Taskmaster - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Physics
Dillon Francis, Freddie Highmore, Kate Berlant, Ron Funches and Lisa Lampanelli are tasked with handlessly shooting basketballs, making backward films and popping tents.
Ebony
Dillon Francis, Freddie Highmore, Kate Berlant, Ron Funches and Lisa Lampanelli paint a horse while on one, remove a ball from a pipe and make the longest continuous noise.
Bubbles
The contestants are forced to order a pizza without using certain words, camouflage themselves so that they are undiscoverable in a photograph and create chains of balloons without looking.
Die, Die, Die
Taskmaster Reggie Watts orders the contestants to make a block of ice disappear as fast as they can, impress an actual mayor in less than 20 minutes and transport only blue M&M's from one bowl to another while wearing boxing gloves.
Magnets & Magic
The contestants are ordered to throw something into something, find their way to a microwave in as few steps as possible and toss an egg through a basketball hoop and catch it.
Engineering
Taskmaster Reggie Watts challenges contestants to create "the best flag meal," construct a miniature bridge that can support a potato and arrange an assortment of items so that they can be held in one hand.
Hostage
The contestants must decipher their first task from a series of clues and stack the lowest unique number of doughnuts on a stick.
101 Ducks
In the season finale, Taskmaster Reggie Watts crowns a winner after the contestants must knock down rubber ducks, do something surprising with a potato and inflate a balloon.
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