I feel briony was a different kind of forest child than I was, she is the happy bubbly type that one could expect from romanticized fae, and mine is more traditional meant to keep you from the forest with fear kind of fae. Still makes perfect sense for her though.
I'm just gonna stop watching stuff with him in. He gets furious if people don't follow instructions to the letter, and then he just decides to bypass the entire point of the game. He's an egotistical prick who actively sabotages content.
For Boba's question about trees over roads: hedge trimmers will usually get the lower parts, and then councils will usually send someone out to chop off any dangerous growth (sorry that's not very exciting)
Boba would be delighted to know that the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile is still roaming the United States. I live in a close suburb of Chicago and just saw it the other day pulling up to someone’s barbecue. Turns out it doesn’t roam like an ice cream truck per se, you hire it to arrive at your party and cater.
When I was a kid they used to bring the weinermobile to Hawaii every year, I have so many fun memories going to visit. 😊 I had lots of cool stickers and lunchboxes from them, they even let me sit inside one time. My sister and I wondered how hot dog(car) can (float) across the ocean, but one year the lady driving said it was the last year they would be visiting because it was too expensive to ship it on the container boat. It broke the magic for us but nice to get one last good polaroid... 🌭🚗🥺
It makes sense that you'd see them more in your area than some people do. Their headquarters are in Chicago. They used to be in Madison, where I'd see a Weinermobile fairly often.
Haha, yeah, I was just looking up the wiki page: """ Six Wienermobiles operate throughout the United States. The driver of a Wienermobile is called The Hotdogger. The Hotdogger job is to "meat" and greet people around the country. """ So I dunno if they actually sell hotdogs or not? But I guess if you saw them show up to a bbq.... The magic lives on! ;D
I saw one on the highway in Iowa a few years ago. I'm sort of assuming it wasn't on its way to a barbecue at that point because it was in January and there was a snowstorm developing at the time.
As a former Clarks Employee, the Squash-o-Tron was taken away cause A; It was TERRIBLY inaccurate, it kept giving too big sizes and wrong widths and B; crushed a few kids feet
I've never even heard of a movie called "Air Bud". I think it's less about Boba doing a bad build, but just that no-one's ever even heard of the movie, let alone seen it, to get the references. She went too niche. But, in fairness, it was a shit prompt - I can't think of any movie where I've seen someone kick a dog, so I'm not sure it is a trope. I guess "bad guy is nasty to animals", sure. But specifically kicking a dog? Never seen that. Indeed, you couldn't do that - as it would be harming animals in the making of this movie, which the credits tells us no-one ever does.
@@klaxoncow What about Air Bud: Golden Retriever? Air Bud: World Pup? Air Bud: Seventh Inning? Air Bud: Spikes Back? Air Buddies? Snow Buddies? Space Buddies? Santa Buddies? Spooky Buddies? Super Buddies?
@@klaxoncow The trope is literally called "kick the dog", it just means that the character does something cruel for no apparent reason other than to be cruel. Someone going out of their way to slap your ice cream out of your hand is a "kick the dog" moment despite there being no kicks or dogs involved. Also for your last bit, have you ever heard of something called special effects? Or do you honestly believe they've never shown an animal "dying" in a movie before?
I would’ve done the “dear God moment” from old action movies like Independence Day. You know somebody looks like a computer screen and then says dear God before something overly dramatic happens.
This reminds me of an older meme (rage comics, I think? it was drawn in that kind of style IIRC) of a guy taking off his glasses with the caption "mother of god" (or something along those lines). Probably the same trope, just in different format.
There are loads. Terminator, Blade Runner, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Top Gun, and more recently Top Gun Maverick and The Eternals. Any film that seeks to quickly dump exposition and establish the core structure of the world before entering any proper character focused scenes.
For everyone like Boba that thought the Oscar Meyer buses are gone. They are not, they still drive around and you can actually track them online now. I saw one just last month.
They were recently hiring drivers for the Weinermobile. My friends and I thought that would be a fun job until we realized "drive the Weinermobile" probably means "drive the weinermobile to corporate events and then set up at a stand at those events and talk to people about the company."
@@ryankunst668 Apparently the criteria to become a driver is really narrow. You have to be in your last year of collage for something like media or reporting to even be considered, you are only on for a year, and only 12 people a year are selected.
I am an American who was bullied on the bus hahaha. The bus didn't smell, but it would get REALLY hot, and the air conditioning didn't seem to do anything.
I still remember Jesus singing "I'm alive" or something, then being hit by a speeding bus. OH! I went to a Sketchers shop in Leicester city centre, and they had a foot squisher to measure your footsies! So they're still a thing! I went to school on a bus. It was an old, decrepit bus that was contracted out to go a fixed route to pick students up. You had to pay to get on, though...
This was potentially the most compelling build yet, it really felt like the first and secondary prompts were abstract enough (as in, "I have no fcking clue what this means") to really challenge everyone. Something about the way everyone correctly/incorrectly interpreted prompts/builds made this episode different and especially intriguing. *Genuinely have no idea how some of these prompts survived, not a slight for builders, just impressed by guessers.
Outside of cities school buses are very much a thing in the UK, then you had the hope in winter the roads were so bad the bus wouldn't show up, cause the alternative of the roads being worse further on in the route and getting stuck 😂
A ling long time agoin had trade disputes for 23 years, here's the full footnotes of all the disputes for 30 minutes before the movie even begins. These were some good tropes
Boba people end up doing that, from trimming and pruning the trees to prevent the branches from being in the roadway, when you cut a tree branch, limb, or stock, that bit will not grow past that cut. If you make a cut after a node a new branch will grow but it tends to grow upward-and-outward from that point. This continues until the branches dont interfere with the roadway. Essentially if it's done correctly then the tree will "learn" where not to grow especially where box trucks and semi trucks are concerned. Due to them disrupting the limbs either from rubbing or breaking off a limb. Interesting factoid that plays into this, trees of different species tend to not "merge" their canopies and will actually stop growing in the direction of a different species as to not compete for light, however trees of similar species will "merge" their canopies and sometimes they will graft together to become a singular tree (these are super cool if they grafted enough to become a singular limb and you have a chance to cut a cross section because you can see where they started to grow together).
13:40 on UK double deckers its common to have a metal bar beside the front upstairs window just incase a branch has moved in the way. Weird nerd fact of the day
Boba...people trim the trees, they don't just grow away from the wind of the vehicles passing lol Edit: Also Boba, the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile is still very much around and I've been on it briefly. Every spring they have a thing where you can apply to drive it around the country for like 6 months or something, but the schedule is pretty rigorous and it doesn't pay that well.
To be fair, I’m pretty sure the vehicles trim those trees via continuously brushing up against them. I remember my dad - who was a truck driver in his younger years - called them Truckers Cathedrals. More so in regard to heavily forested roads than the occasional tree however.
@@liamc9998 People do trim them though. There's whole groups whose job it is to keep them off power lines and to regularly check that along the whole line the tree is a minimum set distance from the line.
Around 34:21, Rhythian and Ben say that the bad guys should be "foreign" or "British." If you're British, doesn't that cover literally everyone? And if you're not, then "British" is just a subset of "foreign."
I remember the double-decker that went from my village to the nearest proper city had a bit steel bar bolted around the top left corner, presumably to help deal with thwacking errant branches along the very woody route. I too had wondered about the specific mechanics of why the trees grew square over the roads.
it's 1 minute past the deadline and kirsty hasn't even done her prompt but just decides that the chainlink fence around the basketball court that she didn't have to make is one block too high so she has to fix that before she does the actual prompt. amazing time management there
Oh my god yes, the mandatory viewing of Dante's Peak for high school Geography! Except the lesson wasn't long enough for the whole film and our teacher couldn't be bothered to put it back on next time we had geography, so I didn't know how it ended for like 3 months until I tracked it down myself.
A. Volcano is objectively better. B. There are often shorter "Educational use" cuts of movies (and also "for TV" cuts) that are shorter to fit into a 60-90 minute class. If a studio can somehow brand their movie as "educational", they can get government money, as long as an "educational" cut exists for use in public education. Sometimes movies are re-cut by 3rd parties. Sometimes these cuts are VERY low effort. Sometimes scenes you ASSUME would be cut, like sex scenes or gore, are not. I distinctly remember watching an educational cut of the Paulie Shore movie "Bio Dome" in class, but I cannot find any info about it today. I did watch the full movie, and it didn't really make any LESS sense.
@@Prophes0r Nah, Dante's Peak for me. I can't get over the guy 'melting' in Volcano. Not to say Dante's Peak didn't also have its fair share of ridiculous science, but I have a fondness for it now.
Bonus points if the costumes are bad. They joked about a Marvel miniatures game, but I'm ALL IN to see Lewis in a shitty "6 year old and up" iron man onsie with a molded plastic mask that is too small for his face.
I love Lewis/Ben implying that Dalnte's Peak is similar to Lord of the Rings because they both have a volcano, in the same level as Armageddon vs Deep Impact, haha
This house is creeping me out. Instead of turning around and walking to the functioning car behind me, I'm just going to go down into the basement. I'll see you guys in a bit!
The Oscar Mayer Weeniemobile is DEFINITELY still around! It's more of a traveling advert than anything like an ice cream van. Red Bull did something similar.
As an Australian, I love how Clarks is also a British thing Edit: I think my least favourite trope in movies and TV Shows is that high pitched violin thing when something scary/intense is happening, before it cuts to black Its in so many horror shows/movies, and I got annoyed every time it appeared in Game of Thrones or Teen Wolf
The best version of "take off glasses and let down hair" subversion is in the police buddy parody movie Loaded Weapon 1 with Emilio Estevez and Smauel L Jackson. They switch the actress from before and after she removes her glasses.
Trees do actually grow towards the road, tree's and most plants grow towards sunlight and because there are no competing trees on the road there is more sunlight in that direction
I've always been really sensitive to the smell of diesel fumes, so I would say that the school bus smelled bad, but maybe that's just me. I walked or rode my bike instead, which is a bit rare to be able to do in the US. Neither rain nor snow would stop me!
My favorite thing, is the Wilhelm scream was originally a calling card from one of the guys working on Star Wars. In episode 6, he has a cameo where he falls into the shield bunker and he does his best to do a Wilhelm Scream
@@mungobaggins8197 yes, only that more sane nations use an Unimog with a hydraulically powered mowers ... aaand it also helps they don't let the energy providers cheap out on a robust infrastructure
@@enisra_bowman oh, a lot of the time it’s just some guys with chainsaws and a cherry picker. We have a variety. Last week, on a backroad, I saw a tractor with a hydraulic arm attached to the back with a brush trimmer on the end. For once, I’m not sure poor infrastructure is the problem. It’s more that the roads go through a tunnel of trees and underbrush, and folks would rather trim them back than cut things down. So you end up with telephone poles running down tiny roads with trees overhead. Some of the poles lean over the road for lack of room with the trees. I’ve seen poles where one wire goes on one side of a tree trunk, and the other wire goes on the other. I wonder if it’s also a factor that we have more trees than some of you guys. I looked it up once, and even New Jersey, our most densely populated state, has three times the forest per square mile than the UK, and four times that of England.
Where can I get this map? I recently tried getting the old one but it was really hard to find and none of the versions I found actually worked properly.
