Taskmaster UK series 5's excluded flag base task

[@lolacactus6609]

Alex's absolute dismay at Aisling's attempt is priceless

[@Pailzor]

It's weird not cutting back to the studio for points after a task.

[@jayrap94]

I hope they'll release whatever task involved an Aubergine in S13!

[@browningcm]

Alex claims to this day such a task never existed 😂

[@theprecipiceofreason]

From the taskmaster wiki: There was a team task which involved Chris feeding Ardal an aubergine in order to transfer it across the garden, which was referenced in their multi-track song. Alex revealed in a Zoom meeting for Bring Me The Head of The Taskmaster that the task was not given to the girls as they hadn't considered the connotations of an all-female team playing with aubergines. Whilst the details of the task were not revealed, Alex's notes on the task was revealed on Taskmaster: The People's Podcast, claiming that the team worked well together, used Ardal's hood and complete the task quickly.

[@phlexxo]

@@theprecipiceofreason I`m really disappointed if thats true. sexual connotations of fruit add to the fun if anything, but mostly it does nothing at all. Maybe im old fashioned, but i firmly believe woman can handle aubergines without being scandalous. Just like peaches, bananas, melons or whatever sexual organ shaped fruit. Thats just a weird and prudish explanation imho.

[@CanIHasThisName]

@@phlexxoThe kind of fruit that’s being used is less important than how it’s being used. They’ve done plenty of stuff that had sexual themes, clearly whatever the task had people do would be a bit much.

[@phlexxo]

@@CanIHasThisName my imagination is not strong enough to come up with such a task. But ofc Alex always had a very sensible aproach and probably good reasons.

[@randyastle3301]

I liked seeing Patatas at least.

[@ocold-gp3oi]

Looks like Sally did a bang up job, shame this one didn't make it

[@seandoyle7167]

Everyone is busy figuring out the bowls and Mark is still looking for the mother flippin' task. Oh Mark, Mark, Mark...

[@andrewforbes1433]

To be fair, herons are more used to spotting aquatic animals than pieces of paper.

[@singenstattatmen5096]

HOW have I not seen this before?? And what other unused tasks are out here that I haven't had the pleasure of setting eyes on yet???

[@grunions9648]

Step 1: Go to the kitchen and get some Weetabix. Step 2: Mix Weetabix with a small amount of any liquid. Step 3: Win task

[@lmackenzie89]

Genius!

[@Yewtewba]

I would have assumed that if there were no restrictions there was probably a bag of cement in the shed.

[@nicholase2868]

With 20 minutes you probably have time to drive to the nearest hardware store and pick up a bag of cement.

[@joethanks8479]

Whoa, I've been looking for a copy of this viewable from the US for ages, thank you!!

[@LoveProWrestling]

But thanks to Nord VPN....

[@djvWOODSTOCK]

Sally 5 Bob 4 Nish 3 Mark 2 Aisling 1

[@jonh6585]

sally 5 (fanciest), Bob 4, Nish and Mark 2 (or maybe 1) and Aisling 0 as no flag.

[@Tobycek]

“And she can thank me for it!”

[@CueyTKD]

The obvious solution to me is to just mix the actual concrete with some water. You could make an interesting shape and decorate it like Sally did. Possibly swirl a little of the cocoa powder in the part further from the flag where it is less structurally significant. Its probably more practical than entertaining though. I miss Mark and Nish from this series.

[@samuelcardwell577]

Look, I mean they'd have let it into Series 6... 5 points Sally, 4 Bob, 3 Mark, 2 Nish, 1 Aisling. Or possibly 0 for Aisling and 1 each for Mark and Nish.

[@DrZaius3141]

Nish's flag was very clearly more stable than Mark's. But it would be in line with Greg's rating to still give Nish fewer points...

[@UnChannelDuVulpineX]

@@DrZaius3141 ... say what you want to say, don't hint at it.

[@piganeiros]

I can't separate Sally and Bob. For me it's Sally and Bob 5, Mark and Nish 1, Aisling zero because there was no hole to hold the flag up in her realistic cow pat

[@paulconnelly640]

To be a fly on the wall at the end of a series when the contestants find out that some of their attempts were so bad they weren't aired.

[@kevinscully9013]

Amazing, the task is literally rolled up and sat in a flag base, I wonder if just using that would have been viewed with anger?

[@ShammityShamSham]

From what we heard in the editing, the task makes no mention of having to use what's on the table.

[@christianboehlefeld5168]

But it did say to "make" your flag base. Aisling did get eggs from the kitchen.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Making your own flag base was the task.

[@bricelory9534]

​@@Pagliacci_Rex so what if we just make the flag base our own? 😉

[@fp6343]

@@ShammityShamSham exactly. I was thinking OK, so here is the cement, let's bring water from the kitchen, let's try to find sand and gravel in the garden or the shed, mix and make something similar to concrete. Nobody said that they need to make concrete with milk, sugar, and cocoa powder.

[@YoJesusMorales]

With a couple of tweaks this could have been good. Don't do the food stuff though, and this could work.

[@samuelfathead]

Bob killing it as ever

[@saksis666]

Oh wow i can see why this was not included

[@Dr.TobiasFunke]

why?

[@deltabeta5527]

@@Dr.TobiasFunke not funny enough for Taskmaster to enjoy

[@Dr.TobiasFunke]

@@deltabeta5527 eh, i feel like they've done worse..,

[@magicmerl7749]

If this was Kongen Befaler they all would have rushed off, found the hidden cement cache and made a tower a foot high. Calle would probably include his jeans.

[@pmc8451]

They have a bowl of concrete on the table.

[@yaekmon]

In terms of the concreting we got 2 complete successes, 2 weak attempts & 1 abject failure, a pretty good ratio for any given task. The real reason this didn't make the cut is that the materials provided meant we got a couple of shit jokes about baking & absolutely nothing with any visual interest. This task would have worked 1000% better if they'd been supplied with cement, clear instructions on how to make concrete & time enough to source their own decorative elements.

[@sausage9145]

There was nothing on the task that said they had to use the bowl ingredients, and knowing Alex there was probably a bunch of cement, sharp sand and pea shingle in the garage. Half of the fun happens when people spot the obvious trap and go find a workaround.

[@yaekmon]

@@sausage9145 Maybe that's what he hoped for, but a big part of good task design is understanding the power of suggestion. Put a bowl of milk & a bowl of cement in front of someone & they'll mix the two together. Especially placing several bowls of not-very-interesting stuff in front of contestants, most will just assume that's what they have to work with & roll with that. You want contestants to go wild with whatever they can get their hands on? Put *nothing* in front of them. Short task time + bowls of stuff = contestants will make what you asked using the stuff given. Task design matters.

[@jyrinx]

@@yaekmon True, but it still happens pretty often that someone immediately says “well, do I have to use that?” and then go looking. And a lot of the fun comes from that. Come to think of it, the provided things were probably _too helpful._ Give them a bunch of shit that obviously won't work, and a few will get frustrated and look elsewhere. Give them a bunch of shit that probably will kinda work, and too many of them will muddle through, especially since (this is the other problem) they can't find out what doesn't work. Driving the contestants to exasperation is key.

[@yaekmon]

@@jyrinx I think the trick to a good task is that it needs to be fun to watch with the materials provided *and* allow for outside-the-box thinking. A good example is the pea propulsion challenge. The set-up line "nobody's gonna get the pea & just bung it up the carpet" makes you laugh in anticipation alone. Cue one contestant immediately losing the pea, one doing surprisingly well & one flat-out cheating in the most hilariously ham-fisted way possible. Followed up by two of the most memorable "technically correct" versions ever. What I'm saying is that the best tasks are ones where the vanilla version is just as entertaining to watch as the off-the-wall version.

[@jyrinx]

@@yaekmon Yes! Agreed all around. There was really only one way to do this task, and it came down to competence. Where's the fun in that?

[@gordondouglas2971]

A reworked version of this could make for a good studio task.

[@nagualdesign]

Concrete takes a while to set.

[@Freddisred]

Really liked when the cricket bat was called a baseball bat

[@una_10bananas]

Aisling just calling a cricket bat a baseball bat, amazing

[@iliketrains3495]

She also called a coconut a chestnut and a pair of oven gloves a scarf. She's hilarious but also pretty dumb a lot of the time 😂

[@CycolacFan]

She’s been working in the States too much recently.

[@una_10bananas]

@@CycolacFan to be fair you never see cricket bats in ireland

[@nagualdesign]

She's a comedian. It's amazing how people are so gullible when it comes to someone acting stupid. I could eat an orange and say, "This apple tastes weird", and be guaranteed that some plonker would genuinely believe I'm an idiot.

[@CycolacFan]

@@nagualdesign that’s not necessarily their fault…

[@Dept_Of_Ducks]

Patatas cameo :0

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Bob getting some mime work in, lol.

[@TC_here]

Aislings final product might have been poor but during the task she looked like she'd be the one most at home on a building site. I'd love to see her back on taskmaster

[@ejgoldlust]

This should ABSOLUTELY have made the cut

[@jl5749]

Nish quoting Oscar Wilde killed me

[@philippnotaname7184]

So many comments and nothing on how sugar stops cement from setting properly. Is this a wrong memory?

[@taskmasterinfo]

Now you say it, I think I have seen a video in which it was stated that cement mixer truck drivers tend to carry a couple of big bottles of coke, just in case they need to pour it in to prevent the cement setting.

[@kevinfoster9975]

My immediate thought was how sugar is used to sabotage building projects by ruining the concrete. They were all sabotaged from the start by Alex

[@RickReasonnz]

@@taskmasterinfo I knew a tradie who always carried 2 big bottles of Coke in his truck, but they were not for preventing cement from setting :P

[@haunter4708]

I didn’t see any flag to begin with so I thought they were supposed to be making flag stones haha

[@echognomecal6742]

This may have given Greg an aneurism. Myself? I am in physical pain & my face is twitching. Well done, Little Alex. Well done.

[@danteschrotenboer8992]

I love this series of taskmaster I was so sad it only was an 8 ep series. Maybe the tasks that didn't make it to the final cut can be made for 2 special episodes for this series.

[@PtolemyJones]

Loved this season. To be fair, I liked most of them, but this is top three for me.

[@tobygeorgeharribo]

Agreed, my top three would be this one, series 7 and series 9 but I have to agree all of them are very good! I’ve only watched up to series 15 so far but I’m sure the others will be good too

[@jyrinx]

I really want to know what Rhod Gilbert would've done here.

[@jocomfiresin6982]

... Alex's ass would never recover from what I've seen as a poster boy for warcrimes.

[@slyasleep]

I love these people

[@Sellons]

I was expecting some sort of reveal that the back of the task said something about using the base the task was in to do it

[@josephchambers2000]

How the fuck did you get your hands on this?

[@taskmasterinfo]

I thought it used to be up on the UKTV channel, but I can't find it there now.

[@Hydraas]

@@taskmasterinfo it's still there kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYS8np6uoKqtjrs

[@mbrackeva]

Just sticking the flag into the already present concrete slab would have "created" a concrete flag base.

[@beesree39]

no it would be using an already existing flag base

[@mbrackeva]

@@beesree39 Without a flag it's just a concrete slab with a hole in it.

[@pmc8451]

Yeah or they could of just used the bowl of concrete on the table. Mix it with little bit of water and I bet there was sand hidden somewhere.

[@jasonhare8540]

Well one thing is abundantly clear from this . None of these people should ever attempt any home repair on their own 🤣 *Good to see ol' Potatas again ....

[@nicandknacksandseans]

I mean, I've definitely seen worse group failures that actually made it to air on this show.

[@caedmon232]

Bob ftw

[@captainchaos3667]

I wonder if the cement mixer was already on the premises.

[@soulistheanswer]

So Bob would have won anyway

[@Shamanized]

Sally's was just as sturdy and much more highly decorated. Bob would've gotten 4 and Sally 5, but also Greg might have hated the idea of his flag getting jammed into a watering spout and calling that a "flag base"

[@avatr7109]

Aisling HHAHAHAHAHA!!! This should've made up the episode lol Tho not for points but for fun

[@SuperWoodgod]

To be honest, this task was pretty boring to watch.

[@kseandoyle]

Patatas!

[@Gowerrr]

Having the contestants do horribly and Greg be disappointed has proved to be the most funny parts, and illustrates the genius of how its all a big waste of time but sometimes we get to laugh and enjoy hilarious moments created by Alex's tasks. However, this seems like a poor task altogether. It should have been best flag and flagpole instead of the cement base. Very peculiar and not likely to be accomplishable or interesting to watch failures of. They need more creative range to be able to fail with hilarious outcomes.

[@Matatabi6]

Baseball bat😂

[@Tonyhouse1168]

Way back when my crush on Sally Phillips started 💙

[@DrakeGamer85]

It's clear why the task was not part of the series - all the contestants got the same materials, so there was no variety in the bases they made. The only aspects that were amusing were Mark's failure to keep the flag upright, Aisling's ridiculous dog mess finish, and the fact Nish's design worked until Alex showed the flag wouldn't have stayed upright under pressure. If the TM scored this, had it been aired in the series, it would have been as followed: Sally Phillips - 5pts: For a strong base, despite the madcap decorating she did. Bob Mortimer - 3pts: For his flag not falling out, despite being in the spout of a watering can that the base was put into. Nish Kumar - 1pt: For the effort, and for having a base that held up at least for a while> Mark Watson - 0pts: For creating a useless flag base Aisling Bea - DQ - For failing to plant her flag into base when time was up; also for creating something so unappealing for the TM's flag. In terms of whether this task should be considered for a future series, I would say yes, but only under a different arrangement: * Contestants can either: ** Use cement, but must be tasked in making it decorative when creating the base, thus making the task more creative ** Use ingredients other than cement, to form the base, and be given time to source these before making the base. * The flag must not be held in anything to keep it upright, other than the base * The base must be able to set properly * The flag needs to still be upright after a few days

[@mygaffer]

As good as they are at creative tasks, i.e. making a stop motion movie type stuff, they are brilliant. When it comes to building and concrete? Absolute rubbish. Sometimes stereotypes are true!

[@ResettisReplicas]

I would’ve gone 5 for Sally, 4 for Nish, 3 for Mark, and 0 for Aisling (no flag) and Bob (base not made of a chemical compound).

[@KyleFalconer-b1i]

This clip has just made me realise that Taskmaster is nothing without the wrath of Greg. I adore the show, but tasks & Alex alone is not nearly enough

[@UnChannelDuVulpineX]

The NZ version is pretty good, even thought their Taskmaster has a void for a personality. Also, the Aussie version is pretty good, even though their Taskamaster's Assistant is equally afflicted.

[@slothfulcobra]

ask something stupid, get something stupid. Turns out comedians don't know anything about concrete

[@tobyb1018]

This is pretty rubbish, we didn’t miss anything by this not being in the show

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

This is better than anything they upload to the TM channel!

[@hillsonn]

including full length episodes of the actual program??

[@lolacactus6609]

Well, I do quote "Pants on a stick" almost daily, but it would definitely be a close second.

[@Mazurecki56]

Glad this one didn't make the cut. It's not entertaining at all.

[@CaptainTedStryker]

I've seen much worse tasks.

[@franlamb409]

I don't care for Alex but I can't imagine his job. The out takes prove his patience!

[@ragequazar]

i mean, he did create the show and makes most of the tasks. but i do agree his patience is phenomenal

[@flippetskater]

@@ragequazar It really is. (Which is why Bridget in S13 making his patience crack, just by being her sweetly dim self, is so outrageously funny.)