My favourite moment was a tie breaker. When Joe Lycett went up to the task table, saw the pickle jar with vaseline on the lid, and said "If I just open this jar before I know what the task is, the clock never starts right?" And thus finished the task in 0 seconds.
It's a case of, "Look how quickly people instantly assume a set of restrictions--even though none are specified." The task of keeping Alex dry is a fine example: I'm sure many assumed that disconnecting the pipes would be a form of cheating, but at no point is it mentioned you mustn't do that. So, just disconnect them and be done...
That series was so funny, because Mark and Nish were both so bad. Even when they seemed to spot something that no one else had they still managed to fuck it up.
@intergalactic92 the song they did about the Japanese translator woman was the best thing they did. And they even got teary-eyed emotional about finally succeeding with a task.
I’ve honestly never seen it happen before. Credit to the Taskmaster RUclips page for being one of the least corporate behaving tv-related channels on the platform. And that’s a compliment of the highest caliber.
What I love about rod's solution was that he didn't take off Alex's shoes or his shoes, he took off someone else's probably of the camera or sound people's shoes
The first comment I ever made about this show was about how brilliant the editing is. It's absolutely genius to weave narratives with this much chaos and so many different cameras!
The rope task is honestly one of the greatest moments in the entire show. Everyone screws themselves over for the alarm task that interrupts it, while Phil was so bad he wasn't tied up when the alarm sounded, and then Rod did the main task so well that he never got untied.
I can’t help but think if I were to do that task, I’d tie a little bit of rope around my upper thigh and have the knot between my thighs/at my crotch… It would be hilarious to witness Alex trying to untie me without touching me there lmfaoo
@eggchompwould Alex be more embarrassed if the person who did that was male or female? He seems pretty uncomfortable with everyone, but he "did a drive by" of Mel and apparently acted awkward for a week after. So probably a better strategy if you're a girl, but it'll still work for men
The next compilation could be contestants who didn’t understand the task. You could have Paul Chowdhry hanging his clothes in the four corners of the TM property. Aisling Bea cutting bread, and herself in the camper. Mel Giedroyc camouflaging herself. James Acaster making circles, and almost every task competed in by David Baddiel.
Again, any video showcasing Rhod and his lateral thinking skills is a masterclass in how to win at TM. If Rhod had taken more of the show seriously, he could have won the whole thing.
@redelfshotthefood8213 I disagree. I think they force the contestant's to come up with new solutions instead of ones we've already seen, we still saw a lot of lateral thinking in seasons 10 and 11.
Nah. He just realized that the best way to prevent Alex from untying him is tying Alex up first. But him making that connection and immediately starting to methodically immobilize Alex is... telling.
James starting to tie himself leg-first to realize he has made a mistake and right as he says he regrets doing it the siren goes off.. just beautiful. Was waiting for something similar with S11 tape your legs task but the second half felt a bit flat there
@f.f.fabiana It seems obvious enough (insofar as Rhod's unique blend of madness can be called obvious), but if you really want an explanation: The task was for the contestants to tie themselves up, judged by the time it would take Alex to untie the contestant. (With the logic behind it that the more ropes&knots you use, the longer it takes for Alex to undo all of them.) Rhod's genius solution was to just ignore the 'tie yourself' part (aka the intended task), and instead simply made sure that Alex wouldn't be able to untie anything.
My favourite is when they have to flip a switch to find out what it does and James Acaster runs straight outside and catches Alex instantly rotating the soldier
Agreed. I always research an episode. And then again before the podcast review. Some skits like tree wizard and the potato I seek out. It’s just as entertaining as Claudia Winkleman on Would I Lie To You.
Dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive. Even if it is not officially in a dictionary, it follows English grammatical rules of affixation and is in common enough use amongst native speakers. I’d say that’s plenty to declare that it’s a word.
*spoilers* The Smallest Gap was brilliant. I thought.. is that the smallest gap store in the world, surely not.. but, being baby gap, smallest type of gap store, that just makes it genius.
11:47 The way Alex delivers "we grouped them like that-- because of their work schedules" makes me laugh so hard every time I hear it. It's a perfect joke for his style and it's my favorite if the "team task first revealed" jokes.
Let's be real, none of this video would exist if not for Richard Osman breaking the game in series 2. No one really thought outside the box in series 1.
Yup was waiting for Richard's yoga mat task and glad it was included - he changed how contestants interpreted tasks through finding loopholes, also known as "some wanky workarounds" according to one very angry and frustrated Joe Thomas
Tim Key 100% thought outside the box and sometimes cheated but in jest (re: I almost pissed myself at the bathtub challenge, and how he just went at it, quite literally head first, only after accidentally dislodging the plug did he try and unsuccessfully conceal his crime, which made it all the funnier; also make this ice block invisible, chuck it in a river, for the record, I'd of covered Alex's eyes). Tim is my fave contestant. Just so funny, willing to do anything to win, which is what the latest two seasons really needed, a go-getter.
he's one of my favourites. was completely unpredictable - either genius or absolute shit. Plus unjustly misjudged by Greg *and* quietly psychotic, especially anytime there was a blade involved :D
@anam00090 Part of the charm of the show is Greg’s unpredictableness and harshness. He literally is the source of conflict outside of Rhod, Rhomesh, James...
I think it has to be Hugo Boss (Joe Lycett for the uninitiated), who instinctively knew what the task was and completed it in a record zero seconds by seeing a jar covered with Vaseline and removing the top prior to reading the card. Hats off!
Nah nah he understood TASKMASTER but the task itself was unknown to him, so he could not have said to understand it. Intuit it, yes, but his moment of oneness was with the idea of Taskmaster itself, which is more impressive, really.
@sharkofjoy well...even outside of Taskmaster, if someone presented me a jar covered in gobs of vaseline and started to ask me to do something, I would be able to guess
Rhod Gilbert having the best approach to the tie-up task while also forgetting what he's supposed to do with the siren AFTER he had stared at the siren and waited for it for 30 minutes... absolute legend. Him and Hugh Dennis had the same vibes, simultaneously the dumbest and smartest contestants.
They edited it and accidentally cut off the “The task is complete when all three balls sit inflated, and stationary, on the yoga mat on top of the hill.” They say the exact phrasing at 17:51. The solution is still technically correct if u consider that the phrase "yoga mat on top of the hill" is only to point out the location of the yoga mat instead of the destination of the task.
@1ProAssassin yeah, I remember watching it and my first thought being "just bring the yoga mat down" because I am a stubborn pedant, also known as a smartass prick, who is incapable of thinking inside the box when I could go around it
@1ProAssassin actually it only mentioned the hill BEFORE the “task is complete when” part. They say “put the 3 balls on the mat on the top of the hill. The task is complete when all 3 balls sit stationary, inflated, on the mat” so the task completion didnt rely on the hill
Alex usually cooperates, right? So for the shower one I'm surprised they didn't just go "Hey Alex, come stand over here for a while," and walked him away from the shower
Usually only if it'd be entertaining. Season 3 for example Sara asked him to move the bucket and he refused, and I think because that'd work for so many of them, as the show goes on less of the tasks allow for that as a solution.
@SixteenJacobsCreams He would if there was something in it for him, like how he did move the bucket for a few quid. Or if what he was doing would add very little value to the task completion.
@jdstearman I really looked forward to Rhods takes on the tasks. Clever, or a means to exploit Alex’s role. Always fun. The video game recreation was epic.
“Would you like something for lunch” “Yes please” “What is it” “Something sharp” Alex is so underrated there’s a reason he’s the mastermind behind his whole show
In the danish version of the first task in the video: A female actor took a lot of rope under her dress and between her legs, and told the danish version of Alex that she was married and if he even tried to touch the rope she would sue him - clearly, she won
What an unfun and bs way to win... "touch me and I'll sue you" is fckn dumb. For one, that's super poor in terms of entertainment value, secondly it mocks people that have actually been in situations that are even remotely similar to that. So weird of her to pull that move
I'd very much like to see a compilation of contestants who put their bodies on the line, like when Russel Howard got driven around on a wheelbarrow or when poor ol' Johnny Vegas broke a stool and landed on his behind
7:12 To answer the podcast question, you can see here the machine's plug is still connected, so Hugh didn't touch the machine. Also, I never noticed before that he had a knife with him the whole time.
I like how Susie Dent is becoming the national arbiter of what is correct in the English Language. I say make her position permanent. Maybe a fancy chair and a small crown.
I like to think Alex is forced in charge of everything behind the scenes including reading through the RUclips comments to come up with a good title name for the next videos.
Richard Ossman is for sure an interesting language guy. We have this iconic loophole and then his language awareness by changing a comma in the final task of series 2.
Has there been a compilation of tasks given to just one contestant, like josh counting beans and rice in season 1? If theres none yet, please make one. Thank you Taskmaster!
there already is one! if you're wanting to find it it's called "every individual task" and it was posted about 6 months ago (the thumbnail is rob beckett in the lab)
18:18 the key to Richard's interpretation was the final sentence that read "the task is complete when all 3 balls sit fully inflated and stationary on the mat." End of sentence! NOT, on the mat ONTOP OF THAT HILL 😮
This was my reading as well. It was my first thought to grab the mat and bring it down, because it doesn't say the balls need to be on the hill, just on the mat.
We are lucky Rhod Gilbert decided to take a go at comedy and not world domination.
Or become a serial killer.
Apart from the extension one, hes not completely flawless.
@grahamstrouse1165 The thing is, Rod may well be a serial killer, but he just hasn't been caught.
*Rhod tying Alex up*
Alex - Have you done this before
Rhod *casually* - Yes
To be fair, it doesn't look like he's very experienced. It kept him down but they aren't proper knots someone experienced would use
Hasn't everyone tied their friends up as kids?
@Ertwin123 NO????
@Ertwin123 mine was mostly siblings
You can tell he isint properly skilled cause he didn’t do the finger checks
Rhod Gilbert tying up Alex is the greatest solution to a task and perfectly sums up Rhod's approach to Taskmaster
And to life...
Turns out Rhod and Alex have the same kink, only reversed.
@nashynoooooo W... What? Sadism involves inflicting pain.
@nashynoooooo Ah, i see, sorry for misunderstanding.
I never saw this episode but now I wanted to know what the others did for that thing up alex task lol
"Do you want something for lunch"
"Yes please"
"What do you want?"
"Something sharp"
Kills me every time
would be even funnier if someone made a pun on "sharp cheddar" then :P
I too would probably die if I had something sharp for lunch
Maybe you'd die less often if you stopped eating sharp things for lunch.
"I've got sharp cheese. Would you like some?"
I would love if he gave him a lemon
By this point, Rhod was so convinced no one was on his side he immediately got ready to be called a cheater lmfao
He got called a cheater in nearly all of the other tasks.
Usually when he wasn't even close to cheating
Its never cheatin he is just way smarter
Man, it always sucks when people do that just because they can't think outside the box.
@josephheiskell3493 yes
My favourite moment was a tie breaker.
When Joe Lycett went up to the task table, saw the pickle jar with vaseline on the lid, and said "If I just open this jar before I know what the task is, the clock never starts right?"
And thus finished the task in 0 seconds.
Was the task to open the jar?
Link??
Or which episode
episode??
@nyroccoryn no stars for naughty boys
@brainiac2209 no stars for naughty boys
Those contestants showed how to think outside the box. Sadly there was no box provided for Romesh.
Bravoooooooooo
There wasn't a bloody box mate
Literally laughed out loud bravo
Two words: Tree Wizard!
channel comment of the year
"Ok. I'm coming to untie you..."
*vague wiggling*
This show is just a huge case of "if it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid"
I think its more of "how much of a smartass can you be?"
It's a case of, "Look how quickly people instantly assume a set of restrictions--even though none are specified."
The task of keeping Alex dry is a fine example: I'm sure many assumed that disconnecting the pipes would be a form of cheating, but at no point is it mentioned you mustn't do that. So, just disconnect them and be done...
"I'll get you" is an underrated quote from the tie-yourself-up task
"would you like something for lunch"
"yes, something sharp"
fuxking dead every single time. One of the greatest tasks 🤣🤣🤣
Would of loved it if Rod said
"So some cheese?"
cheddar
@TheDiscipleofChaos In English it means something sour, food wise.
Alex Horne is a genius comedian tbh
Tell me how i just now understood that this was a joke because of your comment. I thought it was some uk slang or something
Mark Watson really said “I understand the assignment, but I’m going to do it badly anyway”
It was hilarious how Mark turned on the light but his rainbow was still bad.
Hang on, the witnesses are literally saying “wow”!
Even better when he commented that everyone would turn on the light.
"That is worse than what we did in the dark!"
That series was so funny, because Mark and Nish were both so bad. Even when they seemed to spot something that no one else had they still managed to fuck it up.
@intergalactic92 the song they did about the Japanese translator woman was the best thing they did. And they even got teary-eyed emotional about finally succeeding with a task.
shoutout to the commenter on the previous compilation who guessed the next video would be titled "contestants who understood the assignment"
THAT WAS ME!!!
@victoriamk6693 Love that they took your suggestion!
@victoriamk6693 that’s kinda cool, here claim your internet cool points.
I’ve honestly never seen it happen before.
Credit to the Taskmaster RUclips page for being one of the least corporate behaving tv-related channels on the platform. And that’s a compliment of the highest caliber.
@neptunepriest that's my favorite channel 😂😂😂
Mark being the only one to paint in the light and still having the worst rainbow of them all kills me every time
What I love about rod's solution was that he didn't take off Alex's shoes or his shoes, he took off someone else's probably of the camera or sound people's shoes
off* off* off*.
@omarzepedaaguilar off* off* of**
@tummalarahul the last one should be "off of" now that i look at it so we are both partially right.
@omarzepedaaguilar the last one would be "one of" not "off of."
@MarkoPolo1223 i think both work
Whatever you're paying this editor it isn't enough.
I like to imagine that Alex is sitting at Greg’s feet putting these videos together on a laptop.
yeah the editing really makes the show. It's not a trivial task to tell a story based on 5 people doing tasks
Is it you?
The first comment I ever made about this show was about how brilliant the editing is. It's absolutely genius to weave narratives with this much chaos and so many different cameras!
Nice try, editor Myles Campbell.
Rod poking his head out at the end to look back at Alex always kills me
Same, and then Alex's feeble "I'll get you..."
"I'll get you!"
Well, he could hear Alex sliding the chair. He probably wondered what was happening.
I was almost expecting him to dance to hip to be square
A part of me wishes that Alex had got out eventually, and Greg would just leg it to buy some time.
The rope task is honestly one of the greatest moments in the entire show. Everyone screws themselves over for the alarm task that interrupts it, while Phil was so bad he wasn't tied up when the alarm sounded, and then Rod did the main task so well that he never got untied.
E
I can’t help but think if I were to do that task, I’d tie a little bit of rope around my upper thigh and have the knot between my thighs/at my crotch… It would be hilarious to witness Alex trying to untie me without touching me there lmfaoo
@eggchompapparently one of the women on the Denmark version did pretty much that
@iliketrains3495 oh now i need to find this!! 😭
@eggchompwould Alex be more embarrassed if the person who did that was male or female? He seems pretty uncomfortable with everyone, but he "did a drive by" of Mel and apparently acted awkward for a week after. So probably a better strategy if you're a girl, but it'll still work for men
A bucket on the important NPC's head, I see someone played Skyrim.
The next compilation could be contestants who didn’t understand the task. You could have Paul Chowdhry hanging his clothes in the four corners of the TM property. Aisling Bea cutting bread, and herself in the camper. Mel Giedroyc camouflaging herself. James Acaster making circles, and almost every task competed in by David Baddiel.
Mel in that task and Kathryn Parkinson throughout the whole of S10 never realised that you could leave the room that the they read the tasks in
My eyes are circles
james acaster made the best circle what are you talking about
It's like we've set you a very difficult task, then given you, personally, the extra challenge of Being David Baddiel
"We would love to hate that but that was fuckin great"😂
Again, any video showcasing Rhod and his lateral thinking skills is a masterclass in how to win at TM. If Rhod had taken more of the show seriously, he could have won the whole thing.
Yeah, If he hadn't given that picture of Greg every price task he had it in the bag haha
@niehoe3048 worth it though
@jenelaina5665 hell yes
And these days loopholes are discouraged by the task wording.
@redelfshotthefood8213 I disagree. I think they force the contestant's to come up with new solutions instead of ones we've already seen, we still saw a lot of lateral thinking in seasons 10 and 11.
The lightswitch being covered in glow in the dark paint further shows that that was always an option and not that he just stumbled onto a work around.
I love how they are more concerned about the shape of marks rainbow not the fact he included brown
At least brown is a colour that light can be. Rainbows aren't flat!!!
@manjackson2772 Have you ever seen light through a prism?
@siltherium7516 Finally, someone who actually understands what a rainbow is... LIGHT.
@manjackson2772Brown is just dark orange
@manjackson2772 What does flat even mean? It was rainbow shape but just short.
Rhod didn't know about the siren and having to put on the outfit but he tied Alex up because he wanted to. What a madlad
Nah. He just realized that the best way to prevent Alex from untying him is tying Alex up first. But him making that connection and immediately starting to methodically immobilize Alex is... telling.
Or... he knew and forgot as his bondage fantasy unfolded. 😉
@nashynoooooo To be fair, that approach does tend to earn you the favour of the Taskmaster XD
I think he just hyperfocused and didn't hear and process it because he was focused doing something he enjoyed
@matejlieskovsky9625 that and Rhod just got a kick out of torturing Alex
Nish's 'Oooohhhhhh, I can't see the colours' kills me dead every time. It's so dumb and earnest.
The task where they have to tie themselves up and that look of realization when the siren goes? Comedy gold
James starting to tie himself leg-first to realize he has made a mistake and right as he says he regrets doing it the siren goes off.. just beautiful.
Was waiting for something similar with S11 tape your legs task but the second half felt a bit flat there
Or, on the opposite side: Rhod's complete lack of realization!
@anam00090 I don't get the siren
Could someone explain to me the joke? Like, why was it genius Rod's take on the challenge??
@f.f.fabiana
It seems obvious enough (insofar as Rhod's unique blend of madness can be called obvious), but if you really want an explanation:
The task was for the contestants to tie themselves up, judged by the time it would take Alex to untie the contestant. (With the logic behind it that the more ropes&knots you use, the longer it takes for Alex to undo all of them.)
Rhod's genius solution was to just ignore the 'tie yourself' part (aka the intended task), and instead simply made sure that Alex wouldn't be able to untie anything.
My favourite is when they have to flip a switch to find out what it does and James Acaster runs straight outside and catches Alex instantly rotating the soldier
Rhod was not just on another level tbh he was on a totally different plane of existence
He also was early before tasks were designed Rhod proof.
“Would you like something for lunch?”
“Yes please, something sharp”
Should have brought him some slices of sharp cheddar cheese
Rewatchability (that's a thing even if it isn't a word) for this show is immeasurable.
Agreed. I always research an episode. And then again before the podcast review.
Some skits like tree wizard and the potato I seek out. It’s just as entertaining as Claudia Winkleman on Would I Lie To You.
that's a word
@luminatron Urban Dictionary doesn't count.
Dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive. Even if it is not officially in a dictionary, it follows English grammatical rules of affixation and is in common enough use amongst native speakers. I’d say that’s plenty to declare that it’s a word.
If an english speaker can get the meaning then it's a word. It's similar to replayability, a word often used in games criticism.
*spoilers* The Smallest Gap was brilliant. I thought.. is that the smallest gap store in the world, surely not.. but, being baby gap, smallest type of gap store, that just makes it genius.
Didn't go through though.
It could have also been the smallest reachable gap within 10 minutes
Joe's comments about Susie Dent will never fail to make me laugh.
She is a raven kinky dominatrix. We know this from 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
@JohnSmithShields Who often thinks about gloryholes.
@bad1dobby vuurwerk hhuhiboouo
Yep, brilliant! :D
I loved Mel's "Baby Gap" solution! Such great lateral thinking!
11:47 The way Alex delivers "we grouped them like that-- because of their work schedules" makes me laugh so hard every time I hear it. It's a perfect joke for his style and it's my favorite if the "team task first revealed" jokes.
E
"ooooooooh, i cant see the colours" just perfection
This is so niche but brennan Lee mulligan from dimension 20 would be such a good contest
Not really niche but agreed
Omg YES
Hell yeah!!
@EleventhHourPower more than you might think 🤔
He would be brilliant and I'd love to see him loose his mind in the team tasks
My favourite part of this video is Russell declaring them "Team Funk" and Alice trying, in futility, to resist it
Let's be real, none of this video would exist if not for Richard Osman breaking the game in series 2. No one really thought outside the box in series 1.
I'd argue Tim Key did. Though sometimes not so succesfully.
@riskorikkinen Tim Key thought outside the box but typically he just cheated
Yup was waiting for Richard's yoga mat task and glad it was included - he changed how contestants interpreted tasks through finding loopholes, also known as "some wanky workarounds" according to one very angry and frustrated Joe Thomas
There was some out of the box thinking in the work out the contents of the pies in series 1
Tim Key 100% thought outside the box and sometimes cheated but in jest (re: I almost pissed myself at the bathtub challenge, and how he just went at it, quite literally head first, only after accidentally dislodging the plug did he try and unsuccessfully conceal his crime, which made it all the funnier; also make this ice block invisible, chuck it in a river, for the record, I'd of covered Alex's eyes). Tim is my fave contestant. Just so funny, willing to do anything to win, which is what the latest two seasons really needed, a go-getter.
Mark understood the assignment except for the word 'rainbow'
you gotta love when Hugh Dennis absolutely aces a task
I agree. Underrated contestant: Hugh Dennis. So happy that he got recognition in this video.
he's one of my favourites. was completely unpredictable - either genius or absolute shit. Plus unjustly misjudged by Greg *and* quietly psychotic, especially anytime there was a blade involved :D
I think Hugh Dennis was underscored and no one talked about his margin of victory. I think second place was 18 seconds and Hugh's time was 4 months.
@anam00090 Part of the charm of the show is Greg’s unpredictableness and harshness. He literally is the source of conflict outside of Rhod, Rhomesh, James...
@redelfshotthefood8213 Romesh. And I'd agree if it werent for the racial bias I believe is a result of that capriciosness
The dry martini... man, that was just icing on the cake!
I think it has to be Hugo Boss (Joe Lycett for the uninitiated), who instinctively knew what the task was and completed it in a record zero seconds by seeing a jar covered with Vaseline and removing the top prior to reading the card. Hats off!
Has anyone else technically won a task in negative time?
Nah nah he understood TASKMASTER but the task itself was unknown to him, so he could not have said to understand it. Intuit it, yes, but his moment of oneness was with the idea of Taskmaster itself, which is more impressive, really.
@sharkofjoy well...even outside of Taskmaster, if someone presented me a jar covered in gobs of vaseline and started to ask me to do something, I would be able to guess
@kidsplendor if it wasn't a tiebreaker task a awesome trip up would've been "open this jar in as close to 5 minutes as possible"
He has actually abandoned the name Hugo Boss.
I love how the camel is properly belted in the car :)
Rhod Gilbert is absolutely wasted in comedy, with lateral thinking like that, he would have made a hell of a good smuggler...
What tells you he isnt
"You've done this befo?"
"Yea"
Yeah, what the world really needs is more smugglers
Someone well known for smuggling is a bad smuggler.
@GhostBear3067 Depends if they get caught, doesn’t it?
"get THIS camel...get THIS camel...GET this camel through the small---GET this camel through the smallest gap" lol
I love that they can ask Alex to get them things and if its in his power, he will get it for them.
The power of being the producer. You can say and do whatever the fuck you want if you know it will benefit the show.
With their hairdryers pointed at Alex in that low-angle shot, they look like gangsters in a Guy Ritchie movie.
Rhod Gilbert having the best approach to the tie-up task while also forgetting what he's supposed to do with the siren AFTER he had stared at the siren and waited for it for 30 minutes... absolute legend. Him and Hugh Dennis had the same vibes, simultaneously the dumbest and smartest contestants.
12:40
The dry Martini was kind of the cherry on top.
Yeah, but there was a risk that Alex would spill it on himself.
Don't you mean olive on top?
“The task is complete when all three balls sit inflated, and stationary, on the yoga mat.”
Nothing about being on top of the hill to win. Good on him.
They edited it and accidentally cut off the “The task is complete when all three balls sit inflated, and stationary, on the yoga mat on top of the hill.” They say the exact phrasing at 17:51. The solution is still technically correct if u consider that the phrase "yoga mat on top of the hill" is only to point out the location of the yoga mat instead of the destination of the task.
@1ProAssassin yeah, I remember watching it and my first thought being "just bring the yoga mat down" because I am a stubborn pedant, also known as a smartass prick, who is incapable of thinking inside the box when I could go around it
@1ProAssassin oooh, the yoga mat started at the top of the hill. I rewound a couple times because I knew I was missing something.
@Danonymous5000 yes, hence why there’s no yoga mat visible at the start of the challenge
@1ProAssassin actually it only mentioned the hill BEFORE the “task is complete when” part. They say “put the 3 balls on the mat on the top of the hill. The task is complete when all 3 balls sit stationary, inflated, on the mat” so the task completion didnt rely on the hill
Out-of-the-box thinking is EXACTLY what I'm looking for when I watch Taskmaster!
Rhod is so far out of the box, he can't see the box from where he's standing. Best contestant.
No one:
Nish: Oh I can't see the colors
Rhod moving the hole should have been in this
I kind of think the water feature one should be in here, too. Maybe we can get a best of Rhod or Hugh Dennis compilation?
@jdstearman You mean the bathtub one? Absolutely agree, the task was secretly about teamwork
@funkyfranx i didn't mean the bathtub one, but that one is great as well!
"is that part of the hole"
"No thats a different hole"
@jdstearman Fairly sure there is best of Rhod and im certain there is a best of hugh
We all knew what these were before we clicked it
I'd argue that Mark didn't understand the task because he didn't actually paint a rainbow.
He understood the question. He was shit as usual.
Nish understood it better. He couldn't see the colours
I'd argue that, technically, he understood the task very well; it's rainbows that he didn't understand.
@TravelingStacker No, it's a flag
He tried
Alex usually cooperates, right? So for the shower one I'm surprised they didn't just go "Hey Alex, come stand over here for a while," and walked him away from the shower
Usually only if it'd be entertaining. Season 3 for example Sara asked him to move the bucket and he refused, and I think because that'd work for so many of them, as the show goes on less of the tasks allow for that as a solution.
@SixteenJacobsCreams He would if there was something in it for him, like how he did move the bucket for a few quid. Or if what he was doing would add very little value to the task completion.
They aren't allowed to touch him, though, so he'd just sit down again before the shower is turned on, and they couldn't stop him
@OmniscientWarrior
not always. He sat in the chair for Dhom to tie him up, and that added to the task's completion 100%
Thats what I said. Im surprised no one said that.
ah fuck, guess it’s time to binge clips of british tv shows again
Bringing the yoga mat down the hill is what made me fall in love with this show. So clever.
I love problem solving that involves whole system thinking. Drove my brother mad as we grew up.
Idk if you've seen it or not, but Rhod Gilbert moving the hole in one task was what did it for me. Absolute chaotic, comedy genius.
@jdstearman I really looked forward to Rhods takes on the tasks. Clever, or a means to exploit Alex’s role. Always fun. The video game recreation was epic.
It's strange, it immediately felt like the obvious answer to me.
I love Richard
"What do you want for lunch?" "Something sharp." Fucking brilliant.
Alex turning a biblical reference into a whole task earns him a nomination for the comedy HOF 🙌
My man really said “Matthew 19:24 Your time starts now”
Next task, get a rich man into space. Wait what?!
@fouzanium *Elon Musk went burrr*
Imagine seeing Mel running through a baby gap with a stuffed camel and then just going about your day
on the last task it says at the end, "the task is complete when all 3 balls sit fully inflated and stationary on the mat." so Richard was right.
"contestants who didn't understand the assignment" when
Am I the spider?
"without moving the fishbowl"
….my eyes are circles..?
To the Taskmaster social media manager…you’re really connecting with your target audience. Well done.
“Would you like something for lunch”
“Yes please”
“What is it”
“Something sharp” Alex is so underrated there’s a reason he’s the mastermind behind his whole show
In the danish version of the first task in the video: A female actor took a lot of rope under her dress and between her legs, and told the danish version of Alex that she was married and if he even tried to touch the rope she would sue him - clearly, she won
Haha is there a clip link?
That'll explain why Danish comedy is not popular anywhere else!
@sierraromeoromeo2444 lmfaooooo
What an unfun and bs way to win... "touch me and I'll sue you" is fckn dumb. For one, that's super poor in terms of entertainment value, secondly it mocks people that have actually been in situations that are even remotely similar to that. So weird of her to pull that move
You don’t have to be married to sue someone for touching you inappropriately.
16:00 Considering the task said it ends when all three balls are resting on the mat with no mention of the hill, that would be a valid interpretation.
Hugh deserved a second clip in this compilation for how he toppled all the ducks.
And a third for "Scissors, please"!
I love these solutions. Apparently, so does Alex - he used most of them as examples of ‘perfect solutions’ on the podcast recently. Fantastic.
he loved dry martini probably
For the shower one, you could have just had Alex go inside because it never specified that he had to stay within the compass
I'd very much like to see a compilation of contestants who put their bodies on the line, like when Russel Howard got driven around on a wheelbarrow or when poor ol' Johnny Vegas broke a stool and landed on his behind
“I thought you were gonna accuse me of cheating”
“Nah that was kickass”
Gotta respect the hustle
Mark being the only one to turn on the light yet still making an absolutely shit rainbow is perfect
That first clip alone is worth the price of admission
From what I'm understanding, this show is the embodiment of "technically correct, the best kind of correct".
7:12 To answer the podcast question, you can see here the machine's plug is still connected, so Hugh didn't touch the machine. Also, I never noticed before that he had a knife with him the whole time.
ohhh he unplugged the extension cord! good eye!! god I really wish Ed would do *slightly* more research before presenting misinformation to megafans
So in character for Hugh to have that knife on him 😂
Rhod Gilbert's approach to some of these task was pure genius
After Alex responded with “something sharp,” if Rhod had returned to him with a piece of cheddar cheese he should’ve won the show on the spot lmao 😂
I love the resigned "well fuck didn't think of that" looks of the other contestants.
My first thought for the camel was “does it have to be in one piece?”
Rhod Gilbert: the best to ever play the game. Bar none.
Can’t believe he didn’t win the season.
Them disconnecting the shower made me laugh SO hard. Genius.
Rhod is the ADHD student that figures out the solution in the most roundabout way… and I’m HERE for it
I like how Susie Dent is becoming the national arbiter of what is correct in the English Language.
I say make her position permanent. Maybe a fancy chair and a small crown.
Only as long as you get to her early enough!
I like to think Alex is forced in charge of everything behind the scenes including reading through the RUclips comments to come up with a good title name for the next videos.
I just discovered this show like 2 hours ago and I cannot stop watching. I love that the contestants are encouraged to think outside the box.
14:44 i pull the stuffing out.
There are contestants who understood the task... and then there’s Rhod, one a whole other level, all by himself
Richard Ossman is for sure an interesting language guy. We have this iconic loophole and then his language awareness by changing a comma in the final task of series 2.
I want these people to play D&D. I would watch the hell out of that.
Has there been a compilation of tasks given to just one contestant, like josh counting beans and rice in season 1? If theres none yet, please make one. Thank you Taskmaster!
There is
there already is one! if you're wanting to find it it's called "every individual task" and it was posted about 6 months ago (the thumbnail is rob beckett in the lab)
Yup
I love that the one point Josh got after lobbying the crowd (and Greg) was margin between victory and defeat for series 1.
Rhod Gilbert is a mad, magnificent genius.
Last time I was this early Joe Wilkinson hadn’t been disqualified yet
I knew Jon was gonna vote against Joe. 😁
18:18 the key to Richard's interpretation was the final sentence that read "the task is complete when all 3 balls sit fully inflated and stationary on the mat." End of sentence! NOT, on the mat ONTOP OF THAT HILL 😮
This was my reading as well. It was my first thought to grab the mat and bring it down, because it doesn't say the balls need to be on the hill, just on the mat.
When people hear "psychopath", they think "lunatic". When they should be thinking, "logical".
So I'm guessing contestants who really didn't understand the task is next.
That would just be a compilation of Roisin and Katherine.
@CallMeProm and James
Never heard of this show in my life before this showed up in my recommended videos tonight and I feel cheated that it didn't happen sooner.
sannio komi it's won a BAFTA and sits at 9/10 on IMDb. Just admit you hate Alex Horne and move on.
i appreciate mel buckling stuart’s seat belt