Joe's buzzer is the instrumental "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the American rock band Eagles. It is from their 1975 album "One of These Nights" and was also used as the theme tune to the BBC comedy/science fiction franchise The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
At one stage, it felt like every school put on a production of Joseph every couple of years. Most Brits know the lyrics, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a requirement for citizenship.
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It was great fun to enjoy Susan's enjoyment and knowledge of science fiction, but it was just hilarious to see Holly's exasperation with the discussion! 😱 And I was surprised with my memory of the lyrics (and background vocals provided by the audience!) on "Any Dream Will Do". After all, I've never seen "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" either! 🤔
I think that Joseph and the amazing technicolour dream coat was so recognised and known by the audience was that there were many school productions made in the UK.
@@Ffinity My school also did a production which I avoided, the time spent on it in music class was, for me even more mind numbingly tedious than usual. I should add that I am tone deaf and have zero musical ability.
22:40 I'm surprised they didn't point out there is only *one* Solar system, because all the other star systems would be named after their parent star. Our star being named Sol, it's the only SOLAR system.
The colours of Star Trek uniforms include white for command; gold for engineering; gray for science, communications and navigation; dark green for security; light green for medical; dark blue for operations; light blue for special services; and red for low-grade officers and officer cadets. There were variations in different versions of Star Trek.
I bet the process is a combo of what they want to do in the series, tailor part to guests they have in mind, and book when available. Have most of the episode written, and polish it off when they have a final casting. As for musicals, when I used to mix them, at the beginning of the season I'd get all the soundtracks and/or scratch show tracks (if not a live band), plus the score/script, cast lists... literally a big box of paperwork and CD's Probably listen through them easily 20 times taking notes. By the 1st rehearsal I'd maybe have a song/scene cut down to 1/2 page of shorthand. 150 pg score cut down to 10-15 pages.
QI episodes to react to: Series A, Episode 2, “Astronomy”, Series D, Episode 1, “Danger”, Series D, Episode 6, “Drinks”, Series D, Episode 12, “Domesticity”, Series K, Episode 14 "Kris Kringle", Series P, Episode 2, “Peril”, Series P, Episode 8, “Plants”, Series P, Episode 9, “Pubs”, Series P, Episode 14, “Pathological”, Series Q, Episode 12, “Quagmire”, Series Q, Episode 15, “Quantity and Quality”, Series Q, Episode 16, “Quads and Quins”, Series Q, Episode 17, “Quaffing”, Series R, Episode 6, “Ridiculous”, Series R, Episode 13, “R Animals”, Series R, Episode 14, “Rogue”, Series R, Episode 15, “Random”, Series R, Episode 16, “Rock ‘n’ Roll” (series R ep 14-16 all have Bill Bailey), Series S, Episode 5, “Sugar & Spice”, Series S, Episode 14, “Sexed-Up”
The audience all knew the words to Any Dream Will Do, because most of them probably did a performance of it as a kid in school. I remember being in this way back in the 80s, when I was about 9 or 10 I think. I was the Pharaoh who had the dream of 7 fat cows and 7 skinny cows, which Joseph interprets as 7 plentiful years, followed by 7 years of famine.
The Mini was marketed under BMC's two main brand names, Austin and Morris, until 1969, when it became a marque in its own right. It was known as the Austin Seven and the Morris version was known to all as "the Mini" or the "Morris Mini-Minor".
Any Dream Will Do was a UK number 1 single for Jason Donovan, and a number 2 hit for Lee Mead. It is easily the best known song from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
If it's gonna be any major American city that takes a hitchhiking robot and tears it to shreds, Philadelphia is certainly the least surprising. It was, after all, Eagles fans who famously threw snowballs and beer bottles at Santa Claus in 1968.
Gabriel Drake in the Moonbase Women only purple wig from Gerry Andersons ( of Thunderbirds Fame ) live action TV show UFO ... those uniforms ( as were most of the costumes ) were designed by Gerrys then wife Sylvia ...
I am going to suggest the QI episode called 'Inequality' (Series 'I', Episode 8) as a MUST WATCH. It has what is still my favorite QI buzzer. You'll understand when you watch it.
It always makes we ponder the limitations of the thought process. They worry about the radiation from the propulsion system in an environment so radioactive and full of solar storms that survival is unlikely regardless of what we use to propel a bin box in space... _Space radiation is different from the kinds of radiation we experience here on Earth. Space radiation is comprised of atoms in which electrons have been stripped away as the atom accelerated in interstellar space to speeds approaching the speed of light - eventually, only the nucleus of the atom remains_ _Space radiation is made up of three kinds of radiation: particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field; particles shot into space during solar flares (solar particle events); and galactic cosmic rays, which are high-energy protons and heavy ions from outside our solar system. All of these kinds of space radiation represent ionizing radiation_ (source NASA) In short there's plenty of dangerous radiation boasting through everything with or without us taking an insignificant source with us... That's over and above the complete failure we have had in enclosed closed system environments, which we can't even do on Earth without cheating. In effect we have to regularly service anything permanently out there, and so far "out there" means inside the Van Allen Radiation Belts which protect us (on Earth and in low earth orbit - like every satellite and space station ever) from all this solar, cosmic and galactic radiation.
Love that Marvin won on 42... a subtle reference to the answer to the ultimate question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything. 🤩 Also love that Susan Calman is a massive Dr. Who fan and the reference to Jeff Wayne's Musical version of H.G Well's, The War of The Worlds. What Great episode.
A simple truth in my mind is... Any species capable of interplanetary travel is more than capable of remaining undetected with ease. It's like an amoeba trying to detect a Boeing 747...
Because most of your QI reactions tend to be from later-era QI, you might do well to go back for a few more early ones, just to see more how the show has evolved over the years. Two episodes, I think, would be notable in this regard. ADAM, officially the first episode ever (S1E1), features a VERY familiar face and was certainly aired first for that very reason. CARNIVAL from Series 3 is also a great episode for showing three of the show's mainstay guests until that point (Jo, Phill and Clive Anderson) scrabbling about for a squirrel.
Susan is an intelligent law-graduate, who has unfortunately become Sandi’s whipping boy. She was allowed to be intelligent when she first appeared on the Stephen episodes. Sandi can be quite a bully to some women.
They're just playing it up, because Susan is one of the few guests smaller than Sandi, and Susan also likes to play up these Unbelievable Truth-style flights of fancy stuff.
That's one ridiculous experiment to prove you can hear through touching helmets in space, since THEY'RE NOT IN SPACE! It therefore proves nothing since with or without the helmets you can hear them!!! As usual QI misleads and misrepresents facts for comedic license.
Given you didn't recognise Joe's buzzer at the start, I'm guessing all the Hitch-Hikers stuff went right over your head... and why Marvin got "42" points... sadly the voice of Marvin died not long after doing this episode of QI (he'd been doing it since 78).
yeah nah, I've read the books and seen the recent movie, but I had no idea about that song as the series never made it down here. Not having seen one version of something doesn't mean you don't know anything about the source material or any of the other versions. Plus he clearly understood the 42 reference
@@Ausecko1 yes I would agree the theme tune is definitely from a point in time and place In the UK people of a certain age will recognise it as easily as James bond , Star Wars or doctor who music, but younger people or non uk , and it’s just another bit of music.
Susan Calman is a MASSIVE Doctor Who fan and wrote a DW story for an anthology book. in some episodes of Qi , you'll see she wears a TARDIS pendant
Joe's buzzer is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
Well, technically it’s an excerpt from “Journey of the Sorceror” by The Eagles which was used as the theme for HHGTTG.
Joe's buzzer is the instrumental "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the American rock band Eagles. It is from their 1975 album "One of These Nights" and was also used as the theme tune to the BBC comedy/science fiction franchise The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Finally! What an amazing episode! Susan's arguing, Holly singing and of course 'Steve!' being one of the most inspired guesses ever.
Hitchhiker's Guide is right up your street. The original radio series, the novels, and perhaps the TV show, and maybe the film.
At one stage, it felt like every school put on a production of Joseph every couple of years. Most Brits know the lyrics, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a requirement for citizenship.
Anyone else get a scammer pretending to be Neil Talks?
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Used to listen to the Joseph soundtrack all the time as a kid. Could have sung every song by heart at one point I'm sure 😆
Finally! 😂 This may be my fav episode of the Sandi era. It’s always good when Susan Colman is on
Susan in nerd mode just spreads joy. I love this one.
It was great fun to enjoy Susan's enjoyment and knowledge of science fiction, but it was just hilarious to see Holly's exasperation with the discussion! 😱
And I was surprised with my memory of the lyrics (and background vocals provided by the audience!) on "Any Dream Will Do". After all, I've never seen "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" either! 🤔
I think that Joseph and the amazing technicolour dream coat was so recognised and known by the audience was that there were many school productions made in the UK.
@@Ffinity Thankfully for you or the audience?
@@Ffinity My school also did a production which I avoided, the time spent on it in music class was, for me even more mind numbingly tedious than usual.
I should add that I am tone deaf and have zero musical ability.
if you haven't seen it the BBC's TV series of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is well worth a watch
SO much fun! Astrophysicist Brian Cox, band member of D:REAM, responsible for my favourite House song to dance to: "Things Can Only Get Better"
One of the funniest episodes! Loved it
Brilliant. Ive been waiting for this episode. Love your channel xxx
Brilliant episode totally owned by Susan lol
Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" was also a staple vinyl experience in my household growing up.
22:40 I'm surprised they didn't point out there is only *one* Solar system, because all the other star systems would be named after their parent star. Our star being named Sol, it's the only SOLAR system.
The colours of Star Trek uniforms include white for command; gold for engineering; gray for science, communications and navigation; dark green for security; light green for medical; dark blue for operations; light blue for special services; and red for low-grade officers and officer cadets. There were variations in different versions of Star Trek.
Useless for me in 1960s watching in black and white.
I think in TNG maroon was for command and red was for cannon fodder.
I bet the process is a combo of what they want to do in the series, tailor part to guests they have in mind, and book when available. Have most of the episode written, and polish it off when they have a final casting.
As for musicals, when I used to mix them, at the beginning of the season I'd get all the soundtracks and/or scratch show tracks (if not a live band), plus the score/script, cast lists... literally a big box of paperwork and CD's Probably listen through them easily 20 times taking notes. By the 1st rehearsal I'd maybe have a song/scene cut down to 1/2 page of shorthand. 150 pg score cut down to 10-15 pages.
QI episodes to react to: Series A, Episode 2, “Astronomy”, Series D, Episode 1, “Danger”, Series D, Episode 6, “Drinks”, Series D, Episode 12, “Domesticity”, Series K, Episode 14 "Kris Kringle", Series P, Episode 2, “Peril”, Series P, Episode 8, “Plants”, Series P, Episode 9, “Pubs”, Series P, Episode 14, “Pathological”, Series Q, Episode 12, “Quagmire”, Series Q, Episode 15, “Quantity and Quality”, Series Q, Episode 16, “Quads and Quins”, Series Q, Episode 17, “Quaffing”, Series R, Episode 6, “Ridiculous”, Series R, Episode 13, “R Animals”, Series R, Episode 14, “Rogue”, Series R, Episode 15, “Random”, Series R, Episode 16, “Rock ‘n’ Roll” (series R ep 14-16 all have Bill Bailey), Series S, Episode 5, “Sugar & Spice”, Series S, Episode 14, “Sexed-Up”
the purple haired woman in the photo was from the1970's British scifi series UFO
The audience all knew the words to Any Dream Will Do, because most of them probably did a performance of it as a kid in school. I remember being in this way back in the 80s, when I was about 9 or 10 I think. I was the Pharaoh who had the dream of 7 fat cows and 7 skinny cows, which Joseph interprets as 7 plentiful years, followed by 7 years of famine.
1:52 It's 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy'
The Mini was marketed under BMC's two main brand names, Austin and Morris, until 1969, when it became a marque in its own right. It was known as the Austin Seven and the Morris version was known to all as "the Mini" or the "Morris Mini-Minor".
Any Dream Will Do was a UK number 1 single for Jason Donovan, and a number 2 hit for Lee Mead.
It is easily the best known song from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
If it's gonna be any major American city that takes a hitchhiking robot and tears it to shreds, Philadelphia is certainly the least surprising. It was, after all, Eagles fans who famously threw snowballs and beer bottles at Santa Claus in 1968.
Interesting they guessed Steve after Norman. Steve Norman is the saxophonist in Spandau Ballet, I wonder if Joe associated the names because of that
Isnt Steve the chap involved with HAL in 2001 ?
42 happens be the answer to the question 'what is the life, the universe and everything?'
Sandy's title in the credits is "spørgsmålstegn?" (in Danish) meaning "question mark?"
Gabriel Drake in the Moonbase Women only purple wig from Gerry Andersons ( of Thunderbirds Fame ) live action TV show UFO ... those uniforms ( as were most of the costumes ) were designed by Gerrys then wife Sylvia ...
Our car tapes were Hooked on Classics 2 and The Best of the Two Ronies (musical numbers)
I would recommend a listening reaction to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds if you haven't heard it
I am going to suggest the QI episode called 'Inequality' (Series 'I', Episode 8) as a MUST WATCH. It has what is still my favorite QI buzzer. You'll understand when you watch it.
Joe Lycett is right, QI shouldn't have chosen that font, they should have written everything in large, friendly letters 😄
I hate Preston with a passion. Never been out of the railway station, but it seems to be where the rail issues always occur 😂
Avtually voyager 2 was launched before the first one. No idea why though.
different slingshot routeings to see diff planet and moon views / gravitational fields etc and line of radio sight back to earth
It always makes we ponder the limitations of the thought process. They worry about the radiation from the propulsion system in an environment so radioactive and full of solar storms that survival is unlikely regardless of what we use to propel a bin box in space...
_Space radiation is different from the kinds of radiation we experience here on Earth. Space radiation is comprised of atoms in which electrons have been stripped away as the atom accelerated in interstellar space to speeds approaching the speed of light - eventually, only the nucleus of the atom remains_
_Space radiation is made up of three kinds of radiation: particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field; particles shot into space during solar flares (solar particle events); and galactic cosmic rays, which are high-energy protons and heavy ions from outside our solar system. All of these kinds of space radiation represent ionizing radiation_ (source NASA)
In short there's plenty of dangerous radiation boasting through everything with or without us taking an insignificant source with us...
That's over and above the complete failure we have had in enclosed closed system environments, which we can't even do on Earth without cheating. In effect we have to regularly service anything permanently out there, and so far "out there" means inside the Van Allen Radiation Belts which protect us (on Earth and in low earth orbit - like every satellite and space station ever) from all this solar, cosmic and galactic radiation.
Holly raises an interesting point. Would a body rot in space?
bodies don't rot in a freezer why would they rot in the almost absolute zero temperature and vacuum of space.
Love that Marvin won on 42... a subtle reference to the answer to the ultimate question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything. 🤩 Also love that Susan Calman is a massive Dr. Who fan and the reference to Jeff Wayne's Musical version of H.G Well's, The War of The Worlds. What Great episode.
A simple truth in my mind is... Any species capable of interplanetary travel is more than capable of remaining undetected with ease. It's like an amoeba trying to detect a Boeing 747...
You remembered Marvin, but you didn't recognise the BBC series theme tune!
Not used after the R4 first broadcast for copyright licencing ?
Now you're a QI fan I recommend you watch "the making of QI" it's on UA-cam and quite interesting and funny.
Because most of your QI reactions tend to be from later-era QI, you might do well to go back for a few more early ones, just to see more how the show has evolved over the years. Two episodes, I think, would be notable in this regard. ADAM, officially the first episode ever (S1E1), features a VERY familiar face and was certainly aired first for that very reason. CARNIVAL from Series 3 is also a great episode for showing three of the show's mainstay guests until that point (Jo, Phill and Clive Anderson) scrabbling about for a squirrel.
Susan is an intelligent law-graduate, who has unfortunately become Sandi’s whipping boy. She was allowed to be intelligent when she first appeared on the Stephen episodes. Sandi can be quite a bully to some women.
They're just playing it up, because Susan is one of the few guests smaller than Sandi, and Susan also likes to play up these Unbelievable Truth-style flights of fancy stuff.
That's one ridiculous experiment to prove you can hear through touching helmets in space, since THEY'RE NOT IN SPACE! It therefore proves nothing since with or without the helmets you can hear them!!! As usual QI misleads and misrepresents facts for comedic license.
Given you didn't recognise Joe's buzzer at the start, I'm guessing all the Hitch-Hikers stuff went right over your head... and why Marvin got "42" points... sadly the voice of Marvin died not long after doing this episode of QI (he'd been doing it since 78).
A lot of people are familiar with the Hitchhiker books without ever having listened to the radio series, especially in North America...
There is also the movie from a few years ago , a lot of people know that and nothing else about hitchhiker’s guide…..
He literally responded to the 42..
yeah nah, I've read the books and seen the recent movie, but I had no idea about that song as the series never made it down here. Not having seen one version of something doesn't mean you don't know anything about the source material or any of the other versions. Plus he clearly understood the 42 reference
@@Ausecko1 yes I would agree the theme tune is definitely from a point in time and place
In the UK people of a certain age will recognise it as easily as James bond , Star Wars or doctor who music, but younger people or non uk , and it’s just another bit of music.