Ruth Belville and Time Balls: Citation Needed LIVE, Part 1

[@Zevonfan524]

You can actually see Gary’s brain short circuit when Matt starts talking about the sheep sundial.

[@ericpraline]

True

[@abioticstew7375]

8:07

[@NewGalaktos]

I just want to point out that at 11:57, just before Matt launched into his amazing “untimely” pun, Gary sounded like he was about to say “till her watch ended”. He only got as far as “till her w-”, but I think we should still appreciate the pun, it’s almost as good as Matt’s :)

[@oz_jones]

NewGalaktos For the Watch

[@joeborder]

and now her watch has ended.

[@DrZaius3141]

Met her untimely demise at the hands of a clock, I'd say.

[@MD-pg1fh]

I dream of one day making 400 people groan at my puns.

[@Brannersatlarge]

Moritz Durtschi Gonna be honest - this time last year, me too....

[@shambosaha9727]

@@Brannersatlarge Hey, it's everybody's favourite Gary Brannan!

[@BarginsGalore]

Oh there’s way more than 4 hundred people in that crowd

[@schlimmbotg472]

@@copperrose4376 Groan is groan. Just need to have low standards

[@ghastmaskzombie]

"Send 'em yesterday's time, it's only slightly stale" is actually a good description of the seventh Discworld book's plot.

[@CraftQueenJr]

Ghastmask Zombie pyramids? Or Eric? One of them, both actually work.

[@odyseya]

Pyramids, right?

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Pyramids, gotta be. The latter one, time being filled from the great machine of chronology, is very much the crux of another book, Thief of Time.

[@hotelmario510]

He does read books, y'know.

[@hotelmario510]

Best part about the herb garden joke is that there *actually is a herb garden in Greenwich* (a Titanic memorial). Although they only grow rosemary and sage there, not thyme.

[@anttibjorklund1869]

So they only have one half of a crime solving duo?

[@Halocon720]

They need parsley at least

[@coryman125]

Somebody should file an official complaint, that is frankly a massive oversight

[@kiwigaming09]

​@@coryman125 nobody has the "thyme" to

[@None-Trick_Pony]

​@@Halocon720That's where my mind went as well. The setup was almost _too_ perfect.

[@s6th795]

"Here we have parsley, sage, and rosemary." "Pardon me, but do you have the thyme?"

[@arachnenet2244]

Are you going to Scarborough fair?

[@daisybrain9423]

@@arachnenet2244 Yes, I am. By train.

[@jacobperry7637]

I fell like I shouldn't give this a like

[@notagoat281]

Thank you, I now get the herb garden pun.

[@thephoenixsystem6765]

OHHHHHHH! Ergh, Matt >

[@beatrix-persephone]

"She's a guerilla time setter!" "You can't set time on a _gorilla!"_

[@arisadefazio7885]

Children under 13 aren't allowed on KZbin

[@Dianne_Sancho]

"they don't wear watches!"

[@TomScottGo]

Welcome new subscribers. Brace yourselves. (And we're probably doing live shows again, this time a bit like TV recordings - there's a link in the description if you want to know first when they're announced!)

[@Sant268]

hi Tom!!

[@mindmaster_osu]

YES THANK YOU TOM THIS IS MY FAVOURITE!

[@Schm1tty]

Well done Tom and friends, this is brilliant!

[@recklessroges]

Live Citation Needed worked! I, (random subscriber) had no idea this was going to happen.

[@srossgower]

I'm a new subscriber since your artic expedition when Ben Brown's vlogs led me here, but I'm now a big fan of everything Tom and Matt related :)

[@CourtOfWinter]

"Test air raid sirens just to annoy tourists." Nope, annoys us too. Scares the tourists though, which is fun. Luckily it's not monthly anymore in Vienna, but they still have them in the rest of the country. On that note, thanks for making me look this up, now I can expect the yearly test in a month.

[@bentoth9555]

Try living here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the spring and summer it's every Wednesday at noon. But we also use air raid sirens as tornado sirens and it's vital to make sure they're working.

[@savagenovelist2983]

Oh, really? Louisville does its weekly test on Fridays, Elizabethtown does its weekly test on Tuesday, and in my town, we hear the siren tests of both counties. You could say... It's a *timely* occurrence. :)

[@TheSneezingAnouki]

My childhood home town tests its sirens every month. The sirens are situated on top of the local primary school, so about once a month, you could just forget about class for about half an hour :D

[@phildman132]

We still have them here in Stockholm, although it is only once every 3 months rather than every month.

[@alansmithee419]

"Sheep work like sundials don't they?" I just can't.... This is too funny...

[@oz_jones]

I mean, they do. Their shadow points away from the Sun

[@owenjames8575]

​@oz_jones so sundials work like sheep then

[@mattp.158]

Next time Gary should do "goose getting hit _on_ by a train"

[@hiero-green]

"Well, choo choo, Missy~."

[@countertony]

cutaside: pantograph extends and oh God it's turned into a scene from Airplane

[@LilyRoseGames]

I will sign the petition. This has to happen

[@sgnosymfoemos]

'You're a lovely goose--' *CRASH*

[@nickthephoenix8494]

I don't wanna know how that sounds tbh

[@SteffenThole]

Can we just appreciate Tom's Queen voice?

[@RacingStripeAV]

For those who weren't keeping score: Chris: 4 Gary: 7 Matt: 4 Winner: Chris Biscuits: Matt (twice)

[@historymysteries4134]

Racing Stripe A/V Interestingly, every point made the edit.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I'll add this to the spreadsheet.

[@AjeetSingh-xq4yb]

How did Chris end up winning this if Gary had 3 more points?

[@oliverwalters9533]

@@AjeetSingh-xq4yb because it isn't scored by points

[@usernameusername4037]

@@lawrencecalablaster568 .. spreadsheet?

[@LauraSchmaura]

Aww watching this back makes me so so happy, such a brilliant thing to be a part of. My sister, who had never seen Tech Diff before I took her along to this, is visible in every shot of the audience looking totally lost and confused and it's wonderful. Makes up a little for the fact that I'm totally blocked out by the person in front of me, never mind!

[@yriafehtivan]

My favorite part of the episode was the three guesses about the Shepherd Gate and the exasperated "No to all of those things!" from Tom.

[@bentoth9555]

And now, 6 years later, Chris has a Twitter account.

[@SoulSukkur]

Matt really killed it this time.

[@aurelia8028]

I still think he's the weakest link of the four of them

[@schlimmbotg472]

WHY?? Why do you need to make worse puns than the people on stage

[@oxybrightdark8765]

@@aurelia8028 he’s very strong and very funny, when he’s not sleep deprived.

[@inthegrass11]

TIME

[@ThePixel1983]

This THYME!

[@SomeAdam]

Congratulations, you win a ruined, dirty rug owned by one of the men at this table. It's Matt Gray's tattered, matted gray mat.

[@peachierose3356]

wooooo

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

I was in the third row, and provided the Mystery Biscuits sitting on stage in the wide shots!!!!! :D I'm so glad to finally see this up online

[@TheOriginalElkstone]

Timestamp?

[@thelastcube.]

I'm proud of you

[@Juli414]

Ahem. Regarding the herb garden: Originally, the vegetable garden and the herb garden were adjacent, but they had to move the vegetable garden to a different location, too many times the person sowing the seeds got careless and they wound up with peas in their thyme.

[@SomeoneSneaky]

Came to the comments to find the explanation. Thank you.

[@mvl71]

May I suggest some biscuits here?

[@FiXato]

thyme... thank you! I was looking for an explanation of the pun... I sure hate missing a good one!

[@FiXato]

(or a bad one, for that matter)

[@Cublex]

Glad that they fixed this. Wouldn't wanna open my pocket watch to find a bunch of peas.

[@mrchom]

The blue thing at the front of the stage? Those are the mystery biscuits! This was a great show live, loved it to bits! The guys were really great to meet too. If anyone was there then I was one of the people in the TechDif T-shirts!

[@DeserdiVerimas]

I loved your tech dif shirts!

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

Thank you for acknowledging my Biscuits! I was sitting the row in front of you one from the edge :P

[@theguydan006]

they never took them though :(

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

Matt took them after we yelled at him before he made it off stage, doing the giant creeping to the door thing he did in the bonus scene!

[@Chilukar]

I nodded off while listening to this and woke up with a start hearing Tom say "you've won a hermit, who was horribly disfigured in steam engine accident... that's right it's a blistery mystic (sound of mystery biscuits plays as a confetti cannon goes off)"

[@jayzo]

Someone start a petition to get this put on TV! I reckon I could sit through a half hour long show of Citation Needed.

[@MangoMarr]

It's great on KZbin. If they put it on telly it'd be scripted and have C list celebrities shoved in.

[@chrisofnottingham]

Part of its charm is that isn't on TV. My moto is "Big things are not like small things, only bigger; Different rules apply." And that would be true for scaling up a KZbin series to a TV series.

[@jayzo]

I was thinking as long as they could get a contract which prevents producers messing around with the show, it would bring something new and unique to potentially millions of people. Then again we know _someone_ who will complain about some of the jokes, so maybe it's not a good idea to make it a TV show. Nonetheless it deserves to be seen on a wider scale than just a few thousand (and 400 in a small venue).

[@koopertrooper3460]

KZbin red anyone?

[@dawnqwerty]

It would basically be QI.

[@Dugiedugdug]

oH MY GOD I just got "I want a helmet and to be able to run" "why are those both unachievable for you?"

[@markusklemm4516]

@@regular-joe Big head and out of shape?

[@harleyclarke1823]

It's the femnininnmninmnimity that killed me, and the way that Tom stared into his computer 🤣

[@hullinstruments]

12:00...... got to be one of my favorites from the whole series! His uncontrollable hilarity is just too much for me!!

[@Dragonmellle95]

Great show! Tiny correction: sirens go off all over Austria every Saturday at 12. I tend to explain it to tourists the following: it is the signal for people who got pissed on Friday night to know it is already midday. So they can grasp the concept of time again. Additionally they gonna know it is the weekend and they can stay in bed and have not completely overslept and are late for work. :D

[@kat369-mine]

Well I can definitely say this was a success. Many because you had me in stitches and rolling out of my chair for the entire show, PLUS the Bonus Material preshow. I woke my son up laughing so loud and hard. Thank You

[@joshuarenkema]

The best culmination of British nerds that I've ever seen. This is perfect!

[@boabuin1151]

The absolute hollowness of Gary's expression at 8:09 gets me everytime

[@Silverwing2112]

I was in Edinburgh once when that happened, but as I was on shore leave during a deployment with the Navy, the sudden boom didn't surprise me enough to make me jump. The locals I'd been talking to at the time were somewhat impressed by my lack of reaction, as I remember it.

[@PMakerYT]

I'm sorry, but as an Austrian who's proud of our national security sirens: We only test them once a year, and they are not for bombs, but for all kinds of alarms, including modern ones like... well, remember chernobyl? Yeah... Oh and of course its also fun to watch scared tourists ;)

[@KiraFriede]

Our small city in Germany does that too. Once a year.

[@arachnenet2244]

The dutch still test them monthly though...

[@mybigfatcat]

@@arachnenet2244 Same in Sweden, every month. I lovingly call them the zombie apocalypse sirens.

[@MathematicsStudent]

Growing up in the US, the tornado sirens (which are the same sirens used to warn against bombing, as far as I can tell) were tested once every week at the same hour. I always wondered what would happen if there were a tornado at exactly that time, but fortunately they always seemed to happen at a different time of day. I often slept through them as a child and adolescent when they were activated at night.

[@AmandaBarncord]

MathematicsStudent I can tell you what happens when there is a tornado watch going on at the same time as a test is scheduled. It happened here a few years back. All the tv and radio stations put out a message that the test is canceled for that day, and if it does go off, it is for real and you should take measures to be safe.

[@Snaog]

"you can't set time on a gorilla!" is the best gag in the whole series

[@nacoran]

I think Ruth Belville needs to be a Dr. Who character.

[@wolframstahl1263]

She's already known as a time lady. This needs to happen!

[@annacatton5929]

That'd be perfect XD

[@frankharr9466]

I'm very happy to have been the hundreth like of that.

[@frankharr9466]

Because base 101 is definately a thing. :)

[@zozodj2r]

@@frankharr9466 I'll take 200th :)

[@Miz2077]

8:11 Is The Greatest Gary Face I've Ever Seen Brilliant

[@JFKingsley]

As an audience member, this was one of the most fun things to be a part of.. Really happy to see it online!

[@Meganought]

I was one of the lucky sods to watch this live with my girlfriend. This needs to be done more often, it was an absolute blast.

[@kriskehrer6410]

I'm so glad to see more Citation Needed!! I know it takes a ton(ne) of editing, and is a genuine labo(u)r of love, but I've been pining for more. The Technical Difficulties are *always* hilarious!

[@caake4793]

Now I have to binge watch the entire series again

[@JossieMimo]

You say it like thats bad

[@CrystalblueMage]

Silver binge Watch or Gold binge Watch?

[@Poppamunz]

It'll start as a gold binge watch, and end as a silver one. Hopefully it does so in a timely manner.

[@bottersnike]

More of this please! This is awesome!

[@rawovunlapin8201]

Rewatching the series usually brings up my mood, especially the live audience episodes.

[@k1ngjulien_]

I Vienna/Austria in general, they don't just test the sirens every month, they do it every saturday between 12:00 and 12:15. I did not know that anyone was getting scared of this :D Greetings from an Austrian fan!

[@Poppamunz]

9:51 If only Tom could Biscuit himself...wait, could he?

[@Quintinohthree]

I think he has been biscuited once at least.

[@joshuahadams]

Quintinohthree the one time that Matt was the GM.

[@MishaNem]

Josh Adams When was that? If it's in the audio episodes, can you please tell me which one it is?

[@zyaicob]

Chris actually gave Tom biscuits once in the modern era

[@massimoplances5877]

Even being compelled to use subtitles (in English, to catch the jokes) and sometimes forced to rewind, I just can't stop laughing. Go on this way, boys.

[@EifelBlaulichtTV]

17:14 - You talking about the Vienna air raid sirens tests... Same happens in many parts of rural Germany as well, once a month, where they are tested, however the signal is the one minute Fire-alert tone (1 minute steady, interrupted twice) tone in many places. And this is something, you might not have known.

[@flensborg82]

This is officially my favourite thing on youtube.

[@FoxDren]

I'm a simple guy. I see citation needed, I hit like

[@entwikelaar]

For me Tom Scott suffices.

[@samramdebest]

It took me a couple of seconds to figure out that it's a real audience and not some stock footage placed there for an intro joke.

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

Oh it was most definitely real- I brought the tin of biscuits seen at the bottom of every wide shot of the 4 boys!

[@fizyk1101]

Oh yes! I was wondering where the tin of biscuits has come from!

[@133col]

I have a colleague who makes the same type of jokes Matt does. He's on everyone's kill list

[@alwinpriven2400]

11:02 I had an English test today, in the text was something about Boris Johnson. One of the questions was: "from line 10 what can we infer about Boris Johnson?" I quietly said to my friend the same thing Gary did. The text was about e-bikes and the line said that he supported them.

[@Dampfish]

Yes! I was hoping that those of us unable to attend the live show would be able to see it too. Thanks!

[@vel0city96]

Matt's CST joke goes unheard, even though it's one of the best jokes of the show. I heard it, I laughed way harder than I should have.

[@qwertyTRiG]

Vel0city When is that?

[@thomasbaird7559]

Shepherd gate clock because it was made by Charles Shepherd and displayed on the gate post. It was in fact a slave dial.

[@BoxesOfKnives]

0:14 'Twas a time, when he didn't do this social media nonsense.

[@trebacca9]

This show is such a gift to comedy...

[@mermaidpotato]

God, I needed this video this week. A good bit of fun, and full of time puns at that. One might even say it was timely.

[@sid28]

This is my favorite episode!

[@VG-vt2ei]

7:45 to 8:45 is one of my favourite minutes of citation needed

[@WilliamBoothClibborn]

That is a surprising number of people.

[@Hendlton]

He has 611 518 subscribers and this video already has over a thousand views. 400 people is not that surprising.

[@nanomage]

Plus Citation Needed is pretty much proper old school entertainment.

[@TheTheads0]

its more surprising how few people there are

[@Hendlton]

anion cation I assume 400 was the limit of the room. They would have had way more there if they had a bigger venue.

[@OrigamiMarie]

I think they sold out within hours of tickets being available.

[@vel0city96]

Haven't even started watching, already know this will be epic.

[@supremechaosbeing2696]

I loved the bit in Corgius where they went "it's corgi sh****ng time" and corged all over the place

[@wspann1967]

reported for promoting terrorism

[@supremechaosbeing2696]

@@wspann1967 I deserved that

[@Mergatroid]

Late 2019 and they still test the air raid/tornado sirens in Chicago once a month. Vienna is not alone.

[@IsaBella-ir4rf]

Tom(to Matt): you are getting close there Matt *leans closer to Gary* How have I never realized this joke?

[@chemxcore]

Well done! Very funny and entertaining as always. Listened to the audio episodes again last week, so this was unexpected and timed perfectly! Cheers from Buffalo NY

[@JackTheFunk]

Looking forward to more of this. The format lends itself to a live show really well :)

[@darqebri2887]

ABSOLUTE GOLD! I love you guys so much. The most unfortunate thing is I'm too freaking young to come see the live show. Also, Australia. Dangit.

[@majorfallacy5926]

In vienna the sirens only happen every once in forever, but in rural areas it's every saturday at 12 o'clock. They also go off when there's a fire somewhere

[@vaclav_fejt]

Tom doing Gary doing "Donngg!" needs to be giffed.

[@job3rg]

This now my new favourite episode. Jack Churchill and Sargent Reckless has moved down a peg.

[@KaathKilo]

OMG, thank you so much for uploading this

[@XaviMacBash]

this is the last canonical mention of toast

[@ezekielmartin4323]

Never happened.

[@marieschwarz1034]

I love it! I enjoyed every single episode of Citation Needed so far but this is even better ^^

[@tomknight5432]

Perfect thing to come home to school to!!

[@bendavies4296]

The whole event was amazing guys I loved being there in person and please do another!

[@TheLaptopLagger]

Matt is a hero in front of a crowd

[@1_GigaWaffle]

Lots of fun, thanks guys^_^

[@GigglingChinchilla]

Yeeeees! I was looking forward to this, gonna enjoy it I think!

[@brc2396]

This is great. Love that you keep these going.

[@sedontane]

14:11 for anyone coming back to watch the lovely "Goose noises" section.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

My favorite section of any orchestra

[@RMoribayashi]

Citation Needed done the way it should be done. Fantastic.

[@ThePixel1983]

Ruth Belleville was just mentioned in No such thing as a fish WITH TOM SCOTT AND THEY DIDN'T MENTION THIS EPISODE!

[@willswan353]

Im currently binge watching all of the citation needed at 2 am and its cracking me up

[@Shadow81989]

Great job everybody! Even better than most studio episodes, even though uncut (right!?) !

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

They do BOTH one o'clock gun (Edinburgh Castle) and time ball (Calton Hill) in Edinburgh. I have been there last year, trying to observe both from the top of Arthur's Seat, but turned out that I was too far away from the gun.

[@KCrouch-t2o]

"That's Lord Time himself there." he drops the ball and both armies in the valley below die from it haha

[@reidarcederqvist]

loved it as always! thx guys

[@RobHalls]

Brilliant. Just bloody brilliant.

[@RobHalls]

Just hit "thyme in the herb garden" pun. *groans*

[@route2070]

Most of the midwest US still tests air raid sirens once a month. We just call them tornado sirens.

[@xmlthegreat]

This episode contains the greatest biscuits moment ever

[@ianknight5120]

So sad to have missed this!! Great work as ever :)

[@mrwalk6171]

Jut found this series, i bloody love it.

[@erilassila409]

I'm watching this at home with a flu. when Chris was trying to get on Branners' chair for the cupping thing, I laughed. I'm still unable to breathe properly.

[@SJohnTrombley]

That's the fastest I've ever seen a crowd get quiet.

[@MrTedjamable]

That's the magic of editing!

[@kitkatchunky93]

S. John Trombley We tried our best!

[@kd1s]

A friend of mine manages the Ladd Observatory in Providence, RI. And as you might think an observatory sort of depends on time. So they had telescopes that plotted position of sun, then telegraphed out ticks to fire department buildings, homes, etc. It was pretty cool - the origin of NTP basically.

[@AckoYorkie]

Just when I thought this couldn't get any better.... Absolutely howling 😂😂

[@RobertBuchanTerrey]

Loved it live, love it now...

[@bioLarzen]

Here in Budapest - and other towns in Hungary as well, I believe - the emergency sirens are given a roughly 6-7 second quick test run monthly, and a more thorough, roughly 2-minute test once a year. and believe me, they are high and LOUD :) - and these test runs start at 11.00 AM when I'm often still asleep after working through most of the night :D

[@lewismitchell2062]

Somebody needs to do a Citation Needed prize compilation

[@NihonKitty]

So sad I couldn't be there. I'd love to see you guys live. I hope I can end up in London at the right time eventually.

[@InnovationBlast]

NEW CITATION NEEDED YEAHBOYYYY