- Which fruit ice cream will beat the others to a pulp?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat electronic music)
Good Mythical Morning!
- Do you say sherbet or sherbet?
- Sherbet. - It sure doesn't matter
because soon we'll be so deep in fruit ice cream
we won't know our bits from our berts. (laughs)
- Yesterday Häagen-Dazs chocolate peanut butter
was crowned the chocolate champion,
so today's bracket is a bit of a palette cleanser
because we are finding out which fruit-based ice cream
is ripest for the picking.
- Welcome to day two of "Take It To The Scoop".
Eight fruit ice creams will face off two by two
in a brutal battle of fruits!
Only one will secure a spot in the frozen finale.
Who will come out on top and who will come out bruised?
It's time for "Take It To The Scoop"
National Ice Cream Tournament, fruit region.
- What's wrong with your voice?
- Take it to the scoop!
- Hey, you're gonna break something.
- Take it to the scoop!
- You're gonna break your fruit taster, man.
Don't do that.
- It's a special place that I have.
- Just to recap, we've got a beguilingly
big bracket board and if you look,
you'll see we got four ice cream regions.
- [Rhett] Whoa, look at that, ooh.
- [Link] Popping the top on it.
- [Rhett] So cold.
- Chocolate, fruit, vanilla, and miscellaneous.
Now, y'all voted on your top eight from each category
which we then seeded into our brackets.
And today we're determining which fruit ice cream
we'll send to the four frozen finale!
- You'll get there, you'll get there, keep practicing.
The eight seeds for the fruit region are
Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey.
- [Link] Blue Bell Banana Pudding.
- [Rhett] Dreyer's Orange Cream.
- [Link] Breyers Strawberry.
- [Rhett] Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia.
- [Link] Blue Bell Strawberries and Homemade Vanilla.
- [Rhett] Baskin-Robbins Rainbow Sherbet.
- [Link] And Häagen-Dazs Mango.
Let's eat some ice cream.
(bell dings)
- We're starting with the top ranked seed in this category
with 14,927 votes, Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey,
versus the lowest ranking seed with 7,118 votes,
Blue Bell Banana Pudding.
- Yet they both have
banana ice cream. - Banana.
Banana ice cream with fudge chunks and walnuts.
I used to go into the "C" Store at NC State,
- Oops. - Syme dorm.
Didn't realize until after I left school
that "C" standed for convenience.
- I am really having a hard time here.
- I just thought it was the grades you got on average.
I used to get a pint of this,
study chemistry and eat ice cream.
- Oh man.
- [Rhett] Now first of all--
- That's pretty good,
I don't even like bananas.
- Let me just say a couple of things about Blue Bell.
I know it's from Texas, and y'all folks from Texas,
you think everything from Texas is great.
You know, you think Whataburger is,
Whataburger is not any good, we've proven this.
I hope your ice cream is better than
your fast food restaurants.
- You better start eating this,
'cause this is not an easy decision.
Don't mess with Texas, my friend.
- [Rhett] I just knocked a bunch off, but I'm just gonna.
- This is really banana-y, and it's very good.
But this. - That's good.
I'm not from Texas, I agree that's good.
- This right here has got that,
what I would call a Nilla Wafer, kind of a.
- Well and we're from North Carolina
so we do the banana pudding thing.
(spoon tapping)
Oh man it's got like, it does have Nilla Wafers in it,
doesn't it? - It's good.
Yeah.
If you don't like bananas like me,
you still find yourself eating some banana pudding because,
it taps into some nostalgia.
But I don't wanna.
- With the chocolate and the walnuts.
- Every single bite has got this majestic mix of
oh man, the pudding. - It's really good.
- I gotta tell you we gotta go with this banana pudding man.
- I don't like to do Cinderella this early. (groans)
- I'm just saying, it's great, and it's my vote.
Bop-bop-bee-dop-bop.
- Dude, I have a history with Chunky Monkey.
Me and the chunk,
we'd just be sitting there. - It's like frozen.
- Together forever, I thought.
And then I had Blue Bell. - It really nails
a banana pudding experience, but it brings it
into the world of ice cream like no one except the Bell can.
- (groans) Let's move it on! - Yeah!
Eight seed takes the cake.
Can you believe it, what?
Try it before you dog it.
- I just don't think a lot of people know about this.
Y'all gotta have it.
- Do not mess with Texas.
- Everything from Texas is great.
(bell dings)
- Okay our two middle seeds, the four seed
with 12,134 votes, Dreyer's slash Edy's, not Edy's,
is how you pronounce it, Orange Cream,
versus our fifth seed, with 11,546 votes,
Breyers Strawberry.
- Okay this is a little bit confusing.
But basically Dreyer's and Edy's are kinda like
Carl's Jr. and Hardee's.
But Breyers and Dreyer's
got nothing to do with each other except rhyming.
- Now you got that creaminess,
you got the orange-iness.
- This is good this is like a orange creamsicle.
- 'Cause I like a orange sherbet,
but when you add the cream.
- Do you say sherbet? I woulda
- [Link] Sherbet.
- sworn you woulda said sherbet.
- I should've put money on that.
Now, this strawberry here.
My boys, Lincoln and Lando, always choose
strawberry ice cream at places.
They got the strawberry ice cream gene.
It must have been from their mama,
'cause I do not order.
- I did it as a child as well, they'll grow out of it.
- Mm.
- But, you know what?
It's creamy, it's good.
- It's mild.
- Have you never had a strawberry ice cream?
- It doesn't feel like dessert to me.
It feels like a, I don't know.
- What's it feel like, a main course?
No. Whoops.
- Like amuse-bouche.
- These are both really strong contenders.
- I know this is difficult.
- I feel like I gotta defer on this one man.
Because. - You're gonna let me decide?
- I'm kind of a, I'm a strawberry man.
But I'm a orange creamsicle fan.
- I gotta say, this strawberry ice cream
has really opened up a world for me
that I didn't know I would ever want to enter.
But it still doesn't do what this amazing
combination does over here.
I can't deny it, I'm going with the Dreyer's.
- I can't disagree, I love it.
- [Link] Do it Chase, make our orange dreams come true.
- [Rhett] Uh, okay, come on, there it is.
(bell dings)
Hey quick reminder, go over to the
Mythical Kitchen channel today
because Josh, Nicole, and Trevor
have made your snack dreams come true
with another snack smash.
They have brought together Starburst and Klondike bars.
- No they haven't.
I don't believe it. - Starburst and Klondike bars.
- All right next up is seed three with 14,023 votes.
Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia versus seed 6 with 10,773 votes,
Blue Bell's Strawberries & Homemade Vanilla.
When I wasn't sitting alone in a dark dorm room
eating Chunky Monkey, I was eating Cherry Garcia.
- I never bought this kind.
- Some roommates come home from their college classes
and go into their dorm rooms and see their roommates
with another co-ed (chuckles).
And then others find their roommates with ice cream.
- Making love to some Cherry Garcia.
- Co-ed.
- You gotta help me out.
- Okay.
- I don't want you to feed me.
Or force feed me.
But when I taste this, and when I taste that cherry
I immediately just think of cough syrup
or some sort of medicine flavoring.
The thing about this one, again I've opened up
to the strawberry world.
- And we've rung the Blue Bell one time
and we liked the sound it made.
- And this one has bigger strips of strawberry
than the last one.
- You know this is from Texas.
- And I've heard.
- And that's a good thing.
- And I love homemade vanilla ice cream.
- Wow.
- Ooh.
- I remember.
- Ooh that's good. - Wasn't there like
a news report about Blue Bell having listeria?
I think I would eat listeria if it tasted this good.
- Mm hmm.
- It wouldn't have stopped me.
- [Link] This is so deeply creamy.
- It's so good.
- Oh my gosh.
I thought the last strawberry one was good,
but this one is better than that.
- The funny thing is is I thought I was gonna.
- I hate that.
- Well hold on brother!
(audience laughs)
- Don't be a jackass.
(audience laughs)
- I hate that. - I thought I was gonna
have to take a stand for the ice cream
that I made sweet love to in college.
- [Link] Yeah.
- I didn't have any idea
that it would be this good in Texas.
- Y'all know what's happening.
- I might have to go back to Whataburger.
- Rhett's becoming a Texan, I think is what's happening.
Chase!
- [Rhett] Hook 'em, hook 'em, hook 'em!
- [Link] Move it on up buddy!
- Blue Bell moves on.
(bell dings)
- Alrighty our next matchup is number two seed
with 14,711 votes that's Baskin Robbins Rainbow Sherbet
versus our seventh seed with 10,276 votes
we counted everyone, Häagen-Dazs Mango.
- I think you said
boats - Boats.
I did, I count boats.
Now so is this different flavors in here
or is it just colors?
- You tell me, I'm gonna tell you right now.
- Ooh that's. - There's an answer.
I have an answer, I saw the top of the thing.
- That's tangy.
- Would you say it's different flavors?
- Definitely.
- It's pineapple, orange, and raspberry.
- And that pineapple was woo!
- Woo!
- That is something I wasn't ready for.
- It's a little too.
Sometimes you don't need that much tang.
- Bring on all the tang, I want it all.
Now this, by contrast, now seems kind of boring.
But there's actual mango in it.
- You know what happens when I eat that?
I realize that. - That's high quality.
- I don't like sherbet, I like ice cream.
- (laughs) Man that's good.
- (laughs) Oh!
- God! - I think I hit another chunk.
- I'm just gonna level with you.
I thought that I was gonna not like this entire bracket.
'Cause I don't like fruity ice cream.
But you know what?
I was wrong and I admit it and I apologize.
- You underestimated just how fruity you are.
- This ice cream is so creamy
and the mango is so actual mango.
- I'm firmly a mango man.
- But this is so tangy.
- I'm firmly a mango man.
- That I am going to go with the rainbow.
- I'm going with the mango, oh!
That almost rhymes and that means.
- Tie breaker time. - Tie breaker!
- [Announcer] Introducing, the founder of cuddle sanctuary.
The special operative of snuggle.
The head honcho of hugging.
It's Cuddle Queen Jean Franzblau!
(audience claps and cheers)
- [Link] Okay Jean, come on over here.
- [Jean] Hello!
- I mean you've got some energy today.
- I am excited to be back, I miss you.
- We miss you too!
- I miss you too! - Well welcome back.
- We see Jean like once a year.
First time we met Jean she taught us how to cuddle.
- That's right.
- And there were bugs involved.
And now we're back
together. - We're back!
- Now here are your fresh spoons.
- Okay thank you for that.
- It probably seemed like I love this one's
gonna vote for which Rhett did.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- But I ended up voting for the sherbet because
this mango ice cream, as good as it is,
just doesn't do it for me.
- You know what, Jean, I'm not gonna try to sell it.
I just want you to enjoy it.
- I'm gonna be happy either way.
(laughs)
- And just, you know. - Is that right?
Now that.
- Just be honest.
- You got that tang.
- Artificial, is the word that comes to mind.
- Oh, wow, okay, that was quick.
- [Link] Artificial.
- [Rhett] Not even really ice cream.
(moans)
(audience laughs)
- It is so rare that I get to have dairy.
(Rhett laughs)
- 'Cause I'm lactose intolerant.
(gasps)
- Well have more, have some more!
- How intolerant are you?
- (laughs) We'll find out later.
(audience laughs)
- All right we need a final answer
which I think I know what it is.
In five, four,
- [Audience and Link] Three, two, one.
- Mango!
- Mango, mango!
- Hey I'm not gonna argue with that.
- That's a good ice cream.
- Chase, the mango moves on because I guess
the artificiality of the sherbet.
I think you're misinterpreting tang for artificialness.
- How does one create tang?
(bell dings)
- All right now the Cinderella story.
Number eight seed Blue Bell Banana Puddin'
versus number four seed Dreyer's Orange Cream.
This is magic.
- Man if you're gonna have any type of gathering.
- Oh!
- You wanna have that Banana Puddin'.
And then to have it in this form?
It is the most accurate ice creamification
of another dessert I've ever experienced.
- It is the essence of banana puddin'.
- And this right here.
- It's good.
- What this makes me think about
is orange push-ups that I would get at my nanny's house.
- Yes.
As good as it is, and I do recommend it,
this is just on another level.
- Yes.
- We're sending the Blue Bell ring-a-ling-ding-dong.
We're sending along.
Ring the bell with the ding-a-ling.
(laughs)
- [Link] Ding ding.
That's beautiful, thank you.
(bell dings)
- All right we got a number six seed
Blue Bell Strawberries & Homemade Vanilla
up against our seventh seed Häagen-Dazs Mango,
which is the most expensive one in this category.
I think this is gonna be difficile.
- [Rhett] Still creamy, still strawberry.
- The thing about the strawberry,
the way that the strawberries are sliced,
it's like they're, it's like a turd of strawberry.
- That helps me to picture it.
- As opposed to like a chunk that you have to chew.
Now these are chunks, which I would prefer
a turd-shaped mango.
- I think that ultimately, for me,
the Strawberries & Homemade Vanilla
is just kind of on a different level.
- I think that the strawberries & cream
really, it goes well together.
- It's that homemade vanilla.
You can tell that it's not from a factory.
You can tell they went to grandma's house
and they said, "Grandma, you got more homemade vanilla?"
And she said, "Hold on a second."
- The mango and cream is still magical,
but not quite as magical than the ubiquitous
strawberry flavor that needs to move on.
- All right, we're ringing the bell again
it's gonna be an all Blue Bell final two!
- [Link] Push it!
There you go.
- [Rhett] Hey ring a fake bell.
Ding ding ding!
- [Link] There you go.
(bell dings)
- Final matchup, it's all Blue Bell.
It's low seeds, the eight seed versus the six seed.
We've got Banana Puddin' versus
Strawberries & Homemade Vaniila.
- Did I tell you that the strawberries were shaved.
- Shaved like turds.
- Look at that, I mean it's a sliver of a strawberry.
It's so thoughtful.
- Okay listen, I take back everything
I've ever said about Texas, we're moving there.
The whole company's going there.
It's great, this is the best strawberry ice cream
I think you can make, and it's really good.
- Yeah.
- But this is a revelation.
- I don't even like bananas!
- (laughs) Think about that for a second.
I mean this does have shaved turd strawberries in it
which gives it an A plus, but this is an A plus plus.
Blue Bell Banana Puddin' goes to the frozen finale!
- [Link] Yes!
- [Rhett] Chase gettin' that air!
- All right are you happy?
I'm happy.
- I am, yes (laughs).
- I wanna thank Cuddle Queen Jean
for comin' in today.
- Yes, and make sure to come back tomorrow
when the top eight vanilla-based ice creams compete.
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- Blue Bell!
You know what time it is.
- I'm Paul McCreer from Washington
and it's time to spin the wheel of mythicality.
- Click the top link to watch us and our cuddle expert
reenact the cuddle scene from "Good Mythical More".
- And to find out where the wheel's going.
- Come on get those in the freezer, figure it out!
- Why do we get to grab them?
- Get out! Trevor!
- Not me, nose goes! (laughs)
- That's great, put it in the freezer.
- Oh give me (laughs).
- [Girl] Oh my gosh.
- Go go go go go. - Ahh! (laughs)