More Taskmaster, and some meme answers

[hamsterwoman]

I'm continuing to mainline Taskmaster, to the exclusion of any other entertainment content. (I think I've figured out my sudden narrative allergy -- it's because all of the stressful things at work involve crafting a narrative out of a bunch of data and figuring out how it all goes together, so I think the fiction-synthesizing part of my brain and

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[hamsterwoman]

Are you going to continue going backwards with Taskmaster?

I thought I was just going to continue backwards, but as I got to the last episode of series 4, the next one YouTube had cued up was the first episode of series 1, so I started with that. I'm not finding it *as* fun as the first three series I watched -- they're pretty clearly still figuring things out, so it's less wild, and fewer of the contestants are working for me (I am finding Josh and Tim entertaining, though), but I might as well go through it in this order, I guess.

I'm glad to know I'm not alone in feeling Hugh didn't get the recognition he deserved! I know what you mean about Greg finding one contestant to pick on, but I found it funnier in series 5, where that role was at least split between Nish and Mark somewhat, and also they both had funnier reactions to it -- Hugh was just kind of stoic throughout.

but I'm sure I've posted pictures or videos of him before. I went to see a live show of his in 2016. :)

Oh yeah, probably you going to the live show is what I'm remembering :)

The complete contrast between calm cooperation and complete chaos and active hindering is just brilliant. XD

YESS, exactly! So hilarious!

I would say series 12 has the cohort vibe too, they were all really friendly with each other. :)

Oh, nice! I'll look forward to getting to it eventually, then :)

And heee! thank you for the gulf stream WILTY link -- that was indeed very funny! (and extremely implausible, haha, especially the way Bob told it.)

[qwentoozla]

Yeah, I feel the same about series 1, they hadn't quite hit their stride yet and the contestants didn't work for me quite as well either. I do really like Tim though.

That's so true about Nish and Mark, the way they both reacted to being picked on was very funny.

All of Bob's stories are incredibly implausible whether they're true or not, that's the joy of his appearances on WILTY! He always embellishes them by giving all the characters ridiculous names too, haha.

[hamsterwoman]

All of Bob's stories are incredibly implausible whether they're true or not, that's the joy of his appearances on WILTY!

I'm starting to get that sense, haha! Which is kind of what I was expecting anyway, just from the stories he was telling on Taskmaster -- like the ostensible background research for his peeing volume graph.

series 1, they hadn't quite hit their stride yet and the contestants didn't work for me quite as well either.

Yeah. At this point I'm about 2/3 through that series, and it's definitely feeling less fun. I feel like they must have put in a bunch of health & safety boundary conditions afterwards, and also like, common sense boundary conditions, because I feel like the prizes are kind of more extreme, too (or maybe the contestants did not believe that they really would lose the things). Like, I had to look away a couple of times during this series so far, in just the 4 episodes -- towards the end of the watermelon task with Tim and Romesh and when Romesh was rubbing hot sauce into his eyes -- which is not something I ever had to do during the previous 26 episodes I'd watched, so I'm assuming there was an intentional change made by the show to tone stuff like that down some.