S1: #31 - Our Top 5 Favorite Smosh Videos of All Time

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth – S1: #31 - Our Top 5 Favorite Smosh Videos of All Time

Introduction

In this engaging episode of Smosh Mouth, released on September 18, 2019, hosts Shayne Topp, Amanda Lehan-Canto, and Damien Haas embark on a nostalgic journey to rank their top five favorite Smosh videos of all time. Joined by rotating Smosh friends, the trio delves into memorable sketches, heartfelt moments, and the creative processes behind some of Smosh's most beloved content.

Methodology

The hosts clarify that their rankings are based on personal favorites rather than filming experiences. They emphasize revisiting old videos to relive the laughter and enjoyment each piece brought them. As Shayne Topp mentions, “[...] we all have our own favorites. [...] these are the ones that make us laugh the most or we enjoy the most” (02:09).

Top 5 Favorite Smosh Videos

1. Number 5: Damian Knows the Way

   Damien Haas kicks off the list with Damian Knows the Way, a Smosh Games video set in VR Chat. The video showcases Damien and Bose navigating virtual spaces, engaging with other players in humorous and improvised scenarios. Damien describes the experience, stating, “It was just like living in an improv scene with all the costumes and scenery built in” (02:46). Courtney Miller echoes this sentiment, praising the authenticity and comedic value of their virtual adventures (03:36).

2. Number 4: We Read Courtney's Middle School Diary

   This heartfelt sketch involves the team reading Courtney Miller’s middle school diary, blending humor with personal revelations. Courtney reflects on the emotional significance, saying, “doing that video kind of brought them to life in a way that like, now I can look back on them differently” (12:27). The group appreciates the balance of humor and sincerity, highlighting the supportive dynamic among the cast members.

3. Number 3: How to Get Famous on YouTube & Olivia's a Bully

   Sharing the third spot is a tie between two iconic sketches. How to Get Famous on YouTube satirizes the pursuit of online fame with exaggerated characters like “your boy Vd” and scenarios that mirror real YouTube trends. Shayne Top commends the sketch, noting, “That is every single line. Everyone is not giving a crap” (33:07). Concurrently, Olivia's a Bully showcases Olivia’s over-the-top antagonist role, with Ian Hecox praising the performance: “That was the best crazy” (32:47).

4. Number 2: Kids on Bikes

   Kids on Bikes stands out for its high production value and homage to classic film genres. Courtney Miller lauds the video’s aesthetic and storytelling, mentioning, “the editing, like, just such a beautiful piece of work” (44:10). Shane Top adds, “That's perfect … it's a gorgeous video, and the song is awesome” (45:16). The sketch effectively combines humor with cinematic flair, making it a favorite among the hosts.

5. Number 1: Stranded & Assassin's Creed 3 Music Video

   Topping the list is a tie between two seminal Smosh videos. Stranded, an early Smosh video from 2006, is celebrated for its simplicity and comedic timing. Shane Top reminisces, “It's a video that came out in 2006. This is back when it's just Ian and Anthony with their camera. It's such a vibe, and it is hilarious” (71:15). Meanwhile, the Assassin's Creed 3 Music Video is praised for its ambitious production and lasting impact. Courtney Miller highlights, “It was literal a stand of comedy and the music is awesome” (75:27), while Ian Hecox reflects on its enduring popularity and the meticulous effort behind its creation (75:41).

Honorable Mentions

Beyond the top five, the hosts acknowledge several other memorable Smosh videos:

• Insane Pie Eating Contest with Smosh
• Don’t Pop the Balloon with WWE Superstars
• Intergalactic Whip from Smosh Live
• Girls Are Gross – Celebrating creative expression through music videos

Each of these sketches is remembered fondly for their unique contributions to the Smosh legacy and the collaborative spirit of the team.

Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, Shayne, Amanda, and Damien express their excitement for future projects, eager to continue creating content that resonates with fans. Shayne encapsulates the sentiment, saying, “this Smosh thing, it's gonna keep going. [...] the party don't stop until we're in the grave” (79:40). The hosts encourage listeners to revisit Smosh’s extensive library, celebrating both past successes and anticipating new favorites to come.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Damien Haas on Damian Knows the Way:

  • “It was just like living in an improv scene with all the costumes and scenery built in” (02:46).

• Courtney Miller on We Read Courtney's Middle School Diary:

  • “doing that video kind of brought them to life in a way that like, now I can look back on them differently” (12:27).

• Shayne Top on Olivia's a Bully:

  • “That is every single line. Everyone is not giving a crap” (33:07).

• Courtney Miller on Kids on Bikes:

  • “the editing, like, just such a beautiful piece of work” (44:10).

• Shayne Top on Stranded:

  • “It's a video that came out in 2006. This is back when it's just Ian and Anthony with their camera. It's such a vibe, and it is hilarious” (71:15).

• Courtney Miller on Assassin's Creed 3 Music Video:

  • “It was literally a stand of comedy and the music is awesome” (75:27).

Final Thoughts

This episode of Smosh Mouth serves as both a celebration and a reflection on Smosh's enduring impact on YouTube comedy. Through laughter and shared memories, Shayne, Amanda, and Damien offer fans a deeper appreciation of the creativity and camaraderie that define Smosh’s content.

Transcript

[Shane Top]

Ramble.

[Ian Hecox]

You guys jumped off of a building?

[Shane Top]

Yeah, I had to throw Damian off a building.

[Damien Haas]

He throws me off. And I nearly smashed my face on.

[Ian Hecox]

That central camera for my number three. It's Chris Pratt. You posted that?

[Shane Top]

Nice.

[Courtney Miller]

Of course, I still can't believe leading up to it, you guys had me believing Justice Smith was our guest.

[Ian Hecox]

Matpat used to work at Defy, and he said, this video could have ruined your channel.

[Courtney Miller]

Olivia's dying from the pepper and you're like, say something in Chinese. She's just double middle finger.

[Damien Haas]

Yo, someone here smells like coffee. Who's that in there? That's you.

[Shane Top]

Yo, who here smells like coffee?

[Damien Haas]

Someone here smells like coffee.

[Ian Hecox]

Welcome to the Smosh cast Today or I am Ian Hecox. And today I'm joined by. Who am I joined by?

[Shane Top]

Shane Top.

[Courtney Miller]

Corny Miller.

[Damien Haas]

And today I'm Damien Haas.

[Shane Top]

Wow. Only for today.

[Ian Hecox]

Tomorrow he could be Meryl Streep.

[Courtney Miller]

Ian, were you at the gym this morning?

[Ian Hecox]

No, I ran though.

[Damien Haas]

Why? You smell so bad?

[Courtney Miller]

No, I thought I saw your car.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, no, I thought about going to the gym, but.

[Shane Top]

How long did you run for?

[Ian Hecox]

I think it did like three miles.

[Damien Haas]

What were you running for?

[Courtney Miller]

That's a solid cross country race if I ever did see one.

[Ian Hecox]

I was running from obesity. So today we're doing something a little special. We're gonna be listing off our five favorite Smosh videos. Also, if you haven't downloaded this episode, make sure you're downloading all the Smosh episodes. And also leave a review. Help us out. Get the Smosh cast out there to everybody in the world. Damien.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

What's up?

[Ian Hecox]

Let's start off with you. Let's all go around.

[Courtney Miller]

We're doing a top five.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

So we're start from five hottest Smosh members. Is that what you said?

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, you just list me five times?

[Shane Top]

Yeah, everyone knows that.

[Courtney Miller]

Is your temperature that high?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I'm always smoldering. So we'll start. Damian, you go ahead and start us off at number five.

[Damien Haas]

Coming in at number five, the least.

[Courtney Miller]

Favorite of the favorites.

[Ian Hecox]

And this is personal favorites. So we all have our own favorites.

[Shane Top]

And these are not our personal experiences, filming it or whatever. This is us. We look back, we watch these videos, and these are the ones that make us laugh the most or we enjoy the most.

[Courtney Miller]

And it's not just sketches. It's sketches, pit games, anything.

[Damien Haas]

Okay, so my number five is a Smosh game. Classic. Not really classic. It's called Damian Knows the Way. And it is not because of the title I didn't realize that was the title until I was making my list, so sorry. But basically it's our adventures in a game called VR Chat, where you put on a VR headset and you're just walking around and talking with other people and it's.

[Courtney Miller]

That the one when you and me together.

[Damien Haas]

No, that's the second one, which isn't as good as this and therefore didn't make the list. This one was me and Bose having individual adventures. Bose was trying to find, like, a husband and kept, like, you know, talking about, like, I'm pregnant and, like, just seeing how people would react so good. And then mine was, like, playing my. My, like, food reviewer character as though I was. My avatar looked like Midna from Twilight Princess. And I was just always looking for mayonnaise. And I walked into a virtual McDonald's where eight people were really virtually working it. And I demand to know who's responsible for giving me Coke Zero sugar. Cause it's not the same as Coke Zero. I just had so much fun, like, interacting with people. It was just like living in an improv scene with all the costumes and scenery built in.

[Courtney Miller]

Dude.

[Damien Haas]

So that was pretty dope.

[Courtney Miller]

That's my five. That's my number five.

[Damien Haas]

It is.

[Courtney Miller]

I love that video. I. That's like. I love that video so much.

[Damien Haas]

No way.

[Courtney Miller]

Both are so funny the whole time. VR chat. I just love VR chat.

[Damien Haas]

I do, too.

[Courtney Miller]

So I think that's partially why. But you're. Oh, my God. The fact, literally groups of people were following you around, not even knowing who you were. Because you're just being so funny.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Even Bose, like, she was being hilarious trying to find a date, and all the people were just not vibing.

[Damien Haas]

She was awesome.

[Shane Top]

That's really your number five?

[Courtney Miller]

Yes. Right here, look.

[Damien Haas]

Five.

[Courtney Miller]

VR chat. Damien.

[Damien Haas]

That's so funny. And I loved. That means a lot because I really enjoyed that video. And it didn't necessarily, like, blow up or anything because it's really hard to do VR on YouTube. Like, not to talk too much shop here, but it's like, how do you convey the experience of actually being in something? And then when you're looking at somebody doing it, it's just us in a headset, like, looking around. You can't even see our eyes. So you don't get the personality. But left up to my own devices, I would love to do so much more stuff like that.

[Courtney Miller]

Literally, VR tech video, they don't do well unless you say VR chat. Funny moments, like, that's it.

[Damien Haas]

Princes, not clickbait.

[Courtney Miller]

And you don't. You don't see the person playing. You just see what they're playing. Yeah, that was my number five.

[Damien Haas]

That's so funny.

[Courtney Miller]

But I have other options, so I'm gonna pick a different number five.

[Shane Top]

No, I think that's hilarious.

[Ian Hecox]

Go ahead and go in with. With your alternate five.

[Courtney Miller]

My alternate look.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, we're doing all our fives.

[Ian Hecox]

First try listening, Damien.

[Courtney Miller]

Did you get it?

[Damien Haas]

I do now. Yeah, I do. I'm here now.

[Courtney Miller]

My alternate number five is when we drew Pokemon from memory.

[Damien Haas]

Yes.

[Shane Top]

Oh, yeah. That is solid.

[Courtney Miller]

Is like, we're just laughing so much in that video. And the fact that Olivia drew this weird robot character every single time.

[Ian Hecox]

And Keith. It wasn't even a robot. It was like a geometric shape.

[Courtney Miller]

And Keith was afraid of just mishearing the names.

[Shane Top]

But Keith is such a good artist that all of his work was incredible. It was just so off.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

And we're just, like, laughing and just having such a good time in that video. And you can see it in that one. It's a good one.

[Damien Haas]

I think that's part of the point of the video. Ideally, there would be five people at Keith's level to be like, we asked five artists what they thought these things sounded like they would look like, and then I think we just need five Keiths.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, part of the fun of doing these drawing things is when the people aren't good at drawing because they're so bad. They're hilarious. Or somebody just keeps drawing the same weird geometric shape. Like, Olivia.

[Courtney Miller]

Didn't I just draw, like, a giant onion with a face for one?

[Shane Top]

I forget.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes, I think you did.

[Courtney Miller]

It's a wacky time, guys.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

Give it a watch.

[Shane Top]

It is really good.

[Ian Hecox]

What's your number five, Shane?

[Shane Top]

So I have this written down in my notes, and I knew this one was gonna be on there. My number five is Damian knows dae and I'm not kidding.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, what? Everybody's number five?

[Shane Top]

I'm not kidding. And I don't have an alternate beat, but I can definitely talk about this one. Cause Damian's being mod them playing VRChat. It didn't get many views. It's at, like. I think it's at, like, 475. You know, for us, it's not many. Bose has this storyline where she's trying to find love in the VR world. And it's a very good storyline. It has a very good ending. Damian, he's starting off. He's having fun. He gets into midna from Twilight Princess. And that's when suddenly it just. Something changes in his demeanor. And, like, he goes full Augustus. And he's just. He's so weird. And everyone in VRChat is already weird. People are saying weird things. That's all they're doing. He is on another level that he eventually had a whole group following him throughout the VR world. Just literally just seeing what this guy is doing. So by the end, he just has this, like, posse of, like, 12 people just watching him literally just become his gang.

[Ian Hecox]

They're not saying anything. They're just following him.

[Courtney Miller]

Some of them are saying stuff, but a lot of them are just kind of, like, laughing and watching him.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

So nuts. And, like, he's so into it, and he's just ranting throughout the whole time. Like, he's in the McDonald's. Like, they bring him stuff, and he's just like. He's like, what is it, Cocazero? Like, freaking out. Non stop. Just riffing. And it never ends. It's so funny. It's so stupid funny. And honestly, Bose's part is very good, too. The back and forth is great.

[Courtney Miller]

It's such a solid video. I want more VR chat.

[Damien Haas]

Thank you so much.

[Shane Top]

It's nuts. It's so nuts. Oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

So good. That's funny.

[Shane Top]

It's a Damien classic. That's hilarious.

[Courtney Miller]

At all.

[Shane Top]

We did not.

[Courtney Miller]

Augustus is what that character's called.

[Damien Haas]

Augustus, my Yelp reviewer character, who. Who has a penchant for mayonnaise, and it gives him strength.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. I can't stress enough. We did not talk to each other about our top five.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. This is funny.

[Shane Top]

We all individually came up with, you.

[Courtney Miller]

Know how many Smosh videos there are?

[Shane Top]

So many thousands out of all three channels. And we all chose the same video from Smosh Games that came out, like, a year ago.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, you guys aren't gonna believe what my fifth one is.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, God. What?

[Ian Hecox]

Because it is not what you guys.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, I was like, you've never seen that video.

[Ian Hecox]

I've seen bits and pieces. I get the highlights. No, my. My fifth one was the. We. We said that if we got a million subscribers on Smosh Games is way back in the day, if we got a million subscribers on Smosh Games, we would wax Joven.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Iconic.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

A milestone.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And wax him. We did. And, like, we thought he was, like, playing it up, but he was like, no. Like, it really, like, hurt that bad. It was just one of those, like, strange bonding moments when, like, we, like, you know. Cause we, you know, when we started, like, we didn't really know Joven and Sohinki and Lasercorn, so, like, we were just kind of, like, getting to know each other. And then, like, I felt like that was, like, a strange, like, bonding moment for all of us to take turns ripping pieces of hair off of Joven, and that was. It was a lot of fun. There was a spider that randomly teleported into his chest again.

[Courtney Miller]

He just so happened to fall from the ceiling and land on his chest like, a fraction of a second after the tape came off. So they thought, like, a spider came out of him for a second.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

That's hilarious.

[Ian Hecox]

It was a wacky video, and Joven's wearing a diaper in it, I think.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, I think that's correct.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, so he's. Okay. So he brought the diaper back for Gauntlet then?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that was a full circle.

[Courtney Miller]

Wow. We did a couple callbacks in that month, then the chest wax and the diaper.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, the chest wax is an important piece of Smosh games lore.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So I felt like I had to include that on there.

[Shane Top]

That's pretty cool.

[Courtney Miller]

It's like a legend you hear about, and you're like, oh, wow.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. I remember. It was, like, one of my first days. I heard about it. Like, someone mentioned, like, yeah, Joven getting his chest waxed. Like, it was just a thing. It's a thing. Everyone knows.

[Ian Hecox]

And it wasn't even just his chest. It was like, people just chose random spots on his body. So somebody ripped hair off of his tummy.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah, that hurts.

[Damien Haas]

That hurts. Oh, anybody else just clench?

[Shane Top]

I did.

[Ian Hecox]

But, yeah, it was just, like, random patches around him, and we weren't. We didn't have, like, a professional there. We just, like, heated up some, like, wax you could buy in cvs.

[Damien Haas]

Yikes.

[Ian Hecox]

And just did it ourselves without any sort of Nair. Yeah, well, not Nair. It was. It was wax.

[Shane Top]

He's a trooper. Like, he'll. He'll deal with any punishment.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

That's. That's the thing. Joven. Joven very quickly realized that. That he had to be sort of the guy that. That since he wasn't necessarily good at games, he had to, like, basically grab onto the title of being bad at things.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. Own it. Fail big. It's funny.

[Ian Hecox]

Exactly. Exactly. And that's what Joven did from a very early moment in Smosh games and just never let go.

[Shane Top]

That's fantastic.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Respect.

[Shane Top]

That's a solid number five.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Now we're on to number four.

[Damien Haas]

Number four. Coming in at number number four. My fear is that because I did the Damian knows the way and you got the chance to change it up. After that, I'm like, oh man. I'm just don't change it if nobody.

[Courtney Miller]

Knows, like, is yours.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, it's fine. I think. I think it's hilarious that we're picking.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Okay. So my number four, which will almost certainly be a lot of other people's number four, is we read Courtney's middle school diary. I love that one so much. Not only because we are all playing and having fun, but it is the type of video that can only be made from a place of love. If it was like any other group, it would just be kind of mean. But we're all friends and we're able to like, poke fun and be like, ahahaha. So like Courtney taking that big leap for herself emotionally to like share that very intimate part of herself with people and then have us like all, you know, just, I don't know, take it and run with it. It was just from start to finish, such a solid episode. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. And it also felt good for me on a personal note because, like, I still wasn't like regularly doing pit stuff then, so it was like an honor to be invited to be a part of that for such a big video. I don't know. I loved it.

[Courtney Miller]

That was great. Yeah, I actually forgot about those and it's not on my list at all.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, wow.

[Courtney Miller]

So I appreciate that. That was definitely one of those projects where going into it didn't think about it a whole lot. I was like, yeah, I'll just bring my diaries. I'll just do that. It's fine. And typed it out. And then I was like, oh, shit, this is actually my life. But it made me feel really good because of all these moments and things that had happened in my life as a kid just were things I just kind of like, o, yeah, that happened. But like, doing that video kind of brought them to life in a way that like, now I can look back on them differently. It's a better memory now because of those videos.

[Damien Haas]

Was it cathartic? Like, were you able to heal through.

[Shane Top]

Us making fun of it?

[Courtney Miller]

It's kind of like a different kind of pain. So it's like, it's okay. It's okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, I'm sure, like, you read a lot of comments that were like, oh man, I have the same kind of stuff in my diaries. It's those kind of things that people really connect to because we've, I mean, Every kid is cringy. All right. Of course, we've all been through a cringe phase, and some people, like me, never leave that cringe face.

[Damien Haas]

And then you make a career out of it.

[Shane Top]

And diaries, in general, I feel like, are inherently cringey because it's you putting in stuff that you don't. You're not talking about with anybody else, at least in that moment. So. Yeah, that's kind of the nature of it.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Even still, like, I currently have a journal I write in. I'm, like, writing a sentence like this. I feel like I'm writing a middle school diary right now. This sounds so cringey, but it's just what I genuinely.

[Ian Hecox]

And also, when you go back and read it, you're reading a previous version of yourself.

[Shane Top]

That's true.

[Courtney Miller]

Especially me. Cause I'm a Gemini, and I'm just, like, a chameleon of a person. Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

But it's like, you're able to look back, and if you do go back and read your diary and you're cringing, it's, like, good. I have grown as a person.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, exactly.

[Damien Haas]

That's a smart point.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, that's great.

[Ian Hecox]

I usually get one smart point in.

[Shane Top]

The rest of his. Just throw in a ton of things and see what sticks. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay. My number four is the Legend of Zelda rap.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, yeah. Classic.

[Courtney Miller]

That video is incredible. Incredible. The music is insane. The lighting. It's just such a beautiful video. And it's so, like. It's so well done. I don't even believe that it was just you guys. You know what I'm saying? And was that branded? No, that wasn't.

[Ian Hecox]

It wasn't.

[Courtney Miller]

Because the Assassin's Creed one was sponsored. Yeah, but that one wasn't, and you guys still went ham on it. And it literally is so polished. And just the lyrics, I just cannot believe. Like, yeah, that's a standard that I will always see. Like, man, like, you guys are. You guys have been that good, and you can be that good.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I think with. That was back in the day of YouTube, where if you honestly put more effort into a video, you would see the result in views generally. So we were like, okay, most of our viewers know about Zelda. Like, you know, we had this song that we've been working on for a little while, and we were pretty confident that if we spent the money to get it made and get it made as good as we could at that time, that it would have, like, a pretty big. Pretty, like, good turnout. And it did. Like, it was. It was really fun. It was like one of those videos where like, I was like, while we were filming it, I was like, yeah, this is gonna be freaking awesome. And it's probably, at that time, it was probably our most expensive video ever. I mean, all in, we were probably like 18, $20,000.

[Damien Haas]

Wow. For a YouTube video.

[Ian Hecox]

That's incredible because it was, it was like.

[Shane Top]

But it would pay off back then, like, in a certain sense, like you would get the views.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, back then everyone had to pay for music. So, you know, we sold it on itunes. And I mean, that, that video, like, I mean, I don't remember how many people downloaded that, that video, but it, eventually it did make its, it did make its money back. Yeah, it said 76 million views. Yeah, but.

[Courtney Miller]

But it was like itunes, purchases, loan, probably.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because back then everyone was buying music off itunes. So it actually worked out really well. But it was like a multi day shoot, which normally we shoot all our sketches in one day max, just because of budget. And then also we drove up to the mountains. We did like a, like a two hour drive. We had to leave at like 4am we did like, we did makeup, prosthetics. We, we paid this cosplayer, Jackie Goner, she was the Zelda in that music video. She made that costume. Then she made the link costume and the Ganondorf costume. So we paid her for that.

[Courtney Miller]

Was that her singing?

[Ian Hecox]

No. So we actually had a different singer record for that. And then I, of course, did my amazing rapping.

[Courtney Miller]

I think you are pretty good at rapping, Ian. I'm not gonna lie.

[Shane Top]

Damn it.

[Courtney Miller]

I think you got it.

[Damien Haas]

He's got bars.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. I mean, go. I mean, like, I go back and I watch it. I'm like, okay, this is like there, there's some stuff that's like really, really basic, but I think we were more focused. We were more focused on getting jokes in there than we were in creating like a cool rap. It was like, let's just find words.

[Courtney Miller]

That rhyme the, the instrumental alone though, like.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah, yeah. And that was what you were saying? Yeah, I think that was Kurt Hugo Schneider, who at the time, he, I think he had kind of a. He had kind of a smaller YouTube channel. Now he has like. I mean, he's, he's been blowing up lately and he has, I think over like 10 million subscribers.

[Courtney Miller]

I watched that video like, as a fan back, back when I was in middle school, and I was like, yeah, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, we were super, we were super, super proud of that music video, you know, Some of the stuff isn't quite 2019 appropriate but we were like, hey, it's a bad guy saying that he's gay. So the bad guy is going to be, you know, using the wrong sort of like terminologies and stuff. So that's understandable. But yeah, no, really proud of that one. That was a fun one to shoot. Watch. And yeah, it's one of those things where like you get like so amped to like put it out.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Dude, what was it like when you guys like uploaded it like that day?

[Ian Hecox]

I mean people freaked out because it was dope.

[Damien Haas]

They had to pick up their minds off the floor.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I mean we spent a lot of time on that, on that video.

[Courtney Miller]

Like editing and everything.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah. I mean because back then Anthony was. Anthony was editing. So like that was Barody.

[Shane Top]

Oh, Bar did that. But Barody told me a story about it. About the detail that Anthony would want to put into things where he was like he showed it to Anthony and Anthony was like, hey. Or Anthony. No, Anthony did a round on it and Anthony added a bunch of stars to the night sky in it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, like that was kind of like.

[Ian Hecox]

A last pass on it. I mean we were, we were both giving like a crap ton of notes on that, that, on that edit. It was, it was a long process.

[Courtney Miller]

I can imagine it was worth it though.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, we were so stoked. But yeah, I remember Anthony being like, yeah, this sky just is blank. It's just like a blank like kind of like not quite night sky. And then yeah, he added a bunch of stars and it looked.

[Damien Haas]

That's awesome.

[Courtney Miller]

Didn't he add like the moon? That one moon?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Well I think, I think Barody might have done that but yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, the Zelda moon with the like.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, exactly.

[Damien Haas]

Crashing him. That's determine a field.

[Shane Top]

That's cool.

[Courtney Miller]

Alright, Shane, what's your four?

[Shane Top]

So my number four is. This one's been long forgotten, I think. Insane pie eating contest with Smosh. It's put it in my mouth. Number 30 and it's from 2016. It is bonkers. It was weird us getting on Smosh pit. We were kind of trying to figure out our thing. That to me was the first video where you see us really just go for it. I mean it's funny from start to finish. Keith, that was the thing that you.

[Courtney Miller]

Put in my mouth. Right.

[Shane Top]

Keith legitimately fell out of his seat as we were preparing. We luckily were rolling so we cut back and showed that clip.

[Damien Haas]

And they also show Charlie Brown's Franklin doing the same thing at a Thanksgiving meal, which was just like, what?

[Shane Top]

And then, you know, I think going into it, we were all like, do we really want to eat a bunch of pie? I don't know. So I was like, I got an idea. So I just. I slammed my face in that pie. And then Keith did it, Olivia did it, Noah did. Courtney continued to eat and then won because she actually continued to eat the pie. And then Sunny was like, yeah, you win 100 bucks. And then all of us are like, what? It's nuts. It's also the first time I ever on the channel said, daddy needs juice. Because as I was freaking out, like, drinking milk, I'm just like, daddy needs juice.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God. And the milk. Pumpkin pie.

[Shane Top]

Oh, yeah. It was an absolute mess. But that was the first time I feel like that ever happened on the channel. And watching it is insane. Smoshpit. Our videos are very different now than how they were then. They were a lot more like stuff jumping around, whatever. But it's very, very fun, and our dynamic is great.

[Courtney Miller]

That's a good one. Forgot about that one.

[Shane Top]

It's a great one.

[Damien Haas]

Can I be honest with you? So that was before my time, and obviously, I'm not even in it. That's my number three. My dude.

[Courtney Miller]

Whoa, hey, whoa.

[Ian Hecox]

Don't repeat that yet.

[Damien Haas]

I'm not. Oh, really?

[Shane Top]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Sorry. Come on, you. Wait.

[Damien Haas]

I just. Sorry. Oh. Cause everybody lined up on the number five. That's why we all did that. Sorry. We wind it back.

[Courtney Miller]

No, I think that's fine. Because then.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, sure. Sorry. Sorry.

[Courtney Miller]

That's so funny, dude.

[Damien Haas]

I do absolutely love that video, though. It's like, the first instance I had seen of you just being like, screw it. I'm gonna go crazy and be like. Like, very what we consider quintessential Shane nowadays, I think very much had its, like, origin in that video.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, I think before that, I was a little more just, like, figuring out what my dynamic was.

[Courtney Miller]

It took us all a bit to figure that out.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. I was like, wait, if I just lose my mind in videos, maybe it'll be good.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that always works. Okay, so my number four is the coffee machine is racist.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

That is a gem for me. I think, you know, it's one of my favorites because I think it's one of the tightest sketches that we've done. And also, everyone had a moment to shine in it, and it was like, this was in, what, 2017? Something like that. We were trying to figure out, like, what is our Whole dynamic on. On the channel. Like yeah, we were doing like every blank evers and stuff. But like what's. What's a way that we can include everybody on the smosh main channel in a sketch, Allow everybody to shine, give everyone their sort of moment. And I feel like Coffee machine is racist was definitely like one of those like ones that hit really, really good because everyone. Everyone had their like their funny moment.

[Shane Top]

It has a very accurate depiction of Noah off camera. That is really kind of. That's Noah.

[Courtney Miller]

He would legit walk in some mornings in that office and he'd just have like a keyboard and he'd just be making beats with a Bluetooth speaker. So it was delayed. So like nothing.

[Damien Haas]

Oh my gosh.

[Courtney Miller]

On rhythm at all. It was. It was incredible.

[Shane Top]

And he'd be playing like one note. It would be the one note thing like he's doing in that video. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like cuz they. Cuz I was written sort of to be deadpan, almost like bird person in that sketch. I think in general, like I've. I've had a hard time. Like, I don't. I don't know what my shtick is in the group. Like. Like how Joven knows. He's like, he. He's kind of like the one who's bad at stuff or he's the bad guy. He's always the one causing problems. Lasercorn's the one who's always destroying stuff. Slohinky being this try hard, you know, but like. And then, you know. No, I don't know. I feel like I don't know what mine is.

[Shane Top]

I mean, I think. I don't know. It changes over time. But I mean, for Smosh Pitt at least, I think for a lot of them, I think you were kind of the straight man. Like, because, you know, all of us were so insane. Like you're insane for sure. But I think a lot of people out insaned you.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, you're just more insane in real life.

[Courtney Miller]

So yeah, when we go to pit shoots, I'm always like, okay, cool. I'm just gonna be like playing games with my. Like I don't know what else you were always doing.

[Shane Top]

Like the thing we were supposed to do. The rest of us like, I'm not eating this pie. You're like, well, we're supposed to eat pie, so I'm gonna eat the pie.

[Damien Haas]

I think that's how that goes though. It's kind of hard to define yourself. Like even if you. Even if Shane like knows for himself, like eyes scream sometimes, like that might be all he'd be able to say until we're like, no, no, no. You're the this. You're the that. I feel that way for myself, too. I'm like, who am I in this group?

[Shane Top]

We're genuinely ourselves, I think. We really are. We don't go into videos thinking, what are. What am I gonna do?

[Damien Haas]

I'm the bad guy.

[Shane Top]

We just end up doing our thing.

[Courtney Miller]

But I did love that. I love that. I didn't really think about that. That. That sketch was really a big one for, like, this is just all of us playing ourselves, which is really cool.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I mean, like, you know, heightened versions of ourselves, obviously.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. I'm not racist.

[Damien Haas]

Hey, man, we know.

[Shane Top]

Kennedy is like, don't worry.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, we know, man. No one's calling you a racist. It's fine, right?

[Shane Top]

I'm not. I'm not a racist.

[Ian Hecox]

You know. Hey, no worries, Shane. You might want to make a $50,000 donation to the Anti Defamation League.

[Shane Top]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

You might need to do that.

[Damien Haas]

Wait, who's that shade?

[Shane Top]

Oh, that is. That is some.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, no, It's a different YouTuber.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, neat.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Hey, Ian. What's your name?

[Ian Hecox]

No, he's a pewdiepie. Made a donation to $50,000, the ADL, and then just heard this morning that he retracted it. I don't know why.

[Shane Top]

Because his fans.

[Ian Hecox]

His fans are mad for. I don't know. It's.

[Damien Haas]

I'm not touching that.

[Ian Hecox]

We don't need to talk about it.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay. What's your. Ian? Oh, that's my.

[Ian Hecox]

That's my number four.

[Shane Top]

Four.

[Ian Hecox]

Number three. Damien, you mentioned it.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah, so I mentioned. Shane. I love the insane pie eating contest with Challenge with Smosh. I love all you guys in it. It's. I. I was just. I don't know. It was something to aspire to, you know, it's something I saw early on when just joining the channel, and I was like, man, that looks like fun. I love it. But since we, you know, already talked about that a bit, may I throw in a different number three?

[Ian Hecox]

You may.

[Courtney Miller]

Honorable mentions.

[Damien Haas]

So I'm gonna switch that out for Don't Pop the Balloon with WWE Superstars. It's another Smosh games video. We collaborated with Up Up down down, which is the WWE's gaming department. And it was just so much fun working with them because, you know, we do a lot of collabs, we do a lot of guest spots, and you never know what you're gonna get because there are different types of performers out there. And some people are better solo. Some people are better with a group. But the thing about wrestlers is they are, at the end of the day, athletes. Yes. But performers, above all, entertainers. Entertainers. And they're entertainers that can't do anything solo necessarily. Not that they can't. They don't really do anything solo. They're always working with another person, feeding off their energy and being like, how are we crafting a story out of. So no matter who we were working with, we just had a great time. It was such an easy collaboration.

[Courtney Miller]

But watching the video, when you go back and watch it, is that, like. Yes. I love watching this video more so than just, like, the process of shooting it, but absolutely.

[Damien Haas]

Ryno is somebody that I was collabed with the WWE Superstar Rhino, and I don't know, we just had so much fun. You know, I said, like, earlier, we can poke fun at each other and have that kind of dynamic without anybody getting hurt. We had that immediately. So it was really fun to watch us just kind of screw with each other.

[Shane Top]

That's great.

[Damien Haas]

And, yeah, just. I don't know, it was just Smosh Games being in its element, being very comfortable while simultaneously not being in a familiar space or setting. I was just very proud of it. I think, overall, it's a very solid video. And I think views wise, that reflects for sure.

[Ian Hecox]

Cool.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, that's great.

[Damien Haas]

Is that. Was that everybody's number one? Is that.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, God, I don't remember.

[Damien Haas]

What. Got to show love to my Smosh Games. That was my start.

[Courtney Miller]

I feel like everybody has this one on their list somewhere. Or maybe they chose not to because they were like, everyone's gonna have this one. But the Wild west trailer.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, wow. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

The Summer Games Wild west trailer was the coolest thing, bro.

[Shane Top]

It really was.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

It's pretty nuts.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Courtney Miller]

And, like, I mean, she.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, it's more like where. Sorry, Go for it.

[Courtney Miller]

Go, Go.

[Ian Hecox]

What I was gonna say, like, it was. It was so. It was so awesome because where we debuted that trailer was at VidCon in front of, like, 2,000 people. And that was crazy.

[Damien Haas]

I just got chills again.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that was freaking cool.

[Shane Top]

Everyone's got a cool intro in it.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And then, like, that guy Leo taking time with a bunch of us to teach fighting choreography. Like, pouring dust on people so that the hits had, like, puffs of smoke and stuff. And, like, the breakaway table, like, the stunts that are in that are so insane flavors. Pushing Olivia off that counter.

[Ian Hecox]

Olivia's screaming, you guys jumped off of a building.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, I had to throw Damian off a building, and I nearly smashed my face on a camera.

[Damien Haas]

That was me.

[Shane Top]

Or that was that you? I can't even remember. Oh.

[Ian Hecox]

Cause he throws you off, right?

[Damien Haas]

He throws me off. And I nearly smashed my face on that central camera and jumped a little bit past, like, the pad, and I nailed the pad. I was fine. But it was like. It's the kind of thing where you, like. You do the stunt, you look up, you're like, that was fun. And everyone in the crew has a face with, like.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, that's like, when we.

[Damien Haas]

You. Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like when lasercorn threw.

[Damien Haas]

It was exactly the same thing.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. Very similar.

[Courtney Miller]

That was fine. But, yeah, I still go back and watch that one. That's one of those projects I will probably brag about the rest of my life. And, yeah, it's just so. It's perfect.

[Damien Haas]

Who else got hurt? Mari got hurt.

[Shane Top]

Mari punched the wall.

[Courtney Miller]

She had to punch the wall a bunch of times. And so two knuckles just became one big knuckle. And there's actually a photo where I had just smashed a bottle, and it's like a still photo, and she's going like this for the video, and you see her hand is just. And then there's, like, a little red cut right in the middle.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Shane Top]

It's very ironic. I would say Mari is probably the smartest, like, most level headed out of the entire cast, yet she is one who somehow keeps getting injured always. She chipped her tooth. She hurt her fist. This doesn't count as an injury, but she once fell asleep on her arm, which had a henna tattoo, and then she had that on her face for a whole month. This was a while ago.

[Ian Hecox]

No, she was in Hawaii with. With me, I think. Yeah. And she got a hint on her hand and then slept on it. Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, she also got a concussion because her GoPro, we were in the running around the hamster balls, and her GoPro fell down in front of her face, and then Wes, the largest man in the universe, slammed into her and forced the GoPro in her face.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

So, yeah, Mari is very prone to injury.

[Damien Haas]

It sure is.

[Courtney Miller]

She's. She's baller. She's brave, and I think she's just brave enough to put herself.

[Shane Top]

She goes for it. She never holds back.

[Courtney Miller]

Our most insane choreography is going on behind Wes and Noah's feature, where she does a flying punch, I fly. It's like a whole crazy thing, but it's like. It was really fun, man.

[Shane Top]

Shane, number three, right okay, so this one is a tie. It's a tie between how to get famous on YouTube and Olivia's a bully. Both are super, super solid sketches. They're different. How to get famous on YouTube, to me is such a perfectly accurate depiction of like modern day YouTube. Courtney, you're obviously insane in it, but Ian is nuts.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, which one is this?

[Courtney Miller]

I get famous on YouTube. That's the first Brianna Boho.

[Shane Top]

That's the Brianna Boho Dunkin. And you're. What's your guy's name again? It's Vince DiMaggio.

[Ian Hecox]

It's your boy.

[Shane Top]

It's your boy VD. It's your boy Vd. And when you get. And you get introduced and you're playing with Instagram famous.

[Ian Hecox]

Right? Well, that was the first on YouTube.

[Courtney Miller]

That was the first VD video. That one's really good too.

[Shane Top]

That one's good. But it's your boy vd. You don't expect him in how to get famous on YouTube. And when he's intro'd, you're playing with a remote controlled dead squirrel or something.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane Top]

And it's nuts. And your character just adds such another layer of just grossness to the video and it never ceases. And then Olivia's a bully. I mean, Olivia's great in it. There's the kick in it, which is just the most absurd thing you'll ever see on the channel.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep.

[Shane Top]

But Ian, you in that video lost your mind filming it. I could never. I could never keep a straight face. But then the end result, you are just nuts. There's not a line that you have that's not funny. That was the best crazy.

[Ian Hecox]

I forgot about that. Yeah. That is a really good stage.

[Courtney Miller]

I love when you're like, shane, look at me, look at me. I'm not your fucking dad.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. And you have the point where it's like, yeah, when I see Olivia again, I'm gonna stab her in the gut. And you go. And you just, for some reason in that line, you just go, whoa, whoa. You can't just stab her in the gut. Ye. You do not have a Minnesota.

[Ian Hecox]

You don't have a person in the gear.

[Shane Top]

You don't have a Minnesota accent for the entirety of the video except that line.

[Courtney Miller]

Even you in that video. And you're like, I needed calcium.

[Shane Top]

That video is every single line. Everyone is not giving a crap.

[Courtney Miller]

That was such a good one.

[Shane Top]

I don't know, I think we go through phases where we film nonstop and you hit points where all of us just kinda stop caring for one video. And we just are like, I'm gonna deliver my lines however. I feel like, even if it doesn't make sense. And that one, that worked out perfectly. And every line is insane. The video's nuts.

[Damien Haas]

I was around when you guys were filming that, but I wasn't as involved in sketch stuff. So would you say that that was like, the first sketch that really hit, that really opened the door for, like, smothus kind of stuff like that? Got it.

[Shane Top]

This one was just. What made this one great is just. It was just so weird. Like, we didn't deliver a single line in a way that made sense. It was really awesome. Yeah. And Ian, I don't know what was up. Cause, man, you lost your mind.

[Courtney Miller]

I think that's one of my. I think that's one of my favorite videos your performances ever.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Dang. I would put that on the same level as Coffee machine is racist. And there's actually. There's more standout scenes for me. I. Fuck. Yeah. That's a good one.

[Shane Top]

It's a really solid one.

[Courtney Miller]

I forgot about that one.

[Shane Top]

But both of those are like, similar. Similar time. 2017 or 18.

[Ian Hecox]

17, 18.

[Courtney Miller]

I don't have any Brianna Boho in my list. I totally forgot.

[Damien Haas]

You're just not even.

[Shane Top]

All the Brianna Bohos are. Anytime she makes an appearance, it's great. But that one, it's just such a. Those are both perfect videos, in my opinion.

[Ian Hecox]

For my number three, It's. And I'm guessing this is probably on someone else's list, but. Chris Pratt, you posted that.

[Shane Top]

Nice.

[Damien Haas]

Nice.

[Shane Top]

Of course. Of course.

[Courtney Miller]

Number one, that's the video.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a video that I can.

[Damien Haas]

How you feeling?

[Courtney Miller]

Good.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a video that we pulled off really, really well.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, we.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, we. We couldn't have pulled it off better, I think. And he was. He was such a good sport. He did everything right. And it's. It's a video that I can show people that do not know what we do and do not care what we do, and they will thoroughly enjoy that video. Like, I have. I have friends that. That don't watch that don't watch my stuff. And that's totally fine.

[Damien Haas]

What kind of friends are those?

[Ian Hecox]

I know I should get rid of them, but a lot of them have been like, dude, that Chris Pratt video was insane.

[Shane Top]

And it's not even. Not much is cut around in that. Like, what you see is what happened. And it's perfect from start to finish. We were all terrified that day. Like, I was like, All I had to do at the end was bring out a stereo, and I'm like, I'm gonna mess this up. I'm gonna mess up. Cause it was just like, this has to go. Like, we had, like, 25 minutes to get the most insane thing ever, and we messed it up. It's just done. Good Lord and God, it fell perfect.

[Courtney Miller]

I still can't believe, like, leading up to it, you guys had me believing Justice Smith was our guest. Finnerty had me dig through Justice Smith's whole Twitter to find tweets and waste your time. Monica, stay after hours with me to go through and find good tweets to throw me off that far.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Well, the thing is, we couldn't shoot. You posted that at our studio. We had to go to the Universal lot and shoot in their soundstage. So we needed a legitimate reason for you to think that we were going to Universal to shoot.

[Courtney Miller]

You posted that it was literally trams going by outside.

[Ian Hecox]

Quite a ruse. Quite a ruse, indeed.

[Damien Haas]

What a nice way to say a lie.

[Courtney Miller]

I wasn't suspicious, like, until day of, like, the whole Universal thing made sense to me. I was like, it's a branded thing. Universal would want to be, like, super safe and have everything happen on their turf. And then it wasn't until, like, that morning, I was texting Olivia, and I was like, wait, what if. Pranking us. What if something else is gonna happen? And she's like, I don't know. And I was like, I don't trust Olivia.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Olivia almost blew it.

[Damien Haas]

Expert lie.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. And then. And then there was some other things that I was sniffing out. It's very hard to fool me.

[Shane Top]

So I. Yeah, you were very. That day. You were, like, eyeing everything. And I remember our makeup artist. She never wears makeup, but she wore makeup that day. Wow. You were literally like, huh, that's strange. I'm like, God damn it, Courtney.

[Courtney Miller]

She also asked me to bring extra makeup in case I cry or something.

[Ian Hecox]

What? Oh, my God.

[Courtney Miller]

But that's totally fine.

[Shane Top]

But those are things that would fly over. Those are things that would fly. I got pranked twice in, like, two weeks. Cause I'm such a dumbass that I don't think about stuff, and then I get thrown into things like, oh, my God. Whereas Courtney's like, hmm, this doesn't make sense. I have written down all the factors that it's like, get out.

[Ian Hecox]

I just remember, like, yeah, I remember. And Olivia. It wasn't literally Olivia's fault that she almost blew it, but it was like, she came. I remember she Came to me. We were at Universal at this time, setting up, and Olivia came to me. She's like, what do I say? What do I say? Courtney's asking questions. I was like, I don't know. So, yeah, that was.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm sorry.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a freaking. It's just great entertainment at the expense of your sanity.

[Courtney Miller]

Social media.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

I didn't tell anybody that I bumped into Chris Pratt again at another Universal event.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Courtney Miller]

We went to the opening of the new Jurassic World ride.

[Damien Haas]

Oh.

[Courtney Miller]

And we were at that event, and I'm, like, walking up the stairs. I look up, and he's right in front of me talking to some little kid. And I was like. And I just turned around and went the other way.

[Damien Haas]

That's so funny.

[Courtney Miller]

I was wearing, like, the exact same outfit as the. You posted that episode, so he probably.

[Damien Haas]

Would have remembered me.

[Courtney Miller]

I think he even remembered, but it's like, I was just like, nope, I don't need this.

[Damien Haas]

And running down the stairs, you accidentally left a glass slipper, which he has to this day and is trying it on women around the village.

[Ian Hecox]

Check real quick to see if he's still following you.

[Courtney Miller]

I think he is. I don't think he's the type to, like, go through and unfollow, but if.

[Damien Haas]

We discover we're find out right now.

[Courtney Miller]

I'm going to cry.

[Damien Haas]

Dude, bring extra makeup in case you cry.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

No dress. The justification there is, like, yeah. Justice Smith is, like, really hurting and mean. Like, he'll just say the thing you don't like about you.

[Courtney Miller]

He's still following me. Olivia and Smosh.

[Shane Top]

That's great.

[Ian Hecox]

All right, cool. No, no, no, no, no. Number two.

[Shane Top]

Number two.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, that was your number three. Okay. My number two is. Is Wish a dream.

[Shane Top]

Wish a dream.

[Damien Haas]

Peanut butter sketch. The peanut butter sketch. It's a. It's a thing that Shane and I sort of batted around a long time ago, and, you know, we never thought it was going to get made, but it's just very meaningful to me because, again, I Now all the casts are like one big family. But at that time, it was pretty strictly Smosh games, and I would just guest on things every now and then. So during the defy shutdown, you know, that's when you really saw how much everybody cared about Smosh and was like, yeah, well, for free. Just make these sketches. We want to make it happen. And so I was just very proud that something we wrote a while back and hadn't really touched since then became a sketch on no budget. And you guys Absolutely killed the performances. And I just think it's a really strong performance. We don't do too many sketches that take place in one interaction in one location. It was a real departure in style for us. And it could have completely, especially. Cause people didn't really know me that much back then, just as an audience member.

[Shane Top]

And we also shot it during the shutdown.

[Damien Haas]

During the shutdown.

[Shane Top]

And Ryan Todd was like, hey, yeah, you can kind of direct this one. And I was like, it's terrifying. Cause you were there, obviously, and you were basically. We were both directing it, essentially, and I was. So we'd get to a couple takes and I'd be like, so, are we good?

[Damien Haas]

It feels good.

[Shane Top]

Let's move on, I guess.

[Damien Haas]

Crap.

[Shane Top]

It's. Yeah, it's so much anxiety.

[Damien Haas]

But the crazy thing about it for me is, like, you two going above and beyond. Like, we talked about the multiple ways to do the peanut butter situation. Oh, yeah. You know, it's like, what can you and can't you show on YouTube? And beyond that, like, for the people.

[Ian Hecox]

That haven't seen it, what is the thing you're describing?

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

What is the sketch two employees for essentially wish a dream. You know, make a wish Style shows up to grant the kids. I answer the door and basically say, you know, they're like, you can meet Taylor Swift. You can do whatever I say. My wish is for you to spit peanut butter into his mouth. And it's all the back and forth of that. So by the end of the sketch, they do it, but it's like, you know, what are people going to watch? What is allowed to be shown? So we had to film a couple ways and we settled on, you know, I think it'll be funniest if we just do a slow zoom on my face as I'm watching this. And you guys do the audio of the peanut butter spit. And you two being the committed individuals, you are going, no, no, no, we gotta film this and get it shot for real. So you really did it. We sounds here.

[Ian Hecox]

We did it.

[Shane Top]

A lot of footage.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, you gotta get the accurate sounds. And also we thought, well, what if people want to see it happen?

[Damien Haas]

I mean, we don't, but it was smart.

[Shane Top]

It's one of those things where it's like, you gotta. You gotta.

[Damien Haas]

And then Courtney caps it off at the perfect line. It's like we. It's like. It's funny because I think it's the first time it was ever just us four, which was interesting.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Whoa.

[Courtney Miller]

That is the first us for Video?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. On sketch, for sure.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Because I had barely been in sketch. I mean, you guys were kind enough to include me on things here and there, and, you know, I'd get a few parts, and I always really appreciated it, but it was just like, I don't know, to go from, you know, that. To having a thing that we co wrote being a thing. You're directing it. We're all in it. Like, I don't know, it was just very meaningful, and I really enjoy the final product.

[Courtney Miller]

The cleanup was fun.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, it was really fun.

[Damien Haas]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. Oh, I left peanut butter all over your dad's patio.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, he just put the hose, set it to jet, and then just sprayed it.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. Your dad is the most chill person. Cause here Ian and I are literally spitting peanut butter into each other's mouths, and he's just like, huh, this is awesome, you guys. What you guys do is so cool. And it's just like, he's the most chill dad ever.

[Ian Hecox]

And it's not like small amounts, like a spoonful of peanut butter. It is handfuls from a tub of peanut butter.

[Courtney Miller]

We bought, like, eight tubs or something.

[Shane Top]

I'd also like to point out that video does perfectly encapsulate when Damian and I are just hanging out, joking. That is our humor. It's always from a place of weirdness or whatever, of dark humor. And then it just goes super weird where it doesn't make sense. Every joke we've made is very similar to it.

[Damien Haas]

I feel like I'd say so. Yeah, we're weird mother geese. You guys think you see the weirdness? Oh, no, no. This is the toned down version of the lunacy.

[Courtney Miller]

It's number two, right?

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

My number two is kids on bikes.

[Damien Haas]

I forgot to put in kids. Yes.

[Courtney Miller]

Kids on bikes is so dope. Like, forget the shooting process. Although that was awesome. And that, I feel like, is the coolest I've ever looked. Aside from the fact that I looked a little bit like Simple Jack, but like that.

[Ian Hecox]

Nobody thought that until Shane. You pointed that out.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, my God.

[Shane Top]

I don't think I pointed that out. You did.

[Courtney Miller]

Ian.

[Shane Top]

Ian, that sounds like something you would point out. Me? No.

[Courtney Miller]

Or it could have been Rachel. I don't know.

[Shane Top]

There's a lot of people who would point out. You had Noah and Keith there as well. Joe was also.

[Ian Hecox]

You know, it might have been Noah.

[Courtney Miller]

But that. That video, like, editing the music and, like, just. It just such a beautiful piece of work. And the. The directing, like, seeing the BTS of it was really like, so cool. And you. You pretty much directed it. It was you and Ryan Todd directing together.

[Shane Top]

That was me. Yeah. Ryan Todd was very cool. Like, he was asking, like, he was showing me all the shots, being, like. Like, he.

[Damien Haas]

He.

[Shane Top]

He understood pretty quickly, like, what I was going for when I wrote the script. But, yeah, he kind of, like, I was there for all of it, but he basically directed it.

[Courtney Miller]

And for people who don't know what it is, but you should go watch it. But it's like, it's basically making fun of all these movies that it's a group of kids with their bicycles getting into crazy stuff. Like it. Or Stranger Things.

[Damien Haas]

Stranger Things.

[Courtney Miller]

All those Funny Boys. But, yeah, that's a great piece of work.

[Shane Top]

You have that one gum spit part, and it, like, it's perfect. That is exactly like how I envisioned when I was writing it. You, like, executed that. Everybody did. And you. The frickin. That's right. And I have a lisp and a stutter and a stutter.

[Ian Hecox]

And you nailed it.

[Shane Top]

Oh, it's so. Dude, everybody killed it. Like, it was one of those that just came together so well. And, like, I was stoked about it. I was stoked from start to finish to just see that it was really awesome. Nice.

[Courtney Miller]

That puppet at the end.

[Shane Top]

The puppet's great. Yeah. And that was. Who was it who pitched the, like, the sound thing at the very end? Because that was. That wasn't in the original script, I don't think. And it really added something.

[Courtney Miller]

But probably you hit us with that ET Sound. Finnerty.

[Damien Haas]

Don't know.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't remember.

[Shane Top]

It just. There was a lot, you know, I mean, every. Every one of our. Every one of our sketches is a united effort. But. But, yeah. All right, so my number two guys. I'm amazed. I mean, this is probably gonna be a lot of people's number ones. Cause I think this is just, like, on another level. It's Intergalact Whip. Oh, my God. Dude, that sketch. That sketch, to me, is like that moment. There's moments in that sketch that are just. I mean, it's unbelievable. For those of you who haven't seen. We had Smosh Live.

[Damien Haas]

I haven't seen it.

[Shane Top]

You haven't seen Intergalactic?

[Damien Haas]

I just. I haven't seen it.

[Shane Top]

Oh, Damien, watch Smosh Live.

[Damien Haas]

I think I saw the cowboy part. There was a cowboy part, right?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that's the first part. You watched the first sketch and tapped.

[Shane Top]

Out Hangman in real life.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Shane Top]

Damien Smosh Live, honestly, has a lot that I'm really, really Stoked on inner galactwhip is just. It's just so perfect. I mean, it really is. And the performances are great. And it just. It had the moment at the end, basically. If you haven't seen it, you should. It's fantastic. It's got a song to it, a dance. A dance. We took so much rehearsal, and at the end of it, we all break. Like. We all just realize how insane this sketch is. And Olivia starts this line, and I lose it. We're all, like. We're all, like, facing. We're all fac. Towards the audience, and we just all start losing it. It cuts over, and even though. Yeah. And then you cut. We get done with our lines. We're a couple aliens that have a song and dance that basically is to try to trick people into letting us probe them.

[Damien Haas]

Okay.

[Shane Top]

So it's like. It's like. Then you spin around and you bend over and, like, whatever. It's really great. But then we cut back to Ian, Anthony, and Noah, who are the straight men in the sketch. And Anthony just lost it. Like, he cannot pull it together. He's laughing so hard. That's so great. It's so great. And it's supposed to. We're trying to have this dramatic, sweet ending to it, and we're all laughing. It was a ton of fun to shoot in front of this big audience. It was another thing, like, the Chris Pratt thing, where we're like, we gotta execute this so well. And it couldn't have gone better.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Really couldn't have. And it's so funny.

[Ian Hecox]

It was the strongest sketch. It was a great finale of Smosh Live. So we saved it for the end.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. Luke Baratz wrote that song, right?

[Shane Top]

I think so. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

It was Joe Beretta. Luke Baratz and Beretta Collab.

[Shane Top]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

It was a gem.

[Shane Top]

I loved it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Truly outrageous.

[Shane Top]

And Keith. Keith is really good in it, like, because you have all the three. You have the three. Courtney, Olivia, and I are the three. Are three aliens. And then Keith is the other alien who has the jizzle pits. He's jizzle pits. And he's a little more just like, we're all weird and being like, hello, we're weird. And Keith's just like, all right. Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

It's so good.

[Shane Top]

It's so. You gotta go watch it.

[Ian Hecox]

V. Solid.

[Shane Top]

And honestly, go watch all of Smosh Live. Cause it really was some solid work.

[Courtney Miller]

That's something you'll never forget. And that anxiety you felt on the Chris Pratt video about holding the stereo, I felt that insane Anxiety and just fear that entire night. Cause I'm just like, I need to do everything perfect. But by the time we got to that intergalactic Black Whip sketch and we're just laughing, I'm like, this is. Yeah, this is why I'm here.

[Shane Top]

It was amazing. It was really fun.

[Ian Hecox]

And even though we had a big sponsor for that, I'm pretty sure we still lost money on it.

[Courtney Miller]

Really?

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Ian Hecox]

It was prohibitively expensive. We hired a professional, like, TV broadcast broadcasting team.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

To pull the whole thing off. They had this giant, like, switcher room that they were all operating in. Like, it was. It was a massive production. It was a Saturday Night Live level sketch show where you had five different sketches that involved moving scenery. Every. Every sketch. You had to move everything out and back in within, like, five minutes.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

It was. It was insanely well done. And it. We pulled it off without a single mistake. Aside from. I think the smosh was written as smoosh in the credits.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, no, that's perfect.

[Shane Top]

I can't believe they had my mom writing credits.

[Ian Hecox]

But aside from that, like, the. The entire production was flawless. Pretty much flawless. And props to the. Props to the production team that put that together in YouTube space.

[Courtney Miller]

LA. We did that all in YouTube space.

[Ian Hecox]

Big ups to YouTube space. We got that. I mean, they gave. They gave us that venue for free. Wow.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, but it was nuts, man.

[Ian Hecox]

It was nuts.

[Courtney Miller]

I sobbed after that. Like, at the after party, I was, like, saying goodbye to you guys, and I was, like, trying not to lose it. And then, remember, I got picked up in my car by my boyfriend at the time, and I was just sobbing in the car, and he was like, what the fuck are you doing?

[Damien Haas]

I was like, such a sensitive fella, dude.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, and it's also like, what's wrong?

[Damien Haas]

Why is your face leaking?

[Shane Top]

My dreams just came true.

[Courtney Miller]

I was, like, reading fan letters that the fans had given me, like, after the show. And so I was just crying. That was the best night.

[Shane Top]

It was nuts.

[Damien Haas]

That's how it feels when you finish a theater production.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

I did a lot of theaters. Again, I would cry every time.

[Shane Top]

That's why people do it.

[Ian Hecox]

Except people actually watch. Watched this.

[Shane Top]

Oh, my. Well, listen, man. Well, here comes Ian.

[Damien Haas]

Nah, man. It was community theater in a small town. He's not wrong.

[Ian Hecox]

It's just, you know, it's good practice.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Anyways, intergalact whip.

[Courtney Miller]

Good.

[Ian Hecox]

Gosh, you guys keep surprising me with.

[Courtney Miller]

These because, like, yeah, he's making some good ones.

[Ian Hecox]

Mine is here because I think it's I think it's one of the. The most hilarious things for me that we ever pulled off. It's the smosh one hour special. So it was an April Fool's video.

[Shane Top]

I know exactly what you're talking about.

[Ian Hecox]

We started this video off, you know, it was one hour special. You see on YouTube, it says it's one hour long. We start off with this epic, like, well shot, like, action movie. We have Ryan Higa in it. It's this whole thing, and we're like, all right, we got to go outside and go to this person's house. And we walk outside and we walk for one hour uncut, uninterrupted. One hour of walking, tracking, shot. It's incredible.

[Damien Haas]

Is there any dialogue?

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

Who shot it?

[Ian Hecox]

There's that barely any dialogue. We walk in silence for most of the time.

[Courtney Miller]

I think I watched. I had it going, and I, like, there was like a little dialogue where, like, you kind of tease Anthony for like a second, but for the most part, you guys are like, which way? Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. We wanted to see if people would watch it all the way through because, like, yeah, occasionally we'd be like. Like, this weather's kind of nice. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty nice. We, Ryan, Todd put together this rig. We basically had this little trailer kind of thing that somebody would pull, just walking. And then we had the camera guy just sit on that. We had, you know, enough battery and digital space, digital storage on the camera, and we just shot. I mean, the. The walking was probably 50. It was like. Well, it was like 55 minutes. It was like two minutes at the beginning and two minutes at the end. That was actual produced, like, heavily edited stuff. The rest is all just walking. And it's a tracking shot in front of us. We're just walking down the street.

[Courtney Miller]

In your neighborhood?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, in our neighborhood. Yeah. Ryan mapped out this route, and basically halfway through the walking, we come to a point where like, oh, oh, I forgot something at home. And then we turn around and then walk the exact same route back home.

[Shane Top]

Oh, my God.

[Damien Haas]

That's incredible.

[Ian Hecox]

And people. Not everybody enjoyed it.

[Damien Haas]

It's April Fools.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Jinx.

[Ian Hecox]

But that's. That's the thing. Like, the April Fool's videos were more just for our. Our own enjoyment.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And if people wanted to enjoy it, that's fine. But this was really.

[Shane Top]

It's so great.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

When did that come out? What. What year was it?

[Damien Haas]

April 1st.

[Shane Top]

Get the get out.

[Ian Hecox]

Probably 2014.

[Shane Top]

Okay.

[Ian Hecox]

I would guess.

[Shane Top]

Great.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, look. But that was the end of the run. Like we had done so many April Fools. Yeah. We were like, what are we going to do to do ourselves? We all loved it. No one else at the table even they were like, this is the dumbest idea we ever heard. And we were just like, no, we're doubling down. Hardcore. And then later on. That's the one Matpat said. Yep. Matpat used to work at Defy and he was sort of like the analytics guy. And he said this video it was after, right? He. He was like, he's like, this video could have ruined your channel because of the watch time on it. Cause most people just like skipped it out. Oh my God. He told us it was like a terrible idea to do it. And we were like, ah, whatever. It was still fun.

[Shane Top]

That's great.

[Damien Haas]

We're doing good.

[Ian Hecox]

It was April 1, 2014.

[Shane Top]

2014.

[Damien Haas]

Hey, we were right.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. So 4114.

[Damien Haas]

That's why I was thinking too.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean like, we had a lot of really great April Fool's videos. We had one where we said that LeVar Burton bought. We did one where. Where we got our local news channel to make it with us. Where we had. We had a thing where that showed that Anthony could fly, but it was clearly terribly edited. Like it was like he was flying. But it was. You could easily see that it was edited terribly. But then all the newscasters were like, wow, that's amazing. You're actually flying. We have this running joke. God, I. Well, yeah, we have this whole running joke in it. Every time they. That I go to say something, they talk over me or like, what did you think, Ian? I was like, well, I think anyway, Anthony. So they shit on me the whole time and it's so funny.

[Damien Haas]

Oh God.

[Courtney Miller]

That is a good one.

[Ian Hecox]

But yeah, the one hour special is so good.

[Shane Top]

I've heard a lot about it. Yeah, I've obviously not watched the whole thing.

[Courtney Miller]

That epic action sequence in the beginning and the fact that you had Ryan Higa cameo in the beginning also is pretty. Like you fooled him.

[Ian Hecox]

He might have been at the end. I forget. I forget if he was at the beginning. He was at the end. Yeah, he was at the end.

[Courtney Miller]

Are you sure?

[Shane Top]

Hilarious.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't remember.

[Damien Haas]

I always forget that he was a YouTuber and not just the inventor of Ninja Milk.

[Ian Hecox]

Dude, Damien. Damien is in love with Ninja Milk. That's. That's Ryan.

[Damien Haas]

I don't need it. I don't.

[Shane Top]

And Damian changes as a human after he drinks one. And then he gets even crazier after he drinks two.

[Damien Haas]

Okay. But I. Stop it. Two per day. So. It's fine, everyone. It's fine.

[Courtney Miller]

Did Ryan send us a bunch? Is that why we have so much?

[Ian Hecox]

Thank you. Actually, his. His mom. His mom sent us a whole bunch. Cuz. Yeah, I always. I always give shout outs to Lucy. She's great. She's a wonderful human being.

[Damien Haas]

Thank you, Lucy.

[Ian Hecox]

Before we get to number one, let's. Let's talk about. Let's talk about our honorable mentions and we'll just go through this real quick.

[Damien Haas]

Okay?

[Courtney Miller]

So I don't like my number one anymore.

[Damien Haas]

I hate it. I hate your number one, whatever it is. So remember that I subbed in don't pop the balloon with WWE Superstars. That was one of them. Instead of an insane pie eating challenge with smosh one letter off YouTubers, which was very recent. Yeah. Dump out the balloon egg roulette challenge, which was super stupid Sleepover, which I got to guess, that was a lot of fun.

[Courtney Miller]

Wake me up.

[Damien Haas]

Wake me up. That was.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Bonkers. An old Ian and Anthony classic. We're in Super Mario. Love that one. One.

[Ian Hecox]

That was our shout out to our editor, Michael Barady for putting in a lot of work on it.

[Shane Top]

Boy, I remember when those would come out and it's just like, all right, you're gonna see Barody just like working away. His beard. Grows five feet.

[Damien Haas]

And then most recently, mystery crocs challenge. Solid. So good.

[Courtney Miller]

That was a crazy time.

[Shane Top]

Crazy toe day.

[Courtney Miller]

Okay. Man Spider.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. Man Spider. Man Spider.

[Courtney Miller]

Man Spider.

[Ian Hecox]

Man Man Spider.

[Courtney Miller]

This is my favorite. D.C. is depressed.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

It's really fun. Winter Games. Pain Pong in the cabin. Good times.

[Damien Haas]

I wanted Winter Games. I want to do one. I'm always hot. Make me cold.

[Courtney Miller]

Just a general shout out to the BTS videos that we used to put out a lot.

[Ian Hecox]

All the 5 million different renditions of BTS that we did before we realized that there's just no possible.

[Courtney Miller]

But they were for us. I don't know.

[Shane Top]

Well, I think that was. They were. They were useful in a. There was a different YouTube changes, you know, and when they were out, it made sense. And now it.

[Courtney Miller]

People just.

[Shane Top]

You have a different channel for behind the scenes type stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

I think the thing with BTS videos, because as I was putting this list together, I think that's what I realized is like a lot of these videos, they just are kind of capsules of memories with you guys and bts because it's like we do so much every day constantly. Just more memories with you guys. And so BTS is Like, such a great way for me personally to be like, okay, I can look back on these because there's so much. I can't remember everything. But these videos at least encapsulate what that was. You know, I wish we could still have them, even if they weren't even posted. I'm just like, I just want to look at all the BTS you should just hire.

[Ian Hecox]

You should just hire a BTS guy to follow you around.

[Courtney Miller]

No.

[Ian Hecox]

And then just give you an edited day of your you at the end of every day. Be like, here you go. Here's your bts.

[Courtney Miller]

Hell, yeah.

[Damien Haas]

What's Brennan up to? He's not very busy.

[Shane Top]

Right.

[Damien Haas]

It's our head of camera operations.

[Ian Hecox]

What you got?

[Shane Top]

What you got?

[Damien Haas]

Two more.

[Courtney Miller]

Two more. Excuse me.

[Damien Haas]

Excuse you.

[Courtney Miller]

Sellouts. When I went to Vegas and did trapeze with the gang, that was crazy. That was a really fun trip. Got my first professional massage in Vegas. Oh, weird.

[Damien Haas]

They didn't even charge her. And it was not at a parlor. So strange.

[Courtney Miller]

And then the Mad Max dirt biking thing we did at summer camps dressed like. What is it? Just apocalyptic people.

[Shane Top]

That was really fun. All right, so my honorable mentions. You got every Starbucks ever, which is the first every blank ever that I think we really like.

[Courtney Miller]

We just did.

[Shane Top]

We nailed it on the formula. We're like, oh, we got what we're doing now. Pokemon Go fight caught on camera. It's shot so well. It was formulated affinity, and a couple people, like, came up with it in, like, a couple hours and then shot it the next day every prom ever, which is just stellar. Try not to laugh. Number five. Number five is also. That's the first Gus Johnson one. And it's also. There is the four before it, where you can tell we're trying to figure out what the formula of that show is. Number five is like we hit our stride, and it's got a lot, a lot of stuff in it. Everyone has killer jokes. You have your fireman stripper joke, which is maybe one of my favorites of yours. I had the first. You're my favorite pizza place. And also I had my one at Keith, where I hit the drums and I just hold out my fist and go. Just saw Black Panther.

[Damien Haas]

That's my favorite bit of all time and all time.

[Shane Top]

Everybody in that one is incredible. And every Gus Johnson joke in it is perfect. And then the last one. Smosh. Summer games camp Hot pepper talent show. That whole summer games is great. And that one really is just everyone shines my ribbon.

[Ian Hecox]

My ribbon show is beautiful.

[Courtney Miller]

Olivia's dying from the pepper. And you're like, say something in Chinese. She's just double middle finger.

[Shane Top]

Noah made me kiss him on stage.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Shane Top]

That was disgusting. It's insane.

[Courtney Miller]

The slobber.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, it's really good.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, Ian, mine. Mine are. I mean, I just got to give a special shout out to all of the crap raps that Anthony and I did. They were just, like. They were just hilarious to make. We were really inspired by. He. He went by Krispy Kreme back in the day. He made these, like, these raps that were intentionally bad, but they were hilarious because they were bad. So we made these characters that was like art. It was like us from high school, quote, unquote. And we made one about how we were the pimps of prom and. Or we made one that was like a video for incoming freshmen in high school. We give advice for bullying, which is to just beat up the bully and punch his balls off or something. And I go into, like, how, like, they're trying to sew his balls back on. Then I grabbed his ball sack and threw it against the wall. And, like. Yeah, it just, like, it goes so crazy and it's. And they're just hilarious. And, like, we were just messing around the whole time, and it was. It was a lot of fun. So I just got to give a special shout out to the crap raps.

[Shane Top]

That's awesome.

[Courtney Miller]

Nice.

[Ian Hecox]

So now we go to number one.

[Damien Haas]

Number one number. Number. In the. In the. In the morning. All right, this is probably going to surprise a lot of people, but here it is. No, you can't.

[Courtney Miller]

I didn't see. I was adjusting.

[Damien Haas]

Okay. It's every animal anime ever. I. It was so, so cool to be able to see something that we wrote get animated like that. I always. I grew up on things like Newgrounds, Flash Player, just watching all these Flash cartoons. Homestar Runner, I know you watched, too, so Flash cartoons were a big deal to me as a kid, and I always wanted to make them. And I just never ended up learning Flash. I just never sat down and did it. So I don't know. Seeing that come to light, come to life was just a really meaningful thing for me. And on top of that, like, I watch a fair amount of anime. It was really cool that we were able to slip in jokes that, like, weren't necessarily for everybody to get, but I just know that the people who enjoy the genre would be like, oh, my God, I can't believe they did a joke about that. It was just really cool. Yeah. And Even, like, more modern when you watch stuff like, you know, YouTube channels like Game Grumps, they have Game Grumps animated. And animators submit their own animations based.

[Courtney Miller]

On vocal, talented animators.

[Damien Haas]

Incredible. Yeah, incredible. And I just. I love watching that stuff.

[Courtney Miller]

So, yeah, that was really cool. We got, like, a bunch. We got multiple animators to do different kind of style, which is perfect because, like, each. In every blank ever. It's like each scene, it's a different world. So it made perfect sense. And like, that. That. I agree. That was a really good one. That's a good one.

[Damien Haas]

Lots of fun and it's really awesome. It's really cool also to be doing, like, I don't know, voiceovers. Sometimes you record on your own, sometimes you record with others, but you still have to find that dynamic to play off of each other. And I thought that, like the scene between you and me, Ian, where it's like, oh, Makoto.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Yes, Takashi. Like, I think it worked out so damn well.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Damien Haas]

Like, I rewatched it this morning while checking my list and I in the. Shane coming in with that I'm gay.

[Shane Top]

There's context.

[Damien Haas]

There's context.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. We're talking about how in anime it's either they, like, they don't show gay male relationships.

[Ian Hecox]

No gay male relationship.

[Damien Haas]

Or, like, kisses. It's just like, they'll hint at it and be overt. Or if they do show something, they have to be a big muscly guy as a joke. And so which is. It's pretty true.

[Shane Top]

Ours isn't even, like an exaggeration. No, it's very real. Like, One Punch man has that character. Like, literally. Literally has that character.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, that was. Yeah. Because I remember I. I wrote that scene because that's. That's the one thing that stood out for me in anime is it's like. Because I knew with, like, Yuri on Ice, like, everyone was like, oh, my gosh, they're finally showing, like, a gay relationship, but they don't show them kissing.

[Shane Top]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, oh, he. Like, because I. Because I talked to you about it and you're like, no, they just, like, fell on each other. Like, they didn't really kiss.

[Damien Haas]

And actually, after we filmed that, I'm not going to say what anime it was because I don't want to spoil it just in case, but there was a season where they, like, have this whole arc where I'm just like, oh, my gosh, they're building up a gay relationship and it ends with a kiss. And then one of the people is, like, dying at the end of a long fight. And they're like, what can I do? And they're like, say my real name. And then he's just like, eleanor. And I'm like, oh, so very last minute, you decided that, oh, it wasn't a gay relationship, actually female and male. It was just like, ah, come on. You were so close. So, yeah, well, but it just means that our sketch stands true. And I was like, whew, no one can call us out now.

[Ian Hecox]

And I feel like that was one of the first sketches that you really contributed to because we were like, like, well, Damian is, like, the biggest anime fan out of every Everyone so in the world. So, like, that was a really fun collaboration between, like, you and Finnerty and Shane. You contributed as well. Yeah, and, yeah, it was. It was. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that one.

[Courtney Miller]

That was great. My number one is a tie. The first one being Girls are Gross, just because that's something that I've always wanted to do. Like, even as a fan of. Of Smosh. Watching the music videos and seeing how. How you guys make things look so cool and the music is awesome and just. And performing like, that is something that I've only gotten to tap into a little bit. And I feel like it's this whole part of me that, like, I really want to explore more. And so that was, like, a really cool project to just, like, go and.

[Ian Hecox]

Be that, because I feel like we got a taste of that in the D.C. is depressing. Like, your. Your Wonder Woman scene is, like, such a standout. Well, from the Aquaman part, your Wonder Woman is, like. Is such a. It's just cool. And it was like. It was like, holy crap. Like, why are we not tapping into, like, Courtney's, like, ability, like, singing ability, and, like, just, like, sort of, like, presence in a music video.

[Courtney Miller]

Thanks. My favorite take was. I think Ryan Todd was just like, okay, now this one, you're just gonna, like, dance. You're just gonna go. You're gonna dance and do whatever. And, like, that I had so much fun. That's just, like, I felt awesome and, like, I was really doing something I wanted to do. And so I felt that a lot in Girls Are Gross as well. And since it was, like, something that I helped come up with too, it was all that more special. And it came out looking so good. Everyone looks so good. And it's so. It's just, like. It's a gorgeous video, and the song is awesome. And, like, I keep getting DMs from people I haven't talked to in years being like, that song stuck in my head.

[Ian Hecox]

That's cool.

[Damien Haas]

That's awesome.

[Courtney Miller]

The other number one is try not to laugh. Number one.

[Damien Haas]

Oh, wow.

[Shane Top]

Which technically, I think in the playlist is number two.

[Courtney Miller]

Oh, yeah. Cause the first one was you and Anthony. That's right.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. That one doesn't count.

[Courtney Miller]

So. Yeah, you're right. Number two. Yeah. I guess it was the first squad. Try not to laugh. I'd like to apply for a loan is my favorite thing. It's still, like, one of my favorite things you've ever done.

[Damien Haas]

Look at me. Look at me.

[Shane Top]

I think you legally have to look at me. Did you know what other term to use?

[Damien Haas]

I actually have a question about that. Are you saying that as the character, like, legally, as a bank, you have to look at me, or is it since it's so early on, you establish the rules and try not to laugh. Like, you can't touch and you have to look at it.

[Shane Top]

We didn't have the rules really set then, so we kind of talked about, like, yeah, you should look at the person. So I think I was like. I didn't know how to say, like, it's the rules. You have to look at me. I think legally you have to look.

[Damien Haas]

That's so funny. Apply for a loan.

[Courtney Miller]

So there's. I'd like to apply for a loan. Keith shows me. He did. Like, it's fine. We talked about it. But you consented.

[Shane Top]

There was planned a little bit planned there, yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

He joked. He was like, I'm gonna show my dick. And I was like, do it. Like, it was all fine.

[Damien Haas]

Don't call Keith on a bluff.

[Ian Hecox]

Just the root or the whole thing.

[Courtney Miller]

Just shaft.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Courtney Miller]

Shaft. Just shaft. And it was also just. I think that video is a perfect little bubble of each of us and who we are. Olivia coming up, going, I'm just red. Like, okay. I am a red person. Yeah. I'm just a red guy.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

It was a great representation of each of us as a dynamic, and it was the start of something wild.

[Shane Top]

Those first three we did are definitely. They're different. It wasn't sustainable. They're insane. Cause they're way more chaotic. Cause we have no idea what we're doing. Number four is even. That's the one that's in the smaller studio. Cause we couldn't shoot in the radio studio.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah. We're still in the smosh room.

[Shane Top]

Right, so. Well, we were in the smosh room for number two. Number three, we shot in what we called the Grand Canyon stage, which was a big one. So we got that for one of the shoots. Then number four, we had to shoot it an even smaller studio. Remember, we shot it in. I think it's Spider man was the name of the studio. It's like, literally the size of a box. And that's the one where we just. We have no idea what we're doing in it. That's insane. That's the one where I go, yo, pass the rock. And I get hit with the basketball. But that's fun. Number two is. Yeah, it's a fun fond memory. And we shot that. We shot that, like, forever ago. And then for, like, eight months, we were like, hey, we should do another one of those, shouldn't we? And, like, it was really hard at Defy to get things moving. So we kept being like, we had a lot of fun shooting that. It's doing really well. And then we.

[Courtney Miller]

I think we also had all those other shows that were going on.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, that was during, like. Yeah, a lot of stuff. But we finally got through it. Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

It was the start of something insane.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

All right. My number one. So this has been my number one for a long time. This was the only one on my list that I knew for sure where it was gonna be. Wasn't like. And I think I've even mentioned this before. My number one favorite Smosh video. And it's in my top 10 list of YouTube videos ever.

[Damien Haas]

Wow.

[Shane Top]

Is Smosh short 2 Stranded. Oh, my God. A video that came out in 2006.

[Courtney Miller]

This one shot on the beach.

[Shane Top]

This is back when it's just Ian and Anthony with their camera. It's such a vibe, and it is hilarious. I rewatched it and still, like, I always forget. Cause it's shot so simply. It's Anthony on a beach. Just shots of him writing in a journal.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a deserted beach.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

It's like, you don't see anyone else.

[Shane Top]

Yeah. He's just like, I'm writing in my water. Luckily, I have my waterproof journal with me. Whatever. And then it's just like. It's like day number three. It's like, we're getting hungry. So Robby and I decided that we need to eat Jamal. Jamal called us racist and said that he would eat. He threatened to eat himself, which we said was impossible. It's like day number five. We were wrong. Jamal ate himself.

[Damien Haas]

Keeps going crazier.

[Shane Top]

It's so funny. And then, like.

[Courtney Miller]

And you guys legit shot that on the beach. Right? Like, and. And because the ending. I don't want to. I mean, I don't mean to spoil it.

[Ian Hecox]

It doesn't matter.

[Courtney Miller]

2006, but you pan out super far, and it's like the most crowded beach.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Courtney Miller]

So you weren't stranded at all, but like, you said, you guys were filming it and people were genuinely, like, avoiding you.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, they did.

[Shane Top]

They did.

[Damien Haas]

I saw this back in 2006. I used to watch Smosh at that time.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

So I would. Back in 2006. 2007 was when I watched a ton of YouTube, but I never subscribed to anybody. I would just hop on YouTube and I would find videos. Like, I was just like, what are you feeding me today? YouTube. So it's like I was the type that dramatic chipmunk is today or Numa. Numa is today. And Stranded was one that just kind of made like, everyone saw it. Wow. Everyone knew it. And so I remember laughing at it back in. And then once I was back here, I was like, oh, my God, that was Smosh. I didn't even realize that was Smosh, because to me, that was just a video I watched. And I remember I was actually. I think I was up in Sacramento and I was hanging out with you and Anthony, and I told you guys, and then you guys told me all about how you shot it, how you were just in la. We're like, we need to shoot a video. And you came up with it on the fly. And then you even knew, like, you remembered. You were like, yeah. And there's the end where it's you and him staring, being like, should we help him? Nah, it's kind of fun to watch. And you both have, like, cans of soda, but then you clearly show that yours is empty because you, like, scratch your wrist.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

And then, like, lift the kit, like, lift the can horizontally for a second, showing it's not filled with anything. It's great. It's only like a minute and 20 seconds or something like that, but it's so solid. And you guys won an award for it, right? Didn't you?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it was the. It was the YouTube Comedy Awards. It was a YouTube Awards. We won best comedy. But it was really just a popularity contest. Time doesn't matter.

[Damien Haas]

You're winning.

[Shane Top]

You beat Barats and Beretta, I think.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I think so.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Which. It's so funny that then came a.

[Damien Haas]

Team and then you absorbed them. That's how you really win.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, that was funny, though, because, yeah, we won that. We won that award. And then, like, YouTube is trying to do like, this whole PR thing. So they flew us and the other, like, winners out to New York to do like, a PR blitz.

[Shane Top]

U2 dramatic chipmunk.

[Ian Hecox]

It was like. Yeah, it was a musician, a couple other people. And like, they had us go on like, the Today Show.

[Shane Top]

Wow.

[Ian Hecox]

And like, I think we were like, talking to like, Matt Lauer, which now honestly then. But then also, like, we went on like, Opie and Anthony, I think, and they kind of like, shit on YouTube. And like, the YouTube rep was like, really uncomfortable. But yeah, it was.

[Shane Top]

That was.

[Ian Hecox]

That was the whole thing.

[Shane Top]

That was what that was. Like, that was within a year of YouTube being invented.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

Basically, like, that's how early on.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Shane Top]

That's crazy, man. Wow, that's so crazy. Yeah. I love that sketch. It's. It holds up. I rewatched it because I was like, is this, you know, a lot of old YouTube stuff is. Seems like old YouTube stuff. But that one, it holds up, man. Holds up really well.

[Damien Haas]

Hell yeah.

[Shane Top]

It's great.

[Ian Hecox]

Except for ending with the. Because we didn't really have an ending joke.

[Shane Top]

Ends with crack is whack.

[Ian Hecox]

It ends with crack is whack. Like, crack his whack. And it's like, let's just add on to the end. Yeah. All right.

[Courtney Miller]

What is your number one?

[Ian Hecox]

Number one smosh video? For me, man, This. I mean, it just holds up. Like. I'm surprised nobody had it on their list. You were kind of close. The Assassin's Creed 3 music video.

[Courtney Miller]

Yes.

[Shane Top]

Super solid.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, listening back, like, if you listen to that song now, it's still. There's still a freshness to it. Like, like, the. The music production is solid. We got Anthony to a place with vocally, that's like. That was awesome.

[Courtney Miller]

I was singing that song last night.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, really?

[Courtney Miller]

A lot.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, dude. The frickin, like, chorus and. And that's like huge ups to Ryan Finnerty. Like, just nailing, nailing those hooks. Um, but like.

[Shane Top]

And.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, yeah. So when I say, like, we. We spent a lot of money on. On Zelda. So Assassin's Creed was spot. That one was sponsored by Assassin's Creed.

[Courtney Miller]

You guys got dancers.

[Ian Hecox]

And we spent. Yeah, we had like three shoot days. We went over time on one of the days. I'm pretty sure maybe two of the days. Yeah, we. We. We had an extra shoot day where we got D Trix to come out with like, some of his, like, dancer friends and they did like a whole, like, dance routine. We had this huge. It was just like we went up to the mountains, shot Some stuff in the mountains, shot some stuff in this, like, alleyway. We had a whole, like, set built.

[Damien Haas]

How much was it?

[Ian Hecox]

That was between 50 and 60 thousand dollars.

[Shane Top]

Wow, buddy.

[Damien Haas]

That's walking around money.

[Courtney Miller]

That was sponsored.

[Ian Hecox]

Wow.

[Shane Top]

That's incredible.

[Courtney Miller]

That's insane.

[Shane Top]

Those two Zelda wrap and that one are just, like, on another level.

[Ian Hecox]

But it's like, people are like, oh, I missed the old. I missed the old. When they did these videos. Like, okay, look, you can't just spend that. You can't just spend that kind of money.

[Shane Top]

You can't just do it yet.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, you can't. I mean, it's. It was an absurd amount of money, but it was. It was still back in those times when if you really put the effort in, it would pay off. And it did. Like, people freaked out when that video came out. And, I mean, it's still solid. Like, I still have, like, the Tomahawk chop shirt in my closet, and every time I look at it, the song pops into my head.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And, like, I can probably go through that whole song still by memory. It's insane.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah, I will say, like, Zelda, I. I held it at that. That beat like, it's my number. What was my number?

[Shane Top]

Three.

[Courtney Miller]

Whatever. But because it's so pretty and the song is great. But that music video, when you watch it, that one's so perfect too, because it's like, Anthony has his awesome part, and then you.

[Ian Hecox]

I don't wear briefs. Like you're George Washington. Yeah, dude.

[Courtney Miller]

I think that's one of my thing. When you guys. When. When Anthony's character is about to die, you guys are in this room, and then you come in, and then you both just kick ass in this room together. It's. That's a. I geek out over that video, too.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a. It's just solid. Like, it's got the. It's got the jokes. Got the Assassin's Creed jokes for the people that know Assassin's Creed, but you can still watch it. As not a video game fan and still enjoy it. I think not as much much, but you could still enjoy it.

[Courtney Miller]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And the. The chorus, again, huge props to Ryan Finnerty for putting that podcast.

[Shane Top]

It's really. It's really crazy. It shows you, like, the different. Like, having gone through and survived all the different eras of YouTube, how different smosh has been throughout every single iteration of it. Like, people talk about, like, oh, I miss when I wish Smosh would go back to this. It's like, yeah, you wish you would go back to that. But there are people then who are like, I wish you go back to. To that. Like, yeah, it's. You have to constantly evolve, and it's so successfully evolved throughout every era.

[Ian Hecox]

But I think looking at the success of those music videos, like, I do still want to do more music videos, and there is still a way to do it. We did Girls are Gross. It was awesome. I want to do more of that stuff. Yeah. Assassin's Creed 3, that was in a totally different era of YouTube. But I'm also. What I'm also looking forward to is coming up with new favorite parts. New favorite videos of Smosh.

[Shane Top]

New favorite.

[Ian Hecox]

Because this. This Smosh thing, it's gonna keep going.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And as long as you guys keep watching, we're gonna keep making them and we're gonna keep creating favorites, because the party don't stop until.

[Damien Haas]

We'Re in the grave.

[Ian Hecox]

Until we're in the grave.

[Damien Haas]

We've been. We've been on point today. Wow.

[Shane Top]

Solid lists, everybody. Yeah, really solid lists. I like job.

[Ian Hecox]

Everyone come in with small, short, two strand.

[Shane Top]

That is solid. I knew, like, that's always been my number one favorite.

[Courtney Miller]

I wish I dug more and, like, watched more videos in the past, because I'm sure I would have had, like, a whole other different list if I took the time to scroll through my memory.

[Shane Top]

I also wanted to say how, like. Because, like, you talking about how he knew Stranded, it is also crazy to think back when I was. I don't know, how old was I in 2006? 15, 14? Like, everyone knew the Pokemon dub video. Like, that wasn't. That wasn't knowing Even knowing who Smosh was. That was just like. Yeah, that video. And then same with Stranded. It was just like, you guys back then were at that level. And it's crazy that here we are still. It's. That's nuts. That was 13 years ago.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Ian.

[Courtney Miller]

Like, you're unkillable.

[Damien Haas]

You cannot be killed.

[Shane Top]

Like, for real, man. Like. Like, it's crazy because most people like their YouTube careers, I feel like, are.

[Ian Hecox]

Like, two years sometimes. Yeah. I mean, people have figured it out a little bit more lately on how to, you know, adapt and survive, which, by the way, you just referenced Internet detention 3, which, I mean, that's also one of my favorites. Like, I. As of late. Holy shit. That video is so good.

[Shane Top]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, that was another one where everyone got a chance to shine.

[Damien Haas]

Yeah. So we should have done a top 50.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, let's do that. Next time.

[Courtney Miller]

I'll just say, like, as a. It's so cool that as a part of our job and as creators, like, it's not like we're. Like, you're a producer on some TV show you hate, but it pays the bills. Like, we love so much of our content. Like, I love my job. And that's so cool to be proud of the content. Like, we are, you know?

[Shane Top]

Yeah. Yeah, totally.

[Ian Hecox]

All right, well, let's just keep making more guys.

[Shane Top]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Damien Haas]

Okay, I got it.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, thank you guys for. For sticking through this whole. This whole ass list.

[Damien Haas]

Thank you.

[Ian Hecox]

It was a little bit of a long boy, but it was a good boy. Let's give it a bone.

[Damien Haas]

Like a dachshund. Long boy, but a good boy.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, exactly. Thank you guys so much. If you're not yet subscribed to the Smosh cast on any of your podcast networks, do that. Make sure you're downloading these episodes. Make sure you're reviewing it. Get. Leave five stars. Tell us what your favorite video is in the review. Heck, just do it. The podcast comes out on Wednesdays, along with a highlight on our YouTube channel, the Smoshcast channel. And you can catch the full video on Fridays. Censored. And let's all just say goodbye.

[Shane Top]

Bye.

[Damien Haas]

Ariva D.