Queen Sophie takes a trip (aided by invisible John and Joanne)

Sophie is first seen sitting in the garden of the Taskmaster house playing a Tudor queen, wearing a robe, a gold top, and striped trousers. After Queen Sophie complains about the mundanity of life, and wishes for something exciting to happen, a magic lizard (puppeteered by Joanne) jumps onto her shoulder, and tells her to lick it.

After licking the lizard, everything around Sophie becomes distorted, as she begins hallucinating. Standing up and wobbling around, Sophie sees an hourglass, a stuffed lion, some peppers, an armless mannequin, and a clock all float by her.

Sophie then announces “I’m about to take flight, John”, before she launches herself clumsily forward onto the invisible John’s back. The moment she lands on John, John and Joanne are revealed for the first time in the scene, wearing their blue screen onesies. Sophie apologises to John, thinking she has hurt him while trying to jump onto his back. Joanne then picks up Sophie’s legs from behind to help her ‘fly’, while Sophie’s front half is carried on John’s back. Despite the blue screen technology, the invisible team members’ shadows can still be seen on the grass below, somewhat spoiling the illusion.

In the studio, Greg pokes fun at the cry of Sophie’s Tudor queen: “Bloody Nora, I’m flying!”. Joanne says that she actually remembers the whole film being much worse than what was shown, admitting that on the day of filming, it was “carnage”.

Greg decides to share what he’d seen, as a viewer of the film: a Tudor queen licking a frog, followed by “six unconnected objects” floating over her head, and then the queen announcing that “she’s gonna fly off and she does.” John rebuts this critique, claiming that the floating items weren’t as unconnected as Greg thinks they are. He argues that the red and yellow peppers represented “heat and the sun” and, aided by Joanne, that the the armless torso represented “toxic masculinity”.

Greg decides to asks Steve if there’s any part of him that thinks his team’s film was more epic than the team of three’s. Steve admits that while the other team’s film was more ambitious and epic, his and Nick’s was just “better”.

Greg awards the team of three 5 points each for their more ambitious and epic film.

(Written by M3 / Andres Sanchez and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)