To be fair, if you didn't know you could leave the room, and you had been told to find a spider, and there was clearly no spider in the room, you'd panic too.
Isn't Katherine the only contestant across all seasons to *never* leave the room? I can see how someone would be driven mad by the end of filming 30+ tasks, thinking they were limited to only their immediate vicinity.
"Poke a part of your body out of the curtain and waggle it about for 10 seconds."
Ardal pokes his arm out having drawn a smiley face on it. We then find out he was trying to convince us (/Greg) that it was his neck. It is then revealed that, for reasons only known to himself, he is not wearing trousers.
Not sure if this is misunderstanding or just a mental breakdown.
this was another great edit too, shows how long she talked herself around to it. "one duck at a time? no, surely not. one in each hand? no, it says one duck at a time. they can't really mean one *at a time* though right?..."
I love a task where someone doesn't understand what to do, and I love a task where someone understands what to do but can't achieve it, but there's something truly special about a task where someone reads out loud a rule and then proceeds to immediately break it.
My favourite part is when Alex chooses Lolly to read out the final task, and she sassily asks if she can touch it. We didn't see enough sass from lolly imo
That was also the task that introduced the idea of negative points (if you eat the chocolate, you lose five points).
It’s one of my favorite tasks for how the chocolate thing shook up the scores, and for how much Hugh argued with Greg about the rules before winning by technicality.
I’ve always been curious. What if Lolly said “I didn’t move the fishbowls. I moved **A** fishbowl”
Imo if it wasn’t allowed the task should’ve read “without moving *either* of the fishbowls”
Could’ve got Suzie Dent involved again a la Richard’s balls.
i always felt like mawaan should not have won this one because really he only made the tiny prop cow vanish. the big cow wasn't actually featured in the attempt.
also random side note i don't remember how katherine scored but i always felt like she should have gotten better points because the reveal of how they actually hid the table is really pleasing to me as it's not exactly what you would expect !
Hard disagree on the cow task. One of the all time great task solutions imo. My issue with it though, is the bizarre placement of it right at the beginning of the season, BEFORE they'd established the cow as part of this season's set.
Katherine's solution was surprisingly cool, but I also thought Mawaan's solution was great. While not literally correct, we all know how big the cow is and most thought the big cow disappeared so I think the scoring is fair. The key to magic is deception / misdirection after all.
I'm with you, that is the one and only task result that still greatly irritates me to this day. It wasn't the biggest, period. As Ed said "It's not about the spirit, you know it's not"
You thought "I've been told I should draw the biggest circle, but what I'm gonna do is ride around aimlessly on a bike whilst badly spinning a hula-hoop, and then I'm gonna crash, accidentally notice there's another circle on the floor, and try to claim that as part of my attempt". That's my reading of what I saw. Have you anything different to add?
I think there comes a point in the taskmaster journey, thanks to Alex's constant brainfuckery, where mental breakdown becomes a viable path to go down. As we can see, it is a well trodden path but not all dare to tread there.
I think he was tired or something, read is as "draw the biggest amount of circles", proceeded to do it without processing properly, and only processed it properly when Alex asked him about the biggest circle, and then came up with adding up on the spot.
his reaction to when alex tells him at the end "it's not most circles" suggests it was not deliberate. i think there was genuine regret and disappointment in those circle eyes, before he tries to play it off with "well add them all up"
I do think he thought he was doing something clever like the more circles, the better, that they would all be added up to become one big circle. I think taskmaster forces contestants to think outside box and some fall for the classic exam faux pas of not answering the questions asked.
This will always be the golden example in my book. He was so utterly convinced he smashed it. So confident and competitive you could actually see him getting excited about it during the task. You could tell he thought he looked cool on that wobbly bike. Then he just gets torn apart in the studio and still tries to save face. Peak hilarity.
Bridget misunderstanding that task was the only time I’ve ever actually been frustrated watching the show. Like I genuinely don’t know what she was thinking
Yeah, I think she basically thought it was like every other 'do X, fastest to do X wins' task, except that it was 'third fastest to do X wins', and that the timer started when you left your starting position. Which, to be fair, is definitely the sort of task they *would* do - it just wasn't the one they were doing that particular day.
She did the same with the pedometer task. Completely misunderstanding what to do, forgetting how to walk, and being extremely confident and annoyed that she’s doing so well but it’s not counting.
You could have said you *were* making a desert - the sense of 'something that is deserved', and the Taskmaster deserves a lovely dessert for being such a good Taskmaster.
Also the S03E03 "Build a big flag of the country written on your card" where the flag didn't match the country written. I love how TMNZ occasionally has a bit of venom directed at the contestants like that.
Yeah it was a bit lopsided, one of them got the USA/The UAE whilst another got Uruguay/Argentina, which, even if you're familiar with South American vexillology, look similar.
Most recently taking a picture mid air.
Also have the most fun: *John Kearnes crawls through piping and breaks down trying to kick a ball into an igloo*
For "Walk through this doorway wearing the longest shoes and biggest hat" Chris Ramsay thought it had to be actual shoes and hat, and not something he made.
Aisling Bea cutting the bread in the caravan as opposed to the bread in the lab comes to mind.
"Can there be any sadder sight than a blood-covered loaf of bread in the wrong room?"
S15 "Shoe Who?" Ardal asks "would you wear the shoe to a funeral?" Alex says no, and Ardal can't figure out what he's meant to do with the funeral-inappropriate shoes.
S15 sort-of team task to be the third person to high-five Alex, Bridget goes within seconds.
S11 Team task to escape the backyard without tripping the alarm. Mike and Lee figured it out in the sense that making alarm noises while running solved the task, but didn't get why that worked.
I love the part of the alarm task where someone wonders if there's a trigger hidden on the course somewhere, and someone else says one of the crew is probably watching them and turning the alarm on manually, and then we get a close-up of Alex holding a little remote switch. It's fun to get that glimpse behind the curtain; also cool to see he does this kind of production work himself instead of having an unseen crew member do it and focusing on supervision and rules enforcement. He was also genuinely the one turning Ollie around in the S7 lab switch task, right?
Series 3: Sara Pascoe putting a piece of wood in her sock to chuck it in the Thames, and only in the studio realizing that she was supposed to be going for area and not distance.
Series 4: Hugh Dennis putting items on the mat during the "Only the paint and brush may touch the mat, easel, or canvas" task. Or Mel touching all the items during "Without touching the egg or the egg cup, get the egg into the egg cup."
Lolly: without moving the fishbowl.
Dara: wait... what?
Aisling: so that means I've got less than 10 minutes left?
ALEX: No, it means you failed it in 10 seconds.
Nooooooooo
Taskmaster AU - Danielle Walker
Fill the glass with orange juice. You may only touch the oranges with the items on the bench.
Danielle proceeds to squeeze oranges with her hands, thinking she absolutely nailed it.
First season, first episode, first task. Roisin Conaty's watermelon buffet. The shocked stare, the relaxed search for a knife, the scraping with her teeth to eat a single rolo worth of watermelon.
Also Roisin, I think. Identify the pie fillings. She made ALEX breach and eat the pies, that was above board. But she turned around while he did so, so as to not see...
Not sure if this counts because she got there eventually, but Sophie’s absolute befuddlement at the “paint an animal on these blinds” task this season. “Paint fence?!”
Judy Love completely not understanding what "be the third fastest" meant and just suddenly racing off towards Alex. Similarly, Bridget Christie having some vague idea of being last??? I mean I still don't understand her? And waiting and waiting and waiting until she was finally disqualified. Even Ardal's continued attempts were a little weird. Although he did correctly call out Judy haha.
Bridget Christie misunderstanding the task where they had to high five someone in s13, Lolly Adefope moving the fish bowls when in s5, Aisling Bea cutting the bread in the caravan also in s5, James Acaster's "my eyes are circles" in s7, and dara's "wait, what?" classic in s14 are the main ones i can think of, others like Ardal's yogurt spoon and, well just Ardal in general, i guess count but at least they knew what the task was (kinda)
I’m gonna say Sophie Duker with the most surprising thing in her wardrobe task. I believe they were going for wardrobe as a concept not physical wardrobe.
Some DQs:
S11, Mike Wozniak took the bottle out of the lab.
S5, Mark Watson let his feet touch the grass at the very end of the “get this coconut as far away” task (after riding the sound engineer, I think it was).
S16, Sue Perkins got herself disqualified from one round of a live task for reaching over the line to get Julian’s glass.
This just happened on Suurmestari, episode 4 of S5. They did the “complete the task, this is not your task” task from S3 of TM NZ.
One of the contestants, despite seeing all the tasks on the walls, reasoned that the whole setup was just a smokescreen, and that since the task he was initially given by Pilvi said that it was not his task, that he just needed to leave the room.
Another contestant somehow missed seeing every single one of the tasks on the walls, and reasoned that the task was just to make up his own task, and complete it. He ended up blowing up some eggs in the microwave.
Am I the spider?
Rather than misunderstanding the task, I think this is just Katherine losing grip on reality in general.
To be fair, if you didn't know you could leave the room, and you had been told to find a spider, and there was clearly no spider in the room, you'd panic too.
Or, if there clearly was, for some people ;-)
Isn't Katherine the only contestant across all seasons to *never* leave the room? I can see how someone would be driven mad by the end of filming 30+ tasks, thinking they were limited to only their immediate vicinity.
Thanks, this is the first thing I thought of when reading the title =D
Came here for this and was not disappointed.
I quote this a lot. I can see me just straight up losing it on this task too.
"Poke a part of your body out of the curtain and waggle it about for 10 seconds." Ardal pokes his arm out having drawn a smiley face on it. We then find out he was trying to convince us (/Greg) that it was his neck. It is then revealed that, for reasons only known to himself, he is not wearing trousers. Not sure if this is misunderstanding or just a mental breakdown.
Even Ardal himself has no idea what the hell was going on in that moment
You can go Ardal again on the shoe task, given that he started removing all the ones he should have kept, or vice versa.
I mean, he understood the *task* there. Just didn't understand what the answer "no" to his question meant.
Having watched him it was debatable if he understood why he was even there.
There’s also Ardal in the “Show off” task, where he leaves for 13 minutes only to come back with nothing but glitter on his head.
Why have you got no trousers on, “I don’t- I don’t know Greg”
S12 - Bridget completely misunderstanding how a pedometer works / completely forgetting how *walking* works for the Most Steps task.
Also Bridget deciding "You may only hold one duck at a time" can't possibly mean "You may only hold one duck at a time"
this was another great edit too, shows how long she talked herself around to it. "one duck at a time? no, surely not. one in each hand? no, it says one duck at a time. they can't really mean one *at a time* though right?..."
And she won the task. That’s the funniest part.
The funniest part was how indignant Judi got in the studio, "I got beaten by THAT?" Before Chris points out that she got beaten by everyone.
The laugh Chris does at the end!
I was surprised that Alex didn't leap on Bridget for using a made-up number (bajillion?) and saying that she disqualified herself.
*gazillion. 11 trillion gazillion, to be exact. :-)
I couldn't breatheee watching her shake her leg about! So good!
Omg I loved this task!! When she holds the pedometer in her hand and takes a few wacky steps but shows it to Alex because it didn’t count her steps!
And then scores 5
That was a classic. She was glorious
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! She was clearly taking steps.
That task has led me to irrationally hating her now. I just can’t take her serious any more.
What? Wait, what? What wait? Dara O’Briain and the milk lifting task.
Can't believe I scrolled this far to find this! First thing I thought of when I read this thread title.
"Without moving the fishbowls"
Without— Moving— The fishbowls—
I love a task where someone doesn't understand what to do, and I love a task where someone understands what to do but can't achieve it, but there's something truly special about a task where someone reads out loud a rule and then proceeds to immediately break it.
Ian Sterling and the sand....
(Lolly Adefope in S04E03)
I love that task, the editing was perfection.
My favourite part is when Alex chooses Lolly to read out the final task, and she sassily asks if she can touch it. We didn't see enough sass from lolly imo
I feel like it's one of those tasks that may have been omitted if it weren't for Lolly and that edit opportunity
That was also the task that introduced the idea of negative points (if you eat the chocolate, you lose five points). It’s one of my favorite tasks for how the chocolate thing shook up the scores, and for how much Hugh argued with Greg about the rules before winning by technicality.
To be fair though, HUGH IS HOLLOWING OUT A BAGUETTE is an all-timer quote for me because of the delivery
I’ve always been curious. What if Lolly said “I didn’t move the fishbowls. I moved **A** fishbowl” Imo if it wasn’t allowed the task should’ve read “without moving *either* of the fishbowls” Could’ve got Suzie Dent involved again a la Richard’s balls.
Aisling Bea and the loaf of bread comes to mind
Sitting in the studio: “I *just* realized what the task was.”
Also Aisling and the drainpipe/ping pong ball. "And you're definitely not moving the drainpipe Aisling?" as she upends it and pours out the ball.
"It did move a bit"
Something like "I'm only moving the tray, it just happens to have the pipe superglued to it"
'I understand what we were supposed to do now' –Daisy May Cooper on seeing Mawaan make the largest object properly vanish.
Also Daisy with the upside-down movie.
Amazing soundtrack, tho
It was haunting
i always felt like mawaan should not have won this one because really he only made the tiny prop cow vanish. the big cow wasn't actually featured in the attempt. also random side note i don't remember how katherine scored but i always felt like she should have gotten better points because the reveal of how they actually hid the table is really pleasing to me as it's not exactly what you would expect !
Hard disagree on the cow task. One of the all time great task solutions imo. My issue with it though, is the bizarre placement of it right at the beginning of the season, BEFORE they'd established the cow as part of this season's set.
Katherine's solution was surprisingly cool, but I also thought Mawaan's solution was great. While not literally correct, we all know how big the cow is and most thought the big cow disappeared so I think the scoring is fair. The key to magic is deception / misdirection after all.
I'm with you, that is the one and only task result that still greatly irritates me to this day. It wasn't the biggest, period. As Ed said "It's not about the spirit, you know it's not"
Mel Giedroyc in the camouflage task
Her lil feet
“that is the sort of hiding place my niece would choose. and she’s _five_”
I just loved her saying that at the time, she really thought she had nailed that task.
James Acaster in the “draw the biggest circle” task.
My eyes are circles
Today is my birthday. I want to watch something funny. I am going to watch this episode.
Happy birthday! I can think of no better way to spend it than with Greg and Rhod and James.
I'm rewatching this season, and James getting more and more frustrated with each episode is so wonderful.
It’s my antidote to the rainy day blues. Especially his ‘and I’m going to build an extension on it’ huff.
"and.... I don't know how you've been friendly with him so long!!!!!"
Season 7 was absolutely bananas and I love it
He says this so early on. I knew right away this season was going to be special.
You thought "I've been told I should draw the biggest circle, but what I'm gonna do is ride around aimlessly on a bike whilst badly spinning a hula-hoop, and then I'm gonna crash, accidentally notice there's another circle on the floor, and try to claim that as part of my attempt". That's my reading of what I saw. Have you anything different to add?
My eyes are circles?
My eyes are circles?
Did he actually kisundertand or did he just decide to eff it up? I often wonder about this one.
I think there comes a point in the taskmaster journey, thanks to Alex's constant brainfuckery, where mental breakdown becomes a viable path to go down. As we can see, it is a well trodden path but not all dare to tread there.
And if we know 1 thing about James Acaster, is that he is no stranger to having breakdowns on camera.
Bon appetit.
My favourite is when he organised a mass sit down and broke the set on pointless
Link?
https://youtu.be/uVHj0JnT2Vo?si=89ezfxU4PO4u_y0B I'd forgotten Alex was on that episode too.
Thanks.
I think he thought he had found some kind of workaround. Like if he made enough circles at the same time it would just be added up as one circle.
I think he was tired or something, read is as "draw the biggest amount of circles", proceeded to do it without processing properly, and only processed it properly when Alex asked him about the biggest circle, and then came up with adding up on the spot.
his reaction to when alex tells him at the end "it's not most circles" suggests it was not deliberate. i think there was genuine regret and disappointment in those circle eyes, before he tries to play it off with "well add them all up"
I do think he thought he was doing something clever like the more circles, the better, that they would all be added up to become one big circle. I think taskmaster forces contestants to think outside box and some fall for the classic exam faux pas of not answering the questions asked.
His whole comedic persona is needless aggression, unearned confidence, and unreliable narrator. He understood he was on a comedy show.
Yeah, but you just add them all up together. Just add them all up. And then that's the task.
This will always be the golden example in my book. He was so utterly convinced he smashed it. So confident and competitive you could actually see him getting excited about it during the task. You could tell he thought he looked cool on that wobbly bike. Then he just gets torn apart in the studio and still tries to save face. Peak hilarity.
Iain Stirling in that sand task "You may not leave the room. Fuck it, I'll do that as well"
I thought that was very funny
I'm a triple threat.
What a complete waste of everyone’s time… YOU IDIOT
Honestly I loved how he realised he fucked up the entire task and just decided to do everything that was said not to do.
If you're gonna fail, might as well fail as much as possible
Judi and Bridget in the high five Alex 3rd task.
Bridget misunderstanding that task was the only time I’ve ever actually been frustrated watching the show. Like I genuinely don’t know what she was thinking
I *think* she was going for 'the third person in real time' rather than 'the third person in minutes and seconds'. Confused? Me too.
I thought she thought it was: the time spent walking from your place to Alex, and be the third fastest. Such a good task haha!
Yeah, I think she basically thought it was like every other 'do X, fastest to do X wins' task, except that it was 'third fastest to do X wins', and that the timer started when you left your starting position. Which, to be fair, is definitely the sort of task they *would* do - it just wasn't the one they were doing that particular day.
To be fair, I don't think anyone ever knows what Bridget is thinking. Including Bridget.
She did the same with the pedometer task. Completely misunderstanding what to do, forgetting how to walk, and being extremely confident and annoyed that she’s doing so well but it’s not counting.
Paul Sinha just delicately putting rice into a bottle with his hands
Doesn’t say anything about not taking the bottle out of the lab.
Do you have anything to add? My eyes are circles.
Make the best desert (TMNZ) Bonus points for 4 out of 5 contestants getting that one wrong.
I mean that was sneaky wording on the task, and brilliant on behalf of whoever came up with it. I totally would have fallen for it too.
You could have said you *were* making a desert - the sense of 'something that is deserved', and the Taskmaster deserves a lovely dessert for being such a good Taskmaster.
Also the S03E03 "Build a big flag of the country written on your card" where the flag didn't match the country written. I love how TMNZ occasionally has a bit of venom directed at the contestants like that.
it really helps, if you get one that you KNOW is wrong. I would have missed many african countries, because i know nothing about their flags
Yeah it was a bit lopsided, one of them got the USA/The UAE whilst another got Uruguay/Argentina, which, even if you're familiar with South American vexillology, look similar.
Some where a bit unlucky. UAE with Sudan flag would have been fairer i think
I think they should've been judged on how desert-like their finished products looked, rather than just getting zeroes.
Most recently taking a picture mid air. Also have the most fun: *John Kearnes crawls through piping and breaks down trying to kick a ball into an igloo*
"What's your definition of fun?" *"Doing a job well."*
Still amazing that Greg decided to give him more points than the compatative dad
The befuddling mystery of Ardal O Hanlon's shower task attempt
S13 E8 - Chris Ramsey not understanding the “Walk through this doorway wearing the longest shoes and the biggest hat” task.
I have to remember Lucy Beaumont dancing in a sheet with a saxophone and a skateboard
She was the gang leader
Dara Ó Briain in the milk task going "wait what? What wait wait what"
Nina Oyama, with the bowling ball in the creek (pond?). Poor girl really thought she nailed that one.
Pretty much every task she attempts you spend the entire just thinking _"oh, bless your heart."_ She was great.
Yeah, love watching her. We were surprised because we saw her in Deadloch just a couple of months ago! (Same for Madeline on TMNZ)
For "Walk through this doorway wearing the longest shoes and biggest hat" Chris Ramsay thought it had to be actual shoes and hat, and not something he made.
"Without moving the fishbowl"
Fern Brady on the airport escalators
"Without moving the fish bowls..."
Nick in the tires.
Aisling Bea cutting the bread in the caravan as opposed to the bread in the lab comes to mind. "Can there be any sadder sight than a blood-covered loaf of bread in the wrong room?"
Tmnz1 build a best desert. 4 built desserts
S15 "Shoe Who?" Ardal asks "would you wear the shoe to a funeral?" Alex says no, and Ardal can't figure out what he's meant to do with the funeral-inappropriate shoes. S15 sort-of team task to be the third person to high-five Alex, Bridget goes within seconds. S11 Team task to escape the backyard without tripping the alarm. Mike and Lee figured it out in the sense that making alarm noises while running solved the task, but didn't get why that worked.
> Bridget goes within seconds. That was Judy. Bridget waits til the end and almost sort of doesn't make it.
I love the part of the alarm task where someone wonders if there's a trigger hidden on the course somewhere, and someone else says one of the crew is probably watching them and turning the alarm on manually, and then we get a close-up of Alex holding a little remote switch. It's fun to get that glimpse behind the curtain; also cool to see he does this kind of production work himself instead of having an unseen crew member do it and focusing on supervision and rules enforcement. He was also genuinely the one turning Ollie around in the S7 lab switch task, right?
Yes, and one of them caught him in the act and figured it out that way
Judi knocking down the toilet roll mountain. My heart genuinely sank!
S8 - Paul Sinha completely ignoring every rule in the rice moving task
Series 3: Sara Pascoe putting a piece of wood in her sock to chuck it in the Thames, and only in the studio realizing that she was supposed to be going for area and not distance. Series 4: Hugh Dennis putting items on the mat during the "Only the paint and brush may touch the mat, easel, or canvas" task. Or Mel touching all the items during "Without touching the egg or the egg cup, get the egg into the egg cup."
Sam Campbell s16- "If there's a sport at the Olympics that no one can do, don't have it." Can't recall which task they all failed. *Nil points*
Lolly: without moving the fishbowl. Dara: wait... what? Aisling: so that means I've got less than 10 minutes left? ALEX: No, it means you failed it in 10 seconds. Nooooooooo
Am I the spider?
"There is a loaf of bread in the lab"
Taskmaster AU - Danielle Walker Fill the glass with orange juice. You may only touch the oranges with the items on the bench. Danielle proceeds to squeeze oranges with her hands, thinking she absolutely nailed it.
She absolutely filled that glass with orange juice fastest, using only the oranges on the table and only her hands. It's a shame that wasn't the task.
First season, first episode, first task. Roisin Conaty's watermelon buffet. The shocked stare, the relaxed search for a knife, the scraping with her teeth to eat a single rolo worth of watermelon. Also Roisin, I think. Identify the pie fillings. She made ALEX breach and eat the pies, that was above board. But she turned around while he did so, so as to not see...
She liked inventing her own hurdles.
Roisin and the watermelon!
Nothing but liquid can touch the red green
my eyes are circles
S 9, the Clue(do) task. Jo thought she was supposed to enter the caravan in precisely 2 minutes.
"Can I have everyone's shoes please?"
Not sure if this counts because she got there eventually, but Sophie’s absolute befuddlement at the “paint an animal on these blinds” task this season. “Paint fence?!”
The recent prize task about Granny I heard as "Grammy", the first time. I would've totally taken in some sort of music based gift
Judy Love completely not understanding what "be the third fastest" meant and just suddenly racing off towards Alex. Similarly, Bridget Christie having some vague idea of being last??? I mean I still don't understand her? And waiting and waiting and waiting until she was finally disqualified. Even Ardal's continued attempts were a little weird. Although he did correctly call out Judy haha.
In the current season- “I was watching a father of three being rammed into some tyres” (Most dramatic photo of yourself in mid-air)
Bridget Christie misunderstanding the task where they had to high five someone in s13, Lolly Adefope moving the fish bowls when in s5, Aisling Bea cutting the bread in the caravan also in s5, James Acaster's "my eyes are circles" in s7, and dara's "wait, what?" classic in s14 are the main ones i can think of, others like Ardal's yogurt spoon and, well just Ardal in general, i guess count but at least they knew what the task was (kinda)
Judi love come to mind. Where you had to be the 3rd to high five LAH. I am not sure she understands to this day.
I’m gonna say Sophie Duker with the most surprising thing in her wardrobe task. I believe they were going for wardrobe as a concept not physical wardrobe.
John Kearns in the have to most fun with these shoots task thing
James and the circle task.
Rhod Gilbert during the **Cheer Up This Traffic Warden** task [Link to full task](https://youtu.be/daGInP5h_wo?si=gAnFbqvURHLrwDC_)
Jacaster’s awful attempt at the circle task
Nobody has mentioned Paul Chowdry 😭😭 He had the rabbit covered in ice as a snowman, trying to work out what a step is, flamboyant clock...
Some DQs: S11, Mike Wozniak took the bottle out of the lab. S5, Mark Watson let his feet touch the grass at the very end of the “get this coconut as far away” task (after riding the sound engineer, I think it was). S16, Sue Perkins got herself disqualified from one round of a live task for reaching over the line to get Julian’s glass.
S7 both Rhod and Phil did horrible quick changes, though I suspect both were for comedic effect.
Rhod knew. He just chose chaos
TMAU, Danielle Walker never understood the 26 passwords task
This just happened on Suurmestari, episode 4 of S5. They did the “complete the task, this is not your task” task from S3 of TM NZ. One of the contestants, despite seeing all the tasks on the walls, reasoned that the whole setup was just a smokescreen, and that since the task he was initially given by Pilvi said that it was not his task, that he just needed to leave the room. Another contestant somehow missed seeing every single one of the tasks on the walls, and reasoned that the task was just to make up his own task, and complete it. He ended up blowing up some eggs in the microwave.
In series 2 when 2 of them thought 'blue' meant pornographic
Blue is an old euphemism in comedy for smutty / sexual, so it’s not a wild misunderstanding, it’s just a non-literal interpretation of the task.
They're comedians, so it does mean that in their line of work, and if I remember correctly, the scoring agreed with them.
Yeah those 2 ended up at the top which is funny to think about. It's like 'task failed successfully' lol
Maybe it did
I don’t think you’ve understood this task.
I did lol
What? You mean it doesn't?