Fatiha saves her team by throwing away some marbles
The team of three’s attempt begins with Rosie sitting down, Fatiha clapping, and Mathew jumping off towards Greg’s statue. Mathew grabs the two flasks full of water and returns them to Rosie to open.
After Alex blows his whistle, Mathew sits down, while Rosie and Fatiha both start jumping, and no-one claps. Eventually, Rosie takes care of the clapping, while Fatiha ‘jumps’ by stepping from one foot to the other. When Alex asks her if she is jumping, she argues that moving from one leg to the other is still a jump, before saying “Rocky, bruv. Have you not seen Rocky?”.
Meanwhile, Mathew has opened both flasks of water and stuck his finger into them, claiming that one of them contains tepid water. Rosie then runs off, while still clapping, to find an egg cup.
After another blow from Alex’s whistle, Mathew heads over to the driveway to investigate Olli the statue, and finds the egg cup, while Rosie finds a plate in the caravan, and Fatiha takes care of the clapping.
The team is seen switching roles a couple of times as they continue to search the garden, and Fatiha is heard asking “What’s going on?”.
While Mathew is apparently investigating the bell around Linda’s neck, Rosie is sat on the lawn and directs Fatiha to look inside the hutch, where she finds the marbles. Grabbing a handful of marbles, Fatiha announces “I can’t hold it for long”, and proceeds to fling them towards Rosie on the lawn.
After another whistle, Fatiha sits on the bench inside the hutch, while Mathew runs around the garden, clapping, and Rosie enters the hutch to help Fatiha collect marbles inside a drum. At one point, Mathew pokes his head into the hutch while holding a wellington boot, for some reason.
After another whistle, Rosie starts jumping inside the hutch, while Mathew starts counting out marbles onto the plate. Following another whistle, Rosie is sat on the driveway, clapping, while Mathew jumps, and Fatiha mixes cold and hot water in the egg cup.
Rosie then stands and announces that someone needs to “count the eggs”, while Fatiha is handing Alex the egg cup full of tepid water. Alex repeats Rosie’s instruction to the team, prompting Fatiha to ask “Why do we have to count the eggs?”. Meanwhile, Mathew is kneeling on the grass and attempts to get them back on track by clarifying that they need to count the marbles, not eggs.
As Alex confirms that his egg cup full of water is the right temperature, Mathew counts 98 marbles out onto the plate while still trying to jump up and down. After the team all agree that they still need two more marbles, Alex asks them “Have you lost your marbles?”.
While Fatiha kneels down and apparently recounts the marbles, Rosie jumps up and down, while Mathew stands near the hutch, clapping, and recalling how someone had thrown some marbles on the ground earlier on.
The team then all search the ground around the hutch for quite some time, while continuing to alternate their sitting/clapping/jumping roles. At one point, Fatiha suggests getting a rake to rake the grass, but she is then seen ineffectively brushing at a small patch of the lawn with a dustpan brush.
Rosie eventually announces that she’s found a marble inside the hutch, and then continues to search the floor inside, while ‘jumping’ by essentially bobbing her backside up and down as if she’s twerking.
While Fatiha joins Rosie in searching the hutch, Mathew jumps around outside and voices his concern that they’ve already lost the task. Rosie then excitedly announces that she’s found two marbles at the side of the hutch, just as Alex blows his whistle again.
Mathew sits on the lawn, while Fatiha claps through the window of the hutch, and Rosie jumps over to add the marbles to the plate and deliver it to Alex. After stopping the clock, Alex asks if they’re happy with their result. Rosie immediately responds “Yeah”, while Mathew states “Well, ‘happy’s a strong word”.
In the studio, Greg challenges Fatiha’s definition of ‘jumping’, pointing out that she had just been stepping. When Fatiha again tries to justify it by bringing up how Rocky “jumps from foot to foot”, Greg is quick to respond with “what, when he runs?”.
Greg also challenges Rosie on trying to pass off her twerking in the hutch as jumping, before asking Fatiha “the big question” of why she’d thrown the marbles on the ground. Fatiha tries to explain that Alex had been stressing her out by continually blowing the whistle and shouting at them not to hold things for too long.
Alex reveals that the team had taken 22 minutes and 34 seconds to complete the task. However, he then points out that the team of two had delivered their marbles in a tambourine, rather than a plate.
Given the loose interpretation of ‘jump’ used by the team of three, Greg decides to overlook Jason and Stevie’s use of a tambourine. However, after it is then revealed that the team of two had also delivered one too many marbles, Greg rules that the team of three had won the task, and awards them 5 points each.
(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)
(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)
