Jimmy Fallon Uses Watermelons to Spoof Dick Wolf's Chicago Franchise



Jimmy Fallon Uses Watermelons to Spoof Dick Wolf's Chicago Franchise



NEW YORK, NY – So how exactly would a watermelon cross-examination go, if one had the popular fruit in the suspect's seat? Jimmy Fallon proposed to find out in a recently aired Tonight Show skit. 

Spawned from a live-streaming app experience between Buzzfeed and Facebook Live, which garnered over 800,000 viewers in 45 minutes, Fallon decided to put the internet-renowned “watermelon challenge” to his own test to hone in on the trend.

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“That’s a bigger audience than a lot of TV shows have right now,” the host said of the numbers pulled from the Buzzfeed and Facebook Live partnership. The audience laughs. “And some people are saying that that stuff might be the future of television. Well, NBC noticed.”

The screen cuts to black, and viewers are treated to a spoof of a hypothetical fifth installment to the television franchise Chicago, by Dick Wolf. Wolf’s fourth, and real, portion of the series, Chicago Justice, recently began filming in the Windy City.

So just how would a watermelon fare across the table from an insistent pair of fictional detectives, armed with an endless supply of rubberband incentives? Did everything go red? Find out above, in this latest episode of Chicago Melon