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Aecioo
10/01/20 8:12:20 PM
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So someone posted about this a little over a month ago, and it has become one of my favorite shows on TV. For those who don't know it's a british panel show, which I usually hate, but it's great. Essentially they take 5 comedians and give them ridiculous "tasks" to do, and then get graded on how well they do. It goes off the rails incredibly fast as people try and find loopholes or double meanings in the rules and well, yeah. Can't really explain it.

Making this topic because the new series is officially slated for October 15th.

If you haven't seen it, they've uploaded a vast majority of the episodes on their youtube channel. Worth sticking with - it took me only about an episode and a half to get hooked. Some of the seasons aren't as good as others, but the worst I've seen is still like an 8/10

edit - also yeah taskmaster in mvc is bullshit and it's totally going to be black widows mom in the new film

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ChaosTonyV4
10/01/20 8:13:20 PM
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I literally just finished watching Series 5 episode 4 just moments ago.

I also had never heard of it before whoever made that topic, and yeah, its so good.

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Aecioo
10/01/20 8:14:50 PM
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...
I literally just finished watching Series 5 episode 4 just moments ago.

I also had never heard of it before whoever made that topic, and yeah, its so good.

Haha nice. I'm finishing up S7 and I think it might be my favorite yet.

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Grimlyn
10/01/20 8:25:10 PM
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I like in retrospect Greg Davies's appearances on Would I Lie To You where his stories often were about unique games he made up with his sister or at school which totally fits in to him now as Taskmaster.

Series 10 hype all rootin' on Johnny Vegas for now, not familiar with the others

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Aecioo
10/01/20 8:47:42 PM
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Grimlyn posted...
Series 10 hype all rootin' on Johnny Vegas for now, not familiar with the others

One of my favorite things is that I dont know basically anyone from these shows. Every series is new for me because I go in with no idea what their interactions with each other will be

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X_Dante_X
10/02/20 2:37:07 PM
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just watched the first couple episodes of series 1, this show seems alright

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Grimlyn
10/02/20 2:47:45 PM
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Series 2 a great step up imho, it was my intro due to being familiar with 4/5 of the contestants

Then 4 and 5 back-2-back are also a couple of the greatest... falls back down in series 6 with the episode count extended, but 7 after that is back to great heights

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scarletspeed7
10/02/20 2:52:51 PM
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Series 1 is great in a different way, I think. Series 2 is where everything is codified, but the raw pioneering experiment of Series 1 is definitely special in its own way. And Widdicombe is great.

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Aecioo
10/02/20 2:53:25 PM
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X_Dante_X posted...
just watched the first couple episodes of series 1, this show seems alright

It only gets better!

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VintageGin
10/02/20 3:35:05 PM
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Glad my topic inspired other people to watch!

Really like the chemistry the S7 cast has. I enjoyed S6 but definitely can see why others didn't.

Also favorite moment in Taskmaster is still the team task involving the bathtub in S4.

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Peace___Frog
10/02/20 3:43:01 PM
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I think I left off partway through season 2.

It was very good, yes! But similar to GBBO I can't bring myself to binge it quickly

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Mega Mana
10/02/20 7:36:12 PM
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Almost done with Season 6. Not my favorite cast (think that goes to Season 4?) but I've enjoyed it well enough.

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Inviso
10/03/20 1:14:39 AM
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I just finished series 7. I think it has surpassed series 5 as my favorite series overall.

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Grimlyn
10/03/20 1:37:42 AM
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after S7 worth watching James Acaster's appearances on WILTY imhhhho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTY7upeV_7A

a little teaser, James's story is at 3:16 if you wanna skip ahead, although he's preceded by Taskmaster Series 8's Sian Gibson

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Aecioo
10/03/20 2:11:44 AM
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Inviso posted...
I just finished series 7. I think it has surpassed series 5 as my favorite series overall.

I have like two or three left but its really great.

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XIII_rocks
10/03/20 2:11:24 PM
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Aecioo
10/03/20 2:17:24 PM
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XIII_rocks posted...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/03/taskmaster-greg-davies-alex-horne

If the second season of What We Do In The Shadows wasn't so incredible I would put this as the funniest TV show currently airing.

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Grimlyn
10/08/20 4:28:02 PM
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aww yeah the Youtube channel putting up Champion of Champions now

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skullbone
10/08/20 4:38:36 PM
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Started with Series 2 (for some reason) and now I have a few episodes left in Series 1. Can confirm this show rules

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Mega Mana
10/08/20 5:05:13 PM
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Grimlyn posted...
aww yeah the Youtube channel putting up Champion of Champions now

Finally! Very short, but fun enough

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Grimlyn
10/15/20 8:28:09 PM
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wow I didn't expect Series 10 to start getting uploaded on YouTube day 1 of broadcast

oh man COVID measures for the stage show, the distance between Greg & Alex is so bizarre lol

*edit* ahahahah and now I see the spacing for the contestants woah

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GANON1025
10/15/20 8:36:17 PM
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Just finished Series 1 the other day, pretty good show!

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ChaosTonyV4
10/15/20 9:14:53 PM
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Finally finished Series 5.

Time to watch the Series of Champions!

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Mega Mana
10/16/20 12:35:58 AM
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Where? All I see is a preview vid..

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GuessMyUserName
10/16/20 1:09:02 AM
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Mega Mana posted...
Where? All I see is a preview vid..
can't tell if you're referring ot Champion of Champions or Series 10 so I'll link both...

Champs ep1/2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOUR26pLz0
Champs ep2/2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EylSOBOuqNY
Series 10 today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WUDzu5cVCY

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GuessMyUserName
10/24/20 2:37:59 AM
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s10ep2 beated

i am not a crook

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ChaosTonyV4
10/24/20 3:15:38 AM
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Three eps in on Series 6, isnt this the one people dont like?

Still seems good to me so far.

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Mega Mana
10/24/20 3:42:55 AM
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Ah, lucky to be Canadian :P

Not available in my country

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Aecioo
10/26/20 6:45:23 PM
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Bump. I finally got my best friend to watch it and her words were "there is no more sleep, there is only taskmaster"

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skullbone
10/26/20 6:49:20 PM
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I watched the first episode of series 2 with my friends and they thought it was fine. They didn't start watching without me until I showed them the watermelon challenge from the first episode. Ramesh's approach to the watermelon really gets people on board.

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XIII_rocks
10/26/20 8:23:20 PM
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I just lost an hour on TM clips I hadn't seen before because of this topic
The videogame one is amazing

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Aecioo
10/30/20 7:05:29 PM
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This new series is ok. Clearly missing a lot of energy from having no audience so the in studio stuff falls a little flat.

Still enjoying it!

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Grimlyn
10/30/20 7:11:15 PM
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I've been listening to the weekly podcasts along with the episodes, last one for Ep2 with Nish Kumar

said Nish would be a solid mid-table contestant in season 10 lol... that's about right so far

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ChaosTonyV4
10/30/20 7:13:39 PM
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Damn, I looked up the description of that podcast and it has a spoiler for what I presume is season 8 or 9 right in it!

anyway, I just started Season 7. Why did people hate Season 6? I thought it was pretty awesome

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Grimlyn
10/30/20 7:38:34 PM
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I don't have a hatred for 6 like I've seen from others, but I understand it being among the weaker end of the series but it's definitely got its moments like with the Hops task

Series 7 definitely a much better go at a 10-ep run tho

also I honestly even forgot that that podcast spoiler is the truth lol, I don't have much memory of the series 6-9 champs.... or no I definitely remember 7 & 8. I guess to be fair 9 isn't on youtube yet

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VintageGin
10/30/20 7:58:11 PM
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Season 6 was on the weaker side, but I loved seeing Liza dominate a bunch of the tasks as seemingly the only competent person there. The tasks she typically lost were the ones where it was clear she just didn't care.

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TomNook
10/30/20 8:03:05 PM
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I saw an episode where they had to hide a pineapple on them. Is this is a good indication of the quality of the show?

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ChaosTonyV4
10/30/20 8:05:34 PM
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TomNook posted...
I saw an episode where they had to hide a pineapple on them. Is this is a good indication of the quality of the show?

Thats such a great season, even if the most annoying person wins

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Grimlyn
10/30/20 8:07:53 PM
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VintageGin posted...
Season 6 was on the weaker side, but I loved seeing Liza dominate a bunch of the tasks as seemingly the only competent person there. The tasks she typically lost were the ones where it was clear she just didn't care.

like when she just murders the toy biker lol

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ChaosTonyV4
10/30/20 8:08:51 PM
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Grimlyn posted...
like when she just murders the toy biker lol

Or during the candle task, where she sprints away for no reason, lol

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Grimlyn
11/06/20 3:17:29 PM
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onto 10-4 now

... for real 4 weeks, across the board these prize tasks have been so bad lmao

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Aecioo
11/06/20 4:01:13 PM
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I haven't seen last nights but no surprise there.

As I said earlier the in studio stuff is meh but what can you do

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VintageGin
11/06/20 4:52:22 PM
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Watched S7E7 recently and laughed so hard at Jessica falling of the stage

Also Champion of Champions was great and reminded me why I loved all of them. Wish it was longer though.

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SovietOmega
11/13/20 4:21:14 AM
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Finally got around to the 10th series. Some quite good moments to be had so far, I'm enjoying it a lot despite the covid alterations.

Just finished S10E5, and boy I will not look at watermelon in quite the same way. Then the final task happened with a rather novel way to go about it XD

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ChaosTonyV4
11/13/20 4:46:16 AM
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VintageGin posted...
Watched S7E7 recently and laughed so hard at Jessica falling of the stage

Also Champion of Champions was great and reminded me why I loved all of them. Wish it was longer though.

Yeah she was MVP of that season for sure

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Aecioo
11/13/20 6:16:11 AM
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What I've learned from this show is that watermelon is one of the worst things to try and speed eat.

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Aecioo
11/16/20 11:38:10 AM
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So I've now successfully gotten four people into this after like two months of trying to explain why this weird British comedy gameshow is incredible. It's made me go back and watch some of my favorite moments.

  1. The potato toss.
  2. Edible face mask (TASTE MY FACIAL FLESH!)
  3. The solo task of making Josh count the beans/spaghettios/rice
  4. The series long "Rhod brings a picture of Greg looking fat"
I'm sure I'm missing more, but those are the ones that come to mind first.

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Aecioo
11/16/20 11:41:52 AM
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Oh yeah forgot the camouflage task. Noel being the banana might be the hardest I've laughed at this show

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ChaosTonyV4
11/16/20 8:05:44 PM
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Watching Series 8, and I think it might be my least favorite so far.

Although it is absolutely incredible that Joe Thomas was not playing a character when he was incredibly awkward in Inbetweeners, Im on episode 5 and he looks genuinely afraid and anxious in every single studio shot.

Its a toss-up between him and Sian as best in the series, shes just too cute.

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PumpkinCoach
11/17/20 8:55:49 PM
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everyone hates iain stirling for good reason, but i was p. compelled by the overt hostility towards him from the rest of the panel in the studio, as well as the moment when he realizes how much of a dick he comes off as in the clip followed by the ongoing contrition over how much more of that stuff there is in pre-recorded footage he can do nothing about at that point.

also yess, joe thomas's awkwardness was so endearing.

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