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| Hello. • A novel about Russian Gulags. • Stuck in a mammal groove. • The barrel dad. • Stay humble. • Rock 'n' roll umlaut. • This is Trevor. • Aquatic sewing machine. • I've been a bit ill. • Clumpy swayey clumsy man. | ||||||
A novel about Russian Gulags. is the second episode of Series 8 of Taskmaster and was first broadcast on Dave on 15 May 2019. The episode was won by Lou Sanders.
Episode breakdown[]
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| Task | Description | Iain Stirling | Joe Thomas | Lou Sanders | Paul Sinha | Sian Gibson |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prize: Best pair of things. | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | Put something on your face that looks like a moustache from a long distance away, but when you get up close, you realise it's something completely different to what you thought. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | Get this rice into the bottle in the living room. You may only use the shopping basket and its contents to transport and deliver the rice. You may not touch the rice with anything other than the shopping basket and its contents. You may not take the bottle out of the living room. | 3 | 5 | 4 | DQ | 2 |
| Bonus: For accepting disqualification with grace and being a reasonable man. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | Team: Tell your teammates what is in this chest. Your teammates must not see what is in the chest. After reading the task out, you may not speak until the task is over. In the first minute, you may only use facial expressions. In the second minute, you may only make noises. In the third minute, you may only shout adjectives. From then on, you may only whisper verbs. | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Travel the furthest distance while making a constant noise with your mouth. | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Live: Say a species of bird, eat a grape, then shout a competitor's name within five seconds of hearing your own name. If you fail to say a different species of bird, pop a grape in your mouth and shout a competitor's name within five seconds of hearing your own name, you will be eliminated. You must not say any bird that has previously been said during the task. | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| Total | 13 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 16 | |
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