Josh’s parachute bustle

Before reading the task brief, Josh points out that “the man” had put his mic pack in a plastic bag, and that’s not the kind of thing you do when someone’s going to be staying dry.

Josh drapes a parachute over his shoulders and over a shopping trolley behind him, claiming it’s like the ladies in the Renaissance era with their “big butts”.

He also places a bucket in the trolley to collect water. Josh then also decides to remove the shower head from the balcony, dropping it down to ground level where he can direct the water himself.

He can’t find a Renaissance-style wig, so opts instead to wear a long ginger wig and some sunglasses, claiming that he could be Dame Edna.

When the shower starts, Josh holds the shower head over his trolley/parachute outfit. When Tom Cashman asks what the point of moving the shower was, Josh says that he’s closer to the bath.

After the shower ends, Josh drags the trolley over to the bath, with water clearly leaking out of it. After placing the bucket into the bath, he points out that there is absolutely no water left in the parachute.

When Tom Cashman blows his whistle and asks Josh how he feels, Josh says “All I care about is how much water I got in the bath in this moment. The answer to that question, is probably less than Wil Anderson”.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson notes that Josh was clever in moving the shower, but points out that he could also have moved the bath. Josh says he’s thought about that a lot since, and feels like a fool.

When Tom Gleeson says he had liked the parachute outfit, Josh initially acknowledges that the parachute was a permeable membrane and so had not actually held any water, but then pivots to claiming that he’d intentionally created a very gay outfit, and that Tom probably wouldn’t want to appear homophobic by not awarding points to it.

Despite his parachute plan literally not holding water, Josh manages to transports 9.95 litres of water in his trolley (thanks to the bucket), and earns 5 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)