QI XL - Don't Mention the War!

[RadonX9]

DON'T VENTION ZA VAR

[Halldisa]

6:14 "Everysink carries on as normal" LMAO

[CloiuFace]

lmao -76 points

[UkLuvsDisneyLyrics]

lol Sean Lock at the end : ehhehehehehehhehhehehehe!! LOL

[gamerunknown]

How in the name of tarnation is giving away shit for free a victory for Capitalism?

[Jcolinsol]

How many flippin' languages does Stephen Fry speak?

[xTheGerbilx]

@Jcolinsol what, I'd figure it's quite normal to speak about 3 languages in europe

[Jcolinsol]

@xTheGerbilx

That's true enough.

[nashertheatheist]

@xTheGerbilx

On the continent, perhaps. The UK, on the other hand, is quite bad in that regard. The other countries have large numbers of English speakers and use it as a common language amongst themselves, so we don't really need to learn many foreign languages.

[Rens1989]

@xTheGerbilx In the Netherlands a lot of people even speak 4 languages

[cartoon19100]

hahahaha we won

[FlippieX]

sean lock offended the dutch by telling untrue stories

[LeonardMeltsner]

"You keep mentioning the war!"

"Well you started it!"

"No we didn't, you did!"

"No, you did, you invaded Poland!"

I love Fawlty Towers!

[CoD4112]

Deutsch doesn't mean dutch.... it means german

[Quintinohthree]

@CoD4112

But Dutch did mean Deutsch, and Deutsch meant Dutch. And they al meant Duits, and Duits meant 'em all, and Diets, and Düütsch and....

[pastrychef1985]

@Quintinohthree And Teutsch....

[ChrisTheMighty22]

Woah Sean Lock is a fucking idiot.

[TheB1gB0y]

6:25 I would so do that!

[adamusprime1001]

Germany dislikes Holland, and vice versa. Sorry England!

[RequiemReaper]

@adamusprime1001 Isn't it funny how some English are annoyed that the Germans don't hate them. :)

[MrWheel008]

@adamusprime1001 Surely England's greatest rivalry is with France?

[adamusprime1001]

@MrWheel008 nah, any of the Home Nations, but Scotland for sure among them

[Jemoiii]

@MrWheel008 England's greatest rivalry is with every other nation on Earth.

[FaRrOwFoXlol]

@Jemoiii that's not true, we don't have a clue about most of land that France and Spain got to before us, that's Canada, south america, a considerable amount of Africa, and don't get us started of the parts of Asia that we didn't invade :)

[XaeeD]

haha I'm from the Netherlands and it's true about football, the Dutch and the Germans are sworn enemies. Why? I'm not sure.. anyway, it's always fun when Holland is mentioned on QI. With the 11-11 thing, we also have that in our province, in Limburg, carnaval starts on the 11th of november. It's the fool's number or something like that

[adamusprime1001]

@XaeeD the dislike has to do with "the war" and Holland's defeat in 1974 and Holland's victory over Germany in the Euro 88 semi-final.

[XaeeD]

@adamusprime1001 well.. there you have it :) thanks for commenting

[blackneomil]

@XaeeD Not just in Limburg ;) Anywhere in the south "below the rivers".

And I'm just glad someone here used the Netherlands as opposed to Holland. We're not all Hollanders :)

[vurisje]

@blackneomil point taken, why are we always called hollanders? can someone not dutch explain? We dutch are all from the Netherlands, but not from holland.

[VoChaos]

@vurisje I guess because Holland was the most dominant low country at certain times. But it's not exclusive to us, take for example "England", which is often used for the entire United Kingdoms. Using a part of something to describe the whole is called "pars pro toto".

And the reason why there are so many similar words is that all those words derive from the (proto-)germanic word þiad (thiad), meaning "the people" (volk). It isn't (wasn't) unusual that cultures called themselves "the people".

[The666thBowelOfHell]

Everything carries on as normal

[morosepoet]

He did Nazi that coming.

[kealyc1]

I lived in Germany for over 11 years, and I can assure that they do care about 1966. They do give a shit about it.

[chrisninety1]

@kealyc1 Being part English and part German, what I've always been lead to believe is that it is a sore topic with Germany, but more because of the nature of the third goal rather than the fact it was England that they were playing. It's a bit like when England got beat by the Netherlands in 1993 and failed to qualify for the subsequent World Cup - it's the fact that Ronald Koeman should have been sent off before he scored that irks us, the fact it was the Dutch we played is irrelevant.

[Joylevinstein]

Look at all the fucks Sean Locke gives about the points he loses. He knocks himself out with jokes about the war.

[Seabee613]

do none of you know who eric hitchmo is?!

[Nickedwards604]

Fawlty Towers. That is all.

[EMT43055]

Fry:"What happens in germany at 11:11 on the 11th of November every year"

Alan: *German Accent*"Everything Carries on at normal!", Brilliant!

[MrJarth]

lol! the look on this face.

[IDontLiveTodayJH]

Sean Lock at 7:13 LMAO!!!!!

[Zyoher]

"Germany does have decent summers doesn't it?"

"And if it doesn't., it just expands to somewhere where the summer is."

Oh God, haha!

[1pwNz0mb13Z]

you guys are taking this way to seriously...

but if it wasnt for the Americans, Hitler would have taken over Europe and America is the best country in the world because we own the moon!

We are the Earth's police

[TheMikeyReilly]

@1pwNz0mb13Z Soviets beat the Nazi's, not the Americans.

[Drag0nfoxx]

@1pwNz0mb13Z bullshit

[IL0veMoz]

@1pwNz0mb13Z whats your contribution? you talking about things other people have done, what makes you better than people from other countrys?

[scrap222666]

@1pwNz0mb13Z And the British, Russians, Canadians and other nations did nothing? Only America freed Europe?

[ruthio1]

@1pwNz0mb13Z ur deluded

[BRMC888]

@1pwNz0mb13Z Who the fuck are you? Nobody own's the moon you shit. "Earth's people"... what about the 6 533 500 450 other people? you're 4.48% of the Earth's population, with an large debt to China...

I think you have a too fucking high opinion of your country.

[Halldisa]

@1pwNz0mb13Z sigh. You're not helping yourself, really you're not.

[TheDruganaut]

England won only one world cup in football history... so i think the germans won't begrudge...

[Metaldane]

Sean mentioned it once, but I think he got away with it.

[zionravescene]

5:43 It's funny 'cos he mentioned the Waugh.

[ToughPigeoN]

Sean Lock, funny as always.  :)

[TheSevanthNinja]

@JudasCrusader No Minecraft Full release!!!

[TigsAndKizzii]

Of course the Germans can walk into our country... there's no hills to slow them down.

[ExtraLuke]

why would you dislike this?...

Oh yeah, your German!

[haz464]

Lol sean lock is hilarious

[1pwNz0mb13Z]

do the Brits celibate Independence Day?

Woops i just mentioned the war....

[bjsuther]

@1pwNz0mb13Z

no

[muslimindisguise]

@1pwNz0mb13Z

yes we do in-fact, we call it the great cull

the day we got rid of 75 percent of our retarded population.

now theres just the welsh left :L

[KingDiamondHead]

@1pwNz0mb13Z

no

[StrongIntelligent]

@1pwNz0mb13Z Why would we not have sex with independence day?

[NorthWeezy2010]

@1pwNz0mb13Z funny thing is though, Americans didn't fight. They were British people who moved to north America to escape high taxes in England. Even they didn't fight that much, the French, the Spanish and the Dutch did. That is why every year we laugh at the US getting happy over the war because we gained money from your land to help pay for the OTHER wars we were fighting elsewhere at the same time AND we got rid of you! lol

[andyfoxy1]

@1pwNz0mb13Z do the yanks celebrate the Canadian war when we burnt down your capital and thrashed your asses out of of Canada

woops did I mention the war. .

[LeadFarmer11]

isnt it spelled waugh? i stared at that motherfuckers name all thru year 11

[kisbie]

@LeadFarmer11 Yes, it is. And it's not really that funny, as the forfeit makes absolutely no sense beyond a very weak pun. (And they'd already established that it only applied to the Second World War, not just any war/waugh.)

[viridismonasteriense]

"generally, in history, they've generally walked into Holland whenever they fancied it..." The Netherlands were neutral in the first world war and fought five days in WO II against a more vast and advanced enemy until they bombed Rotterdam to the ground. We've had the French though and the Spanish occupy us too. The Romans, if you go way back, had half the country south of the rivers. So yeah, you could say we're invaded a lot...and we lost Belgium...and Indonesia...and sold New York!

[blondemario]

TANKS a lot Americans. *Klaxon*

[BlueTyrannosaurus]

I just noticed the look on Sean Lock's face when Stephen first tells the pannelists not to mention the war. That is a look of sheer evil!

[seitenshow]

"Sean Lock Don't Mention The War"

[itislupus08]

Love how Sean Lock goes out of his way to mention the war.

[Allthingzvamp]

I love how QI XL looks like QI and then a hysterical laughing face.

[kisbie]

@Allthingzvamp Surely 'XL' is a smiley eating something it finds bloody disgusting.

[Allthingzvamp]

@kisbie

Nahhh, it's mouth is so wide open and its eyes screwed up with laughter.

Well I thought it was anyway :(

[einootspork]

I like how it's always Sean Lock who mentions the war.

[Lynn00X]

My family and I lived in Germany when I was a child (before the wall came down) and my older brother went to a German school, his first teacher told the whole class that the America's dropped poisoned candy behind the wall to kill all of the children. So for the first year we were there NONE of the children from his school would come to our house... But eventually all the kids forgot we were Americans and ppl just thought we were a normal German family. But the first year was rough!

[WoodymanTHEJ]

Some much for not adhering to Godwin's law of Internet Arguments... Sean ><

[TheFWAdmin]

What was Sean Lock's score at the end of this, Minus 600?

[WoodymanTHEJ]

@TheFWAdmin -76 :L But not quite beating Alan, which I think was -87ish once.. XD

[TheFWAdmin]

@WoodymanTHEJ The best one was the pilot where Stephen was handing out points like there was no tommorow Alan got 118, Kit Hesketh-Harvey got 125, Eddie Izard got 131 & Bill Bailey got 132

[WoodymanTHEJ]

@TheFWAdmin Only time Alan finished with positive points :L I know it's not, but you know what I mean..

[seasoner13]

@WoodymanTHEJ i remember one episode where Alan finished on -144 points

[WoodymanTHEJ]

@seasoner13 Really? Which one was that?

[seasoner13]

@WoodymanTHEJ i believe one of the general ignorance questions was "what was Gandhi's first name?"

[irishgodfatherchris]

@seasoner13 easy its Mohandas, everyone should've learnt that in Humanities.

[seasoner13]

@irishgodfatherchris what country do you study in?

[irishgodfatherchris]

@seasoner13 Australia. Victoria to be exact

[seasoner13]

@irishgodfatherchris oh, ok. it's just in London, we don't have a 'humanities' class. just 1 of the many flaws of the British education system.

[irishgodfatherchris]

@seasoner13 well when I say Humanities I'm referring to several subject including the Studies Of Society & Environment (SOSE) which at senior level branches out to specific subjects like Geography, History etc.

[seasoner13]

@irishgodfatherchris whereas we have geography and history separated from the start.

[zibafu]

its no match for the chocolate orange

[Cleo4696]

-76 !!!

[anthonybc1811]

anyone it else think it just a bit disrespectful for them to carry on the 11th of the 11th, like they just trying to hide the prescence of the war?

[irishgodfatherchris]

@anthonybc1811 not particularly, after all it was only a ceasefire that was signed on the 11th of November.

[knaan163]

@anthonybc1811 it's not our business to tell them what to celebrate, I've been to the carnival and it's an integral part of their culture, has been for centuries. besides, they weren't really responsible for causing the first world war

[CodenameJD]

Love that the elves didn't notice Jo's reference until Sean pointed it out :P

[IoEstasCedonta]

Allen really shouldn't have been docked for mentioning the First World War...

[MarsJenkar]

@IoEstasCedonta Didn't really matter in the end. Even without the forfeit he'd still have been third.

[yourdabull]

i waz merely followin orders..

[EnigmaDrath]

The whole "Germans vs English" is an issue I'm glad they adressed here. Spent 6 months in England and I was surprised at how many English people believe that Germans go around shaking their fists and going, "Ooooooooh, we hate the English!" when in reality Germans .... don't. It really isn't an issue to them. The rivalry is between Germany and the Netherlands, and even then it's light-hearted.

[Ventilator313]

@EnigmaDrath Well, it is light-hearted to the Germans. As for Dutch football fans, a little less. :P Which is a pity.

[EnigmaDrath]

@Ventilator313

True, though, to be fair, when it comes to football fans, regardless of country, it's never light-hearted. Football brings out the hooligans in everyone :)

[IoEstasCedonta]

Minus zex und siebzig...

[AndroidPhantom]

@IoEstasCedonta never seen sechs spelled that way. it's like rulez or grillz

[IoEstasCedonta]

@AndroidPhantom ...I blame Gundam Wing.

[AndroidPhantom]

@IoEstasCedonta ha

[Kraidworm]

@IoEstasCedonta Why are you talking about Gundam wing? XD

[theRealPlaidRabbit]

Most European conflicts over the last couple thousand years involve Germany somehow or other -- usually by using German soil for the battling, since it is smack in the middle between all sorts of powers who love to fight each other. Switzerland and Italy are similarly central, but rather mountainy and thus inconvenient for the fighting. Cold war: no exception.

[MrGorgak]

@theRealPlaidRabbit Germany and especially Italy are not very "central" in Europe, if that was your point. And German soil was still less of a battle theatre than countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of France though. Also Italian soil has seen quite alot of fighting.

[jeevesthepunk]

can any german speakers say what sean's final score was. With my terrible german it sounded like -76?

[0oFlicko0]

@jeevesthepunk It's not as terrible as you think as it is indeed -76. He did mention the war quite often.

[hbanana7]

my first visit to Europe, toward the end of the trip was Germany where I visited Tier Garten. I remember being completely disoriented by seeing a heavily haired man across the brook. It wasn't like a beach at the Mediterranean, it was a public park in the middle of a huge city! NOW! finally, I understand.

[ShanksDChopper]

Gotta disagree with Stephen about the Berlin airlift not being related with the war... one did pretty much lead to another.

[Enyardose]

@ShanksDChopper There was no war in Europe involving Germany post WWII, rendering you incorrect.

Unless you think the airlift occurred before WWII, in which case, you're gonna wanna go study it, since your conception of the timeline of 19th century is bizarre.

[ShanksDChopper]

@Enyardose If you think that Germany was in no way involved in the Cold War you need to go back to your history class. If you think the there was no link between WWII and the Cold War you need to go back to your history class.

[cyanman123]

Haha, we won ;)

[sallyrhiannon]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME WE ARE MOST CERTAINLY STILL UPSET ABOUT 66!!!!



[Cheshirecat55]

Something tells me this is a Fawlty Towers reference.

[Akfilm92]

@Cheshirecat55

It most definitely is :)

[Silentjackal]

@Akfilm92 SHHH, I MENTIONED IT ONCE BUT I THINK I GOT AWAY IT!

[seonidh]

Just goes to show the Germans don't really give a shit about the rivalry that England likes to go on about.

[halfbakedc00kie]

@seonidh I haven't even heard about this rivalry :d I thought we hated the French

[seonidh]

@halfbakedc00kie oh come you have got to be kidding right? On the football have you ever heard the way commentators on tv go on about it? Jimmy Hill and people like that. The French meh they're a spent force unless testing atomic weapons in a pacific atoll counts its hardly worth our time bothering with them any more.

[mrbentom09]

@halfbakedc00kie We hate everyone :P

[2pacsrevenge]

The great gershemtfliptz! Surely a dark time in the history of Germany.

[MarsJenkar]

Sean Lock seems almost gleeful about mentioning the war. ;-)

[maplezyrup]

"You mentioned the war."

"At war, not *the* war."

"YOU DID."

[MrNnpivo]

which war??

[DesertHamster]

@MrNnpivo world war II

[MrNnpivo]

@DesertHamster myth

[MrTrentiusMaximus]

Huge LOL at Alan's answer to the question at 6:09 !!!

[cmd2tuts]

"Because the americans can't be bothered..."

L.M.A.O.

[tic07096903]

None of the comments have mentioned the war yet have they? the video mentions it once or twice but I think they got away with it.

[mattf256]

@michealdoy

Well remembered mate. Thank you.

[mattf256]

@askl23

Alan got -144 on one episode. Can't remember which one though.

[michaeldoy]

@mattf256 That would be the episode "Differences", where he answered the last question of the night, "What was Gandhi's first name?" with "Randy", and lost 150 points as a result. Without that, he would have won with 6!

[askl23]

Sean Lock got -72, is that lowest score anyone's gotten?

[fowad27]

@askl23 not by a long shot.

[bibhuna]

@askl23 -76

[notverycreative]

It is a bit disappointing that even these intelligent people, nearly seventy years later, can't think of anything else to say

[marcmischief]

@notverycreative comedians are always going to make jokes about these things. Just let them do their thing

[notverycreative]

@marcmischief  Oh well...alright then...

[NFXShockwave]

I'm sure we all remember The Great Gerschmertzschlidf of 1762.

[samsung54369]

Goering was a fat, explained

[sykregen784]

I was pretty much laughing all the time, but when Alan said "Phone rings, british primeminister says; hahahahaha...we won" I acturally rolled on the floor laughing!

[samwiseshireling]

The first rule about the war is you don't talk about the war!

[Creepybuttercup]

it makes me very happ to hear stephen say 76 :)

[eetjaarem]

Yep, the thing about football rivalry is true. And ironically, that rivalry started because of the war. That's what we (the Dutch) hated them for at first. Then those bastards stole our world cup aswell.

Later, in "88, we won the EC in Germany by beating them in the semi final. WE won it in THEIR country :D

So when it comes to football, Germany and Holland hate each other.

[kisbie]

@eetjaarem I agree with Sean though. Football rivalries are generally based on geography. But the most potent are strands of political feuds (Barca/R. Madrid or Celtic/Rangers or Boca Jrs./R. Plate). It makes sense that the Dutch would hate the Germans, but it doesn't make sense that the Germans hate a tiny nation like the Dutch in return. Logically, they should hate the English more. I know the Dutch are much better than us at football but still...we shouldn't be being patronised like this!

[eetjaarem]

@kisbie Well, first of all Germany and Holland are closer to each other. We see Germans going on holiday here al the time. (yippie). We won the EC in THEIR country. The languages are more similar. We always had a different relationship with them.

You only hear the Germans about "74. Because that's the WC when they beat Holland, who were favorites and were playing the best football by far. They don't actually care that much about "66. Probably also because they won it 8 years later anyway.

[kisbie]

@eetjaarem As far as football goes, I think 1954 is the one they've romanticised the most. (They never made a film about 1974.) Plus I think they were a little bit pissed about Geoff Hurst's second goal in 1966. But they've gone rather quiet about that recently for some reason.

[mrleedra]

@eetjaarem You might be interested to know that, as far as I am aware, Germans tend to root for the Dutch when they play against other foreign teams. At least that's what people do in the North-West.

[eetjaarem]

@mrleedra Well, we don't ;)

Holland vs Germany is one of the biggest football rivalries, that's a fact.

[Ryoushadow]

@mrleedra Because they want to face us! They want to humiliate us poor socialist cheeselovers.

[Singsonggirl]

Stephen Fry speaking German= sexy!!!!!

[Aspire198]

Lol bouncing chocolate orange bomb ftw

[mrcreative13]

I reckon Sean Lock actually won there

[WoodymanTHEJ]

When Stephen asks who wrote Brideshead Revisited, it's as if he knows that Shaun is going to mention the war again :L mind, nowaday, mentioning the war to the Germans is like mentioning THE GAME! :D

[DifferentGirl3]

@WoodymanTHEJ ¬_¬

[movieluvr69]

why can't i find this episode anywhere?

[EddieTheFishReturns]

@movieluvr69:Probably the last death-kicks of Gordon Brown's politically-correct Britain.

[JimmySteller]

1:16 Rob Brydon's reaction is hilarious.

Oh and even better, the accusing finger of Sean Lock and his eyes all wide like a righteous accuser is hilarious too at 2:33

[damuero]

WC 66 and Wembley Goal is well known in Germany.

[dim432]

sean mention it 4 times

Alan and joe got 1,

they didnt get away with it

[only4tsc]

–76 for Sean Lock, but the humour was worth it!

[Creepybuttercup]

Loving his german... great show!

[paars7777]

What's with all the Dutch comments??

And the windmills... fine to be that biased with Holland...

[LinziCorrin]

sean locks eyes lit up when stephen fry said 'dont mention the war'