History Series / TaskmasterNZ

** The final recorded task in "My Uncle John" contained a blatant example. The task took place in the lab, and on the table were two large sponge cakes, an array of sweets, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers gherkins]]. Four of the five contestants proceeded to make the best desserts in the next 10 minutes, but they failed to look at the wording of the task properly, which stated that they had to [[spoiler:make the best ''desert'']]. Only [[spoiler:Brynley]] noticed the spelling, completed the actual task, and received the full 5 points -- [[spoiler:Angella, Guy, Leigh, and Madeleine]] were all disqualified.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** Just as with the [[Series/{{Taskmaster}} original series]], any time a contestant's attempt at a task is shown last, it either goes incredibly well or incredibly poorly.

* BoringButPractical: In "Heat Stroke", four of the five contestants in the sunscreen task attempt various stratagems to improve their chances that go wrong in various ways and scupper their efforts, leaving the victory to the one contestant who does the task in the most simple and obvious way possible.

* TakeThat: In "Bing Bang Schlong", the prize task is for things that look edible but really aren't; Urzila's submission is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_lumps Pineapple Lumps]].

** In "Completing the Set", there is an escape room task, with each contestant having to solve a series of puzzles to escape the caravan. At 21 minutes in, Guy has only one more object to find to complete his escape... and it takes him a further 26 minutes to find it, during which time he looks in the right place several times but fails to spot it.

The first three seasons were made available to stream for UK viewers on [=All4=] [[https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster-new-zealand/on-demand/75464-001 here]].

* CallBack: Season 4 has the contestants play a number of cassette tapes. Some contain recordings of songs performed by past contestants, including Guy Williams' anthem for Libya from Season 1, Guy Montgomery's Christmas song from Season 2, and Josh Thomson's sushi train song from Season 3.

* CallBack: In Season 2, Matt dons Angella's jumpsuit[[note]]prompting sniggers over how badly it fits[[/note]] from Season 1 for protection when he wades into the Taskmaster Pond. In Season 3, each contestant is provided with a jumpsuit patterned after Angella's task outfit.

* EasterEgg: Referencing Rose Matafeo's comment from Series 9 of the [[Series/{{Taskmaster}} UK original]] that all New Zealanders have a fish poster hung up in their sheds, the shed in this adaptation features a fish poster [[https://imgur.com/ylqOexm hung on its back wall]] (visible in the ad bumpers for "Unbung").
** And then in the final episode of season 4, in the "who stole the cookie" task which features a large number of (more or less literal) red herrings, all the fishes in the fish poster have been changed to... red herrings.

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** Two episode titles manage to reference the song "W.A.P." by Music/CardiB and Music/MeganTheeStallion: "D.A.P" from Season 1 and "Wet Ass Cutlery" from Season 3.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: In Series 2's "Completing the Set", David Correos is very ...''agitated'' when compared to his peers while watching back the Grape task.

* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''Taskmaster (NZ)'' is the second English iteration after the [[Series/TaskmasterUS US version]], and the eighth internationally, of the original [[Series/{{Taskmaster}} UK series]]. However, it is the ''only'' version to completely use original tasks, not [[RecycledScript recycled or slightly-altered ones]] derived from the main series. Otherwise, there are minor differences from the original run like how Greg Davies' and Alex Horne's roles of being The Taskmaster and the assistant are taken up by Jeremy Wells and Paul Williams respectively, the Taskmaster trophy is a bust of Jeremy's likeness, [[HotterAndSexier more sexual jokes]] and the occasional extra task in the regular format (Six tasks, usually a fourth pre-recorded task, instead of five).

* BodyDouble: A task in "A Good Time, Not a Fast Time" has the contestants trying to find where Paul is hiding, made more difficult by the placement around the place of a dozen other men wearing his trademark outfit. The doubles, while of similar height, all vary in appearance which includes but not limited to "one with huge thighs", another tall and with blond hair and as noted by Guy, a particularly handsome guy with a handlebar mustache.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: In Season 4, Bubbah immediately assumes that her teammates Dai Henwood and Karen O'Leary are Māori judging from their appearances[[note]]Dai has a dark complexion while Karen has a Māori tattoo on her forearm and was wearing a jade pendant[[/note]] and tat the three of them have been grouped together as the "brown" team. She's disappointed to find they are both White.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: In Season 4, Bubbah immediately assumes that her teammates Dai Henwood and Karen O'Leary are Māori judging from their appearances[[note]]Dai has a dark complexion while Karen has a Māori tattoo on her forearm and was wearing a jade pendant[[/note]] and tgat they were grouped together as the "brown" team. She's disappointed to find they are both White.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: In Season 4, Bubbah immediately assumes that Dai Henwood and Karen O'Leary are Māori judging from their appearances[[note]]Dai has a dark complexion while Karen has a Māori tattoo on her forearm and was wearing a jade pendant[[/note]]. She's disappointed to find they are both White.

** Paul Williams attempts to shoehorn in a musical episode one episode per season during the introductions, only to be quickly shut down by Jeremy. In "Bing, Bang, Schlong," however, he does allow Paul to do a quick tap-dancing break. And in an twist during Season 3's "Herbs and Spices," Paul announces that it will be a ''non''-musical episode and sternly warns everyone not to sing.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: In Season 4, Bubbah immediately assumes that Dai Henwood and Karen O'Leary are Maori judging from their appearances[[note]]Dai has a dark complexion while Karen has a Maori tattoo on her forearm and was wearing a jade pendant[[/note]]. She's disappointed to find they are both White.

* Season 4: Sieni "Bubbah" [=Leo'o=] Olo, Dai Henwood, Karen [=O'Leary=], Melanie Bracewell, Ray [=O'Leary=]

* EasterEgg: Referencing Rose Matafeo's comment from Series 9 of the [[Series/{{Taskmaster}} UK original]] that all New Zealanders have a fish poster in their sheds, the shed in this adaptation features a fish poster hung on its back wall (visible in ad bumpers for "Unbung").

** For the time travel task in "Judgement Day", Matt dresses as a Roman legionary and misquotes the famous speech from ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', while Laura dresses herself and Paul as Doc and Marty, converts Paul's car into a time machine that travels when it goes 42 km per hour, and gets a warning about trademark infringement when she uses the phrase "Film/{{back to the future}}".