- Today we crown the best Halloween candy of all time.
- Let's talk about that.
(groovy electronic music)
- Good Mythical Morning and happy almost Halloween.
- Yes, that means that our novel
"The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek" hit stores yesterday!
- Yes! - Get it wherever
you get books, Barnes and Noble has signed copies.
Target has a special edition with photos
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- And if you wanna hear excerpts of us reading the book,
check out our latest podcast episode of Ear Biscuits.
Link in the description.
- Now over the past two days, we have taste tested,
did you hurt our novel? - Sorry,
I just (mutters incoherently). (Rhett chuckles)
It quacked at me. - We can get another copy.
Over the past few days we have taste tested 16
of the best Halloween candies as voted on by y'all
in a head-to-head competition and now we're down
to the final eight and by the end of this episode,
we will crown the one to rule them all.
- I'm feeling the pressure.
All the corporate candy executives are watching.
They're scribbling down notes
with their chocolate covered fingers
and grinding their rotting teeth in frustration.
- Right.
- And potentially firing people.
- Yeah, lives hang in the balance.
- It's time for The Bewitching Battle
of the Best Halloween Candies Finals.
If I could direct your attention
to the gargantuan gob-smackingly glam candy bracket,
you'll see the the eight candies remaining are:
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
- [Rhett] Butterfinger.
- Milky Way. - Snickers.
- Kit Kat. - Swedish Fish.
- Skittles. - And Almond Joy.
- Let's match it up.
(eerie laughing)
First up we got a peanut butter battle.
Reese's Ree-sees, what I call 'em versus--
- It's wrong. - Butterfinger.
- And today, raggedy manning the board is none other
than Cotton Candy Raggedy Randy!
(crew claps)
- Happy Cotton Candy Day, daddies!
- I love your costume. - It's not a costume,
I'm going to a wedding after this.
- Oh wow, I'm glad I'm not going with you. (chuckles)
- I had a Raggedy Andy doll-- - Oh so did I.
- As a kid. - I got it forever.
- It had like a rattle in it. - I didn't have
a Raggedy Randy though.
- All right, open one of those, I'll open one of these
and we're gonna get to the heart of this.
You know that in 2009,
Butterfinger released a buzz version of their Butterfinger
that had caffeine in it, as much as a Red Bull.
- Oh yeah. - For a limited time.
I feel like that's what's needed for this to have a chance
of beating the most amazing peanut butter cup.
- I gave you a whole cup, man.
- Oh, I thought you were gonna--
- Cups are harder to share than this.
I mean I'm trying to help you out.
- Thank you. - I'm doing,
I'm Halloween man.
Can't you tell by my costume?
Halloween man here to make all your Halloween candy
eating experiences more enjoyable.
- This is pretty clear right?
- I love Butterfinger
but the softer peanut butter is just doing it for me
and I actually think the chocolate is better.
- Yeah, Reese's Cups has gotta move on, don't you agree?
- Yeah, man, whatever.
- [Link] Oh we're actually pouring candy now.
- Yeah.
This reminds me of my high school girlfriend.
She was a pumpkin.
(eerie laughing)
- Next up we have Milky Way versus Snickers,
the battle of the bars.
- Okay.
And like we discovered,
a Milky Way is not a Snickers without peanuts because--
- The nougat's different.
It's a completely different color.
- A Milky Way has like a chocolate nougat.
- [Rhett] Yeah it's a chocolate nougat.
- And Snickers just has-- - Nougat nougat.
- A nougat nougat and I did not know that.
- No but you didn't know, we learn things on this show.
- You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm just gonna eat 'em together.
- That's not gonna teach you anything.
Now you're gonna have to eat 'em all again.
Do you know that Milky Way-- - But it's fun.
- Calls the family drama that the father,
there's a father and son who both said
that they invented Milky Way and they wouldn't give
and they didn't see each other for 20 years
because of that.
- Milky Way tears families apart I think is the take away.
(Randy chuckles)
(crew laughing)
You like that?
- Oh no, I was just thinking of something funny I've heard
on CBS's "The Unicorn" last night.
(Rhett chuckles)
- Wow.
That's a deep network show cut.
- I like Milky Way but there's just no topping the nougaty,
peanutty, caramely goodness of a Snickers.
I mean make an argument for Milky Way.
- I kinda prefer it without the peanuts.
- Oh, you're gonna get into this?
- I thought that you said that you liked Milky Way.
- I love Milky Ways but I'm realizing
how much better Snickers are.
The label's better too, not that that should matter.
- I could definitely eat more Snickers over time.
'Cause I feel like I'd get more tired of Milky Way,
and I eat a lot of Halloween candy.
- Are you saying Milky Way is better as a Halloween candy
because it's more of a treat?
- No, I'm saying that I only get large amounts
of candy during Halloween and I eat it until it's gone.
- So you're not saying anything related to our decision.
- Yeah, Snickers wins. - Oh.
(Rhett laughs) I agree.
- Hooray, merry Christmas or whatever!
(eerie laughing)
- Kit Kat versus Swedish Fish.
I think Swedish Fish is just happy to be here.
- Yeah and I'm happy for it to be happy to be here.
(Link chuckles) You know, look at that.
I mean Twix are already falling apart.
I didn't do anything wrong.
- Okay so a demerit for Twix, they're breakable.
- Oh, look, look at this. - But that's kinda part
of the design.
- Wafers, man.
Oh Kit Kats. (chuckles)
I said Twix.
Well you know what, this is what Twix should have been,
two things together.
Kit Kats, it's a solid entry.
We know this.
- I like the balance of a nice Kit Kat. (chuckles)
- It's so balanced, you see that?
- Yeah it's like, it just kinda feels,
it's like a long gold bar made out of chocolate.
So it's like a chocolate bar. (chuckles)
Whatever, okay. - But it is shaped
like a gold bar, you're right.
Now-- - That ain't a Swedish Fish.
- I love the flavor, now, they've never come out
and said what the flavor is.
Theories are cherry, black currant and lingonberry.
- I'm likin', the more that I eat, the more that I like 'em.
- Yeah you're on team Swede.
- I don't know Rhett.
I gotta put your feelings to the side
and say that I think Kit Kat is an amazing,
an amazing treat year round.
But especially in my candy sack.
- Okay, what I will say about Kit Kat is it's really,
really good.
It's orange.
I'm Mr. Halloween,
your friendly neighborhood Halloween superhero.
I appreciate all those things about it.
The Swedish Fish is a little bit of an outlier
and I don't wanna make my weird opinion overpower
the entire process here so I am willing
to go along with Kit Kat.
- That's good, you're making the choice.
Someone's upset, Zack, it's all right.
(Rhett laughs) Your bracket's blown,
it's Kit Kat. - Hooray!
Happy Groundhog Day or whatever.
(eerie laughter)
- All right, Skittles versus Almond Joy.
- This is a weird round.
Now Skittles is the only remaining candy that we have
in the whole tournament.
We've been very-- - Candy?
- I mean-- - We got lots of candy.
Like 16 of 'em we started with.
- I mean like more of a candy candy
versus like a chocolate candy.
- Like fruit candy.
- Yeah, like non-chocolate candy candy.
So if we're gonna want-- - Still tastes good.
- I know and this right here. - But it's not an Almond Joy.
I mean, let me take you on a little trip
to the tropics.
Look at that, a trip where you've got a little sliver
of coconut covered in chocolate atopped by (chuckles),
not a word. - Okay.
- One singular almond.
That's what they say,
that's what the almond farmers in California say.
Al-mond.
- But these Skittles.
They're just refreshing,
especially after eating so much chocolate.
If we were voting for like the second best candy,
I would definitely wanna choose what I'm calling candy,
a non-chocolate treat.
But we're only choosing the top.
If you can only reach for one thing out of your satchel
and eat it and be happy, what's gonna make you the happiest?
- The thing that says joy on it
and also brings me joy.
- I've never liked coconut but I'm starting
to like it a little bit more
and you know what-- - You coming around
to coconut town. - I like the fact
that there's just one almond.
- One singular almond.
- It's like, it's playful.
- Are you finding the joy in it?
It seems like you might be finding the joy in it.
- It's like a little, look, it's like a little nose.
- Oh don't, don't defile it.
- [Link] Look at that, and then, you can really--
- [Rhett] That's not the game we're playing.
- Look, it's like, it's a nose.
(crew laughs)
I love it.
- Are you on team Almond Joy?
- I'm feeling the joy
and I'm voting for almond. - Yes!
Going to the final four, the big upset,
the 14 seed, Almond Joy.
- Yeah. (eerie laughter)
- Part of me feels like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
versus Snickers should be the championship matchup.
But it's not-- - Sometimes that happens--
- Based on the seeding. - In the final four, man.
It happens in the final four. - I think the-- (bell rings)
Oh.
- Somebody's at the door. - Another ringaling ding.
Christine, I know that's you and you're still early.
- Oh hey, hang on! - It's not Halloween yet.
(crew laughs)
- It almost worked, it almost worked.
- Okay so-- - I don't even feel like
I need to taste these.
I mean but you know we gotta be fair.
- We gotta be fair.
Because I love both of these.
- There's so much to like about that.
- Snickers is so good but there's no peanut butter in it.
Which is why-- - There's peanuts.
- Which is why I prefer the peanut butter Snickers.
There's a creamy version now, that's my jam.
- This isn't even close for me.
Peanut butter cups, man. - Yeah.
It's wonderful.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, we agree and it moves on--
- To the finals.
- Hooray!
Cups cups cups cups cups cups, everybody.
- What? - Remember that song?
It used to be about shots but I said cups.
- Oh, nice twist.
(eerie laughter)
Okay, we got Kit Kat versus Almond Joy.
I'm not even gonna taste these
'cause you know where I stand. - Oh really?
- The joy is too strong, the joy is too big.
My vote is for the joy.
- Look at that and the almond's always towards the top
so you can always do that fun little
this is the nose thing.
- Always? - It's not right
in the middle, it's in the first bite
so you can get an Almond Joy. - That's pretty close
to the middle.
- And then you can get a Mound.
It's two candy bars in one, even at fun size.
- Well look at that one.
- Okay I'm wrong. - Right in the middle.
I think the almond placement is random
which is another reason it brings me joy.
Where's the almond gonna be this time?
I don't know, am I gonna be joyful about it?
Yes. - I honestly cannot believe
that I'm enjoying this and more so the more that I eat.
- Yeah, the joy builds. - It stands out.
- It's refreshing even. - Kit Kat becomes
very boring. - Yeah and first of all,
it's not even orange, it's red.
I said it was orange because of the lighting.
It's red, that's not Halloween,
now that that's a prerequisite
because the Almond Joy is blue
but pay no attention to the colors.
Kit Kat's not as good as Almond Joy.
- You're voting for Almond Joy.
- Heck yeah I am!
- I never thought I'd say this but so am I.
- Yes! (chuckling)
Almond Joy goes to the finals.
- Hooray! - I love it!
- [Link] It's good!
- Remember the old jingle?
♪ Almond Joy's got nuts ♪
♪ Mounds makes you bleed internally ♪
- Oh yeah.
(crew laughs)
- It's gonna be in your head all day
now that I sing it, right?
Sorry! (chuckles)
Not sorry. (eerie laughter)
- And now to the final match, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
versus the Cinderella story-- - Who knew.
- Almond Joy.
- Wow. - Competing for the best
Halloween candy of all time.
- Now I gotta say right now,
as much joy as the almond brings me,
this is a perfect candy.
- Listen, some people don't like peanut butter.
Some people don't like coconuts.
- Some people don't like almonds.
- If you don't like chocolate,
you're SOL.
I'm just gonna look at form factor a little bit here.
This is like, this is a slab, sort of a bar.
It's a bar, let's be real.
This cup here, just, I mean,
it sets itself apart in form factor.
There's a couple of other cups out there on the market
but they're all sad.
They're all sad rip-offs.
You know who owns the form factor of the cup.
- Name a sad cup, what's a cup?
- Like that Mallo Cup thing.
- Oh, real sad. - And all the imitations
that have been spawned.
From fancy grocery stores and whatnot.
You open this thing up and it's just peanut butter goodness.
You open this thing up and it's something that
this morning I didn't even like.
(Rhett laughs) - [Rhett] But look at it, man,
there's an almond there hanging over the ledge.
- It's tropical, it takes you to an exotic destination.
This takes you to like a diggin' in the ground
to get peanuts.
- Yeah, that's what, yeah, because the roots.
I gotta say-- - Peanuts are roots.
- There's not a clear winner here.
This is not an easy decision but--
- This is easy for me.
- As both of these-- - I'm a frickin'
chocolate peanut butter lover.
- But as both of these are sitting in my mouth,
having just sat in my mouth and gone down my throat,
I do think that there's one that if I'm honest
with myself, there is a clear winner.
- I believe there is.
And I believe we have it.
- Okay.
Whoa! - Oh!
(both laugh)
- You all right?
Come on, get up here!
You trip?
We lost a frickin' tile. - I lost a tile.
- Hey, hold it together.
Announce the winner!
- The official best candy, Halloween candy ever
according to Good Mythical Morning is--
- [Link] Let her rip!
(crew laughs)
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cup!
There you have it!
(crew applauds and cheers)
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