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00:00He's conquered the baking world and for Christmas he's going one step further by
00:08putting his lifelike cakes up against the real things, taking on teams who are
00:13masters at bringing Christmas to life, going head-to-head against Broadway set
00:19designers, glass blowers,
00:24animatronics experts and toy brick builders
00:30but they'll use whatever materials they choose while Buddy must use cake. It's
00:36bakers versus makers as both teams have just 24 hours. When it's Christmas Eve you
00:42gotta deliver. To see who can make the most incredible holiday displays, win
00:46$5,000 for a charity of their choosing and claim the ultimate ragging rights as
00:52they're going down. The team who conquered Christmas. This is Buddy vs.
00:59Christmas. Merry Christmas!
01:12What is that? Why is there a donk? What? Play me. Alright, how do you play it?
01:19Hi buddy. I've been sent by Lou Nasty. He's been making Christmas displays for over
01:2640 years. Prepare to lose and Merry Christmas.
01:32This guy Lou is really trying to push my buttons, huh? I think he just did. I say we let him have it.
01:38This week we're going up against Lou Nasty, who's a mechanical engineer and animatronics expert who
01:44does like all the big department store windows. He's a modern-day Geppetto and he's been doing this
01:51for longer than I've been in life. What's the challenge? What are we working on here?
01:56The challenge is Santa's workshop. The special skill set is storytelling.
02:02Santa's workshop, you think of building toys, stuff like that.
02:05So on my team this week is Ralph, who's my head sculptor. My brother-in-law Mo. Mo can build anything.
02:13My brother-in-law Mauro, he's a utility man. Ana is a sculptor, a decorator, and a great addition to the team.
02:21When I think of Santa's workshop, I think of lots of magical little Mo's.
02:26Hey, that's me. Making toys. Like toys being assembled on like an assembly line.
02:31This guy is going to have movement with his animatronics. So I think that we got to have movement.
02:38Courtney Quinn and Jason Chatfield, they're the best judges. I mean,
02:43who knows how to better tell a story than Jason? He's a cartoonist.
02:46Can this be the part of Santa's workshop where they make the
02:49Christmas cookies and cakes and stuff? Because that's a little more in line with what we do.
02:52So we call it like Santa's workshop, but it's like slash bakery.
02:57It's Carlo's North Pole location. You see pieces of cakes coming in one end,
03:03going to like something and then coming out as cakes. Maybe there's, maybe there's like something
03:09there in the middle where there's like a breaking point. So you can swap them out,
03:13like a decorating machine. Kind of like they come in a cake and that's the magic elf machine.
03:19And then it comes out something wild, like a finished decorated cake.
03:23We're going to make the North Pole Carlos Bakery edition. It's going to feature a huge storefront
03:29with a rolling conveyor belt manned by Santa's elves. Then the unfinished cakes come through here.
03:37I'm going to say Moe will be inside. Okay. And they get swapped out for finished ones that go out
03:42there. Unfinished cakes will go into the machine called Elphomatic and then boom, they're going to
03:48come out magically decorated. Why don't you three go start in the construction of it.
03:53Okay. Me and Ana will start making the cakes.
03:56All right. And then you would jump in on the elves. Deal. Sure. Let's do it.
04:01Rock and roll. Watch out for the dog.
04:07Okay. Come on guys. Let's go. We got a job to do. All right.
04:10My name is Lou Nasty and I am an animator. I build mechanical animated displays, robots.
04:19I bring smiles to many people and that's a gift for me. Good morning, everybody. Good morning.
04:24My nasty crew, huh? Our challenge is to build Santa's workshop. Now we've done that. We could
04:30do a workshop one night, one eye closed and one arm behind our back. But now we've got competition
04:35and it's got to tell a story. My team, Stephen, my son-in-law does carpentry. Rosie does the
04:42costuming. Jose is with me 19 years. One of the things he does is a lot of the carpentry. And Deborah,
04:50Deborah paints the faces. She does the artwork. She even does sculpting. There will be toys in all
04:56these shelves. How many shelves are we building? We're probably going to do about 50, 60 shelves.
05:00How many elves? Four or five elves. We'll do a dog. It's always cute to have a dog in the seat
05:05because they look cute. Do I paint all the toys? You're going to paint the toys. You're going to
05:09paint the faces on the figures. Inside the workshop, there will be elves, hard at work,
05:14making the toys, cutting the wood, drilling, painting. I'm going to put the reindeer in this
05:20area. Off to the side of the platform or on the platform? No, no, no. It won't fit in the platform.
05:24The reindeer is outside. He kind of takes the elves back and forth to work every day. And then,
05:28of course, talking reindeer, that's my talent, making things look alive. Are we all together
05:35on this? We're all together. Buddy thinks he's going to outshine us. Wait until he sees the
05:40finished product. Maybe he'll drop his cake. Nah, let's not wish him bad luck. Okay, guys,
05:45let's go. We're ready. Let's do it. Hello. Oh, what's going on? How you guys doing? Hello,
05:52Mr. Buddy. I got your dog. I locked him up. You got the dog, huh? Watch out. He bites. So do I.
06:01What are you making? Something fun? Our display is going to be about 11 foot across,
06:06and it's a toy shop. Christmas toy shop. Ours is going to be about 11 foot across,
06:13and it's a toy shop, too. Well, it's a big shop. Wow. Are you using butter and cream?
06:18Where are you using steel and gears? What's he trying to say? We have to beat them now.
06:23All right, guys. We'll see you.
06:29My art is cake, and I want to win with cake. You know, doing these competitions, you do the
06:34over-the-top sculptures or whatever, but there's just something beautiful about a simple Christmas cake
06:39that's decorated or piped, and to showcase all these things coming out of this big, huge thing,
06:46I think it's going to be like the cherry on top. Christmas time. It's a Christmas.
06:54Steven and Jose have to complete the structure of the shop. I've never built a display this quickly.
07:02My job as the animator is to make things look alive. I am going to start with the L.
07:10I'm going to have elves working on a drill press, soaring wood, sanding and cleaning everything,
07:14and painting at the same time. I need to just do the linkage on this now. I made the motor mount,
07:19and I did the paint to hold the figure. Best quality. My mechanical figures move with electricity.
07:25I can make things go back and forth, up and down, left to right. I can make things bow, and that by
07:32connecting different motors and different parts together, I can make many different movements.
07:38I think one of the things that's unique about what I do is that not many people do this. Animation
07:44is not something you go to school to learn. It's sort of a passion. Okay. At a very young age,
07:52I was able to build a robot, and it was a big robot, six foot, and I wound up on the front page
07:58of the New York Times, and it changed my life. I realized at that point I did have a talent for
08:04this type of work. I think the thing that wows people is the complexity of my projects. You can
08:11have one figure and it's really entertaining and it's adorable. You can have two figures and it's even
08:15twice as entertaining, but you put 20 figures together. You have music connected. You put
08:19lighting in there and effects with different types of lighting and smoke. You can create a mechanical marvel.
08:32Right now, we're working on the structure for the actual cake. We have to have the rails coming in
08:37perfect so they can come in through this hole. So they're going to go in one hole, go down the ramp.
08:41Moe's going to do the official switch. Moe's in there. He takes the cake when it comes through here.
08:48Then puts a finished cake on the exit side of the rollers. Okay.
08:59So I have to paint five of these. Santa's workshop is going to have five or six elves.
09:06I'm painting all the faces. I like the one that has a smirk. Like this one. He's got a real
09:18sassy little smile there. So this is basic skin color and then I'll just take it from there and
09:25lighten it or darken it. Changing the skin color a little. Eye color, putting different hair,
09:32making one a male, one a female. I like that. It's very hard to get the eyelashes so I'm trying to do
09:39wings. You know those elf looking wings. I'm doing pockets for the little elves jeans. Their backs are
09:47pretty much going to be toward the back of the workshop. But still, if one of them rotates then
09:54you'll see it. The details are very time consuming, but it is fun to do. And it does,
10:00it does matter. They show, you know, people look at little details. Definitely.
10:05On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me cake. On the second day of Christmas my true
10:16love gave to me two cakes and a cake. I'm making the two elves who are working the assembly line.
10:27So I'm a little envious of how Mr. Nasty gets to work because he's got like a library of faces that
10:35are cast that he can choose from and pull them down off the walls and repaint them. Because everything
10:41we do is edible, I have to sculpt it all from scratch shortly before it has to go out to the
10:46customers. That way it's still edible. Him being able to just pull a face down off the wall and set it
10:53up on an animatronic. Big advantage time-wise. One, two, three. Coming up on Buddy Versus Christmas.
11:05The special skill set is storytelling. It's going to be really magical. One of our best cakes.
11:13Santa's kicking it Hoboken style, baby.
11:23Keep it going. Quick, quick, quick. Knock it out. Working with Lou is very fast-paced.
11:30How do you want to start the cake? Do I do the cake or should I start painting toys? No sooner am I
11:36done with one project or not even done and he's got another one ready. The toy's a secondary little
11:42problem. But if we start the cake, it's got to dry. I decided to give Buddy a little run for his money
11:49by making a figure with a cake. We're going to use my face. What a beautiful face. With the cake,
11:56bravo. You have to put these lights right around here too. Go right around the edge. Okay. It's
12:01got to look like a Buddy cake. You wouldn't want to eat this one. Ready for a competition. Okay,
12:05thanks kiddo. All right. Rosie, my cake is baked. It's baked. Now I'm icing it. That's quicker than Buddy.
12:10There's not an exact science to mixing the buttercream color to make it exactly what you want.
12:22The sound that mixer makes sounds like suspense violins in a movie. You know,
12:26like if someone was walking down a scary hallway and the violin's like...
12:29I really want to make sure that we nail color all the time. I'm making a like a Christmassy sagey
12:39green and it took me a couple trial and errors. I was at this, but this is where I want to be.
12:47But the trick is you have to aerate your buttercream to get it nice and smooth.
12:59I'm separating the stitches on the deer. This deer is probably one of the best pieces of plush on the
13:09market. We don't make the actual plush figure. I can't reinvent the wheel. A lot of this stuffing
13:16will go back in, but a lot of it won't because the linkage and the mechanism and the motors
13:21that make him move will go inside his body. So I take them apart and then I bring them to life.
13:26I have to cut them open. I have to empty out the insides so I have room to put the animation.
13:34My workshop will consist of elves building all the toys and then of course would be a talking reindeer.
13:42These pieces are not meant to come apart. So what I'm doing is a trick.
13:49I have to take out any of the steel that's in there that's blocking my way and fill it with the
13:54animated linkage to make him move and talk. I got to cover the whole thing when I grind because it'll
14:00put the whole deer on fire. I found that the hard way. So I've taken the face off and I put it in a
14:08support box which is going to hold the deer in place and also put his his antlers back on.
14:15The challenge of this cake is everything's got to work in sync and harmony.
14:23Um, right now the way it looks built, it's a little wonky.
14:27Wait, that's not good? We have two separate conveyor belts to make the behind the scenes magic happen.
14:33But it's got to look like it's one continuous conveyor. These are just not lining up the
14:39way that I want them to. If you keep the angle but this comes down you know a couple inches
14:45either this comes higher like like you it's probably easier to raise this.
14:51Watching an animatronics window right it works in unison. It makes sense. Ours has to do the same.
14:57If you raise this to seem like it dies here, then I don't mind it. It's one o'clock just so you guys
15:07know we're not even going to finish this by eight o'clock. You don't want to leave it? All right,
15:10you'll see. You're an angry elf. Why are you an angry elf? Because you changed the wall. I'm sorry.
15:16No, he's not. I am very frustrated because every time somebody walks in they change their mind
15:21and you know it's screwing, unscrewing, cutting, uncutting and you know it's measuring once and
15:26cutting three times. That doesn't work.
15:37Um, we have two separate conveyor belts to make the behind the scenes magic happen.
15:43But it's got to look like it's one continuous conveyor.
15:46Wait, that's not good? These are just not lining up the way that I want them to.
15:50If you raise this to seem like it dies here, then I don't mind it. We've got to raise the whole
16:00thing three and a half. If it doesn't come down straight and continue down the ramp,
16:06that's just like a little magic box, but it's got to be in line.
16:10You're saying magic can do anything other than... I don't know what North Pole you've been to or what
16:16elves you've been working with, but my elves are realistic. You don't have elves. The elves are my
16:22people. I'm gonna go do my part. Just hurry up and get that done.
16:32Usually when I do this sort of thing with the elongated face, I make the eyes a little on the,
16:36a little more oval because it accentuates the lengthening of the face.
16:41It's been a bit challenging because it's a full body sculpture and it's quite large and it has a
16:46mechanical mechanism that was a huge pain. Hey Ralph, do you want to grab a wire for a second here?
16:53Yeah. Good job.
16:57Is it going? Uh, it is not.
17:00How about now? No. There's too much chocolate down here. All right.
17:05You got to get that red chocolate out of there. All right.
17:11Hey, let it go for your second, thanks.
17:15Oh, look at that. She's swinging her wrench.
17:18That's how you use a wrench. You swing it back and forth.
17:21Very slowly.
17:23Do you think when the cake boss sees this cake, he'll hire me?
17:27I don't know. It looks quite delicious.
17:29My next step with this is getting a Christmas tree on top.
17:36Got to probably drill a hole in here and then drill a hole in here and put the wiring inside.
17:43And there'll be a button, I guess, that will turn the lights on and make the trees rotate.
17:49Yes.
17:50I don't know if the cake boss can do that.
17:55I am going to be the magical mechanical component in this machine.
17:59Uh, not my first rodeo on going inside of a cake.
18:02All righty.
18:03Go in the box, Mo.
18:04Going in the box.
18:06Mo, behind the scenes, is the man behind the veil.
18:10And he has to be able to pull one out, put one in and kind of slide and chimmy and make this happen.
18:16Hit me in the face with this cake.
18:20Whoop, in the back.
18:23And then I put the new one in.
18:26You had a little bridge here.
18:29So you could load up and pull back.
18:30Honestly, that bridge, I think, will get in my way.
18:33Because I got to be able to go over my shoulder to get rid of whatever.
18:35I get it, but if you bridge it, right, you have one sitting right here.
18:41Okay, before that one even goes down, you start one.
18:44If something happens and they're coming too fast,
18:46I have room on the floor to drop them if I don't have this in the way.
18:49I better know.
18:50You drop my cake, I'm going to drop you.
18:52You're going to be buried in that box, dude.
18:55Dropping cakes.
18:55Place them.
18:57I have room to place them gently on the ground.
18:59Let me go finish doing the cakes.
19:01You guys finish doing this.
19:02That's fine.
19:03All right, now please go make some cakes before you change your mind.
19:07Give me this.
19:07Give my cake back, please.
19:09Hey, hey.
19:09You're not going to see it.
19:13It's too low.
19:21Moe, there's some girls for you.
19:23They're pointing to it.
19:24They're pointing.
19:24They're just about your size.
19:27They're doing their own little dance.
19:40I'm just trying to get this linkage locked, connected, so I can get them moving.
19:48Now, if these pivot points aren't perfectly parallel and lined up, they'll jam up and that's it.
19:52You're out, you're in, you're in trouble.
19:55The challenge of building a mechanical talking reindeer is that everything has to line up
20:02because of the linkage of the draw arms and the pivot points.
20:06And I'm doing it quickly.
20:08So I'm able to lift them up and down and then look left and right,
20:11and then I'll be able to make his head turn.
20:13So he'll be really animated.
20:15So 90% of this is bolted together and locked.
20:17And when I lock it with the quarter-inch hardware, it's not going to move.
20:21These are the control wires that run the motors.
20:23The color codes are very important because it'll just create a problem with the direction of the motor.
20:28The motor moves it back and forth and gives me the movement I want.
20:31Typically, I build an animation.
20:34I test it for at least a week.
20:37I don't want it to squeak.
20:38I don't want anything to loosen up.
20:40I don't want anything to break.
20:42A small screw loosened because I didn't tighten it can make the head fall off.
20:47And I connect it to the controller.
20:49It'll give me two movements at one time.
20:51So I can get almost, he's looking all over the place.
20:53Because he'll go left, right, up, down, left, right, up, down.
21:07I'm doing some different old school piping techniques on the ornament.
21:17Kind of just having fun with it and doing what I love.
21:21I'm just so excited to really showcase all the different elements that all of us are working on separately.
21:28And then when they come together on one piece, it's going to be really magical.
21:32I really think it's going to be one of our best cakes.
21:38Put up the sign.
21:40Whose mouth?
21:41He's the guy with the hat on the other side.
21:45Hey, Ralph.
21:47Oh, wow.
21:47They, uh, they really...
21:49They're really taking me to task.
21:52I've seen the sicker burns from an easy-bake oven.
21:59Oh, hello.
22:01Yeah, my wits as sharp as ever.
22:04Well, that's not very clever.
22:05Anybody we competed with throughout this whole competition, it's been, um, like a friend, a friendly rivalry.
22:16Well, that's the creativity we're going up against.
22:19Hello?
22:19Yeah, hello.
22:21These guys are talking a little too much smack.
22:24You know, when you poke the bear, sometimes you get swatted.
22:27And they've been poking the bear.
22:28This Elphomatic, it's like 13 foot tall, 12 foot wide, and 10 foot long.
22:43We have to get through it.
22:45This back wall needs to be covered, um, so we just brick it.
22:49Gingerbread brick is a perfect solution.
22:51I think it looks good.
22:52I think it, you know, we have it, and it's very Christmassy.
22:56These are gear motors set up in a way to kind of simulate reciprocating actuators.
23:04So this is going to go up and down, or side to side, however we orient it.
23:07We're going to use these so that you can see some kind of mechanicals of the machine going.
23:17I am wiring up the actuators right now.
23:21That's good.
23:22You ready?
23:23All right, Maurits, turn it on.
23:24Coming in hot.
23:28That's good.
23:28Okay.
23:30I'm going to run a wire now, pick up the power to the motors,
23:33and then I'm going to run the wire to the servo and hook up the servo.
23:36So the servo will make the mouth move.
23:37A servo is a little device activated through radio frequency.
23:41This will be behind his neck.
23:43This will connect to the back of his mouth.
23:45And when this moves this way, his mouth will flip open and close.
23:48And of course, it'll be activated through sound.
23:50I've got the talking deer pretty much together.
23:53It's mechanically moving.
23:55Now, I have to get that deer talking.
23:58One, two, three, one.
24:03I do the voices and all this stuff, you know, when I talk, my figures.
24:08And if I lose it and I start laughing, I say something, I've got to smack myself.
24:12You always say terrible things because you're a nasty person.
24:15That's not nice.
24:17Now that I took all the stuffing, I can't put stuffing in because it all gets caught in the mechanism.
24:22So you have to grill it.
24:23I took out his appendix, his gallbladder, and his kidney.
24:26I replaced it with a servo and a couple of DC motors.
24:29Now he feels better.
24:32In order to make it look like this elf is really on his phone,
24:35I found some of these little color-changing lights and I popped a few of them into his hands
24:40so you get a reflection of like the screen light on his shirt.
24:43I messed up because I made it like a chat screen instead of a video.
24:50This elf is kind of the slacker.
24:52I've intentionally made his elf hat look a little more like a dunce cap.
24:57It's visual storytelling.
24:59You ever see me do this technique, Ralph?
25:04No. What are you doing?
25:05It's like a buttercream strippy stripe.
25:08Now do you smooth it out or do you scrape it off?
25:10Do a little bit of both.
25:11So you're going to smooth it out first to get it all even,
25:14and then you dig in more and then you scrape off.
25:17The beauty of our cake is unfinished cakes will go into the machine called Elph-O-Matic,
25:24and then boom, they're going to come out magically decorated.
25:28Give me a flat brush because I want to paint the flower tips a little bit.
25:35How do you like my little zebra flower there, Ralph?
25:38That's cute.
25:39So I've got the rest of the figures that are going to be on the set,
25:43and all I'm doing now is just finalizing them ready to go into the costume shop.
25:46I think the most important elements in this design is good movement.
25:51The drill press has to work.
25:52The figure cutting the wood has to look like he's really soaring it.
25:56Tightening everything.
25:57I've got a few pieces to weld, and I'm almost done with the figures.
26:01Rosie will take it from there.
26:03She's down to the last set of clothes that she's putting together.
26:07It's going to be tight, but we're going to do it.
26:10We're troopers.
26:11We're experienced at this.
26:12When the tough gets going, the go and get tough.
26:15Get him out of here so he can get some clothes.
26:17He's got a cold butt.
26:22Okay.
26:22All right.
26:23I'm starting to finish him.
26:24I've got just a little bit of odds and ends on these guys.
26:26Great.
26:27So who's this now?
26:28He's one of the carpets.
26:29He's cutting.
26:30Okay.
26:31Okay, whichever face you think looks the best on him based on what he's doing.
26:34Now, he's struggling with that sauce, so give him a busy face, all right?
26:38You get the clothes on, do what you have to do, and I'll take it from there.
26:40Okay.
26:42Time to dress the boys.
26:45Okay.
26:46My assignment is to dress four elves and the baker.
26:50Okay, Rosie, here's another one.
26:52Okay.
26:53And make sure they all have their hair done and their hats on, and that they fit all
27:00the animatronics correctly.
27:03This short amount of time, it's making me sweat, for sure.
27:08I love a nice, good-fitting flannel on a man.
27:14Hello, buddy.
27:17Hey.
27:19How we doing, Lou?
27:20I'm good.
27:20How are you doing?
27:21You look like you got a lot of work, Lou.
27:23I've been working.
27:24I love my work like you do.
27:26I can't wait to see your finished display.
27:28The problem is, I can't eat it.
27:30You could eat mine.
27:31If you want, you could eat it.
27:32No problem.
27:33I can't wait to see you guys at the end of the competition,
27:37but at the end of this, we usually turn the cameras around.
27:40So, we'll see you later, Lou.
27:43Bye, guys.
27:45Goodbye.
27:53It's a little bit of a crunch right now.
27:55I'm happy to paint toys that will stand out and will look like they're ready for children
28:01to play with.
28:02I've got to make glue.
28:04I think I'm going to glue this right on and then trim it.
28:06Now, his mustache is pretty gray.
28:09Nice and long.
28:11Look at his mustache.
28:12Oh, my God.
28:14Let me get a dog.
28:17You better file it.
28:18You better cut it.
28:19I'll give you a big file and it'll file around it.
28:21Steve has to get the figures placed on the set.
28:24They have to cut the figures in and make sure they fit properly.
28:28Oh, please, Fred.
28:31All right.
28:34Nice and easy.
28:35Watch your fingers.
28:35Turn them around a little bit.
28:36There you go.
28:37See how nice the light brings up his face and all?
28:39Lights over here.
28:40Christmas trees over here.
28:41It's going to look pretty.
28:43Really pretty.
28:44They're all finished sparkly.
28:48We haven't once tried out this fog machine.
28:51Time's almost running out.
28:52We've still got a lot of things that got to get done.
28:54I'm in go mode.
28:55We're tiling the front of the facade with white modeling chocolate
29:00because I'm going to overpipe on it and do some, like, green garlands
29:04and hang the stockings.
29:07I know this is looking good, but we still have a ton of work to get done.
29:11We're going to go on all the cogs, make sure all the mechanics working,
29:15put the elves in place.
29:16You know, a lot of things got to still happen.
29:19And, you know, we're just trying to get done.
29:22Time's up.
29:24That's it.
29:25We can't do any more.
29:26We're going to have two hours over there to finish the last odds and ends.
29:33So today we're delivering to the art factory in Pattison, New Jersey.
29:37Straighten out.
29:38Straighten out.
29:40Okay.
29:44Good?
29:44Yeah, you're good.
29:45You're good.
29:47Toast.
29:47No problem.
29:49We're starting to unload, but everybody's already getting nervous.
29:52We're not taking it off the truck.
29:53We're ripping it off the truck.
29:55All right.
29:55I'm going to take this.
29:56Ow!
29:58Splinter?
29:59No, no.
30:00There are three nails.
30:01Did you take a look at this?
30:03It, look, it just, it went here, here, and here.
30:06All I'm going to do is I'm just going to clean it off.
30:08All right.
30:10We have to unload, though.
30:11This is, my father-in-law's going to kill me.
30:14Well, you know, is he going to kill you?
30:16Yes, yes.
30:17The answer is yes.
30:18All right.
30:19All right.
30:19That'll be it.
30:20Watch the faces.
30:21Watch the figures.
30:22Yes, yes.
30:22Okay.
30:23Everything in here is going to move.
30:25This is a freight elevator.
30:26Third floor.
30:27All right.
30:27Everybody watch, because everything's going to move.
30:30Don't touch the wall.
30:40Everything in here is going to move.
30:41This is a freight elevator.
30:42All right.
30:43Everybody watch, because everything's going to move.
30:45Don't touch the wall, like I'm telling you.
30:47Oh, my God, stop.
30:48Oh, no.
30:50No, it's the back on the bottom.
30:52It's jammed in there.
30:53Wait.
30:54Wait.
30:54Let me move those.
30:55I have this, so you guys get that.
30:57Everybody needs to take a couple of deep breaths.
30:59Posey, watch your back.
31:01Nice as well.
31:03A little bit more.
31:04A little more.
31:05A little more.
31:08The dolly got stuck between the elevator and the floor.
31:12That could have been a foot.
31:13Everybody has to get calm, because it was very scary what happened.
31:17One, two, three.
31:21No, no, no.
31:22This is a beautiful facility, but it's an old building, so it's a little tight.
31:27Be careful of that pipe above your head.
31:29You're going that way.
31:30I'm going straight.
31:30Watch that head.
31:31Watch that pipe.
31:32Behind you.
31:32Hold on, hold on, hold on.
31:33I got it.
31:33Good step, good step.
31:34Hold on.
31:35You got to go to Buddy.
31:36All right.
31:36I mean, every hallway, every turn.
31:38Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
31:39Okay.
31:40We're dodging.
31:40We're ducking.
31:41This is not an easy delivery.
31:43Are we on a wooden bridge four floors up above the loading dock?
31:45Don't think about it.
31:46Oh, we are.
31:47Thank God we built this in three pieces, because everything is sliding by by the hair of my
31:51chinny-chin-chin.
31:53Push move.
31:59Right there, we drive through.
32:00Holy cow.
32:02How are we doing, guys?
32:03Oh, it's the funny guys.
32:05Hey, it's the funny guys.
32:08They already know you.
32:09Are you real careful with my baby?
32:11Yes, yes, I was.
32:12Let's just zip it in.
32:15All right.
32:16Got the cake in.
32:17We got two hours to go.
32:18We need to assemble it all together.
32:20I need to pipe the garland.
32:22We need to hang the stockings.
32:24We need to finish putting all the cakes on a conveyor belt.
32:28There's a lot of work that's got to get done.
32:35Okay, now, Steve, turn her a little from her chair.
32:39A little more.
32:39Good.
32:39That's fine.
32:40We're getting everything together.
32:42Just before we finish, the reindeer's head goes to the side.
32:47The head went to the side, and so did my heart.
32:52You got to cut it open.
32:55It gets further back.
32:56The sets grew loosened up.
32:59The trick is to find exactly which one it was.
33:02The simple little collar came off a pivot point that dropped the linkage that held his head straight.
33:11It took my hand in there.
33:13I can see it as you're doing it.
33:13I can see it as you're doing it.
33:14Here.
33:14I got it.
33:16Is this it?
33:17Pop, pop, pop.
33:18I got it.
33:19Okay.
33:20This little collar tightens the arm that allows it to come back and forth.
33:28This collar popped off.
33:30I found the collar underneath on the, basically the belly of the deer.
33:34Here.
33:35Give me a brush.
33:36That's good.
33:38Okay.
33:38Bingo.
33:39I'm sorry.
33:39What happened?
33:40It took years off my life.
33:43At that moment, that was the last thing I needed to see.
33:47Okay.
33:47Ready?
33:47We're going to turn it.
33:48Ooh.
33:48Punch the pipes.
33:50Moment of truth.
33:50We got to test the Alphamatic.
33:53We put everything in place.
33:55We try to turn on the smoke machine.
33:57That's not working.
33:59It's the weirdest thing.
34:00Is the frog machine plugged in?
34:02We need the smoke machine to work because it's one element Lou ain't got.
34:06Come around back.
34:08You got it.
34:09We do a little more magic there.
34:12I put it right on.
34:12Oh, we got smoke.
34:14And boom.
34:15We got smoke.
34:16There's the smoke.
34:17Hi-yo.
34:18Time's up.
34:19We're done.
34:20Okay, everybody in position.
34:23One, two, three.
34:32Christmas just came early, baby.
34:34There's a really good chance that this is going to turn out just fine.
34:37And Lou Nasty, you are in trouble, my friend.
34:44Jason Chatfield and Courtney Quinn are going to be the perfect judges for this competition.
34:49Courtney Quinn is a color expert.
34:51If there's one thing you can't be for Courtney, it's bland.
34:54But I ain't a bland guy, so I ain't worried.
34:57Jason Chatfield is a cartoonist and a comedian based in New York City.
35:01Jason's work has been published everywhere from The New Yorker to Mad Magazine.
35:06And we're really excited to see the finished work.
35:15Lou.
35:16Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
35:19All right, Lou.
35:25Let's see your creation.
35:27Well, I think I've accomplished a lot.
35:29Let's take a look at what I've done.
35:31Oh, my God.
35:37My elves are busy working to complete the toys.
35:39Bravo.
35:40Nice work, guys.
35:42And then my talking reindeer.
35:44There's so much going on.
35:46I know.
35:46I feel like I have to look at it inch by inch because there's so much packed in there.
35:50Yeah.
35:50I mean, we asked for a story, but this is a book.
35:54Hello, Bingo.
35:55Hey, Lou and Team Nasty.
35:57Bingo's my name and flying's my game.
36:00I fly the elves back and forth every day from their homes to the workshop and back again,
36:05sort of like the North Pole taxi service.
36:07You like the job?
36:08I sometimes get paid in gumdrops or cake from Buddy and his elves.
36:14Who says the gig economy's dead?
36:16Wow.
36:18I got to say, Lou, just looking at what you created,
36:20I could tell how much you love Christmas.
36:23I could tell how much you're in the business of making people happy.
36:26I got to tip my hat and say bravo.
36:29Thank you very much.
36:31All right, Team Buddy, show us what you made.
36:33You got it.
36:33This year, Santa's kicking it Hoboken style, baby.
36:50This year, Santa's kicking it Hoboken style, baby.
36:56Wow.
36:56Wow.
36:59Going against Lou and his team, we wanted to have a lot of movement.
37:03Oh, my God.
37:04Oh, my God.
37:05Gears and gizmos and smoke and lights.
37:07You've not done yourself.
37:07The Elphamatic 4,000.
37:09The Elphamatic 4,000.
37:10Is this patented?
37:11Patented, patented, made in Hoboken.
37:14Wow.
37:14So did you build us a cake that makes cake?
37:17That's exactly corny what we did.
37:19We made you a cake that makes cakes.
37:21Wow.
37:22That's the best kind of cake.
37:24I'd really like to have a piece of any one of those cakes.
37:29I think you did a great job.
37:31Great work, Team Buddy.
37:32Okay.
37:32Now comes the fun part.
37:34We get to take a closer look at what you made.
37:36Good job.
37:36Nice work, you guys.
37:37Really.
37:37Good job.
37:38Good job.
37:38Hey, it's fantastic.
37:41I got to say, I really love Bingo.
37:44He's amazing.
37:45Hey, Bingo, you got a compliment.
37:47Why, thank you, buddy.
37:48I wish I could say the same, but this competition should be a piece of cake.
37:55Be nice.
37:55We're on television.
37:57Yeah, you got to be nice, Bingo.
37:59Sometimes he curses.
38:00That's all right.
38:04I love this.
38:04This is very cartoony.
38:06Yeah.
38:06So it really speaks to me.
38:07Absolutely.
38:08I love the big animated looking eyes.
38:10Yeah.
38:11The very expressive faces.
38:12They're so stinking cute.
38:14I love this one at the front here.
38:15He's kind of fixing things.
38:17But kind of lazily, which I relate to.
38:19He's like, I'm going to fix this, but I'm going to lay down when I do it.
38:22He's really got my Sunday morning energy.
38:24Yeah.
38:25The story is very much Buddy's story.
38:27Yeah.
38:27I mean, it's a cake making factory.
38:29It's Carlo's bake shop.
38:31I know that Buddy decided to take that story of Christmas
38:35and bring it to his own personal story is really special.
38:38Well, I think Lou has got some very difficult competition here.
38:42He's really knocked it out of the park.
38:44It's going to be hard to beat for sure.
38:45Let's take a look at what Lou made.
38:47All right, let's go.
38:51There's so much going on here.
38:52This one also has a nice little story.
38:54The elves in the workshop.
38:56I like the irony that he had to get his little elves
38:59to work to make this workshop of little elves.
39:01Yes.
39:01It's very meta.
39:02Elves on elves.
39:03It's very meta.
39:03There's a lot of meta going on in both of these.
39:05A cake on cake, cake maker, and elves making an elf workshop.
39:09Exactly.
39:10Well, I do love that there are so many hidden details.
39:13Like, the longer I look at this, the more I can explore and enjoy.
39:16Yeah, it feels like a puzzle.
39:18It does feel like a puzzle or kind of like a game of I spy.
39:22I like the drill.
39:22I like the hand pulling the drill down and the little puppy.
39:26I think as you continue to look, you can kind of unravel more of the story.
39:30But I do think you have to stare at it for quite a bit to unravel all the really clear details.
39:36In reference to color, I understand why it's quite a bit beige, but I personally would have
39:40loved to see just a little bit more color.
39:42I really like this little animatronic figure.
39:46You know what the cherry on top is for me is the mustache.
39:50I mean, that is Lou's signature.
39:52Yeah.
39:53And I love that it's on this little character here out front.
39:57Team Buddy, Team Lou, the challenge was to create something that told the story of Santa's workshop.
40:04Buddy, I love that you had the smoke coming out.
40:08You had the music.
40:08You had the whole scene come together.
40:11There were a few details that I thought could have been just a little bit cleaner.
40:15Lou, you created something so magical that really feels like Christmas.
40:20But I feel like there was just so much going on that I didn't know where to look
40:24and I wanted it to kind of flow a bit easier.
40:29You've both done an incredible job and you've given us a really difficult job,
40:33but we do have to choose a winner.
40:36When I see Buddy's display, okay, it's nice, but I don't think it compares to mine.
40:42It doesn't have the sophistication, but I'm not working with chocolate and icing and cookies.
40:47I'm working with steel. There's an edge on my side, but you never know.
40:51I mean, listen, looking at both pieces, it's anybody's game.
40:55You know, and listen, if you're going to lose to a guy that does Christmas for a living, it's okay.
40:59The team that conquered Christmas is...
41:04Team Buddy!
41:09Congratulations, Buddy.
41:14Your prize of $5,000 will be donated to the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
41:20When we knew that we were going against Lou, we had to elevate our game.
41:24You're a master of what you do, so thank you.
41:27I don't think anybody lost here. We had a wonderful experience. We met wonderful people.
41:32We got to share our talent, and we enjoyed every minute of it. Buddy, you're a true artist.
41:38It was great competing against you. Merry Christmas.
41:43Lou, good job, my brother.
41:45Great job. Excellent.
41:47Congratulations.
41:48You didn't know it. Thank you to me.
41:49It was such a pleasure.
41:51It was great.
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