- This is a show where we watch old "Worth It" episodes
to see the never before heard
(laughing) behind the scenes, juicy details
of how the episodes were made.
- That was good, the sentence was good,
and when you added juicy, that really, you know,
cones in on this show, 'cause--
- We eat a lot of juicy things.
- [Adam] In honor of the last episode ever of 2019,
we are watching the fried chicken episode, from way back.
- Oh!
Season three.
- Doubling down on fried chicken.
- Double down?
Or fried chicken double down.
- Andrew!
Andrew!
- How did you find me? (laughing)
- It is the day, the day we've all been--
So yeah, this is all faked obviously.
(laughing)
- 'Cause I was obsessed with this idea
that we should have a scene that opens every episode,
a fun scene, 'cause that's how the show started,
and it was an homage to the beginning,
and so that's what this is, but it just doesn't play well.
What do they call it when it doesn't like age well?
- Doesn't land?
Yeah. - Didn't age well.
- Aged like milk.
- But this episode did age well.
- I still wanna know what this guy has around his neck
in the background. - He's still there.
- It's like some kind of scavenger hunt.
He's got like historical artifacts,
this is like "Living National Treasure" behind the scenes.
(laughing)
- Wait can we go back to that run?
Can we go back to that run?
I just noticed how you run.
You just (laughing).
- This kid in the background of the shot.
- Yeah.
- There are so many parts of the interview where he's
just like staring straight at camera,
- Yeah. - And we had to cut around.
- Roaming around.
Hey!
(laughing)
- Unsolved.
(laughing)
- Shout out to Josh, who did that.
- Yeah.
- It's a food that takes a bath when it gets cooked.
It has to be good.
- I'm shocked at how simple--
- (laughing) What does that even mean?
- You think you taste good after a bath?
- [Adam] The stuff that you get away with saying
by the edit just immediately moving on.
- Who, him or me?
- [Adam] Andrew.
- Yeah, I agree.
- Obviously a bath--
Takes a bath when it gets cooked.
It has to be good.
No, that's soup.
(laughing) Right?
- Dramatic or dramatic?
- Did you just make a pun?
- Dramatic or dramatic?
Yeah, so I definitely did not intend to do that pun,
and I actually did not know what you were talking about
when you said, - Really?
- Was that a pun?
Yeah, this is the first time you're hearing this?
That's true.
Yeah.
- No, you said dramatic or dramatic.
- I know the pun now, but I did not intend to.
- But what were you saying?
- I thought you said traumatic,
like traumatic or dramatic. - Oh!
- Dramatic or traumatic.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- I didn't know that until this very moment.
(laughing)
Okay.
So this is something that we didn't notice,
until a commenter pointed it out to us
after the video was uploaded.
Obviously that's how comments work.
You're about to see a bird fly into a parked car's tire.
- It was really sad.
I mean it's hilarious, but it's sad.
- Let's see the footage.
- A number of chicken in here.
- I guess that makes sense.
It's gross when you think about it,
torturing a 90 pound chicken,
that looks like a rottweiler.
(laughing)
- Does it hit the tire?
- [Steven] Oh my gosh!
What does it think it's doing?
- But the bird is fine. (coughing)
It just, (laughing).
Okay, I think the commenter said,
did a bird just hit that car tire?
Because it is kind of deceptive.
You don't whether it's just doing a quick flip around,
or if it actually bounces off the tire.
- Yeah.
- Either way, it looks like the bird is fine.
We would not be making light of this,
if we thought that the bird was hurt in any way.
This is one of the first times that I was truly star-struck
by a person we were interviewing.
Marcus Samuelsson had been on "Top Chef", you know,
many TV Food Network, that kind of thing.
- Yeah, I agree.
As you can tell, we didn't really know what to say.
I mean, we did, we nailed the interview,
but, it was still, it's hard to portray exactly how we felt.
- Nervous.
- So, this is one of the best foods
I've actually eaten on this show.
- Yeah.
- I think about this a lot. - Yeah.
- And I get sad that it's not here in L.A.
- So interesting how the recipe for fried chicken
is so simple.
- Uh-huh.
- But it's so different at every place you go to.
- Mm. - Or, I should say like,
it has this same few essential components,
but then there's so much variation
that each person can put on.
Even the way they just bread it, and dredge it,
and then, how many times you fry it?
What temperature do you fry it?
How long do you fry it for?
What's the seasoning like?
It smells so--
- Like the T-shirt of foods.
- It's like the T-shirt of foods, sure Adam.
So good.
So this moment.
- Mm-hmm.
- Had a lot of comments on it from people who didn't
understand what was happening.
- Maybe the most controversial moment in "Worth It" history
in the comments I've ever seen.
- Yeah, explain what happened.
- Well okay, so Marcus Samuelsson comes by the table,
eats the fried chicken with us, and the comments were like,
wow, who does this guy think he is?
He's like coming and eating their food from them.
Yadee, yadda.
Chill.
(laughing)
- Yeah, there were a lot of comments that were like,
wow, he just ate their chicken and then ran away.
But he made the chicken for us,
and it was his to try. - Yeah.
- Also, the way that we film this is that
we'll usually do the interview,
and then we film all the food being made,
and then we're doing the taste test at the end.
So we didn't expect him to come back up to us at the table.
He was just gonna say bye, and we were like,
you wanna try some chicken?
And he was like, yeah, of course,
and then he took a bite, made a comment about it,
and in the edit, it kinda looks like he's
stealing away with a bite.
I really thought I was gonna get to eat that,
but that's okay.
- [Adam] Oh, it's 'cause of your comment.
- What did I say?
- [Adam] Andrew says, I really thought I was gonna
get to eat that, but okay.
- Oh!
- Can I jump in? - Please.
- I really thought I was gonna get to eat that,
but that's okay.
- Wow!
You actually look a little upset.
- Yeah, I think I was trying to play it as a joke.
A lot of people thought that he was being rude.
But that's not the case.
It was all in good play. - So really the problem is
that you cannot deliver a joke.
- Is it my fault?
- I think so.
We've just found the root of the problem.
- That's my favorite part of the episode,
when Steven goes, what do you say there?
- Andrew, sweet potato yams.
(laughing)
- Basically, we're serving fried chicken
like peaking duck with caviar.
I understand how stupid and almost douche-y it sounds.
By no means am I trying to disrespect fried chicken,
- But it works? - Or caviar,
I think it works tremendously.
- I think people always ask
for more David Chang on our show,
and I think it's because he just emanates this excitement
for food. - Yeah.
- That really is contagious.
And that's what I like about having him on.
- For sure, very lighthearted,
but also very knowledgeable and informative.
- Let's look at the amount of text we have here.
I did not realize we put all that detailed information in.
- Two chickens fried whole,
113 grams of pacific white sturgeon caviar,
113 grams of smoked steelhead trout roe,
chive crepes, white barbecue sauce, creme fraiche,
potato chips, julienne cucumbers.
I've gotten many in-person comments from people
that they actually went and bought this fried chicken.
- Yeah.
- I was in line at a pizza place once in New York,
and this guy was like, I'm a banker from Norway,
and I've been here for six months, and I'm about to go home.
But this week, I'm gonna have the fried chicken caviar
with my friends as one last horah.
- Shout out to our fans in Norway.
- My goodness, David, give me a cut already. (laughing)
I believe this is a dish that Adam
wanted to feature on the show.
- Yes, in Season one. - Right?
- [Adam] Yeah the first time we just got that
no voo-voo doesn't do filming.
- Mm.
- [Adam] Which they kind of don't.
- They don't really. - Yeah.
- [Adam] But they're a little bit laxer now, but--
- Yeah, they didn't at the time.
We were revolutionary. - Yeah.
- [Adam] It was only one of the very few things
that comment noodle bar.
- Yeah, I remember being extremely nervous about
doing this shoot,
and doing it well. - Yeah.
'Cause this was like, I was like,
oh crap, we're big leagues.
But we're also just idiots.
Look at this next segment.
- [Adam] Also, the music, shout out to Josh.
- Yeah, shout out to Josh for this next segment.
Check this out.
- Cheers.
(cheerful music)
(laughing)
- What a silly edit.
- You know, I've always wondered
what David thought about this edit.
I know he saw it.
I'm 100% certain he saw it, I should just ask him.
- So, like I said, I was very nervous for this shoot.
And then when this was how the edit came out, I was like,
what are we doing?
This music does convey the giddy joy
that is this expensive meal experience,
which is the opposite of the serious classical music,
white table cloth type of serious eating experience.
- Yeah, it's like, when in movies,
you have the typical troupe
of the person that comes from the wealthy family,
who meets the person who comes from the peasant class,
(laughing)
and they fall in love, and they get married,
and they have a wonderful family together,
and that is the fried chicken and the caviar,
it's like that normal troupe of every movie.
- I remember being so nervous trying to talk about food
in front of Mr. David there.
- Yeah.
- I was just like, gah, I hate myself,
I'm cringing thorough this whole experience.
But it ended up being fine. - It was fine.
- Because he had his own ace up his sleeve.
- I actually wanted to dip this in the caviar,
but I thought that would be rude for you guys.
- No no no, that's not rude at all.
- It's not?
- It seems like (laughing)
- Ow! - So you didn't actually know
what was coming next, - No!
- When you said that, right?
You wanted to dip it?
So David Chang, being the Wiley Coyote that he is,
he was like, okay, you can come into my restaurant and film.
But then secretly, he organized this giant tin of caviar
that he was gonna surprise us with,
and we actually did not know
this was gonna happen for the shoot.
- [Adam] Fun fact, I don't fit in those clothes anymore.
(laughing)
- [Andrew] I love a mixture of plates, very pleasing.
That's something I aspire to have in my own home,
but I think it takes a long time,
maybe one really hard weekend of antiquing,
and I could get it together.
(groaning)
- [Andrew] I need some more bread, man.
- [Steven] Oh, yes!
(laughing)
- I don't remember that at all.
- Yeah, we used to regularly put
really great lines of dialogue
that were just too long to put in the regular taste test
in the post-script like that.
- Yeah.
- [Adam] There was other weird stuff,
when Josh would collect us-- - Yeah.
We really used to
roll for way too long in the taste test, we still do.
- We still do.
- Yeah.
- That's what's fun about it though,
because we get to just enjoy our time
when we're eating the food.
- Yeah, and be silly.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- That might be one of the greatest "Worth It" episodes
of all time, by the way, that we just watched.
- I think so.
(laughing)
- That does it for "Worth It" re-watches "Worth It".
- Yeah, so if your taste buds are fired up watching that
fried chicken episode, go back and now watch our
recently released fried chicken sandwich episode,
released this past Sunday.
- And we will be coming out with more episodes
in the new year, so, I say we do a
"Worth It" re-watches audience selection season.
How bout that? - Yes.
- [Adam] Next season?
- Maybe not the whole season,
'cause you can't let them take the reigns for too long.
So maybe a few episodes.
- We will get Adam on the couch.
Maybe both of us behind the camera.
- I like that.
You know how YouTubers do that thing where they're like,
if this video gets x likes, we'll do that.
- Sure.
- What is an amount?
- [Adam] One million.
- A million views.
- Great.
- [Adam] A million likes.
- That's "Worth It" for 2019.
- Alrighty.
That's it, bye!
(uplifting music)