03x05 - Under the Hood

[bunniefuu]

- Real Men will make it.

- [Voiceover] Hey there all you freaks and fabricators.

It's time for a sneak peek under the hood of Monster Garage.

- Monster Garage why?

- [Voiceover] You may have seen the Monster,

but for the first time,

behold the Beast within.

- Get Up, get away from me.

- [Voiceover] It's Monster Garage Gone Wild.

So grab your helmet and light up your torch.

- Don't stare at the light

- [Voiceover] Because this Monster Garage special

is just around the bend.

[Monster Garage Theme plays]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Voiceover] In August of 2002,

a new reality television show called

Monster Garage was launched.

- [Man] Incoming.

Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

Now that's what I call Direct TV.

- [Voiceover] After a few seconds of watching,

one thing was perfectly clear.

The Discovery Channel had discovered a new kind

of television show.

- Boom, boom.

- [Man] You gotta be kidding me.

- [Voiceover] Monster Garage was over the top

and in your face.

It was brimming with attitude.

Most of it bad.

- Why don't you k*ll yourself?

- [Voiceover] With a philosophy summed up best

by its host outlaw bike builder, Jesse James.

- Because it's wrong.

- [Voiceover] Smoking tires and burning rubber.

Jesse delivers the goods.

It's time to meet your monster.

Week after week, the garage gave birth to new monsters.

- We're gonna make the ultimate delivery truck,

[Word truck echoes]

Golf ball collector

Nut Shaker

Mobile Wedding Chapel

with the World's fastest street sweeper.

- [Voiceover] This week's challenge

Take a 1993 Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer

Ford Mustang GT 98 Volkswagen Sedan,

Passenger school bus, geo tracker,

and transform it into the ultimate hot air balloon.

The world's meanest fire truck.

A Nut shaker, monster, snowmobile, wheelie wagon,

golf ball range picker

[Laughs]

- [Voiceover] Monster Garage hit viewers

like a heavyweight body shot

and left an imprint

like a sailor Saturday night tattoo.

And the viewers, they loved it.

- I'm Hailey and I watched every show of yours.

- Nah uh.

- Uhuh

- [Everyone] Monster Garage

Rules!

- I love this machine the way they work.

- Jesse's a master builder.

- I like the skulls and the flames.

- They just looks so cool.

- [Voiceover] Before the mania of the monster

was the birth of an idea.

- I dreamt a Mustang turning into a lawnmower.

[Lawnmower sounds]

I woke up in the middle of the night,

I sat up in bed,

I went, oh yeah.

- [Voiceover] Thom Beers,

Creator and executive producer

had recently finished working

on a film called

Motorcycle Mania with Jesse James.

- It took me to some fancy pants place

when we sat down to dinner and,

- And I said, here's the idea.

You know, what could we do with this?

- I honestly thought he smoked crack

when he explained it to me,

We really wanted something custom and cool cars

and something really radical and

- We just started to brainstorm and cook

and all of a sudden

- We started going back and forth

and by the time we were done

at the end of the night, you know

it was like Mad Max beyond Thunder dome,

where this whole place was covered with this big cage

and you had to climb up and get the tools

and you know, you had to fight it out like gladiators.

- I said, you wanna do this?

I wanna do this.

Let's do this.

And so we did it.

All of a sudden it just became a reality.

- [Voiceover] Ideas were put to paper

and the concept took some wild turns.

At one point,

a sinister character called the Master Metal Morpher,

a semi human hybrid,

would guide each team on their mission.

- A Master Metal Morpher.

[Laughs]

- [Voiceover] Hugh King,

the producer who punched out the first four episodes,

was there at the beginning.

- The Master Morpher was going

to appear and save things

or set things right or put things on a different path.

In fact, this guy was gonna be dressed in a green tights

and kind of flying through the air.

- [Voiceover] By the time filming began,

the Flying Metal Morpher was grounded, reduced

to an ominous voice, booming from a 60 inch TV.

- [Metal Morpher] Your mission,

should you decide to accept it,

is to build the ultimate Blade rolling,

fiber slashing metallic log rocket.

- [Voiceover] The Master Metal Morpher

never made it to broadcast,

but they still had a broadcast to make.

- Here put these on so you don't hurt yourself.

- [Voiceover] With Jesse covering his back,

Hugh King, a seasoned news

and documentary producer was thrown into a bear

and poorly lit garage to pound out the first monster.

- The truth is, we didn't know

whether we could do this or not.

We did have Jesse, our our guiding light, who you know,

is a mechanical genius for sure,

but whether we could actually make these things work

and they did have to work

was frightening.

- [Voiceover] To make it even more frightening.

The first one out of the chute

was a monster called the White Tr*sh Truck.

A Ford Explorer turned into the garbage truck from hell.

- [Thom] How long do you figure it would take

to make all this stuff?

- One day?

- One day.

- One day.

- [Voiceover] With its complicated hydraulics, robotic arm

and major body redesign.

The White Tr*sh truck still stands as one

of the most difficult builds any team has ever attempted.

- It looks like a 27 piece screwdriver

- [Man] It's on the floor.

- [Voiceover] To make matters worse,

Jesse was a total non-believer.

- I've seen the light,

it's not gonna work in seven days,

- [Voiceover] He put his money where his mouth was

and bet the team's trash truck expert,

his design would never work.

- I'll give about 500 bucks,

I'll bet it right now.

Bet me. Bet me.

I'll help too.

And it's still won't

- [Voiceover] For its first ever build week,

The garage was like a car threatening to overheat.

If it blew, they'd fail.

- It doesn't go like this.

Look, as soon as they grab it,

it's gonna go.

- It hurts my feelings,

but I'm just gonna fight to prove him wrong.

- [Voiceover] Incredibly, Gregorio held up under Jesse's

unrelenting onslaught.

- I mean, sometimes you just gotta let people go ahead

and fail to prove your points.

- He stood by his g*ns and his hydraulics.

- [Gregorio] We need to disconnect the hydraulics on

the motor.

- [Jesse] Good thing Gregorio understands all that,

'cause I'm just, look.

[Laughs]

- I'll just remember that night we were all,

it was late at night, everybody was exhausted.

Time had run out in the fabrication process

- And everybody's sitting there going,

oh my God, is this gonna work?

Are we gonna fail?

- It's not gonna work in seven days.

- [Voiceover] Finally, there was no more time.

It was either lift up or shut up.

- Where's that can go?

- Huh?

- We put a galvanized trash can down

on the floor and the arm came out like

[imitates robotic sound]

- All of a sudden the arms that come like this,

they go

[imitates blowing sound]

And it was like whoa.

[Everyone cheers]

- You know,

it's just like Frankenstein man.

- Whoa.

Where can I buy one?

- That looks perfect

And onto the next house.

- If you listen closely,

half the Oos and Ahhs you hear

are from the production team.

[Everyone cheers]

- That was really thrilling.

- I think the joy for us is to watch it work too.

- Wow.

- [Voiceover] A gentleman always pays his bets.

And so does Jesse James.

In one glorious moment idea became reality

and Monster Garage was lifted up

and sent on its path to success.

The swamp bug, Limo Firetruck

and switch blade lawn rocket came quickly after

bringing in viewers high ratings

and instant stardom for the only host in the history

of television with a Benjamin Franklin tattooed on his back.

[Jesse by The Fabulous Tuscaderos plays]

- I'm made of sugar.

[Jesse continues to play]

- We're gonna get pulled over.

I'm telling you.

[Jesse continues to play]

- Fumes are making me dizzy.

[Jesse continues to play]

- I'm excited.

[Imitates engine sound]

[Jesse continues to play]

- I guess this makes me the Mac Daddy.

[Word Daddy echoes]

[Upbeat music plays]

- [Voiceover] Jesse rolled into the garage

and TV land with a unique style.

- If it doesn't fit,

beat it with a big hammer.

If that doesn't work,

get a bigger hammer.

- [Voiceover] He came into the garage

with a blue collar work ethic.

- Take all that talky, talky *Bleep

Just make hands go.

- Just tell me how you want it.

- Boy are your hands not moving faster.

[Laughs]

- [Voiceover] He came in with a purpose

- I think my goal's just to scare people.

- Busting my *bleep right now,

- [Voiceover] What he didn't have was a lot

of experience being a show host.

[Burps]

- We didn't even look for a host.

We thought let's just slide this guy in under the radar,

put the show on the air and see what happens.

- I'm not an actor and I don't play pretend.

- What we're trying to do here is

- And I get mad and I get happy

and I get sad and you know, I feel it all.

You know, I'm not Tom Cruise trying

to pretend like I'm a pirate or something like that.

I'm Jesse and Jesse's here working every day

- For Jesse,

It all boils down to the work.

- Monster Garage

is a good example of just a plain old work week.

I ain't got no friends in here.

We need all these guys to labor together.

You know, not stand around

and look cool.

Could know everything there is

to know about everything.

But if you don't pick your damn hands up

and do something once in a while,

then your knowledge is useless.

- And he says it all the time

. This ain't a television show,

it's a job.

The guy literally comes in,

does the work and goes home.

- This is reality TV.

All the other stuff where they're forcing people

to be on an island and Super Models and stuff like that.

That's not reality TV.

You're just seeing a guy, you know,

working 60, 80 hour weeks

trying to pay his bills.

That's reality.

- [Voiceover] With the success of Monster Garage

and an ever expanding fan base,

Jesse still considers himself

to be just another working stiff.

Definitely not a TV show host.

- Oh, like Bob Barker, you know,

I mean that's a host.

He's the anti host.

- So how was it out there?

- Jesse James is the perfect anti host.

- I'm pro anti.

Anti everything.

Men wanna be him.

Women wanna be with him.

Kids wanna grow up to be just like him.

- It's me.

[Motor Engine sounds]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Voiceover] Every man needs a monster.

But before there's a monster,

you need an idea.

Fans often ask,

how do you come up with these things?

Well, it's not pretty

and it can get pretty ugly.

But these ideas come about through good old American blood,

sweat and brainstorming.

- The next build

- is this DeLorean hovercraft.

- Cool Miata

- Mercedes and the El Camino.

- That M class looks pretty good.

- BMW's.

- Is that the coop or the convertible?

- We'll have a brainstorming session

where we'll just throw anything on the wall

to see what will stick.

- Let's do a float for Rose Parade.

- Didn't never think of it.

- Try busting

- Hey, you know what,

Let's try and bust in.

- No, let's do it and just show up.

- That sh**t, It's gotta sh**t Fire.

- Dude well couldn't we do the

- Devil like poking people into hell

- Happy Birthday *bleep

- What if I did like

[Laughs]

- Let's do a Santa sled.

Let's do like a Santa sled.

But he is really really slow.

- Boom

- Look, I got goosebumps.

- It's not this big,

you know, calculated focus group.

It's just us getting together talking about

different stuff, you know?

- What about like rock and soccer robot cars?

- Yeah, two cars that fight each other.

- Two car,

What about that big rock and soccer.

- Ahh goo goo goo and you like,

you like really work,

I mean like boom and the head pops up.

- Yeah.

- [Voiceover] The end result of this idea session,

Santa's satanic wheelie float probably won't.

We are planning on doing a season ending special

turning two cars into rock 'em sock 'em robots

for some serious monster head bashing.

After an idea gets the green light,

it goes under the bright lights where Jesse

and a hand selected team are filmed trying

to hone an idea into a workable design.

[Rock Music in the background]

[Rock Music in the background]

[Rock Music in the background]

[Rock Music in the background]

- Mike Desmond is a design artist from Mitsubishi Motors

who was drawn to the freedom

and creativity of the Monster Garage.

- I think it needs to be something more significant.

Like go really, really fast.

Maybe it's actually dragster,

- Like the little red wagon, you know?

- Yeah, it's a weird machine.

- Weird.

- There you go.

- So my job is, you know, millimeters

and a lot of technical crap.

It'd get on your nerves after a while.

This project, there's really none of those things.

If we're gonna do some crazy,

it should be like that Osprey

aircraft where it's just like they flip out

[Imitates Airplane engine sounds]

- It's all the fun without all the crap.

- It's pretty cool

'cause you were taking

a mass consumer product,

one of the defining products

of American culture and that's the automobile.

It's something that use, that people buy

as a status symbol that defines who they want to be,

who they think they are,

And then we're cutting it up.

We're transforming into something completely different

than it was ever meant to do.

It's not the same as a show car.

'cause a show car is pretty and stuff,

but the show car doesn't have to move.

You know, that's the whole thing about this stuff is

it's gotta work.

- I got a pretty good five day

construction gauge.

I can see what can't be done

and what can't be done in 5 days.

And usually I pick our goal

a little bit beyond what can get done.

[Rock music plays with engine sounds in the background]

- All that's left is everything.

- So all that's left is everything?

- All that's left to do is everything.

- Let's get after it.

- Okay.

No time like the present.

- [Voiceover] Not all ideas are created equally.

Sometimes the boss gets a gut reaction

that turns his stomach.

- Sometimes when I'm working on a car,

even in the design phase, I don't feel it

and I can't see the prize at the end

and I can't, you know, I can't visualize it coming together

and being really spectacular.

Like the PT Cruiser's.

A perfect example.

- [Voiceover] At the end of a routine,

first day in the garage,

Jesse walks in and drops the monster of all bombs.

- Let's start at 9:00 AM tomorrow

and we'll work all day until it's done

and we'll finish it in one day.

Finish it.

- [Voiceover] Jesse hates the Monster Mulcher

so much he's willing to take down everything with it.

The rules, the team's time in the garage

and the show.

- I just don't wanna prolong the agony.

Let's make it go away. Oh, away.

[Word away echoes]

- The PT Cruiser was the ultimate showdown between Jesse

and the TV producers.

- The producers don't think it's a good idea if we finish in

one day 'cause it makes for bad TV.

But I don't really give a *bleep about that.

I don't care what anybody thinks.

- Can we come back for a better challenge?

Maybe we get a second try at something more challenging.

- Everything went to hell in a hand basket in the garage.

- Let's see if we can take a PT cruiser

and make it into a PT Cruiser flaming off a cliff.

That would be cool.

- We were going, oh my God,

we're not gonna have a show here.

[Imitates Engine Sounds]

- But the end result of that was,

I think we got a great show out of it.

[Rock Music plays]

- Yeah, I like it.

- Good.

- Cool.

- [Voiceover] Then there was another producer idea

that Jesse wasn't nuts about.

[Suspenseful music plays]

- This is Hollywood guys trying to think of something

that's cool that really ain't,

they can dream up all kinds of guys in squirrel.

- [Producer] Can you do the double sign

and say, Jesse, you're going down

[Laughs]

- This squirrel.

- Make it go away.

Make it go away quick.

- Boy, that one didn't go over.

Jesse just hated that.

[Laughs]

[Rock music playing on the background]

- Filling up four fingers?

- There was actually sound logic

and reasoning behind the giant squirrel idea

- In context of the machine.

It was a funny idea.

Here is a nut shaker

- [Upbeat music]

- Beers and I came up with this idea

of the nut shaker competing against a squirrel together.

Nuts.

So we ran with that idea

and we were both going, yeah, that's a great idea.

Oh yeah, A giant squirrel would be so cool, you know? .

- [Producer 1] Shake the tree a little bit too.

Yeah, that's good.

Hit into character.

- [Producer 2] Come out a little bit more.

There we go.

Okay, duck down one more time.

- [Producer 1] Ready?

- [Producer 2] Go ahead.

- What?

- [Producer 2] Hide, code, crouch.

- The squirrel would be this kind of mysterious figure

that would pop in and out during the challenge.

So Jesse got up there

and he was kind of grumpy in a bad mood or something.

- I remember that day and I think I was in a pissed off mood

'cause I'd been sitting out in the sun in the middle

of some walnut grove.

- I kept the squirrel away from him

until the very end and I brought him out.

I said, now Jesse, here's how it's gonna work.

The guy in the squirrel is gonna jump in the car

and steal it while you go out and and shake the dude's hand.

- After about eight hours of sitting there,

some dude comes out with a squirrel costume,

[Squirrel laughs]

- It's kind of like if you're sound asleep

and it's three in the morning

and Mickey Mouse comes to your house and wakes you up.

Hey, I'm Mickey Mouse.

You can bam.

You don't care if it's Mickey or not.

Get the hell outta my house.

[Rock Music plays]

- If I would've thought of the squirrel costume

and bring in a guy in a squirrel costume,

it would probably would've been the coolest thing ever.

You never know.

[Laughs]

- It was still a funny idea,

I thought.

I told my wife I was working

- [Voiceover] The wheelie,

The one idea that always works,

- It is the wheelie.

It's all about the wheelie,

When I was a kid,

if you had a bike

and you could like pop a little one,

that was cool.

But if you could ride one handed,

given the peace side all the way

around the block,

I was a king

- [Voiceover] From the beginning,

Jesse had a clear vision

that turning an ambulance into a wheelie car would be a cool

project and a tough build.

- It's basically like doing heart surgery on someone,

but instead of putting it back in

their chest, you're putting it in their,

- [Voiceover] It was a complicated operation.

First they pulled the motor from the front

and put it in the back.

Then they linked the motor

to the rear end through a V drive.

Next they strengthened the body

with a steel tubing rib cage,

and finally they added wheelie bars.

[Upbeat Music plays]

[Ambulance sounds]

[Engine Revs]

- Now I know why God put me on this earth.

All that metal work and fabrication,

that's all BS.

I was meant just to do a wheelie.

Never underestimate the power of a wheelie.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- I'm 26 years old.

I'm from Kingsport, Tennessee

and I want badly to be on Monster Garage.

Tell us your name, age, occupation, and where you live.

[Screams]

- Bill Tragillis.

- Bob Grant.

- Ryan Carter.

- I'm a cell site technician,

- I'm a cop,

which means I can legally carry a g*n

and someday I'm gonna be able to sh**t

somebody without getting in trouble.

- Structural engineer.

- Ontario, California.

- Westminster, Colorado.

- Long Island, New York.

- [Voiceover] Are you handy with tools?

Do you get along well with others?

Are you good under pressure?

If you said yes,

then you've got what it takes

to be on Monster Garage.

But first, you need to apply

- Phase two,

Video.

- check.

- I apologize for the quality.

- [Woman] Oh, I almost ran into something.

- I'm not real good at making videos

- And after five minutes and I suck,

feel free to shut it off

- And you're just like seeing my head.

I can't stand up here.

Okay, there we go.

- I painted it my very own self.

The key to getting a good paint job is shaking that can

for the entire two minutes.

- Want metal to stick together?

You need a welder.

- I can do some stick welding.

I can mig weld.

- I'll even fig weld it

if you can figure out what that is.

- Real men will make it.

- That's why I would like to be on this show.

- I love this show.

You've gotta put me on it.

- Only up to you.

So decide

- If you pick me.

I think it'll work out.

- Talk to you soon.

- [Voiceover] The core ingredient

of each monster Garage

is the unique blend of builders.

Equal parts, aptitude and attitude combined

to make a perfect recipe for success.

- This to me is just work.

If you guys *bleep around

and do you know stupid *bleep on camera,

these guys don't care.

They're gonna make you look like an a*s on TV.

- Monday morning,

I don't even know these guys' names or what their skills are

or what they do and I think that's more

of a challenge for me.

- Building a build team is a really hard thing to do.

It's not, certainly not an exact science.

- Oh, this guy's good.

- This guy.

- I like him.

- Looks like Lee Trevino.

[Indistinct Audition Video]

- Looks like Chairman Mao.

I like him.

- Sure.

- I like making stuff.

I'm just a happy *bleep

what can I tell you?

[Laughs]

- Her personality, she's great.

- Yeah.

- Talks a talk and she walk a walk.

- [Voiceover] What's the perfect builder?

Depends on who you ask.

- My ideal guys is just a regular a*s Joe

that punches a clock and works hard.

- I'm certainly looking for the character.

- My name is Tim Connor

and all the blood's rushing to my head.

- The monster in here, huh?

Mark that dungeon's book.

- [Voiceover] Hours of video,

stacks of applications,

and recommendations from everyone and their brother.

- If you don't like him,

you can like me.

- [Voiceover] Makes picking builders

a never ending challenge.

Among the chosen few who make it into the garage are those

that leave an unforgettable impression.

- Ooohh

- Woahh

[Weird Noises]

- Chicken Dance

- Monster Garage Cooling

Tank for your hot metal.

We'll get some more cool water.

- I keep getting surprised by your kilt.

- Yeah,

- Like you silly

Whoa.

- Get my pants back on man.

I don't wanna burn my *bleep off.

- Wink was the ideal character for me.

You know, here's a guy who like,

he's built like Santa Claus, you know,

he is got a great big beard and thick glasses

and huge mustache

and you know, just a guy that's

so on TV on heroic,

but at the same time an absolute virtuoso with metal.

- [Voiceover] The limo fire crew got burned

on finding an output

shaft for their pump.

- I'll go over to Jesse's

and I'll machine all those pieces that we need.

But it, I, I gotta tell you,

it's gonna take me all day.

- [Voiceover] Wink met the challenge

and machined the crucial part

- There it's in

Kick the tire

Light the fire.

Go ahead

Oh!

- It fit perfectly and the pump was pumping.

- [Man] That's awesome.

[Upbeat Music plays]

- Ever saw the guys?

What you guys do you like the best?

- Well the good - Except Jesse.

- the Russian guy that was

on this thing doing the stick,

the bright, the control stick.

What was that guy's name?

- He dreams things.

- I visualize it in my head.

It's kind of,

I can see things moving in my mind

- [Voiceover] For those who dare to dream.

Hector had a vision

that helped him create a single steering mechanism

for the two engines on the mini snowmobile.

- That's pretty awesome.

I think Hector's too smart for Monster Garage.

- Oh really?

- Yeah.

- Come on. Peace.

[Rock Music Plays]

[Upbeat Music Plays]

- Eric Scarlet, yeah,

he's certainly on the All Star Build

team for personality.

- It's right here.

It's like Lipstick

with a sticker fitting in there.

- He was like an arc weld,

a human arc weld.

He was always sparking,

he was always flaring up

[Imitates g*n Sounds]

- And gave us everything you could possibly want in a

really good character.

Also, he did a bunch of work in the garage that proved

to be, you know, pretty crucial.

- Never underestimate yourself

and never answer to anybody else.

- He's certainly one of the

A type characters that

you just kind of hope you get

- [Voiceover] The hardworking women

who entered the garage showed the boys

that making monsters wasn't just a guy thing.

- Oh my Hello.

Hey baby.

I'm working with that guy.

He's just Paul but take off his shirt

and he is Paul.

[Laughs]

- I don't judge anybody.

You step in this garage, you're a worker and that's it.

I don't care if you're male, female, you know,

a dog, a cat, whatever.

- I felt that the car needed a little color

so I stopped in the garden on my way outta the house

and I thought some nice bearded lilies would add a

nice feminine touch to the car.

- Oops. Sorry.

[Cries]

- I'm not gonna assume just

because a a person is a female

that you know, okay?

Okay honey, you come over here

and do the curtains on the back.

That's not the way it is man.

- [Voiceover] Master welder,

Lisa Legohn on the Limo Firetruck build

torched your way into the heart

of master fabricator, Jesse James.

- Yeah, I teach mainly trade tech.

- What kind of welding?

- I teach Oxyacetylene,

- Yeah?

- Arc, Advanced Arc,

Mig and Tig and Flux Core.

- You roll the beer can together?

- With aluminum with a tig.

- That's a good one though.

- Lisa sticks out because Lisa's funny

and she's personable

and she teases me a lot.

- Hey, what's up with that

- Number of the beast.

- I thought you was just young in a little wild.

You got problems here.

Eight Cross

X name is

[Laughs]

- As you know, good always triumph.

Look, he's not even here and he

got it working for him.

[Laughs]

- [Voiceover] Animatronics Expert, Wendy Schmidt

from the Porsche Golf ball

collector episode turned out to be a nice new slice

for builder Mac Gillem.

- I've never worked with a lady before.

He has probably taken more getting used

to than anything I've ever done in my life.

- The craziest thing isn't it?

- Okay, let me hold it and you slide it up and down.

That's why we work well together.

We're listening to each other.

- [Voiceover] Jesse's favorite female

to enter the garage to date,

Cindy Reginbald from the All Girl Demo Derby Bill.

- I kind of like her.

She's like the female version of me.

I dunno, I'm not that bad.

I'm a good girl.

- I know you're just a girl.

- I know I'm just a girl.

You're just a boy.

- All right, You just work

on the top one, I got it.

- I got it.

- I got it.

No, I can do it.

- You can't

- All right.

- Oh this time you got it

- You were just gonna fire it up with nothing

before I got here remember?

We didn't even need that to fire it up.

- We can do it

and fire it up without the

straw being hooked up.

- I'm trying to be nice trying to change my wave

because a lot of people think that I need anger management

but I say *Bleep them

- I might have to go

to anger management next.

- So when I say I love a tasty treat every now and then.

Action.

[Laughs]

- Good job.

- So what's it like being a cameraman at Monster Garage?

- Hey Jeff, right?

- Yeah, He is all like excuse me,

I'm trying to get my shot.

Watch out, watch out.

Whip Hand Galactica.

[Laughs]

- I like to film stuff.

- Hey, I'm just,

I go motorcycles.

- I don't really want k*ll anyone.

- k*ll everyone.

[Laughs]

- Except for Chris.

I want to k*ll him

- Come here big boy,

[Laughs]

[Plays random note on Piano]

[Everyone claps]

- Hey Jesse.

- Are you making a sandel?

[Spits]

- It's like repelling

- [Voiceover] Stick around Monster fans

because later on

we've got the demise of the hearse.

- So it's kind of fun to like put a car out of its misery

- [Voiceover] And the destruction of the sand rail.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- Let's smash this bugger apart.

- [Voiceover] Build Day 1 is defined

by one word:

Destruction.

- I'm getting a bit of a gas shower.

[Rock Music plays]

- I dunno what they are,

but I don't think we need them.

- It's always fun when you get to

destroy other people's stuff.

- [Voiceover] An easy time tearing apart the vehicle.

Temps many builders into gutsy predictions

of an easy week in the garage.

- And this thing's gonna get finished.

We just got the motor in.

It's only Tuesday.

I mean we're probably finished up a little bit early.

- Never failed.

Every time someone says we're gonna be done early,

they just jinx it.

- We're gonna try to predict maybe an early finish.

- [Voiceover] Now he's done it

by predicting early victory,

Jesse's made sure the team will sl*ve

to the bitter end.

Early in the week,

Playing to the camera is many of the builders top priority.

But as the deadlines become reality,

all bets are off.

Five days in the garage is a human pressure cooker.

While cameras roll the weight of the challenge

and the threat of the deadline brings builders

to their boiling points.

- The garage is a pressure cooker.

- Do you understand me,

you piece of *bleep?

I'm sweating.

[Laughs]

- I think a lot of it

is the cameras being on people puts

a weird spin on things .

- We come around here when we're really busy

and ask a silly questions.

- You have something else to do?

- Get outta my face.

- [Voiceover] The Porsche golf ball collector build

went into the rough

when Alex and Eric whipped out their nine irons

for some smash mouth golf.

- You want me to help somebody out that burned me?

That's what you're asking me to do.

*bleep

- Yeah see, you want help?

You wanna help you - as a team

- You wanna help?

- Let's get in the car and these guys can run

their *bleep show by themselves.

- You want it look,

look right here.

- *bleep I'm not somebody you want to help dude.

I was asked to come to the *bleep show by them.

- Okay, well that's what you're trying you.

That's what you're saying.

You're saying that you want,

you only went deal your way.

- I'm not doing it my way.

You're doing the door now, right?

Well then do the door already

or go weld something dude.

- Hey well wait,

- Get out of my *bleep face

- Come on relax a bit.

- [Voiceover] Ironically, turning a Chevy Suburban

into a wedding chapel,

turned the build week into a hate fest.

- You better just watch it,

if it's not, that's all that's gonna happen.

Or it will happen.

And I promise you,

Take it easy.

- You take it easy.

- I'm trying to make peace dude.

- I don't want it.

- [Voiceover] Tony's direct attack on Tana

and her work was anything but bliss.

- Nice cold welds.

Yeah, that was a strong weld.

Where the *bleep is the power around here?

- I don't think she has the skills to pay the bills, dude,

that's my freaking personal opinion.

[Welding sounds]

- Hey, how about that?

*bleep

I ain't gonna look like a jackass

'cause we fail.

[Cries]

- I don't know.

Maybe the stress is getting to him

and that's why he lashed out like that.

It doesn't feel good when you're on my side of the fence.

- It sucks.

It like undermines the whole thing about a team.

You know?

It's about everybody pulling together.

- Part of the show I think is

is to show the, the rawness

of the reality that we're dealing with

- [Voiceover] For the School Bus Pontoon Boat episode,

Builder Jimday day had a bad day.

- Look at it.

You could see the poles deflecting man.

They're like bent over about an inch.

It's like I said that about six times.

You know, I spent all week making this thing.

You guys want to destroy it in a couple hours?

- Hey you need a brace?

- Damn it.

- Jim's mad.

- I cannot believe it.

- It's nothing personal.

- You know - I take it personal.

- this is my job,

- you know, I'm trying,

I'm defending my crew,

you know, I'm working with these guys.

We working really hard

- In case you didn't notice,

this is my crew, you know,

and what I say goes here,

There

The end.

- [Voiceover] Then there were the two failures.

The first was the hearse car crusher

and what has come to be known as the curse of the hearse.

The team got along great,

but went down in flames,

- Fired up five days?

Really?

- We'll do it in three.

- The build team came into the garage confident,

maybe too confident.

- Between all the people

and the skills set, there isn't anything we

can't overcome with this project.

- Yeah.

- And they were playing for the camera

and they had all sorts of stuff in the garage

and they were so excited about being on TV.

They just lost sight of of the target.

- This is what happens when you piss off Jesse James.

- That's right.

- Okay yeah, yeah.

You're on tv.

Get back to work.

- There was a strange kind

of weird vibe throughout the garage.

Certainly had a lot of fun

and were kind of like loopy in a sense.

And even Jesse, we have shots

of Jesse slam dancing at in the Garage.

I don't think we've ever gotten that again.

So the whole week was totally different than any

other week in the garage.

- [Voiceover] It's the George Baris Original TV Batmobile.

Holy delay, Jesse.

It's another distraction.

- What are you doing over here,

- Jesse what are you doing here?

- Trying to weld.

- It started looking pretty good

near the end on the last day.

And you're actually rooting for them.

And you always, you're thinking, geez,

I hope this works.

I hope this works.

- Go Berta

[engine starting]

- Hey, what happened?

- We seized one of the pumps.

- With the hearse failing,

I cut the goal down.

I said, all I wanna see is the auger turn

and the arms come up and down

and you guys can have their tools.

- Turn it on.

- Yeah.

- See?

- There's just too much slack in it.

- Too slack.

- There were a number of things that didn't happen.

They ran outta parts.

- [Voiceover] Bart installs their last belt.

- We'll never be able to get it on.

- Alright, so

- [Voiceover] It's do or die time.

And they all know it.

- And the hydraulic lines kept breaking.

- [Voiceover] Jose and Dorn fixed the hose leak.

The ripper roars to life.

And the hydraulic heart begins pumping blood

to the scavenged limbs of the beast.

But then disaster.

- And then it became apparent towards the end

that the whole thing was not going to work.

- No. Let's say we tried to run one pump right now.

See what happens.

- Well, command decision.

You guys want me to BS you?

- You want the truth?

- Truth.

- We didn't do it.

This is the one that fails,

that's reality.

- And midnight on Friday night,

it couldn't do it.

And you know,

was kind of a bummer, you know.

- I hate losing.

I think it sucks.

But you know,

- If we have had more time,

at least about four or five hours.

- I'll make a reasonable judgment

of what it needs to do

or you're not getting your tools.

- That's it.

- Anybody don't know what they're made of

until they come up against something like this.

- Beers was in Washington or something.

He called me the next day

and I'm like, I told him what happened and

- Jesse called me and he said,

we failed.

- I'm bummed.

And I thought for sure he was gonna,

you know, say, well,

we need to redo it or something,

or we gotta make it work or something.

- And my first response was, that's terrific.

He was like jumping up and down.

He goes, you mean it didn't make it and it caught on fire

and and it was drama and you got pissed and left?

He goes, oh my God, that's great.

- And he is like,

what do you mean that's terrific?

I said, because it's great.

We failed.

This validates us.

- That's the difference between Jesse

and Hollywood, you know, I want 'em all

to make it and all to do good.

And I'm going to, I'm not gonna sandbag it.

I'm gonna try hard and

and try to make sure that happens.

- [Voiceover 2] You've heard him say it before.

He hates failing.

And if the head mechanic

at the monster garage misses a deadline,

you can bet he's taken someone down with him Frank.

- [Voiceover 3] That's hitch wag.

- [Voiceover 2] This week long ordeal

- We didn't even know

that thing existed.

This car destroyer,

this car shredder,

this guy gave us this tour

and at the end of the tour he says,

well, if you'd like,

we'll throw a can of propane gas in it so when it goes

through the shredder,

it'll blow up.

Would you like that?

And we thought about it

and said, well, yes,

we would like that very much.

♪ Boom. Boom.

- [Voiceover 2] You gotta be kidding me.

- [Voiceover 3] Oh my God.

Can you believe it?

- That was like a million dollar shot

we got for like eight bucks.

- [Voiceover 2] Let's see that again.

♪ Boom. Boom.

- [Voiceover] Failure number 2

The RX 7 sand rail.

For the many fans who never got to see the final demise

of this subpar monster.

This one's for you,

- Frankie.

- [Voiceover 2] When the hearse failed,

Jesse fed it to the shredder.

That is a Dillon mini g*n.

Say hello to shredder number two.

[Rock Music plays]

[Dillon minigun fires]

[Rock Music continues]

[Rock Music continues]

[Rock Music continues]

[Rock Music continues]

- Yeah.

No vehicle ever fails

at Monster Garage and lives to talk about it.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Voiceover] Day seven.

It's the big challenge,

the showdown,

the Mano A Mano

and the chance to let a week's worth of blood, sweat,

and well shine brilliantly for the world to see.

But before Jesse

and his crew can bask in the glory of their achievement,

- Yeah,

- [Voiceover] Every monster gets a fresh coat

of cool courtesy of Tom Pruitt.

- We've kind of run the gamut of colors.

I think we've done flames and we've done metal flakes

and pearls and candies and we've done some chameleon

and we've, we've pretty much used about every different

product there is to use on on paint material

- [Voiceover] For many,

Tom's greatest paint job was the Ford F-150 turn nut shaker

to create a unique wood grain in the flames.

He used an old family technique.

- [Tom] This wood grain process was developed

by my grandfather back in 1942.

He used to do it on the model A dashes,

and he passed down to my dad and passed down to me here.

This is kind of a lost technique.

Probably hasn't been used for 40 or 50 years.

It's kind of an old family trick.

- [Voiceover] As the paint dries on Tom's vehicular canvas,

a small army prepares for a monster as*ault.

The Day 7 challenge.

- sh**ting the challenges is a challenge.

I mean, that's when we pull out all the big g*ns.

We were flying around in helicopters.

We're traveling to locations.

- [Girl] Did you choose Cinderella's?

- [Producer] A garage TV show

with the Discovery Channel produced

by original production?

- [Biker] Yo.

Yo Home Slice,

Camera guy.

Boz.

Did you get that flip?

[Upbeat Music Plays]

- Gimme the good deal what do you think?

- [Biker] I can't believe we pulled it off.

- It's a huge amount of fun.

Huge amount of hassle.

- [Voiceover] After the challenge,

our monsters come to rest in the garage

or hit the road.

Auto shows and special events give fans a chance

to see their favorite monsters in the flesh.

- We're all huge fans of this show.

- Wow.

- I love the Porsche.

- [Voiceover] Every monster

that leaves the garage means another success

for Jesse and his maverick mechanics.

But for the producers, the real work

of creating a one hour television show has just begun.

- To Jesse,

It's turning a car into a donut maker

To us,

It's turning 150 hours of tape into a television show.

- [Voiceover] The behind the scenes transformation

of endless tape into TV is a battle of picking

and choosing.

- Raaaaah

- [Voiceover] What goes in the show.

and what ends up on the floor

is not an exact science.

- This isn't stamped out.

Okay you know, here's the formula.

You know, every week the formula changes.

- So the best decision is to not write anything

right?

- Probably.

- Thank you.

- [Voiceover] The last piece cut

into every monster Garage is an over

the top tribute to a week of hard work.

- [Announcer 1] Here we are, Centerville, Louisiana.

- [Announcer 2] Just outside the Bull Moose Saloon

- [Announcer 3] Hit row at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

- [Announcer 4] It's pitting his puny geo tracker

- [Announcer 5] Tire slashing lawn rocket.

- [Announcer 6] It's a double barrel snow sh**ter

- [Announcer 7] Against the nastiest.

- [Announcer 8] The industrial strength.

- [Announcer 9] Lean mean.

- [Announcer 10] Big tire mud suckers

in Southern California.

- And this is where it all goes down, folks.

This is where it all takes place.

- [Frank] For the fist time in monster Garage History.

The man behind the most,

- It's all about the wheelie Schwag,

the competition couldn't be similar,

- Simpler,

- What did I say?

- You said similar.

- But before he races,

Jesse needs to spin the wheels on his wheelie wagon

For the challenge,

the team installed a new engine on their monster.

Jesse wants to make sure it's

What?

Jesse wants to make sure it's

- Nut and bolt.

- Nut and Bolt.

- I learned that in that on the NASCAR show.

- Whoa, that's not good

Fire!

- [Frank] We're looking at a real 911 call Swag.

The rescue car needs rescuing

- For the love of God.

Jesse's waving him off.

- It's fine. Just fired up.

- Jesse James is going to risk being barbecued alive just

for the thrill of a wheelie.

Now that's some big breast cahones in my book.

- They're lined up at the start.

The Christmas tree is going green.

They're all,

He's crazy.

But no risk, no reward.

- It's truly all about the wheelie.

- [Voiceover] The wheelie car

is one of the many maniacal machines

that made up the heavy metal Season 1

of Monster garage.

- [Swag] Jesse James is juking and jiving.

He's looking to jam the biscuit hole.

- [Frank] Oh yeah, look, king is running

and gunning,

- [Swag] Pumping a 25 gallons of water a second, Frank.

- [Frank] Look at how fast he's going already swag.

He's up to 30 miles an hour.

Firing out all cylinders.

Jesse goes for the k*ll.

- [Swag] It's a bombardment.

- [Frank] It's a barrage

- [Voiceover] To Jesse,

It's a job.

To the producers,

It's a TV show.

But to the fans,

it's a hat off Salute

to the working class hero.

In a world of prefab fashion

and stock vehicles,

there's a place

where true craftsmanship is celebrated

at least for an hour.

- [Frank] Well, there's no time

for fun and games birdies.

Butts and driving.

Slow goers, snowblowers.

And dumb questions from the producer.

- [Producer] So, Jesse, after it's all done, why?

- Hey, if I have to explain why,

you know.

- Yeah, we're in trouble.

- Go watch Home and Garden TV.

[Laughs]

- Learn how to redo your flower bed.

- [Frank] You p*nsy!

He's got metal to burn.

Sparks the fly.

The next Monster Garage Challenge is just around the bend.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage