Frankie and Ivo become part of the potato bridge

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

Frankie is first to arrive on the scene, and is holding the potato when Ivo arrives. Frankie clearly isn't expecting a team-mate, though, and assumes that Ivo is just someone making a delivery, when he comes through the gate. He therefore doesn't pay any attention to him until Ivo awkwardly introduces himself, at which point Frankie shares with him that he has a potato. However, Ivo is already greeting Alex by this point, and then apologises to Frankie for interrupting him "about the potato", which just makes the whole meeting so much more awkward. Having read the task brief, Frankie suggests that "as the clever one", Ivo should start making a plan, while he collects "a whole load of random shit". In the studio, Alex suggests that Frankie and Ivo were the most like a father-and-son team they'd ever had on the show, but just "a father and son who haven't really spent any time together". Back to their attempt, Frankie starts collecting supplies for their bridge, while Ivo spends an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out how to clean the chalkboard so that he can start making their plan. By the time he has erased the existing text on the board with his hand, Frankie has already formulated a plan to try and span the distance between the caravan and the geodesic dome, over the red green. After spending some time balancing a plank between the top of the giant golden pineapple inside the dome and a stepladder, Ivo suggests that they'd probably be better off just building closer to the red green itself, rather than trying to bridge such a long distance. They then decide that there's nothing in the rules against them becoming part of the bridge themselves. Ivo finds a second stepladder in the house, and they then create a bridge span out of lengths of drainpipe, into which they insert the potato. The two men then each stand on one of stepladders, either side of the mat, and hold up the drainpipe span between them. Alex is unable to measure the height of the bridge from the ground, as it is too tall, so has to fetch something to stand on. In the studio, Alex reveals that their bridge held the potato 2.81 metres above the red green. The team therefore wins the task, and earns five points each.

(Written by Karl Craven)