In this one hour Christmas special, the teams were Alan Brough, Ella Hooper and Frank Woodley, and Myf Warhurst, Carl Cox and Meshel Laurie. The questions were celebrating Christmas or based on events in 2008. Musical interludes were provided by Tripod. The games played were Know Your Product (on 2008), Counting the Bells (the bell ringers were Denise Scott, Adam Rozenbachs and Felicity Ward, and the bottle ringers were Dave O'Neil, Ryan Shelton and Cal Wilson), 2 Little Words (Carl and Ella guessed the artiste's name), Look What They've Done... (the tunes were played by the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band), Mistletoss (each team tossed Christmas boxes at the faces of musicians, some who have been good and some have been bad in 2008. Santa Claus aka Wilbur Wilde adjudicated, and Heath Franklin and Hamish Blake tried to stop teams), Word Up, Substitute (the songs were sung by two choirs. They were Dave Graney, Jade MacRae, Ali McGregor, Clare Moore and Ross Wilson led by Sammy J, and Antoinette Halloran, Brian Mannix, David Hobson, Mia Dyson and Jonathon Welch led by Casey Bennetto), and The Final Countdown.
Tex Perkins, as Tex Perkins and His Ladyboyz, closed the show singing the
Wham! song 'Last Christmas', with help of the rest of the cast.
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