Best vs Worst Episode of Taskmaster
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I think my favorite moment is tied between James Acaster finding out Rhod had opened the garage.... and.... sausage mixer.
The whole episode with the garage is my favourite one! It was called 'The Perfect Stuff'.
Series 10 is let down by the COVID situation but it has one of my favorite casts of contestants ever. Them making each other fall over laughing in almost every studio segment despite not even having an audience there was really endearing to me.
Yeah, it also has one of my favorite tasks of all time in the silent cocktails. I could hear “IVE DONE IT AGAIIIIIN!” forever.
Oh, the hippo task was one of my favourites! Daisy did two drawing tasks that almost made me cry laughing.
Series 11 and 12 are proof that the lack of an audience in studio wasn't the reason for series 10 feeling different. It was for sure because of Covid, but it wasn't the audience thing.
i liek series 10 but boy it's hard to watch now due to covid, i feel you need good cvombination of contestatins, series 5 has a amazing contestiants and htem bouncign off eahc other when a series has contestants don't bonce off each other or have any memerable moements e.g. s17, s6
That song that Mark and Nish wrote was incredible. It was an actual good song!
Series 10 is where I discovered Taskmaster, so I will always have a soft spot for it
I have that with season 12.
As always, I think you have stellar analysis. I know you try not to be too critical of anyone, but your comment at the end about the contestants not being the best I think was the major contributor to that series' issues. And maybe it would be better phrased as the contestants "didn't work well." I'm going to say "didn't work well" because most of them I've found hilarious or great in other work they've done, but for whatever factors, they just didn't seem to work great on Taskmaster. Maybe it was COVID, maybe it was people behind the scenes being burned out, or just one person not having a good time who ruined it for everyone else. I don't know. But for me, series 10 is perhaps one of the most forgettable series of Taskmaster so far, and I think it was mainly because the contestants didn't really pull it off. I mean, I LOVE Johnny Vegas and Katherine Parkinson, but both of them were kinda "meh."
Both Vegas and Parkinson had me crying from laughter so hard that I had to pause the episodes more then once.
I personally love series 10. I think it embodied the absolute insanity everyone was experiencing during the pandemic.
The 'learn your lines' is one that I still love. Yes it's long, but I think it's because it's so hard to cut anything out. The dialogue is stupid, the accents are hilariously good & bad and Parker in the bush is the cherry on top.
It's far from my least favourite episode, but then again I love its lineup, I know some people don't like Daisy & Richard as much, but I'm fine with them. I think it's hilarious how despite being a bit at odds they score so well.
I agree that series 8 gets awkward with its competitiveness, and I'd say its lineup didn't gel as well anyway. That and series 6 would probably have my least favourite episodes, but more due to the cast than the tasks.
I can't rewatch series 10 because of Daisy!
@robertbrookes2000 series 6 does have the Alex sitting on a cake moment. Makes series 6 entirely worth it.
The best episodes are the ones with Mike Wozniak. The worst one had that awkward argument involving Ian
No one is a bigger Richard Herring fan than me I've loved him and Stewart Lee since Fist of Fun was on radio 1 but unfortunately Rich was just not that funny on Taskmaster. He was a bit too good at the tasks for them to be really funny and he just didn't have enough banter with Greg in the studio. I think he was a big enough fan of the show to know if you argue with Greg you loose points but those jokey arguments are actually what's entertaining.
James Acaster was the reason I began watching TM however the "Rosalind songs" task is how I first introduced my family to TM.
interesting analysis! I agree with the comments on bad chemistry between contestants being a major factor in how well a series go. Though it made series 10 quite difficult to watch at some points, my personal least favourite must be the episode in series 8 where Iain and Lou are fighting. So uncomfortable.
For me, series 10 was saved by Katherine's charming bewilderment, and Johnny just being loveable.
I’m assuming you’re referring to ‘The Barrel Dad’. That’s also one of my least favourites; it did have the ‘entertain a toddler’ and pan hoop live task which were both quite good but both the hammock and prize task of that episode I skip because I find Iain makes them very uncomfortable. Shame because the prize task has Joe’s “Bicycle, my excellent bicycle” and Paul’s “dysfunctionally competitive” comeback
@@iliketrains3495 I'm afraid I'm not as good a person as the two of you, because when they cracked and started bickering I started laughing at them instead of with them.
@@KitagumaIgen My favourite part of the Iain/Lou argument is that it was a proper 'reality show' argument where one of the participants then had to go back to their day job of narrating arguments on a reality show. I'd love to know if Iain changed his narration as a result of that.
@@beemoh Ooooh - that's a level I didn't catch on to! (I'm not living in UK, and didn't know about Iain before TM...)
The play task did seem to go on forever! But it was great to have a little Taskmaster at that time.
I notice that there is a very small spread from best to worst which shows how well all the episodes are received.
Yes, the if 7.3 is the LOWEST scoring episode, that's pretty damn impressive!
OMG yes, Bob Mortimer is absolutely brilliant!! Always.
Personally, I loved Catherine Parkinson, she was one of the highlights of the series for me.
My favourite series is 13! Episode 6 had me cry-laughing almost from start to finish.
History wasn't a raven, he was a time-travelling, slightly fascistic crow.
I did not really like several of the tasks in series 10 and think that their design made the contestants look bad instead of funny. It's the 10th installment of the concept, so it got understandably harder to come up with tasks that were original, didn't allow for some of the loopholes already used (like moving or even just touching the "red green"), yet were still doable. In my opinion they failed to on all three accounts many times.
Completely agree with everything you said here. It's a shame series 10 was so weak over all as I discovered Mawaan through this series and he is great but I don't think he was out with a good group.
And yeah that acting task was so long and boring.
honestly DESERVED to s5e8. series 5 isn't my favorite overall, but that's my favourite tm episode of all time. the best way i can describe that episode is triumphant
I just don’t think the chemistry was there for series 10.
Really surprised that series 6 is considered one of the worst. It's in my top 5.
I think the issue with series 6 is that it's sandwiched between two very strong series which makes it seem weaker in comparison
Alex sitting on that cake was easily one of the best taskmaster moments ever.
@@WalkoffGrandslam absolutely, but it's also one of the only moments I actually remember from this series
Interesting video, I've never really gone into episode ratings, but can I say I 100% agree with the highest-rated episode since it's my all-time favourite, and 5 is my favourite series. A solid prize task, the coconut task featuring Mark's tragic DQ and resulting lead blown along with Nish's dumbness and Sally's smart solution, the graph task featuring Sally being all h0rny as well as Bob's amazing piss graph and Nish's feel-good victory and of course, Rosalind songs - nuff said. The live task is pretty heartbreaking with Nish squandering his chances of winning an episode, but at the same time, it's amazing seeing him break his egg straight away. There's only one flaw of the episode and a very nitpicky one that nobody cares about - in the coconut task, Bob and Aisling were scored incorrectly, with Bob being placed ahead of Aisling despite her coconut being further. (Oh and Greg should have awarded the songs 5-4, not 3-2 but I get that was the tradition in earlier series)
As for the lowest-rated episode, I'm aware that the play task is one of the most hated ones in the history of the show - I think it's too long, but it's still okay and not even a bottom 5 task in the series. The fill-the-cup task is probably my favourite task in the series, and my favourite all-fail task (which isn't saying a lot since I don't usually like these occurences), and the coconut task is nice because Katherine actually outsmarts a task. Prize task was meh, I wasn't a fan of Daisy attempting to push a feminist agenda for her prize. The live task I did like because they changed the teams, which I wish they would do more in live team tasks.
In my opinion, the worst TM episode is Series 11 Episode 3 - the prize task is nothing special, the sauna stone task is okay, the month mnemonic task had potential but was kind of boring, and the live task was the only good task of the episode (nursery rhyme charades). However - the worst, and probably THE all-time worst task - the security luggage task. When they uploaded the full task on their channel a few months ago I wrote an essay completely trashing the task 😂 Also, the energy throughout the studio is very off, to the point not even Mike can save it. I also give a dishonourable mention to S14E6 - besides Dara's iconic "Wait what?" moment, there's nothing to write home about this episode.
It's subjective but I'm pretty sure series 17 is going to go down as the worst full season by a wide margin once all is said and done. The cast had negative chemistry and didn't gel at all in my opinion with no stand out tasks. I've watched every season of Taskmaster multiple times but 17 I can skip completely as it didn't hold my attention.
Aw, there was a certain something missing. I did love Steve, Sophie and Nick though.
I actually think the tasks were overall stronger than the ones in series 16 - there were none as good as TM Hotel, but none as bad as the liquid transferring or 'put the cards in the clown's mouth' tasks in 16. But I do agree S17 was quite weak, in fact it's the first series since 10 where there's multiple contestants I wasn't too big on.
I don't like series 6 and 8, think they are awful.
If the thumbnail is true, noway, richard herrings one man routine was absolutely fantastic
173 people is not an "audience"... it's not even an entire class of students. This whole thing is wack
173 people isnt a class of student? What kind of giant school did you go to? We had 30 in our class.
@@cjlister8508 class as in whole grade. My graduating class was 400+ kids ..
@@StarlahMutiny 400+? Wow. I don't think there even that many kids in my entire school.