Alex Horne TRICKS Comedians With BIZARRE Task | Taskmaster Series 15 | Channel 4

Taken from Series 15, Episode 6 of Taskmaster, contestants are tasked with hitting a bell with a bowling ball, though only the fastest and slowest of them will receive points.
The comedy game show #Taskmaster, where contestants are challenged by Greg Davies to complete a series of weird and wonderful tasks! Be glad you're not a comedian (or little Alex Horne) facing his wrath.
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[@PiotrPavel]

My interpretation: you could walk on that carpet

[@malenotyalc]

Rightio. Plastic sure is not grass!

[@icturner23]

That’s not just your interpretation but was immediately obviously true. I was flabbergasted that none of them did it. It couldn’t even count as artificial grass - it was cyan rather than green!

[@sorsocksfake]

You can try arguing your case... Greg might allow it. Tactically here, it's a solid option because there's no points in the middle. If you look for shoes, you're likely up against 2-3 others who try to do it fast, so your odds to win would be 25-33%... minus the odds that someone hits it on the first bowl. Just declaring it a carpet is likely a unique move, and you may even beat a hesitant bowler. So then you're just up against Greg's capriciousness, which may well give you higher odds than 30%.

[@Ceruleanst]

This is the only justification for giving Mae the win, wearing only one gold shoe ("You must stay off the grass unless you are wearing the gold shoes"). I suspect they hashed this out but had to cut it for time.

[@globalincident694]

@@Ceruleanst surely under that argument greg gets some points too?

[@Natty11100]

i didnt even notice because they usually say dont step on the red green

[@Jivvi]

Yeah, but that's a green green. That in itself is pretty unusual.

[@krissdev]

Nice red herring with „grass” 😂

[@darthmarticusLFC]

The moment Ivo presented that egg and milk plinth I just knew it was going on the grass.

[@nederlanditisnederlanditis5529]

Alex is a master of exploiting association or halo effects/ mistakes. In this case, the assumption was that candidates will identify grass as the laid out artificial stuff over the tarmac/ concrete area of the yard, and forgetting to consider the natural green bits to be actually grass areas.

[@nederlanditisnederlanditis5529]

Placing himself on the artificial grass pad is kind of diabolical - it drew and focused their attention to that part. "Everything is written in the task" - such a diabolical reply, as well, because of the openness to interpretation if not ambiguity of wordings.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

Just a simple misdirection to make people forget about the actual grass as well. Over the years, the show has very much taken to following the letter of a task as being much more important than the "spirit" of a task. However, when you are filming so many tasks back to back to back, like they actually do when filming this series, it gets easy to forget.

[@WaywardBrigand]

As soon as I read "grass" I knew you could just walk across the carpet thing.

[@jlachlan1]

You and not me both

[@jacobgoldman5780]

This task would be impossible if the turf was considered grass as the pole near Alex and the bell touch it but aren’t golden shoes or the ball. Thus you may go on the turf.

[@EssentialBlue]

Exactly! Alex after he removed his golden shoes didn't move from the turf.

[@delightfulmochas]

@@EssentialBlue I could be wrong but I think in the most recent series, one of the contestants asked Alex a question about his adherence to one of the task's restrictions and he responded "i can do whatever i want"

[@SyBo27]

So let me get this straight. Could they literally just have walked over to the bell right away without worrying about the shoes? Or did they consider the green turf as grass aswell?

[@DocFunkenstein]

The word "turf" refers to grass, artificial or otherwise.

[@mb4197]

I would say yes because the green is not grass.

[@DocFunkenstein]

@@mb4197 Except it is. It's just artificial grass. Turf = grass. They're effectively synonyms, with turf being the broader--not more specific--term.

[@taylorfaucett7187]

@@DocFunkenstein But the task doesn't mention turf. It only mentions grass. As long as they didn't touch the grass, I'm pretty sure touching the turf is ok.

[@peterclarke7006]

They could have, but they'd have had to convince Greg that it was a valid interpretation, so it comes down to whether you're prepared to risk his capriciousness and, potentially, fury. 😂

[@British_Rogue]

Grass Vs AstroTurf.

[@goooys4173]

0:07 Jack Frost

[@cazzabojangles]

omfg

[@josephchambers2000]

They do a bit yes.

[@MsZandiX]

This show made me wanna be a fly in Ivo's everyday life. He seems to live with such severe anxiety

[@petesmart1983]

One of the best casts

[@anotheruserism]

I'm happy to admit I didn't get it till the end!

[@happivaras]

9 points 🥇😂👍😂👍🥇👍🥇😂

[@Dim4323]

Yeah Frankie boyle shoes arnt golden

[@randyastle3301]

They sure go overboard with their production lately. That astroturf goes all the way to the caravan for absolutely no reason except that I'm sure it made the crew happy it was so ridiculous. And the fans.

[@DashCamSheffield]

They ALL should have failed, as the 'keep off the grass' sign and the bell itself were touching the grass, which weren't included the 'anything other then the bowling ball or gold shoes' list. Ivo also failed when Alex's socks/feet AND the podium touched the grass.

[@billymays9296]

They didn't place those there though. That's not how the show works... "Oh sorry, we placed something on there so you all failed".

[@DrugsAreBadUmmmKay]

That wasn't grass. It was a carpet. Technically they all could have walked on it regardless of what color their shoes were.