Remove the Table Tennis Ball from the Pipe | Full Task | Taskmaster

From series 5, 'Remove the Table Tennis Ball from the Pipe.'
Moving, no touching!
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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.

[@joewhitfield883]

One of my favourite Bob tasks. Doesn't panic, unlike everyone else, just calmly gets on with it whilst coming up with a very funny flight of fancy

[@lokinorsea456]

“D’ya know what I mean?”

[@Aethgeir]

The Hoover was a very good idea though. If only Sally had thought of it sooner.

[@GlassyDusty]

kids who are a bit daft

[@GraemeGunn]

lol flight of fancy

[@XIIIMPC]

So professionally done

[@alexball5907]

I love the way that Alex just goes and gets things for Sally, whereas all the other contestants have to get stuff for themselves.

[@eolsunder]

well doesn't hurt to ask, since there usually aren't any rules that say "you can't get alex to do stuff" most of the time

[@Friendlysociopath]

Sally IIRC openly offers to torture Alex in another task if he doesn't help her. May be relevant.

[@averroes238]

Sometimes people go out by themselves to see if they find something that could spark some new idea

[@coltongentry9988]

Sally moved the tube though

[@CloneJFK]

@@coltongentry9988 Sally certainly moves my tube

[@Kriiispy]

Alex claims not to be allowed a catchphrase but it's probably "All the information is on the task."

[@riley6646]

he mentioned this in an early no more jockeys episode!

[@sillynapalm]

I forget sometimes how quick witted Alex Horne really is. Marvellous.

[@donaldowensiii7478]

Eg: chest tattoo. I was dying😂

[@Alwaysbusking]

Alex S6E7: Its loose at the bottom, at tight at the top..? as mother always sai-- I don't even know what that means?!

[@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741]

Repent to Jesus Christ “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭27:17‬ ‭NIV‬‬ K

[@finlaycraig1810]

He really shines in his own live work. Would highly recommend obviously. His band is excellent too.

[@AJs255]

10:53 look at his face, like wtf are you even on about who cares lol 😆

[@rootkite]

Bob's "I was overwhelmed by the conical shape" is still one of my top favorite quotes from all TM episodes

[@joshholmes1372]

Overcum not overwhelmed 😂

[@zachperez8937]

i think he said comical. "Conical" would imply that it's cone shaped, which it isn't

[@rootkite]

@@zachperez8937 I think it's just a non sequitur ^_^ He's known for them, hehe.

[@zachperez8937]

@@rootkite yeah most likely true lol

[@Hsel-lc1wt]

@@zachperez8937 aren't they called conical flasks?

[@GarthShoemaker]

Put people in front of a camera and all of a sudden they forget how liquids and holes work.

[@belauensus7979]

it’s a real problem in the adult film industry, I’m led to believe!

[@andyt2k]

Actually "not enough liquid" is the issue, if the flow into the pipe exceeds the flow out of it, then the ball will rise, so a hose or bucket would have done it

[@xuklysc]

That said, the pipe could be engendered so that the drainage holes allowing for more volume of output than the volume of input the opening was allowing

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

@@xuklysc Depends on the pressure really

[@Erebos931]

Is there no vacuum in that house?

[@watcherofwatchers]

@@Erebos931 did you not watch the video?

[@twicein14days]

@@watcherofwatchers he's one of those daft kids from the charity

[@ladywithasword4587]

"God it's like a bassoon" remains one of the funniest lines said on this show.

[@babynamesinfo]

I want the clip of Nish saying it!!

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

2:48 "It did move a bit" Alex Horne is criminally underrated.

[@Tessunia]

I just wonder how Mark is surviving every day. He seems to have absolutely no idea what's happening

[@Rabhadh-RhymesWithJava]

He's like a child. Not even in that way of "Oh, he doesn't know how to take care of himself," but more like "He's learning so many new things every day! He's learning and growing and interacting with the world!"

[@thelazy0ne]

He has wireless earbuds with an MP3 that's looping and it goes like this:"breathe in; breathe out; breathe in;"... 🤭

[@BudBonkerson]

I've listened to his most recent audiobook and honestly I don't think he really knows how he's surviving either

[@finlaycraig1810]

how did this man acquire a wife and kids

[@phily8093]

@Finlay Craig because he's handsome, smart, funny, charismatic in a self-deprecating way, and successful.

[@MedievalFolkDance]

This was the best series. It devolved into pure insanity with hardly any effort. I put that largely on the shoulders of Sally Phillips who met every task with the mindest of "Well, someone is getting fucked here. Hope it's me!"

[@talk_it_through4730]

and she meant that in every single way you could possibly use the word 'fucked'

[@Jennyfisch]

Still my favourite, as well. And thank you for perfectly summing up Sally's approach to the show!

[@gamerman782]

I think Alex said that there was one task they didn't dare to show because of what Sally did in the task

[@dravmtp385]

having a wangle doesnt get enough referencences. You must be a shopkeeper, not some lowly assistant

[@Rabhadh-RhymesWithJava]

Reading this comment after having just heard Sally defiantly cry "We will not be overwhelmed!" about her holes.

[@Necron00b]

"My game plan for life is to "Overwhelm" the holes" - another of the greatest quotes in human history. haha

[@biocode4478]

"we will not be overwhelmed!"

[@koyaanisqatsi78]

@@biocode4478 No Sally's response was right "Women Love you all around!"

[@static2735]

@@koyaanisqatsi78 that is definitely not what she said

[@koyaanisqatsi78]

@@static2735 It's either that or we will love you all around ? or we don't love you all around? but why the high five then? damn if you keep playing it back it can be anything... Okay I just assumed mainly cause she made a lot being well up for it jokes that season.

[@static2735]

@@koyaanisqatsi78 i'm pretty sure she did say "we will not be overwhelmed" and was holding her hand up as like a sign of resistance, rather than a high five lol

[@tonicox4005]

I love how they thought to go get other things but got so fully caught up in what they gave them no one could thing of something like the vacuum sooner

[@torakunoichi]

Did you watch the clip?? Sally got the vacuum they just call it a Hoover in England

[@tonicox4005]

@@torakunoichi I said sooner. It still took her awhile

[@tonicox4005]

@@torakunoichi Also roundabouts where I’m from folk call it a sweeper. 😂

[@Mithguar]

I was just glad someone came up with that very simple solution. If She used it from the start, it was by far the fastest way.

[@srenebbesen8616]

In the Danish version, comedian Christian Fuhlendorff melted the big pipe with a creme brulé torch without damaging the ping-pong ball. Legit my favourite solution ever

[@rachelcookie321]

Is that not moving it though?

[@FFKonoko]

@@rachelcookie321 yeah, I feel like it moved down into being a puddle

[@drewdabbs418]

If you let an ice cube melt without touching it are you moving it?

[@camnationm8]

@@drewdabbs418 well that’s irrelevant 😂 he moved it by melting it, rule broken.

[@IQzminus2]

For the people arguing that melting a hole in the tube would be moving it. I don’t agree. The instructions says that “the pipe most not be moved”, not “the pipe can’t move”. The pipe melting would if you would call that may type of moving, be the pipe moving, not that it has be moved by someone else. And also in Danish I think it would be even more obvious it would be allowed. I haven’t seen the episode and I speak Swedish, but I’m guessing the probably used the Danish version of “flytta”. Atleast in Swedish them not being allowed to flytta the pipe, would mean they don’t get to move it somewhere else. It has to stay in place. While we use another word for just generally describing motion. You wouldn’t say that part of the melted pipe “flyttade”. That sentence wouldn’t make any sense. Because that is not how you use that word. Even a partly melted pipe, if it remains at the same place on the tray on the table, haven’t in any way “flyttat”.

[@dornian_gray]

Nish saying "This is my Everest," is a quietly brilliant line.

[@ciscoortega9789]

Especially since he's normally so loud and over-the-top. The calm delivery of that line absolutely got me

[@Geobeetle]

The perfect combination of brilliance and utter idiocy from every contestant in this one

[@The_Gallowglass]

The old fella had it under control.

[@hoagy_ytfc]

I adore Sally Phillips. Great comic, great actor, and seems like a thoroughly utterly nice person.

[@seriousgameofficial]

But also scarily stupid when I came to this task

[@lionguardant5468]

she also has an undercurrent of utter insanity which i find appealing

[@Myrzghe]

"you are directly quoting from my chest tattoo" is an all time response!

[@pearkore6821]

Mark & Nish are such a good duo. I hope they've worked together since, or at least remain friends.

[@atorrrand]

Without any knowledge of the situation I have 0 doughts that they hang out almost every day.

[@LaneyStudios5]

As someone who loves Taskmaster and watching competitive eating I was well surprised when I first saw the episode to hear Matt 'Megatoad' Stonie get name dropped

[@zetazetaman]

They mentioned Joey Chestnut once as well

[@spaceo8568]

Bob Mortimer is possibly the most adorable and agreeable man who has ever lived.

[@sjwillis1137]

Please grow up . Oh please .

[@ddavies1967]

"Collecting for the daft lads". Only Bob Mortimer.

[@Thierry10992]

thumbnail: "get the pingpong ball out of the tube" Titel: nahh "remove the table tennis ball from the pipe"

[@MSReidpr]

This is still my favorite task. The tea bag throw is a close second

[@just-tess]

I bet no one else will think to get them wet...

[@jems2081]

“Is clingfilm waterproof” famous last words

[@versebuchanan512]

My first thought was to shove a vacuum hose attachment down it. Very glad to see my brain validated, Lol

[@Scarletcroft]

me too. I was thinking that the vacuum hose would be about the right size and if there wasnt one a long stick with a piece of gum or reversed tape on it could have done the trick

[@neabby]

Everything about this clips is so chaotic and I love every second of it

[@sarahharvey9783]

I like how she defined the definition of insanity but got the wrong disorder 😂

[@Emithabro]

Why was my first thought, Get a drill and drill under the table while Alex holds it

[@canebro1]

I was thinking to kick out one of the legs of the table, then fetch the ball off the floor

[@Deathnotefan97]

@@canebro1 kicking the table would definitely move the pipe Drilling a hole, however, would not

[@dark.angel1880]

10:16 it's always the funniest joke when Nish's voice goes high.

[@Glendragon]

Reminds me of Ricky Gervais His voice goes so high when making remarjs like that

[@sophiusdynami3401]

The outtake for this task with Bob and his GP story is the funniest thing I have ever seen

[@atorrrand]

Link?

[@vendock]

Bob telling any story is the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[@ch-p2861]

Link!!

[@sophiusdynami3401]

@@ch-p2861 check the replies!

[@acuteangina705]

I love Nish more and more every time I see him. He's perfect for this show

[@benfulfer3260]

Probably my favorite contestant in the whole show, does terrible across the board with random bursts of genius and always hilarious

[@Sunprism]

Oh god, It's like a bassoon

[@carsonm7292]

Grabbing the hoover may not have won Sally best time, but it was definitely the biggest brain play for this task.

[@L_Martin]

3:33 I love how they both bow in shame at the same time lmao

[@JohnDouglasist]

In Portugal a famous comedian produced a Portuguese version of Taskmaster, and this task was in the first episode: It took less than one minute for one of the contenders to look at the camera crew and say “You bozos ain’t seen nothing yet.”, then go off camera, grab a hoover, snatch the termination out of its hose, and suck the ball out of the pipe 🤣

[@artful1967]

i would have gotten a hose pipe and overwhelmed the holes just for the comedy value of seeing the whole room flood

[@ifer1280]

The vacuum cleaner is obviously the best way to do it, but I'd have tried the leaf blower. Blowing air over the top would create a lot of suction that might lift the ball and spectacularly launch it once it got out!

[@Timmahh85]

You would need to cover the holes first then

[@melissa_jpg]

why not just a stick with some tape stuck to the end? saves time grabbing and plugging in a vacuum cleaner, or perhaps be about the same.

[@JamieAtSLC]

so many great moments in this task alone.

[@gemma3877]

I was thinking "reverse-Kerplunk it" for ages, and wondering if there was a hoover with a decent hose. Thank you on both counts Sally!

[@frassyfrass3174]

I would have tried cutting a hole at the bottom of the table. The vacuum cleaner was a great idea though

[@EpicVideos2]

Cut straight through the pipe

[@Timmahh85]

The vacuum was my first thought, it just looks so simple :). Those drinks are an obvious trap :p

[@hurricanecurls]

That moment between Nish and Sally near the end is so cute.

[@ColinMarcusJackson]

YES! One of my favourite groups!! 🤩 What a kickass start to a Monday. Keep up the great work Taskmaster crew! ❤

[@jillkearns525]

I kept waiting for someone to get the vacuum

[@randomstropes2575]

This is kind of like watching those phone ads, where the ai is just crap at the puzzle, I just want to do it myself instead of watching them struggle

[@Merdam9]

I love this cast!

[@Peteroranje]

Still the greatest series. About time for Taskmaster Reunion episodes I think? :)

[@Emiliapocalypse]

Please someone artistic draw Alex proudly showing off that verbose chest tattoo 😂😆

[@adamfrank5183]

I just fell down the stairs watching this video on my phone. I am okay.

[@jhulpthefox]

The first three people, the whole time I was wondering why no one was grabbing a vacuum, glad someone actually grabbed one!

[@user-ns3vs3bp3e]

Nish and Mark are my favourite duo on this entire show XD every task they both manage to fuck it up so well 😂

[@MsHojat]

I'd ask for some superglue and a string. Might take 5+ minutes to get them though depending how prepped they were. The vacuum idea was quite great too though. I suppose some tack/clay on a stick would also work.

[@flamingbull3438]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@budle89]

The sheer incompetences of this series was *chef kiss

[@galaxspace1]

I find it super interesting, that the smartest person with the best education is the most crazy with a lot of moments where the brain just turns off

[@ipdipdu]

@@emeraldbonsai they mean the smartest out of the 5 contestants.

[@yourmum69_420]

@@ipdipdu yeah well he clearly isn't that either. Bob's the smartest

[@exessex3522]

I have a university degree and a postgraduate teaching qualification. My younger brother left school at 16 and has no academic qualifications at all. He would beat me by miles doing a task like this. He does sudokus and always beats me at games like Othello. I do crosswords, some quite advanced and cryptic, and usually beat him at chess and Scrabble. We're fairly even at the board game Mastermind. There's different kinds of smart.

[@glockenrein]

@@exessex3522 Mastermind is just the best, my younger sister and I have been playing for decades now. Recently I manage to find one with letters instead of colours on eBay!

[@yourmum69_420]

@@exessex3522 just because you spent years of your life and a load of money going to some institution so they'd give you a piece of paper at the end doesn't make you smarter than anyone. The cryptic crosswords thing is the only part of that list which implies you're not an idiot

[@ivansindicic5960]

Taking a ball out with a vacuum cleaner is genious.

[@khajiitimanus7432]

As soon as I heard "Don't move the pipe," I started imagining someone just dropkicking the table. I didn't move the pipe! The pipe moved itself with the equal and opposite force of the table being kicked, with help from gravity.

[@lydiakelly6863]

I love Taskmaster, but the moment they mentioned "Mega Toad" eating 12 cans of sweet corn in 13 minutes, my heart fluttered. I love Matt "the Mega Toad" Stonie.

[@EpicUltraKingSmizzy]

How does the same person who thinks "I bet a funnel would improve this pipes ability to retain water" end up coming second... LOL they got some real smooth brains on this task

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Part of the setup is red herrings, and part of the show is trying to decide what rules actually are and what expectations to break.

[@BradyBoll]

When he said 'like a bassoon', that was exactly my 1st thought on how to go about this. Airtight up the holes, probably with fingers provided there are fewer than 10 holes, then blow across the top of the pipe Bernoulli's Principle-style. And in the end, essentially Hoover it out.

[@myguyry]

Name a more iconic duo than Sally and the funnel.

[@Peteroranje]

Sally and baby Alex?

[@steve470]

Sally and Alex with cake in his armpits and socks?

[@WillDennis22]

Sally and the water cooler?

[@LolTollhurst]

Sally and absinthe in toast!

[@Purzius]

I love how sweet and kind Sally Phillips seems to be ^^ Also Nish is so freaking funny while remaining kind

[@rachelking3941]

Taskmaster series 5.. what an absolute joy 😂

[@RickeGnool]

I want a ''Worst of the Worst'' special episode just so I can see Nish on this show again.

[@thepayne7862]

Smart move from Mr. Mortimer on using the foam earplugs.

[@nnnickkk]

OMG. This show is amazing.

[@oldmanstyl3]

"We will not be overwhelmed!" -- lol

[@Robert399]

Tbh I don't see the difference between Aisling's "moving the tray not the pipe" and several "rules exploits" that have been allowed.

[@brixgalvez1890]

the series is good but the audio volume of the laughter in the background takes over the whole conversation

[@Bo-vf8yk]

I like the variation in the words used in the title and thumbnail

[@rachelcookie321]

Oh yea. Thumbnail says ping pong, title says table tennis.

[@patricklarose4970]

they never said you couldn't break it

[@Ynox54321]

"This is going to be brilliant" - A dolphin, or even a particularly smart cat could think of turning the thing upside down

[@Erkle64]

Any cat would think of knocking it off the table first.

[@judy1519]

literally first thing i thought of was the vacuum cleaner, it always surprises me how only one person thought of it and only at the end

[@callmeandoru2627]

There's a saying that you need two engineers to change a light bulb. One person holds the light bulb itself, the other person rotates the entire universe around it. Basically since movement are relative, I can just rotate the tube 180 degrees and argue that I'm technically not moving the tube, I'm just moving everything else around it. I can even prove my point by taping my phone to the tray so that it's camera points toward tube, hit the recording button, and use the footage to prove that from that point of view, the tube doesn't move at all.

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

Using a vacuum was brilliant

[@CookieCreamCrumble]

Glad to see someone got a vacume out because I thought of that as soon as I heard the prompt

[@seemsfishy23]

There are plenty of tasks I know I wouldn’t even begin to know how to approach. But I just know that this particular type of task would be so simple for me to solve that it genuinely baffles me how difficult many found it

[@ethanridd9033]

THE TUBE DIDN’T MOVE RELATIVE TO THE TRAY. the task must be more specific!

[@IdealIdeas100]

doesnt even fully tape the holes...

[@jhyland87]

"That's my game plan for life, is to overwhelm the holes" lol

[@javiersds8081]

"You're quoting directly from my chest tattoo" is a brilliant sentence. I'm going to start using it.

[@jadonald3405]

Please, please could we have Nish and Mark again? I am sure people would add a few more of the favourites

[@jpabmouse]

"I go too often" gold.

[@EziosBladez]

If you could leave the room, you find a piece of bamboo and bluetac?

[@nuclearcrayons3511]

Best time stamps 😂

[@shadowslayer2248]

Bob the OG. Saying an anecdote, cracking jokes and having jolly fun with the host while completing the task with very little or no effort. 👌👌👌🔥

[@DOOF1]

Best Cast

[@aneophyte1199]

Going by the rules and looking at the set up, my first solution would have been a fishing attempt.

[@dreamybull1509]

I remember one of my Bakugans fell down this metal pole and opened up halfway in between. Was like 13 years ago but I'm sure the little guy is still in there

[@jasonhare8540]

Nish having a breakdown is always worth a watch 🤣🤣

[@krtwood]

All movement is relative to a frame of reference. Get the camera operator to flip the camera over while you flip the tube over. From the camera's perspective, the tube doesn't move while the room does.

[@adamcummings20]

Bob is brilliant

[@lindonandlisa8114]

I think I have a problem I think I'm addicted to Taskmaster

[@whatUPitsJORDAN]

She didn’t move the pole. The pole happened to move as it was affixed to the platform.

[@tesd.]

I have such a big crush on Nish, I'm afraid it might never go away...

[@smbvms]

I just noticed Nish has a little box to stand on

[@Hammer79a]

I have one way that would blow everyone's minds

[@nichiniker]

Ashley got robbed. The tube only moved from the perspective of an external reference frame. Change the reference frame and the tube did not move relative to the tray.

[@wagyourtai1]

due to relativity, one could argue that the pipe never moved...

[@Chrysaphius86]

Damn Bob got that out so fast

[@kobeclaybrook3847]

"let me do it for you"