No Such Thing As An Emotional Support Amoeba is the 298th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 38th episode of the sixth year, and the 49th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the New York Comedy Festival, at the Tribeca PAC in New York City.
Description[]
Live from New York, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Hornigold the pirate, support animals for other animals, and why the French can't decide on what to call a pencil.
Facts[]
- When racehorses travel by aeroplane they're allowed to bring an emotional support goat for no extra cost. (Harkin)
- The French can't decide how to say the word "pencil" in their own language. (Ptaszynski)
- There is a gravity-measuring device in Maryland so sensitive that it can tell whether or not the scientists working on it have had lunch. (Murray)
- The pirate who mentored Blackbeard once attacked a ship purely to steal the hats of everyone on-board because his crew had drunkenly thrown all their hats overboard the night before. (Schreiber)
Trivia[]
- This is the fourth stop on the US Tour.
- This is the fourth live show in North America or the USA, and the second in New York City or state.
- This is the second live show in a row at the Tribeca PAC.
- The Académie Française is discussed - Victor Hugo was a member, and his belief in his own mastery of the language was discussed at length in Episode 215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team.
- Schreiber mentions the "French-Croatian Squid", which the other presenters do not believe is a real piece of folklore. It is not, but Schreiber fails to explain that it was invented in recent years to evade the internet censorship in China.
- Harkin has not seen any Superman films.
- A man losing his real leg, then losing his pegleg, is discussed in Episode 296.