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The Technical Difficulties' Prizes

The Technical Difficulties is a YouTube channel of four British gents with great discussion chemistry, and at the end of their shows it has become traditional to award a prize, typically a fictional convoluted pun. Other shows of theirs, also containing such silly prizes, can be found on other earlier channels such as Matt & Tom and TomScottGo. This list attempts to combine all known prizes of all known shows.

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Season 1

1x01 - Wedge a bike up 'em
Prize Setup: A hirsute set of small steps to get you over a fence, endorsed by the most successful member of One Direction
Prize Answer: Harry Styles' hairy stile
1x02 - A wet place in the south
Prize Setup: Feet warmers for when you're ill, embroidered with screenshots of short video posts and specially designed for hitting people in the crotch
Prize Answer: Toxic TikTok cock-kick sick socks
1x03 - Real commitment to the bit
Prize Setup: 3 extra points
Prize Answer: So now point at 3 things, please
1x04 - That hippo's gonna fly
Prize Setup: Chickpeas shaved by the star of Sharp and Game of Thrones
Prize Answer: Sean Bean's shorn beans

Season 2

2x01 - Tall, Dark, and gruesome
Prize Setup: A breakfast pastry invented by Jeremy Bentham to keep prisoners under control
Prize Answer: A “pain”opticon aux raisins
2x02 - Mate, I was sitting in that
Prize Setup: A fashionable vacuum-insulated crotch guard in the shape of a hockey championship trophy, endorsed by one of the founding fathers of the superhero genre
Prize Answer: A Stan Lee Stanley Cup Stanley Cup Cup
2x03 - We've run out of rods
Prize Setup: A small wheel to move a South Yorkshire city's mafia boss around after he's had too much Japanese pork and rice
Prize Answer: Doncaster Don Katsudon Caster
2x04 - Maths-adjacent Leisure
Prize Setup: A quote for a new overhanging roof made of marble, for one of the greatest-ever professional wrestlers
Prize Answer: Stone Cold Steve Austin's cold stone eaves' costin'

Season 3

3x01 - It's like a vibrating Churchill
Prize Setup: A spinal operation in a shady clinic while they play the biggest-selling boy band's greatest single
Prize Answer: The Backstreet Boys' Backstreet's Back backstreet back surgery
3x02 - Excellent Shaggy fact
Prize Setup: A ground-based telescope that only focuses on members of the Conservative Party
Prize Answer: An observe-a-Tory
3x03 - From waggle to warlock
Prize Setup: A round of applause that goes on for slightly too long
Prize Answer: (non-prizewinners proceed to do so, as episode fades to black and link cards display)
3x04 - I've got three hydrogens
Prize Setup: A personal driver for an attractive French chef who loves hot cauliflower
Prize Answer: C'est un chauffer pour chef chaud pour chaud chou-fleur
Or: Jacques Chirac's jacked shoe rack

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Season 1

1x01 - The Big Lobster and Drive-through Booze
Prize Setup: a DVD of the film where the singer of Purple Rain trades places with a peasant who looks just like him
Prize Answer: The Artist Formerly Known As Prince and the Pauper
1x02 - The Newgate Novel and Condiments on Toast
Prize Setup: some shares in the company owned by the star of the Big Lebowski that enables passengers to board airlines safely
Prize Answer: Jeff Bridges' Jet Bridges (Gary: “the dude aboards”)
1x03 - Stefania Follini and a Moon Theremin
Prize Setup: a trip to the edge of the atmosphere with the host of the 90s game show Small Talk
Prize Answer: Ronnie Corbett Low Earth Orbit
1x04 - Simplehuman and Russian Toilette
Prize Setup: a gift voucher to everyone's favourite Communist high street shop
Prize Answer: Marx & Spencer
1x05 - Bossche Bol and Nun's Puffs
Prize Setup: a copy of the game where you have to get executives of a disgraced bank to jump thru pipes and defeat Bowser
Prize Answer: Super Lehman Brothers
1x06 - Neckarwestheim and the End of the World
Prize Setup: a piece of classical music using using old military ordnance
Prize Answer: Pachelbel's “Cannon in D”
1x07 - The Counts of Andechs and Motorway Service Stations
Prize Setup: two hours racing around the coast, desperately trying to collect clams with a famous ballerina
Prize Answer: Darcy Bussell's Mussel Hustle
1x08 - The Flag of Mars and Rods from God
Prize Setup: a holiday to a French resort with Sulu from Star Trek and the director of Transformers
Prize Answer: George Takei's and Michael Bay's week away in Saint-Tropez (Gary: “Oh my.”)
1x09 - The Arctic Winter Games and Dropping the Bomb
Prize Setup: the freedom of the city
Prize Answer: no, sorry, the free dom of the city

Season 2

2x01 - Thomas Trueblood and the Ridiculous Marathon
Prize Setup: a miniature library to be inserted rectally from which you can shoot the president of the united states
Prize Answer: Texas Book Suppository
2x02 - The Coffin Ray and Hugging a Penguin
Prize Setup: a replica of the singer of Livin' On a Prayer made of small chocolate sweet candies
Prize Answer: Bonbon Jovi
2x03 - The Centennial Light and Edison the Cheat
Prize Setup: a sandwich grill which emblazons collectible stickers of footballers into your head
Prize Answer: a panini sticker press
2x04 - A Message from Earth and Flappy Gloves
Prize Setup: A year's supply of AA batteries, courtesy of He-man's new company
Prize Answer: The power of Grayskull
2x05 - The Flitch of Bacon and a Goose on a Train
Prize Setup: Gift certificate for the shop owned by a Treasure Hunt skyrunner which sells small rodents, pests that live in hair, and adult magazines
Prize Answer: Mice, Lice, and Vice by Anneka Rice
2x06 - Lisa Clayton and Cake Black Holes
Prize Setup: a British Prime Minister's feeding trough that tells kids to be wary of people they don't know
Prize Answer: John Major's Stranger Danger Manger
2x07 - The Swarm and the Giant Jam Sandwich
Prize Setup: Updoc
Prize Answer: (Matt: What's… up.. doc >_<) Not much, what's up with you?

Season 3

3x01 - The SS Bessemer and Ask Heaves
Prize Setup: rum and lime-flavoured Mexican food cooked by the star of Taxi and Matilda
Prize Answer: a Danny DeVito mojito burrito
3x02 - The Boobrie and Conservative Pandas
Prize Setup: leafy green vegetables from one of the fathers of computing
Prize Answer: babbage's cabbages
3x03 - Sergeant Reckless and Terry Google
Prize Setup: a pigeon
Prize Answer: you'll have to collect it from Trafalgar Square
3x04 - Sidney Weltmer and the Queen's Package
Prize Setup: tiny deep friend mashed potato balls presented by an American folk hero every day for a week
Prize Answer: Davy Crockett's dainty croquettes daily
3x05 - Jimmy Carter's Rabbit and Tinfoil Hats
Prize Setup: permission to dress up as a famous frog and go hide in a cave
Prize Answer: a hermit Kermit permit

Season 4

4x01 - Graham Island and Ye Starbucks
Prize Setup: a patch of Somerset marshland that's been filled with oily fish, that was previously owned by a documentary filmmaker and a white rapper
Prize Answer: Michael Moore and Macklemore's mackerel moor
4x02 - Project Cybersyn and Military Fridges
Prize Setup: a restaurant that cookies lingerie over a box of hot coals, previously owned by a famous civil engineer
Prize Answer: Brunel's Brassieres and Braziers Brasserie
4x03 - Cello Scrotum and Radium Water
Prize Setup: a subscription to the Badger of the Month club
Prize Answer: do try to be in when thy deliver them though; they do get a bit angry when you leave them with the neighbors
4x04 - Shanghai Fugu and Mucky Fat
Prize Setup: a confederate general made out of interlocking stones without any mortar
Prize Answer: a dry stonewall jackson
4x05 - Victor Lustig and Binary Points
Prize Setup: a Formula One champion's steel water boiler
Prize Answer: Sebastian Vettel's metal kettle

Season 5

5x01 - The Hydraulic Telegraph and Latin Grease
Prize Setup: an intimate waxing by a legendary six-time grammy-winning american composer
Prize Answer: Burt Bacharach Back Crack & Sack
5x02 - Thomas Midgley Jr and a Pope Infestation
Prize Setup: A hellbound Ford Transit previously owned by a Belgian action star that's had a genetic copy made of its mandible
Prize Answer: Jean Claude van Damme's damned clone-jawed van
5x03 - BackpackersXpress and the Disco Carriage
Prize Setup: (prefaced as being French) Chocolate icing in the shape of a cow
Prize Answer: la vache ganache
5x04 - Camp Bonifas and Yorkshire Scouting
Prize Setup: a circular muscle with the head of a man and the body of a lion
Prize Answer: the sphinxster
5x05 - Camille Flammarion and a Spiritualist Story
Prize Setup: a highly expensive summary of the life of an American horror actor
Prize Answer: Vincent Price's very pricey précis
Live Pt.1 - Ruth Belville and Time Balls
Prize Setup: a gambling den for nocturnal birds of prey, run by the star of the Godfather in back of a '59 Chevy
Prize Answer: Al Pacino's El Camino Owl Casino
Live Pt.2 - The Ice Block Expedition and Chainsaw Licenses
Prize Setup: a tour around a giant underground laboratory designed to accelerate flatulence close to the speed of light
Prize Answer: a farticle accelerator
Live Pt.3 (Encore) - Classic Trivia Question Cards
Prize Setup: an enclosure in which underwear is forbidden, run by the star of Face/Off
Prize Answer: Nicholas Cage's knickerless cage

Season 6

6x01 - Jack Churchill and a Live Studio Audience
Prize Setup: two words mixed together by the actor who played Padme in the Star Wars prequels
Prize Answer: A Natalie Portmaneau
6x02 - The $100 Hamburger and Tach Time
Prize Setup: A visit to a late-night electrically-boosted bathing spray run by a member of boy band Another Level
Prize Answer: Dane Bowers After-Hours Power Showers
6x03 - Stephens Island Wren and the Cobra Effect
Prize Setup: a stuffed toy inspired by the villain from the nightmare on elm street
Prize Answer: Teddy Kreuger
6x04 - Julie D'Aubigny and Dueling Scars
Prize Setup: A Greek philosopher's Mexican salamander speed control
Prize Answer: An Aristotle axolotl throttle
6x05 - Acoustic Kitty and Bat Bombs
Prize Setup: Some rice, raw fish, and seaweed in the shape of a luxury car
Prize Answer: A sushi rolls Royce
6x06 - Benjamin Rush and Inventing the Bucket
Prize Setup: an express trip to see the buttocks cleavage of one of 'Tenacious D'
Prize Answer: Jack Black's fast track ass crack

Season 7

7x01 - Charles Blondin and the Stolen Point
Prize Setup: A small fast bird that makes clothing for other small fast birds
Prize Answer: Tailor Swift
7x02 - The Sark Football Team and Hovercraft Enthusiasm
Prize Setup: a bright orange thing for a large mustelid to bounce on in isolation
Prize Answer: a tangerine wolverine quarantine trampoline
7x03 - Turra Coo and Four-Legged Juggling
Prize Setup: a tool for combing through ponds to find male ducks, signed by a Canadian rapper
Prize Answer: Drake Lake Drake Rake
Followup: Sorry, the signature is a forgery, so it's a Fake Drake Lake Drake Rake
7x04 - The Flip Flap Railroad and Marshmallow Bearings
Prize Setup: a brand new armoured fighting vehicle that is actually an old fighting vehicle rebooted to look modern
Prize Answer: JJ Abrams tank
7x05 - John Stonehouse and Dropped Trousers
Prize Setup: breakfast food prepared by the star of Sherlock
Prize Answer: Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch
7x06 - Atomic Annie and Blue Peacock
Prize Setup: a rope that keeps out vultures, owned by the star of Gavin and Stacey and the Late, Late Show
Prize Answer: James Corden's condor cordon

Season 8

8x01 - The Battle of Fishguard and “Brandy”
Prize Setup: A device to help cool the lower jaws of South American rodents
Prize Answer: A chinchilla chin chiller
8x02 - The Norwegian Butter Crisis and the Ark of Taste
Prize Setup: A chocolate bar shaped like a cartoon frog that is also the lead singer of a Queen tribute act
Prize Answer: Freddo Mercury
8x03 - Juan Pujol Garcia and Thirtynineitude
Prize Setup: a trip to an all-you-can-eat garlic restaurant
Prize Answer: buffet the vampire slayer
8x04 - Hail Cannons and Operation Popeye
Prize Setup: a vertical purple lead arse
Prize Answer: a plumb plum plumbum bum
8x05 - The Crazy Eights Incident and the Pumpy Thing
Prize Setup: a shirt that exposes your midriff sponsored by a series of korean boy bands
Prize Answer: K-pop crop top
8x06 - The Sweater Curse and Clothing Controversies
Prize Setup: a DVD of the little known crossover between a marsupial from Australia and a time lord from Gallifrey
Prize Answer: Skippy the bush Dr Who

One of These People Is Lying


Season 1

1x01 - “Better than a lump of coal”
Prize Setup: none
Prize Answer: none
1x02 - “Distracted by Matt's moaning”
Prize Setup: none
Prize Answer: none
1x03 - “Yer man gets more hungry”
Prize Setup: none
Prize Answer: none
1x04 - “I can smell the truth”
Prize Setup: none
Prize Answer: none
1x05 - The weird rules and regulations episode
Prize Setup: none
Prize Answer: none

Two of These People Are Lying


Season 1

1x01 - Meatballs, Noseflutes and Judith
Prize Setup: none
Prize Answer: none (had no laptop this game to read it from)
1x02 - Parading Around The Parish
Prize Setup: none
Prize Answer: none

Season 2

2x01 - Thin Necks and Terrifying Tractors
Prize Setup:
Prize Answer:
2x02 - Not Even A Real Abbot
Prize Setup:
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2x03 - The Sweaty Column
Prize Setup:
Prize Answer:
2x04 - Matt's Scaly Kettle
Prize Setup:
Prize Answer:

Season 3

3x01 - Sir Tony of Hawksville
Prize Setup:
Prize Answer:
3x02 - Suspicious Saints
Prize Setup:
Prize Answer:
3x03 - “Down A Bit From Tromsø”
Prize Setup:
Prize Answer:

Season 4

4x01? - “Two Of These People Are Lying” Christmas Special
Prize Setup:
Prize Answer:
4x02 - Beards, Beasts and Blagging
Prize Setup:
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