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Sorry if there is an existing thread for this but as the search function is effectively useless it makes threads hard to find. Even Google wasn't any help.
The episode shown recently, themed on memory, seemed to be missing something.
SF kept doing tricks involving printing banknotes and was very arch about it. There was a clear signpost to some joke or explanation coming later. However the programme finished with no further mention of the tricks.
Was anyone else puzzled by this?
The episode shown recently, themed on memory, seemed to be missing something.
SF kept doing tricks involving printing banknotes and was very arch about it. There was a clear signpost to some joke or explanation coming later. However the programme finished with no further mention of the tricks.
Was anyone else puzzled by this?
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Perhaps if he'd explained how the trick was done he might have had his wand broken? The mechanism for the basic trick is fairly simple, but I didn't expect the other denominations.
I wasn't necessarily expecting him to explain the trick - it was very easy to work out.
It was his, and the guest's, general behaviour that made it seem as if they were going to make some big thing of it at some point.
SF was talking in a manner that suggested that he had something up his sleeve for later.
Maybe I just misread his demeanour.
Well it was her third appearance so if you're a fan of the show you should have seen her before.
I would say I was still a fan until I went to a recording a couple of years ago, I was SO bored with it (I think it went on for nearly three hours).
I think they sometimes just don't do (or show) an XL version.
There was a thread here about a trick done with milk that I was looking forward to, but there was no 'XL' that week, and it wasn't that episode on the next one shown.
Yes. Often.
In fact a couple have comprehensively put a lot of the very average British male panellists to shame.
Ah, you're thinking of the upcoming: "How the Chinese infiltrated the highest levels of British intelligence without anyone noticing".
Sorry for the confusion.
No. In fact I watched the QI XL version and not only did she say nothing funny, she spoke barely ten words.
It's about time the BBC scrapped this panel show quota if this is the result. By all means have women on if there are funny and witty women available, but most of the time there aren't. You could probably count the number of funny and witty female comedians on one hand.
I think it was fine before they introduced this rule, when occasionally there would be a woman on, but not every time. Drawing on a very small pool to put a woman on every show means they either scrape the barrel or have Jo Brand every week. Panels shows have become much worse in the last two years, that's for sure. They were criticised as "testosterone-fuelled" but I don't see how having a woman sit there like a lemon watching the boys banter is any better.
It all over the place. Like they have no respect for it. I wonder if it's because they think people will just download/stream it instead so are not bothering with a set schedule.
I thought they'd make more of a big deal over Stephen's last show but it just seemed to go unremarked and as you say the way they have treated the end of the series on XL is downright bizarre.