The 1904 marathon sounds like the kind of incident where a ton of time travellers tried to rig the race and all failed miserably.

Another fun fact about the 1904 marathon, only 15 people (officially 14 discounting the one who was disqualified for the car) out of 32 athletes actually finished the race because the race was set in the afternoon of one of the hottest days of the year (32 ℃ or 90 ℉), and most of the runners collapsed due to heat exhaustion. One man almost died after inhaling the dust thrown up by the officials cars.

"we've all been there, eh fellows?" _everybody blankly stares at Gary_

I was watching an old General Motors training film about differential gears in my engineering class, and the title card said "A Jam Handy Picture". Nobody else knew why I was laughing so hard.

I love the idea that the 1904 marathon was an episode of wacky racers

‘Lovemaking’ in the nineteenth century more often referred to flirting than to sex, so you can see how Jam Handy might have gotten the wrong idea.

The still of Chris's face when Tom says "Lorz went on to win the Boston Marathon" in complete monotone becomes so much funnier when you realise that in the earlier takes, Gary farted at that line and all the guys lost it.

I don't often have toast but, just in case, i've kept my jam handy. The 1904 Olympic marathon sounds like it would make a great comedy movie.

Jon Bois, a writer for the sports channel SB Nation, actually made a great video about the 1904 marathon for his series "Pretty Good". Hearing about it here makes it sound like an episode of Wacky Races, but hearing the gory detail and seeing photos of the event makes you realize how scary it actually was.

I feel like you missed a good pun on the topic of Chuckle Brothers Hamlet - "To me, or not to me?" surely? But fantastic episode! :)

04:25 Chris Joel's "Brandy" becomes even funnier 4 years later.

By the way, Jam Handy apparently later produced the educational videos for Chevrolet (you cand find these on KZfaq, short films from 1930s about how car suspension works, how diferrential works, etc. In the beginning, the titles say "Jam Handy production"

The 1904 Olympics Marathon: real life inspiration for Monty Python's "Upper Class Twit of the Year".

If someone did run the marathon in Marrow clogs would that make it a marrowthon?

4:09 is so different when you know "Gary Doesn't Get Away With It" exists. It's like discovering an alternate timeline where everything is considerably fartier.

I may not understand some of the more obscure bits of English humor, but I still find these so very funny! Glad they are back.

"Why? WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN SERIALISED FOR TELEVISION???"

Aaand now I'm on a train to London, giggling like a loon. So pleased this is back again. I don't mind the camera angles, it feels almost like it's a covertly filmed banter-session. Chemistry causes comedy and that's the most important part.

We Dutch don't have a dedicated word for marrow though, we just call it 'pumpkin' like all the other pumpkins. "Hoe ren ik in deze pompoenige klompen?" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

The best part of the 1904 Olympic Marathon was that it was held in Missouri in goddamn July. Hundred degrees and humid as a swamp. Even without the rat poison it's a miracle no one died.

I think I've watched about 20 of these non-sequentially instead of studying for finals.

The only thing bad about this episode is that the real Jam Handy Incident could not possibly be funnier than whatever all of us were imagining the jam handy incident to be.

“To thee, to thou” - the chuckle brothers in the 1800s

“it was a vegetable” “it was an apple” hmm

I've just sung to myself 'bystery miscuits!' and I'm laughing my head off, alone

I've started watching your channel since this last happened apparently, as all this is new to me, but this episode was hilarious. The huge digression on the 1904 Olympics was probably the most funny and fascinating thing I've heard all day.

I love a lot of lines in Citation Needed, and "treated by several doctors" is surprisingly high on that list.

When running a marathon you never give up. You never know when the guy ahead of you cheats by taking a cab, the other guy is gonna do himself in with a rotten apple, two others are run off the course by dogs, and the last is doped up on a cocktail of 95% pure absinthe and petroleum.

That race was like the real-life version of Wacky Races

Something I've never thought of; Where's the comma in "he reads books you know it's Chris Joel?" Is it after "books," or is it after "know?"

I keep getting distracted by the elegantly impractical lemon squeezer in the background...

If the universe was a movie it would have ended in 1904 at the Olympic marathon and everything else is just world building.

Tom should have looked at the 1904 Olympics article. Said nope we are saving this for its own video.

Everybody Dies...Titus Andronicus. ...Henry IV Everybody Marries...Midsummer Night's Dream Everybody Eavesdrops...Much Ado

I once abridged Hamlet myself, carefully keeping the famous lines. Good way to study it.

"To me, to you" - more like "To me, or not to me"

Over the last series, this pretty much became my favourite thing on your channel! Glad to see you're doing it again :P

Aaaaand here we find the any% all deaths Hamlet speedrun

Kitsune up for the BABYMETAL shirt! ;)

I had to look it up, thought you had said Jekyll brothers, not chuckle brothers, and couldn't help but think to myself; "As in the insane clown posse??!" 😂😂😂😂

knowing we are in the last season of this show, it saddens my heart a little to see the positive encouragement to comment and share it with friends. I think the hiatus might be good for the boys; but I do hope they consider a return along with some of the other formats they tested. People love these guys, and I'm seeing Tom Scott mentioned on more and more other video comments! Earlier I saw him mentioned in a Tested post, though maybe not in the most flattering of ways as the comment was something akin to what Tom Scott would look like when older in relation to the one day build guitar case guest.

I love Citation Needed so much. Thank you for giving us another season!

Thanks for the new season guys! I'm so happy you're back :) And I think Chris's beard has stolen my heart. 

For those that watch the bonus content, if you listen very carefully around 4:11 you can hear the faint sound of the fart through Tom's mic and being snipped out as best as possible.

Please do technical difficulties more often, something you might not have known is great but this is hilarious!

WOOOOO, it's back! Great episode guys, I've been waiting for ages!

I already knew all this stuff about 1904 Marathon due to Jon Bois' video. People who like this channel will like that one. And the thing about being chased by dogs isn't even wrong because that happened too in that marathon.

This is the most fascinating marathon I've ever heard of.

... and this still was far from all the things that were strange/weird about the 1904 Olympic marathon...

Woohoo! So awesome to see you guys back... Hilarious as always. Personally, I prefer the camera angles of before, but that could be due to familiarity. The content is what matters and it's just as funny! In a separate observation, that's quite a powerful goatee that Chris is rocking.

That olympics needs to be made into a film.

the amount of times i've replayed tom saying 'elocution, darling' @1:22 is honestly worrying at this point 😭 i usually like to joke that he's one of my internet dads (purely cause he's old enough to be, & he's always teaching me things i didn't know :p) but this is... umm... 😳😳

Anybody else notice there's no actual Mystery Biscuits button this time? He's just making the motion at an empty patch of table.

I'd heard this story about the 1904 Olympic marathon before, but I never dreamed that it could be more hilarious...

Seeing this series back has absolutely made my day

So happy to have Citation Needed back!! Look forward to more

Thanks for doing this again, I think I broke a rib laughing.

I would guess that "Thomas Trueblood" would refer to someone called Thomas wearing a shirt with the true colour of blood.

Points: Chris: 4 Gary: 2, 1 MB Matt: 0 Winner: Chris • Totals: Chris: 32 points 2 Mystery Biscuits 3 Wins Gary: 25 points 5 Mystery Biscuits 2 wins Matt: 27 points 3 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.

I have so missed this random bout of humour. Good to see you four back in the chairs!

Tom have a bad cough when I laugh and you almost killed me. Great Job!

The guys look so different from the first series!! So glad to have it back. :-)

Technical Difficulties are amazing

Good to see you guys again! Also, Chris, great beard!

Really enjoyed this, keep it up

You have no idea how happy I am to see this back.

YESS! Great to see Citation Needed!

I almost doubled over at the Preserves joke, amazing ep guys!

Them: "Everybody dies; Hamlet." Me: Horatio is legit fine tho...

@ 8:05 Thank you, Matt. Best usage of Yakety Sax I have heard in ages.

I just discovered the Chuckle Bros with a friend at work recently and now I finally understand the ‘to me to you’ thing 😂💜

I finally figured out what show the Farting bonus clip came from. Someone needs to recut this with that clip inserted.

Excellent to see a return of Citation Needed. Everyone's got more dapper since last season. Except Tom who looks the same. Hilarious and informative as ever.

Jam Handy is the narrator of the old-timey Chevrolet commercials you can find on KZfaq, iirc.

Brilliant ... So glad this is back :-)

The 1904 Marathon; depending on how it is presented, either a docudrama film or a damn funny comedy movie.

_Don't_ look up the Chuckle Brothers. They did a rap recently. D:

I didn't get the Texas book suppository joke...I mean, I get it literally, but I missed the pun :( Also, if you're talking about the US President being from Texas, I think you've built a time machine! :P

@Tom Scott @MattGrey @GaryBrannan Hi guys!! I know I have previously commented on at least a few of your Citation Needed videos - I absolutely adore all four of you guys and this show - but after rewatching ~this~ episode again, I felt the need to tell you that this is my absolute favorite of them all!! I laugh thruout most all of it - every time!! 😂 Of course, i am including the 5 minutes of bonus wallaby butler material too! OMG!! Gary is freakin hilarious in that clip so I can not forget to mention how greatly I enjoy it as well!! 😃 Thanks to all of you guys for making these! You're all awesome! I know you mentioned at the end of the last (current?) season that it is getting harder and harder for you all to get together to record these and that the show's future is unsure. 😢 But please know that you guys have a pretty loyal fan base and that even if the number of episodes gets cut for future seasons, we will greedily take all that you make and treasure them! And if something like a Patreon page would help you guys be able to continue these, then I'll be the first to sign up!! Anyway, just felt the need to let you guys all know what this show means to me. 💖 Hope to see you back again - and soon!! 😊

Hooray! I've missed Citation Needed.

‘How do I win in these marrowy clogs?’ is the best sentence ever said

i do enjoy these guy! really want to see the live shows sometime.

Yay! Citation Needed is back! Mystery Biscuit!!!

If you want more on the 1904 Olympic marathon, Jon bois did a video on it

1:51 it infuriates me that no-one said "to me or not to me"

Wound definitely love a rated-R version of this with all the jokes included. An audio podcast would be awesome.

Welcome back team! :D

Almost five years late on this one, but any MST3K fans out there might recognize Jam Handy's name -- they riffed several of his shorts on the show (including "Hired!" and "A Case of Spring Fever") :)

I loved this!

Can only hear "Oratory" in the voice of Mad Cap'n Tom now. Sorry Tom.

My wish is to see one episode where the glasses are half filled with fine Kentucky Bourbon to wash down those Mystery Biscuits.

Love it! And for everybody saying this isn't his usual content, watch all his videos!

Guys, in the US, "handy" is slang for a hand job. So "jam handy" gave me a very different image than it gave you guys.

"...it was a vegetable," Tom. I know this was a while ago. But we need a discussion on what you clarify as a vegetable if you were referring to apples.

I actually found myself watching a Jam Handy production yesterday, the short leading into the MST3K episode featuring Bloodlust to be precise.

It sounds like Mad Mad Mad Mad World as a footrace!

I'm ashamed to say this is the first of these I've watched. Doubtless to say, it won't be the last. *salutes*

Didn't Jam Handy produce Short films that sometimes appeared in MST3K episodes?

Recently a Jam Handy picture showed up in my KZfaq recommendations.. something for a car company iirc

Thank you...