- Oh no, we (beep) up.
We (beep) up.
- No, no!
- It's fine, it's fine.
- It's okay, it's okay.
We'll just throw it away.
(upbeat music)
Hi, I'm Tyler.
- And my name's Ellyse.
- And we used to work at IKEA.
- Hey, how's it going?
I'm Teddy.
- Hey, I'm Nick.
We're cool dads and it's ice to meet you.
(crickets chirping)
- Oh.
- Today, we're gonna be competing to see
who can build IKEA furniture the fastest.
- Ice, huh?
'Cause of cool dads.
- Yeah, you know, get ready for a lot of that.
- Yeah, so my experience with
building furniture is pretty good actually.
I spent a quite of time moment
in between jobs as a handyman.
- Our living room, it's all BILLY bookcases,
so I feel pretty confident building IKEA furniture.
- We have a lot of IKEA stuff,
so I got to say I'm pretty good at it.
- I might be the weak link here 'cause,
although I've been around a lot of IKEA furniture,
I actually have not built a lot.
- I think we're gonna kill it.
- It's gonna be fine craftsmanship definitely.
- Today, we're gonna smoke it.
- Yeah, I think so too.
- We're gonna smash this. - Yeah.
- We'll go get some meatballs after this.
- Yeah, exactly. - Couple cinnamon rolls--
- Feel good about it. - After our win to celebrate.
(upbeat music)
- [Producer] Ready, set, go.
- All right. - All right.
- Let's do this. - We got the tools.
- Yep.
- Let's see what we got here.
Looks like the RAST.
Looks like a chest of drawers.
- Let's lay out everything we might need or we will need.
- Putting the pieces out here.
Pieces going over here.
What is this?
Whatever that--
Oh, I don't think we need that.
That's for safety, we don't need that.
- Step number one, I'm assuming is the side panels.
- Okay.
- This is looking pretty simple,
we'll start with one of the big, long rectangles.
- Honestly the box opening is probably the hardest.
It's all downhill from here.
- I like to make sure I'm orienting everything
as it is in the diagram that way I know that
I'm not doing something backwards or--
- Or upside down. - [Nick] Yeah.
- This one's got holes.
I don't know what that means. - Yeah, so does this one.
Is that this one? - Yep.
- Okay, okay!
We're flying now. - Yep.
- Oh, sick, they just insert.
- They just slot in, it's so easy.
- Swedes are so smart.
- See, they say to use a piece of wood, but, I mean.
(hammer bangs)
It takes all the fun out of it.
- No, no, no, no time for hammers.
No time for hammers.
We don't have time for that.
(hammer bangs)
Okay, a little.
We can do a little that's fine.
- That's step one done. - Yeah.
- That took, what?
Like 30 seconds.
- Okay, so we need, okay. - Okay.
We want to put the little-- - This is really hard.
I am literally shaking right now.
- I think this is one of those ones where you can kinda--
- Troubleshoot it. - Just let it--
- It's a 50-50 toss up. - Yeah.
- We'll find out in step six.
- So then this is gonna go with the little thumbnail thing.
- Good job.
- This way.
- This is where we need some power drills or something.
- I shoulda brought my tools. - Yeah.
- Nice, nice!
- Honestly, it might be world record pace.
- A nice thing I like to do too sometimes is
use a little bit of wood glue when
you're doing the connections here.
Makes it stay nice and firm.
Makes it good when you're moving 'em too.
- Ah!
- This is the most chaotic-- - Oh my gosh.
- Teddy, you did a great job there, man.
- Thanks.
- To damned with the time, we're gonna build quality here.
- I don't know where this goes.
- That?
- Goes there or something?
- I like that.
- Yeah? - I like it there.
- Is that where it's supposed to go though?
(bouncy music)
- You got it. - Got it?
- Yep. - All right.
Now all we got to do is do some more screwing.
- Do that dad pound.
- You ready? - Give it a bash.
Give it a bash. - Ow, that hurt.
(knocking)
Oh, god.
- All right, step five.
I think we're doing great time.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Oh no, we (beep) up.
We (beep) up.
- No, no!
- It's fine, it's fine.
- It's okay, it's okay.
We'll just throw it away.
- You know you're not building it right
unless you start sweatin'.
- This is a work out, I'm sweating.
- I'm sweating too.
- Where does it go?
- All the way up. - Does it go--
To the top? - To the top.
- What is this?
- Oh, look, they got a little hammer tool.
- So you won't pinch your fingers?
So you don't pinch your fingers.
(blows raspberry)
Dad's don't use that.
- [Teddy] What is that?
- Should we even add the backing?
They're not gonna see it.
(yells)
Okay, fine, we'll do the backing, but I won't like it.
- It's all about solid contact.
You just have to make nice, short, solid, contact.
(hammers bang)
- Oh!
(hammer bangs)
- I broke the nail.
Okay. - See how excited--
I reckon we can do just four.
- Okay, well, out of the four,
I'm thinking one of them has to go in.
- This is one of those, "It's good enough" moments.
See these extra nails?
Every dad has an extra screw drawer
where you throw all your extra screws.
'Cause you're gonna need them at some point.
- Okay, that's the back.
Where's that dumb thing?
Puttin' it in.
(hammer bangs)
Can we get a close up on that?
Look at that.
- Once you get to the drawers,
you're pretty much-- - You're done.
- It's done, I feel like.
(laughs)
Like, what is that it? - Time!
- So the nice thing about the drawers is
we're gonna make three of them.
Pretty much, you make one,
you know how to do the rest.
- So, if we're doing drawers it goes,
sides, these little thick ridges go out.
- Oh, they go like that?
- Like that, yeah.
- Now, you can nice stain to put on this.
This is probably a good pine.
I like to make it look like a nice mahogany.
You could get a nice shellac finish even on it.
It could be really nice.
- It looks beautiful.
- Looks incredible, sturdy as a rock.
Look at that, look at that.
- So great.
- I think I'm standing on a nail.
(screwdriver clicks)
- This screwdriver is such a ratchet.
(crickets chirping)
- Do you think they rig the stuff?
- Yeah. - Like they grease it.
- It doesn't fit.
- It does feel a little greasy.
(groans)
You might want to review the tapes
to make sure that they weren't cheating.
- 'Cause dads-- - I'm sure they're nice guys,
but they might have sweaty hands or something.
- Yeah, sweaty dad hands.
- You know what I'd say?
Putting the back on this, we really nailed it.
(crickets chirping)
- It's getting sweaty, I had to put my hair up.
- Uh oh.
- You want another dad tip?
Righty tighty, lefty--
- Loosey.
- Think I'm getting a little overambitious.
We are skipping several steps, but you see my drawer?
- These knobs are really making me break a sweat.
- They're gonna have a problem when they get to these knobs.
- Let's find out how to do the knobs.
- It's this and then this twists.
- I'll get started on the drawer.
- Honestly, I think this is gonna suffice.
- Nice.
- Don't show the judges.
- It's funny, I actually have some drawers myself
I gotta build when I get home from IKEA,
so this is like a warmup for me.
- Oh!
- What?
- Don't worry about it, don't worry about it.
With IKEA some things are kind of like optional.
Like, you don't need the backs of the drawers.
(fast-paced music)
- We're running out of those big ones.
Oh god. - The big ones?
- These things.
- Oh, we can probably take one
off the other drawer, they don't need it.
- You think?
- 'Cause we're almost done.
- We just, oh! - Oh.
All right, let's just double check if
we find that other screw.
- You know you're in the flows when it gets silent.
That's that final stretch of like--
- All right, we got this.
- We got it.
- We're still missing one.
- Ellyse, I feel disheartened.
- No, it's okay.
- I'm gonna be honest, I feel a little disheartened.
- Don't give up.
- Okay, I won't, you're right.
- Once you get that in, there's only one thing left to do.
- Some cold brews.
- There's two things left to do.
- Do we have any nails left?
- Probably.
We could just nail it,
- Yeah, we should totally nail it.
- Oh, that's a good idea.
- Look at this.
- Smooth.
- Yeah!
(hammer bangs)
- Let's see if it goes all the way--
- Yeah!
That's gonna work.
And get ready on time.
(hammer bangs)
- Time.
- That's a win!
Look at that, look at that.
- Good job. - Strong as an ox!
- [Ellyse] We did it, co-workers!
- [Tyler] Look at that, co-workers!
- [Ellyse] Co-workers for life.
- [Tyler] For life.
- The IKEA RAST.
It's a mean, you know.
The drawers open and close nicely and--
- It functions.
It gets the job done.
- I found the--
- Oh, you were sitting on it?
- I was sitting on it.
- Great.
- Wow, very-- - It's okay.
- Nothing unique about it.
- Not a lot of, yeah, that's the first thing I thought of.
No personality.
- Yeah, it's kind of basic.
- Yeah, but it's cute.
- Solid craftsmanship.
(laughs)
Sorry.
- I bet it probably has functionality.
You used all your pieces.
- Yeah, it has drawers, so--
- I mean, yeah, it has drawers that
open and close, you know.
- I mean, you can use it.
- Yeah, same with ours.
Functional.
- [Tyler] Functional.
Oh, don't pull it so hard. - [Nick] See?
Well, there ya go.
- How hard you wanna like, oh.
- I think it's a close call.
- Yeah. - I think it's a close call.
- I think it's also a close call.
You guys have the functionality,
but we maybe won on the time portion.
- Yeah.
The best part is we didn't cut any corners.
- Exactly.
- We played it, just like we were saying earlier,
we like playing by the rules.
- Looks like you guys just left 'em out,
they didn't have to cut 'em.
(audience ohs)
(drum roll)
(bell dings)
- There it is.
(applause)
And it's functional, it works.
You know laying your parts out,
going through the directions first before starting
just so you see the roadmap
and the train tracks have been laid for you
that you're gonna be going down.
- Look at the pictures.
- Yeah.
- I mean, it helps.
- And most of all, just have fun with it.
I think that's what we all did.
- Good game, good game. - Good job, good job.
Good job, dads. - Good game.
- Good game.
(laughter)
(upbeat tune)