Funny / Game Changer

"This is a weird show."

A game show where all the contestants are comedians is bound to be funny.

Season 1

Lie Detector

• The Lie Detector episode of Game Changer is bloody hilarious. Each contestant answers horrifically embarassing questions that are checked by a lie detector controlled by their significant others.
  Brennan: There is no corner of my heart I would not turn over to the world for five points.
  • When Brennan tries to worm his way out of a question with rules lawyering and Sam calls him out on it:
    Brennan: YOU ARE NOT GOD, THE MACHINE IS!
  • When Jess admits that she has had multiple threeways, Izzy and Alexis (Brennan and Tao's girlfriends) gives Kait, Jess' fiancé, the side-eye.
  • Once the secret is revealed:
    Brennan: I trust my partner implicitly!
    Izzy: And you shouldn't!

Whodunnit

• When the lights go out and come back on to reveal Josh's 'corpse', Sam dramatically declares that there has been a murder.
  Grant: No kidding.
  Rekha: Yeah, no shit.
• Grant and Rekha wonder who would go to the trouble of murdering Josh, since "he's trash." Cut to Josh literally corpsing and not quite managing to hold back a chuckle.
• The running gag of the script supervisor pretentiously emphasizing the second half of the word 'script'.
• Nearly all of the suspects are played by crew members, but since they're not actors, they all carry their scripts and have to check them.
• One of the clues they find is an intense conversation between the production designer and the producer, where she says she could kill him for this. Rekha and Grant's takeaway is that they have 'mad chemistry' and need to hook up.
• Grant's monologue at the end:
  Grant: I was asked to play a dead body, and I was supposed to lay on the floor for twenty minutes, when I could have been standing, doing meta jokes the whole time! No! I went to Tisch! The fucking School of the Arts! [...] I! Was born to play the villain! I am the love child between The Grinch and Jared Kushner. I am the greatest actor Hollywood, California has ever seen. All right. You want to see me play a dead body? (to Rekha) And you? (to the camera) And you?! You'll get it. I had my monologue. I'm ready. "There are no small parts...! Only! SMALL ACTORS!!!" (stabs himself in the heart repeatedly with the prop knife) ...Well, I got the retractable one.
  • Doubles as Hypocritical Humor once you realize that Grant quoting Stanislavski at the end is completely at odds with him commiting murder because he didn't want to play the small part of the corpse.

Season 2

A Sponsored Episode

• This episode involves Trapp, Rekha, and Grant trying to sell Sam some weird product or service. A Running Gag of the episode is all of them, starting with Trapp, begin the pitch by asking Sam where he's from (Cambridge, Massachusetts, if you're wondering).
• Trapp does a bang-up job of selling a keyboard made up of only P's, when Rekha asks a followup question:
  Rekha: If I wanted to write a simple e-mail on this keyboard...what would that look like?
  Trapp: P-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p... (everyone cracks up)
• Trapp also sells the gang on lemon parmesan, which has an entire plate of lemon halves covered in melted parmesan cheese. After presenting it as a time saving measure in making Italian food, Sam asks Grant if he has any follow-up questions.
  Grant: Would you take a bite?
  Trapp: Grant, this is a fabulous product. Of course I will take a bite of this. (takes GIGANTIC bite. Everyone dances, screams, and cringes in horror) Now that... that's good eatin'.
  Sam: (cringing) Rehka, you have a follow-up question if you want it...
  Rehka: (huge grin) Would you take another bite?
• Rekha gets a paintbrush made with pubic hair. After the pitch, Grant asks where the pubes are from.
  Rekha: Home grown, baby.
  [Everyone bursts out laughing]
  Rekha: Can tell by the colour. [winks]
• Grant gets strawberry flavoured toilet paper, and launches into a pitch involving detailed descriptions of giving analingus. As the pitch goes on, Sam gets out from behind his podium, sits down on the ground, and plugs his ears.
  • At the end of the pitch, Sam admits that he had his ears closed for much of it, but gives Grant three points on the grounds that he's never seen the crew laugh so much.

Yes or No?

• Sam only asks the contestants the titular question over and over. Episode winners are determined by whoever can identify the secret rule governing how correct answers are determined. Once Brennan finally figures it out after the other two have already "won", he unleashes a truly astounding monologue:
  Brennan: I know what’s going on here. I know what’s going on here. Okay? I do. And if you want me to wander backstage to spill the beans...I’m the only one out of the loop, it would seem... and if we check my point total here— I don’t NEED to walk to the front, because I know what it is. It’s a big ol’ GOOSE EGG, GANG. It’s a FAT ZERO. HELLO!! A little LATE ADDITION to the numerical symbol chart brought to us from our friends in Arabia, a little bit of trivia that I happen to know about the history of numbers. That kind of little tidbit would serve me well in most trivia games, unless it had been RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING!
  Zac: (in a non-chalant calm down pose) Whoa dude.
  Brennan:Oh, I’ve only just BEGUN to pull the thread on this sweater, friends. You would THINK in a game where there are only TWO possible correct choices, that one would STUMBLE INTO the right answer every so often, wouldn’t you? In fact, the probability of NEVER guessing right in the full game is a STATISTICAL WONDER, and yet, HERE WE ARE. Introduced at the top of the game as a champion, what do you think that means? Icarus, flying too close to the sun. But it seems Daedalus, our little master crafter over here, had some wax wings of his own, didn’t he? Wanted to see his son fall. Fall from the sky. Oh, how CLOSE TO THE SUN he flew! Well I’m NOT HAVING IT. I solved your labyrinth, puzzle master! The minotaur‘s escaped and you’re gonna get the horns, buddy!
  Ally: (actually impressed) Okay, did we think we were in on it, but actually Brennan was the only one in on it and that was rehearsed?
  Sam: (laughing) Brennan, that was an incredible monologue. What is the rule of the game?
  Zac: Can we all say it-?
  Brennan: I! CANNOT! WIN!

Season 3

The Substitute (Make Some Noise part 3)

• One of Game Changer's quarantine episodes is another installment in the "Make Some Noise" sound impressions game. Brennan's final prompt is "Predictive Text Brennan", which he absolutely nails, to everyone's delight.
  Brennan: Hey gang! Absolutely to a hundred percent happy to be here. Number one thing is that everyone to take care of yourself. Predictably, you might find another time, and the philosophy camp counselor this time around we go back, and I'm telling you right now I won't stand for it! Gang, you gotta be drinking water.

Season 4

Sam Says

• All three players are given the prompt "Say Something We'll Have to Bleep". After stumbling (they just say various cuss words, which the show is not legally required to censor), all three get a second chance to redeem themselves.
  • Brennan starts singing "Hey Jude". A crawl scrolls across the bottom of the screen explaining that their legal team told them to bleep it out.
  • Izzy says "Something we'll have to bleep."
    Sam: *whispering* Holy shit.
    Izzy: Bitch.
  • Lou looks into the camera and says the following:
    Lou: Uh, I am paid by CollegeHumor, and I'd just like to come out as, like, someone who's paid by the company and say that (censored, but his lips clearly say O. J. Simpson) is innocent. And that is the expressed opinion of formerly CollegeHumor, now Dropout, the show Game Changer. (censored) is innocent-
    Izzy: Didn't do it!
    (cut to Sam pressing his face up against the wall in shock)
    Lou: -whoever killed those people is still out there. This is the opinion of the company that puts this show on and produces it.
    Izzy: We know that for a fact.
    Lou: It's in company emails that I will happily pull up on my phone.
    Sam: ...My excitement has flipped to fear, for this episode.
• After issuing the command "Don't flinch" twice, following that up first by a scream, then by an air horn, Izzy asks to take it to get revenge, which Sam accepts. Izzy uses it almost immediately.
  • Then, later in the episode, Sam asks everyone to write down their predictions for the episode. As Sam goes to collect everyones, Brennan hands his over... and blasts the air horn in his other hand. Which at the end of the episode turns out to have been his prediction.
• When given the command, Sam says "upset a producer", Lou just has gives the biggest Grinch-style grin as he looks around the set, prompting Sam to append a Sam says "Please don't break any of the expensive equipment!". So Lou just starts unscrewing the lightbulbs on the guest entrance to the set, and tosses a clipboard from some unfortunate PA offstage.
  • Brennan's answer to "Upset a Producer" is to calmly walk out from behind his podium and start coughing violently.
  • Izzy's response to the same question is to borrow Brennan's phone and send a message to Dropout producer David Kerns, telling him that she recorded a video of Brennan saying that he hates his fans and loves making them angry because it makes him more money, and uploaded it along with a photo of his dick.
• Izzy is asked to come up with a visual effect. Her automatic answer is 'buttholes'. When he's asked, Brennan also says buttholes, but different buttholes. Lou, on the other hand, asks for an Ocean's Eleven style screen division... that fills up with depictions of buttholes from an anatomical text.

Like My Coffee

• "I like my lovers like I like my yard work."
  Grant: Green.
  Sam: Meaning?
  Grant: Inexperienced and virginal, Sam.
• Grant throughout the episode takes a quantity over quality approach to the prompts, much to Sam's disgust and frequent confusion. It backfires on him when Sam brings in Grant's favorite porn star to assist with the "Dog Toy or Sex Toy" minigame.

Noise Boys (Make Some Noise part 4)

• Brennan is given the prompt "An Auctioneer Having An Existential Crisis", resulting in another monologue, which host Sam Reich compares to "a one-man show in a black box theater in New York City".
  Brennan: From Farmer Dan Patrick's lot, this bull would normally fetch $5000 on open market! Can I get 1500, 1500- (incomprehensible auctioneer patter) -not happy in my marriage, not happy in my marriage- (incomprehensible auctioneer patter) -where's my dad, dad come home, come home dad- (incomprehensible auctioneer patter) -front of the whole school, front of the whole class, everyone laughed at me- (incomprehensible auctioneer patter) -3500! 3500, going once... (voice cracks) going once... if I say... if I say "sold"... then we all go home... but if I never say sold, I stay in your mind's eye, and I don't disappear... (whispering desperately) ...going...going... (prolonged pause as Brennan chokes in despair)... sold.''
• Josh is given the prompt "The World's Largest Businessman". He proceeds to do a hilarious impression of a giant businessman (complete with mannerisms of actual people with acromegaly, like André the Giant).
  Giant Josh: Let me just open up my beefcase...^note "Briefcase" but his giant speech mannerism distorted the word.

Secret Samta 3

• For his guest intro, Sam warns people that they wouldn't want to touch Raphael Chestang's lucky charm, and he walks out holding up...his vibrator necklace from Game of Prizes.
• Throughout the episode, Raph's punishments include dressing up in a Sia costume (as seen above) and getting doused in coloured powder. Despite this, he wins quite a few good awards, and at one point looks into the camera wearing the costume and powder and goes "This is what winning looks like!"
  • Sam remarks that the picture of him in a Santa costume standing next to Raph in a Sia costume out of context will look like a fever dream, which brings him no end of joy.
  • Raph opens box number one, and everyone immediately gets sidetracked by how nice the boxes are. Sam tells them that the boxes are not a prize, but the players want to know if they can have the boxes after the show.
  • Part of the game involves lying about what's on the cards, either to try to keep a good prize or lose a punishment. However, Tao is such an awful liar that Raph and Carolyn don't even humour the idea that he could be telling the truth.

Don't Cry

• "Don't Cry" is mostly just heartwarming moments as the cast comes out to support Jess Ross after a difficult year. Sam still insists on docking points from her after every "challenge" for crying.
• Trapp ends his letter to Jess by complaining that he couldn't say this at her wedding and had to say it on a game show behind a paywall.
  • Lily ends her letter by saying she's not good at explaining her feelings, so she's just going to Venmo Jess $200.
• Rehka is declared the "winner" of the episode because she cried the least and openly admits she should probably do some introspection about that.
• At one point, Sam is about to announce the next challenge when Rekha interrupts him with 'Someone's gonna fuck us until we cry!' Everyone is else is taken off guard, to say the least.

Race To The Bottom

• This particular Game Samer gets out of hand quickly when Sam brings in his dog, Finnegan, and asks the players how much it will cost him to let the dog lick their mouths. Grant and Lily are entirely too eager out of Cuteness Proximity, leaving it up to Ally to attempt to force them to get their act together.
  Ally: Pretend you don't want to kiss the dog; know inside you want to kiss the dog. Say $200.
  Lily: Ok, ok. $200.
  Grant: I'll do it for $10.
  • Grant ends up ''paying Sam $10'', and Finn won't even lick Grant because he's just taken a huge bite of onion in the previous bid. Lily does manage to get a free smooch from the adorable puppy though.
• The players attempt to unionize properly after the previous pathetic display, much like at the end of the previous instalment of this game, but this time Sam is prepared: he's got a scab to drive down prices.
  Lily: Who would be disgusting; a filthy rat enough-
  Katie Marovitch walks on stage.
  • Lily ponders how one deals with scabs, and comes up with two solutions: make them join the union, or threaten their families. She ends up telling the others that they need to beat Katie up (obviously, they don't actually do it).
  • Katie ends up with only $130 out of the available $10,000, despite having to: tweet her own name in quotes, get a temporary tattoo sleeve and post an Instagram photo of her at a maskless rave with the caption "Miami!". Scabbing fails to pay off for Katie and she joins the union.
• The climax of the episode; Sam gives Grant the rest of the safe's contents ($1,665) to have the entire crew slap him in the face.

Survivor (Parts 1 and 2)

• Sam puts the contestants in teams, and by sheer coincidence, Ally, Grant and Brennan end up on the same team, and Erika, Raph and Lou end up on the other, leading to a great deal of jokes.
  Grant: Alright guys, let's do this for white people!
  • The white team declare themselves Team Friendship? (after denying Grant the chance to suggest anything). The other team?
  Lou: Martin Luther King's Dream.
  Erika: Wouldn't it be awful if we were to lose?
  • The first challenge is to make the other team laugh with funny sounds without laughing themselves. Most of the cast loses very quickly, leading to a back and forth between the remaining two contestants, Lou and Brennan. The winning sound?
  Lou: [wheedling voice] Please let me win.
  • Brennan refers to his teammates in the Confession Cam as "a bunch of dumb crackers".
• The ending of Part 1 is both hilarious and awesome. It looks like Ally has convinced Grant to vote off Brennan in survivor like fashion of getting rid of the biggest competition. Only for Brennan to reveal he has immunity in the most Brennan way possible.
  Brennan: Do you think I fuck around?

Season 5

Name A Number

• Becca tries to open pistachios by stomping on them. It doesn't work.
• Izzy wins $200 off Sam. Erika reacts by saying that they'll go to a strip club, Becca twerks in front of Izzy's podium and Izzy does her best to make it rain dollars (and spends much of the rest of the episode fanning herself with the money.)
• Becca's final challenge is to evade a professional tag player. At one point she shoves a chair into his path, and Erika runs interference by body-blocking him.
• The final score is a three-way tie. Naturally, the contestants all chant 'Three-way!' repeatedly.

As A Cucumber

• The whole point of the game is to remain as calm as possible no matter what Sam throws at them. Brennan, in contrast to past episodes, becomes so chilled out that he basically achieves Nirvana.
  • Except when presented with a segment about bird facts where the answers to Brennan's questions are ridiculously detailed and specific while the other contestants' are incredibly easy (i.e. the correct answer for Brennan is "Siamese Fireback"^note Though he does correctly identify it as a kind of Pheasant while the other contestant's is "pigeon".)
  • Despite getting it the easiest of the three, being presented with a chicken "twice", Katie somehow manages to almost screw up both times.

The Bachelor

• During the dance speed date, every time the camera cuts over to Sam and Bradley, Sam can be seen dancing along even though he's not even involved in it.
• After the last speed-dating event, Grant's confession cam has him saying that the last two suitors were perfect for each other, and he kind of wanted to just go for a threesome.
• The episode ends in the most Grant way possible: he picks them both to go on the vacation with him.

Escape the Greenroom

• Sam meets with Brennan, Lou, and Siobhan in what is ostensibly a pre-game briefing, then steps out... and locks the door. Turns out the greenroom has been converted into an escape room, and things dissolve into chaos immediately, while Sam watches and heckles from the studio via a screen on the wall. Lou smashes a guitar against the wall within the first 10 seconds — and there's a clue inside. It only escalates from there.
• One of the clues is hidden in a smoke alarm that was only recently installed in the Game Changer green room.
  Lou: Oh, classic Sam Reich! Hey, if they burn to death, I'll just get some new ones!
• One of the clues that were hardest to find was supposedly in one of the coats that both Lou and Siobhan have gone through repeatedly, only for Brennan to find them on his first try. Lou actually throws one of the non-breakaway vases in the greenroom in frustration.
• The team need to drive a remote-controlled car in the parking lot from inside the room, but things go wrong when it topples over. This results in some very futile bargaining attempts with the cameraperson in the parking lot, begging her to right the vehicle. She declines to help, so once they've passed that part of the puzzle, Lou sticks his head out the window and yells "You are no help! No help at all! And you will be remembered!" His voice even echoes on the last part, like he's laying a curse on her.
• The group unlock the bathroom, only to discover Sam tied up, captured by his "evil great-grandfather". Naturally, they are far from concerned about getting him out of there and consider simply going to brunch.
• Once they've found the keys and are about to unlock the door, Brennan tells Sam that if he opens the door and finds more puzzles on the other side, Sam's taking a short flight down the stairs.
• Once they're finally trying to defuse the bomb, Lou explains the reference to the card trick like so:
  Lou: All the way back at the beginning of the game, before it all started, we all pulled a card and we thought it was a fun magic trick, but actually, it was the first domino in a series of events that would lead us to fight each other, you, for me to cite Nuremberg and trying to make a camera-person feel bad.
• Sam reveals the prize to the contestants: tickets to another escape room. Lou, Siobhan, and Brennan look genuinely about ready to murder him then and there.
• As the credits play, Sam dances around gleefully and poses while the contestants just stare into space with grim exhaustion. They then all start pouring water bottles on him as revenge.

Season 6

Second Place

• The players are asked which of them can make the loudest sound on a gong. Oscar Montoya sets the tone by giving a respectable swing that shocks him by how loud it was.
  • On Brennan's turn to take a swing at the gong, he eagerly and immediately asks for a broom handle and tape to make a longer lever with the hammer to make the loudest possible bang, only for Sam to completely undercut him when he eventually gives the points to Oscar.
  • When it's Ally's turn, they just answer 'Brennan', pointing out that nobody said that the way to get points was to physically make the sound rather than just answering the question. Even Brennan briefly considers if he had misunderstood the game by playing it straight, Sam loves it, but tells them that they actually do have to hit the gong, so Ally just hedges their bets by ringing the gong as lightly as possible.
• When the players realise that the goal is to get second place, Brennan glares at Sam like he's trying to kill him with his mind.
  Sam: (on Brennan seething) Brennan is digesting this badly!
  Brennan: I don't know what I did, but at some point, Sam looked at me and went, "This guy, I need to rattle his belief in doing your best." But I'm gonna tell you right now, if the goal of the game is to be middle, I'm gonna lose so fucking hard, it's gonna blow your fucking mind. Goose egg number two, Yes or No ain't got shit on me, baby, Here we go!
• The next challenge is a game of Keepie-Uppie with balloons, and Brennan, who is still aiming for number one despite it not earning him any points for coming in first, immediately sabotages his fellow players only for his balloon to be the first to fall. He is not happy to get this particular first place.
  Brennan: I'm so angry.
• For the first half of the game, Brennan protests the premise by still giving it his all even if it means he's not getting points, but he's clearly furious.
  Brennan: (straight to camera) Here's the deal. If you think the Roseate Spoonbill got to me, don't give a fuck about birds. What I do give a fuck about is trying your best everytime. And so long as I am on this stage, and drawing breath, you can good and goddamn believe that I'll be trying my best in every challenge.
  Sam: Wow!
  Brennan: I can set my own standard for what success looks like and it ALWAYS looks like trying your best. Kids? STAY IN SCHOOL!
• In one of the challenges, Oscar wins a second-edition 1968 three-volume box set of "The Lord of the Rings," leading to this epic trolling of Nerd King Brennan Lee Mulligan:
  Oscar: I have never read or seen Lord of the Rings and I'm going to start today.
  Sam: This is an opportunity to expand your nerd-dom.
  Oscar: I'm so excited.
  Sam: I'm so happy for you.
  Oscar: I'm legit excited. (turning to face Brennan directly) I'm not a fan and I've never read the books.
  Brennan: Oscar...
  Oscar: Gandalf? What's that?
  Ally: (howling with laughter)
  • Which comes back later during the Selfie round, as Brennan's is an Extreme Closeup of his eyeball, leading Sam to question whether it actually qualifies as a "selfie".
    Sam: That might be Sauron.
    Oscar: I don't know what that is.
• During the team task of dancing the second best, when it comes time for Oscar and Brennan to do their mid-dance, Brennan apologizes to Oscar then grabs his legs to hold him in place while screaming "DANCE IS A SIN!" to ensure this would be the worst dance, and the dance he did with Ally would be the middle. Oscar, for his part, does his best to keep dancing even while Brennan screams.
• The end of the episode: Ally and Oscar are tied, so Brennan is in second, which makes him the winner. Brennan looks furious, and then goes into a monologue (the fourth he's given in this episode alone) about how there's absolutely nothing wrong with second place as long as you gave it your best effort while Ally, Sam and Oscar dance behind him. Brennan then tackles Sam, and Ally and Oscar join in.
• In the Behind the Scenes video for this episode, one of the deleted scenes has Sam assure Brennan that this game was not specifically created to troll him, Brennan's response shows he's clearly not convinced.

The Newlyweb Game

• Ify is shown a page from his girlfriend Emily's Notes app listing the months of the year with double digit numbers written next to them.
  Sam: Ify, what on Earth do these numbers refer to?
  Ify: That is the amount of times we've had sex each month.
  (Emily nods smugly)
  Alexis: Are you... kidding?
  (Sam looks at the list in utter disbelief)
  Ify: It was something we started when we started dating. (laughs)
  Alexis: More than once a day?
  Sam: 33 is more times than there are days in January! (points to April 2023) 37?!
  Ify: Well, that's when the Writer's Strike happened.
  • Sam is baffled that they're both having that much sex with each other while also being in an open relationship.
• For most of the game, the scores have been pretty much tied, a testament to how well the couples know each other. Then Sam introduces the final challenge... remembering each other's phone numbers. Only Alexis and Tao are able to remember the other's numbers, netting them two points and the win.

Sam Says 3

• One of the rules Sam introduces is that every time one of them swear, they have to put a point in the swear jar. After Jacob responds to a prompt by inflating his belly and telling the audience that they may cum, the contestants realize that "cum" did not lose him a point. For the rest of the game, they use "Cum" as a stand in for "Fuck."
  Vic: You son of a cum, there's no way.
• Lou responds to the prompt 'Turn On A Fetishist' by doing a little strip show for one of his feet (with music provided by Jacob), only to be horrified when Sam tells him that he never said 'Sam says' first.
  Lou: I showed them my feet, Sam! I showed them my feet for nothing! CUM!
  • Vic's contribution is to step on things they took from the craft table. Sam admits that he is not familiar with that fetish, to which Vic cheerily says that they know about it from their DMs.
• Sam uses the prompt 'Don't Look' twice. The first time, it's regarding an adorable pig in a little hat. The second time, it's regarding... a photo of Sam's father, former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, playing the flute in the nude. Everyone is utterly perplexed as to why Sam would even have that.
  • In the Behind the Scenes episode, Sam also confesses that his family had that picture on the wall of the guest room of their home.
• The prompt "Don't Flinch" returns, this time in the form of a mannequin (made to look like Sam) falling from the studio ceiling into the Game Changer set.
• One of the prompts is 'Rescue Me From The Paparazzi', complete with three photographers who get right up in Sam's personal space. Vic manages to throw one of them away from Sam, and Lou responds by pulling up his shirt so they get photos of his exposed chest and claiming that they can't print the photos because they're explicit.
• Three words: Sam says "Party!" After an episode full of torturous prompts, Vic, Jacob, and Lou are lead out into the Dropout parking lot, where there is a full party bus with many of their friends aboard. Drinks, laughs and good times are had, but none of the contestants bothered to read the sign inside the bus...
  Notice
  Stand at your own risk!
  Party bus is not responsible for any accidents or injuries.
  Remember: Sam says...
  Don't curse
  Call everyone "daddy"
  Keep your new "look"
  Freeze if you hear "freeze"
  • Between all three contestants, a whopping total of 41 points was lost on the bus.
  Lou:This is the rudest thing you've ever done to me!
• One of the prompts is to do a memory exercise- every time Sam tells them to do something, the players have to do the prompt before it first. Sam then asks them to dedicate the episode to someone, but didn't tell them that the memory exercise was over. Lou is the only one who caught on, leading him to wholeheartedly dedicate the episode to Vic and Jacob while Vic and Jacob realised they'd screwed up and were furious.

Pencils Down

• One of the challenges is to draw a new Pokemon on a trading card. Nathan's contribution is Sam as a Pokemon, and his attack is confusing people.
• Another challenge is drawing a mascot on a fictional cereal box. Nathan gets 'Puff Puff Pass', Kiana gets 'Granola But Sexy', and Caldwell gets 'Fuck The Roof Of Your Mouth'.
• During the 'Deface The Set' prompt, Caldwell draws a big shirt with 'I KILLED GOD' on it, except he accidentally spells it 'I KILED GOD' and doesn't notice until Sam points it out, and tries desperately to correct it.

Bingo

• The premise itself: at first it seems to be standard bingo, except the players have to perform challenges in order to win bingo balls. Then it turns out that the challenges are being written by a second group of players who are trying to get the first group to do specific things to fill out their bingo cards. And then we learn that a third group are watching the second group, directing the P.A. to get them to do specific things to fill out their bingo cards.
• Sam finally found a challenge that Brennan almost didn't do, which was to go on Instagram Live and defend Elon Musk. He had to visibly wind himself up to do it, and he released a perfectly calm and utterly savage takedown of Elon. When Sam pointed out that he was supposed to defend him, Brennan said that Elon should make sure to get enough sleep or he'll develop unhealthy cortisol levels. Sam accepted that.
• When the episode's true twist was revealed, much of the cast was amused. Lily went feral with glee, but Brennan practically went into shock.
  Sam: Brennan are you okay?
  Trapp: Say you're "sweating a river" 'cause then I can stamp that in my- (rest of the cast breaks)
  Brennan: I said it on mic just before cameras were rolling.
• The behind the scenes special revealed one of the filmed prompts that was edited out. Katie got the prompt "Get Violent With Sam." Brennan immediately darted out of her way, and Katie grabbed her bingo board and started whacking him with it for real. Sam even admitted that he was glad that she used the board instead of something more solid because it would have genuinely hurt him. While walking back to her podium, Katie says in a perfectly serious and deadpan tone that she's going to kill Sam after the shoot.
• Sam also revealed that Brennan was an emergency sub after Grant tested positive for COVID, meaning that the crew knew Brennan well enough to make his Bingo board in less than an hour, and Trapp WON with it.

Deja Vu

• Every time the players have to bribe Sam, Siobhan starts coming up with pretend excuses for it, like wanting a really good table at a restaurant, or not looking at the dolls she's importing from Colombia.
• Siobhan also manages to bribe Brian into giving her podium a pass, and Trapp bribes 'Grant' into leaving his alone.
• After several rewinds, Siobhan tells Sam to look over there so she can sneak some boxes in.
• Siobhan and Ify conspire to get ducks and not give any to Trapp, who's right in earshot and looks a bit annoyed and confused.
• The Wenis; the silly dance that Sam makes everyone do before the loop resets. More and more of the crew join in each time it's performed.
• Zac's incredibly unflattering impression of Grant, who had to be replaced in this episode due to catching COVID.
• The contestants attempt to turn things around on Brian's random podium inspection by pulling a random ponytail inspection. It doesn't work.

Beat the Buzzer

• One puzzle required the players to gather items for a witch's brew. The witch, played by Persephone Valentine, is clearly having a blast.
  • Rehka tries to fulfill her request for "thread from a librarian's sweater" by pulling a thread off her own sweater. The witch just flatly tells her that she doesn't count because she doesn't have a library sciences degree.
• One buzzer is hidden behind two college students hooking up. They don't stop hooking up at any point.