- Is it Judy Garland?
- You are correct! (group cheering)
Why did no one say Judy Garland?
I would've been so mad if we're doing gay "Jeopardy"
and no one here knew Judy goddamned Garland.
Welcome, everyone, to the first ever edition of...
- [All] "Try Gays Game Time"!
(all cheering)
- Talk about manifesting something.
I've been saying "Try Guys Gay Time" for years, baby.
(upbeat music)
This is "Eugene's Flag Race",
which please don't take the L out.
Otherwise, it's a much more controversial title.
(all chuckling)
Please introduce yourselves.
- I'm Jake.
- I'm Carmen Green.
- I'm Nick Rufca.
- I'm Carol.
- We are
The
Vibrant Flying,
Boa...
- Nators. - Boanators.
- Boanators! Yeah.
- Let's do that again.
- No, no, that was perfect.
The Vibrant Flying Boanators.
Really instilled confidence in your group.
- Yes.
We work together very well.
- I'm MJ.
- I'm Desiree.
- I'm Marcellus.
- I'm Ally Cleveland.
We have the
M, A,
D, M.
We are The M.A.D.M.s.
- Oh!
So we have The M.A.D.M.s
versus The Vibrant Flying Boanators.
(all chuckling)
We can't have a game show without a beautiful assistant.
So I would like to proudly introduce my boyfriend
and the world's most gorgeous pole-tugger,
(all chuckling)
Manna White, please.
(all cheering)
- Woo!
- Yes!
- Whoever ends up getting these two rainbow flags
at the top of the poles wins.
Each right answer, the flag goes up a tiny bit.
But if you get a wrong answer, the flag goes back down.
If you get it wrong,
the other team has the opportunity to steal.
If it's your question, you can discuss amongst yourselves
for 30 seconds before you answer.
If you're stealing, only one of you can answer
and that's if you raise your flag when I ask.
The categories you are choosing from today are:
"We Say Gay," "Lewk Alive,"
"Queer and Present Danger,"
"Get it Together, Hunty,"
"Math, Really?," "Homopouri,"
"Who Does She Think She Is?"
But to decide who goes first,
I have one special surprise trivia question.
Now, you'll raise your flag
if you think you know the answer.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists Vanna White
as television's most frequent blank.
Nick?
- Letter Turner?
- Nick, I'm sorry. You're wrong.
- Walker.
- Close but no cigar. Yes?
- Twerking?
(all laughing) - That's Vanna White, Jake!
- Clap.
- Ding, ding, ding! (group cheering)
She's clapped more than 3.7 million times
since she's been on television.
Ally has won the first coin toss, right?
You can pick the first category.
- [Ally] Okay. The first one.
"We Say Gay."
- "We Say Gay."
(all laughing)
We really created a whole role for him.
(all laughing)
And also gave him a microphone.
(all laughing)
Are you just not going to speak the whole time?
I guess he's...
- [Matt] You know...
- Just off camera. Great.
So the category "We Say Gay"
is all about LGBTQ+ history and icons.
Who is the athletic icon portrayed by Emma Stone
who won 39 grand slam titles in her career
and was outed in a lawsuit by a former lover in 1981?
- [Ally] Billy Jean King.
- That is correct.
- Yes! - Woo hoo!
(Matt clapping)
- Give it a nice little gentle tug. Beautiful!
- Billy Jean King, an icon we should all know.
We should all know.
- We know now!
- We do. We're learning.
- It's educational. - This is good.
We're learning together.
Goddamn, I forgot the name already.
Boa Constrictors In The Sky.
- Yes. - Vibrant.
- Vibrators Who Constrict-
- Vibrant.
- The Vibrant Flying Boanators.
Before starring on the Amazon series "With Love",
Isis King was the first woman of transgender experience
to compete on what reality show?
- "Big Brother."
- That is incorrect.
Now we have an opportunity to steal from The M.A.D.M.s.
Yes, Marcellus?
- I believe it is "America's Next Top Model".
- You are
correct.
- Yes! - Woo!
(group cheering)
(Matt clapping)
Another tug!
- Team M.A.D.M.s, what chart-topping rapper
confessed to Jimmy Fallon that his birth name
was inspired by a model line of Mitsubishi cars?
Desiree.
- Wait, no! (MJ laughs)
Uh, we're just gonna say Lil Nas X.
- That unfortunately is correct.
(group cheering)
Team Vibrators and Boa Constrictors.
Vibrant...
- [Eugene and Carmen] Flying Boanators.
- [Eugene] What Jennie Livingston documentary
starring Pepper LaBeija
won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 1991?
- "Paris is Burning"?
- Paris is correct.
(group cheering)
- [Nick] Go, Manna! Go Manna!
- [Eugene] Go Manna!
The M.A.D.M.s.
- Burt Reynolds.
- Incorrect.
The one and only Rock Hudson.
- We came up with Compton.
- Wrong.
The city was of course, San Francisco.
- (gasps) Wow.
- Carol knew it.
- Many LGB key...
Many key LGB2Q...
(all laughing)
Many LGBTQ+ events in our history
happen in places like San Francisco.
The M.A.D.M.s are up by just a small margin,
but both of you seem to have not left the ground
by very much.
We are...
Houston, we are experiencing some problems with take off.
(all chuckling)
- Marcellus, since Team M.A.D.M.s got the last question,
you can pick the next category.
- [Marcellus] I pick, "Get it Together, Hunty."
- "Get It Together, Hunty."
This is the gay version of "Before and After",
where the correct answer will be a combination
of two completely different things.
But they will share one word in the middle.
The highest grossing movie of 2021
meets Kevin McAlister's 1991 origin story.
- Spider-Man: Far From Home Alone.
- That is incorrect. Do we want to steal?
All right, Nick, go for it.
- I'm banking on that MJ got the title wrong.
Is it Spider-Man: No Way Home Alone?
- That is absolutely correct.
(group cheering)
Team Vibrant Flying Boanators.
Oh, my God. I got it!
- [Nick] Yes you did. Woo!
- See, gay people are smart.
The hit sitcom that introduced us to Jack McFarland
combined with the iconic actress
who eventually became Princess of Monaco.
All right, so Carol?
- Will & Grace Kelly.
- That is correct.
- Yes! (group cheering)
- I don't deserve the boa anymore, you do.
- Oh!
- [Carmen] It matches your shirt so it's perfect.
- Classic Edgar Allen Poe poem
combined with the winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 13.
- We believe it is the The Raven Symone.
- You're goddamn right it is.
(group cheering)
Vibrant Flying Boanators.
CW drama reboot on HBO Max in 2021
meets 2016 "drunk and obsessed woman" thriller
starring Emily Blunt.
Jake?
- I think it's Gossip Girl on The Train.
- XO XO. You are correct.
(group cheering)
- [Jake] Eugene, that freaked me out.
That was an intense stare.
- Lorde Nyx.
- So, so confident.
- Confident in this one. Excuse me, MJ?
(all laughing)
Ava Max Factor.
- That is correct.
(group cheers)
- Raise Your Glass Animals.
- That's right.
- [MJ] I hate that we can see their flags.
(all laughing)
- Boanators, what category would you like?
- [Jake] "Who Does She Think She Is?"
- This category is where I name three movie or TV roles
and you tell me which legendary doll played all of them.
So it's one actress, three roles.
Betsy Booth, Vicky Lester, and Dorothy Gale.
- Melanie Griffith.
- Incorrect. Do we have a steal?
- I'm gonna be so embarrassed if I get her name wrong.
Is it Judy Garland?
- You are correct.
(group cheering)
I would've been so mad if we're doing gay "Jeopardy"
and no one here knew Judy goddamned Garland.
Snow White, Princess Di, Bella Swan.
- Well, you got it. Don't even need to say it.
- Kristen Stewart.
- [Eugene] That's right.
Little bit of a Twi-hard?
- Yeah. Team Jacob, now I'm Team Kristen, you know.
(Eugene laughs)
- [Eugene] Jane Adler, Ricki Rendazzo,
and Madeline Ashton Menville.
- That is Meryl Streep in the classic "Death Becomes Her."
- Leave forever. You win!
(group cheering)
"Death Becomes Her", a queer classic.
Andy Warhol, Joe Exotic, Hedwig Robinson.
- Jake Gyllenhaal.
That is incorrect.
- [Marcellus] Oh, no.
- Oh no, here comes the actor knowledge.
- Nick. - Nick?
- Sorry, this is my wheelhouse.
John Cameron Mitchell.
- You are the new Tiger King. That is right.
(group cheering)
Khadijah James, The Wiz, and Motormouth Maybelle.
- I'll be so mad if I get this wrong,
but Diana Ross.
- You're gonna stay mad. That's wrong.
- No! (Jake screams)
- [Eugene] Marcellus.
- I believe it is Queen Latifah.
- That is correct.
(group cheering)
- Susan Thomas, Lady Amber Leighton, and Mae Mordabito.
- [Eugene And Ally] Sigourney Weaver.
- Great guess, but unfortunately that is incorrect.
Do we want to try to steal and risk losing height?
- [Jake] No.
- The one and only Madonna.
- Oh. - What?
- [Eugene] That is the end of this round.
- We'll be doing "Queer and Present Danger."
- [Eugene] These are shady questions
concerning real and fictional, absolute garbage people.
Who is the Texas senator that falsely claimed
the Equality Act promotes allowing "biological males"
to compete in girls' sports?
- Ted Cruz.
- Free trip to Cancun. That's right.
(group cheering)
- Kevin Spacey.
- You are correct.
(group cheering)
- Omarosa.
- You're in the right cabinet.
You're not grabbing the right cutlery. Nick?
- Sean Spicer.
- Righty, righty. You got it.
(group cheering)
- Oreos.
- Oh, you're right.
(group cheering)
- Higher and higher baby. - Yes.
- [Nick] Look at that flag rise.
- [Eugene] It's okay. We still...
It's still okay. We still got several categories.
- We're gonna do "Math, Really?"
- [Eugene] Really?
- [MJ] Okay!
Fine.
- 'Cause I'm smart, MJ. - Yeah, okay.
- I'm good with numbers. - All right.
Yeah, Jake's the hero of the team over there.
- Yeah, yeah, he sure is.
- It's gonna be a basic math equation
but instead of numbers, it's going to be
cultural clues that associate a number
and then you put in the numbers
and give me one number as an answer.
The number of Disney dalmatians
minus the Degrees of Nick Lachey.
- We believe it's three.
- You're right.
- Yes! (group cheering)
- That was "101 Dalmatians"
and Nick Lachey's boy band 98 Degrees.
- Really hard tug, please!
(group cheering)
- The number of Golden Girls
times the number of Pfefferman children on "Transparent."
- We believe the number is 12.
- There are four golden girls and three Pfefferman children.
- Yes. - That is correct.
- Be kind. Love you, be kind.
Be kind. Be kind.
(Matt laughs)
- All right. - Yeah.
I love Manna.
- [Eugene] The number of days in which Kate Hudson
asserts that she can "lose a guy"
divided by the number of assistants
Miranda Priestly required.
- We believe it is seven.
- That is unfortunately incorrect.
- Oh!
- We have a steal. - All right, Nick.
- I think the answer is two.
- That is incorrect.
- I went the other way. I went the other way!
- Kate Hudson's film is "How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days"
divided by two assistants.
- [Jake] Oh, divided by.
- I divided it by five!
(overlapping chatter)
- Manna, what was that?
- You should be better at math.
- Okay. Manna White really prizes arithmetic.
Molly Ringwald's candles divided by
the Beyonce album that kicks off with "Love on Top."
- Four.
- "16 Candles" divided by the album "Four" is four.
- Yes! - Woo!
- The number of seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
plus the title Adele's debut album.
- I think it's 25.
- What was Adele's first album?
- "19"?
- Correct. How many seasons of Buffy were there?
- Six?
- That is incorrect.
- Oh, damn!
(Eugene laughs)
- Matt, why did you put it so low?
- You need to be better at math.
(all laughing)
- I think there are eight seasons so I wanna say 27.
- There are in fact seven seasons of Buffy.
(MJ grunts)
- [Desiree] That's okay. That's okay.
- [Eugene] All right, we have two more categories left.
- [Desiree] "Lewk Alive".
- [Eugene] "Lewk Alive".
These are all questions of fashion, darling.
What fashion icon did Lady Gaga immortalize
in a song from her 2013 album "Artpop"?
- I think it's Andy Warhol.
- That is incorrect.
- Oh!
Donnatella Versace.
- It is Donnatella Versace.
(group cheering)
- "Artpop" is her best album. Period.
- [Eugene] What fashion designer was recently portrayed
by Reeve Carney in "House of Gucci"?
- Tom Ford.
- You're right.
(group cheering)
Father, son, House of Gucci.
What musical came from the inspirational story
of Steve Pateman's unique mission to save WJ Brookes,
his family's shoe factory?
- (gasps) Ooh.
"Kinky Boots."
- That is correct.
(group cheering)
Desiree would be great at poker.
(all laughing)
The New York City-based fashion brand DKNY
was founded by what former head designer of Anne Klein?
- Donna Karan.
- That's right.
(group cheering)
- We are gonna go with Posh Spice.
- That is incorrect.
- Is it Geri?
- [Eugene] Oh, it's Geri.
- Chance the Rapper?
- Nope.
- Ah!
- The correct answer is Tyler, the Creator.
That is the end of the second to last round.
That means we are going into our final round.
For waving flags a lot, we're not very good
at getting to the tip, but
(all laughing)
this last round could change everything
'cause it's "Homopouri."
"Homopouri" is a mishmosh of questions
about things like gay laws, gay animals, gay herstory.
Basically anything that didn't fit the other categories.
Greg Louganis won gold medals in the Olympic Games
of 1988 and 1984 for what sport?
- Diving.
- We all know. Yes, that's right.
(group cheering)
- My husband and I got legally married
at the Beverly Hills courthouse
with Greg Louganis and his husband-to-be
were right behind us waiting for their license.
- Oh, my gosh. - Aw!
- [Eugene] Roy and Silo, both male,
became famous at the Central Park Zoo
for mating and trying to hatch a rock.
What kind of animals were they?
- Penguins.
- That's right. We got some "Happy Feet".
(group cheering)
According to biographer Charles R. Cross,
what Woodstock legend pretended
that he was gay to get out of being sent to Vietnam?
We felt good about the diving and now we're here.
- Jimi Hendrix.
- That is right.
- Oh! (group cheering)
- The boa is yours again.
- [Eugene] What was the first country
to legalize same sex marriage?
- I believe it is the Netherlands.
- You better get out your windmills
'cause you're right.
(group cheering)
- [Nick] You're on a roll.
- Look at that! Look at that!
Look at that!
Can you see it from over there?
- We can see the flag.
We can see the flag.
- A lion.
- [Eugene] That is incorrect.
- [Jake] Was it tiger?
- [Eugene] Do you want to guess?
- No.
- [Eugene] Big, thick, long trunk.
- Chest Binder.
- Great guess, but incorrect.
Polari was in fact a language.
- Oh.
- Oh!
- That is the end of our seven main rounds.
Which means no one has won.
This is of course "The Homo Stretch."
(all cheering)
I've chosen the gayest topic possible.
Fruit trivia.
- Oh. (Nick chuckles)
- What singer was only 18 years old
when she released her debut album "Tidal"?
- Meghan Trainor.
- That's wrong.
- What?
- Fiona Apple. - That's correct.
- Fruit question.
Forrelle, Starkrimson and Bosc are varieties of what fruit?
- Pear?
- Correct!
(group cheering)
- What is the study of fruit called?
- Pomology.
- That is correct.
(group cheering)
- Yeah!
- What fruit was nicknamed the "poison apple"
by Europeans in the late 18th century?
Ooh, you already knew before I ended.
- Tomato.
- That's right!
(group cheering)
- Is this man over here non-partisan?
- [Desiree] Yes!
- Raspberry Beret.
- That is correct.
(group cheering)
- The stem part.
- You're gonna actually be correct.
(group cheering)
I think it's even.
Ooh, this is good.
We should just have fruit trivia the whole time.
(all chuckling)
Oh.
- What is it? Tomato.
- Incorrect.
- Just a little tug.
- The answer is, of course, the watermelon.
Nick?
- The lychee?
- It's incorrect. - Oh.
- The correct answer is the kiwi.
For what movie did Judd Apatow turn down Bryan Cranston
for a role as a drug dealer because he wasn't scary enough?
The answer is the "Pineapple Express".
- I... Literally in my head!
"Pineapple Express"!
No, seriously!
That's seriously what I was thinking in my head.
"Pineapple Express"!
That's why I was singing the "Polar Express"!
- What country produces the most fruits worldwide?
- Oh, no.
- No, say it!
- China!
- It's China.
- Oh! (group cheering)
- Neck and neck.
I think we're down to one more question.
(all groaning)
- The big tug!
- Manna, are you ready for the biggest,
strongest tug of your life?
What fruit did Gavin Newsom
declare the state fruit of California?
One guess from each side for the win.
So we have you two, okay.
I want you to both say yours at the same time.
Three, two, one.
- Avocados. - Raisins.
(MJ and Desiree laugh) - Raisins?
Manna, will you please reveal the winner
of the first "Eugene's Flag Race"?
(suspenseful music)
- Yeah! - Yeah!
(group cheering)
- I think we've learned a lot today about pop culture,
queer history, general random fruit facts,
but, most importantly, about each other.
So join us for the next...
- [All] "Try Gays Game Time"!
(all cheering)
- I'm still saying, "Try Gays Gay Time".
(upbeat music)
This has been the "Try Gays Game Time".
What will we gay up next with our gayness?
(all chuckling)