A Message from Earth and Flappy Gloves: Citation Needed 2x04

GARY is @garybrannan
CHRIS doesn't do this social media nonsense.

[cameronwebster]

1:45 I would like to point out that, in 2015 [after this video was posted] it was discovered that Beagle 2 successfully landed, however some of the solar panels didn't deploy, blocking the antenna.

[jero]

Hey Tom, did you realize Chris meant Parsecs as distance when he said that? His expression of disappointment is priceless.

[pmyou]

"We are the Knights who say 'Glee'!"

[aDifferentJT]

I’ve just noticed that 15 days after this was released it was confirmed that the MRO had found Beagle 2 and confirmed that it had in fact landed safely, and just failed to deploy.

[klaxoncow]

I'd send Brian May as Earth's ambassador.

That is, Professor Brian May, as he is a qualified astrophysicist (which makes him an expert on aliens).

But he's also a brilliant guitar player, so he can dazzle the aliens with his axe playing and hypnotise them into giving us all their advanced tech.

And if all else fails and the aliens are hostile, then he can start playing "Flash" by Queen, in order to invoke Flash Gordon to save every one of us. Well, we're buggered otherwise, so it's worth a shot.

Or, at least, he could invoke Brian Blessed to bellow "Gordon's alive!" at the aliens and that should scare them off.

[subwillne]

Intergalactically potentially sexted is the most interesting sentence i have ever heard

[thelastcube.]

13:31 OMG I just had the best moment of my Citation Needed history every, I spat out "Theremin" as soon as Tom said "Instrument", "Russians" (the inventor) and "Space" (it's sound is weiredly space-Y)

And it got the biscuits! I've really peaked rn in this series' binge watch

[rattrap]

Points:

Chris: 2

Gary: 4, 1 MB

Matt: 1

Winner: Gary (but Tom gives it to Chris.)

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Totals:

Chris:
39 points
2 Mystery Biscuits
4 Wins

Gary:
34 points
7 Mystery Biscuits
4 wins

Matt:
32 points
4 Mystery Biscuits
4 Wins

SEASON 1 WINNER: Chris by points; Matt by wins; Gary by Mystery Biscuits.

Band names / albums so far: Furious Strumpets, SimpleHuman, Wallaby Butler Material.

[DIEGhostfish]

"UKIP In Space. Exploring the Universe so we can tell them to stay where they are."

[lizzyb.]

"who would you pick as the epitome of evil?"
oh, such a simpler, more innocent time... (by which i mean both 2008 and when this episode was made)

[PTBP-CB]

i still love that brannon doesn't know how tinder works because left is no and right is yes.

[rofljohn]

That joke about the Ukranian space agency suffering budget cuts suddenly got very, very real :P

[JoshSweetvale]

6:40 Excuse you?! Tom Scott's the Mass Production model of Brian Cox! Skinny soft-spoken British ageless science-explainey bloke.

[qwertzy]

5 years later (actually since short after the recording) we know that Beagle 2 landed at a perfect velocity but could not open the solar panels

[samuelmelcher]

I'd like it if there was a list of links to Wikipedia pages or such like explaining all of the either obscure or extremely British references in the description.

[requiembeeblebroxx]

@ 1:15 The first invader from the alien death fleet is actually right behind you, disguised as a fancy lemon juicer.

[Lutranereis]

Oh, the Wow! Signal. It could be nothing, it could be the most important discovery of any time in human history. We'll never know.

[DevilboyScooby]

"you're forgetting something here, this isn't television, this is meeting an alien death fleet."
Not something I expected to hear today.

[EdwardCree]

So what you're saying is, Ming the Merciless is terrible at hitch-hiking the galaxy...




He doesn't know where his towel is.

[TonyHammitt]

Thanks guys, that was quite good.  Often I've been embarrassed by our feeble attempts to communicate, but never realized the depths to which we've actually sunk.

"Let's tune into that Earth channel, it's always good for a laugh..."