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Big Smoke’s Order refers to a scene in the 2004 action-adventure video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in which the character Big Smoke orders an enormous amount of food at a drive thru restaurant. Online, the order has circulated as a copypasta, leading many to speculate about its contents.

Origin

In the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru," the protagonist Carl Johnson proceeds to a Cluckin' Bell fast food restaurant with his fellow gang member Big Smoke, who proceeds to order a long list of items.^[2] On February 16th, 2010, YouTuber james227uk uploaded the scene, which gathered more than 740,000 views and 1,900 comments over the next seven years.

Transcript

Voice Comm: Can I take your order please?
Big Smoke: Carl, what do you want? You gotta eat to keep your strength up, man.
CJ: Ey, I’ll take a number 9, fat boy.
Ryder: Give me a number 9, just like him.
Sweet: I’ll have a number 6 with extra dip.
Big Smoke: I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

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On March 8th, 2014, YouTuber ICEnJAM uploaded a prank call to a McDonald's restaurant using a Big Smoke soundboard (shown below, right). Within three years, the video gained over 1.5 million views and 2,500 comments. On April 9th, 2015, YouTuber UrbanWildernessGuy uploaded a 1-hour-long remix of the scene.

On October 30th, 2016, YouTuber FlyingKitty uploaded a remix of the scene set to the tune of the 1992 hip-hop song ""Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" by Dr. Dre (shown below, left). On June 5th, Big Smoke's order was submitted as a copypasta to the /r/copypasta^[1] subreddit. On November 22nd, YouTuber ComradeWarbear uploaded a video examining what items Big Smoke may have ordered from the Cluckin' Bell restaurant (shown below, right).

On November 23rd, the Behind The Meme YouTube channel posted a video about the "two number 9s" part of Big Smoke's order (shown below).

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