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Yeah, that and Desiree's stardust onesie are pretty great clothing, but I get where Pablo's coming from, you could wear them in day-to-day life. Desiree's clothing was also the key back when the TM sleuths figured out the S12 line-up a few months back: she tweeted a photo thanking her outfitter for sorting out ten outfits in a short time. One eagle-eyed viewer clocked that might correspond to the studio shoots, and also noticed the background matched the green room section of the studio TM is shot in. Following the thread, they checked which comics Desiree had recently followed on Instagram, and deduced four of the five from the line-up correctly. It's certainly the time of the year for Taskmaster - the two best foreign-language series also have new seasons starting this week. Stormester starts this weekend, and Kongen Befalen started on Thursday. The latter seems to be doing even more original tasks than in earlier series - the live task was Sausage or Finger, but all the others were somewhat new: - Prize: The thing that deserves more respect than than it currently receives - Get a hat on Olli's head from the furthest distance - Eat or drink one of these five delicacies. The one who consumes what the fewest of the others have chosen, wins. You have to eat or drink the whole thing you choose. A la carte: a raw potato, a chili pepper, a Dumle [chocolate toffee], a full bottle of wine, cat food - Perform magic for Atle.The magic trick is over when you say 'hepp' The middle task has that UK TM S4/5 game theory flavour, and it's a great prize category as well. Heavy_D fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Sep 25, 2021 |
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stev posted:I really hope Alex is making mad bank off the Taskmaster brand becoming a global thing and it's not just some suits at Avalon raking it in. Was trying to look this up, and shiiiiiiiit I didn't know he was married to a NI news reader. Sort of fancied her too when she was on the local NI news.
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stev posted:Alan's obscure Simpsons hoodie got a big reaction from me. Oh that's great. Alan's a cozy presence on the show so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-NH6TGZTcc
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Serious Taskmaster overload - on top of original TM, there have been two episodes of Stormester to catch up on, and this season the episodes are 65 minutes long. Stormester tends to use UK tasks for the most part, so watching it as a UK fan means it's more like revisiting some classics with a new line-up But this season they've had four tasks that are new/heavily modified to feel completely different: - Receive a picture of the Taskmaster on this fax machine. Fastest wins. Bonus point for the best picture - [setup: pyramid of filled champagne glasses, with notes from various currencies trapped under them] Remove the money and place it in Mark's inner pocket. You may not touch the glasses. You have ten minutes, or until you spill the first drop. Highest total kroner value collected in Mark's pocket when time ends wins. - Create a film that will give the Taskmaster food for thought - Teach this eight-year-old something remarkable. You have 20 minutes for your lesson, then the child has one minute to demonstrate what they have learnt. Most remarkable thing imparted wins. The middle task is worth clarifying - once you get the note in Mark's pocket you've banked them - you don't get disqualified if you then spill the champaign. You just can't continue after the first spillage. Also it's not obvious which notes are more valuable than other because of the different currencies and exchange rates. UK series 6 had a task that employed the same basic mechanism - but it turned out to be a bit easy. I wonder if this refined version is more like what Alex would do differently if he had another go. Now I think about it, possibly this version of the task was in Kongen Befaler - harder to go back and check that now...
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Dave has released the first episode of their "taskmaster with the serial numbers filed off" series, Outsiders. It was OK, but the pallor of trying and failing to be the new Taskmaster hung over everything. The biggest missing ingredient for me was panic.
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The NZ ones have vanished from YouTube 
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The_Doctor posted:The NZ ones have vanished from YouTube DMCA strikes happen. It might be back
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Desiree's 'Oatmeal & Death' destroyed me.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Desiree's 'Oatmeal & Death' destroyed me. It's a great title. Watching Taskmaster back to back with Outsiders, it's pretty night and day. Outsiders seems flat and cursory, hard to imagine it having longevity. Another good outing for the series 12 cast; it's the most obvious pairings for the team tasks, hoping to see Alan and Victoria really pull their fingers out next time. Scoring update: It's really close after two episodes: from left to right 31, 32, 34, 34, 25. Victoria doing poorly in the live tasks puts her a bit behind the pack.
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Well I think that's the closest the show has come to making me sick. 
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The 'food' tasting task wasn't particularly original, but the cast managed to elevate it to the highlight of the episode for me.
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The podcast has Paul Williams this week. E: Finished the episode. That mess needed to be punished more 
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Heavy_D posted:Well spotted, it is a 10th Doctor under the sculpt - good facial resemblance, wearing a suit that's buttoned up high. This is really cool, I love custom toys with believable packing to match! What is the reason some of these photos are really hazy, like they're in a space with lots of fog or grey milk?
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What a brilliant ending to that food task  Also pretty clever solution from Morgana. Kinda expected a bonus point from Greg just for making Alex eat that stuff. Paladinus posted:The 'food' tasting task wasn't particularly original, but the cast managed to elevate it to the highlight of the episode for me. Basically
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itry posted:Also pretty clever solution from Morgana. Kinda expected a bonus point from Greg just for making Alex eat that stuff. I think he absolutely would have if he hadn't given her a style point last episode. This one would have been way more deserving, based solely on Alex's face.
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Khanstant posted:This is really cool, I love custom toys with believable packing to match! What is the reason some of these photos are really hazy, like they're in a space with lots of fog or grey milk? Because I didn't have a camera available so I had to substitute my scanner. I have another one on the go right now, will have to find a way to share that when it's complete...
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Really glad I decided to watch this after breakfast instead of during, jesus christ
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Nutella and Nachos sounds amazing.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Nutella and Nachos sounds amazing. I've been trying to find Ferrero Roche in the local shops today.
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They're so close to nachos conceptually you ought to get points for saying cornflakes.
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One thing I never see mentioned much but I greatly enjoy is Greg's use of the ad links for increasingly weird jokes across the series.
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Lemon posted:One thing I never see mentioned much but I greatly enjoy is Greg's use of the ad links for increasingly weird jokes across the series. I like it when he takes a swipe at the concept of advertising and capitalism.
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Alex's ad break sequences were particularly unnerving this episode.
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I hadn't pegged Victoria Mitchel as the secret serial killer for this series, but you just never know. The two nonplussed people on the same team will be interesting though.
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When Alan came out I thought "oh please let them have paired him with the correct person" and then Victoria was there and I thought "yessss", I know it's also down to schedules but still. They're editing the ad breaks out of the youtube uploads. As in obviously they don't have the TV ads but they also don't have the studio or filmed intros and outros. In a way that's good, in another way I feel like I'm missing out.
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Has anyone suggested a world taskmaster championship before? Get 5 of the champions from around the world for a one-off special?
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I lost my poo poo when Morgana basically aggressively ejaculated green paint all over the ball, good lord
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thehustler posted:Has anyone suggested a world taskmaster championship before? Get 5 of the champions from around the world for a one-off special? I think after this CoC for the UK show, you’ll have two British comedians, potentially the NZ champion and two foreign language imports to bring across from something like the Belgian one? I know they’ve just granted rights for a Portuguese version.
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Total Meatlove posted:I think after this CoC for the UK show, you’ll have two British comedians, potentially the NZ champion and two foreign language imports to bring across from something like the Belgian one? I know they’ve just granted rights for a Portuguese version. The NZ champions are far too powerful.
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thehustler posted:Has anyone suggested a world taskmaster championship before? Get 5 of the champions from around the world for a one-off special? In this week's podcast Paul Williams suggested they should have a NZ CoC with their first 4 champions plus Ed Gamble, but that was largely a vehicle for getting the New Zealanders to laugh at Ed's pronunciation of "shed".
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David Mitchell was on this week's RHLSTP and confirmed he's never going to do Taskmaster, basically because he'd be too poo poo at it and wouldn't enjoy being poo poo. Which is a drat shame.
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I think I kinda agree with him that it wouldn’t be great. His regular persona relies pretty heavily on “In the end, I’m the sane one in this insane world.” And Taskmaster is the direct antithesis to that. But I definitely would have watched it.
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The norwegian version of Taskmaster isn't afraid to go to dark places. The contestants was asked to bring something that blue, heavy and could fit in a shoe box. One contestant brought a pack of condoms that she bought in december last year and was still unopened.
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drunken officeparty posted:I could see Robert Webb doing it though. I know it's impossible to not have any bigoted knobheads at all on the show (see Baddiel) but it'd be nice if they could keep it to a minimum.
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Alhazred posted:The norwegian version of Taskmaster isn't afraid to go to dark places. The contestants was asked to bring something that blue, heavy and could fit in a shoe box. One contestant brought a pack of condoms that she bought in december last year and was still unopened.
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