- Get ready for a "Game Changer."
Tonight's guests, a silhouette standing ominously
in the doorway, it's Katie Marovitch.
A haunting scream coming from under the floorboards,
it's Jess Ross.
And wolf-like hair growing in places it never before,
it's Raphael Chestang! - Peekaboo!
- 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.
- No. - No.
- How do we know?
- You didn't tell us, you didn't tell us!
- 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.
- Ooh!
- Players, I think we can all agree
that scary stories don't pack the same punch they used to.
"The Monkey's Paw." - Yes.
- "Body Snatchers," we've heard them all before.
What's wrong I think is that they're not relatable anymore.
We need modern scary stories. - Ooh.
- Katie, in a moment I'm going to ask you
to tell a scary story, the type that you might hear
huddled around a campfire.
- Ooh!
- There is only one rule.
Your story must end with the sentence I give you.
- Ooh.
- The sentence that must end your story is,
I'll have a venti human blood.
- I know where this is going.
- On a cold winter's morning. - Oh, in the morning.
- Michelle Marovitch. - Ooh.
- She's not related to me, by the way.
I should specify.
So she got up and something wasn't right.
She wasn't feeling so good.
She had that kind of sensation that something bad
was going to happen, an ominous kind of a feeling.
But still she said, "Mm, I think I'd better
take my subway to work. - My subway?
- 'Cause I've got a job, it's 2020.
The gig economy, you know what I mean?
I can't be sitting at home. - Wait, what?
- So anyway, she put on her boots
'cause it was a cold morning.
And she thought, maybe I should wear a bulletproof vest.
Because she said, "I had that ominous little thought
and I want to make sure that I don't die."
- Michelle sure sounds a lot like you.
- Especially for there to be no relation.
- Now, here's the thing.
She got on the subway and she noticed
nobody wanted to sit by her. - Oh my God.
- And so she thinks, what is going on?
Is it because I'm stinky?
It is 'cause I forgot my deodorant?
She's thinking, okay, it's just, I'm a little bit stinky
so that's why no one's sitting next to me.
She goes to work where she works as a regional bank manager.
- Whoa, I gotta say, the gig economy.
- It's one of her seven jobs she has to work that day.
- Oh my God, the economy really is-
- She goes in and she says, "Wow, how strange.
Nobody's coming to my little desk.
Is it because I'm stinky?"
And none of them are addressing her.
She says, "Hi, Matthew."
Matthew doesn't seem to even notice.
"Hi, Patrice."
Patrice doesn't seem to even notice.
And she goes, "Something really weird
and ominous is happening here,
and I don't think it's just because I'm stinky."
Anyway, she says, "You know what?
Maybe I should look in the mirror."
- I could be ugly as well as stinky.
- Yes.
So she looks in the mirror and she sees,
I can't see my own reflection!
So here I am, stinky and see-through.
A man comes in with a gun. - Oh my God!
- This is what I wore the vest for.
This is why I wore the vest. - Right.
- Here's the thing, he doesn't see her
so he doesn't shoot her. - Whoa.
- So the vest was pointless.
Anyway, everyone else dies. - That's a problem.
- Holy shit!
- So she goes, "You know what?
I'm having a pretty bad day.
I could go for a treat.
I've had like, a very stressful day.
People thought I was stinky.
Like, I'm not really sure if people could see me or not.
My favorite place is Starbucks for a good treat."
- This is a branded scary story.
- It's making me want a Starbucks.
- And she waits in line.
People are bumping into her a lot.
She's like, okay, this is weird, they still can't see me.
She gets to the front of the line and she says,
"Wow, what am I feeling like?"
It's like, what do I want?
I'm just gonna say it what I really want
without even thinking.
I'm gonna say what I really want to order.
And so she goes to the cashier and she says,
"I'll have a venti human blood."
- Wow, Katie.
- Katie, too scary. - Yes.
- Well done, way to get there. - Yes.
- Perhaps a little roundabout. - No.
- The role of the bulletproof vest.
- Sam, you just didn't get it, it was-
- Yeah, you know, art is so subjective.
What are we even doing here grading it?
I will call your scary story stinky and see-through,
and I will give you two out of a possible three points.
- Wow, Katie, congratulations.
- I did really well, thank you.
- Jess. - Oh my God, I'm nervous.
- Please end your scary story with,
there hasn't been an Airbnb here for 100 years.
- Okay.
- Oof. - Whoa.
- I know where this is headed.
- That's the point. - Okay.
Two lesbians named Jen and Karen
lived in a tiny, little apartment in Los Angeles
with their little Chihuahua. - Wait, Jess, this is you.
- The lesbian's apartment was so small
they were driving one another insane.
Dishes in the sink, towels on the floor,
laundry piling up.
They knew they had to escape their little box
or they would kill one another.
So they went online and looked for an Airbnb.
They found one in the desert, Joshua Tree.
- Joshua Tree, that's right near here.
- It had a beautiful pool and mid-century furniture.
Pots and pans that were clean.
- Ooh! - And they thought,
surely, if we go here, we won't go mad
and murder one another.
They didn't say this out loud.
They each thought it separately.
- Yeah. - They kind of looked
at one another like, I might murder you,
but we'll go here and not murder one another.
So they get in the car and they pack
their little Chihuahua, Poppy.
- Poppy, did you just say, Poppy?
- Poppy has the same name. - Same name.
- Her name is Choppy. - Choppy, okay, good.
That's totally different.
- It's Choppy, Jen, and Karen. - Yeah, okay, perfect.
- And they're in a car listening to a podcast,
and they're enjoying the open road.
And as they get further and further from the city
they're feeling more relaxed and more like themselves again.
And then they get to the desert and they pull up,
but there's nothing in the spot that they thought.
You know how the desert is.
GPS can be weird. - Oh, totally.
- That's true, yes, that is true.
- That's very true.
- They opened up the car door and let Choppy run out
into where the place was supposed to be
as they were looking for reception.
And as Choppy went to where the Airbnb was supposed to be
she fell into the desert sand.
Jen and Karen screamed and screamed at the person
that they were calling, the host was on the phone.
And they said, "Our dog fell into the sand.
Our Airbnb isn't here."
And the person on the phone said,
"There hasn't been an Airbnb here for 100 years."
- Wow, you quite literally
sacrificed your own dog for the story.
Yeah, Poppy died, Choppy died.
- Thoroughly creepy when that dog fell into the sand.
I think I speak for all dog owners when I say
that's my ultimate, ultimate fear.
- Yes.
- I will give you two out of three points as well.
Raph, sorry, but Invisalign doesn't do fangs.
- Ooh! - Ooh, that's cool.
- Another branded scary story.
- All right, Raphael Chestang, 1990.
- Whoa!
- 1990? - Oh my God.
- Wait, is this autobiographical?
- This is a story from my life.
- Wow. - Whoa!
- On the screen, based on true events.
- Yeah, please insert that.
A classic scary story tool to make it,
the story of this happened to me
or this happened to a friend of mine.
Early credit, Raph, please go on.
- All right.
Wait, hold on, no, 1997. - Oh, okay.
- I'm 11 years old, I'm at my parents'.
They have to go on a church retreat.
What'll we do with the kids?
We got three of 'em.
A family friend, they offer to take the kids
for the weekend so they pack us into the van.
Pack us in, pack us in. - Ow!
- And it starts to rain and it's pouring down
and the rain turns into hail and it starts hailing.
And one of the hail stones, just as I'm about to get
in the car smacked me in the mouth and loosens up a tooth.
I say, "Hey guys,
I think I might be bleeding in my mouth."
"Shut up, get in the back seat!"
- Oh my God!
- Six hours later, many, many miles north of Chicago
it's mostly cornfields and farm houses.
- So scary.
- He goes into the home.
He takes some cough syrup, knocked out.
- What?
- Wake up in the middle of the night and my tooth
is very loose and I yank it out, ow!
- Ow! - And the owners of the house,
they come in and they're like,
"What happened, what happened?"
"Uh, my tooth, it was loose and now it just fell out."
"Put it under your pillow."
I wake up in the morning and the tooth is gone!
It's gone and there's a dollar there!
So I say, "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness,
oh my goodness, I gotta call my mom."
So I call my mom and she's like, "What happened?"
I said, "I lost a tooth and the Tooth Fairy left me $1."
And she said, "Raphael, you are too old
to still be believing in the tooth fairy."
- Yeah. - And then I said,
"You told me the Tooth Fairy was real, what the fuck?"
- What the fuck, Mom?
- And then I said, "Well, can we make it a fang?"
And then my mom said,
"Sorry, but Invisalign doesn't do fangs."
- Oh my God!
And then you said, it's 1997, what's Invisalign?
- Yes.
- What was actually scary about that story
was your parents being abusive.
Thank you, Raph, for that absolutely elaborate, fine story
but I'm gonna say only one point
for that nonsense.
It's time for the mini game.
The scores heading into our mini game are Katie with two,
Jess, with two, Raph with one.
Players, are you at all familiar
with the work of Edward Gorey?
As in, A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- We worked with illustrator Maura O'Connor
to modernize these classic morbid rhymes.
I will set you up.
You buzz in and knock them down.
Each of these is gonna be worth half a point.
We'll do a quick practice one.
You'll get it very quickly.
A is for Aspen who, like a real chump,
got COVID-19 at a rally for, Jess.
- What is Trump?
- That is correct.
- Oh, that is incredible.
- Ready to play for real? - Yes.
- B is for Bailey, who's just now a skeleton
after they spun it too hard on their...
Katie!
- Peloton.
- Peloton is correct, Katie.
- Yay. - Well done.
- That is so cool.
- These are truly fantastic.
- Katie, that is half a point. - Cool.
- C is for Cameron, who died with an "oh no"
trying to film a sick trick on their...
Jess.
- GoPro? - GoPro is correct.
D is for Dave who, like so many lonely stans,
ran out of money subscribing to, that's Katie.
- OnlyFans. - OnlyFans is correct.
- Oh, that is so cute.
I love these.
- E is for Elon, who couldn't be stupider.
He died in space, on a joyride to...
That's Raphael.
- Jupiter. - Jupiter is correct.
Well done.
Here we go, F is for Finley, who set up a tripod, said,
"It's the challenge," and then ate a...
That's Jess first.
- What is a Tide Pod? - Hey!
- Tide Pod is correct.
- Aw, I do wish that was a little drawing of Zac.
- G is for Greyson who, dumb as we are,
dove out a window, immersed in...
Raphael.
- Wait, oh, sorry, I shouldn't have did this, tar?
- No.
Sorry, Raph, Jess. - What is VR?
- VR is correct.
Very well done. - Woah.
- That's it for the mini game.
The points as we head into round two are Raphael
with one and 1/2 points, Katie with three,
Jess with three and 1/2.
Katie, in a moment I'm gonna ask you
to give us another modern scary story.
This time be warned, I might interrupt you at some point
in the middle of it. - Please don't.
- I'd prefer if you didn't. - Sam, come on.
- I love that you think this is some kind of negotiation.
The line that must end your story is,
I didn't ghost you, I died.
- Amber Lynn
was having kind of a rough spot in her life.
You see, she was already 30 years old.
- Oh my God!
- And she didn't even have a boyfriend.
- Oh, my God. - Katie, stop, stop.
- Too scary? - Katie, too scary!
- So at 30 years old, Amber Lynn said,
"I guess I'll try Tinder."
So she posts pictures.
She does a whole little fashion shoot
and she gets seven men interested.
They comment, "Hey hottie, what are you doing tonight?
Wanna go on a date?
You're beautiful."
And then one person said,
"I want to cum all over your face."
- Oh my God. - Nice.
- So anyway, she says, "It's a Friday night.
I can only choose one of these men to date tonight."
- She's 30, how could she possibly do more than one thing?
- She says, "That guy that said, 'you're beautiful,'
now that message really spoke to me.
I think I'll go on a date with him."
They make plans.
They're gonna go to the- - And I'm sorry, Katie,
I'm going to interrupt you for a moment.
They're going to go where?
Katie, you must take either Raph's suggestion
or Jess's suggestion, it's up to you.
- Okay. - Where is the date, Raphael?
- They're going on a date to a mausoleum.
- Jess, where are they going for a date?
- They're going on a date to the Olive Garden
in the Americana!
- That's it, that's it. - Okay.
- So this man, now his name is Bradley.
And Bradley says, "Hey, beautiful.
Why don't we meet at the Olive Garden
at the Americana!"
And Amber Lynn says, "I was gonna recommend the same thing."
- Whoa! - And she says,
"This is ominous."
She forgets to put on deodorant.
- Okay, okay. - Oh my God, stop it!
- She goes to the Olive Garden at the Americana.
Bradley is there, she notices that he's sitting
kind of far away and she says, "Is it because I'm stinky?"
But nonetheless she thinks this date has gone pretty well.
Classic made for the movies kind of falling in love.
At the end of the night, before they part ways he says,
"100% I'm going to call you tomorrow
and we are going to have a second date.
100%, I'm not lying at all, this will absolutely happen.
I am not gonna ghost you."
- That's a normal thing to say.
- So the next day happens and she's like,
um, hello, Bradley hasn't texted yet.
- Oh... - The next day happens.
The next, next day happens and Bradley hasn't texted yet.
The next, next, next day happens
and wouldn't you know it, Bradley hasn't texted.
- But he said 100% that he would.
- That's right. - Oh my God.
- So anyways, she's crying herself to sleep.
She falls asleep and she feels
and she realizes, Bradley's here.
She puts on a light and it's Bradley but he's a ghost!
- Oh my God.
- She says, "Bradley, what happened?
I thought we were gonna have a date four nights ago.
I got so sad."
And so he says, "I wanted to, babe, believe me,
but I got in a car accident.
I didn't ghost you, I died!"
- Oh my God, chills up my spine.
- Brilliantly performed, Katie.
Brilliantly performed, great execution.
Your destination was in mind from the very beginning-
- Yes.
- I will award you all three points.
Jess. - Yes.
- Scary story must end with, it's antichrist twins.
- Two lesbians.
lost their beloved chihuahua in a weird desert accident.
Their lives were empty and sad.
No little barks at the door.
No little stealing socks out of the laundry.
They were so forlorn and they thought,
we have to fill our lives with something.
So they decided that they were in a good place
to have a child.
They looked at adoption and they looked at in vitro,
but they didn't have the money or the means
and they thought, we need to steal babies.
- Whoa, oh, ho, ho, ho.
- Jess, are you really doing this?
- Jen and Karen.
- Oh, sorry.
- That's the only way.
They looked in their bank accounts
and they turned out all of the pants pockets
and only little lint and paper clips came out.
They thought, we can't afford it, but we have to have it.
So they went to the Americana.
- Did they see the Olive Garden?
- And they saw the Olive Garden.
Two parents went inside to get one of those buzzers
because it was very busy, but they left a little stroller
with two little baby seats in it.
The lesbians thought- - Oh, sorry, Jess,
I have to interrupt you.
Katie, what did the lesbians think?
- Time for us to steal a baby.
- Raph, what did the lesbians think?
- They thought, ooh, that baby looks delicious.
- Hmm.
I'll go with the delicious one.
- Sure, do it. - So they look at the baby.
They go, mm, those babies look delicious.
Wait a minute, are we evil witches?
Oh, I think we're demented, evil witches.
Let's just follow this though.
I guess this is Satan inside of us.
We're gonna follow this feeling.
- Yes. - So they go
and they take the babies and they drive back
to their apartment and they preheat the oven
to cook their new babies.
And they get out olive oil
and four different kinds of spices.
- It's an Epicurious recipe, it's really good.
- Yes, they looked it up on Epicurious.
They switched out the turkey for the babies,
but other than that, it's the same.
- That makes sense, but it is a longer cooking time so...
- It is, it is.
- And they adjusted the preheating time and all that.
- Okay, good. - And then as they
were about to take the babies and put them in the oven,
they noticed that the babies had weird smiles on their faces
and then the whole house started to shake
and all of the pots and pans started to fall off the wall.
And then knives came out of the drawers
and started to fling across the room
and they flung and hit them both so that they were stuck
on the wall like Addams Family style.
And they went, "Oh no!"
And then the babies went,
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, we're the antichrist, both of us!"
The two lesbians looked at each other and went,
"It's antichrist twins!"
That's it. - Wow.
That was wild, Jess. - Incredible.
- I do like how you went with the flow of Raph's suggestion.
I do like how you reincorporated characters
from story number one.
I'm going to say two points. - Okay.
- Raph- - I hope Raph
gets zero points this time.
- Are you ready? - Oh, I'm ready.
- Your story must end with,
all that was left was a single like.
- Whoa. - Oh my God.
- Jeff Bezos in the year 2020. - Oh.
- He wakes up on an overcast Tuesday morning.
Beautifully bald shaven head.
- Oh, God.
- It was overcast but the shine from his beautiful,
silky, flawless, just the most bald head that's ever been.
- The shine is blinding everything.
And so he says, "Oh, I gotta take a picture of this."
So he walks outside,
but he can't get the right background or angle.
- It's hard.
- And absolutely nothing behind me
to obscure my beautiful egg-like potato-
- What is this story? - Oh my God.
When you said Jeff Bezos I think we all thought
we'd be talking about his bald head for 20 minutes.
- So he's walking around.
He's looking for the perfect background.
He's like, I'm not gonna be able to get it on the ground.
I gotta go up. - Gotta go in the air.
- So he goes, he starts climbing.
- Climbing what? - On the side of the facade
of the building of his compound.
- Like Spider-Man? - Yeah, how's he doing it?
It's just the power from his head.
- Ooh! - And he's getting up there.
And he gets at the top and then he takes a picture
and in an instant it gets like a million likes.
He passes out from excitement.
But then, then...
- Wait what?
- Then when when he wakes up- - What?
- He hears screaming and howling
and people in agony and pain.
And there's smoke coming up from the ground.
And he sees that a plane had crashed.
Could it be that the glow from Jeff Bezos'
beautiful bald head- - Oh my God!
- Distracted the pilot and caused...
- No!
- And Jeff Bezos is so distraught, he's like, "What?"
- Oh, sorry, what is he like?
What does Jeff Bezos say at this particular moment, Katie?
- It's my anniversary.
- Jess, what does Jeff Bezos say at this particular moment?
- I'm gonna have to wear a wig.
- Up to you, Raph.
- I'm just gonna use the old improv rule.
I'll just take the first suggestion.
Oh, he thought, oh, it's my anniversary.
And to absolutely no one he says,
"You know, the anniversary of this first day
I ever shaved my head." - Oh!
- That's really fun. - That was great.
- So and he's like, "I documented that, right?"
He goes back into Instagram and he searches though.
And he's like, yeah, I documented it,
but all that was left was a, wait,
because he's been canceled now,
because news has gotten across the world
and so when he goes back to the picture
that used to have a million likes, all that was left
was a single like.
- Who liked it?
- Himself. - Whoa.
- That was so much more cohesive than your first story.
I give you tremendous points for most improved.
- Yeah, that was good.
- Not to mention the way
in which you took Katie's suggestion
and you just flipped it right back to your-
- That was really good. - Yes, brilliant.
- I will give you the full three points.
- What? - Yeah.
That brings us to the end of our game.
The scores are Raph with 4.5, Jess with 5.5,
Katie with six, Katie, that means you are the winner of the-
- Yay!
- If you could please pick something off of the winner menu.
- Ooh! - Whoa.
- I do love Russ & Daughters lox so I have go Goldbelly.
- Goldbelly is what every contestant has chosen so far.
- Really? - Wild.
- Jess, would you do me the honor
of picking something off the loser menu.
- Oh, yes.
I'll take a sincere complement.
- Jess, you are one of the genuinely kindest people I know.
- Aw.
- I never have to worry that you're thinking of others
in the highest possible esteem.
You stick up for your friends, you stick up for what's right
and you do it while remaining extraordinarily gracious
and classy. - Aw.
- We're all slightly better people thanks to Jess Ross.
- Aw. - Yeah!
- Aw. - You guys,
that's very nice to hear, that was really nice.
- Raph, if you could pick something off of this menu.
- Yeah, let's do the virtual hug.
- I love that. - Get real close.
Gonna see some hands, oh.
- Give you a little kiss, kiss.
- Yeah!
- You got a little extra. - That made me really happy.
- That does it for us here at "Game Changer."
I am Sam Reich reminding you that ghosts
are just a mix between people and Heaven, good night!
- Good night. - Good night.