- Get ready for a Game Changer,
from the year Oprah premiered
its Grant O'Brien.
- I love bread.
- From the year the Hubble Space Telescope launched,
it's Katie Marovitch.
And from the year the Berlin Wall fell,
it's Lily Du.
And your host, me.
I've been here this 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 three lovely contestants.
You all understand how the game works?
- No.
- That is incorrect.
- 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 players.
I don't know about you
but in quarantine,
time has lost all meaning.
- It's tough.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- We're going to play a game called,
did this happen in 2020?
Normally, I wouldn't tell you what the prize is
until the end of the show.
Today we're gonna raise the stakes a little bit,
you are playing for a trip to Big Sur, California.
- Wow.
- Where you in the comfort
of an inn or Airbnb
might forget about time for awhile.
- I just watched a documentary about Big Sur.
- Oh, what did you learn?
- There are otters.
I insist that I go see them.
- I really feel like I have enough in my life
until you tell me there's something else I could have.
- Sort of defining like capitalism.
Grant,
- Sam.
- When did the first iPhone get released?
- Why do you have to think about it?
- Well, because I know about Sam
and I'm thinking about the construction of the question.
- Yes he's tricky.
- Did this happen in 2020?
- No.
- That is a point for Grant.
Now Grant,
- Sam.
- An additional two points,
can you tell me
what year the first iPhone got released?
- Yes.
- Honor system now,
I wanna see hands up.
I don't wanna see anyone typing or googling or anything.
- The first iPhone was released,
2007.
- Grant that is absolutely correct.
That is an additional two points for you.
Bravo and well done.
Whatever inner chamber of your brain
that you managed to access
in order to determine that answer
will serve you well for the rest of this game.
- Katie,
- Hello.
- Did Princess Diana die in 2020?
- No.
- That is correct,
that's a point for you.
Now for an additional two points Katie,
What year did princess Diana...
Yeah,
I wanna see you flex.
- Let's see, I was in second grade.
Does that answer that?
1997.
- Katie, for an additional two points
you are absolutely right.
Princess Diana died in 1997.
Holy shit you guys,
you're off to a flying start.
- I knew I was gonna be good at
this particular question
because I went to this boat
that had a very good Princess Diana display.
- I remember when that happened
and being told and being like,
"Why do I give a shit,
"I don't know who the fuck that is"
- I loved her,
in a way that I do not care about
Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle,
I put it all in Princess Diana.
- She seemed like a nice lady,
I was sad she died.
But a lot of nice ladies die, you know.
- Lily this is, a little more challenging.
When did the TSA start making you remove your shoes?
- Not 2020.
- Not 2020, that's a point for Lily.
- The problem is I don't have a lot of context
cause I wasn't flying a bunch
when I was like 12 years old.
I imagine this is like a post 9/11 thing,
like so many things in my life.
- Maybe not.
- Shimmy.
- 2002.
- 2002 is a spectacular guess,
but the TSA
did not get their act together until 2006.
Sorry Lily.
- That's later than I thought even.
- That is late.
- Cause there was that shoe bomber,
somebody was trying to light their shoes on fire
and that's why—
- That's exactly what it was.
The shoe bomber was in late 2005
and summer of the following year,
TSA integrated that new rule.
- And it fixed everything.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- And now, there's no such thing as terrorism.
- Yeah, now it's not security theater at all.
- I love how TSA pre
is basically just the solution
to the problem that they themselves created.
- You're giving away the game, like folks.
- Grant, did this happen in 2020,
was Harvey Weinstein found guilty?
- Ooh.
- Oh, that's a good question.
- Yes, that was in 2020.
- That was in 2020.
- Oh, God.
- Well done Mr. O'Brien
- Truly, really had to dig for it.
- For an additional two points,
what month
of 2020 was it?
- So, the world fell apart in March,
but I can't remember if that was before or after.
Cause here's the thing, Sam.
- Yeah.
- I was ordered by the government to stay in my house
and just watch TV and eat snacks.
- Yes that was unique to you.
- Precisely those words.
- Both those things are so much more fun with marijuana,
and so I've just smoked this year away.
- Oh fan-
- It is gobbledygook in my br-
- If I wasn't excited to play this game with you before,
boy am I ever now.
- February
- February is correct.
- What?
Grant's Mary Jane addled brain
shouldn't be this good at retention.
- Oh my God.
- Well done Grant.
You know, you present like you're going to be bad at this
and then so far you're acing the game.
- Katie, did the spire of Notre Dame burn down in 2020?
- No.
- That is correct it did not
and so that is a point for you.
We all know what year this happened,
it was recently enough.
If you can tell me what month in 2019 this was?
I will award you those additional two points.
- Let me guess.
- Hands up.
- Grant, put those hands away.
- May?
- Katie,
so close it was April.
- So I get one point?
- Ooh, no.
- Okay.
- Lily, did Parasite win best picture in 2020?
- Tricky.
- Yes.
- That is correct.
- And tricky because it's a 2019 movie.
- I don't know about you guys but like,
February...
Oh, I just gave it away, fuck.
Oh, well the points yours.
But like the period of time
before the pandemic in 2020
is a complete and total blur.
- Full and optimistic still.
Parasite could win Best Picture,
anything could happen.
- Hey Lily,
when in 2020 did this happen?
What month?
- Not January,
was it February?
- That's an additional two points for Lily.
- Grant.
- Sam.
- Did the OJ Simpson car chase happen in 2020?
- No.
- That's a point for Grant, well-earned.
What year did the OJ Simpson car chase happen?
- Oh boy,
it was 94 or 96.
- Maybe just say 95.
- And get it wrong for sure.
- I'm gonna say 1996.
- Grant, it was 1994.
- No.
- I knew it.
- Because I would have been eight at the time.
That feels too young for me
to have been so keyed in to the OJ Simpson case,
but I was.
- It was all around us.
- It was the thing happening then.
- Katie,
- Hi.
- Was Nancy Kerrigan attacked in 2020?
- No.
- Correct, she was not.
In what year,
was Nancy Kerrigan attacked?
Before you answer,
if you could give me three more faces.
- Ooh.
- What if I just said 1997,
would that be correct?
- If you said 1997,
you would be incorrect
because this happened in 1994.
- Yes, 1994 is my final answer.
- She didn't say 97 was her final answer.
- I did not say 97,
I said 1994,
write that down I get two points.
- Lily, did Kurt Cobain die in 2020?
- Yes.
Oh, I'm sorry.
- Okay.
Giving serious thought to Katies suggestion I'm gonna say no
- That is correct,
that's a point for Lily.
In what year
did Kurt Cobain die?
- When I was a little baby.
Yeah, I feel like it is 91 or 92
but let me think.
- Make some faces while you do.
- Yes, at least three oh.
- I'm gonna guess 92.
- I was kinda hoping that you guys would pick up
on some of these contexts clues.
This happened—
- 1994?
- 1994.
- Oh boy.
- OJ Simpson, Nancy Kerrigan, Kurt Cobain,
94 was a big year.
- Has that been the entire time?
- No, just for the last three questions, Katie.
I was trying to be cute basically.
And I stumped you - No, don't do that.
- That's my thing goddamn it.
- That's not your thing,
that's my thing.
- Quick point to recap,
Grant right now has seven points,
Katie has five,
Lily has five.
Grant,
- Sam.
- When was the Game of Thrones series finale?
- Oh, no.
- And did it happen in 2020?
- No.
- That is correct, it did not.
Can you tell me,
What month in 2019 it happened?
- I'm glad that's the question
because I was locked and loaded to say 2018.
- So, one of my quarantine...
I did not watch Game of Thrones when it was on.
I did not think it would be for me
because swords are boring
and I—
- That's objectively not true.
- But during quarantine,
I watched Game of Thrones
all the way through for the first time.
Except, I have not seen the last two episodes
and I don't actually have plans to watch them
because I don't like things ending.
I do that a lot with books when almost to the full,
almost the whole thing,
but I won't finish it.
This way I still have a little bit more
Game of Thrones to look forward to.
So, the series finale was in
I bet they put it on a winter just to fuck with me.
February.
- The Game of Thrones season finale was in May.
- I almost said that,
I thought that would be too obvious, goddamn it.
- Can I ask, after being harassed to watch
Game of Thrones for years and years Grant,
what do you think of it finally?
- What a great show.
- And can I ask you
as someone who watched the whole thing through it once,
is it clear to you
when they just left the books behind
and when they started going rogue?
- Yes.
And I actually don't mind that at all.
A lot of people were criticizing the last season
and saying don't even watch it.
I've loved it.
I've had a ball watching it,
it's been so much fun.
- Katie,
- Hi.
- When did Billy Eilish win five Grammys?
Did that happen in 2020?
- No.
No, wait.
- Katie,
I've trapped you.
- Stop it.
- That happened in January of 2020.
- Wow, that's a bad guess.
- I am docking you two points.
- Don't do it.
- Oh, that's so heavy.
- Sam, that's rude.
- Billie Eilish couldn't be cooler, goddamn.
- No, it's not cool when you do it, no.
- No.
- You really did like a musical theater.
- Who's a bad guy,
he's a bad guy.
- This could get off the rails.
- Lily when did,
Harry and Meghan announce
that they were leaving the Royal family?
Did that happen in 2020?
- Yes.
- Yes is correct.
- In what month of 2020?
- I am going to say, March.
- March is incorrect Lily,
I'm sorry this happened in January.
- And you're saying Sam it's not still January.
She is the best thing to ever happen
to the show Suits.
- Grant, do you watch the show Suits?
- Oh, certainly not
- You so have the kind of personality
to be a guy that's exclusively into shows on TNT.
- Grant, when was gay marriage legalized in the US?
Did that happen in 2020?
- No.
- No it did not,
that's a point for you.
- Thank you.
- What year did it happen?
- You would really think I would know this,
wouldn't you?
I'm gonna say,
so the case was
just so I don't look like a complete asshole.
It was legalized by Obergefell v. Hodges
was the name of the case.
Anthony Kennedy wrote the decision.
- Wow.
- And that happened,
I'm going to say, 2015.
- It was 2015.
Well done,
impressive my friend.
- Grant's brain is a steel trap.
- As he takes another puff.
Katie, when was the Chernobyl disaster?
- It was not in 2020.
- That is correct, that's a point for you.
- Was it in 1993?
- It was a good
seven years before that in 1986.
- What?
- That series was too dark.
- The second to last episode of that series
was the single darkest episode
of television I've ever watched.
- It gets darker?
- Not interested.
- Lily, when was the Challenger explosion?
Did that happen in 2020?
- No.
- No, it did not.
Do you know what year it did happen?
- Well, I don't care about history
I only care about myself.
I'm gonna say 92 again,
92 feels like a good year.
- 92, like Katie,
a good guess,
but I'm afraid also 1986.
- What?
- Why do you do this to us Sam?
- As we slip the surly bonds of earth
to touch the face of God
is the last passage of the speech that Reagan gave
the night that it happened.
- Grant, fuck away with this.
- He's way older than us,
of course he's gonna—
- So you think my memory on these,
I don't even need to know history.
- Yeah, that's right.
For Grant this is all yesterday.
Very well done players as we enter
into the last chapter of our game.
Grant with 11 points,
Katie with four,
Lily with seven.
- Grant, did Kobe Bryant in 2020?
- Yes.
- He did,
what month?
- January.
- January is correct, wow.
- He died on my birthday.
- Katie, I'm sorry.
- January 26.
- He took your focus.
- He did
- Katie, did the Pentagon release UFO videos in 2020.
- Yes.
- Yes is correct.
- Do you know what month?
- February.
- February is incorrect,
I'm afraid that happened as recently as April.
- Oh.
- I'm stunned.
- What a crazy thing that
in any other category of human history
would feel like monumental.
The United States government being like,
"Hey, we don't know what these things are,
"here you go America."
Meanwhile we were just like,
"huh, yeah, what, okay."
- Whatever.
- Lily, was the college admissions scandal in 2020?
- No, it was in 2019.
- That is correct.
- Do you happen to remember what month that happened in?
- It happened some point during the summer
cause I was reading about it at work.
So at least after March,
when I would have been working at CollegeHumor.
I spent a whole morning not doing work
and reading about this.
Maybe July.
- It happened in March.
- Wow, I was so confidently reading about this
at my brand new job.
- Grant, did Brexit happen in 2020?
- No.
- That is incorrect Grant.
- Yeah,
as soon as I said it
I realized I was thinking about
the vote to Brexit but yeah.
- That's the little trick you thought was coming
in the first question, came at the end.
- The vote happened in 2016.
- Yes this is—
- Oh boy.
As soon as I said it, goddamn it.
- Couldn't actually separate it from the European Union,
in January that happened this fucking year.
- I remember thinking,
when that happened I was like,
"Wow that's really gonna tank the world economy."
But little did I know,
oh baby.
- That is negative two points for Grant,
enough to bump one of these
other players into the lead, we shall see.
Katie,
- Grant is so far ahead.
- What?
- I have four points.
- I can do the math, no.
- Katie, was Trump acquitted in 2020?
- Oh God, yes.
- That's correct he was.
Katie in what month, was Trump acquitted?
- January.
- Ooh, so close.
- February.
- February I'm afraid,
that'll be just the point for you
but well done.
Last question for Lily.
When did the WHO declare COVID-19 a pandemic?
Did that happen in 2020?
- Yes.
- Yes is correct.
Now, that's a point for you. - January.
No,
it happened in March
- No.
- That's the end of our game,
our points at the end of this episode,
Katie with six,
Lily with nine,
Grant with 12.
Grant you get the trip to Big Sur
where you can hopefully smoke more of your vape
and forget that time is even a thing for awhile.
- That is what will happen.
- That's it for us here at Game Changer,
I'm Sam Reich
and I will continue
to be here the whole time.
Good night.
- Good night.
- Bye.