'Welcome back everybody' said Drew to the camera. 'Let's move on with a game called Scenes from a Hat! This is for all four of you' As the audience cheered, and Drew reached down for an upturned Stars and Stripes top hat, which he placed on the desk, Wayne and Kathy walked over to the short steps next to the desk, while Colin and Ryan went to the ones opposite.

Looking at the camera, Drew pulled out a slip of paper and continued. 'What happens is, before the show, we ask the audience to suggest little scenes they'd like the performers to do. We selected the best ones, put them in this hat, and get the performers to act them out.' Drew then looked at the paper in his hand.' 'Starting with, unlikely articles for a women's magazine.'

As Boimler briefly turned to look at Mariner, with a questioning expression, and Drew folded the slip of paper, to place it on the end of the desk, Kathy stepped to the middle, looked up, and with a slightly surprised tone said 'Hmm, a day at a radio telescope!'

As she walked back, to sniggers from the audience, Drew pulled out the next suggestion 'Things said at a barbecue that you can't say about your partner.'

Ryan walked out to the centre, raised his right hand to he mouth, and yelled 'Come and get it!'

After a brief peal of laughter Wayne stepped out, and gasped 'Talk about hot!'

As he returned to the side, to gasps from the audience, Kathy stepped forward, looked from side to side, and said 'Wow, look at all that meat!'

Then Colin walked to the centre, raised both hands, and in a calm voice said 'Please form an orderly queue – there's plenty for everyone!'

Laughing along with most of the audience, Drew looked at the next slip of paper, and read out 'Bad things to say when receiving an award'

At this, Wayne stepped into the centre and, with a questioning look on his face, said 'Any chance of a recount? Recount?'

As Drew pressed the buzzer, Wayne swapped with Kathy, who asked 'Wow! Are you sure I was even in this thing?'

While the audience laughed, and Kathy returned to the side, Colin walked out and, in a sternish voice exclaimed "Why am I getting this? The other nominees were much better!', before joining Ryan near the piano.

Drew shook his head, and pulled out another piece of paper. 'That was a weird one!' Okay, next up, word definitions that won't appear in the dictionary.'

Wayne stepped forward, looked towards the camera, and said 'Baccarat – Support for a rodent!'

After the audience groaned, and Drew pressed a buzzer on the desk, Ryan entered the centre area. 'Extractor – Former farming vehicle.'

Then, as Ryan returned to the side step, Colin stepped up, and said 'Catacomb – grooming tool for felines!'

'Okay, let's move on' said Drew, looking at another piece of paper from the hat, with a surprised expression 'Unlikely subjects for fan fiction.'

Kathy walked out, looked directly at the camera, with a neutral expression on her face, and said 'Hello, and Welcome to Stories of the Subway!'

As Kathy returned to her place by the desk, Colin stepped forward, glanced down, as if looking at a table in front of him, and after a pause, said 'White Knight to C3, Black Bishop to G7….'

After Drew pressed his buzzer, Colin was replaced by Wayne who, with a cheery smile on his face, said 'Hello, and welcome to 'Whose Line Is It Anyway', the show where everything's made up, and the points don't matter!', before resuming his place, to howls of laughter.

'Oh, come on!' exclaimed Ryan over the noise. 'How am I supposed to follow that?'

'Short answer – you're not!' said Drew with a Cheshire Cat grin, before turning to face the right hand front camera. 'Alright, we'll be right back with more Whose Line is it Anyway?. Don't go away!'

And with that, he picked up the hat, and threw it clear across the room.

'Does he always do that?' asked Boimler, nervously, as the hat landed beyond the piano.

'I think it's a trademark.' replied Tendi.

'Seems silly to me.' said Mariner.

'Apparently it has hit the camera a couple of times.' remarked Rutherford, looking down at the PADD.

NOTES

The Radio Telescope one is real – in early August 2022, The People's Friend, which is generally regarded as a women's magazine, featured a cover painting of, and an article about, the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank.

The Word Definitions gag is based on the game Uxbridge English Dictionary, from the BBC Radio 4 quiz I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Stories of the Subway is inspired by Jago Hazard's YouTube video series Tales from the Tube.

The chess moves are from the middle of the 18 December 1963 chess game between Robert Burn, playing as White, and Bobby Fischer, playing as Black, in the third round of the United States Chess Championship, held at New York, which Fischer won after just 21 moves.