Get goosebumps

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• Fathi begins by slowly caressing the skin on his forearm. He then closes his eyes and starts softly chanting the name of actor Idris Elba. When that fails to raise any goosebumps, Fathi starts rubbing his back against Pilvi’s side. He later jokes, in the studio, that he attempted this because Pilvi, like all people from Lieksa, is quite ‘frigid’ (as in stiff and stoic). Fathi runs out of the lab and to the kitchen, where he finds a bottle of kombucha in the refrigerator, and holds it against the back of his neck. Apparently this also does not work, as the next footage of Fathi shows him re-entering the lab with a pitcher of ice water. When shoving his arm into the pitcher also does nothing, Fathi begins dropping individual ice cubes down the back of his own shirt, then moves on to attempting to get goosebumps on his legs by putting his foot in the pitcher. This does raise goosebumps, though not particularly distinct. Fathi gets goosebumps in 5 minutes and 4 seconds, and earns fourth place.
• Kalle asks Pilvi if there is anything in the house that is made of wool. Kalle believes that biting something made of wool will give him goosebumps (he later confirms that this was the case during his childhood), and he tries biting both his shirt and an oven mitt he finds in the kitchen. He moves on to attempting to get goosebumps via psychoacoustics, as he starts scratching a fork across a plate, creating a horrible noise reminiscent of nails on a chalkboard. Searching around the kitchen some more, Kalle finds the freezer, and pulls out a bag of ice. He runs back to the lab with the bag of ice on his arm, frustrated when his arm shows no goosebumps. After holding an ice cube on the small of his back with little success, Kalle remarks that now that he’s had time to think, he realises that he does not often get goosebumps, and he does not think he can do any better. Kalle manages to get slight goosebumps after 7 minutes and 48 seconds, and earns joint last place.
• Jukka rolls up one of his sleeves and starts to blow lightly on his forearm. When that method does not work, he removes his glasses and informs Pilvi that when he bites metal things, it gives him goosebumps. He starts to gnaw on the frames of his glasses, but this fails to produce any goosebumps. He leaves the lab and returns with two bottles of hot sauce which he finds in the refrigerator, and which are therefore cold. Jukka rolls one of the bottles on his forearm, then tries carefully gnawing on it as he did with his glasses, but neither method results in goosebumps. He begins telling Pilvi about how nails on a chalkboard would always give him goosebumps when he was a child, then runs out of the lab in search of a chalkboard. Although he is unable to find one in the shed, he returns to the lab with some gaffer tape and chains, and wonders if he could make a sufficiently irritating noise that would provide the same response. Either this plan is abandoned or cut from the footage, as Jukka is then seen putting a strip of gaffer tape onto his arm, intending to produce goosebumps through sudden pain. He rips off the strip of gaffer tape, leaving a bare forearm with no goosebumps. He then sources a scalp massager from somewhere, and has Pilvi give him a massage, which causes goosebumps to appear on the back of his neck. He thanks Pilvi, and acknowledges that there is “strength in collaboration”. Jukka gets distinct goosebumps in 8 minutes and 9 seconds. Despite the fact that several other contestants were faster, Jaakko acknowledges Pilvi’s observation that Jukka was the only contestant who had clear, identifiable goosebumps, and he therefore awards Jukka first place.
• Eija immediately starts to shiver, to try to trick her body into believing that it is cold. At no point does Eija alter her method, and she eventually does get goosebumps on her arm. In the studio, Eija says that she wishes she had remembered at the time that a sure-fire way to give herself goosebumps is to rub her hair against wallpaper. She also admits that she never actually considered using aids like all of the other contestants did. Eija gets slight goosebumps in 2 minutes and 25 seconds, and earns joint last place.
• Pirjo immediately begins slapping and rubbing her forearm, to make the skin more sensitive, then blows on it. She also tries to imagine that there is a dead body in the lab. Neither of these methods produce goosebumps, so she asks Pilvi to frighten her. Despite Pilvi catching Pirjo off-guard a few times, the frights do not produce goosebumps, so Pirjo turns to the internet for assistance. She searches for pictures of ‘disgusting worms’, and apparently finds an image of a dog infested with worms. Pirjo closes the laptop, dejected that the photos did not produce a reaction, and then Pilvi suddenly screams at her. This scares Pirjo, who finally gets goosebumps on her forearm. Pirjo gets slight goosebumps in 19 minutes and 55 seconds, and earns joint last place.