Jenny attempts to scare the birds with existential dread

Jenny opts to create a cyborg scarecrow which she says will take everyone’s jobs and house.

She asks for a greenscreen, which she then uses to create a film depicting Earth in the year 15,062AD, where a post-apocalyptic town is being attacked by a UFO.

Jenny’s scarecrow consists of the top of the mannequin, wearing a monkey mask and a swimming hat, stood in a shopping trolley, along with an inflatable shark. Tom Gleeson’s portrait from the study is also balanced in front of the trolley, for some reason.

In character, Jenny yells at the cyborg “you have my job”, and Tom Cashman says, “Oh, not my job as well”. Tom Gleeson’s portrait then falls over, and Jenny claims that the scarecrow has taken his job, too, and it is the new Taskmaster.

Breaking character, Tom Cashman asks what the monkey mask is about, and Jenny explains that it is a Planet of the Apes reference, and also that it has a monobrow, which is scary. Jenny then gets back into character, and continues with “What am I going to do with my life? I have no fulfilment”.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson questions why Jenny didn’t just show a scarecrow on the greenscreen. She explains that, conceptually, a future where the scarecrow has taken everyone’s jobs is pretty scary.

Tom then asks her if she thought that birds would be frightened of existential dread. She admits that she hadn’t been using birds as a metric, and thought instead about what was most scary to her, as she was completing the task.

The footage from the motion-activated camera reveals that Jenny’s sunflower patch had been visited by 14 Australasian swamphens. It is pointed out that this was two more than in Josh’s attempt, even though he had deliberately tried to attract birds to his patch.

Jenny is disqualified from the task.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by JoGo and adjusted by Karl Craven)