(Bell Media theme playing)
(applause)
- Welcome to Taskmaster!
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 contestants,
based on highly subjective and ambiguous criteria.
The winner of this season
will take home the greatest prize in the history of television:
a golden replica of my head!
(cheering) [Episode title: "Nicole's Son"]
Allow me to introduce the five brave stars
of the first season of Taskmaster: Matthieu Pepper!
- Hello, good evening, good evening!
- Ève Côté!
Mehdi Bousaidan!
Christine Morency!
And Jo Cormier!
And my assistant; who has threatened to kidnap my children
to teach them how to play chess: Antoine Vézina!
- Thank you! But no...
No, no, no!
Louis, I just wanted to show them what it was,
because, being your children, they wouldn't have experienced it. ["Échecs" means both, "chess" and, "failures"]
("aww"ing)
- I invite you to go to YouTube and type in, "Louis Morissette".
There are a lot of them [failures]. So...
(laughing) That's it!
Yeah, it's frightening. But hopeful at the same time.
- It's true; anything is possible. - The first task of the evening
is the prize task. Contestants have to bring in the best item
that fits a particular theme,
and those items become the prize
that the winner of the episode gets to take home with them.
- Well, I wouldn't have said it in that way, Louis.
I would have made it much clearer. Here we go with tonight's theme:
"Your favourite battery- operated item!"
(excited cries)
- Bunch of naughty rascals!
- Let's see Matthieu's favourite battery-operated item.
- Yes, mine is...
And honestly, this is really practical because it's...
I don't know if you know what this is, but it's wireless.
- Really? - It's amazing.
- It's well made. Carpal tunnel... It's ergonomic.
- No, really; it's fantastic.
There's no caster underneath. You never get caught up in the wire...
- Sorry, sorry. I didn't hear any of that.
I was just mesmerized by your shirt. (laughing)
- Yes, Taskmaster! Yes!
I have a question, Matthieu:
What art teacher did you steal that from?
(laughing)
- Yo, man. You've got horses on your vest. [He said "chevals"; incorrect plural of, "cheval" (horse)]
- (both): It's, "horses"! ["chevaux"; correct plural of, "cheval" (horse)]
- Thank you, thank you!
Let's see Ève's favourite battery-operated item.
- This is really useful in the dark, Taskmaster!
Three brightness settings.
You can keep a dim light on standby.
Uses four big "C" batteries.
It's bright, bright. I've had it for about 3 years.
The batteries are still good.
It's really practical for camping...
- There's no wire in that, either? - Nope!
- Wow, another wireless item.
- But it's battery-powered.
Remember those big lanterns
with the little pocket? They were really hard to light.
With this, you press the button; done. The button is "Indiglo," too. Do you remember those Indiglo watches? [watch faces that glowed in the dark]
You never lose sight of the button in the dark.
- It's like the less interesting the item is, the more they talk about it.
- That's a strategy we have, Antoine.
- She's embellishing her Gaspésie accent, too, to make it seem more palatable.
She thinks she sounds cute, but...
(laughing)
- "We thank you oh so kindly!" [in an accent]
[still using an accent] "Let's see Mehdi's item!"
- Yes, so, these are my car keys.
But, it's a keychain that I bought...
in Thailand. I have it here.
And what's amazing, is that it's also...
a little flashlight, a little laser!
- Ah, yes!
- By the way... It changes colour when you point it at people.
Try it, Louis. Point it at the shirt... So you have to press
on the big button in the middle. - Ouch, fucking hell!
(laughing)
- Unbelievable!
It's a gag!
(laughing)
- You have to press... - Ouch, fucking hell!
(in slow motion): Ouch, fucking hell!
(laughing)
- So, I don't know if that'll get any points, but...
- Nice prank. - Oh, Mehdi!
- Let's see Christine's item.
- Mine is good!
- What?!
- That's mine?
- That's yours. - No, I don't think so.
- Yes, that's your item, Christine.
- Really? Huh, OK!
(laughing)
Well then! - Man!
- I'm listening! - A remote-control Ski-Doo? [snowmobile]
- Yep. I brought this...
because I love giving myself a ride. [euphemism for getting off, sexually]
So, you see...
(laughing)
- At a distance... - I was torn between two items.
- There you go, OK!
- Thank you for being adaptable, Christine.
- Anytime.
- Jo's item?
(Christine laughing)
- What? Oh...
- "Batterie" operated, ah... ["Batterie" means both, "battery" and, "drums"]
(applause)
- The "batterie"-operated item. - "Batterie"-operated.
(Christine air drumming): Drumming.
- No, no, we're not gonna give it more air time.
We're not acknowledging that "batterie"-operated item.
So, the points, now.
Well, Mehdi, because you made me
look like a complete idiot...
- You were so happy to make fun of my shirt, there.
- I was gonna go hard on insulting your shirt.
- That made me feel so good!
- Five points to Mehdi. - Five points!
(applause)
- Wireless, eh?
- Next, next, next...
- We have the lantern, the mouse...
- Next, two points to Matthieu. - Two points; Matthieu.
- One point for the others.
- What? - Yes!
- It wasn't good. It wasn't good. [audience booing]
We're ready for the first task proper of the evening.
- Absolutely, it's a task in which
we play... play what?
Aquarium! ["On joue à quoi? Aquarium" is a pun. "À quoi?" (what?) sounds like "aqua-"]
♪♪♪
- I thought I'd found myself in an escape room.
(laughing)
I had already found two clues.
- I feel like I'm on "[Les] Chefs" [Quebec culinary competition show]
when they arrive before a task.
They always try to guess what it could be, first.
- This looks like a recipe, all of this.
- "Without moving the fish bowls..."
- "... transfer the water from bowl A
to bowl B."
"You may only use the items on this table."
- "Most water moved wins."
"You have five minutes.
Your time starts now." - Why would there be chocolate here?
I don't understand why...
(applause)
- Baffled by the chocolate. - It did baffle me, yes.
- OK, simple. Simple, simple, simple, simple, simple.
- Simple; you have to transfer the water from one bowl to the other.
It's not a race. We're looking for the most amount of water transferred.
Exactly. - OK.
- Let's see Ève and Christine. And we're off. - Go for it!
- Perfect.
What?
Shit!
- I'll never be able to pump with this.
(coughing)
- OK!
- This, Antoine... - Yes?
- ...is a really useful trick I'm going to show you.
It's going in...
Shit!
You cut the ends off!
- Do you have a strategy?
- No. Hope!
(coughing) - You have time, here.
- You call this a challenge?
(coughing)
(laughing)
- That worked well! - Very well!
- Ah, I could put my hand underneath.
- Yay!
- (Antoine): Ah yes!
(laughing)
Are you satisfied?
- Now that the task is over, can I have some chocolate?
There you go; it's shorter now.
- I'll take this little piece, here
that hasn't fallen on the ground.
We had a little fish in there.
- Ah, I swallowed it. I thought I felt something go down my throat.
I thought it was a pebble.
(applause)
- A little fish!
- I'm only now starting to feel better.
I was choking the whole day.
- Oh yeah? Did you see our fish again at any point?
- Ah, I didn't check... I let it go.
- Ah, you would have felt it, I think.
Yes, yes. - Hey, that went well.
- Absolutely. And, you know, it wasn't a race.
I'll give you the quantities:
Ève transferred 2,388 mL.
- That's pretty good.
- And Christine, 1,971 mL!
- 1,900? - I coughed up about half of it.
- Ève's in the lead at the moment.
Let's see Mehdi and Matthieu.
- When is the time starting?
- It started 22 seconds ago.
- Eh, OK!
We have a pump, obviously, but no...
Hmm!
(sigh)
- You know that that's not the task, right?
- Yes, but I told myself...
- It sucks that that doesn't work.
What I just did is still pretty impressive.
- The Irish way, eh?
Like when you don't have any gas left in your car.
(sucking noises)
♪♪♪
- Ah, that was a good idea, but poorly executed.
(sigh)
- Oops!
(coughing)
- The important thing...
is that it works.
When I was young, my mother would say:
"Don't play with your food."
Today, I'm being paid to! Here you go, my friend.
- No, thanks. - Sorry about that...
- Three... Two...
One...
Oh!
- (out of breath): There's maybe 10% left.
(laughing)
- Do you want some? - OK, I'll have some.
I'll pick the first piece. Thanks!
It's good.
(applause)
- Matthieu!
Well done!
- It's a lot less funny when...
when I'm not terrible.
- You find? - It's boring. "He succeeded."
- I thought it was lovely, actually.
The Siphon King.
Saint-Eustache, baby! [Matthieu's hometown] - Saint-Eustache.
It brought me right back there. - Yes, apparently.
- From pick-up [truck] to Ski-Doo [snowmobile].
- How much did Matthieu transfer?
- He transferred 3,471 mL.
- Wow!
- Mehdi took a little while with the pump,
but he ended up transferring 3,044 mL.
- So he's in second place! - Nice job!
- He's in second place. Matthieu, for the moment, is in first place. Mehdi, second.
- Will Jo manage to outdo Matthieu?
We'll find out, after the break.
(surprised cries and applause)
- Be careful, eh! - Promise!
(joyful cry)
This is exciting!
♪♪♪
(applause)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster.
The show in which I set tasks for comedians
desperate for followers and attention.
Speaking of tasks, Antoine... - Yes!
- ...remind us of the current one. - Before the break,
we saw Christine, Mehdi, Ève, and Matthieu
transferring water from one fish bowl to another.
At the moment, Matthieu is in the lead.
- Can you repeat that? People are in shock.
- Matthieu is in the lead! - Can you...
- Do not adjust your device!
- Can you say that to my mom, directly?
- Nicole...
Don't get your hopes up.
(laughing)
- Let's see Jo's attempt.
- This... This is pretty small, actually.
Can I...
(laughing)
♪♪♪
(laughing)
- (Antoine): Ah yes; there's a limit, eh?
- You can hear or feel the limit, eh?
Come closer.
- Ah yes; distinctly.
Ah, five minutes!
- Is it done? Show me!
- Yes, five...
- 5 min 6 sec.
I'm paid to do this.
- You get paid? - A lot!
- Is that all you did?
- We're a little disappointed, Jo.
- Oh, come on, now! - At any point during those five minutes,
did you tell yourself:
"This isn't a good strategy"?
- I'll tell you: now, yes!
(laughing)
But at the time, I was, like,
"Hey, man, that's great!"
(laughing) - How many millilitres did he transfer?
- 622. (laughing)
- But it doesn't take away from the fact that it produced
one of my favourite images of this season.
That should be your Tinder photo.
- You think so? (laughing)
- Mustache blowing in the wind.
- Well, I'd like to thank the whole team
for allowing me to clean my mustache.
- Perfect. So...
- Matthieu transferred the most water, but...
I'd like to show Nicole something.
- Yes, Nicole. - Let's have a look.
- It's very nice, eh?
- Is this a distraction, Antoine?
- What do you think?
- Yes.
- Ah, it's good.
- Shit, it's hard.
- There you go.
♪♪♪
(laughing)
- Behind the task, it said, clearly:
"If you eat any of the chocolate, you will be docked five points."
- It wasn't even good chocolate.
- Well played, Taskmaster. He's gone rogue!
- Stop. - Gluttony is a deadly sin!
- Yes, it's one of the deadly sins, gluttony.
- Of course, it's you and me.
- No doubt, obviously.
- To help the show. [Christine could have meant "show" or "chaud" ("heat," as in, "to beat the heat")]
- Now they're going to complain that it's too hot on stage.
(laughing)
- Hey!
- So, minus five points for Christine
and minus five points for Matthieu.
- But we still might be able to...
- No, no. There's zero chance.
- It was worth it.
- So that's four points to Mehdi. - Exactly.
- Three points to Ève, and two points to Jo Cormier.
- Ah, so we don't get any?
- Nope. You get minus five.
- Ah OK... - Let's add it all up.
- Is there anything you'd like to say to Nicole?
- In an ideal world, I think she'd prefer
it if I never spoke to her again. - There you go, OK.
After two tasks, Antoine?
- Mehdi is now in the lead!
(applause) - Well done.
- We believed in you, Matthieu.
I'm ready for another task.
- That works out well, I kept one on ice for you.
♪♪♪
- 5pm, the workday is done!
(laughing)
Feels good to get out of the office.
- Yes.
OK, we're observing. A different approach.
What does that look like?
- It looks like ice.
- Wow!
Feels good... - Nice and cold, eh?
- Oof! Because I'm hot. - Yes!
- This is stressful.
- "Make this ice block disappear as fast as possible."
- "You have 30 minutes.
Your time starts now." - Off you go.
- Can I put a blanket on it?
- Um, it would continue to exist, though.
- Usually, ice blocks are used
to make people disappear.
- It's quite simple, Antoine.
And up!
Ta-da! (applause)
- OK... - A genius?
- It's... - Yes?
- Sorry, I just want to come back to something.
Mehdi, you very casually said:
"Usually, ice blocks are used
to make people disappear."
I don't think anyone here
understood what you meant.
- It just seems like something
people do in movies sometimes...
- Isn't that concrete? - Yes, sometimes concrete, sometimes...
- Surely mostly concrete, because ice melts.
- Everyone knows that ice floats.
- OK, he was spouting nonsense.
OK, alright. So... - Simple!
- You were saying...
- "Make the block of ice disappear."
- Well, now. - They had 30 minutes.
- 30 minutes, not bad! They had time.
- Hey, that block was huge!
- Yes, well, 30 minutes.
- Let's have a look! Let's see Christine and Jo's attempts!
As fast as possible. After that, will it be you, who...
- Cameras: stay on Antoine.
♪♪♪
- You never know. I'm going to move away a little.
- Thanks, Antoine!
- Be careful, eh! - Promise!
(joyful cry)
This is exciting!
♪♪♪
(joyful cry)
- It's quartz!
Disappeared. - It's quartz?
- Yes!
- What would you say is on the ground, here, gentlemen?
- Ice. - Ice, eh?
OK, thanks.
That's annoying, eh Jo?
- Antoine? - Yes?
- Tell me.
Does that look like a block?
- No. - Yes!
(applause)
- The block disappeared.
- Friends, the block was still there.
- Of course not! - The ice was still there.
- But it's no longer a block of ice.
- But it's just smaller blocks of ice.
- No, they were pieces of ice.
- OK, but the timing?
- So, Christine took 25 minutes
to make ice pieces.
And Jo; 2 min 24 sec.
- 2 min 24 sec, so, he stopped the time.
- Yes, he did...
He hid a piece...
He threw the rest on the ground.
He had something else, you have to believe.
- Even the guy on the road said it was ice.
- Was he a geologist?
(laughing) - But on the other hand,
the man on the road didn't say: "That's a block of ice."
- He said: "That's ice."
- You and your attempts to circumvent the rules...
It did the trick.
- I'm going to think about this over the break. When we come back,
we'll see what Mehdi, Ève, and Matthieu did.
- It's going to be impressive!
(applause)
- And Nicole's son?
- Well, I'll give one point to Nicole; not to Matthieu.
Nicole, I'm sending a point to you at home,
but no points for Matthieu.
(laughing)
- She'll love that! That'll make her happy!
♪♪♪
(applause)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster. We're in the middle of a very simple task:
our comedians have 30 mins to make a block of ice
disappear.
- Disappear. - Disappear!
- The block of ice! - Disappear.
- All of the ice!
- The block.
- The ice. - The ice.
- We've seen some attempts... - Yes!
- ...that tried to undermine the wording of the task.
But let's see Mehdi and Ève now. - Ah!
- Here we go.
29 minutes left.
- It's going well.
- It's melting, but slowly. - Yes, yes!
- We're going to physically make it disappear.
♪♪♪
- There's a rupture, here!
There! - Ah, that's not bad.
- It's going well, now.
- Salt.
Because salt molecules,
so, "S", sodium,
mixed with water, melts it.
That's why we use salt,
among other things, to melt the ice
on our walkways.
- It'll be easier to melt in pieces.
- OK, to melt... - Well, to disappear.
- Yes, but how to make it disappear? With you hands?
- I don't know. I'm going to put some
in my crotch. Crotch temperature.
(laughing)
That'll never work!
- Ah, there you go.
- Looks like I'm cooking crystal meth.
- I'm going to fill up my wheelbarrow.
(laughing)
(flute and drum duet)
Feels like the bat is going to break.
(effortful sigh)
I "natched" it. [I believe she means, "notched" it]
♪♪♪
- It's not personal. It's just business.
You just had to keep your mouth shut! But no, eh?
- It moved on its own.
- Oh dear!
(He recites a prayer.)
- (Antoine): Five, four, three,
two, one.
That was 30 minutes!
Excuse me, where's the ice block?
- We can't see it anymore, can we?
- Did it disappear? - Yes.
- Well, maybe not completely,
but was this your card?
- Ah, we thought...
Well done! - Yes.
(applause)
- Very good; very, very good.
I'm going to give him a bonus point
for the magic trick.
- Here we go! - Well done!
- Don't bonus points come in twos?
- Hey, well...
You, "notched" it? - To, "notch"?
- What does, "notching" mean? - "Notching", is...
In any case, where I'm from, it's when, you know,
when you chop down a tree with an ax,
you have to, "notch" it.
You make, like, a little...
A little, "V" like this.
- Yes, yes, yes. - That's, "notching".
- "Notching", and then, you cut it down.
- There. - Ah, that's not bad.
- Pretty good.
- Did anyone else know what that was?
Well, we learn many things on this program.
- "Notching" a tree! - It's amazing, and...
I have a fundamental question, here. - Go on.
- Did anyone successfully
completely get rid of the block of ice?
- Both of them took
the full 30 minutes.
At the end of the 30 minutes, Mehdi was left with
a few floating pieces.
Just a few. And Ève...
disappeared.
(applause)
- Boiling water... the kettle.
Hey, at the end I was swimming in it.
- We have Nicole on the line saying, "But what about my son?"
- Ah...
- While you have her, tell her she should go
take a walk, or a piss, or something. - Let's see Matthieu's attempt.
- Your time starts now.
♪♪♪
(laughing)
♪♪♪
Done!
- Done? - Well, it's done. Disappeared.
- Disappeared, disappeared?
- Yep, disappeared, press that button.
- OK. - Done.
I did great. - Yeah?
- Yep, yep.
If you ask me, I'm just a step ahead of
everyone, if you know what I mean. - Oh yes!
(applause)
Taskmaster.
- Everyone knows that ice floats.
- Anything to say in your defense?
- Ice floats, eh?
- You didn't know, did you?
- In a drink, I thought. In a lake? Whoops.
- Ah, so you told yourself: "It's gonna sink to the bottom of the lake.
Nobody will see it."
- Um, no!
No, no; I told myself: "The impact of the water: ka-pow!"
- OK, I see!
OK, is it time to give out points?
- Let's give some out! - Points time.
- Just before that, though,
I have another magic trick for you. Yes.
- He's pushing his luck. - You have to press this button.
- No, no! (laughing)
- Try it, Louis. Point it at their shirt...
You have to press the big button in the centre.
- Ouch, fucking hell!
(applause)
- I'm going to give my points out.
So, clearly, five points to Ève, who was successful.
- Thank you!
- Four to Mehdi! - Four to Mehdi.
- I'm going to give three points to Jo and Christine.
Not a complete success, but I got the idea.
- Not bad. - Well done, my darling.
- And Nicole's son?
- Well, I'm going to give a point to Nicole; not to Matthieu.
Nicole, I'm sending a point to you at home,
but no points for Matthieu.
(laughing)
- She'll love that! That'll make her happy!
- Bravo, Nicole!
- So, at the moment, Mehdi's in the lead.
And Matthieu is in last place!
- OK. - Oh, come on!
(laughing) - Poor Matthieu.
- I hope Matthieu was successful in the next task.
- Ah, it's a wrinkle-free task!
♪♪♪
- Finally; naptime!
This is my kind of task, Antoine!
- Hi, Antoine! Hello!
- Something calm. - Who knows, eh?!
- Read it, buddy. I think I'm starting to understand. - Me too.
"Make this bed to a hotel standard!"
- "Make this bed to a hotel standard
while holding hands."
- No! (laughing)
- "Your time ends when you get into the bed.
Fastest team wins."
- OK, who is a righty? - I'm a lefty.
- OK, you're a lefty.
So you have to be on my left. Are you a righty?
- Yes. - So you're not doing anything?
- Oh, is there someone who does nothing?
- Me too. So it's left, left.
- But this is right, left.
- This is so stupid. - But we don't have a choice!
- Your time has started.
- Wait a second. Fitted sheets.
- Christ, you manage it. No problem there.
I also don't want to argue. We're at the hotel.
I think it needs to stop, for real.
I can't do this anymore.
- OK... - He's dragging me down.
- There's a team of 3 and a team of 2.
- Yes, but she was on her own,
to be quite honest.
- The team of three had an advantage, because they had more leeway [she uses the word, "harse", which might be a slang version of "herse" ("harrow")].
- That's true, technically,
it would be faster with three people.
But one of them is pretty much useless.
- But they provide some slack.
- For us, we were pretty smushed...
- It was quite hard to get some slack. Yes.
- OK, fine. - So, making a bed to a
hotel standard. Not complicated.
- Of course not.
- After the break!
(applause)
♪ - We are ♪
♪ The children of peace ♪
- That's not too bad.
♪ - Children ♪ - What are you doing?
♪ - We're holding hands ♪
♪♪♪
(applause)
- We're back with Taskmaster.
Antoine, I'm going to be very frank.
I'm looking forward to the next task.
I'm excited to see whether Ève successfully
"notches" the bedspread.
Even without any leeway ("harse")?
- Leeway ("harse")? - What does, "harse" mean?
- Some leeway! Gimme some leeway ("harse").
- Well, just say, "some slack".
"Some leeway" ("de la harse"). Do you know that expression? - No!
- You guys... Hey, you're on your own, my dear.
Some leeway ("De la harse"). So... She doesn't have much leeway ("harse")!
- Not much leeway
because it's a team task
where they have to make the bed,
while holding hands.
We're going to see the first group, the group of three:
Jo, Christine, and Mehdi.
- They're going to be quick. - More leeway ("harse")!
- They definitely have more leeway ("harse").
- Your time starts now. OK, so we have to
hold them. No, but you're a righty...
- I'm a righty. - That's perfect.
- But hang on a second. We can use this hand.
- Yes, and there's my hand here, too.
- Yeah.
That's good. - OK.
- Ew, there's drool on this. (laughing)
That's right. Liked at the Super 8 [hotel chain].
- I drooled! - Non, but wait...
Wait!
- Wait! - First we put this
in the yellow thing. - That's the duvet cover.
- Now what we're going to do, is shove it inside...
- All the way to the back. - OK.
- Yes, we're gonna find the corners. - Yes!
- What are you doing, Jo? - Well, I'm looking for the corners.
(imitates a ghost)
- You see, if you take...
(surprised cry)
- You pulled the corner away from me!
- He ripped it away!
He ripped the corner away from his sister-in-law.
- Help us with your other hand!
- How do I do that?
What is he doing? He's nuts!
- That's it. I've got it.
It's okay, I have the other corner, here. - OK!
- I never want to...
(surprised cry) - What, what?
- I think Jo... That's it.
Wait!
Underneath. - Like this? Does it go this way?
- Jo! - What?
- Focus!
- So far, I'm adjusting my corner the best!
- That's fine... You'll do the other one here.
- Don't let go of my hand!
- This shouldn't be complicated.
- No, this is the simplest part. - But how do we make it
fold out properly in the corner? - What do you mean?
- Because she knows you have to fold the corners down.
- They do that in hotels.
- Careful, my man!
- My hands are all sweaty. I'm fed up, now!
- It's true; they're pretty sweaty.
- A little fold, there?
- Yes. (Jo sings)
- Give me the other hand.
- In the meantime, prepare the comforter.
- Yes!
The buttons. - The buttons; do they go in a particular direction?
♪ - We are ♪
♪ The children of peace ♪
♪ The children ♪
- Hey, what are you doing?
♪ - We're holding hands ♪
- The throw pillows.
- Wait, wait. Do you have to put it on the end...
- Wait.
- Yeah? - OK, three, two, one!
(sigh)
- Well done!
- It's getting softer now.
- My fingers have shriveled up from holding it.
- OK.
Christine, Mehdi, I take back what I said.
three is not faster.
Normally, yes; but not with Jo.
Thanks for the hand, Jo.
- Hey, my pleasure! Always happy to help, Louis!
- And it was a sweaty hand, to boot. - Yes!
- I don't know how you could know that
because you held him by his arm
and his wrist for three quarters of the time.
- I tried to hold his hand.
He was moving around like a fish.
- Ah, but he's a child of peace, Christine.
- What? - He's a child of peace.
- They made the bed in 15 min 29 sec.
- My god, that's long!
- Do you remember ours?
- OK. - Wow!
Wow!
- That's beatable. - That?
- You can beat that. - It's within reach.
- Yeah, but I'm sure that somewhere, it said:
"If you touch the pillow, you're disqualified."
- Oh, he's angry.
- Let's take a look.
- I always turn it all the way around first.
- Well, look, we're gonna have fun.
I have sweaty hands. We'll get that out of the way, now.
- Well, look. We won't speak of it again.
- Are you sure you don't want to make the pillows the way I'm telling you to?
- No, we'll make the pillows.
- You have a good grip. I'd be lying if I
said you didn't...
- Fuck, we have to put the duvet in the cover.
That's tough.
- Shit, I do it alone at my place
with both hands and I hate it. Sorry.
Hold it tightly!
- OK! - OK!
Don't let go of my hand. Let go...
- I'll never let go of your hand, man.
Even if it's slipping more and more.
- We're going second to second, here. - We're liquefying, here.
- Yes! - Yes!
Hold still! - OK!
- OK. - Yes!
- Oh, I'm sorry...
Sorry... - It's alright.
- We have to put this there.
Let's undo the buttons.
We'll hold the first two corners and go inside.
- Just to be clear: inside?
- Inside the cover. Wait, you don't have the right corner. This one, here.
OK. - In we go.
- There. - Yes!
- Here we go. - Yes, yes.
OK, inside!
- Inside! - I get it... This is actually not crazy.
- No, it's not crazy. Did you hold your corner?
- Hey, I held my corner!
Holy hell!
- Not too bad, there. - Come on!
- Now we're going to place ourselves... - I'm sorry!
The good housewife! - We're going to leave this there for a bit.
- Just like that; tidy. - OK, grab your corner.
Let's fluff it up.
OK.
- Ah, that was OK. Are you happy with that?
- I thought that wasn't too bad.
- Behind that? The grey one? - Yes.
- You're sure? - Certain.
We're going to make a bulge here! Another line.
With the yellow cover. - OK.
Just like that. Wow!
Time!
- To shine! - Goes by.
- Do we have to lie in it?
(stammering)
(applause)
- Well done! - Efficient.
- He was down for the count!
- Good communication. - That bed was pretty solid.
- Well done, Ève. You managed that like a champ.
- Thanks, I took the lead. You know?
- Yes, I'll say, Matthieu?
- Sometimes, you need to know when to hang back, Louis.
- I get it. - Like I should have done
after the first episode
after the first episode.
after the first episode - No!
No, no! Hey, I have a lot of sympathy for this kind of thing.
My relationship also works because of the woman.
So, the times?
- They succeeded in 10 min 46 sec!
(applause)
Two thirds of the time.
- Nicole, he won!
Jo?
- Well, I have something to say.
Seems like it's proportional to the number of people.
Two people, ten minutes. Five minutes per person.
Three people, 15 minutes. Five minutes per person.
- Nice calculation, but it changes nothing.
- One has nothing to do with the other.
You were a nuisance for 15 minutes.
- Well, I wouldn't say, "nuisance".
I regaled the troops!
(laughing)
- You were entertaining!
- So, five points to Ève and Matthieu.
- Five points each.
- Bravo, bravo! - I'm happy with that!
- Three points for our trio.
- Three points each for the trio!
In first place: Mehdi!
- Everyone wins, Matthieu, everyone wins!
- It's not over yet. It's not over!
- It's not over!
After the break, the live task; right here, tonight!
Mehdi is wondering if there are two "R"s in "Morissette."
- It's "Morissette," that's it!
(laughing)
♪♪♪
(applause)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster!
We've reached the final task of the evening; the studio task.
As you can see, your comedians are chained up.
They can't move.
Jo, I feel like keeping you like this for a while.
It does wonders! - No!
- And who is going to read the task, Antoine?
- Mehdi! - Lucky!
The magician.
- "Crack the code.
Unchain yourself, and sprint 1 meter.
Fastest wins."
- You have to find the combination,
unchain yourselves, and sprint 1 meter to win.
- There are 10,000 possibilities. And, go!
- What? - For real?
- For real. - No clues?
- OK, OK. Fine. I'll give you a hint.
The two first numbers
are Antoine's and my birth year.
- We're the same age. It's astonishing.
- Yes, we are brothers.
- Ah yes, there are zeros.
- There are zeros, 1800!
Ah, there you go! I have another hint to give.
The last number... - Yes.
- ...Is the total number of consonants
in the Taskmaster's full name.
- Our birth year.
- There, you have the first two.
- The number of consonants in my first and last names.
Mehdi is wondering if there are two "R"s in, "Morissette."
- It's "Morissette," that's it!
(laughing)
(applause)
- Do you want another hint?
- Please. - Ideally, yes.
- Is there a letter? Towards the end,
the penultimate space, is a letter.
It's the 22nd letter of the alphabet.
- I'm going to count backwards.
- What does he mean?
- One more! - "X", "Y", "Z".
- Birth year.
Number of consonants, 22nd letter.
If I'm not mistaken, there's just one number remaining.
- That's easy, just one space left.
- Just one more number to guess.
- I can't do this anymore. - What is it?
- I'm going to fight! - Do you need a hint?
You can try all of the combinations.
- Five points to the person who will be the first to
untie themselves. Then, 4, 3, 2, 1, in order.
- In order. - Can we help each other, gang?
What numbers did you guys get?
- Yes, because... (laughing)
Yes, because, as it stands, "nobody wins!"
- The final missing number,
is the number of tattoos that I have.
- Oh, that's interesting!
- How mysterious!
- I've made a mistake somewhere!
- I've tried everything! - I've made a mistake!
- What happens in Vegas...
- No, it did not stay in Vegas. It followed me home.
- There are 24 letters in the alphabet.
"X", "Y", "Z". That's it.
- Still nothing. - And in theory,
some people should be crossing the line, now.
- But are we supposed to know your...
- First! (joyful cry)
(applause)
- Yes! - Keep it going!
- Four points for second place!
- Oh no, it moved!
(joyful cry)
- The girls are too good.
- You can sit down while you wait!
Let's watch the boys at work.
Houdini! - Where's your lock?
- What is it?
What's the part that you don't understand?
- Well, which year you were born?
- Come on; there aren't that many possibilities.
If you have the rest, try them all.
- What are we talking about now? - How old we are?
I look like I'm 64.
He looks 37!
- I'm 48 years old!
- You're 48 years old? - Go on, my Nicole!
(applause)
- Perfect!
- Hey, Jo, I got confused. I'm 49 years old.
- That's right!
- It's true. I'm in a bit of denial, too.
- Hmm...
(applause)
- Well done, Jo!
- Bravo. - Well done, my baby!
♪♪♪
- OK!
We checked the video replay.
- Yes! - We thought about everything again...
I know it was going fast. You had to think...
No, Mehdi, don't give up. You're going to get it.
Continue, continue! (laughing)
You had to think about a lot of things, but I just want to...
Can I speak to Jo? - Of course!
- Twice, he told us, very loudly:
"Which letter? Hang on a second.
There are 24 letters in the alphabet!"
- That's maybe where you went wrong. - There are 26.
(laughing)
- My god!
- For the points, we'll do it based on time.
- Perfect. Christine in first place. - Christine, five points.
Next, Ève, four points.
Matthieu, three points.
Jo, two points.
And Mehdi, the pity point.
- I don't understand. You weren't born in 1985?
- Ah, he's trying to flatter us. - What are the final scores?
- Well, for the first time we have two winners.
- No, come on!
There's a tie? - Yes! Ève and Mehdi!
(joyful cries)
- After nine episodes, Ève is still in the lead,
but Jo, Christine, and Mehdi
can definitely catch up.
Matthieu, has plenty of other qualities.
- We'll see you next week.
You can go collect your prizes!
(applause)
- The lantern!
- Good job! - Woo-hoo!
(applause)
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