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** Similarly, after a playing of "Living Scenery" where Ryan and Colin used Wayne and Kathy as towels, Drew remarked: "That drying-him-off thing was like, uh, just... I'm going to have trouble sleeping tonight."
** During the "Let's Make a Date" where Ryan played the head of Colin's ex-wife sprouting from Colin's neck, Ryan pleaded, "Come home, baby! Nobody treats you like ''I'' do." and licked Colin's ear seductively. Drew buzzed multiple times while shouting "Whoa!", and when the audience applause died down, Drew remarked: "That picture's so nasty, they won't even post that on the internet!"
** During the "Let's Make a Date" where Ryan played the head of Colin's ex-wife sprouting from Colin's neck, Ryan pleaded, "Come home, baby! Nobody treats you like ''I'' do." and licked Colin's ear seductively. Drew buzzed multiple times while shouting "Whoa!", and when the audience applause died down, Drew remarked: "That picture's so nasty, they won't even post that on the internet!"
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** In one "Showstopping Number", Wayne censored himself on his verse: "Without a hole, where would you be? / No place for ''EHHHHH!!!'' and no place for the pee!"
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In a playing of "Weird Newscasters," Brad plays a Fire-and-brimstone Southern evangelist saying that the passage of slaying [[{{Satan}} the dragon]] is found in Leviticus 13. Said section is really about healing diseases.
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* AntiRoleModel: Played for laughs with Drew:
--> '''Drew''': You kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do, and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get. (wide smile)
** Another:
--> '''Drew''': Trust me, kids: Your homework can ''wait''. Don't need to be doin' homework when ''Whose Line'' is on. Skip it!
--> '''Drew''': You kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do, and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get. (wide smile)
** Another:
--> '''Drew''': Trust me, kids: Your homework can ''wait''. Don't need to be doin' homework when ''Whose Line'' is on. Skip it!
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** Another "Greatest Hits" example:
--> '''Drew''': Golf. Golf. GOLF! (shouts into microphone) GOLF!!!
--> '''Drew''': Golf. Golf. GOLF! (shouts into microphone) GOLF!!!
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** In a "Hoedown" ostensibly about drunk mothers, Ryan ignored the subject matter and, inspired by Colin's line "Oh by the way, Chip has a little penis", sang instead about penis length:
--> '''Ryan''': Oh boy, this Hoedown is takin' mighty long / I am so siiick of this bloody song / Wayne sits there and he gets to rest, / His penis is large, that's why he's behind the desk!
--> '''Ryan''': Oh boy, this Hoedown is takin' mighty long / I am so siiick of this bloody song / Wayne sits there and he gets to rest, / His penis is large, that's why he's behind the desk!
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'''Drew''': (singing) And... ''other'' things that aren't so short...
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'''Drew''': (singing) And... ''other'' other things that aren't ''aren't'' so short...
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** Implied in one of the "Irish Drinking Song"s about Drew Carey:
--> '''Wayne''': (singing) He has short hair and glasses...\\
'''Drew''': (singing) And... ''other'' things that aren't so short...
--> '''Wayne''': (singing) He has short hair and glasses...\\
'''Drew''': (singing) And... ''other'' things that aren't so short...
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* CelebrityResemblance: Ryan has more than once compared himself to NeilPatrickHarris. And Greg has been likened to Music/BuddyHolly.
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** This was lampshaded by Drew, when he flat out had to announce that it was a special Christmas episode (since the studio looked like it always does).
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I wouldn\'t exactly say free money and candy are undesirable prizes...
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* ConsolationPrize: During the episodes that made up the Halloween-themed taping, Drew awarded candy as prizes instead of the usual points. But instead of handing it to them, he threw the candy in their general direction, to which Greg sarcastically remarked: "Jellybeans on the floor? This is the best Halloween ever, Drew."
** In one episode, Drew awards hundred dollar bills.
** In one episode, Drew awards hundred dollar bills.
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* CounterpartComparison: Invoked and parodied after a commercial break:
--> '''Drew''': The only difference between our cast and the cast of Series/{{Friends}} is that the cast of Friends is richer, better looking, and more popular. Other than that, no difference at all.
** Another example:
--> '''Drew''': And you know what, this is like a big hit show, just like Series/{{Baywatch}}. You know the difference between this show and Baywatch? On this show, you get to say, "Hey, look at those set of '''wits'''."
--> '''Drew''': The only difference between our cast and the cast of Series/{{Friends}} is that the cast of Friends is richer, better looking, and more popular. Other than that, no difference at all.
** Another example:
--> '''Drew''': And you know what, this is like a big hit show, just like Series/{{Baywatch}}. You know the difference between this show and Baywatch? On this show, you get to say, "Hey, look at those set of '''wits'''."
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: In the "Remote Control" about chickens, Jeff (as a televangelist) tells the congregation to turn to "Chickemiah 2:3".
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** An unusual example occurred in the "Greatest Hits" about the president, where an audience member's reaction was worked into the scene. Ryan quizzed Colin: "If this person were alive today, I'd vote for him. Who do you think I'm talking about?" After an incorrect guess, Ryan clued him in: Jim Morrison. After saying Jim used to be with a little band called Music/TheDoors, a lone woman in the audience emitted a brief "Whoooooooo!!!" Ryan and Colin were mock puzzled as to what the noise was, until Ryan improvised that the "whoo" was actually an alarm sound effect: "Sorry, time's up; our free offer's ended!"
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_p-gxkhPes During a playing of "Reunion" where all three were drill sergeants]], Greg said "At Ease". Colin and Greg did the appropriate "at ease" stance, but Ryan put his hands on his hips, before noticing the other two and quickly switching. Cut to Drew (who served in the Marine Corps), mocking Ryan's mistake, though according to the official regulations, Ryan's initial stance was still acceptable.
** Actually, they stood at Parade Rest.
** Actually, they stood at Parade Rest.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_p-gxkhPes During a playing of "Reunion" where all three were drill sergeants]], Greg said "At Ease". Colin and Greg did the appropriate "at ease" ease"/"Parade Rest" stance, but Ryan put his hands on his hips, before noticing the other two and quickly switching. Cut to Drew (who served in the Marine Corps), mocking Ryan's mistake, though according to the official regulations, Ryan's initial stance was still acceptable.
** Actually, they stood at Parade Rest.acceptable.
** Actually, they stood at Parade Rest.
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* ArtisticLicenceGeography: One of the first occurrences of African Chant saw Wayne get up and walk off in mock-protest. After sharing a few laughs, Drew responded with...
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* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Done for laughs during a playing of "Greatest Hits" about "Songs of Rome": Ryan remarks that Rome's been around for about 100 years.
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* ArtisticLicenceStatistics: Occasionally happens in "Number of Words"; for instance, in a scene from the U.S. version, Ryan Stiles, playing Rocky Balboa's coach Mick, said "Smack the meat, Rock! Smack it!" and "Hit the meat, Rock! Hit it!", even though his character was only allowed to say five words, not six. After the game, Drew Carey called attention to this, and Ryan replied, "[[HandWave With the exchange, it all works out.]]"
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* ArtisticLicenceStatistics: ArtisticLicenseStatistics: Occasionally happens in "Number of Words"; for instance, in a scene from the U.S. version, Ryan Stiles, playing Rocky Balboa's coach Mick, said "Smack the meat, Rock! Smack it!" and "Hit the meat, Rock! Hit it!", even though his character was only allowed to say five words, not six. After the game, Drew Carey called attention to this, and Ryan replied, "[[HandWave With the exchange, it all works out.]]"
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** In one episode, during a playing of "Award Show", Ryan and Colin mimed {{Mooning}} the audience; Wayne was about to join in, but hesitated because he told Brad that he had a G-string on. Drew caught wind of this and found it amusing; Wayne defended his undergarment and even gave the audience a peek at it. The next game was "Party Quirks" and Wayne's quirk was the South American version of The JerrySpringer Show. However, Wayne neglected to work in the "South American" portion of the quirk, just doing a generic JerrySpringer parody. When Drew called him out on it after the game, Wayne was embarrassed that he left it out. Then Ryan quipped, "Someone's thong is too tight!"
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** Another instance, in "Songs of Rome":
---> '''Ryan''': You know, I was alive in the '60s, although I was a very young boy, but I used to listen to my parents listening to rhythm and blues, '60s rhythm and blues. My favorite.\\
({{Beat}})\\
'''Colin''': [[AntiHumor I have nothing to add.]]\\
'''Ryan''': Okay.
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'''Colin''': [[AntiHumor I have nothing to add.]]\\
'''Ryan''': Okay.
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* AmusingInjuries: While it probably wasn't so funny for Ryan himself, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECC89n_1ddAChip jumping on Ryan's back]] was a riot, especially since the cast was joking about it soon afterward.
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* AmusingInjuries: While it probably wasn't so funny for Ryan himself, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECC89n_1ddAChip com/watch?v=ECC89n_1ddA Chip jumping on Ryan's back]] was a riot, especially since the cast was joking about it soon afterward.
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** One of the most famous "Party Quirks" was when this affected Colin's character: He played someone who was unsure of someone's gender and did tests to find out for sure. This involved a lot of poking, prodding, and patting.
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** In a "Hollywood Director" parodying ''TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', one of the styles was cheerleaders and the performers cheered their lines.
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** A playing of "Award Show" featured Ryan and Colin winning the award for obnoxious drunks.
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** Anytime the performers play an uncommon game, such as "Ballad Of", "Survival Show", "What Are You Trying To Say?", "Ice Skaters", or "Really Bad Hangover".
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** Given how multiple episodes were filmed in one sitting, it's possible to see audience members familiar from one game in an entirely different episode. For example, Melissa (she of the infamous underwear) can be prominently seen prior to the game of Duet sung to Derek the Diesel Guy.
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** A Ryan example occurred in "Songs of the Chiropractor":
--->'''Ryan''': ...And not just songs from here in America, but songs all, from all over the world. Almost missed a word there!\\
'''Colin''': (cheerfully) That's because you're drunk!
--->'''Ryan''': ...And not just songs from here in America, but songs all, from all over the world. Almost missed a word there!\\
'''Colin''': (cheerfully) That's because you're drunk!
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* AccentuateTheNegative: After a commercial break, Drew said: "I'm Drew Carey, reminding you to call your cable operator and complain. Nothing specific, just in general."
* ActorAllusion: The ''Scenes from a Hat'' game with Creator/RobinWilliams. One suggestion involves [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} a genie.]]
** Brought up again in ''Props'' when Robin acts like a cheerleader.
* AdaptationExpansion: Every now and then, certain sessions of earlier games get popular enough to be turned into games in their own right. ''Film Noir'' in particular started as a ''Scene to Music'' with appropriately noir-ish music and Jim Sweeney and Steve Steen's epic performance. ''Hollywood Director'' is essentially a meta variant of ''Film TV Theater Styles'', and the lesser-played late entries ''Doo-Wop'' and ''Boogie-Woogie Sisters'' came from Wayne and Chip's "They Shot My Paw" and Wayne and Brad's "Roulette of Love" from two different ''Greatest Hits''.
* TheAdjectivalMan: in ''Weird Superheroes''.
* TheAlcoholic: Parodied, most often during "Greatest Hits", when Colin will say something odd and Ryan will ask if Colin is drinking again.
** Example, from Songs of the Circus:
--->'''Colin''': You know, we have more hits than you can shake a stick at. But, you know, don't shake a stick, because that would damage the CD. Because once you shake a stick at something, you can rarely get it to the way it was before.\\
'''Ryan''': ...You're drinking again, aren't you?\\
'''Colin''': Yeah, a little bit.
** Wayne can get this role either deliberately (as "an old drunk who used to do the sports" in ''Weird Newscasters'') or by accident (he was supposed to be mimicking a carousel horse in ''Living Scenery'', but Colin assumed he was being a drunkard). Unfortunately he winds up sounding like BillCosby...
** Many jokes about what exactly was in Drew's mug were made about this.
** In one game of "Let's Make a Date": Colin plays a drunk and Greg Proops guessed he's his uncle Ted.
* [[AliceAndBob Bob and Alice Johnson]]: Invoked often by the US players. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SopVIc4SCFo This]] ''Scenes from a Hat'' session has a whole string of it.
** Chances are, if Ryan's making up the name, the first name will be either Phil or Gary (Greg makes fun of this once during a UK credits reading), the last name either Phillips or Johnson, or, if he's playing Alphabet, "Xavier Hollander." (Rarer, but still present, was the female equivalent, Xaviera: Xaviera Hollander was the nom de plume of the author of ''{{Emmanuelle}}'' - the book which lead to the hugely successful 1970s PornWithPlot movies).
** One of the funniest ''Home Shopping Channel'' games had Colin take advantage of this proclivity of Ryan's:
--->'''Ryan:''' It's four o'clock and it's...\\
'''Colin:''' ...time to shop!\\
'''Ryan:''' I'm Gary!\\
'''Colin:''' [[NamesTheSame And I'm Gary too!]]
* AllCheeringAllTheTime: Parodied in a game of "Scenes from a Hat" on the American version: "Moments When Cheerleading is Inappropriate".
-->'''Greg Proops:''' Grandpa's dead! Gimme a D! Gimme an E! Gimme -- Come on! Where's your enthusiasm?\\
'''Ryan Stiles:''' Vasectomy! Vasectomy! Clip clip clip!\\
'''Wayne Brady:''' Okay! Somebody's goin' to the 'lectric chair! Gonna fry! Gonna fry! Somebody's goin' to the 'lectric chair! Gonna -- Come on! (makes buzzing sounds) Say what?! Come on! Come on!
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Played [[{{Pun}} straight]] in a "Party Quirks" where Ryan played all the characters in a gay western. Every single character flirted with the host in some fashion.
* AllMenArePerverts: When an attractive and/or famous woman appears on the show, Ryan and Colin usually flirt with her and if they're playing Living Scenery, they'll spend the whole game finding suggestive poses to put her in. Wayne also sweet talks some of the female audience members during the Song Styles game.
** Audience members brought on stage to participate/be the victim in a sketch are overwhelmingly attractive young women. Also, male performers who aren't even participating in the current game (usually Colin and/or Ryan) will often come forward and shake their hands.
** Some of Drew's "The points don't matter" jokes also fall under this category; he compared the points to the part of the Victoria's Secret catalog where they sell the pants as well as foreplay for men.
* AlmostKiss: Occurs a few times. One of the funniest ones was an outtake where Drew and Colin's lips ''almost'' met, but they stopped in the nick of time.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Invoked by Ryan in a playing of "Hollywood Director": Colin announced the next style should be ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''. When Colin yelled action, Ryan bent down as if getting in a [[VisualPun Gremlin car]].
** Similarly, in a playing of "Weird Newscasters", Ryan had the quirk of "The Rise and Fall of a 1940's Boxer". Instead of imitating the sport of boxing, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Ryan acted like a boxer dog.]][[invoked]]
** Likewise, in one British episode's "Film, TV & Theater Styles" game, "Japanese Noh Theatre" came up. One of the performers began [[LargeHam energetically spouting]] [[GratuitousJapanese mock Japanese]] in the style of a samurai film; the other simply looked at him and said [[{{Pun}} "No!"]] repeatedly.[[invoked]]
* AmbiguousGender: During an "Award Show" about the best bitter divorce, Ryan brought a random man from the audience on-stage and said he brought his lawyer with him. Colin remarked that it won't do any good, because he's been sleeping with the lawyer. After Ryan allowed the man to return to his seat, Ryan mumbled to Colin under applause, "You're gonna be the woman?" Apparently, Ryan had started the scene with the intention that he was going to play the woman, but Colin turned the tables on him very quickly.
** In the "Greatest Hits" about songs of marriage, one of the songs was "I'm the Groom" in the style of Music/TheBeachBoys. The first (and only) line of the song was Wayne's confused, "I'm gonna get married, I'm gonna find myself a guy..." Apparently, Wayne forgot that he was supposed to be a ''guy'' singing about marrying a ''girl'', which immediately cracked him up when he realized it.
---> '''Brad''': The band's had a little too much to drink!
* AmbiguousSyntax: Every now and then, thanks to the improv format. One standout case during ''Film Noir'' involved Colin making up a story about [[ItMakesSenseInContext being abandoned at birth, then finding the hospital he'd been born in, only to learn that his father left a talking parrot (presumably it'd been taught to say his last words) with the doctor...]]
--> '''Colin''': "Then suddenly, he died."\\
(Ryan (playing the doctor) mock-collapses)\\
'''Colin''': "Um, no, I meant..." *gets buzzed anyway*
* AmusingInjuries: While it probably wasn't so funny for Ryan himself, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECC89n_1ddAChip jumping on Ryan's back]] was a riot, especially since the cast was joking about it soon afterward.
-->'''Colin''': [[WhatTheHellHero Are you crazy?! He's over forty!]]\\
'''Ryan''': It's [the next "Hollywood Director" style] "porn", so I can lie down, right?\\
'''Ryan''': That disc popped right back in!\\
'''Chip''': I broke Ryan!
** Another amusing one was when Colin was held upside down during "Action Replay" (as per imitating Wayne's and Greg's actions) and struggled a tad to get up afterward. Drew could scarcely contain his glee after the game: "[[ComedicSociopathy I don't know why I laugh when you get hurt.]]"
--->'''Ryan''': Do you want to throw one of my blue shoes at him?
*** The scene can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbNAq2G7xoY here]].
** The Party Quirks game where Ryan [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67iNkmENs9k rammed his head into the light on Drew's desk.]]
*** The fact that Ryan continued to act out the scene ''without breaking character'' makes this both a [[Awesome/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] and [[Funny/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Crowning Moment Of Funny]].
** ''Infomercial'' tends to lead to Ryan using the stuff in the box on Colin, almost leading to some not-so-amusing injuries on occasion.
--->'''Ryan:''' ''(arranging a mess of copper wires around Colin's face)'' This will measure the size of one's head!\\
'''Colin:''' And also [[EyeScream it can remove those pesky eyes!]]
*** In one scene, they had a strange wind up device that they never seen before. Ryan has Colin hold the end of it in his mouth while Ryan cranks it. ItMakesSenseInContext. Drew quickly stops them and tells them that the device is actually an unique LIGHTER! Luckily it seemed to be out of fluid.
** In one "Helping Hands" Colin [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czJnLyTgX2A spills hot coffee on his hands]] followed by Kathy trying to help [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry by pouring orange juice on the burns]]. Drew, after recovering from his laughter Colin's expense, shared that he wondered "why Ryan wasn't screaming when the coffee hit his hands."
* AnachronismStew: Frequently seen in "Film, TV & Theater Styles" and "Whose Line", as many of the scenes take place in the past, yet feature modern technology or references anyway.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Questions with Wigs]], Questions Only [[AC:[[InSpace WITH WIGS]]]].
* AngelsPose: Done in "Film, TV & Theater Styles" whenever the style is ''Series/CharliesAngels''.
* {{Angrish}}: Frequently in games where Ryan plays a usurper who puts the moves on Colin's wife, Colin comes home and spouts angrish when he sees the two of them together. One time, it's played with: During his angrish rants, he interrupts himself to tell his wife, "Here, I got you something", then continues his angrish.
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The last few UK seasons.
** EvolvingCredits: The big move to the US was indicated by swapping out the red background from the animated OP with a Hollywood skyline.
*** The OP evolved even before then. The first UK season featured John Sessions (the show's regular) prominently; the second season (in which he didn't appear nearly as often) removed the clips of him and had silhouettes performing the various games. Then it changes to the animated opening.
* AntiHumor: Occasionally occurs due to the improv format; one of the players will be going for a joke, while the other one won't take it in that direction. For example, in a playing of "Greatest Hits" about songs of Las Vegas, it looked like Ryan was going to do a joke about Drew Carey (he often does), but it never occurred:
-->'''Ryan''': The money, the celebrities. Why, our own Drew Carey, is a frequent visitor here, to Las Vegas! (Drew smugly smiles, expecting a jab)\\
'''Colin''': That's right!\\
'''Ryan''': And I think one of my favorite... (pauses and looks at Colin)\\
'''Colin''': I was just agreeing, and looking perky!
** Another example is in an "Irish Drinking Song", the theme being "Your first car". Greg sings a line about dating a girl named Macer; He was probably setting up an AMC Pacer joke with another singer hoping he'd rhyme Macer with Pacer. It never happened.
** Also done deliberately during "Scenes from a Hat":
---> ''(Suggestion: What penguins are really thinking)''\\
'''Ryan''': Geez, it's cold!\\
''(Suggestion: Things to say that will always start a fight)''\\
'''Ryan''': Guys wanna fight?
** Common in "Infomercial", when they find an item they have no idea what to do with: "Hey, what's that got to do with (topic)?" "Nothing!" *plonk*
* AnythingThatMoves: In between games in one episode, Wayne randomly remarks: "Sometime tonight during the show, I'm humpin' someone in the audience. (audience cheers) That's all I know. That's all I know."
* AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat: Not said outright, but the meaning of the trope was definitely there. During a game a Greatest Hits, Drew asks the audience for a European city you would go to to have a good time, and gets back [[GayParee Paris]] and [[FreestateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] and has to make a decision.
-->'''Drew''': "Paris...Amsterdam...umm...let's do uhh...P...Am...Amsterdam..."\\
(Ryan, Colin, and Wayne all give Drew bemused, questioning looks)\\
'''Ryan''': "Ooookaay!"\\
'''Drew''': "...Let's do Paris."
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_p-gxkhPes During a playing of "Reunion" where all three were drill sergeants]], Greg said "At Ease". Colin and Greg did the appropriate "at ease" stance, but Ryan put his hands on his hips, before noticing the other two and quickly switching. Cut to Drew (who served in the Marine Corps), mocking Ryan's mistake, though according to the official regulations, Ryan's initial stance was still acceptable.
** Actually, they stood at Parade Rest.
* ArtisticLicenceGeography: One of the first occurrences of African Chant saw Wayne get up and walk off in mock-protest. After sharing a few laughs, Drew responded with...
-->'''Drew''': Uh, Africa is a big country just by Madagascar...\\
''(Greg laughs loudly)''\\
'''Greg Proops''': It's also a ''CONTINENT'' if you're a ''geographer!''
** And, during this whole episode, [[http://youtu.be/A8Q10g_Mov4 they continue to mock his mistake, bringing it up whenever they can. Drew gets his revenge at the end though.]]
** Josie's Greco-Roman Flub also counts. (To elaborate, it's a session of ''Questions Only'' meant to take place in ''Rome''.)
--->'''Josie:''' Are you going to the Parthenon tonight? (Stephen fumbles and gets buzzed out)\\
'''Stephen:''' (to Clive) Could you tell her the Parthenon's in Athens? (leaves, Ryan steps in)\\
'''Josie:''' Is the Parthenon in Athens?\\
'''Ryan:''' Would you like to buy a map?
*** She probably meant ''Pantheon'', which is in Rome.
** During a "Scenes From a Hat" about state mottos, Colin gave a suggestion about Miami. Drew immediately corrected him: "Miami's a city." Colin's response: "Florida: Not to be confused with Miami."
* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Done for laughs during a playing of "Greatest Hits" about "Songs of Rome": Ryan remarks that Rome's been around for about 100 years.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: At the end of a barber shop-themed Narrate, Ryan traps Colin in one of the chairs, straps him in, and spins him to launch him out of the shop. Colin spins in the opposite direction, but catches himself a few seconds later and corrects himself.
** If you watch Ryan's reaction to this, it is simply '' amazing.''
* ArtisticLicenceStatistics: Occasionally happens in "Number of Words"; for instance, in a scene from the U.S. version, Ryan Stiles, playing Rocky Balboa's coach Mick, said "Smack the meat, Rock! Smack it!" and "Hit the meat, Rock! Hit it!", even though his character was only allowed to say five words, not six. After the game, Drew Carey called attention to this, and Ryan replied, "[[HandWave With the exchange, it all works out.]]"
* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption
* AsYouKnow: Parodied to hell and back in ''Greatest Hits'', as Colin and Ryan atempt to explain a "personal connection" to whichever obscure musical style [[ButtMonkey they're about to hit Wayne with.]]
** Every song a hit, and [[{{Pun}} every hit a smack!]]
* AuthorAppeal: Colin doing his dinosaur impression, Ryan's JohnWayne and Carol Channing impressions, Greg's Film/{{Braveheart}} and WoodyAllen, and Wayne's BillCosby and MichaelJackson.
** Brad does a pretty good impression of Fred Schneider from The B-52's in "Greatest Hits".
** Chip Esten is well known for his Snagglepuss impression.
** Also Jeff Davis, who in his 9 appearances has imitated Christopher Walken at least 3 times.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Ever wonder why Ryan never hosts the "Party Quirks" party? Apparently, he is able to guess anyone's quirk in thirty seconds, which is why so few of the ones taped with him ever make it to air.
** Greg also was fairly good at guessing what the party quirks are, but more of his got onto the show because they often gave him extremely hard to guess ones.
** Colin has been employing some of this during "Newsflash" and "Press Conference".
* BackToFront: "Backwards Scene".
* BadassBystander: Every once in a while you get an audience member who can match Wayne in the dancing department. Sam the fitness instructor and Julia the ''dance instructor'' come to mind.
-->'''Wayne:''' ''(singing to Sam the fitness instructor in the style of {{Riverdance}})''
--->Well, she'll get busy and dance\\
I thought that there was my chance\\
But let me tell you all, don't you see\\
I didn't know she could actually Riverdance!
** Another audience member, Derek the diesel guy, danced/made YMCA-style hand symbols with Wayne and Chip during "Duet". After the game...
--->'''Wayne''': Derek, you want a job, dude?\\
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XfzcRSsHo Link]]
** A audience member was brought in to play a game where Colin has to animate "dead bodies" in a story. She not only did a fantastic job, she never broke character even when Colin accidently put her hand over Ryan's crotch.
** In one "Let's Make a Date", Wayne is playing a teenage girl who decides to bring her friends onstage with her. Wayne grabs a random woman who immediately plays along and jumps into character with him, even going so far as to play along with Colin when he acts out his actions on Wayne and her.
* BadBadActing: Done when the cast has to imitate ''{{Baywatch}}'' during a scene. Or high school plays, for that matter.
** Colin unwittingly slips into this in a session of ''Whose Line'', presumably while attempting a Vietnamese accent in the role of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXiUi0UsTk "a Vietnamese woman bidding farewell to her GI boyfriend at the end of the war"]]. Ironically, [[Heartwarming/WhoseLineIsItAnyway the audience sympathy reached an all-time high.]]
--->[[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry "That saddens me!"]] [[LampshadeHanging "Apparently it saddens a lot of people..."]]
* BadDate: The subject of a few games, like a Hollywood Director where Ryan and Kathy Greenwood were a 1950's couple making out: Ryan and Kathy started the scene pretending to have braces and their braces getting stuck while kissing.
-->'''Ryan''': This is the worst date I've ever been on!\\
'''Kathy''': Oh stop it, Billy, I'm having an awful good time!\\
'''Ryan''': ''You'' might be, but I'll never date you again! You're not good enough for captain of the football team!
* BadImpressionists: Colin, during a Questionable Impressions game: (in his regular voice) "Do you have a table for a Craig T. Nelson?"
** Also, Wayne Brady during Multiple Personalities, in the style of JohnWayne: "Howdy, pilgrim. It appears that someone's... got a flat. (Ryan and Greg just stare at him, smiling) Got a flat!" It was so bad that Drew made mention of it after the game: "A thousand points to John Wayne Brady! Man of a thousand faces!"
** Wayne Brady again when trying to imitate Woody Allen in Film, TV & Theater Styles. When the next style was "horror", Ryan remarked, "Oh my God, that was a horrible impression."
** During a "Film, TV & Theater Styles", the next style was TheGongShow. Colin pretended to be Jaye P. Morgan, and when asked his opinion:
--->'''Colin''': (faking a hoarse voice) I thought it... SUCKED. ({{beat}}) That's the best Jaye P. I do.
** Ryan's impression of JerryLewis once prompted Brad(as YogiBear) to ask "Are you Carol Channing?". Ryan promptly switched voices and replied "Would you like me to be Carol Channing?".
* BaldOfAwesome: Colin's known as one of the best players on the show, if he's not teased for it.
* BankRobbery: One "Hollywood Director" featured this as its scene.
* BattleCry: "SHUT UP AND TOUCH THE MONKEY!"
** "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR A BRAN MUFFIN!"
** "[[BringMyBrownPants BRING MY BROWN PANTS!]]"
* BawdySong: The Hoedown songs that don't make it to air are sometimes this. Drew likes these. [[ExecutiveMeddling For some reason,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZeAy8mkJhc this]] song about puberty was cut.
* {{Beat}}: Occurs most often in "Greatest Hits" during the Colin and Ryan banter. Examples:
** During "Songs of the Beekeeper", Ryan said: "We have "Songs of the Beekeeper", and what a lonely profession it is, really." (Colin stares at him)
** During "Songs of the International Spy", Ryan said: "Oh, and so many styles to choose from." (again, Colin stares blankly)
** And one that got somewhat out of control:
--->'''Ryan:''' "...over 52 songs, on one CD! But it's a big one! (''beat'') And it's made out of chocolate! (''longer beat'') [[RuleofThree I had a little something to drink earlier!]]"
** Beats also occur in "Film Dub", and are largely unavoidable due to not knowing the film footage beforehand. An example, from a scene set in a lab:
--->'''Ryan''': I wouldn't worry about it; they seem to be moving rather slowly.\\
'''Greg''': Mmmmmmmmm. ({{Beat}}; audience laughs)\\
'''Ryan''': You know, many years ago, when I worked in this lab...
* BedmateReveal: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhI8_8KCHfs Done a few times]] in "Scenes From a Hat".
-->'''Drew:''' Things you don't expect to find when you wake up in the morning.\\
'''Wayne:''' (Pretending to wake up and looking over) Colin?!\\
'''Colin:''' (Runs onto the stage and shouts at a retreating Wayne) Teach me to sing like you!\\
'''Ryan:''' (Joining Colin onstage) What's his problem?\\
'''Colin:''' I don't know.
* BestialityIsDepraved:
** Before the "Duet" where Wayne and Brad sang to Franchise/{{Lassie}} the dog, Wayne remarked that Lassie looks so pretty. Drew agreed, then gave Wayne a smart aleck look. Wayne seemed annoyed that Drew took his comment in a sexual direction.
-->'''Drew''': Whatever dude, I'm not judgin' you.
** Jokes like this were actually ''more'' prevalent in the UK version, and not just from the UK players (Ryan's impression of a ''World's Worst'' "nature documentary", for example). One session of ''Hey You Down There'' even ended with Drew commenting "sheep jokes... that's why we're so popular in UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}" (even though the actual joke was about [[ItMakesSenseInContext running over a sheep]] instead).
** A specific UK-version example: the game was the World's Worst Person to Defend You In Court.
--->'''Colin''': Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it's not like the sheep was under-age!
** "We're watching animal porn! ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' will be right back..."
** The Sex Hoedown on the UK version has a verse from Ryan regarding this.
** In a playing of "Hats":
--->'''Ryan''': (as The Wicked Witch of the West) I want to make love to you... you ''and'' your little dog!!
** In a "World's Worst" about "worst things to say or do after making love":
--->'''Drew''': Who's a good puppy? ''You're'' a good puppy!
** And let's not forget TheWho's no. 1 hit, "MissKitty Left Me [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsc5-UPT5fU&t=3m12s So I'm Sleeping With My Horse"!]]
** Unintentional example from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KoSiF4Naw a scene]] where Ryan was playing {{Tarzan}}:
--->'''Ryan:''' Before you come, Tarzan only have animals. (audience starts laughing) Animals think Tarzan forget about them now! (starts to laugh) I mean as ''friends''!
* {{BFG}}: The "Director" segment of the episode of Robin Williams guest-starring. Wayne yanks out a giant... thing with mechanical noises each time he's called in to exterminate some rats. Even during Riverdance.
** Justified in a session of ''Film TV Theater Styles'' -- the style called out was {{Anime}}. Says it all, really.
** ''Sound Effects'' sometimes involves Ryan calling out Colin and whoever's making sounds for him on having a pithy gunshot sound, then proceeding to one-up him with a supposedly bigger gun. It doesn't always pan out, of course.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: A running joke with Ryan. Also the source of gags when Greg was "Viagra Man" in a ''Superheroes'' game.
-->'''Greg:''' Thank goodness the crisis has been averted. ''(poses)'' Now I've got a date with the ''Grand Canyon!''
** In a playing of "Scenes From a Hat", the suggestion was "How the naked Fridays policy worked out at your office", which was nothing but jokes about impossibly long dicks.
** During a "Weird Newcasters", Greg insinuated that Colin's character (a streaker who bets he can get in every shot) had a small penis when he said: "And I wouldn't say that's an Italian sausage, more like a ''Vienna'' sausage."
** In another "Weird Newscasters", Colin played a nudist. Ryan, playing a mobster, asked if Colin would use his erect (and apparently really long) penis as his weather pointer. Colin happily obliged.
* BigNo: Said by Ryan in "Weird Newscasters" when he realized that the glass slipper fit on Drew's foot.
* BilingualBonus: In one playing of "Foreign Film Dub", Jeff Davis spoke a bit of actual Spanish.
** Wayne also does this regularly, it appears he knows at least a moderate amount of the language.
** Similarly, Colin and his French. Which is spectacularly ''inverted'' during [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQc2gVK3vc&t=3m32s this]] session of ''Hollywood Director''. "Just to give it that sort of... I don't know what." That phrase some of you may be thinking of is ''je ne sais quois'', which means just that.
** Both of the above are justified; French and English are the official languages in Canada, and Wayne grew up in Florida, where there is a big Hispanic community.
** StephenColbert brought some actual German to the table during his appearance, even getting a {{Hitler}} [[GeniusBonus quote]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]].
** In one UK show with StephenFry he spoke an entire Questions Only scene set in Rome entirely in Latin.
* BlackComedy: Ryan will frequently "hang himself" during scenes.
** Also, a playing of "Superheroes" cast Brad as "Suicide Boy". Somehow, he was able to make that funny. "Sweet propane, take me away."
--->"(stands up, laughing-) This isn't working! It's an electric stove!"
** One of the "and the loser has to" variants had Drew saying: "And y'know, it's great, I don't even hear the screams anymore!"
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Wayne Brady during a game of Questions Only set at the [[Film/{{Psycho}} Bates Motel]] and also during a game of Themed Restaurant with the theme being horror.
-->'''Wayne''': Am I going to be the first one to die, like I always am?
* BlessedWithSuck: Greg is briefly christened "Useless Man" by Clive before "Superheroes", though he's quickly given another superhero name which gives him more to work with.
** Quite a few of the "Superheroes" abilities could probably qualify as this, really.
** [[LargeHam Did someone call for]] [[{{Pun}} Captain Pork?]]
* BlindDate: The subject of numerous Hoedowns.
* BluntYes: In the Infomercial about face lifts, Ryan put a metal object on Colin's face which came close to poking his eyes. After the game, Drew asked Colin if he was nervous when Ryan did that to him. Colin replied while smiling, "Yes."
* BrainBleach: One ''Song Styles'' ends in Drew mentioning "a brain scrubber - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEX0lBOgxKU that'll get that tongue-wagging thing out of my head so I can sleep at night..."]]
-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XEtTZVdHvk "I was gonna give you points but I'll never be able to get that screech out of my head..."]]
** After a playing of Questions Only where one of Wayne's characters is an elderly man who removes his dentures before trying to kiss the other player, Drew says, "Thousand points to everybody but Wayne. Thanks for this: (mimics Wayne's "toothless mouth" expression that he used in the game) Thanks for that visual. I have enough trouble falling asleep at night."
* BrandX: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pr0xs4LIg this]] "Helping Hands", there's a box of Twinkies with the T painted over. Another one involved what Colin described out loud as "a tin of furniture polish with the brand name erased!"
** Before a playing of "Superheroes", Drew got a suggestion from the audience that the world was out of Cheetos, but chose the suggestion of no more shaving cream instead, as he was worried about the brand name. True to form, Greg brought up Cheetos during the skit anyway.
*** Interestingly, another round of ''Superheroes'' had Brad get the name "Captain Morgan", a pretty blatant reference to the liquor.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In the "Greatest Hits" about Las Vegas:
-->'''Ryan''': I tell ya, Col', the excitement never stops.\\
'''Colin''': That's right, and the music never ends! And we've combined the two: The music that never ends, and the something that never stops, to... Music That Never Ends or Stops! And it's all about Vegas!
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: After a commercial break, Drew said:
-->'''Drew''': I'm Drew Carey. My turn-ons are big, crackling fires, romantic walks on the beach, and strippers.
** Tends to show up in the "Quick Change" game, usually combined with RuleOfThree, as in this example with Brad and Colin plotting to escape from a POW camp.
---> '''Brad:''' What food did you find for our escape plan?
---> '''Colin:''' I got some buns and some butter.
---> '''Ryan:''' Change!
---> '''Colin:''' A can of soup.
---> '''Ryan:''' Change!
---> '''Colin:''' ...Parts of a dog I found outside!
* BreakingTheFourthWall: During a playing of "Let's Make a Date", Ryan's quirk was the overly long "a witch who entices the beast to her magic sleeping stool and then must find his true love to break the spell and turn him into a prince". When Ryan was asked his first question and the quirk appeared on the screen, Ryan said:
-->'''Ryan''': I'm just leaving a little time, so everyone can read the ''novel'' that is my suggestion.
** In a playing of "Sound Effects" where Ryan and Colin were two soldiers escaping from a German P.O.W. camp, the audience members were a little too excited about providing sound effects, appropriate to the situation or not. After a few seconds of this, Colin said:
---> '''Colin''': Let me just turn off the radio, and let's hope that only the sound effects that happen once we prompt them, will happen!
* BreathWeapon: In the "Weird Newscasters" where Ryan was a mercenary wanting to replace everyone on the show, all Ryan had to do was breathe on Wayne after biting into an onion to kill him.
* BrickJoke: In one episode, Drew used a tape player and a pre-taped message of himself giving points to the performers. While Drew was away from the desk during a break, Wayne grabbed the tape player and recorded himself saying "My ass." over and over. A "Helping Hands" was played, and afterwards Drew prepared to award points from his tape player... only to hear "My ass, my ass..."
** In a later episode of the U.S. version, Drew mentioned after a game that Wayne just ate a whole bucket full of candy (this is in reference to a Party Quirks where Wayne played a member of a fraternity who performed various stunts, including eating a bucket full of candy). The audience remained silent, as it wasn't really a joke, and Greg broke the silence by saying "Screech!" Later on in the episode, during "Hats", Greg wore some insect wings and said: "Well I'm out of the caterpillar stage..." The audience barely reacted and Drew got back at Greg by saying: "SCREECH!"
--->'''Greg''': ''You'' put the *bleep* wings on.
** In a game of "Irish Drinking Song" with the subject of getting mugged, Ryan finished the first verse, after a {{beat}}, with "A stone I passed!" It cracked the performers up enough to require two rounds of "Oh, hi-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di" to get back on track. Then, in the final verse, Colin finishes with "He put my stone back in my end!" to much laughter and applause. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkMTytXlXQ here]].
** During a game of Newsflash, the scene shown was of a bodybuilding competition, and during the game, Ryan was making jokes about the female bodybuilders looking like men. After the game Drew said "I gotta say Ryan, some day, when you least expect it, a big body building chicks gonna leap out in front of you and kick your ass." to which Ryan respond in a scratchy voice "You made fun of me! You made fun of me!" 15 episodes later, Drew introduces special guest Jane Tricker, a female bodybuilder. Ryan immediately leaps out of his seat and goes to hide backstage.
** In a playing of "Greatest Hits", Colin said, "The great thing about this CD is we have music from everywhere!", and proceeded to flail his arms wildly, presumably indicating that he's pointing to different parts of the world. Ryan asked: "Have you been working out?" Colin replied, "No, I'm a drummer!" and began to imitate Bill, who was previously sung to in "Duet" and who mimed drumming motions while Brad and Wayne sung to him. Then Ryan began to imitate audience member Debbie's minimal stretching from "Dubbing", which wasn't from the same episode but came from the same taping.
** In one episode, Brad and Wayne sung to Angela, a sign language interpreter. After the game, she taught the cast how to say "I'm sorry" in sign language. Later in the same episode, after Drew made a flub where he called Wayne and Brad "Wad", Wayne said, "You better say..." and made the sign language for "I'm sorry".
* BritishBrevity: Averted; the U.K. version lasted for ten seasons (or series), with 136 episodes total. Not too shabby.
* BritishRockStar: Wayne plays one in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-s2uAovzbQ this]] round of ''Let's Make A Date''.
* BritishTeeth: Played straight in a few "Scenes From a Hat" suggestions on the U.S. version, and with some Props on the same versions.
* BrokenRecord: Occasionally, if audience members continue to shout suggestions even after Drew says he has one, he'll repeat the last suggestion over and over until they shut up.
--> '''Drew''': Pro bowler. Pro bowler. Pro bowler. Jeez, what, am I talking to myself? Pro bowler.
* BuffySpeak: Unavoidable with the nature of the show. Colin of course is usually responsible.
** In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bwA9fBkbg this]] "Scene to Music":
--->'''Caroline''': Yes! The spurty spurty, with the little washy things!
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: In one "Weird Newscasters", Ryan had the quirk of delivering the news in the style of a Busby Berkeley musical number.
* ButIDigress: During a playing of "Greatest Hits", Colin mentions that the next artist is Jerry Van Dyke. Ryan interrupts and says, "I knew him when he was Jerry Van Lesbian, years and years ago. (audience laughs) But I digress."
* ButtMonkey: Colin, who was the source of many bald jokes, although he was likely the most skilled performer (he almost never cracks up while in character). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Colin himself when he offered to be everyone's "Lightning Rod of Hate."
** The UK version turned Josie Lawrence into this. Paul Merton and Tony Slattery, we're looking at you.
** Happens literally to Wayne after his big secret[[note]]He has a ticklish butt.[[/note]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8bDsxIy5Dc&t=6m13s came out...]]
--->'''Jeff:''' "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything You LIKE it don't you?!]]"
** The US version featured several jokes about Drew Carey's weight. Those jokes were usually done by Ryan, but other members of the cast got in on it from time to time - even [[SelfDeprecation Drew himself]] every now and then.
*** Drew also gets mocked for "sitting behind a desk and doing nothing"
**** Wayne: "Drew doesn't do a DAMN thing."
** During the opening introductions, Ryan is always introduced last, and every performer has a joke told about them. As the jokes get played more and more at the actors' expense, Ryan thus gets the worst of it.
* CallBack: Much of the humor overall comes from this, with the performers using lines or jokes from earlier in entirely different contexts. Examples:
** Showstopping Number always, ALWAYS featured a call back to a previous incident during Ryan's song. Some examples:
--->'''Ryan''': In case you forget, my name is Ryan! (regarding an audience member forgetting Ryan's name during "Sound Effects")\\
'''Ryan''': I crack up when I hear "tapioca"! (regarding Colin making Ryan laugh during "Greatest Hits" by answering a riddle with the nonsensical "tapioca")\\
'''Ryan''': I can't think straight since you grabbed my penis! (regarding a "Party Quirks" where Colin checks the sex of everybody else)\\
'''Ryan''': At least I can pronounce the name "Howard"! (regarding Wayne misspelling audience member Howard's name as "Horward" during "Song Styles")\\
'''Ryan''': Come on and fluff my Garfield! (regarding a catchphrase Colin created during "If You Know What I Mean")\\
'''Ryan''': We didn't get the suggestion, we almost didn't get the hint, because Drew almost choked on an altoid mint! (self-explanatory; see the MoodWhiplash entry on this page for the full story)\\
'''Ryan''': You probably don't understand. You're cerebral! (regarding Colin saying his comedy is cerebral after few got his joke in "Weird Newscasters")
** Hoedown also frequently featured call backs to jokes from earlier in the episode. One such Hoedown, about magicians, addressed both Wayne being ticklish in "Party Quirks" and Colin accidentally pouring hot coffee on his hands in "Helping Hands".
** In a "Greatest Hits" about beekeepers, Colin mentioned that eating flan is a great way to get rid of excess celluloid. This is a reference to an earlier playing of "Infomercial", where Ryan kept mixing up the words "celluloid" and "cellulite".
** One suggestion in "Scenes From a Hat" was rejected names for bras, which returned the name "Milk Duds". Later, in a playing of "Party Quirks", Wayne (playing a tribal chief and his native interpreter) said to Kathy Greenwood: "In our country, we do not wear Milk Duds. You should let yours free."
** In a "Party Quirks" where Wayne played King Kong, he accidentally lifted audience member Melissa's skirt, exposing her underwear. Later, in a "Hoedown" about cop shows, Ryan brought up the incident again:
--->'''Ryan''': Sure you can watch them if you really want a scare, / Thursdays at eight you can see Melissa's underwear!
*** Taken even further in that episode. It was mentioned many times during that episode. And since this was early in the series, they didn't have many varieties of scenes lined up yet or established popular ones at least. What they did was to have them do, not one, not two, but three hoe downs. Ryan, though being good at hoe downs, was obviously annoyed with this. He sang last in all three hoe downs. No matter the subject, he went right back to the Melissa. On the last one, he ended his part by singing, and I paraphrase, "...screw it. Once more I have to mention Melissa's underwear!" Cue [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Me-liss-a's. Un-der. WEEEAAARRR!"]]
** The outtakes (seen on "The Best of Whose Line is it Anyway?" special) featured two other attempts by Ryan, and in each one he mentions Melissa's underwear, making it into a RunningGag.
** Many "Scenes From A Hat" jokes go as far as using gags from mere '''moments''' before. For instance, Ryan says [[Film/{{Spartacus}} "I'm Spartacus!"]] as Carol Channing for "Movie Lines Performed by Carol Channing", and "Things You Don't Expect to Hear When You Put Your Ear to a Seashell".
** In the episode which guest starred David Hasselhoff, Drew laughed at David's nasty habit of using more than one word at a time during Three-Headed Broadway Star. Ryan pointed out: "Remember ''your'' first time?", in reference to one of the first [=THBSs=] when he said "And take me on a..."
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: In "Questionable Impressions", Wayne (as Scooby Doo) said: "Ruh-roh, I have to use the bathroom." Also counts as an EpicFail, since he was supposed to say a question. When buzzed: "Ruh-roh, I ''have'' to use the bathroom??"
* TheCameo: JerrySpringer and StephenColbert were guest performers in US episodes and filled in their natural roles in Daytime Talkshow and Weird Newscasters respectively.
** IF guest performers count as cameos, don't forget Richard Simmons... *shudder*
** And apparently, one of the creators of Homestarrunner.com briefly appeared in the audience of a U.S. episode.
* CameraAbuse: The cameras in this show get mugged, kissed, run circles around, and one has even been knocked over by a flying hat. Ryan Stiles regularly does this trope.
** Inverted once where Ryan had a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7IiCtlftFg bullfight]] against the camera, and the camera ''won''.
** Wayne in one episode does a brilliant job of getting sucked into a camera [[ItMakesSenseInContext that was doubling as a black hole at the time.]]
* CampStraight: Everyone on the main case frequently qualifies.
* CanadaEh: A playing of "Foreign Film Dub" had the language of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgwXvk6LQy4 Canadian]]" used, which featured lots of "eh"s and references to hockey, ice boxes, and other Canadian stereotypes.
** Though averted with Colin himself; he never says "eh".
* CannotTellAJoke: During one playing of "Hats", Colin came out holding a pumpkin and said, "This is my friend, Gord. (audience barely laughs) No, he's a great pumpkin. (almost silence) ...Aw, screw it." (audience laughs)
** Also, during "Weird Newscasters", Colin's punny anchor name was "Noah Sheshavingmybaby". He said it really fast so the audience likely didn't realize that it was play on "Know her? She's having my baby". Drew called attention to the lack of audience response after the game, to hilarious results.
--->'''Colin''': You know, my stuff...a lot of it's cerebral.
** This was followed by Drew saying "Yeah, the kind of [[{{Pun}} cerebral you pour milk on.]]"
** In a game of 'Dating Service Video' Greg puts on a vaugely alien mask and says "I'm a [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon]] by trade..." *almost no one laughs* "But when I'm not funny, I sit here with this *bleep*ing thing on my head! *much more laughter*
* CaptainObvious: Colin was literally named this in a playing of "Superheroes". Of course, he played it to ridiculous lengths.
-->'''Colin''': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uxLWUOwEw I'm standing. I'm looking around. That's air going into my lungs.]]
* CaptainSuperhero: in ''Weird Superheroes'', leading to the above.
* TheCastShowoff: Wayne was given a showcase game to display his musical talents (usually "Song Styles" or "Greatest Hits") in [[OnceAnEpisode virtually every episode]] of the US version. This practice is actually OlderThanTheyThink; Mike [=McShane=] got the same treatment during his run on the UK version (though his game was "Bartender"). Chip was also a regular in "Bartender" in the UK; it became "his" game when they moved to the US, until they dropped it; but he usually sang along with Wayne as well, especially in "Greatest Hits".
* CasualDangerDialog: ''Newsflash'' sometimes turns out like this, unless Colin goes for the "panicky-mortal-danger" approach.
* CatchPhrase: Clive, on the U.K. version: (after listing off the performers that were on the show) "Richard Vranch on the piano, and me, Clive Anderson, saying good night. Good night." Additionally, reading the credits "in a style of my own choosing". It was such an iconic catchphrase that during a "Press Conference" where Colin had Clive's love child, one of the dead give-away hints was one of the performers asking if the child had been birthed in a style of his own choosing, to which Colin said, "It was done in the form of a Hoedown."
** Colin was fond of this, turning one-shot punchlines into RunningGags.
** "Where the points don't matter, just like X."
** Drew, on the U.S. version: "Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter." Additionally, for a brief time, Drew remarked that a game would make a great party game to try if "there's no chicks or booze."
** Another catch-phrase of Drew's: "And I'm your host, Drew Carey; come on down, let's have some fun!"
** In "Infomercial": "Hey! It's (insert #) o'clock and it's time to shop shop shop!"
* CelebrityEndorsement: Parodied in "Infomercial" when Colin played Craig T. Nelson, a [[RunningGag throwback to a gag from elsewhere in the same taping]]. Sometimes invoked in ''Scenes from a hat'' and ''World's Worst''.
* CensorBox: In the U.S. version, a small censor box covered the performer's mouths if they said a stronger curse word, in addition to the auditory beep. This was presumably so you couldn't read their lips. Strangely, the censor box wasn't used in every instance, though.
** There was also a censor box used in the "Party Quirks" when Colin checked everyone's crotch to see what sex they were. The censor box covered Colin's hand when it was touching their privates.
** Also a censor box over Ryan's hand when he gave the finger to Drew after the "Party Quirks" where Ryan broke the neon light on Drew's desk.
** A rare and very deliberate invoking occurred during a performance of Hollywood Director when Brad asked Ryan and Wayne "You guys wanna see my fingers turn blurry?" and proceeded to give them both the finger, which really was blurred out, rather than boxed. The censors got some occasional flack on Whose Line, but at least they were perceptive.
* ChristmasEpisode: Both versions had one of these. The UK version had a 45-minute-long special with six contestants (Greg, Josie, Paul, Sandi, Tony, and Mike) complete with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFkZre0VbM special promos]]. The US version was pretty much a normal episode, although it did have Brad and Wayne singing to SantaClaus and a reindeer.
* ClicheStorm: Invoked in a "Superheroes" where Colin played [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9rzqW29_Q "Captain Cliche"]] and ONLY spoke in cliches. His first words? "Better late than never!"
** Made funnier with his final words: "Silly rabbi!"
* ClipShow: "The Best of Whose Line is it Anyway", which featured clips from seasons 1 and 2 of the U.S. version, wrapped around new footage of Drew (in a fancy suit and bowtie!) introducing the clips.
* [[ClusterFBomb Cluster Crap Bomb]]: ''Hollywood Director'' is best known for Colin's... ''colorful'' inflections as he halts the scene each time. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcyyE06xhEY As seen here.]]
-->[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Crap! Crap! Not too bad."]]\\
"You'd need a stepladder to get to their level of crap!"
** Played straight in the HilariousOuttakes. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KoSiF4Naw You might be surprised at how much was cut.]]
* CodeWordCoitus: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCk3oxiN6M Fudda-dudda-dudda baby...]]"
* ColbertBump: Inverted, to an extent. Stephen Colbert's original appearance was in 1999, long before The Colbert Report began and before The Daily Show really took off.
* CollectiveGroan: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEeHq0xzuU one instance]] of "Let's Make a Date", Colin is a "bad stand-up comic fed up with the audience", the audience groans at his jokes.
** Colin gets so frustrated that he eventually [[LetsSeeYOUDoBetter switches out with an audience member.]]
--->'''Colin''': '''He's not that funny!'''
* CommonKnowledge: Invoked in a Greatest Hits about songs of pizza:
--> '''Ryan''': Y'know, Colin, an interesting fact is pizza was discovered- or made first, not ''discovered'', 'cause then it would be under a rock or something- made first here in America, and not in Italy, as most people think.\\
'''Colin''': ...[[SubvertedTrope I knew that.]]
* ConfessionCam: Parodied during the one playing of "Survivor Show", where each contestant told the camera who they were voting off; the highlight was when Ryan voted for himself so he could leave the show.
** The confession cam was also parodied during a "Film, TV & Theater Styles" where Wayne acted like a member of ''TheRealWorld''.
* {{Confessional}}: Parodied in "World's Worst", the subject being "priest or rabbi":
-->'''Ryan''': I understand; you've slept with three women. (whispering to somebody in the confessional booth) ''He slept with three women.''
** A game of ''Weird Newscasters'' had Colin getting this role:
--->'''Colin:''' "I like to shave... [[CrossesTheLinetwice small animals...]]"\\
Brad: "...and that's the evening news." (closes imaginary shutter)
* TheConfidant: A playing of "Let's Make a Date" featured Ryan acting out "Drew Carey: The Musical", which included making fun of his big glasses, big ass, and saying that he dated blow-up dolls. After the game, Drew awarded 1000 points to everyone except for Ryan, only for Ryan to reply:
-->'''Ryan''': I thought I was rather ''kind''... seeing as how I got a ''lot'' of stuff on ya.\\
'''Drew''': Yeah, so like I said, 1000 points to my good buddy, Ryan Stiles! (audience cheers)
* ConsolationPrize: During the episodes that made up the Halloween-themed taping, Drew awarded candy as prizes instead of the usual points. But instead of handing it to them, he threw the candy in their general direction, to which Greg sarcastically remarked: "Jellybeans on the floor? This is the best Halloween ever, Drew."
** In one episode, Drew awards hundred dollar bills.
* ContentWarnings: A few episodes of the U.S. version featured the tagline "Too Hot" branded next to the "Whose Line" logo, signaling that the upcoming episode would be slightly more racy and suggestive than usual. One such episode which featured the "Too Hot" logo was when Colin repeatedly touched everyone's crotch (including his own) in "Party Quirks".
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: On one scenes from a hat, they had "Celebrity ''FearFactor.''"
-->'''Ryan''': "A ''French'' accent?"\\
'''Collin''': (to Wayne) "Put on this plaid shirt..."\\
'''Ryan''': (Walks up to Drew's desk) "I am going to have to take your cards." (Drew looks completely lost) "ACTION!"
* CoolShades: The ''Hats'' game sometimes has these for variety. One time Brad and Wayne have to improv a BluesBrothers song, and get some shades to wear.
* {{Corpsing}}: Generally the players try to keep a straight face during the skits, but sometimes they can't help but laugh. Some examples:
** 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, 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) [[hottip:*:for the record, Ryan was actually talking about [[Music/TheWho an owl]].
** 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.
** 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), if you know what I mean!"
** 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 JimmyStewart; Ryan knew he couldn't get through the scene without laughing and just let Brad have the "win".
** A playing of "Irish Drinking Song" went off the rails right from the start, [[http://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.
** 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". See EpicFail below for details.
*** 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 exacerabed when Wayne added: "Soda gog and gickles??"
** 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.
** 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 chestal 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 [[http://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.
* CouchGag: at the beginning of both series. Clive started out introducing the players ''and'' their showbiz origins, then got bored with that and switched to more original, thematic introductions, with a theme and usually a sting for the fourth one.
-->'''Clive''': The greatest thing from America since sliced hamburgers, Mike [=McShane=]; and the most interesting Canadian after the maple leaf, Colin Mochrie; and the biggest thing in show business since Barnum and Bailey's tent pole, Ryan Stiles; and finally the most interesting thing to come out of Gunnersbury since the North Circular Road, Tony Slattery.
** Drew introduced each episode's contestants by using slogans, figures of speech, or other popular phrases while replacing the last words of the phrase with the contestant's name.
--->'''Drew''': If at first you don't succeed, try ''Greg Proops''! If you can't stand the heat, get out of the ''Wayne Brady''! If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say ''Colin Mochrie''! And if you think you have problems, ''Ryan Stiles''!
** Ryan's habit of making a funny expression into the camera during the intro can be traced back to the last UK season. In the US version, all four of them will be making an odd face for their introduction.
*** Occasionally, Ryan will be facing backwards during the introductions.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: At the start of an episode, Drew pulled out a newspaper with the headline: "Colin Mochrie, pictured here, is the zany host of the clear, clever, and witty British game show, "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Colin gave a courtesy wave to applause, despite that he's not actually the host of the show. Drew then threatened, "Don't you ever pull that stuff on me again!"
** Although not featured on the show, a British newspaper inaccurately (in order to rant at CulturalTranslation and TheyChangedItNowItSucks) claimed that the US version of WLIIA would be an actual serious competitive panel game with real points, and Drew and Ryan would be regular team captains.
* CreativeClosingCredits: with a bonus of LeaningOnTheFourthWall as one or more players are chosen to read out the credits in a certain fashion.
* CriticalResearchFailure: Invoked during one "Greatest Hits" when Ryan said that one of his favorite bands was Kid Rock. Drew (and most of the audience) began laughing, and Ryan naively asked, "Am I saying something wrong here??" Drew threw him a bone: "It's just one guy."
--> '''Ryan''': Of course it is! Y'know, one of my favorite ''bands'' is Kid Rock! He's just one man, but he's ''large!''
* CrosscastRole: Due to the cast being all males most of the time, whenever a scene has a woman in it, Colin usually plays the woman. In fact, Colin often calls it before Drew even reads the cards.
-->'''Drew''': Ryan is Noah, and Colin is-\\
'''Colin''': His wife?\\
'''Drew''': Mrs. Noah, yeah. Colin knows his role in every scene.
** Colin once asked, "Can we get some women on this show?"
** One scene had Colin playing a submarine captain.
--->'''Colin:''' Man or woman?\\
'''Drew:''' It doesn't say. If I had to guess... woman.
** When Drew was reading the description for a playing of "Number of Words" where ''Charlie's Angels'' was the theme, Colin mimed wiping sweat off his forehead when Drew announced he was playing Bosley and not one of the Angels.
* CurseCutShort: During the "Changed Letter" when "F" replaced "B", Brad tried to goad Wayne into saying the word "buck". Before Wayne could finish his sentence, Colin interrupted simply with, "Yeah." The word was then avoided entirely by calling the male deer a STAG.
--->'''Wayne''': I didn't say it.
--->'''Drew''': Yeah, you didn't say...
--->'''Wayne''': ''B''uck.
--->'''Drew''': (disappointed that he didn't say it) Right.
** Done when the cast parodies {{Shaft}}: "He's one bad mutha-" "Shut yo mouth!"
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* AccentuateTheNegative: After a commercial break, Drew said: "I'm Drew Carey, reminding you to call your cable operator and complain. Nothing specific, just in general."
* ActorAllusion: The ''Scenes from a Hat'' game with Creator/RobinWilliams. One suggestion involves [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} a genie.]]
** Brought up again in ''Props'' when Robin acts like a cheerleader.
* AdaptationExpansion: Every now and then, certain sessions of earlier games get popular enough to be turned into games in their own right. ''Film Noir'' in particular started as a ''Scene to Music'' with appropriately noir-ish music and Jim Sweeney and Steve Steen's epic performance. ''Hollywood Director'' is essentially a meta variant of ''Film TV Theater Styles'', and the lesser-played late entries ''Doo-Wop'' and ''Boogie-Woogie Sisters'' came from Wayne and Chip's "They Shot My Paw" and Wayne and Brad's "Roulette of Love" from two different ''Greatest Hits''.
* TheAdjectivalMan: in ''Weird Superheroes''.
* TheAlcoholic: Parodied, most often during "Greatest Hits", when Colin will say something odd and Ryan will ask if Colin is drinking again.
** Example, from Songs of the Circus:
--->'''Colin''': You know, we have more hits than you can shake a stick at. But, you know, don't shake a stick, because that would damage the CD. Because once you shake a stick at something, you can rarely get it to the way it was before.\\
'''Ryan''': ...You're drinking again, aren't you?\\
'''Colin''': Yeah, a little bit.
** Wayne can get this role either deliberately (as "an old drunk who used to do the sports" in ''Weird Newscasters'') or by accident (he was supposed to be mimicking a carousel horse in ''Living Scenery'', but Colin assumed he was being a drunkard). Unfortunately he winds up sounding like BillCosby...
** Many jokes about what exactly was in Drew's mug were made about this.
** In one game of "Let's Make a Date": Colin plays a drunk and Greg Proops guessed he's his uncle Ted.
* [[AliceAndBob Bob and Alice Johnson]]: Invoked often by the US players. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SopVIc4SCFo This]] ''Scenes from a Hat'' session has a whole string of it.
** Chances are, if Ryan's making up the name, the first name will be either Phil or Gary (Greg makes fun of this once during a UK credits reading), the last name either Phillips or Johnson, or, if he's playing Alphabet, "Xavier Hollander." (Rarer, but still present, was the female equivalent, Xaviera: Xaviera Hollander was the nom de plume of the author of ''{{Emmanuelle}}'' - the book which lead to the hugely successful 1970s PornWithPlot movies).
** One of the funniest ''Home Shopping Channel'' games had Colin take advantage of this proclivity of Ryan's:
--->'''Ryan:''' It's four o'clock and it's...\\
'''Colin:''' ...time to shop!\\
'''Ryan:''' I'm Gary!\\
'''Colin:''' [[NamesTheSame And I'm Gary too!]]
* AllCheeringAllTheTime: Parodied in a game of "Scenes from a Hat" on the American version: "Moments When Cheerleading is Inappropriate".
-->'''Greg Proops:''' Grandpa's dead! Gimme a D! Gimme an E! Gimme -- Come on! Where's your enthusiasm?\\
'''Ryan Stiles:''' Vasectomy! Vasectomy! Clip clip clip!\\
'''Wayne Brady:''' Okay! Somebody's goin' to the 'lectric chair! Gonna fry! Gonna fry! Somebody's goin' to the 'lectric chair! Gonna -- Come on! (makes buzzing sounds) Say what?! Come on! Come on!
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Played [[{{Pun}} straight]] in a "Party Quirks" where Ryan played all the characters in a gay western. Every single character flirted with the host in some fashion.
* AllMenArePerverts: When an attractive and/or famous woman appears on the show, Ryan and Colin usually flirt with her and if they're playing Living Scenery, they'll spend the whole game finding suggestive poses to put her in. Wayne also sweet talks some of the female audience members during the Song Styles game.
** Audience members brought on stage to participate/be the victim in a sketch are overwhelmingly attractive young women. Also, male performers who aren't even participating in the current game (usually Colin and/or Ryan) will often come forward and shake their hands.
** Some of Drew's "The points don't matter" jokes also fall under this category; he compared the points to the part of the Victoria's Secret catalog where they sell the pants as well as foreplay for men.
* AlmostKiss: Occurs a few times. One of the funniest ones was an outtake where Drew and Colin's lips ''almost'' met, but they stopped in the nick of time.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Invoked by Ryan in a playing of "Hollywood Director": Colin announced the next style should be ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''. When Colin yelled action, Ryan bent down as if getting in a [[VisualPun Gremlin car]].
** Similarly, in a playing of "Weird Newscasters", Ryan had the quirk of "The Rise and Fall of a 1940's Boxer". Instead of imitating the sport of boxing, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Ryan acted like a boxer dog.]][[invoked]]
** Likewise, in one British episode's "Film, TV & Theater Styles" game, "Japanese Noh Theatre" came up. One of the performers began [[LargeHam energetically spouting]] [[GratuitousJapanese mock Japanese]] in the style of a samurai film; the other simply looked at him and said [[{{Pun}} "No!"]] repeatedly.[[invoked]]
* AmbiguousGender: During an "Award Show" about the best bitter divorce, Ryan brought a random man from the audience on-stage and said he brought his lawyer with him. Colin remarked that it won't do any good, because he's been sleeping with the lawyer. After Ryan allowed the man to return to his seat, Ryan mumbled to Colin under applause, "You're gonna be the woman?" Apparently, Ryan had started the scene with the intention that he was going to play the woman, but Colin turned the tables on him very quickly.
** In the "Greatest Hits" about songs of marriage, one of the songs was "I'm the Groom" in the style of Music/TheBeachBoys. The first (and only) line of the song was Wayne's confused, "I'm gonna get married, I'm gonna find myself a guy..." Apparently, Wayne forgot that he was supposed to be a ''guy'' singing about marrying a ''girl'', which immediately cracked him up when he realized it.
---> '''Brad''': The band's had a little too much to drink!
* AmbiguousSyntax: Every now and then, thanks to the improv format. One standout case during ''Film Noir'' involved Colin making up a story about [[ItMakesSenseInContext being abandoned at birth, then finding the hospital he'd been born in, only to learn that his father left a talking parrot (presumably it'd been taught to say his last words) with the doctor...]]
--> '''Colin''': "Then suddenly, he died."\\
(Ryan (playing the doctor) mock-collapses)\\
'''Colin''': "Um, no, I meant..." *gets buzzed anyway*
* AmusingInjuries: While it probably wasn't so funny for Ryan himself, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECC89n_1ddAChip jumping on Ryan's back]] was a riot, especially since the cast was joking about it soon afterward.
-->'''Colin''': [[WhatTheHellHero Are you crazy?! He's over forty!]]\\
'''Ryan''': It's [the next "Hollywood Director" style] "porn", so I can lie down, right?\\
'''Ryan''': That disc popped right back in!\\
'''Chip''': I broke Ryan!
** Another amusing one was when Colin was held upside down during "Action Replay" (as per imitating Wayne's and Greg's actions) and struggled a tad to get up afterward. Drew could scarcely contain his glee after the game: "[[ComedicSociopathy I don't know why I laugh when you get hurt.]]"
--->'''Ryan''': Do you want to throw one of my blue shoes at him?
*** The scene can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbNAq2G7xoY here]].
** The Party Quirks game where Ryan [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67iNkmENs9k rammed his head into the light on Drew's desk.]]
*** The fact that Ryan continued to act out the scene ''without breaking character'' makes this both a [[Awesome/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] and [[Funny/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Crowning Moment Of Funny]].
** ''Infomercial'' tends to lead to Ryan using the stuff in the box on Colin, almost leading to some not-so-amusing injuries on occasion.
--->'''Ryan:''' ''(arranging a mess of copper wires around Colin's face)'' This will measure the size of one's head!\\
'''Colin:''' And also [[EyeScream it can remove those pesky eyes!]]
*** In one scene, they had a strange wind up device that they never seen before. Ryan has Colin hold the end of it in his mouth while Ryan cranks it. ItMakesSenseInContext. Drew quickly stops them and tells them that the device is actually an unique LIGHTER! Luckily it seemed to be out of fluid.
** In one "Helping Hands" Colin [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czJnLyTgX2A spills hot coffee on his hands]] followed by Kathy trying to help [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry by pouring orange juice on the burns]]. Drew, after recovering from his laughter Colin's expense, shared that he wondered "why Ryan wasn't screaming when the coffee hit his hands."
* AnachronismStew: Frequently seen in "Film, TV & Theater Styles" and "Whose Line", as many of the scenes take place in the past, yet feature modern technology or references anyway.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Questions with Wigs]], Questions Only [[AC:[[InSpace WITH WIGS]]]].
* AngelsPose: Done in "Film, TV & Theater Styles" whenever the style is ''Series/CharliesAngels''.
* {{Angrish}}: Frequently in games where Ryan plays a usurper who puts the moves on Colin's wife, Colin comes home and spouts angrish when he sees the two of them together. One time, it's played with: During his angrish rants, he interrupts himself to tell his wife, "Here, I got you something", then continues his angrish.
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The last few UK seasons.
** EvolvingCredits: The big move to the US was indicated by swapping out the red background from the animated OP with a Hollywood skyline.
*** The OP evolved even before then. The first UK season featured John Sessions (the show's regular) prominently; the second season (in which he didn't appear nearly as often) removed the clips of him and had silhouettes performing the various games. Then it changes to the animated opening.
* AntiHumor: Occasionally occurs due to the improv format; one of the players will be going for a joke, while the other one won't take it in that direction. For example, in a playing of "Greatest Hits" about songs of Las Vegas, it looked like Ryan was going to do a joke about Drew Carey (he often does), but it never occurred:
-->'''Ryan''': The money, the celebrities. Why, our own Drew Carey, is a frequent visitor here, to Las Vegas! (Drew smugly smiles, expecting a jab)\\
'''Colin''': That's right!\\
'''Ryan''': And I think one of my favorite... (pauses and looks at Colin)\\
'''Colin''': I was just agreeing, and looking perky!
** Another example is in an "Irish Drinking Song", the theme being "Your first car". Greg sings a line about dating a girl named Macer; He was probably setting up an AMC Pacer joke with another singer hoping he'd rhyme Macer with Pacer. It never happened.
** Also done deliberately during "Scenes from a Hat":
---> ''(Suggestion: What penguins are really thinking)''\\
'''Ryan''': Geez, it's cold!\\
''(Suggestion: Things to say that will always start a fight)''\\
'''Ryan''': Guys wanna fight?
** Common in "Infomercial", when they find an item they have no idea what to do with: "Hey, what's that got to do with (topic)?" "Nothing!" *plonk*
* AnythingThatMoves: In between games in one episode, Wayne randomly remarks: "Sometime tonight during the show, I'm humpin' someone in the audience. (audience cheers) That's all I know. That's all I know."
* AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat: Not said outright, but the meaning of the trope was definitely there. During a game a Greatest Hits, Drew asks the audience for a European city you would go to to have a good time, and gets back [[GayParee Paris]] and [[FreestateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] and has to make a decision.
-->'''Drew''': "Paris...Amsterdam...umm...let's do uhh...P...Am...Amsterdam..."\\
(Ryan, Colin, and Wayne all give Drew bemused, questioning looks)\\
'''Ryan''': "Ooookaay!"\\
'''Drew''': "...Let's do Paris."
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_p-gxkhPes During a playing of "Reunion" where all three were drill sergeants]], Greg said "At Ease". Colin and Greg did the appropriate "at ease" stance, but Ryan put his hands on his hips, before noticing the other two and quickly switching. Cut to Drew (who served in the Marine Corps), mocking Ryan's mistake, though according to the official regulations, Ryan's initial stance was still acceptable.
** Actually, they stood at Parade Rest.
* ArtisticLicenceGeography: One of the first occurrences of African Chant saw Wayne get up and walk off in mock-protest. After sharing a few laughs, Drew responded with...
-->'''Drew''': Uh, Africa is a big country just by Madagascar...\\
''(Greg laughs loudly)''\\
'''Greg Proops''': It's also a ''CONTINENT'' if you're a ''geographer!''
** And, during this whole episode, [[http://youtu.be/A8Q10g_Mov4 they continue to mock his mistake, bringing it up whenever they can. Drew gets his revenge at the end though.]]
** Josie's Greco-Roman Flub also counts. (To elaborate, it's a session of ''Questions Only'' meant to take place in ''Rome''.)
--->'''Josie:''' Are you going to the Parthenon tonight? (Stephen fumbles and gets buzzed out)\\
'''Stephen:''' (to Clive) Could you tell her the Parthenon's in Athens? (leaves, Ryan steps in)\\
'''Josie:''' Is the Parthenon in Athens?\\
'''Ryan:''' Would you like to buy a map?
*** She probably meant ''Pantheon'', which is in Rome.
** During a "Scenes From a Hat" about state mottos, Colin gave a suggestion about Miami. Drew immediately corrected him: "Miami's a city." Colin's response: "Florida: Not to be confused with Miami."
* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Done for laughs during a playing of "Greatest Hits" about "Songs of Rome": Ryan remarks that Rome's been around for about 100 years.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: At the end of a barber shop-themed Narrate, Ryan traps Colin in one of the chairs, straps him in, and spins him to launch him out of the shop. Colin spins in the opposite direction, but catches himself a few seconds later and corrects himself.
** If you watch Ryan's reaction to this, it is simply '' amazing.''
* ArtisticLicenceStatistics: Occasionally happens in "Number of Words"; for instance, in a scene from the U.S. version, Ryan Stiles, playing Rocky Balboa's coach Mick, said "Smack the meat, Rock! Smack it!" and "Hit the meat, Rock! Hit it!", even though his character was only allowed to say five words, not six. After the game, Drew Carey called attention to this, and Ryan replied, "[[HandWave With the exchange, it all works out.]]"
* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption
* AsYouKnow: Parodied to hell and back in ''Greatest Hits'', as Colin and Ryan atempt to explain a "personal connection" to whichever obscure musical style [[ButtMonkey they're about to hit Wayne with.]]
** Every song a hit, and [[{{Pun}} every hit a smack!]]
* AuthorAppeal: Colin doing his dinosaur impression, Ryan's JohnWayne and Carol Channing impressions, Greg's Film/{{Braveheart}} and WoodyAllen, and Wayne's BillCosby and MichaelJackson.
** Brad does a pretty good impression of Fred Schneider from The B-52's in "Greatest Hits".
** Chip Esten is well known for his Snagglepuss impression.
** Also Jeff Davis, who in his 9 appearances has imitated Christopher Walken at least 3 times.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Ever wonder why Ryan never hosts the "Party Quirks" party? Apparently, he is able to guess anyone's quirk in thirty seconds, which is why so few of the ones taped with him ever make it to air.
** Greg also was fairly good at guessing what the party quirks are, but more of his got onto the show because they often gave him extremely hard to guess ones.
** Colin has been employing some of this during "Newsflash" and "Press Conference".
* BackToFront: "Backwards Scene".
* BadassBystander: Every once in a while you get an audience member who can match Wayne in the dancing department. Sam the fitness instructor and Julia the ''dance instructor'' come to mind.
-->'''Wayne:''' ''(singing to Sam the fitness instructor in the style of {{Riverdance}})''
--->Well, she'll get busy and dance\\
I thought that there was my chance\\
But let me tell you all, don't you see\\
I didn't know she could actually Riverdance!
** Another audience member, Derek the diesel guy, danced/made YMCA-style hand symbols with Wayne and Chip during "Duet". After the game...
--->'''Wayne''': Derek, you want a job, dude?\\
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XfzcRSsHo Link]]
** A audience member was brought in to play a game where Colin has to animate "dead bodies" in a story. She not only did a fantastic job, she never broke character even when Colin accidently put her hand over Ryan's crotch.
** In one "Let's Make a Date", Wayne is playing a teenage girl who decides to bring her friends onstage with her. Wayne grabs a random woman who immediately plays along and jumps into character with him, even going so far as to play along with Colin when he acts out his actions on Wayne and her.
* BadBadActing: Done when the cast has to imitate ''{{Baywatch}}'' during a scene. Or high school plays, for that matter.
** Colin unwittingly slips into this in a session of ''Whose Line'', presumably while attempting a Vietnamese accent in the role of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXiUi0UsTk "a Vietnamese woman bidding farewell to her GI boyfriend at the end of the war"]]. Ironically, [[Heartwarming/WhoseLineIsItAnyway the audience sympathy reached an all-time high.]]
--->[[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry "That saddens me!"]] [[LampshadeHanging "Apparently it saddens a lot of people..."]]
* BadDate: The subject of a few games, like a Hollywood Director where Ryan and Kathy Greenwood were a 1950's couple making out: Ryan and Kathy started the scene pretending to have braces and their braces getting stuck while kissing.
-->'''Ryan''': This is the worst date I've ever been on!\\
'''Kathy''': Oh stop it, Billy, I'm having an awful good time!\\
'''Ryan''': ''You'' might be, but I'll never date you again! You're not good enough for captain of the football team!
* BadImpressionists: Colin, during a Questionable Impressions game: (in his regular voice) "Do you have a table for a Craig T. Nelson?"
** Also, Wayne Brady during Multiple Personalities, in the style of JohnWayne: "Howdy, pilgrim. It appears that someone's... got a flat. (Ryan and Greg just stare at him, smiling) Got a flat!" It was so bad that Drew made mention of it after the game: "A thousand points to John Wayne Brady! Man of a thousand faces!"
** Wayne Brady again when trying to imitate Woody Allen in Film, TV & Theater Styles. When the next style was "horror", Ryan remarked, "Oh my God, that was a horrible impression."
** During a "Film, TV & Theater Styles", the next style was TheGongShow. Colin pretended to be Jaye P. Morgan, and when asked his opinion:
--->'''Colin''': (faking a hoarse voice) I thought it... SUCKED. ({{beat}}) That's the best Jaye P. I do.
** Ryan's impression of JerryLewis once prompted Brad(as YogiBear) to ask "Are you Carol Channing?". Ryan promptly switched voices and replied "Would you like me to be Carol Channing?".
* BaldOfAwesome: Colin's known as one of the best players on the show, if he's not teased for it.
* BankRobbery: One "Hollywood Director" featured this as its scene.
* BattleCry: "SHUT UP AND TOUCH THE MONKEY!"
** "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR A BRAN MUFFIN!"
** "[[BringMyBrownPants BRING MY BROWN PANTS!]]"
* BawdySong: The Hoedown songs that don't make it to air are sometimes this. Drew likes these. [[ExecutiveMeddling For some reason,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZeAy8mkJhc this]] song about puberty was cut.
* {{Beat}}: Occurs most often in "Greatest Hits" during the Colin and Ryan banter. Examples:
** During "Songs of the Beekeeper", Ryan said: "We have "Songs of the Beekeeper", and what a lonely profession it is, really." (Colin stares at him)
** During "Songs of the International Spy", Ryan said: "Oh, and so many styles to choose from." (again, Colin stares blankly)
** And one that got somewhat out of control:
--->'''Ryan:''' "...over 52 songs, on one CD! But it's a big one! (''beat'') And it's made out of chocolate! (''longer beat'') [[RuleofThree I had a little something to drink earlier!]]"
** Beats also occur in "Film Dub", and are largely unavoidable due to not knowing the film footage beforehand. An example, from a scene set in a lab:
--->'''Ryan''': I wouldn't worry about it; they seem to be moving rather slowly.\\
'''Greg''': Mmmmmmmmm. ({{Beat}}; audience laughs)\\
'''Ryan''': You know, many years ago, when I worked in this lab...
* BedmateReveal: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhI8_8KCHfs Done a few times]] in "Scenes From a Hat".
-->'''Drew:''' Things you don't expect to find when you wake up in the morning.\\
'''Wayne:''' (Pretending to wake up and looking over) Colin?!\\
'''Colin:''' (Runs onto the stage and shouts at a retreating Wayne) Teach me to sing like you!\\
'''Ryan:''' (Joining Colin onstage) What's his problem?\\
'''Colin:''' I don't know.
* BestialityIsDepraved:
** Before the "Duet" where Wayne and Brad sang to Franchise/{{Lassie}} the dog, Wayne remarked that Lassie looks so pretty. Drew agreed, then gave Wayne a smart aleck look. Wayne seemed annoyed that Drew took his comment in a sexual direction.
-->'''Drew''': Whatever dude, I'm not judgin' you.
** Jokes like this were actually ''more'' prevalent in the UK version, and not just from the UK players (Ryan's impression of a ''World's Worst'' "nature documentary", for example). One session of ''Hey You Down There'' even ended with Drew commenting "sheep jokes... that's why we're so popular in UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}" (even though the actual joke was about [[ItMakesSenseInContext running over a sheep]] instead).
** A specific UK-version example: the game was the World's Worst Person to Defend You In Court.
--->'''Colin''': Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it's not like the sheep was under-age!
** "We're watching animal porn! ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' will be right back..."
** The Sex Hoedown on the UK version has a verse from Ryan regarding this.
** In a playing of "Hats":
--->'''Ryan''': (as The Wicked Witch of the West) I want to make love to you... you ''and'' your little dog!!
** In a "World's Worst" about "worst things to say or do after making love":
--->'''Drew''': Who's a good puppy? ''You're'' a good puppy!
** And let's not forget TheWho's no. 1 hit, "MissKitty Left Me [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsc5-UPT5fU&t=3m12s So I'm Sleeping With My Horse"!]]
** Unintentional example from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KoSiF4Naw a scene]] where Ryan was playing {{Tarzan}}:
--->'''Ryan:''' Before you come, Tarzan only have animals. (audience starts laughing) Animals think Tarzan forget about them now! (starts to laugh) I mean as ''friends''!
* {{BFG}}: The "Director" segment of the episode of Robin Williams guest-starring. Wayne yanks out a giant... thing with mechanical noises each time he's called in to exterminate some rats. Even during Riverdance.
** Justified in a session of ''Film TV Theater Styles'' -- the style called out was {{Anime}}. Says it all, really.
** ''Sound Effects'' sometimes involves Ryan calling out Colin and whoever's making sounds for him on having a pithy gunshot sound, then proceeding to one-up him with a supposedly bigger gun. It doesn't always pan out, of course.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: A running joke with Ryan. Also the source of gags when Greg was "Viagra Man" in a ''Superheroes'' game.
-->'''Greg:''' Thank goodness the crisis has been averted. ''(poses)'' Now I've got a date with the ''Grand Canyon!''
** In a playing of "Scenes From a Hat", the suggestion was "How the naked Fridays policy worked out at your office", which was nothing but jokes about impossibly long dicks.
** During a "Weird Newcasters", Greg insinuated that Colin's character (a streaker who bets he can get in every shot) had a small penis when he said: "And I wouldn't say that's an Italian sausage, more like a ''Vienna'' sausage."
** In another "Weird Newscasters", Colin played a nudist. Ryan, playing a mobster, asked if Colin would use his erect (and apparently really long) penis as his weather pointer. Colin happily obliged.
* BigNo: Said by Ryan in "Weird Newscasters" when he realized that the glass slipper fit on Drew's foot.
* BilingualBonus: In one playing of "Foreign Film Dub", Jeff Davis spoke a bit of actual Spanish.
** Wayne also does this regularly, it appears he knows at least a moderate amount of the language.
** Similarly, Colin and his French. Which is spectacularly ''inverted'' during [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQc2gVK3vc&t=3m32s this]] session of ''Hollywood Director''. "Just to give it that sort of... I don't know what." That phrase some of you may be thinking of is ''je ne sais quois'', which means just that.
** Both of the above are justified; French and English are the official languages in Canada, and Wayne grew up in Florida, where there is a big Hispanic community.
** StephenColbert brought some actual German to the table during his appearance, even getting a {{Hitler}} [[GeniusBonus quote]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]].
** In one UK show with StephenFry he spoke an entire Questions Only scene set in Rome entirely in Latin.
* BlackComedy: Ryan will frequently "hang himself" during scenes.
** Also, a playing of "Superheroes" cast Brad as "Suicide Boy". Somehow, he was able to make that funny. "Sweet propane, take me away."
--->"(stands up, laughing-) This isn't working! It's an electric stove!"
** One of the "and the loser has to" variants had Drew saying: "And y'know, it's great, I don't even hear the screams anymore!"
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Wayne Brady during a game of Questions Only set at the [[Film/{{Psycho}} Bates Motel]] and also during a game of Themed Restaurant with the theme being horror.
-->'''Wayne''': Am I going to be the first one to die, like I always am?
* BlessedWithSuck: Greg is briefly christened "Useless Man" by Clive before "Superheroes", though he's quickly given another superhero name which gives him more to work with.
** Quite a few of the "Superheroes" abilities could probably qualify as this, really.
** [[LargeHam Did someone call for]] [[{{Pun}} Captain Pork?]]
* BlindDate: The subject of numerous Hoedowns.
* BluntYes: In the Infomercial about face lifts, Ryan put a metal object on Colin's face which came close to poking his eyes. After the game, Drew asked Colin if he was nervous when Ryan did that to him. Colin replied while smiling, "Yes."
* BrainBleach: One ''Song Styles'' ends in Drew mentioning "a brain scrubber - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEX0lBOgxKU that'll get that tongue-wagging thing out of my head so I can sleep at night..."]]
-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XEtTZVdHvk "I was gonna give you points but I'll never be able to get that screech out of my head..."]]
** After a playing of Questions Only where one of Wayne's characters is an elderly man who removes his dentures before trying to kiss the other player, Drew says, "Thousand points to everybody but Wayne. Thanks for this: (mimics Wayne's "toothless mouth" expression that he used in the game) Thanks for that visual. I have enough trouble falling asleep at night."
* BrandX: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pr0xs4LIg this]] "Helping Hands", there's a box of Twinkies with the T painted over. Another one involved what Colin described out loud as "a tin of furniture polish with the brand name erased!"
** Before a playing of "Superheroes", Drew got a suggestion from the audience that the world was out of Cheetos, but chose the suggestion of no more shaving cream instead, as he was worried about the brand name. True to form, Greg brought up Cheetos during the skit anyway.
*** Interestingly, another round of ''Superheroes'' had Brad get the name "Captain Morgan", a pretty blatant reference to the liquor.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In the "Greatest Hits" about Las Vegas:
-->'''Ryan''': I tell ya, Col', the excitement never stops.\\
'''Colin''': That's right, and the music never ends! And we've combined the two: The music that never ends, and the something that never stops, to... Music That Never Ends or Stops! And it's all about Vegas!
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: After a commercial break, Drew said:
-->'''Drew''': I'm Drew Carey. My turn-ons are big, crackling fires, romantic walks on the beach, and strippers.
** Tends to show up in the "Quick Change" game, usually combined with RuleOfThree, as in this example with Brad and Colin plotting to escape from a POW camp.
---> '''Brad:''' What food did you find for our escape plan?
---> '''Colin:''' I got some buns and some butter.
---> '''Ryan:''' Change!
---> '''Colin:''' A can of soup.
---> '''Ryan:''' Change!
---> '''Colin:''' ...Parts of a dog I found outside!
* BreakingTheFourthWall: During a playing of "Let's Make a Date", Ryan's quirk was the overly long "a witch who entices the beast to her magic sleeping stool and then must find his true love to break the spell and turn him into a prince". When Ryan was asked his first question and the quirk appeared on the screen, Ryan said:
-->'''Ryan''': I'm just leaving a little time, so everyone can read the ''novel'' that is my suggestion.
** In a playing of "Sound Effects" where Ryan and Colin were two soldiers escaping from a German P.O.W. camp, the audience members were a little too excited about providing sound effects, appropriate to the situation or not. After a few seconds of this, Colin said:
---> '''Colin''': Let me just turn off the radio, and let's hope that only the sound effects that happen once we prompt them, will happen!
* BreathWeapon: In the "Weird Newscasters" where Ryan was a mercenary wanting to replace everyone on the show, all Ryan had to do was breathe on Wayne after biting into an onion to kill him.
* BrickJoke: In one episode, Drew used a tape player and a pre-taped message of himself giving points to the performers. While Drew was away from the desk during a break, Wayne grabbed the tape player and recorded himself saying "My ass." over and over. A "Helping Hands" was played, and afterwards Drew prepared to award points from his tape player... only to hear "My ass, my ass..."
** In a later episode of the U.S. version, Drew mentioned after a game that Wayne just ate a whole bucket full of candy (this is in reference to a Party Quirks where Wayne played a member of a fraternity who performed various stunts, including eating a bucket full of candy). The audience remained silent, as it wasn't really a joke, and Greg broke the silence by saying "Screech!" Later on in the episode, during "Hats", Greg wore some insect wings and said: "Well I'm out of the caterpillar stage..." The audience barely reacted and Drew got back at Greg by saying: "SCREECH!"
--->'''Greg''': ''You'' put the *bleep* wings on.
** In a game of "Irish Drinking Song" with the subject of getting mugged, Ryan finished the first verse, after a {{beat}}, with "A stone I passed!" It cracked the performers up enough to require two rounds of "Oh, hi-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di" to get back on track. Then, in the final verse, Colin finishes with "He put my stone back in my end!" to much laughter and applause. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkMTytXlXQ here]].
** During a game of Newsflash, the scene shown was of a bodybuilding competition, and during the game, Ryan was making jokes about the female bodybuilders looking like men. After the game Drew said "I gotta say Ryan, some day, when you least expect it, a big body building chicks gonna leap out in front of you and kick your ass." to which Ryan respond in a scratchy voice "You made fun of me! You made fun of me!" 15 episodes later, Drew introduces special guest Jane Tricker, a female bodybuilder. Ryan immediately leaps out of his seat and goes to hide backstage.
** In a playing of "Greatest Hits", Colin said, "The great thing about this CD is we have music from everywhere!", and proceeded to flail his arms wildly, presumably indicating that he's pointing to different parts of the world. Ryan asked: "Have you been working out?" Colin replied, "No, I'm a drummer!" and began to imitate Bill, who was previously sung to in "Duet" and who mimed drumming motions while Brad and Wayne sung to him. Then Ryan began to imitate audience member Debbie's minimal stretching from "Dubbing", which wasn't from the same episode but came from the same taping.
** In one episode, Brad and Wayne sung to Angela, a sign language interpreter. After the game, she taught the cast how to say "I'm sorry" in sign language. Later in the same episode, after Drew made a flub where he called Wayne and Brad "Wad", Wayne said, "You better say..." and made the sign language for "I'm sorry".
* BritishBrevity: Averted; the U.K. version lasted for ten seasons (or series), with 136 episodes total. Not too shabby.
* BritishRockStar: Wayne plays one in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-s2uAovzbQ this]] round of ''Let's Make A Date''.
* BritishTeeth: Played straight in a few "Scenes From a Hat" suggestions on the U.S. version, and with some Props on the same versions.
* BrokenRecord: Occasionally, if audience members continue to shout suggestions even after Drew says he has one, he'll repeat the last suggestion over and over until they shut up.
--> '''Drew''': Pro bowler. Pro bowler. Pro bowler. Jeez, what, am I talking to myself? Pro bowler.
* BuffySpeak: Unavoidable with the nature of the show. Colin of course is usually responsible.
** In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bwA9fBkbg this]] "Scene to Music":
--->'''Caroline''': Yes! The spurty spurty, with the little washy things!
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: In one "Weird Newscasters", Ryan had the quirk of delivering the news in the style of a Busby Berkeley musical number.
* ButIDigress: During a playing of "Greatest Hits", Colin mentions that the next artist is Jerry Van Dyke. Ryan interrupts and says, "I knew him when he was Jerry Van Lesbian, years and years ago. (audience laughs) But I digress."
* ButtMonkey: Colin, who was the source of many bald jokes, although he was likely the most skilled performer (he almost never cracks up while in character). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Colin himself when he offered to be everyone's "Lightning Rod of Hate."
** The UK version turned Josie Lawrence into this. Paul Merton and Tony Slattery, we're looking at you.
** Happens literally to Wayne after his big secret[[note]]He has a ticklish butt.[[/note]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8bDsxIy5Dc&t=6m13s came out...]]
--->'''Jeff:''' "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything You LIKE it don't you?!]]"
** The US version featured several jokes about Drew Carey's weight. Those jokes were usually done by Ryan, but other members of the cast got in on it from time to time - even [[SelfDeprecation Drew himself]] every now and then.
*** Drew also gets mocked for "sitting behind a desk and doing nothing"
**** Wayne: "Drew doesn't do a DAMN thing."
** During the opening introductions, Ryan is always introduced last, and every performer has a joke told about them. As the jokes get played more and more at the actors' expense, Ryan thus gets the worst of it.
* CallBack: Much of the humor overall comes from this, with the performers using lines or jokes from earlier in entirely different contexts. Examples:
** Showstopping Number always, ALWAYS featured a call back to a previous incident during Ryan's song. Some examples:
--->'''Ryan''': In case you forget, my name is Ryan! (regarding an audience member forgetting Ryan's name during "Sound Effects")\\
'''Ryan''': I crack up when I hear "tapioca"! (regarding Colin making Ryan laugh during "Greatest Hits" by answering a riddle with the nonsensical "tapioca")\\
'''Ryan''': I can't think straight since you grabbed my penis! (regarding a "Party Quirks" where Colin checks the sex of everybody else)\\
'''Ryan''': At least I can pronounce the name "Howard"! (regarding Wayne misspelling audience member Howard's name as "Horward" during "Song Styles")\\
'''Ryan''': Come on and fluff my Garfield! (regarding a catchphrase Colin created during "If You Know What I Mean")\\
'''Ryan''': We didn't get the suggestion, we almost didn't get the hint, because Drew almost choked on an altoid mint! (self-explanatory; see the MoodWhiplash entry on this page for the full story)\\
'''Ryan''': You probably don't understand. You're cerebral! (regarding Colin saying his comedy is cerebral after few got his joke in "Weird Newscasters")
** Hoedown also frequently featured call backs to jokes from earlier in the episode. One such Hoedown, about magicians, addressed both Wayne being ticklish in "Party Quirks" and Colin accidentally pouring hot coffee on his hands in "Helping Hands".
** In a "Greatest Hits" about beekeepers, Colin mentioned that eating flan is a great way to get rid of excess celluloid. This is a reference to an earlier playing of "Infomercial", where Ryan kept mixing up the words "celluloid" and "cellulite".
** One suggestion in "Scenes From a Hat" was rejected names for bras, which returned the name "Milk Duds". Later, in a playing of "Party Quirks", Wayne (playing a tribal chief and his native interpreter) said to Kathy Greenwood: "In our country, we do not wear Milk Duds. You should let yours free."
** In a "Party Quirks" where Wayne played King Kong, he accidentally lifted audience member Melissa's skirt, exposing her underwear. Later, in a "Hoedown" about cop shows, Ryan brought up the incident again:
--->'''Ryan''': Sure you can watch them if you really want a scare, / Thursdays at eight you can see Melissa's underwear!
*** Taken even further in that episode. It was mentioned many times during that episode. And since this was early in the series, they didn't have many varieties of scenes lined up yet or established popular ones at least. What they did was to have them do, not one, not two, but three hoe downs. Ryan, though being good at hoe downs, was obviously annoyed with this. He sang last in all three hoe downs. No matter the subject, he went right back to the Melissa. On the last one, he ended his part by singing, and I paraphrase, "...screw it. Once more I have to mention Melissa's underwear!" Cue [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Me-liss-a's. Un-der. WEEEAAARRR!"]]
** The outtakes (seen on "The Best of Whose Line is it Anyway?" special) featured two other attempts by Ryan, and in each one he mentions Melissa's underwear, making it into a RunningGag.
** Many "Scenes From A Hat" jokes go as far as using gags from mere '''moments''' before. For instance, Ryan says [[Film/{{Spartacus}} "I'm Spartacus!"]] as Carol Channing for "Movie Lines Performed by Carol Channing", and "Things You Don't Expect to Hear When You Put Your Ear to a Seashell".
** In the episode which guest starred David Hasselhoff, Drew laughed at David's nasty habit of using more than one word at a time during Three-Headed Broadway Star. Ryan pointed out: "Remember ''your'' first time?", in reference to one of the first [=THBSs=] when he said "And take me on a..."
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: In "Questionable Impressions", Wayne (as Scooby Doo) said: "Ruh-roh, I have to use the bathroom." Also counts as an EpicFail, since he was supposed to say a question. When buzzed: "Ruh-roh, I ''have'' to use the bathroom??"
* TheCameo: JerrySpringer and StephenColbert were guest performers in US episodes and filled in their natural roles in Daytime Talkshow and Weird Newscasters respectively.
** IF guest performers count as cameos, don't forget Richard Simmons... *shudder*
** And apparently, one of the creators of Homestarrunner.com briefly appeared in the audience of a U.S. episode.
* CameraAbuse: The cameras in this show get mugged, kissed, run circles around, and one has even been knocked over by a flying hat. Ryan Stiles regularly does this trope.
** Inverted once where Ryan had a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7IiCtlftFg bullfight]] against the camera, and the camera ''won''.
** Wayne in one episode does a brilliant job of getting sucked into a camera [[ItMakesSenseInContext that was doubling as a black hole at the time.]]
* CampStraight: Everyone on the main case frequently qualifies.
* CanadaEh: A playing of "Foreign Film Dub" had the language of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgwXvk6LQy4 Canadian]]" used, which featured lots of "eh"s and references to hockey, ice boxes, and other Canadian stereotypes.
** Though averted with Colin himself; he never says "eh".
* CannotTellAJoke: During one playing of "Hats", Colin came out holding a pumpkin and said, "This is my friend, Gord. (audience barely laughs) No, he's a great pumpkin. (almost silence) ...Aw, screw it." (audience laughs)
** Also, during "Weird Newscasters", Colin's punny anchor name was "Noah Sheshavingmybaby". He said it really fast so the audience likely didn't realize that it was play on "Know her? She's having my baby". Drew called attention to the lack of audience response after the game, to hilarious results.
--->'''Colin''': You know, my stuff...a lot of it's cerebral.
** This was followed by Drew saying "Yeah, the kind of [[{{Pun}} cerebral you pour milk on.]]"
** In a game of 'Dating Service Video' Greg puts on a vaugely alien mask and says "I'm a [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon]] by trade..." *almost no one laughs* "But when I'm not funny, I sit here with this *bleep*ing thing on my head! *much more laughter*
* CaptainObvious: Colin was literally named this in a playing of "Superheroes". Of course, he played it to ridiculous lengths.
-->'''Colin''': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uxLWUOwEw I'm standing. I'm looking around. That's air going into my lungs.]]
* CaptainSuperhero: in ''Weird Superheroes'', leading to the above.
* TheCastShowoff: Wayne was given a showcase game to display his musical talents (usually "Song Styles" or "Greatest Hits") in [[OnceAnEpisode virtually every episode]] of the US version. This practice is actually OlderThanTheyThink; Mike [=McShane=] got the same treatment during his run on the UK version (though his game was "Bartender"). Chip was also a regular in "Bartender" in the UK; it became "his" game when they moved to the US, until they dropped it; but he usually sang along with Wayne as well, especially in "Greatest Hits".
* CasualDangerDialog: ''Newsflash'' sometimes turns out like this, unless Colin goes for the "panicky-mortal-danger" approach.
* CatchPhrase: Clive, on the U.K. version: (after listing off the performers that were on the show) "Richard Vranch on the piano, and me, Clive Anderson, saying good night. Good night." Additionally, reading the credits "in a style of my own choosing". It was such an iconic catchphrase that during a "Press Conference" where Colin had Clive's love child, one of the dead give-away hints was one of the performers asking if the child had been birthed in a style of his own choosing, to which Colin said, "It was done in the form of a Hoedown."
** Colin was fond of this, turning one-shot punchlines into RunningGags.
** "Where the points don't matter, just like X."
** Drew, on the U.S. version: "Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter." Additionally, for a brief time, Drew remarked that a game would make a great party game to try if "there's no chicks or booze."
** Another catch-phrase of Drew's: "And I'm your host, Drew Carey; come on down, let's have some fun!"
** In "Infomercial": "Hey! It's (insert #) o'clock and it's time to shop shop shop!"
* CelebrityEndorsement: Parodied in "Infomercial" when Colin played Craig T. Nelson, a [[RunningGag throwback to a gag from elsewhere in the same taping]]. Sometimes invoked in ''Scenes from a hat'' and ''World's Worst''.
* CensorBox: In the U.S. version, a small censor box covered the performer's mouths if they said a stronger curse word, in addition to the auditory beep. This was presumably so you couldn't read their lips. Strangely, the censor box wasn't used in every instance, though.
** There was also a censor box used in the "Party Quirks" when Colin checked everyone's crotch to see what sex they were. The censor box covered Colin's hand when it was touching their privates.
** Also a censor box over Ryan's hand when he gave the finger to Drew after the "Party Quirks" where Ryan broke the neon light on Drew's desk.
** A rare and very deliberate invoking occurred during a performance of Hollywood Director when Brad asked Ryan and Wayne "You guys wanna see my fingers turn blurry?" and proceeded to give them both the finger, which really was blurred out, rather than boxed. The censors got some occasional flack on Whose Line, but at least they were perceptive.
* ChristmasEpisode: Both versions had one of these. The UK version had a 45-minute-long special with six contestants (Greg, Josie, Paul, Sandi, Tony, and Mike) complete with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFkZre0VbM special promos]]. The US version was pretty much a normal episode, although it did have Brad and Wayne singing to SantaClaus and a reindeer.
* ClicheStorm: Invoked in a "Superheroes" where Colin played [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9rzqW29_Q "Captain Cliche"]] and ONLY spoke in cliches. His first words? "Better late than never!"
** Made funnier with his final words: "Silly rabbi!"
* ClipShow: "The Best of Whose Line is it Anyway", which featured clips from seasons 1 and 2 of the U.S. version, wrapped around new footage of Drew (in a fancy suit and bowtie!) introducing the clips.
* [[ClusterFBomb Cluster Crap Bomb]]: ''Hollywood Director'' is best known for Colin's... ''colorful'' inflections as he halts the scene each time. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcyyE06xhEY As seen here.]]
-->[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Crap! Crap! Not too bad."]]\\
"You'd need a stepladder to get to their level of crap!"
** Played straight in the HilariousOuttakes. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KoSiF4Naw You might be surprised at how much was cut.]]
* CodeWordCoitus: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCk3oxiN6M Fudda-dudda-dudda baby...]]"
* ColbertBump: Inverted, to an extent. Stephen Colbert's original appearance was in 1999, long before The Colbert Report began and before The Daily Show really took off.
* CollectiveGroan: In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEeHq0xzuU one instance]] of "Let's Make a Date", Colin is a "bad stand-up comic fed up with the audience", the audience groans at his jokes.
** Colin gets so frustrated that he eventually [[LetsSeeYOUDoBetter switches out with an audience member.]]
--->'''Colin''': '''He's not that funny!'''
* CommonKnowledge: Invoked in a Greatest Hits about songs of pizza:
--> '''Ryan''': Y'know, Colin, an interesting fact is pizza was discovered- or made first, not ''discovered'', 'cause then it would be under a rock or something- made first here in America, and not in Italy, as most people think.\\
'''Colin''': ...[[SubvertedTrope I knew that.]]
* ConfessionCam: Parodied during the one playing of "Survivor Show", where each contestant told the camera who they were voting off; the highlight was when Ryan voted for himself so he could leave the show.
** The confession cam was also parodied during a "Film, TV & Theater Styles" where Wayne acted like a member of ''TheRealWorld''.
* {{Confessional}}: Parodied in "World's Worst", the subject being "priest or rabbi":
-->'''Ryan''': I understand; you've slept with three women. (whispering to somebody in the confessional booth) ''He slept with three women.''
** A game of ''Weird Newscasters'' had Colin getting this role:
--->'''Colin:''' "I like to shave... [[CrossesTheLinetwice small animals...]]"\\
Brad: "...and that's the evening news." (closes imaginary shutter)
* TheConfidant: A playing of "Let's Make a Date" featured Ryan acting out "Drew Carey: The Musical", which included making fun of his big glasses, big ass, and saying that he dated blow-up dolls. After the game, Drew awarded 1000 points to everyone except for Ryan, only for Ryan to reply:
-->'''Ryan''': I thought I was rather ''kind''... seeing as how I got a ''lot'' of stuff on ya.\\
'''Drew''': Yeah, so like I said, 1000 points to my good buddy, Ryan Stiles! (audience cheers)
* ConsolationPrize: During the episodes that made up the Halloween-themed taping, Drew awarded candy as prizes instead of the usual points. But instead of handing it to them, he threw the candy in their general direction, to which Greg sarcastically remarked: "Jellybeans on the floor? This is the best Halloween ever, Drew."
** In one episode, Drew awards hundred dollar bills.
* ContentWarnings: A few episodes of the U.S. version featured the tagline "Too Hot" branded next to the "Whose Line" logo, signaling that the upcoming episode would be slightly more racy and suggestive than usual. One such episode which featured the "Too Hot" logo was when Colin repeatedly touched everyone's crotch (including his own) in "Party Quirks".
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: On one scenes from a hat, they had "Celebrity ''FearFactor.''"
-->'''Ryan''': "A ''French'' accent?"\\
'''Collin''': (to Wayne) "Put on this plaid shirt..."\\
'''Ryan''': (Walks up to Drew's desk) "I am going to have to take your cards." (Drew looks completely lost) "ACTION!"
* CoolShades: The ''Hats'' game sometimes has these for variety. One time Brad and Wayne have to improv a BluesBrothers song, and get some shades to wear.
* {{Corpsing}}: Generally the players try to keep a straight face during the skits, but sometimes they can't help but laugh. Some examples:
** 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, 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) [[hottip:*:for the record, Ryan was actually talking about [[Music/TheWho an owl]].
** 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.
** 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), if you know what I mean!"
** 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 JimmyStewart; Ryan knew he couldn't get through the scene without laughing and just let Brad have the "win".
** A playing of "Irish Drinking Song" went off the rails right from the start, [[http://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.
** 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". See EpicFail below for details.
*** 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 exacerabed when Wayne added: "Soda gog and gickles??"
** 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.
** 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 chestal 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 [[http://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.
* CouchGag: at the beginning of both series. Clive started out introducing the players ''and'' their showbiz origins, then got bored with that and switched to more original, thematic introductions, with a theme and usually a sting for the fourth one.
-->'''Clive''': The greatest thing from America since sliced hamburgers, Mike [=McShane=]; and the most interesting Canadian after the maple leaf, Colin Mochrie; and the biggest thing in show business since Barnum and Bailey's tent pole, Ryan Stiles; and finally the most interesting thing to come out of Gunnersbury since the North Circular Road, Tony Slattery.
** Drew introduced each episode's contestants by using slogans, figures of speech, or other popular phrases while replacing the last words of the phrase with the contestant's name.
--->'''Drew''': If at first you don't succeed, try ''Greg Proops''! If you can't stand the heat, get out of the ''Wayne Brady''! If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say ''Colin Mochrie''! And if you think you have problems, ''Ryan Stiles''!
** Ryan's habit of making a funny expression into the camera during the intro can be traced back to the last UK season. In the US version, all four of them will be making an odd face for their introduction.
*** Occasionally, Ryan will be facing backwards during the introductions.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: At the start of an episode, Drew pulled out a newspaper with the headline: "Colin Mochrie, pictured here, is the zany host of the clear, clever, and witty British game show, "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Colin gave a courtesy wave to applause, despite that he's not actually the host of the show. Drew then threatened, "Don't you ever pull that stuff on me again!"
** Although not featured on the show, a British newspaper inaccurately (in order to rant at CulturalTranslation and TheyChangedItNowItSucks) claimed that the US version of WLIIA would be an actual serious competitive panel game with real points, and Drew and Ryan would be regular team captains.
* CreativeClosingCredits: with a bonus of LeaningOnTheFourthWall as one or more players are chosen to read out the credits in a certain fashion.
* CriticalResearchFailure: Invoked during one "Greatest Hits" when Ryan said that one of his favorite bands was Kid Rock. Drew (and most of the audience) began laughing, and Ryan naively asked, "Am I saying something wrong here??" Drew threw him a bone: "It's just one guy."
--> '''Ryan''': Of course it is! Y'know, one of my favorite ''bands'' is Kid Rock! He's just one man, but he's ''large!''
* CrosscastRole: Due to the cast being all males most of the time, whenever a scene has a woman in it, Colin usually plays the woman. In fact, Colin often calls it before Drew even reads the cards.
-->'''Drew''': Ryan is Noah, and Colin is-\\
'''Colin''': His wife?\\
'''Drew''': Mrs. Noah, yeah. Colin knows his role in every scene.
** Colin once asked, "Can we get some women on this show?"
** One scene had Colin playing a submarine captain.
--->'''Colin:''' Man or woman?\\
'''Drew:''' It doesn't say. If I had to guess... woman.
** When Drew was reading the description for a playing of "Number of Words" where ''Charlie's Angels'' was the theme, Colin mimed wiping sweat off his forehead when Drew announced he was playing Bosley and not one of the Angels.
* CurseCutShort: During the "Changed Letter" when "F" replaced "B", Brad tried to goad Wayne into saying the word "buck". Before Wayne could finish his sentence, Colin interrupted simply with, "Yeah." The word was then avoided entirely by calling the male deer a STAG.
--->'''Wayne''': I didn't say it.
--->'''Drew''': Yeah, you didn't say...
--->'''Wayne''': ''B''uck.
--->'''Drew''': (disappointed that he didn't say it) Right.
** Done when the cast parodies {{Shaft}}: "He's one bad mutha-" "Shut yo mouth!"
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