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Captain Mediocre posted:New Taskmaster is better than its been for a long while. The lineup for this series is excellent. I thought strict Greg was going to ruin the episode. It made it even more hilarious. But I hope it's not a season long bit. Arguing over points is a good part of the other seasons.
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Thinking back to growing up in rural Idaho, and all the 88 tattoos I saw. It seems like it was a really significant year for a ton of people. I suspect there was a big event that everyone got them around the same time because it seems like there was a font that was really popular when they went in.
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Oct 20, 2020 16:10
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The one thing about the studio this season is it seems like Greg is the one making them laugh. The contestants don't seem to be engaging as much, with each other, or even with Greg. And holy poo poo they are terrible at the prize task. Mawaan's bunny was good though. Sudden Loud Noise fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Oct 24, 2020 14:57
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stev posted:I feel like they used to make more effort with the prize tasks. Like the wedding ring, the blank cheque etc. Now they all seem very last minute, or like they're trying to be funny-bad rather than get points. Josh was just the best overall.
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Oct 24, 2020 17:36
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I don't think there's any real carry over from season to season (except for Champion of Champions) so order could just be best to worst if you wanted?) So : 7,2,5,4,1,9,3,8,6 (although 8 has some of my favorite tasks I think the cast isn't great.) And honestly all of them besides 3, 8, and 6 are all pretty equally great. Edit: Oh poo poo, I forgot 8 had Ian Stirling who might be the best worst contestant in the entire show. So 8 is also great. Sudden Loud Noise fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Oct 24, 2020 19:44
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stev posted:Lmao just discovered that the pancake thing they made is French. What a shitshow. No, they put matcha on it. It's the most Japanese dish ever invented.
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Oct 29, 2020 15:57
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Gambrinus posted:The catapult attempt had me in tears. It might honestly be the worst performance by any contestant on any task on any season. It was absolutely hilarious.
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Oct 30, 2020 14:33
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Daisy wasn’t talking crazy! Shallow diving is a thing. https://youtu.be/Qc25Ewq9QBI
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Nov 6, 2020 04:11
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ookiimarukochan posted:There are strings you can enter in at the dialler to get your phone number displayed, even without credit. I'm genuinely surprised that no one tried that and they all just followed the rules. I’ve hacked, rooted, and done a bunch of other dumb poo poo with my phones. I have no idea what those numbers are. Why didn’t these old comedians?
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Nov 6, 2020 18:31
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My week just never feels complete if I haven't had an 80s bake. The high point of Bake Off was when that guy baked like 3 dozen different loaves of bread. And rewatching that, Alvin totally didn't get the credit he deserved for that. Paul's feedback was "Everything was baked absolutely perfectly, but we asked you to make a single sculpture, and you made multiple." Sudden Loud Noise fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Nov 10, 2020 17:39
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I mean just this season they had "Here's some food coloring, make normal bagels." and people managed to gently caress that up.
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Nov 11, 2020 17:37
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Daisy’s performance with the watermelon would be an all time great if it was the first time the watermelon challenge had happened. Because it’s essentially a repeat task it lost as little bit. But holy poo poo the English language doesn’t have a word to describe what she did to that watermelon.
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Nov 13, 2020 16:32
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Total Meatlove posted:As is making phallic things and going ‘oooooo’. That’s no way to talk about Matt Lucas.
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Nov 18, 2020 16:36
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I don’t have much of an opinion on Richard except I love that you can see his pure unbridled joy in the barrel task. It’s a classic Taskmaster “game” and he’s just so so excited to try his best at a pointless frustrating task.
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Nov 20, 2020 14:55
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Taear posted:Also as I've said before Matt and Noel don't work with the contestants, it's cringy Noel's moment of encouragement with Laura in the finale was probably the only good moment either of them (Matt or Noel) had in the entire series, and it's a shame that it happened once in the entire series. But I'm a sentimental idiot. Also Laura's response of "I quite like my life," after Noel said "Winning would change your life," made her instantly the best finalist. (After being one of the most boring contestants for the rest of the series.)
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Nov 25, 2020 22:08
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I think I liked it because it was a slap down of any sense of THIS BAKING IS IMPORTANT. Not to say it hasn't kicked off a few entertainment careers, but Bake off is at it's best when the stakes are low. "It's just a cake" and all.
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Nov 26, 2020 01:32
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The rest of the world wants panel shows so they can get a couple dozen comedians comfortable on TV but scientists are very clear that the UK alone has more than the planet can realistically sustain.
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Nov 28, 2020 20:03
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tsob posted:I listened to the latest Taskmaster podcast episode after that, and Ed Gamble (the host) defended the decision to not award Johnny any points by saying people come down on Greg if he's not impartial when judging and it's just left me a little confused, because I thought his schtick as the Taskmaster was being mercurial and just doing whatever he wants when scoring. Which I find far more fun than him sticking rigidly to a defined rule. As to the tasks, even in the same episode, the very next task with everyone having to complete 5 mini tasks, each with only a ten second window seemed annoying too, just because there were so many rules to keep track of i.e. you can't cross this line, you can only move when the door is moving, you have to pick a door and only have so much time to do it and so on. It didn't seem to bother the contestants too much, but as a viewer it felt too complicated for it's own good. I was hoping it would be you could do doors over, and then whoever took the shortest amount of time to complete all of them.
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Dec 11, 2020 16:49
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This raises the question of what is the harshest judgement that the Taskmaster has ever given? The saddest will forever be Joe begging for his red green achievement to not be taken away, but that wasn't even a decision by the Taskmaster.
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Dec 11, 2020 19:24
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Taear posted:(always acting like the task is for her and Alex) This is my favorite recurring thing with Katherine. I was thrilled to see that it started with the first task. I don’t think it’s intentionally funny, which makes it even funnier. Her entire character (or actual personality?) is not quite understanding this weird show, and over the season it’s actually grown on me.
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Dec 12, 2020 08:37
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stev posted:Yeah it was really good. The photocopier task fell slightly flat but the rest was gold. Best prize task entry since the early days? There's something incredible that even after 11 seasons throwing some blind folds on people, and telling someone to guide them using just 3 words every 30 seconds produces one of the funniest things I've ever seen on television. Mike's prize task doesn't beat Josh's tattoo, but it's a good attempt.
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May 22, 2021 01:17
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Mr. Squishy posted:Teenage Mutant Ninja Zurtles Pablo Bluth posted:Close. Zealanders. The rare quadruple redundancy.
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Pork Lift posted:Whose line is it anyway, maybe? But enough about Ricky Gervais.
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Aug 18, 2021 22:13
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Irisi posted:My god, it was spooky how absolutely every single BBC channel immediately switched to Huw Edwards in black and all the radio stations cut to a single newsreader. I believe cremation works quickly enough that they can make her remains into flour by then.
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Sep 8, 2022 20:56
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Irisi posted:Grand Designs may have been going for nigh on 23 years at this point, but still, the programme has the ability to surprise with just how pitifully, wilfully blind to costs, timescales and practicalities the amateur housebuilders are. The whiplash between episode 2 and 3 of this series was absolutely crazy. Episode 2 - Here's a factory built home. It is inexpensive (350k), modern, well built and well designed , finishes in 9 months, no problems, only 20 grand over budget. Episode 3 - We didn't like literally any of the people we hired, so we taught ourselves how to build a house over 6 years, had to build the house ourselves, and likely spent hundreds of thousands of pounds more than we planned.
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Oct 6, 2022 19:34
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I’m shocked at how smoothly I’ve transitioned from genuinely enjoying Bake Off to hate-watching it. With the terrible foreign theme weeks, to just making up random criteria that have no basis on the actual dish, (You don’t want a gooey marshmallow on your s’more folks,) to giving them absurdly terrible appliances (or none at all to make tortillas) and then judging them on the performance of said appliances. It’s essentially a Food Network quality show at this point.
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It was obvious who was going to win when they did truly insane flavor combinations that the judges had never heard of before, like *checks notes* peanut butter and jelly.
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