(upbeat music)
- Get ready for a Game Changer!
I am your host, Sam Reich,
and since last cutting room floor episode,
I've been here.
The whole time.
The background has evolved, however,
we got here the Box of Doom,
Um, Actually board game,
Make Some Noise trophy, play button for Game Changer Shorts,
couple of stuffed animals.
You ravenous little mice can't seem to get enough
of the moldy cheese in the back of the fridge,
so, here we go again.
A very special cut for time episode
of Game Changer season five.
Let's begin at the ending, with Battle Royale.
Now in the finale, I gifted each player
a video from their "families,"
with actors I hired to play their families,
but I didn't know which players were making it to the end,
which means there were four videos I didn't get to use.
Here's one of them, and the rest will be scattered
throughout the episode.
(TV technical error sound)
- Hello, Ify.
Grandpa here.
I'm so proud of you for making it this far.
You are a superstar.
I have always encouraged you to aim high,
and strive for excellence.
You have excelled in academics and athletic competitions.
In school, you didn't always win your cross country races,
but you always tried your best.
I recall a high school track and field race,
where you were trailing the leader until the final curve
before the finish line.
Something clicked in you, and you had a burst of energy
and fresh legs.
You took off, you caught and passed the leader,
and won the race.
Ify, you are a winner.
And when the going gets tough, you get tougher.
Turn on your superstar light,
and let it shine.
We love you, and can't wait to have our superstar back home.
- At the end of The Bachelor, when Grant takes me backstage
to be his final counsel,
we cut the conversation between the two of us,
because we wanted the ending to be a shocking twist.
But we really did decide that in the moment,
and so here that moment is.
You know, some of my favorite Game Changer moments
are people coloring way outside the lines,
and here in the best possible way,
Grant is crayoning all over the dining room table.
(TV technical error sound)
- Grant, the time has come
for you to select your match.
- Okay, can I say, it actually was very helpful
to have counsel, and now they're gone.
(confused and slightly panicky) Uh...
Sam, will you be my counsel?
- It's putting me in an awkward position, Grant,
I am the host of this show.
- Come on, no one takes that seriously. (Sam laughing)
- I am also your friend.
- That's right!
- Do you seriously want me to
counsel you? - Yeah, 'cause I don't know what to do.
- Okay.
All righty.
If I was in your position,
I would have a very tough decision to make,
those are two hot,
eligible, funny men out there.
- Well, and, they get along.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You can tell me no, and I get it,
and it's already terribly generous when I come on the show.
- Sure.
- Is there potential that I take them both? - Oh my god. (laughing)
Is that something that's on the,
I mean it can be no.
I don't know anything about, I haven't looked into it,
is that on the table at all? To take two guys?
- Now, Grant, if you ask them both,
they have to both agree.
- God.
- And what if they don't? - Can you imagine?
Well honestly, that makes it easy.
It's sort of a prisoner's dilemma. (lightly chuckling)
- Okay, what is it, like a little bit more budget,
fine, I'm okay with it if you're okay with it,
but you have to pitch it to them.
- Hell yeah.
I mean, absolutely, yes.
Yeah.
- Let's see what happens.
This is our Bachelor, we get to decide the rules.
- Yeah, I'm the bachelor. (Sam laughing)
Okay.
(Sam clears his throat)
- One of my personal favorite episodes of the season,
Karaoke Night, came with some cut songs,
which we've already released in the form of a digital album
you can purchase on the Dropout store, but,
here they are, finally,
in film form, for your famusement.
Enjoy.
(TV technical error sound)
- This one's gonna be chaos. (8-bit Game Changer theme)
- Antenna Nation, by Daft Punk.
(Ross laughing)
(strong piano music)
Oh, yeah.
♪ Cut your cable, cut your cable ♪
♪ Get rid of cable ♪
♪ Cut your cable ♪
♪ Free yourself from the cord ♪ ♪ Cut your cable ♪
♪ Free yourself from the cord ♪
♪ Get rid of cable ♪
♪ All these streaming services are still just cable ♪
♪ Get yourself ♪
♪ They're all just cable ♪
♪ Streaming is cable ♪
♪ Spread your money all across the table ♪
♪ On the table, on the table, on the table ♪
♪ When you go to a drive-in movie ♪
♪ They just need the antenna ♪
♪ Antenna ♪ ♪ Antenna ♪
♪ They clip the radi- yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Pull it on out ♪
♪ Pull it out, just keep going ♪
♪ Pull it on out, pull it on out ♪
♪ Set your AM radio to the frequency, baby ♪
♪ Set, set, set, set, nananananananana ♪
- Wow, you two.
Wow.
(8-bit Game Changer theme) (Aaron laughing)
Pain in the Ass, by Blink-182.
(unsettling music)
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪
♪ Every single day, every single day ♪
♪ Something's in my craw ♪
♪ Is it my mom? Is it my pa? Is it both ♪
♪ Obviously ya ♪
♪ Get out of my face, I try to say no ♪
♪ To say no ♪ ♪ Always telling me where I ♪
♪ Should and shouldn't go ♪
♪ I was only in the coffee shop for 10 minutes ♪
♪ And I got a ticket ♪
♪ This is way too much, I can't afford it ♪
♪ What am I to do now ♪
♪ Everything from my work to the price of gas ♪
♪ Is a huge pain in my ass ♪
♪ It's a pain in my ass, it's a pain in my ass ♪
♪ When I am older, when I am bolder, ♪
♪ Will this pass ♪
♪ But for now it's a pain in my ass ♪
♪ Every day ♪
♪ Feeling their attack ♪
♪ Always telling Mom and Dad ♪
♪ To get off of my back ♪
♪ Take a hike, guys ♪
♪ Let me into my own ♪
♪ I am the king now ♪
♪ Sitting up on my throne ♪
(Sam laughing)
♪ I sat down on a bunch of bees ♪
♪ Just to see how it would feel ♪ (Zach laughing)
♪ To unlock something inside me to know if I'm real ♪
♪ But all those bully bees, they've got a lot of sass ♪
♪ 'Cause I've got a bunch of stingers ♪
♪ Right up my ass ♪
♪ It's a pain in my ass, it's a pain in my ass ♪
♪ There were so many bees just hanging out in the grass ♪
♪ It's a pain in my ass, it's a pain in my ass ♪
♪ Well I tried to swat them, but bees just move so fast ♪
♪ And when the bees sting ♪ ♪ Bees sting ♪
♪ They die ♪ ♪ They die ♪
♪ They leave their stingers inside your arm ♪
♪ They leave their stingers inside ♪
♪ And when the bees sting ♪
♪ And when the bees die ♪ ♪ They die ♪
♪ And so do I ♪
♪ So do I ♪ ♪ So do I ♪
♪ It's a pain in my ass, it's a pain in my ass ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ And it will not pass ♪
♪ It's a pain in my ass ♪
♪ It was a pain in my ass ♪
♪ When Gandalf said to the Balrog, "You shall not pass" ♪
♪ The Balrog was a pain in my ass ♪
(Sam laughing hysterically)
- That's how that song ends?
- Yes!
- That was cut from the Lord of the Rings.
- That was Blink-182's contribution to the LOTR soundtrack.
- Hi, Uncle Adam, I know you're working good over there,
I hope you can come home safely and we love you.
- We miss you, Adam, we're so proud of you.
I'm sure it's fun, but I know it's really,
you're working really hard.
Don't worry about us, we're having a great time here,
everything's just fine.
- And I hope you can come and play dolly.
- Definitely come play dollies.
Adam, brother, everyone here waiting,
we're so proud of you, man.
Keep up the good work, keep doing what you're doing.
Try to have some fun and, yeah, we're all doing great here,
but we miss ya.
- Love you.
- Just like with last Like my Coffee episode,
there were a lot of prompts that hit the cutting room floor,
not because they weren't any good,
but because the episode was already running long.
Now, as a bonus bonus,
when we originally conceived of this episode,
we had imagined we would pull a Lie Detector
and cut to Debbie O'Brien intermittently backstage
for reactions,
before she was first introduced.
We didn't end up doing that,
we wanted the surprise to be a surprise for the audience
as well as for Grant,
but some of the reactions were just pure gold.
With apologies to Grant, enjoy.
(TV technical error sound)
- I like my lovers like I like my IKEA furniture.
Jess. - Everyone likes to shit on it
but I think that it's perfectly fine.
- Aww. - Oh, that's kinda nice, Jess.
Kinda wholesome.
I'll give you that point. - I think IKEA's affordable.
- Grant.
- I like to shit on it.
- There you (laughing) go.
- Well now I'm conflicted,
because I gave Jess that point. - Sure.
It was a funny play on what Jess did.
- Then you only have one real option here.
- I'll give you the point, bringing you to eight.
Rekha.
- Cheap, but reliable.
- Ooh.
- Very good, Rekha.
I will give you two points.
Grant.
- To Wong Fu, thanks for everything,
and your pussy.
(Jess guffaws)
- Is your name Robin Hood? Because...
- Is your name Robin Hood?
Because you robbed from the rich, and gave to my pussy.
(Sam and Grant laughing)
- I'm not so sure about this one. - It happened!
- Hey, Jess, I think you got an STI. (players laughing)
- You filled my pussy with your dirty rich dick.
- Is your name because for four.
Is your name Rumpelstiltskin?
Rekha. - Is your name
Rumpelstiltskin?
Because this is like a weird little fairy tale.
(Jess and Sam laughing)
- I don't know, Rekha.
Listen, you're doing great.
- I don't remember what this man did.
- Grant.
- Is your name Rumpelstiltskin?
Because I like your rump, your skin, and your stilts.
(Jess laughing)
- I want you to explain to me the stilts part of this.
- There's a man. - Yes.
- And he's got stilts.
- (laughing) You're painting a picture for me.
- Here's the thing about tall people,
is they just lay there.
- Orgies are like an UberPool.
Grant.
- There's no lifeguard.
Like a pool.
- Like a pool, but that's not...
- So Sam, keep in mind if we kind of change the prompt.
- Sure. (Jess and Sam laughing)
That'd help.
- Jess.
- Orgies are like an UberPool.
No one's interested in small talk.
- Yes, that works for me, Jess.
Sure, I'll give you a point for that, by all means.
Let's do it like an online recipe.
Rekha.
- Let's do it like an online recipe.
If we need to, we'll do some substitutions.
- Oh!
Nice, I like that, Rekha.
What do you think? One point?
Two points? - I think you should give me
three points, but...
- We'll say one point for that, Rekha.
Jess.
- Let's do it like an online recipe.
Something's always missing.
- Aw.
- Oh, that's a sad one.
- Yeah.
Fuck me 'cause I'm sad.
- I'll give you a point, Jess, for sure.
Grant.
- There's gonna be an overreliance on Greek yogurt.
(Jess laughing)
- What in the holy fuck
are you talking about? - For the yeast infections.
- They're always sticking Greek yogurt into recipes nowaday.
Can I tell you, Sam,
I feel like I haven't been pervy enough with this,
so I'll be pervy about this one.
For you.
- Uh-oh.
- [Jess] This is what you wanted.
- (moaning softly) Oh, fuck.
- [Jess] Oh my goodness.
- Is your name R.L. Stine?
Jess.
- Is your name R.L. Stine?
Because your imagery will be ingrained in my mind forever.
- I mean, sure. (Jess laughing)
He is mine, one point for Jess. Grant.
- Is your name R.L. Stine?
Because you're from Bexley, Ohio,
a suburb of my hometown of Columbus.
- Whoa, too hot. (players laughing)
- Yeah, come on.
- This isn't trivia, Grant.
Let's do it like for one.
Let's do it like billionaires.
Grant.
- We'll "commit suicide" in jail afterwards.
- Oh my god.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - That is dark as hell, Grant.
- What, did you think I'd stop 'cause of her?
Is that what you thought? (Jess and Sam laughing)
You don't know me at all, Sam.
- In Escape the Greenroom,
folks have asked us incessantly
how I managed to disappear through the front door
and then arrive back in the locked bathroom.
Now we did a whole BTS on Escape the Greenroom,
and we didn't include this.
Because we forgot.
Truthfully, sometimes the most complicated answers
are staring you right in the face,
and just like a magic trick,
the answer is disappointing
once you know it.
But I'm an open book,
and so, disappointment risked,
here is the solution you've all been waiting for.
(TV technical error sound)
- Kick it, Brennan!
Tims! Tims, bitch! (Siobhan laughing)
- [Brennan] What's up, baby?
- Oh my god!
- [Brennan] Holy shit! All right, climb in, gang.
Here we go.
- [Lou] Are there cameras in here, too?
- [Siobhan] Yes, there are cameras in here.
Of course there are fucking cameras in here.
- [Lou] Oh, I fucking hate it, dude.
- [Siobhan] Thank god I wore pants, is all I can say.
Okay, there's a magnet here, and a thing to stand.
Some kind of pull? - [Brennan] Okay.
"Samuel Dalton, time traveler."
- [Narrator] Magician or madman?
Born in Cambridge, England,
Samuel Dalton apprenticed under various card cheats,
and has since established himself
as one of London's finest magicians.
But his latest act has us concerned.
Dalton claims he will use electromagnetism
to travel to the future.
Is this another hustle?
Or is it madness?
(lightly unsettling music)
- Hey, Anna!
It's your uncle and aunt from Michigan and all your cousins.
We just wanna say we're so excited for you,
you're gonna do great,
and we cannot wait to see you win it all!
Woo! - Woohoo! Go, Anna!
- Go, Anna!
Woo!
- Along with last season's musical episode,
we released a "Sam cam" which showed off my reactions
to the official cast recording.
Embarrassing though that was,
you all seemed to get a kick out of it,
and so, here we go again.
Here I am, basking in the cathartic bliss
that was "To-Do List" by The Supremes,
as well as dancing to the dancing portion of The Bachelor,
which I think we can all agree is just in here for the gifs.
I said gifs right that time. Don't come at me.
- 3520 it is.
(8-bit Game Changer theme)
To-Do List, by The Supremes.
- Hm.
(pop-soul music)
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Well my mama told me, do what you can ♪
♪ But before you start you know you got to make a plan ♪
♪ Gotta make a plan ♪ ♪ Make a plan ♪
♪ Make a plan, make a plan ♪
♪ Feel it in your soul ♪
♪ If you want to achieve your dreams ♪
♪ Then you gotta set a goal ♪
♪ I often make a list to understand the obstacles ♪
♪ That I've got set forth for today ♪
♪ Set forth for today ♪
♪ I gotta get an oil change and do some groceries ♪
♪ Pick up some dry cleaning and maybe watch the game ♪
♪ So make a to-do list ♪
♪ Make a to-do list ♪
♪ Put it up on your refrigerator and do it ♪
♪ Just make a to-do list ♪
♪ Make a to-do list ♪
♪ And check them all off ♪
♪ There is nothing to it ♪
♪ Start the day with a cold shower and a bit of meditation ♪
♪ Meditation ♪ ♪ Step out of your door ♪
♪ Ready to take on the whole nation ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Grab a cup of coffee, walk into work ♪
♪ Tell off the person who treats you like a jerk ♪
(Sam laughing)
♪ Write down the social interactions you will have ♪
♪ To make sure that you get them right ♪
♪ If you don't write down those stings and jabs ♪
♪ That you have in your head ♪
♪ What you could have said will keep you up at night ♪
♪ So make a to-do list ♪
♪ Make a to-do list ♪ ♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Make a to-do list, and cross it off ♪
♪ Just make a to-do list ♪
♪ Nothing feels so better ♪
♪ Than erasing all the things you did today ♪
♪ Check it off, check it off ♪
♪ Check it off, check it off, check it off ♪
♪ Check it off, check it off, all your things ♪
♪ Check it off, check it off, check it off♪
♪ Buy silly string ♪ ♪ Check it off, check it off ♪
♪ For a child's birthday party ♪
♪ You gotta make a to-do list ♪ ♪ Make a to-do list ♪
♪ Just make a to-do list ♪
♪ Make a to-do list ♪
♪ Doing it doesn't feel half so good as crossing it off ♪
- Wow, wow!
Bradley, if you could take us away.
(smooth, funky music)
Oh, hell yeah.
(smooth, funky music continues)
(smooth, funky music continues some more)
(smooth, funky music continues even more)
- In the BTS of Sam Says 2,
I mentioned that the way the ending played out in reality
was pretty different than how it played out onscreen.
Ultimately to create a 30 some-odd minute episode,
we wanted each player's choice to be clear.
Zac takes off down the street,
Jacob gets in his car, goes home,
Ally flies to New York City.
Now all of that did happen.
And more.
The truth is less so stiff competition,
and more the wholesome power of friendship.
Take a look.
(TV technical error sound)
- The scores at the end of our game.
Zac with one, Ally with 15, Jake with 18.
There is one more prompt left, and it's worth 30 points,
making the rest of this game completely irrelevant.
Players, Sam says go.
(feet stomping)
- Okay. (Ally laughing)
- Go.
- I don't know where to go.
I'm just going.
- You better skedaddle, Ally.
Your competition's already got a headstart.
(machine chirps) (traffic whooshes)
- Where are you gonna go?
Where are you going?
Get in!
"Go."
So esoteric.
- Where you headed?
- Hey, you're on speaker.
I want your advice.
You know, I'm doing that CollegeHumor thing today.
- [Jacob's dad] Right.
- The game ended up being Simon Says.
You know Simon Says, you get that, right?
- [Jacob's dad] Yeah.
- So the last prompt that we just got was "Go."
It was just "Go." G-O.
I have a cameraman in my car, - [Jacob's dad] Okay.
and it's one of those things where it's like
"Well what is the interpretation?"
And I was thinking like, maybe I just go home.
Just call it a day.
- [Jacob's dad] Hm.
- [Ally] You wanna take me to Burbank?
- [Zac] Sure, I'll take you. [Ally] All right, let's do it. (Laughing)
- [Jacob's dad] There's gotta be something, maybe a code.
G is, what, the eighth letter of the alphabet.
- Oh my god, that's too much, Dad, that's too much.
That's way too much.
Hold on, I'm getting a FaceTime call, gotta go.
- [Jacob's dad] Dammit, I wasn't done.
- [Jacob] Love you. Bye. - [Jacob's dad] Love you. Bye.
- [Jacob] What a ham.
Hey, guys.
- [Zac] Hey, what are you up to?
- [Jacob] I think I'm just gonna go home.
- [Zac] I think I'm gonna take Beardsley
to Burbank Airport.
- You're gonna drop 'em off?
- [Zac] Mm-hm.
- Should I cruise?
- [Jacob] It's Jacob.
- [Ally] Well, I've got one shirt.
- [Jacob] Did you shotty?
- No, no, please. Please.
All you, baby.
- 15 minutes to Burbank Airport. (Jacob laughing)
Y'all got enough room?
- Yeah, yeah. Do you have any gum or mints?
- Yeah.
- Thanks. - Little tiny mints.
- Oh, wow, actually, I'd dig that.
Hey, do you mind if I bark karaoke back here?
- [Zac] Yeah, can you bark Smash Mouth?
(To the tune of "All Star") ♪ Bark bark, bark bark bark bark ♪
- Don't hit him. Don't hit him.
We're all on the clock right now, right?
So anything we do
is technically an expense on the production.
- Oh, wait. Sam's calling.
- Oh, okay.
- Do you wanna...?
- Yeah.
- Hey, Sam.
- Hey, Ally. Um...
What are you, what are you up to?
- I am going to New York City.
(Sam wheezes)
- Jake, what are you doing there?
- I just wanted, I'm here for the hang, man.
It's hard to- (Sam laughing)
- [Sam] What a friend.
- Me, Jacob...
- Oh, Zac! - [Zac] Hey, what's up. I'm driving.
You're driving!
(laughter through phone speaker)
How did this turn into a wholesome road trip?
It was supposed to be a stiff competition.
- No, we're all best friends, so. (laughing)
We just wanted to hang. (laughing)
- Ally, that is an incredible commitment.
- Hey, Sam, quick Q, though, just a sorta logistics thing.
Since we are technically still on the clock,
any purchases that happen within this
are technically on production, right? (Sam laughing)
- If we slip through a Carl's Jr. or something like that,
In-N-Out, oh, In-N-Out, oh my god.
Yeah, so if we all went to In-N-Out...
- If you all go to In-N-Out,
I will personally compensate you for your In-N-Out.
- I mean it's just worth thinking about.
I don't know if we will.
- Yeah, just worth thinking about.
Hey, switch the (laughing) direction.
(all laugh)
- Oh, beautiful sunset. - Oh my god,
look at the sunset!
(Sam laughing purely)
- Why is this so sweet?
That is beautiful, that is a beautiful sunset.
- [Ally] All right, well, bye, Sam.
- Best of luck, my friend.
- Thanks for the Double-Double.
- Wow.
- Damn, great thinking.
- You gotta think a little bit.
- We all gotta grab a bite
before I catch my 10:30 PM flight to New York City.
- Add a stop, baby.
(cars rolling) (faint laughter)
- Am I making a huge mistake? (laughing)
- Big line. Real busy In-N-Out.
- [Zac] A burger and a fry.
- There you go.
- Thank you.
- [Jacob] Do we have to go?
- Yeah.
- What is it? Yeah, we gotta go.
- I fly out in like 15.
- 15?
- No, I'm doing okay.
But we do gotta go, we gotta go.
- Closing.
Final checklist? You got everything? (Ally laughing)
You got the deodorant,
you got the CLIF Bar. - [Zac] You got your one shirt.
- You got your one shirt.
- [Zac] You got a travel pillow. You got my charger that I definitely
know I'm not gonna see again.
I'm never gonna see that charger. It's gone.
- I'm gonna get it back to you.
- That's on Sam, for sure. (Ally laughing)
- Look at all these people.
They're all on Game Changer.
- All these people got the same prompt, "Go."
- Yeah. (laughing).
- You guys, thank you.
- Hey, man, congrats on the win,
and I hope you have a great trip. (Ally laughing)
- Thanks, guys.
- Have fun.
- Yeah, thank you.
(ambient chatter)
- Hi, Rekha.
Your dad loves you so very much,
and I am so proud of you for making it this far.
So keep strong, keep the faith,
and most of all; Keep. Going.
Everyone is cheering for you,
and we know that you can win.
So win!
Remember, it's like how to eat an elephant.
One bite at a time.
Just keep one foot ahead of the other,
until you win.
And I know it's in you.
The will to win, the will to persevere.
I know it's hard right now, but you can do it.
Just push on a little bit more, and you can win.
Remember that time in school, when the bullies came.
You were so brave, and you stood up to them.
In the end, it was the bullies who backed away.
I was so proud of you.
So, we all want you to come home.
Win this thing. You. Can. Do it.
And remember, your dad loves you so very much,
and is so proud of you.
- That does it for us here at Game Changer,
a new season of Make Some Noise (slow, soft closing music)
is just around the corner.
But I'm a full season ahead of you in the future,
and I'm already hard at work
on the next season of Game Changer.
Every season, I ask myself
"How are we going to top this next season?"
And answering that question is a terrifying,
and intimidating pleasure.
Your reactions, your wonderful tweets,
and messages, and fan art and home games
are that pleasure doubled.
Thank you for the opportunity to play for you.
Without you, the Dropout fandom,
and the way that you evangelicalize this show,
there would be no Game Changer,
and I would be a mid-tier executive
at a cable television network.
So thank you from the bottom of my heart,
and see you on the internet.
(warm music)