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S1 E15

QI · Season 1, Episode 15

Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and others in “Unfinished Business”

[On discussion of various syndromes]

Perhaps even more depressing, is that American therapists have a name for the syndrome, which "sudden wealth syndrome" [starts sniggering]. Which is presumably something they suffer from whenever they name a syndrome. They make money by deciding you have a syndrome.

That's a really boring name for it though.

You'd think so, yeah. But these are the same people who say, if you lose someone you love: they die, and you are still...

[Alan sneezes loudly]

Whoa! Wow! Wow, that was so huge.

That was so impressive.

That was enormous!

The day had to happen.

I mean, that was an explosion!

That's extraordinary!

Are you alright?

There are people now in California, looking at their seismographs, going "Jesus Christ! What was THAT?!?!"

What a thing!

Is it because I said the word 'die'? Da! Don't do it again...

So sorry for interrupting.

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