QI | Can You Name These Gardening Tools? 

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

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!"

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

Best advertisement the gardening museum has ever had.

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

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

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

Giving Alan the saw was a massive oversight

* The garden museum promptly blocks QI's number *

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

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

God, David Mitchell is so quick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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".

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)

“In the Paddy fields” Rob looks at Dara

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

I think probably my favorite QI episode.

This is one of the best episodes.

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

Swiss Army walking sticks!!!

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

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

Stephen Fry is absolutely amazing

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

Alan: "It's a SAW!"

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

this was awesome!

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

Best panel ever

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

Brydon hears “Paddy field” and looks at Dara

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

I love when Rob goes full condescending-teacher mode

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

Nothing better than watching Alan go feral on the show

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

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

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.

David has the gardening equivalent of a Sabbath Stick. Amazing

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

“...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!

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

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

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

I SAW that one coming...

The glass for growing cucumbers straight

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

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

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

“I like to call it a slang blade.”

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?

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

Was there klaxon broken for those first few seconds?

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.

Alan listens to his intrusive voices and I applaud it.

Oh the times people looked still young 😦

its an old bow saw ofcourse it works...

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

how did they get the cucumber out of the bottle?

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

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

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

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?

I have to say I'm still a little annoyed that QI perpetuated the myth that George Stevenson's Rocket was the first locomotive. it wasn't even George Stevenson's first locomotive. The first ever railway locomotive was made by Richard Trevithick in 1802 and didn't have a name. Claiming the Rocket was the first locomotive is even more stupid because it was the winner of a LOCOMOTIVE TRIALS. The fact that 4 other locomotives showed up to compete with it clearly demonstrates it wasn't the first.

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.

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

How do you get the cucumbers back out again!?

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

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

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

The look Rob gave Dara when Stephen said “paddy”

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

I do Do Nothing Gardening, I don't have a garden so I don't do anything to it.

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

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

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

5:00 a cucumber is a fruit.

Talk about chewing the scenery!

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

Jesus David knows everything. Like stephen.