#a concept that is so hilariously funny to me

[remidyal]

Game Changer Episodes (through 7.3) ranked favorite to least favorite

We're going to try to be BRIEF with this, because there's a ton of these.

5.9 Escape the Greenroom

The perfect episode, up to and including that there's a real chance at points that the players might physically assault Sam.

6.6 Deja Vu

I love time loop premises and analog horror and this combines them to great effect.

6.7 Beat the Buzzer

The best of the Seven reunion episodes to me, wildly creative work by the art team.

6.3 Sam Says 3

I'm penalizing game samers some in these rankings and this still is the top of this set. Presumably the last Sam Says ever since escalation here enters criminal territory.

4.1 Sam Says

It's just such a great premise because it's so simple and people know the tricks to watch for and they still fall for it.

7.1 One Year Later

Utterly deranged and also a sign that we're getting insanely longer as the seasons go along. This list is rough on the early seasons in part because early season episodes might go 15-20 minutes and now we're regularly getting 40+ but this one is above and beyond.

5.1 Sam Says 2

Being the weakest installment of Sam Says for me is still being an absolutely incredible episode.

5.4 Name a Number

This one may actually be hurt a little bit for me by the physical pain of the 'I'm Hungy' call, but it's still incredible top to bottom.

1.1 Lie Detector

The first episode of the series and also still genuinely incredible; the cast absolutely being willing to go full out here helps set the tone for the entire series to come.

6.1 Second Place

My personal favorite of the fuck with Brennan episodes, in part because Sam genuinely seems to not have realized how much it would.

1.4 Whodunnit

A rare 'fuck with a specific person' episode not targeted at Brennan or Grant, and just deeply funny. One of the episodes I used to use to hook people on the show, because it's on youtube free.

3.7 Jeopardy!

A WEIRD episode from the Zoom Season that I profoundly love.

6.5 Bingo

Another entry in the pantheon of fucking with Brennan, made extra hilarious because he wasn't even supposed to be in it.

2.2 Do I Hear $1?

To some degree kind of a follow up to Total Forgiveness, it remains incredible how far Ally and Grant are willing to go.

2.6 Yes or No

A lot of people would probably have this higher, but the rant aside I do like the episodes where fucking with Brennan is a side effect of the game more than just it being the point.

4.8 Race to the Bottom

Katie coming in to scab was basically perfect for making the game re-work after the unionization.

1.2 Make Some Noise

Honestly a legacy ranking; it's fun and obviously spawned a whole lot of great stuff but the prompts are incredibly basic next to what was to come.

2.4 A Sponsored Episode

Sam has openly stated that the where you from? joke out of this is the thing that has haunted him the most on dropout stuff, but it's a really fun episode even apart from that.

7.2 You-lympics

Hard to tell recency bias on ones from this season, could slide on a rewatch but I did pretty thoroughly enjoy it.

5.6 As A Cucumber

I enjoy the premise overall but heart rate monitor stuff is always a little wonky for me.

3.1 Tell Us About Yourself

One of my favorite 'try to figure out the rules here' episodes, helped by my enjoyment of the idea that Tony Hawk just hangs out in robes in a dank basement somewhere.

4.2 Noise Boys

Again, penalizing Game Samers to some degree, but this is probably the best of the Make Some Noise episodes on Game Changer before it got spun off if you're watching it without that in mind. That said, there's likely ten episodes in the most recent season of Make Some Noise better than this still.

3.2 Sell Outs

The first of two follow-ups to the marketing episode in the zoom season, this is one of the concepts that works pretty well over zoom but doesn't take unique advantage of it a la Jeopardy or Tell Us About Yourself. Still good fun.

2.1 Round 4

More make some noise, does establish the gag about the points continuing between episodes.

3.8 Secret Samta

This is the best of the premises that are basically just 'Sam gives shit away' to me.

4.4 Secret Samta 3

It's better in person then over zoom, but game samer penalty.

3.15 Secret Samta 2: The Samta Clause

They do add some fun twists and all on each episode as they go, though, so they all kind of ended up clumped.

7.3 Earnest-est

I don't get the batman obsession in this episode (is batman especially earnest in Sam's mind?) and also the Joker wasn't even in the movie with Kiss From A Rose on the soundtrack but that aside it's a lot of fun.

3.11 Three for the Price of One

The last of the marketing episodes, still good fun, even if Grant's the worst salesman on earth.

5.2 Like My Coffee 2

Inuendo is always fun, but this makes it above the original for one simple reason: Bringing Grant's mother onto this episode as a surprise guest is a crazy move in the ongoing war of humiliation between Grant and Sam.

4.9/4.10 Survivor

These multi-parters are getting grouped together and an average grade. My favorite of the 'reality show knockoff' bunch, in part because it was the first time they did it and people who were into it were REALLY into it.

3.6 Never Have I Ever

The precursor to Dirty Laundry and I love that show.

5.10-5.13 Battle Royale

A lot going on here, but kind of weak compared to the average episode, just.. there's a lot of it.

4.6 Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience

I think one of the weaker premises they've done, carried strongly by the cast.

1.3 Game of Prizes

The first "Sam gives shit away" episode, this one is a little fun but not among the more balanced rulesets they've used.

4.2 Like My Coffee

Basically just an improv game, but it's a fun one.

5.5 A Game Most Changed

I'm more into standard theater than I am anything musical, but I found the episode more impressive on a talent level than actually funny and I don't think it's especially rewatchable.

1.5 Nom Nom Nom

Kind of a gross episode, reminds me a bit of Double Dare as a kid.

6.2 The Newlyweb Game

Fun, and I'd never give up my phone to Sam Reich, but especially by the standards of recent seasons nothing that wild - this one's a double, not a home run.

3.5 Ham It Up

A great guest here, and this is a premise I think might go better in an in person situation than over Zoom. I'd love to see this one iterated on.

2.5 The Everything Factory

One of the first complete chaos episodes, but a little repetitive.

6.4 Pencils Down

Art episodes don't tend to be my favorites; there's some really good bits in this, but the nature of it means there aren't that many prompts in the episode.

3.14 Tome of Terror

I like improv storytelling a bit more than art on average but all of these are just alright to me.

4.5 The Official Cast Recording

This is one I think most people would have higher; I'm just not a musical theater person and pretty much any kind of musical comedy's getting dinged points for me.

3.3 Changer Con

I get what they were going for, and it kind of works, but the dressup bits on Make Some Noise aren't really my thing either.

3.12 Next Slide Please

Recreational powerpoints (see also: Smartypants) seem to really appeal to people who haven't held office jobs. I've held an office job.

5.2 Karaoke Night

More musical humor, more things most people would rate higher.

6.8/6.9 Ratfish

Some great bits in here, but really dragged down by everything to do with the Ratfish himself and also I just kind of hate the rules of this game.

3.13 Make it Fashion

More zoom dressup. It's fine.

4.7 Don't Cry

Honestly a very sweet episode and the recurring bit of Jess losing points at the end is hilarious but this is a much kinder gesture than like, full episode.

2.3 Sleeper Agents

This premise just doesn't work at all for me, and just.. interacting with the public always makes me cringe a little bit. Also notably by FAR the shortest episode of the series; even the shortest zoom episodes are like 20% longer than this.

5.6/5.7 The Bachelor

Almost painful to watch for me, but I also hate the actual Bachelor so good job mimicking it I guess?

3.4 Is This Thing On?

I get what they were going for, but definitely the worst of the Sam Gives Shit Away premises.

3.10 The Substitute

Noise Boys over zoom without Zac did… not work super well for me.

3.9 2020 Vision

A quiz episode about 'did this happen in 2020' that does not work at all now that it's not 2020 anymore.

[buckysleftarm]

finished the witcher 3 (main game, still have the dlcs to do bc I wasn't doing them concurrently) and the way i got faked out soooo badly was not even funny

[sunnibits]

“the kids chose protective mom izzy in the divorce” is literally my new favorite joke to come out of s2 so far I’m utterly obsessed

[vaguely-concerned]

rook x lucanis: romance with a commentary track! solas and spite contribute with their thoughts and opinions along the way whether anyone wants them to or not. it's like a MST3K episode up in here as you try to get hot and heavy. in. in the pantry. love among the radishes at the end of the world (rifftrax version)

[violent138]

[yuttikkele]

about william shatner; i keep seeing people say "he is an interesting specimen" or "i need to study him." and yeah, upon further inspection, i kinda want a look into his mind too cause from the little glimpse we have of his life you just kinda look at it and go "???"

i don't like speculating about people's personal lives, but the man is 94 and also a celebrity so i doubt this would get close enough to even bother him.

william shatner be like "i'm fighting demons." whole time it's bisexuality.

that's my best guess for why he acts the way he acts.

[v1ckymult1fand0m]

He's Spanish. He's stubborn. He wore shorts in the middle of Welsh autumn. He didn't like the food at his loop so he stopped eating. He fell for a girl at first sight and proceeded to hit on her continuously despite her disinterest and her boyfriend's swarm of bees. He run away from his loop with only eel sandwiches as food. The girl he liked rejected him as he was running away and her boyfriend stung him with his bees one last time. He had to transfer to a warmer loop that was less frequently bombed and didn't have include his crush's boyfriend and his bees. His name is fucking Salvador Tatterleg and he is the minor character to ever exist.

[mechanicalclown]

My GGY themed geometry notebook and a Dr. Rabbit drawing I made :o)

[anna-scribbles]

regained my 12 year old swag(read an entire new percy jackson book in one sitting)

[mamawasatesttube]

deeply curious to know how many punctuality lectures they have both gotten from tim already, given that this is before young justice #3. have they been significantly late to literally every group hangout since world without grown-ups? (guys... you both have superspeed...) or is tim just Like That about them showing up like 2 minutes past the hour simply Because they both have superspeed? both are equally possible i think. much to ponder

[hauntswitch]

Im so sorry but the L word is absolutely fucking hilarious - none of these women have an ounce of morality between them and yet they're all somehow still loveable characters. Despite the atrocities. And the bad 2000s haircuts. And the deeply questionable fashion choices.

[firelise]

Ramy » S3E3 (aka every Immigrant father ever)

- Farouk, it's only a song okay? Probably [Obama's] daughters pick up his songs for his playlist. - You're just saying that because you didn't hear the song "Savages" by Megan the Horse.

[imeriayapping]

Observing Carlos sainz while being neutral is so interesting bc on one hand you have absolutely devoted fans that will shit on different drivers and their fans for him

And on the other there are just as passionate haters that will shit on him for anything and everything

And then there me who just watch all of the arguments from the side and mostly here to read fanfiction

[r0semultiverse]

Imagine if having devil fruit powers in One Piece got you the label of “fruity.” They needed a name/label to call people who have devil fruit powers so they just start saying you’re fruity. If you’re strong as fuck with your devil fruit powers? That’s fruity as Hell!

[rakkuntoast]

my enjoyment of philever is a constant battle of deciding if its funnier them getting platonically involved or forever being permanently in his boyfailure era

[lunarrolls]

unfortunately i don’t know enough about the kryn to write this or anything but ever since i made that post discussing the assembly and the dynasty’s attitudes towards genasi i have not been able to stop thinking about an au where ashton gets kidnapped and brought to the bright queen and the hells have to figure out where the fuck their pet rock went. they’re looking in the complete wrong places assuming some random bitch ashton knew got salty with him and stole him meanwhile ashton keeps trying to break out of the palace because They’re Ashton. they have broken seventeen important objects and jumped out of at least four windows trying to get back to everyone else. it doesn’t occur to fearne or fcg to try and scry on him until three days have passed because they have a combined intelligence of 18 <3