The Head-scrambling Pipe Task | Series 12 | Taskmaster

Either get the pipe through the box and everything in it then get the box and everything in it through the pipe or get the box and everything in it through the pipe then get the pipe through the box and everything in it. Fastest wins.
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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.

[@phichay1000]

imagine a task that just said "Your time starts now"

[@trixter21992251]

instantly state "I'm done, stop the time."

[@andsailedcalmlyon]

They had one! Series 3 episode 2.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

could make it a 'choose your own adventure' task where the clock only stops after you read and complete the right sequence of tasks

[@pvic6959]

@@trixter21992251 its a trick. longest time wins or how about "shortest or longest time wins. your time starts now"

[@anttibjorklund1869]

@@AsbestosMuffins They had one. Can't remember what series it was, but there was a series of tasks to do, there was a correct sequence but the contestants didn't know it and could choose what order they did the tasks.

[@helenjordan1236]

I love how Victoria really let loose and seemed like she was enjoying herself as the season goes on

[@TheScottyStrife]

I just love Victoria. Such a fun, and beautiful woman

[@MatPandaZ]

@@TheScottyStrife I've been thinking about it a lot and she really is everything you would want in a woman. Smart, funny, beautiful, not intimidating in the slightest and just all around lovely. I'd take Victoria over all the Jessica albas out there.

[@jacobsmith-hi6ey]

in one of the episodes, she says as the series goes on, she craves for death to take her.

[@katza831]

Cept for always forgetting her glasses

[@paulwalsh2344]

"OK, I've got a longer stick, a tape measure and a snack to reward myself..." .... I know I say it every episode and special compilation of this series of Taskmaster... but Victoria Coren Mitchell is just so adorable...

[@jackuw]

It makes me really happy to see the new and mysterious locations they decide to film in

[@jonmobrien]

I love the three different interpretations of through the box "and everything in it". I interpreted it the same way as Alan, with everything in it the box. The way the girls did it seems to be the way they expected, pushing the pipe through every individual item that was in the box individually. And then there was Guz' wonderful interpretation of pushing the pipe through the box with everything in it the pipe!

[@rickardelimaa]

"Get the pipe through the box and everything in it" What is "it" in this case? The pipe or the box? I would argue that it can be interpreted as either one. If it's the pipe, then the sentence can be read as "Get the pipe and everything in it through the box". Just the empty pipe would suffice. I'm not a native speaker.

[@nicolaashamman6201]

@Rickard Elimää Certainly it could be interpreted that way, but there's also "get the box and everything in it through the pipe", so "everything in it" only makes sense for the box in one part of the text, so even if one thinks of it as "everything in the pipe", they'll probably backsolve it to be associated with box in both cases. Otherwise it's just confusing writing, and Alex would never write something to be confusing...

[@JackVermicelli]

I think Alan's interpretation was fair-- the instructions said "everything," not "each of the things."

[@KathleenFeliciano]

Wouldn't it need to be "the box *with* everything in it" for one to be allowed to just put the pipe through the box that was full? I give up. I already have a headache even typing this comment. 😂

[@jonmobrien]

@everyone exactly. One of the better tasks because it's worded deliberately badly. It is bad English sentence structure. Ambiguous. Deliberately for the purpose of hurting heads trying to work out how to interpret it with the clock against you resulting in high rating tv show syndicated globally.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

I was completely baffled by this task. I would’ve stared at Alex like he was mad. Then, I guess I’d try. I guess. 🤪

[@flyawaytodie]

Tim Key must have an absolute blast helping to come up with these tasks.

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

Calling it The Great Push was hilarious!

[@luciahoneybee]

My favorite part! 😂

[@beng4186]

Greg: *speaks in towering intimidating voice* Everyone else: *cowers in fear* Victoria: "What?!"

[@lazthegreat10]

Lmao won't rip the sponge uses a wooden knife instead, that's the most upperclass move I've ever seen

[@Harvey1211]

I’ve watched this task (well, I’ve watched every task) multiple times and I still pick up on new things. Sliding a ring of sponge around a drainpipe causes Victoria to ask Alex “Are you finding this erotic?” You really do see a deep glimpse of every contestant’s mind on this show lol.

[@Userdontabuser77]

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 ive seen every task well multiple times

[@jonhohensee3258]

Harvey - I would never find anything Victoria does erotic.

[@Davidbruun]

It was actually the two pieces of sponge she just held together, which I think should have prompted disqualification.

[@Harvey1211]

@@Davidbruun Bear in mind, this task was in Episode 7 (or 8) of the season so Victoria was in last place by a substantial amount at this point. I think that Greg was willing to let that sort of technicality be swept under the rug since it could not have made much difference at this stage. Besides, there probably wasn’t much she could do after slicing the sponge up.

[@201081hero]

I like any clip that has Morgana swearing in it.

[@flippetskater]

So, most of them? 😄

[@FlowPlusNRG]

"You finding that erotic?" Alex Horne:"YES!!!"

[@AJPemberton]

anything with Victoria in it is at least a little erotic!

[@jonhohensee3258]

I would never find anything Victoria does erotic.

[@w49660]

That task should have been written like "get the pipe through the box and EACH ITEM in it...", otherwise I think Alan was the only one who did it correctly

[@Tao_Tology]

Exactly. 'the box and everything in it' can be counted as 1 thing. Slide the tube through that 1 object and you have gotten it through the box.

[@andrewg3196]

I think the point is that it's linguistically ambiguous. That way there's multiple solutions which is more interesting. Your way is more explicitly defined but also more boring and this is a TV show not a university entrance exam.

[@ladambell]

I’ve seen this task twice now, and I still don’t know if I would’ve been able to figure it out in the moment.

[@RIXRADvidz]

When I need some Happy, Task Master always has a healthy dose ready.

[@anthonygonzalez2187]

I love taskmaster . It's the best series I have ever seen . I can't wait for 15 to start . It's soooo funny

[@nmmn391]

I think the problem was the formulation because in my opinion Alan did it right as well. Technically, he put the pipe through the box and everything in it. Because the box had everything still in it and he put the pipe through that box. Maybe the better formulation for his attempt would have been: "ut the pipe through the box with everything in it" ... But it is confusing. Also another question would be: what does the word *it" refer to, when it says "put the pipe through the box and everything in it". Does that mean I could put everything from the box into the pipe and just push the pipe through the empty box? Because technically the "it" could refer to either the box or the pipe in each of the sentences. In the mentioned example the "it" would refer to the things in the pipe ... I am even more confused and I think the language on this one should be specified or serve as an example for why people understand literature and texts generally differently.

[@michaelwinter742]

A lack of commas would make this task impossible to decipher

[@johnwhittaker311]

I would always go pipe through things first, just because you would need to destroy a lot of the items to get them through the tube. I love Victoria, but I would hardly call sliding two half’s of a sponge down a pipe “getting the pipe through the sponge”

[@AshtaAJ]

My immediate thought was to leave everything in the box; then make a hole in the box and feed the pipe through. Then dump everything out and feed it through the pipe. Surprised no one did this.

[@AJPemberton]

the wording of the task was "box AND everything in it" not "box WITH everything in it." That would mean the pipe through the box and then through the sponge and then the tights, etc.

[@AshtaAJ]

@@AJPemberton I think the phrasing is definitely ambiguous enough to allow for the items to remain in the box as a unit. If the phrasing were “and each item in the box,” you would be 100% correct. But if you think of “everything in the box” as a unit, if the pipe is being fed through a collective group of the items lumped inside the box, it is still going through “everything in the box.”

[@Davey101_]

@@AshtaAJ Alan did this and they gave him zero for it.

[@AshtaAJ]

@@Davey101_ I think he took the stuff out of the box.

[@Davey101_]

@@AshtaAJ 1:13

[@Chrishm0]

I would suggest that Alan did put the pipe through the box (and everything in it) as it looked like everything was still in the box when he put the pipe through it But I might have missed something.

[@TPH250290]

I definitely think that if Alan had wanted to plead the Susie Dent Defence here he could have got away with his interpretation of the task.

[@Yewtewba]

I would argue that because the box had things in it, he didn't, but because Guz's box was empty it had nothing in it so just putting it through the box was fine. All up to the whims of the taskmaster

[@stupidas9466]

The key is the wording. If it said "with everything in it" then your interpretation would be correct. However it said "and".

[@xander1052]

@@stupidas9466 and can still allow the alternate wording, just not quite as easily.

[@themug406]

I dont really know who she is but Im crushing on Morgana

[@krashd]

British-based comedian and real-life participant of the parent trap (her sister being Aussie rockstar Brody Dalle who she was separated from as a kid).

[@Soloman_Gumball]

That building was good for remote tasks.

[@hypochlorite]

Just missing "how many items does Allen have around him?" and you've got the average math problem.

[@stacktus9158]

I would’ve done the same thing Allen did, they should’ve asked Judy Dench about the wording.

[@StarmanStarman]

Gotta love bing bong bing

[@AsbestosMuffins]

always love gus's philosophising

[@rhiannon.de.rohan-thomas]

Why did no one put everything in the stockings to make it a long sausage that could theoretically push itself through the pipe? Am I the only one thinking this? If the stockings were footless, just tie the foot in a knot like you would a balloon. You'd still have to break up the sponge & all that jazz, but once it's all in the stockings, it's just one long object to push through. 🤷

[@Romial34]

Take a shot every time someone reads the instructions after they started, lol.

[@pvic6959]

ok google, nearest hospitals for alcohol poisoning

[@grelgen]

why didn't Guz get points? He put the pipe through the box and everything in it, "It" being the pipe.

[@torbergqvist8151]

He forgot to put the pipe through everything except the box, it seems.

[@living.ocalan9931]

@@torbergqvist8151 did he not do that like twice though?

[@terranovarubacha5473]

In that sentence, "it" is clearly the box. That's a basic grammar rule. No way around it

[@jasond4084]

@@terranovarubacha5473 if we are going semantics here then I propose that you empty the box prior to anything. No rule about keeping anything in the box. Push pipe…push box…done. Or push the pipe through the box and all it’s contents then since the box is empty just push the box only through the pipe. Rules are meant to be…interpreted 😂

[@stupidas9466]

Haven't seen the full task, just this clip so i' just guessing. Two things…firstly he didn't do the tasks in the stated order and secondly, i noticed when he was "done" there was still a piece of the cardboard box inside the tube.

[@slyasleep]

I like a good prod.

[@mini696]

It's quite simple really. Get the pipe through the box - Empty the box, push the pipe through it. And everything in it - Get everything, including the box in the pipe. Then get the box and everything in it through the pipe - its already in there, push it through. Or Get the box and everything in it through the box - simple enough, push it all through the pipe. Then get the pipe through the box - get it through the box. And everything in it - get everything in the pipe again.

[@tobiasassmann1256]

Get the Top Gear guys on this

[@danielarlay]

such an underrated series ngl

[@FMFvideos]

When series 15?

[@dcptiv]

3:03 Jebus is from the Simpsons. Homer always says help me jebus rather than jesus

[@johncameron4194]

The snack

[@lazthegreat10]

Desiree says snooker right They're crazy snooooooooker

[@xwaltranx]

Bing bong bing 😂

[@fenhen]

It’s like that Peppa Pig song.

[@Tao_Tology]

'Hello, campers. Hi-De-Hi!'

[@danbrit9848]

I want to see the crew that makes the challenges do challenges the guests make

[@dmontes133]

Victoria is a goddess!

[@jonhohensee3258]

I would never find anything Victoria does erotic.

[@eastmeetswestpresents6923]

For a minute I thought Morgana was Bebe Rexha

[@alan62036]

Why not just throw everything out the box? Then you just need to worry about the pipe and the box

[@Xhadp]

It’s a shame that we have to rely of correct verbal interpretation for this task and the ring the bell with five different negatives. Feels like a better solution would be to post the task on the bottom of the screen during the task attempts.

[@KuroroSama42]

Allan got "the pipe" through "the box and everything in it". The task wasn't worded "through the box and through everything in it", so that ambiguity works in Allan's favour here. He clearly understood it as the former and shouldn't be punished for the tasks bad wording.

[@lincroyableprocrastinateur5414]

Shove everything into the tights, they go through the pipe doing the splits, then tie the feet together and fling the pipe through the circle.

[@LiMiNAL_]

As a pipe lifter this task infuriates me in it's simplicity.

[@johncameron4194]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@cheeseus9059]

Anyone else notice Victoria didn't put the pipe through the elastic on the cutlery at the end? Her points should be removed.

[@silversan9300]

lol

[@interstellarhaggis]

This is so infurating to watch

[@MsHojat]

Not really a fan of this task.

[@jimshoes]

fart binky

[@WontShaveTilUnder250]

First!!!!!!!

[@schr75]

So what!!!!?????

[@bloodwrage]

To be fair, the n being able to read is an achievement in itself

[@frankshailes3205]

"The n"?

[@krashd]

@@frankshailes3205 Just a bigot being a bigot.

[@slartybartfast4213]

it's an achievement that a reptilian cunt like yourself is capable of constructing a sentence, did your parole officer help you?

[@bloodwrage]

@@slartybartfast4213 You just wrote a run-on sentence. Please learn English.

[@slartybartfast4213]

@@bloodwrage No.

[@lastfirst5689]

Well I never! The black American wins. I'm not being racist I'm stating facts. Greg is seriously boring, all he does is repeat what the conts say. I liked this show when it wasn't pc

[@StarmanStarman]

What's pc?

[@lastfirst5689]

@@StarmanStarman politically correct

[@krashd]

She won because she was the quickest to do the task correctly. I know you lot like to see bias everywhere but this is clutching at straws mate.

[@lastfirst5689]

@@krashd I know she was the quickest. I made that comment to see if anyone would take the bait, you won the durrrr prize. The pc comment was because the show used to be able to make questionable jibes about whichever contestant they chose but that's all gone, recently they have 'safe' guests aimed at a certain market. Greg is still boring though

[@noeonoohno4219]

Victoria Coren gives me the vibes of a massively transphobic person.

[@chrisjones5411]

This task was probably my least favourite of series 12. It just felt needly complicated and not particularly entertaining. There were definitely some bangers that series too 🎈

[@themadplotter]

This show will be dead the season victorias brother is on