This is more "True Facts About Grant Anthony O'Brien", but I suspect just saying true stuff about Sam wouldn't get the same buzz, as he's supposedly an adorable little teddy bear of a man.
Or the "punishment" of having Sam say how and when he met each other person in the episode, and getting it SO WRONG xD His face upon hearing "we met FIVE YEARS before that"
This just in, Katie finds imprisoned children hilarious. When asked why, she cackled and stalked away on her tiptoes while covering most of her face with a velvet-lined cape.
For those who don't know, Sam's dad is Robert Reich, the former Labor Secretary and progressive activist with his own TH-cam channel that Sam occasionally shows up in, so Sam comes from a pretty liberal family. Casting Sam as some nutty right-wing Rupert Murdoch-style conservative demagogue media mogul, this skit is basically designed to have Sam gut-bursting. Well done writers, well done.
I had idea, but you left out acclaimed economist, and honestly "former labor secretary" doesn't do justice to one of the most respected cabinet members of the last century. not exaggerating; and it's very rare for a cabinet member other than secstate, the AG, or in worse times secdef to have that sort of lasting legacy in the mind of the public (at least, of the informed public).
Also Sam is friends with Adam Conover who is in the leadership of the writer's guild and supported the SAG-AFTRA strike. Also also Sam has collaborated with the former First Lady Michelle Obama to direct videos for some of her social campaigns and appearances on talk shows and stuff.
Katie has a voodoo-like connection to Amy where she transfers all her laughs to her. During the filming of this episode Amy was at home breaking out laughing for seemingly no reason.
I love Brennan's face and tone as he realizes he's the one being screwed, but I do wish they had kept up with the theme of Sam's tyranny by having him announce that he lost, but he's just going to make Brennan take the punishment anyways
at this point katie need's a target episod. something like the grant facts ep, except less designed to embarass into laughter than to challenge katie by going for everything her friends and coworkers know she finds funny. either way we end up with a great episode: either one where katie breaks at least one more time that she's done before, maybe even one where she breaks more, or we get one where katie deflects her most laugh-inducing attacks to date and owns it with 0 like a stone-cold bitch!
“Donald Trump gets a bad rap, and I also don’t care for rap.” This is literally gold but Brennan is so funny that it basically got buried in all of his other jokes. Dude is literally a genius.
I wouldn't say that out loud. Because that sounds horrid. ... how do I agree with the outcome without getting caught saying it out loud? Errr... asking for a friend.
@Joelle Jansen yeah and like I feel like people wouldn't have liked it if it was done to a straight member. Subconsciously probably. But like. It was Def way to personal for a video being seeing my millions
sam saying “take your time, we edit these” really adds to that friendly, affable persona he’s built also i’m pretty sure that’s just his game changer suit
@@L_G218 Grant sprinkled in jokes about the other actors in any episode he wrote, that was like his thing, so that's how he started it but they really started a whole bit with the entire episode dedicated to Grant.
Honestly, for all the carefully crafted takedown of Sam here, nothing will burn more than the deep shame of when he had to remember where he first met the others, and Brennan's "We met FIVE YEARS before that"
@@rozieredz Breaking News episode We've Met Before. The loser (Sam) had to say when he first met everyone else. Also pretty damning was Sam forgetting he and Katie are cousins. He got every single one wrong. The embarrassment was OFF THE CHARTS.
Well done, Grant. Not only a hilarious script, but you've finally discovered the only thing that makes Katie laugh: her uncontainable joy at the thought of imprisoning children in cages.
@micahnewby7964 script includes calls for ad libs. Brennan had to come up with the 7 most conservative things Sam has said, Carolyn had 5 shows on the new network, Katie had 90 seconds of describing the new mansion, and Sam had three personally held bad opinions. If you read the ticker at the bottom of the screen it has the prompts, you can see it pause for ad libs.
I love the fact that as soon as Sam is prompted for Hollywood Blacklist names, he immediately starts listing the head writer, director, and producer who green-lit this masterpiece. Doubly so because he knows they got him good and they deserve more credit than they'll get just by having their names in the credits. Sam's such a wholesome boss.
@@54321jcc I think Sam went for his real opinions, rather than ad-libbing something funnier. I mean, when surrounded by that cast he probably knew he couldn't top them, tbf. 🤷♀️
@@54321jcc "Jeff Probst really knows what he's doing" is a controversial opinion within the Survivor fan community because the majority opinion is while he's a good host, he's a terrible executive producer since he meddles with game mechanics too much and makes the show more unfair.
Here are five more shows appropriate to Sam‘s new vibe: - Name changer - Um, actually you‘re not American - My mansion‘s plenty - Dirty Lawnmowing neighbor - Breaking Rules Network
This is the *second* time I saw Brennan be like, "...guess we're going off keto," for Dropout/CH and everyone is visibly in shock and like noo and Brennan commits anyway 😭😭 What a trooper but I always feel a little bad lmao
@@xmlthegreat Keto is an rather extreme form of a low carb diet. Grapes are naturally very high in sugar and rice is mainly carbs. If you eat too many carbs during a keto diet it might kick you off the ketosis (a process where the body generates its energy from fat rather than glucose, because there is no glucose), which might hinder your progress.
@@xmlthegreat Brennan guest DMd on Critical Roll for a 4 part series. During the finale, that was running long, Brennan started crashing. So, in an attempt to stay awake he chugged two sodas proclaiming "we're off Keto" which honestly kinda added to the intensity of the moment in game. Anyway, it's kinda become a reluctant catchphrase for him as this is at least the second time since then I've heard him say. The man commits to the bit.
@@singer4564 it's his "just this once master, I'll go all out." Brennan on carbs is a force to be reckoned with; he does the keto to mellow himself out, more than an actual diet program. He still eats a shit-ton of almonds, clearly.
I love the way Sam is asked to name five card-carrying Communists and he immediately names the head writer and the four primary staff members who greenlit this episode. Which mostly just had the effect of giving credit where credit is due on camera.
Brennan: comes up with the most elaborate fantasy scenarios for a job, and could give a stick figure a backstory that would make you cry also Brennan: struggles to make 7 conservative statements I love this man 😂
I think the struggle is not to think of conservative statements in general, but to think of conservative statements that won't get you cancelled. Like, it's easy to come up with something overtly racist like "black people should be slaves again" but it's hard to come up with subtle conservative statements such as "the only woman I respect is the Statue of Liberty"
@@Ramboost007 Right, it's not hard to say something that's just generally horrible. Getting something more layered but still plausible and funny is more of a challenge. He didn't phone it in.
Biggest difference between left and right: The right won't even hear the left's point of view, so they only ever fight straw men in order to "win" their "arguments". The left hears the right's point of view but can't quite be sure that people unironically hold beliefs that are that stupid and are still worrying about straw-menning someone.
Imagine? There are elected officials on record as saying that being poor is a choice. It probably helped them get elected because it's a proudly held belief of most conservatives.
This episode was amazing. Katie lost a point when I didn't think she would. Sam just got brutalized. And Brennan having to eat that after he didn't lose .... Grant, you mad genius you.
@@records26 what makes you think that she was doing improv and not just reading the teleprompter? That's a genuine question; Carolyn was so obviously looking straightforward staring at the teleprompter, so I'm honestly wondering what gives you your impression. She was totally reading
@@micahnewby7964 probably because she's recording a damn shoot my guy. they're SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING STRAIGHTFORWARDS. is it really that hard to believe that women can be funny on their own
@@micahnewby7964 because you can see the prompter script in the crawl at the bottom of the screen, genius. It said "Describe the 5 new conservative shows on Dropout"... meaning, improv them. Then she improvised 5 titles. Is this really over your head?
Rice being flavorful is not a hot take, Sam. It's an Asian take. Rice is delicious. Ask any Asian, the first spoonful (or chopstick-full) of rice after an extended Western diet tastes delightfully sweet, and even better when served with something savory or saucy that'll get absorbed by the rice.
Underrated moment: Right at the start when Brennan and Carolyn do their introductions as variants on Sam's name and he looks over, presumably at Grant behind the camera, suspiciously.
I love how grant loves humiliation so much he thought to humiliate himself by sharing humiliation with the one person who can humiliate him the most for it: his boss
It's curious how Sam proclaimed without problem about the payment of nurses and doctors but exclaimed "no" when having to talk about dungeons and dragons. Grant is daring after his shameful episode🤣
To be fair, I think Grant knew full well that that punishment would have spelled a hospital trip for his boss, and probably wouldn't get past the vetting process of the episode.
The part where he calls out Grant made this legendary episode more legendary. This is up there with the grant roast (which I watched for the 10th time and was also probably written by grant)
I appreciate everyone at Dropout, but I gotta say, I think Grant is far and away the best Breaking News writer. Every time I see him in the writing credit for the episode I know for sure it's gonna be a good one. Has not failed me yet
As soon as Katie read that his bedroom shocked her and she needs 90 seconds to describe it in detail 🤣 I immediately knew that this next minute and a half was gonna be a rollercoaster of 🔥😭
Some people claim that his father was Robert Reich, but it's actually Sam jr., named after his grandfrather, Sam sr. This makes Sam Reich the Third, but he still prefers the order of Sam the Third Reich.
The way Sam looks to the people off camera and shakes his head in disappointment as soon as Brennan and Carolyn's names come up because he KNOWS is hilarious
This and the "Brennan can't win" episode of gamechanger have the same energy
What episode is the one where Brennan can't win?
@@CerorYT It's called Yes or No. It's in season two of the show.
Season 2 episode 6
This is more "True Facts About Grant Anthony O'Brien", but I suspect just saying true stuff about Sam wouldn't get the same buzz, as he's supposedly an adorable little teddy bear of a man.
Or the "punishment" of having Sam say how and when he met each other person in the episode, and getting it SO WRONG xD His face upon hearing "we met FIVE YEARS before that"
The pure look of horror on Sam's face as he watches his wife slander him, knowing that everyone has teamed up on him
And then the collapse of his composure as his wife just goes all in.
This just in, Katie finds imprisoned children hilarious. When asked why, she cackled and stalked away on her tiptoes while covering most of her face with a velvet-lined cape.
What a weirdo
What a weirdo
"Sorry, I have an orphanage to foreclose on," Katie said while twirling a surprisingly high quality fake moustache
Reports confirm that, yes, her cape did billow in the wind as she left.
Seeking that career at Balenciaga
For those who don't know, Sam's dad is Robert Reich, the former Labor Secretary and progressive activist with his own TH-cam channel that Sam occasionally shows up in, so Sam comes from a pretty liberal family. Casting Sam as some nutty right-wing Rupert Murdoch-style conservative demagogue media mogul, this skit is basically designed to have Sam gut-bursting. Well done writers, well done.
I had idea, but you left out acclaimed economist, and honestly "former labor secretary" doesn't do justice to one of the most respected cabinet members of the last century. not exaggerating; and it's very rare for a cabinet member other than secstate, the AG, or in worse times secdef to have that sort of lasting legacy in the mind of the public (at least, of the informed public).
Also Sam is friends with Adam Conover who is in the leadership of the writer's guild and supported the SAG-AFTRA strike. Also also Sam has collaborated with the former First Lady Michelle Obama to direct videos for some of her social campaigns and appearances on talk shows and stuff.
Payback by Grant o'brien
That actually makes much more sense when I think about it. I knew I heard that "reich" from somewhere. Didn't know they were even related.
Wow I didn't know Sam was Robert's son! That is actually awesome. Sam is a great sport, also, I bet these guys couldn't ask for a better boss.
Gotta love how Brennan is the one that actually gets punished
Pretty sure just saying some of that reactionary alt-right garbage was enough punishment for Sam. You could see him dying inside with each statement.
That is def a chef's kiss ending. Sam was already punished 🤣
And somehow he wasn’t. He actually enjoyed it 😆
@@Vekcrazah his diet was
(slam on table with fist)) It had been RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING
I can’t get over Grant making Brennan call his D20 players “contestants”
"Lou Wilson, come on down! You're the next contestant on Dimension 20!"
Not to mention the whole "Contestant?" when he finished the sentence.
hold up I missed that bit what's the time stamp
@@essendossev362
0:52 for the teleprompter
0:56 for Brennan
I think it clear from this and other scripts Grant has written that he hasn't watched Dimension 20 and has no clue about D&D. Which is fair enough.
a single katie laugh should count for -30 points due to how rare and borderline impossible it is to do
But now they has a weapon to fight against her, a shining ray of hope, the secret words that will even break her:
Kids in cages!
Agreed. She's the opposite of Amy Vorpahl who's every 10 laughs should only count as one.
whats the timestamp for her breaking??
@@ant9610 2:19
Katie has a voodoo-like connection to Amy where she transfers all her laughs to her. During the filming of this episode Amy was at home breaking out laughing for seemingly no reason.
"I looked to my left."
And everyone immediately laughs, because they know the true unmatched power of Katie's improv.
Truly, her only rival is King from One Punch Man
Love that Brennan got punished for Sam's loss. Very fitting for Sam to watch someone else suffer for his error given the theme of the show.
Especially funny, because Brennan was the last one to laugh. He even outlasted Katie.
I love Brennan's face and tone as he realizes he's the one being screwed, but I do wish they had kept up with the theme of Sam's tyranny by having him announce that he lost, but he's just going to make Brennan take the punishment anyways
More targeted scripts please!!! You guys have a revolving cast that you can torture! LOVE IT!
I feel like this episode was just a thing to make fun of their boss.
I’d love to see one targeting Brennan or Katie
Or maybe those already exist and are dropout exclusive, I dunno
@@MisterBrick42 just making fun of katie for not laughing
They already did 2 on Grant, go check 'em out. You won't regret it
accidentally read "revolving" as "revolting" and was like man this person really hates the cast
at this point katie need's a target episod. something like the grant facts ep, except less designed to embarass into laughter than to challenge katie by going for everything her friends and coworkers know she finds funny. either way we end up with a great episode: either one where katie breaks at least one more time that she's done before, maybe even one where she breaks more, or we get one where katie deflects her most laugh-inducing attacks to date and owns it with 0 like a stone-cold bitch!
@CollegeHumor11you aren’t real
You’re in luck, this just happened! “The Unbreakable Katie Marovitch” on Dropout
I come from the future.
It didn't work.
@@hylind1912I come from further in the future and it did work
Guess now we wait until either of the attempts is released to us freeloaders.
I love how Sam read "I'm sick of pretending to be a friendly, affable nice guy" in the friendliest, most affable nice guy tone in the world
mans cant help it
To top it with his very benign, "mean opinions" 😂 I love him
To be fair it just said “bad” or “controversial” opinions, not mean ones
My favorite part of this is the juxtaposition with "take your time, we edit these."
“Donald Trump gets a bad rap, and I also don’t care for rap.” This is literally gold but Brennan is so funny that it basically got buried in all of his other jokes. Dude is literally a genius.
"Quotes that aged like milk and will have Grant go to Guantanamo forever as soon as the Orange King gets the throne".
My favorite episodes are the ones where they just pick a cast member and relentlessly bully them. This and the Grant episode at just incredible
I wouldn't say that out loud. Because that sounds horrid.
... how do I agree with the outcome without getting caught saying it out loud?
Errr... asking for a friend.
Idk man, the Grant one made me very uncomfortable. It was too personal? This one was very fun though.
@Joelle Jansen yeah and like I feel like people wouldn't have liked it if it was done to a straight member. Subconsciously probably. But like. It was Def way to personal for a video being seeing my millions
@@emmerzleigh5540i appreciate where you're coming from, but I think Grant having a public humiliation kink probably is what swung it into acceptable
And Raph and Katie now too
I love hearing Grant's crazed laughter in the background! It really makes this episode that much more hilarious.
I love how Sam was more conflicted about saying how bad DnD is than he was about saying nurses and teachers should be paid less😂
i mean... dimension 20 is there most popular show... its like the boss of samsung saying he has an apple phone lol.
Brennan was in the same studio, and them's fighting words
some things actually matter
Well, he has to work with these people. Not so much with nurses and teachers.
it's because he knew brennan was there, and he knew if he ever actually said that and meant it, brennan would hunt him for sport
sam saying “take your time, we edit these” really adds to that friendly, affable persona he’s built
also i’m pretty sure that’s just his game changer suit
I love it how grant is slowly but surely getting his revenge for the grant episode
To be fair. He started the feud.
@@L_G218 How did Grant start the feud? I'm genuinely asking, I feel like there's context I've missed
@@DjurslandsEfterskole Let’s hear it. I too don’t know
Unfortunately, this episode caused the greenlighting of Ture Fats about Gran t2,
@@L_G218 Grant sprinkled in jokes about the other actors in any episode he wrote, that was like his thing, so that's how he started it but they really started a whole bit with the entire episode dedicated to Grant.
Honestly, for all the carefully crafted takedown of Sam here, nothing will burn more than the deep shame of when he had to remember where he first met the others, and Brennan's "We met FIVE YEARS before that"
Lol where was that from?
@@rozieredz Breaking News episode We've Met Before. The loser (Sam) had to say when he first met everyone else. Also pretty damning was Sam forgetting he and Katie are cousins.
He got every single one wrong. The embarrassment was OFF THE CHARTS.
The fact that Sam's father, Robert Reich, was literally Bill Clinton's pro-union, left-wing secretary of labor makes this so much funnier.
Is that true?
@@miriamrosemary9110 go look it up if you don't believe it
Whoa holy shit hes really Robert Reich's kid? Oh that makes this brutally funnier
After Sam’s wife came on, I was really hoping for a cameo from his dad similarly decrying his character.
@@ZackC I would have pissed myself laughing
Katie saying "I look to my left..." like a victim in an Investigation Discovery show has me dying
Katie: ....which is odd because Sam is famously allergic to alcohol.
Sam: **spaghetti arms of verification**
Sam sounds like a bubble boy. He is allergic to stuff i did not even know you can be allergic to.
I think you mean, vindication
@@mursuka80BUBBLE BOY? NADDPOD REFERENCE?!? OH I LOVE THE DROPOUT COMMUNITY!!
Sams facepalm as 00:32 as he realises the theme of the script is priceless.
His visible suspicion at around 0:20 when he hears two names suspiciously similar to his own is also good
And just how he utterly breaks during Brennan's lines and just blurting out and falling apart when Elane came on is beautiful
This was so good that even Katie broke. Well done Grant.
Well done Carolyn for the ad lib "Children in cages "
Right? I've NEVER seen Katie break before! Carolyn deserves an award for that!
Carolyn deserves about 27 bars of pure 24 karat gold
@@iamharrynelson but she's done it in like most of the episodes she's in by this point
2:19 that historic moment
Gotta love that Sam genuinely wanted people to know where his opinions began and ended.
Well done, Grant. Not only a hilarious script, but you've finally discovered the only thing that makes Katie laugh: her uncontainable joy at the thought of imprisoning children in cages.
You mean Carolyn discovered that.
Grant finally got his revenge
@@micahnewby7964 but Kids in Cages was improv by Carolyn, so the victory is hers
@micahnewby7964 script includes calls for ad libs. Brennan had to come up with the 7 most conservative things Sam has said, Carolyn had 5 shows on the new network, Katie had 90 seconds of describing the new mansion, and Sam had three personally held bad opinions. If you read the ticker at the bottom of the screen it has the prompts, you can see it pause for ad libs.
@@heatherbrown7192 I don't know what else to say. I didn't see it
Damn Grant didn't just go for revenge, he went for murder. lol
I can only assume that after recording, Sam and Grant got into a Yakuza style fist fight in the hall, and everyone gathered around to take bets.
@@Sonichero151
SAM
vs
THE TALL MAN
0:42 Libraries attract the "The wrong types"
I love this joke so much, it's vague and yet just specific enough to have the most wild connotations. XD
I love the fact that as soon as Sam is prompted for Hollywood Blacklist names, he immediately starts listing the head writer, director, and producer who green-lit this masterpiece.
Doubly so because he knows they got him good and they deserve more credit than they'll get just by having their names in the credits. Sam's such a wholesome boss.
Carolyn deserves *ALL* the praise for getting Katie to break
She should get a medal just for that.
definetly not a easy achievement.
Right??? So many comments are saying good on grant- but that was all Carolyn
She truly does
2:14
Goddamn, Brennan nailed those controversial statements. They were almost all so interesting. Bravo lol
He also held it together the first half and was actually ahead of Katie, whose coke-addled state usually keeps her from breaking.
Sam on the other hand short-changed us smh
@@54321jcc I think Sam went for his real opinions, rather than ad-libbing something funnier. I mean, when surrounded by that cast he probably knew he couldn't top them, tbf. 🤷♀️
@@54321jcc "Jeff Probst really knows what he's doing" is a controversial opinion within the Survivor fan community because the majority opinion is while he's a good host, he's a terrible executive producer since he meddles with game mechanics too much and makes the show more unfair.
Here are five more shows appropriate to Sam‘s new vibe:
- Name changer
- Um, actually you‘re not American
- My mansion‘s plenty
- Dirty Lawnmowing neighbor
- Breaking Rules Network
The fact that "kids in cages" and animal murder is basically all that has made Katie laugh in years fucking kills me.
Extremely awkward timing for youtube to put this back on my front page
This is the *second* time I saw Brennan be like, "...guess we're going off keto," for Dropout/CH and everyone is visibly in shock and like noo and Brennan commits anyway 😭😭 What a trooper but I always feel a little bad lmao
Didn't understand that part could someone explain
@@xmlthegreat keto is a low carb diet, you cant eat rice on it so he had to break it for the sushi😔
@@xmlthegreat Keto is an rather extreme form of a low carb diet. Grapes are naturally very high in sugar and rice is mainly carbs. If you eat too many carbs during a keto diet it might kick you off the ketosis (a process where the body generates its energy from fat rather than glucose, because there is no glucose), which might hinder your progress.
@@xmlthegreat Brennan guest DMd on Critical Roll for a 4 part series. During the finale, that was running long, Brennan started crashing. So, in an attempt to stay awake he chugged two sodas proclaiming "we're off Keto" which honestly kinda added to the intensity of the moment in game. Anyway, it's kinda become a reluctant catchphrase for him as this is at least the second time since then I've heard him say. The man commits to the bit.
@@singer4564 it's his "just this once master, I'll go all out." Brennan on carbs is a force to be reckoned with; he does the keto to mellow himself out, more than an actual diet program. He still eats a shit-ton of almonds, clearly.
Sam Reich: "I've paid you a small fortune."
CollegeHumor writing team: "And this gives you power over me?"
From the look on his face Sam knew what kind of episode this was going to be as soon as he heard the names.
But he was completely blindsided when Elaine appeared.
i appreciate that sam is obviously a decent enough human that he went through this
I love the way Sam is asked to name five card-carrying Communists and he immediately names the head writer and the four primary staff members who greenlit this episode.
Which mostly just had the effect of giving credit where credit is due on camera.
Holly shit, Katie laughed... That was unexpected
Only at state-sponsored violence against children
@@Zomburai45 honestly, that's on brand
DUDE, it was my EXACT reaction as well! I couldn't believe she laughed!
I had to run it back. I could not believe it. She was the Aleksandr Karelin of Breaking News
Brennan: comes up with the most elaborate fantasy scenarios for a job, and could give a stick figure a backstory that would make you cry
also Brennan: struggles to make 7 conservative statements
I love this man 😂
The bubble is real.
The most right-wing thing he can think of... fly fishing.
I think the struggle is not to think of conservative statements in general, but to think of conservative statements that won't get you cancelled.
Like, it's easy to come up with something overtly racist like "black people should be slaves again" but it's hard to come up with subtle conservative statements such as "the only woman I respect is the Statue of Liberty"
@@Ramboost007 Right, it's not hard to say something that's just generally horrible. Getting something more layered but still plausible and funny is more of a challenge.
He didn't phone it in.
Biggest difference between left and right:
The right won't even hear the left's point of view, so they only ever fight straw men in order to "win" their "arguments".
The left hears the right's point of view but can't quite be sure that people unironically hold beliefs that are that stupid and are still worrying about straw-menning someone.
What’s so good about this episode? This is just Sam being Sam.
The minute he realizes that the other characters have names based on his name, is the moment he knows he is the center of the entire show. Classic!
"I feel like being poor is a choice" the sad thing is that you could imagine some politicians saying that unironically
Imagine? There are elected officials on record as saying that being poor is a choice. It probably helped them get elected because it's a proudly held belief of most conservatives.
they have. :|
It's literally every rich conservative's earnest opinion
Not all poverty is by choice, but if you picked art history as your career. That was a choice.
@@tintillor I hope you commit in the most painful way imaginable and regret it halfway through
Brennan's face when Katie says owls killed me
I love that the owl joke is the only thing that actually broke Brennan at all
This episode was amazing. Katie lost a point when I didn't think she would. Sam just got brutalized. And Brennan having to eat that after he didn't lose .... Grant, you mad genius you.
3:50 this is one of the best things I’ve ever heard and Katie’s delivery only make it better
Brennan's eyebrow raise at 7:35 was absolutely perfect. He knew Sam was coming for Dimension 20 after he axed Game Changer.
he didn't axe gamechanger did he?
@@brycemerry880 Nah, that was a joke about how he immidately followed the DND comment by saying he hated game shows.
@@brycemerry880 Game Changer actually just premiered it's 5th season not too long ago.
"I looked to my left..." might be the funniest delivery in this segment. Katie is a mad genius
Grant is the writer of my favourite episodes. He is too good, Only grant can make Katie laugh.
Except it wasn't Grant who made her laugh, it was an improv from Carolyn.
@@records26 what makes you think that she was doing improv and not just reading the teleprompter?
That's a genuine question; Carolyn was so obviously looking straightforward staring at the teleprompter, so I'm honestly wondering what gives you your impression. She was totally reading
@@micahnewby7964 probably because she's recording a damn shoot my guy. they're SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING STRAIGHTFORWARDS. is it really that hard to believe that women can be funny on their own
@@micahnewby7964 because you can see the prompter script in the crawl at the bottom of the screen, genius. It said "Describe the 5 new conservative shows on Dropout"... meaning, improv them. Then she improvised 5 titles. Is this really over your head?
@@micahnewby7964 The prompt was for improv.
I love Katie swooping in the minute Brennan starts eating the sushi.
Rice being flavorful is not a hot take, Sam. It's an Asian take. Rice is delicious. Ask any Asian, the first spoonful (or chopstick-full) of rice after an extended Western diet tastes delightfully sweet, and even better when served with something savory or saucy that'll get absorbed by the rice.
I'm not Asian and I fully agree. I love the taste of rice.
I agree! glad my man Sam is speaking the truth.
Can't forget that there are also different rices, each with a different flavor depending on what you want to do with it.
When someone tells you rice is bland, all that actually says is that they don't know how to cook.
Underrated moment: Right at the start when Brennan and Carolyn do their introductions as variants on Sam's name and he looks over, presumably at Grant behind the camera, suspiciously.
I love how grant loves humiliation so much he thought to humiliate himself by sharing humiliation with the one person who can humiliate him the most for it: his boss
this is the sam equivalent of “true facts about grant anthony o’brien” and i’m here for every moment of it
I cannot believe the kind of person Sam Reich has become.
This episode just reinforced in me the firm belief that Brennan is a borderline sociopath and Katie is an actual psychopath.
God I love them.
An episode truly worthy of the membership!
2:19 This is one of the very few instances where we can observe Katie break. What an absolute gem
Breaking News really ascends when it picks one of its contestants to take the absolute piss out of
I love that saying "D&D is bad" is where Sam feels he's crossing the line.
I haven't been this heartbroken over the dark revelations of a CollegeHumor employee since Trapp killed Pat.
Allegedly
@@darkfang25 damn i came here to say exactly that 😂
Am I the only one who is baffled by how Katie is able to sound like she's on the verge of tears no matter what she says?!
I love how the prompt is just "be the absolute worst"
It's curious how Sam proclaimed without problem about the payment of nurses and doctors but exclaimed "no" when having to talk about dungeons and dragons. Grant is daring after his shameful episode🤣
He knows that Dimension20 is Dropout's biggest earner so that's why he says no to hating DnD
It’s clear in his personality that he doesn’t think nurses and teachers should be payed less, but it’s not as evident about DnD
Of course Brennan "Bird Facts" Mulligan would react visibly to the description of bird genocide.
"Kids in cages" being the only thing that makes Katie laugh is 100% relatable
Love how Sam lost but Brennan got the punishment
To be fair, I think Grant knew full well that that punishment would have spelled a hospital trip for his boss, and probably wouldn't get past the vetting process of the episode.
the entire episode was sam's punishment.
His reaction as he’s reading it out and processing it is amazing XD
Props to these four as well, especially Brennan and Katie, for their improvised bits also being funny enough to have the whole CREW in stitches.
The part where he calls out Grant made this legendary episode more legendary. This is up there with the grant roast (which I watched for the 10th time and was also probably written by grant)
It was written by a friend of Grant's, if I remember correctly.
9:52 As punishment they have to watch me eat this suˢʰᶦʰᶦʰᶦ ᵐᵃᵈᵉ ʷᶦᵗʰ ᵍʳᵃᵖᵉˢ!
Bro became michle jackson with that shock
What a wonderful day. Im sitting here crying! This episode was glorious. Also, rice is totally more flavorful than it gets credit for.
The slow soft breathing of Brennan at 5:42 had me dying of laughter.
Grant's laugh in the background is like the sprinkles on the sundae of this delicious episode.
I appreciate everyone at Dropout, but I gotta say, I think Grant is far and away the best Breaking News writer. Every time I see him in the writing credit for the episode I know for sure it's gonna be a good one. Has not failed me yet
"Mi scuzi!"
This is the best episode you have ever done. Bravo.
It’s by far not
One of the best episodes you've made yet. Great job!
They're not allowed to smile but Carolyn's default face is, in fact, a smile
An episode where both Brennan and Katie laughed, truly one to remember.
I adore this episode ❤❤ Pure horror on his face is glorious
the way this was specifically aimed to attack sam and yet carolyn was not far behind him for most of the episode
One of the best breaking news episodes by far.
As soon as Katie read that his bedroom shocked her and she needs 90 seconds to describe it in detail 🤣 I immediately knew that this next minute and a half was gonna be a rollercoaster of 🔥😭
This was an absolute masterpiece. Grant, you're a genius!
Some people claim that his father was Robert Reich, but it's actually Sam jr., named after his grandfrather, Sam sr. This makes Sam Reich the Third, but he still prefers the order of Sam the Third Reich.
Knowing Sam loves survivor explains why they made that survivor themed game changer
This is Katie's best performance by far. I loved how she read her part
Ive watched and showed this to a dozen people a dozen times on dropout, and I'm watching it again!
I love the "No!" from Katie when asked if she wants to try the sushi lol
"Kids in Cages" - So far the only thing I've seen that makes Katie laugh.
The way Sam looks to the people off camera and shakes his head in disappointment as soon as Brennan and Carolyn's names come up because he KNOWS is hilarious
they're married?!! also i haven't seen elaine carroll in so long shes so great
She posts on her Facebook page, not sure about other platforms
Any joke that makes Katie laugh is immediately twice as funny for the shock of it alone
THIS is why I subscribe to Dropout, and STILL watch these on TH-cam :)
this episode is so genius. i loved hearing grants unhinged laughter in the background constantly. that man is LIVING
Congrats to Carolyn for finally getting Katie to giggle!!! The fortress has been breached! :)
After years of watching these, I never realized the script was in the ticker the entire time. Mind blown.
Hearing grant laughing throughout this episode is wonderful
I’m devastated you guys missed one of the show names could’ve been “Sam’s Reich”
Is it just me or does Brennan look very VERY young in this episode?
Rewatching this for the Nth time, and Katie's face after "I'm glad to see Trebek go" was the real best feeling.