Not Even A Real Abbot | Two Of These People Are Lying 2x02 | The Technical Difficulties

[@mattandtom]

Our apologies to anyone who didn't grow up in Britain during the late 20th century. And to Bob Monkhouse. -- Tom

[@davidsmets99]

:(

[@Yiolol]

not even 1 week *_S M H_*

[@lightningwingdragon]

The Green Monster: But in the picture on wikipedia, the car is green and red

[@shantanusinha2828]

Can you change the format so that everybody gets a chance to guess who is lying? Also, I love Gary, make sure you let him know... :)

[@matildas3177]

@@shantanusinha2828 I wonder how that would work, since one knows the truth

[@iantojones8309]

Tom, every episode: "Gary, I'm going to have to rule you out"

[@xtzyshuadog]

*Gary: prepares to look smug so on some occasions he can yell, "F#&K YOU!" As Tom chooses the incorrect person twice*

[@schlimmbotg472]

Matt: „Is everybody ready? Recording check. Audio check.“ Tom: „Gary. I’m going to rule you out.“

[@TheGeladoo]

Not *every* episode... sometimes he just quietly strikes Gary's name from his notebook.

[@me_n_the_boys_lookin_for_beans]

@@TheGeladoo * quietly but flamboyantly

[@spidermanmyers]

@@TheGeladoo And Very Rarely you have Ghost Festival.

[@jonas1015119]

there is laughter, and then there is involuntarily choking on your tongue.

[@Azivegu]

A few years back while seriously drunk, a housemate of mine showed me a video of a dog running, but then giving up halfway and falling onto its side. I don't know why, but that video broke me. I couldn't stop laughing for at least an hour. Breathing was horribly difficult, the muscle aches in my abdamen was excruciating, and if I dare view that video to this day, it will do the same. It isn't a special video, but just a video that felt too metaphorical and has ruined me. I feel for him. This is torture and he wants out, but once the image is in your head, their is no escape.

[@spectrallik]

Azivegu now I want to see that video.

[@laurentcardinal2745]

And there are shoes. And there are boats. And there are...

[@adriansrealm]

@@laurentcardinal2745 There are flags, and there is water, and hoses and there are doors, and there are antelope.

[@Azivegu]

@@spectrallik well, here is the code: T98V6Zr1MvI Again, it isn't particularly special, but for me the stars lined up and it was destructive.

[@MiseFreisin]

This is just one reason why he is everyone's favourite Gary Brannan

[@mirjanbouma]

The truth hath been spoken!

[@tosuxo]

Poor thing was broken.

[@aoarashi3025]

The rhyme has been awoken!

[@Formula1st]

This man needs a token

[@willturnagain9853]

For being well spoken

[@dm9696]

"I don't know how arching works." Making a solid case there...

[@57thorns]

A bow does kind of arch when it is drawn?

[@alansmithee419]

@@57thorns it bows

[@Dabbleatory]

That doesn't how boats is!

[@jblakeplays2541]

@@Dabbleatory I remember seeing that video, hearing those words, but I don't remember the name of the video....please help

[@Dabbleatory]

@@jblakeplays2541 I'm pretty sure it was Matt in one of the Citation Needed episodes, but I don't remember which one.

[@hulloits4421]

As someone who follows archery, even though Evangelina Psarra is indeed a pro archer, Matt butchered enough info about her that he may as well have been lying anyway

[@simonro9168]

Is that not how it goes every time? See Hurcon, Duryard, Lule Sami to name but three

[@hallamhal]

@@simonro9168 Duryard!

[@USNZ1]

Also I thought the name was Evangelia, not Evangelina!

[@musewolfman]

Don't you mean "arching"? 😂

[@maika_anarchiya]

​@@simonro9168 and two of those happened in the same episode, jesus h

[@markog1999]

I love how Chris had a load of extra details memorized that he just unloaded once tom had guessed correctly

[@edhamey5737]

Chris knew if he dropped that fact bomb Tom would immediately guess correctly. He was just giving Matt and Gary a chance :)

[@esobelisk3110]

Ed Hamey I think it was more like the opposite. Tom get’s suspicious if there’s too many facts.

[@mukrifachri]

Probably Chris has looked it up once before.

[@Veketshian]

He reads books, y'know.

[@ishashka]

The point of the game isn't winning, it's not letting Tom win.

[@soperharvey]

9:27 everyone: losing their minds Chris: "I must remember to pick up some milk on the way home"

[@TheDantheman12121]

He was trying to venture into sonic art with his barely audible "i'm fine"

[@lhpl]

It certainly was high-pitched!

[@ThurstonCyclist]

I love how Tom waited carefully for the exact moment that Gary had finally gotten his giggling under control before dropping the next punchline.

[@qwertyTRiG]

Johnny Vegas gives a master class in comic timing, dripping in a series of punchlines just as his audience was recovering, in a promo slot for The Last Leg. Worth checking out if you can find it.

[@musewolfman]

​@@qwertyTRiG it's been a few months, time to watch it again.

[@nomadMik]

It's endearing how Tom, who produces my favourite vids on KZbin with skill and professionalism I admire, isn't afraid to also post vids of him and his mates pissing themselves about toilet humour.

[@Andrew-zm8gh]

This stuff is his origin story. Look up his early techdif stuff if you haven't seen it.

[@MetaBloxer]

haha pissing

[@flyinhigh7681]

Time for the Matt Gary Cock joke special

[@simeondermaats]

@@flyinhigh7681 big binder of knob gags innit

[@unexpected2475]

The Portfolio of Pornography and whatever the hell the World Leaders' Cocks Special from the Reverse Trivia Podcast was immediately come to mind.

[@dystop2766]

I appreciate the closed captioning during Gary's meltdown.

[@susannam3923]

I may be wrong here but is it not maybe open captioning?

[@Ellyerre]

I would refer it as Hard Subs, but maybe because that is also my tinder username.

[@snowfloofcathug]

Oooo Firewatch

[@matthewdaub]

Nice pfp

[@12tone]

As someone who grew up in Boston, the second round was _very_ surreal for me.

[@flotappl]

Wait, you're here and no one noticed?

[@ahreuwu]

this comment went unnoticed for 11 months, I think that's a new record!

[@oranges369]

Damn you would make a good spy being hidden for so long

[@singerofsongss]

*w h e n w o r l d s c o l l i d e*

[@rusaide2546]

I'm glad i wasnt the only one

[@drpibisback7680]

I love how Gary was almost holding it together, but then Matt's casual "he's not even a real Abbot" sent him into a tailspin he couldn't recover from.

[@georgelloydgonzalez]

And I didn't even get it

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@georgelloydgonzalez Russ Abbot, the comedian.

[@georgelloydgonzalez]

@@qwertyTRiG Yes, I know it relates to Russ Abbot, the person. I simply don't get what about the statement "he's not even a real Abbot" is so funny.

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@georgelloydgonzalez I don't think there's anything deep to it: just yet another amusing line.

[@eTiMaGo]

@@georgelloydgonzalez the whole absurdity of it, obviously they are talking about a real person, but the line "he's not even a real abbot", as if they were talking about a religious rank :D

[@yourewrong154]

Man, Gary’s sonic artist friend could probably hear so much more of that laugh than the rest of us can

[@DmanYTofficial]

The best bit of this was a few minutes of uncontrollable laughter. I got a few weird looks on the bus.

[@princessLilytea]

You have more balls than me, I had to pause the video to prevent that.

[@komfyrion]

On the contrary, I had no idea what they were talking about and it seemed like just toilet humour so I just skipped through all of that.

[@dustysparks]

It just occurred to me how these giggle fits go on for so long... hypoxia! When you get to laughing, you can't breathe. If you can't breathe, hypoxia sets in. When hypoxia sets in, everything seems especially funny. And when everything seems especially funny, you can't stop laughing. Stop uncontrolled laughter. Get DirectTV.

[@N_Jones]

Gary should never be left alone to his own imagination, Citation Needed proved this many times.

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

@@dustysparks so that's why he laughs to heck when presented by "the green monster" despite not too related to the previous laughing matter

[@mvl71]

Evangelia Psarra makes sonic art, playing the lentokenttä, if I'm not mistaken.

[@michael_gibbs]

Surely you mean playing with the band Lentokenttä?

[@bastiankunz4585]

@@michael_gibbs Playing the music called lentokenttä with the band lentokenttä in lentokenttä

[@hannnah8737]

@@bastiankunz4585 the google translation of that is the funniest thing knowing that video

[@demonking86420]

She's a formidable musician to be able to play an airfield

[@dbseamz]

@@demonking86420 It'd be like that highway that they tried to cut grooves in so it played music as the cars went by (and got the spacing wrong twice), but on an airfield. Maybe it's tubes shaped like organ pipes positioned near the runways so that the wind from planes taking off blows through them...perhaps there are different size tubes mounted on discs like giant pitchpipes, and she plays the instrument by remotely directing motors in the bases of the things to rotate the right note into position.

[@RacingStripeAV]

"I don't think high frequencies would change [finding the edits]" \*casts mind back to "Why Computers Make a High Pitched Noise"\*

[@jocax188723]

...And this week, the lads make a genuine and nearly successful attempt to kill Gary via laughter.

[@ThAlEdison]

Accurate, every time Gary was about to get himself under control, Tom came in with another line to keep the momentum going.

[@Zelmel]

Oh hey, at 8:55 Gary is doing some groundbreaking sonic art!

[@DDendrite]

Mystery biscuits!

[@addityasinghal897]

@@DDendrite Oh yeah!

[@scottish-hero6664]

I wonder if u gave it to his friend, would he be able to hear if they edited it?

[@oxybrightdark8765]

@@scottish-hero6664 KZbin trims the audio of videos, so sound outside the range of human hearing isn’t saved.

[@Victorsandergamer]

@@oxybrightdark8765 but they would have the raw file wouldn't they?

[@akrinornoname2769]

As someone who did actually mix absinthe and monster energy because of this episode, it is indeed one hell of a cocktail. The best way to describe it is "terrible, yet surprisingly good". You will also be unpleasantly awake after having one

[@angusperson4222]

_sighs as I realise what I must do_

[@some-online-dude]

Oh god dammit, I guess I have to do that now...

[@hellworm]

yeah i really want to now

[@emmahird2795]

"unpleasantly awake"

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

“Unpleasantly awake” is an interesting concept!

[@tyronewilson6463]

When I heard The Green Monster, I was expecting the discussion of a wall in a baseball stadium.

[@Haights]

Here's the real question - if one of them HAD described that Green Monster, and Tom had guessed it... what would happen?

[@Haights]

Also, checking Everybody's Favorite Reliable Source of Knowledge, as of this comment, there is no full article entitled "The Green Monster," and said page with that name is a redirect... to the article on the wall. And the second and third links on the associated disambiguation page are for Wally (the Red Sox mascot, for those who don't follow baseball) and -- today I learned -- a 2008 mystery/thriller novel about the '04 World Series.

[@rayhs1984]

@@Haights it's under "Green Monster (Automobile)" giving the full page name would have given it away though

[@rmsgrey]

@@rayhs1984 Though the disambiguation page lists it as "Green Monster (car)" which, in turn, redirects to "[...](automobile)"

[@micahreid5553]

@@Haights Also sometimes wikipedia redirects articles a little differently based on your location

[@jabbawabs]

"Gary, I'm gonna rule you out" is becoming a catchphrase for this show.

[@thelastcube.]

Chris "that seems very plausible" Joel Gary "Imma rule you out" Brannan and Matt "I got a Latin GCSE" Gray

[@jabbawabs]

@@thelastcube. Hahahaha perfect

[@SW33wNecie]

I didn't even know what Bob's Full Bogs was, but I still laughed until I cried because Gary's laugh was utterly *brilliant!*

[@theodance3551]

Same here

[@NotAGraveRobber]

I understood 0 of the jokes during Gary's spiritual experience, but I too laughed until I cried and concerned my brother

[@holyknightthatpwns]

The amount that Chris manages to stoneface while Gary is losing his mind is even funnier to me

[@Jademalo]

For anyone curious, the train Gary was describing was the GNR Stirling 4-2-2. It's pretty wild, and has a massive big wheel in the middle. And was green.

[@annoyingginger5077]

Isn't it the basis of Emily in Thomas and friends, or have I just mixed the locos up?

[@Lex_Illovici]

@annoyingginger5077 You'd be correct

[@dbseamz]

@@annoyingginger5077 The more he described the train, the more I was just going "That's...Emily". Not to the point that I didn't believe Gary, since as you folks have said she was inspired by a real train. For some reason TechDiff content has been bringing back memories of Thomas content I haven't watched, read, or otherwise experienced since the two-thousand-oughts.

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

That massive wheel (or rather, pair of wheels) was part of its success as an express engine; bigger diameter = more speed, so a single pair of enormous-diameter wheels let it go bloody fast for the day (also helped that unlike the Caley single or the Lord of the Isles class, it was outside-cylinder). Of course, the downside to it was that only gave it a single driving wheel to brake with, so it was sh*t at braking at speed. That was found to be a factor in the Abbots Ripton disaster being so deadly, and gave greater urgency to fitting passenger trains with continuous brakes.

[@nielsleenknegt5839]

@@ZeldaTheSwordsman Yes and also in contestion with what Gary said, the Big wheel actually does not help with traction. The reason why Express engines have big wheels is so that they can go fast, like real fast. Goods engines like a 9F, have smaler wheels, to aid in traction. Also Flying scotsman has somhow less tractive effort then K36 and K37 steam engines, who are narrowgauge Steamers from the former D&RGW railroad il collorado... HOW?

[@hukuzatuna]

A tip: do NOT watch anything after "five minutes earlier" whilst taking a drink.

[@JJRicks]

Totally agree Btw how's the verified life? Honestly jealous

[@hukuzatuna]

JJRicks Studios Verified life seems no different than normal life. :-)

[@nicoletelovejoy5565]

Philip Moyer Maybe you have the same name as a celebrity who isn't on the internet?

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@hukuzatuna Verified with 64 subscribers?

[@hukuzatuna]

TRiG (Ireland) I know. Magic,

[@PhilRennie]

Cannot unsee the disembodied head on the sofa just over Tom's shoulder.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Cannot WHAT- oh nonono, don't like that

[@ethanbrown2900]

I thought it was a dude in a gray shirt and blue jeans, just chilling.

[@kormagogthedestroyer]

Is that... Brian David Gilbert?

[@xmlthegreat]

@@kormagogthedestroyer It does look like him a lot doesn't it..

[@Jaydee8652]

@@kormagogthedestroyer, I want a BDG pillow!

[@XENOXTA]

I love the traditional format of: Matt struggling to tell the truth about the real wiki article, Gary saying something completely plausible, Tom finding any reason to check off Gary as a liar, and Chris pulling a fantastically convincing lie out of nowhere to play into Tom’s clear anti-Brannan bias.

[@PonyusTheWolfdude]

I didn't even register the jokes, but I just sympathetically almost choked laughing.

[@todayonthebench]

"75 shots to reach a score of 650" were the point I taped out saying, for someone calling archery for "arching", then he couldn't be lying, since the actual scoring system is very close to what he stated. Though, Olympic archery is a bit "faster" since there is only 12 arrows per match between two archers. The qualifying round though consists of 72 arrows. (and 10 points is the highest score one can reach per arrow, meaning that 720 is the maximum accumulated score if one shoots a bull's eye every time 72 times in a row.)

[@totally_not_a_bot]

For multiple perfect scores, don't they use average distance from center?

[@todayonthebench]

@@totally_not_a_bot Yes, there is some additional rule about such in regards to tie breakers.

[@Aieieo]

Today on the Bench do the arrows get removed from the target between shots or are they trying to slam 72 arrows into the board and just splitting arrows left right and center?

[@todayonthebench]

@@Aieieo No, they do remove them. The 72 shots is divided into rounds. A lot of archers' don't even bring 72 arrows with them to the tournament.

[@knightshousegames]

If I remember correctly, 72 arrows is about how many a medieval archer was supposed to bring to a battle, about 3 sheaves worth.

[@boptics643]

I think my favorite thing about this show is that even when they’re telling the truth it gives off the vibe of “lying to your teacher about why you didn’t do your homework”

[@CannaCJ]

That laugh attack made me feel a little worried, Gary might have asphyxiated himself.

[@balsoft01]

Yeah, I feel really uncomfortable when somebody can't stop laughing, it's this strange primal reflex to "flight or fight" when someone close to you is making such noises...

[@C.I...]

This might seem weird, but I could swear he was acting it up. Like at 9:09 I just jumped out of the moment because the laughing seemed so faked.

[@RacingStripeAV]

Considering Chris "got pins and needles from laughing" last series, I fear it might be Matt's turn next time.

[@wierdalien1]

@@C.I... nah

[@hantuchblau]

I really would enjoy a super cut of all these intros over the years.

[@FoxDren]

Just a super cut of all of Gary's intros

[@Maggsi_]

@@FoxDren I'm lying in bed all week with nothing to do, don't tempt me

[@Acela2163]

@@Maggsi_ Tempt.

[@sethrothz]

@@Maggsi_ I will be patiently waiting.

[@Maggsi_]

guys. I did it.

[@majorfallacy5926]

I want someone to whisper into my ear that i sound like a choking dog in an arousing voice

[@U014B]

_ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵒᵘⁿᵈ ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵃ ᶜʰᵒᵏᶦⁿᵍ ᵈᵒᵍ_

[@chocokittybo]

Find someone who talks to you the way Matt tells Gary he sounds like a choking dog

[@nomadMik]

I'm sure Matt is chuffed to hear that a KZbin viewer thinks his voice is arousing. I wonder how accurate his fantasies about your identity are. ☺

[@phygs]

panthers

[@timothymclean]

Maybe ask Will Seaward? ...Panthers?

[@michaelkeogh7722]

I miss the seperate video of corpsing and outtakes. But dropping them in the middle between the two rounds works well. Let’s face it, the game is just the vehicle for the mirth.

[@alex6027]

Would it be considered corpsing in the context of this video?

[@marcelbinder2150]

Imagine Evangelia Psarra actually watching this series and comes across Chris introducing her as some type of skin disease. And then Tom even picks him. lmao

[@__Albin__]

Tom, looking around for a drainpipe: "Can I steal that?" Matt, slightly hesitantly: "No". The result of this is that I'm now quite curious as to what "that" was.

[@NomadSoul76]

The sound Gary makes when Tom says "the green monster" is my new favorite thing.

[@lukesmith8896]

I appreciate all technical difficulties viewers for not skipping through the laughing fit, and rather, seemingly, replaying it multiple times by the looks of the "viewer retention" display.

[@anttibjorklund1869]

"It doesn't matter that I won, it matters that you lost." Mic drop.

[@sinom]

Gotta love that there is a DIFFERENT article called "The Green Monster" about a mascot that actually has the "This article contains content that is written like an advertisement." banner

[@bob_._.]

All of Arfon's racing machines were named "Green Monster", whether they were land speed record cars, dragsters or pulling tractors.

[@qwertyTRiG]

He raced pulling tractors? I'm impressed.

[@BrooksMoses]

@@qwertyTRiG : Jet-powered ones, even. There are videos.

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@BrooksMoses Wow

[@AnyaMarie-101]

And Reagan saith, "Jericho, tear down this wall."

[@qwertyTRiG]

Brilliant!

[@alezacrespublik6655]

Congresswoman Palin Version?

[@thattrainguy]

*sees Green Arrow in thumbnail* Hopes for intelligent train conversation... "So the Stirling Single..."

[@harrytodhunter5078]

I know, they could have actually put the stirling on.

[@dafoex]

Probably couldn't find a decent picture that was also Creative Commons

[@sirrliv]

I mean, he's not exactly wrong; I can't find any record of a Stirling Single being given the nickname "Green Monster", but they are indeed green, had monstrous proportions for their time, and by accounts from some footplate crews they could be a beast to handle; there's a reason most steam engines have a raised steam dome rather than putting the regulator valve inside the boiler barrel close to the water as Pat Stirling did on the Single, because it makes them very easy to "prime" (water gets in the steam lines, goes into the cylinders, all manner of bad things can happen ranging from the hilarious, geyser of sooty water makes the engine look like it's vomiting, through the horrifying, water jams the throttle valve open so the train can't stop, to the catastrophic, water can't compress so the cylinder basically explodes.)

[@obliviousotterI]

The stirling singles weren't even named

[@sid28]

I love how in the Bob's Full Bogs bit Gary was dying of laughter, Tom was also laughing but Chris and Matt were just concerned.

[@jolenethiessen357]

Hell, Tom just kept egging him on. As a friend should. 😀

[@artstsym]

This was a very personal moment for Gary and I'm glad we were all here for it. In all seriousness, I did snort into my pint while watching this, causing the rest of the bar to stare at me. Thanks XD

[@CateMastro]

How Gary can be a polite English man even when crying (well, apart from that f***k)? Also, Tom just feeding jokes to Gary is hilarious. Chris, great beard, as always. Tom, nice shirt, AS ALWAYS. Matt, always the nicest.

[@NoLongerBreathedIn]

Chris: Land speed record car. Gary: Locomotive on the UK East Coast Main Line. Matt: "[The Green Monster] is a brand of absinthe." Me: "What???" (Because none of them mentioned the wall in Boston, which is the one I knew.)

[@craigstoner2632]

Its almoat like there is a world beyond merica.....🙄

[@abridge2]

@@craigstoner2632 the land speed record car is listed as The Green Monster (car) so i think the wall is more well known

[@kurotoruk]

I’m glad that the giggle-fit CF made the cut. I quite enjoyed that. 🤣 Addendum: Watching it again, i still almost spit coffee all over my Xbox controller. addendum iterum: 9 1/2 months later, after months of working customer service through quarantine, still enjoying it.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

I salute your efforts during this harrowing time.

[@Lizz85257]

I have to say that Matt's delivery of "he's not even a real abbot" was gold

[@chrishill601]

I love how you don't cut to Tom after the "You've gone the same colour as Tom's tee shirt" line, because everybody knows what colour that is.

[@wolframstahl1263]

Selection bias.... damn, that was impressive. Genius!

[@seanboyd2898]

Gary's laughing fit may have beaten out Matt's 5 minute giggle loop video.

[@FellowLee]

Glasses fogged and neck strained from a bout of contagious laughter. broke!Gary broke me. :) Thanks as always for the laughs.

[@rosiefay7283]

And once again Matt tricks Tom by talking about the real thing (or in this case person) in a vague unconfident way.

[@zeero92]

And thus gets no points! :D

[@Oba936]

Tom: "can i just steal that" Matt: "uuh.. no...." =D I loved that little reaction there.

[@namenamename390]

I love how, while Gary is in a giggle loop, Matt and Tom also start laughing, but Chris is just sitting there like "can we go on now?"

[@CraftQueenJr]

Chris is the me person in this group,

[@mistaecco]

Spoiler warning for this episode! Believe I've actually seen the green monster in a museum once, helped me call the final one a bit early, haha. Also Tom's reaction at the end there was priceless. Gary, good luck recovering. 🚽

[@billtr96sn]

Spoiler

[@mistaecco]

@@billtr96sn Added in a warning, sorry about that!

[@GryphLane]

Yeah I think I've seen it too.

[@duckrutt]

The thing is massive compared to the long and pointy everyone else was doing.

[@mistaecco]

@@duckrutt Yeah , I know I've seen Goldenrod a few times and comparing the two is wild, it's hard to believe such radically different looking vehicles competed for basically the same thing. Must've needed balls of steel to step into either of them, as well.

[@AssassinAgent]

Gary's laugh was definitely the thing I needed today. EDIT: Eating while watching this definetly has been a mistake.

[@DasGanon]

"Green Monster? I know this! It's that wall in Fenway Park!" *All 3 don't say anything about it* "What?!?!?"

[@karatheythemharkins2393]

that was my reaction too, also the wikipedia page talks about Fenway, do they have a different wiki over there maybe?

[@DasGanon]

@@karatheythemharkins2393 well there's a disambiguation page, and there's only one English language Wikipedia. (Not including simple English)

[@MarceldeJong]

The other two don't base their answers on Wikipedia. They literally just invent something that could go along with the title. Also, Fenway Park? Not that famous outside the US.

[@DasGanon]

True, but if you know the topic you expect one to be talking about that subject. Matt: [Not Subject] "Okay, it's Gary or Chris" Gary: [Not Subject] "Ah, so it's Chris that has it!" Chris: [Not Subject] "WHAT‽" As for the Fenway park thing, I also agree, am nowhere near Boston and have an ambivalence about baseball. Doesn't mean it's not some weird trivia fact that I know.

[@MarceldeJong]

@@DasGanon two of them have to be lies. Only one truth allowed. So can't have anyone talking about the wall at Fenway Park if they didn't pick that subject.

[@GryphLane]

MOTORWAY ARCHERY JOUSTING! Holy crap I wanna do that! I have a bow AND I live by the M1!

[@Azivegu]

Don't let these so called morality standings hold you back. Follow your dreams, dammit!

[@AlienValkyrie]

Yup, okay, I'm calling 999.

[@peter_smyth]

I think you need someone else with a bow too, otherwise it's just "unsportsmanlike conduct", "reckless driving" and "murder".

[@GryphLane]

@@peter_smyth It wouldn't be murder. Not with my aim.

[@GryphLane]

I also don't have a sunroof but that just adds to the challenge 😂

[@epicgamersaurus]

I think Tom knew Chris was lying and just liked the lie enough to give him a point

[@TOJPFC]

Can we talk about the creepy cushion behind Tom and Chris yet?

[@samuelcornett1307]

That would be nice. Could we also bring up the discussion on why the Dory stuffed fish changes location for each video even though all the videos were shot on the same day?

[@crepethepancake]

@@samuelcornett1307 I'm so glad I'm not the only one wondering about this

[@some-online-dude]

I just saw this episode the second time, and only now noticed it. WTF.

[@MadHymek323]

I love that, in the Gary meltdown, Tom and Matt are also laughing but Chris is just intensely staring at Gary as his sense of humour gets destroyed

[@TonksMoriarty]

"In this episode, Gary will be replaced by -" Dick Dastardly's loyal dog Muttley.

[@frankharr9466]

The one where Tom's Friends get revenge for Tom making them compete against each other for years and years. HA!

[@melineeluna]

I love how Tom rules out the sonic artist because of someone noticing the edits from the sound, when that is the most common way to find hidden edits in videos that claim to be continuous. Very common for finding cheaters who submit spliced speedrun videos.

[@potatosordfighter666]

He also made a video recently about how investigators can use the mains pitch in audio to track the exact time something was recorded.

[@Willbilly10001]

I was expecting the outfield wall at Fenway Park in Boston for the Green Monster.

[@seamussc]

Would be interesting to have seen a fan of Major League Baseball accurately describe the wall, only to still technically be lying since they didn't select the article.

[@Kw1q51lv3r]

@@seamussc easy, describe it accurately but add in that Fenway Park is named after the MLM toy company Fenway and that the Green Monster is named after one of the toys

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Disambiguation Needed

[@ElixirOfRivalry]

That laughing fit was extremely infectious and properly got me going!

[@AlRoderick]

Matt Gray insults your laughing ASMR

[@kaydenbush]

The subtitles is what made that laughing fit so much funnier.

[@brandonmartin-moore5302]

I like the way you've left a big chunk of the giggle loop in.

[@djsalad5752]

"you've gone the same color as tom's shirt" is a very underrated line

[@DDHowellUK]

10:12 As great as the actual content on this and the other channels are, it's moments like this when it all falls away and they're just four really good mates having a laugh that makes the Tech Diffs golden.

[@garycrowhurst2220]

love this show, its like a low budget cross of Would I Lie to You and QI.

[@qwertyTRiG]

It has a bit of The Unbelievable Truth in it, too.

[@bacul165]

Soooo glad you left the giggles in! For a second, I was afraid you might have edited them.

[@froschnmaximus9108]

Gary you got me there.... i couldnt stopp to "sound like a choking dog" along with you - thanks ;)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

this is what we in the field call "dying of laughter" but I totally understand it. it's not even super funny, merely decently giggleable, bit it totally hits him. the right joke, the right person, the right moment.

[@ThAlEdison]

Re: Art Arfons as "Our Fonz". Fonzie's name is Arthur Fonzerelli, so he could be an "Art". Also I was expecting an article about Fenway.

[@Jojoscotia]

Gary laughs the way I laugh! Until I can't breathe while my friends look on with a mix of amusement and concern.

[@0LoneTech]

We have a word for that in Swedish - "kiknar".

[@obliviousotterI]

I sound like a dying seal when i laugh

[@willdrug]

I am so glad you have left the laughing fit in, that's perfect. and yeah, I know that later scenes wouldn't've worked if you didn't, but still

[@robertsteffler5155]

You know, there's something transcendently funny about watching a person laugh uncontrollably for five minutes that is both tremendously endearing and irresistibly comedic. I've probably watched this episode at least ten times over the years it's been out, and it's still funny every time.

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

Is there a name for a feeling when you enter the loop of uncontrolled laughter like what I felt at the 'Gary lost it' moment? It was like, when someone stopped laughing, it was only for another to laugh uncontrollably after that thinking how ridiculous the recent moment was, and then it went on and on. I think it's a third time I recall having this moment, one time was with my academic supervisor, and another was at a live show.

[@Lambdadelta-kyo]

Corpsing.

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

@@Lambdadelta-kyo Thanks. That's it.

[@Ricocossa1]

There's a program on the Swiss national radio in French where they play this game every day at noon. My dad used to have it on when he drove us home from school. Memories. :)

[@ChakatSandwalker]

For those keeping score, Evangelina Psarra competed in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games as well (the year after this episode was released).

[@komiteunofficialaccount9224]

And I'll be frank, her shot - more specifically, her head movement - is so weird! 99% of the time they say your head should be practically still throughout, but hers.. I can tell you my coach would have been very angry at me if I do what she did.

[@AlexLeeGamezzz]

No matter how many times I comeback and watch these old episodes they make me laugh every. Single. Time

[@t.bfisher5855]

I like how Gary is just referencing the Stirling single when doing the green monster part

[@MichaelStephenFreitag]

As a fan of the Boston Red Sox, I was quite surprised to NOT hear about the left field wall of Fenway Park when they brought up the Green Monster. I was unaware of the land speed record cars - learned something new today!

[@moonchild4806]

I keep coming back to this whenever I have a bad day. Gary's laughter is so contagious.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

I miss the absolutely hillarious puns that were won in Citation Needed. Those were almost the best part of the show (besides the freestyle jokes, of course).

[@RaidValency]

I haven't laughed that hard since those two extra bits from citation needed about mickey gags and the two minutes of corpsing at Gary's fart XD

[@FlesHBoX]

I was asked "What are you laughing at in there?" and all I could say was "a guy laughing"... Classic

[@thomilo44]

I want to listen to Chris talk about whatever and fall asleep to it.

[@amyshaw893]

There is a lot of citation needed all over that green monster article

[@zach7482]

Gary's giggling fit breathed a new life into my soul. Thank you, Gary.

[@josephd871]

for anyone who needs gary’s giggle loop urgently for whatever reason: 7:50

[@rolfs2165]

Gary should take the guys to a railway museum, so that Tom learns how steam engines work!

[@kevsxe]

Coincidentally “Would you like a tissue?” was Bob’s catchphrase on Bob’s Full Bogs