Hilarious QI moment - Onomatopoeic 

1.) (Re)play the clip from 00:00 2.) Pay close attention to Mitchell's increasingly disturbed face as the conversation progresses, 3.) Laugh.

Ooh yes, "desk" has a good woody sort of sound to it. "Tin" though, oof, very tinny sound.

I love all the cuts to Mitchells confused face, as he's trying to get a word in.

I'm loving David Mitchells perplexed look at around 1:09

Johnny "I like my eyes and I like that you leave me alone when I go quiet.." looool awwww.

Rob Brydon's onomatopoeic rant inspires me.

Wonderful! I've never seen this bit before and I thought I'd seen them all by now - thanks to Dave.

"Well done everybody, there..."

I cried from laughter for a good ten minutes when david explained the pronunciation of carrots.

OMG there are 2 episodes of QI that I didn´t even know existed, thank you so much for this.

I love when at the end of a segment Stephen does this cute, little sigh, like he's saying "really boys"!

i love how confused david williams is throughout all of this

0:52 - 0:57 i can imagine the ideas and rebuttals that are welling up in David's mind but a pity we didnt see it.

I love how long David wanted to say something ;)

it does indeed. david williams is invisible. he's sat behind david mitchell, who is also very confused.

brydon = god

Mr Fry is so clever :) I love british humur! Johnny Vegas is amazing!

In German carrots are known as either Karotten or Möhren- very similar to the Welsh for carrots!

I love how distressed David Mitchell looks

haha loved johnny's 'onion ring' interjection, he completely missed the point

Baha, he does that innocent face amazingly well

@yatter1 I am certain I have never seen this either but I watch it whenever it is on! Whats worse is its gotta be one of the best! Life does like to kick us in the ball sometimes...

Rob Brydon should present programmes for children

Anyone else think the lid was going to blow off David Mitchell, looked like he was prepping for a massive rant lol

DESK!! DESK!! I love Rob.

caribou nibbling at the croquet hoops

Rob Brydon 's retort are retardedly spot on not to mention quick

What an hilarious 3 minutes and 22 seconds. God do I love QI. You get to learn something, and make your face hurt from laughing while doing it :) Personally, some of my favourite bits are when Stephen Fry gets all flustered by one of the guests. That one episode with that guy who may or may not have had Zulu heritage, the 'crackin lad' as Allen said, that was quite funny. He had Stephen wrapped around his finger, and even had that one Toksvig lesbian woman on the turn. Oh, how about when that genuine scientist was on the show, the episode where they talk about tossing Ewoks into a frozen lakes of fart! THAT was a friggin funny one. At the same time, brain meltingly complex... seriously, that guy looks right young, I'd be surprised if he were 30... just wait until he's friggin 60, or 80! ALL those decades of learning stuff that goes WAY over the heads of the average person, he could be the next Einstein or Hawking! On top of it all, he'll also begin the sport of Ewok Tossing! He's the genius we need, but not the one we deserve...

ANTELOPE ! WHERE ON THE LAWN?

"Well done, everybody there"

it's funnier in the original version, where the first line is just "you have onomatopoeia."

Bryden knows how to pull Fry's strings.

sure, many german words are similar to english ones, cause the saxons (sachsen^^) went from what's now Germany to what's now Great Britain. there are loads of "german" words in the english language. that's what I love about it :D

Nice quality

frightfully tinny sort of word that is

hahaha Mr Men references are always appropriate!!

I want a QI stationary set

Rob Brydon going nuts just gets me every time. "Pen!"

Celtic languages share a root with Germanic dialects. Riocht is the Irish for kingdom similar to Reich in German

i wanna press the like button more than once

A carrot should be called an oxymoron then.

"Oxy" means sharp ? No wonder it hurts every time I breath.

Nice woody word.

Awww Johnny

Why are you watching this then? Stephen is a national treasure.

Doctor: You have cancer and onomatopoeia. Patient.: What's onomatopoeia? Doctor: It's exactly what it sounds like. Ohohohohoho, that one slaps me on the knee.

I like how Alan, David and Johnny are dressed a bit like the shape behind them. But Rob sabotages the effect.

That explains Fus-Ro-DAH!

Rob Brydon is hilarious!

@HeadsFullOfEyeballs I find this enlightening and quite at odds with RU-vid standards as far as comments go.

As far as vegetables go, I find carrots a bit pointy actually.

Awww! Pandas make every quiz show better

@JezenThomas Carrot comes from Latin (carota) and possibly Greek before that. Dont know the etymology of morot though.

"Möhren" is also a German word for "carrot" - perhaps it shares a common ancestry with the Welsh word.

...and you sat there going "Oh, with your northern charm.." rofl

No, Stephen, Carrots are pointy not blunt

LMAO Bo-o-o-o-ok. "He has the eyes of trust, you have the eyes of prostitution" Why can't we in America have this kind of clever banter!? This is amazing.

northern charm! lol

Carrot, awfully tinny word.

look at rob's tiny tiny hands

Very very funny.

@fritspas goooooneee

his internal dialogue is "WTF IS THIS", "WTF IS THAT".

Tin!

"Moron" to me sounds like some sort of predatory fish.

Sausage. SAUSAGE! There's a good woody sort of word, sausage. Huhuhu. Goooorrn...

Puffins are onomatopeic. you can hear them pant as they have only got little wings

with you re northern charm LOL

What happened on June 26th - Statisics =P

I was expecting 'you have the eyes of prostitution' to be the top comment but instead I find a Monty Python quote. Faith in RU-vid has been restored.

hahahhaaaa. david mitchell. what a fool.

It seems you've invented someone sir.

Why did they cut out the bit where Johnny suggested names for the 'Mr Men' on the screen?

@Mullahgrrl hehe. root.

@hazelamym Don't lie. THOSE cheeks hurt because you've been sitting for so long, watching QI.

I think Rob has finally gone... COMPLETELY insane!!!

@N64isgreat tin? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Maybe the Welsh mostly like to eat their carrots cooked.

pen!!

why y'all hating on the welsh and rob brydon?

Oh oh oh i went crying by the onion rings egg hullahop under 'un ring

GORN...that's a nice word. GORNNNNN... Eeeeeuuuh! I don't like that word...it's too TINNIE!!!

David Mitchell

I like almost all QI panellists, Johnny Vegas is a rare exception. Don't find him funny at all! Still I love the format, Stephen and the others so much I still love every episode :)

What about Onion Rings, Oniioon Rinnngs xD

@Jovius2k Probably because a lot of Americans have a completely different sense of humour, where as they would be insulted by things we consider to be jokes such as the joke about their eyes.

Stephen, noooo, you're wroooong :-( The reason "mother" in most languages starts with /m/ is because it's the sound babies make while nursing. They can make an "mmmm" sound while nursing so that sound gets associated with their mother and thus "mama" for their mom. /a/ is also the easiest vowel for a baby to make.

ERRROGENOUS ZOOOONE

@uberarticuno Do you only have one ball???

PEN!

@Klamath2046 But obviously you don´t want to take it anywhere?

Swedish for carrot is 'morot' so maby there is some other root word?

"PEN!" XD

ONION RINGS hahaha

@theboyv retardedly in that context means very. For example you can say that someone is 'retardedlt beautiful' and that means very beautiful or to a ridiculous extent

father is farther ;)

1:28

What about onion rings? xD

Who's Jimmy?

...I am German, dude. what are you telling me this for? xD