Welcome everyone who subscribed to this channel since the end of the last season of Citation Needed! Good luck.

When your DM says the game is set in world war 2, but you've already prepared a great barbarian character.

The best part was HOW he was captured by the Germans. "Churchill continued to lead his men in action against the German forces in Yugoslavia, but was eventually captured by the enemy while fighting for Point 622 on the island of Brac in the Adriatic Sea, when every man in his Commando team was killed or wounded and all of his revolver ammunition ran out. Knowing that he was not going to escape, and having no further means of killing Nazis, Jack started playing sad songs on his bagpipes until he was finally knocked unconscious by a frag grenade and taken off to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp."

somewhere, probably in South-America, there is a retierement home with an old former german soldier, who still gets PTSD-flashbacks when hearing bagpipes... "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, MAD JACK IS COMMING!"

"The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible." - Mark Twain

"...with the stringy bit of the bow" That'd be the string, Gary 🤣

By the way the camp that jack Churchill was captured at was one very near Berlin meaning that the nearby town in Chris's massive rant is Berlin Just thought that was a fact that made the story a lot funnier

"Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." Jack Churchill

Part of me wishes Jack Churchill and Seargent Reckless had somehow crossed paths in life. Oh the adventures they could have had...

8:20 "Might I suggest a pitching wedge, sir? They're awfully dug in." I feel like the others mostly missed it, but Chris absolutely killed me with that line.

He wasn't Scottish, but we'll happily claim him, what a legend

It's happened. The Chris scored biscuits so hard that it became a point

Tom Scott in Citation Needed: He's NOT Scottish Tom Scott in Lateral: He's the Scottsman with a claymore

"with a longbow you are quite a way back" "Norway" Well blimey that is quite a way back

My wife worked for a consulting company that worked on Wang computers and they had a catch phrase of "We'll do wonders with your Wang"

This man's a tabletop campaign. The entire thing.

Tom - "What did he qualify as in the Army?" Gary - "Supermarket?"

The "medical evacuations" that Tom mentioned involved coordinating the evacuation of 700 people from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem during the 1948 War for Independence. The road leading into the university is named "Churchill Road" in his honor.

Now I think we have another front runner for "needs to be animated" with this one.

‘Hello, I’m Chris Joel, reading references to surfing in the King James Bible’ And not 15 minutes later they’re talking about a madman surfing with a claymore. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

Technically, it was a basket-hilted arming sword, which is indeed Scottish and sometimes referred to as a claymore, but it's important to specify that he wasn't charging into battle with a giant two-handed sword.

Chris *started* the episode mentioning surfing, and then we get 13:28 it's like poetry, it rhymes.

Jack Churchill, the original Leroy Jenkins. (Also the most successful.)

"You got three bullets" "I shoot the bagpipes." "...3 times."

With subtitles; now even those speaking English as a secondary language can follow this! Now we just need detailed background pages to understand the UK-only references...

Just cremated my dad (funeral day, i didnt just do it for fun) and im not sure anything could have cheered me up more than this other than the possibility of a new series of episodes airing over the next few days/weeks.

Even after 6 years I find it one of the most entertaining shows on the internet

The window causes the grey dot optical illusion thats pretty cool

I tried to explain what this was to my friend... it wasn't easy. "These four men on the internet try to guess a Wikipedia thing and get points and mystery biscuits."

I feel personally offended you guys never mentioned the fact that he wore a kilt at war.

I love the fact that Chris’s intro is about anachronistic surfing and then the article includes anachronistic surfing

I am now of the opinion that we won the war because of Claymores, Longbows, and Umbrellas and I shall not be swayed, this is fantastic

First the Jimmy Carter rabbit incident and now Jack Churchill, it's fairly obvious why Chris has the introduction he does...

There will now be a brief delay while every single soul who has ever watched this episode steps aside to search for the footage of the guy trying to play bagpipes while he parachutes to the ground.

oke so i've seen this episode many times now and it always gets to me but at the moment i am in absolute STITCHES over Gary's face a 03:40, just watching the realization of Tom telling him that Jack Churchil did, in fact, bring his long bow into WW2 materialize on his face is priceless

He used a basket-hilt sword, which is also know as a claymore, and should not be confused with the two handed claymores of medieval times. This basket-hilted swords are the officer's swords for many scottish regiments.

Gary: Well with the longbow, you are quite a way back... Tom: Norway. Me: Well not necessarily that far.

Found out this one was close to a million. Came back for another view and laughed myself silly … again

Yup, Still my favorite Gary Brannon

Oh gosh, Chris' surfing reference at the beginning...foreshadowing?

When I saw the title I immediately thought: "wasn't that the guy with the claymore?"

If that was a Norwegian accent Chris was going for, I must say that I like that the most prominent feature of said accent was a part of phonology that we don't have in Norwegian

15:04 Soundboard snippet, Tom: "The what?"

I must say, love the production value! don't get me wrong, the episodes in the kitchen have their charm, and the material is still funny, but this looks so polished and professional. It could be on TV!

With such a topic, hard not to, but my favorite citation needed episode. Chris's description of the breakout, 11/10

Natalie Portmanteau is so simple yet so unbelievably clever

Why hasn't a developer made a video game about Jack Churchill yet?

There are 2 types of grenades offensive and defensive(some more but not that important here) offensive have small blast radius around 20m and might only do blast damage defensive, frag(mentation) grenades, having large blast radius with small fragments that are lethal projectiles, hard cover like a trench or wall required and for love of god, somebody make a movie of this guy

As an American who needs to google half the references you guys make in every episode, I'm so excited to see more!

Came here to get it to a mil but stayed for the story

I'm back to watch this from the lateral episode

Rewatching after Jack turned up in Lateral...

I've always wondered if Chris's introduction is "He reads books, y'know?" or "He reads books you know."

Brilliant! Made me think a good bit of Lindybeige's video about "Don't duck, it doesn't do any good and the men don't like it."

There was also Digby Tatham-Warter, a British soldier during WWII who disabled a German armored car ... with an umbrella. I am not making this up. EDIT: Did not realize the bonus clip was about him.

Who else had to come back and watch this after the Lateral clip

I just realized, at 8:05, when Chris mentions a batman, he's talking in cricket terms, not an orphan in a bat costume. 10 rewatches

Imagine Churchill riding Sergeant Reckless

Congratulations on 1M views!!! Love you Techdiff 🎉🎉🎉

Hello to all the fellas who come from the Lateral clip or podcast episode!!

Run into battle, bag piping, and throwing a grenade should be a movie.

Hello to everyone arriving here after the latest Lateral highlight video 👋

Another great thing about that Norway portion of the story; the name of the operation was Operation Archery. You couldn't make it up.

I've been waiting 6 series for this episode. The best article on wikipedia.

STILL my favorite Citation Needed four years later. This was so much fun!

On what may be my fiftieth viewing, I still somehow completely cracked up on Gary's confused "supermarket?"

I feel more impressed when i get an answer right on this show than I do when I watch Jeopardy

Tom needs to do a video from the Didcot Railway Museum, who have a working lineside TPO mechanism.

I'm so glad you did something about Jack Churchill, I have thought he was the manliest man for years.

Who's here after Lateral?

I can't believe it's been so long since this series

1M LES GO!

1:34 "Is it that nutter who fought World War 2 with a Claymore?" FTFY

I've only just discovered this wonderful show, and never in my life had I laughed so hard for such a long stretch of time. Thank you.

This is the most British thing I've ever seen.

This is hands down THE BEST episode. Cried laughing every time.

YUSSSSS. So fancy, but please be more than 5 episodes though...

Churchill - a real badass - he could feature in borderlands 3 and would not look out of place.

Revisited this 2 years later, now I know that the "claymore" mentioned here is the one-handed Scottish basket-hilted sword, and not the huge two-handed sword most people nowadays commonly attribute the name to, which the casts seem to think here as well.

This is still my favorite episode. I just can't stop laughing through it.

I really do love our British cousins, as an American; I do. But I'll be completely honest with you on this one. . . . .even we don't have anything big enough to haul around the massive tungsten balls of "Mad Jack" Churchill. Also, if you want to have a go at WWII historical icons with kick-a$s names, just pull up "Bazooka" Charlie for one of your future episodes. He's another nutter who took matters into his own hands.

That was it, the best Citation Needed episode ever. We can go home now

10:20 the precursor to Henricus

I love how Chris made a prescient comment about surfing in his intro.

This is my favourite episode of Citation Needed ever

Against all the evil that hell can conjure, all the wickedness that mankind can produce, we will send unto them...only you, Jack Churchill. Rip and tear, until it is done.

1 MILLION!!!!! 🎉🎉

one of the best tech dif episodes

YES!!! It's back :D

While he was in prison in Germany, he encountered another astonishing WW2 hero of a very different type, Johnny Jebsen. Jebsen's story is well worth reading: less funny, much less of a happy ending, but no less courage.

This is the good corner of KZfaq. Weird but friendly and informative. Now more people need to realize that.

Oddly enough, there actually was a Gentleman's Gentleman playing the bagpipes at some landing during WW2, some Scottish Lord had his Batman with him, playing the pipes. So oddly enough, that's a free point for whoever said it, for next season.

Why the bloody hell has there not been a movie about this person? I'd watch it.

Hell yea, 1 mil! 🎉

Thank you thank you I've only watched the other episodes repeatedly in anticipation

Let's go to 1,000,000!

Fun fact about the Winston Churchill joke is that Churchill was 5'6" - about an inch taller than Stalin!

I'ce never cried laughing so hard before holy hell that was an amazing roller-coaster from start to finish

There's a good saying in there, to pull the pin and drop the bagpipe.

Everyone in this video is such a huge nerd. This is awesome.