- Do we know our McDonald's McHistory?
- Let's talk about that.
(cheerful music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- And Good Mythical Morning to you, Link.
- And Good Mythical Morning to you, Rhett.
- We should do that more often.
- Well let's do it every single episode.
- No.
Today we're gonna be traversing through 100 years
of historic menu items at McDonald's.
Now technically, you know this,
because we played a game about McDonald's before,
McDonald's brothers started their burger joint in 1940,
in nearby San Bernardino, shout out to the big Dino.
So it's not exactly 100 years, more like 80,
but since 2020 feels like it adds 1000 years
to my life every week,
we're gonna squint our eyes and count it.
- That means we'll be playing a game
that I'm actually good at.
It's time for The Shuffleboard Game, McDonald's edition.
- Welcome to The Shuffleboard Game Zone.
- Each round we're gonna taste a McDonald's food item,
and then we're gonna guess which decade
it was first introduced in
by scooting our Ronald McDonald-ized heads
that are versions of us, down to hopefully,
the decade we want it to land on, at that end of the board.
- Of course, whoever gets closest to the correct decade
wins that particular round,
and the winner at the end gets to have
a personalized McDonald's ball pit in Good Mythical More,
what is that?
(Link mutters gibberish)
- McNuggets!
- For breakfast.
- The only chicken with a handle.
And only some of 'em have a handle.
- Yeah, because only certain parts of chickens have handles.
It's the part they cut out, I dropped my nugget,
'cause it didn't have a handle.
- A chicken nugget, much like everything McDonald's,
is unlike any comparable thing at any other place.
- Right, (indistinct) so great.
Well, Link, since you won last time,
and by the way, the last three times we've played this game.
- How's that even possible?
- You're dominating this game. You have to go first.
- Wow, you just said that I'm dominating. That's right.
That's right.
- Act like you've been there before.
In the official lexicon of Good Mythical Morning,
if you win a game three times in a row,
you are officially dominating.
- Well then I'm dominating.
- You're dominating.
- Okay, I think this is kind of early, right?
Yeah, definitely 1950, 1960 zone.
I'm going for 1950.
I don't know about the speed of the board this morning,
so I gotta go easy.
Yeah! All right! - Look at that.
Right on 1950, wow!
I feel differently about this.
And this might, I don't know,
this might seem crazy,
I think I remember nuggets being introduced in my lifetime.
Is this like a dream?
- I think you start to believe dreams as reality
when you're being dominated.
- I believe, I remember like a commercial about
"Nuggets are new!"
- Just shuffle.
- [Rhett] I think it's 80, man.
- [Link] Bearded Ronald McDonald has overshot 80,
you're in the year 2000.
- [Rhett] Well that's not right.
- [Stevie] Okay, the recipe for Chicken McNuggets
was created my McDonald's very first executive chef,
Rene Arend, and they were released nationwide in 1983.
- Dang, son!
- Yeah, I knew I remembered that commercial
when I was a boy!
- And you're not on it, but you are closer, so,
you got the point.
- Wow, my memory served me right for once!
Filet-O-Fish.
- Remember that time we were talking about Filet-O-Fish,
and I told you I had never had one,
and then we immediately got in the car
and went and got one?
- Were you happy?
- No, but it does have tartar sauce.
I thought it had two slices of cheese.
There's cheese on it,
but I thought it was a cheese on the top and the bottom.
- The thing that's memorable about this,
is the cheese is a half slice.
That's the thing to remember.
They don't do a full slice of cheese,
they do a half slice of cheese.
- It tastes good because it doesn't taste like fish at all.
- See, it says it's Alaskan pollock.
I know that they've gone through different types of fish
throughout the years.
- Well you're going first.
- And they've done that,
they've changed the fish throughout the years because,
the fish that they've put in there have gotten endangered.
They keep going through so many fish.
- Are you saying that McDonald's makes fish extinct?
- Any time McDonald's makes a decision
about a particular source,
there's a lot of 'em that have to be made,
because so many people eat there.
Here's another thing I know, and again,
I think this is coming from the GMM knowledge bank.
They introduced the Filet-O-Fish for Lent,
because Catholic folk, they couldn't have meat on Fridays.
But they could have fish on Fridays.
Friday fish time.
It seems like something they would've done
kinda in the mid-life, like the 60s.
I'm gonna kinda just sorta try to land in the cross-hatch
in the middle there, play a little bit of defensive thing.
- Ooh, you were really going with some heat.
I think you're right.
Christie's granddad would always pick her up from school,
go to McDonald's, and he'd get a Filet-O-Fish every day.
I think he grew up on that.
I am going for 1970,
which means Imma give you a nice bumpalupagus
out of that zone.
- [Rhett] The old bumpalupagus.
- [Link] Oh, Ronald McDonald's getting a little intimate.
- There's absolutely no way that I did not lose this round.
- [Stevie] Okay, Filet-O-Fish was introduced nationwide
at the same time as the discontinued Hula Burger
in an attempt to get Catholics
to eat at the restaurant during Lent in...
1963.
- Oh, wow, all the way, okay,
so you're definitely closer to 1960.
- It wasn't pretty, though.
- I wanna remind you
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is the Rhett and Link bobble heads.
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- You know you want to bobble our heads.
Are these just shakes or are these McFlurries?
- [Stevie] Those are milkshakes.
- Okay.
Tastes horrible.
- Something wrong with it, right?
- What'd y'all taint this with?
- [Stevie] It doesn't look great.
But pretend that it's just the usual,
delicious taste of a McDonald's milkshake.
Everything's fine.
- There's blood in it.
- Yeah, y'all put blood in these!
- [Stevie] The old blood milkshake joke.
- I keep waiting for someone to say "Ha!"
But nothing.
- [Stevie] No.
- Okay.
- Link, we're tied right now, but because you won last time,
you go first again.
- Okay. Whenever burgers are found, shakes are close by.
- Yeah, like you open the gates with burgers and shakes.
It almost rhymes.
- A burger's not truly a burger
unless you have the ability to order a shake with it.
1940.
- Don't know if I agree with that,
but I agree with your logic.
- [Link] Oh, that's going too far.
Nope, stop, stop, stop! Okay.
- All right, Link, I believe your logic is sound.
But, maybe they were like "Let's wait a little bit,
to the 50s," but no longer than the 50s,
'cause 50s was, they call that the decade of the milkshake.
- Yeah, all 10 years.
- So I've got to Ronald McKnock you out.
I gotta make sure that I move you,
and stay closer to the correct answer.
- [Link] Good gosh!
- [Rhett] All right, sorry about that.
Hope I didn't disfigure you.
- [Link] Look like I'm being punished.
- [Stevie] When the McDonald's brothers
first introduced their menu,
it consisted of only hamburgers, cheeseburgers,
potato chips, coffee, soft drinks, and apple pie.
- [Both] Oh.
- [Stevie] However, the potato chips and pie
were swapped out for French fries and milkshakes in...
1949.
- Oh, still in the 40s. - 1949, it happened.
- So you got it, courtesy of the bump.
- Yeah, the bump is helpful.
- Happy time with the Happy Meal.
Got the little fries.
- [Rhett] I got the burger one.
- [Link] I got the nugget one.
- Look at that, it's just like a kid would order.
- So...
- I'm in the lead so I'm going first again.
- You're going first.
Now, here's something Rhett and I were just talking about
in between rounds,
we realized that because we updated the board
to be chronologically oriented,
it actually gives a severe advantage
to bump the other person.
So, I think, I think we both think, right?
That we should limit one bump per person per entire game.
- And you cannot bump on the last round.
- So, we've already both used our bumps.
- So there's no more bumps.
Typically on this show, called Good Mythical Morning,
when someone is dominating a game,
like you're dominating this game so hard,
the other guy- - Well I'm losing right now.
- Gets a cheat, and so-
- You talking about like in darts?
- Yeah, the Mythical crew has been so kind to us
to design a cheat code for me,
because you've been dominating me.
Chase!
- But I... was I consulted? Is this an email I didn't read?
What is this?
- Well I believe it's a very long shuffle stick.
Because you know, it can be no fun
when you just can't do what you want.
Now here's the thing,
I don't know what I'm gonna guess,
but I'll tell you right now,
I'm gonna land where I guess.
(laughs)
- I don't think the answer's that obvious, Mr. Long Pole.
- I don't think it's that obvious.
So this has got to be before the 80s,
'cause I do remember this as a kid being there
from the very beginning,
and we've already done the 80s,
so that pushes it to the 70s.
But it could be the 50s, because we haven't guessed the 50s.
So it's either the 50s, or the 70s.
Don't know if I can pull this off, but let's just see.
Whoahoho, whoa, hey, hey.
- Whoa, whoa, hold on.
You can't double touch!
- Yeah you can.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get on 1950,
but I'm gonna get a little daylight in 1970.
Maybe I should do that and block you. Yeah.
- You know what? I'm just gonna beat you at your own game.
- Hold on, gimme a second, I gotta get my long pole.
Sorry.
This one's tight.
Thank you.
- Get out of here.
Okay.
- You gonna try to sneak around me?
- I cannot bump you off of 50.
So my only hope is that you're wrong,
and that somehow I can get closer to 70.
All right, here we go.
That's a little closer to 70.
- Yeah, I don't even have to measure it,
you got closer to 70, if it's 70, you take the round.
- I am barely closer to 70. - [Stevie] The Happy Meal idea
originated from Yolanda Fernandez de Cofino,
who worked with her husband operating McDonald's restaurants
in Guatemala, where she created her own version
of a kid-friendly Mickey D's meal.
The Ronald Menu was then developed into the Happy Meal,
and released nationwide in...
1979.
(Rhett roars)
- You and your long stick.
Take a long walk off a short pier.
- Oh, I shoulda just gotten it closer to 70, I was stupid!
- I'm just gonna place this exactly.
- Oh, baby.
- Sausage and egg McGriddles.
And I'm not talking about plural because there's two,
each one is plural.
And this is my weakness at McDonald's.
- [Rhett] And this feels fresh.
- So stacked. So greasy.
- It's the best thing by far,
that they have at McDonald's.
Don't you think?
- Yeah, man. Remember that time we went surfing?
And then we were gonna go get a nice fancy cup of coffee
and then we saw a McDonald's across the street
and we got this instead?
Good times.
- No regrets.
- Also that was like three weeks ago, so,
not hard to remember.
This is a modern era McDonald's situation.
- [Rhett] How modern?
- I think I remember eating one of these in high school.
But did I?
Man, I can't remember.
Man, I'm trying to remember,
first time I had one of these, was it in college?
Some of my college was in the 90s.
- [Rhett] Most of your college was in the 90s.
- Yeah, it was.
I'm going for the 90s.
Between 90 and 2000.
Oh no! No! What happened?
- You didn't hit it hard enough.
I believe it's how I would assess that.
Well, I thought that this was gonna be a close one.
- What's your answer, 90 or 2000?
- I remember it from the early 2000s,
but I'm not like on top of the McDonald's release game,
so I feel like it had to be like 98.
- I don't know, man, you're making me think it's 2000.
Being honest.
- I definitely didn't eat one before 2000.
- And you know right when it came out,
you would've eaten one.
- [Rhett] I gotta get past you, basically.
I'm going on the 90 side
just because there's more room on that side.
- Aggressive. Oh, that's accurate.
- [Stevie] While McDonald's first began offering
their breakfast options, including the McMuffin,
in the 1970s, the McGriddle's pancake buns
were a food science marvel developed and introduced in
2003.
- [Rhett] Oh, 2003, wow, okay.
- Congratulations, Rhett.
You get your very own personalized ball pit,
and I've gotta find a way to rebuild my self-worth and
remember the days of domination.
- Yeah. It was good while it lasted.
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- You know what time it is.
- I'm Nathan from Oklahoma, and I'm in Veneta today,
eating at Clinton's, and I just got calf fries to go.
Mm. And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- That must be fried catfish.
- It sounds good.
- Oklahoma, that makes sense.
- Yeah, I like that. You got some catfish nuggets.
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