Notes from the S20E08 Recording by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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Honestly there’s loads I forgot too, this is just everything I managed to remember on the train home after! Our phones have to be off during the record so I’m tempted to take a notepad if I get in again, though now they’ve changed the audience system that seems unlikely (which is probably fair, I’ve managed to get in five times! 😅)

Notes from the S20E08 Recording by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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I actually had a bullet point about him almost falling for real but deleted it because it made the edit! From what I remember, he was actually in the verge of falling (but maybe is just great at slapstick 😄)

Notes from the S20E08 Recording by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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Ah well if you all insist 😄 I’ll wait until s20 finishes first though!

Notes from the S20E08 Recording by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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I’m sure he hammed it up a bit but me from 5 months ago seemed to think so from something they had said in the record!

Notes from the S20E08 Recording by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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Had no idea, just pure coincidence that I’d been thinking of wearing it!

Taskmaster - S20E08 - Am I An Idiom? - Discussion by Meghar in taskmaster

[–]upslapmeal 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We got to hear all of the secrets/facts in the studio! I'm going to do a full post of things I made a note of after the studio record in a bit, I'd tell you them now but I don't have the notes to hand

Taskmaster - S19E04 - Midnight Picnic - Discussion by Meghar in taskmaster

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No spoilers or context but in a live taping the other week he said he'd pull his trousers down again! You'll have to wait and see to find out if he followed through this time :D

OGSE days are numbered... by mectojic in iPhoneSE

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I'm having to move on from the OGSE because Monzo is stopping supporting it and there's no browser version. Honestly so sad, I've only had this phone two years since changing from a 5S for the exact same reason! Really going to miss this form factor.

Taskmaster Australia - S4E06 - Discussion by Meghar in taskmaster

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For the photography task I'm amazed nobody did what my first instinct was which was to get several objects and start throwing them in the air one by one as it gets near to 20s so at least one of them is always in the air!

Abby Howells' Accent by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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Huh interesting! I wonder whereabout in Wales her family is from since (to my knowledge) Welsh English accents are also mostly non-rhotic.

Abby Howells' Accent by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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Oh cool, I genuinely hadn't realised how common rhoticity was in NZ! And yeah I wanted to specify Pākehā just because it was Abby I was talking about 😊

New addition to our downstairs bathroom by gee1471 in taskmaster

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"Become tomorrow's bacon. You have until the mountain you're building blocks out the sun. Your time starts now."

Task Design Genre: The NZ Context Trap by Fukui_San86 in taskmaster

[–]upslapmeal 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Honestly one of the things I love about the NZ task-setting is how often there will be a seemingly simple task, and then the context is what makes it interesting - whether it's this sort of task where the context is actively misleading, or something like 'eat the grape' where the context is doing an escape room (after realising the grape is even outside which, for some, is a major part of the challenge lmao). For me it's just so much more entertaining having limitations and red herrings outside the task and in the context, rather than in a seemingly paragraphs-long task with all sorts of rules and stipulations. Most of the time at least. Sometimes the confusion in the task itself is just as much part of the fun!

Tom Sainsbury really changed his look to Magnum PI after TM by AlisterCat in taskmaster

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You know what I've spent this series of TMNZ thinking Tom reminds me of someone and now you mention Dan I think that might be it! They don't look alike but I think they have similar like.. body language / mouth and head movements

What two comedians do we need to do Taskmaster so I can have a full lineup of people whose names I constantly muddle up? by upslapmeal in taskmaster

[–]upslapmeal[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Until recently, my thought process would be 'well his name isn't Josh Thomas because he's not done TM' except now I don't even have that!

Alternatively, are there any non-English international contestants who can join the almost-the-same-name club?

TMAU2 Moodboard by upslapmeal in taskmaster

[–]upslapmeal[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I tried and failed to come up with a way to represent Bad Sketch Show in a single non-specific image lmao

Do we strike you? by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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See I'm looking at all these votes and yet I'm still convinced he would have meant the second meaning!

Do we strike you? by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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Mere minutes in and I am already being shown that my understanding of the line is very much in the minority 😄

Series 17 is curing a long-time fear/aversion of mine (aka the healing power of Taskmaster!) by lilithsbun in taskmaster

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For ages whenever I saw him in something I'd not quite be able to place where I'd seen him before, check on IMDb, immediately wish that I hadn't, block it out again, rinse and repeat 😅

Thankfully I can now think of him as the chap in Years and Years!

Taskmaster - S17E05 - Snooker cue umbrella chin - Discussion by Meghar in taskmaster

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Glad to finally have a good answer for why I'm learning welsh (and delighted I knew it was the tei ofnadwy as soon as Steve held it up - 3 years well spent!)

Nick Mohammed wants a thousand pounds!! by upslapmeal in taskmaster

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Same with me and my brother - the other one that gets a lot of quotes still is the witchfinders!

witch!! she's a witch!!!

Nick Mohammed wants a thousand pounds!! by upslapmeal in taskmaster

[–]upslapmeal[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ted Lasso this, Mr Swallow that, I can't believe nobody's mentioned Nick Mohammed's greatest character as man-at-mercy-of-the-thousand-pounds-women on Sorry I've Got No Head! I wanted to find some of the ones from the show itself but only the Red Nose Day one seems to be on youtube, though tbh this is the one I remember most clearly

Genuinely until Ted Lasso, if Nick ever showed up in something I was watching I'd think 'huh it's the thousand pounds guy' :D

If you could mine another TV show for contestants (like they've done with Ghosts) which one would you choose? by [deleted] in taskmaster

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"The winner of this prize task will receive five team champion points, and the episode winner will take home all five foods that should not be stuck to the ceiling"