- Today begins the ice cream tournament of the ages.
- Let's talk about that.
(groovy music)
Good mythical morning.
- All around the country,
there's an event that begins in the month
between February and April
where college students play a game with an orange ball
in elimination style tournament.
From our understanding,
it's an absolute month of mayhem.
- And while this very litigious organization
has their fun,
we've created our own exciting
and non-copyright-infringing
elimination style tournament
that has absolutely nothing to do with orange balls
but instead ice cream.
- Yeah, last March,
we ate 32 of the most popular cereals
and crowned Cinnamon Toast Crunch
as the overall cereal champion
and this year,
we're gonna crown the queen of the cream.
- Welcome to day one of an ice cream competition
that will span five episodes of Good Mythical Morning.
In the end, only one ice cream will remain standing.
It's time for Take it to the Scoop,
National Ice Cream Tournament Chocolate Region.
Behold our hugely humongous
deliciously delectable ice cream bracket board,
AKA the brrracket.
- Oh yeah, you lift the lid
and the flavor smoke comes out of the corner.
As you can see,
each of the four quadrants or regions,
represents a category of store bought ice cream.
We've got chocolate,
we've got vanilla,
we've got fruit
and we've got miscellaneous.
- And we're beginning with 32 competitors
which we already narrowed down from 64 with your help.
We did that by compiling a list
of the top 16 ice creams in each category
based on sales stats, online sentiment
and mythical crew surveys
and then 45,000 of you,
more than 45,000 of you voted via Facebook and Twitter
on your favorites within each category
and that brought us to eight ice creams per category.
- And today, we're gonna go through the chocolatey region.
Now, just to clarify,
chocolate ice cream qualifies
even if it has other ingredients
as long as the base is chocolate ice cream.
Let's meet our top eight seeds.
- [Rhett] We've got Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie.
- [Link] Breyer's Chocolate.
- [Rhett] Haagen Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter.
- [Link] Baskin Robbins Peanut Butter and Chocolate.
- [Rhett] Haagen Dazs Chocolate.
- [Link] Blue Bunny Super Fudge Brownie.
- [Rhett] Ben & Jerry's Phish Food.
- [Link] And Blue Bell Rocky Road.
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- Okay, we're starting
with the top ranked seed in this category
with 23,997 votes,
Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie
versus the lowest ranking seed
with 7,974 votes Breyer's Chocolate.
- That is a lot of votes.
Now, for this and every category
and every matchup,
we're gonna be assessing taste, mouth feel,
distribution of ingredients,
if there are any,
and overall joy of the bite.
Now before we get into joying this bite,
I just want to acknowledge the comments
of our 1,700th episode
where we ate all of the Ben & Jerry's pints
and rated them,
people said that I was a little inconsistent
and overcritical with my scores.
- But that was not a surprise to anybody.
- I acknowledge that.
- And that doesn't matter anymore
because we're doing the tournament format
which completely eliminates that problem.
- Okay, Breyer's is a classic brand.
You feel like you can count on them
to give you a high quality joy bite.
Let's dink it and sink it at the top here.
Ooh, and I love how it's melted just a little bit.
- It's a classic chocolate flavor.
This is chocolate fudge brownie.
So it's got chocolate and fudge brownies,
not chocolate, fudge and brownies,
but chocolate and fudge brownies,
there's a difference.
- All right.
Mmm. - Ooh.
- And there's chunks of brownie, big.
Look at that,
that's a big chunk of brownie.
I'm sorry to pull that out of my mouth
but I just had to.
- This is the first flavor
that we tested in our Ben & Jerry's thing
and I gave it an 81,
you gave it a 72
and I think it was just because it was the first one,
we didn't know what we were doing
but it definitely, this is a good solid ice cream
if you just want chocolate.
- Yeah but when you want that extra chewy
chocolate-packed goodness,
this has to move on.
- This is easy.
Chocolate fudge brownie moves on.
- Oh yeah.
Chase.
Oh, you're on a step ladder.
- I am on a step ladder. - We can see
further up your shirt from that angle.
- You look super athletic.
- That was an athletic move.
- Hey.
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- Okay, now we've got a peanut butting of the heads
with our two middle seeds.
The fourth seed with 9,588 votes,
Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter
versus our fifth seed with 9,414 votes
Baskin-Robbins Peanut Butter and Chocolate.
- Now, I think we're gonna like these.
- 'Cause we love peanut butter in our ice cream.
- And my mama would get the Haagen-Dazs
'cause she thought it sounded fancy.
It turns out Haagen-Dazs
doesn't mean anything.
It's just made up.
- Even the peanut butter distribution looks similar.
- Oh my gosh.
Look, I got a peanut butter gold mine.
- [Link] Oh you did?
- I'm not gonna eat all that
but I'm going in for this.
- Mmm mmm.
- Did you get a peanut butter bite?
- I got a lot of ribbons.
- [Rhett] That's good.
- The peanut butter comes through so aggressive.
- Ooh.
I'm just peeling it right off the top.
It's like a strip mine.
- I'mma get a very,
I thought you were gonna say like a stripper.
- Wow, these are strikingly similar.
- Whoa now though,
the chocolate in this comes through more.
- These are both very, very solid
but in my mind,
the smoothness of the chocolate from Baskin-Robbins
and also the chocolateyness of it is better.
- Seriously?
- You were gonna say that the Haagen-Dazs--
- The peanut butter is stronger here
and the chocolate, give it another taste.
- Hold on, you know what I totally forgot about,
I forgot about the peanut butter nugget.
I got the giant peanut butter nugget out of this one.
- And let me tell you,
the chocolate is markedly better from the Haagen-Dazs, man.
There's no denying that.
- That's smooth, though.
- It's smoother but there's a lot of air.
- I'm totally willing to be swayed.
- You're getting the consistency like air.
- I'm about to agree with you.
If you keep talking,
I'm gonna go the other way.
- I just want you to be right.
- The size and the chunkiness of the peanut butter
I think makes it
'cause this is chocolate peanut butter.
So I'm gonna go with the Haagen-Dazs as well.
Sending it through.
- Chase, do that before Rhett changes his mind
to just teach me lesson.
Oh my gosh.
Chases' butt just knocked down four other containers.
- Yeah, but I look good.
- How did you get so many? - Look at his face.
(laughing)
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- Remember, every Saturday,
we drop a new two man vlog
over on the Rhett and Link channel.
So go over there, check it out
and subscribe while you're there.
- Also, follow us on Instagram @mythical.
Every day, this week,
the crew's gonna be holding their own tournament, yeah,
to determine the best ice cream topping.
I thought they would cheer but--
- Yeah!
- They're working.
- Okay, next up,
we got seed three with 10,910 votes, Haagen-Dazs Chocolate
versus seed six with 9,169 votes
Blue Bunny Super Fudge Brownie.
- So let's just dig into this Haagen-Dazs chocolate.
- So this is just like the Haagen-Dazs chocolate
without the peanut butter.
- It's a good chocolate. - It's a good chocolate.
- It's a real good chocolate. - It's a good chocolate.
I'm not gonna argue with that.
- Now, we're in a similar scenario as round one here
where now is this as good of a chocolate
plus fudge brownie?
The fudge pieces are kind of hard to find.
- I like things to be a little bit complex.
So when you add brownies to regular chocolate,
I'm gonna go for it every time.
- I hate knocking that Haagen-Dazs off
'cause it's a really good chocolate.
This Blue Bunny's gotta move forward.
- The Blue Bunny jumps ahead.
- [Link] Watch yourself, Chase.
- [Rhett] Do it like a bunny, Chase.
- Chase doesn't know how to be a bunny.
He's never done that.
- I just made him jump on a ladder.
I'm sorry for that.
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- Our next matchup
is number two seed with 11,050 votes,
Ben & Jerry's Phish Food
versus our seventh seed with 7,990 votes
Blue Bell Rocky Road.
Now both of these have marshmallow
but the phish food also has phish-shaped chocolate chunks
and caramel.
- You gave this a 21 during our Ben & Jerry's taste test.
I just want you to know.
- If you get a caramel pocket,
that's all you're tasting.
- Rocky road was my favorite ice cream flavor
growing up before I was introduced to other roads.
- And it's got some almonds in there of course.
- It's nice.
I like going down that road.
- This is this
minus the nuts plus the chocolate and the caramel.
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
- I don't understand but I agree.
Phish food moves along.
Do it like a fish fan.
(laughing)
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All right, next up,
we've got the number one seed Chocolate Fudge Brownie
versus the number four seed
Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter.
- Now when I eat ice cream,
I like to smoosh it down.
- Well this is we're eating ice cream right now.
That's the thing, we're both eating ice cream.
- You can find some goodness
that wants to pop out that way.
Mmm.
I eat the ice cream
and then I get the fudge. - Please, no moaning.
This is the overall number one seed?
I get it.
- But this has peanut butter
and it is the most expensive ice cream
that we're eating today.
- I've got to find those peanut butter nuggets.
- Mmm, I just love peanut butter.
- You ever been gold mining?
- I bought a sack of rocks at the state fair one time
and then ran some water over 'em.
- Yeah, isn't this just like that?
- Exactly.
- This is like getting a sack of rocks
at the state fair and running water over it.
- This is so good
but it's chocolate on chocolate.
It's like a joke on a joke.
We're comedians.
- It's a hat on a hat?
- It's a hat on a hat.
- I think that this is super solid.
- This is just a pairing like no other,
like two guys eating ice cream,
that's what this is like.
- There's something about the fudge brownie
that isn't what it could be
when stacked up against peanut butter.
And it is smooth, it's growing on me.
- You want to go back in there.
Chase, move the peanut butter--
- Hold on, are you sure
about this? - Yes!
This is the overall number one seed.
We're gonna piss everybody off.
- But we love peanut butter.
It's just a magical complexion.
- I'm sorry, we're gonna have to do it.
We're moving it along.
- [Link] All right, yes, and I'm not gonna apologize.
- I am gonna apologize just a little bit
so don't hate us.
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- Now we got the sixth seed Blue Bunny Super Fudge Brownie
versus the two seed Ben & Jerry's Phish Food.
All right, let's go into this,
I touched your finger.
- Yeah, I'll just grab it for you.
- That's a good ice cream.
- It is good. - Chocolate on chocolate
but still you can't-- - I think I might like
the fudge brownie in this
better than the fudge brownie in Ben & Jerry's
but that's sacrilegious to say, I'm sorry.
- I do not.
- You don't like the fudge brownie?
- It's smaller and it's a little harder to find.
But that's not what we're judging.
- [Rhett] I'm just talking about the flavor.
- We're judging it with the phish food, my friend.
There's a lot of marshmallow, lot of caramel.
I mean the chocolate is shaped like a fish, man.
That's workmanship.
- As much as I like the taste,
I can't eat it without picturing a phish concert.
Like I just picture a bunch of sweaty hippies
and it's just,
it's not appetizing.
You know what I'm saying?
I kind of want to get on the outskirts of that.
- I cannot deny the variety here versus that
but that just means we need a tiebreaker.
- Okay, here we go.
Please welcome the super star of fixing cars,
he puts the swish swish in ship ship
and he's no oxygenarian.
It's Goorgen Zargarian.
- Woo, there he is, check it, check it, check it.
Hey Goorgen, come on over.
Yeah, right here in the middle, man.
- Hey Goorgen. - Always glad
to have you back. - How are ya?
- Nice to meet you. - Hey man.
Sit down right in there.
Now we had you waiting in the wings.
Okay yeah, there you go.
- I'm big man, I'm big man.
- He just said I'm a big man.
He's stealing your taglines.
- Hey, there could be two big men around here.
Definitely not three.
- Important I am between two legends
for the Good Mythical Morning.
- No, you're the legend.
- Okay, you're gonna tell us
which one of these you prefer.
- [Goorgen] Maybe this one is okay.
I check it, yeah?
- Yeah, check it.
If you haven't seen the commercial
that we made with Goorgen, you should.
- What do you think about that one?
- It's good, it's good.
- You got the chocolate, you got the fudge.
Now try this spoon
and the phish food.
So you got some--
- [Goorgen] It's free, right?
- [Rhett] It's definitely free.
- We're not gonna charge you for it.
So that's got some chocolate, some marshmallow.
- Very hard to say which one is better.
Both is perfect.
- [Link] Both is perfect but
- Which one tastes like sweaty hippies?
- In five, four, three, two, one.
Which one do you choose Goorgen?
- This one.
- That's right, Goorgen.
- The Blue Bunny Super Fudge Brownie
moves forward, Chase?
- The blue bunny sneaks under the fence once again.
- So you don't like marshmallow?
- I feel something inside, it was so delicious.
- [Link] Well fudge, fudge.
- [Rhett] There's delicious fudge in there.
- You said free,
I can eat everything.
- [Rhett] You know what,
you can take it with you.
- You can hang out back.
(laughing)
Take that with you.
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- All right, our final matchup
is an unexpected battle of the middle seeds.
We've got the Blue Bunny Super Fudge Brownie
in the sixth seed
and the fourth seed, Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter.
- Goorgen couldn't take his eyes off this stuff.
- I saw it in his eyes
as soon as he ate it.
- I mean there's nothing to complain about
when it's on its own.
I haven't had a big nugget yet.
I don't want--
- [Rhett] You know what, just take that.
- Okay.
Mmm, mmm.
- You gotta know how to get a chunk, man.
- That's like a scoop of peanut butter in your mouth.
- Y'all know what's gonna happen right here.
I mean I told you I like this fudge brownie
better than the other fudge brownie
and it's true, I do but---
- I don't.
- It's no competition for the Haagen-Dazs Peanut Butter.
But either way, it's going to the frozen finale.
- [Link] Chase, oh he got it.
- [Rhett] Look at the athleticism.
- [Link] And he slammed it, yes.
- [Rhett] That was the best part of this whole episode.
- I agree.
- Well, the Goorgen part was pretty awesome, too.
- Yeah, it was.
- Be sure to come back tomorrow
because we're gonna be determining the winner
form the fruity ice creams.
- Yes, and thanks to Goorgen
for being a part of this
and thank you for subscribing
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- No, I can see.
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