#taskmaster rambles

[teddypoi-qd]

my favourite taskmaster Bit is when they pause to restate the rules of a task and then pan to be like "so who's next" {has clearly broken every single rule and then some}

[luck-system-shenanigans]

what the FUCK goes on in taskmaster

i am on the second episode. someone please tell me why the little assistant guy is voluntarily eating toothpaste.

[chronicowboy]

2015 - 2024

[rawrenjoyer]

👍

[robiinurheart33]

WAIT WAIT SONIC AU WHERE STONE AND EGGMAN ARE ALEX AND GREG DAVIS FROM TASKMASTER AND THE CONTESTANTS ARE THE SONIC GANG OMFG

[supernatural-bias]

yeah that checks out

[lilalexhorne]

They look like a pair of completely unserious private investigators who are taking your case only for it to end up inadvertently exposing some grand government conspiracy in between making a fool of themselves and having homoerotic tension and at the end of the movie they're both like "Oh yeah no your husband definitely cheated." before riding off into the sunset together in their vintage convertible.

[alisoncooper]

which taskmaster quote has entered your lexicon??? because mine is absolutely nish kumar’s “i’m going to do this if it kills me and everybody here”

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Started watching Aotearoan Taskmaster and oops I've fallen in love with Madeleine Sami. You simply cannot put a queer woman in a suit in front of me and not expect me to fall head over heels with her.

[shortqueershakespeare]

Taskmaster and Hozier tour coming back in may is the universe giving me a way to get through the last month of work before I head home and I’m grateful

[upslapmeal]

Notes from the Taskmaster 16x10 recording

The last two episode recordings I went to, I meant to make comprehensive notes when I got home afterwards that I would be able to look back at and post when the episode aired. I did not, in fact, end up doing that. So this time I was determined to have lots of notes, and made them on the go in the breaks in recording. However. They were made in a rush and I never went back through them to pad them out (you'd really think I would have learned by now). So instead of just having to rely on my memory, I ended up with an almost coded list of words and phrases that it's taken me pretty much 2 weeks to sit down and decipher lol. So with that said:

the pre-episode Greg-Alex entertainment was Greg getting Alex to sing a song about a recent news story to the tune of a song suggested by the audience - in this case it was Trump's lawsuit (the one in May 2023 since there are...a few) to the tune of Wuthering Heights

Alex really went for the whole live thing, and was constantly referring to it throughout the episode

when the contestants came onstage, I obviously first saw Sam in his bright colours and blond hair

we were right on the back balcony and my first impression from that distance was that he kinda looked like Jamie Laing lol

Greg made a passing comment about how he's been dressing in grey but I was completely taken by surprise when the vt rolled and he looked completely different!

I had assumed he'd actually buzzed his hair and didn't realise it was a wig until the ep aired

Sue made comments throughout the episode about how Sam looked like Dahmer

Lucy's prize task story, unsurprisingly, went on for ages and included a whole story about the holiday they went on that I tragically cannot remember

I was so glad they didn't cut 'untaffled' because I looked through my notes before again before watching the episode and couldn't for the life of me remember what she'd said

Greg's said that his immediate response to naked Alex in the prize task was that he was 'smooth like an eel'

After Julian's prize task there was a discussion about how people wanted to be buried, and at one point (I wish I could remember the conversation leading up to this) either Greg or Alex said they would be buried 'together forever in the Victoria monument'

There was a whole long debate about whether Sam intended to use nature as part of his doughnut task, and whether the bird toppling Ms Doughnut to her death should be counted

Greg told Sam to 'convince me to give you 3 points'

Sam went on talking about how amazing nature is and how we're all connected and at one point said 'consider the statistics.....3000' (I'm 99% sure this is what he said and I didn't just forget the rest of the quote)

Julian's exercise name was absolutely not a one-off, to the point they started running a 'cunt count' for the episode

Sue talked about how she had recently had an ADHD diagnosis, and that she kept viewing tasks holistically rather than paying attention to the details. This was specifically in relation to the exercise where she just did the same thing 4 times

I'm not sure if we saw the full extended version of Hotel Taskmaster, but we definitely saw a cut that included more than the aired version (though tbh I think they do that for most tasks and I just noticed this one bc we got the extended version)

We got an 'I put it to you' from Greg that Alex-as-Qrs looked genuinely cool

Lucy described Alex as having 'tight metallic buns' which Greg later referred to as his 'robot arse'

I cannot stress how much of a breakdown Susan had in the studio about the forks and marbles - you get a glimpse in the episode but that was nothing!

Susan also took AGES to do her throw in the live task - she kept on being about to throw before being interrupted, or saying her arms were too short, or that she needed a wee, or having a fit of giggles, and the longer it went the worse it got lol

Greg and Alex also had a go at it, and Sue wanted another go without the pressure. Greg and Sue got the ball in but Alex didn't

Don't ask me to remember the context, but at one point during the record, Greg told a story about someone he knew (whose name he said he would tell the others backstage) who would have sex in a cow mask and would demand 'LOOK AT ME!!!'. Anyway that was referred back to a few times in the ep

When Sam was given the trophy he just stood near-motionless with it for what felt like ages before we got to the hugs and everything

And now we enter the magical world of ~what on earth was this note referring to~ where I just hope someone else who was there (@politicalprocrastinator how's your memory?) sees this and can fill me in on what I've forgotten:

At some point around the prize / first task I wrote 'correct dog guess'. Whose dog? What was being guessed? Absolutely no idea

At some point there was a joke about the 'former Prime Minister', I think the idea being that by the time the episode aired we'd inevitably have a new PM? but I honestly can't remember

Someone called someone else submissive in a way notable enough for me to have written 'submissive' as a one-word bullet point, but not notable enough for me to actually remember

And now three bullet points which I will present in their original form:

Birthday

Bum hole in back

Get in bath

[grimdarknokia]

they should play ‘rosalind’s a nightmare’ off taskmaster in the club

[batboymp4]

Taskmaster is back and I’m formally apologising in advance as to how insufferable I will be for the next ten weeks xx

[rawrenjoyer]

there's been a revelation...................

[luck-system-shenanigans]

RE: what the fuck goes on on taskmaster

here's some things that have baffled me today

1. guy gave up his wedding ring for the prize thingy??????????

2. TATTOO????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

3. the entire "make the swedish guy blush" segment. less baffling, more just the homoerotiscm compelled me. why did the one guy feel the need to tell him to picture alex naked?

[robiinurheart33]

I cant stop projecting them stobotnik house md AU im actually tearing up stobotnik house md au guys guys hear me out guys GUYS GUYS clawing at my face GUYS DO YOU SEE THIS GUYS GUYS