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* RecycledScript: In an episode in the first series, Alan tells an anecdote about being given a chocolate bar by a nice old lady that turned out (after he'd eaten it) to be well past its use-by date, and "tasted like old ladies' cupboards". He reuses the same anecdote in a Series R episode, although given seventeen years passed between the two recordings it can be presumed he had forgotten about the first time.
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* RecycledScript: In an episode in the first series, Alan tells an anecdote about being given a chocolate bar by a nice old lady that turned out (after he'd eaten it) to be well past its use-by date, and "tasted like old ladies' cupboards". He reuses the same anecdote in a Series R episode, although given seventeen years ''seventeen years'' passed between the two recordings recordings, it can be presumed he had forgotten about the first time.
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* PromotedFanboy: Corey Taylor of Music/{{Slipknot}} might seem like an odd choice for a ''QI'' panelist, but he's a longtime fan and fit in well during his appearance.
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* OrphanedReference: Series U's "Upside Down" episode has a RunningGag of Aisling Bea doing different poses that would make for good reaction Gifs to use online. As revealed on [[https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1744040645440803219 Twitter by the QI team]], this started as a joke before that episode's recording session, where Sandi noted that Aisling Bea starred in the most used QI Gif (with Alan and Sandi gif's in the top 5). Alan does briefly mention this list later on in the filmed episode, which might go past viewers' heads without knowing the above information, and one of the final shots of the panel is Aisling surrounded by short gifs that are highlights of the episode.
* PromotedFanboy: Corey Taylor of Music/{{Slipknot}} might seem like an odd choice for a ''QI''panelist, panellist, but he's a longtime fan and fit in well during his appearance.
* PromotedFanboy: Corey Taylor of Music/{{Slipknot}} might seem like an odd choice for a ''QI''
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* MissingEpisode: The episode "Idleness" was in limbo because the week before its broadcast panellist Jeremy Clarkson made controversial comments on ''The One Show'' about strikers that led to over 30,000 complaints, leading the BBC to postpone it. It was, however, accidentally uploaded to the iPlayer after it should have gone out, and somebody managed to get it on Website/YouTube before the BBC realised their mistake. It ultimately aired in May 2012, one week after the Shakespeare special.
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** The episode "Idleness" was in limbo because the week before its broadcast panellist Jeremy Clarkson made controversial comments on ''The One Show'' about strikers that led to over 30,000 complaints, leading the BBC to postpone it. It was, however, accidentally uploaded to the iPlayer after it should have gone out, and somebody managed to get it on Website/YouTube before the BBC realised their mistake. It ultimately aired in May 2012, one week after the Shakespearespecial.special.
** "Occult" is the only episode missing from BBC [=iPlayer=], a casualty of a cull of all shows Russell Brand appeared in after his sexual abuses officially came to light.
** The episode "Idleness" was in limbo because the week before its broadcast panellist Jeremy Clarkson made controversial comments on ''The One Show'' about strikers that led to over 30,000 complaints, leading the BBC to postpone it. It was, however, accidentally uploaded to the iPlayer after it should have gone out, and somebody managed to get it on Website/YouTube before the BBC realised their mistake. It ultimately aired in May 2012, one week after the Shakespeare
** "Occult" is the only episode missing from BBC [=iPlayer=], a casualty of a cull of all shows Russell Brand appeared in after his sexual abuses officially came to light.
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* AccentDepundent: One episode has Creator/StephenFry jokily responding to Rich Hall talking about his aunt with "I didn't know you had an ant." Since in most dialects of British English "aunt" is pronounced to rhyme with "aren't" (in a few dialects of American English, "aunt" is pronounced as "ahnt" too), that particular pronunciation sounds much closer to "ant" than anything else, even if they're pronounced slightly differently.
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* AccentDepundent: One episode has Creator/StephenFry jokily responding to Rich Hall talking about his aunt with "I didn't know you had an ant." Since in most dialects of British English people in Southern England pronounce "aunt" is pronounced to rhyme with "aren't" as "ahnt" (in a few dialects of American English, "aunt" is pronounced as "ahnt" too), that particular pronunciation sounds much closer to Southern English ears more like to "ant" than anything else, even if they're pronounced slightly differently.else.
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** The show claims that the Hundred Years' War started when Eleanor of Aquitaine left Louis VII of France and married Henry II of England. Rather odd, given that the Hundred Years' War happened more than two centuries after Louis and Eleanor divorced, and was declared by the ''English'' monarch, Edward III, due to his maternal claim to the throne. And no, it had nothing to do with Eleanor and Henry - he was the only living male descendent of his maternal grandfather, Philip IV of France.
*** That said, there is enough evidence to suggest that Edward III only claimed the French Throne as a bluff so that he could be "negotiated" down to an expanded Aquitaine free from French suzerainty[[labelnote:*]]Which is exactly what happened in the Treaty of Bretigny of 1360[[/labelnote]]. So it could be said the Hundred Years' War had its roots in the marriage of Henry and Eleanor, but to say it started then requires a long term view of cause and effect.
*** That said, there is enough evidence to suggest that Edward III only claimed the French Throne as a bluff so that he could be "negotiated" down to an expanded Aquitaine free from French suzerainty[[labelnote:*]]Which is exactly what happened in the Treaty of Bretigny of 1360[[/labelnote]]. So it could be said the Hundred Years' War had its roots in the marriage of Henry and Eleanor, but to say it started then requires a long term view of cause and effect.
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** The show claims that the Hundred Years' War started when Eleanor of Aquitaine left Louis VII of France and married Henry II of England. Rather odd, given that the Hundred Years' War happened more than two centuries after Louis and Eleanor divorced, and was declared by the ''English'' monarch, Edward III, due to his maternal claim to the throne. And no, it had nothing to do with Eleanor and Henry - he was the only living male descendent of his maternal grandfather, Philip IV of France. \n*** That said, there is enough evidence to suggest that Edward III only claimed the French Throne as a bluff so that he could be "negotiated" down to an expanded Aquitaine free from French suzerainty[[labelnote:*]]Which is exactly what happened in the Treaty of Bretigny of 1360[[/labelnote]]. So it could be said the Hundred Years' War had its roots in the marriage of Henry and Eleanor, but to say it started then requires a long term view of cause and effect. Although this is at best AccidentallyCorrectWriting since Stephen mentions none of this and implies the conflict began directly as a result of Henry and Eleanor's marriage.
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** After BBC America got the rights almost all the episodes on Website/YouTube have been taken down. It's not all bad news though. Series R onward remains mostly available on [=YouTube=] and almost everything up to and including Series N can be found on Dailymotion.
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** After BBC America got the rights almost all the episodes on Website/YouTube have been taken down. It's not all bad news though. Series R onward remains mostly available on [=YouTube=] and almost everything up to and including Series N can be found on Dailymotion. With some exceptions, the latter collection largely consists of XL versions of the episodes.
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** After BBC America got the rights almost all the episodes on Website/YouTube have been taken down. It's not all bad news though. Series R onward remains mostly available on [=YouTube=] and almost everything up to and including Series N can be found on Dailymotion.
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** The show claims that the Hundred Years' War started when Eleanor of Aquitaine left Louis VII of France and married Henry II of England. Rather odd, given that the Hundred Years' War happened more than two centuries after Louis and Eleanor divorced, and was declared by the ''English'' monarch, Edward III, due to his maternal claim to the throne. And no, it had nothing to do with Eleanor and Henry- he was the only living male descendent of his maternal grandfather, Philip IV of France.
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** The show claims that the Hundred Years' War started when Eleanor of Aquitaine left Louis VII of France and married Henry II of England. Rather odd, given that the Hundred Years' War happened more than two centuries after Louis and Eleanor divorced, and was declared by the ''English'' monarch, Edward III, due to his maternal claim to the throne. And no, it had nothing to do with Eleanor and Henry- Henry - he was the only living male descendent of his maternal grandfather, Philip IV of France. France.
*** That said, there is enough evidence to suggest that Edward III only claimed the French Throne as a bluff so that he could be "negotiated" down to an expanded Aquitaine free from French suzerainty[[labelnote:*]]Which is exactly what happened in the Treaty of Bretigny of 1360[[/labelnote]]. So it could be said the Hundred Years' War had its roots in the marriage of Henry and Eleanor, but to say it started then requires a long term view of cause and effect.
*** That said, there is enough evidence to suggest that Edward III only claimed the French Throne as a bluff so that he could be "negotiated" down to an expanded Aquitaine free from French suzerainty[[labelnote:*]]Which is exactly what happened in the Treaty of Bretigny of 1360[[/labelnote]]. So it could be said the Hundred Years' War had its roots in the marriage of Henry and Eleanor, but to say it started then requires a long term view of cause and effect.
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** Cruithne is identified as a terran satellite, which even at the time astronomers did not believe it to be, but a "quasi-satellite," a solar body with a close orbit, but distant enough to only weakly feel our gravity. It's also mispronounced, and corrected on-air to a slightly better mispronunciation. The series has re-addressed the question of how many moons the Earth has no less than four times, and if anything their answer has gotten more wrong each time:\\\
Two moons: the other is Cruithne. It's actually an asteroid that orbits the Sun, but occasionally crosses Earth's orbital path.\\\
Five moons: The Moon, Cruithne, plus three more: 2000PH5, 2000WN10, and 2002AA29. Again, these are asteroids that have a similar orbit with the Earth around the Sun.\\\
18,000 moons. The above mentioned plus thousands of extra asteroids. Such objects may occasionally fall into Earth's gravity for a short time before escaping. In particular was mentioned RH-120, which again orbits the Sun but occasionally makes close approaches to the Earth.\\\
There are no moons. The Earth and the Moon are both planets, and form a binary system. This one is not as obviously wrong as the others, but nevertheless is a minority and eccentric scientific opinion.\\\
Despite claiming to be acting "on the latest info from the scientific community," none of the above mentioned objects were ever considered to be permanent satellites of the Earth, much less moons. On the other hand, Stephen does admit they're claiming these things "just to confuse you."
Two moons: the other is Cruithne. It's actually an asteroid that orbits the Sun, but occasionally crosses Earth's orbital path.\\\
Five moons: The Moon, Cruithne, plus three more: 2000PH5, 2000WN10, and 2002AA29. Again, these are asteroids that have a similar orbit with the Earth around the Sun.\\\
18,000 moons. The above mentioned plus thousands of extra asteroids. Such objects may occasionally fall into Earth's gravity for a short time before escaping. In particular was mentioned RH-120, which again orbits the Sun but occasionally makes close approaches to the Earth.\\\
There are no moons. The Earth and the Moon are both planets, and form a binary system. This one is not as obviously wrong as the others, but nevertheless is a minority and eccentric scientific opinion.\\\
Despite claiming to be acting "on the latest info from the scientific community," none of the above mentioned objects were ever considered to be permanent satellites of the Earth, much less moons. On the other hand, Stephen does admit they're claiming these things "just to confuse you."
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** As Rich said, "a lot of it's lies," especially by going too far in the opposite direction of "common knowledge." It can also be a toss-up whether they expose an urban legend as a fraud or simply repeat it verbatim. Sometimes they later correct themselves on-show (often by [[ComedicSociopathy forfeiting a previously-correct answer]]), and sometimes they leave it for the DVD or not at all. For instance:
** Cruithne is identified as a terran satellite, which even at the time astronomers did not believe it to be, but a "quasi-satellite," a solar body with a close orbit, but distant enough to only weakly feel our gravity. It's also mispronounced, and corrected on-air to a slightly better mispronunciation. The series has re-addressed the question of how many moons the Earth has no less than four times, and if anything their answer has gotten more wrong each time:\\\
Two moons: the other is Cruithne. It's actually an asteroid that orbits the Sun, but occasionally crosses Earth's orbital path.\\\
Five moons: The Moon, Cruithne, plus three more: 2000PH5, 2000WN10, and 2002AA29. Again, these are asteroids that have a similar orbit with the Earth around the Sun.\\\
18,000 moons. The above mentioned plus thousands of extra asteroids. Such objects may occasionally fall into Earth's gravity for a short time before escaping. In particular was mentioned RH-120, which again orbits the Sun but occasionally makes close approaches to the Earth.\\\
There are no moons. The Earth and the Moon are both planets, and form a binary system. This one is not as obviously wrong as the others, but nevertheless is a minority and eccentric scientific opinion.\\\
Despite claiming to be acting "on the latest info from the scientific community," none of the above mentioned objects were ever considered to be permanent satellites of the Earth, much less moons. On the other hand, Stephen does admit they're claiming these things "just to confuse you."
** [[SedgwickSpeech Sedgwick]] is wrongly said to have died mid-word.
** Alan is told there's no Welsh word for blue. There is, and it corresponds exactly, unlike such words in many languages.
** Stephen at one point "corrects" Jimmy Carr (in a rather patronising manner) for saying that marsupials are mammals, which they absolutely are.
** Pretty much everything that Stephen says about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras Mithras]] in ''December'' is completely wrong.
** Stephen, describing three-strike laws, implies that the California law he describes applies across the US, and says a crime constitutes the third strike "no matter how trivial," even though, trivial as these crimes often seem, it must be a felony. (In fairness, there is another law that makes any theft by a convicted thief a felony, so some people have been sentenced to 25-to-life for what would be a petty theft (less than a year) anywhere else.)
** The show at one point addresses a letter calling them out for spreading an urban legend about the Flowerpot Men.
** Stephen says of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon [[CrowdSong iiis]], that there are no straight lines. He corrects this in a later episode; while curving pillars to make them look straight from certain vantage points is seen in some ancient buildings, the Parthenon is ''not'' one of them. (See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis entasis]])
** Discussed in "Jingle Bells" when Stephen claims the twelve days of Christmas end on January 6th and is corrected by Danny Baker.
---> '''Phill Jupitus:''' Oh, the chatrooms will be ablaze now...
** The show claims that the Hundred Years' War started when Eleanor of Aquitaine left Louis VII of France and married Henry II of England. Rather odd, given that the Hundred Years' War happened more than two centuries after Louis and Eleanor divorced, and was declared by the ''English'' monarch, Edward III, due to his maternal claim to the throne. And no, it had nothing to do with Eleanor and Henry- he was the only living male descendent of his maternal grandfather, Philip IV of France.
** The show claims that one instance of [[HaveAGayOldTime ejaculation]] within the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' canon is ambigious as to whether said exclamation is from Holmes or Watson. However, given the actual context of the story, Holmes realizing that [[spoiler: Hugh Boone and Neville St. Clair are the same man]], it's clearly Holmes ejaculating all over the place, not Watson.
** More cases and possible cases can be found [[http://www.qi.com/qi_quibble_blog/ here]].
** Eventually, this was acknowledged in "Knowledge" when talking about the half-life of facts. In fact, the panelists were given back the number of points that would statistically be owed to them over the years. Jo Brand received 84.73 points, Jimmy Carr received 43.58, the studio audience got 23.24, while this is just Graham Linehan's first ''QI'' appearance so he receives nothing. Alan however was awarded ''737.66 points''.[[note]]And even he continues to get things wrong and ends the episode at 689.66 points.[[/note]]
* DarkHorseVictory: In Death, [[spoiler:the audience]] wins.
** As Rich said, "a lot of it's lies," especially by going too far in the opposite direction of "common knowledge." It can also be a toss-up whether they expose an urban legend as a fraud or simply repeat it verbatim. Sometimes they later correct themselves on-show (often by [[ComedicSociopathy forfeiting a previously-correct answer]]), and sometimes they leave it for the DVD or not at all. For instance:
** Cruithne is identified as a terran satellite, which even at the time astronomers did not believe it to be, but a "quasi-satellite," a solar body with a close orbit, but distant enough to only weakly feel our gravity. It's also mispronounced, and corrected on-air to a slightly better mispronunciation. The series has re-addressed the question of how many moons the Earth has no less than four times, and if anything their answer has gotten more wrong each time:\\\
Two moons: the other is Cruithne. It's actually an asteroid that orbits the Sun, but occasionally crosses Earth's orbital path.\\\
Five moons: The Moon, Cruithne, plus three more: 2000PH5, 2000WN10, and 2002AA29. Again, these are asteroids that have a similar orbit with the Earth around the Sun.\\\
18,000 moons. The above mentioned plus thousands of extra asteroids. Such objects may occasionally fall into Earth's gravity for a short time before escaping. In particular was mentioned RH-120, which again orbits the Sun but occasionally makes close approaches to the Earth.\\\
There are no moons. The Earth and the Moon are both planets, and form a binary system. This one is not as obviously wrong as the others, but nevertheless is a minority and eccentric scientific opinion.\\\
Despite claiming to be acting "on the latest info from the scientific community," none of the above mentioned objects were ever considered to be permanent satellites of the Earth, much less moons. On the other hand, Stephen does admit they're claiming these things "just to confuse you."
** [[SedgwickSpeech Sedgwick]] is wrongly said to have died mid-word.
** Alan is told there's no Welsh word for blue. There is, and it corresponds exactly, unlike such words in many languages.
** Stephen at one point "corrects" Jimmy Carr (in a rather patronising manner) for saying that marsupials are mammals, which they absolutely are.
** Pretty much everything that Stephen says about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras Mithras]] in ''December'' is completely wrong.
** Stephen, describing three-strike laws, implies that the California law he describes applies across the US, and says a crime constitutes the third strike "no matter how trivial," even though, trivial as these crimes often seem, it must be a felony. (In fairness, there is another law that makes any theft by a convicted thief a felony, so some people have been sentenced to 25-to-life for what would be a petty theft (less than a year) anywhere else.)
** The show at one point addresses a letter calling them out for spreading an urban legend about the Flowerpot Men.
** Stephen says of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon [[CrowdSong iiis]], that there are no straight lines. He corrects this in a later episode; while curving pillars to make them look straight from certain vantage points is seen in some ancient buildings, the Parthenon is ''not'' one of them. (See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis entasis]])
** Discussed in "Jingle Bells" when Stephen claims the twelve days of Christmas end on January 6th and is corrected by Danny Baker.
---> '''Phill Jupitus:''' Oh, the chatrooms will be ablaze now...
** The show claims that the Hundred Years' War started when Eleanor of Aquitaine left Louis VII of France and married Henry II of England. Rather odd, given that the Hundred Years' War happened more than two centuries after Louis and Eleanor divorced, and was declared by the ''English'' monarch, Edward III, due to his maternal claim to the throne. And no, it had nothing to do with Eleanor and Henry- he was the only living male descendent of his maternal grandfather, Philip IV of France.
** The show claims that one instance of [[HaveAGayOldTime ejaculation]] within the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' canon is ambigious as to whether said exclamation is from Holmes or Watson. However, given the actual context of the story, Holmes realizing that [[spoiler: Hugh Boone and Neville St. Clair are the same man]], it's clearly Holmes ejaculating all over the place, not Watson.
** More cases and possible cases can be found [[http://www.qi.com/qi_quibble_blog/ here]].
** Eventually, this was acknowledged in "Knowledge" when talking about the half-life of facts. In fact, the panelists were given back the number of points that would statistically be owed to them over the years. Jo Brand received 84.73 points, Jimmy Carr received 43.58, the studio audience got 23.24, while this is just Graham Linehan's first ''QI'' appearance so he receives nothing. Alan however was awarded ''737.66 points''.[[note]]And even he continues to get things wrong and ends the episode at 689.66 points.[[/note]]
* DarkHorseVictory: In Death, [[spoiler:the audience]] wins.
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* {{Corpsing}}: "Just the Job" includes a clip of Radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green going to pieces when a piece about the (very silly-sounding) oldest recording of the human voice was directly followed by an obituary.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Initially, John Lloyd's intention was to have Creator/MichaelPalin as the host, with Stephen and Alan as team captains (of the "smart" and "dumb" teams respectively). Palin declined to do it for two main reasons: he wasn't comfortable as the StraightMan, and he wanted to focus on his travel documentaries.
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** Initially, John Lloyd's intention was to have Creator/MichaelPalin as the host, with Stephen and Alan as team captains (of the "smart" and "dumb" teams respectively). Palin declined to do it for two main reasons: he wasn't comfortable as the StraightMan, and he wanted to focus on his traveldocumentaries.documentaries.
** A SpinOff called ''The QI Test'' was planned, which would have been broadcast during the daytime and featured members of the public on the panel. A non-broadcast pilot (hosted by someone other than Stephen) was recorded, but the series did not progress beyond that.
** Initially, John Lloyd's intention was to have Creator/MichaelPalin as the host, with Stephen and Alan as team captains (of the "smart" and "dumb" teams respectively). Palin declined to do it for two main reasons: he wasn't comfortable as the StraightMan, and he wanted to focus on his travel
** A SpinOff called ''The QI Test'' was planned, which would have been broadcast during the daytime and featured members of the public on the panel. A non-broadcast pilot (hosted by someone other than Stephen) was recorded, but the series did not progress beyond that.
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* AccentDepundent: One episode has Creator/StephenFry jokily responding to Rich Hall talking about his aunt with "I didn't know you had an ant." Since in most dialects of British English "aunt" is pronounced to rhyme with "aren't" (in a few dialects of American English, "aunt" is pronounced as "ahnt" too), that particular pronunciation sounds much closer to "ant" than anything else, even if they're pronounced slightly differently.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: "The Immortal Bard" exists despite its tenuous link to the letter 'I' because the BBC were planning a special season of programming based around Shakespeare, and wanted an episode of ''QI'' as part of it. Similarly, "Just the Job" was part of a series of programmes about famous inventors.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: "The Immortal Bard" exists despite its tenuous link to the letter 'I' because the BBC Creator/TheBBC were planning a special season of programming based around Shakespeare, Creator/WilliamShakespeare, and wanted an episode of ''QI'' as part of it. Similarly, "Just the Job" was part of a series of programmes about famous inventors.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Initially, John Lloyd's intention was to have Creator/MichaelPalin as the host, with Stephen and Alan as team captains. Palin declined to do it for two main reasons: he wasn't comfortable as the StraightMan, and he wanted to focus on his travel documentaries.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Initially, John Lloyd's intention was to have Creator/MichaelPalin as the host, with Stephen and Alan as team captains.captains (of the "smart" and "dumb" teams respectively). Palin declined to do it for two main reasons: he wasn't comfortable as the StraightMan, and he wanted to focus on his travel documentaries.
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* PromotedFanboy: Corey Taylor of Music/{{Slipknot}} might seem like an odd choice for a ''QI'' panelist, but he's a longtime fan and fit in well during his appearance.
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** NoExportForYou: Retroactively: After BBC America got the rights almost all the episodes on Website/YouTube have been taken down.
** [[FridayNightDeathSlot Sunday Morning Death Slot]]: Possibly, though this may not be as much of a problem since people who get BBC America would also likely own [=DVRs=]: switched from 4:30 PM Thursdays to 9:30 AM Sundays, which makes the opening "Goooooooodeveninggoodeveninggoodevening!" a little awkward.
*** They also air only once, whereas in the 4:30 slot they were repeated a few times.
** [[FridayNightDeathSlot Sunday Morning Death Slot]]: Possibly, though this may not be as much of a problem since people who get BBC America would also likely own [=DVRs=]: switched from 4:30 PM Thursdays to 9:30 AM Sundays, which makes the opening "Goooooooodeveninggoodeveninggoodevening!" a little awkward.
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* TooSoon: On 11 January 2013, an episode ending with Creator/StephenFry reading a limerick about paedophilia was criticised by viewers, especially as it was broadcast directly before a ''Newsnight'' report on Creator/JimmySavile. Creator/TheBBC Trust described the incident as "unfortunate and regrettable" and the limerick as "capable of causing offence", but ruled it was not in breach of BBC guidelines.
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* RecycledScript: In an episode in the first series, Alan tells an anecdote about being given a chocolate bar by a nice old lady that turned out (after he'd eaten it) to be well past its use-by date, and "tasted like old ladies' cupboards". He reuses the same anecdote in a Series R episode, although given seventeen years passed between the two recordings it can be presumed he had forgotten about the first time.
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* MissingEpisode: The episode "Idleness" was in limbo because the week before its broadcast panellist Jeremy Clarkson made controversial comments on ''The One Show'' about strikers that led to over 30,000 complaints. It was, however, accidentally uploaded to the iPlayer, and somebody managed to get it on Website/YouTube before the BBC realised their mistake. It ultimately aired in May 2012, one week after the Shakespeare special.
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* MissingEpisode: The episode "Idleness" was in limbo because the week before its broadcast panellist Jeremy Clarkson made controversial comments on ''The One Show'' about strikers that led to over 30,000 complaints. complaints, leading the BBC to postpone it. It was, however, accidentally uploaded to the iPlayer, iPlayer after it should have gone out, and somebody managed to get it on Website/YouTube before the BBC realised their mistake. It ultimately aired in May 2012, one week after the Shakespeare special.
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* TooSoon: On 11 January 2013, an episode ending with Creator/StephenFry reading a limerick about paedophilia was criticised by viewers, especially as it was broadcast directly before a ''Newsnight'' report on Creator/JimmySavile. Creator/TheBBC Trust described the incident as "unfortunate and regrettable" and the limerick as "capable of causing offence", but ruled it was not in breach of BBC guidelines.
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* EditedForSyndication: The BBC America episodes are 40 minutes long (regular episode + commercials) and shown three at a time.
** NoExportForYou: Retroactively: After BBC America got the rights almost all the episodes on Website/YouTube have been taken down.
** [[FridayNightDeathSlot Sunday Morning Death Slot]]: Possibly, though this may not be as much of a problem since people who get BBC America would also likely own [=DVRs=]: switched from 4:30 PM Thursdays to 9:30 AM Sundays, which makes the opening "Goooooooodeveninggoodeveninggoodevening!" a little awkward.
*** They also air only once, whereas in the 4:30 slot they were repeated a few times.
** NoExportForYou: Retroactively: After BBC America got the rights almost all the episodes on Website/YouTube have been taken down.
** [[FridayNightDeathSlot Sunday Morning Death Slot]]: Possibly, though this may not be as much of a problem since people who get BBC America would also likely own [=DVRs=]: switched from 4:30 PM Thursdays to 9:30 AM Sundays, which makes the opening "Goooooooodeveninggoodeveninggoodevening!" a little awkward.
*** They also air only once, whereas in the 4:30 slot they were repeated a few times.
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* ActorAllusion: Among others, Stephen's occasional [[Series/{{Blackadder}} "baa"-ing]], and:
-->'''Stephen''': Where might you bump into the world's biggest drip?[[labelnote:*]]i.e. someone who is weak or cowardly[[/labelnote]]\\
(''picture of Creator/HughLaurie as [[Series/JeevesAndWooster Bertie Wooster]] appears on-screen'')\\
'''Stephen''': Oi! No!
** When the topic of butlers comes up in "Jobs", the panel discusses Jeeves at length.
*** From the same episode, during a Jubious Theory about ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', Stephen mentions the non-Euclidean properties of the Cheshire Cat's smile, and then casually asks [[ShamelessSelfPromoter who voiced him in the recent Tim Burton movie]]. Alan suggests Hugh Laurie.
** Again in the "Illness" episode of series I. Naturally, this time it showed Creator/HughLaurie as [[Series/{{House}} Dr. Gregory House]], along with some of his staff.
--->'''Stephen''': Who the hell is that?
** A picture of Stephen from ''Wilde'' shows up in "Empire", much to Stephen's embarrassment.
** When Creator/DavidTennant appeared on the show and was gesturing with his pen, the other contestants asked if it was his [[Series/DoctorWho sonic screwdriver]] and made sound effects for it and [[JugglingLoadedGuns ducked out of the way whenever to was pointing in their direction.]]
** They've also brought up ''Series/JonathanCreek'' a few times;
--->'''Alan''': I look like the character, I'm not actually him.
** And of course, when Creator/DanielRadcliffe guest-starred, they made the whole episode about "Hocus-Pocus" and made quite a few references to Franchise/HarryPotter. As Daniel had apparently done some research into real-life tricks and the history thereof, the net effect was to rig the game in Radcliffe's favor.
*** Radcliffe's buzzer was a clip of someone shouting "Expelliarmus!"
*** On the other hand, he got some Potter trivia wrong; on being questioned about the rules of Quidditch, he stated that capturing the Golden Snitch automatically won the game for the catcher's team, which is not true. (Catching the Snitch ends the game, and gives the catcher's team 150 points, so the net effect is usually a win, but there is at least one canonical example of the catcher's team losing.)
*** [[ItMakesSenseInContext And then he was decapitated]], so fair's fair...
*** Also a bonus for Alan Davies, who was able to put his aforementioned "[[ThePowerOfActing experience]]" as a magician's assistant to good use.
** A ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks''-style identity parade occurred when Phill Jupitus was on the panel in the episode "Indecision".
** Whenever Jeremy Clarkson is on the programme, expect at least one reference to or question about cars and motor vehicles, if not a direct reference to ''Series/TopGear'' itself.
** In "Ice", Creator/BrianBlessed's first appearance, Sean Lock appropriates Blessed's most famous line from ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''.
** In "Immortal Bard", the Shakespeare episode, a question on Lord Byron leads to Stephen referencing a joke he once used in a monologue called 'The Letter' for Footlights Revue.
--->'''Stephen''': He had from birth a pronounced limp. L-I-M-P, pronounced 'limp'.
** In "Jingle Bells", when Stephen brings out a jingling johnny:
--->'''Phill Jupitus''': You were supposed to not bring any props from ''Film/TheHobbit'' back!
** In the 11th series episode "K-Folk", Stephen mentioned that he didn't get an invitation to Alan's wedding:
--->'''Alan''': I ''did'' invite you, but you were abroad! You were filming an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}''!
** A double example for Jeremy Clarkson and Jimmy Carr in "Kings":
--->'''Jeremy''': Red diesel for farmers, which you aren't allowed to put in your car, and I don't. ''(aside glance at audience)''\\
'''Jimmy''': Evading tax, Jeremy. It's a slippery slope.
** A ''Producer's'' Allusion took place in Season D Episode 4; when discussing the village of Didcot, Stephen commented that a Didcot is in fact, "the tiny oddly-shaped bit of card which a ticket inspector cuts out of a ticket with his clipper for no apparent reason. It is a little-known fact that the confetti at Princess Margaret's wedding was made up of thousands of didcots collected by inspectors on the Royal Train." He then commented that this was not actually a fact, but a quote from ''Literature/TheMeaningOfLiff'', co-written by QI producer David Lloyd and Creator/DouglasAdams. Lloyd slipped the "fact" on Stephen's teleprompter.
** During "Kris Kringle", a football originally smuggled into the trenches for one of the Christmas truces of World War I was presented to Stephen by a soldier named Tony Robinson. He is indeed nicknamed Baldrick, and ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' references ensued, including the requisite baaing.
** Also during "Kris Kringle", Brendan O'Carroll wore a jumper which had Santa's body but not head on it (making it look like Santa had O'Carroll's head). The Christmas Special of ''Series/MrsBrownsBoys'' (which O'Carroll is best known for, and which aired a few days before "Kris Kringle") featured the same VisualPun with Grandad and Baby Jesus.
** In "Ladies and Gentlemen", Sue Perkins gets the klaxon during a question about weight loss remedies for making an obvious joke about ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff''.
** In "Literature", they did a round based on the quiz show ''Series/OnlyConnect'', which is hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell, who was on the ''Qi'' panel that week.
** Of ''course'' there would be references to ''Franchise/StarWars'' during Creator/CarrieFisher's appearance in "No-L". Funnily enough, the cast was obviously trying very hard ''not'' to reference ''Star Wars'' for a while, until one inevitably slipped through and Jimmy Carr quipped "And how is Chewbacca these days?"
-->'''Stephen''': Where might you bump into the world's biggest drip?[[labelnote:*]]i.e. someone who is weak or cowardly[[/labelnote]]\\
(''picture of Creator/HughLaurie as [[Series/JeevesAndWooster Bertie Wooster]] appears on-screen'')\\
'''Stephen''': Oi! No!
** When the topic of butlers comes up in "Jobs", the panel discusses Jeeves at length.
*** From the same episode, during a Jubious Theory about ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', Stephen mentions the non-Euclidean properties of the Cheshire Cat's smile, and then casually asks [[ShamelessSelfPromoter who voiced him in the recent Tim Burton movie]]. Alan suggests Hugh Laurie.
** Again in the "Illness" episode of series I. Naturally, this time it showed Creator/HughLaurie as [[Series/{{House}} Dr. Gregory House]], along with some of his staff.
--->'''Stephen''': Who the hell is that?
** A picture of Stephen from ''Wilde'' shows up in "Empire", much to Stephen's embarrassment.
** When Creator/DavidTennant appeared on the show and was gesturing with his pen, the other contestants asked if it was his [[Series/DoctorWho sonic screwdriver]] and made sound effects for it and [[JugglingLoadedGuns ducked out of the way whenever to was pointing in their direction.]]
** They've also brought up ''Series/JonathanCreek'' a few times;
--->'''Alan''': I look like the character, I'm not actually him.
** And of course, when Creator/DanielRadcliffe guest-starred, they made the whole episode about "Hocus-Pocus" and made quite a few references to Franchise/HarryPotter. As Daniel had apparently done some research into real-life tricks and the history thereof, the net effect was to rig the game in Radcliffe's favor.
*** Radcliffe's buzzer was a clip of someone shouting "Expelliarmus!"
*** On the other hand, he got some Potter trivia wrong; on being questioned about the rules of Quidditch, he stated that capturing the Golden Snitch automatically won the game for the catcher's team, which is not true. (Catching the Snitch ends the game, and gives the catcher's team 150 points, so the net effect is usually a win, but there is at least one canonical example of the catcher's team losing.)
*** [[ItMakesSenseInContext And then he was decapitated]], so fair's fair...
*** Also a bonus for Alan Davies, who was able to put his aforementioned "[[ThePowerOfActing experience]]" as a magician's assistant to good use.
** A ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks''-style identity parade occurred when Phill Jupitus was on the panel in the episode "Indecision".
** Whenever Jeremy Clarkson is on the programme, expect at least one reference to or question about cars and motor vehicles, if not a direct reference to ''Series/TopGear'' itself.
** In "Ice", Creator/BrianBlessed's first appearance, Sean Lock appropriates Blessed's most famous line from ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''.
** In "Immortal Bard", the Shakespeare episode, a question on Lord Byron leads to Stephen referencing a joke he once used in a monologue called 'The Letter' for Footlights Revue.
--->'''Stephen''': He had from birth a pronounced limp. L-I-M-P, pronounced 'limp'.
** In "Jingle Bells", when Stephen brings out a jingling johnny:
--->'''Phill Jupitus''': You were supposed to not bring any props from ''Film/TheHobbit'' back!
** In the 11th series episode "K-Folk", Stephen mentioned that he didn't get an invitation to Alan's wedding:
--->'''Alan''': I ''did'' invite you, but you were abroad! You were filming an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}''!
** A double example for Jeremy Clarkson and Jimmy Carr in "Kings":
--->'''Jeremy''': Red diesel for farmers, which you aren't allowed to put in your car, and I don't. ''(aside glance at audience)''\\
'''Jimmy''': Evading tax, Jeremy. It's a slippery slope.
** A ''Producer's'' Allusion took place in Season D Episode 4; when discussing the village of Didcot, Stephen commented that a Didcot is in fact, "the tiny oddly-shaped bit of card which a ticket inspector cuts out of a ticket with his clipper for no apparent reason. It is a little-known fact that the confetti at Princess Margaret's wedding was made up of thousands of didcots collected by inspectors on the Royal Train." He then commented that this was not actually a fact, but a quote from ''Literature/TheMeaningOfLiff'', co-written by QI producer David Lloyd and Creator/DouglasAdams. Lloyd slipped the "fact" on Stephen's teleprompter.
** During "Kris Kringle", a football originally smuggled into the trenches for one of the Christmas truces of World War I was presented to Stephen by a soldier named Tony Robinson. He is indeed nicknamed Baldrick, and ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' references ensued, including the requisite baaing.
** Also during "Kris Kringle", Brendan O'Carroll wore a jumper which had Santa's body but not head on it (making it look like Santa had O'Carroll's head). The Christmas Special of ''Series/MrsBrownsBoys'' (which O'Carroll is best known for, and which aired a few days before "Kris Kringle") featured the same VisualPun with Grandad and Baby Jesus.
** In "Ladies and Gentlemen", Sue Perkins gets the klaxon during a question about weight loss remedies for making an obvious joke about ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff''.
** In "Literature", they did a round based on the quiz show ''Series/OnlyConnect'', which is hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell, who was on the ''Qi'' panel that week.
** Of ''course'' there would be references to ''Franchise/StarWars'' during Creator/CarrieFisher's appearance in "No-L". Funnily enough, the cast was obviously trying very hard ''not'' to reference ''Star Wars'' for a while, until one inevitably slipped through and Jimmy Carr quipped "And how is Chewbacca these days?"
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Initially, John Lloyd's intention was to have Creator/MichaelPalin as the host, with Stephen and Alan as team captains. Palin declined to do it for two main reasons: he wasn't comfortable as the straight man, and he wanted to focus on his travel documentaries.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Initially, John Lloyd's intention was to have Creator/MichaelPalin as the host, with Stephen and Alan as team captains. Palin declined to do it for two main reasons: he wasn't comfortable as the straight man, StraightMan, and he wanted to focus on his travel documentaries.
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"History" was recorded long before The Hobbit was even in production
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*** Also in "History" Stephen opens with the greeting, "Welcome, welcome and thrice welcome!", with which he welcomed the dwarves in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug''.
