- There's hundreds of reptiles right behind me.
(bright upbeat music)
She's pretty big, huh?
And my new friend Sean doesn't realize it,
but he's about to meet all my reptiles.
- Yeah, that's a snowflake moray.
- Right now he thinks he's coming
to help us with our fish tanks.
We've got a fish tank issue at the shop.
Could you help me out?
- Yeah sure.
- But he's about to find out
why he's really here right now.
- I'm not here to clean a fish tank, am I?
- No, you're not.
You may not know this, but there are hundreds
of animals in here and you're about
to meet every single one of 'em.
- Oh no.
- Are you nervous at all?
- Little bit.
- And we met Sean recently,
and he's what we call a fish expert.
- Houma. Houma. Nuka Nuka ahaha.
- But how will he fair against all our reptiles?
- Oh, she's so tight.
- So the goal is to get you more comfortable with reptiles.
And I can't think of any better way than exposure therapy.
Now I'm gonna give you an opportunity
to eliminate one type of animal,
an amphibian, snakes, lizards, or tarantula.
What Sean doesn't know is that
whatever he rejects, he has to hold.
- Tarantula.
- All right, Sean, you have no choice.
This is your first Tarantula?
- Very first.
- What do you think?
- It's all right.
- You're shaking a little bit there.
All right, all bugs and tarantulas are now eliminated.
By the end of the day, I want you to choose
an animal that you think is right for you.
Starting small, with a bearded dragon.
- Oh wow, he's pretty cool.
I like how he feels in my hand.
- So this wasn't too bad.
- No.
- If you rank, is it lizard, snake?
10 out of 10 being the best.
- I would say this is a seven.
- A seven, not bad.
Moving on to the next category, snakes.
We'll start small with my girl, Helen.
- Wow.
- What do you think about snakes?
- Definitely a lot smoother than the bearded dragon.
- Yeah, Definitely a lot smoother.
And this is a small one.
- Maybe.
Onto the next class, this is actually a whites tree frog.
What you think about him? - Whoa.
I don't like his suction cups.
- So out of the snakes, the lizards, or the frog
which one would you want to eliminate?
- The amphibians.
- Okay, you know what that means.
It means you have to hold our biggest amphibian,
so Hal, the ring toad.
- Oh my God, it's so squishy.
Does this thing ex, like poison?
- These actually are poison glands right here.
So if I squeeze him and you lick 'em,
you might have a hallucination.
You wanna try?
- No. No.
- As we're whittling it down to
the ultimate animal, or reptile I should say,
we've eliminated amphibians,
and we've eliminated bugs.
We have lizards and we have snakes.
We have our work cut out for us.
- You got a friend there and a friend up here.
- How's that feel?
- Almost feels like he's gonna like bite me or something.
- If we say the magic word.
- What's the magic word?
- We're not gonna say it, you don't wanna get bit.
- Which one do you like better?
- Come on, lizards are better, right?
- Lizard or snake?
- Lizard? Snake? - Lizard! Snake?
- I'm not sure.
- You gotta pick one, everybody's got a favorite.
- I think I like the snake better.
- Ah, one for the snakie.
All right, Sunfire, we're gonna amp it up a little bit.
Things need to be more exciting.
Let's see if we really likes snakes.
Lizards are totally gonna rock this one
because how can you not love Toothless?
He's amazing.
- I'm gonna switch it up a little bit
and surprise Sean with Salt.
Sean, have you ever held an alligator before?
- I have not.
Oh my God.
- This is actually Salt, now this is a contender, right?
I mean, look at how beautiful that animal is.
- It's insane.
- And she only has about 200 teeth in there
that she could get you with.
So what do you think, Sean? Is it a contender?
Or are we going back to snakes and lizards?
- Snakes, I think.
- Oh no.
Here you go, buddy.
You played with big snakes before?
- Nope, first time.
- First time ever?
- No, I think she's going between my legs.
- That's her favorite spot.
- Wow, she's so tight.
- Snakes are tight, Dean, have fun with that.
- Oh my God, she's so heavy.
- Isn't it so much fun?
Way better than those lizards, am I right?
- Ah...
- Get outta here, Noah.
- Working here, you go away.
- Which lizard is that?
- Toothless, the melanistic water dragon.
- Does he have teeth?
- He does have teeth.
- Does he bite?
- He does not bite.
- So his nails hurt a little bit.
But you'll be fine.
You're a tough guy, you like fishing.
Get outta here. - You get out of here.
- You go, buh-bye.
- He's team snake, man.
He doesn't like lizards.
- You can't not love Toothless.
- Watch your eye.
Mike knows that well.
Snakes can't scratch. - Team lizard,
they can have claws.
- What's there?
- This isn't the North Pole.
I don't see any claws.
- Which one would you really pick there, buddy?
Sunfire, or Toothless?
- I don't know, they're both pretty sweet.
But Toothless has the claws scratching the crap out of me.
Probably the snake.
- Woo!
- He's just a baby.
- So far, it's two for the snakes and zero for the lizards.
Let's go ahead and get out a lizard
maybe he'll fall in love with.
So Mike, we need to change our game plan up.
Lizards are losing big time and lizards are super cool.
I'm thinking maybe we go big with like Elvis.
You know something that's real personable,
almost like a puppy dog.
- Let's do it.
- Let's try.
- Two for snake, we're doing good so far.
I hadn't even brought out the good stuff yet.
We're gonna start with Jeffrey right now.
Let's stay tuned for when I bring out the big guns.
Sean, there you go.
- He's massive.
- This is Jeffrey, he's a hypo granite Burmese python.
Tell me so far, has there been one
that has really stuck out to you?
- The Hognose snake was pretty cool.
This thing's a little bit more beastly.
- Really?
- I like that little Hognose thing.
- Compare this to a fish.
What fish would you compare this to?
- Arapaima.
- Not a bad choice.
I do love my arapaima.
- Jeffrey. That's your next snake, Jeffrey?
- Jeffrey.
- Listen, I love Jeffrey, but we have
a lot cooler lizards than Jeffrey.
- Like who, Mike?
- Oh, I dunno.
What do you think about this big boy?
- Holy crap.
- Is he a Komodo dragon?
- No, he's an Asian water monitor.
Just like Toothless, but normal and bigger.
- But giant.
- Get in there and pet him man.
Kick the tires a little bit.
- Oh my God. Yeah okay.
- It's like a puppy dog with scales.
What do you think?
- He's freaking amazing.
- Isn't that thing cool?
- Yeah, he's amazing.
It's like a dinosaur. - Starting
to win him over a little bit.
Leaning snake wise?
Or do you think that this one
may have turned you to the lizard side?
- I like the lizard this time.
- All right, good job Mike.
- I knew Elvis was gonna win that one.
Why? Because Elvis is awesome and we all love him.
And who doesn't like a big, fluffy, scaly lizard?
Not as big as Elvis, but (indistinct).
Geckos are still lizards, right?
I think this guy has gotta be one of my favorites here.
So there's no way that you can't like him, right?
The nails aren't that big.
He's not gonna scrape you up like Toothless.
Camouflage, he looks cool.
Looks like we just pretty -
- He looks like he's like camouflaged
like actual Like camouflage clothing or something.
- Yeah, yeah. - That little thing, Mike?
That little rinky dinky,
green, moldy? - Not rinky, dinky.
- It looks like it smells.
Yeah, he don't want that.
Let me show you a real animal.
- So like, looks like he's got some huge balls.
- It's a boy.
- Otis has been granted some lucky balls.
- He's dragging 'em across your arm.
- Get out the way. Move, Mike.
We got a real animal coming.
I know you like big, big snakes.
Get a load of this, man.
What do you think, Sean?
- Oh holy crap.
- Yeah, that's something else, isn't it?
- I think he's giant.
- Giant. Do you like giant?
- I think Sean's a fish outta water right now.
- I didn't know you were going this big.
- This isn't even my biggest, Mike.
- Sean, if you had to keep one of these
animals at your house, which one would it be?
- Well, I think my wife would kill me
if I got the snake, so I'd have to
pick the gecko this time.
- Yes, two!
- This is rigged.
- Little rapid fire.
This is Tiana, the Lewisi hybrid
and she's shaking her head high.
- Hi. - This happens to be Tabasco.
Give him a little pet.
Isn't he beautiful?
- Wow, he's amazing.
- This is Dixie the rhino iguana.
She loves pets.
- Wow, she's awesome.
- Nova, the frilled dragon.
See the frills?
- Wow.
- Terrence, the tegu.
Now this is one beautiful animal.
- Wow.
- Take a feel of this one, Leachie gecko.
- [Group] The largest gecko in the world.
- Beetle juice, the bells faced lace monitor.
- Awesome.
- Chicken strip happens to be
the only albino Nile monitor in the world.
- In the world?
- Monkey tail skinks.
- Do these guys bite?
- Oh yeah.
Beautiful, green tree monitors.
- Incredible.
- Okay, Sean, stick your head in there
and take a big whiff and tell me what you smell.
- It smells like maple syrup.
- That's right, Waffle smells like maple syrup.
Kyra the chuckwalla.
- Oh, these guys are cool.
- Now onto the snakes.
Of course my babies, Ariana and Ivy, the green Anacondas.
- Anaconda.
- This is El Mochino, the Mochino reticulated python.
- Look at his eye, he looks evil.
- This is Gurkin, the Greentree python.
- I've never seen a Greentree python.
- Snap and Pop, the blackheaded python.
- He looks venomous.
- It's not venomous, but it's happy to bite.
Cupcake, the giant boa constrictor.
- It doesn't look like a cupcake to me.
- Bread Loaf, the Dumeril's boa?
- Bread loaf?
- Ben and Jerry, the two headed snake.
- It doesn't look like ice cream to me.
- Pinocchio, the Baron's racer.
- That is the skinniest snake I've ever seen.
- Joker, the scaleless Texas rat.
What does that feel like?
- Old people's skin.
- Heard that before.
Mr. Nubbins, the Red Mountain Dominican boa.
- How'd you come up with Mr. Nubbins?
- Ice cube, the diamond python.
- Does he wrap?
- Around his prey.
Butter Scotch, the Reticulated python.
- Wow.
- Night Fury, the living oil spill.
- Look at the iridescence on that.
- So it was two to two and we just rapid fired
through a bunch of lizards and a bunch of snakes.
Which way are you leaning right now?
- I'm still undecided.
- It's like the elections.
All right guys, still undecided.
I'm gonna just give you one last shot
to see which animal Sean wants the most.
- Time for my secret weapon.
- What weapon?
- Shing, I got you. My secret weapon.
Take it, embrace it, love it.
What are the best things about Perdida?
- The pattern on this thing is crazy.
- Her personality, right?
- Yeah, her personality.
- She's a beautiful, lovely lady.
Born in 1960, long slithers on the beach.
- A docile snake.
- Yep.
- Does she like kisses?
- Give her a kiss.
Is that the first time you kissed a snake?
- Yes. - How was it?
- I've had better.
- Sean, Potato.
- He looks like a potato.
- His name's Potato, 'cause he looks and acts like a potato.
How adorable is this blue dunk skink?
He's a Centralian blue-tongued skink.
He's only like one of three in the country.
So he's pretty rare.
And just look at him.
- What makes him so rare?
- 'Cause he is only one of three in the country.
Yeah, you seem really excited about it.
- Yeah, he' a very -
- Where's Bryan?
I need just your expertise.
'Cause I don't think he believes me
how just special potato is.
- Potato is super special.
There's only about six or seven
of 'em in the entire country.
It's beautiful, it's from the middle part of Australia.
A gem on an animal.
- He's pretty cool, he's nice and chill.
- You don't seem very enthusiastic about it.
- No, he is. - He looks like a potato.
- He loves potatoes.
- All right, Sean, so we've kept you a long time.
We gotta get you back to your fish world.
You've handled a bunch of animals.
You've seen a ton of animals.
Tell me who the winner is.
- Well, my favorite lizard was Elvis, hands down.
My favorite snake is Perdida.
- Okay, so make the choice.
Is it Perdida or is it Elvis?
- That's so tough.
- He knows.
- I'll say the snake.
- Perdida wins.
(applause track)
There you go, Mike.
She's the winner.
She's absolutely beautiful.
I'm glad that you picked that out.
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