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discussion of current standings: I hope Sue continues to keep gaining on the two frontrunners, but I don't think she'll be able to pull it off unless she gets extremely lucky. Of the two frontrunners I hope Julian takes it but Sam is really growing on me. Really, it's a series where I love everyone enough that I'd be happy to see the winner regardless. discussion of tasks: Prize task: I'm glad Susan has learned how to get points in this round (sucking up to Greg). All of this round's scoring seems pretty much in line with how I'd do it, which hasn't usually been the case this series lol. Task one: not much to say about this one but Sue's unbridled joy at her haggis properly bursting was very fun. Task 2: I probably would have tied Sue with Julian but I was less impressed by the teapot boyz than Greg was and I may be biased towards Sue, just a little. Task 3: I don't like tasks where everyone's disqualified and it seems like this one would be basically impossible to do without the DQ (because the candle science trick doesn't get all the water into the vase). Watching Sam gently caress around with fire was fun though. Live task: What a sacrifice. I love Sue. The perfect old school village idiot, to sacrifice her points to help the guy who was already in the lead.
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If the secret task reads "Keep this task secret" then, well, you heard it here first...
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Oct 20, 2023 20:31
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'Hands of a midwife ' has to be in contention for Series 17 thread title.
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Oct 20, 2023 21:16
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Julian Clairy ascending to full national treasure status with every episode
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Oct 20, 2023 21:19
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"What fun we had" keeps randomly popping into my head.
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Oct 20, 2023 21:44
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Sam absolutely slayed me twice this episode, once with the anthrax threat, and once with the line about the olympics (especially since he was absolutely right; that task was basically impossible).
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Oct 21, 2023 04:12
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I think the show should have impossible task for two reasons: 1. It would be fun to watch the contestants struggle with it. 2. Just imagine if someone managed to complete an impossible task.
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Oct 21, 2023 09:30
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Bozza posted:Julian Clairy ascending to full national treasure status with every episode He's been one ever since the gag about fisting Norman Lamont
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Oct 21, 2023 11:50
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Alhazred posted:I think the show should have impossible task for two reasons: I suspect it would have hit the cutting room floor, but they got so much good footsge out of it that they decided to use it anyway.
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Oct 21, 2023 12:32
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I didn't think the episode could get any gayer after Sue licking around the corners of a circle, but drat if the live task didn't make my heart swell. Very good series, I really love Julian, Lucy, and the Sues.
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Oct 21, 2023 13:06
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Sue not getting either 0 or 1 point for the prize task is absurd. Jeremy would never give 3 points to a prize that didn’t even fulfill the prompt. 
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Oct 21, 2023 18:22
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Sue not getting either 0 or 1 point for the prize task is absurd. Jeremy would never give 3 points to a prize that didn’t even fulfill the prompt. Literally went with the dog ate her homework excuse.
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Oct 21, 2023 18:23
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I was actually pretty annoyed that Lucy only got 2 points for things things things things things. Sure it was low effort but it was funny and was a literal interpretation of the task, fulfilling it perfectly. Sue getting a point over that for "the dog ate it but it used to fit the category" was extra insulting. Also who DOESN'T want 5 yorkshire puddings?
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Oct 21, 2023 18:41
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Tagra posted:Also who DOESN'T want 5 yorkshire puddings? Anyone who's got a choice
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Oct 21, 2023 18:56
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Tagra posted:I was actually pretty annoyed that Lucy only got 2 points for things things things things things. Sure it was low effort but it was funny and was a literal interpretation of the task, fulfilling it perfectly. Sue getting a point over that for "the dog ate it but it used to fit the category" was extra insulting. Technically Lucy had 10 things so broke the requirements
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Oct 21, 2023 19:20
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I didn't even know how to parse a yorkshiremellon, at first I thought it was some sort of fungal growth.
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Boxturret posted:I didn't even know how to parse a yorkshiremellon, at first I thought it was some sort of fungal growth. Lucy has a bit of a mania for Yorkshire Puddings, they were a horrible, horrible component of The Unspeakable Cake Thing that she made on Celebrity Bakeoff (google it, I'm not going to subject my eyes to the horrors again to find a photo of it)
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Oct 21, 2023 19:58
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Boxturret posted:Literally went with the dog ate her homework excuse. Also triceratops quite famously has three horns, not five.
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Oct 21, 2023 21:20
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The Yorkshire melon was funnier than it had any right to be. At least to me. I was almost cross with myself for laughing at it.
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Oct 21, 2023 21:25
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Mr Beens posted:Technically Lucy had 10 things so broke the requirements Yes, it had 10 things in total, but it had 5 literal "things" and the category was "A thing with 5 "things" on it" I'm not mad about it like I was about scrub daddy though.
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Oct 22, 2023 14:46
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Sue not getting either 0 or 1 point for the prize task is absurd. Jeremy would never give 3 points to a prize that didn’t even fulfill the prompt. She mentioned on the podcast that the actual Terry the Triceratops really did have five horns but also had long been lost to time, and that the recreation the prop team made didn't have the five horns.
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Leraika posted:She mentioned on the podcast that the actual Terry the Triceratops really did have five horns but also had long been lost to time, and that the recreation the prop team made didn't have the five horns. Perhaps she should have brought something else then.
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Oct 22, 2023 15:10
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I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who rely on the taskmaster team for their prizes. If you wanna roll the dice on what they get you then you take what comes up on the dice.
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Oct 22, 2023 15:13
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I’m just happy that so many more people are now aware of how terrible Australian TV was in the 90s.
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Irisi posted:Lucy has a bit of a mania for Yorkshire Puddings, they were a horrible, horrible component of The Unspeakable Cake Thing that she made on Celebrity Bakeoff (google it, I'm not going to subject my eyes to the horrors again to find a photo of it)
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Creature posted:I’m just happy that so many more people are now aware of how terrible Australian TV was in the 90s. But I cackled at Sam just calling Daryl Somers "Daryl"
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OzII has been announced https://twitter.com/TaskMasterAU/status/1716597519093047656 Aaron Chen Concetta Caristo Mel Buttle Peter Helliar Rhys Nicholson No idea who any of them are.
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OZ II is something completely different
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Apart from another Project veteran, I might have seen some of them in clips of Australian panel shows. I'm sure it's going to be great.
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Oct 24, 2023 20:04
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I know Rhys from the couple of eps of Drag Race Down Under that I watched.
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Oct 24, 2023 20:08
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I think that bald one in the middle is Tom something.
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Oct 24, 2023 20:08
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nah, the one he's shoving away is tom
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Oct 24, 2023 20:26
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I thought Rhys was Sensible Chuckle guy, but no.
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I'm amazed that Lucy Beaumont is married to Jon Richardson.
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Gromit posted:I'm amazed that Lucy Beaumont is married to Jon Richardson. That sounds like the perfect match, though - he's basically constantly overfunctioning and she validates it by being completely nonfunctional. Seriously though I was surprised to see people saying they didn't like Lucy because she's one of my favorite parts of this season.
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Gromit posted:I'm amazed that Lucy Beaumont is married to Jon Richardson. It’s just as baffling as Stewart Lee and Bridget Christie. I don’t know how it worked for so long (until it didn’t, I guess).
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Paul Williams just had a little bit part on Our Flag Means Death as Bluecoat #1 and I got extremely disoriented.
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I wonder if that affects any of the more serious actors that took part. If you see, say, Katherine Parkinson on stage and all you can think of are her attempts to catapult a shoe or something.
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anilEhilated posted:I wonder if that affects any of the more serious actors that took part. If you see, say, Katherine Parkinson on stage and all you can think of are her attempts to catapult a shoe or something. I saw the episode of Poirot with John Hannah in after I saw the new year's treat and yeah the performance was undercut slightly by the fact that he was, in my head, hitting ping pong balls at Greg Davies with a cabbage.
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Trig Discipline posted:That sounds like the perfect match, though - he's basically constantly overfunctioning and she validates it by being completely nonfunctional. You and I have very different definitions of the perfect match, because that sounds infuriating and tiring 100% of the time to me. But yes, I love every second of that mad woman and the things she says. I wonder how much is an act (if anything).
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