Every Hot Ones Episode

Hot Ones is a deceptively simple idea for a show in which guests are subjected to increasingly spicy chicken wings while having to answer personal questions about themselves and their careers. The crew behind the phenomenon, First We Feast channel headed by Sean Evans, appear to do ridiculous amounts of research to ask some pretty precise and incisive questions. Meanwhile the heat of the sauce seems to fry the celebrities’ brains while they also wish to get through it as quickly as possibly, leading to some revealing responses. It’s a fun YouTube show that has led to some quality moments on the web. (Seriously, the Paul Rudd episode is a great watch and also very unassumingly shows the actor/writer conquer the spiciest sauces with an unsettling amount of ease.)

But for all its strengths, there is definitely a pattern to each Hot Ones episode and most people’s reactions on it. This is encapsulated in this 2019 video by Scott Cramer in which he covers the cycles of hubris, pain, and confusion. Not to mention point out how weird it is to offer water (why not bread?) and the reactions to certain sauces along the way. It’s as funny as it is accurate, even three years later.

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