Awesome / I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

• Anybody who can actually sing can get one of these in the musical rounds:
  • Any time Rob Brydon "accompanies" Tom Jones, but especially "Delilah". He sings along with Jones' vocals... and then it drops out and he continues on with an absolutely perfect imitation. And then, when the music picks up again, he's completely in time.
    • Pretty much any time Brydon sings is a Crowning Moment of Awesome for him. He shines when singing One Song To The Tune of Another, whether it's Madonna's "Hanky Panky" to the tune of "Fly Me To The Moon" or the poem "You Are Old, Father William" to the tune of "I Know Him So Well", during which he hit a fabulous high note.
    • The melody is "Yesterday Once More" by The Carpenters. The lyrics are... "Who Do You Think You're Kidding Mr. Hitler". The result is glorious.
    • "Anarchy in the UK" to the tune of "Just When I Needed You Most".
    • "Baby Got Back" to the tune of "Just the Way You Are". Also counts as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for pianist Colin Sell, who plays a more complex arrangement of the tune (helped by having a decent singer who can carry the melody).
  • In one early edition, Graeme Garden accompanies George Formby to "When I'm Cleaning Windows". He does the first verse fairly well, with a pretty good impression, but then he messes up the words and loses his place. He starts chatting idly to the other panellists, before starting to sing again — and when the record comes on again, he's perfectly in time.
  • Tony Hawks singing the words of the theme from The Muppet Show to the tune of "A Whiter Shade of Pale". The result is epic.
• Pick-Up Song. Graeme singing "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by Scissor Sisters. He puts on a posh accent while the music drops out, making you think he's just joking around...and then the music comes on, and he's absolutely in time ^note  This may be due to the fact that Graeme's son, J.J. Garden, is actually the Scissor Sisters keyboardist. . Really, any of the times that the panellist has had to keep singing for a while after the record is turned up for the audience to be able to tell the difference between them and the record is utterly awesome.
  • Another Pick-Up Song: Tim has to sing "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield. Unfortunately, the music cuts out immediately after the brassy introduction, leaving Tim with no lyrics to start singing to. There is huge laughter. Tim is momentarily shocked, rushes into the song, mutters a venomous "bastards!" between lines, and carries on valiantly. The record comes back, and Tim is almost perfect. Huge applause follows.
  • Caroline Quentin managing to sing Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". The audience goes wild when the music comes back in and she's singing the chorus in time.
  • Rory Bremner managing to keep exactly in time with "The Elements Song".
  • Graeme and Barry singing a duet of I Would Walk 500 Miles by the Proclaimers in-character as Hamish and Dougal.
• Ross Noble winning on the first move of his first ever game of Mornington Crescent.
• Any time Humph got to play the trumpet was invariably fantastic.
• Cementing its status as a Long Runner by running for 50 years!
• Tim and Bill began "The Stock Exchange Calypso" which is mostly repetitive, before it builds up in rhythm and soon the other team and even the audience join into several rousing rounds.
• Every time Graeme sings something loosely related to Bob Dylan he'll add a harmonica solo to it at some point.
  • Graeme sometimes brings in other instruments too, such as a triangle for singing Big Spender by Shirley Bassey.
• In the Karaoke-Cokey rounds where the audience hums a song for the teams to guess, it often feels uplifting when the song is a local favourite, such as when a Belfast audience goes along enthusiastically with I'll Tell Me Ma and an audience in York humming On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At.
• In one round of Sound Charades (The Turn of the Screw), Tim's impression of a prison warden is so good that his team partner Rob Brydon is momentarily stunned before returning to character.

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