Make the Balloon Hover for 20 Seconds | Full Task | Taskmaster

[@brianappleby5481]

I think Mike should’ve gotten a bonus point for the sheer dedication to the task

[@cook_plate_click]

You mean sneer dedication?

[@ShadabGhafar]

Surely he deserved to get multiple bonus points as he tried the best method.

[@just-tess]

I think he should've just won outright since Jamali's was not by any means hovering!

[@elizabethscott7904]

The Woz vaulting over a fence to chase the balloon is just so iconic.

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

It was like a whole super hero sequence, phone booth quick change almost included😂

[@maxgraivier2024]

Hey all. Scott here.

[@neverclever0]

Any man who can hop a fence in a suit is a man worthy of respect.

[@Iamrobot8]

Mike hunting down the balloon is one of the most impressive things I've seen on Taskmaster.

[@YoJesusMorales]

Wozniak did so good there. The fact that Lee and Charlotte didn't even think to go under some sort of roof is kinda interesting, classic limited by where you received the task mentality.

[@thejintymyster6396]

Kathryn Parkinson

[@YoJesusMorales]

@@thejintymyster6396 Katherine Parkinson was on the Richard Herring series, not this one. That was Charlotte Ritchie.

[@thejintymyster6396]

@@YoJesusMorales I know I was just making a point about contestants who thought they were limited to the room they read the task in

[@YoJesusMorales]

@@thejintymyster6396 Oh yeah, definitely, but Lee has seen quite a bit of the show though. I think Charlotte also saw a bit of it before recording. Katherine just didn't know what she was getting into.

[@acookie7548]

Hopping over a fence and catching a runaway balloon in eight minutes is actually amazing

[@cazzabojangles]

Charlotte and Lee were doomed to fail as soon as they read the task- Lee couldn't find it and Charlotte couldn't untie it

[@cnaizhen]

Lee had a chance if he slowly cut out the sponge to reduce its weight. But its going to be hard trying to get the exact weight.

[@fionnaduncan8735]

If Lee had just kept the sponge on the balloon and torn a few chunks from it, he would have nailed it.

[@StonetheDestroyer42]

He had the best approach of any of them, if he'd just grabbed some scissors and took the thought to its conclusion

[@Nesuniken]

@@StonetheDestroyer42 Didn't Mike use the same principle?

[@StonetheDestroyer42]

@@Nesuniken He did! But the sponge was especially brilliant because he could quickly and easily modify its mass without removing it from the balloon, if he'd thought to. Props to Mike for grabbing the perfect counterweight, though. He would have been a little slower than Lee if they both had to alter the weight, though, I think.

[@Nesuniken]

@@StonetheDestroyer42 Ah, I see now

[@joelangley7974]

@@StonetheDestroyer42I think that what Lee was trying to, or about to do when he let go

[@abxorb]

Sticking a balloon on something doesn't make it hover. It makes it stick. Mike Wozniak should've won that task imo, since he was the only one who properly made the balloon hover.

[@kaddish921]

Wozniak certainly had the most impressive performance, but he tethered his balloon to something! I think he got off lucky

[@BalrogQuote]

​@@kaddish921 It wasn't tethered down though, which I'm pretty sure is what was meant.

[@StonetheDestroyer42]

The dictionary definition of "tethered" specifies attaching something to a rope or chain, so Mike is in the clear. (They all were on that requirement, including Jamali, though his might not have been a hover.) But there's also the distinction that a tether restricts movement, and Mike's balloon could have been moved infinitely in any direction if led.

[@izPanda_]

@@StonetheDestroyer42 the dictionary definition of hover is remain in one place in the air. I would argue that Jamalis balloon remained in one place in the air

[@StonetheDestroyer42]

@@izPanda_ Oh, he's the true semantic champion then!

[@lhfirex]

The sneering addition to this task makes it go from "funny physics problem" to "fantastic comedic potential." That feels like the Taskmaster approach.

[@brandonthompson5796]

Now I only count by going "1 sneery sneery, 2 sneery sneery"

[@zaloop]

to measure the weight perfectly you can use a rope. Tie it to the balloon and drop it on the floor, Ballon will pick up some of the rope, cut it where it stops picking it up and it will be hovering.

[@iseriver3982]

'sorry, I thought you was going to call it. That's 45 seconds.' 😂 😂

[@nickmahr3354]

Mike deserved an extra point for that level of dedication

[@just-tess]

he deserved the win for Jamali's not hovering!

[@anneliblom]

Mike Wozniak's "greek dance" and the chase was gold!

[@wyrmseyeview9555]

"You look like a department head at a local council who's just been fired" is such a brilliant line. Deserved a better reception in the studio. The lack of live audience in this series caused a few issues with joke delivery and timing.

[@eavening4149]

The static cling to the hair was hilarious!

[@puzZzlewithpans]

Greg is so stingy with his bonus points. Mike should have won that for sheer spirit

[@just-tess]

should have won for Jamali's not hovering!

[@Alexand3ry]

@@just-tess Also, the bottom of Jamali's baloon was clearly lower than his waist. Evident because he stuck the balloon under something tied around his waist.

[@Kabitu1]

How does Jamali get points when he was just holding it? Was Greg not gonna argue if someone just held it out in their hands? "My hands aren't a tether!"

[@paintballplayer700]

For real, I don't know why they just accepted his claim that sticking a balloon under his sweater counts as hovering.

[@offthehookproductions4481]

I agree with you but thats the beauty of this show... its all completely subjective!

[@StonetheDestroyer42]

It wasn't tethered, because a tether involves a rope or a chain! Now, the hovering bit is a different story...

[@IrregularPineapples]

@@StonetheDestroyer42 so you agree then that holding it with your arms would not be a tether.....? btw I want to sell you some bridges

[@shumatsuplaran7251]

@@IrregularPineapples It doesn't match the definition of the word. Words have specific meanings, and we really need to stop trying to apply new meanings to real words.

[@JamesWilson-ts5xk]

@taskmaster - love the show! (aussie living in Toronto, Canada). But how did you not give Mike extra points for retrieving the balloon?! The bravery, the athleticism, the commitment, his resolve in the phone booth etc, I could go on, that was shown by this man deserves some sort of trophy in his name! No? 🏆🙏😂 I’m currently in the addiction phase for @taskmaster right now. Haha So good!

[@just-tess]

TM's gotten stingy with bonus points since he cracked down on strict task following too, but that should've meant Jamali's didn't count and Mike won outright!

[@henryaung7229]

Mike is my fucking hero for still having his child like energy and recovering that balloon

[@nickbemo9940]

I can’t believe nobody just let the balloon float underneath a table or something, that’s the first thing to come to my head

[@MisterAppleEsq]

That's kinda what Charlotte did by holding the task paper above the balloon, I don't know if it's really hovering.

[@just-tess]

yeah that's definitely not hovering. a balloon against the ceiling is not hovering either - floating sure, but not hovering. Jamali's wasn't hovering either, Mike was robbed!

[@dancoulson6579]

I think take the balloon indoors where there is no wind to conend with. The sponge could have been a good approach, fine tuning the weight by repeatedly removing tiny amounts at a time and re-testing. You'll never get it balanced perfectly. But you could get it to a point where it's slow enough of a rise or fall to stay withing the bounds for 20 seconds.

[@dlbattle100]

Mike should have won, he's the only one who came close to actually making it hover.

[@RosaCanina15]

"One sneery sneery, two sneery sneery" Love Mike

[@rootkite]

Seemed to me like Jamali was anxiously waiting for an argument about his "hovering" so he could get angry; his glum expression after he wins the task is priceless, he literally looks like a frowny face emoji :( A surly, aggressive dude. Meanwhile, Wozniak steals my heart as ever :)

[@Missjunebugfreak]

Mike Wozniak is easily one of my favorite contestants. He's just amazing.

[@GraemeGunn]

I don't think he "wanted to get angry".

[@ericcarlstrom7220]

@@GraemeGunn well I imagine not actually angry but he was probably gonna do a skit where he pretends to be angry or at the very least heated.

[@rootkite]

@@GraemeGunn I overstated that part, yeah, my bad! What I meant is I think JM often behaves in a juvenile and belligerent way, and it makes my viewing experience a step too cringy for my tastes. Still, I'm also here for it; TM is all human emotion and observation, and I shouldn't judge how others conduct themselves. Self-righteous aggression just bugs me a lot, good TV or not. I hope someone is writing a sociological study or something on this show :D Although the podcast is great for unpacking too.

[@samfitzpatrick7891]

I have a T-Shirt of Mike's fence jump on

[@micheal2458]

the hair cling and the phone booth dance were the only 2 that actually hovered it!

[@HHh-ej4rl]

8:50 It's Mike as Mr. bean! 😂😂

[@BDAShadow1]

"So what's your job?"

[@RealSalica]

i missed Mike so much !!!! You need to bring him back , PLEASE !!!!

[@paulcook7426]

I've no idea how I would have made it hover, but I'd have given some consideration to either popping or letting down the balloon first.

[@Jacksirrom]

he lived a whole life with that balloon

[@VarenvelDarakus]

what shot with airplane and baloon next to it flying off was amazing

[@FreeTacozYT]

Mike is some sort of superhuman weirdo. Freakin hilarious

[@TransScootsMcGoots]

The thumbnail image has a typo, it's misspelled "baloon' btw Alex Horne

[@robertellis6853]

I haven't seen the reslts yet, but the easiest way to do this is get a ball of twine, tie the loose end to the balloon, then let the balloon go up until the wieht of the line counteracts the buoyancy of the balloon. Cut the twine at ground level, pull the balloon back down, and then tie the mass of twine in a bundle and place the neutrally bouyant balloon at chest level. Maybe cut the line just a bit long so you can fine tune it if necessary.

[@lolglolblol]

Damn, this task is a bitch and a half for semantics. Nevertheless, Woz definitely deserved some bonus points

[@just-tess]

he deserved an outright win! whether it rules out tethering or hovering, that sweater was obviously holding the balloon in place

[@hazel9490]

I can vividly imagine it: Local Man Stuck In Mineshaft After Chasing Balloon For Reality TV Show Taskmaster Witnesses state that he “really wanted to win”. After the local fire department were able to facilitate contact through a walkie-talkie lowered into the shaft, the man stated that he “got it to hover” & is reported repeatedly questioning rescue personnel “does it still count?”.

[@lillithdv8]

A sneary-sneary unit of time

[@RestoreTechnique]

You can let helium out until it hovers. Or let some helium out, and blow some air in it. But it's a bit risky, cause if you let too much helium out you're stuffed.

[@ChrisWDow]

When you're tasked with making a KZbin thumbnail and don't quite succeed. I'll award 2 points simply because of the effort.

[@grimftl]

As soon as I discovered it was helium, my 1st step would be to take it inside.

[@emercycrite]

Mike Wozniak is amazing.

[@lilystone9621]

Absolute my favorite person! What a champ!

[@Volkaer]

Mike should have got that - the other two contestants were not 'hovering' by definition.

[@davidbrent8031]

Long live Wozza, the mighty fence hopper!

[@KaleidoscopeEffect]

Mike deserved a bonus point for getting the balloon back 🤣

[@gemma3877]

Was Jamali's balloon above his waist?!

[@needamuffin]

It didn't occur to me until just now that "tethered" means "connected to a rope or chain". Holding the balloon is not tethering it.

[@geetarwanabe]

It doesn't mean that. Tethering is just an verb for "to restrain" so by holding it you are restraining it.

[@needamuffin]

@@geetarwanabe That's the colloquial definition, but the formal definition is what I said earlier. Using pedantic definitons as routes for lateral thinking has worked on Greg before so I think that would have worked. The definition of "hover" would be the next hurdle, though.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

@@geetarwanabe No one would ever describe holding onto something with your hand as "tethering" it. Don't try to pull some pedantic colloquial definition to pretend otherwise. Tethering means tying something to another object so it can no longer move independently. Attaching a weight is arguably tethering, because you tethered the weight to the balloon. Trapping it with another object over it or holding onto the balloon is not "tethering" it. Alex was repeatedly asking them if it counts as "tethering" because the rules of tasks have been established via precedent to be more focused on the letter of the task and not the "spirit" of it. Alex is intentionally confusing them by getting them to question their own definition of "tether" and whether it could count. This is all besides the point that absolutely no one ever would say they "tethered" a balloon by holding it. A "tether" is a strap/rope/chain that attaches two objects to each other. To "tether" an object as a verb, you would attach the (noun) tether to said objects. The adjective form referring to a set of objects that have been tethered together.

[@jkid1134]

"tethered" means about as little as "hovered". the show is designed for subordination to madness, to create the appearance but not the substance of a fair and logical system, to inspire indignation. maybe the taskmaster would allow you to cheese it, maybe he would say piss off no points, but it's certainly a matter of whim more than any kind of technicality or spirit.

[@needamuffin]

@@jkid1134 Time and time again, they've honored pedantic definitons in this show, even going as far as to call upon Susie Dent to confirm ambiguity. The show is primarily designed to entertain which mostly comes from people making fools of themselves, but a few clever contestants, Roid Gilbert being the standout in my mind, has proved that it's possible to entertain by splitting hairs as well. I have no doubt that if someone in this task used the true definition, they would have gotten away with it, but again the next obstacle would be similarly worming out of the definition of "hover".

[@PatClevenger0709]

When Lee and Charlotte lost their balloons, I had a flashback to childhood.

[@alexgough8521]

Nice of Alex to mention Cyril Sneer, from the '80s- '90s Canadian cartoon "The Raccoons".

[@mayonnnnnaise]

Lee just wanted to keep playing with the balloon and figure out the weight lmao

[@tonytontony1]

Littering

[@jay_proud]

Baloon?

[@AveragePicker]

I do wonder if the string the balloon started tied to, if cut on the ends, would have been the weight to balance it off and allow it to hover.

[@ryanschwartz4959]

You know, I don't think the rules prohibited them from deflating the balloon and blowing it back up with air instead of helium...

[@megaflux7144]

mike is now my favorite contestant on the series. sorry james.

[@Yue_Jin]

Should've taken it inside while testing the hovering.

[@lissamk3990]

My first thought was, did the task say they had to attempt this outside where the balloon could float away? Then I was glad to see a few of them head for the shed.

[@delossntosjrl]

That guy at the end knows hard work and results! :)

[@zaeamos6189]

1. Get a piece of tape and put it on the balloon. 2. Put a pencil/pen through the tape and balloon (it won’t pop) 3. Suck helium out and blow air in until it hovers.

[@zaeamos6189]

Or tape the balloon as many layers as it needs to hover

[@just-tess]

exactly, I feel like if Sarah had just kept adding tape, she wasn't far from weighing down to chest level

[@ylnx250]

tie string to the balloon, pull out length until the weight of the string is enough to make the balloon hover, then cut it and ball it in a knot.

[@420greatestqueen]

Love the shoutout to Cyril Sneer

[@demox4435]

1st go inside. 2nd pick up the nearest piece of string 3rd make a joke that "theatherd" means attached to something 4th lose the balloon on the ceiling 5th scissors in between teeth, climb on top of the table, and attach the rope to the balloon. 6th attach about a arms length of heavy string. With an arms length of string attached, the balloon will begin to sink to the ground. Simply cut small pieces of the end of the string until it hovers at chest height. Enjoy looking both incredibly smart a d very stupid at the same time :)

[@FurriousFox]

considered going inside?

[@juicevox5160]

Typo in the thumbnail! *Balloom not baloon

[@juicevox5160]

Fixed now :)

[@johncameron4194]

Mike running after it 🤣😂

[@xxxx85]

Oh come on, jamming a helium balloon under your shirt to hold it in place, that's to make it hover unassisted? 🙄

[@s.g.7572]

I've never been more sexually attracted to a man than Mike Wozniak in this task.

[@mikespike007]

that balloon was not floating otherwise you could just put it under a table and sit at the table and it would be above waist height "floating"

[@rbfox623]

Woz got shafted. His was the only actual hover.

[@TheLumaknight]

my immediate thought was get the ladder stick the ballon in alex's caravan and climb the ladder till it was approximately chest hight and stand on that for 20 secs XD

[@Tharukan]

Can't believe they actually didn't come back to the "technically it's hovering". Should've been 4x 0 Points and 1x 5 Points! This is a SCANDAL!

[@aurigacygnus]

Release the balloon inside the house

[@bushyman477]

So, could you just hold a box over top of the balloon, and blow a leaf blower from below?

[@Gowerrr]

I hate to be this guy but........ the thumbnail has incorrectly spelled "baloon".

[@Lindalindali]

Wouldn't dribbling (fast and very lightly, just enough to keep it at the same spot) have been a solution?

[@Exayevie]

Typo in the thumbnail… too late to change?

[@jonathanlambert9725]

So they are located next to a golf course lol

[@petrieberries]

The mating dance in the phonebooth😂

[@RickyPro888]

We see the typo in the thumbnail 😅

[@nicholasinder7272]

Where do you go to tell them that they’ve got a spelling mistake in the picture for their video?

[@niels1917]

Baloon or Balloon?

[@violentfrog_]

love the raccoons reference

[@Robbigs]

Put peanut butter on it!

[@tappy8741]

Such a tease that I'm in the UK but still can't watch the latter seasons because why sit in front of a TV when computers exist.

[@-JustHuman-]

How is holding the ballon under a shirt hovering ?

[@dAfoodie101]

wait i just realized that the thing on top of the roof is meant to be greg and alex

[@Rallion1]

Tying a weight to the balloon is definitely tethering the balloon to a weight. Untethered as in not tied to anything.

[@andurilcuivie]

Tying to yes. But taping a weight to the balloon would not be.

[@Insomni_maniac]

This pains me because I've thought of about 5 different ways to accomplish the task. I wish I could be on this show so badly.

[@Ireallydontwantahandle]

spelt the thumbnail pic wrong.

[@lazthegreat10]

He's got a jumper holding it down, idk what untethered is supposed to mean but that's not hovering

[@acookie7548]

How did no one get a box and just turn it upside down to house the balloon 😭

[@Anythingforfreedom]

Just tape pieces of sponge to it

[@kaksspl]

Nobody thought to put the balloon under a table and just sit by the table?

[@buttonsfan]

It has to be over there waist.

[@buttonsfan]

@@TMinusRecords yeah I realized my mistake, they could kneel or squat down to keep the Balloon in the assigned area

[@GGoAwayy]

I wanted someone to try trapping the balloon between two electric fans.

[@azakatura]

How did only 1 person think to go inside lmao. Sad.

[@A_Balanced_Breakfast]

This is definitely a late-season task lmao wtf is that

[@nigellim9729]

That's from the second episode

[@A_Balanced_Breakfast]

@@nigellim9729 I don't mean it's late in the season, I mean it is a later season. As in, they've been doing this so long that they're resorting to highly specific tasks.

[@BillHicks420]

Stick it under an umbrella?

[@johnpaulhumphrey2981]

Would be curious about popping the ballon as part of an approach. Would it be possible to pop said balloon and then hover it with leaf blower or some such tool. I do not know weight of said balloon so not sure

[@Aasha]

lol i think jumping the fence and bringing the balloon back counts as a win for me

[@GGoAwayy]

Heeeey there was a Raccoons cartoon reference