and she usually does understand it! she goes to put the ducks back in the “ecosystem” because she deduced that’s what the tray is named from context. great way to talk to kids
to be fair i think that as a toddler i would have emotionally connected very strongly to an empty cardboard box, but a tray full of bubbly water and plastic floating ducks is actually toddler heaven
I remember as a toddler I loved reading more than anything else and you could find me (quite literally) inhabiting the bookshelves of my local library or sitting as still as a statue on whatever object my parents happened to put me on, apparently that's how they lost me every now and then because I was so still they couldn't tell me apart from the scenery. But according to my parents when I got restless they would put me in a cardboard box and give me crayons.
@@parryyotter I was a curious tot and usually very quiet as well. My parent's greatest concern was that someone would mistake me for a statue and put me in a storage bin.
I love how Nell runs towards Alex when she is in shock of spillage, but feels safe and ready to engage with the toy again because he doesn't overreact and asks her calmly if she wants to put the ducks back. Alex is trustworthy. ❤❤❤
Paul Sinha is an absolute legend. As someone who grew up in the 90’s, a baking tray, toys and some water is the best thing anyone can ask for. Nothing better then using one’s imagination.
Having worked with kids before, my initial idea was really mostly "A bunch of different papers and maybe fabrics with different nice textures, colours, patterns, etc, that the child is allowed to cut into pieces and then glue together again" cause that one works for almost any kid of that age (also, in this case, I wouldn't even have to be the one to clean up the whole mess afterwards for once), but when I saw that tray I knew it would work out even better. Brilliant instincts and a well-deserved first place.
Children can be very morbid, actually. On two separate occassions, two completely different kindergarten age boys told me they wanted to eat my eyeballs.
"Alex, I know it's supposed to be a filming day, but my sister's got to go to Northumberland for a family emergency, and that leaves me looking after Nell. Is there anyone who can cover for me?" "I think I have a solution."
@@yellowrubberducky81 No, I think he wasn’t in the room. She more likely saw a camera operator she also knew (or Andy left the room as a result of that). Any two-year-old in a room with one of their parents looks at, goes to and talks to them continually. He even commented that a problem with the auditioned children would be that they’d have to have a parent in the room.
I know that Alex does this as part of his comedic persona on the show, but I always found the idea of talking to a child like an adult, in your normal conversational tone of voice, to be really adorable.
@@gloss6969 It really depends on age. It’s good for older children, but talking to a baby like an adult actually hinders their language development. Studies show that the higher pitch, slower speed, exaggerated pronunciation of baby talk helps them learn and understand language better
@@scottgill2643 It means: Me can look, me can touch, me can smell, me can hear. Mostly the touching thing. It was more than one thing and she could touch it and really play with it and engage with it with all her senses.
@@scottgill2643 enrico is right! think kids playing with slime, splashing in bathtubs, tearing up grass. its why kids love teddy bears and why baby books have different textures. all very simulating.
Yeah. My 3 year old was begging for this construction sensory toy. And we almost got it for her when we realized she had a sand table that just needed sand and some construction toys. After the sand, the toys, and the price of the water/sand table itself (garage sale a few weeks before) it was about equal to the sensory toy but like six times the size with three times the number of toys. Plus outside so she wasn’t dumping sand on my floor
I want to acknowledge that Alex never once talked down to her, raised the pitch of his voice, or did any form of baby talk! That is some awesome parenting skills!
I mean he literally talked to her like to an adult. I like it and I don't doubt that he's a good parent but I think that was mostly for his role he plays in Taskmaster. :)
@@JacktheRah No, I’m sure he talks to her like that all the time. I’ve never baby talked to my 3 children, always respect their autonomy and acknowledge that kids are very competent. It’s funny bc we’ll be having conversations, as Alex did in, while shopping at the store, very mature sounding. Some people have looked over and said, I thought you were talking to an 8 year old yet it was my 3 or 4 year old :)
I mean, this kid might be at an age where she won’t benefit from baby talk, but raising your voice’s pitch and using baby talk with actual babies is genuinely useful for them to learn language
@@ambs4076 I mean it's statistically shown in studies that baby talking to babies lowers their rate of learning to speak, so I'm not sure on what your source is for that. I should specify the specific baby talk I'm referring to is not using proper full words, rather than simple changing of your tone of voice.
Had it been my nephew, the ducks would have been scattered across the room within seconds. He'd probably put Alex through a shark attack, or mallet attack, or squished homemade play dough attack. Or he would take the tablet.
❤😊 Her little "Hello, Alex!" and "good morning, Claire" during Ian's task was so cute. Her dad is one of the producers, what a sweet little girl he has! Must be hard to get any work done when she visits the set! Also her taking the iPad killed me 😂
To this day one of the best tasks - couldn't have gone better. It's also such an alex moment when the Toddler simply goes 'yeh' when Alex asks if he should leave and he accepts his fate, I know he's just playing a role - but he does it so well, even getting a toddler to kick him out !
I knew Paul would win as soon as I saw the baking tray with the rubber ducks. There is a reason adults buy themselves rubber ducks for their bath too. I like to play with them while bathing and I'm 36.
Tiny is only in size, not capacity. Just think back in the 1990s a voice activated computer was fiction, the toddlers who grew up watching those stories made it real. *yeah we could link the "original product launch" to a company ran by an older person, but I have zero doubt the first actual programmers weren't even in kindergarten back in '95.
Of course Ian went for a puppet 🤣 he literally worked with a puppet for cbbc and knows kids always are engaged by them- I’d say that’s the best one as she was engaged with it and got the sensory part of bubble wrap that she took with her
Nel is the daughter of Producer Andy Cartwright, and she was 2 at the time. She tested all of the engaging things in one hour and a half block and she received £50 for her time. If she judged it in 2023, when she was 5, Joe would have won.
@@hannahbolton7586 I don't know how television/film production works in the UK, especially when it comes to trade unions, but at least in the US, she would have been paid at the union rate, even if she wasn't a union "actress." An infant here in the States would have been paid for appearing on camera. And again, I don't know the rules/laws in the UK, but here in the US, it's actually the child being paid, as in, the cheques are made out to the child. And I assume there's similar protections in the UK, but 20% of what the child makes has to go into a special account (called a "Coogan account" in America) that the parents aren't allowed to touch.
there's going to be a kid or young adult in 10-20 years who stumbles across taskmaster clips and gets a flashback to the nice man with a clipboard from their toddler years.
Something like "teach this six year old something, best thing taught wins", something like a skill or a fact (skipping, counting to ten in another language, painting something easy etc)
@@cazzabojangles it'd be a great task with the right cast. i have taught many kindergarteners and first graders how to count to a thousand (specifically 1023) on their fingers using binary. The best part is when the parents are confused and the kids pick up on it immediately.
i remember hearing Iain say somewhere (maybe on his celebability show?) that when he did kids tv, him and Hacker's puppeteer Phil Fletcher used to hang out, get drunk and make puppets out of whatever they had around, and I love that he can just fall back on that skill within seconds.
Had to rewatch to catch it, she said "hello Alex". Who knew it could be an adorable thing to say? But, the ranking based on him asking her is a touch faulty. He could just as easily ask "this is terrible and you hate it don't you".
Nell wasn't really so interested in the exercising, but she was instantly captured by the video. She even stole the tablet! Its a bit cheaty, but it worked.
I have a feeling Sian was very aware that that's how it would turn out (also loved Alex's judgemental tone when he said "You just chucked an iPad into her hands" or something like that), but it was well played. The rubber duckies were a stroke of genius, but making a video for the child to watch was a very pragmatic way of going about the task and I have to respect that.
I don’t know about getting a toddler engaged, this episode had me totally engaged; Nell and Alex so beautiful to watch together, really cute and funny, I could’ve watched all day :)
Language acquisition at work there. Did she know the word "ecosystem?" No. But did she know what he meant? Immediately. New word logged to be referenced when it appears later.
You could have just as easily told your significant other you never want to have kids. Alternatively: sure you can see the adorable on camera bit, you don't see the two hour screaming fit brought on by "I don't want to wear socks, where did the shoe I just threw out the car window go?"
Joe-dough did not deserve 4 points. Nell ran right past it. Twice! Princess and duck ecosystem deserve 5 because she willingly went back to them again and again even when Alex tried prompting her to move on.
@@54321jcc when I was a toddler I thought calamity Jane was stuck in the box until we decided to watch her film again. toddlers understandings of technology is not that great.
@@54321jcc I don't agree that the iPad is cheating but I also don't think it should have been joint first. She was definitely interested and drawn to it but wasn't exactly engaging with the content of it, just watching the screen, ignoring it's instructions
The TM podcast revealed that her Dad was the one she ran too, so it's not that she was ignoring the toy so much as she was running to see her Dad and likely would have done that whoever had been first.
Funny thing is, you can buy really expensive and elaborate toys for your toddlers and they'll end up playing with your empty shampoo bottles nonetheless. (This doesn't include iPads and the like, which is like hooking up your kid to a crack-IV and basically constitutes cheating^^)
Kind of surprised nobody thought to just make an ice cream sundae for the kid. It's got to take a toddler longer than five minutes to try and eat a big bowl of ice cream, and if they get full partway through, you know they're going to make a huge mess out of what's left. That's got to count as engagement.
And not one of them thought to put an engagement ring on the kid either. Or even just fly paper. The rules didn't say they had to be engaged of their own volition.
I think she calls him Daddy at one point? But he does only have three sons (Thomas, Barnaby and Dara), so she's probably the daughter of one of the members of crew, and her dad may have been in the room.
I think Lou's question "what rhymes with 'ducky'?" is my favourite bit. I mean the whole task is wonderful and Alex and Nell are adorable together, but Lou, conciously or otherwise, planting the seed of a rude word in everyone's head is fucky funny.
The best contestant TM never had. Walked in, got on with the task, left satisfied with the results and won over the viewers. She put the others to shame. 😆
Working in child care, I can tell you that children react in very similar ways to Nell. You don't need to concoct elaborate things for children. The simplest thing will engage a toddler. The water tray with the ducks was so simple, yet Nell could've been there for hours playing with it
Alex is showing the same level of affection to this child as a reprogrammed Terminator. A very professional, matter of fact demeanor, with an almost imperceptible tinge of fondness. That is to say, he commits very well to his bit 😅
As someone who works with kids this just confirms it is very easy to engage a toddler(at least for a short amount of time XD) any old thing will do really
Toddlers are both easy and hard to engage. My cousin has the worst attention span thats worse than a gold fish. I played fetch with him for an hour before he started watching TV.
I saw the ducks and shark in the tray and even I wanted to play with them lol. I used to love having toys in the bath, it was the best, I had a feeling that would be her favorite.
"most engaged toddler wins" so technically only the toddler wins. 5 points to the toddler
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@Shaun Gunnuing true 🤣
Only if you have no idea on how context is important in language.
@@_TheDudeAbides_Context and Taskmaster cannot coexist.
The cutest part is how Alex talks to Nell. He speaks to her like she's a grown up and she just responds whether she understands or not! So cute.
I think Alex just talks to grown ups like they're toddlers.
That’s usually a good way to talk to kids, too.
"Yes the ecosystem is deteriorating"
“What would you rate it out of 5?” “5” “ok”
and she usually does understand it! she goes to put the ducks back in the “ecosystem” because she deduced that’s what the tray is named from context. great way to talk to kids
I think the main thing we actually learnt here was that Alex is very good with kids
He works with them for years and give them tasks
@@Proto.Hipster nice one
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@@Proto.Hipster *Child Task Master* 😂
@@smiller2044 A bit dark.
Alex was arguably the only reason Nell engaged with anything.
Which makes it fair again. And a good show.
I don't know. I think Paul would've won without Alex's help.
As a nanny, that checks. Kids that age are just as likely to play with the carpet as an expensive toy if you don't direct their attention.
The ipad wouldve engaged her without Alex
@@vickicee6815 Only for a few seconds before the video ended.
to be fair i think that as a toddler i would have emotionally connected very strongly to an empty cardboard box, but a tray full of bubbly water and plastic floating ducks is actually toddler heaven
My favorite part is that she immediately spilled it upon sitting down 😂
I was thinking some boxes, wooden spoons, and maybe paint lol
I remember as a toddler I loved reading more than anything else and you could find me (quite literally) inhabiting the bookshelves of my local library or sitting as still as a statue on whatever object my parents happened to put me on, apparently that's how they lost me every now and then because I was so still they couldn't tell me apart from the scenery. But according to my parents when I got restless they would put me in a cardboard box and give me crayons.
@@inventor121 all I did was read and color as a kid. My mom was always concerned about me being so quiet.
@@parryyotter I was a curious tot and usually very quiet as well. My parent's greatest concern was that someone would mistake me for a statue and put me in a storage bin.
I love how Nell runs towards Alex when she is in shock of spillage, but feels safe and ready to engage with the toy again because he doesn't overreact and asks her calmly if she wants to put the ducks back. Alex is trustworthy. ❤❤❤
I love that she starts hitting the duck on the string before she's even been told what to do. She _instinctually_ knew what to do.
Username checks out 🤣
@@lja1993 this needs more likes.
and she had impeccable musical timing! it was always "~hit the duckie on the head!" *thwack*
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Paul Sinha is an absolute legend. As someone who grew up in the 90’s, a baking tray, toys and some water is the best thing anyone can ask for. Nothing better then using one’s imagination.
As a Kentish child obsessed with the water that was probably the one I would have played with
Having worked with kids before, my initial idea was really mostly "A bunch of different papers and maybe fabrics with different nice textures, colours, patterns, etc, that the child is allowed to cut into pieces and then glue together again" cause that one works for almost any kid of that age (also, in this case, I wouldn't even have to be the one to clean up the whole mess afterwards for once), but when I saw that tray I knew it would work out even better. Brilliant instincts and a well-deserved first place.
if you want to keep a toddler engaged for hours give them a large cardboard box and a box of crayons.
He's a GP and so performs many development checks on children.
@@inventor121 Or uncooked rice and a funnel...
Why would a toddler not want the existential terror of a shark attack?? engaging and educative!
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Think you mean educational
@@parryyotterIronic
Explains why Baby Shark is still so popular after all these decades
Children can be very morbid, actually. On two separate occassions, two completely different kindergarten age boys told me they wanted to eat my eyeballs.
"Alex, I know it's supposed to be a filming day, but my sister's got to go to Northumberland for a family emergency, and that leaves me looking after Nell. Is there anyone who can cover for me?"
"I think I have a solution."
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"Alex I can't believe you've turned my two year old into a task"
David Bowie: "If no one has any problems, I believe I may be of some assistance."
(Let's Dance!! ! !)
i believe it's his daughter
@@Tacholoco He has three sons, no daughter. Nell was the daughter of the producer, Andy Cartwright.
Rewatching this after producer Andy C. revealed on the podcast that Nell was his daughter. This is why she was so at ease in the house and with Alex.
And also why she ran straight past the Joe dough at the start because she saw her Dad.
@@yellowrubberducky81 No, I think he wasn’t in the room. She more likely saw a camera operator she also knew (or Andy left the room as a result of that). Any two-year-old in a room with one of their parents looks at, goes to and talks to them continually. He even commented that a problem with the auditioned children would be that they’d have to have a parent in the room.
whos andy c?
@@thatonestarkidfan3918one of the director
Which episode of the podcast was this?
I know that Alex does this as part of his comedic persona on the show, but I always found the idea of talking to a child like an adult, in your normal conversational tone of voice, to be really adorable.
it also helps a lot with their speech development too !
You don't grow into an adult if no one treats you like an adult.
(Apparently a high pitched voice is still better to stimulate a small child though.)
Plus 'saying' their answers in a full, clear sentence helps, too.
@@gloss6969 It really depends on age. It’s good for older children, but talking to a baby like an adult actually hinders their language development. Studies show that the higher pitch, slower speed, exaggerated pronunciation of baby talk helps them learn and understand language better
@@blue1584 Goes for adults too really no? If youre trying to learn a new language you wont really follow if the speaker goes full force
Nell’s musical timing with “hit the ducky on the head” is impeccable hah adorable
the duck ecosystem is so brilliant because its a sensory experience, which toddlers crave
This sounds like it makes sense, but I have no idea what a "Sensory Experience" even is.
@@scottgill2643 It means: Me can look, me can touch, me can smell, me can hear.
Mostly the touching thing. It was more than one thing and she could touch it and really play with it and engage with it with all her senses.
@@scottgill2643 enrico is right! think kids playing with slime, splashing in bathtubs, tearing up grass. its why kids love teddy bears and why baby books have different textures. all very simulating.
Yeah. My 3 year old was begging for this construction sensory toy. And we almost got it for her when we realized she had a sand table that just needed sand and some construction toys. After the sand, the toys, and the price of the water/sand table itself (garage sale a few weeks before) it was about equal to the sensory toy but like six times the size with three times the number of toys. Plus outside so she wasn’t dumping sand on my floor
I just liked to pretend to read as a toddler ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Alternative Title: Task Master tests which Comedian they can trick into being a free baby sitter.
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The Answer is Alex, Alex was the baby sitter
@@MrGunsnrosesfan100 Well it's his child so not so much babysitting, more like being a parent.
You think they don't pay the contestants?
@@xant8344 Not to babysit
I want to acknowledge that Alex never once talked down to her, raised the pitch of his voice, or did any form of baby talk! That is some awesome parenting skills!
I mean he literally talked to her like to an adult. I like it and I don't doubt that he's a good parent but I think that was mostly for his role he plays in Taskmaster. :)
Yea. Claire was sentient and talking on her own.
@@JacktheRah No, I’m sure he talks to her like that all the time. I’ve never baby talked to my 3 children, always respect their autonomy and acknowledge that kids are very competent. It’s funny bc we’ll be having conversations, as Alex did in, while shopping at the store, very mature sounding. Some people have looked over and said, I thought you were talking to an 8 year old yet it was my 3 or 4 year old :)
I mean, this kid might be at an age where she won’t benefit from baby talk, but raising your voice’s pitch and using baby talk with actual babies is genuinely useful for them to learn language
@@ambs4076 I mean it's statistically shown in studies that baby talking to babies lowers their rate of learning to speak, so I'm not sure on what your source is for that.
I should specify the specific baby talk I'm referring to is not using proper full words, rather than simple changing of your tone of voice.
I kind of wonder how different toddlers would have reacted. She was obviously very sweet, and probably well rested.
Had it been my nephew, the ducks would have been scattered across the room within seconds. He'd probably put Alex through a shark attack, or mallet attack, or squished homemade play dough attack. Or he would take the tablet.
@@stevekirkpatrick1612 I mean ... That would still have been pretty engaged.
Same, but having different toddlers wouldn't have been fair, since we're judging which toy was best, and different toddlers have different tastes
@@genericname2747, they mean if other toddlers did the whole task, not just for one contestant :)
@@windybeach2184 oh that's a good idea
"You may not damage the toddler in any way or take it apart".
So, basically, it's incredibly easy to capture a toddlers attention for a short burst of time
Who would have thought?
It's easy, all you need is 30 mins effort from an adult to engage a toddler for up to 2 mins at a time!
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All I need to get way more attention from my 3 year old niece than I wanted is any object or toy and my voice, than she won't let me go all day 😂
But yeah, it's pretty easy to get a toddlers attention, the whole world is new to them, and everything is extremely fascinating.
❤😊 Her little "Hello, Alex!" and "good morning, Claire" during Ian's task was so cute. Her dad is one of the producers, what a sweet little girl he has! Must be hard to get any work done when she visits the set! Also her taking the iPad killed me 😂
In case anyone missed it, here it is: 5:00 ☺️
To this day one of the best tasks - couldn't have gone better. It's also such an alex moment when the Toddler simply goes 'yeh' when Alex asks if he should leave and he accepts his fate, I know he's just playing a role - but he does it so well, even getting a toddler to kick him out !
I love that Iain was completely ready to return to his days as a children’s TV presenter when he assumed they’d be interacting with the child
I remember those days fondly - he definitely engaged me as a child.
He is quite the cutie!
Paul should have got bonus points because Nell didn't want to leave
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I mean the toddler did leave with the iPad, so it's on par
I knew Paul would win as soon as I saw the baking tray with the rubber ducks. There is a reason adults buy themselves rubber ducks for their bath too. I like to play with them while bathing and I'm 36.
Haha I'm 37 and the second I saw the water and ducks I was like aww I want to play.
@@MeAuntieNora ripped tennis ball
@@ineffablemars Never seen a tennis ball with abs but now I'm curious.
Haha I play with and have 4 rubber ducks and I'm 38. Gotta love bath-time
"the ecosystem has deteriorated", is one of my favorite Alex Horne lines.
I think it's harder to find something that won't engage a toddler, honestly. Their tiny minds are so full of curiosity.
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Tiny is only in size, not capacity.
Just think back in the 1990s a voice activated computer was fiction, the toddlers who grew up watching those stories made it real.
*yeah we could link the "original product launch" to a company ran by an older person, but I have zero doubt the first actual programmers weren't even in kindergarten back in '95.
As someone renovating part of a house and desperately trying to keep my preschooler from contributing significantly to the mess- yeah.
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@@stevekirkpatrick1612...yeah, the toddlers who "grew up". Aka, not toddlers anymore.
I will never have as much swag as Alex Horne saying „The ecosystem has deteriorated“ in a serious voice to a toddler
Of course Ian went for a puppet 🤣 he literally worked with a puppet for cbbc and knows kids always are engaged by them- I’d say that’s the best one as she was engaged with it and got the sensory part of bubble wrap that she took with her
Although the ducks definitely engaged her for longer
Hacker T Dog would be proud
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Nel is the daughter of Producer Andy Cartwright, and she was 2 at the time. She tested all of the engaging things in one hour and a half block and she received £50 for her time. If she judged it in 2023, when she was 5, Joe would have won.
I love that she, a two year old, was paid 😂
@@hannahbolton7586 I don't know how television/film production works in the UK, especially when it comes to trade unions, but at least in the US, she would have been paid at the union rate, even if she wasn't a union "actress." An infant here in the States would have been paid for appearing on camera. And again, I don't know the rules/laws in the UK, but here in the US, it's actually the child being paid, as in, the cheques are made out to the child. And I assume there's similar protections in the UK, but 20% of what the child makes has to go into a special account (called a "Coogan account" in America) that the parents aren't allowed to touch.
This was the cutest task from all seasons. Period!
This and the dog toy task.
Agreed!
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You can tell that Alex is a wonderful father
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How?
Me: this is the sweetest thing they've ever done.
Greg two seconds later: "This is the sweetest thing we've ever done."
❤
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there's going to be a kid or young adult in 10-20 years who stumbles across taskmaster clips and gets a flashback to the nice man with a clipboard from their toddler years.
Turns out this child is from one of the producers. Listen to the taskmaster podcast which Andy C. Was guest
A reminder that Iain is an actual children's TV presenter.
Tbf he didn't really engage with children just a puppet on that lol
It's a shame that Charlotte Ritchie didn't get to do this task.
Wait, that’s Iain of Iain and hacker?
@@mujiescomedy279 Yup!!
Definitely the sweetest task. Only replicated by the dog task recently.
Which was pretty much entirely the same task.
@@PokerJoker811 Yeah pretty much. I'd say they could do it again with a cat but it literally wouldn't give a damn haha
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@@LeeJ2512 Maybe “engage this teen?” perhaps?
@@Babyteef that’s devious, they have to!!
I love that she immediately spilled the water in the baking tray
It makes sense that the only mother was the one to know to just give the kid an iPad.
We should have this child back, but now entertain this 6 year old (or however old she is now)
I loved how even at that age she knew to tell Alex to go away.
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Something like "teach this six year old something, best thing taught wins", something like a skill or a fact (skipping, counting to ten in another language, painting something easy etc)
Holy shit lol just farm this kid for content for the next 12 years ahaha
@@cazzabojangles it'd be a great task with the right cast.
i have taught many kindergarteners and first graders how to count to a thousand (specifically 1023) on their fingers using binary.
The best part is when the parents are confused and the kids pick up on it immediately.
I really thought the task said "make something to endanger this toddler" when I clicked and did not even question it for a second
I can imagine Alex is one of them dads that gets sick of doing the same thing over and over with his kid but will never look or act like he’s bored
It's the fact that Nell hits the ducky on the head only when specifically instructed to by the song
This toddler seems more happy than engaged. She's so joyful :D
i remember hearing Iain say somewhere (maybe on his celebability show?) that when he did kids tv, him and Hacker's puppeteer Phil Fletcher used to hang out, get drunk and make puppets out of whatever they had around, and I love that he can just fall back on that skill within seconds.
"Shall I go?"
whispers "yeh"
The lady who did the box with tissue paper clearly has experience with toddlers.
i’m shocked lucky ducky got the lowest score! she immediately engaged with it, and was even singing the song on her way out!
Had to rewatch to catch it, she said "hello Alex". Who knew it could be an adorable thing to say?
But, the ranking based on him asking her is a touch faulty. He could just as easily ask "this is terrible and you hate it don't you".
They didnt use it anyway
Nell wasn't really so interested in the exercising, but she was instantly captured by the video. She even stole the tablet!
Its a bit cheaty, but it worked.
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Yeah, she didn't dance along. I actually think she was enjoying watching the video though!
I have a feeling Sian was very aware that that's how it would turn out (also loved Alex's judgemental tone when he said "You just chucked an iPad into her hands" or something like that), but it was well played.
The rubber duckies were a stroke of genius, but making a video for the child to watch was a very pragmatic way of going about the task and I have to respect that.
Taolan8472 As an adult many decades older than Nell I have to say that I too seldom follow instructions on exercise videos etc
I don’t know about getting a toddler engaged, this episode had me totally engaged; Nell and Alex so beautiful to watch together, really cute and funny, I could’ve watched all day :)
Language acquisition at work there.
Did she know the word "ecosystem?" No. But did she know what he meant? Immediately.
New word logged to be referenced when it appears later.
'you called it a Pinoche'
'Because i'm half French'
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I've decided that I only want kids if they're as cute and well-behaved as Nell
youll have to make them that way. those traits dont often come prepackaged
If you're not able to teach your kids well-behaved, then don't have any.
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Only if they can tell the difference between a threser and threshing shark
You could have just as easily told your significant other you never want to have kids.
Alternatively: sure you can see the adorable on camera bit, you don't see the two hour screaming fit brought on by "I don't want to wear socks, where did the shoe I just threw out the car window go?"
Joe-dough did not deserve 4 points. Nell ran right past it. Twice! Princess and duck ecosystem deserve 5 because she willingly went back to them again and again even when Alex tried prompting her to move on.
Having an IPad is kinda cheating though of course a screen with all its shininess, abilities and forbiddeness would be interesting.
@@54321jcc when I was a toddler I thought calamity Jane was stuck in the box until we decided to watch her film again. toddlers understandings of technology is not that great.
@@54321jcc I don't agree that the iPad is cheating but I also don't think it should have been joint first. She was definitely interested and drawn to it but wasn't exactly engaging with the content of it, just watching the screen, ignoring it's instructions
@@alexinitalics188Fair enough, that is a decent way to put it
The TM podcast revealed that her Dad was the one she ran too, so it's not that she was ignoring the toy so much as she was running to see her Dad and likely would have done that whoever had been first.
Omg when she ran in and said “hello Alex” in her little voice I lost it 😂❤❤❤
What an adorable child! I entertain my child with two cups of water, a tray, and a funnel
Hands down Paul won! Not even a tie. Child didn't want to leave toys. Brilliant! 🐤
Alex is just using the contestents to be a better dad. I fucking love it.
Funny thing is, you can buy really expensive and elaborate toys for your toddlers and they'll end up playing with your empty shampoo bottles nonetheless. (This doesn't include iPads and the like, which is like hooking up your kid to a crack-IV and basically constitutes cheating^^)
What's a crack 4?
@@ticketyboo2456 IV == intravenous
Kind of surprised nobody thought to just make an ice cream sundae for the kid. It's got to take a toddler longer than five minutes to try and eat a big bowl of ice cream, and if they get full partway through, you know they're going to make a huge mess out of what's left. That's got to count as engagement.
And not one of them thought to put an engagement ring on the kid either. Or even just fly paper. The rules didn't say they had to be engaged of their own volition.
"Shall I go?"
- "yeah"
🤣🤣🤣
11:06 "shall *i* go?" Leave to british host to be that polite to their guests.
Alex is so sweet with the children 💕
To this day, im not sure if that's Alex's child or not
I don't think so, I'm sure I've seen somewhere that he has all sons
I think she calls him Daddy at one point? But he does only have three sons (Thomas, Barnaby and Dara), so she's probably the daughter of one of the members of crew, and her dad may have been in the room.
@@cazzabojangles I think she said bye ducky?
@@Becky-99 That makes more sense Imao
He has three kids, all boys
10:57 She said "Yeah" as if it should have been obvious. :D
I hope Nell heard all of the nursery rhymes from season two as a starter
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Nell would be left scarred by Jon's attempt 😂
@@firdausnahar2017 She'd learn a lot of new words from Doc's attempt too
I think Lou's question "what rhymes with 'ducky'?" is my favourite bit. I mean the whole task is wonderful and Alex and Nell are adorable together, but Lou, conciously or otherwise, planting the seed of a rude word in everyone's head is fucky funny.
Omg how cute is Nell? What a wee dot
The best contestant TM never had. Walked in, got on with the task, left satisfied with the results and won over the viewers. She put the others to shame. 😆
The hit the ducky on the head song is stuck in my head.
You guys could totally start a junior version of the show!
And now they have.
A cardboard box cut to resemble a castle and the crown would have had Nell playing princess the whole time.
Working in child care, I can tell you that children react in very similar ways to Nell. You don't need to concoct elaborate things for children. The simplest thing will engage a toddler. The water tray with the ducks was so simple, yet Nell could've been there for hours playing with it
Toddlers are fairly simple. They want something to play with and/or a tablet. 😆
Alex Is Brilliant He Never Talks Down To The Child Bet He is a Awesome Dad
Alex is showing the same level of affection to this child as a reprogrammed Terminator. A very professional, matter of fact demeanor, with an almost imperceptible tinge of fondness. That is to say, he commits very well to his bit 😅
There are some evil tasks, and there are some immensely sweet tasks. This be one of the latter.
As someone who works with kids this just confirms it is very easy to engage a toddler(at least for a short amount of time XD) any old thing will do really
In the words of Nell "Yeh!"
Thank you so much for the longer clips!
Ducky tray one
Alex: you can go now
Toddler: no you can go
honestly, my first thought with this task is just to leave a pillow or soft club of some sort with a little note attached
"hit Alex"
Knocking over the ecosystem while sitting down is such a classic toddler move. She is so cute!
Toddlers are both easy and hard to engage. My cousin has the worst attention span thats worse than a gold fish. I played fetch with him for an hour before he started watching TV.
I saw the ducks and shark in the tray and even I wanted to play with them lol. I used to love having toys in the bath, it was the best, I had a feeling that would be her favorite.
One of the best tasks 😍 Nell is just delightful ❤
When I was a toddler I played with a toy fish in the sink, makes sense she loved the water thing
This task will forever be one of my favs
Nell is the cutest little nugget!
I was smiling the whole video... This is great content.
It’s amazing to me that in 20 years Nell will have perfect video of herself as a kid.
this is the best thing i have ever watched in my life. so am amazing
If I saw Claire as a child I'd probably be terrified
He's so good with kids
I love how now taskmaster is moving into satire with the release of this video today
That's the cutest kid. Omg.
I love this task!! It's sooo sweet!!
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Honestly I would've gone for a tray with water and some plastic toys too, kids love that so much
God this was such an adorable task
What a beautiful, bright and engaging young child 😊
I first read that as “Make the best thing to endanger this toddler” and did a double take.
Without doubt the cutest challenge they've ever done :') XD