- [Link] Today we crown the worst Halloween candy
of all time.
- [Rhett] Let's talk about that.
(alarm rings) (playful theme music)
(fire blasts)
Good Mythical Morning!
- [Link] Happy Halloween, Mythical Beasts!
Look at us, we are Ernie and Ernie.
- We wanted to be Bert and Ernie
but they were out of Berts.
Look at us, we're just-- (chuckles)
(crew laughs)
I mean, this is what you get.
Oh we're bailing, we're bailing early
on the Ernie and Ernie.
- You couldn't tell us apart, you know.
Over the past two days, we have taste tested 16
of the worst Halloween candies in a series
of head-to-head competitions.
40,000 of you voted on those candies.
Now we narrowed them and now 39,999 of you
disagree with us and hate us.
- But we greatly appreciate your support
and enthusiasm.
Now eight of those terrible candies have advanced
to today, the finals, where one of them will emerge
as the worst Halloween candy of them all.
And in doing so, we're gonna be alerting
Halloween celebrating adults all of the world
to never give out that awful candy again,
thereby saving millions of children around the world
from having to eat said candy.
- We could not have done it without you,
and you didn't do it without us.
It's time for Clash of the Crappy Candies: Finals.
May I direct your attention to the considerably
colossal candy bracket.
And Cotton Candy Randy with his--
- Happy Cotton Candy Day, Daddies.
- You got your costume on.
- What's a costume?
- Oh.
- Is that just your skin has gone?
- No, today I wanted to dress like my favorite food.
(Rhett laughs)
- Well we're glad that you're still here.
- Yeah, me too. - Some of us
more than others probably.
- Yeah I'm still happy that you're here.
Always been. - As you can see,
eight candies remain: black licorice.
- [Rhett] Nik-L-Nips.
- [Link] Dots.
- [Rhett] Good & Plenty.
- [Link] Candy corn.
- [Rhett] Laffy Taffy Banana.
- [Link] Necco Wafers.
- [Rhett] And Circus Peanuts.
(thunder crashes) (dark music)
- Our first battle's the highest ranked seed
with 18,426 votes, black licorice.
Versus the eighth seed with 3,255 votes, Nik-L-Nips.
- I think it's worth the heart trouble, man.
I just love the smell of it.
- I mean yeah you remind me of the statistics
that doctors say don't eat too much of this stuff.
- Doctors don't want, you think doctors want you
to get up on some Nik-L-Nips?
Take two Nik-L-Nips and call me in the morning.
- I go back to the first time I tasted one of these,
two days ago.
And I was surprised at how Chilly Willee-ish it was.
- But it doesn't taste good.
Chilly Willee is only good 'cause it's frozen, man.
- Well if you wanna talk about what doesn't taste good,
this black log of nasty tastes, well, nasty.
- But you have to think about this for a second because--
- And you get to chew this.
- The people who like black licorice, me being one of them,
are passionate about it.
No one in their right mind except maybe this guy
is passionate about Nik-L-Nips.
There's not like Nik-L-Nip stores.
I went to, when we were in Australia,
I went to a licorice store, it was all black licorice.
I didn't see a Nik-L-Nips store.
Because the Australians got too much self-respect
to have a Nik-L-Nips store.
- Granted, it is a taste in certain regions
that a lot of people like,
but I don't frequent those regions.
And listen, are you telling me that you hate this?
Are you telling me that this experience is something that
actually makes you almost gag?
No, you're like, this is weird.
It's wax, it's a lot of trash that you're just
chewing around in your mouth.
Granted, but it's not something that is--
- Strong argument. - Gets a visceral response
of negativity. - It's trash!
All right man, I know all you hate this too.
So I'm willing to lay down and let licorice continue on,
but don't try Nik-L-Nips.
Or you know what, send 'em all to Link.
You know our P.O. box.
- [Link] Move the licorice on.
- You kicked a pumpkin.
- Yeah well the pumpkin was looking at me funny.
That's what you get when you look at me funny,
you get a kick to the face.
Watch out there, glasses.
(thunder crashes) (dark music)
- Next up we have the 12th seed with 2,559 votes, Dots,
versus the fourth seed with 7,516 votes, Good & Plenty.
- [Link] Good & Plenty.
- Again I am very fond of both of these.
My dad's favorite candy, Dots, which incidentally,
at one point, they used to have black ones in there
that were black licorice and then they spun those off
into their own box and called them Crows.
- They wised up and removed the nastiest thing--
- No. - To make these better.
- Think of all the spin-offs that have become huge hits.
- Okay, like what?
(crew laughs)
- I mean, you gotta give me a second.
The Conners.
(both laughing)
That's great, right?
- These are not good, man.
- Really, it's like gummy bears but chewier.
Of course, Good & Plenty, doesn't matter if you get
a pink one, or a white one.
You're gonna have a good time and there's plenty more
where that came from. (laughs)
- This is difficult 'cause I don't like either one of these.
But I could probably come around to this
as an acquired taste much quicker than I can licorice.
Like it's getting caught in my teeth.
I'm gonna be picking this stuff out forever,
but there's a redeeming quality to the flavors
that makes this better than this.
- I like both of 'em.
Listen, one last time, I'll let it slide.
You can move the Good & Plenty on if you want.
- 'Cause it sucks, it stays.
(candy clatters)
(thunder crashes) (dark music)
Okay, next up we got the second seed with 10,016 votes,
candy corn versus the 10th seed with 3,866 votes,
banana flavored Laffy Taffy.
- Now do we have to do ourselves the disservice
of re-tasting these?
I think we already concluded that we actually both
don't mind candy corn.
- Old icing.
- Again, I would never choose it.
- That's what it tastes like. - I would never choose it
but if I see it there, I have to eat it.
Look I just did it.
I didn't even plan on that, it just happened.
- I mean if there was a bowl of this
and there was a bowl of corn,
which one would you dig your hand into?
- Corn. - Really?
- I love corn.
I once had 37 ears of corn in one sitting.
- That's not what I anticipated you'd say,
so just forget I said anything.
- And that's not a joke.
They just kept bringing it.
- This smells like banana.
- I don't know where I was.
- It tastes a little like banana,
but then the more you chew on it and trust me,
you'll keep chewing on it 'cause you've got to.
- It's awful. - The banana flavor
shifts to something synthetic,
glueish, as we've said before.
- I still don't understand how the jokes work.
Oh there they are. - This is not good.
This is not good so I'm saying Laffy Taffy
is definitely worse.
- What is a room no one can enter?
A mushroom.
Yeah that sucks.
(crew laughs)
Moving on, Laffy Taffy.
- How you holding up, Randy?
- I'm doing all right.
I thought that joke was pretty funny.
(Rhett laughs)
I mean it's like this show could use some comedy, right?
(Rhett laughs)
(thunder crashes) (dark music)
- Next we have the sixth seed with 5,185 votes,
Necco Wafers, versus the third seed
with 162 votes, Circus Peanuts.
- All right, have you had Circus Peanuts
before this tournament?
- I never had either one of these.
- Yeah again, I was very surprised.
With the chewing gum like taste of these things.
Necco Wafer.
- They don't say anything on 'em, they don't have surprise,
well some of them say Necco.
- [Link] Some of them say Necco.
- But it's not like a joke, it's not like a message.
It's not like a love message like it would be
on like a candy heart.
- Right, this is a peanut, man.
That's something, man.
That's something that you should never forget.
This is something you wanna forget as soon as possible.
- You like touching them like a pirate.
(candies clanging)
You've soiled all of those.
- The texture's bad, the taste is bad, the colors are bad.
- Yeah I hate pastels (chuckles).
Who are we kidding?
All right-- - It moves on.
- Necco Wafers is moving on!
(thunder crashes) (dark music)
- And now we come to the semifinal clash
of the licorice candies.
Good & Plenty and just straight up black licorice.
(Link coughs)
- Oh, you're allergic.
This is difficult for me.
This is a crisis of conscience.
- This is difficult for me so I'm just gonna bow out.
Here's the deal, you like both of these
'cause your palette's crazy, man.
- Smart.
- So you just need to decide which one you like less.
And I'll say they're both real nasty,
but this one is also deceptive.
I never knew there was licorice in this, neither did you.
And for someone who doesn't like licorice,
that's a naughty, naughty thing to do.
- I don't think it's about deception.
I think it's about if you just wanna take
a licorice pill straight.
- [Link] You're just gonna swallow that?
- You just swallow it straight.
- Like a supplement?
- Yeah it's a supplement.
Which I just did, it's just like,
I want as much licorice as I can get.
I don't wanna have to chew it.
- So you think this one's better
because you can take it as a pill.
This is unadulterated. - This is so pure.
- It's pure.
- Oh man.
- You like that better?
I think this one's worse because it's deceptive,
but which one do you think is worse?
- You know what? - You like least.
- I think the fact that I'm gonna start
incorporating licorice as a supplement
into my life is something I'm excited about,
so I actually think black licorice straight up is worse.
- All right.
There he goes.
You did it. - Yeah.
You guys should do more segments where you figure out
what you can swallow.
(crew laughs)
(thunder crashes) (dark music)
- Our other semi-final match is Laffy Taffy Banana
versus Necco Wafers.
Now, this is like two dudes you hate getting in a fight
after school and you just hope both of 'em get hurt.
- I don't wanna be like a proponent of fighting,
but in this case-- - No they've chosen to fight.
- I hadn't even heard of Necco Wafers before this.
- I'd seen them but I never even acknowledged them
to the point of being able to name them.
- Here's the thing, man.
- This one has a little star on it.
- I mean there's other versions of this
that aren't banana flavored
that didn't even make our list, you know?
So that tells me there's gotta be some goodness
that I can find if I can freakin' get it open!
- How about this, what do you do if a rhino charges you?
- Bend over, buddy.
(crew laughs)
- Ha, that's what it says!
No it says give him your credit card.
- Here's what I'm trying to say, this is intolerable.
And banana's not great and it's the worst
Laffy Taffy flavor, we've clearly established,
but there's something in there that is redemptive.
- You might be able to plug a hole with it.
You know what I'm saying,
it probably works as well as Flex Seal.
- Right.
- You've seen those commercials.
- Oh yeah I've seen those.
- This might be Flex Seal for all I know.
- The laugh's on us.
- So yeah Necco Wafers, well hold on,
maybe I can take it as a pill.
I haven't tried that.
- See if you can swallow it, 'cause I'm saying,
as bad as this is, Necco Wafers--
- Not going down.
No, okay, it's gotta move on, Necco Wafers.
- Irredeemable. - Not a pill.
- To the finals, Necco Wafers!
(thunder crashes) (dark music)
And now we've come to it, the finals.
Licorice versus Necco Wafers.
Rhett, you love this stuff.
How does it feel to love something
that is one of the most hated candies on the planet?
- It makes me sad, I think I might be able to
make myself cry about it.
Probably not though.
- You know what'll help, sniffin' this.
- It's magical.
I love it.
You know exactly where I stand.
I see nothing wrong with that other than the fact
that I can't swallow it whole which is something
I didn't anticipate until today.
Necco Wafers seem to serve no purpose at all.
- I can eat these though.
Like if I'm going to Antarctica, I can eat these.
But I do acknowledge that there's a whole bunch
of people out there who I'm not gonna ridicule.
I'll just ridicule you, for liking this stuff.
It is a certain flavor profile that I can't relate to.
- There's an art to it, you know?
I met a man on the streets of Australia,
the man who owned the little licorice shop,
and he brought me in and he started talking to me
about his different types of licorice.
And then he adopted me for a couple of days.
That's where I was when you guys couldn't find me.
- Oh in the Outback?
- And we spent a lot of time together and he taught me
the dark arts of licorice.
I can't reveal any of it, but all I can say is that
there are no dark arts of Necco Wafers.
You know exactly what's happening.
It's just a little machine (blows raspberry)
pooping out little wafers that nobody likes.
- Here's the thing.
As much as I absolutely hate this abomination
which tries to pass itself off as candy,
but tried to be medicine first.
- Yeah, it is to me.
- I can't deny the fact that there are so many people
who love it, it's very polarizing.
But show me anyone who's gonna
lay down their life for these.
Or build an entire shop in Australia
to make and sell only these.
And that's why I am willing to let you know.
This is the worst candy ever.
- And listen, I've let down my licorice guard
the entire time but there's no way I'm letting licorice
be crowned the worst candy of all time.
I'm not gonna let that happen as a licorice lover.
- Okay so we're in agreement.
I think as bad as this is, this is absolutely the worst.
Necco Wafers.
- All right, thanks for the candy, Daddies.
Bye!
(woman shrieks)
- Boom, there it is!
- The absolute worst candy of all time is--
- [Both] Necco Wafers!
- You can enjoy those all you want, Rhett.
- We're actually going to burn some Necco Wafers in effigy.
Not even in effigy, we're gonna just burn Necco Wafers
on Instagram so make sure to check that out.
- Uh-huh, and make sure if you're an adult
who's buying candy to never ever give away
Necco Wafers on Halloween ever again.
And if you already bought it, throw it out
and give away loose change instead.
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