QI fans... go get episode 6x09. Like, now. Right now. RIGHT NOW.

[tzikeh]

I... it... just... go.

epic glee...

WARNING: Spoilers in comments.

ETA!!! EMMA THOMPSON IS GOING TO BE ON QI ON MARCH SIXTH. HOLY SHIT.

Must. Make. QI. Icons.

EATA: How is it that *now* I'm learning that the whole fannish internet is abuzz about this, er, thing, and nobody told me! FIRED! FIRED! YOU'RE ALL FIRED!

goes to watch again

EYATA: I *really* hope that the XL version has more of... that. :D

Oh. For those who have no freaking idea what I'm talking about:

QI official site.
QI wikipedia page.
QI episode guide.

Comments

[loz]

Ahuh.

:D :D :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I downloaded this afternoon, expecting the usual dose of hilarity, and then... !

MATTER AND ANTI-MATTER: THE FORBIDDEN LOVE

[loz]

THE TWISTED, SICK, YET SURPRISINGLY HOT LOVE.

I love Rob Brydon for going there, and Ben Miller for joining him :D The physics talk was fascinating, and then there was man-on-man action; what more could a girl ask for?!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I got the sense that Miller went in for it first. Well, not the cute beginning bit, the big ol' second bit.

MUST. MAKE. ICON.

PREFERABLY ANIMATED.

[loz]

I don't think Miller would ever have done it without Brydon pouting his lips, though. Brydon went for the joke, Miller went for the punchline.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

A match made in heaven. DO WANT.

[loz]

They're Yin and Yang, of course they are :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Also who do we pay to get Miller back on the show. He's never been on before that I can remember.

(And I've always found Brydon a cutie.)

[loz]

No, he hasn't, although his comedy partner Alexander Armstrong has a couple of times. I don't know who we pay, but, dammit, they can have my savings.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

WTF LOZ Emma Thompson is going to be on the March 6th episode!!!

[loz]

AWESOME! I love her. ♥

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

...holy crap. They had Ian McKellen booked with Emma for the same episode, but he had to drop out last-minute.

...

I think the awesomeness would have killed everyone watching.

[dorcas-gustine.livejournal.com]

I see the news is spreading pretty fast! :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen any KIND of news. I grab it every week to watch on the weekend, and was just going along and enjoying the show and then...

then...

::insert soaring orchestral piece here::

But of course it makes sense that this would go round the networld like wildfire. I'm actually surprised I *hadn't* heard about it. Too much school, too little loafing online.

MUST MAKE QI ICONS

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

heh, I am in the process of acquiring the episode. *shields eyes from other comments* I don't have a clue what you're referencing, but EVERYONE seems to be excited about this ep so it must be good. *impatient*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

OH ACK - spoilers in comments. will edit.

Also HOLY SHIT EMMA THOMPSON IS GOING TO BE ON QI ON MARCH 6TH!

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

oh I figured there would be spoilers in the comments! Hence the eye-shielding. No worries!

AND OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS? AWESOME x 100.

Because it's killing me not to know...

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

What's QI?

Re: Because it's killing me not to know...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

QI official site.
QI wikipedia page.
QI episode guide.

I could go on about it for ages. Suffice it to say that anything I said would make it sound far less awesome than it is. But here goes:

Stephen Fry hosts a weekly tv program called QI (for Quite Interesting). It's kind of like a quiz show, but not really. Each week there are four panelists--Alan Davies, who is Stephen's sort of right-hand man, has been in every episode except one (this is season 6). The other three seats are taken by a sort of rotating set of comedians and actors. It's full of enormously interesting information but also hilariously funny people who go off on bizarre tangents. It's inexplicable. It's wonderful.

It's generally about 30 minutes, but they've started releasing QI XL, where more of the extraneous stuff is left in, and they run about 45 minutes.

Re: Because it's killing me not to know...

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

*goes off to check out links*

[reginagiraffe]

The good bit is on youtube already.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, but it's thousands of times funnier with the whole set-up beforehand, that it's a natural progression from Stephen's first remarks.

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

WANT. I should show up at your place with an external hard drive :D.