- Get ready for a game changer.
Tonight's guests, coming in all the way from new york city,
It's josh ruben.
Coming in at 8 foot 14 inches, it's grant o'brien,
And coming in despite having two other drop out shows
In post production, it's rekha shankar.
And your host, me, i've been here the whole time.
This is game changer, the only game show
Where the game changes every show.
I'm your host sam reich,
I'm joined today by these three lovely contestants.
Now you all understand how the game works.
- No. - No.
- I don't, by design i think.
- You've been trapping us in a room of secrets.
- That's right, our players have no idea
What game it is they are about to play.
The only way to learn is by playing.
The only way to win is by learning,
And the only way to begin is by beginning.
So without further ado, let's begin.
- Hold, hold, sorry we've got a sound issue here—
- Oh.
- Josh, can you come over here,
I've got to fix your lav mic, please come back here.
- It happens in the world of production.
- Just give me one second.
- Hollywood california am i right?
- Players, there has been a murder.
- No kidding. - Yeah no shit.
- It is your job to figure out who done it.
Was it the sound mixer?
- No no no it wasn't me i swear.
- Was it the production assistant?
- Oh god, oh no, this is all too heavy man.
- Was it the production designer?
- This is not the kind of art i had in mind.
- Was it the script supervisor?
- I'm on book.
- Or was it the producer of game changer?
- Whoa whoa whoa, don't look at me.
- We are you spoke.
- We all have scripts.
- We need our scripts rehka, you know like,
The scripts came in very last minute.
It's too much to ask everybody
To memorize all this dialogue.
- Oh i get it!
- Now this will function like something
Of an adventure video game.
There are lines of dialogue here
That you will need to unlock.
Until you've gotten all the clues.
Once you've gotten all the clues,
You will know who the suspects are
And only then will you be able to decide
Who you think did it.
Whoever's right will win the game.
- Are there points?
- There are no points in this game.
- Okay. - No!
- For now, you may address any one
Of these crew members about the murder.
We are going to start with rehka.
- The producer.
- Listen i just can't believe
Something like this happened on my watch,
On a game show no less, you know.
I've produced disaster scenes
That are less disastrous than this.
Word travels fast in hollywood, california.
- You knew— - My career is over.
- Okay.
- Grant.
- I feel like there's a clue.
- There will be lots of clues throughout.
- But i don't want to say it out loud
Because then i'll tell rehka what the clues are.
- But we can just work together, then we'll share the prize.
- I love the lazy resolution.
- I don't hate that, i don't hate that.
So the last thing that the producer said—
- Yes.
- Was hollywood, california.
- Not hollywood, florida.
- So you're right where i'm at.
And the last thing sam said was hollywood, california.
- Yeah.
- Before all the lights went out seamlessly on them.
- Hollywood, california is a trigger word.
- Hmm, production designer.
- I don't even know why we're debating this.
The sound mixer was standing
Right next to the victim when he was murdered.
It's definitely the sound mixer.
But he's a weird dude.
I heard breeds rottweilers, adopt don't shop.
- He breeds rottweilers.
- Now you may ask the script supervisor
About the issue of proximity to the murder.
- So when you say ask them.
- 'cause i'm not asking anything,
I'm just pointing and they're saying something.
- Yeah because i had a question for the production designer.
If you could be any animal, what would it be?
- A snake.
- Oh. - In the grass?
- There are snakes.
- Okay, i will ask the script supervisor by proximity,
Because i don't know what fuck the question means.
- As script supervisor.
- Mm-Hmm.
- It is my job to watch the action carefully.
Now at the time of the murder,
The only people that were near the victim,
Was the p.A., and the sound mixer.
- Mm-Hmm.
- I'm not saying they're the murderer.
- Mm-Hmm.
- Just pointing that out, as script supervisor.
- So uh p.A., how close were to you to the murderer?
- Okay look, i'm suppose to be near by the action, okay.
In case anyone needs like, batteries,
Or water, or anything okay.
Speaking of water, are you guys okay on water though?
- Yeah. - Does anyone need water?
- Josh left his.
- Well if you have water, just be sure to mark it
So people knows it's yours.
Do you need a marker for that?
- I would love a marker.
- Sure.
- Yeah, mark it please.
- Look at the marker grant!
- I don't want to have to get new ones.
- I'm actually.
- Okay it's an unknown brand.
I would like to ask the sound mixer.
- I know this looks bad, but i didn't do it i swear.
I got nothing against josh all right, i think he's great.
He just had a sound issue, seriously, that's it.
- What was the sound issue?
- Honestly, i saw somebody run out onto this stage,
Stab him, and then run off.
But it was so dark i couldn't make out who it was.
Please look i can't go to jail all right.
I've got seven rottweilers at home i've got to take care of.
- Oh my god.
- That's the most suspicious dog.
- Grant.
- Script supervisor, whatcha got?
- As script supervisor.
- Uh-Huh.
- Okay, i oversee the script, all right,
And you want to know something ironic?
This was suppose to be the murder mystery episode.
Says it right here, game changer murder mystery, all right.
Of course someone was not suppose to die.
Yeah that may be obvious, but it's my job
To point out the obvious as script supervisor.
- Why do you keep talking like that?
- Yeah he does.
- I'm taking notes on this water bottle.
Hey producer.
- Yep.
- What's going on, it seems like you're doing your job
Pretty badly if someone actually got murdered.
- Yeah so this was suppose to be the murder mystery episode.
One of the other games this season,
The game of prizes was way, way too expensive.
- Yeah we fuckin' hear about that.
- Yeah!
- Dinner at a michelin restaurant, right, trip to big sur.
- Yeah, yeah i fucking heard.
- Yeah great job sab.
Yeah, so this was suppose to be a very cheap, cheap episode.
- Oh great.
- Sorry guys, so we were just gonna might up the crew,
And then go get a murder weapon, that's it.
- Can i ask a follow up?
- Oh a murder weapon. - Are there prizes?
- There is a prize at the end of this game.
- Oh we!
- Can we ask what the murder weapon was gonna be?
- It's my turn.
- We're trying to do the same fucking thing.
- Hey what was the murder weapon gonna be?
- Listen there's only so many pages of this.
You can't ask everything grant.
- If you could be any animal, what would it be?
- It's a snake, for sure. - All right, sure.
- Okay.
- You may now ask the sound mixer
About those microphones we just heard about
Or the production designer about the murder weapon.
You can also as the p.A. About the murder itself.
We haven't heard from him yet.
- P.A., watcha got?
- I don't know man, it's just too heavy okay.
I just know that i got into this business
Because i can't take anything serious okay.
My dad told me to be a doctor,
And i said "no, i'd have to deal with death."
And my mom told me to be a lawyer
And i was like "no mom, i'd have to deal with jail."
But comedy, what could go wrong right?
- Maybe you still have to deal with jail
Because you murdered someone.
I'm gonna ask the production designer about the weapon.
- I mean, as part of my job,
When i'm told to get a prop or costume, i get options.
- Uh-Huh.
- So i didn't just get one knife, i got two.
- The first one was one of those cheap plastic ones.
The kind that retract, and the second one was beautiful,
It was ornamental.
The producer went with the cheaper one of course
Because it was less expensive.
- I kind of want to know more about the murder weapons.
- Listen that second knife wasn't just expensive,
It was also dangerous okay.
The blade didn't retract, but everyone can know,
That knife is not on set anymore okay, i had it returned.
I mean i told the production designer to return it.
- Now ask the production designer about returns
Or you can ask the sound mixer about microphones.
- Absolutely not.
- I mean the knife was returned, i told the p.A. To do it.
- P.A. Did you return that what you were suppose to do?
- It was returned, i mean it will be, it will be.
I haven't had time to do it yet.
- Accused!
- It should still be in the returns box.
- Something happened.
- Grant and rehka, you may now search the returns box
For the ornamental knife that was suppose
To go back to the prop house.
- Whoa can i find?
- So which knife is that?
- That's the retractable one.
- That's the retractable knife.
- This is the retractable one.
- So that means
That the real knife is on someone in this room.
That means you can ask the sound mixer about microphones,
Or you can choose to search anyone of these suspects
For the murder weapon.
- You know what, because you keep dangling it
Like a freakin' carrot in front of a vegetarian,
I'm gonna ask about the sound mixer.
- So the whole idea about the murder mystery episode
Was that the crew themselves were suspects in a murder,
And because we were all gonna be on camera,
I had to mic up the whole crew.
Look, i didn't mean to eavesdrop,
But i might have heard some things i shouldn't of heard.
Do you guys want to hear it?
- Yes! - Yes, jesus!
- What the fuck!
- A man is dead and you're waiting
Until your called on to offer important information.
- My dear friend.
- All right i'm gonna play it.
- You have a recording of it?
- Yeah.
- Why were you rolling?
- You know what, i'm fresh out of batteries.
Does anyone have any fresh batteries?
- Ask the fucking p.A.!
- Oh you need batteries?
Yeah yeah cool.
- If you're out of batteries my dude,
I'm going to fucking cut your throat.
- Thank you, thank you. - There you go.
- Are those the right kind?
Do you need a d cell?
- Let me just put my batteries.
Just use the cheaper one,
I don't see what the big deal is.
- What's the big deal?
This is art, that's what the big deal is.
- Stop being so dramatic.
- I could kill you for this.
- You know if we were on a murder mystery,
That kind of language would be a big red flag.
- Yeah, all i'm getting is that they have mad chemistry.
- Wow that is legitimately, like i'm legitimately sweating.
- That was so hot.
- That is really something.
- Fuck, that was incredibly hot, hold on.
- This is a fun set.
- Wait, josh, wait a second, fuck.
- Oh man.
Oh we. - Oh fuck
That was hot as fuck. - Damn.
- So close to the mic.
- Oh man, just all over each other.
It's so dramatic if you say it like that.
- Grant, you may now search anyone
Of these crew members for the murder weapon,
Or ask the production designer,
Or the producer about this issue of the budget.
- I suppose i'll search someone for the murder weapon.
- Is he physically searching them, or does he just point?
- Physically.
- Oh my god!
Wait, you can't search josh.
- Josh doesn't have it.
Well sound designer, you were right by josh
When those lights went out.
- I didn't do it.
- Well i'm going to search you anyway for a murder weapon.
- All right, feel free.
- Do a good job please.
- There is no murder weapon on the sound mixer.
- Sure.
- Okay, since we all have to come out
Of our little turtle holes here,
I search you.
Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.
Is it hidden hear?
- The production designer does not have the knife.
- What does she have, i bet it's cute, this is cute.
- She's got the producers number on a little business card.
- Yeah okay, this is cute too.
Where'd you get this?
- We are not trading fashion tips here.
We are solving a murder.
- Oh my god, okay fine.
- Grant.
- I must search the p.A.
I'm gonna touch you, i'm gonna touch you lightly.
I need an affirmative yes, that's okay?
- Yes.
- All right great.
- Okay no, no, no, it was me, it was me, it was me,
I did it, i did it, i did it okay!
- Oh god, oh no!
- I ran on stage, i stabbed josh in the back,
But i was suppose to, i was suppose to.
It says here in the script look.
It say "when a player takes center stage,
"the p.A. Rushes out and stabs that player."
Okay i thought this knife was retractable.
- You're stupid!
- I got it from the props table.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait,
Someone must have switched the knife
On the props table with this one.
- The prop master.
- Someone pulled a switcheroo.
- That's why he was so nervous,
'cause he actually killed someone.
First of all, that's man slaughter at least, at very least.
- You're going, you're absolutely, hey honey, sweaty.
- Absolutely going to go to jail.
- Please don't tell my mom.
- Hey sweaty, honey, you're going to jail.
- Yeah listen, little boy, you're going to go to jail.
- Please, no no no.
- Hey sweaty, your ass is grass.
- You are up shit creek my friend.
A switcheroo that you think that's gonna hold up in court.
- Someone did it.
- Someone pulled a switcheroo.
- They pulled a switcheroo.
- You think the fucking alset has a question.
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
I shanked someone in the dark,
- Yeah, oh yeah.
- Because i thought the knife was retractable
- You remember that famous— - You fucking idiot.
- It was in the script.
- Okay we've established the p.A. Is definitely going
To jail for a long long time.
- Sure, a long time.
- Sorry sweetheart, sorry.
- Producer, what's goin on with the budget?
That's what important right now.
- Yeah, yeah look, moneys tight okay,
And when moneys tight, tempers flare up,
But the production designers hardly
The only one whose been unhappy with me.
- Oh brother, look, we've all been there.
- I know.
- Sometimes stuff gets going in the office and it's—
- Yow, listen i couldn't give the sound mixer
All the microphones he wanted.
He threatened to sic his dogs on me.
- Rottweilers.
- That's fucking crazy. - Rottweilers.
- I would have fired him.
- The rottweilers keep coming up.
- Seven, seven rottweilers, seven sisters, school,
Liberal arts, women's college, ahh.
- Just the worst kind of lost fan,
The worst kind of conspiracy theorist.
- Production designer, your budget seems
A little out of wack to me.
- Look, maybe i don't agree
With all the decisions the producer has made.
Maybe i got a glance at his self budgeted day rate
Which is wildly over the top,
And maybe it's people like him
That is the reason that hollywood, california
Doesn't produce anything of quality anymore,
Because it's all money and no art,
But i don't know if that has to do with anything
About someone being murdered.
- Seems to me like the production designer—
- Hates the producer.
- I agree, but also loves him.
- But also like whoa, like whoa,
Like just like sparks, are you kidding.
- Like that, oh. - Rehka.
- I'm gonna ask the sound mixer.
- What i said was, "i'm gonna be sick and my dogs too."
'cause when i'm angry, i don't eat, and when i don't eat.
My dogs don't eat, because i'm the alpha,
That's nature okay.
Honestly, according to the script,
I was suppose to mic up everybody all right, everybody.
You can't just not mic up someone
Whose suppose to speak right?
- Well asking about the microphones hasn't led to much,
And i really do want to find that murder weapon.
- You think he's just gonna keep talking in circles.
And he's like "well i don't know what to do
"about these mics, and my seven dogs."
- But my fucking dogs are hungry.
- "my dogs are hungry,
"and i was too sick last night to feed 'em."
- Yeah i don't give a shit about his dogs.
May i check in with you?
- Okay.
- 'cause i do want to go over what we know so far.
- Okay so, and i write on this?
She hates him, he hates her,
Or but again explosive chemistry.
- Like, god.
- Yes, the script supervisor doesn't seem
To talk to fucking anybody.
- Sure.
- The p.A. Is very nervous about impressing people,
But also seems like a scapegoat for a lot of people.
The sound person, the dogs thing.
- Yep.
- I imagine everyone hates the producer,
Because he's the one coming down so hard.
- Do we know how anyone feels about josh?
- Hmm, interesting.
Is josh a difficult to mic?
To get water for? - Sure.
- To dress, to script supervise.
- Rehka, you may now ask the producer
About the issue with the microphones.
The script supervisor about the script,
Or the sound mixer about another recording
That just came to light.
- I mean that last voice recording was hot as hell.
- It was so...
- I mean if we can get another one of those.
- I would love that.
- Yeah, we'll take a hot steamy recording
For one thousand baby.
- Well you know what, out of batteries again, god dammit.
- Hey, just a tip.
And this is rude, if you're a sound mixer.
You absolutely need your own batteries.
This can't keep happening.
- Also better batteries 'cause wow.
- Yeah, what are you fucking use—
- Dollar store.
- You're using dollar store.
- Yeah okay.
- Are you gonna go rogue?
- No. - Stop.
- Yes. - No stop, what is this.
- You can't do this.
- Hang on i think i have it.
- Wait, you have batteries, grant you can't.
- Oh my god.
- Do you need help? - Yes.
- Am i gonna find stuff i don't like?
- Jesus christ.
- I don't think so, think so.
- All right.
- Look at all my fucking creams and salves.
- You have a lot of creams and pills.
- It's all right, it's all right, i'm sorry, all right here.
No, no, all right, i have them.
- Oh my god, can we use our own batteries?
- I'm going to.
- Yes you can use your own batteries.
- Yes bitch!
Can i say, that was really clever
And i think grant should be rewarded for that?
- Wow, as his competition, that's really sweet, no.
Ready? - Yep.
- This is stupid.
- The producer is cutting our budget,
It's destroying our art.
All the while he lines his own pockets.
- Maybe just don't work with him again.
- That's not enough.
No one in the town of hollywood, california
Should have to work with him again.
- If you don't mind me saying so,
That's a very suspicious thing to say.
- Okay.
- Now that was also way hot.
- This is also a pretty hot convo
Between the p.D. And the p.A.
- That was really really hot.
- So this p.D., she hates the producer.
- Mm-Hmm.
- So why the fuck is she killing josh, who cares about josh?
- No one cares about josh.
- Right, he's trash.
I mean i think it—
- Maybe, she's trying to sabotage the producer
By having someone die on the set.
- Oh okay.
- So that might be a motive.
- Okay, i'm gonna ask the script supervisor
About the script.
- As script supervisor—
- Yes—
- God we get it.
- I am intimately familiar with the script all right.
- Yes—
- And i confirm this script says,
"when a player takes center stage,
"the p.A. Rushes out and stabs that player."
The sound malfunction though,
That was not part of the script.
- Yes.
- Nope, josh was not suppose to die.
And i should know, 'cause i am script supervisor.
- You are hot on the trail.
- I would like to speak to the producer
About the production designer,
Because i think that's something.
- All right look, the production designer
And i have had our differences but,
Would she switch the knife and have someone killed
Just to end my career, either way,
That sounds like a motive.
- A motive have been established
And therefore, the production designer
Is one of our official suspects.
- You may now ask the producer about the microphones.
That is the only thing you are able to do.
- Oh i'll do that.
- So listen, i said to the sound mixer,
"the victim doesn't need a microphone
"he's gonna die as soon as the game begins,
"he doesn't have any lines, you don't have to mic him up."
- So we're all mic'd, we didn't intend to die.
Are you mic'd, you're mic.
- I'm mic'd, so the situation here is that our sound mixer
Wanted a bunch of microphones.
The producer didn't want to give him all those microphones
Because the victim shouldn't need one.
- So, sound mixer, the microphones.
- Yeah?
- Tell me about those.
- What's the point of game changer right?
The players don't know what's going on,
So if i don't mic up the murder victim,
They're gonna know that something smells funny,
And that's what happened.
Isn't that right, grant?
- Shut up.
- Grant came to me asking why he wasn't mic'd up.
What was i suppose to tell him?
I told him the truth, i told him that he was, you know,
Gonna be the one that dies.
- I am mic'd, i am mic'd up.
- No this can't be against me!
- I am mic'd up, i am mic'd up, i am mic'd up.
- I'll start crying.
- I'm mic'd up though, i am mic'd up.
- What's happening?
- You may now ask the script supervisor about grant.
- This is ridiculous, wait a minute.
- Shut up! - I'm mic'd up!
- You've went to tisch, i don't know what you learned there.
- Not much!
- Okay script supervisor, tell me.
- As script supervisor.
- Oh.
- Grant approached me before the shoot.
- I didn't. - Shut up.
- He said, "i should be the killer, i can really ham it up,
"do a big dramatic monologue once it's revealed."
He asked me to switch the script around.
He said "what's a little switcheroo?"
- That's not, do a better impression of me.
- You are using your appropriating
P.A.S language. - What's a little switcheroo?
- I don't like this.
- And i told him no, i am not a script changer.
I'm a script supervisor.
- I hate you.
- This is a red herring.
- I feel—
- This is a red herring, p.A.
- Well now that i think of it,
You did ask me about the knife earlier.
You wanted to see if it was safe,
But i told you that the dangerous knife
Was in the returns box.
- I know what you're thinking.
I know what you're thinking.
- What!
- You think that i did it.
- Don't come near me.
- They did, they did it, they did a thing.
- I mean, look, we all know that grant is a total diva,
But would he a, switch the knife
B, take the batteries out of josh's microphone
So he could take center stage.
And c, get him killed just to be able to play the villain
Instead of the dead body on an internet game show.
- There's something i can't figure out.
Why would the batteries have crapped out
So soon after i put 'em in.
I mean i just put 'em in, unless somebody wanted them.
- Someone who has batteries in their bag.
Why did, i did wonder why the fuck you brought your bag
To a podium dumb-Ass.
- Grant, there is one option left
And it's to check josh's lav for batteries.
- You have to check the lav,
That's the only way i know you're not terrible.
- She has a knife.
- I've got a knife.
- I'll check the lav.
- Please.
- Oh yeah there are batteries in there.
Wait wait wait wait wait.
- There's no batteries you fucking shit head.
- We have reached the end of our journey.
Two suspects have been established.
The production designer.
Or grant o'brien.
You can now nominate whoever you think did it.
- I think the production designer.
- Rehka who?
- I think it's grant.
- You understand that if i, if it was me.
- No, none of this.
- You are being truman showed.
- I even asked.
- The narcissism that it would take.
- And the nerve, the nerve.
If i'm being truman showed, the nerve for nobody to tell me.
- You're right.
- I was asked to play a dead body.
- You dumb bitch.
- And i was suppose to lay on the floor for 20 minutes.
When i could have been standing doing meta jokes.
The whole time, no, i went to tisch.
- I know.
- The tisch school of the arts.
- So did i!
What!
- Give me that. - This?
- Give it to me.
I was born to play the villain.
I am the love child between the grinch and jared kushner.
- Ugh.
- I am the greatest actor hollywood, california
Has ever seen.
All right, you want to see me play a dead body.
And you, and you, you'll get it.
I had my monologue, i'm ready.
There are no small parts, only small actors.
Well i got the retractable one.
- And that's our show rehka.
This was all for you.
- I hate this.
I hate it, you did truman show me.
- Your prize is this beautiful, real chefs knife.
Which the crew was so nervous was going to be confused
For an actual knife on our set given its meta content.
They made us seal this box.
This has been game changer, i have been sam reich
Reminding you that every crime leads one way or another
Back to grant o'brien, good night.
- Wow.
- Stupid piece of shit, you should have told me.