- Today we get popping.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning.
- The Oscars are this Sunday,
and there's no better way to take in
all that Hollywood glamor
that by shoveling fistfuls of popcorn into
your mouth and then spending the next
six hours trying to get that one stupid
piece outta your teeth until your gums
are bleeding but when it does come out,
whoo, what a relief.
- Yeah, the Oscars, notoriously, run long,
so you may actually need a couple bags
of popcorn but which bag should you have?
Lucky for you we're ranking them today
to find the best it's time for,
is Orville Redenbacher better than Pop Secret?
We'll choose the best popcorn and the rest, you can keep it.
- We're hitting that popcorn button on the
microwave and trying the classic butter
flavor of six different kinds of microwave popcorn,
that's Orville Redenbachers, Skinny Pop,
Act Two, Pop Secret, Jolly Time and Newman's Own.
- And then we're gonna rank each microwave
popcorn on a scale of one to six as follows.
"Horrible Redenbacher", "Ya Burnt!",
"Meh-ttle Corn", "Could Be Butter",
"It Makes Me Corn-y Baby" and "It's Poppin'".
- All right, I'm hungry.
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Our first bag of popcorn comes all
the way from Brazil, Indiana.
Where Orville Redenbacher was born in 1907,
let's try this popcorn made by that
sweet man with the glasses.
- Now was the guy in the commercials,
was it really him or was it an actor?
- I don't know, do you guys?
What I do know is that Orville Redenbacher--
- Orville who?
- Redenbacher.
- Redenbacher?
- He died in a jacuzzi in 1995.
- Man, I wish I'd died in a jacuzzi in 1995.
- Don't say that.
- I mean, just like, that's how I wanna die,
not necessarily 1995.
- Are you a popcorn aficionado?
- Yeah.
- Okay well--
- Sign me up.
- Well, what are you feeling?
- It's very crispy and it has a good solid taste,
I just like popcorn though, so, I don't--
I mean, I think this is great,
there's nothing to complain about.
You wanna put it in number three
or number two, just for starters, "It Could Be Butter".
- At 62 cent a bag, seems like pretty good deal.
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- All right, next up, we got Skinny Pop,
microwavable popcorn, let's get the skinny on this popcorn.
- Now, this is the most expensive
popcorn, dollar 16 per bag.
- Whoa.
- It tastes totally different than the Redenbacher.
- There's something sweet, almost.
- It's sweeter, it's considered skinny because it has
no artificial flavors or preservatives,
no GMO, zero trans fat, good source of fiber.
- Well that's weird because corn, by definition, is a GMO.
- I'm staying out of this one.
- I mean, come on y'all with the GMO stuff,
it means nothing, corn is a GMO, you had to make corn from
something else just to have corn,
corn is a genetically modified organism.
- But they're calling it skinny as if it's, like,
lower calorie or something, that's not necessarily true.
Zero trans fat.
- I do not like this and I'm a popcorn man,
as we've established.
- It's saltier and sweeter but not as buttery.
- It's not even close to the Redenbacher,
not even close, man.
- 'Cause this is buttery.
- And he died in a jacuzzi.
Yeah, he gets points for that, right.
- The sweetness is a little weird,
so yeah, I'll go lower. I'd say, put it
in "Ya Burnt!", even though it's not burnt, it's just bad.
- It's not burnt, it's just oddly sweet.
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Now we get to the cheapest popcorn we're
gonna be tasting today at 33 cents a bag,
it's Act Two, butter popcorn.
- Now, you may not remember 'cause I don't,
Act One was a popcorn that came out in 1981
and it had to be stored in the fridge
because it had real butter on it but
then in '84, the year we met,
they came out with Act Two and said,
real butter, schmutter.
- So Act One doesn't exist anymore?
- I don't think so.
- I remember when I was a kid,
I would go to my nanny's house
and they had, I think this was a big thing in the 70s,
you get a popcorn popper but hers was
shaped like a covered wagon.
- Jiffy Pop.
- And you would put the kernels in there
and it would, the covered wagon jump up and down.
- My mom had the same thing. - Yeah.
- It was a glass covered wagon.
- Yes.
- Did y'all have that?
- And I just remembered that.
- A covered wagon thing
and there was oil in the bottom part.
We got to get hold of one of them covered wagons.
- Yeah we gotta get a covered wagon popper, y'all.
- This tastes cheap. - For parties.
- This tastes cheap and old.
- Yeah.
- It might be as bad as Skinny Pop.
- I think it's worse, I mean,
the Skinny Pop, to me,
I don't know, something about it.
I'm still on this little fence here,
where I'm like, oh, I don't know if I like the sweetness.
But this Act Two crap, I mean,
yeah, it's the best value in popcorn,
if you don't compare it to any other popcorns.
- Skinny is actually better.
- I've tried every way except the way it would work.
- But listen, Skinny is still bad, friend,
I just tasted it again.
- But Act Two is worse, friend.
- They're both bad, friend.
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Pop Secret not only means a dad's
hidden skill, it's also popcorn.
- It's a secret. - You know about Pop Secret?
- Pop's got a secret, classic butter taste.
Now, in 2015, Pop Secret became the official
popcorn of Disneyland Resort in Disney World.
- This is not bad.
- 79 cent a bag,
- It's also, in 2004, Pop Secret sponsored
the Pop Secret Microwave 400 NASCAR race.
- In Rockingham. - At Rockingham Speedway.
- You got a whole popcorn race, guys.
It's covered wagons.
- This has got a serious butter thing happening.
- Yeah I call that butter thing, butter flavor.
- It's not surprising to me that
you've, kind of, thrown a curve ball
into the ranking system, as you often do.
- By that he just means that disagree with him.
- By liking Skinny Pop which is horrible, definitively.
- This is good.
- This is better than Skinny Pop,
I don't think it's better than Orville
because Orville--
- Let's put Orville, right here.
- We're gonna get confused. - I don't wanna forget.
Orville's right here. - We need a marker.
We need a sharpie.
It's Orville.
- It's still better it's lighter and crispier.
- It's not his buttery, man,
Pop Secret is more buttery.
- I don't disagree with you but the popcorn quality,
look we got a sharpie, put OR on this.
- All right, I did it.
- Now we're gonna think it's or.
The quality is not even close,
the corn quality is not even close,
it is really buttery, this tastes perfect, man.
How can you not taste that?
I'm not getting paid by Orville, by the way,
I know it seems like I am.
- here's the thing about Orville,
I would say that there is a corn flavor
that is still part of the process and with Pop Secret,
it's basically just butter and salt
and that's my entire experience.
So we're agreeing, right.
- Yeah classic butter taste, second place.
- All right, good.
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Oh, hello there.
Can I interest you in a Jolly Time?
That's usually what I say in my private life.
- To who?
- To my woman, I ask her if she
wants a Jolly Time and I just--
- And she says yes to that?
- You want to share a metal tin of popcorn
because that's what they were served in, in 1927.
- This is the oldest popcorn that
we're gonna be tasting, invented in 1914,
then Bob Hope endorsed it, in the 50s can you believe that?
- Bob was a big man, very popular.
It's the only microwave popcorn endorsed
by Weight Watchers, what's up with all these endorsements?
They're seeking endorsements from people.
- Yeah and giving endorsements at races.
- Right.
- When I chew popcorn, I try not to chomp really
hard 'cause I don't want to get it nestled
in my teeth, man.
- Okay can I tell you something?
- Tell me something.
- You know what I'm having over here?
- No you're not, you're having a jolly time.
- I'm not having an unjolly time.
- You think this is better than Pop Secret?
- I didn't say that.
I just said I'm having a jolly time.
- I'm going back into Pop Secret.
- Me and Bob Hope and the representatives
from Weight Watchers.
it's the 50s, where, you know,
skiing in like we're, we're water skiing
and we're in a pyramid.
Of people 'cause that's the kind of thing
that happened in the '50s.
- It is, yeah.
- They were like, lets water ski and there'll be women above
us and that we're holding up.
Why did we stop that?
- I'm bringing the Pop Secret down.
Now we gotta remember, this is Pop Secret.
We gotta put a PS on it.
- Put a PS on it, science
- Putting a PS on it.
- It's salty, I like it.
- II like the name, it looks so generic, though,
I mean, this looks like rationed popcorn.
- This is Pop Secret?
- Yeah, PS right there, you see that?
Not easy, guys.
- What about Orville?
- I know it's not as good as Orville.
- Oh man, Orville's good.
I love getting reintroduced to the Redenbacher.
Yeah, he's not moving.
- This is tough.
- They taste equal.
- You know what, I think I just discovered
what Pop's secret is,
is that he also makes Jolly Time.
- They taste the same, do they not taste the same?
Is it the same popcorn, is that the big Pop Secret?
There's no discernible difference
and I can tell there's a slight difference in color,
Jolly Time is a little bit yellower.
They taste exactly the same, so,
do you prefer yellow?
That's really the question.
- I do because it makes me think
that I'm tasting a little bit more butter.
- Okay, we gotta move 'em them.
- All right, so we're gonna move Act Two down,
we're gonna move Skinny Pop down.
- We could just move Orville to number one,
is that too premature?
- That's just too much premature.
- Put Jolly Time at number two.
- Putting those back there, boy, this is complicated.
It's hard being us, I mean,
sitting here on the internet eating popcorn.
- Somebody's gotta do it, though.
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Behind the face of every handsome man,
are popcorn kernels covered in oil,
we're finishing up with Newman's Own,
microwave popcorn, 100% of the profits go to charity.
- That's how he do, man.
- You know this reminds me of?
This is the popcorn equivalent of In-N-Out fries.
- What do mean by that? - Meaning that it feels
super, just, naked,
it feels like nobody did anything to it.
- It's like you're walking through a corn pasture,
what's that called?
- Cornfield.
- Yeah.
- You're walking through a cornfield
and it's hot, I'm talking, real hot.
- I like corn pasture, start again and say that.
- You're walking through a corn pasture and it is hot,
I'm talking, like, real hot, so hot that it
starts popping the corn off the cobs.
- Corn pasture hot.
- And you're opening your
mouth and you get, you feel--
Just get a little.
- I got one.
- Yeah.
It's hot out, in this pasture. - I got one, I got one.
Ooh it's hot in the pasture, isn't it?
- But then I realize, it could use some salt.
- And some butter.
- Right, it could use the things that make it bad for me
and Newman's like no, no, no, no, no.
- [Woman Behind Camera] You guys playing catch
the corn with Granddad?
- Catch the corn with Granddad, hey,
let me catch some corn my Granddad.
Look, I do no look.
Am I going low or high?
- You're going a little low.
Go high.
- [Man Behind Camera] Tough shot.
- Finally, okay, this is not that great.
- Need salt.
- I think that we're putting this at the very--
Above Skinny Pop, nope, I like Skinny Pop better,
I'm gonna stand by it,
if you get confused between kettle corn
and regular popcorn then you might like the
Skinny Pop, if you want to make some sort
of thing, so we're pushing that forward,
don't worry about those
and then we're pushing that forward.
And the Redenbacher.
- The definitive.
- His death has been,
what's it called when your death is, like--
- Avenged. - Meaningful.
- Avenged in a pasture.
- Here's what we're all gonna do tonight,
we're all gonna get a big old bag of Orville Redenbacher,
we're gonna get in the hot tub,
we're gonna turn it all the way up and no
matter how fast your heart starts
beating, you're gonna stay in there,
against doctor's orders, over 30 minutes,
and we're all gonna die.
Together in a corn pasture.
We'll meet in the corn pasture.
- It'll be a jolly good time. - For all eternity.
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- Hi, I'm Kat from Ontario
and I just woke up from a dream
where I turned into a bag of popcorn to
sneak into Rhett and Link's show.
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