience. Bobby Light Music Video available on Itunes under Rob and Big.

Eighth Episode / Season Finale/ New Cars

Rob buys a new SUV, dubbed the "NewAV", to replace the "UAV" or "Urban Assault Vehicle", which was designed to be skater friendly. which he has painted flat black with black rims. The Wall Street Journal has featured an article about Rob and how he let a seller on eBay use his name to sell his old Mercedes Benz. The article called him a C-list celebrity and compared him to David Hasselhoff. Big Black decides to call up the writer and asks her to speak with Rob, saying that he has been on drinking binge because of the article. Rob talks to his mother about the situation and she seems disappointed, saying it makes him "seem like a loser." Big Black then buys a Ford Pinto and takes it to a body shop, painting everything completely black to match Rob's new SUV. After considering what to do with his old car, Rob decides to give away to another skateboarder who will appreciate the custom skateboard-related additions he had made to it. He decides to hold a competition to see who will get the SUV, drawing numbers out of hat to see who will challenge him to a game of "S-K-8," modeled after H-O-R-S-E. The first person to make Rob get "S-K-8" and beat Big Black in Rochambeau wins. A local skater by the name of Frank Sanchez wins after defeating Rob in a close game of S-K-8 and sweeping Big Black in Rochambeau, much to his family's happiness. Back at home, Rob is still sad about the newspaper article. Big Black decides to cheer Rob up, so he gets his old leather jacket, a.k.a the "Super-jacket," out of the trash and gives it to Rob saying it's a "C-list jacket."

External links

• Official MTV Site
• DC Shoes website for Rob and Big