- Get ready for a "Game Changer!"
Tonight's guests:
Playing a game on a topic of my choice,
it's Rekha Shankar!
Okay.
- Trapped her twice, shame on me,
Siobhan Thompson!
- I've been here for 16 years.
Let me out
- And start the spin cycle,
it's Lily Du.
- Insert of Sam's face.
- 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, I still don't. - No.
- 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.
Would you please re-ball the socks into matches?
- Re-ball? Oh, okay. - Oh.
- Now, feel free to take a look inside.
- Mm-hmm.
You have three minutes.
Oh.
- Mm, what does that mean? - Perverse.
- Is this good content?
Are you having fun?
Are we not entertaining?
- I'm having a great time.
- Oh, matches!
God!
- What did you think we were doing? - Matchsticks.
- Am I crazy? - Yes.
- I was like, "I have to make matches out of socks."
- This is tough if you're colorblind.
- Wait, some of these have very subtle
color differences. - Yes.
Oh, no.
- Now I feel like I'm involved in your kink,
and I don't like it.
- This is just an excuse to make women do housework.
He doesn't think we're domesticated enough.
Cook me dinner.
- This is a real "Rumpelstiltskin" fucking task.
If I say your full name, Samuel Dalton Reich,
will you puff into smoke? - Your middle name is 'Dolton'?
- D-A-L-T-O-N.
- Oh, I thought you had the word dolt in your name.
- Not very much time left, players.
- Really?! - We're timed.
Why are we time-- - He said three minutes.
- Oh, hands up, players, hands up.
That's the whistle.
I'm afraid your shift is over.
Please exit through the exit door at the far end
of the stage, and I'll see you tomorrow.
Am I on a team with somebody that I don't--
- There's an assembly line of lunatics coming.
- Oh, goddammit. - Oh.
- If I've gotten Grant,
I'll be really fucking pissed off. - Wait, Rekha did a lot.
- I'm gonna take a time card because I want to be paid.
- Oh my God, some other losers are coming out.
I hate my nine-to-five.
- Management has deemed it unsafe
to leave this factory unattended.
Please welcome the Night Shift:
Otherwise known as as Night Katie, Katie Marovitch.
- What is this?
Try guy, no; bi guy, yes,
Grant O'Brien.
- Either way.
And, but his emails, it's Raphael Chesterang.
Again?
Really? We're still on this?
- Welcome, players.
You have three minutes.
- To what?
What are we doing?
- Uh. - Oh.
- I'm gonna...
It's...
Now, Sam, if what you want is us
to do this for three minutes, we will.
- What are you up to, Grant?
- I'm putting them together color-wise.
- I was just undoing them. - I'm done.
- Do you think you're done, Katie?
These ones I don't have a match for.
So define done, Katie.
- Wait, why would this make sense?
- Why would any of this make sense?
- I'm just making- - Don't--get your own piles!
- No, but I think we have to work together.
- No, no, no, okay, so here's what it is.
The game is different every time.
We have to figure out what it is by using context clues.
So, the context I see, we're in a factory of some kind.
- I think I need a dark purple.
No, don't undo them. Redo them.
- Why? - Try to match these.
- Why - Then we'll be done,
and we leave.
I think I've figured it out.
- But they were already matched.
- Mine were--not all of mine were.
- Almost all of mine were matched.
- That's one minute left, players.
- There's obviously something we're not getting.
- But if we're- - No, we're getting it.
- If we were going to wash them, we would have to undo them.
- I love that we're all- - We're all of them were matched.
I'm doing them, you're undoing them.
- These are matched.
- Okay, well, what else could it be?
- Hands up, players.
Hands up.
That is your time, I'm afraid.
See you next shift.
Please exit through the exit door.
- That's the exit door.
- You figured something out.
Wow. Okay.
- Goodbye. - Good night.
Have a good rest.
Where are we?
- A new day.
A fresh start on a fresh help.
Please welcome back the Day Shift.
- We slept so well. - All in an honest day's work.
Balance due: $1 million.
- I know you're good for it.
- That's her name, Balance Due.
- Huh. - Huh.
- Okay. - Players, you have three minutes.
- What has my person done? - Do the same thing?
- The task has not been completed yet by anyone.
- I have one extra.
- This is not mine.
- You- - This is yours.
- Here's one extra red.
I need a red. - And I need an orange.
- These are just extras.
- Here's red. - Gimme a red.
I'm done. - Paul Foremanlino,
let's please come out and inspect this work.
- All right, okay, somebody said they're done.
Let's take a look. - I'm done!
- Oh, this guy.
- Okay, let's see.
Let's see here.
We got got a little bit of this.
- You look very very good today.
- He's very Italian. - Sam.
- Yep. - Rekha did great.
This is all done. - Excellent.
Good to hear it, Paul.
And good on you, Rekha.
- Thank you, I live to work.
That brings you from task number 10
to task number nine.
- I love tasks.
- Rekha, your next task.
Re-ball the socks- - Who did this?
- Into mismatched trios.
- I live to execute, Sam.
- What the fuck is this shit?
- How do we know how much time we need to-
- No- - The clock is right here
on the wall. - And my clock is right here.
Read these lips, Sam.
This is fucked-up.
These are not all my socks.
- I'm done. - All right.
Somebody said they're done.
Let's check Siobhan's.
- Let's take a look. - What? No!
What the fuck?
What is wrong with you?
- Hey, I'll take on an extra task, no problem.
- Can we fire her?
- My parents raised me to be a fucking workhorse.
- This is a sock-up!
- Yes, and this looks pretty good to go.
- Excellent. - Wait, mine's good, too.
- Why can't you have two full-time jobs?
When you approach work
with a calm mindset, you find that you can do anything.
You tell 'em, Rekha.
- Yeah, no problem. More tasks for me. - Paul!
- No! - Paul!
- Ah, you caught me right at the end of the shift.
Let's see.
- It's so weird, your hours are less than ours.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I work day and night, ladies.
- Don't call us ladies.
- Yeah, we're broads.
Sam, Lily did great.
That brings you, Lily, from task ten to task nine.
But that work is going to have to wait
for your next shift.
Thank you, players. - No problem.
- I hope my counterpart is
okay with a copious amount of work.
- Thank you so much for the tasks
and the opportunity to perform them.
- The darkest shift comes just before dawn.
Please welcome back the Night Shifts.
- We're not touching anything.
We're not doing a goddamn thing.
Players, you have three minutes.
- Yeah. Okay. - Yeah. Okay.
- My balance is $1 million.
- I love that we immediately dropped.
We're not doing anything.
- We have to do something- - We owe a million dollars.
- Hate to say it, this factory doesn't pay that much.
What time is it?
- As you can see, it's coming up on four.
Four, 4:00 AM?
- And that's a third of your time over, Raph.
So better get sorting.
- Sorting! We are sorting!
You fucked up!
- But according to what? According to--
'Cause I'm doing colors. - I don't know.
- I thought we were unsorting.
- They sorted it back.
- Wait, so Raph, what did you do?
Did you undo your socks?
- Yeah, I undid them.
- So now I've undone them. - I think I'm done.
- Paul Foremanlino, let's get you out here
to check this work.
- All right, let's see this.
I'm also done.
- Now my theory is Paul is dressed this way
'cause it's a gay thing.
- Take a look at mine. - Grant, I'm afraid you did a very bad job.
This doesn't pass inspection.
- Understood, Paul. - Wait, look at mine.
Please help me.
- This is also a failure. - What?
- Sorry, players, it looks like you haven't done
the task yet.
- Are all of our things the same?
- Nine, nine, nine. - Nine?
Mark of the beast.
And this thing, this is like a quitting-time horn, I bet.
- Players, hands up, I'm afraid.
Feel like we might have took some time off there
to simply explore the factory.
But that's okay.
Don't you just love the smell of coffee?
Please welcome back to Day Shift.
- What's for breakfast, kids?
You know, let's go back to work.
- I think that cocoa that they're giving us as we're going
to sleep has something in it.
My back hurts, and I need workman's comp.
What the fuck is this shit?
Are they not getting the prompt?
I think they're just not getting a prompt
and having to figure it out.
- I do too, because I actually did a lot
of incredible work before.
- Rekha's actually been up all night thinking about
how she can work harder.
- I think the work we're doing is important.
- Yes. - Yeah.
I just don't wanna sacrifice the end product,
which I'm assuming is a sock monster or something.
- And she keeps saying, "I love my boss."
And you have three minutes.
- I have another question. - Yes.
- Is there something in that shed I can take?
- There are- - What's in the shed, Sam?
- What's in the shed? - What's in the shed?
- Feels very "Gone Girl."
- If this is a "Gone Girl" factory,
I'm super happy to work here, I-
- She just wants to make sure she gones the most girls.
If we're gone-ing girls, I got you, boss.
- I simply hate my boss, and I can't wait to kill him.
- Do we have mandated hangouts at this company?
I think that'd be nice.
- Sure. - Yay.
- Oh my God. - Who is doing this?
Who is this person?
- I have Brennan or something.
'Cause even though this sucks, it's meticulous.
- Oh, interesting. - Okay.
- Sucks, but meticulous.
- Yeah, like Brennan. - I'm done.
- Paul Foremanlino, let's come out
and inspect this work, please. - What?
- I miss my family. - I wonder what you do.
- You have a family?
Tell us about your family, Paul.
- This is a winner, Sam, very well done.
- Excellent! In that case, Lily,
that brings you from task number nine-- - You can win this?
- to task number eight. - This is a winning situation?
- Oh, no, it's something so fucked up.
- Someone has banded these melons without authorization.
Undo their work.
Take the rubber bands off the watermelon.
You may not smash the watermelon.
- Oh, they're tangled.
- Oops.
- We don't have to do this work, you guys.
- But then how will the boss be happy?
I need an extra sock, please.
- He'll never be happy, is the thing.
- I'm done. - Paul.
- I've been lied to, and I've been cheated and swindled-
- And hold! Hands up, please, players.
- Yes, yes, yes.
This is what I like to see.
Excellent work, Rekha.
- There is one odd sock.
I am not responsible for this.
This is unfair.
- Oh, I get one.
I quit.
- Please welcome back to the stage, the Night Shifts.
- Come on. - What?
- Okay. - What is this?
- This is a watermelon wrapped in rubber bands.
- Players, it looks like your cohorts have been making
some progress.
- No, it doesn't.
None of this looks like anything.
How is this progress?
- Now there is one rule for what Katie
and Raph are about to do,
and that is, you may not smash the watermelon.
- Can I smash the watermelons?
No, you may not.
- You didn't mention me. - You have three minutes.
I'm done. - They want us to take off
the watermelon rubber bands. - Let's take a look here.
Let's take a look.
- Pretty good, right?
That one's, that one's rough.
Now that one's, that one's rough, thank you.
Good, good, good. - Great job.
- Hey, thank you. - Grant,
that brings you from task number nine to task number eight.
- I want you to know, I want to smash this
so much for the joke.
- I'm so glad that you have any modicum of self-restraint.
- May I have scissors. - Whoa!
- What are you doing here?
- Oh, hey! - What am I doing here?
- It looks like the shop is open.
- That's right.
Toys, tools, trinkets, tchotchkes, get your wares over here.
- Do we want wares? - They're lightly used.
They're probably cursed.
- Did you say cursed? - You shut the fuck up.
- Okay. Players, feel free to purchase whatever you like,
but be warned that it will cost your shiftmate time.
- Time is money. Money is crypto.
Crypto accepted.
- You're a crypto guy? - I'd like this.
- In that case, Katie, feel free to take it
back to your station.
- It will cost time. - Cost them time.
- No, I'm gonna take the newspaper.
Newspaper purchased by Grant.
- Come on, Grant.
- So, what are you, deep on Bitcoin or something?
Balls deep.
I do wanna apologize, we're out of stock on a lot
of things, but we'll be getting some pretty soon.
- Yeah, you run a pretty bad shop, it looks like.
Well, you know, tariffs.
- And hands up, players, hands up.
That's your time.
Some meaningful progress made today.
Good for you all.
- Hold on. - Yes, Sam, shut up.
Something's happening.
Players, we'll see you next shift.
- I think you guys fucked your cohorts.
- Wait, what were you doing?
- All I did was work. - I did work!
- Guys, I didn't drink the cocoa last night,
and then I tried to get out,
and all of the doors are locked and bolted.
Thank God.
What is this?
- It looks like your colleagues got up
to some miscellaneous activity.
- What'S that? - I don't know.
Why do I only have one minute?
- One minute? - Three minutes.
- Oh, crap. - Ooh!
You can't smash it!
- Who says? - Says me.
- What happens if I smash it?
- What happens is if she absolutely fucking crushes?
- Does it say what to do
with a cactus and the newspaper?
- Oil price fluctuation brings on fears of inflation.
Market gains five days straight.
- Wait, why does it say one minute on it?
- I get to do something with it at one minute
that helps me? - Yeah.
Did Rekha get an extra added prize?
- Who gets employee of the month?
- It's Rekha. Rekha gets employee of the month.
She gets it every month. - I'd like to talk to HR.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
We have to work together. - Siobhan, hands up, I'm afraid.
That newspaper cost your colleague two minutes.
What the fuck?
I'm gonna go looking for fucking other shit then.
- Oh, they bought it with their time.
- So wait, I have to stop at two minutes?
Why was a cactus important enough?
Why did that matter? For happiness?
- A little morale boost, I guess.
This doesn't help me.
- We have to stop doing the task?
- Wait, wait, wait. - And yet I literally can't.
- We have to work together- - I'm like a fucking
cocaine rat in a cage.
I can't stop doing my task-
- That is the game, Lily.
- But is there a way we could work together?
Rekha, hands up,
I'm afraid. - I don't want to.
- That cactus costs your colleague one minute.
- Can I buy stuff?
Can we fuck up their fucking lives?
- Unfortunately, the shop is sort of a night shop.
- The company store, Sam?
- I don't know, Siobhan, maybe there are creative ways
you could use that newspaper.
- Siobhan, maybe there are creative ways you can use
that newspaper. - But you didn't say that to me.
- Like this?
- What the--get off of me!
- And hands up, Lily.
Hands up. Good work ethic shown today.
Solid hustle. - Can we have a pizza party?
- It would really help. - It would be really good
for morale if we could have a-
- Can I say, Sam,
numbers might be up, but frowns are also up.
And not into smiles. - Yeah.
- I do wanna say, Grant made a very funny joke backstage.
- Which was? - That we would "Joker" you.
- Remember in "Joker" when De Niro got shot in the head?
- We'd be over the watermelons.
All right, so...
- Wait, no, he's right, he's right.
- There's a clue here.
No there's not.
- All right, why did it get ripped, I wonder.
- Don't forget you got a snow globe.
Over here from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Do we?
That's my hometown.
- It's all Samuel Reich things.
- Done. - Paul Foremanlino!
- Efficient Worker, Sam.
- Here's the thing, I'm bad at this.
- Okay, a little more damage than we wanted,
but otherwise, this is acceptable work.
Excellent.
- You said don't smash the--
What the hell?!
- I just wanna say- - Another task?
- That brings you to task number seven, Raph.
- You gotta be fucking kidding me.
It's like every time you accomplish work,
there's just more around the corner they're
ready to throw at you.
- That's America, isn't it?
- What is our salary?
It's whatever your day rate is, I suppose.
That's pretty good.
- Sam, when do you sleep?
- I don't need sleep.
I'm a game show host vampire.
- Oh?
- Done. - Paul Foremanlino!
Let's come out, and inspect this work.
You'll notice it's intact.
There's nothing here for me to inspect.
- Wow. What do you know?
- Wow. - Great job, Katie.
This passes inspection.
- Kudos, Katie, that brings you to task number seven.
Come on.
Ah, hands up, players.
Hands up. - Fuck!
I'm afraid that's your shift.
I'm not coming in tomorrow.
I work to live, I don't live to work.
Who is this person?
- Do we know the task?
- And Lily, your task is blow up 25 balloons.
You can ignore the piñatas, they're merely decorative.
- I have become demoralized overnight.
- I'm done. - Paul Foremanlino!
Please come out and inspect this watermelon.
- Sam, this is an A plus job. - Why is my--my piñata--
- Excellent!
No, that's really hard.
Oh, fuck.
- Siobhan, your task, once again, blow up 25 balloons.
I should mention again
that these piñatas are merely decorative.
Rekha, you were my star! - I do not feel appreciated.
- Maybe if she got that pizza party.
- You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna set them up for success.
Three, four, five, six, seven.
- Interesting, Siobhan. - Eight, nine,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. - Interesting strategy.
- Up, players, hands up!
Hands up!
- Mine are up! - And Rekha.
And that's from players who knew the task.
Jesus fucking Christ, Lily. - Wait, he's the piñata!
- You're the piñata. - Oh my God,
this is so fucking scary.
- You thought you put the non-chaotic person
in the day shift? - You thought Rekha was
a good girl? She's riding this stick
like a witch's broom.
- Fuck this set!
Wow, really goin' ham there, Raph.
- All right, I give up. - Oh, Grant.
Taking a manual approach.
- You know, I just love blowing.
- It's like me and Grant always say,
"A mouth is better than a pump."
- And we always say that the way
to win this game is, let's say it together.
- Buying boxing gloves from the night shop.
I'm done.
- All right, let's take a look at this work.
Let's have a look. - All right.
I'm sorry Sam, this is a failure.
- Sorry to hear that, Paul.
- Raphael, you don't want a dog cone?
- I swear to God, I will kill you.
- Raphael, of all people, against purchasing things,
what if I had a bunch of takeout sushi over here?
That was a low blow!
- My balloons are all broken.
There's air coming out of them.
- Once you tie them, though, Katie?
- No. - Okay.
That's actually not a broken balloon.
I don't know how much you've interfaced with balloons.
- That's so funny. - But that's actually a
perfectly fine balloon.
- Chris. - Yes.
- What would you charge me
for a delivery service if I ordered those boxing gloves?
- Oh, happy to bring 'em over.
- I take 'em, I'm buying them.
No, Katie, don't!
- Wow.
- We still got the dog cone.
We got an arm sling as well!
- Arms up, players, arms up.
- We sold two items there.
- The boxing gloves and the dog cone.
Paul, we're done.
- Now, before I inspect this.
Whose work is this?
- Our work. - Our work.
- Players, you're gonna have to give me a person.
- Siobhan's work. - It's my work.
- Sam, Siobhan succeeds.
- Ah, happy to hear it, Siobhan.
- Okay, great. - Now scoot them over to me.
- Paul, this is her work. - This is Lily's work.
- This is my work.
- Sorry, gang, but these balloons have
already been accounted for.
- Oh, Rekha, hands up, I'm afraid.
Hands up.
- Oh, I just pissed myself.
Oh, I just peed. - Your colleague
spent two minutes on those boxing gloves.
- Two minutes? Of Rekha's time? - And dog cone.
- Huh. - I'm helping Rekha.
I feel really bad for her.
- Now, Siobhan, quality control has flagged irregularities
in our Oreo division.
Please sort the mint and wasabi Oreos.
Okay, are these?
And Siobhan,
there's something grabbing at my feet.
They are randomized.
- What was the one thing I said, Sam?
I don't wanna eat anything gross.
- I will eat something for you.
- Yeah, you know what, you eat, and I'll blow up balloons.
- Oh! - Yeah, this is wasabi.
Does wasabi go in green?
- They just need to be sorted.
- This is wasabi.
- This is a nightmare, that the Oreo corporation has
a wasabi-flavored Oreo.
- Oh. - Hands up, players.
- Can you spit in it a little bit?
I feel thirsty.
- What are you doing to my phone?
What a great memento.
- Oh, hey, cool.
- Oreos.
- I am fucking worried.
- I'm worried as well.
- I'm very relaxed.
- Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, I'm done.
- Paul Foremanlino, please come out and inspect this work.
- All righty, let's see what we got here.
Sorry, Raph, no go.
- You gotta tell me what's wrong.
You gotta tell me what's wrong with it.
I'm done also.
- Tell me what I did wrong.
- What kind of a foreman doesn't give feedback?
- It's Foremanlino, not Feedbacklino.
- Sorry, both failures.
- You think you're cute?
- Excuse me, my friend. - How many do you need? How many?
- Hey, Mr. Foreman, don't go super far.
- You can't leave, you gotta tell me what happened.
- I'm done!
- Mm.
Beautiful work, Grant.
- Thank you, isn't it?
All failure, yeah.
Wait, Paul, I'm almost done, wait!
Jesus fucking Christ. - Wait a minute.
Maybe it's this.
- Hands up, players.
- Does this count as blown up?
- Katie, we need to talk about balloons.
Oh, no.
This is the worst possible thing
that could have happened.
- They sorted it into red and to green.
- Into color, but they also took the reds apart.
- They clearly are working as a team.
I don't think one person could have done this on their own.
- Are these supposed to be intact?
- All that matters to me is they're sorted by flavor.
- Why does that matter to you?
Oh, oh, oh, wow.
- Okay, it actually, it's designed not to break.
- What, but this was supposed to be a party prop.
- That just goes with the balloons?
- It's there for morale.
- Oh, they thought you put the green
with the red, and the red with the green.
Fuck me.
- I can appreciate that decision.
- I can't tell what flavor they are
'cause they're all touching.
- Yeah.
- But guess what, Paul Foremanlino probably can't either.
- Yeah. - What's he gonna do?
Lick 'em all after you licked 'em.
- Paul, I'm done. - Paul, I'm done!
- Paul! - Paul, I'm done!
- You get these through,
I'll put in a lil somethin' somethin' for you.
Paul Foremanlino is straight, we've decided.
Paul Robalino is gay.
Paul Foremanlino is straight.
- You could get a little piece of all of this.
- Really, I'm counting 23.
- If you give me like two seconds, you can count 25.
"Legal Notices."
Market gains five days straight.
Crypto gains huge.
- Okay, 25. - They gotta be tied.
- They have to be--
- Thank you for keeping a high standard
for this company, Paul.
- Are we allowed to quit this job?
- Unfortunately, not until the tasks are done.
- We're not allowed to quit-
- I'm officially handing in my two weeks' notice.
- That's fair. - Great.
- All right, yes, from me, Sam.
- Paul, I've been waiting for you for 45 minutes.
Let's see here.
- Mm. - Rekha, I'm helping you.
You can just let me go 'cause it's the end of your day.
And then you get to go home to your beautiful wife
and children. - Your beautiful straight wife.
Her name is Carmen.
- Her name is Carmen. - Electra.
- Her name is Carmen Electra.
- She's got big naturals, and she's waiting for you.
Just like what you requested.
- I smelled at least one wasabi in this mint mix.
- Wait, taste it. - You would taste it.
They're all mixed up together, you can't tell.
Taste it. - He should be fired.
He's not good at his job.
- Not good at his job. - He did touch my butt
and Lily's butt.
- I forgot to say, Paul sent me a text yesterday.
- Oh, yeah. - "Do you wanna take
a shower together?" - Yeah.
- He said, "I heard you wanted a promotion - Jesus-
and I know exactly how to do it."
And then he put the eggplant emoji like 17 times.
- And then he said, "I only like virgins, though."
- Now I do- - This is
what I do for you, Sam.
- Oh, God, it's like literal blood on your hands.
- 25.
- Ew. - This is what I'm doing
with my brain.
- Wasabi versus mint, not color.
- Wait a minute, do they taste?
They're wasabi flavor.
Oh, fuck!
That was just so bad.
- I hope I never make it to that round.
Wait a minute.
So then are the green ones mint?
- You're not gonna make us taste all of these.
- Oh my fucking God!
Ah!
I'm not doing that.
What if I refuse to do that?
I'm not doing it.
Do you see that?
- Two minutes left, Night Shift.
I'm done.
- You're done. - I'm done.
That's mint. - Yeah, go ahead
and try all of them.
How would you even know?
Fuck!
- 'Cause you can smell them, you idiot.
- All right. - I smelled at least
one wasabi in this mint mix.
Fucking hell.
- They kind of smell similar! - I know!
It's 'cause it's on our hands!
- Hands up, players, hands up.
Katie, how we looking?
- Very good. - Wait, you have to tell Lily,
this is wasabi, this is mint.
I have to do what?
Paul Foremanlino, can we come out and inspect Katie's work?
Certainly, Sam.
I think we could go ahead
and say this is a success, Sam.
- Congratulations, Siobhan. - Oh my God.
Did I win this? - Oh, wait, you can go
by smell.
- Siobhan- - Yes.
- Management requires photographic evidence of morale.
Please do the YMCA.
You may only take one Polaroid per round.
But I must get the YMC and A all on film.
- Do you need someone to take it? - No, there's a timer,
but if you could do the M of the YM,
and then I'll help you with Oreos.
That's awesome.
- Oh, the suspense.
- How long is this fucking time?
- I get extra time for doing a squat.
- What the fuck? - It's a picture
of Siobhan and Rekha.
- Sure does seem that way. - They've got arms up.
- A belly button out.
- That's sexy. - Grant!
You're their colleague! - You cannot say that.
- Tell me about it. - A little stipulation there.
- You can only take one photo per shift.
- One per shift.
- Ah, she switched them.
- There's so many more wasabi.
- So, wasabi ones were fun to make.
- Oh, as long as it was fun for you to make.
- Got a few new items here at the shop.
- We do have some new items in the store as well?
- That's right, we got some stickers.
We've got some blocks here as well.
We've got some magnetic poetry.
- This is all garbage.
I don't want any of this.
- Poetry is garbage?
The original way of communicating
from one person to another.
- All right, let me take some stickers
because I bet I could use those to communicate.
- Out of the things I've shown you,
those are definitely the best way to communicate.
- Now that I think about it, I do love poetry.
I don't know how money works, but here's $2.
- This is a premise that's previously been explained.
- What is this? - Oh.
Oh, you can leave messages.
- I can leave messages. - You can leave message.
Did you take all of the ones that started
with YMC and A out? - I have a message
that says "After class, mind young."
- Siobhan, your time is up.
Sam, this is satisfactory.
- Excellent, move Lily on to task five.
- Oh, smart.
- I have a pretty bad message.
Seems to be the best that someone could do
with the tools they had at their disposal.
- Oh, the rest of you have any messages?
- No, no, I don't have a message.
- Do I have to be in the photo?
- So long as you each have an answer to this prompt,
I'll take it. - Can you guys do Y and M?
- Would you mind telling them
what the fuck they're supposed to do?
Thank you so much.
- But oh, what's this shadowy figure in the corner?
- I got some stuff I wanna answer.
- Meet the mysterious man.
Ring-a-ding-ding.
- Now you can ask the mysterious man any yes
or no question you like.
Just be warned, it will cost your shiftmate
that amount of time. - What?
- Oh!
- A yes or no question?
What the hell?
- What the hell! - Get over here?
No!
- Oh, how did you do that?
- How indeed.
- One photo per shift.
- All right, well then, how else do you use the time?
- You got a question you wanna ask me, yeah?
- I got a question for you. - Yeah.
- Only yes or no. - Yes.
Okay. I see how it is.
- Okay, Grant has done a Y.
- And Katie did an M for me.
So we have a Y and M.
- Okay, Raph did a C, even though I did a YM.
I don't know why he couldn't do a CA.
- Great, okay. - Take an A for me.
- Still only one photo per shift. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
- Excuse me, I'm your supervisor.
- Do you know that my kids,
I didn't even see their first steps
because I work here. - 'Cause I'm working here.
- Wait, take CA for us.
Okay.
- And then what do you need, Siobhan?
- Sam, will you be M for me?
- You know what? I'd be honored.
- Thank you so much. - Wait, do you want MCA?
- Yes, exactly. - Yeah, okay, good.
- Okay.
- Thank you so much, boss.
- Oh, hey, you know what, I'd just like to feel involved.
- Paul! - Paul Foremanlino!
- All right, let's see what we got here.
- Pervalino. - YMCA
Get close, and look close.
- Very nice, beautiful form.
Yes. - I like that.
- Perfect. - Beautiful form is
what he said? - Nice.
Nice, shapely position.
Ew!
- Sam, these are all a thumbs up.
- Thank you very much, Paul. - Oh!
- Oh, no. - That is task five
over and done with, which brings us to task four.
Due to layoffs in the mixtape department, players,
we need you pitching in.
Please make a mixtape.
Every shift, you can add as many songs as you like
to Side A.
On the other hand, your shiftmates are responsible
for Side B.
You each have a rule you must abide.
Rekha, songs that specify a time.
- Okay. - Siobhan,
Songs with only monosyllabic words in their title.
- Yes. - Lily,
songs that are commands.
- And I can do as many songs as I want on this side?
- On A side.
But players, you are very low on time.
- Is "Spring Awakening" a song or just a musical?
- I believe that's just a musical, Rekha. - Fuck!
- "Springtime for Hitler."
- I can't think of any songs. - And hands up, players.
- Do you think that my person knows how
to mark the meter of a poem?
- Do you know why these accent marks are here?
- Oh, no.
Yes.
No, that sucks.
- Katie's off and running,
has a theory as to what hers are all about.
- There's accent marks, and I don't understand them, so-
- Done. - That's Katie done,
but Katie's Side A, I don't believe, is done.
- Let's take a look, Katie.
You've done a very interesting choice.
But unfortunately, that's a thumbs down.
- Fuck. - You can ask me
a question, Ralph, it's gonna cost you some seconds,
but I will answer truthfully.
Unlike my brother, who only answers in lies.
By the way, that brother is me.
- That's my brother over there. - That's right.
Quitting time for me, kids.
- Right, well, good luck, teammate.
- Well, my person has done nothing to the B side.
My verse is written five Britney Spears songs.
- And none of them are the command ones.
- She has some command ones.
- Okay, I'm done with my half.
- Fuck.
- Exclamation points.
- Am I allowed to do that?
- I think that's terrific.
- Wait, and I'm allowed to erase?
Yes, you're allowed to erase as well.
All right, players, your A sides are totally filled out.
See if you can use that to inform your B sides.
- Done! - In that case,
Paul Foremanlino, let's come out
and take a look at Katie's.
- You can ask some clarifying questions over here, buddy.
- Who are you talking to? - Anybody?
- Sam, this is a wonderful mixtape for a picnic.
It gets my approval.
So happy to hear it.
- Anything you wanna ask me, Katie?
- No. - All right.
- All of these words have one syllable,
so I suppose I'm going to make that a pattern.
- There you go, Grant. - Okay, I'm done.
- Well done. - Yeah, mm.
I'm so sorry, Sam, this is a failure.
I'll fucking kill you.
I will fucking kill you.
- Katie, please welcome the Father of Anarchy,
the Boy from Hell, Hollywood legend
Ron Perlman,
here in our studio.
- Holy shit! - Oh, whoa!
- That's crazy!
Ronnie!
- I'm sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm done.
I'm done.
Katie, you're on task number three.
It has something to do with Ron, but I can't tell you what.
- Hello? - Hello.
It's very nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you as well.
- Do you know what we're supposed to do?
Fuck, no.
- Sam, Grant's ready to move on.
- Excellent, Paul.
Grant, Katie, Raph, that's the end of your shift.
Please exit, and leave me and Ron alone.
- Hi there.
I'm sorry I'm so low, and you're so high.
Is there a lighting change, or am I having a stroke?
Anybody smelling burnt toast right now?
- Please welcome back the Day Shifts.
Players, your prompt is:
don't acknowledge Ron Perlman.
Who?
Well, that's not my task.
I haven't had my songs written.
"Chop Suey"?
- That does sound like a command to me.
- That kinda sounds like a command. - Okay, Paul!
Rekha and Siobhan,
whatever you do, don't acknowledge Ron Perlman.
- Yes, Lily. - I think this is done.
- Let's take a look here.
"Man, I Feel Like a Woman."
I don't really understand the command in that title.
"Chop Suey" is the name of a food, so that's a big fat no.
- Oh, come on!
- How you doing?
What's up?
Loved you in "Hellboy."
- See, there's somebody who knows how to pay homage.
- One time, I sat behind you at a cafe,
and I recognized you by your voice.
- Probably the back of my head, too, right?
- Yeah. - Rekha's just hiding.
- This one over here, hang on.
You're not gonna come to me.
I'm coming to you.
What are you doing?
What are you doing down there?
And that's a shift.
- It's still out here. - His name is Ron.
- Not all of your songs were erased, just a few of them.
Katie, would you like to engage
with our guest at all?
- Hey, Katie, how you doing?
I'm Ron. - Free clippers?
- Why are do keep going in circles?
- Mysterious man. - Got a question
you wanna answer, kid?
- If I cut my own hair, do I get a point?
No.
You look like you started a folk band in Portland
and it's not going well-
- It's really not.
- Have you ever kidnapped anyone? - Okay, I'm done.
- Paul Foremanlino, come out and take a look
at Raph's working. - Hey, Katie,
I'm talking to you.
Oh, that I think I had her for a second.
- Let's take a look here.
Seems like Raph has identified the theme,
except I don't believe that three and five are actual songs.
Have you ever heard of those?
- I literally Googled it! - How you doing?
- You and I aren't engaging.
We kinda just did.
- Stand, Sly & Family Stone. - You just let me know.
- "Help," the Beatles.
- This is a thumbs up from me. - You all know the jam.
- It's crazy that Raph is allowed to use a phone.
- What are you, a nepo baby or something?
- Pardon me, please. - Pardon me?
- What the fuck is going on? - Paul, I'm done!
- I heard both of you acknowledge Ron,
but I have not heard Katie acknowledge Ron.
- You didn't have to hear her.
She just kinda looked at me and went...
Hey Katie, I'm talking to you.
I would call that an engagement of a certain kind.
- Does this get me anything?
- All three of you are now on task number three.
Don't acknowledge Ron Perlman.
How you doing?
How are you? Does a smile count?
- You know what?
I refuse to not acknowledge Ron Perlman.
That's the kind of person I am.
It's called integrity.
Do you have--well, you... Katie, do you have integrity?
No.
- How you doing?
She is too good at this.
- Thank you so much.
Absolute pleasure to meet you.
- Katie.
Katie.
Sorry, what's your name?
Did you cut your hair yourself?
- Does it look like a professional did that?
- Grant, you're being rude.
- You don't have to engage with me.
Just tell me, what's your name again, Raymond? - Raph.
He's named after the ninja turtle. - Oh, God.
- Guess it's quitting time for me again.
What did you do?
- Can I get a Amen?
That round is over.
And so, you can say goodbye to Ron Perlman.
How do I get outta here?
- I like your politics, I like your acting.
- Thank you very much, it's all right.
- Bye.
You are a gentleman and a scholar, Raphael.
- Goodbye, Ron. - Pleasure knowing you.
- Are you leaving now?
- If they let me. - You can leave.
You're Ron Perlman. - Thank you.
- Ron, absolute treat.
Goodbye, everyone. Thank you so much.
- How come we didn't get a little pig in a hat?
Oh, you think Ron Perlman's a pig in a hat?
- You think that Ron Perlman- - Maybe even better.
- That's fucked. - Players, great news.
Both teams didn't acknowledge Ron Perlman.
Paul, let's please turn these threes into twos.
The game is totally neck and neck.
Let's set up for our final task.
All employees must be kept neat and presentable.
Give your colleague the haircut of their choice.
- What? - Let's please,
invite out our haircut-ees.
Thank you so much, folks, welcome.
- And they volunteered for this?
- And they volunteered for this.
I will also say, Siobhan, you're right now the only one
with clippers from the store. - This is true.
- Now, players, feel free to ask your haircuts what kind
of haircut they would like.
You have three minutes, starting now.
- So we weren't supposed to cut our own hair.
- You asked me if that was the case,
and I told you not to do it. - Look at this.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay.
- This is Charlotte, this is Miguel, this is Claire.
Your respective haircut-ees.
- Oh, I don't wanna do this. - No way.
- I do. - This is crazy.
- Unfortunately, they're not allowed to tell you
what they're looking for.
- Hi, what kinda haircut would you like?
- I would like a pixie cut - So, I don't have scissors.
- What kinda haircut do you want?
- I'd love a mullet. - What do you want-
- What kind of haircut would you like?
Handlebar mustache.
- And we can't buy anything from the store.
- Unfortunately not. - Where are these clippers?
- Oh- - Nice to meet you, okay.
- So if I put this on a one, that'll be tight, right?
Right. So if you wanna handlebar mustache,
that's probably what we- - Well, let me just kinda dampen-
- This feels insane.
- No, I'm doing good, I- - Or anything like that.
- Just want it- - Let's just prep you
for the next person. - I could just wax it.
- Oh, good. - Ah, are you serious?
You wanna ask me, Raph?
- Siobhan, unfortunately, your time is up.
- But- - They can't talk during the next?
- They can't talk during the next.
- I'm leaving him a note. - You're cool, thank you.
- What's your whole deal? - I'm an anthropology
and archeology student at UCI.
- I wrote for an anthropology-related television show.
- Well I have an archeology degree.
- Okay, well, I have bones.
- Last round of our game, and it is neck and neck.
- Doing a lot of running around for a man with clippers on.
- I'm gonna come over there next.
- I dare you. - Have you ever done
this before, Katie? - I cut my hair
but not someone else's.
- This is my first haircut. - Okay.
- Does it feel like I'm doing it normal?
- No, it feels like professional.
- Okay, that's good. - Done. Paul!
- Done. - Paul?
- Watching Raph give a haircut is like when you go
to a tattoo parlor and the guy's got no tattoos.
- Is that what you want?
I'm done.
- In this absolute neck-and-neck race,
we have a winning team by a hair.
- Aha, pretty good.
- I don't get it.
- Let's bring out
our Day Shifts.
Oh.
- The winners of our episode,
Siobhan Thompson and Grant O'Brien!
I always believed you.
I always believed in you.
- Never not, absolutely. - Don't believe anything I said.
- Siobhan and Grant, you are our employees of the show.
- Yay!
- That does it for us here at "Game Changer."
I am your host, Sam Reich, reminding you
that teamwork makes the dream work,
and DreamWorks makes "Shrek."
Goodnight.