QI: XL Season I Episode 1 "I-Spy"

Lee's confrontational humour feels like it belongs in wilty. Just comes across as rude and inappropriate here, imo

Sandi Toksvig sucks💁🏾‍♂️

Oh, Lee... Gremlins don't turn into the evil ones when they get wet. They turn if they eat after midnight. Getting them wet makes them multiply.

Mack and toks are both horrible people. Overrated plebs. They deserve eachother. Screw 'em.

The lobster bit is also misleading, while it is true that lobsters do not experience cellular decay like most animals, the act of moulting requires a lot of energy, and eventually a lobster grows to such a size that it cannot get enough energy to sustain another moult so it either dies inside a shell that's too small, or it gets an infection that kills it. So they can kind of live forever, but in practice, they can't and its very likely these super lobsters they were theorizing here never existed.

Lee is completely right about the eyes. The point of view of the observer is that of the painter. It's Sandy who hasn't understood.

the lobster segment really deteriorated at a rapid pace xD poor poor einstein

deploy a plot to destroy that unemployed malloy

While I'm not going to invest a lot of time into assessing whether their research team did a sloppy job when it comes to gaze detection, at least with the overview of a couple of studies and diagrams, it seems pretty clear that both men and women look at groins. Women less so but they still do to a fair degree.

I'm sure something could be said about Sandi's reaction to this but... I won't even bother. What I will say is that I'm not looking forward to the shows hosted by her...

I just finished eating a peanut butter sandwich seconds before they mentioned the insects in it. And now I have to try to sleep with that knowledge

Indeed "The hilarious Alan Davies".

I don't often agree with Jimmy Carr, but BP do have a lot to answer for. Fucking...poo. They make me angry.

Either I'm very clever. Or I have seen this before.

Edit. I have never seen this before. This was just an easy episode imo. I do know a lot of useless shit. I'm feeling good, I always knew my "stupid lectures" are actually quite interesting.

Edit 2. Naw, I probably saw this.

It wasn't THAT strange that Durable Maloy survived being left naked in the snow..

... after all, they had filled him with anti-freeze first.

And Johnny Vegas was not on?! Sweet relief!

You're seeing a 2D image representing a 3D space, within an actual 3D space. Perspective within the illusion of 3D space created by the 2D image always has a fixed point of perspective. Even the curving light analogy kind of works if you're imagining translating the movement of light into the illusion. Lee is probably more right than he's ever been in his life.

Why didn't Stephen ever appear as a guest in Sandi's QI?

Lee is quite honestly the most intelligent person on the show including Stephen

I thought that girl was shagging the dog. HA.

Actually, all letters were pronounced in old and middle English; that's why we have all sorts of silent letters in modern English spelling. So, in "the olde pork pie shoppe", olde and shoppe would have had 2 syllables. Further, pie would have been pronounced /pee-a/, that is, before the Great Vowel Shift that took place between 1400 and 1700. Just saying, . . .

"One's mama is of such stupendousness, that she'd rather sit on the television set and watch the couch, than the reverse." A jolly good one on the streets of New York.

I love that Lee refuses to be condescended to and bounces it back. Stephen was clawing back control!

Funny crowbar joke

Lee Mack ruins these shows for me...he's the opposite of funny with his repetitive, obvious "jokes".

Giving cyanide inside of desserts LOL they clearly didn't know how it fully worked... Sugar stops cyanide from activating in the right amount and desserts have lots of sugar...

The friendly Jackal tip is good to know, but if one ever approached me, I would absolutely pet it

'Have you ever seen a blue lobster?' - My wife and I have seen two, at once!

Thats Alan that says 'NOBODY KNOWS' at the start is it ?

I saw tests where women did the same thing as men. look at the face, the ass and genetals. Was ppl with some tech glasse with a camera on. Set in front of art not telling them what was gone happen; And then sending in actors to walk past. If anyone knows the clip, plz link :p

The selection of panelists used to be much stronger. You really notice how Alan doesn't have to carry them like he does now.

Lee is right wtf? I feel sorry for him being patronised like that

Warning: don't lay under a train thinking the gap is big enough. Modern trains have steel brushes, and other things sticking out... You'll get killed.

I think the average top speed of newly built aircraft also went up by a significant amount during WWII. Wouldn't surprise me if that also was in the order of 57%.
Speaking of WWII: if you're interested in people who survived a lot, look up Alan Deere. Dude scrapped more Spitfires than most Germans did.

Was this a QI episode or a Lee Mack show? I normally don't mind him but found him quite annoying in this one

This is not series 1 episode 1

I love QI

I'd heard of the lemur, but not the sloth.

Of course he did not die when they stripped him naked and threw him in a snow drift; they had already fed him anti-freeze.

Why are people in the comments so pissed? Sandi made a joke in her usual deadpan fashion. On the show it’s not uncommon to make jokes even though you’re in the wrong with them? It could’ve come from anyone on the panel and I doubt people would’ve made such a fuss over it if someone else had said it.

With modern trains lying on the rails flat will leave you minced.

Interesting dynamic. Sandy is basically Stephen. Lee is his atatus opposite. Alan is his intelligent opposite. And Jimmy is just a pervert with a funny laugh..