Game Changer (2019–…): Season 3, Episode 1 - Tell Us About Yourself - full transcript
- Get ready for a Game Changer.
Tonight's guests,
the first part of a wave
it's Alfred Aquino II.
The second part of that same wave,
it's Christine Medrano!
And, the third part of
this incredible wave,
it's Jess Ross!
(crowd applauding)
And, your host, me!
I've been here this whole time.
This
is
Game Changer,
the only game show where
the game changes every show.
The wave is still going.
It hasn't stopped.
(group laughing)
I am your host Sam Reich,
I am joined today by these
three lovely contestants.
Now, you all understand
how the game works?
- Mm hmm.
- We understand that we're
not supposed to understand.
- 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.
But first,
Alfred?
- Yes, hi.
- Tell us about yourself.
- Oh,
Oh, that's a loaded question.
(Christine laughs)
I'm a cool fun guy.
(Jess laughs)
- That,
is correct.
And so that is 1 point for Alfred.
Moving on to Christine.
Christine, tell us about yourself.
- I'm Canadian.
- I am sorry, Christine.
I am so sorry, that is incorrect.
No points for Christine.
You are not Canadian.
- Whoa!
Jess?
Tell us about yourself.
- I'm a cool fun guy.
(Alfred laughs)
- I think we've covered that.
- (laughs) I like to
skateboard, cause it's cool.
- Interesting choice, Jess.
I will give you that point.
Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- Oh again.
I like, I like music.
- I suppose that's technically true.
- Okay.
- Christine, tell us about yourself.
- I own a car. (laughs)
- Yes.
I will give you that point.
That's a point for Christine.
Jess, tell us about yourself.
- I'm alive.
- Who are you praying to?
(group laughs)
- Yes, I will give you that point.
(bell dings)
Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- I like to walk.
(Jess and Christine laughing)
- Well, yeah, no, I'll take it.
(bell dings)
Let me just make sure I
have this right so far.
I think that's
three for Alfred.
One for Christine.
Two for Jess.
Christine?
Tell us about yourself.
- I drink water.
- Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, I guess everyone's
just doing really well so far.
Jess,
tell us about yourself.
- I believe there is something
to the way we're answering these questions
that give us points or not.
- [Alfred] Something like that.
- You're a wave?
- Are we building an identity
from the first thing Alfred said,
which was, he is a cool guy?
- I have been in a movie
in the movie theaters.
- Gonna give it to you.
Which means,
correct me if I'm wrong.
That's three points for Alfred,
two points for Christine,
and three points for Jess?
I'm losing track, I could
really use a scorekeeper.
(dramatic music)
Oh!
Oh God!
- Who is this?
What is happening?
- What?
- Oh God!
I didn't mean to summon
the scorekeeper, gang.
Oh, this guy creeps me out to no end.
You see in game show lore, if
you say the word scorekeeper,
and there is no scorekeeper,
the scorekeeper is summoned.
Well, we're stuck with him.
I guess we might as well continue.
Alfred, I think that's back to you.
- I like, I like to wear clothes.
- I'll give that to you, Alfred.
That is a point.
Oh God, here goes the scorekeeper
with those tiny little
nubby scary fingers.
- Sick gloves though.
- Yeah.
- And Christine,
tell us about yourself.
- I feel like the broader
things that we've said
have been giving us points.
I walk in the sun.
- Yeah, yeah,
I'll give that to you, Christine.
Well done.
- Jess Ross!
- Mm hmm.
Woo!
- Tell us about yourself.
- I am going to see if
our car is still here for a second,
to see if that is Kaitlin Thompson or not.
So I'm gonna be right...
(group laughs)
Okay, our car is here,
but that doesn't mean,
maybe she walked to
somebody's house. (laughs)
I
love
tacos.
- You know what?
I'm not sure if the
answer to that question
is true or false.
And so I'm gonna have to,
I hate to have to do this.
Scorekeeper, does Jess love tacos?
(dramatic music)
(gasps) That is a point for Jess.
- Scorekeeper!
- Well, we're all the
way back with Alfred,
and I for one, love the extent
we're getting to know
our contestants today.
Makes me feel closer to them.
You know, there's something called
like a parasocial
relationship when the audience
really develops like, you know,
one on one relationship with the guests.
I think that's what we're
establishing here today.
Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- Well, I like to make deep dish pizza.
- Once again, I find
myself a little baffled
as to whether or not this is true.
Does Alfred like to make
deep dish pizza? (gasps)
(dramatic music)
(bell dings)
He does.
Christine.
Gosh, it's like you and
I didn't get to work
close enough together by the
time the company shut down.
And so, I'm relishing this opportunity
to get to know you better.
Tell us about yourself.
- I like pasta.
Pasta, pasta.
(bell dings)
- Christine does.
- Hmmm.
- Jess.
- Kait did just walk in, so...
(group laughs)
so I'm just going to tell a flat lie,
I grew up in Australia.
- I can safely say Jess,
that the answer to this is no.
All the way back round to Alfred.
Tell us about yourself.
- Okay, so that was interesting.
Cause both of the answers that were,
"where you're from related", were wrong.
- Yeah.
- I, I like to go running.
(dramatic music)
- [Sam] No.
- Whoa!
- Interesting.
God, that mask is creepy.
You know, a little
anecdote about those masks,
is they were very popular
during the 1912 Spanish Flu.
And they actually did work,
better than your average mask.
But they didn't know why.
And the reason why, is
it puts physical distance
between you and someone.
It's like a version of social
distancing with a mask.
Christine, I believe that's you,
tell us about yourself.
- I'm going to try a lil something here.
I'm a fun girl.
- Scorekeeper can you tell me,
is Christine a fun girl?
(buzzer buzzes)
No.
You are not.
I am sorry.
Jess.
- Well, now that we've
all been working together,
it seems like we got no points.
(group laughs)
- Sam wants to tear us all apart.
- Are we all working together
to make one person, or something
that could be true about the three of us?
I have done videos at CollegeHumor.
- (laughs) Scorekeeper,
has Jess done videos
at CollegeHumor?
Yes indeed.
Yes, indeed.
Alfred.
- Okay, so what the, huh!
- I think we're either
trying to find something
that's all three of us,
that we have in common.
We're trying to describe Sam
or we're trying to identify
who the scorekeeper is.
- Hmm.
I am wearing a mask.
- (gasps) Oh.
- You are wearing a mask.
(dramatic music)
- (gasps) Whoa!
- Whoa!
- Whoa!
- Scorekeeper's Alfred! (laughs)
Whoa!
- We are guessing the identity.
- Yeah.
- And it's someone
who's from CollegeHumor.
I wear glasses.
- No.
- How?
- That's good, that would
be hard with that mask.
Did you think it was Grant?
- Yeah.
- I also thought it was Grant.
Who else is tall that used
to work at CollegeHumor?
I write for Samantha Bee.
- Ooh, ooh, I know where Jess is going.
- No.
- No, all right, that's okay.
It's a hard gig to get.
(group laughs)
- Alfred.
- I have dark hair.
- No.
- We gotta get the score to be 666.
(group laughs)
- Christine?
- I am verified on Twitter.
- Ooh!
(Alfred gasps)
- Jess, it's all you.
- Trying to think who I know
that works at CollegeHumor,
that would have that much room
in their house for a table.
(group laughs)
I was head writer at CollegeHumor.
- No.
- Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- I have been
on TV shows.
- Indeed.
- Christine, tell us about yourself.
- I'm so anxious who we're
embarrassing ourselves
in front of.
(group laughs)
- God forbid.
- I have a large, YouTube following?
Ooh!
- No, not really.
- Okay.
- I was on the TV show, Six Feet Under.
(group laughs)
- That's incredible, Jess,
but I'll straight up say no.
- All right.
- You have not been on the
TV show Six Feet Under.
- You are not Jeremy Sisto.
- It's not Jeremy Sisto
behind that mask, great guess.
- Jeremy Sisto take off that mask!
- Alfred?
- I have been in more than
three CollegeHumor videos.
- The scorekeeper has not been in more
than three CollegeHumor videos.
Christine?
- I don't know why I'm thinking,
I'm gonna be able to tell who this is
from staring at their little square more.
(group laughs)
Like me see those eyes baby.
I'm a regular on a TV show.
- Christine, you are not
a regular on a TV show.
- So, not an actor.
I am a musician.
- No.
Alfred?
- I own those fingerless gloves.
(group laughs)
- Scorekeeper, I'm gonna turn to you,
and I'm gonna say, you
may now if you like,
verbalize your answers.
Does Alfred own those fingerless gloves?
- No.
- Whoa!
- Ooh!
- Okay.
- Christine?
- You've been in a CollegeHumor video.
You're verified on Twitter.
You're not a YouTuber.
You've been in TV shows,
but that's not your thing.
I am, I'm a stand-up.
- No.
- Jess?
- Am I a politician?
- No.
- Okay.
- No.
- Well, what's left?
Are you astronaut?
- Alfred?
Tell us about yourself.
- Huh?
- Is it Mark Cuban?
(group laughs)
- Mark Cuban!
- Jess is a big Shark Tank fan.
- I am.
I'd be like, sit there I got some ideas
I gotta run by you.
(group laughs)
- I am an athlete.
- Oh, athlete sort of thing!
(dramatic music)
(gasps) Ooh!
- Oh I think I have an idea.
- Well you can say your idea Alfred,
cause we're all working together.
- Yeah, exactly.
- It's someone who doesn't have dark hair,
is tall,
and enjoys skateboarding.
(Christine gasps)
- Is it Tony Hawk?
- I am Tony Hawk.
- That couldn't be.
- It's Tony Hawk!
- Shut up!
(upbeat music)
(group laughs)
- Thank you for letting
me outta that mask.
(group laughs)
- This is incredible!
- [Sam] Thank you.
- Thank you for not going
down the rabbit hole
of CollegeHumor writers anymore.
(group laughs)
- Tony was that any weirder than being on
The Masked Singer, is my question?
- I didn't have to wear a mask that long
on The Masked Singer, I'll tell you that.
(group laughs)
But this one was easier to see out of.
- Oh, I'm happy to hear it.
Thank you so much for
playing our bullshit game.
- I feel like my brain can't compute this.
- Alfred, I obviously was
excited to have you here today,
skateboarder that you are.
Would you do us a quick favor
and tell us the story of how
you broke your board?
- How I br- - (laughs)
I was in Long Beach,
skateboarding by Cherry Park
and some guy, (laughs)
he was like, oh, let me borrow
one of you guys' boards.
And then he kept stressing
that he needed a good board.
I was like, yeah, mine is fine.
And then proceeded to do a
trick and snapped it in half.
(group laughs)
- [Tony] Almost feels intentional.
(group laughs)
- Tony with that, tell
our players what they won.
- You have all won new skateboards.
(group cheers)
- Oh my God!
My fiancee is gonna freak out.
- And Alfred, because this
will be a signed skateboard,
use it at your own risk.
- Wow!
It's Tony Hawk!
- Oh my goodness!
- Thank you for sending me
my next Halloween costume.
- That is it for us here at Game Changer.
I'm Sam Reich.
Remember, you never know who's
been here the whole time.
- Good night.
- Bye guys.
- Bye Tony Hawk.
- Tony.
(group laughs)
Tonight's guests,
the first part of a wave
it's Alfred Aquino II.
The second part of that same wave,
it's Christine Medrano!
And, the third part of
this incredible wave,
it's Jess Ross!
(crowd applauding)
And, your host, me!
I've been here this whole time.
This
is
Game Changer,
the only game show where
the game changes every show.
The wave is still going.
It hasn't stopped.
(group laughing)
I am your host Sam Reich,
I am joined today by these
three lovely contestants.
Now, you all understand
how the game works?
- Mm hmm.
- We understand that we're
not supposed to understand.
- 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.
But first,
Alfred?
- Yes, hi.
- Tell us about yourself.
- Oh,
Oh, that's a loaded question.
(Christine laughs)
I'm a cool fun guy.
(Jess laughs)
- That,
is correct.
And so that is 1 point for Alfred.
Moving on to Christine.
Christine, tell us about yourself.
- I'm Canadian.
- I am sorry, Christine.
I am so sorry, that is incorrect.
No points for Christine.
You are not Canadian.
- Whoa!
Jess?
Tell us about yourself.
- I'm a cool fun guy.
(Alfred laughs)
- I think we've covered that.
- (laughs) I like to
skateboard, cause it's cool.
- Interesting choice, Jess.
I will give you that point.
Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- Oh again.
I like, I like music.
- I suppose that's technically true.
- Okay.
- Christine, tell us about yourself.
- I own a car. (laughs)
- Yes.
I will give you that point.
That's a point for Christine.
Jess, tell us about yourself.
- I'm alive.
- Who are you praying to?
(group laughs)
- Yes, I will give you that point.
(bell dings)
Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- I like to walk.
(Jess and Christine laughing)
- Well, yeah, no, I'll take it.
(bell dings)
Let me just make sure I
have this right so far.
I think that's
three for Alfred.
One for Christine.
Two for Jess.
Christine?
Tell us about yourself.
- I drink water.
- Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, I guess everyone's
just doing really well so far.
Jess,
tell us about yourself.
- I believe there is something
to the way we're answering these questions
that give us points or not.
- [Alfred] Something like that.
- You're a wave?
- Are we building an identity
from the first thing Alfred said,
which was, he is a cool guy?
- I have been in a movie
in the movie theaters.
- Gonna give it to you.
Which means,
correct me if I'm wrong.
That's three points for Alfred,
two points for Christine,
and three points for Jess?
I'm losing track, I could
really use a scorekeeper.
(dramatic music)
Oh!
Oh God!
- Who is this?
What is happening?
- What?
- Oh God!
I didn't mean to summon
the scorekeeper, gang.
Oh, this guy creeps me out to no end.
You see in game show lore, if
you say the word scorekeeper,
and there is no scorekeeper,
the scorekeeper is summoned.
Well, we're stuck with him.
I guess we might as well continue.
Alfred, I think that's back to you.
- I like, I like to wear clothes.
- I'll give that to you, Alfred.
That is a point.
Oh God, here goes the scorekeeper
with those tiny little
nubby scary fingers.
- Sick gloves though.
- Yeah.
- And Christine,
tell us about yourself.
- I feel like the broader
things that we've said
have been giving us points.
I walk in the sun.
- Yeah, yeah,
I'll give that to you, Christine.
Well done.
- Jess Ross!
- Mm hmm.
Woo!
- Tell us about yourself.
- I am going to see if
our car is still here for a second,
to see if that is Kaitlin Thompson or not.
So I'm gonna be right...
(group laughs)
Okay, our car is here,
but that doesn't mean,
maybe she walked to
somebody's house. (laughs)
I
love
tacos.
- You know what?
I'm not sure if the
answer to that question
is true or false.
And so I'm gonna have to,
I hate to have to do this.
Scorekeeper, does Jess love tacos?
(dramatic music)
(gasps) That is a point for Jess.
- Scorekeeper!
- Well, we're all the
way back with Alfred,
and I for one, love the extent
we're getting to know
our contestants today.
Makes me feel closer to them.
You know, there's something called
like a parasocial
relationship when the audience
really develops like, you know,
one on one relationship with the guests.
I think that's what we're
establishing here today.
Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- Well, I like to make deep dish pizza.
- Once again, I find
myself a little baffled
as to whether or not this is true.
Does Alfred like to make
deep dish pizza? (gasps)
(dramatic music)
(bell dings)
He does.
Christine.
Gosh, it's like you and
I didn't get to work
close enough together by the
time the company shut down.
And so, I'm relishing this opportunity
to get to know you better.
Tell us about yourself.
- I like pasta.
Pasta, pasta.
(bell dings)
- Christine does.
- Hmmm.
- Jess.
- Kait did just walk in, so...
(group laughs)
so I'm just going to tell a flat lie,
I grew up in Australia.
- I can safely say Jess,
that the answer to this is no.
All the way back round to Alfred.
Tell us about yourself.
- Okay, so that was interesting.
Cause both of the answers that were,
"where you're from related", were wrong.
- Yeah.
- I, I like to go running.
(dramatic music)
- [Sam] No.
- Whoa!
- Interesting.
God, that mask is creepy.
You know, a little
anecdote about those masks,
is they were very popular
during the 1912 Spanish Flu.
And they actually did work,
better than your average mask.
But they didn't know why.
And the reason why, is
it puts physical distance
between you and someone.
It's like a version of social
distancing with a mask.
Christine, I believe that's you,
tell us about yourself.
- I'm going to try a lil something here.
I'm a fun girl.
- Scorekeeper can you tell me,
is Christine a fun girl?
(buzzer buzzes)
No.
You are not.
I am sorry.
Jess.
- Well, now that we've
all been working together,
it seems like we got no points.
(group laughs)
- Sam wants to tear us all apart.
- Are we all working together
to make one person, or something
that could be true about the three of us?
I have done videos at CollegeHumor.
- (laughs) Scorekeeper,
has Jess done videos
at CollegeHumor?
Yes indeed.
Yes, indeed.
Alfred.
- Okay, so what the, huh!
- I think we're either
trying to find something
that's all three of us,
that we have in common.
We're trying to describe Sam
or we're trying to identify
who the scorekeeper is.
- Hmm.
I am wearing a mask.
- (gasps) Oh.
- You are wearing a mask.
(dramatic music)
- (gasps) Whoa!
- Whoa!
- Whoa!
- Scorekeeper's Alfred! (laughs)
Whoa!
- We are guessing the identity.
- Yeah.
- And it's someone
who's from CollegeHumor.
I wear glasses.
- No.
- How?
- That's good, that would
be hard with that mask.
Did you think it was Grant?
- Yeah.
- I also thought it was Grant.
Who else is tall that used
to work at CollegeHumor?
I write for Samantha Bee.
- Ooh, ooh, I know where Jess is going.
- No.
- No, all right, that's okay.
It's a hard gig to get.
(group laughs)
- Alfred.
- I have dark hair.
- No.
- We gotta get the score to be 666.
(group laughs)
- Christine?
- I am verified on Twitter.
- Ooh!
(Alfred gasps)
- Jess, it's all you.
- Trying to think who I know
that works at CollegeHumor,
that would have that much room
in their house for a table.
(group laughs)
I was head writer at CollegeHumor.
- No.
- Alfred, tell us about yourself.
- I have been
on TV shows.
- Indeed.
- Christine, tell us about yourself.
- I'm so anxious who we're
embarrassing ourselves
in front of.
(group laughs)
- God forbid.
- I have a large, YouTube following?
Ooh!
- No, not really.
- Okay.
- I was on the TV show, Six Feet Under.
(group laughs)
- That's incredible, Jess,
but I'll straight up say no.
- All right.
- You have not been on the
TV show Six Feet Under.
- You are not Jeremy Sisto.
- It's not Jeremy Sisto
behind that mask, great guess.
- Jeremy Sisto take off that mask!
- Alfred?
- I have been in more than
three CollegeHumor videos.
- The scorekeeper has not been in more
than three CollegeHumor videos.
Christine?
- I don't know why I'm thinking,
I'm gonna be able to tell who this is
from staring at their little square more.
(group laughs)
Like me see those eyes baby.
I'm a regular on a TV show.
- Christine, you are not
a regular on a TV show.
- So, not an actor.
I am a musician.
- No.
Alfred?
- I own those fingerless gloves.
(group laughs)
- Scorekeeper, I'm gonna turn to you,
and I'm gonna say, you
may now if you like,
verbalize your answers.
Does Alfred own those fingerless gloves?
- No.
- Whoa!
- Ooh!
- Okay.
- Christine?
- You've been in a CollegeHumor video.
You're verified on Twitter.
You're not a YouTuber.
You've been in TV shows,
but that's not your thing.
I am, I'm a stand-up.
- No.
- Jess?
- Am I a politician?
- No.
- Okay.
- No.
- Well, what's left?
Are you astronaut?
- Alfred?
Tell us about yourself.
- Huh?
- Is it Mark Cuban?
(group laughs)
- Mark Cuban!
- Jess is a big Shark Tank fan.
- I am.
I'd be like, sit there I got some ideas
I gotta run by you.
(group laughs)
- I am an athlete.
- Oh, athlete sort of thing!
(dramatic music)
(gasps) Ooh!
- Oh I think I have an idea.
- Well you can say your idea Alfred,
cause we're all working together.
- Yeah, exactly.
- It's someone who doesn't have dark hair,
is tall,
and enjoys skateboarding.
(Christine gasps)
- Is it Tony Hawk?
- I am Tony Hawk.
- That couldn't be.
- It's Tony Hawk!
- Shut up!
(upbeat music)
(group laughs)
- Thank you for letting
me outta that mask.
(group laughs)
- This is incredible!
- [Sam] Thank you.
- Thank you for not going
down the rabbit hole
of CollegeHumor writers anymore.
(group laughs)
- Tony was that any weirder than being on
The Masked Singer, is my question?
- I didn't have to wear a mask that long
on The Masked Singer, I'll tell you that.
(group laughs)
But this one was easier to see out of.
- Oh, I'm happy to hear it.
Thank you so much for
playing our bullshit game.
- I feel like my brain can't compute this.
- Alfred, I obviously was
excited to have you here today,
skateboarder that you are.
Would you do us a quick favor
and tell us the story of how
you broke your board?
- How I br- - (laughs)
I was in Long Beach,
skateboarding by Cherry Park
and some guy, (laughs)
he was like, oh, let me borrow
one of you guys' boards.
And then he kept stressing
that he needed a good board.
I was like, yeah, mine is fine.
And then proceeded to do a
trick and snapped it in half.
(group laughs)
- [Tony] Almost feels intentional.
(group laughs)
- Tony with that, tell
our players what they won.
- You have all won new skateboards.
(group cheers)
- Oh my God!
My fiancee is gonna freak out.
- And Alfred, because this
will be a signed skateboard,
use it at your own risk.
- Wow!
It's Tony Hawk!
- Oh my goodness!
- Thank you for sending me
my next Halloween costume.
- That is it for us here at Game Changer.
I'm Sam Reich.
Remember, you never know who's
been here the whole time.
- Good night.
- Bye guys.
- Bye Tony Hawk.
- Tony.
(group laughs)