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** Ryan struggling to keep a straight face in a playing of "Improbable Mission" with Ryan and Colin doing the laundry. Colin repeatedly used a "cat" as a tool to aid this task, which Ryan found amusing.
** During a playing of "Greatest Hits", Ryan quizzed Colin about what type of bird squawks the name of the next band. Colin, puzzled by the question, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQ6eoXfBKU&t=68s guessed an arctic tern.]] Ryan, equally puzzled, asked what kind of sound an arctic tern makes. After thinking for a second, Colin squawked: "Music/BackstreetBoys!" Ryan lost it (as did the rest of the cast) [[note]]for the record, Ryan was actually talking about [[Music/TheWho an owl]][[/note]].
** Similarly, in another "Greatest Hits", Ryan asked Colin what he thought of when he hears "Ricky Ricardo and great cigars". Colin replied, "Tapioca". Ryan asked why, and Colin replied: "Well wasn't that his famous song? (singing) "Tapioca"! "Tapioca!"" Ryan tried desperately to stave off laughter and continue with the bit, but after two tries to finish his sentence, he broke down laughing for a good 30 seconds.
** Yet another Greatest Hits, [[http://youtu.be/ZtIQCV7_wsw#t=3m30s about lunch ladies]], featured another classic Ryan moment. Colin began to speak, but coughed. Ryan failed to maintain his composure while Colin said: "Here's a tip for all you announcers at home: Swallow before you speak." After this, Ryan got it together until Colin announced the title of the next song, "Don't Want Your Milk". Watch Ryan in this moment; he's desperately trying to refrain from smiling/laughing while Colin speaks.
** The game "Questionable Impressions" practically invites this trope, since the performers do such over-the-top (and occasionally, bad) impressions with the intent to crack up the opposing player. In one instance, Brad did an exaggerated, stutter-filled impression of Creator/JimmyStewart; Ryan knew he couldn't get through the scene without laughing and just let Brad have the "win".
** In a playing of "Sound Effects" where Colin was Ryan's heavily pregnant wife, Colin mimed pushing the baby back inside himself to climb down a ladder comfortably. At this, Ryan cracked up (as did pretty much everyone in the studio save for Colin), and Ryan continued to laugh even while asking if Colin was all right after the climb.
** The game of "Let's Make a Date", with Colin as someone "having secret affairs with Ryan and Wayne's shoes" and Ryan as "a comedian strapped to a bomb that counts down when the audience isn't laughing". Which leads to Colin pulling off one of Ryan's shoes when Ryan can't even ''move'', much less avoid giggling.
** During a playing of "If You Know What I Mean" about working out, Brad cracked up at his own double entendre, "Nothing like a 200 pound (snatch)[[note]]a weightlifting term[[/note]], if you know what I mean!"
** A playing of "Irish Drinking Song" went off the rails right from the start, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLH00_KLJjs when Drew mumbled a line]], and Ryan mocked his mumble. Wayne, the next in order, was too busy laughing to come up with the next line, as was Drew. To make them laugh even harder, Colin shouted "MEOW!" as his line, which was a RunningGag from the same episode. The resulting laughter from everybody was so immense that [[NotSoAboveItAll Laura Hall actually had to stop her piano-playing just to laugh]].
** Another Irish Drinking Song about pregnancy ''almost'' went off the rails, when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R476ZZxCWg Colin managed]] another RunningGag. Wayne ended the song trying to stifle his laughter, and Greg and Ryan had to stop.
** Colin is the master of causing this during Irish Drinking Song because of his dogged determination to finish the final chorus with enthusiasm.
** Apparently Irish Drinking Song makes the performers very prone to corpsing because it takes an intense amount of concentration, and when one of them laughs, it makes them all break up.
** Colin cracked up at his own blunder in a playing of "Changed Letter" where he started the game by flat out forgetting to not say the letter "B".
** Speaking of "Changed Letter", one playing had the contestants unable to say the letter "P"; they had to replace it with "G". Ryan began to crack up when Colin asked him if he'd like some "gog" to drink. This was exacerbated when Wayne added: "Soda gog and gickles??"
*** The cracking up started even earlier in the scene; when Ryan and Wayne entered the scene, Ryan asked, "Gerhaps we could join you?", but was instantly corrected by Brad, as he was supposed to say "gerhags". Ryan smiled wide as he corrected himself.
** Kathy Greenwood has been known to break character and smile/laugh in certain scenes. An example is in a playing of "Helping Hands" where she played an impatient customer being checked out by a rude clerk. At one point, Colin's hands roamed a little too close to her chest area, and she genuinely laughed at first, but then got back into character by being offended and accusing: "Hey what are you grabbing at?!"
** In a "Showstopping Number" about accountants, Wayne (playing the boss) smirked at his own line: "Now normally, I'd fire someone for their impudence, but..."
** In the "Greatest Hits" about songs of sci-fi, the second song ("Obi Wan Kenobi in the Flying Brown Robey", in the style of jitterbug) featured a moment when Colin tried to pick up Wayne for a dance move, but it ended up looking more like the two were humping. This caused Wayne to burst out laughing.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDU10TD85DM this]] round of ''Three-Headed Broadway Star'', Drew accidentally forgot the "one word at a time" rule, and almost completely fell apart laughing for the rest of the song. It got to the point where he could barely call out the cue to cut to a commercial break, prompting Ryan to do so instead.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdhRBbfb6o This]] round of ''Dead Bodies'', featuring Drew as the regular in the chair. Drew, playing a dead actor playing a lifeguard who just saved someone (and was doing a victory dance), can't stop laughing. And that is why Drew was rarely used in ''Dead Bodies''.
** In the "World's Worst" infomercial:
--->'''Ryan:''' Is your penis too small? Well- ''[cracks up]''
** One game of Secret from the revival contains an extremely rare moment of Colin completely losing character to stifle his laughter. Why was he laughing? [[http://www.cwtvpr.com/images/photos/thumbnail/2014/11/03/WL214A_0250b.jpg Because this was the prop]].
** In the "Greatest Hits" about doctors, during the song "Take Two and Call Me in the Morning", Wayne began laughing at Chip, for some reason. He was doubled-over when the song concluded.
--->'''Ryan:''' You know the year that song was written, they were quite heavy into the bottle.
** In the "Whose Line" parodying ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', Ryan briefly smiled and chuckled at his own line: "Put on your metal... dress."
** When providing examples of the World's Worst Priest or Rabbi, Drew did a stellar impression of Jerry Lewis as a rabbi; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaszW74MZEk it caused everyone - EVEN Colin - to lose it laughing.]] And when Greg inadvertently snorts for breath, it causes the wave to hit again.
** Wayne cracked himself up in this "Scenes from a Hat" suggestion:
---> '''Wayne:''' ''[singing]'' These words, they come so whimsically / I know your wife biblically, but please... ''[laughs]''
** When it happened to Drew during "Foreign Film Dub", his "dubber" Ryan played it up:
---> '''Ryan:''' Excuse me, I will sell you my--Ah ha ha ha, I will sell you my--Ho ho ho ho...
---> '''Colin:''' (for Jeff Davis) Excuse me?
---> '''Ryan:''' I will sell you--Oh, I'm not Spanish at all!
** During a playing of "Greatest Hits", Ryan quizzed Colin about what type of bird squawks the name of the next band. Colin, puzzled by the question, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQ6eoXfBKU&t=68s guessed an arctic tern.]] Ryan, equally puzzled, asked what kind of sound an arctic tern makes. After thinking for a second, Colin squawked: "Music/BackstreetBoys!" Ryan lost it (as did the rest of the cast) [[note]]for the record, Ryan was actually talking about [[Music/TheWho an owl]][[/note]].
** Similarly, in another "Greatest Hits", Ryan asked Colin what he thought of when he hears "Ricky Ricardo and great cigars". Colin replied, "Tapioca". Ryan asked why, and Colin replied: "Well wasn't that his famous song? (singing) "Tapioca"! "Tapioca!"" Ryan tried desperately to stave off laughter and continue with the bit, but after two tries to finish his sentence, he broke down laughing for a good 30 seconds.
** Yet another Greatest Hits, [[http://youtu.be/ZtIQCV7_wsw#t=3m30s about lunch ladies]], featured another classic Ryan moment. Colin began to speak, but coughed. Ryan failed to maintain his composure while Colin said: "Here's a tip for all you announcers at home: Swallow before you speak." After this, Ryan got it together until Colin announced the title of the next song, "Don't Want Your Milk". Watch Ryan in this moment; he's desperately trying to refrain from smiling/laughing while Colin speaks.
** The game "Questionable Impressions" practically invites this trope, since the performers do such over-the-top (and occasionally, bad) impressions with the intent to crack up the opposing player. In one instance, Brad did an exaggerated, stutter-filled impression of Creator/JimmyStewart; Ryan knew he couldn't get through the scene without laughing and just let Brad have the "win".
** In a playing of "Sound Effects" where Colin was Ryan's heavily pregnant wife, Colin mimed pushing the baby back inside himself to climb down a ladder comfortably. At this, Ryan cracked up (as did pretty much everyone in the studio save for Colin), and Ryan continued to laugh even while asking if Colin was all right after the climb.
** The game of "Let's Make a Date", with Colin as someone "having secret affairs with Ryan and Wayne's shoes" and Ryan as "a comedian strapped to a bomb that counts down when the audience isn't laughing". Which leads to Colin pulling off one of Ryan's shoes when Ryan can't even ''move'', much less avoid giggling.
** During a playing of "If You Know What I Mean" about working out, Brad cracked up at his own double entendre, "Nothing like a 200 pound (snatch)[[note]]a weightlifting term[[/note]], if you know what I mean!"
** A playing of "Irish Drinking Song" went off the rails right from the start, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLH00_KLJjs when Drew mumbled a line]], and Ryan mocked his mumble. Wayne, the next in order, was too busy laughing to come up with the next line, as was Drew. To make them laugh even harder, Colin shouted "MEOW!" as his line, which was a RunningGag from the same episode. The resulting laughter from everybody was so immense that [[NotSoAboveItAll Laura Hall actually had to stop her piano-playing just to laugh]].
** Another Irish Drinking Song about pregnancy ''almost'' went off the rails, when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R476ZZxCWg Colin managed]] another RunningGag. Wayne ended the song trying to stifle his laughter, and Greg and Ryan had to stop.
** Colin is the master of causing this during Irish Drinking Song because of his dogged determination to finish the final chorus with enthusiasm.
** Apparently Irish Drinking Song makes the performers very prone to corpsing because it takes an intense amount of concentration, and when one of them laughs, it makes them all break up.
** Colin cracked up at his own blunder in a playing of "Changed Letter" where he started the game by flat out forgetting to not say the letter "B".
** Speaking of "Changed Letter", one playing had the contestants unable to say the letter "P"; they had to replace it with "G". Ryan began to crack up when Colin asked him if he'd like some "gog" to drink. This was exacerbated when Wayne added: "Soda gog and gickles??"
*** The cracking up started even earlier in the scene; when Ryan and Wayne entered the scene, Ryan asked, "Gerhaps we could join you?", but was instantly corrected by Brad, as he was supposed to say "gerhags". Ryan smiled wide as he corrected himself.
** Kathy Greenwood has been known to break character and smile/laugh in certain scenes. An example is in a playing of "Helping Hands" where she played an impatient customer being checked out by a rude clerk. At one point, Colin's hands roamed a little too close to her chest area, and she genuinely laughed at first, but then got back into character by being offended and accusing: "Hey what are you grabbing at?!"
** In a "Showstopping Number" about accountants, Wayne (playing the boss) smirked at his own line: "Now normally, I'd fire someone for their impudence, but..."
** In the "Greatest Hits" about songs of sci-fi, the second song ("Obi Wan Kenobi in the Flying Brown Robey", in the style of jitterbug) featured a moment when Colin tried to pick up Wayne for a dance move, but it ended up looking more like the two were humping. This caused Wayne to burst out laughing.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDU10TD85DM this]] round of ''Three-Headed Broadway Star'', Drew accidentally forgot the "one word at a time" rule, and almost completely fell apart laughing for the rest of the song. It got to the point where he could barely call out the cue to cut to a commercial break, prompting Ryan to do so instead.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdhRBbfb6o This]] round of ''Dead Bodies'', featuring Drew as the regular in the chair. Drew, playing a dead actor playing a lifeguard who just saved someone (and was doing a victory dance), can't stop laughing. And that is why Drew was rarely used in ''Dead Bodies''.
** In the "World's Worst" infomercial:
--->'''Ryan:''' Is your penis too small? Well- ''[cracks up]''
** One game of Secret from the revival contains an extremely rare moment of Colin completely losing character to stifle his laughter. Why was he laughing? [[http://www.cwtvpr.com/images/photos/thumbnail/2014/11/03/WL214A_0250b.jpg Because this was the prop]].
** In the "Greatest Hits" about doctors, during the song "Take Two and Call Me in the Morning", Wayne began laughing at Chip, for some reason. He was doubled-over when the song concluded.
--->'''Ryan:''' You know the year that song was written, they were quite heavy into the bottle.
** In the "Whose Line" parodying ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', Ryan briefly smiled and chuckled at his own line: "Put on your metal... dress."
** When providing examples of the World's Worst Priest or Rabbi, Drew did a stellar impression of Jerry Lewis as a rabbi; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaszW74MZEk it caused everyone - EVEN Colin - to lose it laughing.]] And when Greg inadvertently snorts for breath, it causes the wave to hit again.
** Wayne cracked himself up in this "Scenes from a Hat" suggestion:
---> '''Wayne:''' ''[singing]'' These words, they come so whimsically / I know your wife biblically, but please... ''[laughs]''
** When it happened to Drew during "Foreign Film Dub", his "dubber" Ryan played it up:
---> '''Ryan:''' Excuse me, I will sell you my--Ah ha ha ha, I will sell you my--Ho ho ho ho...
---> '''Colin:''' (for Jeff Davis) Excuse me?
---> '''Ryan:''' I will sell you--Oh, I'm not Spanish at all!
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** A clip of Wayne doing "Song Styles" with Creator/MaggieQ ''wasn't in the actual Maggie Q episode''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLvFAuhrWeU The original promo for the Robin Williams episode]] contained a clip from a playing of "Hats", with Robin referencing ''Mork & Mindy''. "Hats" wasn't played in the actual episode.
** A clip of Wayne doing "Song Styles" with Creator/MaggieQ ''wasn't in the actual Maggie Q episode''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLvFAuhrWeU The original promo for the Robin Williams episode]] contained a clip from a playing of "Hats", with Robin referencing ''Mork & Mindy''. "Hats" wasn't played in the actual episode.
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* OutOfOrder: During the show's initial network broadcast, Season Seven was the ''only'' season where the episodes were actually aired in order, otherwise, the other seasons were broadcasted so out of order that by after Season Three's original run, episodes from Seasons Four, Five, and Six were being mixed up something awful.
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* RealSongThemeTune: The radio series was introduced by a version of George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm".
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* WrittenByCastMember: In the early years of the UK series, performer Ron West (who would later go on to fame as Strudwick on ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'') did a few episodes. Despite some capable performances, his way with improv never fully gelled on the show, either during the John Sessions era, or with the likes of Ryan and Greg. However, near the end of the UK run, he'd return to the show behind the scenes, on the creative team (as in, coming up with quirks for the cast to play in games like Party Quirks and Let's Make A Date), and stay throughout the entirety of the Drew Carey version. It's been said that a lot of the darker, more twisted quirks are his doing.
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** According to fan reports, when Creator/KathyGriffin did her Drew-era taping, she insisted on doing a singing game, and got to sing with Wayne during Greatest Hits! We can only speculate as to why, despite ''four'' episodes coming from this taping, this game was never broadcast.
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* ProducedByCastmember: Given the success of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', as well as their clout, both Creator/DrewCarey and Creator/RyanStiles were executive producers on the original U.S. version of the show. Later still, with the revival of the U.S. version, ''all three'' of the regular performers (Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady) each receive individual executive producer credits.
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* ProducedByCastmember: ProducedByCastMember: Given the success of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', as well as their clout, both Creator/DrewCarey and Creator/RyanStiles were executive producers on the original U.S. version of the show. Later still, with the revival of the U.S. version, ''all three'' of the regular performers (Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady) each receive individual executive producer credits.
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** A less positive example: in the original UK version, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulC6Bq6S3ME there's an infamous Party Quirks]] where Tony Slattery looks completely dumbfounded by the whirlwind of quirks around him. Sadly, it's not because Mike and Ryan are being too obtuse: due to some serious mental struggles (such as undiagnosed bipolar disorder) compounded by a dependence on drugs and alcohol, Tony already wasn't at his best by this point, and was completely overstimulated during this game. Clive jokes afterward that they'll probably not have Tony on the show ever again, but in a cruel twist of fate, the producers would then fire Tony for real (Mike, Tony's comedy partner, would also be axed himself).
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** A less positive example: in the original UK version, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulC6Bq6S3ME there's an infamous Party Quirks]] where Tony Slattery looks completely dumbfounded by the whirlwind of quirks around him. Sadly, it's not because Mike and Ryan are being too obtuse: due to some serious mental struggles (such as undiagnosed bipolar disorder) compounded by a dependence on drugs and alcohol, Tony already wasn't at his best by this point, and was completely overstimulated during this game. Clive jokes afterward that they'll probably not have Tony on the show ever again, but in a cruel twist of fate, the producers would then fire Tony for real (Mike, Tony's comedy partner, would also be axed himself).himself, which in turn would lead to Steve Frost walking away).
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** Anytime that a suggestion isn't used in "Film, TV & Theater Styles", whether it be excised in the editing room or simply not selected by Drew. Can also occur in other games as well- one Greatest Hits had Drew ''almost'' use the suggestion Songs of Amsterdam, only to go with the safer Songs of Paris at the last second.
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** Anytime that a suggestion isn't used in "Film, Film, TV & Theater Styles", Styles, whether it be excised in the editing room or simply not selected by Drew. Can also occur in other games as well- one Greatest Hits had Drew ''almost'' use the suggestion Songs of Amsterdam, only to go with the safer Songs of Paris at the last second.
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** During the season 3 tapings during Drew's era, they tried a new game called Appraisal, where Wayne, Colin & Ryan bring on random props for Greg to appraise, but the game never aired.
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** Nearly all of the episodes in the first U.S. series featured Ryan, Colin, and Wayne, leaving only one rotating seat. This meant certain regular performers never worked together on that series. For example, Creator/GregProops never worked with Kathy Greenwood; Brad Sherwood never worked with Chip Esten, etc.
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** Nearly all of the episodes in the first U.S. series featured Ryan, Colin, and Wayne, leaving only one rotating seat. This meant certain regular performers never worked together on that series. For example, Creator/GregProops never worked with Kathy Greenwood; Brad Sherwood never worked with Chip Esten, etc. Ryan and Wayne each missing a taping in the CW series allowed some rare opportunities for Jeff Davis to work with Greg and Brad.
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** Brad Sherwood appeared on a couple episodes of the New York tapings of the UK series, and while he thought he aced it, the producers decided to move on without him. The reason Brad wound up back in the producers' sights towards the end of the UK run was because he'd been on the show a couple times before, and they asked for his help auditioning new American performers (they were deep into trying to sell the show to an American network by this point). Whoever auditioned, we never got to see them, because Brad himself wound up impressing the producers all over again, and they gave him a [[MyGreatestSecondChance second chance]] in some UK tapings. Brad, of course, stole the show, and the rest is history.
