No Such Thing As A More Ambitious Crossover Event In History is the 227th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 19th episode of the fifth year, and the 31st episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded partly at the Opera House in Wellington, New Zealand, and partly at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Live (partly at least) from the Wellington Opera House, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss how to birth a lamb, the most niche Netflix categories, and Elton John's travel arrangements.
Facts[]
- If a lamb starts being born the wrong way up, the farmer pushes it right back up into the womb and gets it to start again.[1] (Ptaszynski)
- The Netflix category "Gory Canadian Revenge Movies" only has one film in it.[2][3] (Murray)
- In sacred Moche combat, the aim was not to kill your oponent but to knock his hat off.[4] (Harkin)
- Pseudonyms that Elton John has used when checking into a hotel include "Sir Binky Poodleclip", "Judas Fart", and "The Marquis of Minge".[5] (Schreiber)
Trivia[]
- This is the seventh and final stop on the Australasia Tour.
- This is the seventh Fish live show outside of Europe, the seventh in Oceania, and the second show in New Zealand.
- Part of the recording of this episode was lost, so the rest of it had to be recreated in the QI Offices.
- The difference in time between the original live show and the re-recording was 9 weeks.
- The "crossover" occurs about 33 minutes into the episode.
- James talks about removing your spleen to run faster, which he previously mentioned being done in Ancient Egypt in Episode 212.
- James guesses that David Garrick was the most prolific actor of all time. Garrick would later be part of a headline fact in Episode 262.
- Anna mentions the musical version of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which was previously discussed in Episode 218.
- Andy gives his Twitter name as @GiorgioSpelvino, after a discussion on the name George Spelvin.
Notes[]
- ↑ The New Yorker: The Tweeting of the Lambs: A Day in the Life of a Modern Shepherd [direct source]
- ↑ Andy forgot to write down the name of the film in question. It's called Visiting Hours, and has since been removed from Netflix, along with the microgenres system.
- ↑ BuzzFeed: 23 Oddly Specific Netflix Categories That Only Have One Show You Can Watch
- ↑ James got his fact from a 2017 visit to the Larco Museum in Lima, Peru.
- ↑ Robb Report: The Fake Names Celebrities Use (and the Hotels Where They Use Them) | Elton John