Turn on the Bubble Machine! | Full Task | Taskmaster

From Series 14: Turn on the bubble machine. You may not step off or move the doormat.
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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.

[@MovieNut14]

"'Turn it on' how? Like, mechanically or sexually?" That's a rare sentence.

[@nerdlord2288]

Unless you have a cyborg gf

[@kiradotee]

Technically you can turn on some things mechanically AND sexually...

[@johnnydoe7846]

Who says that they are mutually exclusive 😅

[@marilynsparks5931]

I watched every second of this season and never once realized Fern's belt read "Taskmistress"! 2:13

[@stratobungle]

Likewise! Great catch!

[@jackwang9536]

Fern asked a fashion friend to design it for her. Her original intent was a comic book super-heroine look. But Fern's designer friend also happened to have a private S&M fetish clothing line. So it came out kind of "kinky". The original outfit had to be changed, because it had fake "nipples", which went against Channel 4 TV policies. So they went with the geometric look on the breastplate. Fern is pretty proud of it, and she definitely rocked that outfit.

[@nicoleh5768]

As does the piece around her neck

[@pvic6959]

@@jackwang9536 im glad im not the only one who thought the whole thing was a bit kinky :p not that i mindd LOL

[@jackwang9536]

​@@pvic6959It was definitely a sexy outfit. Fern did get a lot of creeps on her social media commenting about it, unfortunately, but she is bold for owning it. I rank it next to Phil Wang's Game of Death outfit mishap as the two best outfits on Taskmaster. And it's also ironic that Phil and Fern are close friends.

[@buttonsfan]

7:03 is a great genuine reaction to discovering the easiest way of doing the task

[@mysterious_drake]

Sarah's sheer, utter excitement of "OHMYGOD I FOUND IT!" was wonderful. But it became sublime when she followed it with the subdued, "Ohh, you *dicks*!... I hate you all." 😂😂😂

[@buttonsfan]

@@mysterious_drakeexactly

[@rollin340]

John not being in last place here was amazing.

[@lester44444]

I want to see Dara do escape rooms hahaha he gets giddy the same way ron swanson does puzzles

[@areallycreativechannelname]

John's venomous "...F*CK!" at 6:16 never fails to make me laugh

[@nwsimon]

6:16 also Sarah's time. Coincidence?!?!?! Yeah probably

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

​@@nwsimon??

[@nicosmind3]

That was like something out of a movie

[@coupdegras107]

3:42 Sarah's cackle is classic TM

[@dons8122]

I just Adore Sarah.. We all need more Sarah in our lives.

[@bushratbeachbum]

Ferns laugh at 3:20 is the nicest thing!!!

[@mc13579]

Fern's laugh does to my ears what bubble machines do to my eyes

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

This was such a fun task! More mcgyverr tasks please 👀

[@jackwang9536]

"Before Munya makes sweet sweet love to a bubble machine" is one of the funniest lines ever. Especially considering Munya's awesome R&B hip-hop parody videos. He should do a Kendrick Lamar song with a line about making love and turning on a bubble machine.

[@TheKraken5360]

This was a great cast.

[@half_chub]

well it is yet again confirmed for me, if i am ever lucky enough to be on an episode of task master, the first thing you do is scan your surroundings, even the smallest gaps

[@iso_2013]

The battery on the car even says "Look down" 😂

[@thecrimsonlip53]

I’ve heard there’s going to be six more series after the latest one . I still think they should make gregg do his own task or something in the last series

[@thecrimsonlip53]

Need jimmy carr Ricky gervais and Jack Whitehall on at some point too

[@Boketto26]

They've set an ending? 😢

[@knottage]

Greg has nothing to do with the tasks lol

[@shaunhouse8469]

I hope they gave Sarah a set of pens

[@jorgelenny47]

Every task reminds us of Jon's hidden genuis brilliancy

[@chrisbarry9345]

What did I miss? Sarcasm?

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

"Oh God not this bit" john ❤

[@mikkelaagaard4969]

endeed very well hidden

[@junghunt8645]

Don’t be so modest. I feel you could certainly rival his “genuis”.

[@chrisburn7178]

Has anyone in the history of taskmaster actually seen a secret message and found the rest easy to do a task?

[@djvWOODSTOCK]

Bob found the code to the briefcase in CoC on the front of the table.

[@iliketrains3495]

Yes. The first was Bob in COC when he found the number to unlock the briefcase, and Jamali found the recipe in the wallet for the batter

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

​​​@@iliketrains3495i feel like theres been one more but cant remember who or what. 🤣 Edit: Catherine Ryan!(I think) She found wood and stuff under the table when they were making a bridge. Guess thats not a "message" of sorts though

[@jackwang9536]

​@@andreaskarlsson5251 It was Morgana Robinson in series 12, ep. 3, for the "build the tallest sand bridge task". Alex gave Morgana a teeny tiny bit of help. Morgana picked up a crow that had "Troy" written on it. Alex gently asked "do you know about how they rescued Helen (of Troy)?" Morgana shouted, "AAAHHH" and she opened up the secret compartment under the table with all sorts of hardware. In Katherine Ryan's series 2, they also had to build a bridge. There were clues all over the lab, like the toy boat with "Debajo de la mesa" (under the table) written on it. There were signs that said "Look under the table". None of the contestants figured it out. Katherine did not either. Jon Richardson was the closest to figuring it out, because he read "debajo de la mesa" (but didn't translate it).

[@sparo_splat]

Jamali finding the secret message in the wallet when the contestants had to figure out the deep fried items.

[@johncameron4194]

Give Sarah those pens

[@nilloc93]

So john would have actually won if he hadn't spent 5 minutes arguing about the machine being on

[@Narokkurai]

Wow, okay, I've discovered I have a "type" and it is, in fact, Fern Brady.

[@MainGoldDragon]

that was a pretty nice little task and kinda room escape-y

[@rotorsvein]

Im so in love with Fern :o

[@shibainu2528]

It would've been a terrible idea, but I think I might've tried making do with only two of the batteries. I remember how, if you have only a single AA battery for a 2 AA battery remote, you can use a metal bolt or something to act as a "bridge" of sorts, making it so that a single AA would work. It would've been dangerous since, in theory, that would mean that the coat hanger would've become an exposed live wire... but it *might* have worked.

[@KimJongPhil]

4:54 you turn it on...

[@somethingelse9176]

3:01 turns out it was Dara who made sweet sweet love to the bubble machine!!

[@maxpoppe]

I'm surprised nobody opened the remote controller

[@mashpotato832]

Dara is the best person on this show ever

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

He just had a jolly old time 🥳🥳

[@farrelfoster-lynam6683]

Pairing him him with Fern and John for team tasks was a stroke of comedic genius

[@iliketrains3495]

@@farrelfoster-lynam6683 I'd like to think that was presented to him as "we've got a team of two there who are up against the most overpowered contestant in the history of the show, but to make it fair... you're in a team with John Kearns"

[@lolasunflower6350]

I have those pens😂😅 or rather had them when I was a child!

[@aaronhusk]

The task said to turn it on, it didn’t say it had to work.

[@Thepoetrycookervideo]

Is it just me or is Fern effing freezing?

[@rocklanrocks]

You can't step off the mat. So jump off it.

[@phonotical]

9900mAh 🤣 you guys bought fake batteries 🤣🤣

[@nekonesto5601]

Good catch!

[@ErinEnoArt]

9900mah do exist and you can buy them. They may not be proven safe, but you can get them 😉👍

[@phonotical]

@@ErinEnoArt then all you've shown is that you know nothing about batteries, 9.9amos is impossible in an 18650 and anything g smaller than it, at best you might get 3000mah and that's it, that is the limit of capacity for this form factor, if you've purchased anything like this which claims to be any higher then you have been lied to

[@icturner23]

@@phonoticalIs there anything more boring that anyone could possibly know than about batteries? Jesus fucking Christ.

[@njmartinez29]

@@phonoticalNice to hear from youtubes resident battery expert!

[@photobackflip]

The task was to turn the machine on, not supply power to the machine. Flick the switch and it is on. Task done.

[@erickrahn]

lol, Dara stepped off to stop the toy truck.

[@barneymetcalfe8896]

His foot never touched the ground

[@bootieos7701]

A bit controversial but I would've used one of the markers and wrote 'On' on the bubble machine and turned it by rotating it. Or, I could use the Bridget method and sat on top of the bubble machine by placing it on the doormat and turning myself.

[@BerkeleyMatthew]

My first thought was to loudly remonstrate with the bubble machine, saying "We used to be such friends but no more!" And then smash it to pieces.

[@bootieos7701]

@@BerkeleyMatthew That is a clever twist on the words.

[@nicholaswopperer5092]

Technically speaking, flipping the switch from the off position to the on position is turning the machine on. Task over. What they should have said was make the machine operational. John was right

[@AFriskyGamer]

Depends on the take. Turning the light on is making it functional. Some things aren't "on" without power running through them

[@nicholaswopperer5092]

@@AFriskyGamer you are right. But that’s why they should have specified. There is too much grey area in the directions,(even though I know that’s part of the game)

[@Dqtube]

@@nicholaswopperer5092 The button on the device may have been a decoy and it cannot be detected without a supply of power. The Taskmaster is full of objects masquerading as something else and traps for the contestants.

[@djvWOODSTOCK]

If someone asks you to please turn on the bubble machine and you don't bother to plug it in, you're a prick. Clearly the intent behind the task matters.

[@youtube-kit9450]

​@@djvWOODSTOCKpeople hate when tasks become overly convoluted with too many caveats and rules but then argue shit like this. Iirc a reason why Alex and Greg kinda regret the draw cactus shit from series 15 because it opened stupid floodgates.

[@Vtarngpb]

John was Genuinely shite in this series 😂

[@EnoVarma]

He still won two episodes, I do not know how.

[@francisco2013]

And the series was better because of it! Love his sabotage task

[@iliketrains3495]

@@EnoVarma my guy won more episodes than Noel Fielding lmao

[@johncameron4194]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@gand0]

What Dara's wife told him? Cant understand that accent

[@ryanschwartz4959]

"Always check under the table."

[@nekonesto5601]

To always look under the table.

[@gand0]

Thanks!

[@phonotical]

I'd argue it says just turn it on, it doesn't say make it work (update, I'll no longer be responding to strawman arguments along the lines of, well if you had a toaster and it wasn't making heat then it isn't on, when in reality, if the toaster is faulty but you do not yet know it, how can you say you have turned it on because it doesn't work, if it doesn't work then clearly you did not turn it on)

[@myguyry]

If you flip a light switch, and the light does not illuminate, would you say that light is on?

[@ArgusStrav]

@@myguyry It's flipped into the on-position, it's just not *powered*.

[@myguyry]

@@ArgusStrav so if you walked by a dark light bulb, would you say that light is on? Does the position of the switch matter if the light is not actually 'on'?

[@phonotical]

@@myguyry the switch is in the in position, it's on!

[@myguyry]

@@phonotical So if I asked you to turn the lights on, you've done your job as long as the switch is activated. Regardless of whether or not the switch does anything?

[@katieblade7083]

Now

[@thebeardedjohn]

Fern is so so so so odd

[@manumoreau444]

she's on the spectrum :)

[@NeaonBHB]

Fern? Is that a normal name from that part of the world?

[@katharina...]

It is a normal Old English name, although not a common one. Saying that, Fern Brady is Scottish not English, so her name is probably even rarer where she's from.

[@swj719]

The last thing this show needs as a competitor is a lawyer. Flock the power to on. Done. It saod nothing about havingnpower, said nothing about it running. The task, as wrotten, would jave been completed.

[@Shelsight]

Huh? 🙄

[@swj719]

@@Shelsight the instruction were to turn the machine on. Flip the switch to on. The instructions said nothing about making the machine run. By the letter of the instructions, you will have completed the task.

[@abbyS234]

​@@swj719 John tried that and Greg said it wasn't on

[@AFriskyGamer]

@@swj719 Turn on, as in "provide power". Flipping the switch to on does not turn it on. Similar to turning on a light. The light would have to be on for me to have turned on the light.

[@jasperdevries1726]

@@abbyS234 exactly - if Greg decides not to care he might agree that the task was badly written (by Little Alex Horne, of course), but you still don't get the point