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=== Double Feature ===
The panellists combine the names of films to make puns. Really, that's it. Puns can be literal (such as ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Sixpence_:Half a Sixpence (film) |Half A Sixpence]]'', ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]'' and ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'' being combined to make ''Half A Dozen Eggs''). The meaning of the title can be used rather than the words. (Such as ''[[Allo Allo (TV)|Allo Allo]]'', ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Boom!_ (1968_film)1968 film)|Boom]]'' and ''[[Farewell My Lovely (Film)|Farewell My Lovely]]'' combining to make ''A Short, Meaningless Relationship''. Or ''[[Lord of the Flies (Literature)|Lord of the Flies]]'' and ''[[Flash Gordon (Film)|Flash Gordon]]'' combining to make ''Would You Mind Accompanying Me To The Station''?) Then there are the truly ''magnificient'' puns, such as Barry combining ''[[Superman (Film)|Superman]]'', ''[[Kellys Heroes (Film)|Kellys Heroes]]'', ''[[The French Connection]]'', ''Al Capone'', ''[[Fantastic Voyage (Film)|Fantastic Voyage]]'', ''Man With the X-Ray Eyes'', ''[[The Princess and The Pea]]'', ''[[Nightmare Alley (Film)|Nightmare Alley]]'' and ''The Duchess and the Dustman'' to make ''[[Mary Poppins|Superkellyfrenchaltasticexpeaalleyduchess]]''. Used to be very popular, but the last time it popped up was in 1995.
 
=== Film Club ===
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=== Last Episodes ===
The chairman gives the name of a TV series (or film, or book) to one of the panellists, and asks them to "finish it off as quickly as you can". The panellists typically do this with implications of violence, swearing, sex, puns, or other unbroadcastable material. (Such as ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Bluff_:Call My Bluff (UK_game_show)UK game show)|Call My Bluff]]'': "And your word is...''(ting)'' ...oh my god!") Not played nowadays.
 
=== Late Arrivals ===
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'''Graeme:''' Patronizing -- that means talking down to people. }}
* [[Jedi Mind Trick]]: Graeme will frequently ask "What's it called?" at the beginning of the other team's ''Sound Charade''. Unsurprisingly, it never works.
* [[Last -Second Word Swap]]: In the Limericks game, subverting the audience's expectation of the "obvious" rhymes. (It's not [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]] because the substituted words do fulfill the rhyme as well... [[Rule of Funny|usually]].)
{{quote| While out on the Cam in a punt,<br />
I saw [[Spoonerism|Reverend Spooner]] in front<br />
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* [[Late to The Punchline]]: From one round of ''Closed Quotes'':
{{quote| '''Humph:''' "The boy went down on the last few feet of rock..."<br />
'''Graeme:''' "...and began to thank [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_HudsonRock Hudson|Mr. Hudson]] profusely."<br />
''([[Dude, Not Funny|collective groan]] from audience, which eventually turns into hissing and jeering)''<br />
'''Tim:''' ...Oh, I ''see!''<br />
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{{quote| '''Humph:''' "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing..."<br />
'''Graeme:''' "...isn't it?" }}
* [[Shout -Out]]: In spades, especially the ''Songbook'', ''Film Club'' or ''Book Club'' rounds, which revolve around making puns about popular films (or songs, or books). Then there are rounds like ''No Budget'', which are about modifying book, film, or TV titles to reflect their, well, lack of budget.
{{quote| '''Graeme:''' ''[[Night of the Living Dead|Night Of The Dead Dead]]''.<br />
'''Tim:''' ''[[Guys and Dolls|Guy And Doll]]''.<br />
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'''Humph:''' Tim? ...Barry? Graeme?<br />
'''Tim:''' Anybody in the audience? }}
** In another episode, Graeme had [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Palsy:Bellchr(27)s Palsy|Bell's Palsy]] while recording. He didn't bring it up until it was his turn in ''One Song To The Tune Of Another''.
{{quote| '''Graeme:''' That reminds me, I've got 'pink' and 'blue' in this song, and you won't have noticed this, but I have a touch of what is called Bell's Palsy at the moment...which means half my face has frozen. So I have trouble saying 'p' as in 'pink', and 'b' as in 'blue'...and it's rather ''cruel'' of them to call it 'Bell's Palsy'!}}
* [[Thing-O-Meter]]: One episode features one.
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{{quote| '''Jeremy''': That's ''harsh''!}}
* [[Word Salad Title]]: "Cheddar Gorge", the game where the panellists take turns saying one word at a time to keep the sentence going on as long as possible. The introduction often claims that the title is self-explanatory. By contrast, "One Song to the Tune of Another", which is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|as self-explanatory as you could ask for]], is treated as a [[Word Salad Title]] and introduced with an overly-elaborate analogy to make things "clearer".
* [[Yes -Man]]: Panellists would occassionally play this for laughs, sucking up to Humph in the most obvious fashion. Once subverted, when Barry mentioned what a marvellous chairman he was and what a great job he was doing. Humph awarded him and Graeme ten points for prefacing with that, and awarded Tim and Willie fifteen points for ''not'' starting with that.
 
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