The boys are back in town.

Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Chris Pontius, and the oh-so-dashing Johnny Knoxville are in tune for the third installment of the Jackass saga, and this time they’re larger than life.

Have you ever seen feces in 3D?

I have.

The acts in Jackass: 3D range from socially awkward to slapstick funny to vomit-inducing.

I loved it.

My personal favorite stunt was one where the boys attempted to see how well they would hold up attempting to do normal (and not so normal) things while standing at the back of a running jet. The gale-force winds from the jet engine blew shoes, couches and people back dozens of feet.

My not-so favorite stunt was one in which Steve-O was strapped into a poop-stuffed PortAPotty and propelled hundreds of feet into the air.

Only Jackass could combine vomit, feces and aerial stunts in such an ostentatiously manly way.

This same testosterone-driven wish to test the boundaries of appropriateness leads to another kind of  display, the extreme stunt.

These sorts of stunts have been popular with the folks at Jackass since the very beginning. They sometimes involve professional bikers, bulls, football players and skateboarders and always involve a significant chance for major injury.

One such stunt in Jackass: 3D involved an overweight man and an undersized mechanized bike. The man was supposed to attempt to propel himself over a shoddy bridge across a stream, over the dirt ramp at the other side, and land in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

In a red, white, and blue spangled bodysuit, he was off. In one swift move of the bike, he was over the creek and rammed head-first into the ramp.

There was a moment of stunned silence. Then,  all of the men rushed to him, asking if he was ok.

Once it was determined that (despite the sickening crunch and snap heard upon collision) the rough rider could walk this off, the boys burst into hysterical laughter.

There’s a reason that they ask you not to try this at home.

I doubt this is the last that we will see of the Jackass gang. There are always more people to be punched, vomit to be vomited, explosions to trigger, costumes to wear, and extreme stunts to attempt.

At least until that tense moment of silence continues to end with laughter and not with the morgue, the Jackass boys will continue living on the edge.