Liza Koshy (or her 2026 equivalent): On your mark...
(Five-second jib shot of the entire obstacle course. Blue and purple accent lights dominate the set. As the jib slowly pans across the set, the motion-smoothed film look makes everything appear artificial.)
Liza Koshy: Get set...
(Four-second close-up of the contestant looking nervous but determined. The low musical drone gradually increases in volume.)
(Another jib shot of the entire obstacle course. For nine seconds, the pan slowly moves the first obstacle toward the center of the frame. Then, in less than a second, the shot zooms in tight on the contestant! In reality, it took the camera three seconds to fully zoom in, so during the zoom, the video was sped up to three times the original speed.)
Liza Koshy (in close-up): Go!
(In the lower corner of the screen, a five-minute clock begins to count down. The contestant runs ten yards from the starting line toward a giant replica of a nose. The contestant ducks down to get into the left nostril -- this nose is so large that each nostril can envelop a human adult. The contestant stands up and begins to feel along the slime-covered walls of the nostril. A GoPro mounted at the top of the nostril shows the action. This continues for ten seconds while a tuneless bass- and drum-heavy music cue plays.)
(Cut to the contestant, fully clean, sitting in front of a nondescript blue-lit background.)
Contestant: My strategy was to get in the nearest side of the nose as fast as possible -- I figured there was a 50/50 chance of the flag being there. But even though I thought I searched every side, I couldn't find anything.
(Cut back to the shot of the contestant inside the nostril. The countdown clock is now at 4:38. We see the contestant start to duck down.)
(A shot outside the nose as the contestant moves to the other nostril. No one at home notices that the contestant's feet have rotated 45 degrees from where they would have been in the previous shot.)
(Close-up of the teammate looking worried and a little impatient.)
(Medium shot of Liza yelling substanceless words of encouragement.)
(A shot from a GoPro inside the right nostril as the contestant enters. We watch them feel around for twelve seconds. During that time, a picture-in-picture shot of the teammate looking increasingly anxious slides into the lower corner of the frame.)
(Cut back to the contestant in a talking head.)
Contestant: Then I thought the flag had to be on the other side, because that's the side no one would go to first. But I searched even more, and couldn't find it. That's when I realized I hadn't searched the bottom of the nose, down by my knees.
(Cut to outside the nose, as we watch the contestant duck down to go back to the first nostril they were in...)
