The Hydraulic Telegraph and Latin Grease: Citation Needed 5x01 

Someone has done Latin subtitles. Of course they have.

The rewatchability of citation needed is fantastic. And when I miss it subconsciously, my brain helpfully provides me with "Burt Bacharach's Back Crack and Sack" on loop.

5 years past, and I just want to thank the people who made the Latin captions for this. Biscocti Mysterii

In the episode where we get a handle on nouns, we use "biscuit" as a verb. Glad to see the new series has started! :D

4 years later, Tom forgets about Matt's GCSE.

tom: *says something to vaguely get the show back on track* Everyone else: NO

The level of exasperation in Tom's voice makes me think that "There are shoes! And there are boxes!" etc went on an awful lot longer before the edit...

Is Matt naturally that happy, or are recreational pharmaceuticals involved? I don't think there's been a single video where he's been less than ludicrously jolly.

English - I've got chills, they're multiplying. Latin - Ego autem frigora et multiplicata es. Literal - I have shivers, and they are multiplying.

Tom is an exasperated dad with three overly-excitable kids on a long car ride trying desperately not to resort to "I'll turn this car around"

Frigora habeo. Illa multiplicant

I would happily watch Gary's documentary on Hydraulic London.

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"Are you done?" -Tom Scott, 2016

There's a shop near me called "Nouns: A Person's Place for Things" that is just full of absolutely incomprehensible objects

That Archimedes' Screw joke is low-key the best in the whole series.

Ladies and gentlemen, "Biscuit" has become a verb....

The speed of this show. It feels like I've just been clubbed round the head with a QI boxset

I miss the community subtitle feature so much. That Latin caption set.

I love how it's a professional podcast and presented with aftereffects and is so high quality, but it's also just four guys in the corner of the kitchen

There's the quote of the episode: "For God's sake, will someone biscuit that man!"

When they mentioned Halifax, I thought to my self, for just a moment , "why did they all go to Nova Scotia as kids," then I felt stupid.

That moment with the flags and water reminded me so much of the cast winding up Steven Fry on QI when he was trying to get out the line "They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is"

"It's all piss and witchcraft" has to be the best description of Science i've heard in a very long time :D

Matt's pronunciation of "Antelope" had me in tears

Of all the RU-vid videos to have Latin subtitles I'm so so glad this is the one

Chris at 6:50 "Those are my cubits baby" is maybe the best line ever

RIP Burt Bacharach

Ah, MSN messenger. You know the least well known handy feature about it, especially in an age before emojis? You could _make your own emoticons_ and send them to your mates, as well as just use the microsoft e-ink feature to scribble things. Somewhere I've got screenshots of particularly fertile interchanges with mates back in the noughties (it was the only way to really preserve them, once the news came in that they were retiring the service) that devolved into just sending offensive doodles back and forth. As well as the fairly comprehensive set of DIY icons I'd built up (and you had to be fairly creative, as they were limited to something like 16x16 pixels, and possibly even the windows default colour palette...) What I'd give for that these days. I can never find the emoji I actually want. Any time you think of a particular thing you might want to send as a pictogram for either speed, compactness/bandwidth saving, or more likely just plain comedy purposes... there's at least a 50% chance that you won't find anything even _remotely_ similar to it, let alone the exact thing. But I could scribble up a good-enough looking facsimile within a 32x32 pixel grid and a 256 colour palette fairly quickly... OK, sure, that 1kb would still be quite a bit bigger than a text message, but it's still a lot smaller than a photo and would definitely fit inside an MMS.

the Latin subtitles, when I am able to read them "hyperloop", "super-ring" the translations are amazing and so creative

Re: Archimedes' Screw. They made an irreverent documentary about it: This, His Spiral Tap

When Gary's talking about atmospheric trains, the seals weren't made of rubber, they were leather, treated with tallow to keep it supple, and the TALLOW is what attracted rats

This is the first time I've heard of Citation Needed. I am very confused. Entertained, but confused.

Rewatching 5+ years later and laughing just as hard. Well done :)

Would the "chills" in Latin be "frigora" or "horrida" (meaning "shudders" or "trembles")? "Frigora" is more literal but "horrida" might also convey the meaning, and also begins with a soft h sound, so you could probably use some elision if you wanted to make it scan...

Oh my god Tom’s “are ya done?” is camp and I love it!

"For the love of God, somebody biscuits that man!"

Ah, back when the 'hyperloop' was just a concept, and was going to be a vacuum tube, and was going to go super duper uber fast you guys

I'm an early teenager. I used MSN Messenger when I was 2 years old. I would message my dad while he was at work, and my dad thought it was my mom typing pretending it was me. Then he got home and found me playing Age of Empires II sitting on my mom's lap. I've been a computer kid for a long time, and I REMEMBER MSN MESSENGER!

NEW CITATION NEEDED!!!!! It's been a hell of a week here in the States and this is exactly what I needed today. Thank you Tom, Chris, Gary, and Matt!

To anyone who is making subtitles for the Citations needed : thank you so much!

Come for the Things You May Not Know, Stay for the Citation Needed. Love The Paul Revere Joke BTW.

Nothing on youtube makes me laugh out loud like this. I am officially in tears!

Why did I think watching this within hours of getting work done in my mouth would be a good idea? .... yeah, the pain is so worth it.

I absolutely love that someone made Latin subtitles

I love how he randomly brought orangutans into the conversation. 😄

Petition for Latin subs on all citation needed episodes....

"tremorēs habeō, multiplicant." (I used tremor, tremoris because shiver was the closest I could find to "chills")

Can Gary (or anyone else) recommend a decent book about that Hydraulic power system under London? It sounds fascinating!

And I pedanted Gary's Morse code in yet a different way. I was thinking it was saying "Ooooooooooooooo"!

I began the relationship with my now fiancé over MSN. I feel really old when I tell that story even though I'm only 25.

Whoever CC this video in Latin I salute you you magnificent bastard

Upon rewatching, another problem with the two connected tubes would be weather. If the tubes are far enough away the local air pressure might defer and you just created a barometer.

The plugs in the background around 10:53 slightly unsettle me, looking at how they'd perfectly fit the pattern on the wall if they were 2 centimetres lower

I'm a music teacher, I have a student working on a Bacharach song. And damn if I don't think to myself "Burt Bacharach back sack and crack" every single freaking time.

10:05 this needs to be a GIF!

I know the main purpose of these episodes is primarily humor and camaraderie. I love those aspects, but I often really enjoy the history lesson within as well. Thank Guys!

Welcome back. English (I got chills. They're multiplying.) to Latin (Ego autem frigora. Et multiplicata es.) and back to English (I was cold and increased.)

Tom, I love this so much. Would there be any way of us seeing the full length show without having to see the live show as I live in Australia but love the show? PS. can't wait for more.

‘it was like facebook messenger, only s***ter’ Me who’s never used facebook: hm yes

Whoever did the Latin subtitles is a legend

Citation Needed makes me so happy.

saw season 4 caused me to watch the entire back catalog now for season 5

I'm working in an old military base turned tourist island, and I sleep in the old barracks with my coworkers, and how, my dear Tom, am I supposed to not wake up the entire staff with this episode?

Matt's face after the 10:52 incident. Legend has it he's still blushing to this day.

Couldn't have been better timing, Tom. I was about ready to start watching reruns of Citation Needed to fulfill my need for more, and we all know we wouldn't want that! Seriously, though, this is always great. That's for the great material and edits. I always look forward to more Citation Needed.

i like it when Tom's existential crisis about him getting older rears up it's head

1:12 YOU GET TO DRINK FROM THE FIREHOSE!

Yay!!! Citation Needed is back! These upcoming weeks will be cool!

Saw Chris in my hometown on my way to work, made my day and yes he is that jolly even really fecking early!

This episode was way ahead of its time

Latin captions = A BIT CLOSER TO HEAVEN

Latin subs are an experience.

Burt Bacharach Back Crack and Sack is one of the ones I still remember

That was...fast paced, wild, and I'm honestly not sure what just happened. Can't wait for more.

"Today we have the handle on nouns."

I honestly cannot explain how happy I am that this is a thing. Easily the most genuinely hilarious thing I've seen in quite some time

the reversing bus surely says t,t,t,t,t. I mean, that is the sound it makes when it reverses over bunch of people. T! T! T! T!

Just booked TICKEETTTTTTTS!!!!!!! If this shows anything to go by, cannot wait for the live version!

Watching for the nth time, this time with Latin subtitles on!

The reason the Morse coach can't beep like "Warning: this vehicle is in reverse" is because it would take ages to honk out: "+== += +=+ =+ ++ =+ ==+: = ++++ ++ +++ +++= + ++++ ++ =+=+ ++=+ + ++ +++ ++ =+ +=+ + +++= + +=+ +++ +" (in which plus is dot and equals is dash because everything that looked more like a dash would join together when I typed more than one in a row). Unless it's driving down the highway backwards, you're probably only going to gat "WARNI" or something.

Also if you really want corrections for the Latin, it's somewhere along the lines of 'habeo sucussi, multiplicant' (there isn't a word for 'chills' but this is shiver as a plural noun). Never thought I'd ever use any of the five years of Latin I learned, especially not for writing corrections of Grease lyrics in the comments section of a RU-vid video. Anyone who feels like correcting what I've written, please do....

I fucking love this channel. You bring all these funny, yet clever guys that are just perfect for the show. Thanks for doing what you're doing, Tom. EDIT: On a side note, congrats on 500k!

First time viewer of the show from the Netherlands here, loved every second of it. I'll be watching all previous seasons now, bye :D

Matt- sucky tubes? Chris-vacuum tubes.. Gary-pneumatic tubes! Tom-pneumatic tubes is right but no points for you :)

Thank god a new season has finally begun.

I can only assume that if you drain the basin fully, the message is "MY SENTRY POST IS CURRENTLY ON FIRE, SEND HELP"

Well, technically hydraulic systems often use some sort of oil instead of water...

Chris out here with the Marceline the vampire queen mug

"His message appears to be wheeee", hahahaha. Lovely.

Gelua habeo: multiplicant. I'm still in latin and I think this would be the translation. So excited for the new season! You guys are great!

Series 5! I'm so excited! This is my favorite TV show that isn't on TV!

NOOO!!! I came to youtube to get a video I need for research purposes but this was on the top of the homepage and I can't resist!! Oh well..bye bye study!

It it 2021, and this is still my favorite episode.

"There are flags, there are water . . . "

My favorite thing on youtube is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2:27 - Oh my god! The captions are incorrect! Tom said "there are water", but the captions read "there is water"!

Love Eureka in Halifax, great place.

It's fascinating to me that the "The British are coming!" mythology has extended to Britain... Paul Revere's ride is certainly famous here in the United States, but it's somewhat surprising that it would be famous in the UK. Even more surprising though is that it's known in the UK with the same almost-certainly erroneous line: "The *British* are coming!" Paul Revere may not have technically been "British" in that he was not born in the British Isles (he was born in Boston) but the denonym "British" still would've been the typical national identification of the colonists, as they were citizens of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Imagine yourself being French, living in a French territory surrounded by other Frenchmen, and some guy comes riding by on a horse in the middle of the night screaming: "The French are coming! The French are coming!" Your reaction might likely be one of, "uh... dude, we're already here..." Similar for Paul Revere's ride. Most likely what he actually said was: "The Redcoats are coming, the Redcoats are coming!" referring to the King's troops. What's so interesting to me though is that while the mythologized version of the story here in the States somewhat understandably changed the word (as the colonists gradually came to see themselves as a separate nation with a separate name); that in the British Isles, the retelling of the story didn't stick to a more accurate rendition (considering they would've seen Paul Revere as a rebellious Brit, but still an Englishman and not a member of a separate nation).

Been here since Series 1 and loved every second of it!