Nothlits, Dust Bunnies, His Dark Materials

[@IceMetalPunk]

Upon rewatching this, I can't believe you called it "Name That Witch!" when you could have called it "Which Witch is Which?" I'm ashamed of you, Trapp.

[@NightmareKing0203]

my dissapointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

[@ravapu345]

You're not Trapp's real dad

[@wrestlersmith97]

I'm assuming copyright worries

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@wrestlersmith97 What copyright would that be?

[@MrHxChris]

@@IceMetalPunk- Google says there’s a Scooby Doo episode by the same name.

[@wiiseeyou]

I love how this game works when spoken/filmed, but makes everyone sound like a snarky duche when written in the comments.

[@chrisheese4674]

Yeah anytime someone starts a sentence with "Um Actually" they will always sound like a douche. In the show it's for comedic purposes.

[@frenchy1138]

@@chrisheese4674 That's the right answer, but you didn't start your sentence with "um, actually." No points.

[@kelzbelz313]

That’s because none of us will ever be as charming as Siobhan.

[@ziwuri]

@@frenchy1138 Um actually, yeah anytime someone starts a sentence with "Um Actually" they will always sound like a douche. In the show it's for comedic purposes.

[@15Monkes]

⁠@@kelzbelz313 Um, actually, you yourself are as charming as Siobahn Checkmate

[@ktoliman]

The exasperation in Trapp's voice when he says, "Yes, Siobhan," has the same energy as the teacher who's tired of the smart kid answering the questions.

[@ian.k.shannon]

I’m almost positive when Zach suggest time travel but automatically doing things and not actually doing it is the plot of Click starring Adam Sandler.

[@TEXTUALactivity]

Um actually, I am positive that it's the plot of Click.

[@guywith_dog]

it's also the plot of the new bill & ted movie

[@carlwebber4094]

You didn't say Um actually so no point

[@thewingedporpoise]

@@guywith_dog I mean, sort of but not really, they're meeting alternate versions of themselves to see if they've written the song yet so they can take it back in time, click is more akin to what they're talking about

[@guywith_dog]

@@thewingedporpoise literally haven't seen the movie but glad you know

[@nonplayablenpccharacter]

um, actually, it sucks we didn't get to see the bullshit names they each came up with for the witches in this episode. Trapp just ran thru the names, as if correct information is what keeps us coming to this show

[@MrChewymango]

I think they cut it out and put the full episode on Dropout. This might be the edited cut

[@LostLandsLife]

I prefer it this way. The bits took way too long before.

[@romxxii]

@@MrChewymango Nope. I have Dropout, the episode there is exactly the same length (20 minutes and change). To be fair, this is one of the earlier episodes (10th of the "full game show" format as opposed to the 10-minute ones where they had bells. They were still working out a lot of kinks during this time.

[@justanotheranimeprofilepic]

It's twenty witches and this was early on so they probably don't want to let the show go over 22 minutes

[@CzechMate44]

the way Trapp just lit up when he said She-Lob the spider LOL

[@Idk-pu6yb]

Isn't there also tauriel?

[@adamchristensen2648]

@@Idk-pu6yb that's the "The Hobbit" trilogy, and also an abomination. Just because you can 'ship it' doesn't mean you should. Real Authors like Tolkien know this, hack writers like whoever made up Tauriel should learn this before they write it down.

[@danatronics9039]

@@Idk-pu6yb Um actually toriel is from undertale

[@gerbendekker3273]

@@adamchristensen2648 To be fair, I wouldn't consider Tolkien a good writer, certainly least of all when it comes to structure. The flow is his books is so whack that several events he writes about don't actually take place at the time he places them in the story. It's not that this improves the story, because in fact it doesn't. No it's because he believed it to be more accurate. (But to be fair, a large part of his motivation to write these books wasn't actually to entertain audiences, so I'll give him that, at least.) And let's not forget he wrote an entire chapter in the middle of an ongoing epic, tens of pages long, describing nothing but geographical features like the speed of a flowing river, which is a bad idea to put in a book. Never mind the redundancy of the lion's share of what's said during the meeting of the White Council. Just because he writes beautifully stylistically (which I think he does do), that fact alone doesn't make him a good writer. For whatever it's worth to you, I agree the way Tauriel was employed in the movie is not good, for more or less the same reason. Also, the writers included Tauriel to make up for a lack of female characters in the story, but then bounce her around as the default for the romantic arcs (which the story doesn't actually need to succeed) BECAUSE she's a female character. I don't think Tauriel herself is a horrible inclusion. In fact I think she's just ok (we don't learn a whole lot about the point of her character after all), but the real chance at development and/or exposition a character like her offers I think is criminally underutilized.

[@mermaid0tails]

Um actually, Dumbledore didn't give them the time turner it was McGonagall who gave it to Hermione in the beginning of the year so she could take extra classes.

[@MattMoore1]

Two different definitions of "give". Both are correct. Both Dumbledore and McGonagall "gave" Hermione the Time Turner.. Granting possession is one definition, handing over is another.

[@likhithsugganahalli]

@@MattMoore1 no, as far as i remember it, mcgonagall is the who contacts the Ministry of Magic seeking permission for the time turner, so it should be Mcgonagall

[@RabblesTheBinx]

@@MattMoore1 Dumbledore had nothing to do with it. McGonagall went to the Ministry of Magic, herself, and got the time turner from them.

[@maryallgier195]

@@RabblesTheBinx I feel like Dumbledore would have/should have know about it.

[@vitolar8995]

She answered wrong, but close enough. Trapp didn't correct her, but read it aloud and there was no mention of Albus in his card. They didn't get it wrong, Sioban did. And only mildly.

[@gnaskar]

Um, actually, 1984 takes place several years into the titular year (the government having stopped advancing the dates to prevent people remembering how long its been), so would be after 1985!

[@michaels4340]

wow, nice

[@professor_paladin]

It's also worth mentioning that the events of 1984 were originally supposed to be set in 1948, in a world that greatly resembled post-world war II Europe. Orwell missed his publishing deadline of 1948, which was the book's original title.

[@michaels4340]

@@professor_paladin Um, actually, while it is likely (but unconfirmed) that the title "Nineteen-Eighty Four" was taken from rearranging the digits in the year he finished writing the novel, "1948" was *not* a working title. The book was always intended to be set in the future but serve as an *allegory* of post-WWII Europe.

[@DrBrangar]

Where in the book does it say the government stopped tracking time?

[@jumpinjehosephat1877]

@@DrBrangar As I don't have the book in front of me, I can't get specific, but early on the narrator talks about how you can't research past events because the government basically deletes all information resources and fiddles with the dates so no one really knows when anything did happen.

[@itamarbaz9477]

Um, Actually: the two dragons under Vortigern's castle aren't just chilling. They're one red dragon and one white one locked in mortal combat (the colors represent the Saxons and the Britons, though I forget which is which). One dragon kills the other and Merlin interprets the outcome as an an omen, which impresses King Vortigern

[@Karnatil]

The red dragon represents the people of the land (Britons), and the white dragon represents the invaders (Saxons), which is why the Red dragon still flies on the flag of Wales.

[@itamarbaz9477]

@@Karnatil Thanks! Yeah, I totally blanked on that

[@sanuelkessler8435]

YESSSSS. Thanks for mentioning that! And even more if I remember right, there was water that they were fighting in and in real life there is a high rust content in the water that makes it red as if there was blood in it.

[@Zimmertwin]

I’m so disappointed that Zach didn’t get the Dr. Who question; HE WAS IN THAT RAP BATTLE!

[@ondank]

The first line to that rap battle is literally the answer to the question, he even starts with "uh actually".

[@trueaidooo]

As the doctors opponent

[@BaketasticGroove]

@@ondank I came to the comments just to say this.

[@Dracxina]

He was in the video? Where?

[@trueaidooo]

@@Dracxina Zach, the guy in the glasses. Not Zac

[@walterpalof6091]

Um Actually, Hermione gets the Time-Turner from McGonagall at the beginning of the year. McGonagall had convinced the Ministry of Magic to loan it to Hermione so she could take extra classes.

[@natewasconfused3202]

Wouldn't that still technically require dumbledore's permission given that he is the headmaster. Like I totally agree with you but does that reasoning track?

[@walterpalof6091]

@@natewasconfused3202 Good point. It would make sense that Dumbledore might have to sign off on such a thing. However, McGonagall was the one who wrote all the letters to the Ministry to get it and it was implied that she passed it on to her at the meeting that Hermione, McGonagall, and Harry had at the beginning of the room after Harry stepped out. To be fair, Hermione could have gotten news of permission during that meeting and gotten the Time-Turner later.

[@willberman1562]

@@natewasconfused3202 there’s no mention in the books or movies of dumbledore being involved, it was Minerva

[@richardp5920]

@@natewasconfused3202 not necessarily, At the time, McGonnagell was Deputy Headmistress

[@lisazdvoru1660]

@@willberman1562 I think there is mention in the books that Dumbledore had to get special permission from the Ministry of Magic for Hermione to be able to use the Time Turner.

[@oskar8536]

Missed opportunity to not call the first shiny question "Witch is Witch?"

[@derekspencer9975]

I'd have gone with "Which witch is which?"

[@TEXTUALactivity]

@@derekspencer9975 um actually, that's the name of a children's picture book, so they wouldn't have been able to call it that

[@nonplayablenpccharacter]

i'd just go with "Which Witch"

[@chrismanuel9768]

@@TEXTUALactivity Um actually book names don't preclude you from saying sentences and there's no copyright crossover between books and the title of a segment in a KZbin series

[@Raikaiko]

Um actually Merlin's backwards experience of time was introduced to the Arthurian canon relatively recently potentially introduced in Malory's 1485 Le Morte D'Arthur, but more commonly associated with TH White's The Once and Future King tetralogy, neither of which include the Vortigern legends. Further, while Merlin experiences time backwards, remembering the future and forgetting the past, he does not actually age backwards physically

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

And, in point of interest, the two dragons mentioned are often regarded as the symbols of pre-historic Wales and England, an allegory for trying to found a reign on disunited peoples. The red dragon features to this day, on the Welsh flag.

[@thewanderingmistnull2451]

Um, actually, he is not "forgetting" the past. For him, it literally hasn't happened yet. HIs future is our past.

[@padraig548]

Um actually. Merlin is also referenced in the ancient welsh myth, the Mabinogi, particularly the second branch. Depending on translations... meaning he existed in a much older time than arthurian canon and speaks to Merlin being more of a title. (As well as Taliesan the bard.)

[@Raikaiko]

@@padraig548 oh yeah there's so much older records of Merlin, it's the time thing that's new

[@padraig548]

@@Raikaiko oh I know. But it blows the whole aging backwards thing out of the water as it wasnt until... uhh I think Le Morte D'Arthur is... the Vulgate cycle? Or was that earlier... no... vulgate is when the french did the Gary Stu thing with Lancelot Du Loc, if I remember correctly? (FUCK CHRETIEN DE TROYES THE DUMBASS BASTARD MADE THE WORST LITERARY CHARACTER EVERRRRR)

[@GucciCaligula]

Umm Actually, sootsprites (susuwatari) while adorable, are an invention of Miyazaki and are not traditional folklore about Japanese spirits.

[@mythman30]

also werent the ones in totoro dust sprites and the ones in spirited away were soot or coal sprites or something, i thought they were slightly different

[@micheal2458]

Yeah, I was surprised that there was no mention of that, or the fact that not all of the movies have mythological creatures in them

[@Abandoned_expedition]

@@mythman30 I think so, if I remember right kamaji says there's a spell on them that wears off if they stop working for too long and they go back to being soot. I don't think that happens in totoro

[@kyleward3914]

Um, actually, Charizard's cry is his Japanese name "Lizardon." They just didn't translate the cry.

[@8Rincewind]

I love Ally and Siobhan competing against each other, especially at the end 😊 I just love them both.

[@blindbeholder9713]

That Animorphs one made my brain explode with all the wrong things in it. Um Actually: His name (Which is not revealed until quite late in the series) is Tobias Fangor. The Morph Cube is of Andalite and not Yeerk make (A big deal is made of the fact that the Yeerks don't have access to morphing) The Morph Cube doesn't force him to stay in Red-Tailed Hawk form, he took that form willingly but overstayed the time limit, which is a result of subspace interference and has nothing to do with the Morphing technology at all. Tobias eventually gains the ability to morph again after making a deal with the god-like Elemnist, with the Hawk as his new base form.

[@DuelingDexperts]

Can we also discuss how she called the cronenbergesque body horror books where literal children tackle with the death of members of their family, being literally torn in half and surviving, and the crippling guilt of commiting mass genocide as " books for children" wild lol

[@PikaPenny17]

I mean, they are indeed books for children. Although I havent seen the video so I dont know what tone she said that in.

[@fartpimpson3843]

Um actually, Ellimist*

[@TheRealMarauder]

Plus the "morph gun" is an allusion to the Anti-Morphing Ray, which indeed WOULD have turned Tobias into a hawk, because he IS a hawk now, but because he already WAS a hawk, they assumed it was broken, giving the Animorphs time to break in and bust up the party, and it couldn't have gotten anyone stuck in morph because they would be back in their base form, whatever that is.

[@82tonypr]

Thank you! Lol Loved those books.

[@raphaim]

Um, Actually his name is not The Doctor, and his actual name is a closely guarded secret and has been a plot point of multiple episodes.

[@joemueller3425]

Um, actually back in old who when the show was starting out, the doctor was credited in the credits as “doctor who” so saying that it isn’t correct is incorrect

[@jamodonnahan610]

Um, Actually, where the show is headed these days, I don't fucking care what the Doctor's name is anymore as this has become just as pointless as the series itself. Another Ecclestone reboot is required, indeed!

[@danimations1440]

@@joemueller3425 that's how he was credited, sure, but that wasn't part of the canon video. those credits never existed in the universe, it was the creators explaining it. Is like if the director said his name was Gary, but the characters themselves called him barry, Barry would be correct

[@jamodonnahan610]

@@danimations1440 No, Dumbledore is gay in the books! ^^

[@danimations1440]

@@jamodonnahan610 ?

[@tinabug3244]

Um actually, the headless horseman originated from Ireland and was called a 'dullahan', who rode around on a horse and collected the souls of the newly dead. Also fun fact, they are afraid of gold and a single pin made of the material will have them fleeing in the opposite direction.

[@odanemcdonald9874]

Correct, the dullahan is Irish The headless horseman is New Yorker

[@volundrfrey896]

@@odanemcdonald9874 No the headless horseman can describe multiple European headless horseman, the new york one is a modern adaptation from the 1800's not the middle ages. Like how the idea that only thor can lift mjölnir is just the modern american adaptation, but in actual norse mythology anyone strong enough can and has lifted it. It's fan-fiction not mythology.

[@xTobsecretx]

Um actually, the headless horseman referenced in this episode is distinctly German. He’s called the headless Hessian bc it’s the ghost of a Hessian soldier. You can see his grave in Sleepy Hollow’s beautiful cemetery.

[@Ra1n3St0rm]

and I know that because of Skullduggery Pleasent :3:3

[@SelfxMade32]

When Ally repeats Siobhan's answer but louder and Siobhan says 'it's usually a man who does that" predicted Ally's transition

[@ricomuru9486]

the foreshadowing in dropoutverse is crazy

[@batsybatsybats_]

Wow. She really is the Elven Oracle

[@ytuser4562]

Pot twist: it was the CAUSE. Ally was like "not a bad idea tbh"

[@lochthefox6397]

Um actually, the witch from the Looney Tunes is named Witch Hazel. She was created by Chuck Jones in the 1950's, and for the majority of her run was voiced by the late, great June Foray.

[@thomaspetrucka9173]

THANK YOU! I scrolled through all the comments just to find if someone else had done this.

[@MarkCalise]

I was going to say this too. I'd also like to point out that Broom Hilda is the name of a comic strip witch, who was also voiced by June Foray in a brief cartoon anthology show called Fabulous Funnies.

[@Diandrealine]

Siobhan was so ready to launch that buzzer when Ally got the TARDIS' name wrong hHahaha

[@SpectacularTrevor]

I've been watching the unsleeping city on KZbin and it's finally good to see Ally Beardsley and Siobhan Thompson on this show again

[@elucified]

I love their dynamic in this show so much, it's adorable

[@sternis1]

At the castle and Merlin question I would have gone "Um actually, it's because it's built on a swamp, so it sinks down. If he just builds a few more, it's going to stand"

[@sanuelkessler8435]

Monty Python?

[@crgrier]

@@sanuelkessler8435 Yes. I'd say Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an Arthurian legend. It counts.

[@VioletKerrigan]

I know I'm way too late for this to make any difference, but that witch from Looney Tunes is named Witch Hazel, Broomhilda is a newspaper comic character.

[@noneofyourbeeswax1949]

Thank you, that was driving me nuts!

[@anilmehta4714]

Um, actually, Tobias is later re-gifted the ability to morph by the godlike being known as the Ellimist. Because of this, while he is a nothlit, and the red tailed hawk is still his default form, Siobhan is right at 3:32 that he can still transorm

[@EngineerWhen]

"Um, actually if you don't mind it's just the Doctor." Zach should have gotten that...

[@malenixius]

DOESN'T EVEN REALLY MATTER WHO WHO'M I EVEN TALKING TO OH YES YOU-

[@potmki6601]

Always glad to see there is Ally in episode, they are so fun and joyous.

[@jerodast]

Was glad to see Ally and Siobhan back! Will always be classic guests.

[@frenchy1138]

Um, actually, the Doctor's species isn't Time Lord: he's a Gallifreyan. Time Lords are a caste within Gallifreyan society.

[@vutava8292]

True, but the question didn't claim Time Lord was his species.

[@frenchy1138]

@@vutava8292 Borderline. The question says he's a humanoid alien (a Time Lord), implying that's the kind of alien he is. I stand by my correction.

[@AlephSharp]

Um, Actually. the doctor is no longer Gallifreyan

[@FatedHandJonathon]

Eh, this is inconsistent in the show. In Planet of the Dead, he specifically says "I come from a race of people called Time Lords."

[@trumanbeliever]

@@FatedHandJonathon Um, actually, the Doctor is whatever the Timeless Child species is. They were found and then taken to Gallifrey where their genes were used to make the Time Lords. The Doctor just didn't remember and was living the lie they were told. Aleph Sharp is correct.

[@mistressofthewicket]

I miss getting to see them all go through their own answers after the grid matching one because there were always some hilarious wrong answers there

[@DB13-c1l]

Um, Actually the headless horseman is seen in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as Irish lore well before he is mentioned in Sleepy Hollow.

[@Om-iq1oh]

Yes ! It surprised me when Trapp gave the ok for New York, if they had given the name Dullahan maybe that'd have been a hint towards its Irish origins

[@davidstorrs]

Fair point, but the depiction on the board was of the one from Sleepy Hollow.

[@Slackerdud3]

The saddest part of this episode is that Zach Sherwin was in an Epic Rap Battle where Nice Peter LITERALLY said "Actually, if you don't mind it's just The Doctor"!!!

[@nakenmil]

Also, fun fact: in His Dark Materials, Independent Texas is of Danish origin. Rød Grød Med Fløde, y'all.

[@ashleyhayward2319]

And the rest of America is called New Denmark!

[@deppresedonion5146]

fun fact Dæmon boy

[@misterspaceman9563]

Um actually, Siobhan was correct that Tobias was not stuck as a hawk (at least for the entire series). He eventually regains the ability to morph again through the near omnipotent entity the Ellimist and is even allowed to require his human form as a morph. However his "true form" remains a red tailed hawk for the remainder of the series.

[@andreweinmo1657]

Fun Fact: in the Pokémon tv show, the original plan was that when Pokémon were young they could only say their name or make random sounds, but when they got older, they would gain the ability to speak like a human does, and that’s why Meowth could already talk because he was an adult meowth, but after a couple of episodes, the creators were like “that’s stupid” and changed it so that just all Pokémon only spoke their names minus legendary’s and mythical’s, and they wrote some story how Meowth could talk because he fell in love with some snobby rich female Meowth that only respected humans and he practiced talking and walking so he could win over the girl Meowth, but after he succeeded at talking like a human, she turned him down for a Persian and that’s why he’s evil now.

[@unmorcipan]

Um, actually... most of that "fact" is false; in an interview the director of the show said : "At first we actually toyed with the idea of having Pikachu talk just like Meowth does. However, we talked about how it would be both more realistic and more interesting if they had to communicate non-verbally, so that's the way it ended up" They never intended to make adult Pokemons talk, it would've made no sense since they don't talk in the games or comics that came before the show.

[@gerbendekker3273]

@@unmorcipan I like your correction, but please never say Pokemons again. The plural of Pokémon is Pokémon, which is also true for the individual species' names, making for example Pidgey the plural of Pidgey.

[@gatherer818]

Team Rocket's Meowth is also the only time the concept of "move slots" from the games are mentioned in the anime. In the same episode that Meowth explains how he learned to speak "human", he goes on to explain that he traded in his ability to use the Meowth species unique ability Pay Day, that creates a shower of money to damage an opponent (and you can pick up off the ground after) to use that slot for human language.

[@hamburgerdog25]

Wasn't expecting the Meowth lore dump but I do welcome it

[@cosmicnixx7658]

Zach is one of my favorite people. And my favorite recurring ERB actor

[@Langwidere903]

Umm actually the Doctor is genetically a Gallifreyan, and Time Lords are the elite class of Gallifrey

[@eveescastle5866]

In their defense that is a detail often glossed over because the actual canon doesn't really distinguish the two.

[@LilyTheGecko1]

Umm actually due to the new seasons they're actually space Jesus 🥴🥴 Jk please don't kill me

[@ondank]

I don't think the doctor is Gallifreyan now.

[@kinleyjohnstone9660]

Um actually he wasn't born on galifrey, his species is unknown....for now

[@bertrambauer7357]

@@ondank You forgot to say Um, actually.

[@MageFowl]

The headless horseman is based on the dullahan, an Irish faerie

[@luciangeorg5945]

Um, actually while you are correct, not starting the sentence with "Um, actually..." disqualifies the answer. ;)

[@MageFowl]

Damn

[@chongthao8108]

There’s so much chemistry in this group. I love it.

[@williamknox6648]

As a massive nerd that knows the answer to most of these questions it pains me when no one gets them wrong. Especially the Animorphs one

[@Al-hc7vl]

Um, Actually, there's an accent over the E in Éowyn. also fun fact it means horse lover :)

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

Calvin & Hobbes had that time-travel plot in one series of strips - naturally, it never got done, but that didn't stop Present-Calvin and 2-hours-ahead-Calvin from blaming 1-hour-ahead-Calvin for his failure to complete the assignment.

[@logangamble8696]

Um actually, while The Legend of Sleepy Hollow takes place in New York, the headless horseman was inspired by the Dullahan of Irish folklore

[@cressrose]

Was not expecting an Animorphs question, holy cow-- that took me back. This show is so cool!

[@Lauren-hk5zw]

For tie breaker, they should hand the contestants sheet with all the questions asked in that episode, give them 30 seconds to fill them out. They should technically know all the answers now!

[@michelleshelton1079]

um, actually Julia isn't witch she's a magician in the series hedge witch is a term used to describe non magical humans who learn magic Julia while she was gaslighted in the timeline the series takes place in is technically a magician

[@user-vk8yt9xy5z]

Hedge witches are still magical. They just aren’t intelligent or magical enough for BrakeBills standards. A non magical human wouldn’t ever be able to learn magic.

[@chrismanuel9768]

@@user-vk8yt9xy5z Not true. Magic, in universe, comes from suffering. All humans can access magic if they learn to draw on their suffering. Magic power isn't static. No one person is just "stronger" in magic to another. Being more emotionally devastated makes your magic stronger. Properly trained magic users are called Magicians. "Hedge Witch" is a slur used to speak down on humans that learned magic outside of an official college, as their use of magic is frequently dangerous and unsanctioned.

[@derekspencer9975]

Um, actually, the Looney Tunes witch is named Witch Hazel

[@Lubotehjackal]

Someone who knows!

[@pygmyhorde1821]

Yeah, where did Boomhilde come from?

[@Lubotehjackal]

@@pygmyhorde1821 I think in one of the Cartoons Bugs does call her Broomhilda

[@RabblesTheBinx]

TBF, Broom-Hilda and Witch Hazel look *very* similar.

[@RabblesTheBinx]

@@pygmyhorde1821 Broom-Hilda is a newspaper comic strip that's been around for 50 years.

[@jamodonnahan610]

Um, Actually, a few years ago I would have commented that that's not how time turners work. But nowadays there are simply no rules to this madness :/

[@StickWithTrigger]

Jk rowling strikes again

[@williamgutshall2706]

Um actually, while the headless horseman from Irving's sleepy hollow is from New York, it actually originates from the Celtic legends of the Dullahain, a headless horseman that would sometimes carry its own head as a lantern, and use either a sword or a whip made from a human spine to kill its victims. It is also depicted as driving a horse carriage or with a pack of dogs. The dullahain were similar to Irving's headless horseman by the way they died, through a war related death. Thus the Headless Horseman is firmly a Irish creature in origin.

[@azaleabean2969]

I'm so ridiculously proud of the fact that I knew the answer to the last question from watching a different episode of Um Actually

[@alexanderson6961]

Um Actually, at that point Merlin would've been called Emrys.

[@sadiewest7021]

Or Myrddin

[@emile7794]

I love ally and siobhan so much

[@patricktessenholtz9189]

I think they should really include the date it was filmed so that the ever updating canon can properly be ignored

[@averybrown7910]

I don't know what I'm going to do when they run out of episodes to post. This is a staple of what I watch

[@ciantan8797]

Um actually, you're not all losers. You're all successful comedians and writers! 14:58

[@KelpTheGreat]

There's a weird error in the closed captioning at 1:46: He clearly says "Wizards drive on the other side of the road," but the captions say "we should drive on the other side of the road." Besides that, there are a bunch of other typos and mistakes in the captioning. (I don't think Harpies are from Grease!)

[@seanbuck156]

Um actually, Tobias was trapped as a red tailed hawk until the Ellimist gave him back the ability to morph and to morph into his human form. If he stayed human for longer than 2 hours he'd lose the ability to morph again though.

[@shanavalkyria3438]

Was going to point that out if you did not lol I Still have the entire book series

[@Hyrulistic]

IIRC it wasn't so much that he disobeyed the rule of 2 hours, but he was trapped during a "mission" and had no place to safely morph back 😥 Still wanted to be an animorph all the same! 😄

[@chrismanuel9768]

@@Hyrulistic Why not morph into something different but smaller? No longer trapped, took a new form, timer resets, and you can escape

[@Mjolonar]

@@chrismanuel9768 They can't switch directly from one morph to another, they have to go back to their original form first.

[@raphaelmorris6898]

@@Hyrulistic Um actually, it's repeatedly implied that he deliberately stayed in morph past the two-hour limit because he hated his abusive home and school life.

[@isupposethisismynmw640]

Nice episode, but I was surprised to see Ally Beardsley and Siobhan Thompson fight to the death live on camera

[@RabblesTheBinx]

11:24 Um, actually, Merlin doesn't exactly age backwards, he experiences time backwards. In other words, he knows what will happen, in the future, because it's in the past, from his perspective and has no direct knowledge of what is in the past because he hasn't lived it, yet. So, from _his_ perspective, he does indeed age backwards, but he ages normally from everyone else's POV and he still would have been quite young during Vortigern's reign.

[@MmmmPickle]

The Broken Earth Trilogy is soooo good!!! It’s my favourite series!

[@eveescastle5866]

Um actually depending on if you are referring to the classic series or the reboot series there was a period of time where the doctor was refered to as Doctor Who as was indicated in the credit screen back in I want to say John Pertwee's era. However in the reboot series they were simply refered as the Doctor. That being said that's not technically their real name, it's a chosen name and the doctor's real name is closely guarded secret that only a handful of people know, one of which most notably is River Song on the account they are married.

[@LilyTheGecko1]

Umm actually, it is revealed in season 10 of the reboot that he did go by doctor who, as done so by Missy, also known as the master.

[@CrimbusDaJimbus]

I just finished reading Broken Earth yesterday so I was shook when Siobhan shouted them out lol. Suuper slept on series.

[@deppresedonion5146]

Um,actually female dwarves arent hidden away beneath the mountain's they just have beards so almost no one can tell them apart from male dwarves

[@stonferen584]

They're also hidden away underground

[@deppresedonion5146]

@@stonferen584 fair enough

[@evansaschow]

2:05 Um Actually that’s the remote from Click

[@adamstringham7277]

Um, actually, Rosie is Sam's hobbit love interest. She is both named, and a female character. Although one could argue she isn't "prominently" in the story.

[@Ertwin123]

Isn't she only mentioned though?

[@vadok4554]

@@Ertwin123 In the movies she is seen in passing, but she has actual lines of dialogue in the book, few though they are

[@tovekauppi1616]

The beginning of that statement is something like “excluding several female hobbits like Rosie...” so they avoided that pitfall.

[@Argo.nautica]

I have seen all of these on Dropout already, but I saw Siobhan and reflexively clicked.

[@matsdieleman1982]

Um, actually, it's mentioned in the beginning of 1984 that the protagonist is only moderately sure that it's the year 1984, because the Party has meddled with history so much that it's impossible to accurately track time.

[@HarshitAneja]

Thank you. Had to scroll down so much to get here.

[@Kain128]

Um, actually Doctor Who listed the Doctor as “Dr. Who” in the credits for several years, including when it first aired, so technically there was nothing wrong with the question (unless you count “Doctor” not being abbreviated).

[@veronnicamackillop5371]

Um actually the time machine thing you desire is the exact plot of click!

[@AlliEmber77]

Slowly working my way through these after recently finding you, but I have to say: Um, actually the witch in Looney Tunes is NOT named Broom-Hilda. Her name is Witch Hazel. She is one of my favorite characters. Also, loving this show.

[@jthomascomic7189]

I was wondering if i was goin to have to be the one to say this. Thank you.

[@TheMurricane66]

I searched for this comment. I actually remembered her name and it was definitely Witch Hazel.

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

Um, Actually, in Animorphs book 13, Tobias once again gets the ability to morph from the Ellimist and is briefly taken back in time to acquire his human DNA so he could, for up to two hours at a time, turn back into his human self. So while he was still a nothlit, he was not trapped in his red tailed hawk form after that book.

[@thehumanvacuum6725]

Glad somebody else actually read past the first few books

[@Skycania]

I haven't read them for over 20 years... pretty sure him being able to turn back into human form was a big part of his love interest with one of the female Animorphers iirc

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

@@thehumanvacuum6725 I loved those books, sadly never finished them, but got a good way into the series.

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

@@Skycania That would be Rachel, cousin of Jake, best friend of Cassie, preferred combat morph was a grizzly bear. Had divorced parents and if memory serves a younger sister.

[@rowensmith3940]

ABSOLUTELY loved this episode thank you VERY much ihaveanunhealthyobsessionwithumactuallybecauseofallthenerdshitiveabsorbedovertheyearsandiveneverhadanoutletuntilnow

[@jkromes20]

How could you not go with “which witch is which?” Come on mannnn

[@A_T216]

Love the casual and lighthearted vibes on set here

[@MysteriousKammm]

Tbh, due to the fact that he was credited as Dr. Who in the classic series and the factvthat he litterally signed this name at least once in the classic series, one could could also call him Doctor Who. Also, it is sometime implied that he is not _really_ a Time Lord as this is a title (like a doctorate) and that its implied that The Doc quit the Academy before the end of his scolarity...

[@eveescastle5866]

Also I imagine much like an actual Doctorate in can be revoked on the grounds of malpractice, which give the doctor was banished to earth I'd say even if wasn't granted the title it means nothing now.

[@maellelamour8216]

Um actually no, the name of the race is in fact Time Lords, it's not a title... Or I missed this episode but I really don't think I did

[@eveescastle5866]

I don't remember where it's mentioned but I think it's briefly mentioned in one of the audio adventures.

[@anythinginvolvingsharks]

zach is so happy to be there.

[@BraveLittlePixel]

I was sure the Pokemon name question would bring up Mewtwo since he can also communicate using human words.

[@GucciCaligula]

As well as entei

[@caltheuntitled8021]

Technically, they never said those were all the exceptions

[@thewanderingmistnull2451]

@@GucciCaligula Nope, Entei doesn't count, because he's _not real._ Well, sort of. Hes an illusion created to comfort Molly that has some of her father's personality.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

7:05 Nice! Pretty tight game so far. Fun to see a Total Domination, sometimes, but the close ones add a degree of suspense.

[@PumpkinTheFool]

Um Actually, the name the Witch Shiny question should have been called "Which Witch is Which?"

[@creepykiller2876]

Um Actually, Tobias does get re-given the ability to morph again, but his default body becomes the Hawk

[@TheNinjaHug]

Um, Actually, female dwarfs aren't hidden at all. The problem is that they grow beards too and look a lot like the men so no one beyond other dwarfs can really tell the difference. Gimli gives a whole speech about it before he falls off his horse while travelling with the people of Rohan to Helm's Deep in "The Two Towers".

[@michaelboudin6126]

The background props are always so much fun. I wish they’d give Trapp more fun/nerdy dad ties.

[@Madmij]

Um actually Selkies aren't specifically from Ireland, they're as much apart of auld Scottish folklore as they are Irish. Just a Celtic legend.

[@ThePhengophobe]

The Headless horseman kinda is though. Dulahans are one of the earlier depictions of the headless horseman, though there are also Scottish and English tales of a headless rider, long before the American Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

[@erynmcgrath]

@@ThePhengophobe that is true

[@wingeddangernoodle]

And not just celtic- welsh myth doesn't have selkies as far as I can tell. it's a Gaelic myth, I think!

[@chrismanuel9768]

I was annoyed when they said the headless horseman is American. Like no, he became a popular legend in the US but there were headless riders in English folklore long before America existed

[@kulsoomjawaid6411]

Ahh Willow!! I'm doing a Buffy rewatch right now so that made me happy

[@gouthamakumar6591]

Um actually, because Time Lords came before humans, The Doctor is not humanoid, but rather it is humans that are Time Lord-esque

[@jacobd1984]

Um, actually Time Lords are a subset of the Gallifreyan species developed through various forms of genetic manipulation. Since the unmodified Gallifreyans came before Time Lords did, humans would properly be said to resemble the former, not the latter.

[@dseray9494]

Um actually, time Lords aren't always humanoid Maybe That ones a bit of an inference

[@lulusinner]

damn came here to say this

[@QueirozVini]

Um, actually, "humanoid" is anything similar in shape and form to humans. But not necessarily human, or live. We have humanoid robots, for example. So humans are humanoids as well.

[@chrismanuel9768]

Time Lords are genetically modified Gallifreans that used Timeless Child DNA in order to gain the ability to withstand time travel. So if we're arguing from origin you'd say Timeless Childoid. But the Timeless Childs (yes childs, not children) are from outside of time, and the Gallifreans are from the end of time. Humans, in the linear perspective, came first.

[@MrQueerDuck]

I can't believe I'm just now discovering this epic show! Thank you nerds for making a celebration of all things nerdy 💖

[@MrQueerDuck]

Omg! Knew the Arthurian legend question. This show is such a nerdgasm!

[@MrQueerDuck]

And the real world answer! I'm 0.25% Um, Actually knowledgeable!

[@108Echoes]

Um, actually, Tobias’s last name is not Santorelli. While I’m aware of at least two fanfic series where he’s revealed to be the son of Sergeant Santorelli (a minor character from the last book) Tobias’s canonical last name is never stated.

[@yfar7550]

I haven't finished the series but isn't his dad canonicaly ax's brother

[@108Echoes]

Tobias’s “biological father,” for certain definitions of those terms, is Ax’s brother Elfangor, who permanently morphed to human and took the name “Alan Fangor.” However, that timeline was mostly erased, as was his mother’s memory, so it’s unlikely that Tobias's last name is Fangor. His mom’s current-timeline husband/Tobias’s legal father is not stated, and we have neither Loren's married nor her maiden name.

[@yfar7550]

@@108Echoes schrodinger's child

[@MsGingrazz]

It has been a super long time since I read the books, but wasn't Tobias able to morph into other animals after spending over 2 hours in hawk form? But his main form was now the hawk and he was forced back into it after morphing into other creatures, right?

[@BrognusBelgen]

@@MsGingrazz He was initally stuck, but was given the ability to morph again by the Ellimist.

[@Violaphobia]

11:38 LITTLE DID YOU KNOW, SIOBHAN!!!

[@torokk21]

I know I'm super late for this... BUT Um, Actually, each Miyazaki movie does not include a Japanese Folklore Spirit. The Wind Rises, an often forgotten and terribly underrated movie, is set in real world events and does not feature anything supernatural

[@vedinokkriid6582]

When they were talking about battling it out at the end, the trial by stone scene from dark crystal popped into me head...

[@xavierestelles9327]

I love Ally, They're great!

[@Othelbark]

Um actually to the correction at 9:20: Colourless and generic mana were distinct concepts long before 2016 (maybe since the inception of the game but there were some major rules overhauls in the early years so maybe not). The introdution of some things spsificly costing colourless mana was new in 2016 but before then non-mana spsifc costs were still technicly called generic rather than colourless- it just didn't matter.

[@stone5against1]

So... having not played magic for ages.. (well last year but it was a special kit with a deck for each colour .. but anyway...) what's the difference between colourless and generic?

[@Othelbark]

@@stone5against1 Generic mana is only found in mana costs, it's a mana cost that can be paid with any type of mana but you can never have "generic mana". Colourless mana is a type of mana, any mana you generate that doesn't have a colour is (you guessed it): colourless! There is a fun technically in the rules where effects that generate "any colour" of mana are different from effects that generate "any type" because only the latter can generate colorless mana. The difference was a pretty meaningless one for a long time until mana costs that could *only* be paid with colorless where introduced, but the distinction did technically exist before then.

[@stone5against1]

@@Othelbark ahh I see, thanks for the clarification

[@MistireMie]

If I've had a timeturner, I would have died from old age before graduation.

[@blackheart2728]

I love the long diatribe at the start discussing the movie Click without mentioning the movie Click

[@TheRealMarauder]

There were actually five things wrong with the Animorphs question: Tobias wasn't turned into a red-tailed hawk, he turned himself into a red-tailed hawk It wasn't Yeerk technology that turned him into a red-tailed hawk, it was Andalite morphing technology that allowed him to He was, for several books, stuck because he exceeded the time limit in morph Siobhan is right; he isn't stuck, because, while still a nothlit, the Ellimist gave him morphing powers back. There was no Yeerk technology called the Morph Gun, this vaguely alludes to the Anti-Morphing Ray, which could have turned Tobias into a red-tailed hawk but, because he was a nothlit with morphing powers, did nothing, and made the Yeerks think it was broken. It's been two years, so I'm not going to tweet this at them, but I think Siobhan was robbed of at least a "that is technically correct but also sort of not."

[@hishaamdevries]

Took me a while to realize but doesn't the guy in the middle also do some of the epic rap battles of history

[@smcasas9367]

Dullahan (headless horsemen) are from Irish folklore, probably late to the show, but anyway.

[@denot769]

Yeah headless horsemen type characters can be found all around Europe mostly western during the medieval era.

[@hokage102364]

TBF The Doctor is actually named in the credits a bunch of times as Doctor Who in the old series. I can only recall seeing it in black and white episodes, so we're talking early in the series, but it still happened.

[@risottopose9970]

It’s funny seeing someone thinking a book about War Crimes and Genocide is for kids

[@m4sk3d1]

To be fair most fairy tales, which are meant for children are dark af 😂

[@risottopose9970]

@@m4sk3d1 Animorphs isn’t really a fairytail

[@m4sk3d1]

@@risottopose9970 sorry I should clarified, that while Animorphs isn’t a fairy tale, most fairy tales are meant for children and are dark af

[@risottopose9970]

@@m4sk3d1 ok

[@mightyone3737]

That age dividing reminds me of a used book I bought, it was a Thieves' World book, and one of it's previous homes was in a Grade 6 classroom's 'library', as in, some teacher apparently thought Tempus Thales, the rapiest thing in fantasy, was suitable for Grade 6 kids. Just lol. Edit: As a person who is probably the literal incarnation of jigglypuff, yeah, it's cool that two awesome ladies are into your type. I guess I'm more if jigglypuff tried to be a welder/lumberjack, which is very weird, and maybe I should have just stuck with the singing! Or not, if I put everyone to sleep, but my church does not typically collapse into slumber such that I can draw on them. Unfortunately?