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** In one game of "Sentences," Drew was forced to say, "If you [[It Makes Sense in Context|don't like the way I smell,]] then (unfolds paper) ([[Beat]]) [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the price]] [[The Price Is Right|is wrong]]."
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The new game "Two Headed Expert" is basically "Three Headed Broadway Star" and "All in One Voice" meshed together and without the musical aspect. [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/two-headed-expert-morticians-cancun Until this one,] [[Ascended Fanon|anyways.]]
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: "Song for a Lady" is much more elaborate than the traditional ''Duets'', involving asking the audience member about her hobbies and education and what country she'd like to visit, among other things. Also counts as [[Adaptation Distillation]] compared to the even-more-elaborate "American Musical" game from the old UK ''Whose Line''.
** Similarly, "Options" does this with the classic "Film TV Theater Styles", incorporating "Number of Words" and "Change Letter".
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Ryan favors names like [[Running Gag|Gary and Phil]]. Jeff prefers Tamberline and Amantha. Note that the latter is a corruption of [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Samantha]], which prompted Chip to take it [[Up to Eleven]] with Tevan (Steven), Tan (Stan), and [[The Triple|Burnoose.]]
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** Klaus wins and you lose.
* [[Berserk Button]]: In a game of "Playbook". Don't mention Suzanne!
** Colin jabs Ryan with a nose joke in a game of "New Choice".
{{quote|Colin: "Why... don't you make the nose even bigger?"
Ryan: "Are we really going to start?! 'Cos I will..." }}
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'''Jonathan:''' What? }}
* [[Big Yes]]: The reason why audience members need a bell and a horn to guide the cast through the game ''First Date''. This is lampshaded in Episode 30.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The song ''Mi Casa'' has some actual Spanish words in it, spoken by Brad and Wayne. Jonathon proceeds talking in ''French'' in response to the Spanish conversation.
* [[Black Comedy]]: In a game of ''Sound Effects'', Colin had to start the race because the guy who usually started it...died.
* [[Brand X]]: In one game of "Kick It":
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** A bit hard to catch if you're not paying attention, but after Jonathan recites his [[Precision F-Strike|handcuffs poem]], when Chip changes the genre back to horror Jonathan can be seen giving Drew the [http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Gesture#Italian_elbow_gesture.2A Italian elbow gesture] repeatedly.
** Mostly visual, but still:
{{quote|'''Colin''': ([[Does This Remind You of Anything?|shaking gesture]]) YAHTZEE!
'''Jeff''': (breaking character) Oh, thank God, I thought you were doing something completely different. }}
* [[Go Look At the Distraction]]: Used in episode 11's "Two-Headed Expert" twice when "Jorge" wanted to make an escape.
{{quote|'''Chip/Jonathan''': Look! It's... uh, Puff Daddy!}}
* [[Groin Attack]]: See Butt Monkey above.
{{quote|'''Jonathan''': Let me just put my cup on before we start [[Foreshadowing|hitting some balls]]-
'''Drew''': ALL RIGHT! }}
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Chip and Jeff. They're often paired together in games, always sit next to each other when in the background, and generally have a bromance going on. According to Jeff, he and Chip "have this brotherly ESP connection."
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* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: While it isn't any less raunchier than the original Whose Line, GSN has cut and censored far less for broadcast.
** Some of the [[Lighter and Softer]] approach from ''Drew Carey's Green Screen Show'' has been retained though, like the time they get a kid to voice ''Sound Effects'', and Ryan calls out Jeff for even suggesting "[[Howard Stern]]".
** Darker in the literal sense, too; The venue is pretty dark, and the cast wears mostly blacks and grays.
* [[In the Style Of]]: "Options".
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Most are in "Question This". [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/question-winnamocka This clip] probably has the worst of them.
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** From one game of "Questions":
{{quote|'''Greg, as game show host:''' Everyone has one point except for Senior-
'''Ryan, as Neil Patrick Harris, Sr.:''' ENNHT! [[Breathless Non-Sequitur|Falafel]]. ([[Beat]]) We all tied up?
'''Greg:''' Indeed, we are! }}
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]
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** The improvisers making fun of the audience suggestions is similar to the way Clive Anderson did in the British version of Whose Line.
** One game of "Sound Effects" (re. ep 17) ends with another familiar gag:
{{quote|Heather: [[Innocent Innuendo|Hold on, I have to blow (this flute) into the right part...]]
Jeff: [[If I Had a Nickel]] for that! }}
* [[Name's the Same]]: By some cosmic coincidence, Ryan's pick of an audience member for "Song for a Lady" has a husband named Ryan.
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* [[National Stereotypes]]: In a game of "Two Headed Expert", Chip and Jonathan as an expert on the [[Eiffel Tower]] accidentally out themselves as Spanish, then try to pass for French by claiming that the Premier of France is [[Jerry Lewis]].
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: From a game of ''Story''. A kid is thrown into outer space by an exploding Les Paul guitar and transforms into an invisible green giant that can fly.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Averted with Jeff's [[Keanu Reeves]] in "Question This".
** Jonathan as [[George Takei]] in one "Hits Compilation" falls just a little short.
* [[Non Sequitur]]: A main source of humor for the Playbook game. And in Sentences every now and then.
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* [[Piss-Take Rap]]: from the new "Kick It!" game to stuff like [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/chip-jeff-and-jonathan-lethal-injection this.]
{{quote|Ryan: [[Lampshade Hanging|I'm so white!]]}}
* [[Precision F-Strike]]:
{{quote|Greg: "So what happened is, we were on the street where we came across this kid<ref>[[Charlie Sheen]].</ref> and he said "I love you guys, I've seen your improv and your comedy, and I wonder if there is any tickets to the show", and so I told him... "No f--k off, we're sold out..." "}}
** And Jeff towards the end of the gangsta rap "Lethal Injection":
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** Apparently "Freeze Tag" has drawn consistent input from yoga enthusiasts.
** Jeff seems to be a [[wikipedia:Red Hands|Red Hands]] champion.
** "Celebrity" hosts in "Hits Compilation".
** Especially popular in Freeze Tag: "Ladies and gentlemen, Cirque du So-Gay" (Kathy seems to prefer "Cirque du Who-knows-what")
** Drew choosing 'Scientific Names for Body Parts' in ''Question This''.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: "Mousetraps", for the pain involved (the cast have resorted to throwing them and ordering each other to walk across the stage), and "Reverse" and "New Choice" because callers can yell "reverse/forward" or "new choice" any time they want, as often as they want.
{{quote|'''Jeff''': I can say forward/reverse as much as I like, just to torture them.}}
* [[Viva Las Vegas]]: The show is taped on a stage at a casino. Topical humor ebbs and flows through the show, beginning with the opening credits.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: One of the ''less'' awkward audience submissions in "Sentences" led to Jonathan saying out loud "Man I Feel Like A Woman".
** From one session of "Freeze":
{{quote|"This is Jeff Davis reporting live on the scene... It is indeed raining men."}}
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: Invoked in episode one by Greg during Colin's explanation of "Moving People" - which doubles as a [[Continuity Nod]] to [[Drew Careys Green Screen Show]], where Greg had a similar problem with the same game.
** Jeff said this in a game of ''Sound Effects'' when he picked audience members who proceed to make sounds that don't make sense.
** Also, in the game with the prostate exam, Ryan says this to Colin. [[Tempting Fate|Sure enough:]]
{{quote|Colin: "He's dying!... I may have gone too far up!... CLEAR!!"}}
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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Muscles that sound like "Powerful", "Magnificent" and "Beyoncé".
** Also singing a song about going to the bathroom. And prostate exams. And flapjacks.
* [[What the Hell, Player?]]: A game of "First Date" wherein the couple being featured [[Another Side, Another Story|disagreed about the sequence of events.]] They ring the bell and honk the horn at the same time, leaving the cast at a complete loss.
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: In a game of Options starring Drew and Colin.
{{quote|"Freeze. ''French'' dialect."}}
** Jeff in a game of ''Sentences''.
{{quote|'''Jeff''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Also, I started out English and now I moved to kind of south of the border.]]
'''Ryan''': I can never figure you out! }}
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Heather Anne as a ten-year-old kid, abandoned by her parents years ago and raised by her neighbours, and develops telekinetic abilities that can [[Your Head Asplode|burst people's heads]] and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|pull out kidney stones.]]
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