No Such Thing As Trousers For Spiders is the 235th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 27th episode of the fifth year, and the 39th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss how to make spiders less scary, the oldest message in a bottle, and unusual features of the Mastermind chair.
Facts[]
- A message in a bottle that was thrown off the Titanic as it was sinking was found one year later washed up on a shore in Ireland, only a few miles from the home of the man who threw it. (Schreiber)
- The original Mastermind chair was specially modified to have detachable arms 'in case a contender is too large to fit between them'. (Bell)
- One competition at the Highland games used to be pulling the legs off a cow to win a sheep. (Ptaszynski)
- You can cure your arachnophobia by drawing pictures of smiling spiders. (Harkin)
Trivia[]
- Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
- Alex Bell guests, making his thirty-sixth appearance.
- Upcoming live shows in 2018, as well as the In No Particular Order tour are again plugged.
- Victor Hugo was previously mentioned in Episode 215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team.
- Harkin is still reading Les Misérables, which he was reading at the time of that episode.
- The Friendly Floatees incident was previously mentioned in TBA.
- Jumping Spiders pretending to be ants was previously mentioned in TBA.