Taskmaster

In this episode, the five beleaguered comics fighting to win Greg Davies' very valuable golden head are offered some rare respite with a raft of seemingly enjoyable tasks. Sarah Millican gets her hands in some cottage pie, Fern Brady is introduced as Brandy Alexander, and Munya Chawawa demonstrates a mastery of martial arts. Elsewhere, John Kearns survives an operation, and Dara O Briain carefully selects a luggage trolley.

Prize task: The most useless thing that you've bought that cost over £20.

John Kearns: A Subbuteo streaker, despite not having any other stuff from the game. - 5
Dara O Briain: A worm trumpet. - 4
Fern Brady: A cat harness and leash. - 3
Munya Chawawa: A golden snitch fidget spinner, which cost £15. - 3
Sarah Millican: A mandoline, with which she once cut off the tip of her finger. - 2

Task 1: Get the most pleasure from all of these rubber chutes. You have 30 minutes. Your time starts now.

- Fern: Makes Alex wear the chutes, throws banana into his mouth, covers him in make-up, and fires ketchup into his mouth. - 5
- Munya: Puts one chute over a statue of Greg, then makes a game called "knocowt". - 4
- Sarah: Makes Alex wear a skirt, blind folds him, and throws various weird and messy things at him down the chutes. - 4
- John: Turns it into a slide with chocolates, and then fails to use a chute to land a football on a bell inside the outdoor dome. - 3
- Dara: Turns it into ball throwing machine, which he uses for hurling. - 2

Task 2 (Team Task): Perform the best routine to this musical backing. You have 30 minutes. Your time starts now.

- Dara, Fern and John: Make a title sequence for a 1980s US sitcom called Scalpel Please! - 5
- Munya and Sarah: A montage sequence for a martial arts film. - 4

Task 3: Place one luggage trolley a certain distance away from the line. Then starting behind the line, strike that luggage trolley with another luggage trolley. If you strike the first luggage trolley with another luggage trolley you may move the first luggage trolley further away. You may not move any unsuccessful luggage trolleys. Furthest luggage trolley struck wins. You have ten minutes. Your time starts now.

- John: 19 Noel Edmondses (Over 34m) - 5
- Munya: 17.7 Noel Edmondses - 4
- Dara: 16 full length and one crouching Noel Edmonds. - 3
- Sarah: 25.4m - 2
- Fern: 18.3m - 1

Live task (Team Task), Part 1: One member of your team must write down ten animals in two minutes. Part 2: Communicate the other teams' animals to your team members by saying the letter that comes before it in the alphabet over and over whilst doing an impression of that animal. Most correct animals named wins. You have two minutes and one pass. Winner takes all.

- Both teams: All get seven right. - 5

Final scores

- John - 23
- Munya - 20
- Dara and Fern - 19
- Sarah - 17