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Revision as of 16:59, 24 December 2007 by 24.15.88.254 (talk) (→2007)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Infobox Internet celebrity Smosh is a duo of college students, Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, from Carmichael, California. They write, film, act in, and edit their own skits and "music videos". They are currently the most subscribed to channel on YouTube.
Smosh.com and personal lives
Smosh.com began in mid-2002 as a free forum for a group of high school friends in Carmichael, California. The forum now has over 100,000 members. As an extra for smosh.com members, extra videos can be viewed, showing off bloopers and commentary from Smosh. The website also offers high-quality versions of the videos. Anthony released Flash videos made by him on the Smosh website. Anthony and Ian's user names on Smosh.com are "A-Dizzle" and "I-Dawg", in reference to characters used in Transformers Theme and Smoothie King Promo videos. Padilla's last name is said by Hecox in "Male Model", possibly in order to let fans know how to pronounce it due to the spelling. It is pronounced (Pah-dee-ahh, in pseudophonetic transcription) which anglesizes the original Spanish .
YouTube video chronology
2005
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes | "Shut up!" Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. "Power Rangers Theme" | August* | 1:06 | First video released. | |
| 2. "Mortal Kombat Theme" | September* | 3:20 | Smosh's current most viewed video, with over 11 million views on YouTube, as of November 2007. | |
| 3. "The Epic Battle: Jesus vs Cyborg Satan" | October* | 7:30 | Smosh's first video that is not a music video. | |
| 4. "Pokémon Theme" | November 28 | 3:14 | Formerly the most viewed video on YouTube at over 24,000,000 views, but other videos have reached higher view numbers after the video was removed. See below. Smosh made a commentary for this video that can be seen in the Extras on Smosh.com |
(*) Were released to Youtube on November 19, 2005, but were created in the specified months.
2006
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes | "Shut Up" Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme" | January 25 | 3:05 | First video filmed outside of Padilla's bedroom. A preview for this video is on Smosh's YouTube channel. | |
| 6. "Battleship" | February 8 | 3:07 | ||
| 7. "Transformers Theme" | March 26 | 3:01 | First appearance of the characters A-Dizzle and I-Dawg | |
| 8. "Smosh Short 1: Dolls" | April 25 | 0:59 | ||
| 9. "The California Stereotype Experiment" | June 7 | 5:07 | First video to have extra cast. | (OC Theme ) |
| 10. "Boxman" | June 21 | 5:19 | First original music video. Bloopers for "Boxman" can be seen in the Extras on Smosh.com. | (Baby laughing) |
| 11. "Smosh Short 2: Stranded" | August 23 | 2:14 | Winner of the YouTube award for Best Comedy Video of 2006. | (Seagulls) |
| 12. "The Best Car EVER" | September 24 | 4:24 | (A Car revving its engine) | |
| 13. "Food Battle 2006" | October 4 | 7:47 | Longest video. Introduced the falling Smosh logo in the intro. First Smosh video filmed at Ian's house. | "Mmm, oh yeah, that's very good... that's a very good sandwich." |
| 14. "That Damn Neighbor" | November 4 | 2:44 | (Harmonica) | |
| 15. "Frankie Rogers Is James Bond" | November 19 | 2:17 | (James Bond theme ) | |
| 16. "How Not to Make a First Impression" | December 4 | 2:15 | Made for Logitech's "How Not To contest," which was hosted by Smosh. | |
| 17. "How Not to Act on a First Date" | December 4 | 3:18 | Made for Logitech's "How Not To contest," which was hosted by Smosh. | |
| 18. "Feet for Hands" | December 13 | 2:43 | Not available for download on Smosh.com because of the copyrighted song used. | |
| 19. "Boxman's Christmas" | December 19 | 3:12 | Boxman tries to explain how he feels about Christmas. | |
| 20. "New Year's Eve PSA" | December 30 | 1:32 |
2007
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes | "Shut Up!" Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21. "Three Wishes" | January 6 | 2:41 | Whatever happened to that shut up thing at the beginning of the smosh videos? | |
| 22. "Axe Murderer" | January 19 | 2:39 | Psycho theme | |
| 23. "Easy Step" | February 3 | 2:25 | Order now! Order now! Order now! | |
| 24. "Sparky Goes to a Club" | February 18 | 3:53 | First video with illustrations. Introduced "smosh.com" below "Smosh Productions" in the intro. | (Dogs barking) |
| 25. "Spiderman, Spiderman" | March 2 | 0:53 | Shortest video. | (Ian singing the Spiderman theme) |
| 26. "License Test" | March 16 | 4:07 | (Laughing) | |
| 27. "April First" | March 31 | 2:53 | (Piano version of April First song) | |
| 28. "Anthony Gets a Haircut" | April 7 | 5:11 | Introduces Anthony's haircut cut by Ian. | Jeeze, you guys need to cut your little friggin' emo, hippie hair off. |
| 29. "Handshake" | April 21 | 1:20 | --But I-I didn't say anything! | |
| 30. "Hardcore Max" | May 7 | 2:41 | Introduces Smosh's 'logo background' in the intro. | Hey kid, put your helmet on! You don't want to hurt your little noggen do ya? |
| 31. "Food Battle 2007" | May 29 | 5:34 | Extras for "Food Battle 2007" can be see in the Extras of Smosh.com | Mmm, oh yeah, that's very good...that's a very good stick of butter! |
| 32. "Transformers Rap" | June 15 | 3:28 | Featured on TRL. Bloopers for "Transformers Rap" can be seen in the Extras of Smosh.com | (Ian singing) Transformers do do do do do do, robots in dis... |
| 33. "Three Guys in a Hotel" | July 11 | 4:45 | Features thewinekone, LisaNova and Daxflame. | (Crowd cheering) |
| 34. "Quest for the Scooter" | August 04 | 5:00 | Anthony and Ian save up money to buy a scooter. | Prepare, for the most ultimate race-- |
| 35. "The Assassins" | August 24 | 3:19 | First video featuring the supposed break-up of Ian and Anthony. It is also the first of their first 3 part sketch | Nooooooooo! |
| 36. "Replacement Needed" | August 31 | 4:49 | Second video featuring supposed break-up of Ian and Anthony. | No intro. Video starts with Ian doing a video blog. First video with Ian's Bedroom in it. |
| 37. "Reunited?" | September 7 | 4:42 | Third and final video featuring the supposed break up of Ian and Anthony, where Anthony and Ian reunite as Smosh. Shows Ian's bedroom. Also the first video to feature Ian's mother. T-Bag and Phuong's video is on the Extras of Smosh.com/extras | None, but in T-Bag and Phuong's video: This intro is such a ripoff of Smosh's intro |
| 38. "Male Model" | September 28 | 6:36 | First video to show more than just the door of Ian's bedroom. | "Yo check this out" then awesome beat-boxing. |
| 39. "The Haunting" | October 26 | 4:55 | "Ooohhh" in a ghostly manner. | |
| 40. "Toy Airplane" | November 16 | 5:09 | First video to show Anthony and Ian at a different age | "Airplane engine sounds |
| 41. "Ian's Birthday" | December 7 | 3:58 | Happy Birthday song | |
| 42. "Santa Is Real!" | December 22 | 4:38 | Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas |
Removed videos
Ian and Anthony have removed videos from either the Smosh website and YouTube account for various reasons.
- "The Evil Chain Letter" was one of Smosh's first videos. It made fun of internet chain letters. The video can still be found on youtube from other users.
- "Garret's Blog" was a video that mocked video bloggers. It is no longer on smosh.com or youtube.
- "I-Dawg announcement 'bout YT Awards" was a video released by Smosh to make people aware that they were nominees for the YouTube awards and to tell the viewer to vote for them. The video was only online for about a week, and was removed after voting was closed and Smosh had won.
- "Pokémon Theme" is Smosh's most famous video. In June 2007, the video was removed due to a copyright claim by Shogakukan Production Co. Ltd.. The video received 24,732,537 views before its removal. The video can still be found on smosh.com. It can also be found on youtube from other users.
The Pokémon Theme is the only video that wasn't removed by Smosh. The other three listed above were removed by Smosh themselves.
IanH
Smosh's alternate account, IanH, contains videos of what Anthony and Ian do in their spare time and "submit side projects and other content not deemed worthy for the masses". Their most watched video is the original video, "A Day in the Life of Smosh", with 500,000 views as of November 2007. It is also the #58 most subscribed channel on youtube with 24,971 subscribers. This account includes a two part blog of Los Angeles, California, where they filmed their award winning Smosh short, "Stranded".
List of videos on IanH
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Day in the Life of Smosh | March 17, 2006 | 7:03 | |
| Smosh Merch Commercial | March 21, 2006 | 0:13 | Can be seen in Smosh's video "Transformers Theme" |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #2 | April 30, 2006 | 3:10 | |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #3 | May 12, 2006 | 2:37 | |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh: L.A. Edition (Part 1 of 2) | June 11, 2006 | 9:48 | |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh: L.A. Edition (Part 2 of 2) | June 11, 2006 | 8:49 | |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #4 | July 9, 2006 | 7:36 | |
| Smosh promo video for Smoothie King | July 18, 2006 | 1:42 | Shows reappearing characters: A-Dizzle and I-Dawg |
| The Dramatic Voice Experiment Reloaded* | July 23, 2006 | 9:09 | This was video was re-edited because of "legal issues" |
| Smosh TV Interview | August 29, 2006 | 2:47 | |
| SMOSH on 88SLIDE | September 26, 2006 | 1:23 | |
| Goodbye Smosh Chair | October 20, 2006 | 2:55 | |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #5 | December 11, 2006 | 2:34 | |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh: YouTube SF Gathering | February 17, 2007 | 9:48 | |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #6 | August 18, 2007 | 3:46 | |
| Ian (Smosh) on Chatting with Charlie | August 28, 2007 | 2:03 | Made for Smosh's breakup series. |
(*) The original Dramatic Voice Experiment video was removed for legal reasons, probably for not blocking people's faces, but it was edited, then reposted as "The Dramatic Voice Experiment Reloaded."
References
External links
- Smosh's website
- Smosh's YouTube profile
- Smosh's alternate YouTube profile run for side content
- Smosh's MySpace profile
Resources
- "Smosh 'The Intertainers'" TIME Magazine
- "The first superstars of web TV" BBC News
- "Smosh Hit" The Sacramento Bee
- "Who makes short shorts? Anyone and everyone" The New York Times
- "Superstars of the Web" Interview Magazine
- "So you wanna be a director?" The Medium newspaper
- "YouTube launches its own Web stars" USA Today
- "Outrageous Video on the Tube" ABC News
- "You Tube Video Award Winners (video link)" NBC Today Show
- "You Tube Video Award Winners" CBS Early Show
- "Smosh - A quirky comedy duo turned YouTube superstars" Tilzy.TV
