Ali makes up birds

In the studio, prior to the task being shown, Jaakko confesses that he’s looking forward to Ali’s attempt, as he says Ali is always loud, “even when he’s asleep”. Ali starts out well, carefully arranging the boards in the order they would need to be nailed together, while whispering a commentary to any young children who may be watching on how they, too, can quietly build a birdhouse. However, just before starting to hammer, Ali accidentally loses hold of his boards, and has to make up a bird call. Like Kalle, Ali covers up any loud hammering he needs to do by naming his bird in a loud voice. In this first instance, Ali invents the “Hakunilan Limppu” (‘Hakunilan Rye Loaf’), which he claims is an especially loud bird. Ali continues to hammer nails into the birdhouse while yelling non-existent birds, such as the “Simpanssilintu” (‘Chimpanzee Bird’), the “Naurava Nakkiainen” (‘Laughing Sausagelet’ - ‘laughing sausage’ being a children’s menu item), and the “Hakkaava Amatsonialainens” (‘Hammering Amazonian’). Eventually, Ali loses patience, gathers up the building materials, and leaves the lab, moving his construction site to the front of the house (presumably to try to dissipate the noise). Ali successfully builds his birdhouse in 15 minutes and 47 seconds, and earns fourth place. After the scoring has been announced, Ali thanks Jaakko for his generosity (presumably for not disqualifying him outright, for not doing any real bird calls), and Jaakko awards Ali a bonus point, for his “humility”.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)