Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza: Difference between revisions

'''Jonathan''': Or a..... a..... a non-brand-name map program.<br />

'''Greg''': I'll put on a generic global positioning system, shall I? }}

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: FREQUENTLY asks the audience for suggestions.

** In one game of ''Kick It'', one character stops rapping prematurely and complains about the previous comment. The other character then says "He didn't say 'Word'!", which breaks the wall, because they were cast as fictional characters.

** "Merit badge stuff..."

** "Huge office ball clacker..."

* [[Busman's Holiday]]: Poor Sylvia the reflexologist; she came to Vegas from Canada, and has to massage Jonathan's feet.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Jonathan and Sean, mostly. So far, Sean has been in both "Mouse Trap" games.

* [[Fictional Holiday]]: [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/new-choice-calabasas Sharananana, the Jewish holiday originating from Calabasas in the '60s!] [[Fridge Logic|And involves a native American dance...]]

* [[Forced Tutorial]]: To make sure the audience members don't just stand up there without doing anything, as they sometimes did on Whose Line, they get a lot more instruction in the 'moving people' and 'sound effects' games, and get to practice it once to make sure they understand.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: The other players' reactions to the insanity is another ''Whose Line'' staple, and this time there's extra cameras on hand to catch them - unless they jump off the stools and out of frame, on occasion.

* [[Genre Busting]]: The last number in a CATS musical to be sung in just three words at a time? Kung Fu Vaudeville?

'''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."

* [[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]]".

** Oddly enough, ''Ryan'' is more prominently the woman in a scene now, not Colin.

** There's a couple of lesser-known ones - references to Ryan's resemblance to [[Neil Patrick Harris]] have been upgraded to "[[Doogie Howser, M.D.|Doogie Howser Sr.]]" now, and Jeff acted as [[Christopher Walken]] again in a recent "Freeze Tag".

** 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:

** The mambo song about steel workers, ''Our Love Is Like White Hot Revits In My Pants''.

** '80s synth-pop theme ''Wipe the Window, Hang the Freshener, Let's Go''.

{{quote| Ryan: [[Lampshade Hanging|I'm so white!]]}}

* [[Precision F-Strike]]:

** Drew's weight loss has come up a few times.

** Apparently "Freeze Tag" has drawn consistent input from yoga enthusiasts.

** "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")

** Done by Jeff in another game of ''Freeze Tag'' after [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Jeff was forced to remain in Downward Dog for the entire game.]]

** [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/freeze-approaching-cave Same with Jeff in a later game.]

** The official website is running a competition called "[[Blues Clues|Drew's Clues]] Sweepstakes".

** A song titled "Our Love Is Like Pork" ends on the line "[[Babe the Gallant Pig|That'll do, pig, that'll do]]".

{{quote| Drew: (singing) "They're gonna pull your nose off - And put nails in your feet - Cos that's [[Transformers]]!"}}

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Noticeably missing from the lineup are Kathy Greenwood from ''Whose Line'' and Julie Larsen from ''Green Screen'' - instead, we have Kathy Kinney and newcomer Heather Anne Campbell taking turns to be the ''one'' woman on the stage. More astute viewers will have noticed how their names get the exact same spot in the opening credits.

{{quote| '''Steve''': "Tonight... [[Charlie Sheen]], on ''Inside Edition''..."<br />

'''Ryan''': "[[Reality Subtext|Thanks for reminding me I'm out of a job.]]"<ref>Except it's just been confirmed they're merely adding [[Ashton Kutcher]] to the cast and not cancelling [[Two and A Half Men]] now.</ref> }}