History WebVideo / CitationNeeded

* SmartBall: for all their joking around, the three panellists all have subjects where they are very well-informed, such as history for Gary[[note]]he's an archivist[[/note]], engineering for Matt[[note]]he's a radio engineer[[/note]], and birds and literature for Chris[[note]][[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers he works on a nature reserve]], he just likes birds and books[[/note]]. This is actually a RunningGag for Gary and Chris, as whenever the subjects of ornithology[[note]]the study of birds[[/note]] or history come up, it's cue for a chant of "When I say 'ornith-', you say '-ologist'!" or "When I say Brannan, you say archivist!" respectively.

-->'''Tom:''' You've won a holiday to a French resort with Sulu from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and the director of ''Film/{{Transformers}}''. [[spoiler:It's Creator/GeorgeTakei and Creator/MichaelBay's week away in St Tropez.]]

-->'''Tom''': You know it's bad when the audience have better gags than we do.

* MagicAIsMagicA: {{Discussed}} in 3x02: "The Boobrie and Conservative Pandas" in which Gary mentions that "If you're gonna make something up, at least you make it up consistently!"

** Two episodes (1x05 "Neckarwestheim and the End of the World", and 6x05 "Acoustic Kitty and Bat Bombs") have ended by quoting Jeremy Clarkson's "on that bombshell..." CatchPhrase from ''Series/TopGear'', as a pun.

* SpeakInUnison: In "Hail Cannons and Operation Popeye", this happened twice in the same episode! The first time it was when Matt suggests that a hail cannon allows one to create hail, Chris and Gary say “Why Would You Want That?” in the exact same rhythm and cadence. The second time was Gary and Matt referencing Bohemian Rhapsody after Chris says "thunderbolts and lightning". Both got applause and biscuits were had!

%%* ToiletHumour: a fair bit of it, especially back in the podcast episodes.

* VitriolicBestBuds: {{Downplayed}}, but the lads do enjoy roasting each other and, as old friends tend to do, often end up bickering with each other.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Series 1 is noticeably different than the following series' in a couple of ways:

** Tom's curation of the article he chose wasn't as great as later series', it's clear he was relying too much on using Wikipedia's random article feature, and that consistently dredged up far less educational and interesting topics, which led to far looser banter and a lot more tangents.

*** The 'rabbit conspiracy' from 3x06.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: They are quite prone to getting distracted if it's interesting enough. From the Thomas Midgley Jr. episode...

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone gets their turn as this, but Chris does so the most.

** Tom's curation of the article he chose wasn't as great as later series', it'c clear he was relying too much on using Wikipedia's random article feature, and that consistently dredged up far less educational and interesting topics, which led to far looser banter and a lot more tangents.

* IncrediblyLamePun: ''Many'' of the jokes Matt makes. The others are prone to this as well, but Matt's are particularly infamous to the point where on several occasions Gary's response is a mock "GetOut" at their lameness.

In essence, it's a SequelSeries to their [[https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaGRpZi5jby51ay9wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQueG1s?sa=X&ved=0CBoQ27cFahgKEwjA5MubsLT5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQjAI "Reverse Trivia" podcast]], swapping out trivial pursuit cards for [[Wiki/TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]].

->''This is Creator/TheTechnicalDifficulties, we're playing Citation Needed...in front of me I've got an article from [[Wiki/TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]] and these folks can't see it, every fact they get right is a point and a '' ding ''and there's a special prize for particularly good answers which is...'''MYSTERY BISCUITS!''' [[labelnote:*]]Oh yeah![[/labelnote]]

''Citation Needed'' is a WebVideoSeries produced by Creator/TheTechnicalDifficulties, with Creator/TomScott acting as the host and moderator while the other members -- Chris Joel, Matt Gray, and Gary Brannan -- act as contestants. It is an episodic PanelGame along the lines of ''Series/{{QI}}'', where Tom "almost-randomly" selects an article from Wiki/ThatOtherWiki (keeping the article hidden from the others) and asks questions related to it while the other three try to answer them. Correct answers earn points and a ding, while particularly good answers are awarded '''''MYSTERY BISCUITS!'''''[[note]]Oh yeah![[/note]].