Whoops I Missed My Brain! Ultimate Brain

We've got our work cut out here, GP.

Oh, that reminds me...

What's a balloon's least favourite drink?

We've had a lot of balloons on Ultimate Brain

and you know what? I've never thought to ask them

what their least favourite drink might be.

You know, we subject them to so much.

And, you know what? Maybe I should ask them and become their friend.

-No, GP...

-Maybe they don't like water.

Maybe they don't like milk, because, you know, it comes from cows,

that might weird them out a bit.

-GP!

-Maybe we should go and ask the balloons. Hey, Mr Balloon.

-Do you have any friends that...

-No. No, it's...

-..we can go talk to?

-And we can go learn more...

-It's just a j...

I feel a bit deflated now.

Today, GP pumps it up.

Which team's invention will be bursting with brilliance?

And can our teams handle the pressure?

Come on! Really?!

Get those magnificent minds at the ready.

It's time for Ultimate Brain!

AUDIENCE CHEER

HE LAUGHS

Hi there. Ah, yes, the power of the internet.

Yes. I've got my own website, you know?

And I love vlogging on Oo-oo-ooTube.

Hello. My name is Dr Brain.

Today, I will be talking about my favourite hobbies,

which include blogging, vlogging and clogging,

which goes a little bit like this.

Diddly-dee-diddly-dee-diddly-dee.

Fiddly-dee-diddly-de-diddly-dee.

Let's get on with the show!

Fiddly-dee-diddly...

Time to meet our teams.

Uploading first, it's the Greens

from Northern Ireland. It's...

World Wide Web wise from Hampshire.

It's...

And our celebrity team, in blue, from CBBC's Whoops I Missed The Bus.

It's Laura

and the Mandeville sisters, Grace and Amelia.

Here we go.

HE GASPS It's time to meet the teams.

Sorry, I'm a bit tired.

I had to run here because, whoops, I missed the bus.

Yes, it's the Blues!

-How are you, Blues?

-Good, thanks.

-Good.

-Very good.

Good to meet you. You didn't miss the bus, did you?

-You got here on time.

-We certainly did.

-We're here.

-Marvellous!

Now, then, Dr Laura, I hear you're a bit of a stand-up comedian.

-Yeah.

-What's easier, stand-up or vlogging?

-Vlogging is definitely easier.

-Definitely, yes, I should think so.

Drs Mandeville, I believe you are rather experts in fashion,

-are you not?

-Yeah, we like fashion,

-Yeah, we do.

Yeah. What do you think of my fashion?

I think you look bananas.

Bananas! That's cos I shop at Dolce and Banana.

Stop me now! What's your team name?

Science Warriors!

-OK, Yellows, how are you?

-Good.

-Fine.

Now, then, Dr Harrison,

I'm picking up a vibe that you're a bit of a comedian.

Please welcome, next act, all the way from Ultimate Brain,

Dr Harrison!

I went to the airport, I tripped over some luggage and I went flying.

Brilliant! What do you think of that, Dr Laura?

I thought it was really good.

Don't tell too many of your jokes, she'll probably steal them.

HE LAUGHS

What's your team name?

Good to meet you, Yellows. Now then, the Greens.

-Where are you from, Greens? ALL:

-Northern Ireland.

Dr Stephen, you want to be...

a palaeontologist, is that right?

-Yes.

-Why so?

Well, it's just fun to dig things up and you get to discover new things.

-Are you really into dinosaurs?

-Yeah.

-What's your favourite dinosaur?

-Brachiosaurus.

Brachiosaurus.

What's your team name?

So, there you go, those are the teams.

And this is the show with a need for speed,

a craving for creativity,

and above all, a demand for ingenious ideas and inventions.

It's time for the warm-up!

GUINEA PIG'S TEETH CHATTER

Not that type of warm-up, GP.

Bring me my questions!

Thank you. Here we go then, teams. Are you ready?

-ALL:

-Yes.

-Good, good. Hands on brains. Here we go.

Take 4,

times it by 4,

then minus 4,

then times by 4.

Super Ecstatic Scientists!

48.

Is right! What a lot of fours.

What word am I spelling backwards?

Super Ecstatic Scientists!

No! I'm afraid it's greenhouse.

What is this sound?

BRAYING

Fantabulists.

A donkey.

Is the right answer!

How many letters are there in the word ultimate?

Super Ecstatic Scientists.

-Eight.

-Eight.

Is right!

Now, put yourselves in order of how far you can stick out your tongue,

from the shortest this side to the longest that side.

Go and then press your buzzers.

Science Warriors!

Let's have a look. What do we think?

Yes! I think that's right. Well done, you Blues.

Good job, Blues. But Yellows take the lead.

Wow, what a fantastic round. And that was just the warm-up.

Let's heat things up with the ignition round.

We've got a good experiment to do now, haven't we,

my good friend, Guinea...?

Where is he? Guinea Pig! What are you doing over there?

So, to get the ultimate brainy look, what you need to do is use this

and then go around the inside of the eye...

-Stop vlogging and come over here, GP.

-Sorry, Dr Brain.

-Come on!

I was just doing some internet research on quantum entanglement.

Oh, hurry up. Come on. Come on.

So, teams, what do you think I've got here?

-No idea.

-A bottle.

A bottle, that's right. What does this look like?

-ALL:

-A pump.

-That's right, a pump,

which is going to be activated by guinea power.

And that's going to pump air all the way along this tube

into this bottle, which contains just a little bit, can you see?

Just a little bit of medical alcohol.

So, we're going to place it in like this,

seal it off and hold that there while Guinea Pig pumps away.

And then, I'm going to remove the tube

and I'm going to ask you what's going to happen.

Your options are as follows.

A, a thick cloud will form inside the bottle.

B, the bottle will collapse in on itself.

C, the bottle will omit a rather rude and loud raspberry noise.

GUINEA PIG BLOWS RASPBERRY Yes, like that.

Or D, something else.

Something only you have thought of.

Or, perhaps, you have thought of.

You're thinking time starts now!

THEY WHISPER

Four options here.

The air has to come out.

The alcohol...

-The cloud.

-Yeah, I thought that.

At first, I thought it was that one, but now I don't think it is.

Have you got your answer?

-If it's alcohol, then...

-SIREN WAILS

That's it. Thinking time is over.

It's time to see your answers right now!

Let's have a look.

A, A and C.

I've got to ask you, Blues, why C?

Good question. We just kind of cancelled it out.

We think that it's just going to sort of

equalise the pressure, because

it's just the medical alcohol, so,

it's around air anyway,

so, I don't see why that would create a reaction.

I don't think it's going to collapse in because it's just

-going to sort of equalise, I think.

-Yeah, that is.

Oh, I see, so you've eliminated those two and you've gone

-for that one.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-And also, because it might be the funniest.

-Yeah, I hope it does happen.

-Exactly.

-Hopefully.

-Yes, absolutely.

So, you think it's going to make a very rude noise.

-It's going to force out a kind of...noise.

-Think so.

Now, then, we have two As over here. I'm going to ask the Greens first.

There's one reason why I didn't think it could be C,

is because, usually it only makes a noise like that

when there's, like, pressure and it's trying to get through it.

But, that's quite a big hole, so it can just come through easily.

-Oh, I see, right.

-Yeah.

And then, I don't think it's B.

I don't really know why, I just don't think it is.

-Not going to collapse.

-And then, D, we couldn't think

of anything, so, we sort of just went for A.

-You've gone for A.

-Yeah.

-OK. Very interesting.

Yellows, what's your thinking?

Well, I think, cos I've done an experiment at home,

if you get a tray, and you put ice on top of it,

and you get hot water and you put the tray on top of the jug,

a cloud forms inside.

I think that's what's going to happen with the bottle.

And that's a difference between the temperatures causes the cloud.

Very interesting. Well, I wonder if they're going to be right.

How are your muscles, GP? Let's have a feel. Oh, yes.

They're like iron.

Iron that's been melted down into a very soft fudge.

THEY CHUCKLE

Come on. Let's have a go. Activate.

Now, I'm just placing the bung into the top of the bottle.

Nice and strong like that. OK, GP, are you ready?

Three, two, one, pump!

Pump it up, pump it up!

# Pump up the jam, pump it up... #

Pumping away. The pressure going in.

A few more, I think. There we go.

Right, now, let's have a look, then, shall we?

LOUD SNAP

THEY GROAN

Two things happened.

One, it goes bang and scares the life out of everybody.

And two, a cloud has formed!

As the air is squeezed

into the bottle,

it gets warmer and the liquid

starts to evaporate into a vapour.

When the lid is taken off,

the pressure is released,

turning the vapour back into millions of droplets

suspended in the bottle, giving a cloud.

Now, here's an interesting thing. Let's give it another pump.

So, look what happens here, look.

When you pump it again,

it all disappears.

Oh, you see.

And then it comes back again, which is very similar to the way

that changes in air pressure create the clouds in the sky.

So, that's 10 points for the Yellows and the Greens!

Well done!

Smoke signals.

He-llo.

It-is-time-for-the-next...

round!

Oh, look at that. I'm well fit, me. Fit as a fiddle.

Poor old Guinea Pig isn't, though. He's absolutely exhausted.

He was on his hamster wheel all morning going round and round

and round and round, like that.

So, he said, "Dr Brain, can I go for a nap, please?"

So, I said, "Yes, fine, off you go."

And, then, I suddenly remembered,

I'd been using his bed to store all my balloons.

Oh, no! On the bottom and on the top.

So, I've asked my teams to come up with some clever contraptions

and devious devices to help us to pop all the balloons

as quickly as possible.

I gave them each a budget of £30 million

divided by a million,

and two days to come up with their design.

Teams must help GP sort out his spot for slumber

and think of a way to help him burst as many of the balloons

above and below him on his bed as possible.

The plan that manages to burst the most balloons

in the time provided, will earn a gigantic 10 points.

Here he is.

He's absolutely bursting with sleepiness, Mr Guinea Pig!

THEY CHEER

Shh! Don't wake him up.

Hi, GP. HE YAWNS

-You all right?

-Yeah, I just can't wait to have my nap.

Yes, yes, I'm sure it's going to be lovely. Off you go then.

Oops! Don't tell him.

I hope your plans are going to be good.

Yellows, why does Guinea Pig look like he's got the O2 on his head?

We were thinking that he could jump up and down,

so he could get the balloons on the top.

He's got the spikes on his feet to cover more surface area.

Good scientific thinking. What about his knees and his elbows?

-What's that there?

-Well, he's accident-prone,

so when he, like, falls over, the balloons will pop.

Good thinking. And what's he holding?

Sticks with spikes on the end, like spears.

He's looking pretty sharp, isn't he?

Pretty sharp!

Marvellous stuff. What's your plan called?

-ALL:

-Spiky Sonic Suit.

The Super Ecstatic Scientists have given GP two large poles

with single spikes at either end for added reach.

A pair of prickly shoes and, knowing he's forever falling over,

they've also cunningly added spikes to his protective pads.

Topping the plan is a helmet covered in sharp pencils,

with so many elements for the Yellow's design,

something's got to work, hasn't it? Hasn't it?!

Three, two, one, go, GP!

Fire works night, is it?

-Oh, my God!

-Keep jumping!

Jump higher! Jump higher!

Jump to the left!

Walk over!

Wow.

Jump up and down!

It sounds like a giant popcorn making machine.

DR BRAIN LAUGHS

Use your elbow pads!

Yeah, use your elbow pads.

Use your elbow pads. That's it.

-You tell him. You tell him.

-That's it!

Oh, good work. Look at that.

Keep on going! Keep on going!

Nearly there. That's it. So many options.

Get the other one! Get the other one!

SIREN WAILS

There we go! That's time up.

That's time up!

-How do you think your plan went there, Yellows?

-Really good.

-Really good.

-Really good, wasn't it?

He had so many options, he didn't know quite what to do.

Guinea Pig, how are you feeling?

I'm popped!

Some perfect popping there.

But what about those pencils?

They made less of a mark on the task in hand

and really just made marks on the balloons.

It is the soft properties of graphite that make it

so useful for writing with, as its layers of carbon atoms slide

over each other with weak forces between them.

It slips easily from pencil to paper,

hence the need for regular sharpening.

So, here we have the Blue plan.

Why is Guinea Pig dressed up like Dot Cotton?

We thought, you know, to help him get into character.

Oh, nice. Nice touch. Yes, I like that. So, talk me through your plan.

Well, we're hoping with the litter picker

and the spikes on his feet, he can hold the balloons in place.

Yeah, and then the Hoover is for the top.

-There's a technique to this.

-Yeah.

-Oh, yes?

-Yeah.

-It's called the crazy.

We tried it at home.

It's actually my own brand of vacuum cleaner called an Oo-oo-ver.

So, what's the name of your plan?

-ALL:

-The Balloonatron.

The Balloonatron.

Oh, I like that. How do you feel, GP?

This is probably the most ridiculous idea we've ever had on

Ultimate Brain, Dr Brain.

No, it isn't.

The Science Warriors' Balloonatron

uses spikes on GP's feet

with a litter picker to stabilise

the balloons ready to be kicked.

For the balloons above, they provided a vacuum cleaner

and hose that they're hoping will have the suction power to pop.

So, will they clean up or does this plan suck?

It's time to find out!

Three, two, one, go, Guinea Pig!

Yes! It's working!

Up high! Up high!

Come on! Just keep kicking!

Yeah, keep kicking!

Come on! Come on! Come on!

Ignore the top. That's not working. Just do the bottom.

Yeah, just the bottom.

It's working quite well, I think.

Keep kicking it! Put some foot into it. Go on, man!

He's doing a dance move. What are you doing?

What are you doing?!

Push the Hoover into the balloon.

-No, push the little thing...

-No, just keep kicking!

Push it into the balloon!

THEY ALL SHOUT AT ONCE

-Litter picker up high.

-Kick!

-No!

-Aim for the bottom! Aim for the bottom!

-Just whack it!

SIREN WAILS

There we go. That's time up. That's time up!

Sorry, Blues, but not a lot

of cleaning up going on there.

That oo-oo-oo-ver is o-o-o-over with nowhere near enough suction power.

Now, here we are with the Green plan.

It looks quite simple. What's it called?

-ALL:

-Pins And Needles.

And what is the theory behind your plan?

What Guinea Pig is going to do is he's going to try

and pop the balloons at the top.

And when he's bringing the poll back down,

he's going to try and pop the balloons on the bottom.

So, you want him to hold it upright, like that,

and go up, down, up, down, up, down, like that.

-Are you getting that, GP?

-You know what?

I wasn't too sure about this idea, so, I slept on it,

but then I woke up with a funny feeling.

The Fantabulists have created Pins And Needles,

a gladiator-style weapon for GP to take into battle!

Using two spheres at each end of this pugil stick,

provides a large, curved surface area.

So, when covered in spikes,

allows them to be positioned at lots of different angles.

It's cactus technology, hombre!

The lightweight pole in this two-pronged attack

provides easy manoeuvring to stab at balloons above and below in one go.

Three, two, one, go, Guinea Pig!

-ALL:

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

-Keep going!

-Just like that!

Keep going!

Faster! Faster!

Faster!

Come on! Do the top ones too!

-Do the top ones!

-On the top!

-Yeah!

Keep going! Come on, come on, come on!

Keep going! Come on, two more.

OK. Only a few seconds left.

He's nearly done it!

Get the last one!

That's it!

Oh, well, have a cup of tea or something.

SIREN WAILS There it goes! Wow, Greens!

So many small spikes stabbing at once was super.

Pushing through the rubber material's

spaghetti-like polymer strands for popping power!

Well, teams, that was pop-tastically balloon-mungous.

-Did you enjoy that? ALL:

-Yes!

We like popping balloons, don't we?

I'm bursting with pride, et cetera.

-So, then, Blues, didn't quite come off, did it?

-No.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

I'm afraid you only got 23 out of the 200 balloons.

Not a great success, I'm afraid, so no points for you.

Yellows, you did pretty well, didn't you, I thought?

Head-banger!

HEAVY ROCK MUSIC PLAYS

Well, I can tell you, you got 119 out of 200.

That's pretty good, isn't it?

But, Greens...

..there's not a balloon left in the world

that you haven't popped!

# 99 red balloons

# Floating in the summer sky. #

You should take it up as a job, balloon pop-pery! Amazing!

You got all of them, and therefore, you get 10 points.

And, Yellows, cos you did so well and you got over 50%,

I'm going to give you 5 points!

# Me and Guinea Pig we're getting ready for the party

# The party is going to be so great and I just can't wait

# It's going to be so fun

# We've got loads of balloons

# Oh, no, we haven't cos we just popped them all

# Oh, no, what we gonna do? #

Oh, I know, party blowers. Yes, that's what we'll do.

So, here's how it's going to work.

Each of our contestants has their very own party blower.

When they hear the Guinea Pig squeal...

SQUEALING

..they're going to give it a toot.

And the first party blower that reaches full-length

is going to be the winner!

-Are you ready, teams? ALL:

-Yes.

Here we go, then. Facing forward.

Come on, Stephen.

SQUEALING

Ooh. Woohoo!

Top blowing, one and all.

But it's clearly between the Blues and the Yellows.

In slow mo-tion.

Well, blow me away.

I'm certainly ready for a party after that.

So, there we have slow motion confirmation of the fact

that the Blues get 10 points.

Well done, you Blues.

Come on then. Time for the next round.

THEY ALL BLOW ON PARTY POPPERS

Blues back in the game, getting 10 points.

So, Guinners, old bean, what do you know about pressure?

I know a lot about pressure, Dr Brain, cos, you know,

whenever we do the challenges, I feel that the success of it

all rests on my shoulders and I feel a lot of pressure.

# Under pressure. #

Well, don't worry, GP,

-because the pressure is all on the contestants with this one.

-Phew!

Now, what they have here is some measuring beakers

and they have a hose, which, itself, has quite a low pressure.

And they can use any of those objects there,

or none of them if they want,

to get the water from the hose into the beakers.

They've got a sponge, a ruler, a water soaker,

a little measuring beaker and some pipettes.

And the one who gets the most water over into the beakers wins.

The challenge being that the tap is very low pressure.

Ooh, trippy.

-Do you think you can do it, GP?

-Yeah.

Let's hope our teams are a little bit more inspired.

Three, two, one, go!

Right, so, we fill these up and then we all get one.

No, that wouldn't do as well.

-Could you, like, pour that over there?

-So, we all need to get one.

-Just go.

-No, we all need to get one.

Agree on something, Greens.

OK. Where's the water?

I don't know what I'm doing.

Why is it not coming?!

Going well, Dr Grace?

Come on! Really?!

Definitely using this.

SHE GIGGLES

Creative thinking from the Yellows.

This is useless.

No.

Hoo-hoo! Well, at least they're having fun.

-Stephen, you go and bring that over now.

-Yeah, you take that.

-Steady.

-So, what, shall we soak the sponge?

Yeah, just soak the sponge and then, like, rinse it out.

You know you're allowed to put your hand over it.

-SHE GIGGLES

-Let me use this. Let me use this!

I can't fill it! I can't fill it.

-What?!

-Laura, you've got the best one here.

And, then, Rachel, go over and squeeze it out.

I don't think this is much use.

Dr Rebekah, taking the lead.

-I can't! How does this work?

-Wait.

-Oh...

-I don't know how to fill this up!

Um... Put it under the hose?

Teams who can work well under pressure will do well at this game.

Well under pressure.

Hold it a bit longer, Amelia.

Whoops!

-Maybe you could wrap it up and line it up?

-Yeah, you go over it.

-Are you feeling the pressure?

-No, I'm not.

-Definitely.

You could, like, catch that at the end,

so, then, you don't need to come running back.

See, you could do that.

Yes, or getting the ruler.

Wait, Laura, come here!

Fill that up.

Not long left.

Gotcha!

-I'm filling up the same ones, guys.

-10 seconds!

-See, you can do that.

-Yeah.

SIREN WAILS

Time up! That's your time up.

So, that was a funny old challenge, wasn't it? How did you find it?

-It was quite hard.

-Really hard.

-Quite hard, wasn't it?

Now, there was a clue which I gave to you all.

Do you remember hearing these words?

Teams that work well under pressure...

ECHOES: Pressure, pressure, pressure...

..will do well...

ECHOES: Well, well, well...

Are you feeling the pressure?

ECHOES: Pressure, pressure, pressure...

-Do you remember hearing me say that? ALL:

-Yeah.

-Well, that was the clue.

Now, Dr Marriott of the Yellows is going to help me

to demonstrate how you should have done it.

What you're going to do, Dr Marriott,

is you're going to place your thumb or finger of your choosing,

over half of the end of the hose for me.

Can you do that?

That has increased the pressure.

And if you try and fire it at the cups...

There we go! You see?

What's happened is you've increased

the pressure of the water

by decreasing the area through which it can go, you see.

That's how you should have done it. Lateral thinking.

Nobody thought of it.

But I can reveal that the team that got the most water

into the cups was...

..the Blues!

And you get 10 points.

So, that means there's all to play for as we go into the final round!

I'm trying to put pressure on my nerves, keep them all intact,

because it's all to play for as we go into the last round.

-Are you ready, teams? ALL:

-Yes!

Here we go. Hands on brains.

True or false? Cows sleep standing up.

Science Warriors!

True.

No. It's false.

Which clawed crustacean beginning with L has blue blood?

Super Ecstatic Scientists!

Lobsters.

Is right. And the Queen, of course.

Which country is famous for its Great Wall?

Science Warriors!

China.

-Is correct.

-Yes!

-Trees that keep their leaves all year round

are known as what?

The Fantabulists!

Evergreens.

Correct! True or false? The tomato is a vegetable.

Science Warriors!

-ALL:

-False!

-False!

-Yes!

Which famous forest produces 20% of the world's oxygen?

Science Warriors!

-Amazon rainforest.

-Rainforest.

The Amazon rainforest, yes, you said it.

What is the largest desert in the world?

The Fantabulists!

Sahara.

The Sahara's correct. I nearly said dessert.

True or false? Most species of moth are nocturnal.

Science Warriors!

-True.

-It's true. True or false?

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Science Warriors!

-True.

-No! It's false, you can.

Look at this. Achoo!

Which colourful birds can see behind them without turning their head?

Super Ecstatic Scientists!

Owls.

No, it's a parrot.

SIREN WAILS

Ah! That's time.

Wow, what an incredible round that was, an incredible game we've had.

Now, I can reveal that in third place with 21...

It's the Yellows!

Well done! You played very well.

Well done.

In second place, with 26...

It's the Greens!

So, that means the winners, with 30 points,

you just scraped it.

Well done, you Blues. There we go.

So, the Blues are the winners today,

but everyone's a winner

in this game.

I hope you enjoyed yourselves.

See you again for more Ultimate Brain!

-Fascinating things, balloons.

-Hey, Dr Brain.

I feel so bad about bursting all those balloons during the show,

I didn't know what to ask the balloons about what their least

-favourite drink is.

-You're still going on about that.

It was just a joke, GP.

Just a silly joke. What's a balloon's least favourite drink?

Pop! HE CHUCKLES

As in, fizzy pop.

Do you see?

You don't see. He doesn't see.

Well, that's burst my balloon.