Aaron insults the Taskmaster

After opening the first task brief one-handed and reading it, Aaron starts ripping it into small pieces, while maintaining eye contact with Tom Cashman, and then switches to using his mouth to rip the paper up.

As Tom hands Aaron the second task brief, Aaron begins to laugh, and then claims that he’s refusing to complete the next part, ripping the new envelope in half.

When Aaron asks if the first part of the task is scored, or if it is more about putting it back together, Tom tells him that all the information he needs is in the task.

After relenting and reading the second task brief, he begins sifting through the ripped pieces of the first one, while grumbling and moaning to himself. He then starts discarding the pieces of paper that have nothing on them onto the floor.

Aaron admits that he had been arrogant, coming into the lab, and opening the first task brief one-handed. When Tom notes that Aaron had made a lot of eye contact with him, rather than looking at the paper, Aaron says “Yeah, you’ve pissed me off lately.”

Aaron then picks up a piece of the paper and excitedly reads “Insult the Taskmaster”, before adding “The Taskmaster’s stupid.”

After noticing that Tom hadn’t blown his whistle, he re-reads the pieces of paper and then says to Tom “YOU’RE stupid.” When Tom blows his whistle, Aaron angrily screams “Why didn’t I just insult you after the Taskmaster?”.

In the studio, when Tom Gleeson asks Aaron to repeat what he’d said about him during the task, Aaron cops out and instead says “I like you, man.”

It’s revealed that Aaron had taken 8 minutes and 20 seconds to insult Tom Cashman, which Tom Gleeson puts down to him spending too long insulting him instead.

Aaron earns 2 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by JoGo & Will G and adjusted by David Fuller)