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Previously
on "King of the nerds"
Welcome to the new Nerdvana.
11 more of the world's
preeminent nerds
- stormed into a new Nerdvana
- Aah!
Preparing
to compete once again
for the title
of King of The Nerds.
There's gonna be bloodshed
to get to that chair.
Teams were chosen.
On Midas Touch Attack
fantasy writer Zack,
pokémon expert Josh,
aerospace student Mary Kate,
inorganic chemist Nicole,
and bioengineer Jack.
On Titans of Rigel
roboticist Katie,
historian Brian, gamer Xander,
Chris mechanical engineer
and Kayla, the rocket scientist.
But one nerd was left out
japanophile kelsey.
You have to choose who you
would like to see banished.
Nicole.
And in a shocking
double-twist meta-head game
It's nerdier
to be kicked out by somebody
who wasn't even on a team.
Nicole decided
the winner of the nerd war
I want to join the gold team.
Harboring a
secret that only Zack knows.
I'm a chemist.
Hopefully Zack doesn't
tell anybody I'm a chemist.
If he does, this alliance
poof, gone.
Then
Chris.
Kelsey.
Faced each other
in the Nerd-Off
but Chris dominated the skies,
and Kelseyâs dream of sitting
atop the throne of games
and being crowned king
of the nerds was swept away.
- Impressive job, Chris.
- That was mighty impressive.
It's a good thing that I'm still here.
I'm still in the race.
However, I'm sending home one of
my team members, and it sucks.
We're gonna raise a glass
in honor of kelsey.
I believe that kelsey
was the cutest girl here.
Kelsey!
No more distractions.
Whoo-hoo!
And there's the
Oh, geez.
- Oh, my God!
- We've lost somebody.
Now it's time to make
the Midas Touch Attack pay.
We're gonna be
like raptors on them.
One and only goal, right now, is to
kick some *** in the next challenge.
I'm not too worried
going into this nerd war.
I think this will be
the alliance and horde meeting
and when the alliance and horde
meet, the horde usually wins.
- Team Midas Touch!
- Team Midas Touch!
- Attack!
- Attack.
- We need to do that again.
- Team Midas Touch Attack.
Count it on three.
Ready?
One, two, three.
Midas Touch Attack!
Team? Saying team?
I messed that up, too.
Calling all nerds!
Please come and join us
in the courtyard!
Schnell!
- What?
- What?
I see just beaker and Einstein
just standing there
with titration and buffers.
Beaker!
I'm hiding the fact that I have
a chemistry background,
because I don't want to be
a target right now.
Behold!
I give you science!
Okay, anyway, it's time for the
"king of the nerds" science fair.
Yes! Whoo!
I'm more of a scientist,
probably, than I am an engineer,
but I see the beakers,
so I'm like, "it's gonna be
more chemistry-related.
"
Unless it's chronopotentiometry, I
don't know much about chemistry.
In this nerd war,
you will be taking
the classic grade-school
science-fair project the volcano.
Hopefully, you'll do
as well as we did
Yes!
And going PHD-nerdy on it.
You will be judged on the
soundness of your science,
your chemical reaction, and the
creativity of your presentation.
I've never made
a volcano before.
I made dioramas, Clay people,
all kinds of displays,
potato batteries.
You only have until tomorrow, so
head into the radioshack lab,
where you will find
everything you need.
Splendiocity.
And then find your team's secret
war rooms within Nerdvana.
- We have war rooms?
- Yes!
Off with you!
Let's go!
Me, me-me, me-me-me-me-me.
Me-me-me-me-me.
You should've thought of that
before we left the house.
Go! Don't make me
body-check you!
- Oh!
- Oh!
Look up here.
Oh, what do we got here?
Seeing our big old
crate with all of our goodies
radioshack's pretty cool.
I love it.
That's where I bought
my first soldering iron.
Can I overpower some capacitors and
make the magic smoke come out?
This is special effects.
This is exactly what I do.
So this is my challenge.
Do we want to abscond
to our secret lair?
To the war room!
Aah! Y'all get in here.
My God.
If I had time
to appreciate the war room,
I would be like, "it's so cool,
and I feel so nerdy.
"
I don't have time for that.
Right now, I need to figure out
a way to be artistic
and still be useful
in a competition
that is not artistic
by definition.
This is the challenge
I know nothing about.
- I'm not a chemi.
- And I'm an organic chemist.
Hopefully, Zack doesn't
tell people I'm a chemist.
That's like saying, "Hey, I want
to go up to the Nerd-Off.
"
We're fine.
We have two chemists
in the room,
and that's why we're awesome,
okay?
Who is the other chemist?
Nicole has some chemistry.
Nicole, are you a chemist?
- Yeah.
- Oh, good.
Zack!
A union
or an organization for mutual benefit.
That means if there's a
secret kept within the alliance,
you don't blab about it.
Well, let's start
brainstorming then.
How do we just go?
Currently, our only reaction seems
to be sodium hydrogen carbonate.
Carbonate is hcoâ.
Nicole's lie is just
a little suspicious.
I hope she knows
what she's doing.
My heart says to believe in you,
but my brain says, "ugh.
"
There's water.
Hâo.
Guys, we have to figure out
what we're doing.
Yeah, yeah.
We should present it
as some sort of skit.
We could use
the time traveler telling us
about the yellowstone Supervolcano
eruption from the future.
Oh, my God.
What I've always wanted to do
is work on set automation
and making crazy effects happen
on live performances.
The volcanoes aren't big enough.
The problem for me is
I over-scope things like crazy,
so I really need my team
to kind of hold me back.
Do we want to start as
a boring science presentation
and be like, "wait, guys.
"
Do you want to just
scrap that idea?
Let's focus on the mechanics.
This is what I'm afraid of
we put too much time
into the theater
and not enough time
in the science.
Wernher Von braun once said that
"beating gravity's the easy part.
It's beating the paperwork
that's hard.
"
We can't have a big explosion
here and then have nothing here.
Well, yeah, but there
are science effects
that would happen.
There's acid rain, there's
how are you gonna make
acid rain?
We drip green stuff
on the board.
Well, acid rain
isn't green, though.
I know, I know, I know.
Okay.
I'm done.
I'm done.
Simmer down.
Kayla is a very scientific person
and was rejecting the idea
of using any metaphor
in the project.
I know that this is what people
want to see.
We've got to figure out
the reactions that we're doing.
Is there any kind
of creative twist?
We can try and apply
real-world science
to a fictional-world's volcano.
Maybe like death Mountain
from "Zelda.
"
What is the most famous
fictional volcano?
Mordor.
Mordor!
We can throw a ring into it,
and then
yes! We can do that!
We're doing a "Lord
of The Rings" Mountain
eye of Sauron.
Josh and Zack and Mary Kate,
they're doing a lot
of the artistic stuff.
"For mount doom! Ha ha ha ha.
"
We have Jack doing
all the chemical equations.
Does anyone have
milk of magnesia?
- No.
- Dang it.
I'm in charge of the cool stuff.
I get to make stuff go "pfft!"
Maybe I'm a diplomat singer.
We need to really step up
our ante, guys.
They're putting a lot
of emphasis on creativity
You were named pele after the Hawaiian
goddess of volcanoes and fire.
But my job is to do the
engineering and just have faith
and trust in the rest
of my teammates.
Would it be problematic to have
some ash just in the air?
We don't want it to react with the
stage or cause any issues there.
Our whole plan is a giant risk.
We're gonna have to think
that one through,
because it is a large area.
Maybe we should focus
a lot more on science.
What if I bust out into, like,
mini-songs after, like, every subject?
We are gonna do five
bullet points.
Who is each bullet point?
How we're trying to
construct our presentation,
I'm not happy with it.
I almost want to turn
the whole thing into a song.
I want to turn the whole thing
into a song.
We need to make this fun.
They meant it to be fun.
Yeah, we can have it fun,
but I'm not gonna sing.
Can you beat-box the whole time
while we talk, even?
It's a science fair.
It's not a talent show.
Yes, I can beat-box.
But I don't see what place
it has in doing a volcano.
You are one of the leading stars
of YouTube,
and you're telling me
you can't do it?
We can have fun with it, but we don't
need to make a show out of it.
We need a show, though.
All right, well, with your free
time, start working on one.
I was gonna say,
you're the fantasy novelist.
You're right.
I'm the fantasy novelist.
Just include the science.
I know, we got to include the
science, but we got to make it cool.
Just pour a little bit in.
The stakes for today are high,
so I'm gonna look like
Bill Nye the Science Guy
and explain the details like Bill
Nye the Science Guy's fashion.
A little bit is enough
to agitate Mountain dew.
Hello, I am here to talk to you
about the chemistry of Mordor.
But just imagine dropping the
ring in in all of its glory.
This will blow everybody away.
So silly, the other team.
They're spending time today
trying to paint a giant banner.
I think we're winning.
If we just don't forget
that we're awesome.
What are you up to, Zack?
Sometimes, when I'm memorizing,
I sit and I don't talk,
it just I'm thinking.
I am a very, very zen person,
and I try to center myself,
bring myself down, sort of fall into
a meditative state for a moment.
Got it.
And now I also got
half my nap, too,
'cause if I memorize something in
meditation, then I also get nap.
Yay, nap.
Mary Kate and I
are working really hard
to get these visual elements
done, and Zack's "taking a nap.
"
I'll be back, guys.
You have to
make use of, really,
every second you have of time.
Mm-hmm.
Not napping.
Not oh, I went there.
I went there.
I went there.
So, make sure you listen to me.
I'm gonna add
different elements into it.
Red ball.
We got only like
an hour and a half left,
and Xander wants to take
the time to do "improv.
"
Thank you, red ball.
- Another person.
- Red ball.
Thank you, red ball.
Red ball.
- Not playing.
- Why?
We don't need to do improv
right now, guys.
We need to be focusing
on science.
We're being graded on
our performance, though.
But you're wanting me
to do something
that's not my strong point
and perfect it,
but nobody was willing to help out
and focus more on the science,
- because it wasn't your guys' strong points.
- I'm gonna go to the bathroom.
- Let's just chill out.
- It goes both ways.
Kayla's been working against
the team this entire nerd war.
She never said
that she didn't want to act.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
No matter how hard high school
may have been,
there was one place
where we always felt safe
- the science fair.
- Always.
Seeing the other team
in the white lab coats,
I'm really worried that we might
have made the wrong move
by going so theatrical.
Those are the people
to save the world
from some kind
of pandemic crisis.
No one knows that better
than our three special guests.
Science guru and all-around
nice guy Bill Nye.
This is gonna be awesome.
I've never practiced my Bill Nye
impersonation.
I hope he likes it.
The bow tie is fantastic,
Mr.
Nye.
Part of me is like, "ooh, it's Bill Nye!"
But part of me's like, "oh, my God.
Now I have to impress him?"
Next, the winner of the intel
science and engineering fair
Blake Marggraff.
Wow.
I am super nervous
to have someone of that
intelligence judging us.
Ugh.
Finally, with a PHD
in neuroscience,
star of
"The Big *** Theory"
- Oh!
- Mayim Bialik!
I love "The Big *** Theory.
"
I'm still convinced
it's based on my life
and that somehow the writers
are, like, tapping my phone
or something.
That is awesome.
Now, your performances
will be judged
on the soundness
of your science
and the creativity of your presentation,
and we will begin with
Titans of Rigel.
Welcome, citizens of Rigellia.
I was born on the day
the world ended.
We've created this
post-apocalyptic world
where the yellowstone Supervolcano
has devastated America.
Ambassador, we are so pleased
that you could be here
to hear our plea for help.
I think the purple team
is weak on the science
and is just trying to make
a super-theatrical performance
like an ugly girl
that wants to be beautiful.
The U.
S.
geological
survey predicted
that the chances of a
Supervolcano under yellowstone
erupting were only
They were wrong.
Oh, dear!
Subtlety is the key
to a great performance.
Yellowstone ejected 1,000
cubic kilometers of ejecting.
Wow.
That's acting.
You do remember the eruption
of mount St.
Helens.
Yes.
Well, that was just a mere
So what happened next?
I'm not sure how the judges
are gonna respond to Xander.
At least none of them
were British.
You remember the geyser,
don't you?
Oh!
Now, watch, as a caldera erupts.
We've never actually run
the experiment for our volcano.
This may be the worst idea ever.
Oh!
Oh, dear! How horrid!
The other team's
performance was extremely poor.
For starters spray paint.
W.
T.
F.
?
You can't even figure out
how to make it smoke?
Which is merely hydrogen peroxide
mixed with manganese dioxide.
Leader.
My name is Scott T.
O'grady, and
I was a survivor of that day.
This is where we live now.
And then you have
"tectonic plates.
"
"Were going to shake them
and make it fall over.
" Why?
What what is falling
from the sky?
It's the acid rain.
Kayla's delivery was spot-on.
We have been through so much
in the past couple days,
so that meant a lot to me.
Great Britain will provide aid
to the colony of Rigellia.
It's about time.
So, what is the cotton orange
coming out of there?
The manganese oxide mixed in
with hydrogen peroxide
and a little bit of soap
to help give it bubbles.
- It was soap.
- And, yeah, mount St.
Helens
I think you said meters
and you meant kilometers.
It was actually
This table is 3 cubic meters.
On reflection, 2.
9 cubic
meters is not very much.
But I swear I read it.
I think my source was wrong.
Midas Touch Attack,
you may begin.
Hello, my name is Will Bye
the Alchemy Guy.
And I am here to present to you
how to explode mount doom.
Seeing that team midas
has picked Mordor
makes me feel a little bit better
about doing a Supervolcano.
Ours at least has fact behind
it, but this one doesn't exist.
Mordor volcanoes operate under
hydrogen peroxide decomposition
in which hydrogen peroxide breaks
up into water and oxygen gas,
and lets balance this equation,
as well.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
- Close call there.
This reaction is
thermodynamically favorable.
Listening to Jack, he
sounds like a chemistry teacher,
but the point
of this science fair
is not just to be
a chemistry teacher.
The point is to dazzle.
You must provide a catalyst
to kick-start this reaction,
such as Frodo's ring.
Using a catalyst
such as manganese dioxide,
we can drop Frodo's ring in.
It erupts the volcano, destroying
Sauron once and for all.
Deep within the earth
is the magma chamber.
Additional events lead way
to parasitic cone.
Tolkien based Mordor off the
volcanic aisle of Stromboli,
and Peter Jackson shot the set of
Mount Doom atop Mount Tongariro.
And just mere months ago,
this very volcano erupted for
the first time in a century,
spewing 10,000 cubic meters
of ash.
Goggles on, everybody.
Always safety first, and don't
try this at home, kids.
Our crowning moment is throwing
in the one ring.
When you throw it in, it's like
Smoke goes everywhere.
Lava just goes down mount doom.
Now, oh, whoops.
In conjunction with the ring
and
So, Jack drops the ring,
and I'm just sitting there like,
"crap.
Crap, crap, crap.
"
Be very careful about this.
Ready?
- That's very nice.
- Sauron has been defeated!
I did drop Frodo's ring.
But then again,
there's not that much lava
that erupts from a volcano,
anyway.
It's mostly smoke.
Whoosh!
Judges, do you have
any questions?
What? No lava?
Well, there's lava.
There was no lava
because we missed the ring.
Jack, you are a squib.
A squib is someone born to magical
parents that does not have magic.
They're, like,
the low of the low.
Blake, who do you think is
the winning team and why?
Starting with midas,
the science
and statistics early on
were very impressive.
You covered important figures,
but it began to fall apart
in the reaction itself.
Titans of Rigel, starting off,
I really wasn't sure.
The principles encompassed
were interesting,
and interesting
eventually became
really quite important
and relevant.
That said, Titans of Rigel,
you have my vote.
Thank you.
The kid votes for the
other team.
Big surprise.
A 19-year-old kid
is not a developed brain.
How old are you?
I'm 21.
This was more difficult
than I thought.
The presentations
were so different.
On the one hand, we have sort of
an uber-fantasy concept,
and with the Titans,
we have much more
I don't want to say comedic, but
a much more theatrical aspect.
My vote is for
Midas Touch Attack.
This was a much more
concise presentation.
Mayim Bialik or
Amy Farrah Fowler votes for us,
which is good, and her reasoning
is very sound.
The deciding vote
is with you, Bill.
Oh, that sucks.
It's coming down to Bill Nye the
Science Guy, and Midas Touch Attack
is looking mighty science-y
over there.
I, of course,
am drawn to lab coats.
I love lab coats.
Come on, Bill.
We've got the lab coats.
We got the science.
We've got the impression of you.
Pick us.
But I'm also crazy
for the Supervolcano.
I'm splitting.
The deciding vote
is with you, Bill.
Oh, that sucks.
They were both
so very different.
My vote is for
Titans of Rigel.
They were both great, but I'm
crazy for the Supervolcano.
I will never forget that moment
when Bill Nye voted
for our team.
It's something
I'll put on my résumé.
Titans of Rigel,
you have won the "King
of The Nerds" science fair.
Best science fair ever!
Your reward will be some
one-on-one time with Bill Nye.
We get to spend time
with Bill Nye and his bow tie.
Midas Touch Attack,
tomorrow morning,
two members of your team
will be going to the Nerd-Off.
Losing at the hands
of my childhood hero
while impersonating him
was a pretty bad thing.
Congratulations, you guys.
Nicely done.
You made five people sad.
It was so sad.
It was my fault.
I'm still proud
of our presentation,
and we did get to meet Bill Nye.
Somebody's going home,
but you know what?
It might not be a bad thing.
If we lose some dead weight,
we'll be more focused as a team,
and we can work harder
next time.
My only question is,
what did happen to the foam?
I missed the first time.
- It was hard to, like, aim it.
- Damn it.
Of course Jack should go
to the Nerd-Off today.
He blew the volcano eruption.
It was horrible.
It was horrible.
There was so much screwed up
with our presentation.
Hurt my thumb.
I don't think Zack's
really that viable anymore.
I thought it was a good
competition that we lost closely.
He freaks out
about little things
and he's kind of disappointed me
a little bit.
- We need to go Jack.
- Yeah.
Zack wants me to vote
the way he wants me to vote.
I'm gonna vote
the way I want to vote.
The alliance is no more.
I'm telling you right now.
I want to keep this alliance safe.
Zack opened his mouth and mentioned
the fact that I was a chemist.
He made me a target.
We've said everything
that needs to be said.
Oh, my goodness! Bill Nye!
Hey, Bill Nye.
We won this nerd war,
and no one is leaving.
No more tears today.
And on top of all that,
we get to hang out
with Bill Nye the Science Guy?
No, that was really great.
That was a great presentation,
you guys.
- I hate judging.
- Hate being judged.
All I could say is
you're my president.
I'm with the planetary society,
as well.
Oh, really? Yeah, see? Oh, wow.
I love you guys.
I never thought I would have
the opportunity
to hang out with Bill Nye
the Science Guy
outside of maybe a run-in
at an astronomy convention.
So, mechanical engineers,
aerospace your deal?
I'm a gamer fantasy.
I'm not very scientific,
Bill Nye.
I know you tried in my youth.
I apologize.
I got to fly
Bill Nye the Science Guy!
Ooh!
It is so good
to be in this position.
We are the Titans of Rigel.
We get to nominate
somebody for the Nerd-Off.
Titans.
More than likely, this will be
a science Nerd-Off.
Yes.
So this could be a good
opportunity to knock someone out.
With the Nerd-Off, I think it's
going to be science-related,
so whoever we pick is going
to not be a scientist
so that we can guarantee
that they go home.
Josh wouldn't do too well
in a science challenge.
Zack might.
I think he's a wild card.
I'm pretty sure Nicole and Mary
Kate do not get along with Zack
- as well as they do with the other two.
- For sure.
I want Zack
to stay in the game
because he's not a team player.
The more disunity we can put
in the gold team right now,
the better for the purple team
it is to win the next nerd war.
I want us to be a strong team, and
so, when we vote against them,
I think we need to be all
on the same page.
"Blah" is the word of the day.
- Shots?
- Shots?
Do you take shots?
Only if you teach me.
Mary Kate wanted alcohol,
and I need to talk to Mary Kate.
You sure you want to do this?
Usually, I never touch
the stuff.
I'm only 21.
I haven't even had that much
time to touch the stuff.
Clink.
Drink.
- It burns.
- Sorry.
Tequila squirting out of your
nose is not a nice sensation.
Okay.
Good job.
See? Look at that.
You're good.
You're good to go.
I want water.
Let's let's go get water.
Go get
I'll come with you, man.
I'm drunk after one shot.
So after Zack and I
took our shot,
he does the very signature,
you know,
doesn't-drink-a-lot person thing
where he's like, immediately,
"I'm tipsy already.
"
What are you thinking
right now about votes
jock, Jack, rock, Jacques?
Jacques.
Jacques.
No?
I need more time.
And then, snap.
"Let's talk about
this Nerd-Off.
"
The weak link is Josh, because
you and Josh are redundancies.
I am a convincing person,
plus, you know,
I'm wearing blue today.
I look more trustworthy.
That's
how it works.
It's psychology.
Nicole
Nicole wants you.
I'm, like,
pinned against the fridge right now.
I didn't know Tequila
would do this.
Can you give me this evening
to really mull it over?
Yes, but really think about it,
because I like you,
and I am still so drunk.
I know you are, sweetie.
Calling all nerds!
Please join us
in the throne room!
I believe that my team
is not voting for me.
I still feel like
I'm the leader.
I'm certainly the cheerleader
keeping everyone peppy.
Today, two of you will go
head-to-head in the Nerd-Off.
The winner will stay
to compete for the crown
and the right to sit atop
the throne of games!
The loser goes home
immediately.
Midas Touch Attack,
we have your votes tallied.
Thank you, Robert.
You're welcome, Curtis.
The first vote is for Jack.
The second vote is for Zack.
The third vote
is for Zack.
The fourth vote
Zack.
I voted for Zack.
Sometimes, I just like
to watch the world burn.
And in this case, I'm morbidly
curious to see how he's gonna react.
Zack, you will be going
to the Nerd-Off.
Zack, who led your team
in this challenge?
Jack led the science, and
I led much of everything else.
Josh, would you agree
with that comment?
- I don't think Zack led at all.
- Really?
He does not recognize
that we actually didn't
even have a volcano
until I squished
his chicken wire.
He doesn't recognize
that I'm the one
who put the sand
in the stupid thing.
Do you agree with that, Josh?
Also no.
Well, maybe you should say
something then.
Feel free.
I know
I'm the writer,
so it's difficult for other
people to create words.
You didn't lead.
I felt you spent
a lot of time wandering,
- not sure what you wanted to do.
- I was writing.
Do you recognize we were
going to walk up there
with a factual report, and we
weren't going to have anything?
That's okay.
I didn't want to finish.
I'm telling you right now,
going into this Nerd-Off today,
I'm going to defeat
whoever's in there,
and then
I'm going to vote myself
for the next one and
defeat the next person again.
I am through with everything.
Zack is coming off like
some character out of dostoevsky.
You can see
the psychological tension
just rippling through his brain.
Team Titans of Rigel,
we have your votes counted.
By unanimous consent
Josh, you will be going
into the Nerd-Off.
This is great.
The least-intelligent member
of my team is Josh.
He has similar gamer skills
to me, but he doesn't have
the entire rest of cornucopia
of information I have.
I think they know
who the hardest-working player
on this team is.
We chose Josh because he had
the lesser science background.
Now it's just time to sit back
and watch the entertainment.
Josh, as much as I like you, and
by the way, so subscribing to you,
but you are a redundancy
in our program
because I know
every pokémon you know, plus.
Can I get some popcorn?
I have an I.
Q.
Of 146.
I can absorb the world
as I see it.
I did everything.
They just completed my vision.
Katie, what do you think?
I'm really, really glad
I'm on this team.
Love you guys.
I'm gonna be choked.
Kind of want to take this shirt
off now and burn it.
Very well.
Step forward please.
Bend the knee.
For today's Nerd-Off, you will
be performing an alien autopsy.
You will have three hours
to research alien anatomy
- And human.
- And human.
You will find research materials
in the radioshack lab.
The truth is out there.
May the best nerd win.
Zack just talks too much.
He believes that he's smart.
He believes that he's
a "writer.
"
For the forsaken.
If Zack wins, we are ***.
God almighty, that was tense.
I'm in the Nerd-Off,
and we get to dissect aliens.
Spleen.
Every single thing in the alien
book, I have to memorize.
I actually possess
a photographic memory,
so this is incredibly simple
for me.
Zack being voted in by our team
is absolutely
the right decision.
He's outside of his mind.
If I lose, team midas is done.
I'm gonna explain
how the game works.
These are all alien organs.
I need to remember it's what
do these things look like?
But I also need to know
what the human organ does.
They're gonna name an organ
by description.
This circulates
the blood of the alien.
I need to recognize mentally,
"that's the heart.
Find the octopus.
"
What's the first one you have?
Medulla ob.
I am a medical student,
so I am going to help Josh.
I choose you.
You are my pokémon master.
- Zack better lose.
- Yeah.
- No.
- No, for us
no, I mean win.
I mean stay.
Zack better stay.
That's what I meant.
Holy mother of goodness.
I don't know what just happened.
Their team, like,
turned into their volcano.
We had a little bit of tension
yesterday, but, like, oh, my God this.
You have a nice mix of engineers
and physicists and chemists
and then you add the reacting
agent, which is Zack,
and then
Is anyone here wanting to help?
We have to keep Zack
in the game.
I took premed biology in college,
so I offered to try to help Zack.
Spleen.
The tonsils.
Kidney.
The kidney helps clean
clean the blood.
It looks like dried cheetos.
Yes.
A mnemonic device
is a group of words
that helps you remember
something.
I am full of them
for this challenge.
The gallbladder
that deals with fat.
And you know what else
deals with fat?
A sassy person.
This fish has got hips.
It looks like it's sassy.
The old factory bones smells
like a blue fish.
Thyroid it produces hormones,
which make you emotional.
You know what else
made me emotional?
"Dumbo!"
And that's why this alien
is an elephant finger puppet.
Thank you guys so much.
What the do we do if
If he wins?
The fate of Midas Touch Attack
hangs on this Nerd-Off.
We don't need a cancer
such as Zack on our team.
It's a liver.
Whoa!
Hello.
Hi.
Oh my goodness.
Welcome to the Nerdwell
alien autopsy laboratory.
This is amazing.
It reminds me of "Avatar,"
you know,
the first time that you get
to see these giant blue bodies.
Just gives me goose bumps.
She's got a tail.
I loved nurse
pom-pom Kitty's helmet.
I just want to wear it around
my rocket lab all the time.
Bobby needs multiple
organ transplants.
Fortunately,
we have found donors.
Unfortunately, for Bobby,
they are space aliens.
In this Nerd-Off, you will race
to extract organs from
your respective space aliens
and place them in
the adjacent specimen jars.
The first nerd to place
three organs wins.
The loser will be banished.
The first organ that I need
performs this function.
"This organ serves several
homeostatic functions
"regulating electrolytes,
"maintaining an acid-based
balance, metabolically.
"It is also the factory " producing
the hormones calcitriol
and the enzyme renin.
"
I'm like, "what if I'm not
the faster draw?"
But then there's another part
of me going,
"he's a pokémon gamer.
"
Pokémon is turn-based.
I play more action games
than him, probably.
And this is an action game.
You are both correct.
It was the kidney.
But, Zack, you were first,
so you get the point.
You may place the organ
in Bobby.
Oh, thank goodness.
I know all 600-plus pokémon
by their name, shape,
egg group, evolutions.
No.
Yeah.
And so, memorizing a shape to
a thing isn't that hard for me,
but it's the functions
that's killing me.
"This organ is divided
into four chambers"
"two atria and two ventricles.
Surrounded by a"
- no, no.
Wrong one.
- Too bad.
It.
I get the organ in there.
It's wrong.
"Surrounded by a fluid sac,
it operates with the help
of electric impulses.
"
No.
This is so stupid.
This is just so stupid.
Look at him.
Go.
Stop whining.
You are both incorrect.
Try again.
Crap.
Crap.
Crap.
Crap.
Crap.
Crap.
Crap.
Crap.
Crap.
I don't know what Josh
is thinking
when he puts the same organ
into the jar as Zack.
If Zack is right,
he got it first.
If he's wrong,
you could be right.
Put your second choice
in the jar.
The heart is the correct organ.
You are both correct,
but again, Zack, you were first.
That makes it two points for
Zack and zero for Josh.
Go, Zack! Go, Zack!
Sorry, gold team.
Sorry.
Zack, you may place
the heart into Bobby.
Where do you want
this one, Bobby?
Where it goes.
Think about there.
No, it doesn't go there.
Josh, we believe in you, man.
Just calm down.
Heart.
As soon as he said
"four chambers,"
I should have known
it was the heart.
I'm a little bit worried,
but the beat goes on.
Bum, bum, bum, bum
Reverse operation is fun.
The score is two organs for Zack
and no organs for Josh.
"By the time the chyme
has reached this tube,
"most nutrients and water " have
already been absorbed by the body.
"This organ takes what remains"
"and mixes it with mucus and bacteria,
preparing it to be expelled.
"
It was so difficult
to watch Josh.
How easy are these questions?!
Come on!
You have both put
your organs in,
but, Josh, you picked
the correct organ.
Josh gets a colon.
It's an awesome organ,
it's kind of stinky,
but it's very necessary
for all of us.
It's also necessary
for punctuation.
"This blind-ended tube
is located
"in the lower right quadrant
of the abdomen.
It averages about
- Go, go, go.
- Josh, go.
Shut up! That is not fair.
Be quiet in this one.
Oh! That was close.
I was first.
I don't know about that.
"This blind-ended tube averages
about 11 centimeters in length.
"
Oh! That was close.
I was first.
I don't know about that.
Yeah, I was.
Please tell me I was first.
Come on.
This is a comeback.
A comeback! Give it to me.
You are both correct.
It was the appendix.
My heart wants Josh to win, but
my mind says, "we, as a team",
need Zack to be on the other
team to create drama.
"
So mean.
I don't mean to be mean.
But by a hair
It feels like a time mage
has actually used stop on
everything in the entire world
and we are now
in a temporal bubble.
Zack, you have won this point,
and you have won this Nerd-Off.
If you can picture
the worst possible outcome
in any single
you know what? You know what?
This Nerd-Off
was the red wedding.
I got to fix up Bobby
before rejoicing.
Today, I did something
for the first time in my life
I have always wanted to do,
which is show a group of people
who did not appreciate my
abilities that I have abilities
and that my abilities are
superior to their abilities.
You may rejoin your team.
Josh, while you must return
from whence you came,
know that your name will echo in the
halls of Nerdvana forever more.
Love you, Josh.
You may say goodbye.
You did amazing.
I'm gross.
Doesn't matter.
Do you want a hug or not?
Nothing's worse than
having to leave the people
that I met here at Nerdvana.
I'm glad they accepted my hug,
even though I'm gooping
with alien guts.
You did an amazing job.
You couldn't have prepared
for it any better, okay?
Yeah, don't worry, Josh.
You did your best.
Losing Josh hurts a lot.
I mean, I so wish Josh
was Zack, you know?
Can we have one last beat box?
Come on.
Do it.
Come on.
I'll miss you.
Oh!
I don't like seeing people go,
especially people
who are good people,
and Zack isn't a good person.
I might have lost this battle,
but I'm gonna continue
to train on.
I want people to know that you
can love whatever you love,
have a great time doing it,
and have zero regrets.
I've caught over 600 pokémon
thousands of different times,
but the "king of the nerds" crown
was just one that I couldn't catch.
Behold science!
Technically,
that's natural phenomenon.
Don't mess with my moment.