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Transformative Taskmaster Ep 17 | Ghosts, Goats, Glitter | s19e05 Debrief

02/06/2025 /

This week, we’re diving into an episode that had it all: music, mayhem, monsters, and Mat’s near-perfect ballad destroyed by a single, rogue word. ☹ Plus, Rosie gets weirdly sexy with a balloon, Alex gets proposed to again, and we’re treated to both ghost stories and… goat stories?

Highlights from the episode:

  • Rosie’s singing voice: A beautiful surprise that wowed everyone.
  • Jason’s beat poetry: Not quite a song, not quite poetry… mostly… noise?
  • Mat’s song: Beautiful, heartfelt – and one word too long. TK threatens to cover it anyway.
  • Stevie’s downward spiral: A rough episode for her, from driving lesson chaos to nail-ruining breakdowns.
  • The Wow Monster: New Taskmaster lore drop! There’s a Monster Kingdom under the Taskmaster House. Naturally.
  • Greg and Alex in honeymoon mode: Cute, flirty, and a little deranged. What’s not to like?
  • Live task déjà vu: TK realises the final balloon-popping story task was also used at the NYC premiere and has the receipts.
  • Fatiha’s balloon phobia: A rare moment of real-world empathy and on-screen accommodation.
  • Mat throws the win to Stevie: An adorable moment of kindness amidst balloon carnage chaos.
  • Jason’s surprise victory: Complete with glitter dump and (by now fully expected) set destruction.

Bonus chaos:

  • Greg’s jazz hands monster impression.
  • Jason chucking a water bottle at Alex. (And then deciding he wants to marry him?!)
  • Mat writing with both hands.
  • TK’s ghost story from arts camp. Yes, really.

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Transformative Taskmaster Ep 16 | Taaaskmaaaster. | ep19e04 Debrief

29/05/2025 /

This week, the tasks were chaotic (okay, even more chaotic than is normal), raisins appear again for some currant business hehe, and Jason spends 52 minutes feeding raisins to a lamp. TK and Lewis are back to talk tiptoes, tasers, and Greg being a terrible, terrible tease.

  • Greg kicks off the ep by suggesting a Squid Game crossover. Honestly? Sure.
  • Prize task highlights: Rosie’s lyre (excellent), Mat’s “Mummy!” (deserved better than 2 points, we feel), and Jason’s subtle “your mama/mum” joke.
  • The wetsuit task: tiptoes, wrist-zappers, and Stevie screaming “jackpot!” at a pile of dismembered mannequin limbs, for some reason.
  • Alex stripped down to skull socks and Greg-mandated black pants. It’s been a while since we saw those Lovely Legs, Sir™.
  • Fatiha declares, “These swans are sick.”
  • Greg threatens to pull his trousers and pants down, “right now” if he’s wrong. He is. He doesn’t. Boo!
  • More mysterious letters turn up under the table.
  • Mat misunderstands the wetsuit task entirely. Poor lad.
  • “Mosquemaster”, featuring TK whipping out a genuinely magnificent British accent!
  • The liar task ends in full classroom meltdown. Greg: “Sit the fuck down!” Jason: “What’s gonna happen when we graduate?”
  • Fatiha wins three tasks in a row and nearly takes the episode. Dark horse vibes confirmed.
  • Greg and Alex link to break chaos: butter, marigolds, and implied kink. Has TK already written the fics? Duh!
  • Bonus discussion: disability accommodations on TM, Lewis’s kibble-infested subwoofer, TK’s walnut-infested Prius, and why Jason might just be Nish Kumar?!

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Bird Watching Watching by Alex-My-Dad-Likes-Birds Horne
Taskmaster Series 19 Outtakes Part 1
Decisions by The Horne Section
Channel 4 (justly!) calls Greg out on refusing to drop his trousers and pants.
The Vine (remember those?) TK was embarrassed about bringing up…
Creepy Doll by Jonathan Coulton

TK’s link-to-break-inspired fics from this episode alone:

Butter Me Up by LadyJekyll
Do Our Thing by LadyJekyll
Promises to Keep by LadyJekyll

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Transformative Taskmaster Ep 13 | Suck on that. | s19e03 Debrief

20/05/2025 /

Three episodes in and somehow Mat Baynton has won all three. We don’t know what timeline we’re in anymore, but we’re here for it. This one had live task chaos, disqualifications galore, and a Horn(e)y French horn!

  • Rosie brought in a framed photo with a tiny sex curtain.
  • Fatiha offered… an orange? Jury’s still out on that one.
  • Jason found a moustache and flirted with the cheese phone lady.
  • Everyone failed the cape/cushion task. Everyone.
  • Rosie fully wiped out. Like cartoon-level fall. Glorious.
  • Jason panic-threw pillows. At the ground. Why.
  • Mat wormed across the lawn… then moved the bin. Instant disqualification.
  • Live task chaos that ended with Alex going full “grumpy dad” mode and yelling at everyone.

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Transformative Taskmaster Ep 11 | Alex likes to be called a good boy. | s19e02 Debrief

20/05/2025 /

Welcome back to another post-episode ramble, where we mostly screamed about the outtakes (hello?? we were FED) and also, technically, discussed Episode 2 of Series 19. Let’s be honest, the real main event was that outtake of Greg whispering… things… to Alex. If you haven’t seen it yet, pause everything and run to YouTube. We’ll wait.

Also featured this week:

  • Hand-feeding Alex like a bird.
  • Stevie soaking Alex mid-task, continuing his long-standing tradition of getting unexpectedly wet.
  • Matt winning again despite his whole “I suck at this” energy. Boy, we are confused.
  • Jason’s safe-cracking skills being foiled by dead batteries and possibly too much force.
  • Two piss mentions and one bucket fire. Pretty standard.
  • Jason yeeting a lid hard enough to bruise Alex (if Linda hadn’t taken the hit).
  • Also Jason: nearly breaking his studio chair every 5 seconds.
  • Americans trying to understand snootiness

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Transformative Taskmaster Ep 10 | Spoil me, daddy. | s19e01 Debrief

20/05/2025 /

Welcome to our little post-episode debrief for the Series 19 premiere of Taskmaster! We’re not here to do what Ed Gamble already did – go listen to the official pod for the play-by-play – we’re here to shout about the weird bits, the overlooked moments, and, of course, cylindrical little piglet lore.

In this rambling recap, you’ll get:

  • Podcast Cat made a dramatic appearance (and possibly jumped in the bath tub again).
  • The 12-step hygiene program: We demand lore!
  • Five-pint lunches: A cultural deep dive into UK/US teaching norms.
  • Sectioned lunch trays and the universal school dinner mystery.
  • The kinky table task: Those handprints? Suspiciously fanfic-ready.
  • Predictions for the series: Stevie for the win, Matt for emotional damage.
  • Ad break injustice: #JusticeForPlayfulWrestlingSessions

Also: bold wardrobe choices, a vinegar conspiracy, and how to correctly say “Alex’s and my playful wrestling sessions” under pressure (shoutout to Greg for grammar king energy).

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