Jason’s really tricky attempted roof climb
As he reaches the end of the task brief, Jason announces that he’s going to start abbreviating ‘really tricky thing’ as “RTT”. In the studio, Greg admits that he’d really enjoyed Jason’s abbreviation, which then gets re-used a couple of times during discussions of the other contestants’ attempts.
Jason adopts a very confident tone for his commentary, describing himself exiting the house “with undue confidence”, followed by Alex, before grabbing a step-ladder and climbing up onto the top of the hutch with it.
Jason is seen wrestling the ladder up onto the roof of the house from the back of the hutch, as his commentary describes the scene and notes “I’ve said it, so it is happening!”.
Jason describes how Alex Horne is “freaking out” at the prospect of someone climbing up onto the roof of the house (something which many contestants have previously been prohibited from doing, and which Jason himself had wanted to do, during his attempt at the ‘Do something really cool backwards’ task, in the first episode of the series).
Alex is then seen talking into his phone in panic, as a group of people emerges from around the side of the house. Jason commentates that “Alex is shutting it down! Alex is shutting down the most iconic really tricky thing that’s ever been attempted”. As the group of people pulls Jason down off the hutch, he commentates that “Jason Mantzoukas is now being pulled off of the roof by a bunch of people dressed just like him? Is this what he makes them do? Huh? I’m being told that Jason Mantzoukas makes everyone in the crew dress exactly like him when he’s shooting, so that everybody knows what it feels like to be great. His words, not mine.”
Having removed Jason from the hutch, the crew members, dressed in identical clothing to Jason, form a human barrier to prevent him from climbing back up, as he commentates “Another failure for Jason Mantzoukas in a lifetime full of epic fails.”
As Jason walks dejectedly away from the hutch, and shoves Alex, he commentates “What a piece of shit!”.
In the studio, Jason immediately claims to have “Nailed it!”. Greg congratulates him on his “full-throated commentary”, but questions whether he’d achieved a tricky thing. Jason admits that “The tricky thing was not accomplished. Why? Because Alex Horne shut it down.”
When Greg says he had loved Jason’s commentary, but had to go by the spirit of the task and award Jason just 1 point, because he had not achieved the tricky thing, Jason states “I understand”, before adding “I mean, I think you’re absolutely fucking stupid for saying it”.
(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)
(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)
