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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 343378" data-attributes="member: 23">Making her GUAC debut, Anne Robinson must have wondered what kind of a show she was on. Her two guest teammates - returnees Faith Brown and Sally Anne Howes - lacked any kind of grace at the inevitable thrashing brought about by their own ineptitude.Going by the banter, Brown seems to be a friend of Parky, which seemed to make her feel entitled to spend two consecutive episodes whining loudly: the boys are getting easier questions; he's cheating; Parky's playing favourites; we got it on the bell, didn't we (turns to audience to add pressure). Ugh. Parky alluded to some combative talk in the dressing room and I can believe it going on how unsporting she was publicly, without seeming to recognise that after numerous appearances she doesn't seem to grasp the game's simple logic, such as what word sounds like another or how to do simple gestures for small words, etc.Howes wasn't much better. She clearly struggled to keep her mouth shut during her play, and spent each of her two minute performances making constant desperate (and often leading) whining sounds like a dog on the edge of having an accident indoors.This was one episode where Parky's interference felt almost appropriate, since they were both so clueless, even failing to guess the simplest words during Liza's team and getting ridiculously off-track. Twice, during the game, Parky actually handed them the answer by filling in words they'd missed in one title, and - despite them having no idea when they'd actually been close to guessing correctly - actually said (with four seconds to go) "So it sounds like "Dirty Hotten something". He also gave them the two points for a title they'd only guessed correctly some seconds after the buzzer had gone.Incidentally, I've noticed a bit of a trend with Liza's team where, after a failed performance, the performer will shout out the title they were trying to act out, meaning it then can't be offered to Lionel's team to guess for a bonus point. It happens with such frequency these days I can't help wonder if it's tactical. Not that Parky always bothers offering it to Lionel's team anyway, in his zeal to tell everyone what he knows.I realise it sounds like I'm hate-watching at this point, but I am still finding lots to thoroughly enjoy. I mean, Derek Griffiths acting out "Male Stripper" by wiggling about pretending to take off a tiny pair of pants... what's not to love.Lots of EastEnders appearing. Gillian Taylforth seems almost as regular as Wendy Richard was on Just A Minute, and she's certainly got a flair for it. She seems quite competitive and very focussed, but great fun as well. As previously mentioned, William Boyd was great in his debut, as was The future Right Honourable Lord Cashman in his. Jane Howe seemed to struggle with self-consciousness (somewhere, Ange is cackling in her dressing gown).Ross Davidson made for an unexpectedly good team with Fraser Hines and Karl Howman. You'd expect them to be a bit laddish, and they were, but enjoyably so. All were obviously in it to win it and during the musical introduction bit had great fun showing off the little shorthands they'd clearly just learnt. Davidson was less enjoyable on his second time out when I spotted that he consistently mouthed each word as he performed it. I'm not sure if this is an unconscious thing or out and out cheating, but it certainly should have been picked up on and stopped.</blockquote>

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