Welcome to "Let's Play" in real life.
Today, we're playing Happy Salmon, a frenzy-filled game
full of goofy greetings.
This game is brought to you by caffeinated gummy bears,
because our contestants will need all the energy they
could get, because sometimes the salmon needs to bite the bear.
The winner will receive this custom
built trophy made by our friend John over at I Build It.
The losers will get a slap on the face with a real fishtail.
I'm chairman of the board.
Let's Play.
Let's play.
All right.
Everybody pick a color.
Purple.
Pick a color.
Orange.
Just kidding.
Green.
Each deck contains 12 cards.
Now, the goal is to get all of your cards on the table
by matching them with another player.
OK.
First one to three wins.
Yeah, yeah.
We got to get this started right.
Kara, can I get a Happy Salmon?
All right.
That's what a Happy Salmon is?
That's what Happy Salmon is.
OK.
Everybody ready?
Yeah.
All right.
OK.
On the count of three.
Oh, it's going to get crazy.
One, two, three.
Flip them.
Happy Salmon!
Switcheroo!
Happy Salmon!
Switcheroo!
Switcheroo.
Ah, Switcheroo!
Switcheroo!
Pound it, pound it!
High five, Happy Salmon!
Happy Salmon!
Happy Salmon.
High five!
Yeah!
Pound it, pound it, pound it.
Switcheroo!
Ah, Happy Salmon!
Happy Salmon!
Pound it.
Happy Salmon.
Pound it!
Somebody, Happy Salmon?
Switcheroo!
Pound it, yeah!
Happy Salmon?
Oh!
That's the bear, man.
I missed it.
Just so you know, Ben, for the future,
you're supposed to yell "Finished!"
Get it?
Fin?
Fin.
It's so chaotic that I felt like I was--
I know.
All right, I must be winning!
I got a couple Switcheroos with Kara,
so there wasn't a lot of distance to cover.
We're going to go another round.
I feel like my adrenaline is--
We're going to go another round, guys.
It's partially the gummy bears.
It's white knuckle action.
Yeah, it is energy gummy bears.
That's adding to it, though.
How much caffeine is in these bears?
Enough.
I'm liking these gummy bears.
I don't know if it's the competitiveness
and the intensity of the game, or the fact that we're
eating caffeinated candy, but my heart's beating a little bit.
Got the jitters.
They call it the jitters.
I got the jitters.
It's helping.
Need the energy to get through this.
Ah.
Round two.
All right, round two.
Are we ready?
Ready.
OK.
One, two, three, flip it!
Switcheroo!
High five, Happy Salmon!
Switcheroo!
High five.
Happy Salmon.
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon.
High five!
Pound it, pound it.
Switcheroo.
Dang it.
Pound it.
Happy Salmon.
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon.
Switcheroo?
Ah, pound it.
Pound it!
I went the wrong way.
High five.
Pound it!
High five.
Happy Salmon.
I'm doing bad.
Pound it, pound it!
High five!
Switcheroo!
Happy Salmon!
Switcheroo!
Happy Salmon?
Switcheroo!
Happy Salmon.
Pound it!
Move!
Ah!
Pound it.
Switcheroo.
High five.
Yeah!
No!
Finished!
Oh.
Ben, number two.
I am feeling good.
Ben has a clear lead right now, and I've
got to catch up if I'm going to stay in the game.
I'm tied with the others, but I don't want to lose.
Oh.
I suspect you're cheating, sir.
Well, you guys know if no one gets it right away,
you can put it on the bottom.
You're completely allowed to take your card
and put it on the bottom.
It's such a risk though, because--
I know.
Choose the wrong time.
Because it's--
If you do it at the wrong time--
If I do it and somebody else is like, oh,
I have what you were just asking for.
All right, guys.
Round three.
We're going to do a silent round where nobody says anything.
You can only do gestures and hand signals.
What?
Can we show them our card?
No showing the card.
So you kind of do this or this?
Absolutely not.
Do this.
Do like--
OK.
All right.
That could work.
Silent round sounds interesting.
I don't know how I'm going to communicate
a lot of these things.
I mean, it's going to be a lot of--
I'm a talkative guy, but I have very expressive eyes.
One, two, three.
Flip it.
There's a lot more oomph behind those poundings
than I would think.
I like the peace and calm of you guys not saying anything.
It's oddly calming after all the chaos.
Come on.
Oh, god.
Somebody's getting really close.
Yes!
Fin!
Finished.
Oh, man.
We have a finished.
That one was tough.
This is exhausting, and we're not even really moving.
I mean, we're barely running around this table.
And I feel like I just ran a marathon.
On this side, you can smell the fish a lot more.
Yeah.
That reality is becoming a lot more real for me right now--
Yes.
--because I haven't gotten one yet.
Yeah, I know.
This isn't looking good.
This one's going to be a regular round.
So you guys can all use your--
We're talking.
If he wins, we both get the fish.
I know.
I don't have to win.
I just got to beat you.
I just need to get one.
I don't care if I win at this point.
I just want to get one.
Everybody ready?
I'm ready.
For round number four?
OK.
Here we go.
Three, two, one.
Happy Salmon!
Pound it, pound it, pound it, pound it.
High five?
High five!
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon!
Switcheroo.
High five.
Pound it!
Pound it.
Dang it.
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon.
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon!
Pound it, pound it, pound it!
Who wants to pound it?
Pound it.
Switcheroo.
Switcheroo!
Dang it, Ben!
Switcheroo.
Switcheroo!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
High five.
High five!
Switcheroo!
Who wants to switch that?
Switcheroo.
High five.
Yeah!
High five, high five!
Dang it, Ben!
Happy Salmon!
Every time I match with Ben and Jon
feels like a little bit of me dies
because I'm just going to smell fish in my beard
for the rest of the day.
Switcheroo.
Pound it.
Happy Salmon, Happy Salmon!
Pound it.
Happy Salmon!
Yes!
Ben!
Oh!
Jon.
Boom.
Boom, Jon.
Two points.
I'm liking my chances right now.
I'm liking them a lot.
I'm looking pretty good tied with Ben.
Just one more.
I feel bad, but then I don't feel bad.
No.
Jon totally stole a high five too--
Did I?
--from Danny that I was going for.
That was like a tri-five.
Watch the replay.
It was fair.
It was a tri-five.
It was fair.
See, Ben's problem is he's just too slow.
So you get in the high fives and he high
fived the back of my hand, but that doesn't count.
I think he stole it from me.
I mean, fair and square.
You know, all's fair in love and salmon.
The first two people that actually call it out,
they get a match first.
So if a third person's calling out at the same time--
Yeah, yeah.
OK.
Everybody ready?
Yeah.
Ready.
Round number five.
Here we go.
All right.
One, two, three, flip it.
Happy Salmon!
High five!
Pound it!
Happy Salmon!
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon.
Switches.
High five.
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon.
Sorry.
I've got to come over here.
High five!
Switcheroo.
Switcheroo!
Yeah, do it!
Switcheroo!
Happy Salmon!
High five, high five!
Switcheroo.
Don't leave me hanging.
Pound it.
Don't leave me hanging.
Happy Salmon!
Salmon, salmon, salmon!
High five.
Salmon, salmon, salmon.
Happy Salmon, Happy Salmon!
Come on, you two.
Pound it.
Happy Salmon!
High five!
Happy Salmon, Happy Salmon, Happy Salmon!
Salmon.
High five.
Happy Salmon!
Pound it, pound it!
Whoa!
What was that?
Oh, he's dropping cards.
Pound it!
Switcheroo.
Happy Salmon!
Switcheroo.
High five!
Switcheroo.
Pound it, pound it!
Finished!
No!
I was close!
Upset.
I almost won that one.
I felt it.
It was going to happen.
And then it didn't.
I was one away.
Oh, yeah.
I had a rough round.
Oh.
I had a rough round, guys.
You just stuck in there.
Going.
I don't even know you have the card--
Got it!
--And you're doing it.
Take it when you see it.
Kara's making a lot of wild accusations about my technique.
The way I play is to win.
So I guess if that's a problem, then that's a problem.
The fish is not getting any fresher.
Oh, that's true.
Oh.
It's leaking some juices.
The fish smells horrible.
But when I saw the juice leaking out of it, uh.
Just a little bit of motivation for winning this next round.
Yes, thank you.
That thing is nasty.
More importantly, there's four of us
and there's only three gummy bears left.
Oh, no.
You got to win for it.
I don't care which one of you win now.
Just win so I don't get fished.
Fished?
Is that a verb now?
Is everybody ready for round number six?
One, two, three, flip it!
Happy Salmon!
Pound it!
Oh.
Sorry.
High five!
Pound it!
Happy Salmon!
High five, high five, high five.
Happy Salmon.
Pound it.
High five, high five.
Pound it.
Pound it!
Switcheroo!
High five.
Salmon!
Happy Salmon!
Yeah!
No!
Happy Salmon.
Yeah!
Pound it!
Pound it, pound it.
Pound it!
Yes.
High five!
Here we go.
Switcheroo!
Ah!
The Switcheroos are pretty chaotic.
Switcheroos are so awkward.
I like the Switcheroos.
I like that they're weird.
I like that I have to skirt by people awkwardly.
Oh!
Switcheroo!
No!
High five!
Yeah!
Pound it!
Switcheroo!
Happy Salmon!
High five.
Oh, skip that.
High five.
High five!
Switcheroo.
Fin!
Happy Salmon!
Happy-- no!
Kara gets the fish!
Kara gets the fish.
Uh.
Jon.
As winner, I present you with a Vat19 trophy.
Yes.
This is pretty dang sweet.
That's cool.
Kara, for you.
Oh.
Yes.
Oh, I smell it.
You get a slap on the face.
Who slaps her?
Winner slaps her.
Well, you do it.
Yeah, I'd say winner.
Wait, what?
I mean, I lose a little bit too because I
have to touch this thing.
OK, I'm going to do a pop, pop.
I'm just closing my eyes.
Forehand, backhand.
Do a Happy Salmon.
Yeah, I'm going to Happy Salmon your face.
Here we go.
[SMACKS]
[LAUGHTER]
The noise.
Oh, that sound.
The sound was incredible.
[LAUGHTER]
I could totally smell that as it was hitting my face,
and I'm pretty sure it splattered everywhere else.
I feel a little bit bad about that.
Not that bad.
It was fun, and it sounded really funny.
But I feel a little bit bad.
Guys, thank you for watching "Let's Play"
IRL's Happy Salmon.
Nice.
Good job.
Pound it.
One last pound it.
One last pound.
Let me get some Happy Salmon.
I don't think you want a Happy Salmon.
It would be a crappy salmon.
[LAUGHTER]
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