♪ MTV ♪
[Announcer] On this episode of Cribs ,
director, author and chef Eddie Huang
shows off his bright California crib.
I think the main feature of the living room is DVDs.
That is worth a lot of money if civilization goes backwards
in technology.
So, hanging on.
[Announcer] But first, we enjoy La Bella Vita
with actor Debi Mazar and husband Gabriele
at their gorgeous villa in the hills of Tuscany.
The first thing I wanna say about Italian bathrooms,
the most important thing in a bathroom for me at this point
is the bidet. Makes everything so much fresher. You know,
if you have to take a [bleep], boom, it's nice and clean.
[music]
♪ Hey ladies, when your man wanna get buck wild ♪
♪ Just go back and hit 'em up style ♪
♪ Put your hands on his cash ♪
♪ And spend it to the last dime for all the hard times ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ When you go, then everything goes
♪ From the crib to the ride and the clothes ♪
Ciao , MTV. Benvenuti ! Gabri!
Hey, guys. Good morning. Welcome to Fiesawic.
Come on in.
♪ If you mess up, you gotta hit 'em up ♪
♪ Hey ladies, when your man wanna get buck wild ♪
♪ Just go back and hit 'em up style ♪
This is my husband, Gabriele.
I'm the husband. This is the wife.
He's my Tuscan husband.
This home is a thousand years old, it's from the 11th century.
It's the house where I grew up.
He grew up here. We moved about, I'd say, two years ago.
We left New York City, Brooklyn.
-And these are the puppies. -These are our dogs.
Brontino and this is Lampo, who doesn't like the rain.
And there's gonna be some rain coming,
so he's just, like, chillin'.
You'll notice in our home that we have a lot of tchotchkes,
knickknacks.
-We just like stuff. -We're not hoarders.
Our kids call us hoarders, but oh, my umbrellas.
I have a collection of umbrellas. This thing here-
She also buys me umbrellas that I don't use.
This is French 50s. I have all of my sunbrellas, lace.
I have them in every color.
We're gonna run out of tape while we describe the umbrellas.
I have all kinds of things, lucite handle ones.
One for every outfit.
-Yeah, right. -Bella.
-Ah, why is this hat here? -Oh, this is my vegetable
-garden hat. -It's from Puerto Rico.
-Puerto Rico, baby. Yes. -You look so sexy in a hat.
And he never wears them unless you know--now that you're bald.
You're doing the hats now. Okay.
♪ Dance Gonna move ♪
-So. -Hey babe.
This is our kitchen.
-Coffee. Do you want coffee? -Yes, please. I'd love coffee.
I generally bring in extra luggage because here
you have an entire bag of Bustelo coffee.
I don't know what I'm gonna do when I'm finished with that.
People are going, oh, my God. Like, you live in Italy.
What do you need Cuban coffee for?
I just like the flavor better.
-It's better. It's better. -It tastes better.
It's less roasted and more chocolatey.
[Debi] For 20 years, he's made me coffee in bed.
I love him for that. 21 years, actually.
That's how it's done.
Here we have your I love New York mugs.
This is--I brought a whole collection.
♪ NYC, yeah, we poppin' ♪
[Debi] We have them in almost every color.
[Gabriele] Right now--don't put them backwards.
-[Debi] I like them upside down. -[Gabriele] I want to see-
-[Debi] The dust goes in them. -[bleep] with me.
-I like to see [bleep]. -He's crazy.
Gosh.
♪ This is New York ♪
I wanted, like, a big refrigerator, right?
The truth of the matter is, everything is so fresh here,
it goes bad fast. So my husband's a sugar junkie,
so he loves this EstaThe, which is like sugar bomb.
The cheese drawer is always impressive.
We have our basics like Philadelphia.
And then things that you don't find in the States
like a pig jowl. This is for my carbonara.
When I go to Italian school--
I go to Italian school five days a week--
I bring this to school. It's like a kid's snack.
So when you open it, you have your parmigiano, you have your
little biscotti, breadsticks. It's wonderful.
It's so civilized.
♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch Ciao bella ♪
Here's my dining room. And this is kind of the
-center of the house. -This is my second kitchen.
♪ Bella bella ♪
And then here, you know, it's tchotchke heaven.
[Gabriele] The collections.
[Debi] These are 1950s Roseville casseroles.
I have all kinds of crazy cookbooks like
The Gay Cookbook , The Joys Of Jell-O.
What Actors Eat When They Eat.
And it's like, you know, every star.
They don't have a husband that cooks for them.
Would you like me to light the fire?
Light the fire. So I actually learned how to light a fire
through my husband, and we cook on the fire.
The taste of a meat or even vegetables is so incredible
when you cook on wood and not coal.
-Oh, just the sound. -Listen to the sound.
[fire crackling]
Ah, that crackle.
[music]
We have a living room, finally. We've done 10 years of life
in Brooklyn without a living room.
Without a couch. We didn't have a couch for 10 years.
He inherited this from his mother-in-law, and it's great
because we have parties and we sit a lot of people.
And it's simply great because we haven't had
a couch for 10 years. At this point, anything we can sit on,
-it is like, yay. -Yeah. I needed a place
to house my books, so I had this built,
you know, professionally. In here, you know, we just keep,
you know, glasses. Oh, Madonna gave me these for my wedding
as a wedding present. They're French crystal.
And a drunk girlfriend of ours at New Year's broke one.
What's in the bottom? I forgot what we keep down here.
More glasses.
I got that in Spain.
♪ Check it Check it ♪
♪ Check it out now ♪
All right. Come down. Watch your step.
Everything in these houses has lots of steps.
So in here, it was kind of like the room
we didn't know what to do with.
This is an old tarantino table that my parents had
since their wedding day.
I love peppers. I just got this yesterday, actually.
I went out and bought a bouquet of--a pepper bouquet. Why not?
-Here we have- -She's our ghost.
She's from a church. She's from the 1800s.
And when we're you know, tipsy after like, you know,
a happy dinner, we actually move her around the house.
And we place it, like, behind a door or in a corner where nobody
expects it. And for the next couple of days,
you literally jump.
♪ I think we're alone now ♪
♪ There doesn't seem to be anyone around ♪
I'm going to take you into my office.
I have a beautiful 1950s desk. I love this desk because it's
got really wonderful detail. I have all kinds of weird stuff.
I've got all my little tchotchkes
and they make me very happy.
This is Beethoven's collar, the movie Beethoven .
So I played like, you know, one of the villains.
And when the movie wrapped, I'm like, oh, can I have a collar?
It's actually too big for my dogs' necks, but yep,
that's Beethoven's collar.
Here we have me in Spike Lee's movie.
There's me and Madonna.
♪ Like a virgin ♪
On my fire escape, and this is before she got famous.
She would just come over. We'd be running around the streets
and going dancing and stuff. And actually, Madonna gave me
this cabinet as a gift. It's a Venetian bar.
Inside, it holds my old, dead dogs.
I got two of them in here. They were city dogs.
I don't know if they wanna be in the country.
So for now, they're just gonna stay.
Ooh, it's a lot of ashes.
When I finished shooting, um, Younger , they knew I was
moving to Tuscany, and they bought me, like,
these binoculars. And I stare out.
♪ Stalk me like I'm doing ♪
[Debi] I see the deers. I see cinghiale--
cinghiale is wild boar--all roaming through the fields.
I stare at nature, you know, with these binoculars.
And I just look out the windows, and it was a very, very
thoughtful gift because I actually use them.
[Announcer] Coming up.
We continue our tour in the hills of Tuscany
when actor Debi Mazar shows us where the magic happens.
When we have sex, everything moves--all of our chains
-and things on our lamps move. -Sound effects.
[music]
I'm taking you to my favorite bathroom in the house.
That was my bathroom when I was a kid.
Yeah.
[music]
The first thing I wanna say about Italian bathrooms
in general is that the most important thing in a bathroom
for me at this point is the bidet.
It makes everything so much cleaner and fresher.
You know, if you have to take a [bleep], you just boom.
It's nice and clean.
And then here's our bedroom. Come on in.
Yay.
♪ Baby be mine ♪
♪ Always there when you call ♪
So this bed frame is really uncomfortable.
When we have sex, everything moves.
So like, the minute you, like, move the bed,
all of our chains and things on our lamps move.
Sound effects.
[music]
Over here. Look up here. These were all ceramic heads
from the 1960s. They're for wigs.
-And I use them for my hats. -The funny thing is that
Deborah, after the pandemic, left me here to go back to the
United States to film something. And I spent--we spent seven
months apart, so it was like, seven months alone in this room.
But they're my friends, so we talked a lot.
Nice.
When we first met, he used to play my butt because my butt
was high and tight. Do-do-bop, do-do-bop.
[Gabriele] I'm so happy about this room because it took me,
I would say about 30 years to collect everything that
you see around. Whenever I find these shells, I tend to collect
them, and then I cut them. And I try to make them sound
like horns, like they do in the Pacific.
[air blows]
That sounds great.
♪ Ooh-uh-oh I like it a lot ♪
♪ I like it I like it ♪
So in here, we have a little bit of everything.
So we've got, like, his punching bag.
-I got my little speed bag. -Brr, brr, brr.
I love when he does it. He looks so sexy.
♪ I like it I like it ♪
And I'm a hula hooper. Look out.
She's my hula hoop girl.
I'm a hula hooper and this is like, you know,
something that I like to do.
This is a travel hula hoop so I can travel with it.
It breaks down.
Did you ever travel with your hula hoop?
I did. I got it here.
No, I don't.
♪ Turn up the heat Turn up the heat ♪
Do you wanna see the man cave?
-Ready? -Okay.
-Here we go. -Ta-da!
♪ I'm going after speed ♪
♪ It's my life It's what I need ♪
I have my track suits, my Ducati section, my unbranded,
my English, my race stuff.
Look at this.
[Gabriele] I do have a shoe collection, too.
I mean, look how organized he is. My God. I love it.
This is a shrine to my dad. That used to be one of the bikes
he raced with. It is a very first generation Monster
from 1991, and this is the Track Bullet.
This is mainly for open roads.
On this one, you can do anything you want.
You can run through traffic. You can wheelie.
You can stop it. You can slide it.
You can bang it.
If it falls off, you get right back.
So if you wanna rob a bank,
all right?
Bye, girls. Be good. See you soon.
[music]
I wanna just show you a little bit of our view.
The lay of the land. This is one of the best times of the year.
We have fantastic sunsets I'm so happy here with you.
[music]
All right, MTV, we gotta go pick up our daughters right now.
So it's been wonderful having you guys
come visit us in Tuscany.
We love having friends come visit.
Come again.
But the next time you come, the house will be looking
even more different.
- Ciao for now. -Bye, guys.
[music]
[Announcer] Coming up.
Let's wire the funds. Let's cop this crib.
[Man] Awesome.
[Announcer] Eddie Huang makes an unexpected purchase
while we tour his stylish West Coast crib.
I never thought I would ever be on Cribs ,
much less cop my second crib from my mother.
This is really a watershed day.
I feel like you have to celebrate days like this.
[music]
♪ Don't fight that good -- in your ear ♪
♪ And let me blow your mind ♪
♪ It took a while to get me here ♪
♪ And I'm gonna take my time ♪
Oh, nice. Incredible.
What up, MTV? It's your boy, Eddie Huang
taking care of his foot health. Welcome to my crib.
[music]
Welcome to my crib. This is my LA home.
We moved out of Brooklyn. Nichols Canyon is fly.
15 minutes to see civilization. I just hang out with my plants.
These are, like, my friends here.
[phone rings]
Yo, what's up, Spencer? What do we gotta do now?
I need to authorize some [bleep]?
Let's wire the funds. Let's cop this crib.
I don't think anybody else has bought a crib on Cribs before.
This dude sounds like Keanu Reeves. Yo. Say, whoa.
[music]
I never thought I would ever be on Cribs , much less cop my
second crib from my mother on my first appearance on Cribs .
So this is really a watershed day.
You know, you have to celebrate days like this.
♪ Blow the whistle Blow the whistle ♪
What are we working here, bro? This is like--
So, hey, you know, we gotta get them glutes going, right?
We're activating glutes for MTV. What's up?
So this is our home gym.
And I usually just hang with her and chill.
We should get on the wall. Show off those feet.
Show off the feet and calves.
Oh, oh wow.
Show off the feet and calves for the people.
The foot health.
Hey, don't forget to dip at the bottom, bro. Yes, sir.
I think that's solid for the gym. Right, guys?
All right. This is the bedroom.
♪ Come my lady Come, come my lady ♪
♪ You're my butterfly Sugar baby ♪
This is my wife. You know, by the time this airs,
she's gonna be my wife. Right now, currently,
technically, she's my fiancée.
-Will be wife soon. -But wife, you know?
Soon.
I think my favorite thing in our bedroom is this baccarat dice
she got me. Under the dice, I keep a note she wrote me,
I love you. So when she changes her mind, I'll remind her,
don't be a hypocrite.
-It's a good reminder. -It's a good reminder.
The magic happens in this room for sure.
Yeah, this is [bleep] Hogwarts, all right?
All that happens here is [bleep] magic and wizarding.
A lot of--a lot of spells are cast, you know?
It's mainly her casting spells.
You really have to get a close up, though on this.
This is a visual representation of what happens in this room.
-These are our hieroglyphs. -Yeah. This is our, like,
epic origin story of what happens in this [bleep] room.
♪ I can tell just what you want ♪
This is the bathroom.
This Versace robe used to be mine,
but now when Natasha wears it, it's basically like,
don't talk to me. This is her way of communicating.
He showed you my emo robe. When the emo robe goes on
and I'm not [bleep] with anyone, he puts on Hugo Boss for me
as a treat. This is the Lana Del Rey special.
[music]
[Announcer] Coming up, we continue our tour
with chef and author Eddie Huang
at his West Coast crib.
This entire area of the home is written off.
We just call it the office for tax purposes.
Look at these club chairs.
These are for people to do business with me in this office.
[laughing]
♪ Oh yeah I got a real kinda score ♪
♪ And you got a gourmet allure ♪
-Welcome to IBS Cafe. -Irritable Bowel Syndrome Cafe.
Me and Dr. Drew go to the bathroom.
Mentally, I have IBS, but I've never pooped in my life.
Because girls don't go to the bathroom.
♪ Got an appetite ♪
♪ Feed my appetite ♪
Have you ever seen a barista make espresso
with their eyes closed? Watch. Watch.
It's done.
♪ Presto ♪
This is Eddie when he was a kid with his dog.
This customer in particular carries a photograph of me
with her.
-I do every morning. -Every time she comes
-to IBS Cafe. -I sit here. I have my coffee.
♪ Watch me how I do it now ♪
My girl knew Cribs was coming today. It was like,
you can't go out like that on television.
Organized.
♪ Check it out now ♪
I'll give you a tip. This is the best spaghetti out.
I can't pronounce it. I just call it the Bigfoot spaghetti.
Instant noodles, right? Shin ramyun.
What kind of Sazon you want.
You know, we got every Sazon up in here.
Greek lentils. IBS Cafe, gotta have lentil soup.
Keep the movement moving.
♪ Presto ♪
This is the fridge. Welcome to hell.
All right. This is marinated meats from a barbecue
two weeks ago.
On one of our first dates, she stole a bottle of A.1. sauce
from Dallas BBQ.
We have been using it in the bedroom ever since.
♪ Let me cook it up like a chef do ♪
All right, today, on the menu, we got a bacon, egg and cheese.
That's the best.
Bacon, Egg and cheese is something we like to make here
because we miss New York. We miss Bodegas.
♪ Got the cheddar and the bread on my menu ♪
♪ I need something real big ♪
Fill those halves hot honey, the Taiwanese sweet chili sauce,
two pieces of cheese. Swine grease is delicious. Mm.
Natasha likes her eggs runny. If your man don't know how to
cook your eggs right, get your--get a new [bleep] man.
Perfect.
All right, Cribs . I made my bacon, egg and cheese.
I'm pretending to give it to the cameraman, but I'm eating this.
They just want me to pretend.
I don't really wanna give it to him.
♪ I'm feelin' rough I'm feelin' raw ♪
♪ In the time of my life ♪
This is my living room, all right?
I think the main feature of the living room is DVDs.
We still rent DVDs from the video store.
I have a collection of fine DVDs that is worth a lot of money
if civilization goes backwards in technology.
So, hanging on.
♪ Champagne bottles gettin' popped by the case now ♪
This is a liquor cabinet. Sometimes when I go to the club,
I don't like waiting for someone to pour my liquor.
So I will walk in with my own
Hennessy VSOP
because I like a mixed drink in the club.
♪ Better act right ♪
I had this made from real Goyard bags.
You could be like a Scientologist and believe
in going clear or you could be like me and believe in Hennessy
and enjoy your life.
♪ If you hit me on a Monday I'll be on my get right ♪
♪ I ain't got no reception because I be on my next flight ♪
This is the office. I actually don't do any work in here.
We just call it the office for tax purposes.
This entire area of the home is written off.
Look at this office chair. All right, IRS peak game.
Look at these club chairs. These are for other people
to come sit in and do business with me in this office.
There's a really nice Mapplethorpe photograph in here.
-Oh, my God, bro. -Bro, that damn frisee.
My God. [toilet flushes]
♪ Life ♪
♪ Has been good to me ♪
♪ Oh baby, please ♪
Thank you, MTV. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for coming to my crib.
If you're not in the crib that you wanna be in,
practice the art of tax evasion.
Write off more of your house. Thank you. Good-bye.
♪ Oh baby, please ♪
[music]