SourceOfBeing Now I can't focus on anything else, dammit!!! Now, I want the story behind that incredibly long shoelace. Was it original with the shoe? Is it a replacement lace from another shoe? Did he purchase the wrong length? Possible emergency lace carried in wallet for years, similar to wallet condom carried by clueless high school males?? Could it be a set up for a potential lawsuit involving a tripping accident??
Please keep the comments spoiler-free! --Matt [Update from Tom: I’m now five episodes into Discovery and I think it’s GREAT. I am IN for the rest of the season. 🖖]
So I hadn't heard of Tom Scott prior to a week ago when you popped up on my RU-vid recommended. I've since been binging all your content all the way back to ironing eggs, and working out into related things like Park Bench. It's crazy how awesome you and Matt are. I have the exact same thoughts on Discovery, and despite NOT seeing the original series, the new DuckTales is my favorite show on TV. In my 30s I've mostly switched to watching cartoons, because "adult" television is much too dark and gritty these days - and I've already re-watched TNG a dozen times.
Taskmaster is bloody brilliant because the tasks aren't just ludicrous, they're small too. They tend to be things like "work out which of the 50 socks on the washing line has a tangerine" or "eat an egg as quickly as possible" not "do the best pose while holding a cup of tea and bungee jumping off the London eye"
Tom should definitely check out "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". It's technically based on the Douglas Adams books of the same name, but it is by far the loosest script-to-screen adaptation I have ever seen, and is all the better for it. Very generally, because it's sort of about a lot, it follows the most bizarre detective imaginable, solving the most convoluted cases ever, in the most roundabout and way possible. Each season is one case, with an overarching plot running throughout. Season 1 is 8 episodes and I believe is on Netflix in the UK. Season 2 is airing now.
Yea, I was just being an ass. It's a good show, despite my issues with it. It's just too 'much' at times... can't describe the thing that it is too much of, but it does something too much.... (I just woke up... can't articulate)
I was put off by the sexism and racism and the... very American whimsicalness of it. It's very much not my genre. And I loved the books (maybe that's why I don't like it).
Three years late, i know, but it's basically because Michael Schur, the creator, had so much success with his previous shows parks and rec and b99 that the network essentially gave him a load of money and told him to enjoy himself
"[...] we're pretty high up the nerdery scale". Be reassured, that's exactly what your followers love about you! P.S. : Audiobook resolve my reading attention span problem. I found that listening to books, while walking to work, is a great way to combine the pleasant and the useful. :)
Oh, Tom, duck nerd, huh? Welcome to Finland, the nation of Duck nerds, where Donald Duck is a national institute and embedded into pretty much everyone's cultural zeitgeist from early childhood. And yes, we love Don Rosa and he loves us (wrote and drew a duck story of our national epic of Kalevala for example). I'd love you to come and explore the Finnish duck culture :D Oh, and it's not considered just a 'kid's cartoon' here. Donald Duck is very much for every age, and definitely not something limited to a narrow "nerd" fan base.
Huuskari yes but the Donald duck classic magazines that are released like once per month are pretty good. Note that they are re-releaseses of like the best authors
Tom visited Finland a bit later, unfortunately I did not know anything about him or these channels until just recently. I'd lure him to visit again for some ice swimming and other fun winter activities.
Whilst I realise the Park Bench is effectively on indefinite hiatus, I feel like an update is due now that the second series of Star Trek:Discovery is done and dusted (and assuming Tom and/or Matt have watched it).
Yay, a fellow 20-30-something Ducktales nerd! Ducktales is amazing, even when dubbed in Finnish, which is quite an achievement if you know any Finnish.
😂😂😂 only just got into The Good Place now they’ve started playing it on E4 and totally forgot Tom had recommended it! I’ve now completed the third series and can’t stop laughing at how surreal it is! I imagine Tom has MANY opinions by this point 😂😂😂
Become a Patreon patron of Ashens, he has an episode of his exclusive Patreon podcast Audio Guff where he talks with Tom Scott for half an hour on the new Star Treks.
Oh boy! I got positively giddy from the Disney ducks discussion. I also loved reading Barks and Rosa as a kid, as well as watch Ducktales and such. And I recently began collecting the re-prints of both Carl Barks and Don Rosa's collection works, in big hardcover books. I can highly recommend them (You can find both collections on Bookdepository and such)
You are never too old to enjoy Tom & Jerry. Slapstick is universal. And, apart from the later messed-around efforts from the 60s, the timing is _perfect._
I'm back It's alright. something to binge at 4pm on a sunday, lying on the couch surrounded by cold cups of tea and a remote that's ever so slightly too far away.
I can't remember if I said this before, but thanks for the rec on the Good Place. My partner watched it and was recommending it to me, but we sometimes have divergent tastes in media and he isn't always great at predicting when I would like something. But knowing that he liked it AND you liked it was enough to get me to watch it and I loved it. So thanks, Tom. :)
"cartoons have plots now" we were'nt short on them either, as a kid I loved The last Airbender, Samurai Jack, Ben 10 (the original) andTeen Titans for that exact reason.
As the Finnish complete and utter Duck nerd I am it makes me incredibly happy to know that Tom knows about, read, and liked Don Rosa's comics and that he likes the new DuckTales for the same reasons as I do :D
it was weird how at the exact moment i was like “i’m watching two grown guys talk about kids cartoons” was the moment when tom also realized it. priceless
Matt!!!! I'm 27 and I did not watch Duck Tales growing up (didn't have cable) and I LOVED the new one! It is legitimately good for reasons other than nostalgia.
Gravity Falls is a good Disney show, IMO. Season 1 is pretty slow and doesn't have much of a plot, but it sets up season 2. The show also has lots of hidden details, which was fun to theorize about.
I think I heard Lee Mack (who has academic qualifications in this) say that if they don't reset at the end of each episode then it's a comedy drama, not a sitcom. Taskmaster is fantastic.
Tom, speaking of star trek body horror: there's at least 2 episodes of voyager I can think of where body horror plays a main role. The one where two characters get fused in the transporter, and the one where one character tries to go above warp 10 and starts morphing into like a bug or something.
Tuvix, and Threshold. Incidentally, Threshold is considered one of the worst episodes of Trek (although TNG did some similarly bad eps), and Tuvix is somewhat controversial.
Moropikkuu Yes. I think the color correction by the camera or editing software is kind of glitching as it transitions modes/intensities, as it compensates for darker and darker lighting. Possibly both are doing some correction and they're fighting.
As they said at the start of the video, the light is fading around them (what with it being after sunset and all) - you can also spot where cars are driving nearby as the headlights sweep across portions of the shot. So the camera's adjusting to the changing light levels and lighting profile (and whatever post-processing they've done in editing the video for upload) and not always getting it quite how your eyes would if you were sat there instead. Though, from experience, we do see a shift in colours as twilight proceeds, which you can notice if you're paying attention, so it might just be the brightness adjustments making it look a little strange...
Thought the same, but there are definate color hops. Camera has a few settings it jumps between for varying light, it goes brightness 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 10. 10., instead of having 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9... When the camera white balance/iso changes, the video gets different color mappings.
Controversial opinion: I like spoilers. Sometimes I watch a review with spoilers, just to know, if it is something, I would enjoy watching the movie or series. I mean, don’t spoil everything for me, but spoil enough to get me interested in that content. That’s one of the reason, I never got into game of thrones, because I made myself watch an episode and many scenes and people taking apart trailers and realised I wouldn’t enjoy that type of context. And the other way around I got really into death note the series, after watching spoiler reviews of the movie and scenes from the series. But if someone says, please don’t spoil it for me, I won’t.
Dennis Fluttershy I mean, the amount that the internet would say is a spoiler is good enough for me. I even sometimes watch Everything wrong with episodes or How it should have ended, just to really know, if I would like something. For example, I’d rather know the Jack from Titanic dies at the end to figure out, if I would enjoy the romance plot, rather than hearing, that it won x-amount of oscars and has a likeable romance plot. I am less sensitive to spoilers is what I meant to say. But I agree, that I cane across wrong and contradicted myself. I appreciate your comment.
I don't mind spoilers so much because I then get to enjoy HOW said thing went down, because I don't know that, and I get to watch it with the spoiler in mind, figuring out HOW the spoiler is being set up. There's the rare moment when I didn't want to know some big thing, but usually spoilers don't bother me too much. (Frankly, I think everyone's a bit too up in arms about them. Life still goes on, but many act like it's the end of the world when it happens.)
@@CableFlame Exactly. The what of the plot isn't particularly interesting to me. I will never understand the people that want to go into entertainment cold. Anything I watch cold I almost always have to re-watch to enjoy... I mean I spoiled myself on the post-credit sequences for Ant Man and the Wasp, and made one of my friends laugh by giving a referential spoiler reveal about 5 seconds before it was revealed on camera. It was his sled! Yeah, so? Prue dies in season 3! Oh, who'd they replace her with? Rand Al'Thor is the Dragon Reborn, you say? Oh so that's why he's acting silly! Watch the adventures of Angus MacGyver! Seriously, knowing that makes the mystery about his name so much more hilarious! John Hurt's a regeneration of The Doctor? Cool! The Good Place? I'll be nice on this one, but the spoiler is PART OF THE DRAW FOR ME.
I agree that The Good Place is a really nice series which I have been watching and waiting for every week now. I am not quite sure as to how I think it should continue. But I guess we'll see how the rest of the story unfolds in the upcoming episodes (and maybe seasons).
Another reboot that is incredibly great is the recent Thunderbirds Are Go series. A fantastic update that keeps all the joy and fun of the original. Well worth checking out.
I've been making my way through your videos and this one was fun for me. It's rare that I've 1. heard of the shows mentioned since I don't get to watch much or 2. Like them... but I LOVE every one of the ones you guys named. There is a wee exception with the last one... but I know I would like it if I jumped in but I don't have the time or attention span at the moment to start that Trek (two cymbals and a drum fall of a cliff).
_The Genius_ (mentioned in a previous park bench) is honestly the best series I've seen ; episodes are sometimes well over and hour long but they're gripping throughout. Is _Taskmaster_ as good as _The Genius_ ???
One of my favourite kids cartoons at the moment is Hey Duggee on Cbeebies. They manage to sneak in enough grown-up references to make it watchable by adults. The stoned rabbits in The Cake Badge episode are particularly good.
I'm a huge fan of the Dutch Donald Duck weekly and I've read a few DuckTales comics, but I've never seen the original show. The new one is brilliant though. I love it to bits.
Oh my god Tom I remember those Mc Duck comics. They are amazing and I'll have to look for my old ones, I remember I actually teared up when reading the ones where he is old and regretful.
There's actually a concept album that was written as a soundtrack to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, called, appropriately enough, Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge. It's actually a very fitting tribute to the comics.
Oeh the good place! I started that watching 2 days ago, it's quirky and hilarious xD I love the new Star Trek. It has way more character dept and intrigue to it. I am actually waiting for the next episode every time!
We all mourn for the Star Trek Experience, Tom. All of us. I actually stumbled upon an incredibly smart burgundy Federation sealed document folder from said Experience in a charity shop in my backwater home town, one of my most prized possessions.
"the worst of messes become successes" is a line from the Duck Tales theme song, and also my motto. I mess up a lot, like must human beings, but I do try to turn them into successes somehow. And for me, on a personal level, it has worked most of the time and that's something I'm very proud of. (yes I know the whole song and yes I have it on my phone don't @ me)
In VR, You can have a Star Trek Experence, being one of 4 bridge crew mates. I play it almost every week. Thinking of it now, I want to play and will after this post. Sure the missions are repeated of them selves, but something about how each captain does it slightly differently just makes it fun!
I totally got to go on Star Trek the experience and while I don't remember it very well anymore I do remember it being fun :-) I also enjoyed the part of the hotel it was in that was made to look like the Promenade from Deep Space Nine.
My favorite in Task Master Is Alex, the personal assistant for the moments he is involved in the task and his faces. Witch remains me that I want a personal assistant.
I LOVED the Star Trek Experience in Vegas! The ride was cool, and all the props and costumes were great! Also, Quark’s bar was a good restaurant, and the servers all in costume and in character were cool! Twice I was waited on by a Klingon. Also, did you notice the talking urinals? Mine said something like “Excess fluid levels detected.”
Ive had the same exposure to Star Trek and the Don Rosa comics when I was a kid, so I'll have to give a watch to both the Duck Tales thing and Star Trek Discovery.
Cartoons: Steven Universe, and She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power, they're two of my favourite shows ever. Star Trek: DS9 is the best. Love how dark it was in places, love the plots and everything. Discovery definitely improved in season 2, but i'm a bit annoyed that CBS put Picard on Amazon Prime instead of sticking it on Netflix with Discovery. I eagerly await DISCO s3.
Considering the cartoon-talk this episode, I figured I'd recommend a cartoon! Milo Murphy's Law. It's made by the guys who made Phineas and Ferb. It takes place in the same universe as P&F, and takes place (in-universe) the day after the P&F finale, The Last Day Of Summer.
Tom, about that off-hand comment on DuckTales being as canon as can reasonably be in a show that resets at the end of the episode: Without going into details, the show actually does not reset (or at least, not completely) at the end of each episode. They don't feel bad about referencing prior episodes and they don't resort to wasting screen time with flashbacks to do so.
I'm a 24 year old and never watched or read Duck Tales, but I started watching it on recommendation. I'm really enjoying it, and I would say that if you enjoy cartoons you'll probably enjoy it.
