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'''Chris:''' Oh, it's ''Threads'' turned {{up to eleven}}. If you guys are around on a different Sunday, because we're busy tomorrow, you'll - well, you'll hate it, but you'll all love it, I'm sure, it's great. \\

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'''Chris:''' Oh, it's ''Threads'' turned {{up up to eleven}}.eleven. If you guys are around on a different Sunday, because we're busy tomorrow, you'll - well, you'll hate it, but you'll all love it, I'm sure, it's great. \\
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'''Matt:''' [[IncrediblyLamePun You don’t want to rub it the wrong way.]]\\

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'''Matt:''' [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} You don’t want to rub it the wrong way.]]\\



** Matt's hovercraft enthusiasm is funny enough, but guess what the [[TheStinger bonus video links to]]. [[spoiler:The crew going on hovercrafts!]]

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** Matt's hovercraft enthusiasm is funny enough, enough but guess what the [[TheStinger bonus video links to]]. [[spoiler:The crew going on hovercrafts!]]
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Just For Pun cleanup.


** The extended intro in which the guys riff on a pun Tom made about "[[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]]'s [[JustForPun Discount Poultry]]".

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** The extended intro in which the guys riff on a pun Tom made about "[[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]]'s [[JustForPun [[{{Pun}} Discount Poultry]]".
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Caine had been a film star for years by the time of The Swarm, so "I Was Young and Needed the Money" isn't the correct trope.


** Gary says [[Film/TheSwarm1978 the film]] is from the "[[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney it's a living]]" stage of Creator/MichaelCaine's career.

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** Gary says [[Film/TheSwarm1978 the film]] is from the "[[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney "[[MoneyDearBoy it's a living]]" stage of Creator/MichaelCaine's career.
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'''Chris:''' Oh, it's ''Threads'' turned up to eleven. If you guys are around on a different Sunday, because we're busy tomorrow, you'll - well, you'll hate it, but you'll all love it, I'm sure, it's great. \\

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'''Chris:''' Oh, it's ''Threads'' turned up {{up to eleven.eleven}}. If you guys are around on a different Sunday, because we're busy tomorrow, you'll - well, you'll hate it, but you'll all love it, I'm sure, it's great. \\



'''Matt:''' ''[stuttered]'' This is terrible! ''[audience laughing]'' Did she meet her untimely death at the third stroke?[[note]]After Matt says "untimely death", the noise from the audience/Gary almost drowns out the rest of the joke.[[/note]] ''[Gary and the audience start groaning/cheering]'' Oh, no! No!\\

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'''Matt:''' ''[stuttered]'' This is terrible! ''[audience laughing]'' Did she meet her untimely death at the third stroke?[[note]]After Matt says "untimely death", the noise from the audience/Gary almost drowns out the rest of words "at the joke.third stroke".[[/note]] ''[Gary and the audience start groaning/cheering]'' Oh, no! No!\\
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** Gary Brannan's detesting of backpackers causes a neat bit of trivia to take a hilarious turn:

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** Gary Brannan's Gary's detesting of backpackers causes a neat bit of trivia to take a hilarious turn:



'''Matt:''' ''[stuttered]'' This is terrible! ''[audience laughing]'' Did she meet her untimely death- ''[Gary and the audience start groaning/cheering]'' Oh, no! No!\\

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'''Matt:''' ''[stuttered]'' This is terrible! ''[audience laughing]'' Did she meet her untimely death- death at the third stroke?[[note]]After Matt says "untimely death", the noise from the audience/Gary almost drowns out the rest of the joke.[[/note]] ''[Gary and the audience start groaning/cheering]'' Oh, no! No!\\
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* 2x03: "The Centennial Light and Edison the Cheat"
** Tom asks a question about Thomas Edison's Eternal Light, a lightbulb intended to last forever. However, there is a slight problem with it. What is it?
--->'''Gary:''' Is it ''evil''?
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** Gary says [[Film/TheSwarm the film]] is from the "[[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney it's a living]]" stage of Creator/MichaelCaine's career.

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** Gary says [[Film/TheSwarm [[Film/TheSwarm1978 the film]] is from the "[[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney it's a living]]" stage of Creator/MichaelCaine's career.
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** The Norwegian panic scale: nor-panic, smor-panic, lots of panic.

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** The Chris [[{{Mondegreen}} mishearing]] "smør-panik" ("butter-panic")[[note]]Tom mispronounces it - it's actually read as "smear-panic"[[/note]] leads to a riff on the Norwegian panic scale: nor-panic, smor-panic, "No panic, s'more panic, lots of panic.panic!"
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** The bonus material, in which Gary spots an ice cream van, which leads him to relate an anecdote about a pie van stopping outside his work, which then leads him on a tangent about the time he saw someone walk past his work with a wallaby on a lead, which ''then'' leads to an argument about whether wallabies can store food in their pouches (They can't, according to Tom, because the pouch is "full of goo"), which ''[[OverlyLongGag then]]'' leads to Gary and Chris bickering about [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Gary's imaginary wallaby butler]], which then, finally, leads to Gary accusing Chris of being a "Wallaby f***ing Paxman" (after Jeremy Paxman, a British newsreader known for his aggressive style of questioning style and cynical demeanour), which then leads all the guys to riff on the idea of Jeremy Paxman, erm, [[SomethingAwful gently caressing]] a wallaby.

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** The bonus material, in which Gary spots an ice cream van, which leads him to relate an anecdote about a pie van stopping outside his work, which then leads him on a tangent about the time he saw someone walk past his work with a wallaby on a lead, which ''then'' leads to an argument about whether wallabies can store food in their pouches (They can't, according to Tom, because the pouch is "full of goo"), which ''[[OverlyLongGag then]]'' leads to Gary and Chris bickering about [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Gary's imaginary wallaby butler]], which then, finally, leads to Gary accusing Chris of being a "Wallaby f***ing Paxman" (after Jeremy Paxman, a British newsreader known for his aggressive style of questioning style and cynical demeanour), which then leads all the guys to riff on the idea of Jeremy Paxman, erm, [[SomethingAwful [[Website/SomethingAwful gently caressing]] a wallaby.
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** The bonus material, in which Gary spots an ice cream van, which leads him to relate an anecdote about a pie van stopping outside his work, which then leads him on a tangent about the time he saw someone walk past his work with a wallaby on a lead, which ''then'' leads to an argument about whether wallabies can store food in their pouches (They can't, according to Tom, because the pouch is "full of goo"), which ''[[OverlyLongGag then]]'' leads to Gary and Chris bickering about [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Gary's imaginary wallaby butler]], which then, finally, leads to Gary accusing Chris of being a "Wallaby f***ing Paxman" (after Jeremy Paxman, a British newsreader known for his aggressive style of questioning style and cynical demeanour), which then leads all the guys to riff on the idea of Jeremy Paxman as a wallaby.
---> '''Gary:''' ''[as Wallaby Paxman]'' And tonight on Newsnight, we're talking to the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Chancellor of the Exchequer]], and it's ''[[CallBack full of goo...]]'' \\

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** The bonus material, in which Gary spots an ice cream van, which leads him to relate an anecdote about a pie van stopping outside his work, which then leads him on a tangent about the time he saw someone walk past his work with a wallaby on a lead, which ''then'' leads to an argument about whether wallabies can store food in their pouches (They can't, according to Tom, because the pouch is "full of goo"), which ''[[OverlyLongGag then]]'' leads to Gary and Chris bickering about [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Gary's imaginary wallaby butler]], which then, finally, leads to Gary accusing Chris of being a "Wallaby f***ing Paxman" (after Jeremy Paxman, a British newsreader known for his aggressive style of questioning style and cynical demeanour), which then leads all the guys to riff on the idea of Jeremy Paxman as Paxman, erm, [[SomethingAwful gently caressing]] a wallaby.
---> '''Gary:''' ''[as Wallaby Jeremy Paxman]'' And tonight on Newsnight, we're talking to the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem Chancellor of the Exchequer]], and it's ''[[CallBack full of goo...]]'' \\
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---> '''Tom:''' Matt. Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt. You are so close... ''[Chris and audience laughing]'' because unbelievably the word "egg" is the accurate one in there. What did he do in the middle of a tightrope, over Niagara Falls in about 1860?\\

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---> '''Tom:''' Matt. Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt. You are so close... ''[Chris and audience laughing]'' because unbelievably unbelievably, the word "egg" "''egg''" is the accurate one in there. What did he do in the middle of a tightrope, over Niagara Falls in about 1860?\\
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'''Tom:''' And Chris steals the point! ''[pressing the 'ding' button]''

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'''Tom:''' And Chris steals the point! ''[pressing ''[presses the 'ding' button]''
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---> '''Tom:''' ''[Gary kept talking]'' Matt. Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt. You are so close... ''[Chris and audience laughing]'' because unbelievably the word "egg" is the accurate one in there. What did he do in the middle of a tightrope, over Niagara Falls in about 1860?\\
'''Matt:''' ''[tried to speak while waiting for Tom to finish]''\\

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---> '''Tom:''' ''[Gary kept talking]'' Matt. Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt. You are so close... ''[Chris and audience laughing]'' because unbelievably the word "egg" is the accurate one in there. What did he do in the middle of a tightrope, over Niagara Falls in about 1860?\\
'''Matt:''' ''[tried ''[tries to speak while waiting for Tom to finish]''\\
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** The discussion of Henry II's jester, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Roland the Farter]], who every year at Christmas was required to perform "[[ToiletHumour a jump, a whistle and a fart]]". Which he did by ''[[{{Squick}} sucking air into his anus through muscle control]]'' and ''[[NauseaFuel blowing it out again]]''.
** Matt uses BuffySpeak to glorious effect, leading to a chain reaction in the panel.
---> '''Tom:''' We are looking for a specific acrobatic act that Charles Blondin was famous for.\\
'''Matt:''' The windey-windey-falley-fabric thing!\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Tom & Chris:''' Aerial silks!\\
'''Tom:''' No. What have you got, Chris?\\
'''Chris:''' The flat-o-mer-boing-a-mi-thing!\\
'''Tom:''' Slackline?\\
'''Chris:''' [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Trampo-mo-line!]]\\
'''Tom:''' Trampo-mo-line? No.\\
'''Gary:''' The high-rope walky-longy...\\
'''Tom:''' Yes!\\
[...]\\
'''Tom:''' You’re absolutely right, it is the walky-longy-not-fally-downy-thing.\\
'''Chris:''' The elastomastring!
** Chris makes the shape of Niagara Falls with his hands, but turns them to be convex rather than concave, which leads to this disaster of a bit:
---> '''Chris:''' Oh, that’s where I went wrong, I need my hands that way. Have you ever rubbed a waterfall? Don't get your hands backwards.\\
'''Matt:''' [[IncrediblyLamePun You don’t want to rub it the wrong way.]]\\
'''Chris:''' Actually you were trying to push the water back up weren’t you? "Get -- ''ugh!''" -- what is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide Cnut]] doing in the wave pool?\\
'''Matt:''' Stood at the bottom, like Atlas, failing.\\
'''Gary:''' You’re sort of, "Why is no one else as bothered about this as me?! The sea will be empty, the fish will--" ''[his brain short circuits]'' "--opposite of drown!"\\
''[the panel and audience crack up]''\\
'''Chris:''' ''Asphyxiate'', Gary...!\\
'''Gary:''' "The fish are drowning! They seem fine with it, though..."\\
'''Tom:''' You should have seen [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah trying to load them onto the Ark!]] Did not like it, did not like it at all.\\
'''Gary:''' ''[through laughter]'' “There’s going to be a flood! Get the fish on!”
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'''Matt:'''Is one of the mechanisms a loom or a weaving machine, what's a weaving machine called?\\

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'''Matt:'''Is '''Matt:''' Is one of the mechanisms a loom or a weaving machine, what's a weaving machine called?\\
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Removing redlink.


'''Tom:''' ''[nonchalantly]'' Well, you know, [[Analysis/RightWingMilitiaFanatic 70 years later they're back]]. Anyway…\\

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'''Tom:''' ''[nonchalantly]'' Well, you know, [[Analysis/RightWingMilitiaFanatic 70 years later they're back]].back. Anyway…\\
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now an index


'''Gary:''' That's the right hand, [[ADateWithRosiePalms he needs that one]].\\

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'''Gary:''' That's the right hand, [[ADateWithRosiePalms he needs that one]].one.\\

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--->'''Tom:''' "[[AcceptablePoliticalTargets We've got a habitat, I don't see why all those other pandas should have one...]]"

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--->'''Tom:''' "[[AcceptablePoliticalTargets We've "We've got a habitat, I don't see why all those other pandas should have one...]]""

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