We're saying goodbye to this format for a while, but if all goes well, there should be something along to replace it next year. In a new location... -- Tom
Between this episode, the one where Chris’ lie was more accurate than the truth, and the ancient Roman drunkard, I move that Chris be declared the official winner of the whole format.
Hang on, didn't Chris' truth wind up being less accurate than Matt's lie? The whole river in Finland that turned out to be a people in Finland, mainly just a bit down fron Tromso... Or are you talking about when he talked about the Viking graffiti in the Hagia Sofia... 100% true, but also a lie
@@eggablist6892 Perhaps citation needed is "none of these people are lying" since while what they are saying might not be true, guessing wrong isn't lying. Plus that fits the pattern better anyways
@chickenmunt Technically it was the region of a city in which the airport in located in, which is just "airport" in Finnish. A word he should've recognized by just having been at a Finnish airport more than once.
@@BoldAndBrash5683 basically, Tom thinks he knows all about Finland, but whenever it comes up he gets it patently wrong, to the point of striking it off his notebook.
It's' why I immediately suspected Chris, but then I was so confused how it was meant to trick people when they would know what it meant. Plus, are there any Welsh town names with apostrophes? Can't think of any. What a great story, though.
It was also 100% an eventuality. I was expecting it to be Matt who did it, but given chris' wont to mess with the format in general, I'm not surprised. and I am also VERY amused.
Well, not only had Chris told the truth once when he shouldn't have, now he also lied when he shouldn't. This is perfect. Or: how to completely razzle Tom.
@@theneekofficial8829 the only other thing i can think of is where all of them go in on together of putting the same article name it but they do different articles like for example put in Springfield and then they all talk about different Springfields or something
@@lewisallan9963 Specific to April Fool’s Day, of course. You’re supposed to try to trick others in the morning, and it’s also considered poor taste to reveal others’ joke stories before noon.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 He's actually very good. Slice of life playwright. I know some of his stuff from the radio. (Also, as a child, I had an audiobook of Wind in the Willows read by him.)
The greatest running joke is that Brannan dares Tom every time to pick him. The second greatest is Tom immediately being skeptical of Brannan, for 4 whole series.
I always suspected, from the beginning of the entire series, that there would be an episode where the “article” in question didn’t actually exist. I just thought it’d be orchestrated by Tom himself rather than one of the other 3.
@@mirjanbouma I reckon Tom is absolutely devious enough to think of that, but also aware enough of his own abilities to know that he wouldn't be able to carry it off convincingly! That's why he's always the straight man to the three clowns...
Hate to be that guy, but the expression is *bald* faced lie, not bold-faced lie. Again, sorry, but that really grates on me. That and "butt naked" (buck).
@CinemaDemocratica the language shifted as it traveled from the American northeast down into the middle south, iirc. Fits the lip of the pipe either way, though, right? Its like complaining that its "God be With Ye" instead of "Goodbye"
@@aviaviavian I hear this a lot, and it's not the same. Language evolves; it doesn't shift on the convenient whim of a single cohort of the population that can't look itself in the mirror when it's wrong. There's an educational RUclipsr out there who once said, "Death in abb-senn-TEE-uh," instead of "absentia" and when I corrected him, he replied "LANGUAGE IS FLUID!" ...Whereupon it fell to me to explain that what he'd just attempted to get away with was exactly the opposite of language being *fluid*.
Running scores: Spoilers, obviously Episode Scores: Chris: 1 Gary: 0 Matt: 1 Tom: 1 Season Scores: Chris: 1 Gary: 1 Matt: 2 Tom: 2 Total Scores: Chris: 7 Gary: 5 Matt: 12 Tom: 13 Chris pulled an amazing fast one, what a way to close out this festive 2 part series and the format as a whole (according to Tom)! In the spirit of this being the final for this format, here are some statistics: Out of 24 rounds, Tom correctly guessed the correct article 13 times, so about a 54% success rate. Considering that he had a 33% chance to guess the correct article he did pretty good. Tom was as likely to choose Matt as he was to choose both of the other two TechDifs. This indicates that Matt is generally good at lying in cases where he is able to think about his lie. Gary seemed to be the least selected by Tom, which may be due to, when it is his article, he chose stories that were pretty out there, and in the cases that he was lying, he stayed with the same level of semi-realistic absurdity which made him harder to be believed. But this does lend to the motion that sometimes the real life is crazier than fiction, and Gary has a tendency towards those kinds of articles (and the types of things that would interest him, which Tom generally assumes is something he uses to fill lies)
i appreciate how even though alain benette, despite being french and writing a french play, chose to premiere his play at the dewsbury playhouse to a probably very confused audience
@@duckph I think the format was solid, but I think it's just that with the pandemic and the fact that they don't live near each other, it makes it tough to produce content. Especially since, as they have mentioned in a park bench i think, one of the appealing aspects of the content is the way it is shot. Or at least supposedly, that's the case, I don't think I would care. I would love to see these 4 talk about anything.
You know what they say. It is those that know plenty about a subject that know they know very little, and those that know almost nothing, believe they know plenty.
Well yes, because he is conscious of how it should be pronounced enough to struggle trying too hard to get it right, sometimes just barrelling in and speaking a word without overthinking each syllable is better. It's like Tom's singing video the times where he let's go and tries in a more relaxed way come out better than when he is thinking too much on it.
I think it's less about who won, and more that Tom had it out for Gary in EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE. To be fair, it was at least as much fun watching Gary be a champ about losing as it was watching Chris and Matt attempt to play a straight face about almost anything. Great show, fun format, need to reproduce with friends.
i am once again here to say how much i love the color coded and very detailed subtitles tom has been putting on all his videos!! as someone who enjoys a little bit of aid while reading, this is tremendously helpful, so i can't imagine how much of a game changer it has been for people who are hearing impaired!!! thank you so much
Whenever Dewsbury is mentioned, I always think of my late grandad who grew up in the nearby Osset and he thought the phrase "you were found under a gooseberry bush" was "found under a Dewsbury bus" as a child
As someone who lived in Batley in 1983, Matt's story really tickled me. We used to visit Dewsbury Market almost every weekend, which is opposite from the (now demolished) playhouse.
Right now I'm spending 10 months studying abroad in another country, and lemme tell you all of the Tec Dif content has been a real comforting presence, fun and chill content in a language I can understand while I'm under academic pressure in a language I'm still learning. So yeah, thank you so much for still putting videos out and I'll be ready for the new formats that come along! It's nice to have a familiar presence in the holidays season when your family and friends aren't close to you :)
Honestly your interactions, the fact that you can mess with each other and joke around like boys, is what makes Technical Difficulties videos enjoyable and endearing. It makes me feel like I’m on table with the friends from uni I never had.
@@JossieMimo I wonder how one would do that. How would you say three different things about one thing that are all correct but without too much overlap? Hmmm...
I'm going to miss this show. But then I missed citation needed up untill you started with this one, so I'm looking forward to what ever comes next! Happy New Year!
doing holiday emergency tech support... our department has had 5 calls so far today... just got back from the vet with bad news this morning. very happy to have this to watch, CN/TOTPAL is one of my warmest happiest places.
What an episode to end it on for the year. Spoiler warning (in case anyone reads the comments first). That twist on Chris's first one and the subsequent reactions was priceless.
So when you factor in Chris's bullshittery in this episode, the one about the Hagia Sofia, as well as the one with the Sami reference, then over the course of the entire series precisely the right number of lies were told. The math checks out!
If there was ever a time for a mystery biscuits button on TOTPAL, it's here. Chris wins them all, no more biscuits, ever. I wasn't sure if he'd be able to top piggy backing off Gary's sweaty column/Viking graffiti from prior, but he did.
Well, that should sort the April 1st video. Bring along the culprit, too. He could do with some working vacation. Also, Happy New Year, thanks for all the fun so far, and hoping for much more
I can't stop laughing!! - That beats "Not even the real Abbot" and "Down a bit from Tromso" by a factor of 10GigaGiggles! - You made 2021 a much better year than it was just few minutes ago!! Techdif is BACK!!! Thank you guys!! Happy New Year!!!
@@oz_jones Thanks for language care, I knew there was a diameter symbol, yet again if you're right then Techdif isn't. Shall we gave them two extra views on this episode just to appreciate "The Mighty Four" who saved thousands from depression during lockdowns?
I thought Chris was making the plot up because of one fact I'm surprised Tom didn't pick up on: In 1801, there was no Emperor Napoleon, he wasn't crowned Emperor until 1804.
Matt and Tom having their shirts coordinated to their tinsel and subtitles while Chris wears yellow but it's Gary who has the yellow tinsel/subtitles is absolutely doing my head in Nevertheless, the captions and attention to detail is much appreciated :)
I thiiink they are keeping the format switching the channel since this channel is specifically Matt and Tom and doesn't credit poor Chris or The one and only Gary.
@@axolotllan They’re thinking of other formats I think. I assume all four will be (have been) given admin access to the new channel, but that it will mostly be managed by Tom and Matt, maybe Gary a little bit, and Chris hardly at all.
@@ragnkja I just meant I don't think the lying game is gone just that the channel name is readjusting to account for it being fourway activities not just matt and tom on a park bench etc...
It's been fantastic to see Tech Dif back together again and these two specials were hilarious, sad to see TOTPAL go but I'm excited to see what's coming next!
Thank you for making these videos. You guys served me as company through the pandemic, and I'm having a rough time with covid just now so this couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you for this, cheers
It was absolutely brilliant. Thinking this one might be my favourite but now that doesn't seem fair to all the other brilliant episodes. Will have to rewatch just to make sure ;D
please continue this! i can't count how many times i've wanted to watch one of these just to find out i've already watched them all, so watching a new one is a delight!
Absolutely love this series, haven't watched any tech dif for 2 years till it came up in my feed then I binged them the other week. Keep it up guys can't wait to see more
I'm so glad we got the 'all of these people are lying' that was teased early on in the series! If that didn't happen eventually I was gonna be *so* sad at the mised opportunity. Sad to see this format go, but looking forward to what you're doing next!
I just wanna say thank you for this timing. The first one reminded me how good the series is, I binge watched every episode, and JUST when I ran out, this was released :)
Not knowing who Alan Bennett was, I swear I heard "A-Long Bonnet", as an allegory to Napoleon's hat. It was only until I read the subtitles (which are magnificent, thanks Tom!), that I understood what was being said.
Literally an hour after this went up, I checked the Wikipedia for Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, and in the popular culture section, it mentions that the article was in this video!
I'm afraid Nicaise is pronounced nik'aɪz Not a complain by any means, I just happen to live somewhat close to a Rue Nicaise and was surprised to learn how many there are in Europe after looking this one up In a strange turn of events, the street itself no longer exists (destroyed in 1853), which led to many French to forgot this was even named "the plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise", instead it is best known as "La machine infernale", the biggest farce in assassination attempt history (France history at least)
Alan Bennett (the real Alan Bennett, not the fictional French one) wrote The Madness of George III, so I don't think a play about the plot to assassinate Napoleon is as unlikely as Tom seems to think it is.
*SPOILERS* On the moment Chris revealed that his town was a lie I've had a flashback to one of the earlier episodes where Tom thought everybody was lying and Chris said "Let's save that one for later". Mr Joel, you are a mastermind.
8:33 - 9:34 Tom trying his best to promote their new channel, the rest being a bunch of grown-up teenagers in front of the camera.. 😂🤣🤣😂😂 Always makes me laugh
We're saying goodbye to this format for a while, but if all goes well, there should be something along to replace it next year. In a new location... -- Tom
didn't you make a new channel for these videos?
Say sike right now
@@Duncan_Campbell starting in the new year I imagine.
T
@@amylaneio its 2022 here, so...
Between this episode, the one where Chris’ lie was more accurate than the truth, and the ancient Roman drunkard, I move that Chris be declared the official winner of the whole format.
Without question
Hang on, didn't Chris' truth wind up being less accurate than Matt's lie?
The whole river in Finland that turned out to be a people in Finland, mainly just a bit down fron Tromso...
Or are you talking about when he talked about the Viking graffiti in the Hagia Sofia... 100% true, but also a lie
@@samuelmellars7855
He wrote the name of the language, but talked about the river.
It doesn't matter that Chris won, it matters that Tom lost.
Don't forget Hagia Sophia
“We can’t all be lying. Well we could all be lying but one of us would be a dick” - Matt Gray. How did we not see this coming
And I'm not ruling that out
If you pay attention after Matt says that Chris goes "I'm taking a note of that!"
*thoughtful face* "Let's save that one, I'm taking a note"
3x01 if anyone is wondering.
I was just watching that episode.
@@molunos8842 and I'm reading that with Tom's voice
so we've now had "two of these people are lying", "one of these people are lying", and "all three of these people are lying"
but he wasn't lying, the Town really is a lie.
Is citation needed "all three of these people are telling the truth"?
@@nahometesfay1112 citation needed is “all of these people are telling the truth eventually”
@@eggablist6892 Perhaps citation needed is "none of these people are lying"
since while what they are saying might not be true, guessing wrong isn't lying. Plus that fits the pattern better anyways
Don't forget "The wrong person is lying".
“I think you’ll find it’s in Finland.”
It’s a cheap shot but well deserved.
It's the finale! They had to have a callback.
When was the Finland joke?
chickenmunt and the meatballs.
@chickenmunt Technically it was the region of a city in which the airport in located in, which is just "airport" in Finnish. A word he should've recognized by just having been at a Finnish airport more than once.
@@BoldAndBrash5683 basically, Tom thinks he knows all about Finland, but whenever it comes up he gets it patently wrong, to the point of striking it off his notebook.
As a Welsh speaker, I can say that Chris is correct if you translate it, it means "This town is a lie".
Cake is a lie
And was the apostrophe necessary?
@@qwertyTRiG Yes
Did you catch on when you saw the name?
It's' why I immediately suspected Chris, but then I was so confused how it was meant to trick people when they would know what it meant. Plus, are there any Welsh town names with apostrophes? Can't think of any. What a great story, though.
Was Chris's move dirty? Yes. Yes it was. But was it completely badass? Yes. Yes it was.
I can read this exactly in Tom's voice with the drawn out "yes it waaas"
technically it's within the rules since 2 people were lying, additionally a third was lying
It was also 100% an eventuality. I was expecting it to be Matt who did it, but given chris' wont to mess with the format in general, I'm not surprised. and I am also VERY amused.
It was the best possible move.
@@deefdragon
Because he built his lie in the last round of a previous recording session around the article he’d selected for that round?
So this one is officially the "Mess with Tom as much as possible" special
that's the actual goal of this format
@@MaterClaritas well, that's been Brannan's goal the whole series. It just seems like the others decided to join in the chicanery.
Chris "this article doesn't exist" Joel
Gary "putting question marks into monsters since the 1800s" Brannan
Matt "Alain Bennete" Gray
I miss every episode being a special
And the last one, everyone is lying, one is accidentally correct...
I love how Gary's face is nothing but awe in how diabolical Chris's trick was, even down to the duplicate envelopes
Yes, Gary "got it" real fast.
Well, not only had Chris told the truth once when he shouldn't have, now he also lied when he shouldn't. This is perfect.
Or: how to completely razzle Tom.
And Gary is always a little shaky, even if he is telling the truth.
And there's the one where Chris wrote it down wrong, meaning that Matt's lie was closer to the actual truth.
@@NotKyleChicago Chris has done i think nearly every permutation of lying possible in this game lmao
@@theneekofficial8829 the only other thing i can think of is where all of them go in on together of putting the same article name it but they do different articles like for example put in Springfield and then they all talk about different Springfields or something
@@CSManiac33 Or alternatively, multiple people called Tom Scott.
I love the silence at 8:18 before Chris twists the knife again with "enjoy making your video"
Honestly, Tom should make a video about that fake crossroads toll and schedule it for some 1st April.
If it weren't for Tom's express distaste for the concept of April Fool's day I would totally agree with you.
Ah, chuck it in GPT-3 and claim that it's another AI experiment. It'll be grand.
Tom’s videos go out after noon his time, and joke stories are supposed to go out before noon.
@@ragnkja what?
@@lewisallan9963
Specific to April Fool’s Day, of course. You’re supposed to try to trick others in the morning, and it’s also considered poor taste to reveal others’ joke stories before noon.
Sorry but Chris has just won the entire series. That was absolutely incredible.
Turning TOTPAL into TOTPAL, I love it
@@jackeea_ AOTPAL?
He's certainly won this 4th season... so far...
More to the point, Gary and Matt *lost* the entire series.
@@KusaneHexaku Chris (I think it was Chris) made a joke that they all could be lying in an earlier episode
"This is the Technical Difficulties, we're playing Three of These People Are Messing With Tom..."
Honestly the core reason we were all watching
Our favourite show!
I’m crying at “Alain Benette”, don’t mind me not breathing for the next hour from wheezing
I don't even know who Alan Bennett is but I'm dying of laughter.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 He's actually very good. Slice of life playwright. I know some of his stuff from the radio. (Also, as a child, I had an audiobook of Wind in the Willows read by him.)
Same! Watched it half a dozen times, and it never stops being awesome!
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 same
I7@vigi😊lantcosmicpenguin8721
The greatest running joke is that Brannan dares Tom every time to pick him. The second greatest is Tom immediately being skeptical of Brannan, for 4 whole series.
The best running jokes aren't even jokes, even.
Matt and Chris: Please pick us, we're being 100% truthful.
Gary: I dare you to pick me, bastard. Am I right? Am I wrong? Who knows?
I always suspected, from the beginning of the entire series, that there would be an episode where the “article” in question didn’t actually exist. I just thought it’d be orchestrated by Tom himself rather than one of the other 3.
That would have been a brilliant idea
That would have been brilliant but I don't believe Tom is devious enough to think of that.
@@mirjanbouma I reckon Tom is absolutely devious enough to think of that, but also aware enough of his own abilities to know that he wouldn't be able to carry it off convincingly! That's why he's always the straight man to the three clowns...
@@stevieinselby Always the host, that way he never has to do any of the lying himself. After all, Tom's forte is really more about the facts.
@@stevieinselby nooooo Tom is way too wholesome for deviousness! I don't believe it!
Please just give Chris a channel where he can bold-face lie to the camera because it’s deeply engaging every time it happens.
What you're describing is called "fiction" and it's gotten quite popular.
And then he did a backflip, snapped the bad guy's neck, and saved the day!
Hate to be that guy, but the expression is *bald* faced lie, not bold-faced lie. Again, sorry, but that really grates on me. That and "butt naked" (buck).
@CinemaDemocratica the language shifted as it traveled from the American northeast down into the middle south, iirc. Fits the lip of the pipe either way, though, right? Its like complaining that its "God be With Ye" instead of "Goodbye"
@@aviaviavian I hear this a lot, and it's not the same. Language evolves; it doesn't shift on the convenient whim of a single cohort of the population that can't look itself in the mirror when it's wrong. There's an educational RUclipsr out there who once said, "Death in abb-senn-TEE-uh," instead of "absentia" and when I corrected him, he replied "LANGUAGE IS FLUID!" ...Whereupon it fell to me to explain that what he'd just attempted to get away with was exactly the opposite of language being *fluid*.
That was truly one of the best plays in the history of Two of These People Are Lying. One for the ages.
Running scores:
Spoilers, obviously
Episode Scores:
Chris: 1
Gary: 0
Matt: 1
Tom: 1
Season Scores:
Chris: 1
Gary: 1
Matt: 2
Tom: 2
Total Scores:
Chris:
7
Gary:
5
Matt:
12
Tom:
13
Chris pulled an amazing fast one, what a way to close out this festive 2 part series and the format as a whole (according to Tom)!
In the spirit of this being the final for this format, here are some statistics:
Out of 24 rounds, Tom correctly guessed the correct article 13 times, so about a 54% success rate. Considering that he had a 33% chance to guess the correct article he did pretty good.
Tom was as likely to choose Matt as he was to choose both of the other two TechDifs. This indicates that Matt is generally good at lying in cases where he is able to think about his lie.
Gary seemed to be the least selected by Tom, which may be due to, when it is his article, he chose stories that were pretty out there, and in the cases that he was lying, he stayed with the same level of semi-realistic absurdity which made him harder to be believed. But this does lend to the motion that sometimes the real life is crazier than fiction, and Gary has a tendency towards those kinds of articles (and the types of things that would interest him, which Tom generally assumes is something he uses to fill lies)
Total Scores (Adjusted for Chris' incredible play in this episode):
Chris: 107
Garry: 5
Matt: 12
Tom: 13
*Gary
@@MiseFreisin *Gary
i appreciate how even though alain benette, despite being french and writing a french play, chose to premiere his play at the dewsbury playhouse to a probably very confused audience
real question here: Why would anyone not want to see the technical difficulties again!? The 4 of you are too damn good at what you do!
Well the new TechDiff channel has 62k subscribers and no videos, so it looks like plenty of people do want to see more
Format probably didnt work so well
@@duckph I think the format was solid, but I think it's just that with the pandemic and the fact that they don't live near each other, it makes it tough to produce content. Especially since, as they have mentioned in a park bench i think, one of the appealing aspects of the content is the way it is shot. Or at least supposedly, that's the case, I don't think I would care. I would love to see these 4 talk about anything.
@@OntarioTrafficMan I just subscribed myself.
How has this already been mentioned as a "Reference in Popular culture" on the Rue Saint-Nicaise Wikipedia article...? That's astounding.
How long before the Welsh town has an official entry?
@@mremumerm The Welsh Not-A-Town?
It got removed lul
It's been removed from that section, since the reference was about the article, and not really about the event.
@@marctreal but what about the reference to the play about the event?
Hearing Tom vehemently deny the existence of cawl is wonderful to my Welsh ears
Describing cawl as "a kind of Welsh stew" irked me, as it's LITERALLY THE WORD FOR SOUP.
Soup does exist, right?
@@ragnkja sure. But have fun defining it in a way that includes neither stew nor breakfast cereal, while not excluding any actual soups.
@@EmyrDerfel This is in the same way that salsa is just the Spanish word for "sauce" and kimono is just the Japanese word for "something to wear."
Probably also similar to how the Avon River takes its name from the Welsh word for river, if I recall correctly?
This one had the closest thing to an outro yet! “I haven’t been keeping track of the points and I hope you haven’t either!”
Feels like a neat bow on top. It's the final episode, and they finally have an outro.
I like how Tom is saying that everyone else is pronouncing it better than he would yet he is the one with the linguistics degree...
You know what they say. It is those that know plenty about a subject that know they know very little, and those that know almost nothing, believe they know plenty.
have you forgotten about the...
*Latin GCSE?*
Well yes, because he is conscious of how it should be pronounced enough to struggle trying too hard to get it right, sometimes just barrelling in and speaking a word without overthinking each syllable is better. It's like Tom's singing video the times where he let's go and tries in a more relaxed way come out better than when he is thinking too much on it.
Same with any French pronunciation ever
You are linguist? Well, name every word
I've been keeping track of the points because I had nothing else to do for the last 2 years.
Gary: 5
Matt: 12
Chris: 7
Tom: 13
Unbelievably Tom is winning! I honestly thought he would be the third or second.
Of course, there had to be one person who's crazy enough to defiantly keep track of the scores.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I have oppositional defiant disorder
Perhaps unsurprisingly Gary is in last.
I think it's less about who won, and more that Tom had it out for Gary in EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE. To be fair, it was at least as much fun watching Gary be a champ about losing as it was watching Chris and Matt attempt to play a straight face about almost anything. Great show, fun format, need to reproduce with friends.
i am once again here to say how much i love the color coded and very detailed subtitles tom has been putting on all his videos!! as someone who enjoys a little bit of aid while reading, this is tremendously helpful, so i can't imagine how much of a game changer it has been for people who are hearing impaired!!! thank you so much
same!
Colour coded to match the tinsel!
Whenever Dewsbury is mentioned, I always think of my late grandad who grew up in the nearby Osset and he thought the phrase "you were found under a gooseberry bush" was "found under a Dewsbury bus" as a child
I love that as gary got closer in the not-yet-sponsored segment the subtitles also got bigger!
As someone who lived in Batley in 1983, Matt's story really tickled me. We used to visit Dewsbury Market almost every weekend, which is opposite from the (now demolished) playhouse.
Loving your work Chris Joel. That was fucking hillarious.
'This town does not exist' 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
When this series ends I'm going to miss Gary's rambling at the start.
Gary rambled in Citation Needed, I don't think it's going away.
oh like that's ever going to change
Oh right I still get to enjoy it. Excellent.
That's not the format, that's just Gary. Don't worry, we're keeping him. He's my favourite Gary Brannon.
Gary is still going to be Gary.
Ah yes, Alain Benette, one of the writers of Beyond Festival d'Avignon, along with Dudlè Moreau, Pierre Cook and Jean Miller
Right now I'm spending 10 months studying abroad in another country, and lemme tell you all of the Tec Dif content has been a real comforting presence, fun and chill content in a language I can understand while I'm under academic pressure in a language I'm still learning. So yeah, thank you so much for still putting videos out and I'll be ready for the new formats that come along! It's nice to have a familiar presence in the holidays season when your family and friends aren't close to you :)
I couldn't even stand studying in my native English D: hope all is going well for you
@@coryman125 Thanks it's tough
i really reallt enjoy the show tooo
Honestly your interactions, the fact that you can mess with each other and joke around like boys, is what makes Technical Difficulties videos enjoyable and endearing. It makes me feel like I’m on table with the friends from uni I never had.
Never heard of celwyddyw'rdrefhon, but being fluent in Welsh spoilt that round for me, it literally translates into this town is a lie 😂
After finishing that round I now know why I've never heard of it 😂
Chris really did the all of these people are lying.
and we already have one of these people is lying, now we just need one more to complete the set
@@binarycat1237 None of these people are lying is gonna be fun.
@@JossieMimo I wonder how one would do that. How would you say three different things about one thing that are all correct but without too much overlap? Hmmm...
@@mirjanbouma There is a disambiguation page for Tom Scott, plenty for that to work.
He wasn't lying, technically. He did go against the spirit of the game though.
I love how while Matt is losing it, Gary is staring at Chris speechless and with supreme admiration
Couple of quick questions: does Chris Joel read books? Also, in your opinion, who is the bounciest man on the internet?
He reads books y'know. And Matt Gray is the bounciest man on the internet. But which is everyone's favorite Gary Brannan?
I do wonder very often who everyone's favourite Gary Brannan is. Do you have any information on that, Tom?
And is Gary built for leisure or for speed?
On that note, I wonder how many of these people are lying.
In front of Tom is a classic deck of Trivial Pursuit cards, but what do I mean by classic?
I love Gary's expression at 8:11 as he's in awe whilst realizing just how far Chris is willing to go to make this happen.
I'm going to miss this show. But then I missed citation needed up untill you started with this one, so I'm looking forward to what ever comes next!
Happy New Year!
I still miss citation needed, and mystery biscuits
@@jessicamenschel6775 I'd like to see a return of Mystery Biscuits for good answers/plays in whatever happens next.
doing holiday emergency tech support... our department has had 5 calls so far today... just got back from the vet with bad news this morning. very happy to have this to watch, CN/TOTPAL is one of my warmest happiest places.
What an episode to end it on for the year.
Spoiler warning (in case anyone reads the comments first).
That twist on Chris's first one and the subsequent reactions was priceless.
This is the best episode ever. Ending the show format with a bang.
Napoleon slept threw the bang
So when you factor in Chris's bullshittery in this episode, the one about the Hagia Sofia, as well as the one with the Sami reference, then over the course of the entire series precisely the right number of lies were told. The math checks out!
"On average, two thirds of these people are lying."
"Tell me more about this dragon" was the perfect setup for something else
Me seeing the notification for this video come out, thinking the Christmas Special was a one-off: "This is a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one."
I think it was a one-off recording session for them, but they recorded more than 1 episode. Let's hope there was enough material for another one!
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There was enough material for exactly two episodes.
It's nice that they gave up the pretense of helping Tom find out who is lying again, so quickly too
If there was ever a time for a mystery biscuits button on TOTPAL, it's here. Chris wins them all, no more biscuits, ever. I wasn't sure if he'd be able to top piggy backing off Gary's sweaty column/Viking graffiti from prior, but he did.
He deserves more than that; he deserves an imaginary prize consisting of a verbose pun.
I really wish this would keep going, it is quite possibly the greatest series on youtube.
The last time I was this early, I didn't yet have a favorite Gary Brannan.
Well, that should sort the April 1st video. Bring along the culprit, too. He could do with some working vacation.
Also, Happy New Year, thanks for all the fun so far, and hoping for much more
My favorite game was still the one where it was "two of these people are telling the truth" (about the Hagia Sofia), and Tom still lost
I thoroughly enjoyed this series while working and playing these at the background... I really want this to continue
Not knowing who Allan Bennett is I thought Matt was saying a play written by "I'll invent it" and making it into a "reasonable name"
My thoughts exactly. Their laughter was contagious though, so I still found it funny.
I can't stop laughing!! - That beats "Not even the real Abbot" and "Down a bit from Tromso" by a factor of 10GigaGiggles! - You made 2021 a much better year than it was just few minutes ago!! Techdif is BACK!!! Thank you guys!!
Happy New Year!!!
*2022 (ftfy)
*Trømso
@@oz_jones Thanks for language care, I knew there was a diameter symbol, yet again if you're right then Techdif isn't. Shall we gave them two extra views on this episode just to appreciate "The Mighty Four" who saved thousands from depression during lockdowns?
If this is truly the last, then that is sad, but at least we got one more than I thought we would. For Two Of These People Are Lying is a treasure.
I'm honestly surprised it took this long to create a dedicated channel
@@liam4686 I'm talking about a Tech Diff channel
They attempted to create the channel earlier. It just never worked right because they experienced some technical difficulties.
honestly this was the most chaotic episode yet and there have been a lot of episodes and a lot of chaos
I love how your captions have colors for the different speakers. It really helps to keep the different speakers straight.
Congrats to the person who cited this episode on the Plot of the Rue Saint Nicaise Wikipedia article
9:12 I love that Gary's captions grow larger and larger
The color-coded subtitles are amazing!
I thought Chris was making the plot up because of one fact I'm surprised Tom didn't pick up on: In 1801, there was no Emperor Napoleon, he wasn't crowned Emperor until 1804.
You'd think so, but then Tom suggested Napoleon would've been wearing a tricorne hat.
I think Tom had already stopped listening for facts at that point.
Matt and Tom having their shirts coordinated to their tinsel and subtitles while Chris wears yellow but it's Gary who has the yellow tinsel/subtitles is absolutely doing my head in
Nevertheless, the captions and attention to detail is much appreciated :)
still hoping this format is brought back one day for a few more episodes... :)
I'm just fascinated by the amount of fire extinguishers in there...
The moment Chris said (4:55) Christmas and New Year I knew it had to be him. It's the bloody New Year's episode!
It's November.
11:36 ("Giggle loop resumes") is my new year's wish 2022 for us all
YOOOOO! Love this format bois, great game. Sad to see it go but I'm excited to see what replaces it!
I thiiink they are keeping the format switching the channel since this channel is specifically Matt and Tom and doesn't credit poor Chris or The one and only Gary.
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They’re thinking of other formats I think. I assume all four will be (have been) given admin access to the new channel, but that it will mostly be managed by Tom and Matt, maybe Gary a little bit, and Chris hardly at all.
@@ragnkja I just meant I don't think the lying game is gone just that the channel name is readjusting to account for it being fourway activities not just matt and tom on a park bench etc...
@@axolotllan
No, Tom said it might be the final episode ever, as they’re thinking of trying new stuff.
@@axolotllan
Read the pinned comment.
It's been fantastic to see Tech Dif back together again and these two specials were hilarious, sad to see TOTPAL go but I'm excited to see what's coming next!
We finally got it. They're all lying. Happy New Years.
Chris wasn't lying, he was telling the truth. (about lying)
Thank you for making these videos. You guys served me as company through the pandemic, and I'm having a rough time with covid just now so this couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you for this, cheers
Chris Joel, the master of things that never happened.
I have absolutely lost it to both videos for this season. I may go back through the entire series, always great.
It was absolutely brilliant. Thinking this one might be my favourite but now that doesn't seem fair to all the other brilliant episodes. Will have to rewatch just to make sure ;D
This is by far the best episode yet, the sheer amount of pissdickery going on is astounding
please continue this! i can't count how many times i've wanted to watch one of these just to find out i've already watched them all, so watching a new one is a delight!
Absolutely love this series, haven't watched any tech dif for 2 years till it came up in my feed then I binged them the other week.
Keep it up guys can't wait to see more
Season 1 Chris mentioned the possibility of all 3 of them lying and mentioned needing to remember that.
Looks like it paid out
On the new channel they should create a playlist containing all there previous videos from the group that were posted here and toms channel
I really liked this series and citation needed, I was genuinely more upset when they stopped the series’s than I was when firefly was cancelled
Man, I know Tom doesn’t really like April Fools Jokes, but that first one sounds like a great april fools joke to do.
I'm so glad we got the 'all of these people are lying' that was teased early on in the series! If that didn't happen eventually I was gonna be *so* sad at the mised opportunity. Sad to see this format go, but looking forward to what you're doing next!
The cinematic parallels of Chris winning the last one of these after refusing to win the last citation needed
Such a Chris move.
I just wanna say thank you for this timing. The first one reminded me how good the series is, I binge watched every episode, and JUST when I ran out, this was released :)
Seriously, guys.
This was a great show. You gotta bring it back.
Tom Scott retired from RUclips.
@@xNathan2439xyea but he is still doing content for fun so this could possibly come back
@@xNathan2439x he literally does weekly videos
Not knowing who Alan Bennett was, I swear I heard "A-Long Bonnet", as an allegory to Napoleon's hat. It was only until I read the subtitles (which are magnificent, thanks Tom!), that I understood what was being said.
I can't give this episode more than one like, but this was fantastic. :D "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"
Literally an hour after this went up, I checked the Wikipedia for Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, and in the popular culture section, it mentions that the article was in this video!
Matt's second round answer has such "Your name is Hilda Hilda and you live on 22 Hilda Street AND 22 Hilda Avenue?" energy.
I'm afraid Nicaise is pronounced nik'aɪz
Not a complain by any means, I just happen to live somewhat close to a Rue Nicaise and was surprised to learn how many there are in Europe after looking this one up
In a strange turn of events, the street itself no longer exists (destroyed in 1853), which led to many French to forgot this was even named "the plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise", instead it is best known as "La machine infernale", the biggest farce in assassination attempt history (France history at least)
I wondered if it was actually the "rue Saint Niçaise" but they couldn't find the cedille on the label printer. Thanks for clearing that up!
7:13 If you watch very closely, you can see the moment Tom goes, "Nope. We're never doing this again..." XD
When Matt said the same thing as Chris I hoped they were all talking about the same article
Alan Bennett (the real Alan Bennett, not the fictional French one) wrote The Madness of George III, so I don't think a play about the plot to assassinate Napoleon is as unlikely as Tom seems to think it is.
Sk glad these are back. Don't care what format you guys together are funnier than just Tom and Matt .
*SPOILERS*
On the moment Chris revealed that his town was a lie I've had a flashback to one of the earlier episodes where Tom thought everybody was lying and Chris said "Let's save that one for later".
Mr Joel, you are a mastermind.
been rewatching this series for the last 2 weeks. very nice.
8:33 - 9:34
Tom trying his best to promote their new channel, the rest being a bunch of grown-up teenagers in front of the camera..
😂🤣🤣😂😂
Always makes me laugh
I'm choking over the first article, wow. Thank you so much for these guys, happy new year folks!