- Stop.
Cookie time. (upbeat music)
- Let's talk about that.
- Good Mythical morning.
- Ah, cookies.
One of the most delectable treats known to man
that you also desperately try to avoid buying
at the grocery store, because you're trying to be healthier,
but inevitably you circle back to get,
because your willpower is not stronger
than the almighty cookie, you know that?
- And sometimes, I think if I just knew more
about the history of my favorite cookies,
like say when they were first invented,
I'd be less likely to eat so many of them.
Of course, I know that makes no logical sense,
but it does provide a strange motivation for us
as we compete in shuffleboard.
It's time for. (logo beeps)
- [Rhett] The shuffleboard (upbeat music)
game, cookies edition.
Welcome to the shuffleboard games zone.
- Yeah.
In each round, we're gonna be given a particular cookie
from a specific brand.
We're gonna taste that cookie,
and then we're gonna guess what decade
that cookie from that brand was first released
to the public by shuffling our cookies down to the decade.
- Whoever's closest to the actual year wins the round,
and the loser at the end of the game will have
to become the Myth-Bury Doughboy
and will have to respond to belly pokes
with his best Doughboy giggle
through Good Mythical Morning. (Rhett giggles)
Let's get to shuffling.
(upbeat music) (logo beeps)
- Start, cookie time.
Chips Ahoy!
- Oh yeah, a classic. - Oh you want,
oh gosh,
is this thing glued? - It's a cookie jar.
You know it's screwed (laughs).
You're screwed. - Yeah, well.
What'd you just do,
try to get it in the back of your throat?
Is that how you eat now?
- They're so crumbly.
Now I know you like the soft batch.
This is the original
that I'm assuming came out before the soft batch.
- It could be 1890 or it could be 1990.
It could be any decade in between.
- I went last time,
so I'm going first.
Okay.
This is a classic cookie with a pun.
Chips Ahoy! is a pun on ships ahoy, get it?
- We tend to forget that,
so I'm glad you brought that up again.
- Yeah. - You know,
it's like people tend to overlook it.
- So puns haven't been around forever.
I don't think the cave men had puns.
I think this is pretty early.
1910. - Gracious.
- You think that's really early, huh?
Going for 1910.
- It's a fast one up, oop. (puck slides)
It's a fast board today.
Well, but you nestled there
beside it. - Okay,
I got the right distance, but I'm not touching it.
- Okay.
- These cookies have a little spin thing that happens Link.
You got to watch out for him.
- 1910.
Was Nabisco even around then?
I think the latest we're going is like 1930.
And your answer is 1910.
I'm going in between 1930 and 1940 hopefully.
- Okay, all right, aggressive move.
Not really, I just felt like I should say that.
(puck slides)
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, - Stop, stop, stop, stop,
stop, stop, stop, stop! - Nice.
- Ooh, the four quadrant placement.
I like that.
- I don't believe it is possible
for you to lose at this point.
- Yeah.
Say that again.
- [Stevie] While the chewy Chips Ahoy! took the market
by storm in 1983, - Love them.
- [Stevie] the original version
of the iconic Nabisco classic has been navigating
the high grocery store seas
since 1963.
- So. - What really?
1963?
That's so recent. - Yes see not that old.
- That's like yesterday. (icon chimes)
You're definitely closer.
You take the lead.
(upbeat music) (logo beeps)
- And now we have, wah!
You don't hit the lights, man. - Whoa!
It's okay, everything's okay.
They're wrapped in metal.
Nilla wafers. - How many times
I hit the lights in my own kitchen?
I know what it feels like.
Probably once a month.
- Is it when you (indistinct) the dishes?
- It's just when I gesture.
I've got these like two gloves in our kitchen,
and it's like right there.
- You do get very gesture-y in your kitchen.
- Nilla Wafers, man.
These are good.
Make you want to put them on a hat.
- And right on top of some banana pudding?
- They're so vanilla-y, wafer-y.
- All right, you're in the lead.
You go first man.
Man, I'm gonna get another one of those.
I like that.
- I like to chipmunk them.
- It's in there.
- I think these have been around longer than Chips Ahoy!.
- Definitely.
- We're talking pre 1960.
There is no 1950 on the board.
So I'm going for the exact same placement
as last time in between '30 and '40.
I know what that feels like.
My official answer is 1940.
(puck slides)
Gentle, gentle, and short.
He did not go the distance people.
Maybe that'll work to his advantage you're thinking.
No, you know what?
In spite of himself, Link does some things correctly.
- Link I think, I think I gotta bump you.
- Well you only get one bump a game.
- I think you're in really good position.
You're on top of 1900.
- [Link] Yep.
- I think it's '30 or '40,
but. - I said '40 officially.
- I mean, you're in a pretty good spot for '30 and '40,
and I'd have to get behind you and stop.
I think I gotta bump you man.
- He's using his bump.
Such an early stage of the game.
This may come back to bite him.
- But I gotta bump you in a way
that just gets you out of the way
and doesn't bump you all the way back into the right answer.
This is maybe not a great idea.
(puck slides)
- Ooh, that's exciting.
Come on back.
I am now in 1960, which has been taken,
and you've made a play for 1920.
- Who's closer to 1930 is really the question?
We might have to get the measuring tape out for that.
- [Stevie] Although they weren't called Nilla Wafers
until the 1960s, Nabisco has been producing
these delicious vanilla wafers,
which happens to be the original name, ever since 1898.
- Wow! - Whoa, 1898.
What?
- They have been around the block.
- Okay, I didn't even need to use my bump, but I did.
But I took the round. (bell chimes)
- We're tied.
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oh, EL Fudge Elfwich.
I wouldn't have been able to tell you the name of this.
I just call it - No.
- the Keebler elf cookie.
- Well, there's a lot of different Keebler elf cookies.
It says uncommonly good on it.
- This is a big.
- I may have never had this.
What is this? - Hold on,
they got different names.
- There's like fudge on the inside.
- Fast Eddie, Earnie, dunk head first,
oh, you got them all head first.
- I'm a fan of the Keebler elf.
Like I've always enjoyed the commercials,
and on a Saturday morning cartoon.
- Great campaign.
- But I've never had these in my house.
It's a good cookie.
- It's a fudge in a sandwich.
Fudge, it's just a sandwich.
We're tied again.
So I go back to going first.
I consider this a rather advanced cookie.
It's two cookies and fudge in between.
There was a time in which they couldn't do that.
I mean, you got to have a machine to do that.
Of course, machines have been around since 1890.
That doesn't help me.
I don't know.
I would've said this was a '50s or '60s thing.
'50s is not on the board.
'60s' been taken.
So I'm gonna try to nestle in between '40 and '70.
- Okay. - And see what it happens.
(puck slides)
Whoa!
- You're accurate with your placement,
but are you accurate with your guess?
- [Rhett] I have no idea.
- I think you're on the right track
with how these things are made,
but in their first iteration,
they might not have been as fancy.
So it may be around longer than we think.
This could be the '80s, but I think you're right.
So I'm gonna have to bump you.
- Oh.
- I'm gonna bump you into the '90s.
I want to box you out from '80s too,
'cause it could, they could have been in '80s.
- There's a lot going on.
You're trying to accomplish a lot with this bump.
- Bumping you to the right of the '90s.
(puck slides)
Oh gosh, that didn't work (laughs).
- Well. - I mean the bump ability
of these cookies is frustrating.
Dang it.
- That was the frustrating bump.
- Dang it, I wasted my bump, and I screwed myself.
(Rhett laughs)
- [Stevie] If you can believe it,
the Keebler company has been kicking it since the 1850s.
They've amassed popularity with tons
of different pastries and snacks over the years,
but EL Fudge is one of their most recent creations,
first introduced in 1987.
- Oh wow.
Your intentions were so pure, (icon chimes)
but your execution was so bad. - Nasty.
(upbeat music) (logo beeps)
Wow. - Ho.
- You've knocked over the Oreos.
- It's Oreos.
- Yeah.
- This is a good cookie. - Classic.
Seems like it's been around forever,
but who knows, man?
- I'm in the lead, go first.
- Hold on, not so fast brother,
because we both used our bumps.
We need to consult with the rules.
(marching music)
And of course, we've had the rule book scroll
here all along.
Unsheathe the rule book.
Or the rule scroll.
Scroll, oh shuffle rules dictate
every single rule that exists.
You thought we were just coming
up with it all along the way?
No.
It's been on this scroll
this whole time. - Yeah, this stuff is canon,
and it's been around since the beginning.
Okay.
- So up here you should see that there is the one bump rule,
and a bump is a bump is a bump is a little bit further down.
And then a little bit further down,
if you'll just read from the scroll of shuffle rules.
- If a player has already exhausted his bump,
no, in the next, there's a lot of bumps.
If a player's exhausted his bump,
and then grazes, no,
if a player has already exhausted his bump
and then accidentally bumped, no,
if an illegal bump occureth, (Stevie laughs)
and the bump player finds it, nope.
When an illegal bump doth occurreth,
the offending player's puck is moved, nope.
Should a player still have thy bump,
and his puck hits the other puck.
Ah, if both gentlemen have exhausted thine bumps,
the losing player commences each round
unless the game is tied,
then the winner of the afore game goes first.
So I'm winning,
we both exhausted the bumps,
which means you go first,
because you actually have a slight advantage going first,
because I can't bump. - Because you can't bump.
- Ah, the scroll is always right.
(marching music)
Don't don't look at it.
You can't look at it directly.
Just roll it.
The sacred drawer (drawer clatters)
- Until next time.
- All right, you go first.
So, I mean, the scroll says to.
- (sighs) Okay.
Oreos.
Man, they've been around a while.
They're so classic.
- But it's a complex cookie.
- I'm thinking 1910.
So I've got to go for that 1900, '10, '30, '40 quadrant.
- That would be a good place.
- Yeah.
Right there in the middle.
- 'Cause you know it's one of those.
- C'mon cookie.
(puck slides)
- [Rhett] Oh, that's going to be pretty.
- [Link] Oh, it stopped short,
but that's a bump-alicious location.
- That's a nice defensive placement.
Wow.
- Yeah, better to go short than long
when no bumps are available.
- So I got a slide in around you.
It's interesting, because 1910
and 1940 are sort of one option,
and 1900 and 1930 are an option.
I'm trying to land as much in 1910 as I can.
Man, this is so precise,
unless I've got what it takes.
- I don't think you do.
(puck slides)
Oh, that is really going far. - Too hard, too hard.
- 1970. - My only hope, my only hope,
well, if it's 1930 or '40, I think I might be closer.
- [Stevie] Oreo, long known as one
of America's favorite cookies, actually just celebrated
its 109th birthday a couple of weeks ago.
So if you do the math correctly,
that must mean that Oreos were introduced
all the way back in 1912.
- [Rhett] Wow.
Dang it.
- Whoo, (Link claps)
I'm back in this y'all. (icon chimes)
- Tied again.
(upbeat music) (logo beeps)
For our final round we have,
- Whoo! - what is it?
Biscoff and coffee.
- I've only ever had these on a plane.
- [Link] That's right.
- You ever had these not on a plane?
This is weird to be on the ground.
- I've never dipped it in my cookie.
- Dipped it in your cookie?
Yeah, me neither. (Stevie laughs)
- I've never dipped, I do the reverse dip with my coffee.
I dip my coffee in my cookie.
- I'm never had that before.
- It's better when you dip it in your cookie.
- Okay, we're tied,
we both exhausted our bumps, and it's the final round.
- We just read this in the rule book.
- Not for the final round though.
- But we read the.
(marching music)
Pull it all out. (drawer clatters)
- Oh gosh, I pulled the whole drawer out.
- Okay, all right, take this. (Stevie laughs)
According to what we just read a few seconds ago,
same rule, read it.
Read the same rule again.
- If both gentlemen have exhausted thy bump,
the losing player commences - Yes.
Yes. - each round,
unless the game is tied.
Then the winner of the afore game,
that's the last game, goes first.
I don't know why the scroll says that,
but it does (laughs). - But you won the last game.
- So I get to go first. - So now you get
the advantage of going first.
- Well hey, (marching music)
the scroll is never wrong.
- Hey, if it wasn't in the scroll,
I wouldn't believe it. - Me neither, but it is.
Well okay, all right.
The scroll has given me-- (drawer clatters)
- As much time as it takes to get this scroll out,
and put it back, it's still less time than us
re-deriving the rules every single time.
- Right.
Biscoff.
It looks old, feels old.
1900, 1930, and 1940 are in play.
I'm going to try to do the Link Neal block move here
that you did to me last time.
- All right, give it a try. - I'm gonna try
to get it to land right there in the center.
(Link exhales)
Not easy, not easily done.
- No it's not.
The Link Neal move
is never easy. (puck slides)
The pacing is good, but it stopped short,
and it gives Link Neal a window.
- I actually gave you a window
into the decades that haven't been guessed.
- 1900, 1930. - It would have been better
if it'd land on the left side.
- If I get caught up in the 1930, 1900 of it all,
it could be 1970.
- It could be.
- Biscoff seems old.
I'm gonna go past you,
and I can get closer to 1970 and 1930,
but I'mma have to give up 1900.
- Give it up Link, give up 1900.
Hey, this is exciting.
I mean, this is a close one.
Let me have a coffee.
- So I'm going for the backside of 1930.
- Whoa. (puck slides)
- Ho! - Wow.
All right.
I think the only way I can win is if it's 1900.
- [Stevie] While many Americans
may know Lotus Biscoff cookies
as a complimentary snack option on Delta flights,
Biscoff cookies, meant to be enjoyed with coffee,
have been incredibly popular in Europe
and across the world for decades.
The empire born from a small bakery in Belgium
began all the way back in 1932.
- Oh dang it! - Yes!
- That was pretty good, man.
I got to hand it to you. - Whoo!
I did it. (icon chimes)
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