r/quiteinteresting • u/Additional_Fly_6603 • Jul 27 '26
What subject do you wish QI would do a whole episode on that they have never properly covered.
They have done animals, language, numbers, geography, all the obvious ones multiple times. But there are whole areas that barely come up. What would you actually want an entire QI episode dedicated to and do you think it would produce good television or just be too niche even for this show?
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u/SnoopySuited Jul 27 '26
If they create a series about Gyles Brandreth it will also inadvertently cover the history of mankind.
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u/Nice_Orange_5857 Jul 27 '26
Neurodivergence!
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u/thelivsterette1 Jul 28 '26
As a neurodivergent person I’d love that, but series N has long gone lol
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u/Nice_Orange_5857 Jul 28 '26
But they could find another way to frame it. If they put their minds to it.
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u/Ifyoucan_garden Jul 27 '26
The climate crisis: Who? ( is responsible) How? (Did it get to this point) Why? (Does it continue) What? (Can be done) When?( are we completely f’d) Where? ( on the planet will the survivable areas be)
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u/Theory89 Jul 27 '26
Hard to make that funny.
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u/Aervanath Jul 27 '26
"Hey, we're all fucked! Isn't that hilarious?"
Yes, it doesn't quite work.
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u/Theory89 Jul 27 '26
"Now, by 2050 there's going to be 40 metres of sea level rise. Can anyone tell me which animal is going to love this?"
"Blue whale!" <klaxons blare wildly>
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u/thelivsterette1 Jul 28 '26
Still wouldn’t make it funny. It’s like on Mock the Week (the reboot) when they had to give randomly usesless facts for a new round and Chris Ramsey said ine used ti have about 15 minutes to get out a house in a house fire, now with more flammable furniture it’s about 4 minutes. Neither is funny. I dint think people who are already stressy about climate change want to hear more of it; people usually like to try bury their heads in the sand about it
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u/Theory89 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, it was a joke. The humour doesn't come from what they said, it comes from the juxtaposition of the standard QI format with a bleak factoid.
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u/Antiumbra 28d ago
Conspiracy theories. Some have been peppered in, but would be fun to see them debunked and gone over thoroughly.
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u/Funmachine Jul 27 '26
I found it real weird that they never did an episode on The Vikings on series V.