The WORST episodes of Nailed It!
Every episode of Nailed It! ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Nailed It!!
Home bakers with a terrible track record take a crack at re-creating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize. It’s part reality contest, part hot mess.
#1 - Travel Dos and Donuts
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/2021
Putting their own spin on travel, the bakers make terrible spiced-doughnut tourists and deflated hot-air balloon cakes. It's destination disaster.
#2 - Let’s Get Lit
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2020
Two bookish treats inspired by literature set the bakers up for epic fails: Shakespearean stained-glass window cookies and a pop-up "Moby Dick" cake.
#3 - The One with the ‘90s Theme
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/2020
Edible ice cream boom boxes made with liquid nitrogen and a fresh and fly fondant-covered cake? Oh, snap — that sounds like a '90s challenge.
#4 - Indiana Fails and the Temple of Slop
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/1/2020
Terror awaits the contestants as they take on two technically demanding desserts: chocolate eggs and a layered sphinx cake, both full of surprises.
#5 - Chariots of Failure
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2020
The bakers go for the gold — and miss masterfully — with sports-medal cookies and an elaborate swim cake that's topped with a waffle cone torch.
#6 - Jungle Bungle
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/1/2020
Jam-filled animal pastries and a coffeecake shaped like a sloth push the contestants out of their comfort zones — and the results are wild.
#7 - The Big Bake Theory
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/1/2020
From self-frosting bubbling beakers to record-breaking rockets, these science-inspired sweets ask the impossible — and invite kids into the kitchen.
#8 - I Do … Hope I Don’t Fail
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/1/2020
The bakers commit to re-creating wedding day desserts, including wedding band mini-cakes and a Vegas-themed masterpiece with moving parts.
#9 - An Ungodly Mess
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2021
Stacked Greek god statue cupcakes and snake-headed Medusa makeover cakes take Herculean effort and skill — and these awkward results are epic.
#10 - The Burbank State Fair
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/2021
It's a Ferris wheel of fails as the teams make treats with a state-fair theme — from caramel corn knockdown-doll clowns to roller-coaster cakes.
#11 - We're Gonna Need a Bigger Cake
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/26/2021
Baking duos go off the deep end with desserts inspired by the wonders of the ocean, including marine animal mini cakes and enormous edible octopuses.
#12 - Ready to Wear, Ready to Eat
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/17/2019
Two high-fashion challenges put the bakers' hopeless skills to the test: fondant-covered doll cakes and an edible headdress heaped with fruit.
#13 - I've Failed and I Can't Get Up!
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/2021
Candy-jeweled brooch cookies? Inviting cookie-jar cakes? These sugary sweets are just like the ones Grandma used to make — if Grandma couldn't bake.
#14 - Can't Believe It's Cake!
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/2021
From splashy cereal-bowl cakes to towering hamburgers with fries, these attempts at hyperrealistic treats are so bad, you won't believe your eyes.
#15 - Im-Paw-sible Cakes
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2021
A funny, furry pet theme finds the cooks concocting giant exotic-animal cookies, then re-creating Nicole’s adorable dog, Clyde, in cake form.
#16 - Paranormal Pastries
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2021
The bakers make candy apple aliens and a sculpted Loch Ness monster cake based on mysterious creatures from outer space... and the freshwater depths.
#17 - History in the Baking
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/2021
From cupcakes celebrating famous Black women to a towering Tuskegee Airmen cake, this episode honoring Black history aims high — and achieves hilarity.
#18 - There's a Party in My Mouth!
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/15/2021
Terrible bakers take on a trio of festive holiday-hat mini cakes before tackling a pop-up Groundhog Day cake that's full of surprises.
#19 - Everyone Romaine Calm
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/15/2021
A gardening theme gives life to doughy gnomes atop miniature pies and a healthy-ish veggie-patch cake packed with carrots and zucchini.
#20 - The Witcher
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2022
Frosted creature faces and a cake conjured from the world of "The Witcher" beget wicked fails — just as the prophecy foretold.
#21 - Umbrella Academy
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2022
Delightfully offbeat treats scream "Umbrella Academy," from a trio of Griddy's Doughnuts action figures to a towering Hazel and Cha-Cha cake.
#22 - Slime Time
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/2022
The going gets gross — really gross — when the bakers tackle ooey, gooey carved pumpkins and an alien autopsy cake leaking edible slime.
#23 - Oui Can't Bake!
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/17/2019
The pressure's on to make perfectly puffed éclairs and a layered bust of Napoleon Bonaparte for not one but two esteemed French chefs.
#24 - First Date to Life Mate
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/2018
Under the watchful eyes of an iconic cake designer, contestants decorate complicated cake pops and a bespectacled, three-tiered wedding cake.
#25 - Fantasyland
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/9/2018
The bakers do their best to make jelly-filled doughnuts fit for a pirate before tackling an edible tower with a princess on top.