Drop the Water Balloon from the Greatest Hight without it Bursting | Full Task | Taskmaster 

It's so adorable that Katherine keeps saying "we" and Alex is like "we?" Lol

I was genuinely waiting for them to reveal the balloon was made of something insane when Alex said "You never examined the real balloon" and someone succeeded in dropping it on a bin full of bricks.

I really like the disbelief in Alex’s face when johnny’s balloon survived (love it when he breaks his little character), Johnny must have filmed his attempt before Daisy, because Alex doesn’t look as surprised when she succeeds

The test was to drop it FROM the maximum height, so it didn't matter how far it fell. I would have tried a bag to the platform so that it went up with it and the balloon fell into it.

I go back and forth as to whether "am I the spider?" or "some fucker's gonna" is the best thing that Katherine Parkinson said during her series.

Its called Shallow Diving and Professor Splash (aka Darren Taylor) is the record Holder - 11.56m Dive into 12 inches of water - I think he did it into Tomato Soup once...

This one was a task that was 100% made entertaining in the edit. Shows what geniuses they are.

Personally I think Katherine technically won the task. Part of the rules said drop it from the highest point. 3 of them had it raised all the way up, but since she was the only one that had it in something hers was the only one raised a little higher than the highest the lift would go. Probably only a centimeter or 2 but still higher than the rest.

They're laughing at her about the pool thing, but little do they know, she's not wrong lmao

Daisy's right, shallow diving is a real thing

Jumping from a high height into a kiddy pool was legitimately an act on America's Got Talent one year.

Five seconds after hearing the instructions I had to listen to them again. Attach a bag (or something) to the lift to catch the water balloon almost as soon as it falls. Raise the lift all the way. The Water Balloon would only drop a short distance but it would drop from the greatest height.

Its always funny when they ridicule someone for saying something insane about america that is 100% true

I expected every single one of those to break. How strong was the material the balloon was made from?!

Johnny going for the high heels kills me 😂😂😂

Everytime Katherine attempts a task I can't help but imagine her as Jen again. Roy needs to come and help her out!

As an American, we pay good money to see people dive from great heights into shallow water. Honest

Imagine being outside and just seeing this giant tower slowly growing higher and higher

If I was Katherine, I would have argued that I dropped the balloon from just slightly higher than Johnny and Daisy, since it was inside the pillow rather than just resting directly on the surface of the winch.

When I saw the end of Johnny's attempt. I knew what happened. The balloon was never filled to the max. Most water balloons burst easily if you fill it to the point where it can nearly burst.

As kids we used to throw water balloons at each other and it is pretty common for them to just bounce off people. So it isn't unexpected that they didn't pop.

Shallow diving totally is a thing. They'll belly flop into about a foot of water form a diving block. That's about 30cm.

Surprised no one saw the easy way to guarantee a max height drop. If you got something like a blanket, you could secure it and wrap it around the dropping mechanism (not in a way that restricts it). That way, it drops the balloon about 1 foot into this blanket but from the maximum height

Professor Splash (ne. Darren Taylor) successfully dove from 37.8 feet (11.52 m) into a paddling pool of depth 1 foot (30 cm) breaking his record for a successive 20th time. So yeah XD Daisy was not wrong.

I love how much fun the editors have on this show.

Daisy isnt wrong about the divers, there's exhibition divers that dive in very shallow pools

My pre-watch thinking: "It says to drop it from the highest height possible without bursting. It doesn't say it has to fall all the way to the ground. I would arrange for something to be right under it to catch it. Myself, if the rules don't forbid it. Then I'd carefully carry it down."

My initial thought was "drop it in water". I feel like I might have done this experiment at school, twenty years ago.

The fact that Johnny didn't get a bonus point for making Alex wear high heels feels... wrong

So...the task didn't specify that the balloon needed to 'fall' the distance, only 'dropped'. So, what if you tie the balloon to the top, and take it to the maximum height, and release it? You have 'dropped' it at the 'maximum height' 'without breaking the balloon'.

This one always bugged me, I knew instantly how to rig it...Attach a basket or something directly under the dropper. You can raise it full height, Drop it from the greatest height...And catch it immediately

Catherines attempt (after she realized she had to put something underneath) was great as the pillow acted as a parachute as well. I would put it in a bedsheet and then catch it.

To be fair. There is a thing called shallow diving where someone jumped from 11 meters to land in a paddling pool (30cm deep) pool

I was shocked at the bricks one until they revealed they were down lol

Okay, that seems an extremely easy task. Find the highest elevation and drop the water balloon. Keep hold of the string you attach to the water balloon.

I know shallow diving is a thing, but I think it’s funnier if Daisy believes we all have rubber bones in the States 😂

I was right there wondering what the hell he was thinking with the bin of bricks

Katherine's fell furthest as it landed on the ground whereas the others landed in the tub which was on legs.

Katherine says we because she's talking to herself 🤣 adorable Also the small pool thing was totally real

Darren Taylor (USA), aka 'Professor Splash', jumped from 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) into a pool of water just 30 cm (12 in) deep. He's from Denver, Colorado tho.

I’m from the states and I can confirm that I have seen a performer jump off a super high diving board to land in a little kitty pool of water.

Texan here, its so funny that i have absolutely no idea what cliff diving into 30cm of water is.

I was thinking to drop it in water or to attach a sheet just under the trap door to catch the balloon. Good to see the water worked

Great to see the complete task with everyone

My first thought was to drop it from the max height and then catch it. Well done to the three who took out said risk.

"Hight" xD

Oh crap, it's already bursting at that height! - Shall we go higher? - Yep! Let's go higher!

The high dive into a kiddie pool is legit, its an advanced bellyflop technique, you might break your toes tho

The thing is: "they" put the balloon in a cushion and that made it tecnically is some centimeters higher than the others

I love that they're making fun of Daisy for the shallow diving. saying she's crazy and its completely insane..... Welp... In America, we do have shallow diving. And it is indeed insane

'Height', surely?

Shallow diving was a thing I only encountered in American cartoons up until now and this video inspired me to look it up on RU-vid. Wow!

I love how everyone took a completely different approach.

I'm picturing people on the other side of the fence playing golf. They're about to swing and then suddenly they hear Johnny screaming HIGH HEELS.

(Psst! You spelt "hight" wrong.)

The real trick is to go up on the red board attached to the mechanism (while if possible removing as much of the far end where the balloon is originally situated for safety) up to the max height and dropping it yourself just above the max height and immediately catching it or letting it fall onto the red board. Highly dangerous but the task is about the height, not the distance it fell. And of course one would like to test the board by jumping up and down on it at a low altitude because doing this is an all around terrible idea. The only other thing I can think of is to get a pin to prick it to let the water out, though if Alex says that counts as bursting then you would have to untie it yourself which may not be feasible. Once it has been emptied of water you will need to grab a long rope and tie it around something large enough to hold the balloon down on the highest point of the mechanism making sure most of the weight of the balloon would normally make it fall down if normally, something like a 2x4. From it’s highest distance you simply pull the rope and let the deflated balloon fall and it will have fallen from a higher point than the other 3 contestants. I’m not sure I phrased that as well as I could of, but mobile let’s me see very little of my comment :/

On the drop to the dustbin, you must subtract the height of the material in the bin which was the end of that fall. That there was a secondary fall is irrelevant

The show is so good you almost don't realise how good the filmography is, some absolutely beautiful action shots

The first line in the video is the greatest British talk I've ever heard

Simple. Drop it from 20 feet, then say it fell 19 feet and 11 inches without bursting

Tie a piece of string to balloon, run it over the back of the crane, let it play out slowly when the doors open.

Huh, seems like none of them dropped the water balloon from any height. Except after the time was up and he tripped going up the steps.

I need to befriend Katherine's dealer. She gets the good stuff..

I would have attached a bag or something to the winch and then raised it to its maximum height, so that when it was released, the balloon only dropped like a foot and ended up safely in the attached bag. For those of you who think this wouldn't win "cause it only fell one foot," the task was not "have it fall the farthest without breaking." All that is required is that it be dropped from the greatest height without it bursting; it doesn't say anything about how far it has to travel. Hell, this could have been done inside a helicopter or an airplane: hold it in your hand and drop it onto your lap. You dropped it from 30,000 feet and it didn't break.

surprised no one just made alex crank it up and down the whole time

If Joe Wilkinson was doing this task you know he’d be saying “raise the pissing winch”. 😆

"Hight"?

They seem to be measuring just the height from which it is dropped, not how far it falls, so they could have in theory just got up to the same height as it and caught it as soon as it started to fall

I'm surprised no one thought of attaching a string to the balloon to let it "fall down" from maximum height :P

Katherine should have outright won the task. Since her balloon was inside something it was higher off the ground than Johnny and Daisy's that were directly on the lift. So it fell from a *slightly* greater height

Inb4 the title gets fixed, "Hight" instead of Height

I'm surprised no one thought to just get on a ladder under it and catch it. The rules only stated it had to be dropped, not that it had to travel the entire distance it was dropped from.

I would have stood on top of the mechanism, held the balloon in one hand, dropped it into my other hand for like an inch, and come back down, because it said drop the balloon from the greatest height, not for the greatest distance.

That one lady wasn’t wrong about seeing divers jump into small amount of water. We have a diver in the US, goes by professor Splash, that dives into 12in(30cm) of water from 34ft(10.3m)

She is right, theres videos of divers landing in small kiddy pools from insane heights

one of my favourites

As an American, I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone way down in the deep south jump off a very high platform into 10 inches of water.

I just thought of something, it never said that it had to hit the ground, it said drop it from the highest height... If you crank it up to the top, and then get under it preferably close to where it drops, you can catch it before it gains a lot of momentum.

This is the greatest show

American southerner here, Daisy is absolutely correct

As someone who lives in the 'deep south of america', can confirm about the water thing. Honestly though, I don't know how it was atributed to us, maybe that's just where she first saw it, but I remember seeing it in old walt disney movies and the random cartoon in general. I thought it was like a world-known circus act.

She is right about people diving in little pools. Its called the highest belly flop and they do it in kiddie pools. And yes I'm from the south

The trick I think with this one is the challenge is 'drop it from the tallest height.' Not 'drop it the furthest distance', since the second player had a rather sizable trash can stop its descent first. The trick here then is to build your padding literally as high as you can go, so the balloon doesn't have far to go.

that was the best series of the bunch so far

If you can put the balloon in a pillow, you can attach it to a parachute

Drop the water balloon from the greatest height. Nothing states that it's landing point should be on the ground. Build a cushion tower and it's lands from a great height on a tower that's also on a great height

Worst case scenario, you just call the tree wizard, he will just make up a balloon for you. And then double check it.

The woman with the pillow won. The clothing inside the pillow would've elevated her balloon at least 1 millimeter above the balloons of the others, more if she put the stuffing below the balloon.

As a deep south America I can completely concur with her statement about jumping into a kiddie pool from ridiculous heights.... just a case of beer and a shot of whiskey and we're good with just about anything 😂

If they could just use test balloons, I would've emptied the test balloons, blown them up and attached them to the actual balloon to soften the fall speed.

I live in the deep south of the U.S. and while we don't pay to see it, we do juno off of high surfaces into not enough water.

I’m surprised nobody just had someone else remove water from the balloon and then drop it from max height.

One of my favourites to rewatch.💙🎈

Hight

The woman with the pillow was the technical winner here because her balloon bounced out of the tub, earning her several more centimeters.

The balloon was never going to pop for 2 reasons. 1. it was thicker rubber than a normal balloon. You will be surprised how quickly how sturdy rubber gets by just making it a tiny bit thicker. 2. The balloon was not fully filled so the water could easily disperse all the impact that it could take.

I'd get a ladder and catch the balloon. It doesn't say it needs to drop all the way to the ground, just needs to drop from the highest place

As an American I can confirm we jump from 7 and a half meters into paddling pools

Why do they keep treating Daisy like she’s an idiot when they’re the ones who are wrong?

Am from Louisiana. Can confirm I have paid to see a man jump from a crane into a kiddie pool without dying