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PhazonLink posted:I think Series 1, episode 1, Eat Watermelon is probably one the best pilots ever. Eat watermelon is one of the ones I show people.
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So true about Eat Watermelon. Especially how it goes from Frank Skinner gingerly finding a knife and then eating like 2 spoonfuls to end with Josh and Romesh's obliteration of a watermelon and then eating it like madmen.
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Just realized with Taskmaster AUS there's a nonzero chance of getting the guys from Aunty Donna on the show, and that fills me with a great happiness.
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May 9, 2023 21:24
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I want some Chaser folk on AUS for a lark. We got their shows on the BBC so I'm pretty familiar with them. They'd all be so different.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Just realized with Taskmaster AUS there's a nonzero chance of getting the guys from Aunty Donna on the show, and that fills me with a great happiness. Filming’s started on S2 already, so we’ll find out soon I expect!
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Apparently they've filmed the tasks and are offering studio tickets for NZ S4, but I haven't been able to track any down yet.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Jenny has several times now put me in mind of genderswapped Brick Top I said this to my wife like ten minutes into episode 1, glad to hear I'm not the only one who sees it.
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Just noticed that Bernard the mannequin is first used and named in the handshake task in S04E07 and is then used again in S14E07 when the contestants need to hit "Bernard" with the balls. I just remembered Sarah asking "who's Bernard?" in the S14 task when Alex mumbles about him being Bernard Mannequin in the S4 one. I had no idea he was a recurring character! He even has a wiki entry. EDIT: Also my outfit would be a a pair of gloves and Greg's suit all in gold, and I'd say I just need the trophy to complete the outfit. Phigs fucked around with this message at 06:11 on May 11, 2023 |
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May 11, 2023 05:32
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Mine would surely include a customized lucha mask, recognition value be damned.
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missing tonight's episode because I'm going to be at the next series recording 
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Phigs posted:I had no idea he was a recurring character!
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Dr. Cool Aids posted:missing tonight's episode because I'm going to be at the next series recording ASSSSSS. Tell us some juice y stuff later perhaps?
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May 11, 2023 10:49
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The banter on this season is fantastic, really. That studio task was rough to watch though 
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The Modern Leper posted:The banter on this season is fantastic, really. Oh poo poo another one? I haven't found a stream of yesterday's yet.
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May 12, 2023 04:33
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Studio task having to imitate Mae?! Excellent episode, good banter, good tasks
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I'm curious how they managed to get/make those jelly babies. Great episode for Ivo Graham content. His highest high and his lowest low.
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May 12, 2023 11:02
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Tenebrais posted:I'm curious how they managed to get/make those jelly babies. I suspect it's the dusting of powder on them. You make a flavorless gelatin base then create the flavors by pulverizing your ingredients into dust. It was a neat twist on the "eat something" genre.
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May 12, 2023 11:11
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You can boil whatever terrible garbage you want and strain the results through a bunch of cheese cloth, then mix the clear liquid with a bunch of gelatin and food coloring. Plus a generous dusting of citric acid.
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The Modern Leper posted:That studio task was rough to watch though Why?
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SirSamVimes posted:Why? Watching people put on accents that they're not comfortable speaking in makes me cringe personally. It was a good task for that reason though.
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May 12, 2023 12:36
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Ivo and Frankie's dynamic is probably the best thing in this season's tasks.
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In terms of task setting, that episode felt much more like a set of classic TM tasks.
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I don't get why none of them figured out that they would be having to do something with the answers they gave. I was 99% sure that time would be the length of time they would have, and that they would need to make something using the ingredients they gave. I didn't clue in that they'd need to make an <adjective> <nationality> <noun> out of it, and nobody would have guessed that they'd have to clap the number they gave, but they should have known they were making a task. I suppose it could have been for another contestant though, like the plays last season.
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May 12, 2023 13:59
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Phigs posted:I don't get why none of them figured out that they would be having to do something with the answers they gave. I was 99% sure that time would be the length of time they would have, and that they would need to make something using the ingredients they gave. I didn't clue in that they'd need to make an <adjective> <nationality> <noun> out of it, and nobody would have guessed that they'd have to clap the number they gave, but they should have known they were making a task. It’s easy enough to infer that there will be a follow-up task with the choices, but you can’t determine the parameters. Say you make “easy” choices based on your assumption. What happens if there’s a twist and it your choices are assigned to a different contestant? You just handed them the win. What if you assume the time you select is the amount of time you’ll get to complete the task, but instead the time you’re given is 30 minutes minus your selection? Now you’ve given yourself a lot less time to complete. There are lots of ways a task designer could manipulate assumptions from a blind guess.
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Boogaloo Shrimp posted:It’s easy enough to infer that there will be a follow-up task with the choices, but you can’t determine the parameters. Say you make “easy” choices based on your assumption. What happens if there’s a twist and it your choices are assigned to a different contestant? You just handed them the win. What if you assume the time you select is the amount of time you’ll get to complete the task, but instead the time you’re given is 30 minutes minus your selection? Now you’ve given yourself a lot less time to complete. There are lots of ways a task designer could manipulate assumptions from a blind guess. Yeah my thoughts as they were making their lists were that the time is the real fucker; assuming you're going to be the one doing the task, you don't know if it's going to be your time limit or the amount of time you have to do something for.
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My surprise was that they didn't speculate on what the task would be. If they gambled on high time being a negative then that's one thing, not even trying to game the parameters is what weirded me out. They might have just edited those parts out. But I would have thought speculation like that would be the kind of thing they'd keep in.
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I was in hysterics over Frankie's frightened chimpanzee comment, but it is now very apparent to me that tasks are not the strongest part of this series.
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Phigs posted:My surprise was that they didn't speculate on what the task would be. If they gambled on high time being a negative then that's one thing, not even trying to game the parameters is what weirded me out. There's also the risk of--like Jenny--giving yourself too much time, finishing early, having a sit-down for a bit, and forgetting to clap altogether.
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Frankie's drat lucky his prizes are all funny as hell because they have nothing to do with the tasks lmao
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Paladinus posted:I was in hysterics over Frankie's frightened chimpanzee comment, but it is now very apparent to me that tasks are not the strongest part of this series. He’s overall awful during the tasks where he’s not being a dick to Ivo, but I don’t think I’ve ever laughed more at someone’s studio banter than his.
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The camera showing what the pulper looked like inside absolutely destroyed me for how simple it was. Working on this show must be a delight sometimes.
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stev posted:Watching people put on accents that they're not comfortable speaking in makes me cringe personally. It was a good task for that reason though. But they were drat good at it! The city section was really good
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The fact that they were all "white accents" helped a lot. It's way less cringe to see British people try to be other types of British or European or Colonial than it would be otherwise.
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thebardyspoon posted:The camera showing what the pulper looked like inside absolutely destroyed me for how simple it was. Working on this show must be a delight sometimes. They way they all cringed at the horrible noises!
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This was a really fun episode. Watching Ivo do really well and then crash and burn is always hilarious. for the live task I kinda hoped all of them had gotten Jenny, but Ivo throwing just so he could try the Jenny walk was hilarious too
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Leatherhead posted:Yeah my thoughts as they were making their lists were that the time is the real fucker; assuming you're going to be the one doing the task, you don't know if it's going to be your time limit or the amount of time you have to do something for. This was my thought exactly, it could be "you have X minutes" or "After jump roping for X minutes..." The other parameters aren't that bad: probably a low number, a country that you know something about, ingredients that you wouldn't mind eating, something that there is several of in the house for a noun, and probably a color for an adjective as that's pretty objective.
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Awesome we scored a seat for the recording of the first ep of TMNZ s3. So stoked!
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Spiteski posted:Awesome we scored a seat for the recording of the first ep of TMNZ s3. So stoked! cool, tell me how justine smith does edit: this is a joke but I would really love to see more justine smith Leraika fucked around with this message at 04:04 on May 13, 2023 |
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Brigadier Sockface posted:But they were drat good at it! The city section was really good The Kiwi accent was really not bad, even if Greg didn't get it.
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SirSamVimes posted:The Kiwi accent was really not bad, even if Greg didn't get it. It was so kiwi that I don't know how he missed it though, the wife and I were both like "oh well this is a gimme" and then he completely blew it.
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