What Tom's saying about The Good Place is legitimately true, IT IS AMAZING

@pinkertonbyweezer

3 жыл бұрын

Nice pfp

I can't get over how long the loops of Matt's laces on his right shoe are.

@briangarrow448

6 жыл бұрын

SourceOfBeing Now I can't focus on anything else, dammit!!! Now, I want the story behind that incredibly long shoelace. Was it original with the shoe? Is it a replacement lace from another shoe? Did he purchase the wrong length? Possible emergency lace carried in wallet for years, similar to wallet condom carried by clueless high school males?? Could it be a set up for a potential lawsuit involving a tripping accident??

@AthAthanasius

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, that was bothering me as well. I can't see how he'd not be tripping over them.

@mattandtom

6 жыл бұрын

+SourceOfBeing shoes came with long laces. The double knot has come undone.

@briangarrow448

6 жыл бұрын

Matt and Tom Thank you. Sleeping tonight will so much easier.

@TheChipmunk2008

6 жыл бұрын

Still can't unfocus. Also, you're one of those freaks who understand double knots?

Taskmaster is bloody brilliant because the tasks aren't just ludicrous, they're small too. They tend to be things like "work out which of the 50 socks on the washing line has a tangerine" or "eat an egg as quickly as possible" not "do the best pose while holding a cup of tea and bungee jumping off the London eye"

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Barks, Why Scruffy should share his treats.

Please keep the comments spoiler-free! --Matt [Update from Tom: I’m now five episodes into Discovery and I think it’s GREAT. I am IN for the rest of the season. 🖖]

@DJenerate

6 жыл бұрын

Does that include car spoilers, or are they okay?

@ScottJamesIrvine

6 жыл бұрын

Comment made 6 days ago?

@DJenerate

6 жыл бұрын

Because the video was uploaded 6 days ago...

@viklo925

6 жыл бұрын

Will you delete spoiler comments that you see?

@robertthomas2117

6 жыл бұрын

soo glad you didn't spoil the good place, as it really is fantastic.

The real mystery is how The Good Place got green-lit for US network TV but is still actually amazing.

@ChrisSevern7

6 жыл бұрын

Kristen Bell!!! They probably highlighted it because she was in it. :)

@TheSneezingAnouki

3 жыл бұрын

Three years late, i know, but it's basically because Michael Schur, the creator, had so much success with his previous shows parks and rec and b99 that the network essentially gave him a load of money and told him to enjoy himself

@Robert-iu2ou

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSneezingAnouki worth it, it worked Brilliantly 👍

So I hadn't heard of Tom Scott prior to a week ago when you popped up on my KZread recommended. I've since been binging all your content all the way back to ironing eggs, and working out into related things like Park Bench. It's crazy how awesome you and Matt are. I have the exact same thoughts on Discovery, and despite NOT seeing the original series, the new DuckTales is my favorite show on TV. In my 30s I've mostly switched to watching cartoons, because "adult" television is much too dark and gritty these days - and I've already re-watched TNG a dozen times.

@SylviaRustyFae

4 жыл бұрын

Did ya binge Citation Needed yet? Also... How'd that toaster vid's surprise twist ending get ya?

Tom should definitely check out "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". It's technically based on the Douglas Adams books of the same name, but it is by far the loosest script-to-screen adaptation I have ever seen, and is all the better for it. Very generally, because it's sort of about a lot, it follows the most bizarre detective imaginable, solving the most convoluted cases ever, in the most roundabout and way possible. Each season is one case, with an overarching plot running throughout. Season 1 is 8 episodes and I believe is on Netflix in the UK. Season 2 is airing now.

@kevinbooth-

6 жыл бұрын

It's horrible.... Yet I've seen every episode. Definitely something worth watch, surprisingly.

@thesquire9966

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Booth I like it. It's different from the books, but it's fun.

@kevinbooth-

6 жыл бұрын

Yea, I was just being an ass. It's a good show, despite my issues with it. It's just too 'much' at times... can't describe the thing that it is too much of, but it does something too much.... (I just woke up... can't articulate)

@inkbotkowalski

6 жыл бұрын

I was put off by the sexism and racism and the... very American whimsicalness of it. It's very much not my genre. And I loved the books (maybe that's why I don't like it).

@thesquire9966

6 жыл бұрын

inkbotkowalski I loved the books too, but I can understand if it just isn't your genre. Could you elaborate on where you saw sexism and racism?

Oh, Tom, duck nerd, huh? Welcome to Finland, the nation of Duck nerds, where Donald Duck is a national institute and embedded into pretty much everyone's cultural zeitgeist from early childhood. And yes, we love Don Rosa and he loves us (wrote and drew a duck story of our national epic of Kalevala for example). I'd love you to come and explore the Finnish duck culture :D Oh, and it's not considered just a 'kid's cartoon' here. Donald Duck is very much for every age, and definitely not something limited to a narrow "nerd" fan base.

@huuskari174

6 жыл бұрын

Jemppu yea, but the new donald duck magazines suck. I've read a lot, and I can tell after 2010 it's been worse every year

@iseceepcool2

6 жыл бұрын

Huuskari yes but the Donald duck classic magazines that are released like once per month are pretty good. Note that they are re-releaseses of like the best authors

@diynevala

2 жыл бұрын

Tom visited Finland a bit later, unfortunately I did not know anything about him or these channels until just recently. I'd lure him to visit again for some ice swimming and other fun winter activities.

"[...] we're pretty high up the nerdery scale". Be reassured, that's exactly what your followers love about you! P.S. : Audiobook resolve my reading attention span problem. I found that listening to books, while walking to work, is a great way to combine the pleasant and the useful. :)

@bobdagamer640

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@borjesvensson8661

3 жыл бұрын

I thougth Don Rosa and Startrek was the baseline of nerdery. And of course having had a argument with some guy about how lightsabers work.

Gravity Falls is a really good cartoon too.

@Darticus42

6 жыл бұрын

Felix P. YES

@arunistrying

6 жыл бұрын

Steven universe too

@fluf6833

6 жыл бұрын

i liked over the garden wall too

@TylerFurrison

6 жыл бұрын

Don't think they played attention to the ones that aren't really airing now

I'm 38 and I still love watching Tom & Jerry and Pink Panther.

@casualonion

6 жыл бұрын

Pink Panther had the best theme tune of all time.

@maccrazy7335

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@gwenynorisu6883

6 жыл бұрын

You are never too old to enjoy Tom & Jerry. Slapstick is universal. And, apart from the later messed-around efforts from the 60s, the timing is _perfect._

Absolutely 100% for Taskmaster. Brilliantly daft and real serious laugh out loud stuff. UKTV Play for the whole lot from series 1.

The Good Place is SO good! I had it down as one thing mid season one then with almost no warning my reaction was just "wait... what? oooooooh...."

Whilst I realise the Park Bench is effectively on indefinite hiatus, I feel like an update is due now that the second series of Star Trek:Discovery is done and dusted (and assuming Tom and/or Matt have watched it).

Yay, a fellow 20-30-something Ducktales nerd! Ducktales is amazing, even when dubbed in Finnish, which is quite an achievement if you know any Finnish.

@NitroIndigo

6 жыл бұрын

Please can you elaborate?

😂😂😂 only just got into The Good Place now they’ve started playing it on E4 and totally forgot Tom had recommended it! I’ve now completed the third series and can’t stop laughing at how surreal it is! I imagine Tom has MANY opinions by this point 😂😂😂

Don Rosa has created really great comics. Loved them as a kid, still like them a lot.

Dave Gorman's Modern Life is goodish on Dave - brilliant funny

i really want to see a Tom rant for an hour about star trek, actual id love to see tom on uss wankathon with nerdcubed and totalbiscuit

@UKDarkJedi

6 жыл бұрын

That would be amazing. Angry Nerds arguing about their passion, yes please

@Androyd09

6 жыл бұрын

+

@ellaisplotting

4 жыл бұрын

YES

@Muzer0

4 жыл бұрын

Become a Patreon patron of Ashens, he has an episode of his exclusive Patreon podcast Audio Guff where he talks with Tom Scott for half an hour on the new Star Treks.

@termitreter6545

3 жыл бұрын

RIP TB tho. Really missed his takes, but then again, at least he got spared the travesty that is Star Trek Discovery.

Yes! I'm with Tom - Autumn's THE best season.

paused this video 7 minutes in to check out taskmaster i'll report back in when i've finished this episode

@Septimus_ii

6 жыл бұрын

Good plan

@FreeFireFull

6 жыл бұрын

I doubt we'll ever see Pid again

@stakeshifter

6 жыл бұрын

I'm back It's alright. something to binge at 4pm on a sunday, lying on the couch surrounded by cold cups of tea and a remote that's ever so slightly too far away.

@chrisdavidson911

6 жыл бұрын

1 episode is inadequate to fully appreciate the show.

@Emilpoika

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the update!

There is some colour hops in here

@stephenrgow

6 жыл бұрын

It's only one step away from Tom's "Club sandwich" video from seven years ago!

@calebhortman1971

6 жыл бұрын

DarceyNE I thought it was my screen

@christofferuden7680

6 жыл бұрын

How are you on every channel i like

The Good Place is on Netflix now I can watch it... 3 years later but still

I can't remember if I said this before, but thanks for the rec on the Good Place. My partner watched it and was recommending it to me, but we sometimes have divergent tastes in media and he isn't always great at predicting when I would like something. But knowing that he liked it AND you liked it was enough to get me to watch it and I loved it. So thanks, Tom. :)

I think I heard Lee Mack (who has academic qualifications in this) say that if they don't reset at the end of each episode then it's a comedy drama, not a sitcom. Taskmaster is fantastic.

The IT Crowd? Crystal Maze? Scrapheap Challenge?

it was weird how at the exact moment i was like “i’m watching two grown guys talk about kids cartoons” was the moment when tom also realized it. priceless

As the Finnish complete and utter Duck nerd I am it makes me incredibly happy to know that Tom knows about, read, and liked Don Rosa's comics and that he likes the new DuckTales for the same reasons as I do :D

Oh boy! I got positively giddy from the Disney ducks discussion. I also loved reading Barks and Rosa as a kid, as well as watch Ducktales and such. And I recently began collecting the re-prints of both Carl Barks and Don Rosa's collection works, in big hardcover books. I can highly recommend them (You can find both collections on Bookdepository and such)

Cartoons are so great right now! Glad to hear you two both enjoy watching them too!

I haven't seen this before, and I love that Tom is so enthusiastic about The Good Place and T&M both enjoying Taskmaster, as I've enjoyed both too

Daaaamn Matt, back at it again with some groovy socks

@weasdown

6 жыл бұрын

Oh wait, of course he is, this is just filmed later in the day compared to the last video 😆

"cartoons have plots now" we were'nt short on them either, as a kid I loved The last Airbender, Samurai Jack, Ben 10 (the original) andTeen Titans for that exact reason.

I always forged that not everyone knows about the history of the duck universe, Carl Barks and Don Rosa. But I'm glad that Tom knows.

Watching a 5 year old Park Bench video and Taskmaster comes up! This is brilliant.

Speaking of cartoons with great over-arching plots, have you seen Avatar the Last Airbender?

@netravatpendsey

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Knauth Definitely watch Avatar if anyone hasn't seen it. It's sequel has mixed reviews but in my opinion it's as good as original.

@boredphysicist

5 жыл бұрын

I found it too slow and nobody died

@BlackHayateTheThird

5 жыл бұрын

@@boredphysicist The entire air nation was wiped out by genocide!!! geez... ppl most certainly did die

@thumbreee9124

4 жыл бұрын

watch lupin the 3rd 2015 for a similar thing but with an older target demographic

I've been making my way through your videos and this one was fun for me. It's rare that I've 1. heard of the shows mentioned since I don't get to watch much or 2. Like them... but I LOVE every one of the ones you guys named. There is a wee exception with the last one... but I know I would like it if I jumped in but I don't have the time or attention span at the moment to start that Trek (two cymbals and a drum fall of a cliff).

The background lighting and scene is amazing near the end of the video!!

Matt!!!! I'm 27 and I did not watch Duck Tales growing up (didn't have cable) and I LOVED the new one! It is legitimately good for reasons other than nostalgia.

You guys are the light of my life

I like being affirmed by having Tom watch things on x2, everyone hates that I do it

I started watching The Good Place because of Tom's recommendation. Thank you. :D

Yes Tom! I love The Good Place, and I love the direction the new season is going in! You can actually buy the whole season on youtube too.

Ducktales and We Bare Bears, both starring Bobby Moynihan as Louie and Panda respectively.

Oeh the good place! I started that watching 2 days ago, it's quirky and hilarious xD I love the new Star Trek. It has way more character dept and intrigue to it. I am actually waiting for the next episode every time!

Oh my god Tom I remember those Mc Duck comics. They are amazing and I'll have to look for my old ones, I remember I actually teared up when reading the ones where he is old and regretful.

This video made me start watching Star Trek:TNG. I’m loving it! Thanks Tom!

Nice use of Square / Eurostyle typeface for the countdown

I'm so glad to see a The Good Place recommendation. It's a great show but it is so hard to sell people on it without spoiling it.

Controversial opinion: I like spoilers. Sometimes I watch a review with spoilers, just to know, if it is something, I would enjoy watching the movie or series. I mean, don’t spoil everything for me, but spoil enough to get me interested in that content. That’s one of the reason, I never got into game of thrones, because I made myself watch an episode and many scenes and people taking apart trailers and realised I wouldn’t enjoy that type of context. And the other way around I got really into death note the series, after watching spoiler reviews of the movie and scenes from the series. But if someone says, please don’t spoil it for me, I won’t.

@achu11th

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Fluttershy I mean, the amount that the internet would say is a spoiler is good enough for me. I even sometimes watch Everything wrong with episodes or How it should have ended, just to really know, if I would like something. For example, I’d rather know the Jack from Titanic dies at the end to figure out, if I would enjoy the romance plot, rather than hearing, that it won x-amount of oscars and has a likeable romance plot. I am less sensitive to spoilers is what I meant to say. But I agree, that I cane across wrong and contradicted myself. I appreciate your comment.

@CableFlame

6 жыл бұрын

I don't mind spoilers so much because I then get to enjoy HOW said thing went down, because I don't know that, and I get to watch it with the spoiler in mind, figuring out HOW the spoiler is being set up. There's the rare moment when I didn't want to know some big thing, but usually spoilers don't bother me too much. (Frankly, I think everyone's a bit too up in arms about them. Life still goes on, but many act like it's the end of the world when it happens.)

@tomewyrmdraconus837

5 жыл бұрын

@@CableFlame Exactly. The what of the plot isn't particularly interesting to me. I will never understand the people that want to go into entertainment cold. Anything I watch cold I almost always have to re-watch to enjoy... I mean I spoiled myself on the post-credit sequences for Ant Man and the Wasp, and made one of my friends laugh by giving a referential spoiler reveal about 5 seconds before it was revealed on camera. It was his sled! Yeah, so? Prue dies in season 3! Oh, who'd they replace her with? Rand Al'Thor is the Dragon Reborn, you say? Oh so that's why he's acting silly! Watch the adventures of Angus MacGyver! Seriously, knowing that makes the mystery about his name so much more hilarious! John Hurt's a regeneration of The Doctor? Cool! The Good Place? I'll be nice on this one, but the spoiler is PART OF THE DRAW FOR ME.

@CableFlame

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomewyrmdraconus837 I have to admit, the Good Place is one where the spoiler is HUGE and it's not something I would have wanted spoiled.

“It’s now 2017” I’m jealous.

Im waiting for the day they say the intro as "hi Im matt and Im Tom, and we're doing it on the park bench"

Gravity Falls is a good Disney show, IMO. Season 1 is pretty slow and doesn't have much of a plot, but it sets up season 2. The show also has lots of hidden details, which was fun to theorize about.

Another reboot that is incredibly great is the recent Thunderbirds Are Go series. A fantastic update that keeps all the joy and fun of the original. Well worth checking out.

Tom's favourite season is one of the best times of the year to visit the Scottish Highlands....

I started watching Taskmaster in Lockdown, so weird knowing I knew of the series a long time before.

There was a chip shop on Goodram Gate, York called the Cod Father. As for the new Star Trek - I like it in all it's grittiness.

I totally got to go on Star Trek the experience and while I don't remember it very well anymore I do remember it being fun :-) I also enjoyed the part of the hotel it was in that was made to look like the Promenade from Deep Space Nine.

"Less chance of sunburn" - Tom I feel that in my nocturnal soul...

"There was definite urine somewhere"- Matt Gray 2017

We all mourn for the Star Trek Experience, Tom. All of us. I actually stumbled upon an incredibly smart burgundy Federation sealed document folder from said Experience in a charity shop in my backwater home town, one of my most prized possessions.

More videos like this please! You guys are great.

I stopped the video and went and watched the entire episode of the new ducktales and it was the funniest thing I've seen in a while. Great recommendation

In VR, You can have a Star Trek Experence, being one of 4 bridge crew mates. I play it almost every week. Thinking of it now, I want to play and will after this post. Sure the missions are repeated of them selves, but something about how each captain does it slightly differently just makes it fun!

Ive had the same exposure to Star Trek and the Don Rosa comics when I was a kid, so I'll have to give a watch to both the Duck Tales thing and Star Trek Discovery.

One of my favourite kids cartoons at the moment is Hey Duggee on Cbeebies. They manage to sneak in enough grown-up references to make it watchable by adults. The stoned rabbits in The Cake Badge episode are particularly good.

I LOVED the Star Trek Experience in Vegas! The ride was cool, and all the props and costumes were great! Also, Quark’s bar was a good restaurant, and the servers all in costume and in character were cool! Twice I was waited on by a Klingon. Also, did you notice the talking urinals? Mine said something like “Excess fluid levels detected.”

Completely forgot about task master! Thank you for reminding me that it exists!!!

Tom, speaking of star trek body horror: there's at least 2 episodes of voyager I can think of where body horror plays a main role. The one where two characters get fused in the transporter, and the one where one character tries to go above warp 10 and starts morphing into like a bug or something.

@BlobVanDam

6 жыл бұрын

Tuvix, and Threshold. Incidentally, Threshold is considered one of the worst episodes of Trek (although TNG did some similarly bad eps), and Tuvix is somewhat controversial.

By far this is the best thing that has happened on KZread in 2017.

Matts socks are the best thing in this episode.

Matt's socks are fantastic!

I finished watching the show, then used wanting to see Tom’s thoughts as an excuse to write my own program to decipher it so that I could read it.

I love fall/autumn/whateveryouwanttocallit because there's not as much pollen as spring, it's not as hot as summer, and not as cold as winter.

Congrats on your 100th Park Bench! \o/

@gwenynorisu6883

6 жыл бұрын

Seriously? I guess I have to stop chaining them now and go do things.

Parks and Recreation is a must watch.

I saw a Fantheory about Discovery, that makes soooo much sense and made give the show another chance

I agree that The Good Place is a really nice series which I have been watching and waiting for every week now. I am not quite sure as to how I think it should continue. But I guess we'll see how the rest of the story unfolds in the upcoming episodes (and maybe seasons).

@cooledcannon

6 жыл бұрын

I just started watching The Good Place I think it's amazing as hell!

@miallo

6 жыл бұрын

I started yesterday as well. But what should I watch now? (Thumbs up for the last word in your comment)

I'm a huge fan of the Dutch Donald Duck weekly and I've read a few DuckTales comics, but I've never seen the original show. The new one is brilliant though. I love it to bits.

"warm fires in my tiny little flat" Getting into pleonasms and tautologies, Tom? :P

Thanks for filling me in about the new DuckTales! I had no idea! It doesn't exist in my country so it took a bit of finding, but it's really good!

I'm a 24 year old and never watched or read Duck Tales, but I started watching it on recommendation. I'm really enjoying it, and I would say that if you enjoy cartoons you'll probably enjoy it.

Tom: "Well, not adult gags, It's Disney XD." Me: *Puts on Gravity Falls* "Wanna bet?"

The three duck nephews always had their own personalities.

"People not wanting what they thought they wanted" sounds like a Black Mirror premise. By the way; Black Mirror Season 4 will go up soon.

OK, so lets talk about Matts laces. they are SO LONG!

I legit got a Star Trek ad before watching this.

Saw a startrek ad before this video. Seems appropriate ☺️

_The Genius_ (mentioned in a previous park bench) is honestly the best series I've seen ; episodes are sometimes well over and hour long but they're gripping throughout. Is _Taskmaster_ as good as _The Genius_ ???

Not gonna lie, Matt & Tom, I'm just watching your video today and *literally this morning* a friend of mine IRL strongly recommended The Good Place. So now I just have to watch it! I'm excited to start Discovery, but I don't really have the budget to shell out for the CBS subscription (and I don't have cable, because cordcutting FTW?)

More Star Trek talk !! The latest episode (5) was really good and has changed my mind about the series it’s gone from good to excellent :)

Autumn is also my favourite season. Love a good scarf.

If possible, you should try to see the filming of the next taskmaster. I saw the filming of season 5 in July and it was even better than the actual show (and I can’t say that about many shows!)

I always get West World and Water World mixed up all the time too Matt

Matt watches Taskmaster? Brilliant, one of my favourite programmes of all times!

Tom, about that off-hand comment on DuckTales being as canon as can reasonably be in a show that resets at the end of the episode: Without going into details, the show actually does not reset (or at least, not completely) at the end of each episode. They don't feel bad about referencing prior episodes and they don't resort to wasting screen time with flashbacks to do so.

I've ended up binging 3 seasons of taskmaster in 24 hours now! got absolutly nothing done this weekend now THANKS!! ;)

tom as a bit of a trekkie myself i knew what you mean with discovery's third episode, trek has done body horror but it's never been so blatant and casual(i'm willing to put up with it thus far but i'm also still 3 episodes in and not 100% sure if i like the grimdark)

He mentioned Life of $crooge! I am currently dying of nerddom!