Alex Horne's Elaborate Lunch Notification System! | Would I Lie To You?

Alex Horne: "Five years ago, I spent a whole week building an elaborate contraption just so my wife can let me know when lunch is ready.
From Would I Lie to You? Series 14 Episode 7.
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[@barbeerian]

Design a notification system for this shed. The notification must be initiated from the back door of the house. Most elaborate contraption wins. Your time starts now.

[@WClarkson]

Brilliant

[@DavidOfWhitehills]

Cheating but, texting via satellites. Humans have not constructed any contraption so elaborate as the internet and ethernet + satellites. So far. Is there a prize for being the most boring but the most right?

[@BombasticSideEye786]

Forgot to include... 'you have twenty minutes'

[@duprod5482]

Potatogun

[@Showmetheevidence-]

😂classic!

[@dazlock4491]

WILTY fans: that makes no sense! Tasmaster fans: that makes total sense!

[@gracebonifabulous]

that's exactly what I said when they made a ruckus.

[@imogens7281]

​@@gracebonifabulous You just made me think of Bob Mortimer (tbf also Wu-Tang clan but they're not related to TM or WILTY so, shh) and his wonderful madness. "At last, we are free to skateboard without causing a rumpus!"

[@user-xd1cm9vu9s]

my exact thoughts

[@TechBaffle]

It's almost like Alex sets up his own strange tasks at home 😂

[@whateverppl1229]

oh god imagine the role play. oh god, I can't unsee it

[@TechBaffle]

@@whateverppl1229 with a cardboard cut out of Greg Davies 😂

[@ItsMeMattyB]

“I would like to build a series of interconnected pipes from the house down to the shed at the bottom of the yard” “Why?” “So when you make lunch you can put a golf ball in there to let me know lunch is ready” “Yeah righto” This is the marriage I want

[@iamdb1990]

Alex is perfect for this, naturally awkward so anything comes across as a lie lol

[@KickassUncle]

But they believed him.

[@nagualdesign]

And he's not awkward at all.

[@ex0stasis72]

@@nagualdesign Maybe it just seems that way because his character on Taskmaster is a subordinate of Greg who gets belittled all the time. (But really he's an executive producer of the whole show)

[@invisiblekid99]

Lee is legendary quick, but cone on David's comeback to AJ's "peak boredom" was fantastic.

[@MISNM0]

Same thought

[@WillGeorgeRockett]

Alex reads the cards like it’s a taskmaster challenge.

[@ellekay4758]

It gives me SO MUCH joy knowing where Little Alex Horne writes his brilliance!!!!

[@billyeveryteen7328]

He built an elaborate contraption for lunch, at which point he and Gromit have some Wensleydale cheese.

[@dannykent6190]

Porridge today... Tuesday.

[@spork24601]

I can believe that he wouldn't bring a phone or clock of any kind to his shed because sometimes it's nice to write with zero distractions around.

[@Alexand3ry]

I can believe he built all this because he preferred the distraction of making it to writing!

[@rhas356]

@@Alexand3ry While being able to tell himself that it was Taskmaster-esque!

[@Marklovesdrama]

I was convinced this was a lie, as it would be much easier for someone to text him.

[@a_wild_Kirillian]

​​​@@Marklovesdrama, some people don't like having phones when they write exactly because it's so easy to get distracted by them: someone writes a message or you get on the internet to check something and get lost in researching.

[@Marklovesdrama]

@@a_wild_Kirillian That is a good point.

[@matthewbowers88]

There's this show in aware of where contestants have to build contraptions like this to solve tasks. He'd be good on it.

[@adils786]

Why on Earth would he ever appear in Robot Wars?

[@AJP0987654321]

Love how Joel Dummett doesn’t seem at all interested by this story, and then suddenly perks up at the mention of a metal bin lid 2:15

[@cix8836]

This story was so Alex Horne it just had to be true

[@ab-oh6zb]

1:30 observe the first time Lttle Alex Horne has used a conventional measurement

[@jk9554]

What's 60 meters in Baked beans?

[@ThatCoalSoul]

* Little *

[@ab-oh6zb]

@@ThatCoalSoul oh thanks mate, I didn't know how to spell little

[@Nihaas]

Rob was so quick with that "decline" counter

[@MitchCyan]

It’s Little Alex Horne!

[@CS-pi5oc]

I have no idea how he comes up with so many tasks for the Taskmaster. He’s amazing plus he participates. He has swallowed tea aft another person spat it into a cup. He ate dog food. I’ve seen his butt more than I saw my husbands.

[@theparanoidandroid3583]

Do you sleep in a different room to your husband? 😂

[@TCM_Hutchie]

@@theparanoidandroid3583 Yeah, and she lets him know when it's sexy time using an elaborate golf ball and pipe system

[@AAAJZA]

@@TCM_Hutchie don't forget the hose

[@hopperelec]

60 meters?? That's longer than my entire street! Then 8 meters is thinner than my own garden...

[@danielreed5199]

If he had soup for lunch everyday he wouldn't need a ball.

[@hunyesmith03]

A string attached to a bell going through a PVC pipe would be brilliant in that circumstance.

[@a_wild_Kirillian]

But it's easier to roll a ball through the pipe than to get a string through it

[@lavatr8322]

thats actually entertaining to do this keep doing things in life...be it silly... coz it keeps your life lively and memorable

[@ShakeyBox]

Lee: That's sadly how my wife Died. David: 🤣

[@danniantagonist]

Oh that is *so* Alex! 🥰🥰

[@rrahmanov]

I think the show is going fine XD I died

[@mohammadazzam4729]

I don't understand this task

[@1sameerchowdhury]

All the information he needs is on the card

[@ddtsnorter3656]

The task is to send the ball back through the pipe without using magic.

[@bea._.3565]

@@ddtsnorter3656or camera trickery

[@zanderman004]

60 meter garden is an actual micro trek! That's enormously long for a garden. haha!

[@susanhuntley9262]

Im so sorry I missed this episode

[@johndenverfan]

Alex Is Brilliant

[@medievalist]

It's peak Little Alex Horne, so I knew it was true!

[@Ed.Mantle]

David's wave @ 2:55 "...anyway..."

[@blackdragoncyrus]

I can't believe Lee Mack's wife got crushed by a giant snowball.

[@marcosrattenbury6944]

Didnt know Graham Potter would be so good on WILTY

[@hampstersquared]

All the information is on the task

[@SangaPommike]

Is it me or does it look like the actual pipe runs in the neighbour's garden?

[@billyeveryteen7328]

All the information was on the card.

[@danmayberry1185]

Now make a pasty without using your hands and feed it to me through this pringles container.

[@gracebonifabulous]

I mean, from what I've seen from fifteen seasons of Taskmaster, He has lots of ridiculous ways of doing very simple things.

[@shalomjacobs7909]

I thought it was true when he said it was a writing shed. Because a lot of writers turn off their phone and notifications etc when they’re writing

[@Mumbles274]

I once map a contraption with marbles and card and bits of fishing line that opened a crappy latch on my bedroom door!! Proper Rube Goldberg... I was only 16... it was the 90s, we didn't have phones

[@vojtechjanda9684]

When I read "it was the 90s" I fully expected it to turn into a Henning Wehn joke and how you did something outrageously unbelievable back then.

[@liloupumpkin5278]

@@vojtechjanda9684 Back in the 90s...

[@Mumbles274]

@@vojtechjanda9684 we still read books!!!

[@Mumbles274]

@@vojtechjanda9684 I love Henning Wehn btw

[@billyeveryteen7328]

When I was in high school, my history teacher, instead of giving us a written final class exam since we had all done a bunch of college entrance exams/etc, had us each build a Rube Goldberg device as a final project. The only two rules/stipulations were that it had to consist of at least three different "elements"/moving parts, and that it had to perform a mundane task. I used a tube with a marble that rolled and offset a scale with a lit candle, which burned and severed nylon string that was holding open a rat trap with a kitchen knife attached that ultimately cut a sandwich in half.

[@c0mputer]

I agree, that’s a decline.

[@TenOrbital]

She should ring a little bell.

[@user-xd1cm9vu9s]

i think he’d do really well on this show called Taskmaster, idk

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Where is the full episodes of new seasons?????😢

[@mygaffer]

When was little Alex Horn on WILTY?

[@BeaverIAB]

In this episode.

[@robotikempire]

I wonder how he tells her when he's prepared lunch.

[@nagualdesign]

He says, "Lunch is ready".

[@rebeccataylor6885]

Alex hasn't been allowed to prepare food since the time he made cheesy pasta for the kids and they all vomited

[@petejones879]

I really thought it was a lie

[@-JA-]

👍🙂

[@JB_inks]

And when his soup is ready she just pours it down the pipe

[@CrashSable]

Like his wife is taking the time to make his lunch while taking care of the 16 kids

[@Chalky29]

Just have lunch at 1pm every day mate

[@frydenland]

That was not 60 meters. _Maybe_ 15.

[@acelilumelody4445]

So its not an elaborate contraption is just a massive bit of guttering

[@timbylander7015]

Rube Goldberg would be proud.

[@KryCaNe]

No folks. Not double entendres.

[@TimesFM4532]

Mean a string tied to a can would work

[@thekingoffailure9967]

Could blow in the wind and trigger false alarms

[@ianitor]

Alex has a she-shed?

[@mikeyk212]

I remember when this program was funny.

[@BrianHurry]

You should have made it bigger so she could just slide your lunch down to you

[@SamyTheSheep]

Lee Mack copying jokes for life 💙

[@timbylander7015]

It is a decline.

[@OmnipotentPotato]

First time seeing him without a suit. Looks unnatural

[@punkdigerati]

Yeah... Directional wifi antenna or even Ethernet would have been so much more useful.

[@dinguslopper]

But also not as fun! Who cares?!

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

??? This is old... Show something New please 😢

[@fitzfitzchivalry4538]

Never thought Alex would be racist but here we are.

[@KerriEngland]

…. Point me to when that happened?

[@DonoVideoProductions]

Huh?

[@fitzfitzchivalry4538]

@KerriEngland please, we just gonna act like nothing happened? Lol white privilege at its finest 🙄

[@sakumisan]

what?

[@rachelcookie321]

When was he racist?