- Get ready for a "Game Changer."
Tonight's guests, a turtleneck
in distressed jeans, it's Carolyn Page.
A colorful top and checkered pant, it's Katie Marovitch.
In a long dress and platform boot, it's Lily Du.
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.
Now, you all understand how the game works?
- Yes.
- That's right, because this is a Game Samer,
a game so nice we had to play it twice,
but this time with a little twist.
Last time, players, I asked you to improvise cosplay
and what I got was off and on very fashionable.
So this time we're gonna lean harder into fashion
or lewks if you will,
inspired by pop culture characters nonetheless.
Not so much cosplay as Kate Moss play.
Players, we've delivered to each of you
a gift box full of stuff.
You can go ahead and open those gift boxes in advance.
- I love this. - Ooh.
- You can take advantage of anything in this pile of stuff
or anything in your own wardrobe.
- Ooh! - You will have one minute
to create each of these looks.
Is your stuff now at a place
where you have good access to it?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Great.
The Addams Family not only dress Gothically
but also very formally.
Makes me wonder what they would wear
to relax on the weekends.
With that in mind, rather than Wednesday Addams,
show me Sunday Addams.
And they are off.
Carolyn going immediately for the bag of stuff.
Lily leaving frame promptly, Katie leaving, too.
It could get a little lonely here.
Carolyn appearing all of a sudden
in some type of blue feather boa.
Lily going through the fridge now, for what?
Maybe a prop of some kind?
No sign of Katie except a shadowy background element.
Five, four,
three, two,
one.
Katie at the last minute back.
I will start with you, tell me about your outfit.
- So I have a dress that is just Wednesday Addams' dress
that I couldn't find.
I couldn't find it so I used most of my time
looking for that.
And then at the last moment I realized
I need to have something so I put on this
because you were like Sunday so I thought
maybe this person goes to church.
Then I have this long, black, silky coat.
- Yes.
- And it's black so that's good.
And then I had a hat.
And then in case, you know, there's sunglasses.
- Katie feels a little bit like those "Top Chef" moments
where they're like, well, my dish burned
and so I need to come up with something
really, really quickly.
- Katie looks like she's about to provide security detail.
- Katie is doing a little light Unabomber cosplay here.
- Yes.
- I'll give you casual man in black.
Carolyn. - On the weekend
I like to relax so I wear a little bit of color
which is dark purple, and most of the time
I have my hair down so on the weekends
I like to put my hair up.
And this is my favorite Sunday morning toy.
- I'll give you credit for that performance,
Carolyn, for sure.
The eye makeup- - The eye makeup's great.
- Thank you.
- The combination of the knife and red hair
is also giving me a little bit of Chucky vibes.
- Yes.
- Lily, apologies for waking you.
- Stayed up too late last night
and now I'm gonna sleep in on Sunday.
And if you try and wake me up again I'll scream.
- Lily, I admire the thought that went into
the eye mask for sure. - Yes.
- That strikes me as very on theme.
- Extremely Sunday.
- We are going to approach points a little differently
this game than last time.
Instead of awarding the point to one of you,
I'm going to award them on a curve.
Out of a possible three points, let's do one for Katie
and two for Carolyn and two for Lily.
- Okay. - Honestly, I totally get it.
- The hat makes things so much worse.
- Ready for your next prompt, gang?
- Yes. - I need a minute.
- TikTok has introduced me, at the very least,
to the fashion aesthetic soft, as in softboys and softgirls.
Comfortable clothes, pastel tones, earth tones.
Pair that soft aesthetic with a notoriously hard character
in soft Lara Croft.
Carolyn quickly rising out of her seat.
Lily taking a beat longer and then rushing to her wardrobe
as if inspiration hit her all of a sudden.
Katie nowhere to be seen, a shadow.
God only knows whether she's rummaging
through her closet again for something more specific
that she will not find.
Oh, and Lily is back wearing a top
that would absolutely be described as soft.
Our other players nowhere to be seen.
They're going to have to arrive back soon.
And Katie rushing back in.
- Katie hearkening back
to her Polish roots with this character.
- Babushka Marovitch.
- Carolyn, this time I will start with you.
Tell us about your outfit.
I gotta say, I love what you've done with the cheeks.
- I'm Lara Soft.
I'm a hunter of adventure and stuff and heiress to fortune.
- Ooh, yes. - I've got my soft,
purple armband, I've got my soft thing
to keep my hair back for my adventure stuff.
I've got this bandolier but it's pink.
And this sword for doing adventure shit.
- Where's the sword actually from, Carolyn?
It's impressive.
- This is from my sword rack that is in my living room.
- Carolyn, something I really appreciate are the red cheeks.
Very true to the original Lara Croft on PC.
- With the pointy boobs?
This is what her tits look like in the first game.
- It's true, it's true. - Mm, hot.
- Katie, tell me about this look.
- Yes, excellent, so hello everyone.
I haven't seen any movies with her.
I'm simply just not sure who she is.
- Sure, video game character, Katie.
Also in quite a few movies as well.
- Excellent, so I looked at her and I thought,
now there's a tough woman.
She probably is a hunter. - Sure.
- You know, she still has to do her job
even though she's soft so I have a knife.
And then I figured she might want to be nice to people
so she brought chocolates along.
- The chocolates are meant
to balance out the knife. - Yes.
And then I have a cool jean jacket 'cause I'm badass.
And then just kinda like a cute scarf type of a thing.
- Yeah, bandana, and the hat?
- Then my hat, my hat.
- No explanation. - No explanation necessary.
Lily, all sorts of stuff going right here,
but talk us through it.
- Soft Lara Croft, Lara Soft.
She's still a basic girl, though.
She's pretty mainstream.
We've got a little flowery Reformation crop top.
- Sure. - Instead of a tough harness
we got a little pastel baby blue belt holding things in.
We still got the shorts.
She's wearing the boots that her boyfriend
who takes all her TikTok video, DIY videos wears
and she's borrowing them for the day.
And then also classically I put this on just for you guys,
classically soft, pink hair.
A little something I'm did for you all for this character.
- Thank you.
- Can I say that I really like the suspenders and the belt.
- Just gotta get the shorts as high as possible.
- I get that.
- Great effort all around, gang.
I'm going to say one point for Katie, two for Carolyn,
three for Lily who I do think accomplished
the most fashionable and true
to the prompt look of these three.
- Cool. - Oh, it's my dog.
Can you guys hear my dog?
- Yeah.
- Maybe I'll wait until he settles down.
"Alice in Wonderland's" the Mad Hatter has certain things
in common with the hipster stereotype, you know?
A whimsical aesthetic, a love of tea, money,
clearly coming from who knows where.
Contemporize him for me with manic pixie dream Hatter.
Carolyn leaving immediately, Katie leaving immediately,
Lily once again taking a moment to internalize
this Mad Hatter image before bolting off frame.
Katie nowhere to be found,
not even shadows in the background at this point.
Where has Katie gone?
Carolyn's chair giving us the word clutch.
Her performances have been pretty clutch to date.
She's found something she likes.
Lily in the lead in this challenge so far.
And our countdown in five, four, three,
two, one, and where's Carolyn?
Here, she's back, wow!
Really sophisticated costumes across the board.
I am seeing twee garden party left and right.
Lily, we'll start with you.
Take us through your manic pixie dream Hatter.
- You know, I was just kind of lost in thought reading
some Charlotte Bronte, drinking some weed tea.
Not even making it, just kind of putting the package
in the cup and trying to take a sip.
Kind of crazy, you know? - Kind of manic.
- Kind of pixie.
- So we've got a blazer, obviously, some sort of frill.
- We have a vintage Japanese collar.
These I bought at an estate sale from a dead woman.
A little crazy, a little pixie, you know?
- Thank you for that context.
Is that some sort of a beret on top?
I can't quite see it.
- It's my top hat, but I'm cute.
- Carolyn, take me through this look.
- So when me and my girl Alice are out at Coachella,
I've got on my cute hat. - Wow.
- I've got my suspenders and went for a really soft,
pink look which is really in right now.
I've got my deconstructed bunny rabbit here.
It's like a rainbow rabbit 'cause I think
that just really reflects me.
And I can be sad and excited and happy
and bummed all at the same time, you know?
- Great job with the color palette here overall.
Pigtails as well?
- Pigtails 'cause I'm a manic pixie dream Hatter.
- And Katie, take us through your look here as well.
- Um, sorry, I'm trying.
So I have kind of like a blue sort of silky shirt
that has very large shoulders
which is kind of crazy, kind of manic pixie.
I have flowers which I always have.
I'm quirky and I like flowers a lot.
It's like, a little bit weird.
I'm not like other girls.
I have my big glasses which I put on just for this
'cause my eyes don't work well.
And I have blush on but you can't see it great
and glitter pink lipstick.
- Did we touch on that fabulous wide-brimmed hat at all?
- Yes, I have lupus
and so I require a large hat 'cause the sun bothers me.
That's not a lie.
- Wow, I mean, if lupus really were a qualifier here
you would meet it.
Great work all around, guys.
Really impressive round.
I almost think you're all at the same level,
but I think that Carolyn slightly outdoes the competition
given the color scheme and the sort of quirky look
ahead of the fashionableness of the look
in a way that really feels manic pixie dream girl to me.
Two points for Katie and for Lily, three points for Carolyn.
- Yeah!
- The scores added into our mini game are Katie with four,
Lily with seven, and Carolyn with seven.
It is neck and neck.
For our mini game, each of these
will be worth only a half point.
- Oh, come on.
- I couldn't subject you to this kind of challenge
without doing some version of it myself.
Chloe, Ash, and our art team put me in fabulous looks.
About as high fashion as I can pull off.
- Ooh.
- Your challenge is to identify what character
from pop culture these looks are based on.
- Ooh. - Number one, players.
Who is this supposed to be?
That's Carolyn.
- That's obviously the Tin Man.
- Well done, Carolyn.
The Tin Man on New Year's.
Did you really wear this or is this photoshopped?
- No, this is me. - That's cute.
- Players, who is this supposed to be?
That's Carolyn again.
- Robin Hood! - No!
I don't think that's right.
- This is not Robin Hood. - Oh, shit.
- Katie. - Peter Pan.
- It is Peter Pan.
Well done, Katie. - Thank you.
- As a short man I can say
that I appreciate what heels did for me.
- It's chic, you look well balanced.
- Yeah, your modeling poses are really good.
- Players, who is this supposed to be?
Lily.
- Is it Garth?
- It is not Garth.
A fair guess given the hair.
Carolyn, do you have it?
- It's clearly Joe Exotic. - It is Joe Exotic, Carolyn!
Players, who is this supposed to be?
That was Katie.
- That is Buzz Lightyear. - No!
- Is indeed. - I love it.
This raincoat slaps. - Yes.
- Can I have it?
- I assume links to all these looks
will be in the show notes.
- Players, who is this supposed to be?
That's Katie first.
- Hi, it's that little thing from "Inside Out."
- Good guess, it is not the happy lady from "Inside Out."
Next on my list is Lily, although Lily,
from the look on your face I'm guessing you don't know.
- I don't know, pass, I pass.
I'm so sorry. - I'm pissed.
- Carolyn, do you have a guess for me?
- I think that it's a Minion. - It is a Minion!
- Yeah!
- Oh my God. - Carolyn!
- You're so good at this.
- I was at first gonna guess a Teletubby
because of the purse but then I thought
because of the color scheme and the big glasses
and the denim it's a Minion and I'm glad I was right.
- Carolyn's too good at this,
and that's not fair to Katie and Me.
- Sam, that's simply not fair. - Come on, Sam!
Don't listen to these guys.
They're trying to undercut me!
- So mad I'm gonna eat this mic.
- Lily. - Lily, please don't.
- Players.
- What?
- Who is this supposed to be?
Katie.
- All right, so this right here is-
- Oh, I know, I actually do know.
- Josie and the Pussycats.
- It is...
It is not Josie and the Pussycats.
Next on the buzz-in list is Lily.
- Garfield?
- It is Garfield, Lily, well done.
Lasagna on the shirt.
Players, who is this supposed to be?
That was Lily first.
- This is the Sesame Street character
that lives in the trash can, Oscar.
- This is Oscar the Grouch. - Whoa!
- Lily, well done you.
Players, we are about to head into round two.
The scores as we do, Katie with five Lily with eight,
Carolyn with eight and a half.
Players, I think we can all agree
that the character of Ursula in "The Little Mermaid"
was something of a mean girl. - Mm-hmm.
- What would Ursula look like in a high school remake
of the Disney classic?
Show me Mean Girlsula and go.
Carolyn with a glimmer in her eye
as if she had ideas immediately where to go with this one.
Lily off to her closet, I can only imagine.
Katie taking a moment in her chair to consider her options
before bolting off frame and now no one,
once again, to be seen.
The challenge here is to somehow turn Ursula
into something resembling a teenage comedy or drama.
10, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, here comes Katie, three, two, and one.
Wow, awesome job everybody.
Oh man, there's so much to unpack here.
Carolyn, let's start with you.
- Okay, so I'm a senior this year and like,
I wanted to dye my hair white because like, age is stupid.
And I have my vape.
I have my backpack. - Oh, wow.
- And purple because it's my favorite color
and these glasses because I'm high from my vape for class.
And also Becky, I'm not coming to your birthday party.
- A little bit of eye makeup
under the glasses I want to say.
Yeah, the white hair to boot.
Impressive allegiance to the color scheme there.
Lily, let's go to you next.
Tell me about your look, please.
- Okay, this is a school shirt, but I rolled up three times
'cause I wanna be hot in school.
These look like tights but actually they're stockings.
This shirt is dark reddish purple, my fave.
My eye shadow is blue.
And then this is like, kind of an off the shoulder lei look
that I'm adding a little floral accent
because I'm making it happen
and tomorrow everyone in school
is gonna be doing the same thing.
And then you know lunch is just one solid raw piece
of salmon because I'm kind of on a raw diet right now,
and poke is so passe.
I get a solid, rock-hard block of fish
flown straight from Iwo Jima on my daddy's plane.
- Wow, I hate this person.
This is person is unlikeable.
Katie, tell us about your look please.
- Okay, anyway, yeah, so, um, my hair obviously
is up in a big poof 'cause that's like my signature style.
I have a purple, very expensive sweater on
because purple's my favorite color.
I also chose to go with a metallic pink lae.
And then the real piece de resistance
is my cute, little skirt.
It's a mini skirt that it has sparkles on it
and then I also have my vape. - Whoa.
- Yay, vape buddies. - Vape buddies.
- The hairstyle is right on.
I'm not gonna lie, gang, this is really tough.
I think you all kinda hit this one out of the park.
I am going to say three points
across the board for everyone.
Captain Jack Sparrow sauntered
into "Pirates of the Caribbean" like an entitled drunk.
Turn Captain Jack Sparrow into something
of a rich fuckboy with Hamptons Jack Sparrow.
Everyone racing around all of a sudden.
Lily darts off frame, Katie darts off frame.
Katie's looks have improved dramatically
over the course of the game.
She's got her head in it now.
Carolyn still the one to beat, but only by a half point.
Even one round from Lily in which she bests Carolyn
could award Lily gold.
I thought a Hamptons Jack Sparrow was kind of clever, right?
Captain Jack Sparrow, Hamptons Jack Sparrow.
Anything there?
Five, four, three,
two, and one.
Amazing, really sharp looks all around.
Katie, let's talk through your look.
- Um, hi, so I just kind of have my normal vest on
with my white shirt and of course like a very fancy boa.
- It feels very polo, you know?
Very like on horseback.
- Of course, we're in the Hamptons and it's summertime
so it's pretty sunny out so I have
just like a very expensive corduroy hat on
and of course my $1.000 sunglasses.
- Very nice.
The blouse does feel pirates.
The vest I could say does feel pirates.
Carolyn, let's bring this over to you.
Man, this look rocks. - Thank you.
I've got my big fuckoff watch.
I got my one pirate earring.
I got my eyeliner.
I even got my little hair accessory
coming out my little hat.
I went for a little bit of color
because in the Hamptons you want to pop.
I got my sweater, my big, chunky sweater.
And then I've also got my sash which I love.
- Ooh.
- Which is also a map of New Zealand.
- A pirate's map, if you will.
- And I got the deep V because I'm a pirate.
- I like this look, almost Liverpudlian answer
to Jack Sparrow. - Thank you.
- Lily, take us through this look.
- We've obviously got polo shirt, popped collar
under a little cashmere sweater.
A little warm but a little chilly
as you know it gets on the beachside in the Hamptons.
I got some of my party sunglasses.
Got a little summer sun hat that I've spruced up.
You know these scarves are Tory Burch, Kate Spade,
Jack Sparrow, Jack Spade, Jack Quaid, Dennis Quaid, whoever.
I'm drunk, it's 9:00 a.m.
I've spruced up my midsection with these three scarves.
You know, a little bit of my personality.
I'm kind of just selling this outfit.
I am drinking the cheapest brandy.
- Yes, a notorious boozehound as Captain Jack Sparrow was.
Not rum, but nonetheless, not wrong.
I do think as far as sheer layering is concerned
and answering the prompt of toeing the line
between Jack Sparrow and a summer Hamptons look,
three points for Lily, two points for Carolyn and Katie.
It always amazes me just how good you all are at this game.
Here we go, gang.
I'm sure that you're all familiar
with the classic tale of Frankenstein.
I'm not talking about Frankenstein,
I'm talking about Bride of Frankenstein.
I think we can all agree that Bride of Frankenstein
is quite heteronormative so with that in mind,
show me pride of Frankenstein. - Oh!
- On your mark, get set, and go.
Desolate here as our players have gone
to their respective wardrobes to try to figure out
what a better answer is to Bride of Frankenstein.
Interested to see what the players can come up with
that's a little queerer than your traditional Gothic horror.
Lily won that last point which means that as of now
she is a half a point ahead of Carolyn.
Closing in our 10-second countdown.
10, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.
Wow, Katie, let's start with you.
- So this is kind of like a modern take on,
of course, Frankenstein's monster.
So I have kind of like the classic suit
but also I'm going for a pride theme
so obviously more colors of the rainbow,
a sign that says peace,
and then I just have kind of like a beret and a boa,
but also the pink tie because I'm very fancy.
- Love it, Lily, let's go over to you.
- Okay, this is pride of Frankenstein,
Obergefell, I don't know how to pronounce it, versus Hodges
just passed, it's pride, we're in Greenwich Village.
We're celebrating our rights to get married
to whoever we want so I am wearing this shirt
that if I were straight could be, you know, gay baiting,
but is not in this case.
And then these are, I believe, men's briefs
because gender is a construct.
I can wear any kind of underwear I want.
I wrenched the nails of my throat.
I said, you don't make me.
And I put them on my shoes and now I walk on them.
These are nails on my shoes.
That's the only recognition
that I was once man-created as a bride.
- A beautiful coda to the Frankenstein story.
Lily, thank you for that.
Carolyn, take us through your look, please.
- Pride of Frankenstein.
I'm ready to go out and celebrate every day bi pride,
gay pride, trans pride, all of it, whoop.
I've got my socks converted into hand warmers.
I got my bolts but pink. - Wow.
- I did a little bit of a green look across the face
as a nod to my undead origins. - Wow.
- And then I've got my hair all dyed up.
It's shocking 'cause I was electrocuted to life, twist.
As you can see, my body is stitched together,
my corpse, my arms, and my arms are stitched together
with messy, crude stitching here.
- Wow, gang, I do think at the end of the day
Carolyn's look was a touch more Frankenstein
as well as pride and so I'm gonna say,
three points for Carolyn, two for Lily, and...
Sorry Katie, I'm gonna say one for you for not giving
me a look that feels particularly Frankenstein-ish.
- I get it. - But you do look cute though.
- Which means, if I'm not mistaken,
that Carolyn is the winner of this game for the second time.
Carolyn,
Carolyn, you get to pick something off of the prize menu.
- Ooh!
I would like to choose the Goldbelly credits
and buy ice cream or some dessert for Katie and Lily
and we can all eat it together over Zoom, yay!
- So sweet of you, Carolyn.
Katie, you get to pick something off of the loser menu.
- Can I get a sincere complement?
- You absolutely can, Katie. - I need it.
- Katie, in a business and in an art form
where originality is super scarce,
you have one of the most original personal brands
I have ever come across in comedy.
There is no denying what a Katie Marovitch piece is,
and I think that makes you the envy
of a lot of creative types who are searching for their voice
when yours is so unique and identifiable.
- Thank you very much.
- Lily, what's it gonna be?
- Man, would be wrong to choose to insult Sam
after we've been so kind.
I would like a compliment as well.
- Part of the reason I think I've always felt so comfortable
around you is that you are undeniably authentic.
With Lily Du, you know what you're getting is her honesty.
And that authenticity means, I think,
that people feel comfortable in your presence
because they feel like what they're seeing
is what they're getting.
Authenticity is a very rare gift and I applaud you for it.
- Wow, I'm so glad I didn't choose to insult you.
Thank you so much.
- That does it for us here at "Game Changer."
I'm Sam Reich reminding you that fashion is everywhere.
It's normally just like, some variation on normcore.
Good night - Bye!