- Oh!
- You know, it's not good.
(Darren laughing amusingly)
Ugh, you spit on mine.
- I did.
- You weren't even gonna tell me if I didn't see it?
- My God!
- Mind blown.
- For the first time in the history of "Basic to Bougie"-
- This is an unprecedented event.
- Blindfolds, napkins.
- Take one, mark.
(upbeat rhythmic music)
- Ugh!
Mmm!
- Glad to be back.
(hand smacking firmly)
I hate when you do that, just gimme the pound.
Just gimme the pound.
Big dog, what's happenin'?
- Ay, yeah?
(everyone laughing amusingly)
- I'm Darren "Big Baby" Brand!
- I'm Tim Chantarangsu.
You know what time it is.
- What time is it?
- It's time for some "Basic"-
- Uh-huh?
- "To Bougie."
- Come on, man!
- The show where we try
three different kinds of two different foods,
and see if we can determine what's the cheapest,
middlest, and most expensive.
- Because in fact, some basic food can be bougie,
and bougie food can be basic.
- That's in the Bible.
- This season has been all over the place.
- You know what?
We're takin' risks.
- I don't even know what's basic and what's bougie anymore.
- You know what?
I don't think they care anymore.
- They don't care.
At this point, it's like, "Let 'em eat it."
- Yeah, just put it out there-
- Throw it out there!
- One of these is somethin'.
- Let's do it, man.
(upbeat rhythmic music)
- Big dog!
- What's his name?
- I don't know.
Let's stick to Daquan.
Basic round.
You know what it is?
- Yeah.
- It's somethin' good?
- Um...
- You can at least say it's good or not.
- Okay.
- [Jeffery] Up to you.
- Alright, here we go.
Let's get into it.
It's a bowl, it's a bowl of something.
Ooh, is that stew?
- I'm smellin' some type of vegetable with-
- It smells stewish, right?
- It's cold though.
- It's cold...
I mean, come on now.
- Oh, I know what this is. - What is it?
- It's potato salad.
(bell ringing loudly)
Let's go.
- Ooh.
- Shout-out to my nostrils one time.
- Okay, can I just throw this out there?
- Uh-huh. (giggling gently)
- My people don't eat everybody potato salad.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
So, (laughing amusingly)
I think this is maybe the first time
we went into a little speed bump
'cause I don't eat white potato salad.
- You don't eat white potato salad?
- That's white.
- Like, you talkin' about color or-
- Both.
- Mmm.
- (laughing amusingly) I like my potato salad yellow.
- Oh, I got you.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
- With the paprika on it.
- You know,
my people just eat whoever's potato salad is at the party,
so we'll see what's happening here.
- Oh, man.
Alright, let's try it.
(both laughing amusingly)
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
- Potato salad.
You upset already?
- Bruh.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] Is this what is not-
- Hold on, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
You're not even supposed to be able to do this much
to potato salad.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
Is this a lemon?
- This isn't at the cookout?
- No!
(Tim laughing amusingly)
And plus, to be honest,
Black people do not leave potato salad out.
When you eat potato salad,
you always gotta get it out the refrigerator.
- Immediately?
- Yes!
- Okay, well...
- Don't nobody want no warm potato salad.
- First initial thoughts, how you feelin'?
- This is stupid.
- This is, you know-
- Why do they have the shrimp hangin' out the side
like a delicacy?
- 'Cause it say hello.
- No, man!
- Peek-a-boo.
- No!
Alright, let's get it out the way.
Let's do it.
- You wanna do it? Okay.
- No, no, let's do this last.
- Okay. Oh, yo, yo, yo-
- You so nasty.
- 'Cause I wanna... I'm curious.
(both laughing amusingly)
Grow up.
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
Okay, this one looks like it's your go-to situation.
- Oh okay, I thought you were about say "my people."
Absolutely not.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
Alright, let's try it. - Mm-hmm.
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
Mmm!
- [Darren "Big Baby" Brand] This is a potato salad
that's at a job.
- You said what?
- You know how you have the little potluck,
and somebody bringin' something like this?
- And it's just there?
- Yeah. - It's alright.
- It's okay. - Mm-hmm.
- It's actually the red potatoes.
- Mm-hmm.
- It's cool.
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
What's this?
- Uh...
(Tim sniffing deeply)
It smells fresh.
- What does that mean?
- It got some beets in it.
- Aw (beep).
- Mmm, pickled beets.
(Tim smacking tongue)
- Are you serious?
- Mm-hmm.
- Pickled beets potato salad?
- It don't taste like regular beets, (laughing gently)
it got a little twang to it.
- Is a beet a potato?
- No.
- What's the beet?
(Tim beatboxing playfully)
Yeah, I knew it!
I knew it.
Mm-mmm, mm-mmm.
(Tim laughing gently)
I do not like that, I do not like that.
- Let me get a bite of the potato here.
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
- It's not bad, it's just a little-
- There's a lotta pickling goin' on.
- Yeah.
- You don't expect your potato salad to be sour.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
- For all the Black people watchin' this,
I'm trying to feed my family, okay?
Let's go for the squash.
Bro, what is this?
Is that caviar on top?
- This looks like some type of maybe fish egg situation,
or maybe it's sweet, I don't know, let's see.
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
- Where do you even start?
Do you grab the shrimp?
- Okay, yeah, let's grab a shrimp.
What is the yellow on it?
(Darren munching pensively)
Mayonnaise.
Ooh!
Ooh.
Yeah, like Miracle Whip.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
I don't even know what they're doin' here, I don't get it.
Let's see what else is goin' on.
Is this fruit?
- This better not be fruit.
- It's fruit.
- Why would it be fruit with potato salad?
- And mayonnaise?
I think that's the worst part, with the shrimp,
on your fruit.
- Yeah, that's fruit.
- Mm-hmm.
- That is fruit, mayonnaise, shrimp, in potato salad!
- Wait, what's on top?
Oh yeah, a little fish egg situation.
Wait, wait, what's this?
What's this... The white?
Hmm, cheese.
- Cheese?
You gon' break out.
- (laughing gently) I already did.
I feel it, I feel it bubblin'.
- Alright, hold on, I'ma go shrimp, cheese, fruit.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] Oh, you're brave right Now.
- Alright, here we go.
- You know, it's not good.
- It's not.
- It's not a good combo.
- It's not.
- We're missin' the melon.
- Oh!
- It's squash.
(squash crunching crisply)
I don't think you're supposed to bite that.
- You ate the rind?
- Mm-hmm.
- You're gonna die one day.
I know your stomach is like, "Bitch, what the (beep)?"
- Or, I'ma live forever.
- Nah, not possible.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
Let's rate it, man.
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
This has got to be most expensive, off the reel.
- You think so?
- Yup.
(breaks squealing abruptly)
(both laughing amusingly)
- I know I've made some shaky decisions this season,
so I'ma let you take the reins.
- No, I'm just sayin', the way you said it,
like you even said it like,
"Yeah, I know I be messin' up."
(Tim laughing amusingly)
- It's like, "You sure about that?"
- I think this is the cheapest.
- Okay.
- I think pickle beets are more expensive.
- Probably, yeah.
- Cheapest, the red potato salad.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] Uh-huh.
- Middlest, pickle beets potato salad.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] Mm-hmm.
- Most expensive, caviar, shrimp, cheese balls, fruit,
potato salad on squash.
- Yeah, we'll do it.
But I don't trust y'all, man.
I don't trust 'em.
- And it's too big not to be the most expensive.
- Do it.
- Jeffrey!
'Cause of caviar?
- For sure.
- Do you wanna read it?
- Yeah.
(paper shuffling gently) (quiet tense music)
- (exhaling loudly) I'm nervous.
- You didn't even pick.
- I'm nervous for you.
- Nah, don't be.
(Tim laughing gently)
- Okay.
"Cheapest, traditional potato salad, $5.
Generously packed with mayo,
picked up at a local grocery store."
- Bow!
- [Tim Chantarangsu] Middlest...
(Tim inhaling loudly)
- Shut the... Shut up.
Ain't no way.
It's a dramatic pause?
There is no way.
- "Beets potato salad"-
- Bow!
- [Tim Chantarangsu] "$7."
- Do you see what happen when you don't listen to Tim?
Give me some!
- Hey, you know? - Bow!
(Darren imitating breaks squealing)
Back to you.
Whoo! - You know what?
I just, I grew up not trustin' people.
(slow rhythmic music)
- Why do you always have a deliver when you get it wrong?
Sometimes, you're just wrong.
- Just things have happened to me in my past
that makes me not trust everybody, you know what I'm sayin'?
- Like yourself?
- Huh?
- 'Cause you picked too bitch.
- I love you.
(Darren laughing amusingly)
"This Eastern European dish is pink and deep red in color,
with a mix of beets, potatoes, pickled carrots, and dill."
- Ay, we do know potato salad, it's a cookout item.
- This is true, that's why I trusted you on this.
- Yeah, come on, yeah.
- "Most expensive, Hong Kong potato salad."
- You didn't even know?
- No.
Wow, wow, Darren.
- Stop tryin' to go so specific.
- We're not all Chinese, Darren, jeez!
- I'm not Caribbean, African, or everything,
but I accept them all as my people, do I not?
- Yeah.
- Okay then.
- Uh, I don't.
(everyone laughing amusingly)
So... (Tim laughing gently)
"Hong Kong potato salad, $15.
Potatoes, shrimp, exotic melon, quail eggs"...
Quail eggs? - Quail eggs!
Those (beep) outside of New York, flyin' around?
- Those are pigeons.
- Some of them is quails.
- I thought it was cheese.
- No, not that.
Is the quail eggs the green (beep)?
- No, it was what we thought was cheese.
- Wait a minute.
(tape stopping abruptly)
What we thought was cheese?
'Cause you bit it, it was like, "Oh, cheese."
- Roll the tape, watch this, he said cheese too.
(tape rewinding rapidly)
- Hmm, cheese.
- Cheese?
(Tim laughing amusingly)
- "In a Japanese mayonnaise sauce."
We did it!
We did it, dawg!
- Get off of me, man.
- We did it! - Get off of me.
I did it.
- We did it.
- Thank you.
Bougie round, bitch.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
(elegant string music)
♪ Bougie round ♪
(both humming "Turn Around" by Bonnie Tyler)
♪ I get a little bit bougie ♪
(both humming "Turn Around" by Bonnie Tyler)
♪ Bougie round ♪
- Boy, ay man, it's in us.
We're gonna be the first Asian-Afro hiphop group.
I'm ready.
Oh (beep), the blindfolds.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Okay.
Bougie round.
Let's do it.
- I'm ready.
- Would you eat quail eggs?
Somethin' about that don't even sound right.
- Yeah, quail eggs are usually really good.
When it's not in mayonnaise-fruit potato salad,
quail eggs are alright. (laughing gently)
- Alright, let's do it.
Ooh, that smells good.
- It smells like-
- What is that?
- Hmm.
Definitely some type of meat.
Or maybe, it's vegan.
- Oh God, no.
- What does it smell like?
- Is this meat?
- I know what this is.
- Wait a minute.
(gentle pensive music)
- Hmm.
Oh no, this is some vegan (beep),
it's breaking apart like vegan (beep).
- It's vegan?
- Take a look at it now, you can take your blindfolds off.
- Is this shark bait too?
- Is this just chicken?
- There's no way it's something that simple.
- It's an animal.
- It's an animal?
- Is this crocodile?
- Close.
- Alligator.
(bell dinging loudly)
- [Tim And Darren] Ooh!
- Run it, Cajun style, bitch.
- Let's get it.
- Let's do it!
Louisiana's finest.
- You had it before?
- Oh, I love gator.
- Me too!
- I love gator.
Only if it's...
- What?
- You know where we at, so there's no tellin' how this-
- This is true.
- We get excited, "Oh, I love gator!"
And it's like gator, pineapple-
- Gator, pineapple, mayonnaise-
- Quail eggs over soup.
- Whipped cream.
- Yeah, like... Yeah, I'm not gettin' excited.
Let's do it.
(elegant string music returns)
I'm excited about this.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] I'm so hyped.
- Do you know what gators look like
when they're in the water,
and you know how the head's up top,
you know they're not flat, right?
- What are they doin'?
- You know they're under the water like this.
- Like that? (laughing amusingly)
- For real. - For real?
- Hmm.
I always thought they were under, and they're like this.
(rapid flapping noises)
Like they were treading with their little hands.
- Do you really think they could tread with hands like that?
- I can.
- No, boy.
Alright.
I'm excited about gator.
- Hot wings.
- I smell the Buffalo sauce.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, let's get it. - Let's get it.
- Where do you wanna go first?
- Let's get these out the way.
- Little... What is it?
A gator croquette situation?
- Yeah.
(elegant string music returns)
(table thudding loudly)
- Mm-hmm, mmm, mmm!
- What is it?
- It's delicious. Oh!
- No, it's a "for sure, you right on!"
- Oh my God, wow!
(Darren speaking gibberish)
- This is good.
- This is delicious.
- [Darren "Big Baby" Brand] I'm talkin' about
it's the seasoning, the sauce-
- It got a little bit of spice in there.
This is great.
- Gator's good.
- I'm gonna have to save this for later, alligator.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
(tape slowing awkwardly)
- Tim, that one got the sauce.
(Tim crunching strategically)
(deep tense tones)
Am I trippin'?
Now, he finds a way...
I swear.
(both laughing amusingly)
Nah, we're not doin' that.
(elegant string music returns)
- These the wings?
- Yeah, yeah.
What part of the gator...
This must be a tiny-ass gator.
- Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
- Hmm?
- Gators don't have wings.
- Yes, they do, that's what they swim under the water with.
- No, they got hands.
- Yeah, what is this?
What kina tiny-ass hands?
- How you get a gator wing?
- Ooh, it's a baby gator?
(sad string music)
Oh no.
(Darren laughing amusingly)
Ew, you spit on mine.
- I did, you gon'...
(both laughing amusingly)
- "I did."
You weren't even gonna tell me if I didn't see it?
- We're bros.
You were gonna sit here
and act like outta all the things we've eaten,
you gonna be upset about a baby.
"Ooh, a baby gator."
- (laughing amusingly) This is the baby.
- We've literally aten kids.
(breaks squealing abruptly)
- What? (laughing confusingly)
- Like, caviar eggs.
- Man, (beep) the fish.
(Darren laughing amusingly)
This a gator. (laughing amusingly)
- Gator's are terrorizing Florida right now.
- Yeah, you're right.
- They're on the golf course.
- They are overpopulated, huh?
- Come on now!
- Okay, fine. (growling hungrily)
Mmm!
That's delicious!
- That's somethin' else!
- Oh my God. (laughing happily)
(easy-going feel-good music)
Call it again.
- For sure, you right on!
- Times two! (air horn blaring)
I think I like this better than chicken wings.
Wow.
- Oh, I taste the lake and the rivers.
(Tim laughing amusingly)
- It taste different than chicken for sure.
- Yeah.
- Well, that's delicious.
- It's good though.
- Mm-hmm.
- Are these gator ribs?
- Ribs. (giggling gently)
♪ Ribs ♪
♪ Ooh, ribs ♪
(elegant string music returns)
- Ooh, it's falling off the bone.
Are these actually the gator's ribs?
Do gator got...
Gators, I'm sure they got ribs.
- Aw, the medium-sized gator.
(sad string music)
(everyone laughing amusingly)
Aw.
- Oh, wow.
Tim.
- Mm-hmm?
- For the first time in the history of "Basic to Bougie"-
- Oh my god.
- It's a "for sure, you right on"
(both imitating air horns blaring)
across the board!
- Wow! (laughing blissfully)
- Is this not a "for sure, you right on"?
- I 100% agree.
- Oh my God.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] It looks like fish bones-
- [Darren "Big Baby" Brand] I don't know.
- But, it tastes like ribs.
- This is bussin'.
- Mm-hmm.
- Bussin'! (horn blowing loudly)
- I don't care if we get it right or wrong.
- Bussin'-
- I just wanna finish this.
- Smackin'.
- Let's rate, Tim.
- That's amazing.
(upbeat rhythmic music)
- My God!
Three "for sure, you right ons"?
- Mind blown.
- And it took a gator to do that.
- Shout-out to the gators-
- Shout out to the gators.
- The babies, the medium ones, the adult ones,
(Darren laughing amusingly)
all the gators. - Shout-out to the gators!
(both laughing happily)
- Alright.
- Obviously, the ribs.
- Most expensive?
Wings cheapest?
- With the croquettes second?
- [Tim Chantarangsu] Okay.
- Ribs a little bit more?
- Yeah, sure.
- I think ribs is an expensive piece of meat, right?
- Yeah 'cause you really gotta get in there.
- Yeah.
Did you just go to your ribs
and describe like that's how you...
- Yeah. (laughing amusingly)
You gotta get in there and cut it open.
It's probably gonna be like a little deer in there
inside the gator too.
- You gotta get rid of the extra meat.
- Mm-hmm.
- Is this right? - I like that.
- "I like it"? - I like that.
- Alright, man.
Gator wings, cheapest.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] Mm-hmm.
- Gator croquettes, middle.
Gator ribs, most expensive.
- [Tim Chantarangsu] I like that.
- Three "for sure, you right ons."
not on one episode-
- (blowing lips) One round.
- One round.
- This is an unprecedented event.
- This is wild, wild.
(elegant string music)
"Cheapest, alligator boudin balls."
- Aw, damn.
- "A Cajun delicacy," they're "$16."
"Rolled into balls, battered, and then breaded,
to produce a high-quality fast food."
That's fast food?
- Crazy.
- "Middlest, alligator wings, $21.
Also known as Cajun swamp chicken."
- Those were great.
- Aw!
"Pre-marinated in Creole sauce and grilled to perfection."
That's actually very expensive for wings.
- How many wings do you get with the order?
- I'm hopin' 12.
- Aw, those little babies.
- But, it's prob...
No, it didn't say anything about babies.
This is the Cajun swamp chicken.
- Little tiny ones.
(Darren laughing amusingly)
- "Most expensive, alligator ribs!
$33.
Smothered in smokey barbecue sauce,
prepared just like they do on the bayou."
- Wow. (table thudding repeatedly)
- Damn.
- I'm not even mad because it was-
- I'm not mad.
- Everything was-
- I'm not mad.
- Mm-hmm.
- If you ever get a chance, y'all, get y'all some gator.
- Yeah.
- Three "for sure, you right ons," (beep).
- Mm-hmm.
- Not bad.
- I wonder if there's a location bayou.
(Tim giggling impressively)
- For you, bayou. - Whew!
- For by.
(Tim blowing air through lips)
(laughing loudly) I tried.
- You silly.
- I'm Darren "Big Baby" Brand.
- I'm Tim Chantarangsu.
- Get you some gator.
- Hey, make sure you like, comment, and share, subscribe-
- Go Gators!
- All of that.
(Darren speaking gibberish about gators)
- See you later, alligator.
(upbeat rhythmic music)
- Oh God, the caviar just burst in my... Mmm.
Oh, Lord.
Oh, I forgot I had some.
Alright, here we go. (bell dinging loudly)
- [Cameraman] Hold on, hold on one second, guys.
(upbeat rhythmic music continues)
(everyone laughing amusingly)
Thank you.
(Darren laughing hesitantly)
(crew chatting in background)
(Darren laughing increasingly)
- Come on, lets just go, go, go.
- Okay, I can't chew it all while I'm sittin' here.
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