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| Grappling with my life. • Jumungo. • Some impropriety? • Apropos of Apoppo. • Snooker cue umbrella chin. • A three ring man. • Dream date territory. • The umbrella wink. • Assistantbury. • Ambience and information. | ||||||
Grappling with my life. is the first episode of Series 17 of Taskmaster and was broadcast on Channel 4 on 28 March 2024. The episode was won by Steve Pemberton.
Episode breakdown[]
Spoilers!
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| Task | Description | Joanne McNally | John Robins | Nick Mohammed | Sophie Willan | Steve Pemberton |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prize: Most glorious thing that sounds a bit like "Greg Davies" if you mumble it. | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | Do the riskiest thing involving this egg without breaking this egg. | 4 | 5 | DQ | DQ | DQ |
| 3 | Team: Create the best single picture of an animal doing something surprising. All six blinds must be fully and equally involved in your picture. You may not see each other's work and you may only say two words at a time. After the task, your pieces will be lined up next to each other in this order: 1) Shortest Wikipedia entry, 2) Best show at the Edinburgh Fringe winner, 3) Smallest shoe size, 4) The person whom Alex said "hello" to first, 5) Most Twitter followers, 6) Lowest-scoring full name in Scrabble. You may not move outside of your segment. | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | Hoopla Gary before he crosses the finish line. Your time is doubled every time one of your limbs gets wet. | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Bring your sausage to life. You may not write any words on your drawing. | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| T | Which chess piece is not in the peas chest? | ✘ | ✘ | - | - | ✔ |
| Total | 18 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 18 | |
Trivia[]
- Greg's outro speech is cut from this episode, instead it simply goes from the final scoreboard to Steve Pemberton on stage.