Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 2.5

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 2.5
Channel Four
15 December 1989
Improv Game Show
DVD
C+

This episode perks up the Second Season Slump by introducing two contestants we'd see much more of: very, very tall Ryan Stiles and not so very, very tall Sandi Toksvig.  Their height difference of roughly a foot and a half is played with, although since this is their only episode together, it would be more of a factor with Mike, who's of course also very, very fat.  There's a bit of Tony/Sandi, and yes, I say that with full awareness (now, not at the time) that she's a lesbian, since that is definitely not how she'll come across on the programme.  (Which is why Mike/Sandi would be very much a thing, size differences aside.)  Re the still above, John does not re-enter Tag after being tapped out, but his Pretentious Student Poet Quirk is one of his best.  And Sandi, to Clive's confusion and annoyance, shows what a subtle guesser she is as hostess.  It's odd to see Ryan not only in a mullet but at a loss in Props, later one of his best games.  But it is still early days, even in the second series.