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- From Snarlat to Snorlax, 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 Zac Oyama.
- Hello, I'm hoping to get second place.
That would be great.
- And Kirk Damato.
(speaking in foreign language)
And Sam Bashor.
- I'm very afraid right now.
- Great, it's your first time here, welcome.
For any new viewers, the game is very simple.
I have here a stack of statements,
these are untrue statements about the things
that you know and love, I have huge fandoms
out there somewhere who will be very angry
that I've said something untrue about it.
It's up to you to find the thing that's wrong,
buzz in, and correct me.
Now all of your corrections must
be proceeded by the phrase, "Um, Actually"
if you don't I can't give you the point,
and you can interrupt me at any point in the question,
just as soon as you hear the thing that's wrong,
buzz in, you don't have to let me finish.
That is pretty much it.
- You're just a liar.
- Yes, this is a game of lies.
This is a game of me being a liar.
(laughing)
And being put in my place by very angry people.
And if you don't do it, they will.
Grab your buzzers and we'll get started.
This first question is about comics.
In the "X-Men" comics, the classification
"Omega Level Mutant" generally designates those mutants
with the most powerful abilities.
Some of these incredibly powerful mutants
include: Iceman, Jean Gray, Matthew Malloy,
Kid Omega, Professor X, and X-Man.
(dinging)
Kirk.
- Um, actually
X-Man would not be considered an omega level X-Man,
he's just an X-level X-Man.
(laughing)
- X-Man is actually an omega level mutant
and also, a real X-Man.
(laughing)
(dinging)
Zac.
- Um, actually Jean Grey is not an omega level?
- Jean Grey is also an omega level mutant, yeah.
(dinging)
Sam.
- Um, actually, it's Matthew Malloy?
- No, that's a very normal sounding name.
Kirk, yeah.
- Um, actually then I would, by the process of elimination,
who is the suckiest of the remaining three characters?
I'd go with Bobby Drake, Iceman.
- And you would be wrong, Bob.
- That's crazy! (dinging)
- Iceman is an omega level mutant, Zac.
- Um, actually the guy named Kid Omega is not Omega level.
- Kid Omega actually an omega level mutant.
- Did we say all of them?
(laughing)
- There is in fact one more, it's incredibly surprising,
which is why I think like, yeah, go ahead.
- Um, actually Charles Xavier is not not omega level.
- Professor X is not an omega level X-Man.
- Why?
- [Host] I don't know.
(laughing)
- But Iceman is.
- Iceman is, Iceman is an omega level.
Professor X is not, which feels fucked, right?
That shouldn't be.
- He seems powerful.
- He seems incredibly powerful.
Well, by process of elimination, Zac,
I guess I'll give you--
- I feel kinda bad.
(laughing)
- I'll honor system you, should I give you the point
or should we?
- No.
- Wow.
- I don't think I should get the point.
- I mean, to be fair, we did guess maybe seven times
before we landed on that.
I guess it's only fair.
- Take it away from me, I don't want it.
- No points for that one.
Moving on to our next one here.
The director of "The Nightmare Before Christmas,"
Tim Burton, based the film on a three-page poem
that he himself had written several years earlier.
(dinging)
Uh, Kirk.
- Um, actually no, it's based off of a children's book,
which he had written.
- Incorrect.
- What?
- It was a little poem yeah, yes?
- Um, actually, Tim Burton did not direct that movie.
- That's correct.
- What?
- Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare Before Christmas.
Do you know who did?
- No, not a clue.
- I'll give you the point anyway.
- Burt, Timson.
- Yeah, Nightmare Before Christmas was
directed by Henry Selick.
- Oh. - Yes.
- Which is crazy 'cause it's the Burton-e-est,
Burton movie that ever existed,
but yeah, I guess at that time,
Burton was buy directing Batman Returns.
- Can we talk about making a movie
based off a poem you wrote?
- Oh, sure we could talk about that.
- Why, do you have a poem that you've written?
- I could.
I could write a poem, sell some movies.
- Based on the hit poem by Zac Oyama.
(laughing)
Well that is a point for Sam.
This is a video game question here.
The characters in the first "Mortal Kombat"
were all derived from a motion-capture performance
from one of five actors.
The depiction of these realistic figures
committing hyper violent acts resulted
in the creation of age ratings for video games.
(dinging)
Kirk.
- Um, actually I don't think it was motion capture.
- It was, yeah.
- Gosh!
- It was this thing where they got these actors
in here to like you know, form some moves
and they animated them together, yeah.
(dinging) Sam.
- Um, actually it wasn't five actors,
I think it was like two, it was just a male and a female
and they did all the parts.
- No, there were in fact five, yeah.
- Oh,
wait.
(laughing)
Um, actually, Goro's then one of five actors
he's multiple of actors that they put together.
(laughing)
Oh no.
- Please be right.
- Cut that.
I didn't say that. - Please be right.
- No, no, but you know, you're all dancing around it.
So the issue is Goro, so not every character was created
through motion capture, almost all of them,
or the only one who wasn't was Goro,
so Goro was created through stop, through like Claymation,
stop-motion animation, everyone else was,
so Goro was not in fact an amalgamation of multiple actors
smushed together, he was a Claymation figure,
so it is untrue to say that they were all
created through motion capture.
A very picky question for sure.
- Do you remember that Claymation fighting game?
- Yes, Clay Fighter.
- Clay Fighter.
(laughing)
- Oh, okay.
- Well, no points for that one either.
(laughing)
Here's just a question about a little Sci-Fi movie,
movie question for you.
In "The Fifth Element," Korben Dallas
and Leeeloo rendezvous with Diva Plavalaguna
on the luxury cruise Fhloston Paradise
in order to retrieve four powerful element stones.
After being fatally wounded, the Diva reveals
that the stones are hidden in a trunk in her room.
(dinging)
- Um, actually the
stones are in her.
- That's correct.
Yeah.
- That gave me an absolute nightmare.
It's like, I have that same thing with the Rugrats episode
where he eats the watermelon seeds
and the watermelon grows out of him.
Two very distinct nightmares because of things in my belly.
- Things inside you.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- How do you feel about Alien?
- Mm-mm, mm-mm.
- Just not going there.
Um, how
did they get in there?
I don't know what the initial plan was as far
as like cool, we'll get the- swallow these stones,
suppository these stones, somehow get these stones
in you and then--
- We don't have time to figure it out, just eat the stones!
(laughing)
- Eat the stones?
- Eat the stones!
- All right, ehh.
- Well I got a performance later today.
- Well, that's another point for Sam
for being haunted in his nightmares
by stones emerging from a body.
This brings us to our very first shiny question.
Shiny questions are like shiny Pokemon,
they are worth the same amount,
they're just a little different and a little rarer,
so this you don't necessarily have to answer um, actually.
You can if you just wanna stay in the habit
and not forget later, this is a game
that we're calling Under Review.
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In just a moment, we're gonna throw
up on the screen and I will also read aloud
a movie review from which
references to this specific movie are taken out.
The first person who can buzz in and tell me
what movie the reviewers are talking about
will get the point.
All right, let's go ahead and throw it up there.
All right, so that might be a little hard to read.
I'll read out loud.
The first is a quote from Roger Ebert.
It says, "A movie that obviously was made
with infinite care and pains, and it began
with a real inspiration: why not create a fantasy
out of some of the drawings of M.C. Escher..?
The movie is an impressive production
that is often good to look at.
Real thought went into it,
soundtrack is fine." (dinging)
Yes?
- Um, actually, I don't know why I'm saying um, actually,
but they're talking about Labyrinth.
- They are talking about Labyrinth.
Yes they are.
- Oh!
- And I will also read Gene Siskel's review
because man, Jean Giskel hated this movie.
(laughing)
He said, "An enormous waste of talent and money...
Really quite awful, sharing a much too complicated plot
and visually ugly style, a pathetic story.
It has been said many times before in this space
that the sight of a baby in peril
is one of the sleaziest gimmicks a film can employ
to gain our attention, but the director does it."
- Man.
Labyrinth rules.
Old people can get bent, right?
(laughing)
- I think Jim Henson said that.
(laughing)
- Fuck these guys.
I also love from the second half of Ebert's quote
where he says, "The soundtrack is fine."
(laughing)
It's like man, like you really just hated--
- Your review is fine.
(laughing)
- And that's it for this episode of Um, Actually.
Um, actually, it's not, there's way more of this episode
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I'll be right here, well I'll be over there.
I mean I'll be in both places at once,
because this is just- there's more-
(sighing)
technology--
The goal is to try and name as many
of these aliens as you can.
- Names like we just make up for them,
like Bryan or David or--
- Yeah, names that they already have
but I guess if you.