Sunday, July 2, 2017

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 4.5

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 4.5
Channel Four
21 February 1992
Improv Game Show
VHS & Youtube
C+

Second verse, same as the first.  Again, troubles with the videocassette, so I mostly watched this episode on Youtube.  I might've gone with a B- but, one, I find Chip mildly annoying (not so much here as later), and two, there's too much gross-out humo(u)r, even if some of it is admittedly funny, as in the Helping Hands where Tony has breakfast with Ryan-Greg.  It is, by the way, a pretty shippy episode for Ryan & Greg, especially in their FATS, where Greg as Robin wants to tell Ryan as Batman "something," and in Sci-Fi, where they both touch Ryan's imaginary three-foot-long penis.  In their Film Dubbing, Ryan is "a grown man" coming on to Greg's character of a teenager, again tasteless if funny.  Note that this three-Americans-and-a-Brit line-up would've been common in the New York tapings but feels odd towards the end of this mostly very British half-series.

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