Thursday, May 25, 2017

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 3.8

Image result for toksvig proops slatteryWhose Line Is It Anyway?: Episode 3.8
Channel Four
8 March 1991
Improv Game Show
VHS
B-

This episode is fueled by the chemistry among the four contestants and Clive, including not only some Mike/Sandi and Tony/Sandi but Tony imitating Clive for World's Worst.  I'd like to give the episode a B, but it's always bothered me that the Musical Film Review ends up being about rape, by bad guys and good guys.  (Not that it's graphic, but it is unsettling.)  Other than that, it's fun to see the interactions, like the Americans doing an American sitcom, Restoration Comedy, and "French" in FATS.

Re the M/S and T/S ships, they are quite the contrast.  Mike and Sandi do Props together and he "declares his love for her," and that's after this little exchange about the Prop, a giant banana
CLIVE: Sandi, this is yours.
SANDI: No, I think you'll find that's Mike's.
CLIVE: Well, I'm sure he'll share it with you.

Tony and Sandi are shipwrecked together in FATS and it soon becomes a discussion of orgasms, and how he's not satisfying her.  And then even with the Alphabet, which is about a chat-up for goodness sake, they flirt with and insult each other, sometimes in the very same sentence.  And he does "Queer I am" for Q.

Greg wins the episode and does a fine Woody Allen impression, calling Sandi anti-Semitic.  Greg/Sandi still really isn't a thing, but wait for their American episode.  And, no, the guys aren't flirting with each other much this episode.

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