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Frasier reboot · Season 1 · Episode 8

The B Story

IN THE ROOM

RyanBrad(ley)Curtis

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RyanB−Recorded at 51:01Letter grade
Curtis#51 of 51Recorded at 51:11Ordinal ranking
Brad(ley)#9 of 10 · blindRecorded at 52:32Blind ranking

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By way of introduction.

Curtis

your host

Original introduction wording
  • your host
Brad(ley)

resident upside downer

Original introduction wording
  • resident upside downer
Ryan

tenure track co-host

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  • co-host
  • tenure track co-host

Someone brought rules.

The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.

Facilitator not identified in the reviewed source.

How this one works

How to play
  1. Now we are going to answer some questions that are based on some of the storylines in this episode.
  2. However, our answers will only be one word long.
Context and recorded outcome
  1. But even that's like, I don't know where I just go get like a Pittsburgh shirt. Okay. Shall we do another question? Let's do another question. What is something you need to fix, but keep putting off? Should I keep going first? Sarah, all your answer is terrible. Yes. Tire. Your car? It has to be your car. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing else that is tire. Okay. A little bit more specific. Your tire pressure? Because you never drive? It can't be tire pressure. It would just deflate, right? It's got to be. I mean, he never drives anywhere, so it could have been deflated for like a month. No, he's probably just worn his tread to like zero. Okay.

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What everyone brought to the table · 8 recorded exchanges

3 attributed voices

RECORDED EXCHANGE

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Ryan Sansone?

Question / challenge

Is it Ryan? Water. Oh. You don't drink enough water? Yeah, I guess. No?

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Is it Ryan Sansone?

Question / challenge

Water. Oh. You don't drink enough water? Yeah, I guess. No? If you're trying to fix something, it'll be something like you have something wrong with the water line in your house.

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To quickly go back to Curtis's, isn't this one that we're, like, putting off?

Question / challenge

Correct. He's putting off the birth of his daughter. I'm putting off breaking the water? Okay. No, I just got a water pipe backed up in the main sink of my bathroom, like the one that I use.

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Brad(ley), what about yours?

Question / challenge

This could be so embarrassing. Okay, I'll go with this one. This one's more fun. You can see. It's going to be so embarrassing and then not know what you're going to say.

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Is it exactly what Curtis said?

Question / challenge

I wouldn't say exactly, but close. Is it? Okay. I mean, there's no other use of it. I, I guess the, I guess the other version would be less about the labels and just about

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Uh, Ryan Sansone, do you have one for us?

Question / challenge

Can I do a reverse one for this? Oh, interesting. It's not really the prompt, but I'll allow it. Um, fun. You're not good at being fun when you're drunk?

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Brad(ley), what, what is yours?

Question / challenge

Let's bring this home. Defending. Oh boy. You're not good at defending anything. So it's hard. I don't think, I don't think you become a worse athlete sober.

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And now Brad(ley), why don't you tell us how to use that?

Question / challenge

When we cover the previous episode of season one, episode seven. Freddy's birthday. Frasier will get really excited about spending Freddy's birthday with him, but instead he will get into some weird snafu and miss the whole entire party and then Freddy will be

The rest of the round record

13 primary recorded exchanges · 0 retained source actions. 0 additional round events; 2 overlapping source alternatives. A source action may be a clue, reply, reaction or interruption—not necessarily a participant answer.

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To quickly go back to Curtis's, isn't this one that we're, like, putting off?

Correct.

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Brad(ley), what about yours?

This could be so embarrassing.

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The game is not, it's not, what do you get sick of?

That's not the round.

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Is it exactly what Curtis said?

I wouldn't say exactly, but close.

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“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

You're not good at being fun when you're drunk?

So he's saying reverse.

Source alternatives (2)

Matching wording within the same recorded interval supports these overlaps. They are not additional primary exchanges.

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  • But even that's like, I don't know where I just go get like a Pittsburgh shirt. Okay. Shall we do another question? Let's do another question. What is something you need to fix, but keep putting off? Should I keep going first? Sarah, all your answer is terrible. Yes. Tire. Your car? It has to be your car. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing else that is tire. Okay. A little bit more specific. Your tire pressure? Because you never drive? It can't be tire pressure. It would just deflate, right? It's got to be. I mean, he never drives anywhere, so it could have been deflated for like a month. No, he's probably just worn his tread to like zero. Okay.
  • Participants perform a structured creative or improvisational activity tied to the episode. No competitive scoring or winner is stated.
  • What is something you need to fix, but keep putting off?
  • So, I think there's a very slow leak that I just need to get either fixed or replace the wheel, but I just haven't.
  • Ooh, you need to hire somebody.
  • What would you need to fix?
  • I have to assume you're just bastardizing the word for hosting.
  • And I think that you maybe have to do a decent amount of returns and that requires like boxing
  • during the summer and I lose so much weight during the summer that I really need to rationalize
  • Um, I need to like ration out my calories a little better because what happens is,
  • And then I, and then I get super tired and I need to like better prioritize.
  • I want, I just need to see this in live.
  • You have to have fun here.
  • I'll have to text him.

By way of goodbye.

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