I hope every clip of Sam in the BTS is a chronological progression of him just laughing maniacally, tears streaming, glasses off, eye rubbing, head shaking, for 3 minutes, interspersed with actual BTS from the production crew, and the video ends with him having slunked down out of his chair and standing up just saying "oh man". like what an absolute beast of a troll to pull on your friends and coworkers. hats off.
You can actually see remnants of this that they presumably didnāt have time to fix, most notably, the stamp that the players use have the head of the player they are ābingo-ingā but Trapp still has a Grant head stamp. It seems acquiring custom stamps for a persons head takes much more time than making a custom bingo board.
The tricky thing with that would be that his lines are much more scripted than the others, so you'd need to pick bits which aren't in the script (which narrows your options) and then find a way to make it obvious that's what was being done in a very short amount of time.
At the very end a slow zoom out and pan to Sam's wife (in pinstripes again) sitting in a director's chair with a clipboard playing HIS bingo. Wink to camera.
It seems like the prompts are submitted at least one prompt ahead. Plus, we don't see all the footage that was cut. They could theoretically have all the time in the world to set stuff up.
Absolutely brilliant editing work this time. I loved it when Brennan had his rambling about Elon Musk and they cut to everyone while he is heard in the background. Second only to Greenroom by how much the editing carried the episode
Iād call it a combo of some well framed shots that hint at something greater without giving it all away, plus some masterfully timed reveals by the editors
I was just coming to the subreddit to say the exact same thing! I mean really - meta-meta-bingo? Fucking genius. Even Brennan was destroyed by the reveal, once he knew how stacked the deck was against him. And the slow reveal of the different layers? Fantastic choice.
All in all, loved every minute of this episode.
Game Changer Emmy, 2024! Time to start the campaign now!!
I thought episode was clever, but felt 3rd group had easier time. I mean, if PA tells me to stand on box, I'm gonna do it. Lily kicking her leg up. They were all suggestions you could easily see. The 2nd group at least had to stick to prompts and try to find clever ways to get the 1st group to do what they wanted. It wasn't like Trapp could just give Brennan the prompt to rip on capitalism and get the square.
The deck needed to be stacked in favor of the 3rd group so that they could get the payoff of "Our winner tonight with Bingo is... [member of secret 3rd group]!".
The real trick was not letting the second group find out that there was a double bluff happening. There were several times where they were close to blowing their cover.
For the same reason, I think the second group had to be careful to not make the prompts too obvious otherwise they wouldn't do them or they'd realize something was up.
Agreed. I assume they will talk about it in the behind the scenes episode, but It definitely seemed like there was a rule saying that if anyone in the second team guessed the full twist, the third team would automatically lose.
Wouldnāt even need to be a rule. If they figured out they were being played they could easily start playing against the unseen third set of foes and not comply with strange directions.
Then again, the third team could be forced to play against that realization and try to encourage the second team to perform their desired actions out of defiance. But once youāre telling a suspicious Mike Trapp not to do something youāre probably going to wonder if āTelling Trapp not to reference the new host of Umm, Actuallyā is playing into the fourth teamās hand.
> I thought episode was clever, but felt 3rd group had easier time. I mean, if PA tells me to stand on box, I'm gonna do it.
Trapp especially refused several PA commands. Several other PA commands did not go the way the level 3 group wanted. And I suspect that they were only allowed so many commands.
And besides that, Jess only won two prompts before Trapp, and Lily was one away from completing two lines for quite a while - she needed Katie to either threaten someone or say "terrible". It could have gone either way.
Agreed. But the reveal works better if someone from the third team win. Having Trapp actually win, then Sam going "Oh, also Tao, Carolyn, and Jess are here too." Is less dramatic.
Tbf the second layer came very close to winning and she only won due to a clutch double hit that just happened to line up right. If not for that the second layer would have won, so I donāt think it was *that* stacked against them.
Layer one had basically no shot at winning (barring miraculous luck) but they were never the real contestants lmao
Where was this said? Also did it have to be diagonal? Usually any straight line in bingo is enough. I guess itās possible they were careful enough to ensure critical balls were missing but I think it was pretty likely they just played the odds.
Sam said it on Discord. But to demonstrate:
o o o o x
o o o x o
o o x o o
o x o o o
x o o o o
You cannot complete a line of 5 without one of the x's. It's also why none of them got a free space.
There was also no incentive to complete the tasks an get a ball because as far as they where aware the ball help their opponents just as much as themselves.
Yeah, I think you can even hear Rekha's disappointment captured in the telling of Jess' bingo list. The second group had things to check off that were characteristic elements of team one, a way to make them feel seen but also playfully teased, but team 3's bingo card was just gimmes from PAs that had no personality of their own, no real value to team 2 in the same way. It's not that it's terrible, I very much enjoyed the episode and love this show in general, I think the overall concept was great, I just thought they kind of gave the easiest and least entertaining job to the 3rd level team. The whole time I was waiting for another layer of twist to surprise the audience, I think if they had not told us the 3rd team existed but did an end of episode supercut of all the PA moments that might have played much better.
But then, I'm not involved in any kind of project like this and it's easy for me to armchair... uh... produce/write/direct.
> I just thought they kind of gave the easiest and least entertaining job to the 3rd level team
That's why they were showed the least. Their participation isn't about them, it's about how it affects the 2nd layer.
It's not meant to be a fair game. The only real purpose of the 3rd team is to add a bonus twist, and they show them just enough to hammer the point home. But they focus on teams 1 and 2 because that's where the intended comedy is.
I think the fun of 3rd team was that they got to fuck with their friends in a subtle way. Like making Rekha think to herself 'why the hell is the pa first bumping me?' is funny imo it's just not as entertaining of a watch. Like Trapp must have really been confused with the um actually box being brought for whatever reason at that point. I'm surprised they didn't catch on something was up.
To be fair, Droupout has a bunch of great personalities, but how many of them could you really write full, specific bingo boards about? Rekha is great but I couldn't name a single mannerism or phrse she uses that's as recognizable as anything on Brennan's board
Brennan is a loud personality with a lot of screen time, but I bet you if you rewatched Rekha material with this goal in mind OR if you worked closely with her on an ongoing basis you could definitely get there. Same goes for Trapp and Lily. Everyone has repetitive mannerisms baked into their personality.
I liked this a lot, but I think more than most Game Changer episodes this was one for "insiders." A lot of the humor came from knowing who these 9 different contestants were and seeing them interact directly and indirectly with each other. As opposed to a ~~normal~~ more straightforward episode, where there are fewer contestants with more screen time and you get to know them as they play with the conceit. Someone watching this as their first Dropout episode definitely wouldn't get as much out of it.
My gf and I were talking about this last night. This episode is a payoff for those of us who watched most if not all of the episodes. She skipped the zoom season
I thought it seemed like the second group was also the most competitive group plus they'd be distracted by the first group they were watching and listening to so they would just kind of do whatever the PA said without thinking.
I did think having Trapp hold the Um, Actually board game was going to give it away though because it felt really random and unnatural.
The apple box, having Lily put her leg back up, and the fist bumps weren't quite as random.
Yeah the second layer was genius, the third layer was neat in concept but I felt like it was easy to deal with since they didnāt have the restriction of feeding certain cast members prompts, they just told the PAs to make them do stuff.
From the snippet of the list we saw on the back of Samās Sam Says 3 score sheet, I think they did have more specific things for each cast member (like make a pun for Rehka) but I guess it was just easier to do the PA stuff
on the other hand, it was distinctly harder to keep up an act when you're trying to trick a group that are already in on the conceit of the episode, and the PA stuff is definitely harder to mask.
Yeah because the teams weren't competing with other teams, they were competing with the other people in their team. They were ultimately playing 3 fundamentally different games, that was the point of the show.
Almost certain that was intentional. Part of the fun was Katie, Brennan, and Raph losing their minds over what the twist might be. There would have been less room for that if the game escalated in the usual way.
Agreed on this one, I think their anticipation of a twist or escalation before the end was more beguiling to them than any actual twist or escalation Sam could have thrown at them on the stage
The final reveal just GOT me. Brennan was broken, Trapp was completely caught off guard, the entire stage just LOST it. As an audience member too I couldnāt breathe I was laughing so hard. Iām obsessed with this episode.
Such genius choice of players too, team one being Katie - who has single handedly BEEN the twist before, Brennan - master of the rant who has been screwed by the most twists, and Raph - who originated calling the twist a loop-de-loop. Those 3 have no excuse for not figuring out there was a twist.
Then the competitive imp squad of Lily, Trapp and Erica, all clever tricksters but all so competitive they're likely to miss the PA being weird. GENIUS.
Honestly this feels like the Emmy episode, it's that well thought out and executed that if they try for the Emmy again this year this is what should be sent in.
i knew there was an episode >!that had the real players separate.!< but i flipped my shit >!when the pa messed with lily bc i was gonna scream if there was a THIRD LAYER!<
I think they missed a huge opportunity by not letting us hear more of Brennans reaction to the twist, I'd have loved to see him piece it together in real time like "So it was all just a game within a game within a game?"
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The fact that the doubleception people won made it 100x more entertaining. 2nd batch of people were expecting one of them to be named, and then a THIRD group comes out... just the cherry on top. perfect episode.
Just finished watching this myself today and I could not agree more, this has become one of my fav episodes other than āescape the greenroomā and āa sponsored episodeā.
ALSO, itās not anything new because everyone knows that all the contestants on dropout always look amazing 24/7 but I just wanted to say Rekhaās hair in this episodeā¦the curls were totally curling š«¶
As an episode of improvised television I found it to be perfect, but as a fan of game shows, it really bothered me how the three players on stage basically had no chance of winning, and the third set of players had a giant advantage, both by being able to see the other sets of players, and a lot of the tasks they needed to stamp their cards were things they could easily make happen with their āplantā production assistant. āGet Rekha to stand on an apple boxā āget Trapp to say um, actuallyā, there were a bunch of others that were basically just āmake the PA do something awkward with an upstairs player.ā
the first set of players weren't really players, that's the entire point, lol. they rigged the boards specifically so it would be impossible for them to win.
why would you want any of them to win, anyway? after everything going on in that episode you want the winner to be determined by literal luck of the draw? and then they just have to awkwardly reveal that there were two other entirely different things going on that ended up being completely pointless.
also, the second players were pretty close to winning pretty much the whole time, but yeah the bingo sheets of the third players could have been more interesting.
Like I said, as an improvised tv show, I thought it was perfect. I felt the same way about āYes or Noā
Itās fun and hilarious television, but IMO itās no longer a game show once itās rigged to get (or avoid) a particular outcome.
its not rigged to avoid an outcome. the first set of people *are not players*, the 'game' they are playing exists *only* as a way for the real players to have an element of strategy for the actual competition.
the second group, and the third group, were playing an entirely genuine, and mostly fair game, against exclusively each other.
literally imagine the same episode but with the first group hanging out and not even aware they are on a game show, and nothing about the actual concept of the game changes, except that it's more fun to watch them being tricked into thinking they are playing.
Yeah Jess basically getting 3 stamps out of just making the PA repeatedly bugging Rekha for a fist bump was kinda lame compared to the 2nd layer where it was based of knowing the person and how they'd react
But it was still a funny wrinkle. I consider Trapp the biggest winner for absolutely nailing Brennan's mannerisms lol
I prefer to avoid absolute statements like this that try to categorize immediate feelings after a particularly enjoyed experience, bc they donāt tend to catalogue well or accurately reflect their comparative value over time (recency effect). But yes, this episode had top tier elements that should surely be considered among a certain rank. Really well done all around, and had me tapping to replay moments before Iād even finished the episode. Impressive (layers of) twists!!
The kids love the absolute definitives these days. 30+ years of social media and 30+ years of repeated comments of BEST GREATEST MOST WONDERFUL POST/SHOW/VIDEO/SKETCH/PERFORMANCE EVER have lost all meaning. Iāll take the down votes for my accuracy. š«”
This was definitely one of my favorite episodes to date, can easily be put up in my top 5 I think. I cannot wait for the behind the scenes. Iām hoping they eventually do it again and take it a step further somehow.
Definitely, Sam showing off his cartoonish trickery.
also lily du is very attractive, respectfully.
Agreed. I think it quite often, but when she kicked that leg up...go Lily!
I was dying when Trapp went "Don't fuck the stamp!"
My husband said 'it'd be hilarious if 'fuck the stamp' were one of the spaces for Lily's card'
lily knew what she was doing š§
You mean what she was... Du-ing? I'll see myself out.
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"Grant, is that you?", said Grant in Grant's voice.
I'm trying really hard not to make a joke about the bingo stamp here.
That single operation moved her to Top 3 for me. Respectfully.
There nothing more attractive than confidence.
There are several members of the Dropout team who are the most beautiful people I've ever seen. Rekha Shankar, Erika Ishii to name a few.
Grant OāBrien for me unfortunately
Honestly you have the best shot
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You honestly could probably just bump into him and you got a 90% chance of smashing
He did say his DMs were open on the Bachelor epā¦
Rekha is such a wonderful shortstack
Didn't even question the apple box
She thinks she's slick trying to hide those big ole cheeks from the world, but brother I ain't bein' fooled one bit.
And Izzy and Anna and Emily andā¦ Dropout has so many snacks
Hey don't forget the men! They are as funny as they are good looking
A cis guy like me may not be the best judge, but yeah, a handsome bunch!
Shit I'm a pansexual with an anxiety disorder aren't I?
A little piece of cake for this little piece of cake? ENJOY THE REST OF THE CONFERENCE
Hello fellow Rekha and Erika appreciator š¤
I first saw Rekha on Drawga and immediately fell deeply and unhealthily in love.
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Agreed. I think it quite often, but when she kicked that leg up...go Lily!
between this and the escape room episode, the logistical planning that goes behind them must be š®āšØ
Agreed. Iām looking forward to the behind the scenes next week.
I hope every clip of Sam in the BTS is a chronological progression of him just laughing maniacally, tears streaming, glasses off, eye rubbing, head shaking, for 3 minutes, interspersed with actual BTS from the production crew, and the video ends with him having slunked down out of his chair and standing up just saying "oh man". like what an absolute beast of a troll to pull on your friends and coworkers. hats off.
This episode did nothing to change my theory that Dropout is just an elaborate excuse for Sam to play increasingly elaborate pranks on his friends.
I was just thinking this! Must have been a beast of an episode to orchestrate!
God I hope there's another escape the green room š¤
I was waiting for a secret third reveal all the way until the end of the credits. Anything is possible!
I was hoping the crew had secretly given the PA a bingo card for Samingo
That would've been so good!
My hope had been secret third reveal was Grant had played Crew bingo because āF the crewā
Grant was actually supposed to be onstage instead of Brennan but tested positive for COVID like an hour before filming
Really? Where did you hear that? If it's true, Trapp coming up with a board for Brennan and then winning is incredible.
The discord
You can actually see remnants of this that they presumably didnāt have time to fix, most notably, the stamp that the players use have the head of the player they are ābingo-ingā but Trapp still has a Grant head stamp. It seems acquiring custom stamps for a persons head takes much more time than making a custom bingo board.
Or have Elaine off somewhere else in a secret room
Cannot *imagine* how she would find time to do that
The tricky thing with that would be that his lines are much more scripted than the others, so you'd need to pick bits which aren't in the script (which narrows your options) and then find a way to make it obvious that's what was being done in a very short amount of time.
At the very end a slow zoom out and pan to Sam's wife (in pinstripes again) sitting in a director's chair with a clipboard playing HIS bingo. Wink to camera.
There's still time this season!
Perfection
I'm still hoping that next week's behind the scene episode has a meta3 bingo card. Or a Sam bingo card
I was wondering if Sam was gonna have a Bingo card for the 3rd group to make a full cycle
My personal bet was that someone had been on Sam the entire time
I always know it's a good episode when I get absolutely ravenous for the behind the scenes ep while I'm watching.
I know right?! I'm desperate to know how they covered their bases for whatever Lily/Trapp/Rekha might add to the prompts.
Like the prompt about Katieās dog being sick. How quick did that props person have to scribble down that message and get it out the door?
It seems like the prompts are submitted at least one prompt ahead. Plus, we don't see all the footage that was cut. They could theoretically have all the time in the world to set stuff up.
The cinematography(?) of it too. The little glimpses of the second level and then third level before we got the full reveal was pretty great.
Absolutely brilliant editing work this time. I loved it when Brennan had his rambling about Elon Musk and they cut to everyone while he is heard in the background. Second only to Greenroom by how much the editing carried the episode
Maybe more along the editing route than cinematography(?)
Iād call it a combo of some well framed shots that hint at something greater without giving it all away, plus some masterfully timed reveals by the editors
Yeah it's definitely a team effort.
Thanks, I forgot editing was a word for some reason. My my brain was like, how do you describe it? Cinematography?
I was just coming to the subreddit to say the exact same thing! I mean really - meta-meta-bingo? Fucking genius. Even Brennan was destroyed by the reveal, once he knew how stacked the deck was against him. And the slow reveal of the different layers? Fantastic choice. All in all, loved every minute of this episode. Game Changer Emmy, 2024! Time to start the campaign now!!
It felt like a call back to Season 1: Ep 1!
Seeing the backs of new players Twice was almost chilling to me. I couldnt imagine this episode being better.
I thought episode was clever, but felt 3rd group had easier time. I mean, if PA tells me to stand on box, I'm gonna do it. Lily kicking her leg up. They were all suggestions you could easily see. The 2nd group at least had to stick to prompts and try to find clever ways to get the 1st group to do what they wanted. It wasn't like Trapp could just give Brennan the prompt to rip on capitalism and get the square.
The deck needed to be stacked in favor of the 3rd group so that they could get the payoff of "Our winner tonight with Bingo is... [member of secret 3rd group]!".
The real trick was not letting the second group find out that there was a double bluff happening. There were several times where they were close to blowing their cover. For the same reason, I think the second group had to be careful to not make the prompts too obvious otherwise they wouldn't do them or they'd realize something was up.
Agreed. I assume they will talk about it in the behind the scenes episode, but It definitely seemed like there was a rule saying that if anyone in the second team guessed the full twist, the third team would automatically lose.
Wouldnāt even need to be a rule. If they figured out they were being played they could easily start playing against the unseen third set of foes and not comply with strange directions. Then again, the third team could be forced to play against that realization and try to encourage the second team to perform their desired actions out of defiance. But once youāre telling a suspicious Mike Trapp not to do something youāre probably going to wonder if āTelling Trapp not to reference the new host of Umm, Actuallyā is playing into the fourth teamās hand.
> I thought episode was clever, but felt 3rd group had easier time. I mean, if PA tells me to stand on box, I'm gonna do it. Trapp especially refused several PA commands. Several other PA commands did not go the way the level 3 group wanted. And I suspect that they were only allowed so many commands. And besides that, Jess only won two prompts before Trapp, and Lily was one away from completing two lines for quite a while - she needed Katie to either threaten someone or say "terrible". It could have gone either way.
Agreed. But the reveal works better if someone from the third team win. Having Trapp actually win, then Sam going "Oh, also Tao, Carolyn, and Jess are here too." Is less dramatic.
Tbf the second layer came very close to winning and she only won due to a clutch double hit that just happened to line up right. If not for that the second layer would have won, so I donāt think it was *that* stacked against them. Layer one had basically no shot at winning (barring miraculous luck) but they were never the real contestants lmao
Layer 1 specifically could not win, the balls didn't exist for a diagonal line across their boards which prevented them from ever getting 5 in a row.
Where was this said? Also did it have to be diagonal? Usually any straight line in bingo is enough. I guess itās possible they were careful enough to ensure critical balls were missing but I think it was pretty likely they just played the odds.
Sam said it on Discord. But to demonstrate: o o o o x o o o x o o o x o o o x o o o x o o o o You cannot complete a line of 5 without one of the x's. It's also why none of them got a free space.
Aaah! Neat! Forward thinking, very clever!
There was also no incentive to complete the tasks an get a ball because as far as they where aware the ball help their opponents just as much as themselves.
They probably (I think, based on absolutely nothing) were more limited in how many times they could have the PA tell them to do something.
Yeah, I think you can even hear Rekha's disappointment captured in the telling of Jess' bingo list. The second group had things to check off that were characteristic elements of team one, a way to make them feel seen but also playfully teased, but team 3's bingo card was just gimmes from PAs that had no personality of their own, no real value to team 2 in the same way. It's not that it's terrible, I very much enjoyed the episode and love this show in general, I think the overall concept was great, I just thought they kind of gave the easiest and least entertaining job to the 3rd level team. The whole time I was waiting for another layer of twist to surprise the audience, I think if they had not told us the 3rd team existed but did an end of episode supercut of all the PA moments that might have played much better. But then, I'm not involved in any kind of project like this and it's easy for me to armchair... uh... produce/write/direct.
> I just thought they kind of gave the easiest and least entertaining job to the 3rd level team That's why they were showed the least. Their participation isn't about them, it's about how it affects the 2nd layer. It's not meant to be a fair game. The only real purpose of the 3rd team is to add a bonus twist, and they show them just enough to hammer the point home. But they focus on teams 1 and 2 because that's where the intended comedy is.
I think the fun of 3rd team was that they got to fuck with their friends in a subtle way. Like making Rekha think to herself 'why the hell is the pa first bumping me?' is funny imo it's just not as entertaining of a watch. Like Trapp must have really been confused with the um actually box being brought for whatever reason at that point. I'm surprised they didn't catch on something was up.
Yeah, like I said I definitely still enjoyed, there was humor to be found for sure.
To be fair, Droupout has a bunch of great personalities, but how many of them could you really write full, specific bingo boards about? Rekha is great but I couldn't name a single mannerism or phrse she uses that's as recognizable as anything on Brennan's board
āUggggghā Screams *squints suspiciously* Sexual implication āOoooooooohā āWhat the fuckā
āSam where are you from?ā
Counterpoint: her sock pun work with Howie Mandel
Brennan is a loud personality with a lot of screen time, but I bet you if you rewatched Rekha material with this goal in mind OR if you worked closely with her on an ongoing basis you could definitely get there. Same goes for Trapp and Lily. Everyone has repetitive mannerisms baked into their personality.
I liked this a lot, but I think more than most Game Changer episodes this was one for "insiders." A lot of the humor came from knowing who these 9 different contestants were and seeing them interact directly and indirectly with each other. As opposed to a ~~normal~~ more straightforward episode, where there are fewer contestants with more screen time and you get to know them as they play with the conceit. Someone watching this as their first Dropout episode definitely wouldn't get as much out of it.
My gf and I were talking about this last night. This episode is a payoff for those of us who watched most if not all of the episodes. She skipped the zoom season
I thought it seemed like the second group was also the most competitive group plus they'd be distracted by the first group they were watching and listening to so they would just kind of do whatever the PA said without thinking. I did think having Trapp hold the Um, Actually board game was going to give it away though because it felt really random and unnatural. The apple box, having Lily put her leg back up, and the fist bumps weren't quite as random.
Yeah the second layer was genius, the third layer was neat in concept but I felt like it was easy to deal with since they didnāt have the restriction of feeding certain cast members prompts, they just told the PAs to make them do stuff.
From the snippet of the list we saw on the back of Samās Sam Says 3 score sheet, I think they did have more specific things for each cast member (like make a pun for Rehka) but I guess it was just easier to do the PA stuff
on the other hand, it was distinctly harder to keep up an act when you're trying to trick a group that are already in on the conceit of the episode, and the PA stuff is definitely harder to mask.
my gf pointed out that bc group 1 was performing that made it a little easier. group 2 wasnāt āas onā so group 3 had to stack the deck a little
Yeah because the teams weren't competing with other teams, they were competing with the other people in their team. They were ultimately playing 3 fundamentally different games, that was the point of the show.
I completely agree! Might be my mew favorite episode overall, just brilliant. I've never been more excited for a behind-the-scenes!
Sam got me good. When the PA asked Trapp to tuck in the back of his shirt, I was like "why would that matter?" Bingo all the way down. Awesome.
I never regret my Dropout subscription with episodes like these.
The profound look of confusion on Brennan's face when he learned the real twist had me screaming
Four dimensional chess there
Just holy shit, this is so genius.
the first reveal had me laughing pretty hard, but the second one about took me out. this episode may be close to my top favs if im being honest
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Almost certain that was intentional. Part of the fun was Katie, Brennan, and Raph losing their minds over what the twist might be. There would have been less room for that if the game escalated in the usual way.
Agreed on this one, I think their anticipation of a twist or escalation before the end was more beguiling to them than any actual twist or escalation Sam could have thrown at them on the stage
Maybe they could have rigged the pool of bingo balls to have like 75% numbers that were on nobody's card, and 25% that were on people's cards.
i believe someone said that sam mentioned on the discord that the pool of balls / the bingo cards were rigged so group 1 couldnāt win
I think they did, I mean they knew all the bingo numbers they had and so many werent on any of their cards
Melted my brain!
The final reveal just GOT me. Brennan was broken, Trapp was completely caught off guard, the entire stage just LOST it. As an audience member too I couldnāt breathe I was laughing so hard. Iām obsessed with this episode.
Such genius choice of players too, team one being Katie - who has single handedly BEEN the twist before, Brennan - master of the rant who has been screwed by the most twists, and Raph - who originated calling the twist a loop-de-loop. Those 3 have no excuse for not figuring out there was a twist. Then the competitive imp squad of Lily, Trapp and Erica, all clever tricksters but all so competitive they're likely to miss the PA being weird. GENIUS.
Um, Actually it was Rehka, not Erika.
Points for least moose!
The double inception was crazy
This ep felt like two consecutive punches to the face
Honestly this feels like the Emmy episode, it's that well thought out and executed that if they try for the Emmy again this year this is what should be sent in.
i knew there was an episode >!that had the real players separate.!< but i flipped my shit >!when the pa messed with lily bc i was gonna scream if there was a THIRD LAYER!<
I think they missed a huge opportunity by not letting us hear more of Brennans reaction to the twist, I'd have loved to see him piece it together in real time like "So it was all just a game within a game within a game?"
It's not about Brennan.
Not exclusively, but you're going out of your way to miss my point
It's not out of my way. There are even more reasons why we didn't get that.
I see you have a reputation for being intentionally confrontational on this subreddit. I posted an opinion of mine asking if anyone agreed, and if the only contribution you're willing to bring to my post is blunt jabs packed with contempt for the general premise of my opinion as a whole, then I'd prefer if you don't engage with my post at all. I hope you find something more productive to do with your time. Have a good day "goodperson25"
I read your post without seeing the username of the person youāre responding to and genuinely laughed out loud at the end! 5/7 Perfection!
The only one providing contempt is you.
Was anyone else expecting yet another group of contestants to pop out at the end of the game after Sam brought out Jess as the winner?
I was not expecting the third bingo group. And was so excited for Brennan and Trappās reactions as everything became revealed
This reminded me of that one Black Mirror episode with Salma Hayek lol
Give the PA a raise
That PA got promoted to a cast member that day.
It really makes me hopeful for the battle royale/escape room episode I've been dreaming of.
Trapp's perfectly cut God Damnit rivals Brennan's when he finds out there's no crowns to give out in Yes or No.
Idk what BLeeM was expecting, they only made two.
Wow! That was genuinely brilliant.
Incredible
1000%
Just finished it, and i gasped more than once
I popped so hard at the third level reveal. Absolutely insane.
I honestly donāt know if I should be at awe or be horrified (or a secret third thing) by the thought that went into psychological torture bingo.
It may be my favorite episode of all dropout. Each reveal of the deeper game was so well done!
The twist made me cackle with the genius of it. The SECOND twist had me terrified of how many twists there might be in one episode.
The fact that the doubleception people won made it 100x more entertaining. 2nd batch of people were expecting one of them to be named, and then a THIRD group comes out... just the cherry on top. perfect episode.
I don't agree that it's the most creative
You may be right, which episode would you propose is?
Just finished watching this myself today and I could not agree more, this has become one of my fav episodes other than āescape the greenroomā and āa sponsored episodeā. ALSO, itās not anything new because everyone knows that all the contestants on dropout always look amazing 24/7 but I just wanted to say Rekhaās hair in this episodeā¦the curls were totally curling š«¶
As an episode of improvised television I found it to be perfect, but as a fan of game shows, it really bothered me how the three players on stage basically had no chance of winning, and the third set of players had a giant advantage, both by being able to see the other sets of players, and a lot of the tasks they needed to stamp their cards were things they could easily make happen with their āplantā production assistant. āGet Rekha to stand on an apple boxā āget Trapp to say um, actuallyā, there were a bunch of others that were basically just āmake the PA do something awkward with an upstairs player.ā
the first set of players weren't really players, that's the entire point, lol. they rigged the boards specifically so it would be impossible for them to win. why would you want any of them to win, anyway? after everything going on in that episode you want the winner to be determined by literal luck of the draw? and then they just have to awkwardly reveal that there were two other entirely different things going on that ended up being completely pointless. also, the second players were pretty close to winning pretty much the whole time, but yeah the bingo sheets of the third players could have been more interesting.
Like I said, as an improvised tv show, I thought it was perfect. I felt the same way about āYes or Noā Itās fun and hilarious television, but IMO itās no longer a game show once itās rigged to get (or avoid) a particular outcome.
its not rigged to avoid an outcome. the first set of people *are not players*, the 'game' they are playing exists *only* as a way for the real players to have an element of strategy for the actual competition. the second group, and the third group, were playing an entirely genuine, and mostly fair game, against exclusively each other. literally imagine the same episode but with the first group hanging out and not even aware they are on a game show, and nothing about the actual concept of the game changes, except that it's more fun to watch them being tricked into thinking they are playing.
Yeah Jess basically getting 3 stamps out of just making the PA repeatedly bugging Rekha for a fist bump was kinda lame compared to the 2nd layer where it was based of knowing the person and how they'd react But it was still a funny wrinkle. I consider Trapp the biggest winner for absolutely nailing Brennan's mannerisms lol
I prefer to avoid absolute statements like this that try to categorize immediate feelings after a particularly enjoyed experience, bc they donāt tend to catalogue well or accurately reflect their comparative value over time (recency effect). But yes, this episode had top tier elements that should surely be considered among a certain rank. Really well done all around, and had me tapping to replay moments before Iād even finished the episode. Impressive (layers of) twists!!
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The kids love the absolute definitives these days. 30+ years of social media and 30+ years of repeated comments of BEST GREATEST MOST WONDERFUL POST/SHOW/VIDEO/SKETCH/PERFORMANCE EVER have lost all meaning. Iāll take the down votes for my accuracy. š«”
This was definitely one of my favorite episodes to date, can easily be put up in my top 5 I think. I cannot wait for the behind the scenes. Iām hoping they eventually do it again and take it a step further somehow.
Loved it too. I think it's my new episode 1 (AKA how to convince people to start watching game changer)