LAUREN: When the Queen returns from her crafts, I'll tell her the truth. You must be gone by then - you _and_ your friends, I will _not_ have their glue on my hands. Go as far away as you can, with as many men as you can. Because wherever you go, Thea's wrath will follow you. NICOLE: And what of _my_ wrath, Lauren? You should have taken the series for yourself. Alyissa told me about the day Party 101 fell: she was holding the Iron Fitting and you made her give it up. All you needed to do was pick it up yourself. Such a sad mistake. LAUREN: I've made many mistakes in my life, but that wasn't one of them. NICOLE: Oh, but it _was_ . When you play the game of homes, you win or you D.I.Y. There is no middle ground.
Omg brilliant. This series could have been a prequel to a hallmark movie TBH. Nicole makes like one video a week for a craft video channel but still lives in a really nice house and has her own office. Until. Thia. She's just an intern. Nicole is showing her the ropes, warning her to stay away from alcoholic Lauren. One day, Nicole is late so Thia offers to do a test shoot for one of her videos...
This makes way too much sense to not be true. With how bad those videos are I would not be surprised at all if they were just supposed to be used as B-roll footage.
I hope Nicole somehow knows that every time I open a bottle of red blend at my bartending job, I hear her slightly condescending yet still work-professional "screw top, my favorite" inside my mind
I was an RA, too, but I only did it so I could live out my freshman year dream of being able to tell the loud people down the hall (there are always loud people down the hall) to quiet down.
I’m just a woman…with a large statement necklace and a bag of tequila bottles, standing in front of a confused hardware store employee, asking where the fitting department is
LMAO at this! I worked at Hallmark when they started making these videos. As per everything at Hallmark, I think the project began with the best of intentions and devolved into a morass of rapidly shifting strategic directions that rendered the entire content strategy DOA. Fun fact: At the time this video was shot, Nicole was either No. 2 or No. 3 Creative Director in all of Hallmarkland. Hence the awkward power dynamic with the other folks in the video who are obviously super nervous about saying the wrong thing.
That REALLY helps shed some light on the general dynamic here. AND makes more sense for the Lauren/Nicole dynamic - Lauren DOESN'T seem nervous about being around her. And I don't think Nicole likes that...
@@ruthsagers1714 It could also explain Nicole’s snide comments about clean crockery and utensils cos perhaps the staff hadn’t done a decent cleaning job
anyone remember that tumblr post about the 'fun pizza' that was basically watermelon and fruit pizza that no kid at the birthday party wanted to eat and the mom got upset about it? this is giving me fun pizza energy
as a home depot employee the idea of a lady in a statement necklace showing me a tequila bottle and trying to describe a coupling is just cracking me up
After watching this for the dozenth time or so, I think _my_ favorite detail is when Lauren stops herself from saying that putting Christmas lights in the wine bottle is "even more simple" and instead says "just as simple" because she obviously realizes nothing could be simpler than filling a bottle with water.
Oh, but it depends! Have you ever tried to fill the bottle under a tap with a very small sink? Making the angle at wich one must hold the bottle too great to actually fill it up?
i recently found out while i was on holiday to Uzbekistan that they don't throw away their plates after eating off them, they wash the plates this blew my mind and will never throw a plate away again
@@laerin7931 honestly I was talking about a big party (and I always go all out for parties) not a two person one. But I actually spent zero dollars because Hallmark paid for it!
As someone who... totally DOESN'T work at a Hallmark store, I thought this video was incredible. All of the Hallmark product popping up in the videos is sending me. I had a lady today who was incredibly disappointed that I didn't have a Halloween card addressed to a cat. I also once had a man ask me where to find a valentine's card for his wife who was having an affair and he wanted a card to tell her he knew about her affair, ON VALENTINE'S DAY. He then tried to record a message to her in a recordable card, without paying for the card, at the cash register and when I told him he needed to pay for it first he told me to shut up. He, however, had such a thick drawl that he couldn't get out more than a sentence before the card cut him off. His message will forever stick with me. It was "Dear Wife, Be Mine, and No One Else's. Love, [His Name]". He finally did pay for the card (after ruining another card in the process).
Not Hallmark-related, but I once saw a newspaper ad that wanted me to believe my S.O. would be enchanted if I presented her with a gift-certificate for laser hair-and-mole removal for Valentines Day. Can you imagine anything so romantic? "Love ya hun...now, ain't it about time you got that crap taken care of once and for all?"
@@Crick1952 Oh well, if we're talking hypothetically, could you imagine my expression if say, a man came in needing an apology card, proceeding to infodump that he needed a card for his (then pregnant) girlfriend who he first cheated on, then when she caught him he proceeded to claim her baby wasn't his, THEN she lost the baby and he found out the baby WAS his, so he needed a card to get her to take him back. Then, imagine trying to formulate a response to that and try to find an apology card and for him to then get upset that it was over 2 dollars?? could you imagine?? if that was a possibility?? Good thing it's not! :)
Got to admit, it reminded me of myself with my home cocktail bar offering "Anything you want to drink, I probably have." "Cool, can I have a beer?" "Anything except for that extremely common thing."
I used to work in a hardware store, and I gotta say having a lady come in with a bag full of tequila and wine bottles asking for a “fitting with a small part and a wider part on top” would have been the highlight of my week
Plot twist: this video was calculated on Jenny's part to put her on Hallmark's radar so they'd become interested in hiring her as a content developer, putting her in a prime position to create a warring "The Christmas Prince" universe, a la DC vs Marvel
OMG I laughed SO hard!! After spending 43 years in the Television Industry let me assure you that Lauren IS the wife of a Hallmark executive!! Great video Jennifer!
god I hope this is true, because it answers the final question we’ve been piecing together from all the hallmark staff showing up in the comment for years. this is why Lauren is fearless in front of Nicole. it all makes sense.
Martha Stewart: “Put dry ice in a second bowl under your serving bowl to make it look spooky, not in the actual drink, because that’s extremely dangerous.” Lauren: “So just put the dry ice right in the punch because honestly who wants to live forever around people like Nicole.”
“Millennial friends who are getting dogs earlier” did I hear that right? As opposed to the “traditional” time when you would adopt dog? You know, once you are stable and in your thirties?
I mean to be fair when you get your childhood dog/cat/first pet (the traditional entry to childhood) It teaches you responsibility, but the financial burden generally falls on your parents/guardians aaaannn... I have no idea where I was going with this, I love dogs/cats/first pets (yours included). Have a good life stranger XD
Well, I think maybe? I can imagine that in a traditional mindset, you first have a kid, and then a dog as a pet for the kid. In a "Gen X" mindset, a couple gets a dog first, so it's treated as a big deal.
I looked up Nicole on LinkedIn and she was actually the VP of Hallmark's "Creative Studios" at this time. It says that "In this role, Nicole is responsible for directing the strategies, priorities and operations of the creative talent & resources team, trends studio, visual studio, photography/video studio, social content team, international creative and the digital asset management team." So basically Nicole is responsible for her own demise
As someone who used to work a similar job for a much, much smaller company, I can tell you from experience it's not always easy to achieve a good end result in a position like that. Your projects are often seen as frivolous and unimportant next to actual product sales, 'real' advertising, etc. If your higher-ups don't 'get' social media, they often think you can just throw something together and it'll be fine, so you get few resources and even less guidance about goals or the company's vision for this branch of operations. I'm not saying Hallmark's corporate culture was necessarily like that, but I can *totally* see Hallmark's corporate culture being like that. This is partly why independent creators thrive on UA-cam while many brands struggle.
This is even better. Nicole feels like she did the heavy lifting of getting the show going and that she'd built it to a sustainable, stable place where it was safe to hand it off to a successor. And then it died.
When you search “Hallmark” on UA-cam the channel doesn’t even show up anywhere near the top. No wonder Jenny knew no one would guess the video topic, it’s seriously that obscure
@@everwhatever : you called it, as someone else in the comments says they've worked on videos for a similar purpose and said they must've been done with Facebook primarily in mind due to most old people not really liking UA-cam.
Just watched Netflix's "Easy Bake Battle" and saw someone /really familiar/ and I cannot believe I figured out it was Lauren from Hallmark! She has quit Hallmark, and works as a "food blogger" now, and it was such a fun trip trying to confirm all this from my phone last night.
Ok but seriously: "Screw top, my favorite. 🙄", "Smells better than tequila. 😒", "Lauren just likes tequila because it's *low* *carb.* 🙃" WHAT VENDETTA DOES NICOLE HAVE AGAINST THIS WOMAN??
Nicole wasn’t invited to the pool party Lauren threw a few months back and is still salty over it. Also, she may or may not be fooling around with Lauren’s husband. 😬
I watched a cocktail competition show on Netflix, and one of the contestants used dry ice in their cocktail. One judge literally REFUSED to drink it bc the dry ice could get stuck to your throat, and you could DIE about it. I guess that just makes it extra spooky?
I love how Lauren starts to say “this craft is even simpler” before realizing that the first one is literally just putting water in a bottle and she corrects herself
Jenny’s mind is like a prism through which the most banal and depressing corporate detritus is transformed into something hilarious and insightful. We truly do not deserve her ❤
Ok but hear me out, Nicole seemed a bit irked when she was told she couldn't do the tequila bottle craft with wine bottles. So what if she pressured Lauren into coming up with the wine bottle crafts and *that's* why they're more low effort than usual! Like even moreso than her other DIYs. What if their rivalry stems from the fact that Lauren likes tequila more than wine and Nicole, who obviously fancies herself a wine mom, can't handle that seemingly personal attack? I don't know, but there's definitely some sort of tension there.
I'm genuinely elated by the fact that Lauren, Thea, and Nicole have all commented kindhearted things on this video. The Hallmark Party 101 videos may be a source of humor for me, but it's good to know the people in those videos have positive feelings towards a video showcasing the silliness of Party 101. Edit over a year later: I forgot to mention Alyissa!
Nicole: How does this smell? Lauren: Not bad. Because it's c l e a n this is so clearly Lauren trying to take a jab at Nicole for something that happened as part of their barely-offscreen feud, i'm dying
SMELLS BETTER THAN DIRTY STINKY OL TEQUILA, LAUREN I CAN BARELY STAND THE ROTTEN LOW-CARB STENCH OF TEQUILA. WHEN THE BAD SMELLS OF TEQUILA CAUSE ME TO BARF, IT'S LIKE AUTOMATIC PORTION CONTROL BECAUSE IT'S SOOOO STINKY.
See, I interpret that comment from Lauren as being like "Are you really trying to say I just brought in smelly old tequila bottles without even cleaning them?! Really?!"
I just realized Jenny's genius intentionality following the 5:35 bit. She comments how they refuse to do another take, and then proceeds to "make a mistake" related to her hair and doesn't redo the take. Amazing note of detail.
Nicole: So what goes in this creepy cocktail? Lauren: Well, it’s so simple, you just use literally whatever cocktail you want and then just add arsenic to make it especially creepy... here you try it first...
@@LaurenLaneCooks OMG I'm starstruck! Lauren, I just want you to know that I've always been TeamLauren ever since I found out about Hallmark Crafts 3 hours ago! Nicole can have her wine, you and I both know that tequila is where it's at!
I wanted to decorate my fridge, so I went on a major online retail sight and I found these things called kitchen magnets, I put them on the fridge door, who knew?? Wow such an easy project! You're welcome!!!
Epilogue: Peasants claim in legends and whispers that Nicole lives on in a distant kingdom, biding her time and gathering support... ua-cam.com/channels/Y8fbX_si04IjmHA8FiQUnw.html Lauren is still crafting to this day - an unlikely ally? instagram.com/lauren_lane_culinarian/ Thea and Alyissa, the usurpers, are on twitter @nealthea and @alyissatweets
Kept seeing this in my recommended, and just never realized it was Jenny in the thumbnail. Had zero recognition. I understand how the whole Clark Kent/Superman thing works now. Wow
But Clark doesn't put on a wig or make up. He just takes off his glasses and twirls his hair. She looks completely different in this video. Superman looks exactly like Clark.
I feel like Nicole is the perfect avatar of the kind of passive-aggressive, judgemental mother-in-law figure who would be watching a Hallmark party video unironically.
The irony is that getting labels off wine bottles require soaking in hot water, scraping with a razor and getting the adhesive off with Goo-Gone-there’s your project.
"This is a terrible show with awful production values and useless content, and everybody's apathy-approaching-contempt for the project is on full display at all times. So in conclusion, I think they should bring it back."
It will never happen. The problem here is that big corporations will never understand what actually drives common people. And when they try to mimic your organic creativity and humor for profit it comes out looking like a zombie wearing coachella. No one likes ads no matter how modern they are - they're just cringe.
Lauren and Nicole need their own show where they act as two buddy cops who have to try to act like they’re learning to like each other but actually they just still silently hate each other.
Stranger, stranger... that's a water bottle! Aaaaahhhh! I will buy it at a high price! Hehehehe... Thank you. Is that all, stranger?! Come back any time...
Thank you, I've always had trouble with putting water in my fridge with my hands. And I tried putting dirt in my old bottles but I could never drink that.
I actually got caught hella off guard when she said "i tend to have a LOT of empty tequila bottles around my house" while I was mid-drink of water and laughed it all over my shirt. That got me good. This is.... some of the best unintentional comedy I've seen in awhile. Reminds me of something Amy Poehler and Tiny Fey would've done as a skit on snl together back in the day. Except it's real....
not only can dry ice seriously burn your lips, but if you're unlucky enough to accidentally ingest it, it can seriously burn your esophagus and stomach. terrible idea to mess around with it at all
Lauren Lane Lauren I don’t know you but I truly wish you all the happiness in the world, I hope I can be as good natured as you when I grow up, Happy Halloween!!
Jenny: a CEREAL party? Me: i've had a cereal party Jenny: this is a level of random celebration that I think only a college RA exhibits in the real world Me, a former college RA who had a cereal party at a res life function: oh
It's terrifying to me that both those women drank the dry ice drinks. No questioning the outcome. No looking it up first. Just fully diving straight into danger on-screen and recommending the audience presumably do the same.
"I would've used a straw for the first drink. Cuz u could seriously burn your lips off turning it up lile that with dry ice in it lol not safe! " ~Amber, UA-cam commenter
In all seriousness, last year I found an online recipe that called for *rubbing alcohol*. You know, highly poisonous and it should not be consumed! the recipe advertised itself as something fun you can do with your kids and so I had a LOT of questions about who published that recipe. Thankfully the recipe was taken offline at some point this year, but it's been saved on webarchive so I can still show people
@@cdnpoliwave9293 Highly poisonous is a bit of an overstatement, you're probably thinking of methanol, but yeah it should not be deliberately ingested for sure
@@sauercrowder Idk how some people don't realize that! For the record, carbs and protein have 4 calories a gram, alcohol has 7 cal/g, and fats have 9cal/g
And Jenny is Gossip Girl, sending in this hot commentary like drone strikes from 60,000 feet and three years away. They never saw it coming and there's no coming back now. Mission accomplished. Good work.
Between the "couplings" sniping, "not wine bottles!", the incredulous response to the Italian water bottle comment, and her shock at Thea's betrayal, it feels like this is the most invested Jenny has ever been in anything she's discussed.
I'm here because I'm making a game about space ship repair and I couldn't remember if I should call a part fittings or couplings. But I remembered that you taught me that in this video, so I knew if I rewatched it I would find the answer. Thanks.
Or like one of those Onion series that starts off "normal" and then escalates into chaos lol. The Onion actually has a cooking series that's hilarious. Check it out
@@alipie02 oh no... not that. I was in college, throwing a party when that came out. We weren't exactly sober and it came on and we all just stopped talking and stared at it in confusion for the full 10 minutes. After it was over, we had a collective "wtf" moment lol
I’m not sure if anyone’s said this yet, but hardware store sales associate here: couplings actually are fittings. And if there were multiple types of fittings, such as adapters, reducers, etc, it actually makes sense that they wouldn’t specifically call them couplings. That being said, I swear to god if anyone comes in asking about the fitting department with bottles of tequila jangling around in their bag, I will sue (Not that it was important, I just thought you might like to know)
Plumbing has been my side job during covid. Yes, couplings are fittings. But you won't have a fittings department... They exist anywhere you have pipes or conduit. You would be annoying a lot of people without knowing which department you need. And the arts and crafters are the largest source of my eyes rolls right after the diyers who can't understand the thing they want doesn't exist and they will need to spend $40 to build it out of fittings.
As some one who use to work at Home Depot when I was in college, there were too many times were I had both women and men come into my department looking for random things for crafts such as bottles of alcohol. After the first twenty times it doesn't surprise you any more.
@Kneon Knight not everyone has the same life experiences. Some people just aren't confident in hardware. I'm sure you'd be lost in an unfamiliar type of store, like a music supply shop.
@MomoTheBellyDancerseconding that dry ice warning. I feel like most people don’t understand how genuinely dangerous it is to screw around with. It’s a substance you have to be 18+ to buy in some states, and for good reason: it’s a block of solid CO2 that clocks in temp-wise at about -110 F (or -78 C). That is a temperature so cold it literally burns your skin if you come in contact with it. DON’T PUT IT IN YOUR GODDAMN PUNCH BOWL
It is absolutely fascinating to watch Lauren and Nicole explore that wonderful grey area between professionalism and open animosity while also having to pretend they care about the camera pointed at them.
Honestly, the passive hostility is kinda working for me. Instead of the edited to be more dramatic reality TV we’re used to, this is like a slow burn horror that will end with a loss of head-of-the-PTA status and a ruined marriage.
According to Linkedin Thea won a Forbes 30 under 30 award and is working as a Talent Market Manager (not at Hallmark), Nicole's a VP at Hallmark, and Lauren owns her company. So I'd say they're all doing pretty well. At the end of they day these were women working for a large corporation, doing what a large corporation told them do them. They all seem to have found immense success in their careers, so kudos to them!
@@Minam0 uh.. what do you know about her apart from what you listened to Jenny say? Do you think she only sits around all day gluing pom poms on banners and nothing else could be going on with her career?
A rather late addition but I have an answer for why the “I like wine bottles-“ “NO NICOLE NOT WINE BOTTLES” moment happened!! so thousands of people have posted a version of this diy, because humans have been putting oil in bottles and lighting it on fire for thousands of years, and several diys I’ve seen have said to avoid wine bottles because they’re tall. Taller bottles are harder to see over, so they’re not suited for putting on a table, but they’re also narrow around the base, so they’re easier to knock over. Most diys recommend a sturdy-based and squat glass bottle, like one for whiskey (or tequila), for the project.
thats 'upcycling' summarised tbh... my favourite hobby is listening to uninventive members of the middle and upper class talk about that week's fun new pinterest trend that they Still call poor people trashy for.
Yooooooo, legit! "Who could I possibly ask to help me with invitations?!" "Go ask one of your chick friends, duh." "Thanks honey, you're so smart, that's why I'm marrying you!"
Ok, but imagine if they leaned into this. Imagine a youtube channel that looks like a regular DIY crafts channel, but slowly the crafting descends into madness as the characters snipe at each other, drunkenly reveal scandals, upload videos in "secret" disparaging each other...
In Italy they dont just.... fill their bottles w water and put 'em in the fridge for the aesthetic. The tap water there, while drinkable, is high in calcium and can cause kidney stones if you drink it long term, so most ppl buy distilled water or use a filtering device to fill up bottles. That and also sparkling water is extremely popular there and tends to cost the same as regular water, so a lot of people will just go out and buy one of both
I love that Lauren's entire goal seems to be taking these already laughably easy crafts and making them sound even easier by reassuring the audience that nothing even "has to be anything." Use any cocktail, it's fine! Adorn your wine bottle with whatever scrap of material is closest to hand! You don't even have to tie it, just wrap it around or whatever, nothing matters and existence is meaningless!
Hey so, plumber here - a coupling is a type of pipe fitting, fittings are used to join pipes together - 90°s, 45°s, couplings, tees, etc. The second fitting is either a reducing coupling or a bushing, so fitting is still an accurate name. Moral of the story, hardware stores will actually have a “plumbing fitting” aisle, where you will find a 3/4” copper sweat coupling as directed by the lady in the video. So… you were both right
LAUREN: When the Queen returns from her crafts, I'll tell her the truth. You must be gone by then - you _and_ your friends, I will _not_ have their glue on my hands. Go as far away as you can, with as many men as you can. Because wherever you go, Thea's wrath will follow you.
NICOLE: And what of _my_ wrath, Lauren? You should have taken the series for yourself. Alyissa told me about the day Party 101 fell: she was holding the Iron Fitting and you made her give it up. All you needed to do was pick it up yourself. Such a sad mistake.
LAUREN: I've made many mistakes in my life, but that wasn't one of them.
NICOLE: Oh, but it _was_ . When you play the game of homes, you win or you D.I.Y. There is no middle ground.
New party idea: celebrating the assassination of your enemies. I bet Hallmark’s got a gift basket for that.
_The Laurensters send their regards_
@Repomeister I like the way you think lmao
I was going to read without upvoting and then I got to "When you play the game of homes, you win or you D.I.Y." curse you
"Valar morghulis."
"Valar sētegon."
Conspiracy theory: this is a fake show for characters in hallmark movies to watch in filler scenes
Welp, I will now watch all the Hallmark movies to find this
I think you're onto something
Someone let me know if this is true
Omg brilliant. This series could have been a prequel to a hallmark movie TBH. Nicole makes like one video a week for a craft video channel but still lives in a really nice house and has her own office. Until. Thia. She's just an intern. Nicole is showing her the ropes, warning her to stay away from alcoholic Lauren. One day, Nicole is late so Thia offers to do a test shoot for one of her videos...
This makes way too much sense to not be true. With how bad those videos are I would not be surprised at all if they were just supposed to be used as B-roll footage.
The disappointment in Jenny's voice when she said "It's not even in a cauldron, Lauren" was palpable
I need that line on a t-shirt.
@@Yngvolkayno We all do, Kasey
It made me burst out laughing so hard I almost spilled my soup
Favorite part of the video
They should have gotten a large cauldron with some water and dry ice then place the punch bowl inside the cauldron. Less burning flesh
"I mean it's one hot chocolate mix, Michael. How much could it cost? $30?"
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It's organic.
Go buy yourself a Star War
Wait when did she mention $30 chocolate mix? lol
@@BrynnBeverly after the patreons
I hope Nicole somehow knows that every time I open a bottle of red blend at my bartending job, I hear her slightly condescending yet still work-professional "screw top, my favorite" inside my mind
I had to open one the other day and the ghost of Nicole's memory definitely haunted me 😂
Every. Single. Time.
Every time I grab a cheap bottle from the liquor store I cannot stop myself from whispering “screw top. My favorite”
you sort of cant hear it
I thought I was the only one...
As a former college RA this is exactly what it’s like. The fake enthusiasm, the crafting, the dark betrayal, etc.
wtf is an ra
@@ThreadBomb Resident Assistant
@@ThreadBomb Resident Assistant. Essentially a 19 year old that babysits the 18 year olds in college dorms
I was an RA, too, but I only did it so I could live out my freshman year dream of being able to tell the loud people down the hall (there are always loud people down the hall) to quiet down.
Yeah? Whatever bruh.
The Spider in the background radiates a very powerful energy that makes me feel things that I can’t describe
is it a combination of fear, lust and religions devotion which I have dubbed "fustotion?" b/c that's a normal response to giant stuffed spiders imo.
Oh I thought it was a lobster... it was making me hungry.
Thank you for speaking this truth
Fear
That’s probably the same energy that made the place Jenny got it from take it away from their business lol
I’m just a woman…with a large statement necklace and a bag of tequila bottles, standing in front of a confused hardware store employee, asking where the fitting department is
😂😂😂
🤣
Sounds like the start of a lifeti- oh wait
😂😂
Sounds like a Karen origin story
LMAO at this! I worked at Hallmark when they started making these videos. As per everything at Hallmark, I think the project began with the best of intentions and devolved into a morass of rapidly shifting strategic directions that rendered the entire content strategy DOA.
Fun fact: At the time this video was shot, Nicole was either No. 2 or No. 3 Creative Director in all of Hallmarkland. Hence the awkward power dynamic with the other folks in the video who are obviously super nervous about saying the wrong thing.
That REALLY helps shed some light on the general dynamic here. AND makes more sense for the Lauren/Nicole dynamic - Lauren DOESN'T seem nervous about being around her. And I don't think Nicole likes that...
@@ruthsagers1714 Honestly I think that kinda makes Lauren look like a badass.
I want to hear more about the crazy stuff going on behind the scenes at Hallmark!
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 Either Lauren has complete confidence in the security of her job, or she just doesn't care about it lol.
@@ruthsagers1714 It could also explain Nicole’s snide comments about clean crockery and utensils cos perhaps the staff hadn’t done a decent cleaning job
“Hey guys, it’s Thea...”
But for real, this video made my night and I’m so glad someone sent it to me. Thanks for dissecting our silly little videos!
Where did you hide the body? 🤣🤣🤣
Jenny, she's onto you. Should we flood the building?
EVERYBODY SCATTER
Honestly the fact that you replied made my night.
Thanks for replying! It's awesome to know you saw this. Happy Halloween 🦇
“screw top. my favorite.” was such a unnecessary passive aggressive phrase lolol
I straight up cackled at that 😂
I usually look for the kind with an expiration date.
Yup, had a good laugh thanks to it.
I prefer if mine is in a box, but I am fancy like that.
@@alanscott4846 D.I.Y. Pro-Tip: After emptying the plastic bag inside, you can blow it up, and use it as a pillow!
anyone remember that tumblr post about the 'fun pizza' that was basically watermelon and fruit pizza that no kid at the birthday party wanted to eat and the mom got upset about it? this is giving me fun pizza energy
Oh my goddd that post is so depressing it legit always brings me down
It doesn't hold a candle to the real thing, but honestly I'd eat that fun pizza.
i've never seen that post but honestly that sounds like a great summer treat...
This brought back so many memories
I looked it up and read it again
I totally forgot about that
Exactly fun pizza energy
as a home depot employee the idea of a lady in a statement necklace showing me a tequila bottle and trying to describe a coupling is just cracking me up
as a Menards employee I second this, very funny mental image
I think it's called a "fitting?" It's got a small part & a big part!
After watching this for the dozenth time or so, I think _my_ favorite detail is when Lauren stops herself from saying that putting Christmas lights in the wine bottle is "even more simple" and instead says "just as simple" because she obviously realizes nothing could be simpler than filling a bottle with water.
Oh that, and the _Banjo-Kazooie_ merch referred to in a previous video has finally surfaced.
Oh, but it depends! Have you ever tried to fill the bottle under a tap with a very small sink? Making the angle at wich one must hold the bottle too great to actually fill it up?
11:04 😊
@@Johanna77777-z trying to fill any small bucket in the bathroom sink
i recently found out while i was on holiday to Uzbekistan that they don't throw away their plates after eating off them, they wash the plates this blew my mind and will never throw a plate away again
@@bluefire9147 yeah, what else are we supposed to do?
And you can make your own special soap just for washing dishes! First, make a bottle by buying a bottle of dish soap and emptying it out...
Does this work with silverware also?
@@bluefire9147 You need to watch the video before commenting.
@@Steve_Kassiotis idk, I’ve heard they reuse silverware in southern France but I haven’t been able to travel there to confirm bc COVID
As a Hallmark employee, I can say that this video accurately depicts how this company is run.
spencer you have to find out about their fued and get back to us
Passive aggressive waspy ladies coming by ur desk to make digs at you? Lmao I kinda want a reality show of that
@@veilenedream5825 will do.
@@meganchambers8108 baroness Von Sketch
Where did Nicole go...
*looks at food*
... WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH NICOLE?????
Jennys genuine utter confusion where she exclaims : “you *learned* how to put water in a bottle from a trip to Italy” was so funny its making me cry
The fact that the hallmark video crew is lurking in the comment sections makes this video 10x better
OMG ITS TRUE
Alyssa and Thea are here hahahahaha this is too gold xD
who?!
What??????
@@AngelicRamen if you look through the comments section almost everyone from the video replied! alyssa, nicole and even thea!!
Hey yo, I’m Alyissa! And I’ll never live the $30 thing down 😭. Retakes? What are thooooose?
Did you mean to say that it cost you around $3 total? Or was it just some really high-quality chocolate?
@@laerin7931 honestly I was talking about a big party (and I always go all out for parties) not a two person one. But I actually spent zero dollars because Hallmark paid for it!
@@alyissaj2619 Thanks!
Omggggg hi! How did you end up finding this video? Hope it was fun to watch!
Wherever you get your $30 got chocolate, sign me up.
As someone who... totally DOESN'T work at a Hallmark store, I thought this video was incredible. All of the Hallmark product popping up in the videos is sending me. I had a lady today who was incredibly disappointed that I didn't have a Halloween card addressed to a cat. I also once had a man ask me where to find a valentine's card for his wife who was having an affair and he wanted a card to tell her he knew about her affair, ON VALENTINE'S DAY. He then tried to record a message to her in a recordable card, without paying for the card, at the cash register and when I told him he needed to pay for it first he told me to shut up. He, however, had such a thick drawl that he couldn't get out more than a sentence before the card cut him off. His message will forever stick with me. It was "Dear Wife, Be Mine, and No One Else's. Love, [His Name]". He finally did pay for the card (after ruining another card in the process).
Wow, that was a rollercoaster of a comment. Imagine what would happen if you ACTUALLY worked at a Hallmark store. Hypothetically, of course.
@@Crick1952 Don’t ruin this for me, it made me cackle.
THIS should be a #notsohallmark commercial! 😂 xx, Lauren from the video. @lauren_lane_culinarian
Not Hallmark-related, but I once saw a newspaper ad that wanted me to believe my S.O. would be enchanted if I presented her with a gift-certificate for laser hair-and-mole removal for Valentines Day. Can you imagine anything so romantic? "Love ya hun...now, ain't it about time you got that crap taken care of once and for all?"
@@Crick1952 Oh well, if we're talking hypothetically, could you imagine my expression if say, a man came in needing an apology card, proceeding to infodump that he needed a card for his (then pregnant) girlfriend who he first cheated on, then when she caught him he proceeded to claim her baby wasn't his, THEN she lost the baby and he found out the baby WAS his, so he needed a card to get her to take him back. Then, imagine trying to formulate a response to that and try to find an apology card and for him to then get upset that it was over 2 dollars?? could you imagine?? if that was a possibility?? Good thing it's not! :)
“No wine bottles” has the same energy as “green is not a creative color”
God, imagine a green wine bottle
Lmao it really does
Got to admit, it reminded me of myself with my home cocktail bar offering "Anything you want to drink, I probably have."
"Cool, can I have a beer?"
"Anything except for that extremely common thing."
I can see a ladder leaning on a log!
I might be the only other person in the world whose Venn diagram overlaps there.
when she was talking about how bad the spider headbands looked i 100% expected for her to be wearing one when it cut back lol
Woof! Missed opportunity
headbands?? they are Fascinators thank you!!
@@vinceradical8910 My comment exactly...AND I learned what a fascinator is by watching this video...more useful than the crafts.
I'm fucking dead XD
I would have died
I used to work in a hardware store, and I gotta say having a lady come in with a bag full of tequila and wine bottles asking for a “fitting with a small part and a wider part on top” would have been the highlight of my week
😂
You forgot about the statement necklace, an important detail
@@meepMepp the statement necklace is essencial lmao
@@annabeatrizzimmermann7708 good point, very much agreed
@@meepMepp how could I have forgotten the statement necklace
Plot twist: this video was calculated on Jenny's part to put her on Hallmark's radar so they'd become interested in hiring her as a content developer, putting her in a prime position to create a warring "The Christmas Prince" universe, a la DC vs Marvel
This sounds surprisingly plausible.
@@kglguy Jenny sus
OMG I laughed SO hard!! After spending 43 years in the Television Industry let me assure you that Lauren IS the wife of a Hallmark executive!! Great video Jennifer!
god I hope this is true, because it answers the final question we’ve been piecing together from all the hallmark staff showing up in the comment for years. this is why Lauren is fearless in front of Nicole. it all makes sense.
And apparently is a food blogger and was on the Easy bake competition series on Netflix ...
@@Stumblingthroughlife wait now I need to watch the easy bake competition xD
Martha Stewart: “Put dry ice in a second bowl under your serving bowl to make it look spooky, not in the actual drink, because that’s extremely dangerous.”
Lauren: “So just put the dry ice right in the punch because honestly who wants to live forever around people like Nicole.”
Seriously! There was a college bar in my hometown doing "spooky" dry ice drinks a few years back. Some coed had to have her stomach removed.
Them putting little chunks right in the cup!!! 😱
@@wppb50 Wait...they had to have their stomach REMOVED? 😱
@@wppb50 We had someone like that here. It got in the MSM. Liquid nitrogen drinks.
Is that Martha Stewart the jail bird? I'm a foreigner, I wouldn't recognise her... All these American women look the same to me.
I think the editor wanted someone to see what they saw.
The editor is locked in a room and needs help, and shitty editing is the only way
💀💀💀
@@audri1273 just like the editor
It was a cry for help 😂😂😂
Lmao
“Millennial friends who are getting dogs earlier” did I hear that right?
As opposed to the “traditional” time when you would adopt dog? You know, once you are stable and in your thirties?
Yeah, it just sounds like settling down or having kids lmao!
I mean to be fair when you get your childhood dog/cat/first pet (the traditional entry to childhood) It teaches you responsibility, but the financial burden generally falls on your parents/guardians aaaannn... I have no idea where I was going with this, I love dogs/cats/first pets (yours included). Have a good life stranger XD
Well, I think maybe?
I can imagine that in a traditional mindset, you first have a kid, and then a dog as a pet for the kid.
In a "Gen X" mindset, a couple gets a dog first, so it's treated as a big deal.
sounds like an Onion article
stable in their thirties? hm.
"So that's the craft! The craft is over."
There's a lot of gold there, to mine. My favorite may be "the Worst Reality Show." Or at least my most often viewed.
My favourite videos are her analyses of low quality literature, specifically "trigger warning" and "Trapped in a Island with Josh Hutcherson"
There make be snakes! @@lxjoe96
LOL, SAME
An excellent idea friend.
I feel like Jenny is dressed like she’s about to tell me she senses a presence in my house, perhaps by describing a heavy feeling in her chest
maybe get a Radon detector?
I understood that reference ^_^
Many doors will be installed incorrectly on this night
*walks by a shrine with candles and a photograph of a young woman*
I feel...a heavy presence. Has...has somebody died?
There's a minimum of three guests from Hallmark's youtube channel that she can feel.
I looked up Nicole on LinkedIn and she was actually the VP of Hallmark's "Creative Studios" at this time. It says that "In this role, Nicole is responsible for directing the strategies, priorities and operations of the creative talent & resources team, trends studio, visual studio, photography/video studio, social content team, international creative and the digital asset management team."
So basically Nicole is responsible for her own demise
That's what Thea WANTS you to think!
Then why did the videos not improve after she left?
That's a lot of studios!
As someone who used to work a similar job for a much, much smaller company, I can tell you from experience it's not always easy to achieve a good end result in a position like that.
Your projects are often seen as frivolous and unimportant next to actual product sales, 'real' advertising, etc. If your higher-ups don't 'get' social media, they often think you can just throw something together and it'll be fine, so you get few resources and even less guidance about goals or the company's vision for this branch of operations.
I'm not saying Hallmark's corporate culture was necessarily like that, but I can *totally* see Hallmark's corporate culture being like that. This is partly why independent creators thrive on UA-cam while many brands struggle.
This is even better. Nicole feels like she did the heavy lifting of getting the show going and that she'd built it to a sustainable, stable place where it was safe to hand it off to a successor.
And then it died.
When you search “Hallmark” on UA-cam the channel doesn’t even show up anywhere near the top. No wonder Jenny knew no one would guess the video topic, it’s seriously that obscure
Knowing the hallmark demographics, I’m guessing Facebook is what those videos are for, and also they upload them to UA-cam because why not
You have to search "Hallmark party 101" ua-cam.com/video/yl4owN6tPtI/v-deo.html
@@everwhatever : you called it, as someone else in the comments says they've worked on videos for a similar purpose and said they must've been done with Facebook primarily in mind due to most old people not really liking UA-cam.
Just watched Netflix's "Easy Bake Battle" and saw someone /really familiar/ and I cannot believe I figured out it was Lauren from Hallmark!
She has quit Hallmark, and works as a "food blogger" now, and it was such a fun trip trying to confirm all this from my phone last night.
Now I have a reason to watch Easy Bake Battle!!
she probably quit Hallmark because of all the uncomfortable tension with Nicole lol
Has Jenny seen this comment?? JENNY, LAUREN'S ALIVE
Nice to see she found something better.
she's also in the comments!
Ok but seriously: "Screw top, my favorite. 🙄", "Smells better than tequila. 😒", "Lauren just likes tequila because it's *low* *carb.* 🙃"
WHAT VENDETTA DOES NICOLE HAVE AGAINST THIS WOMAN??
Desperate housewife plots come to mind.
Yeah, I lost it at "Screw top, my favorite." DAMN.
Nicole wasn’t invited to the pool party Lauren threw a few months back and is still salty over it. Also, she may or may not be fooling around with Lauren’s husband. 😬
@@RichieAppel hahaha
I think she may have slept with her man :P
JENNY! It's NICOLE - from the video - and I'M CRYING LAUGHING! 😂 I love your videos (and your fabulous necklace) - keep them coming!
THE QUEEN HERSELF ILY
Seriously love that you, Lauren, Thea and Alyssa have commented here, and with such good grace. Way to keep it classy, ladies!
What are you doing here? Thea is HERE! You’re in grave danger!! RUN!!!!!
SHE'S HERE!?
QUICK! EVERYBODY SCATTER!!!
@@kirbycathy 😘👑🗡
nicole's backstory is that lauren pushed her mom off a cliff
Loved her Before Lauren when she was just the fun-loving Stecole
Now she's gonna kidnap some wine bottles in revenge
She jumped
@@everyonesfavoritesidechara3816 she jumped she jumped she jumped she tried to pull me with her she jumped she JUMPED
Like Disney's Cruella™
I watched a cocktail competition show on Netflix, and one of the contestants used dry ice in their cocktail. One judge literally REFUSED to drink it bc the dry ice could get stuck to your throat, and you could DIE about it. I guess that just makes it extra spooky?
If your house doesn’t come with a ghost, homemade is fine
Step 1: Put water in a wine bottle
Step 2 (OPTIONAL): Tie a ribbon on it
Step 3: Be rude to Lauren
step 3 is NOT OPTIONAL
It's like it's supposed to be a comedy sketch but it's not.
in my mind it is
“Thanks for coming, Lauren….something your husband would never say..”
- Nicole
I love how Lauren starts to say “this craft is even simpler” before realizing that the first one is literally just putting water in a bottle and she corrects herself
I hate that there's a part of me that will 100 percent be making these crafts in 10 years. lol.
Why yes. Yes you will...
And so will I.
A lot can happen in ten years.
All women secretly desire domestic responsibilities.
Pick me! Pick meeeee!
@@tseawell90 No but pop off I guess
Jenny’s mind is like a prism through which the most banal and depressing corporate detritus is transformed into something hilarious and insightful. We truly do not deserve her ❤
this comment should be in the louvre
it's like a lens, except unlike a lens it's not black and light can go through it and be magnified by it!
No, we do!
Exactly right! Thanks for putting it into words!
Beautifully put and utterly true!
Ok but hear me out, Nicole seemed a bit irked when she was told she couldn't do the tequila bottle craft with wine bottles. So what if she pressured Lauren into coming up with the wine bottle crafts and *that's* why they're more low effort than usual! Like even moreso than her other DIYs.
What if their rivalry stems from the fact that Lauren likes tequila more than wine and Nicole, who obviously fancies herself a wine mom, can't handle that seemingly personal attack?
I don't know, but there's definitely some sort of tension there.
How could we miss the origin of their blood rivalry! It was in front of us the whole time.
Loving this deep analysis of the Hallmark Cinematic Universe (HCU)
@@thewolfofthestars1847 honestly yeah
"Look, you listen here. We are going to make a craft with six empty wine bottles."
"But we don't have six empty wine bottles."
"GIVE ME AN HOUR!"
@@Bready_Player_Bun
“It’s 10 am-“
“DO YOU WANT TO ENTERTAIN OTHER BORED HOUSEWIVES, OR DO YOU WANT TO KEEP LOOKING DOWN YOUR NOSE AT ME”
I'm genuinely elated by the fact that Lauren, Thea, and Nicole have all commented kindhearted things on this video. The Hallmark Party 101 videos may be a source of humor for me, but it's good to know the people in those videos have positive feelings towards a video showcasing the silliness of Party 101.
Edit over a year later: I forgot to mention Alyissa!
Alyssa commented too!! I think it got a little buried though haha. all the ladies are here!
@@brynnp1165 I didn't even see that! That's exciting news!
Need to keep scrolling until I get to Duplicitous Alyssa!
@@sharkofjoy "The Duplicitous Alyssa" is such a hard nickname omg
you're a silly goose if you think those accounts with no videos, pictures, or information are actually them and not role playing trolls.
Nicole: How does this smell?
Lauren: Not bad. Because it's c l e a n
this is so clearly Lauren trying to take a jab at Nicole for something that happened as part of their barely-offscreen feud, i'm dying
I got the exact same vibes from those remarks XD
SMELLS BETTER THAN DIRTY STINKY OL TEQUILA, LAUREN
I CAN BARELY STAND THE ROTTEN LOW-CARB STENCH OF TEQUILA. WHEN THE BAD SMELLS OF TEQUILA CAUSE ME TO BARF, IT'S LIKE AUTOMATIC PORTION CONTROL BECAUSE IT'S SOOOO STINKY.
OMG IT IS!
These videos gets better every time you watch them! I also love when Nicole says it smells better than tequila and Lauren goes "woooow"
See, I interpret that comment from Lauren as being like "Are you really trying to say I just brought in smelly old tequila bottles without even cleaning them?! Really?!"
.... don't drink tequila , then?
I just realized Jenny's genius intentionality following the 5:35 bit. She comments how they refuse to do another take, and then proceeds to "make a mistake" related to her hair and doesn't redo the take. Amazing note of detail.
Omg I never realized that. What brilliance
This video is better written than most movies nowadays
I feel like Lauren's little trip to Italy was probably with Nicole's ex-husband.
Apparently that trip “was amazing!” She looked right at Nicole when she said that
Eye- the spice with these women is real
She's my fave
Lmao
Awesome!!!
Nicole: So what goes in this creepy cocktail?
Lauren: Well, it’s so simple, you just use literally whatever cocktail you want and then just add arsenic to make it especially creepy... here you try it first...
It is made of cactus juice
@@SterlingCalm It’ll quench ya. It’s the quenchiest!
“Trust me, you’ll never be thirsty again…”
Nicole through gritted teeth: This is my fRiEnD LaUrEn
@Richard Trischka No one attended Nicole's wine tasting because they were out doing tequila shots with Lauren.
The "it's cute" deadpan face at 10:56....my god, did this woman kill your parents or something?!
@@dkormos4 YES! xx, Lauren
@@LaurenLaneCooks OMG I'm starstruck! Lauren, I just want you to know that I've always been TeamLauren ever since I found out about Hallmark Crafts 3 hours ago! Nicole can have her wine, you and I both know that tequila is where it's at!
I wanted to decorate my fridge, so I went on a major online retail sight and I found these things called kitchen magnets, I put them on the fridge door, who knew?? Wow such an easy project! You're welcome!!!
Epilogue: Peasants claim in legends and whispers that Nicole lives on in a distant kingdom, biding her time and gathering support... ua-cam.com/channels/Y8fbX_si04IjmHA8FiQUnw.html
Lauren is still crafting to this day - an unlikely ally? instagram.com/lauren_lane_culinarian/
Thea and Alyissa, the usurpers, are on twitter @nealthea and @alyissatweets
Not nicole’s dragon burning the symbolism 😭
Jenny you're obligated to have Lauren over for some crafts now :b
@@LaurenLaneCooks i'm ready when you are! 🥰 (your) fans are calling...we should not disappoint them 😂
Lauren's YT is: youtube.com/@LaurenLaneCooks?si=4jH8Pn4tALzZCdfd
Wait, what happened to all of Nicole's videos? Her channel is scrubbed clean. Bizarre.
Kept seeing this in my recommended, and just never realized it was Jenny in the thumbnail. Had zero recognition. I understand how the whole Clark Kent/Superman thing works now. Wow
SAME. I would have watched this forever ago!
But Clark doesn't put on a wig or make up. He just takes off his glasses and twirls his hair. She looks completely different in this video. Superman looks exactly like Clark.
@@BaldorfBreakdowns he puts on a .1 milimeter shorter haired wig
You mean Hannah Montana right
@@lonelyjesse85 hannah montana is a way better example
I feel like Nicole is the perfect avatar of the kind of passive-aggressive, judgemental mother-in-law figure who would be watching a Hallmark party video unironically.
The UberKaren
the final boss of karens
The irony is that getting labels off wine bottles require soaking in hot water, scraping with a razor and getting the adhesive off with Goo-Gone-there’s your project.
Or you can just rub it for a veeeeeery long time (I suffered greatly havind to do this)
Why bother if you know it's water
You find the coolest internet rabbit holes that no one would ever have found otherwise
Oh cool it's the spongebob guy
SPONGEBOB your the guy the sponge guy
Hey, it's the pizza man. It's been 30 minutes.
Y'all needa collab
i never get to see the world from a woman's perspective and she is funny as fuck.
"This is a terrible show with awful production values and useless content, and everybody's apathy-approaching-contempt for the project is on full display at all times. So in conclusion, I think they should bring it back."
It is almost amusing how bad it is. Like it's almost surreal, or like it's some kind of joke
I mean, at least it's not Hobby Lobby.
*cue ad for Hobby Lobby*
@@marthahealy3941 I got two cereal ads, so apparently The Algorithm really wants cereal parties to be a thing.
It will be a sad day when "Old media trying to slide into social media poorly" is no longer a thing.
It will never happen. The problem here is that big corporations will never understand what actually drives common people. And when they try to mimic your organic creativity and humor for profit it comes out looking like a zombie wearing coachella. No one likes ads no matter how modern they are - they're just cringe.
@@auxin903 look at things like Bon Apetit tho, old media is clearly figuring the shit (aside from not being racist ofc)
Lauren and Nicole need their own show where they act as two buddy cops who have to try to act like they’re learning to like each other but actually they just still silently hate each other.
I'm screaming
they're hardly silent about it
And then they eventually hate-bang
@@purplecobra52 we were all waiting for it.
Being an italian myself, I can testify that we do actually put water into bottles.
Such swank!
How do you do it? I'll need a tutorial to learn
Stranger, stranger... that's a water bottle!
Aaaaahhhh! I will buy it at a high price!
Hehehehe... Thank you.
Is that all, stranger?!
Come back any time...
Thank you, I've always had trouble with putting water in my fridge with my hands. And I tried putting dirt in my old bottles but I could never drink that.
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues did you put in the fridge first so that it is nice and chilled?
Lauren definitely went to Italy with Nicole's husband
Lol, and they used her credit card.
Totes
Only at Thea’s suggestion. She needed Lauren out of the way.
Dead after this comment
SMH, it's cutthroat at the Hallmark Channel
I actually got caught hella off guard when she said "i tend to have a LOT of empty tequila bottles around my house" while I was mid-drink of water and laughed it all over my shirt. That got me good. This is.... some of the best unintentional comedy I've seen in awhile. Reminds me of something Amy Poehler and Tiny Fey would've done as a skit on snl together back in the day. Except it's real....
“Welcome to Jenny’s UA-cam channel I’m your host Thea”
THIS IS LIKE GAME OF THRONES
Duplicitous Thea!
it's like a horror movie 😂
I for one welcome our new Thea overlord.
@@Howlingd0g We're now in a Theacracy.
Lauren’s just living her best life with her tequila and uneventful crafts - honestly a mood
And it's low-carb!
I wonder what her regular job is and how she got roped into this. And why she went back twice!
Step 1: drink all the tequila and wine.
Step 2: we get some, like, stuff, ya know? And, put the stuff in the bottles we just drank.
Lauren, this isn't a envelope party, it's an intervention, please stop filing that tequila bottle with Christmas lights.
She has given up so hard lol!
Jenny has the best good-bad taste in anything ever
Woah my favorite UA-camr commenting on my other favorite UA-camr’s channel! :D an epic crossover
"Hey guys, its echo." Omg you need a statement necklace
ECHO ON DA JENNY VID COMMENTS???
I can't tell if you're saying something dirty or not.
Didn't expect to see you here ngl
not only can dry ice seriously burn your lips, but if you're unlucky enough to accidentally ingest it, it can seriously burn your esophagus and stomach. terrible idea to mess around with it at all
Yeah I was totally confused about that one. Did they not know how dangerous that stuff is..?
Halloween is all about risk and destruction! ... Sometimes your own
“Lauren just likes tequila because it’s low carb.”
Oh you know that one got reported to H.R.
Lauren is probably drinking tequila out of Nicole's bedazzled skull.
@@John-vn9js LMAO!😂
Hallmark Resources?
Good comment pls get over 1k likes for me ok
Lauren Lane Lauren I don’t know you but I truly wish you all the happiness in the world, I hope I can be as good natured as you when I grow up, Happy Halloween!!
Jenny: a CEREAL party?
Me: i've had a cereal party
Jenny: this is a level of random celebration that I think only a college RA exhibits in the real world
Me, a former college RA who had a cereal party at a res life function: oh
I have unfortunately also put on a cereal party program 💀
zing!
As a former RA I never did this but I remember one of my colleagues did and I really enjoyed it lmao
So..........what is a cereal party?
@@guidetoanything it's a way to trick college freshman to show up to a floor meeting by buying family sized boxes of lucky charms
Lauren and Thea thriving while Nicole plots their eventual homicides-by-poisoning
"Hope you like my low-carb rat poison I slipped into your Tequila, Lauren"
If she’s the type to poison drinks that would explain why she smells all of Lauren’s drinks before *very* hesitantly drinking them
I love your content! 😭
Any cocktail will do......!
Hey why don’t you make a well-edited, well-written 40 minute video about the fall of Party 101?
Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard “drink rosé and don’t become angry” 😂
Jenny, I'm putting you on my gratitude centerpiece this year.
Hey, a fellow Rachel R 👋😄
It's terrifying to me that both those women drank the dry ice drinks. No questioning the outcome. No looking it up first. Just fully diving straight into danger on-screen and recommending the audience presumably do the same.
"I would've used a straw for the first drink. Cuz u could seriously burn your lips off turning it up lile that with dry ice in it lol not safe!
"
~Amber, UA-cam commenter
In all seriousness, last year I found an online recipe that called for *rubbing alcohol*. You know, highly poisonous and it should not be consumed! the recipe advertised itself as something fun you can do with your kids and so I had a LOT of questions about who published that recipe. Thankfully the recipe was taken offline at some point this year, but it's been saved on webarchive so I can still show people
C D N P O L I W A V E ......where??
i was okay w/ the dry ice in the bowl...but dry ice in the drinking glass is a terrible idea
@@cdnpoliwave9293 Highly poisonous is a bit of an overstatement, you're probably thinking of methanol, but yeah it should not be deliberately ingested for sure
I love that you upvoted the "it's spilling" comment.
I can't get over how well Alyssa's look at 14:02 matches with Jenny calling her "duplicitous"... that's some god-tier editing work right there...
"Lauren just likes Tequila because it's low carb" - Things I'll never be able to stop quoting
"Lauren just likes the blood of her enemies because it's low carb"
Btw alcohol is very high in calories and is even more likely to fatten you up than carbs
@@sauercrowder yes this is true yes
@@sauercrowder Idk how some people don't realize that!
For the record, carbs and protein have 4 calories a gram, alcohol has 7 cal/g, and fats have 9cal/g
And that's one reason hard seltzers suck
"Lauren only like tequila because it's low carb"
*HOLY SHIT*
Lmao right?? Besides vodka has the least amount of carbs, so if she really cared about that, she'd drink vodka. Not that I'd know...or anything...
@@dancincoolkid 👁👁
@@dancincoolkid I mean you made me feel better about my vodka preferences
I’m surprised that was left in the video.
This shit is going to be featured on a murder investigation in a year
Nicole is Regina, Lauren is Gretchen, Thea is Cady, and Alyssa is Karen. Hallmark's *_Mean Girls_* coming this 2016.
Oh my god they totally are, wow!
@@thanatoast Right?!
And Jenny is Gossip Girl, sending in this hot commentary like drone strikes from 60,000 feet and three years away. They never saw it coming and there's no coming back now. Mission accomplished. Good work.
This is the greatest thing anyone has ever said about me on the internet.
Oh fuck yes I’m Karen!
Jenny 3 years later and this still slaps. So funny.
I literally come back to watch this at least once every 10 months
Right?!?!
I thought i was the only one!!!
Frr Jenny's videos are so insanely rewatchable lol
I watch all of her videos multiple times lmao
“Lauren just likes tequila because it’s low carb”
Oh my god, that’s evil
No Lauren doesn’t worry about carbs. She needs tequila to get through the shoot with Nicole.
It was at that moment that Lauren knew Nicole had to die
@@SheeplessNW6
Oh my god, Lauren was working with Thea the whole time
9:38
I mean, what the hell??? There's no subtlety at all that's just mean lol.
I love Thea's colorblindness test banner
Underrated comment
I didn’t notice until I read your comment, but that is EXACTLY what it looks like.
😂😂😂
Dljfgndljfgnldjfngdlfjgn what a good roast
It was obviously for a “Congratulations On Not Being Colorblind” party, complete with custom place-mats
Between the "couplings" sniping, "not wine bottles!", the incredulous response to the Italian water bottle comment, and her shock at Thea's betrayal, it feels like this is the most invested Jenny has ever been in anything she's discussed.
For real, she’s not her usual dispassionate self.
This duo definitely warrants passion.
She feels like a totally different person. . . .
@@eyesofthecervino3366 You thought it was Jenny all along but no, TWAS THEA in disguise!
I'm here because I'm making a game about space ship repair and I couldn't remember if I should call a part fittings or couplings. But I remembered that you taught me that in this video, so I knew if I rewatched it I would find the answer. Thanks.
How's the game coming?
@@tailsfox45 haha. on hiatus while i work on other games. Learning Godot though, it's really fun. starting to get the hang of it
This feels like one of those fake shows that would be on in a sitcom.
Or like one of those Onion series that starts off "normal" and then escalates into chaos lol. The Onion actually has a cooking series that's hilarious. Check it out
@@msjkramey ua-cam.com/video/MWTy9fE48og/v-deo.html
🎶Too many cooks...🎶
@@alipie02 oh no... not that. I was in college, throwing a party when that came out. We weren't exactly sober and it came on and we all just stopped talking and stared at it in confusion for the full 10 minutes. After it was over, we had a collective "wtf" moment lol
I also recommend "Sex House" by the Onion. It's insane
I’m not sure if anyone’s said this yet, but hardware store sales associate here: couplings actually are fittings. And if there were multiple types of fittings, such as adapters, reducers, etc, it actually makes sense that they wouldn’t specifically call them couplings. That being said, I swear to god if anyone comes in asking about the fitting department with bottles of tequila jangling around in their bag, I will sue
(Not that it was important, I just thought you might like to know)
Plumbing has been my side job during covid. Yes, couplings are fittings. But you won't have a fittings department... They exist anywhere you have pipes or conduit. You would be annoying a lot of people without knowing which department you need.
And the arts and crafters are the largest source of my eyes rolls right after the diyers who can't understand the thing they want doesn't exist and they will need to spend $40 to build it out of fittings.
As some one who use to work at Home Depot when I was in college, there were too many times were I had both women and men come into my department looking for random things for crafts such as bottles of alcohol. After the first twenty times it doesn't surprise you any more.
@Kneon Knight not everyone has the same life experiences. Some people just aren't confident in hardware. I'm sure you'd be lost in an unfamiliar type of store, like a music supply shop.
@@justinjosey5717 working at lowes now. Some stores have started selling cheap iron fittings specifically for those dumb shelves people are building.
How many wine moms go to the hardware store?
Alternative title: "passive-aggressive suburban moms do crafts, badly".
Lmao
@MomoTheBellyDancerseconding that dry ice warning. I feel like most people don’t understand how genuinely dangerous it is to screw around with. It’s a substance you have to be 18+ to buy in some states, and for good reason: it’s a block of solid CO2 that clocks in temp-wise at about -110 F (or -78 C). That is a temperature so cold it literally burns your skin if you come in contact with it. DON’T PUT IT IN YOUR GODDAMN PUNCH BOWL
It is absolutely fascinating to watch Lauren and Nicole explore that wonderful grey area between professionalism and open animosity while also having to pretend they care about the camera pointed at them.
This is unrelated but someone should give Jenny an Oscar for her voice work as Addison Cain in Lindsey ellis’s videos
This Academy Award is hereby awarded to Jenny Nicholson with ~*extreme prejudice*~
THAT'S who was voicing her! I recognized the voice but couldn't put my finger on exactly who.
Jenny is already horse famous, but now she's rapidly becoming wolf famous too
LINDSAY ELLIS IS A MANACE, AND A THREAT GO MY CHILD
Well of course! She did voice almost all the characters in the Friendship is Witchcraft serries.
Hallmark is trying to corner the “passive aggressive wine mom” market I see
"Trying to" I thought that was already their primary demographic!
Honestly, the passive hostility is kinda working for me. Instead of the edited to be more dramatic reality TV we’re used to, this is like a slow burn horror that will end with a loss of head-of-the-PTA status and a ruined marriage.
They were born in it, molded by it
According to Linkedin Thea won a Forbes 30 under 30 award and is working as a Talent Market Manager (not at Hallmark), Nicole's a VP at Hallmark, and Lauren owns her company. So I'd say they're all doing pretty well. At the end of they day these were women working for a large corporation, doing what a large corporation told them do them. They all seem to have found immense success in their careers, so kudos to them!
Found Lauren's alt account
@@JacobArvizu LMAO CHILE
Success is doing what a large corporation tells you to do.
Seeing that she won a Forbes 30 under 30 really reveals that any schlub can and that award really doesn’t mean anything
@@Minam0 uh.. what do you know about her apart from what you listened to Jenny say? Do you think she only sits around all day gluing pom poms on banners and nothing else could be going on with her career?
A rather late addition but I have an answer for why the “I like wine bottles-“ “NO NICOLE NOT WINE BOTTLES” moment happened!!
so thousands of people have posted a version of this diy, because humans have been putting oil in bottles and lighting it on fire for thousands of years, and several diys I’ve seen have said to avoid wine bottles because they’re tall. Taller bottles are harder to see over, so they’re not suited for putting on a table, but they’re also narrow around the base, so they’re easier to knock over. Most diys recommend a sturdy-based and squat glass bottle, like one for whiskey (or tequila), for the project.
Thank you, this makes sense!
she should probably have explained that in the tutorial video then xD
Maybe she did & they edited it out
But you do use wine bottles for petrol bombs yes?
@@juliamavroidi8601Especially since she specifically said you could use Scotch bottles, which are usually tall and narrow.
Omg I feel so seen-- I used to work for them and this is literally what everyone at headquarters is like, it's insane 😂😭🤪
S P I L L
Spill the tee sis
@Lexi : mind elaborating?
commenting so that I can get a notification on the next reply
Hoping for an update
"I learned that you can reuse glass bottles during a trip to Italy" might be the most privileged thing I've ever heard
Wait until she learns about mason jars!
thats 'upcycling' summarised tbh... my favourite hobby is listening to uninventive members of the middle and upper class talk about that week's fun new pinterest trend that they Still call poor people trashy for.
Ahahahaaaa.
Kid: Mom, I want to go to Italy.
Mom: We have Italy at home.
Italy at home:
@@elisac9635 Is the tap water no good?
it took me 17 years to realize jenny is dressed up as nicole
Jenny dressed as Nicole is unirinically my type 😂
I thought it was Moira Rose
hahahaha, That's funny.
...Especially because I am new here and didn't notice.
Still hot
Woah. I _never_ realized it until you mentioned it!
it's time for my annual re-watching of this amazing gem every October
"If only there was a second person getting married, who could help you address all those envelopes." LOL
When you're getting married for the wedding itself.
@@Apoc2K I feel like most heterosexuals I know did that.
Yooooooo, legit! "Who could I possibly ask to help me with invitations?!" "Go ask one of your chick friends, duh." "Thanks honey, you're so smart, that's why I'm marrying you!"
I feel like perhaps the second person voted for the printer like Jenny.
I like that they were talking about having to do the return addresses. Because ordering a $15 stamp isn't an option.
Ok, but imagine if they leaned into this. Imagine a youtube channel that looks like a regular DIY crafts channel, but slowly the crafting descends into madness as the characters snipe at each other, drunkenly reveal scandals, upload videos in "secret" disparaging each other...
Eventually one of them enlists the help of a summoned demon, and even more whacky hijinks ensue!
The Hallmark/GoT crossover version of lonelygirl15
Feels like a Community episode.
@@jesu963852741 I immediately thought of lonelygirl15
That sounds both epic, and doable in coronatime
I would do this with my friends if I had any
In Italy they dont just.... fill their bottles w water and put 'em in the fridge for the aesthetic. The tap water there, while drinkable, is high in calcium and can cause kidney stones if you drink it long term, so most ppl buy distilled water or use a filtering device to fill up bottles. That and also sparkling water is extremely popular there and tends to cost the same as regular water, so a lot of people will just go out and buy one of both
Yeah, that feels more like a cafe thing.
@@johansmallberries9874 I mean you do realise some water is naturally sparkling. I mean in France there is place tap water is sparkling.
@@johansmallberries9874 yeah I have a second home in the south of France the water its great.
@@murphy7801 W H A T
I’m moving to France where the bread is sex and the seltzer flows like honey
@@johansmallberries9874 You did not need to go that hard lmao. Perrier Everyday
My spouse knows you exclusively by this video. He requests "that cocktail video" on the regular.
😂😂😂😂
For a few months I would watch this video every night to go to sleep. At one point I knew every word of this video
The phrase "it doesn't have to be anything" is the most unintentionally hilarious line I think I've ever heard.
That phrase lives in my head rent free
I love that Lauren's entire goal seems to be taking these already laughably easy crafts and making them sound even easier by reassuring the audience that nothing even "has to be anything." Use any cocktail, it's fine! Adorn your wine bottle with whatever scrap of material is closest to hand! You don't even have to tie it, just wrap it around or whatever, nothing matters and existence is meaningless!
lol
@@friday13thirteen I'm dead af! 😂😂😂
"do this craft like this, or don't do it idc"
Eventually she'll be buried by giant plush creatures and her videos will become a Waldo style challenge of finding her head amongst the chaos.
this is beautiful
And what a glorious site it will be! 😮
Jenny’s videos are divided into two distinct categories:
Everything before the giant spider
Everything after
BGS
AGS
Which category does the spider fall in?
@@josephdavis9234 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I’d argue for three: a) before giant plushes, b) post giant porg, and c) post giant spider
Actually its PreBrony Can and Post Brony
Hey so, plumber here - a coupling is a type of pipe fitting, fittings are used to join pipes together - 90°s, 45°s, couplings, tees, etc. The second fitting is either a reducing coupling or a bushing, so fitting is still an accurate name. Moral of the story, hardware stores will actually have a “plumbing fitting” aisle, where you will find a 3/4” copper sweat coupling as directed by the lady in the video. So… you were both right