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* Any time [[Butt Monkey|Alan Davies]] gets the better of anyone, particularly when he wins and in the incident where he switched roles with [[Stephen Fry]] and proceeded to bully him like you wouldn't imagine. "I've been waiting for this opportunity!" indeed.
** A recent one is when Stephen sets out explaining how long different things (humans, dinosaurs, etc.) would have been around if the whole of the earth had existed over a single year:
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** And then Alan doing a little verbal [[Cutting the Knot]] on the topic of bees...
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'''Alan''': Has it occurred to you that they may not be using the sun? That whoever worked that out is wrong.. "Even when you can't see it or it's on the other side of the world, they still use it," and the bees are thinking, "No we don't, we just remember where we live!" Why is it so remarkable that they know where they live?
'''Stephen''': Well, because they have only 950,000 neurons as opposed to our ten ''billion'' neurons in our brains.
'''Alan''': But they've only got one thing to remember: ''where they live.'' }}
* The scene when Alan seems to think it odd that Lew Wallace, a Texan <ref>Actually New Mexico territory; not to mention he hailed from, and spent most of his life in, Indiana</ref> governor, decided to write a book about Roman chariot racing, and Stephen lays into him for this attitude:
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* Sean Lock's mocking of Rory McGrath's constant showing off. "There's some sort of portal to the underworld here, it's ridiculous!" "If I say it in a different language do I get more points?...Ocho! Ocho cardiganes!"
** Rory McGrath managing to exhibit a remarkable knowledge of the Latin names of various birds and other such trivia.
* One episode had the cast given little boards with refrigerator magnet letters. [[Jimmy Carr]] promptly used ''all his letters'' to write out "PUT SMARTIES TUBES ON CATS LEGS MAKE THEM WALK LIKE A ROBOT". He got applause not only from the audience, but from the rest of the panel as well.
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** Likely the result of some fixing, since this is a joke Jimmy Carr has previously used in his stand up routine. He also had rather more letters than everyone else. On the other hand, it doesn't mean they expected him to do it, just means they hoped he would.
*** He pinched the extra letters off Bill Bailey sitting next to him, Bill only had enough left for 'gay elf romp'.
* In the same vein, Helen Atkinson-Wood, best known for playing Mrs. Miggins on ''Blackadder'', earned 200 points for recognizing the chemical equation for an explosion in a custard factory.
** Worth pointing out that the equation is actually specifically for the oxidation of glucose, but the oxidation of glucose is usually taught to children using an explosion in custard as an example.
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'''Stephen''': "How in the ''hell'' did you know that?" }}
* Reducing Stephen to a wreck with just nine words... repeated over and over again, also counting as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. All together now:
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* David Mitchell's rant against his school.
** His rants in general.
* Dave Gorman turning up, and then [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|breaking the game]] in his first question.
* Phil Kay correctly predicting that his buzzer would be a crowing rooster in the 'Birds' episode.
* David Mitchell getting two "Teacher's Pet" accolades during the Series F episode "Food." (Unfortunately, it doesn't make him "feel that cool".)
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