(screaming)
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- Good Mythical Morning!
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- Yeah. Thank you.
Now we want to get educated on some of that good old,
fast food and emphasis on the old,
because today is all about uncovering the humble beginnings
of some of the most famous fast food restaurants and then
shuffle boarding our answers.
- Yes, we're doing a shuffleboard thing today
and you know what?
It's a new season.
And we've seen that you guys
have had some comments about this game.
You're not complaining. - Yeah, no.
- You're just giving us some constructive feedback.
And so we are going to take some of your suggestions
into account.
We've made some changes and you'll see those in a second.
- Yeah, we're all ears.
And while we were changing things,
we spent a considerable amount of time
brainstorming some new titles.
- But we couldn't decide.
So we're just going to call it The Shuffleboard Game.
- It's time for The Shuffleboard Game, Fast Food Edition.
- Welcome to the shuffle board game zone.
- Yeah, that's catchy.
All right, in each round we're going to taste
some food from a popular fast food restaurant.
And our job is to guess when that fast food restaurant
was first open to the public
and we're going to indicate our
guess by shuffling down to that decade
at this end of the board.
Now we were told that some of these restaurants there was
precursor versions, or they were percolating for a while,
but our answers are really when that restaurant
is now as we know it, when it started.
- Whoever's closest to the actual decade,
gets the points and then the loser will have
McDonald's fries dump down their pants.
Let's shuffle.
- McDonald's?
- Classic.
- I know you're a Big Mac man
so if you want to go after that, I mean,
I like it, but you have a special place for it.
- You have a mouth.
- A special place in your mouth.
Like we have to eat McDonald's to remember what it
tastes like. - [Link] Oh gosh.
- [Rhett] Like that's helping at all.
- This is older McDonald's.
How long has this been sitting out?
- [Rhett] That nugget was not fried recently.
- I'm wondering, should I spit this out
or should I just go down-
- Hey man, it's good for your innards.
Wash it down with some old Coke.
- Okay, now you may have noticed
that we have not revealed the
answer to you so that you can play along.
And in a few seconds,
we are going to reveal the answer to you.
- Yeah.
(crew laughing)
- I'm going first.
- Why don't you reveal what you think the answer is to me?
- There's another change that we've made.
Phew, making all kinds of changes!
- [Link] Look at us.
- We have organized the decades in chronological order.
So 1910 is here going all the way up to 1990 in the back.
So it's more of a chronological scale.
And also we turn the numbers so that we could read them.
And that was really just for us.
- I love when numbers are facing me.
- Oh man, so McDonald's,
I know McDonald's existed in some form
in the fifties, right?
Because there's like these classic photos where you see like
a 57 Chevy in front of the golden arches.
- Could be fake.
- What was his name? Ray Kroc.
- Yeah, Ray Crocodile.
- Was he doing burger stuff in the forties and then open
McDonald's in the fifties?
You know, it doesn't really matter
because I can literally land in both 1940 and 1950
thanks to our new system.
And that's what I'm going to try to do.
I'm going to try to split the difference.
- He's going to try to split the difference.
(puck sliding)
- We also decided to make this into-
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop!
- Way too hard.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- [Link] You split the difference between 60 and 80.
- Okay, so...
- Yeah, see, I watched that movie with Michael Keaton.
It's a pretty dang good movie.
Yeah so definitely fifties.
- [Rhett] You can't lose.
If you just come on this side of me.
- I don't know.
- You know it's not the eighties or the nineties.
- I don't know how this board behaves though
so it can be finicky.
Come on 50, 1950.
(puck sliding)
- [Link] Whoa, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Yeah!
Oh, accuracy.
- [Rhett] You're actually a 1920, 30, 40, and 50.
That's an interesting little thing that's happened
with the new board.
- [Stevie] Okay.
The movie was called "The Founder."
- Yes!
- [Stevie] And salesman Ray Kroc saw a lot of potential
in the small burger restaurant owned by brothers
Maurice and Richard McDonald.
He opened the first franchise McDonald's restaurants
in Des Plaines, Illinois in
1955.
And here is that photo you were referencing.
- [Rhett] Yeah, see! Look at that.
You just use arches and you see the 55 Chevy,
whatever that is.
- Didn't we visit that?
(bell dings)
- We've visited lots of places.
- Not that place.
- Little burgers in stacks.
- Now this is White Castle.
- [Link] Why does it stink?
- Is it just the onion? It's just the onions.
- It's actually they're they're actually pretty tasty, man.
- Yeah, they are.
- It hits a very particular spot.
- Yeah, the top of the top of the thing is-
- It's crispy on top man.
- It's crispy.
- I like this a lot.
- All right, so I'm going to go first
because I'm finding myself in the lead.
I think we've done White Castle once.
- We've done it, what does that mean?
- [Link] Eaten there!
- We robbed it?
- It's not a place that I think about going.
- But when do you think about it being born?
- I think it was before McDonald's.
Yeah, I know that sounds crazy.
But man, it's medieval.
- Yeah. I mean, it can be from the 15 hundreds.
- Yeah, my official guess is 1940.
- Wow, okay.
- Yeah. I, I think it's older.
(puck sliding)
- [Link] Oh, stopped a little short there.
- [Rhett] Huh?
- Hopefully it's that old, 1920.
- Man, I always thinking at earliest 1960.
I don't know why I have absolutely nothing to go on.
Other than the fact that like,
when did people think like burgers being sold in a fast food
place was really made famous by McDonald's,
which happened in the fifties.
And then someone was like,
"We gotta mix it up. We got to make them smaller."
Which happened after the fifties,
which would be the sixties.
(puck sliding)
- Oh, he's hitting me.
- [Rhett] Oh gosh!
Oh man I've thrown the game away.
- There's a bit of a drift in our board, I think.
- There's a big left turn.
- You drifted right in front of me.
- A big left.
- I'm not complaining though.
- [Stevie] Okay. With only $700 and an idea
to sell small square hamburgers,
Walter Anderson and Billy Ingram
opened the country's first White Castle.
Recognized as the first fast food chain in America,
in Wichita, Kansas in the year 1921.
- [Rhett] Whoa, you were right!
- [Link] Yeah, I've nailed it twice!
- Well, hold on though, we're both in 1920.
- [Stevie] Here's a photo of what it looked like.
- [Link] Well that's appetizing.
- [Stevie] And you can see that the hamburgers
only cost 5 cents and they were also credited
for the first assembly line and hamburger bun
in the fast food world.
- So they were the first automators.
- Okay, so this has never happened before,
but I do agree that if you both land in it,
the person who's has more of their puck
in it gets the point.
How's that never happened in the
history of this game? (bell dings)
- So many changes, so much to discover.
- Links up two to zero.
- Oh, it's time for the Express.
- Oh, you went for the lo mein.
- How fast can a Panda run?
- I bet you that can run faster than a human.
You know what? It was like one of those things that like,
if you watch enough discovery channel, it's like,
"the Panda has been known to run 72 miles per hour."
Never would have known it unless.
I watched discovery channel.
- Panda Express.
I see you're opening your fortune cookie.
- Boy, that's good.
- I'm having some good fortune day.
Maybe the best fortune I've ever had on a shuffleboard game.
- Man, I'm really hungry.
- "You're quiet charm will attract the attention of others."
Is that their way of telling me to shut up?
- Yeah, please quiet yourself.
- Chinese food became a craze in North America
in I believe the sixties, but Panda express,
they were 30 years longer in development.
My answer is 1990.
I gonna give it a nice little bank shot,
luck don't fail me now.
(shuffleboard puck sliding)
- [Link] Oh gosh, come on.
- Okay. First of all, my fortune says,
"Your upbeat nature will attract unexpected allies."
That's bull crap.
I mean, I want to know specifically
like what's going to happen to me.
Like you will be in a wreck.
- You think having an upbeat nature will not get you allies?
You think that's bull crap?
- I want a fortune!
Not just an observation.
Okay, Link.
- [Link] Boy, I'm really enjoying your upbeat attitude.
(crew laughing)
- Now I've eaten at the Panda Express many times.
And one of the things that you'll notice when you're eating
at a Panda Express is that in every single one,
there is a plaque that talks about the very first
Panda Express opened in Southern California.
- I'm getting nervous now.
- I think it might be like Pasadena.
- [Link] You reading plaques?
- I'll read any.
You show me a plaque, I'll read it.
I believe the answer is either 1980 or 1990.
Cause I didn't read it close enough.
(Rhett and Link laughing)
- So I'm touching both.
- I'm going to go with my instinct.
I think it was in the eighties.
(puck sliding)
- [Link] Oh gosh. You're missing me.
- [Rhett] Oh gosh!
- Rhett, I know what you feel like right now.
- Is this... what happened to me, man?
- I gave you me.
It feels horrible, doesn't it?
You want something bad-
- This season Eighteen board is just not treating me right.
- And never to get it.
- Oh gosh.
I'll just eat some Panda express.
- [Stevie] Panda Express was founded by Andrew Churn
who ran the Panda Inn with his dad in Pasadena.
The first Panda Express was meant to be a quick,
express version of what they sold at Panda Inn.
And it was opened in the Glendale Galleria in 1983.
(stick crashes)
- See, listen, I throw tantrums, but not that big, right?
- I even knew the year!
- [Stevie] Do you remember seeing this photo on the plaque?
- [Rhett] Mm, Nope.
Because they didn't have that.
It was a picture of the man.
- That is such a strange photo.
- It was a picture of the man himself.
- [Link] Blurry people.
Hey, it's okay to-
- It's not okay!
(bell dings)
- It's okay to be losing...
- It is not okay!
- It's okay.
I've rode that wave a long time.
- You know what will cheer me up?
- What?
- Animal fries.
- Southern California classic, In-N-Out.
We got the burger, loaded animal fries.
- These particular animal fries.
Not cheering me up as much as I like them would to.
- They're fossilized
and a little milkshake here.
Mmmh!
That's good, okay.
- Milkshake stays good.
- [Rhett] Yes.
- In-N-Out.
They've got like a fifties theme with their t-shirts.
- If you heard it was from the fifties,
you'd be like, "Of course."
- Of course 50 has been taken.
Is it established before McDonald's?
I mean freaking White Castle's
all the way back in the twenties.
I think it's 1940.
- Wow. You could think what you want.
- I think it's older than McDonald's.
- Well, you've been right so far this day.
This day.
- They play on the old-fashioned-ness of their stuff.
- They have freaking white hats
that looked like straight out of the fifties.
Maybe even the forties.
- Maybe even the thirties.
Dang, I'm going to go between 30 and 40 then.
(puck sliding)
- [Link] Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop. Stop!
- Wow, you're on fire!
- I love this new board!
- You are on fire.
Okay, I'm actually thinking sixties.
I don't know why I'm thinking sixties.
Something about like the Southern California of it all.
- Southern California didn't come out of the ocean
until like the fifties.
- [Rhett] If I just am more in forties than you are,
and then I'm closer to sixties, that's a pretty good guess.
So I'm going to try to land on 40
that'll put me closer to 60.
(puck sliding)
- [Link] Oh nice. Alright.
You've done what you wanted.
- But if it's 40, you are in there.
So you would still get it.
- [Stevie] The first In-N-Out
was founded by Harry and Esther Snyder
and has remained a family owned company
ever since the first Baldwin Park location opened in 1948.
(Rhett screams)
- Dangit!
- Yeah!
- [Stevie] And here's a photo, you should've seen the lines.
- A lot of them are still like that now where it's
you got two drive throughs on either side.
(bell dings)
- [Stevie] It's like cookout. - It's classic.
- I'll be dagged.
- Subway.
(wrappers crinkling)
- Look at that.
Yeah, you want to expose the sub?
- [Rhett] Oh, I want to do more than that.
Take a half.
- [Both] Dink it.
- Free from tomatoes.
Hmm.
- Hmm, that's been around a while as well.
- Alright.
Am I still in the lead?
Because I should go first.
I can't remember.
- Four to zero.
I can't when at this point Link.
I'm just trying to prevent the queen sweep.
- The thing about subway is that
I would have thought it was 1980.
It just seems like something that came about
in the eighties.
But that's been taken.
It's definitely not nineties.
I think it's 1979.
I'm getting cocky now.
You shouldn't do that.
- It's not a good look for you.
- It's going to be my demise.
- Just listen, man.
You know what you have the opportunity to do?
The queen sweep which has never happened
in this game, either way.
- I don't want to hear this man.
You're messing with me.
Are you saying I should change my answer?
No, it's 19.
It's in the seventies.
Gotta nail it.
(puck sliding)
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Did it touch the seventies?
- [Rhett] It's technically touching the seventies,
- But just barely.
- Well, okay.
- Here's the deal.
I'm gonna magnanimously say
if you can call it and land on it and it's right,
you win the game.
- Are you saying if I call the seventies and I land on the
seventies, I win the whole game?
- It has to be completely contained within that section.
Touching no black border and it's right.
- I'm not going to land completely inside of the seventies.
It's not going to happen.
- You believe you can.
- I'm gonna try.
(Rhett laughing)
- Bank shot.
- I have to bank shot and then land
completely in the seventies.
Okay.
(puck sliding)
- [Link] Oh my gosh.
Oh, no!
(both screaming)
- No!
(both screaming)
- Please be seventies, please be seventies.
- Sixties!
Sixties hasn't been taken.
- Please!
- [Stevie] Subway was founded when nuclear physicist
Peter Buck gave college freshmen, Fred DeLuca,
a $1,000 loan to partner on opening a submarine sandwich
shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut in...
1965.
(both screaming)
- God dangit!
- Yes!
- Dangit!
- [Stevie] So this is a photo of the first location.
It was called Pete's Super Subs.
And then in 1968, they changed it to Subway.
- They should have kept Biffy, I liked that.
(bell dings)
- All right, Rhett.
You got to get some fries in your drawers, man.
Oh, the fast food elves...
- Stevie you could've just lied.
- Have shown down on me.
- You coulda just lied, but nope,
I gotta put fries in my pants.
- I gotta hand it to you, that bank shop was good,
but it was just erroneous.
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- You know what time it is.
- Hi, I'm Daniel.
- And I'm Christa and we're from Fort worth Texas.
- And we're about to eat In-N-Out burger for the first time.
- [Both] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- Oh, they want to see if it's better than Whataburger.
- Don't wait on those fries too long.
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