Victoria being the only one to succeed without using the scissors and pop the balloon with a dart is one of her underrated moments of greatness this season.
Having seen some clips of her playing darts when she remembered to bring her glasses, I imagine she could have got it on the second or third dart if she'd done so.
His character is kinda himself though... Right? I mean he's kinda a submissive bitch in his character but... I mean I promise you that comes from him but it may not be as exaggerated.
@@jocomfiresin6982 his character is to be a submissive, but also mostly unflappable. He’s supposed to have a seriousness/sternness that allows him to act as the straight man to the comedians. He breaks character when he breaks out in giggles or clearly does a double take (or just can’t contain himself, the S6 Show your love task exemplifies this)
@@calebsevigny1146 Serious and unflappable doesn't mean without emotions at all. Laughter doesn't negate calmness. You can always be calm and still have a good time.
@@jocomfiresin6982 Oh, he’s usually having a good time, but his job is to remain somewhat as a supervisor. He can still react to situations, but it’s when this aura is broken that I think he “breaks character.” It’s like when Greg is supposed to be a stern, intimidating character and then he learns of how Bob poops, or sees a picture of his mother in the tub with a fez. He quickly returns, but he breaks momentarily IMO
@@calebsevigny1146 Greg kind of has a nature stern intimidating aura to him though. His giant size and past as a teacher certainly helps. It's the fact he's in no way threatening as a human being and physically inept as well as his entire jovial personality that even allows those moments to seem even remotely funny. Whilst I'd agree he certainly broke the stern and intimidating persona in those moments with the smile I'd also say he didn't really break it. I don't remember the bob poops bit but his mother. He immediately did a double take with a strange yet happy smile upon his face before immediately following up with you traitorous old woman. Which felt very on brand. What I'm trying to say is more of compliment to him then anything else. He very much managed to both break the character and maintain it at the same time in that moment. Which really just seemed to add depth to the character as opposed to destroying it.
Interesting that Victoria, the contestant that struggled with many tasks due to not bringing her glasses was the only one to pop the balloon without the scissors
What's funny is they clearly didn't do all the filming in one day, she could have brought the glasses. She wears them all the time on panel shows, but I guess maybe she didn't want to damage them.
@@Hexen_Wulfi have glasses myself because Im nearsighted so often at home I dont use them. Which means I often forget them at home. 😂 And these recordings are spread out over a long period of time so.
@@andreaskarlsson5251 I guess it comes down to a cultural thing? I don't even know if Culture is the right word. I wear glasses as well, but my eyesight is bad enough that I never take them off unless I'm showering or sleeping. So to me 'forgetting your glasses' is exactly the same as 'I forgot my prosthetic leg.' Possible? Yeah. Likely? No. That's probably very different for other people.
@@andreaskarlsson5251 I mean in a Near Sighted vs Nothing Sighted manner, not habitual. Like there is a culture of people who can leave their glasses and get along just fine, and there is a culture of people who if they leave their glasses behind will be unable to do much of anything. Oh don't let me forget my condescending smiley face :)
@@brianm6337 Agreed. Actually, I'd be up for giving her and Guz both bonus points for hitting the balloon with the pebbles, which failed to work, and made the task seem a bit unfair for people who prefer slingshots to darts.
1:26 I come here once in a while every time I hear Guz in my mind say "Then, brother, this is not sensible". It's a great commentary to a handful of awful decisions
I love how they didn't even get them the bare minimum of a 5 dollar hardware store slingshot. It's just some tourist trap peice of wood that falls apart after 1 shot lool.
I instantly regonized this task from my country's version of the show! (Swedish one, "Bäst i Test".) The main difference in that one was that was that the balloon was filled with helium instead of water, and hanging upwards instead of downwards on a string. Among the items to use was also bow & arrows, and even guns! (Except those was soft air ones.) (Also, there was no "scissors" thing in that version, leading to two of the Swedish contenders to actually ran out of items without ever bursting the balloon. XD)
Justice for Victoria. Greg should have given her a bonus point for actually popping the balloon with the dart instead of cutting the rope, like the other four did.
@@dlpaul345 That applies to the scissors as well. Where Victoria stands out is in achieving a very good score without reaching for the easy way out. Not sure I entirely agree it was enough for a bonus point, but it was definitely more of an achievement, in comparison to everyone else, than it came across as, and if it wasn't for Desirée's going all out in her attempt, it would definitely stand out as such.
@@dlpaul345 Notice that I am not the one arguing she should have gotten it, just agreeing that she did well in the task. Nor did the show actually do the special treatment. So you don't have to keep repeating your point to make it.
This was one of the truly great tasks, I think. TBH, I didn't quite appreciate it the first time I saw it, but now....it just cracks me up every time. They're all stars in it.
I mostly agree, but I found Alan's version quite entertaining. It was fun to watch him burst into 1st place merely by doing things in the simplest, most obvious way.
Guz was my personal favorite, but they were all funny and entertaining especially at 3:15🤣 I've just never heard that before and Guz of course at 2:52 or the workshop being knocked by the window it's all brilliant
"That's the worst attempt at any task", he says not knowing that possibly the best contestant of all time would end up burying a rubber duck because he couldn't get it in the lake
We used to shoot darts with slingshots, and we would joke about it being harmless other than popping balloons. Then I made a huge dart and a bigger slingshot, end up mocked by other kids for re-inventing bow. Until I showed them it is possible to pop balloons from 200 meters away, if the dart is light enough. (Bamboo skewers with a sharp weight at the tip and paper fletching). Quite dangerous as a children's toy but oh my it was fun.
I find the wording of "you must stay behind the rope" interesting. because really that could mean either side, either the way it was clearly intended and they all interpreted it or being behind it from the perspective of the cameras (like if you were hiding behind something). would definitely be up to taskmaster interpretation but I think there's a decent chance you win.
I also thought that doing something with the 'rope' to cheese the task was the way to go. I'm not sure your solution would work though, unless you instantly moved 'behind' the rope as you were reading the task because once Alex introduces you to the shop the task starts and from the position of the disk you're supposed to stand on (the one next to the shop) that would lock your 'behind' option to the further one. It also could be difficult to get the items from the shop that way since Alex might just hand them to you unless you get closer (you could still probably pop the balloon just with your hands though. I was thinking more about treating the string as a rope and getting closer to the balloon by going over the side.
Great task but I think they would add more time for the rope cutting option because it would only make sense to choose the darts if you are sure you hit the ballon in three or less tries else the scissors would be the best option right at the beginning.
I think that was intentional taskmaster tomfoolery, they were counting on most people - like Dezzy - considering the scissors but seeing the initial timesink as intimidating and their subsequent misses as a matter of pride. It's gambling addiction mentality and they were probably deliberately rewarding anyone who cheesed the task instead. Makes me think of another balloon task, "pop just two and win", so my own fix would be to hide the scissors behind at least a simple puzzle (the portcullis is clearly visible so that'd be a hint) so you have to be clever rather than just pragmatic. I'll also call tomfoolery on the forks and stones not popping the balloon, I think MAYBE one that would pop with a strong throw of a fork would be appropriate but I think there was a joke item the cheapest on purpose (aside from the ducks) in case people fell for it.
Nah, best part was people just throwing dart after dart, fork after fork at it. When that adds up sooo quickly. Sunken cost fallacy of trying to save time and all. When it's best to just cut (heh) your losses like Alan did.
I am once again petitioning Taskmaster to put a choking hazard warning on these videos, as I have nearly choked to death trying to take a sip of water before Desiree's attempt. Again.
This is such a golden task. 1. Desiree taking a long time to pop the balloon to not be boring 2. Victoria hitting the balloon with that dart. 3. Alan davies winning by doing the simplest and laziest solution. And how could i not forget Guz Khan’s ‘hindsight line’
I was waiting for someone to say "please can you go get that dart for me that I've just thrown over there". But with running back and forth it would probably still be longer than 8 minutes.
My personal approach to this, as a big darts player, would be to take some free ducks to get my aim in, and then hopefully buy one dart and take it out in one. Hard under pressure though!
A Balloon is a pretty big target. I never tried but as a dart plqyer myself it would probably be easy first try. We dont know how far away they had to throw so that maybe could be a problem
Rules as stated: Stay behind the rope. Do not remove the rope. Do not touch the string, unless to use the scissors on it. Best solution: Pick up both posts the rope is attached to and run forward. Moving the rope is not removing the rope and in fact you haven't even touched the rope, you've moved the posts the rope is attached to. Same with the string.
No, the rules say "You must not move the rope", not "must not remove it". Although I don't see anything that says they actually have to use anything from the shop. It might have been "faster" to just go loot some bricks from nearby to pop the balloon.
It doesn’t say anything about having to use the shop tools at all, or being able to just leave as long as you don’t pass the rope. You can probably go source your own tools, like a really long branch or sharper pebbles for the slingshot. Doesn’t seem like there’s much around though. Either way, the expense of the items in the shop gives you plenty of time to find something to beat the other contestants in time.
The task doesn’t say you can’t just touch/cut/untie the rope without using the scissors. It’s only Alex saying that. It’s not clear that stuff Alex says is a real rule.
This really made me fall deeper in love with Morgana -her face throwing the ducks -what kind of shop is this?!? -Missed by a bee’s dick lives in my head forever -her just snatching the scissors and screaming fuck’s sake was the best use of the scissors
I mean, Guz hit himself in the face trying to fire a duck from the slingshot, so I have a feeling trying that with a dart would be similar but more painful...
3:24 This is the part the health and safety rep points to whenever anyone complains about the long meetings they have to have about tasks and safety gear 😂
@lisahenry20 I doubt it. The slingshots don't seem to have enough elasticity in the rubber band to be able to get the proper distance. It would absolutely work otherwise, there is a small niche sport for it.
Late to the party but why don't they get some rocks from the ground for slingshot. Pebbles clearly are not sharp enough and regular rocks are free (minus time spent on finding rock)
I love Victoria so much. She's so proper, then she just goes all primal at just the right moment. 😂 Thanks to this show I discovered Only Connect because I needed to see more of her.
Pretty certain that wouldn't work. If you disturb the "wings"of a dart it doesn't fly straight anymore. And you'd have to squish them in order to hold the dart in the slingshot.
The secret is this. If you are a cricket player or baseball player, then yes. You could throw the duck at the rope, or even the balloon and pop it that way.
No. If they designed a secret way to win the task, they always reveal that in the show. Why would they miss the chance to have a laugh about something _none_ of the contestants noticed?
I mean, if you lift up the poles hanging the rope, you're still standing behind it. Just lift them and walk forward without letting the string touch you. Portcullis drops.
Ways to hack the task I can think of: 1. take one item, ask alex to retrieve it 2. lift the post to which the string was tied to which should drop the balloon popping contraption
honestly, the obvious answer was to shoplift the tools you needed, and thus not pay the time penalty- given it says 'may' buy the tools, rather than 'must' buy the tools.
So, there was no rule about them not leaving in the opposite direction of the balloon to get their own projectiles or say.... knife tapped to a pole....
I'm surprised nobody argued the "but that's the only time you'll be allowed to touch the string". There was nothing about it in the task itself. Arguably, they could have unwound the string without actually buying the scissors no?
It's very easy maths. You could throw four forks to get the same time as the scissors, but you only get 3 darts to have a chance to get less. The slingshot would give you a lot of tries, but I doubt it would have ever popped the balloon. Unless you are an expert at darts or extremely lucky, the scissors was the smart choice.
Buying an item takes time in addition to the cost. If you think it might take you a few tries to hit the balloon, it's more efficient to make one bulk purchase than risk having to make multiple trips to the shop.
Man the only Shakespeare quote I can remember is something something "Envy is a green eyed beast" or something like that and the one I'm not even 20% is an actual Shakespeare quote "I'd challenge you to a battle of wits yet you seem to be unarmed." I remember reading the whole collection but shit done passed through my brain like water through my digestive tract. I remember the general trend of most of them but if you put a gun to my head and told me to quote that man I'd say fuck it and suck the barrel of the gun cause I'm going out weird. "O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." Google got my back with the quote I was looking for.
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I appreciate Desiree's commitment to saying "ding dong!" whenever she 'entered' Alex's shop
That did somehow maker everything better especially the depressing ding dong 8:32
She is so not funny... the british humor just does not fit an American.
she did not...
I found it slightly annoying really
Victoria being the only one to succeed without using the scissors and pop the balloon with a dart is one of her underrated moments of greatness this season.
Having seen some clips of her playing darts when she remembered to bring her glasses, I imagine she could have got it on the second or third dart if she'd done so.
"Oh, well... that's nice."
@@Taolan8472 Where have you seen her playing darts?
Please give us a compilation of all the times Alex breaks character. Just from this task alone, you've got two good ones.
His character is kinda himself though... Right? I mean he's kinda a submissive bitch in his character but... I mean I promise you that comes from him but it may not be as exaggerated.
@@jocomfiresin6982 his character is to be a submissive, but also mostly unflappable. He’s supposed to have a seriousness/sternness that allows him to act as the straight man to the comedians. He breaks character when he breaks out in giggles or clearly does a double take (or just can’t contain himself, the S6 Show your love task exemplifies this)
@@calebsevigny1146 Serious and unflappable doesn't mean without emotions at all. Laughter doesn't negate calmness. You can always be calm and still have a good time.
@@jocomfiresin6982 Oh, he’s usually having a good time, but his job is to remain somewhat as a supervisor. He can still react to situations, but it’s when this aura is broken that I think he “breaks character.” It’s like when Greg is supposed to be a stern, intimidating character and then he learns of how Bob poops, or sees a picture of his mother in the tub with a fez. He quickly returns, but he breaks momentarily IMO
@@calebsevigny1146 Greg kind of has a nature stern intimidating aura to him though. His giant size and past as a teacher certainly helps. It's the fact he's in no way threatening as a human being and physically inept as well as his entire jovial personality that even allows those moments to seem even remotely funny. Whilst I'd agree he certainly broke the stern and intimidating persona in those moments with the smile I'd also say he didn't really break it. I don't remember the bob poops bit but his mother. He immediately did a double take with a strange yet happy smile upon his face before immediately following up with you traitorous old woman. Which felt very on brand. What I'm trying to say is more of compliment to him then anything else. He very much managed to both break the character and maintain it at the same time in that moment. Which really just seemed to add depth to the character as opposed to destroying it.
Desiree maxing out entertainment value. A noble sacrifice
If I were a comedian, I wish I could be that type on this show, but I know I’d go full Gamble
Hugh Dennis attempting this task: "Scissors, please."
would have been an epic callback
no, he's got KNIVES
Interesting that Victoria, the contestant that struggled with many tasks due to not bringing her glasses was the only one to pop the balloon without the scissors
What's funny is they clearly didn't do all the filming in one day, she could have brought the glasses. She wears them all the time on panel shows, but I guess maybe she didn't want to damage them.
@@Hexen_Wulfi have glasses myself because Im nearsighted so often at home I dont use them. Which means I often forget them at home. 😂 And these recordings are spread out over a long period of time so.
@@andreaskarlsson5251 I guess it comes down to a cultural thing? I don't even know if Culture is the right word. I wear glasses as well, but my eyesight is bad enough that I never take them off unless I'm showering or sleeping. So to me 'forgetting your glasses' is exactly the same as 'I forgot my prosthetic leg.' Possible? Yeah. Likely? No. That's probably very different for other people.
@@Hexen_WulfI think the word you're looking for is habit. not cultural :)
@@andreaskarlsson5251 I mean in a Near Sighted vs Nothing Sighted manner, not habitual. Like there is a culture of people who can leave their glasses and get along just fine, and there is a culture of people who if they leave their glasses behind will be unable to do much of anything. Oh don't let me forget my condescending smiley face :)
Desiree got it right, the scissors was boring and her go was quality entertainment
She deserved a bonus point.
@@brianm6337 Agreed. Actually, I'd be up for giving her and Guz both bonus points for hitting the balloon with the pebbles, which failed to work, and made the task seem a bit unfair for people who prefer slingshots to darts.
Nah. The aim of the game is to complete the task.
@@jenniferhanses7064 unfair for people who prefer slingshots to darts…? What?
@@Cheapiebeepie I think it was a joke.
3:09 that "nothing happened" smile always gets me 🤣
That was an adorable smile!
I love at 3.09 the wind nearly blow Alex's shop over. The look on his face is priceless
When I watched the first time I didn’t notice Alan’s “lost the will to live” joke but I’m howling at it now 😂😂
Gold joke
Ikrr
1:26 I come here once in a while every time I hear Guz in my mind say "Then, brother, this is not sensible". It's a great commentary to a handful of awful decisions
I love how they didn't even get them the bare minimum of a 5 dollar hardware store slingshot. It's just some tourist trap peice of wood that falls apart after 1 shot lool.
Watching Alex's reaction on that last attempt is hilarious. It was the greatest punchline to a bad joke ever written.
Buys a bucket of forks for an hour of time instead of the scissors for 8 minutes and still doesn’t manage to pop the balloon with the forks 😂
Barely managed to pop the baloon using the scissors either...
At that point it was the principal of the thing
1:51 Her voice says 2 minutes and 30 seconds, but her mouth says 2 minutes and 30 minutes.
Wtf? That’s weird.
woah. That's super weird - nice catch though!
I instantly regonized this task from my country's version of the show! (Swedish one, "Bäst i Test".)
The main difference in that one was that was that the balloon was filled with helium instead of water, and hanging upwards instead of downwards on a string.
Among the items to use was also bow & arrows, and even guns! (Except those was soft air ones.)
(Also, there was no "scissors" thing in that version, leading to two of the Swedish contenders to actually ran out of items without ever bursting the balloon. XD)
Sounds like it would be great fun to watch!
I had forgotten this. (I watched the all. Very enjoyable even for a person ignorant of the language.)
Which episode is that?
Desiree was determined to do the task the way it should be done, Alan just wanted to sit down lol.
Justice for Victoria. Greg should have given her a bonus point for actually popping the balloon with the dart instead of cutting the rope, like the other four did.
This was definitely one of the tasks she shined in; sadly completely overshadowed by Desirée's magnificent failure.
@@dlpaul345 That applies to the scissors as well.
Where Victoria stands out is in achieving a very good score without reaching for the easy way out. Not sure I entirely agree it was enough for a bonus point, but it was definitely more of an achievement, in comparison to everyone else, than it came across as, and if it wasn't for Desirée's going all out in her attempt, it would definitely stand out as such.
@@dlpaul345 Notice that I am not the one arguing she should have gotten it, just agreeing that she did well in the task. Nor did the show actually do the special treatment. So you don't have to keep repeating your point to make it.
I think the immense satisfaction she got from popping the balloon was its own reward.
I’d have just pulled on the rope.
This was one of the truly great tasks, I think. TBH, I didn't quite appreciate it the first time I saw it, but now....it just cracks me up every time. They're all stars in it.
If I scored them based purely on how entertaining they were in this task, I'd give Desiree 5 points, Victoria 4, Guz 3, and Morgana and Alan 2.
I mostly agree, but I found Alan's version quite entertaining. It was fun to watch him burst into 1st place merely by doing things in the simplest, most obvious way.
If it was like that, I wouldn't watch the show.
Desiree was American at the start of this, then became British by the end, it broke her lol
Guz's chaotic energy is adorable.
Guz was my personal favorite, but they were all funny and entertaining especially at 3:15🤣 I've just never heard that before and Guz of course at 2:52 or the workshop being knocked by the window it's all brilliant
Desiree was hilarious. A true comedian.
"That's the worst attempt at any task", he says not knowing that possibly the best contestant of all time would end up burying a rubber duck because he couldn't get it in the lake
Who was that again?
@@BlueManIan Ed Gamble in Champion of Champions II
The worst ever task attempt will still always be "my eyes are circles"
We used to shoot darts with slingshots, and we would joke about it being harmless other than popping balloons. Then I made a huge dart and a bigger slingshot, end up mocked by other kids for re-inventing bow. Until I showed them it is possible to pop balloons from 200 meters away, if the dart is light enough. (Bamboo skewers with a sharp weight at the tip and paper fletching). Quite dangerous as a children's toy but oh my it was fun.
I find the wording of "you must stay behind the rope" interesting. because really that could mean either side, either the way it was clearly intended and they all interpreted it or being behind it from the perspective of the cameras (like if you were hiding behind something). would definitely be up to taskmaster interpretation but I think there's a decent chance you win.
I also thought that doing something with the 'rope' to cheese the task was the way to go. I'm not sure your solution would work though, unless you instantly moved 'behind' the rope as you were reading the task because once Alex introduces you to the shop the task starts and from the position of the disk you're supposed to stand on (the one next to the shop) that would lock your 'behind' option to the further one. It also could be difficult to get the items from the shop that way since Alex might just hand them to you unless you get closer (you could still probably pop the balloon just with your hands though.
I was thinking more about treating the string as a rope and getting closer to the balloon by going over the side.
Great task but I think they would add more time for the rope cutting option because it would only make sense to choose the darts if you are sure you hit the ballon in three or less tries else the scissors would be the best option right at the beginning.
Also, they should get a balloon which can be popped by pebbles and stone. In Alex's shop only darts and scissors work. The rest are useless.
@@sagatious6435 you could pop it with a fork, just would not be very easy.
I think that was intentional taskmaster tomfoolery, they were counting on most people - like Dezzy - considering the scissors but seeing the initial timesink as intimidating and their subsequent misses as a matter of pride. It's gambling addiction mentality and they were probably deliberately rewarding anyone who cheesed the task instead.
Makes me think of another balloon task, "pop just two and win", so my own fix would be to hide the scissors behind at least a simple puzzle (the portcullis is clearly visible so that'd be a hint) so you have to be clever rather than just pragmatic.
I'll also call tomfoolery on the forks and stones not popping the balloon, I think MAYBE one that would pop with a strong throw of a fork would be appropriate but I think there was a joke item the cheapest on purpose (aside from the ducks) in case people fell for it.
Can you not untie the rope rather than cut it?
Nah, best part was people just throwing dart after dart, fork after fork at it. When that adds up sooo quickly. Sunken cost fallacy of trying to save time and all. When it's best to just cut (heh) your losses like Alan did.
I am once again petitioning Taskmaster to put a choking hazard warning on these videos, as I have nearly choked to death trying to take a sip of water before Desiree's attempt. Again.
This is such a golden task. 1. Desiree taking a long time to pop the balloon to not be boring 2. Victoria hitting the balloon with that dart. 3. Alan davies winning by doing the simplest and laziest solution. And how could i not forget Guz Khan’s ‘hindsight line’
To be fair to Alan, he spends a good proportion of his telly career being entertainingly incompetent... let's let him have this one. :P
for this one - always assumed alex would be game if you took all his ducks, then sold them back at an inflated price. make some time.
I think Guz tried that when he asked for a refund.
@@chayimweinstock443 yeah but that was a refund, not selling them
You've posted this on my birthday and my favorite quote in all of Taskmaster is in it! Shakespeare
This feels like a shop game in Zelda.
Is this sunk cost fallacy the game?
"I already bought a bunch of darts, I shouldn't just do the scissors now"
Yes. It's a great example of that.
8:09 is this why the portcullis didn't fall at first?
Victoria does not consider herself athletic at all but she was the only one who didn’t end up using the scissors.
This task shows their personalities and task playstyles so well.
8:45 there's two ducks there and Alex asked "any particular duck?" to Victoria?
🤔
"Your task is to find the mistake in the title and fix it. You have 30 minutes. Your time starts now."
And should be an.
Poppability should be popability.
2 mistakes.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 nah, the double p is right
I mean capatilization?
@@nemnyoom poopability is spelt wrong. 😳😂
@@redelfshotthefood8213 buddy they're not shitting the balloon
I was waiting for someone to say "please can you go get that dart for me that I've just thrown over there". But with running back and forth it would probably still be longer than 8 minutes.
Alex would go mental if he found out the admin made a typo in the title of the video.
It's really troubling me: I can't work out if it's an error or a reference to something I'm failing to see....
"Does the clock still have time left inside of it" lol
As much as I love Desiree, I thought this was going to be about Guz. I was really looking forward to ' The Best of Guz Kahn!"
Khan.
@@WellISaidIt Thanks, these old hands are prone to typos. 💜
Victorias dart was pretty impressive.
Why not buy a slingshot but scout around for a pointy stone (once you find that the pebbles are too smooth).
How about combining the shot with a dart?
My personal approach to this, as a big darts player, would be to take some free ducks to get my aim in, and then hopefully buy one dart and take it out in one. Hard under pressure though!
I'm sure that approach would work... If the ducks were dart shaped.
A Balloon is a pretty big target. I never tried but as a dart plqyer myself it would probably be easy first try. We dont know how far away they had to throw so that maybe could be a problem
I wonder if the slingshot was actually supposed to work, or if that was just a red herring.
Rules as stated:
Stay behind the rope.
Do not remove the rope.
Do not touch the string, unless to use the scissors on it.
Best solution: Pick up both posts the rope is attached to and run forward.
Moving the rope is not removing the rope and in fact you haven't even touched the rope, you've moved the posts the rope is attached to. Same with the string.
No, the rules say "You must not move the rope", not "must not remove it".
Although I don't see anything that says they actually have to use anything from the shop. It might have been "faster" to just go loot some bricks from nearby to pop the balloon.
@@lemonade107 no, the one person who reads those rules says "Remove." Listen closely.
It doesn’t say anything about having to use the shop tools at all, or being able to just leave as long as you don’t pass the rope. You can probably go source your own tools, like a really long branch or sharper pebbles for the slingshot. Doesn’t seem like there’s much around though. Either way, the expense of the items in the shop gives you plenty of time to find something to beat the other contestants in time.
slingshot with a sharp garden rock would probably be a goer
The task doesn’t say you can’t just touch/cut/untie the rope without using the scissors. It’s only Alex saying that. It’s not clear that stuff Alex says is a real rule.
bring your own shotgun in.
The comedic timing on that portcullis is just perfect after the madness that is Desirees' attempt.
This really made me fall deeper in love with Morgana
-her face throwing the ducks
-what kind of shop is this?!?
-Missed by a bee’s dick lives in my head forever
-her just snatching the scissors and screaming fuck’s sake was the best use of the scissors
This task is a perfect demonstration of the sunk cost fallacy
There’s a typo in the title. “Discovers and imbalance in the…”
Thumbnail got it right, though.
I think a trick that may have worked was loading a dart into a slingshot
Thank you! I was losing my mind shouting that lol
That's sounds like a recipe for disaster
I mean, Guz hit himself in the face trying to fire a duck from the slingshot, so I have a feeling trying that with a dart would be similar but more painful...
My man has clearly never tried to fire a dart with a sing shot
The title is inaccurate:
they misspelled,
*"missed by a bee's d*ck"*
Always get's me with Alex Horne's "Pardon?", sounding like a shocked old man! XD
3:24 This is the part the health and safety rep points to whenever anyone complains about the long meetings they have to have about tasks and safety gear 😂
"Missed by a bees dick" 🤣 never heard that one before
I wished someone said"y'know what, I can't throw darts that far
LETS COMBIND IT WITH A SLINGSHOT
i was legitimately thinking this the whole time
Would slingshotting a dart work? I'm picturing trying to use it like a crossbow but I think the flights would get in the way
@lisahenry20 I doubt it. The slingshots don't seem to have enough elasticity in the rubber band to be able to get the proper distance.
It would absolutely work otherwise, there is a small niche sport for it.
@@lisahenry20I'd remove the flights, I think it'd work then
Late to the party but why don't they get some rocks from the ground for slingshot.
Pebbles clearly are not sharp enough and regular rocks are free (minus time spent on finding rock)
Sunken cost fallacy in action😂
I love Victoria so much. She's so proper, then she just goes all primal at just the right moment. 😂 Thanks to this show I discovered Only Connect because I needed to see more of her.
3:15 all of our pollinating pals out there catching strays man, poor guys.
Victoria's 'hum that's nice' is the absolute purest thing, i melt
I fell like all those years of abstract thinking with QI has prepared for Alan for this task
I'm surprised no one tried to buy the slingshot and the darts 🤔
Pretty certain that wouldn't work. If you disturb the "wings"of a dart it doesn't fly straight anymore. And you'd have to squish them in order to hold the dart in the slingshot.
@@maxs1813 I'd love to see some try it though
@@maxs1813 slingshot and the bigger stones, however, could have been interesting
@@lred1383 I wonder if you could buy the slingshot, then look on the floor for a stone that could pop the balloon.
I can't believe no one just tried to untie the knot or lift the loop over the barrier, releasing the portcullis
Desiree's attempt is forever my favorite Taskmaster moment!! Ever!!
Answer is test with free ducks if you can hit it, realize you can't in under 8 minutes (3.5 darts) and use the scissors as a test.
I am curious about something. I feel like the rubber ducks had a secret to them that would’ve popped the balloon. I wonder if I am right
The secret is this. If you are a cricket player or baseball player, then yes. You could throw the duck at the rope, or even the balloon and pop it that way.
Second wild thought: use the ducks to untie the string. You don’t touch the string. The ducks do.
No. If they designed a secret way to win the task, they always reveal that in the show. Why would they miss the chance to have a laugh about something _none_ of the contestants noticed?
@@jpaugh64 Because they used up the entire time allotment to laugh at Desiree and didn’t want to make her feel even worse
Why did nobody look for more rocks or break the ones they had after finding out they cant pierce the baloon?
8:55 I guess you could say there was an imbalance in the dropabilty of the porticullis.
I mean, if you lift up the poles hanging the rope, you're still standing behind it. Just lift them and walk forward without letting the string touch you. Portcullis drops.
You couldn't move the rope
@@red_weed it doesn't say you can't move what the rope is attached to. 😏
I'm surprised no one thought to take off their shoe and throw that instead.
Ways to hack the task I can think of:
1. take one item, ask alex to retrieve it
2. lift the post to which the string was tied to which should drop the balloon popping contraption
(Shh, you should correct the title, you have a mistake in the indefinite article.)
"An" right? An imbalance. Tut tut
I lost it when it didnt work with the scissors for dez
Nobody had any gosh darned urgency during this timed task!
Based on the wording of the task I’d just have Alex move the rope closer. Just says that “you” can’t move the rope, not that the rope can’t be moved.
We you need to watch is 6:27 to 9:07 it is pure humour watching desiree throw everything. Just funny
A word which I now long to use “poppability”
I was just waiting for someone to untie the string by hand, but noone did
An, not and.
* continuing my current task of correcting aaaaalll the typos in these titles and descriptions 🤦♀️😂
honestly, the obvious answer was to shoplift the tools you needed, and thus not pay the time penalty- given it says 'may' buy the tools, rather than 'must' buy the tools.
What if they used the slingshot to propel the darts
My most toxic trait is that I think I could get it quickly with one fork
One of my fav contestants on TM 🤣
Taking their jackets off would have helped when throwing the darts, their arms would have had a bit better range of movement.
Yeah... But you gotta remember who they are.
the obvious answer wins!
So, there was no rule about them not leaving in the opposite direction of the balloon to get their own projectiles or say.... knife tapped to a pole....
Thank you @,i needed this
I'm surprised nobody argued the "but that's the only time you'll be allowed to touch the string". There was nothing about it in the task itself. Arguably, they could have unwound the string without actually buying the scissors no?
I would have bought the sling shot, and some darts and used them together.
Nice idea but it would accomplish bollock-all. The flights on the darts would interfere with that plan.
I fully expected the scissors to be a red herring
The sunk cost fallacy in action
Move the pole with the rope attached to it forward - Not touching the rope and still staying behind it. No need to spend time.
The rule is you may not move the rope, not you may not touch the rope. You’d be disqualified if you did that.
Desiree really embraced the “Random bulls*it go!” mentality
It's very easy maths. You could throw four forks to get the same time as the scissors, but you only get 3 darts to have a chance to get less. The slingshot would give you a lot of tries, but I doubt it would have ever popped the balloon. Unless you are an expert at darts or extremely lucky, the scissors was the smart choice.
Why the hell would you buy more than one item at once.
Buying an item takes time in addition to the cost. If you think it might take you a few tries to hit the balloon, it's more efficient to make one bulk purchase than risk having to make multiple trips to the shop.
Why didn't anyone pick up the darts they threw? I thought you just must throw from behind the line not always be behind it
‘You must stay behind the rope at all times’
@@Seamalicous Ah i missed that!
love horne lying about the shakespeare quote
Man the only Shakespeare quote I can remember is something something "Envy is a green eyed beast" or something like that and the one I'm not even 20% is an actual Shakespeare quote "I'd challenge you to a battle of wits yet you seem to be unarmed."
I remember reading the whole collection but shit done passed through my brain like water through my digestive tract. I remember the general trend of most of them but if you put a gun to my head and told me to quote that man I'd say fuck it and suck the barrel of the gun cause I'm going out weird.
"O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." Google got my back with the quote I was looking for.