She is messing with Brennan though I feel like. Like if she used her breaking news persona she would kill this whole challenge. But she did not bring her strongest self here - just her most social self. Who is like, the self-deprecating foil to brennan’s hyper competitiveness.
i think she was worried sam was tricking her by saying the answer would be "rooster" when she said "chicken" but I'm pretty sure he would've taken either one.
@Mr. Monkey Paws he had 1.4k likes, so maybe not all people are native english speakers. The brain will most of the time - if not fully fluent in a language - translate it to a fluent language to understand a sentence, then writing it down means the brain will translate it back again to write it. This is especially true if they are only doing it from memory, like say after fully watching the clip. Or like in japanese/korean game shows where they play a telephone game to pass an english sentences.
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To be honest, it was pretty obvious that that was a Spoonbill. All I needed was one glace at its beak to notice it was spoon-shaped. I can't believe Brennan didn't notice that
@@Alicia-zf3nq in Brennan's defense, the spoon of the bill was immediately obvious to me with the angle of the head and against the bright white background, and it does it least sort of look like a stork, so I can see the logic of bald head+part of it is pink+stork= Marabou, even if it looks closer to a wood stork than a marabou imo
the best part had to be brennan between his outraged "i'm sorry, just penguin? just penguin?!" and his frustrated "that's a chicken again" before immediately walking away from the podium to try and calm himself
@@JaxontheOkay To be fair it's not like he said "spoonbill" and was told he needed to specifically guess "roseate spoonbill" he guesses "marabou" as in marabou stork which are only related to each other by virtue of being birds. The Roseate Spoonbill belongs to genus Platalea in the family Threskiornithidae in the order Pelecaniformes in the clade whereas the Marabou Stork belongs to the genus Leptoptilos in the family Ciconiidae in the order Ciconiiformes. Guessing Marabou Stork for Roseate Spoonbill is only slightly closer than him having penguin would have been genetically.
Oooo please do! I had a few teachers who would grade on a slant, one even opened the class up declaring the “boys needed to work harder outside of her class, so they could use the break more in her class.” The guys got to take naps and I got answers to weekly tests wrong even when I wrote verbatim from the book 😅
That's genius. Even the heart-rate monitor somewhat fits into that, as far as needing to hold things in because showing emotions about that kind of unfair experience will cause you to be judged against others who aren't having such emotions.
That was the game. The other two were allowed to give "family" answers so flamingo, penguin while Brennan was expected to give the specific species. Calling the Roseate a Marabou though was a straight mistake, storks and spoonbills are different families.
There is no person more enjoyable to watch be twisted in the wind than Brennan Lee Mulligan. Except perhaps Amy Vorphal, but Amy just self-destructs on her own, there is no need to even set out to ruin Amy. Amy just spontaneously combusts in fits of laughter. Both are incredible viewing experiences. And yes this is my way of saying I have watched this clip over a hundred times since upload.
I LOVE Amy's low breathy, 'oh no' she'll chuckle out before her maniacal laugh-paralysis. Cuz she's just as aware as we are that she's about to lose it and there's zero she can do about it
i love how the only thing stopping brennan from monologuing is the fact that his bpm can’t get too high 😭 once he figures out how to keep his bpm steady amidst a speech, it’s over for all of us
I think Carolyn deserves some extra credit here - I feel personally certain that Brennan's breaking point was when she said "Oh, I know this one!" about the Roseate Spoonbill, and then proudly looked at him when he got it wrong
This moment is SO funny, and it’s LAYERED! All those clips out there of Brennan talking bird facts. But he is on record saying he wants to dispell this myth people have of him as a “Bird Guy.” He’s not obsessed with them, but insofar as Brennan just knows a lot of stuff about a LOT of stuff, sure, it’s above average. There’s footage of him talking with Lou Wilson about it, while inevitably spouting off facts about crows, and Lou roasts him like, “I dunno man, that’s a lot of crow facts for someone who’s NOT a bird guy.” Just hilarious, how Brennan can NOT seem to shake the meme, despite specifically going in to do so. So when THIS happened, I absolutely lost it. It’s funny that Brennan can’t control his heart rate over the fear of a game rigged against him… but it’s EXTRA funny knowing that deep down, he knew this was the opportunity he had wished for… but it meant he’d have to lose a competition! Oh sweet monkey’s paw irony 😂
As a bird lover I knew the last two of Brennans hard birds. But I admit I didn’t know the name of the first. I’ll have to reschedule that. Also if they expected exact species names it should have been true for the others too, but that wasn’t the point. A fantastic example of unfair teaching/testing showing bias and corruption in action.
For those that don't know, the contestants are hooked up to heart rate monitors and the goal of the game is to not have your heart rate increase by more than 20 points above resting.
As a fellow bird nerd, this was the cruelest thing I've ever seen. Hoped Brennan looked into Prairie sage-grouse after this because they are pretty cool
They are! In his defense though, the first time I saw one, I also thought it was not a real bird 😂 it strutted really slowly across the road, looking all ridiculous, and am pretty sure my jaw dropped. The grouse was walking really slowly, with this stately sort of rhythm, never wavered in its pace... was very cool!
I love how Brennan not only has the agony of being arbitrarily set up for failure- a miniature rerun of the "Brennan Cannot Win" episode- but also he has to deal with: A) Katie being incredibly anxious and having to stop and think about *chicken* -not once, but *twice* B) Carolyn actually knowing the answer for one of Brennan's question, at least to the point of knowing the genus of the bird (Spoonbill AKA the _Platalea_ genus), narrowing it down to just 6 species. On one side, Katie is almost tripping over the lowest hurdles possible, and on the other, Carolyn is pole vaulting over Brennan's impossible hurdle while he himself still fails at it.
I watched this clip without having any context of the rest of the episode and the revelation at the end that Brennan's HEART RATE was being MEASURED was like, some genuine supervillain shit, that is devious
I fucking cried laughing when I saw this for the first time, from his face completely dropping at the first bird to him struggling harder and harder to keep the top of his head from spontaneously combusting as the game progressed
I think it almost went to +20 throughout most of it, but peaked at +21 when all Carolyn had to do for 5 points is guess "penguin" without being specific, like Brennan was asked to do.
Oh if only Sam had asked Carolyn to take a guess at the spoonbill so she could steal the point from Brennan. I think it would've broken him some more 🤣
Ironically, you got that wrong. Sam said 'dinosaurs are technically birds', which is false. What you stated 'birds are technically dinosaurs', is correct.
There’s a specific transition of emotions on Brennan’s face when he sees his first bird, and I’ve seen it before! On the UK show Taskmasters, there’s a contestant who repeatedly opens each new episode by presenting an embarrassing photo of the host. Well, one of the episodes the opening task is to take an interesting picture of yourself with a fez, so the host is already expecting the troll contestant to submit a badly photoshopped version of the embarrassing host photo with a fez edited in, and he turns to the screen with roughly the same smug confident look that Brennan has… the picture is of the host’s mother naked in he bath wearing the fez. Smug confidence evaporating into horror. That’s the transition they both have.
I'm honestly shocked that Brennan claimed that last bird wasn't real. It came up and I immediately knew I'd seen that bird before. Did I know what it was called? Hell no. But I did know that it was, in fact, a real bird.
To be fair, literally no-one should put a trick question past Sam for the last in a series of blatantly unfair questions. There's a reasonable chance that he called his bluff as a hail-mary.
i think it got a segment on planet earth. i do know its got an air sack thing in its neck that it uses to make this weird sound to attract the ladies lol.
Brennan knows he’s explicitly being messed with, on a show where he’s been targeted specifically before. It isn’t unreasonable to think they may have thrown in a fake bird
I think he was meta-gaming it at that point, and it wouldn't be past Sam to try a fake bird, specifically since his goal is to terrorize Brennan and juice his heartrate.
I feel like this segment is proof that there's a lot of ideas that are basically "ways we can fuck with Brennan Lee Mulligan" left on the cutting room floor of this show. By far one of the cruelest segments of the show, but also one of the funniest
When Brennan says “That’s a chicken again” the sound of his soul shattering into a thousand sweaty pieces is actually audible with the right headphones
I was trying the challenge and I was absolutely baffled on the Greater Sage Grouse. Which implies there is a Greatest Sage Grouse and a Sage Grouse. Of course the Grouse I know has red hair, a simp for Zelda and when push comes to shove can be a nice himbo.
I haven't looked it up, but it's more likely that the contrast is with a Lesser sage grouse. There's another example of that in this video with flamingo: there are greater and lesser flamingoes. I think the photo was the lesser, because of the intense pink colour.
INteresting that Carolyn gets 5 points for just saying "penguin" without specifics, and yet Brennan didn't get points for "phesant" when a Siamese Fireback is, indeed, a subspecies of pheasant. (I know the rules are explained at the end, but I had to GET IN THE COMMENTS! lol)
Brennon is 100% aware of what is going on (You can see his face shift at his first bird it's why he says pheasant, he sees it's a "Harder" question but his answer is based on what the other two had, it's when Sam reveals he answer that Brennon realizes the game), but he just can't help to jump into the challenge.
Whats even funnier is that earlier in the episode Brennan straight up achieves Nirvana and perfect inner understanding, only to have it wrenched away because he doesnt know the birds. Its the most Brennan thing I can think of.
To be fair to Brennan, the siamese fireback is a pheasant, just a specific apecies of pheasant. I recognized that much as well, but not the exact name. Same with spoonbill and grouse. I wasn't as specific as roseate spoonbill and greater sage grouse, but close enough. So when Carolyn got points for just penguin and not specifying emperor penguin, Brennan was right to be annoyed.
I saw the bird picture in the thumbnail and thought, “ooh! A roseate spoonbill!” which makes me feel a little smug, but I didn’t know either of the other Brennan-baiting birds!
I saw someone say that if Sam’s personal heaven was having the three noise makers doing their shtick all day then this is the opposite: Brennan’s personal hell!
something about the phrase "this is not a real bird" that implies that he is looking at it or holding it and refusing to acknowledge that it is real -- just sends me every time
"Penguin? Just penguin?!" I love this moment,when brenan getting flustered that more specific naming isn't required. Followed immediately by, its a chicken again.
I would've also loved to see the inverse of this joke where Brennan got nothing but chickens, but didn't get points because he didn't name the specific breed of chicken (e.g. Cobb-Vantress)
The second the first bird came up and his face fell I felt so bad for him. He was obviously so excited to talk bird facts and then Sam just crushed his spirit. So mean! Also I did know it was a Roseate Spoonbill although I would have called it a Rosetta Spoonbill. When I was a kid I lived in Florida and we learned about those in school cause they were semi-common down there and as a child I loved them because they were pink
Oh, this was hard to watch. Especially that last one. If you don’t know, the Greater Sage-Grouse has probably one of the best-or at least one of the funniest-mating… dances? Activities? Anyway, the male bird (shown on the screen) goes up to the rather less decorated female and inflates two yellowish-green sacs on its chest, making a sort of “phwoomp” noise. It does this over and over. Please, look it up. You will not be disappointed. And yes, it looks like bird tits.
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I love how katie isn't being messed with and somehow almost gets chicken wrong both times
"A rooster is a type of chicken" I mean?? I guess???
She is messing with Brennan though I feel like. Like if she used her breaking news persona she would kill this whole challenge. But she did not bring her strongest self here - just her most social self. Who is like, the self-deprecating foil to brennan’s hyper competitiveness.
Me if i were on the show
i think she was worried sam was tricking her by saying the answer would be "rooster" when she said "chicken" but I'm pretty sure he would've taken either one.
It’s my favorite part 😂
I love how Brennan's face shifts when he sees that first bird.
The best part for me is his reaction when Katie got another chicken worth 5 points; his walk off was hysterical.
you can see every stage of grief
The crazy part is, at least for the first two, the birds he named are pretty dang close, so far as looks go.
When the buzzer goes off and he hears the name he knows what he is in for lol
What gets me is how ironically bird-like that first reaction was
The emotional journey of overconfidence to panic to boiling acceptance all played out on Brennan's face is priceless
they took away the pride he had in his bird facts
0:34
Best time stamp
Don’t forget 0:41 when he has that split second of hope that immediately disappears.
@@greeninferno1339 The look of shock and confusion on his face 🤣
You can literally watch him experience all five stages of grief in under two minutes
brennan repeating "stay calm" to himself had me screaming with laughter
"calm down"
If it was so funny to you, I would think you would at least get the two word quote right
@Mr. Monkey Paws he had 1.4k likes, so maybe not all people are native english speakers. The brain will most of the time - if not fully fluent in a language - translate it to a fluent language to understand a sentence, then writing it down means the brain will translate it back again to write it.
This is especially true if they are only doing it from memory, like say after fully watching the clip. Or like in japanese/korean game shows where they play a telephone game to pass an english sentences.
@Kvinsky there’s nothing a pedant loves more than to point out something inane to prove they ‘know’ more.
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What I wouldn't give, to see the universe where Brennan knew those birds and foiled Sam.
He loses in that universe as well due to how excited he is to show that he knows the bird names.
BUT IT WAS A PHEASANT
He did!! The Siamese Fireback is actually a type of pheasant!
@@eliarice74 ya but that would be like calling an aracona just "chicken"....wait.
Well shit, then I DID know all three.
Except Sam would have screwed me like he did Brennan for not having specific subspecies named.
This is now the meanest thing that Sam has done to Brennan. Love it.
Idk the Yes or No game recently with Zac and Erica could also be considered the meanest
@@zbronstein3901 what episode?
@@zbronstein3901 where's that? or do you mean the one with ally?
@@DeeDee-ye5qe the one with ally or zac
@@zbronstein3901 the "yes or no" game was either mid 2021 or early 2022 definitely not recently
Carolin saying 'I know that one!' for the rosate Spoonbill was SUCH a good knife to Brennans side 😁
but it *was* super obviously a spoonbill.
@@chulent6875 I'd never even heard of it before 😅
And how he had to immediately check her, “Oh yeah, you knew it was a *rosate* spoonbill?🤨
To be honest, it was pretty obvious that that was a Spoonbill. All I needed was one glace at its beak to notice it was spoon-shaped. I can't believe Brennan didn't notice that
@@Alicia-zf3nq in Brennan's defense, the spoon of the bill was immediately obvious to me with the angle of the head and against the bright white background, and it does it least sort of look like a stork, so I can see the logic of bald head+part of it is pink+stork= Marabou, even if it looks closer to a wood stork than a marabou imo
I love how Brennan just randomly started pacing. You could tell it was genuinely getting to him
Brennan immediately: *sweats*
It was honestly seeing the chicken twice that blew him away.
it's not just that the others were easier it was that his weren't impossible. those were DOABLE. they were possible questions lmao
I mean for a man that hates loosing, beating him on an area of his interest it’s gotta be hell
Calm down!
the best part had to be brennan between his outraged "i'm sorry, just penguin? just penguin?!" and his frustrated "that's a chicken again" before immediately walking away from the podium to try and calm himself
also Katie almost getting chicken wrong twice.
he was expected to say "roseate spoonbill" but she wasn't expected to say "emperor penguin"
@@JaxontheOkay To be fair it's not like he said "spoonbill" and was told he needed to specifically guess "roseate spoonbill" he guesses "marabou" as in marabou stork which are only related to each other by virtue of being birds.
The Roseate Spoonbill belongs to genus Platalea in the family Threskiornithidae in the order Pelecaniformes in the clade whereas the Marabou Stork belongs to the genus Leptoptilos in the family Ciconiidae in the order Ciconiiformes.
Guessing Marabou Stork for Roseate Spoonbill is only slightly closer than him having penguin would have been genetically.
@@AztecCroc i'm not sure i follow but i'm sure you would have aced the quiz
That's probably the moment his heart rate increased, he just about held it together before that
I'm an educator and I think I will use this video as a training example for testing inequality, grading inequality and teacher prejudice
Oooo please do! I had a few teachers who would grade on a slant, one even opened the class up declaring the “boys needed to work harder outside of her class, so they could use the break more in her class.” The guys got to take naps and I got answers to weekly tests wrong even when I wrote verbatim from the book 😅
this honestly sounds like a great idea!
Along the same lines, it’s worth looking up an SNL skit with John Cena where he does a presentation about bananas.
@@Ladililn Thanks for the reminder, that skit was so cruel XD
That's genius. Even the heart-rate monitor somewhat fits into that, as far as needing to hold things in because showing emotions about that kind of unfair experience will cause you to be judged against others who aren't having such emotions.
The condescending "SORRY Brennan" is just the icing on the cake
s o r r y b r e n n a n
Especially with how congratulatory he was to the other two, as though they were making great guesses to difficult questions.
“That is a chicken, Katie! Bravo!”
I mean technically the Siamese Fireback is a Pheasant 😂
Sorry, but you didn't say "um, actually" so you will not get a point
That was the game. The other two were allowed to give "family" answers so flamingo, penguin while Brennan was expected to give the specific species. Calling the Roseate a Marabou though was a straight mistake, storks and spoonbills are different families.
@@mitchstacey2860 um, actually, the siamese fireback is technically a pheasant
@@hittkid6312 except for the spoonbill stork!
(why yes, i Did know roseate spoonbill off the top of my head. why do you ask)
There is no person more enjoyable to watch be twisted in the wind than Brennan Lee Mulligan. Except perhaps Amy Vorphal, but Amy just self-destructs on her own, there is no need to even set out to ruin Amy. Amy just spontaneously combusts in fits of laughter. Both are incredible viewing experiences. And yes this is my way of saying I have watched this clip over a hundred times since upload.
Oh my goodness, amy vorphal would not have scored a single point in this game lol
I LOVE Amy's low breathy, 'oh no' she'll chuckle out before her maniacal laugh-paralysis. Cuz she's just as aware as we are that she's about to lose it and there's zero she can do about it
@@fungeneer ".....hhhhuuoohh noouuuh......."
Four hours seems incredibly excessive to spend on this clip, even as an exaggeration
i love how the only thing stopping brennan from monologuing is the fact that his bpm can’t get too high 😭 once he figures out how to keep his bpm steady amidst a speech, it’s over for all of us
I don't know, the "helvetica threatening comic sans" speech seemed like a psychopath with low BPM casually about to commit typographic mayhem.
He'd be the Hannibal Lecter of talking.
The entire video, you can _feel_ Brennan preparing his Icarus monologue.
That was a different episode.
that was in yes or no
I think Carolyn deserves some extra credit here - I feel personally certain that Brennan's breaking point was when she said "Oh, I know this one!" about the Roseate Spoonbill, and then proudly looked at him when he got it wrong
Also when Katie almost failed to say chicken twice.
This moment is SO funny, and it’s LAYERED! All those clips out there of Brennan talking bird facts. But he is on record saying he wants to dispell this myth people have of him as a “Bird Guy.” He’s not obsessed with them, but insofar as Brennan just knows a lot of stuff about a LOT of stuff, sure, it’s above average.
There’s footage of him talking with Lou Wilson about it, while inevitably spouting off facts about crows, and Lou roasts him like, “I dunno man, that’s a lot of crow facts for someone who’s NOT a bird guy.” Just hilarious, how Brennan can NOT seem to shake the meme, despite specifically going in to do so.
So when THIS happened, I absolutely lost it. It’s funny that Brennan can’t control his heart rate over the fear of a game rigged against him… but it’s EXTRA funny knowing that deep down, he knew this was the opportunity he had wished for… but it meant he’d have to lose a competition! Oh sweet monkey’s paw irony 😂
plenty of Brennan's so-called "bird facts" aren't even accurate though. He's done the branding for himself but doesn't live up to the hype.
@@chulent6875 So this is Sam messing with him on multiple levels 😝
Thank you for this analysis, it was fun to read!
He said that after this, he decided to study up hard on birds, I think he even got flash cards of birds for this.
he's also said that at this point, he's just embraced the meme. He's the bird guy now.
when Brennan said “that’s a chicken again” i laughed so hard my soul momentarily left my body
this is incredibly brutal. tailored to this man's psyche. it reduced brennan to a puppet dancing on sam's string.
First it was making a game brennan cant win
Then it was a game that brennan *might* win
I love you sam reich
I still love his rant on the other game. Somebody synced it up with "Hall of the Mountain King" and it's perfect.
A game that he can't win is cruel and unfair. A game he _can_ win, but won't, is crueler because it is just.
Next up, a game he *can’t* lose, to the point where the victory is hollow
@@xactoly hahaha, truly devilish innovations here
As a bird lover I knew the last two of Brennans hard birds. But I admit I didn’t know the name of the first. I’ll have to reschedule that. Also if they expected exact species names it should have been true for the others too, but that wasn’t the point.
A fantastic example of unfair teaching/testing showing bias and corruption in action.
This, this is a specific hell Sam has crafted
this mini game was less "name that bird" and more "bullying Brennan in a very specific way"
Brennan going down swinging for data is the most Brennan part of this bit
For those that don't know, the contestants are hooked up to heart rate monitors and the goal of the game is to not have your heart rate increase by more than 20 points above resting.
You know he went home after this and started diligently memorizing birds
Then the next episode will be quiz on fishes
He went home and googled “Siamese Fireback” and was like “IT IS A PHEASANT!”
i love the “river of sweat” comment - i guess his bodyyyyyy was betraying him constantly
His real mistake was not having almonds at the ready
I heard that in his voice. LOL.
Give that man some almonds.
Mike Trapp is taking notes on how to fck with Brennan and Izzy is gonna have to deal with Brennan going on a huge bird learning montage.
Eye of the Tiger plays in the background as Brennan reads Wikipedia with eight different empty cups of coffee on his desk
@@bacicinvatteneaca I’d bet that’s just a regular Tuesday.
@@Direwolf1771he's gonna stay up for 81 hours again 😂
As a fellow bird nerd, this was the cruelest thing I've ever seen. Hoped Brennan looked into Prairie sage-grouse after this because they are pretty cool
They are! In his defense though, the first time I saw one, I also thought it was not a real bird 😂 it strutted really slowly across the road, looking all ridiculous, and am pretty sure my jaw dropped. The grouse was walking really slowly, with this stately sort of rhythm, never wavered in its pace... was very cool!
I know I looked into it after seeing this clip. It’s very pretty!
Yeah, their mating displays are just so weird.
I love how Brennan not only has the agony of being arbitrarily set up for failure- a miniature rerun of the "Brennan Cannot Win" episode- but also he has to deal with:
A) Katie being incredibly anxious and having to stop and think about *chicken* -not once, but *twice*
B) Carolyn actually knowing the answer for one of Brennan's question, at least to the point of knowing the genus of the bird (Spoonbill AKA the _Platalea_ genus), narrowing it down to just 6 species.
On one side, Katie is almost tripping over the lowest hurdles possible, and on the other, Carolyn is pole vaulting over Brennan's impossible hurdle while he himself still fails at it.
I watched this clip without having any context of the rest of the episode and the revelation at the end that Brennan's HEART RATE was being MEASURED was like, some genuine supervillain shit, that is devious
As soon as that first bird came up, I said "oh, no, they truly found the perfect way to get to Brennan..." hats off to 'em!
Brennan just walking away after the second chicken is priceless
a rooster chicken you mean
I fucking cried laughing when I saw this for the first time, from his face completely dropping at the first bird to him struggling harder and harder to keep the top of his head from spontaneously combusting as the game progressed
I would like to know if it was a specific bird or just immediate stress for Brennan 😂
SAME!! My guess would be it was on the second chicken 😅
If I had to guess, it'd be when he saw the first bird or was told his first answer was wrong.
I think it almost went to +20 throughout most of it, but peaked at +21 when all Carolyn had to do for 5 points is guess "penguin" without being specific, like Brennan was asked to do.
Oh if only Sam had asked Carolyn to take a guess at the spoonbill so she could steal the point from Brennan. I think it would've broken him some more 🤣
My favorite thing about this clip is that Brennan is correct on the first bird. The Siamese Fireback is a type of pheasant.
"Just PENGUIN!?" followed by Kate pretty much messing up a chicken question but getting it right anyway was perfect
For a true understanding of just how funny this is, Katie laughed.
Okay?
Katie stoically watched Sam *gargle piss*. And she laughed at that.
Kate struggled with "chicken" and Brennan looked at her with absolute fire in his eyes. That's gonna break anyone
This is straight up payback for No Laugh News when Sam misspoke and said that "Birds were technically dinosaurs" and Brennan ripped him a new one LOL
Ironically, you got that wrong. Sam said 'dinosaurs are technically birds', which is false. What you stated 'birds are technically dinosaurs', is correct.
i love how this game has turned into a kind of existential torture for brennan
I love how Game Changer has just become ways for Sam to fuck with Brennan
I knew what was going to happen as soon as this segment started
The instant that pigeon popped up I was like "Oh no... wait this is even better actually."
I hope this happens again but Brennan shows up actually prepared for it
There’s a specific transition of emotions on Brennan’s face when he sees his first bird, and I’ve seen it before!
On the UK show Taskmasters, there’s a contestant who repeatedly opens each new episode by presenting an embarrassing photo of the host. Well, one of the episodes the opening task is to take an interesting picture of yourself with a fez, so the host is already expecting the troll contestant to submit a badly photoshopped version of the embarrassing host photo with a fez edited in, and he turns to the screen with roughly the same smug confident look that Brennan has… the picture is of the host’s mother naked in he bath wearing the fez.
Smug confidence evaporating into horror. That’s the transition they both have.
I knew this show reminded me of taskmasters for some reason lol
Oh gods the Fez double take. Now i'mma go down a Taskmaster binge
It wasn't the best series of taskmaster for prize tasks, but that was one of the best individual reactions to one entry
On rewatch, Brennan's tiny little sob at 0:54 might just be my favorite part of the video
I'm honestly shocked that Brennan claimed that last bird wasn't real. It came up and I immediately knew I'd seen that bird before. Did I know what it was called? Hell no. But I did know that it was, in fact, a real bird.
To be fair, literally no-one should put a trick question past Sam for the last in a series of blatantly unfair questions. There's a reasonable chance that he called his bluff as a hail-mary.
i think it got a segment on planet earth. i do know its got an air sack thing in its neck that it uses to make this weird sound to attract the ladies lol.
Brennan knows he’s explicitly being messed with, on a show where he’s been targeted specifically before. It isn’t unreasonable to think they may have thrown in a fake bird
I think he was meta-gaming it at that point, and it wouldn't be past Sam to try a fake bird, specifically since his goal is to terrorize Brennan and juice his heartrate.
Katie is so funny, the part where she did the “there’s an egg on your head!” bit had me cracking up.
I feel like this segment is proof that there's a lot of ideas that are basically "ways we can fuck with Brennan Lee Mulligan" left on the cutting room floor of this show. By far one of the cruelest segments of the show, but also one of the funniest
When Brennan says “That’s a chicken again” the sound of his soul shattering into a thousand sweaty pieces is actually audible with the right headphones
Brennan getting a consistent paycheck means that he also gets consistently fucked over during game changer. The world requires balance, after all.
Brennan saying “calm down” to himself out loud is a level of anger management I wish I had
I knew that I was a bigger nerd than I thought when I identified all of Brennan's birds, and then was surprised he couldn't
Ignoring the rest of the video, Greater Sage-Grouse is the coolest name/look combo I've seen in a bird.
The siamese fireback is in fact, a pheasant
Sam's "Hm?" broke me! 😂
I was trying the challenge and I was absolutely baffled on the Greater Sage Grouse.
Which implies there is a Greatest Sage Grouse and a Sage Grouse.
Of course the Grouse I know has red hair, a simp for Zelda and when push comes to shove can be a nice himbo.
I haven't looked it up, but it's more likely that the contrast is with a Lesser sage grouse. There's another example of that in this video with flamingo: there are greater and lesser flamingoes. I think the photo was the lesser, because of the intense pink colour.
I love how he doesn't even argue them getting the points after and just wants to know.... WHEN.
Brennan at 0:35 is the face i imagine icarus made when he noticed that first lil drip of wax
I legit knew the last one was a grouse. Just didn't know it was the "greater sage" variety.
This was such a great ep. This part plus Katie given off massive "lil sister" vibes just got me.
INteresting that Carolyn gets 5 points for just saying "penguin" without specifics, and yet Brennan didn't get points for "phesant" when a Siamese Fireback is, indeed, a subspecies of pheasant. (I know the rules are explained at the end, but I had to GET IN THE COMMENTS! lol)
Brennon is 100% aware of what is going on (You can see his face shift at his first bird it's why he says pheasant, he sees it's a "Harder" question but his answer is based on what the other two had, it's when Sam reveals he answer that Brennon realizes the game), but he just can't help to jump into the challenge.
the animosity and rage radiating off of brennan towards sam would've killed an average person standing next to him
Whats even funnier is that earlier in the episode Brennan straight up achieves Nirvana and perfect inner understanding, only to have it wrenched away because he doesnt know the birds.
Its the most Brennan thing I can think of.
I saw the thumbnail and thought “I wonder what name they are going to give a roseate spoonbill.”
To be fair to Brennan, the siamese fireback is a pheasant, just a specific apecies of pheasant. I recognized that much as well, but not the exact name. Same with spoonbill and grouse. I wasn't as specific as roseate spoonbill and greater sage grouse, but close enough. So when Carolyn got points for just penguin and not specifying emperor penguin, Brennan was right to be annoyed.
I saw the bird picture in the thumbnail and thought, “ooh! A roseate spoonbill!” which makes me feel a little smug, but I didn’t know either of the other Brennan-baiting birds!
Seeing Brennan lose his smug grin the instant he sees his bird is wonderful.
Joke's on Sam! A Siamese Fireback is a type of Pheasant, so Brennan got that right ! (especially since 'penguin' was correct)
this is such a specifically tailored hell. for brennan.
I love how Sam can barely announce the minigame beacuse he is so giddy knowing what torture lies ahead for Brennan
The best episodes of Game Changer are when Sam screws with Brennan specifically.
I saw someone say that if Sam’s personal heaven was having the three noise makers doing their shtick all day then this is the opposite: Brennan’s personal hell!
Am I the only one that saw the greater sage-grouse and immediately craved to achieve its aesthetic? What a pretty fuckin bird!!!
And now he brings up “roseate spoonbill” every chance he gets in other challenges 😂
As we all know, rule #1 of this show is "Brennan cannot win".
I may have had a stroke watching this. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. I couldn't breathe.
something about the phrase "this is not a real bird" that implies that he is looking at it or holding it and refusing to acknowledge that it is real -- just sends me every time
"Penguin? Just penguin?!" I love this moment,when brenan getting flustered that more specific naming isn't required. Followed immediately by, its a chicken again.
I would've also loved to see the inverse of this joke where Brennan got nothing but chickens, but didn't get points because he didn't name the specific breed of chicken (e.g. Cobb-Vantress)
Brennan's kobayashi maru
I wish I could see the alternate universe where Brennan DID know those birds that would be brilliant.
Incredibly proud that I knew every bird that Brennan got
I NEED THE ANSWER: WHEN DID IT BREAK
That’s what I want to know!!!!
I knew two out of three of Brennan's birds. Not sure whether that's better or worse than someone who can recognize all of the Pokemon...
“Not a real bird” would totally have been my guess too.
The second the first bird came up and his face fell I felt so bad for him. He was obviously so excited to talk bird facts and then Sam just crushed his spirit. So mean!
Also I did know it was a Roseate Spoonbill although I would have called it a Rosetta Spoonbill. When I was a kid I lived in Florida and we learned about those in school cause they were semi-common down there and as a child I loved them because they were pink
can you imagine the look on sams face if brennen knew all of them?
I said “just penguin??” right before Brennan, that might have been the moment to tick the heart rate up lol
The best part is, knowing this show simply saying "that's a bird" would probably count.
I've never even heard of a fireback, but I knew the spoonbill and the sage grouse. What was their plan going to be if he actually knew them?
Best moment of the episode, no lie.
fun fact: Brennan's first bird was indeed a pheasant
I love with Brennan’s first bird he actually isn’t wrong it is actually a pheasant.
Instantly legendary
I would like everyone to know the Siamese Fireback is in fact a pheasant
Imagine if Brennan knew these birds. I'd love to see this version of this mini game where Sam just doesn't know what to do
I think it would’ve been incredibly funny if Brennan actually got every bird right somehow, down to the scientific name.
full The Brennan Parable mode
Oh, this was hard to watch. Especially that last one. If you don’t know, the Greater Sage-Grouse has probably one of the best-or at least one of the funniest-mating… dances? Activities? Anyway, the male bird (shown on the screen) goes up to the rather less decorated female and inflates two yellowish-green sacs on its chest, making a sort of “phwoomp” noise. It does this over and over. Please, look it up. You will not be disappointed. And yes, it looks like bird tits.