The way I see it, bridges can be a term for relations (i.e burning bridges) so I could see it being something along the lines of "sometimes you don't notice the potential relationships and connections that you could be having"
I imagine Alex might design some of these tasks based off of his kids asking “dad, can we do this thing?” “No; but Hmmmmm I wonder if 5 comedians could though”
The bridges theme in this season is my favourite thing of the whole show. "Sometimes you don't see bridges" and of course the iconic: "there is strength in arches".
Richard Osman tossing the trolley over the river, or at least attempting to do so, is iconic. Same with Doc Brown being bridge blind. This cast is definitely one of my faves.
Alex' choice of grocery items was quite clever, because if the rice got wet it would suddenly get extremely heavy, the bread and sponges are capable of rapidly going downstream, and as we saw, the cans sink quick and are hard to see in the water.
I enjoy thinking about the bystanders' perspectives: Hey, look over there. Is that... Richard Osman? Yeah, I think it is! What is he doing with that trolley? Oh my- What's he doing? He's gone mad! Run! RICHARD OSMAN IS HURLING TROLLEYS! NO ONE IS SAFE!
I genuinely find it hilarious when you can tell that Greg forgets for a moment that the narrative is that he is the taskmaster and is in charge. For example “They’re both shafted then?” “It is exactly your decision.” “Rrrriiight....booooooth shafted then....”
well at those times he knows who REALLY is in charge, then he remembers that he is running the show and is suppose to be lol. For those that don't know, It's Alex's show.
@@eolsunder RU-vid only started recommending clips of this show to me this weekend, so I actually did not know that! That's both amazing and hilarious; thanks for pointing that out! :D
I’ve watched everything through series 10, including champion of champions, and this is by far my favorite group. They’re all so different and come up with the best answers to the tasks!
I love the differences Katherine: alright, there's a bridge, i'll just cross it Everyone else: H U R L Not to be out done by Richard who hurled the TROLLEY
@Anna Guedez If you’re in the US, download the CW Seed app. You’ll have to put up with full commercial breaks but they have all series 8 episodes (they call it season 1). They don’t have series 9 or 10 but many of them are on YT if you look, posted by other people.
i havent seen this episode but i really hope they had to cook a meal with the groceries after seeing how badly some of them handled it. Feal like the guy who dropped the rice would be effed and our other tosser would be messed up with his bread.
Haha. Hilarious how it's Doc and Jon whose attempt is null and void and Joe wins the challenge, yet they are the ones who voted against him in the red green challenge.
They got hit harshly by a rigid interpretation of the rules, so they feel it fair to have the interpretation stay as rigid. I'd go even further: Joe very clearly broke the rules while they completed the vast majority of the task. For them, a time penalty would have been an appropriate punishment. For Joe that wouldn't have made any sense, because we can't extrapolate how he would've fared without cheating.
It’s funny as soon as I saw this I thought, “well I’d just run across the River, pick up the shopping cart, carry it back and put everything in it. Don’t need wheels if you’re just carrying it across lol
@@ItsSkylah I can see how it can be forced when the audience is signaled when to laugh, but this seems far more genuine. I don't think they can really do marked "laugh" points when so much of the show is improv-ed. But, yeah; annoying and seems much more an American thing than a British one.
Is it weird that tossing the cart across the river was my first thought? Idk if the food just needs to be in the cart, or if it needed to cross the river too... Either way it would be worth it
First impression: throw the trolley across, then fill (but i would take bridge, my lardass would not climb that embankment) After some thought: Inspect the site. See river. See goods. see trolley. Task seems obvious!! go fetch trolley. Load trolley. THEN read task
@@dsimi415 Good point. TM often lives and dies on the exact technicalities of the task's wording. Lateral thinking often seems to be very much encouraged.
I kinda thought they were going to add some of those logic-puzzle twists, like "you have a fox, a chicken, and grain. Can't leave the fox with the chicken, etc.".
One time I didn’t feel like walking around to the open side of the cart corral so I just picked up the cart and threw it over the railing. (It also helped that I was a bit angry)
someone could have completed this task in 0 seconds by making the assumption they had to put the stuff in the buggy, and going and getting it before the time started, would be a pain with no wheels but still doable.
Assuming can go very badly on TM, though. It occasionally works, but other times it's something Alex has foreseen and garnished with a bear-trap. I recall one task where they had to use the first ball they touched, for example, and lots of contestants idly touched a ball before they even opened the task.
I'm asking as an American who doesn't watch much British telly, but I'm curious as to Greg's comment about Richard Osman not being a comedian. My only experience with him has been through comedy shows like this, QI, and Cats Does Countdown, which usually star comedians, but I looked him up on Wikipedia, and he seems to be mostly known for hosting quiz shows. Was Greg's comment about him not being a comedian meant to be a lighthearted "roast" about his comedic abilities, or was it a factual but cheeky statement because he's mostly a game show host? Like the late Alex Trebek who was the long-running host of the US quiz show Jeopardy; he was often very funny, both on the show and in interviews, but people wouldn't really call Alex Trebek a comedian.
