- From Hodor to KOTOR,
nerds are passionate about a lot of things,
but there's something they love above all else, and
that is correcting people. This is Um Actually. (upbeat music) Joining us today we have Caldwell Tanner. - Hello. - Siobhan Thompson, and Nate Dern. What a be-glassesed crew we have here. (laughing) - Bunch of nerds over here. - [Host] Bunch of nerdly nerds. - Fuckin' love screens, what can I say? - I read so many books
in the dark as a child. - I have a stack of statements
here about the properties that are nearest and
dearest to your hearts. False statements, in fact, it's
up to you to find that thing that's wrong with the
statement and correct me. All your corrections must be preceded by the phrase um, actually, and you can interrupt me at any time. Is that all clear? - Yes.
- Very. - Our first statement
here concerns Star Wars. C-3PO's first encounter with a member of the Skywalker family
occurs not when he meets Luke Skywalker on the
desert planet of Tatooine, but when he meets Princess Leia Organa aboard her Alderaan Cruiser. (dings) - Um, actually (sighs) god, I'm so tired already. (laughing) C-3PO's first encounter with a Skywalker is when Anakin builds him. - You're correct enough
in that he encounters Anakin Skywalker first, but he's not built by Anakin Skywalker, he's
fixed and reassembled. - So I get like a third of a point? I was just wondering. - No, no, you get a point and all of us just dodge the screamings of a thousand fanboys on the internet. - And fangirls. - And fangirls.
- Thank you. - How does, like later in the movie when like Darth Vader
like runs into C-3PO, how does he never just be like
"holy shit, my old robot!" (laughing) - I guess if you had a car and then you became a space Nazi and then you saw your old car again, you wouldn't be like "oh
shit, that's my fuckin' Ford." - Maybe you would if you
were like really into it. - Maybe so. - If your car had like a British
accent and a personality. - [Caldwell] A particular accent. - Speaks 9,000 different languages. - Aw, Carsby, I missed you. - I missed you too, Space Hitler. - A conversation like this at Pixar is how the movie Cars was made. (laughs)
- Oh wow. - We've strayed way off
course from Star Wars to Cars, but that is one point for Caldwell, who's already so exhausted of this game. I know, this is too much. - I've prepared my whole life for this. It's all led to this moment. (laughing) - Dead eyes. All right, on to our next theme here, this is about Harry Potter. Of the many shops and
storefronts on Diagon Alley, such as the Three Broomsticks,
Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, and Ollivander's Wand Shop,
perhaps none is more important this Gringott's, the Wizard Bank. This highly guarded
establishment is run by goblins and it is where Harry first realizes the enormous fortune he has inherited from his parents, Lily and James Potter. (dings) Siobhan? - Um, actually Three Broomsticks
is not in Diagon Alley. - That's correct.
- Wow. - It's in, uh, Hogsmeade. - That's correct, the Three
Broomsticks is in Hogsmeade, not in Diagon Alley in
London, that would be crazy. - Crazy, what are you thinking? - I feel like there's
probably a restaurant or bar called Three Broomsticks in Diagon Alley, there's probably more than one. - Think Three Broomsticks is a chain? (laughing) We're moving on to question three, which is about Game of Thrones. Brienne of Tarth and
Sandor The Hound Clegane, both knights of Westeros and at times members of two separate Kingsguards-- (dings) - Um, actually, Brienne
of Tarth is not a knight of Westeros, she is a lady from a house I cannot remember at the moment, but she is technically
a lady and not a knight. - That is correct. There is a more specific answer, if anyone can chime in
with more specifics. (dings) - Um, actually, she's
a knight of the North, but not a knight of the whole country? - No, that is, uh, that is
not what we're going for here. Nate, you wanna take a wild stab? - Sure, oh what? - Oh, the light's not working. - Believe in yourself. - [Siobhan] Magic. (dings) (they cheer) - Um, actually she's
a lady of House Tarly? - That is not correct. It is correct that Brienne
of Tarth is not a knight, but it's also true that Sandor
Clegane is also not a knight. - [All] Oh! - Neither are knights. You are the most correct here, so we're going to give you the point. - Hot dog! - Are we, are we all sexist that we immediately thought
that the woman was not a knight? - Well, but they talk
about it all the time, how Brienne is not not, yeah, and they very rarely talk about him. - I mean, he has a little
bit of that sort of oh, fuck off with your
rules, I'm not a knight. - And don't call me Sir. - Yeah, exactly, but like weird
that like in this universe where no, everyone fucks
every rules, right? Like we we don't need that, oh whatever, we'll do this, yeah, I'll sleep with my
sister, this doesn't matter. Like every legal and social
more is just like gone, but the one thing is like, a woman knight? - It's crazy. - No, thank you, how would that even work? - As an English woman and
as a woman woman, I get it. (laughing) - This next question is about StarCraft. - Oh no.
- StarCraft. - The mighty Progoss, psionic warriors from the homeworld of Aiur,
have vast armies to wage war against the Terrans and Zerg, including these fearsome Zealots, their AI-piloted Dragoons, and
these invisible Dark Templar. (dings) Nate.
- Um, actually I've played StarCraft and it's very fun. - That is true, uh, yes that's true. The question seemed to imply that it was a slog of lore that is no fun at all. - That's what I thought
you were getting at. - And point of fact, it's a great game, (dings)
uh, yes. - Thank you. - Um, actually I believe
the Zealots are a Zerg unit. - No, no the Zealots are Protoss units. - Shit. (dings)
- Um, actually the Templars are Terran. - Nope.
- I've not played this game. I do not know. - It's a very fun game,
as Nate just informed you. - Do you like clicking? - You know what, I love it. - Yeah, thing about doing that-- - Can you click fast? - Sure. - [Nate] Do you like
memorizing the most efficient resource allocation for the gameplay? - No, no I don't. - And then doing that every time? - No.
- No. - You'll love it. (laughing) - The Dragoons are not piloted by AI, they are in fact piloted by the, basically the pieces and consciousness of fallen Protoss soldiers. - Wow.
- That's is dark. - If it gets, yeah, if
a soldier's wounded, sort of like beyond
repair, they get basically melted down and poured
into one of these robots and then pilot that forever. (dings) - Um, actually that's cool as hell. - And this brings us to
our first shiny question. Now shiny questions, like shiny Pokemon, are just like regular questions, they're worth the exact same amount, they're just a little bit
different and a little bit rarer. This question concerns H.P. Lovecraft, and this is a little thing
we call Sp'el Ling Bi. (twinkling)
(upbeat music) Spelling in English is
hard enough as it is, but spelling in fantasy
stuff is even harder. There's apostrophes
and weird extra letters and shit like that, so I
me going to give you a word and it'll be up to you to spell the word. Your word is R'lyeh. - [Siobhan] R'lyeh? - Correct, R'lyeh? (dings)
Nate. - R'lyeh, R-E-A-L space Y-A-Y, real yay. (laughing) - That is a real yay,
(buzzer buzzes) which is a correct spelling
of a different phrase, but points for creativity, by which I mean no points. - Oh. - All right.
(dings) - [Host] Siobhan. - R'lyeh, R apostrophe L-Y-H. - No.
(buzzer buzzes) (dings)
- R'lyeh, R apostrophe L-Y-E-H. - That is correct. (cheering) - Pedantic. - R apostrophe L-Y-E-H, R'lyeh. - Real yay. - And that's a point for Caldwell for his spelling the R'lyeh. - I'm just waiting for
someone to like come out from that corner and just beat me up. - That's the prize. - Who's that guy who knew
where that apostrophe went? Last episode we made a
couple of mistakes ourselves, here they are. @lemongella says Red Shirts
have a different connotation by this era of the show, they're
Command and Star Trek: TNG. That's right. @johnofah said Sideshow Perry did not attend any college whatsoever. And it's unclear if
Sideshow Raheem did either. Very good, one point for you. (twinkling) This next statement is about Ender's Game. Ender's Game, Ender
Wiggin's two older siblings, Valentine and Peter,
become the most powerful political entity on the planet
Earth by pretending to be two adults named Demosthenes
and Locke, and overthrowing the world government
through a military coup. (dings)
Caldwell. - Um, actually Ender's sister's name is Victoria? - Nope.
- Okay. No wrong answers. (dings) - Um, actually one is
older and one is younger? - Nope, they are two older siblings. (dings) Nate. - Um, actually I think
one of them pretends to be a journalist or something and then, and so it's not not a military coup, it's like maybe more of a
misinformation campaign. - That's correct enough that
I'm gonna give you the point. It's not a military coup,
they just essentially write a bunch of blog
posts that are so logical and persuasive that everyone
just agrees to follow them. - Right, yeah. - Which is the most insane
part of Ender's Game. It's like a Reddit wet dream
is what it is, you know. - I'm glad we fixed the internet and that's not a problem anymore. (laughing) - Question six, (laughing) we have a video guest here who's going to read this next one. - Hi, I'm Weird Al Yankovic,
and here's a lie about me. You know, I've written a
lot of songs about food. So many in fact that at one point, my record label released
an entire compilation album called The Food Album,
with songs like Spam, Grapefruit Diet--
(dings) - Um, actually, the Grapefruit Diet is not one of the songs on that album. - That is correct, Grapefruit Diet is not a song on The Food Album. It is a song that Weird Al wrote, but it didn't come out
until Running With Scissors, which was several years after
The Food Album was released. - Whoa, so you knew
that was a Weird Al song about food but you knew it
was not on The Food Album? - The Food Album was the first album I ever bought with my own money. - Wow, that's amazing. (laughing) - Oh no Caldwell, you've reached the point where the other contestants
have turned on you. (laughing) You've truly out-dweebed the other dweebs. Well, the proudest little boy in school. (laughing) - Yeah this is definitely a quiz that I'm not that ashamed to lose. - I feel like I'm on a curve where I was ashamed and then excited and now I'm ashamed again. - Yeah, you wanna get the exact amount of points in this game. - I do feel like I might send
this to all of my bullies, to just show them that I'm
not that big of a nerd. - [Nate] It could have been worse. - There's a greater evil out there. You're wasting your time on me. Our next question is about
the His Dark Material series. - Oh wow. - [Host] Lyra Belacqua's
daemon, Pantalaimon, is an animal companion
capable of changing shape and in some ways represents Lyra's soul. In Lyra's world, people's
daemons change shape all the time to reflect
their mood and personality, until the person dies.
(dings) - Dammit, the buzzer wasn't working. - Um, actually they only change until they hit puberty, and then they stay as one animal, unless occasionally, very rarely, somebody's animals keep changing
through their entire lives, but for the vast majority
of people, they stick. Lyra's is a mink, I believe. - That is far too much information, but we'll still only give you
one point, that is correct. The daemon is fixed in
shape once you hit puberty. - I think it's a martin. - Oh yes, you're right, pine martin. - Take her point away.
(laughing) Do you feel like this comes from some just sort of general British sensibility? - Yeah, we do like, we
specialize early in England. Whether it's a soul, animals, or-- - A levels. - A level subjects. - Our next question is
our second shiny question. So for this one, I'm going
to give you the topic and the first person to buzz in will get the option to participate here. The topic is weapons and gadgets. (dings) Caldwell is the first to buzz in. - Dammit. (twinkling)
(upbeat music) - Okay, this is a game called
Technical Difficulties. Now all these gizmos and gadgets are from the same universe,
except for one of them, and it's up to you to identify the one that does not belong. - Um, I'm pretty sure it's this one. I think this is from Star Trek. - That's correct.
(lightsaber buzzes) (laughing) - Great timing, that's correct. That is from Star Trek, the rest of these are obviously from-- - Oh right, 'cause it's
the phaser and it detaches. - Come on. Are you able to name the
other things that are up here? Obviously these are from Star Wars, I think the lightsaber gives it away. - Well this is the Bowcaster, that's Chewbacca's Bowcaster. - [Host] That's correct. - That's a lightsaber.
- That is correct. - This is Han Solo's blaster, I assume. - Yeah. - Even though I'm pretty sure this is just a lightsaber with a gun holster attached. - Hey come on man,
we've got a budget here. - This one is tricky though. - It is tricky. - 'Cause it's just a kickball. - No, shut up. - Is it supposed to represent something? - It is, um. - Do y'all know? - Isn't it the planet from the last movie that they used to blow up the? - No, it's much simpler
and dumber than that. - Oh, oh it's the Force. (laughing) - This is supposed to be a Gungan Booma. - Oh shit. - That is of course, the
weapon of the Gungans, little energy spheres. - Thought maybe that was the thing that Boss Nass gives Obi Wan
at the end of the movie. (gargles)
(twinkles) - Now of course we're not perfect either. If you notice something that
we got wrong on the show, you can correct us by tweeting
at the handle on the screen. The first person to correct
us will get one point. (twinkling) This is about Lord of the Rings. - Ooh. - [Host] Anduril, which
means Flame of the West, was the name of the
sword wielded by Elendil during the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Once broken, Elendil's son Isildur used the broke handle-shard of Anduril to cut of One Ring from Sauron's hand. 3,000 years later, it was reforged and give to Aragorn, son of Arathorn. (dings) Nate. - Um, actually it's the
Flame of the Southwest. - No, yeah, it is-- - You're thinking of Mose. (laughing) - I was about to make
like a dumb airline joke. - I almost did too. (dings) - Um, actually it's Flame of the North. - It is not Flame of the North. (dings) - Um, actually Flame of the East. - Nope, nope, it is indeed
the Flame of the West. (dings)
- Um, actually the Flame of the Southwest Airline. (laughing) - Uh, no, the correct correction here is that the sword wasn't called Anduril until it was reforged. - Oh god. - Before that, it was called Narsil, and the shards of Narsil. - Now that's pedantic. - That is pedantic and
picky, I wholly admit that, wholly, wholly admit it. That is definitely the pickiest
question that we have here, but you know what, if someone got it, it would have been so, so sweet. - 12-year-old me would
have gotten it so fast. - Our next question is
about Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z. - In Dragon Ball Z, character names follow particular patterns of
references and puns. Saiyans are all named after vegetables, Namekians are named after
musical instruments and snails, and gods of destruction are
named after types of underwear. (dings) - Um, actually it's pronounced Saiyan. - You're right. - I don't know if that was the question. (dings) - No, you know what, that's fine, if I didn't, if you didn't do it, thousands of other people
would, so that's fine. - [Caldwell] I just, I got your back. - Um, actually, Vegeta is
not named after a vegetable, but all vegetables. (laughing) - That is technically true, but still named after a vegetable. - That's the only thing that I remember about Dragon Ball Z. (dings) - Actually, I believe that the, are you talking about
the gods of destruction? - Yes, the gods of destruction. - From Dragon Ball Z Super? - Yeah, sure man, I don't know. - Look man, this is your show. - I'll be honest, I don't know that much about Dragon Ball Z. - If you're talking about
the gods of destruction, they're named after, at
least one of them is named Lord Beerus, so that's
probably named after alcohol, I guess, and not women's underwear. Um, actually. - Uh, you put the um, actually at the end, but I'll go ahead and count it. You were correct, the gods of destruction are named after alcoholic beverages, such as Campari, Cognac,
and Mojito, and also Beerus. Bulma's family are named after underwear. Bulma, Dr. and Mrs. Briefs, Trunks, all following the underwear naming scheme. - Oh, Mr. Toriyama, you dog. - This is the first property
we've had a question about that I've been completely unfamiliar with. It sounded very, all of
this sounded very silly. - Did this clear anything up? - Yeah, I'm very dismissive of this. The things that I'm into
are cool, this is dumb. - Well I do think I've objectively put out like not most ridiculous way
to describe Dragon Ball Z. - No, to be fair, it's just
a bunch of people fighting. It's a very dumb show. - It is very silly. The main character's friend is a pig. - Just like Moana. - Yes, very similar. - Well once again we've gotten off topic to discuss children's animated movies. (laughing) - Yeah do you have any
questions about those, 'cause I'm ready. - We now move on to our next
and final shiny question. As before, this will be a
question for one person only, though someone else
may be able to swoop in and steal the point if the
person is wildly inaccurate. Very good, everyone feeling good? - Wow. - Oh. - Mr. Winner over here. - I'm making a fuckin' heel turn. - He's too confident.
- Y'all have fun. - Everyone hates him. - He's skipping backwards
around the diamond. - I wanna be the one sitting in the back going I know the answer, (laughing) while you embarrass yourself. - Oh, an easy own, yawn. - Your topic is mythology. (dings) Siobhan. - Let's see. (twinkling)
(upbeat music) - Okay Siobhan, we're
gonna play a game here that we call Fictionary. Now I'm gonna give you
the name of a monster, it'll be up to you to draw that monster. - Oh dear, nobody needs to see this. - It doesn't have to be a good drawing, we have to see in your drawing some of the key elements
that define that monster. - Great. - Caldwell and Nate both
have smaller whiteboards. They'll be doing the
drawing at the same time. If you wildly screw up, if
one of them has it right, they'll be able to swoop in get the point, but you'll have first dibs basically. Feeling good? - No. - Great, Siobhan, I would
like you to please draw me a manticore. - (gasps) Yes.
- Begin. (tense music) Off to a confident start. (giggles) Spending an awful lot of time on the paws. - Ta da, it's a manticore. - Can you tell me your description of what a manticore is? - Yes, the front half of a lion and then the back half of a scorpion. - You're halfway there. That is mostly correct. A manticore also has wings, and the manticore also has many, many rows of tiny, tiny sharp teeth. So Caldwell, why don't you come up and let me see, let us see
your version of a manticore. - Okay, um, I think I based it more on what it looks like in Game of Thrones. - Okay.
- When is just a scorpion with like a tiny old man face. - Okay, this picture seems to be largely devoted to me saying "I don't
know how to pronounce Saiyan." - Um, well I figured that
was worth mentioning again. - Sure, great, and also
you say Trap is dumb. - Well that's the manticore saying that. - And then this is mostly just a scorpion which a beard face, is that correct? - Yeah, I thought it was just like, 'cause I heard the word man, and then I don't know, scorpions are cool, so figured I'd put that in there. - All right, I'm inclined to
take away points from you. - Do it. - But we'll leave it as--
- Do it. - We'll leave it as is. This is not a more accurate manticore. All right, Nate, can we
take a look at your drawing? - I have this. - Uh, it is a lion that says "I'm a cat with the hair of the lion." Uh, a cat with the hair of a lion, truly a fearsome beast. Unfortunately, it's only one of the things we were looking for, which
is the hair of a lion. I love the answer. I think Siobhan though remains
the most accurate here. We'll give Siobhan the point with two out of four features. (twinkling) It looks like Caldwell's got this on lock, but that doesn't mean we don't have time for everyone to embarrass themselves. That's because as always,
our final question concerns real life skills. (8-bit music) California, the state you all live in, will elect a new governor next year. Even though we're more than a year away, several people have already
announced their candidacy, including Lieutenant
Governor Gavin Newsom, former Speaker of the State
Assembly Antonio Villaraigosa, and current LA mayor Eric Garcetti. (tense music) (dings) Nate. - Um, actually Siobhan
doesn't live in California? (laughing) She flies in every day on
the back of a manticore from England? - That's true, that's true. - God, I wish that were true. Unfortunately, uh, Siobhan
does live here in California. - That makes more sense than my answer. (dings) - Um, actually Eric Garcetti
isn't running again. - Uh, that is correct. There's no again, though
many suspect that Garcetti will run, he has not officially announced his candidacy as of the taping of this. We'll see by the time this releases whether or not that will happen. He hasn't said that he's not running, but he hasn't officially
declared his candidacy. The other two have. - Oh, all right. - Victory by default. That's the way I like it, baby. - And with that lesson in civics, this ends our episode of Um, Actually with Caldwell at seven points, Siobhan with three, and Nate with one. And that's it for this
episode of Um, Actually. Join us next time for more hyper-pedantic corrections on Um, Actually. (upbeat music)
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I would also 100% recommend Game Changer, made by the same folks. It can be hit or miss, but that's because each episode has a different conceit, and some of them get pretty wild.
Here's a personal fave: https://youtu.be/J8x-xoDeJsQ
College Humour has some really good content. Sad that they are in such a precarious financial position.
Same here! I found it by chance a few months ago and binged through them all. Even subscribed to dropout for a month to watch the episodes not on youtube.
The rank room is my fav panel show from College Humour - sillier and more accessible. I usually have no clue about the pop culture stuff they feature on um actually. Too bad the rank room isn't on yt though
E: there are few full eps of the rank room!
Didn't Siobhan Thompson used to have a You Tube channel about being British? I don't follow these things, but I feel like I recognize her.
GET IN THE COMMENTS! This show is great and never takes its self too seriously. Follow up with Brennan Lee Mulligan too!
That's quite good! 😃
I watched all the episodes of this last summer, it's great.
There's many more episodes (including recent ones recorded virtually during lockdown) on http://dropout.tv, $5 a month.