No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly is the 319th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 7th episode of the seventh year, and the 18th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and QI Elf Anne Miller. It was recorded from home due to COVID-19.
Description[]
James, Anna, Andy & Anne Miller discuss the Amazon, Jumanji, Loofahs and Ooya!
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Facts[]
- Loofahs are edible. (Ptaszynski)
- The man who invented Jumanji did so because he hated Monopoly. (Miller)
- There is a man in Brazil who nobody is allowed to go within 5 miles of. (Harkin)
- In 19th century Osaka, flat residents owned the rights to their own urine, but the rights to their poo belonged to their landlords. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- This is the sixth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent for the second week in a row.
- In his absence, Andrew Hunter Murray hosts.
- Anne Miller guests, making her twenty-third appearance.
- Miller's children's book Mickey and the Animal Spies, as well as Murray's novel The Last Day are promoted again.
- Gourds were part of a headline fact in Episode 270: No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES.
- Murray mentions the board game Grade Up To Elite Cow, which he bought a copy of as part of a headline fact from Episode 262: No Such Thing As A Man In A Wine Bottle.
- Murray's love of Club Moss is again mentioned, having been part of a headline fact in Episode 315: No Such Thing As Tedious Moss.
- Harkin mentions that Brazil's highest mountain was only discovered in the 1950s, which was a fact in Brazil v Croatia.