Cabin Fever - Episode 13: Fitton

[@Lothiriel84]

I'm sorry, but the best thing in the world is clearly Arthur Shappey.

[@RandomNexus]

Where is the lie?!

[@Exayevie]

Why are we talking about ANYTHING but the fact that Carolyn plays the tuba?!

[@Nosmo90]

Thank you! I was disappointed that Arthur didn't tell us what brass instrument it was!

[@Aegopodium]

Never ask Martin to say "penguin"!

[@augustbutler4788]

beat me to it ;)

[@bethbroccoli586]

Peng-wings forever!

[@marybertke6890]

I am ... pretty sure that's why penguins are the best thing ever in the first place.

[@madisonambrosehall8219]

"The judges, which is me" -- I need this on a shirt or a sticker. Because this is how I make all my decisions. 🤣

[@hollybidwell6721]

I discovered on a podcast this week that the Mandarin characters for 'penguin' translates into English as... Business goose!

[@MightyMoon1]

Now if anything is brilliant, it’s this!

[@nicholasrobinson18]

I think something that would be even better than just penguins: eating cheese on toast, in a red aeroplane with 100 penguins on board. That way the penguins get to fly, we get cheese on toast and the aeroplane.. Well it's red and they are all just BRILLIANT!

[@danielshelley5679]

I love it

[@joeltham1979]

BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏

[@dorkvania7212]

I think in honor of Penguins winning, Martin should give us a short education talk on them

[@AntonyNelson]

In French

[@wendyannshoshana7605]

with an egg whisk and pogo stick, ideally

[@My5094]

and how they are not neglected; they are moulting

[@AnotherEmily]

Hi, I'm a palaeontologist and the best thing in the world is dinosaurs (which of course fall under the animal category). The brilliant thing about this is that, as birds, penguins are in fact dinosaurs! Now, the best dinosaur is Deinonychus, but that's a whole other competition.

[@LeviathanHolmes12345]

Can absolutely support dinosaurs as the best thing in the world, and I can think of at least 3 eight-year-olds to back us up.

[@firedjinndragon]

Definitely seconding Deinonychus

[@breakablebuttercup]

Lol

[@KarliMeaghan]

I tried one using only MJN Air things: Best Invention: Arthur's birthday cake for Carolyn (the one he chucked at his aunt) Best Film: Quest for Camelot Winner: Arthur's Cake Best drink: Talisker whiskey Best song: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, obviously Winner: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Best book: White Fang, again, obviously Best animal: Snoopadoop the Cockapoo, noblest of hounds Winner: Snoopadoop Best food: Cheesecake (having previously won the Cheesecake vs. Strudel competition.) Best colour: Yellow Winner: Cheesecake Arthur's cake vs. Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Winner: Arthur's cake Snoopadoop vs. Cheesecake Winner: This was a tough one, but as I've never met Snoopadoop but I have eaten many a cheesecake, the winner by experience alone is Cheesecake. Ultimate Showdown for BEST THING IN THE WORLD: Arthur Shappey's chocolate mousse with ground up amaretto biscuits vs. Cheesecake, the winner is......... Arthur's cake! Because it was made with Arthur's love, and that is truly the best thing in the world.

[@aiyamusicchannel]

This is darling! I would submit Arthur's "mulled" wine for best drink, but I agree wholeheartedly with the conclusion. And I salute your knowledge of Cabin Pressure :D

[@KarliMeaghan]

@@aiyamusicchannel :D Thank you so much, that means a lot

[@musical3lottie]

(I am only just catching up, so very late, but) this is the most wonderful comment 💛

[@rutheholleran]

And the winner is.... "My Favorite Things" from Sound of Music. Because that covers everything!

[@aiyamusicchannel]

I got it down to dinosaurs vs. "The Princess Bride" and now I'm hopelessly stuck!

[@michaelwhiteman]

What's more impressive than the fact that Carolyn can play the tuba is the fact that, at the end, Carolyn can play TWO NOTES AT ONCE on the tuba. Wow!

[@TheRinark]

Best Invention: The Internet Best Film: Spiderman-into the Spiderverse Winner: The Internet (because without it I wouldnt know about this game!) Best Drink: Lemonade Best Song: Happy Birthday Winner: Happy Birthday (because everyone knows it and also my birthday is in 4 days. the Judges (me) suspect favouritism) Best Book: Stone Heart Best Animal: Lizards Winner: Lizards (because my pet lizard wouldn't forgive me if I choose otherwise) Best Food: Pizza Best Colour: Green Winner: Pizza (for obvious reasons) The Internet VS Happy Birthday: quite tough due to aforementioned favouritism, but due to the brilliance of the internet and all the people on it the winner was... Winner: The Internet Lizards VS Pizza: an incredibly tough decsion. the discussion went on between the judges for hours, or you know, longer than a minute. Eventually however new evidence was brought forward. Lizards were amazing, but some people are scared of them, but Pizza brings people together. so... Winner: Pizza THE FINAL: THE INTERNET VS PIZZA: This battle was exciting but after the drama of Lizard vs Pizza, it was a bit less exciting. The eventual winner was The Internet. Because without it, we would be unable to look at films, books, colors and animals (LIKE PENGUINS!) and it teaches us how to make drinks and new toppings for pizza's. So the FINAL WINNER AND THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD IS.... THE INTERNET!!!

[@firedjinndragon]

Stone Heart by Charlie Fletcher?

[@jaywilliams8206]

I love that I read this and said “my eldest would agree” Then realised my eldest wrote it. Which means I was right at least. And the Stone Heart trilogy is bloody brilliantly.

[@sarahlawrencebaghdasaryan3492]

I'm so late to the party on this series, but this is my favorite episode so far. I'm listening to this while my husband is watching a horror film...and I'm laughing so hard that he's laughing, too!

[@marshmanjimbo8108]

Surely you could fit 100 tubas on GERTI? In the hold, etc? You could stack tubas unlike Otters. Which aren't compliant enough to stack neatly.

[@Flipdrivel]

Well you say that... www.flickr.com/photos/127129325@N06/16218428226

[@ShyGuy2610]

I got Electricity as the best thing in the world, as it powers a lot of cool things, like aeroplanes, and electric penguins.

[@aiyamusicchannel]

I could see the tuba being the Best Thing in the World. It's a solid contender for best invention, for sure.

[@florencepatient3295]

Arthur, thank you so much for making these videos! We(all of us I'm sure) are very much enjoying them!

[@dianat-c2775]

My favorite Double Acts is the one called Penguin Diplomacy (found in series 2). I have listened to it numerous times and found new bits of info over time. It’s well-written, acted, and produced. Delightful listening

[@thutty5666]

Between that one and the Goliath Window for me.

[@dianat-c2775]

T Hutty yes. The Goliath window is great too. Each story has multiple layers and I love the humanity and understanding of People. I feel expanded by these stories

[@terentule]

Brilliant game and congratulations to penguins for the win. And as a side note, may I just compliment your beard, Arthur? It is great!

[@claverhouse1]

Best Invention ~ Talisker meets Best Film ~ Groundhog Day, Talisker wins on the basis that it tastes good and makes you feel funny Best Drink ~ Talisker meets Best Song ~ Motorcycle Emptiness, Talisker wins on the basis that it tastes good and makes you feel funny Best Book ~ The Wasp Factory meets Best Animal ~ Otter, The Wasp Factory wins on the basis that otters can't read Best Food ~ Pizza meets Best Colour ~ Green, Pizza wins because c'mon, it's Pizza Best Invention meets Best Drink and in a surprise twist becomes a Double Talisker, which wins on the basis that it tastes SO good and fakes you teal sunny Best Book meets Best Food, Best Food wins because munchies Double Talisker meets Pizza, Pizza loses because it tastes good but doesn't rake your field bunny Double Talisker, The Best Thing In The World! Hic!

[@simonmandrakejones]

Do you mean Talisker or Talisker Talisker?

[@Triviata84]

That final duet was just ... ... *gives in to temptation* ... ... BRILLIANT!!!

[@coleenwilliams6656]

I agree 100%. Green is the best colour in the world and the best thing in the world, hands down!!

[@mistyanne6723]

Green is my favorite color and penguins are my favorite animal! Great choices!

[@nardo218]

arthur if you don't tune that piano i'm going to fold you into it

[@SereneClaws]

I was definitely waiting for "penguins on an aeroplane" to be the winner. Penguins definitely deserve the win though! Well done judges!

[@judep178]

Invention = Robo penguin Film = Mr Forbush and the penguins (after much discussion) Drink = Penguin cocktail Song = Penguin Reference (Tangerine Dream) Book = Mr Poppers Penguins Animal = Penguin Food = Penguin Biscuit Colour = Penguin white (Hexadecimal code F5F3EF) Invention vs film = Mr Forbush and the Penguins (although the Robo Penguin is very clever) Drink vs song = Penguin Reference (because apparently there isn’t enough Tangerine Dream in the world) Book vs Animal = Penguin! Food vs Colour = Penguin biscuit (hands down win for the biscuits) Semi finals Mr Forbush and the penguins vs Penguin Reference = Mr Forbush and the Penguins Penguin vs Penguin biscuit = Penguin (this caused a bit of household controversy I really like penguins biscuits, but was overruled) Final Mr Forbush and the Penguins vs Penguin = Penguin (Easy win in the end here) So you are right Arthur the best thing in the world is indeed a Penguin

[@DerInselaffe]

Phwaaaarrrrp!!! Never have I heard anything so beautiful. 🥺

[@petersburg2]

Hah! I would love to have listened in on that 7-hour conversation!

[@damialmon2070]

Arthur! You noticed me! I'm so excited to have gotten a guess right, but haven't got the time to to a bracket challenge on which thing is the greatest. For now, I suppose I'll go with my two best friends, Halle and Rachael, whom I love dearly and are keeping me sane - friends are the greatest thing! (thank you so much John! I've been a fan of your work since 2012 and listen to Cabin Pressure on the daily - I have it all practically memorized and it's always something comforting, beautiful, and funny to return to

[@theCloverClan]

The printing press won out for us... and a HUGE thank you for the delight and amazement and general giddiness of our entire household after Julia's question was read in the last video. The answer surprised us; please tell Caroline it's BRILLIANT! (Is there anything that woman can't do?)

[@Wolfscat333]

Arthur, I just wanted to let you know I am very happy I got it right and also it absolutely made my day that you pronounced my name right! Thank you. And Penguins are indeed the best thing in the world!

[@martinphillips7344]

Dear Arthur, after hours of steady deliberation the panel of judges finally settled on what we believe to be the best thing in the world: Pasta! Runners up: Iced coffee and Bunk Beds!

[@seanlinley1632]

I did it and after a final of Tea v Mash Potatoes I came out with Mash Potatoes. My other half did hers (independently) and had a big final. Nuclear Power v Coatis. Coatis were the winner! Thanks for this amazing activity Arthur! :)

[@bethbroccoli586]

The judges have thought very hard about this, and they would like to pronounce this episode of Cabin Fever brilliant!

[@annadaisywilson]

Language vs wine was also a tough round

[@annadaisywilson]

It was a tense final between wine and dogs, but yes, dogs are the best thing ever.

[@EmB856]

Penguins are a worthy competitor for the best thing in the world, but let me present to you my favorite: The electric kettle. It can prepare water for all your everyday needs! You can use the hot water to make tea, or coffee, or ramen noodles or even to make the water on the stove boil faster by adding water that's already boiling. It's brilliant!

[@SereneClaws]

This was a welcome break from homework, thank you Arthur! I've come to conclude that paper (the best invention) is the best thing in the world. The runner up was sour gummy worms though, and honestly that was a challenging pick.

[@TheOriginalDalamanza]

Aeroplanes vs Penguins - coming to a cinema near you...

[@NinStardust]

This is so hard! Invention; Electricity vs Film; Empire Records. Winner: Electricity, because you can't make/watch films without it. Drink; Hot Chocolate vs Song; Cannonball (by Supertramp) Winner: Cannonball, because no matter how much of it I have it won't make me sick, too much hot chocolate would lol. Book; The Lord of The Rings vs Animal; Cats. Winner TLOTR because you can pick it up and put it down whenever you like without being scratched to pieces. Food; Cheese vs Colour; Yellow. Winner Cheese because it is yellow, so you're getting two for one! So, Electricity vs Cannonball. Winner Electricity, without it I would never have heard the best song. And The Lord of The Rings vs Cheese. Tough! Winner Cheese, let's face it, it's tastier than any book, and a lot more yellow than TLOTR. Really difficult final between Electricity and Cheese! Well, you don't need electricity to make cheese. But then again, you don't need cheese to make electricity... Hmmm... Or do you? No... Although, you do need electricity to run the fridge to keep the cheese in, but cheese tastes a lot nicer... I know! The judges, who are me, say the winner is... Cheese! Because if you said "electricity" when posing for a photo, you would sound like a total loony! Lol! So the best thing in the world ever, is Cheese! 😃

[@Dancerdancer123100]

My best invention won and my best invention was tooth brushes because I think brushing your teeth is the easiest way to feel a bit better when your getting over being sick or when you're feeling down.

[@MartynRavensdale]

Given that Cabin Fever is the best thing in the world; I suggest we don’t tell Arthur when the lockdown ends...

[@dwnash001]

My ultimate winner was so surprising to me, but it was the piano! I just don't want to imagine a world without it in.

[@bookwormbellis]

Wow, that was difficult! It came down to Beauty and the Beast vs Pizza, and in a nail-biting conclusion, Pizza was the winner! My man-I-know came to a different conclusion and claims that Burritos are the best thing ever, but I stand by Pizza as the correct answer :-D

[@rhetoricalrayne]

The earnest sincerity, so wholesome.

[@kompostownia3226]

Best invention: LANGUAGE I believe it was a true game changer for the humankind. Like, just imagine that transition from simply experiencing the world to describing it and sharing your thoughts with another being next to you. Or even someone far from you both in space and time - the very thing you and I are doing right now. And the best part is that even today we can still witness the miracle of a human learning to talk. I observed it twice with my kids and it was breathtaking. Needles to say, hilarious, too. Best movie: FIGHT CLUB I adore it partly because it's a superb movie (name a more iconic duo than the protagonist, I'll wait) but also because I first saw it when I was 19 which is a very strange time in everybody's life and things we experience then stay with us for the rest of our lives. LANGUAGE vs FIGHT CLUB An easy win for language. Thank to language you can talk. You can even talk ABOUT language, whereas there's not just one but two rules that specifically forbid you to talk about the Fight Club. Best drink: TEA The black one only. It looks like liquid wood and tastes like the sun. And if uncle Iroh says it's good, it probably is. Uncle Iroh is great at seeing good where others overlook it. Best song: HALLELUJAH by Leonard Cohen I honestly don't know why. It just feels like soundtrack to the human existence. But when I try to find what makes it so special, I fail. Cohen himself said it became so popular thanks to its "good chorus". So maybe that's it. TEA vs HALLELUJAH An incredibly tough choice. I eventually decided that tea should be the winner as I understand it better than Hallelujah, which makes my judgement more reliable. Best book: SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 by Kurt Vonnegut I wouldn't believe that a story about time travel and alien abduction can contain so much truth about the world without time travel or alien abduction. To be honest, though, I've never read Slaughterhouse 1, 2, 3 or 4, so maybe they're better as the sequels rarely surpass the original. Best animal: OTTER I fell in love with them long before learning about Cabin Pressure. In fact, I first found about the show while searching the web for a picture of an otter in a captain's uniform. I guess I just have a soft spot for intelligent animals. Among them dolphins and corvids are surely great, but have a small shortcoming of not being furry enough and I'm too much of a snob to say that my favourite animal is a dog or a cat. I've also never had a chance to befriend an otter so I guess I have just its idealized image in my mind, while I'm fully aware of all the day-to-day mayhem cats bring into one's life. SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 vs OTTER I choose Slaughterhouse 5. I’ve read it many times and I'm 100% sure it's really great. About otters I'm not that sure. I just can't read them. Best food: APPLE It was a fierce competition between apples and chocolate but then I thought about my love/hate relationship with chocolate and came with a conclusion that it's more of a narcotic than a food. Apples wins with many other foods by the simple fact that they're perfect right from the beginning. You don't need to do anything with them to be delicious and pretty. Best colour: ORANGE It's by far the most positive, self-conscious and friendly of all colours. It's like if red, after years of therapy, finally stopped being this aggressive and attention seeking hue or like if yellow, after having a near death experience, decided it no longer wants to be this pale, inconspicuous background colour. APPLE vs ORANGE I will say apple. Apple can be more or less orange, while orange can't be an apple. That brings us to the SEMIFINALS! LANGUAGE vs TEA Tea doesn't stand a chance to language. Language can call it names like dead boiled leaves or aitch-two-ohed Camellia sinensis while all tea will do is to stand there, look pretty and taste delicious. I'm afraid that's not enough. SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 vs APPLE Kurt Vonnegut's novel is truly brilliant but will it delight readers a thousand years from now? Apple, on the other hand, is already a timeless classic and I don't think it will change in the future. So the GRANDE FINALE is: LANGUAGE vs APPLE Honestly, when I started writing this, I would never imagine it will come to that. But the choice is obvious. Apple, being an absolute carpological wonder, can't compete with language. Language is - I can't find a better word - brilliant! It can sometimes, however, become a prison that holds our brains tangled in a web of words and doesn't let us romp in the primordial unspoken freedom. But even if that freedom turns out to be better than the language, it surely can't be properly named and categorized to enter this competition. So let's just agree that language it the best thing in the world in the same sense a Miss World winner is the most gorgeous woman on Earth. Greetings from the land of madame Szyszko-Bohusz!

[@cassieruddock]

After some hard-fought battles, I am down to the dramatic final of 'tea' versus 'dog'. Special mentions to Fellowship of the Ring (film), His Dark Materials (book), cheese, purple, and Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. Well done everyone for taking part. While I do enjoy a cup of tea every day, the thing I really, really look forward to every day is going outside and seeing dogs. I think it's got to be dogs. Congratulations to dogs, you deserve this.

[@wedge-dragon]

Best thing in the world: DOGS. It was tough, dog beating out chocolate and the internet... but it's what is best in MY world.

[@nandib.1102]

Best invention: Baths/bathtubs Best film: The Royal Tenenbaums Winner: Baths - practical AND relaxing Best drink: Arnold Palmer Best song: Ghostwriter by RJD2 Winner: Arnold Palmer - a combo of two great drinks Best Book: Good Omens Best Animal: Manatees Winner: Manatees - those loveable cows of the sea Best Food: Mac & Cheese Best Colour: Turquoise Winner: Mac & Cheese - is simply the best Baths beat Arnold Palmers Mac & Cheese beats Manatees In the end, I have to say BATHS are the best thing in my world. With bubbles and bath bombs, of course. Plus, I suspect penguins enjoy baths too? Thanks for the fun game!

[@abekaye8317]

How did Arthur not choose pineapple juice as the best drink in the world!?

[@lotus5yt]

Best Invention: Aeroplanes, I'm with Arthur on this. Best Film: The Ladykillers (original version with Alec Guiness). Winner: Well it has to to be The Ladykillers, because no one killed Mrs Lopsided. Though aeroplanes are good. Best drink: Tea, because I'm British and proud. Best song: White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. Winner: Hard choice, but I drink tea three times a day and I haven't heard that song for three weeks. So it has to be tea. Best book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Best animal: Elephant. You have to feel sorry for them because even when they're in the room with you, no one will talk about them. Winner: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, because it's a book about an animal. Best food: Cake. Best colour: Red, with a strong argument for purple, But this judge found herself going red as she had the argument, so red it is. Winner: Cake. The Ladykillers versus Tea. Winner: Tea, because I think more people have heard of tea than they have The Ladykillers. Cake versus the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Winner: After some thought I realised the cake could be fed to the caterpillar, but you couldn't make the caterpillar into a cake. So cake won. Which means, tea and cake make it to the final. And the winner of the best thing in the world ever is tea. Or cake. Or tea. I'm not sure. I know! Tea cake!

[@NinStardust]

lotus5yt Clearly you've never come across these, I think I had a "Colin the Catterpillar" cake for my birthday 10 years in a row... (Throughout my 20's! Lol! 😂) PS. I also love the original Lady Killers film! 😊 www.google.com/search?q=caterpillar+cake&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB590GB590&hl=en-GB&prmd=isnv&sxsrf=ALeKk00iVZRLv3O4ZesNIvcxVAPuBa59Bw:1588199502705&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidq8OZ2I7pAhU6RhUIHVrqAVAQ_AUIEygB&biw=1024&bih=653

[@lotus5yt]

@@NinStardust I now really want that cake!

[@NinStardust]

lotus5yt I gotta say, it is Brilliant! 😋

[@T348F]

According to my incredibly scientific and logical approach, and the vast and diverse panel of judges which includes me, myself, and I, I have concluded that the best thing in the whole world is the film 'It's a Wonderful Life'

[@mollycarlson9715]

Arthur!! Did you know it was World Penguin Day when you posted that?

[@mollycarlson9715]

@@yetanotherentity I never would have guessed it, but my news feed thought this was important information for me to have. So yes, weird as it is--really! 😅

[@nandib.1102]

As each of these episodes are made, the improvement of Arthur's piano playing (comparing Episode 1 to now) reminds me of that scene in 'Amadeus', when the Emperor tries to play Salieri's march for Mozart....compared to when Mozart comes in and plays it perfectly. Basically, you're Mozart now?

[@benwillis5840]

Brilliant!

[@edbrims]

Of course the actual best invention is the tiny plastic doll's-house tables that they put in the middle of a pizza to keep the cardboard lid off the cheese. Someone should write a song about them.

[@antigone4555]

My partner and I took a humanitarian approach. Best invention: The Scientific Method Best film: Citizen Kane Winner: The Scientific Method Best drink: Water Best song: The Internationale Winner: Water Best book: Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language Best animal: Plankton Winner: Plankton Best food: Bread Best colour: White (because it contains all the other colours) Winner: Bread Semi finals: Scientific Method vs. Water Winner: Water Plankton vs. Bread Winner: Plankton Best thing in the world: Water vs. Plankton Winner: Water (it's a good thing we have so much of it)

[@irishboy0909]

Is Cabin Pressure a valid answer?

[@bethanyrickards9967]

We had a very interesting final; toilets v bears. But given where bears do their business we decided that bears win, because they don't even need toilets! Love Deb, Beth and Ollie x

[@enossified]

Sorry, Internet folk, the best invention is 'Indoor Plumbing'.

[@smonroe1987]

Hot showers

[@oniondust]

Best thing ever: penguin on an airplane. You're welcome.

[@rosella3012]

For me: Toasties For Jenny (aged 24): Bears We concluded Bear Toasties would be monstrous but a bear eating a toastie would be brilliant...

[@jennylomax1112]

Rosella your friend Jenny sounds awesome

[@forkhandles9096]

Invention = Gaffer/Duck Tape (so useful, everywhere) Film = Jurassic Park (the original, never bettered) Winner = Gaffer/Duck Tape (sorry JP the book is still better) Drink = Milk (chilled, unpasteurised, from our local happy cows) Song = Mr Blue Sky (great value as a song, goes on forever, never fails to make things a bit brighter) Winner = Mr Blue Sky (the cows are in agreement) Book = The Foot Book by Dr Seuss (really tough category, but this one wins because I've read it A LOT over the years and it's still enjoyable) Animal = Pangolin (had a bit of a bad press just recently, but I still love the wonderful little creatures) Winner : The Foot Book (instrumental in getting my kids to love reading and sleep) Food = salt and vinegar crisps (sustained me through pregnancies, many exams, and numerous night shifts) Colour = Orange (warm, cheerful, so 1970s) Winner : Salt and Vinegar crisis (Co-op Sea Salt and Chardonnay Wine Vinegar are full-blown mouth destroyers) Gaffer Tape vs Mr Blue Sky Winner = Gaffer Tape The Foot Book vs Salt and Vinegar crisps Winner = Salt and Vinegar Crisps Gaffer Tape vs Salt and Vinegar Crisps. So difficult, its like having to choose between your children, but like children you always secretly like the first one better anyway 🤷 So GAFFER TAPE rules supreme!

[@katerodgers1312]

Who'd have thought that our family's best things in the world ever would be pasta, giraffes, elephants and the song Birds by Imagine Dragons, although we should definitely have more banana milkshakes.

[@carolinesenior2969]

My son Theo (7) decided that in the final between Television and Burger that Burgers were the best thing in the world. (It beat Tigers, Lemonade and Light Blue)

[@smonroe1987]

Yes, Mr. Shappey! You are right! Green IS the best thing!

[@carolinelathe8453]

Please could you let me know what has happened to the mice?

[@bodeparty2344]

Final Best invention: OJS air Best Animal: guinea pigs Winner guinea pigs because it makes me happy to imagine 100 of them on an aeroplane

[@Tealin]

I could not be more pleased with the result of the tournament (even if some individual penguins may be The Worst). I hope Fizz and Buzz are taking the upset well, considering Charm Offensive awarded Best Thing Ever to 'a little mouse', a title which I believe has remained unchallenged for 15 years now. About time there was a shakeup at the top!

[@incompetentheron]

Wheels took the win for us. After a tense semi final, where Beer threatened to grab a late equaliser, Wheels faced Dogs in the final, and drew out a hard fought win to be crowned the Best Thing In the World

[@Nosmo90]

Now now, Arthur, you know that you didn't invent fizzy yoghurt, you merely discovered the process that makes it. =P

[@alfje5492]

Best Movie = Airplane, that's it, no further discussion needed!

[@lucyashford564]

I think the favourite drink should of been strawberry slush puppie because of how you react to them

[@suec9670]

Tournament great fun, but wasn’t really required in this house as we already knew that the best thing in the world is Cabin Pressure with Cabin Fever a very close second

[@lozenger8]

Best Invention: Bread Best Film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Bread won, I'm afraid. I could eat bread every day but probably couldn't eat that movie. Best Book: 1984 Best Animal: I had so many options, but I still ended up with cats. Cats are brilliant. Cats won, because they ARE Big Brother. Best drink: Creaming Soda - the nice brown stuff not the weird pink stuff. Best song: Bohemian Rhapsody. I think it's pretty obvious that BoRhap had to be the winner there. Creaming soda doesn't allow you to sing multiple parts at the same time. Well, it could, but it's more of a stretch. Best Food: Now, obviously we come up against a conundrum, as I am firmly in camp Bread. I wavered for a minute and almost picked ice cream, but well, the bread had it. Best Colour: Red! Bread beat red. It was no contest, really. We had something you can gobble up with glee versus an esoteric concept of how our eyes make sense of light. Bread versus BoRhap - Bread thanks. Cats versus Bread - despite that time my cat Tino managed to destroy an entire bag of rolls by jumping up on the kitchen table and taking a bite out of every one, I still think Bread takes it. Now we come to a real death match: Bread Vs Bread. The judges, which are me, conclude it is no real contest. Bread is the winner, in all its beautiful forms.

[@Alf_Williams]

It strikes me that best colour isn't going to beat best anything else, so I've replaced it with best hat (I'm sorry, it's not Martin's. Break it to him gently). With that slight adjustment then, we have: Best Invention - Flushing toilet. I can't think of a single invention whose absence would make life less pleasant than a world without toilets. Best Film - Transformers (the proper one, from 1987). Easy win for toilets. Best Drink - Apple juice Best Song - The Eggplant That Ate Chicago Apple juice loses a tight contest. Best Book - Not Now Bernard Best Animal - Elephants. I've checked, I asked one. Close, but elephants sneak it. Which is not something you can often say. Best Food - Ice cream Best Hat - Pith helmet. Ice cream by a short head. The Eggplant That Ate Chicago vs Flushing toilets is a fairly routine win for toilets. Ice cream vs Elephants goes right down to the wire, but ice cream just comes out on top, because it's easier to fit in my freezer. So the final is toilets against ice cream. Which is quite a dilemma, but in the end, it has to be ice cream. My toilet doesn't get the internet, it won't know it didn't win.

[@sophiephilips-roberts3311]

I was wondering what Martin's bracket looked like, and what his conclusion was, but have since realized that if he suggested aeroplane for top invention, no matter what else it came up against, it would 100% have been the last man standing.

[@IzzyWoolrych]

I think "Best Word" should have been added as a category; Arthur's would probably have been "brilliant" and as he describes all the other "bests" as "brilliant", it probably would have won!

[@rebeccajhall]

I'd have thought 'pineapple juice' would have been the favourite drink... however, I guess you can't buy blue slush puppy as easily in an airport bar...

[@thomasmoore7239]

Best Invention - Airplane Best Film - Airplane Best Drink - Tequila Best Song - Tequila Best Book - Penguin Books - all the classics Best Animal - Penguines Best Food - Oranges Best Colour - Orange!

[@soniak2865]

I still play 'yellow car'.....

[@jangmi4463]

We are always playing yellow car :D

[@marybertke6890]

A friend and I play it virtually, since we live ... I think about 1000 miles apart. We'll text each other pictures of yellow cars to let each other know we're thinking of each other.

[@gardenshed6043]

With valiant effort from my competitors. Avengers: Endgame, Coke Zero, Fallen Kingdom by Captain Sparklez, The house of hades by Rick Riordan, Squirrels, Shepherds pie and the colour orange. But I must give the winning place overwhelming to something we all depend on... The Internet

[@chocotwit]

Well... we do play ‘Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines’ in my brass band, which has not one, not two, but FOUR tubas in it. So I think the best invention in the world is my brass band. It’s pretty hard even for penguins to compete against that kind of brilliance!

[@TheSoundOfDistantThunder]

But the real question is: how many penguins can you fit on Gerti?

[@TheWizardMarnok]

depends, if you really p-p-p-pack them in

[@satinpatriot]

Is there a printable bracket anywhere?

[@Dawn_1992]

My best thing was the printing press. My partner's was a capybara.

[@florencepatient3295]

Did you lot see that the film "those MAGNIFICENT men in their flying machine" was on the other day!

[@thutty5666]

Yes!

[@birdbrains7973]

YEEEESSSSSS PENGUINS! But what about hummingbirds? I mean, have you SEEN them?

[@cathybowden9751]

How are Fizz and Buzz doing, by the way?

[@freazlfett]

Jurassic Park beat Aeroplanes without missing a beat, but it then hit a bit of trouble fighting against Heroes by Bowie (which itself had stiff competition against Espresso Martinis previously). After bloodshed and Rock-Paper-Scissors, Jurassic Park went on triumphantly to go against the Kakapo, which had already effortlessly seen off Pizza (which had been weakened in it's battle against Turquoise) and Gone Girl in past rounds. After much deliberation, the Kakapo raced to victory, making it the first worth-while thing it has ever done.

[@the-nug-king3284]

Also can we hear Martin's list of best things in the world? Please?

[@PowellDot]

Pancakes (narrowly beating the BAFTA winning film, "Marvellous" featuring Toby Jones)

[@csurname]

8:00 really confused me

[@kittykat520]

I love that Penguins won! I always loved animals. You should try to get Martin to say 'penguins'.

[@dulcebarahona9252]

I did my own version and Sushi won as the best thing ever

[@laurenmae7405]

Please ask Douglas and Herc to use this method to determine the best opera.

[@catoninetales]

I really want to press you for the best type of penguin. Chinstrap? South African? Little Blue? Rockhopper?? The good old Emperor? So many wonderful penguins, you might have to create another bracket to decide the best. But it only proves them a worthy winner as “The Best Thing In The World”!

[@catoninetales]

You might look up a Danish fellow who studied penguins after the war. I believe his favorite kind of penguin was called Lancelot. And his favorite penguin was called Humphrey Bogart.

[@altzearious]

For most of my life I've been of the opinion that penguins are the best thing in the world. No need for to do my own. It's nice to have had it confirmed.

[@alanden123]

Quarter Finals. Best Kitchen Implement - one of those spiral-maker, peeler, corer things. Best Biscuit - Jammie Dodgers. Winner: Jammie Dodgers. Because they’re yummy (enough said). Best Beach Toy: Water Pistol Best Shade of Red: Scarlet Winner: Scarlet. Because a scarlet umbrella would keep you dry. And, if the patio was scarlet it could sneak around and trip up the water pistol (full credit goes to 6 year old for this comment). Best Drink: Fizzy Water Best Invention: The Wheel (but credit is, of course, given to aero planes). Winner: The Wheel. Because bikes are amazing, and wheels are a fairly integral part. Best Movie: The Lego Movie 2 Best Underwear: Socks. Winner: Socks, because they keep your feet warm. Semifinals Jammie Dodgers vs Scarlet. Winner: Scarlet, because Jammie Dodgers wouldn’t be as nice if the middle was green. The Wheel vs Socks Winner: Socks, because you can make a rudimentary sphere if you have enough socks balled up. Final Scarlet versus Socks Winner: You can make all of these things scarlet coloured. Especially the middle bit of Jammie Dodgers. This did indeed cause my 8 year old to have a massive tantrum, and I don’t think any of us was happy with the result. However, it’s fairly conclusive, and we’ve shown our working. Please keep it up, Arthur. The Ds