Today, I hop through breakfast history. – And so do I hop. – Let’s talk about that. (gentle upbeat music) – Good Mythical Morning. – Today, we’re embarking down IHOP memory lane, a road that actually began just a few miles from this very studio. – Yeah, that’s right. In a year that we aren’t allowed to know because it may be too helpful in the game that we’re about to play, the very first International House of Pancakes opened in Toluca Lake, California, just a sausage link’s throw from where we sit right now. – If you’re gonna throw your sausage you gotta- – Oh. – You gotta give a man a warning. (chuckling) How far do you think you can throw your sausage? – Linked sausage. Not Link’s sausage. To Toluca Lake, if I got to. – Okay, yeah. And in fact, it opened right across the street from one of the world’s first Bob’s Big Boy restaurants, if that interests you. – Don’t throw your big boy. – But which of these two big boys knows IHOP’s menu like the back of their syrupy hand? It’s time for The Shuffleboard Game, IHOP edition. – Welcome to IZOS, the International Zone of Shuffleboard. – In each round, we’re gonna taste an item from the IHOP menu, past or present, and then we’ll guess when IHOP first introduced that item by shuffling our pancake-y pucks. Look how pancake-y these pucks are! – That is some tall stacks. I wonder if that’s gonna affect the bumpiness of the bump fest. – We’re gonna find out. We’re gonna do that shuffle into our corresponding decade on the shuffleboard. – Yeah, whoever’s puck shuffles closer to the correct decade wins that round. Bump fest rules are still a-bumping and whoever wins today shall be anointed the International Prince of Pancakes. – Let’s dig in. (gentle music) (electronic buzzing) I got a cool idea for the cloche. I’m gonna pick it up and throw it and you catch it with two hands. – Okay. – It’ll be like the cloche boys. (cloche banging) (Rhett laughing) – And then I’m gonna throw it to you and you’re gonna put it over there. Oh, cupcake pancakes. – [Rhett] Have fun today. – Look at this. – They gave us knives. We don’t need no knives for pancakes. – [Link] No, not when you can just. Cupcake pancake. Never had that. – That’s pretty sweet, y’all. – Very sweet icing. You got the sprinkles. – I’m going back in. You won last time, so you go first. – Man. – Put some whipped cream on there. – Let’s see. So the decades go all the way back to 1940. When did the cupcakes and the sprinkles and the birthday cake of it all escape the world of birthday cakes? Because the first place it would enter is the pancake. – Because it’s already a cake. It’s already halfway there. – So I think this was a precursor to lots of other crap being sprinkled. – Crap being sprinkled. – 50s, too early. 60s, too early. 70s, I don’t know. I still think that’s too early. (Rhett scoffing) I think with the pizazz of the 80s, you’re really starting to sprinkle-fy your stuff and get birthday cake into everything. – But it’s cupcakes. – Oh. Am I totally wrong about everything? – Well, you were saying cupcakes and then at some point in your reasoning, you switched your birthday cakes. – Yeah, I did. – So, I can’t help you at this point. I probably shouldn’t have said anything. I should have just let this continue. – But she sprinkles is all that really mattered to me and that’s what’s leading me to the 80s, whether it’s a cupcake, a birthday cake, a pancake. Who gives a cake? (words whooshing) (puck sliding) – Well, that looks like good placement. – Whoa, a little short. So if you’re to knock me or bump, as they say. Now, Rhett, I wanna remind you, this is cupcake pancake, not birthday cake pancake, even though my experience was that of a birthday. – So here’s the thing I will say. I actually think there’s a potentially significant difference between the two because birthday cake has been put into stuff over the past 10 years, is when that starts happening. But that would be no earlier than 2000, but the cupcake of it all makes me feel like cupcakes would have happened before birthday cakes. I think this is probably anywhere from the 90s up until the 2010s. I’m going to just push you further into the 80s and just hope that you’re wrong. So I’m gonna bump you a little bit, just to put myself a little bit more in 2000. – I’m now starting to think I am wrong, so. (puck sliding) (Rhett whooping) – That was a nice little bump. Okay, Stevie, is this still cupcakes or you wanna change it to birthday? – [Stevie] It is still cupcake pancakes and they were supposed to only be a limited time item, but customers enjoyed the sprinkled filled and icing topped pancakes so much that they’ve become a mainstay on their menu since first being introduced in 2016. – [Rhett] Okay, all right, yeah. – [Link] 2010s then, huh? – Yeah. Yeah. – Okay. Good work. I’ll give it to you. (bell dinging) – Thank you. I’ll take it. (gentle music) (electronic buzzing) – Same thing? – Opposite. (cloche banging) – [Link] Crepes! – Hey! I’m sorry, I gotta just grab one with my hand. I know the French would frown upon this but- – Are there eggs in a crepe or are they just a thinner pancake? – I think you can put eggs in a crepe. I think they’re also just a thinner pancake. – Yeah, I don’t know. They’re French, but not because of the eggs. – Crepes are great. – That would be the toast part. I’m so confused today, but you’re going first. – [Stevie] Did you say today? I’m sorry? – Just today, Stevie. – Man, crepes are good. – They’re like a thin pancake. – I don’t know if I’ve told you about my thin pancakes. – I’m gonna say you have, just so you don’t tell me about them. – Sometimes I’ll make very thin pancakes, but I don’t call them crepes. I call them thin pancakes and I’ll do between 15 and 20 in a sStack. – Oh, kind of like that, but thinner? – [Rhett] Yeah. – [Link] Why don’t you call them crepes? – Because I don’t know if there’s eggs in them. (chuckling) No, because I’m not French. They’re so fancy. When did IHOP decide to get this fancy? You couldn’t have done this before the 90s. I think this happened in the 2000s, but here’s the thing. This is a bump fest and so I’m gonna be very vulnerable if I go for 2000 because then you’ll just push me, just like I did on you on the last one. So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna make it more interesting. I’m gonna say my guest is the 90s and I’m gonna just lodge it in there in the middle between 70 and 90 and make you have to make a decision. (words whooshing) (puck sliding) – [Link] He stopping short at the 2020. – Not exactly as intended. – Do you know what International House of Pancakes was called when they first started? It was called International House of Pancakes, which included all nation’s types of pancakes. I am asserting right from the very beginning. – This is good reasoning. – They had crepes because of the French pancake. It’s a nation. – I don’t think, you’ve never made that logical of an observation on this show. (crew laughing) You should get a point just for that. So whenever they started this restaurant, they had crepes. – 1940. Now, to be completely smarty britches, all I gotta do is get past you and then any answer is right, so I’m not gonna get all caught up in my 1940 of it all. You’ve made it difficult. I think I need to go over here. – Oh, I made it difficult. (puck sliding) Whoa, whoa. – [Link] Oh, gosh. This is gonna be a little interesting. – [Rhett] I don’t know how this is gonna go down, man. – [Stevie] Today, IHOP’s menu features strawberries and cream crepes and sweet tart Swedish crepes, but the first crepes IHOP offered were crepes Suzette, described as delicate, thin pancakes with orange cointreau sauce back in 1958. – Oh, and. – I think you’re closer to 58. There’s, yeah, no doubt. Because the corner. – [Link] Yeah, because it’s there. I’m closer here. – So not from the beginning, but I don’t know. Actually, I don’t know when it was invented. It was in the 40s or the 50s. (bell dinging) So from pretty, a long time ago. Link gets the point. (gentle music) (electronic buzzing) – We love the Mythical Kitchen team. Josh, Nicole, Trevor, and Vi. Shout out. You may love them, too. You may love them more than you love us and we’re okay with that. – Yeah. – If you don’t- – We prefer that. – Give them a shot over at the Mythical Kitchen channel. All types of new episodes happen in all types of weeks. – All types of weeks. (cloche clanging) Oh! (cloche banging) – We’re ditching it! Breakfast bowls! – Oh, man. Where’s the bowl? – Yeah, it’s on a plate, but we know it came from a bowl. – Man, look at that. It’s hearty, man. – We got some linked sausage. We got some diced hams. – There’s hash browns in there. – [Link] Diced peppers. Of course, we’ve got eggs. – Of course we got eggs. Man, that’s good. – It’s got a sweetness to it. – All right, now that we’re tied in this game, it goes back to the fact that you won last time, so you go first. – Oh, snap! Breakfast bowls. – Man, that’s good. – The bowl-ification of breakfast happened in my lifetime. Of course, that’s still most of the board. 80s, too early. I’m thinking about when KFC started bowl-ificating stuff. Yeah, I definitely think the bowl-ificating of society really started hitting it hard in the 2000s, but I think it could be 2010s. So I’m gonna go in between those two and I’m gonna block you from 2000s entirely. – Okay. – By just landing in 2010. – Good luck with that. (words whooshing) (puck sliding) – Oh, that’s gonna be very weak sauce. (Rhett laughing) Can I use your mulligan? – Thank you for reminding me. I still have a mulligan. Do you want two mulligans? – (laughing) No, no, dude. No. – You know, it feels fast. – You didn’t eat enough of your breakfast bowl, buddy. – I just wanna explain. There’s sand on this thing and I think there was a sandless batch. – (laughing) But it was such a weak toss, man. – I’m halfway through my stroke and I just get nervous. I’m like, oh! Once you’re in your stroke, you just have to give it. You just have to follow through. – Now, as crazy as this sounds, Link, the bowl-ification of things could have happened as recently as 2020. – [Link] I hope it’d be that. – That can be like the latest thing. Maybe IHOP held out on the whole bowl-ification. They said, “We’re not gonna bowl-ify until we’re absolutely forced to!” And they just did it recently because I would have said that it’s in the 2010s, but you already had a 2016. So that leads me to think that this isn’t the 2000s. Long story short, I need to get past you and not get any further past you than a little bit. (puck sliding) – See, that’s weak sauce, too. See? (Rhett laughing) You see? You see? You see what happens when you talk smack to the sandy boy? – Well, you know. Hey, sandy boy. I have a mulligan and I’m gonna use it because I’ve definitely lost this round. (Link laughing) It was like, y’all got these all remote controls? (laughing) Did you see how quickly it stopped? – I love that. – That isn’t what happened to yours, man. Yours did that stop suddenly like a remote control. – [Link] That’s part of the play, man. You never know when there’s a sandy area. – I gotta get past that, whatever just happened. Okay. – Yeah, try again. (puck sliding) There we go! It’s anybody’s game, y’all. – [Stevie] After reducing their menu from 12 pages to only one the year prior, IHOP replucked its menu with the addition of six styles of burritos and bowls, including the country breakfast bowl in the year 2021. – I told you 2021! I told you! – Sandy boy got lucky and he’s gonna take his point and run. – And I used my freaking mulligan! (Link laughing) (gentle music) (electronic buzzing) – No, hey. Two hands. I’m gonna catch just the nipple. – Okay, yeah. (cloche banging) – Sourdough bacon burgers. – We’ll get it, we’ll get it. We’ll get it! Don’t doubt us! – So IHOP broken to the burger market and then went total sourdough. – They tried. I’m not gonna say it. – Because I’m going first? – Yeah and I’m losing. – [Link] That’s a good, greasy burg. – That’s pretty good. – I’m going first. – Pretty good. – IHOP has not always been about the pancakes or the breakfast. Burgers have been around for many a decades in the IHOP menu. – You trying to sound like what Stevie is gonna sound like? – I always ask myself, what would Stevie say? Melt. Oh, I left the melt out. That changes everything. They didn’t start melting their burgers until- – Later. – Now, you were about to say something and I know what it was. There was this campaign where they farcically changed their name to International House of Burgers. IHOB. – Yeah and that was like, five years ago, so, – [Link] And it was- – That’s not in play, anyway. – It was to draw attention to the fact that they’ve had burgers for a long time. – Yeah, hey, we’ve been having burgers. In fact, we’re changing our name, but not really. – But at what point did they expand from just being a pancake house to having more of a diner lunch menu? Diner. That word definitely makes me think of the 50s, but I think that they were a little late to the game because they’re always a little cagey. – Right. The international how hesitant office of pancakes. – So I’m thinking 1960. – [Rhett] Okay. – All right. We’ve been re-sanded a little bit here, so. – So the dead spots should be gone. – Don’t do me wrong, sand. (words whooshing) (puck sliding) Short. I’m still short. I’m still going too gingerly. – That was not the sand’s fault. – No, it wasn’t. – Okay. – I thought that a lot of sand had been added and I got nervous again. – Here’s the thing, Link. Dang it. I don’t think you’re in a bad spot, just like last time. – [Link] I know I’m not. Yeah. – Because I think that 70s or 90s are both not horrible guesses. All right, I’m in a little bit of a desperation mode, given circumstances. I think I’m gonna have to go for the long range reverse bump out. (Link clapping) This is a very difficult thing when a man is at the top of the pyramid, but I’m at the top of my game in shuffleboard. Not really. – No, you’re not. – (chuckling) So. – He’s going for the long range reverse bump. – I’m gonna try to do a full reverse bump out. This is a risky move, but sometimes, you’ve gotta go risky! – It’s a move of desperation when you have no clue what the right answer is and you’re losing. – I actually think that I would be guessing 90s, but I can’t get behind you, so I have to bump you out. – You could do the nestle behind. – And do you know why I think it’s the 90s? Not because it’s a burger melt because it’s a sourdough bacon. – Bacon. – NAFTA opened up all the bacon lanes. Okay. And this is tough. This is really tough because you could really miss this up. (puck sliding) (Rhett collapsing) (Link clapping) (crew laughing) I didn’t take into account the pancake. – [Link] Top heavy pancakes. – Dang it, man! – I think you might need to be going to the International House of Prayer to figure out how to win this. You know what I’m saying? – Okay, all right. I just learned something. Maybe it’s 1980s. – [Stevie] In an effort to attract more customers, IHOP tried emphasizing non-breakfast items by rolling out a new after breakfast menu, which included a chicken penne pasta, a Southwest chicken fajita salad, and a sourdough bacon burger melt that was introduced in 1999. – Yeah. I knew it. – Yeah! Yeah. Luck be a lady and I’m gonna take her for a date. – My guesses are great. My pucks are horrible. (gentle music) (electronic buzzing) You lifted off. I catch it as a hat. I can’t win, so I need some sort of- – So you want me to throw it onto your head? – I want you to throw it up nicely. I’m gonna catch it on my head. – Okay. (cloche banging) (crew laughing) – Why’d you do it sideways? – Rooty tooty fresh and fruity. – It literally split the top of my skull, man. – Well, now you can blame me for you losing because you can’t win unless I make it interesting. Rooty tooty fresh and fruity. – So this is just a breakfast platter. – See, when the eggs look like eyeballs, I don’t want nothing staring at me. But also, that ain’t my deal. That kind of egg. Sunny side. – Up, yeah. Rooty tooty fresh and fruity. That is a fun name. – Now, I don’t even know. I don’t know who goes first when you make it to the final round and it’s in a round where someone’s down three to one. – (coughing) I’m sorry. – Arms up. – No, no. This might be for real. (Rhett laughing) This might be my moment. – Okay. – So you leave it to me to self sabotage an obvious win by dying. If he dies, he forfeits. I win. Right? That’s the rule? If he dies before we go into the final round, I win. – All right, I’m back. – Oh, dang it. – I’m not gonna die until after I beat you fair and square. – I don’t know who goes first. I think we’re gonna have to consult the scroll. – Agreed. (gentle drum roll music) Scroll o’ Shuffle Rules. Tell us the order. – Okay, when a player is officially dominating, has proven victorious. No, that’s not it. That’s three games in a row. – [Link] If there’s nothing- – Upon commencing the final round, the popper with no mathematical chance at victory can still win by successfully completing a winner takes all bank shot. The decree of the winner takes all bank shot. We know that, we know what that is, but who goes first? Is it just the regular rules where you just go first because you’re winning? I think we just default to normal rules, but we should add a rule just to clarify that whoever’s leading always goes first, regardless of circumstances. – Yeah, we should add that rule, even if the rule is somewhere up here and we just didn’t read it. – Yeah. Until we decide to change it for another reason. (gentle drum roll music) – All righty. – The scroll goes back to sleep. So you go first. But you cannot remove the cloche from the board because that was your fault. – Rooty tooty fresh and fruity. What a fun 80s sounding name. – I didn’t know where that was going. – I definitely think this feels 80s. Now, that’s way back there. I think it could be the 70s. If I go for 70s, I’m blocking you from a lot of the 80s. (puck sliding) Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. My answer is 80s and that’s what I was aiming for. – Okay, so- – You’ve got a bank it off the back and then land in the place that you say that you’re aiming for squarely. – And given the nature of the pancake stack, as I demonstrated earlier, if I go too hard, it’s gonna fall over. But if I go super soft, it should just bounce off of the back without toppling over, hopefully, and nestle in the 80s. – That’s your answer? – I think 80s is a good guess. – [Link] Yeah. – But it’s my only guess because of the nature of how I would have to win. – Well, the door is open. – Man, this is tough because it’s gotta not fall over, but it’s gotta make it completely back into the 80s. Okay, please don’t fall over. (puck sliding) (Link and Rhett yelling) – Oh, no! (Link grunting) (Rhett shouting) – Please be 80s. Please. Is this the year I have to learn what it’s like to be a loser? Oh, I hope not. – [Stevie] I have rooty tooty fresh and fruity consisted of two eggs, two bacon strips, two pork sausage links, and two fluffy buttermilk pancakes covered in strawberry, blueberry, or cinnamon apple compote, and finally, a whipped cream cherry to top it all off. They sold for as little as $1.99 when they were first introduced in 1985. (bell dinging) – Yes! (laughing) Oh! The gods have smiled upon me! – No! – Oh, man. – I think I gotta do this here. No! – Hey, look, I’ll feed you with some of my syrup from my septuor. Just accept it. (crew laughing) Good? Is it real syrup? It’s not glue. – Hot glue, hot glue! 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