Awesome / Hot Pepper Gaming

• Generally speaking, anytime someone in the show eats a blazing hot pepper and remains calm afterwards qualify as a bonafide badass.
• Ninja Brian, renowed for his absolute stoicism, eating a pepper then proceeding to stare at the camera for almost 4 minutes. At the Ninja Sex Party & Steam Train panel, they all confirmed that, not only was the pepper real, but Ninja Brian actually stared at the camera for almost four minutes.
  • The pepper looks most likely like it was a Thai Pepper, which can be anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 Scoville units. While not nearly as hot as many of the other peppers on the show (even the habanero that Egoraptor ate in his first review was hotter than that!), it's still impressive that he managed to stay completely still and not make any noise. Andrew W.K. takes the cake, however, for eating a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (which can be as hot as 2 million scovilles and is, as of this writing, the hottest known naturally-occurring pepper on earth) and reacting almost as stoically as Ninja Brian did.
• Similarly, Sohinki from Smosh Games appears and eats a habanero dipped in "Saddam Insane" hot sauce. He proceeds to competently review South Park: The Stick of Truth while barely missing a beat. No swearing, no invocations of deities, only one or two pauses for hot-sauce burps, and his voice seems completely unaffected. He even has the composure to pitch Smosh Games, Hot Pepper Gaming and his own channel before taking more than a bite or two of bread. He doesn't even drink the beer he's offered on camera. For comparison, fellow Smosh Games cast member Jovenshire consumes a similar mixture of peppers and hot sauce and is reduced to high-pitched squeaks and terrified sobbing within seconds.
• Series co-creator Erin Schmalfield has done not one, not two, but five hot pepper reviews.
• Austin Creed did three consecutive Hot Pepper reviews, one right after another after another, eating a new pepper every time he reviewed a new game.

---