Brennan Lee Mulligan loses his mind on game changer

GOD-

[thefinalfrontear]

here is the copypasta for y’all:

I know what’s going on here. I know what’s going on here. Okay? I do. And if you want me to wander backstage to spill the beans...

I’m the only one out of the loop, it would seem... and if we check my point total here— I don’t NEED to walk to the front, because I know what it is. It’s a big ol’ GOOSE EGG, GANG. It’s a FAT ZERO. HELLO!! A little LATE ADDITION to the numerical symbol chart brought to us from our friends in Arabia, a little bit of trivia that I happen to know about the history of numbers. That kind of little tidbit would serve me well in most trivia games, unless it had been RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING!

Oh, I’ve only just BEGUN to pull the thread on this sweater, friends. You would THINK in a game where there are only TWO possible correct choices, that one would STUMBLE INTO the right answer every so often, wouldn’t you? In fact, the probability of NEVER guessing right in the full game is a STATISTICAL WONDER, and yet, HERE WE ARE.

Introduced at the top of the game as a champion, what do you think that means? Icarus, flying too close to the sun. But it seems Daedalus, our little master crafter over here, had some wax wings of his own, didn’t he? Wanted to see his son fall. Fall from the sky. Oh, how CLOSE TO THE SUN he flew!

Well I’m NOT HAVING IT. I solved your labyrinth, puzzle master! The minotaur‘s escaped and you’re gonna get the horns, buddy!

I CANNOT WIN!

[explolsivecake]

I know he did improv, but I find it hilarious that he got so angry he made a whole villain monologue *on the spot*

[BacadoTheSkoggy]

I love that that monologue was so good that ally genuinely started questioning who was being played cause it had to be rehersed

[VanNessy]

"Did we all get crowns?"
"Uh, we only got two."
*"GOD-"*

[naqidoesps]

The "Whoa, dude" from Zach that makes Brennan from an angry man to a fire breathing dragon is just gold

[coena]

Brennan casually dropping a fun fact about the history of numbers and a Ancient Greek mythology reference while giving his unhinged villain monologue is perfectly on brand for him.

[leebarber]

Putting Brennan in this game with the two chillest people at CH was a great decision

[benw.]

Cutting off Brennan’s “G*ddammit” is easily the greatest editing choice of 2020.

[Bobicici]

Imagine if Brennan had said "The rule is I CAN NEVER WIN" and Sam's response was just "No... next question"

[NovaBlueNova]

It's insane that he can just bust out these monologues that sound scripted without pausing or saying "um". The man was born to DM

[nntbm]

i fully believe that brennan figured it out after like question 3 and then spent the rest of the game coming up with the monologue

[Gordyan_Knot]

I mean...part of me wanted to laugh, but I was too busy sitting here in slack-jawed envy of his ability to launch into a ranting mythology-based monologue.

[thesalanian]

I can tell this was improvised purely from the fact that his ‘pulling thread’ metaphor was tied into a sweater instead of the more appropriate ‘ball of yarn in the Minotaur’s maze’, which is proof he found the mythology emphasis halfway through

[quinnlee-newbury]

So I tweeted Brennan asking if this was really all improvised (not because I doubt Brennan's skill, it was just that good), and his response was essentially that it takes effort for him to not speak like this all day. So I love that this is the truest form of Brennan and it comes out most often when he's livid

[josephmcdonald]

So I've been taking in-depth acting classes that also delve very deep into improv and I can say that Brennan did this improvised monologue perfectly. You can see how he starts softer which gives him somewhere to go with his improvised character and then builds into an amazing ending that absolutely sells the insanity in him.

[jac]

I’d only seen this clip out of context but I watched the whole episode recently and I cannot begin to describe the experience of watching that whole episode where it’s just a normal game with fun little gimmicks and they’re all just trying to figure out what the rules are, and then Something Clicks and Brennan actually loses his mind. Phenomenal. This show is gold.

[Addy]

Zac's "whoa, dude" is iconic

[wayywardcryptid]

this monologue is one of the single funniest things i have ever seen, in my life, brennan really is just Like This

[Tallygirl]

The fact that Brennan has actually won Who Wants To Be A Millionaire before makes his rage here all the more hilarious!

[dorobokino]

I love how, even in this space outside of a prompt, Brennan and Zac still share the same improv dynamic whereby Brennan monologues pure poetry seamlessly without end -- and Zac finds the perfect one-line quip to sneak in at the perfect time in the middle of all of Brennan's chaos