- You do.
You look like an angel.
- Yeah.
- Okay, this looks good. - Okay.
- All right, guys.
We're shooting Without Instructions.
Puppets first, nails later.
And if you see me doing something wrong, tell me after
- Nope!
(laughing)
- No one help Zach no matter what he says.
(funky music)
- Hello, there!
- Oh, hi! - There’s a hand in my ass!
- Oh my gosh!
(all screaming)
- Oh, there was a hand in my ass.
- Oh, hi. I'm Ned Fulmer from the Try Guys.
You may remember me from such films as The Try Guys.
Welcome to the behind the scenes featurette of Without Instructions.
- Hey, my name's Desiree.
Today we are doing day one of four for Without Instructions.
- [Jake] Okay, Keith.
- Oh, yes. Here we are.
- So how does it feel to be back with Without Instructions?
‘Cause I know it's been...
Hasn’t it been a year?
- It’s been a while.
We don't do Without Instructions as much as Without A Recipe.
I'm really excited for this season, especially for one of the episodes,
which is puppets.
I have a long history with doing puppets.
I was doing puppets as a child.
In college, I did an independent study with puppets.
So a semester I just learned how to really, like, think about puppets.
And then I did some puppet, like, jokey things in my sketch group in Chicago,
but I've been mostly using puppets.
I’ve never made a big thing.
- You're going to stand up. I think that...
- What do you mean “stand up?”
- Well, look at how its face is flopping back and forth.
- Yeah, well that's what my hand is for.
- How are you doing, Ned?
- Oh, I don't know.
I made, like, half of a hamburger
for Little Lord Hamburger Habersberger over here.
- This is amazing.
- Thank you.
Don’t really know what I'm doing, but I'm just having fun with hot glue.
- [Rachel] How are you doing?
- This is not how I planned to do this.
- Sorry, Keith. - It’s not how you make puppets.
- Sorry!
- You’re like, “make a burger!”
“Oh, you only have whole pieces of chicken breast.”
- Listen, the puppet expert said hot glue only.
- Hot glue only? On foam?
- Because the only...all the foam glues have to be outside.
- Open the doors! - No, no, no.
- Hey, Eugene.
Oh! Wow.
- Do you see penises?
- Oh, that’s a nice penis.
Is it like a penis mouth?
- Yeah, he’s just made of penises.
It’s Handjob Bob.
- Zach, how are you doing?
(exhaling)
- Fuck if I know, bro.
(laughing)
I, uh, I'm really just trying to commit to my bad plan.
I don't want to start over if I can avoid it.
- Okay.
- I know that this is wrong for so many reasons.
But that’s fine!
- I think you're doing great.
- Thanks, man.
- How is Without Instructions different from Without A Recipe?
- Um,
it’s way harder for me, um,
because I know how to cook, but I don't know how to craft.
Why did I think it was going to be nine feet?
- Is that cool?
Do we like that?
It's a pretty similar level of production to Without A Recipe.
Instead of a bunch of different food items in a pantry,
we have a bunch of different craft items.
Different fabrics, different types of fasteners.
And often, the challenges are a little bit longer.
So for this season we did something very exciting
and had all of us on stage at the same time.
- So for both shows, you know, we have to use a half of the office,
depends on which half we’re using.
So the kitchen half is used for Without A Recipe,
and we're using the whole stage, the whole thing.
All the desks are pushed out.
We have giant pantries.
There's people and stuff just everywhere.
And for Without Instructions, it’s the opposite.
All of the desks are now in the kitchen,
you can’t open the fridge,
That's just not an option anymore.
Without Instructions is crazy.
Especially this one, because we’re doing four different videos
in, like, one whole shoot.
You have to, like, prep all of, like, the crafts that they need,
all of the tables,
we had to clear out the entire office.
Our office...
currently my desk is in the kitchen.
- Uh, we come up with our our vision,
our idea for what we're going to make.
And then, the art team
makes sure that we have everything we need as well as a couple of surprises.
There's always lots of surprises.
We have Krista, who's been great, like handling all the art things.
- The most difficult part is prepping.
They send a creative with what they think they want to do,
and then I go off the creative and go shopping,
and get everything they want plus extra.
You have to basically learn
how to make puppets and wedding dresses and whatever in the process.
So when they start making it, I have answers when they need help.
- I don't know what happened.
I need help.
I don't even know what happened this time.
- I have no idea, bro.
- You're like, I have zero idea.
- I have no clue.
- You know, you have the fabric, so it’s okay.
- Well, I got something.
Something happened here.
I just, like, I took measurements and I don't get it.
I don’t know.
I don't have time.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I can’t really. - No, keep concentrating.
No, concentrate.
- What does it take to produce a massive series like this?
So Rachel is producing the Without Instruction series
as well as Without A Recipe.
Pretty similar.
What does it take to produce it? Oh, it's a lot.
There's a lot of cameras going all at once ‘cause we're trying to capture
all of the action.
There's lining up of celebrity judges to come in and be a part of the judging.
It's a very complicated schedule, a lot of long days
because some of these challenges take three, four, five, even six hours.
- I'm kind of at the limit of how much I'd like to do,
and I would love to just pass it off to somebody for a little bit.
Like, okay,
I've done some good work, you can run with it.
- Does, doees this make sense?
(laughing)
- It doesn’t totally make sense, but I like it.
- I’m literally just piecing together
in my brain how this could work, and I’m just...
- It’s kind of cute, actually.
- I mean, cute is...
subjective.
Cute is subjective.
Jake, do you find him cute?
- Who? The puppet? - Mm hmm.
- I think it's so cute.
It's definitely my vibe.
It's for the gays.
- Handjob Bob is super gay.
He loves giving handjobs.
- Handjob Bob is not made for me.
(laughing)
- Oh!
- I found this open under some fabric.
- Look, I don’t come to your desk and start messing stuff up.
- Sometimes you do.
- I wanna know Rachel's favorite.
- I’ll never tell.
- One hour, nine minutes.
(guys screaming)
- Oh my god, the dicks are coming along.
- Eugene, it looks like bones until I get closer.
- Yeah.
- Ooh.
King Burger.
Or Burger King.
- Ohh.
- This is...
- Completely unrelated.
No, no, no.
It is not that.
- It’s Little Lord.
- It is Little Lord Hamburger Habersberger.
(Jake laughing)
Don't say that again.
- I love you. I adore you. I don't have time for you.
- Oh, snap.
Oh my god. I'm just gonna walk away.
Keith, will you give me a demonstration?
- Oh, sure.
This is Jay.
- Yay.
- Normal businessman.
As a puppet.
We saw him before as a figurine.
We all remember.
But he looks like this.
And then,
I'll have a wand on his wings,
so that he puppets.
- Can flap.
- Flaps his little arm to be a person.
- Ope.
My lips!
This is sort of like the best he could do.
He's a bird, after all.
And I think the eyes are incredible.
- Oh.
They're amazing.
They stare right into my soul.
- They bug out, they’re horrifying.
- Keith, I have to say you’re really good at making puppets.
- Thank you.
- I just wanted to say that.
- Do you like the hands?
- I, um...
Yeah! It’s giving...
Um... - They’re hands.
It’s nail polish on little hands, obviously.
- Oh! Okay.
- Obviously.
- I see.
- Yeah. You see it now.
- But,
- I would be upset.
- This season is our gayest season yet.
Some very exciting challenges.
You guys probably have already seen the very first one,
which was...
wigs.
Oh, yeah. So gay.
- Tell me if this is cool.
- Oh hell yeah.
- Oh, wait, and if I have it up,
and then I...
(laughing) Hold on...
hold on...
hold...hold...
- Oh, yeah.
(slowed) Oh, yeah.
- I think my favorite episode was...
the dresses were amazing, but wigs was crazy.
Ned’s wig had real cheese in it, so it smelled really bad.
Zach’s wig was wild.
Keith had the birds.
Oh my god, Eugene’s Gay Horse.
Still amazing.
We have it on the shelf in our office.
We’re never getting rid of it.
- [Keith] The hair is kinda curly like yours,
this is your skin.
- Okay.
- It’s a puppet made of only hair,
and it looks like Alexandria.
“Do you guys want a shot?”
(laughing) “Do you want a shot?”
- Oh! I see it now. - I see it now.
- Oh! - Yeah, yeah.
- “Just one, just one little shot!”
- “Just one little shot!”
- Do you think this was the gayest season overall?
- I feel like every season is the gayest season.
But yeah, probably.