Ronnie Dobbs

The customer from Change for a Dollar runs into an old acquaintance outside the store and turns out to be Terry, a former cameraman for a reality police show, who narrates the rise of Ronnie Dobbs. Ronnie keeps turning up in arrest footage across the country: fighting with his girlfriend over beer money, blaming a scarred stranger for what police find in his pants and insisting the white powder came from baking. Terry shops the tapes around Hollywood, and Ronnie becomes a franchise of staged arrests in every state, in France and even in outer space, with talk-show appearances, Halloween costumes and a theme song by Puscifer. Fame ruins the act: living in a Beverly Hills mansion with his new wife Rhonda, Ronnie can no longer get the police to arrest him, and when Terry tracks him down to ask why, their on-stage confrontation collapses into complaints about the show's own budget before Ronnie throws Terry out as an enabler.

Ronnie Dobbs later headlined the 2002 feature film Run Ronnie Run!, directed by Troy Miller, with David Cross reprising the role. According to the TV IV episode guide, script pages for the arrest scene that the narration says the network deemed not funny enough appear in the book Mr. Show: What Happened?