Season 8 of Dropout’s flagship show Game Changer premieres Monday May 18. Based on its first trailer, it certainly seems like the new episodes might be the biggest and most chaotic yet. (For a show built on a foundation of chaos, that’s saying a lot.) But Game Changer isn’t just about chaos and host Sam Reich gleefully torturing his contestants. A profound sincerity lives at the heart of it, like in the season 7 episode “Who Wants to Be Jacob Wysocki?” where the grieving comedian’s friends (Reich included!) came together to celebrate him.

Ahead of the new season, let’s take a look at the best episodes of Game Changer. With 71 episodes so far, picking 10 favorites is a challenging endeavor, requiring extensive rewatching and copious amounts of laughter (poor me). I landed on a mix of episodes that embodied various aspects of what makes Game Changer so fun: its chaos, sincerity, comedy, and overall great game design.

The only way to begin is by beginning. So, without further ado, let’s begin.

With how big and adventurous later seasons have become, it’s easy to overlook the first batch of six episodes. But early Game Changers offered up the greats “Lie Detector” and “Make Some Noise.” Episode 4 “Whodunnit” is a very fun murder mystery with a flurry of gut-busting jokes. (It’s clear why Rekha Shankar eventually got her own show — she’s hilarious.) Shankar and Grant O’Brien make for a comedic pair of detectives, and the twist ending lands well.

Maybe I’m still a middle schooler at heart, but I love a good innuendo. “Like My Coffee” finds Grant O’Brien, Jess Ross, and former Um, Actually host Mike Trapp competing in an innuendo competition, showing an unexpected side to the latter two. (We all know how O’Brien is a bit promiscuous.) It’s a classic setup for rapid-fire improv, and that setup resonated so well........

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