Thus gave birth to Qi’s longest running gag, Alan’s obsession with the Blue Whale.

@JJONNYREPP

2 ай бұрын

Sub Pop turns 36 (Official Video)

Bill Bailey clearly knows the truth of the longcats.

@klaxoncow

2 ай бұрын

Long cat is long.

The infamous blue whale gag

A man-o-war isn't actually a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which I thought would be the answer because some of them can reach enormous lengths, over 40m. But maybe they don't qualify as they are actually a colony of individuals that are fused together, not a single animal depending on how you define it.

@TheCakeIAm

Ай бұрын

Boy do I have news for you - this was the answer in a later season with sandy :)

I had a close encounter with a Lion’s Mane jellyfish. I was diving for scallops off the northwest coast of Scotland and after a disappointing haul I was in the process of surfacing when I spotted a large scallop I’d missed. I went back down only to find it was half a shell, no scallop. I was so annoyed I broke one of the cardinal rules of diving, you look up before going up. I didn’t and found myself in the midst, as it were, of a large member of the species, tentacles everywhere. As I was wearing a dry suit I was in no actual danger but it was a bit alarming. I just carried on ascending, right through the creature’s bell and basically ripped it apart. My suit was covered in stingers but I was fine.

@RPGLover87

2 ай бұрын

So what you are saying is you got in a fight with one and rang it's bell?

@THEchiQ

2 ай бұрын

Given where you were, a dry suit was sensible 😆 Brrrr!

@paulmichaelfreedman8334

2 ай бұрын

iiieeeuw you went right through its stomach, I hope it hasn't eaten in a while.

@avinotion

2 ай бұрын

Poor creature Quite an interesting anecdote though

I was expecting it to be a Pyrosome; much like the mentioned Man-o-war, it's a colony organism of enormous length. Though some googling suggests things may have changed since I last heard of it, as the length given on Wikipedia for the Pyrosome is only 60ft, while the Blue Whale is 98ft, and the Lion's Mane keeps its crown at 120ft.

@backelie

2 ай бұрын

"In 2020, marine scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered the longest animal in the world in Western Australian waters. The almost 50m-long siphonophore surpasses the Lion’s Mane jellyfish, the blue whale, and the Giant Squid in both length and sheer shock factor."

@jayjack6299

2 ай бұрын

​@backelie One of the world's scariest, deadliest animals? Of course it's from Australia, lol.

@vegladex

2 ай бұрын

@@jayjack6299 Pretty sure Pyrosomes are quite harmless. Like big floating tubes of bubble wrap. And they're siphonophores, not jellyfish, so no stingers.

@jayjack6299

2 ай бұрын

@@vegladex oh, then nvm then. Sorry to all the Aussie out there!

@vindex5797

2 ай бұрын

A report claims that a giant lion's mane jellyfish with a length of 121.4 feet (37.0 meters) washed up on the shores of the Massachusetts Bay in 1870. The longest known bootlace worm was studied in 1864 and was found to be 180 feet (55 meters) in length.]

I am very familiar with that Sherlock Holmes story as Mr Fry reads that audiobook so very well.

Lions Mane- me,dum dum--- thought that was a mushroom.

@sstills951

2 ай бұрын

Well it is a mushroom and that's where my mind went too. But only because I grow mushrooms.

@stevethorpe

2 ай бұрын

It is a mushroom, and happens to be the only mushroom I really like to eat. I can eat other mushrooms but don't particularly like them.

To be fair, Alan said a whale, not a blue whale.

@markneedham752

2 ай бұрын

The "Lions Mane Whale" p'raps.

@liamwarnock5960

2 ай бұрын

The biggest of which is the blue whale

@artistjoh

2 ай бұрын

He was desperately trying to not say Blue Whale because he knows what happens and we all knew what he was trying not to say, but they were waiting for him to fall into the trap... again.

@kennyn1992

2 ай бұрын

Alan uses innuendo so much the blue is implied.

The largest lion's mane jellyfish recorded had tentacles 36.6 metres (120 feet) long, so I don't know where the elves got 200 feet from.

@ocirMZ

2 ай бұрын

It is however still longer than a blue whale, and still stupidly big

@dielaughing73

2 ай бұрын

Maybe if you stretch the tentacles out in opposite directions?

@John_Smith_60

2 ай бұрын

If you lift it up, it stretches like a cat.

@thetessellater9163

2 ай бұрын

If it's tentacles were 120 foot long, surely when both ends are stretched out, then it's overall length must be 240 foot - longer than the 200 foot quoted. Or am I missing something in your comment??😊

One of these days, the answer is going to be 'Blue Whale'. And when that day comes...we're all doomed.

@SmashPortal

2 ай бұрын

Blue whale has already been the answer, at least a few times.

@techno1561

2 ай бұрын

​@@SmashPortalBut Alan has yet to get it right on the go.

@TallyDrake

2 ай бұрын

I remember one show where Blue Whale was the answer but Alan failed to guess it.

@smalltime0

2 ай бұрын

@@TallyDrakeits been the answer many times, and Alan has gotten it (In lucky losers he is irritated to get points)

@andreaseriksson8803

2 ай бұрын

Alan has been right I think one time when the answer has been blue whale.

The almost 50metre long siphonophore surpasses the Lion's Mane jellyfish, the blue whale, and the Giant Squid in both length and sheer shock factor. This alien-like sea creature has existed in our oceans for millions of years. Research into siphonophores began in the 18th and 19th centuries.

@DrOmni

2 ай бұрын

Nice copy-paste but you're unfortunately incorrect. Praya dubia, or the giant siphonophore, is not the longest animal. It's technically not an animal at all, it's a colony of smaller creatures called Zooids that each measure to around about 1 millimetre in length. The longest is not the Lion's Mane, though. You are correct in that. The Bootlace Worm, which has been observed up to 55 meters in length, is the longest.

@animaltvi9515

2 ай бұрын

​@DrOmni but its classed as one organism and it still only has 2 parents.

@DrOmni

2 ай бұрын

@@animaltvi9515 ... No? Siphonophores are not regarded as a single organism, they are a colony of organism in mutual symbiosis. The correct term is colonial organism, which is not "one" organism. They also don't have parents, at least not two, because they reproduce asexually. Each Zooid is genetically identical to the last, so they are just cloning themselves over and over. Maybe look over the Wikipedia page before you try and correct people.

@animaltvi9515

2 ай бұрын

@DrOmni from the article i read. . Siphonophores are a strange kind of aquatic predator that resembles jellyfish and sting. They resemble jellyfish in some aspects and are related to the same family of creatures, but their body composition differs, resembling hundreds of microscopic jellyfish adhering to one another. A siphonophore is one organism, though. They have two parents, and they are "a product of sex.". So . 2 conflicting articles but obviously the one you read is the correct one. . Thats very pompous of you. . . . But judging from the end of your reply I'm not surprised. . But never mind..

@DrOmni

2 ай бұрын

@@animaltvi9515 Yes, you and your article are wrong. I'm not quoting an article myself, because the information I'm providing is widely available facts. Google "siphonophore asexual" and see for yourself. Look up the definition of a biological colony and take note how quickly siphonophores or zooids are mentioned as examples. Siphonophores do not have two parents. They do not have sex. They are not an individual organism, they are a clonal colony of zooids, or a conspecific colonial organism. These must seem like such big, difficult words to you, but I promise you that you can learn all of it. You just have to put down your garbage article, admit you were misinformed and look at the wider available information. I have faith in you.

I was so ready for someone to say that it's an earthworm, one that someone cut in half and then drove one of the two new worms to the next town over

I thought it'd be some algae, which I recall being identified as one organism in recent years and to stretch for thousands of miles.

@Liam-qr7zn

2 ай бұрын

Not an animal, though.

I'm glad y'all went back to this outro

@weirdunclebob

2 ай бұрын

They alternate between this one and the other one all the time. They were both amusing the first time but I skip them both now. I've got better things to watch than the same outros over and over!

Can't believe none of them said, "my manhood."

@Squant

2 ай бұрын

Well, they didn't get to where they are by being trite. With the possible exception of Alan.

I'd have thought Sherlock Holmes would have been required reading for all Brits.

You're just measuring the length of its digestive system, which is twice as large in a blue whale. The whale just has it all packed away.

0:00 Hum. A dead Phenician/Carthaginian cow ?

The Portugese man o war is not a jellyfish.

I've never noticed that Clive has an anti-neck that is slowly consuming his head.

It's (almost) NEVER the blue whale.

I Googled the lion's mane jellyfish and - holy shit. I did not know jellies get that big!

💙🐳👏👏👏👏👏😁💙

Siphonophore!

I thought the longest animal is the giant siphonophore.

@ambergris5705

2 ай бұрын

As far as I know, siphonophores are a colony of individuals, and though on the brink of the definition of what a single animal is, usually not considered as one. But the size remains impressive nonetheless

@shadowprince4482

2 ай бұрын

Someone else just mentioned the bootlace worm which does seem to be one single animal and has been measured longer. We humans like to put things into neat little categories. Unfortunately for us reality rarely lets us actually do that perfectly. Just look up how mushrooms reproduce. The mushroom is just what we see when the asexual parents clone themselves millions of times and then finally reproduce where they release spores. Also even the word and definition of "species" doesn't always work. Just look up "ring species".

Isn't there a species of jellyfish, only fond in deep water, that's something like 100m long ?

Long way to go this time.

You can tell this was early QI… 5 people there. 4 people got more screen time…

@OnlyAnairaGirl

2 ай бұрын

I think she tried to speak once. Got talked right over by two of the others. 🙄

the Midgårds Worm

@SweLink88

2 ай бұрын

It's called "the Midgard Serpent" in English. -5 points.

@FenceThis

2 ай бұрын

@@SweLink88 I’m well aware of that thx, but then it wouldn’t be an inside joke

I honestly thought that the answer would be something like the Pando superorganism.

@weirdunclebob

2 ай бұрын

That's a tree, not an animal.

I knew this from Octonauts! 😅

Lions are cats. Bill was half right. How long is the longest cat gut violin string?

Giant pyrosome colony? It behaves like a single "animal."

@backelie

2 ай бұрын

3 blue whales in a trenchcoat

The largest organism is the Pando Aspen clone which covers an area of 106 acres.

@weirdunclebob

2 ай бұрын

True but the question was "What's The Longest Animal In The World?" so that doesn't count. :)

Is it my uncle Terry's Arms? They were probably normal lengths but from memory they were about 4 n a half ft long. That's not a joke about Terry being weird n touchy. He just he had abnormally large arms.

The longest is a siphonophore, not a jellyfish, and the Portuguese Man'O War is a type of siphonophore (not the longest though), but the Lion's Mane is a jellyfish is not a siphonophore and is not the longest animal in the world. Again, QI misses the mark bby a bit.

Stephen Fry - "He was Soft on Homosexuals" as opposed to Hard on Homosexuals!

Sometimes, to often, Alan either ruins someone's gag or cuts short an explanation by the host with something very unamusing.

I want to be reincarnated as a Blue Whale as they’ve got a 30 ft long tongue and can breathe through the top of their head! 🎉😊

Alan can be bloody annoyong sometimes, with his juvenile interruptions.

@edkrzywdzinski9121

2 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking. Mostly when someone like Bill is on a very funny gag

I wanted to object that a jellyfish isn't an animal, but yes indeed it's under the animalia kingdom. didn't expect that at all. fucking weird freaky self-cestious blobs.

Remember, before Sandi, when QI was interesting?

Yes, we remember a time when QI was actually "I"