The Battle of Fishguard and "Brandy": Citation Needed 8x01

The final season begins! With a traditional tale of a military mistake and a wheel that spins and lands on France.
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[@TomScottGo]

Welcome to all the recent subscribers who have no idea what's about to hit them!

[@grand776]

Tom Scott finally! Yes!

[@MisterAppleEsq]

As always!

[@keatonhare7691]

This is exactly what I was opting for this morning

[@keatonhare7691]

Hoping

[@SirFranex]

38 views - 72 likes people must love this and i don't blame them

[@beardedemperor]

Final season? FINAL SEASON?! But Citation Needed is _needed._

[@MisterAppleEsq]

Eh, we'll still be getting Tech Diff content.

[@rawovunlapin8201]

Mister Apple yeah and tbh citation needed isn't that different from their reverse trivia podcast (at least in the banter department), so I'd say whatever new format will probably appeal to fans of this show.

[@Jothamvvw]

[Citation Needed]

[@PiousMoltar]

I don't do podcasts...

[@SUPREMEdiver33]

God no it's a terrible show

[@toddbod94]

There is a word for "The armies amassed and got ready to fight", it's called mustering.

[@perryheun3047]

If they cross a stream, is that a Ford Muster?

[@MishaNem]

@@perryheun3047 goddamnit, well done

[@Marianopiano]

Like in a ute muster?

[@entropiCCycles]

Chris' bit as drunken William Knox was amazing.

[@Lizz85257]

NOOOWYOUMAYSPEAK

[@Einveldi]

@@Lizz85257 BUTNOTABOUTTHAT

[@GalacticMoblin]

@@Lizz85257 BUTNOTABOUTTHAT

[@cameronsteel6147]

“This wine is German Christmas bread” still gets stuck in my head every now and then 😂

[@johnkeefer8760]

I don’t understand that joke. Can you explain?

[@SullySideUp]

@@johnkeefer8760 Stollen is a type of fruit bread traditionally eaten in Germany at Christmas

[@pastapwrd5508]

@@SullySideUp created after two brothers in Dreseden the Pope to lift the Lenten (the lent fast) on butter n stuff

[@rileybanks1191]

every christmas i end up saying it repeatedly

[@rexbaumeister7377]

Mine is "Don't forget that we've given them rifles!"

[@Ignideus]

It's not a wheel, it's a flat piece of cardboard that says "France"

[@Nosirrbro]

Its just a drunk frenchman they spin around and only knows one english word.

[@Stronghold257]

The word is surrender

[@camohawk6703]

to be fair there is a little bit of cardboard that says "Rest of the World"

[@Tarpo]

Thats enough of you Flat France theorists

[@TheAlps36]

More like a coin with "France" and "Anywhere else" on each side

[@FlintTD]

"...Portuguese version of a Man-o-War..." Gary, do you mean the Portuguese Man-o-War?

[@damientonkin]

Also called bluebottles but I didn’t know they had wine in them.

[@generalgrievous2202]

@@damientonkin this has caused much confusion for me.

[@dbseamz]

No, that was at the Battle of Jellyfishguard.

[@lucienwolf5353]

I know this comment is a bit older, but I'm fairly sure that the joke Gary made was about the galleon ship type called Man of War which ironically was developed in Portugal, but was used all over Europe.

[@palimer6]

You win a French fast-paced music hall dance performed by a metal container with a Belgian comic protagonist in it It's a Tintin tin can can-can

[@VIUSmusic]

Hell yes

[@velvetsrose]

R/wordavalanches

[@futrey9353]

@@velvetsrose R/ihavereddit

[@piethedye3948]

r/foundthemobileuser

[@fredslipknot9]

Good one!

[@figmentisms]

"This is not one of them [a place for learning]" Bold of you to assume i havent actually gained a great deal of random obscure knowledge from rewatching this series several times

[@ezekielmartin4323]

If nothing else, I have gotten a LOT of small talk trivia out of this

[@beemer9108]

Wow. I've always skipped this show because I never knew what it was about, but after watching this by accident and non-stop laughing the entire time, I'm going to watch the entire series now. This was hilarious!

[@ThePixel1983]

I hope you enjoyed yourself! It's really worth it! Just like Two of these people are lying!

[@andreicaloianu5893]

Sameeee

[@andreicaloianu5893]

@@ThePixel1983 true

[@refrigeratorNO]

Same

[@aidan.22]

Same!

[@kinkara01]

Tom Scott is blowing glue! I mean Tom Scott is glowing blue!

[@chartle1]

Yes i just also commented on it.

[@catfish552]

Also going indisputably grey around the ear. Sorry, Tom.

[@superfly9291]

You gain 86 experience points and found a healing potion for that reference!

[@pastapwrd5508]

Nobody caught Gary's joke of 'The Soft Underbelly' of Europe referring to Churchhill's flawed idea of invading Italy in WW2

[@volodyadykun6490]

Why flawed, it worked

[@quahntasy]

This is probably the best show on KZbin. And it's the last season. Makes me sad :(

[@StopKillerBear]

7:00 armies amassing themselves and getting ready to fight is called mobilization.

[@AgentTasmania]

StopKillerBear I think that’s a much earlier, larger scale stage. Forming up, maybe

[@blucksy7229]

Mobilisation is at a nation wide scale

[@StrokeMahEgo]

It's like when Russia did that "period preparatory to war" before actually mobilizing on WWI

[@henrynotsharinglastnameoni9668]

StrokeMahEgo oh hey you watch crash corse

[@Ayyyyther]

@@AgentTasmania Mustering.

[@preferredimage]

I knew I recognised Matt Gray from something...... I came to see you recently about Tricaster training! I said at the time I thought I knew you from something! I guess it was Citation needed!

[@MattGrayYES]

HI! :D

[@einfachConny]

The best show on KZbin is back but it is the last season :(

[@maaaaaar]

What a pleasant surprise as a resident of Fishgaurd!

[@IceMetalPunk]

French, English, or Welsh? :P

[@maaaaaar]

Im English and a little Welsh.

[@BitDaeLago]

I lice I letterston up the road

[@maaaaaar]

@@BitDaeLago Never though anybody local to me watched Tom Scott, suppose I am wrong.

[@EdenDoesGaming]

@@maaaaaar You're not alone don't you worry.

[@aspidoscelis]

It took me a minute to figure out why the French using whales to attack was the only thing apparently being discussed seriously.

[@ActualCharky]

I'm not sure what it's supposed to do, but that blue light makes it look like matt and tom are *really* badly bluescreened in...

[@Draugo]

How do you know they aren't?

[@U014B]

@@Draugo The could have been chromakeyed in really well, but the blue shading was added in post to make it look like they weren't.

[@lu-gp4ld]

Anybody else return to this whenever they need a laugh?

[@mirjanbouma]

Ayup.

[@ewanmacdonald728]

So wish I could've gone to one of these live, looking forward to whichever new format you choose to do (I would just use all of them as they're all great). You four are brilliant together, just wish Chris Joel did the social media nonsense

[@bob_._.]

He's probably got a life.

[@greggorytame6672]

You know, I recently started to try and play Table Top Time Machine with a few friends to help them study for their history class.

[@beth12svist]

@@greggorytame6672 I think that's the best thing about these: you can easily imagine playing them with your friends. I've sadly only found them in Covid times and at a point in my life when I moved away from where I was meeting with friends regularly. But I'm definitely keeping them in mind for whenever a bunch of people wants to be silly together in a more organised manner.

[@michaelocyoung]

If you're trying to get north from London from Waterloo Tom, you've got other issues than it being Xmas Eve

[@U014B]

"You 'ave a massive army? At zis time of day, at zis time of year, in zis part of ze cœntry, localized entirely wizin zis pœb?" "Yes." "May we see it?" "Nnnno."

[@twojuiceman]

Vell, lord Cawdor, you are an odd fellow, but ah muzt zay, you steam a good ham

[@RinoaL]

this episode had so many dense jokes, i had to rewatch it multiple times. i cant believe you come up with all of this in real time!

[@Yorkie-ub6du]

7:22 Gary's facial impression is just perfect

[@lividsphincter4098]

After that pike pun it's a good thing this show is canceled. God I'm going to miss citation needed.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

Never mind that, what about the chinchilla one? Someone needs prosecuting for that :D

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

+

[@AlexOnTheBus]

Definitely jumped the shark...

[@DataCab1e]

That was right up there with "Nicolas Cage's knickerless cage" as "puns that work much better with a British accent"

[@HP3Lover]

Your sad Mike thumbnail says it all

[@Slaeowulf]

I've been watching this for years and I finally got one! Chinchilla chin chiller!

[@m82m107barrett]

The final season, until you all decide, a couple years from now, that you'd like to do another season of Citation Needed.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

Until then we'll have to amuse ourselves by setting up our own private sessions. Maybe see if it can be adapted into a pub quiz format. Though you do of course need that essential chemistry which isnt ever guaranteed.

[@bleddynwolf8463]

saddly not it seems

[@gableweeb719]

@@bleddynwolf8463 Well they did have Two Of These People Are Lying

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Rumour has it that a provisional mini series of three might, just might, be done for late next year. They just need to get their schedules together.

[@royalninja2823]

@@robertwilloughby8050 wonder if that ended up being the Adventures series

[@NotKyleChicago]

I think the word Tom was looking for was "muster."

[@countertony]

Got to say, if you're trying to get north from Waterloo station...but this is someone who sailed west from Mevagissey, so... (Alternative, more charitable answer: then you're probably using the Tube.)

[@Garbaz]

After watching the 7 previous seasons and the old radio episodes multiple time, I'm absolutely ready for another season!

[@BryanSteacy]

There are radio episodes?

[@nihalanand2690]

@@BryanSteacy I know you asked a month ago, but they're most likely referring to the Reverse Trivia podcast, which is audio only.

[@BryanSteacy]

@@nihalanand2690 thats probably the answer In was looking for, thanks!

[@michaelcallander7085]

Chris' brandy bit is undefeated.

[@jeremysmith7176]

I'd have to give it to Henrycus

[@ezekielmartin4323]

You're both sleeping on "This Town Is a Lie"

[@1973Washu]

A learned of the heady delights of Fishguard from "All the stations"

[@TheJollyGent]

0:59 when you throw the ball behind you in Wii Sports bowling

[@fizyk1101]

This episodes master of the background waa: the expressive guy in the front row who couldn't stop laughing at Matt's Public Service Announcement Joke.

[@johnnyboy3949]

Yes! Finally it’s back! Just a shame it’s the final season 😢 Hope you still do fun stuff together! I really miss the park benches ☹️

[@steckelton717]

Finally, the final season starts! Can't tell you how much I've waited for this and how often I watched the old episodes :'D

[@marsdeat]

I believe Matt got what is known in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue circles as "an applau".

[@Dampfish]

Congratulations, you've won a night out with a very old coal miner. It's a carbon-date!

[@Jedi-J2]

I watched the "Pike" bit five times just to see every single person's reaction to it individually.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

Why doesn't Matt know any proper directional terms?

[@copydepastey]

oh! i know this... its the thingy with the westy bit! which comes from that one thing!

[@TheDundeeBiscuitLuvU]

He's said before he's a bit dyslexic, and that can often come with bits of dyspraxia, and combine the two and I guess that's what happens haha it's just how it works in his brain

[@nanomage]

The lefty bit is not a directional term?

[@gwenynorisu6883]

Took me an embarrassingly long time into my adult life before I was able to tell east from west with any certainty. Still have to pause for a moment every now and then to make sure I've absolutely got it right...

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

MaryJane He's got a funny mind but it seems to have worked for him excellently :)

[@PhiNickGaming]

I've never clicked a video so fast

[@johnnyboy3949]

PhiNick EVE you obviously have never watched porn

[@user-pv7pn3my4r]

Just seeing the thumbnail made my day.

[@PiousMoltar]

And then seeing "final season" ruined it.

[@j.k.wheeler4899]

Love Gary explaining the Welshwomen in terms of the spoons and then the spoons in terms of the Welshwomen.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

Damn. The pun at the end Ininstantly thought “Capybara jaw air conditionah.”

[@anno0001]

So uh... Kaytee (a pet supply company) actually started calling their Chinchilla cooling blocks Chin Chillers. 🤣

[@redactedwatkins6195]

that taught me a lesson.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

LESSON EXPUNGED

[@redactedwatkins6195]

oh no, my useless knowledge

[@bln35]

Final Season starting off with a very strong episode, thanks for all the work you've done guys. As they say, leave us wanting more!

[@MagraveOfGA]

Do we know that Chris reads books, or does Chris read books that we know? The eternal question!

[@twojuiceman]

Chris Joel is a quantum entity. As long as he's not being observed, he hasn't read any books. Once you observe him, though, he has only read books that YOU know. Quite uncanny

[@tylerjohnson398]

I have been marathoning all the episodes all the way back to the audio episodes, so to end it with the new season is nice

[@txrracxtta]

Just finished binging all 7 seasons, loved every single episode. It's super sad to see this is the final season but it's been a blast! Thank you, Tom, Gary, Chris and Matt!

[@AceAttorny]

Well, it took him 8 seasons, but Matt finally came up with an opener other than "Hello, KZbin!"

[@goldstarsforall]

Yo as this is the last season I just had a really good though Technical Difficulties, Dungeons And Dragons Matt would be a Bard

[@ferbfreeman9239]

Technical Difficulties: Dungeons and Dragons. I'd watch that.

[@wotnograpefruit]

Speaking of battles named after places they weren't fought, there's the example of the Battle of Bunker Hill, from the American Revolution, which was actually fought on Breed's Hill, as the American Militia moved during the night and dug in on the wrong hill. The British sportingly refused to take advantage of this mistake, and attacked frontally anyway.

[@SaszaDerRoyt]

I would absolutely love this as a comedic historical film

[@JulianDanzerHAL9001]

0:50 when your sword doesn't have a crossguard so you improvise by tying a fish to it

[@addityasinghal897]

I recently subscribed and have since finished all the citation needed! Keep up the work everyone!

[@ArrangedNoiseFan]

This series is great

[@krim7]

I am still really upset that you guys are ending this show. I love it so much.

[@lizziethompson3130]

This came at the perfect time thanks Tom

[@slook7094]

Please don't let this be the last one! This is my favorite part of your channel! I love you guys together.

[@brianhenrichs9409]

It looks like a whole season! I'm so excited.I really hope they decide to make more after this

[@rawsthornegrundy9168]

You can’t go a season of technical difficulties without Gary discussing his gout.

[@megarockman]

6:59 "Mustering" or "forming up", I'd wager is what you were looking for.

[@EdwardCree]

Nah, they didn't have utes back then. Hadn't been invented.

[@Rhi.Andr27]

The royal oak is actually still running in fishguard funnily enough

[@jordylont1879]

I just watched every available episode of this show in a day and I love it. It’s hilarious.

[@macronencer]

So glad to have you back! This is a wonderful trivium to bear in mind, too :)

[@acdbrn2000]

Nice, a new episode of season of citation needed. This is a great birthday present to wake up to.

[@acdbrn2000]

@@ragnkja thank you

[@sethrothz]

Happy late birthday! I'll be back in 10 months.

[@davidbuschhorn6539]

The puns are ever-so-painful.... as always. :)

[@mesaprime4368]

Probably one of my favourite episodes. Just because of BRANDY

[@Etropalker]

YYEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!one more season of utter ridiculousness and a wheel called "France"

[@sheyethppns2940]

I'm so happy to see this back and I don't think I've laughed so hard from one of these episodes as I did today. Good job chaps

[@alorachan]

Gary: We all have different routes to education! Chris: This isn't one, by the way. Me: like hell, I've learned a LOT from this show. like Gary does amazing sound impressions of things. And Jack Churchill - my new hero.

[@Kraigon42]

So happy to see this back. So sad to know it's the last season.

[@KingTaltia]

MORE TECH DIFF! Today is a good day!!! I can't wait for the rest of the season! I never laugh aloud alone, but you guys get me bellowing in laughter every time!

[@BrimstoneCobra]

This has got to be the best citation needed episode i've seen as of yet

[@zozodj2r]

07:36 is when Chris goes off about brandy

[@DarthSmirnoff]

Really gonna miss this when these episodes are done. :(

[@vkillion]

I enjoyed it, like always, but something about the pacing of this episode seemed... off. I can't really be more precise than that, it just seemed weird. Overall, still great and can't wait for more!

[@Roblilley999]

I was thinking the same, didn't flow the same as the others

[@benjaminhackett8896]

Like the new camera! Y'all are both informative and incredibly hilarious. Keep it up!

[@dbackscott]

You have no idea how happy this has made me today. We need a bit of levity right now.

[@multiplio2924]

"The Battle of Waterloo is where everyone's trying to get North before Christmas..." ...well they're very lost?

[@anttibjorklund1869]

Waterloo is a station in London.

[@taylorhancock5834]

Woo! The final season! I'll be sad when I finish it, but I can't wait to see what comes next for TechDiff...Great series!

[@CantSniff]

Oh thank god the window behind Chris is gone!

[@CaffeineBoost14]

It's still there, it has moved towards Gary. It shall claim the entire cast. The window is all powerful and all knowing.

[@NateandNoahTryLife]

I love citation needed, and I'm sad to see it go. I hope whatever comes next will fill the hole in my heart!

[@blobstar123blob4]

10:47 Wait... Seargent Rekless?!

[@onionbot2]

spam timestamp for nightmares

[@miraclo3]

these are good and all and well made. however, for some reason, I still prefer the ones where it's just you 4 in the kitchen, around a table, having a laugh and playing that way. love the show and keep up the great work!

[@Andyman999999]

It's going to be such a bummer when this season end. I love these for the laughs they bring.

[@calcubite9298]

1:37 funny you should say that. The Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolution didn't take place on Bunker Hill.

[@cadetkohr5508]

0:58 Everyone in the room got the pun at the same time.

[@Kummahndough]

The lighting makes Tom look like he's chroma keyed in.

[@Howtheheckarehandleswit]

I may not get a lot of these jokes, but your delivery is so good it’s hilarious anyway

[@michaelcallander7085]

"This wine is German Christmas bread"

[@ezekielmartin4323]

It's a good sentence, ain't it?

[@erinflood5626]

Perfect timing to watch after getting back from school 😊

[@chloezaffran3552]

I LOVE those Technical Difficulties ^_^ I wish I could come to a live show someday...

[@J_mesG]

Been waiting ages for this ❤️

[@chrissanchez2394]

This series taught me many things

[@haldir108]

15 minutes of laughter. I needed that.

[@azdgariarada]

This is far too good. I will be sad when it ends, but as always I look forward to your future endeavors.

[@datvyper6678]

Once again an excellent show!