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  • - Hey, man.

  • - (friend) Whassup, brotha? - (man) [Inaudible].

  • - (friend speaks inaudibly). - (man) Oh.

  • Hey, is there's something coming--

  • - Look at their teeth. What's with the teeth?

  • - (man) 'Cause something came in the mail today.

  • - Yeah, what came in the mail?

  • - (man) Deez nuts. (both laugh)

  • - (man) Got 'im!

  • Deez nuts. (cracking up)

  • - His nuts? Is that what he said?

  • - Hah. - (man) Got 'im! (laughing)

  • - Okey doke.

  • - Well, that was sort of weird.

  • - (Mary Jane) Wait! - Wait, Spider-Man.

  • - (Mary Jane) Who are you? - (Spider-Man) Deez nuts.

  • That's-- (snickers)-- That's so stupid!

  • - Spider-Man is also quoting "these nuts" now? Okay.

  • - This is like an audio meme.

  • - (Mills) Oh, what's in the box?! - (Somerset) Not until you give me--

  • - (Mills) What's in the [bleep] box?! - Oh no! (laughs)

  • - (Mills) What's in the [bleep] box?!

  • - (man) Deez nuts. (cracking up) - (chuckles)

  • What are "deez nuts"?

  • - I'm trying to figure out where this is going.

  • - ♪ Will your mouth still remember the taste of... ♪

  • - (man) Deez nuts! (cracking up) - (laughing along)

  • - (man) Got 'im!

  • - ♪ Will your mouth still remember the taste of... ♪

  • - (man) Deez nuts. (cracking up) - Okay, it's getting funnier.

  • - (snorts) Oh, that was pretty good.

  • - (Taylor Swift) ♪ Saw you there and I thought ♪

  • ♪ Oh my god, look at... ♪

  • - (man) Deez nuts. (cracking up) - (snickers)

  • - Why'd they just put Taylor in that [bleep]?

  • Why-- Why would they put her in that?

  • - Doesn't take much to get people to laugh, does it?

  • - (Aladdin) ♪ I can show you... ♪

  • - (man) Deez nuts! - (cracking up)

  • Ah, I didn't think that was coming.

  • - We're so amused by that, aren't we?

  • - I'm afraid to tell you I'm totally confused.

  • - (Drew Carey) George, let's start the show with a bang.

  • What've we got for her? - These nuts?

  • - (man) Deez nuts! - (laughing)

  • - (Drew Carey) What've we got for her?

  • - (George) Lori, how about-- - (man) Deez nuts.

  • - (Steve Harvey) Name something you put in your mouth,

  • but don't swallow. - "Deez nuts."

  • - (Steve Harvey) Name something you put in your mouth,

  • but don't swallow.

  • - (man) Deez nuts.(laughs)

  • Okay, I got that. (laughing)

  • - ♪ A is for Abby! ♪

  • - ♪ B is for Bert ♪

  • - ♪ C is for Cookie Monster! ♪

  • - ♪ D is for...♪ - (man) Deez--

  • - Don't make Cookie Monster say that [bleep].

  • - (man) Got 'im! - Oh my gosh.

  • They're even hitting the kids shows.

  • The Muppets aren't even safe!

  • - That was different, I have to say.

  • - That's a copy from Snoop Dogg's album.

  • - Dumb but funny.

  • - (laughing) What's so funny about deez nuts?

  • Am I supposed to know what they are?

  • - (Finebros) Okay, so what did we just show you?

  • - These nuts. (laughs)

  • - It's a very interesting meshing of videos with these nuts!

  • - Several people's interpretation of...

  • this one, I guess, product?

  • But I don't know what the connection is.

  • - (Finebros) So what exactly does he mean by "deez nuts"?

  • - Balls?

  • - He's talking about his privates.

  • - He referring to his own nuts, his balls.

  • - I'd say nutty people.

  • - They were all a little nuts in the head.

  • - I-I-I don't know.

  • (laughing) I'm missing it for some reason!

  • Maybe I'm too old.

  • - (Finebros) Is there another potential meaning

  • for the word "nuts"? - Come on, you guys!

  • - I wasn't thinking perversely.

  • - Okay. (laughs)

  • You don't mean nuts like you eat.

  • His balls!

  • - (Finebros) What did you think of the guy?

  • - He had too much teeth.

  • - He had big buck teeth!

  • - The guy with the deez nuts?

  • Not much.

  • - Oh, I felt kind of bad for him.

  • You know, he looked like he kinda mighta had a disability.

  • - I thought he was hysterical.

  • I love that he was so amused. That just cracked me up.

  • - (Finebros) Did you like watching these? - Yeah.

  • - Yes, I did.

  • - (chuckles) I liked these videos.

  • - The one with Steve Harvey was good,

  • and the rest of them were just stupid.

  • - A couple. Not all of them.

  • It depended on how it was intercut.

  • - Well, the way they'd been combined is very creative

  • and I think it's hilarious.

  • - I admit, they were funny.

  • But so stupid! God, you know--

  • I'm too old for this kind of stupid.

  • - You know, you keep doing this to me. (laughs)

  • I think they're the strangest things I ever saw.

  • - (Finebros) So this has become this huge trend

  • and even younger kids

  • have been making these and watching these.

  • Do you think this is appropriate for younger people

  • to be watching? - No.

  • - Not really.

  • - Do I think it's appropriate? Nooooo.

  • (giggles) But would anybody care what I think at this point?

  • Noooo.

  • - That's fine.

  • - It seems kind of harmless.

  • - Considering what all is available to them,

  • it may be one of the least worrisome problems that we have.

  • - (Finebros) There's also something odd about this trend

  • that had something to do with politics this year.

  • Do you have any idea what it could be? - No, none.

  • - No, I don't.

  • - It probably has something to do with Trump.

  • It sounds stupid like Trump.

  • - (Finebros) So what happened was somebody officially filed

  • paperwork with the FEC

  • to run as an independent presidential candidate

  • as "Deez Nuts." - (laughs)

  • - Deez Nuts? Really?

  • - (laughing) I think that's funny.

  • - (Finebros) And, at one point,

  • it was polling as high as 8-9%

  • in Iowa, Minnesota, and North Carolina. - Oh wow!

  • - Yay! (laughs) Great.

  • - The nuts are voting for Deez Nuts.

  • - (Finebros) Why do you think people would joke vote

  • for Deez Nuts? - Well, simply because

  • it's probably just as effective as voting for anybody else.

  • - They think that all the candidates are such worthless nuts that,

  • "Why not Deez Nuts?"

  • - (Finebros) Back to these videos, this is one of many

  • short form video trends, like ones we've shown

  • on the show before, where people remix original footage

  • to create their own versions.

  • Could you ever have imagined this

  • becoming something people like to watch?

  • - No, I couldn't.

  • - Not at all.

  • - I can understand that

  • because you get a wide spectrum of creativity.

  • - Most people seem to follow fads, and if it's a fad, yeah, people will follow.

  • - Sure, look at commercials.

  • Do you remember "Where is the beef?"

  • Everybody went around saying, "Where is the beef?

  • Where is the beef?" Yeah, that's the same thing.

  • - Remember how much fun we had with mad libs

  • because it was so stupid and you could put

  • all that dirty stuff in there?

  • There's been something-- just to be goofy

  • for the sake of being completely goofy

  • and having a really good laugh-- forever!

  • - (Finebros) So finally, do you yourself consider

  • this to be entertaining? - Yes, I do.

  • - Yes. It made me laugh like crazy.

  • - Sure! I'm laughing my ass off.

  • - (hesitantly) No.

  • - I guess so. Yeah.

  • - It does not entertain me enough.

  • - Well, not so much deez nuts,

  • but what people chose to do with it--