Ben (poorly) recreates his moment of Jenga glory

Although Ben has children, he admits that the best moment of his life was when he’d knocked a Jenga block out of a tower with a tennis ball in the task which appeared earlier in this episode. Paul says that they still have the blocks and the ball, so the tower is set up again, and Ben attempts to recreate the moment.

In the dramatised recreation, Paul is portrayed as a villain, wearing a hat and a moustache, and holding two skulls.

Paul tells Ben “You’ll never be able to knock a block out of the tower with a tennis ball from way back there.”, prompting Ben to shout “Darn you, Paul! Why do you gotta make these tasks so gosh-darn hard?”, to which Paul responds with an evil laugh.

Ben prepares himself for the feat and then successfully throws the ball and knocks the brick out again, although he is standing closer to the tower than he had been in his original attempt, and it appears that the brick is actually pulled out of the tower with a wire.

Ben then struts off, claiming it is the kind of thing he does all the time, while Paul admits that he’s unbelievably cool. Ben then stands on the platform near the trees and says there is nothing left for him here, adding “Good luck with all your future endeavours, Earthlings.” He then looks to the sky and says “Thought so” as a pair of wings sprout on his back and he floats up into the sky, accompanied by heavenly music.

In the studio, when Jeremy questions whether the original attempt and the reenactment match up, Ben says that everything is seen through a lens, and that was his lens.

Abby states that she feels the recreation was objectively worse than the original. Jeremy agrees with this assessment, and Madeleine compares it to doing a remake of a movie too soon.

Jeremy admits that it’s difficult to score the task, but says that Ben definitely gets just 1 point.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by JoGo & Will G and adjusted by David Fuller)