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The 1% Club US - Season 3 Episode 5 - The 1% Smack Down
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00:04Welcome to the 1% Club, where logic beats knowledge, and only 1% of the population can answer the
00:11final question.
00:15Tonight, $100,000 is up for grabs, and trying to win it all are these 100 contestants.
00:23I'm Joel McHale, and it's time to play the 1% Club.
00:30Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
00:35100 contestants are here tonight with dreams of winning what financial advisors refer to as a buttload of cash.
00:43Let's see if they got what it takes.
00:4690% of Americans we pulled answered this question correctly, and that's the thrilling backstory on what we call the
00:5390% question.
00:57which of these silhouettes is a perfect match for this dog your time starts now
01:09and what should we name him that's right kids we're getting a dog for the show
01:23time now let's see who got the question right and how many of you are out of the game after
01:29the first question blue light do your damage wow we only lost one of you on that question
01:45which means we've got 99 of you left whoo not embarrassing at all the answer is c a has the
01:55shape of tail b is missing the tail and d has no ears we all knew that except for naima
02:03i'm here
02:04joe how's it going i'm a trip setter so it's going good yeah you did great so what happened
02:10honestly i looked at the screen and it just looked different on my tablet and i hit a and then
02:15as soon
02:15as they're like i said oh i'll be the first what would you have done with the money well i'm
02:22still
02:22going you know what we don't even need to hear it since we have an hour until we possibly give
02:30it
02:30away i'm kidding naima what would you have done with the money i don't want to tell you now all
02:34right
02:37i deserve that i agree naima thank you all right to start the game everyone has been given a thousand
02:42dollar steak if you get a question wrong you're out of the game and your thousand dollars goes into
02:47the prize pot i think we know whose money is in there right now let's go look at naima's money
02:53and the prize pot is now at
02:59that's what we thought it's up to a thousand dollars naima thank you
03:03and you're welcome
03:05that last question much easier than this one it's our 80 question
03:12which of these red carpet photographers will definitely take the worst picture your time starts
03:18now
03:25and if they're taking pictures of us who's taking pictures of them
03:42your time is up blue light time to shine do your thing
04:01five we just lost five of you on that question which means we've got 94 of you left oh i
04:09heard
04:09all the oohs and ohs all of a sudden this game is real
04:14oh oh the answer is d jed the other photographers might not be great but jed definitely has the lens
04:24cap on his camera all right let's talk to somebody who got it wrong ronnie
04:28hi ronnie oh hi how you so much sympathy all right ronnie what do you do for fun for fun
04:38um
04:39i like i like rap music so i do rap
04:43you have a rap ready for the one percent club i i actually wrote one for you joel let's hear
04:51it
04:51no i'm not an actor and no i'm not a dancer ask me any question on the show i know
04:57the answer
04:58and if you don't know the answer better use your pass and when i win the money gonna show me
05:04some
05:05love i'm gonna scream thank you joe and the one percent club
05:16all right that was a whole song well done thank you ronnie
05:21let's check that prize pot
05:22all right it's up to six thousand dollars
05:31this next question flummoxed three out of every ten americans we pulled that's one hell of a
05:36flummoxing over there yes it's your 70 question
05:43this faucet arrived with the words on the handle spelled backwards the plumber who installed it put
05:48the handles on the wrong side and then another plumber fixed it if you turn the handle on the right
05:53now
05:53what temperature water will come out your time starts now
06:04i'm not sure what to make of this question i'm running kind of toe and deloc about it
06:22time everybody stop what you're doing that is time because my friend blue light wants to make a visit
06:43oh no oh no what just happened did this break we just lost 19 of you on that question which
06:52means
06:53we've got 75 of you left here's the answer b cold the words are spelled backwards but the handles are
07:00now in the correct positions having been fixed by the second plumber but one on the right says cold
07:06backwards so the water will be cold remington what happened i didn't press an answer and i panicked and
07:16then yeah all right remington what do you do for a living i'm a stuntman so like in a pressure
07:21situation you're usually cool under fire yeah yeah except for right now except for right now
07:26are you with anyone here today my brother yeah all right very cool i'm still in the game
07:37he'll be out next what's your name travis what would you do with the money travis i'm gonna have
07:43to split it with him oh and we're gonna go to vegas and win some more money it sounds like
07:47a smart plan
07:48all right thank you travis good luck let's talk to somebody who got it right rich sir i am the
07:56sultan
07:57of sexy pretty rich wise uh sorry there's a different rich sorry just kidding rich wise
08:04is a pro wrestler everybody that's right uh rich why why are you wearing the boa uh i wear this
08:11boa
08:12obviously because i'm very pretty guy and i just kind of want to show who i am i'm worried that
08:16the lady
08:16next to you is allergic to feathers but we'll just hope for the best how long you've been doing it
08:20i've been doing about five years i was going to give you a few secrets about the wrestling business
08:24but then i saw that we have qt marshall across the way and i didn't want to get my butt
08:28kicked
08:28by that guy over there uh qt if it came down to you two in the end would you wrestle
08:34for the money
08:34uh maybe but i would probably win because i think i'm higher up on the wrestling food chain
08:40all right qt do we have any other wrestlers here hey we have three we have three
08:47all right what's your name ashley but professionally i am known as madison rain
08:54madison have you wrestled either of these guys qt and i have crossed paths in a hallway or two but
08:59okay never wrestled it's getting tense here we just had to say goodbye to some genuinely wonderful
09:06people but enough about those wrong answering flesh bags because the prize pot is now at
09:1425 000 you see it goes up really quick keep up the good work or the bad work if you
09:22want the prize
09:22pot to keep growing this is your 60 question
09:28when the owner of these keys picks them up which item below will be left behind your time starts now
09:40at this point flailed blind guessing isn't a terrible strategy
09:59time everybody who got it wrong i don't know but you know who does blue light show us now
10:08bye
10:22we just lost 14 of you on that question which means we've got 61 of you left how about the
10:30people
10:30that are still in the game how about that here we go the answer is c the dinosaur's ring is
10:39not
10:39fastened to any part of this set of keys we do have some bad news we lost our first wrestler
10:45qt
10:45yeah how does it feel to lose to rich yeah honestly we get paid to lose all the time so
10:52i'm kind of used
10:52to it you know this is the most humble group of wrestlers i've ever been around thanks for being on
11:00the
11:00show 39 players have been eliminated so let's take a look at this prize pot shall we
11:0839 000 our remaining contestants will continue their ferocious battle to the heights of game show glory
11:16and do it all while sitting on their butts when the one percent club returns
11:31welcome back to the one percent club which is named for the percentage of fox television
11:35programs that aren't glossy game shows this contest started with 100 players who have already faced four
11:42questions now we're down to 61 players and they are all focused on taking home the ever-growing prize
11:48pot currently worth 39 000 for any of the next 10 questions you can use the one thousand dollars we
11:54gave you to pay for a pass and move on to the next question you can only do this once
11:59and your
12:00one thousand dollars will go straight into the prize pot so use your pass wisely half the people
12:06we polled answered this question correctly most likely by using the top half of their body here is
12:12the 50 question michaely's comet was seen in the sky from earth in 2004 for the first time it then
12:22appeared again in 2011 2018 and 2025 meanwhile brady's comment first appeared in 1983 then again in 1999 and
12:322015. which comment will be seen in the sky next your time starts now
12:45so are people sick of seeing michaely's comment do they think the comment appears in too many shows
12:50on this network don't answer that
13:08time everybody let's see who answered correctly and who did not blue light do it
13:31oh my we just lost 15 of you on that question which means we have 46 of you left and
13:38five of you
13:39used your pass here we go let's see the answer b brady's michaely's appears every seven years
13:46so it will appear in 2032 brady's appears every 16 so it will appear in 2031. i know we're all
13:55thinking it's true we lost another wrestler rich what happened i had the right answer and literally
14:03right at the last second i switched off and hit confirm because i was counting seven years in between
14:08the dates and then 16 years in between the dates and then she was playing footsie with me screwed me
14:13up
14:16wow do you know her name no it's her okay what would you have done with the money rich i
14:21was going
14:21to take you out tonight but whatever dude you can still do that i'm pretty cheap rich thank you let's
14:29talk to samantha oh hey samantha hi joel you might be the most smiley person we've ever had on this
14:36show
14:37oh thank you i am so tickled to be here oh good good uh you are very much in the
14:41game what do you do
14:42for a living samantha i am a mechanical engineer working in nuclear power i am also a former
14:47national championship college cheerleader oh all right i'm also a national science foundation fellow
14:55and just won best in show at the county fair for one of my craft projects jeez i'm not going
15:02to ask
15:02you what you do for fun because uh i'm sure it's insanely impressive i like to make things so if
15:08i win
15:09the money tonight i'm hoping to put a maker space into my house with laser cutter 3d printer
15:14lathe long arm quilter just anything to make see i didn't really even ask and it's still incredibly
15:22impressive that's yeah thank you for being here all right all that heartbreak did something beautiful
15:29to the prize pot it's now at 59 000 a lot of money now let's move on to the 45
15:40question shall we
15:44logically what is the name of the fourth woman in this picture your time starts now
15:55and which of them did i offend by asking and is there a mr poke
16:13time everybody the only thing worse than getting that one wrong would be having your mistake
16:19highlighted by a garish blue light do your thing blue light
16:36we lost three of you on that question which means we've got 43 of you left and eight of you
16:43used
16:43your pass and the answer is d miss pell each of their names becomes a word when put together
16:51misstep misspoke missing misspell becomes misspell where is kari here joel how fast did you figure it
16:59out at the very last second what do you do for work i'm a singer songwriter and performer how often
17:05are you performing i perform pretty often it tips well i'll sing anywhere all right what's the weirdest
17:10place you've ever had a gig oh at a swingers convention exactly i did not partake but i heard that
17:20that's
17:21what you know i watched you stayed and watched i didn't want to be rude and just leave
17:28someone asked me if i wanted to um partake well i said i was married no i'm married and he
17:35said well
17:35so am i so that didn't get me out of it that time okay thank you for being here you're
17:42still in the
17:42game carrie still in the game all right what's in the prize pot now
17:48seventy thousand dollars that is a thrilling amount of money only four out of every ten americans
17:57we pulled got this right here is your forty percent question
18:03pranksters keep moving the words wholesome and warehouse on this sign into one long jumble which
18:10of the jumbles below shows the letters from the two words in alternating order your time starts now
18:22this reminds me of that dolly parton movie the best little warehouse in texas
18:40time everybody that is time blue light do your thing
18:58we just lost 11 of you on that question which means we've got 32 of you left and seven of
19:04you used
19:05your pass here's the answer b a is wrong by the third letter and c is wrong by the second
19:12letter
19:12and also if you look at c it says you know who cares smell moose all right let's talk to
19:18somebody
19:18who got it right shay oh hi shay hi you're doing really well i know i'm so excited i played
19:26sports
19:27growing up my husband played sports growing up and we just turn everything we can into a competition
19:32like what what have you done that with so we started a tradition with our extended families
19:37at thanksgiving where anybody wants to participate can weigh themselves before they eat and then we
19:44wear ourselves after we eat and then whoever gains the most wins oh all right uh shay what do you
19:52do
19:55for work i'm a pediatrician so do you recommend that competition to uh the families that you
20:05see well i'm not going to anymore i don't think okay thank you shay f you guys want to check
20:11the prize
20:11pot all right let's check that prize pot let's see what it's at 84 000 it's getting up there this
20:20is getting real all right the next question is so difficult i almost feel bad having to ask it
20:24here is your 35 question
20:30the chalamet family coat of arms depicts their initial their animal mascot and a fruit with their
20:36motto written underneath which of these is the only one that could be the chalamet coat of arms your time
20:42starts now
20:50the mikhail family coat of arms is a glass of wine a pile of cash and the poop emoji we
20:56are a proud family
21:06the chalamet family coat of arms is a glass of wine a pile of cash and the poop emoji
21:14time everybody let's see who got that right and who got it wrong blue light
21:34we just lost seven of you on that question which means 25 of you are left and three of you
21:42used your
21:43pass let's see what the answer is d d is the only one with an animal the correct initial
21:50a fruit and a motto it's a lot to put together you want to check the prize pot yeah all
21:57right
21:57let's check the prize pot let's see what it's at 90 000 everybody we still have 25 contestants left in
22:05the game that's way too many players full of hope i promise to be better about destroying people's
22:11dreams when the one percent club returns right here on fox
22:24welcome back to the one percent club we started with 100 contestants but the bathroom breaks took
22:29forever so we just cut it down to 25. 10 of you still have your passes so all of you
22:34can either keep
22:35going and hope to make it to the one percent question and win up to a hundred thousand dollars
22:42or you can take a guaranteed one thousand dollars right now and leave the show please make your decision now
22:55everybody stay in
22:58no one is leaving we've got 25 contestants still in the game vying for that massive one percent payday
23:07now let us stumble forth through unmapped game show jungles into the wild and dangerous thicket that is
23:13our 30 percent question which one shape below can you not tile your bathroom with if you want the tiles
23:23to interlock perfectly your time starts now
23:33your obsessive need for order is pushing away your loved ones and your bathroom contractors
23:55that's time everybody let's test our lighting person's reflexes and reveal who got it wrong
24:16six we just lost six of you on that question which means we've got 19 of you left and four
24:22of you used
24:23your pass here we go the answer is d the octagon is the only one that won't give you a
24:31perfect fit
24:32without adding other tiles all right let's talk to somebody who got it right kelly
24:37hey kelly hey kelly was this hard to figure out yes i had a and then i in my head
24:46i said i think
24:47a triangle can make a square that could be wrong and then i switched my answer to d what do
24:52you like
24:52to do in your free time kelly i have an unhealthy obsession with snapchat um i was in the top
24:58two
24:58percent story posters in the world wow how often are you posting let's say about 40 stories a night
25:07yeah as you know when you're on the show you can't have a phone so is this killing you it's
25:12really hard right now i would love to be vlogging me talking to you right now all right just make
25:17sure
25:18to take a picture with me after the show for my story i'll charge you a hundred thousand dollars for
25:23all right kelly fair enough fair enough all right that round pushed the prize pot up to a total of
25:3295 000 a lot of money oh and look at this another question guess i should pay closer attention to
25:41this game show that i'm hosting this was answered correctly by only a quarter of the people we pulled
25:47here is the 25 question starting with s and moving only clockwise around the clock as many times as
25:57you want what's the only country you can spell out using the letters only once your time starts now
26:10answer quickly everyone you only have about w seconds left
26:33time everybody we'd like to get the bad news out of the way first so let's see who got it
26:39wrong
26:55we just lost five of you on that question which means we have 14 of you left and only one
27:02of you
27:02used your past and the answer is switzerland if you used every other letter you can spell out switzerland
27:13kelly
27:15you wanna you wanna vlog this out yes do you mind if i go get my phone really quick
27:21you got me there let's talk to somebody who used their past gabby gabby you used your past
27:29i did yes you've made it pretty far in the game gabby yeah what do you do for fun um
27:36you know i hang
27:37out with my friends i have this really fun party trick that i like to do to entertain people
27:42um am i allowed to do it let's see it okay okay so you know when people say give you
27:48a round of applause
27:49you know we usually clap like this right well i can clap with one hand so let me just show
27:54you guys okay so
27:55so this is a round of applause
28:03yeah that's pretty good thank you
28:06yes do you know what your face is doing during that
28:09it just does what it wants to yeah okay well gabby uh you're pretty far in the game nicely done
28:14thank you let's see what the last question did to the prize pot
28:2096 000 and it's only getting bigger stay tuned right here for more questions a larger prize pot
28:27and me saying welcome back to the one percent club when the one percent club returns
28:44welcome back to the one percent club we had 100 contestants but that was cramping our style so we've
28:50cut it down to 14. they're playing for a prize pot currently valued at 96 000 now if you still
29:01have
29:01your one thousand dollars left you can pay for a pass but you cannot use it on the one percent
29:07question four of you still have a pass and you are four questions away from the final one percent
29:13question all right only two out of every 10 americans got this next one right here is your 20 question
29:23this office ceiling uses 21 fluorescent lights arranged in the pattern you see here what are
29:29the fewest number of lights you could remove for this to read aeiou when the lights turned on your time
29:36starts now with a big enough ceiling you can turn this into the most awkward marriage proposal ever
30:07time everybody let's see who answered correctly and more interestingly who got it wrong
30:25nobody
30:29everybody got it right we didn't lose anyone on that question which means we've got 14 of you
30:36left and no one used their pass wow let's check out the answer guys here it is but you know
30:42it
30:42already five you can get an aeiou by removing five lights no one got it wrong so let's just talk
30:50to
30:50people who got it right ann all right hey so ann you have made it very far in the game
30:55and you still
30:56have your pass i'm clinging on to that thing for dear life okay uh are you also a nuclear physicist
31:02or whatever samantha is i could be i'm a college student okay what are you studying i'm doing
31:07computer science and i'm minoring in korean impressive what would you do with the money
31:11if you won well it's been school non-stop semesters and summers and i think i need to just let
31:15it all
31:15out so i'm thinking i want to learn kung fu so go to china study under a master and come
31:20back
31:20a master myself this is what you call relaxing i think it would be healing you know let it all
31:27out okay uh and good luck thank you let's take another look at that prize pot guys it is still
31:3596 000 because nobody went out i bet now you really really want to win it right yeah well this
31:42next guy
31:42will try to stop you only 15 of americans we pulled got this right it's our 15 question
31:53which word in this question would come last if you arranged all the words in reverse
31:58alphabetical order your time starts now
32:08and no the annoyed grunts you're currently making don't count as answers
32:30that's time everybody let's see who answered correctly and let's see who's out of the game blue
32:37light do your thing
32:49we lost just two of you on that question which means we have 12 of you left and one of
32:56you used
32:56your pass all right here's the answer all if you arrange all the words in the sentence in reverse
33:03alphabetical order all will be at the end all right let's talk to somebody who got it right ashley
33:08yes ashley we saw you earlier was this one hard for you at this point everything is hard
33:13my brain hurts i'm second guessing everything but i'm the only wrestler still standing yeah
33:25feels like qt and rich were gone like five shows ago so thank you for being here all right let's
33:32take
33:32a look at our prize pot
33:3697 000 that's a lot of money 100 contestants have been winnowed down to just 12. these are our sharpest
33:45players or just people who are excellent at guessing when we come back we'll find out which of them
33:50make it into the one percent club for a prize of up to 100 000
34:05welcome back to the one percent club we've entered the final stretch of the game with only our contestants
34:10with and the host's relatable handsomeness to get us through good luck to us all you're not even
34:15agreeing with me jeez the players who make it furthest in the game will get the opportunity to
34:21take on the one percent question and win everything in the prize pot which is currently at 97 000
34:29but if anyone's gonna win it they need to survive our last three questions i can't lie to you guys
34:34not
34:35after all we've been through this next question is like super hard it's our 10 percent question
34:44read the graphic on the right and answer the question your time starts now
34:58whenever i see this i just slip my dmv guy 50 bucks and he lets me renew my license
35:18it's time everybody that is time blue light do your thing
35:36we just lost five of you on that question which means we've got seven of you left
35:42and one of you used your pass getting down to it all right let's see the answer
35:49freedom when read from bottom to top the blue and green letters spell freedom
35:55let's talk to brandon f he still has his pass everyone
36:02uh brandon i bet you think you're pretty smart right just lucky what would you do with the money
36:07actually i'm planning on building a skate park in my backyard probably get a one percent tattoo
36:12somewhere all right i'll personally pay for that tattoo appreciate it but i get to choose placement and
36:21size all right brandon good luck let's take a look at our prize pot
36:28ninety eight thousand dollars wow a lot of money
36:33so anne and brandon you still have your one thousand dollars which means
36:37if you pay for a pass on the next question the five percent question you are guaranteed to go on
36:43to
36:43the final contestants you are two questions away from joining the one percent club here is the five
36:49percent question
36:53you can change the first letter of one of these words so the new word means the opposite of the
36:59old
36:59word what is the new word your time starts now
37:02so
37:32time everybody that is time let's see who is still in the game blue light do your magic
37:52oh we just lost five of you on the five percent question which means we've got
37:58two of you left brandon and ann you both used your pass to stay in the game
38:06that means that nobody knew the answer to this question let's have a look at the answer here we go
38:13the answer is higher you can change the first letter of fire to get higher oh let's do an
38:22impression of ourselves now oh wow all right let's put those two one thousand dollar passes into the prize
38:31pot which brings our total two of course maxed out at a hundred thousand dollars congratulations brandon
38:39and ann you've made it to our final question which means you've now earned up to ten thousand dollars and
38:44you've got a chance to take on the one question and win the one hundred thousand dollars in the prize
38:50pot
38:53will these contestants make it to the one percent club and when they do will they act like they're
38:58better better than us find out when we return right here on fox
39:14from 100 contestants down to you two you're about to take on the final question of the game get it
39:20right and you will win up to a hundred thousand dollars and become official members of the one
39:25percent club you will be expected to participate in a weekly rumble against our arch rivals everyone
39:31who plays on rob lowe's the floor we have a floor too but you don't see us bragging about it
39:36all the time
39:37now it's time for a true dilemma we're going to put ten thousand dollars up for grabs there it is
39:45and all you have to do to get that ten thousand dollars is walk away from the game right now
39:50easy money
39:51right wrong there's a catch if more than one of you decide to leave then you have to split the
39:57ten
39:58thousand dollars with anyone else who decides to walk so have a look around at yourselves there's only
40:05two of you this is a huge decision do you want to play for a chance at the one hundred
40:09thousand dollars
40:10or walk away with guaranteed money so we'll give you a few seconds to decide go
40:27brandon is leaving and ann is also leaving
40:35it's a one percent club first
40:42you've both chosen to walk away so you're going to be splitting the ten thousand dollars
40:47and leave with five thousand dollars each let's give a big round of applause for brandon and ann
40:54good job good job it was a good choice i was too nervous to do it whoo oh man but
41:04you know
41:04everyone here and everyone watching at home is dying to see what the one percent question is
41:09so let's have a look and see if either of you would have gotten it right it's time for the
41:15one percent
41:15question here it is the code to tim safe is three different digits that are in alphabetical order
41:23all three digits are five letters long what's the code the clock starts now
41:58all right brandon you've had a chance to look at it what do you think the answer is
42:02eight seven three what would your answer have been it's eight seven three good news is you have
42:08five thousand dollars no matter what that's right and you've also got five thousand dollars no matter
42:14what let's have a look at the answer shall we eight seven three if you alphabetize the only three digits
42:23that are five letters long you get eight seven and three
42:28five thousand dollars it's okay it's okay brandon and ann look at that you would have gotten the one
42:33percent question right but you took the easy money so you each have five thousand dollars
42:40no one went for the one hundred thousand dollars so come back next week and see if someone can make
42:46it to the end conquer the final question and become the newest member of the one percent club
42:51good night everybody good night
42:59that is crazy we've never had that
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