- (React) Can you give me your best Hadouken, Phil?
- Hadouken!
- (React) Yeah! - Oh, that was really good!
- (React) Today, you guys are gonna be working together...
- We're ready!
- (React) To Guess The Nintendo Character.
- Oh!
- Ha!
- (React) Based on our elders' description.
One of the more life experienced members
will receive a plushie of a beloved Nintendo character.
You will describe the character to your teammate
on the other side of the partition.
It'll be up to them to guess the name of the character
from your description.
I'll give you one minute per character.
Oh, also, there's a prize!
The duo that correctly guesses the most
will get to pick a character to bring home and cuddle forever.
So, do you have any history with video games at all?
- None, zero.
When my children were younger, where you bounce,
the ball goes, a thing.
- (laughs) Pong?
- I play Bridge online. (React laughs)
- (React) Chris, open your eyes.
- (gasps) I can see! - (React) Phil, describe away.
- Big pants.
(Brian laughs)
- Black mustache, big puffy cheeks,
a good puffy yellow hat with a W on it.
- Yellow!
- Well, it's a short guy with a funny hat on
with a W on it, he's got a mustache.
- Wario! (bell rings)
- (React) You can guess whenever you want.
- Wario! - (React) You got it!
- Yes!
- You said big pants, Wario. (bell rings)
- (React) Yeah, what do you guys know about Wario?
- He, it's Mario backwards with a W.
(group laughs)
- (React) Wario is Mario's non-turtle based arch rival.
- Did you say nocturnal or non-turtle?
- (React) Not turtle.
Fun fact, in 2021, Elon Musk played him in a sketch on SNL.
- No thanks.
- How apropos.
- (React) And his first appearance was in 1992
in Super Mario Land 2: The Golden Coins on the Game Boy!
- Mm-hmm, which I just recently beat again.
- (React) Ooh, good for you. (laughs)
Cassie, you can open up! - (Kirby) Hi!
- Well, it's a large pillow type object.
- They are elongated blue eyes.
- This is a big, big, pink!
- I can't tell if it's legs, or if it's pillows.
- Off the right and left are a tumor, pink tumors.
- Tumors! (laughs)
- They look like legs,
but I don't know what the hell they are.
- This sounds like Kirby.
- Is there like a swirl in the front?
Like a hair swirl? - No swirl at all.
- The whole thing is a light pink, with...
- Kirby. (bell rings)
- Okay, I'm gonna go with Kirby.
- (React) Correct! (bell rings)
- (both) Yay!
- (React) Do you know anything about Kirby?
- A vacuum? That Kirby?
(Brian gasps)
- He eats things and gains their powers when he eats them.
- Wow, that's like the old days in hunting,
when you kill an animal, you eat his heart.
- (laughs) You gain the powers of a deer, yeah, exactly.
- (React) Also, fun fact, not named after the vacuum.
Had nothing to do With the vacuum.
- Mm-hmm.
- (React) Was named after John Kirby, an American lawyer
that defended Nintendo in a lawsuit.
There you go.
- Ah!
- Okay, I got a small, brown creature wearing a green suit
with a law extruded nose.
- He's got cute little ears and little tiny hands,
and little tiny feet. - Is he yellow?
- This little person is little.
- It looks like a little teddy bear with a long nose.
- Is it Tom Nook? - (React) It's Tom Nook!
- Oh my God!!
- (React) 30 seconds. 15 seconds.
- Is that Fox McCloud?
- (React) No! (buzzer)
- Dang it! Is it Banjo?
(buzzer)
- (React) Five seconds!
- I can see, um, um....
Wally the Wombat!
- (React) No! - What? (laughs)
I don't even know who that is!
- Aww.
- Oh my God, it's Tom Nook!
- (React) It's Tom Nook!
- It's Tom Nook, and I'm glad, 'cause I hate him.
- (React) Have you ever played Animal Crossing
or heard of Animal Crossing?
- I've never heard of it, sorry. (laughs)
- (React) Phil, you see that character for the first time,
you don't know what he's from, what do you think Tom Nook's story is?
- I think he's a lost soul, maybe looking for his mother.
- Precious! - He is a cutie pie.
- (React) Yes, explain Tom Nook. - Let's say loan shark.
- (React) Slum lord? - Slum lord maybe, yes.
In the game Animal Crossing, you purchase a house,
or he swindles you into purchasing a house for lots of money,
and so for the whole game, you're paying back the debt.
- (React) Mary, would you think that that character
would be evil in any way, shape, or form?
- No, he looks, that's why he hooks people, I think,
because he's like aww. - Mmm.
- Is he human or animal?
- He looks like, no, he could be a crossing guard.
- Looks like a child.
- We're talking green here!
- Yoshi. (Yoshi kisses)
- (React) No! - Dang.
- Dressed in green, but he's got a shield and a sword.
A medieval toy, it looks like.
- Sounds like Link. (bell rings)
- Oh, it's a shield and sword.
- A shield and a sword, a shield and a sword!
Is it Link?
- (React) It's Link! - Yes!
- With a belt that goes across his chest,
and then around his waist. - Link.
(laughs) Look at him! Oh, he's so cute!
- (React) Could you please do some Link screams for me?
- Hah!
- Heh!
- Hwah! (React laughs)
- Wah! - Hwah!
- Wah!
- (React) Phil, can you do your best Link swinging his sword.
- (coughs) I do it every morning! (Chris laughs)
- This is an, I believe, it looks to me, I don't know,
it's all blue.
- He's kinda tall, he's kinda, almost like a frog like,
but he's blue. - Oh.
Tall blue frog. - Tall blue frog.
- Frog looking creating. - A frog looking creature?
- Webbed toes and webbed hands with a pink thing around his neck.
- Is it a blue frog?
- Blue frog, white knee pads.
- Is it Greninja, the Pokemon? - (React) Oh my God! (laughs)
- Booyah!
- (React) Five, four... - Tall, skinny, Sonic!
(buzzer) - (React) Two, one!
- Ah, I don't know! (laughs) (buzzer)
- (React) That's time!
- What was this thing? - What the hell?
- It's Greninja!
- (React) That's Greninja. - Oh!
- Greninja, oh, he's a ninja!
- (React) That is not a scarf, though, that is his tongue.
- (Holgie) Oh, that's his tongue.
- Great for insects.
- What role does the tongue play? - Mainly aesthetic.
Don't worry about the tongue,
there are other Pokemon whose tongues are way weirder.
- Explain to me what Pokemon is all about.
- Um, from what I've gleaned... - (Holgie) Okay.
- It's about teenagers. - (Holgie) Alright.
- With balls. (laughs)
- Bottles? - Balls.
- It's basically kinda like dog fighting, but cute. (laughs)
- Oh God.
- I have a very colorful pillow here.
It's got Rubik's Cubes all over it.
- Um...
- The "you-bick" cube. - A Rubik's Cube?
- Yeah, a Rubik's Cube. - A Rubik's Cube?
- Yeah, would it be, it looks kinda like that.
- Person? - But it's not been put together.
- If a person was a Rubik's Cube.
- It's a green background. - Uh-huh.
- With Pokemon, I'm sorry, Pokemon.
- It's got bright colors, little squares.
- Oh, is it just like a bunch of squares
or are there any like characters involved on it?
- No characters, all colors.
- Is it Tetris? (bell rings)
- Does it look like a game system possibly?
- It's possible, certainly.
- Is it Tetris?
- Well, you tell me what the hell that is.
- Tetris! (both laugh)
Tetris!
- Tetris was the first game that I owned for the Game Boy.
- Oh my God.
- Because it came packaged with it.
- (React) Phil, have you ever played Tetris or seen Tetris?
- I have, I had lots of kids, remember.
- Isn't there gonna be a Tetris movie?
- (React) There is a Tetris movie, and it's really good.
- Is it about this guy?
- (React) It's about the guy who made that.
- That was really tricky, that was good though.
- That was tricky, yeah. - What you were doing was great.
- The pillow. - I just...
TechniCube was my... (laughs)
- (React) Chris, are you ready for this round?
- I'm ready.
- This is like you and me, little twinsies
that sorta look very much similar, but they're not.
- They look like twins, one's dressed with red,
one's dressed in blue, they have big eyes.
- They both have two little arms.
- Wait.
- They look like, you know, Mickey Mouse kind of.
- No, I've saw this.
I know what it is, but I can't remember the name!
- (React) Do you have any other descriptors there, Phil?
- I can't think of any!
(buzzer) (both laugh)
- (React) Alright, this is a tough one, if you wanna show her.
- What in God's name? (buzzer)
- (React) This might be a curve ball.
- Great.
- One has more of a red feature,
and the other has more of a blue feature.
- Red feature, blue feature, is it Cuphead?
- (React) It's Cuphead, oh my God!
- Let's go!
- Yeah, this is supposed to be a cup, and like a mug,
because the handles on the back and the straws up the front.
- (React) They are basically based off of old school 1940s animation.
- Oh. - Yeah!
- (React) It's called rubber hose animation.
Like early Steamboat Mickey.
- Yeah. - (React) We finally got you with one!
- This looks like overstuffed Santa Claus.
But he's got big black eyes, and a little tiny black mouth.
- Round red object with blue feet.
- Big red blob. - Does it have a mouth?
- It has, I guess that's a mouth.
Is that an engineering error?
- The name of this guy!
- Could look like it's holding his face on.
- (React) You've said half of his name.
- Shy Guy!
- Does it have pupils? - (React) 15 seconds.
- It has big giant eyes. - But no pupils?
- Big black dots.
- Shy Guy. (bell rings)
- Is it the giant pig from Mother? (buzzer)
The shark from Jaws. (buzzer)
- (React) No! (both laugh)
- What is... Oh!
- Do you know why they call him that?
- (React) Because the boy looks like he's wearing a mask.
- 'Cause he's... Oh.
- (React) But some say that might be his actual face.
- Yes, right, he just wears that big strap around it
just to fool people. (both laugh)
- (React) What are you holding there?
- I'm holding a very small toy wearing a gi.
- He has a red band around his head, angry eyes, and...
- Ryu? - (narrator) Perfect!
- Does he have a red headband?
Red headband and slanted eyebrows.
- Is it Ryu from Street Fighter? - (React) It is Ryu!
- (narrator) Perfect!
- This looks like a little one of the miniature chefs
you'd see at one of those Asian place that they cook the...
- A miniature chef. (React laughs)
- They cook the stuff in front of you.
- A Hibachi chef. - Yeah.
- Dang.
- But he also has the red band around his head,
like when they do karate and stuff.
- Oh, Street Fighter! - (React) Yes?
- Ken? (buzzer)
- (React) Not Ken! - Ryu!
- (React) Yes, you got it! - Boom!
(group laughs)
- (React) What do you think that's all about?
- About fighting in the street.
- I have heard of Street Fighter, and the only thing I can figure
is that they punch each other in the face
when they're standing on the sidewalk.
- (React) Nailed it! - (narrator) You win!
- That is literally it. - Really?
- (React) How you feeling so far, Phil?
- Um...
Got a couple of good months left.
(both laugh)
- He's got glasses on around his eyes.
- Got a small-ish doll with, it looks like swim glasses on,
although not... - Swim glasses.
- And weapons in each hand.
- She has like an air thing,
or a scuba gear or something on her back.
- He's a person or an animal?
- No, he's a person, a little boy,
it looks like a little bratty boy.
- Pink hair, orange eyes, with black pupils,
pink eyebrows. - Is it Splatoon?
- (React) Excuse me, what?
- Ink kid, the squid girl. (buzzer rings)
The ink... - (React) Five seconds.
- Squid, no ink. - (React) Uh oh, uh oh!
Three... - Inkling!
- (React) Oh, you got it! - Yeah! (laughs)
- He's got like an automatic weapon.
It looks like a firearm, or it's a water pistol.
- It's an Inkling from Splatoon.
- (React) Oh my God, Chris! (laughs)
- What do you call this thing?
- I haven't the [censored]... - The foggiest.
- It was, the fact that you said water pistol
made me think like oh, yeah.
- These are the Inklings,
they can transform into octopuses.
- They shoot, what is the word, like paint?
They shoot like ink, because they're like squid people.
- This thing is from under the sea.
- Does he look like a fish?
- He looks exactly like a fish.
- I think this is called an angelfish.
It's orange, it has at the top, a yellow cockle.
- Orange angelfish? - Or whatever that is.
- Huh?
- You know, like what roosters have?
Isn't that cock-a-doodle? - Got it.
Oh, it's a Magikarp. - (React) God dang it!
- Is it Magikarp? - (React) Oh my God, it's Magikarp!
(Cassie screams)
- It's got a huge tail, it's not very small,
and it's got a circular mouth.
- A circular mouth.
Is it a Cheep-Cheep from Mario?
(buzzer)
Birdo from Mario? (buzzer)
Is it a... - (React) Three, two...
- Something from Legend of Zelda. - (React) No!
- No, Zora, no.
Oh my God! (laughs)
It's another Pokemon. It's a Magikarp.
- I saw Magikarp, and my brain went core memory.
- Oh!
- That's the dumbest looking thing.
- Right.
- (React) Magikarp is known as the basically most docile,
useless Pokemon in the whole Pokedex.
- Okay, that's right.
- I feel like I knew that, and I loved him.
- Right. - For who he was.
- It actually evolves into another Pokemon
that people absolutely adore, named Gyarados,
which is really, really strong.
- Every playthrough, I get a Magikarp,
that's my water Pokemon for a while.
- Magikarp, splash!
- Karp, Karp, Karp.
- Magikarp, stop!
- It's like Alexa. (laughs)
- We have a turtle-like essence here.
- And he's got a big white thing on the front, like a bib.
- A bib?
- It has a bib on.
- (group) Bowser Jr. (bell rings)
- (React) Yes! - Yeah!
- (React) What game did Bowser Jr. first appear in?
- First appearance, Sunshine?
- (React) Yes he did!
- Wow, that was his first appearance. Wow, look at that.
- What does this guy do?
- So there is the character in Super Mario Brothers,
his name is Bowser, he's like the big bad guy.
This is his son.
The reason why he's got the little bib is because he painted it,
and then he wears it over his head so that he looks mean and scary.
- Question. - (React) Yes?
- Who is Baby Bowser's mom?
- (React) I don't think anybody knows.
- Ooh.
You're legitimate, no matter, you know,
no matter who your mom is. - Right.
- What shape is it? - Square.
- Pupils are black.
Colored part of the eye is an orangey red.
- Okay. - And teeth that look. (growls)
- Does it look like a specific kind of monster?
- It's a square pillow with a growling face on it.
- Is it a Thwomp? (bell rings)
- (React) Five seconds, Brian. Make a guess.
- I'm pretty sure it's a Thwomp?
- I feel like this is from Super Mario.
- (React) Yes.
- It's like, it's the big block thing!
- (React) Yes.
- What is the block called?
- (React) Think of some names of like a sound
if it would hit the ground.
- Oh, Boomba!
(buzzer) - (React) No!
- Poof, Squash!
- Bang, Squash, Boom! - Bang, Kaboom, Kapow!
Splat, Spoof, Spoof. (laughs)
- (React) Start with a Th.
- Thud? - Throw, throw, throw, throw!
- (React) Keep going, so close! - Thrap!
- Thub, thub. - (React) Five seconds!
- Thump, Thumper!
- Thunk! - Thug, thud, thud, thrash!
- (React) That's it, time's up!
- Fudge! (buzzer)
- What does a Thwomp do?
- It's supposed to be an obstacle,
because you're supposed to run under it
before it drops on you. - Spikes you.
- And squishes Mario, yeah. - Okay.
- He like shakes on the way up.
- Ugh! (both laugh)
He said I'll go over! (laughs)
- Hey, I Thwomped him!
- (laughs) He Thwomped him!
- This starts with a crown and beautiful blonde locks.
- Princess Peach. (buzzer)
- (React) No!
- Rosalina? (bell rings)
- Green dress on. - Green dress.
Would it be more like... - Long blonde hair.
- Is it like a teal-ish dress, from Super Mario Galaxy.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. It's Rosalina.
- Blue dress, blue dress.
Is that Rosalind? (buzzer)
Rosaline? (buzzer)
Rosalina! - (React) Yes!
- Yes! (group laughs)
- Rosalina is actually a very lovely princess from space.
(both laugh)
- (React) Phil, if you were a space princess...
- If I was a space princess?
- (React) What planet in our galaxy would you rule over?
- Ooh.
- Johnsonville.
- I would reign over Venus, it is the planet of love.
- (React) Let me get a drum roll, the results are in.
And because you got that question correct...
- Oh! - (React) And nobody else did,
you guys lost by only one point!
(record scratches) - (crowd) Aww.
- High five. - Hell yeah!
- (React) We've got a Thwomp! Phew-pssh!
And we got a Kirby! - Woo!
- (React) Oh! (Mary laughs)
- (React) Congratulations, you guys.
Speech, speech, speech!
(Brian grunts)
(both laugh)
Oh, teach her the Kirby sound.
- Oh, that would be, he doesn't even really...
He doesn't really say a lot of stuff
except for like hi!
- (React) Oh, cute. - Yeah.
- Hi! - (React) Boom.
- Okay, bye, thank you! - Too-da-loo, goodbye!
- Push the button and mark whatever.
- Hah! - (React) Ha!
- Heh!
- Oh yeah, that one, what was the guy,
the guy with the gi on, what did he say?
- Oh, Street Fighter. Hadouken!
- No, it was a longer one than that, what was it?
- Tatsumaki Senpukyaku! (laughs)
- Tatsumaki Senpukyaku! - (React) Yeah!
- (laughs) Yes! - I like that one.