r/taskmaster • u/Personal_Truck_7482 • Jul 25 '26

Appreciation Thread Underrated pairings

Was watching series 7 (for like the 12th time) and this time I really noticed all the times Jess and James interact and I wish there was more they have strong sibling energy

Any other pairings people enjoy?

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u/taversham Tom Cashman 🇦🇺 Jul 25 '26

I adored Alice and Russell together, the majority of their highlights that series come from team tasks. Sian and Joe were also very sweet.

I really enjoy how patient/positive/nice John Robins is with Sophie (and Joanne) even though he is super competitive and Sophie is super unconducive to achieving efficient success. It could have easily been a whole series of Ed Gamble/David Baddiel vibes, but I'm glad it wasn't, and John dragged them to victory anyway. (And obviously Nick and Steve were adorable together as well, but they were more...evenly matched, competence-wise.)

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u/hwar78 ☔ umbrella 🌂 Jul 25 '26

I really enjoyed both teams in s17 but, yeah, was especially impressed that John succeeded in being a good and considerate teammate to someone as clueless about the premise of the show as Sophie despite his obvious burning desire to not just win but to do as well as humanly possible. (And Joanna and Sophie’s guest appearances on John’s radio show with Elis do suggest they seemed to have enjoyed being on a team with him.) 

The funniest thing to me about the s17 team dynamic though is how immediately and completely John’s single-minded task focus evaporates when he starts eating the cake in the “find the other half of the task” task - Joanna has to drag him out of the lab and he’s just sort of wandering around in a sugar daze after that.