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Timmy Fell Down The Well: Credits, Friday Night Improvs
Introduction - This game features "ma" and "lassie". Something terrible has happened to Timmy, Jimmy, and Rimmy. Ma and the Timmys leave the room and a horrible catastrophy is given to each. Ma returns and lassie has one minute to mime to Ma what happened to Timmy. If Ma guesses correctly within the one minute, Timmy is saved and helps guess what happened to Jimmy and so on. However, if she is not successful, Timmy, Jimmy, or Rimmy is brought in and is executed in the method predetermined by the audience.
Description - This is pretty self explanitory, lassie is not allowed to use any sounds (can a dog make sound effects?). A good game for some cheap audience pleasing fun.
Variations - None
Other Catagories - Guessing
Murder Mystery: Credits, Friday Night Improvs
Introduction - Five people are chosen and four leave the room. The one remaining finds out the location, murder weapon, and occupation. One of the four enters the room and the one with the information has one minute to mime this information to the other. Neither one can speak, only shake or nod heads. After the one minute is up, the second kills the first with the murder weapon. Then the third comes in and so on. After the fifth time is completed they all tell everyone what the information was starting with the fifth and moving on down to the first.
Description - This game was modeled after the popular childrens game "telephone". You whisper a story to the person next to you, they do likewise until it gets to the sixth person and is nothing like the way it started. The comedy comes from just watching how each person reacts to what is mimed.
Variations - None
Other Catagories - None
PBS Pledge Break: Credits, Friday Night Improvs
Introduction - Two people are auditioning for the announcer of the PBS pledge breaks. They leave the room and two other people are chosen to mime the products to sell. Three products (nouns) are selected and a description (adjectives) and the auditionees must conduct a PBS pledge break while trying to guess what the products are.
Description - It is essential that the guessers try to keep in character and keep talking like a PBS pledge break person would. If not, this just becomes a glorified game of charades. It is not essential for the guesser to get it right away, good comedy comes from bad guesses by the guessers. The host plays the conductor of the audition and switch from time to time.
Variations - None
Other Catagories - Guessing
Film Dubbing: Credits, Friday Night Improvs, Whose Line
Introduction - Two people are given a relationship and a task to complete, they begin doing a scene but without talking. The words will be provided by two others (one for each person) they will alternate lines of speech until the task is completed.
Description - This can be a serious pimp game, for both sides. The voices can literally "put words in their mouth" and if they say something, the actors have to accomodate them. However, the actors can do things on stage that the voices have to justify as well.
Variations - None
Other Catagories - Scene Justification
Late for Work: Credits, Friday Night Improvs
Introduction - One player is chosen as a worker who is late. The host is a tyrannical boss who hates late employees, but the boss once in his life was late. So the late employee must guess what the bosses reason for being late was. But this employee is loved by his coworkers so two of them mime behind his back what the excuse is.
Description - The only extra thing in this game is that sometimes the boss turns around and yells "What are you two doing?" to suprise the mimers.
Variations - None
Other Catagories - Guessing
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