For YMMV tropes related to the original UK series, they can be found here. YMMV tropes for the American series can be found here.
- Awesome Music: Season 2 gives us The Three Friends diss track, Baby Boomers. Between Laura's flow and David's over the top lyrics, it stands out as one of the most memorable songs across the series.
- Base-Breaking Character: Jeremy Wells, the Taskmaster himself, has split the fanbase. Some complain about his more subdued approach to the role compared to other hosts, calling him boring and a weak point for the New Zealand version. Others appreciate the different direction and consider his grounded presence a good counterbalance for the show's chaos.
- Crosses the Line Twice: David's incredibly vicious diss track lyrics are equally horrifying and absurdly hilarious.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Season 2's David Correos won many people over for his cheerful personality and the way so many of his task attempts go horrifically wrong.
- Growing the Beard: Commenters have noted that Jeremy seems to start coming into his own as the Taskmaster in Season 4, with his episode introductions taking on hints of Greg Davies' Awesome Ego while he banters more, cuts contestants off at the knees, and becomes more stringent in his scoring.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In the first-ever episode's prize task, Paul notes that Angella is starting the series off in last place. She'd end up rocketing into the lead and winning the trophy.
- David and Guy neglected to put any use limitations on their voucher-prize submissions, which Urzila gleefully exploited during the season-wrap livestream.
- Moment of Awesome: Matt Heath's dominant performance in "Bing Bang Schlong" gave him the highest single-episode total so far and allowed him to claw his way up from fifth to third in the season rankings.
- Squick:
- The Taskmaster Pond reeks and has been compared to sewagenote . The audience groaned in disgust when Matt Heath decided to shovel up some of the pond's muck for a Season 2 task, resulting in him handling a seeping mess that caused the normally stoic Paul to reel back from the stench. This got taken further in Season 3, when Josh Thomson stripped down and and submerged himself in the pond, to everyone's dismay. Josh noted that the bottom was covered in effluence washed down from nearby paddocks (eliciting further disgust) and populated by carpnote . And Ray O'Leary takes this even further in Season 4 by actually drinking from the pond unfiltered.
- In Season 4, Paul elicits much disgust from the studio audience after inexplicably biting into a raw egg as if it were an apple and spending an extended moment chewing on it, shell and all, as if it were the most natural thing to do.
- Tough Act to Follow: Season 3 suffers from this. While it isn't considered bad, it is following what is considered one of the best seasons across the entire international franchise. Season 3 meanwhile gets no way near the same level of praise and attention.
- Unintentional Period Piece: The taped tasks for the first season were recorded prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, requiring some prefacing in the studio before showing the contestants and Paul coming into close contact with each other or Madeleine getting the production crew to cough on her.
