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Notes from the Taskmaster S15E04 recording

I got to see this episode filmed back in September (if you were there hello from the person Mark Olver kept quizzing lol, and important question: do you have an airing cupboard?) and thought I'd make a post with some Bonus Content from the recording. Last time I did this I realised I'd forgotten loads so this time I got home, sat down, diligently made notes for until the end of the prize task, and decided to do the rest the next day. I did not do the rest. So we'll just have to see how well my memory holds up 😅

The version of Greg's aeroplane-themed intro was an alternative version filmed at the end - the original had the reveal that THEY'RE ALL DEAD!! and the second one was filmed "in case anyone dies in a plane"

Alex had three """""jokes"""" about his Italy trip, each one increasingly terrible. The one I made a note of was "I saw Stevie Wonder" turning into "I saw a wonder of the word". Needless to say, Greg was unimpressed.

When Greg went to Mae to introduce their prize task, their opening comment was "I’m excited to continue to explore our….dynamic"

The strength of the dynamic was then questioned when Greg was dismissive of their prize

Whatever your opinion of how Mae was scored for a later task, when Greg saw their prize on the stage at the end of the episode he said it had been underscored and it actually looked like a lot of fun

“Kiell you’ve been doing badly…it’s not your turn yet though. Frankie?"

"Jenny has always given a sob story just after presenting her prize, last episode leant heavily on her dead father" - we were told this after Jenny said she couldn't knit the hat because she had nerve damage in her hands

"I forgot to be funny then, sorry that was just sad" - Jenny

The ad buffers we saw in studio were filmed in Gatwick, and since this was before S14 aired there was a discussion about what airport it was based on the presence of an upstairs Jamie Oliver restaurant in one of them

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I cannot stress this enough, but ANY angle or thought that you may have about Mae's throw(s) (or lack thereof) came up in the studio

I can't remember what ended up swinging (heh) it in their favour but it truly felt as though it was going to go on forever

Man I wish I could remember any specifics because there was So Much, genuinely every single possible take on that attempt was thoroughly and gleefully dissected

Hearing during this episode that Ivo had won the last two was much like when I saw that Bridget was in first place during the record for S13E04 lol

Right. Banana.

I think the logic ended up being that the task said to get the 'BANANA'

And they did, in fact, get the 'BANANA'

They got the word not the object

And there was definitely a debate about what it is to be a noun, which Mae weighed in on and I think almost made Ivo explode that they had no right to after what they did with a verb

I feel like this may have been cut bc Ivo used 'she' and I imagine the editors are going for consistency, but it's a shame bc it was amazing

But it was still 'BANANA'. As stated in the task. The word it said to get was the word they got.

Do with this what you will.

During the live task, Ivo kept pouring his sand, very very slowly, after everyone else had finished and after he was told his stream had broken, until the bottle was empty.

Tragically Jenny did not wear the turkey on her head at the end, despite everyone agreeing earlier that the winner would have to.

There we go then. And the moral of the story is to actually make notes on what happened before you forget everything. And by 'you' I mean me. I swear I'll have better notes about the S16 finale.

#posted this on reddit and thought I'd stick it on here too! #taskmaster #upslaplife #taskmaster spoilers

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oh I've just worked out how to super boop ok time to reboop everyone

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man I just accidentally ended up rereading old JtV posts for nearly an hour (how do you do this by accident??) and I had forgotten how mad I was about how that show ended up but also I am now once again mad about how that show ended up

#I was writing full essays and I stand by them!! #but wow that show had the ability to just fully take over my brain in a way I don't think any other show has #not even my beloved DW #but it was SO good!! and then it was SO bad!!!! #jane the virgin #upslaplife

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just found out that one of my absolute favourite books as a kid has been made into an animated film and watching the trailer already made me cry. so that's a great start

#to be clear it's not a weepy trailer! it's not even a weepy book for the most part #but the trailer just made me think about the book and. yeah #I read the book to the class I work with last year and it took A LOT of effort to not cry at the end of the book while I was reading lmao #kensuke's kingdom #michael morpurgo #upslaplife

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man Doctor Who's coming back, Orphan Black's coming back, there's a new Hunger Games film soon......feel like I've just jumped back a decade

#corporate needs you to find the differences between my 2014 blog and my 2024 blog #(...hopefully there are some differences lmao) #upslaplife

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hey gang what’s new

not been around for a few days bc I’ve been on holiday (yay!) and tumblr mobile is horrendous

except uh. due to fun circumstances like flight delays and missed connections (boo!) I am unexpectedly still on holiday. in a different country. and have to get home by train.

#it’s been a slightly stressful day 🙃 #love queueing for 2.5 hours to be told they can’t put you on a new flight #what a way to see germany for the first time lmao. from a train window #anyway though the holiday was great and italy is beautiful #I’m just very ready to sleep in my own bed #upslaplife #if you count the taxi I’m getting to the station I’m doing my own Planes Trains and Automobiles

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duolingo seems a bit confused about how many days there are in a week

#duolingo ai taking the intelligence out of artificial intelligence #Dydy Dewi Lingo ddim yn gallu rhifo i saith #yes yes I know duolingo boycott etc but moving past that #I have a 3 year streak I'm tragically not ready to lose #duolingo #upslaplife

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I thought I'd go back and read through the notes I made during the taskmaster finale recording now that s16 has started airing and the good news is that I made loads of notes

the bad news is that they are so wholly without context that I have no idea what most of them are about and who they relate to

#v much hoping that watching the actual episode jogs my memory #they were notes very much intended for me to go home and expand on that evening #did I do that? despite having a similar problem with the previous ep record notes in s15? of course not #one day. one day I will learn. #taskmaster #upslaplife

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gang I'm FINALLY going to get to watch DW tonight

#just been constantly doing stuff!!! #can't wait! #upslaplife

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don't know whether it's the current cocktail of extensions I have running at the moment or just the website being non-functional but tumblr:

has not saved a single tag I've used in many many months now

currently is not letting me see anything other than original posts on people's blogs (the dash overlay blog, if I go to the actual url blog then it works fine)

keeps on not showing new posts on my dash unless I refresh the page (as opposed to just going to the first page of my dash by clicking the home button)

#I have 3 maybe 4 extensions going? ....should turn them off and see if I still have the same problems #quite likely I just need to stop using some of them #but then that would mean functioning without the extensions and I'm not sure which is worse #upslaplife

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every day I am astonished and bewildered by the innovative new ways that people fail to correctly load a dishwasher

#much love to my housemates who I know are intelligent people. but my goodness #upslaplife

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my main takeaway from the taskmaster junior recording was that it is incredibly weird having a kiwi taskmaster who doesn't open the show with a kia ora

#4th taskmaster record babey (though obviously this was slightly different to the other 3 lol) #taskmaster #the kids were great though some real characters in there #though I don't envy Rose's job of giving 1 point to a kid already gutted by how they did #shoutout to one in particular who took 1-pointers/disqualification like a champ #anyway some interesting format/other differences #well. two interesting differences #but good fun! I'm looking forward to it airing #upslaplife

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is tumblr just being weird for me or can you no longer (on desktop) click through from the dash to see a post on someone’s blog? if I click on the usernames of the person who reblogged it, the person they reblogged it from or the op it always used to take me to the post on their blog but now it just takes me to the top of their blog... 

#listen I just want to know what the prev tags were when someone refers to them in their tags!! #or I want to see if the op added anything in the tags! #upslaplife

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what do people use instead of rabb.it now? feeling like some DW ep streams in the lead up to the 60th but it's been a while and I'm out of the loop

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#sure I've hardly learnt anything new in the past year and a bit bc I've just been going over old lessons BUT #I'm just here to have fun learning a language #upslaplife

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#tbh I was surprised we were even visible #I kinda assumed it would be too dark to actually see anything #(I say as though you can actually see anything lol) #taskmaster #upslaplife