The Reel Rejects - COMING TO AMERICA (1988) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

GOOD MORNING, MY NEIGHBORS!! Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Coming To America Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us O...n Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Get Your Fantastic Four & Spider-Club RR Shirts: https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Come see us at MULTICON!! https://shorturl.at/2B9l4 Coming to America (1988) Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review! John Humphrey and Aaron Alexander take a trip to Zamunda for the ultimate classic comedy experience—Coming to America! Directed by John Landis (The Blues Brothers, Trading Places), this Eddie Murphy-led masterpiece follows Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop, Shrek) as he embarks on a journey to Queens, New York, to find a woman who will love him for who he truly is. Alongside his hilarious and ever-loyal best friend Semmi (Arsenio Hall, Harlem Nights, Black Dynamite), Akeem trades his royal lifestyle for a humble job at McDowell’s, the fast-food restaurant that totally isn’t McDonald's, all while attempting to win the heart of Lisa McDowell (Shari Headley, The Haves and the Have Nots). With an unforgettable supporting cast that includes James Earl Jones (Star Wars, The Lion King) as the commanding King Jaffe Joffer, John Amos (Good Times, Die Hard 2) as Cleo McDowell, and Madge Sinclair (Roots, The Lion King) as Queen Aoleon, the film delivers some of the most quotable moments in comedy history. We react to all of the legendary scenes, including Akeem & Semmi Arrive in Queens, The Barbershop Scene, The First McDowell’s Encounter, Akeem Meets Lisa, Sexual Chocolate’s Hilarious Performance, The Stolen Money Scene, The Bathing Scene, Semmi’s Expensive Lifestyle, The Subway Proposal, and The Grand Wedding Reveal! This film not only gave us some of the best comedic performances but also introduced multiple iconic characters played by Murphy and Hall, showcasing their legendary range. And let’s not forget the incredible soundtrack and cultural impact that made this film a staple of ‘80s cinema. Plus, with the sequel Coming 2 America continuing the story, we reflect on the franchise’s legacy and how it holds up today! Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:04 America, here we come. Part of me is like, I don't know what the sequel did, but part of me is like, did they go to L.A? Maybe they go to L.A.? Oh, maybe. Possible. Possible. Well. Well, you guys, we have
Starting point is 00:02:23 come and gone to America. America, the time of America is coming past. But we are here now to talk about the movie. If you liked coming to America, if we just want to listen to two good old boys talking, give us five stars in Apple, Spotify. Come to America.
Starting point is 00:02:41 We did it. We did it. We came, we saw, we conquered. That's right. We fell in love. We laughed. We cried. We cut to camera.
Starting point is 00:02:49 We broke the fourth wall. It was a good time. Johnny John, what did you think? I had a blast, man. This was so fun. And like, you know, like to go back to heyday 80s Eddie Murphy again after, you know, we saw Beverly Hills cop and just to see, it's like, you know, what growing up, you know, we had like 90s era Eddie Murphy is, is, you know, my formative Eddie Murphy impressions. And so to go back. And there's some good stuff in there too. But like, you know, this, yeah, just his charm and the way that this is, yeah, like, at least heavily partially authored by him was like really impressive. And like this movie had. a little bit of all the right elements it's like it was funny a lot of good like situation fish out of water sort of comedic bits but you know the actual story of him trying to find his queen felt well fleshed out it wasn't an afterthought like the romance and the web of all that was nice and it wasn't ever really too much like part of me expected soul glow guy to become this villain of the story when really he's just kind of a nuisance you know he's just kind of like a he's he's not right for her and he's not a savory cat and he's a bit of a you know it's just It's just an aside to show the juxtposition between this kind of guy the team is versus so a little guy is.
Starting point is 00:04:04 Yeah, and like I really enjoyed the dynamic between, you know, Arsenio Hall and Eddie Murphy and the way that they, you know, each got to really have fun and play with all these different characters. And two, like, even though it, it does take a moment for each of their characters to, like, have the spotlight, it didn't feel too much. Didn't feel too muggy in the wrong way. And so even though there is a certain element of that, like, oh, there are some sketches thrown in here. It felt kind of appropriate to the flavoring of this version of New York. And, yeah, this. That's Landis. Got a credit in here.
Starting point is 00:04:47 Shouts out. You can pay him to give you script notes now. Wow. So I don't know that. Yep. Just in case. Just in case, you're desperate. I don't know what he's doing now, but I guess that. Yeah. But no, I mean, this was a real joy. And too, yeah, like the romance and everything was very lovely. I, you know, again, I feel like we in current society have gone, it's slowly coming back. But, you know, I feel like we went through that phase of like, oh, everything's got a romance tacked onto it.
Starting point is 00:05:16 And then we crested into the more modern post-romantic age where it's like, oh, we're taking those elements out and stuff doesn't need to have that anymore. and uh you know i'm excited for romance to return in places that aren't on face value about that and this had that in a really nice way like you start out in zamunda and all that stuff is really fun and the transition into new york is really fun and the way he meets her and comes across her felt really natural and you know he comes to america to find his bride but i feel like it's nice that they just let you sort of revel in like yeah we're just getting here and soaking up the flavor and I'm getting some life experience. I'm coming of age a little bit. Even though he's a well-formed character and like, you know, the arc even is just about him
Starting point is 00:06:02 being honest about who he is. But even so, like he is a really lovely character, Akeem. Like, I really liked him as a character and what his vibe was and what his just general, I don't know, outlook on things was. Like, he's a very sort of lovely, bright, benevolent center for a movie like this, which was not counter to what I was expecting, but, like, he's not irreverent, and I never really thought about that. And I associate Jim, not Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, with a certain amount of irreverence in his comedies.
Starting point is 00:06:32 And this was, like, wholesome in a way, while not issuing, you know, those grittier New York elements or, like, you know, when he's in the bathtub, and it's like, he's got these, like, maidens bathing him. Like, you know, there are those more, you know, pulp elements in there here and there. Yeah, no, I think Akim is a great character, you know. he's he's naive yet he's he's optimistic he has integrity um he's also very curious about the world and i think
Starting point is 00:06:57 that all of those things make for a very interesting character to follow and yeah i i had a great time watching this movie i think that the fish out of water elements work really well you know and it makes for a lot of great comedy and also just seeing the diversity of the types of characters and Eddie Murphy's acting ability through whether it be this film Beverly Hills Cop or the other characters he's playing within this movie if he did a really good job with all of it
Starting point is 00:07:25 yeah I also love the I guess the social commentary of all the things at the time you know with with the Soul Glow and how prevalent the Jerry Colts Jerry Curl era was back then and kind of poking fun at that especially the one scene
Starting point is 00:07:42 where the soul glow's family is just like all of their Anaculate sight gag all three of them. That was so good. That was so funny. Yeah, I understand why this is a classic. You know, there's just so many references and so many stars, whether it's people that are already established or people coming up like Samuel Jackson. Just watching all of them together was really great.
Starting point is 00:08:04 And yeah, this is an example of a strong 80s comedy. And it's one of those movies where the bits don't take away from the, you know, you. experience is like as movie does do that thing where like it pauses to have its bits but you know it was part of the the fun of enjoying the atmosphere that this kind of established which which was great you yeah it's part of them observing the culture of america you know so yeah it's like you can take a break for sexual chocolate or to listen to the barbershop guys banter because yeah they're soaking in the flavor and especially like you said like it came being so curious and open to the world you know yeah it's like a built in way and again you have to edit that stuff you have to know when to
Starting point is 00:08:48 cut out cut away or or move on but yeah like even the sketchier bits felt appropriate yeah like you're just watching the i guess the average people in response to what they perceive to be someone who was like someone from a foreign country and then like just the the i guess I don't even know slight But you know like how the dad wasn't like too kind to him And like oh he's a goat hoarder And like oh like even the Daryl like make poking fun of the
Starting point is 00:09:20 Him being like poor and like oh like They're probably the most clothes you've ever worn or something like that I don't know I watch it watching that stuff And having their romance be based off of their very organic chemistry Yeah And it's one of those things where like we watch a lot of comedies and like it's either The character's super irrevering like I don't know how anyone would like want to be with this guy or it's something that we've seen a lot in
Starting point is 00:09:44 Adam Sandler movies where this guy's so ridiculous and like yet this girl because the script says so has to fall in love with him and I didn't feel that case past all that to his inner charm okay but you know in this movie you didn't have to do that it was very believable and I like watching them together yeah I really enjoy that I wish we would have gotten a little bit more with the sister you know because like they just kind of just drops off after she He wants to steal the X. And I thought that Simi was going to be, I don't know, he was like his friend, but he was also like kind of a foil a little bit because he just didn't want the same kind of thing that Akeem wanted. It was a very interesting movie.
Starting point is 00:10:26 It was very funny, too. It still holds up and came out in 1988. Okay. So I think we're past Beverly Hills Cup then, right? Because I mean, it was 86? I feel like, 86, 84 or something. like that yeah yeah but yeah i mean there there are a couple things like you know there could have been maybe a stronger resolve or or just a more like deliberate feeling resolved for simi because
Starting point is 00:10:52 yeah it's mostly i feel like i do feel like as much as it's not like really detracting that much from the movie because you know they have to fix this uh yeah it does feel like we skip from like dark night of the soul they have the talk on the the the train and everyone you know They got the people in New York on, you know, rooting for them, and then they go their separate ways. And then we cut to Zamunda, and there she is. And it's a nice surprise. I do, I don't, like, there is a function to that I appreciate. And you, I guess, would need to kind of not show us some of that to sell that choice.
Starting point is 00:11:29 But it does feel like we kind of cut to a quick coda and then we're done. Which is fine, you know, and that whole thing about, like, we can give this all up tomorrow. Nah, like, you know, that's fun. and uh and yeah like semi back in his element you know it was that the old uh the original bride or whatever is he end up there like that's kind of cute i was looting to yeah like i was expecting him to end up with the sister in some variety and again like it's not a bad thing that they didn't do that but yeah it does feel like there could have been more resolve on him because he is you know such a prominent character and he does go through his own little journey alongside
Starting point is 00:12:06 akim is all this stuff is happening yeah also just like like seen just like black royalty on screen that was very cool you know just even though it was like this like lush exaggerated version of what that that looks like but just like that that opening scene like the dance number that was all very cool I love the costuming in this movie and um the music and even like every everything everybody war was was really great especially in the africa segments but then like they guess the juxtaposition between how colorful Zimbabwe. Zambamba? Zamumba? Zamunda. How colorful Zamunda was versus the Wakanda. Zumunda forever. You got to find a way to make a Z with your arms.
Starting point is 00:12:52 We'll figure it out. But yeah, I thought it was great. That's a good call, actually. Because yeah, you are in different ways. You know, obviously you have the literal royalty. but you are also dealing with like the in America you know doing well at business is the royalty so you are going from one upper cast of society to a different upper cast of society and Akeem is such a joyous like there is yeah like this is in many ways very joyous and yeah I don't know it's it's I feel like it's probably more significant than it would appear for that to be as it is you know no totally and it was fun watching these juxtaposition between how colorful his country was and how like dirty and grimy New York was. Well, there's so many struggle movies that are set in a place like that and this doesn't feel like that at all. Like it's weird.
Starting point is 00:13:45 It's like it takes that setting and delights in it, which is such a fun little twist. Yeah, totally. And watching this dad who's kind of climbed up the ladder of capitalism and want to like maintain that through the generation because he, his own personal struggle of what he had to go through. And, you know, I guess in a sense, like, I don't, the dad character is kind of like, you know, it's poking fun of like, oh, he's trying to keep his status and like, by copying McDonald's then wants the soul glow. Because he's, his family has also played the capitalism game of like getting to the top and like, oh, yeah. Yeah, powerful families have to unite and it is a good mirror.
Starting point is 00:14:20 I thought like it was a good mirror in that, yeah, you have these two arranged marriage scenarios and in different ways, Akeem and, um, what's her name? But, yeah, the both of them, I hate myself right now. I'm blanking on her name, who he marries. But, so we are. But, yeah. But, yeah, like, they're both in their own arranged marriage scenario that they're looking to be free of. They're both not bound by status and or, you know, riches and whatnot. And then you have, like, a neat little contrast in that, like, you know, yeah, being a successful business owner and all that stuff, you know, her dad is to some degree, again, here of status of some kind of.
Starting point is 00:15:00 kind of, you know, what you might port royalty over to here. But also he has, I get the sense, had a different, you know, story to that because, you know, the king is, you know, part of this grand tradition, you know, and he's had people doting on him forever. And I'm sure the generation that James Earl Jones as a character, you know, is of maybe came with its own different struggles. But you just get the sense from the text of the movie that the John Amos character has had to probably work harder and, you know, use his hands more to get to where he is. So,
Starting point is 00:15:33 like, when you finally get to that confrontation in the living room where he actually does stop being a sycophant for a minute and he's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, like, you can't talk about my daughter that way, okay? Like, you know, when he actually stands up to him and let's go of, yeah, again, bowing and kowtowing to the status, like, that's a flavor that I think is like kind of nicely situated within the character and they can kind of mirror but also contrast each other and it's like a little flourish is like that like like this is a fun comedy and it's a situation comedy in a lot of ways and it has a lot of things that feel like they could be riffing or improv or whatever especially with the different characters that arsonio and
Starting point is 00:16:14 eddie murphy are playing but it also feels like they really Lisa there you go of course uh it feels like they really cared i i feel like this is part of what people mean when they say like they don't make them like this anymore because the the story of the character could work in a different genre scenario you know what i mean like like this doesn't necessarily have to be a situation comedy to make this story work it's just really fun and nice that it is and so again like his journey his experience of america and their budding romance is like really nicely handled in a way that i feel like would become an afterthought or would be more prone to being an afterthought in like a more modern comedy you know like that stuff felt really genuine in a way that
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Starting point is 00:19:11 You want to read a few facts? Let's do it. Before we hit the road after the makeup and clothing was applying for the Jewish character, Saul, Eddie Murphy wanted to test the makeup and costume out. He got a golf cart and drove from one studio department to another in Paramount Studios. He would get out of the cart and say in his regular voice, Hi, I'm Eddie Murphy. No one believed him.
Starting point is 00:19:30 That's great. That's so funny. Oh, to be one of those people. This was one of the first, uh, this was the first time Eddie Murphy played multiple characters in the same film. Aspired by Peter Sellers, who did the same in Dr. Strange Love or how I learned to stop worrying and love the atomic bar and love the ball. I want to watch that movie.
Starting point is 00:19:47 That's a great ass movie. This would be a trademark of Eddie Murph. Murphy. Not bad. The homeless men, here we go, that receive the money from Prince Akeem, are the Duke brothers, Ralph Bellamy, and Don Amici from Trading Places. You got it. Also directed by
Starting point is 00:20:03 John Landis, I guess we'll sometime have to watch that. In that movie, Billy Ray Valentine. Murphy. Oh, shit. Well, we're not going to read any more of that. Is Trading Place is the one with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy? Is that it? Okay. Well, there you go. Cuba Gooding Jr.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Was it a ditty party when he shot shot a scene in which his character, boy getting haircut, tells Clarence that he does not have the money to pay for the haircut. Clarence responds by shaving a bald patch out of the boy's hair. But to Gooding's disappointment, the scene was deleted.
Starting point is 00:20:35 It's on the cutting room floor. The name of the African country of the main characters are from is called Zamunda. This name was taken from a Richard Pryor routine where he referred to a fictional African tribe of the same name. The writers said originally
Starting point is 00:20:50 named it Zmunda with no A at the top but director John Landis changed it to Zimunda this is that big of a Richard Prior fanatic John Amos whose character Cleo McDowell shamelessly
Starting point is 00:21:06 copies McDonald's had a long history with McDonald's in real life at one point Amos worked at the first ever McDonald's restaurant in Canada is it from Canada Canadian and he also starred in a famous song and dance McDonald's commercial in 1971, grab a bucket and mop.
Starting point is 00:21:24 That's a wet ass. Truly. Macaroni in a pot. The scene when Cleo stares strangely at Akeem trying to use a bucket and mop is an in-joke reference to this commercial. That's fun. There were five lawsuits over this movie after its release. The only one that went to court was when humorist and columnist Art Buchwald sued a Paramount Pictures, alleging that Paramount took an option
Starting point is 00:21:52 on his story but then took his script idea and turned it into this movie. Book called won and was awarded damages. Damn. Paramount settled for $150,000, writer David Sheffield and Barry W. Bloustine have claimed that they took
Starting point is 00:22:08 most of the blame for this since they wrote the script on their own, not knowing that the idea was stolen. Yet afterwards they were falsely accused of stealing the screenplay which they think may have cost them a membership in the Academy, of motion picture arts and sciences that's wild damn that's a bummer it's a great idea but also you got fast and furious uh most of the dance performed by the royal dancers before presenting
Starting point is 00:22:34 prince of keem's queen to be is a high tempo rendition of the dance from michael jackson thriller i feel oh damn i should i feel like i can see it in hindsight yeah yeah i think we don't have the musical association to yeah yeah that's like that's why i miss Changes the vibe. Hey, music, the application of music does a lot. One of my favorite classes I ever took in college was a music in film class. And one of the projects was we had to take a clip and remove the music and put something else on it and just see what changes. Oh.
Starting point is 00:23:06 And like tons, tons changes with music. Music changes the whole vibe. And sound effects in general. Although Eddie Murphy and John Landis had been friends since they worked together on trading places, they did not get along on this film. reports about the reasons vary But most agree There was a friction over past disagreements Landis was supposedly still hurt
Starting point is 00:23:27 That Murphy had not supported him Oh damn after a fatal accident Yeah on the side of the Twilight Zone movie That is a That is quite a contentious bit of Hollywood history And Murphy vowed to never work with Landis again The two later reconciled
Starting point is 00:23:41 And Murphy personally asked Landis To direct Beverly Hills Cop 3 Oh wow Look at this According to John It was his idea to have Eddie Murphy wear the makeup to play a Jewish man as a sort of payback for Jewish comedians wearing blackface in the early 1900s. Wow. Writer Barry W. Bloustine consulted with his father for what a Jewish man would actually say.
Starting point is 00:24:03 That's authenticity. All right. Before we move on to spoilers, let's get this one here because Louis Anderson's out here. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall revealed during their March 2021 visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live that Louis Anderson was cast and Coming to America as McDowell's employee, Maurice, only because the studio mandated a white comedian appear in the 1988 comedy. Oh, wow. According to the actors, Paramount, what so far is to give the list of three white actors to choose from. They chose Anderson because Murphy and Hall were fans of his stand-up comedy.
Starting point is 00:24:37 They didn't reveal who the two other options were. Wow. Interesting, interesting. Oh, damn. I think we were bantering, but apparently I was wondering in the airport scenes because they always like slip shit. into the you know uh the background yeah like the background intercom thing uh yeah airport scenes uh at around 23 minutes airport scenes in this film and into the night have a call over the pa system to mr frank osnowitz to pick up the white courtesy phone this is frank oz's real name
Starting point is 00:25:09 and uh apparently john amos played the adult kunta kinte in roots and madge sinclair played Kuntikinde's wife and James Joel Jones played Alex Haley Jr. in Roots the Next Generations. So there's a lot of Roots Easter eggs in here. I'm going to have to watch that at some point. Let's see real quick what the spoilers have to say
Starting point is 00:25:30 just in case. Spoilies. Oh my God, F. Gary Gray has a cameo. I didn't even realize. He's in the Black Awareness program scene. Toby Hooper to the right of Reverend Brown and Lisa listening to Brown's Not Stop preaching during the McDowell party. He directed Texas Chainsaw Massacre, among other things.
Starting point is 00:25:49 It's a random cameo to have there. And, okay, Michael Tadros is a taxi driver. I don't know exactly who that is, but it's a cameo for you, Michael Tadrosse fans. Hey, when King, Jaffe, and Oha arrive at a keem and semi-sum apartment, semi-screams and slams the door in the faces, this was completely improvised stunt by our city O'Hall
Starting point is 00:26:08 and not a part of the script. It was such a hit with the production crew that it was worked into the final cut of the film. Lisa's pink wedding gown was not a deliberate aesthetic choice since the wedding attendants were primarily people of color and dark hugh's producers were concerned a purple white dress would skew the picture ivory and yellow were scrapped because they were unflattering on shirley hadley sherry hadley uh blue was deemed too somber and the costume department did not feel lisa would wear wear red at her wedding fun interesting hey a lot of decision making goes into that stuff after king jaffi jafeer insults his daughter john amos
Starting point is 00:26:44 character was originally supposed to respond with I don't give a damn who you are I'll drop you like a bad habit Amos didn't think the line was strong enough so he improvised the line I'm gonna break my foot off in your royal ass Eddie Murphy thought it was hilarious to the line was kept in the movie I love stuff like that
Starting point is 00:27:00 when King Jaffe visits New York City to bring a keen back home he wears a lion's skin sash Jones portrayed the yeah the voice of Mufasa and Madge Sinclair Queen Aoleon also starred alongside Jones in Lion King, Asma Foss's wife, Queen Sarabi.
Starting point is 00:27:18 I didn't know that. Damn. That's cool. And there's at least one line in there that's reminiscent of Darth Vader. Sexual chocolate was based on hot chocolate, which is a super super, super awesome band. Who broke that back? Who's, who's, who has like an indie band called Hot Chocolate? Who just came in and was like, I'm just going to, I'm just going to get a little promo here. It has three like for anybody who gets to the bottom. I know. People were like, I call bullshit on this. Hold on. We are Googling.
Starting point is 00:27:47 It's a super duper awesome band. It's probably that guy's band. It has to be. It has to be 100% hot chocolate band. Oh, that's a real band. Look at that. This is a band from the 70s. They're a British soul band popular during the 70s and 80s, formed by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson.
Starting point is 00:28:07 So look out, man. It feels like a Tony Wilson has chocolate. That is Tony Wilson's out here. all these years later he's like we still got like when was this iMdb entry made got to be at least the 90s or 2000s he's out like this is it we'll get a that resurgence going that's reunion tour reunion tour oh man thank you guys we had so much fun watching coming to america um if you want to come to america with us or come anywhere with us ever again uh let's go to let's go to a different country let's go to wakonda i don't know we'll figure it out
Starting point is 00:28:40 want people contact your people the first marvel romantic comedy coming to wakonda i like it i think that'd be a good movie well meet us in wakonda next time and we love you and we'll see you in the next video duces chris wham-off hey chris we know what chris means we're doing wham-off here's how this works wham-off i'm gonna guess what wam-off means sounds like something i'm gonna guess a wam-off means and whoever is closest to it wins the round whamoff well i mean it's got to mean um he is uh sexual god yes it does oh my god i feel like this must be like a german name so i'm going with uh uh powerful foot okay is what it means hit enter uh here we go huamhoff name meaning the surname vamhoff is likely german variant of the name wemhoff is likely german variant of the name wemm
Starting point is 00:29:40 off explanation a german surname a surname that is likely of by a okay farmstead manor or farm to the west uh in north german surname that means that means that so you're a farm what do you guys strong foot definitely you went then off i thought of hoof and wam i don't know so say sexuality of a farm oh let's start doing some cousin stuff in alabama yeah in the friggin barn in a bail of hey that's that's a very sexy things happen in barn and farms. I would never. Animals reproduce there.
Starting point is 00:30:14 I would never. Farmer's daughters. Too uncomfortable. And I think Chris Whamoff is a sick son of a bitch. He is, dude. He's out here. He carry on that surname. All the animals.
Starting point is 00:30:23 They're taking advantage of animals like that. You're a sick bastard. But we love you because you give us a lot of money during live streams. Yeah. You're the Jeffrey Epstein of this channel. Keep buying our love. Happy Trump here. Cheers, buddy.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Thank you.

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