- Today's topic is microscopic.
- Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning.
- Rhett, you're a big guy. - Yeah.
- But I want you to know there is a whole other world
at the opposite end of the big-guy spectrum,
and that is the microscopic world.
- Yeah, the little world, I don't care about it man.
- Well you are today.
- I stay in the big place.
- If you've ever seen images from a scanning
electron microscope, you know that things get freaky
when you look at em really up close using that technology.
- I've seen these pictures.
- But can you identify what the real thing is
given only that? - Probably.
- Well let's find out.
We've got some itsy bitsy, teeny weeny,
microscopic picture-eenies,
and I'm gonna show em to you today.
- Picture-eenies?
- Yeah, and if you get six out of eight of these correct,
there is multiple choices, so it's not just blind guessing
which you'd be doing otherwise,
- I will be looking at this, though.
- You get to escape the punishment of having to wear
a microscopic outfit in our Rhett and Link Instagram,
and I'll have to wear it.
- You'll have to wear it if I win,
if I lose, I have to wear it. - If you get at least six.
- Check this out, here's the first image.
It's kind of scary, huh?
- Oh gosh, now is that true color, true-to-life color,
or is this - Shining through,
no this is some artistic liberties that were taken
by the scanning electron microscope people.
- So it's not necessarily green and purple
or blue and purple. - Not necessarily, no.
It's an aid to help you, or not.
- I thought it was a purple blanket
was the first thing I thought,
purple blanket on my legs.
- That's not it, let me give you
your choices because that's wrong.
Is it hair with hair gel on it, used dental floss,
or Keebler elf dingleberries.
- Oh wow, the ol 'dingleberries.
- They're deceptively small.
- That doesn't look like a Keebler elf butthole,
so I don't think that those are dingleberries.
I also think C is probably a joke every time,
so I'm just gonna choose between A and B.
- Don't count on it.
- Hair with hair gel, man I don't know,
hair gel can get nasty I guess.
Dental floss, it feels like that looks more like
a hair close up, because hairs are
they're more uniform - I need your answer.
I need your answer. - It's not like rope or string
I'm gonna go with A, hair with hair gel.
- No Rhett, it is used dental floss.
- It looks so uniform, like,
- I know.
- Like a fishing line or something.
- It's the stuff that's on it that's
kind of disturbing to me.
- They recently said you don't have to floss.
- Not off to a good start, what about this one?
This is not a satellite image of Tatooine.
Is it a Cheez-It, a fortune cookie,
or a patch of your psoriasis?
- My psoriasis cleared up, thank you.
- I know, I was taking photos of it beforehand.
Just so you could take to the doctor.
- I put a lot of moisturizer on it, just clears right up.
Well it's definitely a crispy food item.
- Cheez-It or fortune cookie?
- I mean, wow, I don't know, Cheez-Its have more craters
and craggly spots than fortune cookies do,
so I'm going with Cheez-It.
I also love them, please send me some Cheez-It.
- No, this is a fortune cookie.
I thought you might get all these right, but you haven't.
- I have to get every one right from here on out?
- And I'm sorry, I forgot to write the fortune here,
which means that fortune was wrong.
- Oh, that was a placeholder.
- No, it's just most fortune cookies have
true fortunes, but that one did not.
Come on, you can still do this man.
It's gotta be a clean sweep the rest of the way,
or you're wearing a microscopic outfit.
- It's not gonna happen.
- Check this out.
Is this a coffee bean, a sugar granule,
or AJ the chinchilla's poop nugget,
Chase's pet chinchilla.
= Oh I get it, AJ's his name.
- A coffee bean, a sugar granule,
or AJ the chinchilla's poop nugget.
- It's not poop, golly.
- It's hard to get a picture of those
because Chase just gobbles em up right when,
- I've seen him do that, like Cocoa Pebbles.
- Don't eat the poop nuggets!
- [Chase] They look so good.
- It looks like Cocoa Puffs.
- I mean I just feel like, at this point,
it's just a complete shot in the dark,
because the first two I felt good about.
- You're gonna have to pull a Linkster move
and go against your intuition.
- Okay, but a coffee bean is smooth, man.
The sugar granule looks like it would have
that kind of stuff on it, but a sugar granule
is crystal, so I think that you would see a crystal thing.
- A scanning electron microscope is very magnified
- Coffee bean, coffee bean.
- Yes, you're correct.
- [Rhett] Sweep is alive.
- Sweep is alive, you've gotten one out of three.
- Yeah, that's right I have.
- Check this thing out, don't be too scared.
- That is a hawk, it's a hawk's talon.
I don't even need the choices.
- Is it a gecko toe, or a spider palp,
which is a proper name for a spier penis.
- Oh really?
- Or is it Kermit the Frog's palp?
- I don't know, I've seen Kermit walking,
he doesn't have a palp.
- You've seen him walking?
- Miss Piggy would be talking about that thing
all the time if he had one.
She'd be insulting him every four seconds.
- I thought this was like a demented cactus
growing out of a mop, but that's what
it technically looks like.
- I'm gonna go with, because I don't believe
a spider woman would be willing to put up with that,
I'm gonna go with gecko toe.
- Yes, you're right.
- What was the little moppy part, though?
Was he stepping on something?
- I don't know, man, I didn't make it,
I just take a picture of it.
And I didn't even take these pictures,
I don't have a scanning electron microscope.
- Of course you don't.
- Check out this one.
Is this a cut beard hair, a sliced spaghetti noodle,
or one of Kylie Jenner's old lips?
- Oh, she discards them?
She should eBay those, I know people
who'd pay good money for that.
- There's another one under there.
- Oh it regenerates like a starfish.
- No, it sheds like a snake skin.
- Did you know her, how do you get this information?
- She's great friends.
- With someone else.
I'm almost positive this is a cut beard hair,
because I feel like I've seen the exterior of a hair before,
and it had scales on it.
But hairs are usually circular,
they don't look like a squished Alabama.
- It looks like a squished soggy TP roll.
- Cut beard hair.
- The streak is alive.
I think you should bring that look back.
- Nuh uh, I'm not going to do that.
- Take a look at this one.
Is this a cat tongue, a pencil eraser, or a tickle party
cootchie, cootchie, cootchie, cootchie coo.
My kids react differently than that.
Never felt so rejected in my life, but that's cool,
you don't like the tickle party.
- Why would you think that was a tickle party,
or did you just want to do a tickle party?
- It looks like a tickle party, I don't know, it's like eee.
Lay on that and don't laugh.
- Now I know how your brain works, actually I still don't.
So it looks like multiple tongues, so it seems like
the kind of thing, so if a cat tongue consists
of other tongues that consist of other tongues,
like if it's like a tongue inception inside of a cat's mouth
that would be strange, wouldn't it?
Or does a pencil eraser surface look like multiple tongues?
There's no way, this looks,
- That would pull a lot of lead out of some paper.
- This looks biological, it doesn't look like
a rubber thing, I'm gonna go with cat tongue, A.
Tongue on tongue on tongue on tongue on tongue.
- I'm sorry Rhett, it's a tickle party.
- [Rhett] Ah ha, it's a cat tongue.
- [Link] It's a cat tongue.
- Yeah it is.
- Tongues on tongues, which is a tickle party,
come on, work with me.
- I don't want to work with you anymore.
- At least tickle me, just tickle me.
No, don't, don't.
- I go for the thigh tickle.
- Look at this one.
- I wasn't tickling anything else.
- Look at this.
Is it a moose antler, a Brussels sprout,
or a mummified Egyptian cat palp.
- Back to the palps again, huh?
- It's very brittle because it's mummified and Egyptian.
- It does look like a Brussels sprout,
but that's why I don't think it is a Brussels sprout.
I see the porous innards oF a bone structure, I'm going with
- Which is why I wrote moose antler,
because I knew you would think that.
- Yeah, so I'm gonna go with moose antler.
- You sure?
- Yeah, I'm so sure, I've never more sure
about anything in my life.
- Well that should tell you something
because this is a Brussels sprout.
- No, dang.
- [Link] And look at how much fun he's having.
I've never had that much fun with a Brussels sprout.
- Well, because Brussels sprouts are much smaller to us.
- It's like he's in a bedload of cabbage,
we've done that before.
- Yeah we have, yeah.
- [Link] And it was fun.
- [Rhett] I made boobies out of em.
- And finally, Rhett you have no chance of getting out
of Instagramming yourself in a miniature outfit,
but just for the fun of it and education,
is this toilet paper, tighty-whities, or Madonna's skin?
- Oh come on, hey, come on.
Hey, I'm a big fan,
of toilet paper.
- I called em whitey-tighties,
isn't that we called em, whitey-tighties?
- We did, we were wrong.
Toilet paper, it doesn't even matter anymore.
I mean, I've had, I got a couple of tattered pairs
of whitey-tighties that I'm still holding on to,
looks kind of like that.
- What is it?
- Holes all in it, quite a breeze.
But I'm gonna go with toilet paper.
- You are correct, you see that two-ply,
good gracious I don't know what's been eating
that toilet paper.
- [Rhett] There's an animal in there.
- That's crazy man.
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