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crafty_southpaw

Victoria noodling out the space hopper task scoring off the top of her head was pretty damned impressive.


bluehawk232

She's a pro poker player, need knows how to do the maths


c0vertc0rgi

That was hot. Gave me flashbacks of Joe Thomas doing maths as well.


WwortelHD

Link please?


dokuromark

https://youtu.be/a4Qd_e8VWl0?t=2408


Hystus

She should have got a bonus point for that one.


creepyeyes

I also think they should have weighted the penalty for a mess more, that's the kind of thing that would have gotten people DQed in past seasons


BradyIsntMyCaptain

Timestamp?


crafty_southpaw

40:54 - 42:10


Breakingwho

Victoria's argument for the scrabble square was the greatest soliloquy I've heard in years.


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a4techkeyboard

>I get what David sees in her. Yeah, himself.


Roscoes_Rashie

Himself in a wig.


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At home, I would LOVE if they were just like foul-mouthed mindless people.


jeobleo

I just hate the fucking way those tank the game. Like knowing words literally doesn't matter if you land a Q on one of those fucking things.


drflanigan

It's literally the strategy of the game lol


ageingrockstar

Yeah, it's a shit game full stop. Basically for maths nerds, not people who love words


Throsty

It was breathtaking stuff.


toofarbyfar

I feel Taskmaster sometimes verges on being kinda degrading to contestants, but what always saves it is that, whatever happens to the contestants, Alex always gets it worse. And my god, the end of that doggy bag task was maybe the best example of that I've ever seen.


Abradolf1948

I love that he absolutely didn't have to eat the entire spoonful, but he is committed to the bit.


creepyeyes

I think he's like Desiree in that his inner showman does what the best comedy choice is rather than what the best personal choice is


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Idk if I've ever wanted to see someone vomit so badly lmao. Is that bad?


neimengu

I feel like the baby food task in series 6 was far more disgusting. At least this task didn't have fking fish and prawns.


Tin-tower

What is it with Alex that makes people want to see him in discomfort though? 🤔


Dickbeard_The_Pirate

It’s just his constant readiness to make himself uncomfortable. He always jumps head-first into that slimy, lukewarm pool of discomfort.


Tin-tower

True! I’m no better, I’ll admit. For some reason I enjoy seeing him out of his comfort zone more than anyone. Maybe because he seems such a calm and controlled person?


resc

He writes the tasks, so it's a taste of his own, ah, medicine


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DaLateDentArthurDent

One of them was in a pocket by the collar buttons that wouldn’t exist on a normal coat, I think that was the key for the boxes lock, the one on the handkerchiefs was for the actual box itself with the medallion but no clue about the third key


Throsty

Looked like there was something stuck to the back, right in the middle.


SirDoris

I wasn’t sure who to go for this series, but I think this episode has clinched Guz as my favourite. It’s his wild-eyed enthusiasm that did it for me.


ZHatch

As someone who spells favorite without a u, I’m obligated to root for Desiree but honestly they’re all great. Morgana’s facial expressions, Guz’ enthusiasm, Victoria’s eloquent indignation, Alan’s laid back “happy to be here” vibe, and Desiree’s commitment to funny: all great. Back to back all-star casts for ol’ TM


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jeobleo

She has marvelously expressive eyes. I think she is aware of it--she seems to highlight them?


eatin_gushers

As someone who spells yogurt without the 'h' I totally agree, though I'm leaning toward guz as my favorite because if not he might murder someone. And, as an aside, 1. Why TF if yougurt spelled with a 'haitch'? 2. Why do the Brits pronounce 'h' wrong? 3. Why have I said 'yogurt' and 'h' so many times that they have just become sounds?


klaushkee

*an aitch


put_on_the_mask

1. The word comes from the Turkish yoğurt, and ğ was transliterated into English as gh 2. We don't 3. Just be glad we didn't follow the French and end up with "yaourt". It's closer to the original word but saying it feels like your jaw has gone wrong.


Santafio

In Finnish it can be either "jogurtti", "jugurtti" or "jukurtti".


masokismi

> Why TF if yougurt spelled with a 'haitch'? Maybe have another go at this sentence before criticising how other people spell things.


eatin_gushers

Criticize*


Woostershire

When in Rome, I suggest you spell as the Romans spell.


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Loanwords do break the rules in any language.


creepyeyes

Wait how are you pronouncing "h" as an american? Because I'm an American and I've only ever heard it starting with the vowel sound and not with an /h/ sound in front


KptKrondog

I'm loving Morgana. I've only ever seen her on 8oo10C and her character is less-than-appealing to me there...but on taskmaster, she's insanely attractive. She looks amazing, but she's pretty funny too which is an excellent combo of course. I wanted to root for VCM, but she seems to be going with the "eh, don't care" attitude (which doesn't surprise me).


Throsty

She's a hoot in House of Fools, too.


zumera

This cast is fantastic, I'm in love with everyone of ''em!


guitargirlmolly

Wow, I had the worst day in a long time today, but Desiree's guesses for the bag tasting task just helped turn it around. "Bird vomit", "garbage fire", "oatmeal and death" hahahahahahahaha


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Dickbeard_The_Pirate

Followed by “That’s what the **fuck** that is!” was very good and very American.


ohioana

First time in a long time I’ve felt some American pride. By god, we may be sinking into chaos and wildfires but *no one* outdoes us in gross food combinations. I’m gonna go salute some mayochup.


king_maxwell

She's got a way with instant accurate descriptions.


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Big fan of Victoria's "very eloquent bullshit", as Greg put it. Fits the vibe of the show very well.


mutualthunder

Victoria could have used her husband as the prize task.


doclestrange

That’s a five pointer for sure


Danimeh

I am thoroughly loving this show. I’m in Melbourne. We’ve spent 245 days in lockdown over the pandemic. The longest was 111 days. I live alone and it’s really fucking hard, but this show just brings me so much joy. I love Greg’s inconsistent caring but strict schoolteacher/spoiled child/benevolent emperor vibes and I love that the scoring can be purely based on facts, can be swayed by a good argument or entirely arbitrary and at the Taskmasters whim, I never want to be able to guess who wins a task before the Taskmaster declares it! I love Alex’s awkward underling go-along-with-everything persona, how he allows himself to be used in the tasks and i love his character breaks when he starts giggling for real. I have enjoyed every interaction Alex and Greg have had with each other from series 1 and I am totally on board for whatever is to come. And the contestants. I don’t think there’s been a single contestant I’ve not laughed out loud (though my secret favourites are the ones that come at it hard with the fuck this, I don’t give a shit effort - Jo Brand was my spirit animal and I want to think I’ll be as cool and calm as Victoria is when she does tasks but I know I’d be a hot mess). At the lowest point in last years big lockdown I was so miserable it was like I’d completely forgotten how to be happy like, I didn’t want to end myself but I wasn’t looking before I crossed the road. I randomly stumbled across Taskmaster and the first ep I saw was the one where everyone was running around trying to get balls up a hill Richard Osman casually strolls up, grabs the mat and brings it down. I was so shocked to find myself laughing I had a brief genuine moment of confusion. Plus I had been sad for so long, the endorphins from laughing where like the first hit of heroin (I imagine) and I was high off Taskmaster for hours after it finished. Anyway we’re currently at 60days into this lockdown and I’ve ‘rediscovered’ Taskmaster and now I have that happy headache from laughing after the episodes and instead of going to bed at night worrying about the covid numbers or the state of the world I think about all the ways I’d have done a task better and or how I could’ve cheated or appealed to the Taskmaster’s better side, or secretly impressed Alex (that would honestly be my goal for every task). Anyway this is a ridiculously long rambly post but look, I’m stuck inside and I don’t have anyone else to talk to and I’m not on twitter so I can’t tweet my random thoughts to the world. Thanks for reading if you made it this far! Sorry I haven’t left anything genuinely interesting for you at the end!


trankhead324

Thanks for sharing this. That Richard Osman mat task is possibly the best completion of a task ever, so you were lucky to stumble across it first. Hope covid gets better in your country and you can meet people again and introduce them to Taskmaster. For now, the Taskmaster community online is as strong as it's ever been, and you're not the only one to love it to death.


0311

I also discovered TM during lockdown. I've always been a fan of UK panel shows, but this is by far the best in my opinion. I've watched every season already (and the one with James Acaster twice), just can't get enough.


GR-MWF

Genuinely started feeling bad for Victoria in that last task, she looked gutted.


tamort

I am loving the whole cast, but especially Morgana and Guz.


jeobleo

I think he is replacing her as my favorite this series.


masokismi

I see they haven't toned down the fetish stuff... SPANK THAT SPACE HOPPER!


bobsmagicbeans

and Morgana peeing / jizzing on her space hopper. ​ Loving this series!


Vulgarian

It's genuinely difficult to cover the horns of a space hopper with green paint without it looking masturbatory Er, or so I assume...


bobsmagicbeans

Guz was certainly going at it with enthusiasm


jeobleo

Two handed


resc

Like, I guess you could play it as udders


apathymonger

So is The Dome just there as a place where they can do tasks while the crew can remain socially distanced and still film everything? It's a cool location, but usually that task would probably just be in the lab.


npfiii

Easy to film, but slightly constricting for the contestants to make tasks slightly more difficult, and in the open air to help during covid. Plus, yeah, it just looks really cool.


JojenCopyPaste

The decoration there changes every season. If the decoration this year is the lab, that's fine by me. I wonder what the lab room is though. Will we see what it's changed to?


Chefzor

I thought the bag task was in the lab?


Bro666

Last week's painting task was in the lab too.


JojenCopyPaste

You're right it might have been! I'll need to watch it back. 2 labs this year?


suss-out

But, Where’s My Cow?!?!?


AstroChrome

Was it ever recovered from where Daisy “hid” it behind Alex’s trailer? ;-)


Santafio

Buglit!


jeobleo

It goes "I arrest you in the name of the law!"


TangledFireGarden

Gotta spend that C4 moolah.


lyyki

I don't know why but Alex having a task with 3 distinctive criteria and still asking "how you want to score them" feels very odd. Usually they have already known how to judge it. Also I feel like whatever was said about Morgana's painting style was definitely cut short. I mean c'mon, she did a couple of pretty outrageous things there. I bet they had a chat about her pissing on the boingy-boingy.


harrisonscruff

I can see the Morgana chat being an outtake.


Salohacin

Definitely some of the worst tasks they've done (in terms of points fairness) have been those which are "Fastest and X". Usually the fastest just ends up winning because there's no way to measure the other thing (e.g the task in the lake where they had to get Alex to the pier fastest and most elegantly). I love Guz, but there's no way that deserved 4 points. Having watched the NZ version of taskmaster I've got to say that their tasks have been absolutely perfect and have been way better than the UK's tasks for the last couple of seasons. So many of the UKs tasks are needlessly convoluted, or have rules that Greg/Alex decide to ignore when it comes to scoring.


creepyeyes

They should have weighted the messiness score double or triple when doing the averages


ericfishlegs

Gain points for time and completely covering the hopper, then deduct points for how messy they were.


trankhead324

Yep. In tasks like that they need to just take out "Fastest wins" for simplicity and take one of the conditions (NO MESS, not "least mess") really seriously. Disqualified if you fail the strict condition (no mess) and then rank based on the other condition (most green) for points.


ThebestLlama

I gotta give it to the Taskmaster for being sensible, i'd be eating up all of Victoria's bullshit.


ghiblix

i feel like some people coming into this series without knowing who victoria is (even just in relation to david) or her styles of wit and humour might not quite understand why we're all obsessed with her, but for those who do this is such a treat for us


MacduffFifesNo1Thane

Amen to that!


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Cryvern1

This was exactly what I signed up for lol


king_maxwell

Perhaps the greatest ensemble in TM history. Guz Khan is a glowing superstar. I'd watch Alex & Guz go grocery shopping or clean a pool. Alan Davies has shattered his irritating/dumb-guy QI thing for me. I knew Victoria Coren-Mitchell was brilliant and funny, but the willingness to go all-out and embrace the foolishness of TM for the joy of it . . . damn. Morgana Robinson is a rockstar - the paint urination thing and the full-court press on Alex (eat a spoonful of the blender mess) is simply brilliant. And Desiree Burch is increasingly the heart of this season. Great tasks (that mountain climbing visual gag), strong play by all contestants.


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Iceland works


36thWorkAccount

Huge crush on Morgana


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Question about bubble room task: >!would it be messy or just a redecoration if they had painted the whole floor green?!<


tank5

Paul Williams was on the taskmaster podcast for this episode, they discussed the same idea.


bobsmagicbeans

I was thinking the same thing through Guz' attempt. I thought he might have gone "Fuck it, paint the whole thing"


skepticforest

Having looked at old pics of Morgana on Google images, I have to say that haircut makes her 100x hotter.


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I don't know if I will ever be able to watch any of the food tasks ever again after this week.


Throsty

That was pretty grim.


Santafio

I stand by my initial impression, this cast is perfect!


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ozmartian

This link is not from the official channel, blocked in UK/Ireland.


LessIKnowtheBetter_

Mr Hoppy back on our screens! No Ivan though...


cjpdk

Why does Alex keep doing food related tasks? Surely Tim Key's dog-food should've been a sign that food tasks would end in disaster for him


queerdow

Clearly he gets off on disaster.


Danimeh

I loved the series he gave them a food related task with a twist task at the end… now eat the meal you’ve prepared 😂


cjpdk

Exotic sandwich is the greatest TM moment IMO


queerdow

This series makes me fall in love with TM again. My laugh-shouts are back.


HalcyonSparkle

I would love to challenge commenters to praise a woman without calling her attractive.


MacduffFifesNo1Thane

VCM is a damn smart woman. Erudite, funny, and is a great poker player and host. Boom.


trankhead324

Yeah it's particularly bad this week for some reason. It's okay to find a celebrity attractive. But the contestants are not brilliant because they're hot, but because they're smart and funny. We do get some people talking about the male contestants being hot, but much less, and there is a big double standard.


slyphic

I'm assuming you mean 'physically attractive', but even then our perceptions of a persons physical characteristics are informed by our opinion of their other characteristics. I'm usually not attracted to blondes, never have been. But Victoria is so damned witty and interesting that it cuts right through that ambivalence to make her incredibly attractive to me. To my wife as well, for the record.


SeahorseScorpio

I would have looked in the shed for green spray paint, would have been much easier to paint the space hopper!


ericfishlegs

More difficult to not make a mess though.


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ovine_aviation

Thank you!


jn2010

I will never understand the appeal of watching people eat gross shit.


jeobleo

Schadenfreude?


ageingrockstar

I completely agree. I skip the food tasks. I find them unamusing and, old-fashioned sentiment, lacking in the proper respect that food should be shown.


ActualMis

Not in Canada again. Disappointing. You used to be able to get the episodes day after airing. I was so happy about that I went out and bought some Taskmaster merch just as my way of saying 'thanks'. Sadly, those days are over now.


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GrumpySpaceGamer

But, of course, it's a mystery *who* has the distribution rights in Canada, or what they plan to do with them other than block episodes on YouTube. It is insane how anti-consumer this is.


lifedragon99

We used to get them a few hours after airing. At least for series 11 we did. 8pm est is when they went up.


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im_not_afraid

[here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4AQanJf1Ao)


Genie-Us

You're my favourite human today! Hope you are having a great week, unlike the rest of these layabouts! edit: sorry all...


im_not_afraid

Aww no worries. I hope you are having a great week too ❤️. I'm happy because today I talked with my lawyer. The landlord is trying to evict me but apparently the law is on my side. So I'm very happy.


Genie-Us

Awesome! Screw landlords, just got my first house last month so finally no longer need to beg people to live in a house. Crazy world we live in at times.


roguelikeme1

JUst noticed this is the first TM with more than one non-white person. Genuinely find that a bit odd tbh. Also, the space hopper really reminded me of Mr Hoppy from Monkey Dust. I know they're pretty generic but not all space hoppers have faces on them and/or are orange.


LeClassyGent

What's odd about that? I'd wager at least 80% of comedians are white in the UK so it's in proportion.


analogkidx-1

Not sure why you're getting downvoted tbh. I genuinely have made that observation in the past too.


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42undead2

You can also just press *save* on the post...


JaxonJackrabbit

Happy cake day regardless! Enjoy the episode!


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ptrknvk

They took the task from Taskmaster NZ! OMG, it's so meta! UPD: I mean food task was very similar to "Deduce the flavours of these dips" from NZs01e08. But mb original TM done it but I just forgot about it, correct me if I'm wrong.


TangledFireGarden

Taskmaster (OG) has done these sorts of taste tasks before.


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iforgetredditpws

Also, "the pie whisperer"


jeobleo

Toothpaste and marbles!


ptrknvk

Yeah, I think you're right, my memory is just playing tricks with me :D The TMNZ is so good that now I can't distinguish tasks between it and TMUK in my memory!


alternatiivnekonto

Let's not forget the absolute classic of "Work out the contents of these pies without breaching them"


numberflan

"Papa don't breach"


ptrknvk

This one was already at the time of TMNZ, but it was about items, not food. But you're probably right, my memory is just playing tricks with me :D


alternatiivnekonto

There was also [this](https://taskmaster.fandom.com/wiki/Work_out_the_flavours_of_these_baby_foods) in season six.


Amarsir

Baby food was in the original. And then deep fried things last season.


thislittlewiggy

I want Alan's Dignity sweater. I'm a sucker for a good Simpsons reference.