- First dates can be stressful as fuck.
Hey, sorry about that.
There was
Trying to find common ground
all while trying to appear naturally charming and cool.
As you were saying.
Oh!
I don't ever wanna feel this way on
a first date again,
which is why we designed the most stressful date
ever attempted on camera.
A blind date in an escape room, with her father.
I'm taking a weed edible without telling anyone
and being force to follow every word of advice
from a free wheeling movie star.
- Get hammered on the first date.
You may have to question your own sexuality.
Money works too.
Woo!
- If I can survive this, I'll never have a reason
to be stressed out on a first date again.
This is the world's most stressful date.
(super hero music)
To help me on my journey I've recruited the help of
a man who doesn't know the meaning of stress.
Ash Williams himself, Mr. Bruce Campbell.
I get stressed out on dates, so what I'm
trying to do is I'm trying to design intentionally
the most stressful date of all time.
Do you know about escape rooms?
- That's a real thing?
- So what they do is they put you in,
you have to solve a series of puzzles.
- You're bad at them.
- I'm terrible at those.
- Why would you pick something that was
obviously distressing?
- Because my hope is that if I can get through
something stressful, then I won't be stressed out
ever again.
- Can I give you a quick riddle?
- Yeah, please.
- You're in a room.
- Okay.
- There's no doors, no windows.
Just a mirror and a skeleton.
How do you get out?
- I mean, do I just throw the skeleton at the mirror?
- You look in the mirror, you see what you saw,
you take the saw, you cut the skeleton in half.
Two halves make a whole.
You get out through the hole.
- I'm gonna die in this escape room.
(upbeat music)
- Today we're here in the Alchemist,
at Escape Room L.A.
This game is designed for 10 people.
I think it's impossible.
- What about blind dates?
- Yeah, those are pretty awesome.
- To me the idea of it is stressful.
I get stressed out about everything.
- That's because you're caring too much.
- I care too much.
- What is care in dating?
Worry.
- Care is worry.
- What is worry?
Failure.
What is failure?
No dates.
- All right.
Time to meet Heather.
When you first meet someone, I never know what to do.
- I think you do like a gunslinger approach.
Hit it, get some impact, and then ease out.
Put a little ice cream on top.
- Hi.
- [Zach] Hey, how's it going?
- I'm Heather.
- Heather, Zach, it's nice to
- Nice to meet you.
- Pleasure.
(laughter)
- That's stupid.
- Have you ever done an escape room before?
- Yeah, I've done it a couple.
- Oh really?
You just did it with one other person?
- No I did it with a big group of friends.
Have you done it before?
- No, never.
I hate puzzles.
Okay, I guess we should just do it, right?
- Yeah.
- You excited?
- Yeah, I'm really excited.
- Christ with us.
- Time to start now?
- Yeah, please, after you.
- [Narrator] Greetings adventurers.
Listen to me.
You must stop this madman.
You've got just one chance.
- Once I'm in the heat of the moment,
solving the puzzle should be my primary objective.
- No.
- No?
- Hooking up with that woman is your primary objective.
- Always, okay.
- Do not get distracted by the game
even though you need to focus on the game
in order to win and impress her.
- Oh, it's like a black light so look for
semen, blood, and feces.
- A hand on the chin always works.
And that's too much with the eyebrows.
- Oh, sorry, okay.
- Do you wanna help?
- Yes, yes sorry.
Just so you know, a lot of time has already gone.
- Oh shoot, okay.
- So we gotta hurry up.
Here, you wanna do the honors?
- Yeah, okay.
Yay.
- Rectificando, terra, this is gibberish.
Wait, it says touch.
T-O-U-C-H.
Unicorn, dead crow,
weird goat baby.
Okay, I think I got it.
- Oh my gosh.
I don't wanna go first, you go.
- You think it's gonna be creepy?
I don't think it's gonna be creepy.
Do you think something is gonna
gonna come out at us?
It's candle lit, it's very
- I don't like these gross things on the wall.
Oh, God.
I forgot about this.
- Tell the producer, don't humiliate me like that.
- Right.
- You need to go, no.
No is a powerful word.
- No.
Hi.
- Hey dad.
- If you meet the father, the coolest thing
is to just sucker punch him right in the go again.
Hi Mr. Jackass. - [Zach] I can't do that.
There's no way.
- So nice to meet you.
- Do I strike you as the person that's gonna punch
someone in the face?
- He is gonna respect you.
- Hey, I'm Zach.
- It's okay.
Okay, great.
Are you good a puzzles?
What would be a wrong thing to say?
- Don't say your dad's a butthole.
You're gonna want to.
- What if he's acting like a butthole?
- Well I'm not too fond of you.
Turn it the right way, otherwise a bomb goes off.
- Dad you're standing on it.
- [Zach] You're on the edge.
- No I'm on the edge.
- I use bodily function noises.
Just break it up, it breaks the tension.
- Can I try that on you?
- Son, what are your intentions with my daughter?
(farting)
What?
- I'm gonna fart on your daughter.
(laughter)
It's this A with a line over it.
- You are good at puzzles.
- Yeah, thank you.
- Dad, you're like right on him.
- [Zach] No, it's all right.
- [Dad] I'm really exciting him.
I'm very excited.
Look at that.
- Redefine eucalyptus, cinnamon bark.
- Oh, I don't wanna smell anything.
- I'll smell.
- Great.
- That's gross.
- Smells like licorice.
- This is cinnamon.
- [Zach] This is cinnamon?
- Yeah.
- Five equal purple.
I feel like a crazy person.
- Lavender.
- If you show your nerves, then I think you're doomed.
Don't put anything on yourself.
Excuse me.
- Oh, we're still drinking.
- Oh boy that's good big fake whiskey.
- Let's try this.
- There's no S.
We're running out of time.
Try E as the middle one.
- Okay.
- Did that work?
- No.
- This is an edible.
- An edible might actually save you.
- Yeah, you think so?
- Yeah, 'cause that way it'll be real to you,
and when it's real you will rise to the occasion.
- The person at the store said to eat like only half.
I said I'll eat it all in one bite.
That was stupid.
- You will find, new synapses will go off in your mind
will come surging up like a fountain.
(slow music)
- [Dad] We got it!
Look at that.
- You're gonna impress the hell out of these people,
and you're gonna save the world.
- Oh God, I think we have five minutes left.
Okay, grapes.
- [Dad] The tail, the tail.
- The fish have to hatch,
the fish, yep, see.
Oh my God we should get sushi.
- [Heather] I love sushi.
- Oh, we should get sushi right now.
Yep, yep, fish, got it.
Hey!
Got it.
Go, go, go, go.
- [Heather] Do you have to smell this?
- I don't wanna.
- I don't wanna either.
- I'll smell it.
(creepy laughter)
(bells)
- We just needed more people.
- Yeah, more people. - [Dad] Yeah, geez.
- We died.
The world ended.
Do you mind if I just talk
for a minute?
- Yeah, dad, go outside.
We'll meet you outside, okay?
- Meet you out, okay.
Thank you.
- That was so awkward.
- No, no, please you have nothing to apologize for.
I guess I just wanted to apologize.
This was kind of weird date.
- No, it was fine.
It was fine.
- I think you're great and if you would be willing
to go on another date, I would really love that.
- Mhmm.
- Great.
Cool.
I'm gonna go see actually if they validate parking.
- Okay, shouldn't I go too?
- Yeah, we should both,
we should both go.
How do you just knock away the stress
and just kind of be yourself and have fun on a date?
- By knowing that ultimately there's someone for everybody
out there, even idiots.
Even if you fail, there's still somebody
on this planet who will look at you,
and go, that guys for me.
- If you're stressed out on a first date,
it's probably because you're in your head.
People are gonna like you or they're not gonna like you,
and there's nothing you can do about that.
All said and done, that was not the worst date
I've ever been on.
- I don't even know why I'm here.
- This was fun though.
I would do this again with more people
and without a dad, and not on a date.
I am so hungry guys.
(upbeat music)