Game Changer (2019–…): Season 3, Episode 9 - 20/20 Vision - full transcript

- Get ready for a Game Changer,

from the year Oprah premiered

its Grant O'Brien.

- I love bread.

- From the year the Hubble
Space Telescope launched,

it's Katie Marovitch.

And from the year the Berlin Wall fell,

it's Lily Du.

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.

I am your host Sam Reich,

I'm joined today by these
three lovely contestants.

You all understand how the game works?

- No.

- That is incorrect.

- 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 players (sighs).

I don't know about you

but in quarantine,



time has lost all meaning.

- It's tough.

- Yes.
- Yeah.

- We're going to play a game called,

did this happen in 2020?

(laughing)

Normally, I wouldn't tell
you what the prize is

until the end of the show.

Today we're gonna raise
the stakes a little bit,

you are playing for a trip
to Big Sur, California.

- Wow.

- Where you in the comfort

of an inn or Airbnb

might forget about time for awhile.

- I just watched a
documentary about Big Sur.

- Oh, what did you learn?

- There are otters.

I insist that I go see them.

- I really feel like I
have enough in my life

until you tell me there's
something else I could have.

(laughing)

- Sort of defining like capitalism.

(laughing)

Grant,

- Sam.

- When did the first iPhone get released?

- Why do you have to think about it?

- Well, because I know about Sam

and I'm thinking about the
construction of the question.

- Yes he's tricky.

- Did this happen in 2020?

- No.

- That is a point for Grant.

Now Grant,

- Sam.

- An additional two points,

can you tell me

what year the first iPhone got released?

- Yes.

- Honor system now,

I wanna see hands up.

I don't wanna see anyone
typing or googling or anything.

- The first iPhone was released,

2007.

- Grant that is absolutely correct.

That is an additional two points for you.

Bravo and well done.

Whatever inner chamber of your brain

that you managed to access

in order to determine that answer

will serve you well for
the rest of this game.

- Katie,

- Hello.

- Did Princess Diana die in 2020?

- No.

- That is correct,

that's a point for you.

Now for an additional two points Katie,

What year did princess Diana...

Yeah,

I wanna see you flex.

- Let's see, I was in second grade.

Does that answer that?

(all laughing)

1997.

- Katie, for an additional two points

you are absolutely right.

Princess Diana died in 1997.

Holy shit you guys,

you're off to a flying start.

- I knew I was gonna be good at

this particular question

because I went to this boat

that had a very good
Princess Diana display.

- I remember when that happened

and being told and being like,

"Why do I give a shit,

"I don't know who the fuck that is"

- I loved her,

in a way that I do not care about

Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle,

I put it all in Princess Diana.

- She seemed like a nice lady,

I was sad she died.

But a lot of nice ladies die, you know.

- Lily this is, a little more challenging.

When did the TSA start
making you remove your shoes?

- Not 2020.

- Not 2020, that's a point for Lily.

- The problem is I don't
have a lot of context

cause I wasn't flying a bunch

when I was like 12 years old.

I imagine this is like a post 9/11 thing,

like so many things in my life.

- Maybe not.

- Shimmy.

- 2002.

- 2002 is a spectacular guess,

but the TSA

did not get their act together until 2006.

(buzzing) Sorry Lily.

- That's later than I thought even.

- That is late.

- Cause there was that shoe bomber,

somebody was trying to
light their shoes on fire

and that's why--

- That's exactly what it was.

The shoe bomber was in late 2005

and summer of the following year,

TSA integrated that new rule.

- And it fixed everything.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- And now, there's no
such thing as terrorism.

- Yeah, now it's not
security theater at all.

- (laughing) I love how TSA pre

is basically just the solution

to the problem that
they themselves created.

- You're giving away the game, like folks.

- Grant, did this happen in 2020,

was Harvey Weinstein found guilty?

- Ooh.

- Oh, that's a good question.

- Yes, that was in 2020.

- That was in 2020.

- Oh, God.

- Well done Mr. O'Brien

- Truly, really had to dig for it.

- For an additional two points,

what month

of 2020 was it?

(laughing)

- So, the world fell apart in March,

but I can't remember if
that was before or after.

Cause here's the thing, Sam.

- Yeah.

- I was ordered by the
government to stay in my house

and just watch TV and eat snacks.

- Yes that was unique to you.

- Precisely those words.

- Both those things are so
much more fun with marijuana,

and so I've just smoked this year away.

- Oh fan-

- It is gobbledygook in my br-

- If I wasn't excited to play
this game with you before,

boy am I ever now.

- February

- February is correct.

- What?

Grant's Mary Jane addled brain

shouldn't be this good at retention.

- Oh my God.

(shouting)

- Well done Grant.

You know, you present like
you're going to be bad at this

and then so far you're acing the game.

- Katie, did the spire of
Notre Dame burn down in 2020?

- No.

- That is correct it did not

and so that is a point for you.

We all know what year this happened,

it was recently enough.

If you can tell me what
month in 2019 this was?

I will award you those
additional two points.

- Let me guess.

- Hands up.

(laughing)

- Grant, put those hands away.

- May?

- Katie,

so close it was April.

- So I get one point?

- Ooh, no.

- Okay.

(all laughing)

- Lily, did Parasite win
best picture in 2020?

- Tricky.

- Yes.

- That is correct.

- And tricky because it's a 2019 movie.

- I don't know about you guys but like,

February...

Oh, I just gave it away, fuck.

Oh, well the points yours.

But like the period of time

before the pandemic in 2020

is a complete and total blur.

- Full and optimistic still.

Parasite could win Best Picture,

anything could happen.

- Hey Lily,

when in 2020 did this happen?

What month?

(laughing)

- Not January,

(laughing)

was it February?

- That's an additional
two points for Lily.

- Grant.

- Sam.

- Did the OJ Simpson car
chase happen in 2020?

- No.

- That's a point for Grant, well-earned.

What year did the OJ
Simpson car chase happen?

- Oh boy,

it was 94 or 96.

- Maybe just say 95.

(laughing)

- And get it wrong for sure.

- I'm gonna say 1996.

- Grant, it was 1994.

- No.

(all laughing)

- I knew it.

- Because I would have
been eight at the time.

That feels too young for me

to have been so keyed in
to the OJ Simpson case,

but I was.

- It was all around us.

- It was the thing happening then.

- Katie,

- Hi.

- Was Nancy Kerrigan attacked in 2020?

- No.

- Correct, she was not.

In what year,

was Nancy Kerrigan attacked?

(all laughing)

Before you answer,

if you could give me three more faces.

(laughing)

- Ooh.

- What if I just said 1997,

would that be correct?

- If you said 1997,

you would be incorrect

because this happened in 1994.

- Yes, 1994 is my final answer.

(all laughing)

- She didn't say 97 was her final answer.

- I did not say 97,

I said 1994,

write that down I get two points.

- Lily, did Kurt Cobain die in 2020?

- Yes.

Oh, I'm sorry.

(all laughing)

- Okay.

Giving serious thought to Katies
suggestion I'm gonna say no

- That is correct,

that's a point for Lily.

In what year

did Kurt Cobain die?

- When I was a little baby.

Yeah, I feel like it is 91 or 92

but let me think.

- Make some faces while you do.

- Yes, at least three oh.

(laughing)

- I'm gonna guess 92.

- I was kinda hoping that
you guys would pick up

on some of these contexts clues.

This happened--

- 1994?

- 1994.

- Oh boy.

- OJ Simpson, Nancy Kerrigan, Kurt Cobain,

94 was a big year.

- Has that been the entire time?

- No, just for the last
three questions, Katie.

I was trying to be cute basically.

And I stumped you
- No, don't do that.

- That's my thing goddamn it.

- That's not your thing,

that's my thing.

- Quick point to recap,

Grant right now has seven points,

Katie has five,

Lily has five.

Grant,

- Sam.

- When was the Game of
Thrones series finale?

- Oh, no.

- And did it happen in 2020?

- No.

- That is correct, it did not.

Can you tell me,

What month in 2019 it happened?

- I'm glad that's the question

because I was locked
and loaded to say 2018.

(laughing)

- So, one of my quarantine...

I did not watch Game of
Thrones when it was on.

I did not think it would be for me

because swords are boring

and I--

- That's objectively not true.

- But during quarantine,

I watched Game of Thrones

all the way through for the first time.

Except, I have not seen
the last two episodes

and I don't actually
have plans to watch them

because I don't like things ending.

I do that a lot with books
when almost to the full,

almost the whole thing,

but I won't finish it.

This way I still have a little bit more

Game of Thrones to look forward to.

So, the series finale was in

I bet they put it on a
winter just to fuck with me.

February.

- The Game of Thrones
season finale was in May.

- I almost said that,

I thought that would be
too obvious, goddamn it.

- Can I ask, after being harassed to watch

Game of Thrones for years and years Grant,

what do you think of it finally?

- What a great show.

- And can I ask you

as someone who watched the
whole thing through it once,

is it clear to you

when they just left the books behind

and when they started going rogue?

- Yes.

And I actually don't mind that at all.

A lot of people were
criticizing the last season

and saying don't even watch it.

I've loved it.

I've had a ball watching it,

it's been so much fun.

- Katie,

- Hi.

- When did Billy Eilish win five Grammys?

Did that happen in 2020?

- No.

No, wait.

(laughing)

- Katie,

I've trapped you.

- Stop it.

- That happened in January of 2020.

- Wow, that's a bad guess.

- I am docking you two points.

- Don't do it.

- Oh, that's so heavy.

- Sam, that's rude.

(laughing)

- Billie Eilish couldn't
be cooler, goddamn.

- No, it's not cool when you do it, no.

(humming)

- No.

- You really did like a musical theater.

(humming)

- Who's a bad guy,

he's a bad guy.

- This could get off the rails.

- Lily when did,

Harry and Meghan announce

that they were leaving the Royal family?

Did that happen in 2020?

- Yes.

- Yes is correct.

(sighs)

- In what month of 2020?

- I am going to say, March.

- March is incorrect Lily,

I'm sorry this happened in January.

- And you're saying Sam
it's not still January.

(laughing)

She is the best thing to ever happen

to the show Suits.

- Grant, do you watch the show Suits?

- Oh, certainly not

- You so have the kind of personality

to be a guy that's
exclusively into shows on TNT.

- Grant, when was gay
marriage legalized in the US?

Did that happen in 2020?

- No.

- No it did not,

that's a point for you.

- Thank you.

- What year did it happen?

- (sighs) You would really
think I would know this,

wouldn't you?

I'm gonna say,

so the case was

just so I don't look
like a complete asshole.

It was legalized by Obergefell v. Hodges

was the name of the case.

Anthony Kennedy wrote the decision.

- Wow.

- And that happened,

I'm going to say, 2015.

- It was 2015.

Well done,

impressive my friend.

- Grant's brain is a steel trap.

(laughing)

- As he takes another puff.

Katie, when was the Chernobyl disaster?

- It was not in 2020.

- That is correct, that's a point for you.

- Was it in 1993?

- It was a good

seven years before that in 1986.

- What?

- That series was too dark.

- The second to last
episode of that series

was the single darkest episode

of television I've ever watched.

- It gets darker?

- Not interested.

- Lily, when was the Challenger explosion?

Did that happen in 2020?

- No.

- No, it did not.

Do you know what year it did happen?

- Well, I don't care about history

I only care about myself.

I'm gonna say 92 again,

92 feels like a good year.

- 92, like Katie,

a good guess,

but I'm afraid also 1986.

- What?

- Why do you do this to us Sam?

- As we slip the surly bonds of earth

to touch the face of God

is the last passage of the
speech that Reagan gave

the night that it happened.

- Grant, fuck away with this.

- He's way older than us,

of course he's gonna--

(laughing)

- So you think my memory on these,

I don't even need to know history.

- Yeah, that's right.

For Grant this is all yesterday.

Very well done players as we enter

into the last chapter of our game.

Grant with 11 points,

Katie with four,

Lily with seven.

- Grant, did Kobe Bryant in 2020?

- Yes.

- He did,

what month?

- January.

- January is correct, wow.

- He died on my birthday.

- Katie, I'm sorry.

- January 26.

- He took your focus.

- He did (laughing)

- Katie, did the Pentagon
release UFO videos in 2020.

- Yes.

- Yes is correct.

- Do you know what month?

- February.

- February is incorrect,

I'm afraid that happened
as recently as April.

- Oh.

- I'm stunned.

- (laughing) What a crazy thing that

in any other category of human history

would feel like monumental.

The United States government being like,

"Hey, we don't know what these things are,

"here you go America."

Meanwhile we were just like,

"huh, yeah, what, okay."

- Whatever.

- Lily, was the college
admissions scandal in 2020?

- No, it was in 2019.

- That is correct.

- Do you happen to remember
what month that happened in?

- It happened some point during the summer

cause I was reading about it at work.

So at least after March,

when I would have been
working at CollegeHumor.

I spent a whole morning not doing work

and reading about this.

Maybe July.

- It happened in March.

- Wow, I was so confidently
reading about this

at my brand new job.

(all laughing)

- Grant, did Brexit happen in 2020?

- No.

- That is incorrect Grant.

- Yeah,

as soon as I said it

I realized I was thinking about

the vote to Brexit but yeah.

- That's the little trick
you thought was coming

in the first question, came at the end.

- The vote happened in 2016.

- Yes this is--

- Oh boy.

As soon as I said it, goddamn it.

- Couldn't actually separate
it from the European Union,

in January that happened
this fucking year.

- I remember thinking,

when that happened I was like,

"Wow that's really gonna
tank the world economy."

But little did I know,

oh baby.

- That is negative two points for Grant,

enough to bump one of these

other players into the lead, we shall see.

Katie,

- Grant is so far ahead.

- What?

- I have four points.

- I can do the math, no.

- Katie, was Trump acquitted in 2020?

- Oh God, yes.

- That's correct he was.

Katie in what month, was Trump acquitted?

- January.

- Ooh, so close.

- February.

- February I'm afraid,

that'll be just the point for you

but well done.

Last question for Lily.

When did the WHO declare
COVID-19 a pandemic?

Did that happen in 2020?

- Yes.

- Yes is correct.

Now, that's a point for you.
- January.

No,

it happened in March (buzzing)

- No.

- That's the end of our game,

our points at the end of this episode,

Katie with six,

Lily with nine,

Grant with 12.

Grant you get the trip to Big Sur

where you can hopefully
smoke more of your vape

and forget that time is
even a thing for awhile.

- That is what will happen.

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

I'm Sam Reich

and I will continue

to be here the whole time.

Good night.

- Good night.

- Bye.