History Series / Taskmaster

* AwfulWeddedLife: Greg jokes about this happening to Joe [[spoiler: after he loses his wedding certificate in "Fear Of Failure"]].

* DeadpanSnarker: Joe can be one at times, like when he reads out the live task in "Pork Is A Sausage".

* EurekaMoment: Joe has one in "There's Strength In Arches", when he realises he can bend the cards into arches to form a more stable bridge.

* OhCrap: How Joe reacts after [[spoiler: realising he broke the rules by stepping into the red green for his potato throwing attempt in "Fear Of Failure"]].

* LoopholeAbuse: In "Fear Of Failure", the contestants have to place three yoga balls on the yoga mat on top of a hill. Most of the contestants carry the balls up the hill, but Richard runs up to the hill to carry the mat down, and argues that the [[ExactWords wording of the challenge]] didn't outright state the mat had to stay in place on top of the hill.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Applies to the first three series. The two hosts are male, as are four of the contestants, leaving Roisin, Katherine and Sara the token women of the show. Averted in the fourth series.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Applies to the first series. The two hosts are male, as are four of the contestants, leaving Roisin the token woman of the show.

** Paul in series three.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Played with following footage that showed Tim lying about filming for Comic Relief. Greg wants to put him into last place unless Tim donates some money to Comic Relief. Tim then asks how much he has to donate in order to secure first place instead, but he rejects the offer of £12,500, and settles for third place.

* TooCleverByHalf: Tim is capable of thinking outside the box to win a task, but this creativity often veers into outright cheating which costs him.

* OnceASeason: So far, each series has one contestant--usually the youngest male contestant--carrying out tasks that nobody else does. See ButtMonkey above for specific details.

* CreepyTwins: Greg calls Sara and Rob the "creepy Aryan twins" in "The Dong and the Gong".

The series has been recommissioned for a second and third series due to air in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

* FailedASpotCheck: For the final task in "There's Strength In Arches", nobody notices the three seperate clues that there was useful building materials attached to the underside of the table; one as mentioned above for BilingualBonus; a button that Jon presses which lights up a clue under the table; and a sign above the doorway that tells the contestant to look under the table.

** Team One: Richard and Jon
** Team Two: Joe, Katherine, and Doc Brown

* PunnyName: Frank's meal in "The Last Supper" had pun-based names, from the meal as a whole to its individual courses.

The contestants participate in a series of odd tasks, which are then ranked (sometimes by Greg, depending on the nature of the task) from best to worst performance. The ranks translate into points, with 5 given to first place, 4 to second place, 3 to third place, 2 to fourth place, and 1 to last place, although any disqualified contestants score no points. Some of the challenges are team tasks instead, with the older contestants Frank and Tim forming the first team ("the adults"), and the younger contestants Romesh, Roisin, and Josh forming the second team ("the children"). The winners of the team tasks win 2 points each, and the losers score no points.

* OneHeadTaller: Josh (5'7") compared to Greg (6'8").

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Given that each contestant place an item into the prize pot, the winner of each episode wins about four objects.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Roisin, her... alternative views and methods are sometimes at odds with her successfully completing a task.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Greg jokes about this happening to Joe [[spoiler: after he looses his wedding certificate in "Fear Of Failure"]].

* LoopholeAbuse: In "Fear Of Failure", the contestants have to place three yoga balls on the yoga mat on top of a hill. Richard runs up to the hill to carry the mat down, rather than taking the balls up like everyone else does, and argues that the [[ExactWords wording of the challenge]] didn't outright state the mat had to stay in place on top of the hill.

* BigNo: Josh is the most prone to shouting a few of these, such as during the final challenge in episode 2, and the tea challenge in episode 3.

** Alex has taken on this trope quite a few times. Amongst other things, he has been made to eat several pies full of unusual fillings; dog food in another task; and for a blooper reel, had his face [[PieInTheFace shoved into a cake]] before falling into a paddling pool full of water.
** Josh in episode 4. He was made to count [[SerialEscalation how many baked beans were in a can, then spaghetti hoops, and finally grains of rice in a bag]].

* PunnyName: Frank's meal in episode 6 had pun-based names, from the meal as a whole to its individual courses.

** Episode 1 involved a pre-recorded game of hide and seek played to determine whether Frank or Romesh won. [[spoiler: Frank won.]]
** Episode 3 saw Alex ask Romesh and Josh to guess how old Frank was in minutes. [[spoiler: Josh won.]]
* TemptingFate: In episode 5, the prize task was the most valuable item. Josh put in the pot a blank signed cheque, meaning whoever won could take up to £20,000 out of his account. [[spoiler: Frank won, and took out £19,000.]]

** The prize task for episode 3 was a meaningful item. Romesh handed over his wedding ring.
** Episode 3 saw a task where the contestants had to buy Greg a gift for around £20. Josh got a tattoo of Greg's name on his foot.

''Taskmaster'' is a British ComedySeries which first aired on Dave in 2015. Greg Davies is the host, and is assisted by Alex Horne. The five contestants for the first series are Tim Key, Romesh Ranganathan, Roisin Conaty, Josh Widdicombe, and Frank Skinner.

* BerserkButton: Don't mention [[ItMakesSenseInContext cardboard boxes]] to Romesh. Or watermelons, for that matter.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Occasionally happens with some of the contestants. For instance, in one task, Roisin tried to get a courier to [[ItMakesSenseInContext remove a boulder]], but she ended up rolling it out of the house with very little time left.

* TemptingFate: In episode 5, the prize task was the most valuable item. Josh put in the pot a blank signed cheque, meaning whoever won could take however much money they wished out of his account, though there was a limit of £20,000. [[spoiler: Frank won, and took out £19,000.]]

* BigNo: Josh shouts one in the final challenge in episode 2.