Right let's go. Ah.
Can you tape this to my head please? Ah.
Cool plus cool.
That was quite pathetic, don't you think?
Hello, and welcome to Junior Taskmaster.
I'm Rose Matafeo, but hopefully some of you know that by now.
Now we've made it to the last heat of
the series, unless you're watching this episode
out of order, which is quite a weird thing for you
to be doing. You're sick, you need help.
Just in case you're out of the loop, over
the series, 25 children are battling through five heats
and two semis in the hope of reaching the grand final
and getting their pint sized paws on this. Ooh.
Yeah. Fun fact about this head, its eyes follow you around
the room wherever you go.
And at night it whispers you dark, terrible,
haunting things. Frankly, I need it out of my house.
Right, it is time to meet tonight's contestants,
so, please give a big warm welcome to August...
..Olivia, Reuben...
..Scarlett and Sid.
Nice. And, of course, what would
the Junior Taskmaster be without their trusty assistant.
He is a man for all seasons.
He has the twinkling eyes of a shopping mall Santa
and, you know, the general vibe of
an old grandfather clock brought to life by a spell.
It is, of course, Mike Wozniak.
Thank you, Rose.
Ultimately, this is really a show about
the dangers of cat faeces.
If you find a sandwich on a garden wall
and you don't know where it came from,
check that filling before you eat it.
It could be an unsavoury feline prank.
Remember, don't wrap your trap round a cat flap bap.
Let's move on swiftly from that disgusting imagery, Mike. Hmm.
And I would love to know what tonight's prize task is.
Certainly. Well, for this heat our prize category is
the most interesting item that fits inside a pillowcase. Oh.
Uh, for me personally that would mean my cousin's Spigniv who is both
extremely knowledgeable about
the history of M4 service stations.
He's also a highly skilled amateur contortionist.
But what does it mean for our contestants
and will Rose agree?
The winner of this episode gets
to keep all five really interesting things if they've got five
pillowcases to carry them home in.
Hmm, well, I am notoriously disinterested in most things
and I have a very short attention span
so good luck children. August,
what is the most impressive thing that can fit into
a pillowcase that you've brought in today?
Well, I went for a concept instead of
the actual meaning of the object. So I went for a chess set. And... Oh.
I don't really play competitively or in any clubs. Right.
I play for fun because school, too easy. I need a challenge. Um...
What kind of age people mentally would match you in a chess match?
Um... 40?
You think you would beat me at chess? Absolutely.
OK. Right.
You've brought the board, right?
Uh-huh. But you said you haven't brought
the board, you've brought the concept.
OK, so basically by concept I mean how I feel towards it.
So if someone else wins
the episode, how do they take how you feel home with them?
Then the chess in the pillowcase.
So it's a real pillowcase not an abstract pillowcase?
No. Real chess board, concept of chess. Got it.
I like the concept of chess as well
and the actual chess board. Um,
I also like the concept of giving you low points
for that. Olivia,
what have you brought in for me that is interesting
and that could fit inside a pillowcase?
Yes, I have brought in the universe.
Here it is.
It's a book. Fits in a pillowcase.
Mm-hmm. What? The universe has loads
of different interesting things in it.
It has your prize task and it has your prize
and your prize and your prize in it
and, best thing of all, when
the universe started off it was only the size of
a pinhead. Pinhead fits in the pillowcase.
Oh.
It's, uh, bewildering stuff.
Mind blown.
OK but look so I think we're flirting with a bit of a...
..a similar situation to August.
It's the concept of the universe in a pillowcase, right?
That is just a representation. The spirit,
the facts of the universe is all in that book.
Like my chess set.
Wow, I feel like I'm being
Derren Browned right now by Olivia.
It does. I think it's time to...
..to turn to Reuben. How you doing?
All right, me.
What have you brought in today? I have brought a television remote.
There we go.
Reuben, you brought in a remote in a pillowcase.
Yes. Impress me with this.
Pause.
Unpause.
So then what's interesting about a TV remote?
How you can watch Junior Taskmaster.
Oh, that's pretty good. Oh, that's no,
yeah, well. All right, Scarlett, what have you brought?
A mini picnic.
Oh. OK, why?
I need to bribe ya for points.
Food bribes me.
Hmm, hmm. So food bribes you.
I mean, to be honest, out of all of the things, if I opened
a pillowcase and I found a full picnic in it...
Hmm. ..I would be quite interested.
Yeah.
I would love to know, though, if you had
the ultimate picnic, anyone could come to it, who would you invite?
Mike. What?
Mike?
But did you mean as
a guest or as a kind of, like a sort of waiter?
A guest. A guest?
Yeah. Yes.
All righty, last but not least. Sid, what have you brought in tonight?
Tonight I have brought in worry dolls.
Right, so worry dolls.
Explain to me the worry doll concept.
You tell the little people... Mm-hmm. ..your worries.
Yeah. You put 'em under your pillow. Right.
And the next morning there's no more worries. OK.
Well, what would you tell a worry doll?
Can't genuinely think of
a single thing that actually genuinely worries me right now.
So you're worry free?
You've been emptied of worries by the worry dolls.
No, I never use these things. I don't even own any.
So then I feel like you don't use these worry dolls.
So is that very... I dunno, I mean, uh, I, I... Look, oh, gosh.
OK, hold on I need... I think I need to retrace my steps here.
I'm gonna give out some points. So.
OK. One point for the worry dolls.
It's two points, I think, for August.
The concept of chess, slightly flimsy for me.
Three points for Scarlett
because I'm not actually currently hungry.
Four points for Olivia
because she was so enthusiastic about the universe.
But, you know what, Reuben, I'm just an egotistical brute
and the fact that you wanna watch
Junior Taskmaster has got me. So five points for the TV remote.
Ah. Yeah, he loves it. He loves it.
I reckon it's time for the first task for the night. Mm-hmm.
Indeed, and in the long-standing tradition of
the Taskmaster universe, this next task involves
a rubber duck.
We're aware our contestants will have grown
out of juvenile bath toys, of course, so
to keep them sweet we've also included something that modern
9 to 11-year-olds are absolutely wild about.
Guttering.
Hello, Olivia.
Hi, Mike. How are you?
Very well thank you.
Hello, Mike. Hello, Reuben. Hello, Sid.
Hello, Mike Wozniak.
Hello, August. Hello.
Hello, Scarlett. Hello.
Have you had to come from far today?
Liverpool.
What's the best thing about Liverpool?
Me.
OK.
Make this duck travel the furthest down these pipes.
And into the red bucket.
You must be behind the start line for the duck's journey.
When you are ready for your official attempt you must duck.
And shout, "Duck."
The duck that travels the furthest down the pipes wins.
You have ten minutes, your time starts now.
You understand what it means when it says duck and shout, "Duck?" Yeah.
Cor, that's a lot of ducks.
All right, Scarlett,
best thing about Liverpool, immediately, you.
Yeah.
The best thing about Liverpool is the Beatles.
Oh, bit of a fan of the B.
Yeah... What kind of face was that, Scarlett?
The Beatles can't sing.
The Beatles can't sing?
No.
Say that to my aunty.
OK.
She will kill you. She will kill...
So get those drainpipes up, get those ducks down there.
How did they do, Mike?
Well, let's find out. First up, it's Olivia and Reuben. Aha.
All right, sorry, doggy.
What you thinking?
I'm thinking stabilise the pipes to get them at
an angle using the bricks.
I'm thinking, because I need it to be big...
Yeah. ..I'm making it big.
That didn't work.
There's water in there. Has that helped?
I think. You want me to pour that into
the red one? Why do you want me to do that?
Because I'm gonna flip that upside down.
To help me.
Ah.
Should've used the water to put it down the pipes.
Never mind.
Yes. Do you normally build stuff?
Uh, yeah I build Legos.
What's the last thing you built out of Lego?
Yesterday.
You built yesterday out of Lego?
Mm-hmm.
Ah.
Yeah.
I think I'm happy with that.
OK.
Take it away.
Duck.
Yay, went into the red bucket.
Oh, yeah.
And basically put the water down so the duck can slide.
Yeah, is that it? Yes.
That's the whole thing? Sure?
And it goes into the bucket.
OK.
Yes. Yes? Into the bucket. OK.
Very good. Nicely done. I mean, Olivia.
Olivia immediately seeing a massive bucket of water
and be like, "Yeah, we won't be needing this then."
Shuzz. You got the duck down there in the end. Yeah.
Whereas Reuben, you, uh, you kind of decanted the water.
I thought the duck would just stop in the middle of it
so I put water down it and then.
Hmm.
Did the duck use fart power to go down?
No, but my granddad does.
Would you have changed anything if you'd done it again? No.
No. That's fine. There's no looking back after you've done it.
I wonder if your tune will change further on into the show. Um...
Would you like to see the next batch? Yeah, I think I would.
OK. It's Sid and August.
Ah, no. What're you thinking, Sid?
Um, pipes.
I think I want to make it go all the way down to the shed.
Vaulting ambition then.
Yeah. This is gonna take long.
I'm gonna need a lot of bricks for this. Ah.
I'm going to the shed. Yeah.
All right. Oh.
Have quite an acute angle there.
That's not gonna work.
That's there. Oh, no, that's just...
Wait, that could work.
What you doing now?
I'm moving the bucket so that it's easier.
So before you were trying to get everything into
the bucket where it was.
And now you're moving the bucket to an easier position.
Yes. Which is there. Two minutes and 37 seconds left.
I can do it. You know how? Because I'm smart.
How smart are you?
IQ of 120.
What is that on a range of Einstein to Donald Trump?
I have 120. Yeah. Einstein's 160.
So you're sort of three quarters of an Einstein.
Yes.
That work? Apparently not.
You've got one minute left.
Oh, no.
You know what? All right.
Putting a brick on a pipe. Yes.
Is that gonna help the duck go down the pipe?
Yes.
Going for it, this is your final attempt, is it?
Yes.
OK, uh, ooh.
Yeah.
Yeah. Thank you, August.
High five. Yeah?
That might not work.
You gonna go for it? Yes. Yes. Duck.
Um, that didn't work out.
Thanks, Sid.
Wow, Sid. Your face says it all.
I didn't know the water was just not going where it was supposed to go.
Right. It went at the wrong angle by like 45 degrees.
August, claiming to have an IQ of 120, eh?
Yeah. Basically, I had a vision, I had a vision.
When I walked through the door I was like, "OK,"
and I think I know what to do. Mm-hmm.
So that went worse than I thought.
All right, so I think it's time for a break now.
And we're back soon, so soon in fact, Mike
and I are gonna hold our breath until
the ad break is over. Ready, yeah? Go.
Welcome back, welcome back to Junior Taskmaster.
Wow, that was quite impressive, wasn't it?
Thought for a moment I wasn't gonna make it.
I thought I saw a sort of light at the end of a tunnel.
Really? You should've checked that out,
it sounds interesting.
Ha. But in the meantime, more tasks, please.
OK, one more to go and it's Scarlett.
Right.
OK, Scarlett, what you thinking?
Um, pipes.
Has this duck got a name?
Um... Taylor Swift.
Because of the yellow colouring is that what it is?
Yeah, and I love Taylor Swift and I love that duck.
Right.
I'm going in the shed.
A pair of pink glasses.
I'm serious. Maybe I need a fish. What for? To motivate the duck?
Yeah. You've got five and a half minutes left.
Oh. What if the other people have used more?
Well, that's a good question.
OK. I'm doing it.
You're doing it. Doing it.
OK, good luck, Taylor Swift. Take it away.
Duck.
Go duck, go duck.
I've done it. How'd you feel?
You express it with dance. Has that dance got a name?
The Scarlett.
OK, it's quite good. Have I got it right?
Yeah.
What's that one called?
Um, the duck.
The duck. What would the Mike be? Oh, hello. That's the Mike?
Yeah. You've given me the gift of a dance.
Yeah. I really like it.
Really, really good. Really good. Scarlett, wow.
I mean, I love that. The Mike dance. Yeah. The Mike's catching on.
Yeah. Well, that's popular at the end.
Is there, dare I ask, a Rose?
Could there be a... Yeah, what would the Rose be?
Um... Oh, no. Oh, Reuben.
All right, so I want to know, I mean, crucially.
Yeah. What duck travelled the furthest?
I can tell you Sid's travelled 73cm.
Ah, hey that's... That's something, that's something.
Yeah, I mean it was on a perfect horizontal,
so it's actually pretty impressive.
Reuben's managed 241.5cm,
very decent.
Olivia a very respectable 301cm.
August, 461.
Scarlett an extraordinary 896cm.
Wow.
Um, now those are the lengths.
It is possibly worth noting, uh, that, uh, Reuben and August...
Mm-hmm.
..they did fail to duck and shout "Duck" at the launch.
Ooh. What were they... What about everyone else?
Well, wha... What about everyone else?
What I was implicitly saying was that everyone else did. Did it.
Well, I could go either way here, right? Mm-hmm.
Could be a very lenient, kind, benevolent Junior Taskmaster
and say, "Oh, it doesn't matter what's written on the task.
"That's absolutely fine." But guess what?
It does.
It really does. Honestly, I'm gonna be pedantic here.
You know what, I'm gonna give two points to Reuben and August, OK?
It's better than nothing, I suppose. Yes, yes, yes.
But Sid, you did it,
you ducked, so I'm gonna give three points to Sid.
Mm-hmm. Four points to Olivia,
but obviously five points to Scarlett.
Well done all of you, though.
Good job, Scarlett.
Thanks.
OK, shall we see how that looks on the scoreboard?
OK, here it is, uh,
languishing at the back we've got August
and Sid both on four.
It's tight though at the top with Reuben on seven,
Olivia and Scarlett both on eight points.
All right, next task please.
Children are a gift.
And of course we all know some gifts are better than others, but which
of these little gits is... Excuse me.
Oh, oh.
Excuse me, I'm so... I beg your pardon.
Which of these little gifts...know one end of
the roll of wrapping paper from the other?
Let's find out.
Hello, Olivia. Hello.
Hello, Reuben. Hello, Scarlett. Hello.
Hello, August. Hello, Sid.
Hello, Mike Wozniak.
Can I open it?
Beautifully... Oh, no.
Beautifully wrap up this present.
You must maintain eye contact with Mike at all times.
If you break eye contact
with Mike at any time he will unwrap your present
and you must start again.
The most beautifully wrapped present wins. You have ten minutes.
Your time starts now.
I see you. So I'm just gonna take that off. Yeah.
Just cos you broke eye contact. I do apologise. I'm terribly sorry.
This is gonna be very annoying.
Ooh.
That was the most brutal thing that I've ever done.
Yeah. Why'd we have to look at him? I would rather look...
I would rather look at like a statue than him.
It's amazing that you were looking at me
and you were almost gonna say me and you were like, "Nah."
You know what, I'm just dying to see how
all of you got on with this task.
Hmm. So who was first?
Uh, first up it is Reuben and it is Sid.
Oh.
Are you a good present wrapper ordinarily?
I've never wrapped a present in my life.
When was the last time you wrapped a present?
Never. Who wraps your presents?
I don't know.
I am going to do that. Mm-hmm.
That. Mm-hmm. Ooh.
Sorry, I do apologise, I'm just gonna have
to pop that off just cos you broke eye contact.
I'm terribly sorry, Sid.
This is gonna take a while. Hmm.
Where are the scissors?
Where are the little scissors?
OK.
Sorry, you broke eye contact with me so I'm gonna have
to, dreadfully sorry.
So I'm just gonna have to pop that off just cos you
broke eye contact with me. Sorry, Sid.
I don't even know what's in the box. Cos I'll never know.
What would be in the box if you were giving someone a present?
No.
You're self policing now. This is quite good.
Oh, no, I'm... I'm just gonna have
to take that off cos you broke eye contact with me.
For crying out loud.
Sorry, Reuben, I'm just gonna have to take that off.
Oh, I'm sorry Reuben. I'm gonna... Ah! ..take that off.
Sorry, I'm just doing a job. I'm just a guy doing a job.
I hate the way I look at your ugly moustache.
My ugly moustache?
Am I allowed to look at your face?
What did it say in the task?
I don't know. Ah!
Sorry.
You know what, I'm just gonna have to do...
You're just gonna have to? I'm just gonna have to do that.
This is making me so angry.
Are you normally quite a calm person Reuben?
You're looking slightly furious now.
There. Wrapping.
You there? Wrapping. Yeah.
You don't wanna carry on?
Hmm. It's just gonna get taken off. Well, it depends if...
Cos I am not very good at maintaining eye contact.
Well, if you're done you can tell me you're done.
Oh, I'm done.
Oh. Thank you, Sid.
Ear piercing.
What have you got now?
This is a beautiful wrapped present.
Thank you, Reuben.
You're welcome.
Would you call that wrapped?
Yes.
Wow. Wow.
It's wrapped.
Wow. Oh.
That is what we call staring someone out, Reuben.
It looked like you were trying to like communicate something
from your mind to his.
What was your internal monologue? What were you saying to him?
Mike should know now.
It's violent.
You got it, you got it?
Yeah, it's very... Psychically?
Very much post watershed, I'm afraid.
I was worried I'd find this, uh, task,
uh, cruel, but I really enjoyed myself.
Sid, how did you find that task?
I'd say it's the best present I've ever wrapped.
Probably because it's the only present I've ever wrapped.
But I'd say I did a great job. All right.
Neither of you have wrapped
a present before. That became quite clear
to me just then, right? Who're we gonna see now Mike?
It is Scarlett and Olivia. Uh-huh.
Are you good at wrapping presents? Yeah.
Yeah? Yes.
Do you do it often?
Yeah. For Christmas.
What's the best present you've ever received?
Um...
A space... A book about space.
You like space? Yeah.
So what's the best present you've ever bought someone, Scarlett?
Um, money.
You've bought them money?
I bought my cousin £180 cos he's 18.
Oh, wow. What did he spend it on?
Don't know, don't know yet.
What do you think he should spend it on?
Skincare. Because he's into skincare or...
No, cos he needs it. Oh, dear. Yeah.
Darn, this is hard.
What's happening now? Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Olivia.
I just noticed you glanced... Ah!
..at the, uh, Sellotape. Are you good at buying presents?
Um...
Sorry, I'd better just...
Oh, I was looking at the...
I know, I know.
Take your time then.
Please excuse me while I unwrap your wrapping.
This is the worst task yet.
Do you believe in aliens?
Yes. What if I told you there was
an alien standing directly behind you right now? What?
Yeah, so... Oh. I'm terribly sorry. Ah!
Uh, as a first, oh, that's a shame.
I didn't break it.
Well, for a smidgen.
Oh, my god.
How you feeling?
Stressed.
How's it going now? Trying to make a bow out of
the tape cos I lost the actual bow.
Oh, I see. That's tricky. Do you need to look on the floor?
Do you need me to lean over while you look on the floor? You find it?
No. Was it helpful? No.
No. 30 seconds left. Hmm.
Hmm... Hmm? Hmm.
Is that tasty?
Uh... No. No? No.
OK. Are you worried at all about the fact that you've just spat
a globule of Sellotape into my suit?
No. No.
Five seconds. You done it? Happy?
Yes.
Oh. There it was.
Thank you, Scarlett.
What do you think of your... Beautiful.
Yeah? That's the adjective of choice,
is it? Don't touch it. Ooh. Crafty.
I'm never wrapping any present ever again.
No? No. I thought you were
a master of it? That's what you told me.
Wow, you made some enemies in this, uh, task here, Mike.
Yeah, that felt harder. That felt harder this time.
Cos these two actually clearly had some...
..some competence and got quite far.
Olivia, your eyes were kind of maniacal.
I... I love that. Have... Have they recovered?
Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
I still can't look at him though.
No.
Because of the emotional, yeah.
She gave all she could.
You weren't even risking blinking by the end of that, were you?
I don't think you blinked once there.
Even going down to pick up that bow.
I didn't find the bow in the end.
So I hope you count resourcefulness because I used the tape instead.
That's quite a compelling argument. Um,
I, uh, I will ask this, Scarlett,
do you think your cousin might be watching this
and might be seeing when you said
that they should spend their money on skincare? Do you stick by it?
Yeah.
I mean, you just seemed by the end you'd given up on
the concept of even wrapping a gift ever again.
I had to wrap my friend's birthday present.
Oh. Well, can we ask you what you've got for them?
Skincare. Did you get them conditioner?
Yeah. No, that's for your hair.
Conditioner under here.
Sounds like Reuben's family
need to take him through some pretty basic hygiene.
You know what, I think it's time for
a little break and that means it's snack time.
Uh, yes I've got my snack-et on, uh, today.
Oh, oh, my gosh. Ah, I love the snack-et.
I'm just glad it wasn't the sn-ousers this time.
Yeah, we'll see you after the break.
Welcome back. All right, where are we at, Mike?
Our last wrapper is August.
Your time starts...
..not yet, not yet... Now.
So let's just see what is...
Fish. What do you think that is? That's, uh...
It's a fish. One of those...
Red, red fish man.
Red, yeah, burgundy distraction fish, is it?
I... I don't know.
No, the crimson subterfuge haddock.
Um...
The maroon ruse halibut. No, I know, I know, I know.
Small big fish.
Small big fish. Yes.
Maybe some sort of herring.
Small big fish. Don't know what to do.
Maybe I have to wrap paper. Oh, no.
So I'm just gonna, uh, do excuse me.
Take that off. I can blink, yeah? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
You... I'm just gonna take that off just cos you broke eye contact
with me, I'm terribly sorry.
That fringe is gonna be a problem, isn't it?
So I'm just gonna unwrap that just cos you broke eye contact
with me. Honestly, who hurt you?
Oh, sorry, August, I'd better just quickly unwrap that.
Is there anything which can help me?
Them's the breaks.
What you thinking?
I don't wanna wrap this up.
Time stop.
You're done? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not bothered with this one, uh...
Thank you, August.
OK, wow,
and all of you were angry at Mike at some point
but you took the cake there, August.
You were like the angriest Santa's elf I've ever seen in my life.
I was gonna shout at him.
You were. I honestly was.
No, in all honesty, I'm impressed.
I mean, you literally thought outside the box.
I thought inside the box. Oh, sorry.
Yeah, yeah. In or out of the box. OK, don't correct me.
Um... Yeah, look you know what, I think what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna look at all of
the presents side by side. Is that OK?
Here we are.
I mean, Sid, it just looks like you've bought
the accoutrement to wrap the present.
Scarlett, you can tell that you've got
a background in gift wrapping there.
Uh, Olivia, as well. I mean, you know, you've got
the paper around it. Reuben, you got the paper on it.
Yeah.
You know what? I think I've got some rankings,
I think I've got... Yeah, I'm gonna do it. Yes, please.
Sid, we're gonna go one point. But...
I'm not surprised.
I love that attitude, you've taken it like a champ.
Uh, Reuben, two points. Reuben, two points. Yeah.
That's all right for me.
It's all right for you. Fantastic. Wow,
this is going better than expected. Yeah. Uh, August,
we're gonna go three points. Four points to Olivia. OK.
A full five points to Scarlett. Well done all of you.
What have we got next?
Our next task is musical.
So we shall be finding out who of our panel is the next... Yes.
..Mozart and who is the next Mo Farah.
Uh, as in one who's famously good at music,
uh, and the other's, uh, an athlete.
Uh-huh. Ie, not musical. Right.
Well, he might, uh... He might, I dunno,
he could be in private life good with the flute.
I didn't look, should've done, sorry.
Yeah. Uh, let's just play the clip.
Let's do it.
Hello.
Hello, August. Hello, Reuben.
Hi.
Hello, Sid. Hello, Mike Wozniak.
Feeling chipper? Yes.
Excited? Yes.
Hello, Scarlett. Hi.
Would you like to do some small talk before you do
a task or do you just wanna crack on with the task?
Uh, let's do some small talk.
OK. What would you like to talk about? Favourite outfits?
Pyjamas.
At all times?
Not at all times. I will get dressed when I need to.
Oh. Oh.
Ding.
Play these notes.
PIANO PLAYS
You may hear the notes whenever you either insult or compliment Mike.
Most correct consecutive notes in your final attempt wins.
You have a maximum of ten minutes.
Your time starts now. I'm so confused.
You've gotta work out the tune.
And whenever you wanna hear
the tune, you've gotta either insult me or compliment me.
Your moustache is looking nice today.
Thank you, Olivia.
PIANO PLAYS
Ooh.
Reuben, stop rubbing your hands like that.
I can't wait for this one.
I can sense it.
Well, I mean as... I mean, Olivia there her first instinct was to...
You could choose either, she began with a compliment.
Mm-hmm. Was quite interesting.
And not everyone made that choice, did they, Reuben?
The idea of insulting Mike,
did people find this like, "Oh, I'm not gonna be able to do that?"
Nn-nn-nh.
Who was up first, Mike?
First up, it's Reuben, Olivia and Scarlett.
OK.
Your smile's beautiful.
Thank you. Gorgeous.
Did anybody smell that? Mike.
Yes?
Have you pooed yourself?
Lovely stuff.
No.
This is hard.
Well, I don't like your eyebrows.
You have nice shiny buttons.
You look like a mouldy apple.
No, that was definitely not it.
Ah. You're deafening me with your ugliness.
Your ears are nice and round.
I know I've never seen your toes before but I think they're ugly.
Ah. There's so many notes on this it's hard to get the right one.
Your eyes are creepy.
You don't look a day over a hundred.
Your belt is loose
and it looks like it's been chucked over a cliff
and swallowed by a fox
and left in the bushes for six months.
Time for your final attempt.
Think that was my best one yet.
Thank you, Olivia.
Thank you.
Thank you, Scarlett.
Thank you.
Thank you, Reuben.
Thank you, Mike. Nice moustache by the way.
Oh, wow.
I must say that was a masterclass in insults, I think.
I mean, uh,
your face looks like a mouldy apple.
Hmm. Oh, my gosh.
I mean... I mean the only reason
I said that is cos he's got a big forehead.
Oh, yes of course. That's the only reason. The only...
Yes. Let's break down the details. Let's...
Do you get points for saying the meanest insult ever?
Um, absolutely not. But, uh, but it was very impressive.
Honestly very, very impressive
and Olivia you went for compliments most of the time
but you did...you did dabble in the, uh...
Some very inventive trash talk from Olivia.
Very. Yeah. Think the story was the belt was so loose,
looked like it was thrown off a cliff, fox ate it.
Mm-hmm. Decomposed for six months.
Now you're wearing it, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know what was in my head but I absolutely loved it.
Scarlett, did you prefer the insults or the compliments?
Insults. Really?
Yeah. Straight away. Was it, uh, I,
I haven't seen your toes but I imagine they're ugly.
She's bang on there.
Very good instincts, very good instincts.
All right, I think it's advert time now
and if you're sitting at home with your ten-year-old
and you think, "Hey, they could do better than that,"
well, Mike's job has been posted on the website
so do get in touch. See you after the break. Sorry.
Welcome back to the final part of the show.
I have, uh, had half of my task dinner before the break
but I'm still hungry for the rest. Waiter.
Well, under the cloche this time we have August
and Sid hot and fresh. Musical, Sid?
Sort of, yes. I can play one instrument and it's this.
Drums, clarinet, some recorder.
Mm-hmm. Kind of gave up on the guitar.
Uh, your moustache looks nice.
Thank you.
No. No.
OK, I think I've got the first one.
Uh, uh, your, your, your clothes look cheap.
Oh.
Maybe.
Oh. Your eyebrows look nice.
What a lovely thing to say. Thank you, Sid.
Is that it? I think that's it. Thank you, Sid.
You're welcome, Mike Wozniak.
OK. I'm trying to find a sheet of the notes.
Oh.
OK wait, wait, wait, wait. I think I've found something.
What is it? Uh, I think I've found the keys.
So these are how I figure out the keys to the keyboard.
Uh, I just need to count it. Wait, one,
two, three, four, five, six.
All right, I think I've got it.
Thank you, August.
Bye-bye.
Ooh, August my shortcut king. Yeah.
I mean, I love how you were like, "Now hang on, I believe this
"might be a clue." And then it literally says,
"These keys are the keys to the keyboard's keys."
Rather obvious. But you read it perfectly.
Sid, you, you kind of went on pure musical intuition.
I mean, you're pretty proud
of that, aren't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I saw all
of those notes popping up green it was like Christmas had come early
for me.
I can imagine. Olivia, what are your thoughts?
I feel depressed.
Oh. Look varying results.
Hmm, in terms of stats the points were correct
and consecutive notes.
Reuben, I can tell you got just one out of a possible ten.
OK. Scarlett got two. Olivia managed five out of ten,
very decent.
August and Sid, of course, ten out of ten.
Right, OK, wow. That's pretty straightforward,
reflected in the points that means one point to Reuben,
Scarlett two points, three points for Olivia,
but five points go to both August and Sid.
Very well done. All right,
Mike what has that done to the scores?
It's quite exciting. It's quite tight.
At the back of the pack
with ten points each we have Sid and Reuben. Mm-hmm.
In the middle we've got August on 12.
In the lead with 15 each, Olivia and Scarlett.
Wow, that's tight, that's tight. All right,
you little group
of baby geniuses, it's time to head over to the stage for
the final task.
OK, Mikey, who is reading tonight's final task?
August is gonna do
the business if you wouldn't mind. Thank you, August.
Put red clips on the blue spikes
and blue rings on the red spikes.
You must not remove your helmets.
If you put a thing on
the wrong thing, two things will be taken off your thing total.
Most things on the right thing wins.
You have 100 seconds.
Oh. Okey-dokey. Pretty straightforward.
It's very much a put
the things on the thing kind of game.
OK.
So the, the red goes on the blue.
Blue.
And the blue goes on the red. Red.
Are you ready?
Yeah. In that case, begin.
Gravity.
Keep going. You can do it. Yes. Good work so far.
Olivia's just doing one, one for one.
Nice. How's it going, Reuben?
Good. Good. How are you, Olivia? How's it going?
Oh, very badly.
Badly.
Come on. Home stretch.
It's close. Feels like it's close.
That was exciting. Please come back down here
and we'll see how that's affected the final scores.
All right.
Some hoops and clips stats, here we go.
OK. So with nine hoops and-or clips.
Mm-hmm. Was Sid. Mm-hmm.
Next in was Olivia who managed 16. Reuben managed 20.
Scarlett 22 and August 25. Ooh, OK.
So points wise, Sid gets one point for that task,
Olivia two, Reuben three,
Scarlett four and August won that task with five points.
Well done, August.
All right,
Mike are you ready to give me the final scores for the episode?
Certainly. At this point I have to remind you that the runner up
and the winner will be going through to the semis
so this is pretty thrilling. OK. Hmm.
So scores are tight.
In fifth place with 11 points it's Sid, well done, Sid.
Whoo.
In fourth place with 13 points, it's Reuben.
Very well done, Reuben.
And we are skipping third place.
Mm-hmm. Because there is a
joint second place situation happening
with 17 points, it is both Olivia and August.
Which means Scarlett wins.
Very well done, Scarlett.
But what that also means is that we've got ourselves
a little tie and what do we do here, Mike?
We hot foot it over to tie break towers is what we do.
Uh, and in tie break towers this week we've got
a couple of kids in the lab with a feather.
Oh.
Throw this feather.
Furthest feather wins. OK.
OK, here goes nothing.
Bye, thank you. Bye.
I can reveal, uh,
that there was only 8cm
between those two throws.
8cm.
Olivia, you threw it a very impressive 209cm.
August, you threw it 217cm.
So very well done, Olivia, but August, congratulations.
So well done both of you.
But that obviously means August is the tie break winner
and going through to the semi final.
Yes. Now, yeah, nice one both of you, though.
So, so close.
Well, Scarlett is
the winner of this episode, so go on up
and collect the most interesting things that fit inside
a pillowcase. Well done.
And that brings us to the end of
the Junior Taskmaster series one heats.
Next week is the first semi final
and you won't believe what we have in store for you.
Unless you believe it's more tasks, in which case you will believe
because that is what we have in store for you.
Until then, let's hear it
for all of our contestants this week and of course our winner Scarlett.
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