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- From She-Ra to Mothra, 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.
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Joining us today, we have Shane Crown.
- Hello there.
- [Trapp] We have Jon Gutz Gutierrez.
- Kapla.
- [Trapp] And Ally Beardsley.
♪ Put that thing back where it came from ♪
♪ Or so help me, so help me ♪ (laughing)
- We can't use that, we don't have the rights for that,
we don't have the rights for that,
We don't have the rights for that!
Well, here is a fun thing about this episode
is that all three of you at some point
have either won an episode of Um, Actually,
or tied for first in Um, Actually.
And that's gonna be the case
for our next two episodes as well.
The winner of this episode will face those winners
in a final tournament of champions.
(dramatic music) Tournament of champions!
(laughing)
Well, you've all been here before.
You've all won one before.
So you know what's going on here,
but in case you don't, these are incorrect statements
about the things that you know and love.
It's up to you to buzz in and correct me,
your corrections must be preceded by the phrase
um, actually, and you can interrupt me
whenever you want.
How's everyone feeling?
- I'm pretty good. - Confident.
- Little fearful, I'd say. - Uh-huh, all right.
- Going up against champions.
- Yeah. - Hmm.
- It's champions in very large quotes.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- Who knows who you were competing against
last time you won?
It could have been a bunch of dumb-dumbs,
don't roll tape!
Don't imply that I called anyone a dumb-dumb!
(laughing)
We will roll right into it then
with our first question.
- Bring it, Trapp. - Here we go.
- I will bring it.
(laughing)
I'll bring it straight to you.
- I wasn't prepared for someone bringing it.
(laughing)
- It is 5 a.m. and I am on one.
- I have lived my whole life not bringing it,
a very mild manner, that's kind of how,
that's why I like a lot of this stuff, so,
if someone's going to be bringing it--
- Bring it!
Bring it! - Okay, here we go.
- I just do this all sports. - Yeah. (laughs)
- Hands on knees, bring it!
- [Trapp ] Female Smurfs are extremely rare
in the Smurf village.
In fact, the original animated series
has only three female Smurfs:
Smurfette, Sassette, and Nanny Smurf.
This is because female Smurfs
are born only once every 30 years.
(dinging)
- Um, actually, there's a Momma Smurf.
- Momma Smurf? (laughs)
Momma don't, no.
- There's a Papa Smurf, isn't there a Momma Smurf?
- You'd think that's a nice parallelism,
but no, Papa Smurf is just,
he's a single papa.
- Oh. - Yeah.
- I remember that episode,
where they really dive into him eating alone--
- A very special episode.
- Off of his stomach.
- He's got like a wife beater on,
his hat is like hung up in the corner
and just like, I don't know--
- Eating noodles.
- Yeah, ah, Brainy Smurf I think is the only one
who's gonna make it in the world.
(laughing)
No, no, that is incorrect.
(dinging)
- Oh, Shane beat Gutz to it.
- Um, actually, there are only two female Smurfs.
- No, that is incorrect.
(dinging) - Gutz.
- Um, actually, Smurfs aren't born,
and Smurfette and the female Smurfs weren't born either.
And Nana Smurf, I can't remember the origins of,
but Sassette and Smurfette were both created
by Gargamel's magic so they're not born every 30 years.
- That is correct for the most part.
- Wow.
- I think there might be some errors in there
but you have what I was going for,
which is that Smurfette was created by Gargamel,
is not born,
Sassette I think was actually created
by other Smurfs who were using Gargamel's magic
(laughing)
but female Smurfs specifically have to be created by magic
in order to exist.
- Problematic Smurfs.
- Oh yeah, definitely.
- I remember reading that Peyo was really sexist
during the creation of the Smurfs.
- Yes.
- And they asked him like, can you,
we need to come up with stuff that Smurfette can do.
And then he was like, why,
I mean he, she already tempts the other Smurfs
and causes problems, that's enough.
- Oh my god.
- And then they're like,
well they need to be more proactive,
he's like, what do you, is she a gym teacher?
(laughing)
You could express--
- Oh my god. - Yeah, yeah.
Lots of problems there.
Well, that is a point for Gutz on deep Smurf lore.
So we will move on now,
this is kind of a general sci-fi alien related question.
A recurring feature of alien invasion stories
is the discovery of a banal weakness
of otherwise invincible aliens.
In the Animorphs series,
Yeerks are driven insane with addiction
if exposed to instant maple and ginger oatmeal,
the aliens in Mars Attacks are weak
to the selenium in Head and Shoulders shampoo,
and the aliens in Signs are destroyed
when they come into contact with water.
(dinging) - Gutz.
- Uh, the aliens in Mars Attack are not
weak to Head and Shoulders shampoo,
they're weak to the yodeling of I believe
Waylon Jennings, or country music.
- I don't believe you said um, actually,
is that correct?
- Oh, oh!
- Oh! (dinging)
- So I am not going to say anything,
I'm not gonna reveal whether or not you're correct or not,
but I cannot give you the point.
Shane?
- Um, actually, the aliens in Mars Attacks
(laughing)
are weak to music, I think it's just music.
- Gutz was more accurate than you are,
but you said um, actually, I-I-I,
(dinging) this feels like a travesty--
- Um, actually. - Yeah?
I'll give you the-- - In Signs--
(laughing)
- You're just like, they're definitely way wrong.
- They're both way off, let me clean this up, okay?
(dinging) Um, actually.
- Gosh, what a, what is just here,
what is just and right in this screwy, screwy world,
'cos Gutz was certainly more correct,
but well, what you said was not wrong.
I guess Shane, you get the point.
This feels bad, but here we are.
- I don't know why I changed it, either.
(laughing)
'Cos he said it was right.
I was like, let me see if I can be more right.
- Let me see if I can be more right
by being less specific.
- I was trying to justify stealing the point
'cos I felt bad about stealing the point,
I was like, oh, if I steal
I can at least add something to it.
- It's like a dumb high schooler
learning what plagiarism is for the first time,
where it's like, if I change one word that's fine.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Um, no, well, I'm going to give you the point,
it is the aliens in Mars Attacks
are weak to a very specific song,
it is a yodeling country song,
but that, the song is Slim Whitman's Indian Love Call,
you got the specific name wrong,
you just said music, which is generally untrue,
but it was through that, it was a specific song,
I guess I'll give you the point, although--
- I said just music.
- [Trapp] Just music. (laughing)
- Specific in how vague it was.
- I believe it was, just music.
- Well we'll still give you the point,
a spiritual point for Gutz
which doesn't mean anything
but you can at least have the satisfaction
that you were a little bit closer than Shane was.
And we will-- - We're all tied up I guess,
it looks like we're all three of us--
- [Trapp] Well, well, hold on a second.
- Whoo!
- Well-- - Tight!
- Here is a question, here's a video game related
question for all y'all.
Some of the most famous Nintendo characters
are named after real people.
Mario is named after Mario Segale,
who was Nintendo of America's warehouse landlord.
Kirby is named for American lawyer John Kirby,
who defended Nintendo in a lawsuit.
Princess Zelda was named after artist Zelda Flannery,
who created several iconic Nintendo game covers.
(dinging) - Yes, Ally?
- Um, actually, Kirby was not named after a lawyer.
Kirby was named after
something else.
(laughing)
That's the one that's wrong!
- A vacuum. (laughing)
Er, no, in fact, Kirby was named after--
- Damn! - America lawyer John Kirby.
If, but, you can look at Kirby and see that guy
looks like a lawyer, right?
Do-dee-do-do-dee-do-do, your honor.
- I do feel like I had shirt of Kirby
holding a briefcase.
- It'd be, it you were like, if you got arrested,
and you're like, I need a lawyer, you gotta set something,
and then like Kirby walked in, and it'd just be like, hmm.
- I'd be like, fuck yeah!
(laughing)
- Just sucks it. (sucking air)
Grows a judge's wig and then had a nice little gavel.
- This sounds great. - That'd be all right.
- [Ally] Yeah!
- They've gotta make Kirby legal games.
(laughing)
- There could be Kirby: Law and Order.
- In the criminal justice system,
er, no, that is incorrect.
(sucking air) - Yeah. (laughing)
(dinging) Gutz.
- Zelda wasn't named after the artist--
- You gotta say um, actually, my man!
- Oh, um, actually!
(laughing)
I just went through a traumatic--
- You're killing me here!
- I just went through a traumatic learning experience.
- [Trapp] Ally just didn't want
Shane to get another point. (laughing)
- Gonna have a heart attack, it's 5 a.m. Gutz!
- I've forgotten the lessons of the show already.
Um, actually, Zelda wasn't named after that artist,
she was named after 1920's bon vivante Zelda Fitzgerald?
- That's entirely correct,
you were ending with a bit of a guess, but yeah,
Zelda Flannery is just a name I made up,
it's not an artist who did anything.
And in fact Zelda was named after Zel,
yeah, 1920's wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Zelda Fitzgerald.
- Wow.
- Makes me really want a flappers of Hyrule
like Zelda edition, just like it's all set
in like 1920s Jazz Age America.
(Ally scats)
- You must assemble the parts of the Algonquin Round Table!
(laughing)
- Bunch of fairies with like long cigarette holders.
- Hot!
- That's a point for Gutz, you gotta watch out for those um,
Ally's not gonna look out for you every--
- I can't protect you much longer, okay!
- No, I can count on you, right?
- Someday you'll be all grown up
and I won't be around to protect you.
- I gotta go to work son.
(laughing)
- Well, we will move on to our next statement here.
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey,
based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel of the same name
takes place largely on Discovery One,
a spacecraft controlled almost entirely
by the computer HAL 9000.
(dinging) - Shane?
- Um, actually, the name of the ship is not Discovery One.
- What is the name of the ship?
- Oh no, I thought you were gonna ask something like that.
- Yeah.
- Uh. (laughs)
The name of the ship is Curiosity 12.
(laughing)
- Well, I'll say that's not what's wrong with it,
I just wanted to see what you would guess.
(laughing) - Oh no!
- I wanted to see if you would have a nice fun answer
for what a spaceship might be, so no,
it is in fact called the Discovery One.
(dinging) - Gutz.
- Um, actually, thank you.
(laughing)
It's not based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
developed the story together,
and neither of them based it on each other,
they just came out at the same time.
- That's correct, yeah.
It wasn't that they, it was, the screenplay
and the novel were written simultaneously,
and they both shared authorship credits on it.
- Fuck, that's crazy. - I know!
- Yeah.
They just worked on it both together.
- So it's a movie novelization.
- It's an ouroboros of like a novel based on a movie
and a movie based on a novel,
they both orbit each other.
- It was just born from nothing.
- Yes, it just came to be.
Well, that is another point for Gutz.
And this brings us to our first shiny question.
- Whoop!
(tinkling)
- Now, shiny questions, like shiny Pokemon,
worth the same number of points,
just a little different, a little bit rarer,
although as one of our viewers pointed out,
it is not the exact same rarity
at which shiny Pokemon occur, is far more common
than the rarity of shiny Pokemon.
We're not changing anything, but thank you for that.
(laughing)
There are technological sounds
across parts of sci-fi,
it's up to you to identify the piece of technology
that you're hearing when you hear these sounds.
Whoever can identify the most bits of tech
will get the one point for this shiny question.
Cool? - Cool.
- Great. - Great.
Let's hear that first sound.
(melodic whirring)
(dinging)
- I believe that's the Next Generation transporter?
From Star Trek: The Next Generation?
- That is, yeah, I didn't even need that much specificity,
I was just looking for the transporter, energizer,
but yeah, yeah, yeah, that is in fact what that is,
and yeah, what, I, normally preface this,
for shiny questions, you don't have to say um, actually,
you didn't anyway but still fine, it's still fine.
It's a shiny question. - Ha ha ha!
- I'm saying it just because I'm not gonna be here forever,
some day you're gonna be on your own,
you're gonna be-- - Like I gotta go to work!
- You're gonna be correcting someone, and I won't be there,
and I need to know you're--
- I work in the security shack!
(laughing)
(twinkling) - And that's it
for this preview of Um, Actually.
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I'm Mike Trapp, reminding you to get your pets
spayed and neutered,
and to get you zombie pets obliterated.
Zombie pets, they're not the pets you loved anymore,
they're gone, they're gone, kill them, kill them.
(twinkling)
Spelling in English is hard enough,
spelling in si-fi and fantasy, even harder.
So we're gonna give you a name
of something from science fiction and fantasy.
First person to spell it correctly will get the point.
Your word is Paarthurnax.
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