Techdif talk about the butter crisis of Norway, in what is the "butter episode" of Citation Needed.
Article of Conversation: The Norwegian Butter Crisis
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Tropes:
- Ask a Stupid Question...:
- Both Gary and Chris's answer to the first question of the show:Tom: The Norwegian Butter Crisis?Chris: Was it a crisis involving butter-Gary: -In Norway?Tom (reluctantly) You can both technically have a point for that...
- Tom asking what the Danish broadcasted during the Butter Crisis, Chris responds...Chris: Television.
- Both Gary and Chris's answer to the first question of the show:
- Comically Missing the Point: When talking about heritage foods, Matt mentions that Cornish pasties may be one such thing, Gary mentions he saw one in York Station that morning, and Tom quips:Tom: ...Just lying there, abandoned, sad music playing over the top of it.
- Didn't Think This Through: Tom and Gary note that "British Feeding Centre" was a bad name for a community food drive during the second World War, and Churchill named it the considerably more fancy-sounding "British Restaurant".
- Lame Pun Reaction: Many puns about butter are present in this episode; Gary claiming that butter smugglers managed to get past border control by "greasing their palms".
- A Rare Sentence: Gary notes that Tom wanting to talk about one other thing in "the category of butter" is one of the "great sentences of our time!".
- Satire: When asked why capitalism didn't solve the issue of the butter crisis, Gary manages to make a satirical jab at capitalism with this line:Tom: So why did this not get resolved by "the free hand of capitalism"?Gary: Because the free hand of Capitalism had too much butter on it, it was all slippy and couldn't grip it.*laughter*Tom: I think "the butterfingers of capitalism" has just summed up everything wrong with the world Gary. I'm giving, yeah, you know what...MYSTERY BISCUITSGary: Actual satire!
- Shout-Out:
- As per usual, The Price Is Right ruleset of determining the price of an item is used here, in this case, the cost of imported butter into Norway.
- The Ark of Taste gets riffed on by Gary, by comparing it to the Ark of the Covenant.
- Tom alludes to Pointless when asking about obscure potatoes by saying to the rest of the crew that they were looking for "the pointless answer" (as in, the most obscure).
- Chris paraphrasing the "'tis but a scratch" line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by saying "'tis but a flavoring".
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Chris and Matt think of two events in 1996 (Spice Girls for the former, Tony Blair for the latter). Gary then chimes in with Mr. Blobby.
- Take That!: According to Chris (and Gary, who had clearly thought of the same joke), when told that Imported Lurpak into Norway was about £34, Chris quips that's about the cost of Lurpak Butter in "Sainho's"note now.
