One team member must throw the ball offscreen to another team member who catches it in a different place, and so on over the longest apparent distance.
Task: Play a game of long distance catch with this beach ball. Classic hands-off Dad.ĩ8: Siân Gibson Travels “Around The World” With Romesh Ranganathan And A Beach Ball (Series 8, Ep 5) Watch out for: Paul Sinha not getting involved in the children’s spat and instead minding his own business by rolling a barrel across the garden. Position in task: Disqualified (not for bossiness, but because Lou Sanders dropped a book) Back in the studio, Iain is horrified - “That… that wasn’t pleasant for me to watch.” The closest the show has ever got to feeling like An Intervention. Alex makes a joke out of it - “Isn’t it nice when people just get along?” - but it’s not an easy watch, with Iain’s needling grumpiness coming across as actually spiteful instead of comically curmudgeonly. Usually with team tasks there’s a little bit of tension simmering underneath the surface (Joe Wilkinson watching Katherine Ryan trying to build stuff out of flatpack furniture and just saying “it’s shit, it’s shit” is up there), but here it’s a proper spat, like something out of I’m A Celebrity or Hell’s Kitchen or one of those documentaries about the Labour Party. Why is it so good: well… it depends what you mean by “good”. When Lou asks how a bath will help stop falling out of a hammock, he replies “I’m QUIETLY CONFIDENT, ACTUALLY” when they start moving heavy things towards the hammock, Iain scowls at the camera and hisses “I suggested doing all of this, SEVEN MINUTES AGO.” It’s Genuinely Awkward. What happened: Iain Stirling and Lou Sanders have a disagreement about the correct strategy for the task (Iain wants to put a bath underneath the hammock, Lou wants to think about it logically for more than thirty seconds), and Iain gets extremely passive aggressive. If anything falls out of the hammock, you will be disqualified. Task: Get the most weight into this hammock. Watch out for: Joe initially thinking that the “finish line” for this task was the very first obstacle, meaning that as the ball bashed into the wall he triumphantly threw his bucket up in the air (which he immediately apologised for, as it was “a bit over the top”).ĩ9: Iain Stirling Is A Little Bossy Boots (Series 8, Ep 4) Position in task: Last, even behind Paul Sinha. Eventually he worked out that using ice to move the ball was actually quite effective, but by that time he had already sealed his teapot-shaped fate.
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This was one of the few times in the series that that embarrassment was somewhat justified - Joe suffered a brainfart of epic proportions, and yet one has to admire the way he quietly carried on, undeterred, even as his little heart was breaking, pouring water from those teapots as if that was ever going to work. Why is it so good: Joe Thomas is a strange, unique Taskmaster beast - he’s actually quite resourceful and intelligent, he just seems crippled by his own sense of inadequacy, embarrassed by everything he does. When this proved too blunt an instrument to manipulate the ball, he got out two dainty teapots and tried to carefully move it through the obstacle course (with zero success). Instead, he first tried to move his beach ball with a large bucket of water which he had to keep refilling, like something out of Little House on the Prairie. What happened: While every other contestant requested (and received) a hose to move the beach ball, Joe Thomas went fully Amish and seemed to forget that he was in the 21st century and pressurised water exists. Task: Get the beach ball across the finishing line. Joe Thomas with bucket (not pictured: teapots)ġ00: Joe Thomas Gently Guides A Beach Ball With Two Teapots (Series 8, Ep 8)