History Taskmaster / TropesRToZ

*** Republic of Ireland - Aisling Bea (S5), Nicola Coughlan (New Year's Treat 1), Creator/ArdalOHanlon (S13), and Dara Ó Briain (S14)

** Also played a bit straighter in Series 8, when owing to a combination of intense competitiveness, stubbornness and some clashing domineering personalities, Lou Sanders and Iain Stirling seemed to spend a substantial amount of their team tasks together shouting at each other while Paul Sinha tried to unobtrusively work in the background. The definitive example of this happening would be the team task in "Barrel Dad" ("put as many things into this hammock - heaviest hammock wins, and if an item falls out, the team is disqualified"). On the other team, while Joe Thomas and Sian Gibson didn't really seem to "click" together, they at least proved more cooperative and less inclined to argue.

** James delivers one to Rhod in "The Perfect Stuff", after watching back that episode's team task.

** In the "guess what's in these pies" task in "The Pie Whisperer", Roisin realises that while she cannot "breach" the pastry of the pies, there's nothing in the rules stating that Alex cannot. However, she inexplicably ''turns her back'' while Alex does so and tries to guess what's in the pies from his taste reactions, thus making the task even harder for herself.
** Katherine Ryan quickly realised that the "red green" surrounding the golf hole in the "throw a potato into a golf hole" task in "Fear of Failure" was just a carpet, and she could avoid stepping on it by rolling it up. However, as Greg pointed out in the studio, she for some reason decided not to roll it up the whole way (meaning she could essentially just walk up to the hole and easily drop it in) and instead decided it would be more profitable to tie a piece of string to the potato so that she could retrieve it without stepping on the red green. Katherine claimed that she had been trying to respect the spirit of the game, but considering the surprisingly emotional speech she delivered immediately after about how much she hated sports and couldn't figure them out, it's equally likely that [[WhyDidntIThinkOfThat she just didn't think of it at the time]].

*** Republic of Ireland - Aisling Bea (S5), Nicola Coughlan (New Year's Treat 1), Ardal O'Hanlon (S13), and Dara Ó Briain (S14)

** In Series 13's "Shoe Who", Ardal O'Hanlon decides that in the "guess which shoe Alex is thinking of" task, it would be a good idea to ask whether the shoe in question is appropriate to wear at a funeral. While the question itself is only of relative help in completing the task, as many of the shoes were formal in nature and others were somewhat subjective, the problem was compounded by the fact that he kept forgetting whether he'd asked if the shoe was or wasn't appropriate. This led him to accidentally throw the actual shoe away.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Basically said word-for-word by Ardal O'Hanlon in "The House Queens" when he and Chris Ramsey have to convince Greg that they performed an unbroadcast task which apparently involved Chris feeding Ardal aubergine, in order for their lyrics in the "perform the best multi-track song about your team" task to make sense.

* SerialEscalation: The start of "Stay Humble" has Alex play a game of "what's in his pocket?" Greg guesses (correctly, to his surprise) ''another smaller pocket''. They play again, and the smaller pocket is followed by ''another'' smaller pocket. The two play again, and Alex reveals the pocket concealed a Locket, which, when the game was modified to "What's in my locket?", it has a tiny felt pocket inside.

** Of the four countries which constitute the UK, England is well-represented among the contestant demographics. In the main series, there have only been three Scottish contestants, three Welsh contestants, and zero Northern Irish. Series 8 has one Welsh (Sian Gibson) and one Scottish contestant (Iain Stirling), but this is the only series where they overlap.

** Rylan Clark-Neal in the New Year Treat 2020 special clearly wanted to win the episode and looked for creative solutions, with mixed results.

** One more subversion: a few series' openers have included clips from tasks that ultimately weren't shown in the series.[[note]]Tim Key popping bubble wrap in series 1; Paul Sinha in a bath reacting to a loud noise in series 8; Richard Herring with some spaghetti taped together in series 10; Dara Ó Briain going down an escalator in series 14; Mae Martin panicking about a fountain in the dome in series 15.[[/note]]

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[invoked]]

** In "Spoony Neeson", Greg takes Nish aside for a talking to about pulling his socks up and actually putting some effort into the show after his dismal POV video of him completing a sudoku puzzle (incorrectly, according to Greg), as if Nish is the class clown who has untapped potential he refuses to apply. (Part of the comedy, of course, is that all of his video tasks had been recorded months prior and there was nothing more he could do about them.)

** In "Hollowing out a baguette", a task required contestants to move water from one fish bowl to another without moving the fishbowl, while only using items found on the table. They also had to speak in third person to themselves. Lolly got shown first, and ''immediately'' broke one of the rules (don't move the fish bowl), which got edited in the final video as Lolly saying ''"Without moving the fishbowl"'' interspersed with footage of her doing exactly that. [[spoiler:Not surprisingly, Lolly was disqualified.]]

** A handful of other contestants are foreign-born but grew up mainly in the UK. Sally Phillips, David Baddiel, Mawaan Rizwan, Morgana Robinson, and Jenny Eclair were born in Hong Kong, the US, Pakistan, Australia, and Malaysia respectively. Conversely, Phil Wang and Munya Chawawa were both born in the UK but spent significant parts of their childhood in Malaysia and Zimbabwe, respectively, before returning to the UK.

** A handful of other contestants are foreign-born but grew up mainly in the UK. Sally Phillips, David Baddiel, Mawaan Rizwan, and Morgana Robinson were born in Hong Kong, the US, Pakistan, and Australia, respectively.

* Rule34: For the prize task in "I Love To Squander Promise", Frankie brings in a sexually explicit fanart of Franchise/CaptainAmerica and Franchise/{{Wolverine}}.

** Although all are UK-based comics, Katherine Ryan and Mae Martin, Aisling Bea, Nicola Coughlan, Ardal O'Hanlon, and Dara Ó Briain, Rose Matafeo, Sarah Kendall, and Desiree Burch are the token Canadian, Irish, New Zealander, Australian, and American (respectively) of their respective series.

** One cast member will speak of a person they've met outside the show, only for another cast member to gesture to the audience and grandly announce, "And they're here tonight!"
*** In particular, Rhod jokingly did this in reference to Greg's mother, only for Greg to matter-of-factly confirm that she actually was. Rhod was mortified.[[note]]He had submitted a somewhat racy photograph of her in a bubble bath, wearing nothing but a fez, in order to annoy Greg.[[/note]]

** Played straight with Al in "The F.I.P.". When Alex tells him he won't move a bucket full of water, Al then proceeds to lure him to move the bucket by waving cash in front of him, and ends up paying Alex £80.
*** This ended up causing a bit of controversy in the studio, as Sara had asked Alex to move the bucket for her only to be rejected. Ultimately, [[spoiler:Sara was given a bonus point in light of this, and Alex was forced to donate the money away and remove a shoe and sock for the remainder of the episode.]]

-->'''Greg:''' Frankie, why's your photo of a child[[note]]his son, at a gig where he intended to tell a joke[[/note]] better than Jenny's bed?\\

* SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace: Greg has noted that it's a consistent trend that contestants who take their time at the start of a task to stop and think on how to approach it, instead of rushing off because of time limits, tend to do better.
** Rhod Gilbert in Series 7 is repeatedly shown intensely thinking at the start of his tasks, often pressing his fingertips to the side of his head. In contrast to some of the others who rush off as soon as the task starts, this extra thinking allows him to come up with more imaginative (and sometimes more effective) solutions, such as [[spoiler:digging up and carrying a golf hole closer to the tee to make his shot easier]].

** In "The Mean Bean":

-->'''Greg:''' ''[addressing Kerry during the prize round for "Another Spoon"]'' What did Katy bring in and can you fill a minute talking about it?

* TitleDrop: Most episode names are taken from a line spoken during the show. The exception thus far is the Series 1 finale "The Last Supper." As there's too many to list here, examples can be found on each series' [[Recap/{{Taskmaster}} Recap page]].
** For each season, Alex and the producers try to use quotes as evenly as possible between Alex, Greg, and that season’s 5 guests. The greatest exception is Series 11, where Mike Wozniak named over half of the episodes, due to his use of [[UnusualEuphemism unusual euphemisms]], [[ARareSentence rare sentences]], and other hilariously bizarre phrases. Sarah Kendall was the only other contestant to name an episode, but only once.

-->'''Dave Gorman:''' Introducing them as "brother and sister"'s taken on a sinister twist, hasn't it...\\

** Katherine Parkinson may be the show's patron saint of this trope; her embracing of this trope extended to the fact that, for some reason, she was often unaware that she was even allowed to ''leave the room'' she was completing the task in, meaning that her attempts to complete the task -- never exactly overly-competent at the best of times -- were utterly hindered by the limitations of the near-surroundings that she was currently standing within. Perhaps the nadir of this for her is the "put the boots on the spider" task, wherein this self-imposed limitation completely bewildered her as to what "the spider" was supposed to be, until she eventually just ended up putting the boots on an eight-legged table in the room. (The spider she was ''supposed'' to use was, of course, a [[FailedASpotCheck gigantic furry artificial one]] located in the garden.) While Greg does allow her a point for ingenuity in this case, he makes it clear that the point is also given with heaped portions of condescending pity as well.
*** Though in total fairness it's also subverted in what is arguably her moment of greatest triumph -- her attempt at the "longest marble run" task, wherein this self-imposed limitation leads her to think outside the box and devise a simple-yet-effective marble run driven by gravity which ultimately wins the task.

** "Caring Uncle Minpict" is the result of Victoria attempting to read Alan's description of Greg, as spelled out with his body[[note]]Alan was actually spelling "Grand, florid, big tall man"[[/note]].

** In the first team task of Series 11 (which was also apparently the first team task overall), Jamali Maddix and Sarah Kendall meet each other at a park, where they are required to stand on two boxes with the task resting on a third, identical one. They immediately seem to assume that acquiring the task is ''part'' of the task, and immediately start brainstorming ideas for how they can get it... apparently not stopping to consider the possibility that they might simply ''have a third teammate who hasn't arrived yet''. Naturally, when Charlotte Ritchie -- said third teammate -- finally shows up, they've reached the point where they're stripping belts and shoelaces to tie together to form a rope.

** In "Birdy Hand Finger," Ardal takes Greg and Alex back with his prize task entry, a "murr" (mirror).

** In "No stars for naughty boys", Hugh tries to hide by changing locations within the house, and peeking outside to see where he was. He gets caught in just over a minute, as Hugh had been peeking at the wrong person (a cameraman). Greg calls him "as stealthy as a cow". The next person to try their luck was Noel, who, as Greg graciously points out, was wearing a yellow boiler suit. Noel got spotted by Alex in ''sixteen seconds'' after he tries hiding behind the caravan. [[spoiler:Noel comes last, while Hugh comes third]].

* WordSaladTitle: The episode "Twelve Blush Majesty Two", which turns out to be the least successful result from the lip-reading live task: "Phil Wang's tool sacks twelve blush majesty two."[[note]]The actual sentence was "Phil Wang's shoe size is twelve plus two minus two."[[/note]]

** For each season, Alex and the producers try to use quotes as evenly as possible between Alex, Greg, and that season’s 5 guests. The only exception is Series 11, where Mike Wozniak named over half of the episodes, due to his use of [[UnusualEuphemism unusual euphemisms]], ARareSentence and other hilariously bizarre phrases. Sarah Kendall was the only other contestant to name an episode, but only once.

** Every series up to Series 12 has had exactly one contestant who was not white. They also had exactly one woman for the first three series.
** Although all are UK-based comics, Katherine Ryan and Mae Martin; Aisling Bea, Nicola Coughlan, Ardal O'Hanlon, and Dara Ó Briain; Rose Matafeo; Sarah Kendall; and Desiree Burch are the token Canadian, Irish, New Zealander, Australian, and American of their respective series.

** Series 15 will have a zigzagged instance where Kiell Smith-Bynoe will be the only non-white contestant in his lineup and the only one born in England - Frankie Boyle, Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, and Mae Martin were born in Scotland, Japan, Malaysia, and Canada, respectively.

* ToneShift: Each series can have a quite different tone due to the changing line-up's chemistry, sense of humour and competence. Series 4 and 12 are remembered for being particularly cheerful due to their contestants consistently emotionally supporting each other, Series 7 is often considered the most chaotic, Series 10 is defined by its contestants' incompetence etc.

** Tim is capable of thinking outside the box to win a task, but this creativity often veers into outright cheating which costs him on more than a few occasions.
** Dave shows signs of this at times, and ends up being disqualified for [[spoiler:cheating twice]] in the third series.
** Hugh has shades of this in series four. Most of the time, he has been disqualified for it.

** "A Cuddle" has a task where the contestants have to get an entire egg into a "metal thing" from a chair in a fixed location, with the highest score winning. The scores are inscribed on the tubes themselves, something that more than a few contestants misses. After one throwing attempt, Rose Matafeo notices that the egg are positioned on a "metal thing" and puts her remaining eggs inside it. What she fails to notice is that ''-5'' is written on that "metal thing," and she scores -10 for having an entire unbroken egg (but scores 1 point for the task). Greg even admonishes her for attempting to outfox Alex.

* TrailOfBreadcrumbs: The first task in "Boing Boing" features the contestants being led blindfolded to the same point in the middle of a field and told to walk, still blindfolded, in any given direction for three minutes before finding their way back to the starting point. In a clear homage to ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', each contestant was given a slice of bread, with the clear (but unspoken) implication that they were to use it in some way to find their way back. Incredibly, only Bob Mortimer realised the reference straight away; both Aisling Bea and Mark Watson only figured out what the bread was for a little distance into their walk (and what he did drop was eaten by a dog), whereas Sally Phillips and Nish Kumar never picked up on it and ended up wandering around aimlessly. Perhaps not surprisingly, Bob won the round.
* TrainingMontage: The team task in "Chip Biffington" is to choreograph a routine for the given musical backing. While the team of three opt for a cheesy and horrific '80s style hospital sitcom, Munya and Sarah Millican decide to choreograph theirs as a training montage. With Munya playing the Sensei and Sarah playing Sarah, they go through various fitness regimes and physical tests such as one-finger press-ups and punching a loaf of bread, it ends with Sarah successfully punching through a brick wall.

* ThanksForTheMammary: In "No stars for naughty boys", one of the tasks is a game of hide and seek. Mel hides in a wardrobe, using a hanging shirt to cover herself. When Alex reaches into the wardrobe, he unintentionally brushes his hand across Mel's chest and is mortified.

'''Alex:'''Yeah, I found you after two and a half minutes, then felt embarrassed for three days.

* ThreePlusFiveMakeFour: Used as one of the mini-tasks in the bingo task from "How Heavy is the Water?" Mae Martin, who's the only contestant to actually attempt this mini-task, [[CuttingTheKnot Cuts the Knot]] by calculating how full the 5-pint bottle should be, as the mini-task doesn't include any of the puzzle's usual restrictions.

* TiebreakerRound: If two or more contestants are tied in first place at the end of an episode, then a tiebreaker happens. It is currently unknown whether a tiebreaker procedure occurs if there is a ''series''-wide tie for first. All tie breakers are pre-recorded tasks, with the exception of the tie-breakers in "The Poet and the Egg", "My Eyes Are Circles", and "Dog Meat Trifle". So far, this has happened in nineteen episodes:

** "Think About the Spirit" has a tie between Ed and Rose. They have to make a pop-up toy pause for the longest amount of time using one of the provided food spreads. [[spoiler:Despite both using peanut butter, Ed won by a longshot with a time of just under an hour and a half.]]

* StringTheory: Two teams (Asim, Tim and Liza vs Russell and Alice) in "H." had to "Find the link, then do it 100 times" in the shortest amount of time. The board contained string connecting an overhead projector, various letter scrawlings, the word "Urination", as well as other odd pictures that seemingly mean nothing. The table below had Whiskey, a Bunny, and a Hotel Bell. The Link? [[spoiler:They had to hop 100 times. The bunny was referring to... well ''"Hopping".'' The string arrangement spelled out the word ''"Hop"'', the whiskey was an allusion to the word "hop scotch", the Hotel Bell would be used to call a bell''Hop'']]. [[spoiler:Asim's team got 5 points, while Russell's team got 3 points.]]

** In "Quisps", on being asked to say a letter of the alphabet, Ed Gamble says "[[ExactWords a letter of the alphabet]]". He's then given another envelope that laughs at him and asks him to less ambiguously ''choose'' a letter of the alphabet and say it out loud. It later turns out that Ed was the ''only'' contestant for whom this eventuality had been prepared.

* TemporarySubstitute: Katy Wix missed the studio recordings for two episodes of Series 9 due to illness, and was replaced by former contestants Kerry Godliman and Katherine Ryan (both champions of their respective series, but presumably primarily chosen because they kept the gender balance the same, and kept everyone in the same seat[[note]]contestants are seated in alphabetical order by given name[[/note]]). This left the substitutes in the position of having to justify somebody else's performance, apparently without having seen the tasks in advance.

** One more subversion: a few series' openers have included clips from tasks that ultimately weren't shown in the series.[[note]]Tim Key popping bubble wrap in series 1; Paul Sinha in a bath reacting to a loud noise in series 8; Richard Herring with some spaghetti taped together in series 10; Dara Ó Briain going down an escalator in series 14.[[/note]]

** In "Pea in a Haystack", Al Murray and Dave Gorman brought in cooking appliances to the prize task for that episode, which was "flamboyant clocks". Al brought in an Oven, while Dave brought in a microwave.

** In "Wiley Giraffe blower", the final task was to write down the second longest word while on a plinth with three steps. The second longest word got to move down, and the first to touch the floor won.[[spoiler:Josh, Noel, Rob and Alex]] all had the word "Toblerone" as an example of a 9-lettered word, which got them disqualified from the round. This happens again in the following round to [[spoiler:Katherine and Bob]] with the word "To", which put the three disqualified contestants back in the game again, and disqualified the other two.

* SixthRanger: Frederick the Swede could be considered one, as he appeared in [[OnceASeason one task each series]] for the first five series.

'''Joe:''' What?!\\

** The prize task for "This Is Trevor" had the contestants bring in the most slippery thing. Sian brought in [[PunnyName slippers]], Iain brought in a toy alien egg (which he admits is more slimy than slippery) Lou brought in a slide with a drawing of [[Series/EastEnders "Nasty Nick"]] on it, Paul brought in a banana Peel, Ban-jelly pie, and slippers (which Sian wasn't happy with), Joe brought in... [[BoringButPractical soap.]] [[spoiler:Sian got 2 points, Iain got 3 points, Joe and Paul "Banana King" Sinha get 4 points, with Lou wining the round, and getting 5 points.]]
* SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace: Greg has noted that it's a consistent trend that contestants who take the time at the start of a task to stop and think on how to approach it, instead of rushing off because of time limits, tend to do better.

* SkewedPriorities: Discussed in "The Curse of Politeness"; Mae Martin can only attribute a sudden stroke of inspiration [[spoiler: which led to them discovering a neat ball of string that could be used to complete the "put a neat ball of string on this cushion (after presumably being tricked into unravelling the ball of string)" task]] to the intervention of God. Frankie Boyle, who did less well in the task, then rather acerbically notes that it's a good thing God took time out from what was presumably His busy schedule of, among other assumed things, attending to the victims of natural disasters to "check in on this show" and help Mae out.

** In Series 9 episode "Join Our Cult," the first recorded task is to hide three aubergines around the living room for Alex to search. Ed treated this task similar to a prison search for contraband, and hid his last aubergine by stuffing them into the baby head figurines around the room.

** Applies to the first three series. The two hosts are male, as are four of the contestants, leaving Roisin, Katherine, and Sara the token women of their series. Averted with every series from the fourth through the fourteenth, which have each featured two female contestants while the ninth, twelfth, and thirteenth feature three. The fifteenth series has three men, one woman, and one non-binary contestant.

** Within the footage, if more than one contestant's attempts are being shown at the same time, it is generally possible to tell when one contestant has beaten another one in a timed task before Alex reveals the times because of the edit; each contestant is often shown finishing roughly in the order that they finished

* SillyWalk: A task in "Pea in a Haystack" was to get to a microwave in as few steps as possible. Cue contestants either taking very long steps or trying to avoid traveling on their feet.

** Season 10 was significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; while most of the location tasks were filmed before the pandemic, the studio sections (and some of the team tasks) were filmed afterwards, so everyone involved is socially distanced. Season 11 was also similarly impacted. So far, only one task has been so overtly modified; "I Hate Your Trainers"'s watermelon feeding task, a team task which was quite a lot harder for the team of three that consisted of Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Johnny Vegas as they had to use sticks with pre-prepared cut watermelon, whereas the other two (Daisy May Cooper and Richard Herring) were not restricted by the social distancing rules. The team of three were awarded a bonus point due to the circumstances being out of their control. The socially distanced conditions were in force through Series 11 (all the studio, team tasks, and airfield hangar tasks) and 12 (the entirety of Series 12 was filmed with social distancing protocols).

** Two props from earlier series are reused in "Toshwash." The baby head with a plant that memorably had aubergine stuffed in it and was called a "quaby" in series nine and a birdcage with knitted dolls of the series seven cast were respectively chosen by Daisy and Johnny [[spoiler:in their successful attempt to convince Richard the security guard to look in their shopping trolleys]].

* RubeGoldbergDevice: A task in "Little Polythene Grief Cave" was delivered in this way. The Contestant pushed a ball, which pushed another ball down a piece of gutter pipe, which pushes over some loo roll, which kicks a football, which knocks over some books, which activates a scissor mechanism that let's loose two balloons, which drops a payload onto some domino's, which then, with the final domino plunging off the edge of the table, swipes away a cloth that was hiding the task on the table next to them all. Al in particular was impressed. The task in question was to make a domino rally.

** In "Stuck in a Mammal Groove", Iain makes two references to him potentially being a part of the roster for a future "Champions of Champions" special, the first was by getting miniaturised toy figurine versions of [[spoiler:Bob Mortimer, Josh Widdicombe, Katherine Ryan, Noel Fielding and Rob Beckett]] placed onto a massive self-made volcano, and him proclaiming that he hopes to join them, and the second is apologising to Alex via song for stuffing a pie in his face, and wishes to be a part of "Champions of Champions".

** Daisy-May Cooper bringing in very mundane prizes to fulfil the prize task requirements of Series 10, with Greg getting increasingly exasperated and annoyed at this. Her "nicest thing to put in your mouth" was white wine, her "best thing with lots of holes in it" was crumpets, her "best thing that probably has a spring in its mechanism" was an umbrella, her "cheekiest food" was Billy Bear Ham (ham in the shape of a bear), her "best pointy thing" was a metal kebab stick, and her "best top heavy item" was a cottonbud wearing a pirates hat. Only [[spoiler:the white wine]] won her the round.

* SchmuckBait: Any time Alex asks a contestant if they want to see a triumphant achievement again, the correct answer is "No". It's almost always because he's about to reveal additional footage that will result in a disqualification, although once, in "Peas in a Haystack", it was [[spoiler:just to torture everyone with time lapse footage of Sara Pascoe's adorable ice-cream snowman -- which had drawn a spontaneous "Aww" from the studio audience -- succumbing to the heat after the task was over]].

* SecretHandshake: A task in "No Stars for naughty boys" asked the contestants to come up with a handshake between Alex and themselves. Most of them were overly elaborate hand gestures and moving about. Joe and Alex just [[HomoeroticSubtext rubbed each other's palm with a finger for 3 minutes straight while maintaining eye contact]]. [[spoiler:Joe won first place]].

** Canadian Mae Martin, upbraided for using the word "humiliate" when they needed a three-syllable word, claims that [[BlatantLies Canadians pronounce it "hoomleyate."]] They go on to pronounce it "hoomleyate" later in the episode.

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* SuddenDeath: If two or more contestants are tied in first place at the end of an episode, then a tiebreaker happens. It is currently unknown whether a tiebreaker procedure occurs if there is a ''series''-wide tie for first. All tie breakers are pre-recorded tasks, with the exception of the tie-breakers in "The Poet and the Egg", "My Eyes Are Circles", and "Dog Meat Trifle". So far, this has happened in nineteen episodes:
** "Melon Buffet" involves a game of hide and seek played to determine whether Frank or Romesh won. [[spoiler:Frank won.]]
** "The Poet And The Egg" sees Alex ask Romesh and Josh in the studio to guess how old Frank was in minutes. [[spoiler:Josh won.]]
** "Hollowing Out a Baguette" has a tiebreaker between Noel and Joe. The task is to decant as much wine as possible in one minute while seated in an umpire chair. [[spoiler:Joe won.]]
** "Meat" has a tie breaker between Mel and Hugh. The task is to eat as many peas as possible in one minute. [[spoiler:Hugh won.]]
** "No stars for naughty boys" has a three-way tie between Hugh, Lolly, and Joe. They are tasked with opening a Vaseline-covered mayonnaise jar. [[spoiler:Joe won by figuring out the task, completing it, and ''then'' opening the task sheet to start his time.]]
** "Residue round the Hoof" has a tie between Mark and Aisling. They have to sit in a chair and throw a picture of Fred the Swede into a bin behind them within the least amount of attempts. [[spoiler:Aisling took 66 attempts whilst Mark took 15, meaning that he won overall.]]
** "Spoony Neeson" has a tie between Bob and Sally. The task is to kick a pot of yoghurt at a shooting target, and the winner was whoever got the most yoghurt nearest to the bullseye. [[spoiler:Sally won. Bob missed the target completely, while Sally kicked the container into the target, but no actual yoghurt got onto the target. Greg asked an audience member who he thought should win the task and picked the one that the audience member didn't choose.]]
** "The Old, Soft, Curved Padlock" has a tie between Russell and Alice. That task is to spin as many times as possible, then to kick a football at a caravan. [[spoiler:Alice won.]]
** "What Kind of Pictures?" has a tie between Russell and Liza. The winner is determined by whoever received a text the fastest. [[spoiler:Russell won.]]
** "My Eyes Are Circles" has a tie between Kerry and Jessica. In the studio, they have to guess the number on Alex's arm. [[spoiler:Kerry won.]]
** "OLLIE." has a tie between Rhod and James. They have to create a paper plane using toilet roll and get it to travel the farthest. [[spoiler:Rhod won.]]
** "Hello" had a tie between Iain and Lou, who have to peel a banana with only their feet, with the fastest winning. [[spoiler:Iain won.]]
** "The Barrel Dad" has a three-way-tie between Sian, Lou and Joe. They have to whip a bottle off of a barrel from a distance, with the fastest time to do so winning. [[spoiler:Sian won.]]
** "Think About the Spirit" has a tie between Ed and Rose. They have to make a pop-up toy pause for the longest amount of time using one of the provided food spreads. [[spoiler:Despite both using peanut butter, Ed won by a longshot with a time of just under an hour and a half.]]
** "A Documentary About Despots" has a tie between Katherine and Richard. They have to select a wind-up dinosaur toy and have it travel the furthest distance without the toy falling off a table. [[spoiler:Despite her toy traveling a minuscule distance, Katherine won by default because Richard's toy fell off the table.]]
** "Legit Glass" has a tie between Johnny and Mawaan. They are given 30 seconds to guess the number of individual sheets on a toilet roll. [[spoiler:Johnny won.]]
** "Dog Meat Trifle" has a tie between Richard and Mawaan. They have to guess the number of green eggs underneath Greg's chair. Richard guessed 6 eggs and Mawaan guessed 8. [[spoiler:Richard won, as there were only 2 eggs.]]
** "Absolute Casserole" has a tie between Jamali and Mike. They have to flick as many rubber bands into a bum bag which Alex is wearing under a time limit. [[spoiler:Jamali won by flicking 7 rubber bands to Mike's 1.]]
** "A Couple of Ethels" has a tie between Alan and Guz. They have to blow a feather across and off a table using only their noses the quickest. [[spoiler:Alan wins by a mile.]]
** "Shoe Who" has a tie between Ardal and Chris. They have to flip as many beer mats as they can within 30 seconds, with only the ones remaining on the table counting. [[spoiler:Ardal beats Chris with 64 beer mats to 59.]]
** "The 75th Question" has a tie between Chris and Sophie. They have to sing into a microphone "I've won" in the highest note and then "this tiebreak" in the lowest note that they can, and whoever has the greatest range wins. [[spoiler:Sophie beats Chris with 25 notes to his 21.]]