They might have got Josh Widdecombe to do it for an unaired "task" that he's fuming about. Though there is a reasonable way to go about finding the percentage of rice transferred as that's what Alex expressed the end results. By having the weight of all the rice at the start and then after the task collecting all the non transferred rice and then weighing the amount remaining.
Apparently this was the first task Paul filmed, so it's more like a redemption arc with the card memory task Edit: It was said to be one of his first two tasks, and given his "didn't do too badly *this time* " comment, it can be presumed this was his second task but still.
It should be noted that when this was being filmed Paul already had the symptoms of Parkinson’s but not yet the diagnosis or thus any treatments/strategies. His performance is thus not a just representation of him.
Fun fact one of the people at work ran a weeklong semi-task master thing as a group bonding exercise... When it came to the cards I just straight up memorized them. Apparently there was a pattern but eh
@@LethalLuggage The pattern was still there regardless of whether you consciously noticed it, so that will have helped you memorize the order. There’s no way to know how you’d’ve done had it been random.
@@icturner23 I memorized a pattern that wasn't the pattern I was supposed to pay attention to. Was definitely a pattern, but made my life harder by not noticing the actual pattern lol
haven't seen the full video, but moment i heard the task and saw those mangoes my brain went cut the mangoes and turn the skin into a bowl then enjoy mango
My immediate thought was similar to Joe's, to use the mango husk as a makeshift bowl. Actually, my very first thought was more similar to Joe Wilkinson when made breakfast, and thought, "Screw it, I'm going to lose anyway, so I'll just eat this mango."
I thought mango too, but also being that the rice would stick to the mango I figured to turn the mango husk around so that the green part is touching the rice.
@@daniel.sandberg.5298 yes, what I mean is Alex's responses are more useful than I remember. 2:12 "Does it say you can't?" 2:26 "I think so." I feel like that sort of thing is usually shut down.
@@thomasthomasson2319 I think because Joe is Neuro-diverse, Alex was probably just giving a helpful nudge without actually helping, at least that's how I saw it.
The editing is really great in this show. "Your time starts...now" is a really great and subtle way to prepare the audience for the "race" of the task. Sometimes we find the tempo slow, sometimes frenetic. But the editor sets that expectation in the edit after the catchphrase. I think this is my favorite show of all time.
@@beepboop1391 Ouch. I never thought my comment would raise a controversy. Sorry about that. I just laughed at her forgetting there was another female contestant right after we saw Paul forgetting a rule the task said.
@@beepboop1391I don’t think it’s that serious lol, it was just an easy lay-up joke. what response should she have given in that moment of silence? she went with the easiest joke 🤷🏻
It's always funny when very clever people are really shit at this game. Seeing Paul and Victoria Coren-Mitchell fail at Taskmaster is much funnier than seeing anyone else fail.
@@GroovingPictDon’t be silly. They’re both very clever, particularly Victoria. I’m not someone who thinks every well educated person is exceptionally clever, e.g. I think David Mitchell is only normal-clever, but Victoria really is exceptionally clever.
I mean we know paul is a smart guy. Somehow during the the tasks his brain just completley shuts off. The thing that makes this even funnier is that while his brain has shut off he still looks as calm as if nothing is happening.
It should be noted that when this was being filmed Paul already had the symptoms of Parkinson’s but not yet the diagnosis or thus any treatments/strategies. His performance is thus not a just representation of him.
@@icturner23 Paul has said on the record that his Parkinson's was only a mild contribution to his poor performance. The reason he does so badly is because he guinely is that hopeless even without the Parkinson's.
Imo, he is like me. I don't have a competitive bone in my body. He's guaranteed to be paid no matter what. So if the task interests him he is more focused (like the deck of cards). If it's as silly as this one, he's not going to work up a sweat.
@@icturner23normally, pre-diagnosis, Parkinson’s affects motor skills more than anything else. His hands shaking etc definitely was the Parkinson’s, but him not thinking through the tasks is a lot less likely to be the Parkinson’s. In many cases, the Parkinson’s medication is what takes away the mind/accelerates dementia etc, so if this was before he was even diagnosed or on medications, I’m guessing at least 90% of his confusion and poorly thought through choices were just how he is. You can see it affect him on the physical tasks, but he is more than his illness and you can’t reduce everything he does down to a diagnosis he didn’t have at the time. Let his goofy mistakes be his own for as long as they can
@@NathanTheNinjaTaylor Even still, I think some of them struggle with the menial problem solving these tasks require lol. Scoop the honey (?) out of the jar, maybe use some hot water to clean off the remnants, then use the breadsticks (?) to scrape the rice into the jar, off the edge of the table. I don't think the task said anything about getting rid of the liquid in the jar. Edit: Someone else had a much better solution. The wording of the task means you can just take the basket to the kitchen, grab whatever you want, and put it inside the basket. Bowl, something to move the rice into the bowl, and a funnel.
“I don’t it’s unfair to say that that’s the worst task attempt I’ve seen in 17 Series.” Greg describing Steve and Nick’s watermelon task, and forgetting Paul Sinha’s rice moving task (and David Baddiel’s lassoing Alex task).
i know having it be so random is part of the appeal, but I literally would not mind watching a challenge where Alex wrote a script for how he thought it should go and have 5 people act it out, just so I could see a task go as he intended for once.
@Alex-on-youtube didn't say id watch it constantly, just once so i can see an order to the chaos that is alex's mind. I just want to see a task completed as intended for once.
Ah but these aren't always tasks that can be solved in a conventional sense. Sometimes it's chaos theory. Give them an impossible task with unsuited tools and see how close to success they can manage.
There’s a famous anecdote about Albert Einstein struggling to work out a bill in a restaurant. True or not, it definitely came to my mind watching Paul here 😅
I immediately thought of Lou's technique, except with the added detail of cutting the bottom off the balloon and stretching it over the top of the honey jar so it could be used as a funnel when emptying into the bottle. I'm surprised that wasn't immediately obvious to everyone.
How is Alex gonna say joe saved 18,000 grains of rice as if anyone could be coerced into counting them.. unless they've still got Josh Widdicombe on retainer 😂
So you push the table to the living room door just inside it with the basket, sit the bottle at the edge of the table and just use the chop stick to get it into the bottle.
@@freedomfighter22222 it stated you couldn't move the bottle from the other room and you can only touch the rice with the stuff inside the basket. Doesn't say you can't move the table.
@@GundamGir1 It says you may 'only use the basket and its contents to move and transport the rice', or at least something along those lines. The table isn't the basket or anything in the basket, is it?
Surely you take the jar of honey to the kitchen, remove the honey, wash it up and dry it and then you’ve got the perfect container to transport the rice
@@adam.f89 Given that the mango peel won, clearly not. The problem with the jar is that it's relatively wide-rimmed and inflexible, so you lose a lot of rice to spillage. The mango peel can be made into a funnel.
I was expecting them to disqualify (EDIT: Joe. I originally wrote Paul) because a few grains of rice fell on his thumb when he was sweeping it into the mango at 2:50, and they could have counted that as him touching the rice with something other than the basket and its contents.
I think it falling onto his thumb by accident isn't worth disqualifying for. Also that's not Paul. Paul is the one who got disqualified for literally grabbing the rice multiple times AND moving the bottle into the room.
@@archerestarcher Oh, I agree that it's not worth it, but I've seen them disqualify for equally small things in the past. I'm glad they didn't there. Re: not being Paul. Oops! Thanks for correcting me. Who was it?
Now re watching this after so long I've realised that due to the wording on the task, you could easily just take the basket to the kitchen and just get some bowls and a knife and funnel and put them in and bring them back and use them
You can interpret it as either "whatever is in the basket when reading this task" which would not allow your scheme, or "anything as long as it's inside the basket" which would allow you to get extra things but then everything Haas to remain in the basket whilst using it to touch the rice
It does, but it didn’t occur to me. My only thought was to halve and scrape out the mango. I’d’ve got a better knife than Joe and a utensil to scrape it out better, so hopefully would’ve saved a few more islanders.
@@Spyzilla1850 You could argue that if you put objects inside the shopping basket, then they would become valid to use in the task. Surprised nobody did that. Maybe he presented the shopping basket to encourage people to "shop" around the house for items to help
Suck a bit of rice the rest will follow 🤣🤣 It’s a sweet moment when Paul gets given a bonus point you can tell the studio audience were happy with that result for him
Apparently he watches them all and then has a writing team and himself come up with the witty lines between. It's also rehearsed before the audience comes into the room.
I think this is one of the instances where he knew in advance somebody forgot the rules and got themselves disqualified, as suggested by the conversation with Alex at 4:48. Another similar example when he kept mentioning 'you can't move the bowls' right before Lolly's attempt
Exactly. That’s very much not that case, they are very proud to try and keep the comedy real and give the people (Alex and Greg included) room play off each other. As for how Greg seems to know stuff, on occasions Alex might have told him in advance how to play it, but also the gallery could know to give him a prompt through his earpiece at a specific time… “before asking who is next, riff with Alex about how simple the task rules are”.
exactly : smarter move would have been to 1 : find a bowl carrier or big measuring cup and put it in the shopping cart with the task letter. 2 : ask Alex to confirm the list of items currently in the shopping cart and use them accordingly, paper to push the rice into the bowl. 3: no need to put rice into the jar but "on" it . 4: profit with a 100% succes rate
But by that same logic, as soon as you take anything out to use it, it stops being contents of the basket, making the task even more difficult as now everything needs to remain in the basket whilst you're using it
Wording is important. The contents of the basket are whatever is in the basket at any given time. Nothing was said about it having to be the contents of the basket at the start of the task. So get a funnel and jar/pot/whatever from the kitchen. Put them into the basket, aka they are now the contents of the basket. Now push all the rice into the pot, put it back into the basket, just to be sure, and go over and fill the jar in the living room, funnel to make it easier. The basket and its contents were used to move the rice and so on.
When Ian dipped the breadstick in the honey at 7:13 , I suddenly realized what Alex was probably suspecting would happen when he wrote this task. I bet that Alex was expecting someone to dip a breadstick in honey, roll it in rice to coat it, and then carry it into the living room.
There was a ball of something in there that looked like putty or clay. My first thought was if it's malleable to maybe roll it out like a tortilla/bowl and brush the rice onto it, then I could carry it out and fold the "tortilla" in half to make a kind of funnel to pour the rice into the bottle. Also, smash the top of that bottle to make it easier to pour the rice in.
I would've looked for a funnel, then lined the inside of the funnel with the baloon (top cut open so you can stetch it out, with the teet fitting nicely into the tunnels narrow end). Cleaned the jar. Then use breadsticks to push the rice via the balloon funnel into the cleaned jar, take it to the living room, then use the baloon funnel again to pour the rice from the jar to the bottle.
"You may not touch the rice with anything other than the shopping basket and its contents" yet they all got rice all over their hands. I guess the taskmaster wanted to avoid another TPK, but come on.
Basically a mixture of the last 2 would be the best, at least clean out the honey jar and use the breadsticks as a funnel, but use the mango skin as the choke to get the rice into the other bottle.
7:51 I don’t know why I find it so funny when people refer to themselves by surname, and call themselves geniuses over the stupidest of activities. This clip has it all.
I was thinking that too but it did say that they’re only allowed to move the rice with the contents of the basket. So moving the rice in any other way, I guess would be cheating.
@@Xerrea put your finger in the balloon, push the table with your finger in the balloon. or push the table with the chopsticks. either way not a problem.
At 2:25 does my mouth count if my mouth touches rice and Alex says I think so even if it didn't then go back to the beginning and watch as she chokes on a bit of rice after trying to suck it through the straw... And if you watch carefully you'll see each of them at least for a split second touch the rice as they try to move it... One of them touches the rice for much longer but I'd say they had to let all the other slide or there would have been no winners not that it's stopped them from disqualifying everyone before lol
Not sure how well it would have worked, but I would have dumped the honey out of the jar, then placed the balloon in the jar and stretched it around the rim. If it stretches enough, you get a non-sticky jar to work with.
@yawner1154 If you were to stretch the round part of the balloon, yes. But if you can get the rim of it to stretch around the jar, you can push the balloon inward and fill it that way
I would have tried putting the letter with the instructions in the basket then its something from the basket. I'd roll it into a cone and cover the hole. Then uncover the hole and pour it in. Wonder if that would be allowed
Once you go down that router you're arguing that it's not what's in the basket at the moment of reading the task, but rather that you can use anything as long as it is inside the basket, which then means that as soon as you take anything out to use it, it's no longer in the basket and may not be used. So by that logic, you have to use things whilst they are inside the basket, which makes it harder.
Take off a piece of clothing (like a sock?), put it in the basket, use piece of clothing (which has now been in the basket) to transport rice over to the bottle?
The task does not specify that you cannot add to the contents of the basket. So... Go get a funnel and a bowl, pop them in the basket, take them out again, win task (or DQ, it's a death or glory move 🤷🏻♂️)
smarter move would have been to 1 : find a bowl carrier or big measuring cup and put it in the shopping cart with the task letter. 2 : ask Alex to confirm the list of items currently in the shopping cart and use them accordingly, paper to push the rice into the bowl. 3: no need to put rice into the jar but "on" it . 4: profit with a 100% success rate
Hear me out: You take the task instructions paper and put it into the shopping basket. You then remove it and use it to transport the rice to the bottle in the other room...
Did Alex count the rice, or did they get Josh Widdecombe to do it?
They might have got Josh Widdecombe to do it for an unaired "task" that he's fuming about. Though there is a reasonable way to go about finding the percentage of rice transferred as that's what Alex expressed the end results. By having the weight of all the rice at the start and then after the task collecting all the non transferred rice and then weighing the amount remaining.
@@jareenamrahslots of them had honey on them matey - hard to go by weight when it’s all coated in honey
@@jareenamrahsBut what about the weight of the honey for the messier ones?
@@gemma3877maybe he actually went to wash it off and dry the rice before counting. But that sounds a bit excessive
@@MrTheguy01my guess is that's exactly how they did it
It's amazing to see someone who remembered a whole messed up deck of cards in order forget just about everything written on the task.
Apparently this was the first task Paul filmed, so it's more like a redemption arc with the card memory task
Edit: It was said to be one of his first two tasks, and given his "didn't do too badly *this time* " comment, it can be presumed this was his second task but still.
It should be noted that when this was being filmed Paul already had the symptoms of Parkinson’s but not yet the diagnosis or thus any treatments/strategies. His performance is thus not a just representation of him.
Fun fact one of the people at work ran a weeklong semi-task master thing as a group bonding exercise... When it came to the cards I just straight up memorized them. Apparently there was a pattern but eh
@@LethalLuggage The pattern was still there regardless of whether you consciously noticed it, so that will have helped you memorize the order. There’s no way to know how you’d’ve done had it been random.
@@icturner23 I memorized a pattern that wasn't the pattern I was supposed to pay attention to. Was definitely a pattern, but made my life harder by not noticing the actual pattern lol
A mango is different from a bowl, but apparently not by much
haven't seen the full video, but moment i heard the task and saw those mangoes my brain went cut the mangoes and turn the skin into a bowl then enjoy mango
Better than a bowl really, because you can shape it into a funnel to better pour the rice into the bottle
@@mariem8033oh that is brilliant
You can really see the trauma left by Series 7 when Greg rewards Paul with a bonus point for being reasonable and calm 😂😂
As an Orkney islander this was a tense watch
So sorry for the children Lou didn't rescue.
Really glad you made it, man
Sorry about the kids but I'm glad you're safe in a bottle at least.
I love that Lou made sure to put the honey in a mug so as not to waste it!
My immediate thought was similar to Joe's, to use the mango husk as a makeshift bowl. Actually, my very first thought was more similar to Joe Wilkinson when made breakfast, and thought, "Screw it, I'm going to lose anyway, so I'll just eat this mango."
They could have poured the honey out of the jar…
@Tacholoco some did that.....
Mango with honey sounds like a pleaseat way to get a sugar rush
I thought mango too, but also being that the rice would stick to the mango I figured to turn the mango husk around so that the green part is touching the rice.
They got a pot?
There's a lot less "all the information is on the task" than I was expecting
Have you ever watched taskmaster?
@@daniel.sandberg.5298 yes, what I mean is Alex's responses are more useful than I remember. 2:12 "Does it say you can't?" 2:26 "I think so." I feel like that sort of thing is usually shut down.
@@thomasthomasson2319 I think because Joe is Neuro-diverse, Alex was probably just giving a helpful nudge without actually helping, at least that's how I saw it.
@@NickDude555also he had never watched the show before, but good point
@@thomasthomasson2319i think Alex just didn't want him rereading the task so it would be funnier this way
The editing is really great in this show. "Your time starts...now" is a really great and subtle way to prepare the audience for the "race" of the task. Sometimes we find the tempo slow, sometimes frenetic. But the editor sets that expectation in the edit after the catchphrase. I think this is my favorite show of all time.
"A woman"
"..."
"A better woman."
Classic
Really?? This put Lou in the category of “punchable face” for me. I wondered if the response was less mean-spirited in the live studio though.
That’s not the own she thinks it is lol. She’s essentially saying women clean. Do they cook in the kitchen too?
@beepboop1391 I don't think it was mean spirited, more British humor and poking fun at your mates vibe.
@@beepboop1391 Ouch. I never thought my comment would raise a controversy. Sorry about that.
I just laughed at her forgetting there was another female contestant right after we saw Paul forgetting a rule the task said.
@@beepboop1391I don’t think it’s that serious lol, it was just an easy lay-up joke. what response should she have given in that moment of silence? she went with the easiest joke 🤷🏻
It's always funny when very clever people are really shit at this game. Seeing Paul and Victoria Coren-Mitchell fail at Taskmaster is much funnier than seeing anyone else fail.
- Who's next?
- It's _Paul_
except when victoria has half of a riddle. then she barely needs alan to look like charlie chaplin and she can destroy it in half an hour.
Neither Paul or Victoria are particularly clever. One is good at poker and one is good at memorizing trivia. That's about it.
@GroovingPict paul studied to be a doctor and Victoria was a writer/columnist for years
@@GroovingPictDon’t be silly. They’re both very clever, particularly Victoria. I’m not someone who thinks every well educated person is exceptionally clever, e.g. I think David Mitchell is only normal-clever, but Victoria really is exceptionally clever.
I mean we know paul is a smart guy. Somehow during the the tasks his brain just completley shuts off. The thing that makes this even funnier is that while his brain has shut off he still looks as calm as if nothing is happening.
It should be noted that when this was being filmed Paul already had the symptoms of Parkinson’s but not yet the diagnosis or thus any treatments/strategies. His performance is thus not a just representation of him.
@@icturner23 Paul has said on the record that his Parkinson's was only a mild contribution to his poor performance. The reason he does so badly is because he guinely is that hopeless even without the Parkinson's.
It’s cause his talent is a question with an obvious answer. Taskmaster requires thinking out of the box.
Imo, he is like me. I don't have a competitive bone in my body.
He's guaranteed to be paid no matter what. So if the task interests him he is more focused (like the deck of cards). If it's as silly as this one, he's not going to work up a sweat.
@@icturner23normally, pre-diagnosis, Parkinson’s affects motor skills more than anything else. His hands shaking etc definitely was the Parkinson’s, but him not thinking through the tasks is a lot less likely to be the Parkinson’s. In many cases, the Parkinson’s medication is what takes away the mind/accelerates dementia etc, so if this was before he was even diagnosed or on medications, I’m guessing at least 90% of his confusion and poorly thought through choices were just how he is. You can see it affect him on the physical tasks, but he is more than his illness and you can’t reduce everything he does down to a diagnosis he didn’t have at the time. Let his goofy mistakes be his own for as long as they can
"Sucking rice through a straw" is a euphemism in spanish. Arroz con popote.
I usually feel a bit better about my own problem solving capabilities after watching these
There's a lot less pressure on us lol
@@NathanTheNinjaTaylor Even still, I think some of them struggle with the menial problem solving these tasks require lol.
Scoop the honey (?) out of the jar, maybe use some hot water to clean off the remnants, then use the breadsticks (?) to scrape the rice into the jar, off the edge of the table. I don't think the task said anything about getting rid of the liquid in the jar.
Edit: Someone else had a much better solution. The wording of the task means you can just take the basket to the kitchen, grab whatever you want, and put it inside the basket. Bowl, something to move the rice into the bowl, and a funnel.
“I don’t it’s unfair to say that that’s the worst task attempt I’ve seen in 17 Series.” Greg describing Steve and Nick’s watermelon task, and forgetting Paul Sinha’s rice moving task (and David Baddiel’s lassoing Alex task).
My first thought was to blow up a balloon, wrap the top half in tape, pop the balloon and use the tape shell as a bowl
i know having it be so random is part of the appeal, but I literally would not mind watching a challenge where Alex wrote a script for how he thought it should go and have 5 people act it out, just so I could see a task go as he intended for once.
so, like... who's line is it anyway, but with actions? sounds a bit scripted to me.
@Alex-on-youtube didn't say id watch it constantly, just once so i can see an order to the chaos that is alex's mind.
I just want to see a task completed as intended for once.
@@sanddagger36 ahhh gotcha. There's a few like that. Like the "do the same dance as alex"
Ah but these aren't always tasks that can be solved in a conventional sense. Sometimes it's chaos theory. Give them an impossible task with unsuited tools and see how close to success they can manage.
@@VonBlade
And i said i would like to watch a regular scripted task instead. Just once.
There’s a famous anecdote about Albert Einstein struggling to work out a bill in a restaurant. True or not, it definitely came to my mind watching Paul here 😅
I immediately thought of Lou's technique, except with the added detail of cutting the bottom off the balloon and stretching it over the top of the honey jar so it could be used as a funnel when emptying into the bottle. I'm surprised that wasn't immediately obvious to everyone.
As an obsessional cleaner, this show makes me so anxious.
Joe Thomas always looks so nervous.
How is Alex gonna say joe saved 18,000 grains of rice as if anyone could be coerced into counting them.. unless they've still got Josh Widdicombe on retainer 😂
I love the thought of Josh being drafted in to count the grains, but I think they did it as a weight/percentage
Weighing scales bud 👍🏻
@@JersJohn but what about the rice encased in honey? I think an estimate based on volume
@@josephweir6754either way they would have rinsed the rice first.
@@JersJohn joke.. bud 👌
So you push the table to the living room door just inside it with the basket, sit the bottle at the edge of the table and just use the chop stick to get it into the bottle.
You just used the table(not the basket or in the basket) to move the rice.
@@freedomfighter22222 it stated you couldn't move the bottle from the other room and you can only touch the rice with the stuff inside the basket. Doesn't say you can't move the table.
@@GundamGir1 It says you may 'only use the basket and its contents to move and transport the rice', or at least something along those lines. The table isn't the basket or anything in the basket, is it?
@@gopnikolai7483 The task said "touch the rice," not transport or move. Moving the table would not be considered touching the rice.
@@UnderstandingRat-hl1sc but it would be considered using an item that is not the basket or within the basket.
Surely you take the jar of honey to the kitchen, remove the honey, wash it up and dry it and then you’ve got the perfect container to transport the rice
Mango peels are better for the combination of carrying the rice and getting the rice into the bottle, as proven in this task.
@@_TheDudeAbides_ no they're not, compared to a clean, dry jar?!
@@adam.f89 Given that the mango peel won, clearly not.
The problem with the jar is that it's relatively wide-rimmed and inflexible, so you lose a lot of rice to spillage. The mango peel can be made into a funnel.
@@adam.f89Joe Thomas would like a word
@@_TheDudeAbides_ sometimes its the person, not the tools
I was expecting them to disqualify (EDIT: Joe. I originally wrote Paul) because a few grains of rice fell on his thumb when he was sweeping it into the mango at 2:50, and they could have counted that as him touching the rice with something other than the basket and its contents.
I think it falling onto his thumb by accident isn't worth disqualifying for.
Also that's not Paul. Paul is the one who got disqualified for literally grabbing the rice multiple times AND moving the bottle into the room.
@@archerestarcher Oh, I agree that it's not worth it, but I've seen them disqualify for equally small things in the past. I'm glad they didn't there. Re: not being Paul. Oops! Thanks for correcting me. Who was it?
@@davidstorrs It was Joe
@@archerestarcher Great, thanks.
Probably would have had to disqualify everyone
Now re watching this after so long I've realised that due to the wording on the task, you could easily just take the basket to the kitchen and just get some bowls and a knife and funnel and put them in and bring them back and use them
Oh god I thought I was shit-hot, going on about scooping the honey out and using hot water so you have a clean jar... now I feel like an idiot.
My immediate thought was using the paper instructions as a funnel package and just tape the rice in, remove tape, then funnel into bottle
Or a spoon
You can interpret it as either "whatever is in the basket when reading this task" which would not allow your scheme, or "anything as long as it's inside the basket" which would allow you to get extra things but then everything Haas to remain in the basket whilst using it to touch the rice
Completely bemused why only one person dumped out the contents of the jar and then washed it. Seemed such an obvious solution.
I know. That would have been my first instinct 😂
i mean tbf it's either that or hollow out the mango skin, and if lou realized that before she had 6 minutes left she would've crushed joe in the task.
My first instinct was to cover the inside of the basket with tape… only thought about washing the jar about halfway through Lmao
It does, but it didn’t occur to me. My only thought was to halve and scrape out the mango. I’d’ve got a better knife than Joe and a utensil to scrape it out better, so hopefully would’ve saved a few more islanders.
@@Spyzilla1850 You could argue that if you put objects inside the shopping basket, then they would become valid to use in the task. Surprised nobody did that. Maybe he presented the shopping basket to encourage people to "shop" around the house for items to help
Without moving the fishbowls
I recognize that the show is called taskmaster.... However it should really be called master cuts... Who ever does the editing deserves an award!
True to that. Look up the interview with the editor, if you haven't yet.
The timing on 'Who's next?' was just exquisite 🤣 🤣 🤣
Suck a bit of rice the rest will follow 🤣🤣
It’s a sweet moment when Paul gets given a bonus point you can tell the studio audience were happy with that result for him
I wonder how many of the tasks Greg has seen prior to the live show and how many are a surprise
Apparently he watches them all and then has a writing team and himself come up with the witty lines between. It's also rehearsed before the audience comes into the room.
I think this is one of the instances where he knew in advance somebody forgot the rules and got themselves disqualified, as suggested by the conversation with Alex at 4:48. Another similar example when he kept mentioning 'you can't move the bowls' right before Lolly's attempt
@@EMINEMisTHEbest919 Wow, knowing that really takes all the charm out of the show.
@@HOTD108_ Good job I completely made it up then
Exactly. That’s very much not that case, they are very proud to try and keep the comedy real and give the people (Alex and Greg included) room play off each other. As for how Greg seems to know stuff, on occasions Alex might have told him in advance how to play it, but also the gallery could know to give him a prompt through his earpiece at a specific time… “before asking who is next, riff with Alex about how simple the task rules are”.
My initial thought was to grab a bowl and place it in the basket. The bowl is now part of the contents of the basket.
exactly : smarter move would have been to 1 : find a bowl carrier or big measuring cup and put it in the shopping cart with the task letter. 2 : ask Alex to confirm the list of items currently in the shopping cart and use them accordingly, paper to push the rice into the bowl. 3: no need to put rice into the jar but "on" it . 4: profit with a 100% succes rate
I could imagine Rhod Gilbert or Mae Martin doing that and causing an uproar with the others
But by that same logic, as soon as you take anything out to use it, it stops being contents of the basket, making the task even more difficult as now everything needs to remain in the basket whilst you're using it
"Α better woman" 😂
They knew that everyone was going to use their shirt to cary the rice.
Nah, give me the exact number of rice grains for each contestant.
Cleaning the glass was just a brilliant and easy solution.
Except she touched the sink which should have disqualified her.
@@damonhtoo They touched door handles. They're all outta there.
Obviously not how that works
I would argue that the rice touched some of their hands
Wording is important. The contents of the basket are whatever is in the basket at any given time. Nothing was said about it having to be the contents of the basket at the start of the task.
So get a funnel and jar/pot/whatever from the kitchen. Put them into the basket, aka they are now the contents of the basket. Now push all the rice into the pot, put it back into the basket, just to be sure, and go over and fill the jar in the living room, funnel to make it easier. The basket and its contents were used to move the rice and so on.
When Ian dipped the breadstick in the honey at 7:13 , I suddenly realized what Alex was probably suspecting would happen when he wrote this task.
I bet that Alex was expecting someone to dip a breadstick in honey, roll it in rice to coat it, and then carry it into the living room.
I was thinking dump the honey out of the jar. And shuffle the rice into it with the bread sticks.
Oh she did at the end, I was wondering if it could be washed as I watched it
was the paper in the basket? literally transport rice on the paper lol
This task made me howl. It was *hilarious* how their brains absolutely failed them. 😂😂😂
This would've been easy like: Alex could you just help me with this table? I need to just move it to the living room
Paul looked so dead inside LMAO
Didn't watch it all yet, but I would have made the paper task into a funnel with the tape.
There was a ball of something in there that looked like putty or clay. My first thought was if it's malleable to maybe roll it out like a tortilla/bowl and brush the rice onto it, then I could carry it out and fold the "tortilla" in half to make a kind of funnel to pour the rice into the bottle.
Also, smash the top of that bottle to make it easier to pour the rice in.
paul forgot to wake up that day lmao
IMAGINE DOING TASKMASTER WITH A BUNCH OF ENGINEERS INSTEAD OF COMEDIANS
I would've looked for a funnel, then lined the inside of the funnel with the baloon (top cut open so you can stetch it out, with the teet fitting nicely into the tunnels narrow end).
Cleaned the jar.
Then use breadsticks to push the rice via the balloon funnel into the cleaned jar, take it to the living room, then use the baloon funnel again to pour the rice from the jar to the bottle.
"You may not touch the rice with anything other than the shopping basket and its contents" yet they all got rice all over their hands. I guess the taskmaster wanted to avoid another TPK, but come on.
Place the paper in the basket. Then its an item in the basket that one can use
If you're going to do that, you might as well grab an actual container from the kitchen and put it in the basket.
Should have asked Alex to bring them the bottle from the living room
Exactly what I would have done, then have him put the rice in the jar.
8:28 Don't know if it was intentional but found it funny regardless.
Basically a mixture of the last 2 would be the best, at least clean out the honey jar and use the breadsticks as a funnel, but use the mango skin as the choke to get the rice into the other bottle.
7:51 I don’t know why I find it so funny when people refer to themselves by surname, and call themselves geniuses over the stupidest of activities. This clip has it all.
They all touched at least a few grains of rice at some point though :P
I would put some living room furniture into the lab, declare it to be a second living room, and go get the bottle.
2:48 I instantly seen that first and thought yep big bowl
I would've used the Joe method.
The wording makes me consider that they dont need to take the rice to the bottle. The note simply states where the bottle is located.
My first thought was to wash the jar but save the honey because I like honey.
I can't believe only one of them thought to wash out the jar.
Love this show. Also Alex Hall.
Pull the table from the lab to the living room, then place bottle at edge of table and use breadsticks to move the rice into the bottle.
I was thinking that too but it did say that they’re only allowed to move the rice with the contents of the basket. So moving the rice in any other way, I guess would be cheating.
@@Xerrea put your finger in the balloon, push the table with your finger in the balloon. or push the table with the chopsticks.
either way not a problem.
@@PhonePhone-sf8te have you ever tryied to put your hand into a ballow this size ?
@@plop31 have you ever tried to put your finger in a balloon? Because I clearly said finger. How many fingers do you need to push a table?
@@PhonePhone-sf8te... at least you need to pinch so I would say thumb and index
Paul Looked baked at the end LUL
put another glas in the basket. now it is in the basket. now use it.
I'm surprised no one used the task to scoop the rice up and then slowly empty it into the bottle
But they all touched the rice dropping it on their hands at various points……
3:02 did she not think of emptying the glass first?
My first thought was to empty and wash the jar of honey, its kinda funny how different some people think
Take the jar, wash/dry it. Put rice in, transfer.
simply a group of the 5 weirdest people ever.
Why does the first lady have a cooking pot in her basket 3:01 ..... And thats the Venturi Effect
If you're referring to siphoning, no, it's not.
At 2:25 does my mouth count if my mouth touches rice and Alex says I think so even if it didn't then go back to the beginning and watch as she chokes on a bit of rice after trying to suck it through the straw... And if you watch carefully you'll see each of them at least for a split second touch the rice as they try to move it... One of them touches the rice for much longer but I'd say they had to let all the other slide or there would have been no winners not that it's stopped them from disqualifying everyone before lol
Exactly i was looking for that. Joe and her should have very obviously been disqualified according to the rules.
I’m surprised no one picked up on ‘YOU may not take the bottle out of the living room’. But someone else can…?
Glad to see someone have the same idea as I had. Wash out the honey pot.
I somehow forgot all about this one!
Can you not use the paper to lift and slide it in? 2:24
The paper wasn't one of the items in the basket.
Not sure how well it would have worked, but I would have dumped the honey out of the jar, then placed the balloon in the jar and stretched it around the rim. If it stretches enough, you get a non-sticky jar to work with.
you get a little drum
@yawner1154 If you were to stretch the round part of the balloon, yes. But if you can get the rim of it to stretch around the jar, you can push the balloon inward and fill it that way
Carry the bench into the living room.
I thought they were going to be pedantic and disqualify the first guy for touching the rice at 2:49.
That's what I was thinking too
I would have tried putting the letter with the instructions in the basket then its something from the basket. I'd roll it into a cone and cover the hole. Then uncover the hole and pour it in. Wonder if that would be allowed
Once you go down that router you're arguing that it's not what's in the basket at the moment of reading the task, but rather that you can use anything as long as it is inside the basket, which then means that as soon as you take anything out to use it, it's no longer in the basket and may not be used.
So by that logic, you have to use things whilst they are inside the basket, which makes it harder.
I would’ve simply moved the table from the lab to the living room
I like how Joe is as awkward as he was in the Inbetweeners
Move the lab table into the living room
Take off a piece of clothing (like a sock?), put it in the basket, use piece of clothing (which has now been in the basket) to transport rice over to the bottle?
I would just use the paper from the task and use that to slide the rice into the bottle
The task does not specify that you cannot add to the contents of the basket.
So... Go get a funnel and a bowl, pop them in the basket, take them out again, win task (or DQ, it's a death or glory move 🤷🏻♂️)
crazy how no one got the idea just to wrap the basket with tape and use that
smarter move would have been to 1 : find a bowl carrier or big measuring cup and put it in the shopping cart with the task letter. 2 : ask Alex to confirm the list of items currently in the shopping cart and use them accordingly, paper to push the rice into the bowl. 3: no need to put rice into the jar but "on" it . 4: profit with a 100% success rate
I would have carried the rice in the task letter and funnel it into the bottle.
I would love Joe to teach how to carve a mango so quickly
my first thought was to just bring the table with the rice to the living room, seems a lot easier that way no?
The table is not in the shopping basket though.
It seemed pretty obvious to me that you can dump the honey and use the jar to carry the rice
Hear me out: You take the task instructions paper and put it into the shopping basket. You then remove it and use it to transport the rice to the bottle in the other room...
Empty the jar, fill empty jar with rice
Yes that is what happened. Good job!
I think thay answer here is to get a container and put it in the basket thus its now one of its contents.
Does static electricity attract rice?! I wonder if you blow up the balloon and charge it if all the rice will stick to it
I just wonder, whose job was it to count the rice? and the rice soaked in Honey- that had to be rough!
Did they rob a Sainsbury’s for the basket?