“How many bonus points do I get by refusing to admit I’m wrong?” Ah yes…the Brennan technique

These results can't be validated without Griffin's participation. He's by FAR the most pedantic

The McElroys just being intentionally obtuse and pretending to not get Trapp's point was hilarious. They're all so keyed in to each other's brand of humor.

I'm assuming Griffin wasn't included because he would out-pedant all of them

I wish there was just one TAZ question, but one so obscure only Griffin could have gotten it right. Just to imagine his screams.

Clint suddenly chiming in (after being quiet for awhile) "like Schindler's List" is the hardest I've laughed in a minute @5:20

Trap is always great, but this episode made me really appreciate how lovely and friendly and generous his comedy style and persona are. McElroys are prone to wild swings, but he always calmly lets them do their thing, acknowledges the joke, and then gently but firmly moves on. He's such a good host for a show that is all about one-upping and pedantry, because as the host he never seems to get drawn into the one-uppance, never seems intimidated, never tries to show off by taking anyone else's joke and running with it. So many times comedians will be always trying to get in their joke, but Trap is so willing to just be like, you know, that was a good joke you made, here's a little context for it in case anyones confused, I don't need to make my own joke here, I'm good. What a blessing. Not to mention that, were I a show a host, hosting a group like the McElroys would be my worst nightmare. I love em but three people who know eachother that well and are that in sync AND that quick witted can so easily accidentally team up against you 3v1 without meaning to. But Trap manages them so gracefully and doesn't seem bamboozled or threatened at all. A true professional.

Somewhere, Griffin is cackling to himself, “They’re YOUR idiots now, Trapp!”

I love Travis knowing way too much about Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It’s totally on brand

“This is going to be a very sufferable episode” and once again Justin doesn’t miss.

The McElroys doing running bits for the whole episode and refusing to continue on to new questions is so on brand.

my brother, my father, me, and the poor game show host whose show we are in the middle of taking over

"I'm not gonna sit here and let you besmirch the good name of Lucifer" is an EXCELLENT quote to take out of context

This I think is the first time someone actually interrupts trap when he prompts them that they are allowed to interrupt him whenever they want.

The synchronized Mcelroy eyebrow raise at 0:39 has me dying

Trapp, you did an incredible job keeping pace with the McElroy flow! The jokes and bits ran on just long enough and you slotted right in. Well done! Not everyone can do that.

I love how Trapp kinda looks like another mcelroy family member

Clint’s just having a good time and I’m here for it.

When I saw "um actually" AND "McElroy" in my notifs I RAN. My interests have never lined up so well! Great episode! I could hear Griffin's wails from afar during the Pokemon question

Trapp musing on on life's questions and the McElroy's just 100% clowning on him is the exact energy I was expecting from this episode.

I genuinely love how funny the two sons think the dad is. And the sons have great banter. "WHO'S BESMIRCHING LUCIFER!?" "Is that the show where The Devil is a detective?" "No, that's After M.A.S.H." *Uncontrollable Laughter*

You look at Clint and you think "Well, he looks like them, but I still don't know where the brothers got their personality from, Clint seems like a chill guy- and then he speaks for more than 2 seconds and you're like "Oh, yeah, no, it's from him."

"WELL! I thought we were supposed to be PEDANTIC!" made me grin.

“Yes Trap, I too miss ignorance” bruh that got a little to real

In the history of this show, I've never so quickly known such a niche answer as "The Gorgs need the radishes to not turn invisible." I don't know what this says about me.

I have no idea who the McElroys are, but three minutes in and I'm immensely enjoying their humor. Perfect uplift for a day.

In the spirit of the game: "Um actually, as written the first question/statement was just factually correct: if several things happened within a span of one week, they also happened within a span of one month." Thanks for the episode: great guests and great hosting. As Justin predicted, absolutely a "sufferable episode of television."

I admit, I didn't know who they were, let alone they were family until I looked it up after the intro when someone mentioned "what dad said" (also I'm now noticing the description). I was like "wow, did they really go find 3 people of the last name just to have a theme for an episode?"😂

I have been waiting a long time for someone to interrupt Trapp right after he says "you can interrupt me at any time". Glorious.

I like how the subtitles suggest that Judge Doom in fact killed "Andy's mother" which is a startling revelation for Toy Story continuity.

This is awesome! Shame Griffin isn't here but I do recognise that he would have wiped the floor with the others.

I've been listening to the McElroys for almost a year now, and every time I see them I am amazed at how little their lips move when they speak. It's spooky how well pronunciated they are with such little articulation in their faces XD

I need more McElroy / Collegehumor crossover. These guys are awesome, but I wanna see them more outside the realm of MBMBAM.

Um, actually, Gizmo is not harmed by water, that is how he reproduces. While this is not a good thing in the long run, he isn't badly injured by the process.

I am unreasonably proud of myself for getting the first shiny question right while only knowing Dipper clones and wicked witch of the west

The Bumblebee exclusion was going to haunt me. Thank you Saltzman.

I saw the run time being about 40 minutes and thought "they probably go deep with their nerd knowledge ". I'm glad to see it's actually good old fashioned McElroy chaos. EDIT: 19:40 There's the deep nerd dive I was expecting.

Um, actually... Betelgeuse is a demon according to canon, NOT a ghost. In the original script he was even supposed to have wings in his true form.

For the Stargate question, as a Stargate fan, I was so stomped on what the answer could be... and then Trap said it, and I felt like an idiot. It was obvious if you know the show, but I just did not think...

Um Actually Justin has 1,000,007 points (a record). Because of what you said at the beginning, and he refused to admit that "bug type" was wrong for that Pokemon statement.

12:44 - 13:08 killed me. "i'm not gonna get locked up in my own bullshit - this one LOVES water." i love the mcelroys so much.

My first thought when I saw the title was that there would be a bunch of McElroy trivia questions as well. I think it would be absolutely hilarious to test the boys in their own improv and as long as it's either based on one off remarks or equally divided between their characters/bits, possible to do without making it easier for one than another.

Travis knowing way too much for the Jurassic Park question is so so so on brand, this whole thing is great

More of an addition, but as long as you don't completely startle the skunk to make it feel immediately threatened, they will usually warn you by doing a few little charge stomps before aiming it's butt at you. Skunks don't like spraying if they can avoid it, especially as they get older, so they try to give ample warning before committing to spraying you in their thiol based oils. Also, Um, Actually... Missingno isn't canonically a pokemon. It is a weird designation for when something happens that shouldn't exist, and it's appearance in the game, ESPECIALLY if you capture it and even more especially if you save the game after capturing it, has a strong possibility of corrupting your save file and making things break.

you know, i think these are some of my favourite guests to date. I love how Travis and Justin have this sibling rivalry going on especially with the "I feel like he's cheating" hahaha! that got me so good. I would definitely do that with my siblings :P

A shame that Griffin wasn't there. He's by far the most pedantic one with his younger sibling energy

Having Sam from Ghost among the Ghost names stumping them was really funny to me, because in Germany the movie was titled "Ghost: Nachricht von Sam" (Message from Sam), so my brain immediately went to "well, that's an easy one", before realising the German habit of adding stupid subtitles to movies was at play again...

McElroy Boys! And Um, Actually! Ya love to see it. I wish they had more comics questions (esp Dr. Strange) and less vidja game questions for Clint to shine.

The brontosaurus guy that won’t give up on it is like people saying pluto is their favorite planet

Trap: "We're talking about the show where The Devil solves mysteries, right?" Me: "No, you're thinking of Monk."

It is hilarious to watch this dad and his kids do this🤣

Um, Actually In the original Pokemon Red (north america), there are a total of 153 pokemon. The 150, Mew, and there are TWO glitches. One is named Missingno. One is an assortment of glitched-out characters that looks exactly like Missingno. If you transfer both of those into Pokemon Stadium, they look like a pokedoll, or Substitute. However, one of the Missingno is pink, and the other is purple. This makes them two distinct pokemon! Also if you use a Rare Candy on a Missingno it delevels to 100, and evolves into Rhyhorn, but keeps Sky Attack.

Umm actually, Mew could be officially 'caught' through an event, not just a glitch. Also to be technically accurate, Missingno isn't an official pokemon so shouldnt count towards the number of pokemon, also there's different forms it appears as as well as it's not bird type in pokemon yellow... even tho the question specifically mentions red/blue, i guess that's just an extra fact.

My understanding of the brontosaurus thing is that some paleontologists believe that there are some species in the Apatosaurus genus that are incorrectly classified, and that should be moved to a new genus which they are choosing to use the name Brontosaurus for, which would make it a valid genus if their theory is correct. Travis is correct that the origin of the Brontosaurus name was from a specimen where the wrong skull had been put on the body of another animal. Idk if this is an "um, actually..." or just more context lol

Um technically, since "your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate" could be reduced to "your cousin's roommate," and the answer "your brother's sister's cousin's college roommate" can also be reduced to "your cousin's roommate," one could argue this is in effect the same answer (as opposed to simply "close enough to get the point," as Trapp stated).

Um, actually, Missingno doesn't always appear as a garbled shaped mess. It can appear as one of the fossil sprites if you enter certain characters in the player's name field.

so excited they got the bad boy of podcasting

@3:02 Certainly I'm not the only one who finished "Yyyy-its been, one week" with "since you looked at me".

Just finished Ethersea today and I felt so sad but I can't believe the McElroys are giving me another dose of happiness!

I'm not sure what makes Dark Helmet's connection more confusing: The fact that it COULD reduce to just being Lonestarr's cousin's former roomate (father's brother's nephew could just BE Lonestar, and then his cousin's former roommate) or if it is a DIFFERENT nephew of his uncle so that would make Lonestarr the cousin of the other father's brother's nephew which might make Dark Helmet just Lonestar's former roommate- but Dark Helmet does specify it makes them "absolutely nothing" so that isn't the option.

I can see Trap reading out loud from a card, "Though largely considered immoral, there are many justifications for committing murder" for the Um, Morality? episode.

Justin's absolute glee at giving Travis shit over watching Lucifer made my week

I'm obsessed with Clint's TARDIS console lava lamp

21:37 Um actually, in certain releases of Pac-Man, the orange and red ghosts sometimes get their names mixed up-meaning that ghost is both Blinky and Clyde.

My pea brain was like "A James McAvoy themed episode? How incredibly specific these episodes are getting..."

So amazing and hilarious to see the McElroys just running circles around Trapp with their stupid but silly brand of humor. Trapp doesn't run the show, they do now.

Amazing that they could find three fellows with the same last name.

Having just started the episode i am SO EXCITED to see the intersection of two of my favorite things; Um, Actually/CollegeHumor and the McElroy family

Um actually being within the same week is also being within a month's worth of time. It wasn't incorrect it was only less precise.

The way Travis hit the "ummm actually...." is choice

This collab is the gift I never knew I needed. 😊

There should be an Um Actually episode that's opposite day. It's all real life questions, and the last one is a pop culture question

Um actually... Mew was given to 20 people as part of a competition event. It was basically hacked in by the devs as you would with a cheat device, but it was officially awarded as a prize, not obtained through a glitch.

You know a group of people are a family when they can bounce off each other like this! It's so fun to watch. I'm super impressed with the Forrest Gump lore knowledge! I only knew about the Gump & Co. book because of the 372 Pages podcast!

Um Actually, while that's the most common MissingNo. there are others that can be gotten through different ways of triggering glitch encounters.

The only way Travis could have done any better would be if they asked only things a sexpert would know.

Clint's enthusiasm somehow made me laugh 17:26

Ummm, actually… Clint won in my heart

Justin messing with Trapp over scary vs parody scary movies has me dying and reminds me of the "Curse a Real Sword" bit from MBMBAM 😂 Also I hope they have Griffin on a future episode he is perfect for this.

13:50 Um actually, you don't need a glitch to catch Mew, the intended way is via a gift distribution, which did actually happen for both the Japanese and American releases.

Um actually!! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wasn't nominated for best picture, but it did win an honorary award!

This is my favorite episode of um actually. I am only two minutes in and I already know nothing can top this for me

I've already seen this episode as an avid dropout supporter. But I'm also on my fourth re-listen of TAZ balance so I guess I'm gonna rewatch this too.

Justin’s commitment to being “the cool guy” is fantastic. Always waiting for the “Ah, geek check”.

Um Actually "Clyde" isn't that ghost's name, it's canonically a nickname. "Clyde"'s real name is Pokey. Or お惚け if you want to get really technical. And "Nearly Headless Nick" is also a nickname, his real name is Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington.

um actually missingno represented several index numbers that didn't correspond to valid sprites that could be rendered, so it created the image from game memory which is why it appears as jarbled nonsense. this is to say, missingno isn't strictly pokemon #000, and the sprite could take different forms depending on which invalid index was rendered, as correspondingly different game data is used as the pixel data for the different sprites.

Absolutely dying. This was the quickest I've ever tapped on a notification.

I am always SO incredibly happy to see Clint, made my day!

This is by far my favorite episode so far.

I love how because this is an all McElroys episode, it's also become one of the longer episodes solely because the McElroys will always milk a bit dry. And I'm fucking here for it.

I've wanted this for YEARS thank you!!!

Every time Clint talked I kept expecting Justin to shout "character voices!"

TBH though, watching the entirety of Stargate chronologically was one of the greatest experiences ever.

A McElroy episode with a Stargate question? Yes please!

Um actually Silence of the Lambs and Beauty and the Beast are very similar as they both involve characters seeking to change their appearance with the aide of an imprisoned woman.

You don't know how much Um, Actually episodes improve my mornings. Thanks.

The banter in this is fabulous

This is incredible!!!! Thank you!!

Excellent episode! Good job, our boy Travis!

I absolutely love this slightly more chill almost podcast like style of um, actually!