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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Jenny Draper, David Bennett and Annie Rauwerda face a question about a very solid sketch.
LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit www.lateralcas...
GUESTS:
Jenny Draper: @JDraper
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HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at the Podcast Studios, Dublin.
GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com).
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.
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The second Tom finished the question and mentioned a cartoon character, my mind went straight to "tunnel + Wile E. Coyote"
The real tragedy of that Pokémon episode is that it was Pikachu that caused the seizures, yet Porygon got blamed and hasn't appeared in an episode since because of it!
Well, they weren’t going to punish Pikachu! And Porygon was in the name of the episode, so Porygon became the face of the issue even though it was Pikachu.
More used as a scapegoat than outright blamed. They couldn't ban Pikachu because that was the de facto mascot of Pokémon, so Porygon was made to take the heat due to that episode being its only appearance.
I concur.
Wasn't Pikachu the one being hypnotized?
Even worse, it, at least partly, a myth
If you have not seen it, videos of the 11ft 8 bridge are highly amusing. The drivers of the trucks whose tops get peeled seem to fall in to two categories - one set thinks "if I go really fast I can squeeze under" and the other set thinks "If I go really slow I can squeeze under" - both are wrong of course. It's in North Carolina, not Virginia, btw. I also suggest a search for Tunnelvision by Blue Sky in Columbia, SC, which as far as I know is still there. It is a painting of a road tunnel on the side of a building.
The thing I really don't get about the bridge, before the intersection is a thing that will knock against the truck's roof if it's to tall for the bridge. And people still think they can make it. If it were up to me, anyone hitting that bridge would lose their license and be deemed unfit to drive for life by this point.
The UA-cam algorithm is weird but this is a case where I was grateful for it. Great series of videos.
@@rolfs2165 My interpretation is this: There are sensors that switch the lights to red at the intersection directly before the bridge if a truck approaching is too tall. This is meant to give the drivers time to realize the flashing (and badly worded, imo) "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" signage is about them. But some drivers instead notice the lights go red earlier than expected, instinctively accelerate to still get across the intersection, and in doing so, stop thinking about their vehicle's height. In any case, love to see that channel post ;-)
I'm pretty sure there's a third category: the ones who just think "Hey, there's no police around, I bet that's just some stupid recommendation anyway."
Thanks for the Tunnelvision pointer. Pretty cool mural. Note that the mural is at one end of a parking lot and the parking lot has a direction of flow opposite that of the tunnel’s arrows. So the only people who would be driving toward the imaginary road would already have ignored the painted arrows in the real world, and deserve their fate.
While I didn't know the story, I immediately knew exactly what this was about. Meep meep.
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As an American who grew up with those old cartoons, I guessed this immediately.
Totally
Same, as an Aussie. Are these guys too young maybe
I figured if it wasn't one of those 3D chalk drawings where you have to stand in a specific spot to see the effect and that spot happened to be in the middle of the road because that would be bad, I figured it was a type of trompe-l'œil [thanks to Reading Rainbow for teaching me that one]. The mention of a cartoon character narrowed it down like a big arrow sign on a stick.
To be fair, it was VERY convincing. It was painted exactly in front of a turn, where you need to go below the bridge. I don't think youtube will allow links, but "juazeiro tunnel" should be easy to find.
Thank you to Tom and the panel for handling the subject of epilepsy and seizures so well and for calling out UA-cam, Netflix and others to do more.
That happened the same day the local police arrested me for riding my Acme rocket sled.
Anyone who has seen the cartoons knows that the real safety concern is that as soon as you turn your back on the tunnel, a train comes speeding out of it.
Aw man this episode brought a lot of nostalgia for watching this cartoon as a child.
It’s the 11-8 bridge in my city, Durham, NC!
Hasn’t been raised because it carries train tracks; both the physical engineering challenges and bureaucratic complexity prevent any meaningful change.
Edit: looks like they possibly lowered the roadbed in or around 2020, it’s now the 12-4 bridge. Still a can opener, just not nearly as frequently.
AFAIK, the bridge hasn't been raised because the railroad owns it and they don't care enough to go through the effort, and the roadbed can't be lowered too far because there's a sewer pipe under it.
UA-cam suggested the channel to me by chance a couple of weeks ago, and of course I love the episodes and highlights, but the thing is, the intro music lifts my spirits and makes me smile every time I hear it. Thank you!!
Seemed obvious, but maybe I am old enough to think of those cartoons immediately
Same here. * shakes invisible cane *
Yup, me too. Feeling my age with this one. :D
Same. I also remember the story he referred to, but I didn't remember the details, just the cartoon connection all of us geezers knew.
Yeah, you could just say "cartoon mural safety hazard" and anyone who grew up with Merrie Melodies would know where it was going.
I'm young and got it almost instantly
i thought this was obvious from the word "safety reasons" and im surprised it took the contestants that long to figure it out
I'm from Brazil (but not Juazeiro): there were several posts shared online with two pictures, one of the "tunnel" and the other from a smashed car front, leading people to think that an accident happened because of it. It never did, but the picture of the painting in the post was taken at night, and it was realistic just enough to convince your brain for a split second, enough for a driver to do a mistake, raising the city hall's concerns and leading to it being removed.
Awesome to see David on the show! I've been a fan of his channel for ages.
Annie's kitty in the window 😻
@LateralwithTomScott
I wish the Chicago mural would have come up in this conversation. There was a building that painted important people in the 1990's and it was right along the side of a raised highway. They would change the people every few months and included people like Michael Jordan. The last straw that got it banned was Dennis Rodman where they added a section above the top of the building for his hair so they could keep changing the color. This led to many rubber-neck traffic jams and accidents.
Just started watching - if it isn't a Wile E Coyote-style tunnel mural then I don't know what it could be!
I had the exact same thought instantly.
In my exploratory youth I have seen a few cartoon divers where one should not be diving. This was my go-to, until I saw Jenny beaming when the clues were closer.
Years ago, i read a pseudo-scholarly analysis of Road Runner cartoons that stated that the bird's ability to run through the painted-on tunnel while the coyote could not presented a "trompe l'oeil inconsistency" which was such a great phrase i could never forget it.
Brazil mentioned!!!!!!!!!
University Of Oregon has had the mascot "Ducks" and back in the day Walt Disney himself gave them permission to use Donald Duck as their mascot.
Years later Disney sued U of O, but they still had the permission from Walt himself.
Dang, if you look up the photo, it's better than I expected! I know a few people that I could see driving into it 😂😂
I would have had to sit this one out too. Not because I've heard of it, but because it instantly came to mind as the most likely answer!
11' 8" + 8" bridge mentioned! I'm glad it's such a popular channel.
The idea of drivers driving towards a fake tunnel reminded me of 'Signal 30' by Public Service Broadcasting
A lot of these questions seem impossible to figure out, but this one, I knew the answer before I even finished reading the question.
problem with the mural is it doesn't even have to look realistic. It could be cartoony and terrible, but put together the right conditions (somebody new to the area, low light, bad weather) and you're guaranteed an accident because you realize too late it's not a tunnel.
Immediate guess: Wile E Coyote painting a fake tunnel on a wall 😅
Even the Brits are finding out about the can opener!
I'm a Brit and been following @11foot8plus8 for years...
We're familiar with it. 🙂
Been subscribed to the bridge's channel for years.
We did have our own vehicular graveyard for a bit, Rufford Ford. But due to the local council being kill-joys they closed the road for good.
3:44
In some cases, looking at a grid can cause seizures; it's all just lines and the visual cortext goes crazy trying to assign meaning to it. I've stared at a grid before and watched the patterns flash in and out and it was epic.
The painting is uncannily realistic, even with RR stood next to it. Snopes confirms no crash.
The city should have just painted a "Road Closed" barricade on the tunnel
I love how aggressively Frisian Annie's last name is
I didn't think that it was the actual answer, but I immediately thought of the fake Road Runner tunnels!
That bridge is on Storrow Drive in Boston. It's so common we've taken to calling the phenomenon you're describing "getting Storrowed"
I guessed this correctly immediately! 😁
This seems like the easiest question they've ever had. Am I old and kids grew up with different cartoons?
I know! This seems trivial to me! But I was born in ‘03 and thereby younger than everyone there (except for maybe David- he looks young to me), so I can’t imagine it’s an age thing.
They're not all Americans on this show.
This is one of the few I didn't know but guessed immediately.
yep probably
@@justicegaming1412I'm a 19yo from central Europe and knew immediately, they just didn't do all that well.
Initial thoughts: I'm confident that I know this one. **meep meep**
I''m pretty sure you were talking about the Glenville bridge at 6:20, and I drove under it earlier this week!
The use of Tom's old profile pic for the mural in the thumbnail made me smirk.
I knew what this was as soon as I heard the question 😂
Didn't expect David Bennett here!
The poor Montague St Bridge never gets any love.
The 11ft 8 bridge was actually taller than the Montague St Bridge, before they increased the height of the 11ft 8 bridge. Some of the photos from crashes at the Montague St Bridge are insane, especially the bus crash.
Monty hungers.
For once I knew it before the question had even been fully read, just from being familiar with the road runner cartoons as a kid.
Toms video feed dropping frames had me digging through Task Manager / checking if my gpu was throttling for some reason.
My theory was that the mural was a Where’s Waldo scene, and it would cause drivers to slow down or even stop and hold up traffic just to look for Waldo.
I'm 2015/16 Sydney had an artwork with warning signs. It was a car (Volkswagen beetle from memory) upside down in the middle of a roundabout and people kept calling 000. I think the before sign was "Artwork Ahead". I have a photo of myself with the "End Artwork" sign, which seemed very meta and depressing out of context 🤣
Really NICE HAIRCUT TOM ! Suit you very well :)
When I was trucking I went to Chicago a lot. You couldn't trust the height signs a street would be repaved and the sign not changed. So I cut an old radio antenna slightly taller the the trailer I pulled. I could ease under a bridge and if it scraped back out.
I got this after the cartoon character bit 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Love these videos
Interesting look tom!
nice panel! I'm looking forward to a few fun ones
Another Jenny episode lets gooo
This question made me feel old, as I have a feeling anyone over a certain age got the answer straight away, and it would only trip up the younger generation, who didn't grow up watching Looney Tunes on a Saturday morning.
There'a a similar mural painting on a wall in Columbia, South Carolina. I knew this one as soon as I read the title of the video
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I'm here to comment that Tom Scott!!!! What on earth is going on?! I go to listen to last week's episode of Lateral only to see it's been taken over by some guy in a collared blue shirt!!! Have you been hacked? I don't understand who this blue-shirted menace is, but I think we'll all bring them to justice!!!
yoo it's david bennett piano, pleasant surprise to see him on the show
I have to say, Tom looks great. Ending the previous project must have been great for his overall health.
Theres a tunnel painted on a wall at a sharp turn somewhat near me in the uk, I don't think it's specifically roadrunner themed but I always think of roadrunner when I pass it
They should have just installed a fence with a NO ADMITTANCE sign.
Them talking about the bridge at the end and I was SURE it was going to be the Montague street bridge in Melbourne Australia. Famous for taking out trucks very often
Glad to hear it's not the only one
just last weekend i was doing a crossword with my parents and learned that "acme" means the same thing as "apex" --which puts acme corp in a whole new light!
One of very few that I instantly got. I instantly thought "Meep meep!".
(posting before finishing the video) my gut feeling is that it's the painted tunnel roadrunner gag.
David Bennett? The range of guests Tom gets is amazing.
BTW, was this something to do with Wile E Coyote and the painted tunnel?
Edit: Boom, got it.
My guess would be that it was a Banksy and the sometimes get removed by fans or people who want to sell them by removing that part of the wall they are painted on, which naturally would be really dangerous if it's part of a bridge.
I saw Tom Scott that’s why I clicked.
I mean, I got this one from the title alone. Maybe reconsider the title?
I hope you're thinking about the Onondaga Lake Parkway bridge there, mostly because I love the idea that this show would have made multiple references to the Syracuse area.
It is official: I spend waaaaay too much time on the internet. I knew this one right away!
Lansing Michigan has the truck eating bridge, they even added teeth since the video came out
Well, this one took me .000001 second.
Half way through the first question, my immediate first thought is
The classic roadrunner bit with the tunnel painted on the wall, were they worried people would try to drive into it?
As soon as Tom said "cartoon."
The last couple of years Disney has been using the Steamboat Willie Mickey has their animation logo. I do wonder if they've trademarked that and would chase TM violations.
My first thought was a gigantic Where's Waldo? mural that distracted drivers too much and it would take their focus away from the road
In Boston on moving day, you will always have a rental truck hitting the bridge. It is called Storrowed (after Storrow drive). Basically a whole bunch of first year students come into town and they drive a rental truck, so they are unfamiliar with the city and unfamiliar with the truck....
Lol, I guessed it as soon as we got to safety reasons and cartoon character...
Although, it is Juazeiro, so.... Better safe than sorry 😅
Nice haircut Tom!
I figured it out long before the contestants did, a fake tunnel appeared in several looney tunes films, but Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote is the most well known.
I didn't know the story, but it was my first thought after reading the tortilla of the video...
i was trying so hard to remember roadrunner's name and could only come up with "beep beep" - turns out that's his name in the french version. bip bip. no wonder i couldn't remember roadrunner.
Form a copyright perspective, they could put Steamboat Willie Mickey up there, but they probably would get in trouble from the trademark side. You might have noticed that Disney, several years ago, started having their studio branding/logo at the start of their films be based on a clip of the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey. This likely was an attempt to establish that version of Mickey as a trademark for the company, thus maintaining some legal control over that version of the character.
Would that work? No idea. I doubt any similar legal scenario has ever happened. But it definitely feels like a deliberate strategy.
Benu, an Armenian fountain pen company, have produced a cool hand-painted pen based on Steamboat Willie, as it's out of copyright. They've also done a Pooh pen, but based on the EH Shepard illustrations.
Congress did not extend Disney's copyright, probably side effect of Disney vs Florida Governor, so Mickey Mouse is in the public domain.
@@johnomeara7240 Yes, I get that. That's what I was trying to say. Disney, seeing the possibility that the copyright might not get extended again, started using a clip of Mickey from Steamboat Willie as their company's trademark, in order to try to make anyone else using that version of Mickey a violation of trademark law, since it would no longer be a violation of copyright law.
They would definitely get in trouble on the trademark side for this because it is exactly the sort of situations that trademark was set up for. These weren't some small murals in the daycares, these were massive exterior murals advertising three daycares that the city actually had already fined the the daycares for because they were so big they counted as billboards.
@johnomeara7240 Disney didn't even attempt to extend copyright this time, it had nothing to do with the Florida governor. In fact I'm actually working on a video concerning the two prior copyright extensions and I was shocked to discover that Disney may not have had really anything to do with them. Make no mistake Disney was *trying* to get copyright extended in the 70s and 90s, but from my research it seems like they actually failed in their attempts. It was actually unconnected 3rd parties that really got the ball rolling and made it happen. However when newspapers at the time were looking for ways to explain the situation they used Mickey Mouse as the example and thus cemented the connection in people's minds. It's kinda a Murder on the Orient Express situation where Disney was like the 6th passenger to stab the murder victim. They were kinda responsible but it is a big stretch to say they had the lead role.
making my guess at 0:22
a mural that endangered people and associated with cartoon characters, its the Wile-E Coyote Tunnel isnt it?
First thing I went for too.
Spoilers!
But yes, that is my guess as well.
Check out Tunnel Vision mural in Columbia SC.
oh wow perfect timing refresh
No one going to talk about Tom’s hair and outfit? Looking sharp!
There is a live action roadrunner movie called "the Villian" starring Ann Margret, Arnold Swarzinager and Kirk Douglas.
I suspect that the Disney character mural that was referred to as being painted over wasn't painted over because of Disney's copyright claims. - It was painted over at the order of the Tory Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick because it was "Too Welcoming" at a Children's Asylum Centre for unaccompanied child refugees.
Be aware of your surroundings!
Paying attention is a double edged sword, both generally (as in life, relationships, religion, politics, etc.) and specifically while driving. Too much attention to a simple distraction or worse, an illusion, can produce catastrophic effects. Not enough attention to signage and warnings can range from runaway speed on steep grades to the can opener (you must check it out if you are not already familiar).
Paying attention to cyclists and pedestrians can not be understated.
Please stay aware.
A fake tunnel was my first thought when I heard the question. I may have seen too much Looney Tunes.
Immediately knows this oen.
tom immediately looks 10 times cooler without the red shirt
Tom's general knowledge is just unbelievable.
I'm from Brazil. This happened near end of 2015. That painting wall was viral here when they made a montage with a crashed car into it.
Even I though it was a real accident until I saw this video and gone after the facts about it
After the accident photo went viral, the government covered with white paint for safety measure. The painting is easily identified at day but at night its harder.
The painter is a teacher Clarissa Campelo, she had authorization from the city hall to make such a painting.
She said: "City Hall knew I was going to make a tunnel painting at that spot. I was invited by the City Hall Cultural Administratio. What happened was lack of communication. And the drawing was only erased because of the hoax on social networks about the fake accident"
She also said: "This solution has too drastic, because it was a lot of work to make that drawing depicting the cartoon world. I was pretty sad because the drawing was not even that much realistic. They could had reached me before. I think that the drawing wasnt posing any threat. They should had placed a sign at the spot. Didn't think this could be this controversial."
She also had an assistant.
Google : "tunel papaleguas" for images.
The place is
Latitude 9°24'34.75"S
Longitude 40°30'18.36"O
Annie is insane about a UA-cam channel about these, but dammit I'd watch.
Here in Copenhagen, we have the issue of a clinic advertising breast enlargement operations with a set of nice boobs on busses.
Now the danish are not prudish, and public nudity is not a huge issue.
But for me personally, it is a safety issue. If i cycle past, i will turn my head, and thats not a good idea in traffic. And im pretty sure im not the only one.
And of course it also adds to the whole body perfection problem, that drives many people to unnecessary surgery, and/or mental issues.