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  • Опубликовано: 8 июн 2017
  • 10 June: On this day in 1793, the Jardin des Plantes in Paris opened.
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    This clip is from QI Series G, Episode 01, 'Gardens' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Rob Brydon, David Mitchell and Dara Ó Briain.
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  • @Novur
    @Novur 4 года назад +719

    Stephen: "Alan, let me see what you have"
    Alan: "A KNIFE!"
    Stephen: "NO!!"
    David: "Oh my God, why does he have a-"

  • @SierraSierraFoxtrot
    @SierraSierraFoxtrot 7 лет назад +502

    Best advertisement the gardening museum has ever had.

  • @WolfWalrus
    @WolfWalrus 6 лет назад +480

    I imagine Stephen as a frustrated schoolteacher in this one. At any moment, he'll turn to the audience and say "Don't laugh when Alan's being ridiculous, you'll just encourage him!"

  • @Roof5tone
    @Roof5tone 4 года назад +368

    I love the little moment where Stephen actually stops his warning cuz he's distracted by the fact that the saw works.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 6 месяцев назад

      QI | Can You Name These Gardening Tools? 29.12.23 2128pm as jamie ponces about acting like a deeply arch psychologist...

  • @Shakes-Off-Fear
    @Shakes-Off-Fear 5 лет назад +763

    Alan gets handed a saw blade and immediately tries to destroy the set

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 3 года назад

      He's just like me!

    • @SebHaarfagre
      @SebHaarfagre 3 года назад +5

      @@greensteve9307 I've been looking for you. Got something I'm supposed to deliver - your hands only.
      Let's see here...
      There's a new museum opening up in Dawnstar. The owner is asking me to hand out invitations to travelers.
      Looks like that's it. Got to go

    • @merakfirgun1071
      @merakfirgun1071 2 года назад +2

      @@SebHaarfagre *stabs the courier*

  • @pianochannel100
    @pianochannel100 3 года назад +54

    Giving Alan the saw was a massive oversight

    • @lmm2103
      @lmm2103 2 года назад +1

      I think they probably did that on purpose, nobody else would have been so excitable

  • @addykelly1777
    @addykelly1777 6 лет назад +804

    The more he says Gentleman Gardener the more it sounds like a euphemism.

    • @Lellistair
      @Lellistair 6 лет назад +70

      "He's a, well, you know... a gentleman gardener, if you know what I mean"

    • @ThatDamnPandaKai
      @ThatDamnPandaKai 6 лет назад +23

      Does a Gentleman Gardener make Gentleman's Relish?

    • @mrbrown2186
      @mrbrown2186 5 лет назад +6

      Are you sure you weren't thinking of a uphill gardener?

    • @cruz1ale
      @cruz1ale 5 лет назад +39

      The Gentleman Gardener and His Little Ho

    • @PureGreggy
      @PureGreggy 5 лет назад +10

      @@ThatDamnPandaKai Yes, for his Gentleman's Sausage.

  • @thatguyseb8824
    @thatguyseb8824 7 лет назад +986

    This is why they don't let Alan play with the toys now.

    • @EzraDair
      @EzraDair 5 лет назад +1

      they don't ?

    • @DeBedschbacher
      @DeBedschbacher 5 лет назад +49

      @@EzraDair nope, usually not. The episode with the "Krummlauf"-rifle comes to mind.
      The provider of the rifle gave specific instructions NOT to hand it to Alan, as a condition.

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 4 года назад +18

      @@DeBedschbacher To be fair you'd have to be a special kind of eejit to trust Alan with a gun.

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 4 года назад

      To be fair the next thing on the show was an automatic rifle. XD

  • @ingeborg-anne
    @ingeborg-anne 7 лет назад +1432

    * The garden museum promptly blocks QI's number *

    • @Lucifronz
      @Lucifronz 7 лет назад +178

      There is now a picture of Alan Davies sitting alone under the words "Banned from the Museum".

    • @MercenaryPen
      @MercenaryPen 6 лет назад +19

      I thought the sign said "to be added to the museum compost heap, head downwards"

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 4 года назад +2

      ....The moment they get out from the coronary ward.

  • @exprime8872
    @exprime8872 7 лет назад +328

    God, David Mitchell is so quick

  • @DidntKnowWhatToPut1
    @DidntKnowWhatToPut1 7 лет назад +1969

    The curator in the audience must have had a panic attack.

    • @boooster101
      @boooster101 4 года назад +169

      imagine the face of the studio manager when they start dismantling the furniture

    • @cache780
      @cache780 4 года назад +2

      @@boooster101 scripted

    • @sallyone7029
      @sallyone7029 4 года назад +30

      @@boooster101
      They don't care. The bbc has so much money they can simply destroy any set they like, & simply find more taxpayers money to replace it.

    • @kjkiefcakes1847
      @kjkiefcakes1847 4 года назад +55

      "It's a saw!" -Alan
      "Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh" -the curator

    • @spruceg00se
      @spruceg00se 4 года назад +24

      Sally one if you don’t want to watch tv then you don’t have to pay for a tv license

  • @brydon5721
    @brydon5721 6 лет назад +247

    I wonder if Alan's desk still has a saw mark?

  • @mattwardpictures
    @mattwardpictures 6 лет назад +159

    "That's great, have you got any more?" (The producer downs a bottle of Pepto-bismol.)

  • @winston.sullivan
    @winston.sullivan 6 лет назад +356

    "I really wish they hand't made this set of asbestos" I LOL'd.

  • @BlissBatch
    @BlissBatch 5 лет назад +78

    I can't believe the booth didn't predict "nothing/no tools" as an answer.

    • @casey6556
      @casey6556 4 года назад +6

      They only klaxon wrong answers; I wouldn’t really call an animal “a tool”

  • @galexeqe
    @galexeqe 5 лет назад +58

    2:55 meanwhile the curators and conservators at the garden museum are having a heart attack : )

  • @timotejbernat462
    @timotejbernat462 4 года назад +26

    I love how Rob stares at Dara as soon as the phrase "Paddy fields" is said

  • @casey6556
    @casey6556 5 лет назад +31

    The look of amusement coupled with extreme concern and resignation on Stephen's face at 3:14 is honestly the best thing about this clip. Also his facial expression and tone of voice at 4:00 as he thanks the Gardening Museum for lending these *INCREDIBLY VALUABLE* artefacts

  • @owenfitzgerald8944
    @owenfitzgerald8944 5 лет назад +14

    See Dara shaking his head and scowling when Rob looked at him when Stephen said "Paddy" haha "No I will not be helping to play up that".

  • @zetetick395
    @zetetick395 4 года назад +19

    I've been practising 'Do Nothing Gardening' my entire adult life,
    in fact I've become so naturally adept at it that I've not even needed to own a garden at all in the last 6 years. (Only advisable for VERY advanced practitioners)

  • @TallSilentGuy
    @TallSilentGuy 4 года назад +182

    Alan is not so much a gentleman gardener as a hooligan gardener.

    • @Watchinwheel
      @Watchinwheel 2 года назад +1

      And the problem with that is?

    • @BumMcFluff
      @BumMcFluff 2 года назад +8

      @@Watchinwheel The hooligan bit of it, I would imagine.

  • @Dragmire800
    @Dragmire800 5 лет назад +31

    “In the Paddy fields”
    Rob looks at Dara

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 4 года назад +3

      Patricks as far as the eye can see!

  • @andyt2k
    @andyt2k 6 лет назад +41

    That may be the most fun Allen has ever had on this show

  • @gwen6622
    @gwen6622 3 года назад +14

    honestly this whole episode is one of the best QI episodes ever. what a star studded panel (in terms of QI panellists, anyway)

  • @jakk1hundo553
    @jakk1hundo553 3 года назад +4

    When Fry said “Paddy fields” and rob looks at Dara, the unspoken word hits hardest

  • @harrymix
    @harrymix 5 лет назад +9

    @2:00 Condescending Rob is the funniest thing ever.

  • @wordreet
    @wordreet 7 лет назад +72

    Swiss Army walking sticks!!!

  • @KamalcranioBR
    @KamalcranioBR 6 лет назад +193

    "IT WORKS! IT WORKS!"
    That's why you don't put 5 men in the same space and give'em toys.

    • @KamalcranioBR
      @KamalcranioBR 6 лет назад +12

      Like. Really. No kidding.
      Alan is like a child.

    • @RAFMnBgaming
      @RAFMnBgaming 4 года назад +3

      Mein Fuhrer I can Saw!

  • @TheTechnoLocker
    @TheTechnoLocker 7 лет назад +32

    This is one of the best episodes.

  • @LycorisSound
    @LycorisSound 7 лет назад +54

    I think probably my favorite QI episode.

    • @LycorisSound
      @LycorisSound 6 лет назад

      Also, Dara and Rob's faces when Stephen says "paddy fields."

  • @loffan
    @loffan 7 лет назад +272

    A small part of me was hoping that Alan would accidentally snap the saw.

    • @judithann7193
      @judithann7193 4 года назад +2

      No. He'd feel bad.

    • @drac1st
      @drac1st 4 года назад +1

      Not just me then. 🤣😂.

    • @strivingformindfulness2356
      @strivingformindfulness2356 3 года назад +1

      He very possibly could have snapped the blade, without blade lubrication. He was lucky.

    • @BumMcFluff
      @BumMcFluff 2 года назад

      And then get hit with a huge fine for damaging a museum piece.

  • @spider5600
    @spider5600 2 года назад +4

    I wonder if the Garden Museum have now had to amend the plaque next to the saw in the Museum.
    "This walking stick contains a hidden serrated edge used to by the gentleman gardener to saw off an overhanging branch in the late 19th century or by Alan Davies to saw the set from the television show QI in 2014 and we have since denied all requests to lend our exhibits after the curator passed out"

  • @agalgonzalez
    @agalgonzalez 2 года назад +1

    The most hilarious bit is Alan saying "got any more?"

  • @sheldoncedwardthibault3599
    @sheldoncedwardthibault3599 5 лет назад +3

    Asbestos in the panelling "Yikes"- Alan steals the show every time!

  • @madsli
    @madsli 5 лет назад +12

    Wasn't there an instance where Allan actually DID break some stuff lent to QI by a museum?

  • @michaelocyoung
    @michaelocyoung 5 лет назад +16

    Alan: "It's a SAW!"

  • @donnythedingo
    @donnythedingo 6 лет назад +37

    TIL there is a garden museum, and also they hate Davies. Poor Stephen was about to have a stroke!

  • @ChristianW1975
    @ChristianW1975 4 года назад +2

    Stephen Fry is absolutely amazing

  • @ealonlor
    @ealonlor 6 лет назад

    Best panel ever

  • @rubenknol1590
    @rubenknol1590 6 лет назад +2

    this was awesome!

  • @cornishphilosopher
    @cornishphilosopher 4 года назад +8

    I feel like Steven should have lost some points here for saying that Stephenson's Rocket was the first locomotive, I know it has nothing to do with the subject and he's the host, but since when has this quiz followed normal rules?
    Anyway Richard Trevithic beat him to it by about 20 years

  • @popazz1
    @popazz1 4 года назад +2

    Stephen channeling Joyce Grenfell's nursery school teacher as he chastises Alan. Think plummy accent, " Georrrrrge, don't do that ".

  • @lmm2103
    @lmm2103 2 года назад

    There's a delightful David Attenborough documentary about this, about Sokoyama in Japan, or at least where I think that is

  • @sweetdude1298
    @sweetdude1298 3 года назад

    1:29 the Coalbrookdale locomotive (built in 1801) was actually the first locomotive

  • @Dragmire800
    @Dragmire800 3 года назад +2

    Brydon hears “Paddy field” and looks at Dara

  • @alexanderkelly7819
    @alexanderkelly7819 5 лет назад

    I just saw this channel last night and these clips are the funniest things I've seen in a while

  • @PureGreggy
    @PureGreggy 5 лет назад +23

    Shockingly bad judgement to give Alan a saw. Next maybe they give Johnny Vegas a tray of coke to see what happens?

  • @sozeytozey
    @sozeytozey 3 года назад +3

    I love when Rob goes full condescending-teacher mode

  • @GrumpyTy34er
    @GrumpyTy34er 2 года назад

    David has the gardening equivalent of a Sabbath Stick. Amazing

  • @edwindude9893
    @edwindude9893 4 года назад +1

    I’m a geek ! I knew what they were all for !

  • @barryirlandi4217
    @barryirlandi4217 4 года назад +1

    Always the [problem when you try to make the lesson fun!

  • @CaptChrispy
    @CaptChrispy 3 года назад +3

    I'm sure the cucumber can be used in non-straight ways too.

  • @SidDrapic
    @SidDrapic 8 месяцев назад

    Nothing better than watching Alan go feral on the show

  • @nagualdesign
    @nagualdesign 3 года назад +2

    I don't understand how Dara's seed sprinkler worked. Surely the largest hole(s) would let through seeds of any size?

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 2 года назад

      You sew seeds smallest to largest.

    • @nagualdesign
      @nagualdesign 2 года назад

      @@violetskies14 Like a necklace? I bet it's difficult to sew seeds.

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 2 года назад

      @@nagualdesign 7 months later you reply to make a joke? 😂

    • @nagualdesign
      @nagualdesign 2 года назад +1

      @@violetskies14 😉 I hope it was worth waiting for.

  • @mitchweiner
    @mitchweiner 3 года назад +1

    Alan with a sharp instrument in his hand turns into a five-year-old boy! 😂

  • @madracTube
    @madracTube 4 года назад

    The bio says, on this day in 1793 jardis des plantes (de Paris) was open, meanwhile it was established in early 17th century..

  • @douglasparkinson4123
    @douglasparkinson4123 3 года назад

    you can jsut hear the mitchell and web sketches in davids jokes.
    like that joke about the inventor only wanting to talk about the saw. that was a joke from mitchell and webb. it was about neil armstrong writing a song.

  • @LoneKharnivore
    @LoneKharnivore 3 года назад

    I wonder if the use of carp in agriculture is what has given them a significance above their station? Like cats in Ancient Egypt.

  • @kierenbuckley370
    @kierenbuckley370 6 лет назад +13

    you grow the cucumber in the glass bottle but how do you get it out without breaking the bottle?

    • @dolebludger
      @dolebludger 6 лет назад +11

      Kieren it ha so bottom on the bottle. It'll just slide out

  • @Zectzozda
    @Zectzozda 3 года назад +1

    Rob Brydon: "Everyone's been given interesting instruments, while I'm given a bottle with the top cut off". Well, Rob, if this isn't an analogy for the comedic talent in that room, then I don't know what is.

  • @tony.h321
    @tony.h321 3 года назад +2

    4:50 Perhaps the clear glass of the cucumber mold is also meant to allow sunlight.

  • @neilperry2224
    @neilperry2224 2 года назад

    The glass for growing cucumbers straight

  • @D_U_N_E
    @D_U_N_E 6 лет назад +6

    I SAW that one coming...

    • @rufusgreenleaf2466
      @rufusgreenleaf2466 6 лет назад

      D.U.N.E No ones here, just a tumbleweed.

    • @D_U_N_E
      @D_U_N_E 6 лет назад

      And I'm the tumbleweed!!!

  • @AndersPuschel
    @AndersPuschel 3 года назад +3

    My mental state is clearly getting worse by the day. Now I feel claustrophobic on behalf of that cucumber stuck in the bottle.

  • @insertname1014
    @insertname1014 3 года назад

    Was there klaxon broken for those first few seconds?

  • @sarcasticstartrek7719
    @sarcasticstartrek7719 29 дней назад

    how do you get the cucumber out after, other than... breaking it?

  • @CaptChrispy
    @CaptChrispy 3 года назад

    David Mitchell AND Rob Brydon, now I have to change my pants.

  • @saxrendell
    @saxrendell 5 лет назад +5

    How did he manage to talk about low impact organic gardening without mentioning permaculture

    • @user-zk7fx2jq7d
      @user-zk7fx2jq7d 4 года назад +3

      The principle of "Do nothing farming" is basically permaculture. More or less.
      I recommend the book "The One Straw Revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka on that matter.

  • @ThatVincion
    @ThatVincion Год назад

    Alan listens to his intrusive voices and I applaud it.

  • @stephenbenner4353
    @stephenbenner4353 4 года назад +1

    “I like to call it a slang blade.”

  • @magillanz
    @magillanz 4 года назад

    how did they get the cucumber out of the bottle?

  • @James-iw4fz
    @James-iw4fz 4 года назад

    its an old bow saw ofcourse it works...

  • @freddieellis8449
    @freddieellis8449 5 лет назад +5

    “...Stephenson of the first locomotive...”?
    Tell that to Richard Trevithick!
    I expected more from you, Stephen!
    Rocket was built in 1829, Trevithick had a working locomotive in 1801!
    Minus many, many points for Mr. Fry, deary me!

  • @shock_n_Aweful
    @shock_n_Aweful 3 года назад +1

    who thought it was a good idea to give a sharp object to Alan?

  • @aerodaan
    @aerodaan 6 лет назад +1

    Oh the times people looked still young 😦

  • @chedelirio6984
    @chedelirio6984 6 лет назад +4

    Bad enough for the Museum but now the set crew have to whip up a new countertop, too.

    • @beth12svist
      @beth12svist 6 лет назад +2

      Cheo Delirio I was wondering if in subsequent episodes there was a cut...

  • @cmtippens9209
    @cmtippens9209 3 года назад

    Everyone keeps saying that the glass "bottle" has no bottom so that it's essentially a tube which would make sense for the intended purpose. However, he said it was a "bottle with the top cut off" and made no mention of there also being no bottom. Also, by the way he's handling it and looking at or through it, it does appear to have glass on the bottom. 1:24 Is it possible that it has been misidentified by the museum or someone else?

    • @chadfife3265
      @chadfife3265 Месяц назад

      If you look close you can see it has no bttm

  • @unclecreepy4073
    @unclecreepy4073 4 года назад +1

    The glass object looks like the opening is too small to pull the straight cucumber out. So do you have to break it? Seems like a lot of waste.

    • @wayneessar7489
      @wayneessar7489 3 года назад

      The stem comes out the small end, the cucumber grows down the bottle.

  • @theswayzeexpress1
    @theswayzeexpress1 4 года назад

    I am definitely dumb, but how do you get the cucumber out of the bottle?

  • @charlestownsend9280
    @charlestownsend9280 6 лет назад

    The one thing that I'm wondering is, how do you get the cucumber out of the glass bottle without getting shards of glass in your cucumber?

  • @StanTheObserver-lo8rx
    @StanTheObserver-lo8rx 3 года назад

    The tree saw was obvious..They still make them triangularish like that. The other I couldn't make out..too small. But later ,yes a Scythe is more accurate than Hoe.
    The still make forms for vegetables..You really can buy one that will grow a square Tomato. No kidding.

  • @robinleppitt3168
    @robinleppitt3168 4 года назад +1

    How do you get the cucumbers back out again!?

    • @gwishart
      @gwishart 4 года назад +3

      Cut them off the vine, then slide them out the large open end of the glass tube.

  • @shriyaskuttyfarm
    @shriyaskuttyfarm 3 года назад +1

    Great video. Nice. Your New friend is here. Stay connected and stay blessed.

  • @danielnoriega5200
    @danielnoriega5200 10 месяцев назад

    I'm surprised he didn't give alan the bottle

  • @eggarts9158
    @eggarts9158 4 года назад +1

    Surely it would have given Alan the bottle, but then again he’d have probably smashed it

  • @Shaun.Stephens
    @Shaun.Stephens 2 года назад

    These early ones without Sandi blathering at the end are so much better to watch than the later ones.

  • @gracewenzel
    @gracewenzel 2 года назад

    How would you get the cucumber out of the bottle?!

  • @ElCID40000
    @ElCID40000 3 года назад

    5:00 a cucumber is a fruit.

  • @Jesse3beards
    @Jesse3beards 5 лет назад +8

    «I really wish they didn’t make this set out of asbestos»

  • @mitshua
    @mitshua 4 года назад +1

    Ok but neither Rob or David told us if this were true or not

  • @ByteMe619
    @ByteMe619 6 лет назад

    The look Rob gave Dara when Stephen said “paddy”

  • @olivertunnah3987
    @olivertunnah3987 2 года назад

    Saddened Alan's 'no tools' answer wasn't a klaxon.

  • @seanwelch71
    @seanwelch71 3 года назад +2

    Talk about chewing the scenery!

  • @stevehayward1854
    @stevehayward1854 2 года назад

    My grand father used a walking stick for dispatching chickens golf style

  • @jcgabriel1569
    @jcgabriel1569 4 года назад +2

    ...Get the fish in and they'll desperately dig a pond before they die...

  • @NeatNit
    @NeatNit 4 года назад

    Nowhere in this video did he ask them to name the tools

  • @foucault8964
    @foucault8964 2 года назад

    Jesus David knows everything. Like stephen.

  • @monochromaticlightsource9153
    @monochromaticlightsource9153 3 года назад

    Spanner. Bill hook. Radish. Carrot. Hacksaw.

  • @thenodfather
    @thenodfather 3 года назад

    Rob looked at Dara when he Stpehen said Paddy and Dara STOPPED his attempt at a shit joke.

  • @guesswho2390
    @guesswho2390 3 года назад +1

    I don’t understand how they get the cucumber out of the bottle?!

    • @makiburgess5733
      @makiburgess5733 3 года назад

      Really? They pick it. They break off the stem. There is no bottom on the “bottle”.

    • @guesswho2390
      @guesswho2390 3 года назад +1

      @@makiburgess5733 chill! I thought the bottle was covered on the bottom.