Ryan Whitney became the biggest talking point after Barstool Sports was blanked on Celebrity Family Feud, and the awkward moment spread across social media almost instantly.
Barstool's lineup featured Whitney alongside Dave Portnoy, Rico Bosco, Kirk Minihane, Jersey Jerry and Stu Feiner against Cooper Flagg and his family. The result wasn't close.
The Flagg family rolled to a 543-0 victory, leaving Barstool without a single point in one of the most one-sided celebrity game show performances fans have seen.
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The clip making the rounds had nothing to do with the final score. Whitney won the buzzer during a face-off question but completely froze before giving an answer, drawing laughs from the audience and an avalanche of reactions online.
Barstool even leaned into the moment on social media, posting: “He froze, my guy hasn't moved in 40 minutes,” as the internet quickly turned Whitney's hesitation into a stream of memes.
Whitney didn't try to hide from the moment once the episode wrapped.
Whitney laughs off the viral moment
“They were good,” Whitney admitted after the show. “I mean I didn't have high expectations for myself personally, but I could have at least chucked out an answer.”
Another memorable sequence came when Steve Harvey asked contestants to “name something a player probably has that a regular guy might not.”
Dave Portnoy's answer immediately stunned Harvey, forcing the longtime host to apologize to Cooper Flagg's mother before joking that Barstool's crew wouldn't be invited back.
Barstool finally found a little momentum later in the game when Kirk Minihane answered a question about a TSA dog by saying, “I'd do what I always do, Steve. Try and hide the drugs.”
The unexpected response earned two points on the survey board, prompting Minihane to celebrate by shouting, “You can't teach what I got” as the Barstool bench finally had something to cheer about.
Even with the lopsided score, it was Whitney's frozen stare at the podium that became the lasting image, turning an already rough night into one of the funniest viral moments of the week.
Was Ryan Whitney's freeze the funniest moment on Celebrity Family Feud?
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