Elders React to Deez Nuts Vine Compilation (Bonus #71)

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- (Mary Jane) Who are you?
- (Spider-Man) Deez nuts.

- (laughs heartily)

Spider-Man, these nuts.

- (Aladdin) ♪ I can show you... ♪
- (man) Deez nuts!

- (chuckles to herself)

- I guess it has meaning to some people.

- (Steve Harvey) Name some thing
you put in your mouth

but don't swallow.
- (man) Deez nuts!

- (chuckling)

- It's so funny 'cause he's so amused.

He's so amused with himself.

- (Drew Carey) George,
let's start the show with a bang.

What've we got for her?

- (George) Lori, how about--
- (man) Deez nuts.

- (chuckles)

- ♪ A is for Abby! ♪

- ♪ B is for Bert ♪

- ♪ C is for Cookie Monster! ♪

♪ D is for... ♪
- (man) Deez nuts!

- (chuckling)
- (man) Got 'im!

- Okay. So the world had
a field day with this, I see.

- I didn't quite understand that.

- I'm not going for the guy and the nuts.

- Well, I personally liked "these nuts."

(Finebros laughing)
What can I say?

(movie reel clicks)

- (Finebros) All right. So what
exactly did we just show you?

- You showed me "these nuts!"

- It was a bunch of different clips

over "deez nuts."

- I have a friend in Seattle.
We do that on the phone.

- He say, "Hello."
I say, "Hello, it's deez nuts."

- (Finebros) Did you like watching these?
- Yeah, it's fun.

- Yeah, I loved them. I thought
the choices were great.

- Any time that someone
is that amused with themselves,

it's like a disease-- you catch it.

- (Finebros) This trend has been
popular for months now,

where people take the footage
of the guy saying "deez nuts"

and put it in different situations.
Even younger kids like this.

Do you think this is appropriate
for younger kids to be watching?

- Well, it's a little harmless

in considering some of the other
things that you hear or see.

- Sure, why not?

They know so much more
than we know. It's like, pff.

- Yeah, it's good with me.
I'm okay with it.

It's not a matter of being appropriate.

It's a matter of just living
and expressing yourself.

- (Finebros) And so the original
was more of like a prank call.

But people are now
doing this in everyday life,

where they'll prank someone else

by making you think you're
gonna ask a serious question,

but then you answer, "Deez nuts."

What do you think about that as a prank?
- I love it.

- I think it's great.

- I think I might just have
to try it out in my pranking.

- I could see where guys
especially would do that.

I think that a lot of women would think,

"Oh, it's sort of silly."

- I can remember in my day,
the thing was this.

And it meant the finger.

- Every generation has a prank,

like making a phone call and asking,

"Is your refrigerator running?"
and people going, "Yes,"

and then you say,
"Oh, well, go run after it!"

- (Finebros) Also something odd
that has happened with this trend

has something to do
with politics this year.

Do you have any idea what?
- I don't know.

Maybe it occurred with
an Obama speech or something.

- Someone can put it
into their political slogan.

- If it was up to me,
I would insert that little video

right in the middle of the debates.

- (Finebros) So what happened is

somebody used Deez Nuts as a name

and officially filed
paperwork with the F.E.C.

to run as an independent
presidential candidate.

- (laughs) Really?

- (Finebros) Why do you think
people would joke-vote

for Deez Nuts?
- Well, since politics is a joke,

it's pretty clear that they'd
vote for somebody who's nutty.

- What are the other choices?
Why not? Because it's fun.

I mean, it's a kick in the pants.

- (Finebros) So back to these videos,

this is one of many short-form trends,

like ones we've shown on this show before,

where people remix original footage
to create their own versions.

Could you ever have imagined
that becoming something

people like to watch?
- Yeah. Yeah. I could see that happening.

It's more creative. It's different.

- It's just the latest thing
that's going around.

- They're looking for something different.

They want to get entertained.

If this rolls in and starts
entertaining people,

yeah, I can see it catching on.

- (Finebros) Do you yourself
consider this to be entertainment?

- Yeah. Sure.

- Sure, 'cause we're all-- you know, even

the older generation are sending
good stuff on Facebook.

- Not at all.

Not for me.

- No.

I like a story.

I like the beginning,
a middle, and an end.

- I need a longer section
of something with continuity.

- My mantra in life is,
be nice and have fun.

And they were being nice,
and they were having fun.

It was great.

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