Series I, Episode 1: I-Spy

eggshaped · 844105. Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:27 am

With Sandi Toksvig, Jimmy Carr and Lee Mack. Discuss it and post your quibbles here...

Ian Dunn · 844706. Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:57 am

Here is a preview.

eggshaped · 844731. Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:49 am

Thanks Ian, that was pretty quick off the mark!

Celebaelin · 844814. Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:43 pm

Now we know why Mike moved away from Doncaster.

cwickham · 844815. Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:52 pm

Is the "Nobody Knows" thing in every episode of this series?

vampirebloom · 844816. Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:52 pm

the show is not long enough :(

Sebastian flyte · 844819. Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:14 pm

Loved tonight's show xxx raaa x

JumpingJack · 844820. Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:17 pm

cwickham

Yes, the 'Nobody Knows' bonus thing is a regular feature.

Alan is rather good at it...

CB27 · 844833. Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:56 pm

Has he been having lunches with the producers again? :)

Thought it was a good show. I liked the bit about the crimes during the blitz, proves that the recent looting in the riots are not something only the current generation is able to do.

bobwilson · 844838. Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:05 pm

Haven't seen it yet..... but crime during the blitz? Isn't it common knowledge that there was rather a lot of it (apart from the obvious?). I'm sure I've seen the likes of Frankie Frazer being interviewed saying it was a golden time.

Zebra57 · 844839. Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:06 pm

I assume Alan that accumulated his negative score from answers cut to fit the 30 minute programme schedule.

JumpingJack · 844895. Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:30 pm

Yes, that's right Zebra57.

The scoring is (frankly) irrelevant on QI and just there for fun, as it is on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, where they have a scorer ('the lovely Samantha') but never announce the scores.

JumpingJack · 844897. Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:32 pm

CB27

Alan never gets help. He doesn't even read the questions beforehand.

He is naturally (as I'm sure you know) extremely sharp, that's all.

CB27 · 844926. Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:20 pm

Only teasing about Alan ;p

My comments about the crime during the Blitz wasn't so much that I didn't know (my dad lived through it and had some stories to tell), it was more that I forgot about it, and thought it was quite timely it was mentioned :)

When Stephen was talking about the Aye-Aye, he mentioned having seen one, and am I the only one who for a second thought he was talking about his infamous encounter with a Kakapo?

Also, with Lee Mack in the panel, and the show based around "I" and what sounds like "I", I half expected a return to the "i before the e" discussion.

Having said that, I did enjoy the show a lot.

clack · 844942. Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:20 pm

Topics were strong, the panelists were not quite up to the strength of the topics. A bit flat, actually.

Maybe the XL version will be more entertaining.