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As somebody who's only watched the English versions, is there a particular foreign language version you'd recommend?
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Pinwiz11 posted:That's the second week in a row where I was absolutely destroyed by Victoria's prize entry... Sadly, Greg is slightly less appreciative of her prizes  oh jay posted:It would, however, make an amazing drunk party game, so Imma add that to my repertoire when organizing events.  Heavy_D posted: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. The castle was needlessly complicated, yeah. They didn't really try to be clever with it. Except Morgana. She tried to indicate the length of the lines by the way she said it (but nobody got that). She probably should have tried singing her "line line line" in scales. That would've given them a big hint... which would've resulted probably in guitar or xylophone drawings. That's why I think they should've had another round so they could get used to the idea of conveying ideas with a limited vocabulary. Rochallor posted:As somebody who's only watched the English versions, is there a particular foreign language version you'd recommend? The New Zealand version 
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Nov 5, 2021 10:32
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Rochallor posted:As somebody who's only watched the English versions, is there a particular foreign language version you'd recommend? I'd go with Kongen Befaler - the only thing it lacks from the UK/NZ format is team tasks. It's got a good mix of original tasks and UK tasks done with power tools, and the solves are as entertaining as that sounds. The taskmaster is suitably authoritative, although the assistant isn't quite as much a personality as Alex. Stormester drops teams tasks and the prize task (like in the US version, one contestant stakes a valuable item each week), and you'll have seen more of the house tasks before. One thing the show does more often is tasks where the contestants have months to prepare something for the studio show. Taskmaster and assistant both work really well here. Bäst i Test takes way more liberties with the format than any other adaption I've seen. Takes a while to warm to it, but it does have a long run with a number of interesting and original tasks. Suurmestari feels like it's based as much on this version as the original, and it's still a bit fledgling in terms of tasks.
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Nov 5, 2021 10:40
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For anyone who is enamoured with Morgana, watch the Milan episode of Travel Man. It's pretty good.
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Nov 5, 2021 10:54
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I love this season because I often feel like an idiot after Only Connect, and now it is VCM who feels like an idiot.
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Nov 5, 2021 11:22
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It is really amazing how much she doesn't get about simple things. No bike riding, doesn't know how a slide whistle works, doesn't know how to fold a paper airplane... My gf asked what's wrong with her, and I responded "she probably grew up in one of those families where playing anagram games where the height of excitement." I've enjoyed her appearances on QI and other panel shows to the point that she was my favorite going into the season, but boy oh boy her lack of general knowledge is quite surprising. E: seriously, when she started spinning the slide, I teared up laughing.
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Nov 5, 2021 16:17
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Catching up on old seasons. Joe Thomas has quite the extraordinary array of facial expressions.
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Nov 5, 2021 16:38
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I think VCM puts on a lot of the stuff about her not knowing things, especially culturally (through media osmosis). Just a feeling I get.
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Nov 5, 2021 18:52
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MikeJF posted:Catching up on old seasons. Joe Thomas has quite the extraordinary array of facial expressions. His and Sian's greeting in the first team task is iconic.
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Nov 5, 2021 19:25
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oh jay posted:His and Sian's greeting in the first team task is iconic. That season isn't close to my favourite, but it had some great moments. Joe and Sian were a hilarious team, the train yard hide and seek was fantastic (Sian: "Can we keep playing?"), and I absolutely love how mortified Ian was in the studio when he saw how he was treating Lou during their team task. Fake Edit: gently caress, Ian's attempt at a volcano lmao
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Nov 5, 2021 20:03
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LesterGroans posted:That season isn't close to my favourite, but it had some great moments. Joe and Sian were a hilarious team, the train yard hide and seek was fantastic (Sian: "Can we keep playing?"), and I absolutely love how mortified Ian was in the studio when he saw how he was treating Lou during their team task. "Welcome to your new life" is another great moment from that season
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Nov 5, 2021 20:30
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An Ounce of Gold posted:My gf asked what's wrong with her, and I responded "she probably grew up in one of those families where playing anagram games where the height of excitement." Given what a shower of cunts she had/has for a family it's amazing that she's turned out vaguely well adjusted (or at least keeps her worst thoughts to herself). But yeah, i can't imagine that was a fun household to grow up in.
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Nov 6, 2021 00:49
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An Ounce of Gold posted:It is really amazing how much she doesn't get about simple things. No bike riding, doesn't know how a slide whistle works, doesn't know how to fold a paper airplane... Book smart people like Victoria/Paul sinha are really good at a particular thing and
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Nov 6, 2021 00:52
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I absolutely love Guz and his fondness for Alex shines through in everything he does on the show.
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Nov 6, 2021 03:42
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A huge part of how enjoyable VCM is on this show is guessing if this is going to be a 'totally lost' or 'completely amazing'. I don't think she actively puts on about not knowing things but I think her tendency to get a bit flustered and covering for it makes it seem more exaggerated than it actually is. That and her more deadpan sense of humour. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Nov 6, 2021 |
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Nov 6, 2021 06:07
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Victoria's always has a cool confidence in everything else she's on, so seeing her completely flustered is endearing. Her game attempts to defend her choices to Greg are hilarious. There's no real weak link this series, Morgana's schtick can wear a bit thin sometimes but that's the extent of it. Guz is fantastic.
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Nov 6, 2021 11:34
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I feel a bit sorry for Victoria, because she is always very serious when she tries to explain her bizarre choices, and when Greg invariably calls her reasoning rubbish, she seems legitimately crestfallen. Made it so much more satisfying to see her succeed with the latest prize task.
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Nov 6, 2021 19:22
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LesterGroans posted:Fake Edit: gently caress, Ian's attempt at a volcano lmao If I needed to explain to a child the definition of hubris, I would just play that clip, it's perfect. Another essential task from Series 8 is the best apology for the worst thing done to Alex - it's a great task, open-ended and operating on two axes at once, and the responses don't disappoint. Latest Kongen Befaler tasks: quote:- Prize: Most unnecessary purchase
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Nov 6, 2021 21:11
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Paladinus posted:I feel a bit sorry for Victoria, because she is always very serious when she tries to explain her bizarre choices, and when Greg invariably calls her reasoning rubbish, she seems legitimately crestfallen. Made it so much more satisfying to see her succeed with the latest prize task. I feel like there's a 50/50 chance that she's actually bullshitting him with a straight face and it's impossible to tell because of how good she is at it
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Nov 6, 2021 21:20
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99 CENTS AMIGO posted:I absolutely love Guz and his fondness for Alex shines through in everything he does on the show. Guz is my favourite. Did anyone else notice him handing out the prizes from last week's episode (where the prizes were for each other)? Too cute. Guz>Morgana>Desiree>Victoria>>>Alan
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Nov 6, 2021 21:56
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Heavy_D posted: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. The points were low, but the attempts were still entertaining, at least to me.
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Nov 6, 2021 23:55
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In the recent episode of the norwegian Taskmaster the contestants was tasked with creating life in 100 days. One of the contestants managed to hatch a chicken from a store bought egg and another contestant got his wife pregnant.
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Nov 7, 2021 13:02
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Now that's dedication.
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Nov 7, 2021 16:18
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LesterGroans posted:That season isn't close to my favourite, but it had some great moments. Joe and Sian were a hilarious team, the train yard hide and seek was fantastic (Sian: "Can we keep playing?"), and I absolutely love how mortified Ian was in the studio when he saw how he was treating Lou during their team task. Ian's appearance on the podcast was quite interesting and made me like him quite a bit more, he basically said that because he wasn't that comfortable appearing on panel show type tv he tried to compensate by playing up a cocky, over-competative character, then as the studio recordings went on realised he'd totally misjudged it and was just coming off as a dick Watching the series with that in mind you can really see the realisation dawn, and its actually quite endearing
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Nov 8, 2021 16:26
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"Yeah, that's good poo poo."
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Nov 12, 2021 00:54
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The combination of simplicity and effectiveness of a giant balloon popping made it my favourite studio task this series.
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Nov 12, 2021 01:24
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Seeing Hugh Dennis in the latest Bond film was a delight, even if he gets shot to death within five minutes of his introduction.
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Nov 12, 2021 04:02
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Victoria has a weakness for not being able to stop footballs it seems.
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Nov 13, 2021 00:22
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I can't believe Victoria invented Calvinball.
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Nov 13, 2021 01:09
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Morgana not winning that prize task is the biggest scoring mistake of the whole show
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Nov 13, 2021 01:26
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GUZBALL GUZBALL GUZBALL
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Nov 13, 2021 06:48
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Alan visibly resigning to his fate as he realized immediately Victoria was enthusiastically heading down the wrong path 
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Nov 13, 2021 08:40
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Was it the wrong path though? I really liked their sport, and their commentary was better too.
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Nov 13, 2021 10:09
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See, this is why I'm convinced her Man U season ticket gift to Alan was genuine.
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Nov 13, 2021 15:28
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its beside the point but surely theres no reason to stay sat down in the studio task after everyone else has sat up? Theres no benefit to cutting it really close if you've already beaten everyone else but in all three rounds the last person did it and Desiree even through away winning the round because of it
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Nov 13, 2021 22:12
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Yuran M. Bazil posted:its beside the point but surely theres no reason to stay sat down in the studio task after everyone else has sat up? Theres no benefit to cutting it really close if you've already beaten everyone else but in all three rounds the last person did it and Desiree even through away winning the round because of it I'm reasonably sure they couldn't see each other. E: Were they also wearing headphones? I don't think anyone tried to fake pop, which would be a good tactic, if they could hear each other. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Nov 13, 2021 |
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Nov 13, 2021 22:17
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yeah there were screens in between each contestant so they couldn't see each other
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Nov 13, 2021 22:24
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGWk6XKh6zE
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Nov 14, 2021 17:07
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Oh wow guess i'm the idiot, my bad
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Taskmaster NZ series 1 did a similar studio task with just the toaster and there all the contestants wore blindfolds, but the partitions work better for the balloon because you get to see everyone getting increasingly nervous as it gets larger and larger.
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