Cheater Cheater | Taskmaster

[@HoojipIsHere]

Petition for a compilation of every task that starts with ‘these are intelligent people…’

[@SennaAugustus]

"Can you remind us of the rules of this task?"

[@druid_zephyrus]

I'll sign.

[@SentinalSlice]

Yes!

[@craigmacher8439]

Yes

[@Smith.S.E.]

"Surely they wouldn't just..."

[@noahsalvio9649]

The funniest part for me is that Dave used to his leftover tea to cheat, but he never thought of just dumping it out before hand and using the cup to transport the water. Like he had a perfectly good cup the whole time

[@paulagrunwell7050]

I’m ashamed I never thought of the tea cup!

[@noahsalvio9649]

@@somebody700 They were allowed to use the buckets in the nearby building, why not the cup? are they not allowed to use items on them or something?

[@noahsalvio9649]

​@@somebody700 The task didn't state that. That was kinda the point of why the task was funny, nothing stated they needed to use the items provided, they all just assumed that. They also all walked through a pavilion filled with buckets, and none of them thought of going back.

[@TheDevilDeVille]

@@somebody700 They 100% were allowed to use the bucket. Alex literally says that they could have gone and gotten any items and didn't have to use the stuff provided.

[@thezachman1]

The task never stated they couldn't use anything they brought with them, so this checks out

[@YvonneWilson312]

Watching Romesh hurl his watermelon to the floor and Tim Key attacking his with such a vengeance will never, ever get old.

[@prestonrau8467]

It’s the bit that made me say “ok I’m going to watch this whole series”

[@Dimencia]

The violence with which Romesh absolutely destroys his watermelon had me laughing for a good two minutes

[@gladtobeangry]

@@prestonrau8467 It was, but partly because it was preceded by "Tim Key, what have you brought in?" "Reindeer skull."

[@ProfessorHeavy1]

What truly gets me is the sight and sound of the watermelon as it gets erased from existence. It sounds and looks like a violent explosion.

[@Quzga]

It's like letting two chimpanzees loose in a room with a watermelon.

[@15schaa]

Hugh absolutely did not cheat, as far as I'm concerned. He wasn't looking at her, he wasn't even looking in her direction. Perfectly valid interpretation of the rules that Greg was going to allow, he just happened to draw an awful portrait. He wasn't even disqualified, so in the end, Greg did allow it. Same for Dave getting Ben Fogle to shout across the river.

[@DeathnoteBB]

But it was cheating. Mirrors are reflections of light. You’re seeing her as clearly as you would if you looked at her, because you are looking at her. By his logic if I put some glass between us or get far enough away so she’s blurry, I’m not looking at her

[@15schaa]

@@DeathnoteBB mirrors only reflect light. People are more than just light. A reflection of a person may look the same, but it's hardly a cloning machine. As Hugh says, the image of a person is not a person.

[@wystxrr]

Hugh didn’t cheat, what he did say was completely true

[@ryonotrio6904]

Agreed. He was just looking at the mirror

[@WeDontServeCokeIsPepsiOkay]

While he may or may not have cheated I think we all can agree that the mirror did NOT make the final drawing any better

[@clarissaott847]

Petition for them to upload every "tiebreaker-task" that they have pre-recorded that we never got to see!

[@JackDrewitt]

Signed

[@julesnatural]

Yes! I've always wondered just how many of those they had prerecorded on hand and would love to see them

[@chorusofoddities]

There is unreleased stuff because it wasn't very good, and/or because they want to reuse the tasks

[@jamesaditya5254]

YES! I've wondered about this quite some time ago. Now would be a good time to fill the void before series 12 premiere

[@delta250a]

I would love to see those

[@hollyludvigsen6763]

Really hoping they’re working on a compilation of all of those “There’s no way these intelligent people would just go and do x” moments from Alex and Greg followed by video evidence of them doing exactly that dumb thing

[@iliketrains3495]

Richard Osman eating the raw egg

[@TheCheesyNachos]

potatogate

[@devinpm]

Might as well just watch the whole show at that point LOL

[@gothicsloth4552]

Tea bag incident with Romesh in season one. "Some idiot will realise you have to wet the teabags 45 minutes in"

[@mitchellwood1014]

Romesh just running in and SLAMMING that melon on the ground like a total animal is one of my favourite tv moments of all time

[@Bergen98]

No hesitation, no regrets (Well, a lot of regret afterwards)

[@98Rhiannon]

Tim Key slapping Greg on the knee and going "picked the plug up mate" is my favorite way anybody's ever confessed to cheating on the show.

[@petugas_youtube]

Whats that mean?

[@missbeaussie]

Greg crossing his legs immediately after.

[@rkah6187]

@@missbeaussie Lol

[@JLF201]

I love that Alex called Tim's bath emptying technique "the passion of Tim."

[@ebullen01]

Same, kills me every time

[@DorthLousPerso]

I think Hugh using a reflection and the trio using someone else to shout should go in the "thinking outside the box", not the cheaters who, clearly, cheated.

[@maxwhitmore2305]

I agree that especially about Hugh there was no rule saying you couldn't he was looking at a mirror not a woman

[@qwertyTRiG]

It was a moment of genius.

[@Zeratultheking]

The spaghetti as well, as the task was get as much into the grapefruit not make the pasta disappear. So he did try to cheat but didn't cheat to help the task.

[@joeriandries]

@@Zeratultheking not even that. he didn't cheat in any sort of way, he just made an attempt at misguiding Alex on the measurements. the task itself was done perfectly legit. Same with the watermelon, he ate a certain amount of watermelon, task was done, the guy was still hungry, so he ate a bit more. it's not cheating, just because it made measurements more difficult for Alex...

[@MinekEzQM]

Hugh could've been punished for only one thing: the sign on the mirror says "do not remove". Apart from that he was brilliant but has really bad art. :)

[@glitterbitesback]

I’d just like to point out how well Ben Fogle shouted. The enunciation was perfect and 10/10 projection. If I were lost in the woods with someone, I’d hope it would be him.

[@happivaras]

@glitterbitesback Firstly glitter is pure pollution. Secondly you want to bow down before Ben's wood, bad luck on that blowy.

[@glitterbitesback]

@@happivaras Firstly, there's eco glitter. Secondly I have no idea why you think I insulted Ben. If that's what you meant. If not, I have no idea what you're comment means. I never mentioned anything about blowing him.

[@happivaras]

@@glitterbitesback ROFPMSL eco glitter. Yeah sure and eco deforestation, eco using resources faster every day and then there's eco pollution. But after all that disgusting disrespect there's eco extinction of humans. That's the best one.

[@glitterbitesback]

@@happivaras ‘Kay. Cool.

[@mellytempest]

I want you to know that I think about this comment thread all the time even after all this time, lmao.

[@Lyraadams123]

i love that tim key became an official task consultant after his series, they needed his genius

[@samuelcardwell577]

Key getting pinged twice for cheating IN THE VERY FIRST EPISODE EVER. He's a fantastic man

[@youtube-kit9450]

He even became a task consultant on the series, and I steadfastly believe it is because of his shameless cheating ways being able to be repurposed into setting the rules in a way that allows actual lateral thinking.

[@jenelaina5665]

1. Hugh did NOT cheat 2. Tim Key is the best cheater of all

[@AH-te5gs]

Agreed. Hugh didn't and neither did Dave (in that last one).

[@danielguy3581]

@@AH-te5gs Nor Mawan - they acknowledge he didn't technically cheat in the studio discussion. He was just very sneaky. Like a snake. With the pasta.

[@MinekEzQM]

@@danielguy3581 Suuuuuuure. "Make an object disappear. Biggest object disappear wins." He makes a tiny little cow disappear - and wins the task? He should have said in the studio, "Yes I was brilliant but I made the smallest object vanish. I don't deserve the 5 points." Staying in silence is cheating.

[@nathanpelletier876]

@@MinekEzQM But that doesn’t mean he’s breaking any rules. He didn’t do anything against the rules, and the points are always determined solely by the taskmaster’s discretion so arguing that he shouldn’t get them is meaningless. Do you really think the taskmaster didn’t have a full explanation ahead of time? Plus they showed the video in front of everyone so they knew the actual object size lol. He gave him the points for the creativity. If you get a perfect score in a dunk contest but thought someone else deserved the win, you would still win because it’s the judge’s opinion that matters not your own.

[@bugbear2357]

@@MinekEzQM one of the things they make pretty clear in the show is that points are awarded at the taskmaster's discretion. And, if you recall, in that task Greg decided that, quote, "it had to look like it disappeared", and it looked like he made the large cow disappear.

[@JackDManheim]

Mawaan didn't even come close to cheating. The rules made no mention of how Alex would quantify the amount of pasta in the grapefruit, making it a pretty impressive deduction that he figured it out.

[@leotamer5]

The rules were explicit in that the grapefruit isn't allowed to leave the room, but it did not say anything about removing pasta from the room.

[@RoboSparkle]

Also, he did clearly say "going to play you at your own game", so there were some shenanigans afoot and the empty pasta bowl did look all the more spectacular. He was absolutely a sneaky pasta snake, and maybe the cheating intent was there, but he didn't actually break any rules!

[@missbeaussie]

He didn't cheat but he didn't win.

[@CDCI3]

Right? It said the grapefruit couldn't leave the room, but said nothing about the pasta.

[@sparo_splat]

Where's Noel stopping the timer in the flour chucking team task?

[@franksimon8375]

In the last video they released

[@marmarballz]

Noel was a sneaky timer snake

[@kelseywu3723]

Ahhh what at classic

[@MinekEzQM]

And where is Noel not camouflaging himself... he basically asked the production team to do a visual trick. And clearly not within ten minutes from the "time starts now" but in post-production.

[@centurionquincy3899]

@@MinekEzQM He wasn’t disqualified for that, and actually won the task, which pissed me off.

[@Bejeerk]

Hugh was very clever with that mirror, that's not cheating in my book.

[@DeathnoteBB]

According to the laws of physics he cheated

[@jonsimpson6240]

@@DeathnoteBB according to Greek mythology he didn't.

[@meetaverma8372]

Yeah, he used basic physics to win the task

[@ZacDonald]

@@DeathnoteBB Didn't realize looking wasn't just a human concept but a law of nature.

[@burnsabeast]

Completely agree, an image is not the actual person. Same could be said if he took a photo, he's looking at the photo of the person and not the person.

[@Therealapplenator]

I would love a compilation of all the times a contestant found a loophole, but still failed spectacularly. Like Mark Watson and the rainbow, Iain Sterling and the soccer goal, although I can only think of 3 examples, so it may be a bit weak.

[@nvrmnde]

Or just all the loopholes. Bin Juice will always be the best. :D

[@BMiren-bc6ye]

Katherine Ryan with the red mat --- she literally found a way to push it out of the way but decided to tie a potato with a string.

[@bugbear2357]

Hugh and the fat white man could fit too

[@emilybolton9531]

Lee taking the loo roll off the loo roll holder before he took it off the wall, and Mike failing with the extendable ladder

[@lympharia]

joe thomas when he thought of using ice to push the ball and then just threw little bricks at it

[@harrysteel6912]

The fact that the complication of contestants cheating is over half an hour long is a good indicator of why I love Taskmaster show much

[@karelfinn2343]

I'd expected to see the bit where Hugh dumped out all of the items in the sleeping bag and then claimed that they'd just come out on their own. Hugh did a lot of stuff that was right on the line between lateral thinking and outright cheating, but that one was indefensible.

[@jacquelinelarios9947]

Joe's response to Hugh's comment was hilarious too!

[@vickywitton1008]

Na! Hugh was just clever!

[@youtube-kit9450]

While I personally think that the mirror thing is still cheating, it was way, way more defensible than the sleeping bag one. Honestly glad that latter contestants go way more into the area of lateral thinking and creative reading than just being like "nu'uh didn't cheat" and just disregard the rules (or at least don't contest it as much when caught).@theobreitenbach91

[@LeeJ2512]

I'm just gonna say it. We need more cheaters. I find them really funny trying to defend themselves.

[@no_peace]

I love when they cheat or bend rules

[@youtube-kit9450]

I like rule benders, but just outright cheating imo is boring. Oh noo, they did something not allowed by the rules, what's their defense gonna be? "nu-uh, didn't do it"? Oh how original. That's where rule bending becomes so fun to watch, because they have to actually explain why it's rule-bending or creative reading of the rules.

[@julietravelvlog]

@@youtube-kit9450 I think it's fine if everybody can laugh about it and the cheater can acknowledge they lost rather than argue over it.

[@youtube-kit9450]

@@julietravelvlog I mean, I explained why rule-bending is way more fun than cheating. Cheater: "Nu-uh didn't do it" Greg: "yes, 0 points" - finished. Disrupts the flow of the show and leaves an annoying taste in the mouth cuz who knows how often they just lazily cheated. Rule-bender: Can give funny explanation on why it's good. Banter ensues. Greg makes up some reason to give funny points. Hilarity ensues, audience is interested in what that person will do next. Like, what's your proposed alternative?: Cheater cheats - gets caught - "yup I cheated" "k 0 points". If anything, there's even less potential for funny banter between Greg chastising them and stuff.

[@GeeLey]

Props to the production team for being meticulous about spotting these mischevious actions.

[@xnuntius]

That moment when Romesh let‘s that Watermelon explode on the Ground will never not crack me up

[@ronnieking989]

The heavy thud is what gets me man I'm dying

[@vickywitton1008]

I love that, he just goes into panic mode!

[@DemstarAus]

Pretty sure it wouldn't have exploded on its own 😂

[@lill1tha525]

I’d love a ‘forgetting the rules’ compilation with Lolly and the fish bowls and Charlotte and the rat

[@KaishaLouise]

and Aisling and the loaf of bread!

[@PonmonofNuggetor]

‘You may not touch the sand, done that. You may not move the buckets, done that. You may not leave the room, fuck it, lets do that as well.’

[@Jivvi]

Mawan forgetting he wasn't allowed to move the hoops. "Why didn't I think of that before‽"

[@Jivvi]

@@KaishaLouise also Aisling with the golden pineapple. "Photograph _yourself_ with this pineapple…" and she sent it to her mum.

[@craigcrissman4651]

And mark and standing on the ground

[@kelseywu3723]

I love that after all of Hugh's training Alex was still like "no that's you in that mirror"

[@July-gj1st]

But Hugh didn't cheat, he wasn't looking at the person he was looking at the reflection of the person. His example of "it's the same as a film" was absolutely correct, in fact it might have been a lot simpler to just ask the person to take a selfie and send it to him.

[@tamar597]

Ce n'est pas une pipe

[@froyocrew]

Looking at a reflection is the same thing, the light just changes direction but it's the same light (minus a bit of green)

[@MissCaraMint]

@@froyocrew Nah. It’s just not. You can’t make that argument when you have a Magritte parody painting as part of the Taskmaster set. In the immortal words of that Belgian artist “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”. An image of something is not the real object.

[@TheCheesyNachos]

The amazing thing is that the watermelon task and the bathtub task were both in episode 1 of season 1. Tim Key pretty much cheated right off the bat.

[@rietbergamber852]

"If Davies has got a problem with it, I'll knock him out" Greg: 👁👄👁

[@jsowau]

Greg in teacher god-mode is my new favourite thing “You’re not in trouble”😂

[@richy1988]

I love how Tim Key was seeing how much he could bend and break the rules right from s1

[@AynnCross]

I love it when teacher Greg comes out, i.e. asking Dave Gorman about the pea.

[@dzakya2537]

"In many ways it is the Michael Jackson story" I'm laughing so hard... Greg is a legend

[@joeriandries]

i had the difficult task of holding my laugh at that moment, i was eating lol, almost had spaghetti all over my laptop :p

[@ilregulator]

Mawaan did not break any rule hence he did not cheat. In the end he had the most spaghetti in the grapefruit and he stayed on his spot all the time. He followed all the rules and won.

[@serpentisma]

Hugh didn't cheat. He was spot on! He wasn't looking at the person, he was looking at her reflection. That was brilliant! Tim, on the other hand, well, Tim, "I'm going ask you a question, and I want you to answer honestly..."

[@eriesara6424]

Error 404: Noel Fielding messing with Alex's clock not found

[@MinekEzQM]

Also Noel not camouflaging himself. (A production member did, and not in 10 minutes after the task started.)

[@VendErre]

This is easily the most entertaining television I've ever seen. Really, honestly. Because it's about people. Explicitly. And it knows that fully and plays into it with glee. I'm a big fan of whoever brought this together. Very smart cookie.

[@optimisticpessimist248]

Alex made the show. He’s a whiz

[@o0Theresa0o]

Some of these are not cheating... they're just problem-solving with ingenuity.

[@PortsTM]

Tim Key, the one who opened the door for cheaters to come

[@patrickboner]

I love how you have so many cheating in this video and then a whole of dave gorman who we all know didn't cheat

[@EF01]

​@theobreitenbach91I just listened to that episode last night! He said that during the sweating task, he used some saliva

[@MisterItchy]

I seem to remember Noel Fielding stopping Alex's timer in one episode. I think they had to get flour on a table or something.

[@Jtngetabettername]

Yes, a team task: Put as much loose flour onto the target as possible

[@Dim4323]

That was a DQ

[@NCorteza0431]

This compilation takes the cake... everyone loves a sneaky pasta snake ahaha

[@danielguy3581]

No, Alex in Liza Tarbuck's task took the cake.

[@jagodak.6867]

@@danielguy3581 😂😂😂

[@Mini_Squatch]

I love hugh's attempt at a philosophical argument about an image vs a real person. Because scientifically, both instances involve light bouncing off the person and ultimately getting in your eyeballs

[@AFLoneWolf]

I love the moments when you can see exactly how Greg must have been as a schoolteacher.

[@matthewlacey4198]

Or James Acaster's "just open the box you pussy"

[@SonaraRuna]

Instead of "Liar Liar Pants on Fire", it's "Cheater Cheater Melon Eater"

[@marmarballz]

😂

[@zyaicob]

+

[@Fabian-sp6zw]

The stage chemistry between Romesh and Tim is comedy gold

[@BlueCanary7]

Hugh's mirror boils down to: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" According to art history, he's in the clear! [edit: corrected the French. Thanks, @Angelina!]

[@rizkyanandita8227]

What is that mean?

[@Angelina-bp8cs]

@@rizkyanandita8227 if i recall correctly, the phrase is actually "ceci n'est pas une pipe" which translates to "this is not a pipe". it's paired with a picture of a pipe, and means that it isn't a pipe because it's just the image of one

[@BlueCanary7]

@@Angelina-bp8cs Yes, that's it exactly, "the Treachery of Images" by René Magritte... as interpreted by Hugh Dennis. (And I should certainly have looked it up, instead of trusting my shoddy memory of a language I do not speak. Fixed. Thank you!)

[@danielguy3581]

@@BlueCanary7 So he should have also drawn a moustache on his portrait of the model.

[@chloeamick1245]

i think another good comparison is medusa. like you can’t look at her, you’ll turn to stone, but in like every adaptation it’s perfectly safe to look at her reflection because it’s not her in the flesh.

[@mollieherrington8985]

Tim Key once again proving to us that he is one of the best contestants of all time

[@cdgames69]

"You disguised your actions" "Of course, because it's cheating!" I'm fucking dead

[@score-crazyca]

The moment I saw the title my brain said to me ‘Dave Gorman’s gonna appear on this twice isn’t he?’

[@MinekEzQM]

I expected Noel at least 3 times. (Clock, pasta, camouflage)

[@csr050]

I'm with Hugh on the mirror part, man is just on another level

[@Confidence_isFashion]

THANK YOU for leaving Romesh his Watermelon smash in there 🤩🤩 I was feeling sad it wouldn't be in there because he didn't cheat

[@Girl95szia]

Then it did get left in for nothing.

[@Kaziklu]

If Dave was willing to toss the coffee... why not do it at the beginning and use the cup.

[@Drowninginantimatter]

The former teacher really jumped out when talking to David Gorman about peas.

[@craigcrissman4651]

"Im gonna ask you again..."

[@fraydizs7302]

This game is basically who can bend the rules the best and not get caught. And i love it.

[@DemstarAus]

I don't think bending the rules is the same as highlighting ambiguity in instructions, or in the interpretation of them.

[@ABRouleauville]

I wonder how many times the contestants cheat but don't get caught so we never hear about it.

[@TheMightofDab]

On the taskmaster podcast episode featuring Dave Gorman, he admits to Ed that he got away with cheating on a task. I forget which one it was exactly

[@GNVS300]

@Theo Breitenbach according to the wiki it was the sweat task, Dave spat in the eggcup and didn't get caught

[@thanossnap4170]

Holy shit. Romesh absolutely nuking that watermelon to the ground. I laughed for a good full minute at that!

[@reigningrockets]

Something about the phrase "sneaky pasta snake" just makes me so giddy.

[@TheHutchy01]

"Put me in the dark, I'm gonna have some fun" I'm sure Ashens was disappointed to hear that and find out what he'd missed out on

[@sarahni]

I absolutely lose it thinking that 1) Dave thought to do that 2) Someone agreed to it 3) It was Ben Fogle

[@feden8844]

YOU‘VE SEEN WHAT IM CAPABLE OF! Points at Alex’s naked foot 😂😂😂

[@tabelaskade4888]

Tim & Rob are like the two destructive naughty cousins you just can’t help but love

[@bertgarza2751]

Mawaan did not cheat. Mawaan inadvertently found a loophole. The rules were grapefruit can’t leave the room and the last 8 minutes feet must stay in the mark. Most spaghetti in the grapefruit wins. He got the most in the grapefruit. Fair win.

[@jacquelinelarios9947]

I know it might be an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't qualify Hugh Dennis' mirror as cheating nor Dave Gorman's use of an actor to yell the answers either. Hugh Dennis' travesty of a caricature is enough to disqualify him alone! And who doesn't love Dave's cheekiness!

[@kaldogorath]

I agree that Dave getting someone to yell isn't technically against the rules. But I do think Hugh cheated. They didn't say "you can't look DIRECTLY at her", they said you can't look at her at all - that would include an image of her be it in a mirror or a photograph.

[@jagodak.6867]

@@kaldogorath but the image of her will be always exactly that. An image. By touching an image of a person, you are not touching the person, ergo by looking at an image of a person you are not looking at the person

[@kaldogorath]

@@jagodak.6867 It's not harassment but it's still creepy

[@jagodak.6867]

@@kaldogorath What? Are you talking about my comment or what Hugh did? 😮

[@Colmgrant11]

Fun Fact: Ben Fogle is accredited on Wikipedia for his cameo in Taskmaster

[@shesemerald2011]

Ive watched Series 1-11 so many times. I still laugh hard AF at the watermelon, the exotic sandwich, flour toss and many others.

[@dorkinabubble7772]

There are few clips that make me INSTANTLY lose it, but Romesh just slamming that watermelon kills me every 👏🏻 time 👏🏻

[@kittykat490]

I think Hugh's mirror usage is perfectly brilliant. Ceci n'est pas une pipe logic... and if you're looking at someone in a mirror behind you, you are undeniably looking away from them, and not looking AT them. If his drawing hadn't been so terrible he could have really made something of that workaround 😂

[@MissCaraMint]

Yes exactly. And there is even a big Magritte like painting in that Taskmaster house. Clearly an endorsement of that very kind of logic.

[@zemja]

He could have handed his phone through, and asked her to take a picture and type her name.

[@EnycmaPie]

I feel like Al Murray paying his way through some of task is borderline cheating.

[@rizkyanandita8227]

Which one? As I'm concerned he follow the letter of the law (as far as I remember). Switching sweat with pee, now that's cheating.

[@davidm5646]

Weeeeeeeeell.. it's not specifically mentioned in the task. You can just say he's really really good at convincing people to do stuff for him.

[@richardlloyd2589]

On a selective basis, if it was done in an entertaining manner, then ok.

[@Steffy323]

What about a compilation of moments where the contestants just flat out didn’t see a HUGE clue or even the solution of the task somewhere in the area

[@ZielAmerak]

search for "Times the Answer Was Right There... | Taskmaster"

[@Steffy323]

@@ZielAmerak thank you!!

[@georgievelyn714]

Thought this would just be Tim Key

[@Tom-py9md]

Tim and Romesh need a co-writing credit cause they made this show! Legends

[@mrfocigaz4942]

I hope that's tongue in cheek about Tim!

[@mrshinebox1803]

Dave Gorman has always presented himself as being a bit cheeky, but I had no idea that he's a filthy dirty cheater. I love him even more now.

[@caseym6272]

Anyone else think of Medusa with the mirror? Definitely not cheating in my book

[@briondalion]

The most subtle wink I've ever seen. Perfect. Was he winking? Is the glass half empty or half full? haha. the caricature thing too. Genius....

[@brigri8]

Tim and Romesh on the watermelon task is hands down my most favourite tv moment of the decade

[@Namara8754]

Aw, no Sian cheating with the balls nor Jon taking an item with him because it didn't cross the river...

[@arpitranasaria4878]

I dotnt think mawaan cheated. There was no rule against stealing any pasta, and if they decide to measure it by amount left, that's their fault. Other more open loopholes in the rules are always allowed and this should too

[@WSK207]

Dave Gorman is one of my most fav contestant on this show. And one of my most fav comedians. And probably one of my most fav human being. Absolute legend.

[@jacquelinelarios9947]

same!

[@strayghoul]

I wonder if there's any cheaters that haven't been caught. Also love tim key

[@KryptoKn8]

I was wondering aswell: If you cheat in a task, then get awarded the points etc. Etc. And then, AFTER the next task you reveal that you cheated... Is it gonna be penalized? IMO you should get a bonus point if you manage to cheat without getting caught by anyone, especially since there's so many cameras

[@ReptillianStrike]

Caricature story: The mirror literally has a sticky note on the back of it that says "Do Not Take" lmao

[@Psyched_Crow]

I swear every time I watch Romesh completely smash that watermelon I lose it.

[@baitedlol6972]

I love the way Greg reacts whenever someone insults him 😂

[@OneBentMonkey]

Tim Key is just so adorable 🥰

[@michaelv4871]

Is this just a Dave Gorman compilation?

[@vinny142]

No, but he is the biggest cheater so he does appear most in a compilation of cheaters.

[@bonbin6053]

@@vinny142 u do realise that was a joke

[@gggalaxies4122]

17:45 I mean he has a point, it was worded you cannot look at the person behind the curtain, it did not say you cannot see what they look like

[@thezachman1]

Tim trying to jump ahead of Greg so he could try to petition his way out of last place is PEAK cheater behavior

[@aaronwilson9465]

The sheer contrast of Romesh's relaxed and collected attitude just walking into a room and absolutely yeeting the melon on the floor with no hesitation is possibly the funniest thing I've seen in ages. I think it's the noise it makes.

[@chrisburn7178]

Tim and Romesh with the watermelon is one of the funniest few minutes of TV ever.

[@MinekEzQM]

I miss the following cheats - Asking the production team to do a camera trickery instead of "camouflage yourself" - Winning the task "the largest thing disappears" with vanishing the smallest item - Making a match "hiss" while the task said "make the sauna stones hiss" - Stopping Alex's clock during a timed task - Picking up a red ball from the grass after the whistle And for Greg's sake, what is Hugh's solution doing here? Even in the Greek mythology Heracles (Hercules) survives the encounter with a gorgon by using a polished shield and not looking directly to it. (For the younger generation - Hermione with a mirror vs the Basilisk)

[@jagodak.6867]

I 100% agree with you, but I laughed out loud when I read about Medusa and Basilisk. It sounded like the older generation remembered the Ancient Greece 😂

[@tombstonerforever9374]

@@jagodak.6867 Wasn't it Perseus and Medusa?

[@jagodak.6867]

@@tombstonerforever9374 shit, you're right! It was Perseus, not Heracles!

[@richardlloyd2589]

They were asked to do art. Shakespeare said that art is holding up a mirror to life (or nature) Terry Pratchett quoted this. That’s good enough for me. 5 points to Hugh, plus a bonus!

[@tzagg1314]

I like the ”do not take” note on the back of the mirror

[@DokkaChapman]

"don't disrespect me or I'll make you come last" - things you'd hear on both Taskmaster & in a sex dungeon.

[@cgyarn]

I don’t think Hugh cheated.

[@meetaverma8372]

Exactly, he used physics

[@VanBourner]

@@meetaverma8372 even within semantics he was not cheating. You are looking at a reflection of an object, which is not the object.

[@grahamhume5953]

I'm not too sure. There was a note on the back of the mirror saying" Do not take ".

[@KryptoKn8]

@@grahamhume5953 oh really? Where.

[@grahamhume5953]

@@KryptoKn8 Fast forward to 16.33. There are two labels on the back. One says " Do not take " the other one says " Property of Taskmaster"

[@NocturnalLife-t1c]

I saw Hugh just a few feet away from Barbican station, I recognised him and we locked eyes for a sec, and he gave me a nod . That made my day, was such cool moment.

[@Dudotskiiiiii]

"In many ways, it is a Michael Jackson story" That line is amazing 😂😂

[@elizabeth-jackie]

Greg: Dave, I'm gonna ask you a question. Hahaha love it 😀

[@drchunkalicious]

Gorman just putting a pea into the racket had me howling when i watched it for the first time

[@katejohnson5039]

Tim’s “used to be a guy in my village, who would wear one of these.” Followed by him absolutely smashing the life out of that watermelon and grunting like he’s being murdered while he eats it, is an just an all time taskmaster moment

[@mist4620]

Romesh sprinting into the room and just fucking vaporising the watermelon on the floor cracks me up every time.

[@goldenpony822]

Had no memory of Gorman being caught so many times. Serves him right for being a bit of a smartass :D

[@lindseyziegler9869]

Tim Key's reactions to the tasks are the best. His whole body laughs!