Nailed It! (2018–…): Season 5, Episode 1 - An Ungodly Mess - full transcript

[instrumental music playing]

Oh boy, Jacques.

It is such hard work
getting the show ready.

[sighing] It is, Nicole, but when we do it
together as a team, we can do anything.

We make a great team.

The best team
in the history of television, Nicole.

Oh my God, you know, Jacques, what if
this season we had teams competing.

Team season?

Maybe for once,
we will get better-looking cakes.

Maybe we'll even get
better-tasting cakes.

-Oh!
-Oh boy, it's settled.



Wes! Oh, he's right there.

Wes! We want a team season.

Copy that. Team season, everyone.

[laughs hysterically]

But... but... but, Nicole!

What if we get cakes two times as bad?

[quivering] Oh!

Ah...

All... all those names.

I'm gonna have to remember...
remember all those names.

Carlos, Melissa, Janet, Thomas.
That's already too many names.

That was your idea.
You said we are a great team.

I know. I take it back, Jacques!
This is a terrible idea!

Wes! Wes!



Too many people!

Oh! Wes!

[screaming in slow motion]

-Wes! Wes!
-[Jacques laughing]

[screams, laughs]

[theme music playing]

Mm-mm-mmm!

-Cake! It's food fit for the gods!
-[thunder rumbling]

Unless you're on Nailed It!,

the baking competition where cakes reach
for the heavens but go straight to Hades.

I'm Nicole Byer, part-time host,
full-time goddess.

We know you're out there baking
with your friends and fam,

so we thought,
"Why not bring 'em with you?"

It'll be double the fun
and double the bakers,

and with double the help,
maybe we'll get a better cake?

[chuckles sadly]

Three titan teams of baking buddies
will be recreating professional desserts

themed around Greek mythology.

At stake for our baking buddies,

-the chance to win 10,000 bucks.
-[cheering]

Or never speak at family dinners again.

You know what? Let's meet our teams.

I'm Richard. I'm originally from London.
I now live in Glendale, California.

I'm Sarah, his sister-in-law.
Richard married my older sister.

He's basically my brother now.
We're bosom buddies.

We are.
Not that I've got bosoms, but never mind.

[both laugh]

I think, if we don't win, your kids
will really make fun of us and disown us.

[Richard] I think we'll be, y'know,
living in some Motel 6 somewhere.

Yeah. Not together.

-Of course not. That wouldn't be cool.
-And weird.

My name's Veronica,
and this is my best friend.

-I'm Justin.
-Justin has so much energy.

I am a loose cannon,
and she's really good at reining me in.

[Veronica] We work well together.

-We're gonna nail it on Nailed It!
-We're gonna nail it. Let's go with that.

I am Ivonne,
and this is my daughter, Kayla.

My mom and I haven't
really baked together before,

because my mom does not typically like
instructions nor does she follow them.

Mmm.

-[blow-dryer whooshing]
-You see how great the blow-dryer works?

[Kayla] I really need to get everything
done as it says on paper.

[Ivonne] And I think
she and I make a great team,

and we are going
to just kick it out of the universe.

-Is that a saying?
-No, it's "kick it out of the park," but...

[Ivonne] Oh, well.

All right, welcome, bakers!

Let me introduce my fellow judges.

Like the mythical Midas,
everything this man touches turns to gold.

-[chuckles]
-It is Jacques Torres!

-Oh, Nicole. Thank you, Nicole.
-[all cheering]

I'm really hoping that we will see
some golden moments from all of you today.

And joining us today is actor, writer,
funny person. It's Andrea Savage.

-Hello! Thank you.
-[all cheering]

Andrea, what makes you
an expert on Greek mythology?

First of all, I don't think you know this.

-I am a quarter Greek.
-Oh!

And also, I have thunderbolts
on my sweater.

[all laughing]

-No other explanation needed.
-Fair. I love it.

Okay, let's forge ahead

in this first challenge
we call Baker's Choice.

Today, we chose to honor the gods
with something we know they'll love,

themselves.

That's why you'll be makin' these...

Greek god statue cupcakes!

-Oh.
-[Nicole] Your team will either create

Zeus, the king of the gods.

[man] Zap!

[Nicole] Aphrodite,
the goddess of love and beauty.

[woman kissing]

[Nicole] Or Hades, god of the underworld!

[man 2 laughing evilly]

Each Greek god consists
of three olive-oil-infused cupcakes,

which are stacked, covered in buttercream,
and wrapped in fondant,

with modeling-chocolate details.

Which god will you get? Ivonne, Kayla?

We are picking Zeus.

[Nicole] Sick.

-Veronica and Justin?
-Aphrodite.

-We're gonna pick Aphrodite, yeah.
-[Nicole] Ooh.

All right, that means Richard and Sarah...

-We have Hades. Yeah.
-[Richard] He seems like a nice chap.

-Isn't he from hell?
-Eh!

Okay, bakers. You will have 45 minutes,

-and it started now.
-[Klaxon buzzes]

[Nicole laughing]

[Kayla] Oh my God! Oh my God!

-Make cupcakes. One container of cake mix.
-Okay.

[Richard in singsong]
Olive oil. Olive oil.

That looks lovely so far.

-Are you doing the cake?
-Let me get one container, eight eggs.

Jacques, how would you go about making
these Greek god statue cupcakes?

The first thing that they have to do
is divide the work to each other.

One baker can make
the cupcake batter for three cupcakes.

Instead of butter, they will be using
olive oil in the recipe.

While those are baking,
they will need to make the buttercream.

When the cupcakes are baked and cool,

they can stack
the cupcake on top of each other.

From there,
they can frost with buttercream,

while the other cover with fondant.

Finally, it's time for them to decorate
with modeling chocolate to sculpt out

the image of their gods, and edible paint
and glitter for their accessories.

And voilà,
a beautiful cupcake fit for the gods.

This is hard.

You think it's hard? No.

-Okay, did you get a bowl?
-Did I get what?

-For the eggs? Like, a bowl?
-No, I'm decorating.

Okay. You're not decorating yet.
We haven't made anything.

Oh boy.

[laughs]

[Kayla] What are you doing?

There's no decorating
if we don't have a cake.

Today, the plan is, I'm in charge.

-I'm in charge. That's the plan for today.
-Since I'm the mother.

All right, I'll help you.

I think winging it is the best strategy.
That's when the bam comes in.

-[Kayla] How much oil do I need?
-[Ivonne] One cup.

My God, no measuring.

You did not do... Stop doing that.

I think we can add
a little bit of our little flavor.

-[clicks tongue]
-We're gonna lose.

♪ Baby ♪

[Veronica] Wait.

-[Justin] Dang it. I dropped it.
-[Veronica] Jay!

We're off to a great start.

-This is gonna be good.
-[Justin groans]

Yeah, I'm definitely the boss. I'm gonna
go ahead and put that down right now.

But I can't imagine doing this by myself.
I feel like I would forget to have fun.

I'm just mixing this in, I guess?
Jay, I don't know about this one, man.

It's cool. It'll work.

-Teamwork does make the dream work.
-Yep.

I don't know how long to mix this for.

Look at him just staring at us,
mocking us.

[man laughing evilly]

-What are you doing, buttercream?
-I'm doing the buttercream.

I think we are the winning combination

because we've been in the kitchen together
for, like, family holidays.

[Richard] Oh yeah.

Like, kinda orchestrate around each other.

Wanted to make them red.

Put a dollop of red and mix it around.
Becomes like a swirl.

-Yeah. Get me some red?
-[Sarah] Yeah.

We're adding a bit of red

to make sort of the fires of hell
come alive inside of him.

What about a little edible glitter?

[Richard] Throw it in, see how it looks.
There we go, a little red devil in there.

-I'm throwing it in the oven, Sarah.
-Do it.

[Veronica] Excusez-moi. Okay

[Ivonne] We're baking!

-[Veronica] Okay.
-Twenty-six minutes left.

[Sarah] Ah!

-[Veronica] You doing the buttercream?
-Yeah.

[Veronica] I'm gonna run into the pantry.

[Justin] It says,
"Add four sticks of butter."

I throw in a package of cream cheese.

[whispering] Don't tell her.

I think the phrase is "I went rogue."

She's the boss, but I'm like
Michael Jordan in the fourth quarter.

I don't need a coach. I know what to do.

-Peppermint?
-[Veronica] No.

-No?
-No. In an olive oil cake? No.

-Thank you.
-Puttin' my foot down on that one. No.

Pfft! The boss.

Do you guys provide therapy

for any of the teams
after the end of the day?

[laughing] Honestly, we should.

Just someone to talk to.

I've wrecked this.

[Ivonne] Kayla, just add milk.

[Kayla] Let me see.

Not that much!
It looks like we're making grits.

You're working on that buttercream
for a very long time. What's happening?

Um, it's not buttering or creaming.
So, we're trying to figure that out.

-[Ivonne] Kayla.
-[Jacques] Let it run.

-[Kayla] Do what?
-Let it go.

-[Kayla] It's gonna be amazing.
-[Ivonne] It's gonna be so good.

That's so funny
that she didn't listen to you.

I don't think people realize
how world-renowned you are.

-[laughs]
-Guys, 13 minutes.

[Justin] Ow! Ah! Eek!

The top ones are done.

-[Richard] Wanna grab one out?
-[Sarah] Okay.

-These are done.
-Yeah.

-[Kayla] They still look a little moist.
-No, they gotta talk to you.

If you listen to your cake, it'll talk
to you and let you know when it's done.

-Okay.
-If they hiss, they're ready.

[cricket chirping]

I bet you Jacques knows about it.

What's the weirdest thing
your cake has ever said to you, Jacques?

I don't know. Cake don't talk.

[laughs]

-[Ivonne] Those aren't ready.
-[Kayla] But they need to be.

-[Ivonne] We'll pull 'em out now.
-That's what I was doing anyway.

I'm doing his crown.

[Sarah] Think of his crown
as a royal tribute to your kinsmen.

[Richard] The queen, darling.

[in British accent]
Chip, chip, cheerio. Richard.

[laughs]

How's it going over there?

-[Sarah] We're killing it right now.
-It looks amazing so far.

Can you do an English accent? Say...

[in British accent]
"Oy, they stole my tea and crumpets."

[in bad British accent]
Oy, they stole my tea crumpets.

[laughs]

[Nicole] Richard!

What's, like, a quintessential thing
English people say?

Well, I say "darling" a lot.
Jacques, darling.

-[laughs]
-That I love. Oh, my God. I love that.

-Sounds good, doesn't it?
-It does.

[Ivonne] Oops.

I think if...

-[Jacques] It's funny.
-What? Is that a meat tenderizer?

Ooh, Zeus got bling.

What is bright green fondant for?

-The dress.
-Zeus' dress?

[Jacques] Yeah, I say "dress,"
but it's not a dress. Sorry, a tunic.

As somebody who has roots from overseas,

being a quarter Greek,
I understand "dress."

Have you been to Greece?

-Maybe I haven't "been" to Greece, no.
-[Nicole laughs]

-[Veronica] Wow.
-Still hot.

It doesn't look cooked.

[chuckles] That's gonna collapse.

[Kayla] Dump 'em out on there.

Ivonne, are the cupcakes talking to you?

[cricket chirping]

They're not talkin' to anybody.

-[laughs]
-[chuckling] Those two.

-Okay. Ooh, it's all melting...
-[Richard] 'Cause it's so hot.

I'm trying to frost up
these cupcakes real quick.

[Veronica] It's still frickin' hot.

-Oh, this is crazy.
-[Justin laughing] It's too hot.

This is a difficult challenge,
even with two people.

There are so many little details to do.

-Okay. I'm just covering it with that.
-Okay.

[Jacques] One of them should be worry
about stacking and covering the cake,

while the other work
on the fondant details.

Dang. Lord help me. Okay.

They need the gods' help.

[Kayla] This buttercream is disgusting.

What?

-Mom, you need to take off the papers.
-[Ivonne] We do?

-"Mom, you don't take off the paper."
-This is so funny.

[laughs]

[Ivonne] It's a cupcake.
You never take off the paper.

That's...

Wha... Uh, they can't eat the paper.

[laughs hysterically]

You're killin' me.

Five minutes and 44 seconds!

He's collapsing
like a bad flan in the cupboard.

[Veronica] I'm making the butt,
and I'm gonna start makin' hair.

Oh my God.

[laughing] Oh my God.

Where's his head?

Oh, one of those cupcakes
was supposed to be the head.

[laughing] I put the wrong one in.

-What?
-He is gonna have some...

[Ivonne] You're using my eyebrows
for hair.

-[laughs]
-What's on his head? What did you put?

[Ivonne] It's a type of crown.

This is amazing.

Oh boy, a minute left!

Give him a nose!

You do a nose!

[Justin] My heart looks
like a V for Veronica.

Oh, her heart's broken. Okay.

We got a nose.

[Richard] All right. Eyes.

Very crazy eyes.

[judges] Five, four, three, two, one!

-[thunder rumbling]
-Hurray!

-You're done!
-Whoo! You're done.

I'm sure you guys did amazing.
We did not.

Ivonne and Kayla. Let's remember
the Zeus cupcake you were trying to make.

And let's see what you did.

[drumroll]

[Ivonne and Kayla] Nailed it!

[Nicole] This is... Jacques.

-[laughs] Jacques' face.
-Doesn't he look gorgeous?

[Nicole] I'll say
that's a rhetorical question.

I will say it's not so much
a human-like figure as much as a bell.

[Andrea] I was thinking plunger.

[Nicole] Yeah, a sparkle plunger.
A fancy plunger, if you will.

-Thanks!
-I'm glad you like it.

How did you went from the model
that we give you to the plunger?

[Nicole laughs]

We asked the same question.

[Nicole laughs]

[Nicole] Let's dig in. Let's taste it.

We made a hot Zeus.

Mmm. I don't hate it.

They don't hate it!

It might be
a little bit too much olive oil,

but, like, it's fine.

Yes, the buttercream kind of melted,

but that cake is actually very pleasant.
Maybe you just invent something new.

This is good.

You love our plunger.

We have other cakes to see.

And remember, your cake looked very wild.

[both laugh]

-Thank you.
-Thank you.

[Richard laughs]

All right, Veronica and Justin.

Let's remember
the Aphrodite statue cupcake

you were trying to make.

And let's see what you made.

[drumroll]

[Veronica and Justin] Nailed it!

-Oh boy!
-[Andrea laughing] Oh my God!

-[laughs]
-[Andrea] Wow!

[Nicole] Ooh-hoo! We don't mean to...

[laughs] ...laugh!
I don't know how you did this.

We don't either.

-Love is complicated.
-[Nicole] Mm-hmm.

I don't know what
the sugary red parts are?

-That's her heart.
-That was her heart.

-[both] It fell.
-[laughing]

[Jacques] This is very special.
I'm just anxious to try it.

-[Nicole] Cut us a piece of love.
-[Jacques] Okay.

-Thank you.
-[Jacques] You're welcome.

Not the Nicole face. No.

Andrea, how does it taste?

-[high-pitched voice] Good.
-I will say the higher pitch is telling.

-It's good!
-We lost her.

The cake is a little bit rubbery.

I saw you guys working with cream cheese?

-Yes?
-I don't...

-[Jacques laughing] What?
-Are you hiding secrets?

Did you put cream cheese in this?

-Is this a buttercream cream cheese?
-Yes.

-It tasted good.
-Wait, this isn't how teams work.

You can't be keepin' secrets
and believe you're still a team.

With that, we gotta move on.

All right, Richard and Sarah,

let's remember the Hades cupcake
you were trying to make,

and let's see the Hades cupcake you made.

-[drumroll]
-[both] Nailed it!

[all laughing]

-[Nicole] He's cute!
-[Jacques] Yes!

He's the closest to, like, a person.

-I feel like you got the color right.
-[Richard] Yeah.

[Nicole] I like the red, beady hell eyes.

-His skin is peeling from his face.
-[Justin laughs]

[Richard] He's kinda melted a bit.

He just looks like a Hades you wanna hug.

-He's a lovable Hades.
-[Nicole] All right, let's taste him.

-We added a little sparkle in it.
-A little something.

-That's what I see. You have sparkle.
-[Andrea] A little hellfire.

-A little fire!
-[Jacques] Yes.

Underneath that cute exterior, there's
a little devil-may-care going on inside.

Mmm.

I think the flavor is really nice.

I love that you put
some extra things in it,

and the buttercream is... is good.

-A bit too much fondant on top of it.
-All right.

I like the sparkle in there.
I think it tastes good.

-Cool.
-Nice.

All right, we saw
some incredible Greek god cupcakes.

-Incredible.
-But one has to win.

Jacques, which one of these mere mortals
pleased the gods the most?

There was one clear winner.

The winner is...

Sarah and Richard.

[all cheering, applauding]

-[Sarah chuckling] Yes!
-[Nicole] Andrea, tell them what they won.

You'll be a real Zeus in the kitchen

when you use
this white cordless appliance set

complete with a hand mixer,
food processor, and hand blender.

You also get
the amazing Nailed It! golden baker's hat.

[both] Whoo-hoo!

Now, please go pick it up.
I no longer do that.

Wear it as if you are on Mount Olympus.

[laughs]

Okay. Time is fleeting.

So, turn your attention
to door number two.

[thunder rumbling]

Time for Nail It or Fail It.

The Herculean size...

Ooh!

[whistles]

[Andrea] ...of your next task
could petrify all of you.

You may want to shield each other's eyes
when you see this!

[Nicole] A Medusa makeover cake!

Hi. Hello?

-Oh my God.
-Oh.

[laughing evilly]

It seems you are stunned
into a stony silence.

-[Richard] Yeah.
-[laughs]

[Nicole] Even a Gorgon gal
likes to get her hair did,

and this cake captures Medusa mid-makeover
with rollers in her hair and rouge.

[Jacques] This Medusa makeover cake
is made of honey cake with baklava filling

and a rice-cereal center for the head.

Her face, curlers, snakes, and salon cape

are all formed
with modeling chocolates and fondant.

Finally, piping gel and edible glitter
are used to embellish her eyelids.

Veronica and Justin,
my friends had a lot of trouble,

so you're gonna get a gift from the gods.

[thunder rumbling]

[Nicole] You hit
the mirror, mirror button,

and your opponents will have to stop
baking for three whole minutes

and mirror every action that I do.

-[Sarah laughs]
-Oh.

[Nicole] There is a $10,000 bounty
on Medusa's head.

-You have 90 minutes. So, I would go!
-[Klaxon buzzes]

Oh.

[Jacques chuckling]

[Sarah] You work on the cake.

-We need to get the eggs out. Yup.
-Eggs, eggs, eggs.

[Kayla] Two cups of honey.

Jacques, how would you go about
making this Medusa head?

[Jacques] They need to make their cakes,
flavoring them with honey.

Next, create the baklava
from phyllo dough,

then they should construct the Medusa head
and cover it with modeling chocolate

using the metal rods for their snakes.

They should work together
to stack the cakes with buttercream,

adding the baklava
between the layers to create her shoulder,

and then finally add
all the colorful details

to make your scary, delicious Medusa cake.

It's quite a bit of work,

so they really have to think very hard
over who going to do what.

-I'm actually reading a recipe. Oh my God.
-I'm proud of you. Please keep doing that.

We definitely deserved to lose round one,
because that was just not it.

I got you pecans and almonds.
You know what? You pick from there.

Thank you.

I am very hopeful for round two, though,
because we just need to focus.

And I am going to do
my best to actually read this time

and try to measure.

-And add a few things here and there.
-No.

-Okay, come on. Together, we're a team!
-If you stain my hair, I'm gonna...

[Richard] ♪ Come to me, honey ♪

-That is a honeybee's dream.
-[Richard] It smells beautiful.

We know that time
is of the greatest of essence.

-It's the hardest part.
-One of the hardest parts.

[Sarah] Even with two of us,
it's gonna be hard.

-[Richard] Yeah.
-And we have these golden baker's caps.

I'm feeling this honey cake.

-Smells beautiful.
-We're so golden.

Yeah, and it makes
a really nice feature of my ears.

-They stick out. [laughs]
-[Sarah] Yes. It does.

-Yeah.
-[Sarah] That's a lot of butter.

I'm a buttery sort of chap.

[Sarah] You are. That's why
my sister loves you so much.

-Put it in the wet bowl?
-Yeah.

No! I gave you that bowl for the butter
to melt it in the microwave.

We've learned from our mistakes.
Feelin' pretty good.

-No rogue ingredients. No...
-I don't wanna see cream cheese again.

[laughs]

[Veronica] And we will not mix
for a long time. Okay.

-[Justin] It's good.
-[Veronica] It makes me nervous.

Veronica and Justin's batter, Jacques,
has been mixing for a very long time.

[Jacques] That could
make their cake rubbery again.

Man, my pan is good and buttered.

-Do you have to sprinkle some flour in it?
-No.

-[Kayla] Okay, cakes are in.
-Ooh.

[Richard] I'll put these
in the downstairs oven.

[Veronica] We gotta start
on this baklava, Jay.

So, wait, the legend of Medusa
is she turns people into stone.

She's got a hair full of snakes,

and then someone cuts her head off?

What did she do?
And was her name Medusa at first?

-Yeah, or was it like Gail?
-[laughs]

Phyllo dough.

We need more butter.

This is clean.

Oh. Oops.

Oh my God, Nicole,
look what's going on over there.

-She's supposed to brush the butter.
-Ugh!

Instead of using a brush,
she's using... something.

[laughs]

This is painful to watch.

By the way, baklava
is a traditional Greek dessert.

-Have I mentioned I'm a quarter Greek?
-No!

-[Nicole] Just like once or twice.
-Okay.

[Nicole] How do you say "hooray" in Greek?

Ha-ha!

[laughs]

-Well, don't use too much sugar.
-[Ivonne] Oops.

[Kayla] You say "oops,"
and you keep pouring.

Oops.

-Place another sheet of dough?
-[Justin] Uh-huh.

-Baklava is...
-Did you put cinnamon sugar in the nuts?

-Yes.
-Okay, perfect.

[Justin] How many layers of this
I gotta do?

We... Hold on, let me read. Okay. So...

[Sarah] I've never used phyllo before.

What is phyllo made out of?
Do you know, Richard?

Oh, where'd he go? I lost him.
I'm just talking to myself now.

Never made baklava my entire life.

I've worn a balaclava.

-Oh.
-[laughs]

[bell dings]

You don't mind my hand
in this thing of sugar? Sure.

-[Richard] Bakla-yah.
-[Sarah] Bakla-yah.

Richard, how's the Brit feeling?

-I feel lovely.
-Yeah.

[judges laughing]

[in British accent] Chip, chip, cheerio.
Deez nuts.

[Ivonne] Phyllo.

[Sarah] Okay.

-We can't do all the phyllo dough.
-[Veronica] What?

Almost one hour left.

Okay. Let's stick these bad boys in. Ah!

[Ivonne] And I'm having fun,
'cause I'm already on the face.

[sucks teeth] All right.

How long does this go on
with this phyllo dough?

They're still working on their baklava.

[Justin] Are you ready to use our button?

-No, not yet. Let's wait.
-We gonna wait?

-'Cause they getting pretty far ahead.
-[Veronica] Okay, wait. Mirror, mirror.

-Mirror, mirror.
-We're going?

-'Cause everybody's getting ahead.
-Ready?

[Veronica and Justin] Mirror, mirror!

-[Nicole] Oh God! Mirror, mirror!
-No!

-All right.
-[Justin] We gotta keep going.

[Nicole] You gotta mirror everything I do.

-Put your hands in the air. Twirl around.
-[Richard] Whoo-hoo!

-Now you gotta twerk.
-[Richard] What?

-Twerk.
-[Nicole] That's good.

-I can't do that.
-[laughs]

-Don't do that on TV.
-She said to twerk.

-Wave at an imaginary goose!
-[laughs]

-[Nicole] Just say hello. [laughs]
-[Richard] Hello, goose!

Hello, goose!

[Veronica] Put it in the oven.

-Be a chicken! Ca-caw, ca-caw, ca-caw!
-[laughing]

[all] Ca-caw, ca-caw, ca-caw!

-I just laid an egg.
-[Nicole] Do a split.

-Oh!
-[Ivonne] Oh God!

-[Sarah] Oh no!
-[Ivonne grunts]

[Kayla groans, laughs]

[Andrea] Do it. Whoo!

-[Richard] No! She did it!
-[Andrea] Oh my God!

-Oh! Whoo!
-You're done!

-[Nicole] Oh boy.
-Oh my God!

Thank you, Nicole!

-[Richard] Does that look like a head?
-[Sarah] Yeah.

-Look at that.
-You did not do a bad job with her face.

[Ivonne] I know.

Where does time go?
It's like what the blip?

Their cakes are done. Okay.

[Richard] Give it a little bit more...

[Jacques] Richard and Sarah cakes stay
in the oven way too long.

-That thing's going to be dry.
-Oh no.

I'm gonna start making snakes.

[Veronica] How do we... [laughs]
How do we, like, get these...

-I'm gonna start with this.
-All right.

[Ivonne] We're supposed to use,
like, a modeling chocolate,

but I have never done
a modeling chocolate.

So we're gonna do Rice Krispies.

Oh my God, look at that thing.

They're using Rice Krispie Treats
for the snakes.

-Every time they do that, it fall.
-Oops.

[judges laughing]

[Jacques] Oh my God, Nicole.

I think we should get the cake out. Yeah.

Um, but they are brown on top.

Oh, wow, 27 minutes left, guys!

Guys, baklava is comin' out of the oven.

I don't know if I mentioned
that I'm a quarter Greek?

I think you've mentioned it
a couple of times.

That is just... What are you doing?

-Look, don't even question it.
-Why would you do that?

[Ivonne] I'm a professional.

I think you should be very excited,

because Ivonne and Kayla
are putting jam on their cake.

-Don't worry.
-That has nothing to do with the cake.

[Ivonne] We're gonna build it
then do the baklava.

-[Kayla] You just need buttercream.
-This is not part of our plan.

But I'm gonna wing it
just to give it a little touch of...

[clicks tongue] ...my kinda splash.

Let me see what else this thing needs.

[horn plays comically]

-She's got very large shoulders.
-She's a linebacker.

Oh my God, look at the size of the cake.

Sarah's buttercream looks nice.

-Dare I say fluffy and luscious?
-[Andrea] Right?

-Which is what people call me, Jacques.
-That's how they call you?

-[Nicole] Yes.
-I like it.

You didn't know that?

-[Jacques] No!
-I knew that.

Oh, Richard.

[Richard] Beautiful.

[Veronica] The baklava was supposed
to be in between the layers.

-Do we have any more cake?
-No.

Veronica and Justin
put the baklava on top.

It's supposed to be on the middle.

Oh, well, that's what it is now.
Gotta keep going. There you go.

Veronica and Justin,
how are you guys feeling?

[Veronica] Feeling good.

Do you think you guys
will remain friends after this?

Most definitely.

-Okay, maybe not.
-[laughs]

[laughs]

[chuckles]

[in British accent] As Big Ben says,
"You've only got three minutes left."

Oh my God.

That's scary.

-Help.
-I'm doing this.

-[Ivonne] Fake rollers.
-[Kayla] Is she bleeding from her head?

-No, those are rollers that I sprayed on.
-Time's ticking down.

That's a little nub.

[Veronica] Glitter, glitter.

Give her blue eye shadows.

[Sarah] A glitter eye.
Like us when she grows up.

Very sparkly.

-You'll be impressed this time.
-Justin has not gone rogue.

[laughs]

Thirty-two seconds left! Yowie, yowie!

Homestretch.

-We need lashes. I'm the queen of lashes.
-[Richard] That curler just fell off.

-[judges] Five, four, three, two, one.
-She's kinda cute.

-You're done!
-[alarm blaring]

-What is...
-Oh, we forgot to put that on there.

Oh my God, there's the baklava.
We didn't put it in the cake.

That baklava was out of sight
and out of my brain.

You were in charge of the baklava...

Oh my God.

...and putting the cake on the thing.

Ivonne and Kayla, you guys are up first.

This is the Medusa makeover cake
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you did.

[drumroll]

-[Ivonne] Nailed it!
-Nailed it!

[screams]

Oh!

[judges laughing]

[Kayla] It's Frankenstein.

-[Nicole] Oh, okay, it is.
-[Jacques] Yes, it is. It is!

[judges laughing]

-Frankenstein said, "I don't need a neck."
-[Andrea] Mm-mm.

-[Nicole] "I'll just hover."
-[both laugh]

[Nicole] These are the rollers
on her head.

And I tried to draw some more,
so it looks like she got shot.

She ain't got no neck,
and she got shot. That's a rough day.

-[both laugh]
-She still looks friendly, though.

[Nicole] Jacques, what do you think?

Rice cereal treats
never hold on a piece of metal.

They always break,
and look, it's... it's collapsing now.

-We could have just used fondant too.
-Oops.

[Nicole] It looks fun. You did it.

It's not the cake you wanted,
but it's the cake you needed.

-[Ivonne] Yes.
-[judges laughing]

-I love your Frankenstein. Thank you.
-Thank you.

All right. Veronica and Justin?

[Veronica] Okay, here we go.

Let's see your Medusa cake.

[drumroll]

[Veronica and Justin] Nailed it!

[Nicole] You know!

[laughs]

I like it!

[Andrea] She got curlers.

[Nicole] She never gonna get
that glitter out of her eye.

She's gonna have to see an optometrist.
She's frowning.

But she's getting her head chopped off.
That's an appropriate response.

-She's Medusa.
-She's mad.

I think we have all the parts.
We have the neck,

the animal skin on the bottom,
the head and the snake and the curlers.

After that, it's a question
of what you like and what you don't.

[all laugh]

[Nicole] "It's a question
of what you like and what you don't."

Whenever you go higher,
it means you're lying.

-[high-pitched voice] So, I love it.
-[all laugh]

Wow!

I will say I am very impressed
with the snakes,

and they've got the little mouth and the...

[Justin] Eye stumps.

I think you should be proud of yourselves.

Well, we have one last cake to see.

[in British accent] Oy, Richard...

[normal voice] Sarah.
Let's see what you made!

[drumroll]

[Richard and Sarah] Nailed it!

-You know what? This is great.
-Wow.

[Nicole] Another Medusa
where the neck said,

"I'm not showing up to work today."

The snakes,
they kinda look like sock puppets.

[Andrea] She's smiling,
but she's not, like, smiling

without a care in the world.

She still has cares.

[laughing]

[Jacques] The cake
is a little bit big on the bottom.

-You know, too big a shoulder.
-She's a big girl, Jacques.

-Yeah, okay, but she doesn't have a neck.
-[laughing]

You know, overall, it's a fun cake.

Thank you.

-We saw three really wonderful cakes.
-[Andrea] Yeah.

So, cut us a beautiful slice
of your Medusa makeover cakes.

And we're gonna sit because...

♪ Sitting is fun, and I hate to stand ♪

God, I love that song.

We had a game plan.
Follow the recipe to a T.

And our plan worked well.
We at least got all of the elements there.

It looks good.
I honestly think this cake is gonna win.

Ooh, I am so excited.
Ivonne and Kayla, you guys are up first.

-[Jacques] Nicole, where is the baklava?
-I don't know.

[Andrea] I don't think there's any there.

A little question. Where is the baklava?

Actually, you can see it.
It's right over there.

[all laughing]

We completely forgot to put it in.

-[Nicole] Oh.
-Who forgot? You forgot to put it?

[laughing] I love that.

I am saddened that there was no baklava
in this, because I've never had baklava.

We haven't either.

-Yeah, so, nobody gets baklava.
-Nobody's having baklava today.

"Nobody's having baklava."

And it's sad
because the cake is pretty good.

As somebody who...

I don't know if I've mentioned this,
but I'm a quarter Greek.

-[gasps]
-[Jacques laughing]

It's moist. I like the jam in it.
You actually made a really good cake.

-That's awesome.
-[Nicole] Thank you, guys.

Veronica and Justin, you guys are up next.

The cake is a little bit spongy
or rubbery.

The baklava should be
on the middle of the cake.

It's on top of the cake.
But otherwise, it's pretty good.

I think the baklava's really good. It has
a nice honey taste in between the layers.

Yeah. I liked it. And my first dip
into baklava was a nice dip.

I don't know
what it's supposed to taste like.

-It's okay. Just like that.
-As long as you enjoyed it.

Thank you for introducing me to the bak.

Richard and Sarah, you are up next.

The cake, it is overbaked.

-Oh.
-[Jacques] So the cake is on the dry side.

The baklava,
it's baked all the way to the center.

It's very crunchy. It's really good.

I was happy the baklava was in the middle.

Cake's maybe a teensy bit sweet,
but I'm impressed.

Good.

Overall, I liked it, and I said,

"You know what?
This is a fun time in my mouth."

[both laugh]

Remember, whoever wins
this challenge gets $10,000

and the Nailed It! trophy.

Wes!

[all laughing]

[Nicole] Oh! Oh, I love it! He's Cupid!

Which is also a Greek god?
Or a Greek baby god?

[all laugh]

Okay. Andrea,
do you have the winner's bounty ready?

-Ready!
-[Nicole] Jacques, are you ready?

I am ready. The winner are...

Sarah and Richard!

[all cheering, applauding]

-We won!
-Nailed it!

[Richard] My children
will let me back in the house.

-They may pick up my call.
-Yeah, don't count on it.

At every family dinner, we're gonna
remind 'em how great we were.

This is our new centerpiece.
A toast to us. Nailed It! champions.

That's it for Nailed It!

-[thunder rumbling]
-[screams]

We've angered the gods!
You'd better go! Go! Run! Keep going!

[Veronica and Justin laughing]

[theme music playing]