Do NOT Use the Same Thing as Another Contestant | Taskmaster
A collection of contestants attempting some unique thinking and avoiding being penalised for succumbing to herd mentality.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.
Im surprised no one has yet to do the absolutely most chaotic move of sabotaging the whole round by using every tool given.
That's... that's evil. I love that!
Aw, u spoiled it for me. I was hoping someone did that XD
It would only put that person in last place and give everybody else an extra 1 minute (if I understood that right, that you get a penalty for every other person touching the same items). So it doesn't change anything at all (except a person who used 2 items instead of one, would fall behind aincenthey now got 2 minutes penalty)
@@borstenpinsel Depends which task. The coconut ones said disqualified, not +1 minute
@@borstenpinsel there was a round with those rules but also a round where the contestants get fully disqualified if they share an item
I love tasks like this where they all affect each other it’s like they’re doing a team task but not at the same time. It’d be interesting if they created a task with something that replicates the prisoners dilemma
they did something a little like the prisoners dilemma in season 4, where each contestant got to vote for a contestant to get a bonus point, but if they voted for themselves and didn’t win, they would lose point(s?)
They did something simmilar in Season 13
I'm probably a bad person because my first thought was that you could choose to sacrifice your score to ruin everybody else's by touching everything on the table
@@ldystardust that wouldn't change anything since all you'd do is give yourself more penalty than everyone else. that would just put you in last place and give everyone else the same chance of winning.
@@takumi2023 Yes that's why I called it sacrificing your score. I didn't say it was a good strategy, just the first thing that came to mind.
i can''t believe they cut mel getting in her own head and just touching everything hahaha
That was GOLD!
My immediate thought would be to just touch all the rice and give out hundreds of minute penalties
does anyone have a link to the full task?
Just realised this isn’t the full task, just Mel doing her thing Sorry
Please note: If someone had actually used the coconut harness, they'd have scored 18 and won.
If the harness stayed on the board! Good chance the whole case fell off
but then the same thing very well could've happened with the coconuts, it's the prisoners' dilemma
@@mailmansteve87 If you could ride the skateboard with the blanket, I'm sure you could ride the skateboard with the case.
Take the trailer off the bricks, put all the coconuts loose in the trailer thereby not using any items except the trailer interior as a harness. The task as read didn't say the skateboard was the bobsleigh, so just push the trailer down the hill. As Alex mentions the finish line was unnecessary it was just when the "bobsleigh" stopped, so move the trailer 1/4 of a millimetre, as long as the door doesn't open every coconut will still be in the trailer. Job done.
Unless it was the guy who used the curtain.. he seemed most likely to use the harness but went with the curtain. If he would’ve used the harness instead, the lady who used the curtain to carry all the coconuts would’ve won.
I'll never get over Sally's genuine joy riding the skateboard down the ramp in the coconut task.
Honestly it highlights her charm. She seems like an amazing person lol
@@thephilosopher7173 Yeah, she was just having fun with it and it was great. She always seems like a lot of fun.
Scorpious - NEVER???
@@jonhohensee3258 I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean?
@@scorpiouskrimson Read your first comment. Then read mine.
I'm sad that no one said anything about how Bob made a literal Bob Sleigh
Yes, that certainly warrants sadness.
I came here to say this
Mel being oblivious to where the task is and Noel’s lil proud smile catching the task sums up a lot of their tasks😂
One of the first things that came to mind was to touch everything so that no one can win, chaotic evil.
there'd still be a winner, it only added a minute to everyones time, you'd just be the one who lost
@@kiiturii it could've worked with the other tasks with disqualification though
Username checks out lmao
He did touch the Napkin but based on the clip the two other contestant were never shown.
Katherine's win on that last task would be great for a compilation among the lines of 'Underdog Victories' (i.e. generally poor performing/low scoring contestants coming out on top). Others that come to mind are Nish in the balancing Alex Horne task and Hugh winning the fishbowl task after nearly everyone else got disqualified
ooh thats a great idea for a compilation
Katherine's marble run could be there as well
the wumar song has to be on there.
@@gustavocampos7723 Katherine's perpetual motion machine.
@@gustavocampos7723 yeah that's also a good shout given it was so good it actually prompted Greg to disqualify Mawaan. Although the coconut one probably edges it out given Katherine was the only one who DID leave the room for once
All of those are great like mel touching everything and katherine outsmarting everyone for once
@@poilboiler I mean have you seen that series yes for once, yeah she did win a few other times but she wasnt last for no reason
Katherine muttering to herself is so calming to me. There's something about her voice, I could just listen to her quietly solve puzzles for hours. 17:27 Also, I love the look she gives Alex when she picks up the tangerine.
It’s like ASMR but less creepy.
@@tshepherd8145 That's what ASMR is. KZhead just has creepy people DOING ASMR.
I just noticed at that Catherine said it "took her a while to open the fridge." she probably was making reference to the camera crew having to set up a camera inside of the fridge. Then at the very end Alex made a ejactlation joke that nobody got except Catherine about 2 seconds later.
That camera was definitely there from the start. They placed the coconut water in there, as a secret way to do the challenge, so of course they had prepped for that eventuality.
ejactlation? Alex just said "So what was your extraction technique?"
@@Madkangaroo On the panel itself, explaining how Johnny and Richard used the same methods but extracted it in different ways: "shaking or sucking."
I'm absolutely gobsmacked that Bob didn't just use the coconut harness
gotta love how for the first one no one fell for the prisoners dilemma, and in the second one everyone did
where's Mel touching every item and giving everyone another extra minute
Sally grabbing the skateboard and charging it down the ramp as a test run is hands down the best of any contestant on Taskmaster. Just fearless 😁
Love that my first thought was "Coconut case, hell yeah I'll use that they definitely won't" and I would've been right lol
Case?
@@mip4422 Coconut harness
Mark doing a monologue before and during every task is life-giving.
I love Hugh's reaction watching himself like, "I don't know what he's doing either."
My first thought on extracting the coconut water is... coconut into the corner of the desk. I'm afraid that I also thought of using the curtain, albeit tying onto the skateboard. RIP. Egg... it's basically a debate between the red thing containing the rice versus the bread. Kind of a coin toss IMO, surprised that most people went for bread.
Hard to believe no one used the napkin that was under the rice for the egg challenge
Noel DID touch it, so it would’ve still be a minute penalty
At this point they want competitors to break the rules, judging by the fact there was a camera in the fridge which looked at the coconut water
I think they wanted them to think outside the box this time thus the conspicuous absence of an explicit requirement to only use the items on the table. In the other tasks they explicitly limited the equipment to that found in a specific location but not this time that tells me they wanted outside the box thinking yes.
I don't think it broke any rules. The task was, "drink a tablespoon of coconut water," which she did. Never said it had to be sourced from the presented coconuts.
I would just be an asshole and use all the items and disqualified everyone
@@hahaid2003 would only have worked in the first one where touching the same item added a minute to everyone who touched it as well, in the others just touching wasn't enough, and actually using all items would be a challenge in itself, plus in the last one, using all items would be counted as a completely different extraction method even if you used the same tools as someone else
It's not breaking the rules. It's providing extremely simple means of completing the task but wording and constructing it in such a way that the most simple solution is the least obvious. Kinda like when they wanted them to make the scale read 31770 and the solution was to place the knight figure on it. They named the figure OLLIE because that's what its weight reads upside down. And the coconut water in the fridge was still something only one contestant could do, otherwise they'd be disqualified.
They even strung up the task so that they couldn't use the task paper to pick up the egg. Very clever.
I would have put the paper on the table and then read it.
"Mel, What did you like about the task?" "I liked touching all the items"
17:26 - That tranquil fury over a satsuma...
For this, I would have used every single possible method to prevent any points
I am shocked that the most efficient method, was a mushed banana wall. Hats off to you that is brilliant beyond our comprehension
They should include that line about not using the same objects as another person in a task where they actually provide an entirely different set of objects to each contestant, just to screw with them and make them think they have to ignore the easiest/obvious solution to come up with something crazy.
I would love to see a constant do one of these and completely sabotage everyone else. Use as many different items in order to take out themself and as many of the others as possible
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Glory to the taskmaster...and little Alex horn
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@@themadplotter Preferable to counting beans...
110 percent agree
0:58 Noel was so proud of himself when he caught that paper. Lol.
Just use the envelope for all the tasks. You read that right - ALL of them.
sounds like a great way to fail the majority of tasks
The only question I have is, exactly how stoned was Hugh? That was some seriously creative failure right there :o)
The real trick is to use every piece of equipment to ensure everyone is disqualified.
😂😂😂
For the coconut skateboard one they could've used whatever to hold a lot but could've turned the starting plank around so it only has to move like 30cm and stops since it went by when the board stops.
Still love how alex won't accept whats up as a formal greeting 😂
I only gave a thumbs up because of Katherine! That was iconic thinking out of the box that I like to see.
The first task was interesting because it probably didn't even matter that you couldn't use an object that a contestant already touched, only that you'd have to be the fastest out of your opponent(s) to get the egg in the cup.
yup, even if someone did use the same method, you'd just have to be faster than them. And using the obvious fastest one (picking it up with the bread) took like 2 seconds, which would be hard to beat with any other method that isn't as obvious
Dump the rice off the cloth and use that as a glove.
But someone using another method would be faster if he needed less than 60 seconds more
it's amazing that mark still bagged 3 points after his weak attempt honestly
I'd definitely go with the coconut harness. Nobody is dumb enough to not realize the coconut harness is the most obvious choice. On the other hand, that's the exact reason nobody would take it as their first choice. There's a tiny chance another person would have the same reasoning, but I still unironically think that the coconut harness gives you the best shot at winning.
its the same reason people will never shoot a penalty shot righ down the middle. because nobody wants to be that person that shoots it right in the hands of the goal keeper
You'd think that but then in the Coconut Water task almost everyone thought that (plus Richard who just went thinking on "fastest wins") and basically they all did the same.
@@Adrianovaz2007 Yeah, I had not watched the coconut water task yet when I wrote that comment, lol.
🥺 Why is no one talking about how absolutely precious Johnny is?? He's so cute and reserved, he looks like a respectful little gnome 🥺🥺🥺
Johnny Vegas is delightful and has a really strange mind.
Aisling brings to mind the 1950 Top-Ten hit (for Mervyn Griffin) about "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts." They're lovely.
I assume the caravan cushions unzip, so I’ve never known why they didn’t remove the padding from one and use it as a sealed coconut bag. Or just used one of them or something else substantial to block the way so that the skateboard only moved a millimetre.
I thought somebody was going to take off their trousers and tie the ends. Phillip.
Given that most of them pushed it to the end of the track, I think it's a fair guess everyone assumed they needed to cross the finish line.
@@philliptemple9841 I like the way you signed off that reply, a sense of class that’s been sorely missing.
@@ccggenius It’s a fair guess that those who did that assumed so. There’s no evidence that the others did.
@@themadplotter I was thinking the exact same thing seeing it :))
My first thought on the egg one, was to use the napkin that the rice was on. I didnt even think of bread lmao
Richard and Johnny getting points is ridiculous.
Its extra interesting because I've never seen alex overrule Greg like that before
On the coconut one. Both of those contestants used String!
My first thought was to have the "bobsled" proceed a short distance, and then be slowly stopped; after all, they didn't need to reach the finish.
The smart thing is to touch everything so everyone suffers the same time.
SAME THOUGHT HERE
Bob's attempt at the bobsled made me cry with laughter 😭
oh, my dear Ms Catherine, you were sweet as always 🤣 Cheers to all!
4:00 That is the CORRECT response to seeing that! 😂
Katherine always looks on the verge of tears during these tasks bless her heart
if any of them had used the coconut harness, they'd have won
Yep it was so so obvious as a setup that you could guess everyone would second guess it. I was getting my hopes up when bob picked it up and said he may aswell just use it.
DUH
It's too obvious. And if you let yourself think that it being too obvious makes it safe, then you're putting yourself at risk. It's like with the last task. Three people thought the hammer was too obvious and that no other contestant would use it for that reason, therefore they all used it and all lost.
Unless bob did
why use any instruments when you can smash coconut with coconut to open? but Katherine did task with out of the box style, that was cool.
I would say based on the judging, that would have gotten you disqualified with the other two that extracted by smashing open the coconut.
Watching these videos is like a holiday for your head...joyful holiday
Technically, the ones who won the skateboard competition should have been DQ'ed. They both used string.
Right?? I'm surprised no one said anything
For the coconuts I also immediately thought some sort of fabric sack BUT use a fabric that others wouldn't have thought of. The curtain was too obvious. I'd have cut up the cushions or something and made something of that. However I didn't think of riding down yourself so the next thing would be figuring out how to tie them down.
What I don't get with the coconut task, is how nobody thought of making the bob-slay move only a few centimeters. The task only specified how many were on there once it stopped, not how far it had to go.
the slope is quite steep hahaha the skateboard is hard to stop
@@bellsctiz7120 The slope lifts up at certain points. put something under it, to make it not a slope anymore.
Angle the skateboard at close to 90° so that it just travels mostly the width of the ramp not it's length.
I feel as though it might have been worth fashioning a brake out of something in the caravan and starting it with the wheels against the side of the ramp.
@@bellsctiz7120 Nothing said the skateboard had to be on the ramp- just tell Alex it's your one attempt.
10:12 Yeah, people gave me that tip before. It didn’t work very well.
For the last one, even if you didn’t know or think about the fridge coconut water, I’m supposed no one tried to bash it against the floor in the bag.
You didn't even need the bag. Just crack the coconut using the edges of the desk like you would an egg, with much greater force of course.
Put coconut in bag, smash on ground, drink from bag. No tools needed.
You missed the best part of the first one when Mel touched literally everything
1:00 the way he snatched the string was hilarious to me for whatever reason
Stay on! Because this is the best show at the moment.
These are my favorite types of tasks.
No they're not.
in my 40 years of living, a bananabarrier have never failed me!
What's interesting about the coconut bobsleigh team is it says nothing about actually rolling the skateboard down the track, it just says 'Muster the biggest coconut bobsleigh team, most bobsleight team members still on board when the bobsleigh comes to a halt wins' so just stack as many coconuts on the skateboard as you can (Preferably not using any items from the caravan in case you get dq'd and boom, that's your team, not a particularly active team since it's not gonna roll down the track but you have many coconuts on board when it comes to a halt
"the obvious combination"😂😂😂
Now I want to see the full versions of the tasks
You can! I've seen all these tasks in full episode versions on youtube. Most uploaded to this very channel!
I like taskmaster. It's like field day in elementary school.
Im surprised no one just smashed the coconut on the floor
For the egg task thing, my first thought was to use the bread to pick up the egg and dump it into the egg holder as well. Just cause even if someone else does it, it's so quick that the 1 minute penalty won't hurt you as much. Proud to see I wasn't the only one who thought of that.
I thought of using the task paper like the bread, that way you dont get penalised at all
my idea was that but with the balloon. Where i live we don't have this sort of square, crustless bread, so that option didn't even cross my mind
@@lred1383 ?? where do you live, all I can think of where bread isn't sold like normal would be some asian or middle eastern countries. Maybe thats just a sign of my untravelled self.
@@Zalioscraft Russia. The white bread we have in stores isn't square like that, and has a pretty decent crust. Would still probably do the job for this task, but definitely would not be my first thought. I assume the bread in the video is more for toasting than just eating as is?
@@lred1383 yea, toasting and sandwich making. We do have differing types of bread but those are the most common. Bakeries usually handle the more exotic types of bread while the sliced bread is bought at supermarkets.
8:37 am i the only one who noticed it never said anything about going down the ramp.
Bread glove was the first thing I thought of 😂
literally a bobsled.. 😂
Checking the fridge seemed so obvious to me. Of course they would put that in.
You didn't even show the best part of Mel's egg cup task.
The part where the egg breaks open and a chickwalks out?
@@jonhohensee3258 After she reads the task, the starts narrating her thought process on how to do it, inadvertently touches several items, then makes a point of touching everything.
@@Taolan8472 The starts?
Hugh's bit 🤣
Norwegian version had a task where they had to guess what the other contestants would do with just an apple in the room. Or eating the next most meatballs ( not the swedish type meatball).
Just smash the Coconut on the ground, like Tim and Romesh did with the watermelons 😄
Brian Abraham and presumably slurp up the coconut water off the floor too like how they ate the melon...
In the second game Nish sounds just like James Acaster 🤣🤣
I used to do shit like this in my D&D campaign. My DM yelled the first time, “I DESIGNED THIS BEFORE YOU WERE HERE DAMMIT”
First thing that came to my mind for the coconut one was to use a coconut to extract it. As in whack them together.
It took me so long to realize that they wete all given the skateboard and that using it didn't disqualify them.
He not only used a screw driver, he extracted the water with suction via a straw rather than pouring into the spoon or into a bag and then scooping the water out of the bag.
0:30 accidental OB wan Kenobi impersonation
I like the way that no one used the harness
Use anything in the camper -> Go in the camper -> I am in the camper -> use myself -> stuff your pockets and shirt use your jacket ->nobody has your clothes -> win
My first thought was to tear down the curtains in the trailer. Then wrap the coconuts up in that and then fix it to the skateboard with a knot... or if not maybe some tape
I'm surprised that in the coconut water one nobody tried either the Grandmother Technique or the Romesh Smash.
“Ooohh suspense Nishy!”
I would've 200 percent betted on the coconut harness dilemma
To win the task you can simply use the best item(s) and then destroy it/them beyond any possible future use.
The one with the egg in the cup, best is use the task paper to pick up the egg.
I can’t believe no-one used the coconut holder!
The obvious move is to use everything
Everyone’s laughing at the way he used the bread but it saved him from elimination
One could've also sabotaged the wheels of the skateboard. Put as many coconuts in with some obscure way to secure them to the board, then let it run, but because the wheels were sabotaged, the skateboard moves barely like an inch before it stops. Since the task just says to have as many coconuts still on the board when it stops moving.
I thought the ketchup-injury task would be here, but I guess nobody was disqualified at that task.
For the egg, I would have just used the paper that the task was written on.😂
But the task wasn't on the table, it was suspended, and every contestant touched it anyway
@@bhelliom3 Yeah, I realized that later. I would not do well in this show.😂