Talk:List of QI episodes

Detailed

This currently uses the table layout originally used in the QI article, but could be expanded to include the topics discussed. violet/riga (t) 17:30, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Good idea! It would certainly more useful than a list of guests, but what source would you suggest using? --Lox (t,c) 22:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

The QI talk forum might yield some results, but the one shown below was by me noting down the topics while watching the episode! (sad, indeed) violet/riga (t) 23:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

No, not that sad really, QI is a great program! I'll try and note down some topics for next time! --Lox (t,c) 09:27, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I've created List of episodes of QI/detailed as an easier location for writing the detailed episode summaries. violet/riga (t) 22:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

This has now been merged in. violet/riga (t) 21:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Episode 11

Broadcast dates

• 2 December 2005 (BBC Four)
• 9 December 2005 (BBC 2)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-26 points)
• Clive Anderson (0 points)
• Jo Brand (-23 points)
• Phill Jupitus (-23 points)

Theme

• Party/circus
• One answer involved squirrels – if a panellist identified it correctly they would receive 50 points, with 10 points taken away for a miscall

Topics

• Swazzle
• Phobia & fears (including coulrophobia, the fear of clowns)
• Cuckoo, the Greek for coccyx
• Greek frocks (forfeit: Demis Roussos)
• Greek army kilts
• Coconut crabs
• Cheeselogs

Tangent by Clive Anderson: Woodland Trust

• Asbestos
• Hawthorne
• Cocks and cockfighting
• The unusual death of Aeschylus, killed by a falling tortoise

Tangent by Jo Brand: Croesus

• The colour of Robin Hood's tights (forfeit: green)
• Cinderella's slippers (made of squirrel fur)

Perhaps it doesn't need to be in this much detail for them all! violet/riga (t) 22:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Episode 12

Broadcast dates

• 9 December 2005 (BBC Four)
• 16 December 2005 (BBC 2)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-47 points)
• Bill Bailey (3 points)
• Dara Ó Briain (-8 points)
• Phill Jupitus (-18 points)

Theme

• One fact would be incorrect – the "doubt card" can be shown by any player when they think they have spotted it

Topics

• Mosquito attack on Amiens Prison
• The Duff-Gordons and the alleged bribing of a lifeboat crew after the sinking of the RMS Titanic
• The difference between an Able Seaman and an Ordinary Seaman
• Spontaneously combustible pistachios, walnuts and other non-botanical nuts, and how coconuts cause 150 deaths every year
• Rolls-Royce aircraft engine tested for the effects of birdstrikes with chickens fired from a cannon
• Human cannonballs
• The speed of light
• The first theory of relativity as described by Gallileo and known as Galilean invariance
• Witchcraft and the lack of evidence that a large number were burnt at the stake

Side swipe by Fry at the The Da Vinci Code

• Peter Cushing (a former resident of Whitstable), Christopher Lee; the film Witchfinder General and Vincent Price
• Balsa wood, one of the softest of woods, is not a softwood but Pine is
• Contrary to popular belief if you cut an earthworm in two is does not become two living worms, it becomes two halves of a dead worm – the confusion is due to the length of their death throw
• The debunking of the theory that Americans spent millions developing the Space pen while the Russians relied upon pencils
• Neil Armstrong and the Mr Gorski story – told as a fact but then shown to be fictional
• The triple point of water is actually 0.01 degrees centigrade – a correction from a previous episode as pointed out by viewers

Jooler 00:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Nice work Jooler! violet/riga (t) 01:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Series 2 xmas special

• Helium affect on voice - tambre not pitch (sound travels faster)

tangent Health & Safety won't allow a demo

• Santa and Emporer Penguins in common - come once a year

tangent Aristotle sex towards north strong/healthy babies

• smoking life expectancy (-5 years) - cutting off testicles adds 13 years
• barbers did castrations too (was illegal, explained as accident) - moresco (castrato) singing
• animals present at birth of Jesus (there were none!)
• the magi (there were not necessarily 3 of them, nor wise nor even male etc)

tangent Fry's interview with the president of Uganda (and David Frost!)

• Herod's wife (Doris)

tangent Fry's grandfather on Pythagoras

• number of heads did Jesus' grandmother have (7 - during the middle ages, her head was on display in seven churches)
• how can you die and come back to life in 3 days? (water bears can)

tangent what special powers would panellist have?

• "where's like, the coolest place in the universe, man?"

general ignorance - Davies and Fry change place, Davies asks the questions:

• who plays goalkeeper for Aston Villa?
• Mozart's middle name
• how many states of matter?
• which way does water drain in the northern hemisphere
• what happens when penguins fly over head?
• sacred animals in India

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That only covers the first 10 minutes into it unfortunately. violet/riga (t) 01:12, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I've just added a rough outline of the rest of the topics - I'm not sure exactly what you wanted, so please feel free to remove any extra info and ask for any clarification or additional info! I'll add the points later and we can then tidy it up! --Lox (t,c) 18:31, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Just completed this one. violet/riga (t) 23:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

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Wasn't the Christmas special an extra episode in addition to the 12 of series 2, rather than the 12th? Heycos 16:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Series 1 Episode 4

Unfortunately, in Series 1 Episode 4, Stephen doesn't announce the start of General Ignorance - this must have been edited out. I've placed the divide where I think is most logical. Dooky 21:26, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Redirect?

The name of this page isn't consistent with other episode lists... I suggest "List of QI episodes" to be more consistent Heycos 23:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Seems right and reasonable. Created the redirect. Thanks for the heads up. Gengulfus 14:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

D Series

1. Danger (Sean Lock, Jimmy Carr, Jo Brand) 2. Discoveries (Vic Reeves, Clive Anderson, Arthur Smith) 3. Dogs (Jeremy Clarkson, Liza Tarbuck, Neil Mullarkey) 4. Dictionaries (Rory Bremner, Phill Jupitus, Ronnie Ancona) 5. Death (Sean Lock, Clive Anderson, Andy Parsons) 6. Drinking (Jimmy Carr, Phill Jupitus, John Sessions) 7. Differences (Julian Clary, Dara O'Briain, Jo Brand) 8. Descendants* (Jonathan Ross, Rich Hall, Phill Jupitus) 9. Doves (David Mitchell, Andy Hamilton, John Sessions) 10. Divination** (Graeme Garden, Johnny Vaughan, Phill Jupitus) 11. Deprivation (Roger McGough, Vic Reeves, Mark Steel) 12. Domesticity (Jo Brand, Jessica Stevenson, Phill Jupitus) 13. Christmas Special (Dara O'Briain, Jo Brand, Rich Hall)

• This is the Children in Need Special, cross-trailed from BBC1.
  • Unique show without Alan (who went to the Arsenal game)

Long Article

Does anybody else think this article is getting overlong? It's not even completed yet, and additionally there's the new series coming up. How about splitting it up into one article per season? Gengulfus 10:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll be splitting it by season shortly; it was all combined to aid initial construction. violet/riga (t) 18:19, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

True the article is getting long so each series needs its own article, I have added a split template to the page. --London UK (talk) 23:10, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Can we have the table back?

Hello, I'm the one that 1st added the episode list (in non table form, for series 1, to the main QI page). After that others improved it by turning it into a table, adding subsequent series and putting it on a separate page. But all this extra info is not an improvement as far as my required usage is concerned: all I want is a list of who was in each episode. Currently that info is very difficult to find amongst all the detail. I don't object to all the extra info being available, but please can the table be restored at the top of the page, as a sort of index? Maybe Wikipedia allows you to add links in the table to the relevant sections?

Wow!

thats very detailed! i like QI but man you people must love it! Think outside the box 14:11, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Certainly do! violet/riga (t) 13:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Pilot

Should the pilot episode summary come under the Series A page, this page or its own page? --Heycos 23:20, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Good question. I think that I would go for Series A myself. violet/riga (t) 10:46, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be separate. Memassivbeast (talk) 19:40, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Into this article perhaps? As it this article is a little redundant, and should probably be merged into the main QI article. Rehevkor (talk) 19:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Deletion?

I was wondering if we need this list. Seeing as all the other QI episode lists have everything that is listed in this article, it seems somewhat redudant. Therefore, I would aruge that this deserves to be deleted. I'm thinking of putting it forward for deletion unless anyone has any objections. ISD (talk) 20:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, you could. However, this is a start of page, like a 'diambiguation' that wiki have on various information. If this went, I wouldn't have able to get around the 'list of episodes'. Also, there is still alot wrong with the others. All the dates are wrong. And it's shitty narrative writing aswell. You can obviously tell its been written by more than one person, as it has different ways of expressing the written word. Some are more languistic than others and the one here is the bog standard one. Maybe we should summerise the episodes to make it 'more' notable. But i think it's alright as a direction thing. METALFREAK04 (talk) 09:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually the date on this article is correct. It is meant to show whent he programmes are broadcast, not when they are recorded. One idea could be to include a brief guide to all the episodes in this aritcle, in the form of tables. See other articles such as List of Seinfeld episodes or List of Peep Show episodes. ISD (talk) 11:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Series F start date

Radio Times claims that the QI edition shown on BBC2 on the last Friday night of September is a repeat from series C (nothing is scheduled for BBC4 either). I have therefore moved the projected start date to October. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.187.121 (talk) 09:30, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I have obtained quite reliable evidence which suggests that the show could be changing channels. Whether eventually on BBC 1 or 2, it seems that these discussions are what is delaying the start of the new series. I have amended the article accordingly with refs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.81.102.100 (talk) 12:51, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

BBC press office has now confirmed a move to BBC One in the new year (2009). Article updated accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.70.44 (talk) 15:30, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Seperating Pilot and Series A

Someone seperated the pilot and Series A into two seperate tables. Personally, I believe it is best to keep them together for the purposes of style and appearance. This has been done in some featured lists such as the List of Seinfeld episodes. ISD (talk) 08:04, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Series C

Someone's tinkered with the episode titles for series C, so far back in the history I can't find who or when, but they're definitely wrong. 'Cummingtonight'... yeah... Don't have the time to change them all myself, just an fyi PseudoNym 23:58, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

The title of that particular episode was actually "Cummingtonite", which is the name of a mineral found in a town called "Cummington". ISD (talk) 08:11, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, okay. The episode list doesn't match the list I have, but your explanation is good enough for me PseudoNym 00:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

"16 new QIs now in the can."

In case someone wants to do more of citing Twitter, here's the link: "16 new QIs now in the can", now being June 13. Shreevatsa (talk) 03:40, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

More footnotes.

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