- Get ready for a Game Changer.
Tonight's guests doing a hand duck.
It's Mike Trapp.
Doing a hand duck it's Grant O'Brien,
and doing a hand duck 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 am your host, Sam Reich.
I am joined today by these three lovely contestants.
You all understand how the game works?
- Yes.
- Yes we do Sam,
as a matter of fact, - Yes.
- because it's a Game Samer.
Because in a game called Game Changer.
What's more of a game changer than the game being the same
Trapp, are you ready?
- Yes.
- You have
until I cut you off
to sell me a trip to Boca Raton, Florida.
- Fantastic.
Now, Sam, where are you from?
- You, you have any idea how much grief
this joke has caused me?
- No
- Do you have any idea
how many times I am tweeted this per day?
- No, because you won't tell us.
- Sam - I mean,
the question stands Sam.
- and Sam given the amount of grief that you've
gotten from that wouldn't you like to get away?
Wouldn't you like for a moment?
Pretend like you've never even left Boca Raton, Florida?
Like you were born and raised there?
You know nothing about Cambridge, Massachusetts,
you know nothing about Crumbly Square theater and with the
trip to Boca Raton, Florida,
right now, you can live the life.
You've always dreamed of.
- A trip to Boca Raton, Florida
would allow me to forget my past, to start anew?
- I mean isn't a vacation,
just a chance to pretend like you live a life that you don't
normally live in your day to day?
- Doesn't Boca Raton mean
rat mouth
- You have to cite that source
cause they can't possibly be true.
- Because Boca means mouth,
and Raton is like a rat or a mouse.
- I'll give you a point for that.
If only because it's given me something new to respond to
people with.
Mr. O'Brien.
- Mr. Reich.
- Love having you on the show.
- I love being on the show.
Hey, of the three of us,
would you say that I'm your favorite?
- Grant you have until I
cut you off to sell me a theme park
that's just lines.
- Sam,
first of all, where are you from?
- I'm so tempted to say Boca Raton, Florida.
I am from Cambridge,
Massachusetts home of the no sports team,
- but very close to Six Flags, New England,
one of the many parks in the Six Flags chain.
Now I won't lie to you, Sam.
I'm something of a theme park expert.
Isn't it great fun to be in line for one of America's
greatest,
roller coasters and watching a video on the history of that
rollercoaster while you're in line?
Sam,
there's history
about all of these works of art really is how I think about
roller coasters. - Yeah.
- What's your favorite roller coaster?
I'll tell you a little bit about the history,
- The Anaconda.
- Now, so the Anaconda is a very,
is a very interesting example.
The Anaconda is one of Aerodynamics rollercoasters and in
the 80s,
Aerodynamics was probably the premier manufacturer in the
United States because of just frankly,
when they started building,
they weren't designing with a computerated design,
they were designing things by hand.
Don't interrupt Trapp.
I see you want to jump in here.
- I have a question.
I have a question.
Is it typically a good sales tactic
to bore someone to death?
- Is that what you want?
- You know what though,
Trapp I think Grant this was personal enough to you
And there was a glimmering moment there
where you inspired me
to learn more about roller coasters.
- Now, is it true that that the Anaconda
don't want none,
unless you've got buns hun?
- She could do side bends or sit ups,
but please don't lose that butt.
- Sure, yeah.
How many side bends are in there?
- Kill me.
- I'm gonna give you two points.
Given just how personal and informed that response was.
Rekha, you have until I cut you off to sell me passive
aggression certification class.
- Sam, where are you from?
And are you tired of explaining it?
Here's what I learned in this class.
- Sure
- One of the advanced techniques you learn is you start to
type something.
So they see an ellipsis, but then you stop.
You just look so frustrated.
If you want to just go like beginner level,
you could do like a little like sigh, you know?
- Sigh is great.
- And your final exam,
you just get to ignore everyone you don't like.
And isn't that nice?
- You know,
just like Grant made this prompt personal to him,
you've made this personal to me.
Two points for you, Rekha
- Yeah, good job Rekha.
- Maybe somebody who had
a little more integrity would give me
a three, maybe, I don't know.
- That is so passive aggressive.
I will give you the three points.
- I am outraged.
This is a fucking outrage- - Woa woa wao.
- Mr. Trapp, you have,
until I cut you off to sell me a used condiment from your
fridge specifically.
- Very good.
- A used condom from his fridge?
Ewwww.
- It'd be so dry and crumbly just like Crumbly Square.
- Oh, he's back.
- Sam I have here lovingly made preserved lemons,
Now these,
these are preserved lemons that you can use for making a
Tagine,
and you are just a few steps away from a delicious lemon
Parmesan perhaps one of the greatest dishes ever created.
As we proved last time I speak a number of questions from
peanut gallery.
- Can you take a bite?
- Maybe, if I can open this.
It's been in my fridge a long time.
- It's salty.
It's lemony its designed to be mixed in with other foods and
not eaten on its own.
- Would you take a much, much, much bigger bite?
- Maybe a slurp?
- Here's that, maybe?
- Oh, that's slimy.
That's a weird sheen.
- It's kind of like having a lemonade, but instead of sugar,
you put salt in it.
- True story.
I did drop off lemon marmalade - That's what I thought
that was.
- That's what I thought that was too.
I thought he was bringing my gift onto the show.
Trapp,
I will give you two points for the call back to lemon
parmesan.
Grant, you have till I cut you off
to sell me a bounce on daddy's knee.
- We've known each other for a little while now Sam.
Where do you imagine I'm going to take this?
- Oh,
you have to know Grant that I craft these episodes very
lovingly - Sure
- with my cast members in mind - Sure
Okay, well,
I'm going to start by pointing something out the photograph
of the gentlemen in the suit where it cuts off.
Sam, looks a lot like where your picture cuts off of you.
- I was gonna say it looks
like - In that
turn the other way for us please.
- Oh, turn the other way.
- The other way, ah huh.
- It's daddy.
- Daddy. I had a tough day today.
Right?
Can I sit down for just a minute right in your lap, daddy?
- I'm suddenly painfully aware of how we don't have an HR
department anymore.
- Daddy, daddy,
can I sit down on your lap?
Just for a moment, please please?
Oh it's so warm in your seat here daddy.
So good.
I'm just going to bounce for a sec.
Just that rhythm makes me feel so safe and comfortable here.
Daddy, what's that?
Daddy?
Mine's never done that before.
- Oh my god, Grant.
- Mine's never done that?
Does that mean?
- That Grant has never had an erection?
- Grant that felt to me,
a little bit more like a pornographic voiceover then
a commercial.
I'm afraid only one point.
Rehka, you have until I
cut you off to
sell me animal pun summer camp.
- Have you ever wanted to go to a summer camp maybe in
Cambridge, Mass. Or whatever?
I believe you'd have some good 'tails' to tell.
You'd have a 'whale' of a time
and I'm not 'lion'
about that. - What!
- I'm not trying to be a 'cheetah' here, but I got a say
I'm going to make a 'bull-beaver' out of you.
- Okay.
I will cut you off with that dangerously good pun.
That's three points for you.
Players, it's time for our first mini game.
The scores headed into that mini game are Trapp
with three points, Grant O'Brien with three,
Rekha with six.
Players,
I am still looking for the perfect Game Changer logo.
So, I created a whole new batch of them.
I'm hoping you can help advise
me whether or not these are
problematic for any reason.
Players,
what do you think about this logo?
That is going to be Rekha first.
- Dammit.
- You can't use that, that Starbucks.
- You know what?
Now that I look at - With you in
the middle.
- kind of like this yeah.
- Whooo - Yeah.
- I'm seeing double.
- Players, What do you think about this logo?
That is Trapp.
- Sam The problem here is that
that is the GameCube logo.
- No,
- Damn,
- Trapp, I don't believe it is, Rekha, your number two.
- Is it, is it because it's the
Nintendo 64 logo?
- It is the Nintendo 64 logo.
Well done.
Grant- - Eat my ass.
- I did know it fucking bullshit.
This is all fucking bullshit
- Players,
what do you think about this logo?
- Sam,
that is the Hot Wheels logo.
That's the Hot Wheels leading the way.
- That is right.
This is too much like the Hot Wheels logo.
What do you think about this logo?
That is Mike Trapp again.
- Grant, I'm sorry.
- I'd like to know, tell me.
- That is the Bic logo for Bic pens.
- Let's just take a moment to appreciate
the little me with the
microphone behind me and the mustache.
What do you think about this logo?
That is Grant.
- What? - Son of a bitch.
- Okay, I'm going to,
I think I have this, that's too similar to the TiVo logo.
- It is!
- Yes stupid bitch!
- It is too similar to the TiVo logo.
- Damn her.
- Players, what do you think about this logo?
That is Trapp again.
- What the fuck?
- That's far too similar to the KFC logo.
You are no Colonel Sanders.
You are Sam Reich.
- This is too similar to the KFC logo.
What do you think about this logo?
That's trap.
- I'm going to say that this is Chanel.
- Good guess Trapp,
it is not Chanel.
Next on the list is Grant.
- That's Gucci, baby.
- It is Gucci.
What do you think about this logo?
Mike Trapp.
- That's too close to the Intel logo.
- It is too close to the Intel logo.
What do you think about this logo?
Rekha.
- You can't use this,
because this is the London underground, like the tube.
- It is the London underground.
Well done Rekha.
What do you think about this logo?
Ooh, Grant.
- No!
- Sam, you can't use that.
That's too close to the Ikea logo.
- It is too close to the Ikea logo.
That's impressive, Grant, really
impressive. - I'm an
impressive man.
I have lots of things that are going well for me.
- No you don't.
- And nothing's more impressive than someone intimately
knowing the Ikea logo.
- You can tell exactly like
how great my life is going where it's
like, I don't recognize Gucci or anything outside another
country, but I know KFC and Ikea.
- What do you think about this logo?
Trapp.
- I'm going to say the Heineken logo.
- It is not too close to the Heineken logo.
Next up is Grant.
- I think it's too close to the Miller logo.
- No, Rekha.
- I was going to guess Medieval Times.
- That is a really good guess Rekha,
but it is not Medieval Times.
Okay, I'll tell ya.
This is Firestone. - Firestone?
- Firestone - Oh my god, fuck me.
- Ah players, what do you think about this logo?
Mr. Trap?
- That's too close to the Fruit of the Looms logo.
- It is too - The grapes are
your beard, that's very cute.
- Moving on to round three.
The points as we do Mike Trapp with eight points,
Grant O'Brien with six,
Rekha with nine.
Players, forget the world of print advertising.
Let's leave that behind because you are performers.
I want you to channel your best commercial voiceover,
where I am going to play a series of stock videos.
And you are going to tell me what they are supposed to be
advertising.
- Gotcha. - Okay.
- Mr. Trapp.
- If you're like most Americans,
you're from Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
and you love raising your child there by the beautiful
Massachusetts sea.
Here, your baby,
a baby that will grow and wear those same stripes to be
something that he could be something bigger than himself.
If you want to raise game show hosts,
you will have to buy game show host hats.
Game show host hats,
the only hat that protects your head
from the cold biting wind
that will freeze your brain.
Game show host hats.
- This video is tragic.
It looks like she's about to throw the baby
in the ocean.
- That baby was born at prom
and she is unsure of what to do.
- I will give you a point for that Trapp.
Mr. O'Brien, you ready?
- I couldn't be more ready if I tried.
- Hi, I'm-
John Michaelson.
I'm Mrs. Michaelson you can call me Betty,
but I like to go by Mrs. Michaelson
because I'm my husband's wife.
Oooh I gotta pull these pants right up into myself.
I've better really hug'em straight up in there.
Well, Betty, I'll tell you something about my phone.
I got a picture of you right here.
Pulling those pants up.
Hi.
Look at yourself in that picture.
Hey.
Hey, get in these arms.
Betty I love ya.
I love ya.
Yeah, fall asleep right there.
Anyway, I'm going to throw you into the ocean.
- You went for the play by play dub instead of a voice over.
- I was like he's playing the Whose Line game
- What on earth were you advertising?
- Aerodynamics roller coasters.
- If I were to give you another go at it,
could you do a commercial voiceover for something?
- Yes.
Hi, I'm John Michaelson.
And I love Dove Soap.
And I'm Mrs. Michaelson.
I also love Dove Soap.
I love it, I love it.
I'm glad I lost your Dove Soap earlier today.
Hey, hey, look at this.
There's a picture of Dove Soap on the phone.
Oh, look at it, it's so good.
Oh, look how clean our hands are from Dove Soap.
Yeah, get in there and smell me.
Aerodynamics roller coasters.
- Wow, zero points.
- This is an outrage.
That would have been a fantastic commercial.
- Oh my god.
- You didn't change your strategy at all.
- Oh my god I wanna piss myself.
- Rekha, can you pull us out of this sinkhole?
- These Buffalo are dying.
They can't find water.
They can't find food.
And do you know why? Organizations like the World Wildlife
Foundation don't receive the funding they need.
So little deer like Charlie here don't have a home.
These deer haven't eaten for days.
This fluffy cow is on its last legs.
You see it can't stand anymore.
So please with your donation to the World
Wildlife Federation,
a lamb like this clearly tired could finally get the
nourishment it needs before Charlie has
to kill himself in the ravine.
- Really well done.
I like that a lot.
Three points for you.
- I think it makes you want to donate, right?
- Why couldn't I hear what any
of those animals were saying to
each other in your commercials.
- Oh sorry, sorry.
The one shot was muted.
Here's what they're saying.
"I'm Eric Jacobsen"
- "And I'm dead, I'm on my last legs."
"Please donate to the World Wildlife Fund."
- "And remember to buy Dove Soap."
- Trapp you ready?
- Yes.
Power, independence, strength,
none of these have anything to do
with Buick dashboards.
The dashboards that uplight your face
when you're sad in the rain.
If you need to lean into a mood as your girlfriend just
left you, have you lost a job.
Are you struggling under the constant news of a worldwide
pandemic?
Then Buick uplit dashboards will give you a sad
mood you need
to get through the day.
Buick uplit dashboards,
cry me a river.
- Wow.
- Oooh, Trapp.
Succinct,
bringing it all together at the end with a tagline,
three points for you.
Grant, you have an opportunity
to turn this all around here and
now.
- I'm driving.
I like it.
Oooh it's an alien.
Oooh wow.
I wonder what they are going to have for me.
Is it Dove Soap?
If aliens don't have hands how do they wash?
Well I better go up there and find out.
Hey, here I go.
Ooooohhh wow.
- Appreciate the commitment to the bit. Grant,
no points for you.
Rekha,
last one.
- Are you tired of filthy tubs,
When you're trying to relax?
Just anything to get your mind off a filthy tub?
Music, anything?
Subscribe to Spotify premium.
You can take your mind off the filthiest aspects of your
house.
If you can't elevate your living situation,
why not elevate your oral situation?
Listen to your favorite 90s playlist while you soak in a
pile of your own filth,
discover new world music.
As you bathe in water that looks like blood
Spotify Premium
on sale today.
- Rekha, well done.
I imagine that Spotify will be very grateful for the free
branded content.
I'm going to say two points - Wow.
- for you.
- That's a horrifying piece of stock video.
- Right?
Literally,
like so many clips from this one sequence of woman
bathing in blood.
- That was blood, okay.
- It'd be a great commercial for Dove Soap.
- I should have mad it for Dove Soap.
- Love the blood you're in.
- Players, it's time for our final round.
The points heading into that round a Trapp with 12,
Grant with six,
Rekha with 14.
Players, I'm still looking for the perfect tagline
for Game Changer.
I feel-
- Sam you're muted.
- You're audio has cut off.
- Sorry. Can you hear me now?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Rehka.
- Um, Verizon- - Oh shit.
- Yes you got it Rekha.
- God Dammit
- You fucked, fuck you.
- Video conferencing, it's just the worst, you know, and,
and quarantine god, it's driving me insane,
you know, sometimes you just feel like a nut.
Grant.
- Almond Joy and Mounds.
- You can't say two answers.
- But I believe it is,
it's Almond Joy and Mounds.
It's the same commercial.
- You know, how,
how is quarantine so difficult?
How is social distancing so difficult?
Like all we're doing is staying home, eating food,
watching TV, reading, all the news
that's fit to print.
- Fuck
- You're using the tagline of the paper record
at the New York Times.
- It is New York Times.
I mean social distancing, right?
It's so easy.
Rekha.
- Staples?
- Nope.
Trapp?
So easy a caveman can do it.
- Yes, you got it Trapp!
- Why are you so stupid?
- I think that it's just like this, this thing,
it just keeps going and going.
Rekha.
- Dammit how?
- Energizer Battery.
You can't use that it's Energizer.
- You can't use that Sam,
it's too easy Sam. - Sam.
- That'd be a bad idea.
- That's a point for Ranka.
It's worth saying, I mean, you know,
my version of quarantine is a privileged one.
It's like,
you know, food, TV, a nice hot bath.
Yeah.
We've got that.
Grant.
- How?
- Staples.
- Staples is right.
But you know, numbing as this all is,
I can't believe that they're opening stuff up again all
around us.
You know, it's like have it your way.
Trapp.
- No.
- That's horse shit.
- Burger King.
- That is right.
But in Los Angeles where these numbers continue to grow
every day,
they've given the green light for Hollywood to return back
to work.
It's like, give me a break.
Rekha.
- Give me a break, give me a break,
break me off a piece of Kit Kat bar, whatever you want,
whatever you need.
- Break me off a piece of that
- Game Changer.
- The virus hasn't gone anywhere.
You, you,
you can't just like start going to your favorite restaurant
or a bar or store.
The virus is everywhere.
It's everywhere you want to be.
Grant.
- American Express.
- It is not American Express.
- Trapp - Shit.
- Visa.
- Visa is correct.
And sure.
I mean, you know, masks keep us protected to an extent.
I mean, if I have to go outside for any reason,
I wear my mask religiously.
I don't leave home without it.
Trapp.
- That's American Express
- That is American Express.
- I can't believe that just happened.
- This is stupid.
- That is so upsetting.
- But even masks aren't 100% effective.
And when it comes to like the opening up of stuff around us,
it's our local government we're talking about.
I mean, it really makes you wonder, are you in good hands?
Grant.
- Allstate.
- Allstate is correct.
- Fuck you.
- Well done.
I think we have got it right.
You know, those of us who are maintaining social distancing,
like we are helping to prevent a second wave.
The few,
the proud,
Grant.
- the Marines.
- That is correct.
And that is our game.
- Sam can't help but notice that in that last game,
you didn't include like one of the most recognizable
taglines of all time, which is,
"Where are these Alien's hands?"
- "What is that?"
"I hope it's Dove Soap."
- We all do, we all hope for that.
- I hope it's Dove Soap is actually a really funny
tagline.
- The points at the end of our game Trapp with 16,
Grant with 11,
Rekha with 17,
edging out the competition by a single point.
- Thank you.
- Rekha,
your prize is once you feel comfortable doing so a glamping
experience at Yellowstone national park.
- I will take someone with a car.
- I hope you enjoy.
- This is outrageous.
- That is it for us here at Game Changer.
I am a hundred percent Sam Reich with no artificial
ingredients.
Good night.