Aaron blows up the house

Aaron ponders the definition of ‘epic’ and decides that he needs to make an epic entrance.

Aaron initially requests 20 soldiers with rifles but, when Tom Cashman questions the number, instead requests “quite a lot of soldiers”. When Tom asks if maybe three soldiers would be a large enough amount, Aaron points out that three is quite a small number.

20 soldiers are then seen lined up along the balcony of the house, marching on the spot as rhythmic music is heard. All the soldiers pick up their ‘rifles’, which are revealed in a close-up to mainly be umbrellas.

Tom then comes to the front of the balcony, and yells out “All hail the most objectively epic winker!”, before striking a drum and blowing a bugle.

Aaron then joins Tom on the balcony, wearing a sailor’s hat, and declares “Things are about to look pretty epic.” The camera then zooms in to a close-up of Aaron’s face, and he winks. There is then a loud explosion and digital effects are used to make it appear as if the house had been blown up.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson points out that Aaron has already blown up the house in the first filmed task of the season.

Tom Cashman reveals that Aaron had kept insisting on 20 extras, but that they’d instead used just five people to play the soldiers, and filmed the scene four times, before compositing the footage together.

Aaron gets a good reaction for his wink and Tom Gleeson awards him 5 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

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