Pete risks Tom Cashman’s life for his art

Having read the task brief, Pete claims that he’s “got some pipes”.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson jokes that, as a celebrity, Pete normally avoids talking to taxi drivers. Pete agrees with this, admitting that he didn’t enjoy it.

Pete’s country song is called ‘Flightless Bird for Brian’. The video is filmed with a sepia tint, and features Pete in a cowboy hat, playing guitar. Tom Cashman plays Brian’s love interest, wearing a blonde wig and a shawl. A sheep repeatedly butts him, tangling itself in his shawl and eventually forcing him to flee from the paddock.

The lyrics to Pete’s song are as follows:

One, two, three, four
Brian’s fingers grip the wheel of a taxi he drives so far
Those fingers that never quite learnt to play guitar
Brian pulled over one day to satisfy his appetite
He never knew Cupid was about to do him right

Brian with an ‘I’
Loves Lysa with a ‘Y’
One day they might marry
This flightless bird needs to fly

[Tom:] Flightless bird needs to carry
This flightless bird needs to fly
[Tom:] Flightless bird needs to fly
Flightless bird
[Tom:] This flightless bird… needs to fly

In the studio, Tom Gleeson says that Pete had looked the part, but that the song didn’t quite land. When Pete protests, pointing out that he nearly got Tom Cashman killed by a sheep, Tom Gleeson acknowledges that there was an upside to the video.

Tom Cashman explains that Pete had thought that it’d be a good shot if he was stood in front of a big flock of sheep, but that only one of them stayed, and it was clearly the alpha. Rhys jokes “Imagine being out-alpha’d by a sheep”, thus coining the episode title.

Pete earns 4 points for his song.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by JoGo and adjusted by David Fuller)