(upbeat electronic music)
- From Cooja to Cujo.
Nerds like a lot of things
but there's something they love above all else,
and that is correcting people.
This is Um, Actually.
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Joining us on today's episode,
we have Sam Bashor.
- Hello, thank you for having me back.
- [Mike] Thank you for coming back.
We also have Ryan Martin.
- Good night, and good luck.
- [Mike] Okay, and we have Tao Yang.
- Ahoy.
- [Mike] Ahoy, Ahoy.
Well, three fantastic contestants.
The two of you have played before;
Tao you have not.
But the rules are very simple.
Which I will explain for you,
and for any viewers at home
who are joining us for the first time.
These are false statements, incorrect statements,
about the things that you know and love.
It's up to all of you to find
the thing that I've said that is incorrect,
buzz in, and correct me.
All of your corrections must preceded by the phrase
"Um, Actually" and you can interrupt me
at any point in the question.
So just two rules, just that simple.
But the questions, they're pretty hard.
Got it?
- Got it.
- [Mike] Cool, love it.
Here's our first question, which is about Pokemon.
(deep exhale)
[Mike] The Pokemon anime has been on the air
for more than twenty years now.
In that time, its protagonist,
Pokemon trainer Ash Ketchum has only won
two Pokemon league championships.
He's also never caught a legendary Pokemon.
(buzzer beeps)
Tao.
- Um, actually he has caught a legendary Pokemon.
- You sound extremely sure of yourself.
- I feel very sure.
I think he caught one and then let it go or something.
- [Mike] Mm.
That is not what we're going for, no.
- Okay. (chortles)
- [Mike] Yeah.
(chuckles)
(buzzer beeps)
- [Mike] Ryan.
- Um, actually--
- [Mike] Yes?
- Ash Ketchum has caught a legendary Pokemon
and it's Pikachu.
(laughter)
- He's iconic, he's legendary--
- He's a legend.
Absolute leg, Pikachu.
(laughter)
Uh, no.
(buzzer beeps)
- [Mike] Sam.
- Um, actually he, Ash specifically, has won every
single one of his Pokemon league championships
because he is supposed to be the best there ever was,
per the theme song.
- [Mike] Per the theme song.
The theme song would lead you to believe that,
but that is, that is incorrect.
- That blows.
- [Mike] Yeah.
Well I'm going to say, obviously no one got this one.
Ash has only won one Pokemon league championship.
So it's not that he's won none, but it's just one
in those twenty years of trying to be the very best
like no one ever was.
He kind of blows.
(chortles)
- But to be fair, he's still ten.
- He's still ten.
(in unison)
- Yeah, he is ten, yeah.
- [Mike] Maybe canonically in-universe, he is still ten,
so like maybe I'm expecting too much from him.
But also, literally anyone who's played Pokemon
is probably a better trainer than Ash Ketchup
is at this point.
- Oh yeah, I've won eight I'd say.
(everyone laughing)
- All right, calm down.
- Just eight?
- Yeah.
- Oh my.
- [Mike] The millenia-spanning conflict between Highlanders,
known as "The Game," is governed by a set of rules.
For example: Highlanders may not engage
in combat on holy ground.
This rule isn't limited to a specific religion,
and over the course of the series cathedrals,
Buddhist shrines, Stonehenge, and even a Roman temple
are referenced as holy ground.
(buzzer beeps)
- [Mike] Ryan.
- Um actually, the plural of Highlanders is Highlander.
(laughter)
- I have no clue.
- Incorrect.
(buzzer beeps)
- Um, actually it's not called "The Game,"
it's called the, "Duel of the Ancients."
(laughter)
- No, it is called "The Game."
- Oh wow.
- It is called "The Game", yeah.
- Fun.
- I was gonna go with that one, too.
(buzzer beeps)
- [Mike] Sam.
- Um actually,
(chortles)
One exception being Stonehenge,
because of reasons, for final battle
they would've looked cooler there, for sure.
- The classic loophole.
- [Sam] Mm-hmm.
- No; any other guesses before I call it?
- I don't know anything about Highlander, so--
- [Mike] Yeah.
Clearly, I mean, that clearly seems to be the case,
so we would just be sat around anyway.
That's fine; Ay look, you know.
I hadn't had any Highlander questions,
like I wanna ask about Highlander.
So what we're looking for here is,
Um actually--
and Ryan you were kind of starting to get close.
But instead that they are not called Highlanders.
The Highlander is the one specific character
to the protagonist.
They're called, Immortals.
[Mike] It'd be like calling all Pokemon Pikachu's
or something, you know like--
- My Grandma did do that so--
- [Mike] Which people do do.
(laughter)
- All game systems are Nintendo's.
- [Mike] Oh, they're all Nintendo's?
Exactly.
- Yeah.
- But yeah.
But all the rest is true.
It's like,
"Yeah. We've got a competition going on.
Where we're just gonna fucking murder each other
until there's only on of us left,
but let's respect World Religions.
Okay?
Like be open to other cultures and like,
let's not be rude, okay--
- Right.
- I wonder what the limit is and if like, you know,
Pastafarianism--
- [Mike] Yeah!
- Is a religion can you not fight
were there post-mortem D-day.
(crosstalk)
- Yeah, there's like some super pedantic,
like immortals , just like, it's like,
"well you know there's actually small sect,
it's not a mainstream religion
but it's a small cult
and they actually live right here at this house, so--
- We can't fight here.
- I'm actually founding my own religion and--
- You've been at the Olive Garden.
You can't fight at Fazoli's.
(laughter)
- [Mike] Welp, no points for that one either.
- Whew.
- Feeling good.
- [Mike] Here's a video game question.
Rather than using a traditional "Belmont clan"
vampire hunter, "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night"
has players assumed a role of Alucard,
a half-vampire seeking to destroy his father: Dracula.
However, on first playthrough,
the game's final boss is the dark priest Shaft.
To finally confront Dracula,
the player must beat the game
and then start a "new game plus"
which is the same game,
but with harder enemies and new secrets."
(buzzer beeping)
- Um--
- [Mike] Tao.
- Actually, new game plus is not harder,
you just have all of your--
you start at, with all your weapons from the previous game.
- Incorrect.
- Damn!
(electrical buzzing)
- Um Actually, I'd say first playthrough
you are able to unlock Dracula as a final boss.
It doesn't have to be played through
all the way from the beginning again.
- Hm.
Your wording of that,
I don't think it's what you intended
but it's technically true.
(surprised cry)
[Mike] So I'm going to allow it.
- Wow.
What we said is true that,
that on first play through the final boss
you encounter is Shaft.
But then what happens after you defeat him,
is the whole game turns upside down
and you have to play it backwards through,
through the game you just played but now, upside down.
And then once you get back to the beginning,
then you face Dracula.
- Is that like, the basic reason why like,
Dracula backwards is alucard?
- Ay!
You picked up that one; yes it is.
- Because you play Alucard who is Dracula backwards.
[Mike] Well, point for Sam on that one.
(tinging noise)
(mumbles)
And this is a fan submitted question.
So this question comes from a fan sent in this question
with the express purpose of trying to stump
the three of you.
From Justin Burrough, aka Jabelz Wavelz.
"Everyone needs a best friend!"
Superman famously had Krypto the Superdog
as his animal counterpart
and Batman had a long list of pets
including Ace the Bat Hound,
Mogo the Bat Ape,
the Bat-Mite, and Bat-Cow aka the Battlin' Bovine.
(buzzer beeping)
- [Mike] Yes, Sam?
- Um actually, Bat-Mite is not a pet.
- That is correct.
(relieved cry)
- Thank God!
(laughter)
God, I feel so smart.
- [Mike] Do you?
- That's never gonna happen again.
(laughter)
- Do you know anything more about Bat-Mite?
- It's a fifth dimensional imp.
Kinda like Mister Mixi-Spitleg.
- Yes.
- [Sam] In the comics, where it's just there to--
he's Batman's number one fan from the fifth dimension.
This is heavy drug-age of writing comics.
(laughter)
Like a, 80s.
Like a, little fairy that dresses up like Batman.
- [Mike] Yeah--
- And happens to know everything about Batman
and it kinda just messes with him.
- He's like the world's worst fan.
Like most obsessive fan.
- [Sam] Mm.
- And very funny to me,
just like, it's like,
"Yeah, Bat-Mite.
You know anything more about Bat-Mite?"
it's like,
"Yeah you know.
He's a fifth dimensional imp."
(laughter)
(crosstalk)
- Special imps.
Just one of your standard run-of-the-mill things.
Well that is a point for Sam.
For recognizing Bat-Mite--
- Wow.
- [Mike] As the fifth dimensional imp that he is.
And this will bring us to our first
shiny question of the game.
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Alright, this is a game called, Order Up.
[Mike] You have a selection of robots
on the other side of this board.
I would like you to please arrange them
from smallest robot to largest robot.
[Mike] Okay, go head and flip those over.
Let's take a loo at those bots.
(intense timer music)
- Great.
So Sam, let's take a look at what you got
and just run us quickly through that order
that you think yo got there.
- Alright.
So we start out with smallest.
[Sam] Microbot , Metal Sonic.
'Cause I feel like Sonic's like four feet.
Johnny five, he felt like an even five-seven,
(laughter)
something like that?
TARS, I felt like McConaughey was like,
looking at the console eye-level.
Anyways, after that it's pretty easy.
Iron Giant.
I'm not familiar with this gentleman.
And then Unicron, I feel like is the largest
of these gentlemen on here.
- Very good.
Ryan, let's see what you got.
- So, I really don't feel good about this
but we've got Metal Sonic,
and then Johnny 5--
- [Mike] Okay.
- [Ryan] Then I've also got TARS.
Unicron?
I thought it said unicorn.
The other person I don't know.
The Iron Giant and I feel like Microbot was a troll
and so I made it the biggest one on a whim.
- Very good.
And Tao?
Let's see what you got.
- Alright, I think this was a trap and I fell for it.
'Cause I feel like Microbot's probably big.
(chortles)
- [Mike] Okay.
- [Tao] But I put them there anyways.
And then same thing like Metal Sonic,
is like, tiny I'm imagining, basing off the game
and it's not that big on my TV.
Johnny 5 could be gigantic but-
(laughter)
- [Tao] Just from based off this photo
he looks kind of small.
TARS it's like a human-size.
This is a transformer, I think?
I have no idea what this is.
But I just love the Iron Giant the most,
so I put that one as the biggest.
- The power of love will bring him up.
Okay, great.
Ryan, you got none of these correct.
(chuckles)
Tao you got four correct,
and Sammy you got five correct.
- Whoa.
So, let's take a look at what the answer should be
and where we're at.
[Mike] It was a double trap,
Microbot is just in fact a tiny bot
that is from Big Hero Six.
Microbot, Metal Sonic, Johnny 5,
TARS is about six feet tall.
And then the last, the end is where people
tend to get tripped up.
But the Iron Giant is about 50 feet tall.
Unicron is larger than a planet
and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
is over 10 million lightyears large.
So easily the largest robot on here.
That is our order.
- So when Tengen touches his toes or something,
it's going through 10 million light years--
(laughter)
To touch its toes.
- It takes a long time to touch his toes.
Takes a long time do anything,
it's really a drag.
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I'm Mike Trap,
reminding you to get your pet spade and neutered.
And your zombie-pets, obliterated.
Zombie-pets.
They're not the pets you loved anymore, they're gone.
They're gone.
Kill them.
- [Mike] We are going to show you an image, some iconic
but we've taken that image
and we have pixilated it all to hell.
There's five levels of pixilation
and you can only guess once,
what you think it is to identify it.