"Barnaby Baxter got into a fair number of scrapes. However, most of them were either of Mr. O'Malley's making or resulted in embarrassment of some sort for the rather clumsy fairy godfather" (from wiki).

After Barnaby's dreadful performance today, the question is, who is Mr O'Malley and who is the fairy godfather, and is the "scrap metal" a metaphor?