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stev posted:I don't think I could last a minute before it became unbearable. I'm amazed they let him drive. Well to be fair he didn't look strained at all compared to the other contestants. More worried about the eating and driving!
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It's also probably edited for comedic effect (shock and horror at being lied to) considering the unofficial world record is somewhere around 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:It's also probably edited for comedic effect (shock and horror at being lied to) considering the unofficial world record is somewhere around 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. He might have cheated while in the car.
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Oct 28, 2021 18:04
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Pablo Bluth posted:Best prize task in ages... I can't decide if Victoria's prize was supposed to be an honest attempt at a nice gift from a person who is not particularly interested in sports, or a calculated passive-aggressive attack on Alan. It's perfect either way.
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Paladinus posted:I can't decide if Victoria's prize was supposed to be an honest attempt at a nice gift from a person who is not particularly interested in sports, or a calculated passive-aggressive attack on Alan. It's perfect either way. I went from laughing to on the floor as the extent of the mismatch became clear.
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I am 100% sure Victoria knew what she was doing - and I think on another day Greg would have given her the five for the maliciousness and then ranked the remainder on merit. Good set of tasks this week - the iron task was carefully worded to be open to a more subtle strategy than just lobbing it, but turns out you needed much better execution in that to measure up against Alan's throws. Then we got a variation on a great previous task (in S8 they made a toy for a child instead of a dog), and what's arguably a refinement of the S11 task which self-destructed as they read it. Making the contestants destroy the task this time round worked better I think. Perhaps they were meant to worry there was a clause on the now-shredded task which forbade them from eating the sweet?
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The prize task and the first two were wonderful. The third task wasn't my favourite though - another absurdly long set of rules that just left everyone looking confused and irritated. And the actual task itself ended up being really easy? It was odd. The live task was pretty dreadful. It became obvious very quickly that no one was going to manage to score any points. And even if they did it'd be next to impossible to end up with a positive score. 
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Pablo Bluth posted:Best prize task in ages...  Victoria's reaction to the personalised velvet (  ) vintage smoking jacket ( ) with some matching slippers ( ) was great.An ice cold burn from Victoria, advising Alan to "treat himself" to a Manchester match. I think they're friends so it's ok. Most engaged toddler makes a comeback... as a dog!  Victoria probably should've gone with her initial instinct of just a ball on the carpet. It was clear from the start that the only way to win the live task was to not play. Too bad none of them tried to go with zero sheets.
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Something I'm surprised nobody tried in the live task was ripping their sheets in half to make twice as many planes - you were penalized for how many sheets you took, not how many planes you threw. Although given how horrible everyone's accuracy was it probably wouldn't have helped in the end.
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They only had two minutes. It would've probably resulted in worse airplanes.
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The marco task was adorable and i really hope we see more of marco.
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Next series will feature the Most Engaged Cat task. The series after that will feature Most Engaged Pensioner.
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itry posted:Next series will feature the Most Engaged Cat task. I want to see them make a toy to engage Greg.
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stev posted:I want to see them make a toy to engage Greg. Last time he got his hands on a toy he smashed it against the wall though. Edit: https://youtu.be/l-TnD6m1iPA itry fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Watching this show after two episodes of Squid Game gives it a whole different vibe This is nothing, try watching Solitary. Literally just "if you let us torture you long enough, you'll get 50K" Piell fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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That prize task was perfect and Greg's reactions to the players' reactions just made it even better.
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Pinwiz11 posted:I went from laughing to on the floor as the extent of the mismatch became clear. It needs to be in whatever hall of fame or best of collection for Taskmaster. I was gasping even as a non-soccer fan. Ratios and Tendency posted:I'm in love with Morgana. Get in line, man.
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itry posted:Last time he got his hands on a toy he smashed it against the wall though. That was a toy to enrage Greg.
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Yvonmukluk posted:That was a toy to enrage Greg. 
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Anals of History posted:It needs to be in whatever hall of fame or best of collection for Taskmaster. I was gasping even as a non-soccer fan. The progression of the gifts was honestly perfect. You start off with Alan having a pretty standard gag gift, the kind of thing you see in most prize tasks. Then you have three genuine attempts to get something the person would actually like, to Greg's increasing annoyance, and finally capping it all off with the most perfectly calibrated insult to Alan imaginable.
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I just finished NZ1 today, I'm starting Season 2 and I can't wait for the insanity. 
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Heavy_D posted:I am 100% sure Victoria knew what she was doing - and I think on another day Greg would have given her the five for the maliciousness and then ranked the remainder on merit. I imagine if she was a serious contender he might but she was clearly going for a one because she knows she's lost the show so badly so she might as well have fun at Alan's expense.
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MikeJF posted:I imagine if she was a serious contender he might but she was clearly going for a one because she knows she's lost the show so badly so she might as well have fun at Alan's expense. Pretty sure they prepare all prizes well ahead of time. With how studio segments are filmed, there's barely any time for course correction.
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Paladinus posted:Pretty sure they prepare all prizes well ahead of time. With how studio segments are filmed, there's barely any time for course correction. IIRC they film two a day, so yeah, suppose. Although she might've had a fair inkling she wasn't exactly going to do well before the studio stuff ever started.
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I'm sure I've heard there's been last minute prize substituions (either on the podcast or a Little Alex Horne interview somewhere).
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Pablo Bluth posted:Best prize task in ages... I came here to post this, god drat that went perfectly. The rollercoaster of genuinely thoughtful gifts leading to Victoria's expertly calculated passive-aggressive slight was some drat good Taskmaster.
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The thing that I love the most about that bit is the fact that you can totally buy that VCM truly thought it was a good gift based on an insane Sheldon Cooper-esque calculation.
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Pablo Bluth posted:I'm sure I've heard there's been last minute prize substituions (either on the podcast or a Little Alex Horne interview somewhere). Pretty sure one of them says they made a substitution in this episode.
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Pinwiz11 posted:I just finished NZ1 today, I'm starting Season 2 and I can't wait for the insanity. Its better by a mile. I love NZ for the casual swearing and directness. "Is that your wanking hand?" Someone uploaded Swedens season 5 and Denmarks season 4 onto Youtube, not sure we are allowed to post links here to them. So far, not sure about Sweden's version, Denmarks can be good at times.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Pretty sure one of them says they made a substitution in this episode. Was it Morgana who stole a sign for a prize task and they made her change it?
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I think it was Sarah Kendall from the last series who stole the sign for "Best thing you can carry, but only just". Not caught up with this week's Stormester yet, but another good episode of Kongen Befaler. This week featured tasks which are difficult to fully appreciate from the instructions without actually seeing the setup. quote:Prize: the best gift you have received or given
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An excellent entry for the prize task from Victoria Studio task was very dumb but I would've watched them do another round because it was also very funny.
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itry posted:An excellent entry for the prize task from Victoria That's the second week in a row where I was absolutely destroyed by Victoria's prize entry...  In other news, I finished all of New Zeland today. That last episode was epic, and I'm sad I'm out of episodes.
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The studio task was mostly ehhhh, but had a good payoff with Victoria and Alan's psychic connection. It would, however, make an amazing drunk party game, so Imma add that to my repertoire when organizing events.
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I think the studio task itself was absolutely fine, just the attempts let it down. I guessed Victoria's was a spider too, because she worked out how to abstract her subject into the simplest possible drawing + instructions. It helped that spider is fairly easy do do that with, but I think some of the others were possible too so long as you didn't fixate on recreating the given drawing. Like castle needs to be much simpler - one large square, then a line from top left going up-right-down-right-up-right etc to make the crenellations. Or Morgana's attempt, if she'd started with a square/circle container before launching into her line ASMR, she'd have had a shot at a guessable drawing. Also, catching up on Stormester from this weekend. Live task was the "draw a monster" from UK Series 11 quote:Rotate Mark. You have 10 minutes to prepare. You cannot affect Mark's rotation after you start. Most times Mark rotates about his axis wins. First one is a spin on the UK Series 6 task, with the added constraint you have to rotate the taskmaster's assistant, ruling out some of the simpler solutions. The 1, 2, 3, Hat task smacks of the writing on Bäst i Test (Swedish version) but I haven't seen it in the episodes I've caught so far, so it might be original. Kongen Befaler had a task like the third one, but that only had one jug and one cup. The extra twist of having two different drinks was a very taskmastery refinement; the table was laid out like this pre:Juice Squash Juice Squash glass jug jug glass Heavy_D fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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