Josh sabotages himself with birdseed

Josh starts by placing two ladders next to each other, and is seen trying to balance an oar on one of them.

He then asks Tom to stand in front of the ladders, across which there is now balanced the top half of a skeleton with a mannequin’s head, wearing a light purple shirt. A fishing net is also balanced on the top, and there is some rope.

Tom Cashman, who is standing with his back to the construction, asks if Josh is going to “do it”, and Josh says yes, before hitting the metal ladder with a crowbar. Tom asks him again if he’s going to “do it”, and Josh says he is, before dropping the crowbar, which hits the ladder and makes Tom jump. Josh then jumps around in celebration, shouting “that was scared!”

After Tom blows his whistle and hands Josh the second task brief, Josh and Tom carry all of the items over to the sunflower patch, and Josh asks Tom if he thinks he’s won.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson asks Josh what he was thinking, and Josh admits that he didn’t really know, and had found it hard to make the creation of a scarecrow entertaining.

Footage from the motion-activated camera is then shown, revealing that on the second day, Josh had returned to the scene and scattered birdseed all over the patch. Josh explains that he’d felt his scarecrow looked like a series of perches, making it a perfect habitat for birds and that, since he knew he wasn’t going to win, he’d decided to lean into this.

He tells Tom that making a home for birds was way better than “five of your dumb points which you weren’t going to give me anyway”, claiming that he had reconnected with who he is, and that that is the “greatest prize of all”.

As a result of Josh scattering birdseed around his creation, 12 birds are recorded entering the sunflower patch, so Josh is disqualified.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by JoGo and adjusted by Karl Craven)