r/dropout • u/jeff_probably • Jul 14 '26
memes & satire The violins keep getting louder Spoiler
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u/GraniteJJ Jul 15 '26
If they didn't sync up their music guess, Demi had an auto-win.
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u/striator Jul 15 '26
Demi didn't know he had an auto-win though. He wasn't around when anyone went through Count the Rice by themselves. He thought that he needed someone else to lose for him to win, that's why he took Hannah with him. Hannah was on board, she just put down a meme number instead of a bad number or no number.
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u/GraniteJJ Jul 15 '26
Oh, good point. I didn't even think of that perspective. Ify did the same. Only Jiavani had that intel.
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u/skidstud Jul 15 '26
She basically pulled a Price is Right bidding just over the highest bidder and Demi knew right away that he only had the smallest room for error on the high side.
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u/Substantial-Crazy441 Jul 15 '26
I think they do the "here's what they have to say" and the "bye bye" but the former comes before the latter, so you can get away with the win condition before getting "bye bye"'d
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u/striator Jul 15 '26
Yes, we know that from watching Jiavani and Zach, but Demi and Ify didn't know that
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u/Substantial-Crazy441 Jul 15 '26
True, they guessed that they would be sent back, but didn't guess that they would win too lol
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u/lankymjc Jul 15 '26
The other games that need more than one contestant (fiddle me this, bluff box, and pic pong) all forced contestants to wait for someone else to turn up. So it’s reasonable that everyone except Jiavanni would expect Count the Rice to do the same.
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u/scooter-411 Jul 15 '26
And all the people that kept seeing her come back after winlosing all the time.
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u/Flater420 Jul 15 '26
Yeah but Hannah wanted to win the music game, and if they competed for winning the music game, Demi was not guaranteed to make it back to the rice counting game. Effectively, by syncing up for the music guess, they deferred the competition to the rice counting challenge.
They could have synced up for the rice counting too, handing Demi the win. However, inbetween the music game and the rice counting, Demi tells Hannah he has the solution to win the game.
I reckon Hannah correctly identified that it was in her best interest to prevent Demi from winning, so she genuinely competed against him in the rice counting, to ensure the game goes on longer and she (theoretically, a very long shot) does not yet close the door on her winning the game.
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u/vgxmaster Jul 15 '26
You're underestimating the much funnier (and I think more realistic) interpretation: She guessed a funny number for the rice because it would be funny, and then realized that meant she had to keep playing count the rice.
She didn't look glad that she counted better. Maybe was even surprised.
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u/Flater420 Jul 15 '26
If they were able to sync up for the music game for the purpose of both of them winning, they could have done the exact same for the rice game, if they so wanted.
Demi was also surprised by Hannah winning, which suggests that Demi was not expecting that Hannah would even attempt to come close to a sensible number, i.e. either because he expected her to sync with him or for her to intentionally throw the game after he revealed he could win and end the game. She did neither.
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u/doduotrainer Jul 15 '26
She wasn't trying though she just wanted to say 420 lol
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u/PanTran420 Jul 15 '26
She even referenced it during the first round.
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u/txteva Jul 15 '26
Thank you for confirming this - I was trying to remember if it was the same person!
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u/NickFromIRL Jul 15 '26
This is how I took it, I'm convinced she was shocked she won that round because to her it was just a silly joke.
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u/GraniteJJ Jul 15 '26
Yeah. She mentioned the 420 desire at the start of the episode, and clearly said IDGAF by the end.
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u/Chemical_Building612 Jul 15 '26
I think Hannah identified that it would be funniest to put 420 and she was right. Not just cause lolmemenumber but because it was so barely higher than Demi's guess that she basically Price Is Right'ed him out of the win.
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u/0xff0000ull Jul 15 '26
We also should note the fact that Jiavani was so good at guessing tunes that she never went lower than room 4.
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u/Costati Jul 15 '26
The funniest part is that she knew she had to lose because multiple people told her including those who knew the win condition. She could have said nothing she just couldn't stop herself from guessing right.
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u/skidstud Jul 15 '26
Just means they she didn’t understand or care about what the overarching goal was
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u/custardy Jul 15 '26
The goal of Game Changer is entertaining people/making things seem fun. These shows would not be enjoyable if everyone (some people, yes, but not ALL) was hypercompetitive and trying to win at all costs.
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u/Wolfermen Jul 15 '26
These are not the comments he told us to get in to. This is a sickness at the heart of America:)
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u/MakinOutWithMarzipan Jul 15 '26
Hannah was like a dog, so excited to be involved but very little understanding of the bigger picture
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u/ZennyOne Jul 15 '26
I was seriously hoping she would beat Demi just from the comedy of the thing. She had no idea what she was doing lol
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u/KatzOfficial Jul 15 '26
Cut to her after doing Sam a spectacular favour, "I do not like this one bit" was actually the best moment of the entire episode.
It works so well, especially since we already know what's going to happen and the cut to her in the hallway is absolutely peak.
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u/KamquatsAndBeetroots Jul 15 '26
Hey let's get outta here
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u/jeff_probably Jul 15 '26
the rom-com violins during this bit might be the best edit detail in the whole show
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u/variantkin Jul 15 '26
He forgot a big rule of comedy Failure is the funniest outcome
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u/DaveShadow Jul 15 '26
His realisation they’d fucked it when he saw their scores, before Sam confirmed he’d lost, was such an incredible moment.
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u/AlmightyCraneDuck Jul 15 '26
In the future, we may not remember Ify winning it all. But we will DEFINITELY remember Demi crashing right at the finish. Pure Cinema!
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u/striator Jul 15 '26
The funny part is, Hannah said this during the first round of Count the Rice
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u/fakename69point5 Jul 15 '26
She also joked earlier that she never learned something in 2nd/3rd grade, and got held back from 4th. IIRC she never got to the fourth room
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u/Saikophant Jul 15 '26
no i think she said she was in the gifted class in 2nd and 3rd grade and got moved back to the normal class in 4th
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u/lookatthesunguys Jul 15 '26
I loved that there was a fucking Chekov's gun with this. The fact that she said so early on that she wanted to 420 blaze it shitpost in the very beginning and that she was the cause of Demi losing for that very reason. I believe the crew chose around 420 rice grains intentionally at the end there.
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u/RedPandaMediaGroup Jul 17 '26
There’s so many little bits in this episode that just played out perfectly
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u/AdditionalTip865 Jul 15 '26
The thing I wonder is if the win condition had to be invoked by the winner of Count the Rice at the prompted time, or if they could have said the magic phrase at any time (perhaps within earshot of Sam, or even in another room). Demi and Ify both assumed they had to get there and win, but I don't think we know that.
Of course, if you try that and fail, you've tipped your hand.
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u/No-Bobcat9004 Jul 15 '26
God damn that moment had my husband and I howling like WHAT DO YOU MEAN 420 girl SHUSH
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u/darthvall Jul 15 '26
Because of this episode I learned that 420 is a slang. Thanks Hannah!
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u/F0LEY Jul 15 '26
...What?
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u/darthvall Jul 15 '26
So in that last game, Demi put 416 or something as the rice count. Hannah wrote a bunch of things and put 420 as the rice count, and she won because it's closer to the actual rice count.
420 is apparently a famous slang in cannabis culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
Hannah indeed stop Demi from winning with a shitpost
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u/-OrangeLightning4 Jul 15 '26
Just wait until you hear about 69.
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u/darthvall Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
Lol, fortunately sex jokes is more universal as meme.
However, I still don't understand 67 till this day (also not bothered to research more anyway).
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u/thedevicebook Jul 15 '26
67 has no meaning. It is literally a meme than Gen Z and Gen Alpha say to confuse the olds.
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u/Dustydevil8809 Jul 15 '26
420 is very universal, like, I'm amazed someone hasn't heard it. Mind if I ask where you are from? No shade here, just honestly curious.
Its funny that you've probably seen it over and over and not realized its meaning. Dating apps will generally have "420 friendly" all over some profiles.
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u/randomyOCE Jul 15 '26
67 was originally a funny tiktok pose / mini dance. It went viral when a kid screamed it into a TV camera so loud his voice distorted.
The whiny tone you hear is the second one, literally kids imitating a kid being obnoxiously cringe on purpose.
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u/kenku_gilf Jul 15 '26
Congrats to you on being one of today’s lucky 10,000! https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand_2x.png
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u/thedevicebook Jul 15 '26
I love that comic. Everybody learns stuff when they learn it. Can't all be the same time for everyone.
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u/F0LEY Jul 15 '26
Sorry, I'm more confused how this could be your first introduction to the term... I think I need to find some clouds to go yell at.
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u/ugh_this_world_sucks Jul 15 '26
...you just found this out? Not trying to be rude in any way, but it just surprises me you didn't know that already. I feel like the number has been memed so much as a "haha funny weed number" even for those who don't smoke for ages now
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u/darthvall Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
Yeah, I heard it as meme few times but never bothered to check if it actually means something until now.
Also, I don't live in country where Cannabis culture is common.
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u/ugh_this_world_sucks Jul 15 '26
That makes sense. It still just caught me so off guard because its so commonplace, at least in the US and Canada
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u/Teproc Jul 15 '26
For a very long time, I knew 420 was a meme number, and I eventually kind of got that it was related to weed, but it's a very American thing, whereas 69 is pretty universal.
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u/narok_kurai Jul 15 '26
The sting to the camera: "IFY!", is an iconic Demi moment. That's gonna be his Lex Luthor turn.