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It was the ancient philosopher slash mid-'90s country singer
Daryle Singletary who proudly asserted,
♪ I ain't never had too much fun ♪
- I remember that. - That bold claim was his answer
to one of the greatest philosophical questions of our age--
is too much of a good thing a bad thing?
We're gonna get some answers to that question
by taking something we love and pushing it as far as we possibly can,
and today that thing is bacon.
It's time for "Is Too Much Of A Good Thing
A Bad Thing? Bacon Edition."
Let's find out.
I've been wearing this shirt the whole episode,
- waiting for this. - Just waiting..
So our approach is, basically, we're gonna make a complete meal
using bacon at every turn.
Get bacon into the meal in every which way possible.
In every way possible.
First up, we have built a bacon wrapped,
double bacon, bacon cheese, bacon burger.
A.K.A. the bacon aca-pop-pla-ple--
- That's hard to say. - The Bacon Apocalypse!
Bacon Acolypse.
Bacon Acolypse burger.
I worked so hard on this.
Bacon Acal-- I can't say it.
just bring it in!
You don't have to say it. You just gotta eat it.
It's the Bacon-acolypse.
Both: Bacon-acolypse.
It's like my brain seizes in the middle.
Okay, this thing has two bacon-wrapped buns,
two bacon-wrapped patties,
the patties are made of bacon.
There are three types of bacon toppings--
Canadian bacon, pancetta, and classic pork belly.
The lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, and onions
have all been soaked in bacon grease.
There's bacon cheese, bacon spread,
and it comes with a side of battered bacon rings.
So these are bacon made into a ring and just fried?
That's all it is, bud.
Oh, my gosh. How would any person, including us,
especially us, wrap our jaws around this thing?
You've got a big ol' mouth, man.
I'm just gonna really push.
Oh, gosh. Look at the juices flowing, man.
Don't break it. Don't break it.
Look at my hand.
Do we have-- do we have a big knife
that we can cut through this thing?
Something tells me we're gonna need all of this.
I was not prepared. I didn't do my jaw stretches this morning.
Okay, I don't know if this is gonna help necessarily.
Tess, do you have advise me trying to cut through this thing or not?
Tess: I would cut through it.
Just have Link hold the other side.
- Okay. - Why don't I cut it?
Help me out a little bit, Link.
I don't know how to help you. Like, here?
No. Definitely don't do that. That's gonna hurt.
I really don't know how to help.
Get your side as it falls off.
Got it. Oh, my goodness.
And I'll get this side just so I can hold it up.
Look at this, guys.
There you go.
There is the cross-section of this sucker.
- Oh, wow. - I think you can get
your mouth around the whole thing.
I think you can.
I believe in you, man.
I'm gonna go for it, though. You know me.
I pulled a muscle in my jaw.
I'm trying to stretch it out.
Boy, that is rich.
I think I just got my weekly allowance of sodium,
like, in that one bite.
Oh, wow.
It tastes great, but it is very salty.
It tastes incredible.
It tastes really good, though.
I am dripping with grease, though.
Here, have a bacon ring, Link.
A bacon ring will certainly help,
especially with the ketchup.
That is good!
Man!
I wanna frown, but I keep smiling.
- That is a-- that's some fair food.
Straight-up fair food.
They got bacon rings over next to the tilt-a-whirl.
Getcha some, in either order.
How much is it for a thang?
$17, but it's worth every penny.
We measure stuff in units called thangs when we go to the fair.
Get me a thang of those rings.
Get me a ring thang, that's what we'll call it. Ring thangs.
This is so rich, I think we should try to wash this thing down.
I think you got something over there
that we can use to wash it down with.
Yeah. Um, Bacon soda.
And not the kind that my mom made me
brush my teeth with when I was little.
This is soda flavored like bacon.
But you know what?
We've had this before on the show,
but we haven't had it after eating
mass quantities of bacon otherwise.
I'm afraid that that's not gonna be cold enough, Link,
so I have some bacon grease ice cubes.
- This is frozen... - Plop it.
...bacon grease.
And how are we gonna drink it,
if not with a bacon-wrapped straw?
Here's one for you and here's one for me.
Okay, we may have crossed the threshold, you know what I'm saying?
We were very close with the burger,
and we just officially entered into no-man's land.
I think it's just this bacon soda doesn't taste good.
- You know? It's artificial. - It's artificial.
All this is for real.
We should've juiced real bacon for the soda.
That'll get Lester out of here.
- The meal is not over. - We gotta have some baconized dessert.
So we have a baconing-ing split?
- Baconana split. - Baconana.
You don't have to guess.
You don't have to just start and hope that it'll happen.
You can just say baconana split.
Bacon-anan...
Here you go. Here's a spoon.
Tess: The bacon ice cream is my recipe, so...
Okay, so here's what we got on this.
We got bacon-wrapped bananas,
bacon flavored ice cream...
- Which is Tess' recipe. - ...made by Tess.
Tess made it!
Bacon chocolate, caramel bacon--
- I don't even know what that is. - What is caramel bacon?
Bacon wrapped in caramel?
Tess: Well, it's-- yes.
- Yes. - It's a yes.
- Lardons. Lardons? - Lardons.
- Lardons sprinkled on top. - I thank the lardon.
That's just more bacon, basically.
Both: And candied bacon on top.
- And cherries! - There is a banana in there.
And they're just regular cherries.
- And some whipped cream. - So, let's--
I don't know how to go in with my right hand on this side.
Bacon flavored ice cream?
It's a little messy.
I just want a nice bite of everything,
which is difficult to do.
- That's it. - This is a very big bite.
I'm not gonna get all of this in my mouth, but I'm gonna try.
It's cold. Oh!
Bacon ice cream headache!
Hold the back of your neck.
- It's incredible, Tess. - Tess: Yay!
- No, it is so good. - It is amazing.
- It's better than the burger. - Yes.
This is not fair food. This is restaurant food.
This is a super decadent--
like, restaurants get famous overnight
because of stuff like this, Tess.
And you know what? That's why we're gonna--
Tess is crying. She's crying.
We're gonna open a restaurant.
It's gonna be called, "Mmm, Bacon It Up".
- We could call it-- - It's gonna be called...
Bacon Acolypse.
Come on in to experience the Baco-lopolips.
"By Rhett and Link,"
and by that, we really mean Tess.
That'll be in the fine print down at the bottom.
Okay, so the real question is, is this too much fun?
No, the question is-- no, I'm having a lot of fun.
Is too much of a good thing a bad thing?
I know, but I'm going back to Daryle Singletary.
I mean, is this too much fun?
Is too much bacon a bad thing?
- No! It's not! - It's a great thing.
You cannot out-bacon yourself.
Yeah, and you can't out-bacon what we just did.
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