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[@Z-Strike026]

Um Actually, Buddy is not an elf. He is a human who was raised by elves.

[@DontMockMySmock]

no need to be so bio-essentialist about it. He can be an elf if he wants to. (does he want to? idk i haven't seen the movie

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I guess this makes him a trans-elf?

[@DontMockMySmock]

@@ShawnRavenfire probably not a good idea to take terminology from real life marginalized people and apply it to a fictional situation, just for the sake of a dumb joke. but if you do it shouldn't be hyphenated.

[@thexalon]

@@ShawnRavenfire No, it wouldn't be: In Buddy's case, he was assigned elf at near-birth.

[@cbpd89]

Do we need to split hairs and mention that Elrond is actually Elrond Half Elven? Like, that is literally his title that people call him? I'm guessing he identifies as more of an elf, but nitpicking is the name of the game.

[@sojoboscribe1342]

"In brightest day, in darkest night Please size it up, this ring's too tight."

[@kintreveis1019]

Yo this was good. Wheres all the love?

[@TheNotoriousCheeto]

I have never been as outraged by an error on this show as I am by calling RDR2 protagonist Arthur Morgan "Andrew Morgan" and that NOT being the error.

[@tsfnope3286]

I'm livid

[@chandlerstone2573]

How do you get anything but Arthur after all the times it's shouted?

[@MSte21]

I'm seriously confused how they mistook the name.

[@adamchristensen2648]

Came here to find this

[@andrewkinde3546]

Can we also be mad that *RDR1 MAJOR SPOILERS* Arthur is the 4th playable character in the series, since you play as John's son at the end of RDR.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Fun fact: there are many Green Lanterns who don't have fingers. The ring can change its shape to accommodate its user. Most fingerless Lanterns will usually wear it as a band around their appendages, or as a belt-like band around their entire bodies. Some will keep the ring inside themselves, ingesting it. And at least one Lantern doesn't even have a body... it's a "sentient mathematical equation" (because comics), and while no one has any idea how it uses the ring, the prevailing guess is that it represents the ring in its own form via a fractal graph and uses that. Comics, man, they're trippy as fuck.

[@mrroboshadow]

or as my favorite comic book reviewer puts it "Comic books are weird"

[@jax9771]

Don’t forget the fucking planet that wields a ring

[@leojones1964]

I'm going to take a guess that Math Lantern is a Grant Morrison concoction

[@thembill8246]

This was basically exactly what I was going to say. A lot of them have tentacles or horns or some sort of appendage they can put it on, but others, life...uh.... Finds a way.

[@garvinp6331]

If the ring can go anywhere.... I would keep it on my ;)

[@bryancorrell3689]

"ET home phone," is the order he says those words the first time, but he also says them in the better know order afterward and more often.

[@stewartsmalls2024]

1:30 in...kzbin.info/www/bejne/l16camxmmdGZrNE

[@nickrwidmer]

And the kids say phone home as well

[@jerodast]

Um actually "ET Home Phone" is the phrase to describe part of ET's driver's license registration form. After that comes ET Work Phone and ET Fax Line. (because the 80s)

[@pyroneus9941]

@@jerodast and his fax line goes EEEEEETTTTTEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTT

[@tonyblake7569]

Exactly. He said home phone to the kids, they repeated it phone home, and then he said it phone home after that.

[@dragonraizen]

Um, actually, System Shock and Bioshock are not related beyond Bioshock being considered a spiritual sucessor to the former. The statement of "It goes System Shock, Bioshock, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite [...] yeah dog, it's the prequel" is such a nonchalant falsehood (he even ignored System Shock 2!), it raised a rage I didn't know I had in me. Which is part of the fun I guess.

[@rbf32]

same same same

[@bionicRod]

Preach it Julius!

[@MSte21]

Thank you, that really got my goat, especially the confidence with which he said it. No!

[@Drak3rav3ncross]

this

[@jnecaise]

Yup, Irrational licensed the System Shock name for SS2 from Looking Glass, and was even set up in their office at one point. After LG went under they lost the rights to the System Shock name.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Um, actually, the Moon card of the Deck of Many things grants you 1d3 wishes, so rather than "grants you three wishes", it actually "grants you between 1 and 3 wishes".

[@greenredblue]

What does a d3 look like?

[@ZipplyZane]

@@greenredblue a d6 with matching faces on opposite sides.

[@BakudaSon]

I was thinking the same thing, that was my answer when I heard it. ^^;

[@Agarwaen]

@@greenredblue you just halve dice to get d2s, d3s, d5s or any other whole number fraction of dice

[@Nebafyer_DandD]

@@Agarwaen usually I just do 1-2 are 1, 3-4 are 2, etc. Thing.

[@user399878993]

Um, actually, Snap, Crackle, and Pop are not elves; they’re gnomes. Everyone probably confuses them with the Keebler elves.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Hey, did you know there was a fourth member of their team for a short time? He was called Zap! For the popularity of science fiction shows among children.

[@l8dawn]

@@jean-paulaudette9246 also the name for the fourth derivative of displacement (rate of change of jerk) is snap, the fifth derivative is crackle, the sixth is pop, and (debatably) the seventh is either lock, or zap!

[@nicktheanticlause1313]

@@jean-paulaudette9246 Negative, their name was Pow, appeared only in two commercials, and where as Snap Crackle and Pop are brothers, Pow was a friend of the family.

[@Jadiaz-ev9hm]

They were Gnomes, until 1949 when they got a make over to be Elves.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@@Jadiaz-ev9hm Gnomes are a variey of elves, if you ask Tolkien...though in his world the word gnome translates to 'Noldor."

[@elvenator]

Um actually, ET does indeed say "ET, phone home". It just occurs about 22 seconds after he says, "ET, home phone". Maybe ET wanted to get himself his own home phone before he phoned home.

[@coolgreenbug7551]

I mean that's a long distance call, he didn't want to put the charges on his friend's account

[@theadamabrams]

Exactly. At kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKm9mplpjNJ6bas he definitely says "E.T. phone home". He also says "home phone" earlier in the scene, but the quote they all gave is a completely valid quote.

[@rougevillejoin5520]

Um actually, lanterns don’t have to wear their rings on their fingers. Dax-Star a cat who became a Red Lantern wears his ring on his tail.

[@GaspardSavoureux01]

Um actually his name is Dex-Starr haha

[@extremebenja_]

Also there is a planet that is a green lantern. Clearly doesn't have any hands

[@GaspardSavoureux01]

@@extremebenja_ it's actually hanging on a branches

[@thomasbrooks3572]

@@GaspardSavoureux01 I've always wondered about that, awesome!

[@havelthebonk2462]

Also red lantern ring will basically make a finger like nub pretty much breaking bone or forming flesh in order to function allowing them to be almost completely crushed and still function also in the case of blobs the ring just floats around in there

[@jacobbarker4180]

"well, Saturn wears rings" *the nerdiest moment of confirmation i've ever seen ensues*

[@rcb5432]

"Red dead revenant, he's just undead going around murdering people" I have got news for you my friend, that exists as official DLC for red dead redemption.

[@airborngaming2250]

But he's not undead..

[@rcb5432]

@@airborngaming2250 it's called Undead Nightmare and John Marston is a zombie in it. Is that not undead?

[@Sophie_the_Sapphic]

@@rcb5432 I thought he was fighting the zombies in that

[@mrFiiSKiiS]

@@rcb5432 He's not a zombie in the regular storymode of the DLC. He survives when Uncle turns and bites Jack and his wife and then proceeds to solve the events of the game. He becomes a zombie because Seth, the grave robber dude, steals the mask months later (apparently after the end of the regular game, when John's already dead). It then let's you go into sandbox mode in the DLC version of the game and to finish any unfinished tasks left.

[@SineN0mine3]

Is that the one where you play as Andrew?

[@Bound2Asgard]

Um, Actually in the Faculty, the drug Scat was not in a needle when he stabbed John Stewart. Zeke kept and sold the drug in emptied out pen capsules and that is what he was stabbed with.

[@johnpotts8308]

Wasn't scat just (concentrated) caffeine anyway?

[@rdckrson]

@@johnpotts8308 ground up caffeine pills, which is why it worked against the monsters because caffeine is a diuretic and the slightest dehydration was lethal to the parasites.

[@FlatOnHisFace]

Okay, but um, actually... a "needle" isn't a thing designed by gods to be one perfect, immutable thing. He converted a pen into a needle. Makeshift needles are still needles. It sure as hell wasn't being used as a pen after that.

[@emanymton713]

@@FlatOnHisFace um actually, stabbing with the pen was incidental and not a required delivery system of the drug. In fact mostly the kids would use the pen casing as a straw and snort the drug not as a means of injection.

[@Moxypony]

Um actually RDR2's protagonist was named Arthur Morgan, not Andrew.

[@Nimyn]

Right? I thought I was crazy. That seems like a way more obvious mistake in that one

[@aidansilber2028]

@@Nimyn omg so did i. I honestly went and double checked cause that seems so obvious.

[@droz1992]

Oh FFS thank you! how do you not get that error first!

[@realinitials4909]

Well played

[@TheHunterTheory]

Also, someone claims that System Shock is a prequel to Bioshock. This is not true. While system shock was a spiritual predecessor to many immersive sim games like Bioshock or Prey, it is not a direct prequel to the former.

[@wakeangel2001]

you don't technically need hands to use a green lantern ring, you just need an appendage that a ring can go on (stop it.) The thing that the guardians might have thought was a requirement was the ability to SEE, but there is a green lantern from a species without eyes, who perceived the green light as an F-sharp note. As for Mogo, the green lantern planet, HIS ring is buried in his crust; the giant ring that surrounds his equator is just a massive construct, sort of like his uniform.

[@ColinRichardsonMUSIC]

You didn't say "um, actually". No points for you

[@thenotsoguitarguy9429]

Oh, and by the way, I didn't stop it... 😏

[@wakeangel2001]

@@ColinRichardsonMUSIC this wasn't a response to the incorrect statement, just elaboration on the stuff they talked about after. Though if you want, "um actually, the lantern corp has an elite guard who work directly for the guardians, so even IF there was only one lantern per sector there would still be more lanterns than there are sectors" there you go, my correction relevant to the statement in proper format

[@ColinRichardsonMUSIC]

@@wakeangel2001 All good. I know a few people (myself included), will correct things not in the statement in spirit of the game

[@genericname7300]

i’m actually, just regurgitating what i read in a different comment and because it’s cool, you don’t necessarily have to have an appendage to wear it on, some simply eat it, or there’s a least one that’s just a math equation with no real explanation

[@imben1256]

umm actually, ET originally says "home phone" and the kids correct him saying "phone home". Then ET repeats "phone home" several times after the kids corrected his English. In the context of the shiny question both "home phone" and "phone home" are correct.

[@kyleward3914]

Um, actually, the whole series of David the Gnome is very upfront with the fact that he and his wife will both die in one year from the start of the series. David wants to pass on the knowledge of his people and culture to the viewer before the end, which he knows is coming because gnomes live exactly 400 years. In the final episode, both he and his wife turn into trees at the same time.

[@MarcJaxon]

This comment deserves more interaction. High Five!

[@SenoraCardgage]

So how long do the trees live?

[@kyleward3914]

@@SenoraCardgage No idea.

[@blacksun3920]

Um actually, the term "five by five" is a reference to signal strength for radio or Morse code transmissions. The term has since evolved to indicate when a message has been received/ is clear and understood. Gilmore Girls, Buffy, Aliens and several other shows/ media have referenced this over the last half century. It's not a reference to another show but to actual terminology which has evolved with telecommunication transmissions.

[@seanwenstrom2202]

Um actually, you make a mostly correct statement but its appearance in Gilmore Girls is explicitly a reference to Buffy. The Gilmore girls are major cinephiles, and Rory mentions having watched a Buffy marathon. Faith, a character in that show, is fond of using 'five by five' as a way to express being perfectly alright, and Rory says it "stuck". Of course, you're materially correct in that Liam's entire chain doesn't check out - the Buffy expression is probably not referencing Aliens. Faith is known to carry some "trucker lingo" from her earlier life, and that may be where she picked it up.

[@blacksun3920]

@@seanwenstrom2202 well that shows me for having a knowledge of Buffy, which is where I picked up the 5x5 phrase from watching Faith and then did my research years ago to find out why Faith used that term, but not having a full knowledge of Gilmore Girls...

[@ArcanaMaxima]

I learned of that quote from Starcraft medevacs.

[@jerodast]

@@ArcanaMaxima I don't know Starcraft 2 very well so maybe it's medivacs also, but I know for sure it was used by the original Starcraft dropship, which was directly based on the Aliens dropship name/classification, design, and pilot. So I felt great shame at not getting the exact quote haha. When I was a kid I always heard it as "in the pot, bye bye bye" so I have trouble remembering the real one.

[@Chetverikov]

I'll just chime in a couple years late to add that the numbers have distinct meanings: Transmission STRENGTH and Transmission CLARITY. Another way to say "5x5" is "LOUD (strength) and CLEAR (clarity)".

[@SonOfAntalis]

Um actually, Noah Diamond was basically correct about the Doctor Who question ( I know he got the point anyway). In S2, Ep 1 when talking about New New York The Doctor says "Strictly speaking its the 15th New York since the first. That makes it New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York".

[@airborngaming2250]

Where does your quote end?

[@SonOfAntalis]

@@airborngaming2250 fixed thanks

[@coltonmoore9047]

Since the first New York, or the first York? You might need an additional "new."

[@scrungozeclown836]

@@coltonmoore9047 the 15th new york, not the 15th york

[@FFKonoko]

But that isn't its name.

[@swiftythegathering]

“Ignore the bird, take the cannoli” is such a funny line. That had me rolling

[@jb888888888]

I suspect that the sphinx's riddles are in French and Bulgarian for the other champions, we only hear the ones that Harry gets. And at least two of the three Triwizard contests suck for the spectators. In both the maze and underwater challenges you see them going in, and then you wait for them to come out. You can't see anything that happens.

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I always wonder about Quiddich, when the seekers leave the stadium, so the spectators can't actually watch him score the winning points.

[@ZipplyZane]

But then the riddles would have to be different, making them unfair. That said, it would be fun to see what the riddles are in the appropriate translations.

[@factcat6847]

@@ZipplyZane I'm German and the translation tries to stay close by the original. Spider means Spinne in German and since Spie is called a Spion here the translation isn't hard. For the letter riddle they just choose different words but the nature of the riddle doesn't change.

[@jb888888888]

@@ZipplyZaneNo less unfair than a riddle which only works in one language. Unless it were a second/third/etc. language for everyone, like Greek.

[@jamesbowen2088]

Even the dragon challenge found a way to suck for spectators during Harry's turn.

[@JSwizleBizleGiznHar]

It says a lot about Cedric that he and Harry finished at the same time even with Crouch helping Harry out.

[@dowfreak7]

I mean the other guy also had an entire year of education on Harry. That's a lot of practice time and spells that Harry simply doesn't know. You can't cram an entire school year into a few months without teachers.

[@jb888888888]

@@dowfreak7 Plus Cedric unlike Harry grew up in wizard society, he knew about it from a young age. Harry is essentially a two-year-old in wizarding terms.

[@JT_Film]

@@dowfreak7Um, actually he had TWO years on Harry. Cedric was in his sixth year when he died.

[@anathemadevice]

I was certain that the Gandalf quote was “go back to the shadow from whence you came,” and spent multiple minutes googling to find out that Galadriel said that.

[@mintkit1]

Same though. That was the quote that immediately popped in my head.

[@jerodast]

There is so much evocative language that comes out of that story that I had no clue which one to choose haha. I considered that one too.

[@jamesmount1846]

Um, Actually - his name is Arthur Morgan, not Andrew Morgan.

[@hszaraki1596]

its hard to imagine how this happened lol

[@joedkat]

Dammit, you beat me!

[@jamesmount1846]

@@hszaraki1596 Right? How do you get the name of the protagonist from one of the biggest games in recent memory's name wrong?

[@desserysm4355]

Yeah this actually triggered me

[@joedkat]

@Max Agnew Andrew*

[@Vaishino]

Fun fact: magic school bus theme was performed by the legend himself, Little Richard

[@ToHoldNothing]

Watching it on YT, it's honestly bittersweet because he's passed away, but also reminds me of the episode where they went to Pluto and Arnold freaking took off his helmet because he thought it wasn't real

[@theendofdays2285]

Um Actually, Mike Trapp is such a lovely human being and so sweet. Literally the star of the show every god damn time ! ❤️

[@Ashtarte3D]

Um, actually System Shock is NOT a prequel of any sort to Bioshock. Especially considering System Shock is in the far flung future but the reality is Bioshock is a spiritual successor to System Shock 2, which was also made by Ken Levine.

[@AfMettana]

Andrew Morgan? U wot mate? Um actually, It's Arthur my dude. Andrew Morgan is an Astronaut.

[@n.henzler50]

The next Red Dead game should be called Red Dead Revolver IV.

[@littleratfella6857]

"Ignore the bird, take the cannoli." Did not get near the amount of love it deserved.

[@LittleCrowYT]

Um, Actually: originally, there were only supposed to be 3600 active Green Lanterns (one for each sector), however this has changed many, many times. Sector 2814 (where Earth is located) is the most notable exception, as there are now 6 or 7 different people that come from there that are a part of the Green Lantern Corps. However, not every Lantern from Sector 2814 actively patrols the sector, as Jon Stewart and Guy Gardner are often delegated with training recruits or missions outside the Sector, while other Lanterns like Kyle Rayner arent always a proper part of the Green Lantern Corps. Additionally, Alan Scott is only an Honourary member of the GL Corps, as his ring and power come from a different source. Currently, there are 2 active Lanterns for each Sector, with many other additional Lanterns serving different roles within the Corps, such as the aforementioned recruit trainers, and even some more specialized members that act as a sort of "spec ops" unit for the Corps. And yes, there is a sentient planet. His name is Mogo and he doesn't wear a ring, but can change his surface at will, often creating a thick band of trees resembling the Green Lantern Corps symbol.

[@The__Creeper]

Actually, there were 3600 until they were all killed by Hal Jordan. Then there was only one. Guy was meant as Hal's substitute and originally only served as such when Hal was busy being a douche. Then Geoff Johns ruined comics, brought back all the Lanterns, decided that wasn't enough, doubled that, then made the dumb rainbow corps because he believes in quantity over quality. And pretty soon there will be 0 because DC is about to go out of business for good.

[@MarcJaxon]

@@The__Creeper Man, you were SO close. Then you just shit on something that had been established literally DECADES before Geoff Johns ever worked for DC, and more than a decade before he was even born. Green Lantern Vol. 2 Issue 9 (1961) Sinestro has a Yellow Ring...

[@MarcJaxon]

This was the comment, generally, that I was looking for.

[@loganmarcum4495]

“Then it became yellow, a smarter thing”. Yep, comics are weird

[@LittleCrowYT]

At least the retcon for that made it made some sense (Parallax was trapped within the primary Lantern battery), and the yellow weakness is gone.

[@southpawfrenzy]

I love the observation that both green lanterns could be defeated with a No. 2 pencil! "Yellow and wood?!? No!"

[@mxspokes]

Technically the Alan Scott Lantern is a different power source than the Green Lantern Corps Lanterns so there is still a Green Lantern with a wood weakness.

[@jordanguerrero5974]

Well the original Alan Scott green lantern was powered by a meteor called the star heart I believe. It’s sort of pseudo magical so that’s why it’s a wood weakness. Originally the green lantern Corp had a yellow weakness to have some sort of weakness cause they can’t be omnipotent. But it was later retconned cause the entity known as parallax which is the representation of the color yellow or fear was imprisoned in the central battery hence the weakness. After it escaped they no longer have that weakness. So now it affects everything equally

[@alexthedragonmaster1]

Um actually, the number of wishes granted by the moon card depends on the edition you play. In 3.5, the moon card gives 1d4 wishes.

[@skylaarkearney6798]

This episode was recorded long ago, so they won't feature that correction, but even 5e has the card give 1d3 casts of the Wish spell. Not always 3.

[@alexthedragonmaster1]

@@skylaarkearney6798 I only just started playing 5e and didn't have the appropriate reference yet. I appreciate the info! 😄

[@skylaarkearney6798]

@@alexthedragonmaster1 You're very welcome friend! I never played 3.5 so it's interesting to know the number of wishes changes at all. I hope you have a good day! 😁

[@russelljohnson7004]

the abject fear in Trapp's eyes when he called Lady Sylvanas a high elf

[@jerodast]

Haha, I dunno about abject fear, but yeah a hard classification. I mean technically she's an undead high elf, you could argue she's a Forsaken elf...hm.

[@lancourt]

Five by five was old radio slang for perfect strength and perfect clarity of signal. So in Aliens they were in the landing window of the beacon and had perfect signal strength on it

[@myprecious66]

Um actually, his name is Arthur Morgan

[@jakesandry1258]

Um actually rdr2's protagonist is named Arthur Morgan, not Andrew

[@Chiondon]

I was coming to say this lmao

[@cameronmeeks2908]

Came here to say this

[@elizaheintzelman8764]

There is a red lantern named Dex-Starr that is a cat who wears his ring on his tail.

[@The__Creeper]

There's a whale, a fish, a snake, several insects, a gas being, a plant, an amoeba, pollen, a mathematical construct, and a dog man that wears his "ring" like brass knuckles. All the rings match to the wearer and can take on any size or shape.

[@shhdhfghdhdbfbfb3134]

@@The__Creeper you forgot the planet

[@The__Creeper]

@@shhdhfghdhdbfbfb3134 They talked about the planet in the episode.

[@TheBlackEternalWings]

Um actually, Humans are animals, so Pasqually P. Pieplate is just simply not anthropomorphized.

[@TheBlackEternalWings]

@@bat9913 well, common definitions of anthropomorphize specifically state "to give human characteristics to non-human entities", not to just give them in general.

[@MatthewTovar0]

hmm... While Gertie says "E.T. phone home" first, E.T. says "E.T. phone home" multiple times whereas he says "E.T. home phone" just once? The question (29:43) isn't who said it first but what is E.T.'s famous quote. Even Amblin's official twitter (April 28th, 2020) asked fans whos says the iconic phrase "E.T. phone home" first which confirms what we (society) consider to be famous.

[@patrickobrien5311]

Yes. E.T. first says "home phone" then Elliot and Gertie both say "phone home" over and over then E.T. repeats "phone home". E.T. says it both ways and while he says "home phone" first, the famous line everyone knows is indeed "E.T. phone home"

[@ShawnRavenfire]

Um, actually, E.T. says "E.T. home phone" the first time, and then a minute later, says "E.T. phone home," so technically both ways of saying it are correct.

[@SurinaSlackArt]

I'm delighted that Figwit got a shout-out on this episode. 😭 Our boy!

[@nickdejager8873]

Um, actually, while the standard Deck of Many Things usually has 13 or 22 cards, there have been many variants throughout the years, including a version that is a full tarot deck of 78 cards and the cards have different effects based on whether they are drawn upright or inverted. Also, more simply, the DM is encourage to tweak the specific makeup of the Deck based on the party and campaign, such as removing the Skull and Void cards to avoid killing characters.

[@ComicalRealm]

Fun fact: The designers modelled E.T.'s face after poet Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein and a pug dog.

[@ShaunshankRedemption]

You forgot to say fun factually

[@andreweinmo1657]

Um actually, it’s true that Victor Krum was bewitched, but also when he faced the Sphinx, he had to solve a riddle which either gave him a shortcut if he was right, or it would attack him if he was wrong. I forget the riddle exactly but it was something about something he wouldn’t want to kiss, which was a spider. He got it right and got the shortcut so that’s another reason why he didn’t have to face a lot.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I like the comment about the riddle of the Sphinx being about English words, because in the Danish translation, Harry had to guess and put together the words "Oath", "There", and "Mug" to get the Danish word for Spider. I can still remember the sing-song voice I made up in my head for the Sphinx as a kid.

[@Tabbyclaw]

You inspired me to dig out my French copy of the book to remember how the riddle goes. In that one he has to figure out "the first part of something you learn when very young," "what someone who lives in a palace is born for," and "the end of the year." So, although with more accent marks than I can do on this keyboard, you get "A," "regne" (reign), and "ee" (the last part of 'annee'), for "araignee" (spider).

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

@@Tabbyclaw I only remember "A word you miss, when there's things you can't find" for "Der" (There) and the final sentence: "Tell me, what do you least want to find in your bed?" To make "Ed-der-kop" (Spider). Also, l think Harry goes "That is ... a burp? No, no, that's not my answer." when thinking about it.

[@CubicGC]

Liam wheezing during the Aliens bit was hilarious 😂

[@JonnyStarwind]

Um Actually, the Moon card from the Deck of Many Things doesn't give you 3 wishes; it gives you 1d3 wishes, so you have the chance of getting 1, 2, or 3 wishes.

[@wrightrising]

1d4 wishes

[@Valandar2]

Um actually, Five by Five is a US Military comms term meaning "Loud and Clear" - volume and signal clarity on a 1 to 5 scale. So every use of the term is not a reference to anything but the US Military.

[@hyperjocke]

Faith in Buffy also use 5by5 a lot.

[@Valandar2]

@@hyperjocke They said that on this very show. But, again, it's a reference to the US Military.

[@hyperjocke]

@@Valandar2 Yes it is. Also nowadays they use “loud and clear” in stead of five by five.

[@Valandar2]

@@hyperjocke Eh, they were still using 5 by 5 when I was active. USMC 2621 in 1992-1997.

[@andrewcosner7462]

@@hyperjocke Umm... Actually... as a currently active member if the USAF, I can confirm this is the origin of 5x5, and it is still in active use today, especially regarding members of the comm community. "Loud and Clear" is ambiguous, and can be hard to understand over the radio. "5x5", and any derivation thereof, is not.

[@acetraineraster5171]

Um, Actually, The Moon card for the DoMT is somewhat incorrect. The Moon card grants you 1d3 uses of the Wish spell, not necessarily 3 wishes.

[@gozzilla177]

I wish I knew this..... oh crap

[@terrychant4365]

Knew someone had to catch both the mistakes

[@tragorify]

Um, Actually. The darkwing duck lyrics are: "Cloud of smoke and he appears, The master of *surprise*." not disguise.

[@patrickkirchner2254]

Um actually buddy is not an elf. He is a human raised by elves

[@frozenepsilon5295]

"The elf" is his surname. Therefore he is an elf in the same way someone can be called a johnson or a smith.

[@patrickkirchner2254]

@@frozenepsilon5295 i concede the fact that his last name is elf. However the question clearly meant the species of elf. As buddy is a human he does not fit.

[@Nevertoleave]

I feel like I just walked into that joke, “oh you like heavy metal? name three black smiths” “will smith, willow smith, jaden smith”

[@charsiuwu8084]

Also they turned a lantern ring into a bell for a blind creature that echolocates.

[@wnightshade]

They were called Rot Lop Fan & also got a custom version of the Green Lantern Oath. My FAVOURITE lantern.

[@charsiuwu8084]

@@wnightshade Rot Lop Fan #ganggang

[@sluckett21]

The F# bell!!!!

[@Eulindo1986]

Um, actually, in "the Faculty", Jon Stewart isn´t stab in the eye with a needle, but with a pen! The student puts the drug inside the pen barrels to smuggle it in the school, and uses the pen to stab the professor when finds out he is infected.

[@ccubed7861]

I was hoping someone mentioned this! Got a soft spot for that movie

[@stonegrendel9064]

Came here to say this. The best part is that everyone survives the flick. They actually reference it in Cabin in the Woods when they mention the 1998 incident where no one died.

[@Drake5607]

@@stonegrendel9064 Yes! There was a "glitch" with the Chemical Department :)

[@SHADOW1414]

Ummm actually, while mixed recycling plants dont want plastic bags, there are dedicated plants that do. Similarly, mixed recycling plants generally don't accept glass because it tends to break and become a hazard, but you can recycle it at a dedicated plant. So the list should have included both or neither, depending on what type of plants you were referring to.

[@jeremyherndon2974]

Yep I have lived in so many cities that don't accept glass at their recycling plants I just don't bother to try to recycle it anymore.

[@strategic_amber_reservoir]

There's a great green lantern story about an alien that's recruited that comes from a place of total darkness, so the idea of color or light is totally alien, and they have to adapt the incantation to suit the environment.

[@YetiRawr]

I really like the talks between the questions

[@jacobballard8612]

Um, actually, there is technically 4 tasks in the Triwizard Tournament. First is getting a golden egg from a dragon, second is finding out what the message in the golden egg is, next is saving a friend from under the lake, and last is the maze Edit: if we're going full technicality, the first challenge could be seen as the actual Goblet of Fire

[@mjf69]

Um, actually Five by Five is not necessarily a referential nod, it is military lingo for "we have a good radio signal/you're understood" it is similar to saying "Loud and Clear". While "in the pipe five by five" is from the navy and means "On target to reaching your goal".

[@SubToPureCraft]

Weird I've never heard this term be used. It might not be for my branch, but I am a radio operator. Only thing I've ever heard is 'Lima Charlie' or 'loud and clear'. I'll have to look into it

[@lexpertsl]

beautiful, thank you.

[@DrAndyShick]

I like how by the time the full episodes get to youtube, it has been well over 2 years (possibly as many as 3) since the episodes have been filmed

[@fullmetalpancake9722]

I thought the Mass Effect question was going to be a trick about how you can only have Ashley OR Kaiden by 3, as one of them has to die in 1.

[@jerodast]

Great episode, these guys have a fun vibe! I feel like Kirk deserved bonus points on half the questions with all the extra info and general enthusiasm haha. When he mentioned the art choice I thought he was talking about Sylvanas - that's a weirdly cutesy illustration for her, boo :P

[@Macapta]

"Dammit Andrew" just doesn't have the same ring does it.

[@Isilily]

Figwit has got to be the most niche thing I have recognized on this show, thanks for reminding me of how deep I was into the Fellowship of the Ring in middle school.

[@GreenmanDave]

Um actually... many stores are accepting plastic bags and other recyclable plastic sheeting. You can't put it in your regular recycling bin, but you can recycle it, just make sure it's clean.

[@rachelrachel9152]

I love this group so much

[@marisaliu3236]

This is definitely one of the funniest episodes so far, these guys are hilarious

[@LaneBeScrolling]

Bummed no one got Figwit! One of my favorite bits of LOTR movie trivia.

[@jerodast]

I mean it's not really movie trivia right, it's like fan trivia haha.

[@dannybob42]

Um Actually, Buddy the Elf is not an elf, he's a human Also Um Actually, nobody play's Mass Effect to fall in love, they play Mass Effect to bang

[@WarpedMiniatures]

the little back in fourth around 8:40 is genuinely beautiful and made me happy

[@GreenmanDave]

The 3600 space sectors did originally have just one Green Lantern each. Abin Sur was the only GL of sector 2814, and Hal Jordan after him. It was sometime after they brought in Guy Gardner, then John Stewart, as Jordan's backup lantern that it was decided to have 2 GL per sector plus however many more for Earth.

[@lightsideofsin8969]

Um, actually the weirdest shit about the maze in the Triwizard Tornament is that there is an audience. All they see is the champions go into the maze and then they're sitting there and they can't see the actual trials at all. The same with the second trial. They see the champions dive and then they just sit around and wait for them to come back up and it takes a full hour. It's a major flaw to have 3 tasks and design 2 of them in a way where the audience can't see any of it.

[@jerodast]

It's a major feature, not a flaw, because otherwise the plot contrivances wouldn't work 😁😁

[@bonesanddarkness3552]

Um actually... The moon card grants UP TO three wishes. The number of wishes granted is determined with the roll of a d3. A pedantic correction, but isn't that what this game is all about?

[@berkpick]

I would've gotten that aliens quote ONLY because "We're in the pipe, five by five" is what the terran dropship pilot says in Starcraft. I never knew it was a reference.

[@utbhai]

This is my favourite episode they're all so into the game

[@thecuter0]

Umm actually, Buddy the elf is not an elf. The entire plot of the movie is that he finds out that he isn't an elf and tries to learn about humans.

[@Mantaur104]

I guess they were going for the same route as Carrot Ironfounderson. In the Discworld series he is a human adopted and raised by dwarves, who considers himself a dwarf and is in some cases officially recognized as such.

[@thewanderingmistnull2451]

Culturally he is most certainly an elf. And given how he has survived solely on sugar somehow, possibly Santa made him biologically part-elf as well.

[@StrangeworldEU]

Um Actually, while Sylvanas Windrunner was once a high elf, the image used depicts her post-bansheefication, so she is currently an undead banshee.

[@CthulhusDream]

new episode woohoo!

[@jsnypp9212]

Love how despite when the episode was filmed at least they keep those ads current

[@3v1lp1ngv1n]

"Yippee ki yay melon farmers!" is my favourite opening so far.

[@DILLIGAF372]

Trapp's description of the teachers helping run the tournament is scarily accurate of how actual school events are run.

[@gamehunter88]

Um actually, the deck of many things is a nightmare in campaigns but hilarious in one-shots and should be used immediately upon discovery there

[@RemiAutor]

Yoooooooooooooo Noah Diamond-Stolzman! I went to high school with them and I'm so happy to see they turned out successful!

[@vinnie666]

um, actually, in the faculty, it's not a needle. it's a pen. mc empties out pens and fills them with a powdered drug to hide them and sell. they stab him with a pen filled with drugs.

[@mr.e1940]

Umm, actually it's crushed caffein pills which he passes off as "drugs"

[@jb888888888]

@@mr.e1940 Um Actually caffeine is a drug, just a culturally acceptable one.

[@Bound2Asgard]

@@jb888888888 ooohh burn!

[@vinnie666]

@@mr.e1940 oh yea! haha, man that movie was fun..... good old trashy fun....

[@randalledwards6974]

There was so much wrong with the end of the triwizard cup question that I'm actually amazed it got into the show. First, harry and cedric don't meet at the cup, they meet up because they both end up fighting with krum in the maze and harry has to stop cedric from killing krum. Then harry and cedric walk towards the cup together, once they both see it, they race to reach the cup first, but cedric trips and harry actually reaches the cup first. He then turns around and saves cedric from being trapped in the maze and then they both pick up the cup at the same time. So basically, the entire last sentence is wrong, except the part where they pick up the cup together.

[@jerodast]

Yeah, the fact that they did NOT reach the Cup at exactly the same time and debated whether to take it together is an actual plot/character point. For shame!

[@j.c.dicklegproductions9248]

OMG the Droids theme, I recognized that one right away!! That’s a deep cut

[@themobiustripper]

lol at the "good guess" for Goosebumps, because that theme song is a. iconic and b. instrumental

[@farisweiss2373]

new episode!

[@ComicalRealm]

Fun fact: E.T was the highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide until Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) was released. Adjusted for inflation today, it's still the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time.

[@Leffrey]

Actually it's about 15th at 1.3mil adjusted for inflation

[@billdanson8690]

Speaking of the deck of many things, the big bad I ran in my campaign was an eladrin bard. His whole schtick was popping up in disguise to deceive the party if they got too far off track from the main mission, and to insinuate himself in whatever they were doing. His first appearance, he was disguised as a fortune teller, and tricked the party into drawing from a deck of many things

[@diaboloeldiablo1608]

Liam has such a fun energy in this one

[@PeopleAcct707]

Um, actually, Green Lanterns don't need to have fingers or even a ring. One member of the Corps is from a planet without light, so the concepts of "green", "light", and "lanterns" don't even translate for him, so his ring instead become a bell of a note he finds pleasing, making him technically the sole member of the F-Sharp Bells.

[@sheridanwilde]

Now I'm wondering what size Saturn's rings would be, if measured on the usual human-finger-ring scale...

[@quinnprice4321]

The magic school bus one filled me with such a rage, and I haven’t even watched that in at least 10 years

[@chedddargoblin]

Larfleeze is my favorite DC character and I'm so glad someone brought him up

[@DStrormer]

Um actually the old GL corps was composed of strictly 3,600 lanterns, one for each sector, but that was changed after the corps was destroyed by Parallax and subsequently recreated, with the current structure including 2 lanterns officially per sector plus additional as needed by population or special circumstance. (This doesn't include inactive reserve lanterns.)

[@Phantomsbreath]

Also, fun fact, the Terran Dropship in Starcraft and Starcraft Brood War is VERY much based on Ferro, even sharing a bunch of lines with the character.

[@kisskillchill313]

That 'Deck of Many Things' question really made me wanna see the Dungeons & Daddies cast on Um, Actually

[@elizabethtyler8634]

When I moved to a state that didn't recycle glass my mind was blown