Well, let's add a bit of Gilbert & Sullivan for contrast then: I am the very model of a modern deuteragonist I have a role that's ancillary, yet continue to persist...
@@hammerth1421 no I will blame the space moneys for it. They have nothing to do with any of this but still that is who I will blame. Damn space monkeys and there doings.
Eh...Year is pretty generous. It's more like how they advertise all the movies. "THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!!!!" Like I think since October (Halloween time) to beginning of January is the "official" holiday season as a whole and that's when they started uploading. So, THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!!! I'm going to keep indulging in Technical Difficulties goodness.
1:31 I'll be honest, I always thought Red from OSP was saying "dude-eragonist" as a play on words to mean like "Yeah this character is present in the story but mostly just to be the dude friend of the main character"
Ah, American accents and their obfuscation of the voicedness of alveolar plosives strike again. -Sincerely, someone whose entire native language does the same.
14:40 Gary is absolutely correct that Baloo was the name used in the original Jungle Book story that Rudyard Kipling wrote in the 1890s, and not just coined by the Disney team in the 1960s. Rudyard doesn't explicitly state what species Baloo is, but his descriptions are most likely to be a Sloth Bear, so even that isn't really a Disney decision.
Gary was right about the Baloo name and Kipling -- while Disney chose a sloth bear, Baloo is a name present in the book, and therefore independent on Disney, it is very much not the classic Disney way of borrowing foreign names in the 1960s.
Matt did explicitly say about a decade ago that he's never going to host again. (Though he did star on Lateral recently, where each of the guests in each show takes a turn as a question asker.)
18:05 FINALLY! MATT, THE VOICE OF SANITY. THANK YOU! Yes, '#' is NOT a hashtag, it's a HASH. Calling it a hashtag is like calling the string used to tie a label to something 'a label'.
@@SimonBuchanNz I misremembered the timeline, it was actually before the assassination. Funny thing is that he didn't know who the kid was, and only found out when he got a letter from a friend who was an officer under Grant
It's also called the 'pound sign' because it was often used as shorthand for the unit of weight in place of 'lb' (one less keystroke) in the early days of typing.
@@ImDelphoxfor some reason my mind has jumped to what it’s be like to wear a fursuit in a mineshaft and that sounds like quite frankly an awful experience
0:42 - One of my friends is always late to appointments and meetings, because someone broke his heart. Because he's British, he has an intrusive "r", and his most frequent voice-message is "Due to [r] agony, I'll be late". We have nicknamed him "the Duetoragonist".
Oh that's a great intro. Everyone was thrown off, congratulations. Chris: "Humans bred for food for the Houyhnhnms." Wow I actually sat up at that, impressed. I didn't remember where it was from but something deep in my memories surged up and went "this is about Intelligent Horses". I had to go look it up. THANK you for the accurate captions btw so I knew how to spell it for my search.
honestly, that intro reminds me I'd love to see a series of all the Technical Difficulties games, but with Tom as one of the players, and Gary, Matt and Chris each taking a turn as host and quizmaster
Most of the time they amaze me by knowing the most obscure pieces of trivia but every once in a while they switch it up and amaze me by lacking general knowledge like what a deuteragonist is instead I'm getting batted around like a cat
Okay reading Wikipedia based on this, it's actually an American meaning which is why it's called that because otherwise if someone says "Pound Sign" they obviously mean £ but since we use Dollars the original # shape could take the path that Gary is talking about and continue into relatively common usage today (although as pointed out it's being replaced linguistically by "Hashtag")
@@MattGrayYES so if on a radio message to say "from your telecom to check your voicemail it's #67" it would be "Hash six seven" like we say "Pound six seven"?
@DasGanon 1. Yes, it would, or in automated message bots, they would usually end with "when finished, press the hash key" etc. Also the # being a symbol for pound is referenced before any other usage, as its lb but with the b crossing back over the L to denote an abbreviation
When they were naming which bear the sloth bear was I was so confident it was Rupert, I didn’t catch myself shouting “Rupert! SAY RUPERT!!!” on the Tube 😂😂😂
The Lord of the Rings is an ensemble story with at least 5 protagonists (Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn). Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are duel protagonists as are the Doctor and their companion(s) (except in the late 80s)
Did this series prompt me into going back to Matt&Tom's Bench and watching every episode gradually in chronological order? (with plans to watch all of the Tech Diffs when I finish them!)... Maybe... And it's hilarious!
5:50 And here they accidentally break the fourth wall by confirming that they are, indeed, just wasting time and not even trying to guess the questions 😅 18:56 I have a new ringtone
love that chris knows about the different tally marks, here in brazil we do it as a square with a diagonal line usually, but i have seen square with an X aswell kinda resembling what he was describing
hold up .... sam was not the side kick ... sam was and will always be the main character of LOTR. he has the largest character arc, he was a ring barer, and he did in fact go into the west. sam was not a side kick
I'd just like to voice my appreciation for Gary's commitment to the phrase "You bastard" which am I right in saying he has used in every episode of this so far?
Speaking of Baloo the Bear, basically all of Akira Toriyama's character names are puns Bulma's family are all named after underwear The Saiyans are all vetetables Characters surrounding Krillin (bar his wife) are all named after chestnuts (Krillin is from Kuririn, Japanese for chestnut)
We have no idea why there have been so many Andrew Lloyd Webber references recently.
The reason is, why not
"The Andrew Lloyd Webber Special"
Dan! Jokes aside, really great episodes, and Reverse trivia works even better than normal one.
Well, let's add a bit of Gilbert & Sullivan for contrast then:
I am the very model of a modern deuteragonist
I have a role that's ancillary, yet continue to persist...
This is a surprisingly ominous pinned comment
Matt's GCSE in latin is my favorite reoccuring character
It is like the spanish inquisition...
I'm a Latin teacher. It's not often that I feel i get bragging rights for my job, but Matt breezing through etymology will do it for me
love the throwback to the "matts in charge" episode of the podcast. its always fun seeing tom unsteady and unsure of himself.
And the GCSE in Latin directly.
It's a very weird experience!
By the way, they/them for Matt now, also they're quite a lot more confident on their own channel, if you wanna see more :D
@@nowanilfideme2 I knew they're Enby, but I could've sworn they went by both they/them and he/him.
Tom was even unsure of having the unsure reaction 😂
The nerd in me very much appreciates Matt being pedantic about people calling # a hashtag.
Blame Jack Dorsey
@@hammerth1421 no I will blame the space moneys for it. They have nothing to do with any of this but still that is who I will blame.
Damn space monkeys and there doings.
Read it as octothorp.
I always read it as a sharp (musician)
"Matt and Gary grumble floppily" is my new favourite subtitle.
There were some really great subtitles in this one.
I've never thought Gary Brannan, of all Gary Brannans, would have a plan.
This show still has aces up their sleeve!
I suppose it makes sense that he'd have a plan, there are plenty of blueprints in the archives I'd suppose.
@@Haightshe might even have a section and elevation too!
He's everyone's favorite Gary Brannan for a reason
The Ace of Wales???
@@alexc8461 No, the Jack of Cornwall
that was an incredibly silly opening and i had a great time
It's going to be hard to grab my attention again like this one did
@@sjeses just imagine you being a card with some text then you are being gripped very hard.
Tom looks scared and confused
Man, TechDiff fans are feasting this year.
As a rabid techdiff fan, I am graciously thankful.
Best Christmas gift we could ask for
Even though most of them came out way before Christmas time even started. Still is.
Eh...Year is pretty generous. It's more like how they advertise all the movies. "THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!!!!" Like I think since October (Halloween time) to beginning of January is the "official" holiday season as a whole and that's when they started uploading. So, THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!!! I'm going to keep indulging in Technical Difficulties goodness.
Well done to Matt for throwing everyone off their game before it had even started!
I nearly cried laughing at Tom accidentally saying John Wilkes Booth shot John Lennon. What a fascinating alternate universe that would be.
Maybe there was a second shooter.
They had just said the sixties so in my head I was thinking "ah yes that's who killed JFK" then said wait a min that doesn't sound right.
Matt Gray: "... the man with the plan, Gary Brannan"
Gary Brannan, with no plan: *time to improv*
1:31 I'll be honest, I always thought Red from OSP was saying "dude-eragonist" as a play on words to mean like "Yeah this character is present in the story but mostly just to be the dude friend of the main character"
I'm gonna have to add that to my lexicon.
I'm all for alternative bullshit etymology.
Glad to see other OSP enjoyers!
Ah, American accents and their obfuscation of the voicedness of alveolar plosives strike again.
-Sincerely, someone whose entire native language does the same.
14:40 Gary is absolutely correct that Baloo was the name used in the original Jungle Book story that Rudyard Kipling wrote in the 1890s, and not just coined by the Disney team in the 1960s. Rudyard doesn't explicitly state what species Baloo is, but his descriptions are most likely to be a Sloth Bear, so even that isn't really a Disney decision.
It is 2024, and Matt Gray is able to bring up his GCSE in Latin once again. Parity has been restored folks, carry on
Twice, he brought it up in the previous episode too
I only miss Gary's train and goose line for my bingo chart.
Paritas, surely 😉
> Parity has been restored folks, carry on
Not until there is a MYSTERY BISCUIT!
Does anyone else secretly hope this series never ends? :P
I openly hope it
Gary was right about the Baloo name and Kipling -- while Disney chose a sloth bear, Baloo is a name present in the book, and therefore independent on Disney, it is very much not the classic Disney way of borrowing foreign names in the 1960s.
it was kinda nice to see Matt take the lead, even if only for a second! would be kinda fun for Tom to be on the guessing side
Matt did explicitly say about a decade ago that he's never going to host again. (Though he did star on Lateral recently, where each of the guests in each show takes a turn as a question asker.)
"Sir, thou art the deuteragonist of my life"
GCSE in Latin, I’ll never forget that.
It's on the bingo card
after a certain show involving ageratina occidentalis, neither will tom.
Unlike Tom.
I thought the question for Rod was going to be “which Stewart can you find in abundance at used record stores?”
I too was thinking only of Mr. Stewart
For me it was a throwback to the flag of Mars
I was thinking of the man behind the Twilight Zone.
Tod Flanders's brother. Or the one made of inanimate carbon.
18:05 FINALLY! MATT, THE VOICE OF SANITY. THANK YOU! Yes, '#' is NOT a hashtag, it's a HASH. Calling it a hashtag is like calling the string used to tie a label to something 'a label'.
Reminder that one of Tom Scott's oldest videos is about fortifying his breakfast with iron by cooking it with a clothes iron
Matt threw me off too. I think he threw all of us.
Fun fact: John Wilkes Booth's brother was a pro-Union and later saved Abe Lincolns son from what would've been a deadly train-accident
Literally nobody would believe that. It must be true.
It wasn't later, it was actually a few months prior to the assassination!
@@ctyoung0271 Ah yeah I misremembered
@@SimonBuchanNz I misremembered the timeline, it was actually before the assassination. Funny thing is that he didn't know who the kid was, and only found out when he got a letter from a friend who was an officer under Grant
It's also called the 'pound sign' because it was often used as shorthand for the unit of weight in place of 'lb' (one less keystroke) in the early days of typing.
Yes, apparently you would write "lb" and put a line through the top half which ends up very close to being a #.
Tom has a red-ish shirt on =D
Sorry, I have to check before I get all excited. Is that my favourite Gary Brannan, or a different one this time? It wasn't clarified
It’s everyone’s favourite Gary Brannan: Gary Brannan.
@@gymnasiast90 What a relief!
@@Zebra_MAnd Matt Gray remains the bounciest man on the internet
It wasn't. It was, in fact, the man with a plan, Gary Brannan.
11:32 What is Thomas "Tomska" Ridgewell's Fursona?
On that note I'm tempted to commission furry art of the mine worker canary they came up with earlier on
@@ImDelphoxfor some reason my mind has jumped to what it’s be like to wear a fursuit in a mineshaft and that sounds like quite frankly an awful experience
Canarias are named after the dogs and the birds are named after the islands. So essentially the birds are named after dogs.
What are bird dogs named after then? Themselves or each other?
17:07 "Oh, that shape feels familiar"
I’m surprised the rest of the crew didn’t call out his gesture while saying that!
0:42 - One of my friends is always late to appointments and meetings, because someone broke his heart. Because he's British, he has an intrusive "r", and his most frequent voice-message is "Due to [r] agony, I'll be late". We have nicknamed him "the Duetoragonist".
I just realized that Matt's been wearing a First of October shirt in this run! I love it!
In French, "en quinconce" is used often. For example, staggered rows of people, bricks or plants are said to be "en quinconce".
That's interesting! I remember seeing that in Asterix a couple of times, and wondered why.
Oh that's a great intro. Everyone was thrown off, congratulations.
Chris: "Humans bred for food for the Houyhnhnms."
Wow I actually sat up at that, impressed. I didn't remember where it was from but something deep in my memories surged up and went "this is about Intelligent Horses". I had to go look it up. THANK you for the accurate captions btw so I knew how to spell it for my search.
Given the start of this, I was not expecting to get through nearly so many questions!
Love that all Matt needs to do to completely throw tom off is do an intro and introduce him as a co-host 😂
This was a fantastic episode.
12:53 I AM HOWLING
15:30 I CAN'T BREATHE OMG
I'm younger than Matt and I remember nothing from my GCSE lol Matt deserves it
honestly, that intro reminds me I'd love to see a series of all the Technical Difficulties games, but with Tom as one of the players, and Gary, Matt and Chris each taking a turn as host and quizmaster
we really need a GCSE in Latin t-shirt
along with a Chris Joel "when i say ornith you say ologist" shirt
I don't know about mushed-up cereal, but i've personally dragged a magnet through beach sand and gotten out all the magnetic bits.
At least two of those "HEY!" jokes should have been mystery biscuits! :)
Just as I finish doing some tech stuff with no technical difficulties, this comes out. Perfection!
Deuteragonist: Matt from the Tom and Matt from the park bench
No!
Dual protagonists.
Matt won before the video started.
Most of the time they amaze me by knowing the most obscure pieces of trivia but every once in a while they switch it up and amaze me by lacking general knowledge like what a deuteragonist is instead
I'm getting batted around like a cat
It's like when Tom hadn't heard about the Hagia Sofia on two of these people are lying.
18:30 but why would it be called a pound sign in the US??? I only remember hearing it called a pound sign in relation to telephones?
Okay reading Wikipedia based on this, it's actually an American meaning which is why it's called that because otherwise if someone says "Pound Sign" they obviously mean £ but since we use Dollars the original # shape could take the path that Gary is talking about and continue into relatively common usage today (although as pointed out it's being replaced linguistically by "Hashtag")
The hash key on a phone in the UK is called the hash key
@@MattGrayYES so if on a radio message to say "from your telecom to check your voicemail it's #67" it would be "Hash six seven" like we say "Pound six seven"?
@DasGanon 1. Yes, it would, or in automated message bots, they would usually end with "when finished, press the hash key" etc.
Also the # being a symbol for pound is referenced before any other usage, as its lb but with the b crossing back over the L to denote an abbreviation
I believe in the US it's called the tictactoesign.
"Yes, always!"
Tasty tasty frozen peas.
I love that I actually knew that last one. It's a great bit of useless but funny trivia. And it's in the Portuguese flag!
When they were naming which bear the sloth bear was I was so confident it was Rupert, I didn’t catch myself shouting “Rupert! SAY RUPERT!!!” on the Tube 😂😂😂
Tech Diff, please keep this show going for half a dozen more seasons. I miss citation needed so much, and this is the closest thing to it.
Technical difficulties always manages to get me hysterical
Coming close to christmas and Rod Stewart doesn't even make it into the final cut.
Good job, keep it up.
Lovely to see that after all those years these three can still get Tom baffled
Matt's intro is absolutely amazing!
woah just on time for a new techdif video!
Run out of rods? Can't you just get more rods from god?
And get me a mars bar and a quasont while you're there...
Quasont?
@@Blue-Maned_Hawk If they wanted people to spell it properly, they should've made it properly spellable without a thesaurus for once
and leave the freddo's alone, they have suffered enough
Might be one of my favorite intros yet.
Good T-Shirt Matt!
this show never fails to dissapoint, it tickles that little part of my brain that nothing else can reach 😅
Well that’s just made my Christmas!
you're just such a great bunch. Thank you for all of this.
this was the perfect episode to watch while being very very tired.
The episode was entertaining, absolutely, but that intro deserves special mention! I felt as confused as Tom looked there.
A John Wilkes Booth / Beatles crossover was not on my bingo card for this episode
FIRST OF OCTOBER yaaaaay Matt!
I slightly raise my brow at the description of Samwise Gamgee as the deuteragonist of the books, but I am not qualified to do any more than that.
I think it is true. As great as Sam is, Frodo is the actual protagonist.
least irritating lord of the rings hyperfan
The Lord of the Rings is an ensemble story with at least 5 protagonists (Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn).
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are duel protagonists as are the Doctor and their companion(s) (except in the late 80s)
@@qwertyTRiG Tolien'd have disagreed.
@@Hundredyacrewoods Pentagonists?
8:30 Fantastical worlds! Such as Japan! (no, really; look it up)
I was wondering if someone was going to beat me in saying this. Good job.
@ArdisMeade Thanks! Glad to see it recognised.
As the meme goes, ah a fellow man of culture!
That intro was delightfully chaotic
Love for the first of October shirt!
I'd rather have you 4 do a remake of The Lion King instead of the latest from Disney - Another golden episode lads, thanks for the laughs!
Good to see that Matt's GCSE in Latin is greased today!
finishing my last final and opening youtube to a new episode of reverse trivia is a wonderful experience
Did this series prompt me into going back to Matt&Tom's Bench and watching every episode gradually in chronological order? (with plans to watch all of the Tech Diffs when I finish them!)... Maybe... And it's hilarious!
I didn't even see the thumbnail until after watching the episode, that one's awesome
gotta appreciate matt's first of october shirt. great band!
What a banger of an episode
love that intro XD
Yay, another Technical Difficulties video! Damn, only one left! #FeedTheAlgorithm
The John Wilkes-Booth eagle, what an idea for merch. Come on tech dif make it so 😂
You take that back, Jonathan Swift was hilarious!
5:50 And here they accidentally break the fourth wall by confirming that they are, indeed, just wasting time and not even trying to guess the questions 😅
18:56 I have a new ringtone
Best intro ❤
Omg deuteragonist!! I'm so proud that I actually knew an answer for once 😂
love that chris knows about the different tally marks, here in brazil we do it as a square with a diagonal line usually, but i have seen square with an X aswell kinda resembling what he was describing
hold up .... sam was not the side kick ... sam was and will always be the main character of LOTR. he has the largest character arc, he was a ring barer, and he did in fact go into the west. sam was not a side kick
the ring was the main character
There is a difference between being the hero and being the protagonist.
@@ArdisMeade yes and sam is both.
@josephchapman4221 the ring is an object. not a character. everything it is or dose is just an extension of Sauron
@@wolfram2299 okay so sauron and the extensions of his mind are the main character
I'd just like to voice my appreciation for Gary's commitment to the phrase "You bastard" which am I right in saying he has used in every episode of this so far?
12:56 God i want tom pointing and proudly announcing "no" to be a gif
I'm surprised they didn't notice the irony of Tom being the deuteragonist of this episode's opening.
HELL YEAH FIRST OF OCTOBER SHIRT
Speaking of Baloo the Bear, basically all of Akira Toriyama's character names are puns
Bulma's family are all named after underwear
The Saiyans are all vetetables
Characters surrounding Krillin (bar his wife) are all named after chestnuts (Krillin is from Kuririn, Japanese for chestnut)
4:50 Can confirm, done it with cornflakes.
Now that's one heck of an intro!
Ah, the throwback to the grassy knoll. Good old teletubbies going for presidents.
That was a good beginning. 🙂
Banger intro
2:57 cant wait to see the Camston Island animation for this bit.
That bird in the thumbnail is just on a whole new level 😂