Channel Four
31 January 1992
Improv Game Show
VHS
B
This episode has a lot of teasing: Paul of everyone, especially Josie; Greg mildly of the others in Video Play; Ryan of Josie (although he is apologetic about it); and Clive of Paul, although he has Paul win. The episode is funny even without the teasing, but the teasing does enhance it, as with "What are you doing with that squeezie bottle?" and the end of the "baby care" Helping Hands. I remember my then-husband coming home from work on the day I taped this (off of Comedy Central of course, a few months after it debuted on Channel Four) and telling him, "Paul made fun of Josie a lot but he really wanted to do Porno with her." (In FATS.) Paul annoys her so much that during the first ever Scenes from a Hat she just audibly tells him, "I'm going to fucking kill you," but he also still amuses her. The Greg/Josie and Ryan/Josie aren't particularly strong here, but later episodes would show that those ships were far from dead. The Greg/Ryan would be stronger on their other British episode together that year. As for Paul and the Americans, they don't seem to really connect, and yet that helps somehow, with them not knowing what to make of each other adding to the odd chemistry of this episode.
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