Don't Try This At Home
“Don’t try this at home” is a phrase in the English language most often associated with dangerous, stupid, or otherwise risky stunts or acts of bravado. The phrase is typically uttered by one or more of the individuals involved in the act or flashed across the screen immediately before the act is carried out. It is meant to serve as a warning to viewers, who may be tempted to imitate the act, thus potentially resulting in bodily injury.
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Though the phrase “don’t try this at home” was originally used as a warning to viewers observing stunts being carried out by professionals, it has since grown in popularity and come to be employed by amateurs seeking to add a sense of danger to their actions. While the phrase is most commonly used by those actually engaged in the stunt, it can also be attributed to an action after the fact, such as when individuals commenting on an internet video of a particularly idiotic act comment “don’t try this at home” in an attempt to be funny.
In fact, “don’t try this at home” holds such a well-established place in popular culture that it does not need to be attributed to a video or a specific stunt at all; one can simply view such a stunt and immediately know that it is not an action to be tried at home. Some of the most recent uses of “don’t try this at home” arose in relation to the MTV television series “Jackass” as well as the multiple television spinoffs and three feature films that followed the series.
