Have you ever wanted to play your favorite game show? How about all of your favorites combined into one giant game? On Wednesday, Oct. 8, this was possible at the Student Union Theater, where SUBOG hosted “Every Game Show Ever.”
SUBOG has held game shows before, but this year there was a comedic twist. With a sarcastically funny host and ridiculous spin offs of popular shows, laughter was heard in the theater throughout the night.
“There was funny twist on games to make it more appealing,” said Ruby Leonard, SUBOGs comedy chair.
Students had the opportunity to win Amazon gift cards from participating in this event. The host made a joke about the prize being able to purchase from an “evil cooperation,” which received many laughs from the audience.
Additionally, students in attendance could enter their name in one of eight different raffles. Prizes included gift cards from DP Dough, Playa Bowls and Dunkin Donuts. Wireless headphones were also an option. Two students from almost each category were chosen to win.
“The fact that you could win prizes was to get more student engagement,” Leonard said. “Hopefully more people liked coming out to support the event.”
The audience and game show contestants were enthusiastic throughout the night. Students who entered their name in a drawing were pulled at random to participate in games. In the first challenge of the night, a student was asked to scream the lyrics of the song “Milkshake,” most recently famous from the Gap-Katseye collaboration, and he did not disappoint. The host decided that his “singing” earned a gift card.
Game spinoffs included “The Price is Mid,” themed after “The Price is Right,” “Seal or No Seal” from “Deal or No Deal,” “Top that Track,” a finish-the-lyrics game, “Keeping it Elementary” from “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader,” and finally, “Where in the World is This Labubu,” which may be self-explanatory.
“Seal or No Seal” seemed to be a favorite of the night. This game lended itself to audience participation with many students shouting out which brief cases the contestant should eliminate.
Leonard marked “Seal or No Seal” as one of her favorites as well. “The suspense was killing me,” she said.
The goal of this game was to eliminate four of the six brief cases on stage which did not have a picture of a seal inside them. If the contestant finished the round with at least one seal remaining, they won a gift card.
Students from the audience were also chosen to be the “models” holding the briefcase.
One student in particular was a first-semester chemical engineering major, Joseph Rodriguez.
“When they said a model, I was like hmm, maybe I could be a sexy model. But I guess they didn’t give me the opportunity to be that,” Rodriguez said.
However, he got his fair share of attention throughout the rest of the show, winning the final dance competition as well as multiple gift cards.
Rodriguez and others took to the stage to battle on the dance floor for the final gift card of the night. One contestant danced on crutches, another risked his back for a front flip and many, like Rodriguez, were willing to show off some pretty intense dance moves to compete for this card.
“I just did whatever came natural to me, and whatever comes natural to me is what the people want,” said Rodriguez. “And they wanted it, and they liked it.”
This was evidently true as he gained the loudest applause from the audience, crowning him the official winner of the dance battle.
While rather unserious, “Every Game Show Ever” was a fun opportunity for students to witness some comedy on campus as well as win prizes.
Leonard explained that she saw many students from the earlier hypnotist show at this event as well.
“Just recognizing familiar faces; the campus is so huge, but just building small connections is really why I’m here and why I love being on the board,” Leonard said. “It brings everyone together just to have a good time and a good laugh.”