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Smosh Games sends expendable gentlemen toward a dinosaur island

George Primavera runs a Dread expedition where the cast can sacrifice one another instead of risking the tower.

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Gentlemen vs. Dinosaurs | Dread

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0:54George explains the block tower and a custom rule allowing gentlemen to push one another into danger.
2:56Amanda, Spencer, Shayne and Trevor introduce their wealthy expedition characters.
4:19The adventure begins in an opulent dining room aboard a ship bound for an island.
6:38The ship strikes a reef, interrupting dinner with a scramble to escape.
17:09Sharks with bleeding eyes approach the lifeboat, prompting another round of tower pulls.

The ship hits a reef before these wealthy adventurers even reach their island. For Amanda, Spencer, Shayne and Trevor, playing aristocrats in Smosh Games' "Gentlemen vs. Dinosaurs | Dread," survival quickly becomes somebody else's problem.

George Primavera runs the tabletop adventure, swapping between game master and the expedition's host, Harold Counterbottom. Dread replaces dice with a block-pulling tower, so every dangerous decision threatens a very visible collapse. His special addition for this company of gentlemen: they can shove one another into danger. Good manners have their limits.

Amanda introduces Doctor Marquee Fiddlesticks as a parent who cannot name his children. Spencer supplies Sir Scotland Pippin, Shayne becomes Billium Smith Jr., and Trevor plays Sir Winthrop Kensington. Their luxurious shipboard dinner gives way to panicked passengers, a lifeboat escape and circling sharks with blood dripping from their eyes.

At about 1.3 million views, the expedition is the most watched of the channel's five uploads this week and its strongest source of daily video momentum. Viewers keep returning to George's task of maintaining the adventure while the players try to make him laugh; some are already proposing a Karen-themed Dread session.

Dinosaurs also supplied the week's other million-view upload, "T-Rex Arm Challenge," which asks teams to complete card challenges while wearing tiny arms. The newer "Halo 3 brings out another side of Ian" has a smaller total but is currently drawing views faster than that challenge.

Across the channel, roughly 17 million views arrived over seven days, while subscribers held steady. Daily viewing is currently below its usual level. That makes this a substantial library-wide week without an audience-growth surge, with the gentlemen's thoroughly questionable survival etiquette supplying its clearest new attraction.

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What viewers say

The characters morally dark enough to require different rules are the gentlemen. So funny
@Luke__WarrmmSee it on YouTube
The goal is not to survive in-game, but to make George collapse from laughter, it seems, good sirs...
@gingeridotSee it on YouTube
Obligatory "Spencer's gentleman hat speaks to him like the Green Goblin mask" comment
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I'd say we need Karen Dread next but i genuinely don't think george would survive 🤣
@rowanc3448See it on YouTube
An hour and fifty-five minutes of George absolutely fighting for HIS life.
@JordynmcoSee it on YouTube
THEY FINALLY REMEMBERED THAT WE LOVE DREAD!!!
@BigBabyPoodleAWAKENEDSee it on YouTube
A Fred Darts music video AND a Spencer gentleman's video in the same week?? Are we sure we're not all in heaven?
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