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In a continuing effort to get my kids to cook (and eat non-beige food) more, we watch a lot of cooking shows, with MasterChef Junior being a big hit, for obvious reasons. But only one cooking show has made us laugh so hard it even brought my husband to tears: Nailed It! The show brings together amateur, admittedly non-expert cooks and gives them impossible baking tasks, usually involving copious amounts of fondant and Rembrandt-worthy art skill. Any non-professional chef would fail, but some of the efforts are so bad, you wind up cheering for the ones that are even halfway decent, and at least mildly resemble the jungle or castle the bakers were supposed to create. Host Nicole Byer and head judge Jacques Torres are nothing but kind to the competitors as they struggle with these Herculean tasks.While the competition part is engaging for kids, it also teaches them a very important lesson: Failure isn’t always a complete disaster; often, it can be very, very funny. The show features adult people unafraid to undergo almost-certain failure in front of a wide audience, and the vast majority of them are pretty good-natured about it. (Even one of the most prickly contestants, an ex-cop, eventually just gives up and goes to hang out with the judges.) That valuable underlying moral alone makes the six episodes of Nailed It! a hilarious must-watch; our kids can hardly wait for season two. [Gwen Ihnat]