Mel gets emotional over a lost phone

Mel sits in the study to come up with her idea, and asks what some emotional moments in life are, as she rolls up her sleeves.

Deciding that “losing something” is always emotional, she first suggests virginity, before deciding that losing one’s phone would be the most devastating thing that could happen.

Mel’s film starts with her near the ute, searching for her phone. After checking her pockets and the ute, she shouts “My phone’s not in the car, which means it fell in the bath!”

We next see Mel kneeling next to the bathtub in the garden, with her phone in her hand, tapping it, and screaming “Come back to me, baby! It wasn’t that much water.”

As the drone filming her flies higher, she continues with “I’m gonna need 500g of white rice!” and “It’s not insured!”, as she begins to sob. A title screen then appears, displaying the text ‘Nobody had rice’.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson states that although the lost phone was a “trivial problem”, Mel’s emotion was clearly real. When Concetta then points out that in the previous task Mel had moaned about how Concetta was raised by her phone, and then her whole emotional scene was about her own phone, Mel argues that she’s got two degrees, so it’s different.

After Aaron then asks if the name of Mel’s film was ‘Nobody Had Rice’, because that’s also a tragedy in his culture, Tom Gleeson thanks Aaron for saying the joke that no-one else would have been allowed to say.

Tom Gleeson decides that Mel’s emotions were more real than Concetta’s, so Mel earns 4 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

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