Lloyd tries to live by Wil’s insane mantra

Before receiving the first task brief, Lloyd enters the room and greets Tom Cashman by saying “Tiramisù”.

After reading the task brief, he states that Anne had long criticised the way he made pasta (placing the pasta into a pan of cold water before boiling it).

He reveals that his mantra is therefore “Don’t drop your pasta until the water is boiling”, which he writes at the top of his poster, before drawing himself holding the pasta above a large pan of water.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson questions why Lloyd had greeted Tom with the word “Tiramisù”, and Lloyd explains that he’d been greeting Tom with a different word beginning with ‘T’ in each task, but that some of these greetings had been edited out, so now he looks like he’s just having a breakdown.

For the second part of the task, Lloyd is presented with Wil’s mantra which starts with “Take your life every second day by day”. After reading it, Lloyd’s initial interpretation is that it’s some kind of suicide-themed Groundhog Day thing.

In the studio, Tom Cashman reads out Wil’s full mantra, including all of its footnotes:

Take your life every second day by day
*Rest every second day
*CEOs especially, redistribute your wealth
*Especially cats, reflect on how you got into this mess

Lloyd claims that these are the scribblings of a madman, but decides to try to act out two days during his available time, assigning half of his time to each.

Firstly, he takes some money from his wallet and hands it out to members of the production crew, thereby meeting the requirement to redistribute his wealth.

He then lies on the floor to rest for his remaining 4 minutes, during which time Tom Cashman offers to play a relaxing song for him. After Lloyd instructs Tom to “go and get your lute”, Tom plays a gentle melody on a recorder. Lloyd compliments Tom’s performance before instructing him to “freestyle” it with a bit of “jazz riffing”. As Tom obliges, Lloyd remains on the floor and says “This cat can really swing.”

In the studio, Lloyd says he doesn’t know a lot about mantras but he believes they should be one sentence and not have three or four different footnotes.

Lloyd says that Tom’s recorder playing was a highlight, although he acknowledged that was not actually part of the mantra. Wil jokes in response that there was another asterisk on the back of the board covering that part.

When Tom Gleeson asks Lloyd if he has a jazz nickname for Tom Cashman, Lloyd suggests “Tootling Tom”. Tom Cashman then thanks Lloyd for finally calling him Tom.

Lloyd earns 3 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)