Eero goes from specific to abstract

Eero immediately points out Pilvi’s new glasses.

He notices that there is something different about the table, but isn’t quite able to identify how it has been changed, instead saying that it is a “different shape” (his fellow competitors in the studio are shown at this point, expressing their amazement that anyone had noticed that particular change).

Eero stands and spins around, looking quickly around the room, and focuses on the portrait of Jaakko on the wall behind him. He questions whether the picture has been changed, before convincing himself that it is in fact the same picture.

Eero then quickly glances over Pilvi, jokingly asking if she has perhaps removed her trousers as one of the changes.

He quickly turns to making quite abstract suggestions for other differences, suggesting that “the general atmosphere” in the room has changed.

Given his in-studio reaction to Pirjo’s desperate insistence that the amount of oxygen in the room had changed, it seems that he may have also suggested something similar, which did not make the edit of his attempt (an off-handed comment by Pilvi in the studio later seems to suggest that he’d specifically referenced carbon dioxide levels).

He then states that he now has to urinate even more urgently than he had when he had first left the room. Although this is laughed off by the other contestants in the studio, Eero seems to be entirely serious during the task that this counts as his fifth stated difference.

Despite being the contestant to list the most potential changes, Eero only correctly spots two difference (Pilvi’s glasses and the shape of the table), and he earns fourth place. If Jaakko explains why Eero scores lower than Olga and Pirjo, who both spotted the same number of changes but earned higher scores, it does not make the edit.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by Karl Craven)