Kevin’s extended car crash

As he approaches the set-up, Kevin appears surprisingly upset that he has been presented with things to eat.

He first reads the balancing task. He looks around the area, asking Antoine where the perch is, before finally spotting it.

Kevin then heads to Antoine’s cabin and emerges with a bicycle helmet. He pulls down the top of the perch enough that part of the base of the perch tilts off of the ground, and balances the helmet on top of it.

In the studio, Kevin covers his face in embarrassment, while his fellow competitors all express their shock that he had chosen his own items to use, instead of the ones provided on the table for the task.

Kevin next reads the throwing task. Once again, he looks around the space, eventually spotting the bucket. Once again, he chooses his own item from Antoine’s cabin to throw – this time, it’s a large rubber duck. Kevin prepares to throw the duck, but then reads the task brief again. Despite having read it twice, he then picks up the stanchions, places them directly next to the bucket, and drops the duck into it, before moving the stanchions back to their original location.

Finally, Kevin reads the eating task. He sniffs the Jell-O, but rejects it. He completely ignores the cheese puff, and instead chooses to eat the granola bar.

In the studio, Louis notes that he has seen car crashes that were less grim than Kevin’s performance, and Phil jokes that he was worried that Kevin would choose to eat a wheelbarrow instead of one of the three items.

Kevin makes a valid argument in his defence, noting that the task brief had said ‘item’, and not ‘item on the table’. Phil asks why Kevin had then chosen to eat one of the items that was on the table, and Kevin jokingly replies that there was nothing to eat in Antoine’s cabin.

Kevin also attempts to argue that the throwing task had forbidden touching the rope, and that he’d only touched the stanchions, but Antoine shuts this argument down by reminding him that the task had forbidden ‘moving’ the rope, not touching it. Kevin is therefore disqualified from the task.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)