(energetic electronic music)
(intense trap music)
(laughs loudly)
This is stupid. - Go!
- Bye-bye.
- Have you ever accidentally forgotten
what day it is and gotten stoned
when you're supposed to be at work?
- Mm-hm, yeah.
- Two secret stoners will attempt
to make it through the work day without getting caught--
- Oh my God.
- and fired. - Is she okay?
- [Narrator] Through a series of challenges,
a group of citizens will try to sniff them out
and eliminate them from the game.
- Look at his eyes!
- I'm not high!
- You're the high person! - Oh wait a minute,
yeah, look at your red eyes!
- If the stoners can kill off the citizens
one by one and be the last two standing,
they win.
(group cheering)
This is Paranoia.
(cats purring)
I'm Kimia.
I smoke weed occasionally,
Usually at night, and then I fall asleep immediately.
My name's Dick and I smoke weed every day.
Like it in all different kinds of forms,
edibles, wax, weed.
- [Crew Member] Take a look and reveal to us who you are.
- Yeah, I'm the stoner.
- I'm the stoner.
(laughs loudly)
- Each round, the stoners will select a player
to eliminate from the game.
The other players include
three square citizens. - I'm a citizen.
- I was really hoping to use some of this weed.
- A narc, who can find out whether a player is stoned.
And a medic, who can choose one player
to protect from elimination.
They can even choose themselves,
as long as it's never twice in a row.
- Uh-oh.
- Hidden in the group is one poser,
pretending to be high,
and taking the heat off the stoners to help them win.
- She's eating a lot of Oreos - But I was laughing!
- Have you ever done one of these before?
- No.
- Welcome.
- Let's see how milky the pull is!
(rhythmic drum solo)
- It's so sick looking.
Okay, ready? - This is wild.
- You're going to push it down into your lungs.
(deep inhalation)
(relaxed summery beat)
(tape rewinding)
Nice.
- Easy peasy!
(camera flash)
Easy peasy!
- [Children's Voices] Horray!
You're probably good with one.
(coughs heavily)
- [Crew Member] Do you have any strategy going into it
now that you know you're a stoner?
- Yeah, don't freak out.
(coughs)
Be regular!
(chemicals bubbling)
(cat mewing)
(heavy coughing)
- How you feeling?
- Feeling very sober.
- I am sober as well.
- Super sober.
- You've managed to secure a prestigious internship,
but two of you forgot it starts today
and accidentally got wildly high.
You need to hide that (bleep)
and make it through this work day if you want a prayer
of getting a job that will pay off your student loans.
Before we go into our first challenge,
we're going to bring out some food.
- This guy's high.
(laughter)
- Yeah - Everybody's high.
- Yeah.
(evil laughter)
- Okay, great!
Are you guys ready?
- Yeah.
(rhythmic tropical music)
- You need to forge your boss's--
- Nasty!
- What's already going on?
- He's eating food off the floor.
(rhythmic tropical music)
- I dropped the chip.
I dropped the chip but I wanted it,
so I put it back in my mouth.
I didn't want to keep reaching for them!
- Yeah, you're not high. You're just gross.
(laughter)
Your boss just handed you a stack of papers
on her way out the door with a tennis racket.
You have ten seconds to look at her signature for reference
and then you must forge it yourself.
Ten seconds starts now.
- Oh, my god. - 10
- [Jess] Delphina Devildoor?
Eight, seven,
six...
Five...
Four,
Three...
Two..
One...
Everyone hold yours up in front of you.
(trumpet riff)
- That's not bad. - It's good!
- That's really good, wow.
- Wow. That's actually really good.
- What happened over there?
- I wasn't sure if I could start drawing
looking at it,
or if I had to wait 10 seconds,
so I started going and then--
- Are you the poser, Is that why?
Is that what's happening?
- Your honesty has really cost you.
- I honestly would be crushing it
if I was the poser right now.
- Yours is too tiny, Dick.
(dramatic music)
- Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't make use of the space
here appropriately.
After I saw Ify's,
I was like that's what I should have done.
I should've stretched it out.
- Hey, Grant, what did you think her name was?
- Delphina McDermott.
What is it?
- Dooberson.
Great job guys, you have survived your first challenge.
So, what we need you guys to do is close your eyes.
Great, I need the two stoners to please open up your eyes,
and with minimal movement,
I need you to pick someone to kick out
of this internship, first.
(suspenseful music)
All right, great.
Close your eyes.
Now, I want to talk to the narc.
Narc, who would you like to know about?
(buzzer beeping)
(suspenseful music)
Great, close your eyes.
Medic, who would you like to save?
Great, close your eyes.
All right, open up your eyes.
Yesterday, something unfortunate happened.
After work,
the two stoners were smoking in the parking garage.
Your boss came back in with her tennis racket
and caught them.
- Whoa!
- But to distract her, they gave up secrets
and tattled on someone.
Which resulted in Grant being fired from the internship.
- What? - Oh my god!
- You're not allowed to say a word, Grant.
I'm sorry, come this way.
- I thought it was Grant. - I thought Grant was stoned.
- Yeah. Take as many chips as you want.
(laughter)
- He's so smug! - So, smug!
- Such a naughty boy.
- I guess it's crazy to like chips!
(chips crunching)
They're good, I don't know what to tell you guys.
They're just tasty.
- Grant really had my number.
I could see it in his eyes as soon as he looked at me
and we made eye contact, he knew I was stoned.
So, I'm really glad that we got
rid of him in the first round.
- [Crew Member] Do you think part of the reason why you
got kicked out as well is because you're a strong player
and they wanted you out?
- I think for sure.
I had Dick's number.
I could sense sort of a general like,
"Okay, I've got to hold on tight here."
- Well, that's bad news, guys.
- Do we think Grant was the poser?
- I don't know. I think that's just how he is.
- Yeah, he's just a gross dude.
- Maybe he was the poser?
- Or a weird strategy he just already came in with.
- Yeah!
(laughing)
- Or he could just not care. - Yeah.
- I think he honestly likes chips.
- Ify looks pretty just relaxed.
- I already got some thoughts.
(laughter)
- Then speak up!
- He's not making sense.
- Yeah, express your thoughts. Yeah, yeah.
- I'm thinking it's maybe Nina.
- No! - She's been cackling
since before we even started!
- I'm a happy person!
- Not that happy, I know Nina.
(laughter)
I've known Nina for a long time
and she doesn't laugh that much.
- Yeah, it's true. - Yeah.
- She was laughing for a long time.
- Okay, so were you!
- I dunno know who started laughing over here,
but there was a giggle fest going on
- Oh yeah, nonstop and the way your eyes lit up
when you saw the Oreos, Nina.
- What?
- One plus one equals two.
- Ify!
- It's you.
- All right, we need a formal second or we need another-
- I second Nina! - Boo!
- Carrie? - I second Nina.
- All right, Nina, you've been formally seconded.
You have 30 seconds uninterrupted.
Why are you not stoned?
- Because. I was playing tennis with our boss!
(laughter)
- That was pretend!
- Yeah, yeah.
- Do yourself a favor and say something else.
- She can't even distinguish between reality and...
- I thought that we had a boss!
- We do! - We do have a boss!
- I'm with Nina.
- Wait, Who was playing tennis!
- That's the story!
I get it, you buy into the story,
But you gotta be real right now,
'cause we don't believe you.
- I'm not high! I'm not high.
- Is there something that you could only do right now
if you weren't high?
- If I was high, I'd be super giggly.
(laughter)
- No!
- I'm not!
- All right, it's time to vote.
Everyone, this will be a blind vote,
so please close your eyes.
Put your hand out in front of you.
Those in favor of saying that
Nina is high and should be fired
from this internship, vote now.
(dramatic drumming)
Wow!
I'm sorry Nina, you have been fired.
What were you? - The medic.
- [Group] Wow!
- Damn! - All right, out this way.
- We're (beep).
- Getting accused first and voted out first
was really frustrating.
The more that I tried to prove that I wasn't,
the more it seemed like I was high.
- All right, with that we move
into our second challenge,
Drink orders.
Rita, your boss, it's her nickname.
Is back from tennis and thirsty as (beep)
for her almond milk latte.
All of the CEOs are.
But the barista was super high
and didn't label any of these cups.
By taste, you must figure out which CEO
your particular coffee goes to.
All right, dig in.
Have a sip.
(inquisitive music)
These are the boss's names and drink orders.
- I got mine.
- Yeah I think I've got mine.
- I think I have mine.
- Yeah, I think so.
- Yep.
- Yeah, I got mine. - Got it!
- All right, you are going to say,
"I think I got", say the name, and then
peel that piece of tape off to reveal
whether you're right or wrong.
Ify, you're up.
- Yeah, this gotta be Bruce.
- Bruce?
- [Group] Aye!
- Bruce, all right, good job!
- I knew that I had either Linda or Lisa.
And I'm thinking it's Linda.
- [Group] Linda! - Aye!
- Great job! All right, movin' right along.
- Sam and I like black coffee.
- Nice!
- I'm doing a last minute switch up.
I thought it was Barry, but now I think I have Debra's.
- Whoa, all right.
- Barry! - Oh, no!
Oh (beep)
- All right.
- I honestly thought I had Linda,
but by process of elimination it looks like I have--
(laughing)
It looks like I have Lisa.
- Aye, great!
- It's clearly the last one up there
but I just want everyone to know I knew it the whole time.
I have...
Debra.
- Lisa?
No, I'm kidding.
- Debra, great job!
With that, close your eyes.
Here we go again.
Two stoners, please open up your eyes and quietly pick
who you would like to kick out of the internship.
(deep boom)
Great.
Narc, Who would you like to know about?
(buzzer beeping)
Great, everybody wake up.
Yesterday at work, those two stoners were at it again.
This time, trying to smoke on the roof.
But little did they know that Rita
likes to do Tai chi on the roof.
Rita got furious that she wasn't invited
to smoke weed this time,
'cause she's having a renaissance.
And on her way downstairs, bumped into Jess.
And truly for no reason, fired Jess.
Jess is not allowed to say anything right now
and must leave.
Good luck in your future endeavors.
It was great working with you or whatever. Goodbye.
(laughter)
- I feel so sad. In the beginning when I looked around,
I felt like it was Dick for sure and maybe Kimia.
But I didn't follow my gut.
I think it's a lesson to learn that
I need to go with my first instinct.
Time and time again, I didn't do that
and then I ended up fired from my internship.
- What do you guys think?
- Okay, I think it's Ify and Dick.
I can't accuse two people at the same time,
so I'm gonna go with Dick.
I'm tired of dying here, guys.
- I mean, they both did the same thing when you named
both of them.
- That's called shock! - Yeah.
- Very common reaction, yeah.
- It's the human emotion known as shock.
- I think it's the person who
points out somebody right away.
- Usually it's the one who's accusing
and trying to, yeah, but we don't have time.
- I feel like you're trying to dig a moat right now
and be really protective of yourself.
- Yeah because also you were right next to two of the people
that were eliminated and that's like the easiest
person to point to.
- I've been playing Mafia for years,
I got the pointing part down.
- He's been pointing for years.
- That makes me want to vote for you just because!
- I know, I'm so sorry, that was a little sassy.
- I mean I'll throw it out there, if you want a second
I'll throw it out there. - I'll second!
- No way, "I've been playing Mafia for years."
- Wow, I am so sorry that is a formal second,
but you do have 30 seconds to explain why it's not you
or maybe why you think it's someone else.
- All right guys, I can't convince you
that it's not me.
I tried.
And I was rude.
(dramatic sad music)
So look where that got me, right?
I'm wondering if you can find it in your hearts
to give a guy a second chance.
I'm also not the Mafia.
- We're not playing Mafia.
(laughs)
- Everyone close your eyes, this will be a blind vote.
All in favor, raise your hand.
Wow.
Keenen, I'm really sorry,
but you have been fired from this internship.
What were you?
- I was a citizen.
- Wow!
- My biggest mistake was definitely when I said,
"I've played this game before, I know how to point."
That was really bad.
- And with that, the stoners have won.
The game is over, congratulations to the stoners.
There are now two stoners and one poser left
who is technically on the stoners' team.
- Wow! - The three of you have won.
Ify, you are absolutely alone right now.
- There was a moment at that final vote
where he kind of was sincere and was like, "It was not me",
and I believed him.
But I was like, that's exactly what someone
who wasn't innocent would say.
But actually, no, he was innocent.
I was talking a big game earlier about sniffing 'em out.
And the ones I did vote out
were actually very helpful citizens.
I feel bamboozled!
- Yeah!
- So bamboozled.
- Woo!
Yeah!
- It feels great to be a winner
and be a stoner at the same time,
because those things aren't often correlated.
(laughter)
- [Crew Member] Any final thoughts?
- Smoke weed every day.
(laughs loudly)
(upbeat hip hop music)
(laughing maniacally)
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