The WORST episodes of Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man
Every episode of Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man!
Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is the inside man on this hourlong weekend series, which CNN says provides ``an intimate look into diverse sectors of American life and offers a deep-dive into pressing issues facing the U.S.'' Episodes include stories about migrant farm workers, the elder care industry, union workers, gun owners, education, bankruptcy, medical marijuana and drought conditions.
#1 - Bankruptcy
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/11/2013
A few years ago, home ownership was at an all time high, unemployment just 5.6% and falling. But when the bottom fell out of the real estate market, millions of Americans fell on hard times. Some lost everything. And it’s not just people and businesses who’ve suffered. All over the country, entire cities are going broke. On the next “Inside Man,” Morgan Spurlock visits the city of Stockton, California, which recently declared bankruptcy.
#2 - Ranger Spurlock
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/19/2015
Spurlock gets back to nature as a volunteer park ranger in Alaska, and is joined by his young son Laken in an immersive look at the viability of America’s national parks in the 21st Century in the face of a changing world.
#3 - Drought
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/2013
Morgan Spurlock is up with the sun in America's heartland. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker signs on as a ranch hand in Nebraska, where severe drought is devastating the land and forcing families to make some tough calls.
#4 - The Truth About Toxins
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/2016
In a quest to rid his life of contaminants – which are prominent in food, cleaning products and even furniture, Spurlock gets professional help to “de-tox.” The host puts his body to the test, dabbling in chelation therapy, infrared saunas, electromagnetic-free sleep chambers, and various cleanses, to see if poisons can truly be flushed out of our bodies and surroundings in the modern world.
#5 - Honey Bee-Ware
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/2015
Morgan becomes a commercial beekeeper to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the honey bees; what he uncovers is a web of international honey laundering schemes.
#6 - Morgan the Matchmaker
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/12/2015
In a quest to discover how people find love in the 21st century, Spurlock tries his hand as a matchmaker and reports on the many online dating sites and apps at our disposal, including Three Day Rule, OK Cupid, and Grindr. But do these modern tools actually make it easier to find love?
#7 - Guns
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/2013
Find out what happens when the right to bear arms comes under fire when Morgan Spurlock works at a gun shop and visits a firing range to get an Inside Man's take on gun ownership in America.
#8 - CSI: Spurlock
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/24/2016
Separating fact from TV dramatizations, Spurlock embeds in a forensic science unit to understand first-hand how crime scene investigations are actually conducted. From the first responders, to the collection of evidence (at CSI Academy in Alachua, FL and ATF training facility in Huntsville, AL) and its analysis in the lab, he gets a crash course in Crime 101 from beginning to end.
#9 - Unions
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/25/2013
Labor unions gave us weekends, child labor laws, and the guaranteed minimum wage. They virtually created the American middle class. But a lot of people are asking what unions have they done for us lately. In the United States, union membership has been on the decline for half a century. And lately, they’ve come under attack. Workers still need protection, but the question is: Are unions still the best way for them to get it?
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#10 - Elder Care
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/28/2013
Morgan Spurlock takes a personal look into the financial and emotional costs of elder care. Spurlock travels to Griffithsville, West Virginia for much more than just a visit back home.
#11 - United States of Trash
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/26/2015
Morgan learns what it means to throw something away by following his own trash; an inside look into the waste management industry, from the NYC Department of Sanitation to local trash in landfills.
#12 - Futurism
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2014
Spurlock enters the brave new world of extreme life extension, embarking on a life-prolonging regimen and trying everything from genome hacking, to creating an avatar and uploading his consciousness in preparation for the “Technological Singularity.” Spurlock’s quest to live forever includes visits with radical futurist Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and Cambrian Genomics in San Francisco.
#13 - Immigration
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/14/2013
Morgan Spurlock researches illegal immigration issues from the inside when he tries his hand at a job as a migrant worker in Polk County Florida, a job that is rarely filled by American workers.
#15 - The Book of Morgan
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/2014
Spurlock travels to Nashville, TN – the buckle of the Bible Belt – to become a guest preacher at an atheist church, a controversial and growing movement in the US. Along the way, he visits evangelical mega-churches, Baptist gospel churches, mosques, Mormon gatherings, and more to try and figure out exactly why people need religion in their lives, why it creates so much conflict in this world, and what his own message is for his Sunday sermon.
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#16 - Double or Nothing
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/3/2016
Spurlock enters the seductive world of professional gambling by spending a week in Las Vegas determined to beat the house. His exploration of this pastime, which often leads to serious addiction, takes him to casinos, bookies, the racetrack, Off Track Betting and just about any place that allows him to gamble.
#17 - Game Changers
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2016
Screaming fans, sold-out arenas, and teenage superstars, Spurlock joins the ranks of professional video gamers in one of the fastest-growing sectors of the “sports” world. Committed to understanding this shockingly intense industry, he joins reigning League of Legends North American Champions, from Counter Logic Gaming, as they train to compete for a big cash prize at the World Championship in Paris.
#18 - One Giant Step for Morgan
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2016
Spurlock “virtually” experiences life as an astronaut and investigates the future of the space industry. The host’s journey takes him to government and private facilities including NASA’s Johnson Space Center (Houston), the X-Prize Foundation (Culver City, CA.) and Virgin Atlantic’s Mojave Air & Space Port (CA.) to see how the rules of the game are changing and what it means for the human race.
#19 - Morganbot
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/2015
How soon will robots become part of our daily lives? Morgan Spurlock delves into the world of artificial intelligence to find out.
#20 - Club Med
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/29/2015
While those of us in the northeast brace for blizzard 2015, lucky Morgan Spurlock enjoys a fresh coconut on the beaches of Thailand as he goes inside the world of medical tourism.
#21 - UFO’s
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/2014
With an open mind, Spurlock steeps himself in the history, theories, and photographic ‘evidence’ of UFO sightings, embedding himself at several MUFONs (Mutual UFO Network) and communing with watchers, conspiracy theorists and other interested parties to make his own determination as to whether or not we are truly alone in the universe.
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#22 - Seek and Disrupt!
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/12/2016
Inspired by companies like Google, AirBnB, and Spotify, Spurlock attempts to fill a void in the marketplace and re-write the rules by becoming the next disruptor. An eye-opening trip to Silicon Valley provides industry advice from tech giants, and examines why companies like Uber often leave a trail of enemies in their wake and questions whether this golden era of tech will solve age-old problems.
#23 - Pets in America
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/2014
From toy dogs in fancy purses to puppy mills to shelter animals, Spurlock takes a humorous and poignant look at America’s cultural obsession with pets. To explore how less fortunate “would-be” pets live, Spurlock gets down and dirty as an animal shelter worker for the Animal Rescue League of Berks County (Reading, PA.), where each day can mean adoption or euthanasia.
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#25 - Morgan Makes Cents Out of Bitcoin
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/2015
Morgan lives off of nothing but the e-currency Bitcoin for a week to figure out whether the world is ready for a new kind of money. With all of the misinformation and misunderstanding surrounding bitcoin, Spurlock is determined to understand the pros and cons of the peer-to-peer digital currency and what its effect might be on the global economy.