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Rob, Sara, and the vanishing shoes

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

Rob’s first thought is that he could be King Kong, and so he does a lovely impression of a monkey. The team’s film starts with a title screen, reading ‘Chaussers’ (the French word for ‘shoes’). Rob and Sara are seen sat next to one another on the sofa, in the living room. Sara’s character asks Rob if he likes her new shoes. Rob’s response to this is an over-exaggerated wink, and then the shoes Sara is wearing magically disappear. After he winks again, a different pair of shoes appear on Sara’s feet. After Sara gets annoyed, Rob winks and magically makes her original shoes reappear, but she now also has the word ‘shoes’ written across her forehead. Annoyed with Rob, she points out that she’s asked him not to use magic in the house, to which Rob responds, “We’re not in the house”, winks again, and the pair are relocated to the garden, along with the sofa. After Sara asks him how he’s going to “magic yourself out of a divorce”, he winks yet again, and Sara is replaced by a large, middle-aged man. In the studio, Greg prompts them to discuss the narrative, and Sara explains that it is about shoes, divorce, and a new coupling. Greg notes that its clearly about a gay man trapped in a heterosexual marriage, and ironically describes Rob’s “insane, winking, gay magician” as “a very nuanced character” (thus coining the episode title). The team earns 2 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

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