Let's Play MEN AT WORK

**Let's Play MEN AT WORK** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*We've sold 300 apartments in this building, it needs to be finished by Christmas - or else we will have nothing to eat!*"
―Dom
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "you better run, you better take cover".
* Who is *going to demolish their opponents* and who will *have to take some constructive criticism*?
* Laurie's a big tease - "We should also address the elephant in the room ... you've seen the line up ...and you've probably got a big question.... this is Dom - you've seen him before!"
* Dom's embracing his inner Stalin and exploiting the workforce already.
* Holly's the youngest player, with the biggest hands: "I was born with these hands ... isn't everybody born with their adult hands? How else do you get out?"
* Have we already made Stonehenge? Or a tribute to Princess Diana for a South London park? Or a memorial to the pigs who died in World War 2?
* Either way, Laurie's the host so he gets to pick the JOKE OF THE DAY!
* Holly does such a bad job setting up that Laurie takes over. Everyone appears to be over caffeinated this morning.
* Laurie: "We'll cross that bridge when we inevitably come to it ... in about 30 seconds time".
* Dom's named all the little workers and is inspiring them with his leadership.
* The first accident is clearly Sullivan's fault. Somehow. Certainly Dom can't be blamed. Also, it's Health and Safety Gone Mad.
* Laurie's got the proper coffee shakes, that's good timing.
* Balancing small wooden men on a small wooden girder is exactly like cinematic masterpiece, *Oppenheimer*.
* Holly: "What are you guys complaining about? This is easy".
* Accidents all round - Sullivan killed a man with a girder to the head, but Dom dropped a *brick*.
* Laurie is a medical marvel who can tickle himself.
* Holly does seem to be getting some lucky card draws, but she is smashing it. Laurie seems to be drawing the hardest cards and is bitterly regretting his breakfast coffee.
* Sullivan gets the first employee of the month, for a fairly pointless conservatory.
* That worker over there seems to be very still and quiet. And bad-smelling.
* Dom's managed to introduce organisation of labour and exploitation into a completely unrelated game. Maybe there's something to Sullivan's theory after all.
* Dom: "You can't live here, it won't be a usable space ... but there will be someone at the top who works for me. It might be a corpse dressed up as a builder."
* We're still *most* distressed about the loss of those two bricks.
* Dom: "Oh, they wouldn't work here if they had loved ones".
* Jeff is 'practising the beams' in the garage. Cheryl's caught him before, it's just an excuse to hide his activity on those dirty forums. Holly can't laugh right now, she's got delicate beam-balancing to do.
* Dom's now talking directly to the little meeple and being outraged when they don't respond. Everyone points out that Dom may have had more success if he'd bred the workforce with hands.
* Laurie's less set on winning and more on 'staying in the game for one more round'.
* Holly: "I've still got my three things - you could all die and I could win".
* Tiny, off-camera Teri spot. Hi Teri!
* We've accidentally built an elaborate seesaw, that appears to be pivoted on the still-living bodies of the workmen.
* Turns out the workers may actually be Dom's sons. They're all his least favourite now Nigel is gone.
* We've tragically lost more beams. Sullivan: "We didn't make this happen, Dom - you did".
* Laurie is an imagineer, not an engineer - it's not his problem if the structure stays up, to be fair: "it's very whimsical, Laurie - but you've got no structural sense".
* Singalonga NRB: "Can we fix it?"
* OH it's getting worse, the bricks are sentient. And made of flesh.
* Sullivan causes an earthquake and kills everyone. Laurie: "It's a 9.5 on the prickter scale".
* Dom: "Dennis has been trapped under the ridiculous building project for 3 days. He's running out of food. He's eaten all of the flesh bricks." Unfortunately, the rescue team is itself guilty of multiple safety violations, including the loss of bricks. Dennis is now a load-bearing corpse.
* Game 2 and we have our crane - stuck right in the middle of the new building. We're beginning to suspect we're not that good at this building stuff.
* Dom's stray sleeve destroys the workers, and we've gone.
* Holly finally loses her perfect safety record.
* Laurie's rethinking his drug choices.
* Oh, fridge magnets! That's a new one. As we know, none of our cast likes to swear.
* Dom sings a helpful concentration song.
* The beams are paying the price again.
* Everyone thinks Holly's getting the best options now. She may have hexed the deck. As always. Nobody gives her any credit for *not* putting one of the many game pieces anywhere near her mouth, though.
* Dom's wielding the tidy-up hook like a deadly weapon and everyone's completely lost the plot. Could be breakfast, could be the bright colours, could be who the hell knows.
* Sullivan and Dom are bickering about who is the biggest murderer.
* Dom's talking isn't exactly helping Laurie concentrate. Laurie looks like he may actually explode. Or cry. Or strangle Dom. And we've gone.
* Ah, the best Laurie of all. Laurie angry about a ridiculously low stakes issue: "WE DON'T KNOW, WE DIDN'T GOOGLE IT! WE WERE TOO BUSY TRYING TO PUT A BRICK ON A MAN! TRYING TO PUT A BRICK ON A MAN AND YOU'RE JUST WHISPERING NONSENSE! NONSENSE! I AT LEAST HAD A SAFETY CERTIFICATE, DOM!"

## Talking heads

Talking heads are available for this episode.

* 0:04:10 - Sullivan assures us that Dominic Allen is actually Stalin
* 0:08:10 - Holly's not holding out much hope for a good game
* 0:13:45 - This isn't how buildings are built, Dom knows that
* 0:18:54 - Sullivan was brutally injured by a piece of paper
* 0:21:15 - Laurie has a terrible disease
* 0:23:34 - Dom's insipiring the workers
* 0:27:35 - Laurie thinks Dom's organising the labour union
* 0:34:25 - Holly breaks stuff a lot, including her own bones
* 0:38:47 - Dom introduces the team
* 0:43:19 - Dom's quietly confident about the workers' capabilities
* 0:49:17 - Laurie's not an engineer, he's too smart for that
* 0:53:33 - Sullivan has caused an earthquake
* 1:00:14 - Sullivan does a great Holly Musgrave
* 1:09:50 - Holly only cares about safety
* 1:19:45 - Dom's not responsible for mass casualities - it was all their own fault
* 1:22:59 - Sullivan thinks Holly's playing on easy mode
* 1:36:48 - The winner celebrates

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Laurie.
* We end with a brief trailer for the launch of NRB x Twitch, set to begin 3 days after release of this episode.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.