QI Series 18 XL: Quantities | With James Acaster, Bridget Christie & Joe Lycett 

Joe Lycett and James Acaster have the same energy as your favorite cousins.

James has all the energy of a man who forgot he was going on the show, got extremely high, and then was doing his best to pretend he wasn't.

Absolutely magnificent panel on this one.

Thank you for another XL episode!

The statement about tire-marks left on asphalt being made of bitumen is complex. If you're referring to the lines from continuous usage, yes. If you're talking about ripping up the tires with a standstill it's absolutely rubber that gets left behind. Like I've seen it happen in front of me numerous times and seen thick wads of rubber left behind and the bald af tires afterwards. They get soft like crayon after a good spin. It probably depends a bit on how soft the roads are, if they're extremely high traffic areas and they're using hotmix it's more likely bitumen. But it's definitely not bitumen when it's on concrete and tires will still leave marks.

Wait I just realized those are all taskmaster contestants, LOL!

37:00 British tyres may not make skid marks, but American tires do. I once had to screech to a halt, brake pedal on the floor, hand brake pulled hard, the whole deal. When I got out of the car, my front tires each had a flat spot in one place where they'd been worn down (before anti-lock brakes), and sure enough, I left skid marks. They shook so much after that, I had to replace them.

When Bridget ask Alan 'How old are you darling?'. I've never seen Alan look so sheepish before!😂

Films also used roman numerals to hide how old the film was. For all you knew, that film you saw for the first time last week was released 17 years ago.

Audience gets one question wrong and one question right - ends up with -9. LOL

One day they should really explain hoe the scoring works..... PLEEEEEEAAAASE❤

USAAF bombers flying to Germany at the start were camouflaged. This was removed completely, front to rear, wingtip to wingtip, except for some sections on the insides of the engines. Reason, it saved fuel, already back in WW2 this was understood. The reason for keeping some patches in the engines was because the bare aluminum skin would blind the pilots due to reflecting sunlight, so the matt paint was kept on those areas, but for the rest, the whole plane would be devoid of any paint. RAF bombers flew by night. So perhaps they didn't experience the influence of the sun...

A full Taskmaster panel!

7:43 nooooo? You didn’t? … say, Wigan!!! Nice.

6:16 that’s healthy rivalry competing against the farts industry.

So how do they end up with skid marks on concrete surface roads?

2:21 no fuel.

5:13 Ha, there sure are. Boeing, that was a joke. Boeing? BOEING!? We need those! STOP! IT WAS A JOKE!

3:44 asprin, Tylenol, bayer, monkeys pills, don’t appeal or repeal your savings and profits?

How does Bridget deal with looking at Sandi during the show? Right behind Sandi is essentially a bunch of nested circles.

I've seen skid marks on concrete roads and runways.

6:34 vitality? you I don’t know but what’s how’s the farts merch selling? Smooth as vitality?

He lost his leg to TB???? I think not

3:09 oh fucking hell: well, it does sound like a lie.

emmmmm, wats with the laugh track? it certainly sounds like it

The statement about running out of ISBNs would depend on how many pages each volume is. Sandy gave no information about that, so her statement is in itself false.