SHE GASPS
Ooh!
HOOT!
Argh!
Ah! No! Wah!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello, everybody. I am Greg Davies.
Come, take my hand and run,
as I guide you through the giddy pleasure fields of Taskmaster.
Forget about all the bad things in life,
let's rip off our shirts, hold each other tightly and work up a sweat
as we glide through my land.
Phwoar!
LAUGHTER
The five contestants competing for this top-notch trophy are...
Iain Stirling,
Joe Thomas,
Lou Sanders,
Paul Sinha
and Sian Gibson.
And look what the cat dragged in -
a scruffy, lice-infested baby rat!
HIGH-PITCHED: It's little Alex Horne!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello, are you OK, Alex?
I'm OK, I am OK.
You know I get so hot because of my admin,
but today I've got the wristbands and the ankle bands.
So they will just collect the moisture throughout the evening,
and I will be better for it.
LAUGHTER
Alex, can we have the Prize Task, please?
Yes. This week, it really is the Prize Task,
because they've been asked to bring in
the best present for a doctor.
Paul, welcome to episode number four.
Hello. We're starting with you, I presume,
because you did once... be a doctor.
LAUGHTER
I am a qualified GP, and the worst thing about being a Chaser and a GP
is being on a flight and someone falling ill and somebody saying,
"Is there a doctor on the plane?"
So the best gift that you can give to a doctor
is something to stop him from being bothered by the general public.
Here we go. There it is.
Is that you?! That is absolutely me.
You look about ten years younger. You should do that.
I mean, she's right, it really has given you a lift.
And if I do look like that on a plane,
people will be looking at me, but not with hope.
OK. All right, Greg?
So it's very much a present to himself. Yeah.
Who's next? OK. Next up, Joe. Joe.
Just best present to give anyone -
a BMX.
APPLAUSE
Um... BMXs are cool.
Tick. Doctors are cool as well.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Why shouldn't they have some downtime?
Why shouldn't they have some downtime... Yeah.
..and take in a few leaps and skids and, um...
I'm beginning to think this isn't your BMX,
cos you don't know enough BMX terms.
I know all the terms - wheel.
What does BMX stand for, Joe?
It stands for Bicycle, My X-Cellent bicycle.
I believe.
That haunting poem!
Who's next? Next up, Iain Stirling.
I went to university and I met medic students
and realised that they're the biggest bunch of alcoholic maniacs.
So I decided to get the doctor
a big sort of huge-night-out kit.
Yes, here we are. A big-night-out kit. Yeah?
Glowsticks. If anyone remembers Carnage UK from university,
congratulations on your 2:2.
I don't know what Carnage UK is? It's when you go to different pubs
and then drink until you...
are sad.
OK? Yes, very lovely. Who's next?
Lou, I think, probably.
Just a classic case of a herb garden and a bottle of whisky, for...
There it is. For the doctor.
Herb garden and a bottle of whisky.
Iain's already got the doctor shit-faced...
Yeah. ..so what are you bringing with the herbs?
This is for the older doctor.
You know, they're one year off being a consultant, maybe.
It really is the whole life I've taken into account.
From garden to kitchen to bedroom.
To bedroom?
Whisky's for the bedroom - we all know that.
How have you been doing it?
I use the herbs.
It's the first time ever I can't pick who's going to go last!
LAUGHTER
We've still got Sian. Sian?
You know if you go to McDonald's...
that people have a little rating system
on their little shirt?
Yeah. Well, maybe doctors should have a little star system.
OK. This would be me if I was a doctor.
If a doctor came to you with "I'm fab at jabs!" on their badge,
would you like that?
Yes, I would. I'd be very confident in their ability.
"I'm fine at rhyme", would be another one.
I think it's got to be medical, though. Yeah. OK.
"After your vasectomy, you'll be really pleased with me"?
You'd need a bigger badge!
But, yeah.
Well, there we go. All five.
Oh, man. Can I be impertinent if you're having trouble? Yeah.
I am a doctor, so I'm in a good position to judge.
Yeah. Iain's one isn't necessary.
You're basically accusing doctors of being binge drinkers
when what they actually are functioning alcoholics, which is...
LAUGHTER
The one that I'd most like out of all of that is the BMX,
because it'll just take your mind off...
You didn't even say your own one!
Sabotage everyone else and not even give yourself the fight -
who does that?!
That's like winning the 100 metres,
tripping everyone up and then picking someone,
throwing them over the finish line.
Not everyone's as dysfunctionally competitive as you, Iain.
Oh! Well, I wasn't, until bloody you came along.
I like it when real rows start.
I know you do.
Yeah, and do you know what I'm going to do,
just to pour petrol on the fire?
I'm going to put them both last!
LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
OK, so, Iain and Paul, both with 1 point.
Yeah, that's right, and I'm standing by it.
And I don't mind telling you, I feel a bit giddy!
And get this, I'm not going to give anyone 2 points -
I'm going to jump up to 3 points.
Oh, no!
And I'm going to give the next one -
because I know doctors like getting drunk,
you've established that...
Yes, that's why I should be above him!
Yeah, well, I would have given you an extra 2 points
if you'd put some lovely herbs in it. Thank you!
3 points to Lou.
And I'm putting Joe...
I'm giving him 4 points... For the BMX?
Best. ..because I want to go on a BMX.
I don't think Joe's ever been on a BMX. I don't know what a BMX is.
So I'm going to give him 4 points. 4 points to Joe. And the winner?
Who doesn't like a lovely badge saying, You've been a good boy"?
Sian Gibson!
CHEERING
Whoo!
Here we go then.
Do you want the first task? Yeah.
OK, here we go. This one is Absolutely Toilet. Get ready.
Hi. Hello, Sian. Hello.
Here we are.
Hiya. Do you mind doing that wave again? Oh, absolutely, yeah.
Just cos I didn't understand it.
Oh, OK. It was just a simple wave.
Just... Hello!
"Get this loo roll through the toilet seat."
"You may not lower the toilet seat."
Oh! There's the toilet seat. "Fastest wins."
"Time starts now."
The... what?
What toilet seat?
What am I missing?
Is this a search for a toilet seat?
APPLAUSE
'Fairly straightforward. I think we should get on with it. Crack on with it?
OK, just get the loo roll through the toilet seat, that's it.
Yes, please. We all saw it. Here's Paul and Iain.
"Get this loo roll through the toilet seat.
"You may not lower the toilet seat."
Lower? I can't lower it at all?
That's what it says.
Oh!
Oh! What an idiot.
Get this loo ROLL.
Oh, you stupid idiot.
What are you doing, Iain?
Getting the loo roll for the toilet seat. OK.
There's a toilet seat inside.
OK. Am I allowed to use that?
All the information's on the task.
This is the toilet paper. Right.
The loo roll's this thing, isn't it?
This is the loo roll.
OK, Iain.
What are you doing, Paul?
I'm getting the loo roll through the toilet seat
without lowering the toilet seat.
Through the toilet seat.
Boom. Done. OK. Thank you, Iain.
'"Get the loo roll..." I don't know... I'm going to stick with this.
This is a loo roll and it's through the toilet seat.
This just reminds me of being at school.
HE SIGHS Thank you, Paul.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE
Can I just say very quickly,
Paul put the paper through the toilet seat,
which was the only bit that Iain said wasn't the loo roll.
Well, you say that he put the paper through the toilet seat, but did he?
Yes.
Because what I saw was a man painstakingly pushing loo roll
behind a toilet seat.
SIAN: Oh, yeah!
And you said halfway through - I wrote this one down -
"It reminds me of school."
LAUGHTER
Detention was very unusual punishment at school.
I sort of think of the toilet roll as the whole thing, do you?
Yeah, cos it is. No! No...
Oh.. We are not. Oh, ho-ho.
Oh, ho-ho!
Because there's the roll... Yeah.
'If you said, "Can you nip out and get some loo roll?" and you came back with a load of those...?
LAUGHTER I would go... "Thank you very much."
APPLAUSE Yeah... Hey...
I would apologise for not using the correct terminology.
OK. And I would use those cardboard rolls to wipe my bum as a protest.
Look, we'll unravel this afterwards.
OK. So to speak!
Right, it's the end of Part One, my friends.
Do with it what you will, and we'll see you in Part Two. Bye-bye.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello! Welcome back to Part Two of Taskmaster.
Alex, you look like you've been a very naughty boy.
Yes, Greg, I'm afraid to say that, before the break,
I left the toilet seat up in the air in the garden.
The task at hand is simply
to get the toilet roll through the toilet seat.
Iain and Paul got their hands dirty with the indoor toilet,
how will the rest do?
We're going to see all three right now.
Ah.
I see. Right, here we go.
Well, even if I stand on that, I'm not going to reach that. No.
I might be closer.
You'll have to help me!
Easy!
So easy.
Argh!
OK.
The end? Right.
Right through.
That's unlucky.
Oh, my God, I'm like a bad Carry On film.
Is this on a timer you say?
Yeah, fastest wins, this one. OK.
Here we go.
Ooh. Careful.
OK, I'm one step closer.
Up we go. Thank you.
Here we go.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE
Sweet.
Right.
Watch your eyes.
Ohh...
Oh, god.
OK.
APPLAUSE
It went through! Yes.
Does that count? Yes, I've stopped the clock, it went through.
OK. Which way now? We're doing that again.
APPLAUSE
Successful. Really successful.
Lou didn't get all of the paper through,
and I'll come on to my definition of a toilet roll in a minute.
Right. The strands fell off.
Strands fell away. Strips and strands.
I don't think anyone got the whole roll through.
One man did. One man did.
Everyone... Everyone did. Everyone did, apart from Paul.
LAUGHTER
The supple Joe Thomas got his whole roll through.
He's so supple!
Let me just say what I'm going to do.
I'm not going to get into a discussion
about what constitutes a toilet roll.
My feeling is that it was implicit
that the whole thing should go through,
both the cardboard tube and the surrounding paper.
But, Iain... LAUGHTER
..what I will say is this -
anyone who got the whole lot through the toilet seat,
I'm going to give a bonus point to.
Right. Well, that is just Joe Thomas.
He is the only man who got it through - and the only woman.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
That's fair. But in terms of the timings, Paul was the slowest,
with 13 minutes.
1 point to Paul. Sian got 5 minutes. Yep.
2 points. Right. Joe Thomas...
1 minute and 38 seconds.
But a bonus point - so, 4 points.
Lou, 1 minute and 19 seconds - 4 points.
Iain was the quickest, with his 1 minute and 4 seconds.
There we go - controversial, but that's it. Iain gets the 5 points.
APPLAUSE
Right, scoreboard update, please, Alex.
Unfortunately, Paul is adrift with 2 points.
But in the lead, we have Joe Thomas, with 8 points!
APPLAUSE
And the series scoreboard - I'll quickly run you through that.
At the top we have Lou with 67, then Iain with 56, Sian with 55,
Joe with 50, and Paul, 42.
APPLAUSE
Do you have another task lined up, Alex? Yes, I do.
And this one is Extremely Childish. Ohh!
Hello. Hello, Paul Sinha.
Potty.
If you need it.
OK, "Make the best thing to engage a toddler".
"The toddler will have five minutes with your thing."
"Most engaged toddler wins."
"You have 30 minutes."
"Your time starts now."
Like the pan. Which pan's that, Paul?
"Engaged" - meaning "on the toilet". Oh.
Thanks, Paul.
OK. I'm going to go and have a little root around,
see what I can find. OK.
See you in a minute.
Hello.
Oh, you've got freckles.
So... Yeah.
Where am I engaging the toddler?
The toddler will go into a room and find your thing.
What age is a toddler? Cos this might be a bit too heavy-handed.
Just making it comfy.
That's cute.
Do you think that looks sinister?
If I was a child and I got this on my hands,
I think I'd be quite distressed, I'd want to get it off.
100% of this is attached to my hand!
What rhymes with ducky?
SHE LAUGHS
Not that!
Hello, Alex. You've been out the room for 25 minutes.
Has it been that long?
Wow, doesn't time fly?
Let's march!
Kick, kick!
Move to the side.
D'you know what it needs?
A tongue.
Tastebuds. Tastebuds?
All toddlers like baths and bath toys,
and so a family of duck chicks
is under attack from a vicious thresher shark.
But to fully engage a toddler,
you need audio stimulation, so...
PHONE PLAYS DUCK SOUNDS
Bubbles, duck, shark, quacking.
But it's not just ducks,
it's the existential terror of a mother duck
having her brood taken away from her by predatory, bloodthirsty fish.
I will make that clear for the toddler. Thank you, Paul.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE
Good. Well, I'll just answer a quick question.
Is hanging a rubber duck by its neck sinister?
Yes, it is. That is sinister.
Now, you wouldn't mind me saying
that you are the only mum of the contestants.
So I better do well. Yeah. Yeah.
Gut instinct tells me,
do they want a pretty princess with freckles, dancing,
or do they want the existential terror of a shark attack...?
LAUGHTER
OK, we're going to see them one by one, if that's all right, Greg?
Yes, please. We're going to start off with Joe Thomas,
who made a squishy toy, which he has called Joe Dough.
LAUGHTER
Hello, Alex.
Hello, Nel.
Come in.
Joe put that there for you.
LAUGHTER
SHE GIGGLES
Are you going to touch the red one as well, Nel? Yeah. Yeah?
Do you want to pick one up?
That one.
Which one - the blue one?
That one.
That one. Do you want me to get that out? Yes. OK.
It's called Joe Dough.
Can you say "Joe Dough"?
Joe Dough. Joe Dough. That's right.
Is Joe Dough good?
Joe Dough's good.
Joe Dough's good. OK.
How good?
1, 2, 3, 4 or 5?
5. 5.
What do you like about it, Nel?
That one... That one there's... SHE MUMBLES
Hmm. OK. Thank you. Good bye.
Bye-bye.
APPLAUSE
Aw, it's the sweetest thing we've ever done.
Joe, pleased with that?
Yeah, she seemed pretty happy.
Yeah. I don't know whether that was really connected to the dough.
I think she was just a happy child.
The truth is I think that she was fully engaged with your Joe Dough.
OK. I think... You know, I've often seen you, during this series,
look like there's nothing to live for,
and I think, surely, you must take some...
That's actually...
I was very pleased that she sort of seemed to be a bit diverted by it.
She did. Yeah. Who's next?
LAUGHTER
OK, next we're going to see
children's TV star Iain Stirling's creation.
Ooh, the pressure's on.
Here's how our toddler got on with his puppet, called Claire.
Hello. Hello, Nel.
Do you want to come in?
Hello, my name's Claire.
Be engaged.
Hello! I'm Claire.
SHE LAUGHS
Do you want to give me a high-five?
Yeah.
Cool.
Again. Again? Yeah. Really?
Hello! Hello. My name's Claire!
My name's Claire.
Are you engaged?
Yeah?
My name's Claire. Be engaged!
You got the bubble wrap? Yeah.
Goodbye, Nel.
SHE MUMBLES
Bye-bye.
APPLAUSE
I wonder if I walked passed Claire
and someone hadn't said to me, "There's Claire, the puppet",
whether I would've just thought it was a load of old rubbish
and just kicked it...
But, with Alex's help, the toddler was engaged.
They were all part of Claire -
the instructions, what I did, was all part of...
High-five. Did he say, "Give her a high-five"? Yeah.
He definitely did. Well, he provided a fly swat to do the high-five.
And he said, "Allow the child to rip the arm off?"
I did wrap Claire in the bubble wrappy thing...
Bubble wrap. Bubble wrap - that's the word.
Deliberate - because you wanted some tactile?
Because kids love that, don't they? Chugga-chugga-chib. Yeah.
That's what toddlers... "Chugga-chugga-chib".
Beatboxing again. Bebop. Yeah, all right, Iain.
Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't bad.
It looked like a pile of old rubbish but it did engage the child. Yes.
And that takes us to the halfway point in tonight's show.
You have adverts for your half-time entertainment,
and we have Alex Horne belly-dancing.
Take it away, Alex!
And we'll see you soon.
BHANGRA MUSIC PLAYS
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello. Thank you, Adverts.
I really should buy some of those products.
Alex, wasn't there a new person
involved in the task before the break?
Someone about your height?
There is a new person
but she is substantially smaller than me because I am a tall man.
But, yes, there is a toddler trying out the engaging things
our contestants have made for her.
And this time it's Fairy Sian's workout video.
Hello.
Oh, hello.
'Kick, kick!'
'And we're going to clap our hands.' That's Fairy Sian.
Do you want to do what she says?
'Clap, clap, clap, clap!'
Again. Again?
OK.
'Let's march.'
Again.
Are you going to do what she says? Yes.
'Feel that stretch, guys. Feel that stretch.
'Stretch those fingers.'
What would you give Fairy Sian out of 5?
1, 2, 3, 4 or 5?
Again. Again?
We've heard it enough.
Nel? 3?
Yeah.
Yeah. 'OK, let's march!'
Goodbye.
APPLAUSE
Still watching.
In the one clip we saw, you did look maybe a bit pissed.
But that was engagement, wasn't it?
I mean, your immediate instinct was put an iPad in there. Yeah.
And she was fully engaged.
Good mother, you see. She took it with her. Give a child an iPad.
Yeah. Drunk dancing princess - tick.
Great, who's next? OK. It's lucky-ducky time.
Lou Sanders. Oh, god!
Hello, Nel.
You could use that if you want.
You going to hit the duck?
LOU: ♪ Hit the ducky, hit the ducky
♪ Hit the ducky on the head... ♪
What's that noise?
That's the noise of the Lucky Ducky song.
♪ Hit the ducky, hit the ducky
♪ Hit the ducky on the head... ♪
Oh. You've opened it.
♪ Hit the ducky Hit the ducky on the head... ♪
That's the end of the song.
SHE MUMBLES
OK. Can I have the mallet back, please?
Goodbye.
SHE MUMBLES
Mm.
Bye, Ducky!
Bye, Ducky! Bye-bye.
APPLAUSE
It never occurred to me I'd have to make a moral judgment.
I mean, the child was engaged.
The child was engaged in hitting an animal with a hammer.
♪ Hit the ducky on the head! ♪
Also, there were sweets inside. I don't think you really guided her.
It was supposed to be like a pinata.
Although you call it a "Pinochet".
Oh, yeah.
LAUGHTER
Because I'm French... Half-French.
She enjoyed hitting the ducky, but, yeah, she didn't spot the sweets
cos I don't think there was anything guiding her to it.
She did look in at the sweets at the end. Yeah. And then she thought,
"I don't want to be part of any of this."
"Part of the butchery of this wild..." She didn't think...
'She didn't think she was allowed sweets, cos she looked in and hinted and went, "Oh, sweets!"
and then Alex went, "Bye, Nel."
LAUGHTER
But the point is, she had a lovely time
and she didn't even have any sweets.
Finally, then, we've got one more person to see. Yup.
It's time for Paul's baking-tray ecosystem.
AUDIO RECORDING OF DUCKS PLAYS
Hello, Nel.
Oh, no!
Messy.
It is a bit messy. The threshing shark has fallen out.
oh, no, look.
Yes, the ecosystem has deteriorated.
Do you want to put them all back in the ecosystem?
Yeah. OK.
Mummy and Daddy.
There's Mummy and Daddy.
Mummy. Mummy? OK.
Mummy, Daddy and the threshing shark.
Do you like the duck ecosystem?
Yeah. Do you think it's just some plastic ducks in a baking tray?
Yeah. Hmm.
What would you give it out of 5?
5.5. OK.
Thank you, Nel. Goodbye.
Quack-quack!
OK, Nel, you can go now.
No go. Do you want to stay here forever?
Yeah. With the ducks and the threshing shark?
Shall I go?
Yeah. OK.
Goodbye.
APPLAUSE
I'm not sure that Nel was 100% on top of your narrative.
She didn't seem perturbed by the thresh-ER shark.
Sorry, Paul. Sorry, Paul.
She knows a thresher shark when she sees one, she's not a fool.
But she had maternalistic instincts towards the duck.
Yes. I think she's a David Attenborough in disguise.
'Only but five minutes ago she'd been smashing one round the head with a mallet.
LAUGHTER
Just shows how you can re-educate a young mind like that, isn't it?
Be afraid of the shark - don't attack the duck.
She seemed engaged. She was fully engaged, Paul.
I'm absolutely gobsmacked.
OK. Here we go. Are you ready for some points?
Yes, I'm ready for some points.
I'm not going to give anyone 1 point,
because I thought they were all very good.
I'm not going to give anyone 2 points
because I think they were all better than that.
Are you going to give anyone 3 points? Yes.
Oh, right. OK.
Purely based on my gut instinct
about which thing engaged the child the most,
I'm going to give Lou 3 points,
Iain and Joe 4 points,
Sian and Paul - unbelievably - 5 points.
There we go.
APPLAUSE
More! I want more! And you're going to give me more.
I am, and you love ham.
You love ham hock, you like haddock -
so I'm giving you a hammock!
Here we go.
DOOR OPENS
JOE: OK.
SIAN: Good luck.
IAIN: Come on.
LOU: Ow!
"Put the most weight in the hammock
"without anything falling out of the hammock."
"If anything falls out of the hammock, you're disqualified.
"Most weight in the hammock after ten minutes wins."
Right. Put stuff in, but then we all... Last line, please, Lou.
Huh? Last line. Yeah, "your time starts now".
Thank you. Let's go.
Shall we discuss it before we say, "Your time starts now"?
Oh, you've just said, "Your time starts now". I've started the clock.
Oh, well. Well, time starts now.
APPLAUSE
Very good. Pretty straightforward? Yeah, most weight in the hammock.
If anything falls out the hammock, you're disqualified. Simple.
OK, first of all, the team of three -
Lou, Paul and Iain.
And I was just thinking - isn't it nice when people just get along.
This is the obvious choice! Wait, wait, wait! Get this in first.
Game plan. We've got ten minutes.
No, but if it falls out of the hammock... Put this underneath it.
No! Wait, wait, wait. Just calm down.
We're going to put this under the hammock to support the hammock.
OK. How is that going to stop stuff falling out?
I'm quietly confident actually!
Iain, how is that going to stop things falling out of the hammock?
It isn't.
It isn't. Right.
Right, shall we get some stuff? Heavy stuff? Hang on.
Wait, wait, wait. How much do you weigh? Iain!
What does that matter?
Because we all get in the hammock - it's obvious. But why do we...?
We get in, we get the stuff in the hammock.
We are heavier than anything we can find.
But we can hold that as well.
Because it'll fall out and then we'll be disqualified.
Don't get in it, don't get in it! What do you want me to do then?
Just calm down. I went to get some stuff and you said... Paul!
..to come and get in the hammock. So what do I do?
Can we just have a meeting, please.
I was just going to get some heavy stuff!
We can bring it here and then make a plan.
Look, we're going to weigh more than things, that's all I'm thinking.
Do you think we can fit three people and heavy stuff on the hammock?
I don't think we could fit three, we could try two.
'If we've got the people and the heavy hammock, we can come to that conclusion.
'We need someone to bring... No point hypothetically thinking of that thing now, with nothing around us.
I'm going to go and get some heavy stuff. OK.
That's quite heavy. Yes. It's good, isn't it?
Get some bricks. OK. There you go.
I'd like to apologise for my behaviour.
I just thought we shouldn't panic.
I agree. Which is why I suggested doing all of this seven minutes ago.
OK. Do you want to pop in your position, babe?
Right, I'm getting in. Lou - you hold me steady.
Paul - start loading in things.
Lower it. Oh, that is heavy.
Ohh, that is heavy! One minute left. Maybe bowling ball?
We've probably not got enough heavy stuff. Should have got more.
And now you're not... Your job was quite literally to hold the hammock.
Now there's no-one holding the hammock.
Literally nobody holding the hammock.
Don't worry, baby, I'm here for you. 35 seconds.
Maybe go and get some lighter stuff. Hold me steady, Paul. I'm going.
Yeah, go on, chuck it in.
Maybe don't put it all in the one side.
'Don't put it all in the one side, Lou! WHISTLE
Thank you, guys.
APPLAUSE
Such a little bossy-boots, aren't you?
That... That wasn't pleasant for me to watch.
It's not all about fun, so let's drill down into it.
We had spent a good seven minutes...
Not seven, that's the number you made up.
You said that in quite a petulant manner.
"Yes, that's why I suggested it - seven minutes."
Yeah. So...
Thank God Daddy was there, watching on from behind a barrel.
LAUGHTER
In my defence, I came up with the idea
that we had to put the things on the hammock in the last minute
otherwise they would fall out.
If it wasn't for Paul Sinha,
it would have been me and Lou in a hammock, screaming at each other.
Just how I like it.
'You actually did that thing that small children do at one point, and went, "Please-ah!"
That has upset me no end.
That is a horrible insight.
Well, you know, as the barrel dad will tell you,
these kids have got to make their own mistakes.
'Do you want to give me some stats or something? Yeah, well, they got a lot in.
'At the end of the ten minutes,
they had nine bricks, a wooden column, an olive press,
a bowling ball, a jerrycan, a watering can, two plastic trays,
a steel drum, three books and an Iain Stirling.
So that's 89.1kg, which is 14 stone,
which is an Alex Horne, or three Dalmatians,
or two toilets or a reindeer.
81kg? 89.1kg plus an Iain Stirling - I don't know how much Iain weighs.
Oh, you haven't found that out?
No. It's hard to sneakily weigh people.
Only one more part to go until someone wins a BMX and a fake beard.
See that happen in Part Four!
APPLAUSE
Hello, and welcome back to the last part of the show.
Weren't we in the midst of a team task?
Yes, and we're breaking new boundaries,
because this one involves a hammock. GREG GASPS
Now it's time for Mrs G and Mr T.
The bath? Oh, get the bath.
I assume it's going to be unloaded and weighed.
Is that going to happen? That's not going to happen.
Ohh!
I think it might break the hammock.
I think this might break the hammock.
Shall we get that out? Yeah.
Hold on a minute...
Are we...? Can't we unplug the hammock
and just put the hammock flat on the floor...
Ha-ha-ha! I like... This is...
Got it off? Yeah. Right. Good.
Round the arc. Yeah.
So you're saying that bath is in the hammock?
Yep. Yeah.
Two of them. Two of them.
Oh, Joe!
Oh, were we putting that in the hammock?
'In a way, I think that strengthens our argument that it's still a hammock, actually.
Hammock in the hammock.
It is touching the ground as well, but...
Well, it was touching the ground when it was a hammock.
It was touching the ground before. Barrel in.
I'm just going to handle this... Yes, OK.
There's a tyre. Tyre - that'll do.
Good.
OK. Ta-da.
HE BLOWS WHISTLE
Brilliant. Thanks, guys.
Thank you. I'll weigh everything now.
I think we did all right there.
APPLAUSE
There was certainly some lovely, friendly behaviour going on there,
which is to be commended.
Teamwork. Yeah. Now, was there anything in a hammock there?
Everything.
What's the difference between "on" and "in"? Well...
Nothing.
You know, if you were IN a field,
you'd also be ON a field.
"In" can describe something...
The situation of something that is, or appears to be,
enclosed or surrounded by something else.
And it was surrounded by... Yes.
All right, I'm going to allow it. They were in a hammock.
But was it a hammock? Yes. Yes.
Well, yeah.
A hammock has to be suspended from two things, apparently.
Where did you get this definition from?
Uh, Google Maps.
LAUGHTER
If you were going to order a hammock online now... Yeah. Yeah.
..it would arrive in a box. It would. It's still a hammock.
I think it's stretching it to say that's fully a hammock.
I would like to have seen it suspended.
So I would have to dock something
for the fact that it's not been suspended.
But outside of that, it's valid.
The only problem we've got, as far as I can see,
is we don't know what sort of kg that Iain Stirling's packing.
Although there is another problem with their attempt. Is there?
I did spot something. OK. Do you want to have a look? Yep.
Go - run, quick.
Yeah. Go on, chuck it in.
'Go on. Maybe they'll put it all in the one side.
'LOU: 'I caught it, I caught it!' 'You didn't catch it.'
'LOU: 'I caught it. I CAUGHT IT!'
'I CAUGHT IT!
LAUGHTER
I tell you what, I don't need to make a judgment here.
Is there any way of playing it again?
What, the very last two seconds?
I just want you to watch Lou Sanders' eyes,
and this is how I know I haven't got to make a judgment!
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
So are we saying the team of three was definitely disqualified?
I'm afraid so. Zero points for the team of three.
Not zero - I caught the book.
No, I'm afraid so. It was very clear in the rules.
I'm going to give Sian and Joe 3 points each.
LOU: What? I think it's a lovely decision.
Thank you. Sian and Joe get 3 points each!
APPLAUSE
Could we perhaps have a score update before the final task?
Yes. Paul, solid on 7. Iain and Lou on 10.
We have two leaders, though - Joe and Sian, both on 15 points!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Go on, then, clear off, all of you,
and make your way to the stage for the final task of the show.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
APPLAUSE
Hi, contestants. Hi, Alex. Oh, hi, Greg.
What's the final task?
I'm going to ask Lou Sanders to reveal the wording of it. Oh, nice!
OK. Um...
Choose a hoop that you think you can throw a frying pan into.
Choose a distance from which you can throw a frying pan into that hoop.
If you choose the big hoop, you have one attempt.
If you choose the medium hoop, you have two attempts.
If you choose the small hoop, you have three attempts.
The person who throws most of their frying pan into the hoop
from the longest distance wins.
OK. Pretty straightforward stuff.
So, the person in the lead is going to place their hoop first.
In this case it is Joe and Sian. SIAN: Joe.
'So, Joe, you, as the gentleman, will go first. OK. Yeah. Rightly so.
That's the phrase, innit - "gentleman's first".
Pick a hoop and place it.
'I'm going to go for the middle one. Middle hoop.
'That seems like a... I don't know.
I haven't done this before.
Can we get Sian to place her hoop, please?
'Choose a hoop and place it.
I'm going middle. Good.
You know, average.
'Are you going beyond or before Joe?
'That. Are you going for a draw?!
'You've put it exactly the same as Joe.
'That's the sort of teamwork that got them points in the bath task.
'It's lovely. Next up, Iain, please.
'Again, middle.
Who's going to put their head above the parapet for the small one?
I think I know who. I mean, these are all ambitious placings.
So far it looks like the first bit
of a really shit Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Lou up next. I played this game at school, actually.
Yeah.
One hoop...
from a weighty distance.
Big hoop, big distance.
Finally, Paul Sinha.
Lovely stuff, lovely stuff.
APPLAUSE
It's quite clever, because if no-one else lands a pan, Paul wins, right?
If no-one lands a pan, Paul wins. We've always said that. Yeah.
So it is the closest hoop that goes first - that's you, Paul.
Paul's going to land a pan in that. Go on, Paul! Good luck, Paul.
CHEERING
APPLAUSE
Most of the frying pan is in the hoop.
You may sit on the bench successfully.
That's got to feel good, Paul.
Next up, purple to throw.
'Two attempts. Two attempts.
'I'll retrieve it if you miss with the first.
AUDIENCE: Aw!
'LOU: I win!
You've got your eye in there, right?
'I mean, it landed in it.
I don't really know what you're supposed to do.
You want to get most of the pan into your hoop.
LAUGHTER
Thanks.
'Lovely.
'AUDIENCE: Ohh! Get in!
APPLAUSE
'Next up, Sian Gibson to throw.
'You have two attempts.
Long time since we've seen Gibson in the arena.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE I get it. You have to...
I'm going for a side one.
AUDIENCE: Ooh!
Oh! That's close.
Next to throw is green - Iain Stirling.
Oh, the cocky young puppy.
Let's see if his pan-throwing
lives up to his attitude.
AUDIENCE: Ooh!
Nearly. Yeah.
'I... You want that one back?
I'm like one of those tennis players.
That's his luck...
LAUGHTER
That's his lucky pan.
Thank God we've got such a good pan boy.
You sweating, mate?
Come on.
AUDIENCE: Oh!
Oh-ho! Do you want to check the pan, Greg? Of course not!
She has one throw - it's the large hoop.
If this misses, Paul Sinha wins.
But what if it goes in? Imagine.
Good luck, Lou.
Imagine if it does go in.
Oh, my God!
IAIN: Go on, Lou.
CHEERING
APPLAUSE
Yes!
I mean, in all of Pan Hoop history...
I have never seen a gameplay like that.
Right, well, come down -
we'll work out what that does for the final scores.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
That was a pretty sport-defining moment, I would say, for Pan Hoop.
Mm. It was harrowing and wonderful.
What's it done to the scores?
Well, the individual scores for that game were...
0 points to Iain, 0 to Sian, 0 to Joe.
Paul - 4 points for his tactical mastery.
APPLAUSE
But the Pan Hoop Champion 2019,
without a doubt, is Lou Sanders.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
And it means we have...
a three-way tie at the top.
Lou, Joe and Sian all have 15 points!
APPLAUSE Oh, my God!
How are we going to find out a winner?
With an encore - which is, of course, French for tiebreak.
And for this tiebreak, they had to stand behind a line,
whip a bottle off a barrel.
The fastest to whip the bottle off the barrel wins.
Got it? Yes. OK, so here they all are doing the Whip Tiebreak.
Time starts now.
Ooh, close.
There we go. Ooh!
Pleased with yourself? Very.
Like Dolly Parton.
APPLAUSE
Three whips - crack 'em down.
Yes. Yes, it was.
And the scores are pretty clear-cut.
52 seconds, Lou. 50.3 second, Joe.
But 9,4 seconds to the winner of the show - Sian Gibson!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Sian Gibson is the winner of tonight's episode.
Excellent work.
Please go grab your Doctor's Orders.
So, what have we learned today?
We've learned that parenting is easy -
dazzle them with bright colours, interesting textures,
and teach them about the brutal, indiscriminate slaughter of animals.
But the good news was that Sian Gibson won the show.
What a victory, what a person,
what a night - what a goodbye!
Goodbye.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
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