The Try Guys Recreate Awkward Elementary School Photos

- Do you think I could fit both legs in one pair of pants? Let's find out. That is a yes. Today we

recreate

photographs from our childhood. - Take a walk down memory lane. - Speaking of games, can I have a new video game? - Talk to our parents. -As for your clothing choices, they haven't changed much. - I don't know why we stay away from these. I think this was a good look then and it is now. (upbeat music) This video is sponsored by Dell XPS. - Today we'll look at some old

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of ourselves, and then we'll take those

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, take new photos, and put ourselves in those old surroundings, pretty much what it was like to be five years old. - First, we will see a collection of photographs from our childhood.

We will choose one and then we will call our mothers to find out what those photos were. - Today we use XPS laptops to view all the photos. - XPS is the ideal laptop that combines design with power. Can we talk about how beautiful this thing is? It is made of machined aluminum and carbon fiber. I just want to rub it. - The XPS is powered by the latest Intel core processors. They are best in class in performance, aesthetics and workmanship. - When I talk and reflect on my childhood, I often think about my childhood depression, my struggles with OCD, I was in a car accident that almost killed me.

I had these periods of childhood that were intensely sad, but I think that's why I often forget about the happy moments. - You know, I'm trying to remember who I was when I was five years old. I think what I struggled with at this age was that my brothers didn't want to play with me because I was so much younger than them, so I played alone a lot. - If you read our book, you know the story. I was in a car accident that was pretty serious, I almost died. So, that was a sad period of my life.

Did you know? This is my lasting childhood memory. I hated getting fancy. I was a bad boy. I wanted to let my outfits reflect who I was on the inside. - Oh, this isn't like

elementary

school

, it's me as a baby, sleeping with my dad. You know, my son Wes, he sleeps like that too, he likes to sleep. Wes sometimes likes to sleep on his stomach with his feet in the air, like against the wall. What is he doing? It's strange looking at all these photos of me as a child and many of them have my dad in them, which makes me think about what a dad I am and what memories I will make with my own child. ? - Oh, it's cute.

It is interesting to look at yourself and like, see which of your characteristics have changed? What has stayed the same? Like my face is obviously a lot rounder. My mouth is already gigantic. - The kids and I played football after

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and what we would do is my dad would be the all-time quarterback. Look at me, I'm wearing a turtleneck and pants, this is classic winter football. - Really a big fan of this one. Where my sister and I on New Year's took balloons and pretended we had giant breasts. -My feet are huge. My feet seem to be the length of my entire shin. - We had a great time driving this thing. - Even as a child, those ankles are impressive. - This is me in the first years of French horn.

My dad is adorably looking over my shoulder, excited that I'm studying music, because he loves music too. And these pants are either so baggy or I have the biggest thighs ever, one of the two. - This is a great photo. It's me when I was a kid, I'm probably four years old and my mom. We are both smiling and I look very proud of this very scribbled family portrait. My mom really liked art, so we always did art projects together. Dad is spelled dab, very nice. -Look at those glasses he had, he was a style icon.

She looked like a young Edna Mode. She had heat, she had it going. I feel like she just dripped, little baby drip. - This is a classic. This is the first injury I have had. I broke my wrist playing touch football. - You know, you really take it for granted that you don't know what you have until it's gone, and my hair is gone. -I was so excited to play touch football that I just ran forward even though I was like five minutes late to the game and tried to jump and block a quarterback from throwing the pass.

I fell and hit my wrist on the concrete path and then they took an x-ray and said they had a small fracture like here. - Here we go, look at this. I'm a slugger. I have some kind of hat that is obviously too big. I have some pretty amazing t-ball memories. One, where I hit an infield home run, which was entirely because kids are stupid and can't throw the ball to each other, and I managed to round all the bases. - When I was a child, I was obsessed with baggy jeans. He hated authority, he wanted to be cooler than he was.

I really fell in love with rap culture when I was a kid. I remember begging and begging my mom. I thought, "I need these jeans." If I don't have the baggiest jeans the world has ever seen, "no one is going to respect me." I don't remember much from my childhood, I remember these words vividly said: "I'll buy you those jeans, "But we'll do a photo shoot, so that in a few years, "you can look back and see how stupid you look." Who's laughing now, Mom? - Hi, Zachy, how are you? - This is the moment when the one that the whole public finds out that my whole family calls me Zachy - What was I like when I was a child?

Did you have a focus when you were involved in something - You were very into popular culture - You were very outgoing, you always wanted to be. in the middle of everything. - What are the things I was like as a kid? What am I like as an adult? - In terms of your choice of clothes, I still wear a lot of really stupid t-shirts. a radical individual and that's why I wanted my clothes and everything I wear to reflect that (upbeat music) - That was always like a form of expression for you. It wasn't a t-shirt that everyone else had, it was something really unique that you always wanted and always wore. - In what sense would you say that how I am now is similar to how I was when I was five or six years old? - You are exactly the same.

You want to be in the middle of everything. You will never be one to sit on the sidelines. - The photo I chose to

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was me with Grace. I always think of injuries and sports injuries as something that led me to do theater. - I was worried that you wouldn't get depressed because you couldn't be out there. I knew you liked Shakespeare and we started watching Shakespeare movies, I don't know if you remember. - Oh, yes, I definitely remember that. - Personality-wise, you and I have a lot in common, because I will go out and do crazy things and take risks.

That's why I'm such a good tutor because I'm willing to just listen. - I became who I am because I saw you both and what you are like and I also tutored children alongside you from a young age and they learn to be a little more empathetic. - I think when I reflect on my childhood, I often think about depression and I think about OCD. I don't know, in your experience was that a big part of my childhood or was it just a component of it? - No, it was a big part of your childhood. You know, it scared me the whole time, but you found ways out and, you know, I felt like a big part of my job with you was to help you find those ways out. - It's interesting that you were worried that I would become depressed. - We wanted to make sure you had enough good things and theater became one of them.

So happily it ended up being a great path for you. - I am recreating the photo in which I am wearing the baggiest pants known to man. - This is something you drove me completely crazy with. It's ridiculous that you want baggy jeans. I mean, you could barely walk in normal jeans. - I'm going to take this photo of the t-ball. - You as a ball player were no different from any other activity. You weren't, not in sports or in my life, you weren't that kid and you didn't have parents who wanted you to be that kid. - How do you think I was as a child, what things do you notice about me as an adult? - I really love seeing you with Wes because there is that wonderful kindness and explanation of things, and I remember you were like that with Grace.

So I think that big brother thing evolved into a wonderful father thing. - Ah, that's really cute. - So, that's really nice. - I remember very little from childhood, but I vividly remember running out of the shower like I didn't have time to dry my hair, who cares? I have to go out and show myself. - Well, no, it wasn't like who cared, it was your stylish look. - Shut up, was that intentional? - You wanted, yes, you wanted hair combed back. - No. - For your photo shoot. - No, no, mom. You're driving me crazy.

I was sure that was just a coincidence, that my hair was slicked back. I didn't know that was a thing. - Oh, no, that was totally intentional. - So I guess I need to slick my hair back for this photo. - It's time to take photos. Today the person who photographs us is our friend JD, one of our favorite people in the world. And here he is. Wes did a great job, I only had to clean up a couple of rough spots. Look at this, it's like a lamb chop in reverse. - We are getting young, we are posing.

Let's take a photo. The trick here is to get everything right with the pose, but also with the mindset. - I need to remember what it's like to be a kid who just wants everyone in the world to look at him and applaud him. There is a total emotional transformation here. I feel like my entire life has led me to this moment where I can, once again, become my old self. - Welcome to 1994. Let's see what we wear. I mean, I didn't even know they still made them like that. - I'm sorry, Jonathan. - The day I bought these jeans, it took me months to make them. - Now I am very impressed with this shirt.

Look at this, fellow flyers. - Actually, these are from my current wardrobe. Not much has changed. - Oh wow, here they are, my beauties. Look at these. Honestly, I don't even think they were as loose as the ones I had. - This was my hair, I would say my entire life, until I met Becky. - I'm like a mermaid, like a nineties mermaid. If LL Cool J were a mermaid, he would have jean legs. - It's like I wore this when I was a kid, but it's also a pretty cool outfit for dad on the weekends. - Marky Mark, eat your heart out. - We have real casting material that we ordered online. - The shirt in the photo is ridiculously big. - I'm going to wet my brace tape in water and put on a cast. - You have to like pulling up your pants to tie your shoe. - Oh, I'm already feeling the lack of mobility. - Oh yeah, have a great game today.

We will play against the Best Way Baggers. -He immobilized my wrist like a real thing. - Okay, it's time to put gel in my hair. Guys, do we have more hair gel? I'm afraid this won't be enough. - Oh, it's a little purple. Not good. Probably too tight. -So my hair is doing something very confusing in this photo. It's slicked back, but also swirled. - Take it off, take it off. Rewind, rewind. - One side returns, but then the other goes on a journey. That's the attitude I need. He says, you cocky bastard, I love you. - So.

Yes of course? - So I have my cast and my equipment. - This slicked back hair really makes me look like a grandpa trying to hold on to youth. - Then I remember that I can see that I have my thumb, for some reason, like I'm being very positive with my grip. - I'm like, I've been holding my wrist totally still just because I'm imagining that I'm actually in a cast. - So first I just need to get into Zachy's mindset, yeah, mindset. He was like, paah! - The uncomfortable thing is that I'm just staring at nothing. - Mother, my partner here and Grace, we believe that it is mutually beneficial to have televisions in our rooms. - Yes.

Do I have my tongue hanging out or is it just my teeth? Like, ah! - Oh boy, I hope the game lasts six hours. - Just a little push. - Oh, so I said, yes! - Plus, I got a B. - Did you do the best you could? - No. - I'm trying to look happy. I just don't smile without teeth, so it's very confusing for me to know how to have a genuine smile without teeth. -If Beaver had existed at this time, he would definitely have been posing like this. Ah! - Mom, mom, look. Mom, look, look.

My feet are a church bell. Okay, now let's look at the photos we just took with the XPS 15. - I look like I'm about to shrink. As if he were an old man who was being shrunk into his child's body. - This. - I'm doing it, the bangs are really cute. -If you are achieving it, he will get better. - It gets better, yes. How could I improve? - I look so happy, oh. - Especially that one. - Oh, that's a confused and lost man. - This one is terrible. What am I doing? - I look exceptionally creepy. - I think the lighting here looks very good. - I mean, we played with a couple different lighting setups just to mimic what was supposed to be a simple on-camera flash. - This, you know, although it is not the correct pose, I think these are the five correct ones.

Oh, this is great. - That's money. - Oh yeah. - Yes, I can work with that. - The butt, you can look at the butt, notice the subtlety of the butt here. Boop, boop, boop, boop!! - I don't know if you see, I'm missing a tooth. I think that's probably our best bet. My eyes are not sohalf-closed - This one seems the closest, the line of sight is really precise. - I'm pretty good with that. - Yes I like it. - The butt is nice and pronounced. - Okay, now that I've chosen my photo, JD will overlay it on the original photo, do some magic, and then we'll react to them at the end. - I don't even know which photo you recreated. - Actually?

You have no idea? - Yes, I didn't see any of your photos. - Is it amazing that he no longer has a beard? - It's scaring me. - A bit. - So, I had a lot of fun recreating this because it's so weird, because I'm not smiling with my teeth. And that's not how I smile. So I don't know what was going through my head. I'm also looking off camera, so I clearly hear someone telling me how to pose. - Actually

guys

, I don't just have a photo, I have a photo session. So I think we have two final papers to review. - Wow.

But let's see it. Oh Lord. Look at this cutie. - Oh, wow. - Wow. - Oh, it's perfect. - Is very good. - Can you bring your face closer, please? - Yes, absolutely, I can. - Wow. - Wow, look at that. - You look like a child. - Look, this is exactly what the previous photo looked like. - So do you see yourself in that child? -Something my parents said when he talked to them was that he was always happy. Even though this photo is me smiling

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ly and looking off camera, I'm sure I was having a great time.

Probably the only reason he was looking off camera was because he was probably watching other kids playing. I want to be there, I want to go play with the other children. Actually, this whole process has shown me that we are definitely products of our upbringing and I feel very lucky to have had really fantastic parents who were good role models for me. My parents were always kind and they were always very determined to say, "Keith, people come from different backgrounds, "people have different abilities, "but that doesn't mean we're not all the same people," and not everyone can achieve something good." - Okay, in three, two, one.

Wow. - Wow. - I also put you on the same scale as Grace. - It's too convincing. - It's really convincing. - What was the injury? - I broke my wrist playing touch football, because even in touch football, I play too much - You just touch too much - Looking at this photo, I realized that who I was then is part of who I am now. you know, I was a kind brother to Grace, we had a very nice relationship and now, as Wes's father, I project and I have a lot of those nurturing and caring instincts great recorder - Crush hot cross buns - Actually, crush just playing. one note. - It's really minimal.

Going back to the 90s. You

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are in luck. - Oh my God, wow. - I looked at them so many times, but not until I had the zoom on this laptop, that I realized I was missing two front teeth. - Ah, that's what it is. Ah, strange. - And photo number two. - Oh yeah. Forget it. - I was very excited when I bought these jeans. I finally thought: I'm as cool as I always wanted to be. This was, this was one of the happiest days of my childhood. - Wow, you were crazy. The tooth. - The teeth, that's crazy. -So, what elements of this child do you see reflected in you today? -When hearing about my childhood, there are many things that are still true.

When I was a kid I was really into attention, acting, and just trying to find a creative outlet. I think a lot of my life I've reflected on my childhood as something I had to escape from and I think now I have enough distance to see, no, I just needed to learn to embrace. Thanks again to Dell for sponsoring this video. Be sure to visit dell.com/xps. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go buy some jeans. - Oh boy. - Wow. - Say goodbye to these ankles, I'm covering them forever. (upbeat music) This position is very painful.

And I know that when I was a kid, I liked to pose naturally, but 20 years later, my body is like, oh, how do you do this?