Here are but a few of the series' many episode highlights:

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In "Pro Wrestling" (the pilot episode), Louis visits "The Power Plant", WCW's Atlanta school for training up and coming wrestlers. Unfortunately for him, he had previously angered the Power Plant's impetuous head trainer "Sarge" by asking the age-old question of how much of wrestling is staged. Sarge, seeing Theroux as disrespectful for asking such a question, subjects our intrepid journalist to an everlasting round of both verbal and physical humiliation that culminates in Louis being forced to exercise until he vomits on camera (although out of frame).

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In "Porn", Louis meets a "gay for pay" porn star who intentionally makes homoerotic films, yet continues to insist that he is straight, despite the constant blow jobs he receives from his fellow male costars in all of his films. Much like the show's viewing audience, Louis doesn't buy it one bit, and continually eggs him on throughout the episode in the hope of getting a confession, leading to a tense scene where the porn star flinches and looks like he's about ready to deck Louis for not being gullible enough to believe him.

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In "UFOs", Louis heads to Palm Springs, California, where he meets up with "warrior monk" Thor Templar, leader of the Alien Resistance Movement, a wacky group of alien killers who claim to wage nightly wars with evil space critters on an almost daily basis within a well known alien "portal" (translation: some stretch of very bare and rarely visited desert). With Louis in tow, they drive out to this "portal" in the hopes of catching a glimpse of a possible UFO, and maybe even go head-to-head with a couple of evil extraterrestrial beings hell-bent on wiping out our race (keep in mind that our guys are armed with specially modified rifles, with their brainwaves as the ammo). Unfortunately for A.R.M., nothing happens, making them look like the silly, lifeless loons that they are.

Although the show isn't necessarily considered cancelled, new episodes are currently no longer being produced, so the episodes available are a bit dated (although the subjects that they are based on most certainly are not).

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends originally aired in the U.S on Bravo (before it went completely gay), and abroad on the BBC. Check your local television listings for dates and times. Select "Best Of" episodes are also available on DVD in the U.K. and surrounding territories (Region Code 2, PAL format only).