Times the Answer Was Right There... | Taskmaster

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  • Who says Little Alex Horne isn't helpful? Whether they spot it or not, the answer is often right in front of the contestants...
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    In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
    Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.
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  • @headlesszebra9857
    @headlesszebra9857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16605

    rhod closing the garage is the best villain origin story ever

    • @loganally4227
      @loganally4227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +366

      Who became the villain though, Rhod or James 😂

    • @headlesszebra9857
      @headlesszebra9857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +348

      @@loganally4227 both (but mostly james)

    • @williamclay190
      @williamclay190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +287

      I imagine James became Rhod's archnemesis after that.

    • @nightclyve2857
      @nightclyve2857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +285

      Whereever Rhod is going into his thinking position you know either something disastrus or genius or hilarius or all of that ad once is about to happen.

    • @CaptainBohnenbrot
      @CaptainBohnenbrot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      They're very charming, the Irish.

  • @rextyrrano5183
    @rextyrrano5183 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11906

    Having the ability to recognize morse code and knowing how to read morse code are unfortunatly 2 very different skills.

    • @Hazz3r95
      @Hazz3r95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +240

      He had unlimited time to write it down, go to a computer, look up the transcription, and then figure out what it says.

    • @evah4431
      @evah4431 2 ปีที่แล้ว +934

      I read in a comment on that episode that the morse alphabet was written somewhere on the wall!

    • @Camachameleon
      @Camachameleon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      @@evah4431 yeah it was

    • @SuperOldShows
      @SuperOldShows 2 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      I remember watching this for the first time, I was so sure Al with his war history knowledge would know morse code!

    • @ViridianFlow
      @ViridianFlow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +449

      The task was "Pop the balloons, fastest time wins", not "pop all of the balloons". That's why Als time counts even though 2 got away.
      The Morse code was a clue, but if you read the task as it is written you can figure it out without knowing the code at all.
      The balloons, which ones? Any, so long as it's plural and the time between the first one and the last one popped is the time, so pop 2 and it's the time between the first and second. Pop 3 and it's the time between the first and third etc.

  • @redheadredemption1573
    @redheadredemption1573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8553

    I love how this is supposed to be about Greg and Alex being sneaky, but the first one is pure self-sabotage

    • @YvonneWilson312
      @YvonneWilson312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      And Rhod is best friends with the Taskmaster, interestingly...

    • @Srade2412
      @Srade2412 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@YvonneWilson312 this is the exact reason he just a lose cannon and its always funny

    • @king6530
      @king6530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why do they let yellow dude walk around showing his tiny little donger?

    • @h8moss766
      @h8moss766 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@king6530 well, you see, it's funny

    • @Daydream_N
      @Daydream_N 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@king6530 how are they gonna stop him lol

  • @Maialeen
    @Maialeen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7948

    "I wanted to be on the girls' team. REALLY BADLY." James was so annoyed.🤣 I could feel the helpless rage. He 100% wished he could shoot Rhod into the sun.

    • @heatherwhited5735
      @heatherwhited5735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      "He's nearly fifty."

    • @josh0g
      @josh0g 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      And that was before he knew the full extent of it.

    • @GuanoLad
      @GuanoLad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Rhod is a Super Hans. They're the worst.

    • @macywade3785
      @macywade3785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @Leonel Justice No we don't care x

    • @ArtemisScribe
      @ArtemisScribe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It was such a "Youngest brother" comment to make.

  • @bleachedbonez
    @bleachedbonez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8635

    When I first saw Rhod close the garage, I felt James's rage. The only time I've seen in this show where someone finds the answer and then goes "Eh" and throws it away.

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      1:56 is already epic. James is lost for words, he's not even angry, just amazed xD.
      "Feh". "Ha". Is what he says! I first thought they censored something, but it's just F H phonetically :P

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      while at 2:18 we can clearly see him go mad and try to restrain himself as he does

    • @Predated2
      @Predated2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@corbeau-_- pretty sure he wanted to say something like "for what?" and "how is a lorry going to help?". But realized asking the question would probably delay them more.

    • @NaaimSiddiqi
      @NaaimSiddiqi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The perfect stuff

    • @Snoborder95
      @Snoborder95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I don't understand the comedy what is an extension in the uk? What does it have to be with a garage

  • @AlyJeann
    @AlyJeann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6514

    Lesson #1: always check your surroundings
    Lesson #2: never trust Alex

    • @BurnEdOutOne
      @BurnEdOutOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      Lesson #3: If you're pared up with rhod, knock him unconscious and make your life easier.

    • @josh0g
      @josh0g 3 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      Lesson #3: Alex won't actually lie to you, but do not trust him to volunteer any additional information.

    • @DaddyBeanDaddyBean
      @DaddyBeanDaddyBean 3 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      @@josh0g Corollary 3a: If you ask Alex a question and he says "All the information is on the task", your question is almost certainly relevant.

    • @omniscient.nescience
      @omniscient.nescience 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Lesson #1 (Supplemental) The thing you need is usually beneath, or on the other side of the table.

    • @MinekEzQM
      @MinekEzQM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I still wonder if there was a knife inside the loaf in the caravan. (The task where they had to select an item from the caravan, go to the lab, and slice a bread in there.)

  • @rr2637
    @rr2637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7936

    James losing it at Rhod made me laugh harder than I have all week

    • @marycanary86
      @marycanary86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      there was a certain "and furthermore i believe carthage should be destroyed" kinda quality to "and i dunno how youve been friends with him for so long!"

    • @annajanestevenson1560
      @annajanestevenson1560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Aah you would though, wouldn't you 🤣

    • @mothersuperior6751
      @mothersuperior6751 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I have come back to this episode several times for that very reason. A good belly laugh.

    • @elliotaaaaa7640
      @elliotaaaaa7640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rhod is a bit of a prick tbh

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      @EEEEEEEE ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @andykey78
    @andykey78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3418

    James never acknowledging Alex during the tasks should have been a secret task revealed at the end of the series.

    • @Tralby19
      @Tralby19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      If only

    • @BurnEdOutOne
      @BurnEdOutOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      He wanted to play on hard mode and made up some tasks of his own. :P

    • @DavidChong
      @DavidChong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      I think they've said it wasn't but I thought that was the case and they just cut out the explanation in the edit for time reasons. Same with Alice addressing Alex with weird pet names and Mel collecting the wax task seals.

    • @cheekbonestrenchcoat
      @cheekbonestrenchcoat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @@DavidChong Alex also wore a different tie every time with Mel, no tie with anyone else

    • @angmering5899
      @angmering5899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      I was actually convinced Rhod sabotaging the team tasks was a secret task.

  • @bondfool
    @bondfool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2503

    I want to see a series where Rhod and James travel the world together, but I think it would end with one of them dead.

    • @addiemiller9677
      @addiemiller9677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The question is which one?

    • @franciet99
      @franciet99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I know that James would probably have a heart attack.

    • @MadcapShambleton
      @MadcapShambleton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      And Rhod knows the good places to stay, like that one time he booked a holiday in a Frenchman's garage...though they weren't allowed to use the pool. He must've felt the Taskmaster's wasn't up to standard.

    • @franciet99
      @franciet99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@MadcapShambleton he also might know where to hide the body... Greg’s closet.

    • @mannmctrash
      @mannmctrash 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      And he can dispose of the vehicle he used by trading it for some tapas.

  • @nickmilligan3662
    @nickmilligan3662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2725

    You forgot to include the bit where Greg calls Phil spineless and gives James extra points

  • @solarprogeny6736
    @solarprogeny6736 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3440

    They're very charming, the Irish...

    • @stenbak88
      @stenbak88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      That got me especially since Phil’s outfit is so ridiculous

    • @gaco98
      @gaco98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +269

      The fact that Rhod is Welsh makes it even funnier

    • @davidmann307
      @davidmann307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      @@gaco98 ...yes, that's the joke! 🤦

    • @jocomfiresin6982
      @jocomfiresin6982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I find potato's very charming as well... You can turn it into acohol boil it in butter mash it or even fry it. It can be a meal a side a desert and a drink it's everything. True potato's hold all the meaning in this food based universe.

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jocomfiresin6982 When you boil something in fat, that's called frying! Gotta love a good potato, though.

  • @lwaves
    @lwaves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2015

    Mike Wozniak would have got those two stray balloons back.

    • @P0lkoli
      @P0lkoli 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      He's a peach isn't he

    • @lwaves
      @lwaves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      @@P0lkoli Indeed he is. By the end of the first episode, he'd gone from someone I'd barely heard of, to my favourite.

    • @rindoubaka1574
      @rindoubaka1574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@lwaves Honestly... same. I absolutely love Lee Mack on WILTY so was expecting him to be an absolute riot. So far he's been just fine and Wozniak (who I had never heard of prior to the series) was the standout.

    • @cait812
      @cait812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@rindoubaka1574 Honestly they've been a quite quiet group? Mike has been a delight. Jamali is the loudest but not a fan of his humour. Went into it expecting to be rooting for Lee but I love Charlotte, Sarah and Mike too. Mike is a stand out though, the ease he jumped that fence.

    • @lwaves
      @lwaves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@cait812 That's something I noticed too, there isn't a 'loud' personality in the group and it's a nice change. Even Jamali isn't that loud, not compared to some previous contestants. I think it works well with no live audience for them to play too.

  • @stevenproper3343
    @stevenproper3343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    "Pop just two and win"
    Somehow he managed to do the exact opposite

  • @elizaheathen
    @elizaheathen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +982

    *"we'd been doing tasks all day together, this was the last one"*
    *I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU'VE BEEN FRIENDS WITH HIM FOR SO LONG*

    • @kevinw712
      @kevinw712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      "Then Kerri said, 'at least we're not on Rhods team'"
      [audience "awwws"]
      "DON'T PITY HIM!! Try doing some team tasks with him, THEN tell me how ya feel!"

    • @Rocky-qt7xt
      @Rocky-qt7xt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep just repeat what we have already watched. God what would I do without you?

    • @elizaheathen
      @elizaheathen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Rocky-qt7xt you must be new to TH-cam mate

    • @ham5097
      @ham5097 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is off topic, but I love your name😌

    • @elizaheathen
      @elizaheathen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ham5097 thanks! Didn’t realize when I picked it in ‘08 that we’d be on the verge of a tv series today!!!

  • @sfshinz
    @sfshinz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +440

    "That's worse than what we did in the dark!" Sally Phillips, who spent the entire Series acting like a chilled-out soccer mom to a group of dysfunctional neighborhood kids, uncharacteristically shocked into tactlessness by Watson's rainbow painting.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Did we see the same Sally? She's a classy, elegant, refined lady who can instantly switch to utter psychopath. She scares me.

    • @Tonyhouse1168
      @Tonyhouse1168 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@qwertyTRiGright? She’s awesome.

  • @issaposter
    @issaposter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1342

    the taskmaster channel knew exactly what they were doing making james the thumbnail, and i’m here for it

  • @Adrianovaz2007
    @Adrianovaz2007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +566

    Katherine and Richard's gasp upon learning what "Debajo de la Mesa" means is so god damned funny. And Doc later going "You know my vision is impaired around bridges!"

  • @jffpviana
    @jffpviana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +564

    James' face watching Rhod close the garage lives rent free in my brain.

    • @OmniscientWarrior
      @OmniscientWarrior 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      what do you mean free? It pays in being there for a good laugh when you need it.

    • @Josh-bu7hp
      @Josh-bu7hp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Second only to Greg seeing his mum in the bath wearing a fez

    • @jffpviana
      @jffpviana 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Josh-bu7hp Correct.

    • @chaotickreg7024
      @chaotickreg7024 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arms

  • @BD-yl5mh
    @BD-yl5mh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    “I’ve got an idea... but we’re gonna need a lorry”
    I fucking love Rhod Gilbert

  • @cheekbonestrenchcoat
    @cheekbonestrenchcoat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    James's absolute RAGE at Rhod and the whole situation is still hilarious
    "And honestly, I don't know how you've been friends for so long"

  • @charliehunt7344
    @charliehunt7344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    “Maybe we should focus on the witnesses, do they seem unimpressed? No they said “wow”.”

  • @shamrockewe822
    @shamrockewe822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +519

    Doc's line of his eyesight being affected near bridges is the best bit about theirs though 😂

  • @simplysmile5509
    @simplysmile5509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    "clever idea, horrifically executed": the whole show

  • @lhfirex
    @lhfirex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    Jon Richardson getting his Cats Does Countdown smug face when he recognizes what "debajo de la mesa" means and then not at all following up on it is my highlight from this.

  • @R-E-Tudor
    @R-E-Tudor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +938

    I wish they’d do a champion of champions but with the lowest scoring contestants instead. Idk I just think it’d be even more chaotic and funny 😂

    • @dani_the_girl2197
      @dani_the_girl2197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I said the same thing! I’d rather them go that way then get more unimaginative contestants on the show.

    • @sfshinz
      @sfshinz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I want a panel of also-rans, contestants who finished second or third in their respective Series. Romesh "There Was No Box, Mate" Ranganathan, Sally "Water Cooler" Phillips, Jessica "The Knappett" Knappett, Joe "Um, Well" Thomas, and Mike "It's Absolute Carserole Time, Tick Tock" Wozniak, would be a dream panel for me.

    • @bethanylowe8773
      @bethanylowe8773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Not this point again! Someone always has to now point out that Alex refuses to do that because it would incentivise people to do badly.

    • @joshuaharper2624
      @joshuaharper2624 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Taskmaster 'the best of a bad bunch'

    • @DrZaius3141
      @DrZaius3141 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Apart from the fact that it would incentivizse bad play in the future, with many "losers" of the show, it's just that Greg decided at some point that it would be the funniest if he really piled it onto them. Pretty much every last-place finisher at some point (often when still being in the middle of the pack) the seal of disapproval and from thereon out everything they did was judged much more harshly.
      You can't deliberately treat 5 people in a "loser of losers" style competition as unfairly, so it makes little sense.

  • @benj1b
    @benj1b ปีที่แล้ว +100

    The "what's in the box" was a hilarious task. If I remember right one of them just shook it and said frozen peas and got it 🤣🤣

  • @MisterAppleEsq
    @MisterAppleEsq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1284

    Just wanna point out that Jon Richardson read Hispanic Studies for two years at university.

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      What the... ?!? How can you read Hispanic Studies for two years and not know what "debajo de la mesa" means? And I checked: the syllabus requires you to learn Spanish and Portuguese in the first year. Unless he got confused and thought that the boat on top of the table was labelled "on top of the table."

    • @Noah-yj9uu
      @Noah-yj9uu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +434

      @@beeble2003 he mentions in the episode that he understood the words, he just didn’t connect the dots. I think he says something like „I just thought ‘that’s a boat called under-the-table’!”. Which makes the whole thing even funnier in my mind :D

    • @em-xf3ul
      @em-xf3ul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      @@beeble2003 he says that he knew it meant underneath the table but at the time just thought it was a boat called 'underneath the table' and didn't clock the fact that it was a hint

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@em-xf3ul @Noah Ohhh, OK. Makes sense. It's a bizarre thing to think but people think bizarre things when they're in unusual situations. 😃

    • @SundaraRamanR
      @SundaraRamanR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I don't think he did two years, he did a year of the degree and then dropped out. He does go to Spain a lot (or used to) and reads Spanish poetry I think, so that helps too.

  • @emibentley8566
    @emibentley8566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    mark turning on the lights when no one else even tried to or thought about it will always be a favorite of mine 🤣

  • @jackmcnally1667
    @jackmcnally1667 3 ปีที่แล้ว +565

    I just want to know who suggested putting the code on the roof of the shed as if one of them would be climbing on the shed roof to solve a maths problem

    • @ChakChakGuy
      @ChakChakGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      there were other puzzles on the board, which required them moving through the house so they might have come in the vicinity. But I guess the one on the shed was just for the cameras

    • @TheCheesyNachos
      @TheCheesyNachos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      in the episode there's a shot of noel running to the shid and 201 is shown on there, doubt he'd see it but it's still funny nonetheless

    • @penelope2945
      @penelope2945 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      i think its quite a taskmaster thing to do, like thats a thing contestants shouldnt be surprised about bc alex would do that type of thing you know

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It feels like a metaphor for life, or sutin.

    • @jason_a_smith_gb
      @jason_a_smith_gb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That’s the joke. I enjoy the tasks where you have to perceive what Alex ‘might’ do. Much more fun to watch than to ‘smash a cake in the fastest time!’. The best ones are where the clue goes totally overlooked (unless you think), “What would Alex do here?” which I think Bob did with the case of peas...
      The task where one contestant brought the doorbell indoors was genius. I enjoy the tasks most where it’s easy but so easy to do it the hard way...
      Once everyone starts looking for clues it’ll become boring. So, maybe need the odd task which instead of lights up the room say, lights up a message like, “Not this time!”. “Please do not press the button again!”

  • @ClaireMangoify
    @ClaireMangoify ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Phils “they’re very charming the Irish” is the most underrated moment

  • @spamgrant2872
    @spamgrant2872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +492

    if no one is going to talk about James acaster’s arms when he sees rhod look into the garage I guess I’ll have to

    • @hazelistheworst
      @hazelistheworst 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Please do, I was looking for this comment!

    • @chaotickreg7024
      @chaotickreg7024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      So many sexy moments in this show 😵

    • @rine6740
      @rine6740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      2:19 💪

    • @33m3c
      @33m3c ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah that's called having no fat on your arms

    • @33m3c
      @33m3c ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rine6740 no fat

  • @WikiED
    @WikiED 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    I think every series should have at least one "the Answer Was Right There" task.

    • @jason_a_smith_gb
      @jason_a_smith_gb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Also quite fun where Josh was the only one having to count things. It’s about balance. The odd surprise keeps it fresh, but not overdoing it...

  • @D0CT0RECT0C00LR
    @D0CT0RECT0C00LR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    this could also just be considered a compilation of times contestants got legitimately angry

  • @AukeKE
    @AukeKE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +709

    These tasks are the biggest reason why this show is so great

    • @debosmitadalui1998
      @debosmitadalui1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      And also like the comedians innitt

    • @reyo8036
      @reyo8036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      100% agree

    • @crussteasock4047
      @crussteasock4047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Seems like that's the whole point of the show

    • @nevergonnaupload
      @nevergonnaupload 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah its awesome and have yous seen the Kiwi one its to much one or two kiwis are enough.

  • @CaughtonCandy
    @CaughtonCandy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Phil emerging with a kite saying "that's gotta be a help" has me dead 💀

  • @naomitiefenbrunn2857
    @naomitiefenbrunn2857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1790

    That 'debajo dela mesa' bit is the most unfortunate thing I've ever watched. It was literally designed for Jon to win and he didn't get it that's just awful

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      If I was doing that task I doubt I’d be able to make use of the stuff that was under the table anyway.

    • @mithroth6703
      @mithroth6703 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@MrAnthonyRoger They were on the table. If you put a sticker on the underside of the table it is still sitting on the table.

    • @falcon8752
      @falcon8752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      ​@@mithroth6703 Okay that's weird. English isn't my main language, but the way I learned it, "on" strictly means _on top of_ and not under. If I was a contestant, I'd have dismissed all these "look under the table" clues as the game trying to tempt me into getting disqualified.
      I get what you mean though. if it was attached to the leg, I'd consider it "on the leg of the table" and not "under the table".

    • @Posit_Zero_Blue
      @Posit_Zero_Blue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If only he looked up.

    • @jinxingxuelang
      @jinxingxuelang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@falcon8752 English is my second language as well. And yeah generally you are right, but like paly on words and thinking out of the box is exactly what the game is about (at least in my understanding). Plus the 'on' with tables meaning 'on top of' is just cause most things can't be supported elsewhere, but more broadly 'on' is like 'on the surface of' (like posters on a wall)

  • @xRiizo
    @xRiizo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    Putting James on the thumbnail... Well played.
    The garage inccident will always be remembered! The fingers on the eyes!!!

  • @Finsternis..
    @Finsternis.. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    "Rainbows have only got one physical character"
    They don't contain brown? Especially not after blue...

    • @Hazz3r95
      @Hazz3r95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He meant "They're curved"

    • @Finsternis..
      @Finsternis.. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Hazz3r95 You sure? I thought he meant that they are immaterial.

  • @cyprel
    @cyprel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    For part 2:
    -when they had to memorize objects and they were written in small print on the back of the task
    -when they had to memorize the cards and a pen was strapped to the side of the table
    -when they had to get the right number, and it was painted on the side of the caravan
    -when the point of the task was to say 'humiliation'
    -I suppose 'blow up a balloon blindfolded' while the scene in front of them is changed might also qualify

    • @amritagiri4721
      @amritagiri4721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      And the deduction of 5 points for eating chocolate in series 4
      Finding the satsuma in a sock in series 7

    • @thejesident7138
      @thejesident7138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      And the task where they had to find the pink ladies and the loations of them were shown multiple times

    • @D0CT0RECT0C00LR
      @D0CT0RECT0C00LR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the ping pong ball herding task!

    • @PokerJoker811
      @PokerJoker811 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      We're all ignoring our good friend OLLIE.

    • @GT_Walker
      @GT_Walker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Demeaning, not humiliation.

  • @gollyjunior6393
    @gollyjunior6393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I love that at 8:44 they blurred ‘LOOK UNDER THE TABLE’ above the door so that we would be surprised by it later as well.

  • @the.sarasaurus
    @the.sarasaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    LOVE that the thumbnail has a very annoyed James

  • @AH-te5gs
    @AH-te5gs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    After so many years of Taskmaster I can still watch the "under the table" gag and laugh as hard at it as the first time I saw it. It will never become boring.

  • @Saltywinterchild
    @Saltywinterchild 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Should've included Joe Wilkinson's "there's strength in arches" line in the bridge task. That was the moment I fell in love with Taskmaster 😄

  • @lindam156
    @lindam156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Top Tier Taskmaster Moments
    1. Joe Wilkinson's potato
    2. James and Rhod's extension
    3. David Badiel and Ed Gamble's silent drawing task
    4. Romesh and Tim Key's watermelon task
    5. Daisy May Cooper and Richard Herring's pictionary task

  • @NaThingSerious
    @NaThingSerious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    One of my favourite moments was in the latest series where the challenge is to open a jar of mayonnaise that is covered in mayonnaise in the least time, and of the guys asks if they guess the challenge and complete it before they open the letter if they will get 0 seconds (cause the letter usually says something like “your time starts now”), Alex says yes and so he opens the mayonnaise jar in 0 seconds.

  • @221b-Maker-Street
    @221b-Maker-Street 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    A psychologist would have an absolute field-day with the dynamics going on here... 😳

  • @franinconverse
    @franinconverse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Doc's face when it's revealed what's under the table is just perfect

  • @2195Arshi
    @2195Arshi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    They knew they had us right from the thumbnail!

  • @ariesmelody94
    @ariesmelody94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    Only james acaster can wear green shirt and trousers and look good in it

    • @BurnEdOutOne
      @BurnEdOutOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      The closer acaster dresses like a joker parody, the better it works.

    • @Tralby19
      @Tralby19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No

    • @BurnEdOutOne
      @BurnEdOutOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Tralby19
      Yaya is true.
      Somewhere between the Joker and Stanley Ipkis in "The Mask."

    • @Tralby19
      @Tralby19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@BurnEdOutOne wasn't speaking to you

    • @miraj5569
      @miraj5569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I saw a comment saying he always looks like a 90s kid who got dressed for picture day in elementary school and I think that describes it perfectly

  • @sanholo2776
    @sanholo2776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    2:57 “they’re very charming the Irish”... Rhod has most welsh accent you’ve ever heard

  • @snotrajohnson
    @snotrajohnson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I was hoping to see Doc’s turn at the “fill the shopping cart across the ditch” task...his later realization made me crack up! Loved him in that series.

  • @stenbak88
    @stenbak88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I think doc was legitimately mad at the taskmaster and little Alex horn

    • @aleksisuuronen5969
      @aleksisuuronen5969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Alex Horne in reality is the taskmaster, he decides about the challenges. It's apparently something he did to his comedian friends even before it became a show.

    • @aleksisuuronen5969
      @aleksisuuronen5969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Red Dwarf I know. But I was saying that Greg the taskmaster has actually not anything to do with the tasks so why would doc be mad at him and little bit at Alex who in all reality is the true taskmaster since he decides about the tasks and everything (so why would he be mad at Greg at all and wouldn't he be annoyed with Alex, get it). It's not a big deal, I was just pointing it out as a trivia info.

    • @albasapri3265
      @albasapri3265 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aleksisuuronen5969 yeah but still, it's Greg that _plays_ the taskmaster

    • @aleksisuuronen5969
      @aleksisuuronen5969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@albasapri3265 ofcourse but doc knows that he just plaayys the taskmaster

    • @Stryder-ic3ws
      @Stryder-ic3ws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Listen to his episode of the Taskmaster podcast. He did not enjoy the show at all...

  • @MiaCarby
    @MiaCarby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    “Ohhhh! I can’t see the colours...”

  • @Alinor24
    @Alinor24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    My favourite is the 201 task. Everyone had a different aproach and there were additional possibilities that no one used.

  • @eileenjohnson7000
    @eileenjohnson7000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    my favorite tasks are always the ones with the answers right in front of them and they rarely notice it lol

    • @richardlloyd2589
      @richardlloyd2589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The irony of getting stuck with tunnel-vision when building a bridge....

  • @paula1909
    @paula1909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    I see James on the thumbnail, I click, simple as that

    • @sui_fowen5891
      @sui_fowen5891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes same

    • @Tralby19
      @Tralby19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same

    • @Tralby19
      @Tralby19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Also I thought it said times acaster was right at first

    • @stenbak88
      @stenbak88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly what happened here

    • @Ladybirdlps
      @Ladybirdlps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You read my mind

  • @SennaAugustus
    @SennaAugustus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    "That's worse than what we did in the dark!"

  • @iliketrains3495
    @iliketrains3495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Katherine's gasp at 9:39 and then Richard making the exact same facial reaction is gold 😂😂😂

  • @Shaderox
    @Shaderox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    To be fair to the audience, the "Look under the table" sign above the door is blurred out with extra much white to make it harder to spot and impossible to read during the challenge the times it's in frame.

  • @SwimmingMegz01
    @SwimmingMegz01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    Can we have some episode title compilations? Hearing the titles being said in the episode is one of the greatest payoffs.

    • @Adrianovaz2007
      @Adrianovaz2007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That would help cause I haven't found some of them like the Series 10 "God's hemorrhoids", when the heck did they said that?!

    • @zzombiepunkk2794
      @zzombiepunkk2794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Adrianovaz2007 iirc when all the red balloons went to the ceiling

    • @iliketrains3495
      @iliketrains3495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      'The Leprechaun and the Lesbian' is my favourite

    • @NewGalaktos
      @NewGalaktos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      “A Documentary about a Despot” goes well with “A Novel about Russian Gulags”

  • @hollyludvigsen6763
    @hollyludvigsen6763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Amazing compilation. James acts angry a lot, but I think it’s genuine here and I love it so much

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The comedians that are proper hardcore TM fans are the most satisfying to see fooled. They have a genuine meltdown. 🤣

  • @lisasimpson8895
    @lisasimpson8895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    james acaster pissed off angry is the cutest thing ever. i love him hahaha

  • @DerOllie
    @DerOllie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    These are the challenges which I like on TM, something very obvious in hindsight, but hard when you have to perform...

    • @janeeyre1990
      @janeeyre1990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just like lovemaking.
      Wait what were we talking about

  • @sideshowmark913
    @sideshowmark913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    That season with Watson and nish was funniest stuff ever

  • @benzaiten933
    @benzaiten933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    by now contestants really should know to take a look around the room because likely there are clues not-so-subtly strewn around.

    • @loganally4227
      @loganally4227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Often they haven't actually watched any other series

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@loganally4227 And there aren't _that_ many tasks where there are big clues. When it's, like, one in ten, it's barely worth looking for them.

    • @jason_a_smith_gb
      @jason_a_smith_gb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@beeble2003 A book with “Inspector Horne and the Pea Case”.

    • @hollyeatsgravel
      @hollyeatsgravel ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sarah Millican was great at this, she always checked under the table. To the point where one time they put an extra task under the table that just said "Hello Sarah"

  • @jinja-ninga97c21
    @jinja-ninga97c21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    The only show that makes you feel like a right ejit

    • @sarge019l4
      @sarge019l4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Keith Panton that makes me feel like an ejit for a different reason. Taskmaster is actively deceptive while Only Connect is just too smart for me.

  • @Aiko2-26-9
    @Aiko2-26-9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    These were my favorite bits when watching the shows for the first time. That "look under the table" was magnificent and no one noticed it. The looks on the contestants' faces were hilarious.

  • @chrissiem3958
    @chrissiem3958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The collective gasp and look of shock at 9:42 is the stuff of legend. Just sheer brilliance 😂

  • @kemasuk
    @kemasuk ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Crazy that due to circumstances he managed to pop all BUT 2.

  • @SamOGr
    @SamOGr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That extension task never fails to crack me up

  • @Prakriti2041
    @Prakriti2041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    i like that glow paint task. My first thought was "nothing says you can't turn on the light" I was so frustrated by the people that left it off.

  • @baitedlol6972
    @baitedlol6972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I love that even when he can see he still cant draw a rainbow 😂

  • @IphigeniaAtAulis
    @IphigeniaAtAulis 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think the best part is how Rhod just stands there quietly with his face in his hands and you can almost hear the gears in his head turning as he's thinking about the best way to do the task.

  • @CucumberpatchAddict
    @CucumberpatchAddict 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    It's so sweet that now, after all these years, having seen how every tiny detail clicks together perfectly on TM, the thought that Alex could just get a toy boat with a random name in spanish would be absolutely laughable ^^

  • @jason_a_smith_gb
    @jason_a_smith_gb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    The balloon task is the task I’ve thought was the cleverest so far in all the series, as so in-your-face. Really enjoyed the ‘art’ aspect. Is fun to watch those tasks where you have the solution obvious (when shown) but has been approached in the hardest way possible due to being missed! Nice one Bob! :)

    • @jason_a_smith_gb
      @jason_a_smith_gb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There was a Derren Brown episode once where there was a message above the doors that stated you can just walk in and take the money. Little Alex Horne is becoming his competition!
      The case of peas was good too. Only issue is, contestants may become wise to Alex’s way of thinking...

    • @boianko
      @boianko 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don't really get that one, are the balloons just adding an extra win condition, or is it some subtext I'm unable to grasp?

    • @joonamato
      @joonamato ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't understand the balloon task either.

    • @iliketrains3495
      @iliketrains3495 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joonamato it was kind of dumb IMO, but if you translated the morse code, it meant (I think) you get an instant victory if you pop ONLY two balloons

  • @eleanorbrant3190
    @eleanorbrant3190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    These are my favourite moments. It’s the best when something is so obvious but no one realises

  • @natalie-1592
    @natalie-1592 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    2:54 Phil: they’re very charming the Irish
    Rhod: *is welsh*

  • @burnbobquist8999
    @burnbobquist8999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The Bajo de la mesa and "Just Pop Two and Win" ones have been my favourites, even though everyone is talking about the Acaster one (which was brilliant), i think there it was just very very veeery bad teamplay while on the other ones all contestents were just oblivious of theire surroundings. xD

  • @gorgeousgambler
    @gorgeousgambler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Rhod as a solo act is great. In a team, he needs to shut up and listen.

  • @adamhenley8295
    @adamhenley8295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Sometimes it’s just like watching confused guinea pigs in a maze

  • @FiremansGaming
    @FiremansGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Ha yes ... The "Garage Betrayal" made me so mad cause we all know an asshole who did that in team in our life

  • @oblxvious
    @oblxvious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Honestly james rhod and phil will always be my favourite team from taskmaster, they are so effortlessly funny

  • @lindsayb1152
    @lindsayb1152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I thought it looked like Morse Code too, and then he said it as well, so I paused when the camera panned out and laughed so hard at him just shrugging it off like that was coincidence.

  • @jewswami
    @jewswami 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I still maintain that the rules said "ON" the table when they should have said "FROM" the table

    • @marc.lepage
      @marc.lepage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      They clarify in the episode, from Susie Dent, that "on" means like "in contact with."

    • @spongebuddy009
      @spongebuddy009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@marc.lepage yea like everyone associates "on" with "on top of" but it doesn't necessarily only mean that. I love how they did that lol

    • @marc.lepage
      @marc.lepage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@spongebuddy009 Mostly because it involved the table. If you said to check for a wart on your foot, you'd look on the bottom not the top, I wager. But we still say "on" in that case, not "under" or other alternatives.

    • @NeonfOxa
      @NeonfOxa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was thinking that at first then I thought, you don't have lights under the ceiling, on bottom, on top, on side :)

    • @overlydramaticpanda
      @overlydramaticpanda ปีที่แล้ว

      "From" the table, aside from being fairly clunky in terms of word choice, would have given the game away pretty quickly since "use the items from the table" isn't a natural way of phrasing that sentence. "On" is a valid word choice since the items were still technically on the table, just not on top of it - like putting a magnet on a fridge doesn't necessarily mean putting it on top of the fridge. It's like Richard Osman interpreting one of the tasks that said "put the balls on the mat on top of the hill" to mean "put the balls on the mat that is currently on top of the hill" and realised he could simply bring the mat down the hill, while everyone else took it for granted that the wording meant "take the balls up the hill and put them on the mat". The wording definitely invites one clear interpretation but it's ambiguous enough to allow for others.

  • @-c3202
    @-c3202 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I will say, asking a man with adhd to do tasks literally all day is setting him up to have absolutely no executive function on the last one

  • @Stiles2004
    @Stiles2004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    These are my absolute favourite TM segments. There haven’t been as many as in recent seasons but I love them so much

  • @cierraroach9782
    @cierraroach9782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Love the Acaster rage! These are some of my fav tasks with silly twists. A reverse twist of not eating the chocolate on the back of the task was also good!

  • @keanee
    @keanee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    James vs Rhod is my fave part of series 7

  • @Kobutori
    @Kobutori 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "Debajo de la mesa" is the one that always makes me laugh hard every time I see it

  • @hsanrb
    @hsanrb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Bridge must support the pony... Gets me everytime...

  • @videoket
    @videoket 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have been unknowingly waiting for this montage for forever!

  • @Mazillius
    @Mazillius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What's fantastic about the balloon challenge is if Al hadn't popped any of the balloons in the bags, he would've won because of the two which took off 🤣

    • @richardlloyd2589
      @richardlloyd2589 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They probably popped...eventually...but not as quickly as Rob popped the lot.

    • @Mazillius
      @Mazillius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@richardlloyd2589I'm not sure that would matter as the Morse code was to pop two and win. I'd interpret that as being untimed. But all depends on how Greg judges it!

    • @richardlloyd2589
      @richardlloyd2589 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Mazillius
      Could be. Taskmaster’s decision is final! 😁
      What if they didn’t pop, but slowly deflated?
      Remember Tim with the block of ice in the river?
      Tim: it’s gone.
      Alex: I can still see it.

  • @katarzynaw4664
    @katarzynaw4664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    It's missing the HOP task ;)

  • @lorddetox9911
    @lorddetox9911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I feel like I’ve been waiting for this specific compilation my whole life but didn’t know that until now

  • @WickdImplse
    @WickdImplse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    More and more British comedy has been appearing on my timeline and I’m loving it. I’m mad I never herd of this till now bout to start the binge now

  • @planetkendal
    @planetkendal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    that paint task from series 5 is one of my favorite tasks, so underrated

  • @me-ovv
    @me-ovv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    the “Hops” task from series 6 would also be a good addition (a personal favorite of mine)

  • @RockeroNato
    @RockeroNato 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "do you know what this means? debajo de la mesa?"
    "yes, i do"
    "ok"
    .........
    ......................
    ..........................

    • @heatherwhited5735
      @heatherwhited5735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If I ever get rich I am buying a boat and calling it Debajo De La Mesa.

    • @thejusmar
      @thejusmar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When someone shoots down your party trick

  • @titusjames4912
    @titusjames4912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All of this is beautifully edited. Please thank your editors.

  • @ddg3210
    @ddg3210 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The briefcase task is perhaps my favorite. It has this wonderful quality of being solved in amazing ways by each of the contestants. Each approached the task in a different way, each fundamentally matching their style of thinking, and each being genius!