Episode 4 HH: Gory Games Play Along

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Hello, I'm Rattus Rattus

and welcome to a very special Rat Nose Day edition of Gory Games.

Hey, hang on, Rat Nose Day?

Yes, it's to raise awareness.

Is that why you made me wear this weird nose?

Rats are an endangered species, Dave.

There are only about five billion of us left.

Five billion! Right, where's my phone?

-Oh, you calling to make a donation?

-No, I'm calling pest control.

No, not on Rat Nose Day!

Oh, all right, let's just get on, shall we?

And meet today's horrible historians.

Hey, I'm Theo and I'm from Lincolnshire.

Hello, Theo.

Hi, I'm Yasmin and I'm from Essex.

Hello, Yasmin.

Hi, I'm Max and I'm from Liverpool.

Hello, Max.

Welcome, everyone. You are playing to win Year Spheres.

The person with the highest year score at the end of the show

will win a prize plucked out of the poo superhighway

by the hygiene bypass that is Rattus Rattus.

Don't forget, you can get involved at home.

Download the Gory Games app from the CBBC Website and play along.

So do it, do it for the rats.

What's our first round about? Let's go over to the Gory Grid.

It's the Vile Victorians. Good day.

Max, how do you feel about Victorians?

I'm feeling good about Victorians, yeah.

You sound very chipper, Max, I'm very pleased to hear that.

Yasmin, what's your favourite character in history?

Boudicca and Cleopatra.

-Neither of which were Victorians.

-Nope.

Awkward. Theo, what do you think? Victorians?

I want to run away.

THEY LAUGH

Theo, you cannot do that.

OK, four questions on the Vile Victorians coming up.

The person who gets the most right wins the first Year Sphere

and your four Victorian topics are...

Max, you get to pick first, this round. What will you have?

Can I have Gadgets, please?

You certainly can. That is a prop question.

-# Prop Question...

-BOTH: Prop Question, Prop Question.

Here is a genuine Victorian invention, but what on earth is it?

HE LAUGHS

Thank you, Rattus. Look closely, then.

So, is it A, B, or C?

Let's see those answers now, please.

Everybody has gone for C.

Well, well, well.

The answer is indeed C.

Well played, everybody. It's a hot water bottle for your derriere.

It was designed to go on the seat of a Victorian car.

Hey, Dave, I know a much better way of keeping your bottom hot.

-Do I want to know?

-Eat lots of rotten chillies.

No, I do not want to know. Well played, everybody, you're

all off the mark. That is a point apiece.

-Yasmin, your turn to pick.

-Dyes, please.

In Victorian times, which of these was used to dye clothes red?

Oh, please don't be A. Please don't be A.

What could it be? What could it be?

Let's see your answers now, please.

Everyone's gone for A, Rattus.

Everyone hopes it's rat's blood. What's the answer?

The answer is B, whale poo.

-I did not know that.

-Theo, your turn to pick.

Can I have stamps, please?

You can indeed, sir.

The first postage stamp was issued in 1840.

It had a picture of Queen Victoria on it, but what was it called?

Oh, I know this one. I know this one.

-No clues.

-It's, A or B, or C.

Show me your answers, please.

Oh, it's spelt out BAB. Max and Theo agreeing on B,

Yasmin thinks it's A. What's the answer, please?

The answer is A, the Penny Black because it was black

and it cost a penny.

Well done, Yasmin. Excellent, excellent work.

There's one question left in this round.

It's on Ratting. Let's hear it.

Ratting was a popular contest in Victorian Britain, but what was it?

A rat-related question for Rat Nose Day.

Yes, it's highly appropriate, but is it A, B or C?

Show me your answers now, please.

Oh, Max and Yasmin think it's C. Theo thinks it's A.

What's the answer?

The answer is C. Ratting was rats fighting in a pit with

a ferocious dog.

Yes, a notorious bull terrier called Billy is reputed to have

killed 100 rats in just over five minutes.

And he's here with us today...

Oh, where, where?!

No, he isn't here. Don't worry, Rattus, you're fine.

Oh, ha-de-ha.

Well done, Max, well done, Yasmin.

A look at the scoreboard tells us

that Yasmin, you are our Victorian Victor.

Time to choose your Year Sphere and time for me to say...

all hail the Potty Pyramid!

FANFARE

And pick carefully, Yasmin, because AD dates will be added

to your total score but BC dates will be subtracted.

We'll find out what's in there later.

Now, winning the Victorian quiz means that Yasmin is automatically

through to play the Victorian game,

but will she be alone or will the others get to play, too?

They're keen to find out, as are you. Let's do it.

It's an All Play scary game so it's off down the Time Sewer with

the lot of you. Go on, Theo, lead us on.

-Bye.

-Bye.

-Bye, Yasmin. See you, Max.

-See ya.

It's shocking to think that in Victorian times, children were

made to clean chimneys.

And it's even more shocking to think that we're going to make them

do it again now.

It is. It's time to play our excellent new game...

Your challenge is to crawl up

and down the chimney, clearing out four blockages.

The first person to shove their brush out of the top of the chimney

is the winner. In three, two, one... HOOTER

There's the opening hooter.

They take to their trolleys now and they have to get themselves up that

chimney and clear four blockages.

There's the first.

Theo pulls that bird's nest out of the way quickly,

efficiently and wow! He's moving fast, Rattus.

The basket's in the nest

or the nest is in the basket. Can't quite tell.

That way round, I think.

The second way round, Theo's already

approaching the first bird.

He's already got it undone.

This is an extraordinary performance

already, Rattus.

Dave, this game is brilliant.

They should be sponsored to do it for Rat Nose Day.

Well, maybe they should, yes.

The master chimney sweep, there, keeping a close eye on these young

sweeps making sure none of them are shirking.

Max makes his way back down the chimney with a bird,

but Theo's in the lead at the moment.

He's cleared the third blockage. It's impressive stuff.

And here comes that master chimney sweep again.

He's going to be encouraging the contestants to climb

by poking their feet with pins.

And Rattus, that would actually happen in Victorian times.

The master chimney sweep would prod children with pins

to make them work faster.

What a vicious man.

He's given Max the nudge he needed, though.

The other two sweeps are heading back down the flue.

There is Max. He's made his way up to his next bird nest using that

double-handed technique, but Theo's delivering the final bird already.

It's just a foot race up the chimney now for Theo

and look at him go, Rattus.

All he's got to do is whack his head on the end button

and that broom is going right up the chimney and there it is.

-Yeah!

-Theo starts to celebrate, and why not?

He's the best under-nine chimney sweep in the country.

Welcome back, welcome back.

What an excellent game that was.

Theo, straight to the Potty Pyramid.

Congratulations, congratulations.

Theo, that was some of the best chimney sweeping I've ever seen.

How did it feel for you?

It made me scared but it made me giggle.

Well, you've now got yourself a shiny Year Sphere.

Oh, Dave, I've been meaning to say thanks

so much for joining in and raising money for Rat Nose Day.

-Joining in how, Rattus?

-Well, you're doing something sponsored, right?

You know, sponsored shave your head and wear something really stupid.

Where's your bucket? Come on, I'll give you 50p.

This is just my normal head and my normal clothes, Rattus.

Awkward.

On to round two and,

to find out what's up next, it's over to the Gory Grid.

It's the Awful Egyptians.

Oh, it's the Awful Egyptians.

Yasmin, I can see you celebrating inside.

I love them.

So, four questions again. Here are your all-important Egyptian topics.

And, Yasmin, it is your turn to lead us off.

Pharaohs, please.

True or false, peasants were banned from looking at pharaohs?

So, true that or false that?

Peasants were banned from looking at pharaohs.

Is that true or is that false? Show me now, please.

Everybody has gone for true. What's the answer, please?

It's true.

Right, that's a point apiece.

Well done, an excellent start to the round.

Theo, what would you like next?

-Cures, please.

-Cures.

True or false, an ancient Egyptian remedy for toothache involved

rubbing cat wee on the gums.

An ancient Egyptian remedy for toothache involved rubbing

cat wee on the gums.

Is that true or is that false? Show me now, please.

Well, Theo and Yasmin think it's false. Max thinks it's true.

What's the answer, please?

It's false. What nonsense. You have to rub a dead mouse onto

the gums to cure toothache.

A dead rat, on the other hand, is the cure for a headache, so...

Is that joke really appropriate on Rat Nose Day?

No, maybe it isn't. I do apologise to all rats who are watching.

Theo and Yasmin, well played. A point apiece.

Max, your turn to choose.

Could I have Beds, please?

Yes, you can. What's the question on Beds?

Is this true or false?

So, rich Egyptians would use pillows carved from wood,

ivory or stone. Is that true or is that false?

Well, everybody in total agreement here.

Everyone thinks it's true. What's the answer, please?

It's true.

It is true. Congratulations, everybody.

One question left in this round.

It's on Sandals and it's a prop question.

-# Prop question, prop question. #

-True or false -

in ancient Egypt, if you painted a picture of someone on the inside

sole of your sandals it meant they were your best friend.

Could that possibly be true?

Show me now.

Oh, Theo and Yasmin agreeing on false.

Max thinks that's true. I can tell you that it is...

false.

It actually meant they were your worst enemy, Max.

Every step you took would be grinding them into the ground.

-Can I get a picture of you please, Dave?

-Why would that be?

-No reason!

-In that case, no, you cannot.

Points then for Yasmin and Theo who have ended that round

locked on four apiece. Amazing.

It's a tie-breaker situation.

Fingers on your buzzers.

Beginning with the letter B, what was used to wrap a mummy?

-Theo.

-Bandages.

Bandages is absolutely right. Congratulations, Theo.

Help yourself to another Year Sphere.

Excellent work. Well done, Theo.

And amazing scenes here at the Gory Games Rat Nose Day special.

Let's see how the Rat Totaliser is doing.

It now stands at five billion and ten thousand.

What? The number of rats has gone up by 10,000

since the programme started?

Yeah, the appeal must be really working, Dave.

Right, I'm not having this.

Dave, how could you? Think of the rats.

All right, I may... I may have overreacted.

-TEARFULLY:

-I think so.

-What if I put the nose back on?

That might go some way.

Ah, thank you.

OK, Theo, you are through to play the Egyptian game.

Just ignore this nose, but will it be just you

or will the others get to play, too?

Let's find out, shall we?

Oh, it's a single player gory game.

So, Theo, get down that Time Sewer on your own.

Au revoir.

Rattus, prepare yourself. It's time for that Gory Games classic...

Theo, you have to remove the Mummy's vital organs

and put them in special jars.

The brain has to be removed through the nose and the bladder

has to be binned, but the heart must be left inside the body.

Your time starts now.

HOOTER Talk about good clean fun, Rattus!

This is the opposite of that, isn't it?

It is, pretty much, Dave, yes.

And look at Theo.

He's going straight in for the brains

which obviously have to be pulled out

through the nose and oh, my goodness!

He's straight up there with that hook.

It looks incredibly painful - even though

I know that he's dead, it still makes me wince.

Makes me smart.

Yeah, brain's out and it's in the bin.

And that's how it should be.

So that's an excellent start for Theo.

And, of course, you can get involved at home, too

if you play along on the Gory Games app.

Now what's this? What's this coming out of here?

We can't quite... Ohh!

-I've got a feeling, Dave.

-I've got a feeling.

Oh! It's the bladder.

There's that good clean fun I was talking about

earlier. There is wee everywhere already.

Now, there we go, there's the liver.

Off he goes. Now look at him.

He's just playing this correctly.

He's checking very carefully which canopic jar it has to go in,

and then he's going over and he's popping it in.

I would have pan-fried it with a few onions, Dave.

You would have eaten it raw within seconds of seeing it, Rattus.

-You're right.

-That stinks.

This is the longest amount of intestine

I think I've ever seen. It's crazy.

It's worth noting that Rattus has put out more canopic jars

than are actually needed partly to keep

the contestants on their toes, but mainly because he can't count.

Theo needs to fill four canopic jars in total.

That's his second, so he needs to stuff two more

with the correct organs.

Now, where's he going now, Rattus?

He's up the right end, certainly.

What's that coming out, do you think?

-Ohh, the stomach!

-The stomach.

Now look at him.

He's really doing this diligently

and in the correct order.

He's making sure he's got the canopic jar

right and he's just popping it in then, Rattus.

Popped it in there, very casual.

30 seconds remaining.

And Theo is being very clever,

-because he's got hold of the lungs, for my money.

-Lungs!

Out they come, and look at the effort of this.

-He pops them in. I think that's it.

-I think he's done it.

I think he's done it, Rattus.

There's the celebration.

Theo, well played, well played. Help yourself to a Year Sphere.

Cor, that was some good work in there.

Look at that - three Year Spheres already. Superb work.

Well, this is all good fun,

but let's remember why we're really here today - Rat Nose Day.

-Rat Nose Day, Dave.

-Oh, right, yes, of course. Sorry, Rattus.

Yes, rats everywhere need your help.

Without rats there'd be no-one to spread plagues,

eat rubbish or make scratchy-scratchy noises

in your walls at night.

So, please, dig deep and give whatever you can.

Well, I've got this rotten apple, will that do?

Well, it's a good start.

Moving stuff. Right! Round three and it's over to the Gory Grid

to find out what's next.

Ah, you bit me!

It's the Measly Middle Ages.

Here are your four Middle Ages topics.

So, Theo, it is your turn to lead us off this time.

-Food, please.

-Food. Let's hear that question.

In Medieval Arabia, people were sometimes known to eat

dead bodies covered in...

So is it...

Show me now, please.

Wow, look at that - Max and Yasmin agreeing on B.

Theo going for A. Let's hear the answer.

The answer is B - they sometimes ate mollified men -

old men who ate nothing but honey and when they died

were buried in honey for many years before being eaten.

Pretty gross, actually.

That is a point apiece for Max and Yasmin.

Max, it's your turn to pick a topic.

Could I have Medicine, please?

You can have Medicine. What's that question?

What was done by some people in the Middle Ages

in the hope it would improve their eyesight?

Please don't be C!

It'll be what it is, Rattus, there's nothing you can do about it.

Show me now, please.

Oh, a complete spread of answers.

Everyone thinks it's something different. What's the actual answer?

The answer is A. To improve their eyesight

they hung cows' eyes from their necks.

Well, it's a result for Rattus

and it's a result for you as well, Yasmin.

You take the lead in this round and it's your turn to pick a topic.

Can I have Dick Whittington, please?

You certainly can and that is a question from Rattus Rattus.

Oh, yes, it is, isn't it?

Dick Whittington really existed and really was the Lord Mayor of London

but which of these did he have built?

All three places you find wee in.

Crikey! I hope not, Rattus. Public swimming pool?!

Show me those answers.

Max and Yasmin agreeing this time with B, Theo with A.

What is the answer, Rattus?

The answer is A -

a public toilet big enough for 128 people to use at once.

Of course, we rats see the whole world as one big public toilet.

Actually, you know what? I'm taking this off.

Excellent work, Theo. Everybody's still in it, there's one topic left

in this round. It is Castles and this is the question.

In 1507, what did the royal doctor to King James IV of Scotland

attempt to do at Stirling Castle?

So is it A, B or C?

Let's see some answers now, please.

Everyone think it's A. What is the actual answer?

The answer is A.

He made himself some wings and leapt off the castle walls.

He only lived to tell the tale cos he landed in a dung heap. Hilarious!

Usually people are upset to land in a pile of dung.

-Speak for yourself.

-Yes, obviously present company excepted.

Well done, everybody, a point apiece and that means

at the end of that round, Yasmin, you have won a Year Sphere.

Help yourself, please.

# Oh-oh... #

Is that going to be a good one?

Is it going to be an AD? Is it going to be a BC?

We'll find out at the end.

Hang in there, Max, there's still time to win one.

Yasmin, as winner of the Middle Ages quiz you're through to play

the Middle Ages game,

but will it be just you or will everyone else get to play, too?

Let's find out, shall we?

Well, it's a single play, a silly game.

Yasmin, you're on your own. Down that Time Sewer, please.

-See ya.

-Bye!

King Louis XI of France was an impressive monarch

who strengthened and unified France after the Hundred Years' War.

But obviously all we care about is his pig piano.

Yep, the famous instrument consisted of pigs of different sizes

and a keyboard.

Each key operated a little spike which would prick a piggy

and make it squeal...

-Oink, oink!

-..much like that.

Your challenge is to listen to and repeat a sequence of piggy squeals.

The sequence will go one squeal longer each time.

Correctly repeat nine squeals within the time limit

to win a Year Sphere.

It's time to... HE OINKS

What he said. Now, let's listen in to this because it's crucial

that we hear the order in which the piggies squeak.

PIGS SQUEAL

Here she goes, this is the first one.

Good sequencing so far.

Excellent. Lovely stuff from Yasmin.

Now the pigs will have another little sing-song...

PIGS SQUEAL

..and Yasmin has to copy. There she goes, she's off to a good start.

You know what happens, of course, Rattus, if she makes a mistake.

It gets awfully pooey, doesn't it?

Dave, of course, if the pigs hit the wrong note

they get a right roasting!

-He's done it again!

-Come on, be serious, Rattus!

Yasmin's now attempting a six-squeal sequence - can she remember it?

Oh, there's the poo!

It's missed her, luckily.

The pig's having another go but she's no musician.

Oh, bad luck, Yasmin, bad luck.

-It's a hard one to play, isn't it, the pig piano?

-Yeah.

So, unfortunately, no Year Sphere for you this time, Yasmin.

Time for our big all-play endgame now.

So over to the Gory Grid one last time.

It's the Groovy Greeks.

It's the Groovy Greeks! Everybody, back down that Time Sewer.

Lead us off, Theo.

-Au revoir!

-Au revoir.

-Cheerio.

-Wa-hoo!

It's time to play...

Our fantastic new game.

Hippocrates was the father of medicine

-but some of his ideas were slightly...

-Brilliant!

..unusual.

He used to diagnose illnesses by eating earwax,

-snot, puss and wee.

-Oh, the man was a genius.

You have to grab the unsavoury samples and chuck them

into Hippocrates' mouth. In three, two, one...

HOOTER BLARES

And they're off.

And Theo is the first to show, he's up his lane

and he's moving very well.

Springing like a gazelle there.

This is where he takes the end of it.

That was bogey going in there, I think.

That's another bogey. Bogey going in...

Mainly bogey being thrown.

I think that was earwax.

Yasmin has dashed down her lane.

So she's discharged her unmentionables earliest there.

Theo perhaps taking his time over the throwing.

Will that be a good tactic or a bad one? We shall find out, eh, Rattus?

-Certainly will, Dave.

-We certainly will.

And Theo, you have to say, he loads up the quickest out of all of them.

He certainly does.

Remember, Rattus, Hippocrates ate these things

for serious scientific reasons.

-What, not for a bet?

-No, not for a bet.

Yasmin... Oh, just catching the bottom lip there

but you begin to feel that Theo is getting into his stride here.

I'll tell you what, Rattus, this is making me feel ill.

Really? It's making me feel peckish.

Hey, you haven't got any spare snot

I can munch on, have you?

Get out of it.

Of course when you're dealing with bogeys you do need to look out for

-massive sneezes.

-Atchoo!

There's one now!

Now we've got a big puddle of stuff to slip in

because that, for me, was a mass of bogey.

Max is down!

Oh, Yasmin is down.

Once you get covered in the stuff it really, really does get

ludicrously slippery out there, Rattus.

30 seconds remaining.

He's crawling manfully to the end of his lane.

Can he land anything more? Let's just have a look at this.

This is what happens when they get slippery, it becomes about survival,

doesn't it, Rattus? And that alone...

Oh, she made it to the end! That's excellent from Yasmin.

I'm very impressed to see that happening.

Theo too makes it one last time to the end

and a large amount of bogey going in there.

HOOTER And that's it, it's all over.

Max drops a sample at his feet,

and you can tell just by looking at it from here

that Theo has this one in the bag. Whoopsie!

Welcome back, welcome back.

Terrific work in there, that was very, very close.

Max, how did you find that?

The gunge had a very good consistency.

-Did you think so, did you think so?

-Yes, good consistency.

Anyway, I can reveal that the winner of that challenge was Theo.

Theo, you had the most, help yourself to another Year Sphere.

# Oh-oh

# Oh-oh... #

There we go.

And now it's time for the big moment -

we find out how much money we've raised on Rat Nose Day.

FANFARE

FANFARE FIZZLES OUT

£0?

I probably shouldn't have left Marcus, my flea, manning the phone.

PHONE RINGS

He, erm, can't lift it up.

Now it's time for the actual big moment.

Let's count up those Year Spheres. Remember, AD years are added

to your total and BC years are subtracted from it.

Max, I'm going to set your total at zero.

Which may or may not be a good score.

Yasmin, let's open up that first Year Sphere.

It's 1821 AD. Napoleon Bonaparte died that year.

Let's have a look at your second one.

It's another AD, 476 AD.

The fall of the western Roman empire.

That means, Yasmin, that you have scored 2,297 points

and that, Theo, is what you have to beat.

Let's have a look at that first sphere.

1815 AD. The Battle of Waterloo was that year. It's a good start.

Let's have a look at the second.

1616 AD.

Shakespeare died that year. It's an excellent start.

Let's have a look at the third one.

Don't want to look at it!

200,000 BC.

The appearance of Homo sapiens -

humans - was round about then,

but that is a massive BC.

You're going to have to go several millennia into the future

to get back into the game. What's it going to be?

Let's have a look at it.

It's 1189 AD.

Richard the Lionheart became King of England that year

but that's scant consolation,

you have got minus 195,380.

So that means today's winner with 2,297 points is Yasmin!

CHEERING

Today's prize is not only spectacular to look at,

it also has the ability to make the world a better place.

Is it a Rat Nose Day rat nose?

-How did you guess?

-I just did!

Ah! OK, Yasmin, there you go. Thanks very much for playing.

I hope you treasure it always.

It just remains for me to send our gallant runners-up,

Max and Theo, down the Time Sewer. Off you go.

-Go on, Max.

-Away we go!

-There he goes, lead the way.

And don't forget, you can play along next time

if you download the Gory Games app from the CBBC website.

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