(upbeat music)
- From warp drives to warp stones,
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 Brian Murph Murphy.
- Hi.
- We have Natalie Palamides.
And we have Demi Adejuyigbe.
- Nailed it.
- [Host] So to briefly explain the game,
I have here, a stack of statements.
These are false statements about the franchises
that you love or if you don't love,
someone out there loves deeply and passionately.
But these are all false statements
so it's up to you to find the thing
that I said that is incorrect,
buzz in, and correct me.
There's only two rules, really.
Every correction must be preceded
by the phrase, um, actually.
If you don't say um, actually, I will not give you a point.
It's really the only rule, I can't break it.
The other is that you can interrupt me whenever you want.
Just like in real life, doesn't matter the point
I'm trying to make, what matters is that you--
- What's the point you're trying to make?
- That's it.
That's it.
You got it.
Natalie already rearing to go.
- Um, actually, she didn't say um, actually.
- [Natalie] Oh.
Come on Demi.
- And Demi with the-- - Smartass.
- With the smartass correction,
also very much in the spirit of the game.
- I can already feel that I'm gonna
come in second place again.
(group chuckling)
- This first statement is about Harry Potter.
Harry Potter.
In the Harry Potter series,
the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch,
is a non-magical person from a wizarding family,
also known as a muggle.
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(buzzer dings)
- Um actually, he's not from a wizarding
family 'cause he's a muggle.
- No, he's a non-magical person from a wizarding family.
- Um actually, non-magical people
from non-magical families are muggles.
- That's correct.
- [Brian] Oh.
- Can you tell me what the term is for
a non-magical person from a wizarding family?
- Yes I can, it's a mudblood.
- [Host] That is not correct, it's not the--
- [Demi] Fuck.
(laughing)
I was so confident.
- I'm still gonna give you the point unless someone
can tell me the term I'm looking for.
- Uh-- - Is it just loser?
(group laughing)
(Natalie groaning)
- [Demi] Are you okay?
- I kinda do that for while and stall.
- Yeah, we can just, let me just hold onto that. (chuckling)
- Yeah, I'm just gonna guess mugfug.
(group chuckling) - That's it.
- Mugfug.
- I mean, that sounds like the right tone.
But Demi, we'll give you the point.
(buzzer dings)
You identified what was incorrect, which is that
a non-magical person from a wizarding family
is not known as a mudblood, or is not know as a muggle,
they are known as a squib.
- [Brian] Oh-- - Are you freaking kidding me?
- [Brian] No, thank you.
- It sounds like a slur, honestly.
It was like that squib over there, like ka-jesus.
- Most Harry Potter words do sound like,
oh I'm offended by that but I can't tell you why.
- Yeah, it's got that real linguistic crunchiness,
of just like, ugh, I don't know what
you're saying to me, but no thank you.
- Poor guy too, I mean think about that, being born
into a family of wizards and you aren't.
- If your brother can be like (magic spell sounds)
and like make magic whenever he wants--
- That's sad.
- Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself--
- Nightmare.
Well, that is a point for Demi.
- [Natalie] Nice one, Demi.
- [Demi] All my points today go to
Susan G. Komen, Race for the Cure.
That's who I'm playing for.
(group laughing)
- Our next question is about Final Fantasy.
- Fudge me.
- [Host] Shinra, the corporation opposed
by the ecoterrorist group Avalanche,
has constructed a series of reactors
that are slowly but surely destroying the planet.
The reactors harvest Mako, the life force of the planet
that in its crystal form, Materia,
can be shaped and molded into magical weaponry.
(buzzer dings)
- Um, actually, materia is not a weapon in and of itself,
they're like little crystal gems you can put in weapons--
- That's correct, it's not--
- Things you can wear or wield.
- [Host] The crystal itself
doesn't get formed into weapons, you make a weapon
that will just have a random slot in it
and you just jam--
- You jam a cool rock in there.
- A cool rock.
(chuckling)
- Just like real weapons.
- Yeah, how real weapons, you leave space
for cool rocks to be jammed in.
- Yeah, just tape your cool rocks to your gun.
- Like what are you doing to your gun?
- Making it look cool.
- [Demi] Yeah, it's like when you put flames on a car.
(chuckling)
- It makes you super cool
and also lets you control fire,
it's like a really cool thing about--
- Unless you're a squib.
- Yeah, unless you're a squib.
- Right, then your brother can do it.
(group laughing)
- Give me back my shoes.
We will move right along, this one,
I'll be interested to see the reaction of this one.
This is one is about the animated series, Gargoyles.
(Demi laughs)
Do you watch Gargoyles?
- Let's do this.
(group laughing)
- [Host] The Gargoyles, winged protectors of New York
gifted with stone bodies and the ability to glide, not fly,
all named themselves: Goliath, Hudson,
Brooklyn, Lexington and Bronx.
(buzzer dings)
- Um, actually, one of their names is DeAngelo.
(group laughing)
- Get over here DeAngelo, no.
No, I'm sorry, that's incorrect.
(buzzer dings)
- Um, actually, Goliath's name is Lower East Side.
(group laughing)
- Yeah, the Goliath has really been gentrified lately.
No, no, no, Goliath is named Goliath.
(buzzer dings)
Demi.
- Um, actually, Bronx is the one that did not name himself.
(chuckling)
- That's very funny because that's not
what we're thinking, but we were actually looking
for is Goliath also did not name himself.
But I think that has to be true
because Bronx is the dog, right.
Bronx can't possibly name himself, so that wasn't what
we were going for but I guess--
- Fuck yeah. - Oh my god.
- Give me a point. - There's a dog?
- No way Bronx could possibly name himself, that's--
- [Brian] Can he speak?
- That's insane.
No, he just growls.
- What's the logic there
'cause they are all like rocks, right?
(Demi and Brian bickering)
Like all the other ones are monsters, why can they speak.
- It's the same thing with Pluto and Goofy.
- [Host] Yes!
- They're both dogs, Disney.
Come on.
- Our next question is a special video guest question.
So, let's turn it on over to the screen.
♪ But there's no sense crying ♪
♪ over every mistake ♪
♪ You just keep on trying ♪
♪ 'til you run out of cake ♪
- Oh, hi there.
It's me, Jonathan Coulton.
For all of you fans of Portal out there,
you might recognize that song as Still Alive,
the theme music that Cortana sings over the end credits.
(buzzer dings)
That song along with Gameplay and Dialogue
spawned the popular meme The Cake is Alive.
- Demi buzzed right in there, what you got?
- Um actually, it's Gladdos who sings
that over the end of portal. - Alright, that's your answer.
Let's hear from Mr. Jonathan Coulton,
hear what he has to say.
- Actually, Cortana is the AI from Halo.
The AI in portal is named Gladdos.
- I'm very cool, I know a lot of stuff about that.
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but it's 66.66666--
- And are these real monsters that exist in literature?
- These are monsters from folklore.
- Okay. (Demi chuckles)
- It's monsters from our everyday lives.