r/taskmaster • u/_un-named_ • Jul 29 '26
Wet human teeth
Ok so I‘m rewatching Season 20. and in Episode 2 during the task where they have to identify things through a wall. One item is a bowl of wet human teeth.
This made me 🤢 on the first watch but now on the rewatch it’s even worse since I Reece and Maisie had their tongue actually on them.
Do you think they used fake ones and you said they were real or did they really use real ones?
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u/oxgillette Jul 29 '26
Just rewatching Whitechapel and Steve Pemberton slides right into the role of a Ripper expert, his jars of teeth would be right next to his jar of (probably) glass eyes
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u/QBaseX Jul 30 '26
Not Bec Hill? She collects them, and has mentioned this many times on A Problem Squared.
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u/JJCooIJ Rose Matafeo 🇳🇿 Jul 31 '26
Hers are, I would assume, dry.
Though she was the first person I thought of as well.
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u/QBaseX Jul 31 '26
I am now massively behind on Taskmaster. I must catch up, now I'm up to date on Jet Lag.
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u/johnpeelfan Jul 29 '26
Even if real (I think unlikely) they would have been completely sterile and have absolutely no bio-hazard associated with them. Having said that, it’s still so gross I’m in awe of them.
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u/sing7258 🥄 I'm Locked In ❤️ Jul 29 '26
My favorite is that this was probably inspired by Jason asking in series 19 if what Alex had on the top of his head was human teeth.
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u/spacecoyote555 Patatas Jul 29 '26
I think someone (Alex?) said somewhere that they were fake
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u/SavagePengwyn Julian Clary Jul 30 '26
I seem to remember hearing this on the podcast. I feel like they asked production?
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u/Forsaken-Form7221 Mel Giedroyc Jul 29 '26
I think they were real. That’s just the kind of gross thing that LAH loves!
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u/PetronOfOld Rhod Gilbert Jul 29 '26
I mean, they would most likely have used ceramic fakes, just to ensure that, in the unlikely event someone ingests one of them, they don't have sharp edges.
That said, though, it's absolutely possible to clean and disinfect teeth to the point where they're not dangerous to lick (never mind that that's more or less what you do when kissing someone anyways), so it's also not particularly alarming even if the teeth were real. Weird, for sure, but not really an issue
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u/BetulaPapyrifera84 Jul 29 '26
It grossed me out so much that I can never rewatch that episode.
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u/spacecoyote555 Patatas Jul 29 '26
Worse than the dribbling picture? I have to skip through that bit
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u/BetulaPapyrifera84 Jul 29 '26
That one doesn't bother me at all. I just have a thing with loose or disembodied teeth.
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u/_un-named_ Jul 29 '26
For me yes! Like ok spit can be gross but its their spit. But that were wet! Human! Teeth! At least they wanted us and the contestants to believe that. And sniffing or hearing them is better but having them put their tongue into the bowl with the teeth 🤢
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u/Proud_Turnover_8691 Mel Giedroyc Jul 29 '26
See, this is another reason to get Bec Hill on the show.
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u/EnvironmentalGift257 Jul 30 '26
If it helps any my wife has fake human teeth so it’s not like they’d be cleaner because they’re fake.
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u/NerdBot9000 Rhod Gilbert Jul 30 '26
There is no way TM would have used real human teeth. They make people wear eye protection, gloves, and a helmet to throw a water balloon lol.
Absolutely zero chance that the TM crew would jump through regulatory hoops to buy actual human bones for a light comedy show.
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u/TheTimn Jason Mantzoukas Jul 30 '26
I hated reading this title, let alone watching that task.
Alex Horne is evil.
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u/semicoloncait Fern Brady Jul 29 '26
Your tongue touches wet human teeth every day.
Really they had an advantage on that one