Zaltzman said a number in the cinema (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by essteeyou@lemmy.world to c/taskmaster@feddit.uk

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In the task where they had to count the seats in the cinema Andy Zaltzman says "one" while he's talking. That should have been his accepted answer.

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[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Harsh but fair. Surprised Alex didn't pick up on this

[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It changed the winner of the series from Jack to Andy.

[-] MeepMorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Someone in the YouTube comments did a deep dive and found out it wouldn't have changed anything. In the worst case for Andy, he would've been bumped down to third for the task and still won overall.

[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That is a very deep dive! Thanks for sharing, and I stand corrected.

[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ha! I thought the same thing and looked up the definition and "one", unlike "three", has meanings which are not related to the number:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/moment

I guess they didn't want to spend the ten minutes it would take Alex and Andy to have an unskippable grammar nerd cutscene!

I'm actually not sure if I would've called or not to be honest. I guess I'm hindsight the wording of the task would have needed to be more precise ("say anything that can be interpreted as a number").

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