Follow the Taskmaster’s instructions

Task notes

• The contestants are lined up on stage, each behind a plinth (referred to as a 'table' throughout), and wearing overalls with pockets on the hips and chest.
• In front of each of them on the plinth, there is a pencil, a set of keys, an onion, a rubber duck, and an orange ping pong ball.
• Lasse starts reading instructions to the contestants at a slow pace, but then rapidly speeds up to ensure that they struggle to keep up with him.
• Lasse’s instructions are as follows: “Put the rubber duck in your left trouser pocket”; “Put the onion in your right chest pocket”; “Hold the pencil in your right hand”; “Put the ping pong ball in your left chest pocket”; “Put the keys in your right trouser pocket”; “Swap the items in your left trouser pocket and your right hand”; “Swap the two items in your chest pockets”; “Put the item from right trouser pocket on the table, and hold the item from the left trouser pocket in your left hand”; “Put the item from right chest pocket in your mouth, and the item from the right trouser pocket in the left trouser pocket” (Note: there should be nothing in the right trouser pocket by this point, so nothing needs to be moved to the left trouser pocket); “Put the item from the left chest pocket in your right hand, and then swap the heaviest item with the lightest item” (Note: presumably the onion and the ping pong ball); “Put the item on the table in the right chest pocket, and the item in your mouth in the left chest pocket”; “Put the item in your right hand in your right trouser pocket, and take all the things from your left pockets and swap them with the corresponding right pockets” (Note: there should be two items in the right hand by this point, so both should be moved).
• At the end of the task, it is clarified that if the task is performed correctly: the pencil should end up in the contestant’s left hand; nothing should end up in the contestant’s right hand; the keys should end up in the contestant’s left chest pocket; the onion should end up in the contestant’s right chest pocket; both the rubber duck and the ping pong ball should end up in the contestant’s left trouser pocket; and nothing should end up in the contestant’s right trouser pocket (Note: this all checks out, as long as you follow the notes added in parentheses, above).