- I don't do well under pressure.
- (FBE) Yeah. And 25 seconds.
- BAH! - What's 16 times 16?
This is so [bleep] hard. - That's not right. Jeez!
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) We are going to be doing a Try Not to Fail challenge.
- I fail at a lot in life. I'm not good at most things.
I don't know why I'm so excited. I actually really liked the last one.
- (FBE) We're going to be presenting you with a series
of tasks, and they will all be back-to-school themed.
- Uh-oh. (chuckles) - Yup, definitely gonna fail.
You're choosing the guy that dropped out of college
not once, but twice. - Wow! I haven't been back
to school in, like, half a decade, so I'm definitely gonna fail
at least some of these. - (FBE) We'll present you
with a series of school-related tasks that you must not fail at.
When you fail, you'll be out for that round, but you will
come back for the next thing, and you will get a strike.
The person with the least strikes is the winner.
- Okay, cool. I'm curious to see if it's all gonna just be
like math and just problems or if it's gonna be like,
"Oh, you have to pack a bag. You have to fold your laundry"
and stuff. - (FBE) Well, are you ready?
- I'm a little nervous now.
My anxiety's just shooting up right now.
I'm hoping they're easy, but knowing you guys,
I'm pretty sure there's gonna be some weird [bleep].
(chuckles) - (FBE) For your first task,
this will be based on dorm life! - Ooh, okay.
I never lived in a dorm. - (FBE) So, for this first round,
we're going to see if you can fold all of these shirts
in one minute. - What?
- I literally leave my laundry in a basket for the full week
until it's pretty much gone. - This sounds so lame.
I love folding things, so this is great.
- (FBE) Your time starts now. - Typical college kid.
I guess I'm doing this sitting down, 'cause I'm lazy, huh?
- (FBE) All right. So, I remember you gotta fold in-- I'm trying
to do the Hot Topic method. You gotta do this,
and then you gotta fold the bottom, and then you gotta fold it over.
And that's a [bleep] T-shirt. Don't look at how straight
the edges are. - See, I'm a very just, like,
if it fits in the drawer, it's fine kind of gal.
(chuckles) You can squeeze it. You can put it in a ball.
Especially if they're T-shirts like this, like pajama shirts,
let's just shove it in a drawer. It's fine.
- Oh god, oh god, oh god, okay.
Eh! Two. - Are these are all FBE shirts?
- This is really confusing. Buy our merch!
- Just keep it nice and clean on the edges.
Who cares what the middle looks like? - And then I could always toss it
in the dryer if it's wrinkly, get it a little bit wet.
That's what I do. - I'm super OCD too,
so I'm like, "I have to do a good job, but also, there's a time limit."
- This is stressing me out, 'cause I'm not folding them right!
- But that's fine. It's all gonna go in a hamper anyway.
This one's already folded. That was a cheat right there.
Let's go. - Hey, actually, this is
not looking too bad. I'm proud of myself.
- I don't do well under pressure. - (FBE) Yeah. And 25 seconds.
- BAH! - (panting)
Heavy breathing. This is a workout.
- Oh my god. My arms are tired.
- Pffft!
- Gotta take some time on that one. - (FBE) You did it
with five seconds left. - (sighs loudly)
I don't like that at all.
- (FBE) And you did it with three seconds left.
- Oh, crap! Oh my god. Why am I shaking doing folding?
- This is the most workout I've got in the past week.
I'm not even gonna lie. - (FBE) Damn, son!
You did it at the last second. - Oh, for real?
- (FBE) Three, two, one! (buzzer)
- NOOO! I had two left!
Oh! Why?! (buzzer)
- (FBE) You were so close. - Almost there! (laughs)
(buzzer) - I think I got a D-.
For some students, that's good enough.
And I'm one of those students. (buzzer)
- (FBE) All right. So, these next two challenges
will be based around English class prep.
- Okay. I'm pretty good at English. I can English.
- I speak English, so I don't know how bad I could do.
...How poorly I could do? - (FBE) This all gonna be based
on things you definitely should've learned in high school
or probably relearned your first term of college. (chuckles)
- That's great, because I dropped out of high school and college.
This is great. - Texting has ruined my ability
(laughs) to speak proper English. - (FBE) For this next round,
we are going to give you some sentences with missing words.
You'll need to fill in the proper usages of
there/their/they're, your and you're,
or its and it's. - Okay. You know what?
Tumblr days, people really made this a thing, so it's gonna
test my knowledge and how I good took
lessons from those days. - The brown dog loves...
- Oh, would it be its bone or their bone?
- The dog's bone, so it's going to be
a version of their, but it's not they are.
- T-H-E-I-R. - (FBE) That's incorrect.
(buzzer) - T-H-E-I-R.
- (FBE) There is only one dog in this sentence.
So, it is "The brown dog loves its bone."
- That's stupid. (buzzer)
- I-T, apostrophe, S? - (FBE) That is wrong.
(buzzer). - It's not "it is bone," so it's just its
without the apostrophe. - (FBE) Correct!
- See? (snaps) - The brown dog loves its bone.
- (FBE) Say which its? - The one without the apostrophe.
- (FBE) Yes! - I-T-S, no apostrophe?
- (FBE) Correct! - Okay. (chuckles)
- I-T-S. - (FBE) Yeah.
- The brown dog loves its bone.
- The dogs lost... their toys.
T-H-E-I-R. - (FBE) Correct!
- See? - T-H-E-I-R?
- (FBE) Correct! - Okay.
- T-H-E-I-R. - (FBE) Great!
- T-H-E-I-R. I almost spelled it wrong!
(chuckles) That's not even grammar. - The fox stole...
is this "your sock"? Y-O-U-R.
- (FBE) Correct! - Y-O-U-R?
- (FBE) Correct! - (sighs in relief)
- Y-O-U-R. - (FBE) Great.
You did it! You passed!
- Okay. See, I'm not the smartest, but I do know the difference
between there-- When people bully you
for being wrong, that's how you learn.
- Dogs should be considered "their." That's all I'm saying.
"Its" is derogatory for dogs, 'cause they are souls.
- (FBE) All right. So, for this next round,
we will be giving you one-sentence descriptions
of books, and you will have to guess what book
we're talking about. These are all books
you should have read in high school at some point.
- [Bleep]. I didn't read any of 'em. (chuckles)
I just watched the movies. - God. I hope it's the one book
that I have tattooed on me. "Stay gold, Ponyboy"
from The Outsiders. So, there's a chance
that I have been studying. - "Man creates new life,
abandons it, and must live with the horrific consequences
of his actions." - I might just throw out
a random book that I remember being out there. The Giver?
- (FBE) Nope. (buzzer)
- Is it Of Mice and Men? - (FBE) Nope.
- I never read that book to be honest.
I was just hoping that it'd be the one book that I didn't
read in high school. (chuckles) (buzzer)
- Sounds like God to me. - The Bible?
- (FBE) No. - I didn't think so.
(buzzer) - I don't know. Frankenstein.
- (FBE) Yup. - Oh, really?!
- Oh. Is this Frankenstein? - (FBE) Yes!
- Okay. Cool. - Frankenstein?
- (FBE) Yup! - Ah!
- That makes more sense. Okay. Dammit. Wow.
(buzzer) - This is how you get
through college and high school: guessing.
- "Man throws lavish parties to win back the woman he loves."
The Great Gatsby. - (FBE) Yay!
- It's my favorite book. - What is-- The Great Gatsby?
- (FBE) That's right! - He-he-hey!
- The Great Gatsby. - (FBE) Yup!
- Ah, so good at this. I didn't even read that.
Told you. I just watched the movie. - (FBE) So, for the next two rounds,
we're gonna have you do two different math problems,
and you only have one minute per problem.
- Oh my god! Oh my god! I'm so bad at math.
- I just failed a statistics class, so I've got this down.
- (FBE) Your time starts...
now! - Okay, PEMDAS.
I'm honestly gonna have to write out PEMDAS,
'cause I can't just keep referring to it
in my brain. - Seven plus two...
That's times, not X, right? Okay.
- Eleven minus five. All right. You gotta
do parentheses first. So, eleven minus five.
That's six. - I did the parentheses already.
Exponent? No exponent. Multiply? Okay.
But-- [bleep]. I did division first?
- That means multiplication next, right?
Two times six is...
12. 7 plus 12 divided by three.
- So, it's gonna be seven plus four. This is gonna be 11!
- (FBE) Correct!
- Is it 11? - (FBE) Correct!
- 11. - (FBE) Correct!
- Nice. - Okay, seven, eight,
nine, ten... eleven. - (FBE) Yeah!
- 11? - (FBE) That's correct!
- Seven plus four. Is it 11?
- (FBE) That is correct! - Oh! Tommy,
mathematician over here! - I'm gonna use my fingers,
'cause they told me-- oh, wait. Just kidding!
- (FBE) All right. You lost. You're done!
- Seven plus-- - (FBE) You failed!
- I forget about the timer. (buzzer)
- Take a good, hard look now, 'cause that's the only math question
I'm gonna get right. - Do you have a sticker by any chance?
I would really appreciate a sticker on this.
(ding) - (FBE) This next one,
we're gonna be testing your geometry skills.
- Oh! I failed geometry. That's when my counselor
pulled me in high school and said, "Hey, maybe you should drop math."
- I didn't take geometry!
- See, I passed with a low A in geometry,
and my teacher was so bad that me and my best friend
at the time had to teach ourselves.
- (FBE) We're gonna have you find the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
- Okay. - (FBE) Your time starts now.
- Okay, this is easy. - Oh my god.
I forgot the formula. I think there's a formula for this.
- Pythagorean theorem? Yes, okay.
- A squared plus B squared equals C squared.
But I [bleep] forget how to square [bleep].
- 12 squared plus 16 squared equals C squared.
Okay, so this is 144, I think. - So, I think it's 144 on the side,
and then 16 times 16. Oh my god. What's 16 times 16?
This is so [bleep] hard. - Okay. Wow, this is bad.
I've suddenly forgot all the math skills
I've ever known in my whole life. - A equals 12, and B equals 16.
So, 12 plus 16? - Let's just...
16 plus 12. All right-y.
28? Is that a number that can go somewhere?
- This not right. Jeez!
- 16 times 16 equals... Six, three, nine, zero, six.
I haven't multiplied in years. - 144 plus 256.
- Really? 256? What? I don't know what the square root
of this is. Oh, [bleep].
This doesn't look right. (chuckles) - There's a formula
that I'm not remembering, but if I had the formula,
I'm pretty sure I would be able to solve it.
Yeah, I don't know the formula. - (FBE) That is time.
- Yeah. (buzzer)
- So far, I've just added A and B. I'm gonna go with 28.
- (FBE) All right. That's wrong.
- I'm sure it is. (buzzer)
- I'm just gonna guess, because I messed up my math.
18? - (FBE) Oh, you got it wrong.
(buzzer) - 400? No?
What's the square root of 400? - Oh! Da, da, da, da, da, 20?
- (FBE) 20 is correct. - 20?
- (FBE) Yup! - Is it 20?
I'm just gonna take a guess, 'cause I think I'm out of time.
- (FBE) That's right! - So, 400.
Square root of 400 is... a number. 20!
So, it's C equals 20! - (FBE) Good job!
- Yeah! - (FBE) You did it!
- This is fun! God, they should turn this
into a video game or something. - Oh my god! My brain was literally
working in overdrive. You know that meme
of the girl with all the numbers around?
I felt like Bradley Cooper and just took a limitless pill
right there. - (FBE) All right. So, you only
got one strike today. - I did, huh?
I'm proud of myself. What the hell? That's it?
- Damn. I'm disappointed, but you know what? That's fine.
I did good on math. I need that A+, bro!
- (FBE) So, you got four strikes. That's an F.
- It sounds like real life, honestly. I know it wasn't gonna go good.
Once you said "back to school," I was like, well, there it is.
- When you're out of school, you kind of forget
nine of the ten subjects that you learn in school,
and you kind of just focus on one. And that becomes your career for--
that's all that you do for the rest of your life.
School kind of gives you this overarching knowledge
of all these subjects, and then you don't use 'em
for 10 years, and it's kind of cool to go back and try it out
to see what you know. - Proud of all of you.
Graduation ceremony at 12. We'll see you all there! WOO-HOO!
Are we still gonna be friends after graduation?
- (FBE) No. - Ah, [bleep].
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