imagine those coworkers explaining their day to their friends and families "frank skinner cut onions and sang to me as he collected tears from my face"
The funniest thing is....this is the very first season... Can you imagine Josh coming into the lab, seeing a bag of rice, and thinking, "Is this what this show is, food counting? This will never last two series"
My guess is he would pull a Joe Lycett like the greased up mayo jar and count the rice first then read the task and gloat that he beat the system in that way, then look even dumber lol
This show has produced some serious serial killer and villain origin story moments across its time. This episode had both. Josh realizing he was the only one counting beans is absolutely his origin story and Frank singing a song while gleefully collecting tears from his prisoners has such serial killer vibes. I absolutely love the depths of human depravity they can draw upon in just a few hilarious moments.
Even worse is the fact that Josh won the series by 1 point, which was the bean point; aaaand the magic eye wasn't even a magic eye of Greg, it was a duck or something. So Josh winning is basically Romesh's villain origin story.
I love how Greg introduces them basically the same every time: Frank Skinner is Old but well-respected Josh is baby-faced and scruffy Embarrassing Roisin story Romesh is always angry Tim
@@helenamirian908 This roasting is a tradition in most british panel shows, as the comedians all know each other and often are personal friends. Greg was friends with Roisin for years even before Taskmaster
It sold the show and set the tone. The best line ups are like really distorted boygroups: the cute one, the talented one, the wild one, the mature one, the obnoxious one.
Yeah and good on him for not spoiling the others! He must have quickly realised after the beans that the hoops and rice were for the other ad breaks and didn’t say anything 😂
At first I was a little miffed that Josh got high points for the b.s. magic eye ducky, but after watching his counting tasks it feels justified in a round about way.
Poor Josh! He is so loveable he always gets picked on across shows. The comeback "you'd think I feel like a loser but I'm not the one who has to watch this 5 times, so don't know who's the bigger loser, you or me, on this one." is brilliant!
Josh bringing in a magic eye that was not actually Greg Davies makes me laugh. I think every prize he brought in for the season was also a joke, like the soccer ball that wasn't actually signed etc...
@@threeglassjars6051 idk if you care BUT... ive found that putting your nose/face super close to the center of the image, relaxing your eyes/vision... then slowly pulling your face away i can get my eyes to focus in the hidden image, it may take a few tries. But once you got it, it works every time (3:15)
I've been an Australian all my life and this is the first time I've realised that there really is such a thing as an "Australian name". I told Dave-o, Shazza and Bucket about it but they didn't believe me.
For the squash task it seems like two people would take longer to get it randomly than three would. Especially when the two longest haired people plus a guy with glasses are on the team of three?
You would think so, right? I guess it's just that three people are more likely to touch their heads st some point and mistake the reason for the point for something somebody else did. Basically there is too much happening with three people to be able to isolate the cause
Yeah! The thing is you could complete the task without ever knowing the rules, which is just how the group of 3 got it. Obviously there was a higher chance of 3 people doing those tasks than 2.
Same as with the contestants: if you're taking the scoring seriously, you're missing the point. It's a game with rules that barely make any sense, are never fair, and are designed to facilitate comedy. One of the core memes in the show is if they protest and get upset about rules they automatically lose.
@@E_y_a_l I mean Alex did say that disappeared meant that you just couldn't see it anymore. Throw it in a Bush and ask Alex to do an editing trick where it looks like it disappears with a snap of your fingers. We've seen similar in later seasons
@@moonbunny29 It's a clever solution, but considering how he chased Tim's block down the river I assume Alex probably would have dug it out and said he can still see it.
There's something weirdly beautiful about Frank singing while scooping the tears off of his aqquaintances' faces, while they rub onions under their eyes
I absolutely love that the most recent episode of series 18 has a task that is a call back to this live task- all the mannequin personalities are names from the football team.
@Shawna Pferd the worst part is flushing an eraser is not erasing it. The strict interpretation of that is you must completely use up the eraser. Whereas to disappear literally means to cease to be visible , so Tim did make it disappear. Such an unfair thing to take away his 5 points
@@carterr8786 it depends on the wording of the task and the definitions. Flushing the eraser would have counted under the season 1 definition of disappear, as Alex couldn't see it anymore. The reason throwing the ice into the river didn't count as it disappearing because ice floats. If he'd thrown the ice into the river just before a long, dark tunnel, or thrown it somewhere that Alex couldn't get to (like down a drain), his time would have been quicker as it would have disappeared quicker.
Oh damn, I wanted to see if I could make myself cry just thinking of something sad, and wound up having a full on bawling hard-to-breath fit of heartbreak. Would have won that challenge easy
I think there’s an extra level of inhibition that comes with doing it on camera in front of a crew and Alex Horne, but I’m with you, I can do that. I hope you’re feeling okay. ❤
For the ice block task, as Alton Brown once demonstrated, you need water to be flowing over the ice, rather than sitting still. If the water is flowing, heat isn't necessary. Flowing water from a faucet or hose without a spray attachment, combined with increasing the surface area of the ice block by breaking it up, should melt it pretty quickly. Either that, or use some sort of silly technicality, like hiding the ice, or covering Alex's eyes.
@@evil001987 maybe! I feel like it would depend on Alex's mood, he might just lift the towel up and look at it and then look at you. 😂 Then again, maybe had do the same to me and just dig it up. 😥😅
@@deansqwilliams8821 Neither could I. I thought it was little figures/people, but turns out they just had really bad handwriting. I saw another version of it, with the picture outlined in black, and you could still barely make out the 'Happy Easter' part. Basically, the stuff on the bottom left of the duck/chicken is 'Happy' and the top right part is 'Easter'.
I just watched tim key's taskmaster podcast episode today and he was talking about how "someone brought a ticket to cologne for a task or as a prize or something" and he talked about it in the most vague way and now I'm finding out that he brought the ticket in himself but doesn't remember jack shit about it
Depending on your age, think again...."Secret of N.I.M.H." (1982) Hands down the most depressing cartoon ever made (intro or otherwise). Not familiar? Wiki it.
My math teacher was playing movies the last three days of the first semester this year, and we wanted her to play Up, when the bell rang, and we couldn’t finish it, she said “just realize that I had to watch the opening scene three times today”
Ok so it’s definitely a duck, what are the letters in the top right.. Did the person who made the magic eye just scam Josh out of his money, or was it a devious lie on Widdecombs part..?
This first season have the best crew of comedian set ever that can start a big show. A old man who is distanced by the younger crew, the young one who is brave and talkactive, the woman who is clumsy but lovable, the silent man that whenever he talk he makes everyone laugh, and the middle aged man who act childish. a perfect combination
I like these tasks the best as well. I imagine it's how an AI learns to find patterns, just randomly trying stuff and figuring out why you're getting rewarded. They had one in a later season with Lee Mack where they had to cross a garden without making a siren go off.
That magic eye is hilarious. Josh is so good at comedic subterfuge. I wonder when Greg learned what was really on it. (It's a duck drawing and the words "Happy Easter")
I agree with Tim. If you throw something in a river and it floats out of sight then it has disappeared. You’re never going to see it again. That’s a disappearance. If I jumped in a river and floated out of sight, and then nobody who knew me ever saw me again, people would say that I had disappeared.
Thing is, that's exactly what happened - but it takes a while for it to _actually_ float out of sight. It's a biggish river and not particularly fast. Big open view, ice is still floating there.
@@baechusquad That doesn't at all oppose what I said. What I said was that, to paraphrase and clarify further, because the ice is floating on the river and not melting, when you have that big open view that a bigger river provides, and when that river is slow, it will take a while for it to disappear from sight. Period. It would be a considerably quicker process with, say, a narrower faster flowing river between tall rocks.
@@beth12svist Well yeah, but my point is more that if you're basing the judging on "when does it become out of sight and in essence disappears", Alex no longer being able to see it from his vantage point should count I think.
There are some taskmaster bits that induce such a physical reaction in me and Romesh rubbing HOT SAUCE IN HIS EYES is one of them... also Frank singing cheerfully while collecting the tears of a group of men is so bizarre, what a fever dream
Cheat code for the tears task is watching Big Bird sing “It Isn’t Easy Being Green” at Jim Henson’s funeral on repeat. The moment at the end where he says, “Thank you, Kermit” is sending me just writing this.
@Human Resources I guess? But even just seeing other people's eyes water from like cutting and onion or something makes my eyes physically water, even if I don't feel sad or whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm getting so legitimately mad at how biased against romesh Greg is 😂 I'm guessing the series is just really committed to the running joke but damn. That cardigan was ugly as sin and wtf was going on with Frank's thing.
Well, Romesh shines with angry humor, so I'm sure the bias against him was a way of giving him something to get angry about, allowing him to shine as a comic if not as a contestant.
@@Imspammedout You are correct. I have to keep explaining this to non-Brits who don't understand the concept and think that contestants like Joe Wilkinson or Johnny Vegas were being bullied during their series' when they were not. Whatever your style of comedy is is what the other comics will set up punchlines for, British panel shows and comedy shows are a bit like improv - you are always trying to make the other players look good by giving them material that feeds into their style of comedy. Also everyone on TM knows just about everyone else from being in the same comedy circles or bumping into each other at the Edinburgh Fringe so no one takes offence when another contestant calls them a dick, especially since 95% of them are Brits, we call our best friends worse names than that. The more the air turns blue the more you know they are really friends.
Actually, Josh won the series with 94 points. Both Romesh and Frank had 93 points. So it turned out to make a huge difference. A bit sad actually, as a 3-way tiebreaker for the series would be interesting. :)
I'm a few years late but in an interview Frank Skinner said that after the episode he, Alex Horne, Tim Key and Josh Widdicombe all went to Cologne for 22 hours to look at the Cathedral.
Tim and Alex's conversation about the ice in the river was like a Monty Python sketch, so good
I'd like to have an argument! ua-cam.com/video/ohDB5gbtaEQ/v-deo.html
Exactly what I was thinking of
YESS!! The Black Knight, just that!!
Exactly what I was thinking. Amaizing.
I’m desperate for someone to set it to animation or something it is so wonderful
I love Frank Skinner in this show. He's not the best at the tasks but his voice and attitude is so sweet.
Hes so polite!
Honestly, he sings well
I couldn't help but go "THIS PURE OLD MAN" everytime lmao
And he's such a sniper with his jokes, too
He's like one of those grandpas that don't tell you the same story over and over again
imagine those coworkers explaining their day to their friends and families
"frank skinner cut onions and sang to me as he collected tears from my face"
Lmfao
That tear-harvesting while MERRILY singing an emotional song like an utter sadistic psychopath was the creepiest thing i've seen this decade.
Absurd and hilarious yeah, but creepy? Nah the man is a national treasure.
National treasure or no, Frank Skinner is ruthless.
Oh no, it was brilliant!
How does Rhod Gilbert's performance on TM compare in terms of creepy?
TERRIFYING! I was weirdly attracted to him there
"YEAH, I KNOW ABOUT COUNTING, MATE!"
"And that's why I give you my special jobs!"
Josh walked right into that one.
They're all so friggin fast! I'm just in awe every time! 😂😍
@@garfreeek it’s a 3.5 hour recording twice in the same day.
So Romesh has lost his wedding ring and a statuete from his mother in law. He's such a good husband.
Red_Ray and a snow globe made by his sister in law
Erik Brodersen and a trip to Cologne
Also he's a hypocrit, has sort of an anger issue and takes himself way too serious..
@@WirageVoyage also it's a part of the character he's playing???
repeanut I think you’re the hypocrite here...
The funniest thing is....this is the very first season... Can you imagine Josh coming into the lab, seeing a bag of rice, and thinking, "Is this what this show is, food counting? This will never last two series"
My guess is he would pull a Joe Lycett like the greased up mayo jar and count the rice first then read the task and gloat that he beat the system in that way, then look even dumber lol
Josh after the bean/spaghetti-o-s incident looked uncannily like a very upset hobbit
He DOES look very much like a hobbit!
@@ahobbit1273 He looks Samwise Gamgee.
He auditioned to be in that movie.
unCANnily!
He is credited as a hobbit in the lord of the rings actually
I love how romesh seems to be actively trying to destroy his family with the prizes.
josh counting the beans will never not be funny
The way Greg says "That's correct." after Josh asks if he's not getting any points for counting the beans absolutely kills me. That shit is too funny.
Wish they'd do more of those honestly. They're all hilarious!
@@ruangreyling2073 hindsight ruins a lot of jokes so lets not :P
@@andreaskarlsson5251 haha sorry about that
Romesh and his reaction of pure joy makes it the times better. Lol
"Uncharacteristically competent" made me laugh so hard.
This show has produced some serious serial killer and villain origin story moments across its time. This episode had both. Josh realizing he was the only one counting beans is absolutely his origin story and Frank singing a song while gleefully collecting tears from his prisoners has such serial killer vibes. I absolutely love the depths of human depravity they can draw upon in just a few hilarious moments.
Even worse is the fact that Josh won the series by 1 point, which was the bean point; aaaand the magic eye wasn't even a magic eye of Greg, it was a duck or something. So Josh winning is basically Romesh's villain origin story.
I love how Greg introduces them basically the same every time:
Frank Skinner is Old but well-respected
Josh is baby-faced and scruffy
Embarrassing Roisin story
Romesh is always angry
Tim
Tim.
I love how everytime Greg introduces Roisin, its always something dumb he has witnessed her doing or saying
Yeah he really seems to hate her.
They seem to hang out a lot together. I think they're just good friends
@@helenamirian908 This roasting is a tradition in most british panel shows, as the comedians all know each other and often are personal friends.
Greg was friends with Roisin for years even before Taskmaster
@@VNdoug agreed. plus roisin and greg did 4 seasons of Man Down together. They know each other fairly well by this I would think.
@@nekro5342 they were friends before that even
Ramesh has absolutely MASTERED the art of remaining completely emotionless in the face. that’s an art.
He.... He has a lazy eye, I feel like that might help
Alex as well.
@@mozzarelladoggo8984 and a thick beard.
And on the rare occasions of when he cracks, it's the most brilliant smile in the world.
You’re thinking of Jack Dee.
Frank singing while scooping up others tears looked weirdly sweet??
Sweet yet like out of a psychological horror movie
Sweet like most creepy imagination of toothfairy
"I want you to play a game..."
he was like a little tear elf
looks like a bugs bunny cartoon almost
Not only did he put hot sauce in his eyes, but then he went nuclear: "I'm trying to think of the first five minutes of Up."
Every time I watch this back, I'm genuinely shocked he didn't win that one *even despite* Frank's successful identification of the loophole.
Including Frank Skinner in this group was a brilliant decision - he was a genuine asset to the show.
He was the first person who agreed to join. Everyone else joined because he did! He’s a hero.
The OG contestant that helped launch the most entertaining nonsense show of late, we owe him as fans.
It sold the show and set the tone. The best line ups are like really distorted boygroups: the cute one, the talented one, the wild one, the mature one, the obnoxious one.
@@Schmidtelpunkt this is so true wtf
Have glasses. Can confirm we're constantly adjusting those sons of guns.
The counting bits will never stop cracking me up
I was crying. Poor Josh. 😂😂😂
and his extra point didnt help him win the game :D
@@MrUND3RSC0R3 I'm pretty sure he won the finals (total points) by one point though
"I know about counting, mate!!!"
"And that's why I give you my special jobs!"
Yeah and good on him for not spoiling the others! He must have quickly realised after the beans that the hoops and rice were for the other ad breaks and didn’t say anything 😂
At first I was a little miffed that Josh got high points for the b.s. magic eye ducky, but after watching his counting tasks it feels justified in a round about way.
Poor Josh! He is so loveable he always gets picked on across shows. The comeback "you'd think I feel like a loser but I'm not the one who has to watch this 5 times, so don't know who's the bigger loser, you or me, on this one." is brilliant!
Josh bringing in a magic eye that was not actually Greg Davies makes me laugh. I think every prize he brought in for the season was also a joke, like the soccer ball that wasn't actually signed etc...
i tried staring super hard but what do yiu think it really is because all im seeing is vaguely a duck
Patrick Angelo Narciso yeh there’s a drawing of a duck with two words but I can’t make them out
@@tswager9912 I cant do Magic eye tricks whatsoever, but I'd imagine the words to be "Fuck you"
@@threeglassjars6051 idk if you care BUT... ive found that putting your nose/face super close to the center of the image, relaxing your eyes/vision... then slowly pulling your face away i can get my eyes to focus in the hidden image, it may take a few tries. But once you got it, it works every time (3:15)
@@tswager9912 It says "happy easter"
They always make fun of Franks age but damn he looks good for his age!!
He sure does!
Aw I have such a soft spot for Frank. He's so sweet and adorable! Even when he looked like a psycho collecting tears while singing
came here to say this. he's way more attractive at 58 than i'll be at any point in my life. if anything it gives him more personality
Exactly! They did not make fun of his looks.
Love him
I'm sad that the gag of making only one person do a task didn't catch on for the later series'.
It did, just in different ways. Such as Mark Watson!
@@kimz24 Ah yes, true!
Paul Chowdry had to have fun on a bouncy castle for an hour
One lady (I forgot her name) had to blow up a giant beach ball and hide it from Alex.
cutedogsweetsugar Mel Giedroyc
Scooping onion tears from people while smiling and singing has become a bullet on my bucket list
I've been an Australian all my life and this is the first time I've realised that there really is such a thing as an "Australian name". I told Dave-o, Shazza and Bucket about it but they didn't believe me.
I'm suprised nobody just went with "Bruce" and "Sheila".
@@chaos.corner I think it's pronounced Shay-la
@@NoahStew In Australia, it's Sheel-Lah
As opposed to being an Australian for half of your life..? 🤦🏻♂️
@@ao1778 Immigrants or Emmigrants who become citizens could be
now I know why Ramesh has a lazy eye.... bloody putting hot sauce on it
'There's 406 beans'
'thank you Josh'
'wait what about my points, did nobody else do that ?
13:47 Beans
19:40 Spaghetti Hoops
36:50 Rice.
Your welcome.
I think I love Romesh way too much!
@@itsokay7989 I don't think I've ever seen Romesh happier than in those moments
Much appreciated, thank you!
you're*
Yes! That's exactly what I've been looking for!!!
00:32 Introductions
02:06 Prize Task: Most Beautiful Item
07:33 Task 1: The Ice Block
13:48 Teaser: Baked Beans
14:19 Segment 2
19:40 Teaser: Spaghetti Hoops
20:13 Segment 3
20:58 Task 2: Taskmaster Squash
28:28 Task 3: Tears
36:51 Teaser: Grains of Rice
37:27 Segment 4
38:29 Live Task: High-Pressure Socializing
42:34 Final Scores
For the squash task it seems like two people would take longer to get it randomly than three would. Especially when the two longest haired people plus a guy with glasses are on the team of three?
You would think so, right? I guess it's just that three people are more likely to touch their heads st some point and mistake the reason for the point for something somebody else did. Basically there is too much happening with three people to be able to isolate the cause
Yeah! The thing is you could complete the task without ever knowing the rules, which is just how the group of 3 got it. Obviously there was a higher chance of 3 people doing those tasks than 2.
Same as with the contestants: if you're taking the scoring seriously, you're missing the point. It's a game with rules that barely make any sense, are never fair, and are designed to facilitate comedy. One of the core memes in the show is if they protest and get upset about rules they automatically lose.
yeah! a person with long hair will ALWAYS be moving their hair. A person with glasses will be touching them every 5 seconds LOL
I guess it's fitting that one of the more unfair team tasks had a lower point distribution
"sadly for you, i am a child who's in charge if this f*cing show" best quote
Frank setting up a tear farm while creepily singing is creep and hilarious
Greg calling Josh one of his 'special little boys' is such a nightmare XD
tim and alex laughing at the laptop together gives me "boys at a boarding school looking at their first dirty magazine" vibes
I expected someone to just throw the block of ice into a bush and say "It disappeared!" lol
That's what I thought as well(throwing it over the fence), but after watching Tim's task I don't think that would have been accepted.
@@E_y_a_l I mean Alex did say that disappeared meant that you just couldn't see it anymore. Throw it in a Bush and ask Alex to do an editing trick where it looks like it disappears with a snap of your fingers. We've seen similar in later seasons
@@moonbunny29 It's a clever solution, but considering how he chased Tim's block down the river I assume Alex probably would have dug it out and said he can still see it.
I honestly expected someone to use salt haha
@@Fleurig-xr5mm 18:25 Romesh did.
I've never seen Romessh lose it as much as he did after watching Josh's counting tasks 😆
I don't think Romesh has ever been happier than watching Josh counting rice.
Who was waiting for Ramesh to say that he brought his wife?
There's something weirdly beautiful about Frank singing while scooping the tears off of his aqquaintances' faces, while they rub onions under their eyes
I love the editing on this show. It's all killer and no filler. Leave in the comedy, and let the show explain itself.
That ET audition is powerful stuff.
Rewatching this series Frank Skinner is such an absolute pro comedian it’s unreal. So fast, witty and just all round talented!
“How was Josh better then frank it looked like-“
“He melted it quicker”
Now that was some good quick wit
The “get to 11 points” Teamtask is one of my favourite tasks of all time 😂👍🏼!
I absolutely love that the most recent episode of series 18 has a task that is a call back to this live task- all the mannequin personalities are names from the football team.
“Fill this cup with tears”
Me: _has a breakdown any time I’m told off by an authority figure_
Me: aLEX
Honestly my favorite part about this series/cast is just how often they show the cast studio reactions laughing at each other while watching the tasks
Yeah, shame they stopped doing that after series 7
Frank seems so wholesome during all of his tasks.
The sad thing about the ice is that in later series throwing it in the river and having it disappear out of sight would probably get 5 points.
@Shawna Pferd the worst part is flushing an eraser is not erasing it. The strict interpretation of that is you must completely use up the eraser. Whereas to disappear literally means to cease to be visible , so Tim did make it disappear. Such an unfair thing to take away his 5 points
@@carterr8786 it depends on the wording of the task and the definitions.
Flushing the eraser would have counted under the season 1 definition of disappear, as Alex couldn't see it anymore. The reason throwing the ice into the river didn't count as it disappearing because ice floats. If he'd thrown the ice into the river just before a long, dark tunnel, or thrown it somewhere that Alex couldn't get to (like down a drain), his time would have been quicker as it would have disappeared quicker.
Romesh is just getting raked over coals... He may not be winning the tasks, but he's certainly won my heart.
Love when Romesh's ice smashing was in sync with the music. It's the little things that bring me joy 😝
Oh damn, I wanted to see if I could make myself cry just thinking of something sad, and wound up having a full on bawling hard-to-breath fit of heartbreak. Would have won that challenge easy
I think there’s an extra level of inhibition that comes with doing it on camera in front of a crew and Alex Horne, but I’m with you, I can do that. I hope you’re feeling okay. ❤
Relatable. I’d just have to think about losing my dog (or the dogs I’ve lost) and I’m a mess.
For the ice block task, as Alton Brown once demonstrated, you need water to be flowing over the ice, rather than sitting still. If the water is flowing, heat isn't necessary. Flowing water from a faucet or hose without a spray attachment, combined with increasing the surface area of the ice block by breaking it up, should melt it pretty quickly.
Either that, or use some sort of silly technicality, like hiding the ice, or covering Alex's eyes.
I would've buried the ice.
catbeara I'm not the only one who thought of that!
Throw a towel over it so he cannot see it?
@@evil001987 maybe! I feel like it would depend on Alex's mood, he might just lift the towel up and look at it and then look at you. 😂 Then again, maybe had do the same to me and just dig it up. 😥😅
I would throw into neightbour backyard
credit to josh for not letting on about the other 2 counting tasks
wtf that magic eye picture is actually a duck that says happy easter??
Thank you. I could see the duck but couldn't make out "Happy Easter".
tbh i thought it was a bagel being flipped in a pan
I cannot see the happy easter part no matter how hard I look
Where are you guys seeing the duck I just see a lot of squiggly lines 🙈
@@deansqwilliams8821 Neither could I. I thought it was little figures/people, but turns out they just had really bad handwriting. I saw another version of it, with the picture outlined in black, and you could still barely make out the 'Happy Easter' part. Basically, the stuff on the bottom left of the duck/chicken is 'Happy' and the top right part is 'Easter'.
"Uncharacteristically competent" brilliant saying, i'm stealing this for sure
"I imagine this is what it was like on the set of frozen" - Roisin Conaty
Amazing. I love this woman lol
I can't believe Roisin was actually drying her tears when she should've just collected them.
I just watched tim key's taskmaster podcast episode today and he was talking about how "someone brought a ticket to cologne for a task or as a prize or something" and he talked about it in the most vague way and now I'm finding out that he brought the ticket in himself but doesn't remember jack shit about it
😂😂😂😂😂
33:48 I respect that "UP" comment. Saddest beginning to a cartoon ever 😩
Depending on your age, think again...."Secret of N.I.M.H." (1982) Hands down the most depressing cartoon ever made (intro or otherwise). Not familiar? Wiki it.
@@SesrohOn I've seen it. Just didn't make me cry like "UP". Maybe because they're animals? Idk
Grave of the Fireflies was depressing as well.
sesroH oN UA-cam recently had the secret of NIMH free to watch with adds. I made my entire family watch it with me
My math teacher was playing movies the last three days of the first semester this year, and we wanted her to play Up, when the bell rang, and we couldn’t finish it, she said “just realize that I had to watch the opening scene three times today”
Ok so it’s definitely a duck, what are the letters in the top right.. Did the person who made the magic eye just scam Josh out of his money, or was it a devious lie on Widdecombs part..?
I think it's not letters on the top right, it's smaller ducks
I think it says 'Happy' in the bottom left, and 'Easter' in the top right. So, 'Happy Easter', I'm guessing.
It says Happy Easter
Considering that he once brought in a signed football with no signatures I think it's him 😄
This first season have the best crew of comedian set ever that can start a big show. A old man who is distanced by the younger crew, the young one who is brave and talkactive, the woman who is clumsy but lovable, the silent man that whenever he talk he makes everyone laugh, and the middle aged man who act childish.
a perfect combination
Having three people AND someone with glasses was definitely a big advantage for the head-touching task!
And Roisin has long hair.
by this definition all the mobsters watching are breaking out into a cold panic, reevaluating all the times they "disappeared" someone in a river...
frank skinner is rapidly becoming my favorite person on this show
FYI, the strongest part of the onion is the part where it connects to the roots. That little bit there is what makes you cry.
I love how Romesh keeps bringing in his family gifts
I wish there was more squash like tasks in the show these days
I like these tasks the best as well. I imagine it's how an AI learns to find patterns, just randomly trying stuff and figuring out why you're getting rewarded. They had one in a later season with Lee Mack where they had to cross a garden without making a siren go off.
That magic eye is hilarious. Josh is so good at comedic subterfuge. I wonder when Greg learned what was really on it.
(It's a duck drawing and the words "Happy Easter")
"When I think speed, I think Moira."
I agree with Tim. If you throw something in a river and it floats out of sight then it has disappeared.
You’re never going to see it again. That’s a disappearance.
If I jumped in a river and floated out of sight, and then nobody who knew me ever saw me again, people would say that I had disappeared.
Thing is, that's exactly what happened - but it takes a while for it to _actually_ float out of sight. It's a biggish river and not particularly fast. Big open view, ice is still floating there.
@@beth12svist Yeah, but Alex marked a time where it became out of sight from their perspective
@@baechusquad That doesn't at all oppose what I said.
What I said was that, to paraphrase and clarify further, because the ice is floating on the river and not melting, when you have that big open view that a bigger river provides, and when that river is slow, it will take a while for it to disappear from sight. Period.
It would be a considerably quicker process with, say, a narrower faster flowing river between tall rocks.
@@beth12svist Well yeah, but my point is more that if you're basing the judging on "when does it become out of sight and in essence disappears", Alex no longer being able to see it from his vantage point should count I think.
Andrew Stalker Yeah exactly. I mean hell by their “well someone can see it” logic NOTHING could technically disappear.
There are some taskmaster bits that induce such a physical reaction in me and Romesh rubbing HOT SAUCE IN HIS EYES is one of them... also Frank singing cheerfully while collecting the tears of a group of men is so bizarre, what a fever dream
I love how the hidden eye image at 3:22 wasn't remotely Greg, it was that of a duck with the text "Happy eagles"
It was actually "Happy Easter"
@@Madmole20 If it's happy easter, they really did that S low and didn't cross their T well.
@@JustThomas1 The script seems like something written by a weirdo. I have no idea why someone wrote it that way, but it does indeed say Happy Easter.
I can confirm it is a duck. I paused and was able to see a duck.
Frank Skinner looked like a villain harvesting tears from psychologically torturing his captives. 😂
I'm glad I watched this show and now know of Frank's existence. He's brilliant.
Pretty brutal to realize in front of a live audience that your favorite cardigan is hated by most people lmao
Cheat code for the tears task is watching Big Bird sing “It Isn’t Easy Being Green” at Jim Henson’s funeral on repeat. The moment at the end where he says, “Thank you, Kermit” is sending me just writing this.
What happened to Rosh's sweater, it was a cardigan in round 1 and a pullover at the end
I have sensitive eyes, so seeing someone crying makes my eyes water. This was an interesting episode to watch.
@Human Resources I guess? But even just seeing other people's eyes water from like cutting and onion or something makes my eyes physically water, even if I don't feel sad or whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My eyes won’t stop watering help
I was tearing up too lol
I thought I was the only one
Josh's magic eye of the duck was superb. Well done.
I really, really loved the squash task. One of the best in all the series!
After Romesh went back for a second dose of hot sauce in his eyes i think he'd earned his wedding ring back.
Wow I didn't know Frank could sing
I'm getting so legitimately mad at how biased against romesh Greg is 😂 I'm guessing the series is just really committed to the running joke but damn. That cardigan was ugly as sin and wtf was going on with Frank's thing.
I loved his ornament actually
That cardigan is beautiful
Well, Romesh shines with angry humor, so I'm sure the bias against him was a way of giving him something to get angry about, allowing him to shine as a comic if not as a contestant.
@@Imspammedout yknow im here for this analysis, it makes sense
@@Imspammedout You are correct. I have to keep explaining this to non-Brits who don't understand the concept and think that contestants like Joe Wilkinson or Johnny Vegas were being bullied during their series' when they were not. Whatever your style of comedy is is what the other comics will set up punchlines for, British panel shows and comedy shows are a bit like improv - you are always trying to make the other players look good by giving them material that feeds into their style of comedy.
Also everyone on TM knows just about everyone else from being in the same comedy circles or bumping into each other at the Edinburgh Fringe so no one takes offence when another contestant calls them a dick, especially since 95% of them are Brits, we call our best friends worse names than that. The more the air turns blue the more you know they are really friends.
The best part about Josh counting all that stuff is it got him 1 point but he won by 2 so it still didn't matter at all 🤣
Actually, Josh won the series with 94 points. Both Romesh and Frank had 93 points. So it turned out to make a huge difference. A bit sad actually, as a 3-way tiebreaker for the series would be interesting. :)
Searched powerful art on youtube, wasn't disappointed
This episode is totally insane holy shit the hot sauce 😂
I wasn't that keen on season one before but it started to really grow on me
As an American fan who doesn’t get Dave, thank you for uploading these!
having watched no more jockeys the whole ice in the river bit makes so much more sense. big "birds aren't animals" energy
I genuinely thought someone was just going to throw a towel of the block of ice and be like YOU CANT SEE IT ANYMORE
Josh tapping his head with the racket was the definition of dramatic irony
Thank you so much for putting these on UA-cam! I love you guys!
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As a taskmaster fan from Cologne this episode made me really happy.
I'm a few years late but in an interview Frank Skinner said that after the episode he, Alex Horne, Tim Key and Josh Widdicombe all went to Cologne for 22 hours to look at the Cathedral.
Whoo I needed that laugh when Frank was merrily collecting tears, that was just so hilariously demented! This is the hardest I've laughed since 2020!
Watching season 15, it’s so cool to see how good Alex becomes at witty banter
Damn, that crying task made me go watch "Up". Turns out, I can cry a lot in a short amount of time.
Q: How many beans are there in a can of beans?
A: 239. Because if you add one more, it's too farty.
Human Resources LOVED that movie!
some things just can't be replicated very well. The magic that is taskmaster and thus the Alex and Greg combo is just so on point.