That Time We Went To Eurovision with Tim

[@Fennoman12]

"It was a really nice queue" - You'll only hear this from British people.

[@matthewfennell7886]

Hey Fenno!

[@logan2669]

queue is just "Q' with four silent letters

[@tiltedtesseract8210]

They aren't silent, they're just waiting their turn in line.

[@mickbreiting]

no clue you watched the park bench :3

[@casperes0912]

Logan Just like cue is q without a q.

[@JeffreyOchoa8]

"It was a really nice queue" - Tom Scott
Never have you sounded more British

[@MontyD]

how about "WEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY"

[@catfish552]

"Walking confidently into somewhere and making people believe that you're meant to be there."
That's basically half of Tom's videos.

[@deboogs]

I think Tom and Matt have more adventures in one year that most of us have in our entire life.

[@catfish552]

Oh hey, there's a new Tom Scott video!
...oh, he's in Chernobyl this week. Of course he is.

[@peachierose3356]

true, especially in quarantine

[@MattGrayYES]

Hahaha, I've just seen I was wearing an Enter Shikari t-shirt. Completely unintentional - I wasn't trying to compensate!

[@_AshTheBash]

+Matt Gray Glad to see you have an amazing music taste! ;)

[@steckelton717]

Matt Gray I just went down to the comment section to point that out, the fact that you already got that covered makes my comment pretty pointless so uhmmm... Mystery Biscuits for you. (btw using the MB Sound as Ringtone is lots of fun.)

[@mattandtom]

Yes, we've threatened to get Tim on the bench for a while now, and finally it's happened! --Matt

[@jacobmccarthy8666]

+Matt and Tom can't believe this happened, the people who scanned the tickets must have not been paying attention

[@biscuitsandbananas3433]

+Matt and Tom What did you threaten him with?

[@DarkFoxDK]

+Jacob McCarthy Considering how the rest of that whole thing was run, I'm not surprised... Seriously, it was 2-3 years of scandals around it. Hence why I'm happy Denmark isn't in the finals this year.

[@guanche011]

+Matt and Tom I really like Tim's energy! Would be great seeing him in more video's which include his interests.

[@chuckydickens7258]

+Matt and Tom Intro should have just been,
"Hi I'm Matt," "And I'm Tim."
*Tom looks disgusted that his line was stolen*
"Welcome to the park bench"

[@mycharliequinn]

"It was a really nice queue"
how very British

[@markog1999]

at the age of 15 I accidentally wandered into into the front bit of a lecture hall (in Cambridge) where one of the professors from the team who discovered the higgs boson was explaining his work. there was nobody there except for a camera crew so I just sat and read a book for about an hour before it started, saw the entire thing, and was not questioned once. (I guess people assumed I was someone important's son

[@casperes0912]

In Denmark any university lecture is technically open to the public, assuming there’s enough space for the actual students taking the course

[@DrHouse1238]

@@casperes0912 same here in serbia ,I guess it is usually open as those lectures aren't really popular with public

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

@@DrHouse1238 Pretty much same here in Scotland. That is to say, not everyone can get into every uni building (chemistry and biomed have some nasty stuff), but you can get into any lecture you can physically access, and pretty much nobody will question you. That is, of course, unless you use someone's lecture hall as a shortcut, which is a very quick way to be threatened by an angry physicist.

[@bigbenhebdomadarius6252]

I had a similar experience at Versailles, years ago. I asked (in French) if it would be possible to take a tour in English, and they said to go sit on a bench at one end of this vast, empty hall. Shortly before the tour started, the guide came to collect me, and I found that I had somehow jumped an hours-long queue. I not only got an excellent tour, but got to practice my French some more when the guide took me round afterward to some spots that tourists generally never see. I even ran into the guide on the trip back to Paris--if I hadn't already been on my way to a romantic rendezvous, I could have had my way with him. Ah, youth is wasted on on the young!

[@nicyelland6355]

The Danes did not account for the British attitude to queuing!

[@Kaoskadosk]

Matt actually pronounced Malmö correct! I'm impressed!

[@PuffyRainbowCloud]

Well, they do travel a lot, and Tom has a linguistics degree, so Matt has a good source ;3

[@haiironezumi]

@@PuffyRainbowCloud Yes, but have you heard Tom trying to speak French on any of the Citation Needed videos?

[@richardharrold9736]

@@haiironezumi or Cambrian. He absolutely mangled Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch and just put "Sorry" in the subtitles.

[@Ahead144]

Only a Brit would think that standing in a queue for six hours is 'nice'

[@cogmonocle2140]

I'm still stuck at someone taking one look at Tom and just reading the bridge knowledge in his eyes

[@YoElementalGPU]

These people enjoy Eurovision unironically, how amazing!

[@casperes0912]

I can’t believe that’s the case for anybody even after watching this

[@BakerbrothertvOfficial]

This should be called "How We Accidentally Snuck into The Eurovison".
xD

[@Tarantio1983]

perchance would this good sir Timothy be the self-same Tim behind the events and adventures of Mad Cap'ain Tom?! If so then please get his views of it on camera!

[@747knarf]

Ironic how it their graph Ukraine is dead last...

[@Alucard45000]

Which it should have been, it really didn't deserve the win..

[@InTenZeGamingHD]

@@Alucard45000 really? did you see armenia?

[@EuanBCFC]

Taking this as some tips for today Tom, can’t explain how happy I (genuinely!) am that that’s a sentence I can say

[@OriginalPiMan]

The last entry on your chart entertains me, now that we have hindsight.

[@TheEverseer]

Haha! Priceless!!!! Got to love the fact that in this day and age they didn't check your Eurovision Pass. Incredible... Well at least you had an ace time and didn't get caught out. That would have been uber embarrassing :)

[@Dilton94]

Love how Ukraine came last in your graph!

[@Hammelj]

+Dilton94 I want their tips for next year

[@mastersoftoday]

despite being Ukrainian, there's a good chance I would've placed our song last as well, it was pretty tasteless

[@mikhahl]

@@mastersoftoday Yeah, for some reason when we actually give them good songs they rank us wayyyy lower

[@ragnkja]

If Tim feels like a tiny little person at Eurovision, that does say something.

[@TrevorJr26]

Loving how you all ranked Ukraine lowest and they won :P

[@atomicmrpelly]

+TrevorJr26 The song deserved to be dead last. It won for political reasons which I wholeheartedly support, but it was an AWFUL song.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

Jamala rules!

[@NoNameAtAll2]

@@atomicmrpelly why tf you support political reasons in song contest?

[@ricardoquerubin3962]

@@NoNameAtAll2 I think they meant they support the political agenda itself, but not the fact that THAT'S why it won.

[@rachelle10]

When they started talking about their predictions for that year I paused for a second to try to remember who won that year, it was Ukraine. Then they showed the graph, guess what country is all the way at the bottom... Yeah I also wasn't that much of a fan of that one.

[@ethanjohnson9016]

That graph just showed us that Tom is a harsh critic

[@FBandSpin]

I am so glad I stumbled on you Eurovision memory. As an American I marvel at the enthusiasm and the unifying spectacle...and I so missed it watching the final this year (Covid)...There will be more!

[@desia.brimou]

Eurovision is a... Beautiful Mess.

[@Mrfdsa1]

Eurovision taking over my timeline? It took over my facebook timeline starting last tuesday since Douwe Bob made it into the final for tonight.

[@robertlinke2666]

+youeitherknowmeoryoudon't DOUWE!!!

[@thlthesea]

good that you enjoyed the show i was on the team that buildt it spend half a year on that stage construction and was sitting under the stage lifting load in/out ramp

[@cupcakewithouttheicing]

Tim: I'm upset because we're not in Stockholm
Me: oof, yeah, 2016 Eurovision was amazing

[@rachelle10]

Omg I remember now with Måns Zelmerlöw and Petra Mede presenting! And I also remember that the Dutch contestant set up a temporary bar in Stockholm where the artists went and sang songs together, the videos of that were the best.

[@cupcakewithouttheicing]

@@rachelle10 yes, omg! Douwe Bob! He was one of my favourites that year!

[@rachelle10]

@@cupcakewithouttheicing I mean, I'm biased but yeah I definitely liked his song!

[@cupcakewithouttheicing]

@@rachelle10 wait, biased? In what way? I'm curious now

[@rachelle10]

@@cupcakewithouttheicing oh just because I'm Dutch, I'll root for any of our songs that are moderately good

[@MollyBlueDawn]

Speaking as a Molly, I am getting a kick out of a giant muppet shouting my name at 9:35

[@TheMadhouseOfficial]

Oh my. The graph turned out to be rather wrong in the end. About one nation especially.

[@black_platypus]

That graph is really cool :)
Tom's low scoring was responsible for most of the controversy (a reeeeally neat feature) - what's your MO, is there a certain criteria you were looking for those groups were lacking?

[@NapsterVista]

Similar story here - turned up 4 hours early for the Britain's Got Talent auditions and got ushered in to this room. Turns out to say thank you for being early they put us in the holding room with all the acts (like you see on TV), bought us lunch and filmed us interviewing them for Britain's Got More Talent. Just goes to show a little confidence can get you a lot!

[@Zoddca321]

I thoroughly enjoyed Tim's appearance here. I'd like to see more of him in the future even though that probably won't happen!

[@tryingmybestokay]

As a Swede, I completely aggree with the scores you gave our song. We really dropped the ball on this from last year.

[@InsaneGamersOfficial]

+Helga Leech It's because most countries don't want to host twice in a row. Eurovision is incredibly expensive to host. You should check out the Father Ted episode "A Song for Europe" as it's based off what Ireland tried to do when they hosted it for the second time in a row (although in real life they won, in the episode everyone gives them nul points)

[@HolmAdrian]

Holy shit! I can see where I live from that photo you took of the Öresund bridge! :D

[@mitigatekeeps1371]

So this is mr "Tiny" Tim Geoffries I've been curious about since the podcast.

[@emilyr5442]

I am so glad to see other people just as amazed by eurovision as I am. The only thing left for me is to somehow get tickets to a show

[@dylanlcreser]

Looks at the graph's last place: Ukraine
Reality: IT'S SHOWTIME

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

Not Molly Sanden, Tim- Molly Smitten-Downes. Molly Sanden represented Sweden at the Junior contest in 2006. I'm such a Euro-nerd.

[@noahtalksmoney]

@Joseph Bleasdale
She also did Rachel McAdams' singing voice in Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

@@noahtalksmoney I know- so proud!

[@chris3091]

Going to venues really early does work. A few weeks ago I went to a couple of concerts, and I got to the venue 9 hours early both times, and I was at the barrier.

[@Allocated_Brain]

I just watched a video about how fingerprints can not be removed with pineapple. I must ask, why the hell did Tom cut his hair?

[@MuchWhittering]

Eurovision's airing in the USA this year! They have no excuse for not understanding any more!

[@entropiCCycles]

"Controversy" is an interesting, but honestly apropos, description for standard deviation. I like it.

[@leoshevkun3645]

Nice graph, Matt! I also enjoy making graphs. Good to know it's not a completely lost art ;)

[@EmmaLiza]

I love you guys, and I love Eurovision so much, but I'm Australian and gotta get up at 5am for it and this isn't helping.

[@Tophu48548]

"It was a really nice queue." England!

[@Kevin-vr9np]

2014 has been one of the best recent years, best since 2009 I think. Hello from Australia!!

[@c182SkylaneRG]

And here I thought I watched these out of order. I'm pretty sure I watched them exactly in order, because I started with the one where Tim put on his sweater, and ended on this one. :)

[@2teethPogZa]

These 3 men
Experienced one of the best EVER moments in Eurovision history... Conchita Wurst slayin’ it like a queen...

[@clf400]

Next park bench: Croatia controversy

[@TrueHolarctic]

please explain

[@clf400]

MegaMedia5 On the graph, Croatia was very controversial and I want to know why.

[@entropiCCycles]

+clf400 It was because there was a lot of variation in their ratings (the right-axis of the graph lists controversy as being the standard deviation of the scores that the three gave for each country). Croatia was the country for which their ratings differed the most.

[@fa.h.]

Eurovision is amazing this year!

[@birdieweargumboots]

It's 4am here in Australia and staying up to watch the grand final live, so glad I have good content to watch whilst I while away the hours !!!

[@cgimusic1285]

I love how your graph, the jury votes and the public votes could not have had more disparity. It seems like a very controversial competition this year.

[@pooplayer1]

Breaking the eurovision 2014

[@peter_smyth]

Next video mix it up further, have the photo or graphic come in diagonally!

[@gerocampo100]

MATT YOUR MUSIC TASTE IS AWESOME! enter shikali is awesome

[@Roeckx]

Like two years ago I was on a flight from Brussels to Tallinn and it was a completely clear day. And it thought it was amazing to see the Øresund Bridge! Also we were constantly following the coastline, so I could keep track exactly of were we were. I remember thinking Denmark looking a lot smaller when looking from a plane window. :P

[@bartz0rt928]

That was a really nice graph

[@michael-sc6iq]

I like Matt's shirt! also cool video!

[@Nielsly]

I was in Copenhagen during that Eurovision completely coincidentally, as we didn't remember that was happening when we booked it.

[@the3dvideo]

+Matt and Tom
You could color grade, use video noise reduction and light balance to make it look like a different time of the day.

[@5nowChain5]

OMG, i was watching that broadcast in the Foyer of a Hotel, on the Receptionists 14" TV in the (now) Park Hotel in Tiraspol, Transnistria. We were both shocked at the winning act. They are very conservative orthodox russians there. An LGBTQ+ bloke in a dress was the kind of thing to get one banged up in jail there. But his voice was outstanding. (i didn't spot the guys). The Hotel back then was the Classic grotty luxury 70's Soviet hotel, they even had Wi-Fi back then, Its been totally renovated to five star quality since then. It was a memorable night especially the wake up knock by the KGB the next morning at 5am.

[@lgriot]

Ukraine won! How could you get it so wrong? It was last on your graph!

[@mattandtom]

+Laurent Griot the scores were based on how much we liked the songs, not how much we thought Europe would like them. --Matt

[@jpain]

+Matt and Tom I guess that means you're not a standard European

[@kylenetherwood8734]

No Briton is standard European.

[@lynallott3404]

@@kylenetherwood8734 Ya don't say..........

[@Taynethedancer]

I'm kinda heartbroken they didn't get to see love love peace peace live

[@malfidus10]

I went to the Jury Final that year, which was a bit less hardcore but it did mean I got to watch the final twice! After a bit of queuing on a waterlogged concrete wasteland, we were let in and stood near the Polish butter churners. On the night of the Grand Final, we watched on a big screen near the town hall. Everyone was dancing in the rain - it was an amazing party atmosphere.

[@k0pstl939]

I thought Brannan was just short but you all are tall!

[@LFSDK]

Is that an Enter Shikari shirt?? I mean, I can see it is, but this was the last place I expected to see that.

[@Mousy677]

tom, did you just blame yourself for the rain? like, the WEATHER?

[@MrHack4never]

the reason that eurovision 2014 was in a old hall is because Denmark have a place big enough for that many people
also, there was economic problems about the whole event since the people behind forgot to plan things like toilets, electricity,

[@clairedunning4097]

Oh my God that is my life dream (even if it is a little sad).. So lucky for you guys!!!

[@whostolehonno]

Ever thought of popping the audio from park benches to a podcast feed? Not sure about others, but I listen to a lot of these videos like a podcast and really it works well. Would make it convinient if it was on itunes or something~

[@fluffy9978]

I love matt's enter shikari shirt

[@MazeFrame]

Amazing graph! Oh, nice happening^^

[@jaccovanderduin1359]

So you three saw The Common Linnets as well... Bit jealous :)

[@unakamillasteinsen4817]

Huh, I didn't know you were such Eurovision buffs. Everyone's crazy about it here in Iceland but I haven't even heard our song...

[@jack2719]

our singer in 2014 was called molly smitten downs, molly sanden is a Swedish singer from junior eurovision

[@edmundmetzold]

Watching this six years later and seeing them rank the winning song as last o.O

[@tommoda9589]

Matt, you have an awesome taste in music. Do you have a last.fm? You seem like the person who would, being all into your statistics and graphs and things 😁

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

I havent't been even midly interested in the Eurovision Song Contest since it was called the Grand Prix de'l Eurovison de la Chanson (and even before that I was mildly interested at best). With the one exception of, I think it was in 2011, when Lena won for Germany. But to be fair, that was actually more an interest in Lena than in the contest.

[@drokles2125]

If I remember correctly then that building that Eurovision was held in is really hard to tear down because it is armoured concrete. Again if I remember correctly

[@oldtechnobodycaresabout]

Miss park bench so much!!! But I wish more people did rambling like you

[@Eiroth]

These people are literally the first non-scandinavians who can pronounce Malmö. I never thought I would live to see this day...

[@Viruzzz]

I'm Danish and I didn't know Eurovision was happening. haven't heard a thing about it.

[@dinnae]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who rates Eurovision songs on a 100 point scale every year... Except my taste in music is apparently pretty much the exact opposite of yours

[@samclay950]

Please put a link to the graph in the description

[@mattandtom]

+Sam Clay Good plan! I've linked all our stats in the description --Matt

[@thomasbarrett9286]

10:20 did Tim really just discribe himself as a "tiny little person"

[@RobertSandell]

I am astonished how well Matt pronounces Malmö :-D

[@samclay950]

+Matt and Tom thank you

[@Charlienmeg]

The best thing about 2016 Eurovision was Joe and Jake singing "I come a lot when I'm with you" 👍

[@DanielPeeters]

Sorry to bring this up, but you need to update the instagram logo on the intro/exit titles!

[@DanielPeeters]

+Daniel Peeters Sorry, I think might have OCD.

[@EpseLepse]

The graph is spot on! They predicted where Belgium was going to end! And were awfully wrong about Ukraine, but that aside

[@PinkThorn242]

So the Bavarian Fire Drill in action?

[@vampirica89]

Or maybe they just wanted to reward all people who came that early.

[@Cadwaladr]

I'm drunk, so I didn't notice the difference in lighting. Also I'm American so I dgaf about Eurovision but that sounds like a p cool experience. Reminds me of when I was at the very front at a concert by Neutral Milk Hotel a couple years ago. Never thought I'd see Jeff live, but then I did.

[@Bornmirri]

Is it possible to enjoy Eurovision without liking the kind of music they usually play? I've always despised the whole thing :)

[@HampenBraender]

Eurovision here in Denmark was massivly critisized for a lot of things, mainly for costing WAAAAAAY too much ^^

[@richlindquist]

There where so many joyful comments about going to this country and we loved that country, do you think that will still happen after Brexit?

[@CJmummy]

Is that matt hancock at 4:35 in the pink shirt????