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Season One
DJ Khaled
- Khaled's such a weaksauce that he can barely handle Texas Pete's.
Season Two
Key & Peele
- By the time Key and Peele make it to the Mad Dog sauce, they're seriously struggling to stay coherent, not helped by Sean asking a surprisingly in-depth question about "Camp Awesome"note that throws them off guard.Key: Even we can't remember that, but that is correct Sean! Sean, I'm having a stroke!
- The ending is really the cherry on top. Key looks and sounds like he might've actually had a stroke. To say that they look miserable is an understatement.Sean: Floor is yours! Tell the people what they should see.Key: If you're watching this show...don't ever come on the show!Peele: Don't come on it. Don't get into the film industry...cause you might end up on this show. Don't order the wings... Just keep your feet planted on the ground.Key: Keep reaching for the stars.
Bobby Lee
- Bobby has a legitimate Potty Failure while on the last wing after apologizing for yelling.Bobby: I'm so sorry, I'm really a nice guy, and I don't mean- I'm not threatening anybody, I'm not- (burp) Uuuuuuuuugggh.Sean: Did something just happen?Bobby: Yeah, hold on hold hold on hold on hold on. Ugh.(Bobby grabs the back of his pants, and Sean looks shocked)Sean: No!Bobby: Oh, did you hear it!? Haha. Oh sh-Sean: This is not happening.Bobby: Yeah it did.Sean: No it didn't.Bobby: It's fine.Bobby: I also don't ever wanna do this again.
- Two words: flying dildos. That is all.
- The first thing Eric does after conquering the final wing? Pick up his plate and smash that motherfucker against his head. Oh you thought being off his show would make him less crazy? No.Eric: (mouth full of wing) GET SOME BABAAAAAAY!
- A plate? HE SLAMS A PITCHER AND A CUP, much to Sean (and his crew)'s shock.
- While singing Chocolate Rain but forgetting anything beyond the opening lyrics. He only does that because somehow he mixed up Tay Zonday and Tina Fey.
- In a later episode Sean says that they knew Eric was gonna break shit, they just didn't know what. He in fact broke even more stuff that didn't make the final cut of the episode and by the time it was over the set was, as you might expect from Eric, a huge mess of broken stunt glass.
- While enduring the pain of the wings, Eric randomly shouts "Jeremy SPOKE IN!!!".
- Early on, Eric states that he'll do a shot of the Mega Death Sauce as Sean thankfully manages to convince him not to. Eric's pretty colorful in his descriptions though.
Eric: I'll do a fuckin' shot of this right now, I'll fuckin' vacuum clean that shit with my dickhole.- Eric drops the bomb that he'd been arrested during the filming of his show before and then dodges explaining by saying that he had been "legally advised not to discuss".
- At one point, Sean brings up a tweet Eric had made about three sex moves he came up with names for but didn't describe. Eric describes them, but some people probably wish he hadn't. They are the French Exit: Snowballing but with poop, the Tuxedo Surprise: just the French Exit but in a Tuxedo, and the Potato Boy: the mere act of having sex with Haley Joel Osment.
- Eric on being goaded into eating the wing with Da Bomb sauce.Eric: You're playing on my macho insecurities... (while eating the wing) and now I'm gonna regret this. I have a very small penis, and I need to prove myself.Sean: It's not small! It's not small, I've seen it about a hundred times! I think on... I think on the plus side of average.Eric: [Pointing in a sweeping motion off camera] I'm going to fucking eat out your camera operators! You hear that? ...BOYS?
- At one point Eric tries to claim he went to college in Bangkok to which Sean replies that, no, he went to Massachusetts. At this point, Eric doesn't even try to keep the lie up and almost begrudgingly remembers that Sean did his research.
- "I'll see you in Hell, Coolio"
- A plate? HE SLAMS A PITCHER AND A CUP, much to Sean (and his crew)'s shock.
Kevin Hart
- When they are on the last wing, Kevin Hart insists Sean take the first bite, as Kevin is the guest, which Sean instantly does:Kevin: Why do you got to make eye contact?!
Season Three
Keke Palmer
- "A hot sauce that plays tricks."
- Keke's attempts at pretending the spices don't bother her.
- "Blair? Fuck you, Blair."
Season Four
Cara Delevingne
- Poor Cara probably has one of the hardest times of any guest. Doesn't help that she's a guinea pig for the newly introduced Last Dab...
- Midway during the interview, the heat starts to get to Joji and he begins to say how he shouldn't touch his eyes or his dick, a Call-Back to the earlier episodes. The Madness Mantra of "Can't touch my eyes.." is repeated throughout the episode.
- Joji decides to go screw it when he and Sean reach the final Hot Wing. It goes as well as you expect.Joji: WHOA! WHOA!!!
- During the analysis of a Pink Guy song, Joji (who at this point is under the stress of the super hot wings), just lets out a tired "I don't fucking know...".
- After finishing the Hot Ones interview, Sean praises Joji for his endurance and talks about how he left the wings out on the tray to show the audience his journey....only for Joji to realize there was a trashcan right next to him.Joji: Oh there's a trash can! Oh...I'm sorry!
Season Five
Adam Rippon
- Adam arrives at Da' Bomb wing, the point where most guests stop having fun. He takes a big bite, calls Sean a sissy, and thinks nothing of it. Then it hits him.Adam: My LIPS hurt! I can't keep spitting, but I can't stop drooling!
- Charlize echoes the opinions of many guests in her negative opinion of Da Bomb, which is widely agreed to be punishingly hot but very unpleasant-tasting:Charlize: [fanning her face] I like spice, but [gesturing to the bottle] that's just, like...that's like, somebody being an asshole. Like, that's a dick move, right there. I hate my tongue right now. [...] That's just...I just want to flip that bottle off.
Season Six
Johnny Knoxville
- While on the seventh wing, Johnny asks for some "water"; more specifically, water from "the can", with the camera cutting to show them pouring beer into his mug.
Season Seven
Bill Burr
- Bill Burr is notorious for trolling interviewers when he's bored with the questions. Sean, known for giving well-researched questions, gets along with Bill pretty well for a while... until Bill tastes Da Bomb, and the Fiery Redhead comes out in full force.Bill: [takes his first sip of milk] Oh, it so gross! It's room temperature! Who does that to somebody?!?
Sean: So the foodie revolution has infiltrated-
Bill: Fuck your question. [chugs more milk]
Sean: You can do it. You can do it.
Bill: Wh-what is the upside? I already promoted the fucking cartoon.
Sean: [shakes bottle] All right, Bill! This is the Last Dab...
Bill: I don't like this! This is different!
Sean: ...because it's tradition to put a little extra on the last wing! It's a tradition around here...
Bill: You motherfucker!
Sean: You don't have to if you don't want to!
Bill: Oh yeah, I know that talk; "you don't have to, ya fuckin' pussy."
Sean: So you may be the most requested guest in Hot Ones history, and as a result-
Bill: I'd like to say fuck you to all you people for putting me on this shit.
Season Eight
Gordon Ramsay
- To hype up the fanbase for the occasion, they filmed a sketch in which Chef Ramsay gave Sean a taste of his own kitchen nightmares. Gordon applies his trademark acidity to everything from the title ("The Hot Ones? Sounds like a fucking movie from the '70s.") to the preparation of the wings ("Show me those fucking things...they're dryyyyy!") to Sean's interview style.Gordon: Who did your research? A fucking monkey with a typewriter? Are you *that* shit?! "I did a deep dive on your fucking Instagram-" What's wrong with you?! Can you grow a pair?
- Gordon came Crazy-Prepared to the interview. The things that he brought to counter the constant attacks on his taste buds included doughnuts, lemon and lime juice, and Pepto Bismol.
- One youtube commenter compared it to "all these random potions to raise his HP like he's in Skyrim and is up against a draugr deathlord."
- During the last dab, he put on the last dab...and then projectile squirted lemon and lime juice onto his wing. And then Sean asked him to do the same to his wing.
- This exchange:Gordon: Now what does this need? (the scrambled eggs they were making)Sean: Some hot sauce.Gordon: No, NO! Some fucking salt, you fucking donut! We don't need to put more fucking hot sauce in there!
- Sean's laughter as Gordon says that implies that he knew the answer but just wanted to rile Gordon up a bit more. Once the eggs are done and Sean goes to taste them, Gordon says that he better not add hot sauce to them.
- It should be noted that Gordon swore the most out of every other person they interviewed. A Youtube commenter said that he swore 179 times.
- Sean's comedic timing in this episode deserves mention, as he's rolling with Gordon's punches like a champ, but his deadpan response to Gordon's sardonic question about whether the show has ever caused somebody's death deserves a mention:Gordon: Have you ever killed anybody?Sean: ... We haven't heard from Coolio in a long time.
- They close the show by making scrambled eggs, but Gordon excuses himself first for the restroom. When he comes back, he soon announces that he didn’t think to wash his hands before he peed, and now his crotch is burning.Gordon: (Addressing someone offscreen) Why didn't you tell me to put on some gloves?!Sean: Dom that's on you!
- When Sean pitches the end-of-episode offer to "let the people know what you've got going on in your life," Gordon doesn't:Gordon: Oh, fuck off! Right now, I need to see a doctor! Fuck yourself!
- And his attitude continues in The Stinger:Gordon: I've eaten some shit in my time. Fucking breast milk macaroni and cheese. (pointing to the row of hot sauces) THIS has to be the worst I've ever eaten! Shame on you, big boy!
- Billie starts freaking out once she hits Da Bomb, doing her best to brace through the pain:Billie: I'm sorry, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can! I can! (takes a deep breath and reaches for water) ...I can't. I can. No, I really can't.
- What finally manages to get her through the heat is digging into the ice water and directly chewing on the ice cubes like chips.
- As she's explaining the story behind a photo and needs to take short breaks to relax, the video's editor gets in some amusement points by editing it like a slow Time-Passes Montage with gratuitous dissolves.
- From the story itself (where her beanie was thrown out into the crowd at Lollapalooza, jumped to save it, only to sprain her ankle), she mentions that immediately afterwards, Jaden Smith ran in and wrapped his hands around her foot saying "I'm healing you."
- Shaq constantly tells Sean that he isn't going to make faces, despite ending up making some of the most memetastic ones in the show's history throughout the interview.
- When Shaq tries out the "Da Bomb: Beyond Insanity" (alleged Scoville level 135,600), Sean mentions that it's from Kansas, to which Shaq smugly dismisses before finding out that it's actually potent and starts reaching out for his milk jug.Shaq: Kansas don't know how to do no hot wings! [Eats the chicken wing with the sauce] Kansas... [Immediate look of shock as the heat catches up to him] Oh, I apologize, Kansas.
Season Nine
Binging with Babish
- The video starts with Andrew preparing chicken wings in the style of his own channel because Sean asked him to bring his own wings:Andrew: Which is kind of like cleaning the gun used for your own execution.
- Idris hits his limit with the wings and has a... different reaction than most guests.Idris: Let me ask you a question: Whose idea was this show?Sean: So, see that guy right there? In the blue shirt?Idris: Yeah.Sean: His name's Chris.Idris: Chris, right? Can you fight, Chris?
- Aubrey starts to suffer around the eighth wing.Aubrey: Oww! [chews, narrows eyes at Sean] You dirty, dirty...man.Sean: Have you ever been punkin' chunkin'?Aubrey: No, I haven't. And I c...and I'm...fuck. [Death Glare to Sean] Fuck you. [to the camera] And fuck you. Fuck you all. This sucks.Sean: Where are you on the debate that north Delaware and south Delaware should be two different states?Aubrey: Yes. [blows nose with evident pain]Sean: Have you ever had scrapple?Aubrey: Owww.Sean: Delaware seems to be a place with a fair number of ice cream bucket destinations, whether it's Woodside Farm Creamery or that Twenty-Scoop Ice Cream Challenge at the Charcoal Pit. Which one sounds best right now?Aubrey: [chugging water and milk] Uh...the Charcoal Pit. I like Charcoal Pit. ...I like my mommy.
- Eventually, after gargling with milk in an attempt to stop the pain, Aubrey then tries snorting it up her nose. Sean tries it too. To their mutual surprise, this actually works.Sean: Oh yeah. That's the move.
- Near the end of the interview, the distant sounds of someone playing a saxophone in the same building slowly drift into the room. There's a several-second pause when Aubrey is clearly wondering whether the heat of the wings has caused her to start hallucinating:[distant sounds of saxophone playing]Aubrey: ... Is someone playing the saxophone right now? [general laughter] Cause I swear to God...
- Eventually, after gargling with milk in an attempt to stop the pain, Aubrey then tries snorting it up her nose. Sean tries it too. To their mutual surprise, this actually works.
Season 18
- Sean brings on Noah Schnapp to help her get started. Which leads to some friendly one-upmanship.Noah: Millie, by the way, was saying that she's so good at spice. I'm much better with spice.Millie: Well, they didn't invite you on the show.
- Sean compliments Millie on how well she's doing, which both scrambles her syntax but also gives her the opportunity to deliver a great Take That!:Millie: God, I thought this'd be a lot worse than I thought.Sean: Well...Millie: Do you start to feel it? Do you start to feel it soon?Sean: It does get a little crazier in the back half, but you are crushing this.Millie: Okay, good. I'm not saying I'm not feeling it, but it's not making me want to cry, like Tom Holland.
- When Millie finally samples Da Bomb, her first reaction is that her eyes widen, then she stares at Sean in shock, then she drinks some milkshake, starts coughing uncontrollably and flips Sean the bird. She even does a Call-Back:Millie: [sweating bullets, eyes watering, desperately sucking down milkshake] What did Tom Holland cry at?Sean: At this one.Millie: [fans herself with napkin]
- But she recovers enough that, even in the midst of extreme pain, she can't resist giving a Shout-Out to The Weeknd:Millie: I wanna do this! But I'm telling you, my face—my face doesn't feel like my face! [sings] I can't feel my face when I'm with you... Literally. Oh, my god.
- Sean compliments Millie on how well she's doing, which both scrambles her syntax but also gives her the opportunity to deliver a great Take That!:
- NPH gets things off to a fine start by establishing that he loves chilli in general, however:Neil: I also have a weak digestive system.Sean: Ohhh. Right, right, right, right.Neil: So I'm not worried about this part [gestures to sauces and wings on table], I'm worried about two hours from now, when I'm shitting liquid.
- Later comes this gem, as they get onto the spicier sauces:
Sean: Are you ready to move on here to the back half?Neil: ...If I had a nickel. Yes.- Later still:
Sean: This next one is the Dingo Psycho Sauce.Neil: That was my nickname in prison.
