The Format Laboratory - Experiment 3

[@mattandtom]

I'd like to extend my formal apologies to Stephen Mulhern. -- Tom

[@CStoegie]

"Is the Pope Catholic" - two teams ideally dressed in their Sunday best are presented with beliefs from different religions and they have to decide if it's Catholic or not. At the end the winners get to pelt the losers with fake foam boulders.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

Apology for *that video* and *that scene*

[@OldBrutus]

That doesn't how boats is.

[@rat_king-]

still wanna see the punch lines

[@mollymauktealeaf]

CStoegie you’re onto something there

[@tomhowell8398]

"Is the pope catholic" could be a game where the players must argue against an obviously true statement. Invent justifications that Canterbury never existed, that Belgium isn't in the European Union, or that your own head is made of wood and filled with jam. Other players get to question you. They get points if they stump you or catch you contradicting yourself, but you get points if you have a consistent answer.

[@henryellis9390]

Wow this is a great idea. It sounds like an alternate version of "Would I Lie To You", which I personally love.

[@qwertyTRiG]

The book "Vicars of Christ: The dark side of the papacy" argues that the pope is the only Protestant in the Catholic Church.

[@nothayley]

This is how we get Flat Earthers

[@davidwalter3565]

I want to see this made

[@vicentealvarado5608]

This is how we get Truth

[@Charky_Creations]

"that doesn't how boats is" - Matt, 2018

[@shortjohnson7804]

Charky I want to see this on a T -shirt.

[@qwertzy121212]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[@TheFrenchMansControl]

I think we have a winner for the next formats name.

[@nicklandkroon8182]

I want that as a homely cross stitch.

[@Nadia1989]

I bet Tom's linguist side groaned.

[@kwakerjak]

Now that I think of it, Matt’s idea for “The Tail Wagging the Dog” sounds a lot like the format for “Two of These People Are Lying.”

[@Eagi85]

Yeah, but this entire miniseries was about finding a new format, and given their warm response it seems that one was the winner.

[@Northfan42]

I prefer Chris' original Nth degree idea better than the way it's implemented here. The way Chris said it, the points go to the last person to make a joke BEFORE things get rude enough to be cut. That way, people are incentivised to be as funny and relevant as possible without being truly offensive or ridiculously obtuse. By giving the points to the people who get cut because of their rude jokes in this, Tom is quite simply inverting that incentive and also keeping the audience from knowing why a single point is awarded. Unfortunate misunderstanding, that. Update: while re-watching this, I've determined the people who each spoke last (and got a laugh) before each of the cut jokes. Not only did Chris invent the Nth Degree, but he wins it as well.

[@johnydl]

The thing is that the only way the format works if it's the person before the cut joke is if the game is actually decided in the edit... you could have the format do double duty, so there's the bonus points trophy awarded at the end for rudest contestant but the real winner is shown with a "these are the scores" and "so x wins and y gets the golden cock" although the whole points thing is kinda whose line/I'm sorry I haven't a clue no one knows or actually cares what the points are it just allows extra gags

[@andrewsparkes6275]

RON JEREMY

[@andrewsparkes6275]

Also, it'd probably be even more amazing for the online content shown afterwards, showing what the actual cut jokes were - drive up the KZbin channel's advertising money! I mean, it works for Dave...

[@andrewsparkes6275]

@@johnydl You'd just do as they did here, and cut out any joke that obviously wouldn't make it past the watershed. It's pretty obvious; any joke that - even with beeps - is just too rude to broadcast. That's not even decided "in the edit"; it could just be the producers themselves saying down to the host's earpiece "That's too much!"...which brings an even better visual conceit to the process, of the host holding his finger up to the earpiece - on tenterhooks - as the contestants go further and further!

[@volodyadykun6490]

I mean, they as well can just not go for rude jokes (it's hard for them, but if it's for points)

[@BrodytheCuber]

Chris' idea for the nth degree and Matt's idea for Burn the candle at both ends are GENIUS. Those are what I'd watch

[@vaktritor7018]

It might be fun to see a more clue-based Candle at both Ends, where both players need to guess the correct thing to draw as well as match their drawings.

[@InShortSight]

The clue they should get is the middle part of the drawing. "what on earth is that supposed to be.... is that.... is that the middle part of a horse? but which way is it facing?"

[@samschwartz5851]

I feel like for Burn the Candle at Both Ends the contestants should be able to communicate, but never about what they’re drawing, just where they’re drawing and how.

[@donaldasayers]

It should include a very hot curry that burns at both ends

[@tomkenning5482]

I misread as burn the candidate at both ends and conflated it with the pope one

[@aNytmare]

Can you do a format for Matt? Everybody does a their best Matt impression and the show is called "4 Matt"

[@tobygeorgeharribo]

This would be brilliant!

[@magic_cfw]

Format4Matt

[@Shardok42]

4Matt sounds more like a formatt that involves bringing their best something 4Matt. Best jokes probably. Begin the formatt with Matt (namesake of 4Matt) spouting off gibberish that the others reply in. You know, things like coracle oracle. Whoevers pleases Matt wins the 4Matt.

[@VIUSmusic]

THIS

[@lizs004]

YES!!!

[@valuial_]

13:10 "I've been Tom Scott and we're never doing that again" ... but, why? It was so fun to watch.

[@baitcommajail]

Yes, this! It was excellent, other than I agree that the nth degree point should go to the last uncut joke.

[@ThePixel1983]

Because they found a new format right at the end (Two if these people are lying)

[@hmoham]

So basically what I've learnt from these experiments so far, as long as we have the four in front of the camera having a laugh, I don't really care which one of the experiments they decide to go forward with.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Agreed. They could start the show, "I'm Tom Scott, with me are the Technical Difficulties, and today we're reading the phone book and occasionally making a joke about the name we just read," and it'd still be hilarious

[@Dieferdan]

And still learn about rocket science

[@lmackenzie89]

"A cow with aspirations" - please make this "Burning the Candle at Both Ends" a real series!

[@SenshiSunPower]

That would be great!

[@kala_asi]

cowʰ

[@Nosirrbro]

@@kala_asi That deserves applause

[@alorachan]

I Concur, I want to see more "Burning the Candle at Both Ends"!

[@onionbot2]

Probably not a series, more a segment in a different series

[@ArifRWinandar]

A panel show about figuring out a panel show. This is like a student writing an essay about the struggles of writing said essay.

[@ilexdiapason]

or a story about having writer's block

[@Lepong20]

Would a game based on programming count?

[@kosmicgr]

Digibro's light novel fits this description perfectly.

[@TheEzzran]

You know, OP, that's almost exactly how I got through the poetry section of my high school english class. We had to write a poem, and I wrote mine about how much I hate writing poetry.

[@nieporadek]

"Academic Imprisonment," by Quinn Morgendorffer

[@notapplicable7292]

I love that Matt won without us ever hearing his jokes.

[@timothymclean]

And _because_ we never heard his jokes. It's like Gary's Derek Acorah joke.

[@kuberootwastaken]

Funny thing is, that's actually not what Chris's suggestion was - in his suggestion it was the previous person to make a joke that earned a point.

[@rjfaber1991]

I'm fairly certain that Matt's joke in the _Name Jeremies_ segment will have been about Clarkson...

[@enochliu8316]

No, last person not eliminate d is winner.

[@kingcoder14nz]

@@rjfaber1991 I think it's about Jeremy Hunt more likely

[@loganstrong5426]

I just realized that their idea for "The tail wagging the dog" basically became "Two of these people are lying."

[@tuetschek]

Me too, after watching this for like the 10th time 😅

[@alexad1498]

I thought the nth degree would have been the person who makes the last joke before one gets cut wins, as in the worst joke you can make before it gets scrapped

[@OrigamiMarie]

Yeah, especially given this group's history, it's easy to skip all the way past the line. But tiptoeing up close to it, that seems like the challenge.

[@NewGalaktos]

Yeah, otherwise a contestant who really wanted to win could just do The Aristocrats ad nauseam. But that’s not how the Technical Difficulties approach their show, so these rules could still work for them, I suppose.

[@alexad1498]

That’s how Chris explained it actually haha Last joke that doesn’t end up on the cutting room floor gets the point

[@timothymclean]

Or you could just skip to Derek Acorah.

[@Shardok42]

I think Matt may have also made the last joke before that.

[@dliessmgg]

My idea for "Is the pope catholic?": The contestants are given four question where the answers seem obvious, but for one of them it isn't. They have to find out which one.

[@wolfgangmcq]

How long did the Hundred Year War last for?

[@entropyzero5588]

+Wolfgang Faust 100 years. Well, if you're counting in base $2*\sqrt{29}$, that is…

[@kasane1337]

+Entropy Zero Looks like someone tried LateX in a KZbin comment ;D

[@RainaRamsay]

Oh that would be amazing

[@mintcervida6372]

isnt that just QI?

[@evildude109]

The Nth Degree would be spectacular as a live show. Give the audience buzzers, and as soon as >50% of the attendees say it's gone too far, the person gets a point.

[@futrey9353]

That could be on Dave or something!

[@lonelypurple9207]

I now want nth degree to be a running gag in all future tech dif videos whenever you have to cut jokes

[@ragnkja]

It almost certainly will be.

[@Johndoe-lx8sh]

yes to this

[@AalbertTorsius]

Only if there's a linked hidden video with the cut jokes.

[@nataliemccarthy9140]

Aalbert Torsius but it’s only the jokes no context you have to guess which joke is in which context

[@genericembarrassingusernam7843]

@@AalbertTorsius Also I believe it's a legal issue in the UK with some of the libel laws they have.

[@RayLiehm]

Matt's suggestion for "The Tail Wagging the Dog" is essentially describing "Two Of These People Are Lying", the new format they eventually went with. So this experiment may have produced some useful results after all!

[@elkudos6262]

Somewhere, on a hard drive, there are video files with joke cuts, retaining in themselves the pieces of a semblance of meaning of this here upload.

[@fishnutter5219]

A hard drive full of nothing but cut jokes from this crew would be the kind of thing you could auction off for some serious money, methinks...

[@wholesomescientist6674]

I feel that the 1/2 drawing segment has some good potential, maybe not for a whole show but it would be great as a segment.

[@janani1826]

Thw timer should be a literal candle burning at both ends

[@kickwriteteach2313]

The Nth Degree should play by Dr. Nim rules: the last person to NOT hit the cutting room floor wins.

[@tomewyrmdraconus837]

That was the original pitch by Chris.

[@blackoak4978]

Someone else mentioned doing it like hot potato, where the last person to have a joke cut gets a kind of Dunce cap. Whoever has the cap at the end is the looser. Add in the points from jokes BEFORE those ones and you get a winner as well

[@timothymclean]

I didn't expect this to turn out very good, but it did! (Though I hope the nth degree isn't a regular thing. Gary's Derek Acorah thing was funny because it was an isolated incident; a whole show with the best jokes cut out because people were _incentivised_ to get them cut would be annoying.)

[@IceMetalPunk]

Well, that's because they did it wrong :P The way Chris explained it, the point was supposed to go to the last joke *that made it into the video* before one had to be cut, not go to the joke that had to be cut. Like a Vickrey auction, but for jokes :)

[@AidanRatnage]

Yes, I belie they were meant to cut the bad jokes after they had run out of good ones.

[@RainaRamsay]

Yes, it would be a much better game the way it was explained, rather than the way it was played here.

[@JesperoTV]

IceMetalPunk And that format would also demand strategy, coaxing the other panelists to say the things that get cut in order to receive the point for having the joke directly before. It would also cause great moments where the panel dances around the joke everyone wants to say, to such an extent that even the audience knows what the joke is, even though it hasn't been said.

[@InfamousArmstrong]

Dead Cat Bounce sounds like something the Mythbusters would do.

[@Vilexxica]

Matt clearly drew the back end of a Girafarig.

[@dliessmgg]

My thought exactly!

[@satibel]

I was too late for that.

[@Armadeus]

so a girafariG?

[@DanJon3711]

Not gonna lie, I think The Nth Degree has potential... keep throwing topics out for jokes and when one gets *just* too bad throw them a graduation hat, the person with the hat at the end of the show loses and gets a forfeit [same as Tom's prizes, but in a worse setting like a ride in Stephen Mulhern's Mucusy Membranes]

[@msclrhd]

It might need to have a different name though, as there is a Radio 4 quiz show called the 3rd degree hosted by Steve Punt.

[@HarriRobins]

"Cutting the Room"

[@sachingiyer]

Really good idea

[@timh.6872]

I like the hot-potato rules instead of points, but I love the *ding* sound as well... Worth a shot at least.

[@joshuahadams]

Tim H. The ding would be the cue to toss the hat.

[@adammullarkey4996]

Don't know about everyone else, but I want to see more of the "Burn the Candle from Both Ends" Horse-drawing game.

[@ragnkja]

Sounds like a great parlour game.

[@DeserdiVerimas]

Matt's proposal for "the tail that wags the dog" of "people have to invent an apocryphal story about a phrase" sounds like a plausible progenitor of "Two of these people are lying"

[@JulianDanzerHAL9001]

wait I thought the last person to make a joke that DOESN'T get cut wins the nth degree, not the one who makes the joke that gets cut?

[@shogun2215]

I think I prefer this honestly, it's even funnier.

[@JulianDanzerHAL9001]

it's easier to win though - you just start out with a way way way too far joke and instantly cut it off - the last person making a joke that doesn't get cut would need more precision and would slowly and carefully 1up another - also of course it would mean we get to see the winning joke

[@shogun2215]

@@JulianDanzerHAL9001 Yes that's true, but I don't think these four are the kinds of people to one up each other.

[@DrZaius3141]

Yeah, they played "To the n+1th degree"

[@Outfrost]

I'm sorry, "1th"? :D

[@harrytodhunter5078]

Please do that horse drawing thing again it was great

[@terrotorotbart8319]

What about the "horse tornado"?

[@observingtheq8810]

They can do even better - drawing half a bycicle, like that one designer (Gianluca Gimini) that asked people to draw a bycicle and then render some of the weird designs.

[@lowercaserho]

I had literal* tears of laughter over the drawing of the horse. * That's literal literal, not the ersatz figurative literal that the kids are so fond of these days.

[@ragnkja]

Me too.

[@timothymclean]

When literal loses its literalness, what words will we have left that mean "literal"? "Verily"? "Really"?

[@turtles10]

@@timothymclean No, you have literally, because sarcasm and hyperbolic speech don't make are word less meaningful.

[@timothymclean]

1. I specifically said *"When* literal loses its literalness," not "because". 2. Sarcasm doesn't matter to this discussion. You don't hear people sarcastically say "Yes, I _literally_ did blah blah blah" unless they said they did blah blah blah and someone else asks if they were being literal. 3. Language evolves. If the hyperbolic usage becomes common enough, it has become an accepted usage. And yes, "literally" will still literally mean literally. So does "really," but that's not what people think of when you use the term.

[@garrettkajmowicz]

No littoral tears of laughter over the boat jokes?

[@samreid6010]

Dead cat bounce: it won’t be a regular show, would have to be a segment on a larger show, but whenever a celebrity royally screws up their reputation you invite them on so they can try to at least slightly repair the reputation they torpedoed. Of course the penance has to match the offense. If they were caught on tape making fun of poor people, they have to do a hundred hours in a soup kitchen. If they said something insulting about their fans, they have to basically do a live Q&A where the moderators actively encourage hard questions

[@samreid6010]

“They said something islamaphobic/anti-Semitic on tape, now they have to hold a five hour town hall on how to fix the Middle East”

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

"Is the Pope catholic?" You describe three wild stories from history, all true, all related to religious figures, and you have to guess which one pertains to the Pope

[@custardbaby4]

That’s just Chris’ Henricus story

[@augustmcgregor2940]

Can we get an uncut version of this?

[@eaburtolemiliox]

please!

[@dylaninpieces2]

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00: Intro 0:47: "The Nth Degree" 3:41: "How Are The Mighty Fallen" 4:50: "Break the Ice" 6:33: "Dead Cat Bounce" 7:30: "Richard III" 8:10: "Burn the Candle at Both Ends" 11:11: "Is the Pope Catholic?" 12:19: "The Tail Wagging the Dog" 12:55: Outro

[@TheFrenchMansControl]

Throwing my hat into the ring, a format where one person gets an answer they must create a question for and another receives a question they must create an answer for. Their creations are said back to back and the other two have to guess what the original question is. Could call it something like "question me not!".

[@timothymclean]

And the original question and answer match pretty well, but the ones the contestants think of don't, so hilarity ensues.

[@tidmouthmilk12]

It's been 3 years and it's only just occurred to me that Matt's description of a "Tail wagging the dog" format is basically Two of these people are lying. Guess they really did find a new format from this experiment!

[@job3rg]

Is there someone where where you can upload the uncensored version. With Matt's jokes...

[@Shardok42]

A patreon perhaps.

[@tomchaney6085]

Dead Cat Bounce: Similar to the apprentice, but the aim is to cause the business to go under. Richard The Third: A quiz show where each round is centred around one person who is misrepresented in popular history, one round in each episode is on someone represented in a Shakespeare play.

[@EmmaLiza]

"I'm Tom Scott and we're never doing that again." And so, the Nth Degree was in fact, beyond the nth degree.

[@swiftlymurmurs]

This one is quite possibly the best one yet. I love this

[@science-recon7392]

Floris Bordewijk Yeah, I really liked this one.

[@thomasfrederiksendk]

I agree. Had me in tears by the horse, but consistently laughing out inappropriately loud though the kids were asleep. 11/10, would watch more of this sort.

[@DarylVanHumbeck]

Once you guys figure out your next format, I would LOVE to see "The nth Degree" added on as a side bit to give bonus points. The only trouble is then you'd start heading for those kinds of jokes sooner and more often...

[@tomewyrmdraconus837]

I bet it works better when it's the last joke to NOT hit the cutting room floor, like Chris originally proposed.

[@GrumpyTy34er]

I still think that this is one of the most fun experiments that they've ever done. I think that's something that Tom should do though: invite the guys over, tell them that they're playing a game, and don't let them know what game it is. They can have the nth degree joke still in there but it's going to be completely different format where the guys have to figure out what they're doing

[@IceMetalPunk]

I just realized that the Nth Degree idea is basically a Vickrey auction for jokes. You get points for being the second-worst joke, but no one knows what the worst joke will be until the points are awarded :)

[@Miniredfoxette]

9:11 similar to a game we played in highschool where you'd draw a person/robot/animal and you'd sort of agree someone would start with the head and shoulders and fold that over (so that a little bit of the neck ends were visible so you could join up your drawing to theirs) and after you folded it over you would pass it to the next person to draw the torso, then pass it back to draw the legs and again to draw the feet. At the end you unraveled it and saw what you had made. It was quite fun seeing a robot torso with a giraffe head and stick figure legs when the page unfolded 😂

[@bullettoface49]

I feel like "To the Nth Degree" would not be a full format, but it would be some "meta-format" that would be referenced in later episodes.

[@timothyp873]

“What do you fear is hiding in the dark?” Is one hell of a pick up line. It’s also one hell of an ice breaker.

[@esdisaysaloha]

This reminds me a bit of Brady Haran's Unmade podcast, in which he and his mate Tim come up with podcast ideas they're not likely to make.

[@Chaotic_Pixie]

Every time I revisit this episode, I laugh so much at the drawing challenge that I need my inhaler & I have tears running down my face. For the love of pete, please revisit this! Matt... you could turn that into an at-home game!

[@NaviafromtheSDR]

It's been six years, but we need a sequel of "To The Nth Degree" Nth Degree Jokes 03:33 - Matt 1 04:41 - Matt 2 06:26 - Gary 1 07:07 - Matt 3 12:54 - Tom 1

[@KaitharVideo]

"How the might have fallen" is clearly a show of clips of celebrities falling over. "You've been framed" but about people we really want to see injured. I actually kinda like this format :p

[@joernc]

The folks from Taskmaster should hire you. They ripped of "Burning the candle" in the last season anyway.

[@neilstrickland4937]

If any real (humourous, naturally) programs are ever commissioned, I would definitely watch! I love the idea of Susie Dent as a coracle oracle.

[@gamergod9182]

"Is the Pope Catholic" sounds to me like some sort of quick fire round involving well-known "facts" and whether or not they are actually common misconceptions.

[@henryellis9390]

This one was excellent, the meta humour, the many opportunities for spontaneous bits like the horse drawing, the vast variety of potential jokes. Its going to be hard for the next experiment to beat this one for me honestly.

[@lofilife5102]

Connect Four (whilst playing Nth Degree) - each person arrives with a random person, event or fact and you have to find the common link until you have connect four.

[@HenryLahman]

The name is "Someone Say Stop" and it's awesome.

[@Damian-yf3wy]

I've re-watched this video at least 15 times, please make a sequel!

[@yovliporat8608]

There are literally tears in my eyes. This was brilliant.

[@eamonahern7495]

'That doesn't how boats is' sounds like a wacky TV panel show title on its own.

[@rin_etoware_2989]

i notice that their bit on "the tale wagging the dog" is basically the genesis of Two of these People are Lying

[@Senny_V]

"The tail wagging the dog" as Matt proposed it is lowkey the prototype to Two Of These People Are Lying

[@nix207]

I was about to comment this and I just knew that other people would have noticed.

[@zebbiezebra3055]

imagine this video but uncensored probably too many libel cases to happen

[@nathanieljones1182]

"Cetacean needed", where you make quotes from Star Trek IV.

[@safflower_s]

Loved it! Actually, I have no words to express how I enjoyed seeing the creativity flow. Because of all the creative ideas it turned out to be so much more than just a nice format.

[@jpaugh64]

Took me until 1:26 to realize that "format laboratory" _was_ the format. Originally, I thought the name was a bit more straightforward, since the Tech Diffs are obviously experimenting with their own format at the same time. Inception!

[@martinleopard193]

Amazing! Please do more! Running gags are amazing!

[@mantistoboggan1503]

Okay but the format lab is a much better format than anything they come up with, more of this pls

[@IceMetalPunk]

I want you to know I just posted "That doesn't how boats is" without any context on Facebook, and I guarantee all my friends are now confused. Worth it.

[@arthurhenriqued.a.ribeiro2078]

"That doesn't how boats is" should become a T-shirt design.

[@Julio974]

I love how 12:30 is basically the “two of these people are lying” format

[@shimashima5332]

I laughed so hard at the horse drawing segment that tears well up in my eyes.

[@samconboy459]

loving the banter more than anything!!

[@caitlinsmith5075]

These experiments are so much fun to watch, because we can tell how much fun you four are having doing them!

[@SocksMacguffin]

I genuinely love this. I don't know whether I'd want to see it as the new regular show, but please do specials of it. My word this is hilarious.

[@DavieCalifornia]

I'm sorry but Matt asking "what does a horse look like?" is so funny I nearly fell off my sofa. I don't know why, it's just so funny, sorry

[@Icenri]

By far, the best experiment of all.

[@route2070]

The best part about the nth degree, is people on the show would try to cancel each other, and the general public would be confused if the are telling the truth, lying, or misunderstood something, since we wouldn't hear the joke in question since it got edited out.

[@Smittel]

i still want a t shirt with "That's doesnt how boats is"

[@TheSwiftSpark]

Surely whatever the new show ends up being it needs to be called "That doesn't how boats is." :D

[@witerabid]

I come back to this every so often and every time I get a new idea out of these suggestions. This time: Dead Cat Bounce: A one-off with a bunch of crazy inventor people - perhaps Adam Savage and the like - are each given a stuffed cat with the goal of making it bounce the highest after being dropped from the same height. All they're allowed to use to modify the "dead cat" are things from a landfill, thereby making all of those "dead" things bounce one more time. Perhaps even the participants could be at the end of their careers (so... not Adam Savage then... 😅), but that might be too meta. 🙈

[@chrismartin8212]

I love that this video is barely 3 hours old and yet there are 253 comments already. So I'm not the only one constantly watching KZbin waiting impatiently for new Matt and Tom videos.

[@lorddavid3dxw]

"We're never doing that again" Bollocks to that, it was bloody brilliant! I want more!

[@Endermensinspace]

I actually enjoyed this format better than the others

[@Packbat]

I have no idea how long you could keep up the format, but this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 😂

[@jackmorris303]

More of this meta format please, this is brilliant!

[@woodfur00]

This was such a great video idea, I'd watch them do this for hours.

[@tommykarrick9130]

You know how technically the pope gets to decide how the next pope is elected and they just do it the same way every time because of tradition A pope could organize an American Idol style competition allowing anyone and everyone to compete to become his successor Now granted: if he did, he would almost certainly be deposed if not assassinated But it’s still technically possible, and that’s all that counts

[@akshat9282]

I'm loving everything this series is

[@TheAcdcninja]

Surely “The tail wagging the dog” (if a panel show) would be two teams of 2 or 3 with a host in the middle, but the teams are the ones that have to guide the host through the show. To make it a game though, both teams have a general script “host will monologue and introduce the teams, host will ask some trivia questions, host will invite one member from each team to participate in a physical challenge.” but additionally the two teams have a different list of objectives, with points values attached. One team might get a point for every time the host says “burger” while the other team is trying to get the host to say “sunshine” as many times as possible. There might be points for making the host pick up or use a certain prop, or be standing on a particular part of the stage at a particular moment. Like the game taboo, obviously the teams have to use a certain amount of discretion, and maybe they lose points at the end of the show if the host correctly guesses what they were trying to do (maybe the host gets 3 guesses at each teams objectives at the end just before the scores are revealed). I also imagine that the trivia and games happening throughout the show still also count towards the total, but are not worth heaps in comparison to the “puppet master” objectives.

[@RandomEvilOST]

And now on Name Jeremy's- Me: Hello *wave*

[@guard13007]

Really like The Nth Degree being an ongoing meta joke.

[@RocketMan4544]

Please do it again.... I love this format!!!

[@Hyrum_Graff]

I think the idea of "tail wagging the dog" might be the inspiration for Two of These People Are Lying.

[@kat369-mine]

I can just see the four of you, drawing half pictures for the rest of the afternoon. Lololol You would think someday, you could get someone to throw money at you to produce one of these shows for real. Love you guys.

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

I'm pretty sure Gary and Matt accidentally made a Pokemon

[@Sam-pm9vy]

I say it every time and every time it’s true. Matt is and always will be my favourite.

[@averin5193]

I have never in my life needed an outtakes edition so much as i currently do

[@MH_Binky]

"But that doesn't how boats is" is such a work of art as a sentence.

[@north7738]

This is the best of the experiments yet.

[@Twisted_Rose96]

"That doesn't how boats is" sounds like the exact kind of funny thing my Czech friend would say 🤣😂🤣