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There's an extended cut of Taskmaster Hotel with the Twosans (I love that group name) and it's great. One of my favorite tasks ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtU0sB61oGo
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It was an all-time great no doubt. Thinking about other sitcom scenarios they could put contestants in. Entertain two dates at the same time without them noticing? Get the best emergency present for an anniversary you forgot about? The possibilities are endless!
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Nov 25, 2023 22:03
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Paladinus posted:Get the best emergency present for an anniversary you forgot about? That's probably be a half-decent prize task.
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Nov 25, 2023 22:17
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I tried to think of which sitcom rather than which scenario. Porridge was the first one that came to mind, not sure why as I never really watched it! But there might be something in a prison setting. Dad's Army is a bit too "period" to work as a task. I mean, if you blend them together you could get to "Perform a Great Escape. Greatest escape wins" - which has the advantage of being quite open-ended.
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Nov 25, 2023 22:55
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Tenebrais posted:That's probably be a half-decent prize task.  Somebody should tweet that at Alex Horne.
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Nov 25, 2023 23:58
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itry posted:
The poor man must be tearing his hair out for task ideas at this point. He needs a bot to help come up with them. (Please no more instant disqualification tasks with long list of rules. Please.)
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Nov 26, 2023 00:20
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Organic Lube User posted:poo poo like this fully justifies piracy. I like how youtube mutes some scenes due to music copyrights or some other horseshit. hell I was using plutotv or some other FAST streaming service to watch TM and noticed some music substitutions/switches. lol at music CRs.
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Paladinus posted:It was an all-time great no doubt. Thinking about other sitcom scenarios they could put contestants in. Entertain two dates at the same time without them noticing? Get the best emergency present for an anniversary you forgot about? The possibilities are endless! "stuck in an elevator" and "clip show" could be cool. "impress a boss" is awfully close to "impress this mayor." what else... how about "convince a group of people a cool person or group is coming to your event and then break the news that they're not coming to the event, but secretly they agreed to show up to surprise the group of people after they had been told the bad news about the cool person/group not coming"? also, a "very important episode" could be fun, but i don't know if UK tv did those like the U.S. or if it'd translate to comedy lol
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Nov 26, 2023 01:57
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Lucy's doughnut task was pretty shocking but man I dunno, with hers at least it was done. Susan just kept adding onto it, I just couldn't believe what was happening. Me and my gf watch this over dinner and I simply could not look at the screen, but I just had to know what else she was going to bring out from behind the table.
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Nov 26, 2023 02:07
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Hotel Taskmaster reminds me of the old improv show "Thank God You're Here"* where the contestant is thrown into a sketch with little or no context, and then basically spend 2 minutes learning the rules, 2 minutes feeling pretty comfortable with what they're throwing at them, and 2 minutes being overwhelmed with everything catching on fire. *I always thought it was a UK show that was adapted into a US version, but it turns out it's an Australian show with US and UK versions among others! And the Australian version was revived!
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Nov 26, 2023 03:08
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Morpheus posted:Lucy's doughnut task was pretty shocking but man I dunno, with hers at least it was done. Susan just kept adding onto it, I just couldn't believe what was happening. Me and my gf watch this over dinner and I simply could not look at the screen, but I just had to know what else she was going to bring out from behind the table.
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Just caught up; I was cackling and my wife was literally weeping with laughter during the group of 3's hotel attempt. I think I lost it when Alex comes back to the caravan and does the double-take on finding Sam just standing in the corner of the room. I've seen that Sam wasn't everyone's cup of tea this season, but having never heard of him before this, he won me over completely.
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Nov 26, 2023 04:17
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All 3 of them independently commenting on Alex’s legs was so good. The whole sequence was one of my favorites ever. This has been one of the best casts and seasons ever.
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Nov 26, 2023 04:19
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I love how the hotel task was like 2 different shows, one being about a hotel guest from hell and the other being about a hotel from hell. I went from feeling sorry for the Sues to feeling sorry for "Crs Tuvwyx".
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Qrs
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Oh of course. 
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Side note: YouTube subtitles worked for this season and they were greatly appreciated, especially with regard to Lucy.
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Nov 26, 2023 07:12
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Some Strange Flea posted:I spent Susan’s VT terrified that she was going to keep going as she was, and then do what Lucy did. Yeah I was convinced she was going to chew all that stuff up and spit it on the doughnut and make Alex eat it.
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Nov 26, 2023 08:11
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Phigs posted:I love how the hotel task was like 2 different shows, one being about a hotel guest from hell and the other being about a hotel from hell. I went from feeling sorry for the Sues to feeling sorry for "Crs Tuvwyx". Alex getting out as fast as he could without even asking for his pants was pretty funny.
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Nov 26, 2023 09:29
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Especially while the two uniques waving goodbye with Julian doing the "go away peasant" sign
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Nov 26, 2023 09:46
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The Hotel task was easily the best task of the season because Alex lost complete control of the task.
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Nov 26, 2023 10:34
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stev posted:The poor man must be tearing his hair out for task ideas at this point. He needs a bot to help come up with them. Some of the recent prize tasks sure suggest he needs all the help he can get 
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Nov 26, 2023 11:16
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"Today's prize task is: bring in the best prize task."
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Nov 26, 2023 14:10
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Leatherhead posted:I've seen that Sam wasn't everyone's cup of tea this season, but having never heard of him before this, he won me over completely. YouTube keeps suggesting his appearances on other panel shows and he’s very weird.
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Nov 26, 2023 15:39
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Sam definitely wasn't my cup of tea either. I didn't mind him on the show at all but that clip of his standup did nothing for me. It had the same energy as a staged internet sketch where it might have been funny if it hadn't been entirely planned. At least most of his Taskmaster quips were improv. I did enjoy the series-long grey theme with the colour punchline at the end. I might have been influenced because I found it so annoying that Lucy would bring in something stupid and odd but actually kind of clever if you think about it from a different lens, and Greg would poo poo on it and give one point, and then Sam would bring in something completely stupid and Greg would say "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. 5 points." I think I disagreed with Greg more this season than any other one mostly because he kept giving high points to Sam...
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Nov 26, 2023 18:12
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there's nothing for it. you'll have to best him in single combat
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Nov 26, 2023 20:35
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People seem to be saying that once someone is "winning" they immediately become boring and the worst contestant ever, but it feels like they don't do the overall scores as often? I tried to keep a note when I was rewatching series 15 and it barely came up.
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Nov 26, 2023 20:40
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Yeah I thought it was odd that at the end of the ninth episode they didn't mention the overall scores. Came as quite a suprise to me in the last one that Julian was so close to Sam in terms of score as I would have guessed that the latter was miles ahead of him.
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Nov 26, 2023 22:30
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There's an extended cut of the team of three's Hotel Taskmaster attempt now as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Uoqf3eezU
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Nov 26, 2023 23:27
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Its amazing how naturally it just becomes an episode of Fawlty Towers.
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Nov 26, 2023 23:31
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i know editing is complicated but it's criminal that they cut out lucy painting alex's toenails, "dry brushing" his legs, and julian and her saying he had "bruised knees"
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eke out posted:i know editing is complicated but it's criminal that they cut out lucy painting alex's toenails, "dry brushing" his legs, and julian and her saying he had "bruised knees" I'll say it before and I'll say it again - Taskmaster needs bumper length episodes like QI and a few other shows get. I'd sit through every series again if each episode had 20-30 minutes of outtakes and extra stuff.
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Nov 26, 2023 23:59
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Ah, Christmas time heralds the return of that David Correos Celebrations ad in the UK.
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eke out posted:i know editing is complicated but it's criminal that they cut out lucy painting alex's toenails, "dry brushing" his legs, and julian and her saying he had "bruised knees" Not to mention Julian's "what a cu-". EDIT: And Sam asking if he wanted a new room or a new view as though he could somehow provide a new view. It's no wonder they wanted to put out an extended bit. Phigs fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Nov 27, 2023 |
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for shits and giggles, i asked AI for new prize task ideas. they weren't good, but they did throw in three images for some reason. They were: Rhod holding his finger to his lips in Greg's closet, a still photo of Bob Mortimer's spinning sausage machine, and Mike Wozniak sitting in his chair with his floppy hat covering his mohawk. The AI can't write good prize tasks, but it sure can recognize them!
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Rewatching some old stuff on YouTube and I was looking forward to S13E4 because I knew it had 'Get your loving hands off me' and it wasn't there. They'd cut it out. I found a crappy copy on Dailymotion and it was definitely there. What the gently caress.
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Unkempt posted:Rewatching some old stuff on YouTube and I was looking forward to S13E4 because I knew it had 'Get your loving hands off me' and it wasn't there. They'd cut it out. I found a crappy copy on Dailymotion and it was definitely there. What the gently caress. Was that when Alex touched someone's hair? Because I vaguely remember that existing when I first saw it, but don't think I saw it on rewatch.
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Nov 27, 2023 05:54
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Phigs posted:Not to mention Julian's "what a cu-".
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Nov 27, 2023 07:03
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oh jay posted:Was that when Alex touched someone's hair? Because I vaguely remember that existing when I first saw it, but don't think I saw it on rewatch. He touched Greg on the shoulder just after an advert break. Maybe they're just cutting 'gently caress's instead of bleeping them? That would be poo poo.
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Morpheus posted:Lucy's doughnut task was pretty shocking but man I dunno, with hers at least it was done. Susans was so much worse than Lucy's because she actually did the thing. From Sue's task we already know they had multiple doughnuts, so there is no chance Lucy actually baby-birded Alex.
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