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AzureSkys posted:I really appreciate Ed doing the Taskmaster podcast but oh man I wish there was some sort of production touch behind it since the audio levels are all over the place. My volume button gets quite a workout. I just assumed Fern didn’t know or care enough to adjust her microphone.
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Weird Taskmaster fact of the day: Alex Horne has set the "Flag Meal" task to 15 contestants, more than any other single task (edit: actually tied with "buy a gift for the taskmaster"). Yet it has not appeared on any of the international series of Taskmaster to date. I wonder if there's a language thing going on there; part of the fun is that the task pretends that "flag meal" is an instantly recognisable concept, rather than a daft Horne conceit. But I can see how perhaps showrunners in other countries might assume there's something in there that isn't translating correctly, a pun or a reference to other media that they're missing.
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I will 100% admit as a Canadian that I thought that we were meant to recognize the concept of a flag meal during those tasks.
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Oct 26, 2022 19:12
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Alex says it like it's a thing, but it's basically on the level of his idea that knights are called "wet" instead of "sir".
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Oct 26, 2022 22:17
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Smooth Rupert was a good bit, and Greg scored it poorly. https://twitter.com/bookoftm/status/1584031532888383489
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Oct 27, 2022 17:25
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john being asked "what's your definition of pleasure" and taking a big breath and single beat and reply "doing something well" got my loudest laugh of the season so far
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Oct 27, 2022 23:04
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eke out posted:john being asked "what's your definition of pleasure" and taking a big breath and single beat and reply "doing something well" got my loudest laugh of the season so far Same. I had to pause it for a minute to calm down. Perfect delivery.
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Oct 27, 2022 23:09
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eke out posted:john being asked "what's your definition of pleasure" and taking a big breath and single beat and reply "doing something well" got my loudest laugh of the season so far lmao yes. i’m watching the ep now, and this task absolutely killed me
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Oct 27, 2022 23:58
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A perfect John episode. The series goes from strength to strength.
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Oct 28, 2022 00:15
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I died laughing at the live task, John is loving hilarious
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Oct 28, 2022 00:22
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John has hit the groove in the studio segments now. Fern is still loving weird.
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Oct 28, 2022 00:36
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Hey. veeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Oct 28, 2022 02:17
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The fake out when it looked like John was going to be potatoed was amazing
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Oct 28, 2022 03:17
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I was pretty sure Fern went wayyy over the line on a couple of attempts, but I guess it's fine as long as those carts didn't connect?
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Rochallor posted:I was pretty sure Fern went wayyy over the line on a couple of attempts, but I guess it's fine as long as those carts didn't connect? I think so long as you let go of the cart before crossing the line it didn't matter if you actually crossed it.
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Boxturret posted:The fake out when it looked like John was going to be potatoed was amazing The fact that John was expecting it made that whole bit even better
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Oct 28, 2022 03:39
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That was a very good John Kerns episode. Is this show a successful Stockholm Syndrome experiment???
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Oct 28, 2022 04:58
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I have people in my life who need me to give them a worm trumpet. Unfortunately there’s such a thing as a “trumpet worm” that’s ruining my google searches.
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Oct 28, 2022 05:07
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Rochallor posted:I was pretty sure Fern went wayyy over the line on a couple of attempts, but I guess it's fine as long as those carts didn't connect? I think you could step over the line after you let go?
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Oct 28, 2022 05:14
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Crosspeice posted:That was a very good John Kerns episode.
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show good, depending
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That was an all timer. John was incredible all EP. Agreed on the pleasure line but him during the live task had me crying.
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fischtick posted:I have people in my life who need me to give them a worm trumpet. Unfortunately there’s such a thing as a “trumpet worm” that’s ruining my google searches. I was expecting an actual trumpet to make worm music with. The reality was better than expected. ‘Take any opportunity to abuse Alex’ seems to be a running theme for the women of Taskmaster. I love it. Creature fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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One of the better subtle moments on Taskmaster: Fern suggesting John do the vital bit of the task and Dara just giving the slow blink while he's processing it  I wonder if you could have tied a long rope to a cart's handle, set it up behind the target cart all the way at the back, and pulled them into each other from behind the line. I also wonder if you could have linked up all the carts in the baggage claim to hit the target cart with the long cart snake.
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eke out posted:john being asked "what's your definition of pleasure" and taking a big breath and single beat and reply "doing something well" got my loudest laugh of the season so far Repeated captions throughout: "groans in displeasure"
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Oct 28, 2022 19:05
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My Lovely Horse posted:One of the better subtle moments on Taskmaster: Fern suggesting John do the vital bit of the task and Dara just giving the slow blink while he's processing it Tbf, it was probably better that Dara was guessing for their overall score.
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Oct 28, 2022 19:20
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On the cart task I was wondering if attaching a bunch of carts to the target cart and then hitting anywhere on the train of carts you created would count. I think that's what I would have tried.My Lovely Horse posted:One of the better subtle moments on Taskmaster: Fern suggesting John do the vital bit of the task and Dara just giving the slow blink while he's processing it I thought it looked like Dara thought Fern was trying to sabotage them. When I'm betting she was just trying to make sure no one volunteered her for the job.
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Oct 28, 2022 19:23
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What is the thing that John bought the streaker for? I think it's some English thing I have no way of knowing.
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Oct 28, 2022 21:05
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Phigs posted:What is the thing that John bought the streaker for? I think it's some English thing I have no way of knowing. It’s effectively a board game about football (soccer) that was extremely popular in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbuteo?wprov=sfti1
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Ah cool, and looking at how it's spelled I'd have never googled it. The luggage trolley task said "starting behind the line". Nothing about staying behind the line. So IMO you could start running from behind the line and then just run the trolley into the target trolley. They did the whole John violating the rules fake out but I don't think he'd be wrong even if he did, so long as he started behind it.
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I think that prize task was judged wrong, because John Kearns as a professional funnyman, very obviously has a use for those tiny naked men, which he demonstrated. The breakdown of points seems about like what I was expecting. Dara's way ahead, but Sarah Millican is still within striking range, and then the others are trailing behind, but I'm surprised Munya, Fern, and John are all pretty close instead of John being totally behind. Phigs posted:The luggage trolley task said "starting behind the line". Nothing about staying behind the line. So IMO you could start running from behind the line and then just run the trolley into the target trolley. They did the whole John violating the rules fake out but I don't think he'd be wrong even if he did, so long as he started behind it. It seemed like John initiated it out of his own fears, but then they also did that outtake fakeout where they tried to determine whether Dara took off his flippers to get the grapes out of the fridge. Easy to see why it was cut, since there was no drama to it. They're also still doing the interviews framed as tasks and "micro task" promos. I kinda feel like they should be awarded points for those even though they're not on the full show, and might have been filmed after the studio bits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmn_1M63-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofvZ6Ubyjk8
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What about doing a running start behind the line but jumping on the cart and trying to guide/propel it? What I'm saying is I'm disappointed no one tried to game that one
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My Lovely Horse posted:One of the better subtle moments on Taskmaster: Fern suggesting John do the vital bit of the task and Dara just giving the slow blink while he's processing it Iirc, one of the rules was that the carts were not allowed to be moved by the player after being launched so idk if that'd work.
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Isn't it 'furthest hit target cart wins'? So put the cart at the line, hit it with another cart and just take the first cart and run with it for the remaining time.
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Transcribing it from the episode:quote:Place one luggage trolley a certain distance away from the line.
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I felt like the wording in that task was weirdly ambiguous and suggested that you didn't actually have to hit the target trolley, it would could if you hit any previous attempts as well, but it seems like it didn't come up because everybody just went for the marked one.
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I don't think it's ambigous at all. It is too long, but All The Information's On The Task™
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the music task song sounds like a banger, is it played by Alex's horn section band??/ is it available anywhere to DL/whatever?
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Phigs posted:Transcribing it from the episode: So it does seem like you could potentially newton's cradle a line of carts as a way to guarantee getting a certain distance. The only issues being that the carts are squirrely so doing it mulitple times may get extremely hard. Set up time might also not be enough.
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Phigs posted:Transcribing it from the episode: It seemed like once you hit the cart the first time you could move it anywhere you wanted and call it a day. Munya basically did that when he just pulled the first cart halfway down the terminal after the first strike.
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