17x08 - The Umbrella Wink

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This programme contains strong
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Well, well, well.

Ooh! Oh, no, no!

Yes!
SHE SCREAMS

SHE HISSES

Erm...

Quite windy today. Yeah.

Whoo! Wrong way.

That's how you do it, baby. OK.

Oh, my God!

THEY EXCLAIM

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Hello! I'm Greg Davies,
welcome to Taskmaster.

Tell Nan to stop shuffling around
the kitchen - we're starting.

That's it, in you come, Nan,
sit down. Get her a cushion.

Get Nan a cushion. Sit Nan up.

Nan?

Na-a-an!

Oh, it's OK - she's asleep.

So let's just get stuck in
to some comedians.

Please welcome Joanne McNally...
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

..John Robins...
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

..Nick Mohammed...
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

..Sophie Willan...
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

..and Steve Pemberton!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

And next to me, a man who recently
confided in me when drunk

that he thinks the Pride movement

has got "a bit out of hand".

IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE:
It's Little Alex Horne!

Now, I, I...
Yeah, I don't remember that.

So I've got you, uh, I've got you
a coffee. Just got you a coffee.

Ah, what...? Then we'll crack on
with the show. OK.

I know how you like your coffee.

I like my coffee black...
I know you do.

..with milk on the side.

It's here, it's a black coffee
with milk on the side.

It's got milk on the side!

It's got milk...!

ALEX CLEARS THROAT
Ready.

It's prize task time.
What's the category, please, Alex?

Yes, well, unfortunately it's

"the thing of yours
Greg would most like

"to squeeze in his mighty hands."

Yes, that's where we're at,
and I'm fine with it.

Greg will give five points
to the thing he'd like

to squeeze most in his mighty hands,

and all five squeezable things
will go home with

the winner at the end of the show.

It's easy squeezy.
THEY LAUGH

Nick. Yes. What have you brought in
that I might like

to squeeze in my mighty hand?

This is a ticket,
this is Nick's thigh token,

and this is basically
one thigh squeeze per month and,

I'm going to let you... Genuinely
going to let you squeeze it,

and the reason why
is because there is

an element of surprise.

There is. Go for it.

Oh, f*ck.

There you go. That's it.
That's that.

What a mighty tree trunk
you're hiding. Yeah.

It's really hard, isn't it?

What's THAT all about?

I just walk everywhere fast.

I was not expecting that.
I mean, that feels...

I feel alive.

I feel alive. Can you describe -
was there any give to them at all?

Let's have a go on yours.

Ew.

I'm just wondering
how's this going to work.

Will you go to them or do they have
to come to you?

That's a good question, actually.

We'll just sort of meet
somewhere central.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

OK, good start. Unusual.

Hi, Steve. Hi.

Uh, I have brought you a device,
Greg, that will allow you

to squeeze a filling of your choice

into an unpeeled banana.

He's not lying.

It's similar in...in the way

that they inseminate pigs. Um...

You've... God, this is turning out
to be a sexy episode, isn't it?

We actually have a video of it
in action,

if you'd like to see the video.

Oh, on a banana, yeah? On a banana.

We've used chocolate sauce.

You could...

I actually have a banana down here

that I would like to show you
and demonstrate.

Oh, for God's sake, Steve.

This is an unpeeled banana, yeah?
Yeah.

And, uh, so you've sent your kids
to school.

And they've said, "Ooh, what's
the surprise today in my banana?"

And they break it open

and inside you get lovely
chocolate.

That's good! Ooh!

Sorry St...Steve, have you got
shares in this company?

No.

I'll read you out just one of
the many positive reviews.

"Inexpensive enough
to enjoy the memories made."

Thanks, Steve. Joanne.

I'm just going to show the picture.

It's something I think
you'd like to squeeze.

It's my nose. So, I have

no cartilage in my nose.
What do you mean?

Well, so it goes
all the way flat down. Wow...

So I used to flatten it out,
that was my party trick.

I'd flatten it down and then
I'd, like, buff it back up after

to remould it. Do you wanna try?
Can I? Yeah.

You're gonna squeeze it
in your mighty hand.

No, you have to...
It's more like a push-down.

Just give me your finger.
I'll guide you.

I do sort of...

Keep the hair out of the face.

Do...do you want me to hold your
hair back?

Yeah, that'd be great, thanks.

I told you, he's a gentleman!
Here we go.

AUDIENCE GROANS

I don't like it, I don't like it!

I don't like it.

I answered the brief.

No, the brief asked for something

I'd LIKE to squeeze
in my mighty hands.

I feel like I've been forced.

It's kind of cool, isn't it?
I wonder why you haven't got that?

And I'm adopted
so when I was younger...

You went round pressing
people's noses.

I was like, "Are YOU my mum?
Are YOU my mum?

"Are YOU my mum? Are YOU my mum?"

John.

Well, Greg, I have brought for you
to squeeze in your mighty hands

my farthing collection.

SOPHIE: Wow!

When I was at school, I didn't have
a huge amount of friends.

Girls weren't particularly
interested,

so I thought I'll set myself apart
through collecting coins.

I presume they're discoloured

with your tears of loneliness.

Hmm... Do you want to squeeze them
in your mighty hands?

Of course not, I want to...

I want to hold John and tell him
it's going to be all right.

All right, who's left? Uh, Sophie.

Yes, I'd gone down
the body parts theme as well.

I tried to get my left breast
for you

to squeeze, cos it's my better one.

Is it detachable? Well, I was going
to have it moulded.

I mean, it'll send me over the
edge, Sophie.

I've already squeezed a thigh
and someone's brain.

Yeah, and n*pples are not allowed
on Channel 4.

And I thought, "What would be
lovely to squeeze,

"and what have I got
in the dressing room?" Right.

I thought, "If I've not got a tit,
what have I got?"

You know what I mean?

So this is what's left.

A bottle of paint.

You don't mind if I just write down
"one point" while you're...?

Is there any part of you wants
to squeeze that paint

in your mighty hands? Yeah. Yeah!

There is part of me that wants
to give it a squeeze, yeah.

And it's not necessarily
one point, by the way,

because we have - let's not forget -
John's farthing collection.

Give them both one point.

Or both two points. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'll give them both
two points. Oh.

I'd quite like to squeeze both,
in a way.

I feel sorry for John.
Yeah, they're charity points.

Two to John, two to Sophie.

I don't think I particularly want to
pump bananas full of stuff, Steve.

I'll give you three points. OK.

I think it's Nick Mohammed's thigh
I want to squeeze the most.

Oh!

Yeah, I'm gonna say it's four
points and five points.

Fair enough. Five to Nick Mohammed.
Well done, Nick!

Well done, Jo.

OK.

Let's get tasking, Alex.

Oh, flip off, Greg...in a good way.

Is it warm, your jacket?
Do you know, it's not?

How's the coat? Very comfy, yeah.

It's both warm and fabulous,
so what more do you need?

Just, just like me. Mm.

A flip-flop, a flapjack and a...

..flan.

Flip-flop, flan, flapjack. Yeah.

Flip, flan, jack.

That's not the... OK,
will I just open it? Yes, please.

Flick, flip and flap
a flip-flop, flan and flapjack.

You may only flick,
flip and flap once.

Furthest flicked,
flipped and flapped

flip-flop, flan and flapjack
finishes first.

You have 15 minutes.

Ah, no. Right.

It doesn't say 15 minutes.

You have flifteen minutes.

You have flifteen minutes,
your time starts now.

You have 15 minutes. Not quite.

You have 15 minutes.

No.

So I've got one flick,
one flip and one flap.

Yes.

The furthest flap,
but what's the furthest flap?

I dunno.

You have 15 minutes?

No. Which bit? The whole thing?

The 15 bit.

You have flifteen minutes.
Your time starts now.

Oh, flifteen!

Yes, I put an L in it.

God, you're right, you're a monkey
actually, aren't you?

Yeah, there's always a trick,
in't there?

APPLAUSE

You like a little tongue twister,
don't you?

Uh, that's my favourite ever thing.

You got all excited. Yeah,
I really did. I bet this whole task

was created just so you could
say lots of "fl"s.

I'm gonna say more in a minute.
Naughty fl.

OK, well, Joanne and John are
the flirst to flip, flap and flick.

You're gonna be flapping from here?

Yeah.

How far should I go?

Further than that.

Don't patronise me.

I'd say go home.
I'm gonna stay here.

Greg's gonna flick the flip-flop.
Is he?

So if I just...

Yes, mate!

So this is the flip-flop.

OK.

You ready? Ready.

LAUGHTER, JOANNE SCREECHES

False start.

I'm happy with that.

OK.

That's been flapped, has it?

Disappointed with that flap.
Hit it really hard at the net.

I curved to the left.
You did, a bit.

I'm gonna flip.

I'm absolutely thrilled.
I've never used a cable tie before.

Ready, steady...

HE GRUNTS

It's gone quite far, Alex.

So you're flicking that,
you're definitely

gonna be flicking it, are you?
Flicking it, yeah.

Come on, you b*stard.

Just go gaffer, go gaffer crazy.

Tighter, tighter.

Onto the skin?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, onto the skin.

I'm very happy.

Flop a flan is like turn
a flan over, basically.

John, you've got
one and a half minutes left.

OK, I'm just thinking,
if I flap like that...

..then that gets
a bit of balance in the old...

Right.

Oh!

Oh, that's not bad.
WHISTLE BLOWS

Bye, John. Bye-bye!

OK, you ready? Oh, yeah.

At least I hit something.

You flopped him right in the face.

I wish there were more sportspeople
who,

as they do whatever sport
they're playing, shouted,

"Come on, you b*stard."

Yeah.

I thought John was very creative.

I very much enjoyed you turning
yourself into a giant,

uh, human albatross.

Do you know what? Watching it back,

I remember the feeling of freedom.

You asked him to gaffer tape
your wings on and Alex said,

"Do you want me to put it
on the skin?"

And he was so genuinely excited.
Yes.

Show them the face.
I couldn't believe my luck.

LAUGHTER

Little things,
little things keep me going.

OK, advert time.

Alex, why don't you sign off this
part for a change?

ECHO-Y: Thanks, Greg.

Oh, oh, dear.

Did Daddy pay the sound man
to make Alex echo again?

Ah, see you in part two-o-o!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Hello, hello, everyone,
welcome back to Taskmaster,

where we were in the thick
of a flipping,

flicking and flapping task.

Oh, yes. The incredible hunk is
right.

Up next, it's flipping Sophie Willan
and flapping Steve Pemberton.

Have you seen Cirque du Soleil?

They did a very similar thing
to this.

I've always wanted to, actually.
Slam time.

I was wondering when it would be.

I'm gonna go quick, OK?

Run out. OK, is everyone ready?

We've alerted the...
Heathrow about the flight path? OK.

Your time starts now.

Ooh, right, OK. Well, I'm gonna,

I'm gonna flick a flip-flop.

Just checking that's your attempt,
is it, on the flip-flop?

That was... Yeah, I flicked it.
Yeah, cos it's furthest wins.

It didn't go very far.
Oh, it's furthest wins,

I missed that,
I forgot about that bit.

Yeah, well, you've done that one.
Oh, God, no. Is that it now?

Yeah, that went a centimetre.

Right, OK,
so that wasn't my best work.

One, two, three.

I am gonna measure
the height rather than the distance.

I think you should.

I'm gonna flip this
because I think it'd be very fun.

Is it all right to flip a flan?
Of course it is, yeah.

I felt like I just had to.

I feel quite rebellious.

Flapjack to flick.

And am I allowed to use a pen
to flick with?

Please be careful. Oh, thank you.

Quite sharp.

OK, this is a one-off.

Happy with that. Wow, flapjack flag.

OK.

And, right, with the flapjack,
I can only do one last thing now.

Just to say you have got
fl-ourteen minutes left.

Oh, I've got fl-ourteen minutes.

I've got ages. Yeah.

I've not thought this through.

Um, how many of my flifteen minutes
have I got left?

Six.

Six. When I get to flive,
let me know. OK.

I'm gonna flap the flip-flop.

What's a flap?

If we're gonna be flapping,
I think we need...

..we need an owl.

If you will imagine that this blue
blanket is the owl's wing

and that is where the flap
comes in, OK? I'd love to.

I think I'm gonna flap.
I'd say a flap is like a, I'm...

Oh, that, yeah.

That was better.

That cleared the stage.

When you startle the owl...

Yeah.

..the flap will happen.

There's a mouse!

STEVE HOOTS

How was that?

Well, you've made
the flip-flop disappear.

It's gone!

You've finished the task.
Right, not well, though.

But it was done. Thank you.

That was fun.

What can I say? I'm happy with that.
WHISTLE BLOWS

That's your time up. Thank you,
Steve. Thank you.

Can I just say? Jumping on that,

uh, pivot and sending that flan
into the sky, it made me so happy.

Well, as you walked off at the end,
with your owl tucked under your
arm,

you looked like the happiest boy
in the schoolyard.

I was! I don't care
whatever else happens,

this was my moment.

LAUGHTER

So, Sophie,
do you feel any sense of shame?

I definitely didn't grasp
the task well.

You know, it was fine
because I was done in two minutes.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I didn't know that it was supposed
to be entertaining.

I think that's...what...I missed.

Well done, Steve.

Who's next, please?

Everyone's had a go, apart from Nick.

Oh, he's such an intelligent,

talented man. I just can't wait
to see him having a go.

You may only flip, flick
and flap once.

Ah.

Why are you going over there?

Cos it's the furthest. OK.

Oh, he...
LAUGHTER

Flipped.

Have you finished? Yeah.

I could only do...do it once.

Yeah, I think I've nailed it.

Thanks, Nick. Uh, thank you.
Lovely stuff.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well, I presume some of the
cheering
and applause there is sarcastic.

And carrying the table
across the garden?

In a wonderfully ceremonial way.

Yeah. Oh, it was borderline
religious.

Thank you. Uh, yeah, well,

just trying to get as far away from
Alex as possible, really.

Yeah, he thought furthest
from Alex. Um...

Furthest from Alex.
Was that what it said?

No. No, no, no.

Sophie, you must be f*cking punching
the air. I feel fantastic now, yeah.

Were you watching the other four
thinking, "What are you doing?!"

Genuinely, cos you saved me
till the end I was like,

"I've nailed this."
LAUGHTER

I whispered to him...
Yeah, you did, you did.

"Have you done something
extraordinary?"

And I was like, "Oh, yeah."

So what did Nick do?

He did flick some objects
off a table.

Sure. I've just measured it

from where the flick started
to where it ended.

So I've just gone from the top
of the table to the floor.

Height of the table is a metre.

We're measuring everything
in pigeons -

but just the width
of pigeons all stood next

to each other - so it'd be about,
uh, ten pigeons.

And Sophie was 56.9 pigeons

so that shows how badly you did,
Nick.

Now, let's get on
to the serious athletes.

Joanne, 197 pigeons,

Steve, 208 pigeons,
so, yes, he is in second place.

But the mighty John flapped,

flicked and flipped 408 pigeons
in a row. Wow.

A huge total of standing pigeons!
So many pigeons.


four to Steve,

three to Joanne, two Sophie
and one to Nick.

Marvellous.
Can we have a scoreboard?

It's a three-way at the top.

We have...
LAUGHTER

..seven points for Joanne,

John and Steve.

APPLAUSE

Lovely, what's next, then?
I'd love to tell you,

but it's a secret.
GREG GASPS

And it's a secret which
I'm going to tell you right now.

Hi, Steve. Hi.

Do you mind opening that
and reading it?

WHISPERS: Please could you take this
and read it?

Now?

Yes, quietly.

I'm so sorry.

WHISPERS: You've got something
secret.

Well, I've gotta give you that.

Got a little bonus thing for you.

Oh. But it's very secretive.

Ooh!

WHISPERS: In the next task, you must
say the word umbrella five times.

WHISPERS: In the next task, you must
say the word umbrella five times.

If you say the word umbrella
five times

and no-one else says
the word umbrella,

you get two bonus points.

Your team-mates must hear you say
umbrella -

your umbrellas - and you must not
mention the concept of a bonus
task.

The next task you must lie on...
Sh!

The other people,
it's secret from them.

Right. In the next task you must
lie on the floor for 30 seconds.

If you lie on the floor
for 30 seconds

without anyone questioning
why you're lying on the floor,

you get two bonus points.

In the next task, you must get
something from the caravan,

the shed, the hutch and the toilet
before the task is finished.

If you get something from all those
places without anyone questioning

why you're getting something from
all those places,

you get two bonus points.

OK, this is getting pretty serious.

ALL: If you fail,
you lose two points.

Thank you, bye-bye. Bye, Alex.

APPLAUSE

I don't mean to be rude,

but I can't think of anyone
less suited to a secret task...

Joanne literally talks at the
same volume you would... I know!

..use to warn ships away from
rocks.

LAUGHTER

OK, so we know their secret tasks,

but what's the team task
to test them?

It's time to find out.

Hello, John. Hello, Alex.

Hello, Steve. Hello.

Hello, Joanne. Hello, Alex.

Hello, Nick. Hello, Alex.

Hello, Sophie. Hello.

Hello, team. Hello.

Hello, team. Hello.

Whoo. Ooh.

OK. I'll take the lead here.

Uh, put the watermelon
on this table.

Put the watermelon on this table.

The table may not be moved.

Once you leave this room,
you may not re-enter this room.

Also you may not step on the stage

and the watermelon may not
touch the...

..touch the stage, floor or ground.

Finally, you must speak into your
hand-held microphones at all times.

Fastest wins.

Your time started when you said
hello for a fourth time.

You did say hello a lot
at the beginning.

Oh, God. Did we?

Yeah, I said, "Hello, Steve.
Hello, Nick. Hello, team."

And then,
each time you both said hello.

Oh. So put the watermelon on this
table. The table may not be moved.

Into the microphones, please.

They don't work.

ALL: Oh.

APPLAUSE

That's it. Mm-hm.

There's some sneaky stuff afoot.

OK, well, here are
the team of three with Joanne,

John and good old subtle Sophie.

LAUGHTER

There's a watermelon on the stage.

So who wants to stay in the room
to receive the watermelon?

I'm happy to stay in the room to
receive. Are you happy to receive?

A watermelon. Are you...?
Let's keep...

You seem to know what you're doing.
..keep you in for now and I'll go

and check there's a watermelon out
there. That's fine.

All right. Umbrella, yeah, great.

OK, right, I see what's going on.

There is a watermelon on the
stage. Oh, God, right. OK.

I got these from the hutch

just in case you
wanna lay them on the floor.

Right, OK, we could do that.

We need to think of something
to use to get

the watermelon off the stage.

Umbrella. Can you check
what does it say? Yeah.

Put the watermelon on this table.

Right, umbrella.
Once you leave this room,

you may not re-enter this room.
So... We can touch the watermelon.

Yeah, but we can't walk on
the stage.

Right, OK. What's going on here?

You're here,
you're ready to receive.

Right, I'm...
I feel like an umbrella.

I've got this from the caravan.

Oh, good idea. Step on the stage.

You may not step on the stage,

the watermelon may not touch

the stage, floor or ground.

Oh, yeah, grand. So I think,

but...we need something else
to pat,

to stop it hitting the stage.
One sec.

John, what if I lie down

and then you roll it on to me.

Right, I've got this from the shed

and that from the toilet.

Umbrella?

You may not step on the stage.

The water... You may not step
on the stage.

Well, if we step on that,
are we stepping on the stage?

Ruling, please, Alex?

I am unfortunately
not the rule-maker.

Don't know what's going on.

Then to be honest,
I've not had a clue what's going on

for most of this.

Umbrella.

He went past, so I can say that.

John, I've cracked it.

Oh, yes! You might need something
to hook it with,

like an umbrella. Brilliant.

It's gonna be quite heavy.
You might need something

to hook it with, like an umbrella!

Yeah. Quick.

John, Sophie's trying to talk to you.

Great. No, we've got it.

Not an umbrella?

Great stuff. We've got the
watermelon. Yeah, brilliant.

Sophie, are you ready to receive
the watermelon?

Are you ready receive?
I am, umbrella, I am.

Are you allowed to touch
the watermelon?

I'm allowed to touch
the watermelon, am I not?

Let's check it. Yeah.

Where's the task?

Has it gone?

Where's the task?

I think I can touch the watermel...

Well, all the information's
on the task. Right, all right.

John, it's in your pocket.
John, it's in your pocket!

You umbrella!

Right, come on. Yeah, we can touch
the watermelon.

Great, I'll just pick it up,
you umbrella. Well, just pick...

..take the basket and
put it on like that. All right.

Run, Sophie, run! Run, Sophie, run.

That's like carrying an umbrella.

We did it. Whoo!

Done. I've stopped the clock.

I thought we really pulled it
together there at the last minute.

OK. There was no umbrella.

No, you didn't need an umbrella.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

I mean, in many ways,

this task is a sort of metaphor
for life, really.

In that none of us are listening
to each other really, are we?

You, uh, you only had to say
umbrella five times.

I just wanted to make sure
they'd got it,

but without getting it. How many
times did she say umbrella?



But by the end, she wasn't even
trying to slip it in.

She was,
she was just going, "Umbrella!"

LAUGHTER

Neither of you noticed this woman
lying on the floor.

John was standing right beside me
and didn't even blink.

Didn't even,
didn't acknowledge it at all.

My head was in the mud,
I was just lying there.

I think the more time I've spent
with Sophie and with,

uh, Joanne, the less likely I am
to notice that

Sophie has said umbrella 15 times

and Joanne's just laid down

for 30 seconds. And Joanne's just
lying on the floor.

I'll tell you, definitely all three
of them get their two bonus points.

Oh, God, yeah.
OK, time for another break.

Watch the adverts by all means,
but know this,

you don't need an air fryer,

you need to start noticing
each other again.

Kiss, spend the break kissing.

We'll see you in a bit.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Hello, there you are! Welcome back
to the Taskmaster fold.

Oh, yes, it's like a big calzone
with a filling

and Greg the heavy-duty dough

smothering us in his moist vacuum.

Hello.
LAUGHTER

There's a team task in play,

all they've gotta do is get
the watermelon on

the table in the living room

without it touching the ground
at all.

But they also each have
a secret task to complete.

So let's see Nick
and Steve try to be sneaky

and efficient at the same time.

Put the watermelon on this table,
and we can't move this table.

Hmm, OK. Right, well, we need
to get going, don't we?

We need to see where
the watermelon is. Yeah. OK.

Come on, let's go
and find that watermelon.

Yeah, I wanna find, uh,
an umbrella to find stab it

and then pop it on the end
or something. Yeah.

And then, well, we could always
take one. Did you bring the task?

No.

You've got the task?

I don't have the task.

There's the watermelon.

We may not step ON the stage.

We may not step on the stage!

Where's the task? Where's the task?

Um...

D... So.

Shall I run back and get the task?
Yes, please.

Yeah, you keep talking
in your microphone. Uh...

Steve's just going to get the...
Oh, I can't go back in the room.

..the task again.
Can't go back in the room.

Oh, God. So we've gotta find a way
of getting that off there.

Look.

Hang on. Oh, God watch out here.

All right. Oh, my God.

Would it be better if I used
the umbrella or the brick?

Oh.

That was good. OK, OK.

Are we any further forward?

What about one of these pipes?

Oh, yeah, we should've done that in
the first place.

Go on.

Oh.

Yeah! Oh.

Oh, hang on. Ah!

I've got it, I've got it!

Oh! OK, now, it can't leave
the stage. Are we done?

No, it can't leave the stage?

What did it say?

Does it say...Alex, remind us can
it leave the stage?

I don't think it's really my job
to remind you what the task is.

All right.

It was definitely something to do
with the watermelon and the stage.

Was, did...?

Did it involve an umbrella?

Say again. Did it say something
about we're not allowed...?

Why didn't we bring the task
with us?

Oh, I'm gonna get, let's go and get
the task. We're not allowed back

in the room. But, uh...
Well, let's just take it, then.

Let me just see if
I can grab it without going back
in.

Using this umbrella.

Shall I bring the watermelon
cos this is a timed task?

That's not gonna work.

I can't remember if I can touch
the watermelon.

Can I touch the watermelon?

I can't remember
what the rules are.

What do you two think the task is?

We've gotta put this on the table.

No, but I don't think
it's just that you carry it.

Well, if we don't know
what the task is,

how are we gonna solve it?

Right, it's clearly nothing to do
with this umbrella

so I'll leave that there.
Right, OK. So...

DING!

Gotta put this on the table
and you can't move the table.

My worry is it might,
might fall off the edge.

Well, you can't literally go in
the room.

OK. OK, you ready? Yeah.

BANG

LAUGHTER, BANG

APPLAUSE, BANG

Oh, in a... In a...in a, uh...
There is some on there.

Where is the watermelon?

On the table. It's on the table.

And on the fl...bits are on
the floor.

Do you think
you've completed the task?

Shall we just cut our losses
and say we've completed the task?

I've stopped the clock.

Can we now go and see what it was?
I don't think you should.

STEVE WHEEZES
Oh. OK.

APPLAUSE

I don't remember it being that bad.

Well, I thought you both managed
your secret tasks.

You were showboating
with the umbrella.

Yeah, the umbrella wink's gonna
catch on for you, I think. Yeah.

OK.

LAUGHTER

In terms of the rest of it,

well,
this is what I've written down -

I don't think it's unfair
to say that that's

the worst task attempt I've seen
in 17 series of the show.

LAUGHTER

So points-wise,
all five get their two points?

Without question.

Team of three, I'm presuming,
five points for doing the task?

Correct. How many points
do the team of two get?

Well, they just get their two bonus
points each.

So it goes two points to Steve,
two points to Nick,

all the rest get seven points.
There it is.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Good. Let's get cracking
with another, please.

OK, then,
but I think YOU should get a life.

GREG GASPS

Hi. Come on in.

Two men enter the dome...

Only one will leave.

This looks very serious, doesn't
it?

I do tend to be. Shall we hold
hands?

This is a mannequin but I thought
you could call it a Joanna-quin.

JOANNA CHUCKLES
Nice.

What are we up to, then?

Ah. Yes.

Ah, I knew it.

Ha-ha-ha.

Make this mannequin come alive.

It's alive!

Does that mean...

..sort of, decorate it or...

..or as a sort of...performance?

Most alive mannequin wins.

You have 20 minutes...

Your time...starts...now.

What does being alive mean?
This is deep, in't it? Um...

What's your definition of alive? Um,
alive. I'd like to see some organs.

Do you like it? Yeah.

Just trying to, sort of, get some
sort of inspiration... Hmm.

..from it.

Oh. Well, that's a good start.

OK.

You wouldn't be the first man
I know with a rod stuck up his
hole.

LAUGHTER

Oh, God. Shall I bring the arms?
Yeah, maybe. OK.

Oh, hello. Hello, everyone.
I'll be seeing you in a bit.

Do not disturb.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well, I'm intrigued to watch them
all become Dr Frankenstein.

Scale it back a little bit,
we're gonna start...

LAUGHTER
..with Sophie and John's mannequins

coming to life. Wow.

PROJECTOR WHIRS

WALTZ PLAYS

LAUGHTER
Hello, my name's Wolfy,

I'm 36. I'm a Scorpio,
I'm looking for love.

Do you have any hidden talents?

I'm a very, very, very good dancer.

For a...for a sort of
puppet-woman-wolf,

I'm good at a few things.

Well, I'd like to see that.

All right, uh, one, two, three.

Ooh, ooh, ah. Ooh, ooh, ah. Ooh,
la.

Ooh, la-ah.

Oooooh!

LAUGHTER

MWAH!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

I can do a beatbox.

Yes, I'd like to see that.

Right.

SHE BEATBOXES

LAUGHTER

BEATBOXING CONTINUES

Thank you. I can't believe
you've been single for so long.

I know. Stop it, you're flirting!

Bye. Bye-bye.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

John's is quite haunting in a way.

LAUGHTER
Just side note,

you've got two of those jackets,
have you?

What I saw there... Hmm.

..was someone being thoughtful...
Hmm.

..and intelligent, and I think
that was a really sweet response.

Thank you.

LAUGHTER

And you did a, uh,
beatboxing puppet-wolf-woman.

LAUGHTER

What's more alive
than a beatboxing wolf?

An ashtray?
LAUGHTER

She was called Party Dog.


LAUGHTER

I mean, I really enjoyed it,
Sophie. It was so sh*t.

LAUGHTER

Good. Who's next?

OK, well, brace yourself,
because it's

Joanne Mc...mannequin-Nally...
It's Joanne... It's Joanne Mc...

It's Joanne Mc-man... It doesn't
matter, here we go. Joanne!

LAUGHTER

RAIN LASHES

Do you mind?
LAUGHTER

Kind of in the middle of something
here, Alex.

Sorry, Joanne.
Trying to resuscitate a man.

LAUGHTER

ELECTRICAL BUZZING

Darren!
SLAP

LAUGHTER

Come on, buddy.

SLAP
No, I think he's properly gone now.

Well, his eye's fallen off.

He doesn't need it where he is.
LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

What was the task again?

Bring this mannequin to life.

LAUGHTER

Oh, it wasn't jumping on the corpse
of a mono-eyed man.

LAUGHTER

I don't know what I was doing.

But what's interesting is you were
in control of the narrative...

..and you chose not to save him.

I literally announced his death
myself.

LAUGHTER

Stop what you're doing

and watch the adverts, or don't.
I could not care less.

Goodbye.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello, hello again!

Here we are,
it's the final part of the show

and our comedians are busy bringing
to life mannequins.

MONOTONE: Spot on, bro. Most alive...

LAUGHTER
..mannequin wins

and if you'd like to see
Nick Mohammed's attempt next,

then you're in luck
because we're gonna see

Nick Mohammed's attempt now.

Oh, hello. Hello.

Now, I've...I've decided to show
you some, some magic.

OK, what, so, wh-what's your name?

Daniel Paul. Daniel Paul, is it?
Yeah.

Oh, hello, Daniel Paul.

So, what I'm gonna do is,

I'm gonna cut this rope in half.

I don't know if you've heard of
the,

uh, famous cut-and-restored-rope
trick.

Uh, as this is magic
we don't need real scissors,

we just use magic scissors and, uh,

I can just go snip like that. Ooh,

like that and then one like that.

Oh, dear. The ends have...
The ends have come off.

Well, if they're the ends
then this must be, uh, the middle

and this doesn't even have any ends,
does it?

So, uh, yes, there you go,
that's the little trick.

And, thank you very much.
Um, my name's been Daniel Paul.

Thank you.
APPLAUSE

That's him bowing. See ya.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

What a boring magician he was!
LAUGHTER

I know. The actual trick was
brilliant, but him... Hmm.

..he sort of was alive, but I kind
of wanted him dead throughout.

LAUGHTER

He also occasionally would go...
SINGSONGY: .."Hello!"

But then,
then he would just be my voice.

Yeah... Yeah. One left.

Yes, there is just one last attempt

and remember, remember,

the fifth is Steve Pember.

LAUGHTER

An attempt to fuse man
and mannequin.

MENACING AND MYSTERIOUS MUSIC

ECHOING AND DISTORTED: Man and
mannequin. You won't feel a thing.

It's alive! Man and mannequin.
Alive, I tell you!

It's alive.

If the eyes are the windows to
the soul...

There we go.

Skin.

Oh. Skin.

HIGH-PITCHED RAPID BEEPING

An attempt to fuse man
and mannequin.

FADING OUT: It's alive, it's alive.
Man and mannequin.

MYSTERIOUS MUSIC BOX PLAYS

LAUGHTER

Ah.

MUSIC STOPS

"Ask me to dance."

Would...would you mind dancing?

HIGH-PITCHED: Are you referring
to me?

LAUGHTER
What is your name?

Um... Alex.

Oh, Alex.

Alex Horne. I'm Quinn.

Quinn?

Quinn. Manny Quinn.

LAUGHTER
Manny Quinn.

I don't know if you can tell from
my expression,

but I feel quite lonely.

LAUGHTER

I would certainly love it
if you would dance with me.

Oh, I see.

Because dancing makes me feel

the most alive
it's possible to feel.

Haven't got long.

Oh... Oh!

ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS
Oh! Oh, dear.

Am I looking at you?

Yes. Yeah.

Do you like my scarf?

I don't mind the scarf.

Yeah, we're going all
the way round, are we? Yes. Yeah.

Are you looking at me?

Yes. Yeah. Uh...

LAUGHTER,
MUFFLED SPEECH

I feel ALIVE!

I FEEL ALIVE!

I feel alive.
MUSIC STOPS

I'm gonna blow my whistle now.

WHISTLE BLOWS

Ooh!

NORMAL VOICE: And scene.
LAUGHTER

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Do you wanna give me some back story
to your character?

She wanted to feel alive.
She wanted to...

Oh, she? Sorry. Yeah, oh, yeah.

OK, yeah, sorry,
I-I may have missed that.

I missed that too. Yeah.
LAUGHTER

But as soon as I went,
"It's alive," then I thought

the Frankenstein
and then I used what I've got.

Yeah, and I think
it was the most alive,

and I shall be rewarding it
handsomely.

Yeah, I can vouch for that,
it was...

..it was forceful. Yeah.
LAUGHTER

Well, do you want some points?

All right. Most alive mannequin wins.

Well, we've gotta start with
the least alive mannequin,

haven't we, Joanne?

Yeah.
LAUGHTER

So, one point to Joanne McNally.

Wolfie was great...Yeah.
CHEERING

..weren't she? Yeah.
CHEERING

No, I'm not gonna be...

I'm not gonna be worn down
by public opinion, two points.

AUDIENCE BOOS

Oh, f*ck you.

LAUGHTER

I'm tempted to give Nick
and John three points each

because I have to put a gulf
between their wonderful creations

and this twisted monster's.

LAUGHTER

So three to John, three to Nick and
five to Steve Pemberton.

There it is.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Let's have a look at
the scores, then, please, Alex.

Well, you won't believe it. In
the lead it's John with 17 points.

He's away again.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Please make your way to the stage

for the final task of the show.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hi there, good boy.
Who's reading the task?

John Robins is gonna read the task.

Write down a letter of
the alphabet. You have ten seconds.

When I blow my whistle,
you've got ten seconds

to write one letter of
the alphabet, nice and clear on it.

WHISTLE BLOWS

OK, we have a T, L, M, B, P.

And that's the end of the task.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Come on, you silly boy, what's
next?

Right, John. There's the proper task.

Ah. Every time Greg asks you

a question, you must write down
an answer.

Last correct answer placed
on the board is eliminated.

Greg will ask you a question.
It will involve your letter.

The last person to put

a correct answer up on the board
is eliminated.

Gotcha. Right. OK.

Well, the atmosphere is electric.

LAUGHTER

Ready?

What is a country beginning with

the letter four before yours in
the alphabet?

Four before? Four before.

# A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M... #

LAUGHTER

SQUEAKING

That is incorrect.

John, that is correct.

Yemen!

Sophie, that is incorrect.

Yemen? Incorrect.

Correct, Joanne.

What have you written?

Libya. Correct.

It's between Nick and Sophie.

What? Oh, I-I can just keep going?
Right.

Yeah, yeah. What have you written?

India. That is correct.

I'm afraid we have lost
Sophie Willan. Sophie.

AUDIENCE: Aww!

The trouble is, the fourth before
hers is...

X! ..begins with X and there are
no countries beginning with X.

No countries, so actually I've been
f*cked. You have been.

LAUGHTER

Four people left
as we go to round two.

What is a food beginning with

the letter 25 letters after yours
in the alphabet?

A food beginning
with the letter 25 letters...

Correct. He is correct.

That was fast. I mean...

Joanne, that is incorrect.

John, that is correct.

Olive. Correct.

I'm afraid we have lost
Joanne McNally.

APPLAUSE

OK, it's the three men.

What is something heavier than
a cat, beginning with

the letter ten letters before yours
in the alphabet?

Oh, you're fast with...

Oh, my word, Nick, correct.

John, incorrect.

Nick, he's like Rain Man tonight.

Goose? Incorrect.

Correct, John.

We've lost Steve Pemberton.
We've lost Steve Pemberton.

AUDIENCE: Aww!
APPLAUSE

Yeah, we were looking for an F there.

OK, it's the big final.
What is a common lady's name...

LAUGHTER

..eight letters after your letter?

It's Tina...

..and that's correct. He's done it.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ursula just after the Tina there,
so that means

the winner of the task is
Mr John Robins.

There it is.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Come down here and we'll add that
to the final scores.

I tell you what, series-wise,
you wouldn't believe

the effect it's had on the scores.

Nick's at the bottom
and John's at the top,

and there's only 47 points
between them.

LAUGHTER

You have got a chance of winning
the series still...

OK. ..if three people die.

LAUGHTER

I can do that.
LAUGHTER

John won the task

and the episode was also won
by Mr John Robins, with 22 points.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

John Robins wins!

Please, go and squeeze your things
that were meant to please me.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE