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The YouTube channel Epic Meal Time was an unlikely viral phenomenon that took the internet by storm in the early 2010s. Its brilliant yet deceptively simple premise of creating outrageously unhealthy fast food concoctions resonated immensely with a certain subset of viewers. Episodes like the staggeringly caloric “Fast Food Lasagna” and “Turbacon Epic Thanksgiving” special would build anticipation by meticulously assembling and teasing the final caloric monstrosity, while also tapping into ephemeral cultural trends of the time like the obsession with bacon and the exaggerated macho bro persona embodied by host Harley Morenstein.

This novel format combined shocking excess, culinary debauchery, frat boy humor, and a liberal dose of alcohol into a perfect storm of viral wildfire, generating massive word-of-mouth buzz that rapidly propelled Epic Meal Time from a low-budget cooking channel to one of the biggest presences on the entire YouTube platform within its first few years. At its peak,...

It's been a long time since Muscles Glasses appeared in an Epic Meal Time video, but his actions remain legendary to this day. With his burly arms, tinted Aviators, and inhuman ability to shovel food down his throat, Muscles Glasses helped sell t-shirts and grow Epic Meal Time into the YouTube juggernaut it is today. Muscles Glasses hasn't appeared in an Emt episode for a long time, but the mystique behind his character has now returned in The Legend of Muscles Glasses, a new web series from Emt sauce boss Harley Morenstein. Here's the story, as explained by Morenstein in a recent YouTube video: Muscles Glasses was never actually an organic member of the Emt crew. Instead, he was a character created by Morenstein and Tyler Lemco, who still run the Muscles Glasses Twitter feed. Alex Perrault, who portrayed Muscles Glasses on screen, was actually a compensated actor, though he...

When you’re a national fast food chain that’s exhausted the majority of the names on the list of “It Girls of the Past Decade” as stars for your commercial spots (including Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Padme Lakshmi, Kate Upton, Emily Ratajkowski, and more), there’s only one type of talent to tap next to sling your bacon-laden burgers. You need the Sauce Boss, aka the Elijah Wood of the Easy Bake Oven, aka The Chuck Norris of Chicken Nuggets, aka the Snoop Dogg of Salisbury Streaks. You need Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time. In Carl’s Jr.’s latest commercial spot, Morenstein is seen alongside longtime Emt cohort Muscles Glasses (aka Alex Perrault) in slow-mo, high-definition, and Emt swag contemplating and then devouring the limited time only Super Bacon Cheeseburger, which comes complete with six (count ‘em! six) strips of bacon. The broadcast television spot comes complete...

Many Hollywood stars are so thin they’ve gone two-dimensional, but not the trio behind one of YouTube’s latest breakout sensations, Epic Meal Time. Stunt-chefs Harley Morenstein and Alex Perrault sprinkle bacon on epic culinary concoctions like it’s table salt. They started posting videos on YouTube in 2010, and have since scored the #12 most subscribed spot with nearly 3 million subscribers, a deal with hit-maker Revision3, guest appearances on Jay Leno, a pilot for G4TV and a Shorty Award. Oh, and a net worth estimated to be in the millions. That’s a lot of bacon. What’s their secret sauce? The ‘Bieber of Bacon’ Harley Morenstein says, “Cook things that taste good.” We say: Grab ‘em in the first 15-seconds. The Web audience has a super-fast trigger finger. If they don’t laugh at a comedy or if they're not compelled in some way right away, they tune out.

If it seems like we’ve been covering EpicMealTime a lot on Tubefilter, that’s because we have. And we have because of a few reasons: The trio Canadian carnivores Harley Morenstein, Alex Perrault, and Sterling Toth create compelling content for culinary connoisseurs and your everyday lover of glutton. As their tagline goes, “We make dreams come true. Then we eat them,” which is accurate. Because if you didn't dream of animals stuffed in animals stuffed in animals stuffed in animals stuffed in animals and Baconators - lots of Baconators - before you watched the program, you definitely will after. The show is popular. By our accounts it’s the fastest YouTube channel ever to reach one million subscribers, a feat it accomplished in no more than nine months. EpicMealTime is entertaining, especially when done live. And now you can add another reason for our coverage of the series. EpicMealTime...

“Those guys scare me,” uttered Kevin Rose last night after Epic Meal Time’s “Muscles-Glasses” (Alex Perrault) wandered out on the House of Blues stage with a bag full of Big Macs just as one of their now-infamous live Diggnation shows was underway. Rose and co-host Alex Albrecht had, after all, just minutes before watched from back stage as their opening act for the evening, the breakout hit web series of the year Epic Meal Time and its madcap entourage of food pirates showered fans with bacon, Jack Daniels and a Big Mac-kebob-stuffed-pig-on-a-spit while dropping a non-stop battery of F-bombs. In many ways, Revision3′s live indoctrination of the Canadian food stars represent a passing of the baton for the network that once rested its hat on the tech-heavy musings of Digg. Now giving way to a newer flagship, whose unapologetically brash antics making Rose and Albrecht’s beer...

Charlie Sheen hit one million Twitter followers in just two days. His YouTube channel, however, isn’t attracting as many fans. Since the account was created on February 25, 2006, the man who in his own mind is perpetually winning has accumulated some 29,000 subscribers. That’s a lot, but not that many! The relatively low number speaks both to Sheen’s YouTube strategy (he doesn’t have one) and to how difficult it is for even well-known celebrities to accumulate a substantial subscriber-base on the world’s largest video sharing site. And both are the main reasons why Epic Meal Time hitting the one million subscriber mark in less than nine months is so impressive. The Canadian alt-culinarians Harley Morenstein, Alex Perrault and Sterling Toth launched their Powerthirst-fueled gastro lab on September 29, 2010, showcasing at least one video a week that documents the creation and mastication of their mostly meat monstrosities. Today they...

Harley Morenstein, Alex Perrault, and Sterling Toth started posting videos of their carnivore-inclined gastroporn under the banner of EpicMealTime in September of 2010. Since then, their weekly videos of over indulgent, culinary creations that simultaneously make you salivate and want to vomit have racked up over 72 million views and garnered 600,000+ subscribers on YouTube (which currently puts them at 75th on the YouTube Most Subscribed All-Time Subscriber charts). That’s one helluva great start for a web series. It was only a matter of time before a company who’s in the business of taking burgeoning online video stars to the next level of internet fame and fortune (a company like Maker Studios, The Collective, Fullscreen, or, to a certain extent, Revision3) snatched the Epic Meal Time crew up and signed them to a distribution deal and revenue share split that offers better returns than YouTube’s Partner Program. Today, Revision3 did just that.

If you’re hoping the Canadian crew behind Epic Meal Time prepared some gastric monstrosity equally nauseating and delicious for you to recreate at your Passover Seder, you’ll be quick to remember how much bacon Harley Morenstein, Alex Perrault, and Sterling Toth use in their culinary creations and realize these dudes definitely aren’t kosher and most probably aren’t Mot. After you’ve indulged your disappointment with a viewing of Turbacon you’ll scour the web for an hour or two to come to realization that entertaining Passover videos, be them about recipes or other aspects of the Jewish holiday, aren’t the internet’s forte. Some of the best filmmakers and comedians in the world have had a Bar/Bat Mitvah, but for better or worse none of those best filmmakers or comedians choose to make videos on or about Passover. What we’re left watching are...

It's a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig. More specifically, it's a quail, in a cornish hen, in a chicken, in a duck, in a turkey, in a pig, all layered, deboned, held together with veal and pork sausage meat, filled with bacon croissant stuffing, lathered in a Dr. Pepper butter glaze, and covered in bacon strips. It's baked, then smoked, then garnished with Wendy's Baconators, then eaten. All in all its ingredients total 79,046 calories and 6,892 grams of fat, enough food energy to sustain a six foot tall, 200 pound male for over a month. It's the TurBacon. It looks both delicious and nauseating. And it's created by three Canadian glutton connoisseurs known as EpicMealTime. Harley Morenstein, Alex Perrault, and Sterling Toth begain posting videos on the EpicMealTime YouTube Channel just over a month ago. They debuted with The Worst Pizza Ever,...