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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. | ||||||
Aquatic sewing machine. is the eighth episode of Series 8 of Taskmaster and was first broadcast on Dave on 26 June 2019. The episode was won by Paul Sinha.
Episode breakdown[]
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| Task | Description | Iain Stirling | Joe Thomas | Lou Sanders | Paul Sinha | Sian Gibson |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prize: Nicest thing to hold. | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Make the best picture in the sand of a former Taskmaster contestant using one of these implements. You must roll the dice to choose your implement. Nothing but air may touch the sand at any point. | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 3 | Team: Catch all the red balls in things from the shed. Catch all the yellow balls in clothing. Don't let the green balls touch anything other than the grass. Catch the blue ball in something from the kitchen. You may not touch the ball machines. Any non-green ball that touches the ground at any point will not count. | 5 | DQ | 5 | 5 | DQ |
| 4 | Make this beach ball cross the finishing line. Only water can touch the beach ball. | 5 | 1 | 3[1] | 2 | 4[1] |
| 5 | Live: Complete the five-syllable word started by the Taskmaster. Honk your horn if you think you know what word the Taskmaster is going to say. If you guess it correctly after one syllable, you get five points. If you guess it after two syllables - four points etc. Guess it incorrectly, you lose all your points. You may only guess once per word. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 18 | 7 | 12[1] | 21 | 8[1] | |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Whilst Lou completed the task in 5:37 and Sian completed it in 6:40, Sian was awarded 4 points and Lou awarded 3 points, although Lou should have been awarded 4 points and Sian 3 points.The scores for the episode and total points for the series both reflect this unexplained change to the points said to be awarded for this task.