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| God's haemorrhoid. • A documentary about a despot. • Point of swivel. • Toshwash. • I hate your trainers. • Hippopotamus. • Legit glass. • Moments of silence. • Air Horn Andy. • Dog meat trifle. | ||||||
Series 10 was the tenth series of Taskmaster and first aired on Channel 4 from 15 October to 17 December 2020. The series featured Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring as contestants and was won by Richard Herring. This series was western themed.
Series 10 was the first series after the move from Dave to Channel 4 and filmed without a studio audience and following social distance guidelines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Series breakdown[]
Spoilers!
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| Task | Description | Daisy May Cooper | Johnny Vegas | Katherine Parkinson | Mawaan Rizwan | Richard Herring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 1: God's haemorrhoid. (15 October 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Nicest thing to put in your mouth. | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Knock the coconut off its perch. | DQ | DQ | DQ | DQ | DQ |
| Put all these drinks on the table in the caravan without spilling a drop. Also, you must be clutching this teddy at all times. Also, you must not walk on the grass while holding drinks. | ||||||
| 3 | Make the largest object properly vanish. You may not use any editing trickery. | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Land the most egg in the frying pan. You may not throw any egg, you must stay on this balcony and you may only use the contents of one of these boxes. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Live: Get the most balls in your bucket. At the end of the task, all the balls in your bucket must be the same colour as each other. You will lose 5 points for every different coloured ball in your bucket. You may only touch your litter pickers and you must stay on your spot at all times. | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Total | 11 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 12 | |
| Episode 2: A documentary about a despot. (22 October 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing with loads of holes in it. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Team: Find the treasure. Do not break the box. | 4 | – | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Special: Make one different noise for ten seconds every minute for 20 minutes. Each noise must be slightly louder than the last and you must make no other noise during the 20 minutes. You must stay on this chair throughout the 20 minutes. | – | 4 | – | – | – | |
| 3 | Make the best portrait of the Taskmaster and his favourite toy using only balloons, pegs, and your own clothes. Your portrait must fill this frame. | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | Get all the exercise balls in the hoops. You may not move the hoops or get out of the boat. | 5 | 2 | 3 | DQ | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Guess the things that are making the noise. | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| T | Select a wind-up toy dinosaur and release it from the starter mark. If it falls off the table, you are disqualified. | – | – | ✔ | – | ✘ |
| Total | 18 | 15 | 19 | 16 | 19 | |
| Episode 3: Point of swivel. (29 October 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing that probably has a spring in its mechanism. | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Make the best upside down film. | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 3 | Put all the spaghetti into the grapefruit. The grapefruit may not leave this room. For the last eight minutes, you must stand with both feet on the spot on the floor. | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | Catapult this shoe into the bath using a home-made catapult contraption. Only your feet may operate your catapult contraption. You may not move the bath or this red green, and you must build your catapult contraption on this red green. | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Team Live: Draw a picture of the object on your card. You may not speak or communicate with with your team mates in any way. You must stay on your spots and not move the canvas or turntable. | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 19 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 15 | |
| Episode 4: Toshwash. (5 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Cheekiest food. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Make this phone ring. | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Team: Secretly puts something that looks amazing in your bag. | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team: Persuade the security guard to look in your bag. You may describe what is in your bag, but you must not say what is in your bag. | ||||||
| 4 | Drop this water balloon from the greatest height without it bursting. You may not damage the water balloon or remove any water from it. | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Roll an edible sphere across the finish line. The person whose edible sphere crosses the finish line first, each round, is eliminated. If your edible sphere stops moving before the finishing line, you are eliminated. | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 19 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 13 | |
| Episode 5: I hate your trainers. (12 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best pointy thing. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Bag the heaviest thing from the furthest distance. Your attempt ends when you have bagged an item. Your score is the weight of the bagged object in grams multiplied by the distance from the bagging machine in centimetres. | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Paint a picture of a howling wolf on this teapot. You may not touch the teapot or remove it from the turntable and you may not tamper with the turntable or its power. The turntable will keep speeding up until you have named 20 American states. If you do name 20 American states, the turntable will slow down. | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Do something out of character with this £20. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 5 | Team: Eat the most watermelon. You must be wearing a boiler suit and goggles while you're eating the watermelon. You must not feed yourself. | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Live: Say the most different words without hesitating for more than two seconds. The person who says the fewest words each round is eliminated. | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Total | 24 | 15 | 20 | 17 | 26 | |
| Episode 6: Hippopotamus. (19 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most narcissistic thing. | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Silently, make the tastiest and prettiest cocktail with the coolest name. If you make any noise over 60 dB, you must pour anything you've prepared into the bucket, shout shout your given phrase at a volume of over 100 dB and start again. | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 3 | Draw the animal that is watching you. The animal is wearing a hat. You may not leave this room and you must look in the mirror at all times. | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | Get the most water from butt A into butt B. You may not move a butt in the first five minutes. | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | Team Live: Draw the animal named on your card. Each artist may draw three straight lines in their turn. The artist's teammates may have one guess after these three lines. If the guess is incorrect, the other team's artist can draw their straight lines. You may not speak or communicate with your teammates in any way. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Total | 14 | 19 | 10 | 22 | 12 | |
| Episode 7: Legit glass. (26 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing that is bigger at the top than the bottom. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 2 | Get to that finish line clutching chicken number 2. Get chicken number 1 across the start line aboard radio-controlled [contestant's name]. You must sit on the office chair at all times. If anything touches the little robots, your attempt is over. | DQ | 4 | DQ | 5 | 3 |
| 3 | Team: Tell your team mate what is in this safe. You may speak into this microphone and they will hear your message played backwards. | – | – | – | 3 | 0 |
| Team: Decipher the message to work out what is in this safe. | 0 | 3 | 3 | – | – | |
| 4 | Make the best marble run. After releasing your marble, you may not touch your marble, nor do anything to affect its movement. | 4 | 2 | 5 | DQ | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Communicate to the Taskmaster the item on your card. You may only make noises. You may not use any actions or anything that sounds like a word. | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| T | Work out how many sheets there are on a loo roll. | – | ✔ | – | ✘ | – |
| Total | 11 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 9 | |
| Episode 8: Moments of silence. (3 December 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing with wings. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | Fill this cup so that it overfloweth. The cup must remain atop the cup pole at all times. Only liquids may touch the red green. | DQ | DQ | DQ | DQ | DQ |
| 3 | Learn your lines. | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Drink one full tablespoon of coconut water. If you use the same coconut water extraction method as another contestant, you will be disqualified. | DQ | 3 | 5 | DQ | 4 |
| 5 | Team Live: Stare at your opponent without blinking. You must both be pulling the face that the Taskmaster chooses. | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Total | 7 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 18 | |
| Episode 9: Air Horn Andy. (10 December 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best bedding. | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | Make the biggest beer mat house on this table. While making your biggest beer mat house, you must ring the doorbell after exactly one minute, then after 58 more seconds, then 56 seconds and so on until 0 seconds. If you make more than two mistakes with the doorbell timing, you will be disqualified. | 4 | DQ | DQ | 5 | 3 |
| 3 | Complete the most tasks. There is one task behind each door. You may choose the order to open the doors. You may only move when the doors are moving and you must stay on this side of the white line. During the task, you must tell Alex which door to open within one minute of the previous door closing. | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Work out how many balls are in the basket. Every ball must be in the basket when you make your guess. | 5 | DQ | DQ | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Draw this monster the Taskmaster is going to describe. | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Total | 20 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 21 | |
| Episode 10: Dog meat trifle. (17 December 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Greatest collection. | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2 | Put these wellies on the spider's feet. You must carry a welly at all times, but you must never carry more than three wellies. You must not cut, untie or snap the twine. | 5 | DQ | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | Team: Perform this song. | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Neatly hang all of Bernard's clothes on that coat rail. You must stay behind the line at all times. | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Wearing mittens at all times, balance either all the mints or all the biscuits on a spaghetti bridge. The mints or biscuits must only touch spaghetti. The spaghetti must be balanced on the coconuts. The coconuts must remain on their stands. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| T | How many green eggs are under the Taskmaster's chair? | – | – | – | ✘ | ✔ |
| Total | 15 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 17 | |
| Grand Total | 158 | 139 | 118 | 151 | 162 | |
Video[]
Brand New Taskmaster, Coming Soon.
Taskmaster - All Series 10 Outtakes
External links[]
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