(Roaring)
(Sings:) I'm your ice cream man!
— I mean I am on Facebook! — Right... Right...
Good evening! I'm Jaakko Saariluoma, and this is Taskmaster.
Once again, we welcome you to come and watch —
five contestants exchange their dignity for points —
by doing tasks that I arbitrarily judge.
Our regular contestants are Jenni Pääskysaari [*Radio/TV presenter, writer, journalist], –
Riku Rantala, - [Journalist, presenter]
Anna-Maija Tuokko [*Actress; film / TV / stage], –
Mikko Penttilä. [Actor; comedy / improvisation]
And today competing with them is the future legend Pekka Strang. [*Actor, theater manager]
And paradoxically, here on my left side is my right hand –
the programme's official judge Pilvi Hämäläinen.
– Thank you. – Pilvi, how are things looking?
— Well... – Thanks, I think we can get started then.
And first, we'll find out what the prizes are, what we'll be competing for today.
Pilvi, could you just remind us what this is about?
So the prizes in each episode consist of some personal belongings of the contestants.
And this time, what you asked them to bring was the most underrated object.
The most underrated object. Let's start with... Anna-Maija, what did you bring?
Well, so this is the most underrated item in my household. So it's a champagne cooler. (Jaakko:) A champagne cooler?
(A-M:) Look how striking it is. You can put the bottle in there, ice cold and lovely.
I appreciate it, the family does not.
But since I've brought it here, perhaps I can then buy a bigger one myself. Because it's been on my mind to have one of those slightly bigger ones.
— So you want to get rid of it? – Well, in a way, I guess.
– So you don't want to win this episode? – Well, I do. – There yo go. – You can't have too many of those.
Next, the most underrated one. Riku, what did you bring?
So this is very underrated by its financial value as well, costs 20-30 cents in a shop —
the toilet roll.
– Hmm, the most underrated? (Riku:) It is underrated.
And when the society crumbles down and the shops close, what do people start to fight for?
There won't be any fighting for gold, not for myrrh, not for champagne, but toilet paper. That's the most important thing.
(Jaakko:) That's true, but I've heard of a certain Riku Rantala advertise the so-called "slosh basin" on TV. [*Could be sthg from the quirky backpacking show Madventures, while traveling in a location with little commodities]
That's exactly why this is the most underrated thing, because —
only the thighs of hippies can endure the use of the slosh basin.
(Jaakko:) Thanks for the illuminating explanation, Riku Rantala.
Jenni Pääskysaari, what did you bring?
Ummm, I brought an item that I think we didn't understand we should've appreciated, um —
before smart phones.
Which is, the cell phone. [*literally: travel/portable phone]
You could call, you could send text messages, and you could play Snake*. [*To young viewers: Snake was a legendary and often the only game on every Nokia phone]
We weren't all spending time with our phones for something like 5 and a half hours a day.
But Jenni, have you looked into that smart phone, I mean you can also make calls —
and send text messages with it. – Jaakko, did it come with Snake? No.
Fine. But that wasn't the point, but thank you Jenni Pääskysaari.
Next, Pekka Strang.
What did you bring? – Well I brought this Smiling Boy statue. [*Smiling Boy/Girl statues are given to children in many schools to acknowledge individuals of socially virtuous behaviour. Since mid-50s, classmates vote who gets awarded.]
(Jaakko:) So you've received one? – Well it is in fact fake. [*Smiling Boy/Girl statues are given to children in many schools to acknowledge individuals of socially virtuous behaviour. Since mid-50s, classmates vote who gets awarded.]
So I got it from the staff of Studio Pasila —
when I was there as like, a trainee, a producer. So um, they made me this.
Okay. Have you received any of these back at school? – Um no, no I have not.
— Why's that? – Well I went to a Swedish speaking school. [*Swedish + Finnish = official language status in Finland]
– Yeah, so what? – Well there everyone would've received one, so... [*Swedish speaking population still has a reputation of being more upper class, wealthier, and happier]
(Anna-Maija:) Everyone's all smiles. [*Swedish speaking population still has a reputation of being more upper class, wealthier, and happier]
Thank you, Pekka.
And then. There's still Mikko Penttilä. The most underrated object.
Umm... it's this.
(Pilvi cracks up a little bit.) (The toy starts emitting music.)
Awww! That's brilliant!
– Mikko, before a vein ruptures in my head, will you switch it off please? Thank you. (Mikko:) Thank you.
There's absolutely no doubt of who'll receive just one point from this task.
(Jenni:) Love it. I want to win.
(Jaakko:) Thank you everyone, let's assess the points from 2 to 5.
Was that one point?
— That was one point! – Yes! (Jaakko:) It was.
I've decided to give 5 points to Pekka. Because of the story.
(Pekka:) Just getting started. – And 4 points to Riku.
3 points to Jenni, and 2 to Anna-Maija.
And there, the first round of points have been given —
and so the winner will get to take all of these, especially that Santa, home. After this. – I want it.
And the one to accumulate the highest score during the entire series will receive the best prize of all: this golden Taskmaster head.
(Pekka bursts out laughing.) – Oh dear. (Jaakko:) And then... – Pekka cracked up! Why did you crack up?
And now, it's time to to go to the mansion and check out the next task.
Hello! -Hi.
"Move as many ping pong balls as possible from bucket A to bucket B, which is outside."
"You may only touch one ball at a time."
"You may not move the buckets. You have 7 minutes to prepare —"
"...and after that, 1 minute for doing the task."
"Time starts now."
(Female voice: I have no memory of...) – So the objective was to move as many ping pong balls as possible from bucket A to bucket B.
They weren't allowed to move the buckets, –
and they could only touch one ball at a time.
— Excellent, who's first? – Let's start with Anna-Maija, Jenni and Riku. – Well of course.
Right. I can probably get something from the kitchen?
Should I go to the shed and get a large plastic bag of some kind, or...
Well then, I'll just slap my body full of these, these...
Because one bucket at a time. Because something like this... I can't put many...
I'm looking for a plastic bag.
And of course there aren't any of those in here, are there.
I'll measure how long it takes me to get over there.
I'll just take one.
Right? And now I can touch several (balls) at the same time.
Check! And back!
Is it like, one at a time when the actual task is on? Or now, all the time?
— How much has elapsed? – Three minutes and six seconds have elapsed now.
Am I like, touching the ping pong ball if I'm wearing a rubber glove?
– But I am touching just one at a time now.
I'll have 45 seconds left to bag up -
and on the other hand, empty the "sacks", so to speak.
Did I make a mistake by going with this pillowcase now, wonder if I should've just taken a plastic bag?
– I sound like one of those ball pits.
Task... time... now.
(Clears throat loudly.)
And then it's going to take quite a bit of effort to get all of these to the other one. (The balls make rattling noise.)
(Pilvi:) 25.
I won't do this too quickly so I won't get too jittery and touch multiple balls at once.
And where is it outside? Where is it?
There, and there. Must go now.
Oh shit! Now this... Right, no can do.
...down. I'm off, bye! – 10 seconds left.
Noo! Let's go! Oh dear oh dear oh dear!
— 10 seconds! – Yes!
Where is it? There, yes!
(Pilvi:) Five.
(Pilvi:) Two. Time's up!
(Pilvi:) Time's up. — Right.
Anna-Maija Tuokko, could you just explain your logic in this task a little bit?
I mean, if the competition had been about who touches the most balls at the same time, you've would've been the winner.
But that wasn't the task, was it.
I mean that's a total failure.
Oh my! And all of this, I only realise now. I mean, ALL.
— Yeah... What about Jenni, was the plastic bag tactic any good? – Well I wouldn't say that it was exactly good...
But I stayed calm. I didn't panic. (Jaakko:) Right. — Unlike some people.
(Anna-Maija:) Who are you referring to? – What?!
Pilvi, what were the results?
Riku got 30 balls into the bucket, and Jenni a whopping 44.
Anna-Maija managed to move 39 balls, but touched simultaneously about 45.
(Anna-Maija:) Oh my, and I only realised it now. There we go. — Better later than never, huh?
Look, those were some great performances. We're yet to see the performances of Pekka and Mikko –
and we'll see them after the following break. See you soon!
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster!
Before the break, we saw how Riku, Anna-Maija and Jenni tried to move ping pong balls from bucket to another.
Well, the outcomes were what they were. We still have the performances of Pekka and Mikko left.
(Pilvi:) And I'm sure we should watch them in one go. – Indeed, let's watch them immediately.
(inaudible) Right...
It's over there. I see...
That's there. Some scoopy thing would be good.
Because then I wouldn't be touching the balls, the scoop would.
What if you moved the buckets, would that be a thing?
— Right, I don't think it's been forbidden. – Right.
It's best to make use of the walking time.
The passages, and think of what to do.
I can take that watch and that too, so... You'll grab this, —
I'll give you really clear instructions so you don't have to think about anything.
I wonder if there's anything like, that could be used for scooping balls?
— We can start the task. — Okay, well if you just give those to me.
The task starts... now.
The front door is a bit sort of narrow, so you'll have to focus a bit more when you get there.
30 seconds.
If anything goes wrong, it's alright, we'll just put things right in the end. And it starts now.
20 seconds left.
This way.
A pretty narrow one, that, but that went well too.
(Pilvi:) Five.
(Pilvi:) Time's up.
And there, there they are.
And then um, you can take the watch.
I can take this from here and you'll take that.
— And now you still have 15 seconds left. – I touched the bucket.
(Pilvi:) Time's up. – Oh what a shame!
(Mikko:) What happened? – Took the bucket.
Are you alright, Mikko? – I am now.
I must ask, Pekka Strang, my friend, what happened?
Umm, at which point? – There, at the very end.
It felt completely logical to just take it, I guess I just like forgot, I didn't realise.
But um, I think I'm gonna cope.
Um... Mikko, you just fell from the seat.
Were you delighted because Pekka messed up by touching the bucket? – Yes.
— You think you've got a pretty good result yourself? – No, not neces- no I don't think that.
— So it was just schadenfreude? — That's right.
Well, what are the results?
So Pekka did manage to move all 150 balls –
but then made a fatal mistake.
Mikko on the other hand got 81 balls into the bucket —
which is the highest qualifying number.
The scores for this task will go as follows:
Mikko 5 points, Jenni 4 points, Riku 3 points, –
and Pekka and Anna-Maija 1 point each.
At least, at least. One at least. Right.
— Pilvi, what are the total scores at the moment? — The total scores at the moment are...
...very even.
— Good, let's go to the mansion, there's more points up for grabs.
— Hello. — Hello.
"Impress the professor of theoretical physics."
"You have 15 minutes."
"Time starts now."
So the objective was to make the biggest impression on –
Kari Enqvist, a professor of theoretical physics.
I mean that's already impressive in itself, but whose performance are we going to start with?
Let's start with Pekka, Mikko and Jenni.
— Just a moment. – Feel... free.
— Enjoy yourself. — Absolutely.
Could make an impression by just taking off.
Sorry that I'm babbling a bit but um, I've been thinking that we're all one.
What's like, the perspective of the cosmos, and what's like, the difference to a human perspective?
What's going on in the society now? What's all this populism?
Is there some sort of like, flow that we can't sense?
So I've been thinking of like for example, supernaturalness. Could tap into it, so it's perfectly like, explainable in a way.
— But if supernatural can be explained, then that makes it natural, doesn't it. — Exactly.
There's this one thing I haven't done publicly for over 20 years.
I hope you enjoy. And I hope nothing happens. [*as in: injury or other misfortune]
(Hard rock riff starts playing)
Have you ever considered that we should protect ourselves somehow better from that... electromagnetism?
Not really, no.
— Blood system, what is it, I mean, the blood's... – Blood vessels. — Right!
So if for one person one second is a day, then, then... Then the, like, conversation like, gets a bit Beckettian in a way and a bit like, strange, and... [*Likely: Samuel Beckett, known for writings of bleak outlook and minimalism]
— Would that be a bad thing? — No, not a bad thing. No. [*Likely: Samuel Beckett, known for writings of bleak outlook and minimalism]
If those magnetism waves happened to...
...occur more, then this would like, catch them first. – Right...
(Rock music.)
(Out of breath) Christ, this is exhausting business.
— Could I just ask one more thing... – Of course. – How does this block all the waves –
of which most are coming from the sides and from below as you'll notice, and —
why does it have to be up there, on top of your head?
It helps, those... wings... if it's a bit windy.
(Kari:) Right... – So they, then.
I'm off to see um... an osteopath.
Ah, great performances.
Jenni, you'd clearly have something to give to the air guitar scene.
— Um, you know what? – What? — I have given a part of myself to it.
And this is absolutely true: I am the world's second best air guitarist, —
Air Guitar World Championship 2nd place from '97. [*Contest held annually in Finland since mid-90s]
Wow! [*Contest held annually in Finland since mid-90s]
I'm intrigued to know what the professor made of this. He has actually left his notebook.
Indeed. I have it right here.
(Jaakko:) So let's start with Jenni. — Umm, the professor found Jenni's performance surprising –
and the moshing very professional.
"Although, the huffing and puffing at the end slightly flattened the aggressive rock spirit of the performance."
Pekka, you decided to solve this one by talking his head off.
Considering that you were there for 15 minutes, and if I understood correctly, you just spoke the whole time.
We only saw 45 seconds of it and that already made my head spin.
Yeah I don't know what happened there, I mean I just got carried away somehow, and...
I mean I am quite happy to just chatter away and then I thought, well, he's right there already sat down so... so maybe —
maybe he'll just have to listen to me now and um...
Or I don't know, but I mean, I had a perfectly good time.
Indeed. And so did we, watching this —
but what about, was the professor having a good time? What do the notes say say? — The professor...
The professor reckoned that Pekka's performance went ahead to encompass many worlds, but...
– But? — ...it wasn't completely devoid of the passion of reason and spirit.
And he found the performance impressive, even though...
..."you couldn't always tell whether he was coming or going."
I fully agree.
That's how it must be, if Pekka even forgot the objective at some point.
Thank you. Mikko, you decided to organise this sort of, crafts corner.
Well, I just thought that if you can't impress another person —
then the next best thing is to embarrass them while you embarrass yourself.
It's quite difficult to make, that swan (shape).
— How did the professor comment on that? – Ummm...
"Good basic performance."
(Jaakko:) So we can work out from that whether he was impressed or not.
Great performances. There's still two left, Riku and Anna-Maija.
I can hardly wait, but we have to take a tiny break. See you very soon.
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster!
Before the break, we saw how Pekka, Mikko and Jenni tried to impress a professor of theoretical physics.
And we're yet to see what kind of realms Riku and Anna-Maija are going to take it.
And we'll get to see that now, for both of them.
— Can I just pop outside for a bit? — Please go ahead, if you feel like it.
I mean I'm a massive Kari Enqvist fan! Absolutely incredible person!
(She does a vocal warm-up.) Now you have a go!
— It's too difficult for me. — Is it? – Can you say "jykky jykky"?* – Yes, I can! [*No idea if this is a "thing", can't find any references, and as a singer, haven't heard either]
Makes me think of an approach in the style of M.A. Numminen. [*Since 60s, Finnish avant-garde/underground writer/musical artist. Witty, provocative and funny texts, sometimes uniting art and science.]
Because M.A. Numminen used to sing the texts of notable scientists. [*Since 60s, Finnish avant-garde/underground writer/musical artist. Witty, provocative and funny texts, sometimes uniting art and science.]
I haven't warmed up my voice and it's morning. (Sings a high note operatically.)
You heard that? — Umm... Yes, I did.
And I hit that note. Hang on, I'll try a D.
(Sings an even higher note.) Look at that, I hit it!
Clothes, clothes... There's some.
(Kari:) Why do you have to reach high pitches? – People want to hear the great big sounds[/voices].
This is fucking great! Right. And the helmet goes on so the embarrassment won't hurt as much. There.
But if I'm not going for the kind of voice that incorporates a nasal tone, —
I'll also have to think of the velopharyngeal port up here. (Demonstrates nasal tone:) So I'd be singing like this.
(Kari:) Isn't that the singing style that's expected these days? — Well yeah, sometimes they do want you to sing like that too.
I'm not gonna recite a cosmologist his own texts, —
but instead, texts that he actually likes.
(Anna-Maija:) ...The vocal folds come together. Huh! This is important!
Above them sit the false vocal folds. So when we start losing our voices, it's often the false vocal folds...
(Using formal tone:) Is cosmologist Kari Enqvist present? – Yes.
— I have devised You a spoken word performance. — Alright.
(Blows air glottally.)
— Have a go! – I wouldn't dare, what if some false news come out.
The piece is called "energy". And it's based on the texts of the wise.
Let's see if you can recognise whose.
— Uh-huh. (Plays a dissonant, mysterious chord.)
Energy.
(Sings:) Because nature is the principle of motion and change, —
and because our study is about nature...
— Thank you. — It was lovely to meet you. — There you go. — It was very nice to meet you. This was very exciting.
You won't know whether it was nice or not, not until the rating has been given.
The beginning sounded like Aristotle. – Bing! Hahaa!
(Bangs a few chaotic sounds from the piano.)
Correct. Bye then! — He looked just like Liberace in that...
— Oh my word. Anna-Maija Tuokko. – Yes.
The high C and D sure made an impression on me —
but did you forget to explain the professor something about the physiology of the voice —
or did you manage to cover all the topics in quarter of an hour? — I pretty much did.
The larynx and um... And umm, the...
...The soft palate, and the position of the tongue was covered, and —
contact of the vocal folds, and the false vocal folds, what you can do with them.
So I just taught the things he might not know anything about. Everything was covered.
Nice to know.
What did the professor of theoretical physics think of this?
Well, the professor seemed to like Anna-Maija's performance...
...in a way. — Why "in a way"?
Well for example he mentions that Anna-Maija's presentation went on like a train —
although, "like a one-track train".
And he went on to summarise that the performance was good — in principle.
Riku Rantala, as I was watching this, for a moment I wondered if we were watching something from the Kallio upper secondary school of performing arts. [*Kallio = area in Helsinki, artsy and hip reputation]
And there are some tiny, tiny, tiny hints of the summer theatre of Tervasaari* (island). [*Popular recreation area next to Helsinki center]
So that's what you were going for with this.
They've been some of the greatest cultural catalysts throughout my career.
— And Kari Enqvist. – And Kari Enqvist of course. – And how of all the things, those two came together like this.
Indeed, in a way you get two extremities and I like it when extremities have dialogue.
— Now they definitely did just that. — That's right.
— So what did the professor think of this? — Well, Liberace clearly made an impact.
The professor found the performance —
"Impressive, even though the helmet was a bit puzzling."
(Mikko:) Oh! If you get more gigs, I can make you a... — A tin foil hat! — A hat to go with the jacket.
– It's on! – I can come and riff about!
Oh well, these were all great.
But of course I'll have to score them somehow. Uhh...
We'll give Riku 5 points.
(Pekka:) Well deserved. Well deserved, it was great.
Um, 4 points to Jenni and Anna-Maija. To Anna-Maija largely for the entertainment value that it provided to us all.
And to Pekka and Mikko, 3 points.
And that's yet another difficult task scored. That is, difficult-to-score.
How are the total scores now, Pilvi?
On the scoreboard, Riku is in the lead at the moment.
(Sings:) If today is your day...
(Jaakko:) Riku, we're all a bit surprised. – I myself am the most surprised so um —
there's still time to fail. — Indeed, because now we're off to the mansion to check out the next task.
(Text on packaging:) Organic double cream from Finland
Hello there.
I don't know... Makes me a bit nervous to come into a sort of lined space like this.
Reminds me of Dexter. [*American TV show about a serial killer]
"Create a work of art using cream. You have 15 minutes."
"The best work of art wins. Time starts now."
So the objective was to make the best artwork, using cream.
— Who's first? — First, let's see what kind of art Mikko and Riku made.
I mean back in the day, there was a thing where monkeys were throwing some paint around.
And then the paintings were taken to some art gallery, and —
and people were like "whoa, such expression".
And then it was revealed that (imitates:) "it was actually made by monkeys!" So I've got a somewhat similar idea going on here now. So...
Thicker goop! Some paint brushes.
Yes! A whisk. Whooa!
Just the thing I wanted. What, what!
— You have 7 minutes left. — Uh-huh.
(Roars.)
Just like playing an 80s computer game, they were just like this: ÖÖÖÖRR-Whoops!
I'll just like, try to get a sort of Tom Waits like feel and kind of...
Hum a song of his as I do this.
(Hysterically high-pitched voice:) There would've been a much faster one!
Tom Waits has a song called Ice Cream Man.
(Sings raspily:) I'm your ice cream man, da da da, I'm your one man band...
In front of him, the artist sees only emptiness. Or that's what you might think.
In his mind's eye he sees the whole world, which he paints with cream.
You saw that? An atom. An explosion.
Primordial explosion. Power.
Solar System. Universe.
We're gonna enclose this. Otherwise it's like, one with the surrounding environment.
(Pilvi:) Time's up. (Sings raspily:) The piano has been drinking...
Does your piece have a name?
— Creamy primordial explosion. — Thank you. ["Primordial explosion" = The Big Bang in Finnish]
Riku Rantala and the creamy big bang.
Are you happy with the outcome? — Very much so. And it was delicious, by the way.
Thank you, Riku Rantala.
And then there's Mikko's artwork, inspired by Tom Waits.
Why Tom Waits? (Simultaneous admiring comments.)
Umm, I've painted that same image of Tom Waits –
in the size of my whole livingroom wall.
— In cream? — In cre... Well no, it was just some common... common wall paint.
Excellent. We still have three great works of art left.
(Famale voice, loudly:) Oh my word. — And we'll see them after the following break.
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster.
Before the break, we saw how the sludge artists Riku and Mikko made art with cream.
We still have the pleasure of seeing the artworks of Pekka, Anna-Maija and Jenni.
And out of these, we'll check out Anna-Maija's and Jenni's pieces next.
Time starts now.
So is there anything downstairs, anything um...?
Nope.
I'm not sure if might be...
And then I'll take this, but I won't do any harm to it.
Oww, my hand is going numb! Huh!
It's a freezing cold night, and this is the snowy ground.
This could be like a sort of, lovely summer surprise.
Um, Pilvi, did they tell you on the school art classes, like (In a teacherly tone:) "make use of the whole canvas".
You weren't supposed to scribble something small into just one corner, (mockingly:) "use the whole, the whole canvas has to be used."
— Have you already caught up with what my plan here is? — No.
(Patronisingly:) Look Pilvi, what's this thing taking form here now?
This is going to be superb.
Oh, this is going to be lovely.
Just like the best art, it makes you think —
so I hope, Pilvi, that it makes you think a little bit.
Oh shit. But that's what it can also be, can't it.
I think this is like, almost finished now.
A sort of like, romantic gesture to Jaakko.
The lonely coffee break of a lonely wolf.
This is so delicious, seriously.
— Anna-Maija Tuokko, thank you for this romantic gesture. — Moving, wasn't it? — It was.
— Just for you. — Thank you, thank you. You're good at multitasking –
like we just saw here, or are you? — I'm really good at it.
(Jaakko:) What would happen if you stopped to think every once in a while?
Sounds scary.
— Jenni, the coffee break of a lonely wolf. — Yes.
While you were making it, it was nice to see —
that you had barely absorbed anything into your system from those art classes.
Come on, surely what stayed was: (even more mockingly:) "Make use of the whole canvas."
I can't wait to see what kind of interdisciplinary artwork artist Strang has managed to create.
— And we'll get to see the work of artist Strang, now. — Oh yeah!
(Whispering:) Here we are, face to face with art.
(Takes a deep breath.) (The sound of clock ticking.)
Right, well. Let's get cracking.
If you could just take one step...
So we'll begin with a sort of pollockian* approach. [*Jackson Pollock, known for messily poured "action paintings"]
Yogurt and all sorts of...
There, whoops!
Actually um, you're a part of this now.
And now, slow motion.
Oh actually, what if I just took this and started like... doing something like this.
Or should it just be that the artwork is like, the activity itself —
and not the outcome?
If this all could be... Right.
So now if I like, clean this all up, so... Yes!
That should be enough. Let's have some cleaning spray.
Yeah... like that. You don't notice it too much.
Do you have any idea what the washing instructions for these are?
But that's just a few minor drops really.
So like, the art happened and the art went away.
I urge you to be careful when walking.
So this is mostly because of the smell.
We'll get that off too. There... oops!
(Whispering:) We are now face to face with art. Right, that's a wrap.
— Thank you, Pekka. — But thanks, thanks to you.
Wow, this really was worth the wait, this... (Anna-Maija:) Just great!
Pilvi, you got to be a part of this retrospective.
Yes indeed. It was a very memorable experience. Like Pekka himself said —
"The art happened and the art went away." — Exactly.
But some of it was left onto our retinae forever.
(Pilvi:) And onto my skirt.
— Pekka, what was your source of inspiration? — I think this, now that I watched this, I think I was having a pretty good day. So um...
I guess this originated from –
my conversation or monologue with Kari Enqvist – [*the professor]
somehow the concept that you "didn't know whether you were coming or going".
So um, I didn't know that myself either.
But I had a good time and we had a really... It was a great artistic atmosphere in there so like um...
Yeah, that was the... story.
Watching this, we sure didn't know whether we were coming or going, but we made it to the destination.
Ah, these were wonderful. Art is difficult to judge —
but I'll give 5 points to Pekka and 4 points to everyone else.
— That was suberb. – Great.
But anything is still possible. There's points to be had.
Now it's the time for the final task. Brace yourselves.
Pilvi, would you tell us what the final task is?
In this final task we inspect the very essence of our being.
Pekka, will you read the task aloud, please.
"Imitate your fellow contestant to the taskmaster."
"You may only use gestures and expressions in your imitation."
"You have 30 seconds."
"You get 5 points if the taskmaster can guess who you're imitating."
Everyone's person to imitate is written on the card that you've been given.
Okay good, you can read the cards, —
do not show them to each other.
And I'll call over the person whose turn it is.
Any questions? Let's start with Mikko.
The time starts now.
Riku Rantala.
Pekka.
(Jenni:) What?
Wow, so you just sort of made him squat?
I was like, sitting at a table and talking to Kari Enqvist.
— Ah, I didn't see the table. Otherwise... — Sorry. My mime is a bit rusty.
— Thank you, Mikko. — Thank you. — Next up, Jenni.
— Let me know when, can I start now? — Time (starts).
[*Not sure if reference to something outside of this show or just random madness]
Riku Rantala.
Look... Otherwise really spot on, but it was the left thigh.
— Sorry. — Good. Next, Pekka.
Right...
And, are you ready? The time starts now.
Anna-Maija Tuokko.
That was really distinctive. I could hear the high C.
And so could Kari Enqvist, wherever he is.
And then, Riku.
— Can I start? — Who are still left? — The time starts... Go stand on that mark.
— I will, right when the time starts. – (Sarcastically:) Oh I'm sorry!
Sorry. The time starts now.
Jenni Pääskysaari. – Yes!
Gimme! Riku! Oh he left me hanging...
You let me hanging. — You both imitated each other in sort of, modest brush strokes, didn't you.
And then the last one left, Anna-Maija Tuokko.
Are you rea- would you also like to step onto it so the time starts? — I would.
The time starts now.
I don't get it.
Would you like to tell who it was? — It was you!
Thank you! Let's give everyone a big round of applause, these were great.
Thank you all once again for the great performances.
It's time to score them, and the points are determined –
by how quickly I guessed who the subject of the imitation was.
So Pekka gets 5 points, Riku 4 points.
Jenni 3 points, Mikko 2 points and Anna-Maija 1 point.
However. Because the show was so amusing and I wanted to keep watching, I'll give you one extra point. Congratulations! – Yes!
And now Pilvi, the most important question of all.
Who won tonight's episode?
After all the tasks, the person to accumulate the highest score was...
Riku Rantala.
Riku Rantala, congratulations! Go and enjoy those underrated items.
Thanks to all of our contestants!
If you viewers at home feel that you could solve some task better than these contestants –
take a video of it and upload it to social media with the hashtag "suurmestari".
See you, bye!