No Such Thing As Constantly Awake Beauty is the 169th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 13th episode of the fourth year, and the 24th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Anna, James, Andy and Alex discuss synchronised blinking, the ants the size of foxes, and nocturnal apple-counting robots.
Facts[]
- Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort. (Bell)
- Moviegoers blink in sync. (Harkin)
- If you buy an apple today, it might have been taken off the tree 3 years ago. (Murray)
- The first western eyewitness account of India described it as having ants the size of foxes. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- Regular presenter and host Dan Schreiber is absent.
- In his absence, Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
- Alex Bell guests.
- Murray mentions the fact about a library full of nitrogen from Episode 153: No Such Thing As Mulled Wine At The Dawn Of Time.
- Harkin is compared to Schreiber when he says that robots can count apples, but only at night.
- Heroditus is mentioned again in Episode 193: No Such Thing As Death By Conga as a dubious source of historical information.
- The myth of humans with dog heads is again mentioned in Episode 179: No Such Thing As Stare-Boxing.