Be honest with me. Did you know the answer to that question?
I did not know the answer to the question. I was totally bullshitting.
So here's the dilemma you're in right now.
Jason said you were bullshitting. Jeff said you were bullshitting.
-Your fate is in Ellyn's hands.
Ellyn, tell me what you thought.
I thought… I was… You're a great storyteller.
I was really invested in your story, and how much you love your kid,
and that you read to them, which is amazing.
-I lost track of science and believed you. -Yes!
-Whoa! -Whoo-hoo!
Okay, my fourth child is now a girl. A girl named Ellyn with a Y.
$25,000 is yours.
-Just Venmo me a couple dollars. -Wow.
Okay, you can take $25,000 right now or you can go on.
The next question's $50,000, but I'll tell you another thing.
If you stay in the game a little longer,
you'll have a chance to earn one more lock at $75,000.
Okay.
You gonna move on? Or you gonna go home?
I would love to take 25,000.
But again, I said I like to take a bit of a risk,
and I feel confident the next couple questions will be good ones.
So I wanna keep going, Howie, please.
-Good for you.
All right. $50,000. The question is…
"A, tied with a string. B, burned at the edges."
"C, cut with scissors or a knife. Or D, drawn on with pen and ink."
She's thinking.
It could've been a good question for her. Who knows?
Look at her eyes. See if there's any tells.
Is she confident with this answer?
All right. Tell us your answer.
So, the answer is C, cut with scissors or a knife.
And the only reason I know this is, way back at the beginning of the pandemic,
I took up origami.
And I learned a bit about kirigami, although I didn't really get into it.
But I've got paper cranes all over my desk at home.
Um, and, yeah, that's how I learned at the beginning of the pandemic,
origami was my pastime.
-Mm!
You've all locked in.
But before we see what the challengers thought of your answer,
I'll just go to you. Were you bullshitting?
I was not bullshitting. I knew this answer.
-Whoa! There you go.
-$50,000. -Thank you, paper cranes.
Congratulations to the three of you.
You all believed Allison was giving the correct answer.
Now, stay accurate.
Only one of you can get into the hot seat next.
All right. You can leave now. I told you there's another lock coming.
The next time you can have a lock, it's at the $75,000.
So are you gonna go on, or you're gonna walk out with $50,000?
-Okay. -You can walk out now
with $50,000 guaranteed.
-Okay. So-- -I'm right here.
-Whenever you feel…
-You're annoyed with me, aren't you?
Um, I really… That second lock you're offering me is really tempting.
And I feel good after that last question, so I would like to go another question.
We're going for $75,000.
-Yes, Alison!
All right. You're going for $75,000,
-and halfway to one million dollars.
The question is…
"A, Vertigo. B, Raging Bull.
"C, High Noon. Or D, Jaws."
Tell them.
Yeah, so the answer is Raging Bull.
Um, when I was 18 years old, my friend and I went to Oahu
for our sort of like graduation from high school,
and we actually watched the waves on the North Shore.
And our… The guy that was at the beach, I don't really know what his job was,
but he was selling stuff and he was explaining different breaks.
Um, and I didn't know it was the name of a movie until very recently.
So, I know the answer is B, Raging Bull.
Okay.
So that was her answer.
You guys have all locked in.
Jason, tell me what you thought of her answer.
I love that concise explanation of meeting somebody.
But that was bullshit! Nope, sorry, not believing that.
-Wow.
Absolutely not. She has a way of telling the story,
and, like, putting in things that are totally not relevant.
Like, "Wait, some guy just told you what the breaks--"
He was hitting on us, jeez. Simply. Yes.
No. I'm sorry. I have to call bullshit on that.
Tell him.
Is he correct?
Oh, you're totally correct. It was 100% bullshit… 100%.
-100% bullshit. -He knew it.
The real answer is Jaws.
-Jaws? You name the wave after a shark?
Why do you think that's crazy?
Jaws is a shark that lives in the ocean. Where do you surf?
You don't ride Jaws. You avoid Jaws.
-What do you do with the raging bull? -You ride it.
Do you not know Raging Bull?
-It's the motorcycle one, right? -No.
-No?
All right. Jeff, tell me what you thought.
-That story…
Rough.
That being said…
I believed you.
-Boom!
What the hell?
You realize that Jeff just got you the money.
And you've named one kid Jason. You named one kid Ellyn.
Now you have three kids.
I really need the million to send my now six kids to college,
because I keep having to give birth to more children to appease these people.
If you're the mother with the way you've been answering questions tonight,
they really need a college education. This is gonna be so important.
Because you know almost nothing. But that doesn't matter. She has $75,000.
-Good job.
Not only do you have $75,000, I'd imagine you're gonna use the lock now?
-Howie, I want to lock the $75,000 in.
-That's the guarantee. Right now, $75,000.
You cannot leave with any less than $75,000.
-Not a bad day at the office, Howie. -That's not a bad year at the office.
We're going for $100,000 now. We're moving into six figures.
-Whoo! -Here is the next question.
"A, eat dinner in a bathtub. B, ski in skimpy bathing suits."
"C, drop ice cream on the ground."
"Or D, sleep with a wheel of cheese."
She's locked in.
$100,000 is on the line.
Can I hear your answer?
The only reason I know this is because I love the show The Amazing Race.
And they did a challenge in Switzerland,
in the winter, where they had to push these wheels of cheese
up the snowy slope, and it's apparently a tradition with New Year's.
They have the cheese, push it up the slope, sleep with it for good luck.
Don't ask me why. They are Swiss. They do weird things.
Um, I wish I knew it because I had, like, studied Swiss history,
but I know it from The Amazing Race.
All right. You heard the answer. You're gonna lock in.
Was she telling the truth? Does she know what she's talking about? Is it a lie?
This is for $100,000.
You've all locked in.
I'm gonna go to you, Ellyn.
You… I am, like, bamboozled by, like, your charm and everything.
But, um…
I don't remember that episode, and I feel like you were swaying.
Your body language just changed.
It could be you're up there getting so much money, but I said bullshit.
-Oh. -I have never been in a room
where somebody is actually bamboozled.
And just to be here and watching bamboozlement for the first time is just…
It's incredible.
-I'm glad we shared that together. -We did.
-Okay, so, Alison. -Yes.
How did you bamboozle her? With-- With facts? Or with a lie?
I was bullshitting. You called me.
There was an episode of The Amazing Race,
where they were pushing wheels of cheese up a hill in Switzerland in the snow.
That was the first thing I thought of seeing this "wheel of cheese" answer.
But everybody knows it's "drop ice cream on the ground."
-Obviously. -That makes a good year.
So, all you need is one person. One person to believe.
Who do you wanna hear?
Who do you think is your ticket to $100,000?
I named my firstborn after Jason.
Um, so I'm gonna go to Jason 'cause I think Jason believed me on this one.
Why do you think he did? How you looked at him?
I saw the vibe. I also think he believes I watch The Amazing Race.
I think he saw the-- the-- the validity of what I was saying,
even though it was actually some bullshit.
-Go ahead, Jason. -Hmm. Well…
His name better be Jason Anthony, 'cause I freaking believed you.
-Damn it!
-Damn it! Two names! -$100,000 is yours!
Two names.
Oh my gosh.
-Oh my God. -Damn!
Jeff, you also bought Alison's lie.
Remember, out of the challengers,
the most accurate one of you is the one that's gonna be up
on the hot seat next going for one million dollars.
Four wrong answers,
and she has $100,000.
You could take it and you can leave right now.
The next question is worth $250,000.
If you don't know the answer and you lie, and they call you on the lie,
the most you can go home with is $75,000.
So do you just take this money and go home?
Or do you take the risk?
It's $100,000. Six figures. You could leave right now.
So, remember, like, way back.
Seventeen minutes ago, we started this game, whatever it was.
Um…
I said I was looking down the board, and the reason I wanted to lock it at ten
was because if I got to this position, I could feel comfortable going for 250K,
and I wouldn't lose much if I bullshitted and everybody called me on it.
Um…
So that's what I'll do. I'll go for another question, Howie.
-Good luck.
Good for you.
-Oh yeah! -Wow. A quarter of a million dollars.
You ready?
Here's the question.
"A, an anvil. B, a tortoise."
"C, a stale loaf of bread. Or D, a bar of soap."
Think about it. Lock in your answer.
And ta-da! You will see whether your answer is correct or not.
Nobody here knows. Answer the question.
I hate to reuse a story about reading to my kids.
But this is my other son, Ollie,
went through a period of being obsessed with Greek mythology.
He loves Percy Jackson, and so we were reading a lot of Greek mythology.
And I just remember the story because it was so weird.
This guy died because a tortoise fell on his head.
It's something that once you hear it, it sticks in your brain,
and it never goes away.
-That's her answer, people. -That's my answer.
Do you think she knew what she was talking about?
Do you think she made up a story?
And you just gotta click in the most accurate answer you can.
You've all locked in.
For a quarter of a million dollars, here we go. I'll start with you, Ellyn.
I feel your logic because I feel like you went for the most ridiculous one.
Also, pretty soon you're gonna run out of children.
Like, to tell us about their stories. Tick-tock.
-But, um…
-I didn't buy it.
I just… I call bullshit.
She calls bullshit. All right. Jeff?
I, uh-- I feel like you're bringing your kids into this.
You're really putting a lot of the heavy lifting on them.
Why would you have children if not to shamelessly exploit them? Come on.
And I'm gonna tell you, I've made my stance on books well-known.
-Uh…
Unfortunately, I did have to call bullshit on you.
-Aw. -Wow. So here we are.
Ellyn has called bullshit. Jeff has called bullshit.
We don't know whether it is.
Maybe she just has the correct answer.
Jason.
If this is bullshit and you called bullshit,
that would be three bullshits, she'd be gone,
one of you moves into the hot seat going for one million dollars.
If it's bullshit and you said yes, you believed her,
then she's got a quarter of a million dollars,
and three steps away from one million dollars.
There is so much money on the line.
Tell me what you saw and why, and what do you think?
I saw a confidence in her.
I don't see that right now, which makes me think…
that she's teaching her kids to be good liars, 'cause I believed her ass.
-Whoa!
A quarter of a million dollars, regardless of you being right or wrong.
-That is amazing.
-What? -Tell them your answer.
I was right. I knew this one, guys. It's a tortoise. It's a tortoise.
Jason, you were right. She was telling the truth.
So what do you wanna do?
Do you want to take the $250,000, or do you want to go one more time?
Remember, you are only three questions away.
Three questions away. You don't have to know the answers.
You're three questions away from one million dollars.
You cannot leave with any less than $75,000.
-A half a million dollars is on the line.
You got any more locks in your pockets, Howie, that you wanna throw my way?
That is not a lock in my pocket. I'm just happy to be here.
Sorry.
Howie, I… I am super tempted at the million dollars,
but 250,000 is, like, real legitimate money.
And I think I've bullshitted enough that they're starting to see my tells,
and I don't know, like, I've run out of kids to name.
I mean, I can't keep having kids to name after them.
So that's not an enticement to vote for me anymore.
Remember, there's, uh, one name nobody's talked about.
-Howie. Howard. -I get it. Yeah.
I don't know about that, so…
I think I got to walk away with my $250,000.
Congratulations.
-That is amazing. $250,000.
Say goodbye to your bullshit detectors.
Ah!
-Thank you so much. -We loved you.
-Say hi to your kids. -I will.
Wow!
I just won $250,000.
I can't even believe it. It doesn't sound real when I say it out loud.
I actually got more wrong than I got right, which is amazing.
I cannot believe that you can just bullshit your way
to a quarter of a million dollars.
Now it's time to determine our next person to move into the hot seat.
Our most accurate bullshit detector was…
-Jason. -Whoo!
-Come on up. -Good job, buddy.
-Are you ready to bullshit?
Oh, I am so ready to bullshit. Whoo!
Wow.
I'm so excited to play this game, and to get up there and bullshit my way.
One, two, three, mic seven.
I used to be an exotic dancer, but I'm not gonna tell them that.
They don't need to know my little secret.
Stripping helped me hone my bullshit skills.
I'd have to bullshit women into thinking I was straight.
It's so I can get that money.
So I'm gonna put those skills and use them up on that stage.
Whoo! The excitement, I can feel it.
-Yes, I'm super excited. -You ready?
Tell me a bit about yourself, Jason.
Well, I was born in San Diego.
I grew up all over the place. Different countries. My dad was military.
-Wow. -Twenty-two years.
Um, and I was a hand model for a while and I--
-You're what? -Hand model.
Oh my God! It's you!
-Oh my God.
I had no idea. Hold that up to the camera.
Look at the camera. Right there, maybe, I don't know.
Oh my God. So we have a celebrity guest.
All right. We have some new challengers here. Adrienne.
-Hi, how are ya? -Good.
Tell me about who you are and where you're from.
Sure. I'm in from Boston, Massachusetts, where I work in education research.
I'm a trivia aficionado, and ready to take on the gentlemen today.
You know, but being a trivia aficionado doesn't necessarily help you.
You gotta have a good sense of who somebody is,
because you may not know the answer to the question,
but you may know, "Is he bullshitting or not?"
So that's the key.
-Okay. Brian. -What up, Gizmo?
Wow. You know that.
That's where my origins with you start, with Gizmo and Bobby's World.
On Gremlins.
-Still got it. -See?
Like a hand model, it never goes away.
Tell me about yourself.
I am from Hartford, Connecticut. I am a bartender,
and I am a trivia content creator and a pub trivia host.
-All right. Ready to play?
All right. $1,000. Here's your first question.
"A, Zeppole. B, Stromboli. C, Ossobuco. Or D, Bomboloni."
-Lock in your answer.
And now, explain to them…
what the answer is.
Well, the-- It-- The answer is Bomboloni,
which is one of my favorite Italian dishes.
Um, and the, um…
The best thing about it is that, um,
I actually-- I took, uh, science, and I, um…
And I… Shit. Sorry.
Um…
Know what? The answer's Bomboloni. Sorry. I know that for a fact.
-And he took science. -Yeah, I took science. Well, yeah.
Bomboloni.
He loves Bomboloni and he took science.
-All right. Well, that's fair.
-Yeah. -Okay. You've all locked in.
Adrienne, what do you think?
-Well, I also took science. Um…
But I'm gonna call bullshit on this one.
You're gonna call bullshit. Jeff, what are you gonna do?
Oof! Yeah, I heard that story, and, um…
I mean, facts. Science is a thing you may have taken, but…
I gotta call bullshit on this one. Sorry, bud.
All right.
Two bullshits are called.
Were you telling us the truth? Or were you bullshitting?
I was actually bullshitting.
I was bullshitting and I couldn't remember
where the volcano was. I was trying to think and I was like, "Shit!"
I don't believe that.
I just think you're probably not great at bullshitting, but that doesn't matter.
Even if you're not great, if Brian bought your bullshit Stromboli science story,
if he believed you're true, you got $1,000 and you're going.
-Yep. -So it's bullshit.
Brian, if you call bullshit,
he was bullshitting, and you're out, you're gone.
Brian.
Jason, um,
-I believe I took science as well.
And, honestly, uh, just a lot of your mannerisms,
and a lot of moves with your hands, and you use your hands professionally,
you were doing a lot of things that just seem real suspect.
-I call bullshit. -Bullshit. Three bullshits.
-It was bullshit. You've been called.
Jason, can I tell you? It's been fun getting to know you.
-That was quick.
Know what? You're too nice to bullshit. You really are.
But as a hand model, you know what this is?
-Me leaving. Yeah. -Walking out. Go ahead. Go ahead.
-Bye, Jason! -Bye!
-That was Jason. Thank you, Jason.
In my head, I was trying to figure out what the mountain range was in Italy.
And it just came out and I was--
It just went all around, I'm like, "Who names a volcano Stromboli?"
So apparently I'm not a good bullshitter, maybe ladies didn't think I was straight.
I told you guys, this game is all about accuracy.
This was the first question. You called bullshit. You were accurate.
So now comes down to which one of you called bullshit the fastest.
The challenger who locked in first was…
Brian.
-Wow.
One thing on my bucket list was to be on a game show, here I am.
You're going for a million dollars.
I've been hosting trivia,
making my own games in bars for the last four or five years.
And also, I am a bartender and I love to bullshit on the job.
So I pretty much have this covered.
-Oh man, Gizmo. I'm here!
Here to face Brian are three new challengers.
No pressure.
-I'm ready for it. -Totally.
Will they prove to be worthy opponents? Only time will tell.
Okay. First, we have Dara. Did I pronounce that right?
Yes.
Bullshit.
-Dara, not "Daara." -What-- You…
-Your job is not to lie. -Okay.
His job is to lie.
-Okay. -Okay. Tell me about yourself.
We know you're a bit of a liar, but go ahead.
A bit of a liar. I'm a graduate student at Tulane in New Orleans.
-All right. And Emily.
I am a high school teacher. I've been teaching for nine years.
I'm also, for the past four years, have been working for a pub quiz company.
Wow. And Cidnee.
Hi, how you doing?
You told me before the show,
you thought Steve Harvey was gonna be hosting.
-It was a secret hope inside.
I mean, I have a crush on Steve Harvey.
So this is a big disappointment?
This is where I'm supposed to lie, but, you know, yeah.
I just wish that he would, like, pop up as well.
I didn't want you to be honest and that's why, right now,
Question one for $1,000. Here you go. The question is…
"A, a bookworm. B, a clotheshorse."
"C, a lounge lizard. Or D, an eager beaver."
All right. Brian is locked in.
Now remember, he and only he knows whether his answer is correct.
And, challengers, you gotta figure out whether he knows the answer or it's a lie.
Look at the way he says it.
Look at the way he sounds. Look at the way he moves.
And you discern whether there's any honesty there.
Answer the question, Brian.
Oh, I put B, clotheshorse.
Process of elimination. A bookworm is a person who studies hard.
Lounge lizard is a person who hangs out in bars.
The eager beaver is a person that gets up early in the morning to do something,
making them the eager beaver 'cause beavers work through night to the morning.
So, it's clotheshorse.
All right, challengers.
-What do you think? Lock in your answers.
All right. First of all, I will start
with you.
Did you know the answer?
No, afraid not. That was bullshit.
That was bullshit. He says that with such pride.
Because the real answer is a bookworm. There are worms in books.
I remember they had book lice when I was a kid.
-Is that what… -That's what happened.
-I don't read or have hair anymore.
So, that's it.
Cidnee, tell me what you thought of Brian's answer and why.
Brian, I thought your answer was absolutely bullshit, um,
because, what's a clotheshorse?
And how did you get there?
And why were you naming all these other things? I don't understand.
I knew it was bullshit. You were doing too much.
-Hmm. So she thought it was bullshit.
But all you need is for one challenger to have believed you.
I'll even let you pick who you wanna hear next.
Who do you think bought your bull?
I think Dara did.
All right. Tell him what you were thinking.
I believed him.
-Boom!
Lounge lizard, I don't know what that was. I thought it was great. I believed him.
$1,000 is yours.
-Emily,
tell us what you thought of his answer.
-I said you were telling the truth. -Wow.
Because you both believed him,
Cidnee has taken the early lead in accuracy.
Brian, you know 100% of nothing so far, yet you're winning money.
Must be nice.
You can lock in right now. If you wanna lock in, that guarantees you
you can't leave with any less than $1,000.
Do you wanna lock in? Or do you wanna go and try for $10,000?
But if you lie and you're caught in a lie, you leave with nothing.
-What do you wanna do? -Brian!
You came all the way out here for one grand?
We're going to the moon 'cause I still want a million, let's keep moving.
-All right.
He's going for it. He's not locked in. This is for $10,000 or nothing.
Here is your question.
"A, Arlington National Cemetery. B, Camp David."
"C, Guantanamo Bay. Or D, Area 51."
He's thinking about it.
All right. We wanna hear the answer, and all you have to do
is talk to them.
It's Guantanamo Bay. It's located off the coast of Cuba.
It is a naval base.
And, uh, Camp David is in, like, Arlington off of outer Virginia.
Arlington's a cemetery where they bury presidents.
And Area 51 would never be a naval base, so…
Guantanamo Bay.
All right, I will start with Dara this time. Go ahead.
You talked about other things that didn't matter to the question.
Didn't gather your thoughts. Too much running through your head.
I said it was BS.
I lost your trust.
-What are you thinking, Cidnee?
Like he said, he already lost her trust, and I was just like,
well, you mess up the first one, and you did the same body language.
You look just as confident as the last one, and it was bullshit.
So I'm like, "Eh, that's your bullshit stance."
So, uh…
Well, you know what? I'll go to him next.
Tell them.
Were you telling the truth? Or were you lying?
-All right. I was bullshitting.
Okay. He was bullshitting. It is Camp David.
Ever hear they're down in the bunker of Camp David and they're ordering--
I know Eisenhower built Camp David, and it was a retreat for presidents.
That's all I know about it.
You didn't know, but it doesn't matter.
What matters is, does Emily think that you were telling the truth?
-Uh, she knows. -If Emily doesn't,
you are gonna be so pissed that you didn't lock in at $1,000.
Is he going home with nothing? Or does he have $10,000?
Emily.
Did you buy it?
Hmm.