1 00:00:03,724 --> 00:00:06,344 [Jonathan] It's the scariest time of the year! 2 00:00:06,379 --> 00:00:08,689 -[all screaming] -[Titus] Welcome to the jungle. 3 00:00:08,724 --> 00:00:11,344 [Jonathan] Two teams have already gone home. 4 00:00:11,379 --> 00:00:13,103 You're done in this Halloween Wars. 5 00:00:13,137 --> 00:00:15,517 [Jonathan] Tonight, it's the final qualifying round. 6 00:00:15,551 --> 00:00:16,965 Don't touch it, don't touch it! 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,310 [Jonathan] Two more teams will move on to the main competition, 8 00:00:19,344 --> 00:00:23,758 for a chance to win the $25,000 grand prize! 9 00:00:23,793 --> 00:00:24,793 -[gasps] -[screams] 10 00:00:24,827 --> 00:00:27,310 [Jonathan] Halloween Wars starts right now! 11 00:00:28,965 --> 00:00:31,620 [spooky music] 12 00:00:31,655 --> 00:00:33,620 [werewolf howling] 13 00:00:37,655 --> 00:00:40,620 Welcome to Halloween Wars! 14 00:00:40,655 --> 00:00:43,793 It's our final qualifying round. 15 00:00:43,827 --> 00:00:46,137 Four teams have already moved on to the main competition. 16 00:00:47,241 --> 00:00:49,275 And only two teams here tonight can join them. 17 00:00:52,896 --> 00:00:55,689 But first, you'll have to impress our judges. 18 00:00:55,724 --> 00:00:58,689 Aarti Sequeira, and Shinmin Li! 19 00:00:58,724 --> 00:01:01,551 Now, let's see what our haunted house has in mind 20 00:01:01,586 --> 00:01:04,724 for our first round, the Small Scare! 21 00:01:04,757 --> 00:01:06,172 [thunder clap] 22 00:01:06,206 --> 00:01:09,206 A premonition is telling me to check the mailbox... 23 00:01:11,551 --> 00:01:12,724 Oh! 24 00:01:15,068 --> 00:01:17,551 And here's two messages. 25 00:01:17,586 --> 00:01:19,000 One is nice, 26 00:01:20,275 --> 00:01:21,551 And one is... 27 00:01:22,724 --> 00:01:23,724 ...not so nice. 28 00:01:24,896 --> 00:01:26,103 Good and evil. 29 00:01:26,137 --> 00:01:27,896 Two sides to every... 30 00:01:29,206 --> 00:01:31,068 -...cake. -[all laugh] 31 00:01:31,103 --> 00:01:32,689 [Jonathan] And for the first round, 32 00:01:32,723 --> 00:01:35,793 using the power of cake, sugar and pumpkin, 33 00:01:35,827 --> 00:01:39,000 that is exactly what you will have to show. 34 00:01:39,033 --> 00:01:41,758 Two distinct faces in conflict. 35 00:01:42,448 --> 00:01:45,000 One good, and one... 36 00:01:45,033 --> 00:01:48,172 [laughs maniacally]...evil. 37 00:01:48,206 --> 00:01:49,896 -[all chuckling] -[Jonathan] And speaking of evil, 38 00:01:49,931 --> 00:01:51,586 you only have 45 minutes to do it. 39 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:53,862 -[all groan] -You got it! 40 00:01:53,896 --> 00:01:55,862 The winning team will get first pick 41 00:01:55,896 --> 00:01:57,931 of the pumpkin patch in the next round. 42 00:01:57,965 --> 00:02:00,931 All you pumpkin artists know exactly 43 00:02:00,965 --> 00:02:03,310 what an advantage that can be. 44 00:02:03,344 --> 00:02:05,620 Your 45 minutes start... 45 00:02:07,517 --> 00:02:09,620 -...now! -Come on, come on! 46 00:02:10,931 --> 00:02:12,137 [Teresa] Okay, here we go, here we go. 47 00:02:12,172 --> 00:02:13,689 [Titus] What are we thinking? 48 00:02:13,724 --> 00:02:15,965 [Kristina] It has to be scary. It has to be something creepy. 49 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,413 [Aaron] What if we just take the most 50 00:02:18,448 --> 00:02:20,827 pure of the good and the evil? 51 00:02:20,862 --> 00:02:22,413 It's like, light versus dark. 52 00:02:22,448 --> 00:02:24,310 Our team is Sweet Screams. 53 00:02:24,344 --> 00:02:27,241 My name is Yaya Graham, and I am a cake artist. 54 00:02:27,275 --> 00:02:29,448 Our sugar artist is Amy, 55 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:31,517 and our pumpkin carver is Aaron Reimschiissel. 56 00:02:31,551 --> 00:02:32,793 What about, like, a cherub? 57 00:02:32,827 --> 00:02:34,655 Getting taken over by a devil, maybe? 58 00:02:34,689 --> 00:02:36,896 [Aaron] So, like, half-devil, 59 00:02:36,930 --> 00:02:38,275 half-cherub? 60 00:02:38,310 --> 00:02:39,586 [Yaya] For our Small Scare, 61 00:02:39,620 --> 00:02:42,137 we decided to do a cherub angel baby, 62 00:02:42,172 --> 00:02:43,689 being possessed by the devil. 63 00:02:43,724 --> 00:02:46,344 And those are the two conflicting forces that we have. 64 00:02:46,379 --> 00:02:49,827 What if we did, like, a creepy teddy bear? 65 00:02:49,862 --> 00:02:51,448 -Ooh! -Ooh, that would be good. 66 00:02:51,482 --> 00:02:54,620 We're the Spice Ghouls! [laughs] 67 00:02:54,655 --> 00:02:56,586 My name is Kristina Marie Patenaude, 68 00:02:56,620 --> 00:02:57,758 I'm a pumpkin carver. 69 00:02:57,793 --> 00:03:00,068 Our cake artist is Elan Parker, 70 00:03:00,103 --> 00:03:02,724 our sugar artist is Teresa Shurilla. 71 00:03:02,758 --> 00:03:05,862 So let's split this bear literally down the middle. 72 00:03:05,896 --> 00:03:07,344 -[Kristina] Straight down the middle? Okay. -[Elan] Yeah. 73 00:03:07,379 --> 00:03:08,965 [Kristina] We decided to go with a teddy bear, 74 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,862 because it's something that's typically known 75 00:03:10,896 --> 00:03:13,172 as being very cute and cuddly, 76 00:03:13,206 --> 00:03:16,620 but what if the teddy bear was a little bit evil? 77 00:03:16,655 --> 00:03:17,827 That would be terrifying. 78 00:03:17,862 --> 00:03:19,965 -Gnomes? -Yeah, like gnomes or elves? 79 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,620 I'm Vikki Peña, and I'm a sugar artist. 80 00:03:22,655 --> 00:03:24,482 We are the Sugar Spirits. 81 00:03:24,517 --> 00:03:27,034 Our pumpkin carver is Titus. 82 00:03:27,068 --> 00:03:30,896 Our cake artist is Maythe, or May. 83 00:03:30,931 --> 00:03:32,930 We've got a set of twin gnomes, 84 00:03:32,965 --> 00:03:35,896 one of them is very in love with holidays, 85 00:03:35,930 --> 00:03:40,000 however, his twin starts smashing all the decorations 86 00:03:40,034 --> 00:03:42,862 and that's definitely very sad for the first one. 87 00:03:42,896 --> 00:03:45,310 -I'm gonna go grab the pumpkins I need, guys. -Okay! 88 00:03:45,344 --> 00:03:46,551 [Kristina] Hustle, baby, hustle! 89 00:03:46,586 --> 00:03:48,896 I need a small one. 90 00:03:48,930 --> 00:03:50,344 [Aaron] I found it! Right under your nose. 91 00:03:50,379 --> 00:03:51,689 [Kristina] Halloween Wars. 92 00:03:51,724 --> 00:03:53,620 This is one of the most incredible 93 00:03:53,655 --> 00:03:55,586 places to show your art, 94 00:03:55,620 --> 00:03:59,241 especially if you're a pumpkin carver, so I can't wait! 95 00:03:59,275 --> 00:04:03,724 Hopefully it'll be enough thickness for both of the faces on there. 96 00:04:03,758 --> 00:04:05,482 [Yaya] Forty-five minutes is not a long time 97 00:04:05,517 --> 00:04:07,551 at all to complete this challenge. 98 00:04:07,586 --> 00:04:08,931 [Aaron] If I can get the cherub nose right, 99 00:04:08,965 --> 00:04:10,793 I think it'll give it a nice look. 100 00:04:10,827 --> 00:04:12,448 [Yaya] Because of that, we decide to have him 101 00:04:12,482 --> 00:04:14,413 do two faces on one pumpkin, 102 00:04:14,448 --> 00:04:16,930 and let that be the focal point of our piece. 103 00:04:16,964 --> 00:04:19,793 So we make, like, a little neck for the baby. 104 00:04:19,827 --> 00:04:23,103 [Yaya] I'm gonna be doing the shoulder portion of the cake. 105 00:04:23,137 --> 00:04:24,793 I'll also be doing the wings 106 00:04:24,827 --> 00:04:27,793 for the baby out of wafer paper. 107 00:04:27,827 --> 00:04:29,758 See, and then we have a whole bunch of feathers. 108 00:04:31,241 --> 00:04:34,965 Just getting some gold isomalt going for the halo. 109 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,758 [Yaya] Amy will do the pitchfork, 110 00:04:36,793 --> 00:04:39,275 the horns and the halo, out of isomalt. 111 00:04:39,310 --> 00:04:40,655 [Amy] I'm just cooling it down, 112 00:04:40,689 --> 00:04:42,620 and making it pliable to shape. 113 00:04:42,655 --> 00:04:44,379 -[Aaron] What do you guys think? -[Yaya] Oh, wow! 114 00:04:44,413 --> 00:04:47,275 -Ooh, I like it. It's looking really good. -Sweet. 115 00:04:47,310 --> 00:04:49,482 What would you guys be emphasizing 116 00:04:49,517 --> 00:04:51,586 to really highlight in a piece like this? 117 00:04:51,620 --> 00:04:53,379 [Shinmin] I would love to see them really focus 118 00:04:53,413 --> 00:04:55,655 on the stark difference between the good and the evil. 119 00:04:55,689 --> 00:04:58,655 I don't even care if they have just one body with two faces, 120 00:04:58,689 --> 00:05:01,827 I think that would be the best way to do this so quickly. 121 00:05:01,862 --> 00:05:03,724 [Amy] My sugar's coming along, I have the red going, 122 00:05:03,758 --> 00:05:06,793 so I can make the pitchfork and the horns. 123 00:05:06,827 --> 00:05:09,137 -[Aarti] I would say keep it as simple as possible. -[Jonathan] Yes! 124 00:05:09,172 --> 00:05:12,551 Give us good, give us evil, nothing else! I don't care. 125 00:05:12,586 --> 00:05:13,862 -[thunder clap] -Thirty minutes left! 126 00:05:13,896 --> 00:05:15,103 [groans] 127 00:05:16,172 --> 00:05:18,137 [Vikki] Third of the way there, guys! 128 00:05:18,172 --> 00:05:19,655 [Titus] Look at the body on this guy. 129 00:05:19,689 --> 00:05:21,000 [Vikki] He's gonna be real cute. 130 00:05:21,034 --> 00:05:22,517 [Titus] Trying to create elbows, 131 00:05:22,551 --> 00:05:24,551 so my arms will pop out of the body. 132 00:05:25,206 --> 00:05:26,827 Bow-chika-wow-wow. 133 00:05:26,862 --> 00:05:29,310 [Vikki] Titus is gonna be doing the good gnome, 134 00:05:29,344 --> 00:05:30,862 from a couple of different pumpkins. 135 00:05:30,896 --> 00:05:32,482 [sighs] Stabbing this cake. 136 00:05:33,344 --> 00:05:35,551 This baby's not going anywhere. 137 00:05:35,586 --> 00:05:38,344 [Vikki] May is doing the evil gnome, 138 00:05:38,379 --> 00:05:39,827 made out of rice cereal, 139 00:05:39,862 --> 00:05:42,172 covered with modeling chocolate. 140 00:05:42,206 --> 00:05:44,448 [May] I'm gonna start covering the hat. 141 00:05:44,482 --> 00:05:46,172 [Vikki] It's finally starting to stick to itself, 142 00:05:46,206 --> 00:05:48,344 so it looks like I should be able to pull it, 143 00:05:48,379 --> 00:05:49,896 now that it's cooled down a little bit. 144 00:05:49,931 --> 00:05:53,137 [Vikki] I'm gonna be responsible for the blown sugar pumpkin. 145 00:05:53,172 --> 00:05:55,344 Almost there. It's getting nice, it's almost like Play-Doh. 146 00:05:55,379 --> 00:05:56,482 It's kinda nice. 147 00:05:56,517 --> 00:05:58,275 Yeah, look at that, guys. Coming together. 148 00:05:59,206 --> 00:06:01,068 Ooh. be careful. That's a big torch. 149 00:06:01,103 --> 00:06:03,275 Talk about, uh, spirits! 150 00:06:03,310 --> 00:06:04,655 [May chuckles] 151 00:06:04,689 --> 00:06:07,862 Okay, I'm building the face, 152 00:06:07,896 --> 00:06:10,275 -with molding chocolate eyes, okay? -[Titus] Yeah. 153 00:06:12,241 --> 00:06:14,068 [Kristina] Go, go, go, go! 154 00:06:14,103 --> 00:06:17,620 [Kristina] All three of us are very ambitious. 155 00:06:17,655 --> 00:06:21,034 I will be carving the pumpkin head of our killer teddy bear. 156 00:06:21,068 --> 00:06:23,034 I'm almost finished, 157 00:06:23,758 --> 00:06:25,413 ganaching all my extremities. 158 00:06:25,448 --> 00:06:27,517 Just trying to make them smooth. 159 00:06:27,551 --> 00:06:29,551 [Kristina] Elan will be constructing 160 00:06:29,586 --> 00:06:31,793 the teddy bear's body and limbs, 161 00:06:31,827 --> 00:06:34,931 made out of rice cereal treats, and cake. 162 00:06:34,965 --> 00:06:38,068 All righty, I got some good black. There we go. 163 00:06:38,103 --> 00:06:40,206 Hot sugar on the table, be careful. 164 00:06:40,241 --> 00:06:43,551 [Kristina] Teresa will be creating the sugar eyes, 165 00:06:44,241 --> 00:06:46,689 the knife, and the claws. 166 00:06:46,724 --> 00:06:48,827 [Elan] Rounding out this belly... 167 00:06:48,862 --> 00:06:50,551 Girls, where we at so far? 168 00:06:50,586 --> 00:06:53,413 I gotta pull the stuffing. 169 00:06:53,448 --> 00:06:56,275 I'm doing the stuff for the claws, and whatnot. 170 00:06:56,310 --> 00:07:00,000 For me, I just finished the legs and arms. 171 00:07:00,034 --> 00:07:01,931 I'm working on this body. 172 00:07:01,965 --> 00:07:04,103 And once I get this done and the ganache sets, 173 00:07:04,137 --> 00:07:05,862 I'm gonna start covering in fondant. 174 00:07:06,793 --> 00:07:08,931 -Twenty minutes left! -Oh, no! 175 00:07:08,965 --> 00:07:10,000 Crap. Okay. 176 00:07:10,034 --> 00:07:11,413 Are you kidding me? 177 00:07:11,448 --> 00:07:13,275 I feel like it's only been, like, five minutes. 178 00:07:14,379 --> 00:07:15,965 [Aaron] It's a short amount of time. 179 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,344 I just need to get this white on. 180 00:07:17,379 --> 00:07:19,586 I like what Aaron has done so far in this short amount of time. 181 00:07:19,620 --> 00:07:22,482 There's so much detail in that face. 182 00:07:22,517 --> 00:07:24,344 -[Aaron] There we go! -[Yaya] it looks good to me. 183 00:07:24,379 --> 00:07:26,413 [Aaron] It's getting the job done. 184 00:07:26,448 --> 00:07:28,172 [Amy] So I'm just mixing a little bit of yellow 185 00:07:28,206 --> 00:07:29,586 and red and doing some flames, 186 00:07:29,620 --> 00:07:32,068 to kind of put around the bottom of the pitchfork. 187 00:07:32,103 --> 00:07:34,068 I don't wanna put the pitchfork on until the end, 188 00:07:34,103 --> 00:07:35,586 so we need to get the head on. 189 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:36,965 How you doing over there, Titus? 190 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,103 I'm doing okay. I don't know about coloring this guy. 191 00:07:40,137 --> 00:07:41,793 [Aarti] I'm hoping to see this come together, 192 00:07:41,827 --> 00:07:43,896 especially with such little time left. 193 00:07:43,931 --> 00:07:45,793 I can just get this stem to pop on there, 194 00:07:45,827 --> 00:07:47,137 and then the pumpkin will be done, 195 00:07:47,172 --> 00:07:48,517 and I can probably start helping you 196 00:07:48,551 --> 00:07:50,310 -get colored out, Titus. -That would be huge. 197 00:07:50,344 --> 00:07:52,310 [Teresa] Stuffing coming. 198 00:07:52,344 --> 00:07:55,655 [Shinmin] So Teresa's spinning the sugar right there, it's like this comb, 199 00:07:55,689 --> 00:07:57,000 -basically, with lots of metal teeth. -Uh-huh. 200 00:07:57,034 --> 00:07:58,724 [Shinmin] and it drips onto the sugar, 201 00:07:58,758 --> 00:08:00,482 and when you whisk it like that, 202 00:08:00,517 --> 00:08:03,379 you get fine, fine threads of sugar. 203 00:08:03,413 --> 00:08:04,586 On the fly, it's a little tricky. 204 00:08:05,482 --> 00:08:07,206 Because it's hot! 205 00:08:07,241 --> 00:08:08,344 Ten minutes! 206 00:08:08,379 --> 00:08:11,551 -[Yaya] Oh, man. -[Elan] Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh... 207 00:08:11,586 --> 00:08:13,724 The time goes by so quick. 208 00:08:13,758 --> 00:08:16,413 All right, now, on time, I'm feeling the crunch. 209 00:08:16,448 --> 00:08:18,068 I'll do what I gotta do. 210 00:08:18,103 --> 00:08:19,310 I can just try to cover, 211 00:08:19,344 --> 00:08:22,206 as much as humanly possible, in fondant. 212 00:08:22,241 --> 00:08:23,827 I can't do any type of detail work. 213 00:08:23,862 --> 00:08:25,413 [Kristina] There's 10 minutes left, 214 00:08:25,448 --> 00:08:28,896 and we do not have a complete character on the board yet. 215 00:08:28,931 --> 00:08:31,517 This is larger than I thought. 216 00:08:31,551 --> 00:08:33,000 I'm gonna have to cut this down. 217 00:08:33,034 --> 00:08:34,551 [Kristina] We might be in trouble. 218 00:08:34,586 --> 00:08:37,482 Oh my god, this is not even funny. 219 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:38,655 Oh my gosh. 220 00:08:44,793 --> 00:08:46,931 -Kristina, I'm gonna need you to put that head on. -[Kristina] Right here? 221 00:08:46,965 --> 00:08:48,586 Elan looked like she was struggling, 222 00:08:48,620 --> 00:08:50,827 with the sizing of the arms and the legs of the bear. 223 00:08:50,862 --> 00:08:52,724 That bear only has one arm and one leg. 224 00:08:52,758 --> 00:08:54,137 And we've got 10 minutes. 225 00:08:54,172 --> 00:08:56,241 [Kristina] We're beginning to realize that this piece 226 00:08:56,275 --> 00:08:59,137 is not gonna be completed the way that we had hoped. 227 00:08:59,172 --> 00:09:01,724 At this point, we just need it to be assembled. 228 00:09:01,758 --> 00:09:03,655 All right, dagger, dagger, dagger. 229 00:09:03,689 --> 00:09:04,965 -Is that a good dagger? -Okay. Yeah! 230 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,655 [Elan] Oh my god. We need to hurry. 231 00:09:06,689 --> 00:09:09,068 [Vikki] Titus, we're definitely gonna have to move 232 00:09:09,103 --> 00:09:11,896 -a little bit faster if we're gonna get finished on time. -[Titus] All right... 233 00:09:11,931 --> 00:09:13,827 [Aarti] Sugar Spirits, a little while ago, 234 00:09:13,862 --> 00:09:16,413 -their creation looked pretty Christmas-y, to me. -[Jonathan] Mm-hmm. 235 00:09:16,448 --> 00:09:17,689 But now...[chuckles] 236 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:19,655 It's funny what a little eyeshadow can do, people! 237 00:09:19,689 --> 00:09:21,655 -[Jonathan] Oh, honey, tell me about it! -[judges laughing] 238 00:09:21,689 --> 00:09:24,517 It is definitely looking like an evil gnome! 239 00:09:24,551 --> 00:09:25,827 [May] How you think about this? 240 00:09:25,862 --> 00:09:27,517 I think it's coming out terrifying. 241 00:09:27,551 --> 00:09:29,655 -Definitely. -[laughs] Well, that's what we need! 242 00:09:29,689 --> 00:09:31,517 Five minutes! You have five minutes left! 243 00:09:31,551 --> 00:09:32,896 Guys, five minutes! 244 00:09:32,931 --> 00:09:34,551 [both] Oh my god! 245 00:09:34,586 --> 00:09:37,068 Everyone just put their foot on the accelerator. 246 00:09:37,103 --> 00:09:39,793 It's going to go right in the center in between these two things. 247 00:09:39,827 --> 00:09:40,793 Right here? Okay. 248 00:09:40,827 --> 00:09:42,172 [speaking indistinctly] 249 00:09:42,206 --> 00:09:43,241 [Aaron] Just shove it in. 250 00:09:43,275 --> 00:09:45,655 [Yaya] Wait, but don't put too much pressure on. 251 00:09:45,689 --> 00:09:47,137 [Aaron] I do have a hammer. 252 00:09:48,758 --> 00:09:49,827 Put it on. 253 00:09:50,827 --> 00:09:52,000 Hand me the pitchfork. 254 00:09:55,068 --> 00:09:56,517 One minute. You have one minute. 255 00:09:56,827 --> 00:09:57,793 Oh. 256 00:09:57,827 --> 00:09:59,000 Come on, we got this. 257 00:09:59,034 --> 00:10:00,482 I think we're ready to break him. Can I use that? 258 00:10:00,517 --> 00:10:01,482 Yes. 259 00:10:01,517 --> 00:10:02,482 Yes! 260 00:10:02,517 --> 00:10:03,689 It's looking good. It's looking good. 261 00:10:03,724 --> 00:10:04,655 We just have to put the halo on. 262 00:10:04,689 --> 00:10:05,724 Where's the halo? 263 00:10:06,379 --> 00:10:07,310 Oh, shoot. Oh, shoot. 264 00:10:07,344 --> 00:10:08,620 Get that head on there, guys. 265 00:10:08,655 --> 00:10:09,655 Oh my gosh, okay. 266 00:10:09,689 --> 00:10:11,655 For Spice Ghouls, this is, like, a Hail Mary. 267 00:10:11,689 --> 00:10:13,551 [Jonathan] I mean, they have a few seconds left 268 00:10:13,586 --> 00:10:16,206 and they still have to get this whole thing put together. 269 00:10:16,241 --> 00:10:17,206 I can't. 270 00:10:17,241 --> 00:10:18,241 It's okay. Go. 271 00:10:19,068 --> 00:10:20,275 [Jonathan] Ten! 272 00:10:20,310 --> 00:10:22,172 -I don't have time. I have to use my... -Yeah, just... 273 00:10:22,206 --> 00:10:23,310 [Jonathan] Seven! 274 00:10:23,344 --> 00:10:24,310 Six! 275 00:10:24,344 --> 00:10:25,517 Five! 276 00:10:25,551 --> 00:10:26,655 Four! 277 00:10:26,689 --> 00:10:27,724 Three! 278 00:10:27,758 --> 00:10:28,724 Two! 279 00:10:28,758 --> 00:10:29,689 One! 280 00:10:30,724 --> 00:10:33,172 Hands off your displays. 281 00:10:34,586 --> 00:10:35,896 Oh, my. 282 00:10:35,931 --> 00:10:37,137 This is not good. 283 00:10:37,172 --> 00:10:38,172 It's not. 284 00:10:38,206 --> 00:10:40,379 [Kristina] Without the knife in place, 285 00:10:40,413 --> 00:10:42,862 I think it's going to be difficult for the judge to see 286 00:10:42,896 --> 00:10:44,862 that we have two separate entities, here, 287 00:10:44,896 --> 00:10:47,172 which was a major part of the challenge. 288 00:10:47,206 --> 00:10:52,068 All right, Sugar Spirits. Tell us about your two-faced creation. 289 00:10:52,103 --> 00:10:56,068 Uh, so the good gnome is made out of, uh, carved pumpkin and butternut squash 290 00:10:56,103 --> 00:10:58,241 and then we've got, uh, the evil gnome, 291 00:10:58,275 --> 00:11:02,206 that's made out of modelling chocolate, crispy cereals and, uh, cake. 292 00:11:02,241 --> 00:11:06,137 Your two gnomes have so much personality. 293 00:11:06,172 --> 00:11:07,724 Your good gnome, 294 00:11:07,758 --> 00:11:11,137 the way that his little hands are right in front of his face, he's shocked. 295 00:11:11,172 --> 00:11:12,103 He's in horror. 296 00:11:12,137 --> 00:11:13,655 How could you kill the pumpkin? 297 00:11:13,689 --> 00:11:16,275 There's just so much storytelling going on 298 00:11:16,310 --> 00:11:18,758 just by the way that you positioned hands 299 00:11:18,793 --> 00:11:21,275 and you used color and texture in their faces. 300 00:11:21,310 --> 00:11:24,620 I love that you have two very, very strong characters. 301 00:11:24,655 --> 00:11:27,413 You got that sugar so paper thin. 302 00:11:27,448 --> 00:11:29,965 If you had made that sugar just a little bit thicker, 303 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,655 you would get more texture in the actual shell of the pumpkin. 304 00:11:33,689 --> 00:11:35,931 -Thank you, Sugar Spirits. -Thank you, thank you. 305 00:11:38,103 --> 00:11:41,241 We decided to do a cherub angel baby 306 00:11:41,275 --> 00:11:43,310 being overtaken by the devil, 307 00:11:43,344 --> 00:11:47,551 kind of possessed and turning into an evil version of the cherub. 308 00:11:47,586 --> 00:11:49,793 [Aarti] It's so clear what your story is. 309 00:11:49,827 --> 00:11:52,482 If you didn't explain, I would know exactly what's happening here. 310 00:11:53,413 --> 00:11:56,000 The sugar work is impeccable. 311 00:11:56,034 --> 00:12:00,448 The super straight line in the fork is actually not easy to do. 312 00:12:00,482 --> 00:12:04,448 It's like you guys mind melded before you came up with this. 313 00:12:05,068 --> 00:12:06,310 It's seamless. 314 00:12:06,344 --> 00:12:10,137 I will say, you put all your characters in that pumpkin. 315 00:12:10,172 --> 00:12:13,724 I want to see the other mediums really come through. 316 00:12:14,551 --> 00:12:16,172 Thank you, Sweet Screams. 317 00:12:16,206 --> 00:12:18,413 Thank you. 318 00:12:18,448 --> 00:12:21,517 [Elan] Little Timmy's teddy bear ended up getting ripped by his dog. 319 00:12:21,551 --> 00:12:24,103 His mom decided to go to the antique store 320 00:12:24,137 --> 00:12:25,724 to find a new bear to sew it up with. 321 00:12:25,758 --> 00:12:30,379 Little did she know, the other bear was actually an evil, possessed bear. 322 00:12:30,413 --> 00:12:32,275 So with each stitch that she took, 323 00:12:32,310 --> 00:12:35,379 the evilness started to take over the entire bear. 324 00:12:35,413 --> 00:12:38,206 Really going for that story, aren't we? I like it. 325 00:12:39,137 --> 00:12:41,931 You had such a strong strategy here 326 00:12:41,965 --> 00:12:43,344 and I really commend you for it. 327 00:12:43,379 --> 00:12:47,103 With 45 minutes, you said, I'm just going to make the one person 328 00:12:47,137 --> 00:12:48,896 with two different sides of the face. 329 00:12:48,931 --> 00:12:51,068 The disappointment here is just with the pumpkin, 330 00:12:51,103 --> 00:12:56,206 not really being able to see a strong difference between the two characters. 331 00:12:56,241 --> 00:12:59,103 I definitely noticed you guys had trouble with structure. 332 00:12:59,137 --> 00:13:02,206 You were using a lot of time to fix that arm, right? 333 00:13:02,241 --> 00:13:05,241 I think you could have left it off and added some of the stuffing there 334 00:13:05,275 --> 00:13:07,931 and it would have completely just sold the story even more. 335 00:13:07,965 --> 00:13:08,896 -Yeah. -Yep. 336 00:13:08,931 --> 00:13:10,103 Thank you very much. 337 00:13:10,137 --> 00:13:11,068 [all] Thank you. 338 00:13:11,586 --> 00:13:12,965 [Jonathan] Teams. 339 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,241 You were asked to give us displays that were split in personality. 340 00:13:16,275 --> 00:13:20,724 But the judges weren't split about which team did the best job. 341 00:13:20,758 --> 00:13:23,517 The winning team will get first pick of the pumpkin patch 342 00:13:23,551 --> 00:13:24,758 in the next round. 343 00:13:25,413 --> 00:13:26,965 And the winning team is... 344 00:13:37,206 --> 00:13:38,896 And the winning team is 345 00:13:41,482 --> 00:13:42,655 Sweet Screams. 346 00:13:42,689 --> 00:13:45,758 Congratulations, you've earned first pick of the pumpkins. 347 00:13:45,793 --> 00:13:46,793 Yes. 348 00:13:46,827 --> 00:13:49,793 We feel great that we won the small scare 349 00:13:49,827 --> 00:13:51,000 even though we knew we would win. 350 00:13:52,344 --> 00:13:55,448 It's like this great boost of confidence, you know? 351 00:13:55,482 --> 00:13:58,586 Teams. It's time for our second round. 352 00:13:58,620 --> 00:14:00,482 The spine-chiller. 353 00:14:00,517 --> 00:14:02,413 For this spine-chiller challenge, 354 00:14:02,448 --> 00:14:06,448 we want you to take two of the scariest monsters imaginable 355 00:14:06,482 --> 00:14:11,172 and then combine them into one maniacal mega monster. 356 00:14:11,206 --> 00:14:12,172 Okay. 357 00:14:12,206 --> 00:14:14,034 And it's not just monsters we're mashing up. 358 00:14:14,068 --> 00:14:15,896 It's flavors, too. 359 00:14:15,931 --> 00:14:18,862 You must combine two seemingly different flavors 360 00:14:18,896 --> 00:14:22,068 into one perfect-tasting element. 361 00:14:22,103 --> 00:14:25,689 We've assigned these ingredients randomly to each team. 362 00:14:25,724 --> 00:14:27,241 Sweet screams. 363 00:14:27,275 --> 00:14:30,275 You will work with strawberry and tomato. 364 00:14:30,310 --> 00:14:31,206 -Hmm. -Okay. 365 00:14:31,241 --> 00:14:32,655 Spice ghouls. 366 00:14:32,689 --> 00:14:35,517 -Coffee and avocado. -Oh. 367 00:14:35,551 --> 00:14:37,275 Sugar Spirits. 368 00:14:37,310 --> 00:14:41,000 -Sriracha and peanut butter. -What? 369 00:14:41,034 --> 00:14:44,172 In the end, only two teams will survive 370 00:14:44,206 --> 00:14:47,862 and move forward into the carnage of the main competition. 371 00:14:48,586 --> 00:14:50,689 That means for one team, 372 00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:52,172 your hopes of winning 373 00:14:52,206 --> 00:14:54,000 will have to rest in peace. 374 00:14:55,310 --> 00:14:56,896 You've got just five hours. 375 00:14:57,689 --> 00:14:59,000 And your time starts 376 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:01,931 now. 377 00:15:03,620 --> 00:15:05,793 All right, guys. Redemption tour. 378 00:15:05,827 --> 00:15:07,137 What about, like, a zombie? 379 00:15:07,172 --> 00:15:10,000 I love zombies, but I think they're done quite a bit. 380 00:15:10,034 --> 00:15:11,241 Yeah, they're kind of overdone. 381 00:15:11,275 --> 00:15:12,586 Everyone does zombies. Yeah. 382 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:13,620 Medusa. 383 00:15:13,655 --> 00:15:15,413 I love Medusa. It will be tricky. 384 00:15:15,448 --> 00:15:16,896 -With the snakes. -Lots of snakes, yeah. 385 00:15:16,931 --> 00:15:18,965 Grim reaper with Medusa mash up? 386 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,586 Turns people to their gravestone. 387 00:15:21,620 --> 00:15:23,275 [laughing] 388 00:15:23,310 --> 00:15:26,172 [Yaya] Our piece is the grim reaper bringing us death 389 00:15:26,206 --> 00:15:28,965 and Medusa turning you to your tombstone. 390 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,068 We have to do strawberry and tomato. 391 00:15:31,103 --> 00:15:32,620 Oh, strawberry and tomato. 392 00:15:32,655 --> 00:15:36,482 Maybe if we make them into, like, a little, like, bonbon or candy. 393 00:15:36,517 --> 00:15:40,172 For our tasting element, we're going to make a strawberry tomato bonbon 394 00:15:40,206 --> 00:15:42,344 topped with balsamic almonds. 395 00:15:42,379 --> 00:15:44,310 We plan on hiding the tasting element 396 00:15:44,344 --> 00:15:46,586 inside the flowers that we're going to have. 397 00:15:46,620 --> 00:15:48,241 I think that sounds like a solid plan. 398 00:15:48,275 --> 00:15:49,275 -I think so. -Yeah. 399 00:15:49,310 --> 00:15:50,586 Okay, so two monsters. 400 00:15:50,620 --> 00:15:52,000 What if we did, like, a demon? 401 00:15:52,034 --> 00:15:53,586 Like, a demon Frankenstein? 402 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:54,724 Demonstein. 403 00:15:54,758 --> 00:15:56,931 -[laughing] -Demonstein. 404 00:15:56,965 --> 00:15:58,344 Man or woman? 405 00:15:58,379 --> 00:16:01,172 -Woman, come on. -Yep. Let's do a woman. 406 00:16:01,206 --> 00:16:05,827 Our Demonstein comes from the underworld to terrorize this land. 407 00:16:05,862 --> 00:16:09,689 The little, magical mushroom characters try to kill the demon 408 00:16:09,724 --> 00:16:10,620 but they fail. 409 00:16:10,655 --> 00:16:12,655 The demon takes their magic 410 00:16:12,689 --> 00:16:17,482 and uses it to repair its body parts with the nature around it. 411 00:16:17,517 --> 00:16:20,965 Avocado and coffee. Are we, like, embracing this issue? 412 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,586 Yeah. 413 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:26,758 I'm thinking, why don't I just do, like, these egg-shaped chocolate, uh, cups? 414 00:16:26,793 --> 00:16:29,172 'Cause they'll look like the avocado, right? 415 00:16:29,206 --> 00:16:32,206 And I could fill that, put a little crumble in there. 416 00:16:32,241 --> 00:16:35,103 Incorporating this tasting element into our display 417 00:16:35,137 --> 00:16:38,344 I think is going to be one of the most fun parts for us, artistically. 418 00:16:38,379 --> 00:16:41,724 I'm going to start on the skull right now, let's do it, guys. 419 00:16:41,758 --> 00:16:44,896 There's definitely a monster that I was hoping that we were going to get to pick. 420 00:16:44,931 --> 00:16:46,517 Do you know what a wendigo is? 421 00:16:46,551 --> 00:16:47,724 -No. -A what? 422 00:16:47,758 --> 00:16:51,241 Okay. So a wendigo is a greed-based creature. 423 00:16:51,275 --> 00:16:52,965 It's basically like a living tree. 424 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,758 Not an actual tree? Not an actual tree? 425 00:16:54,793 --> 00:16:58,137 No, he just has, like, branches and stuff growing out of his body. 426 00:16:58,172 --> 00:16:59,137 Okay. 427 00:16:59,172 --> 00:17:02,206 [Maythe] This part is like a genie. 428 00:17:02,241 --> 00:17:04,205 Obviously coming out from, like, a lamp. 429 00:17:04,241 --> 00:17:05,310 Yeah. 430 00:17:05,344 --> 00:17:07,792 -And then like, whoa, it's a monster. -Yeah. 431 00:17:07,827 --> 00:17:11,758 We're choosing to mash up the wendigo and the jinn, 432 00:17:11,792 --> 00:17:14,034 that's basically an evil version of a genie. 433 00:17:14,068 --> 00:17:16,413 This farmer comes across this lamp. 434 00:17:16,448 --> 00:17:20,034 The last thing that this creature wants is to be bound to a human, 435 00:17:20,068 --> 00:17:22,482 so he comes to reclaim his lamp. 436 00:17:22,517 --> 00:17:24,723 Honestly, sriracha is, urgh. 437 00:17:24,758 --> 00:17:28,172 Yeah, at least spice and peanuts can kind of go together. 438 00:17:28,205 --> 00:17:32,137 -I'm a big fan of peanut brittle. -That's quick and easy. 439 00:17:32,172 --> 00:17:35,448 For the tasting element we're making a sriracha peanut brittle 440 00:17:35,482 --> 00:17:39,000 that's going to be broken up as armor pieces on our creature. 441 00:17:39,034 --> 00:17:42,896 Just make sure to put, like, enough heat from the sriracha 442 00:17:42,931 --> 00:17:44,448 but not that they need... 443 00:17:44,482 --> 00:17:46,241 -That could be tricky. -You don't want to burn their face off. 444 00:17:46,275 --> 00:17:47,620 A good balance, yeah. 445 00:17:47,655 --> 00:17:49,034 First choice of the pumpkin. 446 00:17:49,068 --> 00:17:51,724 Which one did you want, Titus? 447 00:17:51,758 --> 00:17:53,724 -I'll take this one. -Not that one. 448 00:17:54,379 --> 00:17:56,068 Okay, all right. 449 00:17:56,103 --> 00:17:59,758 Winning the small scare and getting that advantage of choosing the pumpkins first 450 00:17:59,793 --> 00:18:00,965 is so important. 451 00:18:01,724 --> 00:18:03,206 Playing with the big boys now. 452 00:18:03,241 --> 00:18:05,034 Aaron needs to have pumpkins 453 00:18:05,068 --> 00:18:08,931 that have enough flesh for him to carve and really add the detail work 454 00:18:08,965 --> 00:18:10,206 to bring us this win. 455 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,206 Big slices. 456 00:18:12,241 --> 00:18:14,758 So I got this pumpkin because it's really thick. 457 00:18:14,793 --> 00:18:16,206 It's super heavy for its size. 458 00:18:16,241 --> 00:18:18,689 I've got to make the tombstones and faces. 459 00:18:18,724 --> 00:18:20,000 Get a good, flat cut. 460 00:18:21,655 --> 00:18:23,793 Tombstone. What do you guys think? That's the shape. 461 00:18:23,827 --> 00:18:27,000 -Oh, that's so cute. I love it, I love it. -Yeah, it's cute. 462 00:18:28,482 --> 00:18:30,448 Go, go, go. 463 00:18:30,482 --> 00:18:34,000 Our goal with this challenge is to not make the same mistakes twice. 464 00:18:35,137 --> 00:18:37,793 We want to put a complete image out there 465 00:18:37,827 --> 00:18:41,206 for the judges to really see all of our different skill sets. 466 00:18:42,034 --> 00:18:44,965 This pumpkin is for the vines 467 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,655 that are going to be coming up around her, 468 00:18:47,689 --> 00:18:50,965 infecting this cursed land, attacking the creatures. 469 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,482 I'm going to do a bunch of different sizes. 470 00:18:52,517 --> 00:18:54,379 We'll see what we can get out of this pumpkin. 471 00:18:54,413 --> 00:18:56,896 That'll be a nice vine reaching out. 472 00:18:56,931 --> 00:19:02,000 I'm just, uh, going to be filling up this chocolate mold with some coating chocolate, 473 00:19:02,034 --> 00:19:04,275 so I can basically use it as a template 474 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:06,275 to start building off my base. 475 00:19:06,310 --> 00:19:09,586 Like, it'll help me to keep the facial features symmetrical 476 00:19:09,620 --> 00:19:12,620 and try to look as realistic as possible. 477 00:19:12,655 --> 00:19:15,620 I'm just going to snap this together very quickly, 478 00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:18,413 bam, and I'm going to pop this in the fridge. 479 00:19:18,448 --> 00:19:19,689 Yes, we got this. 480 00:19:22,931 --> 00:19:24,724 Oh. 481 00:19:24,758 --> 00:19:27,103 -Look at that. -This is the perfect size. 482 00:19:27,137 --> 00:19:29,034 I'm going to need that big boy. 483 00:19:29,068 --> 00:19:30,241 You know, I think in the first round, 484 00:19:30,275 --> 00:19:32,896 we really wanted two distinct characters, 485 00:19:32,931 --> 00:19:35,448 but in this round, I want to see how they pull them together. 486 00:19:35,482 --> 00:19:37,724 It's about the melding and the fusion. 487 00:19:37,758 --> 00:19:40,172 It's melding, but I'm also looking for tension. 488 00:19:40,206 --> 00:19:42,103 I think that would be the key for me. 489 00:19:42,137 --> 00:19:45,379 I would love to see, like, this Jekyll and Hyde action 490 00:19:45,413 --> 00:19:47,793 where it's fighting against the other character. 491 00:19:47,827 --> 00:19:51,862 You kind of need to choose one monster that has a very distinctive face 492 00:19:51,896 --> 00:19:55,000 and then one monster that I think has a very distinctive body. 493 00:19:55,034 --> 00:19:58,068 Ho, ho, ho. I'm throwing guts everywhere. 494 00:19:58,103 --> 00:20:01,103 -Do it. Put 'em on. That's gonna be the body, right? -Yeah. 495 00:20:01,137 --> 00:20:06,517 For the creature, we're going to have the head and skeletal torso 496 00:20:06,551 --> 00:20:08,689 that's going to be made out of pumpkin. 497 00:20:08,724 --> 00:20:13,068 I'm going to start carving the cake and the rice cereal. 498 00:20:13,103 --> 00:20:14,517 Okay. One more. 499 00:20:14,551 --> 00:20:17,344 Maythe is moving so fast when it comes to cakes. 500 00:20:17,379 --> 00:20:18,931 She's Lightning Hands McGee. 501 00:20:18,965 --> 00:20:21,448 She's got to make the tail portion 502 00:20:21,482 --> 00:20:25,000 that's going to be made out of rice cereal and cake 503 00:20:25,034 --> 00:20:27,724 covered with white ganache and fondant. 504 00:20:27,758 --> 00:20:31,103 Yeah, it's looking good. Girl, you're burning through that cake. 505 00:20:31,931 --> 00:20:34,586 One hour down, four hours to go. 506 00:20:34,620 --> 00:20:35,620 Here we go, guys. 507 00:20:37,793 --> 00:20:39,551 Is that chocolate mixed? 508 00:20:39,586 --> 00:20:41,862 -Yeah, mixed with the rice. -Oh, cool. 509 00:20:41,896 --> 00:20:43,931 Our small scare was mostly pumpkin 510 00:20:43,965 --> 00:20:46,724 so I want to represent all three of our strengths. 511 00:20:46,758 --> 00:20:48,413 I'll be making the grim reaper's body 512 00:20:48,448 --> 00:20:50,068 out of rice cereal treats. 513 00:20:50,103 --> 00:20:51,931 Getting kind of heavy. 514 00:20:51,965 --> 00:20:55,517 You can see, like, where the sickle is. The scythe. 515 00:20:55,551 --> 00:20:59,379 Amy is going to be making the grim reaper's scythe out of isomalt 516 00:20:59,413 --> 00:21:01,551 as well as the full moon in the background. 517 00:21:01,586 --> 00:21:02,758 What do you guys think? 518 00:21:02,793 --> 00:21:05,517 That's perfect. I like the size of it. 519 00:21:05,551 --> 00:21:08,517 I am just mixing up the edible fabric. 520 00:21:08,551 --> 00:21:12,034 Instead of using fondant or marbling chocolate for the grim reaper's robe, 521 00:21:12,068 --> 00:21:15,482 we decide to make it out of edible fabric, which is much thinner. 522 00:21:15,517 --> 00:21:18,689 I mean, it's a little risky doing sheets that big, 523 00:21:18,724 --> 00:21:20,448 but we'll see if we can get it figured out. 524 00:21:20,482 --> 00:21:24,655 It's going to cook fast and it will just have that wavy, clothing look 525 00:21:24,689 --> 00:21:26,172 and we can make it look tattered 526 00:21:26,206 --> 00:21:27,862 like he's really from the underworld. 527 00:21:32,793 --> 00:21:34,000 -Oh, [bleep]. -Oh my gosh. 528 00:21:35,137 --> 00:21:36,310 Oh my gosh. 529 00:21:36,344 --> 00:21:37,931 So the arm part kind of fell off. 530 00:21:37,965 --> 00:21:39,103 Yeah. 531 00:21:39,137 --> 00:21:40,586 [Shinmin] They need to pay attention to the structure. 532 00:21:40,620 --> 00:21:43,620 I saw pieces of that cake fall from their armature, there. 533 00:21:44,586 --> 00:21:45,965 I'll just add a skewer. 534 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Hey, Yaya. When you're creating a cake this size, 535 00:21:49,034 --> 00:21:51,413 you have to make sure the structure is the most important thing. 536 00:21:51,448 --> 00:21:55,172 So have you thought about using a ganache to go over that? 537 00:21:55,206 --> 00:21:57,413 Sometimes a ganache will firm up harder. 538 00:21:57,448 --> 00:22:00,448 And if that fails, do chicken wire, do dowels, 539 00:22:00,482 --> 00:22:02,724 do everything you can to make sure this is secure 540 00:22:02,758 --> 00:22:04,689 -before you put anything else on there. -Okay. I will. 541 00:22:04,724 --> 00:22:06,000 -Okay? -Thank you. 542 00:22:06,034 --> 00:22:07,310 All right. 543 00:22:07,344 --> 00:22:09,758 -Think structure, structure, structure. -Right. Structure. 544 00:22:09,793 --> 00:22:12,241 All right. I'm going to ahead and start, um, the brittle. 545 00:22:13,103 --> 00:22:14,310 Awesome. 546 00:22:14,344 --> 00:22:15,655 I was getting a little hungry. 547 00:22:16,758 --> 00:22:19,068 How much sriracha do you think I should put in? 548 00:22:19,103 --> 00:22:21,034 You're talking with a Mexican girl. 549 00:22:21,068 --> 00:22:23,724 I know. It's too spicy for me. 550 00:22:23,758 --> 00:22:26,862 I'm going to start the base for the brittle. 551 00:22:26,896 --> 00:22:30,172 [Jonathan] When you're working with something like sriracha and peanut butter, 552 00:22:30,206 --> 00:22:33,034 what's the trick to making it all work and come together? 553 00:22:33,068 --> 00:22:34,310 You have the heat, 554 00:22:34,344 --> 00:22:37,724 but you also have that really rounded fat flavor 555 00:22:37,758 --> 00:22:40,206 -from the peanut butter that's so nutty. -Mmm-hmm. 556 00:22:40,241 --> 00:22:41,827 To me, that really works. 557 00:22:41,862 --> 00:22:44,862 Seven tablespoons sriracha. 558 00:22:44,896 --> 00:22:46,379 Spicy. 559 00:22:47,448 --> 00:22:49,896 Oh, God. That's sriracha. 560 00:22:49,931 --> 00:22:51,379 Don't burn it. Don't burn it, baby. 561 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,862 I am learning that whenever you heat sriracha, 562 00:22:55,896 --> 00:22:57,379 it basically turns into napalm. 563 00:22:58,655 --> 00:22:59,862 -Oh, watch out. -Whoo. 564 00:22:59,896 --> 00:23:01,103 Do you smell that? 565 00:23:01,137 --> 00:23:03,137 -Oh, boy. -Smells like burned. 566 00:23:04,137 --> 00:23:05,275 I don't think that's going to be edible. 567 00:23:05,310 --> 00:23:06,413 You're gonna be good in time? 568 00:23:06,448 --> 00:23:07,620 We're going to be cutting it close. 569 00:23:07,655 --> 00:23:09,586 Oh, man. [bleep] 570 00:23:14,275 --> 00:23:16,689 Okay, so Sugar Spirits has burnt their peanut brittle. 571 00:23:18,103 --> 00:23:19,068 [Maythe] It smells like burned. 572 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,344 They need to start from scratch. 573 00:23:21,379 --> 00:23:24,172 Yeah, I mean, that's the problem here with the peanut brittle 574 00:23:24,206 --> 00:23:25,896 -is there's no rescuing it. -No. 575 00:23:25,931 --> 00:23:27,896 It just goes in the trash and you start again, 576 00:23:27,931 --> 00:23:30,344 -which means it eats up more time. -Right. 577 00:23:30,379 --> 00:23:31,724 [Maythe] So how are you going to fix that? 578 00:23:31,758 --> 00:23:33,310 I think I'm going to have to try a different kind of pan. 579 00:23:33,344 --> 00:23:34,689 Let's try sugar on this one. 580 00:23:37,172 --> 00:23:38,310 Give me a little bit of oil. 581 00:23:39,689 --> 00:23:40,689 Or maybe not. 582 00:23:40,724 --> 00:23:43,344 I can't give the judges burnt sugar. 583 00:23:43,379 --> 00:23:44,620 I'm a sugar artist. 584 00:23:44,655 --> 00:23:46,724 I can't be like, here, here you go, have some burnt sugar. 585 00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:49,068 [Maythe] Oh yeah. Look at that. 586 00:23:49,103 --> 00:23:50,551 I'm going add a little bit of baking soda 587 00:23:50,586 --> 00:23:53,206 to make it a little bit lighter, a little bit more airy, 588 00:23:53,241 --> 00:23:54,896 -so it's not quite as hard. -Okay. 589 00:23:54,931 --> 00:23:58,068 It's going to make it a softer texture for the mouth, 590 00:23:58,103 --> 00:24:01,379 instead of being so crazy hard like a hard caramel. 591 00:24:01,413 --> 00:24:03,310 We're on such a time crunch at this point. 592 00:24:03,344 --> 00:24:07,137 The worst part is I'm not going to know if it works. 593 00:24:07,172 --> 00:24:10,517 Actually have to hope that later when we pull it out and it's fully cooled 594 00:24:10,551 --> 00:24:11,551 that it shatters. 595 00:24:11,586 --> 00:24:12,482 [Maythe] Oh, beautiful. 596 00:24:14,896 --> 00:24:17,068 Three hours left, teams. Three hours. 597 00:24:18,103 --> 00:24:19,551 Double time, double time, guys. 598 00:24:21,310 --> 00:24:22,517 [Aaron] See what we've got. 599 00:24:22,551 --> 00:24:24,137 Aaron has it going. 600 00:24:24,172 --> 00:24:26,482 I have a little butternut. I'm going to try and do a face 601 00:24:27,517 --> 00:24:29,482 coming out of this tombstone. 602 00:24:29,517 --> 00:24:31,103 I'm trying to move fast. 603 00:24:31,137 --> 00:24:33,931 We really wanted to showcase Aaron's specific skills 604 00:24:33,965 --> 00:24:36,379 of carving faces into pumpkins. 605 00:24:36,413 --> 00:24:39,068 Making sure we have all the details in the tombstones 606 00:24:39,103 --> 00:24:41,206 is going to be really important. 607 00:24:41,241 --> 00:24:42,655 I'm going to have this kind of sideways. 608 00:24:42,689 --> 00:24:43,758 Do you like the head straight up 609 00:24:43,793 --> 00:24:45,931 or should I have it going a different direction? 610 00:24:45,965 --> 00:24:48,000 -Yeah, sideways. -Okay. 611 00:24:48,034 --> 00:24:50,310 I wanted to blanche and remove the skins off the tomatoes 612 00:24:50,344 --> 00:24:52,172 just because it's a texture thing. 613 00:24:52,206 --> 00:24:54,965 You know, you don't want to, like, bite into a really good compote 614 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,379 and have skin. 615 00:24:56,413 --> 00:24:57,586 Right. 616 00:24:57,620 --> 00:24:59,275 Our plan for our tasting element 617 00:24:59,310 --> 00:25:02,344 is to create a strawberry tomato bonbon 618 00:25:02,379 --> 00:25:05,689 filled with mascarpone cheese and cased in white chocolate. 619 00:25:05,724 --> 00:25:08,448 And topped with balsamic glazed almonds. 620 00:25:08,482 --> 00:25:11,034 -Balsamic gives it a little bit of, like, a tang. -Tang. 621 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,724 Guys, how are you doing over there? 622 00:25:14,758 --> 00:25:19,517 This is going to be the horns that's going to go on Elan's skull. 623 00:25:19,551 --> 00:25:21,620 You have to have a good set of horns if you're going to be a demon, 624 00:25:21,655 --> 00:25:22,965 let's be honest. 625 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,068 You smell the coffee? 626 00:25:24,103 --> 00:25:26,000 -Ooh, is that what that is? -That's what that is. 627 00:25:27,172 --> 00:25:30,103 I'm making a crémeux, which means creamy in French. 628 00:25:30,137 --> 00:25:31,724 I'm going to make the pit. 629 00:25:31,758 --> 00:25:33,172 [Kristina] For our tasting element, 630 00:25:33,206 --> 00:25:36,965 Teresa is going to make an amazing, milk chocolate coffee crémeux 631 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,655 and an avocado mousse 632 00:25:38,689 --> 00:25:42,310 in these really cute little avocado-shaped cups. 633 00:25:42,344 --> 00:25:43,689 You be good. 634 00:25:43,724 --> 00:25:46,482 And a cocoa nib streusel. 635 00:25:49,551 --> 00:25:52,793 All right. I think that's a good color for the bones. 636 00:25:52,827 --> 00:25:55,137 This is a very forest-based creature. 637 00:25:55,172 --> 00:25:58,172 Really nice, elaborate antlers. 638 00:25:58,206 --> 00:25:59,827 A lot of fantastic texture. 639 00:25:59,862 --> 00:26:01,758 The antlers is really going to be the showpiece. 640 00:26:01,793 --> 00:26:03,551 It's going to be a big presence. 641 00:26:03,586 --> 00:26:06,034 I have to be very careful of the weight, 642 00:26:06,068 --> 00:26:08,827 because the head is a soft pumpkin. 643 00:26:08,862 --> 00:26:10,758 And the antlers are pretty large. 644 00:26:10,793 --> 00:26:12,724 The horns are done and ready to go. 645 00:26:14,482 --> 00:26:17,344 The lamp is going to be blown sugar. 646 00:26:17,379 --> 00:26:21,517 This is basically going to be the vessel for the entire story. 647 00:26:21,551 --> 00:26:22,896 How's that for size? 648 00:26:22,931 --> 00:26:24,931 Perfect. Perfect. I love it. Yeah. 649 00:26:25,931 --> 00:26:28,206 Elan, that is shaping up, girl. 650 00:26:28,241 --> 00:26:31,413 -She's got hips. -She's got hips, man. She's a curvy girl. 651 00:26:31,448 --> 00:26:35,896 Elan has a very tall order with this challenge. 652 00:26:35,931 --> 00:26:39,724 You know, she has the entire Demonstein. 653 00:26:39,758 --> 00:26:42,448 The face, creating the entire body, 654 00:26:42,482 --> 00:26:44,724 dressing the body, creating the limbs. 655 00:26:44,758 --> 00:26:46,586 There's so much to do. 656 00:26:46,620 --> 00:26:48,655 Are you going to sculpt her from there? 657 00:26:48,689 --> 00:26:50,172 -Yeah. -Okay. 658 00:26:50,206 --> 00:26:53,448 I am aerating or satinizing the sugar. 659 00:26:53,482 --> 00:26:56,758 Whoa, that is so yellow. It's so pretty. 660 00:26:56,793 --> 00:27:00,206 I want to make kind of stylized little flowers for the back 661 00:27:00,241 --> 00:27:02,206 because it is a fantasy. 662 00:27:02,241 --> 00:27:07,758 We don't want to just slap Frankenstein pieces onto this character, you know? 663 00:27:07,793 --> 00:27:10,275 We don't want to take it too literally. 664 00:27:10,310 --> 00:27:14,413 Leaves take me, this is the most time-consuming of anything. 665 00:27:14,448 --> 00:27:16,413 So if I get this done, I won't be nervous. 666 00:27:16,448 --> 00:27:20,965 So we're using nature to reanimate this demon's body parts. 667 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000 Okay. One down, three to go. 668 00:27:25,034 --> 00:27:27,620 The good thing is, this guy's going to be, like, 669 00:27:27,655 --> 00:27:30,275 kind of like an old kind of farmer. 670 00:27:30,310 --> 00:27:32,448 This guy's going to have a nice booty booty. 671 00:27:32,482 --> 00:27:33,655 [laughing] 672 00:27:33,689 --> 00:27:36,172 The little farmer that Maythe is making 673 00:27:36,206 --> 00:27:37,827 is going to be modeling chocolate. 674 00:27:37,862 --> 00:27:39,620 Okay. It's time for the shirt. 675 00:27:41,827 --> 00:27:43,448 I can't wait till you put his face on. 676 00:27:43,482 --> 00:27:46,758 Maythe is a wizard when it comes to faces. 677 00:27:46,793 --> 00:27:48,620 It looks like it's coming together. 678 00:27:48,655 --> 00:27:51,586 I want to put a beard so it's going to look like you. 679 00:27:52,655 --> 00:27:54,965 Why does that little guy look like Titus? 680 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,862 That's a good scared face, for sure. 681 00:27:56,896 --> 00:27:59,655 -Wow. That's amazing. -That's exactly what I would look like. 682 00:28:00,655 --> 00:28:03,724 I think this guy can be right here. 683 00:28:03,758 --> 00:28:05,862 I'm going to shatter the brittle. 684 00:28:05,896 --> 00:28:09,241 I'm just praying that this is not going to be sticky, it's not going to be gooey 685 00:28:09,275 --> 00:28:10,379 and that it's going to crack. 686 00:28:14,275 --> 00:28:16,034 It's breaking up perfectly. 687 00:28:16,068 --> 00:28:19,137 It's like someone took the most fantastic crystal vase 688 00:28:19,172 --> 00:28:21,034 and just dropped it onto the hardest concrete 689 00:28:21,068 --> 00:28:23,034 and it shatters into a million pieces. 690 00:28:23,068 --> 00:28:24,241 That's the spicy one. 691 00:28:24,275 --> 00:28:26,758 I love it. I love the texture. 692 00:28:27,551 --> 00:28:30,620 When we put this head on, 693 00:28:30,655 --> 00:28:32,034 that's a pretty good size. 694 00:28:32,068 --> 00:28:33,068 Yes? No? 695 00:28:33,103 --> 00:28:34,448 Yeah, 'cause we'll have the things coming out. 696 00:28:34,482 --> 00:28:35,620 [Aaron] The snakes. 697 00:28:35,655 --> 00:28:38,137 All right. Now that they've firmed up a little bit. 698 00:28:38,172 --> 00:28:39,931 While I'm making the skeleton snakes, 699 00:28:39,965 --> 00:28:42,413 Aaron will be making the skull for our grim reaper, 700 00:28:42,448 --> 00:28:45,758 which is really important because a skeleton is so memorable. 701 00:28:45,793 --> 00:28:47,862 We know exactly how it's supposed to look. 702 00:28:47,896 --> 00:28:50,689 Cut the sockets out. I'll crank this out. 703 00:28:50,724 --> 00:28:52,310 So he has to get all those little details. 704 00:28:52,344 --> 00:28:53,655 All the, like, little teeth. 705 00:28:53,689 --> 00:28:55,241 The sockets for the eyes. 706 00:28:55,275 --> 00:28:58,310 The nose, so he really has his work cut out for him. 707 00:28:58,344 --> 00:29:00,137 All right. I need some toothpicks. 708 00:29:01,310 --> 00:29:02,724 This is when everything comes together. 709 00:29:04,241 --> 00:29:07,275 I'm going to hide the strawberry tomato jam bonbon 710 00:29:07,310 --> 00:29:09,655 inside some modeling chocolate roses 711 00:29:09,689 --> 00:29:11,931 and the judges will peel the petals back 712 00:29:11,965 --> 00:29:15,137 and be able to actually take the bonbon out and enjoy it. 713 00:29:15,172 --> 00:29:17,620 I'm going for, like, wilted, kind of dead flowers. 714 00:29:17,655 --> 00:29:20,620 I'm just going to make it look a little bit more creepy and dead looking 715 00:29:20,655 --> 00:29:22,068 so I'm just adding some brown. 716 00:29:24,448 --> 00:29:26,137 Failing is not an option, guys. 717 00:29:26,896 --> 00:29:28,310 How are you doing? 718 00:29:28,344 --> 00:29:30,724 [Titus] Oh, I'm piecing together this skull. 719 00:29:30,758 --> 00:29:31,586 It's coming together. 720 00:29:34,103 --> 00:29:35,758 It comes down to a horn. 721 00:29:35,793 --> 00:29:36,896 My head's got to hold them. 722 00:29:36,931 --> 00:29:37,931 But what do you think? 723 00:29:37,965 --> 00:29:39,827 I mean, they might have to be smaller. 724 00:29:39,862 --> 00:29:41,896 -'Cause we need them to hold. -Yeah. Okay. 725 00:29:41,931 --> 00:29:43,655 What do we think of sugar spirits? 726 00:29:43,689 --> 00:29:47,758 They are having some really big issues right now with sizing. 727 00:29:47,793 --> 00:29:50,206 The sad thing is all the separate elements 728 00:29:50,241 --> 00:29:53,172 are all so beautifully executed. 729 00:29:53,206 --> 00:29:55,448 -[Titus] This is a cantaloup. -I don't know what that means. 730 00:29:55,482 --> 00:29:58,379 Like, it's all going to fall down if you go back. 731 00:29:58,413 --> 00:30:00,448 Yeah, these are definitely going to have to go in last. 732 00:30:00,482 --> 00:30:03,620 [Shinmin] The sugar horns are not going to be able to go on until the final moments 733 00:30:03,655 --> 00:30:07,448 and that scares me so much because these are really heavy sugar pieces 734 00:30:07,482 --> 00:30:10,241 and a wendigo without the horns, 735 00:30:10,275 --> 00:30:12,275 it's just going to be like roadkill, basically. 736 00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:13,206 Oh my gosh. 737 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:16,931 Come on. 738 00:30:18,896 --> 00:30:21,517 Yaya, damn things are sticking. 739 00:30:21,551 --> 00:30:23,103 It's not coming out. 740 00:30:23,137 --> 00:30:25,310 [Yaya] Amy made these delicious bonbons 741 00:30:25,344 --> 00:30:27,413 and they are not coming out of the mold. 742 00:30:27,448 --> 00:30:29,068 Time is running away from us. 743 00:30:29,103 --> 00:30:30,241 We have to pivot. 744 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:32,586 I was already making petals for the flowers. 745 00:30:32,620 --> 00:30:35,068 I'm going to just use one of those petals as a cup 746 00:30:35,103 --> 00:30:37,068 to actually put the jam into. 747 00:30:37,103 --> 00:30:40,241 So to do that, we have to just get rid of the white chocolate, 748 00:30:40,275 --> 00:30:42,793 the balsamic glazed nuts, and the mascarpone 749 00:30:42,827 --> 00:30:45,448 and just focus on the tasting elements that the judges requested. 750 00:30:46,862 --> 00:30:50,827 You'd better move double time. Only 30 minutes left. 751 00:30:50,862 --> 00:30:53,586 Oh my gosh. I'm going to need you to hold the backboard. 752 00:30:56,241 --> 00:30:57,310 Okay. 753 00:30:57,344 --> 00:30:58,931 I'm happy if you're happy. 754 00:30:58,965 --> 00:30:59,896 Crumble goes in. 755 00:31:01,310 --> 00:31:02,310 And then this goes on. 756 00:31:03,758 --> 00:31:06,103 Now for the pièce de résistance. 757 00:31:06,137 --> 00:31:07,000 All right. 758 00:31:07,034 --> 00:31:08,275 Does that look like an avocado? 759 00:31:08,310 --> 00:31:10,482 It does, 100%. It looks so good. 760 00:31:11,310 --> 00:31:13,689 This dowel's pretty small, but... 761 00:31:13,724 --> 00:31:15,551 -Is it leaning back a little bit? -Yeah. 762 00:31:16,689 --> 00:31:18,310 We tightened that up. 763 00:31:18,344 --> 00:31:20,793 I do feel like there's a lot of elements 764 00:31:20,827 --> 00:31:23,482 that still have to transfer over there. 765 00:31:23,517 --> 00:31:25,517 I'm still worried about that structure. 766 00:31:25,551 --> 00:31:28,034 It looks like it's, I don't know. It might be leaning more, now. 767 00:31:28,068 --> 00:31:29,655 I feel like it might be leaning more, now. 768 00:31:29,689 --> 00:31:30,689 I think the only thing that's holding it 769 00:31:30,724 --> 00:31:31,724 is the tape right now. 770 00:31:31,758 --> 00:31:34,275 -So, that's... -[Yaya] Oh, wait. Wait. 771 00:31:37,275 --> 00:31:38,206 [thunder rumbling] 772 00:31:39,586 --> 00:31:42,275 Maybe we can lean it forward a little bit. 773 00:31:42,310 --> 00:31:44,172 No, no. No, I don't think that's a good idea. 774 00:31:45,482 --> 00:31:46,862 They are scrambling. 775 00:31:46,896 --> 00:31:48,931 It's been one thing after another. 776 00:31:48,965 --> 00:31:50,413 This challenge is always going to tell us 777 00:31:50,448 --> 00:31:52,793 whether or not they understand gravity and structure. 778 00:31:52,827 --> 00:31:55,000 [Jonathan] And if they can follow direction after they've-- 779 00:31:55,034 --> 00:31:56,206 -they've been given notes. -Yep. 780 00:31:57,310 --> 00:31:58,103 That's perfect. 781 00:31:58,724 --> 00:31:59,586 Let's do that. 782 00:31:59,620 --> 00:32:00,793 [whirring] 783 00:32:00,827 --> 00:32:03,586 -Psychologically, in the final half hour... -[groans] 784 00:32:03,620 --> 00:32:06,241 [Aarti] ...that's-- that's a really hard thing to get through. 785 00:32:06,275 --> 00:32:07,620 This is eating up time. 786 00:32:07,655 --> 00:32:09,793 Okay. Problem solved. 787 00:32:11,137 --> 00:32:12,896 [Kristina] Just add a little girth. 788 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,172 Totally cool. 789 00:32:14,965 --> 00:32:16,586 Love it. That's perfect. 790 00:32:16,620 --> 00:32:18,310 [Jonathan] Let's talk about the Spice Ghouls. 791 00:32:18,344 --> 00:32:21,344 I can't believe this is the same team that did that teddy bear. 792 00:32:21,379 --> 00:32:22,689 -[Aarti] I know. -[Shinmin] Right? 793 00:32:22,724 --> 00:32:25,758 This really shows you what they're capable of with more time. 794 00:32:25,793 --> 00:32:28,586 I ended up pulverizing some graham crackers. 795 00:32:28,620 --> 00:32:29,965 A little teal, a little yellow, 796 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,896 a slight touch of brown, 797 00:32:31,931 --> 00:32:34,000 and it looks something kind of like moss. 798 00:32:34,034 --> 00:32:35,655 -[Kristina] Can you hit all the orange too? -[Teresa] Orange? 799 00:32:36,448 --> 00:32:37,448 It's okay. Yeah, you can do it. 800 00:32:38,206 --> 00:32:39,931 -Little bit more. -Perfect. 801 00:32:39,965 --> 00:32:41,931 -[Vikki] A crinkle. -[May] Beautiful. 802 00:32:41,965 --> 00:32:43,689 Well, I'm gonna start air brushing a little bit. 803 00:32:45,724 --> 00:32:47,965 -[Titus] Looking good. That looks nice. -[May] So that I can-- Yeah. 804 00:32:49,206 --> 00:32:50,655 So, I'm worried about the weight. 805 00:32:50,689 --> 00:32:53,620 We're trying to find something that doesn't cause the sugar to melt 806 00:32:53,655 --> 00:32:55,103 because of the pumpkin water. 807 00:32:55,137 --> 00:32:57,413 [Vikki] We're just hoping that nothing breaks, nothing falls off, 808 00:32:57,448 --> 00:32:59,344 nothing squishes or collapses. 809 00:32:59,379 --> 00:33:01,241 So, I wrapped the sugar in plastic. 810 00:33:01,275 --> 00:33:02,931 That's my barrier between the water. 811 00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:08,068 And I hit it with freeze spray. 812 00:33:09,862 --> 00:33:12,137 -Look at us go. Thank you. -[May] Magic. 813 00:33:13,862 --> 00:33:15,310 Ten minutes left! 814 00:33:15,344 --> 00:33:17,137 [Amy] Aaron, everything else needs to get on. 815 00:33:17,172 --> 00:33:19,137 [Elan] Teresa, we need your help desperately. 816 00:33:19,172 --> 00:33:20,310 Cool, cool, cool. 817 00:33:21,896 --> 00:33:23,241 [Amy] One side's shiny, one side's matte. 818 00:33:23,275 --> 00:33:24,965 -Something like this? -[Amy] And you can cut it and trim it 819 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,068 to, like, how you want it. 820 00:33:26,655 --> 00:33:27,586 That looks nice. 821 00:33:27,620 --> 00:33:28,931 I like the way that color is coming out. 822 00:33:28,965 --> 00:33:30,517 So, what's your thought? Just-- Literally just pop it on? 823 00:33:30,551 --> 00:33:31,586 [Kristina] Yep. 824 00:33:31,620 --> 00:33:33,206 You have three minutes to go! Let's go! 825 00:33:33,241 --> 00:33:34,379 [Amy] I know this is insane 826 00:33:34,413 --> 00:33:35,724 and it's not what we planned 827 00:33:35,758 --> 00:33:38,344 but we just have to make decisions and just put stuff on. 828 00:33:38,379 --> 00:33:40,000 [Teresa] I'm gonna bring the taste out. 829 00:33:40,034 --> 00:33:42,310 We gotta be careful. That one's wiggling. 830 00:33:42,344 --> 00:33:44,586 [Aaron] Yeah, that's super cool. Yeah, I love it. 831 00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:46,862 [Yaya] All right, guys. This is, like, the last of the tasting element. 832 00:33:47,655 --> 00:33:49,310 One minute! This is it! 833 00:33:49,344 --> 00:33:50,241 Oh, my gosh. 834 00:33:50,275 --> 00:33:51,724 -[Vikki] Ah! -[May] Oh, my God. 835 00:33:51,758 --> 00:33:52,965 [Kristina] One minute, guys. One minute. 836 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,206 I'm gonna rub some-- 837 00:33:54,241 --> 00:33:55,482 [Elan] Don't move. Don't move. 838 00:33:55,517 --> 00:33:57,689 Green-- Can you green the tip of these? Super quick. 839 00:33:57,724 --> 00:34:00,344 -[May] Okay, we can do it, guys. -[Vikki] We're almost there. 840 00:34:00,379 --> 00:34:02,137 -[Yaya] This is it. This is it. -[Aaron] Okay. 841 00:34:02,172 --> 00:34:04,448 -Ten, nine... -[Kristina] Oh, my God. 842 00:34:04,482 --> 00:34:05,793 -[Jonathan] ...eight, seven... -Watch out, watch out, watch out. 843 00:34:05,827 --> 00:34:07,448 -[gasps] -[Jonathan] ...six, 844 00:34:07,482 --> 00:34:09,103 -five, four... -[Vikki] Perfect. 845 00:34:09,137 --> 00:34:11,310 -[Jonathan] ...three, two... -Don't touch it. Don't touch it. Don't touch it. 846 00:34:11,344 --> 00:34:12,724 [Jonathan] ...one. 847 00:34:12,757 --> 00:34:14,620 -Done. -Hands off your display. 848 00:34:14,655 --> 00:34:16,206 Wow, you guys! 849 00:34:16,241 --> 00:34:18,103 Ugh. 850 00:34:18,137 --> 00:34:19,862 -Gonna be a difficult color. -We finished! 851 00:34:19,896 --> 00:34:20,965 [Amy] Oh, my God. 852 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,103 Yes! 853 00:34:22,137 --> 00:34:24,103 -[laughs] -[Titus] We got everything up, right? 854 00:34:24,137 --> 00:34:25,206 [Elan] Oh, my goodness. 855 00:34:25,241 --> 00:34:26,241 [Kristina] Whoo! 856 00:34:27,413 --> 00:34:29,103 For this Spine Chiller challenge, 857 00:34:29,137 --> 00:34:32,965 we asked for some mashed up monster mayhem. 858 00:34:36,068 --> 00:34:37,137 Grim Reaper and Medusa. 859 00:34:37,172 --> 00:34:39,068 The Grim Reaper, he brings you death. 860 00:34:39,103 --> 00:34:41,757 And Medusa, she turns you to stone. 861 00:34:41,793 --> 00:34:45,413 So, we combined the two and we turned people into tombstones. 862 00:34:45,447 --> 00:34:46,620 -[Aarti and Shinmin] Ah. -[Jonathan] Hey! 863 00:34:46,655 --> 00:34:48,241 [Yaya laughs] 864 00:34:48,275 --> 00:34:51,793 [Aarti] The pumpkin work, Aaron, is stunning. 865 00:34:51,827 --> 00:34:55,757 We love the concept of Medusa and the Grim Reaper coming together. 866 00:34:55,793 --> 00:34:58,172 Everybody knows who they are, what they look like. 867 00:34:58,206 --> 00:35:02,344 So, I think your strategy was so strong going into this round. 868 00:35:02,379 --> 00:35:06,827 What doesn't quite work is Medusa is not coming through very strongly. 869 00:35:06,862 --> 00:35:08,827 The snakes themselves, 870 00:35:08,862 --> 00:35:11,000 in Medusa, they have this sense of movement, 871 00:35:11,034 --> 00:35:12,551 that they're coming out to get you. 872 00:35:12,586 --> 00:35:15,000 And they feel very static here. 873 00:35:15,034 --> 00:35:19,000 It's so clear that the three of you are super talented. 874 00:35:19,034 --> 00:35:21,551 I can really see all of your different technical skills 875 00:35:21,586 --> 00:35:23,379 highlighted in a really great way. 876 00:35:23,413 --> 00:35:26,517 The sugar work really, really shines through. 877 00:35:26,551 --> 00:35:30,655 Now, you spent so much time treating this beautiful face of the Grim Reaper 878 00:35:30,689 --> 00:35:32,310 and it's totally lost. 879 00:35:32,344 --> 00:35:34,206 We really can't see the details. 880 00:35:34,241 --> 00:35:35,482 You ready to try the tasting element? 881 00:35:35,517 --> 00:35:37,172 -Heck yeah. -Yeah. 882 00:35:37,206 --> 00:35:39,310 [Yaya] The tasting element is the roses. 883 00:35:39,344 --> 00:35:42,689 It's a tomato and strawberry compote with a hint 884 00:35:42,724 --> 00:35:45,275 of black pepper and balsamic. 885 00:35:45,310 --> 00:35:48,206 So, you actually just pick up the white chocolate rose and 886 00:35:48,241 --> 00:35:50,724 -dig in. -Oh, you even shaded it? What the heck? 887 00:35:50,758 --> 00:35:52,827 I would put those in a bouquet at home. 888 00:35:54,344 --> 00:35:55,689 Hmm. 889 00:35:55,724 --> 00:35:57,517 Look, I know this is your plan C. 890 00:35:57,551 --> 00:35:59,896 And aesthetically, it's absolutely gorgeous. 891 00:35:59,931 --> 00:36:03,551 The modeling chocolate is super overpowering. [chuckles] 892 00:36:03,586 --> 00:36:06,896 Here's the thing. When you tell me there's black pepper and balsamic vinegar, 893 00:36:07,586 --> 00:36:08,758 I wanna taste it. 894 00:36:08,793 --> 00:36:10,620 -I think it needs more black pepper. -[Shinmin] Yeah. 895 00:36:10,655 --> 00:36:12,931 Black pepper also has a natural fruitiness, 896 00:36:12,965 --> 00:36:14,689 -especially if you use a whole pepper corn... -[Yaya and Amy] Yes. 897 00:36:14,724 --> 00:36:16,413 ...and bash it yourself. 898 00:36:16,448 --> 00:36:20,000 That heat and that vinegar would've cut through this modeling chocolate like that. 899 00:36:20,034 --> 00:36:21,344 Sweet Screams, 900 00:36:21,379 --> 00:36:22,517 good job. 901 00:36:22,551 --> 00:36:24,275 -Thank you. -Thank you. [chuckles] 902 00:36:28,137 --> 00:36:30,241 [Vikki] For our Spine Chiller, we ended up doing 903 00:36:30,275 --> 00:36:33,689 a jinn and a wendigo attacking a local farmer. 904 00:36:33,724 --> 00:36:35,379 For the jinn, which is the bottom part, 905 00:36:35,413 --> 00:36:38,137 we ended up going with rice cereal and cake, 906 00:36:38,172 --> 00:36:42,551 and then the head and the body was made out of carved pumpkin. 907 00:36:42,586 --> 00:36:48,068 This came together in a super strong, powerful character. 908 00:36:48,103 --> 00:36:50,379 And Maythe, this guy, 909 00:36:50,413 --> 00:36:54,103 the expression on his face, even the fact that his mouth is pulled back in this 910 00:36:54,137 --> 00:36:56,517 scream and you can see his teeth, 911 00:36:56,551 --> 00:36:59,448 it's incredible and that really sells the scare for us. 912 00:36:59,482 --> 00:37:02,517 I love the shading on the body of the wendigo. 913 00:37:02,551 --> 00:37:06,172 Where it meets the jinn, it's a little bit too sharp. 914 00:37:06,206 --> 00:37:08,517 I wish that you can just blend that in a little bit. 915 00:37:08,551 --> 00:37:11,448 The color palette, I have just a little bit of issue with, 916 00:37:11,482 --> 00:37:15,551 especially with this beautiful lamp that's so hidden 917 00:37:15,586 --> 00:37:17,000 that we can't even see it. 918 00:37:17,034 --> 00:37:18,137 Your old farming guy. 919 00:37:18,172 --> 00:37:19,931 I mean, my heart is just breaking for him, 920 00:37:19,965 --> 00:37:21,896 like, I'm gonna plead for his life. 921 00:37:21,931 --> 00:37:24,344 You gave his eyes this sort of glisten, 922 00:37:25,103 --> 00:37:26,517 so, he's almost weeping. 923 00:37:26,551 --> 00:37:28,655 I think the thing to me about a jinn is 924 00:37:28,689 --> 00:37:31,206 it's mostly, like, smoke. 925 00:37:31,241 --> 00:37:33,793 The orange is kind of throwing me. You know what I mean? 926 00:37:33,827 --> 00:37:36,758 I think if you'd gone for a sort of a grayish blue, 927 00:37:36,793 --> 00:37:39,586 you'd get the sense of this thing coming out of the air. 928 00:37:39,620 --> 00:37:41,275 Tell us about your tasting element. 929 00:37:41,310 --> 00:37:43,448 We got, um, sriracha and peanut butter 930 00:37:43,482 --> 00:37:47,103 and we decided to do a peanut brittle as part of the armor for the wendigo 931 00:37:47,137 --> 00:37:48,517 and part of the bark element as well. 932 00:37:48,551 --> 00:37:50,827 Little bit of a hybrid between a honey comb and a brittle, 933 00:37:50,862 --> 00:37:53,103 -so, that way it wasn't gonna be quite as hard. -[Aarti] Mmm-hmm. 934 00:37:53,137 --> 00:37:55,344 Um, it's a little bit-- gonna be easier on the teeth. 935 00:37:55,379 --> 00:37:57,965 This is a pretty simple tasting element. 936 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,620 I think when you have two ingredients 937 00:38:00,655 --> 00:38:02,172 that are so far away from each other, 938 00:38:02,206 --> 00:38:05,172 I think I'm missing a third ingredient element 939 00:38:05,206 --> 00:38:08,551 to sort of pull them together a little bit more. 940 00:38:08,586 --> 00:38:11,931 -The other thing is that it was peanut butter. -Yeah. 941 00:38:11,965 --> 00:38:16,689 And there's just sort of like a ooey gooey nature to peanut butter 942 00:38:16,724 --> 00:38:18,137 that's missing from this. 943 00:38:24,758 --> 00:38:26,103 I don't like this... 944 00:38:28,655 --> 00:38:30,172 because I love this. [laughs] 945 00:38:30,206 --> 00:38:31,862 -Oh, my-- -[Shinmin] Um... 946 00:38:31,896 --> 00:38:33,827 I know Aarti and I kinda disagree on this but 947 00:38:33,862 --> 00:38:36,448 I'm a sucker for anything that's spicy 948 00:38:36,482 --> 00:38:39,275 and you definitely added enough heat. 949 00:38:39,310 --> 00:38:43,068 And what I really love is it's a part of your display. 950 00:38:43,103 --> 00:38:44,965 It's a part of his, like, carcass. 951 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 -I would expect it to be super crunchy like this. -[Aarti] Right. 952 00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:50,482 The one missed opportunity is 953 00:38:50,517 --> 00:38:54,655 if you glued this onto his body with peanut butter... 954 00:38:54,689 --> 00:38:56,172 -Ohhh. -[Shinmin] ...which is actually part of the-- 955 00:38:56,206 --> 00:39:00,172 the challenge, then you would add that extra gross 956 00:39:00,206 --> 00:39:02,413 ick factor but great job. 957 00:39:02,448 --> 00:39:03,517 Thank you very much. 958 00:39:03,551 --> 00:39:04,724 -[Vikki] Thank you. -[May] Thank you. 959 00:39:04,758 --> 00:39:06,310 -Yes! Yes! -[exclaims softly] 960 00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:10,896 [Kristina] We decided to go with a Demonstein. 961 00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:14,586 We have a Lilith, our demon, emerging out 962 00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:18,000 from the underworld into this magical land. 963 00:39:18,034 --> 00:39:21,344 And she merges herself with the nature around her to stay alive. 964 00:39:21,379 --> 00:39:23,482 And one of the trees that she merges with 965 00:39:23,517 --> 00:39:25,034 is an avocado tree. 966 00:39:25,068 --> 00:39:26,517 [laughs] 967 00:39:26,551 --> 00:39:29,758 [Kristina] The mushroom characters, they like to steal her avocados, 968 00:39:29,793 --> 00:39:32,724 and this time they did not win that battle. 969 00:39:32,758 --> 00:39:36,068 I love how you took the challenge of the avocado 970 00:39:36,103 --> 00:39:37,758 and pulled that into your design. 971 00:39:37,793 --> 00:39:39,965 That was very smart, so good job there. 972 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,482 I love that you made the horns out of pumpkin. 973 00:39:42,517 --> 00:39:45,034 It's a beautiful use of that natural orange hue. 974 00:39:45,068 --> 00:39:47,413 I love that you merged her with nature. 975 00:39:47,448 --> 00:39:50,000 The color palette is absolutely beautiful. 976 00:39:50,034 --> 00:39:52,758 You even balanced the contrasting reds with the greens, 977 00:39:52,793 --> 00:39:54,862 and the shading is just spectacular. 978 00:39:54,896 --> 00:39:57,310 And as beautiful as the sculpting is, 979 00:39:57,344 --> 00:40:00,172 my problem is this mash-up concept. 980 00:40:00,206 --> 00:40:03,206 Demonstein is not very clear. 981 00:40:03,241 --> 00:40:04,862 When we're thinking of Frankenstein 982 00:40:04,896 --> 00:40:08,482 we are definitely looking for those iconic design elements. 983 00:40:08,517 --> 00:40:10,310 -The bolts on the side of the head perhaps... -Mmm. 984 00:40:10,344 --> 00:40:11,689 [Shinmin] ...the stitching, the scarring 985 00:40:11,724 --> 00:40:13,344 and if you just really included those, 986 00:40:13,379 --> 00:40:15,413 we would be able to really believe your story. 987 00:40:15,448 --> 00:40:17,551 Let's hear what you made for a tasting element. 988 00:40:17,586 --> 00:40:18,965 [Teresa] We got coffee and avocado, 989 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,517 so, I did a chocolate shell. 990 00:40:20,551 --> 00:40:23,241 Underneath the chocolate shell there is a cocoa nib streusel, 991 00:40:23,275 --> 00:40:25,068 avocado mousse on top, 992 00:40:25,103 --> 00:40:27,517 and the little ball that looks like the pit 993 00:40:27,551 --> 00:40:31,068 that is the coffee crema that's on the inside of that chocolate. 994 00:40:31,103 --> 00:40:31,931 Oh! 995 00:40:32,862 --> 00:40:34,241 -There's the coffee. -Yeah. 996 00:40:34,275 --> 00:40:36,275 That was so interesting. 997 00:40:36,310 --> 00:40:40,724 There's actually, like, this really strong grassiness about it. 998 00:40:40,758 --> 00:40:43,965 And then the coffee comes in super strong 999 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,344 but it actually doesn't overpower the avocado 1000 00:40:46,379 --> 00:40:48,931 which was my fear of mashing those two together. 1001 00:40:48,965 --> 00:40:51,724 I'm just blown away by how intelligent this dessert is. 1002 00:40:51,758 --> 00:40:54,655 -It's beautiful, it's so much fun to eat... -Thank you. 1003 00:40:54,689 --> 00:40:56,931 ...the coffee is a beautiful high note, 1004 00:40:56,965 --> 00:40:59,931 and then I just find myself going back into that avocado. 1005 00:40:59,965 --> 00:41:02,206 -Just-- It's almost like a palate cleanser. -[Shinmin] Yeah. 1006 00:41:02,241 --> 00:41:04,482 -Well done. -Thank you so much. 1007 00:41:04,517 --> 00:41:05,310 -Thank you. -Thank you. 1008 00:41:06,068 --> 00:41:06,896 Whoa! 1009 00:41:08,137 --> 00:41:09,034 [Jonathan] Teams... 1010 00:41:09,068 --> 00:41:11,137 new horrors were created here today, 1011 00:41:11,172 --> 00:41:13,482 and that's a beautiful thing. 1012 00:41:13,517 --> 00:41:16,413 Two teams will be moving on to the main competition 1013 00:41:16,448 --> 00:41:17,310 and one team 1014 00:41:18,103 --> 00:41:19,827 will be going home. 1015 00:41:19,862 --> 00:41:23,827 The team that will be eliminated from Halloween Warsis... 1016 00:41:28,482 --> 00:41:30,310 Sweet Screams. 1017 00:41:30,344 --> 00:41:33,965 I'm sorry but you're done in this Halloween Wars. 1018 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,310 [softly] Good job. 1019 00:41:35,344 --> 00:41:38,413 I'm sad that we're not able to move forward in the competition 1020 00:41:38,448 --> 00:41:41,448 but I'm glad I got to be here and really put myself out there 1021 00:41:41,482 --> 00:41:43,413 for the world to see. 1022 00:41:43,448 --> 00:41:46,034 We'll see the rest of you in the main competition. 1023 00:41:46,965 --> 00:41:49,379 Next time onHalloween Wars... 1024 00:41:49,413 --> 00:41:51,551 -[honks] -[Jonathan] ...we send in the clowns. 1025 00:41:51,586 --> 00:41:52,827 [woman] He is a creepy. 1026 00:41:52,862 --> 00:41:55,931 He likes to save a memento from each person. 1027 00:41:55,965 --> 00:41:57,379 That is the stuff of nightmares. 1028 00:41:58,448 --> 00:41:59,724 -[gasps] -[Aarti] Wow. 1029 00:41:59,758 --> 00:42:02,517 -I'm, like, emotional and crying from this dessert. -Aww. 1030 00:42:02,551 --> 00:42:03,482 [Vikki] This is too short. 1031 00:42:03,517 --> 00:42:04,862 There's a gaping hole. 1032 00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:06,931 [woman] Oh! Oh, my God. 1033 00:42:06,965 --> 00:42:08,000 So many pumpkins in this one.