Missing Clues …

Well, now the episodes of Clue that I went to see have been broadcast, I can write about them without spoiling the surprise. They were both as good as I had hoped they’d be.

The first episode had the delights of the WI health & safety conversation which had the very surreal moment of discussion about a bran tub. I think the best thing was the look on both Tim & Graeme’s faces when Rob Brydon said that the bran tub would be contain “little goodies”! Then there was the science fiction drama with the immortal line about the time machine, “well it was working tomorrow”.

It’s the second episode which I felt had more missing, but it was still a great programme if you didn’t know what had been lost. The highlight was definitely Rob Brydon’s Sexbomb for the pick-up song round – it was spot on and I think it even topped his performance of Delilah last time! There were a couple of visual moments which obviously didn’t transfer. One was at the end of his pick-up song Tim was so off that he put his head on the table in despair and then during a round of song relay (which wasn’t broadcast) he was eliminated, so started walking around the stage milking the audience for sympathy! But the best bit not in the broadcast was the sound charades round. Tim and Rob did a great one for You and Yours, which involved something belonging to a scots bloke. But the best was Graeme and Barry’s one for Parkinson, in which they were and Lancashire father and son debating over a cake/biscuit thing. I thought it was really clever and quickly cottoned on to what they were talking about, but I don’t think anyone else around me got it. Southerners!