Recap: Your Gen, February 15th 2011

Despite what this blog proclaimed, the guests this week were Ita Buttrose, Robyn Butler and Rob Mills. Strangely, Shaun announced both Robyn and Rob had penned exactly their own version of  Ita’s book – a guide to etiquette. The theme was the Golden Age of Television, aka the 1950’s, and Shaun had his hair slicked back for the occasion. He then gave his George Clooney impersonation.

The first game was what is obviously one of Shaun’s favs: What’s a Doodle Do? After confusing Qantas with Groucho and playing ads for ‘spanner cushions’ (not really), the next game was Spoilers Ahoy – where Shaun revealed the ending of a movie and the teams had to guess the title. To avoid giving the endings away to viewers, Shaun held up a picture of Harpo Marx to indicate ‘muting’ the TV to not hear the answer. This had to be extended to looking away at the same time.

The round of As Quick As was renamed Fast and Spurious, so it didn’t appear like the same game as last week.

Strong, independent women Shaun is attracted to: Enya, Penelope (Cruze), Barbra (Streisand), plus ‘Trust Me’.

• Gen X chose Enya playing ‘Name that Tune’, during which Shaun had to keep hitting a meerkat which repeatedly popped up in front of him
• BB picked Penelope – Chronoloco! Academy Award winners had to be arranged in the order they won their award
• Gen Y chose Barbra (wooo-ooo-ooo Barbra Streisand) – What Am I Smelling?

The Your Generation topic, revealed by Stuart the meerkat, was Plants. The man who played Fat Cat (Andre Zemf?) delivered the end-game envelope: Which Generation is Best At Polishing Shoes? During  the game, Shaun ate a banana and called the speaking clock.

In the end, the BB won the 1998 Mornington YC 1998 Coaches Encouragement Award, donated by Leigh Gridley.

Did anyone notice the photo of Robert Menzies behind Shaun? This is part of this series’ Waki-Leaks, which continues from the chair and badge from last week.