I just knew that not long after Series 8, Paul Sinha announced that he got Parkinson's disease. It's amazing how he still gone 100% for every task even though at that time the symptoms were increasingly worsen. What a guy, I hope he will get better and live a happy life.
Order of standing ovation matters too. 1. Greg and Alex because. 2. Lou because she put genuine effort too. 3. Sean because why not 4. Paul because he wasn't the one arguing with Joe 5. Ian because everyone else is standing...
@@aleathtuthranduriel I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "team spirit" in the context of a casual free-for-all competitive event. Though they did all dance together at the very end. I think this season was fine in terms of the roles that all of the participants played, at no point did I think that any of them didn't belong or weren't pulling their weight in making an entertaining show.
@@MattMcConaha It's just my impression that especially compared to previous seasons (and 9 and 10, of course) this constellation didn't seem genuine. I didn't mind Paul, Sian and Joe individually, but the studio atmosphere just always rubbed me the wrong way. The chemistry is simply not quite there. That is my first rewatch of this season and have grown to enjoy individual parts, but it literally doesn't feel as "wholesome" as others. Again, just my opinion, Matt.
Two things I absolutely adore: Joe Thomas spending almost the entire season being gently befuddled and unasuming only to Go Off in the last episode, and the rest of the cast giving him a standing ovation over it The fact that the routes from the blindfolded buggy task were plotted out; I was already giggling uncontrollably, but full on lost it when we got to see Lou Sanders' route swirling all over the map
@@CalLadyQED He was right to complain. The fact that he got four points for that and Iain got five is a disgrace. But it's in Joe's nature to apologize, so I don't fault him for that. He's a bigger person than Iain could ever hope to be.
Joe should have gotten 7 points IMO (he actually did the task correctly) so the others except Lou should have gotten points based on time only. Lou should have gotten 8, Joe 7, the rest 1-3.
Right as I read this comment, Iain was on the screen and I realized he was wearing a Ren & Stimpy track suit 😂 arguably the best pattern on the stage lol
Mildly disappointed that none of the contestants was given a "special task" (like Josh Widdicombe's counting tasks, Mark Watson's texting task, Paul Chowdhry's bouncy castle task, Mel Giedroyc's beachball task.)
After they pretty much destroyed Mark Watson during series 5, they probably thought "We can't top that" and decided to leave them out from then on... :D
Lou’s reaction to Paul’s self-deprecating tirade-“I’m dyspraxic, I’m virtually colorblind…”-is one of my favorite moments in this excellent episode, and so representative of how much the whole cast loves Paul.
Joe should be appreciated even more for how gently he put his arm around Paul's injured shoulder at the end of the show. Why must everyone on this show be so lovely
@@neumdeneuer1890 alex was supposed to deliver that joke as deadpan and nonchalantly as possible, but they decided to put in a take where everyone burst out laughing instead. Which I think is way better, it's rare to see alex break character during a studio segment
joe yelling about how no one else puts enough effort in, followed by him losing his mind putting together his legs, followed by paul calmly and carefully fitting pool cues into boots.....incredible
A small list of details that really made the episode for me in no particular order: - when Iain was talking about how squatting opens you up Alex definitely had a flashback to Liza tarbuck's cake incident ("because of the angle of the chair, I was open...") - Joe looking absolutely baffled when Lou started talking about energy flowing through space and time - Greg a few episodes late getting to do the "do the worst thing to alex then apologize" task - Paul's absolute disregard for safety in the last task. I was so worried he was gonna wander into that car park full speed It was a really solid grand final! definitely one that cheers you up when you're feeling down :)
12:27 I feel like this is the first bit of negative emotion Jo has actually experienced on the show other than confusion. He seems so indifferent about everything else, but the eraser was the last shaving
Poor Ian doesn't seem himself in this episode. I really appreciated his self-awareness during this show. He seems like a guy whose excitement and temper can get the better of him but genuinely wants to be a good person. Also Joe is my favourite ever... in anything.
To me it looked like Ian has a coke problem during the entire season to be honest... If not, he should still get some anger management therapy, for the sake of him and the people near him.
I honestly liked him the entire season, he was a bit annoying when he got caught up in the excitement of team tasks, but he always seemed quite fun! And I feel like it’s part of the show for the contestants to pointlessly argue each other’s wins/defend their own tactics, so I wasn’t shocked by it tbh.
@@maellea8437 I feel the same! like it always seems to me that the worst Iain ever does is become a little overexcited, which I've only ever enjoyed watching tbh. I love him so much he's such a sweet guy I'm so glad TM introduced me to him
@@truthseeker713 that's rude. He definitely doesnt need therapy, clearly the actions were played up for tv. Maybe you couldve seen it hadnt you been such a knobhead.
lol he was the only one that actually erased it.. so Joe ought to get 5 points, and then everyone else should be by time, with a bonus for the mad lady who tried to eat it.
I mean what the rest did is still "erasing" just in a different way than one would normally do with eraser. Those kind of method had always happend in TM why are you just mad now 😂
@@Italsik I would argue that they didn't actually erase the eraser, they just moved it somewhere else. Granted, I'd also argue that you can't actually erase (as in make it totally be gone) an eraser as the rubber bits left over from erasing are still the eraser. You would need chemicals to fully erase the eraser from existence by dissolving into something that is no longer an eraser.
@@adorabell4253 tru that is how you properly disaapear an eraser however "disappear" doesn't always mean to completely eradicate something, it can also mean to the point of not being seen in the society. Hence why also a person could be considered dead despite them still alive just because they been gone for number of yeas.
@@adorabell4253 tru but then if asked to open your pocket to show what's inside would the eraser remain there? Exactly. It's fully erase but as already mention fully erase can be the same as just disappearing akin to how a missing person can be considered dead even if they are not technically dead.
Joe: I don't know where that came from I'm sorry I've been really nice so far... Everyone: Don't you dare apologise for anything sweetie we have waited so long for this moment.
I would just ask Alex to stand next to each item yelling so I’d know where each item was, and then he’d move onto the next once I finished the current one
@@redumptious2544 Ramesh EXPLAINING smashing that melon has me in stitches every time. I still cry laughing every single time I watch that whole melon task.
The thing about that task was you could have done everything in the instructions and then drive it to the parking spot. It says you have to be blindfolded during the journey, not follow the instructions during the journey.
Joe's mental breakdown reminded me of James Acaster😭❤️ i love them both so much Anyway i'm going to miss this cast, this was one of the best seasons for me
I think my favourite part by far is when the stage task ends, everyone takes off their goggles, Alex says oh Paul , you're the only one who isn't sitting on the floor by this point, so Paul proceeds proceeds to then sit on the floor, thisman is a saint and I love him
He went from pedantically arguing about his fellow competitors attempts in episode 1 to accepting how weird and awful some of his own attempts were in the final. It really was a change for the better (And apparently he and Lou did make up with each other after the hammock task outside of the show, which is also good)
@@JoaoPessoa86 it's the curse of being the one contestant in the room who knows Greg the best. Roisin, Hugh, Rhod (although Rhod did bully him back more than the other way around), and here Joe Thomas.
Even though the athmosphere was not the most inviting as other seasons, I laughed so incredibly much during this finale! Joe just made me intensely happy, and Paul is a national icon. Also, Sian will always be in my heart. Great cast all in all, and even Ian grew as a person. Really interested to see how Lou and Richard will battle it out in the champion of champions!
Honestly? I'm incredibly excited to see what the next Champion of Champion's season will turn up. Because you have Liza Tarbuck, who excelled in quite a number of tasks (when she wanted to, of course. She also had her fun), Kerry Godliman, the BOSH queen herself who went to great lengths to get the tasks done proper, Lou Sanders who, in her own chaotic way, did a lot of tasks out of the box and achieved results, Ed Gamble, who seems ingrained into TM now (the podcast and all that), and Richard Herring, who was incredibly kind to his other contestants (when he stood up for Katherine is a prime example). It's gonna be interesting, for sure
I've been told this is the episode Joe Thomas loses his mind after 9 episodes of edging into the unfathomable abyss that is life and whatever pagan god he sold his soul to to get that cute.
I really really want to say: Thank you Alex Horne. This show is the absolut best antidepressant. I laughed so hard during the driving challenge I had to pause the video. I havent been that joyfull in a long time and I am truly grateful for it.
I loved Joe so much by the end of this. The emoting between this outburst and his face after Sian cheating as his partner makes me want to rewatch all of this season right now.
The thing is that he was right, earlier series' required more justification. Remember that chunk of ice into the river. This series, the time stupid have been less.
You know there's been some really entertaining people on Taskmaster. But Joe Thomas seems like he would be a good friend, and that he needs one. Maybe we could all volunteer and take shifts.
@@amyshaw893Yeah it appeared that what Alex was doing was supposed to be remeniscent of "Duck, Duck, Goose" which is a game that involves sitting down & patting heads. Since the final task involved ducks.
came to the comments to mention Joe's slow descent into unhinged madness and finally snap and was pleased to find everyone else already felt the same way. It's turned into a real sort of community in here
The scooter task had me rolling in laughter. I think this is my favourite episode so far. And Joe's rant during the eraser task was absolute gold. Thanks Taskmaster for releasing on RUclips!
@@whatevs00 Jeeves is a butler from the P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster novels. He was played by Stephen Frye in the televised versions of the stories. He is the badassest butler ever, but not in the butt-kicking Black Butler way, but like in the he-gets-shit-done-while-staying-entirely-proper-and-British way. He is hard to explain exactly, I suggest watching the BBC show to understand via experience. However, I was suggesting Joe Thomas to be Wooster, Jeeves's duncey, privileged employer.
The restraint shown by the producers not to play "yakety sax" (the benny hill theme) during Lou's playback is either commendable, or a sure sign we've gone too far with copyright.
full honesty: when paul mentioned he's dyspraxic & i realized we're watching a 48 year old man with a frozen shoulder, undiagnosed parkinson's, *and* dyspraxia lose at tasks i just felt really really bad, like really really the rest of these guys have absolutely no excuse though!
It's one of the funniest in this show's entire running length. Somewhere between the beheaded mannequin, Paul trying to mount the scooter from the front, and Lou slamming into a camera, I was crying laughing.
Joe getting genuinely mad at the eraser task is one of my favorite moments. He is just so nice and calm. That felt like it had been simmering for a while and this was the tipping point.
I first saw the buggy task as a clip on the Taskmaster page, laughed until I cried, and then couldn't find it again. Friends didn't believe it existed, I couldn't find it in reddit or wikipedia pages, I felt like I was being gaslit by a television show. Finally the episode is uploaded and I finally got to see it again. While it didn't make me laugh as much as the "Move as one person" in ep 9, it still holds up. Thank you show, once again
I feel as though this series has helped Iain mature as an adult. He began the first episode by throwing a massive tantrum in the show to watching himself and realizing he was often a bully and a brat during the group tasks to even realizing he has not been pronouncing food correctly. He is still funny and fiery, but actually better for having watched himself on this show I wonder how much we all would grow by stepping back and seeing ourselves through other people's eyes
Not my favorite season (even tho I liked it very much) but the finale was perfect. Characters archs closing, some tenderness, crazy laughs at the parking task, the wholesome group hug at the end. Really beautiful episode.
The more I watch of Joe, the more I think he’s an a socially anxious/awkward introvert. That outburst is a classic sign of an introvert reaching their limit and expressing everything they kept back for months.
"It's Tight at the bottom like mommy used to say" ~ Alex Horne One of the funniest non contextual lines ever. and I love the way everyone enjoyed that joke as much as me.
For most of these episodes of old seasons, I’ve seen enough of the tasks as clips that I’m not normally surprised by the best jokes; but man, the ponytail bit absolutely shocked me - absolutely hilarious
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It took 9 episodes to completely break Joe Thomas
His first mistake was putting some fucking effort in.
9.25;)
God, I think everyone saw that vein pulsing on Joe's forehead
this is what was simmering behind every confused look of his LOL
I'm still not convinced he wasnt tripping his face off the whole studio run.
The way Joe gets more and more unhinged every episode is a beautiful thing to witness
You're laughing. You're watching a man lose his mind and you're laughing. I'm laughing too.
"Unhinged" - I think he was pretty fed up with hinges after this episode
@@deathfire12 omg😂
God, that outburst. I felt it in my soul
@@drsdreams it hasn’t been uploaded it yet
Joe losing his mind over that rubber is just peak everything
They had it coming
i have absolutely no interest in men sexually but i now refer to Joe as daddy because of that scene
lol, I found that defeated quality of Joe's really hot in this episode and it has me questioning all of my choices in romance now,
It was so adorable.
Task Master broke Joe. He'll never be the same.
Gotta give it up for Joe "Maximum Effort on Everything but the Prize Task" Thomas.
The single grape really killed me
@@annastasiaonstage personally I think he was robbed in that one
What about the classic soup
@@annastasiaonstage To be fair to him, that was the first thing that came to my mind as well. And he defended it well, with poetry.
Basically the opposite of David Baddiel and Joe Wilkinson
I just knew that not long after Series 8, Paul Sinha announced that he got Parkinson's disease. It's amazing how he still gone 100% for every task even though at that time the symptoms were increasingly worsen. What a guy, I hope he will get better and live a happy life.
big respect for his trivia and his comedy. hope he's as well as he can be
Unfortunately there is no cure is a progressive disease that destorys the brain
@@sinsoftheswamp8346 yet
Baby, aint that the harshest of truths
. "The smile i had is gone"
My husband has developed Parkinson’s as well. Sympathy.
Joe's character development throughout the series is TOP NOTCH
Oh my god he was iain’s foil. Iain mellowed out over the series, while Joe let out everything he was bottling up into a powerful rant. Powerful stuff
His “Ayyyy” at 6:52 was adorable. Like a rapper
Order of standing ovation matters too.
1. Greg and Alex because.
2. Lou because she put genuine effort too.
3. Sean because why not
4. Paul because he wasn't the one arguing with Joe
5. Ian because everyone else is standing...
A lot of self discovery...
😂
the standing ovation is the only thing that kept joe from going to that dark place and having to hide a new body after tapeing.
A... /new/ body?
tapeing? is that the capital of an asian country?
@@davidmsirois if you have nothing to add to the conversation correct someone's spelling and feel better about yourself.
@@nunyanunya4147 I think he is already aware
@@davidmsirois tapering?
Every time a season starts,I'm like who are these people. But by the end of every season I end up loving all of them.
Totally feel that. :)
I didn't feel it for this season, though. I'm not sure, but I don't feel there was any real team spirit with them.
@@aleathtuthranduriel I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "team spirit" in the context of a casual free-for-all competitive event. Though they did all dance together at the very end. I think this season was fine in terms of the roles that all of the participants played, at no point did I think that any of them didn't belong or weren't pulling their weight in making an entertaining show.
@@MattMcConaha It's just my impression that especially compared to previous seasons (and 9 and 10, of course) this constellation didn't seem genuine. I didn't mind Paul, Sian and Joe individually, but the studio atmosphere just always rubbed me the wrong way. The chemistry is simply not quite there. That is my first rewatch of this season and have grown to enjoy individual parts, but it literally doesn't feel as "wholesome" as others. Again, just my opinion, Matt.
same! I know some of those comedians and celebrities but never all but by the end they feel like dear friends.
I started this series with no idea who Joe Thomas is, and he has become my favorite contestant of all Taskmaster, by a wide margin.
If anybody was to harm Joe Thomas I would kill everyone in this room and then myself
@@bustamousegaming4423 chill out there Diaz.
@@bustamousegaming4423 Well to be fair he would probably be the one to hurt himself.
Why?
yep
Two things I absolutely adore:
Joe Thomas spending almost the entire season being gently befuddled and unasuming only to Go Off in the last episode, and the rest of the cast giving him a standing ovation over it
The fact that the routes from the blindfolded buggy task were plotted out; I was already giggling uncontrollably, but full on lost it when we got to see Lou Sanders' route swirling all over the map
My little gem from this episode is when Paul obediently sits down on the floor to join the other contestants when it was absolutely not required
@@CosmicTeapot And then Alex went around, giving out head pats to everyone! It was adorable
@@rkah6187I think that was duck duck goose
Joe Thomas is an actor... They know how to get out of themselves. I suspect he was just kinda playing it weird on purpose
I am glad Joe got that off his chest. I could see him relax immediately.
Right? He was an all new person after his outburst hahaha shouldve done it episode 1 and hope he comes back!
Too bad he apologized. I think he was right to complain.
@@CalLadyQED He was right to complain. The fact that he got four points for that and Iain got five is a disgrace. But it's in Joe's nature to apologize, so I don't fault him for that. He's a bigger person than Iain could ever hope to be.
@@TomWDW1 For fuck's sake, don't be ranking people based on a comedy panel show you eejet
@@suqmaddiqq who said it was based on this panel?
There's something magical about Alex telling Paul he's the only one not sitting down, so he decides that he should sit down too.
Joe got compensated 3 points for his series spanning depression. Brilliant!
now we know why joe thomas has been murderously staring into the abyss for 9 episodes
Greg is so sweet he took it seriously that Joe was genuinely upset about the task.
Rightly so too. The others just moved where it was in space ( except for the mad woman Lou).
He learned from his mistake when he robbed Phil Wang despite being the only one to put 50 different items in the bin
And rightfully so, he was the only one to erase the eraser.
Joe should have gotten 7 points IMO (he actually did the task correctly) so the others except Lou should have gotten points based on time only. Lou should have gotten 8, Joe 7, the rest 1-3.
well joe is quite the experienced actor.
I love how Joe didn't seem to get the memo about everyone wearing a pattern
He broke the pattern, one might say
@@delightfulmochas n i c e
I mean if you look REALLY close at his shirt it has little lines, but I get what you mean
To be fair, he doesn't seem like a pattern kind of guy lol
Right as I read this comment, Iain was on the screen and I realized he was wearing a Ren & Stimpy track suit 😂 arguably the best pattern on the stage lol
I love the slow revelation across this series that Paul is the craziest one
He is crazy, but nobody can beat Lou in this season
Mildly disappointed that none of the contestants was given a "special task" (like Josh Widdicombe's counting tasks, Mark Watson's texting task, Paul Chowdhry's bouncy castle task, Mel Giedroyc's beachball task.)
I don't get why Paul was asked the state capitals during the ping pong herding task and then asked about Henry VIII
@@theoriginalshew Just for fun.
After they pretty much destroyed Mark Watson during series 5, they probably thought "We can't top that" and decided to leave them out from then on... :D
@@theoriginalshew could be part of a task which then in the edit didn't work for some reason, so they left some of it in.
Alex said that if they continued to do that every season, it would stop being a surprise. So they decided to skip a few seasons to do it again
It was great seeing Alex laughing uncontrollably during Paul‘s scooter task! More please!
I love those rare instances when even Alex loses it
Lou’s reaction to Paul’s self-deprecating tirade-“I’m dyspraxic, I’m virtually colorblind…”-is one of my favorite moments in this excellent episode, and so representative of how much the whole cast loves Paul.
how could you not love him!!!
Joe should be appreciated even more for how gently he put his arm around Paul's injured shoulder at the end of the show. Why must everyone on this show be so lovely
"it is tight at the bottom, as mommy used to say"
-DEAD
I nearly choked, a rare Alex breaking character after that joke!
@@Renzsu Can somebody explain ?
@@neumdeneuer1890 alex was supposed to deliver that joke as deadpan and nonchalantly as possible, but they decided to put in a take where everyone burst out laughing instead. Which I think is way better, it's rare to see alex break character during a studio segment
@@neumdeneuer1890 I said I nearly choked, and that Alex was breaking character after that joke, which is rare.
Sounds like something you'd expect to hear from Lou
joe yelling about how no one else puts enough effort in, followed by him losing his mind putting together his legs, followed by paul calmly and carefully fitting pool cues into boots.....incredible
A small list of details that really made the episode for me in no particular order:
- when Iain was talking about how squatting opens you up Alex definitely had a flashback to Liza tarbuck's cake incident ("because of the angle of the chair, I was open...")
- Joe looking absolutely baffled when Lou started talking about energy flowing through space and time
- Greg a few episodes late getting to do the "do the worst thing to alex then apologize" task
- Paul's absolute disregard for safety in the last task. I was so worried he was gonna wander into that car park full speed
It was a really solid grand final! definitely one that cheers you up when you're feeling down :)
Let's add Joe being mad over an eraser.
You could see Alex in flashback mode as he said, "Yes, it does."
I had to like your comment for a fifth time because four likes means unlike
“It’s so.... in me...”
"Paul, you're the only one not sitting on floor now... but you don't have to- no one ever said you had to... okay."
I genuinely love how amused Alex is by Iain’s tremendous legs. He was cracking up that whole time.
"AHH my ankles! I've broken both my ankles!!" I was DYING!
Little Alex Horne's reaction, too.
@@sfshinz That got me really good. I was watching at my desk and I had tears down my face trying to contain myself!
Same. I just couldn't stop cry-laughing. 🤣
I nearly pissed myself! Especially how he only reacted after Alex pointed it out!
I replayed it several times, just to look at every detail🤣
The vein bulging from Joe Thomas' forehead during his eraser rant made me discover something about myself.
and that was?
@@jocomfiresin6982 Fear?
Arousal.
@@MinscArendia Yes.
That you were in genuinely, head-over-heels in love with Joe Thomas?
That group hug at the end made me happy. Every competition ought to end with a big group hug!
Wasn't it super cute? What a lovely group!
Eh its nice I guess, but IMO series 7 style animosity and trash talking is the best
so wholesome after the cutthroat s7 cast lol
12:27 I feel like this is the first bit of negative emotion Jo has actually experienced on the show other than confusion. He seems so indifferent about everything else, but the eraser was the last shaving
I'm happy he let it out and then immediately added "I'm sorry, I don't know where that came from" 😐 😂😂
He exudes negative emotion
Poor Ian doesn't seem himself in this episode. I really appreciated his self-awareness during this show. He seems like a guy whose excitement and temper can get the better of him but genuinely wants to be a good person. Also Joe is my favourite ever... in anything.
To me it looked like Ian has a coke problem during the entire season to be honest... If not, he should still get some anger management therapy, for the sake of him and the people near him.
I honestly liked him the entire season, he was a bit annoying when he got caught up in the excitement of team tasks, but he always seemed quite fun! And I feel like it’s part of the show for the contestants to pointlessly argue each other’s wins/defend their own tactics, so I wasn’t shocked by it tbh.
@@maellea8437 I feel the same! like it always seems to me that the worst Iain ever does is become a little overexcited, which I've only ever enjoyed watching tbh. I love him so much he's such a sweet guy I'm so glad TM introduced me to him
Ian needs therapy. He definitely has pathological anger issues. I still don’t like him as a person.
@@truthseeker713 that's rude. He definitely doesnt need therapy, clearly the actions were played up for tv. Maybe you couldve seen it hadnt you been such a knobhead.
lol he was the only one that actually erased it.. so Joe ought to get 5 points, and then everyone else should be by time, with a bonus for the mad lady who tried to eat it.
I mean what the rest did is still "erasing" just in a different way than one would normally do with eraser.
Those kind of method had always happend in TM why are you just mad now 😂
@@Italsik I would argue that they didn't actually erase the eraser, they just moved it somewhere else. Granted, I'd also argue that you can't actually erase (as in make it totally be gone) an eraser as the rubber bits left over from erasing are still the eraser. You would need chemicals to fully erase the eraser from existence by dissolving into something that is no longer an eraser.
@@adorabell4253 tru that is how you properly disaapear an eraser however "disappear" doesn't always mean to completely eradicate something, it can also mean to the point of not being seen in the society.
Hence why also a person could be considered dead despite them still alive just because they been gone for number of yeas.
@@Italsik Was the task to fully erase the eraser or to make it disappear? Because putting it in my pocket would count towards disappearing.
@@adorabell4253 tru but then if asked to open your pocket to show what's inside would the eraser remain there? Exactly.
It's fully erase but as already mention fully erase can be the same as just disappearing akin to how a missing person can be considered dead even if they are not technically dead.
Alex walking with Iain on stilts is his biggest break (of character) of the the entire run. He's grinning like a child lol
this blind scooter task was such an utter delight to watch - I hope they'll bring it back in some form over and over again!
Season 11s bicycle task is similar
Series 13, maypole task. Bridget Christie goes full Lou Sanders.
Id like to add that when asked to wear a blindfold, you might aswel wear it around your neck.
@@ice-coldspear9193The task did specify you had to wear it correctly.
“Paul, you’re the only one not sitting on the floor”
Paul goes to sit on the floor*
Good boy!
It was so adorable. The sleeping bag one too. He just wants to belong. 😀
Joe: I don't know where that came from I'm sorry I've been really nice so far...
Everyone: Don't you dare apologise for anything sweetie we have waited so long for this moment.
"It's tight at the bottom... as Mummy used to say" and the reaction from Greg and the gang is the best laugh I've ever gotten from this show.
i also love the way you can see that alex regrets saying it before he even said it
Thats the first time Alex really hesitated before a joke lol. Every other pause was usually part of the joke but you could feel that one was real 😂😂
Runs into a mannequin and beheads it. "Was it a high five?"
The boogey parking task is probably my favorite of all 10 series, I hurt from laughing so much the first time I saw it
I would just ask Alex to stand next to each item yelling so I’d know where each item was, and then he’d move onto the next once I finished the current one
It was very great...
But I’ll never forget Ramesh smashing that melon😂😂😂
@@redumptious2544 that was legendary to be fair, so many great moments
@@redumptious2544 Ramesh EXPLAINING smashing that melon has me in stitches every time. I still cry laughing every single time I watch that whole melon task.
The thing about that task was you could have done everything in the instructions and then drive it to the parking spot. It says you have to be blindfolded during the journey, not follow the instructions during the journey.
Joe's mental breakdown reminded me of James Acaster😭❤️ i love them both so much
Anyway i'm going to miss this cast, this was one of the best seasons for me
Sian was absolutely adorable the entire series/season. I will miss her.
I couldn’t help but be totally smitten.
Joe was on the edge of a mental breakdown this entire show and it finally happened in the eraser task 😂
I think my favourite part by far is when the stage task ends, everyone takes off their goggles, Alex says oh Paul , you're the only one who isn't sitting on the floor by this point, so Paul proceeds proceeds to then sit on the floor, thisman is a saint and I love him
Joe Thomas receiving 3 bonus points is the most wholesome thing in the universe.
Iain's legs were so tremendous i didn't realize he had fake arms until TM mentioned it.
A fellow O'rangers fan? Here? I've but one thing to say.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
@@ewanball yup! We're clearly going through a rebuild stage right now, but the 'Rangers will be back on top soon enough!
GOOOOOOOOOOO'RANGERS
I am absolutely here for Ian's character growth over the season
He went from pedantically arguing about his fellow competitors attempts in episode 1 to accepting how weird and awful some of his own attempts were in the final. It really was a change for the better (And apparently he and Lou did make up with each other after the hammock task outside of the show, which is also good)
He could easily have become the villain. I'm super happy how it turned out
The tremendously broken ankles had me cry-laughing.
@@Sabrina-jl4sp TM doesn't really have villains so much as punching bags for Greg, and that was clearly Joe
@@JoaoPessoa86 it's the curse of being the one contestant in the room who knows Greg the best. Roisin, Hugh, Rhod (although Rhod did bully him back more than the other way around), and here Joe Thomas.
Even though the athmosphere was not the most inviting as other seasons, I laughed so incredibly much during this finale!
Joe just made me intensely happy, and Paul is a national icon. Also, Sian will always be in my heart. Great cast all in all, and even Ian grew as a person.
Really interested to see how Lou and Richard will battle it out in the champion of champions!
now don't you forget the BOSH queen! she'll be hard to beat with all her laminator experience.
You’re right, the energy for this episode was a bit spicy, but in the end they were a great group
Honestly? I'm incredibly excited to see what the next Champion of Champion's season will turn up. Because you have Liza Tarbuck, who excelled in quite a number of tasks (when she wanted to, of course. She also had her fun), Kerry Godliman, the BOSH queen herself who went to great lengths to get the tasks done proper, Lou Sanders who, in her own chaotic way, did a lot of tasks out of the box and achieved results, Ed Gamble, who seems ingrained into TM now (the podcast and all that), and Richard Herring, who was incredibly kind to his other contestants (when he stood up for Katherine is a prime example). It's gonna be interesting, for sure
spoilers my guy
Haha, du auch hier. 😁 I'm late for the party.
Okay, but seriously! Joe spreading the rubber's ashes made me nearly choke on my own spit.
"ashes", more like
I've been told this is the episode Joe Thomas loses his mind after 9 episodes of edging into the unfathomable abyss that is life and whatever pagan god he sold his soul to to get that cute.
Yeah it's that one xD
His name is Mammot and he owes me new pants.
i almost bust my gut when they all sat down in defeat like schoolchildren in the final task
It took the whole series, but they finally broke Joe.
I really really want to say: Thank you Alex Horne. This show is the absolut best antidepressant. I laughed so hard during the driving challenge I had to pause the video. I havent been that joyfull in a long time and I am truly grateful for it.
Giving everyone zero points is absolutely the appropriate way to end a series!
I loved Joe so much by the end of this. The emoting between this outburst and his face after Sian cheating as his partner makes me want to rewatch all of this season right now.
Alex struggling not to laugh when he asks what Paul is looking for on the mobility scooter task was one of my favourite moments this season
Yeah the fact Alex broke was so good. He rarely breaks but he couldn’t help himself but to laugh.
Paul Sinha is just an adorable human being.
Joe's rant is peak finale. I'm mildly surprised it took that long. I'm very surprised nobody has lamped Iain.
Joe's outburst has moved him into my #1 spot of celebrity crushes.
The thing is that he was right, earlier series' required more justification. Remember that chunk of ice into the river. This series, the time stupid have been less.
I'm crying with laughter over Paul walking and Joe driving around like lunatics on an empty parking lot. Imagine coming across that scene
You know there's been some really entertaining people on Taskmaster. But Joe Thomas seems like he would be a good friend, and that he needs one. Maybe we could all volunteer and take shifts.
I volunteer!
Sign me up!
Sign me up
Me too
Ready to hug and cuddle Joe when necessary.
Everyone sitting on the floor was so cute for some reason?? Great finale 🧡
and then Alex went and gave all of them (I assume it was all of them, we only saw paul and sian) a little headpat
@@amyshaw893Yeah it appeared that what Alex was doing was supposed to be remeniscent of "Duck, Duck, Goose" which is a game that involves sitting down & patting heads. Since the final task involved ducks.
Why is no one talking about how well they're pulling off those ponytails???
finally, a fellow ponytail appreciator,,, ive looking for this exact comment because it's a Look alright
Because they sucked? 🤣
@@CalLadyQED They looked terrible but the hair colour was impeccably matched!
came to the comments to mention Joe's slow descent into unhinged madness and finally snap and was pleased to find everyone else already felt the same way. It's turned into a real sort of community in here
...more like "hinged"
Haven't see Joe this animated in any of the episodes before. Love it.
I love how during judging everyone was wearing the most obnoxiously patterned clothes they could find EXCEPT for joe and his plain grey dress shirt
The scooter task had me rolling in laughter. I think this is my favourite episode so far. And Joe's rant during the eraser task was absolute gold. Thanks Taskmaster for releasing on RUclips!
If you are not completely in love with Paul Sinha after this series, you are crazy. What an amazing man.
joe thomas would be perfect as a befuddled 19th-century gentleman
Cast him in a Jane Austen adaptation!
Jeeves and Wooster remake?
@@zanza456 YES. Who’s Jeeves?
@@whatevs00 Jeeves is a butler from the P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster novels. He was played by Stephen Frye in the televised versions of the stories. He is the badassest butler ever, but not in the butt-kicking Black Butler way, but like in the he-gets-shit-done-while-staying-entirely-proper-and-British way. He is hard to explain exactly, I suggest watching the BBC show to understand via experience.
However, I was suggesting Joe Thomas to be Wooster, Jeeves's duncey, privileged employer.
@@whatevs00 Jeeves should be Richard Osman.
"could be anywhere." [slowly scooting directly past it]
The restraint shown by the producers not to play "yakety sax" (the benny hill theme) during Lou's playback is either commendable, or a sure sign we've gone too far with copyright.
Ahaha, so true!
If family guy could get it for Stewie's sexy parties, I'm sure they could have gotten it.
Simpson's has a much higher budget then TM. I vote copyright issues, or lack of consideration, because I think it would've been a great addition.
@@JeniJustJeni I just assumed Alex only uses original compositions (his band plays all the music).
LOVE how Alex just yells "Careful!" when they're about to crash the scooter as if it will help at all xD
full honesty: when paul mentioned he's dyspraxic & i realized we're watching a 48 year old man with a frozen shoulder, undiagnosed parkinson's, *and* dyspraxia lose at tasks i just felt really really bad, like really really
the rest of these guys have absolutely no excuse though!
Alex is the consummate "yes and" scene partner, loved him playing around with Iain staggering around.
That mobility scooter task was one of the funniest of the series
It's one of the funniest in this show's entire running length. Somewhere between the beheaded mannequin, Paul trying to mount the scooter from the front, and Lou slamming into a camera, I was crying laughing.
Joe getting genuinely mad at the eraser task is one of my favorite moments. He is just so nice and calm. That felt like it had been simmering for a while and this was the tipping point.
Joe has finally warmed up and chose to show emotion! ...after 9 episodes
The "rubber" task makes for some entertaining double entendres in American English.
As an American, I didn’t even get that it was an eraser at first... 😅
"Make this condom disappear. Fastest wins."
Why? What does rubber mean in American English?
@@lovelyghosh301 "condom".
Especially when they had to rub one out... I was dying. 🤣
It was only a matter of time until Joe snapped. He's been on the verge for quite some time, lol
The poor wee cutie!
I first saw the buggy task as a clip on the Taskmaster page, laughed until I cried, and then couldn't find it again. Friends didn't believe it existed, I couldn't find it in reddit or wikipedia pages, I felt like I was being gaslit by a television show. Finally the episode is uploaded and I finally got to see it again. While it didn't make me laugh as much as the "Move as one person" in ep 9, it still holds up. Thank you show, once again
I hope Joe knows that we all support him after that eraser task.
I love how Lou and Iain wore the loudest prints yet somehow coordinated. Made me realize how similar they are as people
As a stationery fanatic myself, the idea Sian's eraser collection is truly intriguing to me.
But it's not as cool as a laminator collection!!
I am LITERALLY in tears at Paul on the motor scooter!
I feel as though this series has helped Iain mature as an adult.
He began the first episode by throwing a massive tantrum in the show to watching himself and realizing he was often a bully and a brat during the group tasks to even realizing he has not been pronouncing food correctly.
He is still funny and fiery, but actually better for having watched himself on this show
I wonder how much we all would grow by stepping back and seeing ourselves through other people's eyes
Yeah, that's a really good point *cringe*
not to mention the number of words he pronounces wrong.
I’m actually fucking crying at Paul and Joe trying to drive that thing
Iain came so close to his dream of the Champion of Champion series...
Sian may have finished 4th but she was #1 in my heart.
12:05
It took 10 episodes for Joe to show some actual full blown emotions and I'm here for it.
I think that I could watch a solid hour of them talking about Joe while he's making _that_ face
Not my favorite season (even tho I liked it very much) but the finale was perfect. Characters archs closing, some tenderness, crazy laughs at the parking task, the wholesome group hug at the end. Really beautiful episode.
The more I watch of Joe, the more I think he’s an a socially anxious/awkward introvert. That outburst is a classic sign of an introvert reaching their limit and expressing everything they kept back for months.
This is the most emotion Joe has shown in all episodes.
Greg being so pleased with himself over cutting Alex's pants in half made me legitimately laugh so hard and uncontrollably that my stomach hurt.
Sian has a genuinely lovely smile.
I would pay to see a show starring Joe and Iain.
I was a little surprised that not a single one of them thought to erase the words "this eraser" that was written on the task.
"It's Tight at the bottom like mommy used to say" ~ Alex Horne
One of the funniest non contextual lines ever.
and I love the way everyone enjoyed that joke as much as me.
Most people raise their voice when they yell, but when Alex Horne yells, his voice /widens/.
For most of these episodes of old seasons, I’ve seen enough of the tasks as clips that I’m not normally surprised by the best jokes; but man, the ponytail bit absolutely shocked me - absolutely hilarious
The scooter task is so god damn hilarious. I'm cry laughing at Paul's and Joe's attempts. I love this show so much.
I loved Joe through this whole series. He's got a whole Eeyore vibe and I can't help but love him