- It's the most wonderful food of the year.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Yes.
Now, usually I agree with an overstuffed grumpy orange cat
who thinks Mondays are the worst,
but we're starting this one off right,
with our annual top five trips to the Mythical Kitchen!
Or it's just actually, I mean it's one trip,
to see five things, we don't have to go five times.
- We're not going anywhere.
- Right, we're gonna stay right here.
We're gonna get to rewatch the Mythical Kitchen's
craziest and most incredible food creations all over again
as we relive some of the most amazing stuff
made by our talented team,
they're right over there, they're so talented.
Hello, talented team.
- You're talented at standing right over there, too.
- [Trevor] Thank you.
- We got one
response from Trevor. - We don't get to taste 'em,
though, we get to watch ourselves taste.
Which is usually what you do, not what we do.
What you did do was vote,
we asked you to vote
on your top five favorite food creations,
so this is on you.
I'm sure you made us proud, but, well,
I don't know for certain,
'cause we haven't seen these clips yet.
- Yeah.
- All right.
- [Stevie] Today's countdown starts where they all do,
at moment number five,
with a Will it Lasagna dish
that's a little bit old-school Italy,
and a little bit modern-day drive-through.
- I remember this. - Behold,
the Lasagnator.
- I gotta get in on this, man, there's absolutely-
- It just looks kinda like lasagna, but then...
- Wendy's...
- I'm not waiting for you. - Wendy's burgers are square.
You didn't succumb to the temptation
to just slap a whole burger in there.
- [Past Rhett] He likes to talk, I like to eat.
- [Past Link] That would be too much, wouldn't it?
- Oh my gosh.
- [Past Trevor] You wanna get the sauce to coat the meat
when you make it,
and if you just slapped a whole square in there,
it wouldn't really work.
- Oh, man. - This is magical.
This is absolutely incredible.
The CEO of Wendy's admitted at the time.
Admitted.
- Like "Yes, you got me." What?
- When they introduced this in 2007,
that it was targeted towards 18 to 34 year old males.
Now lemme tell ya, I've never felt more like a 34 year old,
than I do right now.
- This is so good.
- I remember that taste.
I'd like some more.
- [Past Link] Wendy's Baconator, will it lasagna?
- [Past Rhett And Link] Yes!
- Yep, I knew it was gonna happen.
- It was so easy to eat, you know what I'm saying?
It was like you just felt like
you could put the whole thing in your mouth
and just swallow once.
That's my favorite kinds of food.
- Have you ever eaten a lasagna like that?
- I've tried.
- You picked up a lasagna like a burger?
- I probably chew lasagna that goes into my mouth
like 1.3 to 1.7 times.
- Well I definitely can believe that.
But I would claim that I've probably eaten...
Four times the amount of lasagna as you,
over the course of our lives.
- I take issue with this,
because I would say you have probably on occasion,
had maybe four times the amount of lasagna occasions,
but total amount, I'm probably right there with you,
'cause I eat a lot more than you do.
- I didn't mean to say amount,
but the number of lasagna instances in my life.
- You order lasagna every time at Italian restaurants.
- Four times as much as you.
I wouldn't say every time, I mean I'll get a little,
if it's the right Italian restaurant,
I might get some chicken marsala.
- If you've never been to an Italian restaurant,
will you get the lasagna the first time?
How many times?
- I will, if it's a new Italian place,
I will get the lasagna,
because that's like my touchstone,
for how I evaluate everything else.
I mean, if they don't have- - If you can't make
a good lasagna, that's true, then.
- I mean if you're going to an Italian restaurant,
and you want, isn't...?
I mean... - Is he right?
- [Josh] Linguini with clams.
- [Nicole] It's never lasagna the first time.
For me, at least.
- [Vianai] It's like the fifth time.
- [Trevor] No, I disagree,
I think that if a lasagna's bad at an Italian place,
then you can't eat there, it's not a good Italian place.
- So you are agreeing with me!
- So Trevor's on your side.
- So Trevor, you, the lasagna
is the touchstone for an Italian restaurant for you.
- [Trevor] It's one of the touchstones.
It's one of them.
- Okay. Chicken parm?
- [Trevor] There are a few different ones, I think.
- Am I too basic for the rest of you guys?
- [Nicole] No, who said that?
- Well Nicole, what is yours?
- [Nicole] My go-to pasta order? Or like my go-to order?
- At a new Italian restaurant, that you-
- [Nicole] Well I get an array of things,
I get a pasta dish, I get a pizza dish,
but I normally go with people,
I don't go by myself, you know?
So I get a pizza, I get a pasta,
and I get some sort of secondi,
like if it's a branzino or if it's a veal scallopini.
- Secondi.
- Okay.
- That's a second course.
- You're a sharer. Josh, you're also a sharer.
- [Josh] Yes, I tried to get Nicole to legally take my name
after she got married,
and it did not work.
It would just make it easier for the podcast.
- But she wouldn't give an answer,
but your answer is linguini.
- [Josh] Linguini with clams,
'cause it's the toughest dish,
and I like to believe the best in people.
- His last name is Scherer.
- [Josh] Yeah, that's the bit.
- Nicole, you're a sharer.
- [Vianai] I am also a sharer.
- [Trevor] I like lasagna.
- I believe in sharing.
- So 25% of the Mythical Kitchen team agrees with you.
- But linguini with clams is yours, and Vi...
- [Vianai] Shrimp alfredo or some type of chicken carbonara.
- Ooh, yeah.
- I've eaten a lot of lasagna.
- I usually just ask the waiter.
Let's see the next one.
- [Stevie] At number four,
Rhett and Link just about lose their minds
over the culinary genius
that is the chicken burrito drumstick.
- [Past Josh] These are our chicken burrito drumsticks,
we have taken a whole drumstick from KFC,
and we have wrapped barbacoa and cheese,
multiple ingredients around that,
then wrapped a tortilla around that,
then tied it off and fried it,
so it's like your dream hybrid chimichanga drumstick.
- So there's meat and cheese inside this,
and then there's still chicken.
- [Past Josh] Yeah, it's basically a Beef Wellington.
- Dink it.
- Hold on, you have to get a big bite
to get to the chicken.
- And a big bite sink it.
- About to bite through the bone, homie.
- Oh!
- So good.
- Oh, lord!
- There's guacamole in there, too.
- Help me!
- The beauty is, even if you don't bite really deeply,
and get chicken on that first bite,
by the time you eat all of this,
you're still left with a chicken leg.
- Clearly, this is a revelation.
- Why has this not re-entered my life since that day?
- Because you gotta get them to make it for you.
- Yeah.
- And they're gonna be making a lot of other things.
The next thing that we're eating on this show.
- Didn't you make a video of how to make that?
Didn't you?
- [Josh] Yeah, we sure did.
- Yeah, so if you wanna make that one,
get over to the Mythical Kitchen channel,
'cause they show you how to make that.
I need to watch that one.
- So you're gonna have to get Lando or your wife,
watch that video and then make it for you.
I mean that's pretty much
how it's gonna enter your life again.
- Yeah, it doesn't seem like an entry level
kinda thing, for me.
- [Josh] It was pretty tough.
We work really hard.
- It's easy to eat, man. So easy to eat.
- [Josh] Burned ourselves a lot.
- Fried chicken covered in, oh gosh.
I'm so hungry right now. - It was delightful,
yeah, I'm getting hungry
every time I see one of these things.
Okay, let's see the next one.
- [Stevie] At number three, Cotton Candy Randy
serves up the next best thing to chocolate milk.
- Happy Cotton Candy Day, Daddies!
- Hey, Cotton Candy Randy.
- You wanna dunk these?
- Definitely we do.
- This was a moment. - I think I can get
this entire thing,
if I just get it into a little cylinder.
- This was a discovery.
- I'm going with all mine, yeah.
Look at what I can do.
Whoops! Whoops! Whoops!
- Keep that on your side.
Mine got seriously purple.
- [Past Link] Mine's gone! Mine's totally gone!
- This made its way on TikTok.
- Heck yeah, it did.
- You would think that much cotton candy
would have more influence than it is having.
- It's great!
- You didn't think so at first.
- Milky cotton candy!
- The subtlety of it is what...
- I mean, subtle in a good way!
- It's interesting, yours is darker,
but I feel like mine is strong.
- No, I'm saying I thought it was gonna be overpowering,
and way too sweet.
- I'll just let my past self
explain my current state of mind.
- And talk about making the kids happy at a party!
- And they can do it themselves.
- Yeah, it's like a science experiment.
- This is a freaking discovery
of the ages! - What was on there before?
Molasses? - Molasses.
It must've been early.
- We put molasses in milk.
Blackstrap molasses.
It was...
I wonder how many people have done that.
Because that's an easy one.
It's easy to get your hands on milk and cotton candy.
I mean...
Have you tried that?
- Comment below.
- Did kids' birthday parties get revolutionized
in a way that we have been hoping for?
- Just the way it dissolves, it seems like,
it's mesmerizing.
- All right, but I'll tell you-
- I eat a lot of lasagna.
- I hope this next one is lasagna.
- [Stevie] Coming in at number two,
Rhett and Link have an alternate universe experience
with a cow's udder.
- There exists another universe
in which every single snack on the shelf
only comes in some kind of dairy form,
and that's why they have the Nutter Udder.
Hey, Link, put that thing in your mouth.
- There it is.
- You had to really prime it.
- You had to be like, have the sucking power of a baby cow.
- That juice is good!
That is some Nutter Butter milk, y'all!
- Lemme get a dangle.
- Nutter Udder, oh gosh.
- Is yours good?
Maybe I can...
- There we go.
That's it, two little baby calves.
- This is the best tasting stuff I've ever-
- I got like a half gallon of Nutter Udder milk,
and I'm not complaining about it.
Woo! That's good!
I love everything about this!
- It's so good.
- It's hard to watch, though.
- Yeah, it's not easy to watch.
- This isn't, I mean we're not...
- This is not tableside guac, you gotta look away.
- In the moment,
when we're sucking on those teats like that,
I'm just thinking "Man, I really wanna communicate
how good what's happening in my mouth is,"
but I failed to really recognize,
or appreciate that you're just seeing two men
suck on one big udder.
Maybe we shouldn't watch our show back, ever.
- That's what I've been learning.
- We might stop making it if we watched it too often.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- We should be protected from it.
Y'all still got that Nutter Udder?
- [Josh] Yeah, it hangs in our office.
- Just dangles in there?
- [Josh] Yeah.
Well, sometimes we fill it with juice.
(Rhett laughs)
- Do you know what number one is?
- [Nicole] I don't. Do you guys?
- [Josh] We don't read the emails.
- Well you don't have to make it again,
so you wouldn't have to know.
We don't know, so...
I mean, but if you had to guess.
I mean, is there something...
- The biggest food moment of the year.
- [Josh] I have a guess.
- [Nicole] Okay, go for it!
- [Josh] I don't wanna say it,
then it's not gonna come true.
- [Nicole] Well just say it anyways.
Just say it.
- [Josh] Orange chicken parm.
- Orange chicken parm was,
that may have been the culinary height of the year.
But, is this what the Mythical Beasts thought?
Let's find out.
- [Stevie] And last but certainly not least, at number one,
Rhett and Link have an out of body experience
with orange chicken parm.
- Orange chicken parm!
Like, we've lived a life, we've been on this Earth for 44
and 43 years,
and it's just now we're getting to orange chicken parm?
- Dink it, and sink it. - Yeah. New discoveries.
All the time.
- I don't want this to end.
You know, there are things that happen in life,
and you're like, "I wanna be present for this."
- Please don't let this ever be over.
- I wanna be completely present for this.
Rhett, you are eating orange chicken parm.
This will only be a memory.
Minutes from now, this will be psychological only.
Right now, it's physical, it's visceral, it's spiritual.
It's technological.
- Mm. Inspiring. - It tastes good, y'all!
(Rhett and Link laugh)
- I haven't had that since, either!
- We didn't build it up, you know?
That's, it is what it was,
and as you saw it.
It was that amazing.
Kudos, guys.
- [Kitcheneers] Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Okay, now it's time for us to receive a gift from you.
- It wasn't that I was waiting for you to say thank you,
it was that I ran out of things to say
before I realized I was going to.
- That's okay.
- We wrote you a card.
- Okay, do you want us to do the card first?
- "From Culinary."
- "From Culinary," okay, okay.
- Josh, squat down.
- "Merry holidays."
- Jewish.
- "Wishing you a little cheer everywhere you go.
Congrats on another great year, Rhett and Link.
We thought it would be nice if we hand-delivered our gifts.
Open wide!"
- Here you go.
Do you know what that is?
- This is a Swiss cake roll.
- It is a singular Ho.
(Rhett guffaws)
- It's a Ho.
I didn't wear this
'cause I knew you were gonna show up today,
because we're beyond that.
But apparently we're not.
- Enjoy.
- And what's that?
- I made an apple pie baked with extra, extra,
extra love this time.
Here you guys go, a lot of love in there.
- Can't wait for Rhett and Link to taste how juicy,
wet, and delicious you are.
- Okay, you're making me nervous.
- I really put like,
it's like a piece of myself is in there.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Which piece?
- You're not making this any easier.
- It's just made with a lot of love,
I don't see... - Should I just dip in?
- Yeah, no, get in there, dip in.
It's gonna be nice and gooey and delicious, so.
- You're using all the words, the word choice.
- He's a little, are you suspicious?
- A piece of yourself? Gooey?
- Yeah, it's apple pie, what do you mean?
- Bro, he ate it!
- "Bro, he ate it."
- Is it bad?
- It's good.
- Yeah, it's a good pie.
- You did great on this, too.
- It's that extra love in there.
- It's really good, and the crust.
- I forgot to get you a present,
so I got you this wallet-sized photo of me.
- [Link] It's like a passport photo.
- Yeah, that's exactly what it is,
I had to renew it. - Cut into a square?
- Got it about 10 years ago, so.
Remember to renew your passport, so you don't have to pay
expediting fees.
- Thank you, Josh.
- No problem.
- And seriously, guys, congratulations on an amazing year
over on the Mythical Kitchen channel.
You and the entire team behind the crew over there have done
a stellar job of innovating, and satisfying,
on a culinary and family level.
- Trevor's incredibly satisfied.
(Trevor giggles)
- Does anybody else's back hurt?
- If you haven't opened up your heart,
or your schedule, or your eyeballs, or your mouths
to the Mythical Kitchen team yet,
you should look into that.
They're doing amazing stuff over there.
We're just eating things.
- He's eating the pie.
- Ooh, that's better than this.
- The bow tie, or the Swiss cake roll you already ate?
- Mm-hm.
- Did you put love in that?
- Secret ingredient, no, I didn't put any-
- See you Wednesday.
We're gonna find out
the top five most disturbing moments of GMM.
- It might be when I figure out what was in this pie.
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