The Alesmen are a perfect example of why they need to raise the points amount for the first two connecting sections. I like the missing vowels round, and they should keep it, but it needs to not be as important as it is overall. The first two rounds are far more reflective of a teams connecting skills, and each point that they earn takes a lot more knowledge than guessing at the missing vowels. Missing vowels is still a fun round to be sure, but it needs to be outweighed by the first few rounds. I'd say, up the other rounds by one or two points per answer - for example, instead of a 2 point answer, it would go up to a 3 or 4 pointer. That way a team as good as the Alesmen wouldn't be punished as much for not being fast on the buzzer.
The missing vowels round only earns one point per correct answer and is still a test of recognising connections with the added test of speed. It is perfectly fair.
no not really, just happens with a series. people watch the first few episodes, then more and more people drop off later on. look up basically any game playthrough with numbered episodes and the first episodes do the best, with middle sections being baron, and finales have a bit more than that because people skip to the end edit: seem to have misread your comment, i think the REAL answer is that people just like the alesmen
0:21 “In the dark, dark street, there is a dark, dark house. In the dark, dark house, there are dark, dark stairs. Down the dark, dark stairs there is a dark, dark cellar. And in the dark, dark cellar, you’d find the question writers for this show. Welcome to _Only Connect.”_
I'm always awed by the contestants of this show, they're always so incredibly bright. These questions are incredibly fiendish and for them to even get a few right is very impressive.
I'm watching an episode of the game show Tenable and The Wrights are the contestants. This time with son and his fiancee. And Rosa is now wavy brown haired. Looks totally different
After rooting against the alesman in the previous game I think they redeemed themselves quite spectacularly in this one, that choice to go for water in round one showed good natured acceptance of their previous loss and they came off as a lot less off putting in general loved some of their witticisms in this episode
With the "Swedish:omelette" question, I had thought the answer would be that the translated words would all have one vowel repeat 3 times, which does also work.
An interval in music can be both harmonic and melodic. It's an harmonic interval when two notes form a chord (i.e. one note above or below the other and played simultaneously). A melodic interval is formed between two notes which are adjacent to each other (i.e. played one after the other). Therefore, in the Wrights' connecting wall, Victoria Coren is wrong to say that the musical terms are all exclusively connected to harmony. Just for the sake of clarity, like.
That's an extremely fine hair to split, and the connection between the four is specifically harmony, regardless of whether one of the four fits into other categories.
the bigger issue here is that "root" could be argued to belong to this category too and thus its the first wall I've seen that doesn't have one exclusive correct solution
Yes, but if you move "Root" into the music category, which musical term are you going to swap it with? Triad beer, suspension beer, interval beer or cadence beer? There are always red herrings in connecting walls, but only ever one perfect set of four groups of four.
Gutted for the Alesman. Once again let down on the vowel round (though admittedly this time they also performed poorly on the first two, despite pulling it back in the wall). I now want to go back to their first two walls to see whether them losing tonnes of points on the vowel round is a trend haha
Briefly skimming the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a case of "all Sabertooth Tigers are Sabertooth Cats, but not all Sabertooth Cats are Sabertooth Tigers."
I was disappointed from the guy who said he was a science fiction devotee, who didn't know =I, Libertine= was a fake novel and then became a real novel. That novel was written anonymously by the great Theodore Sturgeon, which Victoria didn't say and basically that authorship should have been the fact that Only Connect lives for.
5:33 "johny depp" "i don't know who that is" ..... dang i mean i get maybe you dont watch his shows, but hes popular enough where most people have heard of him at least. Or did i mishear what they said
Some of us just don't have the brain space for who a celebrity is. I feel it's POINTLESS trivia. I can't keep up with them, and one time I challenged myself to name TWENTY different celebrities with their names right and everything, and frankly, it was a challenge. Johnny Depp, however, is Captain Jack Sparrow!
I don’t think having given an answer that was wrong that contestants should be allowed a second chance and then give a different answer, which is then correct, which is what happened with the Alesmen. That’s allowing extra thinking time, which is not fair to the other team, and offering two different answers. This is not the same as giving a partly correct answer and then being allowed a chance to refine that answer.
Swedish person here: The reason the word "omelette" is used to make people smile is because in Swedish is a matter of pronunciation. The emphasis is on the second syllable and not the first, so the smile the e sound makes is more pronounced, and it's also closer to the e sound in the English "lettuce", as opposed to the English pronunciation of "omelette", which is a more "subdued" e sound, like in for example "chess". So basically, don't blame us being dour, blame Victoria not knowing how Swedish words are pronounced ;-)
Great teams, but the guessing during that very straightforward sequence about Belfast party politics says a lot about how little British people know or care about that part of the U.K. ... They got the point though, but that was a very basic question for this programme.
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"Large American sandwiches -- if that's not a tautology" THE LEVEL OF SHADE
24:20
She’s not exactly svelte!
POV: You're here from Tom Scott but got interested in the game :)
Absolutely!! 😂
yes i watched so many episodes in the last days
I'm here for Victoria Corens accent :D
I came for Tom Scott, stayed for the game, became interested in Victoria Cohren
Hard
The Alesmen are a perfect example of why they need to raise the points amount for the first two connecting sections. I like the missing vowels round, and they should keep it, but it needs to not be as important as it is overall. The first two rounds are far more reflective of a teams connecting skills, and each point that they earn takes a lot more knowledge than guessing at the missing vowels. Missing vowels is still a fun round to be sure, but it needs to be outweighed by the first few rounds. I'd say, up the other rounds by one or two points per answer - for example, instead of a 2 point answer, it would go up to a 3 or 4 pointer. That way a team as good as the Alesmen wouldn't be punished as much for not being fast on the buzzer.
I didn't think they did very well in the first two rounds though. Although I don't rate the other team much either.
I tend to agree but it is a quiz show narrative trope that the last round is high speed and anyone could still win.
Is this not actually the case now? These older episodes seem to have much longer missing vowels rounds than the more recent series.
In reality. The points don't matter at all. I would be none the more entertainted if they wouldn't give out points at the end.
The missing vowels round only earns one point per correct answer and is still a test of recognising connections with the added test of speed. It is perfectly fair.
12:30 when your wife kicks you under the table to wake you up
I love that the Third place playoff has MORE VIEWS than the actual Grand Final. This means that this series had SO much quality.
no not really, just happens with a series. people watch the first few episodes, then more and more people drop off later on. look up basically any game playthrough with numbered episodes and the first episodes do the best, with middle sections being baron, and finales have a bit more than that because people skip to the end
edit: seem to have misread your comment, i think the REAL answer is that people just like the alesmen
The alesmen were great! And rosa has saved her team so many times!!
Yes I thought the same! She should have been team leader
@@hazza335 Yes, Liz was rather blase about it all.
The introduction is amazing
Lucio because you said it, I’m gonna watch it back, I skipped it earlier
David Mitchell can't handle it
0:21 “In the dark, dark street, there is a dark, dark house. In the dark, dark house, there are dark, dark stairs. Down the dark, dark stairs there is a dark, dark cellar. And in the dark, dark cellar, you’d find the question writers for this show. Welcome to _Only Connect.”_
i really love the theme tune i keep singing it everytime i open an only connect vid, ESPECIALLY THE CELLOS and 0:05 that "clashed" harmony at the end
"Large US sandwiches, if that's not a tautology"
what does it mean?
@@keerthanajaishankar1883 It means sandwiches in the US are large by default, so calling them "large" US sandwiches is redundant.
@@Dexaan oh haha
Speaking as an American...she's right lmao
“Well it was nice to have that chat...” 😂
I love Victoria's humor lmao
Large American sandwiches a tautology had me LOL.
As a Swede I knew the answer to 8:30 immediately. I even predicted that the final clue would be English: Cheese.
Oh my, this game is hard ! Surely it is easier for the Brits, but whoever plays, gotta think fast and really polidirectional !
I'm always awed by the contestants of this show, they're always so incredibly bright. These questions are incredibly fiendish and for them to even get a few right is very impressive.
Nice to see Chris Quinn again after seeing him play Zola in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I want the greek letters back!
FOURTH GAME the Wrights have played and Mama Wright STILL can’t figure out how the second round works.
French guy here just to say that "weezyteetee" is wrong but really made me laugh. It's more like "wistity"
yeah
@@lai17 Haha I didn't even understand what she was talking about before reading your comment x) (I'm French)
Well she's British, you can't expect much, they're infamous for butchering foreign words.
in layman's terms:
it's wist-titty not wheezy-titty
weezy teetee > weece-tea-tea
Omg I laughed so hard
Alesmen captain looks like such a likeable man. I would love to have a pint with all of them.
I'm watching an episode of the game show Tenable and The Wrights are the contestants.
This time with son and his fiancee.
And Rosa is now wavy brown haired.
Looks totally different
poor boy also appears on bohemian rhapsody, that tripped me up
Me too xD
Poor boys are New Orleans sandwiches and they’re delicious. I don’t recall them being “large” but it’s been a while.
I love British dry humour
"ANN Other" and everything Victoria said
The water curse continues for the Alesman
After rooting against the alesman in the previous game I think they redeemed themselves quite spectacularly in this one, that choice to go for water in round one showed good natured acceptance of their previous loss and they came off as a lot less off putting in general loved some of their witticisms in this episode
They were such a likeable team in their first heat and quarter final. Joy to have teams like these on a show.
With the "Swedish:omelette" question, I had thought the answer would be that the translated words would all have one vowel repeat 3 times, which does also work.
Graham Barker looks like Lorne Malvo as a dentist from fargo lmao
The surveyor is named marker? Nice.
I love the hair of Graham!
Well that settles the matter, the Alesmen were just too slow.
An interval in music can be both harmonic and melodic. It's an harmonic interval when two notes form a chord (i.e. one note above or below the other and played simultaneously). A melodic interval is formed between two notes which are adjacent to each other (i.e. played one after the other). Therefore, in the Wrights' connecting wall, Victoria Coren is wrong to say that the musical terms are all exclusively connected to harmony. Just for the sake of clarity, like.
That's an extremely fine hair to split, and the connection between the four is specifically harmony, regardless of whether one of the four fits into other categories.
the bigger issue here is that "root" could be argued to belong to this category too and thus its the first wall I've seen that doesn't have one exclusive correct solution
Why, which of the musical terms is also a type of beer?
root beer - a non alcoholic drink. root - the base note of a musical scale or chord/triad
Yes, but if you move "Root" into the music category, which musical term are you going to swap it with? Triad beer, suspension beer, interval beer or cadence beer? There are always red herrings in connecting walls, but only ever one perfect set of four groups of four.
Gutted for the Alesman. Once again let down on the vowel round (though admittedly this time they also performed poorly on the first two, despite pulling it back in the wall). I now want to go back to their first two walls to see whether them losing tonnes of points on the vowel round is a trend haha
@7:37 First two digits sum equals last two digit sum.... till the 3rd clue I was winning 😂
I always though that the "real" name for the sabre tooth feline is The Sabretooth Cat.
But perhaps those are two different animals.
Briefly skimming the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a case of "all Sabertooth Tigers are Sabertooth Cats, but not all Sabertooth Cats are Sabertooth Tigers."
Alesmen having a hard time I can't believe
suspensions are RELATED to harmony but are not a type of harmony
Shout out if you watched these before you found Tom Scott
Alesmen - Choose a hyroglyf… Water Mark Kerr
I was disappointed from the guy who said he was a science fiction devotee, who didn't know =I, Libertine= was a fake novel and then became a real novel. That novel was written anonymously by the great Theodore Sturgeon, which Victoria didn't say and basically that authorship should have been the fact that Only Connect lives for.
Alesmen look like Colonel Sanders
Monday 20th December 2010
5:33 "johny depp" "i don't know who that is" ..... dang i mean i get maybe you dont watch his shows, but hes popular enough where most people have heard of him at least. Or did i mishear what they said
Don’t think he was as globally popular as he was at the time of recording the episode
@@HAlariousInc he was globally famous in the 1980s.
Some of us just don't have the brain space for who a celebrity is. I feel it's POINTLESS trivia. I can't keep up with them, and one time I challenged myself to name TWENTY different celebrities with their names right and everything, and frankly, it was a challenge. Johnny Depp, however, is Captain Jack Sparrow!
@@jamiemartin274 burn!
Mark Kerr sounds like Jon Culshaw
How many shows has she been on, and she still doesn’t know how the format for round 2 works? 🙄
the Wrights are NOTHING without Rosa
“Pontoon’s another name for Blackjack”!! What??
10:20 - jokes on him, I have a friend whose initials are A.N.N Other...
the only person with a brain on the wrights team is the daughter
I don’t think having given an answer that was wrong that contestants should be allowed a second chance and then give a different answer, which is then correct, which is what happened with the Alesmen. That’s allowing extra thinking time, which is not fair to the other team, and offering two different answers. This is not the same as giving a partly correct answer and then being allowed a chance to refine that answer.
you can put anti in front of anything, may as well say "they exist"
Well the thing is Victoria, in Swedish the word "omelette" isnt pronounced "om'lut" like you do.
it was a joke
AAA. nother
I hope Mark didn't name his son Nick
Um, Steve Kerr(basketball coach) did indeed name his son Nick. 😮
Or Juan
Not knowing Turner. 😶
Jay-Z? That one was impossible.
They would have accepted any name that ended in Z, although there aren't many examples I can think of im sure Wikipedia has several
Christophe Waitz off the top of my head.
this woman sounds like she smokes 3 packs a day
Thanks to the thumbnail I got one right
I really wanted the alesmen to win and they truly deserved it.
They won our hearts
the walls were so easy this time
Sb Antimony? What kind of a man? I ask you. What kind of a man?
26:16 invasion of THE body snatchers. should have been -1 point. They 've said every letter counts!!
Hey whoever uploads these to RUclips, don’t put answers to the questions in the thumbnail, please.
'Their names only use straight lines...'
What the fuck?
@@yann664 lol thanks
I can't remember if I understood that or not at the time but it's still ridiculous
Liz Wright is genuinely the worst contestant I've ever seen on only connect
That's total bullshit.
What about the first Geocachers?
Certainly the most annoying, but not the worst in terms of quizzing skills.
Swedish person here: The reason the word "omelette" is used to make people smile is because in Swedish is a matter of pronunciation. The emphasis is on the second syllable and not the first, so the smile the e sound makes is more pronounced, and it's also closer to the e sound in the English "lettuce", as opposed to the English pronunciation of "omelette", which is a more "subdued" e sound, like in for example "chess". So basically, don't blame us being dour, blame Victoria not knowing how Swedish words are pronounced ;-)
Great teams, but the guessing during that very straightforward sequence about Belfast party politics says a lot about how little British people know or care about that part of the U.K. ... They got the point though, but that was a very basic question for this programme.
Liz is a dolt!
i dont know who tom scott is but i find this game COMPLETELY impossible
Is it just me or are most people getting stupider on average in this era
How does such a perfect waifu exist in this world? Rosa Wright is the ultimate.
Actually she thinned out: www.mandy.com/actor/profile/rosa-wright
Dude, referring to a real person as a waifu is creepy.