Pirjo breaks Pamela’s cassette

Pirjo takes the pea outside to search for inspiration, and eventually decided to take the pea for a ride (just as in English, the Finnish equivalent phrase can mean both a literal ride, or a figurative one).

Pirjo begins to panic as she drives, as she is unable to find another person on the streets around the house. Finally, she spots a parked car on the side of the road and pulls over, searching the nearby woods for its owner – an older man, who appears to be attempting to catch an animal, based on the cage at his feet. Pirjo asks the man to assist her by eating the pea. The man does so, and then Pirjo rejoices that her plan – whatever it was – has now been completed.

In the studio, Jaakko asks Pirjo what exactly is so astonishing about someone eating a pea. Pirjo admits that there’s nothing astonishing about it at all, and that she had not realised just how bad her attempt was until she’d seen it in the studio. She throws up her hands in defeat, accepting whatever score Jaakko will give her.

Pirjo’s in-studio realisation sends Pamela off on an uncontrolled laughing fit, to the point where Mikko comments that Pamela’s “cassette has broken” (a newer idiom, comparable to ‘losing one’s marbles’).

Jaakko awards Pirjo’s unastonishing pea adventure joint last place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

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