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[https://www.youtube.com/user/h3h3Productions/featured 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.

'''[https://www.youtube.com/user/h3h3Productions/featured 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 [[Fountain of Memes|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.

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** Tai Lopez. It's enough to [[OOC Is Serious Business|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 ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17rZTpoXVzw Maregasm]'', Ethan is shocked at the fact that the couple in the video is "sexually active with animals":

{{quote|'''Ethan''': "He's like a [[Mormonism|Mormon]]. Except instead of two wives, he has a wife and a FUCKING HORSE, dude!"}}

* [[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.

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** [[Barack Obama|First Lady]] [[Celebrity Cameo|Michelle Obama]] makes an appearance in the channel's intro sequence, which is actually taken from [https://www.facebook.com/H3h3productions/videos/vb.457637544317014/728386557242110/?type=2&theater a Vine recording] addressed to a kid ''also'' named Ethan.

* [[Cargo Ship]]: The ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4kv8jxpLBQ 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsQXymovS0 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.

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** Hila does this in her [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTYx10RwXYg video] purporting to be about [[Domestic Abuse|Ethan abusing her]]. And ''failing.'' She even goes so far as to add this comment:

''{{quote|Ethan [[Memetic Mutation|holding me down and I didnt even get 10,000 dollars]] to buy a house}}''

* [[Discredited Trope]]: In ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Cxt1pReMs Two Handed Great Sword]'', Ethan considers the [[Master Swordsman]] this:

{{quote|'''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? [[Wrong Genre Savvy|I'm not sure if he knows that]].}}

:* In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjtiX4Gv6m4 his reaction to ''KILLING BEST FRIEND PRANK''], Ethan considers prank videos to be dead.

* [[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.

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* [[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 ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlVwcv0rl28 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 ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl_eILs66ZQ&feature=youtu.be&t=5m26s Reading the Good Looking Loser's Comments]'', when a commenter on Chris' forum [[Dramatically Missing the Point|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]].

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* [[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 ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIpwHn5AEE The Hand Model]'':

{{quote|'''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)}}

* [[Narcissist]]/[[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Parodied in ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIpwHn5AEE The Hand Model]'':

{{quote|'''Ethan''': I've never seen someone stroking themselves in admiration. 'I am literally the perfect human being.'}}

* [[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.

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** In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwcmWhPcTk8 a recent video] made [[Ripped from the Headlines|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 ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsssEFO7e8M The Thrust of an Indian God]'' video, partly due to the sleazy dry humping in the rural Indian dance number footage they're watching [[Unfortunate Implications|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]] [[Played For Laughs|for laughs]] by Ethan in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjtiX4Gv6m4 his reaction to ''KILLING BEST FRIEND PRANK'']

{{quote|"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?"}}

* [[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:

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* [[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 Mutation|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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPYvLlNiN1 Dangers of Social Media] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmN8wH8LyBs 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 ~~Deprecating Humor~~]]: Ethan and Hila tend to poke fun at themselves and their heritage. Eventually, this has extended to making jokes about their old videos.

* [[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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheC38wpRYg the GTA V news report reaction], when Ethan gets trash-talked online:

{{quote|'''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?!''}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaaMq8T7Cg rekt together]'' is a tribute to ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48LLdLbAiQg What's Up Fatlip]''.

* [[Speaking, Like, Totally Teen]]: The host in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPCDoANDkl4 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cej-tUlnJ8U the video] which introduced the grotesque Jeff Dunnie Fuck Doll.

{{quote|'''Ethan''': ''(listening to his doll)'' What was that? ''(slams puppet into the sofa, slapping and punching it in the face'') SHUT UP, JEFF DUNHAM!}}

:* His "Jeff Dunham is so edgy" song, while making the puppet masturbate and blowjob itself, among other things.

:* In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZh3SCNjqw OUR THOUGHTS ON SAM PEPPER], Ethan recites the Drama Alert intro, and compares KEEMSTAR to a stroke victim.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Sometimes, Ethan and Hila would mention how things couldn't ''possibly'' get any worse or weirder.

* [[Title Drop]]: In ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQnYY7_iF_o A country for sociopaths by sociopaths]'', an [[Author Tract]] about how expensive health insurance is in New York:

{{quote|'''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'' [[The Sociopath|sociopaths]] ''by'' sociopaths, and if you have a moral compas, ''[[Get Out!|get out!]]'' '''Go to fucking [[Canada]], you ''bitch!''''' [...]}}

* [[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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ez-gIt08I this video on modern art] and how it tends to [[Viewers are Morons|treat audiences like idiots]].

* [[Verbal Tic]]:

* ~~[[Verbal Tic]]:~~ On-camera, Ethan tends to make a peculiar sound that not quite a cough, yet not quite a laugh either.

** On-camera, Ethan tends to make a peculiar sound that not quite a cough, yet not quite a laugh either.

** "Dude." Ethan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpjbHKDz2HM even says it to his mom].

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Ethan's take on the [[So Bad It's Good|infamous]] ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' episode ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEg7qjFcGXw 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.