Recap / Taskmaster Series Fifteen

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Cast

Clockwise from top: Frankie Boyle, Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Alex Horne, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Greg Davies, Mae Martin

• Taskmaster: Greg Davies
• Taskmaster's Assistant: Alex Horne
• Contestants: Frankie Boyle, Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin
• Teams:
  • Frankie Boyle and Ivo Graham ("Father and Son")
  • Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin

Two contestants of this series — Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin — have separately played love interests of characters played by Charlotte Ritchie, who appeared in Series 11.

This page contains unmarked spoilers for the series in question. If you haven't seen the series yet, you are recommended to leave the page now. You have been warned.

Episodes

Episode 1 - "The Curse of Politeness"

• Prize Task: Most Dependable Thing That Weighs About One Kilogram.
  • Winner: Mae - a full English breakfast (5 points)
  • Kiell - a toaster (4 points)
  • Frankie - a neoclassical-style family portrait gifted by his children, which he claims never fails to amuse him (3 points)
  • Jenny - 21 eggs (2 points)
  • Ivo - a four-pack of toilet paper, which was revealed to weigh far less than 1 kg (1 point)

• Task 1: Have The Best First Dance At A Wedding With Alex. You Can Choose Whatever Music You Want But Must Be Wearing These Headphones Throughout. Your First Dance Must Last No More Than A Minute.^note to avoid having to license music, all the dances were performed in complete silence aside from heavy breathing to make an incredibly surreal experience
  • Winner: Kiell (5 points)^note dancing to 'Boogie Wonderland' by Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Mae (4 points)^note dancing to 'Zorba's Dance' from Zorba the Greek
  • Jenny (3 points)^note dancing to Ride of the Valkyries
  • Ivo (2 points)^note dancing to The Wonder Stuff's cover of 'Dizzy'
  • Frankie (1 point)^note dancing to Fatlip's 'Today's Your Day'

• Task 2: Completely Unwind This Ball Of String. Your Time Started When You Said Alex's Name.^note Actual task (written on the back of the task sheet) - Put A Neat Ball of String On The Cushion. You Do Not Have To Unwind The Ball Of String. Fastest Wins. Your Time Started When You Said Alex's Name
  • Winner: Mae - 2 mins 35 sec (5 points)^note Found a new ball of string
  • Jenny - 3 mins 54 sec (4 points)^note Realized she did not need to make her neat ball of string out of the entire original string, and broke it off after making a tiny ball
  • Kiell - 5 mins 7 sec (3 points)
  • Ivo - 7 mins 24 sec (2 points)
  • Frankie - 247,680 mins as of studio recording (1 point)^note failed to notice the second task printed on the other side of the task sheet, despite Alex's hints

• Task 3: Get All The Rubber Rings On Your Bargepole. You May Not Touch The Bargepole Or Rubber Rings At Any Point.
  • Winner: Mae - 7 mins 7 sec (5 points)
  • Ivo - 7 mins 41 sec (4 points)^note His total time on the barge was longer as the tiller broke off and he needed to wait for repairs to be made. However, Jenny advocated that the repair time not be counted because the damage was most likely due to herself and, to a lesser extent, Frankie crashing the barge into the canal, with which Greg agreed.
  • Kiell - 26 mins 30 sec (3 points)
  • Frankie and Jenny (2 points)^note did not get all the rings within the time

• Live Task: Throw Your Items Into Your Bucket. You Must Select One Item When Alex Blows His Whistle. You Must Then Throw That Item When Alex Blows His Whistle Again. If Your Bucket Falls, You Are Disqualified. You Must Stay On Your Spot and You Must Not Move Your Spot. Most Items In A Standing Bucket Wins
  • Winner: Frankie and Jenny (5 points)^note despite getting 0 items in their buckets, with Jenny even deliberately missing her last throw
  • Ivo, Kiell and Mae - Disqualified (0 points)^note Ivo decided to deliberately sabotage Kiell by knocking down his bucket. Kiell immediately retaliated and knocked down Ivo's bucket. Mae was an accidental self-elimination.

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Mae Martin (19 points)
  2. Jenny Eclair (16 points)
  3. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (15 points)
  4. Frankie Boyle (12 points)
  5. Ivo Graham (9 points)

Episode 2 - "Trapped In a Loveless Marriage"

• Prize Task: The Object Which, Whenever You Look At It, Makes You Feel The Weirdest
  • Winner: Kiell - a rubber glove on a foot (5 points)
  • Frankie - medieval paintings of cats (4 points)
  • Ivo - magnetic reading glasses (3 points)
  • Jenny and Mae (1 point)
    • Jenny - the original magic eye book^note which led to the embarrassing photograph of the Taskmaster from episode 3 of Series 7 being shown again
    • Mae - a mirror

• Task 1: Compose A Solo For This Musician.^note A member from Alex's band The Horne Section.The Solo Must Be Original And Less Than 30 Seconds Long. ...Then Make Something That Looks Like This Musician's Musical Instrument, Then Mime To Your New Solo. You May Not Use A Musical Instrument In The Creation Of Your Musical Instrument. Best Performance Wins.
  • Winner: Ivo, Jenny, and Kiell (5 points)
    • Ivo - Saxophone
    • Jenny - Trumpet
    • Kiell - Keyboard
  • Frankie and Mae (4 points)
    • Frankie - Drums
    • Mae - Cello

• Task 2: Team Task - Build The Highest Bridge Over The Middle Of The Red Green And Balance The Potato In The Middle Of The Bridge. The Potato Must Not Be Anchored In Any Way. If Anything Touches The Red Green, You Must Put Everything Back Where You Found It, Tut And Go Back To The Drawing Board^note as in, a literal blackboard with the words "the drawing board" written on it.
  • Winner: Frankie and Ivo - 2.81 metres (5 points)
  • Jenny, Kiell and Mae - 2.40 metres (3 points)

• Task 3: Achieve The Most Impressive Effect In A Single Breath. You Must Take Your Breath And Achieve Your Effect Within The Next Twenty Minutes.
  • Winner: N/A^note The Taskmaster decided that none of the contestants' efforts were worthy of five points
  • Mae (4 points) ^note  Blew a ball down a series of pipes and onto a xylophone
  • Frankie (3 points) ^note Blew a whistle to distract a golfer on the adjoining golf course mid-swing
  • Ivo^note Attempted to get the radio to broadcast the sound of his breath, then attempted to breathe on the phone with the Taskmaster but failed to get through to either. Eventually resorted to calling series 9 champion Ed Gamble, blowing a basketball onto several wine glasses. He eventually succeeded, but failed to break the glasses. To add insult to injury, Ed hung up, Kiell^note Blew a ball through a series of pipes and into a colander, with some difficulty and Jenny^note Saved the Taskmaster caravan from a potential roaring inferno she had herself started by setting fire to a small corner of the curtains (1 point)

• Live Task: Create A Recognisable Animal Picture Of An Animal On The Back Of Your T-Shirt Using The Equipment Provided. You Must Stay On Your Spot and You Must Not Move Your Spot. If You Create The Same Animal As Someone Else, You Will Both Be Disqualified. Best Recognisable Animal Picture Of An Animal On Your Back Wins.
  • Winner: Jenny - Butterfly (5 points)
  • Mae - Duck (4 points)
  • Ivo - Giraffe (3 points)
  • Frankie and Kiell - Snake (Disqualified)^note Both did the same animal

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Ivo Graham (17 points)
  2. Frankie Boyle and Mae Martin (16 points)
  3. Jenny Eclair (15 points)
  4. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (14 points)

Episode 3 - "I Love to Squander Promise"

• Prize Task: Most Heroic Thing
  • Winner: Jenny - her father's DNA, provided via strands of his hair (5 points)
  • Ivo - a model of the Taskmaster's face made out of Cadbury's Heroes chocolates. (4 points)
  • Frankie - a censored piece of fan-art depicting Wolverine and Captain America being "heroic" in a particularly intimate way (3 points)
  • Mae - "coward's glasses"^note glasses with flip-down fake eyes, so you can hide your eyes from frightening things without looking cowardly (2 points)
  • Kiell - a cape with a pattern based on the face of Enrique Iglesias, because "he can be your hero, baby" (1 point)

• Task 1: Exit The Caravan Exactly Twenty Minutes After You Entered The Caravan. Also, To Complete The Task You Must Write Down And Say Forty Words. Each Word Must Either Be The Same Length Or Shorter Than The Previous Word. Closest To Exactly Twenty Minutes Wins
  • Winner: Ivo - 23 min 17 seconds (5 points)
  • Frankie - 23 min 21 seconds (4 points)
  • Jenny - 10 min 57 seconds (3 points)
  • Kiell and Mae (Disqualified)^note both contestants made errors where they said words longer than preceding words. Had they not done so, Mae would have won and Kiell would have come fourth
    • Kiell - 24 min 20 seconds
    • Mae - 19 min 48 seconds

• Task 2: Catch The Potatoes In The Potato Hat. You Must Be Sitting On The Catching Stool Wearing Your Potato Hat. You Must Not Touch Anything At Any Point. Anything In Your Hat Which Is Not A Potato Will Be Subtracted From Your Potato Total. Highest Potatotal Wins^note contestants were shown the initial configuration of potatoes and plastic toys, but it then repeated unexpectedly
  • Winner: Mae - potatotal of 15^note Spotted beer mats that showed which pattern to follow (5 points)
  • Jenny - potatotal of 4^note touched a pen to make a record of the order of the items, thus violating the rules; the Taskmaster nevertheless permitted her attempt, largely because she clearly had so much fun while doing it (4 points)
  • Kiell - potatotal of 2 (3 points)
  • Ivo - potatotal of 1^note Spotted beer mats that showed which pattern to follow, but got flustered and lost track (2 points)
  • Frankie - potatotal of -2^note touched a pen to make a record of the order of the items, thus violating the rules; the Taskmaster nevertheless permitted his attempt (1 point)

• Task 3: Team Task - Choreograph The Most Elaborate And Enthralling Fight Scene. Then Perform It In Slow Motion. Your Fight Scene Must Take Five Minutes, Then Will Be Sped Up So That It Lasts One Minute. You Have A Total Of Thirty Minutes
  • Winner: Frankie and Ivo - Frankie tries to evict Ivo from the caravan, but Ivo summons an army of people wearing masks of his face, who proceed to beat Frankie up while Ivo sits down and has some tea (5 points)^note several of the "clone army" Ivo summoned during the fight were played by Frankie's own children, who he had brought to the set that day. The fact that Frankie's own children proved willing and eager to stage a scene where they "put the boot in" to their own father was commented upon
  • Jenny, Kiell and Mae - Kiell and Mae sneak up on a sleeping Jenny, who wakes up and thoroughly humiliates them (4 points)

• Live Task: Know The Most Facts About Sausages. You Have 100 Seconds To Learn Some Facts About Sausages^note provided on a fact sheet the contestants were all given. Best Score In The Sausage Exam Wins
  • Winner: Ivo - 5/5 facts^note discovered a mnemonic sentence — "Gene chopped 42 Australian intestines" — on the back of the "sausage fact sheet" the contestants were given (5 points)
  • Jenny - 3/5 facts (4 points)
  • Frankie and Mae - 2/5 facts (3 points)
  • Kiell - 1/5 facts (1 point)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Ivo Graham (21 points)
  2. Jenny Eclair (20 points)
  3. Frankie Boyle (16 points)
  4. Mae Martin (14 points)
  5. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (9 points)

Episode 4 - "How Heavy Is the Water?"

• Prize Task: The Most Fun Thing To Wear On Your Head That You Shouldn't Wear On Your Head
  • Winner: Frankie - a "recreated scene from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"^note specifically, the scene where the Child-Catcher abducts children made using Sylvanian Families figurines on top of a hat (5 points)
  • Jenny - a knitted traffic cone tea-cosy^note on the reasoning that one or the other would be too cliched (4 points)
  • Kiell - a goldfish bowl (3 points)
  • Mae - a blow-up doll version of themself (2 points)
  • Ivo - a turkey, in homage to scenes from Mr. Bean and Friends^note it was pointed out that in the latter case Courtney Cox, the actor whose character was forced to 'wear' said turkey, described the experience as incredibly unpleasant (1 point)

• Task 1: Strike The Most Drumskins And Cymbals With A Single Throw Of A Bouncy Ball. You Have A Maximum Of Twenty Minutes
  • Winner: Mae (5 points)^note Mae tied a length of string to the ball and used the string to control their throw, which sparked an argument in the studio about the definition of 'throw'. The Taskmaster allowed Mae's attempt to stand, on the basis that it would further annoy the other contestants
  • Frankie (4 points)
  • Jenny (3 points)
  • Kiell (2 points)
  • Ivo (1 point)^note spent lots of his time moving the drums and cymbals to the statue of Greg so it would look like he was playing them, leaving little time to make his actual attempt

• Task 2: Make The Fastest Egg-Boat. Your Egg-Boat Must Look Like A Boat And Transport An Egg. If Your Egg-Boat Sinks Or Loses The Egg You Are Disqualified. You Have Three Minutes To Order Five Materials And Then Fifteen Minutes To Make Your Egg-Boat. Also, All Your Materials Must Start With The Same Letter And You Can't Order Anything Boaty
  • Winner: Kiell - 1 min 45 secs^note bacon, ball (golf), balloon, basket, blue hat (5 points)
  • Jenny - 1 min 46 secs^note bras, bread, brown paper, bucket, bungees (4 points)
  • Ivo - 2 mins 4 secs^note balls (ping pong), balloons, banana, blu tack, book(3 points)
  • Mae - 3 mins 25 secs^note paper, paper clip, plastic inflatable water wings, polystyrene, precious tape(2 points)
  • Frankie - 1 min 33 secs^note paper, picks, plant, plastic, plasticine(Disqualified)^note The egg fell into the stream at the starting line but the boat kept sailing. Had it stayed on, Frankie would have placed first.

• Task 3: Task Bingo — First To Complete A Line Or Four Corners Wins^note tasks were arranged on a bingo board, and the Taskmaster's Assistant would pull out a task corresponding to each number. Contestants then had to open and complete the task that was produced. The numbers were as followed: 29 (Scream "I Have Been In All Four Rooms Of The House" In All Four Rooms Of The House), 4 (Get Fully Into The Sleeping Bag Then Get Out Of The Sleeping Bag And Put The Sleeping Bag Fully Into The Sleeping Bag Bag [the sleeping bag was originally in the sleeping bag bag to begin with]), 63 (Make The Bingo Bin [originally filled with water] Go Out Of The Main Gate), 30 (Speak To John [which John was not specified; contestants had to find one]), 60 (Pop All But One Bubble On The Bubble Wrap), 22 (Throw Each Of Your Shoes Onto A Different Roof), 53 (Get A Banana Down From The Tree [there was an actual banana in one tree, with a sign pointing to it in another]), 57 (Sit In The Shed For Three Minutes And Think About What You Have Done), 38 (Put Exactly Four Pints Of Water In A Pot [set up as 3 + 5 = 4])
  • Winner: Jenny - tasks 53, 22, 29, and 30 in 8 mins 12 secs (5-1 points)^note point deducted for knocking down a sign that said "banana" instead of the banana for Task 53
  • Frankie - tasks 53, 22, 63, 30, and 60 in 14 mins 38 secs (4-1 points)^note point deducted for knocking down a sign that said "banana" instead of the banana for Task 53
  • Kiell - tasks 22, 63, 29, 53, and 30 in 20 mins 30 secs (3 points)
  • Ivo - tasks 4, 63, 53, 22, 29, and 30 in 25 mins 27 secs (2 points)^note got Alex to reveal all the possible tasks first
  • Mae - tasks 57, 4, 38, and 60 in 26 mins 13 secs (1 point)^note spent over 20 minutes alone on the bubble wrap

• Live Task: Pour Your Sand Into The Other Bottle. Slowest To Pour Their Sand Into The Other Bottle Wins. You Must Pour Your Sand From At Least A Foot Above The Other Bottle. If There Is A Break In Your Sand Stream You Are Disqualified
  • Winner: N/A
  • Everyone (Disqualified)^note all had broken their sand stream in the following order: Kiell, Mae, Frankie, Ivo and Jenny

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Jenny Eclair (15 points)
  2. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (13 points)
  3. Frankie Boyle (12 points)
  4. Mae Martin (10 points)
  5. Ivo Graham (7 points)

Episode 5 - "Old Honkfoot"

• Prize Task: The Luckiest Thing
  • Winner: Kiell: a scratch card bought by Jolene Stanley, dubbed the luckiest woman in Britain (5 points)
  • Mae - a pair of "lucky lenses" decorated with four-leaf clovers, rabbits' feet, and a horseshoe (4 points)
  • Frankie and Ivo (3 points)
    • Frankie - a painted bag made for him by one of his fans which he claims is his good-luck charm
    • Ivo - "A load of random guff on a graduation hat" (a maneki-neko, a figurine of Steve Bruce, a poker hand and a silver spoon; claimed the graduation hat as part of the task because his father regularly says Ivo is "lucky [he has his] degree")
  • Jenny - a photo of her grandson (2 points)

• Task 1: Fake Something. Best Fake Wins.
  • Winner: Frankie - faked his own suicide, leaving behind his clothes, glasses and a suicide note next to a river, while running off into the distance in his underwear (5 points)
  • Ivo and Mae (4 points)
    • Ivo - wrapped himself in toilet paper to become a fake mummy, only to reveal the mummy was a fake Ivo body double
    • Mae - became a fake tv-show medium and cold reads Alex with shocking accuracy^note in actuality, they called up Alex's wife to get the information
  • Jenny and Kiell (2 points)
    • Jenny - dramatically faked a heart attack and "died" then later faked a severe nosebleed
    • Kiell - made a fake hand out of cake and eggshells

• Task 2: Play The Instrument Indicated By The Light.^note The contestants were in a one-man marching band get-up (guitar, harmonica, bells, horn and drum) and the light system involved a spotlight shone on pictures of poorly-drawn instruments Each Time You Play An Instrument Correctly, Another Will Be Added To The Sequence Until You Make A Mistake. Longest Sequence Wins. There Is A Bonus Point For The Person Who Sounds The Least Worst.
  • Winner: Frankie and Mae - 9 instrument sequence (5 points)
  • Jenny - 6 instrument sequence (3 points)
  • Ivo and Kiell - 5 instrument sequence (2 points)
    • Kiell (+ 1 bonus point)

• Task 3: Team Task - Salvage The Most Spoons. You May Not Leave The Lab And All Spoons Must Be Salvaged With A Magnet. The Salvager Must Not Remove The Headwear^note which had a camera their teammates could see the camera feed from, and blinded them. Most Salvaged Spoons Brought To The Lab Wins. Also From Now On, You Must Speak In A Very High-Pitched Voice. Your Time Starts Now.
  • Winner: Jenny, Kiell and Mae - 9 spoons (5 points)^note Kiell salvaging; Jenny and Mae directing
  • Frankie and Ivo - 22 spoons (0 points)^note Ivo salvaging; Frankie directing. Ivo didn't reach the lab in time due to taking a detour to the kitchen for more spoons

• Live Task: Stuff All These Things In Your Teammate's Outfit. If You're Wearing A Special Outfit, You Must Stay On Your Spot With Your Hands On Your Head At All Times. Fastest Wins. ...Then, For The Winning Team Only, Say How Many Things You Stuffed In Your Teammate's Outfit. If You're Correct, Your Points Are Doubled. If You're Wrong, The Other Team Gets Your Points.
  • Winner: Jenny, Kiell, and Mae (10 points) ^note Correctly guessed that they had stuffed 29 items into Kiell's outfit
  • Frankie and Ivo (0 points)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Mae Martin (28 points)
  2. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (25 points)
  3. Jenny Eclair (22 points)
  4. Frankie Boyle (13 points)
  5. Ivo Graham (9 points)

Episode 6 - "It's My Milk Now"

• Prize Task: The Best Thing To Play About With In Your Bathroom
  • Winner: Frankie - a waterproofed Ouija board specifically designed to contact deceased members of The Bee Gees (5 points)
  • Kiell - a "toilet piano" mat (4 points)
  • Ivo - a scale model of the RMS Titanic (3 points)
  • Mae - "toothpaste Russian Roulette" (2 points)
  • Jenny - a dental pod designed for cleaning braces, which she admitted had mostly been submitted so she could get the show to buy one for her (1 point)

• Task 1: Invent An Imaginary Companion. Then Complete A Domestic Task With Your Imaginary Companion. Your Imaginary Companion Must Either Be Much Taller Or Much Littler Than You. Most Poignant Scene Wins. You Have Twenty Minutes
  • Winner: Frankie - Frankie bakes biscuits for Andy, who wanders into the oven and gets burnt alive (5 points)
  • Ivo and Mae (4 points)
    • Ivo - Ivo and his unnamed companion wash their cars together, with Ivo showing his companion how to do it properly. The companion promptly drives off on his own
    • Mae - Mae and Salvatore make soup together, then Salvatore accidentally falls into the soup and drowns
  • Kiell - Kiell and Louis do the washing up, then Louis falls into the sink and gets swept down the plughole (3 points)
  • Jenny - Jenny and Ed (who was the only companion much taller than the contestant) cut the hedge together, then Jenny accidentally cuts Ed's head off when she gets distracted by an ice-cream van (2 points)

• Task 2: Efficiently Shell An Egg. You May Not Touch Any Part Of Any Egg With Your Hands, And You May Only Break The Shell Of One Of The Eggs. Fewest Pieces Of Eggless Shell Wins^note contestants were presented with 5 eggs. 4 were boiled, and marked "Frankie", 1 was raw and marked "Jenny"; the raw egg could obviously be turned into fewer pieces. An outtake revealed there was an egg-sheller and instruction manual for it in the entrance to the lab.
  • Winner: Mae - 3 eggshell pieces^note got lucky and accidentally broke the raw egg (5 points)
  • Kiell - 6 eggshell pieces^note got lucky and selected the raw egg (4 points)
  • Ivo - 13 eggshell pieces (3 points)
  • Jenny - 20 eggshell pieces^note plus more which she ate and weren't counted (2 points)
  • Frankie - 83 eggshell pieces (1 point)

• Task 3: Bash The Big Bell With The Bowling Ball. Fastest Gets Five Points. Slowest Gets Four Points. Nobody Else Gets Any Points. You Are To Stay Off The Grass Unless You Are Wearing Gold Shoes. If Anything Other Than The Bowling Ball Or The Gold Shoes Touches The Grass You Are Disqualified. You Have A Maximum Of Twenty Minutes^note  on requesting the gold shoes the Taskmaster's Assistant was wearing, the contestants were given a further task which read "Alex Will Give You His Shoes If You Do One Of The Following: Deposit £100 In His Bank Account; Give Him A Perfect Dippy Boiled Egg With Buttered Soldiers And A Glass Of Milk; Physically Remove Them
  • Winner: Mae - 2 min 57 sec^note located a golden shoe in the house and hopped on one foot to complete the task (5 points)
  • Frankie - 6 min 50 sec^note constructed a pair of 'golden shoes' using yellow tetherball racquets. Having spent second-longest completing the task, Frankie would have received zero points had Ivo not been disqualified. Despite some discontent, Frankie's attempt was allowed when it was noted that, if Mae was the only contestant to gain points, they would come both first and last and so would receive nine points (4 points)
  • Ivo, Jenny and Kiell (Disqualified)^note all touched the grass at some point with something which wasn't golden shoes; they misinterpreted the instructions about not touching the grass as only referring to the artificial grass the bell was on, and touched the literal grass of the lawn without realizing they were breaking the rules.
    • Jenny - 3 min 40 sec
    • Kiell - 3 min 45 sec
    • Ivo - 19 min 44 sec^note spent "about seventeen minutes" cooking an egg for the Taskmaster's assistant, then mugged him for his shoes on luring him with "a bad egg". Having spent the longest completing the task, Ivo is the only disqualified contestant who would have earned points had he not been disqualified

• Live Task: Taskmaster Storytime Chairs. Best Listener Wins^note The game was essentially musical chairs, but based around words instead of music. The Taskmaster read out four different stories with different rules for which word was the 'trigger'. Throughout all stories, contestants who stopped walking, touched a chair incorrectly or failed to take a chair when the correct word was said were disqualified. Rule 1: Sit On A Chair When You Hear A Word Containing Two Letter 'L's. Rule 2: Sit Down When You Hear A Word With A 'U' In It. Rule 3: Sit Down When You Hear A Word That Starts And Ends With The Same Letter. Rule 4: Sit Down When You Hear A Six-Letter Word
  • Winner: Mae (5 points)
  • Ivo (4 points)
  • Frankie (3 points)
  • Jenny (2 points)
  • Kiell (1 point)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Mae Martin (21 points)
  2. Frankie Boyle (18 points)
  3. Ivo Graham (14 points)
  4. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (12 points)
  5. Jenny Eclair (7 points)

Episode 7 - "Schrödinger's Egg"

• Prize Task: The Most Brilliant Thing That Pops Up
  • Winner: Frankie - a "very sinister" painting that "keeps popping up" around his house despite his efforts to get rid of it (5 points)
  • Ivo - a game of Whack-a-Mole "with a bespoke Taskmaster twist"^note he'd stuck faces of the Taskmaster, his assistant and the contestants (including himself) on the moles (4 points)
  • Jenny - a Bauhaus Ballet pop-up book (3 points)
  • Kiell - a pogo stick (2 points)
  • Mae - a Pop Tart with the face of Professor Brian Cox (because he has a "brilliant mind") on it (1 point)^note the Taskmaster had pre-emptively declared that anyone who brought in a toaster would score low

• Task 1: Rotate The Pulper Wheel Without Pulping The Egg^note the pulper was set up to raise the egg in a basket and then drop it after a certain number of rotations had been reached, while making a bunch of alarming noises in the meantime. You Must Not Move From This Spot At Any Point. If You Pulp The Egg You Are Disqualified. Most Rotations Wins. You Have A Maximum Of Ten Minutes
  • Winner: Ivo - 56 rotations (5 points)^note realised that the task did not prohibit moving the spot so long as the contestant remained on it; rescued the egg before spinning the wheel
  • Frankie - 8 and 1/2 rotations (4 points)
  • Kiell - 2 and 3/4 rotations (3 points)
  • Jenny and Mae (Disqualified)^note pulped the egg
    • Jenny - 11 rotations
    • Mae - 11 rotations

• Task 2: Team Task - Completely Free Yourselves And Have A Team Hug. Fastest Team Hug Wins^note contestants were handcuffed to a chain in the centre of the lab, and the handcuffs were locked to each other. Five numbered glasses of jelly babies were arranged before them. The jelly babies were given unpleasant flavours; options for what flavours there were were on a menu on one wall. The code to unlocking the locks was determined by converting the initials of the jelly baby flavour to an atomic symbol, then looking up its number on the periodic table provided on the other wall. The key to the handcuffs themselves was hanging in a different place from the ceiling, just out of reach of the contestants when locked together
  • Winner: Jenny, Kiell and Mae - 17 min 50 sec^note Kiell reportedly refused to eat any of the jelly babies (5 points)
  • Frankie and Ivo - 42 minutes (2 points)

• Task 3: Write Down A Number Between 0 and 100, A Length Of Time Between 1 minute and 20 minutes, Five Ingredients, A Country, A Noun, And An Adjective. You Have Three Minutes. Then, Make A(n) [Adjective] [Nationality] [Noun]. You Must Use All These Ingredients And You Must Clap [Number] Times. You Have [Length Of Time]
  • Winner: Kiell - a "Cowering Kenyan Bench"^note ingredients: sausage, ketchup, bun, mustard, grilled onions, made in 1 minute 21 seconds with 7 claps (5 points)
  • Mae - a "Splendid Guatemalan Duck"^note ingredients: tinned corn, a jug of full-fat milk, eggs, baking soda and parmesan cheese, made in 19 minutes with 80 claps (4 points)
  • Frankie, Ivo and Jenny (1 point)^note either didn't clap or failed to clap the full amount; one point was given out of charity
    • Frankie - a "Large Scottish Dog"^note ingredients: milk, pepper, cherries, salt, flour, made in 2 minutes with 50 claps
    • Ivo - a "Feisty French Duck"^note ingredients: salt, garlic, basil, cumin, Cannellini beans, made in 4 min 20 sec with 42 claps
    • Jenny - a "Gold German Shoe"^note ingredients unknown, but she made a chili con carne, made in 15 minutes with 75 claps

• Live Task: Say The Word Given To You By The Taskmaster/Mimic The Walk Of The Person On The Card You Choose. The Taskmaster Will Guess What Accent/Walk You're Doing. Highest Score After Three Rounds Wins
  • Winner: Frankie^note Country: Republic of Ireland. City: Belfast. Walk: Mae (Taskmaster guessed Kiell)., Kiell^note Country: New Zealand (Taskmaster guessed South Africa). City: Los Angeles. Walk: Jenny. and Mae^note Country: Wales (Taskmaster guessed Scotland). City: Glasgow. Walk: Jenny. - 2 correct guesses each (5 points)
  • Ivo ^note Country: Canada (Taskmaster guessed "Disney" or America). City: New York. Walk: Frankie (Taskmaster guessed Jenny, mainly because Ivo — having already lost the episode — decided he simply wanted to have a go at doing her as well). and Jenny ^note Country: Sweden (Taskmaster guessed Norway). City: Newcastle (Taskmaster guessed Moscow). Walk: The Taskmaster's Assistant. - 1 correct guess each (2 points)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Kiell Smith-Bynoe (20 points)
  2. Frankie Boyle (17 points)
  3. Mae Martin (15 points)
  4. Ivo Graham (14 points)
  5. Jenny Eclair (11 points)

Episode 8 - "100% Bosco"

• Prize Task: The Best Thing You Take Everywhere With You But Struggle To Fit In Your Bag.
  • Winner: Jenny - inflatable bed (5 points)
  • Everyone Else (4 points)
    • Frankie - a photo of his son onstage with him at a gig
    • Ivo - a puzzle he does with his daughter
    • Kiell - a foldable chair
    • Mae - a "very fine whiskey" in a flask (with the justification that they have a very small bag, which they brought out to demonstrate)

• Task 1: Pile The Pineapples On The Path. You Must Not Get Wet. Most Pineapples Piled On The Path Wins^note 5 pineapples were placed in a stream, with 5 more around the corner. Contestants were provided with a magnet
  • Winner: Mae - 18 pineapples (5 points)^note Mae drew 13 of the pineapples on a piece of paper, which the Taskmaster allowed to stand after some debate in the studio
  • Ivo - 9 pineapples (4 points)^note the only contestant to find the pineapples around the corner
  • Jenny - 4 pineapples (3 points)
  • Kiell - 2 pineapples (2 points)
  • Frankie - 1 pineapple (1 point)

• Task 2: Select An Umbrella. Then, Repurpose This Umbrella And Demonstrate Its New Purpose. Most Inventive Repurposing Of An Umbrella Wins.
  • Winner: Kiell - a trap for a duck-catcher (5 points)
  • Mae - Bosco the "wire-haired border brolly" (4 points)
  • Frankie - a skirt and fascinator (3 points)
  • Jenny - a "hiking and writing cagoule" (2 points)
  • Ivo - a drink mixer (1 point)

• Task 3: Put The Most Stuff On Top Of This Jelly Without Breaking The Jelly. If Anything Other Than Jelly Touches The Duck, You Are Disqualified. Heaviest Stuff On The Jelly Exactly 10 Minutes From Now Wins.
  • Frankie - the concept of the heat death of the universe^note wrote about the 3rd law of thermodynamics on a piece of paper and put it on the jelly (5 points)
  • Kiel - 1773 g (4 points)
  • Jenny - 0 g^note put a box over the jelly and sat on the box, but didn't break the jelly (1 point)
  • Ivo and Mae - Disqualified^note both broke the jelly

• Live Task: Using Only The Scratching Posts, Remove As Many Balls From Your Suit As Possible. Your Teammates May Throw Balls From The Throwing Spots Throughout. The Throwing Spots May Not Be Moved. Fewest Balls On A Suit After 2 Minutes Wins. Also, If You’re In A Team Of Three, The Two Non-Suit Wearers Must Hold Hands Throughout The 2 Minutes.
  • Winner: Jenny, Kiell and Mae - 17 balls (5 points)
  • Frankie and Ivo - 29 balls^note more than Frankie started with (3 points)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Kiell Smith-Bynoe (20 points)
  2. Mae Martin (18 points)
  3. Frankie Boyle and Jenny Eclair (16 points)
  4. Ivo Graham (12 points)

Episode 9 - "A Show About Pedantry"

• Prize Task: The Sneakiest Thing.
  • Winner: Kiell - an autograph by the Taskmaster, made out to 'Tseikna Ensgith' (an anagram of 'sneakiest thing'), congratulating them on earning five points, signed with a spy pen that secretly recorded his voice (5 points)
  • Frankie, Jenny and Mae (4 points)
    • Frankie - A copy of Orlando the Marmalade Cat (which apparently always puts his children to sleep when read) disguised as Harry Potter and the Kung Fu Death Cult, to trick his children into accepting it as a bedtime story
    • Jenny - a German Shepherd mask concealing a copy of her latest book, which she snuck into her entry so she could promote it on the show
    • Mae - a knock-knock joke, the answer to which was divided into three parts and concealed on the Taskmaster's, Kiell's and Ivo's persons, without their knowledge of it. Also, they were wearing a pair of Alex's socks.
  • Ivo - a box disguised as a dictionary, containing a much smaller dictionary (2 points)

• Task 1: Team Task - Make These Things^note models of a potato, a mango and an aubergine The Same Colour As Those Things^note a potato, a mango and an aubergine. People And Bottles Must Stay On Their Spots At All Times^note one teammate was next to the things with a palette and brushes; the others were next to paints, which were in wrongly-coloured bottles. You May Perform Ten Bottle Stamps And Two Bottle Squeezes. Best Colour Matches Wins.
  • Winner: Everyone (5 points)^note both teams were judged to have done an equally good job. Both made one minor error which didn't really affect their performance (Ivo briefly came off his spot; Jenny did an extra squeeze), which Greg let slide
    • Frankie and Ivo - painted both sets of objects the same mix of colours
    • Jenny, Kiell, and Mae - painted the models the same colours as the real items

• Task 2: Put Three Single-Digit Numbers In The Slots. Then, Deliver A One-Minute Lecture About The Year You Selected ^note an initial "1" was placed at the start of the digits, so the year selected was somewhere between 1000-1999. Most Informative Lecture Wins.
  • Winner: Ivo, on 1125 (5 points)
  • Frankie, on 1417 (4 points)
  • Mae, on 1123 (3 points)
  • Jenny, on 1642^note lectured for over 5 minutes and Kiell, on 1500 (2 points)

• Task 3: Make Exactly 99 Holes In This Piece Of Paper. Your Holes Must Have A Diameter Of At Least Three Millimeters, And Form A Recognisable Picture Or Pattern. If You Make More Or Fewer Than 99 Holes, You Are Disqualified. Also, If You Look At Alex Or Speak To Alex At Any Point, You Are Disqualified. Fastest Wins.
  • Winner: Frankie (5 points)
  • Kiell (4 points)
  • Ivo, Jenny and Mae (Disqualified)

• Live Task: Combine Two Of Your Things^note a cello, a chicken standing up, a chicken sitting down, a traffic cone, a space hopper, a warthog, a meerkat. Contestants could not see the heights of their things until they made their guesses To Equal The Height Of The Thing Said By Greg^note Reese Witherspoon, the Taskmaster's inside leg, an alpaca, Yoda (which the two contestants remaining could only use one item for. You May Not Use Any Of Your Things Twice. Worst Guess Each Round Is Eliminated. If Two Contestants Tie For Worst Guess, They Must Write Down What They Think Is The Combined Height, In Centimetres, Of Their Things. Closest Wins
  • Winner: Kiell (5 points)
  • Ivo (4 points)
  • Mae (3 points)
  • Frankie (2 points)
  • Jenny (1 point)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Kiell Smith-Bynoe (21 points)
  2. Frankie Boyle (20 points)
  3. Ivo Graham (16 points)
  4. Mae Martin (15 points)
  5. Jenny Eclair (12 points)

Episode 10 - "A Yardstick For Failure"

• Prize Task: The Best Greg Davies Merchandise That Isn't On The Market But It Should Be.
  • Winner: Mae (5 points) - a Greg Davies hand puppet which was crafted by their father
  • Ivo (4 points) - a slingshot designed to fire cheeseballs, in reference to Greg Davies' debut stand-up show Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog
  • Jenny (3 points) - a Greg Davies coffee stencil
  • Kiell (2 points) - a Greg Davies morph suit
  • Frankie (1 points) - a conceptual Greg Davies-branded "euthaniser beanbag". The beanbag will suffocate anyone who is still sitting on it after an hour, and then doubles up as a body bag for the deceased

• Task 1: Fill The Glass Up To The Line From The Furthest Distance. If You Use A Hose And Someone Else Uses A Hose, Both Hose Users Are Disqualified. Furthest Distance Between Contestant And Pint Glass While Filling Wins. You Have A Maximum Of Twenty Minutes.
  • Winner: Mae - 8.1 m (5 points)^note created a set of tubes leading to the glass
  • Jenny - 3.8 m (4 points)^note placed water balloons on top of the glass and popped them with darts
  • Frankie, Ivo and Kiell (Disqualified) ^note  Frankie's glass broke; he tried to claim that because he'd thrown it into a bath it was still full, but this was disallowed. Both Ivo and Kiell failed to fill their glasses to the line. Kiell was the only one to use the hose, but he tried to fill the glass from a distance rather than putting the end of the hose into the glass before turning the water on.

• Task 2: Do What Alex Does Immediately After Alex Does It In Exactly The Same Time As Alex Does It.^note Eat a banana, sharpen a pencil, have 40 winks (as in, wink 40 times), do some maths, put 5 rubber bands on your face, open the box using the maths answer and take out rubber gloves, inflate a balloon, put the banana skin in vaseline and take the gloves off, make a balloon dog and pop it with a pencil. You Must Press Your Button^note on a chess clock When You're Satisfied You Have Done What Alex Has Done. If You Do Not Complete An Activity, 10 Seconds Will Be Added To Your Time. Closest To The Same Total Time Wins. The Time Starts When Alex Presses His Button.
  • Winner: Frankie - 1 min 32 secs slower (5 points)
  • Ivo - 1 min 35 secs slower ^note Two 10 second penalties for not opening the box or making the balloon dog. (4 points)
  • Mae - 2 mins 8 secs slower (3 points)
  • Kiell - 3 mins 5 secs slower (2 points)
  • Jenny - 8 mins 52 secs slower (1 point)

• Task 3: Team Task - Write The Name Of A Profession In This Hole^note in the front of the task sheet, so it filled in a line on the task proper, Then Perform An Original Lullaby For Your Profession. Most Soporific, Profession-Specific Lullaby Wins
  • Winner: Jenny, Kiell and Mae - a lullaby for an artist accompanied by Mae on Guitar and Kiell on paint brushes, which turned into Jenny just listing off colours (5 points)
  • Frankie and Ivo - a lullaby for a dog walker, accompanied by Ivo using a poo bag as a maraca, which quickly got on to the topic of euthanasia (4 points)

• Live Task: Convince The Taskmaster That Your Feet Are Not In Ice When They Are In Ice Or That Your Feet Are In Ice When They Aren't In Ice. You Must Keep Your Feet Either In Ice Or Not In Ice For 30 Seconds Before The Taskmaster Makes His Judgement. If The Taskmaster Is Correct, You Are Disqualified.
  • Winner: Jenny (5 points)
  • Everyone Else (0 points)

• Tiebreaker: Scream The Loudest With Your Mouth Closed.
  • Winner: Jenny - 114.7 decibels (+1 Tiebreaker Point)
  • Mae - 98.4 decibels

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Jenny Eclair (18 points +1 tiebreaker point)
  2. Mae Martin (18 points)
  3. Ivo Graham (12 points)
  4. Frankie Boyle (10 points)
  5. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (9 points)

Episode Tally

• Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin = 3 episodes
  • Kiell (Episodes 7, 8 and 9)
  • Mae (Episodes 1, 5 and 6)
• Ivo Graham and Jenny Eclair = 2 episodes
  • Ivo (Episodes 2 and 3)
  • Jenny (Episodes 4 and 10)
• Frankie Boyle (0 episodes)

Task Tally

A breakdown of the tasks as won by the contestants is as follows:

• Mae: 19 tasks (2 prize tasks, 9 video tasks (1 joint with Frankie), 4 video team tasks (1 joint with the other team), 2 live tasks (1 joint with Frankie and Kiell), 2 live team tasks; also, got the most points in 1 task with no declared winner)
• Kiell: 16 tasks (3 prize tasks, 5 video tasks (1 joint with Ivo and Jenny), 4 video team tasks (1 joint with the other team), 2 live tasks (1 joint with Frankie and Mae), 2 live team tasks)
• Jenny: 15 tasks (2 prize tasks, 2 video tasks (1 joint with Kiell and Ivo), 4 video team tasks (1 joint with the other team), 3 live tasks (1 joint with Frankie), 2 live team tasks, 1 tiebreaker)
• Frankie: 14 tasks (3 prize tasks, 6 video tasks (1 joint with Mae), 3 video team tasks (1 joint with the other team), 2 live tasks (1 joint with Jenny, 1 joint with Mae and Kiell))
• Ivo: 8 tasks (4 video tasks (1 joint with Kiell and Jenny), 3 video team tasks (1 joint with the other team), 1 live tasks)

Episode Titles

Each episode is a Title Drop made by either a participant in the show, the Taskmaster, or the Taskmaster's Assistant. In this series, the titles were provided by:

• Episode 1: Ivo Graham (during the "ball of string" task, when Ivo discovered that his time had started before he'd opened the task because he had greeted the Taskmaster's Assistant: "The curse of politeness. And it is a curse.")
• Episode 2: Frankie Boyle (when discussing his attempt for the "achieve the most impressive effect in a single breath" task, which involved him startling a golfer in the golf course next door: "I've never really played golf, because I'm not trapped in a loveless marriage.")
• Episode 3: Ivo Graham (on discussing his shambolic attempt at the "get the most potatoes in your hat" task despite having discovered the code for the order that the potatoes would be falling in: "Yeah, I love to squander promise.")
• Episode 4: Kiell Smith-Bynoe (during the "make the fastest egg-boat" task, he asked the Taskmaster's Assistant: "How heavy is the water?")
• Episode 5: The Taskmaster (reacting to Jenny's disappointed exit after the one-man-band task, with the bicycle horn still strapped to her shoe: "The sad little walk-away from Old Honkfoot Eclair - tragic.")
• Episode 6: Ivo Graham (after stealing and drinking the milk prepared for the Taskmaster's Assistant as part of his attempt at gaining his golden shoes for the "ring the bell without standing on the grass without golden shoes" task: "That was my milk!" "It's my milk now.")
• Episode 7: Frankie Boyle (summing up the "turn the pulper wheel without pulping the egg when you can't see it" task: "So it's just a kind of Schrödinger's Egg.")
• Episode 8: Mae Martin (when the dog they had created out of their umbrella starts to talk, the Taskmaster's Assistant points out that the voice sounds like a man's voice, to which Mae responds: "No, that was 100% Bosco.")
• Episode 9: Frankie Boyle (during the "make the fake vegetables the same colour as the real vegetables" team task, when he and Ivo were discussing whether white would be considered a colour or not: "Have you seen the show? It's a show about pedantry.")
• Episode 10: Ivo Graham (in response to the Taskmaster's Assistant comparing Kiell's attempt to his in the "fill this glass with water to the line" task: "Please stop using me as a yardstick for failure.")

Series Ranking

1. Winner: Mae Martin (174 points)
2. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (158 points)
3. Jenny Eclair (152 points)
4. Frankie Boyle (150 points)
5. Ivo Graham (131 points)