H3h3 Productions



"Wow, Ethan, great moves! Keep it up. Proud of you."

h3h3 Productions is a comedy channel on YouTube that first appeared in 2011. Run mainly by Jewish couple Ethan and Hila Klein, it typically features reactions and commentary on various videos as well as personal hijinks. These usually involve pranks, viral videos, anything by DJ Khaled and whatever catches the couple's attention or is submitted to them by fans.

It's notable for its rather impromptu, irreverent if not surreal comedy and the loads and loads of memes that result from them. These are in addition to Ethan's unscripted eccentricities and the couple's antics on (and off)-camera.

A secondary channel originally set up by Hila can be found here, which also contains snippets of her and Ethan's everyday life.

"Ethan: "He's like a Mormon. Except instead of two wives, he has a wife and a FUCKING HORSE, dude!""
 * Arch Enemy: As of late, the channel's become one for SoFloAntonio.
 * Audience Participation: Increasingly, Ethan and Hila have taken to being more personal with their own fanbase and often ask for suggestions on what stuff to cover.
 * Badass Israeli: Hailing from Israel, Hila served in the IDF through conscription. Though she states that she was mainly doing desk jobs, her military training still surfaces occasionally.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Hila, who's usually the cameraman, comes across as demure and shy at times. But every now and then, her past in the IDF becomes evident, which can come across as jarring.
 * Berserk Button:
 * Videos by pranksters like SoFloAntonio come across as this for Ethan.
 * This extends as well to scam-artists and clickbait.
 * Tai Lopez. It's enough to infuriate Ethan into ranting about how sleazy Lopez's shtick really is.
 * Ethan's also shown a hatred for Adam Sandler movies and more recently, the Fine Brothers. In part because they give Jewish people a bad name, among other reasons.
 * Bestiality is Depraved: In Maregasm, Ethan is shocked at the fact that the couple in the video is "sexually active with animals":

''"Are ya crazy?! Are ya outta your moind?!"  "Ethan holding me down and I didnt even get 10,000 dollars to buy a house" '' "Ethan: I have to ask, dude: Are you aware of what year it is? People don't walk around in swords anymore, dude! People don't use swords in fights anymore, it's not- (beat) (to Hila) Do you think he knows that? I'm not sure if he knows that."
 * Big Applesauce: New York features a bit more on the channel (in addition to a few cameos from their friend Jon Tron) following the couple's move there.
 * One of the Dangers of Social Media videos also features a disgruntled father speaking in a very blatant New Yorker accent.
 * Blatant Lies: Certain pranksters, particularly SoFloAntonio come across as this for many reasons. One of the most blatant being how they tend to steal other people's work/footage/etc. and slap their faces or branding on them, with little to no acknowledgement of any sort.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Both Ethan and Hila show themselves to be rather well-informed, educated and articulate. They're also rather eccentric, with Ethan in particular not really giving a damn with how he dresses himself. Neither of them are an act.
 * The Cameo: Jon Tron has made a few cameo appearances in h3h3's more recent videos. It's also mutual, given how Ethan has appeared in Jon's work recently.
 * First Lady Michelle Obama makes an appearance in the channel's intro sequence, which is actually taken from a Vine recording addressed to a kid also named Ethan.
 * Cargo Ship: The In Love with a Theme Park Ride video, which involves a group of women who have a literal love for rides. Even Hila couldn't quite believe what she's seeing.
 * Catch Phrase:
 * "We've got goofs, gaffs and we've got laughs."
 * "Come on, dude."
 * Chekov's Gun: Discussed in his review of Jack and Jill, when Adam Sandler's character meets the Mexican sleeping janitor, and Ethan expects him to be a character, not a one-off "joke." After all, "if you hang a gun, you gotta use it."
 * Crossing the Line Twice:
 * Ethan would sometimes repeat some of the more nonsensical and outright awkward lines from DJ Khaled and Patrice Wilson's music videos. Coming from his mouth, they go from Unfortunate Implications to hilarious.
 * The tendency to mock the various click-bait tags prank videos seem fond of using like "X GONE WRONG" or "X GONE SEXUAL."
 * Hila does this in her video purporting to be about Ethan abusing her. And failing. She even goes so far as to add this comment:
 * Discredited Trope: In Two Handed Great Sword, Ethan considers the Master Swordsman this:


 * In his reaction to KILLING BEST FRIEND PRANK, Ethan considers prank videos to be dead.

"Ethan: "It's just a prank, bro!""
 * Early Installment Weirdness: The first videos on the channel look decidedly basic and featured more conventional attempts at comedy from Ethan.
 * Epic Fail: Some of the stuff h3h3 covers tend to stop short of whatever they're aiming for and land into this instead.
 * Fan Disservice: Any time Ethan goes around in his underwear or showing parts of his body. And naturally, Played for Laughs.
 * Forced Meme: Occasionally, though it tends to not necessarily be on Ethan or Hila's part but rather from the stuff they cover. Which more often than not, work.
 * Fountain of Memes: Many of the videos reacted and commented on in the channel, which have a tendency to speak for themselves - for good or ill. Which is sometimes lampshaded by Ethan.
 * Gay Bravado: Parodied in How to pick up girls, when Ethan pretends to act like a pick up artist who has no emotions with women, but really likes "his bros" ("Why aren't we fucking dudes by the way?", "I wanna fuck dudes!")
 * Discussed in Reading the Good Looking Loser's Comments, when a commenter on Chris' forum completely misses the point of the joke.
 * Happily Married: Ethan and Hila, who show this even in their personal videos.
 * Insult Backfire: When SoFloAntonio tried to "expose" the channel as being a fraud, all it really did was turn the spotlight even more on SoFlo's sketchy practices. All while giving h3h3 the Streisand Effect.
 * Jewish and Nerdy: Ethan in a nutshell.
 * Jewish Complaining: Both Ethan and Hila have a tendency to do this. While it's stated a few times that Hila's dad is still fond of complaining about Ethan.
 * Karma Houdini: What Ethan guesses to be the rationale behind many prank videos, given some of the more questionable things that certain pranksters (hypocritically) get away with.

"Ellen Sirot: For me, an injury really would mean—a paper cut or a broken nail or a little bruise, something mundane to you—would be a disaster for me. Ethan: A disaster. 'A paper cut?' What a fuckin' disaster! "OOOHHH! A paper cut again?! Call my manager, Chris, I can't use the fucking phone, dude! I can't do anything! Chris, call my manager, tell him to- to cancel all my appointments for the next year." (loud cough)"
 * Keet: Ethan tends to show this at times. Which isn't really an act, if his and Hila's trip to Disneyland is any indication.
 * Large Ham: At times, Ethan can really be hammy in his delivery.
 * Manipulative Editing: Certain videos that the channel covers can come across as this. Ethan in particular is fond of mocking the manipulative use of music to make even sleazy exploitation look like uplifting, feel-good filler.
 * Memetic Molester: Ethan acts this way for laughs ("rape dungeon") and to prove the point that the people he reacts to are extremely creepy.
 * Minor Injury Overreaction: Discussed and parodied in The Hand Model:

"Ethan: I've never seen someone stroking themselves in admiration. 'I am literally the perfect human being.'"
 * Narcissist/Small Name, Big Ego: Parodied in The Hand Model:

""And that's why Sam Pepper is a genius: he blurs the distinction between parody and real prank." [...] "Who is actually being pranked? Is it me? Is it you?""
 * No Sense of Humor: Some of Ethan's observations on prank videos involve either how the ones making said pranks have no idea on how to make one, or how they're blurring the line between what's real and what's just a joke.
 * Noodle Incident: Sometimes, off-camera events are brought up in passing that may or may not be true.
 * Not Making This Up Disclaimer: Some of the videos covered by Ethan and Hila sometimes require them to insist that yes, those exist. One example being the Become a Living Meme God video, which has Ethan pointing out incredulously how there are still (self-professed) druids in the 21st Century.
 * When Ethan brings up an infamous porn video VitalyzdTv was involved in that went viral, he points out that yes, it exists on the internet.
 * As it turns out, the beanie skit at the end of the True Art Is Incomprehensible video is very real.
 * Oh Crap: A general reaction, given what sorts of videos are covered.
 * OOC Is Serious Business: Given how quirky Ethan and Hila tend to be, it's not a good sign when the work or video they're riffing on is really pissing them off.
 * In a recent video made in the wake of the fiasco surrounding the Fine Bros. (of Kids React To fame), Ethan's dead serious for a good portion of it and visibly upset.
 * Both Hila and Ethan are visibly uncomfortable for a good portion of their The Thrust of an Indian God video, partly due to the sleazy dry humping in the rural Indian dance number footage they're watching coming across as borderline rape. In the same video, they're also dumbfounded by the seizure-inducing K-Pop live concert footage.
 * Poe's Law: Discussed for laughs by Ethan in his reaction to KILLING BEST FRIEND PRANK

"Hila: You can mute them, you know. Ethan: Maybe I can just find a quiet place on the beach and meditate and let it go. (wincing) Really, Hila? Really? Is that your suggestion? Ethan: I was made fun of on the Internet and you want me to let it go?!"
 * Political Correctness Gone Mad: Mercilessly mocked and criticized whenever it comes up.
 * The Reason You Suck Speech: Even with the sort of stuff covered in the channel, it takes quite a bit to really get Ethan and Hila riled up. So far, the most notable ones who've reached that "threshold" include:
 * Tai Lopez, for being so utterly fake, condescending to his supposed audience and exploiting others' gullibility under the guise of being some sort of self-help guru.
 * SoFloAntonio, for not just spamming YouTube with clickbait videos, many of which being stolen content from others. But more recently, for also exploiting Facebook to benefit himself while closing down and even threatening channels that criticize him.
 * The Fine Brothers, for the fiasco involving their Kids React To lineup and the very notion of reaction videos. And for their hypocrisy, lack of creativity and corporate opportunism, despite all their pretensions.
 * Refuge in Audacity: The channel tends to rely on this. Though at least some if also has to do with the couple's natural mannerisms.
 * Retraux: The intro sequence to the channel's videos wouldn't look out of place in a 1980s VHS special.
 * Running Gag:
 * Mentioning Jeff Dunham.
 * Quoting DJ Khaled's memetic words ("Another One", "Say My Name", etc.)
 * Ethan rocking out to overly epic music in some videos.
 * Scare'Em Straight: Parodied and mocked mercilessly. The Dangers of Social Media videos in particular not only show how ludicrously stupid such programmes are in practice, but also show Ethan speechless at the sheer insanity of it all.
 * Self-Deprecation: Ethan and Hila tend to poke fun at themselves and their heritage. Eventually, this has extended to making jokes about their old videos.
 * Serious Business: Parodied in the GTA V news report reaction, when Ethan gets trash-talked online:

"Ethan: (listening to his doll) What was that? (slams puppet into the sofa, slapping and punching it in the face) SHUT UP, JEFF DUNHAM!"
 * Shout-Out: rekt together is a tribute to What's Up Fatlip.
 * Speaking, Like, Totally Teen: The host in the How to Clean Your Gamer Gear video tries so hard to be Totally Radical in what amounts to a glorified infomercial aimed at gamers, peddling canned air that it's cringeworthy to watch in action.
 * Take That: To Jeff Dunham in the video which introduced the grotesque Jeff Dunnie Fuck Doll.


 * His "Jeff Dunham is so edgy" song, while making the puppet masturbate and blowjob itself, among other things.
 * In OUR THOUGHTS ON SAM PEPPER, Ethan recites the Drama Alert intro, and compares KEEMSTAR to a stroke victim.

"Ethan: So the solution to everyone's problems, guys: get it together, this is America! Do you know what you need to do? Be rich! At any cost! This is a country for sociopaths by sociopaths, and if you have a moral compas, get out! Go to fucking Canada, you bitch! [...]"
 * Tempting Fate: Sometimes, Ethan and Hila would mention how things couldn't possibly get any worse or weirder.
 * Title Drop: In A country for sociopaths by sociopaths, an Author Tract about how expensive health insurance is in New York:


 * This Is Gonna Suck: Ethan gives this impression every time he's about to look at a DJ Khaled or Patrice Wilson-produced video.
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: Parodied and lampooned in this video on modern art and how it tends to treat audiences like idiots.
 * Verbal Tic:
 * On-camera, Ethan tends to make a peculiar sound that not quite a cough, yet not quite a laugh either.
 * "Dude." Ethan even says it to his mom.
 * Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Ethan's take on the infamous Law and Order SVU episode Intimidation Game brings up how ludicrously unfair and detached from reality said episode is.
 * Viewers are Morons: Not h3h3 itself, but the more than a few videos and individuals covered on the channel do have a recurring tendency of treating viewers as idiots, as if competing to be as patronising or condescending as possible.
 * Defied in the channel itself. Ethan is very vocal about not treating his audience like "fucking idiots" or "little babies" when it comes to links.
 * What Happened To The Mouse: Sean, a friend of the couple who's also helped run h3h3, hasn't really been seen as of late. It's explained that he stayed behind in Israel while Ethan and Hila returned to America.
 * YouTube Poop: The "exe" videos and the many effects on the reaction videos border on this.