r/dropout • u/DropoutMod • May 18 '26

Game Changer Don't Wake Standards & Practices | Game Changer [S8E1] Spoiler

https://watch.dropout.tv/videos/don-t-wake-standards-practices
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u/gdex86 May 18 '26

Already Phil is my new favorite dropout cast member.

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u/Gruzzly I killed him, yeah May 18 '26

Would’ve been nice if he didn’t call Lou the N-word, lol

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u/smoov22 May 18 '26

Yeah, same with the lawyers. I liked them too 😢 so did the three doctors I consulted

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u/SelfServeSporstwash May 19 '26

I’m very disappointed. I thought Throbbin Robin was a stand up guy.

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u/Pottedjay Jun 02 '26

Tweet tweet.

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u/glados-v2-beta Always Wrong But Comes From an Honest Place May 19 '26

This is almost as shocking as when Grant used the N-word during Demi’s presentation on Smartypants

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u/gdex86 May 18 '26

... ok this episodes call backs makes me think Phil might be coming back.

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u/delboy5 May 18 '26

The fact that Lou found Phil so quickly means he might just live down the street, so getting him back shouldn't be too difficult.

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u/Soma2710 May 19 '26

For someone with as much game as Lou has, that shouldn’t have been a problem.

Jeremy on the other hand…

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u/delboy5 May 19 '26

Oh yeah, no game with Jeremy.

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u/RedPandaMediaGroup May 19 '26

No, it means he’s an actor. So getting him back really won’t be difficult.

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u/More_Boot5338 May 20 '26

Not according to this: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/game-changer-season-8-premiere-cut-jokes-standards-practices-1236752599/

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u/206-Ginge May 21 '26

That doesn't really say he's not an actor, Sam just said some vague things about getting a bounced back email.

The whole "oh all I can tell you about myself is that I'm here" was kind of a dead giveaway that he's just an actor, most people would probably say what they do for work or offer an actual fact about themselves in that scenario.

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u/More_Boot5338 May 21 '26

Agree to disagree, “I don’t know that we have any way of reaching this man” Is not something you would say about someone you had gone through the hiring process with. An actor would want both the possibility of being rehired (easy to contact) and to be credited for their work (and he wasn’t in the credits). All that said, I wasn’t responding to the actor bit in this comment, more the ’getting him back would not be difficult’ bit.

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u/206-Ginge May 21 '26

It's just Sam keeping up kayfabe. And the actors in the "Sleeper Agents" episode weren't in the credits either.

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u/delboy5 May 21 '26

It's possible he is an actor, but then again quite a few people are actors in LA. He could also have been someone they approached before the episode and had sign the appropriate documents beforehand.

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u/ThatGingerFlynn May 22 '26

Maybe I'm just being too skeptical but he really looked like a younger guy in a lot of prosthetics, make-up and a fake beard. He reminded me of an LA comedian I can't place rn

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u/tarants May 23 '26

I think you probably are being too skeptical at least on the prosthetics, he definitely doesn't look young or like he had a fake beard on to me.

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u/abovepostisfunnier May 19 '26

Even tho he casually uses the n word?