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* DontYouDarePityMe: Tom keeps rewarding points for "close enough but not really" answers, which Gary takes issue with every time Tom does it, culminating in him getting a point for guessing the expedition met the mayor, when the answer was the President of France.

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* DontYouDarePityMe: Tom keeps rewarding points for "close enough enough, but not really" answers, which Gary takes issue with every time Tom does it, culminating in him getting a point for guessing the expedition met the mayor, when the answer was the President of France.



** Tom makes a reference to the bulldozer scene from Film/TheItalianJob, and then makes a reference to Series/RobotWars about how driving tests are judged and notes the very different levels of applause for the jokes (the former got 5 people laughing, the latter got the entire crowd to cheer).

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** Tom makes a reference to the bulldozer scene from Film/TheItalianJob, ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', and then makes a reference to Series/RobotWars about how driving tests are judged and notes the very different levels of applause for the jokes (the former got 5 people laughing, the latter got the entire crowd to cheer).



** Matt does the silly walk from Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus when exiting the stage.

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** Matt does the silly walk from Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' when exiting the stage.

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Incredibly Lame Pun is a redirect and not a trope by itself.


* AudienceParticipation: To settle a points dispute between Gary and Chris for guessing how much water had left the ice when in the Sahara desert, Gary says "an Nth" (which is undefinable, and therefore encapsulates all possible fractions), while Chris literally says nothing. When Tom asks for a mathematician in the audience, they choose Chris's answer.

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* AudienceParticipation: To settle a points dispute between Gary and Chris for guessing how much water had left the ice when in the Sahara desert, Desert, Gary says "an Nth" (which is undefinable, and therefore encapsulates all possible fractions), while Chris literally says nothing. When Tom asks for a mathematician in the audience, they choose Chris's answer.



* IncrediblyLamePun: Matt making a pun on Charles De Gaulle's name and asking "if he flew there?".



* {{Pun}}: Matt making a pun on Charles De Gaulle's name and asking, "if he flew there?".



** Tom makes a reference to the bulldozer scene from Film/TheItalianJob, and then makes a reference to Series/RobotWars about how driving tests are judged, and notes the very different levels of applause for the jokes (the former got 5 people laughing, the latter got the entire crowd to cheer).

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** Tom makes a reference to the bulldozer scene from Film/TheItalianJob, and then makes a reference to Series/RobotWars about how driving tests are judged, judged and notes the very different levels of applause for the jokes (the former got 5 people laughing, the latter got the entire crowd to cheer).
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** When Matt answers Tom's question about the expedition's directions once it arrived in North Africa with "Go west", Gary briefly breaks out with a short rendition of the chorus to the Music/VillagePeople song.

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* AudienceParticipation: To settle a points dispute on who gets a point for guessing how much water had left the ice when in the Sahara desert, Gary says "an Nth" (which is undefinable, and therefore encapsulate all possible fractions), while Chris literally says nothing. When Tom asks for a mathematician in the audience, they choose Chris's answer.

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* AudienceParticipation: To settle a points dispute on who gets a point between Gary and Chris for guessing how much water had left the ice when in the Sahara desert, Gary says "an Nth" (which is undefinable, and therefore encapsulate encapsulates all possible fractions), while Chris literally says nothing. When Tom asks for a mathematician in the audience, they choose Chris's answer.



* NoSenseOfDirection: When Tom asks which direction the Ice Block expedition went in the Sahara Desert, Matt says West, which Tom finds to be a strange answer to give, and claims Matt has a bad sense of direction.
* RuleOfCool: Gary admits that a car on fire going through a tunnel would look awesome.



** Matt does the silly walk from Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus.

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** Matt does the silly walk from Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus.Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus when exiting the stage.
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and here's part two!

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Part two of the Live Special of Citation Needed, in which the crew talk about the Ice block expedition of 1959.

Article of Conversation: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_block_expedition_of_1959 Ice block expedition of 1959]]

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* AudienceParticipation: To settle a points dispute on who gets a point for guessing how much water had left the ice when in the Sahara desert, Gary says "an Nth" (which is undefinable, and therefore encapsulate all possible fractions), while Chris literally says nothing. When Tom asks for a mathematician in the audience, they choose Chris's answer.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Tom keeps rewarding points for "close enough but not really" answers, which Gary takes issue with every time Tom does it, culminating in him getting a point for guessing the expedition met the mayor, when the answer was the President of France.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Matt making a pun on Charles De Gaulle's name and asking "if he flew there?".
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Chris mentions having "two squirrels in his head" giving him answers to Toms question of what the container holding the ice made from.
* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: When asked by Tom as to how much water the expedition lost throughout the whole trip; Chris guesses "a whole camels' worth", and Tom gives him the point because 96 litres "sounds about right".
* ShoutOut:
** Tom makes a reference to the bulldozer scene from Film/TheItalianJob, and then makes a reference to Series/RobotWars about how driving tests are judged, and notes the very different levels of applause for the jokes (the former got 5 people laughing, the latter got the entire crowd to cheer).
** Matt does the silly walk from Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus.
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