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***In one of his Adventures episodes, Gary opens by [[spoiler:stepping out of a portable toilet and saying "Where have you taken me this time, Old Girl", in a reference to the Doctor Who Tardis.]]
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** In "The Experiments" Gary makes a running gag out of calling up Creator/StephenMulhern due to his tendency to appear frequently on prime-time television.
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** Gary has a noted tendency to mention ''Series/DoctorWho'' and its surrounding creators in many of the listed projects. In all, he's worn a TARDIS hoodie in seven episodes of ''Citation Needed'', mentioned Creator/StevenMoffat (the showrunner of the show between 2011-2019) at least twice, has called a cat with implants a "Cyberman Cat", used a Portable toilet as a TARDIS on ''Adventures'', and his last words in ''Citation Needed'' were "I don't wanna go!" (the last words said by David Tennant when his tenure ended).

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** Gary has a noted tendency to mention ''Series/DoctorWho'' and its surrounding creators in many of the listed projects. In all, he's worn a TARDIS hoodie in seven episodes of ''Citation Needed'', mentioned Creator/StevenMoffat (the showrunner of the show between 2011-2019) 2011-2017) at least twice, has called a cat with implants a "Cyberman Cat", used a Portable toilet as a TARDIS on ''Adventures'', and his last words in ''Citation Needed'' were "I don't wanna go!" (the last words said by David Tennant when his tenure ended).
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* RunningGag: Several permeate throughout their projects:
** Chris not having a social media account and is often referred to as "doesn't do this social media nonsense".
** Comparing the supermarket Iceland with the Country of the same name.
** Matt almost always going for the "easy bishop joke" in that they can only move diagonally.
** Gary calling viewers and listeners "readers".
** Chris Joel the Ornithologist, which has its own call and response.
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* ''The Technical Difficulties'': An award-winning university radio show that featured Reverse Trivia (a game where Tom would read the answers from a 1984 copy of ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' and the others had to guess the question) and originally only had Tom, Gary, and a rotating cast of other people including an individual named Graham. When Gary left the show, he [[TheNthDoctor "regenerated"]] into Chris. He later returned in a [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Special]]. Even later (whilst Chris was still on the show) Matt joined the team. They all met when Gary [[BackForTheFinale returned for the last episode of the show.]] They made several twenty-four-hour shows.

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* ''The Technical Difficulties'': An award-winning university radio show that featured Reverse Trivia (a game where Tom would read the answers from a 1984 copy of ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' and the others had to guess the question) and originally only had Tom, Gary, and a rotating cast of other people including Tim Jeffries and an individual named Graham. When Gary left the show, he [[TheNthDoctor "regenerated"]] into Chris. He later returned in a [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Special]]. Even later (whilst Chris was still on the show) Matt joined the team. They all met when Gary [[BackForTheFinale returned for the last episode of the show.]] They made several twenty-four-hour shows.
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** Second -- Chris, the most reclusive of the quartet, ''started using social media'' (Instagram and Twitter specifically), despite being a RunningGag in all their projects that he "doesn't do this social media nonsense". Sadly, the handle is not "Toast".

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** Second -- Chris, the most reclusive of the quartet, ''started using social media'' (Instagram and Twitter specifically), despite being a RunningGag in all their projects that he "doesn't do this social media nonsense". Sadly, the neither handle is not "Toast"."Toast" (it's [=ChrisTheWrongUn=]). Ironically, them joining Twitter came at a time when Twitter was making controversial changes and people were leaving for reasons best left unexplained here.
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** Firstly, the title, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does '''not''' disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the ''least'' likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]

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** Firstly, the title, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does '''not''' disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the ''least'' likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, hasn't been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.videos, however.[[/labelnote]]
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** Gary has a noted tendency to mention ''Series/DoctorWho'' and it's surrounding creators in many of the listed projects. In all, he's worn a TARDIS hoodie in seven episodes of ''Citation Needed'', mentioned Creator/StevenMoffat (the showrunner of the show between 2011-2019) at least twice, has called a cat with implants a "Cyberman Cat", used a Portable toilet as a TARDIS on ''Adventures'', and his last words in ''Citation Needed'' were "I don't wanna go!" (the last words said by David Tennant when his tenure ended).

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** Gary has a noted tendency to mention ''Series/DoctorWho'' and it's its surrounding creators in many of the listed projects. In all, he's worn a TARDIS hoodie in seven episodes of ''Citation Needed'', mentioned Creator/StevenMoffat (the showrunner of the show between 2011-2019) at least twice, has called a cat with implants a "Cyberman Cat", used a Portable toilet as a TARDIS on ''Adventures'', and his last words in ''Citation Needed'' were "I don't wanna go!" (the last words said by David Tennant when his tenure ended).

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** Gary has a noted tendency to mention ''Series/DoctorWho'' and it's surrounding creators in many of the listed projects. In all, he's worn a TARDIS hoodie in seven episodes of ''Citation Needed'', mentioned Creator/StevenMoffat (the showrunner of the show between 2011-2019) at least twice, has called a cat with implants a "Cyberman Cat", used a Portable toilet as a TARDIS on ''Adventures'', and his last words in ''Citation Needed'' were "I don't wanna go!" (the last words said by David Tennant when his tenure ended).



* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]] has two moments:
** The first of which is the title, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the ''least'' likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]
** Second, Chris, the most reclusive of the quartet, started using social media (Instagram and Twitter), despite being a RunningGag that his tagline is "doesn't do this social media nonsense" in past projects. Sadly, the handle is not "Toast".

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]] has for two moments:
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** The first of which is Firstly, the title, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not '''not''' disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the ''least'' likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]
** Second, Second -- Chris, the most reclusive of the quartet, started ''started using social media media'' (Instagram and Twitter), Twitter specifically), despite being a RunningGag in all their projects that his tagline is he "doesn't do this social media nonsense" in past projects.nonsense". Sadly, the handle is not "Toast".
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* MaliciousMisnaming: Matt repeatedly calls Creator/MNightShyamalan: "M. Night [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showaddywaddy Showaddywaddy]]" whenever talking about a potential film idea.

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* MaliciousMisnaming: Matt repeatedly calls Creator/MNightShyamalan: Creator/MNightShyamalan "M. Night [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showaddywaddy Showaddywaddy]]" whenever talking about a potential film idea.
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* [[VerbalTic Gary has a habit of calling the audience "Readers"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2bt5_Vp4Y and has been called out on several occasions]].

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* [[VerbalTic VerbalTic: Gary has a habit of calling the audience "Readers"]], "Readers", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2bt5_Vp4Y and has been called out for doing this on several occasions]].

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the ''least'' likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]
** Also, Chris, the most reclusive of the quartet, also started to use social media, despite being a RunningGag that he "doesn't do this social media nonsense" in past projects. Sadly it's not "Toast".

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], drag"]] has two moments:
** The first of which is the title,
which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the ''least'' likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]
** Also, Second, Chris, the most reclusive of the quartet, also started to use using social media, media (Instagram and Twitter), despite being a RunningGag that he his tagline is "doesn't do this social media nonsense" in past projects. Sadly it's Sadly, the handle is not "Toast".

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in a StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the least likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]
** Also, Chris also got onto social media, despite being a RunningGag that he "doesn't do this social media nonsense".

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* [[VerbalTic Gary has a habit of calling the audience "Readers"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2bt5_Vp4Y and has been called out on several occasions]].
* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in a StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the least ''least'' likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary and uses masculine pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]
** Also, Chris Chris, the most reclusive of the quartet, also got onto started to use social media, despite being a RunningGag that he "doesn't do this social media nonsense".nonsense" in past projects. Sadly it's not "Toast".
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** Also, Chris also got on social media.

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** Also, Chris also got on onto social media.media, despite being a RunningGag that he "doesn't do this social media nonsense".
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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in a StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the least likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary (or, as listed there, "enby"), but uses masculine pronouns.[[/labelnote]]

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in a StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the least likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary (or, as listed there, "enby"), but and uses masculine pronouns.pronouns. This hasn't, however, been mentioned in any Technical Difficulties videos.[[/labelnote]]

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in a StunnedSilence for half the episode.

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in a StunnedSilence for half the episode. Tom, for his part, said that he thought Chris would be the least likely of the four of them to do drag.[[labelnote:note]]Tom had Matt as the most likely, followed by Gary. Worth noting that Matt, on his Twitter page, states that he identifies as non-binary (or, as listed there, "enby"), but uses masculine pronouns.[[/labelnote]]
** Also, Chris also got on social media.
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* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk "Chris does drag"]], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and it does not disappoint. Everyone around the table is not only shocked when Chris reveals all, but Gary is just in a StunnedSilence for half the episode.
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* ''Podcast/TheTechnicalDifficulties'' or ''"Reverse Trivia Podcast"''. A Podcast that acted as a continuation of the radio show, sometimes called "the audio episodes"

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* ''Podcast/TheTechnicalDifficulties'' or ''"Reverse ''"The Reverse Trivia Podcast"''. Podcast"'' (also ''The Technical Difficulties'') A Podcast that acted as a continuation of the radio show, sometimes called "the audio episodes"
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* ''[[https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaGRpZi5jby51ay9wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQueG1s?sa=X&ved=0CBoQ27cFahgKEwjA5MubsLT5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQjAI The Technical Difficulties]]'' or ''"Reverse Trivia Podcast"''. A Podcast that acted as a continuation of the radio show, sometimes called "the audio episodes"

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* ''[[https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaGRpZi5jby51ay9wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQueG1s?sa=X&ved=0CBoQ27cFahgKEwjA5MubsLT5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQjAI The Technical Difficulties]]'' ''Podcast/TheTechnicalDifficulties'' or ''"Reverse Trivia Podcast"''. A Podcast that acted as a continuation of the radio show, sometimes called "the audio episodes"



* ''(We've been on) Adventures''[[labelnote:*]]currently the only series where the name is not in any of the video titles, only being listed on the (YouTube playlist and) official site[[/labelnote]] (2022 -): Once an episode, one of the Technical Difficulties crew goes out on an adventure, and they recount their experiences to the rest of the crew around the table, while participating in banter and jokes.

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* ''(We've been on) Adventures''[[labelnote:*]]currently the only series where the name is not in any of the video titles, only being listed on the (YouTube [=YouTube=] playlist and) and official site[[/labelnote]] (2022 -): - Present): Once an episode, one of the Technical Difficulties crew goes out on an adventure, and they recount their experiences to the rest of the crew around the table, while participating in banter and jokes.



* MaliciousMisnaming: Matt repeatedly calls Creator/MNightShyamalan "M. Night [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showaddywaddy Showaddywaddy]]" whenever talking about a potential film idea.

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* MaliciousMisnaming: Matt repeatedly calls Creator/MNightShyamalan Creator/MNightShyamalan: "M. Night [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showaddywaddy Showaddywaddy]]" whenever talking about a potential film idea.
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* ''WebVideo/CitationNeeded'' (2014 - 2018): An web video series where Tom gives the name of a Wikipedia article and the others have to guess what the article is about.

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* ''WebVideo/CitationNeeded'' (2014 - 2018): An A web video series where Tom gives the name of a Wikipedia article and the others have to guess what the article is about.
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* ''Adventures''[[labelnote:*]]currently the only series where the name is not in any of the video titles, only being listed on the official site[[/labelnote]] (2022 -): Once an episode, one of the Technical Difficulties crew goes out on an adventure, and they recount their experiences to the rest of the crew around the table, while participating in banter and jokes.

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* ''Adventures''[[labelnote:*]]currently ''(We've been on) Adventures''[[labelnote:*]]currently the only series where the name is not in any of the video titles, only being listed on the (YouTube playlist and) official site[[/labelnote]] (2022 -): Once an episode, one of the Technical Difficulties crew goes out on an adventure, and they recount their experiences to the rest of the crew around the table, while participating in banter and jokes.
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* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Gary's video in the second round of ''Adventures'' sees him travelling to Shetland to interview Brian Johnson, the lighthouse engineer who restored and operates Britain's last working foghorn. The sequence where Brian fires up the 70-year-old diesel engines that power the foghorn has open captions for everything he says, due to the background noise, but at one point he calls over something that's inaudible over the engine noise, and the subtitle just says "[inaudible over engine noise]".
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* SequelEpisode: Tom's episode in the second round of ''Adventures'' is a sequel to his earlier solo video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzfpExS_wic I tried to film a volcano and it was a complete disaster]]". [[spoiler:Although he wasn't laid up with food poisoning this time around, he arrived too late to view the eruption, which had apparently stopped earlier that morning. Cue PrecisionFStrike.]]

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* SequelEpisode: Tom's episode in the second round of ''Adventures'' is a sequel to his earlier solo video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzfpExS_wic I tried to film a volcano and it was a complete disaster]]". [[spoiler:Although he wasn't laid up with food poisoning this time around, he arrived too late to view the eruption, which had apparently stopped earlier that early the previous morning. Cue PrecisionFStrike.]]
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* SequelEpisode: Tom's episode in the second round of ''Adventures'' is a sequel to his earlier solo video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzfpExS_wic I tried to film a volcano and it was a complete disaster]]".

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* SequelEpisode: Tom's episode in the second round of ''Adventures'' is a sequel to his earlier solo video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzfpExS_wic I tried to film a volcano and it was a complete disaster]]". [[spoiler:Although he wasn't laid up with food poisoning this time around, he arrived too late to view the eruption, which had apparently stopped earlier that morning. Cue PrecisionFStrike.]]

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* ChannelHop: [[invoked]]The group started on the radio, then moved to Tom's Website and associated [=YouTube=] channel for their short-lived TV show, then moved to various platforms for the podcast, then back to Tom's channel for ''WebVideo/CitationNeeded'', then moved to the Matt & Tom side-channel for the experimental shows and ''WebVideo/TwoOfThesePeopleAreLying''. They now have their own specific channel for upcoming content post-2021.



* MissingEpisode: [[invoked]] The university radio show where they got started has not been archived online.



* ReclusiveArtist: [[invoked]] Chris is one of these. Unlike the other three, who all have Twitter accounts that they regularly use (Tom has a regular web presence outside of the show and ''actively'' asks for people to reach out for video ideas, Matt has his own Youtube channel and is also on Twitter, while Gary simply isn't averse to being online) Chris, according to the site, video descriptions, as well as his TitleIn text for ''Citation Needed'', he "doesn't do this social media nonsense", so all we know about him is stuff he's said in videos and has consented to leave in the final cut. His bio on the Tech-Dif site is "Once ████, Chris ███ ███ ████ ever again," which reinforces this idea. Back in 2010, however, Chris' bio on the website was "Once ████, Toast ███ ████ juggling █████ ███ ████ met ████ ████ ████ ever again." In his trip in the fourth episode of the adventures series, he notes that he lives in an "undisclosed location". When asked about it on a [=Q&A=] on [[https://youtu.be/QZCWoYKVWSU?t=383 The Park Bench...]]
-->'''Tom:''' Are you on Twitter yet?
-->'''Chris:''' '''''No?!?''''' Have you not worked out the pattern yet people? I'm on ''less'' social media than when we started this, my biography on the site has gotten shorter and has more redactions.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[invoked]] Between Series 7 and 8 of ''Citation Needed'', the Tech-Dif crew uploaded a series of experimental formats to try out for a follow-up series. They tried out three formats across four episodes (trying one of the formats twice), but in the end decided to make ''WebVideo/TwoOfThesePeopleAreLying'' into a full series. These formats were:
** Table-top Time Machine [[note]]The one they did twice[[/note]]: The whole table has been transported in time and space, and everyone must help charge the "Fact Batteries" in order to return home.
** Reverse Trivia, But This Time With Video: The return of the Reverse Trivia podcast, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin but this time with video]].
** The Format Laboratory: Tom selects a random phrase or idiom and the table must use it to create the next hit PanelShow.

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