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Chunky (Dan Vega's Mega Money Quiz)
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
On Dan Vega's Mega Money Quiz, host Dan Vega warns contestants Paul and Colleen to watch out for the squares hiding Chunky, a fuzzy red mascot. Whenever Paul uncovers one, Chunky storms the stage with no real purpose: it tugs at Paul's shirt, fetches his backpack from the green room, smashes his laptop and forces a hat onto his head. Dan scolds Paul for swearing on a family game show and berates the performer inside the suit for speaking and for never working out the character's job, while Colleen's correct answers are forgotten and the broadcast unravels.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
What game show have you ever seen that had swearing in it?
Figure out what you do! You had all summer to think of it!
The mouth on the thing doesn't move! It looks fake!
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Alice Mathias
Director

Akiva Schaffer
Director

Tim Robinson
Writer

Zach Kanin
Writer

John Solomon
Writer
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Speaker 1
Live from Hollywood, California, it's Dan Vega's Mega Money Quiz.
- 00:05
Dan Vega
Hi, I'm Dan Vega. Let's get started. Our contestants Paul and Colleen will flip a square from our Mega Money Board and it will show a dollar amount. But remember, watch out for the Chunky. Chunky eats your points and he gets very mad. Colleen, you're up first. Pick a square on the board.
- 00:28
Colleen
Second row, four down from the left.
- 00:31
Dan Vega
$500. This red condiment can be put on hamburgers.
- 00:37
Colleen
Ketchup?
- 00:38
Dan Vega
That's right. $500 on the board for you. Good job. Paul, you are up.
- 00:44
Paul
Okay, third row, second down.
- 00:46
Dan Vega
Okay, let's flip her over. It's a Chunky. Uh-oh, you got a Chunky. Uh-oh, Chunky's here. He's gobbling up your points.
- 01:03
Paul
Oh.
- 01:04
Dan Vega
Oh, okay, what are you going to do with it? What's the plan?
- 01:10
Dan Vega
He's eating your points.
- 01:15
Paul
All right. Okay. He's Ow! Stop! Ah!
- 01:20
Paul
pulling on my shirt.
- 01:23
Dan Vega
What the hell are you doing, Chunky? You can't wreck his shirt. You have to figure out what Chunky does before you come out here. Go!
- 01:32
Paul
What the fuck, man? He wrecked my shirt.
- 01:34
Dan Vega
Don't swear. Oh my God. What game show have you ever seen that had swearing in it? Ah, yeesh. All right, Colleen, you have control of the board.
- 01:45
Colleen
Um, third row, third one down.
- 01:48
Dan Vega
$300, all right. Melted or cold from the cow's udders over time it will grow mold.
- 01:56
Colleen
Is it cheese?
- 01:58
Dan Vega
That's right, it is cheese. It's all right, Paul, you have control of the board.
- 02:03
Paul
Fourth row, four down.
- 02:05
Dan Vega
Uh-oh, it's a Chunky!
- 02:09
Paul
Oh, Frick.
- 02:11
Dan Vega
What's this, you have a bag?
- 02:13
Paul
What the hell that's my backpack you went in the green room.
- 02:15
Dan Vega
You got his bag. What are you gonna do with it?
- 02:17
Paul
Hey, that's my laptop. Don't touch that put that back. What are you doing that?
- 02:21
Dan Vega
Hey, yeah, don't put that. No chunky
- 02:23
Paul
tell him to stop
- 02:24
Dan Vega
don't break his laptop. That's expensive
- 02:28
Paul
Thank you No!
- 02:29
Dan Vega
Did I just say, Don't break it freaking laptop.
- 02:33
Paul
You gotta pay for that.
- 02:35
Speaker 2
I don't
- 02:36
Dan Vega
Don't talk you can't talk chunky the mouth on it. Don't come over by me Stay over there! Figure out what you do! You had all summer to think of it. Okay, Paul, you just went. You have control of the board again.
- 02:56
Paul
Third down, fourth row.
- 02:58
Dan Vega
That's it, Chunky.
- 02:59
Paul
You didn't even turn it over.
- 03:00
Dan Vega
I came up with this game. I know what all the little things are.
- 03:05
Paul
Oh, my God.
- 03:06
Dan Vega
What is it? What are you doing with the bag, Chunky? A hat?
- 03:10
Paul
That's my hat.
- 03:11
Dan Vega
What is the hat thing? You want to put the hat on him?
- 03:14
Speaker 2
Yeah!
- 03:14
Dan Vega
Oh, yeah, okay, let's see what that does.
- 03:17
Paul
Stop. Ow. Ow, what is this? Fine, I'm wearing my own hat.
- 03:26
Colleen
We haven't been to the board in a long time.
- 03:29
Dan Vega
Yeah, I know, Colleen. This show's gonna suck. We just gotta figure out, like, what Chunky's deal is.
- 03:35
Paul
Like, don't throw away the hat.
- 03:36
Dan Vega
Don't talk! The mouth on the thing doesn't move! It looks fake!
- 03:43
Dan Vega
That's, yeah, that's a good idea. Dump it.
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