Eero plays recession bingo
Eero searches the kitchen – and specifically the refrigerator – for inspiration for his bingo machine.
He finds several cartons of eggs, and – realising that bingo has “a ton” of numbers involved – decides to make an egg-based bingo game.
He searches the shed for an appropriate container, initially settling on a watering can before realising that the eggs would not be able to come out of the spout. He ultimately decides to use a cooking pot (this appears to be the same aromipesä – or ‘aroma nest’ – cooking pot that Aku Hirviniemi had brought in for a prize task in season 2). There is unintentional additional humour to this, as the aromipesä briefly became a meme because its name can also be translated as ‘smelly vagina’ (‘pesä’ generally means ‘nest’, but is also a vulgar slang term for ‘vagina’) and, in Finland, egg emojis are used in the way most other countries might use the eggplant emoji, as ‘muna’ means egg, while ‘munat’ (‘eggs’) is also used as a slang term for ‘testicles’.
Eero invites Pilvi to the kitchen to play her game of bingo. In order to make himself look more like a bingo host, he has dressed himself in a costume – unfortunately, the costume is of an order of french fries.
Eero shakes the aromipesä to mix up the eggs, before removing the lid and randomly drawing one out, giving Pilvi her first number: A1.
As Eero shakes the aromipesä again and draws a second egg, Erkku comments in the studio that Eero has really nailed the concept of “recession-time bingo” (Finland suffered a severe financial crisis between 1991 and 1993; during that time, television shows – especially game shows – were particularly low-budget).
Eero shakes the aromipesä for a third – and, ultimately, final – time, as when he opens it to retrieve a new egg, he is shocked to find that somehow, while shaking around a pot of unprotected eggs, at least one of them has had the nerve to break apart. This is the egg Eero ends up drawing for Pilvi. As he is unable to read the number written on it, he simply mumbles with fake enthusiasm.
Wanting to get the now-awkward game over and one with, Eero calls out “Bingo!”, and Pilvi promptly responds with the same, with no actual enthusiasm over her ‘win’.
In the studio, Jaakko awards everyone 3 points as a baseline score. He then deducts a point from Eero, for having a facial expression which he deemed to be begging for a bonus point (despite having been clearly warned in the previous episode that such actions would no longer be rewarded).
(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by Karl Craven)
