The Only Legal Problem ‘Game Changer’ Season 8 Has Is with the Latches on Its Giant Fake Lawyer
The eighth season of Dropout's game show 'Game Changer' introduces a unique premise involving a giant puppet lawyer. Production designer Chloe Badner highlights the challenges of creating the puppet, named Inertia, which needed to balance aesthetics and mechanics. The season promises a variety of innovative designs and game mechanics that continue to evolve the show's format.
- ▪The show has used its standard podiums only once in Season 8.
- ▪The premiere episode features a human-sized game board and a giant puppet lawyer.
- ▪Production involved complex technical problem-solving for the puppet's mechanics.
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With seven seasons under its belt and an eighth getting underway, the premise of Dropout’s “Game Changer” — the game show where the game changes every show — is starting to become more of a threat to its own creative team. By this point, host Sam Reich has subjected the Dropout stable of comedians to everything from improvised musicals and murder mysteries to elaborate comedy twists on “Survivor,” “The Bachelor,” “The Circle,” and “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.” According to the show’s production designer and co-executive producer Chloe Badner, “Game Changer” only used its standard rainbow loop-de-loop podiums once in Season 8.
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