Taskmaster - Season 1
Season 1
Introducing Tom Gleeson as the Taskmaster, and Tom Cashman as the Taskmasters assistant. Joining these two for the premiere season will be Julia Morris, Nina Oyama, Luke McGregor, Jimmy Rees and Danielle Walker.
Episodes
Foot Juice
In this inaugural episode of the first season of Taskmaster AU, the contestants must bring in the most beautiful thing, remove a balloon from a caravan, create a one minute montage of their lives, fill a glass with orange juice, and throw, boot, bowl, flick, or propel items towards the edge of the stage.
Keep it Clean and Flowing
In this episode, the contestants must bring in the most satisfying thing to touch, let the cat out of the bag, make an older family member hang up on them, do the bravest thing with a ream of paper, and de-pineapple some pizzas. There is also a thrilling tie-breaker task involving clapping as quickly as possible.
Cricketmaster
In this episode, the contestants must bring in the thing they'd most like to be buried with, fly a flip-flop as far as possible, transform into twins or triplets, perform a passionate cricket appeal, and convince the Taskmaster to give them 5 points.
Boom Boom Boom Boom
In this episode, the contestants must: bring in the coolest thing they've found on a walk within 1km of their house, sink a bowling ball, snap, crackle and pop some things, spread generic yeast spread on something, and then clean it up and recreate famous scenes from history, using only four-letter words. There's also a thrilling tie-breaker involving honking a car horn as quietly as possible.
Are You Okay?
In this episode, the contestants must bring in the most pretentious thing, protect some popcorn from Tom Cashman, deliver 26 roses to a vase, get a giraffe into a bath, and spell 'Taskmaster' using their own shadows.
Lucky With a Sausage
In this episode, the contestants must bring in something someone else will miss, reinvent the wheel, age or de-age themselves, save a sausage from a barbie, and make their monsters meaner, cuter, more prestigious, and sexier.
The Energy of a Sickly Child
In this episode, the contestants must bring in the most surprising thing to bring to a barbecue, make a dream come true, do an incredible once-in-a-lifetime thing, deliver a pizza to Tom Cashman, and dunk their biscuits.
Dumb in Unison
In this episode, the contestants must bring in the most cursed thing, spell their fanciest word in their favourite colour, create a celebratory personal theme tune, paint an accurate map of Australia and transform their face into an Australian icon.
Sorry For Your Loss
In this episode, the contestants must bring in the most desirable runny thing, make a doctor look like a fool, throw a tantrum, collect 197 things and then put them back, take a secret photo of the Taskmaster, and bounce or not bounce on a trampoline or a step.
Don't Ask Me What a JC is
We're going all out in tonight's finale. Christmas is ruined, aubergines are stabbed, cities are destroyed, and our first Aussie champion will be crowned. Who will win Tom Gleeson's giant golden head?
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