- (React) We are playing the first ever episode of
Line of Liars!
We have a line of people that have promised to tell the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, right?
- Yeah. - Yes, right!
- Right. - (React) Wrong!
Noah, Zaria, today, you are competing head to head.
We're gonna hit you with three rounds,
three different games,
and it's gonna be up to you to figure out who is holding the truth?
For example, we have some people here who love to play sports.
Who here loves to play sports?
- Woo! - Easy.
- Love sports.
- (React) Great, who's lying?
- Julian was late on the hand. That's a lie!
- I was just thinking about how much I love sports.
(group laughs)
- (React) Who do you think is the dirtiest liar up here?
- I'm gonna give it to Sharon. - (group) Oh!
- I think you've got a great heart,
and the heart is where the gold is,
and I think like on the, everything until you get to the heart,
anyone who doesn't know you well,
I feel like you play with them all day, and it's pretty fun.
- I think my answer is Sharon too.
(group laughs)
- Do you like tomatoes? - No.
- No? - No.
- I like tomato sauce, I like tomatoes in tacos,
that's the only time.
- (React) Who here likes, dot dot dot, tomatoes?
- Hey guys, my name is Jayse, and I love tomatoes.
I lived in Italy for almost a year,
and you eat them almost every single day,
so it's just a part of the life there.
- I'm Sharon, and I love tomatoes, because it's food!
(group laughs)
- I'm Julian, and I also like tomatoes.
- I'm Nicole, and I grew up eating tomatoes like apples.
- Hi, I'm Brian, and I love tomatoes, period.
- Threw in a period, that's the shape of a tomato,
maybe he likes 'em.
(group laughs)
- (React) Three people within this line are lying,
you will have three minutes to interrogate the group,
and identify the two truth tellers.
(bell rings)
- Alright, I wanna ask a question,
Sharon, two favorite dishes that have tomatoes on them?
- Fried green tomatoes,
and just putting it on a good old hamburger.
- What is a green tomato?
- What do you do with the fried green tomato?
- You bread it and fry it. - And then eat it.
- And you eat it.
- You bread it with like egg?
- Egg, and you do like breading,
like you would almost like fried chicken.
- I'm sorry I haven't heard of a breaded tomato before!
- Oh my God!
- Are they big, are they small?
- They're that size! - And it's green?
- (both) Yeah!
- I think Sharon's clear. I think Sharon's telling the truth.
She knew a whole recipe.
- I feel like that convinced me that she's telling the truth.
- You're pointing at me?
- You mentioned living in Italy.
- I did, yes.
- And you equated that to liking tomatoes.
- Name three dishes with tomatoes.
- Pasta pomodoro, lasagna, and how about bolognese?
Lasagna's my favorite food on the planet,
so I'm just gonna throw that out there.
- Lasagna's your favorite food on the planet.
- Brian, I got a question for you. - Talk to me.
- What does a tomato taste like?
- If you bite into a good tomato, specifically for me,
an heirloom tomato, like,
it's got a good crunch and good chew through.
Once you get into the middle of it, it's not necessarily like overly sweet
but juicy and delicious, I really like it especially with salt.
- Wow, that was a lot.
I'm not, I don't know if I'm convinced.
I don't know if I'm convinced.
You answered the question really well.
- Nicole. - Yes?
- As you say, you grew up loving tomatoes.
- Tomatoes are beautiful,
when you're talking about making the perfect burger,
you need that red layer!
- Yes! - Yeah.
- I believe it.
- Julian in the middle,
I just want you to say the word tomato for me.
- Tomato. (group laughs)
- Okay, yeah.
- I'm lost, I genuinely believe, except Julian.
(group laughs)
- Alright, I'm going off of my instincts.
You know, some of your responses,
they got really good towards the end,
but I think the two here that truthfully like tomatoes
are Sharon and Jayse.
- (Zaria) It's Nicole and Sharon.
- (React) Both of you get to choose one person
to take a big juicy bite of a tomato.
- Wow.
I will choose Nicole.
- (group) Three, two, one.
- Oh, that's a tomato lover right there.
- That's juicy. - Ooh.
- (React) Zaria, it's your turn.
Who would you like to take a big juicy bite of a tomato?
(Brian laughs)
- (group) Three, two, one!
- Ooh, ooh, you went deep in.
- Ooh, juicy! It was a juicy one.
- Juicy indeed.
- How's that chew through? (group laughs)
- That totally ruined everything for me.
- I'm going to stick with my original answer,
which is Sharon and Jayse.
- (React) Zaria?
- Sharon, Nicole.
(bell rings)
- (React) Will the true tomato lovers
please take a tiny step forward and raise your hand?
♪ (tense music) ♪
- What? (group laughs)
The two that we gave the tomatoes to?
- I picked Sharon and Jayse, and both of them,
they hate tomatoes!
- I'm actually allergic to tomatoes,
so like I can't have them unless they're cooked.
- So if we had given you...
- I wouldn't have did it, I would not have taken it.
- You would've been like oh, I just ate.
- That would've been a tell. - Man!
- That's why I was just like, I just stared so hard,
like yes, pick me, and it worked.
- Sharon, you hate 'em?
- Oh, I can't stand 'em,
I'm the one that takes them off her burgers in set. (laughs)
- She does! She doesn't eat it!
- And that was the first thing you said about tomatoes,
especially on a burger. - Oh yeah.
- For me, legitimately, burgers are my favorite food,
and I think the thing that will absolutely ruin a burger
is putting raw tomato on it.
- You guys love tomatoes,
how much do you guys like tomatoes?
- I literally told you, I grew up eating them like apples,
they were in my lunch box.
- See, somehow hearing it as a truth, it sounds different, alright?
I needed to hear it again.
- Cherry tomatoes are amazing.
I used to eat them so much growing up,
that my mom said I would turn into a cherry tomato.
- Wow, and so were you pretending
that you said tomato weird the whole time?
- I was saying tomato weird? (group laughs)
- (React) What's in the box?
- (group) What's in the box? What's in the box?
What's in the box?
- (React) In this round, we will be presenting our line with boxes.
Inside each box will be an assortment of items.
Each person will describe what is in their box to our contestants,
and you contestants must decide
if that person is telling the truth or lying.
(bell rings)
- (laughs) I...
What's in the box is,
it's a truck, and there's a shark in the back.
- A truck with a shark in the back?
- Yeah, like a semi truck with a shark in the back.
- As in, it's got an open back, or it's in a container.
- Well, like it's a truck transporting a shark.
- The shark's not driving? (horn honks)
(group laughs)
- Bro, I'm gonna tell you right now, if only.
- What color is the truck? - The truck is orange.
- What color's the shark?
- Shark color, what, gray, I don't know!
- Okay! - It's a gray shark.
- I'm not looking at it, so I'm wondering.
- It's a gray shark!
- I think that Brian is lying.
His initial instinctual response was to say I don't know,
it means oh, I haven't thought of that lie yet.
- And I think he's telling the truth,
because I think he got offended that I was asking too many questions,
like I didn't believe him,
like I didn't trust him as a friend in that moment.
- (React) Alright, Brian!
- (group) What's in the box?
- Oh!
Brian was telling the truth!
Thanks buddy. - Of course, man, I got you!
(group laughs)
- Oh. - Avert your eyes, Noah.
- (laughs) Do you know what a Rocktopus is?
- No, you're lying. - A Rocktopus?
- It's an octopus... - Next, you're lying!
(group laughs)
- She opened with do you know what a Rocktopus is?
Is that an octopus with a guitar?
- It's like a little fidget toy that's an octopus,
with The Rock as its head.
It's real, it's a real thing.
- It's a real product. - It's a real product!
- Is it standing up, is it lying down?
- So it's about this big. - (Noah) Mm-hmm, in width?
- It's all red. - (Noah) Uh-huh.
- And the arms are like, if you were to twist it like this,
the arms would do this,
and it has The Rock's head on top of it.
- Prior to seeing this, were you familiar with a Rocktopus?
- I was familiar with the Rocktopus, which is why I laughed so hard.
- Okay, I am going to say Nicole, I think you're telling me the truth.
- I think she's lying.
- You don't think there's a Rocktopus under there?
(group laughs)
The well-known product?
- Liar! - You are telling the truth, Nicole!
- (React) Nicole! - (group) What's in the box?
- What!? (group laughs)
What!?
- (React) It's a viking helmet with scrunchies!
- Yeah, I know. - What?
- I mean, I like knew the whole time.
- How do you even come up with this Rocktopus?
Is it real?
- (React) Can somebody fly in the Rocktopus?
- (Brian) Dwayne The Rocktopus Johnson, there he is.
- What?
This is a, that's a Rocktopus, okay.
- Who did this? (group laughs)
- There is an action figure of Brad Pitt
from the movie Se7en in this box.
(group laughs)
- Is it?
- No, they're laughing too much for it to be just an action figure.
It's funny, but I don't think an action figure's that funny.
- I think it's funny, but on the same exact front,
I don't think that it's the action figure under there.
I don't. - Me neither.
- Julian, you're lying. You're a lair.
- You're lying.
- (React) Julian. - (group) What's in the box?
(group laughs) - Yeah!
- We got some points! - Oh, you should've, alright.
- Hey, both of us got points, I liked it.
- I just think it's hilarious.
- You guys are so stupid. (group laughs)
- Why is it so funny?
- It's a baby with a mustache, playing a guitar. (laughs)
- How big is the baby?
- Baby, like that big.
- And the mustache?
- Was it stuck on, or does the baby come that way?
- Baby came that way. (laughs)
- So the guitar is held in the baby's hands?
- Yeah. - (Noah) How?
- Act out the...
- Articulate yourself like the baby is articulated, holding it.
- Woah! (laughs)
- (laughs) Alright say to me with confidence, Sharon,
what's in that box?
- (laughs) It's a baby holding a guitar.
- I think Sharon's telling the truth.
- I think she's lying.
- (React) Sharon! - (group) What's in the box?
- What's in the box, Sharon?
- (Brian) It's a baby. (laughs) (group laughs)
With a mustache.
(group laughs)
- (React) Zaria, why'd you think she was lying?
- I don't know, I wanted to think that like, in Sharon's mind,
she knows that like two other people have lied straight,
and it's like, would be unexpected that she would lie again,
for a third time.
And it's unexpected, I wouldn't guess it, so I was like...
- You're absolutely right, I should've done that.
- Ah.
- Inside this box is,
I guess that's probably Scar, from The Lion King,
and he's got Simba in his mouth,
he looks like he's just eating Simba.
- With a fork and a knife, is there a table?
- No, he's in his mouth, he's just literally in.
- The other action figure's in... - Just shoved in its mouth.
- I'm trying to look at everyone else too.
- What part of the body is being eaten?
- His butt?
- (Julian) (laughs) Oh!
- From the butt on the side, like it's the upper thigh,
or like, you know, butthole forward, and you know,
almost like a cigar. - Tail first,
like he's just starting with the tail pipe, that's it.
- (laughs) Oh, the tail is up?
Is there blood effects or anything happening?
- No, there's no like painted on blood or anything.
- I feel comfortable about this one.
- Yeah, you think you know? - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- (React) Noah, Zaria, what do you choose?
- He's a truth teller!
- I think the same, I think you're telling the truth.
- (React) Jayse! - (group) What's in the box?
- (Noah) Wow!
- It looks like a dragon eating a puppy, I think.
- Yes it is, a dragon eating a puppy.
- But he is eating his butt first.
- Yes.
- That was impressive. - That, yeah.
- (React) In this round, we will learn about
a very unique near death experience.
Who here has almost died in a haunted house?
- There is a haunted sewer way
underneath an abandoned mental hospital
in the town that I grew up in, and I almost died in there.
- Well, you know how scared I get anyway,
and I got tickets to Blumhouse,
I literally almost had a heart attack,
they had to shut down and bring the paramedics in.
- Got too scared, tried to escape,
did a header down the stairwell.
- When I was in college,
we were filming a Blair Witch-esque type thing,
went into a haunted house, played with the Ouija board,
and you know, the spirits didn't like us,
collapsed in the floor into the basement.
- I worked for Knott's Berry Farm,
I was going backwards through a maze,
and I almost got trampled to death.
- I need details.
- I think I already know who's telling the truth,
and who's lying.
- (React) Only one person in this line is telling the truth.
It's up to you to identify the one person.
- Only one? - Only one.
- (React) Your time starts now! (bell rings)
- Tell me, what was your story again?
Give me more details on that experience.
- So, I was working at Knott's Berry Farm,
in a group called The Tricksters,
The Tricksters were allowed to do,
basically whatever it is that we wanted,
including going backwards through mazes,
while people were going in the opposite direction,
because we thought it was funny.
So while this was happening, a group got so scared,
they knocked me over, and they tramped me. (laughs)
- How many people, do you know?
- How many feet? - Great, how many feet?
- Yeah. (laughs) - Let me see.
- How many feet did you feel on your face?
Like, an estimate of how many people, 'cause trampled,
you can get stepped on one or two times,
and just be like alright, that hurt.
(group laughs)
- I don't know, because I was covering my head and face,
hoping to not die.
- A group can knock you over, but I think you can stand your ground.
I don't think it was that much of a rush.
- You have a lawyer right here.
Nicole. - Yes.
- What state did you go to college in?
- New York.
- You were filming a Blair Witch style movie.
- Yes. - For a college project?
- For a college project.
- And the basement caved in? - Yes.
- After you used a Ouija board? - Yes.
- I just wanted you to confirm that story,
'cause that's a ridiculous story. (group laughs)
It sounds like a lie.
- I just wanted you to lie to me again.
- Yeah, I just wanted to, yeah.
- How many other people were with you doing this?
- It was me and two other guys.
There were three of us that were filming together.
- So how old is this building,
like was it a building that was still in use?
- It was a dilapidated house.
It was called The Suicide House. - Right, you said that.
- Nine different people, through the history of time
had committed suicide there, so nobody wanted to live in the house.
- Okay.
- Sharon is about to... (group laughs)
- What's tripping me out the most right now
is the timing of her story.
The timing of everything happening exactly how it was supposed to,
and then the floor giving in.
- I just feel like you'd get in trouble.
- It's been there for a long time, and the minute you enter,
and the minute you do this board game,
it's like alright, I'm out, I'm falling through the floor.
- Sharon, it was a Blumhouse haunted house, yeah, that she got...
- So where was that? That was at Universal?
They have Blumhouse.
- It was downtown, it was right after we had moved here.
So we get there, and we're standing in line,
and we have to go through these big balloons,
big blow up things,
and so you have to walk through it and you can't see anything.
I literally had this poor woman's strap on her thing
wrapped around my hand, pulled tight into me,
and this thing, whatever, jumped out,
and the just go (growls) (Julian screams)
I literally just went ah, like, I couldn't scream.
I went down on the ground, pulled this poor woman,
'cause I still have her purse wrapped around.
She lands on top, and she's like uh, ma'am,
are you okay, are you okay?
They had to turn on the lights. - Oh my God.
- They brought the paramedics in,
they took me out on a stretcher,
and yeah. - Did you let go of the lady?
(group laughs)
- Okay, so what was your story again?
- There is a series of sewer tunnels
in the town that I grew up in called Northville.
So we're in there,
and we're like it's not scary in here, it's like whatever,
we came upon a group of some homeless individuals,
and they were not pleased that we were in there.
So there was one just like scary dude,
they have like, it literally looks like a movie,
where they have the barrel, like fire going,
and then this dude, like, I was,
it was like a Crocodile Dundee knife, he just was like
you little f-words, get out of here,
or I'll come kill you!
And I was just like oh my God!
So we just turned and ran,
and never ever went back in the sewers again.
- So, Julian, tell me again, how did you almost die?
- Yeah, mine, I feel like is really boring, compared to these ones,
but at my elementary school,
they would do a haunted house every Halloween,
and my dad is like obsessed with Halloween,
it's his hobby, he's a Halloween nutjob,
and so he and the other dads would always go really hard
to make this haunted house,
and the elementary school was two stories.
And I'm up on the second story, and one of the dads,
he's wearing like a Loch Ness Monster costume,
jumps out at me, I scream my [censored] head off,
I'm like I gotta get out of here, I'm sprinting,
into the stairwell, go too fast, do a header down the stairs,
split my [censored] skull open.
I've got a scar, if you wanna find it under all this hair.
- Wow. - (Julian) Yeah.
- Okay, that was really convincing.
- You're confident now?
I was confident until the final story,
and now I'm no longer confident.
- (whispers) Julian's telling the truth.
- I think Julian's telling the truth too.
I thought it was Sharon, but then Julian's story,
it just checked out.
- (React) Julian, are you telling the truth?
- No. - Really?
I was so hopeful for his wacky dad!
- What part of that was fake?
- I fell in love with your wacky dad.
- My wacky dad is real. - (Noah) He is real, okay.
- Oh, yeah, he does Halloween crazily every single year,
I've got a lot of photos.
- See, that's why, see?
Like, a lot of the stories are real.
- (React) Who do you guys think is telling the truth?
- I think Brian is.
- I think, Sharon, I'm hoping.
- (React) Brian, are you telling the truth?
- No!
- What? (group laughs)
- (React) Which means, Sharon, are you telling the truth?
- No.
- (group) Oh man! - What!?
(group laughs) - What?
- (React) Two people left,
you both get to choose one person.
- It's not Nicole!
- It's Nicole, I'm voting for Nicole! - No, it can't be Nicole!
- I don't believe in Ouija boards, I don't believe in ghosts,
I didn't even know there were basements to break in New York City,
but you convinced me.
- You didn't know tomatoes were green!
- I didn't, I didn't, I didn't!
Nicole, you did it, that happened to you.
- I choose Jayse!
- (React) On the count of three,
will the truth teller please step forward?
One, two, three!
- What!? - That really happened?
- It was in upstate New York,
we were in a tiny town called Cherry Valley,
which was what the documentary was called.
The town was built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
We really did go in, we set up our little film kit,
started playing the the Ouija board,
it really did say goodbye over and over,
when I asked are you mad at us, ghost had a sense of humor,
literally collapsed the basement,
I thought I was gonna die,
we grabbed our stuff, ran out,
my friend yelled holy spirits, stay in the house!
And like, we both escaped, and then he actually
fell through the doorway of the house on the way out.
- That's in the documentary? - Yeah, what'd you include?
- I don't know the documentary's online anywhere,
or like where it exists, because that was like a college thing
before like, YouTube.
- Oh my God, you have the only proof of ghosts ever.
- Like before YouTube. - And you don't upload it?
- And it was for a school project. - Oh my God!
- And we got a C. - Yeah!
(group laughs)
- (React) And that means, with a score of 5 to 3,
the first winner of the first episode of Line of Liars is
Noah Grossman! - (group) Yay!
- Oh my God! - (group) Oh!
- Oh, thank you!
- Wow! - Wow!
- Oh, you get the scrunchie crown! - Oh my goodness!
Thank you so much, I wanna thank everyone at REACT,
behind the camera, man, I wanna thank Jada,
I wanna thank Joe!
Yeah, thank you very much, this is fun, look at that.
- Woo! - Yeah, there you go.
- (React) We want you to appreciate, yeah, that's a liar, liar,
pants on fire trophy. - What?
Wow!
- It's pants on fire, I love it.
- I didn't even notice that. - Yeah, got some weight to it.
(group laughs)
- That's incredible. Thank you very much, guys.
- (React) Alright, get out of here, you dirty liars!
(group laughs)