Um, Actually...

Um, Actually is a geek-based game show created and hosted by College Humor employee, Mike Trapp. The game requires out-of-the-box problem solving as each round, the contestants are provided with an incorrect statement concerning “the things you know and love”, and are required to state what is incorrect for a single point.

## Gameplay

Three contestants compete in each episode, all attempting to win bragging rights and a feeling of superiority by correctly correcting incorrect statements.

There are only two rules; all of the corrections must be preceded by the phrase “Um, Actually...” and you can interrupt the statement at any time. If you don’t precede the correction with “Um, Actually...”, you lose the point and someone else can buzz in to steal the point.

The show is a classical buzzer-based gameshow, where the contestant who buzzes in first attempts the correction first. If they are incorrect, whoever buzzes in first once they are proven to be incorrect goes next. If Trapp hasn’t finished the statement but they are incorrect, he will attempt to re-start the statement in an effort to allow someone else to notice what is wrong.

## Questions

Although the gameplay never has actual questions, each round of statements is often called a “question”.

### Shiny Question

> “Shiny Questions, just like Shiny Pokémon, worth the same amount of points are basically the same, they’re just slightly different and a little rarer.” - Mike Trapp
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The initial two episodes of Um, Actually uploaded to the CollegeHumor’s YouTube Channel didn’t have any shiny Questions. When Um, Actually returned two years later in 2017, the episodes each had one Shiny Question. Since the episodes became longer and moved partially to DROPOUT in 2019 for its second season, each episode has three Shiny Questions.

Each Shiny Question is, as promised, just slightly different than the other questions, usually involving a multi-media approach as opposed to the straightforward text paragraph. Sometimes shiny questions can also be broken up into several, smaller rounds in which the oponent who gets the most correct will win the point. If it’s a tie, both contestants gain a point.

#### Final Question

There is one question concerning real life skills as the final question of each episode of Um, Actually.

## Background Props

All of the props in the background have an element that is non canonical or just wrong.

-The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Raphael sai is displayed with the blue mask, but he wears red in the Cartoon and Movies. (Yes, not in the original Eastman and Laird comics.)

-Back to the Future's shoes were Nike branded not Adidas.

-Thor's hammer does not usually have a claw end.

-Star Trek's Spock's "Live well and prosper" hand the spacing is between the middle and ring finger not is not between the pointer and middle finger.

- The olive ammo box Alien/Alien's company is Weylan-Yutani... the logo is upside down.

-Ghostbusters Ecto-one plate should actually be Ecto-1.

-Nintendo 64 joystick doesn't have two middle handles.

-Pokémon's Ash red hat has a Legend of Zelda Hyrule symbol instead of a Pokémon League Expo Logo (green L.)

-Pokéballs are spherical not PokéCubes. In the episode "Diablo, Diddy Kong, Dora Milaje", Jordan Doll is uncomfortable with "quarter-turned off-nerd paraphernalia" before pointing out the "PokéCube" which Matt corrects as being a "Catch'em Cube"

-Hulk hands are real not Hulk feet.

-Rubik's globe instead of Rubik's cube

-Settlers of Catan board is missing its desert tile which has been replaced by an extra mountain (ore) tile.

-A 21 sided dice instead of the usual Dungeon and Dragon 20 sided(D20) dice

-Game of Thrones's sign has a mix of Stark sigil, Direwolf head and the Baratheon stag's horns. Winter will come... Should be "Winter is coming"

-The Doctor's Tardis(Police Box) in Doctor Who is Blue not Red.

-Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 is usually a flying broom not a mop. Neither does the Golden Snitch have white feather wings.

-The chess set should be tridimensional chess from Star Trek... not sideways chess? (The blue, white and black pieces are set up differently than tradition chess.)

-Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet has Gems not beads?

Halloween Episode:

-Evil Dead's Necronomicon doesn't normally have a mustache

-Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Kruger's glove has razor knives not spoons.

-Hellraiser's Cenobites' Puzzlebox is wrong??

-Jason's mask decoration isn't correct.

- The ouija board uses QWERTY keyboard layout, rather than the standard A-Z across two rows.

Holiday Episode:

-The dreidel has six sides instead of the usual four sided dreidel.

-The Menorah has 11 candles instead of 9. (There are 8 nights of Hanukkah)

Valentine's Day version:

-A red club of candy is displayed instead of a heart.

-Some general grammar mistakes are on the Valentine's Heart candies. Like "Be my Sweaty(Sweety)" "Your (You're) Cute" "Love you to(too)"

Special Cinematic Episode:

-Black flamingos instead of Pink flamingos

-Wilson the volleyball was not a basketball.

-The Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane is decorated with the n.me Rosebush

Simpsons Episode

-Buff beer should be Duff Beer.

-The radioactive mutant fish should have three eyes.

-The Bart graffiti says "LA BARTA" is the feminine version of the actual masculine graffiti "EL BARTO"

-Albany Steamed Hams... are not a fast food brand. But what Principal Skinner calls hamburgers. (In upstate New York, but not in Utica.)

Tv episode

-The Frasier skyline logo looks like it's set in New York instead of Seattle. (Is the building next to the space needle the Empire State Building.)

-The Jell-O has a tape dispenser in it... the prank that Jim played on Dwight on The Office was his stapler suspended in Jell-O.