Bleh! It’s me, Dracula! You know, from Dracula 2000? I’m here to tell you about this week’s episode, featuring Anna, Steve, and Derek competing in a game that features so much of me! But none of my actual movies. Which is fine because I’d rather be popping up in The Land Before Time than have to sit through Renfield. Then, I send our players on a cross-national road trip, driving only at night of course. Like Tilda Swinton requesting only night flights in Only Lovers Left Alive. Speaking of which, how has Taylor not asked a million questions over the years about Only Lovers Left Alive. Feels like a Babylonesque “Taylor won’t shut up about this one movie” type of pick. And Tom Hiddelston is just as sexy as William Conrad in it! Anyways, the lightning round is a blood bath, which means I absolutely loved it.
Contestants
Quizzes Played
Double Bubble Toil And Trouble
Who's going to best recover from blowing a big bubblegum bubble and having it pop all over their face?
The Monster Mash
Name the "La..." movie Dracula is worming his way into.
Headin' Out West
Sort three pop culture properties, east to west, by their American setting.
Nora Roberts Adjacent
Questions about romance novels and their screen adaptations.
Attention Muumuu Wearing Parliament Chainsmokers
Questions about the TV show The West Wing.
Cinematic Progression
Pop culture questions about movies with an ordinal numbers in their titles.
The Riddle
A book editor whose marriage is done,
Finds a new guy and new kinds of fun.
She looks like Zeke's mother
Is the killer him or the other?
It's Jack who gets shot with her gun.
Answer
The 1993 thriller Sliver centers on Carly, played by Sharon Stone, a book editor who has just come through a divorce, and moves into a new apartment where the landlord (Zeke, played by William Baldwin) has put secret cameras everywhere. He introduces her to new forms of adult play time, but there are mysterious killings going on. Is it weird that he's watching everyone all the time? And that everyone notes that Carly looks like his mom? Or is the killer her other love interest, Jack (Tom Berenger)? In a departure from the Ira Levin novel it's based on, Jack winds up being the killer. He attacks Carly, and she shoots him.