Seek Geek where the jocks is jealous of the popularity of the geeks so the jocks pretend to be geeks. Seek Geek for those jocks who pretend to be geeks.
I like how they say "small" "hand" "held" camera for no one will realize this giant telescope camera that can see the freckles of my ass on Uranus from Earth is a camera.
You are going to come down here and we are going to have a little chat Mikey. Cock shot gun. Its going to be ok you are just going to be Old Yellered. I know you are an animal lover so I thought you might like that reference Mikey.
Pulling lobsters out of the tank and putting them in a backpack in front of everyone with working eyeballs in a lobster-heavy restaurant is something I wasn't ever expecting.
Nothing like saying "we're out of lobster" to people sitting next to a lobster tank at a lobster restaurant, watching other people being served lobster.
When you think about it most reality TV shows do insult your intelligence. Tbf real life is super boring and wouldn’t make for good tv. If you want true reality go out somewhere
@@slicingonions4398....you think someone in "real life" wouldn't steal lobsters from a restaurant? You haven't seen the woman screaming and crying about people eating her baby lamb? Sounds like YOUR life is super boring, yikes dawg
wait...So weird boy server tells, the customers "We are out of Lobster" but at the same time they got Lobsters just chilling in the Tank, on display for everyone to see?
@@ArturGlass.C”But I saw lobsters in the tank…” “Oh those aren’t eating lobsters, this are backpack lobsters.” “What are backpack lobsters?” “The lobsters you put in your backpack so you can pretend you are going to return them to the ocean….duh.”
"4 cameras in dining room, 2 cameras in the hallway, 6 cameras in the kitchen, 8 cameras in the bathroom, 1 camera in the lobster tank, 2 cameras in the pantry"
Mike also (allegedly) released lobsters into the wild without removing the rubber bands on their claws... thus guaranteeing them a slow death by starvation.
I don't know much about lobsters or even the little claw bands but... normal rubber bands break down pretty quickly in water. They get "dry rot" which is confusingly not truly rotting nor does it need to be dry. Dry rot naturally occurs quite quickly in rubber so we mix a sacrificial protective compound into the rubber... that compound slowly leeches out and is destroyed by the elements instead of the rubber itself being destroyed. Water (especially salt water) leeches the protective compound much more quickly than air, which leaves behind the fragile crumbly rubber. You've probably noticed that old rubber bands in the junk drawer break apart into tiny squares. If I forget an elastic in my dreadlocks, it gets hard and crumbles away. If the lobsters are in salt water, and actually keep trying to open their claws, there's a pretty good chance that the bands dissolved before they starved. It's still impressively stupid and irresponsible to leave the bands on but there IS some hope that they didn't all die.
I love how the show writers try to make the employees appear duplicitous but it just ends up making the owners come off as completely disconnected and incompetent Also, their name being pronounced “slashback” makes them sound like they used the Idiocracy naming convention
Mystery Diners somehow manages to marry the absurd storylines of South Beach Tow with the god-awful acting of Trick My Truck. It is truly the worst show on TV... and I can't stop watching it. 😆😂🤣 please Chris, do more episodes of it.
I used to work on some of these Reality TV shows. Yes they have a guy who specializes in food shots. In fact those were probably done long after the episode was shot and in some cases it isn't even the real food they serve. Tho it varies from show to show. i worked on a cooking competition show where the FDA wouldn't let anyone eat the food due to sanitary conditions in the studio we shot in. So the judges had pre-prepared versions of the meals set aside to taste, and then judge based on how the real dish was cooked, Like if Parsley was a great flavor in the pre-prepared plate but they forgot it in the competition, the judges would then say, "it really needs that parsley you forgot" even tho it was actually in the dish. Tho I only heard about this a couple times but never saw it happen first hand, so it could be on-set rumor. We also reset or paused the competition clock constantly. What was an 8hr competition was actually closer to 12hrs. They'd pause and reset it frequently for shots to add tension or make it look like time was almost up but in the middle of the competition when all the action was still going, because in reality most of the competitors were done a couple hours before the end and the actual last few min of a competition are actually quiet and boring. Everyone just standing around going, "I'm done". Weirdly in a lot of ways reality tv is extremely fake but still full of reality. They still find the weirdest and most crazy people and just frame a structure around them to showcase their eccentricities. In fact at one point that was my job, to find the craziest people, but I didn't last long there because I just kept bringing them genuinely fascinating people, but they didn't want interesting, they wanted freak show.
Also my ex worked on the mother of them all, Kitchen Nightmares, and apparently that show is more real than most. It seemed to have the least fakery going on, at least until the editing, and that Gordon was a huge gentleman and an extreme pleasure to work with. But the disgusting restaurant was very real.
I used to watch this show and it was so dumb. There is one that ends with a guy bringing an alligator into the restaurant and one involving ghosts. It was always hilarious.
And notice the mugshots say "Target" above them? Like bro what exactly are you going to do to their employees I was just hoping you'd fire the corrupt or incompetent ones.
I remember this episode, and it just screamed "SCRIPTED" all over the place to me. My immediate thoughts on the plot were, "Why apply to work at a lobster/seafood restaurant if you're an extreme animal rights activist and in this economy?"
What’s weird about this show is, in all my experience working in restaurants, the amount of shady shit brazenly done by employees directly correlates to the amount of blackmail-able offenses said employee has on management. Meaning: if a waitress is selling bathing suits table side, the owner has at some point asked that waitress for photos of her modeling her bikini line
As someone who grew up in one town over from asbury Park and has frequented the Langosta Lounge on several occasions, that place sucked, was too overpriced, and service sucked. I'm glad it closed last year. Also I've been served by several of the people in the video and honestly this felt so fabricated because I've never even seen any of these people act like this but then again I never knew them personally but neither did the other customers so idk? 🤷
I got some Spike TV cringe you probably forgot about - Gym Rescue! It lasted three episodes, featured two MMA fighters, and one Gym owner went full Karen before it's debut, accusing the hosts of trying to invite his wife to a jacuzzi and ruining his life, basically.
I love the idea of having a nice lobster Alfredo and the waiter is just shoving live lobsters into his backpack next to you. Like…I think I’d have to be like “excuse me….What the actual fuck?”
I get the feeling that these business owners are a bit like a really really rich family from my area that pretty much just bought up a local town to try and turn it into a winery resort and everyone hates them. All of their businesses are pretty much cash negative because nobody goes in and the residents of the town pretty much just want them gone at all times
I remember this episode. The whole series was beyond ridiculous but this one was just the icing on the cake. I’m surprised that Food Network even called this a “reality” show.
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I hope he knows as soon as he returns those looters to the ocean, that there is a huge chance those lobsters aren’t native to this climate and could possibly die anyways by returning them. I know it shows that they catch them locally, but even then a lot of business will still accept shipments from other parts of the world due to locally caught sea food restaurants aren’t always locally caught. The reasons for that may vary but the lesson is, know more about what you’re doing and the cause of what it is… you could be doing more harm than good
Don't worry, look at how limp they are. They're already dead. Plus he left the bands on their claws, so even if they aren't and don't die the way you suggested, they'll die from starvation or predators. 😂
@@mikewebb7807 I didn’t even notice that. I thought he would be smart enough to cut the bands from their claws. But hey he’s one of those dumb wild life dudes that causes more arm than good while trying to do something he sees as “right” it’s like that girl that threw a turtle into the water, not knowing that type of turtle can’t swim. So she pretty much just drowned a turtle. That video still makes me sad tbh. So unfortunate
This was hands down the funniest one youve covered. A server infiltrating a seafood restaurant to steal, and free the lobsters. A crooked bathing suit racket, All these employees being led into a CIA Black Ops bunker, topped off with Charles Stiles running and jumping over a railing to stop a kid from freeing a backpack full of lobsters back to the ocean... Just GLORIOUS!
Hilariously set up. That little diatribe he makes about the lobsters is so forced, and the fact cameras followed him to where he was dumping the lobsters, even after he was no longer involved with the show cause he was "fired.". I assume they dont have the employee's waivers on file either.
I never thought I’d see Charles Stiles mystery diners back on here. It’s truly one of the shows of all time and I hope one day you do the one where they think it’s watchdogs and fucking hack traffic lights
Chris, I'm telling you, if you haven't seen it before: check out the show Restaurant Stakeout. It's similar to this show, but the host is much more Taffer-like. Willie Degel walked so that Jon Taffer could run.
I am begging you to do more of Mystery Diners. It remains to this day the only reality TV show I actually enjoy for how shamelessly scripted and utterly absurd it is, and speaking as someone who’s watched the entire series multiple times, these episodes are only scratching the surface of what kind of insane shenanigans happen in this show.
THIS IS NUTS! I live in this area of New Jersey and this lady is literally all over the place, she owns TONS of restaurants and venues. She’s like. Actually a big deal to this day, so to see her be a part of something so absurd???? Crazy. She’s exactly the type to do something like this to promo her businesses, even if it makes them look awful.
DUDE YESSSS I LITERALLY LOVE THE LOBSTER EPISODE I WATCHED IT WITH MY DAD WHEN I WAS A KID AND WE DIED LAUGHING AT HOW FAKE IT WAS THANK U FOR BRINGINH THIS BACK UP
Chris, Season 4 Episode 30 of Bar Rescue - Jon visits a "Haunted Bar" where all the employees are afraid, but especially the owner. They have someone come in and rid the building of the ghostly presence. Then turn it into a ghost bar 😂 it's ridiculous.
Finally, a new Chris James video came out! Happy late Birthday. Sooooo, when's your next Bar Rescue episode coming out? You know you love John Tapper. What about Marriage Rescue
Fun fact! You legally end up having to release a lot of lobsters you catch because there are very specific regulations around catching lobsters for conservation reasons.
I believe Chris would absolutely love one episode from Finnish edition of Gordon Ramsay's Hotel Hell, where chef Jyrki Sukula visits a horrible hotel Joronjälki that also sells scuba gear, antique, other used stuff (because the hotel owner is a hoarder), horrible poetry done by the hotel owner etc. 😅
I wish we could have seen someone tell the guy who said "we are out of lobsters" Just look at him and go, "uhh what about that tank that has the lobters and go pro's in it?" 😂
As someone who spent last summer on that exact boardwalk. These people have since gone and passed. None of it is owned by them, nor has it been for at least six plus years.
12:39 Hahaha!!!! Like . Just imagine- picking up whole lobsters, with huge tongs nonetheless; scooping em into a damn backpack- in front of a whole restaurant and staff. I’m cracking up just - …hahaha! Why would you work at a LOBSTER restaurant!? Dude 3 lobsters back in the sea; great job. one hour later they’re gonna go catch 1000 in one boat trip
Ive worked in restaurants for 26 years and there is no way they are planting 20 cameras allover the place without a regular employee noticing. Unless the owner said like "we have to close for a day for maintenance so nobody come here!" Then an employee is gonna see this shit going on. Full time in service industry makes your job basically your second home. You know pretty much everything that happens in that place even if you arent on shift.
From one Chris to another, that Halo 3 shirt brought back so many memories. I remember its release and running home to catch my brother just starting the first mission.. the times ahhh
The saddest thing I ever learned at Red Lobster was that the lobsters didn't get fed. They weren't in the tank long enough to need food...And the knife in the head part
No idea why you so heavily took the side of literal criminals on this one. They definitely got it easier than they deserved, especially the lobster kid.
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I like how they say "small" "hand" "held" camera for no one will realize this giant telescope camera that can see the freckles of my ass on Uranus from Earth is a camera.
You are going to come down here and we are going to have a little chat Mikey.
Cock shot gun.
Its going to be ok you are just going to be Old Yellered. I know you are an animal lover so I thought you might like that reference Mikey.
Love the shirt bro!...classic
Pulling lobsters out of the tank and putting them in a backpack in front of everyone with working eyeballs in a lobster-heavy restaurant is something I wasn't ever expecting.
Because it is literally fake lmao
I'm excited to see what you're talking about
Mikey: sorry we are out of lobsters.
Customer: why is your backpack dripping moving and clicking?
Mikey:…….
Happens more than you think lobsters are expensive I know people who steal cheese and chicken
HAHAHHA thats a cartoon event
Nothing like saying "we're out of lobster" to people sitting next to a lobster tank at a lobster restaurant, watching other people being served lobster.
Its almost like this whole thing is obviously faked.
I know all reality TV is faked to some degree, but this show feels like it's actively insulting your intelligence with how obviously fake it all is.
Well said. I cannot imagine the kind of person who believes any of this is real. Entertaining in how bombastic it is, but obviously fake.
Honestly, the guy is pretty believable.
When you think about it most reality TV shows do insult your intelligence. Tbf real life is super boring and wouldn’t make for good tv. If you want true reality go out somewhere
seriously
@@slicingonions4398....you think someone in "real life" wouldn't steal lobsters from a restaurant? You haven't seen the woman screaming and crying about people eating her baby lamb?
Sounds like YOUR life is super boring, yikes dawg
wait...So weird boy server tells, the customers "We are out of Lobster" but at the same time they got Lobsters just chilling in the Tank, on display for everyone to see?
They're display Lobsters they're for "shoving into backpacks" purposes only.
Lol You Right, my bad 🤣@ArturGlass.C
@@ArturGlass.C”But I saw lobsters in the tank…”
“Oh those aren’t eating lobsters, this are backpack lobsters.”
“What are backpack lobsters?”
“The lobsters you put in your backpack so you can pretend you are going to return them to the ocean….duh.”
Those are the pet lobsters obviously.
"4 cameras in dining room, 2 cameras in the hallway, 6 cameras in the kitchen, 8 cameras in the bathroom, 1 camera in the lobster tank, 2 cameras in the pantry"
don't forget 1 in the lobster tank
@@jeffb33ngl that seems like more of just a "i wanted to watcht he lobsters 🦞" camera
Damn that's like 10 cameras or so
😂😂
And one in the conservatory with the candlestick.
This show is on Team Too Much.
The guy stopping the lobster liberation like it was the sole purpose of his life 😂😂
So many young people are bleeding hearts 😂
...wut
@@kylespevak6781???
@@kylespevak6781 we all have Cardiac tamponade?
Mike also (allegedly) released lobsters into the wild without removing the rubber bands on their claws... thus guaranteeing them a slow death by starvation.
That’s what I thought. 😂😂😂 Reminds me of PETA.
You think an idiot like that would understand that? 😂
I don't know much about lobsters or even the little claw bands but... normal rubber bands break down pretty quickly in water.
They get "dry rot" which is confusingly not truly rotting nor does it need to be dry. Dry rot naturally occurs quite quickly in rubber so we mix a sacrificial protective compound into the rubber... that compound slowly leeches out and is destroyed by the elements instead of the rubber itself being destroyed. Water (especially salt water) leeches the protective compound much more quickly than air, which leaves behind the fragile crumbly rubber.
You've probably noticed that old rubber bands in the junk drawer break apart into tiny squares. If I forget an elastic in my dreadlocks, it gets hard and crumbles away.
If the lobsters are in salt water, and actually keep trying to open their claws, there's a pretty good chance that the bands dissolved before they starved.
It's still impressively stupid and irresponsible to leave the bands on but there IS some hope that they didn't all die.
@@SeekerGoldstone Ok I know the rubberband in dreadlocks isn't the main point, but having bits of rubber crumble in your hair has to be so itchy.
@@SeekerGoldstoneit takes a while to happen, the lobsters would be long dead by then
Lobster boy sounds like an actor I don't know if he actually was asked to do that lobster stuff but he sounds like he's acting in a high school play
He reminds me of Jerry Trainor
At least he took the bands off the dead lobster before setting it free.
Those lines were delivered like an actor lol
He was most definitely trying to act haha
IIRC its all a re-enactment so pretty much all the staff are actors
I find it hilarious that people were probably sitting at a table eating as a server just starts shoving lobsters in his book bag 😂
After telling them that there is no available lobster at the restaurant.
I love how the show writers try to make the employees appear duplicitous but it just ends up making the owners come off as completely disconnected and incompetent
Also, their name being pronounced “slashback” makes them sound like they used the Idiocracy naming convention
If this was a sitcom kind of show like 30 rock with solid writers this may have been a decent guilty pleasure🤔
@@OwlQueen375 seriously at least make things plausible.
Mystery Diners somehow manages to marry the absurd storylines of South Beach Tow with the god-awful acting of Trick My Truck. It is truly the worst show on TV... and I can't stop watching it. 😆😂🤣 please Chris, do more episodes of it.
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According to Chris, this show has both "trouble afoot" and "tomfoolery afoot."
That's a lot of afooting.
That’s 2 feet of afoot.
Great post, amazing reply
afeet, if you will
Dont forget the malarkey! Tomfoolery and malarkey is a dangerous combination 😮.
dont let wikifeet find out about this
I used to work on some of these Reality TV shows. Yes they have a guy who specializes in food shots. In fact those were probably done long after the episode was shot and in some cases it isn't even the real food they serve. Tho it varies from show to show. i worked on a cooking competition show where the FDA wouldn't let anyone eat the food due to sanitary conditions in the studio we shot in. So the judges had pre-prepared versions of the meals set aside to taste, and then judge based on how the real dish was cooked, Like if Parsley was a great flavor in the pre-prepared plate but they forgot it in the competition, the judges would then say, "it really needs that parsley you forgot" even tho it was actually in the dish. Tho I only heard about this a couple times but never saw it happen first hand, so it could be on-set rumor. We also reset or paused the competition clock constantly. What was an 8hr competition was actually closer to 12hrs. They'd pause and reset it frequently for shots to add tension or make it look like time was almost up but in the middle of the competition when all the action was still going, because in reality most of the competitors were done a couple hours before the end and the actual last few min of a competition are actually quiet and boring. Everyone just standing around going, "I'm done". Weirdly in a lot of ways reality tv is extremely fake but still full of reality. They still find the weirdest and most crazy people and just frame a structure around them to showcase their eccentricities. In fact at one point that was my job, to find the craziest people, but I didn't last long there because I just kept bringing them genuinely fascinating people, but they didn't want interesting, they wanted freak show.
Also my ex worked on the mother of them all, Kitchen Nightmares, and apparently that show is more real than most. It seemed to have the least fakery going on, at least until the editing, and that Gordon was a huge gentleman and an extreme pleasure to work with. But the disgusting restaurant was very real.
That’s very interesting!
I guess it reminds you to second guess the stuff you watch on TV
"There are Asian spices in our curry"
Lol alright
Tons of* lmao
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A curry with asian spices? wowzer, who'd have thunk it lol
This just in... India is in Asia.
U do know India is in Asia?
kid: mom i wanna watch Kitchen Nightmares
mom: we have Kitchen Nightmares at home
*Kitchen Nightmares at home* :
I used to watch this show and it was so dumb. There is one that ends with a guy bringing an alligator into the restaurant and one involving ghosts. It was always hilarious.
Wait how do they always have mugshots of all the employees already on that TV screen in the background?😂
And notice the mugshots say "Target" above them? Like bro what exactly are you going to do to their employees I was just hoping you'd fire the corrupt or incompetent ones.
as a bored pre teen i used to watch this show consistently, even then i could tell it was insanely scripted and dumb. Good Times
I remember this episode, and it just screamed "SCRIPTED" all over the place to me. My immediate thoughts on the plot were, "Why apply to work at a lobster/seafood restaurant if you're an extreme animal rights activist and in this economy?"
This would've wirked so much better as a scripted sitcom. With good writing and decent actor this would've been okay
What’s weird about this show is, in all my experience working in restaurants, the amount of shady shit brazenly done by employees directly correlates to the amount of blackmail-able offenses said employee has on management.
Meaning: if a waitress is selling bathing suits table side, the owner has at some point asked that waitress for photos of her modeling her bikini line
16:20 dude tells Mikey to "just go" ... he was gone! He was at the beach! U brought him back?? Strange show 😂
How fake do you want it? Producers: yes!
You are missing out. Hardcore Pawn is a show you need to see. Its South beach tow meets pawnstars in Detroit.
As someone who grew up in one town over from asbury Park and has frequented the Langosta Lounge on several occasions, that place sucked, was too overpriced, and service sucked. I'm glad it closed last year. Also I've been served by several of the people in the video and honestly this felt so fabricated because I've never even seen any of these people act like this but then again I never knew them personally but neither did the other customers so idk? 🤷
Bro, it's on the boardwalk. Of course it's overpriced and kinda shitty.
I got some Spike TV cringe you probably forgot about - Gym Rescue! It lasted three episodes, featured two MMA fighters, and one Gym owner went full Karen before it's debut, accusing the hosts of trying to invite his wife to a jacuzzi and ruining his life, basically.
I love the idea of having a nice lobster Alfredo and the waiter is just shoving live lobsters into his backpack next to you. Like…I think I’d have to be like “excuse me….What the actual fuck?”
If you add Lobster and takeaway the Lettuce
Then technically you can still call it a BLT 🤷🏻♂️
Genius...
You're stealing my idea. I've been having a bacon lobster tequila for lunch since high school.
I want to know Mickey’s story. I know it’s fake but how do you not notice someone stuffing lobsters into a backpack
I get the feeling that these business owners are a bit like a really really rich family from my area that pretty much just bought up a local town to try and turn it into a winery resort and everyone hates them. All of their businesses are pretty much cash negative because nobody goes in and the residents of the town pretty much just want them gone at all times
I remember this episode. The whole series was beyond ridiculous but this one was just the icing on the cake.
I’m surprised that Food Network even called this a “reality” show.
This was better off as a scripted sitcom.
So, Mikey was gonna release those lobsters into the ocean while they still have rubber bands on their claws? Classic PETA logic…
Lobster don't eat with their claws. They lose them and regrow them pretty frequently.
@@mariahclaar7915still need them to effectively eat especially if they are weak from being in captivity for who knows how long
@@Robert-nk4ri Lobster do not eat with their claws. They do not need their claws to eat. They can eat without their claws.
@@mariahclaar7915
They still need their claws to defend themselves from predators
Mikey is the only lobster activist I've ever seen and he's so deadly fucking serious about it.
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Charles stiles, he’s with a company called mystery diners
I mean I would start with the restaurant manager. Literally her job about the lobster going in vs. going out
Wait…you cant even try bathing suits/bathing suit bottoms on..😂 so her trying on a full bikini is wild. Also, Lightly Salted?!! Lmaoooo huh¿
2:40 I swear the shrimp was still a little translucent😂😂
Oh it totally was
Yeah nah you're totally right.
I hope he knows as soon as he returns those looters to the ocean, that there is a huge chance those lobsters aren’t native to this climate and could possibly die anyways by returning them. I know it shows that they catch them locally, but even then a lot of business will still accept shipments from other parts of the world due to locally caught sea food restaurants aren’t always locally caught. The reasons for that may vary but the lesson is, know more about what you’re doing and the cause of what it is… you could be doing more harm than good
That was my thought
Reminds me of the girl who threw a tortoise into a pond, thinking she was throwing a turtle back in.
@@seangambone8534 that video made me sad cuz that poor thing most likely drowned
Don't worry, look at how limp they are. They're already dead. Plus he left the bands on their claws, so even if they aren't and don't die the way you suggested, they'll die from starvation or predators. 😂
@@mikewebb7807 I didn’t even notice that. I thought he would be smart enough to cut the bands from their claws. But hey he’s one of those dumb wild life dudes that causes more arm than good while trying to do something he sees as “right” it’s like that girl that threw a turtle into the water, not knowing that type of turtle can’t swim. So she pretty much just drowned a turtle. That video still makes me sad tbh. So unfortunate
The lobster activist storyline is classic 😂
i love the part where the kid just straight up ran to the beach, they weren't maintaining any pretenses of realism anymore at that point
This was hands down the funniest one youve covered. A server infiltrating a seafood restaurant to steal, and free the lobsters. A crooked bathing suit racket, All these employees being led into a CIA Black Ops bunker, topped off with Charles Stiles running and jumping over a railing to stop a kid from freeing a backpack full of lobsters back to the ocean... Just GLORIOUS!
That dude putting lobsters in a backpack. In the middle of service. With no one say ANYTHING. Is just wild
Hilariously set up. That little diatribe he makes about the lobsters is so forced, and the fact cameras followed him to where he was dumping the lobsters, even after he was no longer involved with the show cause he was "fired.". I assume they dont have the employee's waivers on file either.
The fact that all the employees are using the business in their own way 😂
🤣the raw and wet lobster just thrown into a brand new backpack just cracks me up lol that shit isn't staged at all
He really started putting the lobsters in his BACKPACK lmaoooooo 😂😂😂 be so fr Mikey 😭
Charles Stiles, Mystery Diners, how are ya?
I never thought I’d see Charles Stiles mystery diners back on here. It’s truly one of the shows of all time and I hope one day you do the one where they think it’s watchdogs and fucking hack traffic lights
Chris, I'm telling you, if you haven't seen it before: check out the show Restaurant Stakeout. It's similar to this show, but the host is much more Taffer-like. Willie Degel walked so that Jon Taffer could run.
I remember that show! I liked it. All of these shows are fake as fuck but very entertaining.
14:05 stealing lobster traps according to Seinfeld is a felony 😮 when Kramer stole the lobsters&their traps 😂
I hear him in my nightmares "Charles Stiles mystery diners"
The lobster he "frees" at the end is clearly dead 🤣🤣
I refuse to believe they don't see any of these cameras placed in the place they work everyday
Working at a lobster restaurant while being against eating lobster is hilarious
Shows like this are always a trip to watch. 😂 The lobster dude cracked me up.
I am begging you to do more of Mystery Diners. It remains to this day the only reality TV show I actually enjoy for how shamelessly scripted and utterly absurd it is, and speaking as someone who’s watched the entire series multiple times, these episodes are only scratching the surface of what kind of insane shenanigans happen in this show.
THIS IS NUTS! I live in this area of New Jersey and this lady is literally all over the place, she owns TONS of restaurants and venues. She’s like. Actually a big deal to this day, so to see her be a part of something so absurd???? Crazy. She’s exactly the type to do something like this to promo her businesses, even if it makes them look awful.
Powers out and I’m stuck at home, perfect time for a Chris James upload 🫡
Power's* ... it's a conjunction
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DUDE YESSSS I LITERALLY LOVE THE LOBSTER EPISODE I WATCHED IT WITH MY DAD WHEN I WAS A KID AND WE DIED LAUGHING AT HOW FAKE IT WAS THANK U FOR BRINGINH THIS BACK UP
I love watching the "malarkey" with Chris! So many shenanigans 😅
Chris, Season 4 Episode 30 of Bar Rescue - Jon visits a "Haunted Bar" where all the employees are afraid, but especially the owner. They have someone come in and rid the building of the ghostly presence. Then turn it into a ghost bar 😂 it's ridiculous.
"We called Charles styles from mystery diners to help us"
*meets charles*
"Hi, Charles."
"hI, cHaRlEs StYlEs, MyStErY dInErS" - Every...time
wait this isn’t the good ol’ chicken pickin
DAMMIT
And I still don't know what a chicken pickin' is 😭
@@jeffsorrows it’s a chicken pickin what you mean 😭
Wheres the Iraqi food cart?? 😂
“I will continue to watch your videos just to hear you say “ malarkey” again hahah
Edit: you just said “ Tom -foolery “ now I have to keep watching
Man I loved this show as a kid, and honestly it really could work as a real show.
HELL YEAH ANOTHER CHRIS JAMES VIDEO LANDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris, I still feel like your UA-cam is one of the realest channels out there. Even when you do ads, you work in dry humor that makes me go: oh. okay.
Chris, I just found your channel, and I had no idea how much I need this show. Pure gold.
Finally, a new Chris James video came out! Happy late Birthday.
Sooooo, when's your next Bar Rescue episode coming out?
You know you love John Tapper.
What about Marriage Rescue
I'm always up for laughing at Mystery Diners
Fun fact! You legally end up having to release a lot of lobsters you catch because there are very specific regulations around catching lobsters for conservation reasons.
I loved Mystery Diners as a kid.
Wake up babe, the funny old man just posted
Cringe
@@happicheshirecat Thank you, I am truly flattered
Real
He is cj not cj from San Andreas but cj Chris James
He's younger than me smh how dare time flow
I believe Chris would absolutely love one episode from Finnish edition of Gordon Ramsay's Hotel Hell, where chef Jyrki Sukula visits a horrible hotel Joronjälki that also sells scuba gear, antique, other used stuff (because the hotel owner is a hoarder), horrible poetry done by the hotel owner etc. 😅
I wish we could have seen someone tell the guy who said "we are out of lobsters"
Just look at him and go, "uhh what about that tank that has the lobters and go pro's in it?" 😂
As someone who spent last summer on that exact boardwalk. These people have since gone and passed. None of it is owned by them, nor has it been for at least six plus years.
Omg the guy stealing the lobsters 😂 good for him tbf lool
Love your work, Chris. You've gotta cover Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura!
Homie really out here working at a lobster restaurant while also being a lobster rights activist 🤣🤣
CHARLES STILES, MYSTERY DINERS!
I've been patiently waiting for a new upload for so long! Thank you, Chris!
😊😊😊
Bernice falling out that parking garage and popping up later will always be hilarious to me
I think that kid was putting the lobsters back into the ocean with the tape still on the claws, effectively killing the lobsters lol
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Hahaha!!!! Like . Just imagine- picking up whole lobsters, with huge tongs nonetheless; scooping em into a damn backpack- in front of a whole restaurant and staff.
I’m cracking up just - …hahaha!
Why would you work at a LOBSTER restaurant!? Dude 3 lobsters back in the sea; great job.
one hour later they’re gonna go catch 1000 in one boat trip
CJ should do and episode of 'Lobster Hunters' to be fair and balanced...
The que card reading delivery of all these shows is so ridiculous. They still do it today too.
Ive worked in restaurants for 26 years and there is no way they are planting 20 cameras allover the place without a regular employee noticing. Unless the owner said like "we have to close for a day for maintenance so nobody come here!" Then an employee is gonna see this shit going on. Full time in service industry makes your job basically your second home. You know pretty much everything that happens in that place even if you arent on shift.
The acting in this episode is just *chef's kiss*
This is so overtly fake, but I love it. The underground lobster market must be off the chain 💀
From one Chris to another, that Halo 3 shirt brought back so many memories. I remember its release and running home to catch my brother just starting the first mission.. the times ahhh
Love your videos they’ve been helping me get through the loss of my mother, so thank you
This was so preposterous.
I’m here for it.
Yassssss this is what I need on this smoky Thursday morning!
The saddest thing I ever learned at Red Lobster was that the lobsters didn't get fed. They weren't in the tank long enough to need food...And the knife in the head part
"Mystery Diner takes the cake" see what you did there
I feel like this show is directly insulting my intelligence with how blatantly BAD it's actors are.
I’m so glad I cancelled cable 15 years ago.
Dude hell yeah!! Absolutely love when you do Mystery Diners. Another one, please???!!!
No idea why you so heavily took the side of literal criminals on this one. They definitely got it easier than they deserved, especially the lobster kid.
Charles exhibiting some serious mall cop energy in this one