Episode 9: Who is Mats?
![Image of the title card at the start of this episode, showing a task brief with the show title, 'Kongen Befaler', and the episode title, 'Hvem er Mats?' ['Who is Mats?'], on a wooden desk. At the edges of the image, part of a typewriter keyboard and a stack of leather-bound books can be seen.](/images/episodes/kongen_befaler_08_09_framed.png "Image of the title card at the start of this episode, showing a task brief with the show title, 'Kongen Befaler', and the episode title, 'Hvem er Mats?' ['Who is Mats?'], on a wooden desk. At the edges of the image, part of a typewriter keyboard and a stack of leather-bound books can be seen.")
Episode synopsis
In this episode, the contestants must bring in something they would take to their graves, greet Olli while wearing a big hat, swap the contents of a bucket of nectarines and a bucket of marbles, beat a child at Yatzy, and make the tallest tower out of bars of soap.
Title context
“Who is Mats?” was asked directly to the camera by Tete Lidbom, immediately after reading the task brief for the ‘Win against a child’ task.
Taskmaster Intro
Welcome to the Drammen Theatre, and the show that has found more ways to cause frustration and joy than the Inuits have words for snow. It is Kongen Befaler. And the main prize is, as we all know, a bust in gold of... Christian Skolmen. No! Of me!
Note: The bust does, in fact, bear more than a passing resemblance to Christian.
Assistant Intro
By my side is the man who has measured more metres than the Norwegian Mapping Authority and the Swedish Adjustment Agency combined: Olli Wermskog!
Episode stats
Points Awarded
75
Disquals
0
Episode scores
Subtitles
The following episode subtitle files are available for download.
- English Credit: msbtvxq
- Norwegian Credit: Vibeche Standal Dart (LinQ Media Group)