Taskmaster Australia Series 2, Episode 6 - 'Everyone here is a nerd.'
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- In our sixth episode of Taskmaster Australia, Jenny plays duck, duck, goose - twice, Wil once again shows off his love for sketch comedy, and contestants head to the live task-party trying to drop the least amount of hundreds and thousands!
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.
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Never, in the histroy of taskmaster, has somebody lost 2 rounds because of the same task. Jenny will go down in history for this
3 DQs in 1 ep has gotta be a record in all of Taskmasterdom surely.
@@ChexMixTheSpot mike wozniak also had 3 DQy in 1 ep
@@silvanstamm8068 also Sue Perkins and Richard Osman, though when Richard did it there were 6 tasks, including Jon Richardson's special task (also not all of them were DQs per se)
nauuuuuur!
Surely though failing the same task twice is a fluke though as it will never happen again 🤔
Jenny over-complicating a simple beginner logic puzzle after being all scientific about her taste test is deeply hilarious and very taskmaster.
Reminds me of Victoria flunking the riddles task!
@@namayra299 She didn't, she absolutely smashed the riddles task, you must be confusing it for something else
@@ChickVanCluck i meant the task where it was something like don't do the task and it was a bunch of negatives clubbed together.
Nothing could've prepared me for duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, goose 2: legends fail twice
I lost it when Jenny said, "If number two was protecting Number Ten and lying to me." 🤣🤣
Like what in Sherlock Holmes was that-😂
She was close to a viable solution for cases when you can't ask something you know the answer fo: asking a duck if anither duck if the oposing team would sell the duck you ask is liar. If the duck you're asking is a liar then the second duck would be telling the truth and say yes, but your duck would lie and say no.
If the duck your asking speaks the truth the second duck would be a liar and say yes as well, but your duck would say yes to. So liars would answer the question with no, truth sayers with yes.
I remembered that there is a solution along these lines, paused, figured it out only to have Lloyd and Will find a much simpler solution. Jenny probably remembered the same thing I did but was slightly more stressed than i am on my couch.
To show how slow Jenny was in the goose task, in the password task Lesser Tom mentioned, it took Danielle 503 guesses in 1 hour and 54 minutes. It took Jenny 1 hour and 26 minutes to ask 5 questions and she got it wrong.
Should've watched a bit further ;)
She took half that time to ask her first question which really is baffling
And iirc later in the season Josh spends longer doing a task so she can't even win at this. She couldn't get 1st place for most time spent on a task but even when she gets the 2nd lengthwise time, another contestant in the same season beats her record. So she can't even claim that😂
“Eleventh of September”
“That was a fluke to you?”
What a great interaction 😂
Watch Jenny's body language as Anne is explaining her experience in the duck/goose task. She knows what's coming up. She knows Anne's coming off this task smelling like roses.
A huge fan of Jenny Tian, it turns out.
I like her more with each new episode I see! Great comedy :D
Spoilers:
Jenny failing the same task twice in one episode is an all-timer lmao
Con the Fruiterer, for those curious, was a comedy sketch character, mainly from the 90s, depicting a Greek immigrant (of which Australia has a surprisingly large community) running a fruit stand with strong opinions on Australian current events and how it relates to his family. Very heavy on stereotypes.
That was the cutest prize task of any version of Taskmaster I've ever seen.
I just found it more annoying, because obviously they can't actually be prizes, and they're obviously lying as well, or at least one of them is, or else they'd be married.
I think that's really simplifying marriage and that you're taking a silly game show too seriously@@MusicalJackknife
It was cute but I don't like it when the prizes aren't actually prizes. I feel like it was better in early Taskmaster series when contestants actually brought in something with value to it, instead of someone's ten year-old toothbrush.
@@rkah6187 you mean the things of value that were almost always given back? Like the car?
Wil was robbed, him correctly guessing the remaining seconds was pure bliss
finally Tom understands how Alex felt when Bridget was doing the shoe task 🤣🤣
My exact reaction, the only two instances I can recall when the assistant visibly (audibly) lost their patience
But surely she could hold more than one duck at a time…
@@Nano0k or take the fish tanks out of the room
Lloyd calling Tom a 'twink' is so funny to me
what does it mean?
@@wisedreda boyish-looking svelte gay man with no body hair
He's calling him a different T word every time 😂
@@tatersoup Tiramisu
17:18
Josh and Jenny fighting over the taste test while everyone just got a little bored tickled me, for some reason.
Really only Ann, Lloyd and Will were sufficiently entertained and enjoying it from what I can see
I'm really liking Lloyd's approach to everything.
This was incredible. Felt actual pain for Jenny, I think she went home and re-evaluated her entire life.
I like how the Taskmaster seems to be coming into his prime in the role now, with giving the contestants grief and not taking their attempts to turn failure into points
Agreed! Tom felt on form here. Baiting Josh appears to be Tom's favourite activity....
Did Jenny just dethrone Desiree Burch for worst attempt at a task ever, not only once, but twice, and ALMOST a third? LOL Historical stuff here.
Jenny is a true Taskmaster classic. Love her throughout the series but these duck tasks were the highlight.
Honestly, I think Taskmaster Australia is my fave. Everyone is so funny, Tom has been my favorite assistant and he's super fun to watch as well.
The assistant tom is great. The taskmaster tom is so annoying. He feels like a boring DM that wants to destroy the players.
@@arthurfraco2970Greg is the best TM by far imo.
@@arthurfraco2970 That's the best part imho lol, the points are meaningless anyway
Omg the fabled Zebra throw from the intro
"fabled"?? 🙄
@@ROOKTABULA Sorry, should've said legendary
13:00 Jenny owned him when she brought up scientific variables 🎉🎉🎉
"You know when you go into a parallel universe..." - Anne Edmonds
Jenny has me HOWLING that was one of the funniest "failures" in show history and goes to show how really the point is to make the audience laugh not succeed in the task and she really did that! Amazing, brilliantly overcomplicated so it loops around back onto stupidity - incredible comedy.
From the betrail of last episode, to this episode's prize task, I have to say Anne and Loyd are a very cute couple.
A way to solve the ducks and geese:
* In riddles of always truth/always lie, you can ask either one "what would you answer if I asked you [yes/no question]?" and it'd cancel out any lie, resulting in a truth answer no matter who you all. If you ask a lying duck whether it's a duck, it'd say no. If you ask it about its answer to the question of whether it's a duck, it'd lie about the no and say yes. This technique can save you previous questions that would otherwise be wasted to establish who's telling the truth and who is lying.
** Do a binary search, splitting the group in half and asking which half the goose is in. Let's say it's #3:
1. "Number one, what would you answer if I asked you whether the goose is in the numbers 1 to 5?" Single quack, yes.
2. "Number two, what would you answer if I asked you whether the goose is in the numbers 1 to 3?" Single quack, yes.
3. "Number three, what would you answer if I asked you whether the goose is in the numbers 1 and 2?" Two quacks, no.
Accuse 3.
This search will give you the answer within log2(n) rounded up questions: 0 questions for 1 duck (automatically a goose), 1 question to tell apart 2 ducks, up to 2 questions for 3, definitely 2 questions for 4. Up to 3 questions for 5 to 7, 3 questions for 8 ducks. Then 3 to 4 questions for a number of ducks between 9 and 15, which is the case in this task, depending on how the uneven split lands.
In this case however you can just ask, as Lloyd did whether it was wearing a red or blue bowtie and you'd also know the answer, so this would not save any questions.
@@kewlwarez Asking a definitive question to tell apart the truth speakers from the liars is a waste of a question. As I explained my technique, you don't actually need to know who's lying and who isn't.
@@lforlight You don't, but you're not saving on the number of questions asked, so it's perhaps more elegant to do it your way, but not more efficient.
@@kewlwarez 1. Lloyd's first question to establish who's lying was redundant, and therefore wasteful.
2. Asking which color the goose wears is the same as asking in which half of the bunch the goose is. Since the colors seem to alternate, it's like asking whether it's an even or odd number. He was left with numbers 2 4 6 8 and 10.
3. Divisible by 4 was the second "halving". That left him with 4 and 8.
4. Asking about 8 was the last halving.
Had the number been 2 6 or 10, he'd require a fifth question. So 4 to 5 questions, instead of the optimal 3 to 4 I proposed by ditching the first question.
I guess "hundreds and thousands" refers to what are plainly called "sprinkles" in the US (formally "nonpareils") as in the decorative topping
The duck duck goose game is a variant of a Knights and Knaves style of puzzles. If you format the questions as "What would a duck on the other team answer to the question X" the answer will always be a lie. So you can skip establishing which team are liars, and do a binary search, for an optimal solution of 4 questions.
True. What complicates things further is if you don't know which answer is yes and which is no (like if you didn't see the dictionary). It took me a while, but I finally formulated a way to answer that in one question.
i posted basically the same thing a couple minutes ago XD
though with more explanation - also 4 is the optimal worst case solution... you might get lucky with the splits, since the number of ducks is not a power of 2, so at some point you will have uneven splits and as such the chance that your binary search eliminates the larger half of the searchspace - you can actually do it in 3 questions if you get lucky
More interesting to me is that this type of riddles that I've heard always have 1 liar and 1 truthteller, but here is a bunch of individual ones. Meaning you can go to duck 1 and just ask, is duck 3 the goose? 5? 7? And then repeat for the other team. Whichever one the duck responds differently to than the other teammembers, is the goose. It's not 'optimal' but it is simple and wouldn't even require you to know what means yes/no OR which team is lying. And you'd only be asking the ducks questions about each other, as was Jenny's imagined rule.
@@MKBergen there was a limitation that each duck can only be asked one question and questions arent allowed to be repeated (though likely only exact repeats are forbidden)
but yeah you could do a brute force solution like this if you find a way around the above rules (im pretty sure those rules are there to prevent this exact approach)
@@MKBergen I actually do think that would work, that you might need all 10 questions of course.
Honestly one of the best sets of tasks of all time
I went from having no clue that Lloyd and Ann were married the entire season, to feeling like they're the cutest couple in the world.
Jenny's Duck Duck was Epic !
Most kids stick their finger in a pot of boiling water once. Jenny probably did it twice
"I *rarely* wear a g-string." - Lesser Tom
Josh getting #8 was just perfectly entertaining!
Jenny just made me fall in love with her science rant…
I think Lloyd did the duck task faster than an optimal algorithm would, since I think the optimal algorithm here is a binary search
Yeah, except you need to "waste" the first question on figuring out who the liars are.
Maybe there's a question that can half the number and find the liars.
@@zoa9720 I think the "wasted" question is inevitable
Like you can make assumptions and work for a better best case scenario but it would waste more questions on average
I think he did it optimally. First you determine which team is which, then you determine on which team the goose is. At this point, you've narrowed it down to five possible candidates with two questions. Then I'm pretty sure you can find the goose with two more questions, for instance, you ask if the goose number is even/odd, and use another question to figure out which it is from the remaining candidates. Of course this would depend on how the numbers are sorted out on each team , but I'm pretty confident you could reliably think of two smart questions to find the goose among five numbers from 1-10.
You can eliminate the truth/lie distinction by asking a duck on one team what a duck on the other team would answer. Either way, the answer will be a lie.
Then a binary search is optimal: you can guarantee finding the goose with four questions (or three if you get lucky.)
@saemsodjesft8901and Lloyd got lucky with that divisible by 4 question.
wil and tom's interrogation in the caravan is one of my fav assistant--contestant interactions! they play off each other so well
Josh : anything in the universe
Tom: *kitchen
12:41😂😂😂
I must say that having two people in a relationship in this game makes for a great dynamic!
We need more contestants with connections to each other
Same for TM NZ where Paul Williams was the assistant and his brother was a contestant. that was gold.
That duck task will go up there with the greats, like last season's password task.
Jenny getting disqualified in three tasks in one episode. That's got to be some kind of record.
In the UK series, Mike Wozniak, Sue Perkins and Richard Osman also got 0 in three tasks in the same episode, and with Mike and Sue, it was all of the taped tasks in the episode.
Where I was raised we played Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Grey Duck.
This episode made me believe Jenny and Nina from season 1 would be great friends
this is the first time I have heard (and realized I heard) the young Australian "Nauuuur!" pronunciation of No. and now I cant unhear it.
If you could lose two tasks in the same episode, could you win two tasks in the same episodes?
Josh deserved better
I think Jenny was the epitome of overthinking in the duck/goose task.
The outfit!!! It's time for Jenny's duck duck goose😂😂
Would have been far funnier if Tom gave separate points to Ann and Lloyd for bringing each other in for the prize task.
Or he could have done the first ever double disqualification for a prize task, because if they wanted to marry each other, they would have, so bringing each other in automatically means they don't fit the brief.
@@MusicalJackknife In UK Series 7 Jessica Knappett and Rhod Gilbert both got disqualified from the 'best 90's thing' prize task as their prizes weren't from the 90s
There it is, Jenny's legendary duck task!
I wanna see the footage of Loyd calling Tom a different name each time he sees him (Tiramisu)
_*tries to guess Tom's birthday_
_*says date of a national tragedy_
Checks out.
I think this was the greatest and also the cutest prize task in all combined Taskmaster history
This may have been the best episode of the season. There are so many good TM episodes but this was hilarious
Josh is so cute with his cozy knit over top of his shiny clothes. Everybody is extra bright and upbeat today.
The Taskmaster's needling and (possible?) disdain for the narcissist is hilarious.
😂🤣
11:45 Best little moment, Tom the Lesser finding another lid under the lid.
Jenny had me rolling this episode. My goodness that was funny.
Shithouse said with an Australian accent is my new favorite thing.
I was siding with Josh on the opening credits argument until Tom pointed out that a lot of people skip the credits and damn im one of those people. Sorry Josh
Also I'm pretty sure the zebra was supposed to land on its feed :D
Tom's argument was really good, too
@@lordbuddybearfeet*
I watch it every time. That music and the silliness bring me joy.
Okay just digging in, please tell me they at some point deal with the fact that Josh is dressed as Spongebob
duck ... duck goose questions: (any duck will do for any question) Q1 would the other gang say that the goose is wearing a blue bowtie? A1 yes (answer rules out ducks 1, 3, 5, 7) Q2 would the other gang say that the goose is one of the ducks numbered 1 through 4 A2 yes (answer rules out ducks 2, 4) Q3 would the other gang say that the goose is number 8? Q3 no (answer rules out duck 6) result: Accuse 8
"Oh you want me to guess? Let me guess" - that's it. That's the autism, babes.
The girls trying to figure out that duck task is me living my daily life
so... the duck duck goose task - wouldnt the optimal solution be a combination of binary search and the solution to the two guardians puzzle?
so essentially asking one of the ducks "what would the other team answer to the question: is the goose between numbers 1 and 5"
assuming the goose is number 8 then:
if the asked duck is a liar it would answer yes (the true answer to the inner question is no, and the other team would truthfully answer no, so the liar answers yes)
if the asked duck is a truther it would also answer yes (true answer is still no, and the other team would lie and say yes, so the truthful ducks will answer yes here)
and the same works for basically any questions (so this skips having to figure out which team is which)
from there you only have to halve the remaining field with each question - so start with 1-5, (getting a yes, which means not in that range) then try 6-7 and get another yes, so its in the 8-10 range... at that point you can ask for singles, so in the worst case scenario of always hitting the larger "half" of the split, you can do it in 4 questions guaranteed (assuming you asked about 9 and 10, you dont need to ask about 8, because you then know you can just accuse 8 immediatly)
if you hit ideal splits, you can do it in 3 questions (1-5 yes, 6-8 no,6-7 yes for example would then mark 8 as the goose)
Have none of these contestants ever seen the movie Labyrinth? The duck one should have been much easier than it was if they had seen that. By doing questions about what would the other teams duck answer and then reversing the answer would have gotten to the answer very quickly
Jenny just gained like 1,000,000,000 cool points! I love science, and she knows things!
How did they miss calling it a “Ducktionary”? 😂
i love how jenny is breaking tom in the goose task XD
Josh,this is for you ❤❤❤
I honestly think that 4 questions might have been the optimal way of figuring out which duck is actually a goose.
I'd have done it this way: One question to figure out which team tells the truth. One question about which team the goose is on eliminating half the ducks. One question about odd or even therefore eliminating half of the ducks again. And then asking if one specific duck is the duck if no you pick the other one that should be left (or maybe two would be left at which point it would be a 50/50 gamble).
Lloyd got a bit lucky since he did "waste" a question but that's actually the fastest you can deterministically narrow down from 10 to 1 with only yes or no questions. If he had skipped the "determine whether it's lying or not" step by simply always asking "if you were an opposite-colored duck, would you say that ?" and taking the opposite result, his choice of question order would've gotten him the answer in 3 tries, which is faster than can be deterministically guaranteed!
Thank you, Taskmaster! This is just the pick-me-up I needed!
I only just noticed that Lesser Tom's chair is Australia themed.
Imagine you're playing Among Ducks. Everyone else is also a goose. And everyone knows you're the impostor. How does that work?
they missed out on calling it a Ducktionary
Nerd and Jennie can never be in the same sentence ever again 😂
This is the best season of task master ever!!
Will might not be winning this series but damned if he's not having the time of his life laughing at everyone else *also* not winning it.
8 is the Goose is the name of that game from now on....Of course I can see it leading to drinking games around the Southern Hemisphere getting really out of hand but hey, they're used to being upside down anyways.
Great episode!
aww I was kinda hoping Lloyd would suprise us and Anne at the end there
josh was SO robbed with the fluke task, like cmon xdddd
The total score looks like a mirrored version of UK Series 17 right now
So did they make Josh Widdicombe come count the hundreds and thousands? 😂
"HEY FUN BOY!"
40:27 I gotta back Josh on this one. The zebra toss was one of things I actually noticed before this task. It justified cutting the soundtrack!
It took me a while, but I finally found a question that would let you determine which answer means yes and which means no, if you didn't look at the dictionary.
If you ask the question "Does a double-quack mean 'yes'?" The ducks that tell the truth will always quack twice and the liars will quack once!
Taskmasters points can't be argued with so I won't, but sheesh, if I was on that throne, I would have zero pointed the lovely couple unless the episodes winner gets to take both of them home for a menage-a-trois. It just feels like it defeats the point of that part of the show ('bring weird shit for the winner to bring home') when whatever it is isn't an actual thing they can take home.
For me, Jenny was my winner this episode. She failed incredibly hard, but she was the most entertaining, so even though she lost, she's the biggest winner of them all.
Who says they wouldn't?
she's the winner in your heart then, but not in history 🤷
bringing people (even boyfriends and girlfriends or random strangers, even one's own children) is not the first instance and is definitely not the last
it just adds comedic value and here i genuinely thought for a moment that lloyd didn't follow up with ann as an answer lol
Wish they hadn't put a time limit on the last task so everyone would have had to struggle on through to the very end.^^
How cool would've it been if Lloyd proposed to Ann on the episode? Like during the prize task or even better when he was getting his prizes?
I honestly thought that was going to happen. i was so shocked when it didn't.
@Wisdomandwine me too! Especially the way they sort of paused right after Lloyd said he wanted marry ann. There was like a collective group pause and I thought he was gonna do it.
Josh is me. Marriage doesn't appeal to me, but hydration always does!
I saw the Jenny goose task on tiktok and it's what made me finally watch taskmaster, I'm so glad to finally watch the whole episode, and I loved it! The prize task was so cute too (same as the ending). The only thing I didn't like was Josh getting his fluke disqualified, since the first episode I've seen people commenting on how funny the zebra clip is, it's entertaining!
Why is this only available in 720p? Haven't seen that happen to taskmaster videos before.
Most probably: intern who had to edit out the ad breaks chose the wrong "Export to UA-cam" preset
Are we not going to talk about Toms "finally some male comedians can make some accusations?" I means thats borderline begging to get cancelled - let alone Joshs face?😂
The best thing ever would have been if they got engaged on taskmaster.
The best episode! I love it, it’s a masterpiece😂😂😂
he used malaise correctly, but said he wasn't?
Just loving Jenny more and more 🤣❤❤
oh jenny 😂😂