Yup, just hook up the cable tracer at the switch, then test each point until it triggers, still takes ages though. It gets real fun when it turns out the wiring was actually damaged in the walls cannot even complete a circuit anymore.
Not necessarily, because since there was an electrical switch you were lead to believe it had to be something that a switch could activate electrically and would have nothing to do with another person’s actions. It was really quite tricky!
@@MerkhVision That's not it. Him being outside means he can keep an eye on it and know exactly when they figure it out. Whatever it was had to be in Alex's view.
You see, I would've failed. I would've asked Alex to flip the switch, and since he wasn't there to move the statue the answer would be "nothing" however it would take me forever to get to this conclusion.
Also one it would be easy-ish to recreate for a at home version (just need someone at the switch to text you) which a) I always love I got a list going and b) is a good benchmark for a great task.
Hmm kinda interesting I felt the opposite, seemed anxiety provoking because you really have no clear way to tackle it. I think that’s a few said it was their least favorite task
I'm confused by the ending and hopefully you'll straighten me out. I thought that the switch activated a turntable that made the statue rotate, but that's clearly not it because Alex was rotating it by hand. Did the switch not do anything except signal Alex to rotate the statue?
@@davidstorrs that's is exactly what it did but without Running like James did you wouldn't be able to figure it out so just saying it moved the statue is sufficient
@@davidstorrs the switch was probably Bluetooth connected to Alex's tablet and he probably got a notification that alerted him. That gave him the cue to move the statue. Or a camera crew person who was outside with Alex was watching the camera feed from the lab and gave Alex a signal whenever it was flicked. Those are my two guess on how they were able to pull it off
I mean, there is an unwritten rule to ignore on stage the fact that the creator, author, mastermind and cohost is Alex. But since for a better result he casted himself as a support charachter, everyone play It like that.
The diversity of tasks is really key to this show. No formula to learn, just a series of hindsight realisations that don't serve in the next puzzle {Insert cliche advice about what to do with the unexpected}
He also complimented Alex for "predicting and getting predicted by other contestant" task. I think he says something along the lines of 'What a good task!'
@ 6:15 if you listen really close, you can experiment an audio hallucination. You will think that James greet Alex but as we all know, its not the case. Funny thing
A lot of people here think they're geniuses but no, "what happens when the switch is flicked" does not mean there needs to be an electrical effect. It doesn't say "what does this switch control" which would be nothing. But when the switch is flipped, Alex rotates the statue, even though the switch isn't actively controlling the statue rotation.
But whatever signal it was sending to Alex to tell him it was time to turn the statue wouldn't be getting sent after Rhod disabled the power to that box the switch was attached to. Notice the edit never showed Alex outside responding to Rhod flipping the switch. And I think it's because Rhod was right that Alex wasn't doing anything because I think he no longer could see when the switch was flipped once that power was off. So Rhod was right that he had stopped the effect from happening even if he didn't know what it previously did. (By stopping the information sent to Alex he stopped the statue from getting turned.)
I cant believe that Rhod didnt insist on winning after it has gotten clear that The switch really did do nothing since Alex was the one moving the statue
@@lisahenry20I guarantee you if someone just ran inside to pretend to flip the switch he still moves the statue, it does nothing, it’s not like it could be hooked up to Alex directly or something
@@DerfyRed the camera guy was in the room and could have let Alex know when someone flipped the switch. Or the sound guy. Or Alex was watching the camera footage of what was going on in the room.
To be honest I was expected a bit that someone such as Rhod or James will grab a hammer from the shed, smash the switch a responds "nothing happens, because this switch cannot be flicked, it's broken" :-)
"Work out what happens when you flick the switch on" When you flick the switch on, Alex will turn the statue, it doesn't matter if the switch is actually connected to anything. Brilliant wording.
Well, the most obvious thing that demonstrably happens when the switch gets flicked, is that it changes position. It's maybe an incomplete answer, but it's factually true.
The US has to ruin everything with jumpcuts, screaming, and made up drama. Hoarders, Gordon Ramseys' shows, and Taskmaster, the US versions are bad. And I'm American haha
@@adamryan977 I agree that in the British case it would make no difference but I don’t know whether the Danish wording was equivalent or more like ‘What does the switch do?”
A thing I liked about the Danish one was that although the assistant Marklefevre also just did something to an object in the corner when the switch was pressed, he was in a room full of lights, so they were really led into thinking it was one of those. Like Rhod, though, I think the one who focused on the switch itself maybe never even left the room or thus saw the assistant at all.
You would think that the guy who decides if the challenge is over is standing outside and not in the house, that whatever that switch effects, is outside.
Would've been amazing if the catch was that the switch did completely fucking nothing and they just got stressed for an hour for no reason but for our entertainment 🤣🤣
I agree. There have been many great contestants but this lot have such distinct personalities and there are so many classic tasks thanks both to design and their performance.
This was easily my favorite (5 a very very close second) until New Zealand Series 2. The casts are almost always a great balance but damn those 3 checked all the boxes imho.
At the start of the clip, I thought if I was doing that task, I'd have gone to find Alex and asked him to repeatedly flick the switch...but then obviously he wouldn't have been able to turn the statue around so I'd probably have still lost 🤷🏾♂️😩
I've got an electrical switch that turns the water off, its one of those that squeezes a crystal that produces enough electrical power to turn the mains water off during a power cut.
Technically Rhod was right as Alex turned the statue, not the switch. If someone ran in and out without even touching the switch Alex would never have known.
@@9nikola That's what I was aiming at with my first reply: It is quite possible that he did not move the statue unless the switch was flicked. In that case the statue would not move unless someone flicked.
Technically, Rod shouldn't have gotten that pt. The switch wasn't powered by electricity it was powered by Alex. James was right, Greg did show Rod a LOT of favoritism and I'm a HUGE fan of Rod's.
The task wasn't "find out what the switch does" like the youtube video title suggests. The title is misleading, because the task as stated to the contestants in the video is "work out what happens when you flick the switch"
@@icturner23 I would have guessed that the reason for him to be in that location would be to not give any clues. So his location would be a "neutral" location.
@@Alresu Being outside the room was all but given information. In the instructions they were told "you can't move the switch from the room". If that isn't the biggest hint in the world, I'm not sure what is.
I really thought Rhod was going to do my immediate instinct - smash the wall and see where the wiring goes. I feel like they've done more destructive things on this show to that house before, although I could be remembering a completely different show.
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I'd like to point out that rhod was the only correct one. The switch did nothing. It did not turn the statue round. Unless the switch lit a light or buzzer or something that alerted Alex, in which case they were all wrong. But most likely he was just watching a TV screen
This title is misleading. According to the task, Rod shouldn't have even gotten a point, because he was supposed to find out what happened when the switch was flipped and didn't do so. But, by the title here on UA-cam, Rod should have won, because he correctly stated what the switch actually does, which is nothing.
Toners dont always work, panels arent always labeled but if you want to know which breaker it is and see some fire works in the process, touch that hot to ground;]
Im going to be real, I would have torn the wires off/out of the wall since the only caveat is the switch itself couldn't leave. Switches are just ways to safely complete a circuit, but you could by all means complete it manually.
So how did Alex know when to turn the statue? I suppose a cameraman or stagehand in the room signaled him somehow, but how could they do that without tipping off the contestant?
He just turned it when they went back in again after coming outside. Alex turning the statue had nothing to do with the switch - they just had to go out and back in to give alex time to turn it.
@@simontay4851 So if they never switched the switch and went back out things would change no matter if the switch was flicked or not. Nah they have to have some kind of notification system to Alex if the switch was actually switched or not. I'm guessing a live feed of the video somehow. =)
I would have given Rhod the full points for guessing correctly that it did nothing. and that Alex was just turning the statue independent of the switch.
Well if Alex moved the statue as a result of the contestants flipping the switch then the switch did in fact make Alex move the statue. However whether or not it was connected to mains is irrelevant to the effect of the switch. So Rhod was actually the most incorrect, the switch moved the statue regardless of if it had power or not.
my initial thought was to rip the switch off the wall completely then say 'it does nothing anymore' then leave, never switch it once. it can't do anything if it's not hooked up to anything and it's never pressed
Is that a orginal Greggo* I spy with my little eye in the "Assignment room" *If anyone has a better pun on the combination : Picasso and Greg Davies....Pray do tell.
Why did no one think to turn off the switch then check to see if all electronics work by turning them on and off at the source. That would eliminate a whole heck of a lot without halving to go back and forth.
This one always bothered me because Alex would be ignorant of when the switch was flipped after Rhod disabled the power to the little box that transmitted to Alex the information about its state. It may have been originally set up to send a signal to Alex but it wasn't doing that anymore. Therefore Rhod was right that nothing happens now that he has altered things by cutting the power. People quibbling over the human link in the chain bring entirely valid ("what happens when" meaning the switch itself doesnt have to do it) are missing the fact that this human link still needs to see the switch state and no longer got that information. Rhod was right but not for the reasons he thought. He did in fact stop things from happening because he stopped alex from getting sent the signal.
Strangely enough, i have a switch that does nothing in the house i live in now, and had also one in the former house i lived in. I got mad at the one in previous house, flicking it and checking all around the apartment. When i relocated, i didn't care much. Ah, just yet another nothing switch. No big deal. Seen that already. It is what it is, who cares?
I've got one of those, just above the skirting board in my living room, and when my landlord had some work done I asked the electrician if he could figure it out. Turns out when he (landlord has a go-to guy, apparently) removed an unnecessary storage heater about a decade ago he couldn't be arsed removing the switch as well. Bone idle bastard had me confused for FOUR YEARS!!
What he said was true, but the task wasn't "find out what the switch does" like the video title suggests. The actual task that they gave them was "work out what happens when you flick the switch". And when they flicked it, Alex was notified somehow (probably by another crew member) and he rotated the statue. That's what happened when they flicked the switch, whether or not it was actually done by the switch.
I love how there was a final plot twist in that the thing controlled by the switch was in fact Alex! Seriously, though, I really think Rhod deserved the win.
@@mrfocigaz4942 A pun on "statute of limitations" EDITED TO ADD: And the statute of limitations is the limit to which the rules can be enforced or appealed
I think Alex was so shocked by James actually saying hello to him, he couldn't stir himself to action as fast as the others
Actually, he said "Hello Olliex" to Ollie.
As an Electrician, this is literally what we do while trying to identify unidentified circuits.
So what's the easiest way
nah mate that sounds tiring, kudos
@@jojosteel3399 you get someone to flip the switch or have them check the surroundings while you do the flipping.
don't you have this buzzing thing that lets you trace wiring within walls?
Yup, just hook up the cable tracer at the switch, then test each point until it triggers, still takes ages though. It gets real fun when it turns out the wiring was actually damaged in the walls cannot even complete a circuit anymore.
The gulf between James and Rhod's approaches is just amazing when you think about it. A hat tip to the excellent casting in each season.
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The fact that Alex was standing outside should have given them enough of a clue.
Yes, but this is taskmaster where the contestants can be clueless as a bat. So it doesn't matter how much clues you give.
Not necessarily, because since there was an electrical switch you were lead to believe it had to be something that a switch could activate electrically and would have nothing to do with another person’s actions. It was really quite tricky!
Yes but it’s easy to say that when you know the answer. But I reckon Rhod would have noticed that, had he left the room to look around a bit
@@MerkhVision That's not it. Him being outside means he can keep an eye on it and know exactly when they figure it out. Whatever it was had to be in Alex's view.
You see, I would've failed. I would've asked Alex to flip the switch, and since he wasn't there to move the statue the answer would be "nothing" however it would take me forever to get to this conclusion.
This might be my favorite task. I think it exemplifies the best qualities of a taskmaster task. It’s super creative, cheeky, and light hearted.
Also one it would be easy-ish to recreate for a at home version (just need someone at the switch to text you) which a) I always love I got a list going and b) is a good benchmark for a great task.
Hmm kinda interesting I felt the opposite, seemed anxiety provoking because you really have no clear way to tackle it. I think that’s a few said it was their least favorite task
@@monhi64 i wouldnt go as far saying its the *least* favourire task.
I think you’d enjoy Taskmaster New Zealand. Very creative and varied tasks.
@@monhi64 probably least fun to do, but very good entertainment
My theory is that since it was the ONLY time James said hello to Alex, Alex helped him discover it quickly by being deliberately slow.
I'm confused by the ending and hopefully you'll straighten me out. I thought that the switch activated a turntable that made the statue rotate, but that's clearly not it because Alex was rotating it by hand. Did the switch not do anything except signal Alex to rotate the statue?
@@davidstorrs that's is exactly what it did but without Running like James did you wouldn't be able to figure it out so just saying it moved the statue is sufficient
Little Alex Horne is a robot: programmed to do what the taskmaster requires. The switch merely turns him on and off to do Gregg's bidding
@@davidstorrs Munya? Is that you, thinking they installed both a manhole AND a turntable?
@@davidstorrs the switch was probably Bluetooth connected to Alex's tablet and he probably got a notification that alerted him. That gave him the cue to move the statue. Or a camera crew person who was outside with Alex was watching the camera feed from the lab and gave Alex a signal whenever it was flicked. Those are my two guess on how they were able to pull it off
I'd say this was Acaster's finest hour on Taskmaster
He even said hello to Alex!
Beg to differ: at one point, he did hoist his underwear on the tip of a stick from the bottom of a pit.
There was the episode with the blue book as well. And we can't forget the tower episode.
@@CosmicTeapot I think 3 or 4 of them did that so it wasn't exactly a creative solution.
No, the treasure hunt scream was the best for sure. He dominated that
I think this was the first and only time when James acknowledged Alex
I noticed that too. Surprised I’ve only just noticed.
I mean, there is an unwritten rule to ignore on stage the fact that the creator, author, mastermind and cohost is Alex. But since for a better result he casted himself as a support charachter, everyone play It like that.
@@boniakarlo No they mean James Acaster never says “Hello, Alex” when most everyone else does. But this time he did
The diversity of tasks is really key to this show. No formula to learn, just a series of hindsight realisations that don't serve in the next puzzle
{Insert cliche advice about what to do with the unexpected}
Wow
Urgency hahaha
(Well expect it... duh.)
@@foureducks1248 expect the unexpected, bebe, to quote James Acaster 😂
Plot twist, the window next to the switch looks out to the statue and they could’ve looked out at any moment.
James’ only “Hello Alex” at 6:15
Oh fantastic catch
@@jenelaina5665 Was about to say the same! James must have switched he's head off.
I wonder how far into filming the series this was recorded. And what did Alex think
It’s different because it’s Acaster who initiates the greeting this time. Pure power move.
i just heard it and was like nooo waaay :D
Wait is this the only task where James actually says "hello" to Alex? And even compliments him on the task?!
He also complimented Alex for "predicting and getting predicted by other contestant" task.
I think he says something along the lines of 'What a good task!'
James was actually the only one to state what the switch actually does, it operates Alex. 6:36
Actually Rod was right. the switch it's self doesn't actually do anything.
@@TheNitroG1yes I feel like he should have gotten credit for that
@@korenna123 He has
@@TheNitroG1but something still happens when he flicks the switch
Does it, tho? If a contestant had run inside and pretended to flip the switch, would alex have still spun the statue? @@BananaWasTaken
@ 6:15 if you listen really close, you can experiment an audio hallucination. You will think that James greet Alex but as we all know, its not the case. Funny thing
Thank you James Acaster for turning off the tap
Season 7 is still my favorite. Every episode had some classic moment, and every contestant was a riot.
I don't know if it's just my taste but I have found that every 2 seasons (or odd season) is usually a classic with a good amount of moments.
Jacaster & his fast long limbs nailed this one.
One of the easiest ways of narrowing things down is to say "Where is Alex? He's probably by the thing."
Amazed Rhod actually got a point. Greg's been a bit meaner on the marginal points in later seasons.
Rhod was right, the switch never did anything, Alex did.
@@IIChristisKingII The task wasn't to find out what the switch did, though, just what happened when it was flipped.
In this series he seemed to give Rhod a lot of leeway and points for outside the box thinking. They are close friends so maybe that’s why lol
there was 100% favoritism at work, Greg and Rhod are good friends and Rhod was getting a bunch of points he shouldn't have been.
@@IIChristisKingII It made Alex move the statue
A lot of people here think they're geniuses but no, "what happens when the switch is flicked" does not mean there needs to be an electrical effect. It doesn't say "what does this switch control" which would be nothing. But when the switch is flipped, Alex rotates the statue, even though the switch isn't actively controlling the statue rotation.
Yes. You could think of him as a biological component of the circuit.
oh come on you have to admit it was a clever solution
But whatever signal it was sending to Alex to tell him it was time to turn the statue wouldn't be getting sent after Rhod disabled the power to that box the switch was attached to. Notice the edit never showed Alex outside responding to Rhod flipping the switch. And I think it's because Rhod was right that Alex wasn't doing anything because I think he no longer could see when the switch was flipped once that power was off.
So Rhod was right that he had stopped the effect from happening even if he didn't know what it previously did. (By stopping the information sent to Alex he stopped the statue from getting turned.)
It’s easy, when you turn the switch to the on position, it makes a loud clicking sound. That’s what the switch does
I cant believe that Rhod didnt insist on winning after it has gotten clear that The switch really did do nothing since Alex was the one moving the statue
But the switch caused Alex to move the statue
100% agree.
@@lisahenry20I guarantee you if someone just ran inside to pretend to flip the switch he still moves the statue, it does nothing, it’s not like it could be hooked up to Alex directly or something
@@DerfyRed the camera guy was in the room and could have let Alex know when someone flipped the switch. Or the sound guy. Or Alex was watching the camera footage of what was going on in the room.
Rhod changed his answer. His answer was that the switch electrocuted Greg and made his teeth fall out. It did not.
To be honest I was expected a bit that someone such as Rhod or James will grab a hammer from the shed, smash the switch a responds "nothing happens, because this switch cannot be flicked, it's broken" :-)
Honestly, one of my favourite seasons. Acaster is hilarious
"Work out what happens when you flick the switch on"
When you flick the switch on, Alex will turn the statue, it doesn't matter if the switch is actually connected to anything. Brilliant wording.
notice all the contestants turned off the tap when they realized the switch wouldn't?😂
this is just the most bizarrely mean Rhod has been on any task
Well, the most obvious thing that demonstrably happens when the switch gets flicked, is that it changes position. It's maybe an incomplete answer, but it's factually true.
4:49 the way james physically folded made me laugh so hard
Wish this show was in the states. Thanks for putting it up on youtube. It really brightens my day.
Apparently they did do a U.S. version. UA-cam's concensus is that it's bad. (One ultra-feminist comedian, one "scream obscenities" comedian…)
The US has to ruin everything with jumpcuts, screaming, and made up drama.
Hoarders, Gordon Ramseys' shows, and Taskmaster, the US versions are bad.
And I'm American haha
Thank you Connor and Garnt
It’s like that episode of Friends when Rachel and Monica move into Chandler and Joey’s apartment, and they can’t figure out what that one switch does
"The switch makes a clicky sound - done" It does something else too, but with the logic of taskmaster, I guess this wouldn't be a wrong answer?
In the Danish version of this task one of the contestants unscrewed the switch from the wall to show that it did nothing.
First thing I would have done; the task only forbade removing the switch from the room.
Well the switch still did something. Because whether you unscrew it or not, when you switch it, the moderator moves the statue.
@@adamryan977 that's not the effect of the switch, that's the effect of someone's action causing someone's reaction
@@adamryan977 I agree that in the British case it would make no difference but I don’t know whether the Danish wording was equivalent or more like ‘What does the switch do?”
A thing I liked about the Danish one was that although the assistant Marklefevre also just did something to an object in the corner when the switch was pressed, he was in a room full of lights, so they were really led into thinking it was one of those. Like Rhod, though, I think the one who focused on the switch itself maybe never even left the room or thus saw the assistant at all.
You would think that the guy who decides if the challenge is over is standing outside and not in the house, that whatever that switch effects, is outside.
Can we just repeat all these contestants again? Such a great season.
Is this the first ever task James actually said hi to Alex?
Would've been amazing if the catch was that the switch did completely fucking nothing and they just got stressed for an hour for no reason but for our entertainment 🤣🤣
it didnt do anything tho-
Would have been a good task for only one person.
Shout out to that bit of lint on one of the camera lenses in Rods run
This has to be the best group
I'm a little disappointed that nobody just went outside and asked Alex "What does the switch do?"
Best ever season cast. I wish they'd reprise their part in a future show!
I agree. There have been many great contestants but this lot have such distinct personalities and there are so many classic tasks thanks both to design and their performance.
This was easily my favorite (5 a very very close second) until New Zealand Series 2. The casts are almost always a great balance but damn those 3 checked all the boxes imho.
Does anyone else remember playing the video game Myst? It was basically this.
Maybe they should have tried moving the slider.
The "Ah HA!!!" cracks me up
At the start of the clip, I thought if I was doing that task, I'd have gone to find Alex and asked him to repeatedly flick the switch...but then obviously he wouldn't have been able to turn the statue around so I'd probably have still lost 🤷🏾♂️😩
I've got an electrical switch that turns the water off, its one of those that squeezes a crystal that produces enough electrical power to turn the mains water off during a power cut.
Technically Rhod was right as Alex turned the statue, not the switch. If someone ran in and out without even touching the switch Alex would never have known.
Not necessarily. It might be that he got intel on when the switch was flicked and only moved the statue after getting a signal.
@@Alresu the switch still did nothing. So that is irrelevent.
@@IIChristisKingII The task read: "Work out what happens when you flick the switch". The switch is not required to do anything.
@@Alresu But what if they never flicked the switch and they still noticed the statue moving?
@@9nikola That's what I was aiming at with my first reply: It is quite possible that he did not move the statue unless the switch was flicked. In that case the statue would not move unless someone flicked.
First Time James Says Hello To Alex
My guess in the middle of watching the three first contestants: “the switch changes positions.”
Technically, Rod shouldn't have gotten that pt. The switch wasn't powered by electricity it was powered by Alex. James was right, Greg did show Rod a LOT of favoritism and I'm a HUGE fan of Rod's.
The switch sent a signal to Alex, who then rotated the statue. The switch signaled Alex. Nothing else.
The task wasn't "find out what the switch does" like the youtube video title suggests. The title is misleading, because the task as stated to the contestants in the video is "work out what happens when you flick the switch"
@@frankfrank366which no longer happens after Rhod disabled the power because Alex no longer is being sent the information.
You know, if you think about it whatever effect the switch has would have to be near Alex. If they had realized that, if would have been a lot easier.
Yeah, even if he wasn’t physically doing something there had to be a reason for being where he was.
@@icturner23 I would have guessed that the reason for him to be in that location would be to not give any clues.
So his location would be a "neutral" location.
@@Jehty_ the most neutral location is with the switch tho
@@hihi-nc6xm Only if you assume the thing happening will not happen in the room. Which was not a given information.
@@Alresu Being outside the room was all but given information. In the instructions they were told "you can't move the switch from the room". If that isn't the biggest hint in the world, I'm not sure what is.
I really thought Rhod was going to do my immediate instinct - smash the wall and see where the wiring goes. I feel like they've done more destructive things on this show to that house before, although I could be remembering a completely different show.
We need a show like this in Germany. I'd fancy it a lot!
In Finland we have a Finnish version of it, but I must say that it's nowhere near as good as the original UK version!
They apparently recorded some episodes, but never released them.
Atze Schröder was the Taskmaster.
If you want to watch more, seasons 2 and 3 of Taskmaster NZ are on UA-cam.
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It took me a while to realise the state of the switch is probably being relayed by someone monitoring the camera feed.
The POTS sign from a season 5 task is in the shed, a little easter egg :)
Good eye!
My answer would be: "it opens/closes a circuit"
except the guy who came last was wrong because even if he turned off the main switch the guy outside still would have turned it
me: *flips 2-3 times* it does nothing
Alex: are you sure?
me: Idgaf
I'd like to point out that rhod was the only correct one. The switch did nothing. It did not turn the statue round. Unless the switch lit a light or buzzer or something that alerted Alex, in which case they were all wrong. But most likely he was just watching a TV screen
James's little floor tap at 4:49 is fucking adorable
I thought one of them was going to say that what the switch does is make a 'click' sound when switched
when rhod turned the other switch off, did alex still get the signal?
This title is misleading. According to the task, Rod shouldn't have even gotten a point, because he was supposed to find out what happened when the switch was flipped and didn't do so. But, by the title here on UA-cam, Rod should have won, because he correctly stated what the switch actually does, which is nothing.
Technically Rob was correct in that nothing happened when the switch was flicked as the statue was not directly controlled by the switch.
I've played enough video games to know that the knight statues always moves, sometimes it's gears, sometimes it's ghosts, but it will inevitably move.
Everytime you flick the switch a member of your familly dies, ordered by those most related.
Toners dont always work, panels arent always labeled but if you want to know which breaker it is and see some fire works in the process, touch that hot to ground;]
Im going to be real, I would have torn the wires off/out of the wall since the only caveat is the switch itself couldn't leave. Switches are just ways to safely complete a circuit, but you could by all means complete it manually.
this is literaly that friends episode all over again
So how did Alex know when to turn the statue? I suppose a cameraman or stagehand in the room signaled him somehow, but how could they do that without tipping off the contestant?
He just turned it when they went back in again after coming outside. Alex turning the statue had nothing to do with the switch - they just had to go out and back in to give alex time to turn it.
There was a camera in the lab with the switch. Alex probably had that video streamed to his pad, then hiding it to show the timer when needed.
May be the switch sent a notification to Alex's tablet or phone?
@@vinhbui1858 That's also possible.
@@simontay4851 So if they never switched the switch and went back out things would change no matter if the switch was flicked or not. Nah they have to have some kind of notification system to Alex if the switch was actually switched or not. I'm guessing a live feed of the video somehow. =)
hands down best season
The way i would have immediately asked “is it… nothing?”
Trash taste podcast is the reason I'm here
Should have taken the wires out and confidently said "This Switch Does Nothing"
I would have given Rhod the full points for guessing correctly that it did nothing. and that Alex was just turning the statue independent of the switch.
Well if Alex moved the statue as a result of the contestants flipping the switch then the switch did in fact make Alex move the statue. However whether or not it was connected to mains is irrelevant to the effect of the switch. So Rhod was actually the most incorrect, the switch moved the statue regardless of if it had power or not.
Rhod was so close to being right but he just didnt care enough to think outside the box
Rhod was the only one who actually got it right: the switch did nothing. It was Alex rotating the statue, and Alex is not controlled by the switch.
@@laurasenz Even if it was "What does the switch DO?" Making Alex rotate the statue would still be correct.
my initial thought was to rip the switch off the wall completely then say 'it does nothing anymore' then leave, never switch it once. it can't do anything if it's not hooked up to anything and it's never pressed
This is like a Resident Evil puzzle.
I think the name of Olli/Ollie is nice, since the assistant of the Norwegian Taskmaster is Called Ollie
Is that a orginal Greggo* I spy with my little eye in the "Assignment room"
*If anyone has a better pun on the combination : Picasso and Greg Davies....Pray do tell.
Gricasso?
2:53 the red strap looked funny
Why did no one think to turn off the switch then check to see if all electronics work by turning them on and off at the source. That would eliminate a whole heck of a lot without halving to go back and forth.
In hindsight. No Alex when reading the task, standing in middle of the lot outside. He had to of been a part of the answer.
Just sits there on a wall and does nothing by itself
I would have ripped out the wiring and exclaimed that the switch now does nothing
can't you argue that since it's alex moving the statue the switch does nothing
This one always bothered me because Alex would be ignorant of when the switch was flipped after Rhod disabled the power to the little box that transmitted to Alex the information about its state. It may have been originally set up to send a signal to Alex but it wasn't doing that anymore. Therefore Rhod was right that nothing happens now that he has altered things by cutting the power. People quibbling over the human link in the chain bring entirely valid ("what happens when" meaning the switch itself doesnt have to do it) are missing the fact that this human link still needs to see the switch state and no longer got that information. Rhod was right but not for the reasons he thought. He did in fact stop things from happening because he stopped alex from getting sent the signal.
Why didn't they just have a rotating platform for the statue?
Too expensive.
@@matthewparker9276 They've used rotating platforms for some stage tasks, but my guess is it would be too obvious and visible
I would have commented on the video and then ran out and see if the switch was on
Strangely enough, i have a switch that does nothing in the house i live in now, and had also one in the former house i lived in. I got mad at the one in previous house, flicking it and checking all around the apartment. When i relocated, i didn't care much. Ah, just yet another nothing switch. No big deal. Seen that already. It is what it is, who cares?
I've got one of those, just above the skirting board in my living room, and when my landlord had some work done I asked the electrician if he could figure it out. Turns out when he (landlord has a go-to guy, apparently) removed an unnecessary storage heater about a decade ago he couldn't be arsed removing the switch as well. Bone idle bastard had me confused for FOUR YEARS!!
I'd argue that Rhod was correct in saying the switch does nothing as Alex isn't powered by the switch
What he said was true, but the task wasn't "find out what the switch does" like the video title suggests. The actual task that they gave them was "work out what happens when you flick the switch". And when they flicked it, Alex was notified somehow (probably by another crew member) and he rotated the statue. That's what happened when they flicked the switch, whether or not it was actually done by the switch.
If he was just moving the statue himself, the switch wasn't really doing anything!
Anyone knows the artist of the picture at 1:55? thx
picasso? or greg
6:55 caught in the act
James says hi to Alex in this task!
I love how there was a final plot twist in that the thing controlled by the switch was in fact Alex!
Seriously, though, I really think Rhod deserved the win.
I would have said "it makes a clicky noise" and stopped the clock.
Can Rhod appeal his score now, or has it passed the statue of limitations?
He should have got 0, because he didn’t find out at all. 1 should have been if he got the slowest successful time.
r/boneappletea
@@mrfocigaz4942 ?
@@Stephen_The_Waxing_Lyricist dafuq is a "statue" of limitations?!?!
@@mrfocigaz4942 A pun on "statute of limitations"
EDITED TO ADD:
And the statute of limitations is the limit to which the rules can be enforced or appealed
so since alex turned the statue by himself, what actually did happen when you flipped the switch? was mr gilbert actually correct?
he shouldt have got the point, not because he was wrong, but because he took back his answer and kept playing with the switch
Kerry Godliman is hilarious and a brilliant comedian.
Now that's a funny joke