The Graham Norton Effect - List of Games and Events

List of Games and Events

The Graham Norton Effect, like all of Norton's shows, featured games and side attractions that often involved his guests. These side attractions usually relied on audience member participation. The guests would then take part in the event by guessing or choosing something based about the usually inane parameters Norton had defined about the game. For example, when playing "Guess the Partner", the guests would attempt to guess which two audience member participants were lovers based on physical features alone.

On occasion, Norton would even go so far as to secretly produce a pre-selected audience member’s parents or lover to witness or take part in an embarrassing event without the audience member’s knowledge.

• Episode 1: "Guess the Partner": Guests attempt to match lovers with their partners. "Barfly": Sandra Bernhard provides a remote voice for a life-size mannequin sitting at a neighborhood bar, to the confusion of other patrons.
• Episode 2: "Ass Makeover": Audience members make over their male partner's buttocks to resemble celebrities, such as Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton.
• Episode 3: Audience members model regrettable swimwear.
• Episode 4: "Find The Lady": Guests attempt to identify which silhouette of four audience members is a woman from a group including three men in drag; the least feminine is sent to the streets to proposition men using pickup lines fed by RuPaul. "Date Jesus": Norton sets up an audience member on a date with a Jesus impersonator. "Lovers Line-up": Guests and audience members guess when participants last had sex by shouting “higher” or “lower”.
• Episode 5: Sharon Stone is sung to by a fan over the phone. Audience members are called on to tell suggestive pick-up lines to the episode's guests.
• Episode 6: Guests attempt to guess if a man is gay by the way he dances. "In the Dugout": Audience members and guests try to guess what base participants reached with other participants. "Candle-schticks": Audience members volunteer to make multi-colored candles molded from their male anatomy, which are placed on a cake and wheeled out by Joan Rivers. Graham interviews candle owners by name, asking "My god, what happened here?"
• Episode 7: Audience members attempt to guess which disguised participant is their lover by how they perform with a sex doll. Jade Esteban Estrada gets spanked by a dominatrix.
• Episode 8: A sexual euphemism contest takes place.
• Episode 9: Audience members reveal lies they have told to their parents. Carson Kressley talks about the man he'd most like to make over on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
• Episode 10: Graham holds a parody of the Summer Olympic Games in the streets. Graham gets an audience member to dress as an Adult Baby and puts his photo on the fetish site DailyDiapers.com.
• Episode 11: A George W. Bush impersonator is on the show. Audience members are asked to campaign for something close to them with mostly insipid results.
• Episode 12: Chris Rock gives Marilyn Manson marriage advice.
• Episode 13: Graham, perhaps in a mockery of Oprah Winfrey, makes audience members' dreams “come true” with less than perfect results.