CLASSIC QI REACTION Series G Episode 8 XL - Germany (Sean Lock, Rob Brydon & Jo Brand) 

Really happy to hear how much you love doing QI reactions. Much love from England

An interesting fact regarding (not to be mentioned) the war and Stephen Fry. Stephen's maternal grandfather was one of two Hungarian Jews who ran a Sugar Beet Factory. When a similar factory was being planned in Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk, England) they asked if one of the brothers could come over and help with the set up and smooth running of the factory. Stephen's grandfather said he would go - and because of the outbreak of WW2 he and his family stayed in England. The other brother, his wife and children (plus all other relatives) were murdered in the Holocaust. I cannot imagine a world without Stephen Fry.

If you haven't seen it. Fawlty towers is where the "Don't mention the war" comes from. Its an amazing comedy series.

Brydon userping the host is a good act. He's pulled it on QI a couple of times, and very memorably on BFQ once, and of course did it for real on WILTY (unintentionally, I think).

"Uncle Wigglywings" aka Gail Halvorsen passed away in February this year at age 101.

The latest Taskmaster is up on RU-vid now. Ardal O'Hanlon, Bridget Christie, Chris Ramsey, Judi Love and Sophie Duker are the participants.

Sean would've said it wasn't too soon for taking the mickey and having a laugh. Watched the new taskmaster last night and you'll love it.

QI is perfect in every way. Here in the UK we have (my namesake) the Dave channel. There will be two repeats every night. I know all the answers by rote now, but it’s still just as funny. It’s so comforting that just the theme tune can lull me to sleep.

Sean Lock was so funny in this episode. World Cup 1966 was hosted in England and was won by the hosts

The new series of Task master, (going by the first episode) is going to be a treat. I can’t wait to see your reaction to it!

Love seeing these reactions. Thanks Neil! Have a great day 😃

Dinner for One is genuinely very funny.

'Dinner For One' is played every 23rd of December in Norway and every New Years Eve in Sweden =P

Literally jus watched this the night before you uploaded 👀😂

YES! I am German, and was gonna suggest this episode last time, but I thought maybe a wider audience wouldnt care about an episode just about Germany, but now it is here and I am happy!

It’s “knob ’ead” (knob head) not knob end. Just so’s you know 😏

this episode shattered my trust in their research a bit.

About 20 years ago I went to the Oktoberfest. Well tried to. The bus journey was so long that when we stopped in Holland 8am Friday for some breakfast, half of us just stayed in Holland and told the driver to collect us on the way home. Turns out from various stories off everyone that staying in Holland was better.

You’re half Dutch? Nice! I lived in Belgium for close to a decade and grew very fond of Flemish. It’s particularly fun working harbour security - Dutch passengers never expect to be addressed in Dutch, so there’s always that moment of pleased disbelief.

This one of my favourite episodes, along with Kings and Health and safety

it was minus 36 for Allan. The nude thing isn't as common as many foreigners think. Nude wandering or cycling seems to exist but I personally have never seen it in 45 yrs. It is common around the german beaches of the baltic sea though, especialy the former GDR. And it also isn't quite true that Germans don't care about the 66 world cup loss to England. But it's not so much the losing itself but there was a goal given to England (the third if I remember correctly) which to this day is contested whether the ball crossed the goal line or not.

Most of the episodes with the highest or lowest scores are because of special questions that are stated to have different points from the outset. The highest score ever was from the episode J08 followed distantly by K07. The lowest score yet was on episode D07

That's one of the main reasons why learning English is so difficult. We have invaded and been invaded so we have 3 or 4 meanings for each noun and even a few verbs. We grab bit's of latin and other languages from the roman invasion. Then we grabbed a few norse words from the vikings. And we have our own language but that's littered with germanic words. I watched a really interesting program about the history of the English language. Some lady said she could be understood in the scandanavian countries, Norway Sweden. And the germanic countries, Germany Holland if she only spoke in old 1300s English. She did it. She was able to find a hotel and get a room , buy food, ask for directions. all using spoken words from 700 years ago. When they went and asked the people she talked to what they thought of her. They said it was like someone was talking but putting some letters in the wrong places but it was easy enough to understand. 4 countries she went to only speaking english from the 1300s She had no problems anywhere. I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I had a 6 month relationship with some one I did not any words or her me. We got on just fine. A human does most communicating without words.

I hope you keep making RU-vid videos for a long time, I enjoy them.

For QI reaction, I encourage you to watch any episodes with big stars like Carrie Fisher, Brian Blessed, and Emma Thompson. Also, any episode with James Acaster, Sean Lock, Bill Bailey, or Aisling Bea. So funny!

The over-the-calf sock is actually excellent for dress socks. The advantage is that the curvature of the calf muscle helps reduce the frequency the socks drop down uncomfortably and unattractively.

I need your Darwin riding a tortoise shirt! So funny!

The "Dinner for One" is shown every year not just in Germany but also Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Australia, and South Africa. It's basically an integral part of Northern European culture, and admitting you don't know the show basically brands you as not really knowing anything about modern European culture. The show is unsurprisingly largely unknown in the UK though.

"Tainted glasses". Oh My GAWD. 🤣😂🤣😂

I know you're wearing a Darwin t-shirt in this video but for a second there I thought it was Terry Pratchett and a tribute to his Discworld, which gave me super good feels :)

To be fair, all socks on Rob are long socks. He has turn-ups on his underpants!

Oh man are you gonna have fun with the first ep of the new series of Taskmaster. Just finished it. They knocked this one out of the park. You can also quickly tell who's gonna do well and who's gonna be a disaster long term, but I don't think that actually hurts anything.

German Shepherds are still called Alsatians here in the UK, even though the term isn’t officially adopted. It’s such a nasty harsh sounding name, and I feel it too often reinforces the stereotype that they are dangerous or menacing dogs when they aren’t when trained with a caring owner, they just have that reputation being police dogs.

Tainted glasses deserves a clap

If you want to dive into the older (and shorter) episodes, the first episode of series 2 "Blue" is a classic. Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Jo Brand, all on fire for the whole episode.

QI is comfort food

Another good episode imo is F07 - Fingers and Fumbs, with Jo Brand, Phil Jupitus and Dara Ó Briain. The episode also includes punishment for using a certain rude word at any point in the show.

Schnitzel with noodles is actually more of a Swiss thing.

When I first saw this episode, the one that killed me the most was Alan's "everyzing carries on as normal" :D

Pennsylvania Dutch refers to all the long established German communities of the state. Not just the Amish.

You absolutely MUST watch Season P, episode 1!!

Have you watched the Christmas episode when Alan becomes the quizmaster and asks only Stephen questions?

Off topic, but ----- New taskmaster as of last night -- and it is properly back to before COVID measures. Good fun and some arguments between the guests.

Shame they didn't get Henning Wehn on for this one. But he was perhaps not as famous or well known back then.

Check out the trip with Steve coogan

1966 was when West Ham Utd won the World Cup at Wembley. BTW we also qualified last night for the semi finals of the Europa Cup to meet Frankfurt. COYI⚒

Its great to see your appreciation, QI is one of those shows that I can imagine doesn't travel well round the globe, its such a specialised form of for a better word quiz'aedy, I thought it maybe too British in its humour

Are you saying knobend? Neil it's knobhead for future reference

Regarding learning Latin at school, I've heard it makes it easier to learn extant, European languages if you already know Latin. Might be bullshit.

This must be an old show, because long socks are trendy. If he was wearing jumbo cords as well as long socks, I wonder if he had taken up skateboarding.

Please react to QI series P, episode 1.

WHAT WAS 66??????

In Scotland it's a common insult to say another man sits down for a waz (a pee)

Fun reaction but the awkward disappearance of the show display is frustrating and somewhat annoying.

Great show, I went out with a lady once who wanted me to sit down to pee. I left her, it's unnatural and slows the flows.

You show great content ... but you are much too loud. Sorry but it has to be said.