Episode 5: It’s tickle time

Episode synopsis

In this episode, the contestants must bring in the most frustrating thing to have on a desert island, stress out and then relax Tom, write a song for their 13-year-old selves, get some mugs into a bath in 75 steps or less, and ride a bicycle for as close to 111m as possible while sketching on its rear wheel.

Title context

Tom Gleeson announces that “it’s tickle time” for Tom Cashman at the very end of the episode, in a callback to Tommy Little’s attempt at the ‘Stress out and then relax Tom’ task.

Taskmaster Intro

Hello, and welcome to Taskmaster. It's the wordy bit at the beginning of the show, where I can say whatever the hell I want, because most of you still haven't unmuted it from the ads yet. And that's why I'd like to say that I endorse the consumption of breast milk well into teenagehood, maybe even adulthood. Let's start the show.

Assistant Intro

And next to me, it's the guy who told me he thinks that him and Duke Nukem would be boys. It's Tom Cashman.

Note: Duke Nukem is the titular character from a series of video games released between 1991 and 2011.

Taskmaster's Sign-off

Well then, what have we learnt? Hughesy taught us he had a grouse house. And right now, Tom's learning that it's tickle time!

Note: As Tom Gleeson finishes saying this, he and all of the contestants start tickling Tom Cashman, who ends up rolling around on the stage floor, while Lisa McCune celebrates her win almost entirely ignored.