QI!spam
For whatever reason, I really got into pic!spams this weekend, so I started going around, trying to find amusing and/or squeefully fangirly spams to make me happy, and turns out there is no QI picspam anywhere to be found! How can that be, people???
So I've decided to step up and do it myself! I'll just picspam random episodes, in no particular order, for no particular reason other than I freaking love this show and it deserves more love!
Starting with one of my favorite episodes of the new series so far:
Series G, episode 06: Genius
Guests: David Mitchell, Dara Ó Briain, Graham Norton
Since the theme is "genius", they all start the show with glasses, which I thought was adorable! David looks so brainy and Graham looks particularly serious in that cap, doesn't he? He's hilarious in this ep!
And of course Alan had to have the little goofy glasses.
As for buzzers, they go:
Dara: "University College Dublin, Ó Briain"
David: "Peterhouse, Cambridge, Mitchell"
Graham: "University College Cork, Norton"
Alan: "Can I have a P please, Bob?" but once Stephen reveals that Alan has an honorary doctorate, his buzzer changes to a Scottish man shouting "The doctor'll see you now!"
For their first "question", Stephen asks each one of them to stick a piece of tissue up their left nostril and say something intelligent, which I just found hilarious. No matter what they say, they would just look ridiculous. Especially Alan, since he still had the goofy glasses.
Interestingly enough, he actually tries to say something intelligent and goes with Pythagoras' theorem while the rest of them just look on.
I really love how they carry on with the quiz as if nothing's happening, and yet they all have that bloody tissue up their nose!
Stephen: You've probably heard of the study in 89 called "Unilateral Nostril Breathing Influences Lateralized Cognitive Performance", by Block, Arnott, Quigley and Lynch.
Graham: Oh, that old thing! Pfff!
I don't know why, but I found this adorable. :) ♥
Stephen: No... What have we got? What did you find?
Alan: I think I lost the end.
Stephen: OW! Oh, dear...
Alan: It will reappear, won't it?
Stephen: It will, somewhere.
David: You'll cry it out at some point. Are these going on Ebay?
Stephen: They could do. Do you wanna sign it?
David: Alright, yeah.
Dara: I think I've already left my mark.
Stephen: Consider an n-dimentional hypercube and connect each pair of vertices to obtain a complete graph on 2n vertices. Then color each of the edges of this graph using only the colors red and black. What - that is my question - what is the smallest number, the smallest value of n for which every possible such colouring must necessarily contain a single-coloured complete sub-graph of 4 vertices which lie in a plane?
Graham: Six!
Stephen: That is exactly what people used to think! That's amazing! Yeah, until 2003 most graph theorists thought the correct answer was probably 6.
Graham: I can only appologize.
I'm assuming that this is what Stephen asked, because I could hardly understand a word he said. And I love how Graham got it right without even knowing what he was talking about.
Stephen: Try and think of a really, really big number.
Alan: 17!
hahahaha! That is classic Alan Davies! AW, Alan! I love you. Don't ever change.
Stephen: You can remove your tissues, incidently.
David: I think I'll miss it now.
Graham: I'm worried about what might come out when I pull it.
Stephen: The greatest mathematical minds in the world just don't know what the answer is.
David: I don't understand the question.
Stephen: Neither do I.
Dara: I imagine they don't either, to be honest, and they're really hoping nobody checks.
It's comforting to know that I wasn't the only one who didn't get the 2n vertices or whatever question. And, to be honest, I'm quite alright with not knowing. :)
David: My problem with exams, though, is that more and more people get A's, and so whether or not that's because they're getting more intelligent or the exams are getting easier or a bit of both, it's still defying the point of the exams. The point in exams is to tell people apart, not just to go "You're all very clever, everyone can be Professor of Latin! Share the Professor of Latin salary between you... and starve!"
Aw, David! No David Mitchell appearance is complete without one of his rants. I love him! ♥
Aw! They're all so very smiley in this show, aren't they? That's really what I love the most about QI: it's always like it's just a bunch of friends hanging around and the cameras just happen to be recording it. They're all so at ease with each other and have so much fun together.
Graham: I did a game show in America a while ago and there was a contestant on it, this woman, and her sort of "interesting fact" or "fun fact" about herself was that her father had been a serial killer, right? And her other "fun fact" was she hadn't told her husband that her father was a serial killer 'til after they were married! So it's a light-hearted thing, but I'm trying to say to her now, you know, "Do you think maybe your husband would have been concerned about having children given that there's a serial killer in you, somewhere?" And she went "No, no, no, he's been through similar things, his father commited suicide". And you thought you've got a serial killer and a suicidal man and you thought that was a good gene pool to be splashing around in!?!
Stephen: You give birth to a child who kills himself lots of times.
Graham Norton and his anecdotes! :)
As they're discussing Leonardo da Vinci, they go off in another tangent when Alan notices one of the guys on the paintings behind them looks an awful lot like actor Rodney Bewes, and I have to be honest here and say that I had to look up who he was because I'd never heard of him before. But even without knowing who he is, I loved Dara saying Rodney Bewes was the Highlander and David going "Can you imagine on the news? "And today it emerged that actor Rodney Bewes has been alive for as long as time"." And how adorable was Graham, not knowing who they were talking about?
I just think it's amazing how they simply CAN'T stay in topic, no matter what their theme is.
Stephen: I have to say, the whole point about QI is that the rest of the world talks about cultural things, reality TV, and...
Alan: Rodney Bewes...
Stephen: Popstars, Rodney Bewes, and we talk about Leonardo. [to Graham] And what you've done by coming on is we started--- [turns to Alan] No, you, actually!
Graham: Me?!
Stephen: We've started talking about Leonardo and we've arrived to Rodney Bewes! That's the wrong direction!
Graham: I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE WAS! Don't blame me!
Yeah, Stephen, like that's the first time it's happened in this show! :P Poor Graham, taking the fall for Alan, though. hehehe
But if you thought that would be the end of the Rodney Bewes discussion, think again!
David: To me, Rodney Bewes looks older there than Rodney Bewes in our present time. So I think Rodney Bewes must, in the future, travel back in time to check Leonardo da Vinci's pulse, to be absolute sure he's dead, using the futuristic technology of pulse-checking. The others there are all going "What's this weird old Rodney Bewes doing?" See the one on the right, he's got his head in his hand "So embarrassing"!
Stephen: Obviously, Leonardo was a fine artist. He didn't actually make any real contribution to science at all, did he or did he?
Graham: Flying machine, or is that a forfeit?
Stephen: No, not a forfeit, but it just wouldn't have worked, his helicopter.
David: Yes, it's a drawing of a helicopter, isn't it? I mean, I did sort of drawings of spaceships when I was about 5, and I'd be embarrassed if someone said I'd invented interstellar travel.
Stephen: [looking at the picture on the monitors] WHAT THE HELL?!
Dara: I think it's supposed to be an illustration of "a child of two geniuses may not necessarily be a genius".
And of course it wouldn't be a British panel show if they didn't start discussing urine and farting at some point, now, would it? :P
But that doesn't last long and soon they're back to serious business. Hehehe just look at their faces! Who would have guessed they were discussing the smell of urine not 2 minutes ago?
[on the subject of how the first cloning was made]
Stephen: He used a rudimentary noose[sp?] to separate the cells and the embryo and the noose was made of the hair of a human baby. He used it, it's like a little lasso to separate it, isn't that marvellous?
David: That is fiddly work.
Stephen: It is very fiddly work!
David: There must have been lots of times he'd sort of go "GRRR! DAMN! Ok, ok, calm down... Could I please have another baby's hair in here?"
Alan: Then back to the baby... [pretends to be a baby with hair being pulled off his head]
David: All the people trying to keep him calm "Would you like anothe---", "NO, I DON'T want another coffee!"
Angry!David is adorable! ♥
Stephen: How old are you?
[silence]
HAHA! I just LOVE how scared they are of the forfeits now!
David: It just shows you the effect of this game, though. You ask a question, all four of us think "That is something I definitely know the answer to, but I've been made so uncertain and frightened, I'm not even willing to give my own name, age or address"!
Dara: How could this be a trap? How could this possibly be a trap? I am 37! [presses buzzer] 37!
[forfeit lights and alarm]
Dara: But that's not wrong!!! I actually am!
Graham: We should all do it!
David: [presses his buzzer] 34!
Stephen: 34, eh?
[forfeit lights and alarm]
Stephen: [to Graham] You don't want to do it, do you?
Graham: I'll do it! [presses buzzer] Graham Norton, 46.
[forfeit lights and alarm]
Alan: I'm not doing it.
Alan: I don't understand why golf's on television.
Stephen: I love watching golf on television!
Alan: You love watching golf?
Stephen: I'm absolutely passionate about it.
Graham: You like... but... What are you watching?
Stephen: The golf!
Graham: No, but... He hits it, and then the camera just goes "Sky, sky, sky, sky, sky, sky. It's over there, somewhere".
Why am I not surprised that Stephen likes to watch golf on television? :P
And you know what? When I was staying with my cousin who lives in London, we spent one morning watching a golf final (British Open or whatever it was) and her husband, who is English, taught me a bit of golf, the rules and everything, and you know what? It's actually a lot more interesting than I thought it was!
And then finally, my favorite bit of the episode, where David perfectly sums up what QI is all about:
Stephen: How many brains did the man with two brains have?
Alan: Two.
Stephen: Yes! That's brilliant!
David: IT'S SO CRUEL!!!
Stephen: Yes, he's wise enough to spot a double bluff.
David: It's just the technique of the bully! You hit us, and then you go "What, do you think I was gonna hit you? I won't hit you! Oh no, I'm not gonna hit you, I'll just use my hand to stroke you". And we're here being "AAAAAH! DON'T STROKE ME!"
And just because I can't get enough of David ranting:
Aw, bless him, he's the best! ♥
I also made sure not to leave out Stephen because I love his laugh.
Who else thinks it's completely ironic and amazingly awesome that, in an episode about "genius", Alan was the one who won? ♥ hehehe of course he would! :)
So the final scores were:
Graham: -19
David: -8
Dara: -7
Alan: 4
I once tried following Stephen's bizarre scoring method, but got it completely wrong. I still have no idea how they make those, apart from the usual -10 for forfeits.
So I've decided to step up and do it myself! I'll just picspam random episodes, in no particular order, for no particular reason other than I freaking love this show and it deserves more love!
Starting with one of my favorite episodes of the new series so far:
Series G, episode 06: Genius
Guests: David Mitchell, Dara Ó Briain, Graham Norton
Since the theme is "genius", they all start the show with glasses, which I thought was adorable! David looks so brainy and Graham looks particularly serious in that cap, doesn't he? He's hilarious in this ep!
And of course Alan had to have the little goofy glasses.
As for buzzers, they go:
Dara: "University College Dublin, Ó Briain"
David: "Peterhouse, Cambridge, Mitchell"
Graham: "University College Cork, Norton"
Alan: "Can I have a P please, Bob?" but once Stephen reveals that Alan has an honorary doctorate, his buzzer changes to a Scottish man shouting "The doctor'll see you now!"
For their first "question", Stephen asks each one of them to stick a piece of tissue up their left nostril and say something intelligent, which I just found hilarious. No matter what they say, they would just look ridiculous. Especially Alan, since he still had the goofy glasses.
Interestingly enough, he actually tries to say something intelligent and goes with Pythagoras' theorem while the rest of them just look on.
I really love how they carry on with the quiz as if nothing's happening, and yet they all have that bloody tissue up their nose!
Stephen: You've probably heard of the study in 89 called "Unilateral Nostril Breathing Influences Lateralized Cognitive Performance", by Block, Arnott, Quigley and Lynch.
Graham: Oh, that old thing! Pfff!
I don't know why, but I found this adorable. :) ♥
Stephen: No... What have we got? What did you find?
Alan: I think I lost the end.
Stephen: OW! Oh, dear...
Alan: It will reappear, won't it?
Stephen: It will, somewhere.
David: You'll cry it out at some point. Are these going on Ebay?
Stephen: They could do. Do you wanna sign it?
David: Alright, yeah.
Dara: I think I've already left my mark.
Stephen: Consider an n-dimentional hypercube and connect each pair of vertices to obtain a complete graph on 2n vertices. Then color each of the edges of this graph using only the colors red and black. What - that is my question - what is the smallest number, the smallest value of n for which every possible such colouring must necessarily contain a single-coloured complete sub-graph of 4 vertices which lie in a plane?
Graham: Six!
Stephen: That is exactly what people used to think! That's amazing! Yeah, until 2003 most graph theorists thought the correct answer was probably 6.
Graham: I can only appologize.
I'm assuming that this is what Stephen asked, because I could hardly understand a word he said. And I love how Graham got it right without even knowing what he was talking about.
Stephen: Try and think of a really, really big number.
Alan: 17!
hahahaha! That is classic Alan Davies! AW, Alan! I love you. Don't ever change.
Stephen: You can remove your tissues, incidently.
David: I think I'll miss it now.
Graham: I'm worried about what might come out when I pull it.
Stephen: The greatest mathematical minds in the world just don't know what the answer is.
David: I don't understand the question.
Stephen: Neither do I.
Dara: I imagine they don't either, to be honest, and they're really hoping nobody checks.
It's comforting to know that I wasn't the only one who didn't get the 2n vertices or whatever question. And, to be honest, I'm quite alright with not knowing. :)
David: My problem with exams, though, is that more and more people get A's, and so whether or not that's because they're getting more intelligent or the exams are getting easier or a bit of both, it's still defying the point of the exams. The point in exams is to tell people apart, not just to go "You're all very clever, everyone can be Professor of Latin! Share the Professor of Latin salary between you... and starve!"
Aw, David! No David Mitchell appearance is complete without one of his rants. I love him! ♥
Aw! They're all so very smiley in this show, aren't they? That's really what I love the most about QI: it's always like it's just a bunch of friends hanging around and the cameras just happen to be recording it. They're all so at ease with each other and have so much fun together.
Graham: I did a game show in America a while ago and there was a contestant on it, this woman, and her sort of "interesting fact" or "fun fact" about herself was that her father had been a serial killer, right? And her other "fun fact" was she hadn't told her husband that her father was a serial killer 'til after they were married! So it's a light-hearted thing, but I'm trying to say to her now, you know, "Do you think maybe your husband would have been concerned about having children given that there's a serial killer in you, somewhere?" And she went "No, no, no, he's been through similar things, his father commited suicide". And you thought you've got a serial killer and a suicidal man and you thought that was a good gene pool to be splashing around in!?!
Stephen: You give birth to a child who kills himself lots of times.
Graham Norton and his anecdotes! :)
As they're discussing Leonardo da Vinci, they go off in another tangent when Alan notices one of the guys on the paintings behind them looks an awful lot like actor Rodney Bewes, and I have to be honest here and say that I had to look up who he was because I'd never heard of him before. But even without knowing who he is, I loved Dara saying Rodney Bewes was the Highlander and David going "Can you imagine on the news? "And today it emerged that actor Rodney Bewes has been alive for as long as time"." And how adorable was Graham, not knowing who they were talking about?
I just think it's amazing how they simply CAN'T stay in topic, no matter what their theme is.
Stephen: I have to say, the whole point about QI is that the rest of the world talks about cultural things, reality TV, and...
Alan: Rodney Bewes...
Stephen: Popstars, Rodney Bewes, and we talk about Leonardo. [to Graham] And what you've done by coming on is we started--- [turns to Alan] No, you, actually!
Graham: Me?!
Stephen: We've started talking about Leonardo and we've arrived to Rodney Bewes! That's the wrong direction!
Graham: I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE WAS! Don't blame me!
Yeah, Stephen, like that's the first time it's happened in this show! :P Poor Graham, taking the fall for Alan, though. hehehe
But if you thought that would be the end of the Rodney Bewes discussion, think again!
David: To me, Rodney Bewes looks older there than Rodney Bewes in our present time. So I think Rodney Bewes must, in the future, travel back in time to check Leonardo da Vinci's pulse, to be absolute sure he's dead, using the futuristic technology of pulse-checking. The others there are all going "What's this weird old Rodney Bewes doing?" See the one on the right, he's got his head in his hand "So embarrassing"!
Stephen: Obviously, Leonardo was a fine artist. He didn't actually make any real contribution to science at all, did he or did he?
Graham: Flying machine, or is that a forfeit?
Stephen: No, not a forfeit, but it just wouldn't have worked, his helicopter.
David: Yes, it's a drawing of a helicopter, isn't it? I mean, I did sort of drawings of spaceships when I was about 5, and I'd be embarrassed if someone said I'd invented interstellar travel.
Stephen: [looking at the picture on the monitors] WHAT THE HELL?!
Dara: I think it's supposed to be an illustration of "a child of two geniuses may not necessarily be a genius".
And of course it wouldn't be a British panel show if they didn't start discussing urine and farting at some point, now, would it? :P
But that doesn't last long and soon they're back to serious business. Hehehe just look at their faces! Who would have guessed they were discussing the smell of urine not 2 minutes ago?
[on the subject of how the first cloning was made]
Stephen: He used a rudimentary noose[sp?] to separate the cells and the embryo and the noose was made of the hair of a human baby. He used it, it's like a little lasso to separate it, isn't that marvellous?
David: That is fiddly work.
Stephen: It is very fiddly work!
David: There must have been lots of times he'd sort of go "GRRR! DAMN! Ok, ok, calm down... Could I please have another baby's hair in here?"
Alan: Then back to the baby... [pretends to be a baby with hair being pulled off his head]
David: All the people trying to keep him calm "Would you like anothe---", "NO, I DON'T want another coffee!"
Angry!David is adorable! ♥
Stephen: How old are you?
[silence]
HAHA! I just LOVE how scared they are of the forfeits now!
David: It just shows you the effect of this game, though. You ask a question, all four of us think "That is something I definitely know the answer to, but I've been made so uncertain and frightened, I'm not even willing to give my own name, age or address"!
Dara: How could this be a trap? How could this possibly be a trap? I am 37! [presses buzzer] 37!
[forfeit lights and alarm]
Dara: But that's not wrong!!! I actually am!
Graham: We should all do it!
David: [presses his buzzer] 34!
Stephen: 34, eh?
[forfeit lights and alarm]
Stephen: [to Graham] You don't want to do it, do you?
Graham: I'll do it! [presses buzzer] Graham Norton, 46.
[forfeit lights and alarm]
Alan: I'm not doing it.
Alan: I don't understand why golf's on television.
Stephen: I love watching golf on television!
Alan: You love watching golf?
Stephen: I'm absolutely passionate about it.
Graham: You like... but... What are you watching?
Stephen: The golf!
Graham: No, but... He hits it, and then the camera just goes "Sky, sky, sky, sky, sky, sky. It's over there, somewhere".
Why am I not surprised that Stephen likes to watch golf on television? :P
And you know what? When I was staying with my cousin who lives in London, we spent one morning watching a golf final (British Open or whatever it was) and her husband, who is English, taught me a bit of golf, the rules and everything, and you know what? It's actually a lot more interesting than I thought it was!
And then finally, my favorite bit of the episode, where David perfectly sums up what QI is all about:
Stephen: How many brains did the man with two brains have?
Alan: Two.
Stephen: Yes! That's brilliant!
David: IT'S SO CRUEL!!!
Stephen: Yes, he's wise enough to spot a double bluff.
David: It's just the technique of the bully! You hit us, and then you go "What, do you think I was gonna hit you? I won't hit you! Oh no, I'm not gonna hit you, I'll just use my hand to stroke you". And we're here being "AAAAAH! DON'T STROKE ME!"
And just because I can't get enough of David ranting:
Aw, bless him, he's the best! ♥
I also made sure not to leave out Stephen because I love his laugh.
Who else thinks it's completely ironic and amazingly awesome that, in an episode about "genius", Alan was the one who won? ♥ hehehe of course he would! :)
So the final scores were:
Graham: -19
David: -8
Dara: -7
Alan: 4
I once tried following Stephen's bizarre scoring method, but got it completely wrong. I still have no idea how they make those, apart from the usual -10 for forfeits.