No Such Thing As A Yawning Psychopath is the 23rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 23rd episode of the first year, and the 38th episode of 2014. 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[]
This week in the QI office Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Anna (@nosuchthing) and Alex (@alexbell) discuss a scream louder than the Big Bang, pigeon-shooting physicists, accidental porn, yawning your soul away, and why a beard in battle is a bad idea.
Facts[]
- Alexander the Great banned beards to combat beard-pulling. (Ptaszynski)
- Psychopaths do not experience contagious yawning as often as non-psychopaths. (Schreiber)
- The Big Bang was quieter than a Motörhead concert. (Harkin)
- Pixar accidentally deleted Toy Story 2 while they were half-way through making it. (Bell)
Trivia[]
- This is the sixth appearance of Alex Bell.
- Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
- The Ig Nobel Prizes are mentioned in relation to a 2011 Physiology Prize-winning study that showed no evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise.