Let's Play SAY ANYTHING II

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

"*I'm down for that - I'm down for a bit of silly boy time.*"
―TomSka
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "nothing is true, everything is permitted".
* Who will be the *best judge of character*? Who will be a *hollow vessel full of sound and fury, signifying nothing*?
* Our hellos are cutting: Adam referring to TomSka as a "famous YouTuber" but to Dan as a "famous YouTuber's friend," as well as Sullivan as an "up-and-coming YouTuber," and Brooke as an "up-and-coming YouTuber's girlfriend," and finally, Laurie. Laurie's not on YouTube. Adam's making friends and banking points early.
* All hail the Tower of Destiny! but it lets us down - there are no dice. Scandalous. We are briefly thrown and choose our own numbers.
* The wrestling is leaking again. Thanks, James.
* Brooke: "This is a little bit out of left field." Adam: "You do fucking surprise me, Brooke Bourgeois". She's not wrong though - gloriously, wonderfully mad, but not wrong. Sullivan's a bit spluttery again.
* Brooke's explanations consistently make things worse. And Adam's in a little bit of actual pain from laughing.
* Tiny off camera Teri spot! Hi Teri!
* Dan's never seen any movies. Brooke's only ever seen mermaid movies, as we all know. And apparently not *Splash*.
* Dan: "There's one where someone talks to Valerie from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but she's a mermaid ... it may have been Sabr... I may have dreamt it." Thanks, James.
* Mrs Potts and her son - shudder. But Jared Leto does plumb the depths.
* OK, there's layers here: Sullivan loves horses, as we know - and we explain the bit to Tomska. But as *we* know and the YouTube comments point out - TomSka was the one that started all this, in *Let's Play WAVELENGTH IIII*. Sullivan gets a lot of tweets about it, Adam would like him to have more.
* It's *Let's All Pick on Dan* Day!
* TomSka: "I tried whittling yesterday, that's a hobby I've attempted" Adam: "What did you whittle?" TomSka: "A little cock". Apparently it was a very detailed little penis. As was the conversation about the logistics of the modelling.
* Sullivan is claiming now that Brooke has fallen into a toilet 9 times. So there are two possibilities before us: (a) Since this was first discussed in *Let's Play AVALON* in July 2021, Brooke has fallen into 2 additional toilets or (b) Sullivan and Brooke got the number of toilets wrong either then or now. I know which I'm voting for.
* Political satire, eh? Eh? Eh?
* Wonder twin powers activate! And the return of my personal favourite ever NRB thing... Too Sweet. Hoorah!
* Gaming the system. Sometimes we forget we're playing a board game, for points.
* We need to document the poo stuff, I suppose.
* Ah, the many faces of modern masculinity. Modern cis-normative Millenial masculinity at least. With dick jokes.
* Laurie: "I've written 'bums' - is that funny?"
* Laurie on Adam's future: "I've written an essay - I had a lot of feelings about this." We're dancing again. Adam: "Fuck you Laurie, you'll be the last to grow up."
* Adam is keeping tabs on who is getting the laughs. Laurie and Dan are now the funny ones, they're taking over House Rules. Sullivan responds beautifully though. And is then outshone by Brooke.
* Teri's heckling from backstage.
* TomSka: "It's just quirky Millenial shit - heckin pupper doggo. I'm sick of us. They played us like a goddamn fiddle..." Adam: "I've never seen someone shit where they eat so virulently!"
* Adam and Sullivan are boyfriends. Soulmates, even.
* How would a Roman band count each other in? We can see Brooke drawing it, in her head.
* Dan's going to flagellate in front of us all.
* Nigella Lawson says there are no guilty pleasures, but then, she's never met a paedophile. TomSka's raising the tone again. And we've gone.
* Sullivan: "You can't just say the first word that comes into your head!" STOP making Brooke explain stuff, it's so much more satisfying when we simply witness the madness rather than use logic. Dan gets it.
* Brooke: "Sweet nips, lovely penis - what a day!"
* Brooke: "I'm not actually funny." Adam: "That's not true, Brooke, you're the funniest person we know, Brooke."
* The generational wars are real and focussed on finger-signs.
* Teri snipes Sullivan's answer. Dan makes her pay for that, and all the other stuff. Brooke: "It's a toasted baguette!"
* Storytime with Brooke. Today we learn about the reptile pit. It's extraordinary. She's nostalgic. Then we go even better - strange people, swamps, alligators and missing pets. TomSka is choking: "Stop! Every fucking word that comes out of your goddamn mouth! ... I'm not ready for the next line!"
* Dan: "Brooke, did you ever think these stories were unusual, until now?"
* Brooke: "Sullivan - I love you and your penis, but no."
* TomSka: "I'm *sure* that two families with the same last name living next to a swamp aren't in any way related."
* Teri insists on a tie-break. Laurie's not keen but peer pressure wins out. It was a lucky question for Adam, but a decisive win.

## Scores

* Dan 14
* Sullivan 15
* TomSka 17
* Brooke 19
* Laurie 20
* Adam 20

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* This is our second go for Say Anything, but the first was way back in the Zoom era, in April 2021.
* This episode is the third appearance of special guest TomSka! Tom vlogged the recording of this episode and the next one in his video *Last Month Shrek Was Love*.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.
* No talking heads this episode.