Celebrate your selected national day

Task notes

• Also on the table, there is a 2024 calendar featuring photos of hunky firemen in various seasonal poses, with Tom Gleeson’s head photoshopped onto them.
• Various dates have also been marked on the calendar, as follows:
  • January 2nd: National Cream Puff Day
  • January 12th: Kiss a Ginger Day
  • January 18th: National Thesaurus Day
  • January 28th: Data Privacy Day
  • January 31st: National Backwards Day (written backwards, of course)
  • February 1st: National Serpent Day
  • February 3rd: National Play Outside Day
  • February 5th: National Weatherperson Day
  • February 8th: Kite Flying Day
  • February 9th: National Toothache Day
  • February 15th: National Singles Awareness Day
  • February 23rd: Tommy’s birthday (Tommy Little)
  • February 28th: National Public Sleeping Day
  • March 1st: National Dress in Blue Day
  • March 6th: National Dentist’s Day
  • March 11th: National Napping Day
  • March 17th: St. Paddy’s Day
  • March 19th: Poultry Day
  • March 20th: Ravioli Day
  • March 30th: National Pencil Day
  • April 1st: April Fools’ Day
  • April 6th: National Carbonara Day
  • April 10th: National Farm Animals Day
  • April 20th: W.o.F. Due!! (appears to refer to ‘Warrant of Fitness’, the New Zealand certification of vehicle inspection, similar to the UK MOT test)
  • April 24th: Barbra Streisand’s birthday
  • May 5th: Cinco de Mayo
  • May 7th: World Asthma Day
  • May 12th: Mums’ Day
  • May 17th: Walk Safely to School Day
  • May 23rd: Lucky Penny Day
  • May 27th: Mothers’ Day (Bolivia)
  • June 2nd: Taskmaster’s 28th birthday (with a note to ‘message Taskmaster’)
  • June 8th: National Best Friend Day (with a note to ‘message Taskmaster again’)
  • June 15th: Father’s Day (with a note to ‘message Taskmaster again again’)
  • June 16th: Julia’s birthday (not sure who this is; Julia Morris appears to have been born on April 20th)
  • June 20th: Pete’s birthday (not sure who this is; Pete Helliar appears to have been born on June 16th)
  • June 25th: Emma arrives! (presumably the first day of Emma Holland’s filming at the house)
  • July 4th: USA Day (Independence Day)
  • July 13th: ?
  • July 19th: National Pyjama Day
  • July 26th: Dave’s birthday (not sure who this is; Dave Hughes was born on November 26th)
  • August 1st: Clown Week begins
  • August 7th: Clown Week ends
  • August 20th: World Mosquito Day
  • August 25th: Banana Split Day
  • September 1st: Wattle Day
  • September 5th: Cheese Pizza Day
  • September 15th: Free Money Day
  • September 17th: Australian Citizenship Day
  • September 19th: International Talk Like a Pirate Day
  • October 4th: World Animal Day
  • October 6th: National Noodle Day
  • October 11th: National Coming Out Day
  • October 15th: Global Handwashing Day
  • October 24th: Polio Day
  • November 1st: National Pomegranate Month Begins
  • November 5th: Guy Fawkes!
  • November 13th: World Kindness Day
  • November 22nd: Jamie Lee Curtis’ birthday
  • November 26th: Dave’s birthday (Dave Hughes)
  • December 4th: National Cookie Day
  • December 5th: World Soil Day
  • December 14th: International Monkey Day
  li>December 18th: Xtina’s birthday (Christina Aguilera)
  • December 23rd: Festivus
  • December 24th: Buy gifts
• After the contestants enter the room, Tom Cashman instructs them to choose one of the four task briefs, and he then takes away the others, each of which refer to a different national day which is relevant on the day the task was attempted.