( music playing )
- Welcome back. - We're in the middle of the Olympics
and what a coincidence because
we're about to play a Real or Fake
- Olympic Village scandals game. - OH, what are the chances?
What are the chances? 100%.
You know how all the Olympians gather
and they're roaming around this village.
You only compete for a certain amount of time
and then the rest of the time you gotta create snafus.
- Yeah, in that old village. - Or, if you're really sensitive,
you can call them "scandals."
I'm gonna prevent-- prevent none of them.
But I am gonna present some of them to you right now.
And you're gonna tell me if they're real or fake.
If you get three right, you win
the Olympic onion rings.
- Oh. - Edible Olympic rings...
- ( breathily ) Yeah. - made out of onions.
I need something savory after all that sweet.
You will not believe it when you see it.
And you'll be frustrated if you don't get to eat it.
First question:
At the end of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,
the Australian team threw a huge bonfire party
and burned a lot of the furniture from the Olympic Village.
Uh-huh.
Real or fake snauf?
Well, you know that Australia--
Mm-hmm. Tell me something about Australia, Rhett.
--was founded as a prisoner colony.
- ( laughter ) - Right.
- So... - I see where you're going with this.
DNA-wise, Australians are just more likely to be bad.
( laughter )
Sorry, Aussies. I love you.
- I think you're great. - It's just a definitive fact.
I mean, you're cool. You're a lot of fun.
Everybody loves to drink wine, all the time.
They all got box wine. Every one of them.
They keep it in their pockets.
- Yeah. - Pocket-box wine.
They wear backpacks that have wine in 'em.
- Every Australian. - So are you saying this is true?
How deep can I dig my Australian hole?
You can dig your Australian hole. You can dig it all the deepest.
I'm gonna say true, burning things left and right.
I wish I could say this was false
- in order to undercut everything you said... - ( laughs )
- but it is true. -
In an interview with ESPN, Aussie footballer
Alicia Ferguson described the event saying, quote:
( bad Australian accent ) "Who knew the furniture could burn so--"
Whoa! Whoa! What? ( laughing )
- Okay. -
Olympic Village bonfire."
There ya go!
It came-- bonfire.
- ( laughs ) - That is Alicia Ferguson...
- That's great, Link. - to a T.
- ( laughter ) - That is great.
- You got it right. - You sounded like somebody
from North Carolina doing a British accent.
( accented ) "Bonfire."
- You don't have to try. - At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi...
It doesn't make you a better person just because you can do it.
Many-- I'll do all of them like this.
- Uh-- ( sighs ) - Many-- ( laughs )
Many bathrooms in the Olympic Village
featured multiple toilets but with no divider.
So if you had to go "number two,"
chances are you were gonna do it in full view
of your friend doing "number two," too.
- Quite a snafu. - There's always some kind of
disappointment with the Olympic Village.
People complaining on Twitter, you're saying?
Yeah, there's always some news.
It's like, "They don't even have dividers in the bathroom!"
- So, I could totally see this being the case. - In Sochi?
But I gotta say that this sounds like
a problem that is so easily...rectified.
Probably shouldn't use that term.
- Just erect... a barrier. - No, no.
- ( laughter ) - It was a rectum joke.
- It wasn't an erection joke. - Oh, now it's both.
- You can make it both, I'm gonna say-- - Go team!
False! Fake.
No, it's real. Here's a photo from BBC new reporter
Steve Rosenberg's tweet-er.
-
The weirdest part is when Bob Costas comes in
- and does commentary. - Ooh.
"It looks as if she, on the right has won.
Nope, I'm sorry, that's just a courtesy flush."
( laughter )
- You missed that one. - I did.
After winning gold at the 2008 Olympics, Hope Solo,
- Uh-huh. - no relation to Han,
admitted that she and the rest of the U.S. women's soccer team
were still drunk!
When they did an interview on the "Today" show!
From Olympic Village earlier the next morning!
I didn't know exactly where to put emphasis
- in that question. - I saw that.
So I just kinda...
Still drunk the next morning on the "Today" show.
Now, this is the US team, not the Australian team, right?
- Right. - ( laughter )
- U.S. women's soccer team. - Uh-huh.
Won gold.
I mean, they were really happy. They were super happy.
And Hope Solo is no stranger to controversy.
( drumming fingers )
Fake.
-
- No! Really? - No, and we have a clip.
There is no pressure going into the game
other than it being a World Cup-- I mean, an Olympic final.
Oh, dang it! The clip ended just before she motorboated Al Roker.
- ( laughter ) - Oh, ho, ho, ho! Oh, gosh.
Aww. It's not the version I saw.
You know I'll be Googling that later.
- Question four... - "Hope Solo motorboats Al Roker..."
- Put that on a t-shirt. - At the 2004 Athens Olympics,
- I've missed two. - Greek Greco Roman Wrestler
Phillipos Kuriakos got drunk,
and according to his teammates,
stole a horse from a nearby stable,
brought it back to the Olympic Village,
and tried to wrestle it.
Oh, that seems like a fake laugh.
- ( chuckles ) - "Ha, ha, it was so funny when it didn't happen."
But they've all been real, so far.
- Every one of them's been real. - They've all been real.
A fourth one can't be real.
- They could all be real-- - They could all be real.
'Cause that's kinda something I would do.
Ah, yeah. You would be just like that.
You wouldn't want to take the time to make anything up.
It's fake.
- It is fake. - Yes!
But if it were real,
this is what it would look like.
- ( grunts ) - ( laughter )
Olympic Wrester Chase, everybody.
- With a "My Little Pony." - That was very convincing, Chase.
- You've got two right. - I was waitin' for the video to pop on.
- Should've known. - It all comes down to this one
if you get to enjoy the Olympic Onion Rings.
I do wanna note-- I do wanna say that
just like a great Olympian,
I've let it come down to the very end,
just for drama, I mean I knew all these the whole time.
- That's not true. - We'll find out.
At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles,
- Mmm. - Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone
got drunk with the Norwegian men's soccer team
and ended up taking them out of Olympic Village
and tee-pee-ing a young Judd Nelson's house.
( laughs ) Oh, gosh.
Really?
So many of these involve "alky-hol."
- You know what it does to the kids. - Jack Nicholson?
Not Jack Nicklaus.
He was-- okay--
he was also there, I just didn't want to mention it.
No, the golfer was not there.
I used to get them confused as a child.
When I was saying "Jack Nicholson,"
I would, like, hesitate at the last second,
'cause I was afraid that it would come out like the golfer.
- Or vice versa. - Yeah, you don't want to come out like the golfer.
- No, you don't. - True.
-
- ( chuckles ) Dammit. - Except in my dream journal.
- It didn't happen? - It happened in my dream journal.
Aww! I don't get to eat the onion rings?
( imitates fanfare )
- That's not the right song. - Ah.
- You know what? On second thought, - Look at that.
I'm glad I don't get to eat 'em.
You can have 'em.
They look like they've been there a while.
( laughs ) Yeah, that seems more like a punishment.
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