Bookworm… Aziz Ansari
Keaton Seasons… Mikey Day
Cindy… Vanessa Bayer
[Starts with GSN show schedule]Female voice: Now back to ‘Beat the Bookworm’, only on Game Show Network.
[Cut to Bookworm in a library]Bookworm: Can you beat me in the game of wiz?
Male voice: Declared a genius at birth, he spent his life in pursuit of knowledge.
Bookworm: While you were watching TV, I was reading thousands of books. I know all.
Male voice: Can you ‘Beat the Bookworm’?
[Cut to Keaton Seasons and Cindy at the game stage]Keaton Seasons: Alright, welcome to ‘Beat the Bookworm’. I’m Keaton Seasons and I am joined by Cindy, a–
Cindy: Unemployed.
Keaton Seasons: From Phoenix, who just as we ran out of time yesterday won over $32,000, and a chance to go head to head with the bookworm.
[The wall rotates and there’s Bookworm sitting there.]Bookworm: Hello, idiots.
Keaton Seasons: Bookworm, any words for Cindy before we play?
Bookworm: Um, yes, I will win.
Keaton Seasons: Ha-ha. Oh-oh, you hear that Cindy?
Cindy: I’m not scared. I’m gonna beat that damn bookworm.
Keaton Seasons: Don’t say ‘damn’, please. Now, let’s play. You know how it works, Cindy. You and the bookworm will answer a series of questions from a category of your choice. If you score higher than the bookworm, you’ll leave here with $1 million. But if you don’t–
Bookworm: You’ll leave here with what you are, nothing.
Keaton Seasons: Cindy, will the bookworm be answering questions about Shakespeare’s Comedies?
Bookworm: Oh, the Bard of Avon. I am partially Parkish as I may be, the bookworm does love that category.
Keaton Seasons: The space Race.
Bookworm: Um, who would be the first to touch the cosmos? The Starjen Shives or the Hamaran Sikil? Pick this category and USSR going to lose.
Keaton Seasons: ’90s Pop Culture.
Bookworm: Noooo!
Keaton Seasons: Alright, Cindy, which category do you think will beat the bookworm.
Cindy: Um, I’m leaning towards ’90s Pop Culture because of that long “Noooo!” Then again, I did study Shakespeare in college.
Bookworm: Um, so? Shakespeare it is.
Cindy: But then again, I am a ’90s kid, so let’s go with ’90s Pop Culture.
Bookworm: Noooo! I don’t know any of that stuff. I spent the ’90s reading books.
Keaton Seasons: Let’s play. Beat the Bookworm. [Bookworm looks nervous] Bookworm, your time begins now. Name the Super Bother’s Mario and–
Bookworm: Kevin?
[wrong answer buzzer]Keaton Seasons: MC Hammer was too legit to–
Bookworm: Drive?
[wrong answer buzzer]Keaton Seasons: Terminator 2 lined all be–
Bookworm: Back in the Jeff?
[wrong answer buzzer]None of this was in my books.
Keaton Seasons: Finish the TLC lyric, don’t go chasing–
Bookworm: Dogs.
[wrong answer buzzer]Keaton Seasons: Forest Gump said, “Life is like a box of–”
Bookworm: Condoms?
[wrong answer buzzer]Oh! I’m gonna lose.
Keaton Seasons: Michael Jackson was king of–
Bookworm: The Jews.
Keaton Seasons: No, that was Jesus Christ. Last question, name the science guy–
Bookworm: Ah, yes! I know them all.
Keaton Seasons: –who hosted a kid’s TV show.
Bookworm: Who is that? He is not a real scientist!
[Time up buzzer]Keaton Seasons: Out of time! Wow! Cindy, a lucky break in the form of an absolute cratering on behalf of the bookworm. How do you feel?
Cindy: Damn good.
Keaton Seasons: You said ‘damn’ again. Coming up, Cindy goes for the million and bookworm, since you scored zero, you gotta wear the dum-dum hat.
Bookworm: Not the dum-dum hat! Please!
[Keaton Seasons puts a cone hat with ‘Dum-Dum’ written on Bookworm]Keaton Seasons: We’ll be right back.