Awesome / Game Changer

It's the only show where the game changes every show!

• Do I Hear $1
  • How Grant managed to beat Sam in his own game. The rules of that particular episode was that the players had to compete for a pile of money, with whoever did the craziest stunt getting the award. With 3000 dollars left and the challenge being to do anything involving some crickets, Grant convinces the other players to work with him, leading to each of them walking home with 1000 dollars in return for Grant simply having to wave at some crickets, and none of the other players challenging him on it.
    • Also works as one for Sam, for having a graphic prepared for this instance sincerely congratulating the crew for unionising. Especially when you remember his dad was actually Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor.
• The Substitute
  • Zac wasn't able to join the Zoom call for this third instalment of the Noise Boys saga, so Sam had to call in a substitute player to give Josh and Brennan a challenge. But who? Michael motherfucking Winslow.
  Brennan: You haven't given us a challenge, Sam. You've sent us to our deaths!
• From the Survivor episode, Part 1:
  • In the second vote, Brennan is the obvious target for elimination (being one of the strongest and most competitive players) to the point where Ally tells him to his face that they plan on voting for him. It seems like there is nothing Brennan can do to protect himself... but at the very last moment, Brennan reveals that the game not only has immunity idols, but that he has discovered one of the four idols hidden around the set (with the help of his alliance partner Lou) and is playing it to counterattack and successfully eliminate Ally.
  Brennan: You think I'm gonna fucking roll over?! You look me in the eyes, Beardsley, and say, "Brennan, I think it's your fucking time"? It'll be a cold day in hell when I go out like a fucking chump!
  • Brennan in general plays a blinder of a game of Survivor: he discovers three of the four hidden immunity idols, and wins all but the first immunity challenge (granting him automatic immunity). This effectively allows him to completely control the rest of the game by denying immunity to other players, and playing his spare idols on behalf of other players to ensure that his chosen targets are eliminated. He immediately eliminates his biggest threat (the one most likely to play the game seriously: Ally), and forms an alliance with his second biggest threat (Lou), thus sowing enough discord among the less experienced players to prevent a true counter-alliance from forming to eliminate him specifically. He also successfully eliminates Erika by planting a joke in her mind between games that he ruthlessly detonates in the final round.
  Brennan: The ability to play Survivor indoors is a dream come true.
• During the first voting round of the Survivor 2-parter, almost all of the votes are for Sam, which don't count. The sole exception is a vote for Katie, which eliminates her from the game and which everyone insists must have been planted by the art team. At the end of the game, however, Lou reveals that he was the one who had done it, a play which combined with Brennan playing the heel the entire game, nets him the win over Brennan.
• "The Official Cast Recording"
  • An unexpectedly badass moment during one of the improvised bits:
  Jess: I'll buy a ticket to nowhere, for you / getting in my way would be the worst thing you could do / I've got a ticket to nowhere, ticket to nowhere, and that ticket... is for you.
• "Karaoke Night"
  • The premise of the show is improv songs, so a random title with a singer to emulate. Ross Bryant chooses "The Story of Sisyphus" by Tom Waits. Ross nails it so well, the cast and crew are just stunned, and Sam gives Ross five points for the song.
  • Really, all of the contestants deserve to be mentioned for just how damn good the resulting songs are. Not only are they all quite good singers (though Rashawn kills it with every song), but the lyrics they make up actually work really well. Also, Aaron the pianist does an amazing job on vamping tunes for them.
• "Battle Royale: Old Guard vs New Blood"
  • Jacob Wysocki handily wins most of the immunity challenges throughout the game, cruising straight into the finals and decisively winning the jury vote.
  • Vic Michaelis makes the play of the game by manipulating Ally into playing their immunity idol for Tao, leaving them vulnerable to being eliminated by a co-ordinated vote. This is especially noteworthy as Vic had very little time to pull it off, since they had to spend most of the break having clay from the previous challenge cleaned out of their hair.
  • Lily Du is eliminated fairly early, but when Ana Garcia is forced out due to breaking her foot, she returns to the game and makes it all the way to the final three. She even wins immunity on the final challenge, but chooses to give it up to participate in the elimination challenge, a game of Same Brain, which she and Vic manage to match on after a single word.
  • Tao Yang may not have won the erotic pottery challenge, but as guest judge Laganja Estranja points out, he set the bar and seemingly opened the way for the other contestants to loosen up and put their all into it.
• "Sam Says 3":
  • The editing team has to be applauded for their skill in making Jacob's Dragon Ball Z dreams come true.
• "Bingo":
  • This was a masterclass in fuckery, even by Sam's standards. Katie, Brennan, and Raph played a modified game of bingo wherein they had to do improv in order to earn the bingo balls. What they didn't know was that the prompts were controlled by (respectively) Lily, Trapp, and Rekha, who manipulated them into doing certain things so that they could score points on their bingo. What they didn't know was that the crew had them do certain things at the behest of (respectively) Tao, Carolyn, and Jess Ross. The on-stage players quickly figured that something was up, because it's Sam, but the greenroom players had no idea because they were focused on the stage. Brennan was annoyed by the first reveal, but the second true reveal absolutely shattered him.