Author: Stuart

Did you enjoy your double-shot of Shaun in three days? Well then, what’s wrong with you! Oh, sorry, didn’t mean to get personal. 🙂

Tonight’s episode featured comedian Denise Scott for the Baby Boomers, comedian Bob Franklin (Gen X) and actor Lincoln Lewis on Gen Y.

Games played were:

• Accessory Before The Fact: determine the character from their accessory
• Ad Hoc: work out the TV advertisement from the still frame
• Sounds Like History: translate the news headline

The four button options were Groucho, Harpo, Chico and John Travolta.

• Gen X chose Harpo, playing Who Said That? where Bob read a line while doing an impression and Charlie had to guess.
• Gen Y picked Chico, which was Name That Tune.
• BB decided on John Travolta, playing Era Error – a 70’s disco with 6 anomalies.

Vegetables was the topic for the Your Gen round. The End Game envelope was delivered by a Dalek (or Brooke from the stage version of Mary Poppins), and revealed the challenge: “Which Generation is best at Being a Hair Dresser”. What followed were the three teams creating styles on real people that would take months to grow-out.

For their effort in creating the most ‘original’ (read: awful) style the Baby Boomers won the 1996 NSW Recreational Scrabble trophy, donated by Sue Tuckett of Marrickville.

Tonight was a Back to School special, with Shaun and all the team members dressed in uniform.

Joining the captains were Steve Vizard (BB), Kate Langbrook (X) and Andy Lee (Y).

Shaun was proud to announce ‘he was (dressed) as head boy’, discussed how Steve’s company Artist Services, which made The Micallef Program, was sold to Granada – leading to him working on TAYG – and proclaimed that he loved his school days.

Games played were:

• Fadtastic – determine the fad from the photo
• Who Goes There? – which character is missing from the photo of a school-based TV show
• What You Talkin’ Bout Willis? – decipher generational phrases

The four button options were all school subject based:

• English, chosen by Gen Y, was Draw That Book, and involved a chalk-board in true school style
• Gen X picked Social Science, which was Whose Locker Is It?
• The Baby Boomers went for Science, playing What Am I Smelling?, which were all school products

For the Your Gen segment, the topic was ‘The Three R’s’, and if the team were having trouble, a friend would call in – like a reverse phone-a-friend.

The end game was “Which Generation is Best at: Completing a School Project’ – worth 11 points (anyone could win!) With the messiest volcano, it was the Baby Boomers who won the Year 10 History Award from St Beades, donated by Dylan Ettridge from Aspendale Gardens.

Don’t forget – Your Gen is moving to Tuesdays from this week! Same timeslot. Comments, anyone?

This week, Shaun began by dancing in 70s disco gear (and wearing it for the whole show), claimed Audrey Hepburn was the worst actress of all time and demonstrated his ventriloquism ‘skills’.

The guests were Jeff Green for the Baby Boomers, Megan Gale on Gen X and Gen Y had Jason Smith.

The segments were:

• Franken-Face, involving teams identifying three faces which had been mashed together
• What’s a Doodle Do, sung by ‘Corgie’, where all the ‘doodles’ were album covers
• Slogans Run, where the teams had to guess from movie slogans

In the four button window portion:

• Gen X chose Lifestyle, playing Third Drawer Down
• Gen Y picked Music, which was Name That Tune – all TV themes
• At Shaun’s badgering, BB chose Trust Me: The Egg Flop. Jeff sat upon a device that would, after 3 incorrect answers, flip him into a vat of scrambled eggs. Amanda was unable to save Jeff from his fate.

The Your Gen round was on one of my favourite subjects: James Bond! The End Game was ‘Which Generation is Best at – Pottery!’ Gen Y won, receiving the Feline Association of Australia Silver Medallion, donated by Luka of Forrestville SA.

Remember, if you scratch the surface, you’ll get a nasty infection. So post some comments!

Looks like this week we have comedian Jeff Green, actor Jason Smith and model Megan Gale joining Amanda, Charlie, Josh and of course Shaun! So tune in Sunday, 7:30pm, Channel 10.

Tonight began with Josh taking on the opening speech duties, then 27 seconds later, Shaun introducing the teams in different order.

He pronounced his respect for the Gen X guest, Frank Woodley, describing him as Australia’s finest physical comedian, and suggested a mix up between the BB guest Alex Perry, and the well known chef Neil Perry. Rounding out the guests was Gin Wigmore for Gen Y.

Opening games included:
The Fly, where heads of actors were replaced by a fly head.
Ad Hoc, involving determining an ad from one frame.
As Quick As, ‘fast money’ against a boiling kettle.

For the four button round:
Gen X chose Celebrity, which was ‘Watch Your Mouth’
The Baby Boomers chose Lifestyle, playing ‘Noises Off’
Gen Y picked Film & TV which was ‘Anagrams of Calista Flockhart’. No, actually it was ‘Draw that Movie’.

Trains, Planes and Automobiles was the topic for the ‘Your Generation’ questions. The Kracken brought in the End Game envelope, and the game was ‘Which Generation is Best At Moving House’ – worth 10 points!

Gen X won, mostly by throwing the items, the 1976 St Andrews Netball Club trophy donated by Wendy Smith.

Since this season began, it seems the show seems to be slowly getting more Micallef Program-esk. Even the end joke was an old Program joke!

What did you think? Feel free to post your opinions.

On next weeks episode, the special guests are Alex Perry, fashion designer (representing the Baby Boomers), Frank Woodley, comedian (Gen X) and Gin Wigmore, a singer-songwriter (Gen Y).

Watch it this Sunday at 7:30pm on Channel 10… or miss out. 🙂