Sue the puppeteer

Sue chooses the ‘sleep-talking’ option, though she immediately follows up her decision by telling Alex that she will require something to be moving in the bed, as she says that sleep-talkers will often move around.

She then constructs a rig that she can control from just outside the hutch’s window, with her “snoring string” and her “sleep talking stick”, to make it appear that someone is moving under the covers.

Sue’s puppeteering isn’t bad (though, according to remarks made by Alex in the studio, was more stilted than it appeared in the footage of her attempt), and while some of her sleep-talking is indecipherable gibberish, her snores are quite cartoonish, and some of her sleep-talking tilts a little too far into comedic territory, as she chooses to say things like “lateral thinking” and “Your time starts now”.

Flossie does not believe that Sue was sleeping, mainly due to the fact that her snoring kept stopping and starting.

In the studio, Sue describes her puppetry technique as “sticking a massive stick up a mannequin’s arse and rotating it like a rotisserie chicken”.

Greg awards Sue fourth place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

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