Halloween Wars (2011–…): Season 10, Episode 2 - Blind Date from Hell - full transcript
The five remaining teams are challenged to depict a terrifying blind date.
Aah!
Just put his eyeballs
on the end of his fingers.
Bennett: Tonight,
the five remaining teams
Of expert food artists
Will combine
their skills in cake...
Li: These tasting elements
are amazing.
...Candy...
This is very fragile.
...And carved pumpkin...
Empty as it gets here.
...As they face off in another
blood-curdling battle.
Daniel: I'm channeling
my inner fortune teller.
We're gonna win.
When the night is done, another
team will meet their doom...
You went big, and I think
in this case, it was too big.
Bennett: ...Leaving just four
teams to journey on
For a chance at $50,000.
- Oh, no.
- Oh! He just fell.
- Oh, what happened?
- Oh, my goodness.
An all-new "Halloween wars"
starts right now.
♪♪
[ laughs evilly ]
♪♪
Welcome back to the second
frightening night
Of "Halloween wars"!
Yeah.
For centuries, when people
want to find out
What the future holds,
they turn to a fortune teller.
Whether they use tarot cards,
Tea leaves or even
the classic crystal ball,
Everyone is looking for
a little bit of good news
About what's to come.
But here at "Halloween wars,"
we want you to show us a diviner
Who foretells darkness
in a challenge
We call the misfortune teller.
Remember, win this round
And earn an extra assistant
in the next round.
You have got just 45 minutes.
Get to work.
♪♪
Like the crystal ball?
Deane: I can fill it
with a head.
- Can fill it with a head?
- Yeah.
Everyone is gonna do
crystal ball.
Stay away from that.
Fortune cookie.
Fortune cookie like it
devoured somebody,
Foot sticking out,
pants like this.
We're feeling excited.
We just come off a good win.
The winner... Crave diggers.
Hopefully we can win two
in a row.
His takeout will take him out.
There you go. Let's do it.
Ready?
Jeff: Guy goes and picks up
his takeout.
Instead of having
a good fortune,
He gets actually devoured
by his fortune cookie.
Somehow, guys, I got to make
this look like a fortune cookie.
Fortune cookie has got,
like, a folded crack
Down the middle like a spine.
- Yeah.
- Harder than it looks, guys.
Joel, what are you
starting with?
I'm gonna start
working on the teeth.
Jeff: Joel, he's gonna be making
our fortune-cookie teeth
Out of pulled sugar.
I'm gonna be making
the takeout box out of cake,
And I also have the leg coming
out of the fortune cookie.
The biggest challenge is just
getting it all done
In 45 minutes.
Crazy, crazy.
Eric: You guys gonna have time
to do everything?
I don't know.
I love our story, guys.
Instead of seeing misfortune
for someone else,
She sees herself.
Heather, you are too much.
The misfortune teller actually
loves to tell misfortune.
What she doesn't realize is
that all of this negativity
Is heating up her crystal ball
until it sucks her into it,
And then all that's left
is a headless corpse.
Once I get the basic shapes in,
The details just
fall into place.
Deane is going to use pumpkin
for this little, tiny head.
I'm going to be making this bust
out of cake covered in fondant,
And then I'm gonna put
ruffles overlapping one another
So we have a very
peasant-looking blouse
For our fortune teller.
Without the crystal ball,
the whole thing becomes unclear.
Cesar: Don't worry. I got it.
Cesar is going to make
his crystal ball out of sugar.
This particular design is going
to allow each of us
To really showcase our talents.
I'm gonna model us
a little pair of hands here.
Do you think
our fortune teller can predict
That we're gonna
win the $50,000?
I foresee it!
Steve: Guys, we need
that assistant.
We got to do really good
on this.
Daniel:
The story we've come up with is,
Jack is a struggling artist.
He visits a fortune teller.
He tells her he wants to be able
to paint with his hands
As he sees with his eyes,
but she flips it on him.
The moral here is,
be careful what you wish for.
I'm doing some fine-tuning.
10 more minutes,
And I'll be ready
to try to start painting it.
I'm gonna make the hand.
I'll have to rough it in, then
use my ribbon loops to cut it.
Then I'll have to sand it.
What's your status, haymu?
I'm making the base and then
add some decorations.
Daniel:
While haymu is making the base
Out of cake covered in fondant,
And then she has to make these
modeling-chocolate eyeballs
Attached to the end
of his fingers.
Steve: It's really important.
I got to get this round
Because if I don't get it round,
it's not gonna look good.
Steve will be blowing
a big, sugar crystal ball.
The big challenge is making
the crystal ball
In the amount of time
because it has to cool
Before I can even
put my part on.
As soon as you can do that,
I can size it up
And make sure
how long this thing needs to be.
Alright.
Teams, I have the good fortune
Of introducing your judges!
Say hello to award-winning
cake artist shinmin li...
[ cheers and applause ]
hey, guys.
...And special-effects
makeup artist
And horror-film director
todd tucker!
Hey, guys.
Alright.
And now let's say hello to
your extra-special guest judge.
You know him from "scandal."
It's guillermo diaz.
[ cheers and applause ]
Oh, my god.
Guillermo diaz, oh, my gosh,
I've seen him everywhere.
I am so excited to have him
as the celebrity guest judge.
Guillermo, I know you're
a big horror-film fan,
And you love Halloween.
What do you love most
about the genre?
I love being scared
and the makeup
That all those
super-talented people do,
Sort of like this guy,
So, yeah,
that's what I love about it.
- Roar!
- Aah!
Welcome to
"Halloween wars," bud.
Teams, you have 30 minutes left.
Alright. I got to get started
on the leg bad.
He needs a jewel
right there in the head.
Can you give me a jewel?
I can get you a jewel.
Chad: Alright, guys.
We won the last
45-minute challenge,
So we need to nail this.
The genie decided to start
charging for fortunes,
But unfortunately,
since his powers weren't real,
He couldn't even predict
his own unfortunate fortune
Of being sucked back into
the lamp for all of eternity.
Hopefully I can get all of
these assembled back together.
Chad is gonna carve
the genie bottle out of pumpkin.
Rolling out the fondant
for the genie head.
I'm gonna carve the genie
head out of cake and fondant.
I'm doing green now, okay, guys?
Janet is gonna cast a bunch
Of different-colored jewels
out of isomalt sugar,
And then she's also going
to make spun-sugar smoke
That is sucking the genie
back into the lamp.
Oh, yeah, that looks
really cool.
[ thunder crashes ]
Saggy skin, a little musculature
showing through.
Carmel: We're doing this old,
decrepit witch.
Zelda rolls the bones,
and she uses her own eye
And her own bones
to predict our future.
Start working the ribs.
There's the clavicle.
Sternum is right here.
Jim is gonna be making
the body out of pumpkin.
She's really emaciated and thin.
You know, you guys, I think
I want to make
Zelda kind of witchy-looking.
You know what?
I'm gonna need an eye
pretty quickly.
Going to have to wait
a little longer.
Vanessa has to do
the eyes out of isomalt,
And that takes forever
to cool down.
I'm gonna use the back
just as a mold.
She's also gonna be
doing zelda's brass bowl
Where she's rolling her bones.
Like, where does this time
even go?
Hopefully this won't fall, eric.
Eric: This one can't fall.
We're gonna find out.
I still got to airbrush
the pumpkin,
But I've got to let it
dry a little bit.
Steve: Alright.
Board still needs to be
completed. You ready?
You're gonna have to wrap
around the bottom of it.
Here is the tricky part, steve.
Right, just perfect, huh?
Bennett: 10 minutes left!
Carmel: Come on, you guys.
It's all hands on deck.
Don't worry about flesh color.
Just help get some
orange fondant, knead it out.
Turn it just like that.
♪♪
That's good.
Getting a little tight
on time, you guys.
Chad, that pumpkin
needs to go on the base.
Amy, I'm getting
worried about this.
Janet is working on
the spun-sugar smoke
That is sucking the genie
back into the lamp.
This isn't working.
What do you think?
I think it'll work.
I don't know, amy.
Well, that crystallized.
Spun sugar is
temperature-sensitive.
I think it was just too hot,
And she couldn't get
long-enough strands,
So we're not able to cover
all the area that we need to.
Janet, don't worry
about the sugar.
We got it covered.
Sorry, I thought this
white isomalt would work.
Quickly, I grab a bucket
of fondant, start rolling it out
To make sure everything
is completely covered,
And hopefully it still
has a spiral effect
To look like he's being
sucked down into the lamp.
Chad, we need to get that
pumpkin on the base right now.
Alright, boss lady.
How are you looking?
Yes, sir, I am golden.
Wow, that's amazing!
I love it!
What do you got left
on the crystal ball, cesar?
I'm gonna try to demold her
Out of this bowl
right here, sir.
We are still waiting
for cesar's crystal ball.
And are we gonna be good?
Give it a little heat,
and hopefully she releases.
I can't put the hands on it
Until we have
a crystal ball in place.
Just a thin...
Guys, we got a problem.
The sugar doesn't want
to come off this bowl.
Cesar: The sugar doesn't want
to come off this bowl.
Heather: Misfortune teller is
heating up her crystal ball,
But cesar's sugar
is stuck to the bowl.
Shell is too thin.
I'm gonna have to do
this the hard way.
He's gonna have to melt
some more sugar,
And he's going
to have to try again
Because we've got
to have something.
Give me a hot sec.
I'm trying to get you
a crystal ball.
May not be the crystal ball
that we wanted,
But it's going
to be a crystal ball.
Jeff: Busted a tooth.
- Busted a tooth?
- Busted a tooth.
Jeff: Instead of having
a good fortune,
Guy gets devoured
by his fortune cookie.
It's not gonna go anywhere,
is it?
No, it's good. Can't fall.
I'm trying to get my foot
straightened out.
Just the more I add on it,
the uglier it gets.
Still looks pretty gruesome.
We're okay.
Five minutes,
you have five minutes left.
Amy: Come on, you guys.
It's all hands on deck.
Daniel: Haymu,
that looks awesome.
- Hit it with airbrush.
- It's really good.
- Hit it with the airbrush?
- Airbrush, yep.
Daniel: It's a hand busting
out of the crystal ball
With his eyeballs
on the end of the fingers.
Can I put the cards on?
Yes, sir.
Stack them. Alright.
Pretty sure I've seen the same
kind of slobber
Come out of my dog's mouth.
You can put it in. Ooh.
Carmel:
Zelda is so dark and dreary.
The very last thing I have
to finish is getting
All of that black fondant on.
Where are we here?
We need to put the dish.
One minute, get it done!
Chad: Janet,
I don't have the top.
- I got it.
- Put it on.
Amy: We are all trying to get
The final components
onto the board
So it's one cohesive piece,
And then I'm gonna airbrush
in all of the color details.
Get the airbrush ready, amy.
One minute, guys, one minute.
Looks good, jeff. Nice job.
No more blood, no more blood,
no more blood.
Vanessa: We just have
seconds to go.
- I know.
- No!
I'm sorry, guys.
- 10...
- 10 seconds.
Bennett: ...9, 8, 7...
- It's fine. It's fine.
- ...6, 5, 4...
- It's all right.
- ...3, 2...
Give me, give me,
give me, give me.
...2, 1, hands off your display.
[ thunder crashes ]
In this small scare,
We challenged you to give us
your unfortunate fortune teller.
Mummies' rejects...
Daniel:
Jack is a struggling artist.
He visits a fortune teller.
He tells her he wants to be able
to paint with his hands
As he sees with his eyes,
but she flips it on him.
The moral here is,
be careful what you wish for.
The hand is pumpkin.
The eyeballs
are modeling chocolate.
The crystal ball is blown sugar.
I keep staring
into the crystal ball
Like I'm gonna see
some sort of image in there.
I feel the sort of horror
coming from it.
I'm digging it.
You guys did an awesome job.
The sugar work on this
is amazing, by the way.
The fact that you got
that crystal ball,
And you were able to actually
have the hand coming out of it,
That has to be difficult to do.
Maybe the detail on the eyeballs
Could be a little bit
more finished off.
That is a big sugar ball.
I like that it's so even
in thickness,
And the fact
that you've balanced pumpkin
Coming out from that,
that's really, really difficult.
Bennett: Candy coroners...
Amy: Our genie couldn't predict
his own unfortunate fortune
Of being trapped back
inside of his lamp.
The genie lamp
is carved out of seven
Different pieces of pumpkin.
The head is cake.
The smoke pulling him
back down is fondant.
I love that there are
lots of jewels.
I don't think that you got your
sugar to the right temperature
Because they're really cloudy,
And in order to get
that really clear look,
You have to get it up
to the 330 degrees.
But I like the idea
that you took the risk
To have the billow of smoke
turning into the face
And not having
that whole face there,
So that's kind of
a creative way to do that.
The color breakup is very cool.
The overall piece is
a little bit rough,
But the whole piece
comes together as one.
It's all about emotion
and emoting,
And I wish the genie's face
had a little bit more,
You know, super, like,
scared look on his face.
Candy coroners,
thank you very much.
Crave diggers,
tell us a good fortune.
Jeff: This poor fella
never imagined
That his takeout
would take him out.
Fortune cookie is pumpkin.
The takeout box is cake
covered in fondant.
The leg is modeling chocolate.
The shape of the fortune cookie
is off here.
You don't have the proper
opening on the sides
That we need to see
in a fortune cookie.
However, the sugar teeth
are amazing.
Again, I think, joel, you make
really amazing sugar work.
Like that this has a dark sense
of humor,
But maybe the shape of the leg,
Maybe a little bit more detail
to make the leg feel
A little bit more
it has the bone in there
Rather
than a bit of a rounding to it.
Diaz: Absolutely love the teeth.
They're creepy and detailed.
Really good job, guys.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Killer cakerz, tell us
about your display.
Carmel: Zelda rolls the bones
to see what's in store.
She'll even throw in an eyeball
to get a first-hand view.
Zelda's face and head
is made of modeling chocolate.
Her torso is all pumpkin.
The bowl is isomalt sugar,
And the little bones in there
are modeling chocolate.
I've been fortunate enough
to play a lot of creatures
Over the years in my career,
and this seems like
A fun character
that I would like to play.
Her body is falling apart
before your very eyes,
And one of her eyes
is actually in there with it,
So it's just about getting
a little bit more refined
With your finished sculpting.
Now, this is a gorgeously
grotesque character.
She's really, really creepy.
The story is also great.
I think you need to give us
something
A little bit more polished
in order
For us to appreciate the things
that are falling apart.
We have so many tattered pieces.
The fondant is completely
ripped apart.
I can still see lots of flour
On where you rolled
the black fondant.
Diaz: I love what she's wearing
over her head.
The cloak is really detailed.
I love the pumpkin,
looks like exposed bones.
Killer cakerz,
thank you very much.
Ghoulicious...
Heather: We have
an evil fortune teller.
All of this pumping
of negative energy
Sucked her
into this quartz crystal.
So here we have a cake bust.
We also have an amazing head
that's made out of pumpkin.
We also have a sugar
shattered crystal ball.
I like the idea of what
you were trying to do.
You have a nice little head.
The hand and the body
doesn't really match.
I would suggest that you guys
Help each other
as much as you can
Because it doesn't matter
how strong any one of you are
If you don't come together,
obviously.
Li: This is a great face.
I think you did an amazing job
on the face, deane.
That's a really
big piece of sugar.
You went big, and I think
in this case, it just...
It was too big.
We really needed that
to tell the story.
Bennett: Ghoulicious,
thank you very much.
The judges are now gonna
consult their spirit guides
And determine a winner.
Daniel:
We deserve to win this challenge
Because we have
the only surviving crystal ball.
♪♪
Bennett: Coming up... [ gasps ]
Eric: This feels rickety.
You sure it's gonna hold?
Joel: This is very fragile.
Li: I'm really worried for them
because without that,
They have nothing.
- What happened?
- Oh, my goodness.
♪♪
For this small scare,
we challenged you to give us
Your most terrifying vision
of the future
With your unfortunate
fortune teller.
In the end, the judges felt that
one of you
Did it just a little bit better.
Congratulations...
Mummies' rejects.
Daniel: We win the small scare,
so we get our extra assistant.
Alright!
You've already showed us
some seriously scary monsters,
But for this round,
We want you to capture
something even more terrifying.
Of course,
I'm talking about dating
In a challenge we call
the blind date from hell.
Be sure to include two classic
romantic flavors of red wine
And dark chocolate into a treat
for our judges to nibble on.
Each of you will be given one
assistant, and mummies' rejects,
You get double the help
with an extra assistant
You earned from your win
in the small scare.
You have got just five hours.
The clock starts now.
♪♪
Alright, guys.
So we got our first win.
Great job. Great job.
So a blind date...
I mean, a date from hell,
what do you think?
Eric: Right, she wants
to get married.
Yeah.
"sure, I want to meet him,"
And then he shows up
in your house.
Exactly.
I don't know if you've ever
been catfished before.
I mean, you see him
on your phone.
Maybe he looks kind of cute,
And then he shows up
dressed up in his best
In all his disgusting,
fishy nastiness.
Whoa.
Deane is going to start
with the pumpkin head,
Fish face, in this case...
Devilish details, baby.
...Bulbous lips, scant cheeks,
Gill apparatus.
Hot, behind, sugar.
Cesar is going to pour
some big, bulbous fish eyes.
I'm creating those bloodshot
vein effects.
It needs the white part,
Bring out all the colors
in the eye.
Okay, guys.
I'm going to start working
on mr. Catfish's tail
From rice-cereal treats,
And then all of his clothes
will be fondant.
I'm slowly winning!
I just need to win a little
bit faster is all.
- Hey.
- Hi.
Hey, chad.
I'm gonna start you off
on projects,
And then as I need you,
I'm gonna be like,
"elizabeth, get over here now!"
- Okay.
- Good!
You guys are back!
Two heads are better
than one, right?
Our thought is,
we're gonna have a guy.
After messaging s-s-sarah,
He was excited to get
a message saying,
"can't wait to s-s-see you,"
but much to steve's surprise,
He was quickly injected
with poison
And slowly devoured
kind of like reality.
I find the perfect pumpkin
big enough for the job.
It's got a nice, fat stalk
that's already curved,
So I can cut that off,
flip it and make the rattle.
I'm adding the belly scales
on the snake.
As soon as I get those on,
I'll start the scales
on the back.
Haymu is gonna have
to start putting the bodies
Together for the snake woman
and the victim
Using rice cereal
and modeling chocolate.
The head haymu is making
is gonna be realistic
As far as you can be of what
A human-head-snake
combo would be.
Steve: I mean,
amazing, amazing work.
Haymu: Thank you.
It looks amazing.
Daniel: So steve has got
all these spiders to make.
He'll have to pull the body,
pull the legs, melt them,
Stick them on there and then
do it again and do it again.
I'm making the rattle, and then
I'll make the snake eggs.
Jeff: I said, "I don't think
I've ever been
On a disastrous date."
Because you know
how to pick them.
Yeah.
Jeff: This guy comes to pick up
his blind date,
And who comes out of the door
but satan's daughter,
But she's already
planning their wedding.
It's the perfect blind date
from hell.
Guys, I'm gonna use
a white pumpkin
Because it's better density.
Eric is gonna be
doing the man's head.
Guys, I'm gonna give him
kind of a screaming face
As he's running away.
- Sick.
- Alright.
- It's sick, man.
- Good.
Filled his back up
so it looked like his tail
Of his coat is flying up.
Jeff: I'm gonna have to get
started on the man first.
That's gonna be
the biggest piece.
On this one, I wanted to beef
up his legs with fondant.
He's running fast.
He's got some meat there.
He'll really look like
he is moving.
Movement, movement, movement.
Joel is gonna be pouring
the window out of isomalt.
He's gonna put flames inside
the window as he pours it,
So it's gonna look like
we have fire
Inside the window of the house.
Eric: That looks great, joel.
You know, last time, you guys,
we ran out of time
To put all that fondant
on our piece.
Our couple meets on a pet
lover's dating site,
And she ends up going back
to his house to meet his pet,
Ralph, and ralph
is not too keen on strangers.
I'm about to empty
his guts here.
Blech!
Jim has to carve ralph, his pet,
In an angle
such that it looks like
He's peeking over the edge
of this board.
Trying to make this nice
and round
Like the armrest of a couch.
The couch, we made out
of rice-cereal treats
And then cake for the arms
Because cake
will carve really well
And make a nice,
soft arm cushion.
Vanessa will be casting
the eyeballs
Out of isomalt for our couple.
She's also gonna be
doing the tabletop.
The sugar guts are on my side.
I'm working on getting
the marquee sign
Laid out right here.
We're gonna create
a guy named johnny
Going on his first date
with destiny
At the movie theater,
but little does he know
That he actually has
a date with death.
Try to make this whole piece,
you know,
Have, like, a vintage feel.
We really want
an elaborate marquee piece.
Chad is gonna have to take
his time to score
In all the art deco details.
Chad, I'm gonna start
on the girl.
I feel like I want to add
a lot of detail to her dress.
I'm gonna be making
the grim reaper's body
From cake and fondant.
We want to create
a grim reaper disguise,
So I'm gonna be creating
black edible-fabric lace
In order to make the dress
really come to life.
Janet is gonna create
some really, really large swirls
As well as all of the lights
that go around the marquee.
Janet: I'm getting ready to cast
the front window.
Janet needs to get
the marquee cast
As soon as possible
as well as the ticket window.
Those are really,
really large pieces of sugar,
And they take a lot
of time to cool.
I'm just gonna attach the flower
For the guy to give her.
Everyone has a really,
really ambitious list of goals
They want to accomplish,
so if one of us falls behind,
We're all gonna have to
jump in to help the other.
I can do anything.
Amy, amy, what you need me
to help you with?
The girl.
Uh...
Bennett:
So, guillermo, do you think
Our "Halloween wars" set
is scary?
I mean, look,
we got scary trees...
- Totally.
- ...In the back.
Look at all those eyeballs
back there.
Look at all this monster, aah!
Aah.
Did I get you?
Yeah. [ growls ]
[ all scream ]
- Wow.
- Todd, we got him, yes!
- Yes!
- That's really good, man.
Four hours, four hours left!
- Todd...
- We've got four hours.
Haymu: I'm painting the eyes.
Eric: Just a little bit
of dark blue.
Jim: Couple extra shadows
to break up the surface.
Otherwise, the story
doesn't sell.
How you gonna get my eye
into your head?
Here we go. - Boop!
- Pop!
- Look at that pop.
♪♪
Heather: I can't remember
if I ever stacked cake
Over my head before.
We're almost there.
And we're gonna dress this guy
In some really gross
yellow fondant for his shirt,
Maybe some pit stains
under there.
I'm worried about everything
at this point.
Gonna look like catfish eyes.
So of course mr. Catfish
would bring you jelly fish eyes.
They're gonna have red wine,
cherry, jelly fruit
With a thin layer
of chocolate ganache
Poured into a mold so that
they look like fish eyes.
Deane: Those look great.
Jeff: She gonna have
a big old wedding dress.
I have to create a long,
flowing dress.
It's a challenge to get
those creases
And getting that flow
to look like
She has a little bit
of movement in her dress.
I should be a dress designer.
Joel, what you doing?
For the tasting element,
Joel is gonna be
making roses made
From dark chocolate mousse
with a red-wine-cherry compote
And a walnut crunch
on the bottom.
Joel: Guys, I'm heating
the sugar for the roses.
The tasting element fits in
because as he's running away,
He just drops his roses.
So these ones are
for the display.
Those look great, joel.
I love the roses.
I got to start with my bonbons.
Carmel: They sound delicious.
Vanessa will be doing
a black-currant-cordial bonbon
Shaped like a little heart.
Ooh, oh, you did pink?
Aw, this is this guy's lair.
Well, we didn't think
in a normal american living room
This thing would be even there,
So that's why we did it
like a dungeon.
Alright.
I made these little rocks
out of fondant.
I am trying to fix this
under here, cesar.
Cesar: What you gonna do?
I'm gonna roll some more ict.
I'm not sure what else to do.
Okay, yeah,
I will figure it out somehow.
The fondant starts to rip
and fall apart.
Oh, shoot, none of this
is holding.
Dang. It all fell off!
Heather: Oh, shoot, none of this
is holding.
Dang.
I'm working on the catfish body.
My base completely falls apart.
Cesar: Mash it up.
Try to build up
the structure again.
It really feels great
to have our team
Pull together like that.
You good with this, boss?
I'm good with that.
Thank you for your help,
gentlemen.
And then I can get some fondant
over the outside
And hold that in place.
Better. You sure?
It's holding at least.
Jim: Just smoothing it out
a little bit,
Give it a little glaze.
Our couple goes back to his
place for a movie and popcorn,
But his pet is not
too keen on strangers.
It's these subtle details
that sell it,
So I got to put some eyes
in there next.
Jim is making these faces
out of modeling chocolate,
But he's never worked
with modeling chocolate before,
And they look awesome.
He's just looking stellar.
I will be doing the bodies
of the couple.
That thing's huge. He has guns.
I also have to do the creature's
arm and tail
As he's reaching
around over the display.
He will be rice-cereal treats
covered in modeling chocolate.
This is like a human-sized arm,
holy crap.
Amy: It's looking awesome, chad.
- Thank you.
- It looks incredible.
We're gonna create the siding
of the movie theater
With gingerbread,
rice-cereal treats and fondant.
I am using chocolate
instead of royal icing.
It'll set up a lot faster
than the royal icing.
That looks incredible.
I'm gonna start working
on the tickets
For the tasting element.
Awesome.
Janet is gonna be making
A ruby-port-dark-chocolate
ganache.
It's incorporating those two
typically great date
Ingredients...
Chocolate and wine.
I'm gonna liquor them up.
She's gonna shape it
into rectangles
So we get
that movie-ticket shape
And then dip it in chocolate.
This is our ticket to the win.
Steve: So, guys, this is
the brownie mixture.
Daniel: I need some brownie.
For the tasting element,
Steve is doing a brownie
with red-wine ganache,
Poached pear and almond extract.
And then I'm gonna dip the
whole thing in dark chocolate.
Give me your finger.
Try some ganache.
I might need to try that again.
Four teams have a date
with the judges,
And one team has
a blind date with doom.
You have two hours
to get it done!
Let's go.
Deane: I got to slather this on.
It's, like, kind of like
spackling.
Amy: That looks beautiful,
janet.
Chad: Oh, wow, nice.
You trying to make him
look like your ex-boyfriend?
Not quite.
I'm painting the face
for the grim reaper.
- The eagle has landed.
- Ain't moving.
Now somebody help me down.
Joel, this okay?
- Nice.
- Alright.
Haymu: He looks scary.
He looks scary, amazing,
amazing work.
Thank you.
Heather: He is one ugly catfish.
I specialize in ugly.
Cesar: What do you got left?
Got to get the eyes in there.
Joel: Guys, I got to stay here
for a while and just roll this
Until it cools
so it stays nice and round.
Jeff: Joel, he's gonna have to
pull this isomalt pitchfork,
And the sheer size of the thing,
I mean, you taking a risk,
and I hope it pays off.
Joel: Very, very fragile.
Yes, be careful.
Amy: One hour left, you guys.
Down to the last hour, and, omg,
We might have signed up
for too much.
Finishing everything up
And getting it
on there seems impossible.
I'm just painting the letters
on the sign.
If I had more time,
I'd be able to get the detail
that I want to,
But I'm so short on time,
I have to rush it.
We want to make sure
all the details
That we add are on-point.
Jeff: How's it coming, eric?
Eric: A big rush.
I thought this would be easier,
but it's not.
Joel: Let me know
When you want me
to put that window up.
To place that sugar windowpane,
We have to get this thing
in there first try
Because there's no way
we can make another one.
Not finishing is not an option.
Got to finish,
got to go two-for-two.
Vanessa:
I can hold that, carmel,
If you want to finish the body.
I got it. I got it.
The hardest part of this display
Is the creature's arm
reaching around.
Is that gonna stay?
There. I'll make it stay.
Just don't shake him too much
because he'll be like...
I have power tools
and a will to use them.
Is this secure?
He's not going anywhere.
Famous last words.
You think it's gonna stay.
- We'll wait to find out.
- Alright.
I'm gonna throw pumpkin guts
on there
And put the eggs into it.
The sooner we can get them on,
The sooner we can
patch the gaps.
I'm kind of antsy.
I need haymu to be finished
so we can set it on the snake
And see what kind of gap
we'll have left over,
Maybe huge, maybe just right.
We got to start placing things.
- Join them.
- Join them?
So I need to pull her
and put her on.
Okay.
She gonna be moving?
She'll move that much.
You do that, and I'll work
on covering that.
Teams, you have 30 minutes left.
Carmel: Hey, jim, how's it
coming with the face?
Jim: I think he's just
looking stellar.
Ooh.
Heather: Careful, deane.
Deane: Coming down, yep.
It is very unstable.
I'm afraid to even
breathe on it.
Janet: It's defcon 5.
We got to start working, okay?
There you go.
Jim: Do you need
an extra set of hands?
- [ gasps ]
- no!
Oh, no! Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no.
Killer cakerz just lost
one of their sculptures.
- Oh, no.
- Take the arm out.
Take the arm out before
it messes up everything else.
That's the main piece that shows
That this monster
is coming to get her.
Li: I'm really worried for them
because without that,
They have nothing.
- Oh, no, oh, no, oh.
- Ooh.
Take the arm out.
Take the arm out before
it messes up everything else.
That's the main piece that shows
That this monster
is coming to get her.
Hey, you know
what you could do, jim?
Grab some of that modeling
chocolate that was heaped.
Make some fingers in the windows
up where she's looking.
Jim: Yep.
We have to immediately go
to plan "b,"
Just make some hands
and just over the edge.
I mean, that's all we could do.
Game is not over until it's
over, so arm doesn't work.
We'll go with a hand.
We just want to tell a story.
Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
10 minutes remain!
Watch the arms. Watch the arms.
Daniel: Okay, I got you.
Like that? Perfect.
These are really fragile, cesar.
Are you gonna be okay?
- I'm gonna be okay.
Amy: Janet, the sickle now,
the sickle.
Chad: Oh, yeah, that's cool.
That looks good.
Eric: This feels rickety.
You sure, jeff, it's gonna hold?
Jeff: It's got some sponge
to it, but it should hold.
Perfect.
You have one minute left.
Chad: One minute.
Daniel: More guts, get some more
guts in the back.
Steve: Going to get one
up at the top.
Chad: Be careful, buddy, please.
Watch the guys. Watch the guys.
Need to get through, guys.
- Put it back right here.
- 10, 9...
Eric: Hurry up, joel. Let's go.
- Here is hair. Here is hair.
- ...7, 6...
- No, no, no... 5, 4...
- Let's go!
- ...3, 2...
- Got it?
- ...1.
- Got it.
- Hands off your displays.
- Good job, guys.
- Great job.
Oh, my gosh.
Good job.
Bennett: We asked you to give us
Your scariest blind date
from hell.
Candy coroners, let's talk
about what you made.
Amy: Johnny has walked up
to his date with destiny.
Little did he know that destiny
Has actually been masquerading
As the grim reaper all along.
The centerpiece of the marquee
is carved out of pumpkin.
Destiny is a cake body
with a pumpkin face.
Johnny is carved out
Of rice-cereal treats
and fondant.
Janet has created
a ganache movie ticket.
It is a dark-chocolate
- and-ruby-port-wine ganache.
I would like to see them
look more like tickets.
Even if you wrote the words
on there like, "admits one,"
Then I would buy the story,
but I love the taste.
It is that, like, deeper wine
flavor of the port
Mixed with the chocolate,
Just develops, like, a really
nice, sophisticated flavor.
There's some great details here.
The lace on the dress
are really cool.
Johnny's eyes have a very,
very realistic look to them,
And because that flower
is such a cool flower,
I would've probably had him
just have it up front
So I could see it.
The first thing that stands out
is the large centerpiece.
It kind of reminds me
of an old-hollywood feel.
Li: This is one of the most
ambitious backdrops we've seen.
I love the kind of art deco
throughout
And all the details that
you worked into that pumpkin.
I just don't know
if it's worth it
Because it is so much time
spent on the backdrop,
And your story is happening
in the front,
And the character that's back
there, he's lost in the shade.
When you do something,
we want to see it.
Bennett: Crave diggers...
Jeff: Our date from hell
Is actually satan's daughter,
And she's already
planning their wedding,
So he can't get out
of there fast enough.
Our bodies are made
from modeling chocolate
And rice-cereal treats.
The two heads are carved
out of pumpkin,
And the pitchfork
and the horns are all sugar.
Today we have
a dark-chocolate mousse
With a red-wine-and-cherry
compote.
You have a chocolate cake
inside,
And then you have a walnut and
rice-cereal crisp on the bottom.
Li: I didn't really
taste any wine.
I think if you made it smaller,
I would taste the flavors
together and the textures.
This is a really smart piece,
and it's really thought out.
I feel the action.
I mean, this guy is just dying
to get off this platform
Because she really is
the date from hell, literally.
One of the things that stood
out for me is,
It looks like a couture dress.
Your lead character, you see
the movement in his clothing.
The detail is so wonderful.
The one note that I will
give you guys...
The face on this character
looks similar to the other one
You did on the other challenge.
Try not to make the characters
look too much alike
Just so that it doesn't feel
like you're repurposing
Something from
the other challenge.
Crave diggers,
thank you very much.
Ghoulicious...
Heather: You see him online.
He looks kind of cute,
But then he shows up
in all of his fishy nastiness,
And just in case you forgot,
he's got his phone app out,
And it was a catch,
but who got caught?
The pumpkin is our head.
We've got a big old body
full of cake.
We've also got sugar
splashes of water.
Cesar: For the tasting element,
I did a cherry-red-wine
pate de fruit
With 65% chocolate ganache,
And I did it
in the shape of catfish eye.
The layer of chocolate
added the crunch.
The cherry added
that extra tartness,
And then the ganache
was super creamy.
I think it was perfect.
The head on this piece
is amazing.
The eyes, the coloring,
it's really, really impressive.
One of the things that kind of
bothered me a little bit is,
I wish that we would've seen
the date that gets catfished.
Li: This doesn't look like
a blind date
Because the other character
is just missing,
And then the colors,
they're really bright and happy,
And they're just not terrifying.
So the two really
important things...
Halloween and dating...
Are missing.
Tucker:
The head is well-sculpted.
The body and the arms,
they're not quite matching.
Ghoulicious,
thank you very much.
Mummies' rejects...
After messaging s-s-sarah
for a few weeks,
Steve was excited
to get a message saying,
"can't wait to s-s-see you,"
but much to steve's surprise,
He was quickly injected
with poison
And slowly devoured.
The snake is pumpkin.
The two characters are cake
and modeling chocolate.
All of the bugs and creepy
things are pulled sugar.
Steve: So the tasting element
is a chocolate brownie
With a red-wine-poached pear and
a red-wine-chocolate ganache.
Your tasting matches
this display
Because it's got this real
strong acidic-ness to it,
And then you balance that
with a darker chocolate ganache.
The brownie just got a little
bit soggy from the poached pear.
Diaz:
I love that it's super ominous.
You look at it, and it has
that horror feel to it.
I want to do a horror movie
that's based on this piece.
Li: I love what you did
with the serpent body
And the fact that you used
the stem
From the pumpkin
to create that rattle.
It really feels like
an infestation,
And they're really gorgeous,
the sheen to the sugar work,
And each one looks different,
But I don't understand that
it's actually a blind date.
Tucker: You've got a lot of
character in that snake lady,
But I see a bit of a difference
in the color
Between her body
and her snake body,
So maybe if you were to color
a little bit more
Of that vibrant green
that you have in her face
And in her arms
down into the body,
It might make it feel
a little bit more consistent.
Mummies' rejects, thanks-s-s-s.
[ laughter ]
Killer cakerz, you're up.
Carmel: Our couple met
on a pet lover's dating app,
And she went back to his house
to meet his pet, ralph,
And ralph is not really
into strangers.
The two people are
rice-cereal treats
And modeling chocolate,
And ralph is pumpkin
And his modeling-chocolate
appendages.
Vanessa: I made
black-currant bonbons.
It's a black-currant ganache
with drunken raisins.
There's that kind of earthiness
that comes from the currant,
And then you have
that drunken raisin,
Which really brightened it up.
Tucker: I do like that you have
a sense of humor in this.
I like that you've got
the dating aspect in there.
You got the theme.
The first thing that popped
for me
Are the faces of the characters,
just so detailed, so expressive.
I felt really terrible
when I saw that collapse.
Oh, no. Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no.
Oh, dang it.
Li: It was too heavy.
If you'd create it like
a side table
Where it just kind of rests,
Then you wouldn't have had
an issue there.
I know you ran out of time,
So I don't know how you whipped
that together at the end,
But what I do see as a result
is rushed fondant work.
Carmel: I feel like I let my
team down a little bit.
I'm a perfectionist
when it comes to my work.
I feel like all we needed
was that second assistant.
The judges need to figure out
Who they had a real connection
with and who's getting dumped.
I don't think the judges
liked my display at all.
The judges don't think that
it read as a scary date.
Wow, judges,
that was a crazy battle.
Li: Oh, my gosh, so much
amazing details.
What do we think
of crave diggers?
You can clearly see he's running
from this character
Who looks like the date
from hell.
They really nailed it with that.
And they have a very clear,
clean,
Really precise design look
for their characters,
And their execution
and paint jobs
And sculpting and placement,
And everything about that
piece really worked for me.
The satan's daughter's
wedding dress,
It looks like a couture dress,
Like, the fact that they paid
so much attention to that.
You know, the tasting was
just a little too big.
You cannot get everything
in one bite.
Bennett: Let's talk
about mummies' rejects.
It feels like a scene
from a horror movie.
Those sugar pieces, the insects,
That was such
a beautiful touch, so detailed.
The s-sarah s-snake
has a glistening,
Almost, like,
poisonous green on her skin.
The snake-reptilian textures
on the actual tail part...
The biggest problem I had
with that piece
Was that the bright-green color
They used on the upper body
on the snake character
Should've followed through
the rest of the body.
That tasting, the acid
from the pear
Interacted with the red wine,
And it caused, like,
this super strong almost,
Like, williams-liqueur
taste to it,
But the brownie just got
a little bit soggy
From the poached pear.
Bennett: Let's talk
about candy coroners.
I loved the johnny character.
That was my favorite part
of the piece
And the old-hollywood feel.
Tucker: It did feel like
the other characters
Didn't match the level
of the one johnny character.
I think their backdrop
really overwhelmed
Their entire display,
And their characters
just didn't pop enough.
And then you know what else
didn't pop, was their tasting.
We were supposed to be
eating tickets,
And they didn't look
like tickets.
Bennett: What do we think
of killer cakerz?
Man, did they have
a rough time today.
I know.
Oh, no. Oh, no, oh, no.
Tucker: It definitely has
that dating aspect,
And there's some really nice
individual pieces in there.
The best part of that piece
are the two faces
Of the lead characters.
They did a great job
adding that second character,
But because they lost the time,
The fondant work is very sloppy,
But now their tasting is not.
That tasting is
super sophisticated.
That burn that comes from
the drunken raisins
And then that paired
with the currants,
It's earthy and fire.
I loved it.
Bennett:
Let's talk about ghoulicious.
Now, this is a really
outstanding character,
A single character,
Another great sculpted
pumpkin face from deane.
The story is just lost.
For me, the problem
with this piece
Was that the continuity
is not there.
The face doesn't really match
the rest of the piece.
I hated the coloring
of the outfit.
It reads easter to me.
Cesar's tasting is delicious.
The cherry is actually
really flavorful...
So good.
...And coupled
with that chocolate,
It was just a perfect balance.
Alright, judges.
You have to decide
who you want to win
And who you want to send home.
♪♪
For this spine chiller,
we challenged you to show us
Your most terrifying vision
of a blind date from hell.
Each team pushed themselves
further than ever before
With height, size
and level of detail,
But only one of you
can win this challenge.
The winner
of this spine chiller is...
♪♪
...Crave diggers.
Congratulations.
We won two in a row.
We're killing it.
We're starting out strong.
Unfortunately, tonight's battle
took its toll on two teams.
Killer cakerz, ghoulicious,
One of you is going home
right now.
Carmel:
I'm looking at everyone else's.
I feel like the judges see this
and appreciate
All the hard work
that's gone into it.
I wish we had been able to
portray the storyline better.
I hope I'm not going home.
♪♪
Killer cakerz, I'm sorry.
You're done
in this Halloween war.
Thank you.
Carmel: I think our piece was
just so ambitious
That really nobody could finish
what we had planned.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Congratulations, teams.
We'll see you soon.
Heather: So far, we've been
really running
On our own separate tracks,
And then they all come together,
and the judges don't want that.
We're gonna pull together
as a team a lot more
Than we have been.
What the heck is going on
with this stuff?
Bennett: This season on
"Halloween wars"...
We want to terrify those judges.
[ laughing evilly ]
Tucker: This is the first time
you guys have done something
That is legitimately horrifying.
[ howling ]
You are so much better
than this.
- Ah!
- Easy, man.
I can buy a lot of pumpkin
with 50 grand.
[ laughs ]
Just put his eyeballs
on the end of his fingers.
Bennett: Tonight,
the five remaining teams
Of expert food artists
Will combine
their skills in cake...
Li: These tasting elements
are amazing.
...Candy...
This is very fragile.
...And carved pumpkin...
Empty as it gets here.
...As they face off in another
blood-curdling battle.
Daniel: I'm channeling
my inner fortune teller.
We're gonna win.
When the night is done, another
team will meet their doom...
You went big, and I think
in this case, it was too big.
Bennett: ...Leaving just four
teams to journey on
For a chance at $50,000.
- Oh, no.
- Oh! He just fell.
- Oh, what happened?
- Oh, my goodness.
An all-new "Halloween wars"
starts right now.
♪♪
[ laughs evilly ]
♪♪
Welcome back to the second
frightening night
Of "Halloween wars"!
Yeah.
For centuries, when people
want to find out
What the future holds,
they turn to a fortune teller.
Whether they use tarot cards,
Tea leaves or even
the classic crystal ball,
Everyone is looking for
a little bit of good news
About what's to come.
But here at "Halloween wars,"
we want you to show us a diviner
Who foretells darkness
in a challenge
We call the misfortune teller.
Remember, win this round
And earn an extra assistant
in the next round.
You have got just 45 minutes.
Get to work.
♪♪
Like the crystal ball?
Deane: I can fill it
with a head.
- Can fill it with a head?
- Yeah.
Everyone is gonna do
crystal ball.
Stay away from that.
Fortune cookie.
Fortune cookie like it
devoured somebody,
Foot sticking out,
pants like this.
We're feeling excited.
We just come off a good win.
The winner... Crave diggers.
Hopefully we can win two
in a row.
His takeout will take him out.
There you go. Let's do it.
Ready?
Jeff: Guy goes and picks up
his takeout.
Instead of having
a good fortune,
He gets actually devoured
by his fortune cookie.
Somehow, guys, I got to make
this look like a fortune cookie.
Fortune cookie has got,
like, a folded crack
Down the middle like a spine.
- Yeah.
- Harder than it looks, guys.
Joel, what are you
starting with?
I'm gonna start
working on the teeth.
Jeff: Joel, he's gonna be making
our fortune-cookie teeth
Out of pulled sugar.
I'm gonna be making
the takeout box out of cake,
And I also have the leg coming
out of the fortune cookie.
The biggest challenge is just
getting it all done
In 45 minutes.
Crazy, crazy.
Eric: You guys gonna have time
to do everything?
I don't know.
I love our story, guys.
Instead of seeing misfortune
for someone else,
She sees herself.
Heather, you are too much.
The misfortune teller actually
loves to tell misfortune.
What she doesn't realize is
that all of this negativity
Is heating up her crystal ball
until it sucks her into it,
And then all that's left
is a headless corpse.
Once I get the basic shapes in,
The details just
fall into place.
Deane is going to use pumpkin
for this little, tiny head.
I'm going to be making this bust
out of cake covered in fondant,
And then I'm gonna put
ruffles overlapping one another
So we have a very
peasant-looking blouse
For our fortune teller.
Without the crystal ball,
the whole thing becomes unclear.
Cesar: Don't worry. I got it.
Cesar is going to make
his crystal ball out of sugar.
This particular design is going
to allow each of us
To really showcase our talents.
I'm gonna model us
a little pair of hands here.
Do you think
our fortune teller can predict
That we're gonna
win the $50,000?
I foresee it!
Steve: Guys, we need
that assistant.
We got to do really good
on this.
Daniel:
The story we've come up with is,
Jack is a struggling artist.
He visits a fortune teller.
He tells her he wants to be able
to paint with his hands
As he sees with his eyes,
but she flips it on him.
The moral here is,
be careful what you wish for.
I'm doing some fine-tuning.
10 more minutes,
And I'll be ready
to try to start painting it.
I'm gonna make the hand.
I'll have to rough it in, then
use my ribbon loops to cut it.
Then I'll have to sand it.
What's your status, haymu?
I'm making the base and then
add some decorations.
Daniel:
While haymu is making the base
Out of cake covered in fondant,
And then she has to make these
modeling-chocolate eyeballs
Attached to the end
of his fingers.
Steve: It's really important.
I got to get this round
Because if I don't get it round,
it's not gonna look good.
Steve will be blowing
a big, sugar crystal ball.
The big challenge is making
the crystal ball
In the amount of time
because it has to cool
Before I can even
put my part on.
As soon as you can do that,
I can size it up
And make sure
how long this thing needs to be.
Alright.
Teams, I have the good fortune
Of introducing your judges!
Say hello to award-winning
cake artist shinmin li...
[ cheers and applause ]
hey, guys.
...And special-effects
makeup artist
And horror-film director
todd tucker!
Hey, guys.
Alright.
And now let's say hello to
your extra-special guest judge.
You know him from "scandal."
It's guillermo diaz.
[ cheers and applause ]
Oh, my god.
Guillermo diaz, oh, my gosh,
I've seen him everywhere.
I am so excited to have him
as the celebrity guest judge.
Guillermo, I know you're
a big horror-film fan,
And you love Halloween.
What do you love most
about the genre?
I love being scared
and the makeup
That all those
super-talented people do,
Sort of like this guy,
So, yeah,
that's what I love about it.
- Roar!
- Aah!
Welcome to
"Halloween wars," bud.
Teams, you have 30 minutes left.
Alright. I got to get started
on the leg bad.
He needs a jewel
right there in the head.
Can you give me a jewel?
I can get you a jewel.
Chad: Alright, guys.
We won the last
45-minute challenge,
So we need to nail this.
The genie decided to start
charging for fortunes,
But unfortunately,
since his powers weren't real,
He couldn't even predict
his own unfortunate fortune
Of being sucked back into
the lamp for all of eternity.
Hopefully I can get all of
these assembled back together.
Chad is gonna carve
the genie bottle out of pumpkin.
Rolling out the fondant
for the genie head.
I'm gonna carve the genie
head out of cake and fondant.
I'm doing green now, okay, guys?
Janet is gonna cast a bunch
Of different-colored jewels
out of isomalt sugar,
And then she's also going
to make spun-sugar smoke
That is sucking the genie
back into the lamp.
Oh, yeah, that looks
really cool.
[ thunder crashes ]
Saggy skin, a little musculature
showing through.
Carmel: We're doing this old,
decrepit witch.
Zelda rolls the bones,
and she uses her own eye
And her own bones
to predict our future.
Start working the ribs.
There's the clavicle.
Sternum is right here.
Jim is gonna be making
the body out of pumpkin.
She's really emaciated and thin.
You know, you guys, I think
I want to make
Zelda kind of witchy-looking.
You know what?
I'm gonna need an eye
pretty quickly.
Going to have to wait
a little longer.
Vanessa has to do
the eyes out of isomalt,
And that takes forever
to cool down.
I'm gonna use the back
just as a mold.
She's also gonna be
doing zelda's brass bowl
Where she's rolling her bones.
Like, where does this time
even go?
Hopefully this won't fall, eric.
Eric: This one can't fall.
We're gonna find out.
I still got to airbrush
the pumpkin,
But I've got to let it
dry a little bit.
Steve: Alright.
Board still needs to be
completed. You ready?
You're gonna have to wrap
around the bottom of it.
Here is the tricky part, steve.
Right, just perfect, huh?
Bennett: 10 minutes left!
Carmel: Come on, you guys.
It's all hands on deck.
Don't worry about flesh color.
Just help get some
orange fondant, knead it out.
Turn it just like that.
♪♪
That's good.
Getting a little tight
on time, you guys.
Chad, that pumpkin
needs to go on the base.
Amy, I'm getting
worried about this.
Janet is working on
the spun-sugar smoke
That is sucking the genie
back into the lamp.
This isn't working.
What do you think?
I think it'll work.
I don't know, amy.
Well, that crystallized.
Spun sugar is
temperature-sensitive.
I think it was just too hot,
And she couldn't get
long-enough strands,
So we're not able to cover
all the area that we need to.
Janet, don't worry
about the sugar.
We got it covered.
Sorry, I thought this
white isomalt would work.
Quickly, I grab a bucket
of fondant, start rolling it out
To make sure everything
is completely covered,
And hopefully it still
has a spiral effect
To look like he's being
sucked down into the lamp.
Chad, we need to get that
pumpkin on the base right now.
Alright, boss lady.
How are you looking?
Yes, sir, I am golden.
Wow, that's amazing!
I love it!
What do you got left
on the crystal ball, cesar?
I'm gonna try to demold her
Out of this bowl
right here, sir.
We are still waiting
for cesar's crystal ball.
And are we gonna be good?
Give it a little heat,
and hopefully she releases.
I can't put the hands on it
Until we have
a crystal ball in place.
Just a thin...
Guys, we got a problem.
The sugar doesn't want
to come off this bowl.
Cesar: The sugar doesn't want
to come off this bowl.
Heather: Misfortune teller is
heating up her crystal ball,
But cesar's sugar
is stuck to the bowl.
Shell is too thin.
I'm gonna have to do
this the hard way.
He's gonna have to melt
some more sugar,
And he's going
to have to try again
Because we've got
to have something.
Give me a hot sec.
I'm trying to get you
a crystal ball.
May not be the crystal ball
that we wanted,
But it's going
to be a crystal ball.
Jeff: Busted a tooth.
- Busted a tooth?
- Busted a tooth.
Jeff: Instead of having
a good fortune,
Guy gets devoured
by his fortune cookie.
It's not gonna go anywhere,
is it?
No, it's good. Can't fall.
I'm trying to get my foot
straightened out.
Just the more I add on it,
the uglier it gets.
Still looks pretty gruesome.
We're okay.
Five minutes,
you have five minutes left.
Amy: Come on, you guys.
It's all hands on deck.
Daniel: Haymu,
that looks awesome.
- Hit it with airbrush.
- It's really good.
- Hit it with the airbrush?
- Airbrush, yep.
Daniel: It's a hand busting
out of the crystal ball
With his eyeballs
on the end of the fingers.
Can I put the cards on?
Yes, sir.
Stack them. Alright.
Pretty sure I've seen the same
kind of slobber
Come out of my dog's mouth.
You can put it in. Ooh.
Carmel:
Zelda is so dark and dreary.
The very last thing I have
to finish is getting
All of that black fondant on.
Where are we here?
We need to put the dish.
One minute, get it done!
Chad: Janet,
I don't have the top.
- I got it.
- Put it on.
Amy: We are all trying to get
The final components
onto the board
So it's one cohesive piece,
And then I'm gonna airbrush
in all of the color details.
Get the airbrush ready, amy.
One minute, guys, one minute.
Looks good, jeff. Nice job.
No more blood, no more blood,
no more blood.
Vanessa: We just have
seconds to go.
- I know.
- No!
I'm sorry, guys.
- 10...
- 10 seconds.
Bennett: ...9, 8, 7...
- It's fine. It's fine.
- ...6, 5, 4...
- It's all right.
- ...3, 2...
Give me, give me,
give me, give me.
...2, 1, hands off your display.
[ thunder crashes ]
In this small scare,
We challenged you to give us
your unfortunate fortune teller.
Mummies' rejects...
Daniel:
Jack is a struggling artist.
He visits a fortune teller.
He tells her he wants to be able
to paint with his hands
As he sees with his eyes,
but she flips it on him.
The moral here is,
be careful what you wish for.
The hand is pumpkin.
The eyeballs
are modeling chocolate.
The crystal ball is blown sugar.
I keep staring
into the crystal ball
Like I'm gonna see
some sort of image in there.
I feel the sort of horror
coming from it.
I'm digging it.
You guys did an awesome job.
The sugar work on this
is amazing, by the way.
The fact that you got
that crystal ball,
And you were able to actually
have the hand coming out of it,
That has to be difficult to do.
Maybe the detail on the eyeballs
Could be a little bit
more finished off.
That is a big sugar ball.
I like that it's so even
in thickness,
And the fact
that you've balanced pumpkin
Coming out from that,
that's really, really difficult.
Bennett: Candy coroners...
Amy: Our genie couldn't predict
his own unfortunate fortune
Of being trapped back
inside of his lamp.
The genie lamp
is carved out of seven
Different pieces of pumpkin.
The head is cake.
The smoke pulling him
back down is fondant.
I love that there are
lots of jewels.
I don't think that you got your
sugar to the right temperature
Because they're really cloudy,
And in order to get
that really clear look,
You have to get it up
to the 330 degrees.
But I like the idea
that you took the risk
To have the billow of smoke
turning into the face
And not having
that whole face there,
So that's kind of
a creative way to do that.
The color breakup is very cool.
The overall piece is
a little bit rough,
But the whole piece
comes together as one.
It's all about emotion
and emoting,
And I wish the genie's face
had a little bit more,
You know, super, like,
scared look on his face.
Candy coroners,
thank you very much.
Crave diggers,
tell us a good fortune.
Jeff: This poor fella
never imagined
That his takeout
would take him out.
Fortune cookie is pumpkin.
The takeout box is cake
covered in fondant.
The leg is modeling chocolate.
The shape of the fortune cookie
is off here.
You don't have the proper
opening on the sides
That we need to see
in a fortune cookie.
However, the sugar teeth
are amazing.
Again, I think, joel, you make
really amazing sugar work.
Like that this has a dark sense
of humor,
But maybe the shape of the leg,
Maybe a little bit more detail
to make the leg feel
A little bit more
it has the bone in there
Rather
than a bit of a rounding to it.
Diaz: Absolutely love the teeth.
They're creepy and detailed.
Really good job, guys.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Killer cakerz, tell us
about your display.
Carmel: Zelda rolls the bones
to see what's in store.
She'll even throw in an eyeball
to get a first-hand view.
Zelda's face and head
is made of modeling chocolate.
Her torso is all pumpkin.
The bowl is isomalt sugar,
And the little bones in there
are modeling chocolate.
I've been fortunate enough
to play a lot of creatures
Over the years in my career,
and this seems like
A fun character
that I would like to play.
Her body is falling apart
before your very eyes,
And one of her eyes
is actually in there with it,
So it's just about getting
a little bit more refined
With your finished sculpting.
Now, this is a gorgeously
grotesque character.
She's really, really creepy.
The story is also great.
I think you need to give us
something
A little bit more polished
in order
For us to appreciate the things
that are falling apart.
We have so many tattered pieces.
The fondant is completely
ripped apart.
I can still see lots of flour
On where you rolled
the black fondant.
Diaz: I love what she's wearing
over her head.
The cloak is really detailed.
I love the pumpkin,
looks like exposed bones.
Killer cakerz,
thank you very much.
Ghoulicious...
Heather: We have
an evil fortune teller.
All of this pumping
of negative energy
Sucked her
into this quartz crystal.
So here we have a cake bust.
We also have an amazing head
that's made out of pumpkin.
We also have a sugar
shattered crystal ball.
I like the idea of what
you were trying to do.
You have a nice little head.
The hand and the body
doesn't really match.
I would suggest that you guys
Help each other
as much as you can
Because it doesn't matter
how strong any one of you are
If you don't come together,
obviously.
Li: This is a great face.
I think you did an amazing job
on the face, deane.
That's a really
big piece of sugar.
You went big, and I think
in this case, it just...
It was too big.
We really needed that
to tell the story.
Bennett: Ghoulicious,
thank you very much.
The judges are now gonna
consult their spirit guides
And determine a winner.
Daniel:
We deserve to win this challenge
Because we have
the only surviving crystal ball.
♪♪
Bennett: Coming up... [ gasps ]
Eric: This feels rickety.
You sure it's gonna hold?
Joel: This is very fragile.
Li: I'm really worried for them
because without that,
They have nothing.
- What happened?
- Oh, my goodness.
♪♪
For this small scare,
we challenged you to give us
Your most terrifying vision
of the future
With your unfortunate
fortune teller.
In the end, the judges felt that
one of you
Did it just a little bit better.
Congratulations...
Mummies' rejects.
Daniel: We win the small scare,
so we get our extra assistant.
Alright!
You've already showed us
some seriously scary monsters,
But for this round,
We want you to capture
something even more terrifying.
Of course,
I'm talking about dating
In a challenge we call
the blind date from hell.
Be sure to include two classic
romantic flavors of red wine
And dark chocolate into a treat
for our judges to nibble on.
Each of you will be given one
assistant, and mummies' rejects,
You get double the help
with an extra assistant
You earned from your win
in the small scare.
You have got just five hours.
The clock starts now.
♪♪
Alright, guys.
So we got our first win.
Great job. Great job.
So a blind date...
I mean, a date from hell,
what do you think?
Eric: Right, she wants
to get married.
Yeah.
"sure, I want to meet him,"
And then he shows up
in your house.
Exactly.
I don't know if you've ever
been catfished before.
I mean, you see him
on your phone.
Maybe he looks kind of cute,
And then he shows up
dressed up in his best
In all his disgusting,
fishy nastiness.
Whoa.
Deane is going to start
with the pumpkin head,
Fish face, in this case...
Devilish details, baby.
...Bulbous lips, scant cheeks,
Gill apparatus.
Hot, behind, sugar.
Cesar is going to pour
some big, bulbous fish eyes.
I'm creating those bloodshot
vein effects.
It needs the white part,
Bring out all the colors
in the eye.
Okay, guys.
I'm going to start working
on mr. Catfish's tail
From rice-cereal treats,
And then all of his clothes
will be fondant.
I'm slowly winning!
I just need to win a little
bit faster is all.
- Hey.
- Hi.
Hey, chad.
I'm gonna start you off
on projects,
And then as I need you,
I'm gonna be like,
"elizabeth, get over here now!"
- Okay.
- Good!
You guys are back!
Two heads are better
than one, right?
Our thought is,
we're gonna have a guy.
After messaging s-s-sarah,
He was excited to get
a message saying,
"can't wait to s-s-see you,"
but much to steve's surprise,
He was quickly injected
with poison
And slowly devoured
kind of like reality.
I find the perfect pumpkin
big enough for the job.
It's got a nice, fat stalk
that's already curved,
So I can cut that off,
flip it and make the rattle.
I'm adding the belly scales
on the snake.
As soon as I get those on,
I'll start the scales
on the back.
Haymu is gonna have
to start putting the bodies
Together for the snake woman
and the victim
Using rice cereal
and modeling chocolate.
The head haymu is making
is gonna be realistic
As far as you can be of what
A human-head-snake
combo would be.
Steve: I mean,
amazing, amazing work.
Haymu: Thank you.
It looks amazing.
Daniel: So steve has got
all these spiders to make.
He'll have to pull the body,
pull the legs, melt them,
Stick them on there and then
do it again and do it again.
I'm making the rattle, and then
I'll make the snake eggs.
Jeff: I said, "I don't think
I've ever been
On a disastrous date."
Because you know
how to pick them.
Yeah.
Jeff: This guy comes to pick up
his blind date,
And who comes out of the door
but satan's daughter,
But she's already
planning their wedding.
It's the perfect blind date
from hell.
Guys, I'm gonna use
a white pumpkin
Because it's better density.
Eric is gonna be
doing the man's head.
Guys, I'm gonna give him
kind of a screaming face
As he's running away.
- Sick.
- Alright.
- It's sick, man.
- Good.
Filled his back up
so it looked like his tail
Of his coat is flying up.
Jeff: I'm gonna have to get
started on the man first.
That's gonna be
the biggest piece.
On this one, I wanted to beef
up his legs with fondant.
He's running fast.
He's got some meat there.
He'll really look like
he is moving.
Movement, movement, movement.
Joel is gonna be pouring
the window out of isomalt.
He's gonna put flames inside
the window as he pours it,
So it's gonna look like
we have fire
Inside the window of the house.
Eric: That looks great, joel.
You know, last time, you guys,
we ran out of time
To put all that fondant
on our piece.
Our couple meets on a pet
lover's dating site,
And she ends up going back
to his house to meet his pet,
Ralph, and ralph
is not too keen on strangers.
I'm about to empty
his guts here.
Blech!
Jim has to carve ralph, his pet,
In an angle
such that it looks like
He's peeking over the edge
of this board.
Trying to make this nice
and round
Like the armrest of a couch.
The couch, we made out
of rice-cereal treats
And then cake for the arms
Because cake
will carve really well
And make a nice,
soft arm cushion.
Vanessa will be casting
the eyeballs
Out of isomalt for our couple.
She's also gonna be
doing the tabletop.
The sugar guts are on my side.
I'm working on getting
the marquee sign
Laid out right here.
We're gonna create
a guy named johnny
Going on his first date
with destiny
At the movie theater,
but little does he know
That he actually has
a date with death.
Try to make this whole piece,
you know,
Have, like, a vintage feel.
We really want
an elaborate marquee piece.
Chad is gonna have to take
his time to score
In all the art deco details.
Chad, I'm gonna start
on the girl.
I feel like I want to add
a lot of detail to her dress.
I'm gonna be making
the grim reaper's body
From cake and fondant.
We want to create
a grim reaper disguise,
So I'm gonna be creating
black edible-fabric lace
In order to make the dress
really come to life.
Janet is gonna create
some really, really large swirls
As well as all of the lights
that go around the marquee.
Janet: I'm getting ready to cast
the front window.
Janet needs to get
the marquee cast
As soon as possible
as well as the ticket window.
Those are really,
really large pieces of sugar,
And they take a lot
of time to cool.
I'm just gonna attach the flower
For the guy to give her.
Everyone has a really,
really ambitious list of goals
They want to accomplish,
so if one of us falls behind,
We're all gonna have to
jump in to help the other.
I can do anything.
Amy, amy, what you need me
to help you with?
The girl.
Uh...
Bennett:
So, guillermo, do you think
Our "Halloween wars" set
is scary?
I mean, look,
we got scary trees...
- Totally.
- ...In the back.
Look at all those eyeballs
back there.
Look at all this monster, aah!
Aah.
Did I get you?
Yeah. [ growls ]
[ all scream ]
- Wow.
- Todd, we got him, yes!
- Yes!
- That's really good, man.
Four hours, four hours left!
- Todd...
- We've got four hours.
Haymu: I'm painting the eyes.
Eric: Just a little bit
of dark blue.
Jim: Couple extra shadows
to break up the surface.
Otherwise, the story
doesn't sell.
How you gonna get my eye
into your head?
Here we go. - Boop!
- Pop!
- Look at that pop.
♪♪
Heather: I can't remember
if I ever stacked cake
Over my head before.
We're almost there.
And we're gonna dress this guy
In some really gross
yellow fondant for his shirt,
Maybe some pit stains
under there.
I'm worried about everything
at this point.
Gonna look like catfish eyes.
So of course mr. Catfish
would bring you jelly fish eyes.
They're gonna have red wine,
cherry, jelly fruit
With a thin layer
of chocolate ganache
Poured into a mold so that
they look like fish eyes.
Deane: Those look great.
Jeff: She gonna have
a big old wedding dress.
I have to create a long,
flowing dress.
It's a challenge to get
those creases
And getting that flow
to look like
She has a little bit
of movement in her dress.
I should be a dress designer.
Joel, what you doing?
For the tasting element,
Joel is gonna be
making roses made
From dark chocolate mousse
with a red-wine-cherry compote
And a walnut crunch
on the bottom.
Joel: Guys, I'm heating
the sugar for the roses.
The tasting element fits in
because as he's running away,
He just drops his roses.
So these ones are
for the display.
Those look great, joel.
I love the roses.
I got to start with my bonbons.
Carmel: They sound delicious.
Vanessa will be doing
a black-currant-cordial bonbon
Shaped like a little heart.
Ooh, oh, you did pink?
Aw, this is this guy's lair.
Well, we didn't think
in a normal american living room
This thing would be even there,
So that's why we did it
like a dungeon.
Alright.
I made these little rocks
out of fondant.
I am trying to fix this
under here, cesar.
Cesar: What you gonna do?
I'm gonna roll some more ict.
I'm not sure what else to do.
Okay, yeah,
I will figure it out somehow.
The fondant starts to rip
and fall apart.
Oh, shoot, none of this
is holding.
Dang. It all fell off!
Heather: Oh, shoot, none of this
is holding.
Dang.
I'm working on the catfish body.
My base completely falls apart.
Cesar: Mash it up.
Try to build up
the structure again.
It really feels great
to have our team
Pull together like that.
You good with this, boss?
I'm good with that.
Thank you for your help,
gentlemen.
And then I can get some fondant
over the outside
And hold that in place.
Better. You sure?
It's holding at least.
Jim: Just smoothing it out
a little bit,
Give it a little glaze.
Our couple goes back to his
place for a movie and popcorn,
But his pet is not
too keen on strangers.
It's these subtle details
that sell it,
So I got to put some eyes
in there next.
Jim is making these faces
out of modeling chocolate,
But he's never worked
with modeling chocolate before,
And they look awesome.
He's just looking stellar.
I will be doing the bodies
of the couple.
That thing's huge. He has guns.
I also have to do the creature's
arm and tail
As he's reaching
around over the display.
He will be rice-cereal treats
covered in modeling chocolate.
This is like a human-sized arm,
holy crap.
Amy: It's looking awesome, chad.
- Thank you.
- It looks incredible.
We're gonna create the siding
of the movie theater
With gingerbread,
rice-cereal treats and fondant.
I am using chocolate
instead of royal icing.
It'll set up a lot faster
than the royal icing.
That looks incredible.
I'm gonna start working
on the tickets
For the tasting element.
Awesome.
Janet is gonna be making
A ruby-port-dark-chocolate
ganache.
It's incorporating those two
typically great date
Ingredients...
Chocolate and wine.
I'm gonna liquor them up.
She's gonna shape it
into rectangles
So we get
that movie-ticket shape
And then dip it in chocolate.
This is our ticket to the win.
Steve: So, guys, this is
the brownie mixture.
Daniel: I need some brownie.
For the tasting element,
Steve is doing a brownie
with red-wine ganache,
Poached pear and almond extract.
And then I'm gonna dip the
whole thing in dark chocolate.
Give me your finger.
Try some ganache.
I might need to try that again.
Four teams have a date
with the judges,
And one team has
a blind date with doom.
You have two hours
to get it done!
Let's go.
Deane: I got to slather this on.
It's, like, kind of like
spackling.
Amy: That looks beautiful,
janet.
Chad: Oh, wow, nice.
You trying to make him
look like your ex-boyfriend?
Not quite.
I'm painting the face
for the grim reaper.
- The eagle has landed.
- Ain't moving.
Now somebody help me down.
Joel, this okay?
- Nice.
- Alright.
Haymu: He looks scary.
He looks scary, amazing,
amazing work.
Thank you.
Heather: He is one ugly catfish.
I specialize in ugly.
Cesar: What do you got left?
Got to get the eyes in there.
Joel: Guys, I got to stay here
for a while and just roll this
Until it cools
so it stays nice and round.
Jeff: Joel, he's gonna have to
pull this isomalt pitchfork,
And the sheer size of the thing,
I mean, you taking a risk,
and I hope it pays off.
Joel: Very, very fragile.
Yes, be careful.
Amy: One hour left, you guys.
Down to the last hour, and, omg,
We might have signed up
for too much.
Finishing everything up
And getting it
on there seems impossible.
I'm just painting the letters
on the sign.
If I had more time,
I'd be able to get the detail
that I want to,
But I'm so short on time,
I have to rush it.
We want to make sure
all the details
That we add are on-point.
Jeff: How's it coming, eric?
Eric: A big rush.
I thought this would be easier,
but it's not.
Joel: Let me know
When you want me
to put that window up.
To place that sugar windowpane,
We have to get this thing
in there first try
Because there's no way
we can make another one.
Not finishing is not an option.
Got to finish,
got to go two-for-two.
Vanessa:
I can hold that, carmel,
If you want to finish the body.
I got it. I got it.
The hardest part of this display
Is the creature's arm
reaching around.
Is that gonna stay?
There. I'll make it stay.
Just don't shake him too much
because he'll be like...
I have power tools
and a will to use them.
Is this secure?
He's not going anywhere.
Famous last words.
You think it's gonna stay.
- We'll wait to find out.
- Alright.
I'm gonna throw pumpkin guts
on there
And put the eggs into it.
The sooner we can get them on,
The sooner we can
patch the gaps.
I'm kind of antsy.
I need haymu to be finished
so we can set it on the snake
And see what kind of gap
we'll have left over,
Maybe huge, maybe just right.
We got to start placing things.
- Join them.
- Join them?
So I need to pull her
and put her on.
Okay.
She gonna be moving?
She'll move that much.
You do that, and I'll work
on covering that.
Teams, you have 30 minutes left.
Carmel: Hey, jim, how's it
coming with the face?
Jim: I think he's just
looking stellar.
Ooh.
Heather: Careful, deane.
Deane: Coming down, yep.
It is very unstable.
I'm afraid to even
breathe on it.
Janet: It's defcon 5.
We got to start working, okay?
There you go.
Jim: Do you need
an extra set of hands?
- [ gasps ]
- no!
Oh, no! Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no.
Killer cakerz just lost
one of their sculptures.
- Oh, no.
- Take the arm out.
Take the arm out before
it messes up everything else.
That's the main piece that shows
That this monster
is coming to get her.
Li: I'm really worried for them
because without that,
They have nothing.
- Oh, no, oh, no, oh.
- Ooh.
Take the arm out.
Take the arm out before
it messes up everything else.
That's the main piece that shows
That this monster
is coming to get her.
Hey, you know
what you could do, jim?
Grab some of that modeling
chocolate that was heaped.
Make some fingers in the windows
up where she's looking.
Jim: Yep.
We have to immediately go
to plan "b,"
Just make some hands
and just over the edge.
I mean, that's all we could do.
Game is not over until it's
over, so arm doesn't work.
We'll go with a hand.
We just want to tell a story.
Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
10 minutes remain!
Watch the arms. Watch the arms.
Daniel: Okay, I got you.
Like that? Perfect.
These are really fragile, cesar.
Are you gonna be okay?
- I'm gonna be okay.
Amy: Janet, the sickle now,
the sickle.
Chad: Oh, yeah, that's cool.
That looks good.
Eric: This feels rickety.
You sure, jeff, it's gonna hold?
Jeff: It's got some sponge
to it, but it should hold.
Perfect.
You have one minute left.
Chad: One minute.
Daniel: More guts, get some more
guts in the back.
Steve: Going to get one
up at the top.
Chad: Be careful, buddy, please.
Watch the guys. Watch the guys.
Need to get through, guys.
- Put it back right here.
- 10, 9...
Eric: Hurry up, joel. Let's go.
- Here is hair. Here is hair.
- ...7, 6...
- No, no, no... 5, 4...
- Let's go!
- ...3, 2...
- Got it?
- ...1.
- Got it.
- Hands off your displays.
- Good job, guys.
- Great job.
Oh, my gosh.
Good job.
Bennett: We asked you to give us
Your scariest blind date
from hell.
Candy coroners, let's talk
about what you made.
Amy: Johnny has walked up
to his date with destiny.
Little did he know that destiny
Has actually been masquerading
As the grim reaper all along.
The centerpiece of the marquee
is carved out of pumpkin.
Destiny is a cake body
with a pumpkin face.
Johnny is carved out
Of rice-cereal treats
and fondant.
Janet has created
a ganache movie ticket.
It is a dark-chocolate
- and-ruby-port-wine ganache.
I would like to see them
look more like tickets.
Even if you wrote the words
on there like, "admits one,"
Then I would buy the story,
but I love the taste.
It is that, like, deeper wine
flavor of the port
Mixed with the chocolate,
Just develops, like, a really
nice, sophisticated flavor.
There's some great details here.
The lace on the dress
are really cool.
Johnny's eyes have a very,
very realistic look to them,
And because that flower
is such a cool flower,
I would've probably had him
just have it up front
So I could see it.
The first thing that stands out
is the large centerpiece.
It kind of reminds me
of an old-hollywood feel.
Li: This is one of the most
ambitious backdrops we've seen.
I love the kind of art deco
throughout
And all the details that
you worked into that pumpkin.
I just don't know
if it's worth it
Because it is so much time
spent on the backdrop,
And your story is happening
in the front,
And the character that's back
there, he's lost in the shade.
When you do something,
we want to see it.
Bennett: Crave diggers...
Jeff: Our date from hell
Is actually satan's daughter,
And she's already
planning their wedding,
So he can't get out
of there fast enough.
Our bodies are made
from modeling chocolate
And rice-cereal treats.
The two heads are carved
out of pumpkin,
And the pitchfork
and the horns are all sugar.
Today we have
a dark-chocolate mousse
With a red-wine-and-cherry
compote.
You have a chocolate cake
inside,
And then you have a walnut and
rice-cereal crisp on the bottom.
Li: I didn't really
taste any wine.
I think if you made it smaller,
I would taste the flavors
together and the textures.
This is a really smart piece,
and it's really thought out.
I feel the action.
I mean, this guy is just dying
to get off this platform
Because she really is
the date from hell, literally.
One of the things that stood
out for me is,
It looks like a couture dress.
Your lead character, you see
the movement in his clothing.
The detail is so wonderful.
The one note that I will
give you guys...
The face on this character
looks similar to the other one
You did on the other challenge.
Try not to make the characters
look too much alike
Just so that it doesn't feel
like you're repurposing
Something from
the other challenge.
Crave diggers,
thank you very much.
Ghoulicious...
Heather: You see him online.
He looks kind of cute,
But then he shows up
in all of his fishy nastiness,
And just in case you forgot,
he's got his phone app out,
And it was a catch,
but who got caught?
The pumpkin is our head.
We've got a big old body
full of cake.
We've also got sugar
splashes of water.
Cesar: For the tasting element,
I did a cherry-red-wine
pate de fruit
With 65% chocolate ganache,
And I did it
in the shape of catfish eye.
The layer of chocolate
added the crunch.
The cherry added
that extra tartness,
And then the ganache
was super creamy.
I think it was perfect.
The head on this piece
is amazing.
The eyes, the coloring,
it's really, really impressive.
One of the things that kind of
bothered me a little bit is,
I wish that we would've seen
the date that gets catfished.
Li: This doesn't look like
a blind date
Because the other character
is just missing,
And then the colors,
they're really bright and happy,
And they're just not terrifying.
So the two really
important things...
Halloween and dating...
Are missing.
Tucker:
The head is well-sculpted.
The body and the arms,
they're not quite matching.
Ghoulicious,
thank you very much.
Mummies' rejects...
After messaging s-s-sarah
for a few weeks,
Steve was excited
to get a message saying,
"can't wait to s-s-see you,"
but much to steve's surprise,
He was quickly injected
with poison
And slowly devoured.
The snake is pumpkin.
The two characters are cake
and modeling chocolate.
All of the bugs and creepy
things are pulled sugar.
Steve: So the tasting element
is a chocolate brownie
With a red-wine-poached pear and
a red-wine-chocolate ganache.
Your tasting matches
this display
Because it's got this real
strong acidic-ness to it,
And then you balance that
with a darker chocolate ganache.
The brownie just got a little
bit soggy from the poached pear.
Diaz:
I love that it's super ominous.
You look at it, and it has
that horror feel to it.
I want to do a horror movie
that's based on this piece.
Li: I love what you did
with the serpent body
And the fact that you used
the stem
From the pumpkin
to create that rattle.
It really feels like
an infestation,
And they're really gorgeous,
the sheen to the sugar work,
And each one looks different,
But I don't understand that
it's actually a blind date.
Tucker: You've got a lot of
character in that snake lady,
But I see a bit of a difference
in the color
Between her body
and her snake body,
So maybe if you were to color
a little bit more
Of that vibrant green
that you have in her face
And in her arms
down into the body,
It might make it feel
a little bit more consistent.
Mummies' rejects, thanks-s-s-s.
[ laughter ]
Killer cakerz, you're up.
Carmel: Our couple met
on a pet lover's dating app,
And she went back to his house
to meet his pet, ralph,
And ralph is not really
into strangers.
The two people are
rice-cereal treats
And modeling chocolate,
And ralph is pumpkin
And his modeling-chocolate
appendages.
Vanessa: I made
black-currant bonbons.
It's a black-currant ganache
with drunken raisins.
There's that kind of earthiness
that comes from the currant,
And then you have
that drunken raisin,
Which really brightened it up.
Tucker: I do like that you have
a sense of humor in this.
I like that you've got
the dating aspect in there.
You got the theme.
The first thing that popped
for me
Are the faces of the characters,
just so detailed, so expressive.
I felt really terrible
when I saw that collapse.
Oh, no. Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no.
Oh, dang it.
Li: It was too heavy.
If you'd create it like
a side table
Where it just kind of rests,
Then you wouldn't have had
an issue there.
I know you ran out of time,
So I don't know how you whipped
that together at the end,
But what I do see as a result
is rushed fondant work.
Carmel: I feel like I let my
team down a little bit.
I'm a perfectionist
when it comes to my work.
I feel like all we needed
was that second assistant.
The judges need to figure out
Who they had a real connection
with and who's getting dumped.
I don't think the judges
liked my display at all.
The judges don't think that
it read as a scary date.
Wow, judges,
that was a crazy battle.
Li: Oh, my gosh, so much
amazing details.
What do we think
of crave diggers?
You can clearly see he's running
from this character
Who looks like the date
from hell.
They really nailed it with that.
And they have a very clear,
clean,
Really precise design look
for their characters,
And their execution
and paint jobs
And sculpting and placement,
And everything about that
piece really worked for me.
The satan's daughter's
wedding dress,
It looks like a couture dress,
Like, the fact that they paid
so much attention to that.
You know, the tasting was
just a little too big.
You cannot get everything
in one bite.
Bennett: Let's talk
about mummies' rejects.
It feels like a scene
from a horror movie.
Those sugar pieces, the insects,
That was such
a beautiful touch, so detailed.
The s-sarah s-snake
has a glistening,
Almost, like,
poisonous green on her skin.
The snake-reptilian textures
on the actual tail part...
The biggest problem I had
with that piece
Was that the bright-green color
They used on the upper body
on the snake character
Should've followed through
the rest of the body.
That tasting, the acid
from the pear
Interacted with the red wine,
And it caused, like,
this super strong almost,
Like, williams-liqueur
taste to it,
But the brownie just got
a little bit soggy
From the poached pear.
Bennett: Let's talk
about candy coroners.
I loved the johnny character.
That was my favorite part
of the piece
And the old-hollywood feel.
Tucker: It did feel like
the other characters
Didn't match the level
of the one johnny character.
I think their backdrop
really overwhelmed
Their entire display,
And their characters
just didn't pop enough.
And then you know what else
didn't pop, was their tasting.
We were supposed to be
eating tickets,
And they didn't look
like tickets.
Bennett: What do we think
of killer cakerz?
Man, did they have
a rough time today.
I know.
Oh, no. Oh, no, oh, no.
Tucker: It definitely has
that dating aspect,
And there's some really nice
individual pieces in there.
The best part of that piece
are the two faces
Of the lead characters.
They did a great job
adding that second character,
But because they lost the time,
The fondant work is very sloppy,
But now their tasting is not.
That tasting is
super sophisticated.
That burn that comes from
the drunken raisins
And then that paired
with the currants,
It's earthy and fire.
I loved it.
Bennett:
Let's talk about ghoulicious.
Now, this is a really
outstanding character,
A single character,
Another great sculpted
pumpkin face from deane.
The story is just lost.
For me, the problem
with this piece
Was that the continuity
is not there.
The face doesn't really match
the rest of the piece.
I hated the coloring
of the outfit.
It reads easter to me.
Cesar's tasting is delicious.
The cherry is actually
really flavorful...
So good.
...And coupled
with that chocolate,
It was just a perfect balance.
Alright, judges.
You have to decide
who you want to win
And who you want to send home.
♪♪
For this spine chiller,
we challenged you to show us
Your most terrifying vision
of a blind date from hell.
Each team pushed themselves
further than ever before
With height, size
and level of detail,
But only one of you
can win this challenge.
The winner
of this spine chiller is...
♪♪
...Crave diggers.
Congratulations.
We won two in a row.
We're killing it.
We're starting out strong.
Unfortunately, tonight's battle
took its toll on two teams.
Killer cakerz, ghoulicious,
One of you is going home
right now.
Carmel:
I'm looking at everyone else's.
I feel like the judges see this
and appreciate
All the hard work
that's gone into it.
I wish we had been able to
portray the storyline better.
I hope I'm not going home.
♪♪
Killer cakerz, I'm sorry.
You're done
in this Halloween war.
Thank you.
Carmel: I think our piece was
just so ambitious
That really nobody could finish
what we had planned.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Congratulations, teams.
We'll see you soon.
Heather: So far, we've been
really running
On our own separate tracks,
And then they all come together,
and the judges don't want that.
We're gonna pull together
as a team a lot more
Than we have been.
What the heck is going on
with this stuff?
Bennett: This season on
"Halloween wars"...
We want to terrify those judges.
[ laughing evilly ]
Tucker: This is the first time
you guys have done something
That is legitimately horrifying.
[ howling ]
You are so much better
than this.
- Ah!
- Easy, man.
I can buy a lot of pumpkin
with 50 grand.
[ laughs ]