The Best QI Moments

Cake for Brains · 25793. Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:19 pm

Of all the QI episodes so far broadcast, has anybody got any particularly funny moments that stick out in their mind.

There are three that come my mind:

1) When Stephen Fry and Alan Davies switched roles on the 2004 Christmas special - 'its only traditional for the servant to be served by the master'. It was hilarious when Alan asked Stephen 'who plays in goal for Aston Villa' only for Stephen Fry to get the question right.

2) Bill Bailey and Sean Lock making fun of Stephen Fry's upbringing when he revealed that he had a tailor when he was young. Bill Bailey says: 'Would Sir care to wear a cravat on the cross-country run?'

3) Gyles Brandraith getting all the questions right during Series 1, which made Rich Hall lay out on the studio counter with incredulous boredom.

Gray · 25802. Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:29 pm

My memory is so poor that I can never remember specific instances very well. I can't help thinking a box-set of the first three series on DVD would help jog my memory, however. :-)

Pyreo · 25807. Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:00 pm

Those three up there are some of my absolute favourites, but I definitely know my #1 winner. When Bill Bailey sang his rendition of that old classic, the "Rainbow Colours" song, or whatever it's called.

"Grey and grey and grey and grey, grey and grey and grey,
I can sing a woodlouse..."

And so on. Best moment ever.

Zaphod Beeblebrox · 25906. Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:27 pm

I particularly liked:

Jimmy Carr's "Put smarties tubes on cats legs make them walk like a robot" - hilarious

Bill Bailey's "Hullo!" roleplay (with the biro-pipe et al) and his version of "The animals went in 2 by 2" - complete with smelly camels and amoebas

The time when Alan confidently answered the question - how many moons does the earth has - only to find out that more had been discovered since the previous series, when the question had been asked before.

Natalie · 25909. Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:43 pm

My favourite was Bill Bailey's "Hullo" thing, and I also like the times when Stephen Fry used to trail off in apparent thought. e.g. when he was thinking about David Beckham in boxer shorts or something.

JumpingJack · 25914. Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:59 pm

One of my all time favorites was when Alan demonstrated how a hug from a giant anteater is fatal to humans and then imitated a lesser anteater (whose mouth is only the diameter of a pencil) apologising in a silly little anteater voice:

I didn't mean any haaarm!

MatC · 25959. Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:00 am

I've never seen any of series one. Therefore, using a lifetime's experience as a guide, I can say with confidence that all my favourite bits are undoubtedly in series one.

laidbacklazyman · 25999. Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:59 pm

Oo you should watch series one, it's really quite good.

My favourite parts are pretty much anything John Sessions says. The guy is a walking calender/almanac. One specific peice of enjoyment came series 1 show 9, the panel were asked, "avoiding the obvious, what is a bongo?" Dave Gorman responded with " avoiding the obvious, being a type of antelope, the answer is a kind of drum" Stephen Fry responds by saying "the obvious would have been a drum but a type of Antelope is the correct answer" Dave Gorman responds with "not when you say heres a question about antelopes it isn't"

I've just realised something, maybe I watch a little too intently?

JumpingJack · 26036. Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:20 pm

Not at all, lblm.

That was a ghastly moment for the production team. Well, for me at any rate. Dave spotted the flaw like lightning and so have you.

Pretty gaping flaw, really.

laidbacklazyman · 26038. Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:19 pm

it was early days in the QI world I'm sure, and it actually made quite funny television. One thing about Dave Gorman is that his delivery does imply a pesky kind of intelligence that only a child has, if you read my interview with Piers, I think it shows the way the question was answered is kind of what QI is all about. More an accidental genius if you will than a flaw, well that's the way I see it anyway.

Gray · 26054. Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:33 am

Flaws and genius are both things that go against the grain.

And chuntering mad-as-a-balloonacy, of course.

Kevino7 · 29297. Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:24 am

What about the end of the series 1 when Alan won a episode?

JumpingJack · 29321. Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:27 pm

Yes, very touching, that.

dotcom · 29326. Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:23 pm

He only came THIRD last week.

Anna · 29338. Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:08 pm