The games are not necessarily listed in order.

Superheroes: crisis = the museum is on fire; Colin = Mad Cow Man; Ryan = Athletic Slap on the Butt Man; Chip = Ants in his Pants Boy; Wayne = Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better Kid
When Drew asked for Colin's name, I yelled out my suggestion "Captain Queasy" a couple of times but gave up realizing that I didn't have a chance of being heard this time. Drew eventually went with the Mad Cow Man suggestion. The crisis didn't seem like a world crisis to me and even Drew seemed dubious, but he took it anyway. I don't remember much of each actor did. I do remember that by the time all four were on stage, the action was very chaotic. In the middle of the chaos, Wayne's wedding band suddenly slipped off his finger and fell to the stage floor. Everybody froze. Wayne's is staring at his hand as if it had betrayed him. The actors were still for so long that I was beginning to wonder if they would halt the game. Then Wayne imitating Chip's superpower wriggled his way down to the floor and reclaimed the ring. I remember thinking at the time that my High School drama teacher would not have approved. As soon as the three super friends left, I thought — they didn't solve the crisis or even attempt to solve it. Right afterwards, Colin said aloud my very thoughts, "I don't know if we actually solved the problem," so I must have been right. Since Superheroes is supposed to be a chaotic game (at least in my opinion), I'd say that they achieved the goal with this one.

After the game, Drew introduced the new gimmick for the night. He pulled out an 8 x 10 framed glossy of himself. The frame was a talking frame that said "1000 points to each of you". There were other photos and sayings as well. The cast seemed really taken with the idea of the talking photo. I remember both Wayne and Ryan picking the photo and playing with it during the breaks. At one point, someone pointed out that with the photos awarding points, there wasn't any need for Drew to even be at the taping. (I think it was Drew himself who said that with Ryan agreeing heartily.)

Director: in a cabin in the woods; Chip = ?; Ryan = a woman; Wayne = ?; Colin= director
I remember two things. Colin made up the styles himself again. Ryan began the scene by announcing that "she" was cold. To indicate the cold, Ryan pointed his index fingers, which he held at his nipples. As "she" warmed up, Ryan dropped his fingers.

Let's Make a Date: Chip = contestant; Wayne = singing insulting songs to people; Colin = thinks that the holes in faces are really holes in the water dikes; Ryan = a gay Robin Hood selecting a new band of merry men
I don't remember if this was in the first or the second round, but Wayne started directing one of his insulting songs to a man in the audience. Wayne hopped off the stool and started coming towards the man as he was singing. As he's coming closer to the audience, I realize that Wayne is singing to the man sitting directly in front of me. I was terrified that I would be in the picture, and I wanted to look up at the monitor to see. But remembering Dan's instructions — There might be times when you are on-camera. If that happens, don't suddenly look up at the monitors to see yourself. That makes the people watching at home start to wonder what's so interesting about the Whose Line ceiling? Trust me, you all look beautiful. Except for you sir, of course. — so I didn't look up. So Wayne is standing a few feet away from me singing an insulting song to the guy in front of me while I'm trying to be about three inches tall. I sure hope the camera was on Wayne the whole time. I sure hope so. Colin was so funny in his quirk. First he used Wayne's face. I think he covered up Wayne's mouth first so that he wouldn't sing again. Then he put his hand on Ryan's face. I'm not sure which round, but one time, Colin put his finger up Ryan's nose — just far enough for the visual, mind you. Ryan somehow managed to keep his composure through that. Along the way, Colin took his finger out of one man's nose (ear?) and immediately placed it in the other man's mouth. (I think it was Ryan's nose to Wayne's mouth, but I'm not sure.) After the game, Drew told the mouth person about where Colin had his finger just beforehand, so Colin reversed the process at the chairs so that each man would be equally grossed out, I guess. Ryan's gay Robin Hood was fun. He swung on a vine out to the audience. Collected three burly men, and then they all swung back to the stage. It looked like some bad conga line. Then Ryan swung them back to their seats. That's all the specifics I remember about Ryan's quirk, but there was definitely more. I can't remember how successful Chip was at guessing the quirks. I don't remember feeling sorry for him, so he must have done okay.

Sound Effects: Ryan and Colin
This game was much better than Friday's game was. The audience volunteers were more familiar with how the game worked than Friday's women were. While the stagehands in black set up the safety poles, Drew came looking for his volunteers. Right up the aisle I was sitting next to. I turned around and watched as Drew singled out Elyse and Iris. Iris was cringing, but they came down anyway. I don't remember what the game was about because for a change, I didn't watch Ryan and Colin much. I watched Elyse and Iris instead. I was a little worried about them towards the beginning because Ryan shot off a gun with no sound. But they picked up on the sounds after that. Despite her fears, Iris did a wonderful job. Both of them did, and the game was really fun. I'm sure this game will air since they filmed a pickup for it later in the night. When Drew brought them down the first time, I gave them a thumb's up sign. As Drew was climbing the stairs for the pickup, I irrationally thought, I wonder if I should do the thumbs up sign again? As if it really mattered whether or not I did. As if I really wanted to be in the shot in the first place. During the pickup, Ryan started motioning that one of them had forgotten to wear a sweater like she did the first time. Just like on Friday, Ryan didn't actually come out and say anything to Keith. (And I still don't know why he didn't.) Ryan finally got his point across, and Keith climbs the stairs to ask if one of them had been wearing a sweater earlier. Neither had, and Keith commented, "He's [Ryan] just freaking out."

Remember That Song: Colin (barman) = Rain Man; Chip (customer) = Kermit the Frog; Wayne (customer) = Bill Cosby; Ryan (customer) = Carol Channing
I was surprised to hear this game announced since it has only been broadcast once before on the UK version. As you see, unlike the UK version, they played this with all four although that isn't too much of a difference. The bigger difference is the addition of the impersonation requirement. Since I missed the Season 4 premiere episodes because I was at the Groundlings on Thursday, this was the first time that I had ever seen Colin do a Rain Man impersonation. I liked it and thought it was one of his better impersonations. (Rain Man probably works for Colin because it's more of an acting style than a voice mimic.) As in the UK playing, Colin didn't actually sing. Colin described the song Chip was supposed to sing. I don't remember the song, but I do remember Chip standing there with his arms in a puppet style. Chip made a convincing Kermit. Wayne did his usual excellent job as Bill Cosby. When Wayne started describing Ryan's song, I noticed that he paused and backtracked a little. Then he got this impish look on his face. Clearly, Wayne was trying to think of a song that would really challenge Ryan. Wayne came up with a song idea that involved singing about 10 different countries in alphabetical order. Ryan sang about Algeria and then Zimbabwe (Zaire?) and then stopped. My immediate reaction was, "wasn't he supposed to name 10 countries?" Apparently, I wasn't the only one who had that thought as Drew immediately pointed out to Ryan. Ryan challenged Drew to name 10 countries in alphabetical order. So he did. Drew started listing countries off in order stopping somewhere around the letter L. Ryan commented that he was surprised Drew didn't mention Africa as one of the countries.

Whose Line: during the French revolution; Ryan = Louis XVI; Colin = Marie Antoinette
Drew announced Colin's character first then Ryan's. But when Drew read Louis XVI, he stopped himself and said, "That's not right, is it? Yeah, I guess it is." I mention it because (a) it happened and (b) part of the fun of going to the tapings is listening to the actors make those side comments. Drew's comment might air, it might not. But if it doesn't, you'll know. Colin started the game with a proper well-educated French accent. Ryan's accent started in country farther south. When Colin quizzed him on it, Ryan said that he had just returned from a trip to Italy hence the odd accent. This was fun game to watch with Ryan's accent being the source of much amusement for the audience and the actors. As the game progressed, and the royalty began to become truly concerned about their lives, Colin's accent started wandering as well. I only remember one specific line from the game. Ryan: "I'm going to eat some cake." It's not one of the supplied lines, and I don't remember why I remember it. It's just one of those phrases that got stuck in my head for some reason.

Song Titles: psychiatrist's office; all four
I enjoyed this although I only remember one moment from it now. Wayne opened with "I'm Henry the Eighth, I am". My immediate reaction was "poor Ryan, now he can't use that song title himself".

Weird Newscasters: Colin = anchor; Chip (co-anchor) = members of the Jets from West Side Story; Wayne (sports) = Las Vegas singing star auctioning himself off; Ryan (weather) = shrinking man
I don't remember Colin's opening remarks. Puns are difficult for me to remember. Chip excelled at the West Side Story role. His pickup for that was even better as he ended up down by the stool crying in anguish for Maria as he died. (I was very surprised that Chip redid a complete bit for the pickups. I never realized that the pickups could go so far into the main game until then.) I don't remember much of what Wayne did. Not surprisingly, given where I was seated. Drew's desk area was one of the areas I had the most trouble seeing because of the cameras. And I didn't think to look up at the monitors until much later in the taping. So I pretty much missed all of Wayne's bit. The one I remember best was Ryan's quirk. Ryan walked back to the chairs, brought down his water glass, and took a big drink. Then he spit it out back into the glass. We all went "ewww". He might have said why he spit it out; I'm not sure though. Then Ryan started with the weather. While he's talking, his voice is getting higher in pitch, and he starts collapsing in on himself to look smaller and smaller. Eventually he's prone on the carpet. And completely blocked from my view by the cameras. So I start watching him through the view screen on the back of the television camera. (I know, I know, I should have looked up at the monitors overhead.) Using his index finger and his middle finger to represent himself, Ryan starts "walking" around the carpet. Colin stands up and stomps on his hand, flattening "Ryan". Realizing his mistake, Colin gets a scraper and scrapes "Ryan" off the carpet, and he starts walking around some more. "Ryan" shrinks some more until only the fingernails of his two index fingers represent his body, and he's pushing around the dust on the studio floor. The real Ryan is moving his mouth as if he's still delivering the weather but I'm not positive he was actually saying something. The process reverses itself (as the potion wears off, maybe?) and the fingernail-sized Ryan grows to finger-sized Ryan and back up to full-sized Ryan just in time for us to hear him announce, "And back to you." It was a very interesting display, and I think it will come across well on television since you'll have a much better view of what Ryan is doing on the floor than we did in the audience. After the game and for about half the night, Ryan didn't want to drink from his glass since he spit back into it. So he starts drinking directly from the water pitcher itself. Colin didn't see him the first couple of times. Eventually Wayne caught him and pointed Ryan's actions out to Colin who looked displeased that the water source was sullied although he didn't stop drinking it. During one of the long breaks, the water lady came out and replenished their pitcher, but she didn't pour out the remaining "sullied" water first. She just poured the good water into the bad.

Scene to Music: traveling salesmen pulled over; Colin and Wayne = salesmen; Ryan = cop
Another game I was shocked to hear introduced. First Remember That Song and then Scene to Music. As you can see, the number of players was upped again. This was played a little differently than the UK version. Instead of bringing in one style of music for the scene, the music styles would switch and the actors would have to adapt. So the game became like a variant of Film and Theater Styles with the music providing the styles instead of Drew calling them out. This had its good points and its bad points. The best part was that the sudden music switch eliminated the down time where the actors are frozen waiting for the next style. Also, we got more general styles like heroic (I think) and western (I'm sure) rather than the specific television shows (Brady Bunch, Crocodile Hunter) that we had during Season 3. (I think those very specific television shows actually hurt the game's scene rather than helped it because they severely limited what the actors could do.) Of course, it was still three-person scene game with all the problems inherent in that format. But by and large, I liked this game. During the pickups, Colin switched sides in the car for some reason. I don't know why he did it though.

Scenes from a Hat: all four
I have just one memory from this game. The scene was something like things your doctor might do that would make you suspect that he wasn't a real doctor. Ryan and Colin came down to the stage with Ryan standing behind Colin. Ryan bent down, stuck his arm through Colin's legs, and rested his hand on Colin's crotch. Ryan: "Cough". A very interesting visual, to say the least.

Bartender: Chip = bartender; Wayne = celebrating; Colin = angry about his divorce; Ryan = thinks he's a princess
I made a point of focusing on the non-players for this game, so I don't remember what the songs themselves were about.

Duet: Wayne and Chip sing to Nina and Vina, identical twin belly dancers who used boa constrictors in their act
I kid you not. Identical twin belly dancers who danced with boa constrictors. Nina and Vina came out in their red belly dancers' outfits with the snakes wrapped around their arms and their necks. Each man adopted a woman and snake as his sing-to person. Chip's snake was fairly oblivious to the whole thing. Wayne's snake was very curious about his environment. Especially about the man singing to him. Especially about the man's lower torso. Especially about the bulge in the man's pants which the snake must have thought contained dinner. Dinner that the snake wanted to catch. Snap! I've seen Wayne move fast, but that might have been the fastest time he has ever moved. Later during one of the long breaks, Wayne said that he hates snakes. And when that snake snapped at him, he was seriously concerned for willy (Wayne's word, not mine). Nina and Vina came out again for a credits reading with all four. But I don't remember if the snakes were part of the reading.

Mission Improbable: going to work on the freeway; Ryan and Colin = spies; Wayne = voice on tape
This was Sarah's suggestion. When Drew repeated "Going to work on the freeway" to the guys, Ryan stopped him. "Oh, I thought it meant 'Going to work ON the freeway'" Drew: "No, it's 'GOING to work on the freeway.'" Sarah told me that Drew's interpretation is what she had intended. But Wayne turned the game around to Ryan's suggestion by saying there was a large pothole on the 405 that needed repairing. Immediately after saying "405", Wayne said something like "which won't mean anything to the non-locals". I started laughing because the weekend before the taping, I had written an episode review that contained a Greatest Hits game where Wayne mentions the 405. My comment in the review was that sometimes the actors forget that not everyone knows the Californian references. And not seven days later, here was Wayne making another 405 reference, but at least this time, he knew that not all the viewers would know what it meant. When Ryan picked up the game from Wayne, he made a point of explaining the 405 reference. When Ryan and Colin got to the freeway, they couldn't figure out which one Wayne wanted them to fill because there were so many of them. So they decided to fill them all. It took them a while to figure out what to fill them with. They finally decided to grab all the cell phones from the drivers' stopped in traffic and threw them in the pot holes, leading up to that soon to be classic Ryan line, "the road's ringing!". There was one large pothole left; all the cell phones were used, and a school bus was heading straight for it. Colin decides to fill the pothole with Ryan's pants, which he blows up to fit the hole. (Don't ask; I didn't understand it either.) This was a very fun game; I hope it airs someday. And Sarah said that she liked Ryan's interpretation of her suggestion better than her own interpretation.

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