Sam’s unlucky lucky penny
In the studio, Greg highlights Sam’s confusion at the concept of a ‘fortune trail’. Sam counters that it doesn’t sound like a real thing, like the existence of someone named Brian Blessed (a call back to Sue’s prize task submission from the prior episode, which would have been filmed on the same day). Greg and Sue both confirm that Brian Blessed is, in fact, “super real”.
At the house, Sam reads the first task brief and, after a brief hesitation, crawls under the step-ladder.
After reading the second task brief, Sam asks Alex if he’s allowed to smash the piggy bank. It’s only after Sam has already thrown the piggy bank to the ground that Alex confirms that this is permitted. Sam looks through the coins and asks Alex how he can tell if a penny is lucky. Alex simply replies that Sam will just know. Sam eventually picks up £13 in coins from the driveway, and puts it on the plate.
After reading the third task brief, Sam picks up the bag of salt and overturns it onto the driveway.
After reading the fourth task brief, Sam runs to the shed, opens the umbrella he finds there, and picks up the lucky coin on display there before returning to the fortune trail. He tells Alex that he has found a lucky penny in the shed, and Alex congratulates him. Sam then pretends to eat the penny, and slips it into his pocket.
Sam reads the final task brief and – apparently not realising that the coin he had just found in the shed was double-headed – begins to flip the coin provided on the plinth. He quickly becomes frustrated when he realises that the task requires him to flip five heads in a row, and not five heads in total (“This will take all my life!”). Nevertheless he persists with flipping the coin, and is eventually successful.
At the end of the task, Alex prompts Sam to return anything that may belong to the production crew before he returns to the house, and Sam pulls the forgotten lucky penny out of his pocket, and gives it back before leaving.
Sam completes the fortune trail in 6 minutes and 51 seconds, and earns second place.
(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)
