Nailed It! Holiday! (2018–2019): Season 1, Episode 6 - 3... 2... 1, Ya Done! - full transcript
Three Nailed It. fan favorites return to ring in the new year with a crumbling resolution cookie and a "tipsy-turvy" cake with four tiers.
Ooh, hey, party guests.
Welcome to another holiday edition
of Nailed It!
The show that on December 31
feels like this,
but come January 1,
it’s lookin’ a bit more like this.
I’m your master of ceremonies,
Nicole Byer.
We’re bringing back three
of Nailed It!’s favorite contestants,
who are here to end the year right
as they attempt to make
New Year's inspired desserts
and compete for a chance to win $10,000!
Let’s meet our Nailed It! all-star bakers!
I’m Amanda Giles,
and I’m from Laurel, Mississippi.
I'm just excited to be back.
Variety is the spice of life, isn’t it?
Mine’s gonna be different
than everybody else’s.
High five!
You don't get too many do-overs.
But this time I'm going to nail it.
My name is Sal Venturelli.
I’m from Boston, Mass.
I’m happy to be back on Nailed It!
I'm looking for a little bit of redemption
because I didn't win at all last time.
-Sal didn’t even look at the recipe.
-[judge] Oh, my God.
-A little basa.
-That did not look right.
[Sal] Oh, Jesus!
Argh! Yeah, that chocolate’s done.
Perfect.
You have to try to win,
you have to want to win.
So I know I'm going to win this time.
[laughs]
My name is Knephaunatoria Smith.
I’m from Humble, Texas.
I'm not here for redemption.
I've already nailed it once.
Knephaunatoria!
You’re the winner of the $10,000!
Hit her with that cash!
I'm going to win this ten thousand
for baby Tori.
That's my niece, she's six.
She wants to be a baker too.
So today I'm winning for her.
Amanda, Sal, and Tori! Oh, boy.
Good to see everybody again.
Amanda, do you recognize this man
to my left?
Who could ever forget that face?
-How do you think he’s looking?
-He's looking great!
-Thank you. You look good too.
-I'll pay you later for that.
[cackles]
[Nicole] Say hello to the man
from Brooklyn Nine-Nine
and a whole bunch of other funny stuff,
my good friend Jason Mantzoukas.
Well, thank you for having me, Nicole.
Amanda, Sal, Tori...
huge fans of all of your work.
Now, before we start,
I want to remind everyone
that we are counting down
to New Year’s live on our show!
Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six... No?
-No?
-Nope, not yet.
Got it.
You tell me when, and I'll do it.
Can I go back?
All right. Now, before we start,
I want to remind everyone
that we are counting down
to New Year, live on our show!
Which was pre-recorded.
Ten! Nine!
Eight! Seven!
No? Not yet?
[Nicole] Oh, let’s just get
to Baker’s Choice.
Around this time of year,
there is a ritual that everyone endures.
It’s an attempt to become a better person.
Many fail, but here at Nailed It!
we want to help you achieve your goals.
That’s why today
you’re going to be making these...
New Year’s Resolution cookies!
Oh, come on! Really?
[Nicole] We’ve got an assortment
of common resolutions
that we’ve turned into delightful
sugar cookies.
Get fit, save money, drink less,
embrace your inner Zen, and travel more.
When I say go, you’ll run over there
and pick up that one resolution
that speaks to you the most. Got it?
-Yes.
-Go!
[Sal chuckles]
-[Jason] Go!
-[Nicole cackles]
A casual saunter from Sal?
-[Nicole] They're all moving so slowly.
-[Jason] Oh, hat comes off.
[Tori] You’re gonna take that one?
I'm gonna take that one.
Don't break them!
-Put it in his hat.
-Put it right in that hat?
-[Jason] The blue? Oh, that’s a good one.
-I want a muscle man.
There you go.
-Is it Wes?
-[Tori] Oh, my goodness.
[Nicole] That was a little slower
than I expected.
Jason, any concerns for our bakers?
Ooh. You know, I’m a little concerned
just because it’s not a lot of time,
and these are very complicated cookies.
I’m also concerned because I have
a life-threatening food allergy to eggs.
You guys can’t use any eggs
in any of this.
-No eggs?
-You cannot kill me.
Unless this is an elaborate
murder attempt. That this entire show has been staged
to murder me.
In which case, challenge accepted.
Oh, okay.
There's 40 minutes on the clock.
Which starts now!
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three,
two, one! Happy Nailed It!
Nailed It! will be right back
after these commercials.
What's that? The show has no commercials?
Got it.
Here we go.
You got a recipe?
"Make cookie dough."
I need 3/4 cup of sugar.
Jacques, how would you go about
doing this cookie?
[Jacques] They are eggless,
so they should mix together
the cream, butter, vanilla,
and cup of sparkling wine.
Then add the sugar, the flour,
corn starch, and salt.
You mix that all together,
and the dough is ready.
Then right away, roll it and cut it out
to a precise shape.
Take the cookie out of the oven
and glaze it in chocolate.
Finally, detail with royal icing
and decorate.
I bet they’re gonna all come out perfect.
-All right. I’ll take you on that bet.
-Did you see the show?
Oh, let’s get going here now.
Three-quarters of a cup of sugar.
Sal, make sure you're following
the recipe.
Yeah, I got it. Look, right here.
[Tori] All right, all right.
What I learned from my last time here.
Take a look at the recipe first.
Get a basic idea
of what the recipe is looking for.
Then go crazy.
-[Nicole] Tori, how's it going?
-Oh, it's not going, it's not going.
It's not going?
-No, it's not.
-Why?
Because I've never made an eggless cookie.
And the recipe is incomplete!
It says "cream."
I don’t know if that means
whipping cream or sour cream.
-It just says "cream."
-Sour cream?
If you had to guess,
which do you think it is, of those two?
Well, I went with the whipping cream.
Don’t you think sour cream
would just say "sour cream?"
-I really have faith in these bakers.
-I like how optimistic you are.
"Pour the cream and vanilla together."
I’ve learned from my mistakes
from last time,
but I’m not the fastest person
in the world.
Guess I’m gonna have to tear this up
to get into it.
With time limits, you have to work fast,
so I’m gonna try harder.
Amanda... She's moving so slowly.
It’s trying to mess with me here now.
Okay. Now, I know this part.
You’re supposed to knead the dough.
Oh. Now I’m gonna have to roll it out.
Tori appears to be hosting a cooking show
that she is the star of.
Maybe I have some dough.
Maybe I did something right.
By the way, a show I would 100% watch.
[Nicole] Absolutely!
-Twenty-five minutes, guys.
-Twenty-five minutes!
Oh, my goodness!
Jason, tell them how much time they have.
Guys, with respect,
I want everybody here to know...
25 minutes left!
Hurry up!
Get the cookies done!
[Sal] I’m making the mug.
Looks like I’m gonna have to wing that.
And that’s okay.
I’m no stranger to winging.
[Nicole]
Sal’s just mushing his dough together.
-[Tori] Oh, I don’t know about this.
-[Nicole] And Tori just freestyled hers.
Is that a muscle man?
Is that a muscle man?
I think... I think I got a muscle man.
Now... let me see.
[Amanda] I got some dough, all right.
Without time, rushed,
it doesn’t usually turn out right.
I need that pig.
So I got the cookie that was supposed
to be the one we were making...
I'm gonna sneak this over here.
[Nicole] Amanda took her cookie.
She’s using it as a stamp.
So she’s just, like, using it--
-Smart!
-She's very smart.
Tell me how they’re supposed
to do the cutouts.
Take a piece of paper.
Draw it on a piece of paper
so you can just adjust anything you want.
Cut it, put it on your cookie dough,
cut it.
-Yeah. But nobody will.
-[Jason] Sure.
[Nicole]
So Amanda finally put her cookies in
after 30 minutes, and we only have...
Well, after 29 minutes, I don’t know.
-There's 11 minutes left.
-Let's work this math out.
-I mean, they had 40 minutes.
-There's 40 minutes.
There's 11 minutes left.
So she put them in...
-29 minutes after starting.
-Uh-huh. Okay.
-I got it.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-Which is too late.
-[Nicole] A long time.
Oh, we gotta make the thing. Royal icing.
This isn't a good one.
It don't look too thick.
Two teaspoons of milk. Oops.
Nicole, the base of royal icing
is powdered sugar.
-You know that.
-Yes.
[Jacques] Sal didn’t use
any powdered sugar with his royal icing.
-[Jason] What did he use?
-Maybe corn syrup and milk.
[Nicole] But he has the directions
for how to make it.
[Sal] This is gonna be a disaster.
I'm excited.
[Tori] Oh. I don’t know.
Maybe they’re supposed to look like this
because they’re eggless.
I’ve never made an eggless cookie.
Now, I did learn from the other episode
not to ice a hot cookie.
So I’m gonna take it over to here
to this blast chiller.
[Tori laughs]
She's having a great time.
[Sal] Hot stuff.
Oh, wow. Less than five minutes!
You guys should probably
be decorating now.
[Amanda] Here we go.
[Sal] You know what I’m gonna do?
I’m gonna scratch the idea
of chocolate on the cookie.
I’m gonna get a ball of that red fondant
and make some X’s.
[Tori] Is this where the mess gonna come?
Me and royal icing, we don’t mix.
I remember that from last time.
Maybe not!
Maybe you did learn something
from the last show.
Maybe I did something right!
[Jacques] It look like Tori is
just coating her cookies in royal icing.
Didn’t you say that these were supposed
to be chocolate dipped?
Yeah, forget about the chocolate.
Nobody... No.
[Amanda] Oh, my goodness.
I forgot they were dipped in chocolate.
Not gonna make it.
[Sal] Oh, man. That's horrible.
My royal icing ends up looking like
wallpaper paste.
I could stick it on the back of the cookie
and stick it up against the wall.
It might stick.
That’s all I can do with this stuff.
Strategy change.
That's horrible.
Royal icing? No, I’m royally screwed.
And I run out... Look at this.
Can you believe it?
Well, they can’t say I didn’t
get chocolate on them.
I’m gonna tell the judges
that they were doing
what pigs were supposed to do.
They were wallowing in the mud.
You guys have under a minute!
Sal, are you covering already?
It's 45 seconds!
Oh, here we come. Here we come.
Thirty seconds left!
I don't know if it's gonna be edible.
-Five, four, three, two, one!
-[Nicole] You're done!
[Sal] Bow tie is off.
Amanda, you're first.
This is the cookie you were trying
to make.
Let’s see what you made.
-Nailed it!
-[Jason laughing]
[Nicole] These look wild.
[Jacques] Those are pigs?
[Jason] For a second, I was like,
"Ooh, it’s Texas!"
It’s the state of Texas.
[Amanda] I think it’s upside down.
[Jacques] So how did you put the chocolate
on top of your cookies?
What’s happened here?
I put the chocolate on the cookie
and put it back in the oven.
So I’m glad that you are here
because I’m learning things.
And you make your dough--
-You're learning things?
-Yeah. Look at that.
-[Nicole] It’s time to taste.
-[Jason] All right.
Got it.
I like the chocolates on top.
Maybe a little bit underbaked,
but not raw.
And royal icing bring a little bit
of sweetness to it.
I mean, the flavor, it’s not bad.
It had like a salty taste to it
that felt like a cookie,
the way that I would like
a cookie to taste.
-Good. It’s all that counts.
-I thought it tasted delicious!
No, that's not all that counts.
You've been here before.
Hey, I'm trying to sell my cookies here.
Amanda, thank you so much!
But we have more cookies to see.
-Thanks for dropping by.
-[Nicole] You're welcome.
[Nicole] All right, Sal. You are up.
The top hat is off, the bow tie is off.
This is the resolution cookie
you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did!
-Nailed it!
-[Jason lets out a wheezing laugh]
Sal!
Where's the beer mug?
I don’t know how to describe it.
Looks like a game show, where, you know,
you have the big red thing of...
[mimics a buzzer ring]
That’s what it reminds me,
what those cookies remind me.
The royal icing.
Where is it?
-Over there.
-[Nicole laughs]
-A follow-up to Jacques’s question.
-Yes.
-Where is the chocolate?
-Over there.
[Nicole] Here’s a follow-up question
to both of those questions.
Yes.
How come those two items
aren’t on your cookies?
I got... I got jinxed by the clock,
I think.
Forty minutes became 30, then 20, then 10.
Ooh, that’s how time works, Sal.
I’m just gonna give you a quick heads-up.
That’s how time works.
-Let's get in these cookies.
-Please.
[Jason chuckles]
-Right into it. Wow.
-[Nicole] Mmm.
[Sal] And they’re good.
You know they’re good.
-Jacques, what do you think?
-It's a little bit soft inside.
But it's not unpleasant.
But we miss the chocolates,
we miss the royal icing.
I'm sorry. The task is not complete.
It’s completely plain
compared to what’s meant to be there.
But as a very plain cookie,
uh, totally fine.
[Nicole] I liked your cookie.
It was thick and soft inside,
just like myself.
And I really loved the taste of myself.
I tasted good.
Thank you, Nicole.
We’ve had a blast over here, Sal.
We need to go see another cookie.
-Goodbye, Sal.
-Bye bye.
[Jacques] Bye, Sal.
Tori, 'tis your turn.
-How do you think you did?
-[Tori laughs]
-[Jason] Ooh, accent work.
-[Jacques laugh]
Let’s take a look at what you were
trying to make.
And let’s see what you have done.
-Nailed it!
-[Nicole cackling]
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
[Nicole] Oh, my God.
-[Jason] Oh, this looks sad.
-[Nicole] He’s strong, he’s strong.
Those cookies... Those cookies are wild.
They kind of look like ghosts.
Because this is how they told me
to make them.
So... Oh, wait. Quick question.
-Are these cookies talking to you?
-[Nicole chuckles]
-Yeah, yeah. I mean, yes.
-Yes?
[laughter]
[Jason] Rob is weeping.
[Nicole] What does that cookie sound like?
-[Tori] It says, “Hey, Tori.”
-[Jason] Okay.
You know.
“I want muscles, but this is too hard.
It’s too hard!”
-[Jason] Rob is weeping and in a full--
-[Nicole] Very red!
-[Jason] Full body sweat.
-[Nicole] Sobbing at his camera.
-[Jason] Full body sweat.
-[Nicole] His shots will just be shaking.
-This guy is gonna get fired.
-[laughter]
-Oh, boy.
-You got this, Rob.
All right. Let’s eat these living cookies.
[Jason] Good luck.
[Jacques] Don’t go for the red.
Don’t go for the red.
-You’re going to be all red. Too late.
-[Jason giggling]
[Jacques] It’s a little bit underbaked,
but it still has some good flavor.
I don't see any chocolates here.
-I was looking for chocolate.
-Behind you.
[Nicole] Yeah, truly,
there’s so much chocolate behind you.
The icing on it made it kind of just,
like, sweet and soft.
Wasn’t as successful as a cookie.
Now that I know it’s a living,
speaking cookie,
I feel really connected to it,
like a friend.
-[Nicole] Yeah.
-That I might want to eat a piece of.
-Ah!
-You know?
-Okay.
-You know.
Have you ever eaten a friend before?
We’ll be right back after these messages.
All right, bakers. Come on down!
Jacques? Tell them who’s won.
[Jacques] Okay.
The winner is...
Amanda is the winner!
-[gasps]
-[Jason] Oh!
[Nicole cackling] Are you joking?
Your cookies have everything on it.
Sal’s cookies has nothing on it,
and Tori’s cookies has
just the royal icing.
So yours was complete.
-Thank you, thank you, thank you.
-Great work. Really.
Jason, tell Amanda what she’s won.
Now you can celebrate
like it’s New Year’s Eve every day
with all these cases of the finest bubbly
money can buy.
[Jason and Nicole cheering]
[Jason] Drink it all now!
Drink it all now!
This is the best prize.
This is really the best prize.
Thank you, Wes!
And of course you get
the golden baker’s cap!
All right. Yes! Ooh, that’s a nice fit.
[Jason] Flawless!
Okay, let’s go to round two now!
Come on!
We'll all go!
Here we go.
Imagine, if you will,
it’s the last night of the year.
The party is banging.
The bubbly is flowing.
And everything’s getting a little tipsy.
Well, we’ve put all that into a cake.
Now you can experience
the New Year’s Eve fun
when you make... this!
Oh, my God!
[Nicole] It’s a Tipsy Turvy Bubbly Cake!
From the chocolate and Rice Krispies
bottle of bubbly on top,
cascading gelatin deliciousness
in the form of bubbly,
down through the chocolate-molded flutes,
on to not one, not two, but three tiers
of strangely angled cava-filled cakes!
Whoo!
Do not get too scared because you have
a panic button in your station.
Hit the panic button,
and I will come to you for three minutes
and answer any question that you have.
Yes. FYI, whoever makes the best cake
gets $10,000!
Nine thousand dollars!
Eight thousand dollars!
Seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one!
Happy New Year!
Ninety minutes on the clock. Go!
-How many minutes?
-Ninety. Go!
Ninety?
Take your time.
[laughter]
[Tori] "Make cake."
One container of cake mix. I need to go get cake pans.
How would you make this cake, Jacques?
What would you do?
[Jacques] They should mix the wet
and dry ingredients
until a batter is formed.
When the cakes are in the oven,
it’s time to move onto the buttercream.
Now, it’s time to stack
and carve the cake.
They should be sure to carve the cake just
right to create the topsy-turvy design.
When assembling the layer,
they should be sure to use dowel
because structure is key to this cake.
Create the gold bucket and bottle
of bubbly out of rice cereal treats.
Cover it with fondant
and decorate with gold detailing.
Now you have a beautiful topsy-turvy cake
suitable for a black-tie affair.
It’s very detailed, so you have to run
from the beginning.
Problem is they always run
the last 5 minutes.
Cake mix.
Get cakes in the oven as fast as you can.
Come on.
That's the most critical
portion of the competition.
Get them done
so that you can start decorating.
I think I put too much cake mix in
and not enough liquid.
Sal is in trouble with his batter.
His batter is way too thick.
Just to smooth it out a little bit.
Now we’re going off script.
The good stuff: the bubbly.
Get measured out.
[Tori] Two cups of cava. Let’s see.
Hey, everybody likes rosé, I think.
Ooh! Wes, I’m French.
This is a small bottle.
-Thank you, Wes.
-Thank you, Wes.
-Thank you, Wes.
-Thank you, Wes.
Thank you, Wes!
I don't like Wes.
-You don't like Wes?
-I don't like Wes.
-[Nicole] Amanda?
-Yo!
-Do you... Oh, wow.
-Yo!
-Do you feel better using your hand mixer?
-Yeah. This is too complicated
for a country girl.
[Nicole] All right.
There we have it.
Stand mixers.
Too complicated for a country girl.
[Sal] This is not nearly enough.
[Jacques]
Look. Sal, he doesn’t read his recipe.
And now he do not have
enough batter in his cake.
I don’t know what he’s doing.
[Tori] As far as strategy this time,
the only thing that’s important is
that I follow the recipe.
I guess we can go ahead
and put this one in the oven.
I'm coming in swinging. [laughs]
Go ahead and get them in the oven.
You guys have a little over an hour left.
Tori, what are you working on?
Rice Krispies treats.
And, honey... this is a job.
Do you have a hammer over there?
Do I have a hammer?
Sal is trying to cut his Rice Krispies
with a huge knife.
[Sal] The better to cut it with, my dear.
-[Jason] Amanda, you’re doing great.
-[Nicole] You're doing wonderful.
I’m gonna need more time.
[Tori] Okay, I guess that’s my bottle.
[Amanda] Gotta get my cakes.
[Nicole] Wes, can I have a balloon?
[high-pitched voice] Jacques.
Do you like when I have
a voice like this?
A little bit.
Tee-hee-hee! [laughs]
[normal voice] Oh, I'm a child.
[Jacques] Oh, I have a big balloon here.
[high-pitched] Thirty-nine minutes
and 15 seconds!
[high-pitched] Thirty-nine minutes!
[high-pitched] Hurry up! Hurry up!
[Amanda] Oh, God Almighty.
Look at that. [grunts]
Well, we can’t get rid of it.
So, we’re gonna try to release this baby.
[laughs]
And the bottom’s at the bottom.
But that’s okay. It’s a topsy-turvy cake.
She is narrating every step
of the process as if she is the host of "The Tori Show."
I would urge the remaining
living Netflix brother--
-Jim.
-Jim Netflix.
-To please give this woman a show.
-Yes.
-[Nicole] Jim, give her a show.
-I don't think so.
I mean, this is precious.
What Sal did is very precious.
I mean, come on, you know? This is--
It’s like a pancake.
[Sal] Please come out.
I’m working against the clock,
but I’m also working now at a disadvantage
because my cakes are substandard.
They’re not thick enough,
and now it’s a mess.
This is a disaster.
[sighs]
Look, you've to see Amanda.
[Amanda laughs]
Don't even look over here.
It look like a turtle.
The first cake look like a turtle.
A dead turtle.
This is gonna be a disaster.
’Cause this cake is going this direction
when it’s supposed to go that direction.
Hot mess.
Panic button!
-Oh, panic!
-Oh, my God.
There’s a panic! Aaah!
[shouting]
-Amanda, you know you are my favorite.
-[shouting continues]
I love seeing Jacques again.
He’s so kind. You know,
those eyes and that voice.
-What's going on here?
-He is a mess.
He is a mess?
I'm just sitting there.
Just listening.
-Your cake is hot.
-Yeah.
Okay, you know what I will do?
I will stick that in a freezer
just like that for a few minutes.
I mean, that’s all we can do now.
It’s only 11 minutes left.
Maybe at least five minutes
in the freezer.
Roll your fondant. Then, in five minutes,
you cover whatever you can cover.
All right, Jacques. Yep, you're done.
[Jacques] Okay. Good luck.
Let's see.
I have a hard time making my own
normal cakes stand up straight.
We gotta make you fit.
Now you want me to make a topsy-turvy cake
stay in one place? Come on!
Ooh, that cake is warm. Let me see.
Is that gonna make it fit?
It's going one way. [laughs]
[Sal] Oh, look at that.
How nice is that, huh?
[Tori sighs]
Oh, look at that. We got gold.
Whoo! It ain’t the cutest.
-Seven minutes left, you guys.
-Seven minutes!
Hold on. Hold on.
Wait a minute.
Not seven minutes.
What do you mean,
wait a minute?
We can’t do it. I need a hammer.
Oh, I got it.
Let's see what we got here.
We got the bottle.
[Tori] Maybe I can get
some candy melt going, here.
All right.
Oh, my gosh, that is going to fall
like an autumn leaf.
[Tori] Those. Oh!
-Two minutes!
-Oh, no, two minutes left!
Does anybody have any gold spray?
My cake looks like holy hell.
But sometimes it’s not necessarily
about the looks.
It’s how it tastes. Gotta go with it.
I don't think there's anything else
I can do.
Five, four, three, two, one!
You're done!
-And that was a real countdown.
-That's a mess.
Okay, Amanda, let's take a look
at the topsy-turvy cake
you were trying to make,
and let's see what you made.
-[Amanda] Nailed it!
-[Nicole laughs]
Okay.
Um, can you spin it around for us?
Very carefully.
[Nicole then Jason] Okay.
It's more of a funeral cake.
-For a somber New Year's Eve.
-Yes.
[Jacques]
Your cake didn't come out of the pan.
When it come out of the pan,
it just break.
This cake has no shape.
It almost seems like
there's a person sleeping.
-And a sombrero on top.
-[Nicole laughs]
That’s definitely what you do to your bed
when you sneak out at night.
[Jason] Yeah.
This cake could sneak out,
but it wouldn’t have anywhere to go.
[Jason] It might not look great,
but perhaps it tastes great.
I hope so.
All right, Amanda, we have other cakes
to see, so we must move on.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you, Amanda.
[Nicole] Okay, Sal.
-Let’s see what you made!
-[Sal] Okay.
Nailed it!
[Nicole] Oh, but the clock is there.
Can you twist your cake around for us?
Honestly, this looks like a hat.
-[Jacques] Easter hat.
-[Nicole] Or a witch's hat!
[Jason] Put it on your head, Sal.
-[Sal] Hat-py New Year!
-[Jason] Guys.
-Please put this on your head.
-[Sal] Oh, God. No.
Please...
What if I put it on your head?
-It's a witch's hat!
-It is!
-You're the witch!
-I cast a spell.
[Jason] You're Dumbledore!
-You're Dumbledore.
-Why do you hate me, Nicole?
[Jason] Oh, boy.
Things are happening.
Things are happening. Guys?
I haven't been touched by a man
in so long.
[beep on watch]
-[Nicole] That was nice.
-Yeah.
Jacques, what do you think
of that cake?
[Jacques] You have a cake, a bottle.
You have the bucket of ice.
You have the watch.
I’m anxious to taste it to really see...
if that’s the right recipe.
-Sal, we have one more cake to see.
-Thank you.
♪ Marching, marching, marching
Here we are ♪
-Tori, let's see what you did.
-Okay.
Nailed it!
[laughter]
[Nicole] Tori, I like you so much.
[Jason] What time is it? Batman o'clock.
I think that this cake
really defied gravity.
I’m really puzzled that...
that this cake doesn’t collapse.
I don’t know how you did it.
You do have a resemblance
of all the components.
[Jason]
Your gold is quite good and, to be clear,
you painted that gold
because there wasn’t gold fondant, right?
I did. I did. I couldn’t find
no white “fundant”
or no black “fundant,”
so I only had brown “fundant.”
I love the way you say "fondant."
The “fundant.” Right.
-Are your little balls like gumballs?
-They are gumballs.
Right. They are. Because we needed balls.
[Nicole laughs]
I love the way
you say “fundant,” “bawllz.”
“Fundant,” “bawllz.”
Fundant, bawllz! Fundant, bawllz!
Oh, you know, that’s to bop to it!
[Jason laughs] This is a song.
-♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
-[Tori] There you go.
-♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
-[Tori] All right. ♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
There you go.
-[Jason and Tori] ♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
-[Nicole] Come on, Sal!
[all except Amanda]
♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
Okay. Viewers, take that footage,
put a beat under it, #NailedIt!,
#Happy New Year, #2019, #FUNdantBawllz.
Oh, boy!
Rob, you okay?
Chill out, Rob!
Rob. Rob. Are you okay?
Rob, are you okay for real?
I’m very interested in how these taste.
[Sal] I’m praying that Tori’s cake
tastes like crap
because, looks-wise,
she’s got it over me.
I got a slim chance at this point,
but a slim chance
is better than no chance.
[Nicole] Let's taste the bubbly cakes!
Amanda, you're up first.
Amanda, your cake's pretty good.
I think the cake is
a little bit underbaked,
but it's moist.
I do like the flavor.
Overall, I like that cake.
Bravo!
I also liked your cake.
I thought it was kind of moist but also
-kind of dry at the same time.
-I think that's called "droist."
So yes, your cake was a little droist.
I thought, you know, it was tasty.
I liked it. Yeah.
-[Nicole] Thank you, Amanda.
-Thank you.
All right, Sal. Let’s taste your cake!
[Nicole laughing]
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
[Nicole] Jacques, what do you think?
Sal, you know how much we appreciate you.
Thank you so much.
But I have to be honest.
Of course.
This cake...
Not so much?
-Did you follow the recipe?
-Yes.
-[Jacques] Are you sure?
-Yes.
The cake is extremely dry.
I saw the batter. The batter was so thick,
-and you did add--
-[Sal] I did.
...cream in it,
when there is no cream in the recipe.
[Nicole] Jason?
Sal... this is...
one of the best-tasting hats
I’ve ever put in my mouth.
Fair enough.
It was so dry,
but then as it sat in my mouth,
became a paste,
a weird paste-like texture.
But you’re the sweetest man in America.
-Well, Sal, thank you.
-Thank you.
Tori, you have the last cake
and we gotta eat it.
[Jason] Look at this.
[Jason] Tori, I liked it.
I... It felt like a good moist cake to me.
It wasn't too dry.
Uh, and it looked dynamite.
I agree with you.
The cake is actually pretty good.
Oh, wow.
[enunciating] I did not hate it.
I did not think it was moist.
But...
Tori, what a treat you are.
[Tori chuckles]
Okay, judges. Are we ready?
-[Jason] Yeah, I'm ready.
-[Nicole] Okay.
The countdown draws near.
One of you is going to start
the new year with $10,000!
But also, the Nailed It! trophy.
Wes!
Wes!
-Oh, Wes. He’s an instant party.
-[Jason] Look at this!
That hunk's got balls.
You got bawllz.
Jacques?
That was an extremely difficult challenge.
The winner is...
-Tori!
-[cheering and applause]
[Nicole] Oh, my God. Tori
I've done it again!
Again! What?
I’m the Nailed It! two-time champ!
First in history.
Oh, yeah, let’s dance.
All right. Come on.
Everybody join in. Let’s dance.
2019’s gonna be a good year,
cause I’m starting it ten grand richer!
What?
[cheering]
Congratulations!
[Jacques] Selfie, selfie, selfie!
[Nicole] Wait. Jason.
According to the countdown clock,
I think it’s almost midnight! Oh, my God, guys!
We can finally do our countdown!
[Jacques] Let's do it!
[all] Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one! Happy New Year!
[rocket whistling and crackers exploding]
That’s it for Nailed It! Happy New Year
and auld lang syne. Whatever that means.
Welcome to another holiday edition
of Nailed It!
The show that on December 31
feels like this,
but come January 1,
it’s lookin’ a bit more like this.
I’m your master of ceremonies,
Nicole Byer.
We’re bringing back three
of Nailed It!’s favorite contestants,
who are here to end the year right
as they attempt to make
New Year's inspired desserts
and compete for a chance to win $10,000!
Let’s meet our Nailed It! all-star bakers!
I’m Amanda Giles,
and I’m from Laurel, Mississippi.
I'm just excited to be back.
Variety is the spice of life, isn’t it?
Mine’s gonna be different
than everybody else’s.
High five!
You don't get too many do-overs.
But this time I'm going to nail it.
My name is Sal Venturelli.
I’m from Boston, Mass.
I’m happy to be back on Nailed It!
I'm looking for a little bit of redemption
because I didn't win at all last time.
-Sal didn’t even look at the recipe.
-[judge] Oh, my God.
-A little basa.
-That did not look right.
[Sal] Oh, Jesus!
Argh! Yeah, that chocolate’s done.
Perfect.
You have to try to win,
you have to want to win.
So I know I'm going to win this time.
[laughs]
My name is Knephaunatoria Smith.
I’m from Humble, Texas.
I'm not here for redemption.
I've already nailed it once.
Knephaunatoria!
You’re the winner of the $10,000!
Hit her with that cash!
I'm going to win this ten thousand
for baby Tori.
That's my niece, she's six.
She wants to be a baker too.
So today I'm winning for her.
Amanda, Sal, and Tori! Oh, boy.
Good to see everybody again.
Amanda, do you recognize this man
to my left?
Who could ever forget that face?
-How do you think he’s looking?
-He's looking great!
-Thank you. You look good too.
-I'll pay you later for that.
[cackles]
[Nicole] Say hello to the man
from Brooklyn Nine-Nine
and a whole bunch of other funny stuff,
my good friend Jason Mantzoukas.
Well, thank you for having me, Nicole.
Amanda, Sal, Tori...
huge fans of all of your work.
Now, before we start,
I want to remind everyone
that we are counting down
to New Year’s live on our show!
Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six... No?
-No?
-Nope, not yet.
Got it.
You tell me when, and I'll do it.
Can I go back?
All right. Now, before we start,
I want to remind everyone
that we are counting down
to New Year, live on our show!
Which was pre-recorded.
Ten! Nine!
Eight! Seven!
No? Not yet?
[Nicole] Oh, let’s just get
to Baker’s Choice.
Around this time of year,
there is a ritual that everyone endures.
It’s an attempt to become a better person.
Many fail, but here at Nailed It!
we want to help you achieve your goals.
That’s why today
you’re going to be making these...
New Year’s Resolution cookies!
Oh, come on! Really?
[Nicole] We’ve got an assortment
of common resolutions
that we’ve turned into delightful
sugar cookies.
Get fit, save money, drink less,
embrace your inner Zen, and travel more.
When I say go, you’ll run over there
and pick up that one resolution
that speaks to you the most. Got it?
-Yes.
-Go!
[Sal chuckles]
-[Jason] Go!
-[Nicole cackles]
A casual saunter from Sal?
-[Nicole] They're all moving so slowly.
-[Jason] Oh, hat comes off.
[Tori] You’re gonna take that one?
I'm gonna take that one.
Don't break them!
-Put it in his hat.
-Put it right in that hat?
-[Jason] The blue? Oh, that’s a good one.
-I want a muscle man.
There you go.
-Is it Wes?
-[Tori] Oh, my goodness.
[Nicole] That was a little slower
than I expected.
Jason, any concerns for our bakers?
Ooh. You know, I’m a little concerned
just because it’s not a lot of time,
and these are very complicated cookies.
I’m also concerned because I have
a life-threatening food allergy to eggs.
You guys can’t use any eggs
in any of this.
-No eggs?
-You cannot kill me.
Unless this is an elaborate
murder attempt. That this entire show has been staged
to murder me.
In which case, challenge accepted.
Oh, okay.
There's 40 minutes on the clock.
Which starts now!
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three,
two, one! Happy Nailed It!
Nailed It! will be right back
after these commercials.
What's that? The show has no commercials?
Got it.
Here we go.
You got a recipe?
"Make cookie dough."
I need 3/4 cup of sugar.
Jacques, how would you go about
doing this cookie?
[Jacques] They are eggless,
so they should mix together
the cream, butter, vanilla,
and cup of sparkling wine.
Then add the sugar, the flour,
corn starch, and salt.
You mix that all together,
and the dough is ready.
Then right away, roll it and cut it out
to a precise shape.
Take the cookie out of the oven
and glaze it in chocolate.
Finally, detail with royal icing
and decorate.
I bet they’re gonna all come out perfect.
-All right. I’ll take you on that bet.
-Did you see the show?
Oh, let’s get going here now.
Three-quarters of a cup of sugar.
Sal, make sure you're following
the recipe.
Yeah, I got it. Look, right here.
[Tori] All right, all right.
What I learned from my last time here.
Take a look at the recipe first.
Get a basic idea
of what the recipe is looking for.
Then go crazy.
-[Nicole] Tori, how's it going?
-Oh, it's not going, it's not going.
It's not going?
-No, it's not.
-Why?
Because I've never made an eggless cookie.
And the recipe is incomplete!
It says "cream."
I don’t know if that means
whipping cream or sour cream.
-It just says "cream."
-Sour cream?
If you had to guess,
which do you think it is, of those two?
Well, I went with the whipping cream.
Don’t you think sour cream
would just say "sour cream?"
-I really have faith in these bakers.
-I like how optimistic you are.
"Pour the cream and vanilla together."
I’ve learned from my mistakes
from last time,
but I’m not the fastest person
in the world.
Guess I’m gonna have to tear this up
to get into it.
With time limits, you have to work fast,
so I’m gonna try harder.
Amanda... She's moving so slowly.
It’s trying to mess with me here now.
Okay. Now, I know this part.
You’re supposed to knead the dough.
Oh. Now I’m gonna have to roll it out.
Tori appears to be hosting a cooking show
that she is the star of.
Maybe I have some dough.
Maybe I did something right.
By the way, a show I would 100% watch.
[Nicole] Absolutely!
-Twenty-five minutes, guys.
-Twenty-five minutes!
Oh, my goodness!
Jason, tell them how much time they have.
Guys, with respect,
I want everybody here to know...
25 minutes left!
Hurry up!
Get the cookies done!
[Sal] I’m making the mug.
Looks like I’m gonna have to wing that.
And that’s okay.
I’m no stranger to winging.
[Nicole]
Sal’s just mushing his dough together.
-[Tori] Oh, I don’t know about this.
-[Nicole] And Tori just freestyled hers.
Is that a muscle man?
Is that a muscle man?
I think... I think I got a muscle man.
Now... let me see.
[Amanda] I got some dough, all right.
Without time, rushed,
it doesn’t usually turn out right.
I need that pig.
So I got the cookie that was supposed
to be the one we were making...
I'm gonna sneak this over here.
[Nicole] Amanda took her cookie.
She’s using it as a stamp.
So she’s just, like, using it--
-Smart!
-She's very smart.
Tell me how they’re supposed
to do the cutouts.
Take a piece of paper.
Draw it on a piece of paper
so you can just adjust anything you want.
Cut it, put it on your cookie dough,
cut it.
-Yeah. But nobody will.
-[Jason] Sure.
[Nicole]
So Amanda finally put her cookies in
after 30 minutes, and we only have...
Well, after 29 minutes, I don’t know.
-There's 11 minutes left.
-Let's work this math out.
-I mean, they had 40 minutes.
-There's 40 minutes.
There's 11 minutes left.
So she put them in...
-29 minutes after starting.
-Uh-huh. Okay.
-I got it.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-Which is too late.
-[Nicole] A long time.
Oh, we gotta make the thing. Royal icing.
This isn't a good one.
It don't look too thick.
Two teaspoons of milk. Oops.
Nicole, the base of royal icing
is powdered sugar.
-You know that.
-Yes.
[Jacques] Sal didn’t use
any powdered sugar with his royal icing.
-[Jason] What did he use?
-Maybe corn syrup and milk.
[Nicole] But he has the directions
for how to make it.
[Sal] This is gonna be a disaster.
I'm excited.
[Tori] Oh. I don’t know.
Maybe they’re supposed to look like this
because they’re eggless.
I’ve never made an eggless cookie.
Now, I did learn from the other episode
not to ice a hot cookie.
So I’m gonna take it over to here
to this blast chiller.
[Tori laughs]
She's having a great time.
[Sal] Hot stuff.
Oh, wow. Less than five minutes!
You guys should probably
be decorating now.
[Amanda] Here we go.
[Sal] You know what I’m gonna do?
I’m gonna scratch the idea
of chocolate on the cookie.
I’m gonna get a ball of that red fondant
and make some X’s.
[Tori] Is this where the mess gonna come?
Me and royal icing, we don’t mix.
I remember that from last time.
Maybe not!
Maybe you did learn something
from the last show.
Maybe I did something right!
[Jacques] It look like Tori is
just coating her cookies in royal icing.
Didn’t you say that these were supposed
to be chocolate dipped?
Yeah, forget about the chocolate.
Nobody... No.
[Amanda] Oh, my goodness.
I forgot they were dipped in chocolate.
Not gonna make it.
[Sal] Oh, man. That's horrible.
My royal icing ends up looking like
wallpaper paste.
I could stick it on the back of the cookie
and stick it up against the wall.
It might stick.
That’s all I can do with this stuff.
Strategy change.
That's horrible.
Royal icing? No, I’m royally screwed.
And I run out... Look at this.
Can you believe it?
Well, they can’t say I didn’t
get chocolate on them.
I’m gonna tell the judges
that they were doing
what pigs were supposed to do.
They were wallowing in the mud.
You guys have under a minute!
Sal, are you covering already?
It's 45 seconds!
Oh, here we come. Here we come.
Thirty seconds left!
I don't know if it's gonna be edible.
-Five, four, three, two, one!
-[Nicole] You're done!
[Sal] Bow tie is off.
Amanda, you're first.
This is the cookie you were trying
to make.
Let’s see what you made.
-Nailed it!
-[Jason laughing]
[Nicole] These look wild.
[Jacques] Those are pigs?
[Jason] For a second, I was like,
"Ooh, it’s Texas!"
It’s the state of Texas.
[Amanda] I think it’s upside down.
[Jacques] So how did you put the chocolate
on top of your cookies?
What’s happened here?
I put the chocolate on the cookie
and put it back in the oven.
So I’m glad that you are here
because I’m learning things.
And you make your dough--
-You're learning things?
-Yeah. Look at that.
-[Nicole] It’s time to taste.
-[Jason] All right.
Got it.
I like the chocolates on top.
Maybe a little bit underbaked,
but not raw.
And royal icing bring a little bit
of sweetness to it.
I mean, the flavor, it’s not bad.
It had like a salty taste to it
that felt like a cookie,
the way that I would like
a cookie to taste.
-Good. It’s all that counts.
-I thought it tasted delicious!
No, that's not all that counts.
You've been here before.
Hey, I'm trying to sell my cookies here.
Amanda, thank you so much!
But we have more cookies to see.
-Thanks for dropping by.
-[Nicole] You're welcome.
[Nicole] All right, Sal. You are up.
The top hat is off, the bow tie is off.
This is the resolution cookie
you were trying to make.
Let's see what you did!
-Nailed it!
-[Jason lets out a wheezing laugh]
Sal!
Where's the beer mug?
I don’t know how to describe it.
Looks like a game show, where, you know,
you have the big red thing of...
[mimics a buzzer ring]
That’s what it reminds me,
what those cookies remind me.
The royal icing.
Where is it?
-Over there.
-[Nicole laughs]
-A follow-up to Jacques’s question.
-Yes.
-Where is the chocolate?
-Over there.
[Nicole] Here’s a follow-up question
to both of those questions.
Yes.
How come those two items
aren’t on your cookies?
I got... I got jinxed by the clock,
I think.
Forty minutes became 30, then 20, then 10.
Ooh, that’s how time works, Sal.
I’m just gonna give you a quick heads-up.
That’s how time works.
-Let's get in these cookies.
-Please.
[Jason chuckles]
-Right into it. Wow.
-[Nicole] Mmm.
[Sal] And they’re good.
You know they’re good.
-Jacques, what do you think?
-It's a little bit soft inside.
But it's not unpleasant.
But we miss the chocolates,
we miss the royal icing.
I'm sorry. The task is not complete.
It’s completely plain
compared to what’s meant to be there.
But as a very plain cookie,
uh, totally fine.
[Nicole] I liked your cookie.
It was thick and soft inside,
just like myself.
And I really loved the taste of myself.
I tasted good.
Thank you, Nicole.
We’ve had a blast over here, Sal.
We need to go see another cookie.
-Goodbye, Sal.
-Bye bye.
[Jacques] Bye, Sal.
Tori, 'tis your turn.
-How do you think you did?
-[Tori laughs]
-[Jason] Ooh, accent work.
-[Jacques laugh]
Let’s take a look at what you were
trying to make.
And let’s see what you have done.
-Nailed it!
-[Nicole cackling]
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
[Nicole] Oh, my God.
-[Jason] Oh, this looks sad.
-[Nicole] He’s strong, he’s strong.
Those cookies... Those cookies are wild.
They kind of look like ghosts.
Because this is how they told me
to make them.
So... Oh, wait. Quick question.
-Are these cookies talking to you?
-[Nicole chuckles]
-Yeah, yeah. I mean, yes.
-Yes?
[laughter]
[Jason] Rob is weeping.
[Nicole] What does that cookie sound like?
-[Tori] It says, “Hey, Tori.”
-[Jason] Okay.
You know.
“I want muscles, but this is too hard.
It’s too hard!”
-[Jason] Rob is weeping and in a full--
-[Nicole] Very red!
-[Jason] Full body sweat.
-[Nicole] Sobbing at his camera.
-[Jason] Full body sweat.
-[Nicole] His shots will just be shaking.
-This guy is gonna get fired.
-[laughter]
-Oh, boy.
-You got this, Rob.
All right. Let’s eat these living cookies.
[Jason] Good luck.
[Jacques] Don’t go for the red.
Don’t go for the red.
-You’re going to be all red. Too late.
-[Jason giggling]
[Jacques] It’s a little bit underbaked,
but it still has some good flavor.
I don't see any chocolates here.
-I was looking for chocolate.
-Behind you.
[Nicole] Yeah, truly,
there’s so much chocolate behind you.
The icing on it made it kind of just,
like, sweet and soft.
Wasn’t as successful as a cookie.
Now that I know it’s a living,
speaking cookie,
I feel really connected to it,
like a friend.
-[Nicole] Yeah.
-That I might want to eat a piece of.
-Ah!
-You know?
-Okay.
-You know.
Have you ever eaten a friend before?
We’ll be right back after these messages.
All right, bakers. Come on down!
Jacques? Tell them who’s won.
[Jacques] Okay.
The winner is...
Amanda is the winner!
-[gasps]
-[Jason] Oh!
[Nicole cackling] Are you joking?
Your cookies have everything on it.
Sal’s cookies has nothing on it,
and Tori’s cookies has
just the royal icing.
So yours was complete.
-Thank you, thank you, thank you.
-Great work. Really.
Jason, tell Amanda what she’s won.
Now you can celebrate
like it’s New Year’s Eve every day
with all these cases of the finest bubbly
money can buy.
[Jason and Nicole cheering]
[Jason] Drink it all now!
Drink it all now!
This is the best prize.
This is really the best prize.
Thank you, Wes!
And of course you get
the golden baker’s cap!
All right. Yes! Ooh, that’s a nice fit.
[Jason] Flawless!
Okay, let’s go to round two now!
Come on!
We'll all go!
Here we go.
Imagine, if you will,
it’s the last night of the year.
The party is banging.
The bubbly is flowing.
And everything’s getting a little tipsy.
Well, we’ve put all that into a cake.
Now you can experience
the New Year’s Eve fun
when you make... this!
Oh, my God!
[Nicole] It’s a Tipsy Turvy Bubbly Cake!
From the chocolate and Rice Krispies
bottle of bubbly on top,
cascading gelatin deliciousness
in the form of bubbly,
down through the chocolate-molded flutes,
on to not one, not two, but three tiers
of strangely angled cava-filled cakes!
Whoo!
Do not get too scared because you have
a panic button in your station.
Hit the panic button,
and I will come to you for three minutes
and answer any question that you have.
Yes. FYI, whoever makes the best cake
gets $10,000!
Nine thousand dollars!
Eight thousand dollars!
Seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one!
Happy New Year!
Ninety minutes on the clock. Go!
-How many minutes?
-Ninety. Go!
Ninety?
Take your time.
[laughter]
[Tori] "Make cake."
One container of cake mix. I need to go get cake pans.
How would you make this cake, Jacques?
What would you do?
[Jacques] They should mix the wet
and dry ingredients
until a batter is formed.
When the cakes are in the oven,
it’s time to move onto the buttercream.
Now, it’s time to stack
and carve the cake.
They should be sure to carve the cake just
right to create the topsy-turvy design.
When assembling the layer,
they should be sure to use dowel
because structure is key to this cake.
Create the gold bucket and bottle
of bubbly out of rice cereal treats.
Cover it with fondant
and decorate with gold detailing.
Now you have a beautiful topsy-turvy cake
suitable for a black-tie affair.
It’s very detailed, so you have to run
from the beginning.
Problem is they always run
the last 5 minutes.
Cake mix.
Get cakes in the oven as fast as you can.
Come on.
That's the most critical
portion of the competition.
Get them done
so that you can start decorating.
I think I put too much cake mix in
and not enough liquid.
Sal is in trouble with his batter.
His batter is way too thick.
Just to smooth it out a little bit.
Now we’re going off script.
The good stuff: the bubbly.
Get measured out.
[Tori] Two cups of cava. Let’s see.
Hey, everybody likes rosé, I think.
Ooh! Wes, I’m French.
This is a small bottle.
-Thank you, Wes.
-Thank you, Wes.
-Thank you, Wes.
-Thank you, Wes.
Thank you, Wes!
I don't like Wes.
-You don't like Wes?
-I don't like Wes.
-[Nicole] Amanda?
-Yo!
-Do you... Oh, wow.
-Yo!
-Do you feel better using your hand mixer?
-Yeah. This is too complicated
for a country girl.
[Nicole] All right.
There we have it.
Stand mixers.
Too complicated for a country girl.
[Sal] This is not nearly enough.
[Jacques]
Look. Sal, he doesn’t read his recipe.
And now he do not have
enough batter in his cake.
I don’t know what he’s doing.
[Tori] As far as strategy this time,
the only thing that’s important is
that I follow the recipe.
I guess we can go ahead
and put this one in the oven.
I'm coming in swinging. [laughs]
Go ahead and get them in the oven.
You guys have a little over an hour left.
Tori, what are you working on?
Rice Krispies treats.
And, honey... this is a job.
Do you have a hammer over there?
Do I have a hammer?
Sal is trying to cut his Rice Krispies
with a huge knife.
[Sal] The better to cut it with, my dear.
-[Jason] Amanda, you’re doing great.
-[Nicole] You're doing wonderful.
I’m gonna need more time.
[Tori] Okay, I guess that’s my bottle.
[Amanda] Gotta get my cakes.
[Nicole] Wes, can I have a balloon?
[high-pitched voice] Jacques.
Do you like when I have
a voice like this?
A little bit.
Tee-hee-hee! [laughs]
[normal voice] Oh, I'm a child.
[Jacques] Oh, I have a big balloon here.
[high-pitched] Thirty-nine minutes
and 15 seconds!
[high-pitched] Thirty-nine minutes!
[high-pitched] Hurry up! Hurry up!
[Amanda] Oh, God Almighty.
Look at that. [grunts]
Well, we can’t get rid of it.
So, we’re gonna try to release this baby.
[laughs]
And the bottom’s at the bottom.
But that’s okay. It’s a topsy-turvy cake.
She is narrating every step
of the process as if she is the host of "The Tori Show."
I would urge the remaining
living Netflix brother--
-Jim.
-Jim Netflix.
-To please give this woman a show.
-Yes.
-[Nicole] Jim, give her a show.
-I don't think so.
I mean, this is precious.
What Sal did is very precious.
I mean, come on, you know? This is--
It’s like a pancake.
[Sal] Please come out.
I’m working against the clock,
but I’m also working now at a disadvantage
because my cakes are substandard.
They’re not thick enough,
and now it’s a mess.
This is a disaster.
[sighs]
Look, you've to see Amanda.
[Amanda laughs]
Don't even look over here.
It look like a turtle.
The first cake look like a turtle.
A dead turtle.
This is gonna be a disaster.
’Cause this cake is going this direction
when it’s supposed to go that direction.
Hot mess.
Panic button!
-Oh, panic!
-Oh, my God.
There’s a panic! Aaah!
[shouting]
-Amanda, you know you are my favorite.
-[shouting continues]
I love seeing Jacques again.
He’s so kind. You know,
those eyes and that voice.
-What's going on here?
-He is a mess.
He is a mess?
I'm just sitting there.
Just listening.
-Your cake is hot.
-Yeah.
Okay, you know what I will do?
I will stick that in a freezer
just like that for a few minutes.
I mean, that’s all we can do now.
It’s only 11 minutes left.
Maybe at least five minutes
in the freezer.
Roll your fondant. Then, in five minutes,
you cover whatever you can cover.
All right, Jacques. Yep, you're done.
[Jacques] Okay. Good luck.
Let's see.
I have a hard time making my own
normal cakes stand up straight.
We gotta make you fit.
Now you want me to make a topsy-turvy cake
stay in one place? Come on!
Ooh, that cake is warm. Let me see.
Is that gonna make it fit?
It's going one way. [laughs]
[Sal] Oh, look at that.
How nice is that, huh?
[Tori sighs]
Oh, look at that. We got gold.
Whoo! It ain’t the cutest.
-Seven minutes left, you guys.
-Seven minutes!
Hold on. Hold on.
Wait a minute.
Not seven minutes.
What do you mean,
wait a minute?
We can’t do it. I need a hammer.
Oh, I got it.
Let's see what we got here.
We got the bottle.
[Tori] Maybe I can get
some candy melt going, here.
All right.
Oh, my gosh, that is going to fall
like an autumn leaf.
[Tori] Those. Oh!
-Two minutes!
-Oh, no, two minutes left!
Does anybody have any gold spray?
My cake looks like holy hell.
But sometimes it’s not necessarily
about the looks.
It’s how it tastes. Gotta go with it.
I don't think there's anything else
I can do.
Five, four, three, two, one!
You're done!
-And that was a real countdown.
-That's a mess.
Okay, Amanda, let's take a look
at the topsy-turvy cake
you were trying to make,
and let's see what you made.
-[Amanda] Nailed it!
-[Nicole laughs]
Okay.
Um, can you spin it around for us?
Very carefully.
[Nicole then Jason] Okay.
It's more of a funeral cake.
-For a somber New Year's Eve.
-Yes.
[Jacques]
Your cake didn't come out of the pan.
When it come out of the pan,
it just break.
This cake has no shape.
It almost seems like
there's a person sleeping.
-And a sombrero on top.
-[Nicole laughs]
That’s definitely what you do to your bed
when you sneak out at night.
[Jason] Yeah.
This cake could sneak out,
but it wouldn’t have anywhere to go.
[Jason] It might not look great,
but perhaps it tastes great.
I hope so.
All right, Amanda, we have other cakes
to see, so we must move on.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you, Amanda.
[Nicole] Okay, Sal.
-Let’s see what you made!
-[Sal] Okay.
Nailed it!
[Nicole] Oh, but the clock is there.
Can you twist your cake around for us?
Honestly, this looks like a hat.
-[Jacques] Easter hat.
-[Nicole] Or a witch's hat!
[Jason] Put it on your head, Sal.
-[Sal] Hat-py New Year!
-[Jason] Guys.
-Please put this on your head.
-[Sal] Oh, God. No.
Please...
What if I put it on your head?
-It's a witch's hat!
-It is!
-You're the witch!
-I cast a spell.
[Jason] You're Dumbledore!
-You're Dumbledore.
-Why do you hate me, Nicole?
[Jason] Oh, boy.
Things are happening.
Things are happening. Guys?
I haven't been touched by a man
in so long.
[beep on watch]
-[Nicole] That was nice.
-Yeah.
Jacques, what do you think
of that cake?
[Jacques] You have a cake, a bottle.
You have the bucket of ice.
You have the watch.
I’m anxious to taste it to really see...
if that’s the right recipe.
-Sal, we have one more cake to see.
-Thank you.
♪ Marching, marching, marching
Here we are ♪
-Tori, let's see what you did.
-Okay.
Nailed it!
[laughter]
[Nicole] Tori, I like you so much.
[Jason] What time is it? Batman o'clock.
I think that this cake
really defied gravity.
I’m really puzzled that...
that this cake doesn’t collapse.
I don’t know how you did it.
You do have a resemblance
of all the components.
[Jason]
Your gold is quite good and, to be clear,
you painted that gold
because there wasn’t gold fondant, right?
I did. I did. I couldn’t find
no white “fundant”
or no black “fundant,”
so I only had brown “fundant.”
I love the way you say "fondant."
The “fundant.” Right.
-Are your little balls like gumballs?
-They are gumballs.
Right. They are. Because we needed balls.
[Nicole laughs]
I love the way
you say “fundant,” “bawllz.”
“Fundant,” “bawllz.”
Fundant, bawllz! Fundant, bawllz!
Oh, you know, that’s to bop to it!
[Jason laughs] This is a song.
-♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
-[Tori] There you go.
-♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
-[Tori] All right. ♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
There you go.
-[Jason and Tori] ♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
-[Nicole] Come on, Sal!
[all except Amanda]
♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
♪ Fundant, bawllz! ♪
Okay. Viewers, take that footage,
put a beat under it, #NailedIt!,
#Happy New Year, #2019, #FUNdantBawllz.
Oh, boy!
Rob, you okay?
Chill out, Rob!
Rob. Rob. Are you okay?
Rob, are you okay for real?
I’m very interested in how these taste.
[Sal] I’m praying that Tori’s cake
tastes like crap
because, looks-wise,
she’s got it over me.
I got a slim chance at this point,
but a slim chance
is better than no chance.
[Nicole] Let's taste the bubbly cakes!
Amanda, you're up first.
Amanda, your cake's pretty good.
I think the cake is
a little bit underbaked,
but it's moist.
I do like the flavor.
Overall, I like that cake.
Bravo!
I also liked your cake.
I thought it was kind of moist but also
-kind of dry at the same time.
-I think that's called "droist."
So yes, your cake was a little droist.
I thought, you know, it was tasty.
I liked it. Yeah.
-[Nicole] Thank you, Amanda.
-Thank you.
All right, Sal. Let’s taste your cake!
[Nicole laughing]
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
[Nicole] Jacques, what do you think?
Sal, you know how much we appreciate you.
Thank you so much.
But I have to be honest.
Of course.
This cake...
Not so much?
-Did you follow the recipe?
-Yes.
-[Jacques] Are you sure?
-Yes.
The cake is extremely dry.
I saw the batter. The batter was so thick,
-and you did add--
-[Sal] I did.
...cream in it,
when there is no cream in the recipe.
[Nicole] Jason?
Sal... this is...
one of the best-tasting hats
I’ve ever put in my mouth.
Fair enough.
It was so dry,
but then as it sat in my mouth,
became a paste,
a weird paste-like texture.
But you’re the sweetest man in America.
-Well, Sal, thank you.
-Thank you.
Tori, you have the last cake
and we gotta eat it.
[Jason] Look at this.
[Jason] Tori, I liked it.
I... It felt like a good moist cake to me.
It wasn't too dry.
Uh, and it looked dynamite.
I agree with you.
The cake is actually pretty good.
Oh, wow.
[enunciating] I did not hate it.
I did not think it was moist.
But...
Tori, what a treat you are.
[Tori chuckles]
Okay, judges. Are we ready?
-[Jason] Yeah, I'm ready.
-[Nicole] Okay.
The countdown draws near.
One of you is going to start
the new year with $10,000!
But also, the Nailed It! trophy.
Wes!
Wes!
-Oh, Wes. He’s an instant party.
-[Jason] Look at this!
That hunk's got balls.
You got bawllz.
Jacques?
That was an extremely difficult challenge.
The winner is...
-Tori!
-[cheering and applause]
[Nicole] Oh, my God. Tori
I've done it again!
Again! What?
I’m the Nailed It! two-time champ!
First in history.
Oh, yeah, let’s dance.
All right. Come on.
Everybody join in. Let’s dance.
2019’s gonna be a good year,
cause I’m starting it ten grand richer!
What?
[cheering]
Congratulations!
[Jacques] Selfie, selfie, selfie!
[Nicole] Wait. Jason.
According to the countdown clock,
I think it’s almost midnight! Oh, my God, guys!
We can finally do our countdown!
[Jacques] Let's do it!
[all] Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one! Happy New Year!
[rocket whistling and crackers exploding]
That’s it for Nailed It! Happy New Year
and auld lang syne. Whatever that means.