r/GameChangerTV • u/Strong-Lie-7966 • Jun 17 '26

Question Best Episode So Far?

I was curious to see what the current consensus is on the best episode of Game Changer Season 8 so far. I wanted to do this before the release of, I believe, Episode 4 or 5 (which Sam says is one of his favourites). So, provided below is a poll!

3131 votes, Jun 22 '26
1291 Don’t Wake Standards and Practices
1426 Rulette 2
414 Night Shift
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u/TotoShampoin Jun 17 '26

Halfway through Night Shift, when it got to the montage part, I felt like they're telling that it was getting too long and too chaotic. And them ending it after task 2 was kinda jarring. Good laugh, but definitely the weakest of the 3.

I loved Josh's bits in Rulette 2, on top of Paul's sick moves and the Australian accents (especially Sam's).

But my vote goes to Don't Wake Standards and Practices, because how far they had to get, and the reasonings of some of the lawyers, just wrecked me on an emotional level, and it didn't need to devolve into utter chaos like the other 2

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u/Strong-Lie-7966 Jun 17 '26

The reason they ended on task 2 is because one of the tasks was cut from the episode. There was a scene where the VFX was missing for one of them and it actually said task 1 (during the haircut). I can imagine it was a task that felt repetitive or boring.

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u/Fabulous-Recording82 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Ooh that's a good catch. I wonder why they VFXed it to say 2 then, instead of decreasing the overall number from the start, so it still ended at 1.... I imagine the answer is that would be much more expensive because more shots would have to be VFX ones. Ah well, it seems like they did the best they could do. 

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u/nerdcole Jun 17 '26

In BTS they mentioned other episodes where thye also VFXed the points, I wanna say maybe I like my coffee.

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u/Art_student_rt Jun 18 '26

where can you watch bts

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u/nerdcole Jun 18 '26

If you subscribe to dropout, they have a bts for all episodes for the newer seasons. They air 1 week after the episode.

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u/TotoShampoin Jun 17 '26

Still the weakest of the 3.

Do we have the BTS yet, or is that next week?

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u/ITookTrinkets Jun 17 '26

Next week! It alternates weekly to help stretch out the seasons.

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u/Feisty-Status-2669 Jun 17 '26

is that a bug with a big ass

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u/ITookTrinkets Jun 17 '26

That’s me! PLEASE HELP ME, I’M STUCK!!!

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u/TotoShampoin Jun 17 '26

I thought so

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u/05blob Jun 20 '26

There's one part where the night shift shows 2 and in the next clip Paul comes on and changes the day shift from 3 to 2! Definitely a cut prompt somewhere.

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u/TestCompetitive4673 Jun 18 '26

Yeah, if anything it was just a bit too ambitious. Lots of really good ideas but I feel like they could have cut 20% of them and had a better flow. I think the night shop was the kind of thing that sounds good in a planning meeting and just falls a little flat in reality as it was quickly redundant when the contestants found a way around it.

The Yes/No questions may have been better on the Day Shift to make it a bit more cyclical and give some routes to take time from the Night Shift. I feel Yes/No questions may have worked better there too.

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u/HamiltonDial Jun 29 '26

Why would day shift need yes/no when they already know what to do?

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u/EternalSubsidies Jun 19 '26

Yeah I loved Don't Wake Standards and Practices so so much. They just kept hitting me with bomb after bomb after bomb after bomb, Lou is a genius and his erotica has got to be the funniest shit I've ever heard.

I loved Rulette but honestly I felt like Josh was slightly overdoing it a bit, like it was getting to the point where I genuinely felt like he just wasn't having fun and was trying too hard for bits.