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00:00Ready for a game-changer tonight's guests.
00:04A man who, in his time, plays many parts,
00:08it's Joey Bland.
00:11A rose by any other name would not be Ross Bryant.
00:15♪♪
00:18Born great, achieving greatness,
00:19and having greatness thrust upon him,
00:21it's Blaine Swen.
00:23♪♪
00:25Whoa.
00:27And your host, me.
00:30I've been here the whole time.
00:33This is Game Changer,
00:36the only game show where the game changes every show.
00:38I am your host, Sam Reich.
00:41I am joined today by these three lovely contestants.
00:45Now, you all understand how the game works.
00:48No. Exactly.
00:49That's right.
00:50Our contestants have no idea what game
00:52it is they're about to play,
00:53although they might be tipped off
00:54by the fact that they are the Improvised Shakespeare Company.
00:58The only way to learn is by playing.
01:01The only way to win is by learning,
01:03and the only way to begin is by beginning.
01:05So without further ado, let's begin.
01:08It's how I start off every show,
01:11my suit adorned,
01:14my microphone in tow.
01:16I channel spirits of the ancient hosts,
01:20Bob Barker, Regis Philbin, now.
01:24But ghosts.
01:26But let us travel further back in time,
01:29when theater was as yet in its prime,
01:32the old globe was the only channel on,
01:36and prologues such as this, Shakespeare's theme song.
01:42This plays about a game show, one of your.
01:47This plays within my game show.
01:49Want some more?
01:50Our players must create this game show play
01:53while playing this, my game show.
01:56Woe is me!
01:59Scene one, a lover, lonely as of yet,
02:01for other lover have they not yet met.
02:04You are a peasant, huddled in the pit,
02:07shoulder to shoulder with your fellow shit.
02:10The curtains rise.
02:12The actors take the stage.
02:14We humbly present a game most changed.
02:20Nay, place not comforting balms upon me,
02:24tis a thing useless.
02:27And I see in depressed chill,
02:28now o'erlows my spirit,
02:30and I cannot be plucked up again.
02:32I have prescription for this, thy malady.
02:36Bright tell thee, Antonio, I know thy sickness,
02:39tis love, nay, not love, but the absence of it.
02:41For love, a different sickness is,
02:43and different prescriptions to be prescribed.
02:45Strange sickness, when having it not,
02:48it doth make thee ill, tis that which I would catch,
02:51and thus be made well again.
02:53And yet I have it not,
02:54and being thus cured, am still in pain.
02:57And yet, Antonio, as a man, most myriad,
03:00I do know the ways of love.
03:02And now here shall present thee some path to it.
03:05For if I can say, without or rating,
03:09that I myself am master of the game of dating.
03:13Nay, I seek not wisdom in thy dating history.
03:17I wish not to know thy game of dating or its mystery.
03:21Come, myself, my own path now must plod,
03:25and cannot follow where others thus have trod.
03:27I thank thee, Benvolio, for this advice.
03:31And yet, ay, my soul is crushed.
03:34Eden is in a vice, that I had seen her,
03:37and lost again so soon.
03:39I, who am at the very bottom of this wheel of fortune.
03:44Pardon, good sirs, I beseech you, can you read?
03:48Ay, I am literate.
03:49Here, let us buy a vowel from thee.
03:51I bid thee, if thou art such a man of letters,
03:53and now canst do me a good service,
03:55by herein reading these invitations,
03:58and telling me to whom they must be delivered.
04:01For my master, the Duke of Sina,
04:02has charged me to deliver these,
04:04thus to a great festivity that he shall hold at his home.
04:08He has charged thee, yet not proffered thee,
04:10with intelligence to read the addresses.
04:12This is a breakdown in management, most dire.
04:15So it would seem.
04:16I shall hold off on reading the salutation
04:18of these such invitations, as mentioned by this dumb boy.
04:23And instead, shall only read the meat of the matter,
04:26which is to say, the Duke of Sina holds a fete
04:28this afternoon, into early evening it shall go.
04:32Definitely a daytime show.
04:33He speaks of a night of favor, and a night of love.
04:38And mayhap this invitation, fallen into our hands of late,
04:43shall be thus an opportunity for you to procure yourself
04:45of what illness thou hast,
04:47and to assume the illness thou most wants.
04:49This is thy infection.
04:51And yet, is the invitation, is it to you?
04:54And so it is.
04:56Then what great fortune has smiled upon me,
04:59for I have delivered this unto the right person.
05:01He did send me blindly into any direction,
05:04and bid all to come find some love connection.
05:08Well met, idiot boy.
05:10I think not that I shall find I a lover there
05:14with some zeal, but I shall follow Benvolio.
05:17Let us make a deal.
05:18Then a deal is made.
05:20A deal made of most.
05:22Thou shall play the game tonight,
05:24and I shall play thy host.
05:25I can't believe you're the one the letter was for.
05:28It's really amazing, isn't it?
05:30But there's my name right there, Benvolio and Antonio.
05:34Tonight I shall sleep soundly in my jammies,
05:37for my master shall present upon my head no whammies.
05:42Yes, yes, and yes.
05:44My players, whenever you're doing more of that.
05:48The stage has thus been set with Lover One.
05:52Soon Lover Two's debut shall hath begun.
05:56But if it's points our players want, material,
06:00they must mix in the names of breakfast cereals.
06:07I'm me.
06:08Lady Portia, wherefore such tristful sighs
06:12scape forth from out thy beauteous lips?
06:15Would it worth summer?
06:17And yet now does enter on this day the coldest of winter.
06:22And so it seems to me the weather makes many mistakes
06:26to shower upon us these snowy, dear frosted flakes.
06:30That is a point for blame.
06:31But come, if there are frosted flakes about,
06:35let a sunny disposition reign within thy heart
06:38to banish off the cold that would beset thy spirit.
06:42Does not thy father throw afet this very day
06:45a mid-afternoon party, not quite a brunch,
06:49or a late-night jam that thou shalt enjoy?
06:52How I would enjoy a lover's lunch.
06:56Oh, how I would have a captain me to crunch.
06:59That's a point for blame.
07:01For I tell thee, my heart- To crunch?
07:03Seek not, young Portia, for so rough a thing as crunching.
07:07Oh, I wanna be crunched.
07:08Nay, in this crunching thy heart should find defeat.
07:10Rather be gentler with thy spirit
07:12and seek a smoother cream of wheat.
07:15That's a point for Roz.
07:16Daughter, my.
07:17Most noble Duke.
07:18Yes, nurse, well met.
07:20Daughter, I tell thee, this fet this eve
07:22is not simply just for thee to enjoy dancing,
07:26but indeed, tonight you shall find a mate.
07:30Yea, an account I have brought to make you his wife,
07:34and you shall live with him forever for your entire life.
07:39A count?
07:40Can it be that the famed Count Chocula
07:42comes this very day?
07:44He is here this eve.
07:45The man a reputation has as a monster,
07:47but trust me, the county of Chocula
07:50is a rich and boonful place.
07:52Glance not upon the man, he is not well to look at.
07:55To hear him is not well either.
07:57See the man by his fortune.
07:59Judge him by his clothes.
08:00See him not, hear him not.
08:01Instead, follow your nose.
08:04It is well known Count Chocula is of an ill temper,
08:08an ill demeanor, and altogether cruel and foul.
08:13An old good part and merriment he lacks.
08:17He shall not shower upon my face gentle honeysmack.
08:20Daughter, he shall.
08:22Ay, lady, listen to thy pops.
08:25We play not games nor tricks.
08:28Do what I did, for I tell thee tricks are for kids.
08:31No longer a kid thou art, a woman thou shalt be.
08:35And so now you must become more chocolaty.
08:40You must listen to thy father, lady.
08:43Here in our realm, his power is total.
08:47That's a point for Ross.
08:48I shall do what thou dost wish.
08:51Behave in thy special way.
08:54I shall give him gentle kiss, a special, special gay.
08:58But I tell thee, father, though me thou dost stand above,
09:04I cannot promise that to this count I shall give my love.
09:08Tis not necessary.
09:10Nay, but instead thy obedience is most assured.
09:12Now, nurse, I proffered to you earlier
09:15a bangle of special memories to give to my daughter.
09:18There's a moon and a star, a rainbow, a balloon,
09:23sometimes special edition ones come along.
09:26Ay, this family ornament
09:27that thou shouldst never come to harm.
09:29Here now I wear around my neck these lucky charms.
09:33I mean, I guess I have no choice
09:36but to say a point for all three.
09:37Come, there is some joy to be found in love.
09:43When thou go'st unto it, to go I unto the cornucopia
09:47of Amor to eat its many fruits.
09:50Come, find joy in love, whensoever thou art married.
09:54It shall not be but one repast.
09:56Thou shall think, oops, all buried.
09:59Yeah, okay, fine.
10:00Kind of a stretch?
10:02I shall see thee tonight at the fete, but now I must go.
10:06Cheerio.
10:07Oh, wow, yeah, absolutely.
10:09Oh, wretched nurse, oh, more wretched me
10:13that this now Count Chocula I must see.
10:16You must bear his arms and greater bear his suit.
10:21Oh, gentle monster of thy father, this dire fruit brute.
10:25Ha ha ha, whoa.
10:27Discontinued.
10:28Was that a cereal?
10:30Yes.
10:31I wouldn't even know that one.
10:32And if this causes butterflies to light upon thy tummy,
10:35take it up with thy mother, thy delicious yummy mummy.
10:38Oh, my.
10:39These are Count Chocula's friends.
10:42He shall have no love of me.
10:45No sobrano, only treble.
10:48For I shall never touch his wheaties
10:50or know his fruity pebbles.
10:52Oh, two points.
10:53You speak this in youth,
10:55knowing not the pricks of ages, wounds, and cuts.
10:59You spurn his fruity pebbles,
11:02but he shall give thee his grape nuts.
11:05I know not the pricks of age.
11:08I know not such pain either.
11:11But I tell thee, though I know no pricks like this,
11:14I shall not know his either.
11:17Tis well, lady.
11:21Thou shouldst not love in obedience merely.
11:24What am I going to do then?
11:26Thou must not do this fat go,
11:28but make hap at this party some other companion.
11:33To thee it shall show.
11:36So then I shall place a crown upon a lover's head.
11:40For one night I shall not have breakfast,
11:44but I shall have lunch instead.
11:47With Lover One and Lover Two made known,
11:50Shakespeare dictates a rival next be shown.
11:54Our players will earn points for saying subtly
11:58the names of some Fortune 500 companies.
12:03Oh.
12:06Bull.
12:06Pfft.
12:07From distant land of Chocula across the Carpathians
12:16have I come here to Verona to take to myself
12:21this special fruit to pluck from off this tree,
12:24this apple of Italy.
12:28Most noble Lord of Chocula,
12:31finally a branch shall be knitted
12:34through the husbandry of marriage to your noble house
12:37that heirs may be brought forth
12:40and the noble name of Chocula can reign forever
12:43in the Transylvanian mountains.
12:46Yes, Basil.
12:48It is her coffers and her father's name that I want,
12:51not the girl's, Portia.
12:53I care not for herself,
12:55only for thus the purse she brings along.
12:58I think Portia was a point for Joseph.
13:00Those are unexpected points, I'll take it.
13:03Hmm, this purse indeed,
13:05which she can definitely afford to give to me,
13:10I shall take in victory.
13:12Ah, victory.
13:13What's the Greek word for victory?
13:15Nike?
13:16Yes.
13:18From the frosty realms, I'm almost unto the step you come
13:23to finally make your household great as it deserves to be.
13:27Rigid, hard, no longer small and delicate,
13:32strong and hard, not Microsoft.
13:34I am my master, oh!
13:38Oh, here comes Google.
13:42With your divining wisdom, Google,
13:44do you see a fortuitous ending of this marriage?
13:48Come on, Google, I feel lucky, tell me.
13:50Here now, that fortune may not be besmirched.
13:55Let Google in his mind now do a Google search.
14:02It's so violent.
14:03It hurts, it hurts every time.
14:05Answers I have, yahoo, answers I can give thee,
14:10if only thou wilt release the curse you have on me.
14:14And once I at last, Google is free,
14:17I won't have to crawl on that or Disney.
14:23Then we have a deal.
14:24Now speak, let the words of thy mouth
14:27and my ear now be united.
14:30No more gasping expirations, enough with this GE.
14:35Oh, oh, then here, let me give one last gasp,
14:40one last breath, and tell you to beware,
14:45this fetch shall end in death.
14:49It's pretty vague.
14:50Yes. Release me!
14:52I made the deal, I made the deal.
14:54Then you are released.
14:55Take back what form you once had.
14:58Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
15:01Disney is threatening, this is straight out of Disney.
15:05Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
15:10At last I have returned to my mermaid form.
15:14Yes, it was a mermaid.
15:16I was a mermaid when I was caught at sea many years ago,
15:21cursed by this wretched Count Chocula.
15:24But now, now I, now I'm,
15:28could somebody take me to the ocean?
15:30Sorry, we are inland in Verona.
15:32Pretty landlocked.
15:33We couldn't get the visa needed for ocean travel.
15:37I shall tell you more.
15:38I shall give you all devotion.
15:40If only you will promise to take me to the ocean.
15:43Yes, a second deal, a corollary to the first.
15:47You told me once that someone will die.
15:49If you can make your charge specific,
15:52I shall throw thee in the Atlantic or mea pacific.
15:56Then here take me to the sea and set me on the brink.
16:01For there is love at this fate,
16:03but not with the one you think.
16:06Oh, I know who I do think I shall love
16:10and she shall love me.
16:11I have drawn my bow, knocked arrow,
16:14and have it aimed clearly at a target.
16:18Is this arrow to go astray and hit a different one?
16:21It matters not, so long as you find love, my lord.
16:25It is worth the chase.
16:27Then go.
16:29I shall do what is within my power
16:31to bring this mermaid back to the Adriatic.
16:35Then come, gentle sir,
16:38giver of all good luck.
16:40Let me frolic among the seahorse
16:42and underneath the starbuck.
16:45Go forth into the oceans and rivers,
16:49wherever you chance upon,
16:51be it Atlantic, Pacific, Nile, or Amazon.
16:56So I shall go and I shall do my job.
17:00Me, Basil, last name Charles Schwab.
17:03Ha ha ha!
17:05Point for Ross, and we will edit that scene.
17:09It seems to me time for a comic break.
17:13The form of Silly Cockney's shall it take.
17:17And if my troupe is brave enough to try it,
17:22they shall earn points by blending in fad diets.
17:29Hello, blokes.
17:30We've been hired to play the fete
17:32at a Duke Orsino this night.
17:34Oh, we shall have a gig?
17:36Is it even so?
17:38It is so, Atkins.
17:40You mean to tell me, Keto,
17:43that our musical styling shall be heard
17:46by the Duke Orsino himself?
17:48Why, indeed, he shall hear our styles
17:50that have been known from ages of yore.
17:53Even in the paleo era was our musical styling known.
17:58Oh, well, it has been some time
18:00since I have tuned my instrument,
18:02for it has been some time
18:03since we have been called upon to have a gig.
18:06Indeed, I do not know if my tunes shall be lasting,
18:09for between gig to gig,
18:11there was some intermittent fasting.
18:15That's a point.
18:16And so, let thy fast end now, Atkins.
18:19Let us practice a bit.
18:21Give our voice to its mellifluous tones.
18:24Not the harsher tones we have.
18:26Only smoothies.
18:29I really admire the effort.
18:31Only smoothies, then.
18:32All smoothies.
18:33No harsh tones.
18:34No harsh ones.
18:35Only smoothies.
18:36Wait!
18:37What?
18:38Watch us.
18:39Hey, it should be in privacy.
18:40Nay, nay.
18:41Wait.
18:41The caravan passes.
18:42Feel eyes upon me now.
18:44The watchers are in the dark.
18:46They who would judge us from the shadows,
18:48I in hence so grimly be counting points.
18:53Mm.
18:54Mm.
18:54Mm.
18:55Mm.
18:56Mm.
18:57Wait.
18:58Tell a tale today of love from the past,
19:02hoping that the love you find today shall last.
19:06The love you find today that none shall have to beg.
19:11We'll share with you the tale of a lover named Jenny Craig.
19:17Oh, Jenny was a maiden.
19:20Struck out on her own.
19:23Aye, there to find her way abroad.
19:25Aye, even in the zone.
19:28Aye, there indeed she'd walk abroad
19:31to find a lover's fate.
19:33Spurning all despised men as she did carbohydrates.
19:39And so she spurned all of those men
19:43and gave them gentle barbs.
19:45She said, I shall have none of you for each of you are carbs.
19:50She sent them all away and flicked them like a booger
19:54and said, I shall have nothing sweet
19:57for I declare no sugar.
19:59We hope from this our lesson into you is learned
20:04and that the calories of love shall soon by thee be burned.
20:09And that from the heat therein, you'll dance upon your leg.
20:14We've taught you now the tale of the lover,
20:18Jenny Craig.
20:24My God, man.
20:27I will cut this scene off there.
20:30Pray tell, what's next?
20:32Our worlds, they collide.
20:34The theme of game show is at last applied.
20:39Our players must wrong rights or else right wrongs.
20:43Well, listing off the names of nineties songs.
20:50All here it's daytime fets do indeed make merry.
20:54And yet it is a burden too great
20:56for my weary soul to carry.
20:58Aye, there is music.
21:00If the eyes and ears are tuned to hear it
21:04and other senses as well
21:05for in here it even smells like teen spirit.
21:08Aye, so it is.
21:09Take evidence from this music.
21:11Love is not to be charmed by posy and verse.
21:14It's not what thou sayest,
21:15but the other elements, the smells
21:17and also these sounds that thou now hast heard.
21:20Know that love is indeed more than words.
21:24I thank thee Benvolio for reaching out to me
21:29and tending to my heart, my emotions most laboriously.
21:32I know as a friend, I'm kind of a lot.
21:35As well.
21:36For I know that no matter what slogs we do perform now
21:39that the night shall end neath a steeple
21:42taking vows in thy happiness amidst shiny happy people.
21:47Aye, oh me.
21:49It is the second time I have dropped my drink.
21:52Oh, what a stumbly sin.
21:54I dear Portia, oops, I did it again.
21:59I shall absent myself.
22:00For indeed, I see the charms of the night take place
22:03without Benvolio's pandering.
22:04Look at her, look how she holds herself.
22:07Behold, as the moon eclipsed off of her.
22:10I tell thee, get her another cup.
22:12This is an opportunity for love.
22:14Straight up.
22:16Was that a song, Joey?
22:18Paul Abdul's Straight Up.
22:20Do not be cold hearted.
22:22She could be forever your girl.
22:23Opposites attract.
22:29By glass, lady, upon the floor its glinting I did see.
22:34Indeed, this glass almost did crash into me.
22:39Who is this gentle?
22:42My heart does not understand.
22:44I look and see his body is a wonderland.
22:49He does bear himself gently and without much fuss
22:53and has answered to me the query,
22:55what if God was one of us?
22:57Who indeed is such a maid set here for all to see?
23:04Such a maiden with a form and frame that is most juicy.
23:11Oh, can I speak?
23:13Should I speak to hear some amorous plea?
23:17Aye, how can I speak for her own words hypnotize me?
23:23Sweet good sir, ere I become a love-like swarmer,
23:28tell me thy name.
23:30I bid you be a quick informer.
23:34Don't speak.
23:35Boy, for us.
23:36My name is Antonio,
23:38but no Benison or Boone could be placed upon that name
23:41more so than it having it be spoken by thy mouth.
23:45Therefore, I take back my words.
23:46Do speak.
23:48Speak my name and rechristen me anew.
23:52I shall speak my name and let me not be too tawd
23:56as now I say Portia and I take two steps forward.
24:00That's a song.
24:01It's the one Joey mentioned earlier, isn't it?
24:02Paul Ambrose.
24:03Doesn't count, doesn't count.
24:05But I shall take two steps back in thy arms
24:09for the first time in weeks now feel alive
24:12and hark, musicians, they play the mambo number five.
24:15Oh.
24:16Dench, dench, dench, dench, dench, dench, dench, dench.
24:22Oh, this day which formerly was so crappy,
24:26now I don't worry, I am just happy.
24:29We'll give it to her.
24:30By thy eyes and arms,
24:32by thy soul's most shining light,
24:35if we carry on till evening,
24:37I shall die in thy arms tonight.
24:40Let us find a priest this very night
24:43and be married now at last.
24:45We must do it in haste, good Antonio,
24:47quickly now and fast.
24:49For my heart forever for you does groan,
24:52for today is the greatest day I've ever known.
24:57I want it that way.
25:00Hail.
25:01Well met, young ones.
25:03Priest Backstreet, I thought you were gone,
25:05but Backstreet's back.
25:07All right.
25:09Here when I was on the verge of losing my religion.
25:13Oh, and I know who thou art too.
25:15Portia, the daughter of the Duke.
25:17Ay, and as I am the daughter of the Duke,
25:19here I give you command.
25:21Now bind me to this man,
25:23bind together our hand,
25:25for I tell thee now upon my very life,
25:27I would have him as my husband
25:29if he would take me as his wife.
25:31I take thee, ay, take thee with a heart most true,
25:34and I tell thee plainly,
25:36and I will always love you.
25:38Hear these vows from me, ay,
25:41for the rest of thy days,
25:43for it is true that God works in mysterious ways.
25:47Let thy commitment to these vows be yes,
25:50never no, nor maybe,
25:52lest the frigidness of thy hearts
25:54turn to ice and icin' babies.
25:57Ah, boy, a little too cold, too cold.
26:01Marriage is between you,
26:03marriage, this is it,
26:05marriage lasting forever,
26:08that's too legit to quit.
26:11Quits for all three.
26:14Then you shall be my mister,
26:16and I shall be your missus,
26:17and forever I shall give you butterfly kisses.
26:22Married, after knowing each other
26:24for like three, four minutes.
26:26I mean, you can't wait,
26:27you gotta just, you gotta do it.
26:28Nay, some do say that fools rush in,
26:31then call me foolish.
26:34I am bereft of mind.
26:35What was Antonio is here replaced by thee,
26:39and I love thy voice's sound,
26:42and I find myself as you find me
26:46when I come around.
26:47I shall make my exit this,
26:49but list carefully,
26:51thy love must be true.
26:52Now I must go find my boy.
26:54Jeremy!
26:55Oh.
26:58Now we are bound together,
27:00soon in body, now in souls.
27:03But if we hear my father,
27:05know the thunder rolls.
27:07Wait, your dad's not into this?
27:10No, let's go.
27:11We gotta go.
27:12Then let us go,
27:12until the dawn's most early light.
27:15Tomorrow comes apace,
27:16for now we have tonight.
27:18Tonight.
27:19Point for Ross.
27:21I think we might've had some 80s and 70s
27:23thrown in there,
27:23but you know what, I'll take it.
27:24Another scene?
27:26I wrote this down in case.
27:27The drama peaks,
27:29our characters give chase.
27:32The players,
27:33should they want to earn my praises,
27:36must integrate a few sitcom catchphrases.
27:41Mm-hmm.
27:42But, where is this girl
27:44that is supposed to be married to me?
27:46Thus, her father tells me she cannot be found.
27:48I promise thee, good my lord,
27:50as her nurse,
27:51I am leading the search for this lady.
27:54Quickly, I must pack,
27:55and in haste,
27:56be away,
27:57that I might love my dear Antonio
27:59for another day.
28:01Come.
28:02I see a baleful and saddened disposition
28:06for the loss of this maid.
28:07And if thou wouldst unburden thy soul
28:09unto a nurse who is used to being used
28:12as a sounding board for such lamentations,
28:15speak, I'm listening.
28:17Ah, point for Ross.
28:19You will listen thus to me?
28:20None ever does such.
28:23My aspect too often scares them off,
28:25like a curse.
28:26But you will talk to me?
28:28What you talking about, nurse?
28:30Ha ha ha!
28:32I judge thee not for thy grim aspect,
28:35thy sunken cheek,
28:36thy high-peaked collar,
28:38and thy extreme widow's peak.
28:40Ay, this is my aspect,
28:43and yet with all power and masculinity
28:45that it carries,
28:47I am left alone only.
28:49The truth is that Calchocula is,
28:52wait for it,
28:54lonely.
28:55Oh, I forgot to pack a lunch.
28:57Now hunger now might tease.
28:59I've got to pack a lunch quickly.
29:01Anybody got some cheese?
29:02Cheese will be a point for Blaine,
29:05whose points of reference are clearly the same as mine.
29:07I am a lonely creature, nurse,
29:09for I have no confidence in myself
29:11and do not think I am capable to be loved.
29:14Most noble count,
29:17if thou art capable of loving,
29:18then thou art capable of receiving.
29:20Thou has shown thyself to be tender of disposition,
29:23for in thy loneliness,
29:25thou shows thyself to be sensitive.
29:28There is a handsomeness to the crags
29:30and planes of thy visage.
29:32Cheese now fetched,
29:33I must return unto my boy.
29:35Oh, now I am so happy,
29:37I shall do the dance of joy.
29:39But wherefore dost thou enter into this marriage?
29:42Ist for love on this most amorous hour?
29:45Or is this merely to unite two families
29:48and so you can have more power?
29:51And a point for us.
29:53My eyes eclipsed are by those of another,
29:57to something I did not know,
29:59but looking at you,
30:01the mermaid's cause tis obvious.
30:04Oh!
30:05Sure.
30:06You truly do spy in me
30:09the direction thou wouldst go.
30:11If I'd be worthy of a count's good love,
30:14what can I say but whoa.
30:18Let not my lips be here,
30:20too hasty,
30:21but
30:24did I do that?
30:27Oh, what happiness now comes into me.
30:30Ah, my back straighter cracks itself.
30:32Oh, no more marriage to be done
30:34to the Duke Orsino's daughter,
30:36for I have found true happiness this night.
30:39I am happy for the first time.
30:40Bazinga!
30:41Dino-mite!
30:44Well, if happiness can guide two wayward souls
30:48to thus be together,
30:49then we should perhaps find some way
30:51to make our matrimony last forever.
30:53There's a priest named Backstreet.
30:56He's here, so, he's nearby.
30:59A itinerant padre who doth wander about our town.
31:02I am not a fan of Backstreet so much,
31:04but it seems the two of us are in sync.
31:07Let us go there to his monastery,
31:09find mayhap he shall marry us both.
31:12Oh, when I see the Duke Orsino,
31:14this is very true.
31:16Count Chocula's gonna have a lot of splainin' to do.
31:20Is it true what we have heard, my love?
31:22Overheard through these walls?
31:25That love unto Count Chocula to another calls?
31:28So it seems.
31:30If to so, then thy betrothed aims no longer at thy stead,
31:35and finds some other beguiling person
31:37to catch his eye instead.
31:39Oh, then indeed, love betwixt us forever can be brewin',
31:42for I have loved you ever since you saw me
31:44and said, how you doin'?
31:46And a point for play.
31:49Let us go unto my father and see what he does say.
31:52No doubt he shall approve and give a fatherly.
31:55A!
31:57And a point for both Ross and Blaine.
32:01It's closing in.
32:03The ending of our play is tragedy or comedy today,
32:09but playing still my game show, the same goes.
32:14A point for every name of a game show.
32:20Ah, absented a while thou hast been, girl.
32:24Father, here now I have confession to make unto thee.
32:30There is reason that my visage thou did not see,
32:33for I shall tell thee in this late morning party air,
32:39I did find a lover with whom my life I would share.
32:44Already this day once have I told thee
32:46thou shalt marry according to my order,
32:48and this singly was enough,
32:50but now twice this day you have abandoned my order,
32:54twice this day you've troubled.
32:56Girl, thou art in danger and now thy jeopardy's doubled.
33:00My father, I tell thee, thou art not being fair.
33:05Thou carest only about money
33:06and asks who wants to be a millionaire?
33:09I do, I do, I wanna be a, his money shall not last.
33:13The love we seek is here, yearned for and unasked for,
33:18and thus it did appear.
33:21Let us love what is and not think on what we did.
33:24Build not thy edifice of money, this $25,000 pyramid.
33:30I shall heed thee no longer, and thy words I give no care.
33:37If thou would bid me do what thou want'st, fight me.
33:41I double dare.
33:43I shall not fight my own daughter.
33:45Then thy daughter shall fight you.
33:48Is it so, girl?
33:48Yes, oh yes.
33:50You shall stab thine own father?
33:52Such threats you should make?
33:53I was here ready to give mercy
33:56to this man who hath bewitched thee.
33:58A choice I make for thee, banishment or death.
34:01Exit thyself from out of Rona.
34:03Thou shalt be alive, you shall be real.
34:06That is the question then, death or exile?
34:09Deal or no deal?
34:10Can it be thou shouldst then come to some accord,
34:14but this would be a flaw.
34:16Where is victory in this win, lose, or draw?
34:19Come now, father, thou hast made a mistake.
34:22Let me take my sword and ask of you, is it cake?
34:25If this is not an instrument, sweet your grace.
34:30Nay, we have been married this day by Padre Backstreet,
34:35a lurking and hidden priest, a legend of the hidden temple.
34:39And we now in secret marriage have made this compact
34:45before the eyes of God.
34:46Our love is true.
34:48And so is ours, so is ours.
34:52I shall give thee what coins thou wished
34:53as long as you hurt not the girl,
34:55for I this day have found love, but not with her.
34:58I know I have done something that could be seemed rude.
35:02I have betrayed you and also been the cause
35:05of this family feud.
35:07That's a point for Joey.
35:10Ay, in speaking naught but sooth,
35:12this is what it feels like thus, to tell the truth.
35:16I know not what to say.
35:19And yet everyone else seems fine.
35:21You have naught but words to speak.
35:24And to thy father, what's my line?
35:27I have been betrayed by a nurse, by a potential son,
35:34by this guy I've never even seen before.
35:37What's your name?
35:38My name's Antonio.
35:39Great, Antonio.
35:41But worst of all, worst of all, is my daughter.
35:45And yet these tears, these tears,
35:48like some secret key, open my heart.
35:51Ay, they are a shibboleth unheard.
35:55These tears now find the way inside,
35:58like some magic password.
36:01There is a song in love.
36:04Though it sometimes cause pain,
36:06it draws us forth from out ourselves
36:09when we hear its blessed strain.
36:10What is it?
36:11If only thou couldst hear it too
36:14and sing it if you hear it.
36:16I beg thee, Duke, know the song of love.
36:19And don't forget the lyre.
36:20Ay, nay, this song is not taught by myself.
36:25It comes on me too soon.
36:27I know not the song you speak of.
36:29Name that tune.
36:32And too, name this tune as well,
36:34for I would have my wish.
36:36I, who went to the ocean but doubled back,
36:40I want to be married to this half-woman, half-fish.
36:42Basil Charles Schwab!
36:45It is I, Basil Charles Schwab!
36:48Google and I seek a god to seek marriage here.
36:54I too have found love,
36:57most illicit perhaps in some eyes, but most true.
37:01Bless our union, heavenly as it is,
37:04feasting on divine fruits and guava.
37:07Cast us not into hell where the floor is lava.
37:12So it is.
37:13And there I have been burning myself.
37:16Let me banish now all expectations of this day.
37:19Send out these commands from out this place.
37:23Love is not to be ordered, nay,
37:25love is to be found in the chase.
37:28Here, let me as thy father, who is truly the father.
37:34Yep, it was me.
37:36Father backstage the whole time.
37:39Don't ask too many questions.
37:41Not too many questions.
37:42So, what's going on with your dad?
37:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:44I think maybe father backstreet is really gone
37:47and he's not really back,
37:48but was my father in disguise the whole time?
37:51Sure, sure, yes, that seems about right, yes.
37:55Let us now triple the boons of this day.
37:57You already married by me earlier.
38:00Yeah.
38:01You married just a second ago, probably thereabouts.
38:04And these, these unexpected lovers,
38:07who not even of the same species
38:10shall find their way here to love.
38:12Three indeed.
38:13I've been too long gone from the ocean.
38:16No, no, my love.
38:18I spoke with prophesying breath.
38:21I told you the truth when I did say
38:24this day would end in death.
38:27Farewell, my love.
38:29Know that from death thy name I shall shout.
38:33But for now, at last, Google just does wipe out.
38:40I did think there were three marriages to be had this day.
38:43That all would be happy, and yet it is not so.
38:47Turns out, thus Cupid's arrows come.
38:50Tick, tack, doe.
38:54Let me put away this sword.
38:56Let death no longer be our fate.
38:59You shall not be victim of today's eliminate.
39:03Set aside these burdensome dolers,
39:07and still more burdensome blame.
39:10Set aside all these conditions
39:13in thy crafty game of games.
39:17It would seem that the lesson we have learned
39:19here is a cost that leaves its mark.
39:23We have here made bargains,
39:26and have here found out this night
39:28that with love even death sometimes comes.
39:31For in love, the price is right.
39:34Points across the board.
39:36Let us gently relieve our stresses
39:40by listening to the gentles you did hire this day
39:43to sing our fears and tears away.
39:46Ay, bring forth these English minstrels,
39:51and we'll hear their amorous call.
39:53And while they sing, we'll sit over here,
39:55over by the wall.
39:57Oh, very good.
39:59Mm.
40:05Oh, diet's not in loving.
40:09Oh, for by dieting you kill.
40:13When it comes to eating loving,
40:15you should always eat your fill.
40:19Eat your fill in evening,
40:22and in morning too.
40:25Cereals are like morning,
40:29for morning has happened to you.
40:32And let the morning rise.
40:35May you have five centuries of sons.
40:38And if you have that much love,
40:41you'll have 500 fortunes.
40:45And so it is you open up your ears
40:49when you do hear it.
40:51The song of love in all its many
40:54nineties lyrics.
40:57Love can be a challenge.
41:00Love can seem how rude.
41:04And sometimes though,
41:06when you know it,
41:08you know you've got it, dude.
41:12And now unto, oh dear, oh love,
41:15we bid you be no stranger.
41:18Though love is ever moving,
41:21for love is a game changer.
41:28My God!
41:31The curtain drops,
41:33the peasants are aghast.
41:35The queen herself stands up and offers claps.
41:39But one of you showed me a special will.
41:44Ross Bryant, I offer you this prize.
41:48A quill.
41:49A quill.
41:50A quill.
41:51That does it for us here at Game Most Changed.
41:54I am Sam Rice, your humble head of stage,
41:58reminding you that Shakespeare knows no time.
42:02His influence will be here the whole time.
42:06Good night.
42:31Something I've learned that I can do with Game Changer,
42:34if not drop out in general,
42:37is use it as a forum to expose great improv,
42:42which thanks to Hollywood's firm stance
42:46that improv doesn't work in taped form,
42:48a lot of improv just hasn't seen the light of day.
42:51When Sam came to us and said
42:54that he wanted to bring the improvised Shakespeare folks
42:57to our set,
42:58there was immediate excitement.
43:01Because similar to official cast recording,
43:03we knew that we were going to level up our improv game.
43:08It was very clear from the start
43:10that this episode was kind of Sam's pride and joy.
43:16He had expressed to us just how much he loved
43:19the improvised Shakespeare troupe.
43:21I think it's the best improv in the world.
43:25I am not convinced it gets better than what they do.
43:29I am a high school dropout.
43:31I think most people know that about me.
43:33I nonetheless studied a lot of Shakespeare,
43:37which for a 16-year-old is like an incredible privilege.
43:39Like we, you know, most of us, not until college,
43:42if we get the privilege to go to college,
43:43get to choose what we learn.
43:45And Shakespeare was one of my three electives.
43:49And for a year, I studied nothing but Hamlet the play.
43:55It was one of the most enriching academic experiences
43:58I'd ever had.
44:00I deeply, deeply love Shakespeare
44:04and being able to channel him even a little
44:07was a real hedonic pleasure.
44:11Let's begin.
44:13It's how I start off every show.
44:16My suit adorned, my microphone in tow.
44:21I pretend like I'm a little boss man
44:25and a little media mogul, but in my heart, I'm a poet.
44:30And so I relished the opportunity
44:31to write this prologue, basically.
44:33I remember when my dad was trying to convince me
44:37not to go into the arts for a living,
44:39as any parent has an obligation to tell their child.
44:43He was like, Sam, you're so good at so many things.
44:45Why acting?
44:46Why does it have to be acting
44:48that you want to do for a living?
44:50It's like, well, I'm also really into poetry.
44:52He said, acting sounds good.
44:54Let's stick with the acting.
44:55It's astounding.
44:56It really is astounding.
44:57The improvised Shakespeare episode also lent itself
45:01to our production designer, Chloe,
45:05to add some really cool art elements.
45:07We just had these old podiums.
45:09You know, we've been using them for many seasons.
45:11So we decided to scenic them.
45:13We made them marble.
45:15So they were like outdoor Shakespeare theater.
45:20And we had them match the pillars
45:21and the cherubs in the back.
45:23And then we brought in flowers because why not?
45:26We had a scenic painter do like this marble design
45:30on our podiums.
45:31We had those marble columns custom painted.
45:35Just bought a ton of fake wisteria to hang everywhere.
45:39It was really, really satisfying
45:41to see the set completely transformed.
45:43When I first came on set that morning
45:46after we'd swapped the podiums out,
45:48I legitimately thought that we had purchased
45:50a marble Game Changer podium.
45:52That's how good of a job they did.
45:55And it's always exciting when you can have an episode
45:57that lends itself to not just great content
46:00from our players, but also great content from our crew.
46:04We use music intermittently throughout Game Changer,
46:07often with entrances and exits to pepper
46:09like a particularly high stakes moment.
46:12Here, you know, we wanted music that would actually feel
46:16like it elevated the scenes.
46:18I wanted stuff that lended itself to the legitimacy
46:23of the scenes, to their emotional impact.
46:25What we specifically didn't do is go looking
46:27for like Elizabethan music.
46:29We found this one track for the beginning and the end
46:32of the show that I really like.
46:34It's like these lilting strings that repeat over
46:36and over again and make you feel almost
46:37like you're in a time warp.
46:39We bid you be no stranger, though love is ever moving
46:45for love is a Game Changer.
46:50Oh my God!
46:54And then TJ, our brilliant sound mixer composer,
46:58went in and laid in his own music under the Bard songs
47:02to match what our troupe was singing.
47:06They're singing acapella.
47:08Who knows if they're on tune?
47:10And TJ is just matching them.
47:11I had never seen them perform before
47:14and I didn't really fully know what they were capable of.
47:17All I knew was that they improvised
47:19Shakespearean style plays.
47:21I think the biggest compliment you can give an improviser
47:23is to say to them that I don't believe
47:25that that was improvised.
47:26And I, as an improviser myself,
47:28I know that it's actually improvised.
47:29But after that episode, having full knowledge
47:32of everything that went into that episode,
47:34even I was like, there's no way that wasn't scripted.
47:38I mean, obviously it wasn't.
47:40I was so blown away by that.
47:42To see how effortlessly they weave in the challenges
47:46that Sam threw their way.
47:48All of us were in awe, an absolute awe.
47:50When you get improvisers on stage
47:51who are so good at doing their own thing,
47:53you don't wanna interfere too much.
47:56The question is like, how can you add
47:58your light interference
48:02such that it makes their jobs a little harder?
48:06Game shows are actually simple enough.
48:07Simple enough that they started to do it intuitively
48:10and then it felt very full circle
48:11by the time I asked them to do it at the end.
48:15And by the time we got to sitcom catchphrases,
48:18I thought to myself like, this is hard now.
48:20This is like straight up hard.
48:21My points of references,
48:23Full House, Family Matters, basically it.