History YMMV / QI

* TheAce: Sandi Toksvig, who wins virtually every time she's on the show and is still very interesting and humorous.

YMMV page for ''{{QI}}'':

** Although in the episode about France it was pointed out that the French have a very solid military record, refuting the CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys stereotype, and an episode on "Germany" instituted a special "[[FawltyTowers Don't Mention the War]]" penalty (only for Stephen to go on to break it himself witha question about WWII)

** RossNoble also made a good case for himself in his first appearance.

* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QofOJ9AjM Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable, I have seen him on his bicycle]]...

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Johnny Vegas. Considered TheScrappy by some fans. RossNoble also made a good case for himself in his first appearance.
* FreudWasRight: In one episode, the audience laughed uncontrollably as the formula for paper folding comes up.
-->'''Stephen''': What you need is length and thickness [[spoiler:(to determine how many times you can fold a piece of paper)]].
** This may qualify as a [=CMOF=], as quite a few innuendos had been delivered by that point and Rob Brydon simply gave Stephen an innocent "Oh, really?" look...

* HilariousInHindsight: During the "Green" episode, Danny Baker urged the viewers at home to save electricity by turning off their television sets. That episode had one of the lowest audience figures of the programme's run.

* TheScrappy: Johnny Vegas. Considered TheWoobie by some fans.
** Although oddly, for some people QI [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap actually made them warm to Johnny Vegas]], because he displayed an actual wit and warmth which is pretty noticeably absent from a lot of his stand-up and other stuff; also because when [[CreatorCameo John Lloyd]] came on [[StopHavingFunGuys and started arguing quite seriously with Stephen about the definition of sound]], Johnny came out with an ArmorPiercingQuestion that shredded his argument.

** Ronni Ancona doesn't seem to be very popular, either.

** Although oddly, for some people QI [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap actually made them warm to Johnny Vegas]], because he displayed an actual wit and warmth which is pretty noticeably absent from a lot of his stand-up and other stuff; also because when [[CreatorCameo John Lloyd]] came on [[StopHavingFunGuys and started arguing quite seriously with Stephen about the definition of sound]], Johnny promptly started taking the piss out of him.

* [[AuthorsSavingThrow Rob's Saving Throw]]: Rob's awful, awful pun "philately will get me nowhere" in Holidays. Que audience groans and an utterly unimpressed Stephen. Luckily, he redeemed himself by [[ItMakesSenseInContext going back in time and correcting himself]].

** Although in the episode about France it was pointed out that the French have a very solid military record, refuting the CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys stereotype.

* AcceptableTargets: Like all good English TV, [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys France]], [[SelfDeprecation England]] and [[{{Eagleland}} America]], (and occasionally [[{{Oireland}} Ireland]], [[BonnieScotland Scotland]], and [[LandOfMyFathersAndTheirSheep Wales]]) are constantly the butt of jokes.

** Or when Johnny's wit was the only thing that rescued the "Fight or Flight" show from Pam Ayres.
*** Ronni Ancona doesn't seem to be very popular, either.

* Ronni Ancona doesn't seem to be very popular, either.

** Or when Johnny's wit was the only thing that rescued the "Fight or Flight" show from Pam Ayres.

* AcceptableTargets: Like all good English TV, [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys France]], [[SelfDeprecation England]] and [[{{Eagleland}} America]], (and occasionally [[{{Oireland}} Ireland]], [[BonnieScotland Scotland]], and [[LandOfMyFathersAndTheirSheep Wales]]) are constantly the butt of jokes.
** Although in the episode about France it was pointed out that the French have a very solid military record, refuting the CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys stereotype.
** Rob Brydon often takes umbrage at what he (jokingly) calls Stephen's offensive stereotypes with regard to the Welsh.

* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QofOJ9AjM Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable, I have seen him on his bicycle]]...
** They say of the Acropolis...
** The show's theme tune is pretty awesome.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Johnny Vegas. Considered TheScrappy by some fans. RossNoble also made a good case for himself in his first appearance.
* FreudWasRight: In one episode, the audience laughed uncontrollably as the formula for paper folding comes up.

** This may qualify as a [=CMOF=], as quite a few innuendos had been delivered by that point and Rob Brydon simply gave Stephen an innocent "Oh, really?" look...
** Not to mention Doon Makichan absentmindedly miming eating a large deep-fried Curly Wurly. ''Two-handed''. [[http://youtu.be/GXeDuoKQtxQ?t=6m50s Linkski.]]

* [[TheProducerThinksOfEverything The Producers Think Of Everything]]: Some of the panelists' jokey answers set off the klaxon, especially [[BottomOfTheBarrelJoke too-obvious jokes]].

-->'''Jimmy Carr:'''Piers Morgan?

* EarWorm: Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable, I have seen him on his bicycle...

* DidNotDoTheResearch: The research staff seem to have no grasp of anything about the United States. "And squirrels are still a popular dish in America!"

** Although oddly, for some people QI [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap actually made them warm to Johnny Vegas]], because he displayed an actual wit and warmth which is pretty noticeably absent from a lot of his stand-up and other stuff; also because when [[CreatorCameo John Lloyd]] came on [[StopHavingFunGuys and started arguing quite seriously with Stephen about the definition of sound]], Johnny promptly started taking the piss out of him.

** When David Tennant was on the show jokes were made about Bill Bailey being on the Christmas special of DoctorWho. Come the 2011 Christmas special...
* [[TheProducerThinksOfEverything The Producers Think Of Everything]]: Some of the panelists' jokey answers set off the klaxon, especially [[BottomOfTheBarrelJoke too-obvious jokes]]. See "Piers Morgan" on the [[Quotes/{{QI}} Quotes page.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: During the "Green" episode, Danny Baker urged the viewers at home to save electricity by turning off their television sets. That episode had one of the lowest audience figures of the programme's run.