Nailed It! Holiday! (2018–2019): Season 2, Episode 3 - Shalo-many Fails! - full transcript

Shalom and schla Hanukkah schwer...

"Chag." "Chag."

-Say, "Chag."
-Chag.

-"Hanukkah."
-Chag Hanukkah.

-"Sameach."
-Sameach.

-Great.
-That's amazing.

Shalom and chag Hanukkah...

Sameach!

[laughing]

That sort of means, "What's up?"

And welcome to another
special Hanukkah episode of Nailed It!



The show that asks for an, "Oh, yay!"

But usually ends up with, "Oy vey!"

Today, three amateur bakers will attempt

to recreate some incredible
Hanukkah treats and win $10,000.

Let's meet our bakers.

I'm Bella Pori. I'm 26.
I live in Brooklyn, New York,

and I'm working towards a career
fighting for women's rights.

I told my mom,
"I'm applying for Nailed It!"

She was like, "You're not
good enough to go on that show."

What is that?

Is that hair?

I feel like I'm going to crush it.

My name is Paul Scheer.
I'm an actor and a comedian.

You might know me from shows like
The League or Veep or Black Monday.



[laughing]

Lowest setting...

I love Nailed It! so much that I wanted
to come on as an actual contestant.

I don't want to be a celebrity judge,
take the easy way out.

I can whip it, and I can stir it,
and I can bake it.

My name is Tito Covert-Ortiz.

I'm from Long Beach, California.

My husband likes what I make.

If he doesn't like it, he'll take a bite
and go to the living room.

If he does, he'll come back for another
bite. That's when I know it's good.

Decorating is not my forte.

See what happens. [laughs]

Paul, I'm very excited that you're here.

I'm so excited to be here, and I feel
like this is the only reality show

-that I think my skill level will...
-[laughs]

...put me in the mix.

Next Top Model,
I can't do any of that stuff.

But you could!

-[laughs]
-[Nicole] You've got the height! Ooh! Ah!

[laughter]

Are you guys ready to bake?

-[all] Yes!
-[Nicole] All right!

Right next to me, in person,
is Jacques Torres.

Shalom, y'all.

[laughter]

[Nicole] And say hello

to a real shayna punim, Ron Ben-Israel.

My beautiful Jewish princess.

Oh, thank you!

[laughter]

It's time for the first round,
which is called Baker's Choice.

Are you ready?

-Yes!
-Let's do this!

-All right--
-Or, let's "Jew" this.

[laughing]

Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights,

and this year, you'll make bubbe proud
when you try to recreate these!

-[Paul] Whoa!
-Wow!

[Nicole] Menorahs topped with jelly-filled
mini donuts.

Each one of these fried yeast donuts
is dipped in chocolate,

decorated with royal icing,
each with a symbol of Hanukkah.

Finally, you'll see in the middle holder,

there's a ninth donut representing
the shamash candle.

-Oh, it's us! It took me a second.
-[laughter]

[Bella] I wanna make Paul Scheer's face.
How often in life do you have a chance

to recreate a celebrity
on a menorah jelly donut?

[laughing]

When I say go,
you'll schlep on over there,

and you'll point

to the menorah that you want.

Normally, you would grab it yourselves
but these babies are real fragile, okay?

Ready? Go!

-[Tito] I want the gap teeth.
-[Bella] I want Paul Scheer!

-All right, there.
-Okay, fine!

Now go back to your spot.

Before you begin, remember there is
a fancy prize for whoever wins this round.

You've 30 minutes,
so go 'cause it started now.

-Oh!
-[Nicole] Go!

You inspire me.

Let's see what's up.

My nose is gonna look so big.

-Here we go.
-[Nicole] All right. Jacques,

how would you go about doing this?

[Jacques]
First, they must roll out their dough,

and then cut out the donut shape.

Then fry them until the donuts
are golden brown.

Then they will need to make
the buttercream.

Once the donuts are cool to the touch,
fill them with jelly.

Then they will cover each of their donuts

in a delicious chocolate candy melt.

Finally, it's time to decorate, taking
the time to incorporate every detail,

especially when it comes
to their symbols and individual faces.

In the time that we give them,
I think it's possible.

-We gave them the dough.
-Jacques, you're very optimistic.

I think I washed my hands a while ago.

I love that it's a Hanukkah theme!

Very good for my brand
as an honorary Jewish person.

Little bit of flour...

My first job in politics,
I worked for a representative

who was also Orthodox Jewish,
and so I learned a lot

about Jewish practices and customs.

I just need to press it.

I'm hoping maybe I'll see a food
I've seen before.

[Nicole]
Bella's really kneading her dough.

Why?

-I have no idea why.
-[Ron] Doing this, it's going to be dense.

You want to treat the dough very gently.

It's like a sponge.

Oh, no.

[Tito] I've never made donuts before,

and much less used a fryer.
So that's great.

My connection to Hanukkah
is through my husband and his family,

so this was, like, written in the stars.

Married to a Jewish man.
We have Jewish traditions.

It does give me a little extra
motivation to win

for my husband. It was meant to be.

Right behind you!

[Paul] All right. Here we go.

I've never made a donut before
because when you can buy them

from people who make them professionally,
it's so much better.

Being on Nailed It!
seemed funny in theory...

This doesn't feel right.

...and now that I'm here, I'm freaked out.

It's a lot more pressure than I thought.

Can I do it? I don't know.

I don't know why I was cutting them out.

I should just be balling them up.

Okay, here we go.

He made them round. They should be flat.
Cut them a bit smaller than what you want

because in the hot oil
they're going to expand a little bit.

Gonna look at other people's stations.
What's going on over there? Interesting.

Uh, I'll do four at a time.
I don't want them to get all jumbled up.

All right. I'm gonna put these guys in.

Look at it go!
Oh, my God. I'm frying donuts!

[sighs] Oh, those look really good.
I'm not mad at those that all.

[gasps] Oh, they're beautiful!

Are they raw inside? Who knows?

They're floating around.

They've become monsters in here.

I'm making every mistake
that I thought I wouldn't make.

-Paul...
-What is it?

They look like meatballs.

[Paul]
I'm already making terrible decisions

-and mistakes over here.
-Yeah?

Should I have just cut them out and made
them simple like I was doing originally?

Maybe I should have just done that.

I'm second-guessing myself.
I don't know what's going on.

Here we go. Come on.

I'm making more donuts
than I need to make.

I am just like, "Well, if I make enough,
then maybe I can get eight good ones."

Let's see if this works.

This may be even terrible.

Okay. We're mixing the buttercream.

That's looking good.

I'm going to take a little break
on this guy. Stop! I said stop! Okay.

This is why I don't use a stand mixer.
I'm a hand mixer kind of girl.

[Paul] All I'm gonna say is

when I watch the show,
everyone's so relaxed at cooking.

-Paul, what's going on with you? Paul!
-Paul!

I'm killing it, Jacques.

-How many donuts did you make?
-[Paul] I need some backups.

I'm not so cocky about it.
I want to make sure that I do this right.

All right.

Fourteen minutes! Oh, my God.

Thank you for calling out
the time for me, Paul.

Never used a piping bag.

Oh. You know what I'm going to do?

There's not going to be
any piping happening today.

Oh, look at that.

Okay. One.

-Watch out!
-Sorry! Sorry!

You have, like, a real donut. Hold on.

[laughing]

Okay, let's see how you do.

Oh! None of the jelly's coming out!

[Jacques] The tip is too small,
so nothing is coming out.

[Bella] Argh! I'm covered in jelly!

Nine minutes left.

No!

-Bella!
-[Jacques] Bella!

I'm abandoning the jelly.

The jelly's too hard.

You know what?

The component is there,
and I feel like that's what matters.

[chirping]

Oh, my God.
I have to go back to the pantry.

Here I come, right behind you again.

He loves that pantry.

Some people would pay a lot of money
to see me do this.

Have you ever injected
a donut ball with jelly?

No, I inject myself with jelly.

That's why you're so delicious.

All right, bag of jelly!

Paul put the piping nozzle
on the outside of the bag.

How did that--
Do you just shove it in there?

This is a new technique.

[Paul] Yeah, get that jelly in there, man.

Paul, I love your style.

I should have taken that judge position.

This is really way more complicated
than I thought.

Okay. We're candying. We're melting.

Okay, here we go.

Boom!

[Ron] Guys, look at Tito.

He's spreading the chocolate
over the donuts like a hamburger.

I'm giving it a light fork massage.

Tito is murdering his donuts.

-I'm not killing it.
-[Nicole] Ooh!

I do not decorate.

Okay. So...

I use decorating as a means
to cover up my mistakes.

These look more like pentagrams.

Oh, no. What's that?

You'd think being married to
a Jewish person, I'd know how to do this.

Oh! No! No!

[Tito] Sorry, sorry, sorry!

Paul, what color are your eyes?

Uh, brown.

Perfect!

I don't have enough time to capture
the essence of Paul Scheer.

It's a modern art dreidel.

My God, I hope these donuts taste good.

What I like about this is,
not only will it be bad,

but it will be immortalized forever.

This is gonna be
right up next to Lilyhammer.

[laughs]

The first Netflix Original.

One minute left.

-Right behind you.
-Sorry.

Last time, I promise.

Eye, eye, nose, mouth.

Oh, my God. That face is a nightmare.

Do this thing. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

[sighs]

Ooh! Yeah, there we go. Menorah it up.

Oh! They're M&M's.

Can we say brands on this show?

[Paul] I know what I can do!

Get some snakes because in Jewish
tradition there were some snakes.

Okay. Okay!

Nope. That's it.

[hosts] Five,

four, three,

-two, one...
-I'm so sorry.

-You're done!
-[alarm blares]

Mmm!

So good!

Okay, Bella.

Let's see what you were trying to make,

and let's see what you did.

[Bella] Nailed it!

[laughter]

[Nicole]
Do you think that's what Paul looks like?

-[laughing]
-[Nicole] The teeth...

[Bella] I didn't even do the gap.

-I was too panicked.
-[Nicole] No, you did. I see the gap.

-[Bella] I didn't intentionally--
-[Ron] Is Paul crying?

[Bella] He's devastated

to have been rendered
in such a horrific way.

[Nicole] Let's taste it.

-Yeah.
-Oh, these are hard.

[laughing] Oh, no!

-The donuts are a little bit heavy.
-Okay.

I didn't mind that it was kind of heavier.
I didn't get any jelly.

[Bella] The jelly wouldn't go through

-the piper.
-The tip was too small.

I think that was the problem.

Good to know.

I like you so much, Bella,
but this is sad.

[laughs] I'm so sorry!

I put it back.

[Bella] Okay, that's fine.

All right. Well, thank you, Bella.
I think we have to move on.

My friend, Paul.

Let's remember
what you were trying to make.

Let's see what you made.

[Paul] Nailed it!

-[laughing]
-[Paul] Mazel tov!

[laughter]

[Paul] Wait.
Did you guys put the original here?

Where's mine? Sorry, I was confused.

-[Nicole] Paul...
-Yeah? What's wrong?

-Paul, these are--
-[Paul] These are perfect.

They're wonderful?

-Why are there gummy worms?
-They're snakes.

It's a little Old Testament.

-You're tipping your hat to the Bible?
-Yeah.

-Ron, what do you think?
-I do like your flames.

-Thank you. Thank you.
-That's about all I like here.

Let's taste.

[Jacques] Actually, it's quite delicious.

Oh! Hey! Look at that!

[Nicole] I like that donut.

-I thought it was like...
-[Paul] Yes!

...a good texture.

The chocolates on top, mixed with
the dough and a little bit of jelly...

It tastes pretty good.

The taste was delicious,
as long as I eat them with eyes closed.

[laughter]

-See y'all later!
-[Nicole] Toodle-oo!

Bye-bye!

[Nicole] T-T-T-Tito!

These are the menorah donuts
you were trying to make.

Let's see what you did.

Nailed it! [laughs]

-There's so much happening.
-I know, right?

[Nicole] They're all bleeding black blood.

-There's no face.
-[Tito] There's a face!

I got Bella.

There's her hair.

She's got two little dark eyes,
and that's her plump lips.

-[Nicole] Her plump lips.
-[Ron] Oh, my God!

-[Nicole] What is the drips?
-[Tito] What drips?

-What are you looking at?
-[laughter]

All of these drippity-drips.

[Tito] The drippity-drips...

-Black food coloring and candy melt...
-You filled--

Oh!

Looks like an impressionistic painting
gone awry.

[laughs]

[Ron] I'm dying to try it.

[Jacques] Careful of the color.

You make a mess!

[laughter]

I was supposed to do the Star of David
thing and it just bled out.

[Jacques] I get it.

We're gonna get our hands wiped?
I need my hand wiped.

-Do it for me, Wes!
-Thank you very much, Wes.

Wes, wipe my hand!

-[Ron] What have you done to us?
-[Jacques] It's a mess.

[man] Guys, ready to get back into it?
Let's settle.

The donut itself tasted okay,

but not great.

-Okay.
-[Ron] I thought the jelly was delicious.

-That's the only thing he didn't do!
-But it was delicious jelly.

-I'll take it.
-I try to look at the positive.

-Thank you.
-[Nicole] All right, bakers,

please gather.

It is time to tell you guys
who won this round.

Jacques?

The baker who made
the best donuts is...

Paul!

[cheering and applause]

-Oh!
-[Bella] Yeah!

Ron, tell Paul what he's won.

You will celebrate all eight nights
of Hanukkah with eight gifts.

-A beautiful stand mixer...
-What?

...a baking set, and also pencils, socks,
slippers, a ruler,

and a whole bunch of gelts!

Ron, I only counted seven presents there.

-Really?
-Yeah, so we need one more.

Wes, I like this sweater.
Give it to Paul.

-I'm gonna wear that. Round two.
-[Nicole] Give Paul the sweater.

I also have to give you a baker's hat
that has been on so many heads.

I crown thee...

[Ron] Mazel tov!

-Woo!
-Wow!

[Nicole] Congratulations.

All right, Bella and Tito.

Don't kvetch.
You still can win the second round.

-Let's go.
-Let's go.

[Nicole] Door number two.

Ron, take it away.

This year, take your Hanukkah decorating
to the next level when you make...

-What?
-What?

What?

Inflatable Hanukkah bear cake!

[Jacques] The bear legs and torso are made
of apple cinnamon cake,

and his arms are made
out of rice cereal treats.

He's then covered in fondant.

His Hanukkah vest and dreidel are made
of modeling chocolates and fondant detail.

-That has to be porcelain.
-[Bella] That's not--

-[Bella] Oh, no!
-Why? Why?

I know it's tough, but don't give up
because we have got you covered.

If you get lost,
just hit the panic button...

and either Ron or I will run
and help you for three minutes.

And Tito... Oh, Tito.

We wanted to give you a little advantage.

Just tap that button with the symbol
of the flame at your station,

and you will fire up
your shamash's little helpers.

You will have to stop whatever you were
doing and help Tito out for three minutes.

-Are you ready?
-[all] No!

Well, that's the perfect answer.

-Go! Go! Go!
-Go!

Go!

♪ Make your bear cake
And we gotta sit down ♪

"Make cake.
Make as much cake as you need"?

I don't know how much cake I need.

Applesauce filling, okay.

Oh, God!

I'm not letting this gold hat
go to my head.

I'm gonna go harder, stronger, faster.

Jacques, how would you make that bear?

First, I will start with the cake.

The bakers will mix together
the dry ingredients

with applesauce to make their batter.

Next, they will make their sour cream
buttercream.

Once the cakes are cool,

they need to start building the bear
by layering the cake with buttercream.

Then they will use rice cereal
to form the arms and legs,

use the modeling chocolate to form
the bear's head,

then use fondant to cover the cake,
dreidel, and add decorations.

We don't have eight days of Hanukkah.
We have...

[together] One hour and 45 minutes!

Okay.

Wow, this is cold!

Come on. Let's go.

I have zero clue where I'm going to begin
with this teddy bear with the dreidel.

Mix the dry ingredients with cinnamon.
Great.

I'm going to put round one behind me.

Full speed ahead. I'm ready.

My husband,
he's a bit of a Hanukkah bear.

He's not in the age bracket yet
to be full bear. He's "otter" right now.

He's going to be Hanukkah bear
in, like, ten years.

I'm so excited for that.

Is there salt in this?

I don't know.

All right, I'm going back.

Paul, how are you doing?

Nicole, I've got to tell you,
this is a very hard challenge for me

because my parents were killed
by a Hanukkah bear.

Your parents were killed
by a Hanukkah bear?

Yeah. He threw a giant dreidel
at them and--

-[Nicole] Oh, no!
-Yeah, it was terrible.

You hate to hear about that,
that classic story...

[Paul] I'm looking at this bear...

Let me just look at it by its components.

Two eggs.

Yes, I can make two cakes.
I can make buttercream.

I can do this.

I'm gonna make sure that my parents did
not die in vain from the Hanukkah bear.

I'm gonna make them proud.

What else do I need?
What else do I need?

I'm so nervous
because this is a very large bear.

So I make a double batch of cake to start.

Argh! It's not enough cake batter!

Is this enough cake to build a bear?

We're making more cake

-because I don't think I have enough.
-[Nicole] That's a lot!

You have so much!

That's about one and a half cups there.

I've baked long enough to where
I don't need to measure that well

and it comes out okay.

-[Nicole] Tito?
-Yeah?

Did you measure the amount of applesauce
in your cake batter?

Maybe. [chuckles]

Guys, I need more applesauce.

[gasps] It's all gone!
I don't have any more applesauce!

We only have that one thing of applesauce.

It's standing up. That's fine.
It's safe. Okay.

[Jacques] Paul, did you take

that applesauce out of the garbage?

It was standing up. It never touched.
It never touched!

-Honestly, Jacques, I've eaten worse.
-[chuckles]

Garbage applesauce for everybody.

Okay. One hour left.

More pans!

Boom!

Oh, yeah. Just like no one used to make.
Okay. Here we go.

It's going in!

What's next?

Five cups of powdered sugar.
Oh, my God.

-[Paul] Ron.
-Yes, Paul.

I heard you were a dancer.

I would love to see you some Ron moves.
I think it would inspire me.

I hear that you do a little candle dance.

Last time I did the candle dance,

I was five years old
and I burned the house down.

I love it.

-And I need props.
-Oh!

-What kind of props do you need?
-Candles.

-I've got two candles!
-My candles!

-Thank you, Nicole, for my candles.
-You're welcome.

This is the entertainment we need!

[Ron] I can do it!

[singing]

Wait for it!

[singing continues]

That's it.

-Thank you.
-[applause]

My buttercream looks weird.

I do not feel good about it.

My buttercream looks like sour cream.
What happened?

Help! Help!

That's a panic!

[screams]

[laughs]

Hello, Ron Ben-Israel.

-Hey! Hey! Hey!
-I have--

Does my buttercream look weird?

-You need to press it through a sieve.
-[Bella] Oh!

You added too much liquid
and the sugar seized.

-Okay.
-Or start from scratch.

I'd have to sieve the entire buttercream
through something or start over?

-I'm gonna start over.
-Get rid of it.

-Get rid of it. Start over. Okay.
-Remember,

make me proud.

Thank you so much. Ron's the best!

Okay. Buttercream, take two.

I need one and a half cups of sour cream.

Yeah. My hands...

Just to be fair, I haven't
washed my hands in a couple days,

so they're totally fine.

Oh!

Whoa, it's noisy over there.

On the floor. I don't care!
What are you doing?

One teaspoon of vanilla.

My workstation doesn't feel big enough.

I am making a mess
because there is no time to waste.

-Right behind you.
-All right. Thank you for the warning.

Thirty-five minutes!

She done! Mm-mm!

Oh, please don't be raw!

No, you're not raw.

[Nicole] Honestly, the cakes smell good.

I'm excited to taste them.

I've never been able to open
a childproof container before.

You know, it really is like Play-Doh.

I typically don't decorate. Um...
Never worked with fondant before.

Um...

Let me think. Um...

Shamash's little helpers!

-Shamash's little helpers!
-[Paul] Go! Go! Go!

Get over there and help.

-What's up?
-Roll that out. Roll it thin.

-What do you need?
-Roll that out. That's all you gotta do.

Paul, you look so strange with hair.

-This is in my original color.
-Beautiful. Thank you.

[Bella] Group effort.

They look like little troll dolls.

They do!

-That looks good!
-[Bella] Okay.

Have you ever seen such teamwork?
We're like the LA Clippers over here.

[Bella] God, we should have just made
a cake together.

-This is actually really pliable.
-[Jacques] Five, four,

three, two,

-one...
-Bye-bye.

-You're done!
-You're done!

[Tito] Thanks, guys.

There's 22 minutes.
That's dos-dos minutes.

-Here we go. It's buttercream, I think.
-[Jacques] The buttercream is too liquid.

-Hot cakes and liquid buttercream.
-And liquid buttercream.

It's a recipe for disaster.

[Paul] This is amazing.

Wait! I had fondant that I threw
on the floor. Oh, right. Here it is.

Take it out of the trash again.
Don't tell Jacques.

You've got to be kidding me.
What are you doing, dude?

Why did I choose to make a square cake
for a round body?

Ooh!

Maybe more buttercream?

I mean, I'm doing a lot of fondant.

Fondant is a beast, but I'm taming it.

There you go.

Okay!

Well, is it good? No.

I got my buttercream. I got my cake.
I'm getting, like, a fondant...

You know, I'm getting my bear together.

I know it's part white, part blue,
but it's just going to be all blue.

That's gonna have to do.

Give me a camera nod
if the back looks okay.

He didn't move. The back looks terrible.

I've got to put something underneath here
to keep these arms up.

-[Paul] Deal with it!
-[Nicole] There's a lot of stuff

happening and it's all bad.

[Paul] I love this!
This is where I was born to be.

They all forgot the modeling chocolate.

-[Jacques] The modeling chocolate base.
-[Ron] It holds its shape better.

-You guys, five minutes.
-Plenty of time!

So, here we go.

He's crying. That's fantastic.
I feel the same way, bear.

I'm making the sweater a little baggy
'cause it's the winter.

We all gain weight in the winter.

I love his bear because there's nothing
on the back, look.

[Ron] Yeah, it's hollow.

[laughs]

Let's see...

Dreidel.

So the Hanukkah bear
without their dreidel.

-No! It's a gentile bear.
-Oh!

Bella, faster!

[Bella] I need a dreidel.

-[Tito] That makes it all shiny.
-[Nicole] Whoa!

Twenty seconds, you guys!

Oh, no!

[Nicole] Ten, nine...

[all] Eight, seven, six,

five, four,

three, two,

one... You're done!

Wow!

Bella, let's remember the Hanukkah bear
lawn ornament cake

you were trying to make,
and let's see what you've made.

[Bella] Nailed it!

[moaning]

[laughing]

[Bella] I know. I know. I'm impressed too.

[Nicole] You know Leatherface

-from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
-[laughing]

I'm familiar, yes.

[Nicole]
That's kind of like what's happening

-'cause it's all just pieces.
-[Bella] Yes.

You're not incorrect.

Why the bear has lollipops on?

Pacifier. Pacifier.

I forgot I needed to make a dreidel,

so we make do.

[Ron] The scary part is that

your creation has metal rods coming out.

-[Bella] Can you still see those?
-[Ron] But you did bake a cake,

and I'm dying to try it.

-Maybe I shouldn't use the term "dying."
-[Bella] Dying!

[laughs]

We've got more bears to see!

-Well, well, well.
-Well, well, well.

Let's see what you did!

-Nailed it!
-[laughter]

[Nicole] This is wild!

Can you spin your bear around?

Sure, I will. Right like this. Here we go.

-And there is the bear, spun around.
-[laughter]

Why do you have no cake on the back?
What's happened?

I have four cakes here.
I probably needed to do two more.

-Your bear has a snout...
-[Paul] Yes.

-[Ron] ...has clothes and expression!
-[Paul] Yes.

[Ron] So it speaks to me
in a very mysterious,

sick way.

[laughs]

I'm excited to see our third bear.

-Bye!
-Bye!

All right, Tito. Let's see what you did.

[Tito] Nailed it!

[laughter]

[Nicole] Oh! [laughs]

-[Nicole] He's crying.
-[Tito] He got a little sad near the end.

-But you did get the Star of David.
-[Tito] Yes, I did.

[Nicole]
It's got some wild-looking paw marks.

I went light on the black ink this time.

[Ron] I'm a bit disturbed

with the inner parts of the bear
bursting out of the fondant.

You definitely like
your black food coloring,

-and you exhibit some painting talents.
-[laughing] Yeah!

Do you think your husband, who is Jewish,
would be proud?

-My husband would be so proud.
-Oh!

So I want you guys to cut me the nicest,
biggest slice of your bear cakes,

so me and my two friends can taste them.

Guys, let's sit down, I hate standing.

If I win, I plan to take my husband
on a trip to Europe.

Absolutely deserved.

He's done a lot of work helping integrate
LGBT education, and I'm so proud of him.

All right. Let's start with Bella's cake.

-Looks very decent.
-[Nicole] Yeah, I'm excited.

[Jacques] The cake is moist,

and the buttercream is flavorful.

I like your cake.

-Yay!
-[Jacques] Good!

It has the right touch of cinnamon.

I would say that the buttercream
could have been smoother.

You need to add the sugar
gradually to the butter until it's fluffy.

-Oh!
-But I think this is an excellent cake.

[Nicole] It's got a nice

apple kick to it.

Thank you.

All right. Let's move on
to the winner of round one, Paul Scheer.

Thank you. I am so nervous about this.

[Jacques] Okay.

I think that the buttercream melted
because I cannot find the buttercream.

-Okay.
-But the flavor is good.

[Nicole] Ron, what do you think?

Well, Paul, there's a nice balance
of apple flavor and cinnamon.

It's very fluffy. I like the flavor.

There wasn't much buttercream,
which I was a little bummed about,

-but I really like the taste of your cake.
-Yes, I'll take that.

I just wish there was buttercream.

[snorts]

We must move on.

Tito!

-You have cake in your cake!
-There's cake and buttercream.

[Jacques] Wow!

Mmm, goopy!

[Jacques] I think this is the first time

that we have three pretty good cakes.

[cheering]

All right!

The buttercream has good flavor.
The cake has good flavor.

It's not dry. It's pretty moist.

Tito, your cake is a little chewy,

but, again, the flavor.

A honey-crisp apple
and cinnamon toast crunch.

-Yes!
-[laughs]

Tito, your cake was well-baked.

However, compared to the other two,
I could use more of the applesauce.

It has to be measured.

It's time to announce the winner
of the $10,000 and the Nailed It! trophy.

[Bella]
Paul's been on many television shows.

Does he really need these $10,000?
Does Paul have credit card debt?

Where is Wes?

Ooh, it's my favorite part.

Wes, why aren't you wearing a fun thing?

Ah! Redemption!

He's getting his sweater back.

Ah, put it back on, Wes!

Or just walk angrily.

Hmm. One day, Wes will smile.

Are you ready with the gelt?

I am ready.

All right, Jacques.

[Jacques] So the baker

who made the most beautiful cake is...

It's Paul!

[cheering]

Yeah!

I just won Nailed It!
which is absolutely crazy to me.

Now that I won,
I am truly a triple threat.

I'm an actor, comedian
and Nailed It! winner.

This has been such an amazing experience,
and I've made such great friends here.

Instead of me keeping the $10,000,

I'm going to split it
between my two fellow bakers.

So I will keep the trophy,
but they will keep the cash.

-[Paul] And congratulations.
-[Nicole] Look at that!

Isn't that the spirit of Hanukkah?

-I'm asking that seriously.
-It is. Well, he's the Jewish...

-Yes, it is.
-There you go!

[Ron] You are a mensch.

[Paul] All of our cakes were good. We all
succeeded. I think we all won today.

They helped me,
I helped them, and we all won.

Well, that's all for Nailed It!
Don't move that tuchus

because there's more Nailed It! up next.
And you know you gotta binge!

Now we've gotta take a picture.

[all] Shalom, y'all!