Greg Davies and his assistant Alex Horne challenge five comedians to compete in a series of wacky and funny challenges, to win back their own possessions that they have forfeited. From making a music video for a nursery rhyme to obtaining information from a Swedish man, Taskmaster is a fast-paced and hilarious show.
Love this show although havent watched the last 2 seasons of it.
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S17:E01: Grappling With My Life
This seasons contestants:
- Joanne McNally
- John Robins
- Nick Mohammed
- Sophie Willan
- Steve Pemberton
Prize Task: The most glorious thing that sounds a bit like Greg Davies if you mumble it.
Task 1: Do the riskiest thing with this egg without breaking this egg. The egg in the greatest danger that doesn’t breaking wins.
Task 2: Team Task: Create the best single picture of a animal doing something surprising. They basically have to each draw part of the animal without seeing what the others have done and they can only use 2 words at a time. The teams are 1) Nick & Steve and 2) Sophie, John, & Joanne
Task 3: Hoopla Gary before he crosses the finish line. Your time is doubled every time one of your limbs gets wet.
Studio Task: Bring your sausage to life. No words allowed on drawings. There are 4 rounds, Greg gives a new characteristic to bring to life each round, Worst sausage each round will be eliminated.
They all have good chemistry in the studio.
Joanne is very matter of fact and she’ll be fun. Egg Task: “…like a mad bastard”. I think I’ll be surprised by the tasks she performs well.
John had a good entry for the prize task even though there was some question as to whether or not it was glorious. Egg Task: Cow riding lessons, lol
I thought Nick was going to bug me when I saw he was wearing a Dracula costume complete with make-up. I was wrong. He’s lovely! His idea for the egg task was great and the TM editors made his attempt look even more perilous. The crow was perfect.
Sophie is going to be fabulous fun. She is comically hapless. Her story about meeting Greg’s aunt and uncle was hilarious. Sophie’s prize task entry was the best… egg babies. heeee. Egg Task: lol, drama, lol. I love that Greg has declared her The People’s Champion.
Steve’s Peg Mavis prize entry was funny even though the reference was lost on me. Egg Task: ehh until right at the end.
re: Team task. Not sure why they had an animal depicted with a dick & balls giving birth. lol. But then … nobody even noticed. I was expecting Greg to catch it. On the other hand that would be surprising.
re: Hoopla Gary. It looked like Gary was closer to the riverbank for some and farther away for others. I’m going to trust it was editing angles and not shenanigans because I trust Little Alex Horne. Also? I want Gary!
The Studio task was, as usual, fun. “Adapt that sausage”. lol. The best part is them explaining their drawings and then trying to get Greg on board.
Oooo. 1st Tie Break.: Which chess piece is missing?
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FYI: You can watch full episodes on the official Taskmaster youtube channel. They even have old seasons available.
S17:E02: Jumungo
Prize Task: The most fun thing to turn upside down.
Task 1: Rescue the cat. The cat must come out of the top hole. Your head may not enter the dome. The door must remain closed. Fastest wins.
Task 2: Team Task: Do the most epic thing using green material and this green screen onesie. Same teams as last week.
Task 3: Stick the heaviest thing to the board using 3 of the ingredients on the shelves. Once you choose your ingredients, you may not change your mind. Heaviest thing that sticks to the board for at least 1 minute wins.
Studio Task: Guess the movie your teammate is saying. Your teammate can only say the 1st 3 letters of each word of the movie title. Most movies in each round wins. Round 3 gets harder. Teammates now say the last 3 letters of each word of the movie title.
Best parts:
- Alex calling Greg poppet. Greg hating it. Alex doing it again.
- Greg threatening disqualification, John’s genuine panic at being disqualified, me thinking “What’d I miss?” and then finding out Greg’s just messing around.
- Sophie “flying”.
- Joanne’s “Just get it done. Get out” attitude.
- John, Nick, & Joanne were impressive in the studio task.
- Bats’ Goth Nightclub!
- Chicago Bulls logo turned upside down looks like a (sad\angry) robot fucking a crab.
