[splashing]
[audience cheering and applause]
[bell ringing]
- All right everyone,
welcome to the annual Gingerbread House Contest!
Today's judge is going to be a safety inspector.
Now let's give a nice,
Wisdom Lane Elementary School greeting
to Safety Inspector, Tom Devlan!
[cheering]
- All right kids, hello.
I am OSHA certified Safety Inspector, Tom Devlan,
number one in Hoboken, Hackensack
and Hard-Boiled Heights, New Jersey.
What do I do?
I save lives.
Except for that one time I didn't.
[audience laughter]
Let's just say it was an incident
involving my safety inspecting partner, Ted Higgins.
[sighs]
But I'm not supposed to talk about that.
Unless you kids wanna talk about it, 'cause honestly, I--
- Oh, okay, all right.
Let's just get started with the gingerbread houses.
All right.
Maria, why don't you go first, come on.
- Mawia!
- I went with a traditional model for my gingerbread house.
I used marshmallows and candy canes
and inside I used sprinkles, and I made it--
- Condemned!
- Why, why?
Why? Why?
Tom: You got a load bearing candy cane wall.
That's complete sugar and a total safety violation.
[audience laughter]
I want you to pretend
that this gummy bear is someone that you love.
Let's say his name is, I don't know, Ted Higgins.
Now, do you think that your gingerbread house is safe,
little girl?
- Mmhm.
- Tell Ted it's safe.
Tell Ted it's safe, like I did.
- Hello little gummy bear.
I made you this house, it's yummy--
- This book represents a light snowfall.
[gasps]
[screaming]
- Oh, it's like losin' Ted all over again.
[sobbing]
- Oh, okay.
Uh, Mr. Devlan, this is a Christmas competition--
- Uh huh.
- Okay, it's just for fun, they get an A no matter what.
- I'm sorry, I just take safety very seriously.
But in safety, if you are crying, you are dying.
[audience laughter]
All right, who's next, kids?
- Okay, come on, Tyler.
[smashing]
- I don't-- I don't want--
- No, it's okay.
It's okay.
- What's your foundation made of here, little Mikey?
- Uh, it's uh, Tyler,
and my mother said that I should use fondant.
- Well she was wrong.
- Oh.
- Just as wrong as I was on that fateful night in 1995 when
I sent Ted Higgins to inspect the Hoboken community center.
- Are you okay?
- Lemme ask you somethin',
do you think that your fondant foundation is earthquake safe?
- Well, there aren't any earthquakes in New Jersey.
- That's what I thought!
- Oh.
- That's what we all thought.
[audience laughter]
Little Timmy,
I want you to pretend that this gummy bear
is someone you care about very deeply.
Let's say his name is, I don't know, Ted Higgins.
And let's say his job's, I don't know, a little safety inspector.
[moans]
Do you think that your house is earthquake safe?
- Uh, yeah.
- It's 2 AM.
A light snowfall has just started.
Ted climbs--
- Oh don't--
- And enters the Hoboken community center on your orders.
And oh no.
It's an earthquake!
Tyler: No! Oh!
Mom, you lied about the fondant!
[audience laughter]
- It's like losin' Ted all over again.
- Okay, this is a Christmas competition
and you are usin' it to sort through some stuff
and now is not the time.
Okay?
Here, let's have Sophia go.
She's our star student.
Come on.
Nope, yup, come on.
Yup, come on.
Sophia, Sophia.
It's okay.
Come on, just, come on.
[soft moaning]
- Well this looks promising.
Solid foundation, reinforced joists,
there's only one problem.
No lightning rod.
- Why would I need a lightning rod?
- They say in the moments before the light snowfall began,
and the earthquake rocked Hoboken, New Jersey,
my safety inspecting partner, and best friend, Ted Higgins,
climbed to the roof of the community center,
where he was struck by lightning.
[audience laughter]
Do you think your gingerbread house is safe, little Sophia?
- Um, I-- I think you're being too hard on yourself
and none of this is actually your fault--
[zapping]
- Oh, it's just like it was in 1995!
[sobbing]
[coughing]
I'm so sorry.
- So on this night in 1995--
- Uh huh.
- There was a snowfall--
- Yeah, there was a snowfall.
- An earthquake--
- Yeah, there was an earthquake too.
- And lightning?
- Yeah, there was lightning as well.
- All at 2 AM?
- Yeah, at 2 AM.
And I shoulda seen it all comin'.
- There is literally no way you could have seen that coming.
- No.
Because safety affects everybody, Mrs. Durkin.
I hope you kids all learned that today.
Because I have dedicated my life
to protecting the people of this community.
I know where all the hazards are.
[zapping]
Oh no!
I'm goin' out just like Ted did!
[audience laughter]
- Oh!
I understand safety now!
[cheering]
[audience applause]
- Hey everybody,
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[crunching]
Oh boy.
That's not edible.