Episode Title: "Beards, Beasts and Blagging" (New Years Day Special)
- Round 1: "Celwyddyw'Rdrefhon" (Welsh for "This town is a Lie").
- Round 2: "Plot of the rue Saint Nicaise"
Tropes:
- Alliterative Title: Beards, Beasts and Blagging.
- Call-Back:
- Tom, Gary and Chris mention the times Toms' overconfidence on books and "places he's been to" as reasons to rule someone out.
- To "Sir Tony of Hawkesville" where in that episode's first round, Matt comments on the possibility of all of them being wrong, and one of them being "a dick" for making up an article, which prompts Chris to express the idea to do exactly that for a later episode, and even says "Yeah...let's save that one...make a note..." while Tom speaks over him in the next shot. It would take a year and a half for him to put this plan into action where the first round in this episode concerns a Welsh place name that is completely fake and doesn't have an article, specifically to annoy Tom who would want to visit the place for a video.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Matt tries to come up with an article for "Plot of the rue Saint Nicaise", but every detail he comes up with makes him sound more and more like a liar, it was supposedly written by Alan Bennett (a northern playwright), but Matt clarifies that the name is French pronounced [Alaine Ben-aight], neither facts helped Matt's case and he lost the round.
- Double Take: Gary claims that the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise was a plot of land owned by a Dog for reasons Gary doesn't clarify, which leaves Tom surprised at the thought.
- Make the Dog Testify: Gary mentions that the Dog that owned the plot of land was involved in a French court case that apparently did that, and also to work out which dog owned the land, due to the litters it had had in the meantime.
- Metagame: Chris wins the first round not by being the best liar, but by making up a Wikipedia article, and successfully convincing Tom of a place that'd make for a great video.
- Shameless Self-Promotion: As with the Christmas Special, the rounds had a break for the crew to advertise a new channel for Tech-dif content.
