F S6E11 3/3

[WhimsicalQuandary]

Well since dissections were illegal wouldn't that mean that anyone that would recognize the brain would have to have been present at one and that by accusing Michelangelo he would himself be implicating himself?

[MystOfOblivion]

Wasn't that hedgehof flea thing on a previous episode of QI...and they even said it was a myth that it will die if you remove the fleas?

[aaron9099]

I'd love to be a friend in the the Hugh, Stephen and Emma group.

[andrewhenman]

Ah the classic bread and milk rant..:)

[MaximHammel]

I love how Fry is always so surprised when Alan wins

[stagedive516]

"No, it's not a female part."

"Is it a brain?"

[cptfursten]

Oh Stephen why do you always jump at the opportunity to try an American accent, it’s simply dreadful just keep going with your lovely posh one.

[TheLibertyLion]

How sweet: at 03:49 David Mitchell actually apologises to Alan.

[IsaakTheGreek]

Bread and milk use to be Greece's national breakfast for ages!Nobody that I've known died from it

[cywyhot]

@Laruto723 Just to cover bread--some people can't digest wheat but bread is a basic in human cooking and can be made from a wide variety of foods. There are indeed poor souls who can't have cow's milk and wheat bread but that's no reason to say NOBODY should have ANY form of milk or ANY form of bread. That's just nuts. (And nuts can make a nice bread, too, including acorns which the people of early California used for flour.) :)

[cywyhot]

@Laruto723 ALL mammals drink milk. :) Farmers know that types of milk have different properties so they choose the type for the creature that needs it. Goat milk is the most easily digestible for many mammals. Some humans don't have enough lactase which shows up over time either mildly or severely and a few are allergic to cow's milk which shows up immediately. Lactase deficiency is least common among "northern Europeans"--hardly a scientific term! We travel and mix genes liberally.

[Vault101Reject]

Typical mitchel. getting his underwear in a bunch and making a fuss over something as stupid as himself not understanding a simple joke.

[elpanch0]

i love how stephen fry can say oregon correctly while people in DC don't even know that it's a state. or pronounce it correctly.

[357Snowball]

@NoRegretsForOurYouth they're probably seen as a bit too similar, unfortunately.

[357Snowball]

@legspinner thanks so much, that was a massive help- hands down favourite comedians ( as well, of course, as His Royal Amazingness Mr. Stephen Fry).

[legspinner]

@357Snowball sounds like it doesnt matter, but i got my numbers a bit mixed up: 6.4 should be 7.4; and the series number for the brydon-mitchell combos should each be one higher

[bluejeckett]

David really lays into Alan there about the milk and bread argument. I hadn't even heard that one, that it's suposedly bad for you, but apparantly Alan is a staunch vegetarian so he would be arguing against eating bread and drinking milk.

[Shanniquitie]

@bluejeckett he's not a vegetarian, he's a pescatarian

[shakermaker92]

I'd love to know the points system for this!

[NoRegretsForOurYouth]

Is there an episode with Carr, Mitchell, and Brydon? That's the all-star squad.

[bluejeckett]

@NoRegretsForOurYouth Theres probably one or two where they collide. Mitchell and Carr have definitely apeared together

[legspinner]

@NoRegretsForOurYouth they've never all been on the same show sadly, but if two of them is enough:

Carr + Brydon - 5.1, 6.4; Carr + Mitchell - 5.8, 6.12; Brydon + Mitchell - 6.1, 6.16, 7.16

[cybertooth49]

@NoRegretsForOurYouth O'Briain, Mitchell, and Brydon for the win!

[texhappygurl]

I think David looks really good in this--maybe fitter than usual?

[sundrynotes]

david mitchell is my spirit animal.

[royalgirl31]

I think that should, God forbid, Stephen Fry ever quit QI, David Mitchell would definately be first choice as a replacement, he pretty much does the same sort of thing on the Unbelievable Truth anyway.

[happyjellyfish]

'People give you this shit and you read it out!'

'I've no idea what you mean.'

XD

[lennic95]

David's whole speech about bacteria had me in stitches!

[lennic95]

@SSJ4Gojeta Yes.

[greengrendel]

2:10 "either you've got a tumor or they dropped a stitch" XD

[neonom1024]

made by some america knitting person ....

[VerilyTY]

Poor David. He was doing so well before they laid those traps especially for him. I'm all for correcting bad information, but that almost seemed unfair.

[grimsprice]

"they just give you this shit and you read it out!"

"i have no idea what you mean....".

lol.

[kyle2point]

we are god. we are all one. 

[greengrendel]

@kyle2point Have you read Heinlein's "stranger in a strange land?"

[kyle2point]

@greengrendel

nope, do u recommend? 

[greengrendel]

@kyle2point Yes.

[mistacoz]

Anyone else get the impression that Emma Thompson is a REALLY big fan of David Mitchell? Not just when she praised his radio show as 'excellent' but whenever it cut to her while he was talking she was in stitches.

[Kingofcorrect]

Cannot believe that Emma is Stephen's age, she looks nowhere near that

[esieurin]

I love Emma Thompson's laughter!

[CalmBlue]

One of my favourite moments of television: David Mitchell accusing Stephen Fry of trying to kill off radio.

[patrick112590]

Alan was really quiet in this one...strange.

[ultraviolet128]

i just adore david mitchell rants :) and it's fantastic when alan wins!!

[existenceisrelative]

Has anyone else noticed that the person who's silent the most in an episode is usually the winner?

[BelfastAtheist]

@existenceisrelative

There's an episode Rich Hall won and he didn't speak once lol. Or if he did, it was cut from the final version. The makers of QI take it lots of stuff.

[MissSpringyness]

I can't believe how many episodes I've missed. . ! Relying on Davre to eventually see them all to record on the recordy digi-box = Epic Nearly FAIL.

Yay, Emma Thompson!!!

And YAY Alan Rickman ness & impression :)

[silverlily35]

I love when Alan wins! He always looks so happy and says thank you. It's adorable. :)

This was a fantastic episode overall, actually. Even John was funny and he's not normally my favourite... Love the Alan Rickman impression!

[PrometheanRunGood]

Well David is probably just fed up with alternative types that don't understand science and spread potentially harmful lies to promote their lifestyle.

That said I forgive Alan, he's one of my favourite people ever :)

[GSNRecords]

Hey, hey. Hey. Vegans are crazy assholes, but white bread is genuinely bad for you.

[PrometheanRunGood]

@GSNRecords undoubtedly Wonderbread lasts forever because of chemical preservatives added to it but we can say these preservatives are bad for us because of SCIENTIFIC articles published in peer-reviewed journals by scientists. Not because of some new age guru who is out to deal snake oil. Woe be those who are naive enough to believe them.

[GSNRecords]

You seem like a smart guy. I'll make sure to listen to you and your scientists, while ignoring all those mean snake oil salesmen that pester me with their wunderbars and miracle tonics from now on.

[guysmiley00]

@GSNRecords Well, it's certainly less healthy for you than whole-grain bread, as the process of making white bread removes the germ or center of the cereal seed, which contains most of the fibre and amino acids and so forth, leaving only the straight starch that the new plant was meant to consume whilst establishing itself. It's not "bad for you", particularly - it'll keep you from starving - but it is a more nutritionally-poor food than a whole-grain product.

[HittokiriBatosai]

I am with David. Fuck this soy vegetarian movement, bread and milk forever!

[SoylentGreeeen]

@HittokiriBatosai Vegetarians eat both bread and milk.

[HittokiriBatosai]

@SoylentGreeeen lol, so they do. But you know my point, the new annoying hyper-healthy movement. Oh no, I can't have onions after 3pm, I heard from a hippie it's bad for my colon. Just stfu, sit down and eat!

[PrometheanRunGood]

@HittokiriBatosai Indeed have a seat and be grateful you have enough to eat. Does anyone think that our ancestors perched on a knife's edge of survival would say "oh I can't eat such and such at such and such time" please....

[guysmiley00]

@SoylentGreeeen Well, that depends on the vegetarian - ovo-vegetarians eat eggs, lacto-vegetarians eat dairy, pesca-vegetarians eat fish, and there are many other permutations based on ethical, nutritional, and economic factors. The most restrictive diet is that of the vegan, who eats (and uses) no animal-derived products at all.

[guysmiley00]

@HittokiriBatosai I would think that a diet restricting bread is not vegetarian, but one of those "paleolithic"-type regimes, that seek to emulate the diet of stone-age hunter-gatherers. Either that or a celiac diet - people with celiac disease react so strongly to lactose and wheat gluten that their intestines actually become scarred. It's a very nasty condition.

[eastjame]

does anyone else think that emma thompson comes across as not that smart?

[swelstead]

@eastjame I don't know if you've been following her career - she's been doing comedy/acting with Stephen Fry and Huge Laurie since they were in university (Cambridge) together - but that's her whole 'schtick' in comedy. I've heard Stephen Fry refer to her as 'brilliant' and 'VERY smart'.

I think she may come across as not that smart here because it's like she's hanging out with old friends and being casual about it.

[aModernDandy]

That's one of my favourite episodes! First of course because I love films, but also because I love Emma Thompson and David Mitchell, and John's Alan Rickman impression has me in stitches every time!

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

I think Alan has been watching Animaniacs.

[mooncowtube]

They ought to do an episode of The Unbelievable Truth all about QI corrections

[jodiefostersarmy]

Many thanks for posting these. Great fun.

[VamLoveAndKisses]

There was another episode with Emma Thompson, does anyone know which it was?

Thanks!

[prozacjunk]

I don't, Fry said this was her first appearance, and I can't remember a second one. You might be wrong about it.

......If only there was a way to look it up........

[VamLoveAndKisses]

Yeah sorry about that I was referring to the QI XL episode where Fry and Thompson chat about pubes and when Emma used to scare Stephen by standing naked at the top of the staircase!

It's this episode just extended with a few extra bits.

And it is on yt!

[sillyjobug]

I can't find the XL version of this episode! Has it disappeared in the last week?

[OShaughnessy1981]

I don't think that it exists - there are certainly clips of Emma and Stephen talking about this, but I haven't found a XL episode!

Anyways this has to be one of the funnest Qi 's i've ever seen - I love Alan, but Emma and David seem to be equally amuzing!!

Thanks for posting!!

[x0rielx]

or that god is simply a figment of our imaginations

[RebeckaRowan]

@x0rielx Someone's been reading their Dan Brown ;)

[AuranHarpy]

@x0rielx only the fool believes that the imagination has no power.

[blablomma]

or that our intellect is god

[hadrianfry]

no no, our intellect is od...or id...lol

[ELuhn]

@hadrianfry I have an od intellect.

[biggieboy2510]

I'd go for that one :-)

[ForwardN2Unknown]

Or, perhaps Michelangelo meant that God is all in our minds.

[ituyok]

That's how I interpreted it. Pretty controversial! :S

[thomasimon]

a teacher at my school is a researcher for this program!

[ciananal]

absolute legend lad. cheers for this. im an irishman man, thus bbc iplayer does'nt work. again, thank you.