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* JokeItem: one of the curse cards in Season 5 is to force the other team to have to listen to Creator/TomLehrer's "The Elements Song" on repeat until they reach their next challenge, which does nothing to actually hamper the other team, but which is very annoying. [[spoiler: Ben and Adam force Sam and Toby to do it from Kaikoura to Christchurch, a roughly ''two hour and twenty minute'' trip]]
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* JokeItem: one of the curse cards in Season 5 is to force the other team to have to listen to Creator/TomLehrer's Music/TomLehrer's "The Elements Song" on repeat until they reach their next challenge, which does nothing to actually hamper the other team, but which is very annoying. [[spoiler: Ben and Adam force Sam and Toby to do it from Kaikoura to Christchurch, a roughly ''two hour and twenty minute'' trip]]
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** Sam was forced to end ''Crime Spree'' one law broken short of the total needed for him to win due to his cameraman JT getting food poisoning. After the show proper is ended, Ben and Adam point out that there was a rule allowing them to add any additional laws they wanted to for Sam to break, and they subsequently award Sam one additional law broken...for violating Oregon labor laws by making JT work unpaid overtime, over Sam's protestations that given that JT was a salaried employee he wouldn't qualify.
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* SceneryPorn: It ''is'' a travel show, after all, and a number of the challenges require the players to visit the most beautiful location or a famous landmark in their current country or state.
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* ThisIsACompetition: Sam tends to take this attitude as the most fiercely competitive of the core trio. He makes a joke about this in season five by telling Toby that they should put a sign on their car saying, "Get outta the way, we're in a race".
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** The animations for the battle challenges in season four are based on ''Franchise/Pokemon'''s encounter animations.
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* IronicEchoCut: Done as regularly as the {{Description Cut}}s.
-->'''Ben:''' I would describe [the glowworms] in a very serious way as being quite magical.\\
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'''Sam:''' Okay, Toby, I just realized something magical. We're actually safely ahead.
-->'''Ben:''' I would describe [the glowworms] in a very serious way as being quite magical.\\
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'''Sam:''' Okay, Toby, I just realized something magical. We're actually safely ahead.
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* ConfessionCam: In season three, there are several scenes where Sam hides in the restroom so that he can film himself talking about his strategy without his current team partner overhearing him since this season's structure meant that he, Ben, and Adam kept alternating between working together and working against each other.
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** The first two ''Jet Lag'' seasons lacked the purchasable power-ups that all later seasons would have in some form and there was more of a focus on plane flight than in later seasons that tend to be built more around car or train transportation. They also had a gag in the introduction about Ben and Adam not being famous compared to Sam and his traveling partner.
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* HopeSpot: At the end of season one, Ben and Adam's car breaks down on the way to the Montana state capitol but they don't receive a call from Sam or Brain which makes them hopeful that Sam and Brian got stuck on their challenge and they thus still have a chance to win the last state. Unfortunately for them, it turns out that Sam and Brian ''did'' complete their challenge and was just waiting for them to arrive so that they could surprise them with the news.
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* CosmeticAward: There's no reward for winning, since most of the people who designed the games are the same people playing them for fun and content, but seasons three and four did end with Sam 'giving' the winner(s) a (clearly digitally edited in post-production) trophy.
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''Jet Lag: The Game'' is an online reality competition centered around travel. In it, players travel to various locations to complete challenges, helping them towards a larger goal - either by claiming territory or replenishing their travel budget. Permanent cast members are Sam Denby of ''Wendover Productions'' and ''Half As Interesting'' fame, and his editors, Ben and Adam. When competing in teams of two, a guest competitor will pair up with Sam to round out the cast.
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''Jet Lag: The Game'' is an online reality competition centered around travel. In it, players travel to various locations to complete challenges, helping them towards a larger goal - either by claiming territory or replenishing their travel budget. Permanent cast members are Sam Denby of ''Wendover Productions'' and ''Half As Interesting'' fame, and his editors, Ben Doyle and Adam.Adam Chase. When competing in teams of two, a guest competitor will pair up with Sam to round out the cast.
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** ''Crime Spree'', considered by the crew to be ''Jet Lag'''s "pilot season", was very different from the later official ''Jet Lag'' seasons. It had no mandatory rest periods, the crew had separate people for filming and narrating instead of the players doing all the filming and narrating themselves, and Ben and Adam weren't racing to complete the same goal as Sam but were instead just trying to prevent him from completing his own goal.
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** ''Crime Spree'', considered by the crew to be ''Jet Lag'''s "pilot season", was very different from the later official ''Jet Lag'' seasons. It had no mandatory rest periods, the crew had separate people for filming and narrating instead of the players doing all the filming and narrating themselves, and Ben and Adam weren't racing to complete the same goal as Sam but were instead just trying to prevent him from completing his own goal.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: While doing the "kayak a mile" challenge in season two, Adam lamented out loud that he hadn't thoroughly thought about how hard this challenge could be when he and Ben came up with it:
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* CursedWithAwesome: In season three, the first curse card Sam draws forbids him to travel to a destination that has more than five letters in his name. This actually ends up benefiting him since he was originally planning to travel to Dunkirk next where he would have been caught by Ben and Adam sooner.
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-->'''Adam:''' [Sam and Joseph] haven't completed any challenges yet so this'll hopefully cut to them doing some really huge challenge right now.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: While doing the "kayak a mile" challenge in season two, Adamlamented laments out loud that he hadn't thoroughly thought about how hard this challenge could be when he and Ben came up with it:
* DescriptionCut: Done too many times to count over the series.
-->'''Adam:''' [Sam and Joseph] haven't completed any challenges yet so this'll hopefully cut to them doing some really huge challenge right now.
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* MoodWhiplash: For a challenge in season five, Ben and Adam have to relax and eat cheese in a hot spring and they find it so relaxing that they wonder out loud why no one else is at the spring. An information box then appears on the screen with: "It turns out Kerosene Creek is full of brain-eating amoebas that will kill you if you put your head under water."
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-->'''Adam:''' I'm jet lagged.
-->'''Sam:''' [[LampshadeHanging Ohh, he said the thing!]]
* TitleDrop: Done by Adam at the end of season three.
-->'''Adam:''' I'm jet lagged.
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* Season 1: ''TabletopGame/ConnectFour'': Sam and Brian (''Real Engineering'') take on Ben and Adam to claim four US states west of the Mississippi River, either horizontally or vertically adjacent.
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* TheAllegedCar: For the "make a go-kart" challenge in season two, Ben and Adam make a comically rickety contraption that's basically just a board with wheels and a bucket attached that falls apart the first time Ben tries riding on it.
* CallBack: Ben and Adam's excited chant of "Dunes, dunes, dunes!" in season four while they were driving to see the Indiana Dunes National Park is called back to in the beginning of season five when they and Sam all make the same chant while driving to the Te Paki Sand Dunes. Hilariously, Toby fails to get the reference despite being a big fan of Jet Lag.
* FunWithSubtitles: In a scene in season two where Ben and Adam are trying to come up with entertaining content while on a twelve-hour flight, Adam's reaction to Ben juggling his phone and accidentally dropping it is subtitled as "**entertained most when Ben fails**".
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** Season one had Ben and Adam giving each state capitol they travel to a rating out of seven American flags.
** Season five had Ben and Adam taking "The Snack Zone" breaks in season five where they taste New Zealand snacks, complete with animated introduction screen.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: While doing the "kayak a mile" challenge in season two, Adam lamented out loud that he hadn't thoroughly thought about how hard this challenge could be when he and Ben came up with it:
-->'''Adam:''' You know, you're sitting at a computer and you're writing challenges and you're like, "It can't be that hard to kayak a mile," but then you're in the kayak in Singapore -- it turns out it's harder than you thought it would be!
-->'''Adam:''' You know, you're sitting at a computer and you're writing challenges and you're like, "It can't be that hard to kayak a mile," but then you're in the kayak in Singapore -- it turns out it's harder than you thought it would be!
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* LoopholeAbuse: All players, especially Sam, sometimes use unconventional readings of a task to complete it in an untraditional way. This includes an instance in season two where Sam and Joseph interpret "Ascend 152 meters to a high point" to include running up and down a small incline twenty-eight times.
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* LoopholeAbuse: All players, especially Sam, sometimes use unconventional readings of a task to complete it in an untraditional way. This includes an instance in way.
** In seasontwo where two, Sam and Joseph interpret "Ascend "ascend 152 meters to a high point" to include running up and down a small incline twenty-eight times.times and "transfer a cup of fountain water from one fountain to another" to include ''drinking'' fountains.
** In season three, Sam realizes that nothing in the wording of the "touch an animal" challenge excluded ''humans''. After Ben and Adam admit that they overlooked that interpretation and it's a valid one, Sam touches Ben to complete the challenge.
** In season five, when Ben and Adam are cursed to roll a die and take that many steps every time they walk during a challenge, they circumvent this by using bicycles as much as they can during that challenge.
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** In season three, Sam realizes that nothing in the wording of the "touch an animal" challenge excluded ''humans''. After Ben and Adam admit that they overlooked that interpretation and it's a valid one, Sam touches Ben to complete the challenge.
** In season five, when Ben and Adam are cursed to roll a die and take that many steps every time they walk during a challenge, they circumvent this by using bicycles as much as they can during that challenge.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Ben and Adam are more outwardly goofy and laidback than Sam, but they're the ones most closely involved with designing the games which means that they actually have more firsthand knowledge and familiarity with the games' intricacies than Sam and have so far won a lot more frequently than him.
* CosmeticAward: There's no reward for winning, since most of the people who designed the games are the same people playing them for fun and content, but seasons three and four did end with Sam 'giving' the winner(s) a (clearly digitally edited in post-production) trophy.
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* LuckBasedMission: The first fork in season five has a path featuring challenges of fixed difficulty, and another path with a luck factor. For each challenge on the luck route, the difficulty is determined randomly upon arrival, such as digging a hole with parameters set by a six-sided die.
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** In season three and all later seasons, the challenges the players have to complete are determined by them randomly drawing from a card deck. This means that, depending on their luck and current location, they can get a challenge that's extremely easy to complete or a challenge that's nigh-impossible for them to do.
** The first fork in season five has a path featuring challenges of fixed difficulty, and another path with a luck factor. For each challenge on the luck route, the difficulty is determined randomly upon arrival, such as digging a hole with parameters set by a six-sided die.
** In season three and all later seasons, the challenges the players have to complete are determined by them randomly drawing from a card deck. This means that, depending on their luck and current location, they can get a challenge that's extremely easy to complete or a challenge that's nigh-impossible for them to do.
** The first fork in season five has a path featuring challenges of fixed difficulty, and another path with a luck factor. For each challenge on the luck route, the difficulty is determined randomly upon arrival, such as digging a hole with parameters set by a six-sided die.
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** The Auckland challenge in season five involved [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings destroying rings atop volcaones]].
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* ShoutOut: One of the tasks used to claim a state in season four was to "Drive a Chevy to a levee and eat pie", a nod to ''Music/AmericanPie's'' title track.
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* ObviousRulePatch: After JT fell ill from suspected food poisoning in season zero, subsequent seasons added mandatory rest periods and required team members to eat at least one meal per day.
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* Season 5: ''Race to the End of the World'': Teams race from the northern tip of New Zealand at Cape Reinga to the southern tip at Lookout Point, with challenges scattered about on the country's highway network en route that must be completed before the path can be proceeded upon for either team.
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* Season 5: ''Race to the End of the World'': Teams Sam and Toby (''Tibees'') race Ben and Adam from the northern tip of New Zealand at Cape Reinga to the southern tip at Lookout Point, with challenges scattered about on the country's highway network en route that must be completed before the path can be proceeded upon for either team.
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* Season 1: ''Connect Four'': Sam and Brian (''Real Engineering'') take on Ben and Adam to claim four US states west of the Mississippi River, either horizontally or vertically adjacent.
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* WorldTour: Season two, circumnavigation, is a race to circumnavigate the globe, requiring each team to stop in several cities along the way to replenish their travel budget.
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[[caption-width-right:350:We play games where the world is our board.]]
''Jet Lag: The Game'' is an online reality competition centered around travel. In it, players travel to various locations to complete challenges, helping them towards a larger goal - either by claiming territory or replenishing their travel budget. Permanent cast members are Sam Denby of ''Wendover Productions'' and ''Half As Interesting'' fame, and his editors, Ben and Adam. When competing in teams of two, a guest competitor will pair up with Sam to round out the cast.
Gameplay includes a wide range of tasks ranging from bungee jumping to catching bugs to getting intoxicated. Beyond these challenges, expect to see lots of strategizing, logistics, running, and trying to outmaneuver the other players.
This series is available on Website/YouTube using [[https://www.youtube.com/@jetlagthegame this link]]. As production is funded by Creator/{{Nebula}}, episodes release on said platform a week early, while ''Crime Spree'' (season zero) and supplemental videos remain exclusive to the platform.
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!!Seasons Thus Far:
* Season 0: ''Crime Spree'': A season based around breaking obscure, unenforced US laws.
* Season 1: ''Connect Four'': Sam and Brian (''Real Engineering'') take on Ben and Adam to claim four US states west of the Mississippi River, either horizontally or vertically adjacent.
* Season 2: ''Circumnavigation'': Sam and Joseph (''Real Life Lore'') race Ben and Adam to circumnavigate the globe, stopping in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
* Season 3: ''Tag Across Europe'': Sam, Adam, and Ben take turns as runners and chasers, attempting to reach their destination as the runner, or bar that, end the game in their territory.
* Season 4: ''Battle 4 America'': In a rematch from season one, teams compete to claim the most states in 100 hours, with the ability to steal a state in a successful head-to-head and a two point bonus for claiming the most land area.
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!!DOCUMENT TROPES WITHIN JET LAG:
* AccidentalPassenger: In season three, episode six, Adam and Ben board a train to catch Sam in a game of tag. While they succeed in this goal, Adam fails to get off the train before the doors lock, sending him away from his destination with his pursuers on board.
* CelebrityCameo: In season three, Ben and Sam, by pure chance, run into Creator/JohnGreen while searching for Adam in Paris. The three have a brief conversation at a stoplight before John moves along when the light changes.
* ChainOfDeals: {{Invoked|Trope}} in season four, where Ben and Adam bought an inexpensive ring at a pawn shop so they could resell it at another pawn shop for half the purchase price.
* EpicRace: Season two's challenge was to be the first pair to circumnavigate the globe. To this end, each team was given a travel budget insufficient to cover all necessary flights, but allowed it to be replenished by completing designated challenges. To prevent a team from completing all their challenges in one spot, tasks completed in the same city saw diminishing returns.
* LoonyLaws: Season zero, ''Crime Spree'', was themed around breaking obscure, unenforced laws around the United States. In season four, this returned as an objective, where you could claim a state by breaking one of the unclaimed laws from ''Crime Spree''. For Michigan, this was "Seduce and debauch an unmarried woman," which was interpreted to mean making a match on Tinder, then getting said match to perform an immoral act -- in this case, spreading (obviously false) misinformation.
* LoopholeAbuse: All players, especially Sam, sometimes use unconventional readings of a task to complete it in an untraditional way. This includes an instance in season two where Sam and Joseph interpret "Ascend 152 meters to a high point" to include running up and down a small incline twenty-eight times.
* ShoutOut: One of the tasks used to claim a state in season four was to "Drive a Chevy to a levee and eat pie", a nod to ''Music/AmericanPie's'' title track.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: When players are discussing their strategies, they will often be edited together as to form a unified thought. For example, season three has Adam mentioning a strategy he believes will catch Ben off guard, stating he hopes there's footage of Ben saying something "along the lines of--" which cuts to Ben saying he thinks he's in a safe spot.
* WorldTour: Season two, circumnavigation, is a race to circumnavigate the globe, requiring each team to stop in several cities along the way to replenish their travel budget.
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[[caption-width-right:350:We play games where the world is our board.]]
''Jet Lag: The Game'' is an online reality competition centered around travel. In it, players travel to various locations to complete challenges, helping them towards a larger goal - either by claiming territory or replenishing their travel budget. Permanent cast members are Sam Denby of ''Wendover Productions'' and ''Half As Interesting'' fame, and his editors, Ben and Adam. When competing in teams of two, a guest competitor will pair up with Sam to round out the cast.
Gameplay includes a wide range of tasks ranging from bungee jumping to catching bugs to getting intoxicated. Beyond these challenges, expect to see lots of strategizing, logistics, running, and trying to outmaneuver the other players.
This series is available on Website/YouTube using [[https://www.youtube.com/@jetlagthegame this link]]. As production is funded by Creator/{{Nebula}}, episodes release on said platform a week early, while ''Crime Spree'' (season zero) and supplemental videos remain exclusive to the platform.
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!!Seasons Thus Far:
* Season 0: ''Crime Spree'': A season based around breaking obscure, unenforced US laws.
* Season 1: ''Connect Four'': Sam and Brian (''Real Engineering'') take on Ben and Adam to claim four US states west of the Mississippi River, either horizontally or vertically adjacent.
* Season 2: ''Circumnavigation'': Sam and Joseph (''Real Life Lore'') race Ben and Adam to circumnavigate the globe, stopping in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
* Season 3: ''Tag Across Europe'': Sam, Adam, and Ben take turns as runners and chasers, attempting to reach their destination as the runner, or bar that, end the game in their territory.
* Season 4: ''Battle 4 America'': In a rematch from season one, teams compete to claim the most states in 100 hours, with the ability to steal a state in a successful head-to-head and a two point bonus for claiming the most land area.
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!!DOCUMENT TROPES WITHIN JET LAG:
* AccidentalPassenger: In season three, episode six, Adam and Ben board a train to catch Sam in a game of tag. While they succeed in this goal, Adam fails to get off the train before the doors lock, sending him away from his destination with his pursuers on board.
* CelebrityCameo: In season three, Ben and Sam, by pure chance, run into Creator/JohnGreen while searching for Adam in Paris. The three have a brief conversation at a stoplight before John moves along when the light changes.
* ChainOfDeals: {{Invoked|Trope}} in season four, where Ben and Adam bought an inexpensive ring at a pawn shop so they could resell it at another pawn shop for half the purchase price.
* EpicRace: Season two's challenge was to be the first pair to circumnavigate the globe. To this end, each team was given a travel budget insufficient to cover all necessary flights, but allowed it to be replenished by completing designated challenges. To prevent a team from completing all their challenges in one spot, tasks completed in the same city saw diminishing returns.
* LoonyLaws: Season zero, ''Crime Spree'', was themed around breaking obscure, unenforced laws around the United States. In season four, this returned as an objective, where you could claim a state by breaking one of the unclaimed laws from ''Crime Spree''. For Michigan, this was "Seduce and debauch an unmarried woman," which was interpreted to mean making a match on Tinder, then getting said match to perform an immoral act -- in this case, spreading (obviously false) misinformation.
* LoopholeAbuse: All players, especially Sam, sometimes use unconventional readings of a task to complete it in an untraditional way. This includes an instance in season two where Sam and Joseph interpret "Ascend 152 meters to a high point" to include running up and down a small incline twenty-eight times.
* ShoutOut: One of the tasks used to claim a state in season four was to "Drive a Chevy to a levee and eat pie", a nod to ''Music/AmericanPie's'' title track.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: When players are discussing their strategies, they will often be edited together as to form a unified thought. For example, season three has Adam mentioning a strategy he believes will catch Ben off guard, stating he hopes there's footage of Ben saying something "along the lines of--" which cuts to Ben saying he thinks he's in a safe spot.
* WorldTour: Season two, circumnavigation, is a race to circumnavigate the globe, requiring each team to stop in several cities along the way to replenish their travel budget.
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