(hip hop music) (dinging)
- Oh, wow, gold dust.
- Are you going back!
Bruh, do not put-
I love y'all. (Tim laughing)
I love you.
(Darren belching)
- We got to warm up. - Basic.
- Basic.
- Basic to bougie. - Basic to bougie.
- Mayonnaise. - Bougie.
- Mayonnaise. - Basic to bougie.
- What the (beep) is this?
(Darren mumbling gibberish)
- All right. - We're good.
- Good to go? (upbeat music)
I'm Tim Chantarangsu. - I'm Darren "Big Baby" Brand.
- Welcome to another episode
of "Basic to Bougie". - To bougie! Get it.
- This is a show where we try three different versions
of two different foods
and we try to determine what is the cheapest,
middle-est, and most expensive.
(scratching)
Most expensive.
And what do we learn sometimes, Darren?
- That sometimes the basic food can be bougie.
- And that bougie food can be basic.
(baroque music) - We find out every episode-
- That we don't know what we're talking about.
- If you check our record
how many times we've gotten it right,
it's got to be like 5 and 58.
- Yeah, but it's all about the experience.
It's not about the results, Darren.
It's about the journey, man.
- Shut the (bleep) up.
- You right. (low rumbling)
- [Darren] We gotta give the butler a name.
- [Tim] You go.
- He's giving me TJ vibes.
- [Tim] TJ? - [Darren] Yeah.
- All right, what's the T and the J stand for?
- Tony James.
- Okay. (Tim and Darren laughing)
- TJ! (slow classical music)
One day you should just do a regular outfit
and put your own swag on,
you know what I'm saying? - [TJ] Yeah.
- [Darren] You shouldn't have to conform to this, bro.
- [TJ] Well, okay, as long as I won't get fired.
- Hey, you was late today and I ain't tell nobody.
- [TJ] True. (upbeat drum music)
- No, you ain't gon' get fired.
- Oh. (buzzer blaring)
You gon' love this.
This is great. Who don't love this?
- Tim, did you put it all the way on your side?
- Yes. - What is it?
(buzzer blaring) - Invisible food.
- Do you have it? - Oh my God.
Look, you gon' love it, take it.
- What is it? - You know what it is.
- Corn dogs!
(buzzer blaring) Baby, let's do it!
- Wait, that's not it?
- TJ! - Food on sticks!
- That (bleep) could be anything.
(hip hop music) - Kebabs, skewers.
- Facts. - Corn...
Ah, what the. (Tim and Darren laughing)
Corn dogs, let's get it. - Oh man.
Please don't send us no stupid (bleep).
(Tim laughing) (upbeat music)
- Okay.
- Can we bring the corn dog back?
(Tim laughing)
Is there any way we can substitute one of these
with the corn dog? - What is this?
- [Darren] What the (bleep) is this?
- It smells like meat.
Oh, how you like this guy right here?
- [Darren] Huh?
- What do you think this is?
- You know what this is, don't you?
- I do believe.
It has eight tentacles.
- This is not a octopus.
- I think this is octopus. - Come on.
Now, why would you give us a corn dog?
- (laughs) And tease him with it.
- And then all of a sudden
just throw a eight-legged animal on it.
Make it make sense.
- Oh, then you got your classic cake pop.
- Yeah. Gold. - Gold.
Where you wanna go first?
- [Darren] Let's eat this first.
- Okay, whatever this is.
(upbeat music)
- Is it lamb?
- Mm. That's tasty.
They made it look crazy, but this is good.
No. - You don't think so?
- I mean, it's definitely good.
I didn't know you loved it that much though.
- It ain't that good?
- I mean, with some sauce probably.
- Okay.
- Oh, you're taking it back?
- I was gonna take it back, I thought you was with me.
I like it.
You can tell we like it 'cause we keep eating it.
- What is this? This chicken?
- It's something they lying to us about.
- Pork? It's not pork.
- It's good though.
- Is this a meat substitute? (tires screeching)
- It possibly is, it's good though.
- [Tim] It's tasty.
(upbeat music)
- Octopus. - It is!
- You gon' love it though.
Oh, you took a bite already?
Let's go.
Oh man. (dramatic music)
That's a strong octopus.
I'll tell you what,
not my favorite grilled octopus I've ever had.
- You just keep chewing, nothing is happening.
Nothing.
- Yeah. - All gristle.
- This might be a little over-grilled.
- All gristle.
Now if a brother had been on this, huh?
- I feel you. A little seasoning-
- A little, you know what I'm saying?
- Seasoning and some sauce. Yep.
(fire flaring)
- Little sweat rag.
Give me two more beers. (Tim laughing)
Well, and you're still eating it.
- Octopus. - Octopus.
(Tim laughing) - Cake pop.
(upbeat music)
- Let's get it.
(dinging) Ooh wow. Gold dust.
- A part of me wanted to see if this was a wrapper,
(Tim chuckling) but the vet,
basically the bougie in me knew.
You see that?
- What kinda cake is this?
- It's good. - Red velvet.
(tires screeching)
- I still would've enjoyed a corn dog.
- That would've been amazing.
- It would've put the icing on the cake.
- All right. (hip hop music)
- I'm not mad at it,
but obviously most expensive.
- 'Cause of the gold. - But, it could be fake gold.
They got us with the fake gold before.
- Yeah, I know.
And it was super cheap fake gold.
- Super cheap.
Octopus is probably expensive. So let's go...
We don't even know what the (bleep) this is.
- Bro, what if it's like lamb or some (bleep)?
- It probably is. I said lamb.
Lamb ain't cheap 'cause they not just covers.
- Oh right. I got you.
- Sorry to bust your chops.
(percussive sting) - Ha ha. Hey, not baa-d.
(percussive sting) - (Darren and Tim laughing)
- Do you agree with this?
How do you feel? What's your thoughts?
The chicken, lamb- - Let's keep that there.
- The cheapest though? - That's what I'm saying.
If it's like,
I don't want them to be like,
"Oh, you know what? This is (indistinct)."
- [Darren] This really might be the most expensive.
- Yeah, it might be 'cause seafood is expensive.
But what if this is like baby deer?
- God damn it, Tim.
- What if it's venison or some (bleep) (laughs).
Okay, Bambi or Nemo.
- All right, this is what we're gonna do.
Which one do you think is the most expensive?
Point to it now.
- All right. - All right.
Which do you think is the middle-est?
Point to it now.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Fine. Keep it.
- Keep it, we done? - Lock it up.
- The unknown meat is the cheapest.
Octopus, middle-est. (dinging)
Flake gold cake pop, most-
God damn it. They got us with that before.
- I know they bam boo, ah this is-
- They did what?
- They ban blue blue bling us right now.
- No, they bamboozled us.
I don't know why you can't say that.
- I was trying to speak my native language
and you're shaming me. - Oh, wow!
- You're shaming me for that?
- Okay. - It's not cool.
- TJ!
Want me to do it? (drum roll)
- Let me do it. - You're not stronger than me.
- Let me do it.
Ooh, I won.
All right. (suspense music)
Okay, cheapest.
(upbeat music)
Japanese chicken meatball.
- Boom - Four dollars each.
Let's go. Bang.
Bang again.
Skewer char grilled- - Grilled.
- to achieve its light, delicious texture. Hmm.
Middle-est, golden cake pop.
Made with traditional cake batter
(classical music) and glittered to perfection.
The most expensive, squid.
Not octopus. (tires screeching)
- You don't even know your octopus?
(hip hop music) - Squid on a stick, $11.
Grilled with spicy powder,
cumin, and topped with special homemade sauce.
- I said that the octopus
probably is going to be the most expensive,
'cause it's not a common meat.
- Mm-hm. And they're really smart.
- I don't care if they're smart or intelligent.
- That's what makes 'em-
- Or they can squeeze theirself out of tanks.
I told you. - I told you.
- Whole time. All I hear is "This is octopus",
"oh (indistinct) I know what this is."
"Yeah, yeah. This is octopus.
"Octopus. Octopus." - Same thing, bro.
- They're in the same family, but they're not the same.
Squids is the one with the hammer heads?
- (laughs) Someth- - And the long?
- Yeah. Octopus got the these heads.
Squids got the these heads. - Got these heads.
And squids have side eyes too. (Tim laughing)
They got the side...
They hear with it, right?
So they're here.
And the back of them.
- And they bust the ink out on you.
- I get high, I watch a lot of animal shows.
Like at the bottom of the ocean, bro,
we don't belong. - Oh I would never.
- Ever.
- I actually don't go past my nipples.
- Bougie round. (classical music)
This is kind of where I excel in life.
- You are just too fancy for me these days.
- Nah, I'm just saying like,
I've gotten a few bougies right so far.
- No, this is true. - I feel good.
I feel great.
- Let's go.
- All right. Let's get into it.
TJ. Tony James. - Tony James.
(soft classical music)
- Talk to me. Is this something that we going to like?
'Cause that on the stick (bleep) is not it.
- [TJ] I hope so.
- [Darren] You're not giving me nothing.
- [TJ] But, be very careful.
- Oh, what do we got here?
Is it drank?
Oh careful with it now.
It's cold and it's a beverage.
Take it. Take a whiff.
Tell me what that is.
- (sniffs) Tim, it's your favorite thing.
- We drinking?
- It's your favorite thing.
Alcohol, baby. - What kind though?
- It's a mint something.
- Like a- - Mojitos.
- Mojito? - It's mojitos.
(upbeat music) - Oh, you got it.
Let's go. - Mojitos.
- Fire. - Let's go, man.
- Let's go.
- I done been to a few resorts.
(upbeat tropical music)
- Party time. You ready to turn up?
Be on the beaches of an island right now.
Sitting back with our nipples in the air.
- Huh? Feet out.
- Toes in the sand.
Moji-toes. (percussive sting)
- Okay. All the small women who like chunky boys.
Yes, I'm here for you. (slow seductive music)
I'm bougie right now. Fancy, bro.
- Man. - Paper straws.
Let's take the shot first.
(baroque music)
- This is different. - Yeah. I don't like that.
I don't like what's going on with that.
- I feel like it's gonna be very sweet.
A little too sweet maybe.
- You think so?
(glasses clinking) Up to it.
- [Both] Down to it.
(bleep) those who don't do it. - Don't do it.
- We do it, 'cause we're used to it.
Drink...
- [Both] Mother (bleep) drink.
(Darren and Tim lip smacking) (crew member laughing)
- What is that?
- Horrible. - Wait.
- Oh here we go. - It tastes like something.
It tastes like something.
- You ain't figured out something
since we've done this show. (Tim and Darren laughing)
- I've been figuring out-
- Oh my God, it's on me. - a little something.
- It's on my gums (laughs).
- What is that? That's weird.
- [Darren] Are you going back?
Make it make sense.
- I'm trying to figure out what that is.
- Stop eating like it like that.
- What's that white stuff.
I don't know what this is.
- But, you keep trying it.
Here, take this.
- I need to know what it is. (glasses clicking)
(crew members laughing)
- Now try it.
(glasses clinking) (Darren laughing)
- That's not a mojito. I'll tell you that.
- Definitely not. - Not a mojito.
- I don't know what that white stuff is.
- I'm good on that. - All right.
- Aw (bleep). - Here we go.
This is more familiar. (upbeat tropical music)
We got some cham-pag-ne, it looks like.
Oh this is what...
That's (mumbling). (Darren laughing)
Let's go (laughs).
- A toast to season six, - Oh my goodness.
- of Basic to Bougie.
(glasses clinking) - Let's get it.
Oh, that's what we doing? (baroque music)
Champagne. (rock music)
- Rocks. - Yeah.
- (bleep) rocks.
- I feel like a fancy Instagram girl at brunch.
- (laughs) Let's take our pictures like them.
- Aw yeah. - Give me three poses.
(upbeat music)
Now let's fake laugh at the peasants.
And then one more.
You (bleep) could never. - Could never.
Cheers. - It's getting hot.
- You're not supposed to chug champagne like that.
- Nah. - Yeah, let's it.
- Get to our element, man. - That's what we doing?
- I'm pretty sure the mic person's gonna get pissed.
- Nah, we're good.
- I was getting toasty. - Oh, you feeling it already?
- I'm feeling it. Bruh.
- I'm going to take this last- - (indistinct) the last shot.
- Okay. - You know what I mean?
Just let nature take his course, baby.
- I'm with you. - Huh?
Ladies, What you like, huh?
- I'm like that. - Huh? You like Asian or soul?
- [Tim] We're not even drunk yet.
Oh yeah, we got to do that.
- [Darren] All right, let's get into it.
- [Tim] Okay.
(baroque music)
- Basic to Bougie. - Let's get it.
(glasses clinking) Sir, yes sir.
(Darren slurping loudly)
Ooh.
- That's strong (indistinct).
- It's a lot of run in there.
I was not expecting that much rum.
- Oh and it's at the bottom.
Let me tell you that right now.
(funk music) - I'm with it. I'm with you.
- It's at the bottom, man.
- Let's go. - But you gotta.
- [Tim] Oh my god.
I'm killing the mic person (indistinct).
- Oh wait, my mic...
Okay. My mic is here.
- All right. We're gonna do walkie talkie style.
- Okay. I feel like that might be too close.
Is this hot? (high pitch echoing)
Can you hear this?
All right. - Maybe put it back.
- Listen to the. (ice cubes clattering)
- Okay. Get some ASMR. - Yeah. You know what I mean?
Let tell you something right here.
Somebody over 50 made this.
- Because- - The measurements is off.
- Yes. - The measurements is off.
- And it's somebody that just is going through a tough time.
- Yeah. But let me get all my troubles to you.
(Tim laughing) Yeah. That's what it is.
(baroque music)
You know what, Tim, can I tell you something?
What's up, Darren? - I'm just happy,
you know what I mean? - I love you, man.
- Like for real, bro. I don't think we say it enough.
I don't think friends take the time
to appreciate each other enough, man.
(upbeat music) - Darren, I love you.
(Darren snickering) (Tim laughing)
- It will get hard for the camera.
Don't do that (laughs). - Yes, I know. That's why.
I was trying to hook you up.
I need to...
It's just better.
It's better like that.
- I have never let a grown man put a cold drink
on my nipple, in my life.
- I don't know why you would.
- (indistinct) you a special individual (indistinct).
I love you, bro. - I love you too, dawg.
- Proud of you, man. - Proud of you, man.
It's Delicious.
- All right. So how we feeling?
(hip hop music)
- First of all, did we just drink three types of liquors
in two minutes? (crew members laughing)
There's gotta be some kind of protocol against that.
(belching) All right. Let's rate 'em.
- Mm-hm.
- Ooh.
- What was this?
- Probably the most expensive.
- Prob...
I wanna say.
- Shots cost way more than mixed drinks.
- This might be some Asian (bleep).
I'll tell you what it reminds me of,
get that violin out.
Okay.
(slow violin music) It reminds me of this stuff
that my mom used to make a Thai dessert with
called mung bean. (tires screeching)
That's what it kind of tastes like.
It's (laughs) like a dessert that Asian people do.
Mung bean.
That's what it reminds me of.
- You think that's a mung bean?
- I have no idea, but it reminded me of that.
I have no idea what that white stuff was, but who knows?
This was just some rum and some fruit.
Champagne. - Champagne's not expensive.
It depends on the champagne though.
- I know, that's where it gets tricky.
(upbeat music) - That's where it gets tricky.
You wanna go rum, champagne,
champagne, rum?
And what do you wanna do with the (laughs)...
How you feeling?
That's how you feel? - I don't know.
- I feel like this might be cheaper, bro.
- This is the resort style though.
- This was all rum,
but like, well rumed.
Let's do that.
- Cheapest. - Mm-hm.
The resort all inclusive package.
- Yes. - Cheapest.
Middle-est, champagne.
Most expensive, a shot of beat juice.
- Mung bean (laughs).
- It's mung beans. All right.
TJ! Let's do it. (dramatic music)
You good, bro? I'm sorry.
Usually we save you little something.
I'll do it. (drum roll)
- Ah man.
Your silence is (laughs)-
- Speaking volumes. - Speaking volumes.
- Coconut milk mojito shooters with wild blueberry.
- God dammit, it was just coconut.
(Darren and Tim laughing) - What'd you call it?
- Mung bean. - What the (bleep), Tim?
- I don't know. - It's the cheapest.
(bleep) (Darren indistinct)
- Please cover yourself up.
- (laughs) Why'd I pull it up like that?
- (laughs) He said, "oh my God."
- [Darren] Oh my goodness.
Middle-est, champagne mojito. - Okay.
- $18. A bubbly twist on a classic cocktail.
- Mm-hm. - We got that right?
- Yeah. - And the most expensive,
strawberry honey mojito, $25,
made with top shelf rum, honey, strawberries, lime,
mint leaves and club soda.
God dammit, Tim.
- Well.
- Well, we was wrong.
- No, look. What was most important is we expressed our love
for each other. - Will you stop...
(laughs) That was such a heavy grab.
- We expressed our love for each other.
We expressed ourselves as men.
- Why is he twisting my arm like this?
Tim, I swear to God- - Mm. Bougie.
That is bougie.
That tastes bougie. - Are you hot?
- That tastes bougie. - I swear it's getting hot.
- I like it.
- Stop hitting me.
(Darren and Tim laughing)
- All right, y'all. - I'm Darren "Big Baby" Brand,
I'm about to beat this little Asian boy up, man.
- I'm Tim Chantarangsu,
I'm about to hug this beautiful, Black man up.
Thank you for wa- - Basic to Bougie,
we love, y'all. - Thank you for watching-
- Like, share, subscribe.
- All that and- - Follow us on everything.
- Yes, sir. - The mic lady was pissed.
- Bye. - I love y'all.
I love you. (upbeat music)
- Hold on (belches).
- Oh, cayenne pepper,
crab, tuna (laughs).
(Darren belching)
Oh, matcha (laughs).
- I ain't got no more burps.
Why am I throwing this on like a sweater?
- Because it's cold in here. (Darren laughing)
Even I was like. - It's a little nip.
- (laughs) But it's okay. That's good for us.
- Bruh, do not... (Tim laughing)
Why I feel so...
No!
No, Tim (laughs)! - How dare you?
- No! (Tim laughing)