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Frank Alvarez brings a childhood friendship to Hot Ones Game Night

Joe Santagato guides his Basement Yard co-host up Mount Scoville, while Maya Hawke supplies First We Feast's most-watched new upload.

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The Basement Yard's Frank Alvarez | Hot Ones Game Night

Frank Alvarez and Joe Santagato have known each other since childhood. That gives them plenty of shared history to draw on, and plenty to bicker about, in "The Basement Yard's Frank Alvarez | Hot Ones Game Night." Joe guides Frank through Mount Scoville, a board-game ordeal whose challenges include acting out an embarrassing middle-school dance scene. Refusing the assignment means facing the Last Dab.

The episode has collected nearly half a million views in its opening hours and is currently First We Feast's busiest upload by daily viewing. It arrives in a week with 16 new uploads, as the channel gives its spicy-wing premise several different places to go.

"SNL | Hot Ones Versus" puts Tommy Brennan, Kam Patterson, Ben Marshall, Veronika Slowikowska and Jeremy Culhane through castmate impressions, character identification and musical chairs. Elsewhere, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, Avantika Vandanapu and Joey Pollari bring American Horror Story to Wing Pong, where sinking a shot hands an uncomfortable choice to an opponent: answer a question or eat a mystery wing.

Maya Hawke's Sean Evans interview remains the week's most-watched new upload, with about 1.4 million views. Between wings, she argues that screen saturation has made communal experiences such as movie theaters more appealing. Her Avatar: The Last Airbender references and enthusiastic response to ice cream give viewers two very different talking points.

First We Feast added subscribers over the week, although daily viewing is now well below its usual level. Among its interview-channel neighbors, The Diary Of A CEO had a larger week for subscriber growth, while Team Coco's subscriber count was unchanged. Here, the freshest burst of activity belongs to Frank and Joe trying to turn a lifetime of friendship into workable board-game teamwork.

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The thought of Uma Thurman texting her about chewing with her mouth closed is hilarious to me 😂
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Maya Hawke being an ATLA nerd always takes me by surprise
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Maya Hawke is the only person who can treat a spicy chicken wing like an existential crisis and a philosophy lecture at the same time. 10/10 for the poetry, 10/10 for the survival skills!
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Maya gives off the "I wish she was my friend" vibe. Nerdy, funny, positive and just feel like I'd laugh being around her. Imagine putting Maya, Jennifer Lawrence, Florence Pugh, Emma Stone into a room and just let them do whatever. Comedy gold!
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“Would you like some ice cream?”
“👀…..👀….always!” 😂😂😂
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Don’t comment usually but she is too sweet and fantastic not to praise her. Just a lovely, natural and refreshing guest.
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I love how Maya's eyes light up when asked if she wanted some ice cream. She's adorable.
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Maya referencing Avatar again is truly comforting to watch. she is so down to earth and not embarrassed to like things normal people like
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Describing hot sauce as feeling like "Gum disease" is amazing 😂
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