Joanne’s low-end brothel experience
After reading the task brief, Joanne asks with incredulity “How the fuck do I take them down?”, leading Greg to question, in the studio, whether she’d known anything about the show before signing up to do it. Joanne responds by disclosing that she’d been advised by the production team not to watch the show beforehand.
At the start of her attempt, she suggests that she’d need to be able to levitate herself up, prompting Alex to note that if she could levitate horizontally, “that’d be perfect”.
She eventually finds the hooks provided beneath the camping bed, and uses two of them to grab and pull down some ties. As she ties a brown one around her thigh, she comments “This is real ‘80s dad vibes, isn’t it?”. Alex then points out that she hasn’t actually tied herself to the bed with it.
After retrieving a few more ties and using them to tie herself to the bed, Joanne comments that “This is something from like a really low-end brothel, isn’t it?”, prompting Alex to state that he hates “the low-end ones”. She then comments that “It’s kind of like a survival course, but I’d actually rather drink a jar of piss than do this”.
After tying her legs and arms to the bed, Joanne then also loosely lays one of the ties across her eyes as a blindfold. When Alex points out that she has time remaining, she removes the blindfold and then inspects the yellow tie with writing which she has brought down, suspecting that it could be the ‘terrible tie’, but she is unable to decipher its meaning.
With 20 seconds remaining, she lays the blindfold back across her face, and comments “This better not be some snuff movie, now”. After the timer has stopped, Alex checks how well tied up she is, and is easily able to lift off many of the ties, which she has merely laid across parts of her body. Joanne then manages to stand up and attempts to leave the lab while still tied to the bed (an achievement for which Greg apologises he is unable to award her extra points).
In the studio, Alex reveals that Joanne had used 15 ties to tie herself up, and that she had brought down both the green tie with the Welsh text ‘Gwybod be ti eisiau a chael yr hyder i fynd amdani.’ (‘Know what you want and have the confidence to go after it.’) written on it, and the yellow tie with ‘Peidiwch wylior cloc; gwna beth maen gwneud. Cario ymlaen!’ (‘Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going!’) written on it.
Joanne ultimately earns 4 points.
(Written by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)
