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Classic Frasier · Season 8 · Episode 12

The Show Must Go Off

IN THE ROOM

RyanBrad(ley)Curtis

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Episode ratings.

Brad(ley)C+Recorded at 36:53Letter grade
Curtis#18 of 95Recorded at 37:04Ordinal ranking
Ryan5.8/10Recorded at 38:03Numeric score · Ryan’s default /10

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By way of introduction.

Curtis

your host

Original introduction wording
  • your host
Ryan

resident upside downer

Original introduction wording
  • resident upside downer
Brad(ley)

Introduction recorded; no additional descriptor.

Someone brought rules.

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

Game / activity

Besting the Bard ↗

Source excerpt ↗ 39:03–54:05

Led by Curtis

It's a segment we're calling Besting the Bard. Oh, that's a good name. I thought this was a Brad segment. I thought this was Besting the Brad. No. I quickly read that. I was like, oh, yeah, Besting the Brad. Yeah. That's too easy. That's too easy. Let's instead try to best the most prolific author of all time. I can't even say it. We're in trouble. We have no…

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It's a segment we're calling Besting the Bard. Oh, that's a good name. I thought this was a Brad segment. I thought this was Besting the Brad. No. I quickly read that. I was like, oh, yeah, Besting the Brad. Yeah. That's too easy. That's too easy. Let's instead try to best the most prolific author of all time. I can't even say it. We're in trouble. We have no chance to best them. We'll do fine. We got this. Brad actually has to. It should have been Brad Best the Bard. Yes. Okay. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to read a quote from a Shakespeare play. Both Brad and Ryan. Were you going to call him Rad? That's how he was going to call me Rad.

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RESULT STATUS

A winner is actually on the record.

Winner: Ryan

Ryan2.5announced final points
Brad(ley)1.5announced final points

Taking part: Brad(ley)Ryan

See how they answered

What everyone brought to the table · 7 recorded exchanges

2 attributed voices

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 40:08–40:17

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

Was Brad(ley)'s concept better or was Ryan's execution better?

Question / challenge

That sounds fun. Quick point of order. What is a monologue? Just talking. Just one character talking. Oh.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 45:08–45:14

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

Brad(ley)?

Question / challenge

Mary Wise of Windsor? I don't know what that is. I'm just going to help you out, Brad. You will have heard of the plays that I'm going to pick.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 45:53–46:02

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

Brad(ley), what is Midsummer's Night Dream?

Question / challenge

Okay. It's July 12th. Summer's going great. The main character, his name is Johnny O. Okay? Johnny O, he had a hot dog.

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RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 46:42–46:53

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Ryan Sansone, would you like to enact that for us?

Question / challenge

Yeah. I think now I'm just trying to make it hard for Ryan. Oh, Johnny-O. What a terrible name. Just to be clear, Brad gave me, I'm doing a monologue of a guy in a coma.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 47:36–47:51

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

I gotta tell you, Brad(ley), the hot dog element, was that in your thing?

Question / challenge

Yes. Oh, interesting. I think this is like when you're in high school and you read, like, Romeo and Juliet, and it just is completely flat and lifeless and you get nothing out of reading the words.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 48:33–48:42

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

Brad(ley)?

Question / challenge

Othello? Oh, I was going to go that route as well. I will go with Hamlet. This was Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. Out of a bitch.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 50:14–50:23

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Brad(ley)?

Question / challenge

I think that's Hamlet. I think that's Othello. Ding, ding, ding. Well, much like Macbeth. Oh, is Macbeth not Hamlet? The prophecy has come true.

The rest of the round record

16 primary recorded exchanges · 0 retained source actions. 0 additional round events; 4 overlapping source alternatives. A source action may be a clue, reply, reaction or interruption—not necessarily a participant answer.

Recorded turns
Source excerpt ↗ 38:45–54:28

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 39:34

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

Were you going to call him Rad?

That's how he was going to call me Rad.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 40:05

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

And then I will award points to either one of you, depending on who did it better.

Was Brad's concept better or was Ryan's execution better?

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 40:14

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

What is a monologue?

Just talking.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 40:26

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

You think voices aren't happening?

I mean, like, different voices for each character.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 44:04

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

King Lear is about an elderly king who divides his kingdom among his daughters, and then they reject him.

And he's just out.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 45:08

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

Mary Wise of Windsor?

I don't know what that is.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 45:36

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

Why'd you give me a chance if we got it right?

If you answered the same answer and you were both right, you'd both get a point.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 48:15

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I know how Curtis thinks.

All right.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 48:23

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Ah, the game's afoot, huh?

Our revels now have ended.

Source alternatives (4)

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

View source wording — how it was explained on the show
  • It's a segment we're calling Besting the Bard. Oh, that's a good name. I thought this was a Brad segment. I thought this was Besting the Brad. No. I quickly read that. I was like, oh, yeah, Besting the Brad. Yeah. That's too easy. That's too easy. Let's instead try to best the most prolific author of all time. I can't even say it. We're in trouble. We have no chance to best them. We'll do fine. We got this. Brad actually has to. It should have been Brad Best the Bard. Yes. Okay. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to read a quote from a Shakespeare play. Both Brad and Ryan. Were you going to call him Rad? That's how he was going to call me Rad.
  • Participants assume characters and perform an unscored role-play.
  • And then Ryan will have to do an impromptu Shakespearean monologue or soliloquy, I should
  • But then they have to deal with this other dude named Arthur Franzarelli.
  • For the record, you don't have to encompass everything he said.
  • You don't have to recreate that movie.
  • He doesn't even have to go to rehab.
  • And by the way, is what you need to do next time to win just play better?

Comic bits and episode moments.

Source excerpt ↗ 30:36–31:28
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if you were fire marshal, how would you abuse your power?

Taking part: CurtisBrad(ley)

See how they answered

Same question. Their actual answers. · 3 recorded contributions

2 attributed voices

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 30:48–30:53

Anyway, for your Twitter question of the week, if you were fire marshal, how would you abuse your power?

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 30:53–31:10

Curtis? Uh, how would I abuse my power? That's right. As fire marshal. Or any marshal. You know what? I'll open it up. You know what? I don't like crowds. I would clear out any place I wanted to be. I don't think that just works like at a fair. You can't be like, the fire marshal's shutting down this fair. There's too many people. I'm not going to a fair.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 31:13–31:26

Bradley? I would also abuse my power by just finding the best seat of the place and making up some sort of excuse of why they cannot sit there. Wait 10 minutes and then go and sit in that seat. So a small scale version of what I did? The wait 10 minutes part is extremely annoying. 100%.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 30:47–31:28

Question and responses

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 30:53

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

if you were fire marshal, how would you abuse your power?

Curtis?

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 31:13

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

if you were fire marshal, how would you abuse your power?

Bradley?

Source details
  • if you were fire marshal, how would you abuse your power?

By way of goodbye.

Previously, next week.

Predictions as made on the podcast—not claims about what actually happens.

Looking ahead

Next episode predictions

Source excerpt ↗ 54:05–54:29

With Brad(ley)

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What was recorded

Their next-episode predictions · 3 recorded contributions

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