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Cast
Clockwise, from bottom left: Takashi Wakasugi, Lisa McCune, Dave Hughes, Tom Gleeson, Tommy Little, Tom Cashman, Emma Holland
- Taskmaster: Tom Gleeson ("Greater Tom")
- Taskmaster's Assistant: Tom Cashman ( "Lesser Tom")
- Contestants: Dave Hughes, Emma Holland, Lisa McCune, Takashi Wakasugi, and Tommy Little
- Teams:
- Dave Hughes and Lisa McCune ("The Anote Team")
- Emma Holland, Takashi Wakasugi, and Tommy Little ("The Bnote Team")
NOTE: This is the first Australian season which included location shooting in Australia. Some of the tasks were filmed at Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour because the Taskmaster Retreat was unavailable.
As with prior recap pages, this page contains unmarked spoilers; you are strongly advised to watch the episodes before opening the folders or viewing this page. You have been warned.
Episodes
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Episode 1 - "Wasting A Man's Time"
- Prize Task: The Most Misunderstood Thing
- Winner: Takashi - a toy giraffe, on the basis that it has long shoulders and not a long neck (5 points)
- Emma - the Commonwealth Electoral Act No. 17 from 1948, which established Australia's complicated modern Senate voting system (4 points)
- Dave - his dog's ashes, representing his dog when it was still alive (3 points)
- Lisa - maths, represented by some numbers and symbols (2 points)
- Tommy - a red deer skull, because people think he killed it and he didn't (1 point)
- Task 1: Lose The Van Keys. You Cannot Leave The Van
- Winner: Emma - 82 days 6 hours 33 minutes (5 points)note
- Dave - 4 days 2 hours 48 minutes (4 points)note
- Takashi - 10 minutes 38 seconds (3 points)
- Tommy - 4 minutes 34 seconds (2 points)
- Lisa - 1 minute 26 seconds (1 point)
- Task 2: Choose A Finger And Create An Ad For It. Your Finger Must Be Chosen From One Of The Remaining Fingers Of This Hand.note For The Purpose Of This Task, The Thumb Is A Finger
- Winner: Emma - thumb (5 points)
- Lisa - pointer finger (4 points)
- Takashi - pinky finger (3 points)
- Dave - ring finger (2 points)
- Tommy - middle finger (1 point)
- Task 3: Team Task - Make One Of Your Things Touch One Of Your Teammate's Things.note You Must Remain Within Your Designated Zonesnote . (Also, Every 30 Seconds, You Must Wave To Your Teammates And Introduce Yourself Again)note
- Winner: Emma, Takashi, and Tommy - 9 minutes 40 seconds (5 points)
- Dave and Lisa - 23 minutes 7 seconds (2 points)
- Live Task: Hang The Hangers On Your Rack. Before You Toss A Hanger, You Must Be Wearing A T-shirt In The Traditional Way. You Must Remain On Your Mat And Your Mat Cannot Move. For Every Hanger That Misses, You Must Give A Compliment To The Person Next To You About Their Outfit
- Winner: N/A
- Dave, Emma, Lisa, Takashi, Tommy (0 points)note
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Emma Holland (19 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (16 points)
- Dave Hughes (11 points)
- Lisa McCune and Tommy Little (9 points)
Episode 2 - "What Is Life?"
- Prize Task: The Weirdest Thing To Just Casually Have Up One's Sleeve
- Winner: Takashi - a piercing (5 points)note
- Emma - olives (4 points)
- Dave - his 2006 Aria award (3 points)
- Lisa - a pack of wet wipes (2 points)
- Tommy - blank magic cards (1 point)
- Task 1: Get The Ping Pong Ball Out Of The Bath. You Cannot Touch Or Cross The Rope. Nothing You Are Holding Can Touch Water
- Winner: Lisa - 6 minutes 10 seconds (5 points)
- Tommy - 6 minutes 15 seconds (4 points)
- Emma - 11 minutes 16 seconds (3 points)
- Takashi - 31 minutes 34 seconds (2 points)
- Dave (Disqualified)note
- Task 2: Do Something Suss, But Not Too Suss, With This Pineapple. Most Suss Loses. Least Suss Gets 2 Points. Second-Least Suss Gets 3 Points. Second-Most Suss Gets 4 Points. Middle-Most Suss Wins
- Winner: Tommy - had Lesser Tom drop it from the balcony onto his penis (5 points)
- Emma - made a series of sketches where a pineapple ruined a "wholesome" scene by asking for cigarettes (4 points)
- Lisa - put it between her legs and gave it to a gentleman caller (3 points)
- Takashi - made a murder mystery scene where he killed a giraffe with the pineapple (2 points)
- Dave - stuck it in his pants and had Lesser Tom guess whether it was there or not (1 point)
- Task 3: Move A Box Over The Red Line. Each Turn, You Must Hide Behind A Box. If Tom Guesses The Box You Are Behind, All Boxes Must Be Returned To The Start. If Tom Fails To Guess The Box You Are Behind, You May Move Your Boxes Forward. The Number Of Box Moves You Can Make Is The Row Number Of The Box You Successfully Hid Behindnote . Once A Box Is Over The Red Line, You Must Deceive Tom One More Time
- Winner: Dave - 8 rounds (5 points)note
- Lisa - 26 rounds (4 points)
- Tommy - 35 rounds (3 points)
- Emma - 45 rounds (2 points)
- Takashi - 103 rounds (1 point)
- Live Task: Do Some Acting. In Turns, Choose A Scene From A Trophy Then Act It Out. The Two Most Brilliant Actors And The Two Most Terrible Actors Will Proceed To The Next Round. For Round 2, Only The Most Brilliant And The Most Terrible Actors Will Proceed. For The Final Round, The Most Terrible Actor Wins
- Winner: Dave (5 points)
- Lisa (4 points)
- Takashi and Tommy (3 points)
- Emma (1 point)
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Lisa McCune (18 points)
- Tommy Little (16 points)
- Dave Hughes and Emma Holland (14 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (13 points)
Episode 3 - "Jock On Nerd Action"
- Prize Task: The Swankiest Thing
- Winner: Emma - a gold bust she made of Hilary Swank (5 points)
- Tommy - an invitation from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (4 points)
- Takashi - a crested pigeon (3 points)
- Lisa - high tea (2 points)
- Dave - an electric foot massager (1 point)
- Task 1: Make This Exercise Ball Go As Far Away As Possible From You And Have It Come Back. Once The Exercise Ball Has Left You, You May Not Take A Step Without Forfeiting An Attempt
- Winner: Tommy - 774 m (5 points)note
- Emma - 49.05 m (4 points)note
- Dave - 15.6 m (3 points)note
- Lisa - 14.2 m (2 points)
- Takashi - 7.42 m (1 point)
- Task 2: Be A Man. Manliest Man Wins
- Winner: Takashi - saved his date (played by Lesser Tom) from a sniper, then survived falling off of the balcony (5 points)
- Dave - made Lesser Tom pretend to be his deceased dog and had an emotional moment with him (4 points)
- Emma - made a Quentin Tarantino short film where a man walked into a saloon, took a piss, and shot the bartender (3 points)
- Lisa - tried to do a sketch where Lesser Tom farted in bed but had issues getting the right sound effect to play (2 points)
- Tommy - threw the toilet that the task was presented in off of the balcony and shouted, "Are you not entertained?!" (1 point)
- Task 3: Dress As Frankenstein, Then Video Call Someone In Your Contacts. If They Allude To How You're Dressed, You Must End Your Phone Call Immediately. If You Tell Them Not To Mention How You're Dressed, You Will Be Disqualified. Best Dressed Frankenstein Wins. All Other People Will Be Scored Based On Who Has The Longest Video Call
- Winner: Dave - an undisclosed (very short) amount of time with Andy Lee but was the best Frankenstein (5 points)note
- Emma - 13 minutes 26 seconds with her sisternote (4 points)
- Tommy - 5 minutes 57 seconds with his dad (3 points)
- Takashi - 14 seconds with Harry Jun (2 points)
- Lisa - 13 seconds with her son (1 point)
- Live Task: Choose An Item To Place In The Vessel To Raise The Water Level. Once An Item Has Been Touched, It Must Go In The Jar. If You Cause The Jar To Overflow, You Are Eliminated
- Winner: Emma (5 points)
- Tommy (4 points)
- Takashi (3 points)
- Dave (2 points)
- Lisa (1 point)
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Emma Holland (21 points)
- Tommy Little (17 points)
- Dave Hughes (15 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (14 points)
- Lisa McCune (8 points)
Episode 4 - "You Gotta Die Of Something, So Let's Go"
- Prize Task: The Thing Most Worthy Of Being Hidden When Visitors Come Around
- Winner: Dave - a pillow with his face on it (5 points)
- Lisa - her son's bedroom (4 points)
- Emma - a full model skeleton (3 points)
- Tommy - a picture of the cast of a sketch show he was part of, where everyone is wearing t-shirts with STDs written on them (2 points)
- Takashi - an air fryer (1 point)
- Task 1: Sneak The Sticky-Taped Balloon Along The Tunnel To Tom. The Lights Will Turn Off For Five Seconds Every Eight Seconds. If Tom Sees The Balloon When The Lights Are On, You Must Start Again. Whenever The Lights Come On, You Must Wave At Tom With Both Hands. If The Balloon Pops, You Will Be Disqualified note
- Winner: Tommy - 3 minutes 52 seconds (5 points)
- Takashi - 9 minutes (4 points)
- Emma - 10 minutes 17 seconds (3 points)
- Dave and Lisa - popped the balloon (Disqualified)
- Task 2: Flip A Coin From The Furthest Distance Into The Wishing Well. You Must Make A New Wish With Every Flip... Then, Make The Wish From Your Last Successful Coin Flip Come True. Truest Made Wish Wins
- Winner: Takashi - wished to eat steak tonight (5 points)
- Emma and Lisa (2 points)
- Emma - wished that she knew what it meant to love
- Lisa - wished she could cook a soufflé
- Dave and Tommy (1 point)
- Dave - wished that his wife wouldn't buy too many cats
- Tommy - wished for a bigger dick
- Task 3: Unveil Something Unsophisticated With The Smoke Machine. Most Unsophisticated Unveiling Wins
- Winner: Tommy - Lesser Tom eating a kebab in underpants (5 points)
- Lisa - a skeleton dressed as the Taskmaster with a pool noodle erection (4 points)
- Emma - a balloon chicken with a balloon cock and balls (3 points)
- Takashi - a fish riding a trike who hated golf (2 points)
- Dave - salt (1 point)
- Live Task: Land A Sandbag On The Scoreboard, Then Say A Word With The Number Of Letters Equal To Your Landed Score. Your Word Must Begin With Your Randomly Assigned Letter. If You Fail To Say A Correct Word Within Three Seconds Of Landing, You Will Get Zero Points For That Round. There Will Be Three Rounds
- Winner: Tommy - 10 points (5 points)
- Takashi - 9 points (4 points)
- Lisa - 6 points (3 points)
- Dave and Emma - 0 points (2 points)
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Tommy Little (18 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (16 points)
- Emma Holland and Lisa McCune (13 points)
- Dave Hughes (9 points)
Episode 5 - "It's Tickle Time"
- Prize Task: The Most Frustrating Thing To Be Left On A Desert Island With
- Winner: Tommy - his gym membership (5 points)
- Dave - a video camera (4 points)
- Lisa - a copy of Treasure Island with small print, on the assumption she wouldn't have her glasses (3 points)
- Takashi - an airplane toilet (2 points)
- Emma - a train replacement bus (1 point)
- Task 1: Stress Out Tom... Then, Relax Tom. Biggest Difference Between Stressed and Relaxed Tom Wins
- Winner: Emma - 63 bpm difference (5 points)note
- Takashi - 41 bpm difference (4 points)note
- Lisa - 31 bpm difference (3 points)note
- Tommy - 29 bpm difference (2 points)note
- Dave - 19 bpm difference (1 point)note
- Task 2: Name Your Favourite Slang Word and Musical Genre From When You Were 13note ... Then, Write A Song For Your 13-Year-Old Self. Your Song Must Incorporate Your Just-Stated Slang Word And Musical Genre. The Song That Reveals The Most About Your 13-Year-Old Self Wins
- Winner: Dave - "grouse" and folk rock (5 points)
- Emma - "whassup" and nu metal (4 points)
- Tommy - "chillax" and hip-hop (3 points)
- Lisa - "cool" and ballet (2 points)
- Takashi - "KY"note and indie rock (1 point)
- Task 3: Get The Mugs Into The Bath At The Top Of The Path. You May Only Take 75 Steps. You Must Be On The Path The Whole Time. Most Unbroken Mugs Gotten Into The Bath Winsnote
- Winner: Lisa - 30 mugs (5 points)
- Tommy - 29 mugs (4 points)
- Takashi - 11 mugs (3 points)note
- Dave - 7 mugs (2 points)
- Emma - 0 mugs (1 point)note
- Live Task: Ride For Exactly 111 Metres While Sketching A Sketchy Sketchnote . One Of Your Teammates Must Be Riding. All Others Must Be Sketching. You May Only Sketch Whilst Pedals Are In Motion. If Your Sketch Is Deemed Least Sketchy, Your Distance From 111 Metres Will Be Doubled
- Winner: Dave and Lisa - 35m away (5 points)
- Emma, Takashi, and Tommy - 128m away (2 points)note
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Lisa McCune (18 points)
- Dave Hughes (17 points)
- Tommy Little (16 points)
- Emma Holland (13 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (12 points)
Episode 6 - "Why Are You So Horny?"
- Prize Task: The Thing That Most Makes The Taskmaster Reminisce About The Good Old Days
- Winner: Tommy - cash in an envelope (5 points)
- Dave - Donkey Kong II for Game & Watch (4 points)
- Lisa - roller skates (3 points)
- Takashi - an old photo of the Taskmaster that he used AI to make moving to horrifying results (2 points)
- Emma - drugs that treat early-to-middle stage dementia (1 point)
- Task 1: Play Golf. Official Golf Rules Apply. Every Time Your Ball Is In Motion, You Must Be Talking Aggressively To It... Then Predict The Other Contestants' Score. You Have A Total Of 32 Shots To Allocate. Lowest Score Compared To Average Score Predicted By Your Peers Wins
- Winner: Emma - 1.25 more shots (5 points)note
- Takashi - 1.5 more shots (4 points)note
- Lisa - 5.25 more shots (3 points)note
- Dave - 12.25 more shots (2 points)note
- Tommy - did not get the ball in the hole (Disqualified)note
- Trick Task: Mingle At The Party
- Victim: Tommy (2 points)note
- Task 2: Team Task - Type A 50-Word Team Bio On This Typewriter. You Must Type Alternate Words And Any Words Spoken Must Be Typed... Then, Create An Interactive Museum Display To Be Viewed By Museum Visitors In 100 Years Time. Your Display Must Be On The Subject Written On The Plaquenote
- Winner: Emma, Takashi, and Tommy - "So we have to type a word each? We are great at sex. We like sex. Our favourite doggy what love us, and we love sex. We fucking love to rock. Also, beautiful and fantastic and sex. We will dominate anyone in the world and fuck you fucking fucks bye." (5 points)
- Dave and Lisa - "Any words spoken, we have to write that down. Incredible best duo ever to breathe on planet Earth. Ever outstanding talent, thrilling, hot, revolutionary couple who glisten like diamond stars conjoining icons simulating. Oh, we're jammed. Height bits in tandem. Terrific talent, unrivalled brilliance, perfect timing, delicious tasting, mouth watering." (2 points)
- Task 3: Make A Thing Be Mid-Air When These Camera Flashes Go Off. The Camera Flashes Will Go Off Exactly 20 Seconds After You Yell "Cheese". Your Thing Must Be Made To Be Mid-Air From The Mat. If Your Thing Isn't Mid-Air When The Flashes Go Off, You Will Be Disqualified. Shortest Time For Your Thing To Be In The Air Wins
- Winner: Emma (5 points)
- Everyone Else (Disqualified)note
- Live Task: Pat The Dog.note You Must Be Wearing Your Blindfold And Cannot Step Off Or Move Your Mat
- Winner: Emma (5 points)
- Takashi (4 points)
- Lisa (3 points)
- Davenote and Tommynote (Disqualified)
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Emma Holland (21 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (15 points)
- Tommy Little (12 points)
- Lisa McCune (11 points)
- Dave Hughes (8 points)
Episode 7 - "You've Unleashed The Dragon"
- Prize Task: The Most Disappointing Purchase
- Winner: Takashi - a pepper grinder (5 points)
- Lisa - a churro maker (4 points)
- Emma - a taxidermy rat with a vacuum cleaner (3 points)
- Dave - anti-dandruff shampoo (2 points)
- Tommy - an E6B flight computernote (1 point)
- Task 1: Take Up To 100 Photos Of Yourself Somewhere In This Warehouse And Wear This Red Hat In One Of Them. You Must Take All Your Photos From The Same Spot. Your Photos Will Be Edited Together Into One Photo. Photo That Makes The Taskmaster Take Longest To Find The Red-Hatted You Wins
- Winner: Tommy - 1 minute 56 seconds (5 points)
- Dave - 1 minute 12 seconds (4 points)
- Emma - 1 minute 9 seconds (3 points)
- Takashi - 15 seconds (2 points)
- Lisa - 10 secondsnote (1 point)
- Task 2: Punch The Most Holes In This Document From The Furthest Distance. Your Attempt Is Complete When At Least One Hole Has Been Punched. Most Holes Punched Plus Metres From The Document When Punched Wins
- Winner: Takashi - 69.7 (5 points)note
- Emma - 24.2 (4 points)note
- Dave - 5.1 (3 points)note
- Lisa - 3.7 (2 points)note
- Tommy - 0 (0 points)note
- Task 3: Team Task - Make These Singles Have Chemistry On Their First/Second Date.note They Are Both Wearing Earpieces. They Will Only Say Or Do Whatever You Tell Them To Do. At Least One Person From Your Team Must Be In The Study And One Must Be Outside. If You Are In The Study, You Will Be In Control Of Her. If You Are Outside, You Will Be In Control Of Him
- Winner: Dave and Lisa (5 points)
- Emma, Takashi, and Tommy (3 points)
- Task 4: Avoid Getting Wet By Tom. You Must Remain Within The Bunker. Tom Is Outside The Bunker But Can't Step Insidenote
- Winner: Takashi - stayed dry for the full 20 minutes (5 points)
- Tommy - 9 minutes 39 seconds (4 points)
- Lisa - 3 minutes 24 seconds (3 points)
- Dave - 2 minutes 14 seconds (2 points)
- Emma - 57 seconds (1 point)
- Live Task: Team Task - In Teams, Feed Your Stick Thingynote Through Your Helmet Thingynote . Your Stick Thingy May Not Touch The Sides Of Your Helmet Thingy. The Teammate Wearing The Helmet Must Be Facing The Audience Throughoutnote . The Teammates Holding The Stick Thingy May Not Move Off Their Mat And Must Be Wearing Their Blindfolds
- Winner: Emma, Takashi, and Tommy - 2 rounds (5 points)
- Dave and Lisa - 1 round (3 points)
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Takashi Wakasugi (25 points)
- Dave Hughes and Emma Holland (19 points)
- Lisa McCune and Tommy Little (18 points)
Episode 8 - "You Can Have Tomorrow Off School"
- Prize Task: A Mute Thing That Most Looks Like It Would Have A Cute Voice
- Winner: Takashi - power points (5 points)
- Emma - an anthropomorphic cat woman in a bikini that she drew (4 points)
- Tommy - an old-timey bartender figurine (3 points)
- Dave - a rocking horse (2 points)
- Lisa - Tom Cashman (1 point)note
- Task 1: Create And Debut A Children's Character. Your Character's First Name Must Be Spelt From Your Handful Of Letters And Its Second Name Must Be A Word On The Dictionary Page Your Bookmark Landed On.note Most Marketable Children's Character Wins
- Winner: Takashi - Treebite Dogmn and Tricky Medis, an evil animal who wanted to kill all the animals in the kingdom and the hero who stopped him (5 points)
- Lisa - Matt Manta Ray, a manta ray who survived a shark attack thanks to his crayfish friend (4 points)
- Emma - Tidi Afoot, a blue puppet with large breastsnote (3 points)
- Dave - Rian the Rejigger, a fish who likes fishing (2 points)
- Tommy - Gary Wet, a man who lost everything because of his gambling addiction (1 point)
- Task 2: Score A Goal Against Goalkeeper Tom From One Of The Mats. You Must Shoot From The Closer Mat Whilst Blindfolded Or From The Further One Whilst Tom Is Blindfolded. Once A Mat Has Been Selected, You Cannot Change. You Cannot Move Either Mat. You Must Say Your Last Name Before Each Shot
- Winner: Lisa - 1 attempt from the further mat (5 points)
- Takashi - 3 attempts from the closer mat (4 points)
- Emma - 4 attempts from the further mat (3 points)
- Tommy - 7 attempts from the closer mat (2 points)note
- Dave - 13 attempts from the further mat (1 point)
- Task 3: Make The Most Pleasurable Sound Whilst Being Most Unpleasurable To Look At
- Winner: Lisa — made the sound of rain on a tin roof (by pouring water on the metal table in the Lab) while wearing a white skin suit with clumps of hair and a weird blue hat (5 points)
- Emma — played the glockenspiel while looking like she had an eye dangling out of its socket (4 points)
- Takashi — played the drums, knocked over bowling pins, and threw a grill at a barbecue while wearing KISS-style makeup (3 points)
- Dave — spoke through a traffic cone in a weird, high-pitched voice to (poorly) imitate his wife's voice while wearing a long blonde wig, a singlet pulled up to expose his navel and showing one nipple, and pants pulled down slightly to expose his buttcrack (2 points)
- Tommy — played the melodica (with Tom supplying air) while hanging upside down with eyes on his chin to look like a weird, upside-down face... while making weird noises and speaking in a raspy voice in-character as the face; the Taskmaster deemed that the melodica and his vocals both counted towards his effort (1 point)
- Live Task: Turn Your Exercise Ball Into A World Globe With Your Selected Item. You Must Be Wearing Your Boxing Gloves Throughout. Most Geographically Accurate World Globe Wins
- Winner: Emma - shaving cream (5 points)
- Tommy - mustard (4 points)
- Dave - Vegemite (3 points)
- Takashi - jam (and silly string from Lisa's missed shots) (2 points)
- Lisa - silly string (1 point)
- Tiebreaker: Skim A Stone The Most Times
- Winner: Takashi - 6 skims (+ 1 tiebreaker point)
- Emma - 1 skim
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Takashi Wakasugi (19 points + 1 tiebreaker point)
- Emma Holland (19 points)
- Lisa McCune (16 points)
- Tommy Little (11 points)
- Dave Hughes (10 points)
Episode 9 - "The Beepie Beepies"
- Prize Task: The Thing That Most Gives You The Heebie Jeebies
- Winner: Emma - a PEZ dispenser with the Taskmaster's head on it, filled with her baby teeth (5 points)
- Dave - a replica of his decapitated head (4 points)
- Lisa - pictures of cars that are parked terribly (3 points)
- Tommy - a boxing glove used by Tim Zhu to break one of his ribs (2 points)note
- Takashi - an alarm (1 point)
- Task 1: Today Is National Zip Code / National Paul / Collector Car Appreciation / International Retainer / National Work Without Your Hands Day.note Celebrate. Best Celebrated Day Wins
- Winner: Lisa - National Paul Day (5 points)
- Takashi - National Work Without Your Hands Day (4 points)
- Tommy - National Collector Car Appreciation Day (3 points)
- Dave - International Retainer Day (2 points)
- Emma - National Zip Code Day (1 point)
- Task 2a: Team Task - Paint A True-To-Life Painting Of Three People Jumping In A Jumpy Castle. Only One Person May Touch The Canvas At A Time. Only One Person May Touch The Paintbrush At A Time. Only One Person May Touch The Paint And Palette At A Time
- Dave and Lisa (Disqualified)note
- Task 2b: Team Task - Paint A True-To-Life Painting Of Two People Painting In A Field. You Must Be Jumping Continuously. Only One Person May Touch The Canvas At A Time. Only One Person May Touch The Paintbrush At A Time. Only One Person May Touch The Paint And Palette At A Time
- Winner: Emma, Takashi, and Tommy (3 points)note
- Task 3: Summon Tom To The Caravan With The Walkie-Talkie. You May Not Leave The Caravan. Tom Will Move Five Steps For Any Correct Word In The Direction That The Correct Word Corresponds To.note Once A Correct Word Has Been Used, It Cannot Be Used Again. The First Word Stated In Each Transmission Counts. You Must Complete Each Transmission With The Phrase "Over". It Is Also Polite To Respond To Any Received Transmission With "Roger"note
- Winner: Emma - 31 minutes 44 seconds (5 points)
- Tommy - 51 minutes 20 seconds (4 points)note
- Lisa - 53 minutes 48 seconds (3 points)
- Takashi - 56 minutes 15 seconds (2 points)
- Dave - 1 hour 16 minutes 24 seconds (1 point)
- Live Task: Sing An Original Love Song To The Taskmaster Over Your 30-Second Melody. A Bonus Point Will Be Given For The Best Lyrics... Then, Lip Sync To Your Original Love Song. Best Lip Syncing Wins
- Winner: Lisa (5 points + 1 bonus point)
- Emma (4 points)
- Tommy (3 points)
- Dave (2 points)
- Takashi (1 point)
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Emma Holland (18 points)
- Lisa McCune (17 points)
- Tommy Little (15 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (11 points)
- Dave Hughes (9 points)
Episode 10 - "Yucky, Yucky, Yucky, That's You"
- Prize Task: The Most Satisfying Thing To Throw Into The Grand Canyon
- Winner: Takashi - silicone, to make a mould of the whole Grand Canyon (5 points)
- Emma - "the evidence" (a bloody rug with feet sticking out of it) (4 points)
- Dave - a piano (3 points)
- Lisa - instruction manuals (2 points)
- Tommy - a piece of a car he destroyed in Celebrity Grand Prix (1 point)
- Task 1: Team Task - Charge! Your Charge Must Strike Fear Into Your Enemy. Your Charge Will Be Played Back In Super Slow Motion. A Bonus Point Will Be Given To The Most Formidable Enemy
- Winner: Dave and Lisa - charged the portrait of the Taskmaster (5 points + 1 bonus point)
- Emma, Takashi, and Tommy - charged global warming (3 points)
- Task 2: Complete The Tiny-Worded Task. There Are 50 Other Tasks Around The House. The Tiny-Worded Task Is Somewhere In The House, And It Will Be Obvious What It Is.note For Reference, This Is A Normal-Size-Worded Task. If You Open An Incorrect Task, Before Moving On, You Must Do What It Asks Of You Using A Tiny Voice
- Winner: Lisa - 3 minutes 22 seconds (5 points)note
- Tommy - 10 minutes 30 seconds (4 points)note
- Emma - 13 minutes 3 seconds (3 points)note
- Takashi - 19 minutes 14 seconds (2 points)note
- Dave - 30 minutes 7 seconds (1 point)note
- Task 3: Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone. Most Out Of Your Comfort Zone Wins. Your Out-Of-Comfort Zone Must Not Endanger Your Life
- Winner: Dave - swam in the lake on a surfboard (5 points)
- Tommy - earnestly sang a song to Lesser Tom, who was dressed as his wife (4 points)
- Emma - performed a monologue while wet (3 points)
- Takashi - blindfolded himself and stuck a fake eye in his mouth (2 points)
- Lisa - went bushwalking on the Taskmaster Retreat (1 point)
- Live Task: Fly A Paper Plane Through This Bladeless Fan. Each Paper Plane You Make Must Have A Name, And You Must Say It When It Commences Flight. You Must Remain On Your Mat, And You Cannot Move Your Mat. Fastest Wins. A Bonus Point Will Be Given To The Best-Named Plane
- Winner: Tommy (5 points)
- Dave (4 points + 1 bonus point)note
- Lisa (3 points)
- Emma (2 points)
- Takashi (1 point)
- Episode Ranking:
- Winner: Dave Hughes (20 points)
- Lisa McCune and Tommy Little (17 points)
- Emma Holland (15 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (13 points)
Episode Tally
- Emma Holland (4 episodes - Episodes 1, 3, 6, and 9)
- Lisa McCune and Takashi Wakasugi (2 episodes)
- Lisa (Episodes 2 and 5)
- Takashi (Episodes 7 and 8)
- Dave Hughes and Tommy Little (1 episode)
- Dave (Episode 10)
- Tommy (Episode 4)
Task Tally
A breakdown of the tasks as won by the contestants is as follows:
- Emma Holland and Takashi Wakasugi: 15 tasks
- Emma: 2 prize tasks, 6 video tasks, 3 video team tasks, 3 live tasks, 1 live team task
- Takashi: 5 prize tasks, 5 video tasks, 3 video team tasks, 0 live tasks, 1 live team task, 1 tiebreaker
- Tommy Little: 14 tasks (2 prize tasks, 5 video tasks, 3 video team tasks, 2 live tasks, 1 live team task, 1 trick task)
- Lisa McCune: 11 tasks (0 prize tasks, 6 video tasks, 2 video team tasks, 1 live task, 1 live team task)
- Dave Hughes: 9 tasks (1 prize task, 4 video tasks, 2 video team tasks, 1 live task, 1 live team task)
Episode Titles
Each episode is a Title Drop made by either a participant in the show, the Taskmaster, or the Taskmaster's Assistant. In this series, the titles were provided by:
- Episode 1: Emma Holland (on the revelation that Lesser Tom spent multiple days looking for the van keys in the wrong place: "There is nothing I love more in this world than wasting a man's time.")
- Episode 2: Takashi Wakasugi (after his disastrous attempt at hiding behind boxes: "And, at first, everyone enjoys. It sounds like kids' game. In the middle, I start thinking about what is life.")
- Episode 3: The Taskmaster's Assistant (responding to Tommy kissing him and riffing on the Taskmaster's comment that Emma making a snide remark was "Nerd on nerd action": "Jock on nerd action.")
- Episode 4: Dave Hughes (talking about how he seasons his food before trying it: "Yeah, my wife gets angry at me for doing it. But I really enjoy it, so, y'know, you gotta die of something, so let's go."
- Episode 5: The Taskmaster (in his closing speech, right before tickling Lesser Tom, in a reference to Tommy's attempt to stress him: "Hughsey taught us that he had a grouse house, and, right now, Tom's learning that it's tickle time!")
- Episode 6: Tommy Little, but quoting Takashi Wakasugi (in response to how many times the group typed "sex" in the team bio task: "You know, at one stage, Waka, when he was exasperated, he turned to me, and he grabbed me, and he goes, "Why are you so horny?")
- Episode 7: Lisa McCune (upon feeling how good it felt to swear at Lesser Tom after her attempt at the hole punch task: "Oh my God, you've unleashed the dragon.")
- Episode 8: Dave Hughes (in shame after watching his "pleasurable noise while looking unpleasurable" task attempt: "I'd just like to say to my kids, you can have tomorrow off school.")
- Episode 9: The Taskmaster's Assistant (commenting on Takashi's prize task submission not fitting the category to the Taskmaster's liking, which he was so ashamed of that he asked for it to be cut: "It gives you the beepie beepies.")
- Episode 10: The Taskmaster's Assistant, but quoting Dave Hughes (repeating one of Dave's insults to himself while searching for the tiny-worded task: "Yucky, yucky, yucky, that's you.")
Series Ranking
- Winner: Emma Holland (172 points)
- Takashi Wakasugi (154 points)
- Tommy Little (149 points)
- Lisa McCune (145 points)
- Dave Hughes (132 points)