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Prepare for a wild ride through some of the most ingenious, hilarious, and unforgettable moments from the Dropout series "Game Changer." From twisted auctions and surreal challenges to time loops and impromptu musicals, these episodes redefine the limits of improv game shows. Whether it’s sabotage, emotional surprises, or off-the-wall creativity, get ready to see why these installments stand out as true game changers in the world of comedy competition.
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00:00This is a camera you put in my home for a length of time?
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the craziest,
00:09wackiest, and all-around best episodes of the dropout game show, Game Changer.
00:17You can do it! We're at 30 seconds!
00:20Wow.
00:24Number 20. A Sponsored Episode.
00:27Brought to you by whimsy and good old-fashioned salesmanship,
00:31this episode's premise had the three panelists participating in some light market research.
00:36Challenges include identifying corporate logos and improvising sales pitches for some untraditional products.
00:43And then she gets to your nipples, and it feels like sandpaper.
00:49And the dry skin on her hands.
00:52Shred your nipples to tatters.
00:56Shred my nipples.
00:58Grant O'Brien really made a case for stick-on-nipples.
01:03Rekha Shunker actually had us wanting to buy those giant hamburger gloves.
01:08The piece de resistance may be Mike Trapp being dared to take a bite out of an actual lemon covered
01:14in Parmesan.
01:15Host Sam Reich's dancing around the set like a delighted imp feels like him in his truest form.
01:30It's got that hint of citrus zest that just brightens the whole thing up.
01:37Number 19. The Secret Santa Episodes.
01:41Starting out as a post-COVID virtual episode, the show's Christmas-themed episodes weaponize the otherwise wholesome game of white
01:49elephant.
01:49The players must open mysterious gift boxes with various prizes and punishments inside.
01:54Oh, yes! Can it just be a nude? No comment?
02:03I tweet a naked picture of myself.
02:06Players can lie about what's in the box and steal gifts from each other.
02:10Some of these wrapped gifts are punishments.
02:12He has to drink the whole glass?
02:14Wait, no, it's not the whole glass, right?
02:16Well, the punishment does say glass.
02:20What?
02:22Why did I do this?
02:24Mixed in are some genuinely incredible prizes like vacations and a month's rent paid by the show.
02:30It's the magic of giving season through the dropout lens.
02:33The third and, to date, final edition brought the antics to the actual Game Changers sets for the first time.
02:41I'll give you the opportunity to steal in three, in two, in one.
02:45Steal.
02:46That went a little faster to Carolyn.
02:49What does it say, Teo?
02:51Give us back a prize you've won.
02:53No!
02:53That is exactly your fear, Carolyn.
02:58Number 18. Beat the buzzer.
03:00Trivia is a lot harder when you can't find the buzzer.
03:04Sam Reich opens this one with an epic prank as each of the players' buzzers stops working.
03:09To ring in their answers, Rekha Shunker, Becca Scott, and Erika Ishii will have to search for buzzers that have
03:16all been left all around the set.
03:19What's a buzzin' from Becca!
03:22Incredible.
03:23Sam, that would be an iceberg.
03:25That is correct, Becca, and so that brings you to four.
03:29As the episode goes on, the buzzers get more and more ridiculous.
03:33One is hidden in a computer game, another is in a block of ice, and one is encased in glass
03:39with a robotic arm that players can learn to maneuver.
03:42The chaos is glorious.
03:44How many Game Changer contestants does it take?
03:47Is this good for camera?
03:48Is this good?
03:50Is this good?
03:52Uh-oh.
03:52Number 17. A Game Most Changed.
03:56For a show that purports to change with every new episode, this was one of the more high-concept installments
04:03of Game Changer.
04:04Joey Bland, Ross Bryant, and Blaine Swen of the improvised Shakespeare Company were essentially tasked with creating and performing an
04:12entire play on the set.
04:14Which she can definitely afford to give to me, I shall take in victory.
04:21Ah, victory.
04:22What's the Greek word for victory?
04:24Nike?
04:25Yes!
04:26Their challenge was to build an entire Shakespearean story out of suggestions from Sam Reich.
04:32Presented with categories of phrases and titles to work into the Shakespearean dialogue, they score points for each reference.
04:39It's a tour de force of improv, pop culture references, and general tomfoolery.
04:46Here, let me as thy father, who is truly the father.
04:52Yep, it was me.
04:54Father backstake the whole time.
04:57Don't ask too many questions.
04:59Number 16. Sam-a-Lama-Ding-Dong.
05:02There's nothing like sweet, sweet revenge.
05:05In the Season 7 finale, host Sam Reich was tricked into his own episode of Game Changer with a fake
05:12variety interview as bait.
05:14I hate the taste of my own medicine.
05:18Now that's right, our player has no idea what game it is he's about to play.
05:22Previous contestants and dropout regulars lead him through a hellish five-course meal of his own medicine, set within a
05:29foreboding castle.
05:30Reich smiles through the pain as he conquers wicked word puzzles and fantastical creatures played by his good friends and
05:37colleagues.
05:38There's letters!
05:40Sam!
05:41How cool is that?
05:43I'm having a great time!
05:45You stop having fun right this second!
05:47He seems genuinely happy, humbled, and most of all, resentful to have the tables turned on him.
05:54It's a celebration of the joy and the pure evil it takes to pull off these games.
05:59Cerberus says, please propose a sound effect for your weapon to make.
06:04Sam-a-lama-ding-dong!
06:05Sam-a-lama-ding-dong!
06:07Sam-a-lama-ding-dong-ding!
06:08Cerberus says, are you sure?
06:10Yes!
06:11Number 15.
06:13Do I hear $1?
06:15Money really is the root of all evil.
06:18Sam Reich exploits that adage for all it's worth by having Ali Beardsley, Grant O'Brien, and Raphael Chestang participate
06:26in a truly demented auction.
06:28I'm pretending it's cheese.
06:31Put the whole thing in there and soak it.
06:33Soak it in your spit.
06:34You don't know how wet my mouth is.
06:36You know anything about me.
06:38On offer are various dares and embarrassing punishments.
06:42If they win, they win the amount they bid in points and have to complete the dare in front of
06:47everyone.
06:48Oh my god.
06:49Oh!
06:50Ali!
06:51Oh no!
06:52Oh no!
06:54Grant, you're making it worse.
06:56Oh, it's not good.
06:57How low will they go when it comes to money?
07:00Raph has to like 25 of his ex's Instagram pics.
07:05Grant drinks toilet water.
07:07In the end, though, the answer was mutual cooperation and opting out of an oppressive capitalist system.
07:14Do not do that at home.
07:16I think I need to sit quietly for a minute.
07:18I need to think about some things.
07:20Yeah.
07:20Number 14.
07:22As a cucumber.
07:23This one took a few minutes to figure out.
07:26Katie Maravich, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Carolyn Page were racking up points.
07:31They just didn't know why.
07:33In gaming, you'd refer to that as a glass cannon.
07:35Someone that can pack a lot of punch but can't necessarily withstand it.
07:38Brennan, that looks like an additional point for you.
07:40Bravo.
07:41Care to elaborate on why that's an additional point for me?
07:44They were just confused.
07:45Psychological torture is often confusing.
07:48Reich reveals, rather smugly, that the devices they've attached to them are measuring their heart rates.
07:54If they keep their cool during some truly insane stunts and games, they will earn points.
07:59Anything 20 BPMs above your standard heart rate will mean you don't win a point that round.
08:09The host does his best to sabotage their peace of mind and entire sense of self.
08:15If this were any other show, it'd be cruel.
08:18But on Game Changer, it's just hilarious.
08:21I am not this inexperienced dentist drilling my teeth.
08:25I am not this inexperienced dentist drilling my teeth.
08:29I am not someone vomiting in the stall next to me at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
08:33Number 13.
08:35Name a number.
08:36How many?
08:37It's a simple question.
08:39Some might say it's a little too simple.
08:42Becca Scott, Izzy Roland, and Erica Ishii have to make wagers based on tasks like shelling nuts,
08:48evading a professional tag player, and sending risky texts to as many people as possible.
08:55Oh my god, Becca!
08:58I think I got hit with a chair somewhere in there.
09:00Oh my god, Rex!
09:02At a certain point, Reich stops telling them what they're bidding on.
09:06Even then, Becca, Izzy, and Erica are so game for these challenges, it's actually quite scary.
09:12But in classic dropout fashion, one of the wagers gets sincere and heartwarming,
09:17which is torturous and funny in its own way.
09:20You lead a very fun lifestyle and do a lot of very fun things that inspires me to do more
09:29with my life.
09:31We could do fun things together.
09:33I don't have the energy.
09:34Number 12.
09:36Roulette.
09:36Digging into its classic game show inspirations, this Season 7 episode calls back to The Price is Right.
09:44Oscar Montoya, Anna Garcia, and Jeremy Culhane must spin the big wheel and reveal cards that they must stick to
09:52themselves.
09:53They have to follow the rules on those stickers, or they risk losing points.
09:57But the stroke of genius is that the stickers compound.
10:00Is it when the plants start to grow?
10:04Ba-do-ba-do.
10:06The hardest part is keeping straight all the rules you have to follow.
10:10It's fun when they do well.
10:11Even more fun when they fail.
10:13If you're a stickler for rules and players praying for each other's downfall, roulette is for you.
10:20Wow.
10:21Just kidding, I'm giving it to Anna.
10:24That way everyone gets a turn with the hat.
10:27Yes!
10:27Ow!
10:28Oh no.
10:29Ow!
10:31Ow!
10:32You punched me in the eye!
10:34Sorry!
10:35Number 11.
10:37One year later.
10:38Season 7 opened with a bang that was an entire year in the making.
10:43The one-hour premiere actually gave its three contestants that long to complete all the challenges.
10:49They couldn't have picked a better trio for this one.
10:52Vic Michaelis, Lou Wilson, and Jacob Wysocki are truly innovating on the form here.
10:57Is that not you?
10:58Remember this?
10:59Is that not you wearing one of these t-shirts?
11:01I do remember putting that shirt on for a picture.
11:05That picture was at the company retreat.
11:08That they had to go so long to perform the challenges also meant that they could go above and beyond
11:13in terms of budget, scope, and sheer audacity.
11:16We get to see lemurs, horn sections, and giant squid costumes.
11:21Like any incredible Game Changer episode, it ends in a total mutiny against the system.
11:27We are the ones who will be coming!
11:31I am coming!
11:33Everybody!
11:34I am coming!
11:36I am coming!
11:39I am coming!
11:40Number 10.
11:41Second Place
11:42It's time to put your Hollywood narcissism to the test.
11:47Who can take the least flattering selfie?
11:51As you might have guessed from the title, Second Place was unique in that the aim of the game wasn't
11:57to come in first, but in second.
12:00Succeed enough to be better than one, but not enough to be better than the other in order to earn
12:05points.
12:05This was quite a hilariously maddening episode as Brennan, Oscar, and Ali all desperately tried to do the bare minimum.
12:14Katie, does $25 sound good?
12:15I would like a little bit more.
12:18I'll send $50.
12:20The best part of the show, though, was the dance challenge where each contestant had to create a dance.
12:25Brennan's complete sabotage against Oscar was wonderfully savage.
12:30Dance is a sin.
12:32I'm sorry.
12:33Dance is a sin!
12:36Dance is a sin!
12:39Number 9.
12:40Deja Vu
12:40Left against.
12:42Oh!
12:43Oh!
12:44Ify!
12:45You get a really bad paper cut and die.
12:47For this kind of episode, Sam was right to bring on brainiacs like Siobhan, Mike, and Ify, as it had
12:53us scratching our heads for a minute.
12:55Deja Vu saw our contestants trapped in a time loop as the episode reset after a certain point several times.
13:01However, Sam and the crew devised it in a way to where every problem had slight alterations made to trip
13:08everyone up.
13:09You have a much better chance than I did.
13:11Yes, but you were going with your eyes.
13:14I'm going with my heart!
13:16Snap, crackle, pie!
13:18Before you knew it, you could quote the entire episode just from the first watch.
13:22It was clever in its execution, and despite the repetition, this was an episode we'd gladly watch on repeat.
13:29Just wait until the video is over before you start reciting the Weenus song.
13:34Everybody is a genius!
13:36He knows it in advance!
13:38Oh, Kevin!
13:39Oh, yikes!
13:41I'm sorry.
13:42Number eight, don't cry.
13:43They are watching the first four or five minutes of Disney's Up.
13:50Now, this was a really interesting episode, as it was not a normal show for Game Changer.
13:57Then again, what is a normal episode of Game Changer?
14:00On the surface, it's a simple premise.
14:03Rekha, Jess, and Luke must simply not cry.
14:06It isn't until midway through that it starts feeling like an episode unfairly picking on Jess until her fiancé shows
14:13up.
14:14You treat everyone with kindness and respect, whether they're walking down Hollywood Boulevard without pants.
14:19Oh my god, mom.
14:21All right.
14:21Turns out Jess and her significant other were unable to have their wedding during the COVID-19 pandemic.
14:27We're supposed to get married in 2020, which of course couldn't happen because of quarantine and everything.
14:33With this episode being made as the world slowly shifted out of the pandemic, Sam and the crew arranged a
14:39mock wedding with everyone reading heartwarming letters to Jess.
14:43It was honestly one of the sweetest gestures we have ever seen on television.
14:48Number seven, The Survivor Saga.
14:50I will now read the votes.
14:52Uh-oh.
14:53First vote.
14:55Sam.
14:56Does not count.
14:57Oh, come on.
14:59Oh, come on.
14:59Okay, okay, okay.
15:00The whole day is just voting.
15:02Second vote.
15:03Sam.
15:04Does not count.
15:05What?
15:06One thing you'd learn from recent seasons of Game Changer is that the crew really loves game shows of all
15:12kinds.
15:13There was a Newlyweds game episode, a Deal or No Deal episode, and yes, an entire two episodes based on
15:20Survivor.
15:20Of course, all of this was done without an island and excruciating survival and physical challenges.
15:26Players, you are going to be trying to make each other laugh using declarative statements.
15:35This was where Game Changer contestants got to really flex their improv comedy muscles, and everyone was at the top
15:42of their game consistently.
15:43As expected, alliances were formed and alliances betraying those alliances were formed.
15:49It was Alliance-ception.
15:51If you're a Survivor fan, you'll definitely enjoy the spin on the show.
15:54If anyone has a loop-de-loop and would like to play it, now would be the time to do
16:00so.
16:00What is a loop-de-loop?
16:01I don't know, but I'm imagining it.
16:02This is a f***ing loop-de-loop.
16:03Oh my god!
16:07Do you think I f*** around?
16:10Number 6.
16:12The Sam Says Episodes
16:14Sam says touch your ear.
16:16Sam says touch your other ear.
16:19Touch your other ear.
16:21Easy, right?
16:22Sam Says is exactly what the title of the episode implies.
16:26Do what Sam Says for you to do.
16:28It's the same concept across three separate episodes, but each with different permutations of contestants.
16:35Hey guys, this is Trish.
16:36She's number four on the call sheet.
16:37From Sam's choice of words to the entertaining prompts contestants are given,
16:42there is almost no time to breathe between the laughs.
16:45Sharing workplace gossip, de-escalating a random fight.
16:48Honestly, it makes Simon Says seem a lot more fun to play than some of us probably did in school.
16:54But if you want to know which Sam Says goes completely off the rails, it's the third one.
16:59I'm sorry, everybody.
17:01I'm sorry.
17:02I'm gonna go.
17:04I'm stupid.
17:05You're all stupid.
17:08That should cut good.
17:11Number 5.
17:12Noise Boys
17:13I got 1,500.
17:14I got 1,500 over here.
17:17I'm not very happy in my marriage.
17:18I'm not happy in my marriage.
17:19We're watching this.
17:19We're watching this.
17:20We're watching this.
17:20Dad, come home.
17:21Come home, Dad.
17:22We have to give a special shout-out to Make Some Noise for helping kick-start the show Make
17:26Some Noise, perhaps a list for another day.
17:29But of the more performance-based improv episodes, Noise Boys puts us in an uncontrollable fit of laughter every viewing.
17:37Whether my client is guilty, is my client a perfect man?
17:42No.
17:43I killed him, yeah.
17:45Brennan, Zach, and Josh are all given some ridiculous props to act out.
17:50From becoming a were-turkey to a simple conversation between two Scotsmen.
17:54But the best bits from this episode were the video call with awful Wi-Fi and the convict completely destroying
18:01his lawyer's closing remarks.
18:02If you haven't already, you need to watch this one.
18:06I'm dead.
18:09I'm in dead.
18:12I'm in serious dead.
18:16I'm in serious dead.
18:19I'm in mono.
18:21Number 4.
18:22Bingo.
18:23But in this game, you're going to have to earn your balls.
18:28Ash, if I could have the bingo balls, please.
18:31On the surface, this does look like a simple game of bingo with trivia questions.
18:35Get the question right, get a ball drawn.
18:37First to get a bingo wins.
18:39But knowing Sam, there is something more sinister at play here.
18:43Unbeknownst to Raph, Katie, and Brennan, another trio of contestants are watching each competitor for their own game of bingo.
18:50I need you to do that legs.
18:55And unbeknownst to them, a third set of contestants is watching their move in their own game of bingo.
19:02What's even more incredible is how the other two sets of contestants are manipulating the entire game for the sake
19:08of their own bingo boards.
19:10What the hell is this?
19:12What are we doing here?
19:14Brennan.
19:15It's so interesting what's happening here in this episode, Samuel.
19:19He's making us crazed.
19:20Ladies and gentlemen, Sam Reich and his team have assembled the most convoluted and brilliantly designed games of bingo ever.
19:29Number three, the official cast recording.
19:33Players, have you ever had that dream where you've been on stage and you haven't known your lines?
19:40Yeah.
19:41Yeah.
19:42Scott.
19:45Lights up on a small New England town.
19:49Do you like musicals?
19:51Because that's what this episode was all about.
19:54The official cast recording caught all of us off guard as Sam almost immediately dives into a theatrical narration.
20:01Per Sam's instructions, Zeke, Zach, and Jess must now put on an impromptu musical called Mountports.
20:08And honestly, this was the most impressive performance we've seen on Game Changer.
20:13I don't even know that word.
20:16Hey man, this is my corner.
20:17Oh.
20:19Two buskers.
20:20The way each contestant sings along with pianist Scott Passarella's music is astounding.
20:26Especially when Sam starts giving them phrases to use during their numbers.
20:30To this day, we're still listening to Ticket to Nowhere.
20:33That's Ticket to Nowhere for me.
20:39That's Ticket to Nowhere for me.
20:44Number two.
20:46Escape the green room.
20:47This door is straight up locked.
20:50They don't want us getting out, dude.
20:51Is this the show?
20:52Get ready for a game changer.
20:56No f***ing way.
20:57If you didn't think Sam could be any more sadistic than he already is, well, you haven't seen this episode.
21:04Sam has locked Siobhan, Brennan, and Lou inside of the green room.
21:07What transpires is total annihilation in an effort to escape and stop a timed explosive from going off before the
21:14hour is up.
21:15The anger is real as the cast verbally assaults Sam whenever the host makes a comment.
21:20I believe in you, Siobhan.
21:21You picked the hardest job in this episode.
21:23Shut up, Sam.
21:25You don't want my encouragement?
21:27No.
21:28Creative in setup, perfect in execution, Escape the Green Room will forever be known as Game Changers' best episode from
21:35season five.
21:36And it came super close to being the best ever.
21:39But which one stole number one?
21:41Kick it!
21:42Kick it!
21:42Person who works for the company!
21:44We'll give you $20 if you kick it!
21:46Fight the bourgeoisie!
21:47I will send you $20!
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22:15Number one, yes or no?
22:18Moving on to question two.
22:21Yes!
22:23Or
22:25No.
22:26This truly is the best episode of Game Changer to have ever aired.
22:31And it's going to be hard for any episode to top it.
22:34The gimmick for yes or no was simple.
22:37Contestants responded to Sam's question with either a yes or a no.
22:41If only they knew what exactly Sam was having them answer.
22:45Can I solve it?
22:46Can you solve the game?
22:47Can I solve the game?
22:48Zach, let's go.
22:50This is a f***ing nightmare.
22:54Ladies and gentlemen, Zach Oyama.
22:56Winner.
22:57Surprisingly, Zach manages to guess it midway into the game.
23:00And not long after Ali figures it out, we get an insanely hilarious rant from Brennan Lee Mulligan.
23:07The whole episode was a means to make sure Brennan could never win.
23:11A game show dedicated to antagonizing a single contestant to the boiling point.
23:16Pure genius.
23:17Brennan, what is the rule of the game?
23:21Can we all say it?
23:22I cannot win!
23:24That is correct, Brennan!
23:27Are you hyped for Game Changers 8th season?
23:29Tell us in the comments.
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