# I love Q.I. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025 "2011-08-09T03:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/121 "2011-08-31T19:42:06Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > So maybe the perception that the last couple seasons have become a little more “tired” or stodgy or formulaic is related to having tweaked the format to conform to different venue standards. It’ll be interesting to see if this fall’s episodes are noticeably altered in style. Good news. I bet it will have bit again. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/122 "2011-09-02T03:31:46Z")
What is the “luvie alarm” that goes off? Is luvie another term for “super gay” or “flaming gay” in England? I think it goes off when Stephen does something really gay. Watch Series 3, episode 10(Cleve Crudington). It’s about 5-8 minutes in. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/123 "2011-09-02T05:33:07Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What is the “luvie alarm” that goes off? Is luvie another term for “super gay” or “flaming gay” in England? I think it goes off when Stephen does something really gay. > > Watch Series 3, episode 10(Cleve Crudington). It’s about 5-8 minutes in. Luvvie seems to be a term actors stereotypically call each other. So when someone tells a story with another celebrity involved to show who they know, it’s a luvvie alarm. From the [thefreedictionary.com](http://thefreedictionary.com): > [@](#): > > luvvie, luvvy [ˈlʌvɪ] > n pl -vies > (Performing Arts / Theatre) Facetious a person who is involved in the acting profession or the theatre, esp one with a tendency to affectation > [from lovey] It’s supposed to be camp, I think. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/124 "2011-09-02T08:50:11Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > He’s Conservative. > > He’s funny. > > He’s paired with a funny Liberal. > > It may be a different show. In the US such niceties are not needed because we have only one. Are you thinking of [Have I Got News For You](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mkw3)? It’s a long running topical news panel quiz. Ian Hislop is the smug Tory who laughs at his own jokes, although if the readers here are expecting a Fox New style panelist, they’ll be disappointed. He may be a conservative, but he’s no extremist. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/125 "2011-09-02T08:55:07Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Luvvie seems to be a term actors stereotypically call each other. So when someone tells a story with another celebrity involved to show who they know, it’s a luvvie alarm. > > From the [thefreedictionary.com](http://thefreedictionary.com): > > It’s supposed to be camp, I think. A luvvie is also known as a ‘thesp’ (thespian). A sort of over-the-top classical British actor-type who greets his colleagues with ‘Luvvie! Darling!’ Mwah Mwah (ostentatious cheek kissing). Not necessarily gay. Think Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. The sort of person that opens a sentence with “When I was playing Cleopatra to Larry’s Anthony at the National…” ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/126 "2011-09-02T15:27:04Z")
Just joining the love. What other show will tell you what happens when you put smarties tubes on cats’ legs? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/127 "2011-09-02T15:29:21Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > A luvvie is also known as a ‘thesp’ (thespian). A sort of over-the-top classical British actor-type who greets his colleagues with ‘Luvvie! Darling!’ Mwah Mwah (ostentatious cheek kissing). Not necessarily gay. Think Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. The sort of person that opens a sentence with “When I was playing Cleopatra to Larry’s Anthony at the National…” Not necessarily gay, but Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud? Heh. I get it, though. 🙂 I know, I know. Olivier was most likely bi. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/128 "2011-09-02T15:36:14Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Are you thinking of [Have I Got News For You](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mkw3)? It’s a long running topical news panel quiz. Ian Hislop is the smug Tory who laughs at his own jokes, although if the readers here are expecting a Fox New style panelist, they’ll be disappointed. He may be a conservative, but he’s no extremist. Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are very much conservative and liberal respectively in the lowercase mode. Hislop has never withheld his scorn for the antics of the Tories, nor has Merton promoted a political agenda as far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/129 "2011-09-02T16:18:18Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > What other show will tell you what happens when you put smarties tubes on cats’ legs? _Mythbusters_, if it runs long enough. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/130 "2011-09-09T10:17:35Z")
**QI** returns to UK TV, BBC2, tonight. Not that this concerns me, of course, for I do not live in the UK and must therefore wait for it to screen locally. _ahem_ahem\* ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/131 "2011-09-09T11:39:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > **QI** returns to UK TV, BBC2, tonight. > > Not that this concerns me, of course, for I do not live in the UK and must therefore wait for it to screen locally. _ahem_ahem\* Thanks for the heads up! I, too, will be impatiently awaiting its duly scheduled arrival on our shores. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/132 "2011-09-17T01:18:05Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > **QI** returns to UK TV, BBC2, tonight. > > Not that this concerns me, of course, for I do not live in the UK and must therefore wait for it to screen locally. _ahem_ahem\* I won’t link, but the first one is up on Youtube already. XL version, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/133 "2012-01-06T21:24:23Z")
I see that the “Idleness” episode is also floating around on Youtube. Apparently, Jeremy Clarkson made a fool of himself about some public strikes and they delayed the episode. When does “The Immortal Bard” episode air. It has David Mitchell, my favorite panelist. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025/134 "2012-05-02T13:45:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > When does “The Immortal Bard” episode air. It has David Mitchell, my favorite panelist. Mahaloth, it aired the other day and indeed, David Mitchell was on it. It was pretty good and yes, it is floating around the Youtubes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-q-i/592025.md?page=6)