(Metal growl.)
This is gonna be a new record. This one's gonna be good.
Good evening, my name is Jaakko Saariluoma —
and this is Suurmestari.
Once again it's time to watch how a bunch of entertainers deals with challenging tasks —
that I proceed score according to strict criteria, which pretty much means: according to my personal liking.
Our regular contestants are Mikko Penttilä, — [*Actor; comedy / improvisation]
Riku Rantala, — [*Journalist, presenter, known esp. from early 2000s backpacking adventure show Madventures]
Anna-Maija Tuokko — [*Actress; film / TV / stage]
ja Jenni Pääskysaari. [*Radio/TV presenter, writer, journalist]
And today competing with them is the one and only Jarppi Leppälä. [*From "The Dudesons", Finnish stunt show similar to Jackass. Jukka, season 1 regular, was also from it.]
(Jarppi:) Lovely to be here! – And here next to me is the embodiment of stoicism, —
the show's official referee, Pilvi Hämäläinen. – Thank you.
Today, my judgments are going to be —
historically significant and so precise —
that it's gonna be no use trying to play me afterwards, you guys.
Excellent, Pilvi. I trust you like... well, if not quite like a mountain, but like a large rock. [*Finnish idiom: "As certain/reliable as a mountain"]
– That's good. – Well, let's begin then.
First, let's find out what we'll be competing for tonight.
What the prizes are. And as we do, the first round of points are up for grabs.
Pilvi, will you just remind us of what this is about?
The prizes are personal property of the contestants —
and today, the thing you've asked them to bring was:
The best wallet replacement.
Good. Well this should be interesting.
Let's begin. Anna-Maija, what did you bring, what's the best wallet replacement?
Well I mean this is no life hack, but this is like, a fact: A bra.
Or a sports bra.
Either one will do. I often use them to store my credit card, coins, —
keys.
And also um, quite often after the light signal like, when you have to find your cloakroom tags, — [*Non-verbal last call in bars and clubs: lights are flashed to signal that the venue is about to be closed soon]
the bra is the perfect place to find it, and the next day, you'll also find the number — [*Non-verbal last call in bars and clubs: lights are flashed to signal that the venue is about to be closed soon]
imprinted from there. – Thank you Anna-Maija.
– That's alright. – Uh-huh. – And then...
The best wallet replacement, Jarppi.
Oh it's my turn? Good Lord. So I brought um, —
it's a baseball mitt, in other words, [(slang word for it)].
Because I mean umm... Its shape and design already reveal —
that it's a good place for storing currency.
Because you know, you can put in money of just about any size, —
and if you've run out of money, the [slang word] in itself doubles as a means of payment.
I might have an idea of what you're going for, Jarppi. [*Translator: not entirely sure what he's going for. Either if the mitt is a collector's item that can be sold, or, the slang word sounds like a certain rough but not serious slang word for vagina.]
...In some vague way, but um — [*Translator: not entirely sure what he's going for. Either if the mitt is a collector's item that can be sold, or, the slang word sounds like a certain rough but not serious slang word for vagina.]
thanks for this, Jarppi Leppälä. [*Translator: not entirely sure what he's going for. Either if the mitt is a collector's item that can be sold, or, the slang word sounds like a certain rough but not serious slang word for vagina.]
The best wallet replacement, Riku Rantala?
I brought in one of those inner eggs of a Kinder egg. [*Hollow chocolate egg for Easter. Inside is a plastic egg, which in turn contains a small toy.]
(Anna-Maija:) Yeah? – A Kinder egg's... Where would people use these?
In prisons, for example.
(Laughter.)
I don't think you need to explain it further.
You don't wish to go deeper?
No. Thanks, Riku Rantala.
(Jarppi:) Right, that's really practical. (Jaakko:) And next... The best wallet replacement, Jenni?
I brought in the best wallet replacement that will hold all the things that you need, and it is a bra.
See, that's what I mean!
We've got the same one!
Exactly. – What's the saying, great minds think alike.
Precisely. – Thanks, Jenni Pääskysaari.
And Mikko Penttilä, what's the best wallet replacement?
A roll of Jesus tape.* [*Common slang meaning duct tape, "because it can be used for fixing or creating almost anything". Sometimes also 'McGyver tape'.]
But that's not a wallet replacement. [*Common slang meaning duct tape, "because it can be used for fixing or creating almost anything". Sometimes also 'McGyver tape'.]
Weeell in a way no it's not, but if you find yourself in a situation where you've lost your wallet, no problem.
A speedy crafter would use it to make a new wallet to use.
Ooh!
Mik... Mikko, I appreciate your crafting skills —
but I mean that's not a wallet replacement anymore, it's an actual wallet. – Ahh, I see, I see.
Well in that case, I mean, alternatively you could also make one of these money belts —
to put the coins in.
But I'm sorry Mikko Penttilä —
but that's not a wallet replacement, that's a money belt.
Well, I do have one more hole to jam the money in.
I think we already went through this with Riku. – No no, it's a different... – Well we didn't quite go through it yet, but...
It's a different one though. But it's like, a lot more personal and it requires —
I mean, physical sacrifices. – What do you mean?
I don't know if I can... It's a family sh- well alright. I mean...
Ahhh! – Oh!
If I went for an interrail trip, Mikko, I would take you with me. [*Interrail Pass = Unlimited railway travel in/between all 33 European countries for a given period of time. Available to European residents.]
– So would I. – Same. – So is Mikko actually the best wallet replacement —
as a whole? – Must be, yes. – Ta-dah!
Thanks everyone. – Thank you.
It's time to score these now.
And I'll score these as follows. Uh, Mikko, 5 points.
Shaving was worth it.
Jenni and Anna-Maija 4 points.
Riku, 3 points.
And Jarppi, the story was great —
but the practicality is a bit... you'll get 1 point. – Oh, well that's one at least!
One at least. And there, the game is on.
Now we're off to the mansion to check out some proper tasks. – Here we go then.
Afternoon.
"Score a goal from the furthest distance."
"You have 5 minutes."
"Extra points for the best celebration."
"The time starts now." The ball just took off.
So the objective was to score a goal from the furthest distance.
Also, there was an extra point for the best celebration after the goal.
This sounds so promising that I can't stand to wait any longer.
Yeah. Shall we start with Riku, Jenni, Mikko and Anna-Maija?
Wow, the whole lot, let's go!
Oh my, how am I gonna solve this then?
So you can move these? Yes.
Woooo!
I mean, I have a lot of faith in all of my, like, sporting skills —
because I do fancy myself as a rather physically gifted individual.
What about you? – Well I have played in the Korso* football club for two years. [*District just outside Helsinki border]
'84 to '85.
No. No!
No! Come on now! Why didn't you catch it?
Just, just awful.
Ow ow ow ow ow ow...!
Fuck.
Yes!
Oh there it goes again! And yes indeed!
Damn right!
There's so much sporting talent around, at least according to their own words.
Jenni, you played in the Korso football club in 84-85, —
which position did you play?
Back then there was... Not sure if it's still being used: libero. [*a type of defender position, also known as a sweeper]
But um, mostly I had a really important position in like, — [*a type of defender position, also known as a sweeper]
you know how there's that bench on the edge of the field. So I was sitting there.
And I'd had a blanket, and often, some sausage.
And I'd cheer the team on from there.
So you were a so-called libero*. [*Italian for 'free'] – Yes indeed.
Good. And just there now, what did you think of your...? Was there anything left of that old Jenni, the footballer?
Um, I was horseshit just like back then.
Anna-Maija. – Uh-huh?
What did you make of your own football footage?
I think it looked really good.
What was wrong with that!? (Jenni:) Nothing.
(Jaakko:) No, no... (Anna-Maija:) Just like yours. (Jenni:) Yeah!
Yeah. And Riku, I assume that you've played before.
You look like someone who would've. – Well yeah, I mean I have played —
for one season in Henali.
And the class of that team is exactly what the name sounds like.
So I was in the Helsinki youth league*, [*Henali = its abbreviation] and one time I was in a tram —
sitting, listening when two guys I didn't know were having a chat in front of me and contemplating —
"What's like, the shittest junior football team in Helsinki?"
And then they both came to the conclusion that it must be Henali.
So I thought, if Henali is the shittest team in Helsinki, and I'm its shittest player...
So I quit football!
Mikko. Just there, you were throwing, pushing, rolling...
All things imaginable. Would you say that, like, the amount makes up for the lack of strategy? – Yes!
Definitely.
In the beginning, I did a sort of backup goal, to make sure that I would score at least one.
From one meter away. [= over 3 feet] (Jaakko:) Yeah. Right...! – And then it remained as the sole one. (Anna-Maija:) I did that too.
Right, let's check your results then. Pilvi, what were they? – Right!
Jenni's result was 11 meters 31 centimeters. [= over 37 feet]
Anna-Maija's was 13 meters 12 centimeters. [= 43 feet]
Riku's was 14 meters 61 centimeters. [= nearly 48 feet]
And Mikko Penttilä's result:
1 meter 80 centimeters. [= under 6 feet]
It was worth doing that backup goal, Mikko. – Well I mean, I thought it was just one meter.
Come on, it was... (Jaakko:) Almost two meters. – £1.20.
Now the situation is that we've still got Jarppi's performance left.
And we will watch it.
But only after the following break. (All:) Ahhh, no!
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster.
Before the break, we saw how Riku, Anna-Maija, Mikko and Jenni —
tried to score a goal from as far away as possible.
Well, they've got no business going to the World Cup with those performances quite yet —
and not the European one either, but perhaps they could enter a so-called regional contest.
But let's not lose hope just yet, because we still have Jarppi's performance to check out.
And we'll watch it next, won't we? – We'll watch it right now. – Let's.
So it could start from here.
Like so.
(Everyone:) No waaaay!
Right, so now the question is going to be what direction it's going to go from there.
Let's take one from there.
Look at that!
That was a pretty long goal, huh?
Indeed, the tactic Jarppi used was to move the goal wherever the ball happened to be heading.
— Exactly. – Jarppi, would you say that the bar is always passed but we don't always know exactly how high the bar is?
Well yeah, that's the way it must be. But the task was to score a goal from the furthest distance. (Jaakko:) Right.
And no one knew the goal's location until the ball decided. (Jaakko:) Right.
Are you sort of indirectly trying to say that you were also allowed to use your brain while doing this task?
Well, that's the impression I got. I don't know the extent of the briefing they were given.
– What? – No, didn't get the memo. – No one mentioned anything like that to me.
– What is brains? (Jaakko:) We decide selectively who should be informed, so...
What was Jarppi's result?
Jarppi's result was 73 meters. [= nearly 240 feet] (Jarppi:) There you go.
How much did you guys have in total?
Wasn't even that much. How much did we have in total? (Everyone:) No, not that much.
Well Jarppi, I guess that performance must get you the first place.
But there was also an extra point available. – Yes.
There was an extra point for the best celebration —
so let's get to it and watch —
the celebration soup!
Yahoo!
Wohoo!
Yow!
Uoohhh!
Yes! Yes!
Opa! – And he scores!
Woo! – Yes!
Ahhh!
Rat-tat-tat-tat!
(Sport chant:) Olé olé olé olé!
Penttilä, Penttilä
Thank you, these were really great performances —
but first, I'll give the extra point for the best celebration, and it goes to Anna-Maija. – Yes!
It was... It was a proper full body celebration —
a so-called reverse worm. [*the dance move] – Wasn't it.
But for the main task, the points go as follows:
Jarppi 5. Riku 4. Anna-Maija 3.
Jenni 2 and Mikko 1.
Pilvi Hämäläinen, how does the scoreboard look at the moment, so who's in the lead?
In the lead at the moment is... Anna-Maija.
Oh wow!
Anna-Maija, we're all just as surprised as you are.
Is it the first time? – I think I'm welling up.
Congratulations. – Thank you.
But look! The game isn't over yet.
We've still got plenty of points to go. Let's go back to the mansion and check what's gonna happen next.
Hello.
Hi. – Hi.
"Design and execute the most epic —
vinyl album cover."
"Come up with an artist name for yourself, and a title for the album."
"A photographer will take the cover shot in 15 minutes."
"The most impressive album cover wins."
"The time starts now."
So the objective was to make the most epic vinyl album cover.
They also had to come up with an artist name and a name for the album.
Excellent. And now Pilvi, whose cover is first?
First, let's see how the contestants prepared for the photo shoot.
Okay. So ummmmm... To the shed then, I guess.
I think there should always be glitter, you know.
If you could just lie down on your back.
Just there, and...
Denim vest, always great for some rock'n'roll.
Christmas, always a good theme.
What do you have in mind? (Speaking very unclearly:) Well I thought I could do, like, sort of...
Tears of a clown. – Sorry?
If that could be like, quite epic somehow.
Now I should get these —
styled like, so they look like a moustache.
They do, don't they. Yeah, they do.
And this is quite scary, but... Okay I think we'll go with these. That's it.
Is my facial expression like Jaakko's? (Male voice:) Yes. You go together very nicely.
So that made an impression, let's have that.
This is going to be brilliant.
Let's show some skin, because rock'n'roll never dies.
There. Okay, good.
And Pilvi, you're gonna get involved in this. – Uh... Let's make this a quick one then.
If you could jump when the photo is being taken.
Can you jump? That should be enough.
(Growling.)
Oh this is gonna be so ace. I'm gonna have to take my clothes off for it though.
Based on these preparations, we'll definitely be making record cover history, at least in some sense.
I was particularly entertained by Anna-Maija's way of putting her make-up on: when she was drawing onto her cheek, she put her lips —
as if she was applying lipstick.
Yeah. That's my make-up face. My make-up face is always this:
(Mikko:) Smiling like a donut.
But then I'm never out and about looking like that, as far as I know.
Umm, well, people haven't told you everything.
Now! We'll see the actual album covers after the following break. – Oh it's so exciting!
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster.
Before the break, we saw how the contestants were getting ready —
to make the most epic vinyl record cover —
and now we'll get to see their creations.
Here in front of me, Pilvi has brought the stack of vinyl covers, hot off the press.
And now we begin. First, we'll take —
Anna-Maija's album cover.
Anna-Maija's artist name was MC AM —
and the album is called "Absolutely Not Dead".
Oh wow! – Quite epic, isn't it?
In the water. Dramatic.
Glitter.
Yes, we um, we can see all of these.
MC AM, you said? – (pronounces in English:) MC AM
AM, Anna-Maija.
MC AM, it's got a great ring to it, doesn't it? – AM, yes it sounds, it sounds, it's got a great rhythm.
All at the same time it's like, scary, sassy, —
sensual and attractive. – Isn't it?
I wish a very successful career to MC AM.
Thank you.
And next, we've got...
Yeah, um... Maybe it's best that Riku himself does the reveal of his artist name —
and his album title.
– Oh wow. Wow! – It's so clear, it's...
It's Örgöröt Höröm.
Örgöröt Höröm, because it had to be an epic album cover. (Jaakko:) Indeed.
So Örgöröt Höröm, a viking warrior, came from Norway —
to Finland, in the 1200s.
Fell in love with a sheep. And I am a descendant —
of Örgöröt Höröm. I've studied my heritage.
So you've got 50% sheep in you? – Not anymore!
I mean there's quite a few generations in between, so I would have something like 2-3%.
The title is "Merry Christmas Norway".
"Merry Christmas Norway", in a way it's a tribute to the sort of, birth place of this genre, —
that is, the birth place of black metal, Norway, —
but also to my epic roots. A salute to my ancestors, hullo!
(Speaks Norwegian.) [*translator can't confirm]
(Heavymetal growl)
I bet the ancestors are watching. – Yes indeed.
Riku, I'm not quite sure if it's doing it for me as an album cover, but as a horror film...
it would work really well. Okay, but this was great!
As was MC AM. – Yes.
Just a tad better... – Let's move on then, let's see the next album cover.
And it is...
Jenni. So the artist is —
Saariluoma and Pääskysaari, and the album title:
"The Wavering Bridge of Entertainment Over Hard Times."
Jenni, I'm personally very flattered by this record.
I didn't know we had a duo, and um...
So you see, like, do you see me as Art Garfunkel or Paul Simon?
I'm so glad that you recognise the reference —
because I thought, like, if Jonnes couldn't remember.* [*Jonne = a certain internet meme. Jonne is a very modern, recent male first name. "Jonnes can't remember" refers to anything that those kids' generation would've been too young to know of.]
The Simon and Garfunkel album Bridge Over Troubled Water. [*Jonne = a certain internet meme. Jonne is a very modern, recent male first name. "Jonnes can't remember" refers to anything that those kids' generation would've been too young to know of.]
And now, I'm sorry for what I'm about to say because you'll never be able to look at the original cover the same way.
Paul Simon, who is shorter, is standing in front of Garfunkel.
And, the black hair. When you look at Paul Simon's hair —
it just looks like Garfunkel had an enormous moustache.
— And I can see that's clearly what you were after.
— It inspired me to create this shot. – If you cover Jenni's face with your thumb, it looks just like it.
Hang on, let me check.
Yes.
It's not blocking it.
Do you do weddings? – I've done one wedding —
and I'm still attached to it, so...
Let's move on.
The next one...
Mikko's artist name is The Maltese Clue and the album title is:
"What if Nothing Exists and We are All in Somebody's Dream?"
(Laughter.)
(Anna-Maija:) This is really good!
Really good.
Now, I'm not quite sure how to start unpacking this, Mikko.
Well I can start, if... (Jaakko:) Yeah.
For starters, could you tell us what sort of, like, genre this album represents?
Well it's like, 70s prog feel mixed with kind of Sigur Rós style —
impressionistic electro. And it's also got —
just a dash of, like um... French cosmic disco.
I mean, was it absolutely necessary to be quite that undressed for this record cover? – Well...
What does it tell? – Annie Leibovitz took a photo —
of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, a shot that became a famous Rolling Stone (magazine) cover.
And about two hours after the photo was taken, John Lennon walked out of the building —
and he was shot on the yard.
Now the only question is, which one is which in this image.
Umm so Pilvi is Yoko and that would make me John.
This is how they posed in the original photo.
Right. Okay. It really does have a likeness. – Indeed.
Thanks, Mikko. – Thank you.
Now, we've got one more record left.
And this one, well... it can only be Jarppi's.
So the artist is Juhani Perkiö and the Furry Friends.
Yeah.
[Album title:] "Music for Children"
Jarppi, why Juhani Perkiö and the Furry Friends?
So that's clearly a Schlager name, isn't it. [*Finnish Schlager, popular among older and middle-aged Finns.]
Juhani Perkiö. [*Finnish Schlager, popular among older and middle-aged Finns.]
As for the Furry Friends, that's also included in the photo but since I asked Pilvi to jump —
it was strategically hidden from view —
because we make children's music.
Looking at Pilvi, it looks like she's so excited to be making this record that she's levitating.
Yeah she has to levitate, because —
the ladder was so high, that...
Couldn't you have stood one step lower on that ladder?
No because I didn't want it to touch the grass.
Thank you, Jarppi Leppälä.
And these were all the record covers. They were all very, very good.
Thanks everyone. You've got such artistic prowess —
and creativity in you.
But Jarppi actually had an extra task to do.
Let's have a look.
"A photographer will take the cover shot in 15 minutes."
During the task, you must speak in four different Finnish dialects."
The most impressive record cover wins.
Four different dialects. I can't speak any dialects. North Ostrobothnian. [*His own dialect] Check!
[Mimicking a Helsinkian:] "Close the doors so the birds don't fly in." Helsinki slang! [*Characteristically, Swedish words conjugated using Finnish grammar]
We're going out.
[Exaggerating a Tampere regional accent:] "Surely we won't do it on that roof?"
Turku dialect. [Laughter, because it sounded more like Tampere.]
It was Tampere that sounded a bit like Turku, but...
[Speaking nasally, with a mixed Tampere/Turku accent:] "Well I don't know what more we're gonna take from here —
but I think we'll take this one at least, and..."
[With a Tampere accent:] I could already smell the black sausage there. [*Local Tampere delicacy, black colour comes from blood]
[Mimicking a known Tamperean comedy sketch character:] I know, right? I completely agree!
Jarppi, before we address the extra task, —
could you just give us a sample, first Turku, and then Tampere dialect?
[Sounding like a generic Tampere accent:] Well what would you, you know how it goes and all that...
And then, Tampere please? [Speaking exactly the same:] – Well I dunno what...
(Jaakko:) I see. – Well let's just say that non-native dialects have always been a tough one for me —
because um... I've decided that I'll give up my North Ostrobothnian dialect if I can find a better one. (Jaakko:) Right.
But I haven't, so far. – You haven't, but you also didn't speak North Ostrobothnian there at all.
[Activates his dialect:] Well yeah but you know, it comes so naturally.
And then you also managed to insult both Turkuans and Tampereans with that.
Thoroughly.
It was great, but unfortunately I can't give you any extra points for this.
I understand you, Jaakko!
However, the album covers...
They were such impressive pieces of artwork that um...
I'll give everyone 5 points for this artistic effort.
Yay!
They really were great though. – On top of that —
I'll hand out extra points so that Jarppi gets 1 extra point. Uh...
Jenni gets 2 extra points, Anna-Maija 3.
Riku 4 and Mikko 5 extra points.
Oh my Lord, look at that...
...shower of points. – Congratulations.
They just had to be scored like this, and um... that was great.
How are the total scores at the moment, Pilvi?
Very even and exciting.
But we still have tasks left, so let's get straight back to the mansion.
Hello. – Afternoon.
Hi there.
"Make the biggest soap bubble" —
"and pop it with your nose."
"You have 8 minutes." – "The biggest soap bubble wins."
"The time starts now."
So the objective was to make the biggest soap bubble —
and pop it with one's nose. The biggest soap bubble wins.
Excellent, who's first?
First, let's see the performances of Mikko, Riku —
and Anna-Maija.
What? What do I have here?
Let's see, before I start running around or anything, let's just try this first.
Okay...
No tools.
Don't some folks make them with something like this?
Folks like, circus performers.
That's quite big.
With my nose.
There you go.
Sorry but I'll have to do this now.
Just trying out. I have to try, you know, it has to be tried out.
Oh, I've got to get some sugar for it. Sugar!
5 minutes left.
Coffee, filters, where's the sugar?
There we go, that's more like it! Look, look at that! Ah!
Did you all see how big that was?
And now, some tubular thing.
God damn it why's this not coming loose? I'm sorry, taskmaster!
Right, the sugar.
I must get some sugar from somewhere!
Did I get it?
(Sings:) Dances with such light steps...
Isn't it lovely to have the kind of neighbours who will lend you sugar.
That's what I love about Eastern Helsinki. It's getting a bit tricky.
We're close now.
No.
Damn it.
Time's up.
Yours was a great performance! – It was!
So Pilvi, is it true that by the end Riku didn't manage to blow any bubbles?
That's right, and the sugar was also never returned to the neighbours.
— Oww you're right, that's bad! – Riku, what do you think of this performance of yours?
Well I mean, I should've found some sugar earlier but the Taskmaster crew —
is such a health-conscious bunch that I couldn't find any sugar from the kitchen. And so, what sugar does is —
that it makes the liquid firm up so you can blow absolutely huge bubbles with it.
(Jaakko:) As we just saw there. – It didn't have enough time to dissolve.
And now there's some Fairy kilju* ready and waiting... [*Fairy = Washing-up liquid brand] [*Kilju = Low-quality home made alcoholic drink only drunk for its alcohol content, legalised only recently.]
Oh, Fairy kilju! Let's go! [*Fairy = Washing-up liquid brand] [*Kilju = Low-quality home made alcoholic drink only drunk for its alcohol content, legalised only recently.]
Mikko. So you chose a so-called "shoelace budget" approach. [*Figure of speech meaning "cheap production"]
Yes. I'm quite used to working with those.
What made you come up with that idea?
I remember seeing at some fairgrounds or market squares, —
you know, some of those circus people. (Jaakko:) Yeah?
So they have those string-like things which they use for making them, to entertain the kids.
You managed to entertain both children and adults alike.
As did Anna-Maija, who, down to the last trouser drawstring —
went all in on this task. – Yeah, and at the same time, I mean, I've got that too. The same experience.
(Jaakko:) The same experience? – I mean, with the circus people.
We've been banned from the same market squares.
Pilvi, what were the results?
So Riku was left without any bubbles. The diameter of Anna-Maija's bubble was 10,5 cm. [*a bit over 4 inches]
And Mikko's bubble was 15 cm. [*almost 6 inches]
Wow, that's huge.
We still haven't seen the bubbles of Jarppi or Jenni.
And we'll see them after the following commercials. See you soon.
Welcome back, this is Taskmaster.
Before the break, we saw how Riku, Anna-Maija and Mikko —
tried to make the biggest possible soap bubble.
We're yet to see the performances of Jarppi and Jenni.
And won't we just watch them both now? – Yes. – Great.
The biggest soap...
I'm going to the kitchen.
I don't know what I'm going to do there. But I'll go anyway.
Pilvi, do you happen to have one of those um, plastic things, that look a bit like a racket, —
that have... it's got like a ring. Have you come across any of those —
or do you happen to have one?
Blow harder.
Ha!
It was this big.
I'll try anyway.
I'm available for home visits too.
They usually have the, the um, (makes up a new word that isn't real:) "thin plastic thing".
You know? – "thin plastic thing"?
Yeah. That you can make them with.
Oh you really are shit at blowing. [*Note: In Finnish, the word "blow" does not have the rude connotations it has in English, although they both are probably aware of it there.]
Blow. [*Note: In Finnish, the word "blow" does not have the rude connotations it has in English, although they both are probably aware of it there.]
Nope, shitty blower won't blow.
I apologise. You're really good at blowing. – The ship has sailed.
Look! Look! There's one down here as well!
Let's just try this once more, this is gonna be the new record. Looking good.
I mean that was massive!
The biggest bubble wins. This is a disaster.
OW!
Ooh! – Pretty good.
5 seconds.
That's all.
But they were pretty big, huh?
Have you ever seen ones that big?
Jenni, that was... – That was!
Great performances. Pilvi, have you forgiven Jarppi?
(Laughs.) No.
– Well, maybe there's going to be an opportunity later. – I'm sorry.
Jarppi, excellent performance. Your own hands always tend to be helpful —
with a lot of things. – The bubble would've been bigger, had I had a bigger... this.
Yeah. I understand. Jenni, could you explain to me —
what's a "thin plastic thing"? [*made up word]
Because we tried searching with that word online —
and what we got had no relation to soap bubble blowing.
Maybe you just didn't type it quite right. I mean, it's not pronounced like it's written. [*Famously, Finnish is pronounced like it's written, i.e letters tend to have the same sounds regardless of context]
I'm kidding. But can you remember when there used to be those sort of plates that you could put the soapy liquid on. [*Famously, Finnish is pronounced like it's written, i.e letters tend to have the same sounds regardless of context]
Then a kind of... [whoosh] and [pffft] and [pbbbt]. And...
An absolutely humongous blob.
So if I type that to the internet, how do you spell those?
I can type it out, into that internet of yours.
Yeah. I've, I mean I've never seen, it was so great to see you light up about the first big bubble —
that really formed sort of accidentally. (Anna-Maija:) It was. (Jaakko:) Yes.
Congratulations. – Thanks. – What were the results?
The diameter of Jarppi's bubble was 12 centimeters. [*over 4 and a half inches]
And Jenni's was 20,5 cm. [*8 inches]
So, for the points —
Jenni 5, Mikko 4.
Jarppi 3, Anna-Maija 2 and Riku, you can get 1 point.
Aww. With the sugar. – With the sugar yes.
Pilvi, what are the total scores at the moment?
At the moment, the one leading on the scoreboard is...
Mikko.
Mikko is in the lead, but dear friends —
we still have the final task left.
Get ready.
Pilvi, could you please explain what the final task is?
The final task requires —
creativity of the culinary sort.
Jarppi, please read the task aloud.
"From the items in the box, —
select one thing for your aid."
Good. At the front, there's a box. Go and take one item from there. Let's begin. Jarppi.
Next, Anna-Maija.
What?
Mikko next.
Riku.
Ooh!
Look at that!
And finally, Jenni.
Contestants, please go to your spots.
And now you can remove the cloth from the bowl.
You could actually just drop them onto the floor. And Jarppi, —
would you please take another task from the underside of the table.
Oh?
"Mash the potatoes with the tool that you just chose."
"The best performance/result wins. You have 120 seconds."
"Time starts from the taskmaster's mark." – Excellent.
Dear friends, are you ready? – Yes.
You have 120 seconds.
That's 2 minutes, Anna-Maija.
She's squeezing that excavator with white knuckles.
May the best one win. The time starts now.
(Riku:) AAAAARRRRRRR
(Anna-Maija:) I made a mistake...
It's going pretty well actually! (Anna-Maija:) Pretty well.
You seem to be doing well too.
Milk! Butter! [Riku:] AAAAAAAARRRRR....
Oh my word. – Butter!
(Jarppi:) Are you sure that you've killed it dead now?
Oh no, 2 minutes! [Riku yelling and hammering the bowl in the background again]
(Anna-Maija:) Mine's looking quite alright. (Jarppi:) No one's got mash this smooth!
(Anna-Maija:) It's just that the peels are in there too. [Riku yelling and hammering again]
Time's up. – Time's up!
(Mikko:) Riku has read Gordon Ramsay's cookbook.
Yeah I mean it's just the way it is: you're not gonna make it in the top kitchens if you're weak.
(Jarppi:) How did you get it on your glasses? – When plastering, it splatters.* [*Finnish proverb similar to "that's the way the cookie crumbles"]
Dear friends, you may return to your seats. – Thanks.
Thank you, my dear friends. And Riku, on you we can still see the scars of the battle.
Yeah, "if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." – Indeed.
First, I'll give everyone... There were so many styles, —
so I'll give everyone 1 point for style.
Thank you.
Except Riku who threw himself into it completely, you'll get 2 extra points for the style.
Well deserved.
When we reviewed the footage to inspect the consistency of the mash, —
what potatoes were the most mashed or looked most like mash, for that, the points go as follows:
Anna-Maija 5, Jarppi 4, —
Jenni 3, Mikko 2 —
and regardless of all the effort, Riku 1 point.
So that's the outcome. And now, the important question:
I wonder who's won this episode then?
After all the tasks —
the one to accumulate the highest score was...
Anna-Maija. – Yay!
Anna-Maija Tuokko.
Yes!
Congratulations! You can go and enjoy the prizes you've just won!
Thanks to all of our contestants.
If you viewers at home feel that you would do a better job at some task, —
video it and upload it to social media —
with the hashtag #suurmestari.
See you again, I'm glad you were with us. Bye!