File this under “stuff you can’t make up”. In other words, you’re not getting “Punk’d” here.

TMZ is reporting that Ashton Kutcher and his production company, Katalyst Media (which produced “Punk’d” and “Beauty and the Geek“) are suing the state of California for $1.4 million after the DMV backed out of a deal for a reality show he was producing based on capturing “the variously humorous, emotional, dramatic, moving, humanizing and entertaining situations that arise on a daily basis”.

At the DMV.

A reality show about the DMV. Yep, television is officially crap and Ashton’s gone mad. More after the jump.

Also from TMZ:

In fact, Katalyst claims it hammered out a “formal written agreement” with the DMV to shoot footage in the summer and fall of 2011. The deal called for 4 initial episodes with an option of 6 more.

Katalyst claims it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars gearing up for the show — only to get a 5-sentence letter from a DMV honcho 6 weeks later … trying to back out of the deal.

According to the suit, the DMV honcho said the project wouldn’t be in the DMV’s “best interests.”

Perhaps the workers at the DMV realized just how stupid this show sounded and backed out while they still could? Does anyone really care about anything regarding the DMV other than getting out of there as fast as humanly possible?

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