- Get ready for a Game Changer!
Tonight's guests,
a pirate of the Caribbean, it's Carolyn Page.
- Yarr!
- A Jurassic Park dinosaur, it's Tao Yang.
- Yarr!
- And 3 minions stacked on top of each other.
It's Lily Du.
- Yarr, banana!
- 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'm joined today by these 3 lovely contestants.
You all understand how the game works?
- No, I'm sick of this shit. - No, of course not.
- That's right, our players have no idea what game it is
they're 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.
Now we delivered
to each of you, a bag of miscellaneous bullshit.
Materials that you might use for a costume.
You'll have those at your disposal
and also your whole wardrobe.
You show me the best cosplay
that you can manage, in 1 minute.
- 1 minute, I don't have a bra on.
Nobody told me I had to wear a bra for this.
- Sounds like you win already Lily.
That's the number 1 rule of cosplay.
Show those titties.
- I will change on camera,
and you're gonna have to do
a lot of blurring out budget.
- Players, are you ready
for prompt- - Born ready.
- On your mark,
get set...
- Luigi. - Luigi. See ya!
- Tao, dumping the bag of stuff
out on the floor.
- Oh, this is a really random bag of crap. Okay.
- What is this?
- Carolyn found something.
- What is this? - A green something,
deciding if she.. - Oh, I'm keeping this.
- Has a part in this cosplay.
- Thank you for the toilet paper.
- Tao, by the way, wearing a fabulous print romphim
- Romphim!
- Carolyn being very deft
with a green sheet of wrapping paper,
making a Luigi's hat out of it.
Lily going straight for the overalls - oooo!
Carolyn with the plunger
and drawing on herself to refine the look.
Very clever.
- Well, that's 10,
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Time!
Players, extraordinary!
Extraordinary effort on all of your part.
I am so immeasurably proud.
Lily, with the light blue overalls
and something green underneath,
plunger in hand. Hat made out of
whatever that is.
That's a very impressive display.
I have to say. Well done.
Carolyn, you were the first
to pull the plunger out and use it.
So I will give you more credit for that plunger than others.
And is that, did you manage to draw an I on yourself?
- Yeah, I drew an I cause I didn't do it on the hat,
but I had a marker.
Although I look a little bit more like Link
fixing the toilet.
- I think I'm like a Mardi Gras Luigi.
I'm like Luigi got blasted in New Orleans.
- Now Tao, let's talk about what's going on here.
- Yeah.
- So you are holding something green up
- It's unbuckled and it's, you know,
revealing my bodice. - Oh!
- A little bit of a sexy Luigi
- A sexy Luigi, yes.
- And what's that you're holding there?
- Okay. So I like to think of the truth behind
the myth of Luigi.
And so perhaps Luigi once plunged
and got a bunch of green fiery stuff out of a toilet.
And that's Luigi's green fireball.
- That's Gooigi
- This
is
close.
I'm going to say
points
for both Carolyn and Lily here.
Well done.
Tao, so close, bringing up the rear.
Your next prompt is,
Velma.
Tao bouncing up from his chair immediately.
This time he's grabbed something yellow, a scarf of sorts
and is looping it quickly around his body.
We've lost our view of Lily and Carolyn probably looking
in their wardrobes. Carolyn coming back
like a red hot flash with something.
Lily too, with the sweaters.
The plaids! Coming in, in the form of a skirt.
As far as I know, Velma does have a skirt.
Now Tao, working with string, tying it around himself.
Maybe, a touch unclear what's going on there.
A hair net!
Coming in from Lily and a wig.
This is truly next level, folks.
Lily looks hard to beat right now.
5!
4!
3, 2
And,
1.
We
- Oh my god. I can't compete with this.
I can't compete with any of this.
- Tao.
- I can't even see. I hope I get a lot of points
for these glasses though.
- Tao. I see you sporting the orange scarf.
I see you sporting some jewelry.
- Velma, famously bejeweled.
- Well, I imagine that the Scooby, the mystery
and the mystery machine gang just came back
from a Mardi Gras mystery.
- Why are all these characters going to Mardi Gras?
- Tao looks like an eccentric Chinese uncle.
- Thank you
- Carolyn. I think that you've done well here
with the sweater and the scarf and the glasses.
- Right, and I tried to do, she famously has bangs
and I don't. - Ah..
- I know, but so I tried to do
the fringe here, recreate it with my own hair.
- Very nice.
- I don't have a real human hair wig
like Lily, I am not creepy.
I don't keep human hair on my apartment.
- This character also maybe looks like
she works in a record store.
Lily. This is kind of incredible.
The colors are a darn perfect
The colors are a darn perfect match.
The wig.
It's sort of incredible
that you had that just available.
The glasses too.
I think this point has to go to you.
- Thank you. This is my only wig.
I'm so glad to use her.
- Here we go.
Dumbledore!
We've lost our view of Lily and Carolyn.
Tao has not yet decided to make use
of his wardrobe, instead
still looking in the pile of stuff that we delivered to him.
Lily, coming back with an extraordinary looking blanket
or robe that looks to do the trick, right
And eyebrows! Eyebrows pulled out of
who knows where,
and a wig.
Oh, this is an extraordinary effort from Carolyn.
What we are witnessing here
is Disney magic.
Lily's now experimenting with
what she can do in the way of a beard.
- This is extremely my shit.
- 6,
5!
4!
3, 2
and 1!
Incredible.
- The real magic's the friendship
- I'm canonically gay.
- Tao, I think I got to start with you.
Tell me about the, is that a pipe cleaner
attached to the glasses?
- Uh, yeah. These are also eyebrows.
- Eyebrows.
- Remember when Fawkes, the Phoenix
you know, sometimes he would singe his eyebrows
and would turn on fire? It's from that bit.
- What's that garage sale sign for?
- So now we've never canonically have seen
Dumbledore fly around on a broomstick,
but I think it could be possible
that this is his broomstick.
- He flys around on a giant
garage sale sign.
- Oh!
Carolyn, this is extr-
I mean, the level of detail here is extraordinary.
Where did those eyebrows come from?
- If there's one thing that people who really know me
know that I love,
it's dressing up like an old man.
- I just have these.
- Lily, this is a very fashionable interpretation.
It's got, you know
almost like Dumbledore meets fashion week kind of vibes.
- Yeah. I'd wear this to fashion week.
- The facial hair here is absolutely inspired.
Incredible Carolyn still holding up the beard.
That much commitment to the character.
- That's what cosplay is all about.
- Okay, but think about this, I was just in a strapless bra.
I needed the first minute just to find a shirt.
This point goes to Carolyn. Carolyn, bravo.
- Oh my God. It's a wig
- Well, my apartment is trash right now.
- Are you ready? - Yes.
- Elsa. - Elsa.
- Carolyn going straight to the bag, looking for stuff
that's blue in theme.
Lily, as usual going to the closet
which seems to be the foundation
of her every costume.
Tao finding something in the bag
that could serve him very, very well.
Lily, however, has also found a gorgeous dress
in her own wardrobe that should serve her purpose as well.
Carolyn a bit of a mystery now.
Tao relying, merely on the materials
in the bag, but the color scheme is dead on.
And here comes Carolyn who's changed
into a beautiful dress herself.
Carolyn appears to be fashioning her hair
into some kind of braid.
Lily kind of sort of doing the same.
Tao spinning ice at me theatrically.
Carolyn having made the same
or a similar decision to grab some ice.
Lily making a quick little decision
to put on some eyeliner to match Elsa.
Oh! we're done!
I almost lost track. We're done everyone!
That's our time.
Wow! We have Tao with his gorgeous yellow string hair,
his dress colored,
I will say with the perfect
blue and white color scheme with a piece of ice
in his hand, which I know has to be burning.
Carolyn. This beautiful dress
out of some appropriate fantasy genre.
I mean, it does look like something
Elsa would wear also with ice in a bowl
and having fashioned her hair
into an appropriate braid.
- I have, also she has the-
around the hands, I got those.
- Woah! - Woah!
- How dare..
- That, is.. - It's legit, son.
Into the unknown, boy.
- For Lily with an appropriate dress
perhaps not exactly the right shade of blue
but appears to be compensating for it
with a pillow maybe,
a makeshift braid and
some pretty on theme eye makeup.
- This is my giant ice cube.
- Do you want to build a snowman?
- I think points again for both Carolyn and Lily.
These are really equivalently strong efforts
from both of you.
Tao, listen man, you're doing- I swear
you will have the opportunity to catch up.
Players, it's time for the mini game.
Now it didn't seem fair for me to subject you
to this kind of embarrassment
without doing it myself too.
So this past weekend, I challenged myself
to come up with some outfits
of characters you might know,
made with household objects.
And so your challenge is to be the first
to buzz in and tell me
who I'm supposed to be.
Players,
who is
this supposed to be?
That's Carolyn.
- Raphael from the Ninja Turtles.
That's a ninja turtle
and the purple one's name is Donatello?
- Sorry.
Raphael is what you said first
and so I'm going to move on to Tao.
- That's Donatello!
- Fuck. Give me half a point, come on.
- Well done.
I have coasters for arm bands
and I've got a trash lid as my shell, yeah.
- I see like the abs on the chest plate.
That's a nice touch.
- Yeah, makes your chest look strong.
- That is a foam inlet from a dog bed.
- And now people can green screen you anywhere.
- Players. Who is this supposed to be?
- Tao, first to go.
- Oh, this is definitely Iron Man, you're Iron Man.
You're Tony Stark.
- It is Iron Man.
Well done Tao. What did I tell you?
- I don't want to prejudge before we see the third one
but Sam, can you comment on the decision
for all these characters to be barefoot?
- Casual, California superhero
- My feet and legs are so pale as compared
to the rest of my body that we had to color correct them
in order so that I wouldn't look like half a corpse.
- My god.
- Players.
Who is
this supposed to be?
- Tao again.
- Fuck!
- I think this is Tinkerbell.
- This is Tinkerbell!
- Oh my god! - Tao!
- What do you have on your back, big dirty pads?
- These are air conditioner filters.
- Right.
I want to commend you really on the pose, here.
- Yeah. - You fucking nailed it.
- Players.
Who is
this supposed to be?
Carolyn.
- That's Master Yoda, baby.
- That is Master Yoda!
- Glad I didn't hit the buzzer,
because I would have guessed Old Shrek.
- I'm glad I lost that one.
- These are going to get a touch harder.
- Okay.
- Players, who do you think
this is?
That's Carolyn again.
- Harley Quinn. Obviously.
- Oh, fuck!
- So sexy! - That's good.
Well done.
Carolyn. - Yeah.
With her famous mallet being portrayed here
by what looks to be a can of Folgers.
- And once again, no shoes. Barefoot.
- Can you believe that these are my Photoshop legs and feet?
Like what must've they looked like before?
- I want to see the unedited.
- You know the Dropout fandom loves a good feet pic.
- That's a cute little number.
You could wear that out.
- You could also wear it as I guess
a sexy Ruth Bader Ginsburg thing.
- Oh, I totally see that.
That's a great call, a great call.
- That's a big gavel.
- Players.
Who do you think that
this is?
Lily?
- Is this Grimace?
- Yes! This is Grimace!
Holy shit!
Lily!
- This is very scary.
- Once again, highlighting the bare feet
- Really going for it.
- I mean, you had all week to do this.
You could have put on shoes.
- Players.
Who is
this supposed to be?
That's Tao.
- Oh, this is Marge Simpson baby.
- This is Marge Simpson!
Very well done, Tao. - Wow.
- It's actual cherries and masking tape.
Can you believe that? - Whoa!
- Iconic, an iconic look.
- Last one.
If anyone gets this, I will be dumbfounded.
Players, any idea who
this is?
Lily.
- Are you the Jack-in-the-box?
- I am not the Jack-in-the-box.
- Carolyn. I'm sorry, but next on the list
in the buzzing is Tao.
- Are you Homestar Runner?
- Yes! I'm Homestar Runner!
- Oh, hell yeah. Okay.
- Well done!
- Players, we are headed into round 2 of our game.
The scores are Carolyn and Tao tied with 5 points,
Lily with 4.
Now, instead of just cosplay
I'll be adding some slight modifiers.
You guys have seen this in the world of cosplay.
We get like steampunk Mario.
- Horny Grimace.
- Horny Mickey Mouse. - Horny Pikachu.
- The prompt is, business casual Poison Ivy.
Tao going immediately for the bag of stuff
and finding something green.
Lily nowhere to be seen, Carolyn nowhere to be seen.
Tao appears to be doing the tunic approach
tying it at the bottom.
Can't help but feel, this is a type of clothing
we've never seen before.
Leaving the frame for the first time, which suggests
to me he's getting something out of his wardrobe.
Lily coming back with a blazer.
Not just a blazer, but a blazer
the appropriate color
for Poison Ivy.
Carolyn too, with flowers in her hair.
Carolyn finding a plant to put
bringing the attention to decor,
as well as costume has got to earn the points here.
Tao has got something in his hand there
that looks like it might be leftovers
its hard to say.. salad?
Tao has got himself a leafy green.
- So I was going to do..
- 3!
2!
1.
Wow. Gang. That salad
is so funny.
Tao, I'll start with you.
- Yes. What I'm having for lunch at my desk.
- What about this outfit is business casual?
- It's a skirt.
- Oh, the skirt. I see, yeah.
- I mean that's a skirt.
- Carolyn, yeah. There's there's a lot
that I love about this.
I love the flowers in your hair.
- This was made by my friend
who makes jungle crowns.
Super Happy Ghost Co. is her brand.
But this is, you know, I've got the blazer.
I've got the vines here.
I tried to do the
got my gloves, my arm pieces,
- Really? - my desk plant.
And then the, the crown, because in the workplace
it's important to have fun and keep it casual.
- Yeah.
It's a casual Friday sort of. - Exactly.
- Lily. This, this is a truly fabulous
business casual look that might be lacking
a little Poison Ivy.
- No, cause I'll fricking kill you.
- Really good effort everybody.
I think this point in particular goes to Carolyn
which means Carolyn has broken out, into the lead.
Players, your next prompt is,
high school Jack Skellington.
From Nightmare Before Christmas.
Carolyn and Lily both disappeared again.
Tao bent over the bag of bullshit,
looking for what is white in there?
What is black in there?
- Get out of my mind.
- It's just you and me buddy.
Coming back Carolyn with the jersey
and also some skeletal face makeup.
That's some impressive commitment, not to mention
a shower cap.
Coming in with black & white and putting
some more make-up on the face
not to be out done by Carolyn.
- I'm just wasting my Fenty eyeshadow.
- Carolyn pulling out the Sharpie.
I can only imagine what that means.
- The marker going on to Tao as well!
With 10, 9,
8,
7,
6,
5,
4, 3
2, 1.
- Tao, that is terrifying.
- That's the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life.
- Tao, you're making so much noise over your mic.
- You look like one of those Halloween
little like ghost Popsicle things.
- You make like a Kleenex over a tootsie roll - pop?
- Yeah.
- Yeah. There was a lot of creativity
that went into this Tao.
Carolyn. Wow.
I love the jersey.
I love of course the, the makeup.
- Sunscreen.
- Oh, the sunscreen.
Wow. Very good.
- And then, you know, Jack, when he was younger,
he had some hair.
- Yeah, there's a little bit of like a collegiate
like founding father thing going on there.
What's that you're holding in your hand?
- This is a pumpkin cause I was a pumpkin, the pumpkin King.
And so here's my little pumpkin
for I'm on the sports team that we throw.
It's called pumpkin ball for Halloween Town, the league.
And I'm the quarterback obviously
because I'm Jack Skellington.
- Lily. Tell me about what we have going on here.
- I'm kind of like, we got like
a high school pep squad kind of,
I'm a cheerleader for the pumpkin game
and I just graduated.
I'm proud, I'm peppy.
- Yes. I like it a lot.
Tao, full respect to you.
Points again for Carolyn and Lily.
As Tao slowly suffocates.
Your next prompt is,
music festival Pikachu.
Tao deciding quickly that the bag
of bullshit will supply him with what he needs
finding more yellow and excited about it,
it would seem.
Not reverting to her wardrobe
as quickly as she does usually.
Lily nowhere to be found.
I've got to assume she's rummaging through her wardrobe.
Lily re-appearing again, definitely going
the music festival approach here.
Flowers in her hair, an appropriately colorful jacket.
I'd wear it to Coachella.
And Tao seeing what he can do
in the way of makeup, painting his face in a hurry.
Eager to see how that works out for Tao.
Lily's studying her own face now.
Here comes Carolyn back with the paper cups for ears
in 7,
6,
5,
4
3,
2,
1.
Players, look at these incredible outfits.
- I've weed gummies!
- Very music festival appropriate prop.
Tao still fastening on the mask.
- Found the weird tent at Burning Man, man.
- Pikachu getting weird.
The yellow scarf around the neck.
Oh. And some makeup under the mask.
It looks like.
- Did you know that ecstasy turns Pikachu's
iconic red cheeks a different color?
- Carolyn, moving on over to you.
Love the cup ears.
Oh and the tail very well done.
- Oh, me too!
- Yay! Tail twins.
- Lily Du. Wow, all I can say is wow!
I love the makeup job here.
I love that it's Pikachu themed
and also music festival themed.
- It's not yellow face, I put yellow on my face
but it's not yellow face.
- Very music festival-ish glasses.
- Pika, pika!
- Pikachu!
- Wah wah wah, Pika, Pika!
- Well, Lily, I think this point has to go to you.
I love this outfit.
- Oh, god bless. Thank you.
- Your last prompt is,
sexy Pennywise, from It.
Some quick hair work from Carolyn there in the background.
Tao once again, go into the bag.
Lily seeing if she can quickly fashion herself
a nose of some kind.
Not rushing to her wardrobe immediately,
but instead seeing what she can do right
at her table.
Carolyn having disappeared to the wardrobe no less.
The question is do players go clown or do they go creepy?
Do they go both as well as sexy?
We shall see.
- Oh, he's sexy. I forgot.
- Carolyn in the background with some
appropriate makeup looking like she's got a handle on this.
Tao doing what in the background there?
It's not totally clear to me.
Carolyn coming in with the yarn on top of the head.
Lily fashioning herself a nose out of something.
- Oh, thank god.
- And, 4
3
2
1,
and that's time! Tao!
God!
You've absolutely terrified me.
- I forgot about the sexy part.
- The blanket, I will say is a nice touch.
It does feel color appropriate to Pennywise.
Also. I love using the hats as hair.
Carolyn. Wow, wow!
- I even, I got a heart on the nose.
Because nothing's sexier than love.
- You've got heart.
We've got doily.
We've got hair.
Lily?
- I gotta say I ran out of steam on this one.
I sat too long trying to make this nose,
and then I forgot he was supposed to be sexy.
So then I put this bustier on.
- Lily, really, really noble effort here.
I do think this point has to go to Carolyn.
- That is correct.
- The points at the end of our game, Tao with 5 points
Lily with 6, Carolyn with 8.
Well done.
Your prize on theme for the world of cosplay
is the video game system of your choice.
- What? Oh my god! Whoo! - Yeah!
- That does it for us here at Game Changer.
I'm Sam Reich reminding you
that we are all born naked and the rest, is cosplay.
Good night! - I need a shower.