Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 2.13

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 2.13
Channel Four
16 February 1990
Improv Game Show
DVD
B-

This is the episode where the Josie/Greg is through the roof!  So let's talk about other stuff first.  I would've gone with a B but some of the humour is a bit obscure or doesn't hit for other reasons.  (The rhymes in the American Musical are uniformly awful, although that's part of its charm.)  Still, this is a very nice line-up, with Tony teasing John in FATS, including some very definite Tony/John in the Michael Caine style for FATS, with John flustered by Tony's embrace and question "Why is it so different now?"  John interestingly sits out the American Musical, which is probably just as well, since his Catholic Odor Eaters commercial is well done.  There's no noticeable Josie/John, but she does hit Tony for his "gonorrhea" joke, and he's not the only one amused during their "up anything you like" exchange in Party Quirks.  He as Host invites her and Greg, separately, "upstairs" during the Party.

So about the Greg/Josie.  (And, yes, I know he's married in real life.)  Here's a quick run-down:

• They play a couple arguing over the bathroom in FATS, and she kicks things off with a pubic-hair-on-a-toothbrush joke!
• They talk and laugh and look at each other on and on, mostly but not entirely between games, even when she wins the episode and should be listening to Clive.
• They play a couple at and in the movies in the American Musical, magically going through the screen, where Tony plays a well-endowed dancing horse, but mostly they're focused on each other, holding hands even when they don't have to, and singing about how happy they are together.

The new relationship energy would settle down over time but the attraction would never die.  Here's Greg in a 2016 interview (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/31/greg-proops-interview-whose-line-is-it-anyway):

Proops says the players are more comfortable with one another than ever, though he reserves a special fondness for Lawrence. “Josie is constantly surprising. She’s daffy. I know I can make a weird offer and she’ll take it up. And we have the sexual tension that crowds really want. If there’s any point at which one of us can hit on the other, we do it. The pervier, the better. We were on top of each other all last summer during the show.”