Um, Actually, Vogons take pride in the terribleness of their poetry - when Arthur tries to offer praise and analysis in the hope of being granted mercy, the Vogons reject the notion that there is any deeper meaning than to torment others
Um actually, that is true for the Vogon Captain, however when the poet who wrote one of the worst poems in history (that killed 4 people) he was "disappointed with the reception of his poetry" if I remember correctly. So it's just the captain who is extra evil with his poetry.
Um, Actually, the fatal recitation was performed by the poet master of the Azgoths of Kria, not of the Vogons, thus the reception in this case does not apply
From what I've heard, you end up in Cash Cab by signing up for a different reality show. You are told this is an intro shot taking you to the set, so the cameras, chase car, etc. are all explained and the releases are all signed. And then you ARE genuinely surprised that you ended up on THAT show... but not so incredibly shocked.
It is normally pretty clear to me that reality TV shows are fake, but it isn't until I watched this video that I considered that Cash Cab might also be fake. My childhood memories (actually my time in college) is ruined!
Um Actually: While it is commonly believed that the Vogons destroyed Earth in order to construct a hyperspatial express route, it was in fact a cover-up ordered by Gag Halfrunt, Zaphd's private brain care specialist. He did it to forever hide the ultimate question, as it would be bad for business if everybody was happy.
I'm trying to remember if the Vogons knew that's what it was about, though- if they genuinely thought the Earth's destruction was about making a hyperspace express route, or if that was a happy consequence of its destruction, the statement would be technically correct
@@williamjones5334 The reason for the destruction was the cover-up, regardless of what happened after. And Vogons are just bureaucrats, they likely just got the order and that's what they are going to do.
..and yet he disappointed me with the Hitchhiker's guide question, I was sure he would get that one. The Discworld question I understand why he missed even if he read all books because it was a tricky one but Vogon poetry was pretty obvious. But yeah, he is here often and usually win, often by a lot.
I REMEMBER THAT STORY!!! This guy gets headphones or something to let him hear animals but it fails, but then he realizes he can hear plants! And like Amy said he hears flowers screaming in pain as they're cut. He then goes to a great oak with an axe and whacks it a couple of times to see if it would make a sound. It did and it was so sad, low and loud that he went and got a doctor to put iodine on the tree's wound. He apologized to the tree and the doctor escorts the man to a hospital. It stuck with me too. edit: He offers the doctor the headphones but a branch falls on the machine powering them and the doctor doesn't hear anything that's why he thinks the main character is insane.
That sounds like the kind of guy to be into human experimentation and human trafficking ngl. I can hear plants! Time to test it out! *BY CHOPPING THE BIGGEST PLANT*
@@tmarritt Really? I know his first wife was assaulted by a previous partner but didn't see anything about Dahl. But also I don't claim to be an expert on his life.
Ok so fun fact about Grandma Georgina: after she, Willy and Charlie come back from Minusland, she also takes the Vita-Wonk, and it ages her up to like 150+ years old. BUT, the way the aging up is done is really weird, because it doesn't just affect her physical body but in fact seems to alter the course of history. While in her sickbed, she starts muttering about the assassination of Lincoln and everything. Not only does Vita-Wonk age your cells, but it literally seems to go back in time and actually change your date of birth.
Also, you know we're coming to the end of lockdowns because everyone's cameras and mics are so much better. They've spent at least a year and a half living on Zoom by this point
And it's later revealed (in at least one continuity) that they weren't even doing that - it was just a cover, and they were actually hired by a bunch of prognosticators to destroy the Earth before it could finish calculating the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, and thereby put them out of a job.
@@DeaconTaylor Because that's the nature of bypasses - in trying to go around somewhere big and important, they inevitably wind up going right through somewhere smaller, but no less important to the people who live there.
That was my original reaction, but between radio plays, movies, books, stage plays, etc there isn't complete consistency in word use. Especially when you account for UK vs. American English. This correction shouldn't fly. It's kind of like the King Arthur discussion :)
I recently learned about some people in Poland that LARP for a weekend as americans. They have to pre-aprove their back stories and everything and confederate flags are only aprroved in case-by-case situations. It got so popular they extended it to 2 weekends. It was on an Internet Today episode recently.
Um, actually there are two mistakes in that statement. 1. The Vogons have the third worst poetry in the galaxy. 2. Grunthos the Flatulent was an Azgoth of Kria, not a Vogon. The "self-kill" Gutz was thinking of was that Grunthos' major intestine leapt up his neck and throttled his brain in order to protect the galaxy from his poetry.
Came here to make the _exact_ same correction, _and_ explain Gutz' misremembering of the intestinal killing: plus, that it didn't kill all of the audience members, but left the president of the Mid- Galactic Arts Nobbling Council alive; he survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off.
Weirdly, those random things are just what I keep in my shelf. The syrup was a gift from noted dinosaur erotica writer Chuck Tingle from when he was a guest on @midnight.
That’s because in the United States it’s marketed as the Great British Baking Show. They even have to digitally alter the trophy and record alternative pieces to camera to avoid the name Bake-Off.
@@tom.parryjones I've never heard it referred to as the great British baking show and I'm an American. I don't even watch the show but I know it purely as the great British bake off
@@justanotheranimeprofilepic I don’t know what to tell you. In the US and Canada, it’s broadcast as The Great British Baking Show because the term “Bake-Off” is a trademark held by Pillsbury.
like the other repliers I don't hold it against anyone to call it by the name it's aired here, but I always call it Bake Off - it's just such a snappier name, and it's absurd that our legal system allows a corporation to trademark "Bake Off"
@@justanotheranimeprofilepic Most Americans who watch the American broadcast of the show still call it bake-off, as that's the original name. Most people don't call it the baking show.
They never get the Discworld questions right on this show and it kills me every time lol. I was already screaming at my screen the second he said "High King" lol
Also the literal translation is wrong unless expanded upon in a later book. The word for "king" simply translates to "mine supervisor" according to my copy of Guards! Guards!
I really love the more tightly focused theme episodes! I'd love to see episodes on D&D, Elder Scrolls, Dark Souls, and more where there is a WEALTH of lore to pull from! Keep up the amazing work!
Uh, Actually- You DO all have something to worry about in regards to that picture of a Weeping Angel because all images of a Weeping Angel also become *actual* weeping angels, and by creating and showing that image you have not only endangered yourselves and your cast and crew, but all of us viewers as well
Um, Actually Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings’ residence was changed from Essex to Sussex for the movie adaptation, NOT in reaction to the real life Paul’s request to be removed from the book. It actually wasn’t changed in the book and is still listed using a fictional address in Essex. Also, Paul didn’t threaten to sue, he asked Douglas Adams to disguise the name so he “wouldn’t be shamed”.
Quick bonus fact: Iain M Banks novels are his sci-fi collection, whereas the Iain Banks novels are real-world fiction. Only difference is the dropped initial. Also, RIP Iain Banks
I met Phillip Pullman once when I won a short story competition when I was 14. It was quite awkward for me because I'd never finished reading the second His Dark Materials book because the start is fairly sluggish (or at least I found it sluggish at the time). Fortunately, it didn't come up in conversation. He was nice from what I remember.
My problem with the start of The Subtle Knife is reading about Will struggling to care for his mother's mental illness (and just the illness itself) was very difficult emotionally.
I would also add to the Sherlock Holmes question that it wasn't just the fans but Doyle's own mother who convinced him that he had to keep writing Homes stories even if he didn't want to
Trees genuinely communicate with each other and help out those in need There are case studies of fresh cut stumps in forests being kept alive by the trees around them, interlocking their root systems and transferring water and nutrients into the stump to keep it alive
He says about renaissance fairs USA style but in UK. Does a period accurate replica cowboy town where the owners go in full costume & leave stowed any items that wouldn't have existed in industrial America. Count? Loredo. Is such and it's in Kent. (Ironically Red Dwarf filmed a cowboy episode there)
Um actually, Lister is not put into suspended animation when a radiation leak kills everyone else on the ship. Lister is put into suspended animation after Captain Hollister discovers he snuck his pet cat Frankenstein aboard. The radiation leak kills everyone on board after Rimmer fails to secure a drive plate properly while Lister is already in stasis.
Um, Actually - (just noting something funny here in post production) Somehow between the Second Shiny Question, and the next normal Question, the points total seemed to jumbled up? At 28:19, just after the Shiny Q - it showcases the correct score up until then, with 2 - 1 - 3. Then at 29:52, Gutes get another point, but it shows 3 - 1 - 3 somehow? (Correct one being 2 - 1 - 4, ofc) (It seemed the editor switched Emma&Gutes' totals first before adding?) And then after the Book of Merlin Q at 33:31, which Emma wins - the incorrect score remains at 4 - 1 - 3 After that, the point totals are fixed again and it's all good ;) Loved the episode, Gutes is always such a joy of a nerd to listen to!
33:01 Um Actually The Sword in The Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, and The Ill-Made Knight were published in 1938, 1939, and 1940 respectively. "The Once and Future King" refers to the composite edition, released in 1958, which contains the aforementioned 3 novels plus the 4th, Candle In The Wind, which was written in 1940 but was not published until it was included in this edition. World War II had been over for 13 years at this point.
#Correction I'm pretty sure Grandpa Joe is also offered Wonka-Vite but he declines. Also Minusland isn't the Afterlife. If anything it's the Beforelife. Also Also, obviously Trapp hasn't read _Great Glass Elevator_ because what Grandma Georgina goes through is so so much worse than what Trapp describes here.
Thank goodness there was a Red Dwarf question on a nerdy show themed around Anglophilia, but it was way too easy. It could have easily delved into the origin of Lister (via Ouroboros), how many versions of Rimmer there were, Kryton's "interesting" accent, or how they went completely off brand in the later seasons, resurrecting the entire crew of the Dwarf, before returning to form with the core group. Not that I had any complaints about any of it. It's all completely mad and hilarious and brilliant at the same time.
You know what I just realised? In Hot Fuzz the reason as he puts it nobody tells one of Bill Bailey's twin characters nothing is likely cos they thought they'd ALREADY told him having told his identical twin already. How did I not get that for years?!
36:45 Um actually in "The Time of Angels" it's explained that the angels can inhabit anything that takes their image, so yes technically you do have something to worry about and you *did* put them in that type of danger. (if they were real)
@@IceMetalPunk (really late) Um actually, in that episode Amy Pond watch a weeping angel through a tv screen and the image of the weeping angel imprints? inhabits? her eye and later renders her unable to move. So assuming we are in the Who-verse, it is quite serious to show an image of a weeping angel. (Not lethal but then again they don't really kill in the first place, they just send the victim back in time and let them live out their life in that time instead.)
Um, Actually earth was not destroyed to create an express route, but to create a bypass. I remember the book starting with a detailed description of what a bypass is, how one was to be created through Arthur Dent's house, and the irony of the same happening with the earth just moments after his house gets demolished.
Um actually, it was the Azgoths of Kria's poetry who killed 4 people (Grunthos the Flatulent and the Ode to a Lump of Green Putty etc are all related to the Azgoths, not the Vogons)
Um, actually... I just checked my copy of the book and the Vogons want to demo Earth for a hyperspace express route, Mr. Prosser wants to Demo Aurthur's house for a by-pass. The parrallels are likely what caused some confusion.
That wasn't a mistake, but calling Grunthos the Flatulent a Vogon arguably was, since he's the postmaster of the Azgoths of Kria in the main continuity.
Would American adventure count as a British equivalent of a renaissance fair? It closed down a while ago but had a cowboy shoot out rides based on gold mines and a ride based around space flight
This is possibly the only episode where I would have had a chance to win. Assuming I didn’t crack like a soft boiled egg under pressure of being around some of the funniest nerds alive, which whatever. The point is I actually knew most of the answers for a change. 😂😂😂
36:45 - Um, actually, the image of an angel IS an angel, so while, yes, the angel couldn't move while everyone was staring at it, you just infected everyone* viewing's minds with the image of the angel... so, what was that about danger again? :/ *Aphantasia sufferers aside, I guess.
Umm actually, I'm literally scowering through my copy of Guards! Guards right now and "King" (dezka-knit) is just simply "Mine-supervisor", not "Senior engineer of the mine" (page 29 at the footnote).
Um actually, there’s a mistake in the episode itself. You made a British themed episode and didn’t get Siobhan. Edit: I got back into the comments to defend Gutierrez on his point about Arthurian legend. Depicting a setting with architecture, social structures, and armor anachronistic for the supposed time period dates AT LEAST as far back as Thomas Mallory. So it's fair to say the stories aren't really set in a particular point in time.
Um, actually: a character who is shat on for no reason is closer to a schlemazel than a schlemiel. "A schlemiel spills his soup. A schlemazel is the guy he spills it on."
This episode inspired me to finally got and listen to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy audio play, highly recommend (it's surprisingly easy to find 🏴☠️)
I'm preparing questions for an Um, Actually party, and I was mid writing a question about Holmes and The Adventure of the Empty House when their Holmes question came up!
Um actually, there is a German Americana Renaissance Fair based on the works of 19th century author Karl May, whose semi-autobiographical works played in America (he wrote them from prison, never actually having travelled there)
Um actually, in red dwarf Lister was not in suspended animation, but in a similar, but distinctly different type of stasis - a chamber where time is literally stopped.
@@TheMarkthetruth Hey, if Sam Reich can pit Michael Winslow against Josh and Brennan in a mouth-noises game, why not Siobhan in a British pop culture nerd game?
On the point of DW: Start where ever you like, its truly a monster of the week sort of show that's pushing the message of "goddammit be kind to one another", you'll pick up lore along the way. Also like the series purposely retcons itself all the time because its allowed to via 'its all just a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff'. In short its science fantasy, having broken all 3 time travel laws at this point I think so who cares! Its fun, its fanciful, its just a good time. My introduction to it? I distinctly remember a David Tennant episode, the one with the Racnoss, and then didn't watch it for ages. Only really fell in love with it via Matt Smith. But then of course reruns, so of course I also fell in love with David's interpretation as well. My family is big into sci-fi and sci-fantasy so it was only a matter of time, especially with my parents growing up with Tom Baker as their Doctor. I genuinely believe if anything Doctor Who has given me a great lesson in letting go. Each regeneration is a new actor's interpretation, yes I'm allowed to mourn my attachment to the last regen but hey, life keep chugging on and we still have so much of the Universe to see and no doubt I'm going to fall in love with this new Doctor along the way.
I stumbled upon it while flipping through the channels one night, and it was the episode titled "Dalek" (the first reintroduction of the Daleks in the 2005 series, which took place "in America" under a mountain). I knew absolutely nothing about the series, and was like, "Wow, that shitty design looks like it's from the 60s." (I later found out that's because it is, of course 😂). I didn't love it, but I liked it enough to watch it again, and the next episode I saw was the Empty Child/Doctor Dances two-parter... I fell in love there and have been a Whovian ever since. I never really watched the pre-2000s episodes (except that TV movie with Eric Roberts), because I'm a shameful A/V quality snob 😃 Althought Tennant is "my Doctor", Capaldi has my favorite speech ever written in the Zygon Inversion, which I often re-share (I did so just the other day, in fact!).
A fun episode! In response to the discussion about Doctor Who, I'd honestly suggest that anyone tempted to give the show a try can just start anywhere; there's no consistent big continuity that you have to be aware of to start enjoying it.
Well, "anywhere" being the start of a series would be best, not "anywhere" as in literally any episode in the middle. You'll definitely miss a ton if you just jump into the middle of a season.
@@KelpTheGreat Just my opinion, of course - this ebbs and flows. Most stories (especially in the 1963 - 1989 run) are not only self-contained but sometimes contradict each other! I've seen people daunted and put off by the amount of episodes of the show, and while I agree with you that there will be extra bits of fun if one begins at the start of a season, I wouldn't want anyone to think that was a barrier to entry, or there was a 'right' way to watch the programme. Including my own, of course!
i guessed that love island was surely based on the Dutch Temptation Island, which is a similar show that aired almost continously for 14 years prior to the first love island, also in the uk. I guess it's moreso stolen than adapted from haha
Moriarty the Patriot took 4 years to get said anime and it was published monthly, so it was working on a difficult scale. Unless it was just really popular in Japan because it was Sherlock Holmes? Either way, not sure we're getting more, given it almost had an original ending that seems to go differently than the manga, which is still ongoing, possibly ending eventually
When my family took a special trip to visit family in Norway in the early 80s ('83, I think?) and we mentioned we were from Chicago, everybody immediately made Tommy-gun motions, and exclaimed about Al Capone. Capone was a gangster active in Chicago in the 1920s, sixty years prior- he was the first thing Europeans thought about when they thought about Chicago. When we went back for the second time in 1996, and mentioned Chicago, then it was all about Michael Jordon and the Chicago Bulls. They were in the midst of their winning streak at the time. It was nice to be connected to a sports star, and something more recent, rather than a murderous gangster from the '30s. But I often think about how our (the collective "our", humans) tendency to slap generalizations on whole peoples based on the small amount of information we happen to know about maybe just one person, or a few brief touch-points, and we simply hit "frappe" on the cultural blender. This dreary story is brought about by the conversation about the Arthurian legends, and American "Renaissance Faires." We take a specific era, like Elizabethan England, then we blend in Robin Hood, and fairies, and Arthurian legend, and plate-armor knights, and Tolkien-esque legendary beings, and all kinds of "old-timey" "British" stuff along for the ride. What would an American version of that look like, if a European tried to start one? The Wild West is a popular, uniquely American thing. Has there ever been*, or could there conceivably be, a European weekend festival atmosphere with their version of "The American Old West?" Cowboys and Indians, sherifs and outlaws, etc. Would they fold in any American Civil War stuff? Any California Gold Rush stuff? Would anybody try to shoe-horn in steampunk fantasy like "Wild, Wild, West" for fun? (There's a fair amount of steampunk at Renaissance Faires; it's a popular genre.). Would anybody try to slide Prohibition-era gangsters like Capone, even though that'd be from seventy-odd years later? Would anybody try to slide in any American Revolution stuff, even though that'd be from eighty-odd years prior? Would all of American history, from the Revolution, to the Civil War, Wild West, Prohibition gangsters, etc, all rolled into one "American History Festival" experience? *In all honesty, there literally was such a thing, in a manner of speaking, at the tail end of the Wild West era itself. Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, etc. brought their show of cowboys and Indians and horses and such and toured Europe giving exhibitions. These were larger-than-life, theatrical versions of everything, tailored to impress a European paying audience. Not quite the same kind of atmosphere as a Renaissance Festival is, but not all that dis-similar, either.
I find the comment about comedy very true. If you have a good idea and don't know how to package it, just say that you had a good idea but no clue how to package it. Then show the idea, give a couple of jokes around it, and move on. Five pages later, the idea is already established by you saying that you wanted to establish it, allowing you to refer back to it in order to use it.
How do we have a Anglophilia competition without Siobhan?
Because it would be putting the others at an unfair disadvantage?
Genetic advantage
A guest host, Siobhan? Would've been PERFECTION
Can anyone with that Irish a name be and Anglophile?
@@christianboehlefeld5168 well she is as English as they come, that would probably help
Um, Actually, Vogons take pride in the terribleness of their poetry - when Arthur tries to offer praise and analysis in the hope of being granted mercy, the Vogons reject the notion that there is any deeper meaning than to torment others
Um actually, that is true for the Vogon Captain, however when the poet who wrote one of the worst poems in history (that killed 4 people) he was "disappointed with the reception of his poetry" if I remember correctly.
So it's just the captain who is extra evil with his poetry.
Um, Actually, the fatal recitation was performed by the poet master of the Azgoths of Kria, not of the Vogons, thus the reception in this case does not apply
I blame the BBC for this.
@@stefanorarinsson5360 perhaps upset that the poem didn't kill more?
being British is not a joke. Millions of people suffer everyday
Their ancestors should've fought better
Ah Feck off
@@montgomerynovak2194 fought who exactly?
Lol
@@kylewilliams8114 the americans, duh
From what I've heard, you end up in Cash Cab by signing up for a different reality show. You are told this is an intro shot taking you to the set, so the cameras, chase car, etc. are all explained and the releases are all signed. And then you ARE genuinely surprised that you ended up on THAT show... but not so incredibly shocked.
From what I've seen, you end up in Cash Cab by signing up to work on TGS with Tracy Jordan (specifically, while being Tracy Jordan).
It is normally pretty clear to me that reality TV shows are fake, but it isn't until I watched this video that I considered that Cash Cab might also be fake. My childhood memories (actually my time in college) is ruined!
Um Actually: While it is commonly believed that the Vogons destroyed Earth in order to construct a hyperspatial express route, it was in fact a cover-up ordered by Gag Halfrunt, Zaphd's private brain care specialist. He did it to forever hide the ultimate question, as it would be bad for business if everybody was happy.
I'm trying to remember if the Vogons knew that's what it was about, though- if they genuinely thought the Earth's destruction was about making a hyperspace express route, or if that was a happy consequence of its destruction, the statement would be technically correct
@@williamjones5334 The reason for the destruction was the cover-up, regardless of what happened after. And Vogons are just bureaucrats, they likely just got the order and that's what they are going to do.
@@williamjones5334 I'm pretty sure they legitimately believed it was for a highway project. Gag played that twist pretty close to the chest.
God, I forgot how weird Hitchhikers Guide is.
Um, actually, that part wasn't written or conceived by Douglas Adams and doesn't count. It's just legally published fan-fiction.
Gutes is such a well rounded nerd. He knows so much about so much.
such a great sport as well on all of his appearances
I enjoy his additions to his answers, even if his answers are wrong sometimes.
..and yet he disappointed me with the Hitchhiker's guide question, I was sure he would get that one. The Discworld question I understand why he missed even if he read all books because it was a tricky one but Vogon poetry was pretty obvious.
But yeah, he is here often and usually win, often by a lot.
@@loke6664 after this episode, I wanna know how many of those wins were because his points actually belonged to other people
Can't believe he lost
I REMEMBER THAT STORY!!! This guy gets headphones or something to let him hear animals but it fails, but then he realizes he can hear plants! And like Amy said he hears flowers screaming in pain as they're cut. He then goes to a great oak with an axe and whacks it a couple of times to see if it would make a sound. It did and it was so sad, low and loud that he went and got a doctor to put iodine on the tree's wound. He apologized to the tree and the doctor escorts the man to a hospital. It stuck with me too.
edit: He offers the doctor the headphones but a branch falls on the machine powering them and the doctor doesn't hear anything that's why he thinks the main character is insane.
That sounds like the kind of guy to be into human experimentation and human trafficking ngl.
I can hear plants! Time to test it out!
*BY CHOPPING THE BIGGEST PLANT*
When he was in the hospital, did anyone bring him flowers?
@@justincoleman3805 OH MY GAWD!! Ahahaha!!! That’s brilliant.
Mushrooms release a frequency when being plucked, (aka scream). So maybe not that far off.
@@Cantread807 I've heard carrots do too. So maybe you're right! /gen
Roald Dahl was an ace fighter pilot meaning on top of being a beloved children’s author (and erotica writer) he also killed at least 5 other people.
Wasn't he also strongly antisemitic ?
@@ATjfds mostly he seems anti-Israel but did say some pretty wild shit and terrible stereotypes while also having close Jewish friends
Wife beater as well, although pretty normal back then.
@@tmarritt Really? I know his first wife was assaulted by a previous partner but didn't see anything about Dahl. But also I don't claim to be an expert on his life.
_"The Vogon ship hung in the sky, much like bricks don't..."_
This is the first “Um, Actually” that Trapp didn’t explain the rules.
Ok so fun fact about Grandma Georgina: after she, Willy and Charlie come back from Minusland, she also takes the Vita-Wonk, and it ages her up to like 150+ years old. BUT, the way the aging up is done is really weird, because it doesn't just affect her physical body but in fact seems to alter the course of history. While in her sickbed, she starts muttering about the assassination of Lincoln and everything. Not only does Vita-Wonk age your cells, but it literally seems to go back in time and actually change your date of birth.
Also, you know we're coming to the end of lockdowns because everyone's cameras and mics are so much better. They've spent at least a year and a half living on Zoom by this point
I thought lockdown was over a long time ago. Did I miss something?
@@raynemichelle2996 These are older episodes. This is season 5 episode 5. They are now on season 6.
@@NearCry91 ohhh
Technically, someone de-aged to -2 years old wouldn't go to the afterlife, they'd go to the before-life
If you believe in reincarnation it’s all the same interstitial phase between lives
Ever seen the movie Soul? They can go to both :D
Glad you brought awareness to "being british". Many of us suffer of it every day.
One day you'll figure out food. Until then God speed
@@happyfundave To be fair, many of us have figured out enough to know that many other countries have created incredible food we can eat.
@@CodenameJD Spain and France are right there, that helps.
@@happyfundave And Italy's not too far
After hearing the Arthurian Legend question I realized how hilarious an Um Actually Bible episode would be. So many WTF moments!!!
The Vogons were not building an expressway, they were building a bypass.
And it's later revealed (in at least one continuity) that they weren't even doing that - it was just a cover, and they were actually hired by a bunch of prognosticators to destroy the Earth before it could finish calculating the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, and thereby put them out of a job.
but if it was a bypass then why did it go through the earth instead of around - bypassing it.
@@DeaconTaylor Because that's the nature of bypasses - in trying to go around somewhere big and important, they inevitably wind up going right through somewhere smaller, but no less important to the people who live there.
@@DeaconTaylor It's a bypass, you've got to build bypasses...
That was my original reaction, but between radio plays, movies, books, stage plays, etc there isn't complete consistency in word use. Especially when you account for UK vs. American English. This correction shouldn't fly.
It's kind of like the King Arthur discussion :)
I really appreciate that amy vorpahl's screenname is vorpahlsword. Vorpahl Sword, or Vorpahls Word; both work so well.
I recently learned about some people in Poland that LARP for a weekend as americans. They have to pre-aprove their back stories and everything and confederate flags are only aprroved in case-by-case situations. It got so popular they extended it to 2 weekends. It was on an Internet Today episode recently.
So, fat suits, burgers, excessive religious iconography, and shooting anyone who disagrees with them?
Um, actually there are two mistakes in that statement.
1. The Vogons have the third worst poetry in the galaxy.
2. Grunthos the Flatulent was an Azgoth of Kria, not a Vogon.
The "self-kill" Gutz was thinking of was that Grunthos' major intestine leapt up his neck and throttled his brain in order to protect the galaxy from his poetry.
What you just said is exactly why I don’t think I’ll ever be able to read and enjoy The Hitchhiker’s Guide book.
Thank you! I knew someone's organs were attacking each other related to poetry, but couldn't remember what exactly.
Came here to make the _exact_ same correction, _and_ explain Gutz' misremembering of the intestinal killing: plus, that it didn't kill all of the audience members, but left the president of the Mid- Galactic Arts Nobbling Council alive; he survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off.
TBF, in at least one timeline, Grunthos is depicted as a Vogon and the Azgoths of Kria just plain aren't mentioned.
Damn, Gutz is becoming the new Brennan with his "too-pedantic" corrections.
Siobhan was literally in a show named Anglophenia so I suppose she'd clean the board
She also mopped up Grant and Rachel Bloom in the musical-themed Um Actually. She's a pretty good player, usually bested only by Brennan or Ify.
I think the main piece of trivia I learned from this episode is that there exist Vorpahl twins.
One snickers, the other snacks
@@quantummidget i cannot figure out for the life of me which one amy would be XD
@@lavenderwalrus9875 Well she _does_ laugh a lot... Presumably then her sister is the epicurean 😁
I love that Gutes seems to have tried to put random items in the background, like a bottle of syrup.
Weirdly, those random things are just what I keep in my shelf. The syrup was a gift from noted dinosaur erotica writer Chuck Tingle from when he was a guest on @midnight.
@@dasgoot Ha! Why NOT syrup I guess :)
"Show me the clever man doing clever things" got me
Kudos to Trapp for consistently referring to Bake Off by its proper name, haven't seen anyone else in the States do that.
That’s because in the United States it’s marketed as the Great British Baking Show. They even have to digitally alter the trophy and record alternative pieces to camera to avoid the name Bake-Off.
@@tom.parryjones I've never heard it referred to as the great British baking show and I'm an American. I don't even watch the show but I know it purely as the great British bake off
@@justanotheranimeprofilepic I don’t know what to tell you. In the US and Canada, it’s broadcast as The Great British Baking Show because the term “Bake-Off” is a trademark held by Pillsbury.
like the other repliers I don't hold it against anyone to call it by the name it's aired here, but I always call it Bake Off - it's just such a snappier name, and it's absurd that our legal system allows a corporation to trademark "Bake Off"
@@justanotheranimeprofilepic Most Americans who watch the American broadcast of the show still call it bake-off, as that's the original name. Most people don't call it the baking show.
They never get the Discworld questions right on this show and it kills me every time lol. I was already screaming at my screen the second he said "High King" lol
Same! Although what gootz said was correct, she does eventually come out as the Low Queen.
@@VensVids And she did change her name to Queen Blodwen when she came out, so Gootz should have had a point
Also the literal translation is wrong unless expanded upon in a later book. The word for "king" simply translates to "mine supervisor" according to my copy of Guards! Guards!
Gutz is the almost-Brennan. He always knows the topic and tons of extra details about it, but he just misses the incorrect detail.
What a gorgeous panel. Gutz is radiant!
I really love the more tightly focused theme episodes! I'd love to see episodes on D&D, Elder Scrolls, Dark Souls, and more where there is a WEALTH of lore to pull from! Keep up the amazing work!
Uh, Actually- You DO all have something to worry about in regards to that picture of a Weeping Angel because all images of a Weeping Angel also become *actual* weeping angels, and by creating and showing that image you have not only endangered yourselves and your cast and crew, but all of us viewers as well
"Charlie and the Great Failing Upwards" would be an amazing title for any of the Wonka books, if it weren't always a massive spoiler.
Um, Actually Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings’ residence was changed from Essex to Sussex for the movie adaptation, NOT in reaction to the real life Paul’s request to be removed from the book. It actually wasn’t changed in the book and is still listed using a fictional address in Essex. Also, Paul didn’t threaten to sue, he asked Douglas Adams to disguise the name so he “wouldn’t be shamed”.
Um, Actually, there is another error in the Vogon Poetry question, as Grunthos the Flatuent IS an Azgoth of Kria, not a Vogon.
I am lukewarm with the dæmons in his dark materials, and more "Oh Yeah!" with the armored polar bears.
The fact that they did an Anglophilia episode without having a single Doctor Who question is lunacy.
Dave Lister was frozen as punishment for bringing the cat on board, a couple of days later the radiation leak was caused by Rimmer
Quick bonus fact: Iain M Banks novels are his sci-fi collection, whereas the Iain Banks novels are real-world fiction. Only difference is the dropped initial. Also, RIP Iain Banks
Although the borderline between real world and sf/fantasy is somewhat blurry in some of them, e.g. The Bridge and A Song of Stone.
I was gonna complain that Siobhan wasn't in this then I realized she'd just play a perfect game.
They let Matt Mercer on the D&D episode!
She's not an Anglophile, she's _British_
@@AndrewTBP while rare it is not unheard of for British people to love the UK and it’s culture.
This episode was good! I'm glad y'all figured out how to have good quality video and audio for everyone!
I met Phillip Pullman once when I won a short story competition when I was 14. It was quite awkward for me because I'd never finished reading the second His Dark Materials book because the start is fairly sluggish (or at least I found it sluggish at the time). Fortunately, it didn't come up in conversation. He was nice from what I remember.
My problem with the start of The Subtle Knife is reading about Will struggling to care for his mother's mental illness (and just the illness itself) was very difficult emotionally.
If it hadn't been for outcry we wouldn't have gotten the most famous Sherlock Holmes novel. That's crazy
I would also add to the Sherlock Holmes question that it wasn't just the fans but Doyle's own mother who convinced him that he had to keep writing Homes stories even if he didn't want to
As a Brit I’m nervous
Um actually, plants screaming when they die isn't fiction, they just use pheromones to do so. Puts a new perspective on the smell of a fresh cut lawn.
I love the smell of slaughtered grass in the morning.
Trees genuinely communicate with each other and help out those in need
There are case studies of fresh cut stumps in forests being kept alive by the trees around them, interlocking their root systems and transferring water and nutrients into the stump to keep it alive
He says about renaissance fairs USA style but in UK. Does a period accurate replica cowboy town where the owners go in full costume & leave stowed any items that wouldn't have existed in industrial America. Count? Loredo. Is such and it's in Kent. (Ironically Red Dwarf filmed a cowboy episode there)
Um actually, Lister is not put into suspended animation when a radiation leak kills everyone else on the ship. Lister is put into suspended animation after Captain Hollister discovers he snuck his pet cat Frankenstein aboard. The radiation leak kills everyone on board after Rimmer fails to secure a drive plate properly while Lister is already in stasis.
My correction there would have been that he wasn't "frozen". 😆
@@the3nder1 TBF we say frozen to just mean 'stopped' (e.g. frozen in time, freezing of assets, frozen in fear) not just in the literal frosty sense
Um, Actually - (just noting something funny here in post production)
Somehow between the Second Shiny Question, and the next normal Question, the points total seemed to jumbled up?
At 28:19, just after the Shiny Q - it showcases the correct score up until then, with 2 - 1 - 3.
Then at 29:52, Gutes get another point, but it shows 3 - 1 - 3 somehow? (Correct one being 2 - 1 - 4, ofc)
(It seemed the editor switched Emma&Gutes' totals first before adding?)
And then after the Book of Merlin Q at 33:31, which Emma wins - the incorrect score remains at 4 - 1 - 3
After that, the point totals are fixed again and it's all good ;)
Loved the episode, Gutes is always such a joy of a nerd to listen to!
33:01 Um Actually The Sword in The Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, and The Ill-Made Knight were published in 1938, 1939, and 1940 respectively.
"The Once and Future King" refers to the composite edition, released in 1958, which contains the aforementioned 3 novels plus the 4th, Candle In The Wind, which was written in 1940 but was not published until it was included in this edition. World War II had been over for 13 years at this point.
#Correction I'm pretty sure Grandpa Joe is also offered Wonka-Vite but he declines.
Also Minusland isn't the Afterlife. If anything it's the Beforelife.
Also Also, obviously Trapp hasn't read _Great Glass Elevator_ because what Grandma Georgina goes through is so so much worse than what Trapp describes here.
He said trhree grandparents and I recall four staying in the bed until Grampa Joe needed to go with Charlie to the Chocolate factory.
Thank goodness there was a Red Dwarf question on a nerdy show themed around Anglophilia, but it was way too easy. It could have easily delved into the origin of Lister (via Ouroboros), how many versions of Rimmer there were, Kryton's "interesting" accent, or how they went completely off brand in the later seasons, resurrecting the entire crew of the Dwarf, before returning to form with the core group.
Not that I had any complaints about any of it. It's all completely mad and hilarious and brilliant at the same time.
SOMEONE in that show is a big fan of Psycho. They are proudly displaying it in their camera.
I didn't remember the whole Minusland thing until he brought it up. I think I might have read that book too young lol
You know what I just realised? In Hot Fuzz the reason as he puts it nobody tells one of Bill Bailey's twin characters nothing is likely cos they thought they'd ALREADY told him having told his identical twin already. How did I not get that for years?!
The ode to a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning wasn't written by a vogon.
Um, actually, the scent that fresh cut grass gives off is supposedly it "screaming" in pain, so the Dahl short story isn't too far off.
36:45 Um actually in "The Time of Angels" it's explained that the angels can inhabit anything that takes their image, so yes technically you do have something to worry about and you *did* put them in that type of danger. (if they were real)
Um, actually, he was saying they're not in danger because the game required them to keep their eyes on the angel anyway, not because it wasn't real :)
@@IceMetalPunk (really late) Um actually, in that episode Amy Pond watch a weeping angel through a tv screen and the image of the weeping angel imprints? inhabits? her eye and later renders her unable to move.
So assuming we are in the Who-verse, it is quite serious to show an image of a weeping angel.
(Not lethal but then again they don't really kill in the first place, they just send the victim back in time and let them live out their life in that time instead.)
I was surprised how well I did here. It was mostly thanks to my love of things like "His Dark Materials," and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Um, Actually earth was not destroyed to create an express route, but to create a bypass.
I remember the book starting with a detailed description of what a bypass is, how one was to be created through Arthur Dent's house, and the irony of the same happening with the earth just moments after his house gets demolished.
Um actually, it was the Azgoths of Kria's poetry who killed 4 people (Grunthos the Flatulent and the Ode to a Lump of Green Putty etc are all related to the Azgoths, not the Vogons)
Um, actually... The relative badness of Vogon poetry was not the only mistake, they made way for a hyperspace by-pass, not a hyperspace express route.
Um, actually... I just checked my copy of the book and the Vogons want to demo Earth for a hyperspace express route, Mr. Prosser wants to Demo Aurthur's house for a by-pass. The parrallels are likely what caused some confusion.
That wasn't a mistake, but calling Grunthos the Flatulent a Vogon arguably was, since he's the postmaster of the Azgoths of Kria in the main continuity.
The fact that Siobhan didn’t provide a guest appearance to ask a question is criminal. Also when will we let Brennan host an episode.
Would American adventure count as a British equivalent of a renaissance fair? It closed down a while ago but had a cowboy shoot out rides based on gold mines and a ride based around space flight
Um actually they do have reason to worry, anything that takes the image of an angel becomes an angel.
This is possibly the only episode where I would have had a chance to win. Assuming I didn’t crack like a soft boiled egg under pressure of being around some of the funniest nerds alive, which whatever. The point is I actually knew most of the answers for a change. 😂😂😂
36:45 - Um, actually, the image of an angel IS an angel, so while, yes, the angel couldn't move while everyone was staring at it, you just infected everyone* viewing's minds with the image of the angel... so, what was that about danger again? :/
*Aphantasia sufferers aside, I guess.
Umm actually, I'm literally scowering through my copy of Guards! Guards right now and "King" (dezka-knit) is just simply "Mine-supervisor", not "Senior engineer of the mine" (page 29 at the footnote).
Um actually, there’s a mistake in the episode itself. You made a British themed episode and didn’t get Siobhan.
Edit: I got back into the comments to defend Gutierrez on his point about Arthurian legend. Depicting a setting with architecture, social structures, and armor anachronistic for the supposed time period dates AT LEAST as far back as Thomas Mallory. So it's fair to say the stories aren't really set in a particular point in time.
Isn’t she English? Because I feel like that would just be cheating, tbh.
I feel like it's the same reason we never have both Brennan and Matt Mercer in a D&D reason: they needed her to write the questions.
Um, actually: a character who is shat on for no reason is closer to a schlemazel than a schlemiel. "A schlemiel spills his soup. A schlemazel is the guy he spills it on."
The idea of "The American Ren Fair" is hilarious because my best friends mom from Japan said well there is a HUGE cowboy fandom there.
um Actualy, Grunthos the Flatulent is a Poet Master of the Azgoths of Kria, not a Vogon.
6:44 me: **glancing uncomfortably at the vase of flowers right next to me**
I love how the quality of camera has improved as Covid continued.
This episode inspired me to finally got and listen to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy audio play, highly recommend (it's surprisingly easy to find 🏴☠️)
That poetry was the single most Hitchhiker's Guide thing I've ever heard 😆 😆
i also remember in the Big Friendly Giant he mentions that he can hear the screams with his big ears
I'm preparing questions for an Um, Actually party, and I was mid writing a question about Holmes and The Adventure of the Empty House when their Holmes question came up!
Um actually, we have discovered that plants do in fact, make noise imperceptible to humans, and that noise increases during distress.
Um actually, there is a German Americana Renaissance Fair based on the works of 19th century author Karl May, whose semi-autobiographical works played in America (he wrote them from prison, never actually having travelled there)
I was shouting the Vogon answer, but I forgot to say, "Um, actually."
Joke's on you Emma, they're making a British Bakeoff Musical...
Um actually, in red dwarf Lister was not in suspended animation, but in a similar, but distinctly different type of stasis - a chamber where time is literally stopped.
Um Actually, you should've had Siobhan in this one.
That would have been too easy
@@TheMarkthetruth Hey, if Sam Reich can pit Michael Winslow against Josh and Brennan in a mouth-noises game, why not Siobhan in a British pop culture nerd game?
Yay I was hoping for a Red Dwarf question
This was a good one, because it got me now interested in watching the show.
I just started watching 'Um, actually' Recently, and I got to say, this new episode is a pleasant surprise!
On the point of DW: Start where ever you like, its truly a monster of the week sort of show that's pushing the message of "goddammit be kind to one another", you'll pick up lore along the way. Also like the series purposely retcons itself all the time because its allowed to via 'its all just a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff'. In short its science fantasy, having broken all 3 time travel laws at this point I think so who cares! Its fun, its fanciful, its just a good time.
My introduction to it? I distinctly remember a David Tennant episode, the one with the Racnoss, and then didn't watch it for ages. Only really fell in love with it via Matt Smith. But then of course reruns, so of course I also fell in love with David's interpretation as well. My family is big into sci-fi and sci-fantasy so it was only a matter of time, especially with my parents growing up with Tom Baker as their Doctor. I genuinely believe if anything Doctor Who has given me a great lesson in letting go. Each regeneration is a new actor's interpretation, yes I'm allowed to mourn my attachment to the last regen but hey, life keep chugging on and we still have so much of the Universe to see and no doubt I'm going to fall in love with this new Doctor along the way.
I stumbled upon it while flipping through the channels one night, and it was the episode titled "Dalek" (the first reintroduction of the Daleks in the 2005 series, which took place "in America" under a mountain). I knew absolutely nothing about the series, and was like, "Wow, that shitty design looks like it's from the 60s." (I later found out that's because it is, of course 😂). I didn't love it, but I liked it enough to watch it again, and the next episode I saw was the Empty Child/Doctor Dances two-parter... I fell in love there and have been a Whovian ever since. I never really watched the pre-2000s episodes (except that TV movie with Eric Roberts), because I'm a shameful A/V quality snob 😃
Althought Tennant is "my Doctor", Capaldi has my favorite speech ever written in the Zygon Inversion, which I often re-share (I did so just the other day, in fact!).
A fun episode! In response to the discussion about Doctor Who, I'd honestly suggest that anyone tempted to give the show a try can just start anywhere; there's no consistent big continuity that you have to be aware of to start enjoying it.
Well, "anywhere" being the start of a series would be best, not "anywhere" as in literally any episode in the middle. You'll definitely miss a ton if you just jump into the middle of a season.
@@KelpTheGreat Just my opinion, of course - this ebbs and flows. Most stories (especially in the 1963 - 1989 run) are not only self-contained but sometimes contradict each other! I've seen people daunted and put off by the amount of episodes of the show, and while I agree with you that there will be extra bits of fun if one begins at the start of a season, I wouldn't want anyone to think that was a barrier to entry, or there was a 'right' way to watch the programme. Including my own, of course!
When she was talking about all the plants are sentient and screams bloody murder when being picked... I just imagine a lawnmower....
i guessed that love island was surely based on the Dutch Temptation Island, which is a similar show that aired almost continously for 14 years prior to the first love island, also in the uk. I guess it's moreso stolen than adapted from haha
Roald Dahl wants you to try his snozzberries
Um Actually, Lord Grunthos the Flatulent was not a Vogon.
Um Actually Grunthos the Flatulent wasn't a lord. He was poetmaster for the Azgoths of Kria.
@@romxxii Fantastic, you pedantically corrected my pedantic correction. Bravo!
Moriarty the Patriot took 4 years to get said anime and it was published monthly, so it was working on a difficult scale. Unless it was just really popular in Japan because it was Sherlock Holmes? Either way, not sure we're getting more, given it almost had an original ending that seems to go differently than the manga, which is still ongoing, possibly ending eventually
No Absolutely Fabulous questions? Missed opportunity!
Fun fact the Nancy poet picture taken of her for the TV show is actually just Douglas Adams and drag
Um, actually doctor who is generally on on Saturdays and is peak TV. Gutes is correct to say that season 25 is when it gets really good though.
When my family took a special trip to visit family in Norway in the early 80s ('83, I think?) and we mentioned we were from Chicago, everybody immediately made Tommy-gun motions, and exclaimed about Al Capone. Capone was a gangster active in Chicago in the 1920s, sixty years prior- he was the first thing Europeans thought about when they thought about Chicago.
When we went back for the second time in 1996, and mentioned Chicago, then it was all about Michael Jordon and the Chicago Bulls. They were in the midst of their winning streak at the time. It was nice to be connected to a sports star, and something more recent, rather than a murderous gangster from the '30s.
But I often think about how our (the collective "our", humans) tendency to slap generalizations on whole peoples based on the small amount of information we happen to know about maybe just one person, or a few brief touch-points, and we simply hit "frappe" on the cultural blender.
This dreary story is brought about by the conversation about the Arthurian legends, and American "Renaissance Faires." We take a specific era, like Elizabethan England, then we blend in Robin Hood, and fairies, and Arthurian legend, and plate-armor knights, and Tolkien-esque legendary beings, and all kinds of "old-timey" "British" stuff along for the ride.
What would an American version of that look like, if a European tried to start one? The Wild West is a popular, uniquely American thing. Has there ever been*, or could there conceivably be, a European weekend festival atmosphere with their version of "The American Old West?" Cowboys and Indians, sherifs and outlaws, etc. Would they fold in any American Civil War stuff? Any California Gold Rush stuff? Would anybody try to shoe-horn in steampunk fantasy like "Wild, Wild, West" for fun? (There's a fair amount of steampunk at Renaissance Faires; it's a popular genre.). Would anybody try to slide Prohibition-era gangsters like Capone, even though that'd be from seventy-odd years later? Would anybody try to slide in any American Revolution stuff, even though that'd be from eighty-odd years prior? Would all of American history, from the Revolution, to the Civil War, Wild West, Prohibition gangsters, etc, all rolled into one "American History Festival" experience?
*In all honesty, there literally was such a thing, in a manner of speaking, at the tail end of the Wild West era itself. Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, etc. brought their show of cowboys and Indians and horses and such and toured Europe giving exhibitions. These were larger-than-life, theatrical versions of everything, tailored to impress a European paying audience. Not quite the same kind of atmosphere as a Renaissance Festival is, but not all that dis-similar, either.
Doom Patrol season 3 has them go into the underworld and then come back and it's surprisingly casual in a way
Um Actually it wasn't an Express Way it was a Hyper-space bypass.
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone was a poet, editor and festival organiser ...
Now I’m thinking about a “Best in Show” style mockumentary adaptation of the Great British Bakeoff
I find the comment about comedy very true. If you have a good idea and don't know how to package it, just say that you had a good idea but no clue how to package it. Then show the idea, give a couple of jokes around it, and move on. Five pages later, the idea is already established by you saying that you wanted to establish it, allowing you to refer back to it in order to use it.