You may have first tuned into Fixer Upper to satisfy your standard HGTV craving, but
every fan knows the real draw is husband-and-wife hosting duo: Chip and Joanna Gaines.
Between Chip's bull-in-a-china-shop construction style and Joanna's impeccable farmhouse-chic
aesthetic, the couple could not be more endearing.
Or, could they?
From Joanna flubbing her lines to Chip being, well, Chip, these behind-the-scenes peeks
prove the pair is even more lovable than ever.
"Marker!"
"You're so...fat?
No!
Disheveled.
Pull it together"
Keeping the spark alive
It's the mark of a true talent when a person can somehow make a construction tool seem
suggestive.
As juvenile as it may be, you've got to admit it's pretty comical when Chip's measuring
tape bombs Joanna's on-screen interview:
"This house has a real '80s feel about it.
Um, and"
And on another day, Chip joked about his wife's large panties, saying,
"Remember when we were on our honeymoon and you shot those on me, and I felt like I'd
gotten captured in a parachute?
I was like, 'Whew, I'm in hog heaven.
C'mon!
Bring it on, girl!'"
As silly as Chip's bedroom innuendo can be, it's inspiring to see the longtime couple
still has that lighthearted spark after decades — and soon-to-be-five children — together!
Joanna is team Chip
As Joanna tries to start this segment, Chip gets distracted by something that completely
derails the moment — his elbows.
"The mother-in-law suite is..Did you see my little…Pads…
I like those pads."
She even indulges him, suggesting why he's into the patches so much, saying,
"That's the sports coat your dad used to wear in the 70s and 80s probably.
And it reminds you of him maybe?"
All of this instead of rolling her eyes.
Chip on parenting
Chip Gaines seems like a suuuuuper-fun dad.
"Little bit dry.
Ewwww"
But every mother who watches Fixer Upper likely thinks the same thing: Bless Jo's heart for
trusting her husband with those babies.
Joanna even admits he plays it fast-and-loose with their children, saying,
"Having Chip is like having a whole set of triplets.
And then I've got four kids"
But just why does she say that?
"You think when he's out there with the kids, he's telling them what not to do, but he's
encouraging them to shoot at the house…at a wasp nest."
Chip claims he's just an "encourager" in general, which is an awesome trait.
But he also admitted to People in 2016 that he forgot his then six-week-old son Drake
at home.
Twice.
(It's ok.
Drake's 12 now and doing just fine.)
America's favorite man boobs
If there's one thing Chip and Joanna discuss more than shiplap, it's Chip's "man boobs."
"That's why I love you…
Get back… get back… that's gonna leave a bruse.
Man boobs and all."
And the man-boobs appeared again, when Chip remembered his fit bod, back in the '80s:
"You take away the man boobs"
"that slight modification took that fast ball in the mid-80s all the way down into the strike
zone."
This just proves that dad-bod or not, Jo's totally into her hubby.
Speaking of body image…
Need some more Classic Chip?
"Hey, when I stand like this, do I look really strong, or do I look kind of fat?
Screw the home tour, Chip can't stop worrying about how he looks on camera.
"I can feel the buttons sort of bulging open.
Like Superman."
But...Chip needs more reassurance.
"But that's what I'm saying.
Is it like, 'Wow, look at that guy, he kinda looks jacked.
Or are you thinking, 'That guy's a little chunky to be standing that way.'"
We'll stick with Jo and say jacked.
Letting it all out
A sign of a really solid relationship is when a couple can interpret each other's needs.
"What's funny?
Do you need to burp?"
After that belch, Chip admits:
"That thing was kind of packing in there, and I couldn't really breathe good."
Yep, that's true love.
His shoulder has ESP(N)
Remember that scene in Mean Girls when Karen claims she has a "fifth sense"?
"It's like I have ESPN or something — my breasts can always tell when it's going to
rain."
Yeah, this clip is kind of like that.
"Did you know that back when I played junior varsity football I dislocated my shoulder
real bad?
And anytime it starts acting up, I can tell it's about to rain."
Chip then forecasts,
"And it's go'n rain."
It seems Chip and his shoulder could have a fallback career in weather reporting.
So, there's that!
Secret spaces
In this unused footage, Chip and a crew member discover a home's crawl space.
"This is definitely where you keep the dead people."
And ignoring Jo's pleas on behalf of his weak ankles, Chip hops in anyway.
"Watch this… ow… someone get on him"
And after a brief silence, he admits,
"(Ugh) I'm okay; that was further than it looked."
But later, in a confessional, he elaborated,
"I fell and landed like a ton of bricks, and then there was a little hill underneath the
house and I rolled down that."
And as for what else happened while he was down there?
"He looked like a little pig in mud.
All I saw was his body rolling around it was like I injured both my pinkies at the same
time"
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