"Chili's 2 with Joey Janela" is Episode 255 of Doughboys, hosted by Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger. "Chili's 2 with Joey Janela" was released on June 11, 2020.
Synopsis[]
AEW wrestler "The Bad Boy" Joey Janela joins as the 'boys return to their first ever reviewed restaurant chain, Chili's, for a sampling of their to-go menu, and to discuss New Jersey food, travel eats, and more. Plus, another edition of Spoonman's Treat or Skeet.
Nick's intro[]
In January of 1989, in the middle of the fourteenth season of Saturday Night Live, a new featured player joined the cast: a Toronto-raised and Chicago-trained sketch comedian named Mike Myers.
Mike Myers
Even among a famously strong cast, Myers' character work made him a quick standout, especially as Wayne Campbell, a rock-obsessed slacker with a public-access talk show filmed in his parents' basement. The recurring "Wayne's World" sketches starring Myers and Dana Carvey as his beta sidekick, Garth, would become as much an SNL staple as "Weekend Update," and in 1992, the duo starred in the feature-film version of Wayne's World, directed by Penelope Spheeris.
Myers had successfully graduated from SNL player to movie star, and after following it with Wayne's World 2 and off-beat rom-com So I Married An Axe Murderer, in 1997, he co-wrote and starred in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, playing both the titular frozen-in-time British secret-agent horndog and the film's antagonist, a cueball supervillain named Dr. Evil, purportedly based on SNL kingpin, Lorne Michaels.
With a laundry list of catchphrases that would be endlessly repeated by annoying kids at school, and annoying adults at work, the film became a cult hit and had a second life as a big seller on the new home-video format of DVD. In 1999, the same summer as the much anticipated Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Myers released Austin Powers Episode II: The Spy Who Shagged Me, a megahit that would become the third highest grossing film of the year, outpacing Toy Story 2 and The Matrix.
The now-franchise added more outrageous characters, including pint-sized Dr. Evil clone, Mini-Me, played by the late Verne Troyer, and grotesque Scotsman, Fat Bastard, played by Myers himself in Klump-style prosthetics. And as the gluttonous Bastard, Myers would make theaters erupt in laughs of recognition by singing a beloved chain-restaurant jingle, expressing his craving for baby back ribs.
The meaty earworm, in use since the early '90s by the Dallas-founded Tex-Mex eatery, would lead to a surge in rib sales when deployed by its marketing team; in addition to the Fat Bastard cover, was also sung by boy band *NSYNC. While the song, much like Myers, has been less prominent in recent years, its status, like Wayne's World and Austin Powers, is entrenched in American pop-culture history.
As for the restaurant itself, today, 45 years after its first location opened, diners across America still respond like Fat Bastard himself, saying to its offerings "get in my belly."
This week on Doughboys, we return once again to Chili's.
Fork rating[]
The Doughboys have reviewed Chili's a couple of other times. They went in their very first episode, where Nick gave it 3 forks and Mitch gave it 4 forks. Then for episode 200, they celebrated by going to the Las Vegas airport and trying the Chili's Too (which both Nick and Mitch gave 4 forks).
For this episode, they focus on Chili's to-go menu.
| guest / host | ordered | rating |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Wiger |
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3 forks |
| Mike Mitchell |
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3 forks |
| Joey Janela |
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3 forks |
The Spoonman's Bite of the Night went to the Molten Chocolate Cake.
Treat or Skeet[]
In this segment, Mitch has a snack and decides if it is 'good' or 'bad.' (It's a re-branded Snack or Wack for Mitch alone.)
In this episode, he tries two items: Skittles Dips and Mountain Dew Charged Berry Blast Game Fuel.
Mitch calls the Skittles Dips "cummy Skittles".
After struggling to open the can, Mitch chugs some Mountain Dew Game Fuel and seemed to really enjoy it. He feels like he became a better gamer after drinking it.
| host | Skittles Dips | Mountain Dew Game Fuel Charged Berry Blast |
|---|---|---|
| Mike Mitchell | Skeet | Treat |
Roast Spoonman[]
Mitch on Zoom
| “ | A man with a head so big, he needs two cameras for a Zoom call | ” |
–Tim Sullivan | ||
Quotes[]
| “ | Mitch has successfully shared his 'pork roll egg and cheese' Google search. | ” |
–Nick Wiger | ||
| “ | A trunk is not a great place for a beverage. | ” |
–The Doughboys epitaph | ||
| “ | Joey, at a Doughboys live show, would you ever come out and super kick Wiger and I in the face? | ” |
–Mike Mitchell | ||
| “ | First-named Mitches are villains. | ” |
–Mike Mitchell on people named Mitch | ||
The Feedbag[]
| “ | When I was a kid, my mom used to accidentally burn chocolate chip cookies in the oven almost every time she would cook them. As a result, I came to love those slightly burnt cookies and even now like overcooked sweets. At the opposite end of the spectrum, I like when my Little Caesar's pepperoni pizza is undercooked and doughy. That's probably a health hazard, but I enjoy the texture and flavor.
What technically wrong preparations do you personally enjoy? |
” |
–Mitch F. | ||
Related Episodes[]
| Chili's episodes | Wrestling episodes |
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