SCOTTY: Previously, our teams hobbled into guest bedroom week
still scarred from hallway week.
I actually don't care anymore.
I'm dead. No sleep.
No sleep at all.
Budget blowouts laid waste to their landscaping plans.
It's hard to try and work out, "OK, boys,
"get in there and get things done," but also, "Don't spend any money."
No wonder Block landscaper Dave Franklin is looking so worried.
It looks like an absolute mess.
While some push on...
Mate, you are smashing landscaping. Yeah, it's going well.
..others are bogged in debt, unable to pay their trades.
So, just to confirm, no money fairy is coming.
No money fairy's coming.
Tonight, that frustration boils over at the winners are grinners dinner.
How did we pay for our landscaping if that budget doesn't get released
till the last week, and some of us...most of us are now in the red?
In the firing line, little old me.
It's all well and good to say you need to start landscaping
but, if we're all in the red, how do we pay people?
And, later, the Block lets off some steam...
Oh, Keithy!
JEN: Maybe I should get mine done.
SARAH-JANE: Well, I wasn't gonna say anything.
(LAUGHTER)
..as Tom goes on a Block charity drive to help two locals in need.
This is Xander, whose third birthday was on Friday.
He spent his third birthday in a coma.
Maybe as a Block family, we can all donate some money.
You get back to work. Tom, you're an absolute legend.
(WACKY HOUSE SOUND EFFECTS, DOG BARKS)
It's guest bedroom week on The Block,
but the budget blowout from hell week
has turned into anger at House 2.
(HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYS)
(RYAN GRUNTS)
We had to get stuck heavily into demolition.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
It actually ended up bigger than we thought.
It's, like, almost the size of our master.
Scotty said to us, "You got an easy week this week."
I called (BLEEP).
Said, "Get out and start doing your landscaping."
How do you do that when you've gotta do all this?
With only one room win on the board, Rachel and Ryan
have found themselves back in the red and they're not happy.
We were so excited and happy to get out of the red
and then, boom, two weeks later, well in the red again.
What an absolute just kick in the nuts.
Three weeks to finish,
and their financial rut couldn't come at a worse time.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Obviously, a lot of people are feeling it.
We're definitely feeling it.
Our living/dining/hallway has just astronomically blown our budget
way out, way out,
and we're still, like, 20K over last week's budget of 25.
And not only that, our landscaper has started
and we don't have any money to pay him.
We did have money.
We won money.
The money's now gone.
With so much demo to do, Rachel and Ryan's funds are so low
he's forced to work with a skeleton crew to save money.
I'm not usually like this.
It's just that I really want to try and make it as best we can.
Well, we need to make it as best we can
because, if we keep spending money we don't have,
we're gonna end up with four gyprock walls and a light in the middle.
That's true.
Rachel and Ryan's guest bedroom will be a kid's room, and is located
in the old part of the house, to the right of the door.
Their kid's room is inspired by their 5-year-old,
and will include a bunk bed and a desk area.
Mama Rachel added her own personal touch,
designing the wallpaper and using her children's artwork on the walls.
It's a busy week.
(UPBEAT POP TRACK PLAYS)
While this week's battle is being fought out in the guest bedrooms,
the long game will be won and lost out here,
the final big hurdle, the landscaping.
Budget has never been more important.
For Ankur and Sharon, that's a big problem.
Theirs has disappeared.
Living and dining and then hallway week
just killed us, like, budget-wise.
PRODUCER: So, where are you guys at with a solution?
The solution, there is no real solution.
The solution is that...
There is no solution.
Basically, we all have to compromise
and just get it done, but it just means that some of us are (BLEEP)
and some of us aren't.
Unfortunately, Sharon finds herself in the first category.
TIM: In three weeks is...
And she's meeting with her landscaper, Tim,
to drastically cull their garden plans.
What would you sack, then?
I feel like we've sacked heaps.
I think it's not deleting items,
it's moving all these areas into one area.
Yeah.
Think about it, if you lived here, would you have a pizza oven
near a pool or would you have it near a veggie garden,
like, a veggie garden area?
'Cause I'm just thinkin',
you could pick that corner up and drop it in down here.
You speak to the landscapers,
and they're all stressed out of their mind
because they know, with whatever lofty plans that we have,
that only part of them are achievable.
We already have, like, an alfresco kitchen on this side, though,
you know that, right, on the deck?
Yeah, on the deck, that's the other thing.
So you've got somewhere to cook there if you want to.
I think we should keep it separate so it's a separate space.
Let's go have pizzas in the back.
Let's go have a barbeque at the front.
One of their big forced changes is the downsizing
of their full-sized basketball court to a quarter-sized grass court.
So, it'll be eight grand.
For the basketball court for a quarter court.
OK, cool.
So, if we go to Carpet Court
and they can give us some free grass, you'll save half of that.
Yeah.
Can you do a grass?
I've never seen a grass basketball court.
Mate, at this point, who gives a (BLEEP)?
We just need something, OK? I don't care.
(LACONIC POP TRACK PLAYS)
It's been a rough 48 hours for Sharon, who, yesterday,
was in the depths of despair
after the judges' brutal feedback for their hallway.
RACH: You're confused.
And I can see it and I can feel it
and I feel like you're so overwhelmed.
Yeah, I broke down.
I broke down and I was crying in the car,
and I was just like, "I've had enough."
I'm (BLEEP) Over it.
It's just a (BLEEP) position to be in.
Yeah, it's been full on.
(SONG CONTINUES)
With no wins since Week 2 and no extra money to count on,
today, her tears have turned to anger.
How are we gonna finish this build?
I feel like the budgets are unreasonable.
We're not like the boys who are ruthless
when it comes to trades and literally kick people off site.
We're not like Sarah-Jane and Tom
where they've got one full-on tradie on site and he's a machine.
You know, Rach and Ryan, same thing, plumber.
And then also Jen and Dylan, like, they haven't had trades on site,
they've told me, for a couple of days.
They've saved a couple of days
because they've been doing their chippies as builders.
We should've been allocated more budget or something, somehow,
to make it an even playing field, I don't know.
Hold on a sec.
The reason why everyone gets the same budget
is because every contestant gets the same land and square metreage
and, on the point of no trades,
this game has been won by many novices in the past.
Just last year, Mitch and Mark won with no trade skills.
Alisa and Lisandra were both police officers
when they won a combined total of $1 million in 2013 and '14.
And Steve was a chimneysweep and Chantelle a milliner
when they won over 700 grand in 2014.
Yeah!
And so it is on The Block.
Some weeks, you're up against it and some weeks you have an advantage.
Ankur and Sharon's one advantage this week
is the relatively good shape their guest bedroom is in.
In our bedroom, we're actually lucky enough that
there's already three walls framed so we've only got one wall of demo.
That's about it, really. Yeah.
Ankur and Sharon's guest bedroom
is in the old part of the house, next to their master bedroom.
They're also doing a kid's bedroom geared more for the teenager,
with a queen bed, rattan bedhead, wardrobes in a dark blue and grey
with wall sconces, VJ panelling and wallpaper on the walls.
Compared to a normal week, it's quite insane.
Over in House 4, Dylan and Jenny are toiling away on their guest bedroom.
(AIRY MODERN POP TRACK PLAYS)
Still buzzing from their first room win.
It's Dylan and Jenny!
Yay!
Yeah, rockstar!
(JENNY YELPS)
We won hell week, which is incredible
because we're probably in the red maybe 20 grand or less.
We're doing good for winning only one room so far, yeah.
Going for the winning streak now.
Good vibes at House 4 now.
Yeah, we're feelin' on top of the world.
We can't wait for the next week. Yeah, we're stoked.
Judges were on point this week. Yeah.
Dylan and Jenny's guest bedroom will also be turned into a kid's room.
It's located to the right of their front door in the old house.
This week, they're going all out for back-to-back wins
by creating the ultimate kid's bedroom
with forest-themed wallpaper, double bunk beds and a hanging chair.
But where Dylan and Jenny are really out in front of the others
is out the front and out back
where their million-dollar garden is starting to take shape.
We've been on top of landscaping since day one,
so our landscaper's been workin' there before the mud came.
Inge's been goin' for five weeks
so I don't see how these guys are gonna have a chance in three weeks.
Yeah.
Are you gonna get out there and do some landscaping?
Yeah, I just got back in,
I was runnin' barrows of concrete for, like, an hour and a half
to get the stairs going between levels,
the veggie garden, lawn and the pool.
As well as a veggie patch and pool, Dylan and Jenny
are also planning an orchard, an outdoor spa and beehives.
And, if there is any sign of anger in House 4,
it isn't about their gardens.
Unfortunately, my nail bag has been stolen which is not good.
Someone's pinched her nail bag. Really?
Like, took...under the straps and took the pouch.
No (BLEEP).
I don't know what it is about those leather nail bags, people love them.
Should just buy you a (BLEEP) one. Yeah.
But Jenny's not too worried about nail bags right now.
She's off to the shops to buy food
for their first ever winners are grinners dinner.
I was on my way to Aldi, and I seen Duncan on the side of the road
and I asked him if he wanted to come with me.
Hop in.
And he did.
# Good God it's a snack attack
# Some chips and barbeque meat and asparagus tips
# Rashers of bacon. #
Here we are, Aldi!
What should we get, Duncan? I don't think you plan.
I think, with Aldi, you just... Yeah, just go.
Just go.
Let's get some snacks.
# Midnight snacks. #
Dyl's favourite food.
I thought so, he did mention Twisties.
Did he? Yeah, he did.
And you want some cheeses. Cheese, yeah.
# Get that cheese. #
Here we go, Jen. What have we got?
There's a lot of us, so I don't think you can lose
but, I think, if you're gonna have cheese,
you probably also need some biscuits like the Jatz.
Yeah, some crackers, yeah.
# You can eat crackers in my bed anytime. #
Just one pack?
Yeah, that's...
Well, that's the type of biscuit that goes well with the cheese.
Now we'll get some chocolate. Chocolate, that's round the corner.
# Chocolate. #
I'll get two of these, and that looks nice.
One of those? You pick.
Seriously, I don't think you could do a better winners are grinners.
It was a good trip. I love Duncan. He's a legend.
Done, thank you.
Good shop, Jen. Thank you.
Coming up, Jenny's big dinner...
Hello!
..descends into chaos...
It's not fair. It's not fair.
..as the angry mob turn on their host.
You rely on the budget to come through on week 12
and you're not gonna get anything done.
And the long-awaited audit has finally come to roost.
We discovered...
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
They're probably sweatin' bullets.
Alright, let's go.
(WACKY HOUSE SOUND EFFECTS, DOG HOWLS MEEKLY)
# I was born with a hammer in my hand. #
Over at House 4, Jenny's returned with her shopping buddy, Duncs,
with all of the supplies for her and Dylan's winners are grinners dinner.
How are you goin' in here? Yeah, good.
I'm helping you now.
I just want to have a little peek.
Get in there, Dunc, I'll be up...
I'll drop this and I'll come up.
Come have a look.
Is this a visitor's bedroom or...?
Kid's bedroom. Kid's bedroom!
Yeah!
We won the kid's bedroom. Did you?
The winner is Mark and Duncan!
Oh, wow! Boys! Hey?
The judges thought
this week's room was more than just a good design,
it was at a professional standard.
It was a win for every old fart in Australia.
So, what advice do you have, then?
I'd take advantage of that view.
That's just gorgeous.
We should put a window on that side. Oh, you should.
I'm gonna have to ask if it's OK.
Dylan and Jenny have a window at the front of the house looking south,
but, as Duncan pointed out,
now the wall's down, the view east is spectacular.
What a gorgeous view. Yeah, I know, right?
That's gonna be amazing. Yeah.
And meanwhile, over at House 1,
Ryan's also dropped in to check out Tom's view of his guest bedroom.
Here's our bedroom...
Is it? ..that we're revealing this week.
Is it really? Yeah.
That is absolutely gold. Yeah.
Take a photo and then we'll see Saturday morning what it looks like.
Tom and Sarah-Jane are turning their guest bedroom into a nursery,
located at the front of the house.
They're doing something different by putting a botanical Grafico print
on the ceiling, mint-green panelling on the walls
and big, comfy furniture.
What's your room look like, similar?
We've already blown our budget.
Yeah, we're in the red from last week, still.
So, this week's budget's paying last week's.
It's bull that they give you this huge, beautiful house
and want everything top-notch.
There is no money for it. Exactly right.
Let's have a chat in front of everyone to Scotty,
let's bring up the topic tonight.
# Uh
# Watch out
# You might get what you're after. #
Yesterday, while everyone was hard at work
cleaning their site by order of Keith...
Oz! Omar! You there?
..the boys were having a day most Blockheads can only dream about.
# Burning down the house. #
Get in the hole!
So, today's been a good day.
Today's been very...one of the best days on The Block that we've had.
Fantastic day.
# Burning down the house. #
(MUSIC ENDS)
Today, they have some catching up and cleaning up to get done.
Oi, Will, Mitch, can we sack that for a bit
and let's clean this up quickly with some bins?
This is never-ending.
That's a lot of Bingo bins.
And, as usual, the boys have set some lofty goals.
Our aim is literally to finish by Thursday.
Yeah.
(JOVIAL MUSIC)
The boys are the only ones
turning their bedroom into an extra living room this week.
It is located next to their winning bathroom in Week 1.
It will feature a fireplace, large TV,
couch, rug and VJ panelling on the wall.
You know, the buyer may open it as a bedroom later on,
but we are selling the house it being a living room.
While it's a risky move inside, outside,
the boys are taking a more hands-on approach with their landscaping.
(GRUNGY POP TRACK PLAYS)
This week's week one of landscaping for us.
We wish we started earlier but, I reckon,
with Christian Jenkins on our side, we'll definitely get it done.
The boys are dreaming big with their landscaping,
with a helipad, a 40-foot shipping container pool,
a multi-purpose tennis and basketball court
and a 3-par golf course, of course.
Game changer, no-one else has got a tennis court.
You have to do it. This is what The Block's about.
The tennis court's a good idea, eh?
Mate, it could win you The Block.
You'll win us The Block like you won it for Mitch and Mark last year.
Having him this week, it's gonna be massive,
and you'll just slowly start seeing what he does best,
and he'll make the house very beautiful from the outside.
How rewarding is it gonna be?
And we love a challenge.
If you win the landscape week, you're winning The Block.
But it's not landscaping making them anxious,
it's tonight's winners are grinners dinner
when I will reveal the findings of the audit.
Sarah called a financial audit, I think, trying to call us dodgy,
which really hurt Oz and I because we're nothing like that at all.
I was wondering if I could call a body corp right now,
if everybody's comfortable with that.
Yes. Yeah?
People have wanted to call an audit just to make sure
everything's up to date and everything's, like, fair.
I would like to call a financial audit
because, if people do not realise that there is a 50% rule,
then who else didn't realise?
Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
The rule is no contestant can be given a discount of more than 50%
on products or trades.
A few weeks ago, the boys purchased a piano
for less than half its retail price.
It's got some wondering who else has done things we don't know about?
SJ suggested an audit.
She came from the position of, look, if House 5 didn't know
that you've gotta pay 50% retail, well, who else doesn't know?
That was her positioning and we all agreed with her.
Tonight's winners are grinners is imminent,
and it's not just the Blockheads building a dream out here
in country Victoria.
I've been busy, too.
Last week, I threw together a hallway, powder room and laundry
and, right now, some dinner guests are giving it the once over.
# Tonight with me. #
Welcome to the best house on the Block.
# Won't you cut it up...? #
Camelot.
Hi, everybody.
Wow, this is all, like, new. That is very cool.
Nice.
(MAN CHUCKLES)
# Won't you cut it up and dance all over me? #
Oh, my God, I have this...
Oh, that's so annoying, Scotty!
Scotty annoys me. Scotty!
I have this rug at home here.
I reckon that's why they reveal a week later so they copy us.
Yeah.
Plain black shaker doors.
And how did they get that?
I asked for a brass one.
Yeah. Cheeky.
Scotty gets everything we don't.
Brown leather.
So, here, Scotty's been copying us a fair bit.
(DYLAN CHORTLES)
What's that? Oh, what?
That's so different.
That's awesome.
Really nice.
Thought she'd like it.
I would love to have a dump in here. Yeah.
(FRANKIE WHINES)
That's cool but I reckon you'd get over it.
I think they're just jealous of my one-off Anna Blackman powder room.
I noticed that you had the same rug as me down there.
(TRIVIAL MUSIC)
I think you would have the same rug as me.
No, no, no.
I used that Week 7, so I think you're incorrect there.
Oh, winners are grinners.
Hello!
Have you got my lamb cutlets in there?
(BOTH LAUGH) Yeah.
Tonight, for the winners are grinners dinner,
I'm doing my favourite, lamb cutlets crumbed.
It's so good, the best.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Dinner is served.
The crumbed cutlets are here.
(ALL CHEER) Yay!
I've been revvin' Scotty up since Week 1.
I was like, "When I get the W, straight to lamb cutlets, please."
Yeah!
# Yummy yummy yummy
# I got love in my tummy. #
They were chunky, they were, like, crumbed to perfection.
Bit of gravy.
Ooh, it was a good feed.
Everyone raved about 'em, too.
Like, there was not one sad face in the restaurant.
Yeah. In the restaurant.
Oh, this could be the best dinner we've had.
Ooh! Agreed.
Those lamb cutlets were the best lamb cutlets
I've ever had in my life, full stop.
Crumbed lamb cutlets
and that's just, like, the biggest win ever, so, yeah, happy days.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, what a week you guys have had.
40 metres of hallways.
Incredible effort to get through it.
It's a tough week, I know, but everybody did a great job.
The other thing that happened today
is that Jen got her nail bag knocked off.
Oh, what? Oh, no!
This is the second time.
Oh, no.
Well, I went to Mitre 10.
Oh, you...
Yay!
Oh, you didn't. I did.
Oh, you got me a nail bag.
I got you a nail bag with a few little goodies inside...
What have we got? Oh, yay! ..to make up your nail bag again.
Oh! There's a few things there.
There you go, no. Thank you.
That's alright.
How good's that.
Thanks, Scotty.
What a legend.
Would you like to make your speech now?
Winners are grinners! Oh, yeah!
You go first, buster. I'll go first.
Thank you, guys, so much.
We've finally made it to winners are grinners!
Whoo!
What are we, eight weeks in?
Yeah, we really appreciate everyone being so nice and lovely.
Like, it's been the best fun so far. It's so hard.
Like, even me doing this for a career, I'm wrecked.
Yeah!
But, yeah, it's been good
and I've been stoked to see everyone get a win, so it's happy times.
Yeah, for sure.
And I was glad to get me cutlets over the line.
Yeah! Yeah, well done, well done.
Good week to win.
Of course, we've got the Domain Super Power Leader Board now.
It's gonna be very hard to tackle House 1 on 215.5.
House 2 is 203.5.
Closely followed by 4 and 5 in a tie, 203.
And House 3 on 191.
# Hey! #
And getting down to our last bit of business.
(FRAUGHT MUSIC PLAYS)
Last week, Tom and Sarah-Jane asked for an audit of everybody
to see how we were going with our budgets.
It was a massive effort from Jo and myself all week.
We were going through the bills and looking at it.
Thank God because we have been talking about this
for, like, three weeks.
Give it to me, please.
We discovered...
(MUSIC BUILDS)
PRODUCER: Are you doing anything dodgy?
Alright, let's go.
(WACKY HOUSE SOUND EFFECTS, DOG HOWLS MEEKLY)
(DARK, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
Tense scenes at my place.
It's the winners are grinners dinner,
and I'm about to deliver the results of the audit.
(HAUNTING ORGAN MUSIC)
And already I'm sensing these Blockheads are baying for blood.
Everyone was like,
"Whatever happens from here, we're gonna be happy with."
Like, if it finds nothing, you find nothing,
but people might not be playing by the rules,
and then any murkiness is just out there in the open
that, yes, there's doubts, we're calling it.
Does anybody want to know what we discovered?
(ORGAN MUSIC CONTINUES)
Turns out...
(MUSIC LILTS DRAMATICALLY)
..that everybody is playing a fair game.
(MUSIC SWELLS EPICALLY)
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, it doesn't add up at all
but that's not up to me, that's up to The Block.
If The Block don't want to call it out for whatever reason then...
Well, they've done their job.
Yeah, that's their business. Put the nail in the coffin, move on.
Can't ask for any more than an audit.
What we think is we work so hard
and, if you're drivin' around together all day every day
and you're not puttin' any insulation in,
you're not doin' any work, how can you get away with that?
Dodgy.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
It was clear.
What can I say? Everyone...
Is doing the right thing.
I wasn't gonna say that.
How can I word it?
Apparently doing the right thing.
The audit found nothing.
Apart from a couple of misdemeanours
like a few packets of darts here and there
and a bit of personal food on my bill...
(LAUGHTER) ..here and there.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Very naughty.
She's been buying darts from Scotty's money.
How good is that, eh?
(MUSIC LILTS COMICALLY)
And I expect that cash of the misdemeanours in my account ASAP.
(JENNY LAUGHS)
Sarah-Jane, pay up, mate!
OMAR: A 50-pack.
No, it was a carton. It was a carton.
(LAUGHTER)
It was a carton of 500! Nuh!
But one way to get out of an audit, that's gold.
(COMICAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Now, speaking of not much time to go,
like, three and a half weeks as of tomorrow, landscaping!
(BROODING MUSIC)
I did mention about the cash from day one,
about saving money all the way through,
so, hopefully, you're all getting stuck in with the money you have
and the time you have left, as well.
It's all well and good to say you need to start landscaping
but, if we're all in the red, how do we pay people?
How did we pay for our landscaping if that budget doesn't get released
till the last week, and some of us...most of us are now in the red?
Look, basically, at the end of the day
is you've gotta win some money along the way.
But we've won.
How much money have you got left over apart from landscaping?
Once I pay all the trades for this week...
Zero dollars. ..zero dollars.
I paid $33,000 for last week, just my trades.
Like, that just (BLEEP) our whole budgeting.
RYAN: Our landscapers are gonna start billing us soon
and we're like, "Can't pay ya."
Pull back, you gotta pull back on everything.
It's a competition, right?
Can I sell my body in Gisborne?
(LAUGHTER)
Three weeks to go, gang, let's just push through to the end.
How are we gonna finish?
Well, I don't know. It's up to you guys.
How is it up to us?
If you were counting on the income from us
from the next couple of weeks for your families,
it's not coming, we don't have the money.
It's not fair. It's not fair.
People aren't here to work for free.
We don't expect anyone to work for free.
We need to be able to pay people.
That's what The Block's all about, you gotta negotiate, you gotta...
You gotta find the best tradesmen at the right price.
Well, I'm trying to be honest with our trades
'cause this is the first week that it's like,
we're paying them out of last week's budget.
Rely on the budget to come through on week 12
and you're not gonna get anything done.
Like, nothin's gonna get done at all.
You'll barely be able to shape your land in a week.
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
It's sorta deflating, you know,
like, the budgets are just so unrealistic
and, like, Scotty was like,
"Oh, well, I told you to be saving from the start."
Doesn't matter.
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough
but to do 25K for a full hallway week was just...
Was insane, absolute insanity. ..insane, like...
Would you like some good news?
(TRIVIAL MUSIC)
Would you like some good news?
(BLEEP) yeah, Scotty. Oh, Thomas, it's kids.
Sorry. I'd love some good news, Scotty.
What I will do, what I will do,
tomorrow morning, out of your landscape budget
that you're getting on the final week,
I will put into your landscaper's account $20,000.
That's awesome. Oh, my God, that's huge!
SHARON: That's great.
Out of the landscaping budget, not extra!
Thanks, Scotty! Thank you!
Thanks, Scotty. Exactly what I was hoping for.
The breakfast, the breakfast worked.
This is such a great win. I'm pumped.
Scotty's gonna give us 20 grand in advance
from the budget allocated for landscaping week,
and he's gonna put it directly into our landscapers' accounts.
Cha-ching.
It's going into your landscapers' accounts.
That's great.
That's perfect. Not yours 'cause I don't trust you.
(MAN CHUCKLES)
Cutlets and landscaping money. Oh!
Tonight can't get any better!
That's great.
We needed Scotty to step in and he did so we couldn't be more thankful.
We can now pay our landscaper.
They'll probably work twice as hard now
'cause they know that there's money there.
It was actually such a good winners are grinners dinner,
but I'm like, "I've gotta go to bed. Knackered."
Mm, went to bed.
(FRANKIE BARKS, PEACEFUL MUSIC)
So, it's off to bed they go.
Turn the lights off.
But how will Dylan cope with Jenny's new fling?
Love my nail bag.
I keep it in my room now so no-one can touch it.
She's not even lyin', it actually sleeps at the side of our bed.
I kicked your chisel when I get up to go, like, to the toilet at night.
Yeah.
(DYLAN GROANS, JENNY SQUEALS)
Coming up, with the pressure valve off, the girls let their hair down.
What is this life?
Maybe I'll come get waxed with you.
Do you reckon they'll have time to do my moustache and my eyebrows?
And the boys hit the golf course.
As Keith soon discovers, his biggest golf handicap isn't his swing.
TOM: You missed the ball, Keith.
It's the little fella with the big mouth.
I didn't know that you can't talk while someone's hittin' the ball.
(BLEEP) hell, can you please stop talkin'?
Golf's for flogs.
(WACKY HOUSE SOUND EFFECTS, DOG BARKS)
It's a brand-new day and, after a punishing few weeks, a brutal audit
and crippling budget pressures, it's time to let off a little steam.
('80S MUSIC PLAYS)
So, you're playing golf today, Ryan, or what?
Mate, if everyone plays, I'm playing.
Keith's an absolute golf nut, he loves it.
He's been trying to sorta gee up the game for the last couple of weeks,
to take the boys out for a bit of a challenge.
And our deal still stands, right?
Mm. Perfect.
Yeah.
Keith made a little game that the contestants will verse against him
in an Ambrose event, which means we all play the same ball verse Keith.
Keith said, if you beat me,
he will do two hours of labour at each person's house, whoever played,
and then, if he beat us,
that we had to do two hours each at Scotty's house of labour.
Why not? Golf's the best game in the world.
('WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS' THEME MUSIC PLAYS)
Buckle up, folks, it's a gorgeous morning
here at the mighty Macedon Ranges, home to Keith's gala golf day.
We're about to watch the big man take on a team of six Blockheads
in a 3-hole winner-takes-all Block golf challenge.
Let's go.
We did a little round of golf with Keith,
and Omar and Oz and Ryan and Duncan.
While Ankur's simply too busy to join in,
Dylan's also had to sit this one out.
I wanted to go desperately to golf but I just couldn't make it
'cause we're tight on budget, landscaping, all the rest of it,
so it's just not the case.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Alright, boys, let the game begin.
You guys can have the honour.
DUNC: Come on, Tommy!
Oh! Tommy!
Oh, centre fairway! Let's go!
TOM: Where did that go?
We all had a bit of fun, Keith took it pretty serious.
Is that night vision? Not telling ya.
This is my little secret tool.
Can I have a look in it? I've never looked in one.
No.
No, you can't have a look, mate.
Keith's very competitive.
RYAN: Shooter McGavin.
2-shot penalty. Sorry, mate, no talking.
We're just havin' a chat now... I'm serious.
When someone's over the ball, you don't talk.
Right.
If you take it seriously, golf's so crap.
Oh, Keithy.
Jesus Christ.
Well done, Keith. Early days.
That was very good, mate.
Golf's for flogs, but it's a very fun social event
'cause you get to drive buggies around,
have a beer, have a feed and have a laugh with your mates.
Just creamed that. No, you flushed that.
You flushed it.
I was as nervous as (BLEEP) then.
And then Keith had the worst golfing day of his career.
(BIRD SQUAWKS)
And he was not happy about it one bit.
This is (BLEEP) embarrassing.
(MUSIC TINKLES)
Ugh!
Oh, no.
Oh, that's horrible.
(BLEEP), come on, boys. Oh, whoa.
That's a great putt, Dunc, that's a great putt.
Get in! Oh!
(BOYS GROAN)
Wow.
Far out!
The best part about it was,
you know, when somebody's coming to take a shot...
You can't talk.
He's already looking a bit itchy from the thought of insulation.
(BLEEP) hell, can you please stop (BLEEP) talkin'?
Sorry, mate.
Tommy's such a little man and he can talk so much.
How nice is the grass here?
I mean, I don't go to golf courses often.
Hang on, mate, just stop talkin'.
Like, seriously, it's not hard just to shut your mouth.
He just almost bit Tommy's head off.
You missed the ball, Keith.
I didn't know that you can't talk while someone's hitting the ball,
so I made sure that everybody spoke while I hit the ball.
I want full-blown commentary.
(LAUGHTER)
OZ: Ladies and gentlemen, Tommy from House 1 takes a swing.
Rolling...
Oh, Tommy, it's a good putt! Get in the hole! Go, Tommy!
(BOYS GROAN AND LAUGH)
Good putt! Nice!
I actually got one of the best putts of the day.
I need more talking next time.
Hey! Duncan!
(BOYS CHEER WILDLY)
(LAUGHTER AND CHATTER)
We smashed him and he wasn't very happy.
Even better. Tommy!
Even better.
Get on the green!
Whoo!
Oh, Ryan!
So, two holes in and we beat him on the third.
OMAR: Oh, clutch work. Great work, fellas.
Game over. Well done, boys.
Let's go have a beer.
Oh, happy days!
We beat Keith at golf. And what did you win?
Two hours of his labour, that's what we won.
(JOVIAL MUSIC)
That was the worst golf I've played in my life.
I deserve to give you guys two hours work, and what's that gonna be?
Oh, Keith, come and help me out inso next week.
I'll do it with ya. Alright, cool.
Tommy?
You can help me just wrap the outside of my house now.
OK, no worries.
It's two hours of his time, right, so it can be anything.
For two hours, you come to ours.
We'll jump in the Everest,
come straight back here and play nine holes.
We're gonna go back to the golf course.
I reckon you guys are feeling sorry for me.
We are.
(LAUGHTER)
You weren't playing golf, were you?
I was not playing golf, thank God.
I had really, really important things to do.
# I feel pretty
# Oh so pretty. #
How's The Block going? It's good!
It's going really well? What are youse up to?
We're up to kid's room, we're doing kid's room this week.
Aw! I know, I'm so excited.
And then SJ calls me.
Oh, hey, girl!
Oh, my God, are you getting foils or just a wash and blow-dry?
Foils!
Whereabouts are you?
I'm getting my eyebrows waxed
at Align Beauty in Woodend, apparently fantastic.
Well, maybe I'll come get waxed with you.
Do you reckon they'll have time to do my moustache and my eyebrows,
'cause I'm just in Romsey, I'm just around the corner.
Alright. We'll see you soon.
And then Jen calls.
I actually need it in my life right now.
She said, "Can you get me in?" I said, "I can, Jen."
It was all of us down there.
I'll go first, yeah, 'cause I'm House 1.
We got our hair done, we got our eyebrows waxed.
Would you want me to help with anything?
Do you want a backburner moustache?
Like, it's gonna be so nice not to have a shadow on my lip.
Hello!
Jenny! Oh, Jen!
Oh, we had so much fun.
Waxing! What are you getting done?
Oh, you know, just a little...
Ooh, maybe I should get mine done.
Well, I wasn't gonna say anything.
(ALL LAUGH)
I felt bad 'cause Dyl didn't end up going to golf
and I still went and got my hair done.
# All by myself. #
Oh, I'm so excited for this!
She's been waitin' for this moment.
And then we went for a wine at the pub.
Get me the wine!
Cheers, what a day, babe. Cheers.
To you looking really lovely.
Now let's just bitch about everybody.
Mm.
What do you want to start at, House 1?
House 1, 100%.
House 1 is literally out of control. Oh, my goodness.
How good's that!
Honest to God, the way Tom walks around
like he's a bloody Tarzan superhero drives me crazy.
Up the wall.
That's impressive, bro.
House 2. Don't get me started.
Where do we start there? Don't get me started.
Ryan still hasn't realised he's on The Block.
What about Ryan this morning?
I said to him,
"So, I'm thinking about getting a swing for the bedroom."
And he went, "Oh, yeah?"
He doesn't realise it's a kid's bedroom, does he?
I was like, "Mate."
He just realised a camera was following him around this morning.
He didn't know what it was.
He was like, "God, the flies are big out here.
"It's a camera."
God.
What a day. What a day.
Cheers, babe.
Cheers to men. Cheers.
(WACKY HOUSE SOUND EFFECTS, DOG BARKS)
('SOS' BY RIHANNA PLAYS)
With a much-needed cash injection to their landscaping budget,
House 5 have called on their big-gun landscaper, Christian Jenkins,
to get stuck in,
and he knows exactly where he wants to spend some of his new funds.
# Oh oh. #
The only way we're gonna get this... any traction on this job
is if we get the 5.5-tonne excavator from Kennards.
You want a 5.5-tonner from Kennards?
Mate, honestly, Oz will be on the phone straight away for that.
It's a 2-hour turnaround, so we'll have it here in the next two hours.
Hey, Moose, we need a 5.5-tonner.
Can we get it today?
Give us about an hour, hour and a half and it'll be there.
Oh, wow. Far out, mate, how good's that.
That's winning. Win...of course we're winning.
When it comes to landscaping, House 1 are calling on their top gun, too.
I thought I'd do my part for landscaping,
and I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna help out but I don't know what I'm doing.
Well, Troy, what's SJ up to? What's she gonna do?
Well, we're under the pump, Keith, so we need SJ
to move the rocks from over there and bring 'em up to the firepit.
So, he kinda gave me a few reminders.
He was there, like, for the safety of everybody, really.
Hop in, eh?
Alright, I'm ready.
# This ain't gon' be easy Work. #
There you go.
It's all about the clutch.
Beautiful. Oh, I got it!
# You got it. #
Which is, you know, the brake and the...neh-neh. What's the...?
Accelerator. Yep, the accelerator.
('WORK' BY KELLY ROWLAND CONTINUES)
Don't forget to steer.
Left. No, round that way. Left!
You're a natural! I'm a natural!
Keith said I'm a natural! Look at this!
It doesn't go very fast, Keith.
That's good.
# I want to see you work. #
I only stayed in first gear 'cause it was just the safest thing to do.
It was.
I'm coming in for this one!
Slow it up, good.
So, it was about getting close enough.
Whoa, whoa!
I can't stop it... Stop.
Oh. Stop.
Oh, the clutch, sorry!
And getting your bucket and scooping it under.
Keep goin'!
Stop! Beautiful!
And tipping your bucket up so it goes...choop!
Keep goin'. Choop!
There we go! Well done, Sarah-Jane.
And then...nyep!
Just a little bit. Nyep!
Away you go.
See ya, Keithy!
See ya, SJ, well done!
Alright, down she goes!
Look at that.
Even Keith was like, "You did a really good job, SJ."
What a legend.
Well done, SJ.
Gotta bring me bucket back up.
That is mission accomplished.
I was like, "Thanks, Keith."
It's like when your dad says you did something really good.
I'm feeling...
I haven't seen you smile this big for a long time.
I know, I'm feeling pretty good.
Yeah, so, I could literally be excavating soon.
You might see me out there, guys.
TRC Plumbing.
And Excavation now.
# So come on
# Jump on board. #
It's been a tough old week for House 3.
Ankur couldn't afford the time to go to golf,
so he's just quietly toiled away.
This is not the time to give up,
even though sometimes you desperately want to.
# 'Cause the kids are alright. #
His efforts haven't gone unnoticed by Keith.
His framing and flooring are down, and all he needs now is a plasterer.
G'day, Anks. How you going?
Good, and you guys are going really, really well.
I reckon you're winning the race by a mile at the moment.
Oh, this is good.
Yellow tongue's down. Yep.
Your walls are finished. Absolutely.
Windows in. Happy days.
So, what, Scotty's just gotta put in
the ceiling joists, insulate and you're ready for plaster?
Ready for plastering.
But plasterers are hard to find at the moment,
so, while Sharon shops, in the other room...
I've got some colouring-in books, some cushions, as well,
so, hopefully, we get everything in time.
..Ankur shops for plaster on hipages.
So, we've put an ad on hipages,
so, yeah, so we're just trying to sort that out this morning ASAP.
I'm sure they'll be able to find one gyprocker for you, at least.
Yeah, for sure.
They've done it before, so here's hopin', fingers crossed.
# Hey! #
Meanwhile, over at House 4...
Hello! Hey, guys, how are you?
Good. How are you?
..Dylan and Jenny are meeting with Block architect Julian Brenchley.
They want to change the position of their guest bedroom window
to take in the spectacular view of the iconic Red Rock.
So, in our kid's room, the window faces towards the front of the house
but the view's all to the left, so facing out to Red Rock.
It is nice to have a window at the front of the house.
I think, if you change that, it might change the look of the house.
Yeah, look, it can but I think, you know, coming into this room,
and going bang onto Red Rock would be extraordinary.
He thought it was a good idea, didn't he?
Yeah. Yeah.
I'll make a quick call to the guy who's finalising our energy ratings
'cause, you know, on this series of The Block,
sustainability, resilience,
you're rural but also this amazing opportunity to do 7-star houses.
In conjunction with Suncorp, our houses this year are resilient,
thanks to solar-powered energy,
water tanks and even the building materials we're using,
including these Aluplast triple-glazed windows,
which are specifically designed to keep embers out in a bushfire.
We've never had... Never done before.
Yeah.
And it's a new criteria coming in. Yeah.
My gut feeling is south, at least... Is fine.
You'll be fine. OK.
PRODUCER: What was the best thing about this week?
The best thing about this week
was changing the window from the right-hand side to the view side.
Yeah, we're stoked with it.
What are you standing around for?
Keep movin'. Get into it.
Cheers, Jules. Thanks, Jules.
Coming up, who's this bloke?
Oh, my God.
Looks horrible.
I've looked homeless for, like, eight weeks.
Ankur gets a makeover.
Yeah, let's make a baby.
And get ready for the feels...
This is Xander, whose third birthday was on Friday.
He spent his third birthday in a coma.
..as Tom goes on a mission to help two local lads in need.
You're a legend.
It breaks my heart to see, you know, something like this happen.
Kids are number one. Yeah, man.
(POIGNANT MUSIC)
('ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT' BY CYNDI LAUPER)
From anger...
How did we pay for our landscaping if that budget doesn't get released
till the last week, and some of us...most of us are now in the red?
..to joy.
Cheers.
# We have no past...#
Work to play.
(LAUGHTER AND CHATTER)
Life on The Block is a mixed bag.
(SONG CONTINUES)
You're confused.
Oh, no!
That is absolutely gold.
Happy days, baby!
My man.
5.5-tonner from Kennards.
Literally placed the order.
Within two hours, they're delivering an excavator.
We really need this excavator
and, there you go, they are always delivering.
There we have it.
Loves a Kubota.
Meanwhile, desperate for a gyprocker,
Sharon and Ankur are waiting for a call from a hipages tradie,
hopefully with some good news.
I've got good news.
Oh, you're kidding.
We'll come and give you a chop out tomorrow.
Yay! That's unreal.
Luckily, we didn't go play golf like other people got to play golf.
Thank you so much, I know you guys are flat chat
and I know you've got other work to do, but we really appreciate it.
We were so stuck today.
So, now I can go get a haircut
that I've been wanting to get for eight weeks.
# Get a haircut and get a real job. #
So, while landscaping might be a problem...
I've come to reclaim my husband.
..manscaping Ankur back into shape should not be a problem.
I've looked homeless, no offence to anybody,
but homeless for, like, eight weeks.
So, you're an accountant, did you say?
Yeah, man, accountant and (BLEEP) knows why I came on The Block.
(EXAGGERATED CLIPPING AND TRIMMING SOUNDS)
Wow!
So handsome!
You like it? Yeah, let's make a baby.
Oh, wow.
(TRANQUIL MUSIC)
Back at the Block, Tom's setting out on a mission
to help two local lads he heard about that could use a hand.
I heard a sad story about two young kids, local family whose...
Kids were involved in an accident.
..kids were really badly burnt in an accident at home.
I don't know the family but the story sorta,
I don't know, hit a soft spot with me and so I thought I'll see
if we can raise some money and put it towards helping the family.
These are the two little kids.
# Give in
# Don't give up. #
This is Xander, whose third birthday was on Friday.
He spent his third birthday in a coma.
And this is Tanner, his younger brother.
He's 22 months old.
They were both burnt in a fire accident at home
involving an aerosol can
being accidentally placed among some newspapers that were being burnt.
The kids have had their faces skin-grafted from organ donors.
These boys have got a pretty long road to recovery.
And the cost of multiple surgeries along with needing to be
by their children's side means they'll have no income, so...
Any donations that anybody wants to do.
Yeah, of course.
# Whatever you want or need... #
Ten bucks, 20 bucks, whatever you want.
We'll put in 100 bucks.
We want to pledge 500 bucks.
Oh, wow!
Five hundred.
So generous, boys.
Even those that gave $5 'cause that's all they could afford,
it was really lovely of everybody.
I'll go 20 bucks.
I'll do the old 30.
I'll go 200.
Yeah, mate, that's bloody awesome.
Spurred by generosity of his immediate Block family,
Tom spreads the net wider.
I thought maybe be proactive and we'll try to make the most of,
you know, being on a big building site.
We'd like to donate $1,000.
I'll give you $1,000.
We're happy to donate $1,000.
As we all know, once Tom gets started, there's no stopping him.
# Never give up. #
Morning, Jules.
Even my boss, Block co-creator Julian Cress, is fair game.
I'll do $1,000.
Oh, wow.
Everyone's very generous.
90 and six, we'll go 5,000.
Far out. Oh, wow.
How much did you say? 5K.
5,000?
Jesus Christ, that's very generous of you, Lance.
# Whatever you think you're worth. #
A lot of people have got families.
Mate, I've got three kids, and I...
You're a legend.
That breaks my heart to see, you know, something like this happen.
Kids are number one. Yeah, man.
# I'm in. #
Are you getting some good donations, are you getting some...?
Mate, we've raised, what, like, 20 grand.
Oh, really? Yeah.
How good's that. That's so great.
You raised 20 grand?
Yeah, I think around about 20 grand, yeah.
How awesome are people.
You're doing a good job, Tommy. Thanks, guys.
You're doing a great job, Tom.
Well, you get back to work. You're an absolute legend.
If you would like to help the family,
please donate to their GoFundMe page.
# I'm in. #
MAN: Someone's discovered that he has thumbs,
at least enough thumbs to pick up a nugget and gnaw on it.
You're doin' very well!
I'm very impressed.
Can we not stuff them in the couch?
(DAD LAUGHS)
# Don't give up. #
SCOTT: You guys are tens of thousands of dollars over budget.
VOICEOVER: One of them... (VOICE ECHOES) ..one of them...
I don't understand where you think you're gonna pay for it.
..has been spending up a storm.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
You're spending money as if you think
Channel Nine is gonna give you some more money.
You got no more money.
Who gets...
I'm cutting you guys off.
(GASPS)
..cut off?
You don't make any decisions with trades, purchases or anything
unless it goes through me.
I'll make all those decisions.
You're gone.
Block goes in the red.
Tomorrow on Nine.