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Paul pisses around on a hurdle

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Paul took lots of little steps on a hurdle, before taking longer steps to the microwave. He took a total of 125 steps, but did not reach the microwave in time.Paul walks straight past the task brief, and Alex has to call him back. Alex explains where the microwave is, and Paul asks where it plugged in. When Alex explains that there is a generator hidden behind the nearby tree, Paul observes that he didn’t know that trees had generators. Paul begins his journey by laying a hurdle flat on the track and stepping on to it, before slowly shuffling along, asking “Is that a step?”. He continues stepping on hurdles and makes slow progress. The microwave has long since finished cooking the soup by the time he eventually reaches it, using long strides. He continues walking this wazy even as he leaves the scene of the task. In the studio, Greg recites the “old Chinese proverb”, “When is a step not a step? When it’s on a fucking hurdle!”. It is revealed that Paul had taken 125 steps (more than if he’d just walked normally). Paul is disqualified from the task, as it took him 7 minutes to reach the microwave, although Greg says he would have loved to have given him artistic style points.

(Written by JoGo and edited by Karl Craven)

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