Simplehuman and Russian Toilette: Citation Needed 1x04

techdif.co.uk - This week... well, there's more than one type of toilet humour in here. Brace yourselves, folks: 'cos we're goin' lowbrow.

[@margaretmadole]

I have now officially listened to this video while in a Bed, Bath, and Beyond and staring at a Simple Human device (although I could only find a soap dispenser, not a trash can). I feel strangely accomplished

[@margaretmadole]

(This is a location where the top floor is Bed, Bath and Beyond and the bottom is a Christmas Tree Shop, as well)

[@houwlingwoolf]

good job

[@bananawieldingorenji]

good work

[@qwaabza]

good going

[@asphaltpilgrim]

Achievement Unlocked!

[@joshuagreen1047]

This'll need a board game version soon so people can play along at home, complete with vacuum-sealed mystery biscuits. It'll make millions, or possibly tens.

[@genericname3516]

Joshua Green You can play it yourself fairly easily. Just click the "random article" button on Wikipedia until you get a suitable one.

[@NewGalaktos]

But how much money will this board game make? Hundreds and thousands.

[@jedmarshall217]

Generic Name See, all I get are random words in different languages when I do that.

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

It needs little cardboard cutouts of random biscuits in a bag like scrabble pieces, given out as points, with 3 given for Mystery Biscuits levels of mirth. Then whoever has the most biscuits at the end wins

[@thelastcube.]

price: a thousand... pence

[@jamieward277]

I am in possession of a simplehuman bin. Ironically, the pedal broke within a fortnight.

[@willh35]

Our automatic opening one broke too.

[@archiejmmiles6895]

The sensor on mine has broken, though it only opened when you face away from it...

[@yoyopolo8974]

the cat jumped on my lid and it snapped

[@sbogamergtaminecrat]

Mine broke within a pubg

[@rawovunlapin8201]

CedroGomes you know the way out.

[@onionbot2]

Bed, Bath and a third item - That would be a good store. Each shop around the world would sell one bed, one bath and another random item.

[@thatoneguy9582]

exactly one of each they run out really fast

[@nullFoo]

when they run out of stock they just close the store permanently and move to a new location

[@harpoonlobotomy]

Oh, 2014, such an innocent time. When sensors in random home appliances was still a silly thing and people's slow cookers didn't stop working because it needed a firmware upgrade.

[@gegiskjeggi]

Very true HarpoonLobotomy, very true

[@bredcubed1161]

"Why would you need a sensor in a toilet?" And I'm still wondering the same thing 10 years later. They flush while your still sitting on em

[@esobelisk3110]

@@bredcubed1161 you sure you didn’t just buy a bidet?

[@bredcubed1161]

@@esobelisk3110 I‘m referring to the toilets they have at grocery stores and such that „automatically flush.“

[@sharpe3698]

I feel the need to point out that The Christmas Tree Shop sells basically everything else except Christmas trees.

[@nataliemccarthy9140]

And whatever I went there to get

[@rewrose2838]

Or it sells Christmas trees all-year except during the winter months

[@misssarahashplant31]

Or it's a front for importing mustard flavoured bog rolls from Ireland.

[@misssarahashplant31]

I meant to write mustard scented. Although mustard flavoured wouldn't be a bad idea. You could eat a few sheets every time you went to the toilet.

[@BeccaMoses]

i wanted them to know that but they did not

[@Arakhor]

Tom was altogether far too pleased with his Russian Toilette pun. :)

[@rosiefay7283]

Justifiably pleased. :)

[@E_FoxSnowspirit]

Ikr

[@JonasClark]

I'm vastly late, but... "Bed & Bath" was a chain for ages, as you noted. They were in most shopping malls. Then they started building big, standalone stores, and wanted people to know they sold a wider variety of household supplies than their mall stores did, hence "Bed, Bath & Beyond." And they do, their stores are gigantic.

[@GhostInTheShell29]

I worked for a company that sold simplehuman products, and I was always very confused as to what they were trying to suggest by their name. I always felt they were just calling their customers simple, since they overpaid for a rubbish bin.

[@lilyrose8619]

GhostInTheShell29 I used to work for Simplehuman for 3 months

[@caramelldansen2204]

is it a rubbish bin, or a _rubbish_ bin?

[@eloiseannicle]

I wish more comedy shows embraced puns with such consistency. I mean, they don’t work for every format or all the time, but I do believe they are under utilised.

[@WubbGmbaa]

I wonder if Tom checks the disambiguation page when they're just getting a general idea of what the thing is near the beginning. Gary asking if it was an album got me thinking, since it seems like every Wikipedia disambiguation page includes _at least_ one post-something album or artist.

[@odyseya]

Choose a disambiguation page and guess what it can be? (Kinda like Reverse trivia, but with wikipedia)

[@twojuiceman]

@@odyseya ooh, that's a good idea! Find a disambiguation page with lots of entries, read of the descriptions but not the titles, and have them try and guess what the subject is! Brilliant!

[@tilleyhat-man6128]

The treaty of Paris disambiguation page, would be great due to: 1. The quantity of entries and 2. It gives you a chance to aping the wheel and bash the French, which would be great for this show .

[@countertony]

Toilet wallets! For when you're feeling flush.

[@egzitwoond6391]

The "Beyond" is all just astrophysics equipment.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Bed, Bath & Radio Telescopes?

[@MrSthotwhelz]

I use a wheelchair. Simplehuman bin was great investment.

[@erincarlson5901]

Steven Bale tbf that's what most things in American infomercials for example are intended for (people with mobility problems etc) but everyone just sees it as humanity being stupidly lazy cause of the adverts.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

That's a great point that I really should have considered. Better than a pop-down-pop-up-y bin, which I always hate using because *ew*.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@liamsmith5013 Insects. Also looking at trash. I also imagine it would be used in nations that actually have a bin in the bathroom for you know what.

[@MathAndComputers]

This show is so funny that I have to take a break before watching more so that my chest stops hurting from all of the laughing.

[@rewrose2838]

+Neil G(-cups) Dickson I agree , Binge watching Tom&co. is ridiculously tough on me lungs m8~

[@bentoth9555]

I've had to stop watching before to do an asthma treatment cause I was laughing too hard.

[@notakirakarakaza2118]

I heard Marx & Spencer also have a revolutionary subscription model. They call it a 5-year plan.

[@EngineersAnon]

I was surprised that when they riffed on the automatic bog roll and Her Majesty getting buried in paper, no one made a "Queen Mummy" joke.

[@hisgirl413]

We call it (in my family) Bed, Bath, and Beyond what I want to pay.

[@sidsdabest2416]

No comments?? What? I'll fix that

[@Tritium21]

Christmas Tree Shops does not actually sell Christmas trees... They are a bargain/discount store that happens to have slightly more Christmas decorations for sale in autumn (than the average box store).

[@SourceOfBeing]

A TV Tropes version of this would be interesting

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Now *that's* an amazing idea.

[@thefullestcircle]

I know this was 3 years ago but you could call it "Describe Topic Here"

[@Nazuiko]

@@thefullestcircle Or just Trope Walking, if not some pun with Tropescott? Tom Scottropes?

[@GumSkyloard]

@@Nazuiko I'm disappointed in you. Tropenical Difficulties.

[@JonesNate]

7:23 -- The Queen is now a mummy? Also, the toilet roll sensor is a good idea, but not for dispensing; instead for sensing how much is left. That way, maintenance could be automatically notified when a roll is low/out.

[@magic_cfw]

I got up, I was grouchy. I watched this, I was laughing every time I went to the toilet and was reminded of this catastrophe.

[@musicmanfelipe]

I have two Simple Human bins in my kitchen. One for trash, one for recycling.

[@Faithy2386]

*Mirror, mirror, on the wall...* *Turn the lights on for us all.*

[@requiembeeblebroxx]

Oh my god, you broke Tom!

[@AdamFaulknerVideos]

Sensor-controlled lights are the bane of my existance right now... The lights in my Uni halls are motion-sensitive, and they basically turn off if you're not walking around the room. I've just given up...

[@KirbyofDarkness]

Here in Canada, all the trash bins on my street have a small hole ripped into them, somehow...They're perfectly sized for squirrels to sneak in and out of. It's suspicious...

[@that_llama_in_a_tuxedo4584]

Jack you Canadians are so polite you let the squirrels take your rubbish while apologising.

[@michaelfernau6369]

I believe there for the anonymous inglorious

[@AFN2750]

Same in Seattle

[@leafan101]

Went to my parent's house for Christmas this year and they had a SimpleHuman trash can. It felt like I met a celebrity.

[@CaptainDominic]

This need a TV series. Probably on dave.

[@helloworld4390]

And then a few years later on Dave ja vu

[@Dog1818YT]

@@helloworld4390 you know dave ja vu is basically dave +1(replaying programs one hour after the original channel does) right?

[@odyseya]

No, because Dave isn't accessible in every country/area

[@violetsteele350]

And then, there will be an American spin off that doesnt do the original justice because of the difference in humour.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

@@violetsteele350 Unless it channels the "Whose Line Is It Anyway" effect (which it might!)

[@Boxttell11]

Can we all just appreciate that tom hasn't aged a day over seven years?

[@ezekielmartin4323]

He's got a portrait of himself somewhere in his house that's in its mid-60s by now

[@MollyBlueDawn]

Now I am imagining the Bed Bath & Beyond Tarot deck. The suits would be Brushes, Bowls, Plungers, and Rolls.

[@jonnywak1292]

Correct me if I'm wrong but a normal soap dispenser would be just as hygienic as the soap would clean your hands after you've touched the germ part

[@Janesprutget]

+Lorry Mun My thought exactly!

[@thejogman]

+Lorry Mun but its more fun to use

[@johnbeauvais3159]

fierydawn That's really handy to know thank you for that

[@sonjaimmonen6610]

also not everyone has two hands to use for the dispenser and catching the soap simultaneously.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And then you try to leave the public bathroom after washing your hands, but the door opens to the inside and it got a fixed handle.

[@AlexanderPavel]

Watching this after Bed, Bath, and Beyond has gone bankrupt and is liquidating all their stock and closing all their stores is quite interesting.

[@jackninja1]

I actually cried, this is hilarious.

[@rlouisdeerfield]

this was hands down the funniest thing I've seen in slightly less than a forever.

[@Jonago.]

A few weeks ago I found a Simplehuman bin at my school and instantly thought of this episode

[@DarrenLandrum]

A bin that plays music when you put something in could be Matt Gray's next Raspberry Pi project. :)

[@DarrenLandrum]

Ooh, even better: a magic mirror. I wonder how hard it would be to back-project onto a partially-silvered mirror to make it look like it's haunted...

[@mattymerr701]

Better yet, a mirror that shows your reflection flipped, then a month later shows it normally. You'd never be able to get used to what you look like!

[@MrMatt15]

Street Bins in Melbourne Australia have sensors to say when they’re full; saving money by not requiring as regular emptying

[@velvetsrose]

I heard Tom say 'Simplehuman' and immediately I was like, "those are the sensored trash cans and soap dispensers and stuff they sell at Bed Bath and Beyond right?"

[@Jimb3rts]

I'm considering actually sending that telegram. Shockingly, you can actually still do that.

[@helloworld4390]

You can? I did not realise that! Where would you go to send it?

[@PrisonerZero]

Saw a package of hand soap called simple human at a department store today and immediately realized it's this same company. It was a refill bag for automated hand soap dispensers.

[@rattrap1009]

Points: Chris: 1 Gary: 3, 1 MB Matt: 4, 1 MB Winner: Matt • Totals: Chris: 13 points 0 Mystery Biscuits 2 Wins Gary: 14 points 2 Mystery Biscuits 1 win Matt: 14 points 2 Mystery Biscuits 2 Wins Band names / albums so far: Furious Strumpets, SimpleHuman.

[@xmlthegreat]

If you watch closely, you can see that Tom is laughing at the end. Yes. I have a keen observation.

[@thelastcube.]

I'm impressed

[@Ciara_Turner]

My work uses open topped simplehuman bins. I think of the tech diff gang every time I throw something away.

[@ulischmidt03]

my mom has one of those trash cans and it works 70% of the time which means that 30% of the time you are prying it open using a knife because it is genuinely impossible to open without it when it decides it just doesn’t want to work.

[@Fuxy22]

I watched this like 5 times over the years and I still laugh my ass off in tears when I come back to it.

[@qwertyTRiG]

How are your assets now?

[@joll05]

It took me many watches of this before I realised that "skittle alley" did not mean a rack with skittles candy on it.

[@jacobs1491]

RIP both Christmas tree shop and Bead bath and beyond

[@traviskbracken7457]

"tingly, but not necessarily wrong" is words I want on my tombstone. (^.^)

[@rachielyon4974]

You guys are so funny ! Love this series :) love a good Yorkshire accent too !

[@baronclime6423]

This episode really highlights the the thing that makes it so enjoyable for me. That is how mufun these guys are having just saying basically whatever comes to mind.

[@friedmaniac]

I just found this series and I am loving it!

[@binarydivided]

What a great show!

[@amyclarke6176]

All I can think about was the time I was on the dlr and this guy in full business wear got on at Canary Wharf with a kitchen bin and sat it on the chair next to him. To say I did a double take is an understatement.

[@KingTaltia]

Bed, Bath, and Beyond: (Beyond being Kitchens and Diningrooms)

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

I thought they just meant sex toys :/

[@KettuKakku]

Liarra Sniffles That's Bed Bath & Behind.

[@lunaangeleclipse9745]

Surely they should just call themselves 'House'

[@SineN0mine3]

Its called bed bath and table in Aus

[@WallChart]

Someone needs to make Russian toilette!!!

[@danielhuneke5862]

I love how during every outro tom just has an ear to ear smile because he's laughing so much.

[@m3lod1an]

Christmas Tree Shops does not, in fact, sell Christmas trees, but they do sell just about every other form of tacky knickknack under the sun.

[@timothymclean]

If I was at that table when Tom came up with Russian Toilette, I would have smacked the biscuit button. ...And then asked for directions to the airport, because I'm not sure why I'd be across the Pond four years ago.

[@gingersperg]

And buzz lightyear exclaimed: To bed bath... And beyoooond!

[@roecocoa]

I've seen every episode (into Season 7) and this is still in the top 5 for me.

[@Darilon12]

And in 8 years none of these guys has changed a bit. 😂👍

[@alansmithee419]

6:20 I've just had a terrible idea: dissolvable pasta!

[@AFN2750]

A long series of mistakes lead me to finding this out: all pasta is dissolvable if you leave it on boiling water for long enough

[@meme__supreme3373]

@@AFN2750 by that point, the water is just burnt porridge though.

[@NFSHeld]

My girlfriend has broken multiple bins. Well not her, but her cats. They use it as a place to land on when they jump down from the kitchen counter, and those stupid cheap plastic lids break all the time.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I love how you just keep riffing off each other at the end.

[@michaelbagley497]

But can you take your temperature with the fork sensor as your eating dinner.

[@kated442]

A few years ago I was furnishing my apartment and when I saw Simplehuman trash cans in the store, this episode was all I could think of.

[@erian3507]

I have seen all of these sooo many times and I am still laughing at the jokes. XD

[@adamnaameeazim6365]

"Temperature probe" *Gary do you mean a thermometer*

[@keithhunter4275]

Gary's reaction at 10:57 has me in tears XD XD XD XD

[@sbasra]

I really love this show.

[@metropod]

In fairness, the "Christmas Tree Shops" (officially always plural because the original location was split into multiple stores owned together) is slightly more a seasonal goods and decorations place, and the newer stores outside the northeastern US are called "andThat!"

[@snowfloofcathug]

Have you ever been to andThat!?

[@fafnir242]

"Bed, Bath, and Tarot Cards" deserved more. It's "Bed, Bath, and The Great Beyond".

[@ezekielmartin4323]

AYYYYYY

[@fafnir242]

@@ezekielmartin4323 *MYSTERY BISCUITS!*

[@sonan333]

At 11:11 Well, seeing as the other items are only somewhat useful, is it a mirror that has some heating coils to de-fog the mirror, but has facial recognition software and only defogs where your face is?

[@DudokX]

This is awesome!

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Are automatic bins not a British thing? I've seen tons of these in friend's houses. It's very useful if your hands are full, because it opens automatically. And most of them have automatic release food things in case of failure. Also whenever you look at a product and think "wow this is for really lazy people" is most likely designed for disabled people and they're selling it to the general market to keep the cost down.

[@Viscount]

Greatness. Reminds me of some of the conversation i used to have with friends before we all had to get real jobs and had kids.

[@spacewarpphotography1667]

I saw this in Target this week! I laughed my head off.

[@Ghutom]

'ello Vera! Made me fall out of my chair. =)

[@intercsaki]

Non-british here: what's the reference?

[@kieranmiles3198]

csaki Aloe Vera is a plant that is used to make soothing creams, but when the name is said out loud it sounds like a strongly accented person saying "Hello" to a person named Vera.

[@intercsaki]

Oh so british go and say hi back with whatever the name is when someone says aloe vera? :D I thought it's a commercial or something

[@SamBrev]

actually crying with laughter! that was hilarious!

[@GryphLane]

7:59 I'm shocked Gary missed the "Use Number 2" gag...

[@benjaminnieva6016]

I'm liking to think it's because stall number 2 was the one that's out of bog roll, or toilet paper for those of us in other parts of the world.

[@michigan2974]

Literally just saw some today, and it made me think of this video, so now I’m watching it

[@sagetmaster4]

whenever it cut to Tom all I could look at was that poor withered plant in the background

[@helloworld4390]

Not so bad, my history teacher killed a cactus because he forgot he owned it and lost it behind a stack of files until he Sat on it

[@mishaseka5813]

shave and haircut melody

[@aleattorium]

Never knew that. I'm proud.

[@donaldasayers]

Have you been in the toilets in York where the circular seats rotate and clean themselves? But fail to dry, so you have a wet seat, so you dry it then as you turn to sit down it rotates again and is rewetted. And you have to pay...

[@desia.brimou]

What?!

[@ringsystemmusic]

WHAT?!

[@nonexistent-best-friend1693]

The Christmas tree store doesn't even sell Christmas trees

[@WilliametcCook]

Like failing at blind folded darts, suddenly turning around and throwing the dart in the circle around the bullseye.

[@sjargo11]

Ive watched theese lads for years now and only just realised what bog roll is...

[@jonm7989]

I can’t take my eyes off of the dead plant on the sill behind Tom.

[@HarukaLPs]

Going on a Tech Diff binge

[@megannason3649]

I remember seeing a simple green garbage can at the hospital I worked at and it looked like R2D2. I was afraid it was plotting the downfall of humanity...

[@RegiRuler]

That Bed Bath & Beyond guess was absolutely sublime

[@DeltaDS]

Just noticed today that the bin I've had for years is a simplehuman bin

[@CrippledMerc]

They said “danger bog roll” I thought “danger balrog”

[@elliott.camera]

That is a truly lovely water feature behind Tom there.

[@flibblesan]

Brilliant!

[@sontarian3]

I drove past a warehouse next to the A14 with 'simplehuman' on the side the other week and all I could think about was this video

[@bentoth9555]

The sensor mirror is kind of obvious, I thought. Small mirror, goes on the counter, has lights around the edge to help with seeing things in it. Usually they're parabolic so it's easier to see fine detail.

[@calumboland1953]

7:27 “it’d be great for the queen” I suspect she’d find limited use for it at current

[@ezekielmartin4323]

I'm picturing The Haunting of Buckingham Palace, but it's just that the toilet paper dispensers in the bathrooms sometimes go off when no one's around... OoOoOoOoOooo...

[@Onio_Saiyan]

I'd go to Marx and Spencer's. Probably some good work-wear on offer.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

Bet you could get a bulk rate on bricks and balaclavas