Good Mythical Morning

Good Mythical Morning
Season twelve title of Good Mythical Morning
Genre Comedy
Talk show
Variety
Created by
  • Rhett McLaughlin
  • Link Neal
Written by
  • Micah Gordon
  • Kevin Kostelnik
  • Ellie McElvain
Directed by Benjamin Eck
Presented by Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Starring
  • Rhett McLaughlin
  • Link Neal
Theme music composer Jeff Zeigler, Sarah Schimeneck
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons
  • 14 (regular)
  • 1 (Good Mythical Summer)
No. of episodes 1400 (as of October 15, 2018) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Stevie Wynne Levine
Producer(s)
  • Stevie Wynne Levine
  • Benjamin Eck
  • Micah Gordon
  • Chase Hilt
  • Alex Punch
  • John Warder
  • Ellie McElvain
Editor(s)
  • Matthew Dwyer
  • Casey Nimmer
Running time 9-30 minutes
Production company(s) Rhett and Link, Mythical Entertainment
Distributor Mythical Entertainment
Release
Original network YouTube
Picture format 16:9
Original release January 9, 2012 (2012-01-09) – present
Chronology
Followed by Good Mythical More, Rhett & Link
External links
Official website

Good Mythical Morning (also known as Good Mythical Morning with Rhett & Link and abbreviated as GMM) is an American comedy/talk/variety YouTube series created by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal. The show first aired on YouTube on January 9, 2012, and continues to be uploaded every weekday. As of August 20, 2018, the show has fourteen regular seasons and two Summer seasons, one being part of Season 11 and one being a standalone season.[1][2][3] The YouTube channel has over 14 million subscribers[4] and more than 4 billion total video views.[5]

History and premise

Rhett and Link aired the first episode of Good Mythical Morning on January 9, 2012, to their YouTube channel of the same name. The series' crew only consisted of one member during season 1,[6] but has since grown to have twenty-eight members, as a part of Mythical Entertainment. Fan reactions to their behind-the-scenes crew led to the creation of the YouTube channel "Mythical", which focuses on the funny hijinks of their crew and other skits.[7] The show focuses on Rhett and Link as they tell stories, sing songs, do challenges, and more. On November 6, 2017, Good Mythical Morning became a YouTube Original series. Shortly after they lost this partnership, and reverted to their classic format.

Format

Good Mythical Morning is uploaded to YouTube every weekday morning, at approximately 6:00 AM Eastern Time. Each episode usually consists of Rhett and Link doing antics, playing food-related games, and answering often absurd questions.

At the end of every episode, Rhett and Link spin the "Wheel of Mythicality", which can land on categories such as "6 Degrees of Bacon," "Winface," and "Gifticality." This often changes between seasons. Finally, Good Mythical More is the after show for Good Mythical Morning, hosted on a separate channel, in which Rhett and Link relax after an episode and talk about anything.[8]

Episodes

The third season of Good Mythical Morning introduced the "Taste Test" series which include episodes where the hosts guess the food in blindfolds, challenge themselves to eat something often spicy and disgusting, and compare a particular type of food across different brands. Some of the most popular videos from this series are the "Bug War Challenge", the "Ghost Pepper Challenge", the "Carolina Reaper Challenge" and the "Sriracha Challenge". The fifth season brought the "Will It" series, in which the hosts try and invent different varieties of a famous type of food with unusual and increasingly disgusting ingredients. The first episode of "Will It" was aired on May 5, 2014 on Cinco De Mayo titled "Will it Taco" where Rhett and Link tried tacos made of pine needles, baby shampoo and congealed pork blood.

Many Internet and other personalities have appeared in the show. The Gregory Brothers starred in a season one episode. Chuck Testa starred in two season 2 episodes. The fifth season featured Taryn Southern, Craig Benzine ("WheezyWaiter") and Meghan Camarena ("Strawburry17"). Season 6 featured Hannah Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Felix Kjellberg, Jamie Spafford and Barry Taylor from Sorted Food and Lilly Singh ("IISuperwomanII"). Season 7 featured Lady Antebellum, Rosanna Pansino, Kaelem, Lindsey Stirling, Joseph Garrett, Barry Taylor and Ben Ebbrell from Sorted Food, Mamrie Hart, Zach King, Amy Schumer and Bill Hader. Season 8 featured Smosh, Shay Mitchell, Grace Helbig, Chester See, Colleen Ballinger, Dan Avidan and Arin Hanson from Game Grumps, Steve Zaragoza and Lee Newton. Season 9 featured Jenn McAllister, Kevin Smith, Redfoo, Hank Green and Tony Hale. Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart also appeared in the tenth and eleventh season. The eleventh season featured Michael Stevens, Mayim Bialik, Amir Blumenfeld and Jake Hurwitz from Jake and Amir, Linkin Park, Jake Roper, Chachi Gonzales, Gabbie Hanna, Dan Avidan, Arin Hanson, Rosanna Pansino, iJustine, Hank Green and his brother John Green, Big E, Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and Pete Holmes.

Reception

The show has become very popular on YouTube, with the Good Mythical Morning channel having 14 million subscribers and 4.4 billion video views as of August 2018. Each episode generally gains over 2 million views.[9] The show has also won Best Variety Series at the International Academy of Web Television Awards, Best Web Series at the Shorty Awards, Best Comedy Series and Best Non-Fiction Channel, Series or Show at the Streamy Awards, amongst many others.[10][11][12] The series has also been nominated at multiple award shows a total of six times. The series was also featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with episodes of "Will It Tea,"[13] "Will It S'more,"[14] "Will It Hot Dog,"[15] and "Will It Hummus?"[16]

While the fan response to the series has been mostly positive, the relaunched format starting November 6, 2017, was met with a negative reaction from many fans. Several viewers criticized the new format, commenting that the show had lost its charm, its sudden focus on guest stars and that the new episodes felt forced and rushed. Many fans also reacted negatively to the decision to split each episode into four parts as a way to increase ad revenue. While the show addressed these complaints in a video response,[17] the number of views for newer episodes steadily declined in the following weeks, with only a handful of episodes surpassing one million views. Despite this, the show currently has retained over fourteen million subscribers to their YouTube channel.

As of July 2018, the show returned to the older format, and complaints by fans became much less pronounced.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Good Mythical Morning". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  2. ↑ "Good Mythical Morning: Series Info". thetvdb.com. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Good_Mythical_Morning_episodes
  4. ↑ "Good Mythical Morning Live Subscriber Count and Stats!". subscribercount.live. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  5. ↑ "Good Mythical Morning". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  6. ↑ Good Mythical Morning (2012-01-09), Extremely OCD Morning Routine, retrieved 2017-08-30
  7. ↑ "This Is Mythical". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  8. ↑ "Good Mythical MORE". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  9. ↑ "Good Mythical Morning". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  10. ↑ Good Mythical Morning, retrieved 2017-08-30
  11. ↑ Spangler, Todd (2016-10-05). "Streamy Awards 2016: Full Winners List". Variety. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  12. ↑ "Good Mythical Morning - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  13. ↑ "Will it Tea with Jimmy Fallon".
  14. ↑ "Will it S'more with Jimmy Fallon".
  15. ↑ "Will it Hot Dog with Jimmy Fallon".
  16. ↑ "Will It Hummus? with Jimmy Fallon".
  17. ↑ ["A Candid Response to Your Comments" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dZxjSNp8rM]
  18. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/goodmythicalmorning
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