You have to do some bad deed.
I haven't exercised this much for years!
The stakes are really high, Pilvi.
Can we speak about a genius?
This is stupid of Kalle Lamberg to do now.
Good evening. I'm Jaakko Saariluoma, and this programme is Taskmaster. Thanks for joining us.
Right, it's the time to get entertainers into a pickle again, —
in other words, give them a stack of tasks and see who copes with them the best.
And I, because I'm the taskmaster, score them —
either fairly or however I please.
Our regular contestants are Kiti Kokkonen, — [*Actress, writer, sketch character of the year]
Minka Kuustonen, — [*Stage and screen actress]
Miika Nousiainen [*Novelist, journalist, screenwriter] and Aku Hirviniemi. [*Stage, screen, and sketch actor]
And tonight competing with them —
Western Finland's gift to the Finnish television entertainment, —
the rocket of Raisio*, Kalle Lamberg. [*Small town]
And of course we shouldn't forget the trusted helper who's sitting here next to me, —
the programme's official judge, Pilvi Hämäläinen.
Good evening, and welcome on a journey —
to the deepest pigeonholes inside entertainers' minds.
Oh my word, you're not gonna believe the things we've got coming up today. — Is that so? — Yes indeed. — I can barely wait.
But before we get to the point, let's find out what we'll be competing for tonight, what the prize is.
And as we do, the first round of points are up for grabs of course. Pilvi, could you just remind a bit?
The prizes on the episodes are the contestants' personal property.
And this time, what you asked them to bring was: the best invention.
— We'll start with Miika. — Right. — Miika, what invention did you bring?
This was quite obvious. There's like three remarkable inventions in the world:
Um, light bulb, steam engine, and Spede's* boat ski. [*Film producer/comedian/inventor]
So in other words, back in the day, the entertainer and inventor genius Pertti "Spede" Pasanen designed...
It's a thing that you stick to the side of a Buster* or other such boat. [*Common brand of small basic motorboats]
It dampens the impact of the waves, and I mean, it's an utterly genius invention and so crazy that —
I don't think you need anything after this. It wouldn't even matter if you didn't say anything.
I'll probably punch you in the face if I don't get five points.
Thank you for this information.
Next, Minka. — I brought the secret language notebook of me and my sister.
(Minka:) So we've came up with this secret language as kids.
What's the language like, roughly, could you say something in that language? — (Minka:) I can speak it. — Yeah.
(Speaks secret language.)
I think, not until the show's over....
You know what, Minka? I've heard that language before.
As a young lad when I drove a taxi, after three o'clock in the morning, many a customer —
announced their destination in pretty much that language.
Right, I thought it had to come from somewhere.
Aku, what did you bring?
In Tokyo, this invention aimed at smokers caught my eye.
I'm not a smoker myself, but I had to buy it as a souvenir —
since I had never seen such a thing anywhere before.
It's an ash tray that you put into your pocket.
If you don't have an ashtray nearby, you can carry this in your pocket, stub the cigarette out in there —
and then close it and that's where it gets stubbed out and so on. It's very good.
Kalle, what did you bring, what's your invention?
Um, I brought this manual egg whisker*. [*The word for egg is common slang for penis, context makes it sound like "hand operated penis masturbator"]
In principle, I started to like, think about a world — [*The word for egg is common slang for penis, context makes it sound like "hand operated penis masturbator"]
where you wouldn't have any crêpes or sweet desserts or Danish pastries —
because you couldn't break the structure of eggs.
So as a future diabetic I thought, it's the world's best invention.
And by coincidence, manual egg whisker* was also my nickname in gymnasium*. [*1: hand operated penis masturbator] [*2: comparable to UK grammar school, US 6th form college]
Well, thank you. I hope you won't regret the fact —
that you shared this information with a sort of larger audience. — Nnnaa...
Or maybe it's well known already. Kiti, what did you bring?
So I brought this absolutely brilliant invention: Egguin.
So it's like an egg stand. They're penguins! Exactly!
And then, penguin, egg — Egguin.
And so, the eggs are kept in this stand, they stay fresh and um, they won't get damaged.
And then you lift that stand into a pot full of boiling water —
and they boil. And when it's done, you lift the stand back out.
— Oh I'll have to win today! I want that for myself. — Exactly! Isn't it wonderful? — It is!
We'll see how things turn out. So the winner gets these prizes.
Thanks for these, but now is the time to score them.
Um, let's start with Miika. Since I'm not a boat aficionado of any kind —
I don't like boating, so I'll give this boat related invention one point.
However, I do like Spede Pasanen very much, so you'll get four points for that.
So, full five points. — Menacing!
Four points to Minka, —
Three points to Kalle, two points to Kiti, and one point to Aku.
And as has been stated, the winner gets to take all of these great inventions home.
And then of course, the winner of the whole season gets this iconic statue —
the golden Taskmaster statue.
The game is on, and now we'll go to the mansion to see the first task.
— So far out! — You could do some catwalk here. ...Or not.
"Prevent the bowling pins from falling over."
"You can place obstacles onto the bowling alley as follows:"
"Either three obstacles to one sector —
or one obstacle per each one of the three sectors."
"You can only use the available obstacles, which are a water canister, a shoe, a pipe, some tape, string, —
a bunch of bananas, paper towels, and a cardboard box."
"Winner is the one whose bowling alley has the smallest number of fallen pins."
"You may not manipulate the bowling balls, pins, alley, nor the freeing mechanism."
"The bowling balls will be released in ten minutes. Time starts now."
Well surely that cardboard box would stop... Here you've got the same obstacles as you generally have in life, so in that sense this one is easy.
So the contestants had to construct obstacles onto the bowling alley —
so by the time when the balls would be released, they would knock over as few pins as possible.
They were either allowed to place three obstacles within one sector, —
or one obstacle per each one of the three sectors.
— Excellent. Good. Whose performance do we get to enjoy first? — Well now we'll get to start with Aku, Minka and Kalle. — Roger!
The best ones.
Right then. Okay okay okay okay. So I'm sure one per each sector should be good.
There's several ways to interpret this. — As we know, bowling balls are heavy. Downhill.
Has this been given as is, or am I allowed to unroll some tape?
This is gonna be the kind of tape obstacle that I've already been doing in my room back when I was 6 years old!
Right, right. There. That's sector number one.
Okay I'll go and fill this up now. — Why would I put bananas? Why wouldn't I?
Yes... Yes.
So this right here is completely... This is stupid of Kalle Lamberg to do now.
Was this like one... Was this bunch of bananas one item? — Yes, the bunch is one item.
There's a slit in here! A slit where I'll probably be able to make...
Look! That's quite impressive.
So this will block...
This does a really good job at blocking, this. The stakes are high.
The stakes are really high, Pilvi.
(Pilvi:) Ten.
I'll release the balls. - Okay.
(Kalle:) Oh f... Just like that, and there.
(Laughing.)
Oh my word. Excellent performances, brilliant.
And if it had been real bowling, I mean there were no...
Minka, you weren't left with a single pin standing. — Nope.
(Jaakko:) Is there any explanation for this? — I thought that I was being an actual genius.
So I was just like, really confident as I carried on with the construction.
And then something went... I even made some mistake there. — Oh really? — As I recall.
No I didn't, but I mean I was a genius.
You'll have to take some tape and bananas and boxes with you the next time when you go bowling. You'll do much better.
Kalle. These tape traps, so did they work as well when you were 6, as they did now?
Uhh... Well actually yeah, I used to set up tape traps like that for our cat and it worked well for that purpose, but —
I mean in that moment I was so certain —
that the tape was going to stop them. That like, the bananas and strings were just a little bit of entertainment really.
And then when they just zipped through the tape at 300 kilometers per hour —
I realised that I truly am like, an idiot.
— But look, there's a genius and an idiot sitting side by side. This is how close it gets. — We're a great combo.
Aku. You did pretty well didn't you. — Thank you.
Until in the end, where you just panicked and rushed in to mess it up. In that moment, were you giving any thought to your actions at all?
When I recall that moment now, I too was somehow certain, as Kalle said, —
that it would be the tapes that would stop the bowling balls. — That's what I thought!
But um, as Kalle said: entertainment.
(Jaakko:) Pilvi, do you have anything to add to this? — Yeah, well, what we saw here was a variety of different interpretations of the rules, and —
in all of them, you were in a rather grey area.
But because the outcomes were so poor in general, it's probably not that meaningful to look into it in any more detail.
Nah, they were all so poor that no one gained any benefit from it, so...
So that was that, but we do still have Miika and Kiti to see. — The best.
Indeed, and we'll see those two after the break. See you soon!
Welcome back. Before the break, we saw —
how Kalle, Aku and Minka tried to keep the bowling pins upright —
and faced quite a bit of challenges while doing so.
We're yet to see the performances of Miika and Kiti.
Hopefully they'll do a bit better.
I know, right... Better, it's such a relative concept.
(Pilvi:) Let's see how Miika and Kiti did.
Because this is a slope, once the balls depart from here, it would make the most sense to put the obstacle to the highest sector.
Because then they wouldn't have accelerated that much just yet.
— Can I go and get some water into this? — What does it say in the rules? How do you interpret them?
Well it's not a water canister if there's no water, is it.
Three obstacles to one, I was thinking of making three obstacles to one sector.
And I'll make them um... I'll make them out of these.
This actually will stop those balls completely.
Look, this is going to stop them immediately. It's going to stop them all immediately.
So they'll just like, stop here.
This is gonna be the biggest obstacle. It's gonna be this, not those after all.
Two minutes. — Oh no!
It's just, you can't stop them all.
Wasn't it, to put everything to one sector? Or did I forget...
— No! (in video:) ...it this quickly?
Horseshit. They're going to push through.
I'll try to guide those two here.
30 seconds.
Five, four, three, two, one.
There, done!
Yes!
Dearie me.
Hold it, hold it... They stopped. They stopped!
Zero pins. It stopped them. Can we speak about a genius?
No we can't. Well, but that was pretty good.
React.
Excellent performances, no fallen pins in either one.
Miika, how low is the bar to declare yourself as a genius?
Well it's pretty low. I do think that, like —
even Shakespeare didn't care about those plays of his all that much, —
but that one time when he stopped the bowling balls, he ran all over the heath and —
spoke about himself.
Neither one of you had any fallen pins.
Success does have its flip side though, and you'll be but under a rather meticulous magnifying glass.
Pilvi, do you have any comments on this?
Well... When it comes to the rules, you did wander in a rather grey area, to say the least.
So, what do we think about the fact that Miika actually filled the water canister with water?
Right... There was no water on the table at all, was there.
A water canister is a water canister only once it contains water.
— You're absolutely right! We'll accept it. - There you go!
And then, what about Kiti?
— Yeah... The case of contestant Kokkonen. — (Jaakko:) Kiti would you like to be the one to say it or should we let Pilvi...
Well yeah, I did notice that I used too many, I mean, elements, didn't I?
— Yes. — You're completely right about that. Five points go to Miika.
(Jaakko:) Perfect performance. - Good for you Miika!
And everybody else gets points according to how many pins were left standing, —
even though some things may have been in a bit of a grey area.
Pilvi, how's the scoreboard, who's in the lead at the moment?
— The one in the lead at the moment is Miika. — (Aku:) Deservingly! - It was. - (Miika:) I've never won at anything.
But dear friends, we still have points on offer, Let's go to the mansion right away and watch the next task.
"Pilvi is waiting for you in the living room."
"Once 15 minutes have passed, you have to apologise to Pilvi for something —
that you've done while she waited."
"The best apology for the most terrible deed wins."
"Time starts now."
And before getting into the task in more detail, I want to thank you very, very deeply, taskmaster Jaakko Saariluoma.
Out of all the tasks so far, this one was definitely the most appalling one.
Oh there's no need to thank me. You're welcome!
But indeed, I waited in the upper floor of the mansion —
for 15 harrowing minutes —
while the contestants tried to do something that they could apologise to me for afterwards.
Let's start from the performances of Aku and Minka.
So you have to do some bad deed.
But it doesn't necessarily have to be like, something towards Pilvi —
but rather something that I just apologise for, in general.
What are you doing?
Someone's coming!
Hi. — Hi.
This has been a very strange day, I've done a terrible thing. — What's that?
I can probably begin? — Yeah.
Well, what happened is that...
Umm, I know that we have a coffee break coming, but...
Umm, I've like, destroyed...
...all the coffee that was to be found in the kitchen, and I've scattered them all over the kitchen.
(Like a crying child:) One of those hanging planters had been hung from this anchor!
(Crying intensifies:) And I took that hanging planter and hurled it into the sea!
But that's not all. The worst is yet to come.
I've also destroyed all the taskmaster portraits that I could find.
I took my clothes off and I went to drive some family's boat.
(Aku:) Naked.
Seriously?
In a way this was like, the worst thing that I could imagine...
Without touching your stuff.
And I'm very sorry for it. — Thanks to Minka for ruining the coffee break for us all.
(Cries loudly.)
I'm so sorry.
Thank you, Aku.
We'll talk more about this in the studio.
Minka, had you understood the objective, –
which was to do something that you'd apologise to Pilvi for? — Yeah.
So would you now like apologise to the person who cleans my mansion?
(Jaakko:) To my butler, would you?
— I'm sorry, Mr. or Mrs... — (Jaakko:) Herbert Heinz.
— Herbert Heinz? — Yes. Of the family of ketchup manufacturers.
I'm sorry, Herbert Heinz, that I destroyed your kitchen.
Thank you. Aku, as I was watching this, it seemed a little bit like, —
like when a four-year-old doesn't get taken to an indoor amusement park —
and he throws mom's flowers to the sea as a revenge.
So are you always like, so adorable when you're in a temper?
Ummm, I hope so. That shall remain for other people to define.
— It does. Pilvi? — Yeah, um... — You're that "other people", so go ahead and define.
Right, so who did better...
Umm. Well, I think both deeds were equally unpleasant —
but Aku's apology was better in its like, extravagance.
(Pilvi:) I mean, it was completely fake, but extravagant.
(Minka:) I was trying to pursue the genuine emotion.
— Whom do we watch next? — Next we'll watch what devilry Kiti came up with to torment me.
But somehow like, this is a really difficult task for me because —
it's really difficult to do something like, hurtful.
I find it really hard to believe that anyone would do something too terrible.
So in that case it could even be something rather mild.
Like for example pouring cooking oil down the drain.
I mean it increases like, rats... The coming of rats!
What?
Pilvi is a person who respects food. If she doesn't finish her food —
she makes sure that she saves it for later, and takes it home or something like that.
So I'll waste this yogurt over there without eating it...
So this might, like, be upsetting for her.
And then I'll just leave it there. So actually I'm not gonna rinse it.
Should I find the mansion's owner and claim that Pilvi has poured and left it here?
Hi. Excuse me, I'll just quickly let you know that Vi...
that Virpi*... [*Wrong name]
Pilvi has made a mess in the kitchen and hasn't picked up after herself.
Tut, tut, Pilvi!
Yeah. She's got a bit of a habit...
Well, that's all.
So awful.
Knock knock. — Knock knock.
This was a ghastly task, I think.
But the way I've misbehaved, is...
I mean you respect animals, nature, and food, don't you?
And you don't throw food away.
So I took one yogurt from the fridge and I poured it into the kitchen sink.
And then I just threw it into the bin without recycling.
And then I left it into the sink and hollered to the mansion owner —
that Pilvi has um, wasted food —
and just um, left without cleaning up her own mess.
And I was so nervous that I also had difficulties remembering your name, and for some reason I called you Virpi.
But so, I'm really sorry.
And was that your apology?
That's it because I think, if you go on about it too much, it starts to get less convincing.
— Thank you, Kiti. — Thank you, Pilvi.
Oh my word. Kiti, I have to ask —
how have you been sleeping at night after this yoghurt incident? Has it troubled your mind a lot?
Well not the yoghurt, but the fact that I told the mansion owner that Pilvi did it. That's what left me with a really bad taste, but —
I was promised that it was, like, taken care of.
What about Pilvi, have you already forgiven Kiti for this monstrosity?
Yeah, just about. Just simply because —
I think Kiti's apology was very genuine, it seemed very genuine and —
the fact that Kiti was so nervous that she accidentally called me Virpi —
was also a sign of that.
Thanks for these. Now, we still have the performances of Miika and Kalle remaining to watch.
— What have we come up with then? — Yeah I wonder what you've come up with, we'll have to wait through the ad break to know that. See you soon.
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster.
Before the break, we saw some mischief carried out by the contestants, followed by their apologies to Pilvi.
We still haven't seen Miika's and Kalle's performances.
And in fact, we'll watch them in one go.
Damn, this is a tough one. I wonder if I'll need a phone for this?
"The best apology for the most terrible deed." So the deed has to be bad.
Does anyone remember Pilvi Hämäläinen's e-mail address?
Hello. How are you?
Sure I can talk to all of you about this, because I think —
if you put it on loudspeaker, there's plenty of people from the field there. I think it's like, a good thing that this story spreads.
"All the producers —
and directors in Finland."
So she won't work for another minute in this country. Thanks for taking care of it.
Yeah, okay, bye. — Right!
Hi, Kalle. — Hi.
Hello. — Hello.
So was it that you'll also want to know what I've done? Or do I just... — Well yeah, it's interesting to know.
You know how it takes you like, 20 years to build a career to what it is —
but it's amazing how you can like, completely decimate it with a phone call that takes just a couple of minutes?
I may have sent the following e-mail —
to all the Finnish producers and directors that I know.
For the topic, I wrote "my friend is desperate for work".
I'm so sorry now, but I mean, you will never have —
work in the film and TV industry again —
because I phoned a few producers and said —
that you're an impossible person who's like, impossible to work with —
and maybe the Lieksan* background is like, the worst thing of all. [*Tiny, remote village sharing a border with Russia]
And this is what I wrote: "Dear producers and directors of Finland."
"My friend Pilvi Hämäläinen is desperate for some of you to reach out for her."
"Unfortunately many people who have worked with her have already noticed —
Pilvi's strange habits and bad personal hygiene."
"But if someone still wants to offer her some work, —
would you please send a message to the e-mail address below, and spread the word."
And there happened to be quite a bit of influencers of the field on that speakerphone.
Who have you sent it to? — A few people.
But let's say, overall, like, less than a hundred.
But I mean I'm really sorry, I'm genuinely sorry.
But I can help you with the, like, career switching. I mean I know this one school counselor.
A gymnasium* school counselor. So he could um... [*Comparable to UK grammar school, US 6th form college]
Sure you've got something! Sure you've got something where they need something like that.
I mean I, I don't know what it is, but we can have a chat about it and all that.
And now, umm... As an apology, candy, of course.
But on top of that, um... 'Cause this might also affect the time —
if you're ever moving away from Helsinki.
So... There's always room in Turku*, or thereabouts. [*Capital until 1812. For some reason, especially Helsinkians make fun of Turku and its people.]
I've got this um, gift voucher that no one else in the world has.
And it says, "Dear Pilvi, I'm sorry. I did a stupid thing."
"And with this gift voucher, you're forever eligible to come and see —
the plays at my theater for free. [*He's a theater manager in Turku] — Was this your apology?
Well yeah, it was. How do you feel now? But variety is the spice of life, is it not?
But, there, sorry.
And this was your apology then?
Do you have MobilePay*? [*App for making payments by recipient's phone number]
But quite good memories, loads of good stuff. [*App for making payments by recipient's phone number]
It was funny, that um... What was that woman who complained. [*Clumsy reference to Pilvi's character on a sketch character TV show which she won]
Right... Rascals, Pilvi has still agreed to be here in the TV studio after all that.
Miika, did you ever meet that school counselor of yours, and if you had met, —
what kind of career would you have found for Pilvi, if any?
Well, what's funny about the entertainment business —
is that, like, it attracts the people who have no other skills.
And I mean that concerns all of us. — (Minka:) Yup.
Kalle. So umm, you said that there's always room in Turku. As an apology.
Surely you understand that that's more like a threat. — Yeah, sure. I still went on about that off camera.* — Right. [*Strange sentence, he literally says "I continued it out of sight" so I assume he refers to the chat, and off camera]
— Pilvi. Have you forgiven these gentlemen? — No. [*Strange sentence, he literally says "I continued it out of sight" so I assume he refers to the chat, and off camera]
Great! The way we'll score these is such that —
Miika gets five points because he took care of it on the phone, genuinely. That was tough.
Kalle gets four points, because no one reads your e-mails anyway. — True.
Kiti, three points for the sincere and genuine apology. — Thank you.
And Aku and Minka get two points each.
Thank you, my friends. Pilvi, at this point, how are the total scores?
The one in the lead at the moment is Miika.
(Miika:) I've never done this well.
But now, new bait to the hook! Let's get back to the mansion.
Hi. — Hi.
"Move these belongings to the corresponding zone outside —
while keeping your heart rate as low as possible."
"The content of the boxes is fragile."
"The one who manages to do this with the least change to their heart rate, wins."
"You have ten minutes. The time starts now."
During the task, their heart rates were measured with a heart rate monitor,
and the objective was to carry out the relocating with the least change to their heart rate as compared to the baseline value at the start.
Wonderful. Who do we have the joy of starting with?
First, let's see how Kiti, Minka, and Kalle did. - Here we go.
Right, let's start moving these um, downstairs and...
You're not coming at all? No? 'kay.
Oh, oh they are quite heavy.
(Singing.)
Right... That was already broken!
Do we have anything that could be used for like, sliding them down there?
— I hope that there's no one down there right now. — You can't just throw other people's stuff around.
(Kalle:) Fiddlesticks!
I wonder if Kalle just forgot that the aim was to keep your heart rate down?
(Chain noise.) No!
(Clinking noise and laughter.)
If you've got the bleeps in use, [BLEEP]ing Saariluoma.
I'll try to keep my breath as... (Sudden loud horn noise.)
— Five minutes. — Oh no!
I haven't exercised this much for years! This is like, absolute madness.
(Kiti:) I'm not gonna make it!
No way...
I should've done this right at the start.
I mean, after all that, my heart is just beating so hard —
that I wouldn't even need that heart rate monitor because I know...
— One minute! — ...that my heart, it's about to burst out of my chest because...
(Pilvi:) 45 seconds.
— Time's up.
I've kind of sort of given up.
I was thinking, if I could get half a point because I did bring most of them.
Kiti. How do you reckon a customer would take it —
if like, half of their stuff remained lined up at their old place? – Right!
— I don't know. - You don't know. — I think I might be done after just one gig.
Two gigs in one: The first and the last one.
Pilvi, what were the results?
Kiti's heart rate increased by just 53 beats per minute, —
but unfortunately she didn't finish relocating.
During the task, Minka's heart rate peaked at 178.
And the increase compared to what it was in the beginning was 93 beats per minute.
So it didn't quite fit into the range of resting heart rate.
But, Kalle. During the task, Kalle's heart rate increased by —
129 beats per minute.
— Those were some slow heartbeat removals. - Truly.
But look, we still have Miika and Aku left.
Let's watch them. But let's do it only after the following break.
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster. Before the break, we saw —
how the contestants tried to relocate some stuff while having the lowest possible heart rate.
We're yet to see Miika's and Aku's performances.
So let's watch both footages and see how they did.
Well I guess I'll just... If I divided it to —
five parts and then just like, took my time with it.
On the other hand, what if I just threw them out of the window.
I wonder if they're all fragile? Yeah, no throwing.
I'll just take on this by taking it easy.
(Aku:) How long do I have? — Seven minutes.
(Chain noise.)
How much time left?
(Loud horn sound.) — Five minutes.
(Loud horn sound.) — Four minutes.
Damn you.
Oh no but now there's the risk, I'll have to hurry up, because if I'll have to run during the last one, it's going to be like, just...
— How much time? — Two minutes. — Yeah, well that's...
— Does this stuff belong to the taskmaster? — Yes.
One man's Iittala* is another man's trash. [*Extremely common Finnish glassware brand]
(Pilvi:) One minute and 15 seconds.
You still have one minute left.
Should I just catch my breath for a bit? Let's chat. Would you like me to read some King to you?
— How much time? — 30 seconds.
Now the way that it stands is...
...that I just don't have the time.
(Reads in broken English.)
"Equivalent." How do you say that?
(Tries to repeatedly pronounce "equivalent")
(Shattering noise.)
(Pilvi:) Five seconds.
(Shattering noise.)
I was in luck in the sense that back in the day when I was attending a course on political satire at the Orivesi institute —
the secondary subject I picked was lowering of the heart rate.
I can't remember any of the ramblings that took place.
Miika, first of all I'm gonna ask, when you were studying heart rate lowering at the Orivesi institute as a secondary subject, what did those studies cover?
Calm demeanor and just like, having nerves of steel.
Just like, as the footage probably demonstrated just there —
I didn't take the course, or like, spend five years at school for nothing.
What were the results of Miika and Aku?
During the task, Aku's heart rate increased by 68 beats per minute.
Miika's heart rate on the other hand only increased by 51 beats per minute.
By a surprisingly high number, still.
(Jaakko:) Was it too high? — Well I was surprised by how high, but it was the honk of the horn.
— But five points to you. — Thank you.
And the others get scored in the order of their heart rates.
There's still some points to be had, because it's time for the final task.
Brace yourselves.
Pilvi. Would you tell us what the final task is?
In the final task, you'll benefit from outstanding bat handling skills —
and good wits.
Kalle, please read the task aloud.
"On your turn, say a word and hit the ping pong ball."
"The word has to begin with the letter that the previous word ended with."
"If you succeed, the next person comes to your place —
and you move to the end of the queue on the opposite side."
"If you fail to say a word in the duration —
that it takes for the approaching ping pong ball to reach you, you're out of the game."
"You can not use the same word twice."
"The last contestant left wins."
Right, form two queues there.
And the first word is for Kalle. - Yup.
The first word is "Suurmestari". [*Taskmaster]
Ikkuna. [*Window]
Aurinko. [*Sun]
Omena. [*Apple]
Aamu. [*Morning]
Uskonto. [*Religion]
Oksa. [*Twig]
Aamiainen. [*Breakfast]
Nenä. [*Nose] — Äiti. [*Mother]
Isä. [*Father] — Uhh! Wrong.
Äy...
— Hey there... Both dropped out. - Yeah.
The next word is for Minka. And the word is...
(Pilvi:) Tehtävä. [*Task]
Ää... (Laughing.)
Alright Aku.
(Roaring.)
And the next word is for Kiti.
(Pilvi:) And the word is "golf". — Fuk.* [*Not a Finnish word, just panic]
Kiitos! [*Thank you.]
Oh! Why did I leave? Sata.* [*Hundred]
What? — Sata. I won!
(Jaakko:) Kiti won.
Dear friends, thank you for this extremely entertaining madness.
Five points to the winner, which is Kiti. — Yay.
And the others get points from one to four in the order of dropping out.
And then, the question that we all want to know the answer to.
Who won tonight's competition?
After all the tasks, the person who managed to accumulate the most points was —
Miika.
(Jaakko:) Miika, go ahead, you can keep your water ski. Go and enjoy your prizes.
Thanks to all the contestants, thank you Kalle Lamberg.
and thank you, the audience at home. This was Taskmaster.