John creates a gutter of Gregs
John adds pauses to his reading of the last line of the task brief, in anticipation of Alex interrupting him. However, this makes Alex miss his opportunity to interject. John then refuses to speak any further, to avoid providing him with another opportunity, leading Alex to warn John that he’ll have to “interrupt you physically” instead. Alex then gives chase as John runs away from him, and eventually catches up with him and interrupts John’s path with his arm. As John then admits “Fair enough, mate”, Alex verbally interrupts him by saying “I’m wearing a weightlifter’s belt!”.
John puts on the support belt, and then finds a folding chair, which he discovers sits quite well on his shoulders. He then asks if there are any “model Gregs” available, noting that it would be “quite impressive to have Greg on the old shoulders”.
While Alex goes to source “some Gregs”, John lays several lengths of guttering across the chair, on the driveway. He then reveals that his plan is “a classic case of a gutter of Gregs”.
John tapes the lengths of guttering together and to the chair, and then attaches all of the small framed versions of the various series portraits of Greg along the length of the gutter. Finally, he attached a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Greg to centre of the construction, before lifting the whole assembly up onto his shoulders, and securing it to his support belt with bungee cords.
After dramatically announcing his creation, John is able to keep the whole ‘gutter of Gregs’ balanced on his shoulders while waving and doing a thumbs-up. He even has a small crocheted Greg stuck into the front of his leather jacket.
In the studio, Greg asks John “You think that appealing to my ego is gonna get you points on this show, do you?”. John immediately responds in the affirmative, and Greg admits that he is “Very wise”.
Upon a final review of the photos of each of the contestants with their loads, Joanne argues that John’s effort is “a bit much though, isn’t it?”, and Greg admits that it is. He ultimately awards John 4 points, noting that he is “showing humility” by doing so.
(Written by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)
