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Thank God You're Here
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Thank God You're Here is as an Australian TV show from Working Dog Productions, in which several famous actors have to improvise their way through a random situation. Hosted by veteran Aussie actor Shane Bourne, each episode of the Australian original features four prominent members of the Australian entertainment business thrown into bizarre scenes. The performer is dressed in an appropriate costume, sent through a blue door into a small set where they are greeted with the words "Thank God you're here" and expected to completely make up their names, answers to questions, songs, speeches, ideas etc., often with hilarious results.They are then judged by Tom Gleisner, who always manages to give everyone a high score.Once every performer has done his or her situation, the entire cast is thrown in to one last scene together for the All-In Group Challenge. The cast usually end up playing idiots or Jerkasses, or frequently both, just for the humour in watching them justify it. Occasionally, the performer will never try to justify any horrible thing their character did, and will just be even worse. It's always hilarious.Good performers often create ridiculous lines like, "My grandfather actually lost a leg in the war. It wasn't his, he was a medic." or in an All-In Group Challenge where they were Vikings:The fourth season ran on a different network after a year-long break on the part of the producers. The show has been sold to 13 different countries, with results varying wildly.The show returned to Network Ten for a fifth series in August 2023, now hosted by Celia Pacquola and with a different guest judge each episode (including former door-enterers). | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: The producers show this when they lock the cages of the puppies and kittens during a Frank Woodley sketch, if they hadn't he admitted he would have taken them out and juggled them. Tony Martin guessed fairly early on in his superhero sketch that the joke would be that his superhero was kind of a nebbish and decided to just roll with it, culminating in him joking that his female sidekick was getting on a bit but good at making the tea, shortly before said sidekick was revealed to be in her seventies. | |
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Title Drop: When the performer enters the scene, someone else will say to them "Thank God you're here!" Subverted in the US edition once, where George Takei (the guest performer) enters and says "Thank God I'm here!" Josh Lawson also used this line when he appeared as a guest judge in season 5 of the Australian version. Also subverted by Josh Lawson in the Australian edition: he knocked at the blue door before entering, and when it was opened, said "Thank God you're here, I was knocking for hours!" The 'Car Meets Third Storey Flat' sketch starts with Hamish Blake crawling out the door of a wrecked car embedded in a lounge room wall to be greeted with "Thank God you're alive!" Guy Montgomery drops a loud "Thank God you're here!" when another ensemble member enters during his Casablanca-esque scene in the 2023 Australian season. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Several contestants have tried this: on one occasion, Frank Woodley ran off the set while playing a ship's captain in the middle of a crisis. He received a Dishonourable Mention from Tom for this one. Bob Franklin does it better, though, when he comments on his and others performances without really breaking character. Shaun Micallef once mentioned having "a wall taken out and all these people put in" while gesturing at the audience. And that was after starting the same scene trying to pull Shane Bourne on stage through the door. And before trying to leave the stage through the wall (Nicola stopped him, of course). | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Two comedic examples: For the guests (in all but a few cases): Leaving the scenario prematurely — they are always dragged back in by the co-performers For the producers: Creating scenarios for Josh Lawson which don't give him the slightest opportunity to fondle and hit on female co-performers. | |
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Ass Pull | |
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Ass Pull: As stated above, the whole point of the show. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: About the highest level of class it generally reaches. Tahir Bilgic, for example, translated a school's Pretentious Latin Motto as "Pay your debts or die". | |
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Car Meets House | |
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The 'Car Meets Third Storey Flat' sketch starts with Hamish Blake crawling out the door of a wrecked car embedded in a lounge room wall to be greeted with "Thank God you're alive!" | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Sometimes performers are introduced as having an accent. Sometimes they put one on. They usually screw up at some point. The most memorable would have to be, again, Frank Woodley, who in one sketch set in colonial era Australia had his accent go on a drunken tour of the English-speaking world, probably averaging out at Irish. Another Frank Woodley one had him pretending to be a Shaolin monk-esque figure, who alternated between a mock Chinese accent to an Indian and then and a German one. | |
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Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything | |
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Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything: In one sketch, Bob Franklin found himself thrust into the role of a revolutionary leader. While his followers were certainly ready to act, Bob himself kept sidetracking the uprising with all sorts of irrelevancies and general reluctance to do anything. | |
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Golden Snitch | |
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Golden Snitch: For some inexplicable reason, Tom Gleisner would always say that it was too close to call and he wouldn't be able to decide on a winner until after the All-In Challenge. | |
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Big Damn Kiss: Once it became clear that some cast members (like Nicola) were up for it, a lot of the guests tried to get a kiss into their piece. Sometimes this was blatantly encouraged by the cast, and a planned part of a skit. | |
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The Points Mean Nothing | |
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The Points Mean Nothing: Though no mention is ever made of this fact. | |
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Lovable Sex Maniac | |
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Lovable Sex Maniac: Josh Lawson. Some of the other guests could fall into this too, just not as consistently. | |
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Adventurer's Club | |
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Adventurer's Club: In the third episode of the American version, Harland Williams won as an adventurer returning to his club after an expedition. | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule: Shane Bourne was, shall we say, very appreciative of Julia Zemiro in a schoolgirl outfit. | |
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Squick: Tom Gleisner occasionally does an exaggerated display of this in response to comments about, say, John Howard chafing. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Also what performers end up playing. | |
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Plumber's Crack | |
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Plumber's Crack: When he's playing a medieval physician, Shaun Micallef's pantaloons begin to slip down. His response to this? To apologise to the king by saying "Excuse my unworthy crack". This even earned him an honourable mention from Tom at the end of the episode. | |
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Pretentious Latin Motto | |
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Pretentious Latin Motto: Regularly used in sketches involving educational institutions, whether the actor was a student (Julia Zemiro) or a teacher (Tahir Bilgic). Generally they end up translated as something bizarre. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: To all kinds of things (Ross Noble, as a fantasy hero, found himself deluged in Warhammer references, for example). | |
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Incoming Ham | |
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Incoming Ham: Defied on principle as the lack of a script means the guests should have no clue how to get started - unless they figured out out from their costumes. The US version notably has Bryan Cranston decked out like a rock star, and getting the ball rolling with an English accent thrown in, basically morphing into Russel Brand. And kissing everyone on the mouth at least once! | |
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Lovable Rogue | |
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Lovable Rogue: Bob Franklin's philandering golfer in one episode, who managed to be surprisingly charming and surprisingly caddish at the same time, probably due to his English accent. | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Featuring Angus Sampson as an Egomaniac Hunter (and romance novelist). | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: Melanie Bracewell responds to "...just call me..." with "Maybe." | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the very first episode, no less. In the group sketch that closes out the show, the performers are depicted as an entertainment group for children. When they are asked if they've obtained police checks, Frank Woodley throws away his prop and walks right out of the scene. No one is able to stop him (since the co-performers are too far away), he doesn't return, and he wins the episode. Frank also does this in the finale of Series 2; he plays the captain of a British naval ship, and when things start to turn south for the crew, he jumps off the boat and runs away. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Frequently the character the performers end up playing. | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper: Sometimes, a performer can dig themselves into a pit. Frank Woodley, in particular, runs on it. | |
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Railroading | |
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Railroading: Sometimes the ensemble cast ends up having to do this rather obviously, in order to keep the skit going in the direction they meant. At least twice Bob Franklin has praised them for doing so, in-character and in the middle of the scene. "Well played, sir. Back on track." | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Josh Lawson trying to leave before the skit is over, as well as hitting on and touching the female co-performers. A few guests also take advantage of genuine food and drink used as props. The co-performers catch on but the guests keep trying. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Josh Lawson claiming to speak Tasmanian. A quite blatantly set up one where Fifi Box is asked a question involving a trip to Dubbo funded by her magazine. She replies with a joke from another player earlier, "Because they make good pies!" Rebel Wilson's use of the phrase "bush-pig". | |
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Larynx Dissonance | |
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Larynx Dissonance: Used brilliantly by Colin Lane. Colin, a male, was dressed up as a heavily pregnant woman. As soon as he was forced to say something, he effected the deepest voice he could, eventually culminating in this exchange (paraphrased due to a faulty memory). | |
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