- Today, we shuffle through Taco Bell's timeline.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat electronic music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- Now, usually, when you stare
at the Taco Bell drive-thru menu,
you're thinking about what you're gonna get,
but have you ever just stopped and looked at each item
and thought, I wonder when you were invented,
and when you were invented,
and when you were invented. - I haven't,
but I have been wondering when you were gonna stop.
- Well, I was gonna wait for you.
I was gonna let you stop me.
- Oh, okay.
It's up to me, I did not know that.
- Well, today, we're gonna be trying Taco Bell menu items,
each one with its own birthday,
and we're gonna try to guess when you were invented
and when you were invented and when you-
- It's time for The Shuffleboard Game, Taco Bell Edition.
- Welcome to The Shuffleboard Game Zone.
- Uh-huh, in each round, we're gonna be given
an iconic item from the Taco Bell menu,
and we're gonna have to guess when that food debuted
by shuffling our pucks to the corresponding decade
on our amazing shuffleboard.
- I think it's pronounced day-butted.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Day-butted.
- And you know Taco Bell changes its menu all the time.
That's why we love it.
So, some of the items that we're gonna be tasting
may not be on the menu now,
but that didn't stop the Mythical Kitchen
from recreating them for us today.
- Whoever's closest to the correct decade wins that round.
Bump Fest rules are still in effect.
- Yes, they are. - And the winner of the game
is gonna be named the Taco of the Ball
and gets to wear an accompanying outfit
in Good Mythical More. - Oh, I love outfits.
(smooth jazzy music)
- What's under this Taco Bell dome?
First of all, it's in buns.
- It's a sloppy joe.
- Ain't nothing I've ever seen at a Taco Bell.
It's just Taco Bell meat in buns.
- I believe.
- [Stevie] This is a recreation of the Bell Beefer.
- That sounds appetizing.
- You know what? It's good, y'all.
- Bell Beefer, it's kind of like a dry sloppy joe.
- Yeah, I like a dry sloppy joe.
- Alrighty, I'm going first,
'cause I won last time. - You won.
You did.
- Man, this has to be pre-80s.
I think this could be like the beginning of Taco Bell,
but I will acknowledge,
for what I believe is the first time ever,
we got 2020 on the shuffleboard, Rhett.
(Rhett applauds)
(crew applauds)
Right.
Sign of the times, sign of the times.
- Yeah.
- I think this could be all the way back in 1940,
the earliest date available for my shuffling.
- Wow.
- 'Cause, I mean, I think Taco Bell was around then.
They wouldn't screw with us that much, would they?
- Oh? - Red means Rhett.
I'm going for the black puck.
Oh, look, there's a bell on my taco.
I'll go a little bit towards the 1950 side of 1940.
(puck rumbles)
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
- [Rhett] Pretty good placement there.
- [Link] Not bad.
- Pretty good placement there.
- What do you think of my logic?
- I don't agree with it, because,
while this may be an item that did originate
for the first time way back in the day,
this, my friend, has been on the menu recently.
- You're telling me you've seen this on a Taco Bell menu?
- Since the year 2000.
- No, okay.
- Now, listen. - I mean, yes.
I remember now.
- I will acknowledge I have a lot of weird food dreams
and it may have been in one of those,
but the Bell Beefer is like a commercial that I remember,
in like the last 30 years.
- You know what they call a weird food dream?
A nocturnal gastration.
- You didn't really have that one figured out
before you started to make the joke.
(Rhett groans)
Is it 2000 or 2010, my friend?
- Nocturnal digestion?
- If it's 2010, you win, even though you were going for '40.
If it's 2000, I could just sidle up right on the top there.
- I mean, that is what you said.
- I think it's in the 2000s.
All I need to do is just be on, you know what?
I'm gonna bump you.
- You're so wrong anyway, dude, just shuffle.
- I'm bumping you a little bit back,
just in case it's the '90s.
- Bump Fest rules, boom.
- Okay, so I may have bumped you into the right answer,
my friend. - No,
you landed in the right answer yourself.
- [Stevie] The Bell Beefer,
which was eventually phased out in the 1980s,
when the company shifted to mostly TexMex items,
hit the Taco Bell menus in the 1970s.
- Oh, I'm in the 70s, y'all.
(Rhett imitates guitar riff)
♪ Totally accidental ♪ - You lucky dog.
- So, you mean I had a dream about the Beefer?
That's awesome. - Well, I looked that up.
So, there was a short comeback in the early 2010s.
- I told y'all about that.
- [Stevie] But they called it the Bell Burger.
And then, I guess a short period of time in 2012,
in select restaurants.
- I went to the select restaurant and saw it
and was like, y'all crazy bringing that back.
I didn't eat it.
- Listen, you can either get the point
or I can say that you weren't wrong.
You have to choose.
- I am right, and I get the point.
That's the only way I'm moving forward.
(smooth jazzy music)
- Ooh, look at that.
- Oh, the cloche was sort of pointless there.
- Yeah, we got some dranky-dranks.
- Is this a Baja Blast?
- [Stevie] Yeah, I don't have any more info for you
other than it's a Baja Blast. - Baja Blast.
- It's a Baja Blast?
- We know Baja blast.
- We know Baja Blast.
- We had to incorporate it
into our fast-food folk song that went viral.
- Which gives us a distinct advantage in this,
at this juncture. - Yeah, it does.
- Because we made that fast food thing in like 2009.
- That's right.
- Which, that would mean it would be in the 2000s.
I don't know if it came before that, though.
It may have been a '90s thing,
and they may have brought it back.
I don't know, but they were certainly promoting it in 2009.
Here's the issue, it's a Bump Fest.
- It's a Bump Fest.
- If I put my puck on 2000...
- You're at my mercy.
I don't think there's any way to escape it.
- I know that the guess is 2000.
I have no reason to believe that you will not agree
that that's the guess.
I know it's a Bump Fest,
so I've got to come up with some kind of strategy
to make it interesting,
which means I think I've got to settle, like, right here.
Yeah, right there.
- Yeah, that's a pretty good idea.
(puck rumbles)
- Go!
- All right. - I didn't go far enough.
You can just sneak around me.
That's pretty strategic, though.
- [Rhett] But all you gotta do is sneak around me.
- I think that was the best move you could make, but yeah,
'cause I'm just gonna try to go around you,
but if I hit you, it's gonna send me off-trajectory.
I'm going for 2000.
(laughs) I've won.
- [Rhett] I mean, we don't even need it.
You know what? Let's just move on.
- No, I want to hear Stevie talk about the Baja Blast.
- [Stevie] Mountain Dew Baja Blast,
a citrus and tropical fruit flavor drink
created exclusively for Taco Bell by Pepsi,
is now available in a frozen or zero calorie version,
but the original Mountain Dew Baja Blast
has been a popular Taco Bell menu item since 2004.
- Hey, yeah, see? - Man.
Well, we could've made that interesting.
Next time, we'll make it interesting.
- I kind of liked what happened.
(smooth jazzy music)
- As I mentioned, I mean,
some of these items that are not on the menu right now
have been recreated by the Mythical Kitchen.
They're also recreating all kinds of other stuff,
including fancy fast food. - Yeah, they are.
- That's happening over there
on the Mythical Kitchen Channel.
Check it out, Mythical Kitchen.
- You won't regret it.
And this is...
- Is this a MexiMelt?
- [Stevie] This is a Chili Cheese Burrito.
- Chilito?
- Sure. - Chili and cheese.
That's what my Christy called it,
'cause this was her go-to.
- [Stevie] You're talking about her
as if she's in the past tense.
- Yeah, Christie died.
I didn't tell you guys?
- Oh, god. - Oh, god.
- Okay.
- Man, if she does die, we can't release this now.
- I'm dirt, man.
People are hating on me for what I said.
I hope they cut it out.
- Yeah, they probably, they probably got rid of it.
- Chilito.
She was big into these, I'm talking about my living wife.
- Now if they cut it out, that joke won't make sense.
- Right, I can't keep going back to it.
- Yeah, keep the dead Christie in.
- I mean, it could be the '80s,
when it was introduced though,
this could be '40s, '50s, '60s.
This is so difficult. - There's a lot of options.
- I'm gonna split '40 and '60, since they're close together,
and then it's right there
and it's gonna obfuscate your trajectory.
(puck rumbles)
- Nice placement. - Yes!
- [Rhett] Nice placement.
- Yeah, I'm feeling the board today, man.
Chili in a burrito does feel like an old school move.
- Yeah, with cheese?
- That's not inventive.
It was inventive at a time.
'60 is the guess that I was leaning towards.
- I'm at your mercy.
- What the issue is,
is that '50 is also an equally good guess,
and by bumping you,
I inevitably will bump you to '50,
unless I can do a bounce and bump, bounce off the back,
bump you back into this area.
- Oh, crap.
- Is that even a possibility?
But the chances-
- You're going for a reverse bump out?
- The chances of a reverse bump out going sideways,
literally, and leaving me in the lurch,
pretty high. - It sure would be fun
to see it happen, though.
- No, you know what?
This is like pool now.
- You're gonna bounce off the back
and then knock me towards you.
- I'm doing a reverse bump out,
so I got to get my angles right.
I didn't do great in geometry.
- I mean, it's the proof.
(Link yells)
(Rhett yells)
- You dirty dog!
That was ugly, ugly! - Did I just, hold on,
did I just unlock a new strategy
that is just changing the game as we know it?
- No.
- Oh.
- [Stevie] This Chili Cheese Burrito
made with perfectly spiced seasoned beef
and melty shredded cheddar cheese
was discontinued by the mid-1990s.
However, it was so popular that it's been known to resurface
at select Taco Bell franchises from time to time.
The Chili Cheese Burrito originally hit stores in 1990.
- Whoa, really?
- Wow.
- They brought it in and took it out in the same decade.
- Well, it wasn't pretty, but it was impressive.
You get the point.
(smooth jazzy music)
Yoo, ooh, ooh, look at this.
- A little sweet time.
- A cinnamon sugar,
oh, I'm dumping it everywhere.
- Good lord, that's good.
- [Stevie] Called Cinnamon Crispas,
which I've never heard of,
so I don't know if it's just to be like Cinnamon Crispas
or something like, so, yeah.
Cinnamon Crispas. - Like Crispas?
- Crispas.
- [Stevie] Like, yeah, I thought it was a typo,
like it should be crisps, but it's not, it's Crispas.
- You're winning, you got to go first.
- Well, they are good.
- They are good. - Good gracious.
I would have chosen '90 or 2000.
Both of those are taken.
That sends me into 2010, but 2020's on the board.
I feel like I would have known about this.
- Do you, I don't remember these.
- Here's the thing, if I go to the 2010,
bumping me gets very difficult.
- Because you might try to bump
and then it turns into a pin bump situation,
where you're pinned into the corner.
- So, I want to get as close to the end as possible
and not touch it.
(puck rumbles)
- [Link] Is he gonna kiss the glass?
- [Rhett] Oh, man.
- [Link] Nope.
- I made it in 2010,
but I still left you an option for a geometric bump out.
- Yeah, but the reverse force off of that back wall
at the point of impact, that's tight, man.
- Lots of things to consider when you get into geometry.
- Of course, this is assuming 2010 is correct.
I do like your logic, though,
with 2000 and '90 both being off.
I don't think they were trying this type of stuff
'80s or earlier.
- So what are you gonna do? - And I am gonna do
a geometric reverse bump to get you out of there.
- Well, try it and see what happens.
(Rhett laughs)
(crew laughs)
- [Stevie] One of the first desserts
ever offered by the Bell, Cinnamon Crispas,
were cinnamon sugar dusted tortilla chips,
and they were eventually replaced by Cinnamon Twists,
which are still on the menu.
Taco Bell launched Cinnamon Crispas in 1980.
- Dang it!
You've lured me into your dumb logic
and into your dumb reverse geometric thing.
- I got you.
- You basically, you just lulled me into a stupor.
- Yeah, successfully.
(smooth jazzy music)
- And finally, we have tacos.
I mean, is there something? - Is this just a reg taco?
- Something special in here? - Reg taco.
Reg crunchy taco.
- Well, it's here, so we should eat it.
- That's a good thing.
- Okay, Link, I got to say.
- I cannot win, except the sudden death proposal.
- The rule that has always applied is that,
if you get to the end and you can't win,
the only way you can win is if you bounce off the back
and then you land completely in the right answer
that you guessed vocally, and you cannot bump.
But I don't know if we've ever gotten to this point
during a Bump Fest.
- Let's look at the scroll.
Here it is.
(regal music)
Scroll it down.
Scroll, oh shuffle rules.
Keep adding to this crap.
- When a player is officially dominating,
has proven, no, no, okay.
Should a player still have a legal bump.
it's a legal bump,
if player has exhausted a bump,
a player has exhausted his bump,
upon commencing the final round,
the pauper with no mathematic,
okay, here we go.
Upon commencing the final round,
the pauper with no mathematical chance at victory,
that's you in this case, can still win
by successfully completing a winner-takes-all bank shot.
The decree of the winner-takes-all bake shot is as follows:
One, the player shall call out to the heavens
the decade he's guessing.
Two, the puck shall bank off of the board's rear wall
and land squarely within the correct square,
not to touch the borderlines. - Yep, yep, yep, yeah, yeah.
- And three, the stated guess must be correct.
- Yep.
- It does not say within thine Bump Fest, though.
- So, with a Bump Fest, I can bump you.
- So everything's still applies,
but you can bump me out of it.
- I think that's fair.
It is a bump fest, after all.
- So, does everybody understand the new rule?
Add it to the scroll.
(regal music)
And the scroll sleepeth.
- So you go first.
- [Rhett] Tacos.
- But I can only bump you after banking it, I will say that.
- Okay.
Add that to the scroll.
- So it's a geometric reverse bump, actually.
- But then you have to land in the right thing, yeah.
- [Link] Yeah.
- So, we know that they started,
they actually started as something else.
I think they may not even have tacos at the beginning
when they started in 1940 or whenever it was.
I don't want to land in '40,
because then I make it too easy for you
to pull off the impossible.
I actually want to land in '70.
Well, here's the problem, though, if it's '50,
that makes it really easy for you to do the thing,
if it's '50.
'40 is gonna be really hard to pull off.
- But how could they not have tacos in the '40s?
- I'm gonna land it between '50 and '70
and just see what happens.
(puck rumbles)
- I love that.
I mean, you left every door open that I might want.
I think that Taco Bell started in the '40s
under a different non-taco name and they added tacos later.
Was it all the way in the '50s?
I hope so,
'cause that's what I'm going for.
- Now, you have to bank and land completely in '50.
- Right.
(puck rumbles)
(Link groans)
- Oh, you didn't land- - Did you hear the ding?
- You didn't fully-
- That was like an insult, man.
I actually thought I had a chance.
- [Stevie] Although Taco Bell now has
over a dozen different taco options,
this humble taco made of beef, lettuce, and cheese
still has a place in Taco Bells everywhere.
Originally costing 19 cents,
this item has been on the original Taco Bell menu
since the restaurant first opened in 1962.
- What, 1960?
We were in the '40s and the '50s.
- We were wrong about everything.
- Yeah, we had no chance.
- All right, congratulations, Rhett.
You've won and you get to dress up.
- Oh, I do get to dress up.
Look at this.
Oh my goodness, I'm a Taco Bell man.
- Like a hot sauce tie and a Taco Bell robe?
- You want to come get in my hot tub full of Fire Sauce?
- Not really.
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- You know what time it is.
- I'm Alana. - And I'm Matt.
- And this is Stevie.
- And we're at Devil's Tower in Wyoming.
- And it's time to spin.
- [Both] The Wheel of Mythicality.
- Ah, they got a Stevie, too. - That's not.
I don't think that's Stevie.
- That's their Stevie.
- Oh.
- Everybody needs a Stevie!
- Makes a lot more of a sense.
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