- Snap back to reality.
Oh.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good mythical morning.
- We live in a world dominated by reality show stars.
I mean, you got Kylie Jenner.
She's a makeup mogul.
You got Elizabeth Hasselback.
She did some time on survivor
and now she does whatever she does on the shows.
- Oh!
- And of course you got people who are on reality shows
who've risen to the very top of the political game.
Of course, I'm talking about Sean Duffy
former Real World Boston cast member,
who is now the proud representative
of Wisconsin's seventh district.
- Way to go Duffy.
I was wondering what happened to you.
- But today Link, I'm going to test your knowledge
and your knowledge of reality shows where we find
out are they real?
Are they fake?
As we play is this ridiculous reality show
a horrifying part of our reality
or a horrifying part of my brain?
Okay, Link.
I'm gonna read off a description of a reality show.
You have to tell me whether it's real or fake.
- Okay.
- If you get six right, you win an immunity idol.
- I went through a streak of watching
lots of reality shows.
It was like-- - Good for you.
- A stint of my life. - Hopefully it helped.
- My wife and I
our relationship was defined by reality shows.
- Let's see if it helped.
- It wasn't healthy.
But we're healthy now.
- You know what women wanna do while giving birth?
Answer trivia questions.
Watch as very expect mothers stop focusing
on their contractions and set their eyes
on the prize because their baby is not the prize.
An actual prize is the prize.
Reality or unreal?
- Pregnant women answer trivia questions?
I see no connection between trivia and pregnancy.
- That might be your problem.
- Or that might be why it was a stupid thing
for you to make up.
(Rhett chuckles)
And my options are true and false?
- Yep.
Or reality or unreal.
- I'm saying unreal right off the bat.
- Right off the bat, you're wrong.
(buzzer buzzes)
Because it was a real show.
It's called Labor Games.
It actually is still airing on TLC.
As far as we can tell,
it started in 2015. - Really?
- You know but this totally makes sense
to me. - I missed that one.
- Because when my wife was delivering our kids
and she was just constantly screaming
at the top of her lungs,
I was thinking we could be winning money right now, baby.
- 'Cause she was screaming answers to trivia.
- Yeah, I was like
she should be funneling this into more money for the family.
You can win a scholarship for the baby.
You can't 'cause you're not just participating.
- That's how you would justify.
You wouldn't spend the money on the baby really?
But that's how you would justify it.
- You're 0 for one.
Let's see how you can do on this next one.
If sister wives is any indication
people love to watch reality shows about polygamy
but this show turns the tables a bit
as it follows a Vermont woman who has
wait for it three husbands.
Watch as they draw straws to see who has
to unclog the toilet.
Reality or unreal?
- You can unclog a toilet with a straw.
That's the irony of that.
- It's gotta be a big one.
- Man. (sucks)
- (sucks) Oh you sucked.
- You suck.
- That's the biggest mistake you can make.
- Oh man.
- Again, I'm gonna go with unreal.
I just don't believe it.
- Link you are right. - All right.
(bell dings)
- But if it were real, it would be called
If a man can have three wives
a woman can have three husbands
and probably handle it better
because women are naturally good at multitasking.
- The show.
- You might think the tree houses are for kids
but you'd be wrong.
This show follows a family of seven who have chosen
to live off the grid in Wisconsin,
25 feet above the ground
living and making cheese in a real-life tree house.
Reality or unreal?
- I would watch this.
I love to see families in trees.
I don't know something about that just makes me happy.
They're cozy.
They're happy, but they're in danger if they fall.
Boo, there goes daddy
makin' cheese up there.
- Yeah, in the tree.
Tree cheese
- Please be real.
- Is that your answer?
- I wanna watch it.
- Link, it's fake.
(Link groans)
But if it were real,
it would be called Cheddar Family Robinson.
(all laugh)
- I'd TiVo that, man.
- Because it was Swiss.
The first one was Swiss.
- Don't have TiVo.
- But they don't make Swiss in Wisconsin.
They make cheddar.
Looking for your true love amongst a bevy
of male suitors is nothing new in the reality world.
- Nope.
- But this ain't no Bachelorette.
In this show half the guys are batting
for the other team.
Watch as our star tries to determine who is her true love
and who is into dudes.
Reality or unreal?
- So this is a baseball show?
- Yeah, some people call it that.
- Major Leaguers.
That's what it's called, I bet.
- Dude, is it a real show? - I get it.
- You don't have to name the show.
That's already been done.
Either if it's fake, I've done it.
Or if it's real, they've done it.
Okay?
- Is he for me or is he for he?
This is real. - That's a good name.
That's is real good name.
- This is real. - That's a good name.
Link, you're right.
But it's actually called Playing it Straight
and it ran for one season on Fox.
How did I miss it?
- [Link] They should
have asked me. - 2004.
- Is he for me?
Or is he for he?
- If the couple-- - Wrong title.
- If you get a guy who's into girls,
you both split a million dollars.
But if you pick a gay guy, he walks away with $1 million.
That's how the game's played.
- Okay, no joke in there.
It's just how the game's play.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Got it.
- I was gonna say something about a gay pay day,
but I don't even need to say that.
- But you did.
- Celebrity kids have it easy,
but what happens when one is thrown
into the most cutthroat internship in the country?
Find out as Jayden Smith becomes a congressional intern.
(Link laughs)
- Reality or unreal?
- Jayden Smith doesn't wanna be in politics, man.
- Do you know how weird this dude is?
Have you followed him?
- His whip his hair back and forth sister.
- That's his sister.
- She'll tweet somethin'.
- He'll tweet something.
- He'll tweet something too?
- Well, wake up man.
- Unreal.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
- You're right, Link, it is fake.
(bell dings)
But if it were real,
I don't know what it'll be called
but he did tweet one time.
"I encourage you all to unfollow me
"so I can be left with the people
"who actually appreciate philosophy and poetry.
"Hashtag cool tape volume two."
- Cool tape volume-- - Cool tape volume two.
- Link, you're on a roll.
Three outta five.
This show's all about love at first sight
of someone's nether regions.
One contestant chooses their love match based
only on other contestants naked bodies
from the waist down. - Down.
I'd never miss an episode.
Wow.
- Only from the waist down.
- What country?
This would work in France, I think.
- This would work in France.
Take a note.
- Listen, you know, it's true though.
- This would work in France.
- You make fun, but it will work in France.
I bet it's a French reality show and it's real.
- It is real but don't touch my face
and it is not in France.
It's in the UK.
It's called Naked Attraction.
It is currently airing
on channel four and by airing, I mean airing out.
- Yeah.
- I mean they're airing their--
- But their backsides.
- Yeah, yeah.
On the front sides too.
You can't make a decision
just based on the backside.
You gotta fliparoni.
See what's on the other side.
You know the old saying about weddings.
Something old, something new,
something borrowed, something blue.
On this show, women compete
for their dream wedding and their something new
is a complete plastic surgery rehaul of their face.
- So weird.
That doesn't sound moral.
But what is morality
when it comes to reality shows?
Am I right?
- You're right, Link.
- This sounds sad, which means it's probably a reality show.
- So-- - Final answer?
- I'm gonna say real.
- Link, you are on a roll.
It's real.
(bell dings)
It's called Bridalplasty.
It was on E in 2010.
The tagline was the only show where the winner gets cut.
(laughs comically) That would work in France.
It is sad though
if you think about it. - But that show
would've worked in France.
You keep making fun of it.
- Yeah, baby.
Listen, if we win, I'm in for the long haul.
If we don't win,
I'm gonna find somebody else without an ugly face.
You know, it's just like, it's just kind of sad
but the winner is still together with her man.
Got a new face.
It's a-great, it's a-great, it's a-great.
This show would work in Italy.
- (chuckles) Yeah, that's good.
- It's great to date someone with similar interests
but what if those interests
are just a little too similar?
Contestants on this dating show are told
that they've been matched
with three dates based on compatibility.
What they don't know is that one of those dates
is a distant relative.
(Link groans)
Reality or unreal?
You only one more to win, Link.
Only need one more to win.
- The incest at play here.
Distant relative.
Not really incest.
- You're one to talk.
- Incest, intrigue,
makings of a good reality show.
I'm gonna say real.
- Link, it's fake.
(buzzer buzzes)
- I'm kind of glad it's fake actually.
- But if it were real,
it would be called West Virginia.
(all laugh)
- Throw 'em under the bus.
- (screams) Oh, I'm sorry.
We love you guys.
- I love West Virginia, man.
Next question.
- Link, one more opportunity
and you gotta get it right to win.
- Yes.
- Oh, so you love your pet, huh?
Why don't you marry it?
Everyone on this show heard that and went, "Okay."
This show follows people who have chosen
to spend their lives in holy furry matrimony
with their pets.
Reality or unreal?
- Doesn't sound legal but that really
doesn't stop reality TV.
Marry a pet, man?
What?
Man, this is disturbing.
unless you're in France.
I'm sayin' it's real.
- Link, it's fake.
(buzzes blares)
- Oh, you can't marry a pet.
- But if it were real,
it would be called Heavy Petters.
(Link groans)
- What was my prize?
- Link, the immunity idol that I so wanted to give you
was a piece of a car from Gorgan.
You know what?
I don't even want this.
So you win anyway.
Just wear it.
Look you can stay on the show for another year.
I won't kick you off.
- Got a gear shift. - Shift it, shift it.
Put it into reverse, buddy.
- Thanks Gorgan.
- Thank you. - And you...
- [Rhett and Link] for liking, commenting, and subscribing.
- You know what time it is?
- [Crowd] We're in (indistinct) Washington, DC
and it's time to spin the wheel of mythicality.
- Make sure you watch Good Mythical Crew this Saturday
so you can see how Kevin was able to obtain this item.
(wheel clicks)
- Click through the Good Mythical More
where I begin to understand why this is the prize.
- Sure.
- And we're also gonna play the no thumbs challenge, Rhett.
- But not before.
We're at Mrs Link's wings.
Man, dang.
Sometimes-- - What?
- Look straight at me.
See, I just see right on each side.
I don't like it.
It's too streamlined.
It makes me sad.
I want 'em back.
- What?
- I want your wings.
- Oh really?
- I want 'em back.
I wanted to see you fly
into the office every day
and then fly away.
- You know what you don't know, Rhett?
- What?
You still got 'em? - They're there.
They're just invisible.
(Link flutters)
- That's not satisfying at all.
- Sorry.
I tried.
- The problem is my thumb all this years.
My thumb's been getting in the way I like suddenly upgraded.
- The problem is my thumb all these years.
- My thumb has been nothin' but trouble.