Awesome / Hot Ones

• Tommy Chong makes it through all ten wings without even breaking a sweat.
• Russell Brand's song for Brett Baker.
• Coolio's legendary and absolutely insane display of machismo when he reaches the final wing. He takes the bottle of Blair's Mega-Death Sauce and, instead of just dabbing, DOUSES THE ENTIRE FUCKING WING AND PROCEEDS TO CLEAN THE WHOLE THING. This despite the desperate pleas of Sean to stop and think of what he's doing. It very quickly bites him in the ass and he later winds up passed out in the studio's green room for about an hour afterwards, but the simple fact he was willing to do it at all can't be overlooked.
• Similarly, Eddie Huang decides to cut the bullshit and goes straight for the final wing, intending to go in reverse. Sean tells him it's a bad idea and doesn't make the game any easier, but Eddie goes for it anyway. He ultimately regrets it, faring no better with the second-hottest wing and necessitating some time in the bathroom (where he makes the very poor decision of touching his dick). It's such a gutsy move that even though he does technically fail the challenge, he still manages to officially stay out of the Hot Ones Hall of Shame.
  • He then later returned to the show to finish the job.
• Rachael Ray eats the sauces straight, from a teaspoon, rather than on a wing.
• Guy Fieri has a big one in the stinger for his episode as he's leaving.
  Guy: By the way, for the record? No water, no milk.
  Sean: (does a double take at the glasses) WHOAH!
  • John Boyega also managed to recently clear the board while not touching the milk or water.
  • Add Zoë Kravitz to the No Sips List.
  • Halle Berry as well.
  • On the eve of Survivor Series 2020 and his WWE farewell, The Undertaker ran the gauntlet without touching the milk as well, no-selling all the sauces except for Da Bomb, and even that one only provokes a minimal reaction.
  • Kevin James joined the list in 2021; the only one to really knock him out was Da Bomb, and even then he complained more about the taste than the heat. He even said that this iteration of the Last Dab would be best on a "next day" slice of pizza, despite it being the only other sauce to get any reaction out of him (albeit a milder one than Da Bomb).
  • Henry Rollins began his episode by claiming he wasn't a "hot food person", but powered through the gauntlet without touching the milk or water, only spilling some of it when beating the table with the board he ate the wings off of near the end.
  • Not only did Paul Rudd get onto the No Sips List, he and Sean dipped their last wings in all of the sauces.
  • Lorde blazed through all of the wings without so much as breaking a sweat, able to analyze and give intricate critiques of the sauces and their flavors. Sean visibly stares in amazement at her complete lack of reaction to Da Bomb, and she ends up putting a hearty Last Dab on the final wing (and in The Stinger, she's happily enjoying the leftovers).
  • Jimmy Kimmel challenged himself to get through the entire list without drinking milk and water. And he succeeded by persevering through Da Bomb, Hellfire and The Last Dab Apollo sauces, as well as capping off the entire experience with a harmonica solo.
    Jimmy: I like that you ignore the fact that you're killing your guests.
  • A new record is broken with five people at once going through all ten wings without water or milk, and who better to do so than a reunited *NSYNC?
• Dax Shepard works his way through each wing like an absolute champ and by the time he gets to Blairs he does a noticeably larger dab than Sean and still doesn't break a sweat. So he requests another one and not only does he coat a full half of the wing with Megadeath, he cleans the whole thing and even licks his fingers of any sauce left over. Sean is very nearly rendered completely speechless after witnessing it.
  Sean: I shouldn't even be in the room. I don't have enough hair on my chest to be here.
• Logic managing to beat a Rubik's Cube and answer all three of Sean's Jurassic Park trivia questions while his mouth is burning on The Last Dab.
• Chrissy Teigen putting extra sauce on some of the wings and licking them.
• The fact that after years and years of asking, Sean managed to convince Gordon Ramsay to come onto the show. Much swearing and cooking ensued.
  • And then Ramsay came back, and throws out the show's own wings, and produces his own custom-made wings, with portions for each of them, and then brings out cocktails. And proceeds to douse his wings with the sauce. And then brings out a compressed air pump to spray milk into his and Sean's mouths.
    Gordon Ramsay: If we're going to celebrate the return to this incredible competition yet again, trust me: I want to eat some fucking chicken.
• Trevor Noah gave a full Rousing Speech about, of all things, how taking a shit is a humbling experience that reminds everyone from the richest CEO to the most powerful politician that they are no different from anyone else on the planet. And he did it all while under the effect of The Last Dab sauce.
• Chili Klaus' appearance on Hot Ones proper (versus one of the remote segments Sean filmed with him) had him and Sean eating chicken wings coated not in hot sauces, but rather spreads made of fresh peppers supplied by the infamous Smokin' Ed Currie of Puckerbutt. They even abandon their milk and water beforehand, which both immediately regret.
• The entirety of Alton Brown's appearance on the show is this as he proves remarkably resilient to most of the sauces on the table. Even when he concedes things are starting to get hot he remains one of the few guests on Hot Ones to really keep his cool. Despite this, the interview remains extremely candid with him not only getting to throw a few questions Sean's way, but he also reviews each of the sauces on the table going so far as to take a swig of one of the show's in-house sauces straight out of the bottle before breaking it down and having nothing but praise for it. He even plays around with some ideas of how one could make a good version of the Mad Dog 357 which he at least considers better than Da Bomb.
• Neil deGrasse Tyson deserves special mention. Analysing rap lyrics, talking about science, and geniunely liking Mad Dog 357 hot sauce. Not to mention smacking a wing with Da Bomb, and expaining insignificance of human race compared to cosmos upon finishing the Mega Death sauce.
  Neil: I took two bites, bitch!
• Anthony Mackie cleans off the Da Bomb wing, and while the pain initially knocks him out, he recovers quickly with the aid of, of all things, corn chips. (Which he notes he was using mainly because he didn't have bread on hand so he went for the closest thing he had.)
  Sean: (After Anthony explains the corn chips.) That's a new one to me. How does it work out?
  Anthony: (Washes them down with some water and takes a deep breath before smiling at the camera.) Whew, corn chips dawg. (Sean laughs) Corn chips dawg! I'm back!
• When Steve-O returns to close out season 14, he ends his episode by demonstrating the potency of his own Hot Sauce for Your Butthole by both chugging half the bottle and - in deliberate defiance of Sean's most frequent advice - dumping sauce in his eye. This, after an episode of barely breaking a sweat, showed he was still capable of his Jackass-era stunts (although it doesn't take long for him to realize how unnecessary the gesture was).
• While Lil Yachty only made it through eight wings, it's still a CMOA because, due to his very specific tastes in food, he had never eaten hot sauce in his life before coming onto the show. A commenter likened it to "learning to swim at Niagara Falls". And he still managed to make it through eight wings!
• Millie Bobby Brown gave the impression that she created her own narrative arc, deliberately Adam Westing as a slightly more haughty and waspish version of herself, so that when she finally sampled Da Bomb and fell to pieces (coughing, sweating, sucking down milkshake, flipping Sean the bird and dropping the odd Precision F-Strike) it was all the more dramatically satisfying.
  Millie: It's on my gums. My hair is falling out. ... Why did you do this to me? I'm only eighteen.
• Conan O'Brien. Good Lord, Conan O'Brien. Conan started the episode by joking that as an Irish guy, he hadn't tasted spice until his 50s. He then proceeds to taunt the show for how unspicy the wings are. Commiting to the bit, Conan repeated Coolio's stunt of drenching the wings in sauce, but did it with the last four wings instead of just the final sauce. Including the Da Bomb. And took shots of hot sauce straight from the bottle with some of them, including The Last Dab. And unlike almost everyone else with a similar level of bravado (and while he starts turning red and manic towards the end), he doesn't slow down at all. Sean was in utter awe.

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