50 Fun Facts About Smosh

Smosh's lip-sync of which theme song briefly became YouTube's most-viewed video before a copyright claim removed it?

Pokémon topped a fan poll for the duo's next lip-sync, and the clip passed 24 million views before it was pulled in 2007.

In Smosh's Try Not to Laugh, the cast member in the hot seat loses by spitting out a mouthful of what?

Water makes the verdict obvious: one player sits alone with a mouthful while castmates perform bits, and Smosh took the game on a five-city tour in 2020.

In Smosh's yearly Food Battle, which snack did Ian Hecox pit against Anthony Padilla's egg roll in 2012?

A donut with frosting was Hecox's fighter, while fans picked Padilla's egg roll through a three-week elimination bracket of eight foods.

Which YouTube duo took over Smosh in February 2019, months after its parent firm suddenly closed?

Rhett & Link ran Smosh through Mythical Entertainment, and the cast worked out of Mythical's Los Angeles office before moving into a purpose-built studio in Burbank.

Courtney Miller built a following on which video app before Olivia Sui urged her to audition for Smosh?

Vine was in its first year, 2013, when Miller began posting, and it was through the app that she first met Sui.

Smosh first became YouTube's most-subscribed channel in May 2006 with roughly how many subscribers?

About 3,000 was enough: Smosh topped the chart with just 2,986 subscribers, and at least 11 other channels have held the number one spot since.

Which owner of Smosh from 2011 abruptly shut down in November 2018 and laid off all its staff?

Defy Media had its assets frozen by creditors within a day of the announcement, and the Smosh cast kept releasing finished videos on their own while they looked for a new owner.

Which creator passed Smosh in August 2013 as YouTube's most-subscribed, then made a video with the duo?

PewDiePie ended Smosh's third spell at number one, which had begun that January when the channel passed Ray William Johnson.

Part Timers, Smosh's 2016 pizzeria sitcom, drew on Ian Hecox's first job at which restaurant chain?

Chuck E. Cheese became Pork E. Pine's on screen, where Hecox played the mascot and Anthony Padilla the manager handed the job by his father.

What did Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla announce in June 2023, six years after Padilla had left Smosh?

They had bought the company, taking a majority stake that made Smosh independent again, and the pair went back to writing sketches together.

Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla voiced characters named Bubbles and Hal in which 2016 animated film?

The Angry Birds Movie cast Padilla as Hal, a green bird that flies like a boomerang, and Hecox as Bubbles, an orange one that inflates.

In Smosh: The Movie, Anthony wants a clip erased before seeing his old crush at which kind of event?

A reunion of his high school class, five years on, is the deadline, so the duo step through a portal into YouTube itself to change the video.

What reason did Anthony Padilla give in June 2017 for leaving Smosh, the channel he co-founded?

Lack of creative freedom was the phrase he used when announcing his exit, while Ian Hecox stayed on and promised to take Smosh to its next phase.

Smosh's Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla grew up in Carmichael, a suburb of which California city?

Sacramento is where both were born in 1987, and the first Smosh lip-syncs were filmed in Padilla's bedroom at his family's Carmichael home.

Sword AF, the Smosh Games series run by game master Damien Haas, is a campaign in which tabletop game?

Dungeons & Dragons drew a crowd fast: the first Sword AF episode passed 400,000 views within 24 hours of its July 2023 debut.

From 2020 to 2022, Smosh Games broadcast shows such as Board AF Live on which streaming platform?

Twitch had brought the channel more than 57,000 followers before its first stream on September 2, 2020, and Smosh wound the streams down in March 2022.

In 2022 Shayne Topp began hosting a Smosh series built on strangers' stories from which website?

Reddit supplies the tales for Smosh Reads Reddit Stories, and Topp went on to co-host the podcast Smosh Mouth from 2023.

Smosh's 90-minute sketch stream of August 2016, fake commercials included, was compared to which TV show?

Saturday Night Live was the yardstick for the broadcast, which mixed improvised sketches with spoof adverts and drew about 58,000 viewers at once.

Which relative of Ian Hecox turned up as a recurring character in Smosh's early sketches?

His mother, Sharon, put up with plenty: in Food Battle 2012 she took a blast of fake egg roll filling to the face.

A fan's dubs of Smosh videos led the founders to hire them and launch a channel in which language?

Spanish dubs fill ElSmosh, which Smosh opened in 2012, the same year as its gaming and animation channels.

Before YouTube, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla shared Smosh clips on smosh.com and which social network?

MySpace hosted their lip-syncs first, and they only discovered YouTube after finding one of their videos re-uploaded there with thousands of views.

Smosh, the first YouTube channel to reach ten million subscribers, received which Creator Award for it?

Diamond awards set a clear crystal play-button triangle in silver-plated metal, and YouTube introduced the tier in 2015.

Which online-video convention named Smosh's founders to its first Hall of Fame class in 2025?

VidCon had history with the pair: Smosh: The Movie held its premiere at the convention in July 2015, a day before its release.

Smosh's founders, Zoella and Alfie Deyes were among the first internet stars to receive which honor?

Madame Tussauds wax figures of the pair followed a 2014 survey, published by Variety, that ranked Smosh the most influential names among US teenagers.

In which web series did Smosh's founders play the painters Michelangelo and Raphael against cartoon turtles?

Epic Rap Battles of History closed its third season in July 2014 with Artists vs TMNT, pitting four Renaissance masters against their namesakes.

Food Battle: The Game, Smosh's 2014 action RPG, drew on The Witcher 2 and which Nintendo series?

The Legend of Zelda shaped a game built around the foods from the yearly sketches, and a tenth of the money raised to make it went to charity.

For a comedy livestream in June 2022, the Smosh cast performed sketches in which condition?

While drunk was the whole premise of Under the Influence, which mixed scripted sketches with rounds of Try Not to Laugh and Eat It or Yeet It.

What did Anthony Padilla post on smosh.com when he built the site in 2002, before Smosh joined YouTube?

Flash animations filled the early site, whose name came from Padilla mishearing a friend who was describing a mosh pit.

Smosh raised over $250,000 in 2013 to make Food Battle: The Game through which crowdfunding site?

Indiegogo hosted the 33-day campaign, which closed at $259,247; Padilla later said the owners had pushed for it before the game was even conceived.

Which animation channel did Smosh launch in April 2012, home to Krogzilla and Pubertina?

Shut Up! Cartoons was part of YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative and ran until June 2017, ending with the series Smosh Babies.

Which nickname does David Moss use, as one of the six original members of Smosh Games in 2012?

Lasercorn left Smosh Games in 2017, returned for a second spell from 2019 to 2020, and plays himself in a cameo in Smosh: The Movie.

Original Smosh Games host Mari Takahashi worked for a decade in which profession before joining Smosh?

Ballerina to gamer began with a 2010 job application, made when Smosh was looking for a Japanese speaker to help it expand.

Smosh Games host Mari Takahashi was the first of her team voted out on which reality series in 2016?

Survivor placed her on the Millennials tribe for its 33rd season, and she marked it with a themed spin-off of her Minecraft series, MariCraft.

Which Smosh Games series debuted in 2014 as a spin-off of a Screen Junkies show?

Honest Game Trailers had started on the site GameFront, was rebooted with Smosh Games, and later moved to Fandom's gaming channel.

Which Nintendo designer gave Smosh Games an interview during a Mario Kart 8 gameplay video?

Shigeru Miyamoto was a notable guest for the hosts, who were also invited by Wired around then to debate the best games ever made.

For a 2017 Smosh Games series tied to Assassin's Creed Origins, two hosts traveled to which country?

Egypt hosted Joshua Ovenshire and Mari Takahashi for three episodes, in which they tried activities drawn from the country's culture and the game.

Before Smosh, Shayne Topp and Damien Haas both appeared on which cable comedy series?

So Random! gave Topp the recurring part of Shayne Zabo in its 2011–2012 run, years before he and Haas became castmates again.

Smosh's Shayne Topp played Matt Bradley from 2017 to 2023 on which ABC family sitcom?

The Goldbergs kept Topp for seasons four to ten, and he carried the character into an episode of its spin-off, Schooled.

Smosh's Shayne Topp and Courtney Miller announced their surprise marriage on which day in 2024?

April Fools' Day was a deliberate choice for the reveal, three days after the pair wed at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

Which Smosh series, launched in August 2024, was billed as the group's late-night talk show?

Bit City is hosted by Angela Giarratana and Chanse McCrary, and in a May 2025 episode Giarratana lost a game and got her cat's name tattooed on camera.

In Smosh: The Movie, Ian and Anthony land in which YouTuber's vlog, where she warns of dying phone batteries?

Jenna Marbles plays a version of herself trapped inside YouTube for good, though by the film's end she is running YouTube as its chief executive.

Which Judson Laipply clip became YouTube's most-viewed video in May 2006, weeks after a Smosh lip-sync held the title?

Evolution of Dance, uploaded in April 2006, went on to hold the top spot over three separate periods, the last ending in October 2009.

Which rapper appears as a ghost in Ghostmates, the 2016 Smosh film about a haunted apartment?

T-Pain's cameo comes in a film where Ian Hecox plays a man who dies by accident and haunts Anthony Padilla's character, the next renter.

Which star of the Bill & Ted films directed Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla in Smosh: The Movie?

Alex Winter, who played Bill, shot the whole film at YouTube Space in Los Angeles and appears in it, uncredited, in a photo as Anna's uncle.

Barry Blumberg, Smosh's manager from 2006, had been president of television animation at which studio?

Disney was Blumberg's old employer; at Smosh he got the duo into YouTube's Partner program in 2007 and talked them into a regular upload schedule.

Smosh Games launched in September 2012 as a joint venture between Smosh and which gaming channel?

ClevverGames had passed 100,000 subscribers before its parent was bought, and it supplied three of the new channel's six original hosts.

Which Smosh cast member plays Pete, the pizzeria's newest employee, in the 2016 sitcom Part Timers?

Noah Grossman had joined the main cast only the year before, and his character Pete falls for Mads, who works on the cleanup crew.

Jackie Uweh left the Smosh cast in August 2023 to join which improv comedy institution?

The Second City signed her for its New York troupe, in the same year that Kimmy Jimenez moved from the cast into a producer role.

Which comedian plays Steve YouTube, the boss who sends the duo through a portal in Smosh: The Movie?

Michael Ian Black's villain is unmasked as the phone assistant guiding the duo, and he ends the film stuck with Anthony's old pizza delivery job.

Smosh's Angela Giarratana played Grace Chasity in Nerdy Prudes Must Die for which musical theater company?

StarKid Productions also cast her as Lex Foster in Black Friday, and she joined Smosh's cast in 2022 after starting there as a writer.