- Tonight, I am playing Shopping Cart Corral.
[upbeat rock music]
- Give 'em a nestle!
- I've never seen anything like this.
- Yeah!
- Oh!
[audience chanting]
- That's an athlete right there.
- From the Nashville Municipal Auditorium,
it's the only comedy show that also
happens to be a game show,
"The Greatest Average American"!
And now, your host, Nate Bargatze!
- Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you very much. All right.
Welcome to our new show where it's not about what you know,
it's about what your fellow average American knows.
Say hello to my buddy and comedian friend,
Julian McCullough, warming up the audience.
And fellow comedian, our announcer, Greg Warren.
[cheers and applause]
Greg, who do we have playing tonight?
- Nate, a construction project manager
representing North Carolina, give it up for Mallory.
A retired FBI agent from the state of Illinois, it's Tom.
- All right, all right. That's awesome.
- And she's a horseshoer...
- Ooh.
- From the state of Oregon, meet Dakota.
- All right. Thanks for being here.
Dakota, I see you have a wonderful dog with you.
- Yes.
This is my service dog, Dinosaur.
- Hello, Dinosaur.
- I've had him for about 3 1/2 years,
and he goes with me on all my shoeings.
- Well, good luck to you and Dinosaur.
Let's get to this game.
We're gonna play through two elimination rounds,
with one person going home after each one.
Last player standing moves on to our bonus round,
where you can win the average American salary of $67,920.
In our first round, we asked Americans
questions about how they feel, what they like,
and how they live.
I'll reveal the questions, and all you have to do
is choose a response said by the majority of Americans.
These first two questions, they're worth 1 point each.
Here's your first question.
You got ten seconds.
I've seen--have you ever seen the Wienermobile
out in the wild? - Oh, yeah, man.
- I have too. - It's exciting.
- Have a lot of y'all? Have you ever seen it out?
Pretty special.
Mallory, which one of these did you say?
- Well, I'm gonna say D, the Batmobile.
- Yes, right?
- It's fun, it's sexy, it's fast.
Now, myself included,
I would like to do the Barbie dream car.
But D, Batmobile. - All right.
Tom?
- I feel that Americans have the need for speed.
- Come on, Tom.
- Therefore, they're gonna go with the Batmobile.
- The Batmobile. Yeah.
- Because that's gonna blow any of these out of the water.
- There you go, Tom.
- In the FBI, how many Batmobiles do we have?
Are you allowed to say that or not allowed to?
- Zero, unless we seize one from a bad guy.
- Oh.
Okay. Yeah, all right.
All right. Dakota?
- Well, I went a little different.
- I like it.
- I went with, B, the DeLorean. - That is true.
- You know?
You can go wherever you want, as long as you get to that 88.
- Back in time.
- You know, it's got great gas mileage.
- You could always drive back to a cheaper time of gas.
- Exactly.
Bring a couple canisters with you, you're good to go.
- Good choices.
I like all of them.
Let's see, what did the average American say?
- Yeah! - The DeLorean time machine.
- Yeah, let's go! Yeah! - Dakota with 1 point.
We should have probably focused more on the time machine part.
No one wants to ride in a DeLorean.
The time machine is gigantic.
Here we go. Next question.
This one's a little different.
You're guessing the percentage of people from 0 to 100.
Whoever comes closest to the correct answer gets the point.
What percent got it correct?
Ten seconds.
[peppy jazz music]
Who's the youngest in here that might know it?
Right there? How old are you?
13. What time is it? - [inaudible]
- 7:40.
Nailed it.
7:40 p.m.?
I guess it's p.m. I don't know, it could be a.m.
I don't know why I put a thing in it.
- See?
- I feel like the younger generation,
if you tell them to get there at 7:30,
that's what time they do show up.
But, Mallory, what do you think?
- [laughs] I ain't got much faith.
I said 15%. - Yeah.
The younger generation, they might not know it.
- Yeah. It's the younger generation.
Everything is digital.
Everything is right there, ready to go.
So I said 15%. I'm sorry, y'all.
- Tom?
- I think I have a little more faith in the average American
for this basic life skill, so I said 85%.
- 85%.
Under 30 would get it right, yeah.
Dakota?
- I went a little bit in the middle.
- Yeah. - I went 47%.
- Yeah.
- I think if you give them a second, they'll get there.
- It's embarrassing, but they get it.
What percent got it correct?
55%. - Ooh.
- You got it. - Dakota!
- Yeah! - Dakota.
- Nice job, Dakota!
We gotta catch up, Tom.
- Look, there's two questions left,
but this is anybody's game. - There you go.
- This one, too, I'm gonna raise the stakes a little bit.
So this next one is worth 2 points.
- Okay.
- So now we get to catch back up.
We asked 100 average Americans
if there were a crime syndi-"gat"--
syndi-"kate"--syndicate--
a crime syndicate.
Hold on, yeah.
Run by animals, which of these would be the boss
of the whole operation?
Ten seconds.
♪ ♪
That's a word that you gotta just trust that you know it.
Dakota, you might be getting some inside info from Dinosaur.
all: Aw.
Who did you say?
- I went with C, cat.
- Yeah.
- I'm a firm believer in that cats just run everything.
- I understand that. Tom?
- I am the cat daddy of three cats.
- Wow.
- They are devious dudes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I said C, cat. - C, cat, as well.
You know from experience. - Yeah.
- Mallory?
- I said cobra.
- It's not bad for you to go somewhere
in a different direction.
- Simply because they're mysterious,
they're scary, so they're already
gonna be intimidating.
Although, that cat looking at me, like, girl,
why did you choose the cobra? - Yeah.
But I could see the cobra with the wings down.
- Yeah, with the thing, like, with the--[grunts]
Yeah. - That's like a normal snake.
And then it's like, ah. - And then it's like, yeah, ah!
- And then you're like, wow. - Yeah.
That's how I feel.
- For 2 points, what did the average American say?
- Ah! - Oh, my gosh, Mallory!
Look at that.
- You're not gonna get me, cat.
- Look at this. You're back in it.
Now, this last question is worth a whopping 3 points.
Tom, you definitely need this one.
Last question.
We asked 100 average Americans...
Ten seconds.
♪ ♪
This is a fun one. Dakota, let's start with you.
- I said C, paying with pennies.
- Yeah.
- I feel like if you're paying in pennies,
you might be doing it to be petty.
- Especially unrolled, if they're not rolled.
- Yeah, that's the worst.
- Tom?
- I went with a bus in traffic. - Yeah.
You can't see around it.
- It's a miserable experience.
- I sat behind one and didn't move.
Out of service.
And I was back there.
Yeah, that was tough. - How long was that, Nate?
- Well, longer than I wanna admit, but it was--
I was in the zone. Felt good.
All right, Mallory?
- I'm gonna go with my buddy, Tom.
- Yeah. - I gotta say bus in traffic.
- Yeah, bus is brutal. Bus is brutal.
- There is nothing like when you gotta go to the bathroom
and that bus just keeps stopping
to let them poor babies off that school bus.
- Yeah, yeah.
You gotta get around them once the stop sign goes in.
- No, but you gonna go to jail,
'cause you can get a ticket for that.
- Oh, that's true. Well, that's the tough part.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that makes it harder. Yeah.
I think we should get rid of school.
- Oh, God.
- This is the last question. Dakota has got 2 points.
Mallory's got 2 points. Tom, you need this one.
It all comes to this.
What did the average American say?
[upbeat music]
- [shouts] - Wow.
Mallory, 5 points. Tom, 3 points.
Congratulations. - Yeah!
- You are moving on.
Dakota and Dinosaur, I am so sorry,
but you are the most below average tonight.
Thank you for playing with us. We really loved having you.
When "The Greatest Average American" returns,
I'll be pushing shopping carts all over the stage.
Do not go anywhere.
[upbeat music]
- Welcome back to "The Greatest Average American."
Mallory and Tom are one step closer
to playing for the average American salary of $67,920.
- Yeah!
- This next round is all about getting
into the mind and body of the original greatest
average American, myself.
Tonight, I am playing...
Shopping Cart Corral.
[bell rings]
I'll be trying to wheel shopping carts
into the standard-issue corral.
I'll be pushing them from there
and my feet cannot cross the line.
I will have six carts, no time limit.
[groaning] This could be all day.
For each cart in the corral, I'll get 1 point.
I get a bonus point for each cart
I can nestle into another one.
Here's how this works.
One of you will start off by guessing
exactly how many points I can score with six carts.
The other will then write over if you think I will score more,
or under if you think I will score less.
If you're right, you're headed to the bonus round.
Mallory, you scored the highest in the first round,
so you get to decide.
Would you like to guess the number I will hit
or the over/under?
- I am gonna let my friend choose the number.
- Okay, Tom, how many points do you think I will score?
If I have a perfect game and nestle
all the cards in the corral, that would be 11 points.
So write down your guess and show Mallory and the audience.
I don't want to see. I can't see.
Don't show me.
[laughter]
Mallory do you think I'll go over that number or under it?
Write it down.
This is just for you.
Answers are in.
All right?
[cheers and applause]
- Come on, Nate.
Come on, Nate.
- A little help from Julian.
- I'm gonna catch them.
If you get excited and you start--
- Yeah.
- You know, I've gotta protect the audience.
- What's in your hand?
- Oh. - Oh.
That's good.
- That's an athlete right there.
- Here we go.
[Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" playing]
[dramatic rock music]
- Yeah! - Ooh.
- That was good.
♪ ♪
This is your first chance at a nestle.
♪ ♪
- Ah!
- Oh!
- I think I need some speed. - Yeah.
- You got 2 points. That's just short of a nestle.
- Hey. All right.
♪ ♪
- That's a nestle! - Yeah!
- That's a nestle right there!
- That's a full nestle.
- Whoo! Give him the nestle!
- It's an honor to work for you, Nate.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
Ah!
Oh!
- That's a full nestle! - That's a big one.
That's a big one! - Oh, let's go.
all: Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate!
Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- ♪ It's the eye of tiger, it's the thrill of the fight ♪
♪ Rising up to the challenge of our rival ♪
- I've never seen anything like this.
This is history!
- You've never seen it.
- Nate, you have a chance to be perfect right here.
It's never been done on this show.
- All right.
all: Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate!
Nate! Nate!
Ah! [buzzer]
- That's all right.
- 9 points. That was a letdown.
- That was amazing. - Thank you.
- That was great.
- I got a little strong with that left arm.
And I don't think you're supposed
to talk about a no-hitter, but...
yeah, my left arm got strong on that last one.
All right, so it's the moment of truth.
Tom, how many did you think I could do?
- I underestimated you and said 6.
- 6 was solid. It's a solid answer.
Mallory, this is to move on. If you guessed over, you win.
But if it's under,
then you're going home and Tom's going forward.
Please show us what you said.
[suspenseful music]
- Congratulations.
- Oh, said under.
That means Tom is moving on!
Congratulations, you are the greatest average American.
- Great job.
- And to go along with that title, we give you $10,000.
- Yeah! Yeah!
- But can he turn it into $67,920?
Find out when we return
to "The Greatest Average American."
[upbeat music]
- All right. Welcome back.
I'm here with our winner, Tom.
He has earned the coveted title of
the Greatest Average American, a very nice title to have.
And with that comes $10,000.
- Yes. Yes, yes. - Not too shabby.
That's yours to keep no matter what.
But now you have a chance to win
the average American salary, $67,920.
[cheers and applause]
Oh, I also wanted to tell you I'm gonna put a little extra
in there to help cover all your taxes.
- Oh, my God, thank you. - So there you go.
What will you do if you win it?
- Well, my wife is here in the audience.
Our 30th anniversary is coming up, and we've been
talking for years about going on an Alaskan cruise
for our vacation. - Yeah.
- So this would be nice to be able to do that together.
- Just go do it. - Absolutely.
- That'd be great. That's great.
For the 30th, that's wonderful.
We're either going to Alaska or Cleveland.
Cleveland-- there's a lot of stuff
to do in Cleveland, as well.
It's a wonderful town.
All right.
You showed you can think like the average American,
but there's one more group of average Americans
you need to face, and that's our audience.
Before the show, we asked them seven questions.
You have 30 seconds to correctly predict
how the majority of them answered.
If you get five right, you go home with $67,920.
- Ooh.
But remember, three strikes and you're out.
- Yeah. - All right?
Audience, look, it's your answers
that are helping win this money,
so you should have some skin in the game as well.
If Tom wins, you're all going home
with one of my favorite things, which is--
Julian, tell 'em.
- If he wins, everyone's going home with Krispy Kreme donuts!
- Yes!
- I got you, I got you, I got you, I got you!
- 30 seconds on the clock.
[tense music]
Feel good? - I feel good.
- All right, here we go.
- Face.
- Yes.
- Rocking.
- Mustard.
- Elephant.
- Yes.
- Seven questions. There we go.
Felt good. You know?
These are good American answers.
Is this audience more likely to remember
a person's name or their face?
You said face.
- I did. - This is your world.
- It is, yeah, yeah.
- Audience, did you say face?
[bell rings] - Yes, yes, yes, yes!
All right.
- The first question is always the hardest to get down.
Look at us.
Do they own a working printer?
You said yes.
Audience, did you say yes?
[bell rings] - Yes, yes!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
- Looks like an age that would have printers.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Two questions right so far.
Do they prefer a beanbag chair or a rocking chair?
You said rocking chair.
- A rocking chair is always delightful.
- It can only go right with a rocking chair.
It can go real wrong with a beanbag chair.
Audience did you also say rocking chair?
[bell rings]
Yes, they do. - Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Thank you, thank you!
- Three. - Whoo.
- Three. No strikes.
We're doing good.
Do they prefer their hot dog with ketchup or mustard?
You said mustard.
- Chicago. - Yeah.
I-I-I lived in Chicago, and if you don't know,
they are furious if you put ketchup.
- It's an affront. - It's all mustard.
As you can see, he would risk
losing this game to not say ketchup.
- My street cred, yeah. - Yeah.
Did this basically Nashville audience also say mustard?
[bell rings] Wow!
- Yes, yes, yes!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
- They knew it.
Look at that. Zero strikes.
You need one of these right.
You can choose.
Which one do you feel confident about?
Or which one do you think might be an X
and you wanna just drag it out a little bit?
You know? You decide. - Increase some screen time?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Let's pull the plug and pick number 6, making the bed.
I look around, this is a beautiful crowd.
These people make their bed. - They make their bed.
I hope so.
I'm seeing a couple that might not, but I don't--
all right.
For $67,920.
[cheers and applause]
Do they make their bed every day?
You said yes.
Audience, did you say yes?
[suspenseful music]
[buzzer] Oh!
- It's okay, it's okay. - All right.
That's okay. - It's cool.
We've got some wiggle room. - That's all right.
It's kind of the opposite now.
You've got one strike, two questions left.
All you need is one and the strike portion only needs two.
Normally, you don't say it like that,
but I'm also not a game show host, but here we are.
- Okay. - So what do you wanna do?
Do you wanna see them ride camel or elephant
or do you wanna see popcorn, movie theater?
- Let's do popcorn.
- Yeah, I feel they should.
- It's a staple. - It's what you do.
- Quintessential American experience.
- All comes down to popcorn.
For $67,920.
Audience, do you get popcorn?
♪ ♪
[bell rings] Yeah!
- Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Oh, my God. - Thank you, buddy!
Thank you, buddy! - I'm gonna go hug my wife.
- There we go, $67,920.
And audience, everybody gets Krispy Kremes.
[bell rings] Elephant, yeah. Real good.
When we come back, three new players will battle it out
to see who's the most average.
Don't go anywhere.
"The Greatest Average American" will be right back.
[upbeat dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Krispy Kreme?
Feel free to grab one.
♪ ♪
[upbeat dramatic music]
- Welcome back to "The Greatest Average American."
Our pursuit of average continues
with three new contestants.
Let's see who we've got. Greg?
- Nate, an insurance agency owner who grew up
on a horse ranch in Wyoming. - Oh.
- It's Gwen. - Really, really?
[cheers and applause]
- A flight-attendant- turned-pilot
from the state of Arizona, it's Nashawn.
- Let's go! What's up, Nate?
- There we go, there we go.
- Let's go, y'all! Let's go!
- And a restaurant manager from the beautiful Show-Me State
of Missouri, it's Preston.
- What's up, Nate? What's up people?
How we doing?
- You know, he's from Missouri and wrestled
at University of Missouri. - Oh.
- Yeah, he did it, yeah, big-time.
- He was known as Greg "The Greg" Warren.
- Yeah.
It was when they did regular names.
All right. Good luck to all of you.
I'm excited.
Let's get to the game. - Whoo!
- In our first round, these first two questions
are worth 1 point each.
Here's your first question.
[suspenseful music]
Ten seconds.
You been in a pillow fight, Greg?
- Yes. It was just me and the pillow.
- Who won?
- It was a draw.
[upbeat jazzy music]
- All right, Preston.
- I went with D, hockey fight.
- Yes. It's very fun.
- Listen-- - It's very fun.
- I think when you're watching a sport
and there's fighting going on that's allowed, I think,
why not?
- It's a real fight. - It is a real fight.
- It's a real fight. - Yeah.
- Yeah, I agree.
- Nashawn?
- Well, I'm gonna have to go with B, food fight.
- Yeah. A lot of people like that.
- 'Cause who hasn't thought about throwing food
across the cafeteria and doing all that stuff before?
- Yeah. Food fight. All right, Gwen.
- Well, this is supposed to be a C for pillow fight.
- Yeah, pillow fights. Nice and sweet.
- I think so.
- We all got all the opposite answers.
We asked 100 average Americans. What did they say?
[suspenseful music]
- Wow! - That's unbelievable.
- Wait a minute. - That's unbelievable.
- Half of America doesn't even have snow.
- That is true. [chuckles]
Snowball fight, 42%.
Hockey fight, 6%, Preston.
Not to discourage you,
but I'd maybe start thinking about your answers.
Next question.
- Ooh. - Ten seconds.
[upbeat jazzy music]
♪ ♪
I don't know. I don't know.
[bell rings]
Preston?
- I went with A, the Wicked Witch of the West.
- All right.
The Wicked Witch of the West. Great answer.
Nashawn?
- I also said A, the Wicked Witch.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Because first of all,
everyone has seen "Wicked" at this point.
I've cried in sympathy with her.
- Yes. - I feel bad for her.
- So it's about her? - Yeah.
- Oh, wow.
I have not seen "Wicked." - Oh.
- But okay, "Wizard of Oz" is like, one of the
best movies of all time.
But "Wicked" is new, right?
- "Wicked" is better. - "Wicked" is better?
[cheers and applause] - I said what I said.
- A lot of people agree. All right.
Gwen, is "Wicked" better than "Wizard of Oz?"
- Uh, no. I'm sorry.
There is only one original "Wizard of Oz."
- Yes.
- I did go with A, Wicked Witch of the West, though.
- Yes, yes.
- I will give you that, Nashawn.
I will. - You could see it.
All right.
We'll go find out what the average American said.
Did they say snowball fight again?
Wicked Witch of the West.
- We're on the board!
We're on the board! - You nailed it.
I would have got it wrong because I
haven't seen "Wicked."
All right.
- [chuckles] - Moving right along.
- I know how to take the fun out of a game show
more than anybody!
[laughter]
All right.
Everybody gets 1 point. We're all tied up.
All right, two questions left.
I'm gonna raise the stakes a little,
so this next one is worth 2 points.
All right? - All right.
[suspenseful music]
What percent got it right?
Blank-blank.
Ten seconds.
[upbeat jazzy music]
Greg, was Franklin D. Roosevelt a good guy?
You went to school with him.
- I did, Nate, I went to school in 1935.
- Oh, wow. - No, I didn't know FDR.
- That's enough, Greg.
Uh...
do y'all know the saying?
- [sputters]
- I don't know, I-- - We need you flying planes.
We don't need you--
- "Fear itself." - Oh, okay. I know it, yeah.
I know it then.
I said that in my head, but I just didn't
wanna be loud and say it.
- Yeah, I do that all the time.
Well, it's actually the opposite, actually.
There's a lot of stuff, I'm like, I should
have kept that inside there. - See?
- All right.
"The only thing we have to fear
is fear itself."
Gwen, what percent
you thought got it right?
- I said 60%.
- 60%. - So here's the thing.
I'm thinking about what percentage
of the population out there are Gen X and boomers, right?
Because I feel like we're gonna know this more
than maybe a millennial.
- Yes.
Nashawn?
- Well, first of all, I'm the first five days of Gen Z.
- Oh, okay. - All right.
- He's Gen Z.
- She's gonna age me like that.
But I chose 56%.
- Oh. Preston?
- I went a little higher.
I went with 87%. - Yeah.
- Immediately when I saw it on there,
I knew the quote right off the bat.
I feel like the average American could too.
- Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Well, we're about to find out.
This is worth 2 points.
You all have 1 point.
What percent got it right?
[suspenseful music]
62%.
- Oh, my God! - Gwen!
- [laughs] - All right.
- Yes!
Yes. - Last question.
Anybody's game, because this one is worth 3 points.
Gwen's at 3, Nashawn and Preston, 1.
♪ ♪
[laughter]
You have ten seconds.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- It's a tricky one. - It's a tricky one.
It's tricky.
Preston, let's start with you.
- I went with D, the internet.
- Yeah.
Nashawn?
- I also went with D, the internet.
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
The internet's bananas. So that is a good--
Yeah, it's pretty wild.
It's kind of unfair to be up there with--
the light bulb's, like, I mean, come on, I did some stuff, man.
Like, you're throwing me up against the internet.
Gwen?
- I also went with, I think,
Al Gore's invention of the internet.
- The internet, yes. - Right, was it? Yes.
- The other ones are all great.
The wheel, that really mattered.
That all sent us towards the internet,
which calls all those things dumb now.
[suspenseful music]
What did the average American say?
♪ ♪
The light bulb. Wow. - What?
- What?
- All right, I think it's like, the light is the reason
you have the internet.
- Okay. - All right.
Gwen, you're going on to the next round with 3 points.
- Oh, my God!
- Congratulations, Gwen, as you should.
- Nashawn, Preston, we have a tie.
To break it, I'm gonna ask you one last question.
It's a percentage question.
Whichever player gets closest to the correct answer
will be moving on.
[suspenseful music]
Ten seconds.
[upbeat jazzy music]
- Nate, you know I sold Pringles for ten years?
- Yeah, I heard about that.
Yeah. - Efficient use of space.
- It is. All right.
Preston, what'd you say?
- I said 7%.
- Nashawn?
- I went on the high side and said 80%.
- 80%. I like it.
Hey, we made a choice, and I like it.
One of you are gonna be here.
- Choices.
- One of you will be sadly going home.
What percent of the average American
said they got their hand stuck in a Pringles can?
Nashawn is the winner by 3%.
Congratulations, Nashawn. - Oh, yes!
- And that means he's moving on to the next round with Gwen.
Unfortunately, Preston, you're the most below average tonight
and have been eliminated.
Thank you for playing, though. - Thank you.
- When we come back, the quest to crown the greatest
average American continues.
Do not go anywhere.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Welcome back to "The Greatest Average American."
Gwen and Nashawn are one step closer
to playing for the average American salary
of $67,920.
- I want it, I want it.
- All right.
This next round is all about getting
into the mind and body of the original greatest
average American himself.
That's me.
And tonight, we will be testing my knowledge on...
- All right, okay.
- Greg has made a list of his 30 favorite breakfast cereals.
I will have 60 seconds to name as many of them as I can.
That's it.
And to figure out who's going to the bonus round,
you two are predicting how well I'm gonna do.
One of you will start off by guessing
exactly how many of Greg's favorite cereals
I can name in 60 seconds.
The other will write over
if you think it will be more than that,
or under if you think it'll be less than that.
If you're right, you're headed to the bonus round.
Gwen? - Yes?
- You scored the highest in the first round,
so you get to decide.
Would you like to guess the number I will name
or the over/under?
- I would like to do the over/under.
- All right.
Nashawn, how many of Greg's favorite cereals
do you think I can name in 60 seconds?
Write it down. Show the audience.
Gwen needs to see it as well.
- Nashawn, Nate loves cereal.
He always has two bowls.
- We never thought that Greg could hurt you.
All right, Gwen, do you think I will go over that number
or under it?
Write down your guess. Do not show anybody.
Only you know.
All right. Answers are in.
It's my time to shine. I'm going to my little spot.
All right.
Oh, here we go.
Greg, a little help, please.
- Let's put 60 seconds on the board.
Good luck, Nate.
- Thank you.
- On your mark,
get set,
cereal!
- Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes.
Lucky Charms,
Golden Grahams,
Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios,
Apple Cinnamon Cheerios.
Uh... - 45 seconds, Nate.
You've got 7.
- The, uh...
Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
all: Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate!
- The uh...
Oh, man. Did I say Cocoa Pebbles?
Cocoa Puffs? Cocoa Pebbles?
- 30 seconds, Nate. You're halfway there.
- I don't know if I said Cocoa Pebbles.
Fruity Pebbles, I said.
Lucky Charms.
I keep going with the same ones.
I'm sorry.
Oh, man.
- 15 seconds, Nate. - All right, all right.
Ugh.
[stammers] All right.
The Cheerios?
Oh, I know you want me--yeah.
all: Five, four...
- It makes so many people mad. I don't--
- Three, two, one!
[buzzer] - Time!
Time.
- I went really blank.
I'm--I'm sorry.
You know, I'm also on TV, so I'm just as nervous.
How many did I get right?
- Well, you got 8, Nate.
- Oh, wow. Which ones did I miss?
It's all of them? [laughter]
All right, I know these.
I bet--I bet Golden Grahams surprised you.
- Yeah, that was good.
- I bet y'all didn't see that one coming.
All right, it's the moment of truth.
Nashawn, how many cereals did you think I could do?
- You did better than I could, but I guessed 8.
- 8, the exact number!
He got it exactly right.
Nicely done. - I'm hot.
That means you're moving on to the bonus round automatically.
Gwen, thank you for playing.
You were just barely below average tonight.
But thank you for being here.
Nashawn is officially our greatest average American.
- Yes! - And with that comes $10,000.
But can he turn it into $67,920?
[upbeat music]
Find out when we return to "The Greatest Average American."
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
I'm here with our winner, Nashawn.
He has earned the coveted title of
the Greatest Average American, and with that comes $10,000.
- Yes! - All right.
That's yours to keep no matter what.
But now you have a chance to win the average
American salary of $67,920.
- Right in this pocket. It's coming to me.
- Here we go.
- I'm gonna put a little extra in there
to help cover all your taxes.
So there you go.
- That's why I love you, you see?
You're the man.
- What will you do if you win it?
- Oh, it's going to pilot debt.
Y'all don't know it's very expensive
out here to be a pilot.
- Oh, wow.
- So it's gonna knock out some of that debt real quick.
- Well, that's wonderful. That's great to hear.
This is for your pilot dreams.
You showed you can think like the average American,
but there's one more group of average Americans
you need to face, and that is our audience.
[cheers and applause]
Before the show, we asked them seven questions.
You have 30 seconds to predict
how the majority of them answered.
Get five right and you go home with $67,920.
But--
Beware because it's three strikes and you're out.
All right?
Audience, if Nashawn wins,
you're all going home with one of my favorite things.
Julian, what is that thing?
- Tonight, everyone will win Church's Texas Chicken!
- All right!
- Come on!
I'm trying to feed y'all, okay?
I wanna feed y'all.
- He's doing all he can.
All right, 30 seconds on the clock.
Here we go.
- No.
- Mini golf.
- No.
- Morning.
- Game night.
- Abracadabra.
- Yes.
There we go. Seven questions.
- Oh, shoot.
[laughs]
- Do you own a ladder?
- Y'all own a ladder, right? - Yeah.
- All right.
Does this audience think a hot dog
should be considered a sandwich?
You said no.
See, it's like-- - They should, right?
- They're from-- - You believe that, right?
- Nashville people, man. - Yeah, yeah.
- We know what sandwiches--
pulled pork sandwiches, all that.
- Exactly. - That's not a hot dog.
- Nobody wants that.
- That's not a hot dog. Does the audience agree?
Did they say no?
[bell rings]
All right! - Whoo!
- We got one on the board.
This one's gonna be interesting.
Which would they rather play, mini golf or regular golf?
You said mini golf.
Audience, would you rather play mini golf?
- Oh! - Boom!
- I thought that could be-- - Let's go!
- That's one, that's a good one to get.
All right, we got two right? - Whoo!
- Have they ever cut their own hair?
- You shouldn't. - You shouldn't.
I've cut mine.
Hopefully these people are not like me.
- I'm praying.
- Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Did the audience say no?
[buzzer]
All right.
We've got one strike. - Uh-huh.
- Two questions right.
Would they rather work out in the morning or at night?
You said morning.
Audience, did you say morning?
- Yes!
- All right, all right, now we've got some momentum.
We got three right. We only have one strike.
Which do they prefer, movie night or game night?
You said game night.
You were pretty excited about saying game night.
- Well, I mean, why would you not like
game night if you come here?
You like games.
- Hey, that is a great way to think about it.
- You know? - All right.
Audience, did you say game night?
[buzzer]
Oh. - [groans]
Two strikes. I know.
I felt--I was nervous on that one.
- It's okay. - It's okay, though.
- The rest will be good. - All right.
You have to be perfect from here on out.
- I'm usually perfect.
- There you go.
Which do they think is a better magic word?
Abracadabra or ta-da?
You said abracadabra.
- Couldn't spell it till I looked at that, but--
- Yeah, it's a big one to do.
My dad's a magician.
We like abracadabra. - See?
- You need this one. - Oof.
- To keep going.
Audience did you say abracadabra?
[bell rings] Oh!
All right.
Whoo! Whoo! Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
All right. [groans]
It's crazy.
A ladder is what it all comes down to.
This is--
- [groans]
- This is probably the
most priciest question ever about a ladder.
You got four right.
You got two strikes.
- Whoo. - This decides it all.
You need it to be correct.
This is for $67,920.
[suspenseful music]
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- And their chicken. - And their chicken.
- And your chicken.
All right. Nashawn, you said yes.
Audience, did you say yes?
♪ ♪
[bell rings] - Yeah! Let's go!
- There we go!
There we go, dude!
- Yeah!
Yeah! - There you go, dude!
That's so awesome, man. That's so awesome.
Oh! - [laughing]
- Congratulations, Nashawn! You've won $67,920.
- Oh, my God!
- And audience, you know what that means?
Everyone in the audience is going home
with Church's Texas Chicken.
Join us next time to watch another average American
rise to greatness right here
on "The Greatest Average American."
[upbeat music]
- Ah!
- Unbelievable. - I love Nashville now.
- Hey, we love you, buddy.
There we go. There we go.
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