- Today we turn the
food court into a sport. - Let's talk about that. (cheerful music) Good Mythical Summer. - Shopping malls, they're
a menagerie of nostalgia. Lemme take you on a quick journey. You got the movie theater where you first held
hands with your crush. - People under the stairs. - Oh, okay. You got the department store where you bought 'em a bracelet. - Pink ice. - Pink ice? And you got the big fountain
where they dumped you. Okay, Rhett, what's your favorite
and quickest mall memory? - There was a girl I was interested in, her name was Crystal, and she was the perfume girl at JC Penny. And I went and picked her up one day, and as we were driving home, I was like "She smells too much like
perfume for this to work." And that was the only
time I ever picked her up. - That sounds like something
me or Jerry Seinfeld would say. But I do remember that. I hate malls. You know
this, especially now. The only thing in a mall that I still view in a positive
light is the food court. You got the variety, you
got the shared seating, you got the "Meet me
back here in 10 minutes and we'll see what everybody ordered." So today, we're gonna see if
all of our food court living can help us put these nostalgic foods in their proper place in history. It's time for The Shuffleboard
Game, Food Court Edition. Welcome to the Shuffleboard Game Zone. - We're gonna be tasting
some iconic dishes from popular mall food court restaurants. We're gonna shuffle our puck to the decade we think the restaurant
was first established, not the time that it was
added to a food court, because that would all be the same year, when food courts opened up. This is when the restaurants were established as
restaurants for the first time, that happen to now be in food courts. Whoever gets the closest
to the decade wins. - And bump fest rules remain in effect, we're gonna be bumping
each other with no limit, except for in certain exceptions heading into the final round. And, we added more bumpers on the sides to increase the bump fest effect! - Yes, the loser will be escorted out of The Shuffleboard Game
Zone by mall security. Let's shuffle! (chill music) - Okay, ah, there's some
rats on this cloche! - [Rhett] 'Cause they're like mall rats. - Oh yeah.
- I get it, I get it. Oh, of course, the classic.
- [Link] We're in Sbarro territory. - Oh, I like the way you say that. - Sbarro? - Yeah, you don't say
"Sabarro," you're like "Sbarro." - Sbarro. - You really bring the
S and the B together, which I think is how the
Italians intended it. - Yeah, am I right? - Man, it's a big piece of pizza. - And, even though we didn't
think we would like it, when we were taste testing our pizza, we were loving it. - It's good right now, man. - And it's a go-to spot in the food court, when all else fails, you know
you can go back to the SB. - I'm gonna go first,
'cause I won last time. - Decades randomly placed on the board, from the year 2000 all
the way back to 1920. - Man, that's good pizza. I don't care who you are. I mean they were first in
line to get to the food court, first of all, so they had
some kind of reputation. - It definitely feels that way. - But not too big of a reputation, 'cause it wasn't like Pizza
Hut or anything like that. Based on no logic whatsoever, other than the fact that it
had to precede food courts, I think this is 60s or 70s. - [Link] Okay. - I'm going 70s. - [Link] You're right in the middle of the pyramid either way. - [Rhett] I'm going 70s... - Oh, the board is fast this morning. - [Rhett] Okay, so I don't even know what decade I landed in,
'cause I covered it up. - You've traversed to 1980. - Okay, I'm in the 80s. - I definitely think of food courts really hitting their stride in the 80s. Maybe being invented in the late 70s? - The pepperoni. Perfect.
- I think Sbarro, I mean, it could be as
early as the 50s to me. 50s are calling me, but
because it's a bump fest, I'm really tempted to bump you. - Well, here's the thing about the bump fest with the bumpers, in the past, when you bump fested a dude, you might bump him right off the board, but now you might bump him
right into the right answer! - Well, for this one, I'm
just gonna stick with 1950. - So right at the peak. Oh, that's too hard, my friend. - [Link] Oh gosh, gosh, slow
down, slow slow slow slow slow! Well, it still defensively
places me in a good spot. - I don't think you can lose this round, unless it's 1920, or the year 2000. - [Stevie] After emigrating to
New York from Naples, Italy, husband and wife Gennaro
and Carmela Sbarro opened their first
delicatessen in Brooklyn. - Brooklyn! - [Stevie] Where Carmela
"Mama" Sbarro made pizza slices for workers going to and from work. Sbarro has been selling this traditional New
York-style pizza since 1956. - Ooh, I was right, and then I swooped. - But it doesn't matter,
you got the round. - Brooklyn! (chill music) Show me a show with as much
cloche game as we've got here. Cinnabon! - I don't think I can think of one, Link. - I think this is actually
considered a cloche. - Just because it's one Cinnabon, I'm going right for the heart. Oh, look at that, I just
pulled the straight heart out, like Temple of Doom. - I'm gonna suck it out like I'm... - Yeah, he's gonna do it in a
way that's a little bit gross. - That worked. - Okay. You're in the lead,
so you're up, sticky hands. That's good. - Okay. Cinnabon, Cinnabon, cin cin cin. You feel a little sinful
when you eat it, don't ya? - Especially when you eat just the heart, and leave the rest. - I think this is a
more recent development. I mean, when we were kids running through the Crabtree Valley Mall, there was no Cinnabon in 1980. I think this is a 90s creation. - 90s. - 90s.
- 90s. - [Link] You think it's 2000? - I'm not gonna tell you what I think. - I'm thinking 1990,
again, I gotta go light. Stoppy stoppy stoppy stoppy
stoppy stoppy stoppy! - [Rhett] Okay, you reached 1990. - Right there in the middle. That pole's gonna be a little sticky. - The thing that I think you failed to take into account, Neal, and yes, you did make a sticky pole. If it was at Crabtree in 1990, it was in the world no
less than 10 years before. - Okay. Then you're thinking 1980? - I mean I think it
might be 1970, honestly. But I think the 80s is when people started
thinking things like "You know what, we don't have
to just have a restaurant that has stuff and Cinnabons, we could just have a restaurant that just has Cinnabons." I think it's 70 or 80, so I'm just gonna try to get
past you on the left side. - Okay, whatevs. Fast board this morning, I think. - [Rhett] Yeah, very
fast board, very slick. - [Stevie] Cinnabon was
founded by father-son duo Greg and Rich Komen, known for
their classic cinnamon rolls that use cream cheese frosting and makara cinnamon from Indonesia. - Oh, yeah, I knew that. - [Stevie] Cinnabon's first location opened in Seattle's SeaTac Mall in 1985. - Ah, 85. There we go. Solidly in the 80s. - You pretty much nailed that one. (chill music) Quick reminder, today is your last day to order the limited
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this in today time. Mythical.com. Get that 2000 coin, y'all. - [Rhett] Get it! - Rhett McLaughlin, coin hand. - Coin hand man. Oh, here
we go, Wetzel's Pretzel. - I mean, a lot of times
this is not food court, this is like mall median. - That's good. Salty, doughy, moist. - Yep. - I would think you'd be
all over this, because, you like soft breads. - I'm not a big pretzel man. Yeah, I myself am surprised. - But it's not crispy,
it's super soft and salty, I like that. - Yeah, it is good. - Okay, pretzels are
one of the oldest foods. - Why, because it's knotted? - 'Cause knotted, hard, salted breads are one of the first things. I just spit some pretzel out. First things that people thought about. - What's the second thing? - How to get that knot out. The thing is, I could totally
see somebody being like "Wetzel's Pretzels, since 1920." Like it could go back that far. - And boy, that would go back real far. You can bank it off the back,
get a little bump action. - You know what? I'll leave
the bump action to you, Neal. 'Cause I actually think it's 1930, and I'm gonna put my
puck right there on 1930, and invite you to mess with me. - Good luck with that. (Rhett laughs triumphantly) He's nailing it. Okay. You could be right. - I could be right. - I'm definitely feeling the oldness of the Wetzel Pretzel. I need to get you away from 30, but not closer to 20. - It's exactly the trap I
wanted you to fall into. - I also don't wanna push you to 40. - So many things to think about, now. - I could go over here, bounce
off the wall, hit you... - Thinking about it
like pool at this point. - Yeah, I'm gonna bump you
to 2000, leaving me in 1970 for a 20 40 30 win of the round. - I don't understand the math. - I'ma bump the crap outta you, too. Hahaha! Boop boop boop boop beep boop boo! Bump fest, bump fest, ho! - Now, if it's 1930, I
still might be closer. - [Link] Yeah, we got a measuring tape. - But any other decade,
I think you got it. - [Stevie] The Wetzel's original pretzel is hand rolled, baked fresh, and lightly buttered and salted. Along with his co-founder, Bill Phelps, founder Rick Wetzel has been making money off his childhood
nickname, Wetzel Pretzel, since 1994. - Oh, oh, oh! I think I might be closer! - 1994? We were both so wrong. - I think you should
measure just to be sure. Just to be sure. - [Link] Yeah, there's no way that... - Oh, you just moved it,
you bumped me away from me! The coin hand man...
- 71 and a half. - The coin hand man,
coin hand man's hands. - [Link] 71 and a half, 76 and a half. - Woohoo! Coin hand man rises again! - Lucky duck. - Yeah. (chill music) - What do we have here? - Orange Julius! Oh, man, this takes me back. - That is creamy. You're still stroking first here. - Couple of things to point out. Thing number one, Link has bent the rod, and I don't know if that's
the official name for it. - Boop boop boop boop beep boop boo! - If this was the Olympics,
you would be DQed. - I mean, bend it back. - No, I'll play with it like this. Oh, it's gonna be different, though. Do you remember seeing, I remember being a kid in
the 80s, going to the mall, and the Orange Julius would be by itself, not in the food court, and it was kinda like a little bit dark, and there was a lot of wood, but the display was
just all these oranges! - Lot of fake oranges. - That I thought were real. So literally, in 1981, 82,
I remember seeing this. So is it the 60s or the 70s? I think we're in the 70s. - Going for 70. - Okay, well, it took a
left turn there at the end, but it was the right distance. Here's your bent rod. - Lemme see if I can... - I didn't know it had
so much cream in it! - Gotta make it right, man. - Oh, that's why it went to the left, because it's a bent rod! - See, this Wetzel's Pretzels
thing has gotten in my head, that being from the 90s. - Anything's possible now. - I know that it was in
the 80s, like you said. It could've been invented
in the 80s for malls. Again, I got to bump you out
of the 70s 'cause that's right, but I can't bump you towards the 60s. Where do I wanna bump you? I wanna bump you into that back corner. - Oh, you wanna just put baby in a corner? - Because I do not
believe it's from the 20s. That would be cray-cray. - They didn't even have
orange juice back then. - I wanna just gently bump you into 20, but I want to land between 1970 and 1960, right in the middle of the pyramid. - [Rhett] Okay. - [Link] That was gentle. - Maybe it's the 1920s, who knows? - [Stevie] When Julius Freed first opened his orange
juice stand in Los Angeles, his sales were low until
his friend, Bill Hamlin, turned him on to an icy orange drink made with ingredients like vanilla, to offset the acidity. Thus was born the iconic Orange Julius. The Orange Julius beverage
store has been in business since the late 1920s. - Oh, god! - All right, I'm gonna
bend it all the way! - I'm sorry, man, the bump fest has just gone
completely against you. (chill music) Haha! - Corn dogs! Now, the corn dogs, what is this? Corn dogs... - You know what this is, this
is Hot Dog on a Stick, man. - Oh, it's freaking Hot Dog on a, oh! - Oh gosh, you can have
my ketchup if you want it, or you can dip into your pile of ketchup. - Yeah, I'll just do that. Prefer mustard. This is a Carney special. - Oh, man. - You're going first. - I love corn dogs. - You've led me astray, along
with yourself, twice in a row. - You bent the rod, man. - I bent the rod, but you've been wrong, and then when I've gone along with you, you've somehow won two in a row. This is not a pretty win for you. - What year was Matt Carney born? I'm working backwards from that. How long would it take
for something to exist, in order for Matt Carney as a teenager to then have interest in it? So I work backwards from that. - [Link] 30, 40, 60, 70,
and 2000 are in play. - I'm really feeling 1940. - And they definitely
had hot dogs back then. They definitely had sticks. That pretty much takes care of it. - This is gonna be difficult for you, because you have to do
some special things. You can still win, but
there's some special things that have to happen. I'm gonna place my puck, and
then we'll talk about that. - You've overshot 40 into 1960, which is my guess. - 1960 is your guess, okay. So, this is a bump fest. Now typically, when we
get to the final round that's not a bump fest, we say that the guy who's
losing and cannot win has to bump off of the back, and then land directly in
the correctly guessed decade, not touching the sides in order to win. But on a bump fest, my proposal is that you've got to do that, but you also have to bump the
other dude out of the way. - And I know this is
being added to the scroll, because these bump fest rules
are making the scroll longer. - Right. - All right, so I'm going to bank it. It's gonna come back off, hit your puck, sending it towards me, and
leaving me squarely within 1960, the correct answer, for the win. - I mean, if you did that,
I would be very impressed, and you'd definitely deserve the win. - Oh, way too hard. My trajectory was correct. - I think you might've needed to do a double bank.
- But my strength was way too much. - [Matt] Hello, boys. - Hey, yeah. - This makes me feel better. - Very excited. - [Matt] While I was born in 1983, that's not why we're here. When Dave Barham opened his food stand in Santa Monica, California, he originally served
ice cream and lemonade. However, things took off when he used his mom's cornbread recipe to perfect the hot dog on a stick. Hot Dog on a Stick has been
hiring handsome employees ever since 1946. - Dang, I was wrong anyway. I'm a little closer,
so I do get the point, which makes it presentable. - Link, I hate to inform you, but you are going to
be escorted out of here by mall security. - I didn't, I don't have anything on me! I've got nothing... what? - The mall cop took the corn dogs.
- I'm not the shoplifter, it's the tall guy! - It's sad to see your friend go away in chains.
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way here in America's largest downtown square in Graham, Texas, enjoying the Texas Food
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- Graham, Michigan? - Yeah, I've heard of it. - Click the top link to watch us identify which food court restaurants
were combined in these ramekins in Good Mythical More. - And to find out where the Wheel of
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Looking at the youtube comments, I found the following:
And that made me think, "You know what? I agree."
How about you all?
Very sad to see what Link’s come to. Thank goodness for mall security.
The last round of the More made me think of a question I have often asked myself - why do we not drink pig milk? Also, if they have not ever done it, the guys should try it some time.
Glad Link remembered to do his 'Broooooklyn!' thing haha
Moved an hour away from Buie's Creek in February, love that they shout out Crabtree Valley Mall. We've been there a couple of times.
It’s interesting to see them continue to wrestle with the problem of over-bumping - the bumpers around the sides of the board definitely seem like a good addition!
I wonder if changing the way the game is scored might also help:
Although this probably runs the risk of over-complicating things, I think something along these lines could maybe further help to limit OP bump tactics?