Punk'd
Ashton Kutcher's hidden-camera prank show, and one of MTV's signature 2000s hits. Premiering on March 17, 2003, it ambushed celebrities with elaborate staged disasters — fake arrests, fake tax seizures, fake catastrophes — and filmed them melting down before the big reveal. The Justin Timberlake episode, in which he was led to believe the government was seizing his home over unpaid taxes, became one of the most famous pranks in reality-TV history.