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| Sometimes spit. • An invisible jump rope. • My presumably scrotum. • Midnight picnic. • Maybe we're the monsters. • It's got to be obsolete. • Glass half most. • Science all your life. • Getaway sticks. • The clever side? | ||||||
An invisible jump rope. is the second episode of Series 19 of Taskmaster and was broadcast on Channel 4 on 8 May 2025. The episode was won by Mathew Baynton.
Episode breakdown[]
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| “ | The first team task of the series brings the usual awkwardness, but also the joys of Stevie Martin inventing a new way for humans to move, and Fatiha El-Ghorri sweeping the lawn with a small broom. Elsewhere, Rosie Ramsey has a visceral reaction to mental arithmetic, Mathew Baynton strikes his own face with a grape, and Jason Mantzoukas destroys a shower. | ” |
| - British Comedy Guide | ||
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| Task | Description | Fatiha El-Ghorri | Jason Mantzoukas | Mathew Baynton | Rosie Ramsey | Stevie Martin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prize: Snootiest thing. | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Commentate on yourself achieving something really tricky, then achieve that really tricky thing. | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Team: Give Alex exactly 100 marbles on a plate and an eggcup full of tepid water. One of you must always be sitting down, one of you must always be jumping and one of you must always be clapping your hands. You must each change your action every 30 seconds and no-one may hold anything for more than five seconds at a time. | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| 4 | Get the most liquid in this can. You may not leave the Submaravan. | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | Live: Choose an item from each box and place them on the corresponding half of your table. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Live: One at a time, pass the item on your right to the person on your right and the item on your left to the person on your left. | ||||||
| Live: Put one of your items completely inside the other item. | ||||||
| Total | 15 | 13 | 23 | 13 | 13 | |
Trivia[]
- Alex Horne's opening banter segment was cut from this episode, likely for time. The section involved Alex stating he had the hiccups and that he found a cure, which required Greg Davies to caress his hand and whisper to him, before Greg whispers he'd like to have sex with Alex.[1]