1 00:00:02,703 --> 00:00:05,005 [Jonathan] It's the scariest time of the year. 2 00:00:06,540 --> 00:00:09,610 Which means the biggest, the spookiest 3 00:00:09,643 --> 00:00:12,313 Halloween competition is back. 4 00:00:12,346 --> 00:00:16,184 Let's get ready to battle! 5 00:00:16,216 --> 00:00:19,187 Teams of cake, pumpkin and sugar artists 6 00:00:19,220 --> 00:00:22,256 must work together to bring their mind-blowing designs 7 00:00:22,290 --> 00:00:25,626 and tasty-yet-terrifying treats to life. 8 00:00:25,659 --> 00:00:26,760 My God! 9 00:00:26,794 --> 00:00:29,263 I will never forget this dessert. You are twisted. 10 00:00:29,297 --> 00:00:31,665 [Jonathan] In the end, only one team will walk away 11 00:00:31,699 --> 00:00:34,268 with the title of Halloween Wars champions 12 00:00:34,302 --> 00:00:37,971 and the grand prize of $25,000. 13 00:00:38,005 --> 00:00:38,872 [laughing] 14 00:00:38,906 --> 00:00:41,909 Halloween Wars starts now. 15 00:00:43,544 --> 00:00:45,179 [thunder rumbling] 16 00:00:49,717 --> 00:00:52,353 Welcome to Halloween Wars. 17 00:00:52,386 --> 00:00:53,987 [contestants cheering] 18 00:00:54,021 --> 00:00:58,559 I'm Jonathan Bennett, the new caretaker of this haunted house, 19 00:00:58,592 --> 00:01:03,131 located here at 13 Cemetery Lane. 20 00:01:03,164 --> 00:01:04,932 And joining me are expert judges 21 00:01:04,965 --> 00:01:08,236 Aarti Sequeira and Shinmin Li. 22 00:01:08,269 --> 00:01:11,605 And this season, the haunted house is hard at work 23 00:01:11,639 --> 00:01:14,475 conjuring up every creepy challenge 24 00:01:14,508 --> 00:01:17,511 delivered directly to me. 25 00:01:18,512 --> 00:01:20,581 Do not make this house mad. Trust me. 26 00:01:20,614 --> 00:01:22,916 [woman screaming] 27 00:01:25,453 --> 00:01:26,354 See what I mean? 28 00:01:26,387 --> 00:01:28,922 And if you survive all the scary, spooky 29 00:01:28,956 --> 00:01:32,259 and gruesome challenges that our house has in store, 30 00:01:32,293 --> 00:01:37,365 one team will leave with $25,000. 31 00:01:41,001 --> 00:01:42,803 Here are the haunted house rules. 32 00:01:42,836 --> 00:01:45,439 There's nine very competitive teams here. 33 00:01:46,174 --> 00:01:47,908 Over the next three weeks, 34 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:50,009 three teams will be eliminated. 35 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:52,780 Only the best will move forward. 36 00:01:54,715 --> 00:01:57,651 One we have our final sinister six teams, 37 00:01:57,685 --> 00:02:00,221 the main competition begins. 38 00:02:00,254 --> 00:02:03,591 But only one team can take home the win 39 00:02:03,624 --> 00:02:06,660 and all its ghostly glory. 40 00:02:06,694 --> 00:02:08,362 Ooh! 41 00:02:08,396 --> 00:02:12,933 The three teams competing in the first qualifying round are 42 00:02:13,867 --> 00:02:16,270 Pumpkin Up The Volume, 43 00:02:16,304 --> 00:02:18,506 -Sweet Lunatics... -Yay! 44 00:02:18,539 --> 00:02:19,940 ...and Trick or Sweet. 45 00:02:19,973 --> 00:02:21,209 All right. Here we go. 46 00:02:21,209 --> 00:02:22,943 The rest of you can go. 47 00:02:23,711 --> 00:02:24,812 For now. 48 00:02:25,978 --> 00:02:27,581 -[woman 1] Bye. Good luck. -[woman 2] Good luck, guys. 49 00:02:27,615 --> 00:02:31,118 Teams, get ready to feel like a kid again. 50 00:02:31,219 --> 00:02:33,421 Well, a kid that's scared of monsters 51 00:02:33,454 --> 00:02:35,289 hiding in the closet or under the bed. 52 00:02:37,725 --> 00:02:38,926 Oh! 53 00:02:38,959 --> 00:02:40,761 Looks like the house has something for us. 54 00:02:46,767 --> 00:02:47,868 Oh, no! 55 00:02:47,901 --> 00:02:49,437 It's my childhood teddy bear. 56 00:02:50,471 --> 00:02:51,704 But where's the rest of him? 57 00:02:51,739 --> 00:02:52,906 -[woman] Oh, no. -[Jonathan] Oh. 58 00:02:53,774 --> 00:02:54,975 There's a postcard. 59 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:56,510 Must be your Small Scare challenge. 60 00:02:57,778 --> 00:02:58,978 [screaming] 61 00:03:01,649 --> 00:03:03,284 I did not see that coming. 62 00:03:03,317 --> 00:03:05,686 For this Small Scare, we want you to create 63 00:03:05,719 --> 00:03:08,822 the perfect stuffed cuddle buddy 64 00:03:08,856 --> 00:03:11,459 that has become unhinged. 65 00:03:11,492 --> 00:03:12,693 -[Lisa] Oh, gosh. -Ooh! 66 00:03:12,726 --> 00:03:13,827 [Jonathan] Show us what it looks like 67 00:03:13,861 --> 00:03:18,299 and what kind of trouble our furry friend might cause. 68 00:03:18,332 --> 00:03:20,000 The winning team gets the advantage 69 00:03:20,033 --> 00:03:23,704 of first pick of the pumpkin in the next round. 70 00:03:23,737 --> 00:03:25,639 You've only got 45 minutes. 71 00:03:25,673 --> 00:03:26,774 And your time starts... 72 00:03:28,409 --> 00:03:30,544 now! 73 00:03:30,578 --> 00:03:32,012 All right. Awesome, guys. Here we go. 74 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:33,914 I love teddy bears. Let's do teddy bears. 75 00:03:33,947 --> 00:03:35,483 No, no. Teddy bear is too common. 76 00:03:35,516 --> 00:03:37,485 I feel like we should do something a little bit more unique 77 00:03:37,518 --> 00:03:39,186 -and a little bit different. -Rabbit? 78 00:03:39,287 --> 00:03:40,853 -[Corinda] No. -[Nils] Uh, hippo? 79 00:03:40,888 --> 00:03:41,989 What about an octopus? 80 00:03:42,022 --> 00:03:43,023 -Octopus. -Okay, okay. 81 00:03:43,055 --> 00:03:44,758 -[Corinda] Yeah. -Yeah, let's start that out. 82 00:03:44,792 --> 00:03:46,694 Our team is Trick or Sweet. 83 00:03:46,727 --> 00:03:48,028 My name is Nils Rowland. 84 00:03:48,061 --> 00:03:49,897 I'm doing the sugar and the chocolate work. 85 00:03:49,930 --> 00:03:52,199 Our pumpkin carver is Dennis Franzen 86 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:54,535 and our cake artist is Corinda Baum. 87 00:03:54,567 --> 00:03:56,570 [Nils] So what's he going to be doing that's evil? 88 00:03:56,603 --> 00:03:58,706 Maybe Octavio here... 89 00:03:58,739 --> 00:04:00,608 -Octavio, I like it. -...is sick of having the kids pull 90 00:04:00,641 --> 00:04:01,975 on all of his tentacles, 91 00:04:02,009 --> 00:04:03,644 -his arms and his legs, things like that. -Okay. 92 00:04:03,677 --> 00:04:05,613 And he finally decided he's gonna retaliate. 93 00:04:05,646 --> 00:04:07,114 [Nils] Octavio, the octopus, 94 00:04:07,147 --> 00:04:08,982 is gonna bust out of the toy bin, 95 00:04:09,016 --> 00:04:10,418 knocks the piggy bank off. 96 00:04:10,451 --> 00:04:13,654 And then he realizes that most people get caught by fingerprints 97 00:04:13,687 --> 00:04:15,956 so he's like, "Okay. Well, I got to get rid of my tentacles." 98 00:04:15,989 --> 00:04:18,492 So he finds a knife, and he starts cutting his tentacles off. 99 00:04:18,526 --> 00:04:21,595 And it's really pretty gruesome in a way. 100 00:04:21,629 --> 00:04:23,030 So, what did you guys have when you were growing up? 101 00:04:23,063 --> 00:04:24,097 I had a bunny. 102 00:04:24,131 --> 00:04:25,466 -What did you have? -I had a pig. 103 00:04:25,499 --> 00:04:27,200 We are Sweet Lunatics. 104 00:04:27,234 --> 00:04:29,337 My name is Lisa Pak. I am the cake artist. 105 00:04:29,370 --> 00:04:31,839 Our pumpkin carver is Dean Murray. 106 00:04:31,872 --> 00:04:34,141 And our sugar artist is Lori Winton. 107 00:04:34,174 --> 00:04:35,876 What's the evil? What's the mischief? 108 00:04:35,909 --> 00:04:37,177 -The bunny. -He's gone bad. 109 00:04:37,210 --> 00:04:39,347 -The bunny is gone-- -He is pissed because the Piggy came. 110 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:40,548 [Lisa] That's a great idea. 111 00:04:40,581 --> 00:04:42,883 [Lori] And he, he tears the pig apart. 112 00:04:42,916 --> 00:04:48,356 [Lisa] Bunny Jack is upset that the child replaced Jack with Piggy, 113 00:04:48,356 --> 00:04:50,424 so Jack tore Piggy apart. 114 00:04:51,525 --> 00:04:53,193 -You know what, I've got a great idea. -Yes. 115 00:04:53,226 --> 00:04:55,062 What about a monkey taking revenge 116 00:04:55,095 --> 00:04:57,965 on one of the new stuffed animals? 117 00:04:57,998 --> 00:04:59,633 -Ooh, I love that idea. -Right. 118 00:04:59,667 --> 00:05:01,068 We are Pumpkin Up The Volume. 119 00:05:01,101 --> 00:05:03,537 My name is Timmy Norman, and I am a cake artist. 120 00:05:03,571 --> 00:05:05,773 Our pumpkin carver is Drew Smith. 121 00:05:05,806 --> 00:05:07,908 And our sugar artist is Vanessa Greeley. 122 00:05:07,941 --> 00:05:10,711 So we wanna do, like, the elephant, like, torn apart? 123 00:05:10,744 --> 00:05:11,945 -[Drew] Yeah. -[Timmy] Some stuffing up here. 124 00:05:11,979 --> 00:05:12,880 [Drew] Yeah. 125 00:05:12,913 --> 00:05:14,081 [Timmy] This Small Scare, 126 00:05:14,114 --> 00:05:16,216 our stuffed monkey is gonna be ripping apart 127 00:05:16,249 --> 00:05:17,985 this new elephant that's arrived, 128 00:05:18,018 --> 00:05:20,220 and stuffing is gonna be going everywhere. 129 00:05:20,253 --> 00:05:22,756 It's so important that we get through this week 130 00:05:22,790 --> 00:05:24,425 and we stay in the competition. 131 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:26,394 -Let's do this. -We got this. 132 00:05:28,396 --> 00:05:30,130 [Dennis] Nils, you think this is a good size for the pumpkin? 133 00:05:30,163 --> 00:05:31,632 You like the edge right here? 134 00:05:31,665 --> 00:05:33,000 -[Nils] I like... Yeah, I like the imperfections, too. -Like that? Okay. 135 00:05:33,033 --> 00:05:36,136 [Nils] Dennis is doing the main body of the octopus. 136 00:05:36,169 --> 00:05:38,005 He's got a pumpkin and squash. 137 00:05:38,038 --> 00:05:40,508 This cake pop dough is really cool. 138 00:05:40,541 --> 00:05:43,677 [Nils] Corinda is doing the octopus's cake arms. 139 00:05:43,711 --> 00:05:46,246 [Corinda] So, I'm making, kind of, like, sausages. 140 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:47,581 [Nils] And the crumbled-up cake 141 00:05:47,615 --> 00:05:49,817 will be the stuffing coming out, where he cuts himself. 142 00:05:49,850 --> 00:05:52,119 [Corinda] Gonna get fondant. 143 00:05:52,152 --> 00:05:54,187 [Nils] I'm doing the sugar and the chocolate work. 144 00:05:54,221 --> 00:05:58,158 For sugar, I'm doing the knife and some coins and the piggy bank. 145 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:00,093 All right, guys, I am gonna dump this 146 00:06:00,127 --> 00:06:02,329 chocolate ink spot on the board. 147 00:06:02,430 --> 00:06:04,898 -[Nils] Okay. -Okay, I think this is ready to set in there. 148 00:06:04,932 --> 00:06:06,934 -[Corinda] Should I put him right in the middle? -[Nils] Yeah, I would. 149 00:06:08,469 --> 00:06:09,302 All right, he's set. 150 00:06:10,604 --> 00:06:12,540 [Dean] What colors are you gonna make the rabbit? 151 00:06:12,573 --> 00:06:14,274 [Lisa] White and, like, a tan. 152 00:06:14,307 --> 00:06:16,444 And I'm gonna dirty him up. 153 00:06:16,444 --> 00:06:21,048 I will be doing the rice cereal and fondant for the bunny. 154 00:06:21,081 --> 00:06:23,584 I love dessert so I went from art school 155 00:06:23,617 --> 00:06:25,352 to French culinary institute. 156 00:06:25,453 --> 00:06:28,221 And then I just combined everything, and here I am. 157 00:06:28,255 --> 00:06:31,892 My goal is to do cakes full-time for my kids. 158 00:06:31,925 --> 00:06:34,261 I want my kids to know no matter what they do, 159 00:06:34,294 --> 00:06:36,530 if they keep going for it, 160 00:06:36,564 --> 00:06:38,766 that they could accomplish anything. 161 00:06:38,799 --> 00:06:42,636 I am pulling sugar for the bunny's tie. 162 00:06:42,670 --> 00:06:46,474 [Lisa] Our sugar artist, Lori, will be doing eyes for the pig, 163 00:06:46,474 --> 00:06:49,042 and eyes, teeth and bowties for the bunny. 164 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:51,579 I'm thinking a nice pink color for the pig. 165 00:06:51,612 --> 00:06:53,714 [Lisa] Dean will be making the pig, 166 00:06:53,747 --> 00:06:55,483 which is all butternut squash. 167 00:06:55,516 --> 00:06:58,819 [Dean] Okay. So I think I'm gonna do the scratched eye on this side. 168 00:06:58,852 --> 00:07:00,988 [Lisa] Yeah. You have enough time? 169 00:07:01,021 --> 00:07:02,289 [Dean] I got enough time. 170 00:07:02,322 --> 00:07:03,390 -You just make sure you got enough time. -[Lisa] All right. 171 00:07:04,324 --> 00:07:05,859 [Drew] Oh. 172 00:07:05,893 --> 00:07:07,995 I love that pumpkin size. That's gonna be great. 173 00:07:08,028 --> 00:07:12,866 The base of our cake is gonna be a elephant that's been torn open. 174 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:15,503 Drew is using pumpkin and butternut squash. 175 00:07:16,336 --> 00:07:18,639 I'm rolling out some fondant. 176 00:07:18,672 --> 00:07:19,673 I'm gonna wrap this around the body, 177 00:07:19,707 --> 00:07:21,408 and then I'll make some to go around the head. 178 00:07:21,509 --> 00:07:25,879 The monkey is gonna be all cake and rice cereal covered in fondant. 179 00:07:25,913 --> 00:07:30,082 Vanessa is gonna make our sugar eyes and a knife that's made out of sugar. 180 00:07:30,117 --> 00:07:32,753 Just gonna dip lollipops in black isomalt 181 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:34,788 for the eyes so it cools off quick. 182 00:07:35,222 --> 00:07:36,690 Dip, dip, dip. 183 00:07:36,724 --> 00:07:38,692 I'm gonna add the head on there and get that going. 184 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:44,197 I press in with a brush to add some texture. 185 00:07:44,231 --> 00:07:45,866 Oh, guys, this is gonna look cool. 186 00:07:45,899 --> 00:07:48,368 [Jonathan] All right, the first Small Scare of the season. 187 00:07:48,401 --> 00:07:50,538 -[Shinmin] So excited. -[Aarti] Very scary. 188 00:07:50,538 --> 00:07:52,573 I'm so excited to see what they bring on right now. 189 00:07:52,606 --> 00:07:55,175 I think that this challenge is a really good opportunity 190 00:07:55,207 --> 00:07:57,711 for them to show off a lot of their skills. 191 00:07:57,745 --> 00:07:59,112 [Jonathan] What are you guys looking for? 192 00:07:59,146 --> 00:08:01,849 -[Shinmin] A stuffed animal that is still cute. -[Aarti] Mm-hm. 193 00:08:01,882 --> 00:08:04,084 -But then, menacing, right? When you take a closer look. -[Aarti] Yeah. 194 00:08:04,117 --> 00:08:06,820 [Shinmin] I want something that a child would look at and go, 195 00:08:06,854 --> 00:08:08,989 "Oh, I would like to take that." 196 00:08:09,022 --> 00:08:10,290 -"No, I wouldn't." -[Aarti] Yeah. 197 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:13,093 Stuffed animals are not open to interpretation. 198 00:08:13,126 --> 00:08:17,030 So, if you creation doesn't look like a teddy bear, 199 00:08:17,064 --> 00:08:18,732 -we're gonna know it immediately. -[Jonathan] Yeah. 200 00:08:21,034 --> 00:08:22,469 [Lori] I'm breaking up rice noodles. 201 00:08:22,570 --> 00:08:24,605 And we're gonna put them in some hot oil. 202 00:08:24,638 --> 00:08:26,139 And they fry up instantly. 203 00:08:26,173 --> 00:08:29,843 And it's the stuffing that the bunny has torn out of the pig. 204 00:08:29,877 --> 00:08:31,478 [Dean] Imma start frying some of these. 205 00:08:31,579 --> 00:08:36,015 Oh, look, they're frying noodles to make stuffing. 206 00:08:36,049 --> 00:08:37,650 [Aarti] That's really innovative... 207 00:08:37,684 --> 00:08:39,653 -[Shinmin] I love that. -...and so much easier than the spun sugar 208 00:08:39,687 --> 00:08:41,321 -we usually see as stuffing. -So much easier. 209 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:43,289 I'm going to the board after I get these done. 210 00:08:43,323 --> 00:08:45,058 -[Lisa] All right. -[Jonathan] You have twenty minutes! 211 00:08:45,092 --> 00:08:46,493 [Lisa] Oh, my gosh! 212 00:08:46,594 --> 00:08:48,896 -[Corinda] Holy smokes. -Holy smokes is right. 213 00:08:48,929 --> 00:08:52,766 Guys, we need to get these two characters done, or it's a fail. 214 00:08:55,168 --> 00:08:57,671 [Corinda] The only reason why we're covering the pumpkin with fondant is 215 00:08:57,705 --> 00:08:59,039 I don't think we're gonna have enough time 216 00:08:59,072 --> 00:09:02,910 to, kind of, get that coloring to match exactly. 217 00:09:02,943 --> 00:09:05,312 I mean, we're gonna wing it. We're gonna see what happens. 218 00:09:05,345 --> 00:09:06,413 Trunk's out right there. 219 00:09:06,446 --> 00:09:09,049 Um, let's airbrush it before we place it on. 220 00:09:09,082 --> 00:09:11,051 [Drew] Great. All right. 221 00:09:11,084 --> 00:09:13,420 Keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving. 222 00:09:13,453 --> 00:09:15,789 Yeah. Sounds good, man. 223 00:09:15,823 --> 00:09:17,758 I need the eyes for the pig as well. 224 00:09:17,791 --> 00:09:20,327 So, we have a button, but the holes aren't there. 225 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,295 So now I'm gonna use a heat tool. 226 00:09:22,329 --> 00:09:25,432 And it's like a soldering iron, but for food. 227 00:09:25,465 --> 00:09:26,967 [Dean] How are you gonna attach 'em? You got-- 228 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,168 [Lori] We got the edible glue. 229 00:09:28,201 --> 00:09:30,938 [Dean] Will edible glue stick to the pumpkin? 230 00:09:30,971 --> 00:09:32,105 We'll find out. 231 00:09:32,139 --> 00:09:34,642 [Dean] The other one I need to put down here, 232 00:09:34,675 --> 00:09:36,309 but we need that thread in here. 233 00:09:36,343 --> 00:09:38,679 [Lori] Okay, it's sticking. 234 00:09:38,712 --> 00:09:40,213 -[Dean] I'll do it. I'll do it. -[Lori] Okay. 235 00:09:44,184 --> 00:09:46,654 -[Aarti] Oh, no. -Oh, no. The eyes aren't sticking. 236 00:09:46,687 --> 00:09:48,789 It's not sticking, Lori. It just slides right off. 237 00:09:49,456 --> 00:09:50,824 Oh. 238 00:09:51,324 --> 00:09:52,660 [Lori] Ugh. 239 00:09:59,399 --> 00:10:01,534 -[Lori] Ugh. -[Aarti gasps] Oh, no. 240 00:10:01,568 --> 00:10:02,602 Oh, I hope they figure this out. 241 00:10:02,636 --> 00:10:04,337 I was so looking forward to button eyes. 242 00:10:04,371 --> 00:10:06,940 There's something so cute and creepy at the same time... 243 00:10:06,974 --> 00:10:08,141 -Yes, yes. -...about button eyes. 244 00:10:08,175 --> 00:10:09,710 [Dean] Oh, what do we got that can work? 245 00:10:09,743 --> 00:10:13,814 -Pumpkin pig is 75% water, so it's really slippery. -[Aarti] Mm-hm. 246 00:10:13,847 --> 00:10:15,348 [Dean] I need skewers. 247 00:10:15,382 --> 00:10:17,484 Do you have small skewers anywhere? 248 00:10:17,517 --> 00:10:20,053 Maybe I'll just do it with this skewer that we're stirring with. 249 00:10:22,489 --> 00:10:24,057 [Lisa] Oh, you got the eyes in. Thank you. 250 00:10:24,091 --> 00:10:25,558 [Dean] Pig's away. 251 00:10:25,592 --> 00:10:27,194 Five minutes. You have five minutes to go! 252 00:10:27,227 --> 00:10:28,762 Hurry up. Yeah, go, go, go. 253 00:10:29,730 --> 00:10:30,964 [Timmy] Adding some cotton. 254 00:10:30,998 --> 00:10:33,633 Some more stuffing to our monkey. 255 00:10:33,667 --> 00:10:35,068 [Vanessa] The guts of the elephant. 256 00:10:35,102 --> 00:10:36,970 [Timmy] It's made out of royal icing 257 00:10:37,004 --> 00:10:40,974 that Vanessa microwaved for just a few seconds. 258 00:10:41,008 --> 00:10:44,011 It looks really soft, even though it's, like, really crumbly. 259 00:10:44,044 --> 00:10:45,578 Very fragile. 260 00:10:45,612 --> 00:10:46,880 No one breathe. 261 00:10:46,914 --> 00:10:50,751 Yeah, no one breathes. No one shakes the monkey. 262 00:10:50,784 --> 00:10:52,385 -[Corinda] Where's that knife? -[Nils] It's coming. 263 00:10:52,419 --> 00:10:54,054 [Dennis] All right, I'm just gonna throw a little shadow here. 264 00:10:54,087 --> 00:10:55,889 You do the eyebrows. 265 00:10:55,923 --> 00:10:58,058 -[Nils] Okay. -[Corinda] Careful, careful. 266 00:10:58,091 --> 00:11:00,794 -[Nils] Keep it right there. -[Dennis] Okay. Right there it is. 267 00:11:00,828 --> 00:11:02,930 [Nils] Okay. Just let it sit for a hot minute. 268 00:11:02,963 --> 00:11:04,732 -[Dennis] All right. -[Nils] Not that we got a hot minute, but-- 269 00:11:04,765 --> 00:11:06,633 -[Dennis] Yeah. -Teams, you have one minute left! 270 00:11:06,734 --> 00:11:08,468 -[Timmy] One minute. -[Vanessa] Uh, torch, torch, torch. 271 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:09,770 [Timmy] Torch it, torch it. 272 00:11:09,803 --> 00:11:11,471 -[Timmy] Good. -[Vanessa] Go. 273 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:12,973 Cold spray, cold spray. 274 00:11:13,006 --> 00:11:13,841 [Timmy] I'm not moving. 275 00:11:15,208 --> 00:11:16,777 -Stop. -[Vanessa] Yeah. 276 00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:18,145 -Yes! -[Vanessa grunts] 277 00:11:18,178 --> 00:11:19,747 [Dean] We have a pig, we need a bunny. 278 00:11:19,747 --> 00:11:20,748 [Lisa] I'm coming. 279 00:11:22,783 --> 00:11:23,784 -[Dean] Let's pull that bunny. -My ears. 280 00:11:23,817 --> 00:11:24,885 That bunny's gotta come closer. 281 00:11:24,918 --> 00:11:26,353 [Lisa] Yeah. He's gotta come closer, over here. 282 00:11:26,386 --> 00:11:27,821 [Dean] Right up in here, in here. 283 00:11:27,855 --> 00:11:29,456 -[Dean] Oof. Dean, where's edible glue? -[Lori] Oh, here, here, here. 284 00:11:29,489 --> 00:11:31,158 [Dean] No, you have it. I gave it right back to you. 285 00:11:31,191 --> 00:11:32,525 Okay. So that should be fine. 286 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,261 [Dennis] She looks good, guys. 287 00:11:34,294 --> 00:11:35,495 [Corinda] Watch that knife. Get away. 288 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:37,164 -Yup, yup, yup. -Just get your arm away from the knife. 289 00:11:37,197 --> 00:11:38,631 [Dennis] Getting away from the knife. 290 00:11:38,665 --> 00:11:41,769 [Dean] Finishing touches. Any colors, anything you see, get it on there. 291 00:11:41,769 --> 00:11:43,771 -[Jonathan] Ten, nine... -[Timmy] Mm. Don't shake it. 292 00:11:43,771 --> 00:11:45,773 -...eight, seven... -[Corinda] Okay. 293 00:11:45,773 --> 00:11:47,440 -...six, five... -Faster, faster. 294 00:11:47,474 --> 00:11:49,309 -...four, three... -[Dean] Add some teeth. 295 00:11:49,342 --> 00:11:52,012 -[Nils] Nice and easy. -...three, two, one. 296 00:11:52,045 --> 00:11:54,782 -Hands off your displays! -Whoo! 297 00:11:54,782 --> 00:11:57,217 -[Vanessa] Oh, my God! -That's how you do 45 minutes. 298 00:11:57,250 --> 00:11:59,486 -Yes, sir. -All right. 299 00:12:00,587 --> 00:12:03,256 -We did it. -Oh, my God. 300 00:12:03,290 --> 00:12:07,194 Sweet Lunatics, tell us about this terrifying stuffed animal. 301 00:12:07,227 --> 00:12:11,598 Lisa's favorite stuffed toy when she was little was a bunny named Jack. 302 00:12:11,631 --> 00:12:15,535 But in our story, Jack was replaced by Piggy. 303 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:18,806 And, uh, jealous Jack ripped it. 304 00:12:18,806 --> 00:12:19,807 [Shinmin] Oh, my gosh. 305 00:12:21,608 --> 00:12:26,446 I think that pig is darling. 306 00:12:26,479 --> 00:12:29,416 The one drooping button eye, 307 00:12:29,449 --> 00:12:31,251 that's it for me. That's it for me. 308 00:12:31,284 --> 00:12:34,054 It tells so much of the story here. 309 00:12:34,087 --> 00:12:37,590 While I love the idea of using noodles, 310 00:12:37,624 --> 00:12:39,827 I think you needed a thinner noodle 311 00:12:39,827 --> 00:12:42,595 for it to look a little bit more like stuffing. 312 00:12:42,629 --> 00:12:47,167 The balance of cake, sugar and pumpkin, this is an amazing job. 313 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,437 Dean, I mean this in the best possible way, 314 00:12:50,470 --> 00:12:52,072 I cannot tell that's pumpkin. 315 00:12:52,105 --> 00:12:55,108 You did such an amazing job creating texture. 316 00:12:55,142 --> 00:12:58,178 And even the stitching, it looks like what you would expect 317 00:12:58,211 --> 00:12:59,947 a stuffed pig would look like. 318 00:12:59,980 --> 00:13:01,348 Thank you, Sweet Lunatics. 319 00:13:01,381 --> 00:13:03,050 -Thank you. -Thank you. 320 00:13:03,083 --> 00:13:06,419 [Corinda] So Octavio is absolutely sick 321 00:13:06,453 --> 00:13:09,556 of all the kids in the house pulling on his tentacles. 322 00:13:09,589 --> 00:13:11,491 So, one night, he gets ahold of the piggy bank, 323 00:13:11,524 --> 00:13:14,527 smashes it onto the floor, gets the loot. 324 00:13:14,561 --> 00:13:18,365 He realizes they're gonna find my suction cup prints as evidence. 325 00:13:18,398 --> 00:13:21,568 So he decides that he's gonna start cutting off his own legs. 326 00:13:21,601 --> 00:13:25,873 -[Shinmin] Oh. -[Corinda] To try and save himself from being convicted. 327 00:13:25,873 --> 00:13:28,575 I like that you chose an unusual animal. 328 00:13:28,608 --> 00:13:30,878 I love that it's almost like 329 00:13:30,878 --> 00:13:33,046 the butternut squash spoke to you, 330 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,082 and then you created that character out of it. 331 00:13:35,115 --> 00:13:37,517 -That's the perfect shape for an octopus head. -[Shinmin] Yes. 332 00:13:37,550 --> 00:13:39,452 -Thank you. -[Aarti] It's brilliant choice 333 00:13:39,486 --> 00:13:41,889 and sculpting, too. Well done. 334 00:13:41,889 --> 00:13:44,224 This character has such presence. 335 00:13:44,257 --> 00:13:47,727 I love that it's completely filled up the platform. 336 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,899 Now, with the sugar work, I love that you did create the knife, 337 00:13:51,899 --> 00:13:53,433 but I was like, "Why is there a knife?" 338 00:13:53,466 --> 00:13:56,769 Until you explained the story, I was expecting to see more, like, a hammer 339 00:13:56,803 --> 00:13:58,371 -to break the piggy bank. -[Aarti] Right. 340 00:13:58,405 --> 00:14:00,273 Trick Or Sweets, great job. 341 00:14:00,307 --> 00:14:02,309 -Thank you, guys. -Thank you. 342 00:14:02,342 --> 00:14:05,312 [Timmy] My son had a favorite stuffed animal, it was a monkey. 343 00:14:05,345 --> 00:14:08,048 And we wanted to imagine what Kiki would do 344 00:14:08,081 --> 00:14:11,351 if my son brought home another stuffed animal. 345 00:14:11,384 --> 00:14:15,622 I am so happy to see this royal icing and microwave technique 346 00:14:15,655 --> 00:14:16,689 for the stuffing. 347 00:14:16,723 --> 00:14:17,991 Great job there. 348 00:14:18,025 --> 00:14:22,129 And I also love that you created this texture on the monkey. 349 00:14:22,162 --> 00:14:23,997 It actually looks knitted. 350 00:14:24,031 --> 00:14:26,733 -But I would love to see some stitching on there. -Sure. 351 00:14:26,766 --> 00:14:30,938 The way that the monkey is emerging triumphantly 352 00:14:30,938 --> 00:14:32,505 from what's left of that elephant, 353 00:14:32,539 --> 00:14:34,474 there's so much energy in it. 354 00:14:34,507 --> 00:14:35,976 And just the way he's like, "Rawr!" 355 00:14:36,009 --> 00:14:38,245 You know, we can get that story. 356 00:14:38,278 --> 00:14:42,349 For me, I'm really craving the elephant head to complete the story. 357 00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:45,218 And so perhaps if you'd made the trunk even larger, 358 00:14:45,252 --> 00:14:46,853 I'd really get this as an elephant, 359 00:14:46,954 --> 00:14:48,321 as opposed to maybe a hippo. 360 00:14:48,355 --> 00:14:50,257 Pumpkin Up The Volume, thank you very much. 361 00:14:50,290 --> 00:14:51,558 -Thank you. -Thank you. 362 00:14:52,259 --> 00:14:53,193 Good job on that. 363 00:14:53,226 --> 00:14:54,227 -Good job. -Good job. 364 00:14:55,395 --> 00:14:59,599 Teams, you all transformed our childhood furry friends 365 00:14:59,632 --> 00:15:03,003 into Halloween fiends. 366 00:15:03,036 --> 00:15:06,373 But one team really took the cake. 367 00:15:07,274 --> 00:15:09,209 Congratulations to... 368 00:15:16,984 --> 00:15:18,986 Congratulations to... 369 00:15:22,222 --> 00:15:24,724 -Sweet Lunatics. -Oh, yes! 370 00:15:24,757 --> 00:15:27,327 [Jonathan] Your pumpkin pig's texture and color 371 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,996 really blew the judges away. 372 00:15:29,029 --> 00:15:31,331 You've earned first pick of the pumpkins. 373 00:15:31,364 --> 00:15:33,633 -Yes. -[Jonathan] Make sure you pick the cute one. 374 00:15:33,665 --> 00:15:35,868 Teams, you'll take a little comfort 375 00:15:35,902 --> 00:15:40,173 knowing that it's time for the Spine Chiller challenge. 376 00:15:42,375 --> 00:15:44,411 Oh! 377 00:15:45,412 --> 00:15:47,480 [gasps] It's a book. 378 00:15:47,514 --> 00:15:49,449 -[Aarti] Hm. -[Jonathan] Oh. 379 00:15:50,083 --> 00:15:51,618 Interesting. 380 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:55,522 Turns out some popular kids' nursery rhymes 381 00:15:55,555 --> 00:15:58,725 were really about some horrific stuff, 382 00:15:58,758 --> 00:16:01,028 like the Black Plague, 383 00:16:01,694 --> 00:16:03,263 pagan rituals, 384 00:16:03,296 --> 00:16:04,931 even execution. 385 00:16:07,034 --> 00:16:08,501 Sleep tight, kiddos. 386 00:16:09,769 --> 00:16:11,571 In this Spine Chiller challenge, 387 00:16:11,604 --> 00:16:14,341 you'll have to use cake, pumpkin and sugar 388 00:16:14,374 --> 00:16:17,277 to show us the real scary story 389 00:16:17,310 --> 00:16:19,646 behind these nursery rhymes. 390 00:16:19,679 --> 00:16:23,750 And to celebrate the truly terrified kid inside of all of us, 391 00:16:23,783 --> 00:16:27,787 for your tasting element, you'll have to transform some classic childhood treats 392 00:16:28,788 --> 00:16:31,058 into sophisticated sweets. 393 00:16:31,058 --> 00:16:33,626 You can choose between rice cereal treats, 394 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:37,330 chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter bars. 395 00:16:37,364 --> 00:16:39,199 -Mm! -Oh, wow. Okay. 396 00:16:39,232 --> 00:16:41,068 You have got just five hours! 397 00:16:42,202 --> 00:16:44,071 And your time starts... 398 00:16:45,572 --> 00:16:46,706 now! 399 00:16:47,907 --> 00:16:50,810 We didn't win that one so gotta make it up on this one. 400 00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:53,313 [Lisa] I never had nursery rhymes when I was a kid. 401 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:56,149 The only that I know the history of is "Ring Around the Rosie", 402 00:16:56,183 --> 00:16:57,850 -and it's got to do with the Black Plague. -[Lori] It's dark. Yeah. 403 00:16:57,884 --> 00:16:59,352 You know, how it says "ashes, ashes." 404 00:16:59,386 --> 00:17:01,754 -They used to burn their bodies in the street. -Right. 405 00:17:01,788 --> 00:17:03,790 And so maybe a pile of ashes and bones. 406 00:17:03,823 --> 00:17:05,258 So, who do you wanna draw? 407 00:17:05,291 --> 00:17:06,925 -[Lori] Right. -[Lisa] Let's do a little girl. 408 00:17:06,959 --> 00:17:08,694 -Let's give her the Black Plague. -Yeah! 409 00:17:08,728 --> 00:17:10,097 That's a great idea! 410 00:17:10,097 --> 00:17:11,964 We picked "Ring Around the Rosie." 411 00:17:11,998 --> 00:17:14,300 You know who looks really cool? Plague doctors. 412 00:17:14,334 --> 00:17:18,405 [Lisa] The story is about the Plague doctor taking little Emily, 413 00:17:18,438 --> 00:17:19,638 who is infected. 414 00:17:19,672 --> 00:17:23,476 The Plague started with rats. People got sick. 415 00:17:23,510 --> 00:17:27,114 And because they had a certain smell, they had roses around. 416 00:17:27,114 --> 00:17:29,416 What are the bones gonna be in the ash pile? 417 00:17:29,449 --> 00:17:31,484 We can do our tasting treat. 418 00:17:31,518 --> 00:17:33,553 -Let's do the peanut butter bars. -I love peanut butter bars. 419 00:17:33,586 --> 00:17:36,256 We'll ask the judges to pick a bone out of the pile of ashes. 420 00:17:36,289 --> 00:17:37,924 [Lisa] Out of the pile of ashes. 421 00:17:37,957 --> 00:17:41,828 For our tasting element, we'll be making a smoked brownie peanut butter bar, 422 00:17:41,861 --> 00:17:44,497 and for some heat, sambal chili. 423 00:17:44,531 --> 00:17:45,498 I mean, there's so many. 424 00:17:45,532 --> 00:17:47,400 What about "Mary Had a Little Lamb?" 425 00:17:47,434 --> 00:17:48,501 Oh. 426 00:17:48,535 --> 00:17:49,669 [Corinda] It's too sweet? 427 00:17:49,702 --> 00:17:51,604 Do you guys know the back history on "Jack Be Nimble"? 428 00:17:51,638 --> 00:17:52,672 -No. -No. What is that? 429 00:17:52,705 --> 00:17:54,274 So basically Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, 430 00:17:54,307 --> 00:17:55,642 Jack jump over the candlestick. 431 00:17:55,675 --> 00:17:57,043 -Okay. -It has to do with yellow fever. 432 00:17:57,144 --> 00:17:59,679 So they used to put candles by the beds to ward off yellow fever. 433 00:17:59,712 --> 00:18:01,748 But the other side of it is about is this pirate, Jack, 434 00:18:01,781 --> 00:18:04,517 who always evaded, like, capture and stuff. 435 00:18:04,551 --> 00:18:06,186 Jack has yellow fever. 436 00:18:06,219 --> 00:18:08,421 He's having a very vivid dream. 437 00:18:08,455 --> 00:18:11,658 He, you know, tries to take some gold out of his chest on the beach. 438 00:18:11,691 --> 00:18:13,893 But as soon as he gets it, Black Jack, the pirate, 439 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:15,695 his spirit wants his gold back. 440 00:18:15,728 --> 00:18:17,164 So there was rice cereal treats, 441 00:18:17,164 --> 00:18:18,331 there was peanut butter bars 442 00:18:18,365 --> 00:18:19,499 and chocolate chip cookies. 443 00:18:19,532 --> 00:18:21,334 -I love chocolate chip cookies. -Yes. 444 00:18:21,368 --> 00:18:23,236 -Love chocolate chip cookies. -I'm thinking we go chocolate chip cookies. 445 00:18:23,270 --> 00:18:25,405 We're gonna make a walnut chocolate chip cookie 446 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:27,774 with espresso liqueur and ganache inside. 447 00:18:27,807 --> 00:18:30,177 -[Dennis] Oh. -[Nils] And then we'll gild it with gold leaf on the top 448 00:18:30,210 --> 00:18:31,778 so it actually looks like part of the treasure chest. 449 00:18:31,811 --> 00:18:33,079 -Oh, that's great. -Yeah. 450 00:18:33,180 --> 00:18:36,082 King Richard III, his name was Humpty Dumpty, 451 00:18:36,183 --> 00:18:37,584 and then he fell off a wall, 452 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,619 but the wall was actually a horse. 453 00:18:39,652 --> 00:18:41,020 -Ah. -Oh. 454 00:18:41,053 --> 00:18:44,924 [Timmy] So, we want to do a pop-up book style cake. 455 00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:46,959 So Humpty Dumpty dies and he falls apart. 456 00:18:46,993 --> 00:18:49,362 And he and his horse he fell off of, 457 00:18:49,396 --> 00:18:51,431 they're coming back to life. 458 00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:55,202 Do you guys like rice cereal, marshmallows and maybe chocolate? 459 00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:57,404 -Yeah. -I can cut them as a, as a bone. 460 00:18:57,437 --> 00:18:58,871 Maybe even on the tombstone. 461 00:18:58,905 --> 00:19:00,940 So Vanessa has this great idea 462 00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:04,944 of incorporating her tasting element by making a tombstone. 463 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:08,215 And just placing those bones around the tombstone. 464 00:19:08,215 --> 00:19:10,350 -Hey, Dennis, Drew. -[Drew] What's up? 465 00:19:10,383 --> 00:19:12,118 [Dean] Which pumpkins do you want? 466 00:19:12,219 --> 00:19:13,720 -Uh-huh. -Don't worry about it 'cause I got first pick. 467 00:19:14,887 --> 00:19:16,556 [Drew] We'll see. Yeah. 468 00:19:16,589 --> 00:19:18,124 [Dean grunts] 469 00:19:18,225 --> 00:19:22,395 [Lisa] Dean is going to make the Plague doctor, which is all pumpkin. 470 00:19:22,429 --> 00:19:23,863 [Dean] I needed a big pumpkin like this 471 00:19:23,896 --> 00:19:26,566 to be able to get big enough pieces to build 472 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:28,835 a realistic character. 473 00:19:28,868 --> 00:19:33,473 [Lisa] And Lori will be working on the rats from blown sugar. 474 00:19:33,506 --> 00:19:36,876 [Lori] The rats are the ones that had infected the people. 475 00:19:36,909 --> 00:19:39,546 I named her Emily because I thought her name sounded old. 476 00:19:39,579 --> 00:19:42,349 I'm gonna be working on the little girl. 477 00:19:42,382 --> 00:19:45,452 No wonder being his daughter and all, her name is Emily. 478 00:19:46,753 --> 00:19:48,255 I gave her the Plague. 479 00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:51,458 All right. 480 00:19:51,491 --> 00:19:54,261 [Nils] Dennis is gonna carve a big, wooden chest out of pumpkin. 481 00:19:54,294 --> 00:19:59,766 We need color back there so I have some melted candy wafers here, 482 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:01,868 and I am coloring them blue. 483 00:20:01,901 --> 00:20:04,003 [Nils] Corinda is gonna get the backboard up. 484 00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:05,905 You know, make it look like a beach scene at night. 485 00:20:05,938 --> 00:20:07,240 There's gonna be some stars. 486 00:20:07,274 --> 00:20:08,575 I'm gonna start on the tasting element. 487 00:20:08,608 --> 00:20:11,177 I'm gonna make an elevated chocolate chip cookie. 488 00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:13,380 All right, one egg at a time. Here we go. 489 00:20:13,413 --> 00:20:16,349 So, I chose chocolate chip cookies because I love them. 490 00:20:16,383 --> 00:20:18,751 If you're gonna pick chocolate chip cookies, we have to elevate it. 491 00:20:18,785 --> 00:20:21,454 I'm gonna use milk chocolate chips and some dark chocolate chips. 492 00:20:21,488 --> 00:20:24,357 Imma throw a little bit of walnuts in there to bring it up a touch. 493 00:20:24,391 --> 00:20:26,559 And then we're gonna hit it with a little bit of coffee liqueur 494 00:20:26,593 --> 00:20:28,027 and a little bit of Irish cream. 495 00:20:28,060 --> 00:20:30,430 This isn't necessarily one for the kiddos. 496 00:20:30,463 --> 00:20:33,099 This one's more for the adults and the pirates. 497 00:20:33,132 --> 00:20:34,467 All right. 498 00:20:34,501 --> 00:20:36,303 All right. See you guys in a minute. 499 00:20:38,338 --> 00:20:39,372 You okay, Drew? 500 00:20:39,406 --> 00:20:40,973 Working on this head, 501 00:20:41,007 --> 00:20:43,443 finding this pumpkin a little bit big but it's working out pretty good. 502 00:20:43,476 --> 00:20:45,645 [Timmy] Drew's gonna make old Humpty Dumpty. 503 00:20:45,678 --> 00:20:47,880 Humpty Dumpty's gonna be sculpted completely 504 00:20:47,914 --> 00:20:50,817 out of pumpkin and butternut squash. 505 00:20:50,850 --> 00:20:54,654 I'm just cooling off some white isomalt 506 00:20:54,687 --> 00:20:56,789 so I can put it over the skull. 507 00:20:56,823 --> 00:20:59,826 [Timmy] Vanessa is very skilled at all things sugar. 508 00:20:59,859 --> 00:21:03,896 She can do anything from pulled and poured sugar to blown sugar. 509 00:21:05,164 --> 00:21:08,635 Vanessa's gonna work on her sugar skulls, bones, 510 00:21:08,668 --> 00:21:11,804 our tasting element and rice cereal tombstones. 511 00:21:11,838 --> 00:21:14,707 Gonna lay this white fondant on there to create some pages 512 00:21:14,741 --> 00:21:17,544 'cause we're going for that open pop-up book. 513 00:21:17,577 --> 00:21:20,413 For our challenge, I'm gonna work on the backdrop and the horse. 514 00:21:21,548 --> 00:21:26,085 And then adding some shading and some stenciling 515 00:21:26,118 --> 00:21:27,887 with this edible paint airbrush 516 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,857 so that I can create a 2D background 517 00:21:30,890 --> 00:21:34,894 that our 3D elements can just pop off of 518 00:21:34,927 --> 00:21:37,530 so it really looks like a true pop-up book. 519 00:21:38,431 --> 00:21:39,399 Good. 520 00:21:39,432 --> 00:21:41,167 -Are you good on that side? -Yep. 521 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,170 What are you guys looking for in this round compared to the last round? 522 00:21:44,203 --> 00:21:46,539 I think in this round I'm looking for 523 00:21:46,573 --> 00:21:49,542 a really obvious nursery rhyme. 524 00:21:49,576 --> 00:21:53,380 Don't pick something obscure, and don't mess with it too much. 525 00:21:53,413 --> 00:21:54,747 I wanna get it immediately. 526 00:21:57,283 --> 00:21:59,886 [Corinda] I'm gonna start putting these melting wafers on here 527 00:21:59,919 --> 00:22:03,690 because it's gonna help hold him together 528 00:22:03,723 --> 00:22:06,426 and make him a lot more stable 529 00:22:06,459 --> 00:22:08,260 because he is going to be standing. 530 00:22:08,294 --> 00:22:10,730 Look, it's like putting on sunblock. 531 00:22:11,631 --> 00:22:15,402 I am putting pajamas on Jack. 532 00:22:15,402 --> 00:22:17,937 The fondant is drying out quickly 533 00:22:17,970 --> 00:22:22,675 so it's making it a little bit challenging, but we'll get it done. 534 00:22:24,911 --> 00:22:27,013 [Lisa] For Emily's skirt, 535 00:22:27,046 --> 00:22:30,883 I wanna add a lot of textures so I'm going to ganache it 536 00:22:30,917 --> 00:22:33,553 and then use modeling chocolate. 537 00:22:33,586 --> 00:22:36,188 This is the chest of Emily. 538 00:22:36,222 --> 00:22:39,125 Lori, right now, is going to make some sugar rats. 539 00:22:39,158 --> 00:22:40,326 [Lori] I am pulling the sugar. 540 00:22:40,427 --> 00:22:43,162 What I'm doing is I'm folding it and putting air into it. 541 00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:46,332 The more I do that, the cooler it will be and it'll conform like a clay. 542 00:22:46,433 --> 00:22:49,502 From there you can blow it, you can sculpt it, 543 00:22:49,536 --> 00:22:50,737 you can do different things with it. 544 00:22:50,770 --> 00:22:51,938 See the air going in? 545 00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:54,841 Maybe this guy should be the dead one. [laughs] 546 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:56,576 I've got so many dents and fingerprints in. 547 00:22:56,609 --> 00:22:58,478 So I need the air to go into his neck, 548 00:22:58,511 --> 00:23:02,148 but if it goes too far, then you loose all the dimension of the head. 549 00:23:02,181 --> 00:23:03,650 If they're all slightly different, 550 00:23:03,683 --> 00:23:05,918 that's okay, no two rats are the same. 551 00:23:05,952 --> 00:23:07,654 Oh, my God. [bleep] 552 00:23:09,188 --> 00:23:11,824 This is too thin, it's nothing. 553 00:23:11,858 --> 00:23:16,463 I thought it'd be fatter and I'd be able to cut a piece of this but it's too thin. 554 00:23:16,463 --> 00:23:18,598 [Nils] Dennis is carving the pumpkin for the treasure chest, 555 00:23:18,631 --> 00:23:20,767 and he's like, "I don't think that's gonna work with this pumpkin, 556 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:21,968 it's already breaking." 557 00:23:22,001 --> 00:23:24,571 All right. What if I do this? 558 00:23:24,604 --> 00:23:25,772 I'm gonna screw them all together. 559 00:23:25,805 --> 00:23:28,007 I'll cut another one, put it in here, 560 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,844 as I come back in, straighten this out, straighten this out. 561 00:23:31,878 --> 00:23:35,147 I don't think that's gonna be big enough on the pole, because it's gonna feel small. 562 00:23:35,181 --> 00:23:36,683 Okay. 563 00:23:36,716 --> 00:23:39,486 For the treasure chest, we need the pumpkin to be big, front and center. 564 00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:41,353 -Let me find a pumpkin. -They're gonna wanna see a whole pumpkin. 565 00:23:41,387 --> 00:23:43,089 Especially since we started the last one with fondant, 566 00:23:43,122 --> 00:23:45,492 they're gonna want to see pumpkin, a whole one. 567 00:23:45,525 --> 00:23:47,126 This pumpkin ain't gonna work. 568 00:23:47,159 --> 00:23:49,496 [Corinda] I don't know, dude. You're the pumpkin guy. 569 00:23:49,529 --> 00:23:50,630 [sighs] 570 00:23:54,033 --> 00:23:54,967 Should we just get another pumpkin? 571 00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:55,902 It's up to you, man. 572 00:23:55,935 --> 00:23:58,771 That's a you call. I don't know-- Again. 573 00:23:58,805 --> 00:24:00,039 All right, let me find a pumpkin. 574 00:24:00,072 --> 00:24:01,808 [Nils] The pumpkin treasure chest has to be on there. 575 00:24:01,841 --> 00:24:03,009 It's an integral part of it. 576 00:24:03,042 --> 00:24:04,511 It's new pumpkin time. 577 00:24:04,511 --> 00:24:05,812 You're good, Dennis. 578 00:24:05,845 --> 00:24:07,980 You can tell he's starting to get a little down about it, 579 00:24:08,014 --> 00:24:09,582 time's moving so fast, 580 00:24:09,616 --> 00:24:12,885 it is imperative that we get him back up on the horse. 581 00:24:16,122 --> 00:24:17,323 That one looked better. 582 00:24:17,356 --> 00:24:19,826 [Corinda] Oh, dude, look how much easier that one was. 583 00:24:19,859 --> 00:24:21,027 -So much easier. -[Dennis] 584 00:24:21,060 --> 00:24:22,529 [Nils] How you doing, Dennis? 585 00:24:22,529 --> 00:24:25,431 It'll be a little different, but it's pretty cool-looking. 586 00:24:25,532 --> 00:24:27,199 [Nils] Okay. That'll work. 587 00:24:27,233 --> 00:24:29,702 Be good to me. Come on, be good to me. 588 00:24:29,736 --> 00:24:30,703 [Jonathan] Three hours left! 589 00:24:30,737 --> 00:24:32,539 [Timmy] Make them gnarly, man. 590 00:24:32,572 --> 00:24:33,940 [Drew] That's how we do it. 591 00:24:33,973 --> 00:24:35,542 For the amount of time, it looks great. 592 00:24:35,575 --> 00:24:38,110 Add the nose, teeth, we're popping out the eyes. 593 00:24:38,144 --> 00:24:41,013 We're going for creepy. Anything creepy, I'm all about it. 594 00:24:41,047 --> 00:24:45,417 Halloween wars, it's probably the pinnacle as a pumpkin carver. 595 00:24:45,451 --> 00:24:50,456 Coming from a very small town, winning Halloween Wars, it'd be life-changing. 596 00:24:50,557 --> 00:24:52,725 [Vanessa] I'm starting to make my rice cereal treat, 597 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:55,762 so I'm browning some butter to get that nutty flavor. 598 00:24:55,795 --> 00:24:57,964 [Timmy] Vanessa's gonna make our tasting element. 599 00:24:57,997 --> 00:25:00,933 A brown butter and brandy rice cereal treat 600 00:25:00,967 --> 00:25:03,603 with chocolate drizzle and drunken raisins. 601 00:25:03,636 --> 00:25:04,937 [Vanessa] We're gonna kick it up a notch 602 00:25:04,971 --> 00:25:08,474 and I'm gonna get some raisins drunk with brandy. 603 00:25:08,575 --> 00:25:11,343 I'm gonna start adding my marshmallows. 604 00:25:11,377 --> 00:25:12,579 So after this has melted, 605 00:25:12,579 --> 00:25:15,848 I'm going to add the rice cereal, just gonna mix this in. 606 00:25:15,882 --> 00:25:19,151 Some chocolate. Can't go wrong with too much chocolate. 607 00:25:19,185 --> 00:25:22,955 Just dump it here, and then I'm gonna add my drunken raisins. 608 00:25:22,989 --> 00:25:26,959 I gotta make sure that every little corner has drunken raisins. 609 00:25:26,993 --> 00:25:30,963 Drizzle some chocolate, done. 610 00:25:30,997 --> 00:25:35,668 [Timmy] One of the biggest challenges of this design is creating a floating horse. 611 00:25:35,702 --> 00:25:36,803 That' really risky. 612 00:25:36,836 --> 00:25:38,871 We've got a lot of support structure, 613 00:25:38,905 --> 00:25:39,872 a lot of cake, 614 00:25:39,906 --> 00:25:41,908 and I'm adding tons of ganache to that. 615 00:25:41,941 --> 00:25:44,611 I have to make sure that it's not creating too much weight 616 00:25:44,611 --> 00:25:46,913 that's gonna start pulling that page away. 617 00:25:46,946 --> 00:25:49,248 The more I add to this, I know the heavier it's getting. 618 00:25:49,281 --> 00:25:53,219 So if this backdrop starts to move, watching for all of that. 619 00:25:53,252 --> 00:25:56,255 This horse is really impressive. 620 00:25:56,288 --> 00:25:58,524 You don't have to create an entire horse, 621 00:25:58,625 --> 00:26:00,993 just the bust and then the rest of it is all painted on. 622 00:26:01,027 --> 00:26:01,994 It's really smart. 623 00:26:04,797 --> 00:26:07,433 I'm gonna work on Emily's head. 624 00:26:11,437 --> 00:26:12,905 You want me to help you lift it down? 625 00:26:12,939 --> 00:26:13,806 -[Dean] No. -[Lisa] Okay. 626 00:26:15,007 --> 00:26:17,977 The tasting element is based on the peanut butter bar. 627 00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:22,649 One layer is peanut butter and has cream cheese and chopped peanuts. 628 00:26:22,649 --> 00:26:26,152 I'll add graham cracker crust and then the sambal chili. 629 00:26:26,185 --> 00:26:28,655 Our theme has to do with burning bodies and smoke, 630 00:26:28,655 --> 00:26:31,658 so we decided to get heat in there for the fire and the burning. 631 00:26:31,658 --> 00:26:33,926 The chocolate's gonna be the outside casing. 632 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,762 I'll put this in the freezer. 633 00:26:35,795 --> 00:26:39,699 So this is our cream cheese that I'm gonna smoke with some cherry wood chips. 634 00:26:39,732 --> 00:26:41,668 [Lori] Remember, they gotta taste it, too. 635 00:26:41,668 --> 00:26:43,703 [Dean] These are really fine smoking chips. 636 00:26:43,736 --> 00:26:47,173 It draws air through the top, puts the smoke into the bowl. 637 00:26:47,206 --> 00:26:48,574 If you cover it with plastic, 638 00:26:48,675 --> 00:26:50,777 it holds a bunch of it in there and then you'll get the smoke flavor 639 00:26:50,810 --> 00:26:52,011 imparted into what you're doing. 640 00:26:52,044 --> 00:26:54,313 Bartenders use this a lot to flavor drinks. 641 00:26:54,346 --> 00:26:56,015 See how fast that smoke fills in? 642 00:26:56,048 --> 00:26:58,050 -[Lori] Oh, wow. -Oh, yeah. Smells like a campfire. 643 00:26:59,185 --> 00:27:00,853 So I'll fill all of those, 644 00:27:00,887 --> 00:27:03,189 and then top it with the crunchy element 645 00:27:03,222 --> 00:27:04,891 that has the sambal chili in it. 646 00:27:06,726 --> 00:27:09,762 -Dennis is gonna be a menace to the competitors. -[chuckles] 647 00:27:09,796 --> 00:27:11,597 What I love about this pumpkin carver 648 00:27:11,698 --> 00:27:13,399 is he definitely showed some editing skills. 649 00:27:13,432 --> 00:27:16,302 He originally selected a different pumpkin, 650 00:27:16,335 --> 00:27:20,707 and he ended up with something that just wasn't working out, he's trying to make it work, 651 00:27:20,740 --> 00:27:24,610 and eventually, he just tossed that aside and selected another pumpkin. 652 00:27:24,711 --> 00:27:26,412 Now he has a chest that's standing up, 653 00:27:26,445 --> 00:27:27,980 and that they can fill with the treasures. 654 00:27:31,450 --> 00:27:32,885 [Vanessa] Your eyes are ready. 655 00:27:32,919 --> 00:27:34,586 [Timmy] Oh, that's gonna be awesome. 656 00:27:34,620 --> 00:27:35,722 -Rough-- -Hair. 657 00:27:35,755 --> 00:27:36,989 Rough hair. Yeah. 658 00:27:37,023 --> 00:27:39,425 One of the really cool techniques that Vanessa's gonna do 659 00:27:39,458 --> 00:27:42,228 is make some dragon's beard for the mane of the horse. 660 00:27:42,261 --> 00:27:43,730 I'm just gonna add some color. 661 00:27:44,797 --> 00:27:46,298 [Timmy] She's gonna leave it a little matted. 662 00:27:46,332 --> 00:27:50,837 That way, it looks like this horse hair has been buried for years. 663 00:27:50,870 --> 00:27:55,141 The cornstarch prevents it from sticking to each string. 664 00:27:55,174 --> 00:27:58,811 We really want it to still look like it's kind of mangy looking. 665 00:27:58,845 --> 00:28:02,214 We just wanna add it on and let it fall where it falls. 666 00:28:04,884 --> 00:28:07,486 Oh, cool! Pretty in pink. [chuckles] 667 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,990 [Lisa] I'm using a sponge on her to make her look really delicate. 668 00:28:11,023 --> 00:28:12,324 Trying. [laughs] 669 00:28:12,358 --> 00:28:14,761 I'm trying to give it a nice fuzzy look 670 00:28:14,794 --> 00:28:17,063 like one of those cashmere sweaters. 671 00:28:23,602 --> 00:28:25,872 [Jonathan] You have two hours left! 672 00:28:25,905 --> 00:28:27,774 [Dean] There's never enough time. 673 00:28:29,776 --> 00:28:30,777 [Nils] I'm making the ganache right now 674 00:28:30,777 --> 00:28:32,378 for our chocolate chip cookies. 675 00:28:32,411 --> 00:28:35,114 We're starting to add the liqueur. 676 00:28:35,147 --> 00:28:37,349 Gotta make sure you can taste it, though. 677 00:28:37,383 --> 00:28:41,520 Just adding a little more dark chocolate too to give it the consistency we want. 678 00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:43,790 Put some sandwiches together. 679 00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:46,458 They can set a little bit before we cover them in gold. 680 00:28:46,492 --> 00:28:49,295 Make it look like a coin. 681 00:28:49,328 --> 00:28:51,798 Gold leaf is very tricky in this sense. 682 00:28:51,831 --> 00:28:53,432 But it is crazy light. 683 00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:56,235 Just like that. 684 00:29:00,339 --> 00:29:02,641 [Dean] I was thinking that might be the beak of the plague doctor 685 00:29:02,674 --> 00:29:04,510 'cause it'll be sticking out. 686 00:29:04,543 --> 00:29:07,947 [Lisa] Dean Murray, he's one of the best pumpkin carvers I've seen. 687 00:29:07,980 --> 00:29:11,383 I can't believe he makes pumpkins look so lively. 688 00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:14,453 I want Dean to win so bad. 689 00:29:14,486 --> 00:29:17,189 He's so good. I really love that guy. 690 00:29:17,223 --> 00:29:19,125 [Dean] I have to layer the head. 691 00:29:19,158 --> 00:29:22,561 The cake artists are making their cakes in layers, 692 00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:25,331 I gotta do pumpkin in layers to get the right shape. 693 00:29:25,364 --> 00:29:30,136 It's not the ideal situation, but in order to get the look I'm looking for, 694 00:29:30,169 --> 00:29:31,503 it's what I gotta do. 695 00:29:31,537 --> 00:29:33,672 We'll see what we get. [laughs] 696 00:29:33,705 --> 00:29:35,507 Rats are various different colors of brown, 697 00:29:35,541 --> 00:29:40,012 so I made the decision to airbrush for a couple of reasons. 698 00:29:40,046 --> 00:29:44,516 When you want a darker color, it's easier to airbrush than mixing the liquids. 699 00:29:44,550 --> 00:29:47,153 Black doesn't mix well, it tends to turn purple a lot, 700 00:29:47,186 --> 00:29:49,255 and we don't want it to blend in with the background 701 00:29:49,288 --> 00:29:50,756 which will be dark. 702 00:29:50,857 --> 00:29:52,758 So I figured I'd start with a grayish color 703 00:29:52,859 --> 00:29:55,227 and then airbrush will be easier to cover them that way. 704 00:29:55,261 --> 00:29:58,164 Well get him covered and then I can come back 705 00:29:58,197 --> 00:30:00,766 and pour another liquid sugar and just... [sucks air] 706 00:30:00,867 --> 00:30:02,935 I wanted to have the pirate cutout 707 00:30:02,969 --> 00:30:04,570 so he had a nice silhouette 708 00:30:04,603 --> 00:30:07,173 and then the idea is put him down, 709 00:30:07,206 --> 00:30:08,774 pour sugar over all of him 710 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:12,644 and then slowly start to lift him in the direction you want it moving. 711 00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:16,082 [Dennis] Looking good. It's looking really good. 712 00:30:16,115 --> 00:30:19,018 You know, I'm not quite sure how I feel about this technique 713 00:30:19,051 --> 00:30:21,854 because he is just moving a big support base 714 00:30:21,888 --> 00:30:23,655 that has some sugar poured on top of it. 715 00:30:25,291 --> 00:30:27,026 [Aarti] It's almost like there's not enough 716 00:30:27,059 --> 00:30:29,929 to really make a statement at this point. 717 00:30:29,962 --> 00:30:32,398 It almost looks a little bit like a mistake. 718 00:30:32,431 --> 00:30:35,467 I wanna go onto the finale. I have my 9-year-old at home. 719 00:30:35,501 --> 00:30:38,270 I definitely wanna do it for him because he's my biggest fan. 720 00:30:38,304 --> 00:30:41,273 It doesn't matter what I make or what I do, 721 00:30:41,307 --> 00:30:42,909 he's right there, and he's like, 722 00:30:42,942 --> 00:30:45,477 "Oh, my God, Mommy, this looks great. This looks fantastic." 723 00:30:45,511 --> 00:30:47,613 [Nils] Don't make me cry, yo. 724 00:30:47,646 --> 00:30:49,381 -You know. You have kids, you know. -Yeah, I know. 725 00:30:49,415 --> 00:30:54,820 I wanna win one for my family, I wanna win one for everybody that comes to the shop. 726 00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:56,555 You wanna go home and you want your kids to be like, 727 00:30:56,588 --> 00:30:58,124 "Mommy, I'm so proud of you!" 728 00:30:58,157 --> 00:30:59,391 -Like-- -Dang it. 729 00:30:59,425 --> 00:31:00,559 -[Dennis chuckles] -Stop it. 730 00:31:00,592 --> 00:31:02,028 [Nils laughs] 731 00:31:02,061 --> 00:31:04,563 Okay. Back to tombstones. 732 00:31:04,596 --> 00:31:06,832 Everyone thinks of Humpty Dumpty as an egg, 733 00:31:06,933 --> 00:31:10,736 so we wanted to add in an egg just oozing out of his mouth. 734 00:31:10,769 --> 00:31:12,338 [Vanessa] I'm pouring ice. 735 00:31:12,371 --> 00:31:14,840 [Timmy] Humpty Dumpty's sugar eyes are really gonna be difficult 736 00:31:14,941 --> 00:31:18,210 because pumpkin doesn't really support sugar well. 737 00:31:18,244 --> 00:31:23,849 Just making some holes so that I can insert a light. 738 00:31:23,950 --> 00:31:25,151 [Jonathan] You have one hour! 739 00:31:25,184 --> 00:31:26,152 [Vanessa] Oh, God. 740 00:31:26,185 --> 00:31:27,954 -[Timmy] Talk to me. -[Drew] Oh, yeah. 741 00:31:27,954 --> 00:31:29,655 -[Drew] These are the eyes, yes? -[Vanessa] Yes. 742 00:31:29,688 --> 00:31:32,959 They're a little heavy so they're wanting to drop 743 00:31:32,959 --> 00:31:36,062 so it's difficult to hold the eyes in place with the pumpkin. 744 00:31:37,296 --> 00:31:38,965 [Vanessa] All right. How about I hold the eyes? 745 00:31:38,965 --> 00:31:41,033 -[Drew groans] -[Vanessa] What? What happened? 746 00:31:41,067 --> 00:31:43,302 -[Timmy] It cracked. -[Vanessa] Oh, my God. 747 00:31:46,872 --> 00:31:47,974 [Vanessa] All right, how about I hold the eye? 748 00:31:47,974 --> 00:31:49,741 -[Drew] Sure. Hold it. -[object clattering] 749 00:31:49,775 --> 00:31:50,776 [Vanessa] Oh, no! 750 00:31:51,978 --> 00:31:54,846 [Timmy] Humpty's eye falls out and cracks. 751 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,583 [Vanessa] Oh, my God. [grunts] 752 00:31:57,616 --> 00:31:59,218 [Timmy] Only 45 minutes left. 753 00:31:59,251 --> 00:32:03,455 It's not a lot of time, and he's our main character. He has to have eyes. 754 00:32:03,489 --> 00:32:04,991 [Aarti] Mistakes are happening, right? 755 00:32:04,991 --> 00:32:06,792 Those are the things that happen in the last few minutes. 756 00:32:09,295 --> 00:32:12,531 [Lisa] I am working on the door for our backboard, 757 00:32:12,564 --> 00:32:15,001 so I am covering this in chocolate. 758 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:18,804 I'm gonna add another layer of thin, lighter chocolate 759 00:32:18,837 --> 00:32:20,639 so it gives it the texture. 760 00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:25,211 I'm helping with doing the stones on the wall here. 761 00:32:25,244 --> 00:32:27,013 [Dean] Take your time, but hurry up. 762 00:32:27,013 --> 00:32:29,548 Okay, have it hang over about 0.5 inch. 763 00:32:29,581 --> 00:32:35,187 That backdrop, as developed and as dimensional as it was, that just came up in a second. 764 00:32:35,221 --> 00:32:39,025 [Aarti] That doorway has so much detail. I'm very impressed. 765 00:32:39,891 --> 00:32:40,892 I mean, that looks real. 766 00:32:40,926 --> 00:32:42,261 -[Dean] Okay, we're under. -[Lisa] Yeah. 767 00:32:43,929 --> 00:32:45,831 -Okay, rest it. -[Lisa] Yeah. 768 00:32:45,864 --> 00:32:47,866 -[Dean] Wait, we're on my fingers. -[Lisa exclaims] Okay. 769 00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:49,568 -[Dean] No, tip her head towards you. -[Lisa] Oh. 770 00:32:49,601 --> 00:32:50,869 -[Dean] Tip her head towards you! -[Lisa] Okay. 771 00:32:50,902 --> 00:32:53,139 -So I can get my fingers out! -[Lisa chuckles] I'm sorry! 772 00:32:53,172 --> 00:32:54,840 -[laughs] What the? -[Lisa chuckles] 773 00:32:54,873 --> 00:32:56,575 [Dean] That black is just dripping everywhere. 774 00:32:56,608 --> 00:32:58,744 How much she touches her, it's just gonna turn it black. 775 00:32:58,777 --> 00:32:59,678 [Lisa] She's sick. 776 00:32:59,711 --> 00:33:01,680 [Dean] We need graham cracker crumbs. 777 00:33:01,713 --> 00:33:04,050 Just try not to splash it up onto the characters. 778 00:33:04,083 --> 00:33:07,253 I have our tasting treat here, I'm just cleaning them up, 779 00:33:07,286 --> 00:33:10,222 then I'm going to powder them and they'll look aged. 780 00:33:10,256 --> 00:33:11,790 Like they've been burnt in the ashes. 781 00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:13,392 Only 10 minutes left! 782 00:33:13,425 --> 00:33:14,960 [Dennis] Here we go. 783 00:33:15,061 --> 00:33:16,962 [Nils] Love it. Love it. 784 00:33:18,697 --> 00:33:20,766 [Corinda] Zhuzh this up a little bit. 785 00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:21,967 [Nils] I gotta get all this stuff on. 786 00:33:22,068 --> 00:33:23,302 [Corinda] Dude, that's beautiful. 787 00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:25,604 [Nils] I'm gonna bury some of the coins in there, you know? 788 00:33:25,637 --> 00:33:28,274 Let's make it look like he stole gold. 789 00:33:28,307 --> 00:33:30,642 -[Corinda] Maybe put some on the ground over here. -[Nils] Yeah. 790 00:33:30,676 --> 00:33:33,845 I'm making edible moss for our backdrop 791 00:33:33,879 --> 00:33:36,982 so it looks like it has some grass growing in the walls. 792 00:33:37,083 --> 00:33:40,986 So it's just flour, sugar, baking soda, egg, and corn syrup. 793 00:33:42,454 --> 00:33:44,190 So when it comes out, it looks like that. 794 00:33:44,223 --> 00:33:45,324 [Lori] Look at that. 795 00:33:45,357 --> 00:33:47,093 -[Lisa] All right? -[Lori] Oh, my gosh. 796 00:33:48,127 --> 00:33:50,296 -[Timmy] Y'all got that eye? -[Vanessa] Coming. 797 00:33:50,329 --> 00:33:52,364 -[Timmy] Quickly. -[Vanessa] You ready for round two? 798 00:33:52,398 --> 00:33:53,965 [Drew] Going in with the eye. 799 00:33:53,999 --> 00:33:56,202 -[Vanessa] Oh! What happened here? -[Drew] I'm gonna fix it. 800 00:33:57,136 --> 00:33:59,771 I need something to hold it up. 801 00:33:59,805 --> 00:34:02,108 -[Vanessa] Is that good? -I got these toothpicks if you could put those in there. 802 00:34:02,108 --> 00:34:03,409 [Vanessa] Is that good? 803 00:34:03,442 --> 00:34:05,577 [Timmy] Gotta be really careful adding support in there. 804 00:34:05,611 --> 00:34:07,246 The more stuff that we do to that pumpkin, 805 00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:09,215 the more it can crack and start to fall apart. 806 00:34:09,248 --> 00:34:11,016 -It's in. Leave it. -[Drew] Don't touch it. 807 00:34:11,117 --> 00:34:12,318 -[Timmy] All right. -[Vanessa] Don't touch it. 808 00:34:12,351 --> 00:34:14,753 [Dean] We gotta get the fire done yet, we need the rats on, 809 00:34:14,786 --> 00:34:17,188 we need the roses on, we need the tasting. 810 00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:18,556 -[Lisa] Yes. -Almost there, guys. 811 00:34:18,590 --> 00:34:20,126 [Dean] We need the ashes. 812 00:34:20,126 --> 00:34:22,360 [Lisa] I'm really scared to touch your rats, but I gotta touch them. 813 00:34:22,393 --> 00:34:24,396 All right, guys, I'm putting the tasting element on the display. 814 00:34:24,429 --> 00:34:26,431 -[Lisa] Okay. -[Lori] Make sure the big ones are underneath. 815 00:34:26,465 --> 00:34:27,599 Those are solid chocolate. 816 00:34:27,632 --> 00:34:30,569 Look at how many rats are on that. 817 00:34:30,601 --> 00:34:31,902 And each one is a little different. 818 00:34:31,937 --> 00:34:33,905 These are really great little touches. 819 00:34:33,938 --> 00:34:36,141 -[Dean] Okay, we need roses. We need those. -[Lori] Rose. Okay. 820 00:34:36,175 --> 00:34:38,244 [Lisa] Feeling good, yeah. [Lori] Team work, guys, we're doing it. 821 00:34:38,277 --> 00:34:39,710 [Jonathan] You have one minute! 822 00:34:39,745 --> 00:34:41,413 -[Lisa] One minute, guys. -Let's do this. 823 00:34:41,447 --> 00:34:43,415 Tasting element is going on. 824 00:34:43,449 --> 00:34:45,217 -[Corinda] I'm excited. -[Dean] Yeah. 825 00:34:45,251 --> 00:34:47,753 Can I put one here? Okay. 826 00:34:47,786 --> 00:34:49,155 [Dean] Did you make it? The edible moss? 827 00:34:49,188 --> 00:34:50,322 [Lisa] I'm sticking it right now. 828 00:34:50,356 --> 00:34:51,956 Ten, nine... 829 00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:52,958 [Dean] Get it on! 830 00:34:52,991 --> 00:34:54,260 -[Lisa] It's hot. -[Jonathan] ...eight, seven, 831 00:34:54,293 --> 00:35:00,566 six, five, four, three, two, one! 832 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:02,801 Hands off your displays! 833 00:35:02,834 --> 00:35:04,736 [all sigh in relief] 834 00:35:04,770 --> 00:35:06,638 Good job, guys. Bam. 835 00:35:06,672 --> 00:35:09,741 -[Vanessa] Oh, my goodness. -That's the longest five hours of my life. 836 00:35:09,775 --> 00:35:11,510 Sweet Lunatics. 837 00:35:11,543 --> 00:35:14,846 Tell us this twisted story behind your nursery rhyme. 838 00:35:15,914 --> 00:35:18,550 [Dean] We've decided on "Ring Around The Rosie." 839 00:35:18,584 --> 00:35:22,654 Dr. Black, the plague doctor, has come to see poor little sick Emily 840 00:35:22,688 --> 00:35:26,592 who's decaying from her illness which was spread by the rats. 841 00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:32,931 And they often marked a plague house with a red X on the door. 842 00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:38,003 Dean, I have to acknowledge how wonderful this pumpkin plague doctor is. 843 00:35:38,036 --> 00:35:43,275 The fact that you incorporated that sort of reddish undertone to this black is stunning 844 00:35:43,309 --> 00:35:46,512 and also gives off this really classic fairy tale vibe. 845 00:35:46,545 --> 00:35:50,749 My only problem with this piece is the girl herself. 846 00:35:50,782 --> 00:35:53,118 The sculpting of the body is very blocky. 847 00:35:53,219 --> 00:35:55,354 I love that rosy rash, 848 00:35:55,387 --> 00:35:57,356 but the rest of the discoloration 849 00:35:57,389 --> 00:35:59,491 looks really muddled and dirty. 850 00:36:00,826 --> 00:36:04,029 -I adore your rats. -Thank you. 851 00:36:04,062 --> 00:36:06,765 [Aarti] I love that there's a dead deflated rat 852 00:36:06,798 --> 00:36:08,967 at the foot of the plague doctor. 853 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,436 So, yeah, well done. 854 00:36:10,469 --> 00:36:12,338 You ready to try these bones? 855 00:36:12,371 --> 00:36:13,872 Let's do it. 856 00:36:13,905 --> 00:36:16,242 [Lori] We chose peanut butter bars for our tasting treat 857 00:36:16,242 --> 00:36:18,977 and we wanted to represent both the burning of the bodies 858 00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:20,646 and the smoke created from them. 859 00:36:20,679 --> 00:36:23,715 So part of it is peanut butter with a chili paste 860 00:36:23,749 --> 00:36:25,451 and you have a crunch element that's in there 861 00:36:25,484 --> 00:36:26,852 and the other part is cream cheese 862 00:36:26,885 --> 00:36:29,020 with a smoked element inside. 863 00:36:29,054 --> 00:36:32,123 With every bite, I feel like I got more flavor. 864 00:36:32,157 --> 00:36:34,726 I do wish that I could taste the smoke a little bit more 865 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,964 because I think that was what was so exciting to me about your confection. 866 00:36:38,997 --> 00:36:40,466 I completely agree with Aarti. 867 00:36:40,499 --> 00:36:44,169 This is definitely a treat that keeps evolving with every bite, 868 00:36:44,270 --> 00:36:47,506 but I think my favorite thing about it is how you built that into your story. 869 00:36:47,539 --> 00:36:50,976 I love that it incorporates the "Ashes, ashes we all fall down" section 870 00:36:51,009 --> 00:36:51,977 of the nursery rhyme. 871 00:36:52,010 --> 00:36:53,979 -So, good job. -Thank you. 872 00:36:54,012 --> 00:36:56,181 Sweet Lunatics, thank you very much. Great job. 873 00:36:56,282 --> 00:36:57,383 [Sweet Lunatics] Thank you. 874 00:36:59,385 --> 00:37:00,552 -Good job. -Great job. 875 00:37:00,586 --> 00:37:01,953 -Great job. -Ooh. [chuckles] 876 00:37:03,955 --> 00:37:05,757 [Timmy] We're depicting Humpty Dumpty, 877 00:37:05,791 --> 00:37:07,826 who was King Richard III 878 00:37:07,859 --> 00:37:10,996 who fell off of his horse who was named Wall, 879 00:37:11,029 --> 00:37:15,133 and all of his kings horses and men couldn't put him back together 880 00:37:15,166 --> 00:37:19,771 so he came back together from the grave for revenge. 881 00:37:19,805 --> 00:37:25,076 When I first saw the horse erupting through the background, 882 00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:26,745 I got chills. 883 00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:29,748 Every hair on my arm, and I'm Indian, so there's a lot of them... 884 00:37:29,781 --> 00:37:31,317 [all laugh] 885 00:37:31,317 --> 00:37:33,685 -...stood up on end. That's incredible. -Thank you. 886 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,121 I think the thing for me about Humpty Dumpty 887 00:37:36,154 --> 00:37:40,459 is that he's not your quintessential egg-shaped Humpty Dumpty. 888 00:37:44,330 --> 00:37:45,931 For someone's who's supposed to be the star, 889 00:37:45,964 --> 00:37:48,500 my eye is much more pulled up to the horse. 890 00:37:49,501 --> 00:37:52,070 [Shinmin] There are so many amazing details 891 00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:53,972 and incredible technique here. 892 00:37:54,005 --> 00:37:55,707 My favorite thing about the carving 893 00:37:55,741 --> 00:37:59,411 is that you actually created a release from the cheeks, from the teeth, and the gums. 894 00:37:59,445 --> 00:38:00,846 Those details don't get lost on me. 895 00:38:00,879 --> 00:38:02,714 I think it's absolutely lovely. 896 00:38:02,748 --> 00:38:05,183 And this painting in the back, 897 00:38:05,216 --> 00:38:07,252 I saw how quickly you did that. 898 00:38:07,353 --> 00:38:09,020 That's absolutely stunning. 899 00:38:09,054 --> 00:38:10,556 But I couldn't tell it was Humpty, 900 00:38:10,589 --> 00:38:12,724 and I didn't know until you told us. 901 00:38:13,525 --> 00:38:14,493 What are we tasting today? 902 00:38:14,526 --> 00:38:16,027 We chose rice cereal treat. 903 00:38:16,061 --> 00:38:19,531 What we made for you today is Cereal Killer treats 904 00:38:19,565 --> 00:38:22,200 with brown butter, rice cereal, 905 00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:26,237 and marshmallows with brandy because it's King Richard's favorite drink, 906 00:38:26,271 --> 00:38:30,542 with a drizzle of white chocolate ganache, some drunken raisins. 907 00:38:30,576 --> 00:38:32,411 'Cause you know I gotta have my drunken raisins, 908 00:38:32,444 --> 00:38:35,113 and a pinch of salt and some toasted walnuts. 909 00:38:35,146 --> 00:38:37,048 When I think of a rice cereal treat, 910 00:38:37,082 --> 00:38:40,452 I really crave that chewy marshmallow 911 00:38:40,486 --> 00:38:43,855 and then the airy crispiness of the rice cereal. 912 00:38:43,889 --> 00:38:45,724 You've definitely nailed that here. 913 00:38:45,757 --> 00:38:48,927 The addition of the cocoa brings that depth. 914 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,762 I think this is great. 915 00:38:50,796 --> 00:38:53,231 Vanessa, one of my favorite parts here 916 00:38:53,264 --> 00:38:55,266 -is the drunken raisins. -[chuckles] 917 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,636 [Aarti] I also loved the texture of it. 918 00:38:57,669 --> 00:39:01,206 I have two little kids, there's a lot of rice cereal treats in my life, 919 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,774 this is elegant. 920 00:39:02,808 --> 00:39:03,742 Thank you. 921 00:39:03,775 --> 00:39:06,011 Pumpkin Up The Volume, thank you very much. 922 00:39:07,979 --> 00:39:09,881 -Good job on those treats. -[Vanessa sighs] 923 00:39:10,916 --> 00:39:12,984 [Corinda] We chose "Jack Be Nimble." 924 00:39:13,018 --> 00:39:15,854 There are a few renditions of the nursery rhyme. 925 00:39:15,887 --> 00:39:19,891 One of the renditions is about Jack and he has jaundice, 926 00:39:19,925 --> 00:39:24,229 and then there's another rendition that talks about a pirate named Black Jack. 927 00:39:24,262 --> 00:39:28,133 And Black Jack was elusive, nobody could every catch him, 928 00:39:28,166 --> 00:39:33,439 so we combined the two and Jack here is having a fever dream 929 00:39:33,439 --> 00:39:38,810 and in his nightmare, he's being chased by Black Jack the pirate. 930 00:39:38,844 --> 00:39:43,982 This is a very cohesive, stylized display. 931 00:39:44,015 --> 00:39:45,050 The color palette that you chose, 932 00:39:45,083 --> 00:39:47,886 really looks like it's right out a page 933 00:39:47,919 --> 00:39:50,722 of a classic nursery rhyme book. I love that. 934 00:39:50,756 --> 00:39:54,760 Perhaps the only thing that doesn't look as well executed 935 00:39:54,793 --> 00:39:56,361 would be the sugar work here. 936 00:39:56,462 --> 00:40:00,732 You didn't have to do so much, you could have focused more on this silhouette 937 00:40:00,766 --> 00:40:03,702 because that is really your highlight sugar piece here. 938 00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:05,103 I have to talk about that chest. 939 00:40:05,136 --> 00:40:10,709 There is so much wood detail there, the grain looks gorgeous. 940 00:40:10,742 --> 00:40:13,912 -Yeah, it's really something. It's beautiful. -Thank you. 941 00:40:13,945 --> 00:40:14,846 What are we tasting today? 942 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,748 [Nils] I took a chocolate chip cookie, 943 00:40:16,782 --> 00:40:20,351 it's got a little bit of milk and dark chocolate chips in it, walnuts. 944 00:40:20,385 --> 00:40:24,055 Then the ganache on the inside is 50-50 dark and milk. 945 00:40:24,089 --> 00:40:28,226 It's got a bit of Irish cream and coffee liqueur in the ganache 946 00:40:28,259 --> 00:40:31,129 and I gilded it with a 24-carat gold sheet. 947 00:40:31,162 --> 00:40:33,231 I love a chocolate chip cookie 948 00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:37,268 and it's precisely for the textures of the chew 949 00:40:37,302 --> 00:40:39,605 and the crisp around the edges. 950 00:40:39,638 --> 00:40:41,272 You've cut it with a circle cutter. 951 00:40:41,306 --> 00:40:43,208 I love that you thought about the design, 952 00:40:43,241 --> 00:40:45,944 but you really took that crisp away 953 00:40:45,977 --> 00:40:48,947 so all we have now is the chew from the cookie. 954 00:40:48,980 --> 00:40:50,816 I'm really wanting that crisp. 955 00:40:50,849 --> 00:40:53,218 First of all, your ganache is to die for. 956 00:40:53,251 --> 00:40:56,755 I love a mix of dark chocolate and milk chocolate. 957 00:40:56,788 --> 00:40:59,725 You got just the right amount of Irish cream in there. 958 00:40:59,758 --> 00:41:03,028 If you could roll that up into a truffle so I can take it home. 959 00:41:03,662 --> 00:41:05,531 It's just delicious. 960 00:41:05,564 --> 00:41:07,966 Trick Or Sweet, thank you very much. 961 00:41:07,999 --> 00:41:08,867 [Trick or Sweet] Thank you. 962 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:09,801 Good job, guys. 963 00:41:09,835 --> 00:41:10,869 -Good job. -You did good. 964 00:41:11,837 --> 00:41:14,205 Teams, for this Spine Chiller, 965 00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:18,577 you each had to depict a very frightening nursery rhyme, 966 00:41:18,610 --> 00:41:23,148 but one team's story is not going to lead to a happy ending. 967 00:41:23,181 --> 00:41:26,618 The team being eliminated tonight is... 968 00:41:30,756 --> 00:41:31,857 Pumpkin Up The Volume. 969 00:41:31,890 --> 00:41:32,991 [Vanessa sighs] 970 00:41:33,024 --> 00:41:34,593 With the nursery rhyme challenge, 971 00:41:34,626 --> 00:41:36,361 it's all about the story. 972 00:41:36,394 --> 00:41:38,730 Guys. [blows kiss] Thank you. 973 00:41:38,764 --> 00:41:43,068 I can't believe it, I thought we had just enough to get us through. 974 00:41:43,101 --> 00:41:45,871 But I'm very proud of what our team did. 975 00:41:45,904 --> 00:41:48,740 We'll see the rest of you in the main competition. 976 00:41:48,774 --> 00:41:50,909 Rest up. 977 00:41:50,942 --> 00:41:52,911 [Jonathan] This season on Halloween Wars... 978 00:41:52,944 --> 00:41:54,412 [mimicking buzzsaw] 979 00:41:54,445 --> 00:41:56,782 [woman] I would not wanna see that in a dark alley, I'll tell you that. 980 00:41:56,815 --> 00:41:57,949 Welcome to the jungle. 981 00:41:57,983 --> 00:41:58,917 [Judges exclaiming] 982 00:41:58,950 --> 00:42:00,251 -Wow! -What? 983 00:42:00,285 --> 00:42:02,220 I wanna throw this at you, it's so good. 984 00:42:02,253 --> 00:42:04,289 See the resemblance? 985 00:42:04,322 --> 00:42:05,857 This looks like it belongs in a museum. 986 00:42:05,891 --> 00:42:07,192 [team cheering] 987 00:42:07,225 --> 00:42:08,259 [gasps] 988 00:42:08,293 --> 00:42:09,194 -[woman] Oh! -[woman gasping] 989 00:42:09,227 --> 00:42:10,596 -This is not good. -It's not. 990 00:42:11,362 --> 00:42:12,197 -[gasps] -[yells]