- What happens if these are really good?
- Oh, we're cookin'.
(dramatic music)
- Hey and welcome to Nailed It,
a segment where we try all those perfect
things on the internet and see
what it's like when real people try them.
- Usually ends up really well.
- But for now on, we are going to get these things right
no matter how long it takes.
- Are we?
- No matter if it kills us.
- Oh boy.
- This was sent to us by at least 40 people.
They're creating this amazing art with sparklers.
It's very short and there are no instructions.
- And it looks really cool and inspirational music
and then boom here it is.
- So, here is what I found out you'll need for supplies.
Some plywood that you gotta paint.
(cash register)
Okay, they're all painted!
Now I'm gonna let them dry.
You will need sparklers which we found on the internet.
In a spray bottle mix the juice of one lemon
and about 10 ounces of water.
It doesn't say how much water.
And we have to make those subjects
that will be in the foreground,
let's go make those now.
Oh, matches.
In that video, they used a reindeer template.
I printed out a free template
and then we just have to cut them out.
I got some pumpkins so maybe we can do a pumpkin print.
Penn says that cutting these out was the worst
part of his week so far.
- You've got pumpkins and then you've got Santa's reindeer.
- And now you're making snowflakes.
- Yeah and snowflakes.
Is there a holiday that encompasses all three?
- Festivus?
- Okay, these are Festivus.
Good, very good.
- Okay, I'm going to make the pole.
Hang on. Here you go.
- What is that?
- That's the pole.
- For Festivus?
- You hold onto the Festivus pole
and then you tell all of your loved ones
all the ways that you disappointed them that year.
- I think that I'm going to start with some reindeer.
And you're going to spray
this on and then let it dry for five minutes.
- Oh, okay.
- Do I just spray the reindeer or do I spray the whole wood?
- The whole wood.
(spraying)
- My montage of all the holidays.
- So this is Christmas, these are two men wrestling,
Halloween, Solstice.
- What happens if these are really good?
Like maybe we can make some extra money?
Or maybe we can give these as gifts?
- [Penn] I like that.
So I'm feeling pretty good about mine.
Is that all you're putting on yours?
- Now we have to wait.
- Okay.
- And talk to each other.
- Whatcha been doin'?
Been doing anything?
- So I think it has to be dry
because then the sparklers won't light.
I just wanna get this right.
- Oh, we're cookin'!
- Ahhhh!
- Yeah, so....
Mine aren't lighting.
- This is so cool but nothing's happening.
- They're making lines, like weird lines.
- Well hang onto those, those could be scary dead trees.
- Oh my gosh, this is terrible.
Maybe there wasn't enough lemon juice.
This looks like a string of torpedoes
raining down on my reindeer.
- So it looks a little bit like a skid mark.
This looks like my son's underwear
the first 4 years of his life.
- Maybe it needs a spray bottle that's more misty.
And more lemon.
- Alright, so we're going to the internet.
- It takes some trial and error for the water amount.
The branches are just extra straight up lemon juice
painted on with a paint brush.
Oh, they cheated!
I'm going to do--
- So they made it look awesome by showing the sparklers
and didn't explain that we have to do a lot more work.
New board for Penn.
- New board for Penn.
- I'm sticking with the old stuff.
- Okay, I'm going to spray it from afar
'cause I could not find another spray bottle.
I'm going to take straight lemon juice
like the cheating cheaters of the internet did.
Just kinda like brush it?
- Wait, that's after.
Yeah, after.
Oh, I am Bob Rossing the poop out of this.
Holy cow.
You take the skid marks and you push them out.
These trees are my friend.
Alright, look!
Now I got trees.
- I wanna take one on the natural wood
to see if that's better.
- Now I'm just going to do practice, like three trees here.
The stencil, they make it worse.
We're going rouge.
- Alright, I'm sticking to it.
Penn has given up and left.
I've left this lemon juice-water concoction dry.
It is completely dry on the wood so maybe that's the key.
My pumpkin is catching fire.
So that's not the answer.
Nope, that's....Nope.
That was terrible.
I'm beginning to think that there are things
on the internet that aren't true.
I did indeed dive and apparently you can't do this on wood!
Turns out that that image
you saw on the internet is on tile.
So my husband went and got me some tile.
Also, not water and lemon.
Not wood, and water, and lemon.
Vinegar!
Here we go.
Still looks pretty terrible.
Nope.
I'm going to do just straight up lemon.
You know at the beginning of this
I said I was going to do this until it killed me,
I was really just kidding.
This may actually kill me.
I feel like I should wait for an expert.
I need to find an expert...
who can help me.
This is my friend Kasey from AR Workshops in Raleigh.
We have discovered that whoever originally
posted this video...
- It's a fake ya'll, there's no way.
They didn't give you all the steps.
It's lies, it's internet lies.
- Internet lies is fakes news
but we're gonna try our very best
to recreate it 'cause we have some tips and tricks.
- They must have used at least pure lemon juice
and there probably are some secret ingredients
that they did not share with us.
Alright, looks more like pencil trees verus more--
I'm more modern guys.
I just like a more modern forest.
- Exactly.
Definitely think they omitted
pertinent information to get this correct.
- I got professional help.
- Yes.
- And we think that whoever posted this is a lying liar.
If you have tried this and with success,
- Yeah.
please post a picture and your exact directions.
And we'll come back, - Yes!
And recreate it.
- We would love to recreate it.
I think it's fascinating.
I don't know how they did it
because it's not what's represented on the video at all.
- This is my best try
and I think the only way I got the reindeer pretty good,
is 'cause they were soaking wet.
Okay, we checked in with our fancy
editor friend named Luke,
and Luke tells us there's no way
this is not done without special effects.
Obviously, the sparklers are going faster
so there's some time lapse.
(piano)
Easy peasy, but where the sparklers
are hitting it's creating art and images
where there aren't sparklers.
So this is done with special effects.
Further evidence that the internet,
they're just lying liars.
Shame on you!