(Bell Media theme playing)
(cheering)
- Good evening, and welcome to Taskmaster!
My name is Louis Morissette and I am the Taskmaster.
You might be wondering:
"How does one win this magnificent trophy?"
I'll tell you!
♪♪♪
Over the last few weeks, I've created a series of tasks
for five beloved comedians to complete.
Together, we'll see what they did
and how they did it. As the Taskmaster,
I'll give out top points to the most deserving contestant,
based on highly subjective and ambiguous criteria.
The overall winner of this season
will take home the greatest prize in the history of television:
a golden replica of my head!
(cheering)
Here are the stars
of this first season.
Jo Cormier! (monkey sounds)
(cheering)
Christine Morency. (cheering)
Matthieu Pepper. (cheering)
Mehdi Bousaidan. (cheering)
And Ève Côté! (cheering)
- Good evening, Taskmaster. Hello,
hello!
- But seeing as I have better things to do
than supervise this lot while they complete my tasks,
I've hired an assistant:
Antoine Vézina! - Ah!
(cheering) Thanks, Louis.
- My pleasure. - Hi, Antoine.
- What's the prize task for today?
What are they playing for?
- Yes. So, as you know, each week,
our comedians are asked to bring in an item
to add to the prize haul for the evening.
But the items have to be on theme. You'll assign them points accordingly.
- What's tonight's theme? - Tonight, we're looking for
your coolest item of clothing.
(joyful cry)
- Ah! I can't wait to see which pair of leggings Christine brought in.
(laughing)
- The ones with the French fries on them!
(laughing)
- We're not going to see Christine's item just yet.
We're going to save that for later. Let's go to Mehdi, first!
- Mine is a fez. So, it's...
- Wow! - ...it's a little hat.
I think you can trace its roots back to the Ottoman Turks.
And I believe there's nothing cooler than someone
wearing this and saying, "Hasta la vista, baba ghanoush."
I can prove it...
- Do it, do it!
Well, go on! Do it!
- I mean, come on! - Oh yes!
(cheering)
- "Hasta la vista, baba ghanoush."
(cheering)
- Very good. Oh, that's very good!
Is that Mehdi? - Not bad, not bad!
Interesting.
- That's not like Mehdi at all.
- I don't think you can do better than that, Taskmaster.
- It'll be difficult. - Let's see if Ève can.
- Yes! Check this out, this lovely official St-Jean [Quebec's provincial holiday]
sweatshirt that my grandmother wore all her life,
every 24th of June, because it's damn cold in Gaspésie [peninsula in the Gulf of St-Lawrence].
It's an original... In the '90s, everyone had one.
She even added shoulder pads to hers.
It's magnificent! A fabulous sweatshirt. It has yet to be washed.
(cheering)
- It's so clean.
- She's been wearing it since 1990 and it's never been washed?
- She only wore it on June 24ths. - But still!
- But that's the worst day on which to wear, but not wash, a sweatshirt. - Yeah it's definitely laundry day after that.
- She's dead now. So the sweatshirt has taken a few
Saint-Jeans off, you know?
I've taken over. I'll likely ruin it eventually.
- I have only one thing to say, and it's,
"Hasta la vista, baba ghanoush."
(laughing)
- Oh, this guy!
- On to Christine, now. - Yes, good idea!
- Oh, wow!
- Yeah, that's pretty hot.
- It's actually quite cool! - I want it!
- This is... - You're never safe from a little, "steamy" on the side. [Quebec is known for their steamed hotdogs, or "steamés"]
- Exactly!
There's a, "steamy" on my heart.
Um... My name is next to it.
And this is the golden jacket
I wore on stage at my first "Just for Laughs" gala [comedy festival held yearly in Montreal]
that went really well.
- I want it. I want it!
(cheering)
- Wow! Very cool.
Let's see what Matthieu brought in.
- It's... (laughing)
- Is this the second time, now? - This is the fourth time!
- It's a sweater I wore
on a different television show.
As an homage to Louis.
I told myself that there are never
too many occasions on which to pay tribute to Louis.
(laughing) - And finally,
let's see Jo's item!
- (Louis): Yes, of course!
- Oh, well done. - Wow, it's really nice.
- (Christine and Jo): "Everyone wins!"
- My slogan is, "Everyone wins."
There's no need to quarrel; in the end, "Everyone wins."
"Everyone wins!"
- Jo, you're quite the team player this season.
So I'm giving, "Everyone wins",
five points!
(joyful cry) (cheering)
- Great choice, Taskmaster! Great choice!
- So, do we all get five points?
- Yes! I'd like you to give five points
to everyone because... - Everyone wins!
- Even... Even Mehdi?
- Hey, "Baba ghanoush".
- Not Mehdi, but this guy! - Baba ghanoush.
- OK... Anything to add, Mehdi?
- Hasta la vista, baba ghanoush.
- She's going to shoot him.
- Five points for everyone!
Because, "Everyone wins!"
- Everyone wins!
(cheering)
- Everyone wins! - Five points!
Matthieu, you're both first and last.
- Lucky! - Wow! That's not nothing.
(laughing) - I think we're ready
for the first task of the evening.
- Yes! - Yes.
- A fast food challenge...
or, not so fast!
♪♪♪
(microwave beeping sounds)
- Hi, Antoine.
- Hey, Christine.
- Yoo-hoo! - Yoo-hoo!
- How's it going? - Oh, she's running.
- Thank you.
- Do I open it? - Please.
- "Stop the microwave before it 'dings'
while taking the fewest steps possible."
- "The microwave will 'ding' in 5 minutes."
- And the microwave is...?
- Over there. Do you see it? - Yes.
- "Your time starts now."
(cheering)
- So, it's quite simple. - It is simple, yes!
But we know a little about how this show works, now.
I imagine everyone had a strategy.
Because, ideally, you wouldn't just
take a bunch of steps to get to the microwave?
- Did everyone come up with a strategy?
(laughing)
- Stop laughing! - Let's see how Mehdi,
Christine, Ève, and Jo did.
Sometimes there was a strategy, sometimes not!
- Ah... So, are you keeping Matthieu for dessert?
- Always!
- Hi, Antoine!
- You have five minutes. The fewest number of steps...
- "The fewest number of steps." - Got it.
- I'm going to do this
to check something.
Was that a step, Antoine?
- Um... Obviously. And a big one at that! "One step."
- A big one! Well now, I don't have any choice but to continue like this.
- Um... - Two!
- OK, here we go.
- (Christine): Four.
- Um... OK.
♪♪♪
- Six, seven...
- seven, eight, nine, ten...
- "Fewest steps possible"...
- Yes. (laughing)
- Was that 18?
- Oh, I counted, "18".
- Yeah, that's it, right?
- Also, they say you should take 10,000 a day...
- Good! And, I never do that. - No?
- So I can try that today.
- I don't mind crawling, but...
it's going to really scuff up my explorer ensemble!
(laughing)
- I'm not going to start rolling around.
♪♪♪
(laughing)
- Pretty good, eh? - Well played.
- Zero steps so far.
- Um... I'm counting zero!
- I'm winning the game!
- If I crawl, that's not a step.
I'm going to crawl! What do you want me to tell you?
- Three.
Four.
- Well, look here!
(laughing): I'm coming, friends.
Five minutes! Where's the microwave? There it is!
(laughing)
- Gotta stay sexy.
19, 20,
21, 22!
- Now I'm covered in moss!
(breathless sigh)
♪♪♪
(cheering)
- Hm? Not sure it'll be hot.
Ah, you're so sweet!
It's still frozen.
- Oh?
♪♪♪
(laughing)
- Oh!
- OK, wait.
- That's my dinner.
- Not so bad, eh?
- Oh, how can I thank you?
Oh, nice job!
Ah, that looks good.
Thank you! - You're welcome.
(laughing)
(cheering)
- 27, 28, 29. - Hmm!
Oh, yum!
- Careful, it's probably very hot.
- It's hot!
- That's my dinner, that worked out well.
- Ah! And, 31,
32, 33,
34, 35,
36, I don't give a shit, Antoine,
37, 38... - Excuse me.
- Yum! I won't have walked for nothing!
(cheering)
No, but!
- Christine, I'm a little disappointed.
- Oh, and why is that?
- Because you always
seem to find some roundabout way...
- It's true. - Now, really,
you just walked...
or, what you call, "jogged."
- Yes. I ran, there. - That was running!
- You even took some backwards steps.
(laughing): - Some... Yes.
- But what was...
So there was no strategy, there, in the end--
- That's because, see, what people don't know,
is that we shot this very early in the morning.
And I'm ready to bend the rules after 8:00.
(laughing) So, if you want--
- [8:00] PM? - Yes.
- If they want to film tasks too early,
at some point, I'll just give up.
I'll get my Stouffer's [frozen meal brand] and head home.
- OK. So, there won't be many points for that.
- Oh, come on! - I'm very disappointed with your effort.
- Well, I understand! But wait until you see the other tasks.
- Ève. - Yes?
- Were those steps?
- Well, I took two steps. After that, I crawled.
- No, hold on a second! When you're on your hands...
your toes take steps.
- No way! - Those are steps, there.
- Those aren't steps, those are taps.
That's a step.
Hey, I tap-dance, I know my step vocabulary.
This is a stamp; that's a step. But this? No!
- So, a "step", according to Larousse [French dictionary] is,
"The act of shifting support from the body
from one foot to the other while walking."
- So, that proves my point!
(cheering)
- A big winner! - According to that definition.
- Well, congrats, Kung Fu Panda.
You really... You did well.
You never... You tip-toed,
your feet never touched the ground. - It's true.
- He did it in zero steps:
Jo Cormier! (cheering)
- Well done, my dear. So good.
- All of a sudden, here!
- So, Christine: 30. You've said it already.
Ten for Mehdi.
Two: Ève. Zero!
Will Matthieu manage to beat zero steps?
- Our dessert; after the break. - Oh!
- Ah, after the break!
♪♪♪
- I'll accept that, though.
- OK, please. This is a Taskmaster first:
I'm docking you five points.
(laughing) - No!
♪♪♪
(cheering)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster.
Antoine! - Yes.
- We're in the middle of a physical challenge.
- Exactly.
- Remind us of the task, please.
- The comedians had to stop a microwave
that was started 100 meters from them,
but by taking the fewest steps possible.
We've seen various attempts, and at the moment,
the bar is set at zero steps...
from Jo!
(cheering) - Bravo!
- Impossible to beat!
- There's still Matthieu to see. - Matthieu is left.
And, I'm going to surprise you, Matthieu: I'm feeling confident.
- (laughing): Oh, my god!
- Getting to a microwave quickly; I think you can do that!
(laughing)
I think, and I believe, that you did well. Let's have a look!
- "Your time starts now."
- And he's off.
- Can I get on your back? - Yes...
- I am pretty heavy, though.
Maybe it's best not to do that.
Are you strong, though?
- Well, I don't know. Get on, and...
We'll talk about my insurance another time.
- Oh boy!
- Quickly! - Quickly?
- Yes, faster!
(laughing): Quickly!
(cheering)
A little farther!
(cheering)
What was that; one step?
That's going to be hard to beat!
It didn't even have time to warm up.
That gives you an idea [of how quick that was]!
- Geez! - What's wrong?
- I think I just shrunk an inch. Is that possible?
- Yeah. But it's just... You'll get used to it.
- It's just temporary? - Yes.
My knees too, at first, were doing that.
It's like they shrunk.
You know, weight, at some point, you know...
You're too kind! - Oh, any time!
(cheering)
- Hey, bravo, Antoine.
- Well done, especially to Antoine.
- I am but an instrument.
- Good teamwork, Antoine.
- I do my best, Taskmaster.
- Are you still hurting?
- Well, I got my vision back last week.
(laughing) - No, no, but I was generous.
I paid for his physiotherapy.
It all worked out, in the end.
He was a good sport. What a great partner!
- The crowd was in...
a frenzy of pity.
And so we...
(laughing)
We missed a few words at the end of your attempt.
Because when you touched the ground... you said:
"So, I think that's it, huh? That's what; one step?"
- What was that; one step?
That will be hard to beat.
- We were going to give you zero steps.
But you gave one to yourself.
- Well do what you'd like,
but you don't need anyone to tell you
how to count; you're the Taskmaster,
you don't need anything... - Ah, well played.
- You have everything you need to decide.
I think it's zero steps, but... - Christine: Well no, no.
- Well played, Matthieu! Five points for Matthieu.
- Thank you!
- That's a first for him! - Five points for Jo!
(joyful cry) (cheering)
- Five? - Five. Five, five!
- Taking some big bites...
- (Louis): Next, remind me...
- There were two starting steps for Ève.
- Two steps... Four points to Ève.
- I'll take 'em!
- Ten steps for Mehdi. - Three points for Mehdi.
- And thirty, if not more...
- The pity point goes to Christine.
- "The pity point for Christine..."
- Well, I'm riding a high, now.
- Well, you're about to come down from it. - But I have a feeling
I know what you're going to say next and I'm feeling fucking great about it.
- Give him the good news. - Matthieu.
- Yes? - At this very moment,
if I'm not mistaken. - I don't think so!
- Are the cameras rolling? Are we sure? - We're rolling!
- You're in first place! (cheering)
- But... - With...
along with Jo, along with Jo.
- (Louis): You're tied!
- It's only downhill from here!
- Tell us about the next task.
- Yes! We're going to see the next task;
which isn't an easy feat.
♪♪♪
- Where's the envelope?
- Ha, I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm the, "greatest comedian
of my generation", but thanks; I appreciate the compliment.
(laughing)
OK...
- But where is it? Ha, ha.
(laughing) Camouflage...
This must have something to do with it, eh?
Camouflage, camouflage your-...
"Camouflage yourself!" (laughs)
I'm... eh? I'm a genius!
- "You have 10 minutes to to plan your camouflage."
- "And 10 additional minutes to execute it."
- "After that time, you'll be photographed
"in position.
"Best camouflage wins.
Your time starts now."
- "Best camouflage wins."
I haven't read the last phrase yet.
You can't start
the timer yet. That's it.
- Can you read it, please?
- Now, or can I have a look around first?
- No, you need to read it. - I know, stop it.
It's okay, I tried. "Your time starts now."
(cheering)
- OK.
So, they had to camouflage themselves?
- Exactly. They had 10 minutes to plan.
- Did they have access to a costume?
- They had access to everything in the environment.
And you'll get to play, too. We'll show you a photo
and try to find
where they're hiding.
- I'll need your help, here.
- Just be on the lookout,
sometimes it's quite tricky... Some things are
harder to hide than others.
- He's gonna suck at this. - No, but in the sense...
I'm happy to be leading the pack; it would be great if I could stay here.
- Matthieu, I haven't seen your attempt yet, but I know this:
you'll meet our expectations.
(laughing)
Don't worry about it.
- Well, actually, let's start with
Matthieu's attempt!
Here's the photo.
Believe it or not,
Matthieu is in there somewhere.
- There he is!
- Is he there? There may be some decoys in there.
(laughing)
- There are some dummies in there. - There are some dummies, yes, yes!
So? - Hang on a second.
- Yeah, it's hard!
- So, what do you think?
- (audience member): On the right. There.
- (Louis): On the right?
Whoa, time out...
- Let's see. Enough with the clan wars, now.
- Matthieu, please,
don't tell me it's these skis that are jutting out a little?
- The what?
- Well, look, it's all aligned, here.
And at some point, the skis jut out.
- No, look at the ball... you can see his shirt poking out.
- No, no, no. That green ski, there,
like three quarters of the way across; he's behind there.
All of the skis align on the bottom...
(cheering)
- (Christine): Oh, my!
- (Jo): You would have fooled me.
- I tried.
- You fooled me, Matthieu. - Did I fool
a few of you, at least? - Yes, me!
- Me too! - Well played.
- OK, phew. - You got me.
- The next photo, we're going to see
is Ève's camouflage attempt.
(laughing)
- (Matthieu): That has to be a dummy,
but it doesn't look like one.
- That's impossible. - OK, that can't be.
That can't be... - Maybe it's a decoy!
- She's all folded up, it can't be her!
- They could have told me that my knees were showing.
- No way, that's impossible, Ève.
- (Louis): Come on, it can't be
this easy; under the blanket?
Don't tell me that's what's going on!
Under the blanket...
- Taskmaster, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
- (everyone): No way!
(laughing)
- What?
- Sadly yes, they didn't tell me they could see my knees!
- You're quite flexible, though!
- (Louis): I'd like to...
OK, please,
this is a Taskmaster first: I'm docking you five points.
(laughing)
- No! Not... No!
I'm keeping my points. - It's unbelievably bad.
- Wow! It feels good to be alive.
- I fucked up my back for nothing.
I was sure you couldn't see my knees.
- (Matthieu): Wow, wow, wow, brilliant!
- Oh, no, Louis; where are you?
- He's completely hidden!
- Louis? - Antoine, I'm not going to tell you where I am.
- Oh, alright! - (Ève) I failed, I failed.
we'll take a break to go find Louis.
(laughing)
♪♪♪
(laughing)
- Dear lord! (Christine laughs wildly)
You have my eternal respect.
Wow, wow, wow!
♪♪♪
(cheering)
- We're back with Taskmaster.
Antoine,
I'm going to be really honest with you,
I'm still not over
Ève's horrible camouflage.
- That's going to be hard to beat, gang. That's going to be hard to beat.
- We've seen Matthieu and Ève's efforts.
- Mm-hmm. - Three to go.
We'll start with Mehdi's attempt.
- Ah... Hasta la vista!
- Oh, wow!
Of course!
That's good! - This is a tough one.
- It's really good!
- There are a lot of hints.
- (Louis): OK.
- Mehdi, you... Louis, you saw him, right?
- Oh yeah, you see him?
- Ah, of course!
- But something tells me that's not right. Something's off.
- Do you see it?
Ah yes!
- Wait. That can't be.
- Hasta la vista, Mehdi.
- (Jo): Baba ghanoush!
- (together): Baba ghanoush!
- (Louis): There you go!
- But at least you couldn't see my knees. And that...
well, that's something. - That's essential!
- We saw your forehead.
- Let's try to find Christine.
- Oh!
- (audience member): Oh, there she is.
(Jo laughs) On the left.
- Wait, where are you?
- Oh yes, there's a carpet.
(laughing)
- OK. Pretty good, pretty good.
- Hm, interesting. What do you think?
- Interesting aesthetic on the left:
the carpet in front of the rocks.
Clearly, Christine is behind it.
- (Christine): Look alive, let's go.
- No, that's not her.
- (Christine): How so?
(Christine's joyful cry) (cheering)
(joyful cry) (cheering)
It's good, eh?
- How did you... What is that?
- Wow! - That's a.. no!
It's a carpet...that you place your dirty winter boots on,
that we flipped over.
It smelled... like death, Louis.
Death!
- Wait, can we see it again? - Yes, I wanna see it again, too.
- (together): We can see it again!
- Yes, of course! You can watch it again this Thursday at 8pm.
- Hey, that's amazing, it's mind-boggling.
- That's crazy!
- That's amazing, dude!
- I thought that particular rock
was really pretty, too. - Yes.
- OK. - That's really, really strong.
- Thank you. - It's really good.
- To our resident physical comedian, now?
- (laughing): Just Jo left to see. Let's have a look!
- Oh, oh, wow!
- (Louis): Hmm... Hmm-hmm-hmm!
- (Matthieu): If we can't see him at all,
that's not camouflage, right?
- No, I'm definitely in there. I know where I am.
- I'm going to back up a little.
(to the audience) You're being pretty quiet. Have you guys found him?
- (audience): No!
- No? How... - Where are you?
- The knight? - He's not in costume.
Hiding behind the chair would be too...
- Behind the trees. - That's not a...
- I'm not allowed to tell you, Taskmaster.
- (Louis): Well now, I'm going to...
- (Antoine): What do you think?
- (Christine): Wow, that's great, Jo. Where are you?
- There aren't any clues. - Is he in the armor?
- Come on! Hiding behind the house, the chair...
- No, no; he's in there.
- ...would be a crappy attempt, because it would be too easy.
- He's in there! - He's there?
- You're usually more imaginative than that.
(Jo laughs)
- Where is he? - He's there...
- I'll say he's behind the chair.
- Let's see his hiding place!
- (Christine): You're the pig?
- (Mehdi): On one of the udders!
(laughing)
(cheering)
(blowing kisses) (diabolical laughter)
(laughing)
- Good lord! (Christine laughs wildly)
You have my eternal respect! - I mean, come on!
- Wow, wow, wow! - That's what I was saying!
- Great visual joke, but zero camouflage points on that.
- Oh no! But it's very funny.
- Hey, give him all the points in the world,
I don't give a shit.
- Well no, because it was impossible to guess where he was.
- Well... the task asked me to camouflage myself.
- How are you scoring them, Taskmaster?
- Here are the scores: Five points for Christine. - What?
- Bravo. - Thanks!
- Five points to Jo.
(Jo cries in delight) - Five?
- Everyone wins!
- Minus five for Ève.
- I'll take it, I'll take it!
- Because, you know?
- And three points for Mehdi and Matthieu.
- OK. We'll take them.
Bravo, man, bravo!
- So... three points for...
(blowing kisses)
So, Ève is at the bottom. (sighs)
- You didn't have to repeat it; it could have gone unsaid.
- I've been there, and it's rough.
- Ève is in the lead? - She's in last place.
- She's in last place... - It's bad for the knees, right?
Being at the bottom of the ladder?
- Thank you. Ève is last.
- Stop it, Antoine, you know I can't handle failure.
- And Jo is in the lead! (cheering)
- (Christine and Jo): Everyone wins!
- Oh, I lost my chance.
- What's the next task, Antoine?
- A heavy task!
♪♪♪
- I don't like these things.
(laughing)
- You're going to make me cry with this stuff.
A scale!
- "Make the scale read exactly
31.770 kg."
- "The scale must read 31.770 kg
for at least five seconds."
(laughing)
- "Your time starts now!"
- So we're talking about 65 lbs, here; give or take.
You have to multiply by 2.2. That's exactly it. I know this stuff.
I go grocery shopping, too.
- "I go grocery shopping." - "I go grocery shopping"?
You go grocery shopping?
- Really?
You... First off,
you're bragging about going grocery shopping; good for you!
What are you buying 65 lbs of at the grocery store?
- Like when you're calculating the price by kilo or by pound...
Like, when you need "this much" for a recipe--
- (Louis): OK, it's fine!
I mean, it sounds pretty simple...
- Yes. - Oh, you think so?
- But you know our competitors.
- It's fairly straightforward. You have to add things to...
- You have to go find stuff to add, though, Louis. It's a large, empty space.
- You have to get it exactly right. It's a very precise scale.
- It's a temperamental one! - Nevertheless, we're going to see what they did...
After the break! - Ah, I knew it!
- (Christine and Jo): Everyone wins!
- (Louis): People are messaging me on Facebook
saying, "Stop picking on him, give him some points."
But you've got to meet me halfway, buddy!
(laughing) - But...
♪♪♪
(cheering)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster
featuring our outstanding comedians, and Ève Côté,
who does her grocery shopping all by herself; bravo!
- Bravo!
- Thank you!
- A bonus point for doing groceries all by yourself!
- Well, I'll take it!
- Remind us of the current task.
- With pleasure. Before the break, we asked our competitors
to make the scale read exactly 31.770 kgs
exactly 31.770 kg
- It's a very precise scale.
- ...by adding items of their choice
to the scale as needed.
Simple? - Simple.
- No, difficult, actually.
- 31.770 kg.
- Matthieu, I don't like your reaction.
- Because I think it's easy to sit on your throne and declare, "That's easy."
- Have some respect for the Taskmaster, please. - Yes, with all due respect!
- Can we see Matthieu?
- No, we're going to see everyone but Matthieu.
- That's why. I thought so, too.
- To switch things up a bit!
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- (Jo): OK, that's going to be heavy.
I need something heavy!
(laughing)
- Oops... (laughing)
I'm sorry. Please don't look; this is awkward.
(laughing)
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- If memory serves...
My great-grandmother's urn would have been very useful, here.
(expiration)
- Ah, it's too hard!
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- What number are you looking for?
- 700... Ah, it's 31! (laughing)
- It's 525 g x 2
we get 1.
How many is that again?
30...
Hey, am I an idiot or what?
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(laughing)
- OK. The gods are with us!
(Mehdi sighs)
- Ew!
(surprised cry)
- Eeek, eek...
- Three balloons, normally.
(cheering)
- (Antoine): One, two, three, four, five!
- Thank you Taskmaster.
- Oh... Oh, oh, oh!
Oh... Oh, oh!
And the name is... Don't move.
- (Antoine): One, two, three,
four, five.
Stop the time! - Wow!
- This is the best day of my life!
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- (Antoine): One, two...
Hm... One, two...
One, two... One!
- OK. Back up.
OK. OK!
- One, two, three,
four, five. Stop the time!
(cheering)
- (Christine): One, two, three,
four, five!
Hey? Boom!
We got it, right?
Did we get it?
We got it, Antoine?
- (Antoine): Maybe. That's a good time.
- Ah, thanks. Thank you!
(joyful cry)
(sigh)
- That wasn't five seconds.
- He didn't count. We never saw it.
- You counted it quickly. - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5!"
- Well... - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5!"
- Well, no, but... Antoine was counting in the background.
Antoine went, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, that's good!"
So then I went, "So, we're good?"
And then he went, "Ah, it just changed."
- Christine, please, don't implicate me in your stories.
- Well, excuse me, Antoine. Stop pretending!
- And just--
- For everyone else's attempts, you were right beside them and observing.
For mine, you were hiding. - You scare me, Christine!
- Well! (laughing)
- No, but sometimes, when something shocks you...
- It's true that it's terrifying. - Hey!
- It's very, very good.
- That was five, eh? Perfect. - Excellent! So--
- That was a montage. What were their actual times?
- Yes. So,
Mehdi took 5 min 26 s.
Christine: 4 min 37 s. - That's quick!
- Jo: 4 min 1 s.
And Ève: 2 min 41 s.
- Hah! Hey, half the time the others took!
(cheering)
- Well, I've just gotten my answer.
- And, if I may. - Yes, go, go, go!
- Taskmaster, you see, they were happy to participate in the task,
happy; happy also to try to get the exact weight on the...
There was camaraderie,
fun in the air. - Yes!
- Let's see Matthieu!
(laughing)
- Well, what is 31 kg?
What weighs 31 kg?
Ah, 31 total, eh!
Oh yes, I get it!
31 kg...
This is some bullshit!
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Christ, I'm going to be here over an hour!
Oh yeah? That's all it weighs, eh?
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What's the target, Antoine?
- 31. - Yeah?
- I don't know. You'll have to stay on the mat after.
(laughing) - Hmm. Let's leave it, then!
(laughing)
(crash) (laughing)
Ah, I'm off by just a little bit.
I'm going to take this back, if that's okay with you.
(laughing)
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Alright!
I'm under by 6 points...
point 2, point 3...
- (Antoine): Matthieu?
- Yes? - OK, OK. It's fine.
- I was chatting with the team. They're super fun.
- It's a race, though. So I was wondering if...
- Fine! OK.
This is working well.
(laughing)
OK, paper towels. - Yes.
- Ah!
(laughing)
(cheering)
- (Antoine): One, two, three...
(laughing)
One,
two, three,
four, five seconds!
OK...
There you go, nothing to it!
- Nope, super simple!
(cheering)
(Ève sighs)
- Was he enraged the entire time?
- Oh yes; and before, after, during...
(laughing)
- Matthieu, people are messaging me on Facebook
saying, "Stop picking on him, give him some points."
But you've got to meet me halfway, buddy!
- But... (laughing)
it makes me laugh. I'm looking at the playback of my attempt,
and that's exactly how
I wanted to manage the situation.
It's really... I wouldn't change a thing
from the start of my journey to now, Louis.
- You actually went with the best strategy.
I think water was the best strategy.
- Yeah, I just realized it way too late.
- How long did he take?
- So, he took 8 min 4 s.
- But...
- (Louis): Go ahead!
- But if it were just based on strategy...
You know? Sure; there's the fact that it's a race,
you have to get the best time, blah-blah-blah.
But look at my mindset.
My mindset was better than everyone else's.
And I think, in a way,
that's worth some points.
- You swore the whole way through, and you hated the entire thing.
- Yes, because...
There was a certain heaviness to my aggression
that weighed on the scale.
- Hey, guys! Just remember...
- (Mehdi and Jo): Hasta la vista...
- (everyone): ...baba ghanoush.
- Thanks, Mehdi.
- Well, we're going to go by speed.
So, five points for Ève. - Thank you very much!
- Jo's came in second place.
- (Louis): Jo in second place, so four points for him.
- Christine. - Christine: three.
- Three points! - And Mehdi...
Two, and Matthieu...
- (Louis and Christine): The pity point!
- (Ève): I forgot! I forgot about that!
- It's the... I've had a taste...
I've had a taste of what it's like to be in the lead.
But I now find myself... - ...at the rear!
- At home, in the shallows.
- A homecoming! - A homecoming.
It feels good to be home!
- Can we get a score summary?
- Well, Ève is in last place.
(laughing)
- "Oopsie"!
- I was certain that I had gotten up from my knees!
- She camouflaged her enthusiasm.
- You're not that good at counting, eh?
Because it's impossible. (laughing)
- And Jo, you're still in the lead! - Good work!
- Everyone wins!
- (Louis): You, especially!
After the break: our live task.
(cheering)
- Explain it to me, again, slowly. "I have to make
a pyramid within my hoop
while staying within my hoop?
- Aren't you glad you chose to wear those huge boots today?
(laughing)
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(cheering)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster. Oh, thank you very much,
everyone. Thanks a lot!
Have you had fun tonight?
- (audience): Yes!
- And looky here. This looks like it's going to end in a beautiful disaster.
- Yes! It's your brainchild, Taskmaster.
And Ève is going to read the task.
- Yes, sir! - Lucky!
- Are you ready, gang? - Yes!
- OK, here we go.
- Oh, god! - "Make the highest tower
"of cans within your hoop.
"You have 100 seconds during which
"you must also remain within your hoop.
If you step outside of your hoop, you will be disqualified."
I repeat, Christine.
If you leave your hoop, you're disqualified.
- Wait. Explain it to me, again, slowly.
I have to make a pyramid within my hoop
while remaining in my hoop?
- Aren't you glad you chose to wear those huge boots today?
- No, but... - So!
- Your giant wrestler boots!
- 100 seconds-- - I'm not done!
"After 100 seconds, you have to step outside your hoop
"and not be touching your tower.
"Highest tower of cans still standing
ten seconds after the final whistle wins."
- So, 100 seconds.
You stay within your hoop.
If you step out, you're eliminated and
you have to stop. You make the highest tower possible.
When I blow the whistle, you step outside the hoop...
- Hang on! - You wait.
We'll see if the towers hold together during the wait, then we'll compare them.
Yes, what's your question? - Just so Christine gets it.
- Go ahead, Ève. - If she does this...
- Is she stepping out of her hoop? - No.
- OK, question answered.
- Why did I just give that strategy away to everyone? I'm a moron!
- In three... two...
one... 100 seconds!
- Here we go. (encouragement)
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One minute!
One minute to go, that is.
(sad cries)
Five, four, three,
two, one! (whistle blows)
(cheering)
Everybody back up.
Back up.
- Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Three, two, one...
(cheering)
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(cheering)
- Antoine, dear!
- Yes?
- After counting and recounting,
who won the last task?
- The highest tower was Christine's...
- ...for five points!
- Thank you! - Followed by Mehdi's.
- Nice job. - For four points.
- Jo... - ...three points.
- Ève... - ...two points.
And the pity point...
- For Pepper! - Pepper Point!
- (together): Pepper Point, Pepper Point!
Pepper Point!
- One point to Matthieu!
- Thank you, Thank you. Thank you so much.
- Bravo, Pep! - Pretty good, eh?
- What I find difficult in this life of mine,
is...
- Yeah, many things, we know.
- Is that sometimes,
things transpire in such a way that they give me hope.
Eh? And...
- Ah? - My first few tasks made me believe I could
be victorious. I thought I'd be heading home
with Baba Ghanoush and friends, today.
So, it's a hard pill to swallow, Taskmaster.
- I know! Hey, look. I'm your producer.
I also had hope for you, once upon a time.
(laughing)
I totally get it...
What are the final scores? - So, in tallying up the scores, we have...
one winner. But he'd prefer to say that, "Everyone wins."
It's Jo!
- Jo! - It's Jo Cormier!
- (Jo): Everyone wins!
- Thank you so much, everyone.
We'll see you next week, but...
before Jo goes to collect his prizes,
Mehdi, any last words?
- Hasta la vista...
- (everyone): ...baba ghanoush!
- See you next week, everybody!
(cheering)
- Well done, Jo! - Everyone wins!
- Everyone wins?
- Everyone wins!
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