===== The Technical Difficulties' Prizes ===== [[https://www.youtube.com/@techdif|The Technical Difficulties]] is a YouTube channel of four British gents with great discussion chemistry, and at the end of their shows it has become traditional to award a prize, typically a fictional convoluted pun. Other shows of theirs, also containing such silly prizes, can be found on other earlier channels such as [[https://www.youtube.com/@mattandtom|Matt & Tom]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo|TomScottGo]]. This list attempts to combine all known prizes of all known shows. ==== Reverse Trivia ==== ---- === Season 1 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1B-1EYsLk4|1x01]] - Wedge a bike up 'em ^^ | Prize Setup: | A hirsute set of small steps to get you over a fence, endorsed by the most successful member of One Direction | | Prize Answer: | Harry Styles' hairy [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stile|stile]] | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZ7q7CBTAI|1x02]] - A wet place in the south ^^ | Prize Setup: | Feet warmers for when you're ill, embroidered with screenshots of short video posts and specially designed for hitting people in the crotch | | Prize Answer: | Toxic TikTok cock-kick sick socks | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV_CdR_tHAA|1x03]] - Real commitment to the bit ^^ | Prize Setup: | 3 extra points | | Prize Answer: | So now point at 3 things, please | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcruMiZLso|1x04]] - That hippo's gonna fly ^^ | Prize Setup: | Chickpeas shaved by the star of Sharp and Game of Thrones | | Prize Answer: | Sean Bean's shorn beans | === Season 2 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHVPoq_srb4|2x01]] - Tall, Dark, and gruesome ^^ | Prize Setup: | A breakfast pastry invented by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham|Jeremy Bentham]] to keep prisoners under control | | Prize Answer: | A "pain"opticon [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_aux_raisins|aux raisins]] | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90p9TKTLXYU|2x02]] - Mate, I was sitting in that ^^ | Prize Setup: | A fashionable vacuum-insulated crotch guard in the shape of a hockey championship trophy, endorsed by one of the founding fathers of the superhero genre | | Prize Answer: | A Stan Lee Stanley Cup Stanley Cup Cup | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlmlOvnIiCg|2x03]] - We've run out of rods ^^ | Prize Setup: | A small wheel to move a South Yorkshire city's mafia boss around after he's had too much Japanese pork and rice | | Prize Answer: | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doncaster|Doncaster]] Don [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsudon|Katsudon]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster|Caster]] | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjm4XatHRCc|2x04]] - Maths-adjacent Leisure ^^ | Prize Setup: | A quote for a new overhanging roof made of marble, for one of the greatest-ever professional wrestlers | | Prize Answer: | Stone Cold Steve Austin's cold stone eaves' costin' | === Season 3 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vt8gOg3xE|3x01]] - It's like a vibrating Churchill ^^ | Prize Setup: | A spinal operation in a shady clinic while they play the biggest-selling boy band's greatest single | | Prize Answer: | The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstreet_Boys|Backstreet Boys]]' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4yi51ju1g|Backstreet's Back]] [[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/backstreet|backstreet]] back surgery | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqJM7AirjM|3x02]] - Excellent Shaggy fact ^^ | Prize Setup: | A ground-based telescope that only focuses on members of the Conservative Party | | Prize Answer: | An observe-a-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)|Tory]] | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LebcZ7CkM|3x03]] - From waggle to warlock ^^ | Prize Setup: | A round of applause that goes on for slightly too long | | Prize Answer: | (non-prizewinners proceed to do so, as episode fades to black and link cards display) | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKrzozkP6wI|3x04]] - I've got three hydrogens ^^ | Prize Setup: | A personal driver for an attractive French chef who loves hot cauliflower | | Prize Answer: | C'est un chauffer pour chef chaud pour chaud chou-fleur | | Or: | Jacques Chirac's jacked shoe rack | ==== Citation Needed ==== ---- === Season 1 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIYcbJKSLxQ|1x01]] - The Big Lobster and Drive-through Booze ^^ | Prize Setup: | a DVD of the film where the singer of Purple Rain trades places with a peasant who looks just like him | | Prize Answer: | The Artist Formerly Known As Prince and the Pauper | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrCJJP_KOlY|1x02]] - The Newgate Novel and Condiments on Toast ^^ | Prize Setup: | some shares in the company owned by the star of the Big Lebowski that enables passengers to board airlines safely | | Prize Answer: | Jeff Bridges' Jet Bridges (Gary: "the dude aboards") | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYENl-P3Zh8|1x03]] - Stefania Follini and a Moon Theremin ^^ | Prize Setup: | a trip to the edge of the atmosphere with the host of the 90s game show Small Talk | | Prize Answer: | Ronnie Corbett Low Earth Orbit | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0e8GV6QKf4|1x04]] - Simplehuman and Russian Toilette ^^ | Prize Setup: | a gift voucher to everyone's favourite Communist high street shop | | Prize Answer: | Marx & Spencer | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31xj7Ybxhc|1x05]] - Bossche Bol and Nun's Puffs ^^ | Prize Setup: | a copy of the game where you have to get executives of a disgraced bank to jump thru pipes and defeat Bowser | | Prize Answer: | Super Lehman Brothers | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KTl176Mww|1x06]] - Neckarwestheim and the End of the World ^^ | Prize Setup: | a piece of classical music using using old military ordnance | | Prize Answer: | Pachelbel's "Cannon in D" | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mYQT7oyctA|1x07]] - The Counts of Andechs and Motorway Service Stations ^^ | Prize Setup: | two hours racing around the coast, desperately trying to collect clams with a famous ballerina | | Prize Answer: | Darcy Bussell's Mussel Hustle | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IesM6EVC9U|1x08]] - The Flag of Mars and Rods from God ^^ | Prize Setup: | a holiday to a French resort with Sulu from Star Trek and the director of Transformers | | Prize Answer: | George Takei's and Michael Bay's week away in Saint-Tropez (Gary: "Oh my.") | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T5h0SuavgM|1x09]] - The Arctic Winter Games and Dropping the Bomb ^^ | Prize Setup: | the freedom of the city | | Prize Answer: | no, sorry, the free dom of the city | === Season 2 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQztJBFYIcE|2x01]] - Thomas Trueblood and the Ridiculous Marathon ^^ | Prize Setup: | a miniature library to be inserted rectally from which you can shoot the president of the united states | | Prize Answer: | Texas Book Suppository | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW9YwL39lPU|2x02]] - The Coffin Ray and Hugging a Penguin ^^ | Prize Setup: | a replica of the singer of Livin' On a Prayer made of small chocolate sweet candies | | Prize Answer: | Bonbon Jovi | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1uqcG7KyrI|2x03]] - The Centennial Light and Edison the Cheat ^^ | Prize Setup: | a sandwich grill which emblazons collectible stickers of footballers into your head | | Prize Answer: | a panini sticker press | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHStwlDIGg|2x04]] - A Message from Earth and Flappy Gloves ^^ | Prize Setup: | A year's supply of AA batteries, courtesy of He-man's new company | | Prize Answer: | The power of Grayskull | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kmlwZ_BOvU|2x05]] - The Flitch of Bacon and a Goose on a Train ^^ | Prize Setup: | Gift certificate for the shop owned by a Treasure Hunt skyrunner which sells small rodents, pests that live in hair, and adult magazines | | Prize Answer: | Mice, Lice, and Vice by Anneka Rice | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kssR0xrdHN8|2x06]] - Lisa Clayton and Cake Black Holes ^^ | Prize Setup: | a British Prime Minister's feeding trough that tells kids to be wary of people they don't know | | Prize Answer: | John Major's Stranger Danger Manger | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJtyE2N6l4|2x07]] - The Swarm and the Giant Jam Sandwich ^^ | Prize Setup: | Updoc | | Prize Answer: | (Matt: What's... up.. doc >_<) Not much, what's up with you? | === Season 3 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2otrhYbE0b8|3x01]] - The SS Bessemer and Ask Heaves ^^ | Prize Setup: | rum and lime-flavoured Mexican food cooked by the star of Taxi and Matilda | | Prize Answer: | a Danny DeVito mojito burrito | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qNawyzVGbc|3x02]] - The Boobrie and Conservative Pandas ^^ | Prize Setup: | leafy green vegetables from one of the fathers of computing | | Prize Answer: | babbage's cabbages | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKOcrH_PyU0|3x03]] - Sergeant Reckless and Terry Google ^^ | Prize Setup: | a pigeon | | Prize Answer: | you'll have to collect it from Trafalgar Square | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egbJ8p2UVKk|3x04]] - Sidney Weltmer and the Queen's Package ^^ | Prize Setup: | tiny deep friend mashed potato balls presented by an American folk hero every day for a week | | Prize Answer: | Davy Crockett's dainty croquettes daily | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgzTsO46yc|3x05]] - Jimmy Carter's Rabbit and Tinfoil Hats ^^ | Prize Setup: | permission to dress up as a famous frog and go hide in a cave | | Prize Answer: | a hermit Kermit permit | === Season 4 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PlQPJmh95U|4x01]] - Graham Island and Ye Starbucks ^^ | Prize Setup: | a patch of Somerset marshland that's been filled with oily fish, that was previously owned by a documentary filmmaker and a white rapper | | Prize Answer: | Michael Moore and Macklemore's mackerel moor | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KzcZZ_3vL8|4x02]] - Project Cybersyn and Military Fridges ^^ | Prize Setup: | a restaurant that cookies lingerie over a box of hot coals, previously owned by a famous civil engineer | | Prize Answer: | Brunel's Brassieres and Braziers Brasserie | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5VU0GE_Wo|4x03]] - Cello Scrotum and Radium Water ^^ | Prize Setup: | a subscription to the Badger of the Month club | | Prize Answer: | do try to be in when thy deliver them though; they do get a bit angry when you leave them with the neighbors | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6f5k_nO9ZY|4x04]] - Shanghai Fugu and Mucky Fat ^^ | Prize Setup: | a confederate general made out of interlocking stones without any mortar | | | Prize Answer: | a dry stonewall jackson | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kgI-TZXCa8|4x05]] - Victor Lustig and Binary Points ^^ | Prize Setup: | a Formula One champion's steel water boiler | | Prize Answer: | Sebastian Vettel's metal kettle | === Season 5 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48in2BIx4ds&|5x01]] - The Hydraulic Telegraph and Latin Grease ^^ | Prize Setup: | an intimate waxing by a legendary six-time grammy-winning american composer | | Prize Answer: | Burt Bacharach Back Crack & Sack | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4og8wG8VQWM|5x02]] - Thomas Midgley Jr and a Pope Infestation ^^ | Prize Setup: | A hellbound Ford Transit previously owned by a Belgian action star that's had a genetic copy made of its mandible | | Prize Answer: | Jean Claude van Damme's damned clone-jawed van | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObEJk4bAV8M|5x03]] - BackpackersXpress and the Disco Carriage ^^ | Prize Setup: | (prefaced as being French) Chocolate icing in the shape of a cow | | Prize Answer: | la vache ganache | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3XJTYli10|5x04]] - Camp Bonifas and Yorkshire Scouting ^^ | Prize Setup: | a circular muscle with the head of a man and the body of a lion | | Prize Answer: | the sphinxster | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za96MbXuwEQ|5x05]] - Camille Flammarion and a Spiritualist Story ^^ | Prize Setup: | a highly expensive summary of the life of an American horror actor | | Prize Answer: | Vincent Price's very pricey précis | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzfiF9ccZvQ|Live Pt.1]] - Ruth Belville and Time Balls ^^ | Prize Setup: | a gambling den for nocturnal birds of prey, run by the star of the Godfather in back of a '59 Chevy | | Prize Answer: | Al Pacino's El Camino Owl Casino | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iSncY1_CzY|Live Pt.2]] - The Ice Block Expedition and Chainsaw Licenses ^^ | Prize Setup: | a tour around a giant underground laboratory designed to accelerate flatulence close to the speed of light | | Prize Answer: | a farticle accelerator | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl1Z205KKNA|Live Pt.3 (Encore)]] - Classic Trivia Question Cards ^^ | Prize Setup: | an enclosure in which underwear is forbidden, run by the star of Face/Off | | Prize Answer: | Nicholas Cage's knickerless cage | === Season 6 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TsEGt841pw|6x01]] - Jack Churchill and a Live Studio Audience ^^ | Prize Setup: | two words mixed together by the actor who played Padme in the Star Wars prequels | | Prize Answer: | A Natalie Portmaneau | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXW2-LBf-5E|6x02]] - The $100 Hamburger and Tach Time ^^ | Prize Setup: | A visit to a late-night electrically-boosted bathing spray run by a member of boy band Another Level | | Prize Answer: | Dane Bowers After-Hours Power Showers | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC2qosa3Wjo|6x03]] - Stephens Island Wren and the Cobra Effect ^^ | Prize Setup: | a stuffed toy inspired by the villain from the nightmare on elm street | | Prize Answer: | Teddy Kreuger | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFL_JAkWZy8|6x04]] - Julie D'Aubigny and Dueling Scars ^^ | Prize Setup: | A Greek philosopher's Mexican salamander speed control | | Prize Answer: | An Aristotle axolotl throttle | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRJr9xQSAE|6x05]] - Acoustic Kitty and Bat Bombs ^^ | Prize Setup: | Some rice, raw fish, and seaweed in the shape of a luxury car | | Prize Answer: | A sushi rolls Royce | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrO_ZMQ8aFc|6x06]] - Benjamin Rush and Inventing the Bucket ^^ | Prize Setup: | an express trip to see the buttocks cleavage of one of 'Tenacious D' | | Prize Answer: | Jack Black's fast track ass crack | === Season 7 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrU8Kh6Mf7o|7x01]] - Charles Blondin and the Stolen Point ^^ | Prize Setup: | A small fast bird that makes clothing for other small fast birds | | Prize Answer: | Tailor Swift | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDboEgjZjAE|7x02]] - The Sark Football Team and Hovercraft Enthusiasm ^^ | Prize Setup: | a bright orange thing for a large mustelid to bounce on in isolation | | Prize Answer: | a tangerine wolverine quarantine trampoline | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2J1vOpzOI0|7x03]] - Turra Coo and Four-Legged Juggling ^^ | Prize Setup: | a tool for combing through ponds to find male ducks, signed by a Canadian rapper | | Prize Answer: | Drake Lake Drake Rake | | Followup: | Sorry, the signature is a forgery, so it's a Fake Drake Lake Drake Rake | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3KT-OOg9y0|7x04]] - The Flip Flap Railroad and Marshmallow Bearings ^^ | Prize Setup: | a brand new armoured fighting vehicle that is actually an old fighting vehicle rebooted to look modern | | Prize Answer: | JJ Abrams tank | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C666j39s3wc|7x05]] - John Stonehouse and Dropped Trousers ^^ | Prize Setup: | breakfast food prepared by the star of Sherlock | | Prize Answer: | Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gNn9OG7dPU|7x06]] - Atomic Annie and Blue Peacock ^^ | Prize Setup: | a rope that keeps out vultures, owned by the star of Gavin and Stacey and the Late, Late Show | | Prize Answer: | James Corden's condor cordon | === Season 8 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkU8u-FCs1Q|8x01]] - The Battle of Fishguard and "Brandy" ^^ | Prize Setup: | A device to help cool the lower jaws of South American rodents | | Prize Answer: | A chinchilla chin chiller | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nd5HsxWXTI|8x02]] - The Norwegian Butter Crisis and the Ark of Taste ^^ | Prize Setup: | A chocolate bar shaped like a cartoon frog that is also the lead singer of a Queen tribute act | | Prize Answer: | Freddo Mercury | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blN49yGet8g|8x03]] - Juan Pujol Garcia and Thirtynineitude ^^ | Prize Setup: | a trip to an all-you-can-eat garlic restaurant | | Prize Answer: | buffet the vampire slayer | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M-vxb_Bt3k|8x04]] - Hail Cannons and Operation Popeye ^^ | Prize Setup: | a vertical purple lead arse | | Prize Answer: | a plumb plum plumbum bum | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmAdG9YNkTE|8x05]] - The Crazy Eights Incident and the Pumpy Thing ^^ | Prize Setup: | a shirt that exposes your midriff sponsored by a series of korean boy bands | | Prize Answer: | K-pop crop top | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd0HA_n2cjw|8x06]] - The Sweater Curse and Clothing Controversies ^^ | Prize Setup: | a DVD of the little known crossover between a marsupial from Australia and a time lord from Gallifrey | | Prize Answer: | Skippy the bush Dr Who | ==== One of These People Is Lying ==== ---- === Season 1 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HprnN7iyiZI|1x01]] - "Better than a lump of coal" ^^ | Prize Setup: | none | | Prize Answer: | none | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0cLn5AsBxU|1x02]] - "Distracted by Matt's moaning" ^^ | Prize Setup: | none | | Prize Answer: | none | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWVDtmJ9y3c|1x03]] - "Yer man gets more hungry" ^^ | Prize Setup: | none | | Prize Answer: | none | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLr6FxGU3E|1x04]] - "I can smell the truth" ^^ | Prize Setup: | none | | Prize Answer: | none | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvPAIl2EZA|1x05]] - The weird rules and regulations episode ^^ | Prize Setup: | none | | Prize Answer: | none | ==== Two of These People Are Lying ==== ---- === Season 1 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UAOs9B9UH8|1x01]] - Meatballs, Noseflutes and Judith ^^ | Prize Setup: | none | | Prize Answer: | none (had no laptop this game to read it from) | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yFEfOYTNoE|1x02]] - Parading Around The Parish ^^ | Prize Setup: | none | | Prize Answer: | none | === Season 2 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR3KGXd6MtQ|2x01]] - Thin Necks and Terrifying Tractors ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phL7P6gtZRM|2x02]] - Not Even A Real Abbot ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JuqkQcDEjw|2x03]] - The Sweaty Column ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgtaOqe0mUM|2x04]] - Matt's Scaly Kettle ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | === Season 3 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq_Kh2rV3x8|3x01]] - Sir Tony of Hawksville ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxHFkOff9T8|3x02]] - Suspicious Saints ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhhGnmcOz5g|3x03]] - "Down A Bit From Tromsø" ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | === Season 4 === ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPaz6mFsSjU|4x01?]] - "Two Of These People Are Lying" Christmas Special ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | ^ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlNNkeB9pjU|4x02]] - Beards, Beasts and Blagging ^^ | Prize Setup: | | | Prize Answer: | | / 1x01 / 1x02 / 1x03 / 2x01 / 2x02 / 2x03 / 2x04 / 3x01 / 3x02 / 3x03 / 4x01? / 4x02