Yes, Tom now knows it wasn't Nathan Lane. And we can't believe NordVPN let us get away with that ad read either. Tom really does use and like them though: 🌏 nordvpn.com/techdif
@@not_just_burnt He's done VPN sponsorships on and off over the years, tbf, this isn't a 'now he's done that' thing. (not saying whether or not it's okay, that is well outside the scope of this comment)
@@thomaszinser8714 As the sponsored answer said, he has endorsed NordVPN for 2 years. Mind you, he's endorsed them more from the standpoint of "I can look up the deals I would be getting from home while abroad" than the alarmist "Your ISP can see everything you do!!!!1!!" approach most other VPN-sponsored creators took
I downloaded Mech Arena because of Alec Steele's ad read where he did the macarena and I just laughed so much (and I love mobile games) I had to try it out, it was pretty fun too, think I played for a month until I forgot about it 😅
that sponsorship read was absoluteely perfect, chris running away from the corporations like a principled man, gary and matt taking the absolute piss of the whole thing
@@reneg8 it’s definitely true to his nature, he’s made it very clear in the past he’s pretty against the whole corporate environment we live in as a society and doesn’t take to it at all
As soon as Tom said "I've been informed that we didn't reference Mystery Biscuits at any point in the last season" and then said nothing else about it I knew it would never appear again lmao
11:34 "This is how we ruined Two of These People are Lying" Honestly that was one of the best parts of TOTPAL, I loved all the fake stories y'all came up with. And Matt referencing Slightly Latin was one of my favorite metagaming moments
If they were all fake stories that would be great, but the thing is sometimes the article names are vague and nondescript enough that anything can be used to explain them, like Willoughby Run or Green Monster. IMO the best parts on TOTPAL are the ones where the article name sounds like nonsense while at the same time being very specific, like Wellington Paranormal or Dangers of the Engagement Period, so they have to come up with a story that explains the name and can't just link it to something they already know.
@@aboodabood116Winning a game by using outside knowledge. Like figuring out that Gary is lying because his explanation was obscure British history he'd likely read about for work. No matter how good or bad his lie was, the topic of it alone would be enough for Tom or whoever to call him out as the liar. When it's supposed to be a game about who can bs the most believable nonsense. In D&D, it means having your character make decisions that in-world, they would never make. Like if you saw your DM prepare a vampire mini, so had your character buy six bags of garlic and a gallon of holy water. You may know abkut the vampire battle coming up, but your character doesn't. Them preparing all of that doesn't make sense.
@@mewmew8932It is a cool visual shorthand that they're doing an ad read, so it would actually serve a function beyond turning him into a '90s game show host
As a current university of York student, I can confirm that Deniz Best Kebab is still there at the bottom of parliament street every weekend. I often get cheesy chips there after a 2am finish shift.
Holy the sequin jacket. If you ever do a live show of this like you did Citation Needed, you need to do it in horribly tacky suits and other accesories
For anyone that doesn't know, Tipping Point is a quiz show renowned for hard-hitting questions such as "People of Belgian nationality are from which country?" (This is a real example.) .
My favourite question was "Homer described nectar as the drink of the gods and what as their food" And the contestant said "well I know he likes donuts... So I'm gonna say donuts"
1. So grateful for the new episodes 2. Love Tom's jacket during the ad read 3. A sponsor? Finally! It's about dang time someone sponsored all y'all!! 😁
Probably used the same negotiation technique that Jay Foreman (Map Men) does. "You get a custom skit hitting all your talking points, or we're not doing it" the good companies and agencies, or at least the ones that can take a joke, will see the value in it and let them run with it
VPN companies don’t care, have you seen the stuff Tomska got away with with surfshark, it got so bad somebody reported him to the advertising standards group for how graphic his ads had gotten
12:42 Incorrect, Diede de Groot accomplished a golden slam in wheelchair singles 2021 (2020 olympics got pushed back) as did Dylan Alcott in mens wheelchair quad singles.
Warthogs are also notable for being able to get from zero to 50 mph in a quick sprint, which is notably not something wild boars are commonly seen doing. That said, wild boars can sprint faster than you can, so don't count on them not being as fast as warthogs. They, after all, don't have to be faster than warthogs -- they just have to be faster than you.
I got a jacket just like Tom's Advert Jacket, but in silver. Found it second hand for 8 bucks, and it's perfect. I work as a lighting technician & operator, and found I can turn myself into the disco ball if one is needed or one fails. Best 8€ spent in quite a while.
Fun fact about Niels Bohr. He secretly escaped from his native, Nazi-occupied Denmark on a fishing boat (as did many other Danish jews) to Sweden, and then flown in the bomb bay of a modified Mosquito to the UK.
When Gary is complaining about American hashbrowns he's clearly describing hash which is a separate dish. Also grated American diner style hashbrowns have the potential to be far better than hashbrown patties (which we also have), but I also admit that they can be far worse.
Gary's breakfast opinions baffle me. No onion in breakfast, coming from a Englishman? That's where you draw the line? Not tomatoes, beans, and blood pudding? Edit: I must add, I don't argue with any of these for breakfast. I've added plenty of things to my scramble in the morning or on my muffin
Sorry Gary but Carlsberg Special Brew wouldn't have been available in the 1920s as it was created to celebrate a visit of Winston Churchill to Denmark in 1950. Facts getting in the way of hte joke again.
Didn't expect heavy disagreement on the Hash Browns front. The classic hash brown is just shredded or diced, but there is also breaded like McDonald's sells or tater tots.
13:00 I've been to Katz's at a time when the queue wasn't too bad. It's the only time I've ever been, I took it to go, and I immediately raced for the last train to Port Jefferson.
Please please please please please please please please please please please please. Can we get citation needed reboot for even just one episode 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'm picturing this bear-butler-taxidermy, one hand up in "roar i am bear" pose, the other one holding the tray, and now I'm imagining Bear-Offers-Crudités as some kind of ersatz martial arts stance.
As someone named Dan, I feel rather called out Edit: I don't think I've ever heard of Niels Bohr getting a lifetime supply of Carlsberg. Pretty neat! Your pronounciation of his name is pretty good Tom, dw ^^
Always assumed nils bohr was german because bohr is part of the german words for drill/drilling, but yeah that's not rlly a german sounding surname if I think about it
The potatoes with onions and peppers are generally called "home fries" at most of the diners. Regionality may apply, my experience is mostly west coast USA.
Yes, Tom now knows it wasn't Nathan Lane. And we can't believe NordVPN let us get away with that ad read either. Tom really does use and like them though: 🌏 nordvpn.com/techdif
so now Tom accepted a VPN sponsorship... what a shame
@@not_just_burnt He's done VPN sponsorships on and off over the years, tbf, this isn't a 'now he's done that' thing. (not saying whether or not it's okay, that is well outside the scope of this comment)
@@not_just_burnt I mean, it does seem fair to assume that at this point most of his audience *are* gay pirate assassins!
@@thomaszinser8714 He did a whole video on why VPNs are completely pointless for the overwhelming majority of people on the internet.
@@thomaszinser8714 As the sponsored answer said, he has endorsed NordVPN for 2 years.
Mind you, he's endorsed them more from the standpoint of "I can look up the deals I would be getting from home while abroad" than the alarmist "Your ISP can see everything you do!!!!1!!" approach most other VPN-sponsored creators took
It's very rare to see an actually funny ad read these days, but i have to admire Chris's refusal to promote a company
Yeah, pretty cool of him!
Watch Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik. Easily the best ad man on RUclips. He’s done way wilder ad reads for NordVPN than this
Try TomSka's adverts out too then mate. The man is permanently pushing the limits of what he can get away with.
Chris ✊🏼
I downloaded Mech Arena because of Alec Steele's ad read where he did the macarena and I just laughed so much (and I love mobile games) I had to try it out, it was pretty fun too, think I played for a month until I forgot about it 😅
Them not knowing Niels Bohr is about as flabbergasting as the time Tom didn't know the Hagia Sofia.
Yeah, he literally has a whole atom model named after him.
I was surprised Matt didn't have that one immediately.
Disappointed no one answered "the world's most appropriately named physicist"
@@silentdrew7636 Nah, that's Schwarzschild ("Black shield")
I learned about the guy in school. Granted, that wasn't as long ago for me as it was for them, but still!
that sponsorship read was absoluteely perfect, chris running away from the corporations like a principled man, gary and matt taking the absolute piss of the whole thing
yeah was that intentional/intended/true to his nature, or part of the bit?
@@reneg8 both?
@@reneg8 it’s definitely true to his nature, he’s made it very clear in the past he’s pretty against the whole corporate environment we live in as a society and doesn’t take to it at all
I love that Chris hides from the sponsorship. I do appreciate that they're not ready to bend over quite yet
Bill Hicks and I share an opinion of advertising and marketing
He's an nVPN fan.
@@elkudos6262 He still uses TunnelBear
@@ReviewedbyRobWhich is why he exited left.
He’s about to cameo in the next SurfShark ad
I met Gary Brannan at a conference a few months ago, and can confirm that he is my favourite Gary Brannan.
I absolutely believe that, in no small part thanks to your username...
When is Gary next in the West Riding Refreshment Rooms? Then I too will have the pleasure of the favourite Gary Brannan.
As soon as Tom said "I've been informed that we didn't reference Mystery Biscuits at any point in the last season" and then said nothing else about it I knew it would never appear again lmao
Christ the cut back to Tom with a golden suit caught me off guard.
"You've made a career out of this!"
"Yeah, yeah..."
Tom Scott: Professional Humor Defeater.
Is this a callback to Chris Joel: Relationship Coroner!?
11:34 "This is how we ruined Two of These People are Lying"
Honestly that was one of the best parts of TOTPAL, I loved all the fake stories y'all came up with. And Matt referencing Slightly Latin was one of my favorite metagaming moments
If they were all fake stories that would be great, but the thing is sometimes the article names are vague and nondescript enough that anything can be used to explain them, like Willoughby Run or Green Monster. IMO the best parts on TOTPAL are the ones where the article name sounds like nonsense while at the same time being very specific, like Wellington Paranormal or Dangers of the Engagement Period, so they have to come up with a story that explains the name and can't just link it to something they already know.
Yeah, I agree with this. Metagaming made it fun, tbh.
11:30 no tom, metagaming doesn't ruin TOTPAL, it enhances the viewing experience!
What is metagaming?
@@aboodabood116Winning a game by using outside knowledge. Like figuring out that Gary is lying because his explanation was obscure British history he'd likely read about for work. No matter how good or bad his lie was, the topic of it alone would be enough for Tom or whoever to call him out as the liar. When it's supposed to be a game about who can bs the most believable nonsense.
In D&D, it means having your character make decisions that in-world, they would never make. Like if you saw your DM prepare a vampire mini, so had your character buy six bags of garlic and a gallon of holy water. You may know abkut the vampire battle coming up, but your character doesn't. Them preparing all of that doesn't make sense.
Oh my God they've got sponsors
But were they roommates?
hey thats not nixon
Chris didn't
_gold sequin jacket jumpscare?!_ what a way to lead into the ad read
(also - loving Matt's FoO tee - impeccable taste)
That is a fantastic jacket that Tom should keep
@@mewmew8932It is a cool visual shorthand that they're doing an ad read, so it would actually serve a function beyond turning him into a '90s game show host
I got whiplash from Tom "Da Bling" Scott
Heck I was temporary blinded as well
Can't believe no one made the joke that if he had a beer pipe from the factory to his house then it would've been Niels Bohr's Niels Bore.
Niels Bohr's Niels Beer Bore
Niels Bohr's Pils Bore!
As a current university of York student, I can confirm that Deniz Best Kebab is still there at the bottom of parliament street every weekend. I often get cheesy chips there after a 2am finish shift.
Holy the sequin jacket. If you ever do a live show of this like you did Citation Needed, you need to do it in horribly tacky suits and other accesories
0:27 Something about Grant O'Brien's personal life
That can't be right...
I love that we all watch the same however many youtube channels.
"Soo there was a party..."
For anyone that doesn't know, Tipping Point is a quiz show renowned for hard-hitting questions such as "People of Belgian nationality are from which country?" (This is a real example.) .
Oh another classic:
An Unidentified Flying Object is commonly referred to with the acronym "U. . .F. . . [What?]"
My favourite question was
"Homer described nectar as the drink of the gods and what as their food"
And the contestant said "well I know he likes donuts... So I'm gonna say donuts"
I'm kinda surprised that nobody was more familiar with Niels Bohr. I figured they'd recognize him for the Bohr model of the atom.
xkcd number 2501
@rmsgrey Fair point, but I wouldn't consider any of these guys average, so I would expect them to know nerdy stuff like this.
Small telecom correction. DSLAM stands for Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer.
As someone working for an ISP it's always nice to see people have some actual knowledge about the shit we do.
Technical difficulties always feels like a Christmas gift.
1. So grateful for the new episodes
2. Love Tom's jacket during the ad read
3. A sponsor? Finally! It's about dang time someone sponsored all y'all!! 😁
I don't often full on laugh out loud at RUclips videos, mostly it's just brisk exhales from my nose. This video had me cackling!
4:06 Tom out here looking like the postmaster general of Ankh-Morpork (/complimentary)
And a postmaster general not named John Stonehouse
Tom Scott as Moist von Lipwig would be an interesting casting.
The Beer spa is also a thing in Prague, Czech republic. Which I would argue is better, because the beer is of a much higher quality.
Niels Bohr is an icon of every chemistry class! That's also a pretty great ad read!
Incredible sponsored segment, I can't believe they allowed you to do that
Probably used the same negotiation technique that Jay Foreman (Map Men) does. "You get a custom skit hitting all your talking points, or we're not doing it" the good companies and agencies, or at least the ones that can take a joke, will see the value in it and let them run with it
VPN companies don’t care, have you seen the stuff Tomska got away with with surfshark, it got so bad somebody reported him to the advertising standards group for how graphic his ads had gotten
I mean, it kept me from skipping over it.
Exeunt, sans biscuits.
12:42 Incorrect, Diede de Groot accomplished a golden slam in wheelchair singles 2021 (2020 olympics got pushed back) as did Dylan Alcott in mens wheelchair quad singles.
The "grand slam" Denny's is referring to comes from baseball, not tennis. It's a home run with the bases loaded.
When the difficulties are technical:
Time to be British and watch TechDiff while drinking tea from a Tardis 😂
11:15 "and a top hat"
And just like that he takes up the slack for the whiskers the fat cat lacks. The accidental genius of Gary Brannan.
Nice First of October Shirt on Matt
Warthogs are also notable for being able to get from zero to 50 mph in a quick sprint, which is notably not something wild boars are commonly seen doing. That said, wild boars can sprint faster than you can, so don't count on them not being as fast as warthogs. They, after all, don't have to be faster than warthogs -- they just have to be faster than you.
I got a jacket just like Tom's Advert Jacket, but in silver.
Found it second hand for 8 bucks, and it's perfect.
I work as a lighting technician & operator, and found I can turn myself into the disco ball if one is needed or one fails.
Best 8€ spent in quite a while.
Does it have a built-in flying harness for the disco ball trick?
I miss 2 of these people are lying
9:58 Oh, that's obviously a Witch Doctor reference...
Man, i love this series. Im so glad we get another season
Fun fact about Niels Bohr. He secretly escaped from his native, Nazi-occupied Denmark on a fishing boat (as did many other Danish jews) to Sweden, and then flown in the bomb bay of a modified Mosquito to the UK.
When Gary is complaining about American hashbrowns he's clearly describing hash which is a separate dish.
Also grated American diner style hashbrowns have the potential to be far better than hashbrown patties (which we also have), but I also admit that they can be far worse.
When that jacket got revealed I genuinely thought I'd gone mad.
1:49 I feel attacked.
I had completely zoned out when i heard someone say my "Dan im talking to you"
The golden slam is clearly a crossover meal between Denny's and McDonald's
I'm glad it was about me.
This got to be the best RUclips ad I have ever seen.
First question I was expecting it to be about LD-50 for some reason. (Dose of poison to kill half of a population)
love that mudvayne album
Gary's breakfast opinions baffle me. No onion in breakfast, coming from a Englishman? That's where you draw the line? Not tomatoes, beans, and blood pudding?
Edit: I must add, I don't argue with any of these for breakfast. I've added plenty of things to my scramble in the morning or on my muffin
And mushrooms
Sorry Gary but Carlsberg Special Brew wouldn't have been available in the 1920s as it was created to celebrate a visit of Winston Churchill to Denmark in 1950. Facts getting in the way of hte joke again.
I've got to say, Tech Dif genuinely has gotten funnier over time, aging like fine wine
19:08 i thought we were back to the wallaby butler
i always enjoy listening to these four on the technical difficulties. always so much fun!
1:13 BY WHOM, TOM
Didn't expect heavy disagreement on the Hash Browns front. The classic hash brown is just shredded or diced, but there is also breaded like McDonald's sells or tater tots.
13:00 I've been to Katz's at a time when the queue wasn't too bad. It's the only time I've ever been, I took it to go, and I immediately raced for the last train to Port Jefferson.
Always a joy to watch these folks! 🥰Great episode as usual 🤩
Who else is surprised the Bear answer didn't provoke a guess about woods and defecation?
3:00 Ok, I think this finally beats Map Men for best VPN ad, 😂😂😂 I literally couldn't breathe for most of that 🤣🤣🤣
Please please please please please please please please please please please please. Can we get citation needed reboot for even just one episode 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
It would make a nice holiday treat!
I know they've all spent significant time in York, but I was not prepared for the Deniz Best Kebab reference
And this marks the second video in which matt has tried to explain tipping point to the viewers. at least, that i know of
When the technicalities are difficult:
can't believe that Tom managed to give us all the L in the first minute of the show
excellent as always
I love how Gary forever and always uses the universal scale of closeness XD
Can confirm that cat whiskers do sometimes come out. They hurt when they get stuck in your foot.
Next Season of Tech Diff adventures: Gary goes to the beer spa, finds a way to knock over a hot tub and starts an international incident.
Finally! (I have been refreshing your page as often as I can since you last posted)
12:53
Pannnthers?
it’s so nice to hear that they all go out to the pub the night before they film
Honestly one of the most entertaining ad reads I've seen in a long time.
Does Tom write the prize jokes of the episodes himself? I loved this episode's 😍
Such a good ad read well done
Tom looked SUSPICIOUS during the ad question when Matt brought up his (joke, obviously) mistresses!
MISTRESSES AND MISTERISES OH LORD😂
I'm picturing this bear-butler-taxidermy, one hand up in "roar i am bear" pose, the other one holding the tray, and now I'm imagining Bear-Offers-Crudités as some kind of ersatz martial arts stance.
Im not crazy for the ad break less than 3 minutes in, but it was an ad I was happy to watch. Nice way to keep the flow
I usually skip through ad reads but this one was legit funny
Never had to wait for more than 20 min at Katz
The ad was really good part of this video :D perfect
But where be my Mystery Biscuits?
As someone named Dan, I feel rather called out
Edit: I don't think I've ever heard of Niels Bohr getting a lifetime supply of Carlsberg. Pretty neat! Your pronounciation of his name is pretty good Tom, dw ^^
The lack of warts on the warthog in The Lion King probably didn't allow the movie to become as high on the hog as it could have been.
he was right about the Denny's Golden Slam. It's the senior meal.
Brilliant episode, but now my throat hurts from laughing too much!
the spontaneous gold jacket was hilarious.
It's your Misters and Mistresses. :P
11:50 George the Fingers makes a return
The more formats Chris ruins the more likely it is that we get more Citation needed when they run out of ideas and just give up.
Look right there it's my favorite Gary Brannan
That is an absolutely excellent jacket and I would love to see it more often.
Always assumed nils bohr was german because bohr is part of the german words for drill/drilling, but yeah that's not rlly a german sounding surname if I think about it
I'm surprised no one picked up on Tom's mistake there - Nathan Lane played Timon in the lion king, Pumbaa was Ernie Sabella
Congrats on finally got sponsors only took you guys two years 🎉
For years, I had seen but never heard the word "quinoa" and always pronounced it the second way that Tom sarcastically pronounced it.
Why is there a safety warning about swallowing hot dogs whole, but not the industrial lube service?
These videos are woefully under viewed and under appreciated for its genius 😂
petition to bring back mystery biscuits
The potatoes with onions and peppers are generally called "home fries" at most of the diners. Regionality may apply, my experience is mostly west coast USA.