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If You Like Pained Grimaces, You'll Love Helen Hunt's Hollywood Game Night Début!
Think she looks barely tolerant in this posed photograph? Well, Helen Hunt's response to potential fun is, apparently, indistinguishable from her response to a waking colonoscopy.
Vainest Celebrity
Let's give this one, easily, to Kevin Smith...
...who arrives wearing a football jersey bearing an image of his own face. And guys, before we damn Smith for still going around exclusively in football jerseys and jorts, can we remember that having a signature look works perfectly well for DIANE KEATON??? And she has an Oscar! Just kidding, he's embarrassing.
Least Vain Celebrity
That would be the episode's lone first-timer, Helen Hunt, who keeps getting caught on camera...scowling? Like she hasn't been a famous person since she was a child and has no awareness of how to project congeniality, even if it's fake?
Also, can anyone explain this gravely serious reaction to a mention of her Oscar?
Is it possible she knows that win was a complete travesty and now has the grace to seem ashamed of it? Whatever -- hey, Hunt: Tom Haverford said it best.
MAKE YOUR FACE BETTER, GURL.
Most Painful Game
Also the episode's only new game: Odd-o-Tune.
Unpleasant to listen to; impossible to decipher.
Most Random Intro Banter
What producer couldn't get any kind of cute story out of Dave Foley other than a reference to a movie from 2001, and is said producer now fired?
Most Passive-Aggressive Exchange
For the record, I looked it up: apparently, Jane Lynch is right.
Most Endearing Break
Who among us could have gotten through that one?
Most Astonishing Comeback
Going into Where Ya Goin'?, the final game of regulation play, Team Cameron has 19 to Team Mikita's 29. Spoiler alert: that does not last.
Most Squandered Comeback
Admittedly, this was a Celebrity Name Game full of some random-ass names; "Dr. Oz" is kind of a hard one to clue if you can't say "doctor," and even a world-class Celebrity player like me (it's not a brag if it's true) might freeze up at a name like Maya Rudolph -- not that she's not extremely talented and delightful, but she's kind of a B-list star whose most recognizable credit (SNL) is now years behind her! Nevertheless, Alyson Hannigan and Justin Long could certainly have made a more cohesive team. Frankly, I blame her. Tough luck, Cameron.