Episode Title: "Down A Bit From Tromsø"
- Round 1: "Lule Sámi"
- Round 2: "Hurcon"
Tropes:
- Accidentally-Correct Writing: In-Universe. The first round is very notable for Matt accidentally getting the subject of the article correct after Chris, whose article it was, messed up and misremembered what the Lule Sámi was.
- Beyond the Impossible: In quite possibly one of the most bizarre coincidences possible, Chris thought that he was telling the truth about the Lule Sámi by stating that it was a river in northern Sweden. It's actually the name of the native peoples who live on the Lule River. While one of the hosts messing up their own article would be note-worthy enough, it becomes truly astonishing in that Matt's lie ended up being almost completely true, right down to where the river actually flows.
- Blatant Lies: Gary first claims that somebody performed a specific song at Eurovision Song Contest in 1995. However, Tom later misremembers the year given as 1985, and Gary makes no attempt to correct him.
- Buffy Speak: When Tom asks Gary what "Hurcon" means, the panel collectively engages in an exercise of the many ways to say "it windy!"
- Call-Back:
- Tom mentions that he's had issues with translating Nordic languages before, so when Chris says "Lule" is a river, he accepts it without objection. Later in the episode when wrapping up the first round, Matt and Chris mention the other times Tom got Scandinavian words wrong (not believing Meatballs on a stick is a delicacy, and not knowing what "Lenttokentää" means, both from 1x01).
- Gary gets caught out when he tells Tom that his version of Lule Sami was the oldest Eurovision competitor, which Tom calls his bluff on early on because he actually knows who holds that title. Tom mentions this is the second time this has happened, referring to 2x03, where Gary claims Batlow is a 3 feet river, where unbeknownst to him, he had made a video on what qualifies as the worlds shortest river that he hadn't released yet.
- Defcon 5: Gary gets confused about the HURCON scale, which is analogous to DEFCON in that it measures emergency preparedness on a scale from 1 to 5, specifically in the event of an incoming tropical cyclone. He claims that HURCON 1 is the least severe alert level, while 5 is the most severe, when it's really the other way around like with the original DEFCON.
- Distinction Without a Difference: Tom rules out Gary's article in the first round "less flamboyantly than usual", which Gary sarcastically remarks "difference!".
- I Have This Friend: Matt mentions this when Tom gives a detailed rundown of his connections to a friend of a friends' indie wrestling promotion. Of course, the specificity of this makes them all joke that Tom "Gripper" Scott actually does have an indie wrestling promotion, despite his protests.
- In-Universe Factoid Failure: The second article was about Hurcon. Gary correctly claims it's a hurricane warning system, but then bungles up the explanation of so badly that an actual hurricane expert felt the need to comment on the video with everything he got wrong (for a start, the warning scales were back-to-front).
