- Today we ask the age-old question--
- Will it gingerbread man?
- Let's talk about that.
(alarm rings) (playful music)
(fire blasts)
- Good Mythical Morning.
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And speaking of today's episode,
we currently have a very distinct aroma wafting through
the air of our Mythical studio.
An aroma so intense and enticing that I wouldn't be
surprised if you were smelling it as well.
- Why, I smell it too, Rhett.
It's the magical scent of gingerbread.
- Yes. - But I'm also smelling
a whole lot of other ingredients no one has ever
gingerbread man-ified, until now.
It's time for--
- [Rhett and Link] Will It Gingerbread Man?
Sponsored by Google Pixel 3.
- In the giving spirit of the holidays,
today we're giving you a very special behind-the-scenes look
at how these unique gingerbread men are made.
Using Google Pixel 3 and it's awesome features,
we've filmed Mythical Chef Josh creating all these weird
Will It combinations.
- And we hope you enjoy that extra sneak peek
as much as we hopefully are gonna enjoy
these gingerbread men.
Take it away, Josh.
- Whoever first combined ginger and bread was a genius,
but what happens when you take one iconic culinary combo
and mix it with another iconic combo?
I'm not talking about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen,
though they are great,
I'm talking about chicken and waffles.
So every gingerbread man has to start with a base
of the actual gingerbread, so here we just have
a super classic dough and we're gonna take
all the other stuff, basically fold it into that.
Great.
We're starting with untoasted Eggo Waffles.
We're using dark meat chicken and then
the really important part, chicken skin.
The oils are actually gonna diffuse into the cookie
and it's almost gonna give it kind of a bit of
a fried texture on it.
(whimsical music)
Decorations are really gonna breathe life
into the gingerbread man.
Anyways we're gonna take this discarded chicken skin,
and we have a nice maple and hot sauce icing,
not only is gonna be an adhesive,
it's actually really tasty.
So there's his head piece.
So he kinda looks like a Spartan from 300 right now.
Let's forge him a sword.
And we're just gonna put his little sword right there.
It's really about making it your own, you know,
don't follow the rules.
Hope they like it.
(Rhett laughs) - All right, well it--
- Hope we like it. - It looks good.
It looks like we're gonna like it.
I mean look at that.
He's a warrior.
- Yes, you have the sword, I have the scythe.
We call this gingerbreast man and waffles.
- And so we've got our syrup here.
Now one of the tests of a gingerbread man is that
it stays together when you pick it up.
And that seems to be happening.
- Bingo. - So it's passing
that test. - Look at that.
- [Link] My guy's got abs and pectorals.
- My guy's got three belly buttons in,
and-- - Hyah!
- Two nipples. - Boom, ope.
- Oh, I don't know what that means
about your gingerbread man.
I'm gonna dip mine-- - I lost my sword.
- I'm gonna cover my guy's face in a little syrup
and then I'm gonna bite his head off.
- Yeah I'm gonna bite the head off this beast as well.
- Dink it.
- They can kiss.
And sink it.
That chicken skin. - Mm-hm.
- Is like biting into a saddle.
And if you ever wanna get to the horse,
you gotta bite through the saddle.
- Okay now that I got through that,
Texas Chainsaw Massacre face skin.
- Wrong time of year, now listen.
I'm trying to chew it all up before I give my assessment,
and what I'm discovering is that you've got
the chickenness, the waffleness of course,
but then the ginger still hits hard,
and that's the only part I don't like.
- Really?
I actually went-- - Doesn't seem to go.
- No, get just some of the gingerbread
that's got the chicken in it, dip that into the syrup.
- Like a foot?
- And taste that and tell me you don't like it.
Isn't that good?
- Maybe I just don't like gingerbread men.
- Oh, oh.
- I don't hate it. - You might have to opt out
of all of these if you don't like gingerbread.
- It kind of just tastes like a gingerbread cookie.
- No but there's a little hint of chicken.
Just a little hint of chicken and some waffle.
- Well especially when you take into account
how great it looks with the accoutrement,
then I'm all for it.
- And I actually worked on my jaw
trying to get through that chicken, so,
will it gingerbread man?
- [Rhett and Link] Yes.
- There's nothing like a fresh-baked gingerbread man,
but honestly all of our food cravings can be satisfied
by something that's been made in a factory
and sealed in a plastic bag and put on a shelf.
Case in point barbecue potato chips.
Let's do this.
Throw all these into a food processor.
We're working with three different kinds
of barbecue chips, 'cause life, like cooking,
is about variety. (mixer whirs)
Just gonna fold it and then knead it a little bit.
Chips tend to be more dry than wet
on account of they're chips so we need to make
kind of barbecue inspired icing.
So we're gonna go ahead and do a little but of dry rub,
a little bit of barbecue sauce and a lot of butter
and powdered sugar.
We're just gonna do two eyes with our barbecue icing.
Most gingerbread man, they're not wearing clothes per se
so much as they have little squiggles on their arms and legs
so as to imply clothes, because it'd be inappropriate
for them to just be naked.
Ready to start a Pinterest board that
you're never gonna update.
(Rhett and Link chuckle)
- I did that.
No I didn't.
Start a Pinterest board.
Okay now we call this ginger crunch man because I anticipate
it's gonna be very crunchy.
- [Rhett] Yeah I can just tell by the rigidity.
This guy's so rigid.
- Now again, you don't want it falling apart,
so it passes the first test in my mind.
- Crunch is a good thing though.
Tell me a time in your life when crunch wasn't a good thing.
(coughs)
- I can't come up with one, Rhett.
Woo, don't breathe too deeply because
you'll asphyxiate on barbecue chip juice, I mean,
what's it called?
- Smell?
- Particles.
(crew laughs)
- Taking off-- - Particles.
- Taking off the head here and getting the eyeballs and--
- [Rhett] Oh (chuckles).
- You get hit with that barbecueness.
Woo!
- My mouth doesn't know what to do.
- It really plays a trick on your brain,
because you feel like you're eating a cookie
but it's, the entire experience is just barbecue chip.
- It's so chippy.
- I'm not even getting ginger.
- It out-barbecued the ginger?
- Which to me is a great thing.
I actually-- - I don't dislike it.
- I really like this one.
- Okay.
- 'Cause the ginger's taking a backseat.
- If I don't dislike it and you really like it.
- [Link] Barbecue chips, will it gingerbread man?
- Yes. - Yes.
- For lots of people, gingerbread men evoke memories
of childhood but my childhood was shaped by
something different, frozen meals you can microwave
and drop in front of the TV.
So my favorite TV dinner, Salisbury steak.
It's a classic.
So you're gonna get a nice, meaty chew,
and then we're gonna decorate with all the other parts
of the TV dinner.
We're just gonna take our steak.
(whimsical music)
So here I got mashed potatoes I just mixed
with a little bit of powdered sugar.
I'm gonna make some nice big ol' eyes.
We're gonna take our gravy frosting.
And now we're just gonna make little glasses frames.
So now we're gonna take green beans.
And because nothing says family portrait
like a TV dinner, I'm gonna use Google Pixel 3's
portrait mode selfie to get a great shot
of me and my new gingerbread son.
It's like Pixel-ception.
Using a Pixel 3 inside of this video
being captured on Pixel 3.
- (chuckles) Wow.
- And look at how good he looks.
Mine's got glasses.
Ope, so does yours. - Yep.
We call this one divorce gingerdad man. (chuckles)
- 'Cause that's what they, um,
all right, again-- - They.
- Ooh look at that, and you can see all that
Salisbury steak peeking through the back of the cookie.
- Now did you always think that Salisbury steak
was from Salisbury, North Carolina?
- I never thought about it.
- That's all you're gonna give me?
- (mutters) What were you hoping for?
- I spent the majority of my childhood believing that
we grew up near a place that was responsible
for the greatest steak ever to grace the earth,
and you never thought about it once until right now?
You just dismissed it?
- I tend to not think while I'm eating,
which comes in really handy on this show.
- Okay all right.
- All right so, any prediction?
- I'm gonna do it in a little extra
potato dip in just his head right there.
- I'm not, I'm not.
Ooh.
- The temperature's a little off-putting.
This is like morning after with a divorced dad.
- Ugh.
- You know what I'm saying?
- This is--
- You wake up and he didn't finish the dinner last night
and you taste it.
- This is really nasty.
It's meaty, but sweety.
None of it goes together.
I can also smell the green beans that are still here
and that's also messing me up.
- This just makes me feel sad.
- And lonely. - Yeah.
- [Link] Frozen TV dinner, will it gingerbread man?
- No. - Mm-mm.
- This episode I really wanted to get inside the head
of a gingerbread man.
And then I realized there was one thing really important
missing from the head of a gingerbread man
and that's brains.
Thanks to Pixel 3's unlimited storage,
I can capture as many videos and take as many photos
of brains as I want.
I think I know what my Christmas card is gonna be.
(whimsical music)
So we're using lamb's brains here,
you know lamb is really popular during Christmas
so I figured it'd be a nice little festive touch
to go in the gingerbread man.
And we're just gonna start smashing the brains in there.
It's so mushy, it smells like brain too.
You don't really think of brains as having a smell
until you're smelling brains.
So now we're making essentially a lamb brain mousse.
(mixer whirs)
I wanna get as much of that beautiful lamb's brain flavor
in here as possible, so we're actually gonna
do this sandwich cookie style.
That's gorgeous, look at that.
Then what we're gonna do is take whole lamb's brain
and kinda put it on top.
And big ol' circle mouth so he looks just as horrified
as you are.
I love him and Rhett and Link, I hope you love him
as much as I do.
(Rhett chuckles sadly)
(crew laughs)
- Oh gosh. _ Look at this thing.
(Link clears throat)
We call this gingerbrain man.
AKA gingerbread man, why are we doing this?
- [Rhett] (chuckles) Yeah.
I love how he put eyes right on the brain.
- But there's a brain mousse all throughout.
There's no way to get away from--
- I mean do we have to actually bite part of the head
in order to get a real test here?
- Do you wanna require the smarts of a lamb?
- Ugh, require or acquire?
- Did I say require? - You said require.
I don't know, I don't know if I want to acquire
or require them.
- There's no right answer.
(Link coughs)
- I just know that if I get a significant bite
of just straight brain,
I'm not gonna be able to keep it down.
- I'm trying to think of the brain as just another
part of the flesh.
I mean if you think about muscle, oh there goes an eye.
It's disintegrating. (eye clinks)
- I mean the whole thing is gross.
- Yeah. - Eating an animal's gross
to begin with (chuckles).
- Yeah, 2019 I'm becoming vegetarian.
- 2019?
Oh, yeah. - Yeah.
- It's in the future. - That's my resolution.
I like how it's slowly sliding off.
If I wait long enough, whoa, whoops.
I can't eat that part now.
(Link gags)
(crew member coughs)
- Is somebody gagging back there just by watching?
Is that what it's like to watch this show?
(Link coughs)
Just sitting there in the privacy
of your own home gagging to yourself.
- Uh, yes, I think it is.
Come on, try the brain.
- Why don't you do it too, bro?
- (sighs) Okay.
- I'm just gonna get a little sliver of it.
- Oh gosh, now I have to grab it and put it back on it.
It's so spongy.
- Here's the problem though Link,
if we don't do this right now, millions of people
are gonna just do this on their own.
If we wanna prevent more people from doing this,
we have to do it now.
- Or maybe-- - 'Cause I'm anticipating
that it will not gingerbread man.
- I think that no one's gonna do it unless we find out
that it should be done.
- That's another way to look at it.
- Dink it. - Oh gosh.
- [Link] Oh gosh you already bit it.
(gags)
(crew laughing)
(Link gags)
- Sometimes you need your buddy to help you--
(Link gags) Oh God, oh God!
(Link gags)
You can do it, you can do it, you can do it.
Hold on, let me do the chewing.
- What are you doing? - No.
Let me, let me-- (Link gags)
(Rhett chuckles)
This is my Christmas gift to you.
I'm gonna help you chew.
I'm the surrogate chewer.
You just relax, don't even think.
- [Link] Oh my God.
(gags) - Oh God.
It's not that bad, man.
(gags)
It's difficult when you're doing that though.
That help?
(slams table)
(Rhett exhales) (Link gags)
Oh, I did it.
♪ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ♪
(Rhett chuckles)
- That's making a weird sound come.
That lamb brain.
- Ugh, let me tell you.
I had to swallow it twice 'cause it came back up.
But you know what, it's pretty good.
- It wasn't that bad. - I highly recommend it.
- It was difficult to get down, but--
- Once it's down there, you're like wow.
- Kind of like a sporting event, just eating that.
- That's good.
And you know, get your entire family, friends involved.
Brains, will it gingerbread man?
- [Rhett and Link] Yes!
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- You know what time it is.
- Hi I'm Adam. - I'm Wesley,
and we're from Knoxville, Tennessee.
- And we're having a gingerbread house building competition
with my sisters.
- [Together] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- I'm not gonna challenge those guys
to a hair competition. - Good luck, boys.
- Click the top link to watch us try more crazy
gingerbread creations in Good Mythical More.
- And to find out where the
Wheel of Mythicality's gonna land.
- [Rhett] Join us in one last Mythical toast.
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