0:00

There it is! I

0:04

didn't recognize it today, Jack. What's happening to

0:06

you? Oh no, it begins. Yeah,

0:09

the slippery slope. I'm half

0:11

way down it. Nice

0:13

to see you both, Jack. What episode

0:15

are we on now? We're on

0:17

episode three. It's episode three of

0:19

series 17 of Taskmaster. Roaring by.

0:21

It's roaring by. It's going very

0:23

quickly. I hate

0:26

this period where it goes very... because it feels like the

0:28

start of the series is, you know, like, you're like, oh,

0:30

this is great. We've got a whole series ahead of us.

0:32

And then like the week start going up and you're like,

0:34

oh no, there's only seven left. Then six,

0:36

then five, that's how it works. That's how

0:39

numbers work. You've been watching number blocks, haven't you?

0:41

I haven't been watching number blocks because Arlo and

0:43

I tried it and we fucking hated it. What

0:47

I really didn't like about it is it has

0:50

a whole load of bollocks about one. One

0:52

is not as good as two. And I

0:55

think it's a bit anti-only children. No,

0:58

oh no. Hang on. Wait. I

1:00

think actually I don't like this message.

1:02

OK. One is not as good as... We

1:04

can have a separate podcast about number blocks.

1:06

But if you got to the end of

1:08

the episode, you would see they were like,

1:10

one makes up everyone. So one is actually

1:12

the most important number. I didn't get that

1:14

far. I didn't get

1:16

that far. Anyway, listen, some

1:19

people don't know what we're talking about. We

1:21

apologize for that. Occasionally we do grandchild and

1:23

children catch ups. Yeah. It's

1:26

a crucial section of the show. Someone

1:29

sent me a potty training

1:31

manual on the internet. Not

1:37

like a hardback book would pull out pictures and

1:39

things like that. No. And

1:41

music would come in. It was very graphic. Those

1:45

books that you said pull flaps and chains.

1:47

There should be one where you can pull

1:49

a chain and you get

1:51

flushing. Do

1:54

you mean the toilet? Do you want to invent a toilet? Yeah.

1:56

No, I've got a toilet. In a book form.

1:58

In a book form. Yeah,

2:00

anyway, this is my next task.

2:03

I'm going to go back to episode three

2:06

of Taskmaster 17. Yeah,

2:08

it is. I feel

2:11

like this is the episode where

2:13

it became clear, if

2:15

it wasn't clear previously, that the

2:17

top three are the top three in the bottom two. I'm

2:20

not having it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I

2:22

still think those tables can turn. Jenny,

2:25

I can tell you, I'm going to get a first

2:27

spat out of the way early. The

2:30

gap between first,

2:32

the gap between Steve

2:35

and Nick and Sophie at the bottom is 21 points.

2:45

Not only the biggest gap ever

2:48

between two contestants. It's

2:50

not just Steve up there. He's in

2:52

joint position, isn't he? He's in position

2:54

with John. Look, all I'm saying is

2:57

that John, no, John, Joanne and Steve

2:59

know exactly what's going on. Sophie

3:03

and Nick are languishing

3:05

at the bottom and it's fine. It's fine if that's

3:07

how it's worked out. I love it. All

3:09

I mean is that that gap is as big

3:12

as any gap we've ever seen before. Okay, I'm

3:14

really glad the bottom two are

3:16

not only ones. Going back to number

3:19

thingy again. I'm glad there are two of

3:21

them sharing. They get to share. They get

3:23

to share at the bottom. There's

3:26

absolutely no shame because the two

3:28

of them, in my opinion, are

3:30

giving me the most laughs. They

3:33

are extremely funny and there were several

3:36

incredible moments in this episode. This

3:38

is a classic episode and I have to say that

3:40

this series has got some of the finest challenges of

3:43

all the series. I think it

3:45

feels really fresh and

3:47

really kind of, I don't know, buzzy. It

3:50

does feel a bit buzzy. I think it's because they've got a very...

3:54

I mean obviously the budget goes up every year it

3:56

feels like and as we see there's a vehicle in

3:58

this episode which is very exciting. Are

4:00

you talking about the golf cart? I'm talking about

4:03

a golf cart, yeah. They got

4:05

a celebrity guest on the golf carts. They're

4:07

doing very well for themselves. It

4:12

feels like, yeah,

4:14

there's, I mean,

4:17

again, I feel like we say this every series, but

4:19

it feels like each time you're like, Oh, what are

4:21

they going to do now? It'll just be more of

4:23

the same. It feels like something else twists and changes

4:25

to make it even weirder and even cooler. Something

4:27

else comes after the bag, doesn't it?

4:29

Exactly. Right. Go

4:32

on. Let's go to Task 1, Jack. Fill me in. Task

4:34

1 was the best thing for a person that is meant

4:36

for an animal. And it feels

4:38

like this was the

4:41

mirror image of a task that was in last series, which

4:43

was the best thing for a grownup that is meant for

4:46

a child. If you

4:48

remember last year where they kind of- Well, I

4:50

remember the task. I cannot remember any of the

4:52

things people brought in. Well, I can

4:54

remember one thing that was brought in. I think

4:56

it's relevant here. Sam

4:59

Campbell brought in his birth certificate

5:01

and said like, Oh, it's for the child,

5:03

but it's the best thing for a grownup.

5:05

And Greg got really annoyed because he was

5:07

like, that's not how you use a birth

5:09

certificate. You're using a birth certificate for a-

5:11

I was on Sam's side for this, yes.

5:13

You were on Sam's side. Yeah, I was.

5:16

Well, what's interesting, or I find

5:18

it interesting, is I think John's

5:21

entry, which won the Elephant Chair,

5:24

I think you could make the same argument that

5:27

Greg made against Sam, but,

5:29

you know, and take

5:32

away points because technically, what

5:35

John has brought in is a really

5:37

good chair that is a stride. It

5:39

should be a stride, an elephant. It

5:42

should be on an elephant and then you use it like a

5:44

chair. A human uses it like a chair.

5:46

They don't use it like an animal would unless you

5:48

put it on the back of a human. And

5:51

Greg is big enough. He's

5:53

got down on all fours and

5:55

I would happily sit on that.

5:57

I think they're called howders, you

5:59

know. the house on the back of

6:01

an elephant. So if Greg would like to

6:03

put that on his back, I

6:06

think I'd be fighting off quite a lot of other

6:08

middle aged ladies to sit on

6:10

his back. I don't know

6:12

if that I'd like him to crawl

6:14

around the park with me on

6:17

his howler on his back. I

6:19

don't think Greg was like, Oh, good, I should

6:21

get that I should give that five points so

6:23

that Jenny Eclair can sit on my back. In

6:25

the back. If he ever

6:27

heard this podcast and that he would

6:29

torch the howler if it actually

6:31

exists in real life. Now I didn't match, I

6:34

saw the end of the episode but I didn't.

6:36

Was the howler there in real life

6:38

or was it a photo? I feel like

6:40

it was there in real life. Actually, that's a really good

6:42

point. Let's check. We should check because I didn't watch that

6:44

either. I can't see it.

6:46

I can't see it on the stage. Yeah, because

6:48

it was a photograph grabbed from the internet.

6:52

Oh, John. Yeah, John.

6:54

I hope that's not okay. Oh, no,

6:56

no, no, it's there. It's there. It's there. Sorry. Okay.

7:00

Okay. Okay. John took it. What? So

7:02

I think Greg got distracted as we

7:04

all did by the way that John

7:06

presented it implied that the elephant would

7:09

sit in the chair. And

7:11

I was very much like, I never got that I never

7:13

know. That's

7:15

insane. What's wrong with the day

7:18

God in heaven. We're not like, Oh, it's a

7:20

chair for an elephant. No, in a

7:23

second. I imagine an elephant

7:25

on a psychiatrist couch. I

7:29

was sort of brought up in the 1960s

7:31

where picture books of elephants

7:33

often had the chair on the

7:35

back with a smiling waving children.

7:38

They realized that it's actually quite cruel and

7:40

it chases their skin and it's not like,

7:42

like the intro to succession they have a

7:44

they're on an elephant at one point in

7:46

the children are on the elephant. I

7:49

was sort of imagining like Baba, just

7:53

on the on the chair, be like, Hello. Yeah,

7:56

Baba might but you know, no,

7:58

it's Baba also wears clothes. I'm

8:00

aware that bar bar's not a normal animal. Yeah,

8:02

yeah, I mean, he's very smart and dapper

8:05

man. Bar bar, green

8:07

suit, all babies love that.

8:09

He's my style icon. But

8:11

everyone else... I

8:14

think it was a good, no, I'm going to disagree

8:16

with you. I think it

8:18

was worth every one of those five points. I

8:21

think you can disagree, but I think if you disagree, then

8:24

you have to give John, I

8:26

think you have to give Sam, retrospectively, you have to

8:28

give him four extra points. That's how I feel about

8:30

that. But what did I say about Sam back in

8:32

the day? I said he deserved more points. And he

8:34

mostly said he hates his clothes. That's all I remember.

8:38

Well, it's on his side for that one. Nick, no,

8:40

Nick let himself down a little bit, didn't he? Nick,

8:44

I was a bit bummed out by this

8:46

as well. Nick.

8:50

Like, he seemed a bit like he came up

8:52

with it and then was like, oh no. He

8:54

felt like he came up with it and then

8:56

was like, oh, I shouldn't have said that, should

8:58

I? I really shouldn't have like, it sort of

9:00

works. But then, I don't know,

9:02

just seeing the image of it, which is just a cone over a

9:04

hand, you're like, oh, no,

9:08

no, production team who can make miracles

9:10

as a very little could not do

9:13

anything with the cone. It

9:16

just looks quite shit. I mean,

9:18

as soon as you saw it, we thought, oh, Nick, that's one point.

9:22

Animals aren't like, you're not like, you should

9:24

be finding things that animals like to do

9:26

that gives animals joy and then going, imagine

9:28

if we could recreate that joy for a

9:31

human. That feels like the root, not like

9:33

animals scratch themselves sometimes, we should stop them

9:35

from scratching themselves. Let's put the thing that

9:37

they hate. Dogs

9:39

don't love the cone. No, they don't. No,

9:41

no, it was he knew his little face

9:43

dropped. It was a shame. Yeah, it was

9:45

a shame. I was disappointed by

9:47

Steve's as well this week. It was

9:49

a rare drop

9:52

in his standards. Well,

9:54

I think this is the risk that you

9:56

run if you do very, very well

9:58

or put a lot of effort into all of

10:00

your prize tasks, the moment you don't, you

10:02

get punished. Because I think that Greg, like,

10:06

Greg, you know, understands that high

10:08

effort should get rewards by hitting, he also doesn't

10:10

like high effort. So if you then do low

10:12

effort, he'll be like, nah, I

10:15

think if, I think if

10:17

someone like Sophie had brought this in and

10:19

had talked a good game around it, I

10:21

think it could have got three to four

10:23

points. But I think because Steve has been

10:25

doing so much effort, you were sort of

10:27

expecting to say like, I've

10:29

given you this brush. But not only that,

10:31

I sent the brush to the RSPCA and I've had

10:34

it like, verified

10:36

and I've sent it to Ben Fogel or

10:38

to David Attenborough and David Attenborough has done

10:40

something with it as well. But because there

10:42

was none of that, you're sort of like,

10:44

okay. It was a rare misstep for Steve,

10:46

I think. Yeah. We just gloss over that.

10:48

And I thought Joanne played a very good

10:50

game with her high task this week. And

10:52

she really stood up for herself and she

10:54

was very funny about it. It was very

10:56

funny. Brought in a trough. Yeah.

10:59

I think Joanne has the gift of the

11:02

gab, like no one else in the sense

11:04

that I don't think anyone else could have

11:06

brought in a trough and then been like, then

11:08

they got four points. But it was talking about the

11:10

ham hock was the thing, the ham on the bone,

11:13

the ham hocks, it

11:15

was wonderful. It was just... She

11:17

conjured up a picture of those

11:19

people who, well, we all

11:21

know what they do and how

11:23

they are and being through all that kind of thing.

11:25

Yeah. And they sort of use

11:28

them to keep their beer in or whatever. I don't know.

11:30

It's kind of a bit

11:32

hipster kind of of the land. I

11:35

feel like you could make a Netflix show about these

11:37

imaginary people. Like a sort of like... Yeah. And

11:39

we do all recognize them. A competition show where

11:41

the people, they use their troughs to make ham

11:43

hock. And I don't quite know how it would

11:46

work. And they do a little bit of landscape

11:48

gardening. Yes. Yeah. And they are they're always holding

11:50

an axe. I think, yeah, I can

11:52

definitely see this. And they

11:54

like dancing round a fire. Yes.

11:57

Yes. They worship Satan. I

11:59

can't. I don't know where we're going. No,

12:01

yeah, a killer pig and then the

12:03

ham hock. And then there's the ham hock. So

12:06

good for Joanne for this one. Good for

12:08

Joanne. And I mean, Sophie, I loved Sophie.

12:12

Yeah. And she played

12:14

it very well. Again, she stood up

12:16

for stuff. It was one of those

12:18

timed cat feeder dispensers. And

12:21

it was for Greg and she was straight

12:23

to the point that he needed

12:25

it for discipline and structure

12:27

in his life. And then you said, are

12:29

you calling me fat? Yeah. And

12:32

she said, well, I was worried about that. So I talked

12:34

to the production and they said, no, turn

12:36

like it is. He needs to know. He needs

12:38

to hear this. The line, no,

12:40

he needs to hear it, just

12:42

said so casually. Yeah. Oh, so

12:44

funny. I mean, she's so funny.

12:46

She's really skilled. She's skilled knowingly

12:49

and she's skilled unknowingly. She's

12:52

got both things going on for her. I

12:55

feel like I've seen that cat feeder before. I think

12:57

it was in the New Year's Treats. Do you remember

12:59

the one where they had to make everything pop up?

13:01

I think that was the same cat feeder. Definitely was

13:03

the cat feeder in the globe, in

13:05

the, you know, what do we ever call

13:08

it? The orb, whatever. The orb, the orb

13:10

of doom, the hip-hop hideout. The, yeah, that,

13:12

that. A good memory.

13:14

Yeah. So that's the,

13:16

the scores were thus. Five

13:19

for John, one for Nick, two

13:21

for Steve, one for Joanne, three

13:24

for Sophie. And that's

13:26

that. So we're off. We're off. And

13:34

we're on to task one now. This is

13:37

where we've seen this in quite a lot

13:39

of the trailers, the handmaidens' tail bonnet. Yes.

13:41

I was wondering when these handmaidens' tail bonnets were going to

13:44

come up. I liked

13:46

how everyone seemed to mention it. That was nice

13:48

as well. Yeah. Yeah. Cultural

13:50

reference. I know that I, typically, I

13:53

would know what it was, but I'd

13:55

forgotten what it was. Yeah.

13:58

It made a bit of a balls up. I was

14:00

going, oh, it's like The Walking Dead, isn't it?

14:02

It's like that one with the women in the

14:05

bonnet, Sam. You know, what's

14:07

a face, did it in a beep

14:09

and then it was a telly thing.

14:11

Pride and prejudice, that's it. Yeah, yeah,

14:13

bit of bonnet drama. Anyway, it

14:16

was complicated, this one. It was

14:18

complicated. It was a very complex

14:20

task. It was. It

14:22

was, I mean, there were

14:24

several elements that made it quite intimidating. I think

14:26

the bonnet definitely didn't help things. Sort

14:29

of like taking out your sight from behind. I

14:32

understand why they did it because you don't

14:34

want to sort of accidentally see, as

14:37

one contestant does later, but at the

14:39

same time, it does make the whole thing, it kind

14:41

of gives the whole thing a torture vibe where you're

14:44

sort of like, what, who's following you are being stalked

14:46

right now. It's like something out of a saw. Again,

14:48

I feel like I say that every week, but it's

14:50

like something out of saw where you're being hunted by

14:52

someone. Do you think I've ever seen saw in my

14:55

life? I haven't actually ever seen saw, but I feel

14:57

like culturally I know what it sort of is. Sorry,

15:01

that just went straight over my head, hit the

15:03

back wall, bounced off and didn't even hit

15:05

me again. So yeah,

15:07

I got a bit confused over

15:09

this one, but not as confused

15:12

as some of the contestants. Yeah,

15:14

they were being followed by basically

15:16

Mr. Blobby. And

15:18

he was on a motorized golf

15:20

trolley. I

15:26

feel like I would have been in the boat that

15:28

Sophie was in, because she started to be like, who

15:30

is it? Is it my friend? Is it my friend

15:32

Amy? Which is

15:34

so funny, but I think I would have been

15:37

like that because like, like who else? It's not

15:39

actually Mr. Blobby. But when you turn, like, I

15:41

think I feel like John and

15:44

Steve seem to get the concept quicker than I

15:46

did while I was watching it, which is that

15:48

it actually wasn't going to be the person. So

15:51

I was sort of a bit confused. Like, in my head, I've

15:53

been like, who do I know who drives a golf cart? I

15:56

was just I was immediately thinking

15:58

in cartoons. The we treat

16:01

our team Canada Ice as when

16:03

they said it began with Seattle's

16:05

is Bluey. I have been watching

16:07

too much a children's television so

16:10

I asked. Yeah I I. I

16:12

knew that it was a character

16:14

and I didn't. Think Mr Blobby

16:16

saw that one or that did

16:18

not suited a that penny dropped

16:20

for ages. I think what's

16:22

quite interesting about this task is

16:24

it's one of those is what

16:27

we're seeing a bit more more

16:29

commonly now, which is that I

16:31

think before series. Honestly, before Series

16:33

fourteen, I did that ever had

16:35

a task where you needed outside

16:37

knowledge of cultural references. Ah,

16:40

In the show that was a task they did

16:42

that was a which movie when amount to work

16:44

out what movie they were in which which requires

16:46

a level of of understanding of like culture references

16:48

outside of toss muslim and then oversee last year

16:50

there was the one that was. Ah

16:53

just were to come with the answer and you

16:56

have to kind of know yeah he haven't done

16:58

much else would come was soon. As as and

17:00

never seen this series and Iran the think god

17:02

this the. Is the movie versions movie yeah

17:04

guessing the movies so is. It does feel

17:06

it was sort of looting and more into

17:08

like I suppose his tonsils the gets bigger

17:11

economic like take on these like having Mr

17:13

Blobby in the so we're having like a

17:15

reference point in the show is a very

17:17

small Mr Blobby. he my only small. Was

17:21

a real totally need to have a real

17:23

man inside? Yes. yes I think that that

17:26

was. Again, what was slightly confusing because the

17:28

person answering the questions were saying like is

17:30

there a man and I don't see the

17:32

person. Who was awesome questions? Wasn't

17:34

Mr. Blobby? really as the years

17:36

of like should make a good

17:39

way. to

17:43

the get a bit but i'm really

17:45

sorry i cannot do a mr blobby

17:47

impressions i mean a in obesity best

17:49

it sends a set of dollars that

17:51

whistles least as send us contacts list

17:54

voice my ss officer doing a mr

17:56

bobby impression that that's what we meet

17:58

with miss out remember it

18:00

was it was it was um the

18:03

DJ no

18:07

no letman's fucking stupid

18:09

house couldn't keep awesome and

18:11

it was just huge wasn't it for a while

18:13

it was I think what's weird is it was

18:16

it was very very big and I think that

18:18

everyone who is in this cast

18:21

really loved mr. blobby or knew

18:23

mr. blobby was well

18:27

yeah Joanne in a sort of young person's kind

18:29

of you know what I mean I

18:38

mean no most cynical right-minded comedy

18:40

people think he's an asshole I have

18:46

seen footage of him attacking Patricia Routledge in what's

18:48

their keeping on appearances and that's very funny but

18:50

also I can imagine that would be a nightmare

18:52

if you'll just route which I

18:54

feel like so actually Joanne because Joanne

18:56

said earlier on in the series comedy

19:00

hero greatest physical meeting of our time I thought was

19:02

just a joke but then I looked it up on

19:04

Twitter and she has said

19:06

that many times before I'm gonna have

19:08

to reevaluate mr. blobby which also makes

19:10

me wonder it did did Alex know

19:12

this beforehand I think there's a fascinating I

19:16

believe she already mentioned it on

19:18

the series but we don't know

19:20

when the filming well I suppose

19:22

so so we I think we

19:24

know that the house stuff happens

19:26

before the special location stuff so

19:29

there is a chance that when

19:31

Joanne off-handedly mentioned mr. blobby as a

19:33

hero Alex went I'm going to make

19:35

that into a task that we will

19:38

do in the in the later ones

19:40

or it's just a

19:43

complete coincidence which I think well actually

19:45

we have something coming up later on

19:47

look back at mr. blobby in a

19:49

postmodern kind of way I honestly

19:52

do you think we do have to and I think the

19:54

taskmaster is helping us do that because what I was gonna

19:56

say was that the people of a younger

19:59

generation quite a lot of Taskmaster fans and people who've

20:01

been on the show have no knowledge of who Mr.

20:03

Blobby is. Well, treat

20:05

yourselves. Go down a Mr. Blobby

20:07

wormhole. Do it for me so that I

20:09

don't have to do it for you. Because I don't

20:11

know whether I could hack it, to be quite

20:13

honest. That's fair. I'm not sure

20:16

I could hack it either, to be honest.

20:18

So Joanne actually won the task, but

20:21

she fell down because, as you say, it was a

20:23

very complicated task, because it wasn't just yes or no.

20:26

They had to answer yes or no questions, but instead

20:28

of being told

20:30

yes or no, they were

20:32

given a serious... A mammal

20:34

for yes, a bird for

20:36

no, an amphibian when the

20:38

person behind Mr. Blobby did

20:40

not know whether it was a

20:42

yes or a no. So Joanne asked,

20:47

did someone else have I slept with him more? Yes,

20:49

someone said, have I been drunk with you? Have I

20:52

been inside you? Was one. And the

20:55

answer there was kiwi. And then Joanne

20:58

said, is kiwi a mammal? What the

21:00

fucking kiwi? Yeah, there

21:02

was quite a lot. But then,

21:05

you know, in those situations, you do

21:08

suddenly freeze and go, hold on, what

21:10

actually... And the amphibian thing is interesting,

21:12

because nobody really knows. And then

21:14

as Alex pointed it out, it's

21:16

an animal that starts underwater

21:20

like a tadpole swimming, swimming, swimming, and then

21:22

can live on dry land too when it

21:24

becomes a frog. I think I

21:27

would have been in trouble if it had been one

21:29

of the answers was reptile and the other one was

21:31

amphibian, because I feel like I do

21:33

not have a full grasp of what is

21:35

the difference between... I know what the difference

21:37

between a reptile and an amphibian is, but

21:39

I feel like... Reptiles are born in eggs,

21:41

aren't they? Yeah. So I get... When you

21:43

say it out loud... On the spot. On

21:45

the spot. If they said salamander, I'd be

21:47

like, oh, okay. I'd be thinking,

21:50

is it egg or is it underwater? Yeah. And

21:52

I have to shout that. And then

21:54

they would... Listen, very funny questions

21:56

from Sophie. Hold on, I

21:59

have to... Have you used Nexcel sheet? It

22:03

was just really, really random. Do

22:05

you think Mr. Bobby's used Nexcel

22:07

sheet? I think he has. That's

22:10

my feeling. No, I'm

22:12

not even going there. It

22:17

was quite hard work and

22:19

Sophie, you have to keep it

22:22

as, the furthest distance from the duck

22:24

as you possibly could. Both Sophie

22:26

and Nick collided into the duck. Sophie

22:28

decided to pick the duck up

22:30

on its stand and move with it. As

22:33

she did that, she turned around and

22:35

saw Mr. Bobby, so she was disqualified.

22:38

My question here is, I think this

22:40

might be a unique way of measuring

22:42

something. It

22:45

wasn't based on how quickly you get the

22:47

answer, which would mean that you just rattle

22:49

through questions. It wasn't based on how few

22:52

questions you answer. There was

22:54

a task in series 13 where they had to guess

22:56

the shoe that Alex was thinking of. You

22:59

could spend as long as you like doing it, but

23:01

it was based on how many questions you ask. The

23:04

thing was, you had to choose your questions very carefully.

23:08

In this one, you don't have that option because

23:10

you have to keep stepping forward. Also,

23:14

you can't go quickly because otherwise then you would

23:16

just sprint towards the duck. There's

23:19

a lot of different things to consider. My

23:21

question was, if you are Nick and you

23:23

get to the duck, could you carry on

23:25

going? Yes, that's what they said. You had to just walk

23:28

beyond the duck and then you just tally

23:30

it up. I think

23:32

they said, I think Alex

23:35

said we'll just go based on time at

23:37

that point, which I thought was a bit confusing because

23:39

I couldn't quite work out when the measure changed. I

23:42

just don't think they thought anyone would get up to

23:44

the duck. They didn't rely on... They

23:46

didn't see Nick and Sophie as being as bad

23:48

as they actually are. They are wonderfully

23:51

bad. The bit

23:54

when Nick said, are you a big

23:56

grasshopper? It really made me laugh. I

23:58

mean, God, what's going on with you? Nick

24:00

there. What does he think is happening? It's

24:03

smaller than a big tree. What's

24:05

a big tree? They were getting quite lost

24:07

at this point. They were, but I sort

24:09

of think you could potentially game the system

24:12

because the task says, walk towards

24:14

the duck. But you could make the argument that once

24:16

you get to the duck, you are then walking past

24:19

it and then saying like, well, I'm still walking towards

24:21

it just the other way around the world and then

24:23

get as far away as you possibly can from the

24:25

duck and then win the task.

24:27

Couldn't you? No, Jack. No, that's not going

24:29

to... Correct you? No, no. What they were

24:32

going to do was they

24:34

were going to measure how far,

24:36

how close you got to the duck and then,

24:38

oh, no. I don't do... Because

24:41

the measurement system was a little bit fizzy.

24:43

You could have been trying this whole episode

24:46

really fucked with my head. Yes, I

24:48

know what you mean. And there was

24:50

one, the one we're going to talk

24:52

about later, that definitely fucked with my

24:54

head. So I'm struggling already. So let's

24:56

not do... Let's not build further. Because

25:00

I will just melt down inside. Basically

25:04

Nick got infinite paces away from the duck,

25:06

which was not ideal. But Sophie did even

25:09

worse for him by getting disqualified. That

25:11

is Sophie's third disqualification of the

25:14

series. There should be a special

25:16

prize. I mean... There should be a

25:18

special prize. I think there is a little bit of

25:21

a special prize. So

25:23

actually, she's not the only person to

25:25

have this happen to her. Kaiele in

25:27

your series also had three disqualifications in

25:29

three episodes. Charlotte actually managed four disqualifications,

25:32

Charlotte Ritchie in her series after three

25:34

episodes. Johnny, Maquan and

25:36

Catherine. Four in three episodes.

25:38

She did. Brilliant.

25:40

What I will say is a lot of those

25:42

were live tasks and a couple of the live

25:44

tasks were things that are

25:47

really difficult to do and then people just get disqualified

25:49

off the back of it. None of Sophie's

25:51

have been disqualified, have been live

25:54

tasks. They've all been... She

25:56

just keeps going through the live tasks, even

25:58

when things go deserved. just be wrong.

26:01

She's really good at keeping up with the live task.

26:03

But like, her film task, she does a lot. I

26:05

didn't think it was possible to get disqualified from this

26:07

task. And she managed it somehow, just by picking up

26:09

the buck and sparing it with the blobby. Yeah.

26:13

I accidentally disqualification. It wasn't

26:15

an outright cheating. It wasn't

26:17

a day dormant. It wasn't.

26:19

But it was quite it

26:22

was upsetting because you felt like she was

26:24

she was genuinely like, Oh, that's the end

26:26

of the game. Oh, like,

26:28

like, it like she was having a good time

26:30

playing and wanted to get to the end

26:32

of it and work it out herself. Because

26:34

there was a joy that everyone else. I

26:36

mean, we're hoping to talk to Sophie, who

26:38

was the voice of blobby. Like, yeah, I

26:41

mean, some of those birds

26:44

and animals mammals that he

26:46

was throwing back as

26:48

yeses and noes were very obscure.

26:51

They were they were I think

26:54

they I think she must have had a list of

26:56

will and this is Oh, yes, definitely will. I

26:58

think there was a sort of yes, no, and

27:01

maybe list. There's a there's a there's a

27:03

task of series 14 that has a sort

27:05

of similar similar ish, but it's kind of

27:07

the other way around where contestants had to

27:10

if they wanted Alex to move forward, they

27:12

had to if they

27:14

wanted to move forward, they had to say the name

27:16

of a bird, I think. And

27:19

if they wanted them to stop that saying the name of

27:21

a fish, which is the opposite, which means that contestants, instead

27:24

of knowing obscure fishes, had to know a

27:26

lot of fish to in order to play

27:28

the game. So that was quite interesting as well.

27:30

That sort of mirroring. So the

27:32

scores on that Sophie nil disqualified

27:35

Nick to see three, john

27:37

for no one sign. Comedy

27:40

hero, why wouldn't she get five? Absolutely.

27:54

Child care next. This was the

27:56

second task. This is a

27:58

bowl of water in a baby. Yeah.

28:01

Yeah. The jokes to course the

28:03

job through course lovely job is to because

28:05

I I think this was a lovely task

28:07

and it played into the sort of thing

28:09

of like that someone that we've had this

28:11

question been off the Sarah Campbell like stoked

28:14

by the on Ads podcast as talked about

28:16

the idea that see think she did very

28:18

well Toth must the because sheets you know

28:20

like getting people out for breakfast or getting

28:22

people out for out the door during the

28:24

like with the it's a start you need

28:26

a nice be now octopus Absolute I yeah

28:29

I was excluded says of the couple of.

28:31

Lines nine months old twins and say

28:33

you know the get these teacher you

28:35

sweaty and and to in these movements

28:38

on let's see how it is that

28:40

is going and five minutes Be Alpha

28:42

has by. Yeah it definitely sort of

28:44

have that vibe where it was like

28:47

the way it feels like this is

28:49

a at three. Dogs

28:52

trying to answer the question for me which is

28:54

that does being a parent make you better off

28:56

most of our and I guess the answer is

28:58

no because. To

29:00

not is it with this loss? Anyway,

29:03

I am right. Okay well I got

29:05

bit confused with the school and here

29:07

because long since lost the baby. The

29:09

baby was. Made up

29:11

of water just behind the sorry

29:14

sir stresses. Always thought to have

29:16

percentage of babies blasting papers. The

29:18

know babies just more. Sat in

29:20

a baby carrier and know Martin

29:22

how much they spilled. Yes I

29:24

have to really concentrate. Hard to

29:26

know the a quarter is more

29:28

than the sick. Wow yeah I

29:30

I know what you mean. I.

29:33

Do I do know he mean. I.

29:35

feel like they could have gone with

29:37

just percentages know anything slightest little insensitive

29:39

to steve and seven percent in it

29:42

out on the same thing percentages rounds

29:44

and courses and things that fractions those

29:46

the don't spit to fracture dynamo ya

29:48

know i know exactly what you mean

29:51

i feel that's a that's a typical

29:53

horn move to suddenly change the measuring

29:55

system midway through the that it's less

29:57

fuck over the said go But

30:01

I think, I

30:03

mean, I was surprised that Nick was, so Nick has

30:06

three kids. Father of three. Father

30:08

of three. But his point of practice

30:10

was real live babies and not with carrying

30:12

a bucket of water down his front. You

30:15

know, they're two very different things. They are very

30:17

different things. I do. Okay. I'd

30:19

like to think that I would have been good at this task. I

30:21

wouldn't have done what John did because I just

30:24

wouldn't, I think as soon as they're like, this is

30:27

a baby. I was like, it's a baby. We have

30:29

to hold this thing. And the idea also that you

30:31

put the baby down and the baby wouldn't scream. I

30:36

just couldn't, I couldn't get that out of my head. It

30:38

was a very cool thing to do. It was a cool

30:40

customer thing to do, but it was obviously not the first

30:42

thought of a father. I was going to say. He had

30:45

to be a father and he said, the way my life's

30:47

going, I probably won't ever be. So, you know, take from

30:49

that what you will. But

30:51

Joanne and Sophie are not

30:53

mothers either. So, Steve and

30:55

Nick. Steve's also got three. Tom's

30:58

got three. So it's weird. There aren't many. I think

31:00

this might be the first series with two fathers of

31:02

three in it. A lot of

31:04

kids. Three's a lot of kids. I mean,

31:06

two's insane, but three's absolutely fine. Two's

31:09

a standard good number. Well,

31:14

I'm on the side of a single, of

31:16

course. The only one. Right.

31:20

So fill me in on the scores here,

31:22

Jack, because as I say, I've got a

31:24

bit confused and let our listeners know what

31:26

we think of what John did. Because what

31:28

did John do? So John did

31:30

the hack, which I think is always, I

31:32

love it when people find the hack. The

31:35

actual wording of it was, the

31:38

baby must remain in the baby carrier all times

31:40

except during nappy change. It didn't

31:42

say the baby carrier had to remain on you.

31:44

So what John did was take off the baby carrier

31:46

and had a lovely time. I say lovely time.

31:48

Did some chores around. Only

31:51

no problem with the baby sloshing about

31:53

and accidentally washing Greg's

31:55

shoes with some

31:58

baby. We suspect John is dead. looking

32:00

for the hack. As soon as he opens

32:02

the envelope, his first thought is, where's my

32:04

hack? Where's the hack? So he's obviously looking

32:07

under the table for extra tasks. He's

32:10

pointing his, the

32:12

grabber he found in the Patatas task last

32:14

week, he's working around the objects, because he

32:16

clearly loves the show. He's clearly done a

32:19

lot of research in this show. He has

32:21

his own spreadsheet. So he's clearly, he's doing

32:23

a lot of stuff. He's doing a lot

32:26

of stuff here. I really

32:28

need because I just said this book, what he

32:30

really needs is a real live

32:33

baby. Time

32:37

for any fucking spreadsheet. You say

32:39

that. Spreadsheets,

32:43

you know, if you love enough,

32:45

you can find the time. Another

32:50

thing I'd say about this task, I mean, I loved I

32:53

absolutely love Joanne saying, well,

32:55

I mean, it was I'm gonna find the exact word that she

32:57

said. But it was Joanne

33:00

saying, Daddy horn hanging around outside

33:02

doing fuck all fuck all amazing.

33:05

There'll be a separate jet spinning in her grave.

33:08

She was she did, she delivered

33:11

some very good pity lines. Sophie

33:13

attempts to glide through it all.

33:15

Well, yeah, you know, not not

33:18

entirely successful. But she's

33:20

built a fifth. That's not terrible.

33:22

I mean, you know, I

33:25

mean, well, she was second worst. Yeah,

33:27

that's true. That's true. Nick was the

33:29

bottom. You're right. It's confusing when they

33:31

say a quarter because I was like,

33:33

but that's worse than that. I mean,

33:36

yeah, I know. Yeah. I feel

33:38

like as soon as you say move like a swan, Alex

33:40

is then going to say that every time you fall

33:42

over. So it was always a

33:44

risk. Always a risk. So right, have

33:46

we done the scores for that? Well,

33:48

so the scores were five to John,

33:51

four to Steve, three to Joanne, two

33:53

to Nick and one to Sophie in

33:55

the typical, typical place for Soviet things.

33:57

Where she's happiest, I feel. I

34:00

think he's happy. And it's interesting you say happiest

34:02

because I think John, while doing very well in

34:04

this episode and he wins this episode, he doesn't

34:07

seem very happy. And this bit in particular where

34:09

they were like, where you had to

34:11

be like, we're going to let John enjoy

34:13

this. John looked like he was

34:15

having the worst time sitting there being like,

34:18

because he was sure that he's again, he's seen the show many times.

34:20

He was sure there was going to be another bit of easy. He

34:22

was going to let Paul out. They did a 10

34:24

second sort of delay. Just

34:27

let John enjoy his moment. But

34:29

you can see John suddenly

34:32

suspect that Alex is going to

34:34

say, we just need to have a

34:36

look at this bit of footage. Oh, that was so

34:38

good. Let's take another look. And that

34:40

you because John knows this and it was almost quite

34:42

apologetic that Alex was like, no, I don't have anything

34:44

else. Which was... But he only

34:46

just did it in time. And that's why it

34:49

got quite exciting. He was

34:51

right down to the wire before he managed

34:53

to take the baby back into the

34:55

carrier. Yeah. That's true, actually.

34:58

You're right. I think John... I

35:01

still think John's going to win. But I think

35:03

John, he plays with fire sometimes in

35:05

his desire to do things perfectly. I think

35:08

that's what we're enjoying. I think he's taking

35:10

it quite seriously. Task

35:23

three, create tension. Which

35:26

Alex managed to do. They all went

35:28

into the room and felt the atmosphere

35:30

of tension. I

35:33

loved Steve's... Have you had a little accident?

35:35

I felt like

35:37

the closest it's been to League of Gentlemen so

35:39

far. I loved it. I

35:41

loved it so much. And they all were

35:44

freaking out quite a lot. Like Sophie saying,

35:46

is this right? What I liked about Sophie's

35:48

atmosphere, when she went

35:50

in and she felt that tension that Alex

35:52

was emanating, she

35:55

had this face on her that I can

35:57

only describe as the girl that has

35:59

been... called to see the

36:01

Headmaster. Yes, I thought that. A look

36:03

of like... Trying

36:06

to remember what she's in trouble for.

36:08

Yes, it was a

36:10

good look. I enjoyed it a lot. It was sort

36:12

of an author. I don't think it... Because

36:15

she's very confident. It wasn't like she was scared, but

36:17

she was just very much like, okay, I'm in trouble.

36:20

I clearly found something wrong. What is it? What

36:23

is it? Was it smoking behind the bike sheds?

36:25

Was it, you know, nicking whatever? But

36:27

it was such a... It really

36:29

conjured it up because I was

36:31

a regular attendee at the Headmistress' office,

36:34

to be quite honest. And the way

36:36

the study has been set up this

36:38

time is where it did have that

36:41

Headmaster vibe. It's Victoria. Yeah, the Victorian

36:43

school teachers. Yeah, way too far, the

36:45

get-home, etc. Yeah, I

36:48

think this task was great. And I think it's

36:50

part of a series

36:52

of tasks, it feels like, which is

36:54

tasks that are subjective, but are very

36:56

open-ended and very vague. There

36:59

have been... I'd say there have been four other

37:01

ones in the past four series. Series

37:03

13 had a show-off, which

37:05

was quite vague and very much like, you

37:08

know, open-ended and allows you to

37:10

do whatever you want, but is also intimidatingly

37:12

big. Series 14 had Catch Something, which was

37:14

nicely vague as well. Best Catch, or most

37:17

spectacular Catch wins. Series 16

37:19

had Make Mischief. Oh, yes, yes,

37:21

yes, absolutely brilliant. We had the fake

37:23

something. I was going to say your mum was called

37:25

fake something. That was wonderful. Oh, that

37:27

was Frankie's golden moment where he faked his own

37:29

suicide and was being running in his underpants. Perfect,

37:31

perfect. And again, it feels like not to say

37:34

there's a bit of Sophie in you, we said

37:36

this before with the O-C-S-O. Oh, so much. When

37:39

Sophie does something, I would say, oh,

37:41

yeah, I was thinking of doing that.

37:45

She just makes things tense. And it's just

37:48

not tense at all, because it's just far

37:50

too funny. And in actual

37:52

fact, she did it really

37:54

well. She stands on one leg on a chair

37:58

with her hands in a certain position. and

38:01

she balances a cup on her head. So,

38:03

you know, she's definitely anti. I would say

38:05

it's quite similar to her egg. It's

38:08

similar to her egg idea, but with

38:10

added snake kissing. Yeah, yeah. If in

38:12

doubt, balance something on your head. It

38:15

was, I've just written classic, very

38:17

funny. It's

38:20

incredibly funny. And it was very funny for the way

38:22

that she then reenacted it in front of Greg

38:25

in the studio. I think it's very rare

38:27

to, I'm not sure I've ever seen Greg sit cross-legged in the

38:29

studio before. And there

38:31

was something so funny about looking at

38:33

Sophie, like praying down him and just

38:35

Greg's look of pity, confusion,

38:38

like just, okay, here we are.

38:40

A tiny bit of adoration as

38:42

well, because I think Greg really

38:44

appreciates really funny people. And she

38:48

recognized her. He's recognized that she is

38:50

funny. She's very funny. I think both

38:52

Alex and Greg have that same look,

38:55

which was like, this is very

38:57

funny, but also just, I'm in wonder that you

38:59

are doing this. There's a

39:01

kind of look of, wow, here we are. I

39:04

mean, what I'd really like to see was the

39:06

Greg get on all fours and

39:08

the howders, and Sophie do the

39:11

balancing on top of the elephant

39:13

howders. Yes, there we go. The

39:15

snake, it's like, oh God. They

39:18

could take that show on tour. Yeah. It

39:20

deserved more than one point, but that's what it got. Yeah.

39:25

John, I didn't understand what John was doing. What did he

39:27

get his degree in? His

39:29

degree was English. So I'm surprised at this as well. I thought that

39:31

he did. I think he

39:33

might have done physics A level. Possibly.

39:36

I think he may have overthought it is what I think.

39:38

Yeah. Because I think

39:40

that Steve and Nick and

39:43

Joanne actually, they all sort of like went,

39:45

okay, we can go and do something really

39:47

tense and like create you know, we can

39:49

create a magical. And

39:52

I think that possibly what happened is that John

39:54

was looking for the hack. So it

39:56

was like, I'll do something different. I'll do, you know, make

39:58

it happen. And

40:00

then it feels like he

40:02

lost confidence in the idea

40:05

and then had to add in the egg of

40:08

almost certain death or the marble of doom or

40:10

of certain doom. Yeah,

40:13

I was really confused by that point. I

40:15

understood the, I don't know what they're called,

40:17

you get your baby's weight on them still.

40:20

Yes, the tension thing. That is

40:22

a tension thing. The tension scale.

40:24

Maybe if you've got a real live baby and hum

40:28

it really loosely on a string, that would

40:31

have created quite a lot of tension. Oh, I

40:33

think that would have created a lot of tension

40:35

for everyone involved. Yeah, absolutely. It wouldn't have been

40:37

allowed, so I might as well shut up. So

40:40

that's what he did. I

40:44

did enjoy him saying that he created a monkey's worth

40:46

of tension, or Alex saying he created a monkey's worth

40:48

of tension. Great, getting annoyed and saying tell me what

40:50

is in pounds and Alex said, that's how you measure

40:52

tension and jump again with it's not

40:55

measured in fucking monkeys either, mate. Brilliant.

40:58

Absolutely brilliant. It was three points. That's

41:00

what it was actually worth. Nick and

41:02

Steve came in with four points each.

41:05

Nick playing to his, is

41:07

that him being Mr. Swallow? I

41:10

think he was actually thinking he would get it.

41:13

I personally think he thought he was going to

41:15

think it was a little bit like the brick

41:17

egg situation. I'm pretty sure he thought I

41:20

could make this work. And

41:22

it didn't and it was so funny.

41:24

I loved turning the glasses over. I

41:26

do think that Greg was right in

41:28

the sense that it did create a

41:30

lot of tension in the sense that

41:32

because he was so bad at it,

41:34

it was quite hard to watch. Therefore

41:37

that was quite tense. I didn't

41:39

find it hard to watch. I enjoyed

41:42

every second of it. I thought the

41:44

hangman was actually quite tense. The hangman

41:46

I think deserved five personally. I think

41:48

the hangman was, it's again, I

41:50

think this is... If we're talking like

41:52

filmic, this is exactly what I... That's

41:55

Steve's trick though, isn't it? Not his trick, but

41:57

that's one of his skills. It

42:00

actually did remind me of quite a few

42:02

League of Gentlemen things where you say the

42:04

premise is very silly, but because he takes

42:06

it incredibly seriously. It's done with menace. The

42:08

bit where Alex crossed off

42:10

a letter or you know, begins to hang

42:12

them, and Steve just grips

42:15

his neck very subtly. Oh, I

42:17

love that. I love that. Also,

42:20

Steve is very good with words. He's

42:22

very, very quick. So he gets nightclub,

42:26

quicker than most people would. I think that was interesting.

42:28

I think it was the wrong move by Alex to

42:30

go for it. If you can't guess vowels,

42:32

I think Steve's move was right, which was

42:34

go, go vowel heavy or go

42:37

having a vowel at the top. I don't know

42:40

why we're analyzing the choice of the thing

42:42

here, but because nightclub only

42:44

has two vowels, it's quite easy to guess. I

42:47

don't know what Alex thought he was doing

42:49

there. Well, you have 20 minutes or however

42:51

long they have. Sometimes you get hoisted by

42:53

your own petard, don't you?

42:55

Especially when you're playing hangman. Eight, do

42:57

you get it? That's a great joke.

42:59

Now I'm on fire today. I do

43:03

think that what Joanne

43:05

did was very

43:08

tense making. Joanne,

43:10

yeah, perfect. Absolutely perfect.

43:12

No, no. She

43:15

got him to sit on her knee

43:17

at first. And that was sort of uncomfortable,

43:19

but not uncomfortable enough. It

43:21

got really uncomfortable and tense when she

43:24

sat on his knee and

43:26

snuggled in and pretended that,

43:29

well, I don't know whether it's pretend, maybe he

43:31

did remind her of her dead father. I don't

43:33

even know if her father's dead. Which

43:36

I looked it up later. He is

43:38

dead. He died about 21 years

43:40

ago. So that's incredibly tense.

43:44

Danny, real dad. Real dad issues there.

43:50

I also love your salary. Don't lie. Don't lie

43:52

to your mother. I

43:55

Mean, again, it's in a way, it's interesting

43:58

because it feels like Joanne. Those

44:00

the show and she watches was very very

44:02

well. I think she for you as what's

44:04

this or before I wouldn't say she was

44:07

I swear it's she didn't pick up the

44:09

fact that Alex as bad with be closer

44:11

to contact through watching the show. I think

44:13

she picked it up just based on Alex's

44:16

vide is why would suspect that makes sense

44:18

I see anybody sees what's the so would

44:20

know that Alex was not a man comfortable

44:22

at a lap dancing club. Respect

44:25

as think that you get that

44:28

and I were a he's. A

44:30

if he was suited dragged and says we'll

44:32

see off into the lucked out since up

44:34

he would be looking anywhere. Be

44:37

allowed to be going. Learned my lesson,

44:40

He was Texas, a man who is

44:42

really only comfortable with the clipboard in

44:44

his hand. He's not stuff and five

44:46

is dance.things. And

44:50

see. Really played on that. I

44:52

loved her parting shot a statement which

44:54

is never ever look at me again

44:56

yeah affects I think I think she

44:58

played it's exam yeah right Side dishes

45:00

is a sexy intimidating a bad. this

45:03

is just that drop in L a

45:05

good at and also notes like nous

45:07

not not in a shame but no

45:09

no no no you know embarrassment of

45:11

yeah like she does It can only

45:13

do that when you have huge confidence

45:16

and you know it's not jewel modus

45:18

operandi and you know that's not how

45:20

you. Have to upgrade younger your life to get

45:22

anything. Like

45:24

it would be terrible. the see

45:26

blood and it's too strong. A

45:29

was a strong thing today so

45:31

that's heart that was her. She

45:33

got five there again I and

45:35

that she's county the highest score

45:37

at a subjective tasks. As. she's

45:39

doing very well if you take out a

45:41

price tasks so she's points are only phone

45:43

brady as them better him in them subject

45:45

really tough yes yes i mean i phone

45:47

brady was very creative and and seat she

45:50

lost points on the price tasks and joe

45:52

i'm his last part points the price da

45:54

silva in crates of tossed it seems like

45:56

joe and is the one to beat a

45:58

me she's she's kind of She's

46:00

knocking up the scores now, isn't she? As

46:03

you said, there are three racing

46:05

ahead. And as we go to

46:08

the final studio task, it

46:10

is John and Joanne level

46:13

pegging. Neck

46:26

and neck as we go to the final studio

46:29

task. I don't know what they

46:31

call these little things, they used to be really big

46:33

news. Yeah, they're very, I feel like the 90s

46:35

and 80s is where I recognise them from. Like

46:37

I used to have them a lot and they

46:39

would be on, sometimes they were on like pencils,

46:41

little monsters, little monsters that you put down, they

46:44

would jump up. Yeah, they were they were on

46:46

their suction onto hard surface and then they're on

46:48

springs and all of a sudden they spring off.

46:50

They spring up. It feels

46:53

so far up Alex's wheelhouse. I

46:56

like these things. I think they're really cool. I'm

46:58

glad that Alex finds a way to use them.

47:00

I like them. They're sort of, they're like little

47:02

grasshopper things. That's the best way. They

47:05

suddenly jump and they had to catch

47:07

the jumping thing in

47:10

there to whatever or beast or

47:12

whatever in either a

47:14

mortarboard hat, a

47:16

cardboard cuff on their sleeve, bucket on

47:18

their back, something on their leg. They

47:20

were different and you scored different difficulties.

47:24

There's been, there was another task in series nine,

47:26

I think where you had to like throw eggs

47:28

into various levels of difficulty

47:30

around you. This one felt very

47:33

hard, I think. Well, you

47:35

know it must be hard because Joanne did not

47:37

do particularly well in it. Joanne didn't do great.

47:39

So she's been doing really well in studio tasks

47:41

since the first episode when she scored one in

47:43

the prize task and everything else. She's been either

47:45

fours or five. This one

47:47

she was, yeah, she's back to one

47:50

again, which I mean, I really

47:52

like that shot of they had of her chin

47:54

on the rest, just sort of

47:56

very hard concentrating, trying to push it up into the

47:59

right the angle right. It

48:01

feels like a knot, she only got two

48:03

points, she got two points, it wasn't enough.

48:05

Yes, it was a shame. But she

48:08

didn't cheat. And there was a little

48:10

bit of you know, sly handed nonsense

48:12

going on from a couple of the boys.

48:15

I feel like if if Nick had been

48:17

in the lead or if Nick was part

48:19

of the the leading pack, he would have

48:21

been disqualified from the start because his cheating

48:23

was Steve's was a bit more like, oh,

48:25

fine, like, like, just take that one off

48:27

because yeah, whereas Nick Nick just put it

48:29

into his own thing and then told the

48:31

audience to shush, which again, there are cameras

48:33

everywhere, Nick, just think, you know, we wouldn't

48:35

have told on him, nobody was going to

48:37

tell on him, no need a camera is

48:39

going to we're going to tell you know,

48:42

he got a point off or

48:44

two points off whatever, but the scores for

48:46

this in tones of points, Joanne got

48:48

one, Nick got

48:51

to what was up by three and then

48:53

and then went down again, then

48:55

Sophie got three, Steve got four

48:57

and then on the top was

48:59

john with five. Which means across

49:03

the whole series now, it is so

49:05

close between the the top three. I

49:08

think I'm going to just double check exactly what

49:10

like gap has looked like before. There's

49:13

only once in the history of the show have there been three

49:16

contestants on 55 plus points

49:18

after three episodes. Yeah,

49:21

it's both very high scoring

49:23

and very close. Only

49:25

twice previously have there been three contestants within one point

49:27

to each other after three episodes. We've got john on

49:29

57, Joanne on 56 and

49:31

Steve on 56. It is so close and

49:34

they are so tight at the top. It's

49:36

so tight at the top. In

49:38

terms of how they're doing

49:40

like they are all averaging

49:45

over 3.70 points per task, which

49:47

is better than it's better than

49:49

Dara score across the whole series.

49:51

John is on 3.8. Obviously,

49:55

one or two of them will fall away and obviously,

49:57

they can't keep this pace up the whole time. I

50:01

think Dara is still the

50:03

one to beat, but these guys are

50:05

doing very, very, very well. Oh, God.

50:08

Dara, I can imagine Dara at home

50:10

with his big head and his big

50:13

hands stomping his feet. No,

50:15

no! We

50:30

actually have Sophie, the voice of

50:32

Mr Blobby on the line, do

50:34

we not? We're actually joined by

50:36

Sophie Williams today, who works on

50:38

Taskmaster, and is the voice behind

50:40

the Workout Who's Following You task,

50:43

aka, She Is Mr Blobby. She

50:45

is the voice

50:47

and the brain of Mr Blobby,

50:49

such as it was on that

50:51

particular task. Now then, how again,

50:54

Sophie, did you have to do in

50:56

studying about Mr Blobby to be able

50:58

to confidently answer those questions? Absolutely

51:01

none at all. Good

51:03

girl. Good girl. That's what we

51:05

like to hear. I

51:07

am obsessed with Mr Blobby. Really?

51:13

Oh, my God. Oh,

51:16

my God. Okay. That's amazing. So,

51:18

yeah, like, I

51:20

think they've always known that I've loved Mr

51:22

Blobby as well, so that was my 30th of a

51:25

few years ago. And

51:27

actually, when we were filming

51:29

your series, Jenny, and they

51:31

got me like Mr Blobby

51:33

T-shirt, Andrew, the AP. You think

51:35

it's all you young women? Are you

51:37

about the same age as Joanne? Is it

51:39

the thing of your generation? I

51:42

think it must be, but I'm the same age as

51:44

Mr Blobby, so... Oh, wow.

51:46

Okay. So when they said how

51:48

are you at this age? I was going to say, because they were like, are

51:50

you over 30? And she was

51:52

like, yeah, well, yeah. That's amazing. So,

51:56

did you have... So you had all that information

51:58

on hand. What was the funniest... Mr Blobby fact

52:01

you had prepared? The

52:04

thing I was most worried about was

52:06

whether if they asked if he was

52:08

a comedian, whether I could say yes

52:10

or no, because to me, he's hilarious.

52:14

Sophie, Sophie, may I answer this for

52:16

you? There's

52:20

certain rules, it's a bit like the magic circle.

52:23

And I would say I would ban him. I'm

52:26

ban him. He didn't

52:28

want to offend any of the comics, so he

52:30

said definitely say no. Mr

52:32

Blobby doing like a five minute set at

52:34

the King's Head. I'm really

52:36

sorry, I had never heckled a comic in

52:38

my life, but I

52:41

would make an exception for Mr Blobby. Oh,

52:43

that's so funny. But even

52:46

for my wedding, one of

52:48

the researchers on Tusk Busters,

52:50

she may be Mr. Mrs

52:52

Blobby, cake toppers, my cake. And

52:59

what does your partner think about all this?

53:01

Does he discourage or they discouraged? Or

53:03

are they quite into it? He just

53:05

goes with it. There's no stopping me. He

53:09

can tell from me. He's

53:11

the same. Yeah.

53:14

Now, Sophie Wollan thought it might

53:16

be a mate from school. Yeah.

53:19

I mean, what did you think of Sophie's questions?

53:21

Because they were quite random, weren't they?

53:24

Well, they're quite hard as well. Those are

53:26

the ones I wasn't sure about, the ambiguous

53:28

ones like have you met, have they

53:30

met him or those are the kind

53:32

of ones me and Alex looked at each other and

53:34

kind of made little gestures at. And if I

53:36

wasn't sure who to go, yeah. Where

53:41

were you? I was

53:43

walking alongside. So I was walking

53:45

following along. Oh, that's

53:47

interesting. I thought maybe you would be

53:49

in like a truck somewhere. Well,

53:53

I didn't want to put them

53:56

off and then see me and think, well, it's

53:58

just Sophie. you

54:00

want about. I see, okay. But also had

54:02

to be close enough that the signal would

54:04

work. Oh that

54:06

makes sense. Did Alex have a special

54:08

signal to get across to you that

54:11

you should say amphibian? No,

54:13

he just, so I was doing the answers

54:15

and then if I kind of paused

54:17

and kind of wasn't sure then

54:20

he'd go a bit like that and

54:22

then put his hand up and

54:24

then that then I'd know that'd be amphibian then.

54:27

Because some of those mammals

54:29

and some of the birds, they

54:32

were quite confusing, weren't they? You

54:34

weren't making them up on the

54:36

spot. Did you have a great

54:38

big fact sheet of, or are

54:40

you secretly a bird, an ornithologist

54:42

and a mamalanian? And a blobby

54:44

fan. You can't have faith in

54:46

your life for three things. You'd

54:48

be insane on masterminds, you'd be

54:50

insane. No,

54:52

I was useless with the animals so I

54:55

had a sheet and I could never pronounce

54:57

any of them, I still don't know how

54:59

to pronounce, is it capybara? I don't know.

55:01

So yeah, I just had a fat

55:03

sheet but they

55:06

were quite hard, some of them and some

55:09

of them were intentionally difficult. Like I

55:11

think there was one that had frog mouth in

55:13

it but it was a bird I think. But

55:16

you think frog amphibian. And

55:18

it was designed, wasn't it, to confuse?

55:21

Yeah, yeah. And then the quacks as

55:23

well were quite quick so trying to

55:26

get the answers out in time with the

55:28

quacks. Did you feel

55:31

any stress or tension about this? No,

55:34

it was okay actually. It was okay.

55:37

Yeah, I think if I didn't know my blobby, then

55:39

I would have said

55:41

that. Blobby was your anchor. So

55:43

was it a complete coincidence that

55:45

Joanne is also obsessed with Mr

55:47

Blobby? Yeah, I think so. I

55:50

think it was just that they wanted

55:52

Mr Blobby and yeah, and then they, I

55:54

think she mentions it in a different task. I've

55:56

heard her say it this she did

55:58

in the first episode. She really

56:00

raped him as a top physical

56:03

comedian. But it's

56:05

amazing that Alex would be like, there's this

56:07

task, you know, because Sophie loves Mr Blobby.

56:09

And then actually Joanne loves Mr

56:11

Blobby as well. Oh, that's so

56:13

funny. Yeah, it'd be interesting to know why

56:15

it was blobby. But I even got one

56:18

of, we had a spare blobby inflatable. I

56:20

think they gave one to Joanne and then

56:22

one to me afterwards. Oh,

56:24

girls fighting over Mr Blobby. It

56:26

is very interesting, actually, we get

56:28

any emails from women of your

56:31

generation. So, yeah,

56:33

me too, because it's kind of, listen,

56:35

I shouldn't be saying this, but it's a tiny bit

56:37

fetishy. Well,

56:40

I don't think it's a, I don't think it's an

56:43

Asian thing, because lots of my friends find it

56:45

weird as well. I've got one other friend that's

56:47

obsessed with blobby. And that's interesting. I

56:49

wonder what it's from. Were you a child when

56:51

it was on television? I'm just trying to sort

56:54

of, does it go back

56:56

to Saturday evenings with the family and being

56:58

happy? Well, I think Noel's house party

57:00

was a bit before my time, but he was

57:02

on kids TV a lot. And I

57:05

never got to go to the, what was the theme park?

57:08

Grubiland. The one that's now overgrown and,

57:10

yeah. Yeah.

57:12

Oh, terrifying. I never got to

57:14

go there, but yeah. It

57:17

looks like Chernobyl now. It's kind

57:19

of overrun by wolves. Well,

57:25

we know where you're having your next birthday party.

57:27

You and drama, Nelly. You

57:29

bother me. So

57:32

we really love you talking to, just because people want

57:34

to know, how long have you

57:36

been working on Taskmaster? Oh,

57:39

about, just before

57:41

the pandemic, so four

57:43

and a half years. So, but I've

57:45

moved across to Junior Taskmaster now, so

57:47

I've been across that. So

57:49

that's been fun. I hope it's a career

57:52

for life. Yeah. We'll

57:54

phone you again. We'll phone you

57:56

again when Junior Taskmaster comes

57:58

out. During the pandemic. Robbie Ronda, Junior

58:00

Taskmaster. We're all the kids like, who

58:02

is this guy? Thank

58:05

you so much, Sophie. That's

58:08

been really, really weird and

58:10

interesting and fun. Thank you.

58:12

Bye. Bye bye, Diane.

58:14

Bye. I've got a reassessed

58:16

blobby. I mean, you know, that's still with

58:18

them now. Shall

58:27

we move on to emails? We shall move on. Well,

58:29

thank you very much to Sophie there. That

58:32

was very interesting. What if she

58:34

got blobby? What's wrong? Our

58:37

first email is about Joanne McNally's

58:39

Bluggle Jug. Filthy.

58:41

Filthy. You did. Filthy, filthy

58:44

audience. Hey, Jenny

58:46

and Jack. Just a quick

58:48

and very nerdy reminder that

58:50

you have indeed seen Joanne

58:52

McNally's Blug Jug before in

58:55

series 13, episode 2. Oh,

58:58

this isn't from you, Jack. You're not

59:00

pretending to be someone else. In

59:02

the studio, the gang have to

59:05

identify and draw the object hidden

59:07

underneath their respective table. And

59:09

Chris Ramsey's mystery object was

59:11

indeed a glug jug. Gluggle

59:14

jug, as I call it, or as he

59:16

calls it, a gunky slime bar. Seen

59:18

there from Germany. It was a gunky slime bar because it

59:20

had been covered in gunk. Yes, you

59:22

remember this. Amazing. Okay. Yeah, I actually, now

59:24

that they say it out loud, yeah, that's

59:27

right. Yeah, I'm going to give you an

59:29

excuse. It was covered in slime, so it

59:31

wouldn't have been instantly recognizable as a gluggle

59:33

jug. As a gluggle would have been all

59:35

over the shop. Absolutely. With that kind of

59:37

thing. Without the slime being... It would not

59:39

go... It's time for my impression. Oh,

59:42

I hate it. Every time you do it, I

59:44

hate it. I tell people, start telling you you

59:46

missed a blobby voice note. Then you're going to

59:49

really fucking hate that. Okay, email

59:51

to Jack. What's this one all about?

59:53

It is just A three

59:56

word email to clarify the triptych question from a

59:58

couple of weeks ago, and it simply reads... This

1:00:00

is a diptych. Yes it's like a

1:00:02

you take the so he's now post

1:00:04

another problem for mates from eyes and

1:00:06

pronounced European way in Washington no voice

1:00:08

is on if on I don't know,

1:00:10

I don't hear such as another three.

1:00:12

Let the three words some can someone

1:00:15

else emitted, maybe keepers train going to

1:00:17

someone else who is an evil know

1:00:19

I've and say what the European way

1:00:21

of saying eve on or I? Yeah

1:00:23

and we apologize if we've got it

1:00:25

wrong but we did that go both

1:00:27

ways. So in as we tried last

1:00:29

email. Ah, now I just

1:00:31

fantastic little detail that was picked

1:00:34

up by fans and posted to

1:00:36

the Taskmaster Born on Reddit. screenshots

1:00:39

attached in one of the last

1:00:41

wide shots in the river Task

1:00:43

in at one Nick Sauce Dracula

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has no reflection in the reserves

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are that's clever. But then

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nice that's about a third so live

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it has to photo that shows what

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they're talking about. Alex is talking to

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Nyc Go and toss was the runner

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and see us. If you're listening I'm

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I'm Alex is talking to make But

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in be reflection is Alex of the

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Scarecrow term the sketch of the stars

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for yeah yeah through the river made

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based instead of having a nick that

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I put the sky for instead as

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if to say. That. Cause my

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reflection because he is Count Dochula.

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Yeah, that that says or does

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disappear as a you know, so

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it's costly. Oh God. The

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allow. His

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hotel I saw this know that

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kind of the receive only gets

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into trouble that thank you and

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is an either or five are.

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Either is now I tend to

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either. Person.

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Who owes us on either there to. Be. A.

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Challenge Advance. And

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I don't know. And then I though I,

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that's all I've all. Look at

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it feels like a it feels like

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and so of a puzzle. The weavers.

1:02:00

with here but it's not it's just people's names. Thank

1:02:04

you Ivar, Ivar and Sinner for your

1:02:06

emails, thanks very much. And

1:02:09

thank you so much to Sophie from the crew for

1:02:12

answering our questions and for being

1:02:14

blobby obsessed. I mean

1:02:16

I'm absolutely mad. Thank

1:02:19

you all so much for listening, thank you for watching

1:02:21

episode 3 and we'll see you

1:02:23

next week for episode 4. Please

1:02:25

get in touch again, send in your

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you everybody, Christine, thank you

1:02:36

and we will speak again

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next week. Hopefully less blobby. Oh

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no blobby.