The Perils of Penelope Pitstop Part 1 - No More Jockeys Deep Dive - Tim Key, Mark Watson, Alex Horne

[@no_more_jockeys_tribute]

*Edited*: Some of you have been asking for stats on how often players have lost when playing other people and being sucessfully challenged on Pitstop's category. In the time period investigated in this video, Key lost 1 time due to Pitstop's category, Watto 1 time and Horne 3 times. In a later video, Part 2, these stats are updated. You can always use NoMorePeopleWeveHadBefore (dot) co (dot) uk - a wonderful resource for all BTLs!

[@jtmassey1990]

Tim got away with "No More Red Heads" too. Class.

[@cipherhex]

It's not only the fact that Key keeps playing Pitstop, but that he *keeps continually* playing her in combination with job-gloves, despite constantly arguing that that's not her occupation!

[@samuelcardwell577]

Watching his brain working/breaking so hard in the Christmas one when Horne skewers him on this, lol

[@alancale9989]

I’d be happy to see a compilation of Tim saying PP and Marks refrain of ‘Ah’ EVERY SINGLE TIME

[@gladtobeangry]

It gets funnier every time

[@stimsona]

The best bit is when Alex plays PP and Mark does a totally different 'Ah' than he does every time Tim plays PP

[@merijnvoogd]

I will never stop laughing at 'The woman is bored!'.

[@russellzwicker3226]

I often hear THE WOMAN’S BORED! in my head out of nowhere. Incredible stuff

[@ReedoTV]

When you see them back to back, you realise how often her job changes to suit the situation

[@ebonycrawford2713]

When you think about it, I don’t mind it really.

[@hanthedudette]

When you think about it, this channel is an excellent service to the BTL community. Thank you for having the episode numbers in! Makes me want to go and rewatch the games, over.

[@no_more_jockeys_tribute]

Happy to be of service!

[@jessesutton7985]

Mert Aksac's iMDB references NMJ referencing him. The jockstrap community is gold.

[@Azeria]

I adored the revelation that the reason Tim Key always goes for her is that he has a poster of her opposite to where he usually plays from. He’s always ‘don’t look at the bookshelf, don’t look at the books’, but goes to the poster with no qualms.

[@abanjoplayer]

I can't believe someone has gone to the effort of compiling these. I gave it a search with so little hope, but when you think about it, this is perfect. Thank you!

[@samuelcardwell577]

Solid gold legend, you are

[@kates8886]

I had never even heard of Penelope Pitstop before NMJ and now she’s my best friend

[@jasminenguyen8300]

this comment is a little too real

[@jensthernstrom8602]

When you stop and think about it, it's a surprising amount of successfull plays for the reputations she's gotten.

[@no_more_jockeys_tribute]

Definitely!

[@rehsuekul8706]

No I feel it’s more of a poisoned chalice than it is made out to be in this video. Her reputation is gained not from the successful plays but from the damage she causes (specifically to Key) in the rest of the game. See even Set 3 Game 10 where he goes out on Nichola Sturgeon from Pitstop’s category of No more dressed in above 50% pink

[@MisterAppleEsq]

I would argue that it's not the percentage that were unsuccessful that gets the reputation, simply the fact that there have been such a high number of Penelope Pitstop plays that have gotten Key out.

[@allyrudge7552]

Is there a chance she is concurrently the most successful and unsuccessful play?

[@Shift8YawnsShift8]

To be fair, she did get through a good few more times than she should have

[@Izzno]

When I sit down, fix a cuppa, and have a good hard think about it, this video is wonderful.

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

4:03 AH with his head in his hands says more than any words could

[@ebonycrawford2713]

Mark saying “Fuck actual off” kills me 😅

[@gryrabild]

These are some great stats, thank you very much.

[@a.7811]

this was perfect! thank you SO much for doing these!!

[@alexwhiteesp]

Thank you kindly for this. I assume you were wearing your job-gloves whilst editing it.

[@user-ll7rc1lc4t]

I always forget her catchphrase is coming and always am delighted when it arrives

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

IT in my school was called ICT so I'd argue it. Unfortunately it also has PE in it.

[@DancingVioleta]

thank you for this

[@PaddyRoon7]

I wonder if they've ever picked a category to catch Key's inevitable Penelope. Like school subjects with "I.T"

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

Maybe it's the Mandela Effect but I thought he'd played it about 100 times and gone out everytime.

[@no_more_jockeys_tribute]

Yeah, me too before going through each play, but probably it's the initial three consecutive losses that set the scene and stuck in our minds.

[@alexwhiteesp]

It's called The Pit-Stop Effect.

[@kates8886]

The woman’s bored!

[@LJ-zz1qf]

Literally my favourite quote out of all the games, I think 😂

[@kcolloran]

What about the data of not just plays or unsuccessful plays, but also end results of the games. Cause when you think about it it seems that if she doesn't insta wipeout Key, she still gets him eventually.

[@no_more_jockeys_tribute]

NoMorePeopleWeveHadBefore (dot) co (dot) uk is a great place to look up those kinds of questions, a wonderful resource for all BTLs! From what I have seen, after Set 1, Pitstop hasn't been that detrimental to Key. Since then, he's never lost by playing her. He's only gone out two times due to her category, and one of those times he was reprieved. Those two occasions were: Christmas Game 2: successfully challenged for Father Christmas wearing job gloves but then reprieved Set 3 Game 10: successfully challenged for Nicola Sturgeon wearing predominantly pink Connecting Key's losses to Pitstop in general is not really viable in my opinion, since he's also lost many games when NOT playing Pitstop. From a statisticians point of view, the causal link is quite weak :)

[@boredommm23]

big if

[@Zolbat]

Pretty sure key also lost a few times based on his own categories given with Penelope Pitstop

[@barnaclefelching4079]

"The woman's bored!"

[@ben1210]

Penelope Pitfall

[@julianlineham]

I can’t believe the failure rate is that low. I thought Key hung himself on his own petard with her way more than this!

[@emilybitzel7242]

but isn't she blonde?

[@drewmoffatt9414]

what's up, headhunter?

[@Aomedmon]

Haha, nice.

[@AndyBellenie]

Am I the only one developing a weird Penelope Pitstop fetish as a result of binge watching NMJ? If I am, I don't mind it.

[@kates8886]

I’m actually on Key’s side re: IT, unless you’re telling me schools in the UK genuinely had IT (and I don’t mean learning to type/use a computer- that’s not IT) as a subject in the 80s/90s

[@MisterAppleEsq]

In my school we had IT as a subject in primary school, and then alternating IT/Computer Science in secondary.

[@jhfh3112]

Yeah I've got a GCSE in IT. It's called Computer Science now but it was IT for a while back when they felt they had to teach kids how to use MS Office and not teach them bout real programming / hardware