Old Honkfoot Eclair walking away sadly while honking and jingling is one of the best things ever

I felt like when Frankie was scolding Ivo after the magnet tak we are back to "father - son" dynamic. So funny!

The final studio task was the first time watching TM when I genuinely thought it was extremely unfair.

There's a lot of controversy in the subreddit regarding the scoring and Alex's twist for the live task.

Interesting that Alex gave the team of three a "5 minutes left" warning but gave the team of two a "you've had 15 minutes and 30 seconds" which seemed a little unfair that they had to remember the time limit whereas the team of three were told how much time they had left. It does feel like they were making it harder for the team of two.

I’ve just spent the past week watching all episodes of Ghosts which Kiell is in. I highly recommend it Neil if you want to include it in your next poll. Former Taskmaster contestants Katy Wix, Charlotte Richtie, Lolly Adefope & Jessica Knappett are in it too!

This is the first episode of taskmaster that has left a bad taste after watching. I’m fine with Greg awarding unfair points, but to have a live task be so unfair to one of the teams AND offer so many points really annoyed me.

Something that struck me as odd at the start of Ivo's faked task was that for someone whose head was fully wrapped in toilet paper, his audio was surprisingly crisp. However I never put any further thought into it after that, until he revealed himself.

"This is so dark". Yep, that's our Frankie. Now please watch his stand-up. 😊

In theory I have no issue with the second half of the live task. I just wish it had been a bonus point up for grabs rather than another five points. I don't think we'll really see the full "controversy" until the series ends and we know whether or not this task changed the eventual winner, but I also think people will drive themselves crazy if they get annoyed about unfair scoring in Taskmaster. Greg has never been consistent or particularly fair.

Yeah I think the live task was a bit unfair. The team of three should have been handicapped in some way. It was always going to come down to them “guessing” the number and considering they had time to remove items and start counting, it just felt like the game was designed against Frankie and Ivo.

Ivo revealed in the podcast that the kitchen spoons were non-magnetic. And I very much doubt that Frankie had a clock. Also Alex didn't tell them they had 30 seconds left but that 15,5 minutes had passed. And at least Ivo forgot how much time they had in total.

First ever episode that I was actually really annoyed with at the end, especially as someone who’s been rooting for Frankie

The final studio task… it’s the first time that I’ve felt like not watching the show anymore. I just hope there is an equally unfair swing in the future favouring Frankie and Ivo. Better would be to keep it somehow reasonable. Otherwise why stick to the 0-5 scale and not award a million points for a single task.

That live task confused me. I didn’t think it was fair for the team of 2 where they have no control over the task or a way they could have got points without the team of 3 messing up. I feel the 2nd part of the task should have added a line or made it clear that the team of 2 could do whatever they can to confuse the other team. (Eg if they were shouting numbers ect just for the hell of it would have been more difficult for them). But instead they just stood there and watched.

I was properly weeping with laughter all through Frankie and Ivo's spoon task. Incredible. I agree with you Neil - this is a rare season ('season' makes much more sense than 'series' anyway) where I don't have any preference abut who comes first or last. Regarding the final task, it's crazy that they dropped a nuke on the season scores but I kind of love it. Anything can happen and it's never been fair.

The Thames is a lot cleaner than in Victorian times. People occasionally swim the length of it for charity and 'reasons'.

yes we had simon in the uk... based on the much older parlour game simon says

I love Taskmaster. The greatest show invented. Old Hookfoot comment was funny

I think that live task is gonna join s2’s put bunnies in the hat as the most controversial points allocation in a live task

The team of three had one minute to count 29 items. Nuff said.

Yeah I thought that the live task wasn't that fair, wondering if that's because of something later in the series or the opposite happens in the future

The other big question I had was how Kiel was allowed to take his hands off of his head for the second part of the task. One minute to empty and count a pair of waders seems pretty doable in one minute, but much more challenging if the hands stay up--you'd have to pull out what you could and then estimate the remainders (or find the birthday card).

Never like team tasks in the studio , simply because only one person from either team can possibly win the episode and I prefer when there’s a battle on to win it between a lot of them. And ten points each is way too much of a swing, but other than that I loved the episode as always.

Agreed that the prize task looked pretty poor. And the score spread on the final task might be very decisive in the grand total! I wonder if future tasks in the series might be just as surprising?

frankie and ivo didnt get greedy - ivo got greedy he would have made it if he had gone to the lab. I had the same idea about the kitchen but sadly they didnt have time and ivo should have known that.

If you think of the final task as 2 tasks both worth 5 points then it's okay. The probability of actually getting the correct answer was weighted to the team of 2 winning it.

Was waiting for this video to have the discussion on the live task. The only live team task I think I remember really liking was Ed Gamble being teamed with David Baddiel and had to draw on backs in a line. But even then the teams were mixed up a bit. But normally I do not like them, it robs certain contestants from winning an episode if they have a teammate ahead even by one point. And this one in particular had problems. Firstly it wasn't clear if the first part could have been won by the team of 2 or not. Then the second part felt like it was made rather easy on the team of three when they could take items out and Kiell could remove his hands from his head. And it meant that by this point Frankie & Ivo had no chance to try and win any points, they were stuck with however the other team did. The massive point swing reminded me quite a bit of one of my least favourite tasks, which is the popcorn necklace/bell ringing task from series 12, where you would either get 5 or -2 points all depending whether you rang a bell or not that was basically a 50/50 guess. It just ultimately feels like the setback Frankie and particularly Ivo have had, will rob them from any chance of winning the series, and that's just after half the series. (and Ivo has even won two episodes) There's some fab live tasks from Kongen Befaler that I wouldn't mind if UK borrows, one of which I'm about to detail: There are 5 keys hidden in around the garden (a fake little garden set up on stage), the smallest is worth 5, then descending to the giant key only worth 1. You have X minutes (1 or 2, I can't remember) to pick a key, once you select a key you cannot look for another and have to keep your key. This was fun because it meant all the contestants could win points but there might be a fight for a low number if you wanted to be sure of any points at all.

this last three episodes has the most egregious scorring in 15 seasons. I'm so pissed off with the show right now. Seems Greg is doing everything to give Mae and Jenny points for absolutly no reason, then that final task. The most Ivo and Frankie could have possibly gotten was 5 points or 0 points, while the other team could get 10. Just ridiculous.

I felt it was really unfair to have such a big swing in a task. Hopefully later in the series there’s an equally big swing the other way.

"So dark!" Yeh, that's Frankie....👀🤷‍♂️😂😂😂💜

The fake something was a creative task, but somehow so much better than when NZ or Aus does one.

As a possible future stream suggestion with some Taskmaster NZ alumni - not sure if it works as a long-term stream, but may be fun as a one-or-two-off - Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee is *significantly* better than the sum of its parts

My least favourite episode for a long while. For some reason the music memory task really irked me and the scoring of the last task was egregious. Neither Ivo nor Frankie deserve to be, in effect, knocked back 10 points though zero points for the spoon task was fair enough.

I feel like for fake something I would have tried to forge a painting

I don't know how the lady who bought the scratchcard can be considered Britain's luckiest person. They said she'd won £70,000 worth of prizes since 2012, but there are plenty of people who win more that that every single day, what with all the various lotteries, tv competitions, bookmakers, casinos etc. Being lucky would be winning big in the first competition you enter, not entering hundreds (possibly thousands) of competitions to win small in a handful of them.

I couldn't unhear the Mickey Mouse-ness of Mae's high pitched voice after it was pointed out.

This is the first time I've ever figured out the twist. As soon as the team of 3 were told to guess the number of items, I started screaming at the TV, "Look in the birthday card!" I was so proud of myself. Then I was ticked off that the team got 10 points. Really unfair.

Frankie & Ivo sounding like the Stotts 🤣🥰

Yeah, the stage task would've been much fairer if the losing team had to guess the number and were awarded the 5 points rather than an additional 5 points totalling 10. The team of 3 had an obvious advantage with 2 people stuffing things in at once, so obviously they would win. Giving Frankie and Ivo the chance to reclaim some points would've made way more sense.

I need to know what the object on your shelf is that looks like an x-wing pilot being suspended by his waist is, it intrigues me.🤔

Enjoyed this one , the ten pointer was a nice twist . The beauty of Taskmaster is you don't have to win it for contestants to raise their profile and win new fans , the ten week format gives everyone a chance to show their personality. Some good tasks this week .

I think the live task wouldn't seem so unfair if there hadn't been the double points element. A ten point gap on one task seems over the top.

the spoons in the kitchen weren't magnetic

Yeh you NEED to dig into Frankie,we definitely need to see some of your reactions to his stand up comedy....👀👌🏻😂💜

Yeah, having a task with such a big swing that’s entirely reliant on the performance of one team was bad task design. If they had to do it from memory, perhaps - but giving them time to *count*?

Lord knows what was happening with that live task. Maybe they're making the episode wins more even.....? Ivo was really fun and funny at the end though, with his attempted sabotage and the "provocative" wiggling 🤣🤣

I have been enjoying this season so far, the contestants have all been great. Regarding the last task, I thought the mechanics of it were fine, it just shouldn't have been such a large swing. + or - 5 would have worked great. I don't know why they decided to make it +10 or -5.

Question: did the team of three have the birthday card in their trolley? Because if not, that is a pretty decent helping hand to the otherwise disadvantaged team of two... An alternative could have been to remove a few things from Frankie's trolley, so he had fewer things to stuff and more space to do it.

Ivo & Ed Gamble pointed out on the Taskmaster Podcast that Greg scored Ivo on the fake Mummy, whereas the intent was that it wasn't Ivo so the whole thing was a fake.

I just finished the episode, myself, omg I haven't laughed that hard in a bit! The secondary Live task was bogus, counting isn't hard, Cold/Hot Reading is BS so I am not sure it should count as faking something because the act itself is fake, faking doing something fake counts as faking? I am still just weeping at the voices!

Have you seen LOL: Canada, Neil?

That last task scoring system is so fucked. 5 points for the team of 2 but 10 for the team of 3 when they had it easier? Losers also get 0? Instantly eliminated the team of 2 from the competition for the rest of the series. RIP their motivations

I just binged the first 5 episodes today so now watching your reactions....honestly I'm so angry about the live task I can't watch the rest just now. How is it fair to have two people putting stuff in the waders vs just one? Of course they were going to finish first. Then they get another 5 points for counting to 29 in 60 seconds 😅 I just hope this was done because Ivo and Frankie did so well in the rest of the team tasks they decided to try and make the series interesting with this clear favouritism. Of course it could be for other reasons.

Getting the spoons from the kitchen wouldn't have worked as they were all non-magnetic

I think that the 10 points score’s was correct. As you say, the team of 2 could’ve count easier, even while putting the thing’s in the trousers and by a team of three it’s more than 73% chance of making a mistake. They may have some advantage by putting things in, but then you have no clue how much the other person has put in. There ware 2 tasks, 1 put in the trousers and the 2 how much, so 2 times 5. Ivo wants to sabotage Frankie [i get that impression].

Notification Squad engage!

I'll go out on a limb and say that one or more members of the 3 person team performed poorly in subsequent tasks and they decided they needed a thumb on the scale under the mercy rule...

I'm with you on that, I think that final task was just too many points, Ivo stitched himself and Frankie up for some unknown on the task before, but that final one was jus a stitch up 🤦🏻‍♂️😑💜

One idea for the solo band task is thar you can knock over one of the lights that are in reach, that way you have one less option in the sequence

Also Mae was a fake medium...but they are all fake. So if you aren't a real medium you aren't faking it. DQ 😅

i have a theory about this high score. alex keeps complaining that greg gives to many points when he cant decide and insisting that it always should add up to 5 points given out in teamtasks not 4 for both and 15 in solo tasks not more..soo..i think this was his revenge or just his adapting to the inflated taskmaster points economy :P

Some hilarious moments this episode and the spoon task in particular is a terrible but very funny tragedy. Poor ivo is his own and fankies worst enemy i think he just needs a hug. The longer the show goes on the more ivo and frankie do feel like a father son team where they are not that close but the father is trying yet a little disappointed. The final task though was awful i think it is the worst one (or at least one of) they have ever done, it seemed unbalanced to begin with since two people sorting is far better than one person but then to have the utter nonsense of the guessing task which the team of two has absolutely no control over and then that can make it a ten point swing that is madness.

The first episode of TASKMASTER I've actually hated. The show has often seemed to be scale-tipping (particularly against those who start strong and in aid of those who start less well), but that live-task was just the most egregious and hideously unfair instance of that scale-tipping the show has ever indulged in. The episode itself was pretty mediocre up until that point, but, damn, that live-task genuinely angered me. It's stupid, I know, as even Ivo didn't make much of it on the podcast, but the unfairness of it really pissed me off.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of any challenger in this show or elsewhere that is not competitive. I'll explain. Frankie and Ivo had to stand and watch for the second half of the last task. That's not competitive as they are basically doing nothing but hoping the others fail. They don't have a chance to defend or fight back. Imagine if soccer was like that. one team had to stay off the pitch while the other team had 5 seconds to get the ball from one end to the other and if they did they would win and it's game over. Not only that but they'd get double the points for winning than the other team would get if they lost. I'm crap at explaining things. Hope I made sense.

As viewer the inconsistent scoring with huge gap are all part of the entertainment. However if for some unfathomable reason I found myself competing I’d be well and truly miffed. Edit to add, because I need to get this thought out of my head: There seems to be a thing of the male comedians over 45 getting their tops off, Taskmaster could probs make a calendar if they wanted to.

Ivo cannot help sabotaging Frankie's chance of winning an episode...

I agree with your analysis. Was not impressed by the team tasks this episode.

You're late. *taps watch disapprovingly*

there's a reason the UK version is so popular

oh, please do watch some more frankie boyle.