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IrelandMckenna Grace sides with "The Doogler" on Smosh Pit's Reddit stories
Before plugging her Hunger Games prequel, the actor helps Shayne Topp and Courtney Miller rule on a hot dog contest, a wedding essay and a hated Mockingjay tattoo.
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May The Odds Be Ever In Their Favor w/ Mckenna Grace | Reading Reddit Stories
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- 0:18Mckenna Grace explains she is a longtime Smosh viewer, naming Try Not to Laugh among her favorites.
- 4:24First story: a man beats his girlfriend's four-time champion father in a hot dog eating contest.
- 15:00The poster's update arrives, along with Liam's handmade "The Doogler" T-shirt.
- 20:20Second story: a sister requires a written application essay from wedding guests, family included.
- 32:27Third story: a bride-to-be confronts the groom's best friend over her feelings at a bridal dinner.
- 43:49Final story: a Mockingjay tattoo angers a fiancé and his father; the hosts then share their own movie tattoos.
Mckenna Grace came to Smosh Pit as a fan first. Within the opening minute of the channel's Reading Reddit Stories, she tells Shayne Topp and Courtney Miller how long she has been watching, naming Try Not to Laugh among her favorites, the series behind most of the channel's all-time most watched videos.
The first post sets the tone. A man enters a local hot dog eating contest and beats his girlfriend's father, who had won it four years running. Her younger brother Liam crowns the newcomer "The Doogler," and the nickname later comes up in an argument with the girlfriend. Topp has no sympathy for holding back ("If I'm entering a hot dog eating contest, I'm not holding back"), and the panel sides with the poster. An update brings a happy turn: the girlfriend admits she overreacted, and Liam has made a hand-drawn T-shirt in the champion's honor.
The second story asks whether a sister can make her own family write a 500-word application essay to attend her wedding. The group thinks not. The third follows a woman questioned at a bridal dinner by her best friend's fiancée about her feelings for the groom, and Topp wants to know why the groom was not the one being asked.
The Hunger Games theme arrives at the end, with a woman whose fiancé and future father-in-law are furious about her Mockingjay tattoo. The hosts laugh at the reaction, then compare their own movie tattoos, including Grace's Mystery Machine.
The timing is no accident: Topp closes by plugging The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, in which Grace plays District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner. Many viewers point out, approvingly, that she used a press tour to get onto Smosh, and others count how often Topp ends up saying "glizzy." The episode also carries a sponsored segment for a home-furnishings retailer.
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What viewers say
Mckenna Grace might be the most successful fangirl of all time. And good for her! If I was famous because of working hard all my life and got the opportunity to meet everyone I wanted to, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
@Marta-uv4idSee it on YouTubelove her for using hunger games marketing as an excuse to come on Smosh😭😭
@kageyamatobiosSee it on YouTubeNext episode, Shayne is replaced by Josh Hutcherson, but everyone calls him Shayne. Shayne returns afterwards and no one ever acknowledges it.
@A.Darling-BondSee it on YouTube
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"Hey lets get an A-list actress on and make Shayne say glizzy an ungoldly amount of times in the first 10 minutes"
@jarowi-officialSee it on YouTubeFor the essay, I'd just write "Because I'm your sister." and then copy paste that until it reaches the word count lol
@amra3257See it on YouTubeMcKenna is so real, if I was famous and on a press tour I’d be at smosh ASAP
@larknewtSee it on YouTubeMcKenna and Court equally fangirling over each other is so cute
@kathrynklein8157See it on YouTubein the inevitable smosh biopic i need mckenna grace playing young shayne
@le_justin_tSee it on YouTube0:52 shayne doesn't realize it's getting to a point in time where all the upcoming celebrities have grown up watching smosh and mythical and matpat and wattpad and ao3 and all that stuff.
@ChuusiveSee it on YouTubeReddit stories idea: Select stories with an obvious A-hole verdict, then have everyone attempt to try and defend the A-hole’s case. Smosh Reddit Stories, Devils Advocate.
@ultimateburrito7037See it on YouTube
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Which district does Haymitch Abernathy, the hero of Sunrise on the Reaping, come from?
Haymitch is from District 12, the same district as Katniss Everdeen, whom he later mentors.