Taskmaster 3x2

1. Hello there. I'm Greg Davies and this is Taskmaster.

2. Five of the nation's most competitive comedians

3. are going head to head in hope of winning my head

4. in all its golden glory.

5. Oooh!

6. Yes, at the end of all five episodes,

7. one of them will be awarded the Taskmaster trophy

8. and that person's career will at last take off.

9. Let's meet our contestants.

10. They are Al Murray,

11. Dave Gorman,

12. Paul Chowdhry,

13. Rob Beckett

14. and Sara Pascoe.

15. And next to me on his slightly smaller throne

16. is Alex Horne, but...

17. Who is Alex Horne?

18. Well, you've given me some notes and according to your notes

19. that you've written, I'm your official secretary.

20. I have some skills and an equal number of weaknesses.

21. For example, I steal things.

22. So, that's my resume that you wrote.

23. Oh, that's true, isn't it?

24. Have you ever stolen anything? Yes.

25. What? I've stolen a car.

26. No, in real life.

27. I stole a car.

28. Yeah, last year. Oh, recently, as well. Yeah.

29. So it wasn't like childish hijinks?

30. No, it was unlocked and the keys were in the ignition

31. and I stole a car.

32. On with the show.

33. Today's prize category.

34. What have these people brought in for me?

35. OK, it's quite a niche one, this time.

36. The five rivals have been asked to bring in the heaviest item

37. that can fit in a shoebox.

38. OK, so whoever brings in the heaviest item

39. that can fit in a shoebox,

40. they'll win the first maximum points of the show.

41. Whoever wins the episode will win five shoeboxes full of heavy items.

42. All to play for. Where to start?

43. Paul. Hello. How are you doing, man?

44. I'm doing better now.

45. What heavy item did you bring and why am I going to give you

46. all the points for it? Because it's heavy.

47. Really? What is it?

48. Melon, innit.

49. A lot of melon. It is a lot of melon.

50. It's a watermelon.

51. Is melon something traditionally associated with heavy weight?

52. I think...

53. I think of words that I would pop before weight to emphasise...

54. I just love melons. .. the heaviness. I'd say lead, maybe.

55. Lead. Melon.

56. Melon.

57. Who should we have a look at next? Dave.

58. Yeah, I brought a lump of marble that I dug out of my garden.

59. GREG WHISTLES That looks heavy.

60. You've got a garden full of marble, yeah?

61. We had a garden that was massively overgrown when we moved in

62. and we had to clear it all.

63. And I think it was a collapsed bird table or something.

64. It would have been nice if you could have taken the time

65. to scrub that bird shit off it.

66. Al, what did Al bring us?

67. I brought Alan Bullock's classic history

68. Hitler and Stalin - Parallel Lives.

69. Because that is really, really heavy.

70. Look at it there.

71. Wow. It's pretty offensive,

72. but why have you censored out the shoebox instead?

73. The shoebox has got its own Hitler moustache.

74. Suddenly, melon seems fine, doesn't it?

75. Sara, what did you bring in?

76. I have brought a poisonous snake.

77. It's very heavy, so the lid is shut.

78. OK. And it's very poisonous.

79. Have we weighed the snake?

80. Well, no, I wasn't allowed to approach the box.

81. I was told I needed to be a handler. I mean, I haven't weighed it.

82. I think it's about... How much was the marble?

83. 27kg.

84. I think this is about 32.

85. Well, it's up to you, isn't it?

86. Well, if it hasn't been weighed then it's null and void, right?

87. Well, she said it's 32.

88. Yeah, it's just about whether you trust me or not.

89. Oh, I don't.

90. Rob. Oh, yeah, I've got some concrete.

91. Oh, yeah?

92. There we are.

93. I tell you, that cat would not leave me alone.

94. So, that's it, isn't it?

95. Rob's from south-east London.

96. Bish, bash, bosh. Fill it full of concrete. Done.

97. OK, good luck with this.

98. Shall I go in last place?

99. You're putting yourself in last place?

100. Yeah. Words. They're very tricky, aren't they?

101. I'm going to put Sara because I've not been able to weigh her snake.

102. OK. No. I'm sorry. No, don't apologise.

103. In fourth place, I...

104. Guess what? I'm putting Paul Chowdhry

105. for putting some fucking melon in the box.

106. Whilst I appreciate Al's cunning, I'm going to put Al in third place.

107. Aww!

108. Because there's not enough history to that definition of heavy.

109. What? That'll do.

110. Number one is Dave. He brought the heaviest thing in. Bam.

111. OK, on with the next task.

112. Please, Alex. Here we go.

113. Hold on to your hats, or put your hats away.

114. Here it is.

115. Right.

116. What have we here?

117. Is it going to pop out?

118. That was out of order, man. Scary clown.

119. Do you want to see his horrible face?

120. It's like Saw, innit? Tonight, we're going to play a game.

121. Little things are more fun, aren't they?

122. "Surprise Alex..."

123. "Surprise Alex when he emerges from his shed in one hour."

124. "Your time starts now."

125. Could I move the shed?

126. Oh, that was what this is a metaphor for.

127. Like, it's a surprise.

128. How far away do his family live?

129. Go and kidnap his children from school.

130. He comes out the shed and there they are.

131. That would surprise him, wouldn't it?

132. Are his kids in school?

133. What if we kidnapped his kids and tied them to a chair

134. outside the shed?

135. I mean, that would surprise him.

136. The first thing we should address is Al and Sara.

137. I would argue that if Alex came out of his shed

138. and his children were just there, that would be quite a surprise.

139. And yet both of you wanted to take them against their will.

140. Didn't you suggest tying them up as well, Sara?

141. Because kids wriggle around.

142. They do. You have to keep them in place.

143. Do you know who I want to see first?

144. Yes, I do. Paul Chowdhry.

145. Yeah!

146. We can do that. Let's see how Paul's mind works.

147. TICKING

148. OK.

149. I feel like there's something...

150. Waaargh!

151. That's horrible.

152. Blood on the thing. Yeah, that's good.

153. That's good. That's horrendous.

154. Brown Clown. Brown Clown. Is that what you're called?

155. Well, thank you for that, Brown Clown.

156. Very good. Very good.

157. That's Paul debuting his new children's character,

158. Brown Clown.

159. Given that Alex had sort of set the task

160. and we'd put a clown in a box...

161. Like a human one, innit? I mean, yeah.

162. Sure, I knew that was you.

163. You weren't going to get a brown clown in that small box,

164. so I thought if I did the real thing...

165. You were pretty surprised, innit? I mean, I was quite surprised.

166. I'd been in there for an hour. This is what I do.

167. I go in there, I do my secretarial duties.

168. I knitted you some little booties.

169. Oh, thanks. Yeah, a couple of them.

170. They're nice, thank you.

171. And I came out and I saw the box.

172. And I was surprised to see the box, but I did think,

173. "There's probably a clown in the box." Yeah.

174. If there was a surprise-o-meter, how high would it have gone?

175. That's a massive if.

176. Big if, isn't it?

177. About that high. About that high.

178. I want to know how long you were in the box

179. hiding as the brown clown for.

180. About 45 minutes. About 45 minutes.

181. Shall we move on to Sara? I mean, honestly,

182. I want to stay here all night.

183. Oh...

184. I love you, Paul.

185. Yeah, let's move on to Sara. OK.

186. I mean, presumably someone's going to get hurt.

187. Yeah, someone did.

188. Yeah.

189. I guess I should be concerned. Are you all right, Joel?

190. Are you tickly?

191. Shall I untie you? Can you hear me?

192. This is horrible.

193. When I... When I set the task and after you all completed them...

194. I don't get many details, but I did ask Alex which ones

195. he thought were surprising and he said...

196. This is a direct quote, he said, "For the smallest part of a second,

197. "I did think maybe Sara had killed someone."

198. That's how competitive I am.

199. Never do a surprise birthday party, please.

200. For the kids. Do you want to see your cake?

201. Surprise! Oh, it's the head of a rabbit.

202. What about the surprise-o-meter?

203. I mean, I don't quite know what shape this surpriseometer is.

204. It's the surprise-o-METER.

205. Oh, sorry.

206. Well, I guess on the surprise-o-meter,

207. it's about the same as the clown.

208. OK. It was a valiant and disturbing effort.

209. Who's next? Al's. OK. Let's have a look at Al's.

210. Here is Al Murray's attempt.

211. TICKING

212. ALARM RINGS

213. HORN HONKS

214. GONG CRASHES

215. HORNS REVERBERATE

216. I think that was more surprising than that,

217. but that's really surprising.

218. The gong? I mean, that's a... What, this? That's...

219. You've not seen it before. Lovely physique, but that...

220. Look at that. I mean, the dong and the gong.

221. HORN TOOTS

222. How many horns? Four.

223. Yeah. You're a four-horn surprise.

224. Amazing!

225. We didn't provide that gong for Al.

226. No, Al has a slight advantage of living near the Taskmaster house,

227. so he could source a gong within an hour.

228. I play drums on the side and I knew there was a gong rental place...

229. .. up the road.

230. Al, I thought it was phenomenal and awful.

231. OK. The surprise-o-meter?

232. It was... I mean, genuinely,

233. it was the most surprising because it was deafening and...

234. Most surprising so far.

235. OK, time for a break.

236. How will Dave and Rob surprise Alex when he comes out of his shed?

237. Find out in part two.

238. Welcome back to Taskmaster, where one of our lucky comedians

239. will be heading home with a block of concrete,

240. a lump of marble and some rotting watermelon.

241. Alex, how is the last task going?

242. It's going OK. It's often been more disturbing than surprising,

243. but there's two more to see. We're going to see Rob Beckett,

244. but first Mr Dave Gorman. Here we go.

245. TICKING

246. Is there a Gorman?

247. Oh, is there two parts? Is it...?

248. Oh, OK. I like this.

249. OK. It says, "Dear Alex, please press the blue button."

250. Waaargh! Oh!

251. Good. Good, good.

252. Why has he got that there? Is he actually naked?

253. I said boxers and he misunderstood.

254. That's the best one.

255. Very nice. My first question is, how come you get to keep your clothes on

256. and the camera crew don't? I make the rules.

257. It's my... It's my go.

258. And also, I'm going to surprise him by not being there,

259. so the idea of surprising him by not being there

260. but being naked doesn't really stack up.

261. Checks out. Are you buying that?

262. I'm buying that. He did also buy them.

263. You paid them a certain amount of money to take their clothes off.

264. Yeah, I...

265. Is that right?

266. It's about 200 quid, I think.

267. 200 quid each?

268. No, between them. Between them. Between them.

269. Right. I don't know how they divvied it up,

270. but there was 200 quid on the table. Is that like low-rent prostitution?

271. Were you surprised?

272. Yeah, I mean, the surprise was over a longer period of time,

273. so it wasn't as immediate as the air horns.

274. Right. Or the dead body.

275. And then we have the clown. So...

276. Yeah, I was surprised.

277. OK, let's see how Rob did.

278. Let's see if he was surprising.

279. Alex, you've been a bad boy.

280. ROB CHORTLES

281. Surprise!

282. There's quite a lot going on there. Quite a lot.

283. Are you surprised? Quite surprising, yeah.

284. Quite surprising.

285. Thank you, Rob. Sorry. Thank you for that.

286. I'm sorry, are you all right? Are you wet?

287. Well, I mean, incredible, right?

288. He was reasonably caring.

289. After he did it, he said, "Are you wet?" which is nice.

290. When you are cackling dressed as a nan on that sofa,

291. I thought I saw your teeth visibly growing,

292. you were so pleased with yourself.

293. I do get really excited.

294. I mean, it's just mad.

295. Where did the nan thing come from?

296. Basically, when we were filming that,

297. like I'd had a kid the week before

298. and had about ten hours' sleep, and I think I'd gone mad.

299. I think it was like the beginning of a breakdown.

300. We've got our winner. There he is.

301. Instinct tells me possibly number two,

302. all those hours down the gym have paid off for Al Murray.

303. It was the barrage on the senses in general that was impressive,

304. and then it was the noise. How many air horns?

305. Four? Four. Yeah.

306. Second place, ladies and gentlemen.

307. Let's not say Paul's definitely last,

308. but I'll pop Clown in just for now.

309. I'm going to put Dave ahead of Sara,

310. purely because he used bribery,

311. nakedness... there's a hint of sexual exploitation in there.

312. And then he jumped out of a bush and said "Boo", so...

313. Fine. Done. There it is, it's done, ladies and gentlemen.

314. Right. Let's find out how they're doing at this stage.

315. Well, after two rounds, we have an early leader

316. and that is Mr Rob Beckett.

317. The nan jet wash cliche pays dividends.

318. Fantastic. There's have another task, please, Alex.

319. OK, this one is the first team task of the series.

320. Oh!

321. Hello. Hello. There's a gonk.

322. Pardon? A gonk?

323. What do you call him?

324. A troll. Oh.

325. Just different generations.

326. Hello.

327. Hello. How you doing?

328. Does one of you want to...? Paul.

329. "Your time starts now."

330. Oh! What is the question? What?

331. Nothing! Taskmaster?

332. Your time starts now? Time starts now.

333. "Your time starts now."

334. That's all it says. Care to explain?

335. There's a message in a bottle. Oh.

336. Is that relevant?

337. "Dear blank with love."

338. OK, it's not that, then.

339. No.

340. Have you got a task in your hand or anything?

341. What are you doing? Oh!

342. There we go.

343. Oh! He's tied up.

344. Ah. That's locked with a combination on it.

345. Might be something in there. Can you pick it?

346. Pens.

347. Perhaps there's something written on that in UV.

348. "Release Alex, fastest wins."

349. Right. OK, so a key is needed, I guess.

350. Yeah. Which is in here.

351. My first question is,

352. have you to ever met each other's parents?

353. Because you're clearly brother and sister.

354. I sometimes get people who are trying to be horrible to me

355. on the internet saying that I'm just you in a wig.

356. But I don't take it as an insult.

357. We've just seen that! I don't take it as an insult.

358. Well, that's your future with the jet wash.

359. That's me.

360. That's me in my 70s.

361. Oh, Nan.

362. Really good. So, Paul, you can pick any lock, right?

363. Any lock. Any lock.

364. Did you successfully pick that lock?

365. Didn't pick that one, but... Ah.

366. Shall we start with the siblings? The siblings!

367. So, let's see the sinister Aryan twins.

368. Mummy says we're good at puzzles.

369. So, what would you use? Would you use a biro?

370. I've never busted someone out of jail.

371. Let's bend him over the table.

372. Put a torch on.

373. Oops.

374. You're making it slightly tighter.

375. Well, that's not my problem, is it?

376. They are very tight now, aren't they? They really are.

377. I've really tightened them. Oh, there's a secret message, maybe.

378. "Release Alex. Fastest wins."

379. Well, where's the clue?

380. "Look on the phone." What?

381. Where's the phone?

382. Look on the phone.

383. Why's there spunk on your phone, Alex?

384. How long have you been locked up, you dirty bastard?

385. "Look on the phone."

386. Pictures of phones.

387. Oh.

388. Oh! 911 to get in this little bastard.

389. Oh, we need to do the puzzle. Yeah. That's a joke.

390. I've never done a speedy puzzle before and I think I'm enjoying it.

391. There's a message on the back.

392. Hey! Not a pussy, mate.

393. Rob! Rob Beckett!

394. Now we're doing it the harder way. Yeah.

395. OK. OK.

396. What does it say? "Karma." "Karma, by Gregory Davies."

397. Here we go. So it's page 72.

398. Page 72, word 14. Word 14, on this page.

399. 12, 13, 14. "Shedding." Shedding.

400. In the shed? One... Oh. Yeah.

401. It's open.

402. There's a cracker.

403. I've got the stuff in here. Is there stuff in there?

404. Peas again. "Look behind the picture."

405. This picture?

406. No. Oh, there's loads of pictures here.

407. You go and look on all the pictures.

408. Oh, it's not on his hand, is it?

409. Oh, you fucking arsehole.

410. I nearly looked in there. You kept it... What happened?

411. It's in his hand. What, the picture was in his hand?

412. No, the... What, the key?

413. Yeah! Stop the clock.

414. Oh, I see!

415. Two blonde kids having fun together.

416. Two Aryan twins solving problems.

417. Yeah. Couple of Nazi kids freeing a prisoner.

418. We have to stop for a break now.

419. Come back and see if Dave and Al and Paul

420. tackle the task in a faster time.

421. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

422. Welcome back. There are five shoeboxes up for grabs tonight

423. and one of them might contain a dead snake.

424. Am I right in thinking we were partway through a task?

425. You're always right in thinking, Greg.

426. We are about to see if the beards can prove that

427. the three heads are better than two. Here we go.

428. You might have a key on you. No.

429. Maybe there are some numbers in...

430. There's got to be numbers in the room that tell us the...

431. You know, Karma Test. Gregor Davies.

432. There's 268 pages in this book.

433. Try 268. I mean, it's not going to be 268.

434. That might be a number available to us.

435. The barometer.

436. Pens...

437. There's a penny here.

438. String. Is it on here?

439. Look on the phone. Look on the phone.

440. On the phone.

441. I mean, all the numbers are here.

442. That's the nature of phones. Which one has four on?

443. So, it's nine, nine, seven...

444. There's probably another phone.

445. That's maybe where we're making our hideous blunder.

446. There's got to be another phone somewhere.

447. There's got to be another phone somewhere.

448. It's a good lock, this.

449. Ah. Greg's holding a phone in that picture.

450. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, there you go.

451. 911. 911.

452. We are a trio of dickheads.

453. There you go.

454. Oh, for God's sake.

455. The letter is on the upside.

456. The lettering is on the upside down.

457. Page. It's going to be turn to page...

458. So we're looking for a number.

459. There's a two. The Gregor Davies book.

460. So it's the Taskmaster book.

461. Page 72, word 34.

462. 31, 32, 33, 34.

463. "Was." That can't be right.

464. Oh, 14.

465. One, two, three, four, five, 13... "Shedding." Shed.

466. Oh... "Look behind a picture."

467. Behind the picture.

468. Behind Greg's picture?

469. Could be.

470. Oh!

471. Anything on there?

472. Where's the...?

473. Ah, there's a photograph of a key.

474. It's in... It's in his hands.

475. Ah, thanks, Al.

476. Thanks, Dave. Thanks, Paul.

477. Three great minds...

478. .. or a trio of dickheads.

479. Paul's one of the great criminal minds of our time, isn't he?

480. I believe you were still picking the lock for...

481. It's only because he thought there was some melon in it.

482. He wouldn't have been able to lift it if there was melon in it.

483. That's why there was three of them.

484. You gave... They had two people, we had...

485. I had these two distracting me.

486. If you had done that task on your own,

487. you'd still be there trying to pick that lock.

488. I would have got it sooner or later, though.

489. And I'll tell you this, I'd watch that television.

490. Incredible. Well, I don't think there's going to be a big surprise

491. about who's won, but... Well, this team, the beards,

492. their overall time was 27 minutes and 37 seconds.

493. That's all right. Nearly half an hour.

494. You probably knew that.

495. Sara and Rob took 16 minutes and 46 seconds.

496. So, moving on.

497. Hey, Alex, do you have something quick we could see?

498. Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

499. Okey dokey.

500. "Create the best upside-down self-portrait

501. "using only the materials supplied."

502. I don't understand the upside-downness.

503. "The taskmaster will judge the picture

504. "when it has been rotated 180 degrees."

505. So, it's going upside down on here. Right, OK, I get that.

506. No, you don't have to be upside down. What?

507. The picture does, but you can be the right way up.

508. Right, OK. Right. I'm with you now. OK.

509. "You have 20 minutes."

510. "Your time starts now."

511. Well, it's pretty straightforward. A task you're excited by?

512. I really got into it. I really enjoyed it,

513. and felt a moment of creative expression

514. that I haven't felt a long time.

515. He wasn't in his pants again, was he?

516. Upside down.

517. Four air horns out. "Meeep!"

518. Four. Four.

519. Do you want to see Al really getting into it? Do I? OK.

520. We can see them all having a go.

521. What is this? Ketchup. Ketchup?

522. That looks a lot like mustard and ketchup and brown sauce.

523. What's this? Red. This isn't brown sauce, is it?

524. It's brown sauce.

525. What's that? White.

526. Squirty cream? They're not paints, they're sauces!

527. What's this? Green.

528. Burger sauce. Mustard. Okey dokey, then.

529. Oh, cheap, vinegary shit, that.

530. If anyone touches this with their hands, they're gross.

531. All right. I think this is an exciting time for art right now.

532. Isn't it?

533. I'm an artist. I'm a proper artist.

534. Look at it. It's dripping out.

535. Look, the squirt isn't as good.

536. Condiments have never been my medium.

537. I've run out of brown.

538. You should have provided me with more brown. You know this.

539. This is racist. You gave me loads of white and I'm brown.

540. Done.

541. Didn't expect there to be any racial tension...

542. .. during an exercise of spraying condiments against a brick wall.

543. They had an unfair advantage, all of them,

544. because there was loads of white spray.

545. There was not enough brown sauce. Well, there was brown sauce.

546. There was more white, though, innit? Well...

547. Was there more white?

548. No. It was cream.

549. You always come up with these excuses.

550. What, "you people"?

551. Do you want to see all five portraits?

552. Yes. So, you've just got to judge which one's best, which one's worse,

553. and then also second and fourth and also third. So...

554. I can do it in that order, if you like. OK.

555. Do you want to start with best?

556. Mine ran because the wall was wet.

557. And yet, to scale.

558. I love them. So, Sara's is the only full-length one.

559. She's not done her face and her hair is going up.

560. I was doing a handstand in the picture.

561. So that way I could paint it the right way up

562. as how I do a handstand.

563. I genuinely presume that's what you're doing.

564. I thought, "Yeah, that's a handstand portrait." Yeah.

565. You don't see many of them in the National Portrait Gallery.

566. Not as many as there should be.

567. It's technically a portrait, right? Yes.

568. A portrait is a painting, drawing, photograph or engraving of a person,

569. especially one depicting...

570. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm bored. OK.

571. Who's your favourite? Pick your favourite.

572. I think it's Al Murray's.

573. It was lovely, yeah.

574. Do you know why? No.

575. There's a sadness to those condiment eyes.

576. Definitely. So, we've got first, do you want to go second?

577. Yeah, I'm going to give it to Sara, just for her creativity.

578. It's a handstand, bam, it's in.

579. Good, good.

580. Third, fourth, fifth.

581. I'm going to give third to Dave,

582. because that face gives me an element of joy.

583. Because I think he's making this noise -

584. beoow!

585. And I can't separate the madness on the bottom,

586. so we'll put them in joint last place, bam, done it.

587. OK, good.

588. What's happened to the scoreboard, Alex?

589. We have a runaway leader so far. Get out of town.

590. Leading the whole way through so far is Mr Rob Beckett.

591. He's on 16 points. Whoa!

592. 16!

593. Two tasks to go. What's next, Alex?

594. We have another task.

595. Hi, Al. Hi. Hi.

596. Is it in here? Yeah.

597. I don't like popping balloons. You don't like popping balloons?

598. No. I'm going to... BALLOON SQUEAKS

599. Very suspicious, Al.

600. They look like they're in Morse code or something.

601. Really? The balloons, yeah. Four dots, three dashes, or something.

602. I don't know.

603. Done. Oh, it's the...

604. Taking the piss, mate. "Pop the balloons.

605. "Fastest wins."

606. "Your time starts when you pop the next balloon."

607. Oh, good God! Actually hadn't even noticed those!

608. Oh! Yeah, not ideal if I do that approach, is it?

609. Pop all the balloons.

610. Time starts when I do my first one.

611. Right, OK. How am I supposed to pop these balloons?

612. Look how long that took. Probably lost this task.

613. Time's going to start, yeah.

614. Pop all of the balloons as quick as you can, simple task.

615. So the time starts when you pop your first balloon.

616. Now, these are intelligent people.

617. They're not just going to steam in and just start popping the balloons.

618. No, no, because they can make a plan, they can get something.

619. They're going to think about it. Yeah.

620. Do you want to start with David and Sara? Yeah.

621. Haven't even got keys in my pocket. That's annoying. OK.

622. BALLOON SQUEAKS It's a funny noise!

623. Oh, it's another funny noise.

624. All popped? Yeah, they are all popped.

625. Thanks, Dave.

626. I mean, fascinating. Medically fascinating.

627. So, Dave was... I mean, it was particularly feral.

628. He used his beard at times. He just sort of rammed... One minute 50.

629. Do you know what I think about when I think of Dave Gorman? Feral.

630. Yeah, one minute 50. Sub two.

631. Sara, also sub two - one minute 58.

632. Oh. Was that the slow-mo ones you were doing?

633. OK, let's go to a logical brain.

634. Paul. Really?

635. OK. We can see Paul and Rob together.

636. Let's. OK.

637. Could be a winner. Is there a lighter anywhere?

638. This could pop some,

639. on the one hand. It's quite dangerous, but...

640. ..it's the old knuckleduster trick, you know?

641. What if I get one in each hand?

642. Fastest wins. All right.

643. All right.

644. Shoryuken!

645. These balloons are bastards, mate. They're bastards, innit?

646. Oh, one left!

647. Bastard.

648. It's a bit like watching the evolution of humankind,

649. this show, really.

650. First we see the very basic primates using their teeth.

651. And then they discover tools.

652. I've seen that in Mortal Kombat.

653. I got the reference.

654. No, that was Street Fighter 2. Oh, I didn't get the reference.

655. And nice to see you're consistent with your use of the word "bastard"

656. as well. Last episode,

657. you called a rabbit covered in a Slush Puppie a bastard.

658. Now it's the turn of the balloon community.

659. That was a snowman in the last one.

660. It wasn't a snowman, mate.

661. Good, though, really good. Rob?

662. Yeah, I started off with a corkscrew and another corkscrew.

663. You can say two corkscrews.

664. I had two corkscrews, but one corkscrew was better,

665. so I started off doing that, but in the end I just went for

666. one-handed swipes like a sort of angry cat.

667. Very impressive, but how impressive was it time-wise?

668. Well, weirdly, Paul wasn't that much quicker than the biters -

669. one minute 26.

670. Quite good, not that much.

671. Rob sort of treated them like wine bottles, unscrewed them -

672. 31.6 seconds. Oh, wow.

673. So, Al Murray's balloon frenzy still to come.

674. Find out how he did in about three minutes.

675. Plus, all five head to the stage for the final task of the show.

676. Yes, they will. See you soon.

677. Hello, good to see you again.

678. It's the final part of the show,

679. and there's a live task just around the corner.

680. But first we need to conclude the task at hand.

681. Alex? Hi, Greg. So, the current task

682. involves popping balloons as fast as possible.

683. The current time to beat is 31.6 seconds, achieved by Rob Beckett.

684. And we've just got Al to go.

685. You ready for Al? Yeah. OK.

686. Here he is.

687. No!

688. Damn you to hell!

689. Are they all going to fit, Al? No, they're not all going to fit...

690. Right. .. but that doesn't mean this isn't a good idea.

691. No, no, no.

692. What is the idea, Al?

693. To group the balloons together into as small amount together

694. as possible, and then commence popping them.

695. One big pop? To try to get them all in one go, to narrow the time down.

696. But I can take as long as I like over managing the time.

697. Yeah. So far, I've taken no time over this,

698. even though we're taking a long time over it. Yeah.

699. Trust me, this is the obvious way to do it,

700. rather than running around in a frenzied-idiot panic.

701. It's either this or the cricket bat. Is it?

702. For England,

703. you know?

704. Just got to reorganise these balloons.

705. Right.

706. Bollocks!

707. I'm stopping the clock there.

708. All gone?

709. Just making sure. I only lost...

710. Two balloons, was it? Yeah, that's not bad.

711. Thanks, I enjoyed that. All right.

712. Thank you, Al.

713. We'll deal with this. Yeah, sure.

714. That's a really clever idea, horrifically executed.

715. Obviously, the terrible news is that there were two escaped balloons.

716. Yet to be popped.

717. They're probably popped by now, but we can't verify it,

718. so it's not looking good for him.

719. He spent 34.6 seconds smashing it with a cricket bat,

720. so he would have come in second.

721. Behind Rob's corkscrew. Exactly.

722. Right. Was there anything else about his attempt?

723. I don't know if you remember at the beginning of the task,

724. Al said something. Do you want to have a look? Yeah.

725. They look like they're in Morse code or something.

726. Really? The balloons, yeah.

727. Four dots, three dashes or something, I don't know.

728. It does, doesn't it?

729. It does look a bit like Morse code.

730. So because he said that, we had a look at it.

731. We checked it out. Weirdly, it was... What?

732. It says this.

733. MORSE CODE BEEPS

734. The winner of that task, Mr Rob Beckett.

735. OK, everyone, before we find out who's going home

736. with five filled shoeboxes, could you please head up

737. to the stage for the final task of the show?

738. Could Paul read the task out, please?

739. OK, Paul, that's for you.

740. Read it nice and clearly, Paul.

741. "Unravel a whole roll of sticky tape.

742. "Put the unravelled sticky tape in your lunchbox.

743. "Close your lunchbox.

744. "Fastest wins."

745. Fastest wins, you're right, Paul.

746. And, nicely, you did it in the tone of voice of a sort of Batman film.

747. So, in your boxes you've got sticky tape,

748. if you want to open your boxes.

749. All the sticky tape has to come off the roll

750. and has to all go in the lunchbox, and the lunchbox has to shut.

751. If you can stop looking for the end of the tape, please.

752. Put the tape down, everybody!

753. Look up into the air.

754. Alex, blow your whistle. Go.

755. OK, everyone, go! WHISTLE BLOWS

756. I like that method.

757. Done!

758. Shut the box, shut the box!

759. It must shut.

760. Oh, that's stuck on your hand, that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

761. Get that off.

762. Yeah, that's done.

763. Yeah, we've got...

764. There's a lot on your hand. There's a lot on your hand.

765. That's got to go in the box.

766. Oh, fuck off!

767. You've got to start again. I'm done.

768. I didn't listen, did I?

769. Even Batman read it out, you didn't listen.

770. Sara Pascoe!

771. OK, can you all come down and we'll see how that's affected the scores?

772. Did that all go according to plan, Alex?

773. For most of them.

774. Rob's still going. It's so tight.

775. You can pretend it's someone else now, innit?

776. Do you want the scores, Greg? I really do want the scores.

777. OK, well, I'm afraid Rob didn't get any points for that.

778. He didn't complete the task.

779. Sara did it in one minute 46.

780. There was only two seconds separating Paul and Dave.

781. Paul was two seconds quicker than Dave.

782. Was he really? Yeah, one minute 12.

783. But sub one minute, Al Murray in 55 seconds.

784. An entire roll.

785. Thanks to his Commonwealth record there with the Sellotape,

786. he's retained the series lead.

787. But the winner of this particular episode is Mr Rob Beckett.

788. Rob Beckett!

789. Rob Beckett is the winner of five luxury shoeboxes -

790. a prize that he told me in the break he thought was rubbish.

791. Please go and retrieve your prizes.

792. Hey, thanks for today, Alex.

793. Hey, thanks for thanking me today, Greg.

794. Thanks again, Alex. OK.

795. What have we learned today, then? Well, what we've learned is,

796. if Alfred Hitchcock wanted to make the end of Psycho really scary,

797. he should have shoved a jet washer in that old woman's hands.

798. And of course, we've also learned that against the odds,

799. our winner tonight is Rob Beckett!

800. Well done. Thanks, everybody. Goodbye.