Good evening, my name is Louis Morissette, and I am the Taskmaster.
Over the past few weeks, I have devised a series of tasks
for five beloved comedians to complete.
Together, we'll discover what they did, and how they did it.
As the Taskmaster, I'll hand out points to the most deserving contestants,
based on highly subjective and ambiguous criteria.
The winner of the season
will take home the greatest prize in television history:
a replica of my head... in gold!
"A Dirty Trick"
Yes, yes, yes!
Hold your applause for our brave contestants:
I'm talking about Alex Perron...
Richardson Zéphir...
Virginie Fortin...
Bianca Gervais...
and... what is it again?
Arnaud Soly!
And my assistant.
For years we've seen him
accompanying folks making omelettes
in half-clean kitchens. [Antoine hosted the cooking show 'Un Souper Presque Parfait' ('A Nearly-Perfect Supper')]
He's my nearly-perfect assistant, Antoine Vézina!
Thank you so much, but remember, Taskmaster,
when we're near you,
we're always near perfection!
Awww!
It's the ring, it's the ring.
Kiss the ring.
So, the first task of the evening?
Yes, they'll be playing for some prizes.
They had to respect a theme, and tonight's is:
"The most underrated item."
Ah! Mm-hmm.
And you'll score them on how well they respected the theme.
Alex brought this in.
So, I brought in a meat tenderiser.
Underrated?
I know it looks a little banal,
but if we took your stony heart, Louis,
and we pounded it with a meat tenderiser,
you'd become super, super, super, super, super, super soft.
Woo!
Let's move on to Arnaud, who I'm sure has brought something better in.
Yes! It's a back scratcher.
Do you know what that is?
Of course, a back scratcher. Very underrated.
You may not need one of these because Antoine does it for you,
but for us normal folks...
Oh!
Oh yeah, eh?
Does this look dirty?
Oh! Oh!
Arnaud, Arnaud, Arnaud...
Okay. Stop. Stop.
Children watch this show.
Exactly...
Alright. Back scratcher.
Let's see Richardson's item.
His item.
Ah! Yes, that's true.
It's coconut oil.
It's good for the skin.
How old do you think I am, Louis?
That's not bad.
45? No! I'm 46.
And why do I...
And why do I look this young?
Coconuts, my friend!
That's true. That's true.
It's a great make-up remover, too. - Natural make-up remover.
Do you use it for everything?
Of course. - Hydrating.
It's hydrating?
Hydration, protection, rejuvenation.
You can eat it, too. You can also just eat it.
Replacing fats.
Oil, um... - Lube.
This show has become a public service announcement, it's great.
Um, Virginie, what have you brought in?
This. - I know what that is!
This is a snot-sucker.
When a baby is a congested,
it sucks up its mucus,
but everyone thinks that's gross.
Why is it only for babies?
Exactly.
I used it on myself.
I auto-decongestified myself.
Well, you're all saying "ew", but I didn't swallow my own snot.
There's a little filter there.
It doesn't get past it.
And it decongests us.
I invite you to decongest all of your friends.
Wow! - Bianca.
Yes. - Your underrated item?
And what is this?
It's a machine that...
Louis!
...farts.
Because we can go on and on about intellectual humour,
but a good old...
A good old... hidden underneath the Taskmaster's throne...
Ah, it's the bust that's farting.
And you have several options. - Yes!
"Sugar shack", "Gravy fart"...
Ah, that's fun. - Yes!
It's well-made.
It still has its place.
Yes? Sorry?
Flatulence and a good spoonful of coconut oil...
It'll slide right out.
Perfect.
Taskmaster, you need to score them.
I'll give 3 points to all of them.
Alright. 3 points to everyone.
Bravo.
Let's move on to the first task of the evening.
I have something special for you:
A team task!
Oh!
How are you? - I'm well, and you?
What's your rally cry?
Argh! Ooh!
Eee! Ooh!
The next task is all about communication.
Three red circles.
Communication. That's the task, eh?
When you're three people? To all understand one another.
But we're only two people. - What's that?
We're only two. - Are you going to do it with us?
No! - Oh. - No, no, no, no, no.
I don't engage in any physical activity. Umm...
Three circles, but you're only two...
Did we mess up here, or...
Ooh! Ooh!
No way!
Oh wow!
It's Marie-Lyne Joncas! [it's actually season 1 winner, Ève Côté]
Yeah! You needed reinforcements?
Oh my goodness, you look so chic.
Here's where you'll be placed:
Rich, right here.
Arnaud, over there by the hill.
Bianca, at the end of the path, there, on your right.
Alex, you'll be here. - Okay. Perfect.
Our guest will be up there.
Virginie, all the way there.
Everyone, to their places. Go!
Okay!
Okay.
"Put on this blindfold, then instruct the person on your right to open their task."
Okay. Ève!
Yes?
Open your task!
Perfect!
"Put the earplugs in your ears, and the headphones over your ears,"
"then continue reading."
Okay. I have to do that and then continue reading.
"Instruct the person on your right to open their task."
Okay. Just a second. I'm putting my earplugs in and headphones on.
After that, you can open your task, Alex!
Okay!
"Instruct the person on your right to open their task."
Go ahead, Rich! - Okay.
"Do not read this out loud."
"You must remain silent until the end of the task."
"You must stay on your circle."
"Get an onion into your circle."
"Get an onion..."
"...into your circle."
Ingenious, Taskmaster. Ingenious.
First off, huge thanks to Ève Côté for lending a hand.
And she wore the same outfit.
Wow. Champion of season 1.
Can you show me your rally cry again?
Weugh! Eugh! Eugh! Oooh! Eugh!
Eugh! Oh! Oooh!
It's a communication task,
so one of the group's members was blindfolded,
another one couldn't hear, and another one couldn't speak.
Only one person could leave their circle; the blindfolded person.
And the goal was to get an onion to one of the group members.
Let's see the team who doesn't scream:
Arnaud, Bianca, and Richardson.
Haha, "who doesn't scream..."
An onion? "Get an onion into your circle."
Rich, we can't hear you!
"You must stay in your position."
What's he doing?
"Get an onion into your circle."
I can't hear anything.
I have headphones on, and there's loud rock music playing.
You can't speak.
And Bianca can't see.
But what's the task?
Yes? What do we have to cut?
You have to cry.
I have to cry?
Yes, onions...
Catch an onion?
I have to get over there...
Am I coming to see you?
An onion.
Here.
I don't have anything.
I don't have any onions, here.
I have vegetables, here!
Bianca has onions!
I'm the one with the vegetables.
I find an onion, and then what?
Bianca will throw onions at you.
Well, no. I can't do that.
I have to come bring you an onion?
Okay. What?
She's gonna bring you an onion, and I...
I'll tell her how to get to you.
Okay. Perfect.
Get some onions, Bianca.
Yes. Okay.
I have... cabbage.
I have... something.
Yes, yes. I'm going to guide her, but...
This is a squash.
That's an aubergine, I think.
Okay.
Aubergine.
Keep those. I'll make some ratatouille after the show.
That's a watermelon.
Okay. Come on.
Okay.
Uh, I can't really see.
It looks like a rutabaga.
Okay.
Oh! I've got one! - You have to find onions.
I've got one!
That looks like an onion.
Does it feel like one?
Okay. Good. Perfect.
Get up.
Watch the watermelon.
Walk forward.
Okay. - Yes, you're doing well.
That's good.
Stop! Stop!
A little more to your right!
Yes. Not that much.
Not that much.
Yes. You're doing great!
Now you're coming up on a rocky zone.
Thank you. - Little steps, Bianca.
Little steps. - Perfect.
Okay. You're good.
You're good. Uh, stop!
Um, about 15 degrees to your left.
Yes! Continue straight.
Continue straight.
Should I go faster?
Stop! Stop! Stop!
Slow down. Slow down.
15 degrees to your left.
Uh, just a smidge more.
Careful, a little less.
Go back, go back. Yes.
Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly,
slowly, slowly, slowly.
I got it!
Bravo!
Rich!
Good miming. Really, it was very well done.
Good communicators.
Yes, it went well.
What was their time? - 4 minutes 45 seconds.
Hey, that was fast!
Do you really have nothing more to say?
Not must else to say, but...
I warned her about the rocky area so she didn't twist her ankle.
Hey, that was very caring.
Caring.
Are you worried? Do you think you did better than that?
Well, I thought we did pretty well, but...
...but now I'm not sure. - Oh! Oh! Oooh!
Let's have a look at our champion, Ève,
who joined Alex and Virginie during this task.
What do we have to do?
I have to switch places with Virginie?
I have to go back there?
What do I need to throw?
She has to throw me a ball?
Okay. You have to throw me the balls you have in your crate.
They're not balls.
They're vegetables!
Throw that as hard as you can.
"They're not balls. They're vegetables."
Can she throw anything to me? A ball?
What do I have to throw?
There's a bunch of vegetables in here.
A hammer?
Oh boy. I don't think my eye surgery was effective.
The first thing is a hammer. A saw? Tools?
It's a melon!
No! - Aubergine!
A knife?
Okay. A bread knife?
A turnip, some fennel!
An onion. Cut up an onion?
She has to throw me an onion?
Okay. You have to throw me an onion, Virginie.
Go get it?
Uh...
An onion.
She has to throw it to you?
Can I smell it?
She's eating the onion? What is she doing?
I'm not sure there's an onion, here.
She can go bring it to you?
Oh, I can go bring it to you?
You have to go bring the onion to Alex.
Go straight. Continue. Go ahead.
That's good.
Is this an onion?
Yes. A little more to the left. Go back a little.
Keep going, but turn a little bit more.
Am I there?
You can pretty much go in a straight line, now.
You'll end up right in front of him.
You're about 20 steps away.
Yeah!
Woohoo!
That was good. That was good.
They did it. - They did it.
Am I the only one who felt that Ève Côté regretted coming out to help us?
A little. A little.
While Alex was gesturing.
Both teams succeeded, so it's a question of time.
Absolutely. So they had to beat 4 minutes 45.
Yes.
And despite a shaky start,
the second team did it in 3 minutes 40!
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
Ooh! Ooh! Ooooh!
So, 5 points to Virginie and Alex, and 3 points to Rich, Bianca, and Arnaud.
Thanks so much again to Ève Côté!
We'll see you after the break with the second task.
Arnaud...
Arnaud, that should be the poster for your next show.
Yes!
Welcome back to Taskmaster.
Thank you so much. You're super smart!
Antoine. - Yes.
It's time for the second task of the evening.
Quite a hairy one.
Who farted?
Quite a hairy one.
Woo!
Oh wow.
That's funny. That's a new one.
Of course.
How are you? I'm the Mad Hatter.
Oh!
"Put something on your face"
"that looks like a moustache from a long distance away..."
"... but when you get up close,"
"you realise it's something completely different to what you thought."
Ah. Oh, so we have to play a dirty trick.
"You have 10 minutes to plan your moustache,"
"and 10 further minutes to make your moustache."
"Most unexpected moustache wins."
"Your time starts now." Perfect.
From far, it needs to look like a moustache.
When you get close, you can see that it isn't.
And it's... Rich?
A dirty trick.
It's a dirty trick, and they'll try to fool you, Taskmaster.
We'll start with Alex's attempt.
I'll first show you Alex and his moustache from far away.
You can try to guess what it is.
So, here it is from far away.
What's his moustache made out of?
It's... doll hair.
Well, let's get closer to it.
Oh!
What is it? - It's, um...
Ah, ribbons from...
Pom-poms? - Pom-pom girl!
It's similar to your own hair.
Well, it has to look realistic.
Like, you're grey there, and you're grey there.
No. Not really.
Let's see Bianca's moustache, now.
We'll see it from far away first. - Yes.
From far away.
That looks like a real moustache.
So, what does it look like? - What is that?
It's... it's a cardboard moustache.
Is that what it is, when we get closer Louis?
Let's have a look. They think it's a cardboard moustache.
I think it's a cardboard moustache.
But, but, but...!
When we get closer...
Ah! There's a bunch of stuff in the moustache.
It's an overnight bag.
Ah! That's pretty funny.
That's not a moustache.
Let me plead my case.
There's some food in there, in case I get hungry.
There's a tampon, so you know it's a feminist moustache.
There's perfume in there, in case I wanna sleep with someone.
I don't know what I'd do that, but yeah; it's an overnight bag.
Of course.
It's a feminist moustache. Alright.
Let's move on to Arnaud's moustache.
Okay. - First let's see it from far away.
What is it?
It looks like a moustache.
What do you think it's made of? - It looks like a turd.
So, he might have put a turd under his nose.
Is that his own shit?
Is it a piece of clothing?
A piece of clothing, rolled up.
A rolled up piece of clothing.
What is it?
They're bananas.
Ah!
Arnaud!
Arnaud, that should be the poster for your next show.
Yes!
10 minutes to make the dirty bananas.
10 minutes to dilate my nostrils.
Hey, that really hurt.
Ah, fantastic. Well done, Arnaud.
That was very good. - And very funny.
Richardson.
Let's see it from far away.
They look like Gummy Bears.
It's candy, um...
Candy bears. - No. It's a moustache.
Let's see the dirty trick!
Yeah, that's it.
Gummy Bears. I'm sure it's that.
Oh!
Of course. - Ah, of course.
Right. That was surprising though, wasn't it?
They were, in fact, Gummy Bears.
I got you! Ha, ha, ha!
It wasn't a dirty trick!
No. A very poor dirty trick.
Was that so unexpected, Rich?
It was unexpected that you got it right.
Virginie, now.
It's...
What is that?
What is it? Frosting?
It looks like make-up.
Looks like it, eh?
Let's get closer.
From far, it looks like a moustache.
Oh, you're nuts.
It's an overnight bag.
It's a little overnight bag.
Of course. To go with the feminist moustache.
Well, that was also feminist.
It's very feminist.
It looks like a moustache from far away.
I'm done.
You couldn't tell.
Hey, Louis, have I told you this? I studied philosophy at Laval University.
Perfect. So, 1 point to Rich.
1 point to Rich.
Uh, 2 to Alex. - 2 to Alex.
4 points to the two ladies.
4 points to the ladies.
And 5 points for Arnaud.
5 points!
Let me tally the points up.
Virginie is in the lead.
Yes!
Virginie is in the lead.
When we come back, we'll see the third task of tonight's episode of Taskmaster.
So, Virginie was being a smart-ass, there.
Well, you know damned well that someone was going to be a smart-ass.
You had a task prepared for it.
We thought it would have been Arnaud.
I thought about it.
Welcome back to Taskmaster, and the third task of the evening.
Yes. I'll offer it to you on a silver platter.
Oh?
You're so handsome, Antoine.
Let's look into each other's eyes, eh?
"Say a letter of the alphabet."
"You have 10 seconds."
"Your time starts now."
B.
Uhhhhhhh... F!
E, F?
No, no. I was thinking. F.
Perfect.
A.
Yes.
Okay. I get it.
"Put the most things beginning with the letter you just said on this tray."
"The tray may not leave Antoine, and Antoine may not leave the lab."
"Most things beginning with the letter you just said"
"on the tray in five minutes from now wins."
"Say a letter of the alphabet."
"You have 10 seconds."
"Your time starts now."
A letter of the alphabet.
"Ha, ha, ha. You're hilarious. Your mother must be so proud of you."
"Now, pick a letter of the alphabet and say that letter out loud."
Q.
Z.
Good thing I picked a common letter.
Yeah. You wanted to be original.
Yeah.
So, Virginie was being a smart-ass, there.
Well, I thought that's what you had to do.
"Say a letter of the alphabet." "A letter of the alphabet."
Well, you knew damned well that someone was going to be a smart-ass.
You had a task prepared for it.
We thought it would have been Arnaud.
I thought about it.
So they had 5 minutes to place the greatest number of items
beginning with their chosen letter on the tray.
Let's start with Alex and the letter 'F',
and Bianca and the letter 'B'.
I'll take my bracelet.
And put it down here.
My earrings. ['boucles d'oreilles']
I'll take my bra...
No, just kidding.
Bra, undies. ['bobettes']
I found some stuff already.
Flute, flute, flute, flute.
Ah! Very good.
My four flutes.
A quality beverage.
Bra. I'll be back.
Ah, that's annoying.
Fruit, fruit, fruit...
Oh, but...ah!
...fruit, fruit, fruit.
Ah, the sneaky bastard.
One ball, two balls,
three balls, four balls,
five balls, six balls,
seven balls. Beat that.
She didn't leave the beaker.
Flower, flower...
Flower. Oh! Flower.
Do you think these count as flowers?
A faggot?
Oooh! [bundle of wood, used to light a fire]
A very old word. Faggot.
There are unlimited balls. Here are three more.
A baby.
Flute!
It's a kazoo flute.
Four bananas.
No. Five bananas.
Bon-bons [candy]. There are several in there.
This is candy?
It's candy.
More candy.
Are your arms doing okay?
You're alright?
A feline.
Ooh!
Another feline.
Fur.
Ah, that's good.
Fur. Fur.
How much time do I have left?
One minute. - Oh!
A kiss ['bise']. Muah.
A kiss!
Fake duck.
That's it. Say no more.
If I haven't won this... oof!
A bin.
Bibi [Bianca] holding the bin.
Voilà. - Five minutes.
Bibi holding the bin.
That's two.
A beautiful one! A beautiful blue bin!
Hey! A beautiful blue bin!
But that's just one item. It's still just one item.
We took the time to photograph each of the contestants' items.
Let's see Alex's haul.
Bravo, Alex.
Honestly, the younger viewers are telling me that I'm too hard on you.
You usually don't have anything to counter that, but now...
Let's see all of Bianca's 'B' items, now.
Ah! David Bowie.
Okay. Perfect.
Helped by his 323 flowers,
Alex got a total of 349 items.
Wow. Wow!
We counted each piece of candy. - Each bon-bon.
I ate 3 or 4 of them. We counted those.
A total of 302 items.
Ah! That's close, that's close.
It's very close.
Let's see Arnaud and Richardson's attempts, now.
Ah!
It's because my name is Arnaud. Okay. I'm coming.
A, A, A, A, A...
Two... Oh no.
Xylophone is with an 'X'.
I don't have a choice.
Antique.
Citrus ['agrume'].
Antique.
Antoine.
So, I have a zebra, a zig-zag, a zipper...
I'll keep looking for items.
There are more than I thought.
Watering can ['arrosoir'].
Armament.
Amusement.
Aaah...!
So, they're microscopic. but they were in my pocket.
I had some mites ['acariens'].
Because there are many of them, you have to slur the words.
[in 'des acariens', because the noun starts with a vowel, you slur the 's' from 'des', so it sounds like 'zacariens']
A stick.
A tea.
♪ Aaaa... ♪
♪ ...ppy birthday to you, Antoine! ♪
Hey, this is really starting to fill up, here.
So, here on the globe we have Zimbabwe.
We have Zanzibar.
And here we have Zoboomafoo, eh?
And the Kratt Brothers, eh? [Canadian-American children's TV show that featured a lemur puppet named Zoboomafoo]
♪ Animals are our friends ♪
You don't love animals?
Thanks, Rich.
Well, it was a pleasure, eh?
You need to know your...
...alphabet.
Ah, I thought we were gonna say it together...
Yeah, no. Okay. Sorry. No. That's it.
From A to Z.
Rich...
none of those items count.
Absolutely none of them. Drawings don't count.
No. - Well, we can see them.
The 'zacariens' [mites]?
We have to imagine the mites.
Oh, it's a good photo, Rich.
You don't look lonely.
None of that worked.
You can put this on your little tray:
it's a zero.
Aaah...
Very... Oh, stop it!
At least 'zero' starts with a 'Z'.
Oh!
1 point.
One item.
Let's see what Arnaud put on there, again.
Yes!
No, but that...
You look dead.
There are a lot of 'A' items.
Yes! Afterwards, I told myself,
"I forgot a bunch of items!"
We counted 16 items.
Not great.
So, a 16, and some of them got in the 300s. There's still...
Hang on. Ah!
Hey, 'Q'. There's still 'Q'. It's a... #It's quite the challenge.
Do you think Virginie found more than 300 'Q's?
Okay!
Five minutes.
Okay. She just...
She just left. There are 2 minutes left!
That'll teach you to make your mom laugh.
Q...
One minute!
Come on.
Okay.
All of the objects starting with 'Q' are in there.
Oh no. - It's a dictionary.
She's right.
That's the biggest number of 'Q' things you'll ever find.
Everything is in there.
Oof!
That was the only way to do it.
The only way. - I really liked that.
775 words beginning with 'Q' in the French language.
But they're words. They're not objects.
Well... Okay. Hang on.
Do you think the word came before the object,
or the object came before the word?
Oh!
Meaning that the idea of the object was in Antoine's tray.
But yes.
I accept that not everyone here is as imaginative as I am,
I accept the zero points. I'm fine with that...
Okay. So... That's zero points to Virginie.
What? No way.
I did not, in fact, accept that!
We said 1 for Rich. - 1 for Rich. Zero for Virginie.
16 items.
Bianca's next with 300... - 3, 4 and 5 points.
5 points for Alex.
And after that, Alex is in the lead.
Oh!
We're gonna take a break.
That should give you some time to empty the mites out of your pockets.
Did it hover between your chin and your waist for 20 seconds?
Why would you ask that?
To humiliate me?
You know it didn't.
You're so toxic, Antoine.
"You're so toxic."
Welcome back to Taskmaster, and another task.
They've been completing a lot of intellectual tasks.
I can feel that they're burned out, mentally.
So let's see a physical task.
We'll go with something very, very light.
Oh!
Antoine, are you alright?
Oh! Sorry. Of course. - It's okay.
I was falling asleep, there. - Yeah, eh? Oh!
I was falling asleep.
Ah, you were falling asleep?
My bad.
"Make the balloon hover untethered for 20 seconds."
"Make the balloon..."
What does "hover" mean? Just float in the air?
Yes. Float with no attachments.
"During the hovering, the top of the balloon must not be higher than your chin,"
"and the bottom of the balloon must not be lower than your waist."
Perfect. Alright.
"Also you must smile widely throughout the 20 seconds."
"Fastest wins."
"Your time starts now."
It's always the fastest. We never have time to think.
Oh!
Light in all senses.
Thinking about it, I told myself:
"Okay. We're keeping it simple."
They seem a little lost, but this is really simple.
Very, very simple. The balloon had to hover untethered between
their chin and waist for 20 seconds, while smiling.
Very simple. - Fastest wins.
Is that it?
Yes. There were 1,000 ways to do it, but surprisingly...
Let's see what Arnaud, Alex, and Rich did.
"Your time starts... now"!
Time has started!
Okay. Ah!
Yes, yes. I see what this is about.
Yeah, yeah.
This is my type of task, Antoine.
Okay.
Ah, he's a genius! - Ah, that's good.
That's perfect.
Hang on. I think this will happen quickly.
Okay.
I'm gonna fly away like Mary Poppins, eh?
Is... Is... - Ah!
Aaah!
♪ Under my umbrella ♪ ['Umbrella' by Rihanna]
For 20 seconds. Yes. I've started timing.
Ah!
Is it hovering? - Well, this is how it hovers.
Okay, I'll time 20 seconds.
15 to go. - That's good.
Oh!
No!
Go get the bow!
Did it hover between your chin and your waist for 20 seconds?
Why would you ask that? To humiliate me?
You know it didn't.
Perfect. I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page.
You're so toxic, Antoine.
"You're so toxic."
That's your best quip of the evening.
Arnaud the adolescent.
You were showing off, too, there.
Then you moved.
I said to myself:
"I don't know why, but I'm gonna make some room, here." Bam!
It flew away. I had no idea.
You were starting to loosen up.
I was relaxing. I was gonna go get myself a beer.
I was feeling good.
So none of them successfully hovered their balloon
for the regulatory 20 seconds, on top of the smiling.
Right. Three failures.
There are still Bianca and Virginie's attempts left to see.
I think we did well.
Can we go into the shed?
Go, shed.
I need something that'll keep it at...
...at a woman's height. Chin to waist.
To respect the rules.
Exactly.
Unless I attach this here.
Oh! You get it?
I absolutely get it.
Okay.
Untethered.
But it doesn't have to be tethered, but it could be held back.
Now it's hovering.
Is that between your chin and your waist?
Yes. And it's untethered.
Two containers.
Okay.
Now I have to make sure I have my back to the wind.
Like this.
Like, between the two.
Do you see?
And, look. Okay. Start the timer.
I... Okay. So... - I'm confident.
Perfect. Here we go.
Hover.
No. Wait, wait.
Don't start it, don't start it, don't start it.
Abort the mission.
This isn't tethered. - Is it hovering?
Well, it's hovering.
It's hovering. - Are you forgetting something?
What's the other thing?
Ah!
20 seconds.
From the waist...
Okay. Let's turn this upside-down. We're turning it upside-down.
From my waist to the flotation device on top.
Exaggerated smile. 20 seconds.
I've started the timer.
It's hovering, here.
It's hovering.
15 more seconds.
There are still 10 seconds left.
That's amazing.
It's like time passes more slowly,
when someone is smiling in an exaggerated way.
Mmm.
Five seconds.
I didn't even have to dance.
20 seconds.
Hey! Can I send it up into the clouds?
No.
Oh! Ah, sorry.
Woo!
That was after. That was after.
Well done, ladies. - Yes. Bravo.
Guys, are you not ashamed at how quickly they got it?
Hey, if we ran countries, imagine what we could do.
Ah, well, well, well.
Of course, Bianca.
They make you hover balloons at the United Nations, now.
So, three failures; two successful attempts.
How are you scoring them, Taskmaster?
I'm going to give 5 points to the two women.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. - Bianca and Virginie, 5 points.
I'll give 2 points to Arnaud because his idea worked,
but it was poorly executed.
So, 1 point to Rich.
And a big fat zero to Alex, because he tried to cheat.
He lost because he tried to cheat.
But the key word there was "tried".
So technically I didn't cheat.
We'll figure this out over the break.
When we come back, the studio task.
Even, we jump; odd, we squat. Three!
No, yes! No...
I hyperventilated.
Welcome back to Taskmaster, and our live task.
They'll be humiliating themselves right in front of you.
This is a pretty complicated task, though.
Yes. We'll test their cognitive load.
Oh, boy. I'm already at capacity.
Do you still have the ability to read?
Ah, yes.
Just read.
So...
"Count to 13 as a group..."
We should be able to do this.
"...each player taking it in turns to say a number."
"Every time you say an odd number, you must also squat."
"Every time you say an even number, you must also jump."
"If you make a mistake, you are eliminated."
"If you reach 13, other rules will be introduced."
"If the Taskmaster thinks you have hesitated for too long, you will be eliminated."
Right. - So, did you get all that?
We'll do one round at a time.
Hey, you should just stop wearing shoes, at this point.
You take them off for every task. - Ah, that's funny.
So, each of you count one at a time.
When we get to the end, we come back and start here.
This time around: odd number, squat; even number, jump.
Perfect. - Here we go.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Even, I jump. Nine, I squat.
Ten, nine. Sorry.
Ten.
Eleven.
Twelve.
Thirteen.
Perfect.
Hey, I found a trick.
Even ['pair'], we jump. ['pair' sounds like 'paire' ('pair')]
Yes, we got it, Bianca.
We're good.
Warm-up round is over.
What are we adding, Antoine?
This time, for multiples of three...
Shit.
Okay.
You have to wave.
You have to wave, in addition to squatting or jumping.
Rich, it's your turn.
One.
Two.
Even, we jump. Odd, we squat.
Three! No, yes... No.
She jumped and also, like-
I hyperventilated.
We'll continue with this new rule.
One, two, three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Ah, bye bye, Rich.
Six. Even number. You had to jump.
That was a multiple of three. He waved, at least. Six.
So, we're at... Are we starting from six or seven?
Seven. It's your go. Seven.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Ten.
You guys are good.
Eleven.
Twelve.
Thirteen.
Perfect.
I would stop there.
I'd give us all points.
Yes!
Another rule:
For multiples of four,
instead of saying the number, you have to say anything else.
Okay.
Virginie, you're up.
One.
Two.
Three.
[gibberish]
Oh no, crap.
I had to jump.
Oh, no!
Where are we now?
Okay, now we have to say the numbers in Spanish.
Ah, I like that.
But what if we don't know them?
Uno, dos...
All you had to do was pay attention in high school, Alex!
I didn't go to high school!
Same rules.
Uno.
Dos.
Tre... Aaah!
Bravo!
Uno, dos, tres, cuatro.
We're back!
We have a winner.
Absolutely.
Our winner is Arnaud, with 5 points.
Bravo. - Gracias, Luís. Gracias, Antoine.
[in broken Spanish: "I am very proud to be dancing in this competition."]
I have tonight's scores, Taskmaster.
Yes.
It was very tight. In last place, it's Rich, with 11 points.
Bravo. - Bravo, Rich.
And then Alex with 19.
Bianca with 20.
Oh boy, it's close.
And with 21 points, we have two winners: Arnaud and Virginie!
19, 20, 21!
Bravo, Virginie. Bravo, Arnaud.
Thank you, Antoine. - Thank you, Taskmaster.
Thank you, viewers at home.
We'll see you next week for another episode of Taskmaster.
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English translation by: u/the-little-kicks
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