This week we certainly weren’t in Kansas anymore! It was a Wizard of Oz Special, and Shaun was dressed as Dorothy. That alone was worth the price of admission!
Everyone was dressed – Amanda as the Tin Man, Charlie as the Lion and Josh as the Scarecrow. The guests were announcer John Blackman (BB), dressed as the Munchkin Mayor, “comedian” Kate Langbroek (Gen X) as Toto and actress Sophie Monk as Glenda the Good Witch (Gen Y). There was some confusion over if it was Kate or Stuart the Meerkat who was playing the role of Toto.
The first game was Chicken or Egg, followed by Spoilers Ahoy. Shaun used a picture of Harpo Marx to indicate the viewer should mute to avoid hearing the answer and wreaking the end of the movie. However the round decended into the teams just shouting names of movies until Sophie used the magic word – ‘the’. She then got a special question: What wasn’t Rome built in? Answer: Paris. (or Day, if that’s how you prefer to think)
The four buttons celebrated the children of Judy Garland: Liza Minelli, Lorna Luft and Michelle Gratton (actually a political reporter). Plus of course Trust Me!
- Charlie’s soft spot for Michelle meant they played ‘Watch Your Mouth’. Shaun made some vague cracks at his failed tonight show before Kate put her face in the styrrup and impersonated people for Charlie.
- Josh liked Liza, which was Name That Tune – all show tunes.
- John pushed the team into Trust Me which was Human Fairy Bread, and nominated Amanda as the ‘manacle-ee’, which she wasn’t pleased about. John failed on the first two questions, leading Amanda to be covered in flour and butter. The last question Shaun initially gave as wrong, causing Amanda to get the sprinkles too – but then he realised his mistake and gave her two bits for fairy bread to make up for it.
The Your Gen topic was something we all live in – Cities! (Not a Yurt Yert) Bert Newton (disguised as a Winged Monkey) delivered the envelope describing the challenge as Which Generation is Best at Winning. The teams had to complete a number of ‘fair-ground’ challenges such as assembling the yellow brick road, shooting a target and dunking a witch.
Gen X won the trophy – a 2003 Typing Award donated by Mindy Wilmhurst of Brisbane.
How awesome was tonight’s ep?! Now every time I see Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, I will think of Shaun!
Sophie Monk made Josh look like the most intelligent person in the room, Kate was flirting with Shaun any chance she got, but a great episode anyway 🙂
And they are running tayg repeats 7.30 Tuesday nights so the withdrawls will be held at bay for the time being!
Please tell me they didn’t spell ‘yert’ with an e. Yurt is spelled with a u.
Sorry, the bad spelling was me!
Every time John Blackman laughed I flashed back to the
good days of Hey Hey.
Hi Shaun
I heard a savage rumour that you are leaving the show !!! OMG – you cannot do this !!! I will do anything to make you stay.
Also, you have to do whatever it takes for Channel 10 to keep this program on the air … my life will not be same with your program every week!!! God, they leave on crap like The Renovators and Masterchef – shows that should never have been put on TV!!! GEN ROCKS – please keep it going
Love You Shaun
In a really recent radio interview (like, five days ago), Shaun said that he wasn’t intending to leave the show, and that the rumour likely started because of his interest in working on another project with Kat Stewart, and because of a certain episode of TAYG where Shaun isn’t the presenter.
So far, it hasn’t been confirmed if TAYG will be back in 2012, but I heard that in the network’s 2012 press release there was the expectation that TAYG would continue. Here’s the exact quote:
“Ten’s press release announcing their line-up for 2012 promises more TAYG (somewhere near the bottom), so looks like it’ll be continuing in some form or another”
-PPP