Good Mythical Morning

Good Mythical Morning is an American comedy talk 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 2017, the show has twelve seasons.^[1][2] The YouTube channel currently boasts over 12.5 million subscribers,^[3] and 3.5 billion total video views.^[4]

Good Mythical Morning
Genre	Comedy, Talk show
Created by	Rhett McLaughlin Link Neal
Written by	Lizzie Bassett Micah Gordon Kevin Kostelnik Ellie McElvain
Directed by	Benjamin Eck
Presented by	Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Starring	Rhett McLaughlin Link Neal Stevie Wynne Levine Jen Matichuk Jason Inman (2012-2014) Chase Hilt Edward Coleman Rosanna Pansino
Theme music composer	Jeff Zeigler, Sarah Schimeneck
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	26
No. of episodes	2500+ (list of episodes)
Production
Producers	Stevie Wynne Levine Chase Hilt Lizzie Bassett Micah Gordon John Warder Ellie McElvain
Production location	Burbank California
Editors	Matthew Dwyer Casey Nimmer
Running time	15-25 minutes
Production companies	Rhett and Link, Mythical Entertainment
Original release
Network	YouTube (January 2012-present)
Release	January 9, 2012 (2012-01-09) – present

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 had only one member during season 1^[5] but has since grown to have twenty-eight members, as a part of Mythical Entertainment.^[6] Many fans of the show enjoyed their behind-the-scenes crew, which led to the creation of the YouTube channel "This Is Mythical". It focuses on the funny events of their crew.^[7] The show focuses on Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal as they tell hilarious stories have happened to them, sing songs, do food-related challenges, and more.

Format

Good Mythical Morning is uploaded to YouTube every weekday morning. Each episode usually consists of Rhett and Link doing hilarious antics, and is generally around ten minutes in length. At the beginning of each episode, either Rhett or Link say a quote related to the video in question, and the other person replies with "Let's talk about that." At the end of every episode, Rhett and Link bring out the "Wheel of Mythicality" to spin, which consists of different spots that it can land on such as "6 Degrees of Bacon," "Winface," and "Gifticality." Good Mythical More is the after show for Good Mythical Morning which contains Rhett and Link relaxing after an episode, talking about anything.^[8]

Episodes

Main article: List of Good Mythical Morning episodes

Reception

The show has become very popular on YouTube with the channel having 12.5 million subscribers, and 3.5 billion video views as of August 2017. 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.