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Yow. I just need to read that again.
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello.
I'm Greg Davies, welcome to Taskmaster.
This is my kingdom and on the days when I'm not thrashing my surf,
I seek out other entertainment.
From the many corners of the land, I have gathered five jesters,
and they have danced for me over a period of weeks.
Soon, it will be time to select the finest of them all.
He or she will be rewarded with gold, while the others are fired
against the castle walls from a giant medieval trebuchet.
I will then eat a load of pork and look great on a big horse.
That's what's at stake.
Let's meet those that will jest.
Welcome Charlotte Ritchie!
Jamali Maddix!
Lee Mack!
Mike Wozniak!
And Sarah Kendall!
And next to me is a man who makes me put the mean into demean.
He's a hairy cylinder of subservience
who once wet himself on a train when he was 30.
It's little Alex Horne.
CHEERING
Hi. Hi.
I am an emotional wreck, Greg.
Agreed. Shall we crack on?
LAUGHTER OK.
Prize task then. Yes, please, Gigi.
And this week's category is the best thing to hang on a wall
that you wouldn't normally hang on a wall.
Ooh. OK, so if someone suggested mirror, I'd say, "Come off it,
"push off, mate, you haven't been listening properly,
"and I've had it up to here with your nonsense", OK?
So at the end of the episode, the person with the most points
will take home all five things
and gain a very unusual feature wall at home.
Hello, Sarah. Hi, Greg.
What thing have you brought in
that you wouldn't normally hang on a wall,
but I'd be excited to see hung on a wall?
OK, well, I would not normally hang a picture of myself on a wall.
I think it's weird for anyone to have, like,
a portrait of themself in their own home.
You have seen that, right?
Yeah, this is not his house.
If I did have pictures of me in my house, I should take them down?
Portraits. Big portraits of yourself.
I should take them down. I'd take it down. Can you make a note of that?
Remove all of them? Yeah, remove them all. There's a lot of them.
So, I have a friend who started drawing pictures of me,
and I wouldn't normally hang a picture of myself on a wall,
but I would hang these on a wall. Here we go.
You can hang those on the wall under your own system
because they don't look like you.
Do you know what? She's actually written "All right, cobber."
All right, cobber? On the left. Yeah, yeah.
To...just in case you weren't sure, "Oh, who's that?"
Ooh, it's Sarah. Uh...
Cos if I'm describing who's on this series of Taskmaster to anyone,
I always say Sarah Kendall, you know, "All right, cobber?"
And they go, "Oh." Oh!
Yeah.
Charlotte. OK.
Um, picture this,
you're on the loo, Greg, and you're thinking, "I want to read a book."
I'm thinking put the book on the wall opposite your toilet.
Hang it and read it. OK.
And be free.
There you go. OK?
So it hangs at the back, where you can see the little ropes. Yeah.
You've got some Sellotape there to keep the book open. Clear.
What if I want to read outside of those two pages?
Then what it comes with is a length of bamboo. Uh-huh.
A small piece of, um, Blu-Tack. Right.
Stick, thwack. What? Slot.
And it's in. So I can tap and thwack?
You can tap and thwack and slot. OK.
I toilet, I read, I tap and thwack.
And then you're free. And then I'm free. And then you're free.
Lee, can you beat tap and thwack while I'm pooing?
One of the problems with getting old
is how you feel in the morning when you wake up. Yes.
And I've invented something that's going to solve all this. Really?
And it's called the wall bed.
So, I've invented the wall bed, which looks like a normal bed,
but if you stand it upright and then you strap yourself in...
Lee, I don't want to be critical, but is there not a chance
that once I'm in my middle-aged war bed. Yeah.
That when I fall asleep, my body will slump over those waistbands.
Yeah. And the blood will be cut off from my waist, uh...
No, because... ..and I won't be able to breathe properly.
What isn't showing in the picture is the optional handcuffs.
But they're going to be rubberised so they're not too uncomfortable.
So, you're in, you're up, your waist has got you like that.
The most that'll go forward is your...is your head.
There is an outside risk of crucification. Crucification? Yeah.
Crucification? Crucification.
Uh, there is an outside risk of crucification.
That's in the small print.
And I can enjoy a sort of hostage fantasy, if I fancy one.
Absolutely... Absolutely, and if someone...
If you have a one-night stand, it will literally be that.
I think this is a contender. Congratulations. Oh, good.
Good, I'm... It's a good invention, that, isn't it? Mike.
Hello. What are you going to hang on your wall then?
Uh, I have brought a welcome mat. Oh, OK.
Um, which I think is sort of fundamentally flawed.
Very much so.
If your guests, they come in, and they say,
"Thank you very much for your nice message of welcome,
"please excuse me while I grind fox faeces into this salutation."
And for the host, it's, you know, very much saying, you know,
"Welcome but also, please don't ruin my carpets,
"you filthy turd trudger."
Right. But what if they have got fox faeces all over their feet?
Then send them away.
This feels rubbish to me. Does it? Yeah. Yeah?
Makes sense.
Um, Jamali, can you beat that? Yes, is the answer.
Yeah, yeah, best till last. All right, uh, do you like sitting?
Um... I mean, do I? Do you like snacks?
He knows how to play the game. You've, you've got eyes, Jamali.
So, let's not waste time, mini-fridge. There we go,
it's a mini-fridge. Oh. Mini-fridge, next to your sofa.
You don't have to walk, mini-fridge.
You...you...you just admitted you like sitting and you like snacks.
Five points, please. I admitted it, yeah.
My body betrays me anyway. I love to sit.
I love a snack. Yeah. But I don't...
I don't think even I need this ability.
Wall-mounted fridges are quite common
cos they really open up the living space in the kitchen.
So it's not something that's never hung.
But it isn't usually hung. Yeah. Yeah.
LAUGHTER
Right. Who's got one point? Wozniak. Mike Wozniak, one point.
What is slightly better than the welcome mat? Jamali. OK.
Hello, Jamali. Two points to you. I'll take that.
I'm not going to have a third place. The others made an effort.
I'm going to give four points to Sarah's bizarre pictures
and to Charlotte's tap and sweep automatic reader.
And I'm going to give the five points, because I like the idea
of not feeling in pain in the morning, to Lee Mack.
Well done, Lee Mack gets the full five points.
OK! Let's get going with a proper task.
Absolutely, and it's time for a spot of speed reading.
Hiya. You mind standing on the other side of that rope, please? OK.
Hello, Alex. Oh, hello, Lee.
Hello, Jamali. How you doing?
Pretty good. Hi.
How are you? I'm OK. Please read the task out loud. Uh...
OK, complete these tasks.
Complete these tasks.
Oh.
Complete these tasks.
Oh, sh... What?
Oh, my god. Oh, no, OK.
Complete these tasks. The most tasks wins.
Don't light that. I haven't read it. Complete these tasks. Ah.
Uh, you may not step beyond this line.
Which line? You had ten minutes from when the fuse was lit.
Attack The Biscuit.
Chuck The Dog.
Attack The Biscuit, Chuck The Dog, Embrace The Fish.
Chuck The Dog.
Chuck... Attack The Biscuit, Chuck The Dog, Embrace The Fish.
Drop The Hat, Inspect The Jacket, Kick The Lemon.
Oh, stop it. Ahh!
Right, OK.
Oh, the... OK, well, that didn't work! Two things.
Oh, no. Chuck The Dog.
Uh, mash the... Oh, for fuck's sake.
Am I supposed to remember it?
Mash The Nectarine, Open The Plum, Quaff The Ribena,
Sniff The Turnip, Undermine The Vole, Whack The Xylophone,
Yank The something or other.
OK. Fine.
Do you remember how long you've got?
I don't remember what time limit I've got, no.
So all the information's on the task. Right.
It was quite a contrast between Lee's reactions and Sarah's.
They both became very different characters.
Lee became a member of the cast of Last Of The Summer Wine...
um, when he went, "Oh, stop it!"
And Sarah became the most Australian person on the earth,
"Aw, for fuck's sake!"
And we're going to begin by seeing how Sarah got on all by herself.
Aww. Here she is. I hate this.
Aww.
Mash The Biscuit.
BUZZER
I think I had to attack a dog. Or lick a dog.
Or bath a dog.
What are you going to do to that dog?
I suppose I'll lick it and bath it.
I'm going to lick everything cos I know I had to lick something.
BUZZER
I'm going to bath the dog.
This thing.
Maybe we can figure out some sort of system.
Like a, like a verb and a noun.
Like, eat the lemon.
Lick the badger.
Play the xylophone.
Well, my main question is, are you sure that's a badger?
Oh, it's... I don't know what that is.
Z, it's alphabetical.
Bath The Dog, Fish, E, F, G, H.
OK, so it's the alphabet.
Is it... Oh! It's the verb and then the noun is the next letter? OK.
Eat The Fish.
No. It's plastic.
J, K, kick the lemon.
O, P...
Plum.
O, nectarine.
Bath Dog, B, D.
Q, R, S, T, U, V, W...
W. Wash The Xylophone.
OK. W? OK.
Aww, but I bathed the dog.
Wash the xy... I don't know.
BUZZER
X, Y, Z.
What's a verb that starts with Y? Yell at a zebra.
Ah, you fucking zebra!
BUZZER
Thank you, Sarah. Aw, thanks, Alex.
Bye, bye. Bye.
Urgh.
So, you worked out there was a system there.
Yeah, it took a while. Yeah.
But do you see how it's like, uh, I was like an enigma codebreaker.
I think Alan Turing, when he was first experimenting with enigma,
did a lot of licking things, right?
What was that?
Um, you also made it into the Taskmaster book of quotes
with, "Ah, you fucking zebra."
Mm.
We've all thought it.
It was Yank The Zebra in the end, so you cracked the system.
What is the system?
The actual instructions, just to remind everyone,
was Attack The Biscuit, A, B, then Chop The Dog,
Embrace The Fish, Grab The Hat, Inspect The Jacket,
Kick The Lemon, you got that one, Mash The Nectarine, Open The Plum,
Quaff The Ribena, Sniff The Turnip, Undermine The Vole,
Whack - not wash - The Xylophone, and Yank The Zebra.
Right, we're off for a break. So you should have one too.
Go on. Get it.
Hello, welcome back to Taskmaster, part two.
The sequel.
Before the break, the task involved following lots of instructions
on a large piece of paper, but I set fire to that large piece of paper,
and the instructions disappeared.
There was a quick and easy way to work it out though.
Verb then noun, in alphabetical order.
Attack The Biscuit, Chuck The Dog, and so on.
Next, we're going to see young Charlotte Ritchie
and even younger Jamali Maddix.
Attack The Biscuit, Chuck The Dog.
Right, OK.
Oh, the... Oh, no!
Chuck The Dog.
Embrace The Fish.
Ah, it's just you and me now.
Why's the lemon in the Ribena?
Yeah, it just was...
I think it said it on there.
It said Plop The Lemon In The Ribena.
Yank the tail, I'm guessing.
Weirdly the biscuit survived your attack.
Yeah, in fact, it felt a bit like the other way around, actually.
Yeah, that's a...that's a.... Yeah. ..whole biscuit still.
It's pretty much all still there.
Is this tap water? Yeah. OK.
What size are you? Double XL.
Do you think you've done them all? I think I've done a lot of them.
Do you remember what you did to the vole?
I yanked it. What did you do to the dog?
Chucked it. What did you do to the biscuit? Oh.
You've got to attack it.
And the Ribena? Yeah. I left it.
Because it had tap water in? Cause it had tap water.
What would you have done if it was filtered water? I would've drank it.
OK. I'll factor that in.
They put, like, chemicals in the tap water. Who does?
Government.
What, Tony Blair? You've got it.
Thank you, Charlotte. Oh, what a humiliation.
It strikes me, Charlotte,
that you accidentally plopped a lemon into some Ribena. Yeah.
And then you didn't do anything else. Yeah.
That's what I feel like I witnessed there.
I don't know what happened.
You should have a youthful memory though, at your age.
Yeah, but I get this thing where, under pressure, I go blank.
Really do. Brain just goes, bye. Bye.
Or something like that. Bye-bye.
But what's bizarre is that I obviously knew
to attack the biscuit, and I just had a long conversation with you
about the biscuit and didn't just do it.
You did eventually attack the biscuit after being attacked by it.
And she embraced the fish for quite some time. She did three things in the end.
Oh, all right. Come on, that's all right.
Much better than I thought. Thank you.
It seems to me that Jamali did a lot better. Mm. Yes.
But I want to drill down into your dislike of tap water, first of all.
Obviously. Don't drink it, man. You don't really think
that the government are putting chemicals in it?
They do put chemicals in it.
It's not, it's not like a... Chlorine, isn't it?
Well, I'm not saying it's anything to do with Illuminati, but...
I don't, you know, I don't drink it.
Are you going to give him Quaff The Ribena?
He would have if it hadn't been tap water.
Well, now that he's, uh, explained to me how dangerous tap water is,
yes, I am going to give him the point. OK.
So how many points has he got? He got six...
Whoa. ..of the 13. Very good.
Did the last two work out the code?
Here's Lee and Mike to answer that question.
I'm going to have to try and improvise now.
I remember there's a biscuit.
Well, we can see the biscuit. Right.
OK. Fine.
Attack The Biscuit. Attack The Biscuit.
Attack the biscuit.
I can definitely attack the biscuit.
Ha!
Right, that's easy, cos I imagine it was you lighting a piece of paper.
Quaff The Ribena.
Open The Plum.
Hat.
Could've been Attack The Hat, actually.
I've attacked the hat.
Um, lemon.
Kick? Not sure.
All I can remember is attack, so, uh, my theory is,
if I attack everything, one of them is right.
Ooh.
Undermine The Vole.
Um, you've got no chutzpah.
Uh, your organisational skills are lacklustre,
your time-keeping is abysmal.
BUZZER
We'll attack that, we'll attack that and we'll attack that.
Bite the apple?
No. It's a nectarine
and it wasn't bite it.
This has got to be drink, hasn't it?
Um, bowler hat.
Wear it? Kick it? BUZZER
Stamp on it? Put it on a zebra?
Attack, hide.
Are you trying to think of another verb?
I can think of the verbs. I mean...
I'm thinking of the logical verbs. OK.
I'm out of thoughts.
Ride it.
Seems reasonable.
It wasn't get in the bath, was it?
Have you ever washed a dog before?
I've never... No, I've never washed a dog. Isn't this how you do it?
The jacket, dead zebra.
I did terrible, didn't I? Thanks, Lee.
Who tells you to attack a fucking lemon?
BUZZER
Turns out, nobody!
Basically, Lee, what, what your memory can now hold
is the first thing that you see, and the first word you hear.
So, attack and biscuit, uh, and the biscuits in front of you,
that's all that went in. Yeah.
The rest of that was just madness. Uh, the only th...
I'm getting to the age now where, when I saw the bath, I thought,
"Perhaps I should go down a hill in that like Last Of The Summer Wine."
But he did attack the biscuit successfully, he quaffed the Ribena.
He did. I mean, that was lucky. Be honest.
Accidentally whacked the xylophone and yanked the zebra
because he attacked them both. Did I?
If you want to give him whack and yank. Yeah. I didn't realise that.
Yeah, I'll give him whack and yank, for God's sake.
Aww. Give the guy a break.
Thank you. So, he got a total of four then.
I mean, it's amazing he remembers to dress himself.
Um, Mike, you undermined the vole and I actually, out loud,
whispered to myself, "His poor children."
"You've got no chutzpah"?
That's your go-to for undermining something?
Well, I'm... You've got no chutzpah!
Uh, but, I mean, I was excited. There was fire,
I'd been told to undermine a vole, and I...I let him have it, you know?
How many did he get? I would say seven.
He attacked the biscuit, he kicked the lemon, he opened the plum,
he quaffed the Ribena, of course he undermined the vole,
he also whacked the xylophone and he yanked the zebra off the wall.
So, we'll give him seven out of 13. It was a valiant attempt.
D'you want me to give you the points? I do. Let's go.
Sarah came last, so she gets one point.
Next up is Charlotte, she gets two.
Lee gets three points, Jamali four,
but the winner of that task, he got seven things right,
so Mike Wozniak gets five points.
Hooray!
So let's have a scoreboard, shall we? Yes.
We've got three people in joint second on six points.
That's Charlotte, Jamali and Mike. He's not won an episode yet,
but Lee Mack is in the lead with eight points. Hooray!
What's next? It's dinner time.
Alex. Hello, Jamali.
How you doing?
I mean, is the task in the babushka?
Should I... May I?
Boing.
Hang on. Is there an envelope that I should be looking at first?
Ooh. There's a little... What's that? That can't be...
I mean, there wouldn't be anymore, would there?
There's got... Hang on. Ooh. Oh.
"Please look under the table."
Oh, nice.
That was fun, wasn't it? Yeah, you know, it was...it was fun.
Was the task in the...? Are you...?
Haven't got a clue. OK.
Ooh.
"Make the best babushka meal."
Each course must be presented inside the previous course.
Best babushka meal wins.
You have five minutes to order your ingredients
and 20 minutes to prepare your babushka meal.
That's not much time, 20 minutes.
Take longer than that to do Angel Delight.
Your time starts now.
Golly. OK.
Each course must be presented inside the previous course.
All right. We're not baking, are we?
I mean, we can't do, like, a protein animal stuffed inside an animal,
stuffed inside an animal,
otherwise you're going to have to eat raw, layered animal.
The first item has to be the biggest item I can think of
that is edible, but also hollow.
Greg available?
Hmm.
I've got nothing going on in there.
Nothing at all? Nothing.
Except for the fact that I'm thinking that I'm thinking.
Uh, an avocado. A lime.
No. You're going to have to eat it.
Yes. A lime.
You've got to eat it, right? Yes. Can I have a tin of soup, please?
Like, literally the cheapest, non-brand soup you can get.
Ask them, what do you have in the back?
I've got...the word eggs has just come into my head.
I think I'm going to need eggs.
Hundreds and thousands.
I don't need that many, just one. But I'll be honest with you,
I think you might have to buy them in the hundreds and thousands.
WHISTLE BLOWS Thank you, Mike.
I'm going to go to the hypermarket today. On the ferry?
Yes. And I'll just sit tight.
Right. Right.
So, it's a sort of twisted version of a three bird roast
we're talking about. The turducken.
I want to keep, uh, track of Charlotte's ongoing audition
to be a children's TV presenter.
Yes. It's going well, isn't it? Um, do you remember what you said
when you took the babushka's head off? Um...
I'll tell you if you like. I've written it down. OK, what was it?
Boing. OK.
OK. It went ba-boing. Yeah.
Well, if I went boing... Boing.
You learn a lot about yourself.
Should we, uh,...should we see some stuff? Mm, OK,
we're going to start with two chefs
and a nice slice of Kendall Mike Cake.
It's Mike and Sarah.
What is...?
OK.
Couscous.
Dinner is served.
That took you four minutes.
It's a simple dish.
Hey.
Oh. It looks quite nice.
So, you undo the bow to reveal a simple but sophisticated starter
of, uh, bread and olives.
So, it's your bed of lettuce. Mm.
Inside the lettuce is your apple. Inside that is your avocado.
And... Oh, what's that? That's your salmon and your couscous.
Well, that looks horrible.
So, you got your bread and your olives there.
I'm not a big fan of olives. Not a big fan of olives?
No. Even now? Oh, absolutely.
OK. They're quite, uh...bleurgh. You know what I mean?
Inside is your orange. Your orange peel. Your orange peel.
Not to be confused with the good bit.
And now move onto the main course, scotch.
Just scotch? Yeah.
Where's the egg? That's been removed. It's just scotch.
That's your banana. I recognise that.
Yeah, that's your banana inside your orange,
and there's fusilli and chilli and, uh ...nta.
Where's the Fan... Oh, that's the wet, is it?
OK, well, let's see if we can get a bit of everything.
Oh, you really see it there, don't you?
Look at that.
And now, for the final baby babushka, is your pudding.
Oh, a little chocolate egg. Little chocolate egg.
You could sell them. Uh, well...yeah.
I've got other...other interests.
Bon appetit.
AUDIENCE GROAN
It's not that bad.
I'll just package up the, uh, remaining halves.
It re-babushkas, as you can see.
If you haven't finished, you just re-babushka'd it.
I re-babushka'd it. Yeah.
Excellent.
Sarah taking onboard high-end, uh, maitre d' techniques there,
which is, as you're offering up the meal,
to touch every element of it with your finger.
Really kind of started working it a little bit.
I have to take responses from you really, cos you had to eat it.
Yes, it was drenched in Fanta.
That's worth noting. So is the Fanta jus?
Mike's was more fully enclosed, but also... Yeah.
..very basic.
I boo-booed with the olives. I admit that.
I like the fact that you thought he might enjoy olives
for the first time in his life in context of your creation.
That was a nice touch. Thought it was worth a pop.
I also think some credit should be given
to making a meal that's, uh, re-babushkable.
Exactly. For Cornish miners. Oh, exactly.
If they don't want to take their usual pasty, they can...
Just wrap up a... Re-babushka a load of shit.
Right, well, if it isn't the old end of part two. I bloody knew it.
Hello, hello, welcome back to Taskmaster.
Before the break, there was some sort of babushka banquet going on.
You're absolutely right.
The contestants had to make a meal
with each course inside the previous course,
and so far all the meals have been top-notch and delicious.
The next chefs up are Lee and Jamali.
What flavour soup do you like? We got non-descript or non-descript?
Oh, I love a bit of non-descript soup. Non-descript.
Carefully slice, carefully slice. Ooh, look at that!
AUDIENCE GROAN
Put that around there, keep it all knotted together.
Oh, you...
How long's left, Alex? Five minutes. I've got to remember the order now.
Here you go.
I call it the full day set-up.
Hello, sir.
Wow. Your dish.
Et voila.
And breakfast first, is it? Yeah, breakfast first.
So, salmon and eggs.
Yeah, they're nice. Yeah. How many eggs?
You've got about six eggs in there.
Lovely stuff.
Aww, yes.
How firmly is that held together? Can I let go?
You can. It won't move anywhere. Well, it'll move a bit.
And then inside, you'll see the many layers.
It looks fabulous. Thank you.
And what do we have below?
Well, you've got soup. Ooh, yeah.
It's cold soup, too. Oh, thank you.
So it's, what's it called? What do you call cold soup? Gazpacho.
Oh, it is cold. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm.
On the outside layer, would you like to start with the watermelon?
Yes, please.
That's delicious. It tastes so watermelon-y.
This is the main course.
That was breakfast, that was lunch, it is chicken now. Right.
Full roast chicken. Just straightforward chicken? Full roast chicken.
A little cantaloupe in the mouth. Get the jelly in you, that's the next layer after the cantaloupe.
Everything's alternated with jelly. Cleanses the palette, doesn't it? Mm-hm.
What's after the cantaloupe? I think it might be the...
Looks like there's a bit of chocolate. ..Kinder Egg.
Nice surprise? Well, the surprise is there's jelly and a pea.
Get the jelly. Cleanse the palette.
The chicken top comes off. It should come off.
Just peel it back. Oh. Yeah, there you go.
And then you've got a Yorkshire pudding.
AUDIENCE GROAN There you go.
Ooh. That's disappointing, that bit.
Yeah, but that's the jus, isn't it? Mm.
Oh, no. Is that a tic-tac? Mm-hm.
Go Smartie, go jelly, cos each layer is...
Have I mentioned about each layer being int...
You have. Cleanse the palette.
Get in there with the pea.
Oh, that's actually nicer than a normal pea.
Inside the... Oh, yeah.
..is trifle.
Oh, that's lovely. Wrapped up in a plastic bag. Presented very nicely.
You've only got one thing left. You have a hundreds and thousand.
A hundreds and thousand. How do you say this word?
There is one hundreds and thousand in there. Yes.
Eat that.
That's disappointing. Mm.
To be fair, hundreds and thousand aren't known for their taste,
it's more of a texture. Thank you, Lee.
All right. Thank you. I'm going to go back to breakfast.
OK, man. You enjoy it. Will do.
Wow.
I mean, you upped the ambition, both of you. Yeah.
Do you know I trained to be a chef? Did you?
You can't see that there, but...
Yeah, I can see why you're a comedian. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh... Yeah.
Jamali did the proper cooking amongst the five of them.
I really like the logic of a whole day of eating as well. Yeah.
Um, I just don't know where the concept of, uh,
smothering everything in soup comes from.
That was one of the layers, isn't it? So, it's the bread and soup.
One of the most appetising moments for me
is when the chicken was lifted...
Yeah. ..and the cold soup came in like a...
That's the point. It was like a river. ..a river of misery.
Yeah. His meal did feed the crew for the whole day.
We had all... Cos the salmon and the eggs were delicious,
the chicken, once you'd rinsed off the soup, was fine.
We didn't waste any of that. It was a lovely meal.
It really, genuinely all got eaten?
There was a tiger loaf. It was a lovely dish, so thank you.
It was impressive. What about Lee's?
Now, I think what you did was intersperse every course
with jelly to cleanse the palette.
Admittedly, I probably should've gone with a mint or a lemon flavour,
not strawberry. It's not known for cleansing the palette.
Well, you came good with the mint in the end
and, of course, that classic pea into mint...
Pea, mint, hundreds and thousand.
The pea was the most spectacular solitary pea I've ever eaten.
They were both very impressive, very ambitious meals.
Scrum. Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
I don't know whether Charlotte can beat this.
Do you want to see? Yes.
OK. It's the last supper now, made by Charlotte Ritchie.
Right.
I mean, there's nothing going on there.
I did forget to put the heat on.
LAUGHTER
On that goes.
Thank you.
Hello. Hello.
That's for you to wash it down with. Right.
Is it on a plate? No.
Don't need it. No? I've...
I've got a knife and fork. Do I need these? Um...
I don't think so. No.
Right then.
Oh.
That's it, straight in.
I can't take credit for that.
So, it's bread and just seasoned with...?
Doesn't need it? No.
OK, well, that was nice. Yeah.
Onto the second course. What's the black bit?
That's, um...crisping.
And this is the egg with...? Egg.
Yeah.
What I think you've done... Yeah.
..is that you ordered some ingredients...
Yeah. ..and now I'm eating the ingredients...
Yeah, I can see why that might feel... ..one by one.
..the basic approach.
What's nice as well is that that egg's left
a lovely sort of sheen of moisture over the... Yeah.
..raw pepper.
And how have you done the pepper? Just done it.
Cut it in half? Yeah.
Course number four. Yeah. Onion. Oh, boy.
It's not cooked. Mm.
Sorry.
Oh, dear. And lemonade's not going to...
Oh. It's hard work.
OK, so I can see what's happening now. Yeah.
You've got pudding.
Get the mushroom off the pudding.
It's like the inside of an animal.
What does it...? No.
That's the anus and that's the... Urgh.
That is disgusting.
And you're going to eat that, yeah? I'm going to suck it out, I think.
Oh, no!
Oh, did you get the... You sucked the innards out of the chocolate.
Is it pop your finger in and...?
Well, it looks like it.
Oh. Have you done it yet?
Yup. I heard it.
You can keep it as a sort of snack box.
Yeah, that's going to last me a week or two, I think. Yeah.
Thank you. Thank you.
Enjoy.
Anus chocolate block.
As a general rule, I don't know whether the chef should be
quite so visibly disgusted by their own meal.
Their own dish, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And what cooking actually went on? You cooked the eggs.
So, the cooking process... OK.
..takes the minerals out of food, right? Yeah, you made an omelette,
that was the cooking process... Yeah, but you've got to with an egg.
..which put a slimy sheen over a pepper.
Stunning. Right. Stunning. Yeah.
Also, I want to say, I did use the bread after.
I actually made something delicious with it when I took it home.
It's worth us saying
that none of the food during this task got wasted.
No, it was all reused. It was reused.
You ready? I'm ready.
Um, two points each... Ooh.
..for Mike and Charlotte.
The basic boys. Two points is more than generous.
Oh, should I give them one?
If I look at them now, I feel like taking a point off them.
Please don't. Because I've seen their faces. But don't.
I think I've got to teach Mike a lesson here for his smug face.
Ah. I'm going to give him one point and I'm going to give Charlotte two.
I think he's got to learn something from this.
OK, so smug-faced Mike has one. So, I haven't got away with it
is what you're saying? No, you haven't. No.
One point to Mike. OK, good. Two points to Charlotte. Yeah. Good.
And by far the best, uh, was Jamali, so I'm... You're going...?
..going to jump to the top now.
Jamali gets five points.
Then, it's the incredible flavours of Lee's super pea.
Oh, the pea.
Because the jus affected me emotionally so much... Thank you.
..it'd be wrong to mark Sarah down.
I'm going to give her four points too. So it goes one to Mike,
two to Charlotte, four to Lee, four to Sarah,
five points to Jamali Maddix. There it is.
Happy with that.
Woo!
OK, what have we got now?
We've got a team task and one I think they'll all agree
they found intensely infuriating. Oh, my God.
Hello.
This looks interesting.
Whoa. Oh, it's drizzle.
Please be careful.
Lovely.
On your marks, get set, go.
"Get out of the front gate setting off the alarm the fewest times."
"Every time the alarm goes off, you must start again."
"You must only step on your stepping stones."
OK. All right. Your time starts...now.
I bet the red one goes... Yeah.
ALARM BLARES
Oh, no.
Baffling.
I have to say, of all the things we did on those things,
this is the one that's been playing on my, uh, mind.
I am dying to know what the hell was going on here.
Well, die no longer. You're about to find out.
We are. We're going to see you and Mike attempt it first of all.
Can they crack the code?
ALARM BLARES Oh, no.
It's not the red that started it off.
ALARM BLARES
Maybe we're supposed to be stepping at the same time? Let's try that.
Doing it together doesn't seem... ALARM BLARES
Ah. Is that cos we've got two on one?
ALARM BLARES
What if you can't talk, but when you get to the green
you've got to start talking? OK.
Did you have a nice breakfast? Hello, I'm not talking, are you talking?
ALARM BLARES Oh.
Every time you pass green, YOU'VE got to stop talking.
Yeah. Well, I must say, it's a bit of a swel...
ALARM BLARES Try the opposite way.
Hello, I'm now talking and you're not ta...
ALARM BLARES
Every time you're on the green thing you make a noise.
Yeah. Noise time.
ALARM BLARES That's not it.
Are you guys enjoying the task?
Really not enjoying it, genuinely.
Cos I don't like trying to solve something
when I don't know what it is I'm supposed to be solving.
Can I suggest something? Lighting up? No!
Have we tried it where, when I'm on the green,
you talk and I don't talk?
Yeah, we did that. That didn't work. No.
ALARM BLARES
ALARM CONTINUES TO BLARE
What was that about? Cos that was the white.
It is consistent.
Consistently annoying.
Right, look, I'm going to try something.
We're here now, we've got nothing to lose.
Yeah. I'm talking now, I'm tal...
ALARM BLARES Right. Yeah.
So that sets it off. Yeah, and I'm talking now.
ALARM BLARES Right, so we can't talk.
Animal noises? Seems like a stretch.
Why don't we make the noise of the alarm?
Wa-wa-wa-wa!
Wa-wa-wa, wa-wa-wa!
Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa!
Wa-wa-wa!
Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa!
Wa-wa-wa-wa.
I've never solved a puzzle before and still not know how I solved it.
Very good. I just would like it noted
that I think that Mike runs like a lion stalked gazelle.
And I'd like to point out, yet again,
that he has, instinctively, a Victorian dialect he employs.
When he was asked, just him to talk, he said, "Well, I must say."
It's just entirely bizarre. Tell me what the system is.
The alarm goes off after seven seconds of silence
or when someone says a word containing the letter T.
Right. Like tank top or rabbit.
How would we have ever got that? So, they stumbled across their victory.
This one was very much which team stumbled across the code first.
"Well, I must say."
Right, well, you'll just have to wait until after the break
to see how the others got on. We'll see you then.
Welcome back to the final part of the show,
where each team is trying to escape the Taskmaster complex.
The teams had to try and get through the front gate,
stepping only on the stepping stones, but they couldn't say
any words containing the letter T or have any periods of silence
over seven seconds, otherwise the alarm would go off
and they'd have to start all over again.
So, which team's going to get the five points?
Here's how the team of three got on. Play on.
Yeah. ALARM BLARES
Wait, is that..? I think the red one set it off. OK.
We can move the stepping stones, so if you step like this and then...
ALARM BLARES Oh. How? It's not just the red ones.
Oh, maybe we've got to step at the same time? Yeah, maybe.
ALARM BLARES I think... I went too fast.
Yeah, went too distanced. OK, sorry. OK.
One, two...
ALARM BLARES
Maybe only one of us go?
ALARM BLARES
Oh, maybe you have to remember the ones that set off the alarm?
So, mine's after the green.
ALARM BLARES
Last time it was after the green.
ALARM BLARES Hang on, I didn't even step on it then.
OK, so what's the situation?
Cos there must be someone watching us and then doing the buzzer when we do the thing.
Do we sabotage the person behind in the caravan with the buzzer?
What, we go and attack them?
Is there something we say beforehand? Turn the alarm off.
ALARM BLARES Ooh, I was so sure.
That should be the solution to it. The colour?
Maybe we say the colour as we walk on them?
Yeah, sure. OK.
ALL: White.
ALARM BLARES
My favourite colour is not...
ALL: Red, red, red. Red.
White. Red. White. ALARM BLARES
Do you want to just try and sprint?
ALARM BLARES
Backwards?
"Every time the alarm goes off..." ALARM BLARES
Red, red, red, red, white, red.
ALARM BLARES
Just say red the whole time. Did you see how far I got with red?
Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red,
red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red.
THEY CHEER
Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red.
Red, red, red, red, red. Red, red, red, red, red.
Red, red. Yes!
We did it.
ALEX: Thank you, team. Well done.
Oh, wow.
Jamali cracked it.
The frustration that you felt, I think,
was neatly summed up by the classic, "What's the situation?"
Oh, my God! It's like a bad line, that is. It would be a line that,
if you wrote in a script, someone would say,
"Well, you can't say that, no-one ever says 'what's the situation?'"
I'm genuinely on tenterhooks about the situation,
cos I don't know who did it fastest.
I mean, I know what the situation is. I think the situation's bad.
The team of two took 12 minutes 24.
Yeah. The team of three, 15 minutes 50.
Oh. However... Ah. ..it's not about that,
it's who set off the alarm the fewest times.
Oh, yes.
Well, I must say.
I tell you what, that is not the situation I was expecting.
So Jamali, Charlotte, and Sarah only set off the alarm 34 times.
OK. That's quite a lot, isn't it?
Yes. Mike and Lee 21 times, so they win the five points.
Five points!
Let's have a look at the scores.
I'm going to give you series score update, if you want, Greg.
Yes, I do want. Charlotte, you've got 77 points.
Well done. Thank you.
But everyone has got a lot more than you.
Right. I'd expect that.
Jamali has 95, Lee and Mike are joint second with 100.
Sarah, 15 points ahead on 115.
Oh, it's narrowing. It's narrowing.
It is narrowing. Now, we've got a game on.
We do, and in this episode, Lee is on 17 points in the lead.
Romping ahead.
OK, everybody, make your way to the stage
for the final task of the show.
Lovely. The gloved contestants.
And the wellies. And the wellies.
Look at Uncle Mike. Lovely. Yeah.
That's how I imagine he dresses most days.
Who's going to read the task?
I have it, captain. Please.
"Make your rubber gloves and wellies as heavy as possible
"whilst wearing your rubber gloves and wellies.
"You have 90 seconds.
"You must only put things in your rubber gloves for the first minute."
You can put stuff in your wellies after the second whistle.
Your 90 seconds starts.
WHISTLE BLOWS
Spoons, marbles, gaffer.
You must stay on your spots, as always.
Urgh. And off they go.
Marbles are out.
Marbles are really out.
Ah!
I can't hear anything anymore. Pardon?
I can't hear anything anymore.
I did a little joke about hearing. Really good.
Pardon? Really good.
Oh, my God, they were coming out.
WHISTLE BLOWS It's wellies time.
We're onto wellies.
In ten seconds, you must stand still.
Ten seconds.
WHISTLE BLOWS Please stand up.
Release your fingers. Release... Michael. Oh, f.
I think Wozniak has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Right, stay where you are.
We'll weigh all those and we'll see how it's affected the final scores.
Welcome back. Thanks, mate.
No. Cobber. Thanks, cobber. OK.
Well, they had different methods and very different results as well.
Some seemed very impressive, but did they stick by the rules?
Well, there was a bucket system engineered up there.
All the men, in fact, gaffered the buckets to their wellies.
Charlotte's wellies and rubber gloves were the lightest.
0.95 kilograms. Mm-hm.
And then we have Mike, who had a very heavy one,
but they all fell out at the last second. So, he came second last.
Which was delicious.
1.09kgs.
Sarah, 1.12kg.
Then it's between Jamali and Lee. Uh-oh.
Jamali, 5.36, Lee, 6.42 in total. Woah.
So, Charlotte was in last with one, uh, two to Mike,
three to Sarah, four to Jamali, five to Lee.
However... Yeah. ..there was one other rule,
which was whilst wearing your rubber gloves and wellies.
Right. Jamali took off his rubber gloves after 18 seconds.
Aww.
He devised a bucket system, but he then
couldn't get into the gaffer tape wearing the rubber gloves.
It was fiddly. Aww, man.
It feels so cruel.
It's obviously no points, but he invented the bucket system.
I very rarely give out a bonus point, but because you invented
the bucket system, I'm going to give him a bonus point.
Oh, thank you. Lucky Jamali. You're welcome. Yeah.
All right, uh, but Lee Mack wins the task. There it is!
I'm delighted. The happiest day of my life.
And so, I'd say the scores are in.
It's a familiar face in last place.
Hello, Charlotte. Hiya.
You've got nine points, but the winner with 22 points is Lee Mack!
Hey! It happened. It had to happen eventually.
Lee Mack wins!
Please go and hoard your hangable heirlooms.
Woo!
So, what have we learned today?
We've learned it's been confirmed that Charlotte Ritchie
has a future as a children's television presenter.
Her first show is called What's The Situation?
And on it, she'll be joined
by her two puppet sidekicks, Boing and Ganoosh.
Only three to go.
For now, let's see tonight's winner revel in his glory.
It's Lee Mack!
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