Funny / Binging with Babish

"Nobody's allowed to make a meme of that. That's... i-illegal."

• In the Ratatouille episode, Babish takes a bite of his dish and has an Anton Ego-like "flashback" (actually his nephew playing a young him) to Little Babish cooking with toy food.
• According to Babish, one of the ingredients in Freddy's ribs tastes better than it smells.
  Babish: A tablespoon of white pepper. Make sure not to sniff this, because it smells like butts.
• Babish's father makes a guest appearance in the Fried Green Tomatoes episode and refers to him as Babish, who comments on how strange it is for his own father to call him by his stage name.
• With Brad Leone's appearance in the Garfield lasagna episode, Babish decides to stick a "wourder" subtitle (font and all) like you'd expect on It's Alive any time Brad says "water." Also because Vinny was there too.
• The credits of the The Emperor's New Groove Spinach Puffs episode feature Babish lip-synching and dancing to Toto's "Africa."
• Babish's Arthur Morgan impression in the Bear Stew episode.
  Arthur!Babish: Anyway, we're gonna light that up, and... not pay attention to the watch that we forgot to take off.
• Babish referencing a Tootsie Pop commercial from 1970 (which he mislabels "Tootsie Roll") in his The Good Place Nachos episode:
  Babish: All we have to do is repeat layering the nachos [switches to a perfect impression of the owl from the commercial] one, a-two-hoo, a-thrrree... [back to his natural voice] three, three times. I'm quoting that old Tootsie Roll commercial with the owl...you're probably too young.
• Babish's theory as for the titular "Grey Stuff" platter shown during "Be Our Guest":
  Babish: Now, I know the folks at Disney said to their animator, "Frank, just draw us a plate of appetizers, okay? Nobody is going to agonize over it thirty years later on a big TV trying to figure out what each element is." (during the voiceover, Babish has pulled out a large flatscreen TV, paused on a stillframe of the platter)
  • Babish then goes on to assume, as he tries to identify the appetizers in question, that Frank was just keeping his head down during this, determined to not get fired by Michael Eisner that day.
  • Concerning the grey stuff in question, Babish guesses it's either foie gras or chicken liver mousse. He opts for the latter simply on the grounds of not wanting to make the audience mad.
• The mayo shot from the Spongebob Krabby Supreme episode:
  Babish: Nobody's allowed to make a meme of that, that's i-illegal.
  • And then:
    You're all under arrest.
• For April Fools 2019, Babish makes the "Jelly Donuts" from the Pokemon anime, treating them as if they're actual donuts (he made actual onigiri the next day).
  • While letting the yeast sit for 10 minutes, Babish remarks "During this time, you can really do whatever you want with your life, but I recommend separating 3 egg yolks[.]"
• In the actual onigiri episode, Babish does several additional attempts at making onigiri (purely because he wasn't happy with how he was shaping them). By attempt four, however, Babish had partaken in what he claims were "jazz cigarettes," and instead of shaping his rice into onigiri, he made "Snowmanigiri," accompanied by making it dance.
  • The Stinger sees Babish, seemingly by force, recreating the infamous "drying pan" scene, complete with an accomplice pouring water on Babish's head to simulate rain.
• In the KFC Bucket Meal episode, Babish notes that he fries his chicken for 6 to 9 minutes, but if you watch with captions, he adds [Nice] after 6-9.
• After Babish takes a bite out of his first attempt at the pizza ball, we cut to the counter now pizza ball-less, with Babish stating it entered the clean plate club. Pay real close attention to the back counter as he says this.
• In the 3rd episode of Being With Babish, Andrew attempts to surprise a local cooking class by busting in wish a bunch of free equipment. He's completely foiled by the teacher being at the door when he comes up the stairs, and the middle school aged students looking entirely unimpressed and having no knowledge of who he is.
• The Stinger of the sea-salt ice cream episode has Babish cracking himself up by doing a terrible Donald Duck impression.
• The Ube Roll deserves a mention just for the amount of tries it took him and the noise of excitement Babish makes after finally perfecting it. Also counts as an awesome and heartwarming moment as it proves just how much work and care he actually puts into each dish and by extension each episode.
• On introducing a video sponsored by Dollar Shave Club, he announces that he's been a loyal customer since 2013. Before incredulous viewers (knowing the extent and depth of his beard) can wonder how this can be the case, we see Babish in the shower, fully clothed, shaving his own scalp.
• By the end of the Ribwich episode, Babish comes to the realization that, instead of actually making the Ribwich, he had made a tribute to it... which is honestly for the best, since the actual Ribwich is "borderline illegal."
• The mere concept of the Grilled Cheese Deluxe video: because the show didn't actually explain why the sandwich in question was a "deluxe" grilled cheese, this leads Babish to partake in some experimentation. With several different combinations of breads, toppings, cheeses, and cheese mixes.
• One of the recipes spotlighted in the second It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia video is "Mac's Famous Mac and Cheese"... which, if you are unaware, is revealed to be bog-standard blue box.
  Babish: (looks over a Kraft box) It's been a while since I made one of these, but I think I can- (cut to box being dumped to steaming pot of water) huh- (cut to Babish stirring) huh- (cut to Babish dumping the strained noodles into the pot) huh- (cut to Babish adding the powder) huuuuuuh- (cut to Babish dumping in a stick of butter) huh- (cut to Babish adding milk) huh- (cut to Babish stirring) huh- (cut to Babish depositing the mac and cheese into a bowl) huh- (cut to Babish getting a spoonful) huh.
  • Because Babish forgot to film his walk-in intro, the video starts with a, as he describes, "creepy still photo" of him leaning against the counter, which then abruptly "[comes] to life."
• In the episode where he makes the timpano from Big Night, Babish has to work until the early hours of the morning making meatballs and pasta from scratch. He lets us listen in on his increasingly deranged monologue as he rolls endless pasta tubes:
  Babish: (voiceover) Now at this point it's four-thirty in the morning, I've been watching Frasier for about six hours and I am truly losing my mind. Let's listen in. (The audio cuts to the actual audio from Babish making pasta and the TV burbling in the background) Her. Loss. Niles. Frasier. (cut) Ros' water just broke all over Niles' Turkish prayer rug. (cut; in an outlandish English accent) Would you believe it! Up until 4.30 making pasta! (cut; singing) "Colour in a cannnn... colour in a cannnn..." (cut) Every day is a winding road, y'know? Okay, it's way worse to lose your hair than to go gray. (cut; singing) "If you wish to be my bri-ide..." (cut) It's not like Brad Pitt was a baby actor. (cut; Babish sings incoherent syllables like a drunk lounge singer)
• When Babish decides to make the Death Sandwich from Regular Show, he decides that it's far too boring to have a name like that. So he seeks out Japanese master chef (and Iron Chef) Masaharu Morimoto, who prepares some fugu, a fish that if you don't prepare it properly you will die from the toxins contained in part of it. Babish agrees that fugu is delicious and then Chef Morimoto proceeds to troll him mercilessly by repeatedly pretending to be suffering from fugu poisoning. The final Death Sandwich is simply the original sandwich with some deep-fried fugu in it. Because Chef Morimoto prepared it correctly, the sandwich is (almost certainly) not deadly, merely very tasty (and ludicrously expensive).
• Babish decides to make Tiramisu from Superbad. Not only does he do wacky commercials for his new Philips Coffee maker, but when going to put the Tiramisu in the fridge, the springform pan he put it in has the bottom fall through. Turns out he put them in the springform pan upside down.
  Babish's Voiceover: (usual calm, soothing tone) Now, there are much simpler and easier ways to make tiramisu, ones that don't take hours of careful preparation, but nothing quite beats the feeling of accomplish— (tiramisu falls through pan to the floor, voice turns panicky) nononono! (back to even) Oh my god. Oh my god. It's the sum of all my fears.
  • Cut to commercial. When he comes back, note two things. 1) He adds the chocolate powder he forgot the first time, and 2) he no longer trusts the springform pan, correct side up or otherwise, and has it resting on a baking tray.
  • For added hilarity, here's raw footage of the incident complete with an appropriately angry and hilarious Precision F-Strike.
• The whole of the apple pie episode arguably counts, since it has come to light via a Reddit AMA that Andrew did the voiceover while stoned.
  Babish: Just make sure it's tart and it's not mushy, like those apples that shouldn't exist.
  • "Place on a preheated baking sheet that you've left sitting in a 500° oven, it should almost set your table on fire."
  • After pulling the pie out of the oven, Babish forces himself to step away to let it cool for four hours or so. Cut to him waking up the next morning.
    Babish: (enters kitchen in a bathrobe) Good morning, everybody. Ooh, what's this, pie for breakfast? (cuts off a slice) Well, I'd hate to be rude.
• The Turturkeykey episode is one long moment of funny, as Babish resignedly admits from the start that he's certain that it isn't going to work, and that he's just going to ruin two perfectly good turkeys by stuffing one of them into the other. By the time he gets to stuffing a perfectly cooked boned turkey into a raw one, he's admitting that it looks completely obscene and the screen actually pixelates the image of the cooked turkey being shoved into what's after all the abdominal cavity of the raw one.
  • When it comes time to... lube the insertion chicken, Babish proceeds to (accidentally) pull out KY lubricant.
  • There's also Babish's horrified reaction to seeing himself pull out the shoehorns, admitting he only bought them as a joke, not expecting that he would actually need them.
• During the Bone Broth episode, Andrew brings in the camera audio at one point while chopping up a bunch of chicken feet, so we can hear him intentionally grossing Jess out with them.
  • Earlier in the episode, Andrew is showing off by air-chopping leeks into his stockpot, only to hit the knife on the edge of the pot, hurting his wrist and hand.
    So I'm just dropping in all of our aromatic—
    (CLANG)
    Ow. Ow. Ow.
• The imaginary pie episode sees Babish take the bit and run with it for half of the video.
• The Stinger for the Caprese Salad episode shows Andrew putting on his best impression of Joseph Joestar's Gratuitous English.
  Voiceover!Babish: (as Babish walks into frame with a script; nose clearly plugged) This is Binging with Babish, reading for Joseph Joestar. Action.
  Babish: (as Joseph) OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  • When tackling the salad's dressing, he notes that it includes "salt, pepper, and et cetera." And while he got the salt and pepper down-
    Babish: (holds up palms in confusion) I don't really know what ["et cetera"] is, so (mimes adding a pinch of spice) go ahead and add... a little... et cetera.
  • Babish winds up hitting a little bit of a stumbling block when plating up the salad, as he forgets how the tomato and mozzarella were arranged. And then he has to flip the whole arrangement by hand when he realizes it's backwards.
• The Stinger of the buttered noodles episode has Andrew air-drumming using two bundles of dry pasta as sticks. Before long he gets carried away and ends up smashing both bundles on the edge of his counter, sending shards of pasta flying everywhere.
• The pastrami episode was actually taken down by Andrew himself due to a logical problem with the restaurant clip he used for the start of the video, facilitating a reupload with a quick voiceover:
  Babish: (as the footage of Sally faking the orgasm plays) So, because I don't want you to get in trouble with your spouse or employer, I'm gonna keep talking over this scene until she's done making all the noises, annnd there we go.
• The Twinkie Wiener Sandwich episode surprised Andrew in a couple ways. Unlike some of the overly-sugary concoctions in the past, the Twinkie Wiener Sandwich was actually good. So good that he felt his homemade version with chorizo, while still good, wasn't as strong. He concedes that Weird Al's imagination is a better chef than him.
• Right at the end of the episode on the key lime pie from Dexter, for God knows what reason, Babish decides to go the extra mile and actually include the sodium pentothol and pancuronium Dexter added to euthanize its recipient. And the episode ends with Babish going to take a nap after finishing his slice.
  Babish: Again, I'm terrible with pies, but, I'm guessing no more than 5 or 10mL.
  • In an odd change of pace, Babish had increased struggles in using his appliances this week:
    • It took him until his food processor literally came to life in his hands once the lid was on for him to realize he accidentally left the On switch active.
    • Right as he begins to beat his egg yolks in his stand mixer, he abruptly realizes he forgot to plug it in.
• For the Meat Tornado, Babish consults a medical professional to figure out how much meat would be enough to literally kill a guy — about two pounds. Then he proceeds to make a burrito with that much meat — except he makes a lot of really good meat. So how does he stop himself from trying to add it to the Clean Plate Club and possibly killing himself in the process? By emptying a bottle of The Last Dab onto the burrito before he rolls it. He takes a couple good bites before the spice registers and he has to drop the burrito and go get a drink.
  Babish: (holding the burrito) Oh, that's hot. I want another bite- Ah, that's hot- Okay, OH! (puts the burrito down and leaves)
  Voiceover!Babish: Yeah, that could kill a guy.
• In a tribute to The Good Place, Babish decided to make a big plate of loaded nachos. He was showing the benefit of frying one's own tortilla chips by placing a storebought chip and one of his own homemade chips in time ramekins of water for two minutes. For two sped up minutes you can see Babish passing the two minutes in the background by pacing, then moonwalking, and finally dancing like MC Hammer behind the bowls.
• The Mississippi Queen Bloody Mary is supposedly so hot that it makes Mordecai and Rigby experience a Disney Acid Sequence, so Andrew uses Mad Dog 357 No. 9 Plutonium hot sauce weighing in at 9 million Scoville units. He only uses half a teaspoon. He takes one sip and starts to pace around writhing in complete agony.
• The episode on Bachelor Chow opens with Andrew trying the closest thing to the fictional food, actual dog food. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
• From the Chef's Choice Platter episode:
  • Andrew starts the episode with an ad for his new cookware line, even adding an "error" message for those who thought they could skip it and make them realize it's part of the video.
  • He then presents the knives again and shows he cut his finger cleaning them. Finally, he shows off the sharpness of the knife by slicing through a pineapple, then follows it up with an old video of him (with hair!) doing the same and yelling excitedly when he makes a nearly straight slice through the middle.
• The April Fools' Day 2021 episode sees Alvin Zhou from Tasty inexplicably hosting the show in Andrew's kitchen with no explanation as he makes the Gotcha Pork Roast from Food Wars: the jig is up when Andrew shows up and immediately questions Alvin's presence at the end of the episode, though he does not say no to trying the 'pork roast". As many speculated, the episode turned out to be a Poorly Disguised Pilot for Anime with Alvin.
• For April 20th, 2021, Babish makes the Space Cake from High Maintenance. He opens the video by showing off a bag clearly labelled "OREGANO," uses inexplicably green vegetable oil for the cake and inexplicably green butter for the frosting, and generally spends the entire episode dancing around the word "marijuana."
  Babish: The great thing about using, uh, green butter in frosting is that it never gets heated, so the... um... "strength" of the butter's "butteriness" doesn't get, you know, deactivated.
• The fact he made the Tortilla Chip Sombrero from Despicable Me 2. It's just as goofy looking in real life as you think.
  • His mis-scaling the hat means he ended up with what looked more like a Toritlla Chip Bowler Hat.
• Just pick a 'Botched By Babish' episode. Their more casual, less-edited nature leads to a lot of chaos and goofiness.
  • The pumpkin pasties episode, released before Halloween, features Babish dressed as a cheerleader, Bob Ross and finally a massive inflatable Barney costume, which is as inconvenient to cook in as you might imagine; he concludes the episode by cutting the costume open from within using a knife, and does his final taste-test shirtless and sweaty, dressed in the remains of said costume. Jess also shows up dressed as Harry Potter, and kisses Babish while he's dressed as Bob Ross, leading Sawyer to comment, "And a new fanfiction was born."
• The Basics episode on less-unhealthy pizza features fellow foodtuber Ethan Chlebowski. While making one consisting of mainly fresh ingredients added after the oven, Ethan comments that pickled onions would have been great on it. Andrew absently asks who forgot to make pickled onions, instantly prompting a defensive "I'm sorry!" from off camera.
• One of the steps in making suped-up grits (the basic version of which was famously seen in My Cousin Vinny) is to bring milk to a boil. As anyone who's ever boiled milk could predict, it boils over and spills everywhere the instant Andrew looks away for two seconds, forcing him to clean scorched milk off of his burner before he can keep cooking. The exact same thing happens again in the next recipe, only this time he's tired of playing the milk's game and just leaves the milk there until the grits are set up to boil.
• In his "Dalgona" episode, just the sheer amount of failed attempts to make one (him getting more frustrated with each attempt), let alone get the shape out of the cookie using the method seen on the show once he makes some decent ones. He eventually just gives up and makes Dalgona coffee instead, using the remains of his failed attempts at Dalgona cookies to make it.
  Babish: Guess I'll just resign myself to the fact that I would never survive Squid Game and make some Dalgona coffee instead.
• The episode on Schweddy Balls. The *ahem* specific way Andrew plates his balls.
• Alvin starts the Anime episode on roast beef with this beautiful gem.
  Alvin: This is a potato.
• Pretty much the entirety of the everything bagel episode. Not only does Andrew buy literally every spice from the grocery store (which cost him almost $900) to put on his giant bagel, but the episode gets about as weird and wacky as the film the bagel came from.
• When it comes time to make the titular tater tots in the "Tater Tots" episode, Babish proceeds to make them puck-shaped, as in the show... but then proceeds to crowbar in a mini-Napoleon Dynamite segment^note complete with an intro with the subtitle "Tots, Specifically from Napoleon Dynamite" in order to justify making cylindrical tots.
• Babish’s cover of “Pure Imagination” from the Wonka episode to avoid copyright.
• The nipples of Venus episode featuring Max Miller sees both of them in fine form with boob jokes galore.
  Babish: You want bigger nipples or smaller nipples?
  Max: Bigger nipples. [Beat] Like... dinner plates. [Babish cracks up]

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