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• Acceptable Targets: Like all good English TV, France, England and America, (and occasionally Ireland, Scotland, and 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 Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys stereotype.
  • Rob Brydon often takes umbrage at what he (jokingly) calls Stephen's offensive stereotypes with regard to the Welsh.
• 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 going back in time and correcting himself.
• Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Alan being presented with a potato-head version of himself in "Corby".
• Dude, Not Funny!: Fry had to cancel a Japanese segment of a documentary about language and culture after poking fun at the bizarre luck of Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
• Ear Worm: 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.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Johnny Vegas. Considered The Scrappy by some fans. Ross Noble also made a good case for himself in his first appearance.
• Freud Was Right: In one episode, the audience laughed uncontrollably as the formula for paper folding comes up.
  Stephen: What you need is length and thickness (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...
  • Not to mention Doon Makichan absentmindedly miming eating a large deep-fried Curly Wurly. Two-handed. Linkski.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: 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.
  • When David Tennant was on the show jokes were made about Bill Bailey being on the Christmas special of Doctor Who. Come the 2011 Christmas special...
  • In early series, Alan Davies makes several jokes about being an oppressed and displaced Welsh person. And then, in the Europe episode, he reveals that he's found out that, despite his last name indicating otherwise, he actually has no Welsh ancestry.
• The Producers Think Of Everything: Some of the panelists' jokey answers set off the klaxon, especially too-obvious jokes.
  Stephen: Name a poisonous snake.
  Jimmy Carr:Piers Morgan?
• The Scrappy: Johnny Vegas. Considered The Woobie by some fans.
  • Although oddly, for some people QI 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 John Lloyd came on and started arguing quite seriously with Stephen about the definition of sound, Johnny promptly started taking the piss out of him.
  • Or when Johnny's wit was the only thing that rescued the "Fight or Flight" show from Pam Ayres.