History YMMV / QI

* BrokenBase: The bombshell that Stephen Fry would leave as host has naturally caused this reaction. Though, this is downplayed so far in comparison to other shows, as the general consensus among fans so far is that, if Stephen can't be the host, Sandi Toksvig would be the best choice to take over.

* HarsherInHindsight: There are many instances during the "J" series where Stephen Fry is obviously sick, on medication or otherwise not himself (the whole Jumpers episode being the most obvious example). Later that year, he attempted suicide (again), and in an interview afterwards talking about his bipolar disorder, he said, "There are times when I'm doing ''QI'' and I'm going, 'ha ha, yeah, yeah' and inside I'm going, 'I want to f*** die. I want to f*** die.'"

** When David Tennant was on the show jokes were made about Bill Bailey being on the Christmas special of ''Series/DoctorWho''. Come the 2011 Christmas special...

**[[Music/{{Slipknot}}]] Corey Taylor's presence also baffled some people enough for it to trend in the UK when his episode aired.

**Music/Slipknot Corey Taylor's presence also baffled some people enough for it to trend in the UK when his episode aired.

**[[Music/Slipknot Corey Taylor]]'s presence also baffled some people enough for it to trend in the UK when his episode aired.

** Ronni Ancona doesn't seem to be very popular, either. [[TheSmurfettePrinciple And now that the BBC are requiring one female on every panel show...]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In "Monster Mash", Phil Jupitus makes a joke about Creator/AlanRickman. The episode first aired just after Rickman's death. The same happened two weeks later in "Mix and Match" with Lemmy from Music/{{Motorhead}}. Cue fans wondering if they'd mention Creator/DavidBowie next.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In "Monster Mash", Phil Jupitus makes a joke about Creator/AlanRickman. The episode first aired just after Rickman's death.

** In one episode, the panel discusses the fact that Thomas Edison thought fifteen tiny people lived in his brain. [[Disney/InsideOut Turns out, it's just five.]]

** "Merriment" is one long series of bizarre events: an overhead light exploding, a fly landing on Bill Bailey's hand and being killed by Alan, the panel composing an impromptu musical based on bathroom puns, Stephen handing out ice cream for no explained reason and the panel arguing over flavors like a disfunctional family... And although it made sense in context, the panelists wearing pantomime-themed costumes made it all more surreal.

* DudeNotFunny: Fry had to cancel a Japanese segment of a documentary about language and culture after poking fun at the bizarre luck of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived ''both'' atomic bombs at the end of WW2.

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

* UnfortunateImplications: Partially this has occured due to changing social norms, but a lot of the time panelists have made flagrantly bigoted jokes.
** Trans people in general have had a bad treatment. Not only do Alan and Stephen casually use slurs in early seasons, one question was even about how to spot a trans person in a bar.
** Alan in particular often spouts cartoonishly racist Asian and Hispanic accents. While the Hispanic accent hasn't been used in years, Alan has used Asian accents as recently as Series K.

** NoExportForYou: Retroactively: After BBC America got the rights all almost all the episodes on YouTube have been taken down.

** [[FridayNightDeathSlot Sunday Morning Death Slot]]:Possibly, though this may not be as much of a problem since people who get BBC America would also likely own [=DVRs=]: switched from 4:30 PM Thursdays to 9:30 AM Sundays.

* DudeNotFunny: Fry had to cancel a Japanese segment of a documentary about language and culture after poking fun at the bizarre luck of Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

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

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Alan being presented with a potato-head version of himself in "Corby".

** 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 "[[Series/FawltyTowers Don't Mention the War]]" penalty (only for Stephen to go on to break it himself witha question about WWII)

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

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Stephen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUn7zy8Ya20&t=1m34s tells a joke]] that utilises this in the punchline, and then asks [[LampshadeHanging "Why is it so funny?!]]

* EnsembleDarkHorse:
** Johnny Vegas. Considered TheScrappy by some fans.

* HarsherInHindsight: There are many instances during the "J" series where Stephen Fry is obviously sick, on medication or otherwise not himself (the whole Jumpers episode being the most obvious example). Later that year, he attempted suicide (again), and in an interview afterwards talking about his bipolar disorder, he said, "There are times when I’m doing QI and I’m going, ‘ha ha, yeah, yeah’ and inside I’m going, ‘I want to f****** die. I want to f****** die.’”

** In the Series F episode Future, Ben Miller's buzzer is the DoctorWho theme. Come 2014, and Ben Miller is playing the villain in the third episode of Series 8!

** Johnny Vegas. Considered TheWoobie by some fans, although for others 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, 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.