Yeah, this needs to be a recurring bit. I love the petty frustration being vented here, as well as how Fry goes from willingly falling into them to actually being surprised a few times, at least so it seems.
Alas, Alan has got the last one wrong. Cows are indeed worshipped in India. Every temple dedicated to Shiva has a cow statue infront called the Nandi, which thought make your wish come true
Pretty sure there were more than 6 known states of matter even in 2003. I can think of more off the top of my head: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate, neutron degenerate matter, electron degenerate matter, superfluid, supersolid And there are a great many more I can't think of off the top of my head. I'm not even cheating and using fermionic condensate, which I hadn't heard of before this. *edit* yep, superfuididy was discovered in 1938. So there were definitely more than 6 when this aired.
Magmafrost13 I'm doing a physical chemistry course in uni and my professor said there are like 15 different states of water alone. "Phases" aren't as distinct as previously thought.
That timing was so f*cking perfect. I don't think it'd have been anywhere near as funny if Jupitus hadn't waited a beat before saying it... it's a true master of comedy :)
Lived in India-- and they do worship cows. Cows have tikkas on their forehead, garlands around them and people will touch it and then touch their own forehead. Its revered.. if not "sacred" in the strictest terms.
In non-joke quiz shows, the panelists are all representing universities, and that's how the announcer calls on them: *buzz* Smith - Oxford: Nelson had one eye, or whatever Announcer: Incorrect *buzz* Jones - Newcastle: bla bla whatever, that's the joke.
@KapStuf I'm a Hindu.. and let me assure we do hold cows "sacred".. There ARE statues of a cow demi-god in temples.. we do worship cows during certain festivals.. and they are generally well respected animals...
I'm a Hindu, and yes we worship cows in India, since it's lord shiva's vaahan(vehicle), for more info, look up Nandi hills, India. QI got this one wrong too
One thing I don't understand about these videos (which I love by the way, and thank you for uploading), is "No copyright infringement intended", while you're doing just that and basically acknowledging it by putting that sentence in the description.
isn't the cow like the vehicle of vishnu or something? some hindu gods have animals they ride on (1 of them has a rat) so those animals are also revered to some extent
they are in a way...But mostly it should be 'reverred and respected'for the milk they prouduce...a high source of sustenance and the dung is used in innumerable ways. The elephant is mostly the worshipped one...I am not indian but i think this is what theyre referring to
Yes, cows are worshipped in India by Hindus, not by Christians, it was a trick question, btw.. Look up Nandi or Nandi hills India, for more info about the sacred cow
Cows are actually not worshipped, it is just considered adharmic to kill one. Sort of like a sin, but like sacred sin is a very Christian term. Basically killing a cow is against Hindu law but the cow itself is not holy. Cows are thought to have perfect karma because they give of their milk and ask nothing in return, so they are revered, but not worshipped as deities.
Akshay cow worship is certainly a thing in Hinduism. And Hinduism is prevalent in India. It's not wrong to say cows are considered sacred in India by certain groups
Akshay India is secular and cows aren't sacred? So that's why Gujarat increased the sentence for slaughtering a cow to life imprisonment. Gotcha... Also, look up Kamadhenu.
There are 4 fundamental states of matter. So the inital answer was correct. If we count all possible states and transitions we get more than a dozen. So 6 is completely wrong. He didnt even list superfluids as one of the 6...
hang on, stephen said 'do you want me to wrap up' during the christmas episode, so would that make it a winter wrap up, god i hope i'm not the only one on here who would get that reference or i'll just look like a twat
"What kind of animal is sacred in India?" BLUE WHALE!
I thought woman
Trope: I've made a terrible mistake.
Source: Fry.
ah i felt so happy for Alan :)
Stephen starts out with "Oh, I'll show him. I'll show him it's not that easy." Then Alan gets settled in and he realizes he's done a big mistake.
stephen realizes reading from a piece of paper isnt as hard as he thought..
It's not hard to read, it's hard to deliver. Very different things.
primeribeye The hardest part is hosting comedians... They'll pick up on everything you get wrong, don't time well
"It's traditional at Christmas, for servants to be served by the master." XD lol
LOL. Fry, Cambridge!
That little sigh when Stephen gets the plug hole question right is just precious.
Aw, look at Alan being all pleased with himself at the end :)
01:31 when he says 'this isn't going to work' haha brilliant!
"FRY, CAMBRIDGE"
had me in tears
They need to do this again in Stephen's last episode.
+JESK1985 The didn't sadly. But there is still chance that Stephen Fry might appear as a guest panelist in the future
God, I love them. Wish it'd never end
LOVE how they used Alan's recitation of the states of matter as part of the intro in the next series of QI.
Phil's Stephen Fry impressions have got to be the funniest thing ever.
Yeah, this needs to be a recurring bit. I love the petty frustration being vented here, as well as how Fry goes from willingly falling into them to actually being surprised a few times, at least so it seems.
Finally!! Alan is repayed for eternal ignorance!!!
Gottlieb actually is the German version of the Latin Amadeus.
Both include "god" (Gott ; deus) and a form of "love" (lieb ; ama).
The more you know.
i'm tempted to attach a name to gottileb
Theophilus means exactly the same. The more you know.
Theophilus means friend of god in greek.
As a fan of QI, this is hilarious! Go Alan!
This is why QI is better than everything else.
Its great how disappointed Alan gets whenever Stephen gets a question right.
I love Alans little "aw" when Stephen got the one question right. xD I also love how much fun he had with this haha.
"Stephen, you idiot."
The sound of disappointment Alan makes when Stephen gets one right is enough to melt anyone's heart.
This made me so happy and I've been having a pretty crappy day.
You can just see when Stephen realises that Alan has gone off script and he just has a look of terror on his face.
There's this show in the UK, University Challenge, whenever a player from a team hits the buzzer, the host calls out their surname and school
Alan "awwwwwwww"
"DO NOT SAY COW. DO NOT SAYCOW."
"...is it a cow?"
Oh my god, I love this!
This is literally Even, Stephen... XD
I know! I love how great comedians just say everything perfectly.
Alan : "Aww."
LOL
Alas, Alan has got the last one wrong. Cows are indeed worshipped in India. Every temple dedicated to Shiva has a cow statue infront called the Nandi, which thought make your wish come true
I suppose we do exist in varying degrees of sanity... but then, so does humanity as a whole XD
Pretty sure there were more than 6 known states of matter even in 2003. I can think of more off the top of my head:
solid, liquid, gas, plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate, neutron degenerate matter, electron degenerate matter, superfluid, supersolid
And there are a great many more I can't think of off the top of my head.
I'm not even cheating and using fermionic condensate, which I hadn't heard of before this.
*edit* yep, superfuididy was discovered in 1938. So there were definitely more than 6 when this aired.
i always thought it was 5, i only knew solid, liquid, gas, plasma and superfluid
Well, I think everything past plasma was supposed to be only theoretical. Have to read up on physics again.
Magmafrost13 I'm doing a physical chemistry course in uni and my professor said there are like 15 different states of water alone. "Phases" aren't as distinct as previously thought.
That timing was so f*cking perfect. I don't think it'd have been anywhere near as funny if Jupitus hadn't waited a beat before saying it... it's a true master of comedy :)
I want to see Alan and Pilkington talk to each other. It would be the equivalent of witnessing Stephen Fry and Morgan Freeman talk to one another.
This clip never gets old for me. :)
2:28 - 2:31
Alan and Stephen's reactions to each other are just priceless.
stephen fry takes these jokes like a boss
Damn, you're right, that can mean only one thing, Fry predicted Winter Wrap Up!
It's QI. They're going by the literal definition of sacred, which cows do not fall under.
"OH FRY, YOU IDIOT."
You know what, I couldn't stand Alan until this minute. He's immediately become my hero.
Lived in India-- and they do worship cows. Cows have tikkas on their forehead, garlands around them and people will touch it and then touch their own forehead. Its revered.. if not "sacred" in the strictest terms.
Alan is so cute omfg god bless.
Steven: Do not say COW!..DO NOT SAY COW
Phill: .......is it a cow?
LMAO
Alan is so cute.
Actually, there are 7 states of matter. Bose-Einstein condenstate, Fermionic condensate, Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma and Quark-Gluon Plasma.
Fry should be a guest voice. It would be amazing :D
It's about bloody time.
I was expecting someone to buzz and say that Stephen Fry was sacred in India...
Holy buck. That would literally be the best thing in MLP since Derpy's speaking role (the original though, not the underped one)
fry absolutely didnt see that one coming
In non-joke quiz shows, the panelists are all representing universities, and that's how the announcer calls on them:
*buzz*
Smith - Oxford: Nelson had one eye, or whatever
Announcer: Incorrect
*buzz*
Jones - Newcastle: bla bla whatever, that's the joke.
Oh Alan, you peasant!
"A Swede called Thomas Sørensen?" - No, Stephen! I'm so disappointed in you! He's Danish!
Summon Hasbro! Stephen Fry must be ponified immediatly!
Loved this. One day I'd like to see Phill take the chair in the middle and pit Stephen and Alan against each other
What episode is this? My gosh alan is young
@KapStuf I'm a Hindu.. and let me assure we do hold cows "sacred".. There ARE statues of a cow demi-god in temples.. we do worship cows during certain festivals.. and they are generally well respected animals...
Fry, Cambridge!! hahaha
I'm a Hindu, and yes we worship cows in India, since it's lord shiva's vaahan(vehicle), for more info, look up Nandi hills, India. QI got this one wrong too
This is PERFECT! xD
Well, yes - I don't think any of us were that serious about it :P
seeing stephen in that seat is too weird
Aww, poor Stephen.
I believe crystaline solid is another
So that's how you make the face of NYEHEHEHEHEE
By several years and I highly doubt Fry would make a reference to MLP, especially not when 'wrap up' is such a common phrase
Thomas Sørensen is a dane... Stephen!!!
That's funny, it seems we watched the same video.......
When he said "Do not say cow", I thought he was using a buzzer?
jesus the video quality of this video got royally destroyed by youtube
I think I read somewhere it's Garuda, the eagle.
One thing I don't understand about these videos (which I love by the way, and thank you for uploading), is "No copyright infringement intended", while you're doing just that and basically acknowledging it by putting that sentence in the description.
isn't the cow like the vehicle of vishnu or something? some hindu gods have animals they ride on (1 of them has a rat) so those animals are also revered to some extent
1:52 - Alan is pleased as punch.
they are in a way...But mostly it should be 'reverred and respected'for the milk they prouduce...a high source of sustenance and the dung is used in innumerable ways. The elephant is mostly the worshipped one...I am not indian but i think this is what theyre referring to
2:57 Does Stephen Fry sal "LOL"? xD
Bollthorn I think it's "ohh..." but now you've said that it does sound a bit like lol! :P
What score did Stephen get?
Oh you! I get that reference :)
Damn this was hilarious. But after the "sacred" bit they're completely wrong. We do have cow gods, temples and we worship them.
I did not know that about India and Cows.
"Oh Fry. You idiot."
Alas, I think this predates that :(
hahaa he got tricked so hard YES ALAN MAN YES:
What was the scoring? I assume Stephen got a score in the end?
Yes, cows are worshipped in India by Hindus, not by Christians, it was a trick question, btw.. Look up Nandi or Nandi hills India, for more info about the sacred cow
Cows are actually not worshipped, it is just considered adharmic to kill one. Sort of like a sin, but like sacred sin is a very Christian term. Basically killing a cow is against Hindu law but the cow itself is not holy. Cows are thought to have perfect karma because they give of their milk and ask nothing in return, so they are revered, but not worshipped as deities.
I'm Indian. The bit about the cow was wrong. There are no cow-dieties, but they're still considered holy/sacred and worshipped
Akshay cow worship is certainly a thing in Hinduism. And Hinduism is prevalent in India. It's not wrong to say cows are considered sacred in India by certain groups
Akshay India is secular and cows aren't sacred? So that's why Gujarat increased the sentence for slaughtering a cow to life imprisonment. Gotcha...
Also, look up Kamadhenu.
there is a clip of fry and freeman talking together...
"Oh Fry, you idiot"
Even Stephen
I want more
What season is this?
And Phil steals the show again...
thanks goodness /)
There are 4 fundamental states of matter. So the inital answer was correct. If we count all possible states and transitions we get more than a dozen. So 6 is completely wrong. He didnt even list superfluids as one of the 6...
So are chickens and stuff on the same level?
hang on, stephen said 'do you want me to wrap up' during the christmas episode, so would that make it a winter wrap up, god i hope i'm not the only one on here who would get that reference or i'll just look like a twat