I'd say there's just a handful of shows better than ours.
Wendy Williams is definitely one of them.
( music playing )
Here we are. And there you are.
And here I am. Now, I love me a good "jif."
Sometimes I'll stare at a "gif" on a loop for hours even when I'm driving.
But the truth is, I have no idea where "jifs" come from.
I don't even know how to pronounce the dang things,
- but I've done some digging. - Mm.
And I have uncovered the original videos
of some of the most popular gifs,
and I'm going to quiz Rhett on them.
This is Rhett. It's time for...
Here's how this is gonna work.
- I'm gonna show you a jif-gif. - I see what you did.
I'll give you multiple options of the origin story
of said gif-jif, and then, uh, if you get three correct,
you will win your very own personalized...
- ..."jif." - Should we just establish a way to pronounce it
as the official position of "Good Mythical Morning"?
Or should we just keep people in suspense
and keep going back and forth and waffling?
- Let's keep straddling the-- - All right.
the ditch that runneth full of jif-gifs.
But I'm not gonna say it both together.
- I'm just gonna say "jif"-- - Both: Or "gif."
But not both.
Referred to as the greatest gif of 2017,
and quite possibly one of the greatest "jifs" of all time,
of course, White Guy Blinking.
There he is being white and blinky.
- Rhett:
It's just what you put over it...
- Rhett:
It's so good. So good.
Rhett, who is this white guy and why is he blinking?
Is he A, local newscaster Steve Winkler
responding to an inappropriate joke
made by the weatherman;
B, video producer Drew Scanlon
reacting to his colleague playing an action-adventure
video game during a livestream;
C, commercial actor Brian Stocker
in a LensCrafters commercial
trying to read the bottom line of an eye chart;
or D, a social outcast trying desperately to wink
at an attractive woman for the first time?
- "How do I do this?" - Wow.
- Gotta get that girl. - There's a lot of context here.
Uh, this guy does not seem like an actor.
He doesn't seem like he's focusing on a--- a line of text.
It feels like the one that is the most underwhelming
- makes the most sense to me. - Which is?
Video producer Drew Scanlon reacting to his colleague
playing an action-adventure video game during a livestream.
Like, "Who cares?" Exactly.
That's why this thing went so big,
because the origin doesn't even matter.
Irony, baby. B!
- You are correct. - Hey, hey!
But I don't know if the irony plays a part in it.
Let's watch the clip that it came from,
and see what he's reacting to.
...so I've been doing some farming with my hoe here.
I can kind of till the--
What kind of a-- so what is that?
Oh, he just said "hoe."
He said, "So I've been doing some farming
with my hoe here." Oh!
That simple? That simple.
All right, here's another one.
Have you ever been both confused
and unimpressed at the same time?
Well, no one does it better than the woman in this epic side-eye "jif".
- Link:
Yes, she is.
Who is she? What's happening?
Is she an audience member at "The Wendy Williams Show"
reacting to Khloe Kardashian's daddy drama?
Is she an audience member at "The Wendy Williams Show"
reacting to Wendy arm-wrestling Ronda Rousey?
Or C, an audience member at "The Wendy Williams Show"
reacting to Wendy putting a wig on a cat?
Or an audience member at Coachella
realizing everyone around her is on Molly?
Oh, ho, ho, yep.
- That's the look. - Hmm.
- So what is it? - If you can't get on "Wendy,"
- at least get on Molly. -
- Not true. -
Khloe Kardashian daddy drama,
Ronda Rousey arm wrestling,
or Wendy putting a wig on a cat?
Uh, man, you know, any of these things
could happen on Wendy's show.
- That show-- - All in one episode.
I'd say there's just a handful of shows better than ours.
"Wendy Williams" is definitely one of them.
Who else?
- Maury. - Okay.
What's your answer?
C, cat, wig.
( robotic voice ) C, cat, wig.
Jif, gif, cat, wig. Okay.
Let's find out. An audience member at the ( babbling )
Khloe Kardashian's biological father
has always been in question.
You've heard this story.
Many of us think that it might be OJ Simpson,
and I've even joked-- "Khlo-J."
You know, it would be a perfect name.
Rhett:
( laughs )
- Oh, she saw her, too. - Yes, she did,
and then she calls her out.
She's like, "We just got a shot of you, girl.
It was the perfect reaction."
- Oh, she did see her. - Yeah, she said that on the show.
You did not get that one right. Here's another one.
"Mind blown" "jifs" have been popular
ever since gifs were a thing,
but this is perhaps the best "mind blown" gif of them all.
Looks kinda like Robert DeNiro, but it is not.
- Rhett:
- is this from? - It just keeps going.
Croatian Batman, Italian Spider-Man,
Brazilian Wonder Woman, or Canadian GMM.
I didn't know we had that.
- Golly. - Golly, he says.
Oh, wow!
All of these are so intriguing to me.
( sputtering )
- Italian Spider-Man. - It is, and I just wanted
an excuse to show a clip of Italian Spider-Man.
This is some context.
- Rhett:
-
What? Is that Spider-Man in Italy?
- Yes. - I hope it is.
- That is him. - No, this guy at the end.
Yeah, that guy is Italian Spider-Man.
- What? - Smoking the cigarette.
We gotta frickin' move, man. America's so wack!
- The pizza, too. - Yeah, mm-hmm.
- There's lots of reasons. - This next "jif" comes from a rap battle
on Deshawn Raw's YouTube channel
featuring his alter ego Supa Hot Fire.
What epic rap lyric did he just deliver
to elicit this jif-able reaction?
- You've seen this. - Oh, this is--
this is one of the most popular ones of all time.
Or, "Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
- for you are the wind..." - Both: Beneath my wings.
Man, these are all much lamer than I would've expected,
- given the reaction. - Plucked out of context,
they can-- they can be for any situation.
The most clever one is the one about your mama
and politely declining her invitation,
so that's the one I'm gonna go with.
Let's find out if he's right.
I broke up with my ex-girl.
Here's her number.
Psych! That's the wrong number!
- ( all clamoring ) -
It's all about the delivery.
It's all about the delivery, you know?
It's all about rhyming "number" and "number."
- That's what I think it is. - That's right.
You didn't get that one right, Rhett.
You gotta get one more right to get your own "jif".
- I really want it. - Up next, excited kid birthday gif,
which features an excited kid at a birthday.
- Link:
But what's made this kid so excited?
Is this "jif" pulled from a home video of a birthday party
after a man in a dinosaur costume enters with a tray
of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets?
A music video called "I Died On My Birthday" starring Alfonso Ribeiro?
- Carlton from "Fresh Prince." - Mm-hmm.
C, a local commercial featuring a birthday party being crashed
by former Minnesota Twins outfielder Tori Hunter?
- Oh, gosh. - Or D, a scene from the upcoming TBS show
"Get Out: The Early Years."
Ooh! Whoa-ho!
This definitely doesn't seem like a home video.
Um, uh, Alfonso-- I feel like I'm familiar
- with all of Alfonso's work. - Mm-hmm.
- You know what I'm saying? - Okay.
I feel like I would know that this happened,
'cause I follow him very closely.
So I'm gonna go with Minnesota Twins, Tori Hunter!
Let's find out!
We have a special guest, kids.
It's Tori Hunter from the Minnesota Twins!
Look, look. Watch, watch.
-
The kid is an actor.
That kind of undercuts the power of the "jif" for me.
Ah, but he's so excited to see Tori.
Imagine how excited he would be
if he actually knew who Tori Hunter was.
- You know? - Right? Yes.
Wow, his mind would've been blown.
All right, you did get three right,
so you win your very own "jif"!
I'm looking for it, but it's digital!
- Show it to him. - Oh.
It's when-- look, it's sunglasses
sticking to your peanut butter hair.
It's your glasses, not sunglasses.
It's your glasses. That was when you tried
to stick your nose in my ear.
Remember that? I remember that.
- Carry that around in your pocket. - I will.
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You know what time it is.
- Hi, I'm Emily. - I'm Victoria.
I'm Olivia.
And we're in Burlington, Vermont,
celebrating our 21st birthday together.
And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality!
- ( cheering ) - Happy birthday, triplets!
Click the bottom link to watch this episode from the beginning.
And click the top link to see if we can identify
the origin of some of the GMM "jifs"
presented to us in "Good Mythical More"!
And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is going to land.
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