No Such Thing As An Elephant Polo Rider In A Sombrero is the 277th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 17th episode of the sixth year, and the 28th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the China Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden.
Description[]
Live from Stockholm, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Swedish cyborgs, swimming pools for horses, and self-destructing Game Of Thrones scripts.
Facts[]
- Sweden has more than 4,000 cyborgs. (Murray)
- Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting would try on her underwear every morning to make sure it hadn't been poisoned. (Harkin)
- The world champion Polo player builds swimming pools for his horses whenever they get injured. (Ptaszynski)
- To prevent spoilers getting out, some Game of Thrones scripts were built to self-detonate. (Schreiber)
Trivia[]
- This is the nineteenth stop on the In No Particular Order tour, and the second in Sweden after the previous episode.
- Cyborgs were previously discussed in Episode 184 and Episode 186.
- Schreiber refers to a documentary he was in about cyborgs called TBA.
- Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting were part of a headline fact in Episode 3: No Such Thing As The Middle Ages.
- Louis XIV was the subject of headline facts in Episode 28: No Such Thing As A Man-Eating Clam and Episode 210: No Such Thing As A Sheep's Bedside Table.
- The dubious account of Edmund Ironside being stabbed while on the toilet was previously discussed in TBA.
- Ptaszynski checked her facts about polo with Piers Fletcher, who is a fan of the sport.
- The plot of The Old Curiosity Shop was discussed in Episode 244: No Such Thing As A Fishman.