Source: full recorded conversation on YouTube, published by Good Mythical Morning. This is a source-linked archival text feature; video playback is not promised.
Rhett and Link’s Disneyland guessing game produces a neat reversal: they succeed at making the number they want, then discover they wanted the wrong number. In an archived Good Mythical Morning segment, the pair aim for roughly $100 while estimating an adult ticket’s historical price. Their final $103.40 looks satisfying until the answer arrives: $59. The joke is not that they cannot count. It is that a confident estimate can become its own target, independent of the thing being estimated.
Two different games at once
The format turns price guessing into a physical challenge. The hosts use a punching machine to accumulate a monetary answer, trying to control both their estimate and the amount each hit contributes. In the saved excerpt, one punch adds $55.30. The next player tries to judge what a roughly $45 contribution might feel like, balancing enthusiasm against the risk of overshooting. There is even discussion of whether another tiny addition would help.
Once the total reaches $103.40, they stop. Against a target of about $100, that is understandable. Against the historical ticket price, it is a substantial miss. The reveal identifies a one-day adult Disneyland ticket in 2006 as $59, and the game requires an answer within 20 percent of the correct price. The program rejects their guess.
The arithmetic clarifies the reversal. Subtracting $59 from $103.40 gives a $44.40 difference. Dividing that difference by $59 makes the guess approximately 75.3 percent too high, consistent with the show’s rounded 75 percent. Under the stated tolerance, the acceptable range would be $47.20 to $70.80. Those are calculations from the game’s figures, not additional historical ticket prices.
What the historical record supports
The $59 figure has contemporary support, but it needs a little more precision than a single year suggests. Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix’s January 2006 Disneyland Park Update for MousePlanet lists single-park, single-day admission at $59 for adults and $49 for children. That supports the game’s adult figure for that part of the year and that particular ticket category. It does not describe a ticket allowing admission to both parks.
The price also changed within 2006. In September reporting, Theme Park Insider’s Robert Niles described a four-dollar increase that brought one-day, one-park Disneyland Resort admission to $63. Both reports can be true. The show’s $59 answer corresponds to a documented historical price, not an amount that necessarily applied throughout the entire calendar year.
That distinction matters whenever an old price becomes a punchline. A year is a useful label for a game round, but a purchasing comparison also needs the ticket type and the applicable period. Here, the surviving contemporary reports provide that context without requiring anyone to reconstruct a vacation receipt or rely on a retrospective price chart.
Confidence is the punchline
As entertainment, the scene works because the hosts celebrate execution before testing the premise. They have negotiated the difficult physical part together; the historical answer then makes their teamwork beside the point. It is a small example of Good Mythical Morning finding a comic reveal inside an ordinary consumer question, rather than a serious test of either host’s financial judgment.
Readers can find a different version of the show’s expectation-versus-result routine in our archival feature on Rhett and Link retasting their lowest-rated foods. Neither segment should be mistaken for a current buying guide. This one preserves a memorable old-price guessing round, with the historical qualification intact. The two ticket reports also show why the punchline should not be stretched into a single claim about prices across 2006.
FAQ
Was Disneyland’s ticket price $59 throughout 2006?
Not necessarily. MousePlanet documents $59 adult single-day, single-park admission in January 2006; Theme Park Insider reported a rise to $63 later that year.
How far above $59 was the $103.40 guess?
The difference is $44.40, approximately 75.3 percent of $59. Under the game’s twenty-percent tolerance, the range would be $47.20 to $70.80. These are derived calculations, not other ticket prices.