- Hey, fast food restaurants, do better with science.
- Let's talk about that.
(lively music)
(whooshing)
- ♪ Good Mythical Morning. ♪
- And happy spooky season.
Look at this set.
Or don't.
Don't turn around,
'cause it might scare you, Link.
- Oh yeah, there's lots of...
Ooh! There's scary stuff over there.
- Yeah, keep you guessing.
- There's freaking severed hands all over the place.
There's heads in jars, including Mad Dog Lucas.
- Oi, oi, oi. - Man, his head has expanded.
- He made quite the sacrifice for this set, heh, heh, heh.
Okay. For years, Link and I have tasted
many strange food experiments
whipped up by the mad scientists in the Mythical kitchen,
both good and bad.
- Yeah. Our mouths have been both tortured and pleasured.
- But now I believe it's our duty, nay, our calling,
to bring weird food pairings
that science has proven taste good
to the people via your favorite fast food restaurants.
- Yep. We are gonna pleasure your mouths.
- I wish you would stop saying that.
It's time for, "All Hallow's Eve is nigh
and things could get horrific".
Does that include fast food that got all scientific?
Boo-oopity boop boop boop boop boop.
Get it? - I like that.
- It's scary research that has been done.
Yes, in the book, "The Flavor Matrix",
Brooke Parkhurst and James Briscione
suggest wild and unexpected flavor combinations
that, according to science, should be tasty.
We've talked a little bit about this on the show before,
putting things that science says would be good together.
- Right. We've dipped our toe in the flavor matrix.
- Yes.
- But we haven't done it like this.
The Mythical kitchen has taken
some of the oddest scientifically suggested flavor pairings
and used them to create more interesting versions
of classic fast food and a snack aisle dish.
- Hmm.
And all of today's creations also serve
as collab proposals. - Yeah.
- Because if you big companies out there wanna work together
on actually mass producing what you see here today,
well, we have got good news.
We've asked the crew to go ahead
and start working on your marketing campaigns, alright.
Let's see what they've cooked up for the first one,
which is for Shake Shack.
(whooshing) (mellow music)
- Okay, Sweetie, it's time to eat your fruit.
- No, it's time to eat your vegetables.
- No, he needs to eat his fruit
so he can grow big and strong.
- No, you need to eat your vegetables
to grow your big boy muscles.
- Fruit. - Vegetables.
- [Announcer 1] Now your kid can get a serving of vegetables
and a serving of fruit
in the new Shake Shack Strawberry Mushroom Burger.
Science says they'll love it.
- Wow. There's all kinds of families.
(crew laughing)
I love it.
- Hello, Dr Rhett and Dr Link.
- Oh my goodness.
- It's me, your boy and loyal servant, Ivor.
- Oh, is this Ivor?
The Gen Z version of Igor from Frankenstein?
- It is. It is.
I've got the Double Strawberry Mushroom Swiss burger
from Shake Shack.
And did you guys know
that strawberries and mushrooms share 43%
of the same chemical makeup,
the most notable being one nonanol and--
- Oh, 1-nonanol, not two nonanols.
- No ho ho ho ho.
No no no no no,
1-nonanol and methyl butanoate, so.
- Of course I knew that, Ivor. ♪ No no no no ♪
- Yeah. You guys are so smart.
- Get back.
Get back down there and crouch!
- Alright. (Ivor shuffling)
- Oh, you just want him to disappear into the...
Oh, look.
He did a Gen Z dance as he melted away.
- Of course he did.
Now, Shake Shack already did a collaboration with Hot Ones.
- What? - Yeah.
- They did?
- So I think that there's a Mythical follow up here,
- I didn't hear about that. - and this is it, so.
- Oh gosh. - What On the earth?
- So basically, it's...
What are you taking out?
- It's a tomato. - Oh, well.
- Drenched in strawberry.
- And this whole thing is a mushroom.
Alright, here we go.
- Yep. 'Cause they have a mushroom burger already.
Which I've always been scared to order.
- I've got it before.
- That is a lot of ♪ strawberry.
- It's weirdly complimentary though, isn't it?
- You like it? - I do like it.
- I don't hate it.
- I mean, it's not as good as a burger.
- No.
- But you're already getting the mushroom burger.
You know what I'm saying?
You're already being like,
"Well, I'm not getting a real burger."
- It's not bad.
I think you could cut down on the sweetness a little bit.
So we're gonna decide
if this is a legitimate brand collab,
or if it's back to the lab.
- I mean, first of all,
I think the commercial alone
is enough to get me excited.
I feel like sometimes it's all about the marketing,
and if that's the quality of the commercial
that's gonna be going out airwaves across America,
- Yeah, it is.
- then people are,
even if it sucks, people are gonna be excited to eat it.
- I wish I had two dads like that.
- Did you see how excited the child David Hill was
about (chuckling).
- Was that the facial impression? Excitement?
I was disturbed.
I think this could work, though.
- I think it tastes good.
I really do.
I think that you can taste the science in there.
You can taste the collab
between strawberries and mushrooms.
So the Shake Shack Strawberry Mushroom Burger is a
- brand collab. - Brand collab.
(whooshing) (mellow music)
(somber music)
- [Rhett] Oh.
He's having so much trouble.
- Hi.
Tired of trying to eat corn on the cob
like a respectable human being?
Tired of your friends and family calling you
a corn on the slob?
Don't you just wish there was a better way to do corn?
Well, now there is.
(music scratching to a halt)
Corn on the cob is out.
Refreshing, drinkable corn
with a touch of sweetness is in.
Wendy's Vanilla Corn Frosty.
Try this and you'll never want to touch another cob again.
(chuckling)
(tray of corn thudding on floor)
Oh.
- I'm hungry.
- Ivor!
- Oh, what's up, doctors.
This is the Wendy's Vanilla Corn Frosty.
And did you know that vanilla and corn share
about 35%, per saint,
- Per saint. - Yeah.
- Chemical compounds,
with the most notable being octadecane
and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde.
- Oh yeah?
Very exciting stuff.
- And there's actual corn in the bottom of this.
- Oh, there's corn.
- I can feel it down there.
- Trust me, I made sure there was corn.
Can I not go back to the hole?
- Oh, where do you wanna go, Ivor?
- Well, just, I don't know, somewhere.
It hurts my knees.
- (chuckling) Okay.
Do a little dance away.
- Them Gen Z knees.
- As long as you give us your little dance.
- You guys later. (shuffling away)
Well, this L for me, gentlemen.
- Yeah, yeah.
Man.
He's cool.
- This should work.
And Emily was Wendy.
Took me a little bit to figure that out.
- I Got it. I got it.
- And why does it say Mom right there?
Has it always said Mom?
- It doesn't say Mom.
That's her collar, and a necklace.
(crew laughing)
But it shertainly does look like Mom.
And now I'm never gonna be able to unsee it.
- Shertainly does.
- Hold on.
So Dave's daughter was also his mom?
- I can't get this through the straw.
I'm gonna have to,
I'm gonna have to use the,
yeah, the spoon.
- Wow. Whoa.
(crew laughing)
I'm trying not to just have a reaction to the corn.
- Hey man. Hey man.
- I wanna give it a chance.
- Practice safe spooning.
- Like, I'm trying to think.
- Practice safe spooning.
- If I...
(crew laughing)
I don't need to.
I've had a vasectomy (chuckling).
So have you.
You don't have to do that anymore.
- This is not the best way to...
God.
- If you, for a moment, forget that you already know
what corn tastes like,
and it reminds you of all the other settings
that you have corn in,
and just think about it being a new flavor
of something that you might get in another country.
- I don't need any help with this.
It's awesome.
And I like chewing the frozen kernels at the bottom.
It's kinda like a Boba experience.
- I was a little bit scared at first.
- Like sweet cornbread. It's a great thing.
- But I do 100% agree that it tastes good.
- It really does.
- I hate to say it.
I feel like we might have to work on the ad a little bit.
- Yeah, we gotta work on the ad.
- Because I feel like just stacking
just the raw corn around it was a little bit of a turn off,
because it made me feel,
it made me think of like fishing for brim as a child,
with corn, you know?
But if you can just get somebody to taste this thing,
I think it could definitely work.
- Yeah. Just taste it.
- That's gonna be the saying.
"Don't think about it. Just taste it."
- [Announcer 2] Wendy's Vanilla Corn Frosty,
- Brand collab. - Brand collaboration.
(mellow music)
- Okay, our next creation is specifically targeted
at the corporate office of Popeyes Chicken.
- All right, Popeye. (laughing like Popeye)
Listen up.
- Let's see the print ad that the crew has created.
- [Link] Oh, look at that. That's high fidelity.
- [Rhett] Oo hoo hoo, the Chick-Nana Sandwich!
- [Link] "Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to its long lost flavor pairing, banana,
in our delicious new sandwich."
That's a mouthful.
And why is the peel still on the chicken sandwich?
- [Rhett] For fiber, I guess?
It's not very appealing, I'll tell you that much.
(laughing cartoonishly)
- Are you supposed to?
Alright, Ivor, bring this thing in.
And is the peel part of the science?
- No, the peel is not part of the science,
but this is Popeyes Chick-Nana Sandwich.
- I know it is.
- Bananas and chicken share about 28%
of the same chemical compounds, with the most notable
being piperonal and-- - Pepperoni?
- Ethylbenzene. Not pepperoni.
- Piperonal. - Piperonal.
- Do you wanna know where I learned all these fun facts?
From Joe.
- Who's Joe?
- Joe Mama!
(crew laughing)
- As I was saying it...
- Those Gen Z, they'll get you every time.
- Every time that they--
- We walk into their traps all the time.
- Every time they ask a question,
- It's a setup. - It's a setup.
- For an insult.
- They don't wanna know anything.
- They know it all.
- They just wanna insult.
- So, do you think this is gonna work?
- Now, I like banana.
I've never thought about it in this context,
but I'm open, I'm definitely very open.
- I'm scared of the pickle.
- The pickle-- - And the banana.
- is a little odd, right?
- I'm gonna try it without the pickle first.
- I'm going in full bore.
(Rhett and Link munching burgers)
- It's not horrible.
- The banana's pretty subtle.
Especially if you get some pickle in your bite.
- I didn't get the pickle in my bite and it's still okay.
- It adds a sweetness.
- I'm gonna put the pickle
in the middle of my chicken sandwich, covered in nana.
- Hmm.
(grunting)
You're gonna put the pickle
in the middle of your chicken sandwich covered with nana?
- Yeah.
♪ I'm gonna put the pickle in the middle ♪
♪ of my chicken sandwich covered in nana. ♪
- The pickle in the middle of your covered.
The pickle in the middle of your chicken sandwich
covered in nana.
♪ Pickle in the middle of my chicken sandwich ♪
♪ covered in Nana. ♪
- [Ivor] Sheez!
- Hey!
We got him. We drew 'em back in.
I like it.
It might just be 'cause I really like chicken sandwiches.
- Yeah, the chicken sandwich is great.
It's weird how I don't really taste a lot of banana.
It like just adds a coalescence to it.
So I think we could add that to the--
- Is that crossover? - to the marketing.
Let's remove the...
- Take the peel off. - Take the peel off,
and let's add the word coalescence.
And it doesn't have to be spelled correctly.
- But I do like the name, Chick-Nana.
We need to put a few more fries in the ad.
- And somebody's nana could be in the ad.
- And she's wearing a banana suit.
- Mm hm.
So far, we're doing really good.
Thanks, science.
- Yeah.
So the Popeyes Chick-Nana Sandwich is a,
- brand collab. - Brand collab.
(mellow music) (whooshing)
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created by us?
Yes, you do.
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And just feel it.
It is the densest, - I mean, it's out there.
- packaged, - I don't wanna promise,
- party game. - but it is very dense.
- It is chock-full of cards, pads,
instructions, and happiness.
- And you know what?
On Amazon, we're still good.
Held the number one hot new releases across all board,
hot new release across all board games
for three weeks, Link.
- Wow. - Did you hear about that?
We held that spot for three weeks.
So get some friends together, pick up your copy
of "We're Still Good" party game
that laughs in the face of disaster,
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(Link laughing insincerely)
I said amazon.com.
- Alright.
Our final creation turns an iconic Little Debbie creation
on its head.
Here's another print ad that the crew created for us.
Little Debbie Crab
Cherry Fruit Pie. - Cherry Fruit Pie.
So Crab Cherry Fruit Pie.
- [Link] Oh, gosh, for the first time ever,
Little Debbie has crabs.
"Celebrate with a Crab Cherry Fruit Pie."
Oh, is the claw gonna be in included in this?
- The claw has some cherry juice dripping off of it
that looks disturbingly like blood.
Well, let's just see.
Ivor, can you bring us the Crab Cherry Fruit Pie?
Oh, I totally forgot.
He said he was gonna go do some fatty Vic Roys.
(crew laughing)
- Okay.
- That's what it's like.
That's the last thing he said when he went away.
I forgot.
- This is a Little Debbie snack, though, so.
- Oh yeah. We know who to call.
- Giant Deborah, hear our call.
You are big and we are small.
We hunger for your crabby treat.
Your Crab Cherry Pie is all we want to eat.
We pledge our loyalty for all you do.
Giant Deborah, please come through!
(footsteps clomping)
- Hey. - Oh, hey.
Leading with the feet this time, huh?
- She's back.
You know what?
Last time we saw you,
we were sucking your big toes.
- Yeah. - Oh, I remember.
- That was a Good Mythalicalit Eveling.
- Good Mythicalalal Evening.
I've been trying to forget that part.
- It's one of the few few things that I pristinely remember.
- I've been in a better mood ever since.
- Have you shaved your big toe?
Because I would request that you do that,
'cause it's just like,
I just remember the feeling of--
- And now we're back.
Okay, so I just wanted to point out one thing here.
- Just like a little hair on my tongue.
- (clearing throat) I'm speaking.
- It's okay.
Let Giant Deborah do her thing.
(Giant Deborah shushing Rhett)
(crew laughing)
- For the record, Giant Deborah does not have crabs.
This treat is not crabby.
I can't speak for Little Debbie and what she's been up to,
but these things, I, you know, everyone,
you're up to date in your chemistry, right?
You know cherry and crabs go together, right?
- No, we do not. - Yeah.
- [Rhett] But I'd like for you to tell us.
- It's like talking to preschoolers.
So they share 22% of their chemical compounds,
crustaceans, specifically crabs, and...
Yeah, that's my little hole.
Crabs and cherries share 2-ethyl-1-hexanol
and 1,3-dimethylbenzene.
- Oh, 1,3, huh?
- Yeah. 1,3-dimethylbenzene.
- Well, so, that means-- - Science.
- it should be good.
- It should be good. - It should be good.
Are you gonna stand here and watch us eat 'em?
- This is gonna be great.
- Well, d'you guys want a little appetizer?
- No, I'm actually, you know, very full right now,
on toes. - Okay.
Alright.
I'll let you be.
- Yeah, there's a 50% chance we would've done it again.
- Yeah.
Things are getting awkward between us and Deborah
ever since that happened, you know.
- I am scared of this.
- I haven't ever had anything like a sweet sauce on seafood
that I can think of.
You can do a sweet sauce on my pork,
but you usually do something
that's creamy or savory with seafood.
- So right there in the middle,
there's a lotta big, flaky chunks of crab,
so I'm going in for that.
(Rhett and Link munching on pies)
The first bite of crab is always a little bit shocking,
even when it's not accompanied by cherries.
The pastry part with the crab is fine.
Oh gosh.
- You know what? - I'm really trying, dude.
- Not everything works. - I'm really trying.
- I mean, - What?
- We all can't be winners, Deborah.
- [Giant Deborah] What about 2-ethyl-1-hexanol?
- I know.
I'd rather suck on the toes again, honestly.
- Yeah, but I...
Okay. You're the one who said it.
- But I've already done this, so I'm not going to.
I'm not going to.
- Okay, so we're saying
the Little Debbie Crab Cherry Fruit Pie,
back to the lab. - Back to the lab.
But we were on a nice roll there with,
I mean, the Shake Shack mushroom scared me,
but that was just part of their menu.
When you added the strawberry, (snapping fingers)
it got better.
- The Vanilla Corn Frosty-- - was a huuuuge winner.
- Yes it was. And what was the other thing?
The Popeyes banana chicken sandwich,
the Chick-Nana Sandwich, that was good.
- You remember all of them.
- Those were all three very, very good.
You know, three outta four ain't bad.
That's better than most scientists.
- Mythical is gonna be doing collaborations
with all types of people,
just when you call us.
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- We're biology students-- - at William and Mary.
- I research marine invertebrates.
- And I study yeast.
- And it's time,
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- [Rhett] Get some friends together
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the party game that laughs in the face of disaster,
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