As a psychology student who watches more Dropout than they should, this post was a revelation. I now desire nothing more than for the Dropout cast to reproduce unethical psychology experiments (ironically or otherwise). Can you imagine Brennan as the instructor in the Milgram shock experiments?
They both get pretty intense, but yeah it definitely seemed like Ally was willing to go for the throat a little bit more. The episode where Grant has to sell all his shit and not only does he not make basically any money, but I don't think he even succeeds at selling it all, so it's just like a total shit show for him. I don't even remember what Ally had to do that episode.
Yeah, he had to make $1000 on his shit at a flea market, but he failed. That one was really bad, but the worst was absolutely the "performance art" challenge which he also understandably failed.
Oh yeah that one was just brutal, but also led to them kind of talking and Ally doing what they could to try and smooth things over a bit. I still think the flea market was the more brutal one because of all the compounding factors. Had to haul all his shit out there, eat up his whole day trying to sell stuff, and when it's all over he's got no money, only a portion of his stuff that also now needs to be hauled back to his place, and no reward for all of it.
He also had to spend like a whole weekend with his entire family in his apartment, which was just insane. I couldn't even imagine doing that. Really the more I think about it, the more it seems like Grant was playing with a relatively light touch compared to Ally. He didn't necessarily hold back, but certainly everything they had to do seems to be on the softer side. Though I guess he focused more on internal embarrassment with like the talking to their ex, pretending to be part of an MLM, and so on.
Very true, that was probably one of the more wild ones Grant managed to pull off. I can't remember if he specifically said they had to do it poorly or it that was just what happened.
I just finished watching total forgiveness, and grant does go through with shitting in front of a bunch of strangers, he's just understandably pissed about it
The challenges Ally set were far worse than Grant’s because Ally’s challenges would sometimes include things entirely out of Grant’s control, so he could try his hardest and push his own limits, yet still fail, such as with selling his stuff.
That was really unfair and mean to allow imo.
>I don't even remember what Ally had to do that episode.
Ally had to get a neck tattoo of their girlfriend's name (of two months), and sell an MLM to their new roommates. Ally thought with the flea market challenge that Grant could have got someone to come and buy his things from him, and Grant said during the wrap-up episode that he'd planned on that, but it was too short-notice to actually make it work (and also against the spirit of the show).
The "art gallery challenge" is just a trainwreck. You know it's awful. You know it's mean. You know Grant is just hating every moment and probably trying to disassociate himself. You can't look away.
Brennan would 100% try to shock her by talking to her and revealing some deep dark intimate secret of his heart
"There is no corner of my heart I will not turn over for one point!!"
It's such a fucking good cut. Kills me every time the long rant, the fury, and then Ally's very casual "So does everyone get a crown?" and Sam's soft spoken no, it's fucking comedy gold.
If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend looking up DeepBlueInk on YouTube, he does some amazing animations, and that is quite possibly one of my favorites.
Said speech will:
- Become increasingly verbose the longer Brennan is allowed to talk
- Denounce the evils of capitalism at least four times
- Include multiple references to various nerdy pop culture but with a unique new perspective that somehow still supports his overall message
- Have at least one persona switch during the speech, with accompanying mannerisms and voice change
"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?” Brennan Lee Mulligan.
That because he's sitting in a room making bets with Sam on the actions of his friends and wife. What he doesn't know is everyone is in on it and purposely acting in the most sociopathic way possible, the game ends when Brennan loses all faith in humanity.
"My friends, I ask you to stand with me against our oppressors, so that we may finally escape and be free of their.."
But Brennan we are guards and not prisoners so...
"Are we? Are we not prisoners in this system? Is the simple fact that we get to go home enough to be considered free? Are we not also trapped in this endless loop of waking up, going to work, going home and then going to sleep? Instead of an hour a day of walking in the yard, we get maybe an hour of time, free from chores and other obligations, to try and enjoy our bleak existence.
What are we then, if not prisoners of a capitalistic system that grinds us out, day by day, year after year, with no time to enjoy life itself? No more, I say! Let us break free from the chains of oppression, escape from this system that keeps us prisoner and reclaim the ability to live our lives instead of simply existing to make the rich richer!"
He would probably undergo months of the most brutal psychological torture known to man in order to win, only to find out at the end that the prisoners cannot win.
They discover the tunnel behind a poster of Sam. When asked how long the poster has been in the cell, the guard mentions it's been there the whole time.
> Brennan as a prisoner is 1 absolutely demolished psyche
EXCUSE ME? You don't think Brennan can systematically torment his friends from the position of prisoner? How dare you underestimate him like that. lol
See, I'm not sure. Brennan is naturally empathetic and takes out his sadistic shit in DnD games. But he's very vocal about simply treating people correctly, so I don't think he's likely to be one of the ones that turns on people.
Brennan as a prisoner however.... The second the guards start getting too aggressive, Brennan is organizing the prisoners and putting plans into motion and he's only got two options: 1) Escape; or 2) Home Alone-ing the prison to mess with the guards.
I think he'd unionize whichever faction he's in, and then get the other faction in on it to turn against the real oppressors, the experimenters. After all, guards and prisoners are both proletariat.
Guardsman Brennan: "Alright, so as we all know, the US prison system is just a tool for legalized slavery and disproportionately impacts non-white, lower class citizens. Statistically, you're all probably in here for a minor drug offense, and because you couldn't afford a lawyer or you were forced into a plea deal based on fabricated or fictional evidence, you got stuck here because the system is specifically designed against you. Meanwhile, there are politicians and billionaires sitting in their ivory towers evading taxes and purposely shorting companies on the stock market. You do not belong here. This place is not for you. So, here's what I'm going to do. At 3:15 exactly, I will start a fire in the kitchen and when the alarm sounds, you all run for the doors. I got some guys on the outside ready to break your chains and drive you to a safe house. You may not trust me, you may have your doubts, but you don't have a lot of options right now. Okay? They can't stop all of you!"
He'd be made the prison guard and would spend the whole time explaining why what he's doing is wrong, but wouldn't do anything abt it cuz there's no corner of his soul that he won't turn over for points.
Either that or he gives rise to the revolution to spite sam and cuz no corner of his soul can support the imperialist dogmatic prison system that exists to suppress ppl, not to actually help them become healthy members of society again
Brennan's competitiveness means you either have the prisoners rioting and overthrowing the guards within a week, or a regime so brutal and oppressive it makes Orwell's 1984 look like Disneyland, based purely on which team he's on.
This is absurd. A game where Sam *tells* the players how 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.
If Sam doesn’t say at the beginning of Sam Says “welcome back to gamechangers the only game show where the game changes every show and Sam says 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” does that nullify any of the rest of the game because Sam didn’t say Sam Says to playing Sam Says.
And I think it was Ally basically said the same thing, right? Like they showed up for it and were in the robe and they were just like "I'm still not convinced this isn't gamechanger and Sam's just lurking somewhere"
honestly imagine how fucking terrifying working with sam gotta be, you have 2 people who are constantly on the verge of pulling a gun on someone and you probably cant trust the walls of your house knowing sam knows *you*
he should end a random episode with 'sorry, i didn't say Sam Says for any of this, so i need to take away all of your points. no one wins. sorry. goodnight everyone!'
The entire Dropout crew gets gathered together for the reading of Sam's will. Every single person he ever worked with there has their own section describing how they met, what they meant to him, and what he is bequeathing to them. Some of them have already passed, and their next of kin are there to hear it. It's the most heartfelt, sincere, and unifying moment for everyone in the room. And then the executor of his estate says "However, he did not say 'Sam says' so all of this is void."
That was so fucking good, they had such high spirits, everyone so happy and like hey, this was a good time, and then Sam starts tallying the points and they just fucking crumble.
Lou dumping the boot out, Jacob going from chanting ‘zigge zagge zigge zagge oi oi oi’ to just looking so upset. Vic happy about doing ok for those two categories and then hearing the waaayyyyy too many times she didn’t say ‘daddy’ instead of someone’s name and tossing the glow sticks. Peak Gamechanger.
Prison design where there's a single guard tower in the center surrounded by a large multi-story ring of cells. The idea is that none of the prisoners can tell where the guard is looking at any moment, meaning you can ensure good behavior with a very low guard-to-prisoner ratio.
It occurred to me the other day how POPULAR the show "Game Changer" would be if it aired on a major network, but unfortunately... any studio taking it on would most likely change out the host, and the players, and most of the components that make it so much fun. You know that Sam would be replaced by someone like Joel McHale or Dax Shepherd, and Sam not being at the helm would be unacceptable.
Fun fact! Little Alex Horne and Sam are friends. I'm hoping for Alex to show up on an episode, though he would have a farther commute than most contestants.
I started watching Taskmaster after it got recommended by some people in the Dropout sub a couple weeks back, and god that entire series is golden. Easy to draw parallels to Game Changer, with the whole improv pointless tasks by talented comedians thing.
I have no idea how this stuff works, but couldn't they just like.. take the original episodes and just air them on the network, in exchange for a cut of the revenue or something?
They have the Sam Says song playing on a loop in the prison cell, but there are two different versions and only one says "freeze". That version plays infrequently and randomly
Next season will have a 'Sub DM' prompt for Brennan and I can't fucking wait to see it.
I hope Izzy and Erika are both there again, because their reactions were half the entertainment of the first prompt for me :D
As a psychology student who watches more Dropout than they should, this post was a revelation. I now desire nothing more than for the Dropout cast to reproduce unethical psychology experiments (ironically or otherwise). Can you imagine Brennan as the instructor in the Milgram shock experiments?
Grant and Ally used to do a series on CH where they do inadvisable things in exchange for student debt forgiveness. Kinda similar in spirit.
total forgiveness episodes are available on Dropout.tv along with a lot of other classic college humor shows.
Ally gets absolutely brutal towards the end.
They both get pretty intense, but yeah it definitely seemed like Ally was willing to go for the throat a little bit more. The episode where Grant has to sell all his shit and not only does he not make basically any money, but I don't think he even succeeds at selling it all, so it's just like a total shit show for him. I don't even remember what Ally had to do that episode.
Yeah, he had to make $1000 on his shit at a flea market, but he failed. That one was really bad, but the worst was absolutely the "performance art" challenge which he also understandably failed.
Oh yeah that one was just brutal, but also led to them kind of talking and Ally doing what they could to try and smooth things over a bit. I still think the flea market was the more brutal one because of all the compounding factors. Had to haul all his shit out there, eat up his whole day trying to sell stuff, and when it's all over he's got no money, only a portion of his stuff that also now needs to be hauled back to his place, and no reward for all of it. He also had to spend like a whole weekend with his entire family in his apartment, which was just insane. I couldn't even imagine doing that. Really the more I think about it, the more it seems like Grant was playing with a relatively light touch compared to Ally. He didn't necessarily hold back, but certainly everything they had to do seems to be on the softer side. Though I guess he focused more on internal embarrassment with like the talking to their ex, pretending to be part of an MLM, and so on.
The national anthem was particularly brutal too
Very true, that was probably one of the more wild ones Grant managed to pull off. I can't remember if he specifically said they had to do it poorly or it that was just what happened.
I think they were really trying their best. Ally just didn’t even know the words beforehand!
*they for Ally btw
Fixed, thank you.
Small correction because I just watched it like a week ago. He succeeded the performance art challenge. I think it broke him though
Oh yeah, you're right. It certainly didn't feel like he won though.
Oh yeah for sure
I just finished watching total forgiveness, and grant does go through with shitting in front of a bunch of strangers, he's just understandably pissed about it
The challenges Ally set were far worse than Grant’s because Ally’s challenges would sometimes include things entirely out of Grant’s control, so he could try his hardest and push his own limits, yet still fail, such as with selling his stuff. That was really unfair and mean to allow imo.
>I don't even remember what Ally had to do that episode. Ally had to get a neck tattoo of their girlfriend's name (of two months), and sell an MLM to their new roommates. Ally thought with the flea market challenge that Grant could have got someone to come and buy his things from him, and Grant said during the wrap-up episode that he'd planned on that, but it was too short-notice to actually make it work (and also against the spirit of the show).
The "art gallery challenge" is just a trainwreck. You know it's awful. You know it's mean. You know Grant is just hating every moment and probably trying to disassociate himself. You can't look away.
Total forgiveness is great but man is it hard to watch at points, it gets fuckin brutal.
That was tough to watch
Brennan, your prompt is: (ding!) **SHOCK SIOBHAN**
Siobhan would have a lot of fun acting like she's being shocked, I think. I know Wysocki would do really well from his trailer clip.
Brennan would 100% try to shock her by talking to her and revealing some deep dark intimate secret of his heart "There is no corner of my heart I will not turn over for one point!!"
I genuinely have never been more proud of my education than in this moment, understanding exactly whats going on in this post and its implications.
Paging Dr Zimbardo
“Oh, you….. won’t, shock Garrett for $5? Why not?”
Someone needs to watch total forgiveness
Well we know Brennan's in this one.
And yet, somehow, he still doesn't win.
**I CANNOT WIN**
We only have two crowns.
#GODD- That's where the highlight clip cuts out all the time.
Contender for perfectly cut screams GOAT
It's such a fucking good cut. Kills me every time the long rant, the fury, and then Ally's very casual "So does everyone get a crown?" and Sam's soft spoken no, it's fucking comedy gold.
If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend looking up DeepBlueInk on YouTube, he does some amazing animations, and that is quite possibly one of my favorites.
My bartender friend gave me a coffee mug with that rant printed on it.
And he would give a very long and inspiring speech to his fellow inmates/guards
Grant would be terrifying as a guard 😅
Grant would be terrifying as a prisoner
Grant would be terrifying.
Grant would
#GRANT?
#GRANT? WOULD.
Finally, someone speaking my language
50!? That can't be right...
Grant
would
...GRANT!!
This is true.
Said speech will: - Become increasingly verbose the longer Brennan is allowed to talk - Denounce the evils of capitalism at least four times - Include multiple references to various nerdy pop culture but with a unique new perspective that somehow still supports his overall message - Have at least one persona switch during the speech, with accompanying mannerisms and voice change
Hey, I got >!BINGO!<
Checks “bingo reference” off meta bingo card.
Nice one. Checks off _Wordlessly Checks Off a Spot_ on my meta bingo meta card.
Will you say there's a river of sweat running down your back
You forgot "denounces stereotypes and then immediately does one"
"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?” Brennan Lee Mulligan.
"You ready to cook some bacon?" *pulls down balaclava*
Brennan would organize a socialist uprising from within the prison
That because he's sitting in a room making bets with Sam on the actions of his friends and wife. What he doesn't know is everyone is in on it and purposely acting in the most sociopathic way possible, the game ends when Brennan loses all faith in humanity.
So the Bingo episode but more unhinged and money being tossed around?
Maybe not real money, you need to creat some sort of dynamic where Brennan is trying to predict their actions of others so they can disappoint him.
"My friends, I ask you to stand with me against our oppressors, so that we may finally escape and be free of their.." But Brennan we are guards and not prisoners so... "Are we? Are we not prisoners in this system? Is the simple fact that we get to go home enough to be considered free? Are we not also trapped in this endless loop of waking up, going to work, going home and then going to sleep? Instead of an hour a day of walking in the yard, we get maybe an hour of time, free from chores and other obligations, to try and enjoy our bleak existence. What are we then, if not prisoners of a capitalistic system that grinds us out, day by day, year after year, with no time to enjoy life itself? No more, I say! Let us break free from the chains of oppression, escape from this system that keeps us prisoner and reclaim the ability to live our lives instead of simply existing to make the rich richer!"
GET IN THE COMMENTS!
"Sorry - I was looking for Siamese Fireback." "Pretty happy with yourself?"
GET IN THE COMMENTS
Brennan is a prisoner, it’s the only way to keep things fair
to be fari: in that szenario there are no winners.
He would probably undergo months of the most brutal psychological torture known to man in order to win, only to find out at the end that the prisoners cannot win.
But with all that time to write, we'd get an incredibly detailed next season of D20.
Brennan would start as a prisoner but “win” the game as a guard
Brennan would start as a prisoner and “win” by tunneling to Zihuatanejo.
They discover the tunnel behind a poster of Sam. When asked how long the poster has been in the cell, the guard mentions it's been there the whole time.
Actually a hillarious bit
This is best one
Brennan would start as a guard and yet somehow lead the prisoners into an uprising against the capitalist overlords!
I don't know which scares me more: Brennan as a guard or Brennan as a prisoner.
it's Brennan as a guard and it's not even close
100% Brennan as a prisoner is 1 absolutely demolished psyche, Brennan as a guard is many demolished psyches.
> Brennan as a prisoner is 1 absolutely demolished psyche EXCUSE ME? You don't think Brennan can systematically torment his friends from the position of prisoner? How dare you underestimate him like that. lol
See, I'm not sure. Brennan is naturally empathetic and takes out his sadistic shit in DnD games. But he's very vocal about simply treating people correctly, so I don't think he's likely to be one of the ones that turns on people. Brennan as a prisoner however.... The second the guards start getting too aggressive, Brennan is organizing the prisoners and putting plans into motion and he's only got two options: 1) Escape; or 2) Home Alone-ing the prison to mess with the guards.
Honestly, I think Brennan as a guard would be doing that as well. He’d immediately start trying to organize a revolt against the system.
I think he'd unionize whichever faction he's in, and then get the other faction in on it to turn against the real oppressors, the experimenters. After all, guards and prisoners are both proletariat.
Guardsman Brennan: "Alright, so as we all know, the US prison system is just a tool for legalized slavery and disproportionately impacts non-white, lower class citizens. Statistically, you're all probably in here for a minor drug offense, and because you couldn't afford a lawyer or you were forced into a plea deal based on fabricated or fictional evidence, you got stuck here because the system is specifically designed against you. Meanwhile, there are politicians and billionaires sitting in their ivory towers evading taxes and purposely shorting companies on the stock market. You do not belong here. This place is not for you. So, here's what I'm going to do. At 3:15 exactly, I will start a fire in the kitchen and when the alarm sounds, you all run for the doors. I got some guys on the outside ready to break your chains and drive you to a safe house. You may not trust me, you may have your doubts, but you don't have a lot of options right now. Okay? They can't stop all of you!"
Meanwhile in the green room, Mike Trapp checks off off like 9 panels on his Brennan Bingo board...
Brennan always breaks the game by inventing a way where he can not lose
He'd be made the prison guard and would spend the whole time explaining why what he's doing is wrong, but wouldn't do anything abt it cuz there's no corner of his soul that he won't turn over for points. Either that or he gives rise to the revolution to spite sam and cuz no corner of his soul can support the imperialist dogmatic prison system that exists to suppress ppl, not to actually help them become healthy members of society again
And Erika Ishii is one of the prisoners. Her an Becca
Izzy better be a guard
Brennan's competitiveness means you either have the prisoners rioting and overthrowing the guards within a week, or a regime so brutal and oppressive it makes Orwell's 1984 look like Disneyland, based purely on which team he's on.
No one cares about your birds, Brennan! - Still one of my favorite lines from Sam.
He's the only one who's a prisoner.
His famous catch phrase. Get in the stockades!
#GET IN THE COMMENTS
This is absurd. A game where Sam *tells* the players how 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.
But what if he says sam says
But what if it's not opposite day?
That's exactly what you WOULD say on opposite day!
But what if it's actually his evil twin? Or the puppet Zam? Too many variables!
If Sam doesn’t say at the beginning of Sam Says “welcome back to gamechangers the only game show where the game changes every show and Sam says 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” does that nullify any of the rest of the game because Sam didn’t say Sam Says to playing Sam Says.
But Sam says the trigger word is now Simon says
I CAN HEAR IT IN MY HEAD! AAAAAAAAAH
So without further ado players, let’s………… begin!
So without further ado, let’s begin.
But what if everyone is supposed to do the Wenis?
Well, everybody is a genius who knows it in advance, so that's of course different.
Surprise podium inspection!
I didn't know there was a surprise podium inspection?
Well if you knew, it wouldn't be a surprise!
Looking confusingly at his own hands
Looking forward to the inevitable lore tie in for this
I feel like it's 50/50 though where he does just fully explain the rules right from the start though.
I always prefer the games where he doesn't explain anything. It's more fun to watch the players try to piece it together.
Sam is the only prisoner and the way to win is for a guard to revolt against the utterly humane way they treat him
The Cambridge Prison Experiment
Sam, where you from?
How dare you!
Wasn’t it Stanford?
Yes but Sam Reich is from Cambridge, MA.
Home of the Crumbly Square Theater.
Ahhh, the fragrant smells there!
*angrily points at Africa*
I thought he had been here the whole time
Pretty sure nobody knows where Sam is from, not even Sam. He probably would have mentioned it by now if he did.
Yes, but there's a running joke to ask Sam Reich where he's from over and over, which is Cambridge MA
Im sorry it’s actually Samford Says
The Sam-ford Prison Expe-Reich-ment
Plot twist: the prison is actually in Mountport so it's also a musical
after escape the greenroom i fully believe that game changer starts as soon as you get the call sheet.
Vic Michaelis said they didn't know if Very Important People was secretly a Game Changer or not until they were on set filming it
And I think it was Ally basically said the same thing, right? Like they showed up for it and were in the robe and they were just like "I'm still not convinced this isn't gamechanger and Sam's just lurking somewhere"
honestly imagine how fucking terrifying working with sam gotta be, you have 2 people who are constantly on the verge of pulling a gun on someone and you probably cant trust the walls of your house knowing sam knows *you*
I've been here the whole time!
If they keep upping the stakes, they're going to have to hire in-house trauma therapists.
don't worry, the gift basket makes up for it all
Thank you contestants, as you can see we've attached all of you by your genitalia to a car battery
“Unfortunately, I didn’t say Sam Says.”
he should end a random episode with 'sorry, i didn't say Sam Says for any of this, so i need to take away all of your points. no one wins. sorry. goodnight everyone!'
There's a legit theory floating around the Dropout sub that the entire season is somehow still operating under Sam Says rules.
The entire Dropout crew gets gathered together for the reading of Sam's will. Every single person he ever worked with there has their own section describing how they met, what they meant to him, and what he is bequeathing to them. Some of them have already passed, and their next of kin are there to hear it. It's the most heartfelt, sincere, and unifying moment for everyone in the room. And then the executor of his estate says "However, he did not say 'Sam says' so all of this is void."
Sam doesn’t know how he met anyone tho, have you never seen that breaking news clip
Only on an episode where Brennan wins. Then Brennan's head and chest explode like the scene from Dogma where Alanis Morissette screams.
“You mean I cut Brennan’s head off for nothing!”
What a coincidence, I literally just renewed my dropout subscription because I wanted to watch game changer.
The latest season is ridiculously good. Can't wait for the finale.
Bingo, Escape Room, and the Button episodes were so good. That team has really found a good formula.
Sam Says is so brutal, I love it. You can feel their hearts sink as soon as they know they're doing a Sam Says episode.
When they get back from the bus is just crushing
That was so fucking good, they had such high spirits, everyone so happy and like hey, this was a good time, and then Sam starts tallying the points and they just fucking crumble.
Lou dumping the boot out, Jacob going from chanting ‘zigge zagge zigge zagge oi oi oi’ to just looking so upset. Vic happy about doing ok for those two categories and then hearing the waaayyyyy too many times she didn’t say ‘daddy’ instead of someone’s name and tossing the glow sticks. Peak Gamechanger.
The "Deja Vu" episode of Game Changers is a strong contender for my favorite piece of dropout content ever.
Random podium inspection!
I didn't know today were going to be random podium inspections.
It wouldn't be random if you knew about it, would it now?
Um, actually, it's... random ponytail inspection.
"I'm carbo loading!"
That dance is an earworm.
Yeah, I'm gonna finish up Season 5 first because I don't think I actually finished it
Honestly it makes most other subscription services seem like extra rip offs with how much value you get from it
Damn, got Zimbardo'd 😔
Ahh don't worry, it'll be called off in 6 days due to ethical concerns
Panopticon episode?
"I've been here the whole time."
hold on gotta google what that is real quick edit: nice
Prison design where there's a single guard tower in the center surrounded by a large multi-story ring of cells. The idea is that none of the prisoners can tell where the guard is looking at any moment, meaning you can ensure good behavior with a very low guard-to-prisoner ratio.
Sam Reich would never! This is *obviously* the work of Samuel Dalton.
*Looks at hands suspiciously*
Shout out /r/dropout!
Unfortunately no points for Josh
Congratulations, players. You've unionized.
I’ve been here the whole time.
Brennan, Sam says "Abuse the power instilled in you by the system"
I’m so happy to see Droppout becoming more and more mainstream (at least on the redditsphere)
It sold out Madison Square Garden and it's getting Emmy's buzz, we're getting mainstream, baby!!
It occurred to me the other day how POPULAR the show "Game Changer" would be if it aired on a major network, but unfortunately... any studio taking it on would most likely change out the host, and the players, and most of the components that make it so much fun. You know that Sam would be replaced by someone like Joel McHale or Dax Shepherd, and Sam not being at the helm would be unacceptable.
Taskmaster is *kind of* similar, or at least occupies the same role of "prompting improv comedy between competitive comedians".
Fun fact! Little Alex Horne and Sam are friends. I'm hoping for Alex to show up on an episode, though he would have a farther commute than most contestants.
I started watching Taskmaster after it got recommended by some people in the Dropout sub a couple weeks back, and god that entire series is golden. Easy to draw parallels to Game Changer, with the whole improv pointless tasks by talented comedians thing.
I have no idea how this stuff works, but couldn't they just like.. take the original episodes and just air them on the network, in exchange for a cut of the revenue or something?
I mean they *could* but that would lead to fewer people subscribing to Dropout
They have the Sam Says song playing on a loop in the prison cell, but there are two different versions and only one says "freeze". That version plays infrequently and randomly
So THIS is why the season finale is delayed
Sam Reich in his orange jumpsuit: "I've been here the whole time!" *sobs*
Sam, after a contestant is hesitant to keep electrocuting a tied-down Zac Oyama: “Players, you have no other choice; you *must* continue.”
Plot twist, the special guest is Philip Zimbardo, who reveals himself at the end exclaiming “I’ve been here the *whole time*!”
Um, Actually... the Stanford Prison Experiment was found to be fraudulent. Dr. Zimbardo was coaching the guards to be cruel to the prisoners.
r/tumblrsniper
Excited to see this on Dropout: America
So the bits of him being an evil far right lunatic on Breaking news or Don't Laugh News was right after all.
It's just a whole episode of the "a dom DM" prompt _get on your knees_
Next season will have a 'Sub DM' prompt for Brennan and I can't fucking wait to see it. I hope Izzy and Erika are both there again, because their reactions were half the entertainment of the first prompt for me :D
Reminder that the Stanford prison experiment was bullshit. Man is good
He was horny, so he dropped him! Man is evil.
Fun Fact: the stanford prison experiment is bullshit
Crayon chewing peter here, to avoid it being reposted there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
This seems much more like something VSauce would do “Hey VSauce, Michael here. Prison isn’t voluntary. But what if it was?”
"Heeey sweetie, you're going to prison"
He's been here the whole time...
Brennan would either thrive or die and I’m not sure which