Web Video / Smosh Pit

Smosh Pit is an offshoot of Smosh. It's like their second channel, but... different? An outgrowth of the Smosh Squad, Ian, along with Shayne Topp, Damien Haas, Olivia Sui, Courtney Miller, Noah Grossman and Keith Leak act out themed theatre, try to make each other laugh, eat strange items, and everything else.

Shows include:

• Try Not To Laugh: Where the team tries to make each other laugh
• Eat It Or Yeet It!: Something gets served, and everyone has to decide whether they'll eat it or pass, and if they do eat it, try not to barf. Who will get The Big Bite?
• Smosh Theatre: The crew act out scenes based on a common theme
• Spelling Bee-kini Wax: Players must spell words, but if you spell the word wrong, you don't lose the competition, you lose hair down there!
• Beopardy!: A quiz show definitely not based on Jeopardy!
• Stan vs The Internet: Fans of a particular show or sport compete against the Internet (in the form of someone Googling stuff on a laptop)
• 2 Truths 1 Lie: Two players take turns telling each other two truthful statements about their life and one lie, and the other must guess which is the lie. If they guess wrong they get sprayed with water, but if they guess right, they spray the other player with water.
• Who Memed It: Plays have to guess who created a meme about the channel or the goings-on behind the camera.

Smosh Pit includes examples of:

• The Artifact: The Big Bite in episodes with the wheel instead of a bell, where no one is safe and no one is out (normally, anyone who rings the bell before is out for the rest of the round). It's still either the best or worst item, but now anyone can get it even if they've eaten already.
• Ascended Meme: Who Memed It?, in which memes created by the cast and crew or by fans are shown to players and they have to guess who made it. Topics usually involve behind-the-scenes in-jokes.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Garrett in "Eat it or Yeet it." He deliberately comes up with weird combinations, which are sometimes good, usually terrible.
• Eat That: Players in "Eat it or Yeet it" are presented an item and must decide if they'll try it based on looks in the five second countdown.
• Epic Fail:
  • In the first episode of Spelling Bee-kini Wax, Shayne as Sentencer (person who uses the word in a sentence) says "In seventh grade, I didn't have any, and that's why I'm still a virgin!" for the word "Rhythm."
    Damien: The sentence didn't have the word rhythm in it!
  • During an episode of 2 Truths & 1 Lie against his ex-girlfriend, Ian briefly forgets the rules of the game and accidentally sprays Pam when she says that he lied about having cheated on her. The video has to be cut so Ian can clarify that he didn't cheat on her as she prepares to burst into tears and Damien, Courtney, and Shayne freak out.
  • In a Christmas episode of Spelling Bee-kini Wax, Ian gets "Mistletoe." He spells it correctly, but specifically puts a space between "mistle" and "toe" so the judges call it as wrong and he gets waxed.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin:
  • Try Not to Laugh, where everyone tries not to laugh.
  • "Burger but Cold": A hamburger, but cold.
    Courtney: Ingredients are as follows! Burger! Freezer!
• Freak Out: When Angela finds out she ate Fried Cat Food.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • In the "Potluck" episode of Eat It or Yeet it! (featuring the wheel instead of a bell, so no one out and no one is safe), Tommy creates "Turkey, but Cold," a disgusting blended turkey frozen into a cube with a bone stuck in it. The wheel lands on Tommy (everyone else avoided making overly disgusting dishes for this very reason).
  • Happens three times to Shayne in the "All Juice" episode of Eat It or Yeet It! (where everything is a drink). The first is the episode itself, as it was based on his Running Gag "Daddy's Juice!", the second was ringing the bell for a green drink, then getting cold feet and offering to trade it with Noah in exchange for the Big Bite, only for the green drink to be the best item, being a mix of green health smoothies from various restaurants around LA, and the Big Bite (which was the worst item) was "Pizza Juice" based on his "You're my favourite pizza place!" Running Gag.
• I Ate WHAT?!: The premise of "Eat it or Yeet it!", where contestants find out what they ate after eating it. Also the concept for "Culinary Crimes", where they figure out what ingredients were substituted in a recipe found online.
• Iconic Outfit: Olivia started wearing a purple and pink windbreaker jacket and pants set, originally a costume for Try Not to Laugh, in almost every video.
• Lightswitch Surprise: In Try Not to Laugh #67, for Courtney's turn in the seat, Shane turns off the lights and stands next to her as Courtney FREAKING Miller when the lights turn on, then turns the lights off again and is gone when they turn on again. Jackie does it to Shayne, saying "I have been with a white man before."
• Loony Fan: One Smosh Theatre had everyone draw lines from a hat that were creepy messages from fans.
• Mad Libs Catch Phrase: Shayne's recurring character in Try Not to Laugh (referred to as "Dumpster Wizard" in an interview, but was also named Skimpy Jiggles, Jr., in a Smosh Games play of Red Dead Redemption 2), who says "So, weary traveler. Looking to enter..." This varies from "The Cave of Terror," Dave & Buster's, Abercrombie & Fitch, Starbucks, Metallica tribute concert ("Looking to Enter Sandman, eh?").
• No-Sell:
  • Ian getting waxed in "Spelling Bee-kini Wax''. He doesn't notice it.
    Rachel the waxer: Dude, what are you into?
  • Shayne and malic acid (the "sour" part of sour candy). He's immune to it.
• Painful Body Waxing: "Spelling Bee-kini Wax", where contestants get a bikini wax if they spell a word wrong.
• Revenge: One episode of "Eat it or Yeet it!" has Garrett as a contestant, with the wheel rigged to make it more likely to land on him (he has multiple large slices while everyone else a single small slice). Everyone makes an item based on the worst thing they had to eat.
• Shout-Out:
  • One episode of "Eat it or Yeet It!" had everything coloured green. So of course the first item was Green Eggs and Ham.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Producers Matt Raub and Sarah Whittle.
• Special Guest: This channel has featured various celebs and other YouTubers on the channel. Perhaps most common are Damien and Shayne’s old castmates from So Random!!
• Spelling Bee: Spelling Bee-kini Wax, where wrong words are punished by a bikini wax.
• Spit Take: "Try Not to Laugh" has one person hold water in their mouth to make it harder to not laugh and obvious if they do laugh. Temporarily changed to harmonicas during the COVID-19 Pandemic, but eventually reverted back to water.
• Tastes Better Than It Looks: Some of the items in "Eat it or Yeet it!" The Big Bite will sometimes be the best item.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Shayne gets one after finding out he ate fried bull penis.
• Very Special Episode: Try Not to Laugh #69 is a farewell episode to/roast of Sarah Whittle, who was moving back North Dakota.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: If someone feels nauseous in Eat It or Yeet It!, they're given a bucket to throw up, hence the "yeet it" part.

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