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Junior Taskmaster Episode 5 - Nice shiny buttons
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00:00BUZZER
00:02Right, let's go.
00:04BUZZER
00:05MUSIC
00:08BUZZER
00:11Can you tape this to my head?
00:12Er...
00:13BUZZER
00:15Call plus call.
00:16MUSIC
00:18BUZZER
00:20That was quite pathetic, don't you think?
00:22APPLAUSE
00:24Oh-ho-ho!
00:26APPLAUSE
00:30CHEERING
00:34Hello, and welcome to Junior Taskmaster.
00:37I'm Rose Matafeo, but hopefully some of you know that by now.
00:40Now, we've made it to the last heat of the series,
00:42unless you're watching this episode out of order,
00:44which is quite a weird thing for you to be doing.
00:46You're sick. You need help.
00:47LAUGHTER
00:48Just in case you're out of the loop, over the series,
00:5025 children are battling through five heats and two semis
00:54in the hope of reaching the grand final
00:56and getting their pint-sized paws on this.
00:59Oh-ho-ho-ho!
01:00Yeah.
01:01Fun fact about this head,
01:03its eyes follow you around the room wherever you go.
01:05And at night, it whispers you dark, terrible, haunting things.
01:08Frankly, I need it out of my house.
01:10LAUGHTER
01:11Right, it is time to meet tonight's contestants,
01:14so please give a big, warm welcome to August!
01:16CHEERING
01:18Olivia!
01:20Ruben!
01:22Scarlett!
01:23AC!
01:25CHEERING
01:27Nice.
01:29And, of course, what would the junior taskmaster be
01:32without their trusty assistant?
01:33He is a man for all seasons.
01:35He has the twinkling eyes of a shopping mall Santa
01:38and, you know, the general vibe of an old grandfather clock
01:41brought to life by a spell.
01:43It is, of course, Mike Wozniak!
01:45CHEERING
01:47Thank you, Rose.
01:50Ultimately, this is really a show about the dangers of cat faeces.
01:55If you find a sandwich on a garden wall
01:57and you don't know where it came from,
01:59check that filling before you eat it.
02:01It could be an unsavoury feline prank.
02:03Remember, don't wrap your trap round a cat flap burp.
02:10Let's move on swiftly from that disgusting imagery, Mike,
02:13and I would love to know what tonight's prize task is.
02:15Certainly. Well, for this heat, our prize category
02:18is the most interesting item that fits inside a pillowcase.
02:21Oh. For me personally, that would mean my cousin, Spignieff,
02:25who is both extremely knowledgeable about the history
02:26of M4 service stations.
02:28He's also a highly skilled amateur contortionist.
02:30But what does it mean for our contestants, and will Rose agree?
02:35The winner of this episode gets to keep all five really interesting
02:37things, if they've got five pillowcases to carry them home in.
02:41Well, I am notoriously disinterested in most things,
02:44and I have a very short attention span, so good luck, children.
02:48August, what is the most impressive thing that can fit
02:51into a pillowcase that you've brought in today?
02:53Well, I went for a concept instead of the actual meaning
02:55of the object, so I went for a chess set.
02:59And I don't really play competitively or in any clubs.
03:03I play for fun, because school, too easy.
03:06I need a challenge.
03:09What kind of age people mentally would match you in a chess match?
03:13Um...40.
03:1740?! You think you would beat me at chess?
03:20Absolutely. OK!
03:23You've brought the board, right? Uh-huh.
03:25But you said you haven't brought the board, you've brought the concept.
03:28OK, so basically, by concept, I mean how I feel towards it.
03:33So, if someone else wins the episode,
03:36how do they take how you feel home with them?
03:40In the chess, in the pillowcase.
03:41So it's a real pillowcase, not an abstract pillowcase.
03:43Real chess board, concept of chess. Got it.
03:45I like the concept of chess as well.
03:47And the actual chess board.
03:49I also like the concept of giving you low points for that.
03:51Um...
03:53Olivia, what have you brought in for me that is interesting
03:56and that could fit inside a pillowcase?
03:57Yes, I have brought in the universe.
04:01There it is.
04:03It's a book. Fits in a pillowcase.
04:05The universe has loads of different interesting things in it.
04:09It has your prize task, and it has your prize, and your prize,
04:13and your prize in it.
04:14And best thing of all, when the universe started off,
04:17it was only the size of a pinhead.
04:19Pinhead fits in the pillowcase.
04:22Oh!
04:23I'm so happy for you.
04:24APPLAUSE
04:26You're all wearing stuff.
04:28I'm blind.
04:29OK, but look, so I think we're flirting
04:31with a bit of a similar situation to August.
04:34It's the concept of the universe in a pillowcase, right?
04:38And that is just the representation.
04:40The spirit, the facts of the universe is all in that book.
04:46Like my chess set.
04:47LAUGHTER
04:50Wow, I feel like I'm being Darren Browned right now by Olivia.
04:53It does.
04:54I think it's time to turn to Ruben.
04:56How are you doing? All right, meh.
04:58LAUGHTER
05:00What have you brought in today?
05:02I have brought a television remote.
05:04There we go.
05:05LAUGHTER
05:07Ruben, you've brought in a remote in a pillowcase.
05:10Impress me with this.
05:11Pause.
05:12LAUGHTER
05:14LAUGHTER
05:16APPLAUSE
05:19I'm paused.
05:20LAUGHTER
05:22So, then, what's interesting about a TV remote?
05:25Hey, you can watch Junior Taskmaster.
05:27Oh, that's pretty good.
05:28LAUGHTER
05:29Oh, that's... Oh, yeah, well...
05:31APPLAUSE
05:32All right, Charlotte, what have you brought?
05:35A mini picnic.
05:37Oh-ho-ho-ho!
05:38OK.
05:39Why?
05:41I don't need to bribe you for points.
05:42LAUGHTER
05:44Food bribes me.
05:46Mm. Mm.
05:47So food bribes you.
05:49LAUGHTER
05:50I mean, to be honest, out of all the things,
05:52if I opened a pillowcase and I found a full picnic in it,
05:57I would be quite interested. Yeah.
05:59I would love to know, though, if you had the ultimate picnic,
06:02anyone could come to it, who would you invite?
06:04Mike. What?!
06:06LAUGHTER
06:07Mike?!
06:08APPLAUSE
06:10But do you mean as a guest or as a kind of...
06:12Like a sort of waiter?
06:13A guest. A guest?
06:15Yeah. Yes!
06:16LAUGHTER
06:17All righty, last but not least, Sid, what have you brought in tonight?
06:22Today, I have brought in worry dolls.
06:24Right, so worry dolls.
06:25Explain to me the worry doll concept.
06:28You tell the little people... Mm-hm.
06:30..your worries. Yeah.
06:31You put them under your pillow... Right.
06:33..and the next morning, there's no more worries. OK.
06:35Well, what would you tell a worry doll?
06:38Can't genuinely think of a single thing
06:39that actually genuinely worries me right now.
06:42So you're worry-free?
06:43You've been emptied of worries by the worry dolls?
06:46No, I never use these things.
06:47I don't even own any.
06:49LAUGHTER
06:50So then, I feel like you don't use these worry dolls.
06:52So is that very... I don't know. I mean, I...
06:54Look, oh, gosh. OK, hold on.
06:56I think I need to retrace my steps here.
06:58LAUGHTER
07:00I'm going to give out some points.
07:02So... OK.
07:03It's one point for the worry dolls.
07:05It's two points, I think, for August.
07:07The concept, which is slightly flimsy for me.
07:09Three points for Scarlett,
07:11because I'm not actually currently hungry.
07:14Four points for Olivia,
07:15because I was so enthusiastic about the universe.
07:16But you know what, Reuben, I'm just an egotistical brute,
07:20and the fact that you want to watch Junior Taskmaster has got me,
07:22so five points for the TV.
07:24Ah!
07:25Yeah! He loves it. He loves it.
07:27APPLAUSE
07:29I reckon it's time for the first task of the night.
07:32Indeed. And in the long-standing tradition
07:34of the Taskmaster universe, this next task involves a rubber duck.
07:38We're aware our contestants will have grown out
07:39of juvenile bath toys, of course, so to keep them sweet,
07:42we've also included something that modern nine-
07:44to 11-year-olds are absolutely wild about.
07:47Guttering.
08:06Hello, Olivia. Hi, Mike.
08:08How are you? Very well, thank you.
08:11Hello, me. Hello, Reuben.
08:14Hello, Sid. Hello, Mike Wozniak.
08:16Hello, August. Hello.
08:20Hello, Scarlett. Hello.
08:22Have you had to come from far today?
08:23Liverpool.
08:25What's the best thing about Liverpool?
08:27Me.
08:37Make the duck travel the furthest down these pipes
08:40and into the red bucket.
08:42You must be behind the start line for the duck's journey.
08:45When you are ready for your official attempt,
08:47you must duck and shout,
08:48DUCK!
08:50The duck that travels the furthest down the pipes wins.
08:53You have ten minutes. Your time starts now.
08:56You understand what it means when it says duck and shout duck?
09:00Of course, that's a lot of ducks.
09:02APPLAUSE
09:09All right, Scarlett, best thing about Liverpool immediately.
09:12You. Yeah.
09:13The best thing about Liverpool is the Beatles.
09:16Oh, bit of a fan of the Beatles.
09:17What kind of face was that, Scarlett?
09:20The Beatles can't sing.
09:22The Beatles can't sing? No.
09:24Say that to my auntie.
09:26LAUGHTER
09:29She will kill you, she will kill you.
09:32So, get those drainpipes up, get those ducks down there.
09:35How do they do, Mike?
09:37Let's find out. First up, it's Olivia and Reuben.
09:39Aha.
09:42All right, sorry, doggie.
09:45What are you thinking?
09:46I'm thinking, stabilise the pipes
09:50to get them at an angle using the bricks.
09:52I'm thinking, because I need it to be big...
09:55Yeah? ..I'm making it big.
09:59That didn't work.
10:04There's water in that.
10:06Has that helped?
10:07I think.
10:08You want me to pour that into the red one?
10:11Why do you want me to do that?
10:13Because I'm going to flip that upside down to help me.
10:20Ah.
10:23Should I use the water to pump it down the pipes?
10:26Never mind.
10:32Yes.
10:33Do you normally build stuff?
10:35Yeah, I build Legos.
10:36What's the last thing you built out of Lego?
10:38Yesterday.
10:40You built Legos yesterday out of Lego?
10:42Mm-hm.
11:06Yeah, I think I'm happy with that.
11:09OK.
11:12Take it away.
11:14Duck.
11:19Yay! Went into the red bucket.
11:21WHISTLE BLOWS
11:22Oh, yeah.
11:27I'm basically putting water down so the duck can slide.
11:30Yeah, is that it? Yes.
11:31That's the whole thing?
11:33Sure? And it goes into the bucket.
11:34OK.
11:39WHISTLE BLOWS
11:40Yeah!
11:42Into the bucket.
11:43OK.
11:46Very good.
11:48Nicely done.
11:49I mean, Olivia, Olivia,
11:50immediately seeing a massive bucket of water and being like,
11:53yeah, we might be needing this thing.
11:55You got the duck down there in the end.
11:57Yeah.
11:58Whereas, Ruben, you kind of decanted the water.
12:01I thought the duck would just stop in the middle of it,
12:04so I put water down it and then...
12:05Mm.
12:06It's a bit of a mess.
12:07Yeah.
12:09Mm.
12:11Did the duck use fart power today?
12:13LAUGHTER
12:15No, but my grandad does.
12:17LAUGHTER
12:20Would you have changed anything?
12:21No.
12:22That's fine.
12:23No looking back after you've done it.
12:25LAUGHTER
12:26I wonder if your tune will change further on into the show.
12:29LAUGHTER
12:31Would you like to see the next batch?
12:32Yeah, I think I would. OK.
12:33It's Sid and August.
12:34Oh, no.
12:35What are you thinking, Sid?
12:37Um, pipes.
12:39I think I want to make it go all the way down to the shed.
12:42Vaulting ambition, then?
12:43Yeah.
12:45This is going to take long.
12:48I'm going to need a lot of bricks for this.
12:51I'm going to the shed.
12:52Yeah.
12:55All right. Oh.
12:58Going for quite an acute angle there.
13:00LAUGHTER
13:02That's not going to work.
13:05That's bad.
13:06Oh, no, that's...
13:08Wait, that could work.
13:10What are you doing now?
13:11Moving the bucket so that it's easier.
13:13So before you were trying to get everything
13:15into the bucket where it was.
13:16And now you're moving the bucket to an easier position.
13:19Yes. OK. Which is there.
13:21LAUGHTER
13:24Two minutes and 37 seconds left.
13:25I can do it.
13:27You know how?
13:28Because I'm smart.
13:30How smart are you?
13:31IQ of 120.
13:33OK.
13:35Goes out of the range of Einstein to Donald Trump.
13:38I have 120. Einstein's 160.
13:41So you're sort of three-quarters of an Einstein.
13:43Yes.
13:46That work?
13:48Apparently not.
13:50You've got one minute left.
13:52Oh, no.
13:58Ah!
13:59You know what?
14:01All right.
14:02You're doing a brick on a pipe.
14:03Is that going to help the duck go down the pipe?
14:05Yes.
14:06Going for it?
14:08This is your final attempt, is it?
14:10Yes.
14:14OK.
14:15Uh...
14:19Yeah!
14:20WHISTLE
14:21Yes!
14:22Thank you, August.
14:24Yeah?
14:27That might not work.
14:29Are you going to go for it?
14:30Yes. Yes?
14:32Duck!
14:42Um...
14:43That didn't work out.
14:49WHISTLE
14:51Thanks, Sid.
14:57Wow, Sid.
14:58Your face says it all.
15:01I didn't know the water was just not going
15:03where it was supposed to go.
15:05Right.
15:06It went at the wrong angle by, like, 45 degrees.
15:10August, claiming to have an IQ of 120, eh?
15:13Yep.
15:14Basically, I had a vision.
15:16I had a vision.
15:17When I walked through the door, I was like,
15:19OK, I think I know what to do.
15:21So that went worse than I thought.
15:26OK, one more to go, and it's Scarlet.
15:28All right.
15:31OK, Scarlet, what are you thinking?
15:33Um, pipes.
15:35Has this duck got a name?
15:37Eh...
15:39Taylor Swift.
15:40Because of yellow colouring, is that what it is?
15:43Yeah. And I love Taylor Swift and I love that duck.
15:45Right.
15:51I'm going in the shed.
15:53A pair of pink glasses. I'm serious.
15:55Maybe I need fish.
15:56What for? To motivate the duck?
15:59Yeah.
16:00You've got five and a half minutes left.
16:02Eh...
16:03What if my other people have used more?
16:06Well, that's a good question.
16:10OK. I'm doing it.
16:12You're doing it? Doing it.
16:14OK, good luck, Taylor Swift.
16:16Take it away. Ah.
16:19Duck!
16:20Oh.
16:28Go, duck.
16:29Go, duck.
16:39WHISTLE BLOWS
16:40I don't know.
16:41How do you feel?
16:42Yeah.
16:43You're expressing a dance.
16:45Has that dance got a name?
16:46The Scarlet.
16:47OK, that's quite good.
16:49Have I got it right? Yeah.
16:51What's that one called?
16:53Erm, the duck.
16:54The duck. What would the mic be?
16:57Oh, I know.
16:58That's the mic. Yeah.
17:00You've given me the gift of a dance. Yeah.
17:02I really like it.
17:06Woo!
17:08Really good. Really, really good.
17:09Really, really good.
17:10Scarlet.
17:11Scarlet.
17:13Wow.
17:14I mean, I love that the mic dance is...
17:15Yeah, the mic's catching on.
17:17Yeah, please. Well, that's part of the guarantee, isn't it?
17:19Is there, dare I ask, a rose? Could there be a...
17:21Yeah, what would the rose be?
17:23Erm...
17:24Oh, no! Oh, Reuben!
17:27All right, so, I want to know, I mean, crucially,
17:30what duck travelled the furthest?
17:33I can tell you, Sid's travelled 73cm.
17:36All right. Hey, that's something. That's something.
17:38I mean, it was on a perfect horizontal,
17:41so it's actually pretty impressive.
17:43Reuben's managed 241.5cm.
17:46Very decent.
17:48Olivia, a very respectable 301cm.
17:51August, 461.
17:53Scarlet, an extraordinary 896cm.
17:57CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:00Wow!
18:04Now, those are the lengths.
18:05It is possibly worth noting that Reuben and August...
18:10Mm-hm.
18:11..they did fail to duck and shout duck at the launch.
18:15Oh!
18:16What was that? What about everyone else?
18:18You know what?
18:20What about everyone else?
18:21What I was implicitly saying was that everyone else did it.
18:24Did it.
18:25I mean, I could go either way here, right?
18:27I could be a very lenient, kind, benevolent junior taskmaster
18:31and say, oh, it doesn't matter what's written down on the task,
18:33it seems to be fine.
18:34But guess what? It does.
18:37It really does. Honestly, I'm going to be pedantic here.
18:39You know, I'm going to give two points to Reuben and August, OK?
18:42It's better than nothing, I suppose. Yes, yes, yes.
18:44But, Sid, you did it, you ducked,
18:46so I'm going to give three points to Sid,
18:48four points to Olivia, but obviously five points to Scarlett.
18:51We did it!
18:52Well done, all of you, though.
18:54CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:55Good job, Scarlett.
18:57OK, shall we see how that looks on the scoreboard?
19:00OK, here it is. Languishing at the back,
19:01we've got August and Sid, both on four.
19:03It's tight, though, at the top, with Reuben on seven.
19:05Olivia and Scarlett's both on eight points.
19:07CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
19:11Very nice.
19:12All right, next task, please.
19:15Children are a gift, and, of course,
19:17we all know some gifts are better than others,
19:19but which of these little gits is...?
19:21Oh, excuse me.
19:23Whoa!
19:24Excuse me, I'm so...
19:27I beg your pardon.
19:30Which of these little gifts...
19:34..know one end of a roll of wrapping paper from the other?
19:36Let's find out.
19:42MUSIC
19:53Hello, Olivia. Hello.
19:55Hello, Reuben.
19:57Hello, Scarlett. Hello.
19:58Hello, August.
20:00Hello, Sid.
20:01Hello, Mike Wozniak.
20:06Beautifully... Oh, no.
20:10Beautifully wrap up this present.
20:12You must maintain eye contact with Mike at all times.
20:17If you break eye contact with Mike at any time,
20:19you will unwrap your present and you must start again.
20:22The most beautifully wrapped present wins.
20:24You have ten minutes.
20:25Your time starts now.
20:30I see you've...
20:31I'm just going to take that off, just because you broke eye contact.
20:34I do apologise. I'm terribly sorry.
20:36This isn't going to be very annoying.
20:42Oh...
20:46That would be the most brutal thing they've ever done.
20:48Yeah.
20:50Why do I have to look at him?
20:52I would rather look... I would rather look at, like,
20:54a statue than him.
20:57I've got the same thing.
20:59It's amazing that you were looking at me
21:00and you were almost going to say me and you were like, nah.
21:04You know what, I'm just dying to see how all of you got on
21:07with this task. Who was first?
21:08First up is Reuben and it is Sid.
21:11Oh!
21:13Are you a good present wrapper, ordinarily?
21:15I've never wrapped a present in my life.
21:17When's the last time you wrapped a present?
21:19Never.
21:20Who wraps your presents?
21:21I don't know.
21:23I am going to do that.
21:26Mm-hm.
21:28That. Mm-hm.
21:30Ooh, I do apologise.
21:31I'm just going to have to pop that off, just because you broke...
21:34eye contact. I'm terribly sorry, Sid.
21:36This is going to take a while.
21:38Where are the scissors?
21:42Scissors.
21:43OK.
21:51Sorry, you broke eye contact with me,
21:52so I'm going to have to, dreadfully sorry.
21:55So I'm just going to have to pop that off,
21:57just because you broke eye contact with me. Sorry, Sid.
21:59I don't even know what's in the box.
22:01Cos I'll never know.
22:02What would be in the box if you were giving someone a present?
22:04Oh.
22:06You're self-policing now. This is quite good.
22:08Oh, no.
22:09I'm just going to have to take that off,
22:11cos you broke eye contact with me.
22:12For crying out loud.
22:16Sorry, Ruben, I'm just going to have to take that off.
22:20Oh, I'm sorry, Ruben, I'm just going to have to take that off.
22:23I'm just doing a job. I'm just a guy doing a job.
22:26I don't want to look at your ugly moustache.
22:28My ugly moustache?
22:29I'm allowed to look at your face.
22:32What does it say in the task?
22:34I don't know.
22:35Ah!
22:37You know what? I'm just going to have to do...
22:42I'm just going to have to do that.
22:46This is making me so angry.
22:48Are you normally quite calm, Baz and Ruben?
22:51You're looking slightly furious now.
22:56There.
22:57Is there? Wrapping.
22:58Wrapping? Yep.
22:59You don't want to carry on?
23:01It's just going to get taken off.
23:03Well, it depends... Cos I'm not very good at maintaining eye contact.
23:06Well, if you're done, you can tell me you're done.
23:08Well, I'm done.
23:10WHISTLE BLOWS
23:11Oh! Thank you, Sid.
23:12You're pissing.
23:14What have you got now?
23:21This is a beautiful wrapped present.
23:25WHISTLE BLOWS
23:26Thank you, Ruben.
23:27You're welcome.
23:28Would you call that wrapped?
23:29Yes.
23:35Wow!
23:39Wow!
23:40That is what we call staring someone out, Ruben.
23:45It looked like you were trying to, like,
23:47communicate something from your mind to his.
23:49What was your internal monologue?
23:51What were you saying to him?
23:52Make sure no-no.
23:55It's violent.
23:57You got it? You got it? Psychically?
23:59Yeah, very much post-Watershed, I'm afraid.
24:02I was worried I'd find this task cruel,
24:05but I really enjoyed myself.
24:09Sid, how did you find that task?
24:10I'd say it's the best present I've ever wrapped,
24:13probably because it's the only present I've ever wrapped,
24:15but I'd say I did a great job.
24:17All right, neither of you have wrapped a present before.
24:19That became quite clear to me, don't you think?
24:21Right, who are we going to see now, Mike?
24:23It is Scarlett and Olivia.
24:25Aha.
24:26Are you good at wrapping presents?
24:28Yeah. Yeah?
24:29Yeah. Do you do it often?
24:31Yeah, for Christmas.
24:34What's the best present you've ever received?
24:36Um...
24:39Let's talk about space.
24:41You like space? Yeah.
24:44So what's the best present you've ever bought someone, Scarlett?
24:47Um...
24:48Money. You've bought them money?
24:50I bought my cousin £180, cos he's 18.
24:55Oh, wow. What did he spend it on?
24:56I don't know. I don't know yet.
24:58What do you think he should spend it on?
25:00Skin care.
25:02Because he's into skin care, or...?
25:03No, cos he needs it.
25:05Oh, dear.
25:10Darn, this is hard.
25:14What's that in the middle?
25:15Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Olivia.
25:17I just noticed you've blanched it with sellotape.
25:20Are you good at buying presents?
25:22Um...
25:24Sorry, I'd better just...
25:25Oh, I was looking at the light.
25:27Oh, no, no.
25:29Take your time, then.
25:31Please excuse me while I unwrap you.
25:33This is the worst task yet.
25:39Do you believe in aliens?
25:41Yes.
25:42What if I told you there was an alien
25:43standing directly behind you right now?
25:45What? Yes, I... Oh.
25:46I'm terribly sorry.
25:48That's a first... Oh, that's a shock.
25:50I didn't break it!
25:51Well, for a smidgen.
25:53Oh, my God.
26:01How are you feeling?
26:03Stressed.
26:04How's it going now?
26:05Trying to make a bow out of the tape
26:06cos I lost the actual bow.
26:07Oh, I see, that's tricky.
26:09Do you need me to look on the floor?
26:10Do you need me to lean over while you look on the floor?
26:13You found it? No.
26:14Was it helpful? No.
26:15No. 30 seconds left.
26:17Mmm.
26:18Mmm. Mmm?
26:19Mmm. Is it tasty?
26:21Hm.
26:22No. No? No.
26:24OK. Are you worried at all about the fact
26:26you just spat a globule of sellotape into my suit?
26:29No.
26:30Five seconds. No.
26:32You done it?
26:33Happy? Yes.
26:37WHISTLE
26:38Oh.
26:40There it was!
26:42WHISTLE
26:44Thank you, Scarlett.
26:47What do you think of your...? Beautiful.
26:48Yeah?
26:49That's the adjective of choice, is it?
26:51Don't touch it.
26:53Ooh, crafty.
26:55I'm never wrapping any presents ever again.
26:57No? No.
26:58I thought you were a master of it.
27:00That's what you told me.
27:07Oh, wow.
27:09You made some enemies in this task, didn't I?
27:12Yeah, that felt harder.
27:13That felt harder this time,
27:14cos these two actually clearly had some confidence and got quite far.
27:18Olivia, your eyes were kind of maniacal.
27:20I love that. Have they recovered?
27:23Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
27:24I still can't look at him. No.
27:27Because of the emotional, yeah.
27:29She gave all she could.
27:30You weren't even risking blinking by the end of that, were you?
27:33I don't think you blinked once there.
27:35Even going down to pick up that bow.
27:36I didn't find the bow in the end,
27:38so I hope you count resourcefulness,
27:40because I used the tape instead.
27:42Oh, that's quite a compelling argument.
27:45Um, I, uh...
27:46I will ask this, Scarlett.
27:47Do you think your cousin might be watching this
27:50and might be seeing when you said
27:52that they should spend their money on skin care?
27:55Do you stick by it? Yeah.
27:59I mean, you just seemed, by the end,
28:01you'd given up on the concept of even wrapping a gift ever again.
28:05I had to wrap your friend's birthday present.
28:07Well, can we ask you what you've got for them?
28:09Skin care.
28:12Did you get them conditioner? Yeah.
28:14No, that's for your hair.
28:17Conditioner under here?
28:19Sounds like Ruben's family need to take him through
28:21some pretty basic hygiene.
28:22LAUGHTER
28:25OK, our last wrapper is August's.
28:28Hmm.
28:29The time starts...
28:31Not yet, not yet. Now.
28:35Let's just see. What is...
28:38..fish? What do you think that is?
28:40That's one of those, um...
28:42Red... Red fish, man.
28:44Red... Yeah, burgundy distraction fish, is it?
28:47I don't know. No, the crimson subterfuge haddock?
28:51Um... Maroon...
28:53No, I know, I know, I know. Blue-blue halibut.
28:55Small big fish. Small big fish.
28:58Yes. Maybe it's some sort of herring.
29:00Small big fish, is it?
29:02I don't know what to do.
29:04Do I have to wrap these? Oh, no.
29:07So, I'm just going to, uh, do excuse me, take that off.
29:10I can blink, yeah? Oh, yeah.
29:12Yeah. You could. I'm just going to take that off,
29:14just cos you broke eye contact with me.
29:15I'm terribly sorry.
29:16That fringe is going to be a problem, isn't it?
29:19So, I'm just going to unwrap that,
29:20just cos you broke eye contact with me.
29:22I'm going to cut you.
29:25Oh, sorry, I guess I'd better just quickly unwrap that.
29:27Is there anything which can help me?
29:29There's the breaks.
29:37What are you thinking?
29:38I don't want to wrap this up.
29:47Time's stopped.
29:48You're done? Yep.
29:50Yeah, I'm not bothered with this no more.
29:54Thank you, August.
30:00OK, wow.
30:01And all of you were angry at Mike at some point,
30:04but you took the cake there, August.
30:06You were, like, the angriest Santa's elf
30:09I've ever seen in my life.
30:11I was going to shout at him.
30:12You were? I honestly was.
30:14No, you know what, honestly, I'm impressed.
30:15I mean, you literally thought outside the box?
30:17No, I thought inside the box.
30:18Oh, sorry, OK, don't correct me.
30:20Inside the box.
30:21LAUGHTER
30:23Yeah, look, you know what, I think what I'm going to do
30:26is I'm going to look at all of the presents side by side.
30:28Is that OK? Here we are.
30:31I mean, Syd, it just looks like you bought the accoutrement
30:34to wrap the presents.
30:36Scarlett, you can tell that you've got a background
30:39in gift wrapping there.
30:41Olivia as well.
30:42I mean, you know, you've got the paper around it.
30:44Ruben, you've got the paper on it.
30:45Yeah.
30:47You know what, I think I've got some rankings.
30:49I think I've got... Yeah, I'm going to do it.
30:51Yes, please.
30:52Syd, we're going to go one point, but...
30:53I'm not surprised.
30:54LAUGHTER
30:56I love that attitude. You're taking it like a champ.
30:59Ruben, two points. Ruben, two points.
31:02That's all right for me. That's all right for you.
31:03Fantastic. Wow, this is going better than expected.
31:05Yeah.
31:07August, we're going to go three points.
31:09Four points to Olivia, a full five points to Scarlett.
31:12Well done, all of you.
31:13APPLAUSE
31:16What have we got next?
31:18Our next task is musical,
31:19so we shall be finding out who of our panel is the next Mozart
31:22and who is the next Mo...
31:24Farrah.
31:26One is famously good at music and the other's an athlete,
31:30i.e. not musical. Right.
31:31I don't know, we could be in private life, good at the flute.
31:34I didn't... I didn't... I should have done... Sorry.
31:36Yeah. Let's just play the clip. Let's do it.
31:39MUSIC PLAYS
31:47WHISTLE BLOWS
31:53Hello. Hello, August.
31:55Hello, Ruben. Hi.
31:57Hello, Sid. Hello, Mike Wodniak.
31:59Feeling chipper? Yes. Excited? Yes.
32:03Hello, Scarlett. Hi.
32:04Would you like to do some small talk before we do a task
32:07or do you just want to crack on with the task?
32:10Let's do some small talk. OK.
32:12What would you like to talk about? Favourite outfits?
32:15Pyjamas? At all times?
32:17Not at all times. I will get dressed when I need to.
32:21OK.
32:24Oh! Oh!
32:26Ding! Play these notes.
32:30PIANO PLAYS
32:35You may hear the notes whenever you either insult or compliment Mike.
32:40Most correct consecutive note in your final attempt wins.
32:44You have a maximum of ten minutes. Your time starts now.
32:48I'm so confused.
32:50You've got to work out the tune
32:51and whenever you want to hear the tune,
32:53you've got to either insult me or compliment me.
32:57Your moustache is looking nice today.
33:01PIANO PLAYS
33:05APPLAUSE
33:07Oh!
33:09Could you do some tasks?
33:11Ruben, stop rubbing your hands like that.
33:13I can't wait for this one.
33:16Oh, I can sense it.
33:17Well, I mean, Olivia, her first instinct was to...
33:20You could choose either. She began with a compliment.
33:22It was quite interesting.
33:24Not everyone made that choice, did they, Ruben?
33:27The idea of insulting Mike, did people find this like,
33:30oh, I'm not going to be able to do that?
33:31Uh-uh-uh.
33:35Who was up first, Mike?
33:36First up, it's Ruben, Olivia and Scarlett.
33:39OK.
33:41Your smile's beautiful.
33:44And gorgeous.
33:45Do you know how they smell, that?
33:47Mike? Yes?
33:48Have you pooed yourself?
33:51Lovely stuff.
33:53PIANO PLAYS
33:59No.
34:02This is hard.
34:04Well, I don't like your eyebrows.
34:07You have nice, shiny buttons.
34:10You look like a mouldy apple.
34:25No, that was definitely not it.
34:26Argh!
34:28You're deafening me with your ugliness.
34:31Your ears are nice and round.
34:34I know I've never seen your toes before, but I think they're ugly.
34:38Argh!
34:40There's so many notes on this, it's hard to get the right one.
34:43Your eyes are creepy.
34:44You don't look a deer over 100.
34:48Your belt is loose
34:53and it looks like it's being chucked over a cliff
35:00and swallowed by a fox
35:05and left in the bushes for six months.
35:10PIANO PLAYS
35:13Time for your final attempt.
35:14PIANO PLAYS
35:19Think.
35:20That was my best one yet.
35:22WHISTLE BLOWS
35:23Thank you, Olivia. Thank you.
35:26PIANO PLAYS
35:29WHISTLE BLOWS
35:30Thank you, Scarlet. Thank you.
35:33PIANO PLAYS
35:36WHISTLE BLOWS
35:37Thank you, Ruben. Thank you, Mick.
35:40Thanks, Moustache Baby.
35:41KISS
35:45Oh, wow!
35:47APPLAUSE
35:54I must say, that was a masterclass in insults, I think.
35:58I mean, your face looks like a mouldy apple.
36:02I mean, the only reason I said that is cos you've got a big forehead.
36:05Oh, yes, of course. That's the only reason.
36:07Let's break down the details.
36:10Do you get points for saying that mean insult?
36:12Um, absolutely not.
36:14But it was very impressive. Honestly, very, very impressive.
36:18And, Olivia, you went for compliments most of the time,
36:21but you did dabble in the...
36:23Some very inventive trash talk from Olivia.
36:25I think the story was, the belt was so loose,
36:28looked like it was thrown off a cliff, fox ate it,
36:31it decomposed for six months.
36:32Now you're aware. Yeah.
36:33I don't know what was in my head, but I absolutely loved it.
36:37LAUGHTER
36:38Scarlett, did you prefer the insults or the compliments?
36:42Insults. Really?
36:44Straight away.
36:45Was it, I haven't seen your toes, but I imagine they're ugly.
36:50She's bang on there. Very good instincts.
36:52Very good instincts.
36:54This time, we have August and Sid, hot and fresh.
36:58Musical, Sid?
37:00Sort of, yes. I can play one instrument, and it's this.
37:03Drums, clarinet, some recorder.
37:07Kind of give up on guitar.
37:09Your moustache looks nice.
37:16No.
37:18No.
37:20OK, I think I've got the first one.
37:26Uh, your clothes look cheap.
37:30Oh.
37:44Maybe.
37:46Your eyebrows look nice.
37:48Lovely thing to say. Thank you, Sid.
37:59PIANO PLAYS
38:06That's it. That's it.
38:08APPLAUSE
38:09Thank you, Sid.
38:10You're welcome, my boss, mate.
38:12OK.
38:14I'm trying to find a sheet of the notes.
38:17Oh.
38:21OK, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
38:23I think I found something.
38:25What is it?
38:26I think I found the keys.
38:29So, these keys are how I figure out the keys to the keyboard.
38:33I just need to count it.
38:34Wait. One, two, three, four, five, six.
38:42All right, I think I've got it.
38:43Thank you, August.
38:44WHISTLE BLOWS
38:45Bye-bye.
38:46APPLAUSE
38:50Mmm!
38:52August, my shortcut king!
38:54Yeah!
38:56I mean, I love how you were like,
38:57Now, hang on, I believe this might be a clue.
39:00And then it literally says,
39:02these keys are the keys to the keyboard's keys.
39:04LAUGHTER
39:05It's rather obvious, but you read it perfectly.
39:08Sid, you kind of went on pure musical intuition.
39:12I mean, you're pretty proud of that, aren't you?
39:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:15When I saw all of those notes popping up green,
39:18it was like Christmas had come early for me.
39:20LAUGHTER
39:21I can imagine.
39:23Olivia, what are your thoughts?
39:24I feel depressed.
39:26Oh!
39:27Look, varying results.
39:28In terms of stats, the points were correct in consecutive notes.
39:32Reuben, I can tell you got just one out of a possible ten.
39:35OK. Scarlett got two.
39:36Olivia managed five out of ten, very decent.
39:39August and Sid, of course, ten out of ten.
39:41Right. OK, well, that's pretty straightforward,
39:44reflected in the points.
39:45That means one point for Reuben, Scarlett two points,
39:48three points for Olivia,
39:49but five points go to both August and Sid!
39:52APPLAUSE
39:53Very well done. That was great.
39:56All right, Mike, what has that done for the scores?
39:58It's quite exciting, it's quite tight.
40:00At the back of the pack, with ten points each,
40:03we have Sid and Reuben.
40:05In the middle, we've got August on 12.
40:06In the lead, with 15 each, Olivia and Scarlett.
40:09APPLAUSE
40:12Wow, that's tight. It's tight.
40:15All right, you little group of baby geniuses,
40:18it's time to head over to the stage for the final task.
40:20APPLAUSE
40:21APPLAUSE
40:28OK, Mikey, who is reading tonight's final task?
40:32August is going to do the business, if you wouldn't mind.
40:34Thank you, August.
40:36Put red clips on the blue spikes and blue rings on the red spikes.
40:41You must not remove your helmets.
40:43If you put a thing on the wrong thing,
40:45two things will be taken off your thing total.
40:48Most things on the right thing wins.
40:51You have 100 seconds.
40:53Okey-dokey.
40:54Pretty straightforward.
40:55It's very much a put-the-things-on-the-thing
40:57kind of game. OK.
40:59So the red goes on the blue.
41:02The blue goes on the red.
41:04Are you ready?
41:05Yep. In that case...
41:07Begin!
41:08APPLAUSE
41:16Gravity!
41:21Keep going.
41:22You can do it.
41:25Yes. Good work so far.
41:27Olivia's just going one, one for one.
41:30Nice.
41:31How's it going, Reuben? Good.
41:33Good.
41:34How are you, Olivia? How's it going?
41:36Very badly.
41:37Very badly.
41:38Come on!
41:39Hold it!
41:43It's closed.
41:44Feels like it's closed.
41:46WHISTLE BLOWS
41:47CHEERING
41:48WHISTLE BLOWS
41:49CHEERING
41:50That was exciting.
41:52Please come back down here.
41:53We'll see how that's affected the final scores.
41:55CHEERING
42:00Woo!
42:02All right.
42:03Some hoops and clips stats.
42:05Here we go. OK.
42:06So, with nine hoops and or clips was Sid.
42:09Next in was Olivia, who managed 16.
42:11Reuben managed 20.
42:13Scarlett, 22.
42:14And August, 25.
42:15Ooh, OK.
42:17APPLAUSE
42:19So, points-wise, Sid gets one point for that task.
42:22Olivia, two. Reuben, three.
42:23Scarlett, four.
42:24And August won that task with five points.
42:26CHEERING
42:27Well done, August.
42:30All right.
42:31Mike, are you ready to give me the final scores for the episode?
42:35Certainly.
42:36At this point, I have to remind you that the runner-up
42:38and the winner will be going through to the semis,
42:41so this is pretty thrilling.
42:42OK. So, scores are tallyed.
42:45In fifth place, with 11 points, it's Sid.
42:47Well done, Sid.
42:48CHEERING
42:51In fourth place, with 13 points, it's Reuben.
42:53Very well done, Reuben.
42:55CHEERING
42:58And we are skipping third place... Mm-hm.
43:00..because there is a joint second-place situation happening.
43:05With 17 points, it is both Olivia and August.
43:09CHEERING
43:11Which means Scarlett wins!
43:13CHEERING
43:15Very well done, Scarlett.
43:17But what that also means is that we've got ourselves a little tie.
43:20What do we do here, Mike?
43:21We hot-footed over to tie-break towers, is what we do.
43:25And in tie-break towers this week,
43:27we've got a couple of kids in the lab with a feather.
43:30Oh!
43:34Throw this feather.
43:36Furthest feather wins.
43:38OK.
43:40OK, here goes nothing.
43:45BELL
43:46APPLAUSE
43:47Bye, thank you. Bye.
43:49APPLAUSE
43:54I can reveal that there was only eight centimetres
43:57between those two throws.
43:59Eight centimetres?
44:00Olivia, you threw it a very impressive 209 centimetres.
44:04August, you threw it 217 centimetres.
44:08APPLAUSE
44:09It's very well done, Olivia, but August, congratulations.
44:12So well done, both of you.
44:13That obviously means August is the tie-break winner
44:16and going through to the semi-final.
44:19Yes. Now, yeah, nice one, both of you.
44:21You go so, so close.
44:23Well, Scarlett is the winner of this episode,
44:26so go on up and collect the most interesting things
44:28that fit inside her pillowcase.
44:30Well done!
44:31APPLAUSE
44:33And that brings us to the end of the Junior Taskmaster Series 1 heats.
44:37Next week is the first semi-final,
44:39and you won't believe what we have in store for you.
44:42Unless you believe it's more tasks, in which case you will believe,
44:45because that is what we have in store for you.
44:46Until then, let's hear it for all of our contestants this week,
44:49and, of course, our winner, Scarlett!
44:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
45:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE