Nina misinterprets the task

Due to the drop-cloth over the balcony railing, and her misinterpretation of the task brief, Nina is completely unaware of the location of the actual canvas she is meant to be painting on, and decides instead to paint her map of Australia on the canvas drop-cloth beneath her feet.

She mixes up some orange paint and decides to do a small painting of the country, to help keep it accurate.

At one point, she admits that she may have messed up her painting. When Tom Cashman asks her what she thinks she's done wrong (while looking down at the blank canvas on the ground below), she states that she thinks she has messed up the state lines.

At the end of her attempt, Nina states that she thinks she's going to win the task, leading Tom to give her the opportunity to address the other contestants on camera, and brag about how well she has done. This is, of course, intercut with shots of the blank canvas on the ground below the balcony.

In the studio, the painting she complete on the drop-cloth is never shown in full, and her attempt is judged only on a photo of the blank canvas that she never saw.

After she and Danielle both try to defend their interpretation of the task, simultaneously responding to Tom Cashman's re-reading of the rules stated in the task brief with the same answers, Tom Gleeson argues that "Saying it together doesn't make you sound smarter... It just makes you sound dumb in unison" (thus coining the episode title).

He awards them joint last place, with one point each.

(Written by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)