12.2 – Keegan Michael Key 4

Host Aisha Tyler with Wayne Brady, Keegan-Michael Key, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall and Linda Taylor accompanying.

WEIRD NEWSCASTERS – Colin is the anchor, Keegan is the co-anchor and is Colin’s high school football coach furious at his poor performance, Wayne is doing sports and is an entire episode of “America’s Got Talent” in 30 seconds, Ryan is doing the weather and is going through the perfect day in the life of Ryan Stiles.

SCENES FROM A HAT – Scenes include the world’s worst neighbor, things you can say about a restaurant that you can’t say about your partner, and bad race horse names for an announcer to call during the race.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin are selling a male grooming kit.

IRISH DRINKING SONG – All four sing the beach Irish drinking song.

HELPING HANDS – Ryan and Keegan are two 1930’s Italian mafia gangsters planning a heist. Colin provides the hands for Ryan.

DOO WOP – Ryan, Wayne, and Colin sing about Veronica who died tragically in an Italian restaurant related accident. 

CREDITS – Ryan and Colin read the credits as two sailors on the high seas sailing their ship through a violent storm. Wayne and Keegan are pirates who board the ship.

Sister Shows: 11.3, 11.8, 11.18

10.1 – Kat Graham

Host Aisha Tyler with Wayne Brady, Greg Proops, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall and Linda Taylor accompanying, and special guest Kat Graham.

SCENES FROM A HAT – Scenes include what not to say to a police officer who has just pulled you over, things you don’t want to hear your veterinarian say, and things you can say about your house but not your partner.

SONG STYLES – Wayne sings to Kat Graham in the style of a Broadway musical with the others as back up dancers.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin sell a kit to help them pick up girls using various props.

PARTY QUIRKS – Greg is hosting the party.  Wayne is auditioning for all the roles in an action movie.  Colin is a pest exterminator convinced bugs are hiding in people’s clothing.  Ryan is a deep south sheriff who falls in love with everyone he arrests.

LIVING SCENERY – James Bond (Ryan) is seducing Bond girl (Colin) in a health spa.  Bond gets a call telling them they must go infiltrate a villain’s lair.  Wayne and Kat provide the props.

CREDITS – Greg, Colin and Ryan read the credits as three guys standing at a urinal reading graffiti on the wall.

Taped: January 25, 2014      Sister Shows: 10.5, 19.14, 20.10

7.14 – Episode #7014

Host Drew Carey with Wayne Brady, Jeff Davis, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the Piano, Linda Taylor, and CeCe Worral-Rubin accompanying

NUMBER OF WORDS – Egyptian guide Jeff and fiesty female archaeologist Colin open up the tomb of mummy Wayne. Ryan arrives later to rescue them. Jeff can only use four words, Colin two, Wayne three, and Ryan five.

DUET – Jeff and Wayne sing to Andrea the yoga teacher in the style of the Rat Pack.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin sell a product to cure snoring.

SCENES FROM A HAT – Scenes include foreign remakes of American TV shows, ads where the product and the style don’t match, and inoffensive words that immature people are prone to snicker at.

BARTENDER – Wayne is a bartender with Jeff in love with dogs, Colin is angry that his pogo stick broke, and Ryan has a problem with color blindness.

PROPS – Colin is the winner, so it’s Drew and Ryan vs. Jeff and Wayne.

CREDITS – Wayne reads the credits while Ryan and Jeff holds his arms and Colin tickles his butt.

Taped: March 11, 2001     Sister Shows: #516, #8016

7.3 – Episode #7003

Host Drew Carey with Greg Proops, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, and Laura Hall on the Piano

AWARD SHOW – Greg and Wayne present the bitter divorce award to Ryan and Colin.

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is Noah announcing he’s eaten all the animals on the ark with the others as reporters.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin do an infomercial for a product to help you stop drinking.

SOUND EFFECTS – Lynn and Mary from the audience make sound effects for Ryan and Colin, who are two musketeers who are with their French-speaking third musketeer. They’re getting ready to ride off to a heavily-guarded castle to spring the man in the iron mask from the dungeon.

IRISH DRINKING SONG – Wayne, Greg, Colin and Ryan do the first car Irish Drinking Song

PROPS – Wayne and Drew vs. Ryan and Colin.

CREDITS – Everyone reads the credits as if they are at a Jimmy Stewart sound-alike convention.

Taped: November 3, 2001     Sister Shows: #510, #608, #612

7.1 – Episode #7001

Host Drew Carey with Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, and Laura Hall on the Piano

SUPERHEROES – Brad is Tom Arnold and the crisis is no ceramic, with Ryan as Guy Who Channels the Spirits of Farm Animals, Colin as Captain Streaker, and Wayne as Man Who Mimics Everyone While On Caffeine

FILM DUB – All four do “one day at the doctor’s office.”

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin do an infomercial about body odor

PARTY QUIRKS – Brad is the host of the party, with Wayne as an android who keeps running out of power and recharges by kissing someone’s head, Colin as a Russian ballet dancer, and Ryan as a series of the world’s dumbest criminals caught on tape.

GREATEST HITS – Ryan and Colin introduce songs of the Presidents with Wayne and Brad performing them, including “That White House is Big” (Talking Heads) and “I’m Lyin’ He’s Lyin’ We’re All Lyin'” (Swing).

THREE-HEADED BROADWAY STAR – Brad wins, so Wayne, Drew, and Ryan sing “When I Touch Your Kangaroo” to Australian student Jody in Three-Headed Broadway Star.

CREDITS – Ryan and Colin read the credits as the world’s dumbest criminals.

Notes: This episode begins a series of 25 episodes for ABC Family created from the remainders of past tapings.

Taped: March 10, 2001     Sister Shows: #412, #432, #7024

5.23 – Episode #519

Host Drew Carey with Wayne Brady, Kathy Greenwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

NUMBER OF WORDS – A deleted scene from the “The Wizard of Oz” in which Kathy (3 words) is Dorothy, Wayne (5 words) is a Munchkin, Colin (2 words) is Glenda the Good Witch, and Ryan (4 words) is the Wicked Witch of the West.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin sell products to combat the problem of hairy chests.

SONG STYLES – Wayne sings in the style of Prince to Carly, who works in the bankruptcy department of a mortgage company.

SCENES FROM A HAT – Scenes include times when you don’t want a spotlight on you, unlikely famous movie scenes to be done nude, and the wrong thing to say when your girlfriend is trying on clothes.

NEWSFLASH – Ryan and Kathy are in the studio with Colin in the field reporting on lizards.

WORLD’S WORST – Wayne, Drew, Colin and Ryan come up with world’s worst things to say or do after making love.

CREDITS – Colin reads the credits as a guy with fabulous chest hair with the others as women driven wild by his chest hair.

Notes: This episode was originally scheduled to air April 24, 2003 but was preempted by All-American Girl.

Taped: 2001     Sister Shows: #408, #7002, #7017

5.18 – Episode #609

Host Drew Carey with Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is Batman announcing he’s coming out of the closet with Ryan, Brad and Wayne asking him questions.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin sell products for doing face-lifts.

ALL IN ONE VOICE – Colin and Wayne sing together as Miss Piggy and Ryan and Brad sing as Kermit the Frog serenading each other with the song “The First Time We Kissed”.

CHANGE LETTER – One night in the ER, Brad is the attending physician and Colin is the nurse, Ryan and Wayne are patients who enter later. Everyone must replace the letter “B” with the letter “F”.

SCENES FROM A HAT – The scenes include the world’s worst news anchor, what our cameramen are thinking right now, baby Drew’s first words, and things you might say about your computer but not your girlfriend.

IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN – Ryan, Brad and Colin are three soldiers in the barracks.

CREDITS – Brad and Wayne read the credits as 1950’s variety show hosts saying goodbye to all their guests.

Taped: September 9, 2001     Sister Shows: #503, #7020

5.6 – Episode #433

Host Drew Carey with Wayne Brady, Kathy Greenwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the Piano, and CeCe Worral-Rubin accompanying

QUESTIONS ONLY – In an alternative version of “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy arrives in Munchkin-land where things have taken a turn for the worse.

NEWSFLASH – Kathy and Ryan are reporters in the studio with Colin reporting on a bodybuilding competition.

SONG STYLES – Wayne sings to Naomi, a UPS worker, in the style of a 70’s disco with Kathy, Colin and Ryan as back-up dancers.

INFOMERCIAL – Colin and Ryan sell a miracle product that cures nail biting.

SCENES FROM A HAT – Everyone acts out the scenes: if lessons in love and sex were taught in the style of “Sesame Street”, “Jeopardy” questions where the “Whose Line” cast members are the answers, bad things to say as you’re about to kiss her.

HOEDOWN – Wayne, Drew, Colin and Ryan do the police officer hoedown.

CREDITS – Wayne, Kathy, Colin and Ryan as if they were all bodybuilders in a high-pressure competition.

Notes: This episode was originally scheduled to air October 14 but was preempted for “20/20: Tracking the Serial Sniper”.

Taped: 2001     Sister Shows: #7013, #7023, #8005

4.20 – Episode #415

Host Drew Carey with Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall at the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR – Colin directs with Wayne as a pet store detective, Ryan as a shoplifter and Brad as the cop coming to the scene.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin are selling an acne-fighting product.

PARTY QUIRKS – Brad hosts with Wayne as a family coming to blows on the Jerry Springer Show, Colin as synchronize swimming teammate and Ryan as a series of animals charging the camera.

TITLE SEQUENCE – Brad and Wayne sing “The George Washington and the Ventriloquist Show”, acted out by Colin and Ryan.

HELPING HANDS – Soda jerk Drew is shown by embittered ice cream owner Ryan how to make the world’s best sundae with Colin providing the hands.

CREDITS – All four as a series of animals charging the camera.

Taped: 2001     Sister Shows: #431, #7007

4.16 – Episode #417

Host Drew Carey with Wayne Brady, Jeff Davis, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall at the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

QUESTIONS ONLY – It’s a bawdy Saturday night in a frontier town at the height of the Gold Rush.

INFOMERCIAL – Colin and Ryan sell aids for removing excessive arm hair.

TWO-LINE VOCABULARY – Colin is a jungle expedition leader desperately trying to get his colleagues to set up camp before darkness, while Colin can say whatever he wants, Jeff can only say “I resent that” and “Oh my God that’s enormous”, and Ryan can only say “Should I use my gun” and “What was that?”.

GREATEST HITS – Ryan and Colin describe songs of motorcycles, with Jeff and Wayne performing.

WORLD’S WORST – Jeff, Drew, Colin and Ryan are the worst neighbors.

CREDITS – All four as a heavy metal band trying to come up with a name for themselves.

Taped: December 15, 2000     Sister Shows: #401, #426