Hide the Aubergine from Alex 🍆🍆🍆 | Full Task | Taskmaster

From series 9, Hide the Aubergine from Alex... 🍆🍆🍆
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.

[@MrMischiefter]

I'd have chucked one out the window. You'd be disqualified, but making Alex search for hours for an aubergine that wasn't there would be worth it

[@Sillimant_]

chuck half of one out, and make the other two and a half fairly obvious

[@MsHojat]

Great idea. Although I'm far too benevolent and competitive to do it personally, but I'm sure someone else could have been up for it.

[@Sillimant_]

@@MsHojat Romesh feels like he would do something like that

[@SamWatsonOrSomething]

This would 100% have been a Rhod Gilbert move

[@SilverEye91]

You might get a bonus point though!

[@darcybhaiwala7057]

The absolute comedic timing of that aubergine as Alex points to it! Gold

[@yuki97kira]

It looks like its straight put of a sitcom

[@angiki9988]

That aubergine is funnier than I could ever hope to be.

[@SophieMunchkin]

The aubergine was a paid actor

[@whatsinaname7289]

IKR? That aubergine is a paid actor!

[@ytisfulloffreaks4189]

It's scripted asf, takes ages to edit, and people like u over indulge and lap it up like queefs...

[@floataway3]

When Alex starting asking if there were any in this corner of the room, I really wish someone had snapped back "All of the information is on the task" just to serve it back to him a bit.

[@deveshkumar-vm7bb]

Ohh man it would have been gold.

[@ngwoo]

"Why did it fall off when I pointed at it" He was immediately imagining some kind of elaborate aubergine boobytrap in the room

[@holmesw25]

This was a prime opportunity for one of them to tell Alex that "all of the information can be found in the task".

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[@robertsingleton9217]

Gotta love Ed's brilliance in taunting Alex so he gets flustered, I think it genuinely threw him off!

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[@XD152awesomeness]

I’m surprised nobody trashed the room. A dirty room is always more difficult to find things in

[@ku8721]

That was my first thought too... even before reading the task

[@barbarasmith2693]

Chalk that up to them all being polite British people who have some respect and compassion for the crew ( who would ultimately have to clean the mess up).

[@Banana900000]

@@barbarasmith2693 Quiet

[@ryanjohndavies4092]

Trash the room and just leave the aubergines on the table

[@peterclarke7240]

@@barbarasmith2693 I seem to remember Bob Mortimer having no such concerns during the "make a huge mess and tidy it up" task. He is wired a little differently than most people, though...

[@barnaclefelching4079]

If Rhod had been given this task,I think we could guess where at least one of them would have gone

[@turdferguson7264]

Down Alex's throat like that jug of hot coffee did? 😂

[@Matt_Rose]

In Greg’s Mum?

[@eilidh5596]

Like Joe Wilkinson with the pineapple?

[@rachelcookie321]

Where?

[@keithmaclennan1932]

@@rachelcookie321 Greg's bed

[@Ginric99]

Makes you think that the first person to hide them had an advantage as each person in turn found more and more hiding places

[@Dilmahkana]

If David was first, it really does not matter.

[@rachelcookie321]

They could of but it seemed all the odd hiding spaces they used, none of them used the same spot. So I don’t think there was really any advantage.

[@Ginric99]

@@Dilmahkana I mean they could have all tried hiding them down his trousers ;)

[@littlemisspipebomb4723]

I believe they do some dry runs with staff first, to make sure the task is completable/fun/etc so I imagine Alex got enough of an idea through that that it didn't really affect much

[@Dilmahkana]

@@littlemisspipebomb4723 that's so fun and smart!

[@bugbear2357]

I'd have pulled an Osmand and argued that "hide the aubergines in this room" can be interpreted as "hide the aubergines which are in this room" and chucked one out the window

[@thatotherchannel7945]

Smart!!

[@ASHERUISE]

I can't believe he found the eggplants in David's pants and tummy so quickly after suddenly developing magical powers like rats that would have been my tactic.

[@alexabreu1502]

The instructions stated "Hide three aubergines in this room". Your interpretation would be invalid.

[@Contreth1313]

​@@alexabreu1502yeah hide 3 whatever it is in this room the 3 whatever it is were in that room so now you just need to hide them

[@boyo7918]

​@@alexabreu1502It's definitely a lot less ambiguous but I still think it can technically be interpreted as "hide three aubergines that are in this room"

[@Jellywife]

Never has there been a better quote from taskmaster than when Alex proclaims “nobergines”

[@lazarus2691]

I don't understand why you'd hide multiple Aubergines together??? Even if you hide one in a good spot and the other two in really bad spots, that still buys you more time than just the good spot by itself.

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[@antenant9294]

The only reason I can think of- and it's not a good one- is psychological. If you've already found 1 or 2, you know you've nearly finished. If you haven't managed to find ANY yet, it preys on your mind. Tactics for playing hide and seek.... But i know it's not a good enough reason.

[@DanTheMan2150AD]

Ed Gamble was an absolute legend of this series. Have to admire his *dedication*

[@SoSo-li6dn]

**desperation,

[@petgoose32]

DEDICATION,@@SoSo-li6dn !

[@andreasbjorkman1168]

You mean Egg Gamble?

[@mannmctrash]

I admire that he was competitive but still able to laugh about his bad performances. Unlike competitors like Iain Sterling and Tim Key, who argued with every decision and sulked when they failed.

[@SoSo-li6dn]

@@mannmctrash I think Tim Key set the precidence for outthinking the task in the first series. He works for the show now. But yeah Ian Sterling was just aggressively competitive without any hint of irony.

[@TetraDax]

That sellotape had great comedic timing

[@thedayhopeworldbroketheint7669]

Heh I thought the same thing

[@benglaser1345]

3:01 in retrospect, him checking in the baby's head so early is a sign that Jo went after Ed

[@mariograsso2628]

Alex at 5:49: "So far, Naubergines." Brilliant.

[@kisbie]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Alex came up with that first and built the task around it.

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[@Colaman112]

In a Finnish adaptation of this, a contestant asked the camera crew to stuff them in their pants and the judge never found them.

[@AnEnormousNerd]

That's actually brilliant, that is.

[@leee777]

This channel single-handedly balances my seratonin levels.

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[@rrrreidlin]

i really do enjoy the tasks where it's alex vs the contestants :D and alex has to frantically run around (this, and the find alex and hit him with a ball task)

[@Dreadelicious]

The comedic timing of the aubergine falling when Alex pointed at it is amazing

[@gabrielblack4744]

It's so rair to see Alex laugh as a judge, when he's a contestant he's a whole new person

[@user-zm1tv9yu9l]

7:18 i can hear james acaster so much in this

[@bigrandomun9267]

David should’ve cut all the aubergine up into little pieces and put them all over the room. He had the knife, he just couldn’t be bothered.

[@gracebevill]

No-one let the side down this series. Even the less competent, like Jo and David, were hilarious in their incompetence! Nice balance of personalities and fantastic tasks as always!

[@Ryanrulesok]

Is that a aubergine, or are you just happy to see Alex?

[@ArianaCapraro]

5:34 the look on his face 😂😂😂 *That’s not an aubergine* so smug 🤣

[@fedos]

"Although you'd have to eat a significant amount of raw eggplant for the effects to be lethal, Glatter said eating raw eggplant can still lead to nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea."

[@turdferguson7264]

When Taskmaster does weird, it really does weird!! One of the best shows on TV.

[@barnaclefelching4079]

Or so the Germans would have us believe

[@turdferguson7264]

@@barnaclefelching4079 Good to make your acquaintance fellow Norm fan!! 😁

[@barnaclefelching4079]

@@turdferguson7264 "Norman Gene Macdonald was a friend of mine, but he was no Liberace" G.Gottfried C 1942 I've never heard of Norm, I think you're telling tales out of school there Tommy.

[@turdferguson7264]

@@barnaclefelching4079 You know, with this Putin fella.....the more I learn about him, the more I don’t care for him.

[@AshleySef08]

@@turdferguson7264 He sounds like a real jerk.

[@KyninhaH]

This was the task that hooked me onto Taskmaster and I’ve since bought and binged all of the seasons. More please, thank you 🙏

[@wyattrichard9399]

For me it was the one where they had to hide the pineapple

[@KyninhaH]

@@wyattrichard9399 yeah, I’m a big fan of the tasks involving hiding. Usually good. Also, relatable.

[@rachelcookie321]

This is my first time seeing this task. I thought I had seen all the ones they had uploaded on KZbin before, where did you see it?

[@KyninhaH]

@@rachelcookie321 I think I saw it on an unofficial KZbin channel that was recommended to me by the algorithm. And then I started watching the official Taskmaster channel.

[@obesus787]

Look at miss big spender over here buying seasons and shit

[@Jabberkong]

9:10 How?!? That's immaculate timing and it's almost unbelievable that a camera was recording when he points at it and it just drops 😳 A witch!!!

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

This made me realize how fun it would be to see Alex do tasks

[@angiki9988]

If ever I need to convince someone to watch this show, this is the task I will show them.

[@GuidoHaverkort]

"So far... nobergines" Underrated joke😂

[@matthewevans3543]

Ed was the highlight of this series

[@pi4t651]

I wonder if there were any more aubergines available in the fridge. The task says to hide three aubergines, and make Alex take as long as possible to find those aubergines. If you got a fourth aubergine, and held it behind your back or hung it in the window or something but specified it wasn't one of the three you were hiding, then Alex would spot it and think he was done after finding only two of the real aubergines.

[@lizcollinson2692]

Oh Jo should have played harder at demonstrating that she hadn't hidden it in her, Alex would have been so uncomfortable.

[@johndolan9859]

Hearing Katy Wix say “fuck sake” is quite lovely

[@OMGSHEENA]

I would have taped atleast part of one to the bottom of the table, task master style. Maybe left a clue somewhere in the room so that he felt silly for not finding it after 🤣

[@Tristyn_Waterman]

stomping it flat and hiding it under the rug was really clever, but putting the other two in the same spot was her downfall i think

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"You've eaten half an eggplant?!" *Alex reacts like a cat*

[@raptorjesus3894]

I wonder how viable of a strategy barricading the door would have been.

[@Andjelka99]

This task along with Alex hide and seek in s4 was what got first recommended to me and what got me into Taskmaster

[@SoggyBiscuits1000]

9:12 the magic finger!!!!!!!!!

[@ThisIsMeUK]

Ed never disappoints!!!

[@deannicaross1917]

it would have been amazing if someone had eaten all of them so that Alex was looking for aubergines that were no longer there, or if they had cut them all up and stuck them in all of those tiny draws

[@djmab1981]

how can you not fall in love with this show... its simply perfect!

[@aPol.01]

I remember watching this whilst tripping BALLS. There's something about Ed Gamble that makes my reality break down a little bit.

[@SensationalBanana]

This was such an awesome team of contestants!

[@rajivsiddharth]

When Alex asked question somebody should have said "All the information you need is in the card" and handed him the envelope

[@Idasofie99]

This is in my top 5 task of all time 🤩

[@medievalist]

Absolutely love series 9, and this task is one of the best :)

[@dave.004]

many many months later I have decided that I would have found a blender and made the aubergines into a smoothie

[@Wriskitall]

KZbin apparently demands that I rewatch this multiple times.. It’s been the fifth or so recommended video on my home feed all day. I wonder how many other people rewatch these clips every few weeks or so

[@ShinyHubCaps]

Why is this re-uploaded? This was the first task I saw on Taskmaster! Got me hooked about a year ago.

[@Mmmbop0987]

I think this is my all time favourite task. The season one potato throw or Nish’s basket ball chip are close though

[@saramacdonald410]

This is the clip that introduced me to Taskmaster. Now have seen all the seasons twice

[@Kauffy901]

I watched all of Taskmaster in a rush at the beginning of the pandemic-- I thought I might not have enough time to watch all of it. Lulz.

[@danniantagonist]

I feel that I definitely need to know if David suffered any, uh, distress, by eating the forbidden fruit! Need to find the episode.....

[@Sillimant_]

none at all. supposedly you would need to eat 36 raw aubergines for it to kill you

[@tylisirn]

Raw eggplants aren't actually poisonous, they are just thoroughly disgusting. Very bitter and woody.

[@lred1383]

@@tylisirn makes you wonder what was going through the minds of the people who first started cultivating it

[@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287]

​@@lred1383A lot of things are gross before cooking it.

[@scruffyronin9382]

To date, this is by far my favorite task. Purely because we got to see Alex go mad while looking.

[@kyleandrews3911]

The trick is to physically block Alex from searching. Wrestle him to the ground if you have to.

[@dmgroberts5471]

None of them took the opportunity to say "all the information is in the Task, Alex."

[@satalia]

Need more Task Master. A lot more.

[@NorMarkus]

Aaahh, yet another re-upload... Keep it up!

[@ems7623]

I'd rather play "hide the aubergine" WITH Alex.

[@TomHanrahan]

Stupid idea but ask the production crew for more aubergines, hide the ones you were given and leave the new ones in plain view.

[@Sunprism]

It looked like Alex was so shocked by David eating half a raw aubergine that he was just walking out of the room

[@Shiyaroku4869]

This show brings me so much joy and I don't even know any of these people!

[@alvareznivek2780]

smoothly sounds good right now brb

[@shaharzamir88]

"alex come in please" proceeds to tie him down

[@MiyaGeorginaJoi]

That aubergine falling off the portrait was a paid actor.

[@ImpossibleCakePro]

8:52 "There! Now it's *art*!"

[@kisbie]

Was Alex making a KLF reference with Baddiel’s intro? He will always carry a vague whiff of the early 90s about him.

[@HaydenLau.]

The best approach would have been a hybrid of Jo's and David's. Smash all three aubergines and eat a small amount. Hide another small amount in your pants or your shoes. Gather up the rest and arrange them into two piles. Hide the two piles in obvious places. Alex would find the two piles thinking he'd only found 2, but he'd never find the last bits.

[@videogamegang1797]

IMO just use the cubbies on the right wall - Probably put two bits of aubergine in there, the rest hidden around the room.

[@Jadynelsworthy]

NEED MORE HIDE THE ‘THING’ FROM ALEX!!!!

[@jembozaba4864]

i'd have used that secret compartment in the bookshelf.

[@thebusiness8212]

Print off three pictures of an aubergine, and hide those. The others would have complained that it’s not actually an aubergine, but you would get bonus points for creativity.

[@Dkurza]

"Youve eaten half an aubergine??" "RAW??!?!?" Bloody brilliant

[@grants7390]

I'm surprised not one of them considered putting it up themselves

[@whatsinaname7289]

9:14 the timing was PERFECT!

[@Charles-wu3hw]

putting the aubergine with the fake fruit so great

[@Ixarus6713]

Flatten one down and stuff it down your pants- oh, I just got up to the pants bit.

[@Ixarus6713]

On revision, cut them all up into tiny, mostly flat pieces then tape those pieces to the insides of pull-out objects, the top at the back of the inside of drawers, on the bottom of the rug, and under a bunch of other objects + make it look like I just trashed the room and then hide them in it tactically, piling heavy furniture on top. Then for added measure, add two pieces to my pants, and one to my shoe and sit down, get up and walk around mocking Alex to top it all off.

[@alihughes3728]

Nah but you're at a significant disadvantage if you're the last to do the task cos Alex would already know most the hiding places & where people commonly hide the aubergines.

[@thesephisloth1886]

That portrait of Gregg makes them look like Rolf Harris

[@BB8enjoyer]

splat them, put em in one of those hundred books. job done

[@GhostBear3067]

Except for one small blue book those are all fake.

[@citizen..X]

Slice Aubergines up, lift corner of carpet, place slices of Aubergine under, replace carpet. You would have to be very sharp-eyed to notice a slightly uneven carpet in the far corner of the room.

[@3lttlbrds]

Ed Gamble 😂👏

[@RHTQ1]

If I ever try this, I think I'd be giving each location a hearty look around before opening the letter. Im surprised that ripping them into pieces counted as making Alex look for said pieces, rather than finding one piece counted that fruit.

[@grahamgill9685]

Sort of surprised that nobody left the room to get anything to make the task easier. The aubergines had to be hidden in there but it didn't say you couldn't leave the room. Something like liquifying the aubergines in a blender would have made them easier to conceal in a small area. Although I do realize them being old and dry may have complicated that tactic. Also, I guess if Alex had to leave the room but was still in the house he'd have clued into that tactic. But at least if you'd liquified the aubergines and poured them behind the bookcase or into one of the plants or the musical instruments on the shelf, you may not have won the task but "Taskmaster" would have had to acquire a new house.

[@annabellej9429]

I'm surprised nobody used the tiny drawers

[@badger5921]

Pretty sure the Aubergine on the portrait was a paid actor.

[@coaiemandushman1079]

i had the same exact idea to squish them and put them all under the rug.

[@DowzerWTP72]

I would've shaved a few small pieces off, hidden them and left the main parts of the aubergines clearly on the table. Mind games 🤣

[@Camnose]

it is endlessly frustrating watching people hide multiple in the same spot

[@valaha]

9:11 that timing was just fucking perfect 🤣🤣🤣

[@jgreen7100]

Could we get a Katy Wix best moments compilation pretty please?

[@heikaishi]

I only just noticed that when he searches jo's aubergines the baby heads are on the table. Which makes me think Ed has done the task before her 😅

[@johncameron4194]

Yup break them apart lol and eat one part

[@tezzasbigbuz3933]

Who does the big art always in the room f ucking awesome

[@kylano525]

The task where contestants were the taskmaster and alex was the contestant

[@djlittell4090]

Fun, safe, and visible.

[@pretentiousname01]

I feel like if she had flattened the aubergine and pushing it under the middle of the carpet would have been better than the edge.