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Season 1

Turning Memes into Music- Make a music video that has a memetic sound effect hidden in it

  • Tom's song is a little ditty about how chunky his pug is, interspaced with threats to the listener to not make fun of Squidge or Tom will burn their house down.
  • Eddie's final submission is an ultra crass Daft Punk parody, Daft Spunk. Tom and Elliot are at a loss for words.
  • Elliot's final submission is the Theme Song for the show. The music video has him wearing masks of the crew and acting out challenges in front of a green screen. Yes, that includes wearing a mask of himself.

Make Money Fast- From a starting budget of £100, try to make as much as possible.

  • Elliot opts to do a Charity Minecraft stream, only he's not played it before and makes a lot of rookie errors
  • Tom opts to make ASDF Movie themed canvases and while the finished products are really nice, he ends up making a mess of his garden doing paint spinning with an electric drill.
  • And Eddie, decides to try his hand at gambling and makes an absolute mess of it, including betting on the name of Harry and Megan's new baby... with the name of William and Catherine's daughter, effectively throwing that money away.
  • "Can I bet on children?!"
  • While playing Bingo, Eddie puts his user name down as "BiggerBoy" after "BigBoy" was taken, only to forget it until he tries group chat.
    Oh God, they're gonna think I'm horny!

Making the Best Trickshot Ever!- Record trickshots and the best one wins.

  • One of Elliot's many trickshots is to toss a large suction cup dildo onto a metal bowl he's wearing on his head. He succeeds but because it's so large, he gives himself a terrible headache.
  • After Tom and Eddie finally reach their limit, both decide to very obviously splice trickshots together with Tom's being just blatantly impossible and Eddie's full of obvious editing errors.

How to Get Internet Famous in a Week- With a fresh account and with no assistance from their existing online presence, gain as many followers as possible.

  • Elloit's new online persona is The Bananananaman a banana with googly eyes that reads out banana facts and vauge threats in a text to speech voice.
  • Tom opts to make a Twitter account where wiewers can vote on whether inmates live or die, and all the imates are little decorative Easter chicks.
  • Eddie starts a Twitch channel where he plays the role of a man from Burmingham who switched on V-Tuber mode and can't figure out how to switch it off, all in the most ridiculous Brumy accent.
  • "The Bananaman is now my sleep paralysis demon."

Turning Depression into a Board Game- In a week, create a a playable game of any kind. Whoever wins the finished games wins the challenge.

  • Eddie's initial idea is to make a simple platformer, but he very quickly finds out that video game creation is beyond what he can learn in a week.
    Eddie: I'm a stupid baby.
  • Eddie's final product is Grandparadox, a board game where you go back in time to kill your own grandfather. This includes killing your grandfather as a baby.
  • True to the video's title, Tom makes a board game about Depression.
  • Elliot tries simplfying the Pokemon Trading Card game but because he didn't know playtesting was allowed, the final game proves to be a long string of draws. Not only that, as Eddie points out, the game's concept and title "It's Pokemon Time" is essentially breaching two copyrights at the same time.
  • Somehow, Eddie winds up as the winner of all the games.

We Made Terrible Fighting Robots- Everyone starting with an identical RC car, make a fighting robot and win a free for all battle.

  • Naturally they have to set the record straight before starting
    Elliot: Do Not Try This at Home!
    Tom: Do not try this at home.
    Eddie: We are professional idiots.
  • Tom inadvertently makes his robot mine shaped so decides to run with it, naming it Mineoceros and splicing in an explosion every time it's hit
  • The main feature of Elliot's robot is in the name... Drilldo.* Tom and Eddie's screams upon seeing it are priceless.
  • Tom said near the start of the video that he needs to make sure his robot doesn't get defeated by ending up on its back. Take a guess on what happens to Mineoceros not once but twice!
  • Against all odds, Eddie's Buzzkill, armed with a pooper scooper ends up being the winner thanks to it's decorative wings turning out to be an effective arena hazard.

Season 2

Making An Award Winning Short Film IN A WEEK- With a line prop and character name chosen by one of the Try Hards, make a short film in a week to show in cinema and have the audience choose the winner.

  • Out of the gate, Tom's regretting letting Elliot and Eddie have the choice of prompts when Elliot picks a groan tube for the prop and Eddie's choice of character name is Mr. Piss.
  • Tom has such a hard time writing an ending for this his noir parody that it becomes the ending itself.
  • Elliot's short is a spooky atmospheric horror mockumentary which makes it especially hilarious when the "monster" turns out to be Bananananaman.
  • Eddie opts to greenscreen himself on an old sci-fi movie, Cosmos: War of the Planets, and edits it, so his character goes around punching everything in sight.

Who has the Best Secret Cosplay- In a week, create a face concealing cosplay for a convention and get as many pictures as possible

  • The final costumes themselves are patently hilarious
    • Eddie as Huggy Wuggy from Poppy Playtime, complete with long tube arms.
    • Elliot as Sexy Pirate Eggman, complete with a Sonic plushie as a parrot.
    • And after a change of plans brought on from going to another convention, Tom manages in two days to put together an Evergiven costume. i.e. the boat that blocked the Suez Canal.
  • Making a fluffy blue costume is a messy business.
    Eddie: Oh my God, I murdered a Sonic!
  • Tom gets a leather harness for his costume but it doesn't work out.
    Tom: One size fits all my big, fat titties.
    • Tom tries the harness without a shirt and the result is something that we're spared but it has Tom busting a gut laughing and apparently traumatised his dog, Squidge.

Try Not To Die Challenge- Camp in your garden for the longest time, with only what's in your garden and what can fit in a plastic box.

  • Tom Scott joins Try Hards!... only to be sent on his way immediately.
  • As Tom promises that there'll be no footage of them pooping, Elliot jokingly says that'll be a Patreon exclusive.
  • Trying to find something to do, Eddie ends up making a live action Eddache episode about Where's Wally (or Waldo if you're WRONG) appears on each page, complete with chalk versions of the show's usual title graphics.
  • Elliot passed the time by roleplaying as a Cities Skylines player who got thrown out the house by his girlfriend.
  • While the background circumstances aren't funny, the fact that Elliot only lasted 12 hours and kept up the charade of easily crushing the contest long enough for Tom to groan in despair that he spent nearly three days camping for no reason is perfect comedic timing.

Baking the Tallest Cake- with a week to prepare, the lads have 4 hours to make the tallest cake they can on Dan Layton's The Big London Bake.

  • No attention is drawn to it but Tom's using the back of his pug as a table to display his plans for the cake.
  • Eddie practices baking with his young son Rik. It's hard to say who makes the bigger mess between them.
  • Elliot parodies Binging with Babish with his practice that slowly descends into madness as the tone of his comemtary changes wildly as he makes more mistakes.
  • During the competition, Dan jumpscares Elliot and Eddie, the latter of which instinctively draws a knife.
  • Eddie happens to be wearing an apron that reads "Bride to Be", so Dan asks Eddie about his wedding.
    Dan: And what did you do for your hen do?note 
    Eddie: [without hesitation] I fucked my wife.
    [everyone cracks up, including Eddie]

Going Viral On A Secret TikTok Account- In a revisit of Episode 4, the challenge is to make a viral TikTok video and get the most views without being identified.

  • Tom implements one rule right out of the gate, no Bananananaman.
  • One of Eddie's rejected attempts as him in the bath, noting that he's wearing flesh-colored undies, declaring that even the Patreons don't pay enough to see that, before corpsing.
  • Tom drops one hell of a line.
    I can't believe I'm about to spend £80 on a photograph of a dying child.

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