The Muppets launch Club Moist
After reading the task brief, Rhys claims that they are the perfect three people for the task, since they all love clubbing. Pete suggests that they should make the club for over 28s, but then discovers that Aaron is 27. Aaron says he’ll just wait outside for a year.
After Rhys asks what the name of the club should be, Pete suggests ‘Moist’. Rhys and Aaron both smirk, but then Aaron says “Club Moist. Let’s make this place really wet.” Aaron is then seen struggling into the study, carrying a container full of water.
Pete stands guard at the entrance to Club Moist, reading a book and wearing dark glasses, a large cloak, and a brown wig. Tom Cashman arrives and says he is there to attend the hottest club in town. Banging and splashing sounds can be heard coming from inside the club, which appears to worry Tom. Pete tells him that he can’t wear his suit jacket inside the club. When Tom asks him if he is the door person, Pete replies, quite abruptly, “Of course I’m the door person. I’m standing at the door!”.
Pete gives Tom a colourful waterproof jacket to wear into the club. When Tom says that it sounds quite wet inside, Pete tells him to prepare to get moist, before spraying water on his face. Tom heads through the hanging plastic sheeting into the club.
Inside, the word ‘MOIST’ has been written on the plastic sheeting at the back of the room. Rhys is standing in the corner, operating an old adding machine. Their hair is brushed flat, and they are wearing a black coat. Aaron is playing the role of the DJ, stood behind a table upon which there are various containers filled with water. He alternates between blowing a trumpet into the water and splashing it with his hands. A container full of water with a tap on it is spilling water onto the floor of the club.
Rhys welcomes Tom and says that they will be with him in a minute. Pete has followed Tom inside, and is standing beside him, rocking to the ‘music’. Rhys asks what they can get for Tom and, after Tom asks what they serve, he asks for a water. Rhys then sprays Tom in the face again, while Aaron plays his trumpet into the water. When Tom asks if the experience would cost him anything, or if it was on the house, Rhys puts their hand up and says “You’re getting a bit aggro mate. I think maybe you’ve had enough.”, before Pete escorts him back out of the club.
In the studio, Tom Gleeson states that it was definitely a nightclub run by muppets. He also claims that Pete’s wig had looked like Aaron’s actual hair. Pete shares that they’d wanted to create a club that none of them would actually want to go to, and notes that it was pretentious and full of wankers. Tom Gleeson states that it had felt more like a piece of performance art than a nightclub. Rhys notes that when Tom Cashman had walked in through the plastic, he’d seemed genuinely terrified.
When Tom Gleeson asks Aaron what tunes he’d been spinning on his wet decks, Aaron asks if he’s heard of a DJ called Fred Again, before announcing that he was “Wet Again”.
The Muppets earn 5 points each.
(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by JoGo and adjusted by David Fuller)
