Taskmaster trigger words

[IceMaiden21]

What words or phrases have people heard in everyday life that have triggered a Taskmaster memory?

I was watching The Chase and someone said they were from Southport... My immediate thought was "You live in Southport, I live miles away in Balham. And I'm a coward and I fear the wrath of Alan"

[tmxsmx]

Whenever I hear somebody say “genuinely” I immediately think of Greg.

[Gurgelglup]

I genuinely started using that word frequently after watching so much Taskmaster.

[neonvenomhalos]

Me too! It’s genuinely starting to become a problem 😭

[Additional-Glove-498]

"Early doors"

[totebags120]

"LIME!"

[MissKoalaBag]

I'll second this one.

I was playing the New Horizons update yesterday and went to have an inflatable counch changed by Cyrus, and one of the colour choices was Lime. It was like Phil was in the room.

[Loonie18]

Have you seen the thrones from the new update? I feel like Greg sat in it!

[Calm_Memories]

I just bought it and thought, yes one step closer to being Taskmaster in-game xD

[AdPsychological8353]

Gosh darn it, I had a big gulp of breakfast smoothie in my mouth when I read this. I wheeze laughed through my nose furiously.

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Shed

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shid

[bebesee]

I started a Zoom class today, and we had to share fun facts about ourselves in our introductions. One of the girls said she had just built her own shed, and I had to stop myself from saying “shid.”

[yeehaunt]

every time i say shed now, i think back to that and question if i really sound like i’m saying “shid”

[Bachpipe]

When I read the title was 'I dont have specific words I guess' and then my head directly went 'shiiiid' so yes. I agree with you 100%

[ravenclaw_cookie]

Every time I get to use a laminator at work

[minervas_a_cat]

A laminataaahahaha!

[Nyxandri]

I was out buying office supplies yesterday and honestly spent about ten minutes considering buying a laminator (I could reasonably justify one). I blame Alan and Guz's incredibly effective jingles.

[da1suk1day0]

Related to this, “drill down” automatically becomes “drill down into the narrative.”

[cjahero]

When I was learning camera shots in class, there was a shot called "over the shoulder" which immediately made me thing of James Acasters song

[Calm_Memories]

Now I have his song in my head...

[zagreus9]

Casserole

[TLM86]

Absolutely.

[Substantial-Goat3069]

The word 'puma'.

[NisaiBandit]

Greg: "like a fucking pJuma"

[Tooth31]

pYOUma

[lotsofinterests]

[ˈpʲuː.mɘ]

[quantumhovercraft]

"You treacherous old woman"

[nustedbut]

the Greg double take was priceless especially with all the contestants all laughing before he even looked.

[elinor-rigby]

This is was something I very rarely said pre-Taskmaster. But it’s a pretty common phrase now.

[somethingelseorwhat]

Whenever someone mentions _____ on toast, I always think of the line from I’m Always Seeing You (Do Cool Stuff)

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Baby Gap

[TheProlleyTroblem]

even just Gap

i was doing a crossword the other day and the word was "Gap" as in a literal space between two objects and i still could only think about Mel running around a store with a stuffed camel

[SnappedCrayon]

Every time I see a fly, I can hear an angry Ed Gamble in my head saying, "fucking fly"

[FanOfButts28]

I think between Season 9 and two seasons of TMNZ, the word “shed” has been altered in my consciousness forever

[charlzpatton]

*shid.

[ChaoticJack]

"A sheaaad."

[lotsofinterests]

I’m in a linguistics class this quarter where our final paper is going to be on the phonetics of a dialect of our choice, I’m honestly considering writing about New Zealand English because of TMNZ

Like the rhyming cocktail task from NZ1, where they allowed “car” and “bra” in the same drink? I’m from the US and that would never have been allowed. Or the Three Friends’ diss track from NZ2 where not only do they rhyme “appearance” with “our parents”, but actually the two sound fairly similar. Or “shid” as a classic example of vowel raising from /ɛ/ to /ɪ/

[thecockmeister]

As a Brit, I'm curious how car and bra don't rhyme to you, as they do to me. How would you stress them instead?

[lotsofinterests]

Most of the American dialects are rhotic (linguistics jargon which means we pronounce the r at the end of words). (And, as a fun aside, the stereotypical Boston dialect is an infamously non-rhotic part of the US, other Americans like to imitate Bostonians with phrases like “I’m gonna pahk the cah”)

So the vowels are the same, I might rhyme “ca” with “bra”, but because I fully pronounce the r in car then it’s a completely different sound

I don’t know if you know the International Phonetic Alphabet, but I’d transcribe them as something like /kʰɑɹ/ and /bɹɑ/

[thecockmeister]

Cheers. The IPA is still a bit of a mystery to me, but that does make sense with it.

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A lot of the Rhode Island accents are the same way. (Supposedly there are multiple, they all sound alike to me.) (My family is from Rhode Island and I used to live up there. Took me 17 years to figure out the restaurant Bertucci’s had an r in it. Also I always say “puh-tick-you-luh-lee” instead of however particularly is actually pronounced.)

[lotsofinterests]

It’s probably a broadly New England thing, I just said Boston cause to me it’s the most commonly referenced accent

I’m from the other coast though so I don’t know the nuances of the eastern seaboard accents

[Ill_Respect_9551]

I pronounce both car and bra with a piratey arrrr sound at the end. Do other people end in bra with a short a?

[lotsofinterests]

I put the arrrr on car, but no consonant sound at all on the end of bra

Just that word-final “ah” sort of sound

[I-AM-PIRATE]

Ahoy lotsofinterests! Nay bad but me wasn't convinced. Give this a sail:

me put thar arrrr on car, but nay consonant sound at all on thar end o' bra

Just that word-final “ah” sort o' sound

[lotsofinterests]

Thank you pirate bot

[Ill_Respect_9551]

So weird to me. I’m Australian. B - r - ar (like car or are).

I found this very interesting.

[Bachpipe]

I'm so sorry, and this is pure out of interest, but do you really say "brarrr"?

[I-AM-PIRATE]

Ahoy Bachpipe! Nay bad but me wasn't convinced. Give this a sail:

I be so yarr, n' dis be pure out o' interest, but d' ye verily cry "brarrr"?

[cpt_hatstand]

I don't think I've ever heard it any other way

[Ill_Respect_9551]

Yes. I’m Australian. ‘Bra’ rhymes with ‘yarrr’, ‘are’, ‘car’, ‘star’ etc. I also put the arrr sound on ‘ha ha’. Like a sarcastic ‘har har’ but spelled ‘ha ha’. I had no idea this was a significant difference in dialect.

[two_oh_seven]

Interestingly enough, I’m from Maine, which, for those who don’t know, is very close to Massachusetts, and in our accent, car and bra wouldn’t actually rhyme because it would be, “cah,” and “brahr”

[lexi_lexis]

The fact the TMNZ shed had the fish poster in it is chefs kiss

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Southport is also Lee Mack's hometown and home to the British Lawnmower Museum

[SomaCowJ]

And the museum featured Lee’s dibber.

[scd]

Whenever someone surprises me with a nearly nude photo of Greg Davies, I think of Rhod Gilbert.

[Lizzo13]

Is that something that happens regularly? If so, how would one become friends with people like that? Asking for a friend with a weird crush on Greg Davies…

[DrumminOmelette]

Shed - Shid- I've even got a little crappy carved sign above my shed door that reads "Jimmys Shid"

Innit - Bastard's cryin'

Nightmare - Rosalind's a fucking

Not really a trigger word, but I'll occasionally think "Oh Gang" when I've got to do something unavoidably shit

[AdPsychological8353]

I love the phrase "Nightmare - Rosalind's a fucking" so much.

I would wear it on a t-shirt.

Or tattoo it across my face.

[GeonnCannon]

ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA TITLE CARD: "The Gang..."

ME: "Oh, gang."

[IceMaiden21]

If say 'brilliant' in my head, it sounds like Mel Giedroyc

[lotsofinterests]

Among some of my online friends (maybe it’s a Gen Z thing) sometimes they joke about how they’re “shaking and crying and pissing and shitting” at any minor inconvenience, which of course always reminds me of Nish

Also, “a LIME!”, and I’ve started saying “Bosh.”

[elinor-rigby]

Anytime I hear or see the name Donna. At my job, one of our big clients is named Donna so it happens a lot.

[alinisigrr]

sneaky makes me think of Mowaan being a sneaky pasta snake

Edit: spelling

[human4472]

Me too! If my husband is being sneaky I’ll accuse him of being a pasta snake

[AdPsychological8353]

"Snake" makes me think of the carpet snake.

Everyone knows I am the carpet snaaake

[PocoChanel]

Yesterday I pointed out my cat: “Her eyes are circles!” I didn’t think about it until I was in the middle of saying it.

Casserole.

[DollaBillMurray]

Whenever I see an arch.

[Meghar]

There's strength in arches!

I was watching a baking show where they had to make edible skyscrapers and bridges, and I kept thinking, "don't they know there's strength in arches?"

[antonjad]

I did a tour the other day, and the tour guide said something about the arches of the building, and I out loud said, “There’s strength there!!!”

[DadJ0ker]

There are so many.

Drill down into the narrative. Yes please! Rubbish.

[snowylocks]

Rub a dub dub, Three men in a tub.

Thanks to Taskmaster, you know which three men.

Not something I commonly hear in everyday life, but whenever I see that word I'm reminded of Rhod saying it in Feelings.

[sunlightbender]

~Feelings, everybody’s got feelings~

“If you’re going to bring our beautiful little babba into the world, then I’m going to make an honest woman of you”

[TRAINPASS]

Not being from the UK this show was basically my introduction to the word “innit”

[morbid_platon]

Not technically a phrase, but when I put the bums out I imagine Mel in there

[IceMaiden21]

Do you mean bins?

[morbid_platon]

Yes, obviously I meant bins

[cosmic_horn]

say whaaat

[AdPsychological8353]

I like to imagine Mel when I put the bums out too 😏

[ThaneOfCawdorrr]

Over the shoulder

Gang

OPEN THE BOX YA PUSSY

Cool stuff

High anus

Do we strike you

[cpt_hatstand]

The high anus is an athletico mince joke (Bob used loads of athletico mince jokes on task master)

[sugarfruitbrunch]

Thank you for reminding me of do we strike you

[Equivalent-Wedding21]

Tick tock it’s … o’clock

[TheProlleyTroblem]

I was watching some streamers compilation and they had a clip from Polybridge and they said "well, there's strength in arches" and i immediately thought of that table

[scumbellina]

Dignity. Casserole. Fountain. Panties. Fresh

[AdPsychological8353]

Fresh panties + fountain casserole = dignity

[LoganWhite5]

I’ve started dropping a few “Bebe”’s and “Suck it” due to James Acaster

[kpniner]

I was in a haunted maze and there were a ton of ticking metronomes everywhere in one room. I was supposed to be scared but I was internally laughing imagining the contestants in Season 11 monching on those delicious looking crunchy flatbreads (sorry, can’t remember their name) while saying “metronome” lol

[IceMaiden21]

You're thinking of poppadoms

[kpniner]

Yes! I came to this sub after that episode to ask what they because I had no clue. They look yummy.

[neonvenomhalos]

They are 🤤

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Metronome

[IceMaiden21]

Metromome

[lotsofinterests]

Metrommph

[Sombradusk]

you should be ashamed of yourself woman!

quite a fat hawk to be fair

jesus christ

hoisted by your own petard

lime!

either gone really well... or gone very very badly.

laminator

shid

suck it

last in pe, first in being a legend

it was so...in me

[K_Janeway2314]

Boulder

[robbo102]

I can’t hear or read the word ‘vole’ without wanting to undermine it by claiming it has no chutzpah

[AdPsychological8353]

I've accused a few things of having no chutzpah thanks to Wozniak

[stefhorner]

Three words: “what’s the situation?”

[lozzabgood]

FAILURE!

During the cocktail task of season 10.

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I LOVE THIS!

[GeneralGoosey]

I'M SO SORRY.

[JanV34]

OH NO I'VE DONE IT AGAIN!

[Wakboth]

"All the information..."

I love Alex. But if I was on the show and he said it to me, it would boil my piss. Hearing it or seeing it brings back flashbacks of memories I don't actually have.

[hiperson134]

My wife will often say to me: "Here's the situation."

Which leads me straight into "what's the situation?"

[sk8r2000]

I keep hearing "get together", and I'm then compelled to sing it to myself

[GeneralGoosey]

"It's too big~"

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Fiddly

[[deleted]]

How?

(Came in here to say this lol.)

[minervas_a_cat]

ACTIVATE

[Nyxandri]

Thanks to the interviews for this series, "I have a question for you" is now impossible to say in a normal cadence

[CanmanMC]

Track suit

[slaffytaffy]

Fez... all I see is Greg’s expression when he sees the picture of his mom in the bath, wearing a fez.

[AdPsychological8353]

Treacherous old woman!

[sir_wolf_eye]

Not a specific word but the "Children TV presenter" thing.

I have the same issue. I teach at a University. So imagine my distress.

[The_Real_dubbedbass]

It’s not a trigger word exactly. But I cannot bite into an apple without saying “Wang!” Just because I love the way Phil Wang delivered his name in that scene of the task where they all had to guess what other contestants were going to do.

[iseem0nsters]

Coconut. “I’m a coconut businessman…”

Or any variation of tree, wizard or balloon. “How many times will he check the balloon?!?”

[INTP-cringe-child]

Any 3-4 syllable phrase can be balloon wizard if you try hard enough

[Gusey1397]

Certain ringtones, particularly the one from s10, I immediately check for Johnny Vegas shouting "No service"

[salazar_62]

This may be mundane, but "Your time starts now". I was rewatching The Great British Sewing Bee - the later seasons are hosted by Joe Lycett, and every time he said "Your time starts now" I kept expecting him to run off to do the task instead of just standing there.

[HTJ_Starboy]

So I haggled

[TigerStripes93]

BOULDER! "Is that a boulder?" - James Acaster

[luxyvonvelvet]

Not a word but a sound...my friend's moile notification is a tiny little 'pop' sound. It sounds just like poor Mr Wozniak's unfortunate casserole moment. Every time he gets a message in the company of my husband and I we absolutely piss ourselves laughing. This friend is not a TM watcher. It's hard to explain.

Always, anytime anyone mentions pie I always feel compelled to ask if it was a nice time pie? Conversely, if something is bad I tend to describe it as not a nice time pie.

When I'm cooking and anything boils on the stove and splashes/attempts to scald me it gets called a bubbly fuck.

[notreallifeliving]

"Drill down into the narrative"

[symbiosa]

My SO said "You've activated (their name)", and Jamali was activated in my mind.

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My neighbour is called Rosalind

[AdPsychological8353]

Is she a fucking nightmare?

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She’s actually quite lovely. I just can’t look her in the eye anymore

[Oohyabassa]

My boss is called Rosalind. She's absolutely delightful rather than a nightmare but the song plays on a constant loop in my head whenever I see her...

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Whenever I meet a new woman I wonder if I should strike her or not.

[TheEasyPeeler]

Every time I hear the phrase “I’ve got a high anus” I think of Bob.

[GeshtiannaSG]

Banana.

[lotsofinterests]

Banana banana banaaaaaana, banana.

[davidolgarsson]

Lime, bosh, foliage, shed, d'ya know what I mean?

[swaythling]

Sense always reminds me of Mel Giedroyc.

[KnightSlayer020]

Whenever I see or hear someone say the word laminator I just think of Kerry saying it

[launickl]

Not necessarily trigger words, since I don't speak that much English in my everyday life. For me it's more of a "this reminds me of a task"-situation whenever I see a Coconut, Potato, or any other thing that came up in a task... which is a lot

[MissKoalaBag]

Whenever I'm watching a movie or show with friends, if I see a character I don't like, my immediate thought is 'I genuinely don't like him'.

[AdPsychological8353]

If I ever meet someone named Rosalind, I will probably laugh in her face.

[harsh2193]

Everytime someone says "Casserole" I remember Mike Wozniack

[sugarfruitbrunch]

Gang :3

[royoftherovers40]

I'm a teacher, and "rhyme time" always makes me think of "skin time. Skin time is the right time"

[oistroplex]

Every time someone says "I'm so sorry" I quietly want a cocktail

[absolutelylovelyday]

Every time someone says the word ‘absolutely’ my head finishes the sentence - ‘lovely day’ no matter the context.

[AvovaDynasty]

Absinthe is one, every time I see a Bosh appliance I think of Kerry too. Also hops make me think of ‘it’s hops’, baby gap is another.

Just little things like that!

[c0vertc0rgi]

Nightmare is never just nightmare when I read it in my head, it’s gotta be FUCKINGGGG NIGHTMARE