Old People’s Home for Teenagers: Sept 20

In the penultimate episode of Old People’s Home for Teenagers the group undertake activities for both body and mind, culminating in a fun and messy Colour Walk.

This week it’s time to get physical! The aim of the game is to get the entire group’s step count up and have some fun along the way. Exercise scientist Van Marinos joins the group as chief motivator.

After stretching their legs, Van wants the group to move the rest of their bodies. Safely back in the Intergenerational Community Centre there’s no rest for young or old with a game of exercise bingo.

And before anyone has the chance to realise, they’re still exercising, an excitable troupe of pint sized personal trainers come bursting through the door. Surprise – it’s some very familiar pre-schoolers! Jax, Ruby, Tyrone, Michaela, and Aiden return from the first experiment and Maddie, Lottie, Maximillian, Neve, and Arthur are back from the second.

The week’s physical climax is a bright and colourful chalky mess, otherwise known as a colour walk. A challenging course for many of the elderly, so the teenagers’ role is to provide support and encouragement and cop the brunt of the technicolour celebration. Surprisingly, Maureen motors her way through the course and inspires everyone else to have fun too. Even Philip, who has continued to work through bouts of low mood during the experiment, has the greatest time and crosses the finish line with a run.

8:30pm Tuesday on ABC..