- Whose knowledge of ice cream is the most extreme?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat electronic music)
Good Mythical Morning!
- In preparation and celebration
of National Ice Cream Day,
we're gonna head over to the Shuffle Zone
in a second to compete to find out
when some of our favorite ice cream flavors were invented.
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- And now, let's see whose teeth and tongue
are legen-dairy, when it comes to ice cream history.
It's time for,
- [Both] Year Eye With 2 Straight Guys.
Ice Cream Edition.
- Welcome back to the Shuffle Zone!
- Thank you, Rhett.
In each round we're gonna be given an ice cream flavor
or some sort of ice cream concoction
that we're gonna taste, and then we're gonna shuffle
our ice cream cones down our illustrious shuffleboard
to indicate our guess of the decade
that it originated.
- The decade, and whoever's closer to the decade,
that is correct, gets the points for that round
and in the end, the loser, Link,
is going to have to have, (he chuckles) not loser, Link,
I'm telling you, not that you're gonna be the loser.
- That's right. - You're not gonna be
the loser, man, I'm not saying that.
The loser will have to have ice cold spoons
put down his pants.
- Oh, goodness, okay.
- Look forward to that!
(relaxed jazz music) (electronic beeping)
Hmm!
- Chocolate mint chip.
Or is it mint chocolate chip? - Yeah.
I know because it's one of my favorite ice cream flavors,
mint chocolate chip,
was invented in (he mumbles).
- You don't know it.
- I know that I love it.
- That's refreshing, there's nothing like mouthwash
in my ice cream.
- That is your problem, you think that mint is mouthwash.
That's what's happening in your mind.
(he chuckles) We've gotten to the bottom of it.
- You don't know what's happening in my mind.
- I'm gonna go first because I won this game last time,
so whoever goes first has a slight disadvantage.
- I'm just gonna stay over here
and keep eating ice cream, because I do love
even ice cream that I don't love.
- First of all, ice cream, period,
when was that invented?
- In general?
- In general, but it feels like mint chocolate chip,
wouldn't've been that far behind that.
'Cause it's not crazy, it's mint.
Mint's been around since before people.
- What's your answer?
- I mean, we've got 1870 on the board,
I mean, ice cream couldn't happen
until after ice.
And when did ice happen?
- Earlier than 1870.
- I'm going to say that this is like a 1900.
It's right there at the top.
- Ooh, that's not far from 1900,
you overshot it a little bit.
And you also,
typically, the red is yours.
So let's just make a note that
you're not answering for me. - Inside your head!
Getting inside your head.
Okay, so for this game, are we switching it the whole time
or just for now?
- Just for now.
- Okay, alright.
- Okay, so I know that ice cream was invented
in the Ming Dynasty.
- You making that up?
- Yeah, and I know that mint was added
at the same time that mint was added to appliances.
All those mint colored appliances in the 1950s.
- This does not seem like sound logic.
- So I'm gonna bump you back a little bit
and I'm gonna stay close to 1950.
- Oh, come on! - Ooh!
Look at that, kiddies!
- [Stevie] Okay, originally called mint royale,
mint chocolate chip ice cream
was created by English culinary student,
Marilyn Ricketts, who entered it into a competition
where the winning ice cream would be served
at Princess Anne's wedding.
She won, and the year was 1973.
- Dang, that is late! - 1973!
Well, you're closer to 1970.
- I get the point, but we're both horribly wrong.
(relaxed jazz music) (electronic beeping)
Ooh, we got a float of some sort.
You know why they call it that?
- Because the ice cream floats.
- No, it's because people,
originally, I don't know.
- Well, actually this dates back to,
the Salem Witch Trials.
They put the ice cream in the soda
to see if it floats to see if it was made by a witch.
- Okay, since I'm in the lead,
I'm gonna go first.
- Oh, that's good.
- Now, I mean, I immediately picture
two people sitting at a diner,
they're sharing a float with two straws,
it's nice and romantic, poodle skirts happening.
We're talking about the '50s, man!
I'm fixated on the '50s
until I get right. - Fixated on the '50s.
- Now, that's right at the precipice
of the pyramid here, so I've gotta go gentle.
- Don't go too gentle.
Oh! (he laughs)
- Oh, gosh, oh gosh, stop, stop, stop!
God!
I couldn't be further away from 1950!
- So gentle.
But no, you could be a little bit further away.
You could have either not gone in at all,
or maybe hit the back. - I got excited!
'Cause I knew I was right!
- Okay, I mean, I completely agree with your logic,
I was thinking the same thing.
I mean, I'm not a jerk, but I know about soda jerks,
and they were doing this in the '50s,
but when it happened in the '50s,
is it because it came from an earlier period
like the '40s?
And does it really matter at all
because your answer was so bad,
should I just aim for the middle of the pyramid
as a safety shot?
- If you wanna be a chump, sure,
but if you're confident in your answer, go for 1950.
- I think it's 1950, but there's a chance
that it could be 1940. - That you're wrong?
There's a chance, so you're saying you could be wrong?
- I'm going between 1950 and '40.
- Just say I could be wrong.
You can say it.
Oh, that's going a lot further than you think.
No it's not.
- Oh! - See?
That's what I wanted to do.
- Maybe that's, is that 1950?
- That's what I wanted you to do too.
- [Stevie] Okay.
On one especially hot day, Robert McKay Green,
a pharmacist in Philadelphia ran out of ice
for the sodas he was selling and improvised
by adding ice cream instead, and voila,
the first ice cream float was born, in 1874.
- What?! - 1874, okay.
So, unfortunately for me,
you're still closer. - I am closer to the 1870s.
- In spite of both of our efforts, you won.
- But 1870? We know nothing about ice cream!
(relaxed jazz music) (electronic beeping)
We've got more green ice cream.
- [Link] What is this?
- Is it pistachios?
- Mhmm. - It is.
- Pistachio nut. - Ooh, I love it,
I never get this.
- Call it pistachio nut ice cream?
- I just call it pistachio ice cream.
I don't ever get it. - Me neither.
- I don't ever order it. - But it's good.
- I get the samples.
- Yeah, just to try it.
- I'm not gonna get it, but after that,
I kinda feel like I need to get it.
- Ooh, this is a good one, too.
- But when did it get gotten for the first time?
This feels old.
Nuts, in general, feel old.
You don't ever hear about people putting new nuts in things.
- Did you hear about that new nut?
That just came out?
- So I think pistachio is an old nut,
and I think they figured out
they could put it in ice cream pretty early.
So I'm thinking this is, like, 1890, 1900.
Which are right next to each other at the top
of the pyramid, so I'm gonna nestle myselfsles,
right in there.
- I will point out, that- - Oh!
- That says 1980, 1890 is way down here.
- Okay, well, it was upside down for me, I screwed up.
- I mean, I just don't know.
I don't know about your logic.
- It's good though, isn't it?
Not the logic, the ice cream.
- Yeah, the ice cream's good. - I gotta get some more.
- Your logic's probably faulty.
I think it might be very early.
I'm going against my nut instinct.
So I'm gonna knock you out.
- Why you gotta knock me out, man?
- 'Cause that's how this game works.
- Well hopefully it's 1930
because that's what you knocked me to.
Stevie? Make it interesting.
- [Stevie] Even though 98% of all pistachios
in the United States come from right here in California,
this ice cream flavor was actually invented in Philadelphia
by chef James Wood-Parkinson in the 1940s.
- Oh, yeah! - Oh, oh, oh.
Well, you're getting 1940. - I nailed it.
By accident. - Yeah.
Congratulations.
(relaxed jazz music) (electronic beeping)
- I see a brown thing peeking at me, is this?
Could this be?
- Oh, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
- Mm, mm, mm.
I like to suck down the ice cream,
leave the cookie dough in my mouth,
and then just chew the cookie dough.
- But when is it from?
- Wouldn't you like to know?
- Huh? - Oh, what, what?
What's happening?
Who's supposed to go?
- You're going first 'cause you're in the lead.
(Link laughs)
- It's like you were blocking me.
It's like, oh, you think you're gonna shuffle, huh?
- That was the intimidation game.
- Okay, now.
Putting cookie dough in something is a wild idea.
Like, when wild things were happening,
like wild fonts, wild colors, wild futuristic things
that never come to pass like, '80s I'm talking about.
I think this is the most recent invention
that we're gonna deal with today.
And that is the most recent date.
1980!
- Oh, too hard.
- [Link] Oh stop, oh, it's so slick!
- 1890. - Dang it!
- Well, here's what I thought was gonna happen.
I thought that you were gonna land on 1980,
because I believe that that is the most appropriate answer.
And I thought I was gonna have to knock you out of the way,
but now I'm just gonna try to land on it.
I would've thought this was even more recent
than 1980, because I don't remember seeing it
until I was a teenager.
- We lived through the '80s.
Think on that.
- Alright, I'm just gonna try to land on 1980.
Okay.
(he laughs)
Well, I'm feeling it today, it's the ice cream!
- [Stevie] Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
was actually created after an anonymous fan suggestion
by Ben & Jerry's in one of the most tubular decades
of all time, the 1980s.
- Yeah! Woo, woo, woo!
- I gotta hand it to you, Rhett.
I was right.
- You were.
(relaxed jazz music) (electronic beeping)
Woo!
Banana,
- [Both] Split.
- [Link] You know why they call it a banana split?
- Because they split the banana.
- Oh, and this has chocolate ice cream.
That's a twist!
- No, you can get it that way,
see it's got vanilla on one side?
- Got some pineapples in there.
- Man, I love a banana split.
- Now, we are tied up.
So I think that means you're going first again
'cause we're alternating it that way.
- Well, because I won last time,
so if we have a tie, I have to go first.
- Now- - But!
Gentlemen's agreement!
- Yep, no bumping.
- No bumping, no grinding,
no touching each others' pucks in the final round.
- Alright.
- Again, if I could just let
my belly do the thinking for me,
which I do most of the time,
1950 is what comes to belly.
'Cause I see those same two people
that you were seeing earlier,
they're sitting together,
they just finished their floats,
and now they've moved on to their banana splits.
- They're splitting a banana split.
- And they're going to the hock sop, what do they call it?
- Sock hop. - Sock hop tonight.
And then somebody's getting pregnant!
- We are, once again, talking about the '50s.
- But things that are in the '50s,
could be from before the '50s.
And in fact, they could be from 1890
or whatever that was, 1870.
(he sighs) Don't think so much, Rhett, just be.
I believe that it's 1950.
I believe 1940 is not a bad guess.
So I'm gonna try to land on 1980 to split the difference.
- Okay.
Oh, that's, he went with the gusto, dang!
You got some good aim, man!
- Yeah, I got the aim today.
- What's the secret?
- You know, again, you have to let your arm do the thinking.
If your brain tries to take over your arm,
it screws you up.
- I'm going for the gusto here.
I think the answer's 1930, people.
I just feel like there was a big banana craze in the '30s.
- I don't remember that.
- Once they came to the mainland, it's like,
let's put bananas on everything!
Upside down cake.
- Split 'em, eat 'em, squeeze 'em.
- Mash 'em, put 'em in a stew. Here we go!
- Banana stew of the 1930s.
- [Link] I don't wanna hit you
'cause that would disqualify me.
- Right, no contact. - The gentleman.
- No contact.
- Come on, 1930!
Bounce back, bounce back, bounce back!
- Okay, alright.
- Now, I shoulda gone on the other side,
but I tried to bounce back to 1970.
Just didn't work for me.
Stevie?
- [Stevie] As you may recall from earlier rounds,
pharmacies used to have soda fountains and ice cream.
And the pharmacists were really competitive
with their concoctions.
David Strickler, a 23 year old apprentice
at Tassel Pharmacy in Latrobe, Pennsylvania,
out-scooped them all when he split a banana
from stem to stern, placed three scoops of ice cream
between the halves, and topped it
with marshmallow, pineapple, nuts, cherries, and syrup
and called it a banana split sundae in, 1904.
- Whoa. - 1904?
- [Rhett] Which would be the 1900s.
- So, in spite of all of our best guesses,
you backed into a win.
I'm gonna open up my pants,
and you're gonna throw...
- Where are the cold spoons?
- They're hidden in the cold drawer!
- Ah.
- Alright, y'all, I tried my best.
- We going over the underwear?
- Do you really wanna see down into that love canal?
- I'm not gonna look.
- Alright, there it is.
- Okay.
(spoons clattering)
(Link screams)
- That's in the underwear!
- Woo, how's that feel?
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