Whose Line Is It Anyway?: 3.1

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: 3.1
Channel Four
18 January 1991
Improv Game Show
VHS
B-

First of all, this is not the order that I watched that year's episodes the following year on Comedy Central.  The American episodes aired first and then this was in the middle of the British episodes.  But either way, it is the first episode for Jim Sweeney, who proves a welcome addition.  He's funny in a modest, unassuming way and not a bad singer, so there are a lot of musical rounds, including an American Musical that will appear on the compilation.  And of course Josie, Greg, and Tony had already proven what a fine team they are, musically and otherwise.  The non-musical highlight is the four-person Helping Hands, which would prove to be uncharacteristic.  Josie's "Thank God for that!" reaction to Tony providing the Hands for Jim has less to do with her flirtation with Greg than the knowledge that he'll be much less naughty than Tony.  The shippiness here is muted on all sides, although note that Tony sings that he likes to call the turtle he's in love with "Josie or Myrtle."  And Tony swears twice, getting blanked out by CC.