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| Fear of failure. • Pork is a sausage. • A pistachio eclair. • Welcome to Rico Face. • There's strength in arches. | ||||||
Series 2 was the second series of Taskmaster and first aired on Dave from 21 June to 19 July 2016. The series featured Doc Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan and Richard Osman as contestants and was won by Katherine Ryan.
This series had zero tiebreaks and is the first series to feature the show's iconic bust of Greg Davies as a reward for the series' champion.
Series breakdown[]
Spoilers!
This section contains spoilers.
| Task | Description | Doc Brown | Joe Wilkinson | Jon Richardson | Katherine Ryan | Richard Osman |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 1: Fear of failure. (21 June 2016) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most important document. | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | Place these three exercise balls on the yoga mat on the top of that hill. The task is complete when all three balls sit fully inflated and stationary on the mat. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Get this potato into the golf hole. You may not touch the red green. | 2 | DQ | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Find out the following information from this Swedish person. The Swedish person may not speak or write in English. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Pack for your holiday. All items must either be packed in your hand luggage or worn on your body. | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Total | 9 | 8 | 18 | 17 | 20 | |
| Episode 2: Pork is a sausage. (28 June 2016) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Trendiest item of clothing. | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | Eat me (an egg). Fastest wins. | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Make the best music video for a nursery rhyme. | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Using this camera, take a picture of an inanimate object that looks like you. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Order the following pizza for the Taskmaster: Extra large vegetarian pizza with pepperoni and bacon, and without tomato and cheese. You may not use the following words: EXTRA, LARGE, VEGETARIAN, PIZZA, PEPPERONI, BACON, TOMATO, CHEESE | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Bonus: Make the pizza person say the word "bubbles". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 6 | Live: Using these big chopsticks, get these potatoes into your basket. You must only hold the big chopsticks on the grips provided. The big chopsticks alone may touch the potatoes in turn. Whoever has the most potatoes. | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | DQ |
| Total | 18 | 13 | 25 | 19 | 15 | |
| Episode 3: A pistachio eclair. (5 July 2016) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best dinner party guest. | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 2 | Impress this mayor. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 3 | Make the most unexpected silhouette on this screen. | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Buy a gift for the Taskmaster. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | Team: Put on this blindfold, then instruct only the person closest to you to open their task. | 0 | - | - | - | - |
| Team: Put the earplugs in your ears and the ear protectors over the earplugs, then continue reading. You must remain within your bandstand. Instruct the next person to open their task. | - | 0 | - | - | 5[1] | |
| Team: Do not read this out loud. Get a potato. | - | - | 5[1] | 0 | - | |
| 6 | Live: Throw the rabbits into your hat. | 12 | 12 | 4 | 15 | 7 |
| Total | 21 | 25 | 17 | 30 | 27 | |
| Episode 4: Welcome to Rico Face. (12 July 2016) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Coolest blue thing. | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Rescue the cat. | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 3 | Conceal this pineapple on your person. No part of the pineapple may be thrown away. | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Set a fun task. Your task must take no more than one minute. | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 |
| Guess who set you each task. | - | - | 4 | - | - | |
| 5 | Team: Using only the items on the rug, construct the best thing for the Taskmaster. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 6 | Live: Create the highest tower using only these potato-based items. Your potato tower must be self-standing. Your potato tower must be built on the table. Your potato tower will be measured from the tabletop to the highest potato point. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 18 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 5 | |
| Episode 5: There's strength in arches. (19 July 2016) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best piece of memorabilia. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | Get all this shopping into the shopping trolley. | DQ | 5 | DQ | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Team: Make the best stop-motion film starring this potato. | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Make a bridge over the river using only items on this table. Highest self-supporting bridge wins. The bridge alone must support the potato. You must not touch the Taskmaster's house. | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Live: Put on a pair of food handling gloves, eat a whole banana correctly, put on a tie, and clap as many times as possible. | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Total | 12 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 19 | |
| Grand Total | 78 | 69 | 90 | 94 | 86 | |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Josh Widdicombe returned to help the two-player team, so didn't earn any points for himself.
Trivia[]
- Many tasks this series involved potatoes. This concept would be revisited with Series 5, only with coconuts instead.
External links[]
| This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia's article "List of Taskmaster episodes" (view authors here). | 
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