Try Not To Laugh: The Podcast (Elimination Mode) (Again) | Smosh Mouth 147
Smosh Mouth episode 147 features a 'You Laugh, You Leave' elimination game with hosts Shane and Amanda, joined by guests Courtney Miller, Olivia, Noah, and Ian. The group engages in chaotic, wide-ranging conversations while trying not to laugh, covering topics from Willy Wonka grandparent conspiracy theories to road rage stories. The episode runs to a planned 69-minute mark, with participants being eliminated as they laugh.
Summary
The episode opens with Shane and Amanda introducing 'You Laugh, You Leave' elimination mode, with Courtney Miller as the first guest and additional guests waiting in the wings. The rules are simple: laugh and you must leave your seat. The hosts briefly note they are filming on May 28th, the 10th anniversary of Harambe's death, and solicit hometown drama stories from listeners via the Smosh Reddit.
A major running thread involves an extended and absurd analysis of the grandparents' sleeping arrangement in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory — specifically, whether the four grandparents sharing one bed could have produced incestuous offspring, and what the familial relationship of any such child would be to Charlie. This devolves into suggestions for a Broadway show about the grandparents having secret affairs in the bed.
The group discusses various personal anecdotes, including Courtney's habit of keeping a single potato in her fridge, boiling it unseasoned, and eating it in bed on a paper towel while reading East of Eden. This becomes a recurring joke throughout the episode. Noah shares that he is fostering two kittens he calls the 'diarrhea twins' due to their persistent digestive issues, which leads to a broader conversation about baby blowouts and the challenges of caring for infant animals and humans.
The conversation touches on books and audiobooks, with participants discussing Twin Peaks, East of Eden, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and a Pulitzer-winning book about homelessness in America. Ian admits he struggles with audiobooks since his concussion, and the group debates whether listening to audiobooks counts as 'reading.'
Other topics include: the heated rivalry TV show and its suspiciously well-groomed shirtless barista character, road rage incidents in Los Angeles (including Noah's story of being yelled at by a driver and responding by acting unfazed, and a separate story about a car accident where Noah acted like a 'Chihuahua' to scare off a threatening driver), airport drinking culture, the Joe and the Juice sandwich shop, and the practicalities of washing jeans (including freezing them). The episode ends exactly at the planned 69-minute mark with a queued fart sound, and the hosts encourage listeners to send fan art of the Willy Wonka grandparents.
Key Insights
- Courtney reveals she keeps a single potato in her fridge (because she doesn't want to see it on the counter), boils it with no salt or butter, and eats it plain in bed on a paper towel while reading East of Eden — which the group connects to the farming themes of the novel as possible subconscious inspiration.
- The group collectively theorizes that if two of the four grandparents sharing a bed in Willy Wonka had a child together, that child would technically be a half-sibling to Charlie's parents, making them Charlie's uncle or aunt — and they suggest this absurd premise would make a good Broadway show.
- Noah explains that after getting LASIC surgery he experienced severe light sensitivity and had to become an unsolicited salesperson for LASIC to everyone who said 'that's why you don't get LASIC' when he told them about his painful recovery.
- Noah recounts a road rage incident where a driver who nearly t-boned him got out of the car aggressively, and Noah responded by laughing and making faces — which made the driver escalate further — before eventually rolling up his window and ignoring him while playing music.
- Noah describes a separate incident involving a car accident where the other driver, likely under the influence, threatened to beat him up; with nearly no phone battery, Noah acted loudly and erratically to scare the person off, but admits upon rewatching his recorded behavior he sounded embarrassingly formal and panicked, repeatedly saying 'sir.'
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