So, Tim, you're back in a familiar situation.
Both Blythe and Travis accurately called bullshit.
It's up to that lady right there.
If she calls bullshit, you're going home… with nothing.
But if she believed you, you'll have $10,000.
Alejandra.
Tell us.
Did you buy his answer?
You gotta love me 'cause I believed you.
-Oh my gosh. -Boom!
-Oh my God.
-$10,000 is yours.
-So much love. -Thank you.
-Oh wow. -And so much bullshit goes a long way.
-I promise it'll get better. -$10,000.
Don't say, "It'll get better."
Why are you apologizing for $10,000?
I'm not, absolutely not.
and such beauty that you have $10,000 right now.
That is very kind of you.
I don't-- I wouldn't call it beauty or skill, but I appreciate it.
-That's beauty-- -Beauty and skill right there.
I still have that lock. You can lock in at $10,000.
I think I will lock in right here.
-Locking in $10,000. -Better safe than sorry.
-$25,000 is the question. -Okay.
You can't leave with any less than $10,000.
That's a huge amount of money for not knowing shit.
-Thank you.
Okay. You're welcome.
Here we go. For $25,000. Here's the question.
"A, Jason Nevintus. B, Lavon Barbaruni."
"C, Jamal Tavina. Or D, Glom Gazingo."
I love this question.
All right. Tell us your answer.
The answer is Jamal Tavina,
and the reason I know this is because my mom loves John Travolta,
and I would call her that.
After this happened, that's all I'd call her. I'd text her that.
She loved it. So, the answer is Jamal Tavina.
-Okay.
The challengers have all locked in.
But let's start with you.
Did you really call your mother Jamal Tavina?
Absolutely not. I do not call her that.
-Okay. You were making that up.
The real answer was Glom Gazingo.
Let's see if your challengers bought your story.
Alejandra.
I said bullshit.
Why?
I saw him on the screen just kind of eenie-meenie-miney-moe it.
So you were going by the hand movement of how he answered?
Yeah.
Blythe, what did you think?
I said bullshit as well.
It was the hand movement. Before he even answered, it was…
Uh, it was eenie-meenie-miney-moe, for sure.
All right. Both Alejandra and Blythe called bullshit on you.
Here's the key. You locked in at $10,000.
If Travis believed you, you got $25,000.
If Travis didn't believe you,
that would be three bullshits across the board,
and… you would be gone.
You ready to hear what he had to say?
I guess.
Travis, tell us what you were thinking while he was doing what he did.
I love watching the Oscars. You seem like the type of guy who'd enjoy the Oscars.
I thought, "This guy might know this."
Mm!
Uh, but I think you had a tell.
You pushed the button and then you kinda looked away like you were disappointed.
-That's what made me call bullshit.
Three bullshits in a row. It's bullshit. You got yourself $10,000.
-That's not bad. I didn't do that bad. -That's fantastic.
-Thanks for playing. Good night. -Thank you.
Good luck. See you later.
I think I'm pretty good at trivia,
but you can't tell, I didn't know shit out there.
That was one lawyer who wasn't very good at bullshitting.
It was very difficult, and those people, great people.
Uh, they… I didn't convince them, but oh well.
You can't win them all, right?
Okay, challengers.
The most accurate of you three
calling bullshit or calling the truth was Travis.
-Oh, yes!
-Come on up. -All right.
Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. I'm almost trembling right now.
Let's reset.
I'm a creative director in the world of advertising,
which means I make up stories all the time in order to persuade people.
And that is the skill I'm gonna lean into to be successful at the game.
Welcome.
Thanks, Howie.
All right, guys. Let's clear, please. Thank you.
Like, on a scale of one to ten,
I think my trivia skills are, like, a six and a half.
I think my bullshitting skill might be a 9.9.
So, uh, I think that's where my strength is gonna lie.
What are you thinking?
-Dude, this is surreal. -It is.
I used to come home from school every day and watch a show called Make Me Laugh.
Oh my gosh.
A game show where contestants would try not to laugh
when these comics try to make them laugh.
And there's this crazy dude
who, I think, inspired me to be a class clown.
And that's him right there. That's you.
You're talking about him like he's not even here.
Well, this-- That's why it's… it's surreal.
You know something?
I'm so glad you're here, and you know why you're here,
because you were the most accurate challenger.
And now you're going for one million dollars.
Tell me a little bit about yourself, buddy.
Well, I'm a creative director.
I have this feisty Irish wife I told you about.
Couple of awesome kids.
So, a million dollars would mean a lot to you, right?
Oh my gosh. Yeah. I can't even fathom how that would change my life.
And you don't have to know much to get a million dollars, right?
There may be a little bit of bullshittery going on.
But hopefully I'll nail these questions and not even have to worry about it.
All right. You wanna meet the challengers?
-Yeah. -Let's meet 'em.
Brand new to the game, Shank.
Yes, sir. Shank.
I'm a data scientist from Washington, D.C.
-Okay. Moji. -Yeah.
-Wow. I like your name. -Thank you.
Tell me about yourself.
I'm 27, and I live in Seattle, Washington.
Okay. And you already know Alejandra.
First of all, I want to show you that.
-That is our money ladder. -Hoo!
From $1,000 all the way to one million dollars.
Here we go.
First question. For $1,000.
"A, padded slippers. B, hard hats."
"C, dark sunglasses. Or D, lead aprons."
Okay, he locked in.
You and only you know whether you're correct.
Tell them the answer.
Probably a lot of you have heard about Jackson Pollock.
He is an artist who is famous for painting on these, um, actually, bedsheets.
He paints on these big bedsheets,
which he lays on the floor and he just splatters paint all over it.
You've probably seen a Jackson Pollock if you've ever been to a museum.
It just stands to reason that if you're gonna go into his studio
and he's got all these bedsheets covered with paint all over the place,
you're gonna need to wear padded slippers.
A is my answer.
So, you heard what Travis had to say.
You listened to how he said it.
Maybe there were some tells.
-Maybe there were no tells.
You guys need to lock in whether you believe him… or not.
Moji, I'll start with you.
I mean, you were really convincing in the beginning.
You got me with the… I feel like you have a creative vibe,
the artist, you know what he's talking about,
but I didn't quite believe you at the end, so I called bullshit.
All right, Travis.
Moji has called bullshit on the first answer you've given.
You wanna tell Moji how she's done so far?
I told the truth, Moji. It's A.
Boom! $1,000.
Moji wasn't the only one who thought
you were trying to get away with an incorrect answer.
All three of the challengers called BS on you.
But that doesn't matter to you, because with the correct answer,
you got $1,000.
-All right.
One step up toward one million dollars.
Only nine questions left. You could lock in right now at $1,000.
Do you want to lock in or go for $10,000?
Uh, let's keep moving, Howie.
Keep moving. Here you are. Question number two.
-For $10,000. Here's the question.
"A, a dozen bagels. B, a case of beer."
"C, two pizzas. Or D, a party sub."
He was nodding affirmatively. Let's hear your answer.
Howie, the answer is A, a dozen bagels.
So, uh, you know, as my role as a creative director,
I work in advertising, I work with a lot of tech firms.
And, uh, just as soon as I saw "a dozen bagels," like, a light went off,
because you cannot have a tech firm meeting without bagels.
So I went there and started looking at other ones, I'm thinking, Jeff Bezos.
You know this guy, and I'm like,
there won't be a party sub involved, there won't be a case of beer involved.
He doesn't even let workers drink on the job, right?
Uh, and, uh, you know, two pizzas, that seems like that's a lot of people.
That's not a small meeting. A dozen bagels, no more than 12 people.
So, A is my answer.
So, you heard what he had to say.
-Last time, he had the correct answer,
and all three of you called bullshit on him.
Let's see how it goes this time.
I'll start with you, Moji, once again.
I wanna see if you learned anything from the last question.
Yeah, I'm learning how to read you better, Travis.
Um, you had a lot to say about all the options.
And so, I think you're full of bullshit.
Well, not even that was bullshit, he's full of it.
Yeah.
Up to the wazoo with bullshit.
This high.
-That's what she read. -It's possible.
Before we find out what the other challengers thought of your answer,
were you telling the truth, or were you bullshitting?
Moji, you're right. It… it-- I was bullshitting.
There you go. And that's the accuracy we're looking for.
You realize that if the other two challengers call bullshit, you're gone.
You didn't lock in. You'd be gone for-- With zero.
That's right.
But if one of them believes you, you stay in the game
and continue on your way to a possible one million dollars.
Shank, what do you think?
Um, I work in tech, and so, once I heard
that you were talking about people in tech loving bagels,
as a tech worker and a bagel aficionado, I locked in that you weren't bullshitting.
-Yes!
$10,000.
-Whoo! -Wow!
You sold your bullshit. Thank you, Shank.
You know what they say, fool me once.
And just to-- to see, Alejandra, what did you think?
Fool me twice, shame on me. I believed you.
-I won't betray you again. -No, that was good.
-Oh! Okay! -That's exactly what this game is.
He did not know the answer.
What is the name of this game?
You don't have to look at the wall for it. Do you not know where you are?
So not knowing the answer and getting the money using that skill
is what makes this game better and different
than any other game on television.
You have $10,000.
You can lock in at $10,000, which ensures that you can't leave with any less.
But you can also lock in at a higher amount,
which would give you more safety.
Yeah. You know, Mama wouldn't let Daddy back in the house with just 10K.
I think we're gonna hold that lock a little bit--
Not gonna lock. Wow.
-So, for $25,000 or nothing…
-Ooh! -…here is question number three.
"A, chin. B, forehead."
"C, nostrils. Or D, eyebrows."
You've locked in your answer. You know whether it's right or wrong.
Tell them the answer.
-The answer is D, eyebrows.
I went into advertising because, as a kid, I loved drawing.
Uh, and I drew so many faces,
so many people, thought about being an animator.
And it really is true, particularly when you think about drawing,
that the eyebrows tell you everything.
You could take a simple face with the straight line, two dots eyes.
You can make an angry face with eyebrows.
You can make an excited face with eyebrows.
You can make a sad face, a scared face. It's all about the eyebrows.
So, that is the answer, D, eyebrows.
All right, your challengers have all locked in.
But I want to start with you, Travis.
Were you telling the truth?
Or was it a lie?
I was telling the truth. It's D, eyebrows.
-Oh, so, that's the truth.
-You get the money. $25,000. -Hoo!
This time, all three challengers believed you were telling them the correct answer.
$25,000. You have an opportunity.
If you wanna lock in, you can lock in,
which means you won't leave with any less than $25,000.
The next question is worth double that.
$50,000.
You've been doing really good so far.
Two out of three correct, and your bullshit also worked.
So, you're at a place in the game, a very comfortable place in the game.
What do you wanna do? Do you wanna lock in?
Howie, 25K, that's a lot of money.
Mm-hmm.
But 50K is more money.
You're right. Wow. You're good with math.
-Yeah, see? Uh…
I'm gonna… I'm gonna push my luck here a little bit.
Let's go big. Let's hold on to that lock.
-Holding on to the lock. So we are going… -Wow.
Moji went, "Wow."
$50,000 or nothing.
-Ah! -$50,000 or nothing.
Here is question number four.
"A, can of WD-40. B, Starbucks coffee cup."
"C, bobblehead. Or D, microwave oven."
All right, you locked in your answer.
You know, Travis, and only Travis knows
whether he locked in with the correct answer or not.
Okay. Answer.
Uh, Howie, the answer is D, microwave oven.
Uh, I was super excited to see this question come up,
'cause I'm a huge fan of, uh, David Fincher and Fight Club.
Uh, Fight Club is a movie about sort of like
this dystopian future that we live in right now.
It's not really the future. It's right now and…
Uh, I actually read in an interview once that, uh,
you know, the microwave oven, which is everywhere,
is sort of his example of that future where we're all about convenience,
uh, all about, like, instant gratification.
And we kind of forget what really matters in life,
and-- and the-- the passion in doing things the old-fashioned way,
so the answer is D, microwave oven.
In the center. Shank, what do you think?
Um, you had me.
You really did until you said, "I heard in an interview once."
Did a little studying. That's called a weasel word.
That's what people use when they're bullshitting.
Really? It's a weasel word? I haven't heard that term.
A weasel word, it's like when people are saying, "Studies say,"
or, "I heard in a newspaper,"
or try to give some sort of background for what their answer might be.
-It's a weasel word. -Well, talk to him. Was it? Is he right?
-Did you use a weasel word? -Look, I read articles all the time.
I don't know how to express that properly.
But, Shank, you are right. I was bullshitting.
Wow.
-Pop goes the weasel. -Yeah.
The actual answer is B, Starbucks coffee cup, okay?
-Two other people are standing right here. -Ooh!
Right now, you have absolutely no safety net.
-You did not lock in. -No. No.
How do you feel about that now?
Uh, you know, it might have been a good idea.
All right, well, to stay in the game,
-just one needed to buy your story.
Which one do you want to hear from next?
Well, look, Moji is a tough competitor there.
I found it hard to get through her defenses.
But I don't know, maybe she's found a rapport with me.
I wanna see what Moji's got going on.
What did you think?
I fell for it. I thought you told the truth.
-Boom! $50,000!
You are playing a killer game, buddy.
-Oh my gosh, Moji. -$50,000 is yours.
You have not used a lock.
Moji believed you.
That's all you need. Do you wanna use your lock yet?
Or do you still wanna ride this train up toward the million dollars?
Yeah, I feel like that train just hit a little bump.
-And, you know, I don't like turbulence.
Let's lock it at 50, and then just keep on going.
Okay. So, congratulations.
You can't leave today with any less than $50,000. That's amazing.
-That is amazing. -What would you do with $50,000?
Hoo! Uh…
Send my kids to college, maybe.
-Maybe. -Yeah.
You can also homeschool them.
-And pocket the 50. -That would not go well.
-All right. $75,000.
And here is that question.
"A, Hawaii. B, Ohio. C, Iowa. Or D, Utah."
-Big smile. -Yeah.
You got, like, a smirk.
Well, Howie, I'm smirking
because I think I owe my 15-year-old $25,000.
Because she watches anime and has pulled me into watching anime.
I hear a lot of Japanese, and I've learned just through osmosis
that ohayo is "good morning" in Japanese.
So, the answer is B, Ohio.
Why do you owe her $25,000, then?
I wouldn't have gotten to $75,000
if I hadn't learned that from my 15-year-old.
The 50, you did on your own. The additional 25, if this is correct…
-That's all Rowe. -…is for the kid.
-That's it. -Okay. I see how.
-It's a partnership right here. -Yeah.
Okay, does he know what he's talking about?
Is there a weasel word in there?
All right.
Did your daughter lead you to $75,000 with the correct answer here?
That's the absolute truth, Howie.
-It is B, Ohio. -Boom!
$75,000. You got $50,000.
-Your kids got $25,000.
-What a night we're having. -Yeah.
You're halfway to one million dollars.
-That's amazing, Howie. -I know.
You could take $75,000 right now and go home.
But the next step is, we are moving into six figures.
Oh, boy.
So, Travis, do you wanna go for the $100,000?
-Go big or go home, right? Let's do it. -Boom! We're going for it.
$100,000. Here we go.
The next question is…
"A, '70s mustache. B, slight Canadian twang."
I have that.
"C, Perry Ellis suit. Or D, world-class smirk."
He's locked in his answer.
You know whether you're right or wrong.
Tell them.
Howie, I admit I've never heard this quote from Ken Jennings,
but I do know that Ken Jennings is a-- is a clever guy.
Uh, any time I've heard him speak, he's pretty funny.
And so, I was just like, "Well, what's the funniest thing on here?"
Uh, and we all know that Alex Trebek had that beautiful '70s mustache.
He does have a slight Canadian twang, a world-class smirk, all the other things.
But I was just like, "What would Ken Jennings say?"
And it's A, '70s mustache, and that's correct.
You've all locked in.
Moji, what did you think?
You started by saying that you didn't hear that quote before,
so it makes me think that you don't know the answer.
I thought it was bullshit.
-Sorry. -I guessed it, but you're-- you're right.
You guessed it. I don't know if that's good bullshit. Shank, what'd you think?
Travis, we've spent a lot of time together so far.
-I've been hearing you give your answers.
Once you start doing process of elimination,
that's the last time you told bullshit.
So I thought you were bullshitting again.
-Okay. Okay. -Ah.
You see, he's giving you your-- your telltale sign.
It's right there for you.
Were those weasel words? What was it?
Shank, you need to share your weasel words with me.
'Cause I think I could learn a bit, because that was bullshit.
-So you did bullshit. -I did.
I did, Howie.
The correct answer was a Perry Ellis suit.
Come on, Ken. You could've done better.
-Don't knock Ken. -Okay. Sorry, Ken.
This is a precarious situation you're in right now because you did lie.
I did.
Moji said you lied. Shank said you lied.
Alejandra holds your future
-on this game in her hands right now.
If she bought your bullshit,
-she bought you $100,000. -Wow.
But if she didn't buy your bullshit, you go home with $50,000.
Okay? Alejandra, tell him what you thought.
I'm a sucker for a '70s mustache. I believed you.
-Oh! -Boom!
-$100,000 is yours.
Alejandra, I'm shaving this off after the show.
I'm gonna mount it in bronze and give it to you for that one.
Okay, let me tell you something. You can go home right now.
You could take $100,000 and go home right now.
Or you could play on for a quarter of a million dollars.
I'll tell you something else. I have another lock.
If you go on, the next time I could lock it
is at a quarter of a million dollars.
What do you wanna do?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Howie.
I'm never gonna get a chance to make a million dollars again.
There are few and far between, the chance of getting one million dollars,
-even if you don't know shit. -Right.
-You're right. -Yeah, so…
Well, Howie, you know more about game shows than anybody.
You're arguably the best game show host in history,
with the possible exception of Wink Martindale, but I mean…
It's another Canadian. Why are you guys-- Anyway.
The possible exception. Possible.
-Okay, enough laughter from the crew.
So, uh, I'm gonna look in this camera right here.
I'm-- I'm gonna… I know I'm talking to, like, a worldwide audience,
but I'm really just talking to my wife right now.
If I lose the money, it's Howie's fault, 'cause I'm gonna keep going, Howie.
Let's go for the 250.
Wow. Here we go.
-Hoo! -Quarter of a million dollars.
Remember, you've been asked six questions, half of them have been wrong.
-That's the beauty of this game.
Half of his answers have been wrong.
And look at that board.
We're going for a quarter of a million dollars.
Where has that ever happened on any game before?
-It's never happened. -Never happened, Howie.
-You're doing good by doing so bad. -I'm a trailblazer.
You are. Your kids can go out into the world and go,
"My dad is the best bullshitter in the world."
Okay. Here you go. Here's your question.
"A, Poland. B, Bangladesh."
"C, Brazil. Or D, Algeria."
All right, you've locked in your answer.
You know whether your answer is correct or not.
Answer the question.
The answer is A, Poland.
Being a 51-year-old guy,
I remember the Cold War, uh, pretty distinctly as a kid.
It was a scary time.
And I also remember the great story of Lech Wałęsa,
-who was a Polish plumber…
…who, uh, after the fall of, uh, communism in Poland,
-went on to become…
…the leader of that country.
And, uh, he actually wrote a poem
-in his prison cell.
Uh, that became the new national anthem of Poland.
The answer is A, Poland.
Okay. You heard what he had to say.
Moji, I'm gonna go with you,
because I saw that you locked in while he was still talking.
You didn't wait and hear the whole thing.
Yeah, I felt like you were telling me a story
that you were making up right in front of us.
So, I called bullshit on you.
-Before you even finished the story. -Yeah.
-The story had just begun. -Just started.
Shank?
Who knows plumbers in Poland?
Like, that's the hill that you decided to die on?
A plumber in Poland?
So I thought that was bullshit.
It's a true story. How have you never heard of Lech Wałęsa? All right.
All right. Moji didn't buy your story.
Shank didn't buy your story.
Were you telling the truth? Or were you making it up?
Tell them.
Well, Shank, Lech Wałęsa really was a plumber and did go on
to lead Poland when they, uh, got out from under communism.
But that is not the right answer to the question.
-I was bullshitting.
So, the real answer is Algeria.
He was bullshitting. So, here's where we are.
-Yeah. -Moji saw the bullshit.
Shank, you called the bullshit.
-I heard it. -You heard it?
-Which means she definitely smelt it.
Is the one who smelt it going to dealt it?
-I don't even know if that's a thing.
But if Alejandra calls bullshit, you're gone.
And your lock was at $50,000.
-Is it gonna be $250,000? -Ooh…
Or did you just lose $200,000?
He's truly so nervous right now.
-That's not a fake amount of money. -No, it's not.
Alejandra
has Travis's future in her hands.
Does everybody understand the enormity of this moment?
I sure as hell do.
Are you on your way
to one million dollars?
Or are you going home?
I can't wait to find out.