Mel is Miss Understood

Mel is an Aquarius, and her horoscope reads as follows:

Today is a day to focus on your career and professional goals. However, be mindful of communication with colleagues and superiors as misunderstandings may arise.

In response to the last statement, she nods and says “Well correct”. When Tom Cashman asks her about a time she felt that she was misunderstood, she shares the example of when she’d released her hip-hop album, ‘Miss Understood’ by MC Melicious, in Year 9 of school.

Mel then suggests that she could do a rap, and then she and Tom could have a fight about it. She notes that she already has the rap ready to go.

The video of Mel’s rap begins with a title reading ‘Miss Understanding MC MELICIOUS’. Her lyrics are as follows:

Yo, what’s up?
MC Melicious on the track.
Here we go. I’m ‘bout to drop it.
I’m a rapper, I’m an actor, I’m a rhyme chiropractor.
I’ll snap you down rhymes and I chuck ‘em back at you.
‘Cause I rhyme supreme,
Yes, I’m a rhyme machine.
Let me take you through this rhyme routine.
Ever seen a boy see this?
They want to hit this.
Hieroglyphics.
Your friends are misfits.
What? Every morning I eat my Weet-Bix
Welcome to the Rhyme Olympics.
Yeah, you could try hard, but you just won’t beat this.

After the rap ends with a record scratch, Tom enters the room and says he’d heard her say she was a rhyme machine. When Mel confirms that she’d said this, Tom tells her that she’s not a machine, she’s a human. Mel explains to Tom that she was in character as MC Melicious, not Mel, and so MC Melicious, who doesn’t exist, could, in fact, be part machine. Tom states that it sounds like it was just a misunderstanding, before Mel continues her rap:

Akk right, freestyle.
This one, just straight… straight flowing.
‘Cause you know what?
Like a BMW, I’m always lovin’ you, ‘cause of your interiors.
They’re smooth, like this groove.
I’m out, bitch!

In the studio, when Tom Gleeson asks how excited Mel was that she could bust out a rap, she says “I cannot wait for the career opportunities.”

Tom comments that Mel hasn’t been scoring very well in the episode and asks if she thinks she has been misunderstood. Mel responds that a few things had gone wrong in the episode, which she hadn’t brought up, instead waiting to see if they’d show her rap (for which she presumed she’d probably earn 39 points).

Mel earns 5 points for her rap.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

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