The Guy Who Broke 2 Game Shows

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Curtis actually first applied for the position of host but was turned down, and he took that personally

Curtis would be good at a presidential debate, he’d never let anyone else say anything. Ever.

curtis's strategy is to guess when the important information will be given in the question and buzz right before that. it will take a second or so for the host to acknowledge the buzz and stop reading, so there will still be a few words spoken after the buzz, allowing curtis to get enough info to answer correctly. most people will wait until they hear the info and know the answer to buzz, but curtis gets in a little bit ahead. when other players buzz in early, they have to buzz in even before the earliest possible moment where they'll get enough info to answer, almost guaranteeing they won't actually know the question. curtis's strategy really is the best one to take in this kind of game, where the trivia is so easy that all the players were know almost all of the answers.

"What the fuck, Michelle?" made me laugh way more than it probably should have.

That’s a jarring transformation Curtis made into an unhinged quiz show supervillain.

Richard: "I-" Curtis: "The Spanish inquisition!" Richard: "That is correct"

I'm genuinely impressed by your talent to take an obscure topic which YOU find interesting and make a video on it engrossing so many people into it as well

“It wasn’t a question Curtis but I’m glad to see you’re already on your bullshit” 😂😂

"My father is..." "Lady Di?" "That's exactly right, Princess Diane"

Imagine getting on this show and being excited to win money on a game show... then realizing that Curtis came back

There's an art to telling bad jokes, and both John and Michelle NAILED it.

Watching this made me realize why Jeopardy is so much more fun to watch. The reason Curtis was able to keep winning, it seems to me, was because a) they can buzz in before the question is finished, b) if they get it wrong, the others don't get to try to answer, and c) the questions aren't that difficult. I'm sure he studied and practiced but they're nowhere near as challenging as Jeopardy questions, so you're far more likely to get it right with a guess.

Actually a very smart strategy, he knows enough to get a decent amount of his buzzes right, but even when he gets them wrong he has such a lead because he literally just doesn’t let anyone else answer that it doesn’t matter, on top of that it makes the other contestants nervous and they’ll buzz when they don’t have an answer further increasing his lead

Fun Fact: He was also on Jeopardy but lost in his first game, but was also on a game show called "Win Ben Stein's Money". As a profession, he was an air traffic controller. Intriguing man.

Michele is the alternate timeline hero of Curtis’s story who eventually learns his greatest weakness and defeats him in a grand finale match where all the money is on the line, teaching him the ultimate them that the true game show host prize is the friends you made along the way.

Curtis is the type of chaotic I aspire to be, but in reality, I'm just John.

Curtis is who I imagine myself to be on a gameshow, John is how I'd actually look.

“slightly inappropriate and horribly aged 80’s game show” is one of the most niche yet intriguing aesthetics

something about his kubrick-like stare amd unwavering confidence is so terrifying and yet so attractive