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Yeah, the vibe in the studio is really great. They don't usually let studio segments go on quite so long as the throwing/casting bit, but that was gold. I wasn't really familiar with any of the comedians before this series-- I'd heard vague dark muttering about Frankie but from earlier in the thread it sounds like the worst of that is just gross old material? Let someone without my post history ca 2007-2012 cast the first stone on that front, like that sucks but w/e. -- But I'm really liking everyone together. Jenny Eclair is an absolute delight, I love her now.
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reality_groove posted:He notoriously got kicked off of Channel 4 for making jokes about Katie Price's autistic son. Luckily the Head of Comedy for C4 had a soft spot for him and when he moved to BBC he took Frankie with him and helped rehab his career. Ohh, yeah that makes what little I've heard make more sense then. Sometimes it's hard to tell if people don't like a guy because they told gross jokes or if they're sex creeps. They both suck but on different levels really.
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The big thing I wanted to see in the bouncy-ball task was for someone to take some drums and cymbals inside the dome and really whip it good for the ricochet. Mae's was, yeah, not an interesting solution imo.
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Yeah like for all that I don't care for the tether solution for this task itself, it well redeemed itself to me with that studio banter.
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Yuran M. Bazil posted:there was a task in I think season 2 where they brought in josh widecombe to join the team of two to balance things out, I guess that's one solution. Yeah, I think they're usually pretty good at having a variety of tasks where sometimes having 2 is better, sometimes 3 is better. 2 was obviously much better for the spoon task, shame about Ivo going all ADHD at the end and losing it. I am genuinely unsure what the intent was with the way they did the points in the live task, like from a game design perspective. It's so specific there's got to be something to it, but heck if I know.
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yeah i beelined for the podcast after this ep even though i'm still playing catchup but i thought he was oddly reserved about it? i don't know, maybe i drifted off earlier in the episode than i thought, perils of bedtime listening
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had been saving NZ season 2 for a rainy day which for reasons was today, and i was watching ep 2 and saw everyone doing up papercrafts to slow the flight of this brussels sprout and i realized that there's a fair few points on the table on this game for someone who knows a couple pieces of practical origami; I know I can make functional cups and structurally sound boxes really quickly among other things and here i am, languishing at home, never to leverage my taskmaster niche lmao
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There's a podcast episode featuring the winner of NZ season 2 where they mention that their partner is actually the person who devises/sets most of the tasks for NZ-- I forget the exact anecdote, but the impression I came away with is that they don't really do a lot of matching to skills, but there is some consideration. Less tailoring, more yeah there'll probably be a couple tasks that are eyeballed as being good for you, or having fewer art tasks if no one on the cast is good at them, etc. Just general setup for what they think would make for good TV, that sort of thing.
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Beerdeer posted:Related to TM, I watched through all of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee and it was great. I wish I could compete in this one though. I'd clean up on fake points. yeah I've been watching it too and it's great, I'm a pedantic rear end in a top hat who doesn't use spellcheck for anything so I get lots of "im smarter than the tv person" moments and a good comeuppance on one or two words an episode
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Rochallor posted:I was surprised at how bad at spelling most people on the show were, yeah. Comedian is at least a writing adjacent job. Highly recommended. I assume some of it is the pressure of performance, but that can only explain so much
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Irisi posted:I think Mel is one of my all-time favourite contestants. Her bottomless well of positivity! Her cheerful cameraderie with Hugh, as she dragged the poor hapless bloke around and around the garden! The way Alex Horne adored her so wholeheartedly! And then, of course, came the exotic sandwich ("ohhh, gang"), which nearly crushed her spirit, but she bounced back!. Whatta contestant she was. i think the montage of her cheerful reactions they did is just one of the most amazing things. one of the recent YouTube clip compilations they did was wholesome moments and she was heavily featured. she's such a joy to watch going back to the notion of matching tasks to contestants, I'm pretty sure the "destroy this cake" task was laser targeted to Mel and Noel-- and Mel's immediate reaction was just wonderful.
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Snowy posted:Is there a Taskmaster porn parody and if not, why? cause half the tasks are fetish material as-is
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Leraika posted:Jenny Eclair is the best, and I would watch her in any season. a true exemplar of horrible old women, I love her so much.
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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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there was a point an episode or two ago when Frankie hit 69 points and you can just see the internal 'heh', too
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Yeah Mae is just aggressively normal, idk how I would do it either.
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The article says Rose is TM and Mike the assistant.
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Had a galaxy brain moment rewatching the jelly task; there was enough clearance that you could slice the top of the jelly off without disturbing the duck. You could then put whatever you want on top of the slice, and then get into an argument in the studio about the definition of 'the'.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Not bad, though a thin slice of jelly probably breaks easier. My mind immediately went to freezing it. Then the time limit came in but now that I think about it, maybe you could have tried it with a fire extinguisher. that's why you do it on the slice, you only need to protect the duck, hence 'the' becoming a point of contention because the jelly is now in two pieces. The Modern Leper posted:I think the Mae dynamic is best captured from a comment on the Australian Taskmaster. The TM noted that the two person team was well-paired because "you're so focused on doing the task well that you forget to be entertaining, and she's so focused on being entertaining that she forgets to do the task at all." Yeah, I think that's true. I like them from a problem solving angle and of course i'm cheering for a fellow canadian but yeesh they're just too focused on doing the thing.
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he's said outright on the podcast that he really doesn't want to win an episode because he doesn't want to have to go up and pretend to enjoy the prizes, so there's that too lol
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Frankie feels to me like if you took all the competitiveness out of Dara from last season and left just like a deflated dad behind
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Any relation between the two O'Learys? I assume not else the article would have mentioned, but I'm curious.
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reality_groove posted:Mae's Greg puppet looked just like Harry Hill's Lord Sugar puppet. Uncanny. When Mae demonstrated it, I couldn't help but think back to Iain out of his seat doing a whole Thing about puppets, lmao. Also, second half of the outtakes dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogGPLmgthUY
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Yeah, I think that early point bonanza didn't help-- I agree Mae's focus and competence would have been a lot more interesting if they hadn't gotten such a massive lead so soon. I don't think there's anything wrong with having someone play taskmaster to win, but it does want some tension to it.
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Leraika posted:You should watch series 12, which has everyone's favorite QI panelist and also the most carefully planned act of passive-aggression ever enacted against him. i developed a crush on the person who perpetrated that one immediately when they did it, and they were already delightful
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anilEhilated posted:Is this about the football ticket? That scene is just beautiful. oh yeah, one of the finest moments ever committed to television
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The house is on a flight path, no less!
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Leraika posted:12 was great, though? Victoria alone is well worth the price of admission. I feel 11 was a bit on the weak side myself, even though I like Mike Wozniak very very much. im with you on this as far as 12 goes-- id need to think a bit about 11. As far as 12 goes, well, as Ive said here before, I immediately fell head over heels for Victoria. It's interesting how much different seasons play to different tastes.
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they had their moments-- i did enjoy their really leisurely walk around the house and the sandwiches and all that but they should not have been paired together when they could have been aggravating one each of ed and rose at the same time
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SgtSteel91 posted:Where could an American watch this? The first one was so good but I had to use YouTube channels that later got them all taken down the same youtube channel as before with a 2 at the end
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Dai's might well have been the first prize task where I actually stopped and went "wow, that's a really good prize". If I won that episode he'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
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it's been said in the thread before so I'm just going to take the cue from that, youtube search ozmartian and check the community tab
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itry posted:Melanie Bracewell is doing an E05/06 recap stream right now on twitch, with Ray O'Leary. was watching her vod from last week when I aw she was live. great fun.
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Creature posted:I love if he isnt cool then why would they call him cool ray
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Pilfered Pallbearers posted:Remove an item of clothing was clearly meant to get them to see the Shakespeare task. i caught Paul at the start of Melanie's watch back last night and apparently no, nobody thought that far ahead on that lmao
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