Top Four

Top Four episodes:

• 06.30.2023

  101: 64 Days of Phish

  Our favorite Phish songs. (Finally.)

  
• 05.29.2023

  100: Toasting Top Four

  Our 100th-episode spectacular! Here's to 100 great episodes — well, 100 episodes, at least — and more to come.

  
• 04.30.2023

  99: Fidget Toys

  A terrible surprise.

  
• 03.23.2023

  98: Hot Pockets

  We actually tried every flavor of Hot Pockets and lived to tell the tale.

  
• 02.28.2023

  97: Jock Jams

  Are you ready for this?

  
• 01.25.2023

  96: Cakes

  Our favorite cakes, in honor of Tiff's birthday.

  
• 12.23.2022

  95: Candy Canes

  The best flavors among far too many candy-cane options.

  
• 11.29.2022

  94: Adventure Time Characters

  Our family's favorite characters from the amazing, delightful Adventure Time series.

  
• 10.23.2022

  93: Halloween Music

  Our favorite spooky music for Halloween, plus new edible contenders for some of our previous rankings!

  
• 09.30.2022

  92: Nut Butters

  The best, worst, and weirdest nut butters and non-nut butters we could find.

  
• 08.30.2022

  91: Hot Dogs

  Celebrate the last weekend of the summer with the best rods of meat and plants we could find.

  
• 07.30.2022

  90: Bodies of Water

  It's summer, and you know what that means…

  
• 06.30.2022

  89: Weird Al Song Parodies

  Our favorite song parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

  
• 05.31.2022

  88: Goldfish Crackers

  Taste-testing every flavor of Goldfish we could find.

  
• 04.08.2022

  87: Peeps

  We intended to rank the worst flavors of marshmallow Peeps for Easter… but we were in for a surprise.

  
• 03.29.2022

  86: Overplayed Songs

  The most overplayed, overused songs from the 1800s to today that we never need to hear again, but we know we will.

  
• 02.28.2022

  85: Series Finales

  Our favorite TV-show finales. (Don't worry, we're not ending this show!)

  
• 01.31.2022

  84: Jams, Jellies, Marmalades, and Compotes

  Our favorite sweet spreadables.

  
• 12.22.2021

  83: Road-Trip Songs

  Our favorite songs for road-trip playlists.

  
• 11.30.2021

  82: Flavors

  That's right. Flavors.

  
• 10.26.2021

  81: Halloween Monsters

  Tiff's favorite Halloween monsters, and the "monsters" that most scare Marco.

  
• 09.30.2021

  80: Hal's Pairings

  Join your favorite "seltziers" (or "crunchographers"?) as we discover amazing culinary pairings between Hal's seltzer flavors and Hal's potato chips.

  
• 08.30.2021

  79: Fla•Vor•Ice

  The best flavors to grab on a hot summer day as you push past the children to get to the front of the line.

  
• 07.29.2021

  78: Pasta Shapes

  After months of delicious research, we've ranked our favorite extrusions of dried semolina. We tried every shape we could find — yes, even that one.

  
• 06.28.2021

  77: Simpsons Characters

  Our favorite characters on The Simpsons.

  
• 05.27.2021

  76: Seafood

  Our favorite objects to eat from the ocean.

  
• 04.30.2021

  75: Beer Types

  A tour of the world's best ways to combine barley, hops, yeast, and water.

  
• 03.31.2021

  74: Apple Products

  How have we not done this already?

  
• 02.23.2021

  73: Lettuces

  Our favorite leafy greens.

  
• 01.30.2021

  72: Pop Tarts

  Nobody should have 30 flavors of Pop Tarts. But having found ourselves in that situation, we did what any podcasters would do: taste-test all 30 flavors and rank our favorites.

  
• 12.21.2020

  71: Christmas Episodes of The Office

  In a special crossover episode with Somehow I Manage, we're joined by Merri and Stephen Hackett to rank our favorite Christmas episodes of The Office.

  
• 11.30.2020

  70: '90s-Representative Songs

  If you were scoring a '90s scene in a movie or TV show, what song would you choose to instantly transport people back to that time?

  
• 10.31.2020

  69: Card Games ♦️♣️♥️♠️

  Our favorite card games playable with a standard deck — or at least by ruining the top half of one.

  
• 09.28.2020

  68: Smencils ✏️

  We somehow made a podcast out of sniffing 55 scented pencils.

  
• 08.28.2020

  67: Sports ⚾️

  The world’s worst sports commentators rank the world’s sports.

  
• 07.29.2020

  66: Face Masks

  Our favorite face-mask types, attributes, materials, and brands for varying circumstances.

  
• 06.26.2020

  65: Chex Mix Pieces

  Our favorite pieces to grab from the bowl of this ubiquitous party mix.

  
• 05.05.2020

  64: Taco Toppings

  Celebrating this year's Cinco de Mayo that also falls on Taco Tuesday, we rank our favorite taco toppings.

  
• 04.30.2020

  63: Minecraft Mobs

  The Arment family's favorite enemies, animals, and other bizarre creatures in Minecraft.

  
• 03.24.2020

  62: Best Bluths

  Our favorite Bluth family members from Arrested Development.

  
• 02.14.2020

  61: Candy Heart Phrases ❤️

  The best (or worst?) phrases printed on Valentine's Day candy hearts.

  
• 01.30.2020

  60: Waters

  This might be the stupidest thing we've ever done. And that's saying something.

  
• 12.22.2019

  59: Royal Dansk Butter Cookies

  Our favorite cookies from these classic blue tins before they're reused to hold buttons and sewing kits.

  
• 11.27.2019

  58: Cheeses

  Our favorite types of cheese, taste-tested live for your enjoyment — or at least ours.

  
• 10.31.2019

  57: One-Hit Wonder Albums

  Music albums that contain one-hit-wonder singles, but are also really great albums.

  
• 09.20.2019

  56: Instant Coffee ☕

  We taste-tested 14 instant coffees, from mouth parties to tire fires, to discover if there's anything redeemable about this much-maligned beverage.

  
• 08.30.2019

  55: LaCroix Flavors

  Lauren and Jason Snell join us to taste-test and rank all 24 flavors of LaCroix seltzer.

  
• 07.17.2019

  54: Emoji!

  In celebration of World Emoji Day, we ranked our favorite emoji.

  
• 06.27.2019

  53: Band Names

  Our favorite band names, regardless of the quality of the bands, or whether we've even heard of them before.

  
• 05.29.2019

  52: Eggs

  Our favorite egg preparations, from simple breakfasts to the fanciest parties.