What was our biggest meltdown of the year? – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) Good Mythical special holiday episode. – Happy Holidays! And happy Friday! Or happy whatever day it is if you’re watching this, if it isn’t a Friday. Just work with me here, okay? Today, we’re keeping the retrospective ball rolling down the retrospective hill. – Okay. – With more Mythical Top Five moments! – Except these moments aren’t quite as happy as you seem to be right now. – So happy. It’s Friday. – It’s Friday! Somewhere. – Somewhere. All right, we’re about to dig into the top five Good Mythical Morning meltdowns of the year which have been voted on by you. So this is on you. I’m surprised that you had anything to vote on, actually. I mean, we pride ourselves on being very even keeled and unmeltdownable. – Hmm. – Right? – Sure. – [Stevie] Kicking things off at moment number five, after tripping on some hallucinogenic apps, Rhett falls down a nihilistic rabbit hole and takes Link with him. – I just feel like I’m observing myself do a job. – I do feel a little floaty. – I’m here but like none of it matters. You know what I’m saying? Like, I just feel like none of this matters. Like, what are we about to do? I have this, you spun a wheel. – Did you hear what I– – I have this thing. – Did you hear what I said we were gonna do? Because I think it’s pretty clear. This matters a lot. – Well, yeah, the people make– – This is an existential meltdown. – I– – It’s pretty, it’s pretty important. – What I’m saying is that I understand conceptually why people would think that this is entertaining. I’m just saying that ultimately, it does not matter at all. Like, I could put this down, I could sit here, and it would be fine. – It would be fine. – None of it has to happen. – It doesn’t. – I’m willing to do it. I’m just telling you, I want you to know that I haven’t, I feel as if it doesn’t matter whether I do it or not. But I will. – How does it feel watching this back? – Good. – But it could matter. (crew laughs) – I mean, you see, like, it really just, it reeks of not mattering. “Daddy Like, Daddy Don’t Like.” One daddy’s gonna say something that he likes. The other daddy’s gonna say something he doesn’t like. Who cares? – Me, man. I think the thing that I’ve learned is that everything matters. – You don’t have to have something. – Let’s hear a sound. – You don’t have to receive secret knowledge. (crew member grunts) (Rhett laughs) – What? – What happened? So, things started mattering again for you after that, and things started mattering less for me. I think it’s, between the two of us, it might be, there might just be a center of mattering. – Those apps, which, incidentally, I have not used since then (chuckles), put me in a state of, yeah, it was just like perspective, man. It was perspective. – We’re doing this again, huh? – Yeah, I can easily go back there and just, it was a moment of honesty and a moment of exposing this whole thing. And I just, by that, I just mean the whole system of the way culture works. I exposed it, or it was exposed to me. Culture came up to me and pulled its pants down and said, “This is all it is. This isn’t private. This isn’t private parts.” – “This is all I’ve got.” Culture said to you, “This is all I’ve got.” – Basically, culture pulled down its pants and it was just a hole of nothingness. – Let’s keep going. – [Stevie] We may be able to chalk up meltdown number four to Link consuming a wee bit too much caffeine during We Try Every Starbucks Iced Coffee. – I’m drinking a brownie. – I’d be comfortable putting the cookie one at number three if you would. – Yeah. – It’s just so, I mean, I’m sorry, we’re just not, we don’t drink cookies. – Yeah, stop, stop– – That’s not who we are. – Stop apologizing. – I’m apologizing to all the people who are like, “But there’s cookies.” – Well, that’s their problem. – And I’m sympathetic to that because it’s cookies. – I mean, like, I mean, we’re doing this to do it. Let’s just do it. – No, but it doesn’t matter. – It seems like it mattered to you. – I think you should apologize to me for telling me not to apologize. – I’m sorry that you’ve had to apologize so much. – I’m sorry that I apologized a second, I’m sorry on behalf of Link. – I’m sorry that you made him feel like he needs to apologize. I mean, look at me. – Yeah, I’m sorry that he– – Should I be– – Yeah, I’m sorry that he needs a scale. – Who should really be sorry? – I’m sorry that he needs a scale. – Who’s sorry here? – Stevie, as a vanilla blonde… – [Stevie] Yes. – How do you feel about this? – [Stevie] In all honesty, I was just saying, – Listen, if you want her to host this show, let her do it. – [Stevie] Hey, listen, I partially do! I partially do! – This is my freaking show, and we’re doing this! – It’s your show? – It’s our show but it– – I think you should apologize for saying that it’s your show. – [Stevie] I think you should apologize to me! – I think it’s the scale’s show today. – If you’re not doing the show, if you wanna make Stevie do the show, don’t put her in that spot. – [Stevie] I do the show! – She’s got, you do your part of the show. – [Stevie] Hello, hello! – And he does his part of the show. If he wants you to do his part of the show, then, you know what, swap places! – [Stevie] Well I think we’re gonna have to take this outside. – This is my spot, and I am freaking… Like, we rate stuff. – Okay, I– – Either rate it or ask her to replace you! – I think I know which one I think is the best. – All right, me too. This one. – Nope, the vanilla blonde. – [Stevie] Would you guys like me to try? (chuckles) – That’s why, I knew it was gonna happen, so I’m asking Stevie to be a tie-breaker. – So there we go, yeah. This is what we like, Rhett. – Hey, listen. I’m sorry about this. I’m sorry that we did this episode. – I’m not sorry– – I’m sorry about the final decision. – For anything. – I’m sorry about him. I’m sorry about his scale. – I’m still not sorry about anything. I’m right. I agree with that guy. Past me. – I’m sorry that I put her on the spot and made her make a decision. Oh, god. – Look how mad he is. – I’m sorry if that startled you. – Maybe this is the caffeine, I’ma blame it on that. – Speak for yourself, man. – I stand by my past self. Present self stands by my past self. We sit here and we taste, I don’t need to tell you all this stuff again. – I still don’t even understand what your point was. – You were apologizing for having an opinion, and that’s apologizing for what we do. – I was apologizing for your opinion. – No you weren’t! – Yeah, but I just, it’s our opinion, you know? Our opinion includes your opinion. – Stevie was smart enough to be on vacation right now. She said “I don’t wanna relive this,” so she’s not here today. Or we’d be talking to her about this, too, and it would be even worse! – I stand by myself. It doesn’t matter. None of it matters. – Well then why were you apologizing? – You know what does matter? The Mythical Kitchen matters, okay? – We can agree on that. – It’s the one thing in the universe that does matter at this point in your life. You should go over there, and see their weekly videos, and subscribe, ’cause right now they’re doing a- – They’re not weak, they’re strongly videos. – Actually, I think they do more than just weekly videos. They do more than a weekly video, it’s just there’s videos every single week, and there’s multiple things that they’re doing. And they’re doing the same thing that we’re doing, they’re reminiscing on some of their favorite Food Fears, Fancy Fast Food episodes, so that’s a great way to get caught up and see, just go back and watch ’em, but also, see as they reminisce about what’s happening on their channel. – And we’re not sorry about it. – It matters. I’m sorry for him. Let’s see the next one. – [Stevie] Next up at number three, a simple vision disadvantage while looking at foods from a distance quickly turns into a fit of rage. – So you have earned a disadvantage, you have to wear my glasses. – You know what? – Hey, I haven’t been wearing my glasses in the last round. – I can’t see anyway, and also I’m thinking about getting glasses, so this is just a little trial run. – Keep ’em both open. That’s part of the disadvantage. You have to keep both eyes open. – What kinda rules is this? – That’s the disadvantage! – I have to close my one eye. – No, you can’t close an eye! I’m serious! Don’t close an eye! – The disadvantage- – Is that you wear my glasses! And experience what my glasses do to your vision! Stop it! – Well, it’s a little bit different when I close one eye, but I will say- – I know how different it is ’cause they’re my glasses! – Oh, it’s not much different, it just, it looked like maybe, bear doo doo, when I close one eye. – Stop closing your eye! I can see every time you do it! Stop it! – I’m winking at you, man, this is all a joke. Ha ha ha, living a joke. – It was a quite a runner. “Nothing matters, you’re living a joke.” – But I mean, I feel like I seem well-adjusted, and settled, and I’ve got some equanimity in my life. You seem- – You were doing that because you were cheating, you were cheating. – But you seem a little disturbed. – You were cheating. You were cheating, my left eye is my weaker eye, it has a stronger prescription, which would make you have more of a disadvantage. – I don’t know if everything is okay. – I’m fine, it’s just rules exist for a reason. – The rules were to put your glasses on. So I did. And then I closed one eye. – Well, not that one, you closed the other one. – I couldn’t see anything. I did get that one right, though, didn’t I? – I don’t remember! It doesn’t matter. – Wasn’t it cubes of blood? – That’s not the point. – I would remember if I ate cubes of blood, I did not eat cubes of blood. – The point is, the heart behind the rule. – But it doesn’t really matter. Let’s see the next one. – [Stevie] At number two, Link gains a historic 27 point lead in Mystery Countdown Theater, only to watch it slowly slip through his fingers. – I got that right. See, we gotta make sure that we keep showing off these nipples. Well, I’m winning, ’cause you’ve been taking some risks. – Man, 13 to nothing, this is quite an early lead. 27 to nothing? – There’s no way you actually lost 27 to nothing. – Dang it, there goes my Queen Sweep. – It didn’t happen, right? I didn’t come back and win. – Still pretty embarrassing, though. – “I’ve figured something out.” – Now you’re just mad ’cause I’m getting into your lead, and now you’re projecting things on me, mister cocky! – That was tough, all right. – 27 to 19. – I have let this happen. – Hey, man. – 27 25. – It’s interesting now. We don’t script this. (Rhett guffaws) This meltdown has been real. – I just need a second. – I wanna thank my right nipple, and I wanna thank my left nipple. – Nipples suck! – Oh my gosh! 39 unanswered points? – How did this happen? – It’s kind of like when the Atlanta Falcons lost the Super Bowl, and all the Link fans out there, you feel like Atlanta Falcons fans, I’m sorry for you, I know, but you know what? There’s always next time. There’s always next time. – You know what? Suck a nipple. – So, it was another- – This is not how I wanna spend my holidays. – Another meltdown from you. – I know it is! I can’t help it, man! I’ve been trapped! – Hey, listen, I- – I agree with that guy, and I empathize with him, and nothing’s changed! – I’ve got one “meltdown” in this countdown, and it wasn’t even a meltdown, it was recognizing the nature of culture and society, and I wasn’t angry. There was no anger, I haven’t been angry this year at all! – I get angry when I’m defending justice. (crew laughs) And… If I get embarrassed after, how did that happen? – Hey, listen, but- – Morgan, how are there even that many points? Like, a lot of ’em, neither one of us get close to 27 points. – Yeah. – I had 27 points, he didn’t have any points! – And then I had 39. – And then there were 39 more points to get! – Yeah, right. It was pretty epic. I understand the anger in that one. Okay? But there’s another one. Maybe the last one’s me. It might be me. – If it’s me, I don’t wanna see it. – Okay, you might need to leave, then. – [Stevie] Last but certainly not least, the top meltdown of 2021. The difference between bean and beans gets heated. – [Past Link] I think this spells something. – [Stevie] Rhett. – Bean. (Rhett guffaws) – What did you say? – Bean. – [Stevie] Oh, I’m getting a shaking head from Devin. – Now, how many points are still on the board? – Okay. Beans, with an s. – You don’t get more than one guess. – [Stevie] I need to give him it, it’s correct, beans is correct. – No, he said “bean”. He should be punished for guessing “bean”, that’s the dumbest guess ever. Why wouldn’t you just guess “beans”? He shouldn’t get a hint and say “Well, it’s kinda.” “Oh, beans.” Like, why would you guess “bean”? That’s stupid! – Because did you see what it was? – You should be punished. – Did you see what it was at the time? The s was completely gone! – Yeah, exactly, and that’s why you shouldn’t get it. – I should just invent an imaginary s? – He guessed “bean”! Okay, so here we go, let’s keep playing. Beans. But seriously, just tell me. You guessed “bean” why? – ‘Cause I read B-E-A-N. – Right, and that’s wrong. – But why didn’t you guess it when it was up there? – Because I was waiting to see if it was plural. – You didn’t even know that it was “bean”! – I knew that it was a b. – But you didn’t, I knew it was B-A-E! – I knew that it was a b. – I said “bean,” and was waiting for “Be more specific,” which we often get that. – Uh-uh, I don’t accept that. – Like sometimes we say “burger.” Like if I had said “ship” on the last one, you would’ve said “Be more specific,” and then I would’ve said “Titanic about to hit an iceberg.” – Here’s what I’m gonna do for you. I’m gonna change my attitude, so that people don’t wanna turn- – You know what? Link wins, Link wins. I give this, I mean, you know what? – See? You knew when I changed my attitude that you couldn’t beat me. – And you know what? – I don’t know what the winner does. Whatever the winner does, Link gets that, whether it’s sticking this in my mouth, or I stick it in his mouth. I don’t know which one it is, because I can’t remember which is the punishment. – You know what? I love you, man. And I’ll give it to you, but “bean,” with all due respect, was a dumb guess. Why would it be “bean”? – And you know what I’m gonna do right now? I’m gonna change my attitude right now, too, because I did win that, and that was justice, and I have no qualms with how that turned out. – The missed opportunity in all that was, the number of times you said “Bean is such a dumb guess,” and we didn’t cut to the clip during the spelling bee of you guessing, what was it? He guessed “beans” when there was four letters on there. – Beans. B-E-A-N-S, beans. – No, that is not it. Is that your final answer? – Well, yeah. Beans. – Did you see how many letters there are? – Oh, crap! – So I mean. – It wasn’t bean at all. – I mean, I just gotta say. – But you know what? I did not get that correct. It was, yeah, that was a dumb guess. – I gave it to you, man. – I know a dumb guess when I give one, and I know a dumb guess when you give one. – I stand by bean, I’m really focused on bean in my everyday life. But I also appreciate beans, plural. But I did not win that game. – No, you didn’t. And you shouldn’t have. And everyone pretty much agreed with me. – I dropped it! And I also wasn’t making the case that I should’ve gotten the point, if you go back and watch that. I was making the point that- – But they gave you the point, Rhett. – No, they didn’t. Our rules are- – Stevie gave you the point. – And then took it. – Yes. – And then Davin took it. I blame Davin. – Thank you, Davin. I don’t have to thank you, you just did what was right, and you didn’t do that for thanks. – Are you about to have another meltdown? – I’m not in a good headspace. This’ll help. “All kinds of merry.” Who’s this from? The editors. – Y’all need to edit that clip I’m talking about in there. – “May you feel happiness all around you this season. To Rhett and Link from the editing team, happy holidays from the team who has seen every frame of every one of your very mature meltdowns.” Yeah, if you’ll notice, they do get chopped down. Living it in real time is too much, and reliving it is too much, too. Okay, we’ll open this. Reach your hand in there, Rhett. – Bean. – Beans! Plural! – Bean. – Yes. Sorry, editors. We trust you with our lives. – They got me my own gift. Bean. Thank you. – We can both be right. – You know who we should blame? We should blame, Morgan, did you make those ice videos? Yeah, we should blame Morgan, it’s Morgan’s fault. Because the s was weak! – That’s part of the gameplay, man. You win some, you lose some. – You gotta get a fat s, Morgan. You gotta have a, the key to happiness is getting a fat s. That’s how you win in life. – You know what? I am gonna have a good weekend. I want you to have a great weekend, and we’ll see you on Monday, when we find out the top five GMM food creations from 2021, this should be a good one. – Mm. Including bean. – And do you feel like you’ve had a change of heart? – That crunchy stuff penis? – Yeah. There’s several textures of penis on here.