NIKA HARPER: Hi, and welcome to "GastroGeek,"
where food meets art.
I am your host, Nika Harper, and we're going to take food
to the next level.
We're creating magnificent geeky sculptures
out of edible items.
These competitors think they have what it takes, and they
were available on short notice.
Let's welcome them.
To start it off, we have--
bring out the booze--
Hannah Hart.
HANNAH HART: Hey, that's me.
My name is Hannah Hart, and I have a YouTube show called "My
Drunk Kitchen," which you can find online at
youtube.com/harto.
Well, for me, the inspiration behind "My Drunk Kitchen" was,
at one moment, I was awake.
Then I was drunk.
And then I was hungry.
So I began to cook.
And my life has never been the same.
If I won "GastroGeek" here today, it would change my
entire life.
I'm the kind of person that says things like, I'm not here
to make friends.
I'm here to win.
NIKA HARPER: The man with the appetite--
Furious Pete.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: What up?
My name is Peter Czerwinski, but I'm also known as "Furious
Pete" in the competitive eating world.
That's right.
I am a competitive eater.
Winning this competition would mean everything.
I have eight Guinness world records, but that means
nothing if I lose this competition.
I have to win today.
NIKA HARPER: And her majesty, the queen of
geek, Felicia Day.
FELICIA DAY: Hi, my name is Felicia Day.
I'm a writer, actress, producer, gamer, pet owner--
pretty much everything but a food sculptor.
My inspiration to start Geek and Sundry was that, I woke up
one day, and I said, it's a great idea to
do a video a day.
Why not?
The shows on Geek and Sundry are all about geeky things,
like tabletop gaming, and gaming with my brother, and
sculpting things out of food.
I mean, we make everything.
Why are you asking?
"GastroGeek" has such an amazing provenance.
And it's so auspicious.
I couldn't be prouder of putting the trophy--
did we get a trophy?
No?
I couldn't be prouder to put the prize-- uh,
do we have a prize?
I just couldn't be prouder.
NIKA HARPER: Welcome to "GastroGeek."
Please grab your buckets.
You'll be creating a sculpture out of food based
on the theme provided.
There's only one round, so if you blow
it now, you're screwed.
Also, before you, you have a bucket of mystery ingredients.
You must incorporate each of these
ingredients into the sculpture.
You can also use ingredients from the
counter or the fridge.
Your experience here is timed.
When the time runs out, our secret panel of judges will
appear to judge your sculpture based upon the overall theme,
the artistry, and how creatively you used your
secret ingredients.
Ready?
Open your buckets.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Whoa?
HANNAH HART: What?
FELICIA DAY: Eww.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
NIKA HARPER: Ready?
Open your buckets.
FELICIA DAY: Eww.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Whoa.
FELICIA DAY: When I took the top off the bucket, it smelled
like puke in there.
I'm just saying.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Oh.
HANNAH HART: What is that?
FELICIA DAY: I told you it stinks.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Oh, that smell.
NIKA HARPER: Your first mystery
ingredient is dried squid.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: The squid smells like death.
No, it just smells like rotten fish.
FELICIA DAY: Ew, ew!
HANNAH HART: Aahh.
NIKA HARPER: The second mystery
ingredient is bitter melon.
FELICIA DAY: It has a problem.
It stayed out in the sun too long.
It's got some skin damage.
NIKA HARPER: The third mystery ingredient is taro root.
FELICIA DAY: Which one is taro?
HANNAH HART: [SINGING PARODY OF "TEARIN' UP MY HEART"]
PETER CZERWINKSKI: I'm guessing it's this.
FELICIA DAY: Oh, I've had this.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: What else do we have here?
NIKA HARPER: Your fourth mystery
ingredient is sunchoke.
HANNAH HART: Sunchoke?
FELICIA DAY: Sunchoke?
Oh, I read about these.
HANNAH HART: Is that this?
FELICIA DAY: These cause people to fart a lot.
HANNAH HART: Really?
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Really?
FELICIA DAY: I'm serious.
Look it up on Wikipedia.
HANNAH HART: Are you choking around with me right now?
NIKA HARPER: The fifth mystery ingredient are chicken's feet.
FELICIA DAY: I can't, no.
Oh, it's gross.
Oh my god, chicken feet.
Like with the--
[SIGH]
HANNAH HART: There you go.
FELICIA DAY: Actually, I can't deal with this.
HANNAH HART: There you go.
FELICIA DAY: I'm not kidding.
[SOBS]
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Do you need some help?
NIKA HARPER: The sixth and last
ingredient are cheese puffs.
FELICIA DAY: You should have saved the foot for last.
NIKA HARPER: The theme of the show is movie monsters.
That means aliens, robots, anything you can think of.
Any questions?
You have 45 minutes.
Your time starts now.
FELICIA DAY: Instantly, when I see the squid, I know what I'm
going to do.
Kraken!
The kraken is my centerpiece, so I'm going to focus my taro
root, and my squid, and also the chicken foot all in that
one centerpiece monster.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: I don't really know what to build.
I'm never really good with monsters, and themes, and
movies, and whatnot.
But I think I'm just going to build something that looks
scary, and massive, and it's coming out
of the ground somehow.
I don't know.
I'm just going to go and just start building something.
And hopefully it turns into a monster.
HANNAH HART: Suddenly it occurred to me.
The thing I should make is the birth of the monster itself.
So I'm going to build a structure that is a
non-offensive witch doctor using a human sacrifice to
birth a monster from the side of a mountain.
Duh!
I think my toughest competition is Pete.
Felicia is her own worst enemy, so I'm not really
worried about her.
FELICIA DAY: I feel like the squid would be disgusting were
I not so freaked out by this chicken foot right now.
Oh, this is so gross, seriously.
Hey, mom.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: So now I have an idea.
I'm kind of going to use the squid as kind of a cyclops
kind of thing that's going to be coming out of the ground.
FELICIA DAY: This is the point at which I'm
just getting desperate.
I need to somehow assemble my kraken.
And it doesn't feel like anything's going to be holding
these really heavy pieces of taro together.
So I just go for the most powerful thing I
see, which is a hammer.
HANNAH HART: Felicia's brought a hammer out, and I can only
think one thing--
man, that girl is trying to get hammered.
FELICIA DAY: OK, this is exactly how you are supposed
to work with taro root.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: I don't need this.
Do you want some salad?
HANNAH HART: Yeah.
Thank you.
FELICIA DAY: Aww!
PETER CZERWINKSKI: That's swag.
NIKA HARPER: Contestants, you have 35 minutes remaining.
HANNAH HART: Oh, thank god.
FELICIA DAY: I don't know what Hannah is doing right now.
She is way too confident.
I don't trust anybody who's confident in life or in
"GastroGeek," OK?
So I just am suspicious.
I feel like she might have it out for me.
And then I'm starting to get paranoid because I think she
knows something that I don't know.
And that's what I don't like.
This is not how-- ah.
I don't like tools.
HANNAH HART: What?
Felicia, do you need help?
Do you want me to help?
FELICIA DAY: Ah!
No.
This is dangerous.
OK, OK, OK.
NIKA HARPER: Contestants, freeze.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Ah [BLEEP].
FELICIA DAY: What is that?
NIKA HARPER: We have a twist.
HANNAH HART: When I saw Nika walk in with another bucket, I
thought to myself, man, this is really going to throw
Felicia off.
FELICIA DAY: Why would they have a twist?
I'm, like, stunned right now.
This is illegal in some states.
NIKA HARPER: What's a show without a twist.
So what is your monster without a victim?
You have new materials to make it with.
Canned meat, and a banana.
FELICIA DAY: Oh.
NIKA HARPER: The judges will be eating your victim.
So when it comes down to judging, you get bonus points
if he tastes delicious.
FELICIA DAY: So great, now we've got to do a victim, I
don't know, with a banana and meat?
In a pot.
It's criminal.
NIKA HARPER: You have 15 minutes.
HANNAH HART: Oh no!
FELICIA DAY: OK, come on.
HANNAH HART: Quick!
Wow, this is a great twist.
I've already made a victim.
I'll just remove his head and put on another one.
And that'll be really getting ahead.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: I took the banana and I made a victim
split in half with its guts spewing out.
The eggshell is simply there to protect the head from any
flies from sitting on it.
It wasn't meant to be part of the body.
FELICIA DAY: So now with the twist, my strategy is to make
the smallest victim possible so that the judges don't have
to eat a whole big thing of potted meat, or whatever the
heck kind of meat it is, and a banana.
First of all, those are disgusting items together.
Second of all, I need the judges to like me.
So I'm kind of a suck up in life.
So I think I got this.
HANNAH HART: My main intention with the taste I'm creating is
to mask the taste of the meat by using profuse amounts of
chocolate and banana.
Variety is the spice of life.
I've been looking to throw that in there somewhere.
Chocolate and banana on a monster cracker?
Please, I'll eat it myself.
FELICIA DAY: [GASP]
Oh my gosh, I almost forgot this ingredient.
HANNAH HART: You didn't use the bitter melon?
FELICIA DAY: You knew this.
Hannah, you knew this!
You saw this right here by the glue gun.
That's why you're so feisty.
HANNAH HART: I don't know.
FELICIA DAY: Oh god.
OK.
You know that moment in cooking shows where somebody
forgets an ingredient, and you're like,
huh, that was staged.
This really happened to me.
This bitter melon is sitting here unused, and I've got like
five minutes left.
I'm freaking out right now.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: I think so too.
NIKA HARPER: Contestants--
FELICIA DAY: You go the mile, or you don't go at all.
NIKA HARPER: The countdown starts--
10, 9, 8--
FELICIA DAY: Ow!
I burned it!
NIKA HARPER: --7--
FELICIA DAY: Ow!
NIKA HARPER: --6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, hands off, Felicia.
FELICIA DAY: Oh.
NIKA HARPER: Now welcome our judges--
Alexis Denisof and Colin Ferguson.
COLIN FERGUSON: Fellow judge.
ALEXIS DENISOF: Judge.
NIKA HARPER: All right, each of our contestants made a
sculpture based on the geeky theme of movie monsters.
Now, they used six ingredients, starting with
dried squid, sunchoke, taro root, bitter melon, chicken's
feet, and cheese puffs.
They also made an edible victim, particularly made out
of banana and canned meat.
Now, you guys kind of have to eat that.
COLIN FERGUSON: I don't know if I want to eat it.
ALEXIS DENISOF: I don't remember that in the contract.
COLIN FERGUSON: That was not---
NIKA HARPER: You're going to be judging based upon three
criteria, which is creativity, the use of
ingredients, and the theme.
Now let's take a look at our monster.
ALEXIS DENISOF: Oh boy.
COLIN FERGUSON: Clearly, this is from "Jaws."
ALEXIS DENISOF: I was thinking "Jurassic Park." I feel like
it's the little guy whose neck does that.
COLIN FERGUSON: OK, all right, I see you.
I see you.
ALEXIS DENISOF: There's a lot of emotion here.
I mean, the expression on the victim's face--
COLIN FERGUSON: Sad.
ALEXIS DENISOF: It's really, are you feeling that?
COLIN FERGUSON: It's sad.
It's "King Kong." Could be Kong.
ALEXIS DENISOF: It could be.
NIKA HARPER: Hannah, are you ready to tell them what it is?
HANNAH HART: Yeah.
Well, being a truly original artist, it's not actually from
a specific monster movie, but really the theme of perhaps a
witch doctor using human sacrifice to raise forth a
terrible hellbeast.
My piece is about anticipation.
ALEXIS DENISOF: She has no idea what she's talking about.
COLIN FERGUSON: No, I don't think so.
HANNAH HART: And this victim that I've composed for you is
actually pretty tasty.
It's two pieces of banana, just the slightest hint of
canned meat, and a lot of chocolate frosting.
COLIN FERGUSON: So it's canned meat and banana?
All right.
Mmm.
ALEXIS DENISOF: Medic!
FELICIA DAY: Oh, he ate the whole thing?
ALEXIS DENISOF: It's not too soon to send a medic.
COLIN FERGUSON: Oh, that's great stuff.
NIKA HARPER: How is it?
COLIN FERGUSON: It's amazing.
NIKA HARPER: All right, it's time to take a
look at Pete's sculpture.
COLIN FERGUSON: Oh, Pete.
Cool.
What great use of texture.
ALEXIS DENISOF: Are you-- how are feeling?
COLIN FERGUSON: A little hot.
ALEXIS DENISOF: OK, I just want to make sure.
COLIN FERGUSON: All right, so if you could put a movie on
this, what would it be?
What movie is this?
"Dark Night at--"
ALEXIS DENISOF: I'm getting a "Tootsie" feel from the
headdress--
COLIN FERGUSON: And the banana?
ALEXIS DENISOF: Which it isn't traditionally thought of as a
monster movie.
But this is pretty horrific.
Why don't we hear from the artist?
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Yeah, OK.
So this monster is from the movie "Island Monsters."
ALEXIS DENISOF: Oh, that was my next--
PETER CZERWINKSKI: Unfortunately, that movie
doesn't exist.
He lives in the sand.
So he's really popped up right now, half of his body.
We've got the tail back here, of course.
ALEXIS DENISOF: Of course.
COLIN FERGUSON: Nice.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: It is a kind of a-- it's supposed to
be a cyclops right there.
He's ready to shoot out of there--
ALEXIS DENISOF: The orange cigar?
OK, what part is Colin eating?
COLIN FERGUSON: Well, I noticed that
there's wood glue here.
There's really no wood glue in the victims, though, right?
PETER CZERWINKSKI: I would just recommend eating the
head, personally.
COLIN FERGUSON: There, I'll--
ALEXIS DENISOF: --get the wrong reading.
COLIN FERGUSON: --take a little bit of [INAUDIBLE].
Oh, that was crunchy, not typically a texture you
associate with a banana.
Not feeling the best I've ever felt.
ALEXIS DENISOF: I can hear it.
NIKA HARPER: So let's take a bite out of Felicia's victim
and check out her sculpture.
ALEXIS DENISOF: Wow.
COLIN FERGUSON: Wow.
ALEXIS DENISOF: OK.
COLIN FERGUSON: Also a nice use of texture.
A nice use of background, with the seaweed floor.
I also like the field of orange, a nice
touch, I must say.
The repetition of shape is pleasing to my eye.
ALEXIS DENISOF: I'm going to say this is the great battle
of Godzilla and his longtime nemesis.
COLIN FERGUSON: Does he have a name?
FELICIA DAY: So the Cheetos represent the audience.
I wanted to break the fourth wall, in a sense, to
incorporate the idea that the audience is watching this
because it is movie monsters.
Right?
You get that part?
COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah, uh-huh.
FELICIA DAY: This movie that the cheese puffs are watching
is "Three Monsters and a Baby." What we have here is,
we have Dracula.
You could actually--
ALEXIS DENISOF: Oh, of course that's clear now.
FELICIA DAY: He wasn't a lady.
But that's cool.
ALEXIS DENISOF: It was the lipstick that threw me.
But he probably at recently, and that caused--
FELICIA DAY: Yes, the blooded.
And we have Frankenstein.
You can tell by the square head.
And then we have Glitter Kraken, which is my own
invention, a Glitter Kraken.
And they are basically battling over who is going to
eat the Young Baby that they find in the forest.
And you'll see that--
ALEXIS DENISOF: Wow, they are fierce.
COLIN FERGUSON: Of all three, there is no movie
that any of them are.
Right?
FELICIA DAY: Just to point out, none of us did.
ALEXIS DENISOF: OK, so we can dispense with
that category in judging.
COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah, we were lied to.
ALEXIS DENISOF: That's fine.
And this food group?
The orange straps?
FELICIA DAY: I just thought he had flair.
Glitter Kraken is not a down dresser.
ALEXIS DENISOF: No.
FELICIA DAY: He's got a little-- whoo.
ALEXIS DENISOF: What final feast does Colin
Ferguson have in store?
FELICIA DAY: The baby would be meat, potted meat, a little
bit of seaweed, and a raspberry.
ALEXIS DENISOF: You're in uncharted--
COLIN FERGUSON: So this guy, right?
HANNAH HART: Oh.
No.
Oh!
ALEXIS DENISOF: You did.
He's doing it.
COLIN FERGUSON: Oh, that's good stuff.
NIKA HARPER: All right, contestants.
Thank you so much.
We are going to deliberate and probably get
some medical help.
Would you please excuse us?
FELICIA DAY: Now that I finished, I kind of wish that
I had done a little bit more elaborate decoration around
the victim.
And I definitely would have liked to have put some clothes
on my Frankenstein.
He's a little naked.
HANNAH HART: I hope that the judges take a long, hard look
at my work, and my work takes a long, hard look
right back at them.
NIKA HARPER: Contestants, we have deliberated.
Judges, please tell us the winner.
ALEXIS DENISOF: We talked it through in depth.
Well, first of all, we were very impressed with your work,
all three of you.
COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah.
ALEXIS DENISOF: And without a doubt, this was unanimous, and
we're giving it to--
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ALEXIS DENISOF: Without a doubt, this was unanimous, and
we're giving it to contestant number three.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, that's me, that's me, that's me.
I won.
I did.
HANNAH HART: Glad you invited your friends to come and judge
your show, Felicia.
FELICIA DAY: Well, I just work with them.
They are not friends.
HANNAH HART: You know, I don't know why I wasn't surprised
that Felicia was going to win.
The judges were literally her celebrity friends.
But at times like this, when I feel down, I just remember
that the last time I was on Geek and Sundry, I totally
whooped everybody on "TableTop."
WIL WHEATON: Looks just like this.
HANNAH HART: Oh, wow.
It's beautiful.
It's everything I've ever wanted.
FELICIA DAY: I think the judges, regardless of being my
friends or not, definitely judged everyone fairly.
PETER CZERWINKSKI: No, I don't think the judges
were fair at all.
I think they were bribed by her funny comments, and her
good looks, and all that.
FELICIA DAY: Congratulations.
Are you OK?
COLIN FERGUSON: Yeah.
Yeah.
FELICIA DAY: No, no, no.
COLIN FERGUSON: Are you OK?
Yeah no, because--
ALEXIS DENISOF: He was going to tell me about his--
COLIN FERGUSON: [BARF]
FELICIA DAY: Oh, god, I'm sorry, Colin.
Sorry.
Thank you.
Thank you, Alexis.
I appreciate it.
ALEXIS DENISOF: Yeah, sure, good job.
NIKA HARPER: So Felicia, how does it feel to be a winner?
FELICIA DAY: I hate to say it, but it feels pretty great.
Is it bad to be happy?
It's bad to be happy.
God, my mom's right.
Everybody is going to hate me now.
NIKA HARPER: Because of your unique take on monsters, we're
going to present you with a prize--
trophy girls!
FELICIA DAY: Hey, guys.
Good to see you.
HANNAH HART: Hey, Fart-licia.
FELICIA DAY: Oh no, she did not.
HANNAH HART: Oh, is that all you win?
Congratulations.
NIKA HARPER: That's it.
You're the Gastro Geek.
HANNAH HART: We made it for you.
Have fun with this, a trophy that rots.
You don't see that often.
FELICIA DAY: Thanks, guys.
I'm really proud to be a "GastroGeek" winner.
I'm the winner.
Thanks for watching Geek Week.
Thanks for watching.