Let's Play COUP II

**Let's Play COUP II** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*Stop with this 'Jiminy Cricket but evil' nonsense in your ear - do what you wanna do!*"
―Dan
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "done in the name of democracy, against democracy".
* Who will be *seizing the means of production* and who will be the *wrong end of the Mark Anthony speech*?
* In our hellos, TomSka is still the most famous. Laurie gets the Stripper theme - he's not best pleased, shall we say?
* TomSka attempts to get a coop pronunciation going, but Adam can't bring himself to do that.
* All hail the Tower of Destiny! Someone's made off with the dice. And Dan apparently can't use it, bless.
* TomSka was a gifted child and for some reason he thinks that will help him with the game.
* Laurie has a hambassador. Dan: "Hamburglar's older brother who didn't choose a life of crime". Or it might be Kim Basinger's pig. That tickles Adam.
* Brooke: "Little Brooke is a little duke" (it works with her accent).
* There's a lot of dukes, Sullivan can't believe we're lying - it must have been a misprint. We're a bit challenge-shy at first though.
* Brooke is very decisively taking money from the pot. Adam is very sheepishly taking less money from the pot.
* Adam seems to be taking everyone down with him - and passing them all bullets to fire. That's a brace of mixed metaphors for you.
* Dan has found a move he likes and he's going to do it over and over. And over. And over. And over. And over.
* TomSka: "You want me to *lie*?"
* Brooke: "Just looking at the man I love ... to kill him".
* Sullivan: "I wonder what I'll use this money for?" but it's Adam who pulls the final trigger. Sullivan is furious: "What's going to happen now is what I call a grudge".
* Ghost Sullivan is going to give Ghost Brooke a frankly rather crappy limerick. TomSka is our harshest critic: "Not much of a character arc, was it?" but it gets a round of applause. Sullivan's an award-winning comedian, but then who round this table isn't?
* Dan goes for the drama. And the flirting. We need more zhuzh, apparently.
* Laurie is challenging for the shits and giggles of it - and tying people up in their own lies.
* Adam: "I will *have* to pin you down". TomSka: "Don't threaten me with a good time".
* Brooke's untidiness with the game pieces is distressing Adam.
* Dan: "Are those the beautiful movements, the fluid liquid movements of a liar?". We get Adam dancing and a chair. And we're hitting a niche audience we've not particularly pursued before.
* Even though he dies, our main character persists. Adam: "I'm the centre of attention!" Dan: "*That's* how I know we're twins!"
* We hate 'dukey money' and all its variations.
* Singalonga NRB: "Here comes the coup" "Duke o'clock" "Coup you" "I'm going to take my ducal tax"
* We're heading for a bloodbath. TomSka isn't going to help anyone, once they've let him die. He's not invested in any of their success.
* Laurie's extorting Sullivan. He's toying with him, like a cat with his prey.
* Brooke: "What does Dan have?" TomSka: "BPD". Keeping it light.
* Sullivan is making it difficult for Dan to destroy him, by being so polite and friendly. Difficult, but not impossible. But Sullivan's fighting back and Brooke feels alive.
* Steptoe & Son spot!
* Sullivan is ~~gracious~~ Dom-like in victory.
* The retake is funnier without seeing the 1st attempt. Adam's trying to manage content, the cast are not helping.
* Child genius TomSka is struggling with the complexities of the new mechanic.
* Brooke's going to give Sullivan a little coup. And a cuddle. Sullivan has a lot of money and isn't sure who he's going to coup with it. Laurie's quite sure who's at the front of the couping queue.
* TomSka is whatever the opposite of a king maker is. Adam's betrayal of Dan wasn't direct, but it was effective. Dan's very cross with everyone now. And he's planning his dinner.
* Brooke: "Li'l Brooke's getting li'l rich over here."
* Adam to TomSka: "Thank you for being on my show ... I'm going to kill you."
* Brooke will only believe Laurie has a Captain if he says it in a Captain voice.
* Laurie's been through the deck so often he knows exactly what cards everyone has.
* The Lord of the Board gets a quick fanfare.
* Are we going to play till Adam wins?
* Dan's being delightfully wholesome. Except he follows that with sexual tension. The two faces of NRB.
* Football rivalries. It's nice for Sullivan to have a sportsball friend at the table.
* Laurie spends most of this round trying to get a different card.
* Adam has two dukes. Tukes. He's a fool of a tukes.
* Adam: "You've got your wish, Brooke Bourgeois - I'm dead."
* Sullivan has to choose between Laurie and Brooke, and she ... knows where his food comes from? It's not much of a threat.
* Teri spot! Hi Teri! Teri's a harsh critic. He probably has that coming.

## Talking heads

Talking heads are available this episode. Timestamps were put together by Peter on the Patreon Discord.

* 0:05:39 - TomSka was a gifted child
* 0:06:46 - Adam says Ham Basinger is a ham-bassador
* 0:12:34 - TomSka is not good at this game
* 0:16:33 - Brooke knows when she succeeds
* 0:20:14 - Dan Layton 2024: The World Needs More Zhuzh
* 0:25:20 - Dan defines "fancy lying"
* 0:26:49 - The BGC debut of Adam's feet (clothed)
* 0:32:00 - TomSka says it's Dan's game to win
* 0:36:02 - Sullivan says Dan will never get into drama school
* 0:42:14 - Adam has never played the Coup expansion before
* 0:42:38 - TomSka thinks the expansion is too much
* 0:51:58 - Dan was thinking about a fish dinner
* 1:01:53 - Adam wants to go again
* 1:14:37 - Laurie likes the data in Coup
* 1:23:47 - TomSka drinks
* 1:27:41 - Laurie doesn't do "fancy lying"
* 1:28:13 - Teri says Adam does exactly what he claims he doesn't do

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.