Draw the monster is a task featured in Series 19 of Taskmaster, as the third task in Maybe we're the monsters. The task was won by Jason Mantzoukas.
Setup[]
| Location | Taskmaster House |
|---|---|
| Equipment | Car, canvas, pens, costumed staff (monster, bird, alligator, bear, lollipop lady, police), driver license, cleaning supplies, parking ticket, acrobatic ribbons |
| Measurement | Most accurate picture |
Summary[]
The task was presented inside a car and the contestants are sat in the driver's seat of a car with a canvas leaning against the steering wheel. They had to create the most accurate picture of the man in a monster suit, which was a green dragon with five orange and yellow spots, long purple tongue, yellow belly with a black striped with purple hair, five white eyes, sharp teeth, pink wings, and has six bear limbs.
There are several distractions involving driving, such as:
- Multiple other animals in the roads
- A lollipop lady appearing in front of the car to let the animals cross
- A policewoman warning the contestant about the no parking zone and demanding their driving license (which was in the glovebox and was actually the monster's licence, complete with photo)
- An animal cleaning the windshield
- A policewoman offered the contestant a parking ticket which ordered them to turn on their hazard light within 20 seconds or pay a fine of 8 pens
- Alex wanting a hitchhike
- A lollipop monster replacing the lollipop lady
- The animals getting inside the car
Performance[]
Fatiha El-Ghorri: Fatiha kept concentrating on the monster details and also at one point ignoring Alex's offer. She ended up drawing a green tardigrade with brown hands and no "head", receiving 3 points.
Jason Mantzoukas: Jason initially panicked as he didn't know was a lollipop lady was. When she appeared he realised and kept drawing. He ended up drawing a vague description of the colour of the monster with round head and green outline for the body, receiving 5 points.
Mathew Baynton: Mathew just kept concentrating on the monster details. He ended up drawing a green dragon with a crudely smiley face, spikey pink hair, and very bad doddle hands, receiving 4 points.
Rosie Ramsey: Rosie found the monster's driving license and ended up having an existential crisis over it, thinking she was the monster. She ended up drawing a totally different monster, a silly and sassy green four-armed bear which looked like roadkill, receiving 1 point.
Stevie Martin: Stevie stated that she was unlicensed and also ended up paying her pens for not turning on her hazard lights. She ended up drawing of a hulking green yeti who having five "green coats" on at once, receiving 2 points.
Trivia[]
Behind the Scenes[]
- During this task, Rosie wondered if she was meant to represent the monster. This was joked about by Greg Davies in the episode's "What have we learned today?" segment at the end, where he whispers "Maybe we're the monsters", the episode's name.
- The monster name was "Wow Monster", named after Alan Davies' attempt of the Make a noise without the Taskmaster identifying you task in Caring Uncle Minpict.