Pete sticks his own hand to the ceiling

Pete starts by sticking a banana to the ceiling, before telling Tom Cashman to “Get the clock on that.” When the banana almost immediately falls, he claims that it had felt like two minutes.

Covering both of his hands in flour paste, Pete then asks Tom if he can stick his hand to the ceiling. When Tom asks him “Is your hand an item?”, Pete confirms that it is. He then holds one of his paste-covered hands up against the ceiling, and then removes it after two minutes, claiming that it “fell”. He also sticks a small koala soft toy to the ceiling, which then falls as the whistle blows.

In the studio, Pete insists that his hand is an item, claiming that when asking for a low-five from friends, he always says “Hey, give me some item” (thus coining the episode title). When he claims that the hand fell from the ceiling right on the two minute mark, Tom Gleeson points out that it had miraculously landed at the end of Pete’s arm.

Tom says he can’t accept Pete’s strategy, describing it as the work of a “bad climate change protester” (Extinction Rebellion protestors frequently superglue their own hands to surfaces to make it difficult to remove them).

With his hand strategy discounted, Pete is instead scored based on his attempt with the toy koala, which remained attached for just 44 seconds, earning him 3 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)