Series 20 Winner Series 20 Ep.10

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Speaker 2 Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast.

Speaker 2 It's me, Ed Gamble, the host of the Taskmaster podcast, and you find me in fine spirits today because I'm very excited to talk about the final episode of series 20 of Taskmaster.

Speaker 2 That's right, it's episode 10, the finale. We have a champion.
We are going to be speaking to that champion. You have approximately five seconds until I tell you who the champion is.

Speaker 2 If you have not seen the show and you've accidentally clicked on this or you've fallen asleep and it's just rolled on to the next podcast, please stop now and go and watch the final episode of Taskmaster Series 20 because our champion is coming on and our champion is 3-2-1 Maisie Adam.

Speaker 2 Maisie Adam, I can't believe it.

Speaker 2 I can't believe it. Honestly, she's made some howling mistakes.
She's been brilliant as well. But I think that's very much how the series has gone.
Everyone's been brilliant. It was so close.

Speaker 2 But everyone's also been disastrous. It's been a brilliant series for that.
So we're obviously going to be speaking to the champ today. We're going to be speaking to Maisie for her lap of honor.

Speaker 2 But given how our interviews normally go, she will emerge from it with no honor at all.

Speaker 2 Let's just crack on with it. It's been a fantastic series.
This is a fantastic episode to see it out, I'm sure. This is taskmaster series 20 episode 10 as discussed by the champion maisie adam

Speaker 2 welcome to the taskmaster podcast the champion maisie adam who'd have thought genuinely who'd have thought i mean i knew you won before i watched the series yeah and i texted you after i'd watched two episodes going how the hell did you win this i i still don't understand how i got here

Speaker 3 honestly i'm petrified because I know I'm going to be now going up against people who've won on like merit and skill.

Speaker 2 Well, you still won on merit. I'm not going to say skill.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, but do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 Yeah, skill and like that clever, lateral, sideways, upside-down way of thinking you've got to have to win Taskmaster.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's a bit of that.

Speaker 3 Because I just screamed and panicked for an entire series.

Speaker 2 But you're very evenly matched with everyone else on the lineup, I think. It was close.
I mean, we'll talk about the end.

Speaker 3 I was lucky with that group, eh?

Speaker 2 The end is, I'd say, controversial, wild.

Speaker 2 I can't believe it ended like that. So close.
But we will talk about that when we talk about the end of the episode. But how do you feel about Champion of Champions?

Speaker 2 Because I'm going to run you through the lineup now. Yep.
Because you've probably forgotten. Yeah, I genuinely have.
Thank God you could do it. Do you want to take any guesses, actually?

Speaker 3 Well, I know Matthew Bainton. Yes.

Speaker 3 And then I can't remember further back.

Speaker 2 Oh, really? So one you can remember. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Let me check how many points you got quickly.

Speaker 2 Yes, so you got 151 points. Yep.
And you can't really compare points series to series, I don't think. No, I don't.
It's just different amount of tasks. Yeah.
But you got 151. Matthew Baynton got 169.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 You got Sam Campbell. Yep.
Oh, of course. Oh, 161.

Speaker 2 John Robbins, 174. Oh, God.
And Andy Zaltzman, 160. Oh, so I'm already bottom of the pile.
Yeah, but you're going in, you know, it's a clean slate. It's one episode as well.

Speaker 3 So I'm going to be up against Andy Zaltzman, John Robbins, Sam Campbell, and Matthew Baynton.

Speaker 3 That's a clever, blokey bunch, isn't it?

Speaker 2 They are all men, correct? Yeah.

Speaker 3 I bet the producers were chuffed when I won.

Speaker 2 I'd imagine they hit the roofless

Speaker 2 plumbing heck. When it comes down to you, Anya, and Phil.
Oh, I mean, we all love Phil.

Speaker 2 We all love Phil, but

Speaker 3 that would have stopped the BAFTAs rolling in.

Speaker 2 But Champion and Champions is one episode as well, so it's just what happens on that day. On the day.
So

Speaker 2 you could take it home. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And I would love you to take it home. It just depends

Speaker 3 if it's a task where being panicky and screechy and stressed goes in your favor yes like the one where i panicked and honked the horn yeah love it yeah or if it's one like pill something absurd out of a bag yeah and have a breakdown i think i would love you to win this like you're my you're my not my favorite to win it but you would it would be my favorite thing if you wanted yeah i've already got imposter syndrome that all of those lads are so clever like very um

Speaker 2 like hyper intelligent aren't they they are they're big thinkers big thinker yeah that's what i'm getting we can't let john robbins win i will never hear the end of it yeah and no one will ever hear the end of it no no no no no Zaltzman fine I'm fine with him winning it that's fine yeah yeah but I'm

Speaker 2 winning he's too too good at stuff yeah two together yeah like I can't have that I know what you mean he's got it too good already yeah yeah Sam Campbell

Speaker 3 I think it could go eat one way or the other with him couldn't it he'll either smash it or have an absolute mayor yes yeah we'll see But let's look.

Speaker 2 Let's not talk about the future. Let's talk about the present and the past.
Okay. Because we're going to talk about series 20, episode 10.
Love it. Your victorious episode, Subbing from the Fountain.

Speaker 2 Before we do that,

Speaker 2 we are going to talk about what just happened for you. Because obviously on this series, your memory has been a topic of discussion

Speaker 2 because you forget things. quite often.

Speaker 3 I just get rid of the unimportant stuff.

Speaker 2 Let's talk through the film. You know, you're sifting through the post.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I just get rid of the junk mail kind of takeaway leaflets of life.

Speaker 2 But the tasks, like the snakes and ladders thing was not junk mail.

Speaker 3 No, occasionally a bank statement gets put in those.

Speaker 2 So we were in the garden just outside the caravan, and we've already recorded an episode today. Yeah.
Just in case you think Maisie only has one t-shirt. I have washed.

Speaker 2 I have changed shirts. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But you looked at the big statue of Greg sat on the throne. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's the first time I've seen that statue, I swear on my life.

Speaker 2 Look at that statue, Greg.

Speaker 3 First of all, Johnny Vegas isn't here.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. So, look at that statue.
You went. And then, and then you went,

Speaker 2 side note: you went, what do you reckon that's made of? Chalk.

Speaker 2 Chalk? Well, it's

Speaker 2 going to happen if it rains.

Speaker 2 If it rains.

Speaker 3 Well, I imagined you would bring it inside at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 Every day.

Speaker 3 Yeah, if it's made of chalk, it's not going to be like heavy stock.

Speaker 2 Heavy chalk statue inside in case it's raining. Where would that go? It's massive, Maisie.

Speaker 3 And also.

Speaker 2 Side point. That is a side point because the main point is it's a huge statue that's been there since series 10.

Speaker 3 That was not there when I was here.

Speaker 2 Maisie, it was. Every single person who's on site now has come to you and said it was.

Speaker 3 They need to show me footage of my season.

Speaker 2 Andy D has just had to come into the caravan and say, Yes, Maisie, it was. I'm sorry.
They need to show you footage of your season. They have, yeah, they have that.
Well, I'd like a copy. Right.

Speaker 2 This is the mascot all over again. They showed you a picture of you next to the mascot.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I did remember that upon revisiting. But that I've never seen in my life.

Speaker 2 It's not remembering if someone has to show you proof.

Speaker 3 That I've never seen in my life. This sort of

Speaker 3 it does look a bit Mount Rushmore with the face, doesn't it? It doesn't.

Speaker 2 Well, just because his face is on. Just because it's I'll tell you, it looks a bit Mount Rushmore.
Everyone on the planet then. Because they have a face.
Because they've all got faces.

Speaker 3 No, but it's made out of stone or chalk or whatever. What is it made out of?

Speaker 3 If it wasn't there and it wasn't anywhere else, I would have noticed a massive.

Speaker 3 I mean, he's bigger than actual Greg Davis. That's like an eight-foot Greg Davis.

Speaker 2 You don't need to explain the statue to anyone listening because they've seen the show, okay, and it's probably in frame in every single garden.

Speaker 3 Well, I look forward to watching my season back and pointing out that that is not there, right?

Speaker 2 Okay,

Speaker 2 and you will really have egg on your face. You need to go to hospital.

Speaker 3 Shall I tell you about the war again?

Speaker 3 Oh, God,

Speaker 3 you're asking me about a season I don't remember.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 prize task, your very best tube. Oh, love this.
Very best tube. What a way to see out the series prize task-wise with the very best tube.
You love this, of course.

Speaker 2 The last time we spoke was episode six. Yeah.
It was a bad episode for you. Really bad.

Speaker 3 Really bad.

Speaker 2 Because obviously, you win the whole series in this episode, and this prize task, you get the full five points. Yeah.
Actually, before we talk about the prize task, oh, yes.

Speaker 2 Why are you dressed as pirates?

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 2 Please tell me you remember.

Speaker 3 Yes, I do remember that. Thank you.

Speaker 3 Very, very happy

Speaker 3 to bring this up because you don't really get a chance, do you, to talk through your outfit, really?

Speaker 2 No, not really. It's not the start.

Speaker 3 So, me and the rest,

Speaker 3 so we had all basically,

Speaker 3 as you'll have seen, intermittently, sometimes together, sometimes individually, started to get annoyed at Greg and his scoring system and Alex and his sort of transient role of sometimes helping, sometimes hindering, sometimes egging Greg on, sometimes counter-arguing.

Speaker 3 Just have your role and stick to it. And neither of them can.

Speaker 3 So we decided to form a mutiny.

Speaker 3 I see. Yeah,

Speaker 3 so we're already in a WhatsApp group. It's called the Swashbucklers.

Speaker 3 And we decided we should stage a mutiny. And we had this idea that we were all like pirates.
And then we were like, let's actually do it. So we all sourced costumes,

Speaker 3 which obviously I was delighted about because I finally got to wear stuff that wasn't flammable

Speaker 3 or showed off me knickers.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, we just thought we'd all stage a mutiny. Greg had no idea.
So we walked out on the studio floor that day and his face was a picture. But then you watch the

Speaker 3 episode and we're just, I'm just dressed as Mr. Smee.

Speaker 2 And it's not really mentioned. Great outfits, though.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I've got sideburns. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you like that? I love it. I love it.

Speaker 3 I'm going to try and grow them out myself now.

Speaker 2 What a look. What a look that'll be for champion of champions.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Honestly, yeah. So that was our thinking.

Speaker 2 But your tube

Speaker 2 was your lovely amount of reveals in this, I thought. Saying it's a tuba pasta, you see Greg get really angry that you just put a tuba pasta in.

Speaker 3 Well, I'd learned, you see, from the others, like Sanjeev with his, you know,

Speaker 3 you lure them into thinking, oh, it's just me missing the egg. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah. There's a bigger thing here.
There's a bigger thing, yeah.

Speaker 2 But it was made to look like the tube in London. Yes.
And then it painted to look like the tube in London. Yep.
I loved it. Yep.
I thought it was quite, and this isn't an insult, remedial.

Speaker 2 Wow. Okay.
It felt quite... Why is that not an insult? But when you addressed as a pirate explaining how you created a pasta version of the tube,

Speaker 2 I thought, Maisie's ready for Blue Peter.

Speaker 3 Honestly.

Speaker 2 It felt like a kid's show.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Well, I just thought, thank God, all them things...

Speaker 3 when you were younger and you had to make art out of pasta finally paid off.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Honestly,

Speaker 3 it was as simple as just reading the prize task question.

Speaker 3 And I was like, tube, what do they mean, tube? It could be tube like the tube or tube like pasta. And that's where the little light bulb went.
And I thought.

Speaker 2 I was talking us through that. I don't think we would have ever guessed that.

Speaker 2 Just in case you maybe thought there was another way that I got the process there, because it's the same word, isn't it? Tube.

Speaker 3 How many minutes in are we?

Speaker 2 You should be timing it.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 do you love the tube in London? That is all right, innit? I bet you remember the first time you went on the tube in big London. Yeah,

Speaker 3 and because I took my mate took the mick out of me because I went to press the button to open the doors.

Speaker 2 That is confusing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Why are they there if you don't if they just open anyway?

Speaker 2 Oh my god, no one talks to you though, did they not?

Speaker 2 No one will talk to you. I don't talk.
I get on tube and I say, Morning, everyone. You get an out from these London folk.

Speaker 3 No comments. Sorry, get it it out of the system.

Speaker 2 Get it out of the system, Ed.

Speaker 2 But it was very good. It was fantastic.
Thank you. Really nice.
I liked it. And it was pure.
And it was, you know. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was good.

Speaker 3 I didn't expect it to beat Anya, I'll be honest.

Speaker 2 Well, Anya got the four points.

Speaker 3 That was so good.

Speaker 2 I feel like, yeah, I thought this would be a five-pointer

Speaker 2 as well.

Speaker 2 But it is, Greg gave her the four points because it's funny that Pasta beat Anya's DNA test that she's his daughter, which is the culmination to a brilliant running joke across the whole series.

Speaker 2 Final episode, huge response, brilliantly put together by Anya, but funny to only give it four.

Speaker 3 Pip to the post by a bit of pasta here together.

Speaker 2 Pip to the post with a bit of jibbasta. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry, Anya.

Speaker 2 No, you're not. No, I'm not.
No, I'm not. No, you're not at all.
It's not a big trophy. Because if Anya had

Speaker 2 got the five points here, we'd have had a different... We'd have a different winner.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 All because Greg thought it was funny to deny his own daughter.

Speaker 3 Well, honestly, thinking about that result of how I won, you just then look at the points awarded.

Speaker 2 It'll send you crazy that.

Speaker 3 This could have been so different. Yeah.
What if I hadn't painted my pasta?

Speaker 3 Do you know what I mean? What if I'd stopped at pasta?

Speaker 2 What if you hadn't painted your pasta?

Speaker 3 What if I hadn't painted my pasta? I asked the big questions of life.

Speaker 2 But Anya's was very, very good. I mean, it's a proper moment in the series, isn't it? To wrap all that up is a really, really good idea.

Speaker 2 Sanjeev gets the three points somehow yep for bringing in more piss absolutely outrageous the third time he's brought in a tube of his own piss yeah there'll be nothing left of him do you

Speaker 2 do you think he decided when when they send you all the prize task things through yeah do you think he decided in that moment right piss piss piss yes do you think yeah

Speaker 2 Or do you think throughout the series he was like, well, it is funny that I'm bringing it in twice. Maybe I'll bring it in again.

Speaker 3 I think he did the first one.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 and thought yeah that's great and then thought how far can I push that

Speaker 2 or I think he just sometimes didn't know what to bring in panicked and pissed into a little yeah pot pissed into it surely it's the same pot of piss he's not bringing in three separate ones well I don't know Phil Ellis necked it that's true actually

Speaker 2 I think he's

Speaker 2 I think he's providing fresh samples I think we need a DNA test on the piss to find out if it's actually Sanjeev's

Speaker 3 what do you think he's getting somebody else to do it like an Olympic doping person yeah I do yeah oh my god who who do you think Sanjeev Baskar is getting to

Speaker 3 provide a urine sample

Speaker 2 audience member? Production. Sample runner.

Speaker 3 Oh no. Oh there's going to be an article about him, isn't there, in like 20 years.
Sanjeev Baskar made me piss in a pot for Taskmaster.

Speaker 2 Oh no.

Speaker 3 It's always the lovely ones, isn't it? It's always the ones that are a bit too pure for TV.

Speaker 2 But three points for Sanjeev's piss. I mean, it is.
It's so funny to bring it in again.

Speaker 3 It's quite poetic to get three points for the third pot of of piss you've brought in. It is yeah.
You know a point for every piss.

Speaker 2 But it should be number one.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, number one.

Speaker 2 Reese also gets three points

Speaker 2 for the test tube. This is another just a weird thing from Rhys's house.
The umbilical cord of a werewolf. I want to go for dinner at Rhys's house, man.
I want to go and look at all his stuff.

Speaker 3 I feel like if you went for dinner at Rhys Shearsmith's house, there'd definitely be a butler. Yeah.
But like a butler that's been there 30 years.

Speaker 2 Spooky looking guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 And I, yeah i feel like reese and his family would greet you at the door like the adams family which you know to me yeah stood all in like a formation yeah yeah it'd be it'd be an amazing experience it would be but yeah the werewolf was the it was a it was classic shear smith wasn't it classic sheer smith uh but only gets the three points always gushing when two people draw on three points and then greg's like well there has to be a one point and also like Rhys has brought in something really abstract and it's at best matched a pot of urine.

Speaker 3 It's so unfair. And this is why we had the mutiny.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, I think the one point did deserve to go to Phil's Tube of Lube, to be honest.

Speaker 3 Yeah, though that is fair. Phil had that come in.

Speaker 2 But saying, oh, it's a tuba lube, I found it in the park. It's just everything Phil says builds on his personality.
It's Phil Ellis. Yeah, it's just so Phil Ellis.

Speaker 3 And also, knowing how the scores now went, I'm delighted he brought in something as ridiculous as a tube of lube.

Speaker 2 You can just imagine Phil grabbing around in a park, finding a tube of lube and putting it in his pocket. And going, yes, yes, brilliant, free lube.

Speaker 2 One point for Phil, three points for Rhys, three points for Sanjeev, four points for Anya, and five points for you, Maisie. A great start to this final episode.

Speaker 2 Before we go any further, I would like to say you shouldn't grow your hair long

Speaker 2 because there's some glamorous pirates in this row, but you look like a man who'd try and sell me meat out of a bag.

Speaker 2 What tube have you brought in? Is it a good tube? it's a good old tube of lube um

Speaker 2 i found it in the park

Speaker 2 i told you that's where we left it

Speaker 2 yeah this is why it's the best tube because you know what kind of situation you're in with lube if you're using it to get in something it's a good day

Speaker 2 if

Speaker 2 If you're using it to get out of something, it's a bad day.

Speaker 2 I think I've got everything I need to know.

Speaker 2 Very liquid-based episode. Yes.
Every task has a liquid-based episode. Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. Yeah.
I don't know if that was deliberate.

Speaker 3 I don't know. I don't know.
Maybe, and we were, and of course we were dressed as people at sea. That's a big old liquid, isn't it?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 The biggest one.

Speaker 2 They often say that about pirates, don't they? They're out there. Liquid riders.
Sailing the liquid. Yep.

Speaker 3 Sailing the seven liquids.

Speaker 3 Cruising on the juice.

Speaker 2 I'm going to start saying that when I go swimming now.

Speaker 2 Just going to go for a quick cruise on the juice.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, I always wear my flippers when I go.

Speaker 2 Yeah, of course you do. If you remember back to episode six, Maisie wears flippers when she goes in a swimming pool.
And I'm guessing, paddling pool. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Just because I know how to get in safely.

Speaker 2 Backwards.

Speaker 2 Task one, make exactly the same looking drinks as your teammates' drinks.

Speaker 2 Your entire team may only open two doors. Most similar looking drinks wins.
You have 15 minutes. Your time starts now.

Speaker 2 I think this is a great task.

Speaker 3 It's a great task. It's absolutely brilliant.
And what I loved about it the most as well is

Speaker 3 we thought we'd smashed it.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Then watched the VT back and thought, oh my God,

Speaker 3 we've

Speaker 2 completely cocked it all. There was a cooler way of doing it.

Speaker 3 There was a cooler, easier way of doing it. Only to then,

Speaker 3 thankfully, Sanjeev Bascott

Speaker 2 coming to our rescue.

Speaker 2 I mean, let's talk through your attempts first.

Speaker 2 I think you do do it quite well. You're communicating quite well.
Obviously, Rhys starts to get a bit angry. You're scared.

Speaker 2 My favourite bit of that was you looking down the camera basically and going, oh, I've set him off now.

Speaker 2 I've set him off.

Speaker 2 He's so angry that

Speaker 2 the things that you thought would make the drinks were not in the place where he looked. Yeah.
That's what made him angry.

Speaker 2 He opened the fridge and then started to get worried that the fridge was open. He shut the fridge.
That was a moment. Yep.
It's like, like, right, well, he has to open that again.

Speaker 2 I don't know whether that would have counted as a fridge.

Speaker 3 I know, that's what I was worried.

Speaker 3 I was like, please leave the fridge door open.

Speaker 2 And then opens

Speaker 2 the cupboard with the plates in. Yeah.
So that was useless. Yeah.
Yeah. And look, I've been in the Taskmaster kitchen a lot.
And I went and had another little look.

Speaker 2 All the stuff you need is in that big vertical drawer on rollers, which is next to the fridge. And I was speaking to Andy Devonshire.
Tons of stuff in there.

Speaker 2 And he said, that wouldn't have even counted as a door. That's a freebie.
No. Because it's a drawer.

Speaker 3 But do drawers not have doors?

Speaker 2 A drawer door? Would you open a drawer and say you've opened the door? Or would you say you've opened the drawer? I think the drawer is...

Speaker 2 Open that cupboard door different.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but if I was to tell somebody to go into that big, big rolling drawer, I'd say open that cupboard. I'd say open that cupboard, and you open a cupboard with its drawer door.
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 3 But you wouldn't say open door. I think we'd have to go to public vote on that.
We would. Or VAR or something.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 it didn't crop up. No.
I would have argued about that for hours.

Speaker 3 I think you can tell that Reese is a dad because his main concern was standing with the fridge door.

Speaker 2 But I kind of not a dad, but I worry about leaving the fridge open too long. I think the alarm in a fridge is the most I panic.
Yeah, yeah. Just doing stuff.
Sorry, I'll make a decision.

Speaker 2 Shut up. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I just, um, and I obviously I couldn't see what he was doing, so I just sort of was trying to tell him ingredients to look for that sort of corresponded with those colours. um

Speaker 3 and i appreciate that that not not all of them can be found in a in a fridge yeah um

Speaker 2 but i think you made do with what you had quite well yeah so the like the using the ketchup with a certain amount of water different dilution levels i thought that was good teriyaki as well oh my god yeah i said what you making the tea with teriyaki yeah and then the camera just showed the pot of tea pot of tea he did find it eventually blessed

Speaker 2 bless him but yeah i think he was panicking a little bit yeah but he did find one of them was teriyaki.

Speaker 3 Yeah. So he did well to find that.

Speaker 2 I thought, no, I thought you did a really good job. Yeah.
And the thing I'd say is, then you say for the green one.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I felt like Einstein when I came up with that.

Speaker 2 And you know what? You should have done. It was a very clever thing.
What? Why don't you do that for all of them?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Well, you saw how it went after that green one, though. I don't think I could have stomached it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, or Maisie. Yeah.
You didn't need to drink it.

Speaker 3 Or do you think just

Speaker 2 tip it away? Tip it away. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Doesn't have to go in there, does it?

Speaker 2 No. Go anywhere in the world.
Go anywhere. Really? Just in that room.
You just do it in the room, yeah. Just pour it away.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay. So that would have worked as well.
But I think you found it slightly too late, and you had recreated those other drinks quite well, so it didn't matter. Yeah.
And the green one was the issue.

Speaker 3 I can't believe that my takeaway of my winning episode is you don't have to put it in your mouth.

Speaker 2 It's a good lesson for life. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I could have just chucked them all out the window. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Without a no, don't open. You just do championship.
No, don't open the door, though.

Speaker 3 Oh, no, yeah, then I've opened the window.

Speaker 2 Just tip it on the carpet. It doesn't matter, does it?

Speaker 3 Oh, no, I couldn't have done that.

Speaker 2 I couldn't have done that. I would have done that.
Or make Alex drink them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, that would have been good. Maybe.

Speaker 2 You still did very well. Look, you've got the five points, but like you say, thanks to Sanjeev.

Speaker 3 Only due to Sanjeev opening a door.

Speaker 2 They come up with this. I mean, Phil comes up with this brilliant system.
Yeah. The two doors you open are the doors to the rooms.
Yep.

Speaker 2 Bring the drinks over half in each.

Speaker 3 He did attempt to open the door whilst holding a full tray of seven drinks.

Speaker 2 Yes, that was mad, but you know, there's only so much clever you can get out of your system in one day, right? So he'd come up with that idea and then nearly completely bungled it.

Speaker 3 Can you imagine what Anya and Sanjeev's reaction would have been if they just heard a crash and then felt, oh no.

Speaker 2 But then I guess they could have just dropped theirs. Yeah, that's true.
And it would have looked the same. That's true.

Speaker 2 But very, very funny that, and this is a great, one of the great Taskmaster reveals, of course. They've done this amazing idea.
It's perfect. They're just on that level of smugness.

Speaker 2 Then we see Sanjeev.

Speaker 3 And it's the most Sanjeev thing to do, isn't it? As well, be like, we've finished early. I'll do some washing up and make everyone a brew.

Speaker 2 Looks in the door.

Speaker 2 Oh, dear, Sanjeev.

Speaker 2 Sanjeev says he couldn't give a shit.

Speaker 3 I mean, I did love that. I did love that of like Anya being absolutely heartbroken.
Phil, just,

Speaker 3 Phil seemed to just be pure relief that it wasn't him

Speaker 2 that had let them down. I think Phil was still riding high on the having the idea.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And he didn't ruin the idea. He came up with the idea and it was Sanjeev who scored.
He was loving it.

Speaker 3 But you know, when Alex went, well, let's just have a look, shall we? Phil was like, oh, no, oh, no, what have I done? Yeah, yeah, yeah. As I think everybody else was.

Speaker 2 But yeah, amazing, absolutely amazing. But I think still, you've got to credit Phil with that idea.
It was very, very good. Yeah, good on him.

Speaker 2 But it was nought points for Anya, Phil and Sanjeev, and five points for you and Reese.

Speaker 3 I did think that's harsh.

Speaker 3 All three of them were docked, not just Sanjeev.

Speaker 2 No, that's a team task. Yeah, I know, but.
You can't dock the person who made the mistake, because that's the team.

Speaker 2 You live and die with your team, right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Imagine if...

Speaker 2 What would you do if you and Rhys, you'd made a mistake?

Speaker 3 Oh, I don't think I'd have lived to see the day.

Speaker 2 That's a good point. You wouldn't have been in the studio.
No.

Speaker 3 No. Rhys would have had me.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. But no, he's not the angry one, remember.

Speaker 3 I'd be up in his.

Speaker 3 I'd just be there in his Museum of Curiosities.

Speaker 3 This is Maisie Adams. She cocked up on a task.

Speaker 2 Lovely.

Speaker 2 And by the end of the task, it was just a lovely family dynamic. Dad did the washing up while the two kids talked about we and Pooh.

Speaker 3 I really feel like you're the father who left me and Sanjeev is the father who raised me.

Speaker 3 Really good.

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Speaker 2 Task two, drink almost all the apple juice. You must not touch the cup and the cup must not move.
Fastest wins. Your time starts now.

Speaker 2 The Pythagoras Cup.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, I don't think I know that.

Speaker 3 Immediately I knew how some people knew what that was.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Well,

Speaker 2 Rhys and Sanjeev both seem to be.

Speaker 3 When did they learn about Pythagoras's cup?

Speaker 2 Well, maybe the curriculum must have changed, I think.

Speaker 3 Like, but

Speaker 3 when is that useful for? I still don't know when the theorem's useful for, but I remember learning about it. Yeah.
It's triangles, isn't it? But that one, well, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 It's triangles. It's broadly triangles.
Something about it.

Speaker 3 But the theorem, what's it called,

Speaker 2 Pythagoras's

Speaker 2 cup? How is cup the word you didn't remember, though?

Speaker 2 Who are you?

Speaker 3 Pythagoras's cup. Yeah.
Like, what's that used in?

Speaker 2 No, I'd never heard of Pythagoras' cup, but I think Reese and Sanjeev are a bit older. Maybe back then, Pythagoras' cups were in.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they're like, you know, we've got Stanley Cups. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. That was the thing.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 Has she got the new Pythagoras Cup?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, they had all the different designs on there and stuff.

Speaker 3 When they were going to drive in movie theatres. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Watching the moon landing.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Or they went and see the films and the train was coming towards the camera and they all all ducked out the way to do it.

Speaker 3 Taking your Pythagoras cup to the street party.

Speaker 2 Yeah, with your sweetheart.

Speaker 2 Maybe that was it. But they seem to handled it very well.
They knew exactly what was going to happen. Yeah.
Pouring water into the cup.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But I think Rhys was trying to pour water into the cup and then drink it when it came to the top, but obviously it all just poured out the bottom. Yes.

Speaker 2 But Sanjeev poured water in and got a mug underneath it.

Speaker 3 He knew exactly what was happening. Straight in.

Speaker 3 Straight in. I was watching that thinking, like,

Speaker 3 he's done this before. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's walked into a lab before, read a piece of paper,

Speaker 3 saying to do that exactly. He looked like he'd done several run-throughs.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Maybe

Speaker 2 he had some sort of time machine situation. Yeah.
But he could only go forward and look at one task. Just one task.
Yeah, just that one. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's why when he's like, couldn't give a shit, mate, because he knows what's coming up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he knows what's coming up. Yeah, it's my time machine one next time.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 45 seconds he did it in.

Speaker 3 Yeah, amazing. Really, really good.
He did it like he'd invented the task. Yeah.

Speaker 2 This is not the Sanjeev we saw in episode one, is it? No, no. Being able to do that,

Speaker 2 a lot of his bad stuff was grouped into the first few episodes.

Speaker 3 There's a bit of me that thinks he used this method to fill up the vials of urine.

Speaker 2 Maybe. Do you know what I mean? Maybe he's got a

Speaker 2 Pythagoras penis.

Speaker 2 He has a sip of water and it immediately displaces.

Speaker 2 I can't.

Speaker 3 I can't think about Sanjeev's willy.

Speaker 2 No, fair enough. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I can't do it.

Speaker 2 I can't do it.

Speaker 3 But you are, aren't you? No, he's a Kendall to me.

Speaker 3 None of them.

Speaker 2 None of them. Can't think about any of.
That's a good question we should start asking. What do you think the other contestants' genitals look like?

Speaker 3 Have you heard the way Anya says vagina?

Speaker 2 Yeah, vagina.

Speaker 3 I don't think she's confident of what she's got going on down there.

Speaker 2 You can't remember what your own look like.

Speaker 2 Oh, hello. Oh, hello.
That's not fun. I forgot that.
That wasn't there yesterday.

Speaker 2 In the shower.

Speaker 2 Oh! Oh! Somebody else calling your husband's room.

Speaker 3 What's this here?

Speaker 2 What's this?

Speaker 2 You put that there.

Speaker 2 Right. I want proof that that was there yesterday.
You got any videos or what?

Speaker 2 Stick your Mount Roshmore down there and have a look.

Speaker 2 Oh, God.

Speaker 3 That's the clip, isn't it? That's the clip.

Speaker 2 Quite a long clip.

Speaker 2 You need quite a lot of explanation, really, don't you? Yeah.

Speaker 2 But yes, they did very well.

Speaker 2 Phil,

Speaker 2 I don't know how Phil took 14 minutes, 55 seconds to do this.

Speaker 3 But if someone was going to take that long, it would be Philip.

Speaker 2 It would absolutely be Phil because he's a lot of these tasks.

Speaker 2 Phil does tasks well, but then you find out he took ages because he's clearly like vamping, chatting to Alex, asking loads of questions, doing a little dance. He's a showman.

Speaker 3 That's against the first thing he was meant to do.

Speaker 2 Exactly, yeah. He's a total showman for Alice.
This is when we find out he doesn't have a sense of smell because he got hit by a football when he was nine. Another wonderful thing to ask.

Speaker 3 How did that only come up then? I know. I know.
And also, he says it the same way we all say really like

Speaker 2 standard milestones of life.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, when you get hit by a football when you're nine, you lose your sense of smell forever.

Speaker 2 So everyone, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 I thought I would have come up in that task where you had to, you know, listen or put your nose through or put your tongue through.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you'd think that would come up. Well, I won't go with smell because I can't.

Speaker 2 Because I was hit in the face with a football when I was nine. Yeah.
Dear me. But no.

Speaker 3 No, watching Phil is just like watching short films of farces all the time, isn't it?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like those vaudevillian ones.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I love. I mean, he's a joyful.

Speaker 2 He's a joy.

Speaker 2 Comes back into the room with a, like, it's like a hamster fister. He said it's the sort of thing you use to give a cow a child.

Speaker 3 Which, again,

Speaker 3 the back story there. Yeah.
I don't think we need to unpack.

Speaker 2 No, we don't.

Speaker 2 And just uses the straw to drink it through. Eventually gets it, basically, but it takes him 14 minutes, 55 seconds somehow.

Speaker 2 You and Anya basically do something similar. You find the straw under the table.
Yeah. And rather than using the water displacement theory, you both

Speaker 2 neck it. Suck on the straw, which starts the stream.

Speaker 3 We look like the hamsters that

Speaker 3 that hamster thing was for.

Speaker 2 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 2 Anya makes the very good point that it looks like a litter tray.

Speaker 2 Fair. Yeah.
Fair. Again, so much piss in this episode.
Yes, so much.

Speaker 3 What I didn't like is it ended up in my ear.

Speaker 2 I didn't like that. I've got an apple in my ear.

Speaker 3 I just, I didn't enjoy that. I didn't enjoy that.
And especially now that clip has made it into the opening credits, just

Speaker 3 jimmying it without context that just looks like i've got permanently waxy ears all the time

Speaker 3 absolute nuggets galore in there do you know what i mean

Speaker 2 is it something you suffer with no no i've got very very clean ears clean ears yeah well wax isn't dirt is it well no but it's not nice when you see somebody and it's you know no got golden grahams in there but you know I don't have golden grahams or anything, but you know, sometimes you have a dig around, but you shouldn't really do that.

Speaker 2 You shouldn't dig. You shouldn't.

Speaker 2 Nothing smaller than your finger should go in your hand. No.

Speaker 3 No, we've always said that. Yeah.
Yep. No.
You shouldn't dig or prod. Just

Speaker 3 like

Speaker 2 suck or

Speaker 3 suck or blow. Like a syringe thing.
You know, where they squirt. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Suck or squirt. Suck, blow, or squirt.

Speaker 2 Suck, blow, or squirt. Yeah.
Let's move on. Okay.

Speaker 2 Yes, Anya does a very good job, spills it in the tray, as as do you, but Anya does it slightly quicker.

Speaker 3 By, what was it? About two seconds.

Speaker 2 No, it was about 30. Oh.

Speaker 2 Really angry. You should know not to trust your memory.

Speaker 2 Really so angry.

Speaker 3 Oh, no.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Rhys does it quicker than you.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I remember hearing my time and thinking, brilliant. Yeah.
And then

Speaker 2 three seconds quicker than you.

Speaker 2 That's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Phil on one point, of course. You on two points, Maisie.
Reese on three points. Four points for Anya.
And of course, a well-deserved five points for Sanji. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 At some point, he turned into the Fonzi hitting a jukebox.

Speaker 2 Absolutely nailed it.

Speaker 2 Is that almost all? It's almost all.

Speaker 2 Do you know what just happened?

Speaker 2 It's Bernoulli's theorem. It's about displacement.
And water pressure. Yeah.
How much funny Bernoulli? However you like. That's exactly how it's sounds.
Benui's theorem.

Speaker 2 Can I have a wee now? Yeah. No, I need one to.
Excellent.

Speaker 2 Counts, countless television appearances. What a career.
And now this.

Speaker 2 Doctor displacement.

Speaker 2 That was textbooks. Sanjeev.
was completely correct. It is the Bernoulli principle.
I'd never heard of it. He had.

Speaker 2 You must be more excited about this victory than... No, I don't know if I've opened the bloody cupboard door yet.

Speaker 2 I'll tell you now, you're safe. Have I?

Speaker 2 Task three.

Speaker 2 It's our old friend squirt. Make water squirt it out of you in a surprising way.
In 15 minutes, Alex will guess whence the water will squirt.

Speaker 2 For every incorrect guess, you may squirt him for one second at the end of the task. Longest time squirting Alex wins.
I really like this.

Speaker 2 I think it's a lovely way to end because there was that beautiful compilation to all of that music of Alex getting squirted.

Speaker 3 Yep, it was beautiful.

Speaker 2 And I think everyone had a sort of new inventive way of

Speaker 2 leading Alex down the garden path with their squirting arms.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's what was the biggest joy of this.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 First of all, great to have a task that includes the word went. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Really enjoyed that.

Speaker 3 Finally felt like I was on highbrow telly.

Speaker 2 I've never heard went used without from.

Speaker 2 What? From whence. From whence.
From whence. So

Speaker 2 I would hear like from whence he came or from.

Speaker 3 When are you hearing that?

Speaker 2 Like when Wentz is used in other

Speaker 2 forms of when have you heard somebody say from whence he came? I'm pretty highbrow maisie. I go to the theatre and stuff.
Right.

Speaker 2 And where do I go?

Speaker 3 Doubt minds.

Speaker 2 Well, you're in Big Dip anyway, aren't you?

Speaker 3 Okay, so Wentz featured in the task.

Speaker 2 Is there a theatre in The Dip?

Speaker 2 I just want to know more about the dip.

Speaker 3 I think it's we don't have a theatre in

Speaker 2 panels of the dip.

Speaker 3 We've got a memorial hall.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 What's it in memorial to?

Speaker 3 The people.

Speaker 2 The people? Like,

Speaker 2 I don't know. Memories.

Speaker 2 Memories? Yeah.

Speaker 2 People.

Speaker 2 What's a memorial hall?

Speaker 2 That's what it's for. Memor, mem, mem, memorise.
Like remember. Memorising?

Speaker 3 Remembering? Remembering people.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 3 They do the pantomime though.

Speaker 2 Do you think you don't have a memory now because

Speaker 2 you've left the memorial hall in panel?

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 3 you go in.

Speaker 2 It's in memem. It's in memorial.

Speaker 3 It's in memoriam of people and things, but there is a theatre.

Speaker 2 He plans things.

Speaker 3 They do a panto there.

Speaker 2 They do a panto there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, guess when it is?

Speaker 2 Christmas? February.

Speaker 2 The last one?

Speaker 2 The last one was Shrek. Shrek?

Speaker 2 In February?

Speaker 2 Jebru? It's always in February, the pants. Why? Don't know.

Speaker 3 Must be more expensive at Christmas.

Speaker 2 How?

Speaker 2 Don't know. What's on at Christmas? Do they have anything on at Christmas? No.
No.

Speaker 2 No, I think just everyone's at home. Yeah.
Yeah, but in February, you can go and watch the Shrek pants. Well, we'll go watch Shrek today, I think.

Speaker 2 February. Happy Chinese New Year.

Speaker 2 Time to go watch Shrek. Yep.
There you are.

Speaker 2 Oh, dear God.

Speaker 2 You all came up with great ideas. Let's talk about yours, Maisie.
You covered in colourful tubes.

Speaker 2 She's got the giggles now. She's gone.
Sorry, I'm still thinking about the pantomime. Did you go and see Shrek? Yeah, it was really good.
Was it?

Speaker 3 Yeah, the lady that used to run my brownies was Fiona.

Speaker 2 It was really good. Yeah.
Who was Shrek?

Speaker 3 I didn't know him. I didn't know him, but it was good.
he was really good. Yeah, yeah, costumes were a bit questionable, but it was all right.

Speaker 2 What was Shrek's costume? He just painted himself green, yeah, more a waistcoat, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 But I wouldn't say he was he hadn't got into character, you know, there was no like padding or anything, he weren't Scottish, no, no,

Speaker 2 what he didn't put a Scottish accent on, no, he just had his normal accent.

Speaker 3 It was just get out of my swamp, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Did did they change swamp to dip?

Speaker 3 No, no, no, the dip is nice, it's a nice place.

Speaker 2 Get out of my swamp,

Speaker 3 anyway. What's the next? What are we talking about?

Speaker 2 August like onions. Do they do songs and stuff?

Speaker 3 Yeah, they did like something with a live back, you know, like the accidentally in love and stuff.

Speaker 2 That's one I remember. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Anyway.

Speaker 2 Yes, and you have water guns all over your suit.

Speaker 2 I can't remember what we're talking about. Okay, let's see if we can.

Speaker 3 Oh, went switch working.

Speaker 2 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 3 Yes, I had water guns all over and I discovered that.

Speaker 2 So with your one,

Speaker 2 everyone else had sort of tubes, so there was like a water source.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, it was always going to squirt out of there. But with your one, it was a decision

Speaker 2 of where you were going to squirt from. Yes.
So, you could have lied. You could have kept lying, couldn't you?

Speaker 2 Because you could have changed it every time, because you could have squirted him from any of those things.

Speaker 3 Could have just kept it moving.

Speaker 2 I'm glad you didn't, because that's against the spirit, I think.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But that is wonderful.

Speaker 3 That just dawned on me.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I could have just, but I'd have had to keep keep track of where he ticked me.

Speaker 2 There's no chance you would have kept track of it. No.
When he goes around the back

Speaker 2 and you start, you look right down the camera, like, oh, God, here we go. Yeah.
But you are so delighted that you're going to squirt him from your arse.

Speaker 3 I'm so excited to do it. Yeah.
And then when he said, Are you going to squirt me from your arse? I just thought brilliant. Yeah.
That's all I wanted.

Speaker 3 I wanted Alex to have the humiliating question of asking that.

Speaker 2 Are you going to squirt me from your arms? Are you going to squirt me from your arse? Fantastic, really. Perfect.

Speaker 2 But also, I think I would have gone for Arshaw Crotch because I'd be like, that's the funniest thing.

Speaker 3 You're not getting up in all of that gear to then squirting like that, are you?

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, thank you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, straight out the ass.
Yes, please.

Speaker 2 Anya has tubes, many tubes, I'd say, but probably not nowhere near as many as everyone else's, which is what there weren't enough red herrings.

Speaker 2 It was.

Speaker 3 But it was a good vision.

Speaker 2 It was a good vision. Yeah.
Yeah, it was a good vision.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 it's the back of the head. So what she was hoping for was that Alex would never really find it.

Speaker 1 Never find it.

Speaker 3 She utilised big hair.

Speaker 2 Yeah, she did, yeah.

Speaker 2 But he found it.

Speaker 3 He had a few wrong guesses, though.

Speaker 2 He did. I mean, I think he guessed every other tube, really.
Yeah. The chest tube, et cetera.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Right trouser leg and finds the one hidden on the back of her head. But it's only eight.
She needed more decoys. She needed more decoys.
Exactly what I was thinking, yes.

Speaker 2 Reese creates another character. Incredible.
Yeah, the nose is just amazing.

Speaker 2 And the hose is obviously going around the length of the dome and up his back.

Speaker 2 It's all a red herring, pretty much. And then he finally finds...
Where is he squirting from? His foot, isn't it?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think Rhys just like

Speaker 3 every task is like an opportunity for him to create a new incredible character.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3 Or costume or world even.

Speaker 3 Like he'll never just

Speaker 3 use some bits and bobs and make it a bit, you know, try and make something there from it. He creates a whole world.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's so... Yeah, this.
So So even when it goes wrong, it's a delight to watch.

Speaker 2 Yeah, really, really, really good.

Speaker 2 And he's got such a

Speaker 2 vision, it is very singular, and he has such a style.

Speaker 2 This fits into it perfectly. It was good.

Speaker 2 14 wrong guesses, but Alex eventually guesses the foot.

Speaker 2 Phil uses the jacket, which is knocking around the house, which was used for a task previously.

Speaker 2 A previous series where they had to find the rockets around the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And look for them in there.

Speaker 3 It's the only, but again, Phil Ellis is the only person I know who can put that jacket on and you think that's that he'll have that at home.

Speaker 2 He'll own that jacket. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. You can imagine Phil romping around a market just wearing that jacket, you know.

Speaker 3 Going, are you going to use that lube?

Speaker 3 Can I have it?

Speaker 2 Can I put it in one of my pockets? Yeah. I'm just doing that voice for everyone now.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 Have you caught that me and Phil are different people?

Speaker 2 Yes, I know you're different people,

Speaker 2 but you have the same voice

Speaker 2 because you're not from London.

Speaker 3 Phil's playing Shrek in this year's match.

Speaker 2 I would pay £1,000 to watch that.

Speaker 2 To watch Phil play Shrek in the dip. Yeah, that would be amazing.
I would love it in February. Oh, my God.
And I want him to have one rehearsal just before the show. That's all I want.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But very good. And it has a good visual impact to all of those hoses.
So Alex has to guess 45 times before he gets to the bottom. It was used well.
Yeah, it was used very well. Very, very well.

Speaker 2 Really good.

Speaker 2 You did a good job as well. It was 21 wrong guesses.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think it went as well as it could have.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but I think you didn't really mind about how many wrong guesses. You just, if anything, you were like, I was excited for him to get to guess quicker because I want to spray you up my ass.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 2 Sanjeev also does a very good job. 29 wrong guesses, meaning he has 29 seconds of spray time.
I love

Speaker 2 his character. The the tape over the mouth.
No idea why.

Speaker 2 No idea why there's tape over the mouth. Huge black cloak.

Speaker 3 This is like a reoccurring theme with Sanjeev. You watch him do a task and you think, what service is that?

Speaker 3 What purpose is that serving? That bit there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 And how did you get there? What's the thought process between the top hat and the tape over the mouth?

Speaker 3 What goal is that achieving?

Speaker 3 But then you watch how it goes and you think, fair enough.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Fair enough.
Well done.

Speaker 2 He did do very, very well. He did really well.
I think all of that other stuff was so confusing that it probably stopped Alex guessing right quickly. Yep.

Speaker 2 Obviously, wearing the big Greg's face under his cloak as well with the water balloons.

Speaker 2 But yes, 29 wrong guesses from Alex, meaning that, you know, altogether we get many, many seconds of Alex being sprayed. And it just feels like a lovely way to end the scene.

Speaker 3 It's beautiful to watch. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And Phil gets the five points. Sanjeev gets the four points.
You get the three points, Maisie. Two points for Rhys and one point for Anya.
Right shoulder. Wrong shoulder, baby.
Oh, this one.

Speaker 2 That's another guess. I'm just gonna check the button.

Speaker 2 Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
Oh, dear. I'd like to put my hand in there.
I'd like you to. Right wrist.
No. Left wrist.
No. Can I have a del? It's a welcome mat, crack on.

Speaker 2 I just want to see if it's going up or down.

Speaker 2 I don't know if you're low. That was my penis.

Speaker 2 Right elbow. No.
Left elbow. No.

Speaker 3 Racking them seconds up, Alex.

Speaker 2 25, 39, 40, 41, 28, 29. I mean, I can see that some of these aren't going anywhere.
30, 31, 32, 33, 34. Quick trip round the back.

Speaker 2 Hi.

Speaker 2 Maisie, are you going to squirt me out of your ass? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Let's talk about the studio task. Respond to the taskmaster correctly.
When he says wibble, you say bibble.

Speaker 2 When he says bibble, bibble you say bam when he says bam you say wibble bibble bam if you did or uh you are eliminated last player standing wins i i have thought about this task so many times since playing yeah just

Speaker 3 like it because in its in its essence it's not hard no but it's just the speed it's the speed doing it like that's pressure in the studio pressure in the studio from a viewer perspective i think you sit there and go well that's easy yeah But really, that is a lot.

Speaker 2 I think I would crumble.

Speaker 3 And also, I mean, let's be honest, anybody who's listening to the Taskmaster podcast is a big fan of Taskmaster. You'd hope so.
You'd hope so. The

Speaker 3 audience in the studio are really big Taskmaster fans. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it adds a bit of pressure there. It's the live task that everybody's excited to see when they come to see it.

Speaker 3 And there's that sort of simmering of giggling happening that you're trying not to have put you off.

Speaker 2 And you can't say shut up.

Speaker 3 No, you can't say shut up.

Speaker 2 To the audience. No.
Although I'm sure you came close many times. I did, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 but it's it's a yeah, I kept thinking about this because I thought, I've got this, no problem. Yeah, no problem, I've got this.

Speaker 3 And I thought, respectfully, love him to pieces, but I thought Phil would be rubbish at it. I did.
I think Phil would be the sort of people, sort of person that would go, what did you say? Which one?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I know what you mean, but he was smashing at it. He was so good.
Yeah, I was surprised by that as well.

Speaker 3 He was like locked in, wasn't he?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, he got five points in the last two tasks of the episode. Up until that point, he'd only got two points.

Speaker 3 There's a part of me that after that game thought he'll only say wibble bibble or wibble bibble from wibble bam or wibble, oh, whatever they were.

Speaker 3 But there's a part of me that still thinks that Phil Ellis, if I went and asked him to go for a pipe now, he'd walk into the pub and go, wibble, bibble.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he knows. He's still playing.
He's still in his head. It's still locked in.

Speaker 2 But yeah, like we say, five points for Phil, four points for Sanjeev, three points for Rhys, two points for you, Maisie, and one point for Anya.

Speaker 3 Not a good day for the girls.

Speaker 2 No, wenches on the benches.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Episode. Meaning, the episode was won by you, Macy.
17 points. Reese and Sanjeev on 16.
Phil on 12 and a low scoring episode of 10 for Anya.

Speaker 2 Meaning, we are in a situation that we've never been in in Taskmaster before. Three people at the top on the same points, 151 points.
You, Anya, and Phil.

Speaker 2 And I think, even when we got to that, I was like, I didn't know this.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 2 This was in the offing.

Speaker 3 That's crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, Reese and Sanjeev, 1-4-8 for Reese. He's not far off.
He's three points off and 1-4-3 for Sanji.

Speaker 3 I also love, though, that when you read out the numbers of the people I'll be playing in Champion of Champions, 1-5-1's quite low. It's only 100%.
But that was the highest one for all of us.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
That's the peak. Meaning, three-way tiebreak.
What a way to end the whole series. Ten weeks of television.

Speaker 2 And it's how many letter T's are there in the portrait of Alex and Greg in the living room.

Speaker 3 It's basically back to guess a number.

Speaker 2 But, Maisie, what an amazing

Speaker 2 comeback for you whose memory has been made fun of throughout the whole series that you get the hardest memory question correctly. And yes, it's a total guess.

Speaker 3 Yeah, total out of it.

Speaker 2 I think we could frame this as you've hustled the hell out of everyone, pretending that you don't remember anything.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's all been a big facade. I've actually got like photographic memory.

Speaker 2 I'm just clicking everything, right? Not photography. You said five, but it's

Speaker 2 yeah, you got your one out.

Speaker 2 What was the number? Four. Four.
Don't remember it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, five. You guessed five.
So very, very close. Phil guesses ten and Anya guesses sixteen.
Yeah. And that's it.
How was the mood afterwards when it all came down to that?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think we were all a bit like, really? This is how it's this is how it's ended? Guessing a. Because it sort of had a, oh, we've not had this before.
I guess just

Speaker 3 try and guess how many T's were in the room.

Speaker 2 Because I guess there's no... They can't go to a pre-recorded tiebreaker.
What can they do? Because then it they're selecting the winner. Yep.

Speaker 2 So it has to be in the studio and it has to be a guessing game. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 the only ones I'd obliterated out of my,

Speaker 3 I don't mean obliterated, I mean eliminated. Yeah.
Were 63.

Speaker 2 I think with your memory, it's obliterated. Yeah, it's obliterated.

Speaker 3 63, because that's everywhere.

Speaker 2 That's everywhere, and that was the age. Too obvious.
That was the age of Quentin, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 Yep, too obvious. And then

Speaker 3 five, because that's how many of the contestants there are, I thought, well, it's not five or sixty-three.

Speaker 2 Hang on. So you were like, it's not going to be five because that's how many contestants there are.
Yeah. But you guessed guessed five.

Speaker 2 You just, I've just told you that.

Speaker 2 Maybe that was why I guess five. You guessed five because that's...
Because there was five contestants. That's also insane, Maisie.
Yeah. To be like, there must be five T's.
I forgot, yeah.

Speaker 2 Because the T's represent the contestants.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That'll be it.

Speaker 3 Just cut that out and say

Speaker 3 that's why I did five because there was five contestants.

Speaker 2 There is not a chance in hell we're cutting that out.

Speaker 2 What we're cutting out is all of the chat about the tasks and stuff.

Speaker 2 All we're leaving in is the stuff about the Shrek pantomime and you saying you obliterated five.

Speaker 2 So I knew it wasn't five or sixty. Yeah, I knew it wasn't five or sixty-three, so I guessed five.

Speaker 3 I'm actually concerned.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 we're taking you straight to a doctor.

Speaker 3 Oh, God.

Speaker 2 Maisie is also injured, by the way, for people listening. Yeah.
Yeah, because

Speaker 2 we did a wrestling match, not against each other, but we were at the same wrestling event. Oh, God.

Speaker 3 So now I'm frail and forgetful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm like Benjamin Button. I'm aging backwards.

Speaker 2 Bad spine, bad brain.

Speaker 3 Can't wait for champion of champions.

Speaker 3 It's going up to all of them. Hello, we've not met, have we?

Speaker 3 What's John, is it?

Speaker 2 John Robbins. Oh, very nice.
Yes.

Speaker 3 yes excuse do you live here is this your place

Speaker 2 what's your what's your name oh Sam Campbell is it yeah would you push me wheelchair up the ramp

Speaker 2 I've got a bad spine

Speaker 2 oh god what are you doing in February

Speaker 2 they're doing Madagascar in panel

Speaker 2 Maisie thank you very much for coming back on the Taskmaster podcast it's been a joy yeah has it yeah Oh, I've loved every second of it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I can't remember any of it.

Speaker 2 We'll ask you to rate your experience on the podcast. Last time you gave us one.

Speaker 3 Do you know what? This one five because I won.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Great.
Yeah, there you go. Five.
Happy with that. Well, congratulations and good luck on champion of champions.

Speaker 2 Thanks. Cheers, Maisie.
Cheers.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much to Maisie for coming back on the pod.

Speaker 2 Now, an apology to Maisie. It's not necessarily my apology to make.
I'm, you know, I'm not taking full responsibility for this.

Speaker 2 But there was some chat at the beginning of the episode there about how, you know, Maisie's memory has not been great this series.

Speaker 2 There was the snakes and ladders, sorry, not snakes and ladders, whatever they decided to call it, worms and shoots or whatever,

Speaker 2 where she couldn't remember making the game.

Speaker 2 And we bullied her a little bit in this episode. I'll call it bullying because she didn't remember the big statue of Greg that's in the garden.

Speaker 2 And Andy Devonshire, who is never off sight of the the Taskmaster house, he is one of the geniuses behind the look of Taskmaster, behind Taskmaster itself.

Speaker 2 You know, he said that that statue was there for her whole series, and how could she not have seen it? And we all laughed at Maisie. Ha ha ha.

Speaker 2 After we finished recording this episode, Andy came to us grovelling. He was bowed at the hip to Maisie on the floor, scrabbling around in the mud, and said, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 It wasn't here when you filmed your series. It was over at the Taskmaster live experience.
So Maisie was correct. Just this once, Maisie can rely on her memory.
Maybe all is not lost.

Speaker 2 And of course all is not lost. All is one.
She's the champion.

Speaker 2 But we move on quickly. We move on quickly in the world of Taskmaster.
The New Year's treat is coming. They announced the lineup after episode 10.

Speaker 2 If you didn't catch it, if you managed to just skip, if you're the sort of person who would have left a Marvel film before the end of the credits, here's who is on it.

Speaker 2 The lineup is Sam Ryder, Susie Dent, Big Zoo, Jill Scott, and Rose Ailing Ellis. What an incredible lineup.
And it's two episodes this year. It's two episodes.

Speaker 2 So that will be going out over the festive period, of course. And I dare say there'll be a couple of poddies for it as well.

Speaker 2 But for now, thank you very much for listening to the Taskmaster podcast for series 20. We'll be back before you know it for New Year's treat chat.
Bye-bye.

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