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00:00Get ready for a game changer.
00:03Tonight's guests, a pirate of the Caribbean.
00:06It's Carolyn Page.
00:08Yar!
00:11A Jurassic Park dinosaur.
00:13It's Tao Yang.
00:15Yarr!
00:16And three minions stacked on top of each other.
00:20It's Lily Du.
00:21Yar!
00:23Banana.
00:24And your host, me.
00:26I've been here the whole time.
00:29Ha ha ha!
00:32This is Game Changer, the only game show
00:35where the game changes every show.
00:37I am your host, Sam Reich.
00:40I'm joined today by these three lovely contestants.
00:44You all understand how the game works.
00:47No!
00:48No, I'm sick of this shit.
00:50That's right, our players have no idea
00:51what game it is they're about to play.
00:52The only way to learn is by playing.
00:55The only way to win is by learning.
00:56And the only way to begin is by beginning.
00:58So without further ado, let's begin.
01:01Now we delivered to each of you
01:03a bag of miscellaneous bullshit.
01:07Materials that you might use for a costume.
01:11You'll have those at your disposal
01:14and also your whole wardrobe.
01:17You show me the best cosplay
01:20that you can manage in one minute.
01:24One minute?
01:25I don't have a bra on!
01:27Nobody told me I have to wear a bra for this!
01:30Sounds like you win already, Lily.
01:33That's another one for Rue Cosplay Show.
01:35I will change on camera.
01:37And you're gonna have to do a lot of blurring out budget.
01:40Players, are you ready?
01:44For porn ready.
01:45On your mark, get set, Luigi.
01:51Tao dumping the bag of stuff out on the floor.
01:57Oh, this is a really random bag of crap.
01:59Okay.
02:00Ooh, Carolyn found something.
02:04A green something deciding if-
02:06Oh, I'm keeping this.
02:07As a part of-
02:08Can we go to my pool costume?
02:08I'll keep it for the toilet paper.
02:11Tao, by the way, wearing a fabulous green business suit.
02:15Corrupt him!
02:16Carolyn being very daft with a green sheet of wrapping paper
02:22making a Luigi's hat out of it.
02:24Lily going straight for the overalls.
02:26Ooh, Carolyn with the plunger.
02:31And drawing on herself to refine the look.
02:35Very clever.
02:38Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
02:46Time.
02:47Players, an extraordinary, extraordinary effort
02:58on all of your part.
02:59I am so immeasurably proud, Lily.
03:02With the light blue overalls
03:05and something green underneath.
03:07Plunger in hand, hat made out of whatever that is.
03:12It's a pretty impressive display, I have to say.
03:15Well done.
03:16Carolyn, you were the first to pull the plunger out
03:20and use it.
03:20So I will give you more credit for that plunger
03:22than others.
03:24And is that, did you manage to draw an L on yourself?
03:26Yeah, I drew an L because I didn't do it on the hat.
03:30But I had a marker.
03:32Although I look a little bit more like Link
03:36fixing the toilet.
03:37I think I'm like a Mardi Gras Luigi.
03:41I'm like Luigi got blasted in New Orleans.
03:44Now, Tao, let's talk about what's going on here.
03:49So you are holding something green up.
03:52It's unbuckled and it's, you know, revealing my bodice.
03:58A little bit of a sexy Luigi.
04:00A sexy Luigi, yes.
04:01And what's that you're holding there?
04:03Okay, so I like to think of the truth
04:06behind the myth of Luigi.
04:08And so perhaps Luigi once plunged
04:12and got a bunch of green fiery stuff out of a toilet
04:16and that's Luigi's green fireball.
04:18That's Gooigi.
04:20This is close.
04:23I'm gonna say points for both Carolyn and Lily here.
04:29Well done.
04:31Tao, so close, bringing up the rear.
04:35Your next prompt is Velma.
04:39Tao bouncing up from his chair immediately this time.
04:43He's grabbed something yellow, a scarf of sorts
04:46and is looping it quickly around his body.
04:49We've lost our view of Lily and Carolyn.
04:52Probably looking in their wardrobes.
04:55Carolyn coming back like a red hot flash
04:58with something to eat.
04:59Lily too, with the sweaters.
05:04The plaids coming in in the form of a skirt.
05:10As far as I know, Velma does have a skirt.
05:13Tao working with string, tying it around himself.
05:17Maybe a touch unclear what's going on there.
05:20A hairnet coming in from Lily and a wig.
05:25This is truly next level, folks.
05:28Lily looks hard to beat right now.
05:31Five, four, three, two, and one.
05:39We are-
05:40Oh my God, I can't compete with any of this.
05:48I can't even see.
05:48I hope I get a lot of points for these glasses though.
05:51Tao, I see you sporting the orange scarf.
05:54I see you sporting some jewelry.
05:57Velma famously bejeweled.
06:00I imagine that the mystery machine gang
06:05just came back from a Mardi Gras mystery.
06:09Why are all these characters going to Mardi Gras?
06:12Tao looks like an eccentric Chinese asshole.
06:16Carolyn, I think that you've done well here
06:18with the sweater and the scarf and the glasses.
06:22Right, and I tried to do,
06:24she famously has bangs and I don't.
06:28I know, but I tried to do the fringe here,
06:32recreate it with my own hair.
06:34Very nice.
06:35I don't have a real human hair wig like Lily.
06:37I'm not creepy.
06:39I don't keep human hair on my apartment.
06:41This character also maybe looks like
06:43she works in a record store.
06:46Lily, this is kind of incredible.
06:51The colors are a darn perfect match.
06:55The wig, it's sort of incredible
06:57that you had that just available.
06:59The glasses too.
07:01I think this point has to go to you.
07:05This is my only wig.
07:07I'm so glad to use her.
07:09Here we go.
07:10Dumbledore.
07:13We've lost our view of Lily and Carolyn.
07:17Tao has not yet decided to make use of his wardrobe.
07:21Instead, still looking in the pile of stuff
07:24that we delivered to him.
07:26Lily coming back with an extraordinary looking blanket
07:30or robe that looks to do the trick.
07:33And eyebrows, eyebrows pulled out of who knows where.
07:39And a wig.
07:42Oh, this is an extraordinary effort from Carolyn.
07:47What we are witnessing here is Disney magic.
07:52Lily's now experimenting with what she can do
07:55in the way of a beard.
08:00This is extremely my shit.
08:03Six, five, four, three, two, and one.
08:12Incredible.
08:15The real magic is friendship.
08:18I'm canonically gay.
08:20Tao, I think I gotta start with you.
08:23Tell me about the,
08:24is that a pipe cleaner attached to the glasses?
08:26Yeah, these are also eyebrows.
08:28Eyebrows.
08:29Remember when the fox, the phoenix,
08:33you know, sometimes it would singe his eyebrows
08:35and it would turn on fire?
08:39What's that garage sale sign for?
08:42Now we've never canonically have seen Dumbledore
08:44fly around on a broomstick,
08:46but I think it could be possible,
08:48but this is his broomstick.
08:50I saw a giant garage sale sign.
08:55Oh, Carolyn.
08:58This is, I mean, the level of detail here is extraordinary.
09:02Where did those eyebrows come from?
09:04If there's one thing that people who really know me,
09:08know that I love, is dressing up like an old man.
09:13I just have these.
09:14Lily, this is a very fashionable interpretation.
09:18It's got, you know,
09:19almost like Dumbledore meets Fashion Week kind of vibes.
09:24Yeah, I'd wear this to Fashion Week.
09:26The facial hair here is absolutely inspired.
09:29Incredible, Carolyn, still holding up the beard,
09:32that much commitment to the character.
09:34That's what cosplay is all about.
09:36Okay, but think about this.
09:38I was just in a strapless bra.
09:40I needed the first minute just to find a shirt.
09:42This point goes to Carolyn.
09:45Carolyn bra.
09:48Oh my God, it's a wig.
09:51My apartment is trash right now.
09:54Are you ready?
09:55Yes.
09:56Elsa.
09:57Elsa.
09:59Carolyn going straight to the bag,
10:01looking for stuff that's blue in theme.
10:04Lily, as usual, going to the closet,
10:07which seems to be the foundation of her every costume.
10:09Tao finding something in the bag
10:13that could serve him very, very well.
10:16Lily, however, has also found a gorgeous dress
10:20in her own wardrobe that should serve her purpose as well.
10:24Carolyn, a bit of a mystery now.
10:26Tao relying merely on the materials in the bag,
10:29but the color scheme is dead on.
10:32Oh shit, and here comes Carolyn,
10:34who's changed into a beautiful dress herself.
10:38Carolyn appears to be fashioning her hair
10:42into some kind of braid.
10:44Lily kind of sort of doing the same.
10:47Tao spitting ice at me theatrically.
10:50Carolyn having made the same or a similar decision
10:53to grab some ice.
10:54Lily making a big decision to put on some eyeliner
10:58to match Elsa's.
10:59Oh, we're done.
11:01I almost lost track.
11:02We're done, everyone.
11:03That's our time.
11:05Wow.
11:07We have Tao with his gorgeous yellow string hair,
11:13his dress colored, I will say,
11:16with the perfect blue and white color scheme,
11:19with a piece of ice in his hand,
11:20which I know has to be burning.
11:22Carolyn, this beautiful dress
11:26out of some appropriate fantasy genre.
11:29I mean, it does look like something Elsa would wear.
11:32Also with ice in a bowl and having fashioned her hair
11:37into an appropriate braid.
11:40I have also, she has the, around the hands.
11:44I got that.
11:46How dare.
11:48That's legit, son.
11:50Into the unknown boy.
11:51Lily with an appropriate dress,
11:54perhaps not exactly the right shade of blue,
11:57but appears to be compensating for it with a pillow maybe.
12:00A makeshift braid and some pretty on theme eye makeup.
12:07This is my giant ice cube.
12:09Do you want to build a snowman?
12:11I think points again for both Carolyn and Lily.
12:14These are really equivalently strong efforts
12:17from both of you.
12:18Tao, listen, man, you're doing great.
12:21I swear you will have the opportunity to catch up.
12:27Players, it's time for the mini game now.
12:30It didn't seem fair for me to subject you
12:34to this kind of embarrassment without doing it myself too.
12:40So this past weekend, I challenged myself
12:44to come up with some outfits of characters
12:48you might know made with household objects.
12:51And so your challenge is to be the first to buzz in
12:55and tell me who I'm supposed to be.
13:00Players, who is this supposed to be?
13:04That's Carolyn.
13:06Raphael from the Ninja Turtles.
13:08That's a Ninja Turtle and the purple one's name
13:11is Donatello?
13:11Sorry, Raphael is what you said first.
13:15And so I'm going to move on to Tao.
13:19It's Donatello.
13:22Fuck, give me half a point, come on.
13:25Well done.
13:27I have coasters for armbands
13:30and I've got a trash lid as my shell.
13:34I've got abs on the chest plate, that's a nice touch.
13:39Yeah, makes your chest look strong.
13:40That is a foam inlet from a dog bed.
13:44And now people can green screen you anywhere.
13:49Players, who is this supposed to be?
13:53Tao first again.
13:54Oh, this is definitely an Iron Man.
13:57You're Iron Man, you're Tony Stark.
13:58It is Iron Man, well done Tao.
14:02What did I tell you?
14:03I don't want to prejudge before we see the third one,
14:05but Sam, can you comment on the decision
14:07for all these characters to be barefoot?
14:11Casual California superhero.
14:14My feet and legs are so pale
14:17as compared to the rest of my body
14:19that we had to correct them in order
14:21so that I wouldn't look like half a corpse.
14:25Oh my God.
14:25Players, who is this supposed to be?
14:30Tao again.
14:31Fuck.
14:32I think this is Tinkerbell.
14:35This is Tinkerbell.
14:37My God.
14:38What do you have on your back?
14:39Big dirty pads?
14:40These are air conditioner filters.
14:44Right.
14:45I want to commend you really on the pose here.
14:48Yeah.
14:49You fucking nailed it.
14:50Players, who is this supposed to be?
14:55Carolyn.
14:57That's Master Yoda, baby.
14:58That is Master Yoda.
15:01Glad I didn't win the buzzer
15:02because I would have guessed old Shrek.
15:06I'm glad I lost that one.
15:08These are going to get a touch harder.
15:09Okay.
15:10Players, who do you think this is?
15:13That's Carolyn again.
15:15Harley Quinn, obviously.
15:16Oh, God.
15:18So sexy.
15:22Well done, Carolyn.
15:24Yep.
15:25With her famous mallet being portrayed here
15:28by what looks to be a can of Folgers.
15:32And once again, no shoes, barefoot.
15:37Can you believe that these are my Photoshop legs and feet?
15:40Like what must have they looked like before?
15:43I want to see the unedited version.
15:46You know the Dropout fandom loves a good feet pic.
15:49That's a cute little number.
15:51You could wear that out.
15:52You could also wear it as like a sexy
15:54Ruth Bader Ginsburg thing.
15:55Oh, I totally see that.
15:57That's a great call.
15:58That's a big gavel.
16:01Players, who do you think that this is?
16:05Lily.
16:06Is this Grimace?
16:08Yes, this is Grimace.
16:10Holy shit, Lily.
16:13This is very scary.
16:15Once again, highlighting the bare feet.
16:18Really going for it.
16:19I mean, you had all week to do this.
16:21You could have put on shoes.
16:24Players, who is this supposed to be?
16:28That's Tao.
16:29Oh, this is Barge Simpson, baby.
16:31This is Barge Simpson.
16:33Very well done, Tao.
16:36It's actual cherries and masking tape.
16:38Can you believe that?
16:39Iconic.
16:40An iconic look.
16:41Last one.
16:42If anyone gets this, I will be dumbfounded.
16:46Players, any idea who this is?
16:51Lily.
16:52Are you the Jack in the Box?
16:54I am not the Jack in the Box.
17:00Carolyn, I'm sorry, but next on the list
17:02and the buzzing is Tao.
17:04Are you Homestar Runner?
17:06Yes, I'm Homestar Runner.
17:09Oh, hell yeah.
17:10Okay, good.
17:11Wow.
17:12All done.
17:14Players, we are headed into round two of our game.
17:19The scores are Carolyn and Tao tied with five points.
17:23Lily with four.
17:26Now, instead of just cosplay,
17:29I'll be adding some slight modifiers.
17:32You guys have seen this in the world of cosplay.
17:33We get like Steampunk Mario.
17:36Horny Grimace.
17:37Horny Mickey Mouse.
17:39Horny Pikachu.
17:41The prompt is Business Casual, Poison Ivy.
17:46Tao going immediately for the bag of stuff
17:48and finding something green.
17:50Lily, nowhere to be seen.
17:52Carolyn, nowhere to be seen.
17:53Tao appears to be doing the tunic approach.
17:56Tying it at the bottom.
17:58Can't help but feel this is a type of clothing
18:01we've never seen before.
18:02Leaving the frame for the first time,
18:04which suggests to me he's getting something
18:07out of his wardrobe.
18:09Lily coming back with a blazer.
18:11Not just a blazer, but a blazer,
18:13the appropriate color for Poison Ivy.
18:16Carolyn, too, with flowers in her hair.
18:22Carolyn finding a plant to put in the frame.
18:25The attention to decor as well as costume
18:28has got to earn her points here.
18:31Tao has got something in his hand there
18:33that looks like it might be leftovers.
18:35Hard to say.
18:36Salad?
18:37Tao's got himself a leafy green.
18:40That's what I was gonna do.
18:42Four, three, two, one.
18:45Wow, gang.
18:47That salad is so funny.
18:52Tao, I'll start with you.
18:54Yes, what am I having for lunch at my desk?
18:57What about this outfit is business casual?
19:04It's a skirt.
19:06Oh, the skirt, I see, yeah.
19:08I mean, it's a skirt.
19:10Carolyn, yeah, there's a lot that I love about this.
19:13I love the flowers in your hair.
19:16This was made by my friend who makes Jungle Crowns.
19:22Super Happy Ghost Go is her brand.
19:25But this is, you know, I've got the blazer,
19:27I've got the vines here.
19:29I tried to do the, I've got my gloves,
19:32my arm pieces, my desk plant,
19:36and then the crown because in the workplace,
19:40it's important to have fun and keep it casual.
19:44Yeah, it's a casual Friday sort of thing.
19:46Exactly.
19:47Lily, this is a truly fabulous business casual look
19:54that might be lacking a little poison either.
19:58No, because I'll freaking kill you.
20:02Really good effort, everybody.
20:04I think this point in particular goes to Carolyn,
20:07which means Carolyn has broken out into the lead.
20:11Players, your next prompt is High School Jack Skellington
20:16from Nightmare Before Christmas.
20:18Carolyn and Lily both disappeared again.
20:21Tao bent over the bag of bullshit,
20:24looking for what is white in there?
20:27What is black in there?
20:28Get out of my mind.
20:32It's just you and me, buddy.
20:34Coming back, Carolyn, with the jersey
20:37and also some skeletal face makeup.
20:41That's some impressive commitment,
20:43not to mention a shower cap.
20:46Coming in with black and blue fashion,
20:50putting some more makeup on the face,
20:53not to be outdone by Carolyn.
20:55Just wasting my Fenty eyeshadow.
20:58Carolyn pulling out the Sharpie.
21:00I can only imagine what that means.
21:03Stop that!
21:04Parker coming out with the jam as well,
21:07with 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two,
21:14one.
21:15Tao, that is terrifying.
21:17That's the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life.
21:24You're making so much noise over your mic.
21:27You look like one of those Halloween
21:29little like ghost popsicle things.
21:32You'd make like a Kleenex over a Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pop.
21:36Yeah.
21:37Yes.
21:38There was a lot of creativity that went into this, Tao.
21:40Carolyn, wow.
21:42I love the jersey.
21:44I love, of course, the makeup.
21:46Sunscreen.
21:47Oh, the sunscreen.
21:49Wow, very good.
21:50And then, you know, Jack, when he was younger,
21:53he had some hair.
21:54Yeah.
21:55There's a little bit of like a collegiate,
21:56like founding father thing going on there.
21:59Yeah.
22:00What's that you're holding in your hand?
22:01This is a pumpkin,
22:02because I was a pumpkin king.
22:05And so here's my little pumpkin for,
22:08I'm on the sports team that we throw
22:10it's called pumpkin ball for Halloween Town, the league.
22:14And I'm the quarterback, obviously,
22:17because I'm Jack Skellington.
22:19Lily, tell me about what we have going on here.
22:22I'm kind of like a,
22:23we got like a high school pep squad, kind of.
22:27I'm a cheerleader for the pumpkin game
22:31and I just graduated.
22:34I'm proud.
22:34I'm peppy.
22:36Yes.
22:37I like it a lot.
22:39I like it a lot.
22:41Teo, full respect to you.
22:43Points again for Carolyn and Lily.
22:50Yes, as Teo slowly suffocates.
22:52Your next prompt is,
22:54music festival Pikachu.
22:58Teo deciding quickly that the bag of bullshit
23:01will supply him with what he needs.
23:04Finding more yellow and excited about it,
23:06the seam of the bullshit not converting to her wardrobe
23:11as quickly as she does usually.
23:15Lily nowhere to be found.
23:16I've got to assume she's rummaging through her wardrobe.
23:21Lily reappearing again,
23:23definitely going the music festival approach here.
23:27Flowers, hair, an appropriately colorful jacket.
23:32I'd wear it to Coachella.
23:34Teo is seeing what he can do in the way of makeup,
23:37painting his face in a hurry,
23:39eager to see how that works out for Teo.
23:44Lily studying her own face now.
23:47Here comes Carolyn back with the paper cups for ears
23:51in seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
23:58Players, look at these incredible outfits.
24:01I have weed gummies.
24:02Very music festival appropriate prop.
24:05Teo still fastening on the mask.
24:08Found the weird tent at Burning Man, man.
24:12Pikachu getting weird.
24:13The yellow scarf around the neck.
24:16Oh, and some makeup under the mask, it looks like.
24:19Did you know that Ecstasy turns Pikachu's iconic red cheeks
24:24a different color?
24:26Carolyn, moving on over to you.
24:29Love the cup ears.
24:31Oh, and the tail.
24:33Very well done.
24:34Oh, me too.
24:35Yay, tail twins.
24:37Lily, do.
24:39Wow.
24:40All I can say is wow.
24:42I love the makeup job here.
24:43I love that it's Pikachu themed.
24:46Also music festival themed.
24:48It's not yellow face.
24:48I put yellow on my face, but it's not yellow face.
24:53Very music festival-ish glasses.
24:56Pika, pika.
24:58Pika.
24:59Pikachu.
25:00Pikachu.
25:02Pika, pika.
25:03Lily, I think this point has to go to you.
25:06I love this outfit.
25:09God bless.
25:11Your last prompt is sexy Pennywise from It.
25:18Some quick hair work from Carolyn there in the background.
25:21Teo once again going to the bag.
25:23Lily seeing if she can quickly fashion herself
25:26a nose of some kind.
25:28Not rushing to her wardrobe immediately,
25:31but instead seeing what she can do right at her table.
25:36Carolyn having disappeared to the wardrobe no less.
25:40The question is, do piercings go clown?
25:42Do they go creepy?
25:43Do they go both as well as sexy?
25:47We shall see.
25:48Oh, he's sexy.
25:50I forgot.
25:51Carolyn in the background with some appropriate makeup
25:55looking like she's got a handle on this.
25:58Teo doing what in the background there?
26:01It's not totally clear to me.
26:04Carolyn coming in with the yarn on top of the head.
26:07Lily fashioning herself a nose out of something.
26:13Five, four, three, two, one.
26:18And that's time.
26:19Teo, you have absolutely terrified me this game.
26:28I forgot about the sexy part.
26:31The blanket, I will say, is a nice touch.
26:34It does feel color appropriate to Pennywise.
26:37Also, I love using the hat as hair.
26:41Carolyn, wow, wow, wow.
26:45I even, I got a heart on her nose.
26:47There's nothing sexier than love.
26:49We've got heart, we've got doily, we've got hair.
26:54Lily.
26:55I gotta say, I ran out of steam on this one.
26:58I spent too long trying to make this nose
27:00and then I forgot he was supposed to be sexy.
27:03So then I put this boosty on.
27:07Lily, really, really noble effort here.
27:10I do think this point has to go to Carolyn.
27:14That is correct.
27:16The points at the end of our game.
27:18Teo with five points, Lily with six,
27:22Carolyn with eight.
27:25Well done.
27:27Your prize on theme for the World of Cosplay
27:31is the video game system of your choice.
27:36What?
27:37Oh my God, whoo!
27:41That does it for us here at Game Changer.
27:44I'm Sam Reich reminding you that we are all born naked
27:48and the rest is cosplay.
27:51Goodbye.
27:53I need a shower.