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What I love about Supernatural is that there WAS a separate episode featuring angel shenanigans where they ended up with a mind wipe and working at an insurance firm, AND another separate episode where they do go back in time to the old West. It was that kind of show and it did not start making sense at any point.
They never did the whole futuristic metropolis city. Dean visits it once and it’s a apocalypse. Otherwise that may be the only genre they never touched
Not to mention that the insurance firm episode is like season 4! I'm terrible with episode titles and which angel is which, so I was so sure saying the Um, Actually for the season number was going to be a correct answer. ...They travel through time in that show more than Emmett Brown and get brought back to life more often than the Venture Brothers, and that's all early on relative to the show's overall length. It's such a crazy show, like it tried to jump the shark every at every turn. Was only season 3 when it had a Groundhog Day format episode.
Um Actually, Taliesin was 100% correct on the HxH question. The show reveals later on that the *real* Hunter Exam doesn't end after the first arc and that learning Nen, the magic of this universe, is a secret final task that is hidden from the examinees.
I agree with you. However, and could be just a wording itself, that the question was the exam for them to become certified hunters, hence the license. However, to also become a proper hunter, they must learn Nen. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Thats true, but didnt they still get certified and receive their licenses though, except for Killua who killed his opponent in the tournament and got disqualified, which was what is the answer i believe they were looking for.
@@andypham4216That's correct. Although there's another detail: the three received their license before the exact end of the first season, as they are several episodes with Gon, Leolio and Kurapika going to rescue Killua before the season is over. It's a minor detail as it's on episode 20 of 26 episodes. I remember the way Killua got his license the next year and had a good laugh, as he had knocked down all the other applicants.
"I'm over 40." Taliesin with the understatement of the century. [for those not in on the joke, he and his critical role buddies love to joke that he is an eternal eldritch creature who has lived for centuries]
I am sorry. He isnt eldritch. He is clearly Taliesin the Bard. From ancient welsh mythology and Arthurian Mythos. CLEARLY. :p That is still my head canon anyway.
As an avid watcher of Um, Actually Taliesin is now my fav panelist. 'I don't feel good taking that point.' 'I won't extend you the same curtesy.' 'I'll take the point. I'll take the point.'
I only recognized his name because I've been slowly binging Legend of Vox Machina. Is it sad I thought he was Scanlan at first? He's actually Percy, which shows some range
@@archerelms Oh sure, take the point! But I disagree... Most of the answers on this show were known, some in recent episodes were pretty obscure, so some guessing/BS may be needed... But overall I think the guests are pretty knowledgeable!
Gonna have to Um Actually Brennan on that, though - WoW did not exist until I *think* 2006 or so, having come out _after_ FFXI, which debuted in like 2002 or 2001. Brennan was actually getting his arse whooped by his brother at either Warcraft 2 or 3.
The best bit about the Supernatural question is that _all three_ of the mentioned plotlines happened on the show: they were mindwiped and thought they were accountants, they went back to the wild west (even more than once iirc) _and_ they were transported to 'our' universe and took the places of their actors (and since one of the actors married a costar who played a villain in an earlier season there was a very funny scene where they get to that actor's home and think his wife is that villain).
I love Brennan being like “they did that in season 6, were they out of ideas?” As though the meta started there… This is the show where they did an episode where they are sent to other TV shows in season 5, where they find out there are novels based on their lives in season 4, where they did groundhog’s day in season 3 and it’s a wonderful life in season 2… need I go on?
"ok mulligan go deep" astral projects himself into his mind palace for a specific memory from 1997. if you hooked brennans mind to a computer you might create a singularity
"I have a friend that has a sliding scale of all the hot fish people" Trapp and the gang: "let's not question this and just start naming all fish people based on hottness"
"Le Roman de Renart" was the original Robin Hood. There's actually a little known part were Renart disguise himself as Ysengrin, the wolf and visit his wife and spend the time with her. Afterwards he pees on Ysengrin's children. You may discuss wether this is actually "canon" or not, but this is real
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 Not to be confused with the human Robin Hood. Though his tales where first recorded about 100 years after Reynard's were first recorded
As someone who has watched all 15 seasons of Supernatural, season 6 was absolutely where it started going downhill, but The French Mistake is one of my favorite episodes. As meta and ridiculous as it is, it was fantastic
@@megannnB Yeah. The originally planned 5 season arc where they gradually introduce new key elements every season until the climax, then season "we have no idea what to do now" 6, season "we're just fuckin'' around" 7, then several rough attempts at coherent arcs that try to build on each other until the final finale. I'm a fan of almost all of it, but later Supernatural really is a different show than early Supernatural in a lot of respects.
Peak was season 4 when Castiel was introduced. But it was a double edge sword, because from then on they went all out with biblical stuff and forgot all the cool monsters. I wish they had done more of the different adventure each episode, and less of the season long soap opera. Will forever be one of my favorite pieces of media tho. (but f*ck Jensen, that man is homophobic af)
Yeah, after season 5 the arc is really reaching and nonsense but the episodic story is still fun for me, so i usually skipped the first, mid finale and finale .
The big issue with the later seasons is that they built up to the danger of s5 so much, and then they kept trying to make it more and more dangerous in later seasons, and they kept upping the danger until it was just vaguely humourous.
Brennan got it half right. Waluigi was created for Mario Tennis because Wario needed a doubles partner. But he wasn't created by Nintendo, he was created by Camelot, who actually make the Mario sports games.
In fact, the reason Nintendo doesn't use Waluigi outside the sports games is because they have a habit of resenting characters that they didn't create themselves.
@@Shalakor um, actually, while the _segment_ is called "Well, Technically," Trapp has established multiple times that the expected phrase is still "Um, actually," and he won't give points if it isn't included.
Brennan's parasite rant is, funnily enough, essentially the entire moral conflict that takes place during the final arc of Animorphs LOL. He sounded just like Cassie!
And also the book in which we learn about the Yoorts. You know, the one where the gang gets teleported to the commerce planet to fight some children and end up kissing them so hard it breaks their culture? Man, Animorphs was very weird.
@@markbrierley6367 I must've only gotten maybe halfway through, I think the last big one I remember involved the Chee and some other horrifying monsters that the Chee were pacifist towards, but once one temporarily suspended that part of their android programming and slaughtered them. And David apparently came back, I don't think I got that far, but I remember him being forced to become a nothlit
@@ToHoldNothing Yes he was forced to become a rat but he still comes back after that and helps the Yeerks. Eric or Erak i forget from the Chee is able to remove his pacifist programming and absolutely massacres a group of Controllers and gets a big helping of PTSD
@@Krapahirlin Yea, The animorphs gang turned off his pacifist programming after he offered to help. The best part of the book is the part where Erek says something along the lines of "You guys will be able to forget what you've done. I'm an android, I'll live forever, I'll never forget"
Not even a correction, but I love the reaction the trio have to the Supernatural question, when The French Mistake is almost a fandom favourite episode, the mentioned plot line did actually happen, there a numerous old west references and also the entire show is based on slotting subtle references into EVERYTHING.
PLEASE when the supernatural questions came up the way immediately shouted out, “Um, actually they weren’t brothers and they didn’t work in accounting, they were actors on the actual show and misha actually tweeted what he did in the show!”
But Warcraft 2 does have an expansion taking place in and dealing with Draenor. Clearly a slip. Also much easier to install a non MMO at the school's computer lab.
Fun fact.. The original showrunner of Supernatural, Eric Kripke (also the showrunner of The Boys) only planned for five seasons. After the fifth season he left and a new showrunner was put in place.
Um, Actually, the Brainbug shown in the picture is actually from Planet P, where it is captured by PVT Zimm. While the homeword of the Arachnids is Klendathu, that one is not from there, at least as far as we know.
Adora/She-Ra was born in Eternia. However, she lives in Etheria since she was a baby. She came thru a portal in this version. In the original she's just the sister of He-Man and Eternia is basically just another planet nearly identical to Etheria. In the newer show, Eternia is just the home planet of some nebulous ultra-advanced race "The First Ones" of which little is known about. This seemed to be meant as a trick question, since she is originally from Eternia. BUT, the brief explanation at the beginning of the section that "where you're from is probably where you grew up", that nullifies that trick question, meaning that Etheria is valid.
Umm actually. In the OG show she's from Eternia. In the new show She-Ra (as an entity she's not Adora) is from Etheria and Adora is from Eternia. So because of the picture and how it was worded, the only correct answer is Etheria
@@luchonn6209 Sundering She-Ra from Adora when the show makes it a point several times that "She-Ra" IS Adora seems like hairsplitting to me. That particular description was Adora as She-Ra, she is still her own person - bigger, stronger, with magical powers but she doesn't stop being Adora while transformed. And while magic of She-Ra predates the arrival of Eternians to Etheria, since the creation of Sword of Protection only Eternians (ie. First Ones) were able to become She-Ra. I would accept both answers easily for that one, mainly because like was said before, Adora despite being born on Eternia, was as Etherian as it gets and her source of power was likewise split both in her DNA as Eternian AND Etherian (magic). Even then, I doubt they'd allowed this line of thinking (you are from where you grew up) in cases like Superman. I doubt they would allow "Earth" instead of Krypton :)
@@culturewarsdiplomacy The show has long established that "Um actually" isn't required during shiny questions, because they typically (as in this case) don't offer an answer that requires correcting. Trapp even makes a point once the shiny question is over to say "We're back to our regular old um-actually preceded questions".
I was racking my brain on what symbiont or parasite Arthur Dent had, totally forgot about the bablefish. And they were using the word interchangeably, but (without googling) I thought a parasite is anything living off another organism, and symbiont was specifically one not doing harm, and possibly helping.
Yes, a symbiote helped and gets help from the organism they live with. Like the bacteria inside us. They get to live and reproduce and we benefit from it.
they're definitely not interchangeable, but not sure if you can call symbionts a subset of parasites? Generally symbiotic means mutually helpful and parasitic means taking resources from another. I'm not sure if the parasite definition allows or excludes "mutual parasitism" which is basically symbiosis, but it sure gets into a gray area with stuff that lives inside something else which always FEELS like parasitism.
When I saw that Taliesin was in this, I didn't even look at the title I just clicked before my mind could process anything else XD AND THEN WE GOT AABRIYA AND BRENNAN WITH HIM?!?! A god-tier episode omfg
not me immediately yelling "THE CLOCKS WERE STRIKING THIRTEEN" as soon as that first question started being read. if there was an um actually episode devoted to literature i would SMASH IT
I'm surprised none of them got that, to me it was one of the more memorable opening lines to a book. Maybe they're all too young for it to have been Required Reading™ in school.
@@krudmongerI'm really late to this comments section but I read Animal Farm instead of 1984 in middle school school, early 2000s. We didn't do Fahrenheit 451 until high school which in hindsight is interesting because I think animal farm has a lot more nuanced themes
im coming for brennan omg the French Mistake is one of the best episodes on SPN and shows how creative they could stretch their concepts also Um, Actually, there WAS an episode in which they go to the Wild West (that's in season 2, if I'm not mistaken, and they interact with a phoenix) AND there's another episode (early season 5, I think, since it's when they meet Zachariah) in which they are sent to 'another place' (Dean is mind wiped by the angel Zachariah), they are not brothers and instead are accountants (Sam "Wesson" works in IT, Dean "Smith" is a head of corporate) my special interest that lasted from 11 years old to 19 years old just started pinging like a radar omg
Um, Actually… it’s Frontierland in season 6 where they go to the Wild West for Phoenix ashes. The only way they could get there was through Angel time travel, which wasn’t introduced until season 4 because that’s when angels first appear and Dean is sent back in time to meet his parents.
It is absolutely wild to me that Brennan correctly recalled that 1997 is when one would have been playing the first Warcraft title to deal with Draenor in detail, and remembered it involved a 1v1 play option, but he didn't remember it was the Warcraft II RTS (as opposed to the open-world MMO which wouldn't be released for nearly 8 more years). His recollection of all the highly specific stuff and not the genre is awesome and terrifying.
Yup, brains fool themselves into shit like that all the time. Human memory is about as reliable as a hard drive on a bed of magnets. Every time we access a memory we change it.
Was the orc world even called Draenor at that point? I thought it might've been retconned in at some point later after they started to humanize the orcs.
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." is one of my favorite opening lines in all of literature. Right up there with "The two small boys came early to the hanging", from Pillars of the Earth.
I play in a monthly Tetris tournament- there is a name we use for the long block. The Donger. Sometimes both players start with one - that's Double Dongers. We do two games at a time, side by side, and if all four players start with dongers, you'll hear people shout "Welcome to the Dongerdome!"
Was it funny or was it heart wrenchingly sad? Killua's brother had such complete control over Killua's thoughts that with a single conversation he was able to bring Killua to heel. Illumi ordered his pet home, and Killua was unable to disobey his grooming. Killua doesn't fully break his brothers control until the chimera ant arc, meaning he is carrying that burden through all of heavens arena, yorknew, and greed island.
@@pyro5845 not only was it just grooming, anyone forget about the literal needle stuck in Kil's head from childhood imbued with Illumi's nen power of mind control?
The French Mistake is actually a really great episode of Supernatural. Its total fan fare and very episodic but its a lot of fun and pretty well written
Um Actually, Gon, Leorio, and Kurapika pass the first PART of the Hunter Exam in season 1, but there is a second secret part to the exam after you get your license. To pass the exam you have to learn Nen. So technically although Gon does get his hunter license and passes the hunter exam before Killua it is not until season 2 he truly passes the hunter exam. Killua then passes the Hunter exam AFTER learning nen during the Greed Island arc much later. So truthfully none of them passed the hunter exam by the end of the first season. So his second answer is actually more correct than what you have.
Um actually, there aren't any seasons in HxH anyways, all 148 episodes aired continuously and the split into seasons is somewhat arbitrarily set by western streaming services to fit their site structures
@@KraftBrotHD Um, actually. You forgot the comma between the um and the actually. So did the original commenter. Therefore this is all rendered invalid lol
um, actually, while killua trains in nen and improves a lot during the greed island arc, he first learns it at the same time as gon during the heaven's arena arc!
In both series, Adora was born on Eternia but came to Etheria as a baby. In the original series, she's kidnapped by one of Hordak's goons, and in the new series, she's the latest in a long line of She-Ras brought to Etheria by Light Hope.
Dude. That supernatural episode was awesome. Almost as good as the episode as going to the comic con where people were coz playing as them. Or the one the high school kids wrote a musical about them.
I was really ready for The Doctor to be a trick question because of the whole Timeless Child debacle but I'm guessing we're just all going to collectively forget that happened lol
both surprised by my memory and ashamed that after 8+ years of not watching SPN, i still knew exactly what episode he was talking about after only hearing the episode’s name.
Balthazar sends them to a universe where they are co-actors playing themselves on "Supernatural". Though they do get sent to a place where they work at an accounting firm, in season 4 episode 17, "It's a Terrible Life." One of my favorite episodes tbh.
yeah and it's the angel zachariah that sends them there, so its kind of funny they have these repeating themes of angels locking them in weird dimensions. pretty sure the angel gabriel locks them in a tv dimension as well
Balthazar should have been the giveaway for me, but I apparently mix up Balthazar and The Trickster/Gabriel because I always mix up the plots of French Mistake, Changing Channels, and Mystery Spot and can never remember which is called The French Mistake 😂
As a former Supernatural fan that question really fucked me up. I heard "The French Mistake" and went "Oh, that episode where Balthazar unsank the Titanic!" But then I heard the rest of the question and went "Oh, that episode where Sam and Dean were thrown into a world exactly the same as the one they lived in, but they weren't brothers or hunters and instead worked at the same haunted office!" It took Trapp giving the correct answer to fully remember that there was yet another world-fucky episode with Balthazar 💚
see, I thought this too, but then I thought, also doesn't feel fair when returning average players have to face Brennan. first timer has a higher chance of surprising us!
um, actually, there is a distinction between "symbiotic" and "parasitic" relationships, and the characters presented are not all part of one category or another. slowking is a symbiotic relationship, where the toxins from shellder unlock latent intelligence and psychic abilities in the slowpoke host while the shellder feeds, while the only thing alloran-semitur-corrass (the andalite host of the yeerk visser three) gains from their "relationship" is war trauma.
Um Actually, none of Gon and his friends fully passed the Hunter's Exam until well into the 2nd season, when they learn that all hunters must have control of their Nen. They were *told* that they passed but were then monitored by the Hunters Association to verify whether they actually possessed the necessary skills.
Um, Actually, Lemongrab may not have been born to a King, but he definitely WAS the heir to the candy kingdom, as shown when he usurps the crown when Princess Bubblegum is de-aged
Usurpation indicates he is not the rightful heir, as that is implied in the word "usurp." If he is rightfully placed in the position then he would be a regent, which is the title typically used for a noble who steps in to take the reins while the rightful ruler is incapable due to age or health. Sometimes this leads to a usurpation. I haven't seen Adventure Time so I don't know if this is what happens with Lemongrab- but again, if he usurps the throne, he isn't the rightful heir by definition.
@@RainaThrownAway Well, thats more commenting on my word choice than anything in the original question (which is still fair game!) Googling "Usurp" gives "take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force." Illegally is wrong, sure, as he takrs the crown by being heir and Bubblegum being lowered below ruling age, but I'd stand by it being by force, as he arrives to take it himself rather than a formal process. But the main takeaway is that you can Usurp something, even if you're the rightful heir, if you do it by force.
@@Sachiarias continuing on from this. It isn't really too much by force either as bubblegum admits within the episode that lemongrab is rightfully the ruler now that she is younger than him which definitely implies that he is the appropriate heir rather than any random member of nobility taking the position
@@RainaThrownAway Bubblegum's family is also a thing involved in the story, the royal family and succession isn't usually part of the plot and maybe only factors in on rare occasions, while Princess Bonnibel (her actual first name) is more a character that seems to do science and such, others doing the more formal stuff in the kingdom
Nobody on this show ever gets questions about Mass Effect, and it makes my heart sink every time (And Garrus's home planet is pronounced PAL-a-vin btw, to get in my own "UMM ACTUALLY" ;^_^ You're welcome & I'm sorry)
Yeah it seems to be the franchise panelists are the least familiar with unfort. I'll say though, even though I've played the games multiple times, I had completely forgotten about the name of the planet. Place names in science fiction in general is just really hard to remember I feel.
I played through the entirety of ME Legendary edition just recently, and I couldn't tell you the name of any species' home planet outside Tuchanka. We don't spend much time there and I don't think they're mentioned all that often either.
Pertaining to the HunterxHunter question, Taliesin was technically more correct than you know! He said that Gon and his friends didn't pass the Hunter exam at the end of the first season, it happened later. While technically true that they were given their Hunter license and told they had passed at the end of the first season, there was still one more test for them to pass: learning Nen. IIRC if you already know how to use Nen then passing the hunter exam shouldn't be difficult and once you get your license you are official; however, if you don't know how to use Nen then you aren't able to take on contracts as an official hunter (Kurapika wanted to take a job using his hunter license but was turned down because he couldn't see the lady's Nen).
The inability to take contracts applies specifically to Blacklist Hunters, since they explicitly hunt other Nen users. Any other hunter specialization is allowed to operate without learning Nen.
My head cannon is that Trapp created "So, where are you from?" to give Sam PTSD and I would like to ask the follow up if any of them have movie theaters on their home planets?
For Hunter x Hunter: The "x"s are the series' world's equivalent of spaces. It's written "HunterxHunter", and pronounced "Hunter Hunter". The name of the series is due to main character Gon becoming a Hunter to track down his dad who is also a Hunter, so Gon is therefore a Hunter Hunter. For the "So, where are you from?" question, while we know the planet as Draenor, that's the name given to it by the Draenei, and they came there from another planet. The Orcs are the natives of Draenor, and we don't know what they called it. People guess they may have called it "Dawgar" because that's what the Ogres called it. And finally, for the IRL question, I'd argue that not only should your sunscreen be at least 30+ (personally I'd go for 50+), but it should be broad-spectrum as well to protect from both UVA and UVB radiation, which can cause cancer. (also there's research that UVC coverage should be included too)
Amazed about the title and hunter types. I had understood about gourmet hunters (Buhara and Menchi during the exams) and ruin/relic hunters (Ging), I had seen all the titles where pronouncing the x would have made no sense, but didn't figure out what you have explained about the title. Thanks, I won't make that mistake when recommending it in the future.
I now understand the frustration when they get things wrong. Love my supernatural. Show got me through a rough childhood, I imagined Dean and Sam where my brothers and one day they would come and find me like they did their brother Adam
Some thoughts: 1. Um, actually, "The French Mistake" was an amazing episode of a mostly wonderful series, and I will not have this slander! 2. I've definitely seen this episode before, but I'm watching it again because all these charismatic dorks are amazing and I love them in a wonderful parasocial way. 3. Yes, Brennan, mitochondria are symbiotes. Not only do they have their own DNA separate from our own nuclear DNA, but they also reproduce separately. A single human cell can have as many as 2,500 mitochondria in it, taking up to 25% of the total cell volume. The leading theory is that at some point about 1.5 billion years ago, a bacteria that could produce ATP (the chemical used for biological energy) infected a cell of another species. The bacteria got food and an extra membrane for protection, the host cell got extra ATP for energy. This symbiotic relationship was so beneficial that the two began to co-evolve to interact with each other better over time, and many species have lived like that ever since. #science
Thank you The Littlest Jam for submitting a Hunter x Hunter related question. I've been waiting for so long! Also, Trapp, you're forgiven for butchering all those names. 🤣
I was so surprised to see Visser Three, Animorphs was my childhood and I love to see it mentioned in any capacity, and the fact that Brennan seemed to recognize him first makes me very happy
so to clarify about the lemongrab thing: yes, the earl ate his clone. however this is a seperate incident to them being merged together. During the vore incident they were both seperate entities, with the clone even able to still talk to people from within the earl's gut. After the earl exploded from lemonhope's song, THAT was when the pair died and were fused together to make a new, SLIGHTLY lesss insane Lemongrab.
Fantastic. I love this set of contestants on so many levels. This was a really fun episode. Mostly because of the wrong answers (as often is the case, lol). So many good lines.
now that BDG is appearing semi regularly on Dropout I think it’s only fair to plug his Unraveled episode for Polygon about Waluigi. Hysterical and illuminating
Ummm actually the brain bug in Starship Troopers was on planet P. Klendatho was the world where Rico was injured and they lost massive casualties. This is what lead the science division to determine there must be a new type of "bug."
Um actually Klendathu was also the name of the star system Planet P was located in. Planet P IS where the brain bug was captured though, not on Klendathu (the planet). Who could forget Neil Patrick Harris saying "Were going back to P, to capture that brain"
@@bluntx123 Um Actually, while Klendathu is the name of the system, the question is "I want you to tell me what planet do they come from." not which star system. Klendathu is the other named planet in the Klendathu star system, but the brain bug is definitely from P, not Klendathu.
It only now occurred to me that Ephemerol was to the (fictional) 80's what Thalidomide (unfortunately real) was to the 60's... a "remedy" for morning sickness that had ghastly consequences. Um, Actually, while it's possible that Brennan may have been playing one of the Warcraft RTS games in 1997, World of Warcraft didn't debut until 2004.
So has anyone flipped out here yet about the Doctor not actually being from Gallifrey? (And knowing this now, and it being so traumatic that they may never answer that question with "Gallifrey" again)
Well, I meant flipping out about how a show about nitpicky details let slide the statement that "the Doctor is from Gallifrey" as an answer, but I suppose there's flipping out about both things so :)
@@georgen9838 Oh, I think this episode of Um, Actually was recorded before the whole timeless child reveal in Doctor Who happened, so it's valid that the answer was Gallifrey. Dropout waits quite a while before uploading their content to youtube.
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 it aired on March 1st 2020. unless they started doing the show via video call before lockdown rules, this probably came out after the Timeless Children. that said, it could be argued that the Doctor did come from Gallifrey, given that she basically grew up there as the First Doctor either way, that question fucking took me out
I love watching episodes where it is two newbies and Brennan, it's like watching Jabba the hut (trap with be playing this role) feeding small creatures to the rancor.
This is a great episode! I am so happy cause I actually knew a handful of the answers. Also it was a joy watching Brennan go back in time through his mind palace.
