Wait when did she change her name? I remember her all but saying it as of fifth elephant and unseen academicals but don’t recall the change. Was this in raising steam? I must admit to only reading that one once
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
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.
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!
..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.
One of my favorite bits of real-world trivia that I learned from a canceled TV series is about Arthur Conan Doyle. It's the kind of shit you couldn't make up without sounding dumb. Doyle, the man known for creating a character literally synonymous with logic, evidence, and logical induction, was also a massive spiritualist and occultist. Harry Houdini, the man known as one of the greatest magicians of all time, was a skeptic who promoted rationalism. The two were friends. Doyle kept trying to promote mysticism, while Housini kept trying to debunk it, and it caused tension between them. Doyle even contended that Houdini's magic was real, supernatural magic, and Houdini would constantly try to explain it wasn't, and even explain how he did the tricks, but Doyle wouldn't listen. Eventually, Doyle's public insistence on Harry's magic turned them into enemies. The guy who wrote the most rational character in history was a religious nut, and the guy who performed magic was a rationalist, and they were frenemies. You can't make this shit up.
Um, actually, there are several prominent magicians that are skeptics & rationalists. They know how easily people can be tricked, so aren't tricked as easily themselves. James Randi and Penn & Teller spring to mind. Some are just bonkers or con-artists though.
I particularly like that Houdini would disguise himself and go into parlors who claimed they could commune with the dead, make up some sob story, and then call out the spiritualist as a fraud for trying to commune with someone who didn't exist. That kind of one-man undercover crusade is hilarious in and of itself, and then you remember that this man was a celebrity.
One time Doyle tried to prove spiritualism was real by summoning Houdini's mother and having Doyle's wife be a voice for her. Harry was extremely unimpressed cause Ms. Doyle spoke in English and wasn't bilingual but his mom never spoke English, only German or Hungarian!
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.
Um actually, Iain spells his name as Iain on both his Iain Banks and Iain M Banks novels; Iain is the original Scottish Gaelic spelling of the Anglicized name Ian.
Additionally the reason for the difference in name when publishing mainstream fiction he doesn't use the M, but when writing SciFi books the M is used so you know which genre the book is by the pen name used
@@geolawie You're abosolutely right, thus why I used the word 'Additionally' at the start of my comment. I wasn't saying you were incorrect, I was just adding clarification on WHY the difference in pen names and what that means so far as the twin characters in Hot Fuzz reading the different 'authors' (meaning one is a sci-fi guy and the other is into more mainstream stuff) showing it was a point of difference in the characters. Especially as the sci-fi reading one was the overnight twin who looked more scruffy, while the other daytime twin was more put together. Just adding more fun nerdy context to the difference that Trapp identified incorrectly! (Especially as yours is the highest/more popular of the comments correcting Trapp's messing that up and making a note for those who might be curious of why the different pen names and impact on the movie!)
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 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: not only is Vogon poetry the _third_ worst, Grunthos the Flatulent _isn't_ a Vogon. He's an Azgoth of Kria, the creators of the _second_ worst form of poetry.
Um, Actually... also depending on the timeline, Grunthos may or may not have had his large intestine throttle his brain... so it's possible that Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz may, indeed, claim the title of Worst. EDIT: In the recorded version, PNMJ's name was subjected to some reverse looping to muddle it and render it unrecognizable.
@@aqacefan so really, Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty, etc, etc, killed *5* people that day, with one of the audience gnawing his own leg off to survive.
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 :)
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.
Her appearances on Breaking News are legitimately some of the funniest videos I've seen in my entire life. She is so goddamn bad at keeping a straight face and it's amazing!
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.
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!
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.
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”.
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
The rather sad but funny truth about Conan Doyle and Sherlock was that as much outcry as there was, he wasn't really affected by it personally. He relented because it became clear that he couldn't make comparable money writing anything else, lol. A bit sad, but also a bit funny because he was so convinced that he would simply move on to the next golden egg
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've always fantasized the opposite about Cash Cab. I imagine these people that are late for their appointment or something and just really really pissed this guy keeps asking them trivia questions.... I know that's not how it would work, but that's what my brain wants to see. "I don't CARE who designed Rushmore, my wife is getting her third chemo treatment!!!"
Um actually, the Maiar in Tolkien are ancient spirits which can take the form of whatever they would choose to. Durins bane the Balrog in Moria was a Maia as well as Sauron. The Istari chose human forms so they would be better accepted by the people of middle earth.
At 29:53 Guts goes from 3 points to 3 points. So did he get the point or not?! EDIT: it’s actually just a mistake of the graphic not updating in time - he does get it on the final score screen.
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
#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.
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
To add on to the Red Dwarf question, there is another living being aboard Red Dwarf in the Feline High Priest who is so old he's gone blind and cannot walk.
Not Britain, but in Sweden we have a theme park kinda deal called High Chaparral! Cowboys all around! But it's actually a great park, I've had a lot of fun there as a kid. I don't know how accurate it is but there are steam engine trains, panning for gold, some native American areas, and then of course Lucky Luke and the Dalton brothers running around. Highly recommended checking it out at the least!
No idea who Lucky Luke and the Dalton brothers are (but I've never been a huge fan of Westerns) but that sounds fun haha. Although I have to imagine given how much trouble we have not being abusive one way or another to Native Americans that a theme park version a third of the way around the hemisphere could be...delicate.
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, 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.
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.
The weird thing about the deaging in Willy Wonka and Great Glass Elevator was that somehow Willy Wonka’s factory is ontop of the Afterlife (Beforelife?).
the worst Roald Dahl short story is the one where the little boy tries to stick up for this swan that this other group of boys is throwing things at so the bully boys come back later, kill the swan, and tie his wings to the little boy and try to make him fly out of a tree
That sounds pretty bad, but I just remember being scarred in 8th grade when my English teacher made us read The Man from the South. It's about a strange man who approaches a late teen/early 20s guy with a lighter that he seems quite proud of and bets him that it can't catch and light 10 times in a row. He wagers a car against the young man's pinky finger. There's a whole scene where he ties down the man's hand with twine and nails the twine to a table, and then holds the knife above the man's finger while the young man operates the lighter with the other hand. Edit: Actually, I was scanning through Roald Dahl's short stories, and Lamb to the Slaughter caught my eye, which I completely blocked the memory of. That one is a pregnant woman killing her husband with a leg of lamb she bought for dinner, then calling the police after going to the store and cooking dinner, pretending to be a distraught widow. Then the police eat the leg of lamb, and one of them makes a comment to the effect of "I think the murder weapon might be right under our noses." To which the wife bursts out laughing. He wrote some really twisted stuff.
I dislike the idea that children should be kept from ever learning to deal with all negative emotions. Though it is true that you don't want to give kids unmonitored access to Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl books require actual conversations with your kids about stories versus reality, about negative experiences and how to deal with them, and about dealing with emotions of all sorts.
@@bramvanduijn8086 I agree with you, but that stuff sounds like it would give me nightmares. And I enjoy Lovecraftian horror. This sounds worse. I don't think learning to handle negative emotions has to be traumatic.
@@ladykoiwolfe Trauma is all about the subjective experience of powerlesness. The great thing about reading is that you can stop, burn the book, piss it out, kick it until it is dry, douse it in gasoline, and burn the remnants. My point being: You are not powerless. So... don't let kids read this stuff until they learned that they don't have to finish a book, and they need to understand the difference between fiction and reality.
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.
that little bit about going to the queen to complain about holmes being discontinued is way funnier when you know queen victoria was actually a huge fan of the sherlock hmes stories
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.)
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.
Um actually there are British versions of Ren Faires but American based, I've been to one, it's Western Rodeo fairs. All the joys of the Old West with the accuracy of a Ren Fair. Outlaws, Saloon Keepers, Bawdy fancy women, they are fantastic.
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
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!
I don't know how true it is but I read that Conan Doyle's mother actually demanded he bring back Sherlock and she was very upset that he tried to kill him off
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.
Um actually, that's only the rule once the second to last person has guessed. As long as there are at least two people still playing, the image will continue to get clearer until one of them makes a guess.
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.
I jokingly said that the last question would be about pre-desimilised currency and ended up being right, lol. I remember learning about that in a Lindybeage video
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
@@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?
No, it is fundamentally a bunch of native british (Welsh being the bulk iirc) folklore that changed over time. The association with France comes from medieval authors who took the ideas and made what amounts to fanfic. Like Lancelot (yeah, the totally OP and heroic knight who everybody loves and he also gets the girl, is someone's OC, big shocker) he just plain isn't a thing until France gets real into "courtly love" as a concept and Lancelot is just that personified.
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)
I was in California State Prison, Susanville, for several years. We would watch Cash Cab every evening,and we would keep score,as to which of us answered the most questions correctly. I always won!😄
Tom Baker was also my first experience with The Doctor. Then Peter Davidson took over and I already knew him as Tristen Farrnan from All Creatures Great and Small and was very excited about that.
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?!
most disturbing rohld dahl story i read is the one where a guy learns how to walk on coal and see through walls which he learns from someone who is sort of scared to pass on this secret. he then uses his newfound power to cheat in gambling parlors and become super rich. one night he comes back to his hotel room after emptying a casino bank and glances in a mirror. he watches a blood clot travel to his heart and then dies.
Um Actually Arthurian legend mainly points to areas of Celtic origin such as Wales and Brittany and not in England. The Welsh name of the town of Carmarthen is Caerfyrddin which translates as the Castle of Merlin
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.
America does have its own " Renaissance fairs" in the form of historical re-enactment and festivals. Usually they like tk keep the theme tight but they are fun and educational. For example the Big Island Rendezvous in Albert Lea Minnesota
