(upbeat music)
- From morelocks to warlocks, nerds are passionate about
a lot of things but there's one thing
they love above all else, that is correcting people.
This is Um, Actually.
Joining us today we have Brennan Lee Mulligan.
- Hello.
- [Mike] Next to him, Siobhan Thompson.
- Hi.
- [Mike] And Adam Conover.
- Hi there.
- Adam and Siobhan are returning.
- Returning champion?
- Did you win last time?
- Let's just say I did.
I'm a returning champion.
- That's the white male spirit.
I don't know if I won but let's just say I did.
- Hey, if I was there it was a victory for everybody.
- Well, Siobhan and Adam are returning to the game.
Brennan, this will be your first time appearing on the game
but Brennan has been behind the scenes
of writing many questions for other episodes.
This episode, he's written none of the questions
and will be surprised, as anyone else,
as to what I'm about to ask.
- Oh.
- I have here a stack of false statements
about the franchises you love the most.
When you here what is wrong with it,
it's up to you to buzz in and correct me.
All corrections must be proceeded with
the phrase, um, actually
and you can interrupt me whenever you want.
Just like in real life, we've all done this before,
how do you feel?
- Feel.
- [Siobhan] Great.
- Are you okay?
- Adam ate a five course meal
just before the camera starting rolling.
- I had a potato chip stuck in my throat,
now I'm ready to go, let's do it.
- That's the nuttiest thing that you could say
just before you going into a curation corner.
- Alright, let's play Um, Actually.
Our first question today is about tabletop games.
In the tabletop game, Warhammer, players command armies
of miniatures representing different races or factions
including four distinct races of elves,
High Elves, Blood Elves, Wood Elves
and Dark Elves, Brennan.
- Um, actually I don't believe that Wood Elves
are one of the elves in Warhammer.
- You're incorrect.
- Well, damn.
- [Mike] Siobhan.
- Um, actually Blood Elves are not elves in Warhammer.
- That's correct, Blood Elves are not elves in Warhammer.
Can you tell me what they're from?
- Somewhere else.
- I'm still gonna give you the point
but what was it Adam?
- Um, actually Blood Elves are from Warcraft.
- That's correct.
- Specifically, I think Warcraft Three.
I think you could first be a Blood Elf
in the expansion of The Frozen Throne.
- I can't speak to the latter half of it
but yes, Blood Elves are from Warcraft and.
- It was probably true.
- [Mike] Yeah, what's ups?
- Um, actually I just, I fuckin', you know.
They're the elves that are allied with
the Hoard whereas the Night Elves
are allied with the Alliance.
- [Mike] Yes.
- You guys know so much about elves,
why'd you get the question wrong?
- Siobhan raises a very good question.
- I thought of it at the same time as she did.
This show doesn't have the smartest people
but the people who get the questions wrong
are the angriest at themselves.
Oh, I should have known,
I devoted hundreds of hours of my life
to this when I was 14.
What was the point of it if not this?
- It's all been building to this.
- Oh my God.
- Our next question is about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The universe of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
is populated by dozens of animal-human hybrids
created by coming into contact with mutagenic ooze.
This includes the turtles themselves, their allies,
like the mutated alligator, Leatherhead and enemies
like the human-fly hybrid, Baxter Stockman, Adam.
- Um, actually, Leatherhead was a crocodile?
- No, he was an alligator.
- Oh.
- [Mike] I thought about it.
- That was a pretty good guess.
- [Mike] Yeah, Siobhan.
- I feel like the fly guy did it to himself
and it didn't, the ooze didn't happen to him.
I think that he was a scientist that made
himself turn into a half fly.
- It was like a Cronenberg thing.
- [Siobhan] Right.
- It wasn't the ooze.
- That's close enough that I'm gonna give it you.
That's correct, while the ooze, yeah, what's up?
- Fuck.
- Um, actually.
- Oh, God damnit.
- Baxter Stockman did it to himself.
- No, that's so unfair.
- He's a scientist, it wasn't from the ooze.
- He didn't do it to himself
but the main thing is that he did not mutate from ooze.
- So which one of these assholes
do you wanna give the point to?
- I mean, I'll give it to Brennan since he said
um, actually, he stumbled his way into it wasn't the ooze,
although he started with he did it to himself,
which is not true.
- This doesn't feel good.
I just want to acknowledge that it doesn't feel good.
I think we all know that this feels bad.
- It was a dirty point, alright,
we'll give that point to Brennan and we will move on.
- I will never move.
- Our third question is about the Twilight Zone.
One of the series' most famous episodes,
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,
doesn't actually feature monsters
or paranormal creatures of any kind.
The true monsters are the people of Maple Street
giving in to paranoid violence, Brennan.
- Um, actually that is the main thrust of the episode
but there are monsters in that episode.
- That's correct, in the end it's revealed
that aliens have been manipulating electronic devices
and even though like it is the paranoia
that is like the main concern.
There's still aliens behind the whole thing.
Which weakens the allegory a little bit, right?
- [Siobhan] A little bit is all.
- Yeah, it was hard for me to answer that
because the version you pitched was a superior episode.
- It's a better version.
- [Siobhan] You said it, it's much better.
- Okay, we're moving on to our next question.
In the Philip K. Dick novel, Blade Runner,
Rick Deckard uses a Voight, yes, Brennan.
- Um, actually the novel
is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
- That's correct.
- God dammit, I pressed it.
- Everyone's so furious.
- I'm so intimately familiar with everything you
have mentioned so far, that was.
- I'm sorry, Adam, you gotta be on that buzzer.
- I saw a Monster Due on Maple Street as a child,
I played Warhammer and Warcraft.
- I didn't play Warhammer, my sister played Warhammer,
I have very tangential knowledge.
- I painted the figurines, man.
I was down there with a little paintbrush.
- What army did you play?
- Orcs, 'cause it came with a box
and I didn't have a lot of money.
- Ah.
- That was always the, I could never get into Warhammer
because it was the same reason.
- Oh, it's a racket.
- Yeah, it's the same thing with Magic the Gathering,
was I was like, oh, I like Magic the Gathering
and then my friend got into it like two years after I did
and a week later had the best deck of that release
and suddenly I was just gettin' stomped, man.
- Can't do it.
- Well, this brings us to our very first shiny question.
As you all know, shiny questions are just
like shiny Pokemon, they're basically the same.
They're worth the same amount,
they're just a little different and little bit rarer.
This is a little game we're calling Yeah, But In The Book.
Oh, we're gonna look at
the differences between books and movies.
Comic book movies are so much more than just superheros.
In fact, all of the movies you see on the screen
have been adapted from comics except for one.
The first person to identify the one movie
not adapted from a comic book will get the point, Adam.
- Do I have to say um, actually?
- You don't have to but you can if you want.
- Um, actually Weird Science was not based on a comic.
- That's incorrect, Weird Science is actually
based on a comic book, yeah, Siobhan.
- No, John Hughes thought it was Elf.
- Um, actually The Fifth Element
is not based on a comic book.
- That's correct, The Fifth Element is the only
movie up here that was not based on a comic book.
- I actually watched that two days ago.
- [Mike] Really?
- 'Cause I'm cool, it's great.
- I would watch The Fifth Element anytime it comes on.
- I don't even know, I mean, Monkeybone.
- What, you wanna talk about Monkeybone a bit?
- Monkeybone, yeah, like Moneybone, first of all,
the movie poster looks like a comic book.
- [Mike] That's true.
- But also, only a comic book writer
would come up with a character that stupid looking.
- I feel like if you otherwise looked at all these movies
you'd be like these movies have nothing in common.
The thing in common is comic books.
Alright, that point goes to Siobhan.
What are we lookin' at right now,
we got three for Brennan, two for Siobhan.
Adam, knew all the answers but just has zero.
- I'm as baffled as you are.
This has never happened to me before.
- 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 your zombie pets obliterated.
Zombie pets, they're not the pets you loved anymore,
they're gone, they're gone, kill them, kill them.
You're gonna see a grid of 20 dragons in front of you.
The person who can name the most dragons will get the point.