Everyone noisily stacks buckets

Everyone builds their towers as quickly as possible, with the clanging buckets the only noise heard in the studio for quite some time.

Arnaud is eventually the first to complete his tower but, when it then starts to tilt, he attempts to hold it up with his head. This results in one of the buckets hitting him in the face when his tower subsequently collapses. Antoine tells Arnaud that he can still attempt to complete the task, so Arnaud keeps his toes on his marker spot and crawls forward on the stage, trying to retrieve his scattered buckets.

Meanwhile, Alex has stacked three of his buckets and then sat down with his hands on his hips, technically fulfilling the task brief. However, Louis informs Alex that he is not fully on his marker spot (since one of his hands is resting on the ground). During this argument, Bianca manages to finish stacking her bucket tower, which stays up, thanks to the fact that it is leaning against her chest and head.

Virginie completes her tower soon afterwards, seemingly taking a cue from Alex, as she gets down on her knees and stacks just enough buckets that the tower is taller than her in that position.

Richardson is the only contestant to make a free-standing bucket tower, likely aided by the fact that he is a shorter man, and therefore does not need to use all of his buckets.

After the task is finished and the contestants have returned to their seats, Arnaud plays up his injury for laughs, holding an ice pack against his face, while pouting and coughing. Louis dubs him “Mr Bean” for his slapstick performance.

Bianca earns first place, Virginie comes second, and Richardson comes third. Arnaud is awarded the “Matthieu Pepper Pity Point”, and Alex is disqualified for leaving his spot.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)