This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
Oh, no, no!
Yes! Ah!
SHE HISSES, BELL DINGS
Argh!
Erm...
Quite windy today. Yeah.
Christ. Ooh! Wrong way.
That's how you do it, baby.
OK.
Oh, my God!
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ooh!
SHE BABBLES
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello! Welcome!
Welcome to Taskmaster.
Some say this show is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Well, I'm a wolf all right, and this suit is as Welsh as it gets.
It's woven from the shaven body hair of Sir Tom Jones himself.
It's breathable, it's soft, and it's been on the bedroom floor
of a thousand lovers.
I think I'd better dance now.
LAUGHTER
So, without further ado, let's get going with the games,
and watch as our five task-hungry wolfhounds go feral with peril.
Please welcome Joanne McNally!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE John Robins!
Nick Mohammed!
Sophie Willan!
And Steve Pemberton!
And next to me is a man who started shoplifting in his 30s
to get the attention he was starved of at home as a child,
and latterly, in a different home with his wife.
It's little Alex Horne! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Yeah!
You'd better believe it.
Yes. It's a hobby...more than anything.
Hello, Greg. Have you ever nicked anything in real life?
From a...? From anywhere?
Yes. I don't want you to be funny, just tell me what you've stolen.
Er, money from my...from Mother's handbag.
LAUGHTER
Let's start with a prize task, Alex. Oh, yawn.
No, you're right. It is the best time to do it,
and this episode, they've brought in...
Ready? The greatest thing to give to a granny.
Hmm. Five points will be given for the greatest thing for a granny,
and five great things will go home with tonight's winner,
which they can then give to a granny
or leave outside a nursing home, et cetera.
Greg. Good.
Hello, Nick. Hello.
I won't ask whether you've got a granny left, but I will ask, er,
if you had a granny, what granny gift would you bring them?
It's something that my son made,
erm, and it's a...a good-luck potion.
I just sort of thought a good-luck potion
sort of in those sort of last few months to a year...
LAUGHTER
Because it feels like when you're on the cusp, erm...
..you need as much luck as you can get
in terms of having sort of a nice peaceful kind of way out.
Wow.
Hello, to all the grandmothers watching. Yeah.
Thanks, Nick. Thanks for bringing your magic potion in
to stop grandparents dying.
Hello, Joanne. Hello. What do you think a granny would like?
I'd like to give them some oral pride.
Some oral pride?
I'd like to give them a grill.
Ugh. Ugh.
Why should they be all gappy and vacant?
Why would a grandparent wanna wear those?
It's better than a blue rinse and a Laura Ashley two piece.
Give them some dignity. This is dignity, is it?
Yeah! I loved it. I'm very proud of it.
Oh, dear. Well, it's a shame it's gonna score so badly.
Oh!
Sophie.
I've got an animal print onesie for Grandma.
Here it is.
My grandma used to wear these a lot.
With those teeth and that - fabulous.
Fab! Yeah. Why shouldn't you be a sexual being?
That's it. She was just...
You know, she was fantastic. Slut dropping, twerking.
Fabulous. And then she had a partial prolapse and there was...
It was a bit of a disaster, but...
Is anyone else just imagining a really sweet granny for this task?
Not some blinged-up sex maniac
teetering on the verge of death.
John, have you brought something sweet in for a granny?
Do you know? I sort of have.
I moved to a house, er, where I live alone,
and my neighbour also lives alone.
And she is my dear friend Thelma,
she's my surrogate grandma.
And in lockdown we, er, became very close.
And she would do my sort of mending for me. Like, sewing.
And I would do her shopping for her.
And I've got what was always her shopping order for a treat.
Which is, er, a bottle of wine,
a bar of chocolate, and against my better judgment,
20 cigarettes. LAUGHTER
I mean, I guess that's kind of sweeter, isn't it?
It is. And that's how I wanna be living,
er, when I'm that age. Slut dropping with that?
She's having a great time. Not slut dropping, no.
What is slut dropping?Er... LAUGHTER
I would demonstrate, but I can't slut drop.
Of course I can't.
Can any of you slut drop? Well, there's several, isn't there?
You've got your basic....
Oh! AUDIENCE WHOOP AND EXCLAIM
You've got your... And you've got your...
WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUE
Thank you, Sophie. You're welcome. Thank you.
Welcome to Taskmaster, this... LAUGHTER
..this section is about grandmothers.
John, at least there's a sweet story behind yours.
Steve. So, I've brought in a card I made for my granny
almost 50 years ago. This was, erm, for my...
AUDIENCE: Aw! ...my grandma Alice.
Thank God. AUDIENCE CHUCKLE
But inside it, I wrote her a poem.
"My grandma's eyes are brown, and she does never frown.
"She is 62 today, so she does shout hooray.
"She gives us lots of toffees and a very lot of sweets.
"She takes us out to the park..." "Pork."
LAUGHTER
Carry on, Steve. "And all our lovely trea...ts.
"She always brings us presents every time she's here.
"So I pray to God every night that he will always stay near."
AUDIENCE:Aw! APPLAUSE
It's a decent poem for an eight-year-old.
I'll tell what it is, Steve. It's just a relief.
Yeah. LAUGHTER
Should I stop now, or should I show you the card I made her
when I was a little bit older?
Oh, God!
This is the difference between eight years old
and maybe 13, 14 years old. Here we go.
I know it's a bit sinister now when you look at it.
A bit?! But my grandma absolutely loved it.
She cried laughing when she saw... Did she?
Yes! When she saw that picture. And what's inside?
It looks almost like it's a kidnapper's ransom note.
"Beware..." AUDIENCE EXCLAIM AND LAUGH
What the hell is going on? APPLAUSE
Right, OK, you're all absolutely weird.
You're all weird. I mean, it's the first time in 17 series
I don't know what to do.
I-I don't know what to say about any of this.
I don't think there's any grandparents out there
who want grills.
So I'm giving Joanne one point. OK.
Erm, I don't think many grandmas want that outfit,
I could be wrong. You are.
Two points.
I suppose that giving them a magic potion
that might stop them from dying is a bit kind.
I'll give him three points. OK.
I'm ignoring Steve's second card
and I'm focusing on the first one,
which was genuinely heartbreakingly sweet.
And makes me think of children and their grandparents.
And... Mm-hm. ..for providing for his neighbour, Thelma,
five points for John! Well done, John Robins.
APPLAUSE
Let's get on with the show. OK, then. Right, ready?
Yeah! Here we go.
NICK: Hello, Alex. Ooh, look at this.
Nice to meet you.
Hey! Steve. How are you?
Lovely to meet you. Lovely to meet you too. Again.
They're all yours.
Ah! Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha!
That's well creepy now. Is it? Yeah.
"Work out who you are shaking hands with."
Well, I've just shook hands with you.
"You must only shake hands with the hands,
"and you may not handle the hands in any other why..."
Why? "Any other way."
"You may chop off a total of three fingers and one thumb
"but if you set off the health and safety emergency alarm,
"you are disqualified."
"Also, you may not look around, over, under or through the fence."
Oh, God, I'm scared, actually.
"Best hand identification wins."
How am I gonna who they are? Do I know them? Oh, yeah.
"You have a maximum of 20 minutes. Your time starts now."
APPLAUSE
I've noticed a trend starting to develop, Joanne,
every now and again, of you suddenly maniacally laughing.
I don't know what got you there. Was it the gloves? I don't know.
I just do it, I'm a really cheap laugh.
It just catches me unaware sometimes. Yeah. "Ha-ha, ha-ha!"
It is, it's mad.
Shall we crack on? Yes, OK.
It's time for our first three handshakers.
It's the insurance brokers - Willan, Robins and Pemberton.
Hello, to you, sir.
ALEX: Forgot that's how you shake hands.
Oh, God. Ooh, squishy.
Some people do have squishy hands. Oh, dear, yes.
Oh, that's nice.
Why is it nice, Steve? Warm.
That's unusual. We don't know about that. We'll come back.
That's weird, isn't it? I've no idea what you are.
It's a pleasure to see you, mate.
Hello to you. And hello to you as well, of course.
Problem I'm facing here, Alex,
is a lot of them are just sort of smooth and hot.
What if I used my more vigorous handshake?
Hi! Hi! Hi.
I'm just going in for this one. You're going straight in. Right.
Acorn. Acorns!
Acorns! Of course.
It says "who". So I'm gonna give them characters.
Gone with Aileen A. Corns, for hand number one.
Hi.
Ah.
Can you put, "Question mark - lipsticks"?
Number three...
Oatmeal.
Do you know what I really wanna say? Tom...
..A'tosoup.
OK.
Yeah, rulers. Hello.
OK, it's like a xylophone.
Toy glockenspiel or xylophone.
Should be hyphenated. Zy Lofone.
Argh!
Fuck me, man! What's in that one?
It's got something in it, mate. Got something in all of them.
Yeah, but there's something moving in that one.
Oh, God! That's a real hand.
Is it?
Oh. HE GASPS
Can I cut one of these fingers off?
I think that might be a person's hand. OK.
It's bloody Greg Davies, isn't it? Look how tall it is.
Greg Davies.
Why do I feel quite scared?
Hey! I think that might be water.
Oh, water. Water.
I'm getting nature. Something you'd line a gerbil's cage with.
Or straw.
That one was definitely a person, but this isn't.
Ooh. Oh, shredded fake nails.
Oh, fake na... Yeah, that's gross.
What the hell? These are like little lychees.
What are they called, picked onions?
You've got no more cuts, but you... Pickled onions. Oh.
I'm gonna cut nine. Let's see what's inside number nine.
Yeah... Oh!
It's horrible, innit? Yeah, eggs.
Ah, I knew it was eggs.
Steve, who were you shaking hands with?
Sof't Boi'ledeggs. Yeah.
WA Ter.
Lye Cheese OBE.
Greg Davies Taskmaster.
Who was I shaking hands with?
The king?
Should it spell something? I don't know.
"Apopawatapo." "Apoppo", something like that.
Right. I'll write down "Apoppo." Yeah.
What a lovely time you've had. But I've not done something, have I?
Because you've got that look. WHISTLE BLOWS
See you, Greg.
Love your work. AUDIENCE LAUGHS
APPLAUSE
You had to use all of your guesses collectively
to work out the name of someone. We didn't say. We just said,
"Who did you shake hands with?" So it might've been nine people,
it might've been one person. Ah, I see.
This is what drove me insane.
Yes.
Is there any chance that the answer to what's behind the fence
is "Apoppo"? LAUGHTER
It's a lovely name. Apoppo. Apoppo.
She also said, "Apocalypse, apostrophe or apropos."
Apropos.Apropos.Of Apoppo. LAUGHTER
Steve, I think it's an indication
that you've been living a refined life that you thought
pickled onions were mini lychees.
Should've done the smell test, shouldn't I? Yeah.
John got them just from feeling them, which was amazing.
That was amazing. I eat a lot of pickled onions.
Break time. When I was a little boy, my dad sat me on his knee
and said, "With every year that passes, son,
"I meet a new collection of arseholes that want my money."
And that is genuinely true. He was right.
Here are some of them. APPLAUSE
Hello, welcome back to Taskmaster!
Our competitors are currently trying to work out
the contents of some rubber gloves by shaking hands with them.
The ultimate goal is to work out with whom they are shaking hands.
Apoppo? Apoppo.
Well, there goes my recap. Thanks a lot, mate.
Anyway, here is Joanne McNally and Nick McHammed.
ALEX: Are you shaking hands with it? That's how I shake hands.
It's an Irish thing, you don't understand.
It's nice shaking hands as always. Yeah, there's your...
It's an Irish greeting.
Because I wonder if...
..like, they're filled with things that are connected.
Can I smell it? Do what you want with it.
It's...acorns. OK.
AUDIENCE GROANS
Is it egg? Urgh!
I've no idea what that is. What's it feel like?
It feels like a human hand. Right. So I'm hoping it's not,
because I've if it is, I've completely fractured it.
Normal handshake. I think that's someone real.
Someone real.
If that was an actual hand, I'd assume it was contagious.
It feels lumpy. Herpes. Write down "herpes."
Doing a...doing, like, a wee on me.
It does look like it's doing a wee on you.
Oh, it's rum.
This is some sort of crustacean.
Like, I'm not happy to meet this hand at all.
Oh, for fuck's sake. It just exploded.
It's egg! It's, er... Oh, sorry. Urgh!
Oh, God. It's more egg.
This is my thumb. Oh, dear.
It's, like, fingernails. Nails.
What'll I do with this? Oh, e-eat them. I don't know.
Whatever you want. Yeah, put them in your pocket.
I didn't...I didn't actually chop that finger off,
there's just a little slit in that, so I think I can...
That's fine. Right. Right.
Gonna go for the first letter.
Oh, acorns.
Who am I shaking hands with?
Oh, so it's the first letter of each thing.
Ah.
I think this might spell out your name.
Is this you trying to teach me your surname?
What my surname, Joanne? Taskmaster.
Oh, Horne, Horne, Horne... HE GASPS
Alex Horne! You've got 35 seconds.
Oh, no, that's an X.
Are you trying to make a point here? Is it "Alex Horns"?
X, X... Erm, an X...Xbox.
It's an Xbox. WHISTLE BLOWS
Six is olives, seven is Ribena.
Eight's nails and nine is eggs again.
And your name is Alex Horne.
I'm shaking hands with Alex Horne. HE GASPS
And I shook your hand at the start.
That was nice.
Good one. APPLAUSE
I don't why you're high-fiving, Apoppo.
Well, we're normally low together, and he's... We're usually very low.
And he's up, so I feel it's a win for me. Yeah.
It seemed very quickly off the back of, erm,
"The glove's doing a wee on me", that you immediately drank it.
Well, yeah. Greg, I have one slight concern.
Let's go. When I cut off the finger of R,
I asked four times before testing it
if it was alcohol, because I don't drink, and Alex said no.
So I'm slightly concerned, having watched it back,
that my R stood for "relapse".
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
It's a valid point, and that was very tense.
It was non-alcoholic rum. Good.
Joanne, I've been to Ireland and no-one has ever
double handshaked me while sniffing my fingers.
When were you last there? Things have moved on.
Tell me about herpes of the hands. Well, was that a rea...
I don't think I got a real hand in mine.
Yeah, you did. That was Clarence. Fuck! Mm.
I really bent that. You did really bend that. Yeah.
In terms of the cutting, I should say, Nick...
Well, you're only allowed to cut a certain number.
He snipped one and then put a plaster on it
and so argued that he could then cut another one off.
Ah, is that...? Oh... That was his little...little tactic.
Are you happy with that? You see, watching it, I just thought
that's classic Nick. He's just such a lovely boy.
Are you allowing it? I sort of think I am gonna allow it. Yeah.
Steve only identified three of the things correctly in the end.
The next up was Sophie who got five things right.
John got six things right.
Joanne only got five, but she also discovered "Alex Horne" on the top
and got my name right. So would you say she was above John?
Yeah. The five points goes to Nick Mohammed
who got eight of them right, and got my name.
Well done, Nick Mohammed. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Have a look at the scores. Well, Nick is back in the game.
Oh, at last. Joint first with John, again, on eight points.
Wow. APPLAUSE
Alex, do you have a task with a bit of scale?
Ooh, I do. A nice bit of scale,
and a nice bit of horses. Ooh.
Hi, Alex. Hi, Nick.
Very dramatic scene.
You look fabulous. Really?
Get off my land!
Oh, funny looking farmer. I'm not a scary farmer.
Hello, Alex. Morning, John.
Here we are in nature. Yeah, I know. It's gorgeous, isn't it?
Is it? Yeah. Erm, fish out of water.
I'm a sort of city...city person.
I think you're just a fish out of water wherever you are. Right.
Oh, God.
There's a...there's a lot of stuff in there.
"Create the biggest and best..."
"..dot-to-dot picture."
"Biggest and best dot-to-dot picture wins.
"You have 20 minutes, your time starts now."
Oh, you have different numbers for different...
Right, then, of course.
OK, so, there's my dots.
This is obviously my canvas.
It has to be a continuous line, does it?
That's how dot-to-dots work. Oh, OK.
But if you wanna have a break in a line, you can turn a number over
and we'll carry on, if you see what I mean. Right.
Make sense? So biggest and best. Biggest and best, OK.
So, I'm not arty now, at all. Well, you've got other skills.
I do. Yeah.
What are they? I-I don't know yet.
OK, let's go. APPLAUSE
I'm looking at you, Steve, because I imagine
it's only you and I here whose childhood would've been dominated
by such entertainment. All the time. Sitting next to granny.
Yeah. Doing the dot-to-dots. That's right.
Taking the potion. But I always found in dot-to-dot magazines
that they would show, like, some hooves. Hmm. Yeah.
And a nose and a tail, so you go, "Well, I mean this is a...
"..this is a fucking horse, obviously.
"But I'll go through the motions."
Anyway, my point is, I'm very much looking forward
to their dot-to-dot pictures. OK, ready?
Yep. Well, just for you, here is a montage for my mighty man.
I mean how...how friendly are these horses?
I'm gonna stay away from the horses,
because I'm a little bit, er, apprehensive about horses.
Yeah, here they come, so I'm gonna get out of here. They don't look...
I mean, will they go for me more because I'm dressed as Dracula?
I only could draw one thing at school.
HORSE NEIGHS Hello, guys, are you all right?
Oh, no, no, sorry. Hang on.
Where are you going? Well, I'm gonna go big. OK.
Don't do a cock and balls, don't do a cock and balls.
That's so obvious.
One, two...
..three.
This is gonna have art lovers everywhere
creaming over their easels.
Nine.
No, thank you. It's...
Oh, no, no. No.
Need to go through these horses.
I don't really wanna go behind them.
Hey, horsey.
You OK?
..14, 16, 17...
STEVE: They think I've gone mad, but they can't see what I see.
HORSES NEIGH SOPHIE:Oh, God. Oh, bloody hell.
Kicking off over there.
AUDIENCE LAUGH
Jesus Christ!
81.
HORSE FARTS Oh, excuse me.Oh, Sophie!
That's horrific.
I think she was making a statement, weren't she, really?
I think I'm done. Ah.
Right, well, we'll join the dots and, er, see what Greg thinks.
Thanks, man.
See ya!
And when I come back, I hope there's a red dot in the bottom corner.
Think about that.
SQUELCH Oh, shit! Oh, you're kidding!
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Never has anyone been so swiftly punished for being cocky.
LAUGHTER Yeah.
You got on well with the horses, though, didn't you, Sophie?
You were having quite the chat with them until Fartgate.
Yeah, that was...it was very upsetting. Very close.
Very close. She waited till she got right close.
But you didn't jump back. You just went, "I'm here now."
I had to commit to the dot-to-dot. Didn't wanna lose my focus.
Joanne, did you enjoy this task? Not really, no.
I wouldn't... Again, I struggle... I'm not big into the art or numbers,
so it was a challenge for me.
Nick. Hmm. The highlight for me so far with you in this task
is you just really sweetly turning to a horse and going, "You OK?"
I-I too was getting a little bit, erm, a bit nervous,
because they did...they did follow you around.
I think they thought that there was food in that trolley little thing.
I mean, they did look like wild horses to me.
We were very worried. We didn't know they were gonna be there.
LAUGHTER And, er, they were big.
Considering the amount of health and safety discussions
I've had over the course of this series...
Yeah. ..not one mention of the fact I was doing an enormous
dot-to-dot around wild horses.
No, and there were land mines.
Right, let's see their dot-to-dots
after these companies raid your money pots. Ooh!
APPLAUSE
Hello, welcome back to Taskmaster!
It's part three, and we have some dots to join.
Mm-mm. Yes, we do. Dots to join and Is to cross.
They've made what they hope to be the biggest and best
dot-to-dot pictures of their lives.
First up, here is Nick's pic.
LAUGHTER
Yeah. Is it an umbrella that won't open?
No. Well, look, does anyone know what it is?
AUDIENCE MEMBERS: A balloon. Oboe.
A balloon, an oboe. Is it a balloon or an oboe?
No. The scope of guesses tells you how shit it is.
Is it a balloon... LAUGHTER
..or is it an oboe?
I feel it might be one...I feel it might be one of those things
that when I tell you, you'll be like, "Oh, I'm kicking myself."
When can he tell me? It's just a very happy snake.
So... LAUGHTER
So, it's sort of coiled about a bit and it...it's...
That's part of its body, and then... And that top bit is its head
and it's smiling.
Look at the size of those horses, they're tiny.
Must have taken you ages to walk up there. It did.
What were you thinking all the way up there?
I don't know what I was thinking about,
I wasn't think about the task, but I...
I mean so far, so bad. Who's next?
Would you like to look at John Robins' dot-to-dot picture?
Yes, please.
AUDIENCE EXCLAIM
APPLAUSE
Thank you.
GREG AND ALEX: Balloon oboe!
That is your classic dot-to-dot. It's just dot-to-dot 101
on an enormous scale
with horses, in a heatwave, in a Freddie Mercury jacket
almost having a cardiac arrest.
Have we found the number one and the number five?
Well, let's find out. Let's see Sophie's dot-to-dot now. Here we go.
Oh, hang on! JOHN: Wow. Hang on a minute.
SOPHIE: Oh, my God, I did all right.
JOANNE: Wow. Yes! Ah! NICK: Oh, my God.
APPLAUSE
Oh, I thought I'd really effed that up, to be honest. I'm chuffed.
Was there any moment, er, that inspired that picture?
I always know I can draw a cow.
Er, I've been able to do it from a really young age.
Say...everyone in the industry says that about you.
I think it's the first time I'm able to say this to you, Sophie.
Well done, that's good. Thank you!
APPLAUSE
We're gonna see Steve Pemberton's dot-to-dot next.
Here we go. Cock and balls.
Oh, my God. He's framed it.
AUDIENCE GASP AND EXCLAIM
APPLAUSE
I mean, you framed and signed it, such showboating.
It's not sold, though. No, someone's put on offer in it.
Someone's put an offer in. And it'll be held for the next 24 hours.
Am I 100% sure I know what that is?
Think "art." It's not The Scream, is it?
I think, if you squint... I am squinting.
..and then think of a different picture.
The eyes follow you round the room. Mona Lisa.
I thought that before. It is the Mona Lisa.
APPLAUSE
Well, not to be overly vulgar, but how the fuck is that the Mona Lisa?
Once you've bought it, it can be whatever you want it to be.
Who's next? Joanne, here is your dot-to-dot.
Ooh.
JOANNE: Oh, actually, it's not that bad.
I thought it was gonna be a lot worse than that.
It's not an anchor, is it?
You can't really change what it is, because it looks like...
It looks like fallopian tubes now. Yeah, it does.
And can I...can I say, it genuinely is gonna be my second guess.
It was supposed to be... Do you know the moustaches
that the lads wear on the penny farthings?
The, like, Movember-style moustaches. Ah, right.
The really twirly ones. OK. Now we're getting...
It's not that bad! Jesus Christ.
Oh-oh, it is. It's...
Yeah, she's done a moustache.
I don't know what the bit down the middle is.
Hmm, you said it was a moustache with a labial fold.
It's a moustache atop a vagina.
No! Oh, no!
These things. Are they called labial folds?
Those dents that go down from...around your mouth.
Yeah. Oh, what, just beneath my big clitoris here?
LAUGHTER
I thought they were...I thought that was called your labial fold.
Are there any doctors...? It might be. My labial folds,
that's what I thought it was so that's what I was drawing.
Oh, we've got... It's called... Go on.
It's called a nasolabial fold. Yes!
APPLAUSE
Nasolabial fold. I mean, it still doesn't look like one,
but I did try. Oh, no. I mean the picture's still shit,
but that's an...that's an interesting fact.
There you go. Yeah. OK, I can show you all five of them in one go
so you can judge them. Yeah, I've already judged them,
but let's have a look. Ah, yeah.
There's something to like in all of them. OK, which is worst?
Er, Nick's. Yes, correct.
Joanne's was educational, but is the second worst.
Yes, fair. OK, the nasolabial fold gets two points.
Yes, and I think this is very mean of me
given the effort that went into it, but Steve's
does not look like the Mona Lisa.
Three points. OK, three points to Steve.
Which way do you think I'm gonna go?
Mine is massive. LAUGHTER
I'll say for balance, Sophie's looks a nicer piece of art than mine.
It is... That's fair. Oh, thank you, John. ..without question, better,
but I should reward scale, so I'm gonna give them both five points.
Joint winners. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
John and Sophie, five points each.
All right, hit me up with another task, young fellow m'lad.
OK, well, here's a portion of a task for you.
Oh?
Good day. ALEX: Smiley. Yes, always.
Hello. Hi, team. Hello.
Are you two getting on well? Getting on very well. Famously.
Like a house on fire. Yeah. No, we are.
It's just honestly wonderful to hang out.
Always look on the back of the task. Oh, yeah.
"Five, six, seven, half nine, half 11, five, half four."
I'm numerically dyslexic, so I'm gonna tap out now.
Right. You're out, are you, Joanne? I'm out.
Right.
Fine, I'll look under the table, because that's often...
It's often the... ..something you have to do.
Usually, there's something on the ceiling or under the table. OK.
"Fastest team to discover the other half of this tasks wins.
"You must always hold hands. Your time starts now.
Hold each other's hands? Let's have a look, can we read it again?
"Fastest team to discover the other half of this task wins."
"Time starts now." Right.
"Five..." "Five, six, seven."
"Five, six, seven." I'm gonna adjust the way I'm holding your hand.
There we go. OK. You went very tight there, Steve.
I did! I didn't wanna let him go!
APPLAUSE Aw.
"Numerically dyslexic"?
Once I see numbers, the brain... I just mentally just tap out.
I love the idea that you can just tap out of things you don't like.
That's it. I mean, I can't wait to see them.
There's not much to say other than Steve holds hands
like he's taking a prisoner.
Well, let's begin with those two, shall we? Yes. The team of two.
Let's have a look. Here is how Steve and Nick got on.
Numbers, is there numbers on these over here?
Maybe. No.
Put it to five, see what happens.
I'd love it if something...
No, nothing.
Oh, hang on, there's a key here.
"Sam's clock key." "Sam's clock key." OK. OK.
Open, open, open, open, open. All right, who's Sam?
I don't know.
Oh, look. Sam? Is Sam there?
There's something at the bottom.
Can you see it? Put your hand in.
I'm lifting it.
Can you get it?
Yeah, got it. Yeah.
It's the pendulum.
Oh, it's just the pendulum.
There you go. Stop the clock? Well, you have stopped the clock.
I think we'd better get out of here.
OK, I think I've got an inspiration. Go on.
There's a clock in here.
Is there? Do you have to set all the clocks?
OK, er, keep going.
No, it's not doing anything. That's not doing anything.
"Five, six, seven, half..." CHIMING
Oh. That was half... What was that? Half...
No, that was half five. NICK GASPS
CHIMING There is no half five.
No... Oh, my God. I feel like we're on to something.
Why are you so convinced it's to do with time?
Because half five... Look - "Half five, six, half nine, half 11..."
I feel like we're missing something.
Are you enjoying holding hands? I am, actually. It's very, er...
It's quite sweet, isn't it? Sort of very...
Wow. Ah, OK. That's a CD. Is something in it?
Would it be track numbers? No, there isn't.
So that's just a prop.
It's not that. No.
Shall we...shall we look everywhere?
Oh. Hello. Oh.
Oh. Two, three...
No. No.
Oh! Oh!
"14 steps forward, nine steps left, six steps left, five steps left.
From where? I think from here, right?
Let's try it.
BOTH: One, two, three, four.
One... Mm-hm. ..two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Yes. Yes. One, two, three, four, five.
Yeah. Erm...
Ah! What?
Oh, it's there, it's there! Well done.
I've got jammy hands. Yeah, me too.
OK. Oh, God. OK, let's see what we have to do.
"Fastest team to go to the lab, discover the cake, eat one half,
"put the other half in the post box, put a flower on top of this task
"and then sit on top of this task wins five points.
"You must not necessarily always hold hands, that's up to you.
"Your time started when you said, 'Your time starts now.'"
Ah! Right, let's quickly go and do all the stuff to the cake. Yeah.
OK, go, go, go, go. Love it, love cake.
NICK WITH MOUTH FULL: Half in the post box.
Where's the post box? Oh.
Right. There's some flowers here.
How was the cake? Mm. It was delicious, actually.
Really nice. It was really nice.
I'm just cleaning my hands. OK.
There we go.
Ah! I've stopped the clock.
I actually don't think we did too bad then. No.
What about those times? CHIMING
Oh, that was a low point, wasn't it?
APPLAUSE
My overriding feeling watching them is that what I'm watching is a
perfectly happy couple on Bargain Hunt.
Yes. It was one of the happiest days of my life. It was wonderful. Yeah.
Just ferreting around in shops. Yes!
Yeah, it was very sweet to watch.
It was genuinely just very nice. It was.
We had a good time, we got cake in the park. Yeah.
They did very well. They noticed some clues,
they missed some clues. There was a discman,
there was a few things pointing you to discs,
and that was disc was where it was hidden. Ah. But they found it
and completed the task in 11 minutes 12 seconds.
Right, one part to go.
These guys are gunning for some gifts for granny.
And if you wanted to buy my granny a gift,
you'll have to wrench her out of the cryogenic chamber
we popped her in back in '93.
See you after the break.
APPLAUSE
Hello! Come in, come in.
Come on. Come, one and all.
It's the final part of the show, and there's a team task under way.
Yes, indeed. They're trying to complete the task
but only received half of it to begin with.
It's the team of three's turn now. Here's how they got on.
So I wonder... It's a clock face, maybe? Clock.
Five. Five! Yes, very good.
Oh. "Sam's clock keys."
Does it work for this door? Oh! Oh, he's got in.
Don't think there's anything. I think the clock is a ruse.
A red herring. OK, what could it be apart from clocks? Half four.
I think we should go and see other clocks.
He's got a clock, I think you're right. Does he?
No, I don't think it is a clock. No, it's not. It's a cap.
Ooh, there's a clock.
No, that's not a clock. That's a...that's a bee hotel.
Right.
In here? Yeah.
Ooh! Ah! We've got it.
Oh, well done! No way!
It's there. Oh, hold on.
Yeah, there it is, look.
Ready? "Fastest team to go to the lab,
"discover the cake, eat one half,
"put the other half in the..." Right, so go to the lab.
E-Eat the other half and put it in where?
Get to the lab!
Right. "Fastest team to go to the lab, discover the cake,
"eat one half, put the other half in the post box,
"put a flower on top of this task and then sit on top of this task
"wins five points. You must not necessarily always hold hands.
"That's up to you. Your time started when you said, 'Your time starts now.'"
I don't wanna eat the cake, you eat the cake. Yeah.
Why am I using my hand?
Oh. Oh, there's a something in it. "Close the other one. Eat one half."
Bloody hell. "14 steps forward, nine steps left.
"Six steps left." That'll be where the post box is.
And you need to sit on that now. Hang on a sec.
Oh, we don't have to hold hands. OK. One, two, three.
Does she have to count the steps?
TALKS INCOMPREHENSIBLY
That's loads. You've eaten half, come on.
Six. One, two, three,
four, five, six.
"Five steps left."
There's no post box here.
Put the other half in the post box. Did we find the post box?
I've not found it, no.
The post box?
Oh, there we go. Ah! Oh, great, well done.
Beautiful.
Put a flower on top and then sit on the flower.
Can we all sit on it maybe? On top, yeah.
Ah! Sorry. Oh, God.
ALEX: I've stopped the clock. Whoo! Great.
Can I check what all the numbers meant on the back? Nothing.
They're non... They were there to throw us off. We skipped the deets,
we just go straight to the end. Straight in, we go gut instinct.
Yeah. APPLAUSE
You're not all going to get invited on Bargain Hunt, I'll tell you that.
Chaos, weren't it? We didn't know what we were doing.
No way?!
Yeah, just wandering around, and then...
I-I felt that John was in charge for the first section of it,
and then someone gave him cake.
It was all over. I was done.
Shall I...? Before I tell you how quick they were,
those numbers, the pesky numbers. Do you wanna know what they meant?
I want pesky numbers and I want them big time.
Basically, the numbers referred to the words
on the half of the task that you had.
So the task looked like this, and if you look at words number five,
six, seven, half of nine, half of 11,
five again and half of four, it says,
"The other half is in the disc." Ah!
So it's simple and obvious.Hmm. LAUGHTER
Well, it's 11 minutes and 12 seconds to beat.
They were faster. Yes, they were faster.
Yeah, of course. They didn't stop to have
a lovely wander around the garden.
They were slightly faster. They did it in ten minutes and five seconds.
Yes.Well done, team. APPLAUSE
It was close. Just one minute and seven seconds in it,
so it's up to you how you distribute the points. Five and four.
The team of three get five points!
So, shall we see some scores before the final task?
Yes, of course. At the top, it's Sophie with 14 and John with 18.
Ah. APPLAUSE
Please make your way to the stage for the final task of the show!
Hello, there, my old friend.
Wow, let's do this! Whoo!
Who's reading the task out? The current leader - John Robins.
"Pass all your loo roll through your loo roll inner tube.
"If your loo roll breaks at any point,
"you must put down your loo roll and put both your hands in the air
"for ten seconds before carrying on.
"Fastest wins."
OK, so it's one of our highbrow tasks.
Good luck. Start! WHISTLE BLOWS
And they're off. Oh!
Steve looks like the end of Platoon. WHISTLE BLOWS
No, just Nick, just Nick. Sorry, Steve,
you've got another two seconds.
What?! Oh...
Oh, I see. Oh, my word.
No, not yet, please! I've got the clock!
John, you're back in.
It's a bad ply.
You're back in as well. Not you, Nick!
Yes, you're back in.
All the loo roll has to go through, all the...
OK, I've started the clock. I've started the clock for you.
Oh, right. Yes, Steve. Not you, Nick.
Yes, Nick.
Shit. MAN: Go on, Nick! Thank you.
That's still attached.
Yes, that's still attached. It won't be for long.
How you getting on, Sophie?
Fantastic. Do you know which bits of loo roll are yours?
It all has to go through. Yeah, this bit's mine.
What about the bits at the front? What bit at the front?
Doesn't matter. Oh, sh...
Yeah, OK, Sophie. Loo roll down.
Put your loo roll down please, Sophie. Loo roll. Yeah.
Or half the loo roll, that's fine.
You're back in, you're back, you're back in.
John's broken it, but he got a lot through. Has it all gone through?
No. Oh, you're doing that? I didn't notice. Sorry.
Am I done? Can I go? I thought you were celebrating. No.
Not yet! Well, you aren't timing it! I am timing it!
WHISTLE BLOWS You're back in. I'm sorry.
I literally thought he'd won the task.
Alex, I don't think you've ever been this stressed.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Lovely. Lovely stuff. Lovely.
I've got a problem with mine. What's the problem with yours, Nick?
It's blocked.
I'm making a picture of the Mona Lisa.
Steve you could help me, actually. Yeah, course I will.
Nick, you're back in. If you can find my end. Yeah.
Steve's allowed to help, we didn't say they couldn't help, right?
It's better when we're tighter. Always.
JOHN: Done it! Oh, well done.
So...
Alex? Alex, does that count?
I basically removed the tube
and then sort of wrapped the tube around the...
If you would like to say you've done it, we will analyse the footage.
OK. OK. Nick has done it in theory.
Yeah.
Oh. Oh, I saw a break.
I saw a break.
WHISTLE BLOWS You're back in, Sophie.
I'm back in? Ah! No, not... You're not back in.
You've come fourth, and there we are, Sophie.
We're finished! Finished.
Come down and we'll add that to your final scores!
Can I show you all their final inner tubes?
You'd better. You'll notice there's only one bald inner tube.
Some of the inner tubes had loo roll on, and I think...
But they do adhese to the card. The last bit. Well, I thought that too.
But then look at Joanne's inner tube. Ah!
It's so bald. JOANNE GASPS
If there was any tissue left on those rolls, I'm not allowing it.
These three didn't get quite all their loo rolls
through their loo roll inner tube.
Well, then they have failed the tasks.
AUDIENCE GROANS
Ah!
I had about 20 minutes standing there making pictures of Mona Lisa.
I could've done it. You really helped me.
Nick's inner tube, on the other hand... Yeah.
There is no loo roll on it, but also it's not a tube any more.
He managed to widen it.
But it is the inner tube still.
Yeah, as long as the tissue passes through it and not over it.
Can we have a look?
I think it's...I think it's fine.
I think. LAUGHTER
He's not passed the tissues through the tube.
He's ripped the tube open and he's wrapped it round some of the tissue.
It's madness. Are we saying that only Joanne McNally completed the task?
Yes. In which case it goes zero, zero, zero, zero,
Joanne McNally gets five points. Correct.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Yes!
Can I have the scores, please? Yes, well, it has changed things.
Er, Nick didn't get any points there,
so he is rock bottom of the series with 47. One behind Sophie on 48.
Don't laugh!
Steve's on 68, Joanne, with those five points,
has leaped above him to 73. John's on 75.
In this episode, Joanne, you got 17 points!
John, you got 18 points and wins the episode!
APPLAUSE
John Robins wins! Please go and gather your gifts for Granny!
CHEERING
So, what have we learnt on today's show?
We've learnt that in this dark world of grill-wearing,
slut-dropping grannies,
it's good to know that you can still turn on your television
and watch a wholesome couple just pottering around together.
And we'll see you next time on Bargain Hunt.
Yes? BOTH: Yes!
And now here's tonight's mighty winner, it's John Robins!
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