Game Changer (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Make Some Noise - full transcript

Josh Ruben, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zac Oyama take turns sounding off.

- Get ready for a game changer.

(horn music)

Tonight's guests, mama to Precious Plum,

it's Josh Ruben!

Are you his dad?

Gorgug to some, to others it's Zac Oyama!

And Dimension 20 founding father,

it's Brennan Lee Mulligan!

And your host, me!

I've been here the whole time.

Welcome to 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.

- [All] No

- [Josh] Not at all, you haven't told us.

- [Brennan] No

That's right.

Our contestants have
no idea what game it is

they are 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 adieu,



let's begin.

Josh.

- (clears throat) Yeah.

- The word is,

(ding)

cow.

- No problem (sighs).

Cow.

- I'm sorry that is not the
answer I was looking for.

No points to Josh.

- (scoffs) Fuck.

- You don't have to buzz, but
I appreciate the initiative.

Zac. Your word is,

(ding)

duck.

- Quack quack.

- That is correct.

- Huh.

- Okay I see, I see what
this is about, okay.

- Brennan, your word is

(ding)

monkey.

- (makes monkey sound)

- Very good.

(ding)

And now the players start to realize--

(players laugh)

- Why I've brought them
in particular, here today.

- Oh.
- We know all the animals.

- We know all the animals.

- This is gonna be easy!

- Josh!

- Yeah.

- Your word is

(ding)

cat.

- No prob-ma.

Meow.

- (laughs)

- And also (hisses) for a bonus point.

- No, there are no bonus
points for bonus sounds.

- Well, I'll just stick with
my original answer, meow.

- (both laugh)

- [Sam] Very good.

Zac Oyama, your word is,

(ding)

frog.

- Uh, ribbit ribbit.

(all laughing)

- I don't know, if that's point worthy.

- (scoffs)

- I don't know if it's point worthy and so

I'm gonna toss it up to
the other two contestants

to give me their frogs
to see one of them is--

- Wait, no problem.

- [Sam] worthy of the steal.

Josh it's not you yet.

Brennan, give me your best frog.

- (croaks)

- [Sam] Pretty good, Josh,
lets hear what you got.

- (exhales deeply) (growls)
That wasn't it yet.

All right, ready? (clears throat)

All right, no problem I
fuckin' got this okay?

Shush.

- If you laugh near this
it's not your point.

- All right, I know I understand

here's the frog coming
right up. Everyone shush.

- (laughing)

- Brennan, stop. Pressure's on,

okay only six seconds
left all right, ready?

- Where'd you get six seconds?

- Shush, just shush.

- There's no clock!

- Lower to third dude shush.

All right ready? Ribbit.

- I think that point in particular

goes to Brennan Lee Mulligan.

- (yelling) Are you fucked up?

- Woo!
- Wow.

- What is so dumb!

- [Sam] Brennan.

- Yup.

- Your word is,

(ding)

chick.

- (makes high pitched peeping sound)

- I do wonder if we can do better

with our other two contestants
and so first, Zac Oyama.

- (makes high pitched, quiet
peeping sound) (laughs)

- I do think, that was an improvement.

Josh.

- Not only am I gonna do a chick,

I'm gonna do a whole
hoard them and sort of

bring them to lie in this room
if you can imagine, ready?

- [Sam] Yup.

- (clears throat) Here they
are. Just, just imagine

a bunch of little ones.

(makes many squeaking
sounds through teeth)

That's me petting them. (squeeks)

One bit me. One of them
just came out of an egg.

That's it just coming out. (more squeeks)

- It's not good to touch
newborn chicks with your hands.

- That's right, anyway.

- I do think for the theater

of that display the point
needs to go to Josh Ruben.

Josh, your word is

(ding)

donkey.

- (clears throat) No problem.

(squeeks) (grumbles)

(Brennan laughs)

- Wow! (coughs) Amazing!

- You devised this episode just for pulls

for the trailer for this show admit it.

(laughter)

That's what this is.

- Knowing it was gonna be
the three of you today,

I was just like too excited
to go to sleep last night.

- If Josh doesn't get
seagull I'm gonna freak out.

- Seagull is nowhere in my plan.

- You get Josh Ruben on and
not give him a seagull to do?

- You wanna do a seagull right now?

- (makes seagull sound)

- (laughing)

- I think we're fine.

(Brennan claps)

- I'll just keep going, rat (squeeks).

You know it's all the same.

- Don't, don't!

I have slides, Josh.

(laughter)

- Give it all to me now we all know--

- [Sam] Zac!

- I can do this

- Zac! Your word is,

(ding)

orca.

- (makes howling sound)
(makes splash sound)

- Yes.

That splash into the water did it.

Brennan, your sound is

(ding)

hyena.

- Hold on

- (snorts)

- I have to go right into my fi

- (laughs) There's a deep
drawer in a file cabinet

somewhere in Brennan's brain.

- Because I, they don't laugh.

They just that's the closest sound

we approximate so I can't laugh.

(emits a high pitched, slow laughter)

(all laugh)

- [Josh and Zac] Ahh!

- Fantastic, fantastic
- Not close

- I'm going to make this a toss-up.

We will first go to Josh Ruben.

- Hyena?

- [Sam] Yes.

- No problem.

(barks) No problem.

Yeah its not a laugh.
It's all it's a little

they're more like, more like this.

It's definitely more like
this. (clears throat)

- Shush, I'm gonna need everyone to shush.

'Cause I got hyena right
here. Its not your typical,

not your Lion King one,
this is like straight out of

Nat Geo, you ready? (makes
squeaking howl sound)

You think it'd be a monkey but it's not.

- That--

- (Josh squeeks)

- Is very good, Josh.

You set me up to think

that was gonna be an unmitigated disaster.

- I didn't know what it
was gonna sound like.

- Zac.

- Okay, so (makes coughing howl sound).

- This point is going to go to Josh Ruben.

Josh

(ding)

Your word is

(ding)

sealion.

- (barks) That's it.

- Cool

- [Josh] Yeah.

- Great, yes that is, in fact correct.

- I'm 36 years old.

(all giggle)

- I am 35, Zac.

- I'm 31.

(uncontrollable laugher)

As of, uh the recording of this.

- [Sam] Brennan?

- I am also 31.

- Good to know.

- It's important to know

that there is four men in
their thirties here today.

(Zac and Josh laughing)

- Zac

(ding)

moose.

- Moo. Moo.

- Zac, I'm--

- Moo!

(laughter)

- Did you factor in the antlers?

- (laughing) I'm factoring
them in as we speak!

- Uh, fun fact about
moose, they're the last

- Oh my god

- surviving species of
North American megafauna.

- No points for Brennan,

- Points for the audience for learning.

- End it it's not the extra credit show,

it's make animal sounds!

Come on dude, I got places to be.

- Josh has to leave in four minutes.

(all laugh)

- Zac, I think that point
goes to you, well done.

Brennan, your word is

(ding)

fox.

- (exhales)

- Running through his mind
palace looking or his room

labeled "fox". (laughs)

- I'm imagining Brennan
in his memory palace

he's pulling out books and
they say like ancient history.

- The rise and fall of the
Merovingian Dynasty and then

behind that is like a
cardboard book that says

what noise a fox make.

- Yeah.

(all giggle)

- Uh, okay. (squeals)

- That is correct.

Well done Brennan.

Point to you, the fox
does sound remarkably

like a chirping bird.

(bell rings)

We are now headed into
our first mini game.

Ash, would you please bring out

the devices.

(happy music)

We're going to give one device
to each of our contestants.

I am going to play a sound for you

and then throw it to Josh.
Ready Josh, your sound is

(Otamatone sound)

- No problem, "it's the cops."

(laughter)

- [Sam] That is so far from
what I want you to do here,

Zac.

- (makes sounds with Otamatone)

- Pretty good, Zac. I
will give you the point.

Unless, Brennan can beat you now.

- (whispers) Don't fuck me.

- (laughs)

- (makes sound with Otamatone)

(laughter)

- I think this point
is going to go to Zac.

- Yes!

- (laughs)

- Can we get about 15 minutes to jam out?

- Yeah, you know let's hear what you got.

(makes sounds with Otamatone)

(all make sounds with Otamatones)

- If the three of you were
performing on a subway

I would take money away from you.

(drums)

(cymbal)

We head into round two with
with Josh Ruben at 5 points,

Zac Oyama with 4,

Brennan Lee Mulligan with 3.

Josh.

- Huh.

- Your word is,

(ding)

jack hammer.

- (makes jack hammer sound)
That's him keeping the hat on.

The helmet. (makes more jackhammer sounds)

- Josh, without a doubt
despite the safety concerns,

great jack hammer.

(ding)

That point is yours.

Zac, your word is

(ding)

anguish.

- (moans) Ahhh!

- Very well done, Zac.

Brennan, your word is

(ding)

a North Dakotan.

- Um, yeah man I love
it here in North Dakota

I moved here about three
years ago from the East coast.

I'm enjoying it.

I mean work is, work's been good.

My wife obviously has her
family out here so that's,

I get back out to the
East coast I'd say once or

twice a year which,
yeah, I could be more but

just while we're getting
settled it feels like

it's good to try to put down roots here.

- Brennan, I feel like you're trying to

catch me on a technicality.

- So you want me to, eh,
to engage in stereotype?

- That point I think goes to you, Brennan,

(ding)

for catching me, on being reductive.

- (laughs)

- Shame on me.

Josh,

- Hmm.

(ding)

- The Netflix intro

- B-bunn

(all laugh)

- Totally, I'll give you
that point, well done.

(ding)

- I had to add a little flourish.

- Zac,

(ding)

hold music.

- (hums slow jams)

_ I like that Zac, I do.

I do wanna see what your
fellow players have in mind.

- (clears throat) Please wait
while your conference call

is waiting to connect.

♪ Bum, bah da be nah bum bum bum. ♪

(clicks)

♪ Ba na be na bum bum bum. ♪

(clicks)

♪ Ba na be na bum bah bum. ♪

(clicks)

♪ Bum ba na. Please wait
while your conference call ♪

(laughter)

is waiting to connect.

♪ Bum, bah. ♪

- (laughs) Very good, Brennan let's hear

what you have in mind.

- Your call is important to us.

- (laughs)

- Please stay on the line and an operator

will be with you shortly.

♪ Girl from Ipanema (mumbles) ♪

- You know I do like your take, Brennan.

The issue is probably one of our

legal ability to use
that song and so I think

this point's gonna go to Josh.

Brennan,

(ding)

stirring creamy mac and cheese.

- Ready, watch this.

- [Sam] Yeah.

- (makes slurping sound)

- Hmm.

- I'm sorry, I'm sorry I gotta stop.

That sounds more like slurp.

- Oh, Josh do you, do you wanna challenge?

- Yeah I do. That just
sounds like an anxious,

50 year old man slurpin' noodle sauce.

- The fuck is noodle sauce?

- It's the velvee, it's
its the, it sound's like

- The fuck is noodle sauce?

- I'm gonna back out of this man.

- You want a mac and cheese stir?

- Josh, I'm gonna as you

to put your money where your mouth is.

- Absolutely, everyone
close their frickin' mouths.

I mean eyes.

(laughter)

And mouths. I want you to put
yourself in your kitchens.

Here it is. (clicks) That's the stove.

Here's the stir. (makes shushing sound)

- You know, Josh that is
a good stir the issue is

I like Brennan's original when
- Get me in there!

Get me in there!

- [Sam] Oh what?

- Let me have a shot at this.

- Zac, okay you have your shot.

- Whatever man, if I had
known this was gonna be the

no holds barred, elbow throwing massacre

this has turned into

I would've played the start
of this game very differently.

- All right let's give, let's give the--

- And this is the precedent we're setting?

Get ready for the back
half of this episode.

- So I'm feeling like
a little thin over here

a little mechanical over here.

I think it's more like a
(makes liquid stirring noise)

- This point goes to Zac, I'm sorry.

- Whoa! Fair!

- Yes! Yes!

- (slow claps)

- Fair.
- Well done, my friend.

- [Sam] Josh.

- Hah.

- Give me,

(ding)

100 Batmans.

- (clears throat) (wheezes)

(whispers)(makes whirling sound)

(makes raspberry sound)

- I love it- holy shit, Josh.

(laughter)

Holy shit.

(ding)

I would give you more than one point

but that's not how the game works. Zac.

(ding)

A dinosaur speaks its first English.

- (laughs)

- (moans repeatedly) Hi.

Hi.

- (laughs) The dinosaur's
first word is hi.

How wholesome is that?

Brennan,

(ding)

a vampire, nauseated by drinking blood.

- Ahh the children of the night.

What sweet music they make,
and now for me to feed (gags)

now for me to f (gags) ohh,
uh I'm going to sit down.

- (laughs) Fantastic, Brennan.

(ding)

Josh,

(ding)

your parents arguing
softly in the other room

about you having been allowed
to see an R-rated movie.

- (mumbles)

- Great, Josh.

(ding)

Zac.

- [Zac] Yes.

(ding)

- A cool bass lick and then
the rest of the band joins in.

- (beat boxes)

- Say that was, that was well done but

I do wanna see what the
rest of our players have

in mind for this.

- (makes guitar sound) (scats)

- Very well done Josh

(makes random instrument sounds)

(claps)

(laughter)

- Very well done, Josh

- Fireworks at the end.

- And I did appreciate
it at the same time as

I think technically uh, Brennan's
sounded more like music.

(laughter)

And so this point is
going to go to Brennan.

(ding)

Brennan.

(ding)

- Yes.

- A recording of a political speech so old

that it's unintelligible.

- The question put forward
today before this August body

is the question of declaimation

Whether or not our territory
is to assume the mantle

of a state or whether we are to recede

into the allied colonies.

- Very well done, Brennan, and

I like your interpretation of this.

It wasn't exactly what I had in mind

I do like it and you could
still win the point. Josh.

- Yeah 'cause um, I think
the word here is old so

theoretically it'd be so old
you could barely understand

so it'd be more like, more like this.

(mumbles indiscernibly) savory
(mumbles) horse and buggies.

(all giggle)

(Josh mumbles more)

- Josh, well done I'm
gonna throw this to Zac

to see what he can give us.

- See, you have like a record or something

(makes muffled sounds)

(shushing sound)

- I appreciate all these
interpretations and Josh and Zac,

that is what I had in
mind by unintelligible

but Brennan, I think your
interpretation of this

was exciting enough to me that the point

is going to go to you. I like--

- It was intelligible! (smacks podium)

(ding)

It was intelligible!

- So old, is not modifying recording,

it's modifying political
speech, the politics!

- You don't need to like the game,

you just need to play it.

(bell rings)

It's time for our next mini game.

Ash, would you please
bring out, the vases.

(elevator music)

Each of you is going to get
one of these beautiful vases.

Ready players, your sound
is (glass breaking).

Josh.

- (crashing sound)

- Zac

- (snickers)

(exhales)

(glass shatters)

- Brennan

(glass breaks)

- Well done everyone,

Zac and Brennan that is a point for you

(ding)

Sorry, Josh.

(glass shatters )

- God damn it!

(laughter)

(drums)

(cymbal)

- We are now in round three.

Josh has 10 points, Zac
and Brennan are tied.

This is a tight game. Josh, your word is.

(ding)

- (clears throat) K.

(exhales)

- I do like it. I'm gonna throw it out

to the other two contestants.

- Take the picture.

- Okay, Brennan.

- Yeah so basically what
we're trying to do is like

combine long form and short form improv.

The other seven guys

on my team, Chris,
Mike, Matt, Chris, Matt,

uh, Skully who's fuckin' crazy and Matt,

they're like extremely funny dudes.

This date's going well.

(both groaning)

- [Sam] That point goes to Brennan.

(ding)

- [Zac and Josh] Wow.

Zac

(ding)

your word is.

- We're having fun over here
we don't need to go over there

(giggles)

(claps)

- I will take it, Zac well done.

- (exhales) Thank you.

- Brennan, you word is

(ding)

(scoffing)

- Okay so everyone looks at Candy Land

and they see a fuckin'
mythical place all right.

A lot of fuckin' work has gotta happen

to make this shit run on time

you think a fuckin' peanut butter swamp

doesn't have infrastructural issues

you fuckin' dreamin dude.

Dudes gotta go put the pipes in

to bring the peanut butter
to the swamp all right?

And that's where fuckin'
'Fredo comes in baby!

- You just developed an entire world!

A point for you.

Josh

(ding)

- Yeah!

- Your word is

(ding)

(laughter)

- (moaning) Oh, ho ho. Ho ho ho, ho ho.

- Ill take it Josh, well done.

(ding)

Zac. Your word is

(ding)

- Ah, too many hamburgers!
No, no no no no no.

- I would have taken it but

Brennan clearly wants to
throw his option into the mix.

- I just, I said I would
throw elbows earlier

I'm going to.

- [Sam] Whatcha got?

- Allright.

Susan, listen to the voices within you.

You know the hamburger power
courses through your veins.

Relinquish control, I,
can't, my mother told me,

never to give in, I don't
wanna become like her!

- (whispers) Fuck.

- You will be the hamburger queen.

Whether you wish or no.

- I mean Josh, it's yours
if you wanna try but.

- I don't want to. No, that's

- Wow, Brennan. Your word is

(ding)

(laughter)

- Seeing into forever isn't
as scary as people say.

Time is an infinite loop.
This moment like all moments

exists in a perpetual
state of being. (meows)

- That was dark and
worth a point. Well done.

(ding)

Josh. Your word is.

(ding)

- Yeah I'm gonna stuff my
ca, I'm gonna get some fool

I know what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna wake up okay and

I'm gonna go to the deli okay,
and I'm gonna get a banana

and I'm gonna stook it. I'm
gonna stook it up my juice poop.

That's what I'm gonna do I'm
gonna go to my proos, and

I'm gonna stook a
banoonoo up my juice poop.

- Wow that is a point for Josh.

(ding)

Zac

your word is

(ding)

(fart sound)

- Yellow, my sweet baby.

(laughter)

My corn child.

- (laughs)

- You will grow up to be
strong for the future.

(laughter)

- I mean that's worthy
of a point for sure.

- Aw thank god (laughs).

(ding)

- Brennan, your word is

(ding)

- Oh my god this is so fuckin' sick

look at this meme my dad sent me

It's fucking me, dead.

Why are you guys sad?

- I'll give you the point for
that Brennan, well imagined

(ding)

Josh

(ding)

- (makes crackling sound) Ahh, ohh, behold

your god, tomatoes, zucchini,
(gasps) we have a golfer.

There is a golfer! (moans)

- I can't wait to buy

from this demon at the farmer's market.

Point for Josh.

(ding)

Zac, your word is

(ding)

- Son, I will give you a treat now

if you promise to never again go outside.

- (laughs) Well done.

(ding)

Brennan.

- Mhmm.

- Your word is

(ding)

- Jesus Christ, Ted!
You're a horse, I'm a man

we ran afoul of a wizard
at the grocery store

and this could be solved
if we worked together

but instead you're being
a real, and I don't mean,

no pun intended, horse's ass!

- (laughs)

- That is a point

(ding)

for Brennan. Brennan, you are
the winner of this episode.

(dream-like music plays)

Congratulations Brennan, well done.

(contestants applaud)

(applause from audience)

That's it for us here at
Game Changer, remember

if you listen closely
enough, everything is music.

(audience cheering)

Weird, annoying, indie,
experimental music.

Goodnight!

Yeah!

(all yelling)