Guz Khan Discovers an IMBALANCE in the POPPABILITY | Full Task | Taskmaster
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- From series 12, pop the balloon. You must stay behind the rope at all times. You must not move the rope. You may buy the tools you need with time. Fastest wins.
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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.
I appreciate Desiree's commitment to saying "ding dong!" whenever she 'entered' Alex's shop
That did somehow maker everything better especially the depressing ding dong 8:32
She is so not funny... the british humor just does not fit an American.
she did not...
I found it slightly annoying really
Victoria being the only one to succeed without using the scissors and pop the balloon with a dart is one of her underrated moments of greatness this season.
Having seen some clips of her playing darts when she remembered to bring her glasses, I imagine she could have got it on the second or third dart if she'd done so.
Please give us a compilation of all the times Alex breaks character. Just from this task alone, you've got two good ones.
His character is kinda himself though... Right? I mean he's kinda a submissive bitch in his character but... I mean I promise you that comes from him but it may not be as exaggerated.
@@jocomfiresin6982 his character is to be a submissive, but also mostly unflappable. He’s supposed to have a seriousness/sternness that allows him to act as the straight man to the comedians. He breaks character when he breaks out in giggles or clearly does a double take (or just can’t contain himself, the S6 Show your love task exemplifies this)
@@calebsevigny1146 Serious and unflappable doesn't mean without emotions at all. Laughter doesn't negate calmness. You can always be calm and still have a good time.
@@jocomfiresin6982 Oh, he’s usually having a good time, but his job is to remain somewhat as a supervisor. He can still react to situations, but it’s when this aura is broken that I think he “breaks character.” It’s like when Greg is supposed to be a stern, intimidating character and then he learns of how Bob poops, or sees a picture of his mother in the tub with a fez. He quickly returns, but he breaks momentarily IMO
@@calebsevigny1146 Greg kind of has a nature stern intimidating aura to him though. His giant size and past as a teacher certainly helps. It's the fact he's in no way threatening as a human being and physically inept as well as his entire jovial personality that even allows those moments to seem even remotely funny. Whilst I'd agree he certainly broke the stern and intimidating persona in those moments with the smile I'd also say he didn't really break it. I don't remember the bob poops bit but his mother. He immediately did a double take with a strange yet happy smile upon his face before immediately following up with you traitorous old woman. Which felt very on brand. What I'm trying to say is more of compliment to him then anything else. He very much managed to both break the character and maintain it at the same time in that moment. Which really just seemed to add depth to the character as opposed to destroying it.
Interesting that Victoria, the contestant that struggled with many tasks due to not bringing her glasses was the only one to pop the balloon without the scissors
What's funny is they clearly didn't do all the filming in one day, she could have brought the glasses. She wears them all the time on panel shows, but I guess maybe she didn't want to damage them.
@@Hexen_Wulfi have glasses myself because Im nearsighted so often at home I dont use them. Which means I often forget them at home. 😂 And these recordings are spread out over a long period of time so.
@@andreaskarlsson5251 I guess it comes down to a cultural thing? I don't even know if Culture is the right word. I wear glasses as well, but my eyesight is bad enough that I never take them off unless I'm showering or sleeping. So to me 'forgetting your glasses' is exactly the same as 'I forgot my prosthetic leg.' Possible? Yeah. Likely? No. That's probably very different for other people.
@@Hexen_WulfI think the word you're looking for is habit. not cultural :)
@@andreaskarlsson5251 I mean in a Near Sighted vs Nothing Sighted manner, not habitual. Like there is a culture of people who can leave their glasses and get along just fine, and there is a culture of people who if they leave their glasses behind will be unable to do much of anything. Oh don't let me forget my condescending smiley face :)
Desiree maxing out entertainment value. A noble sacrifice
If I were a comedian, I wish I could be that type on this show, but I know I’d go full Gamble
Hugh Dennis attempting this task: "Scissors, please."
would have been an epic callback
no, he's got KNIVES
3:09 that "nothing happened" smile always gets me 🤣
That was an adorable smile!
Buys a bucket of forks for an hour of time instead of the scissors for 8 minutes and still doesn’t manage to pop the balloon with the forks 😂
Barely managed to pop the baloon using the scissors either...
At that point it was the principal of the thing
Desiree got it right, the scissors was boring and her go was quality entertainment
She deserved a bonus point.
@@brianm6337 Agreed. Actually, I'd be up for giving her and Guz both bonus points for hitting the balloon with the pebbles, which failed to work, and made the task seem a bit unfair for people who prefer slingshots to darts.
Nah. The aim of the game is to complete the task.
@@jenniferhanses7064 unfair for people who prefer slingshots to darts…? What?
@@Cheapiebeepie I think it was a joke.
When I watched the first time I didn’t notice Alan’s “lost the will to live” joke but I’m howling at it now 😂😂
Gold joke
Ikrr
I love at 3.09 the wind nearly blow Alex's shop over. The look on his face is priceless
I love how they didn't even get them the bare minimum of a 5 dollar hardware store slingshot. It's just some tourist trap peice of wood that falls apart after 1 shot lool.
Justice for Victoria. Greg should have given her a bonus point for actually popping the balloon with the dart instead of cutting the rope, like the other four did.
This was definitely one of the tasks she shined in; sadly completely overshadowed by Desirée's magnificent failure.
@@dlpaul345 That applies to the scissors as well.
Where Victoria stands out is in achieving a very good score without reaching for the easy way out. Not sure I entirely agree it was enough for a bonus point, but it was definitely more of an achievement, in comparison to everyone else, than it came across as, and if it wasn't for Desirée's going all out in her attempt, it would definitely stand out as such.
@@dlpaul345 Notice that I am not the one arguing she should have gotten it, just agreeing that she did well in the task. Nor did the show actually do the special treatment. So you don't have to keep repeating your point to make it.
I think the immense satisfaction she got from popping the balloon was its own reward.
I’d have just pulled on the rope.
Desiree was determined to do the task the way it should be done, Alan just wanted to sit down lol.
Watching Alex's reaction on that last attempt is hilarious. It was the greatest punchline to a bad joke ever written.
I instantly regonized this task from my country's version of the show! (Swedish one, "Bäst i Test".)
The main difference in that one was that was that the balloon was filled with helium instead of water, and hanging upwards instead of downwards on a string.
Among the items to use was also bow & arrows, and even guns! (Except those was soft air ones.)
(Also, there was no "scissors" thing in that version, leading to two of the Swedish contenders to actually ran out of items without ever bursting the balloon. XD)
Sounds like it would be great fun to watch!
I had forgotten this. (I watched the all. Very enjoyable even for a person ignorant of the language.)
Which episode is that?
1:51 Her voice says 2 minutes and 30 seconds, but her mouth says 2 minutes and 30 minutes.
Wtf? That’s weird.
woah. That's super weird - nice catch though!
If I scored them based purely on how entertaining they were in this task, I'd give Desiree 5 points, Victoria 4, Guz 3, and Morgana and Alan 2.
I mostly agree, but I found Alan's version quite entertaining. It was fun to watch him burst into 1st place merely by doing things in the simplest, most obvious way.
If it was like that, I wouldn't watch the show.
Desiree was American at the start of this, then became British by the end, it broke her lol
"That's the worst attempt at any task", he says not knowing that possibly the best contestant of all time would end up burying a rubber duck because he couldn't get it in the lake
Who was that again?
@@BlueManIan Ed Gamble in Champion of Champions II
The worst ever task attempt will still always be "my eyes are circles"
Guz's chaotic energy is adorable.
This was one of the truly great tasks, I think. TBH, I didn't quite appreciate it the first time I saw it, but now....it just cracks me up every time. They're all stars in it.
Is this sunk cost fallacy the game?
"I already bought a bunch of darts, I shouldn't just do the scissors now"
Yes. It's a great example of that.
"Your task is to find the mistake in the title and fix it. You have 30 minutes. Your time starts now."
And should be an.
Poppability should be popability.
2 mistakes.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 nah, the double p is right
I mean capatilization?
@@nemnyoom poopability is spelt wrong. 😳😂
@@redelfshotthefood8213 buddy they're not shitting the balloon
This feels like a shop game in Zelda.
Great task but I think they would add more time for the rope cutting option because it would only make sense to choose the darts if you are sure you hit the ballon in three or less tries else the scissors would be the best option right at the beginning.
Also, they should get a balloon which can be popped by pebbles and stone. In Alex's shop only darts and scissors work. The rest are useless.
@@sagatious6435 you could pop it with a fork, just would not be very easy.
I think that was intentional taskmaster tomfoolery, they were counting on most people - like Dezzy - considering the scissors but seeing the initial timesink as intimidating and their subsequent misses as a matter of pride. It's gambling addiction mentality and they were probably deliberately rewarding anyone who cheesed the task instead.
Makes me think of another balloon task, "pop just two and win", so my own fix would be to hide the scissors behind at least a simple puzzle (the portcullis is clearly visible so that'd be a hint) so you have to be clever rather than just pragmatic.
I'll also call tomfoolery on the forks and stones not popping the balloon, I think MAYBE one that would pop with a strong throw of a fork would be appropriate but I think there was a joke item the cheapest on purpose (aside from the ducks) in case people fell for it.
Can you not untie the rope rather than cut it?
Nah, best part was people just throwing dart after dart, fork after fork at it. When that adds up sooo quickly. Sunken cost fallacy of trying to save time and all. When it's best to just cut (heh) your losses like Alan did.
I am once again petitioning Taskmaster to put a choking hazard warning on these videos, as I have nearly choked to death trying to take a sip of water before Desiree's attempt. Again.
I find the wording of "you must stay behind the rope" interesting. because really that could mean either side, either the way it was clearly intended and they all interpreted it or being behind it from the perspective of the cameras (like if you were hiding behind something). would definitely be up to taskmaster interpretation but I think there's a decent chance you win.
I also thought that doing something with the 'rope' to cheese the task was the way to go. I'm not sure your solution would work though, unless you instantly moved 'behind' the rope as you were reading the task because once Alex introduces you to the shop the task starts and from the position of the disk you're supposed to stand on (the one next to the shop) that would lock your 'behind' option to the further one. It also could be difficult to get the items from the shop that way since Alex might just hand them to you unless you get closer (you could still probably pop the balloon just with your hands though.
I was thinking more about treating the string as a rope and getting closer to the balloon by going over the side.
Desiree was hilarious. A true comedian.
Guz was my personal favorite, but they were all funny and entertaining especially at 3:15🤣 I've just never heard that before and Guz of course at 2:52 or the workshop being knocked by the window it's all brilliant
"Does the clock still have time left inside of it" lol
We used to shoot darts with slingshots, and we would joke about it being harmless other than popping balloons. Then I made a huge dart and a bigger slingshot, end up mocked by other kids for re-inventing bow. Until I showed them it is possible to pop balloons from 200 meters away, if the dart is light enough. (Bamboo skewers with a sharp weight at the tip and paper fletching). Quite dangerous as a children's toy but oh my it was fun.
Alex would go mental if he found out the admin made a typo in the title of the video.
It's really troubling me: I can't work out if it's an error or a reference to something I'm failing to see....
8:09 is this why the portcullis didn't fall at first?
You've posted this on my birthday and my favorite quote in all of Taskmaster is in it! Shakespeare
8:45 there's two ducks there and Alex asked "any particular duck?" to Victoria?
🤔
for this one - always assumed alex would be game if you took all his ducks, then sold them back at an inflated price. make some time.
I think Guz tried that when he asked for a refund.
@@chayimweinstock443 yeah but that was a refund, not selling them
This task shows their personalities and task playstyles so well.
As much as I love Desiree, I thought this was going to be about Guz. I was really looking forward to ' The Best of Guz Kahn!"
Khan.
@@WellISaidIt Thanks, these old hands are prone to typos. 💜
I was waiting for someone to say "please can you go get that dart for me that I've just thrown over there". But with running back and forth it would probably still be longer than 8 minutes.
I wished someone said"y'know what, I can't throw darts that far
LETS COMBIND IT WITH A SLINGSHOT
i was legitimately thinking this the whole time
Would slingshotting a dart work? I'm picturing trying to use it like a crossbow but I think the flights would get in the way
@lisahenry20 I doubt it. The slingshots don't seem to have enough elasticity in the rubber band to be able to get the proper distance.
It would absolutely work otherwise, there is a small niche sport for it.
@@lisahenry20I'd remove the flights, I think it'd work then
Late to the party but why don't they get some rocks from the ground for slingshot.
Pebbles clearly are not sharp enough and regular rocks are free (minus time spent on finding rock)
To be fair to Alan, he spends a good proportion of his telly career being entertainingly incompetent... let's let him have this one. :P
Victoria does not consider herself athletic at all but she was the only one who didn’t end up using the scissors.
Why not buy a slingshot but scout around for a pointy stone (once you find that the pebbles are too smooth).
How about combining the shot with a dart?
Rules as stated:
Stay behind the rope.
Do not remove the rope.
Do not touch the string, unless to use the scissors on it.
Best solution: Pick up both posts the rope is attached to and run forward.
Moving the rope is not removing the rope and in fact you haven't even touched the rope, you've moved the posts the rope is attached to. Same with the string.
No, the rules say "You must not move the rope", not "must not remove it".
Although I don't see anything that says they actually have to use anything from the shop. It might have been "faster" to just go loot some bricks from nearby to pop the balloon.
@@lemonade107 no, the one person who reads those rules says "Remove." Listen closely.
This really made me fall deeper in love with Morgana
-her face throwing the ducks
-what kind of shop is this?!?
-Missed by a bee’s dick lives in my head forever
-her just snatching the scissors and screaming fuck’s sake was the best use of the scissors
My personal approach to this, as a big darts player, would be to take some free ducks to get my aim in, and then hopefully buy one dart and take it out in one. Hard under pressure though!
I'm sure that approach would work... If the ducks were dart shaped.
A Balloon is a pretty big target. I never tried but as a dart plqyer myself it would probably be easy first try. We dont know how far away they had to throw so that maybe could be a problem
This task is a perfect demonstration of the sunk cost fallacy
Victorias dart was pretty impressive.
3:24 This is the part the health and safety rep points to whenever anyone complains about the long meetings they have to have about tasks and safety gear 😂
I think a trick that may have worked was loading a dart into a slingshot
Thank you! I was losing my mind shouting that lol
That's sounds like a recipe for disaster
I mean, Guz hit himself in the face trying to fire a duck from the slingshot, so I have a feeling trying that with a dart would be similar but more painful...
My man has clearly never tried to fire a dart with a sing shot
There’s a typo in the title. “Discovers and imbalance in the…”
Thumbnail got it right, though.
"Brother, there's a word, I've never used it before in life. It's called "hindsight.""
Taskmaster Book of Quotes material!
I'm surprised no one tried to buy the slingshot and the darts 🤔
Pretty certain that wouldn't work. If you disturb the "wings"of a dart it doesn't fly straight anymore. And you'd have to squish them in order to hold the dart in the slingshot.
@@maxs1813 I'd love to see some try it though
@@maxs1813 slingshot and the bigger stones, however, could have been interesting
@@lred1383 I wonder if you could buy the slingshot, then look on the floor for a stone that could pop the balloon.
I would love to see the crew's faces during Desiree's whole attempt but most of all when the portcullis didn't go down as planned.
Victoria's 'hum that's nice' is the absolute purest thing, i melt
I wonder if the slingshot was actually supposed to work, or if that was just a red herring.
It doesn’t say anything about having to use the shop tools at all, or being able to just leave as long as you don’t pass the rope. You can probably go source your own tools, like a really long branch or sharper pebbles for the slingshot. Doesn’t seem like there’s much around though. Either way, the expense of the items in the shop gives you plenty of time to find something to beat the other contestants in time.
slingshot with a sharp garden rock would probably be a goer
The task doesn’t say you can’t just touch/cut/untie the rope without using the scissors. It’s only Alex saying that. It’s not clear that stuff Alex says is a real rule.
bring your own shotgun in.
Desiree's attempt is forever my favorite Taskmaster moment!! Ever!!
"Missed by a bees dick" 🤣 never heard that one before
I mean, if you lift up the poles hanging the rope, you're still standing behind it. Just lift them and walk forward without letting the string touch you. Portcullis drops.
You couldn't move the rope
@@red_weed it doesn't say you can't move what the rope is attached to. 😏
3:15 all of our pollinating pals out there catching strays man, poor guys.
I can't believe no one just tried to untie the knot or lift the loop over the barrier, releasing the portcullis
2:21 is me at the bar.
I love Victoria so much. She's so proper, then she just goes all primal at just the right moment. 😂 Thanks to this show I discovered Only Connect because I needed to see more of her.
The sunk cost fallacy in action
Answer is test with free ducks if you can hit it, realize you can't in under 8 minutes (3.5 darts) and use the scissors as a test.
I am curious about something. I feel like the rubber ducks had a secret to them that would’ve popped the balloon. I wonder if I am right
The secret is this. If you are a cricket player or baseball player, then yes. You could throw the duck at the rope, or even the balloon and pop it that way.
Second wild thought: use the ducks to untie the string. You don’t touch the string. The ducks do.
No. If they designed a secret way to win the task, they always reveal that in the show. Why would they miss the chance to have a laugh about something _none_ of the contestants noticed?
@@jpaugh64 Because they used up the entire time allotment to laugh at Desiree and didn’t want to make her feel even worse
The title is inaccurate:
they misspelled,
*"missed by a bee's d*ck"*
Always get's me with Alex Horne's "Pardon?", sounding like a shocked old man! XD
the obvious answer wins!
I lost it when it didnt work with the scissors for dez
I fell like all those years of abstract thinking with QI has prepared for Alan for this task
Purchasing 3 darts for 8.5 min instead of the scissors for 8… 😂
My most toxic trait is that I think I could get it quickly with one fork
The comedic timing on that portcullis is just perfect after the madness that is Desirees' attempt.
Me: *Grabs a handful of pebbles off the ground. "Hi Alex, I'd like to sell you these pebbles, I see the going rate is 1:30 for those nice pebbles. I'm quite sure these aren't as well curated, so I'll sell them to you at a 75% discount, how's that? You pay me 22.5 seconds per pebble."
By the way, the task does not specify which side of the rope is in front and which is behind. It also doesn't say Alex can't move the rope, nor does it say Alex can't move the balloon or carry a dart from your hand to the balloon. Actually, it doesn't even specify which rope, although Alex does point at one, but there are two ropes very near each other. There are so many holes in this task, but I like my first idea. I'd love to see everyone's reaction.
(Shh, you should correct the title, you have a mistake in the indefinite article.)
"An" right? An imbalance. Tut tut
A word which I now long to use “poppability”
honestly, the obvious answer was to shoplift the tools you needed, and thus not pay the time penalty- given it says 'may' buy the tools, rather than 'must' buy the tools.
"an" imbalance *
I'm surprised nobody argued the "but that's the only time you'll be allowed to touch the string". There was nothing about it in the task itself. Arguably, they could have unwound the string without actually buying the scissors no?
Ways to hack the task I can think of:
1. take one item, ask alex to retrieve it
2. lift the post to which the string was tied to which should drop the balloon popping contraption
8:55 I guess you could say there was an imbalance in the dropabilty of the porticullis.
I'm surprised no one thought to take off their shoe and throw that instead.
Desiree is basically ”Random sh*t go!!!!”
An, not and.
* continuing my current task of correcting aaaaalll the typos in these titles and descriptions 🤦♀️😂
Why did nobody look for more rocks or break the ones they had after finding out they cant pierce the baloon?
love horne lying about the shakespeare quote
Man the only Shakespeare quote I can remember is something something "Envy is a green eyed beast" or something like that and the one I'm not even 20% is an actual Shakespeare quote "I'd challenge you to a battle of wits yet you seem to be unarmed."
I remember reading the whole collection but shit done passed through my brain like water through my digestive tract. I remember the general trend of most of them but if you put a gun to my head and told me to quote that man I'd say fuck it and suck the barrel of the gun cause I'm going out weird.
"O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." Google got my back with the quote I was looking for.
Label this video as "educational" bc I now know the word "portcullis" & am hankering for an opportunity to use it.
*imagines integrating one into a cardboard cat-castle
(You know you're thinking it: cat'stle.)
Desiree really embraced the “Random bulls*it go!” mentality
Nobody had any gosh darned urgency during this timed task!
Lee Mack on the next episode of WILTY " I taught Victoria how to play darts which helped her on TM "
Taking their jackets off would have helped when throwing the darts, their arms would have had a bit better range of movement.
Yeah... But you gotta remember who they are.
I would have bought the sling shot, and some darts and used them together.
Nice idea but it would accomplish bollock-all. The flights on the darts would interfere with that plan.
One of my fav contestants on TM 🤣
I fully expected the scissors to be a red herring
We discovered an imbalance in the video title.
08:08 living proof of the sunk cost fallacy. Rather than keep going)g buying darts, ducks and stones after the first failed attempt, she should have just gotten the big scissors. Or better yet picked the scissors first to start with. Guaranteed success whereas as all the other options have a relatively low chance of success yet she keeps buying more because she’s failed and they still seem cheaper than the scissors even though they’re not. 🤷
What if they used the slingshot to propel the darts
I'm always the safe option - boring, I know, but I'm a mother and self-employed... I'm not a comedian. I would have gone straight for the scissors.