- 10/3/2024
w/ Ben Hurley, Rhiannon McCall, Jacquie Brown
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00:00Hi, diddly-ho, friends and neighbours, it's been a whole week since Spelling was on primetime
00:23television, so let's do something about that.
00:26Welcome to GoMontgomerys GoMont Spelling Day!
00:31Before me stand four comedians known for their wit and quick thinking.
00:35Well, tonight we will expose them for the spelling heroes or zeroes they truly are,
00:39and after five rounds of intensive spelling, one of them will win this, a ticket that ensures
00:45they'll take part in next week's finale!
00:50We've also got a hat that is no longer legal in learning environments as it was exclusively
00:54used to humiliate and punish school children for stupidity.
00:58Thankfully there are no laws against making adults wear it on national television.
01:07Now we know what's on the line, let's meet our contestants, please welcome Rhiannon McCoy!
01:12Ben Hurley!
01:14Jackie Brown!
01:16And our reigning champion, Rhys Mathewson!
01:23Now let's get spelling!
01:29It is of course the spelling round, a round where contestants must spell.
01:33In that respect it's also similar to future rounds, although there are some key differences.
01:37For example, this is the only round with a cup, a purse and a bucket.
01:42Inside the coward's cup are cute little words, words easily spelled by a cute little child.
01:47These are worth a solitary point.
01:49Inside the person's purse are medium difficulty words, the kind that would be more easily spelled by a cute little adult.
01:54They are worth two.
01:56Words from the bucket of bravery, why I would only pick one of these if I were a cute little genius.
02:01If you're so lucky as to spell one of these big boys correctly, you'll get a whole three points.
02:06Our first speller rings like a bell through the night, and wouldn't you love to love her?
02:10Takes to the sky like a bird in flight, and who will be her lover?
02:14It's Rhiannon McCoy!
02:18Rhiannon, you are a talented improviser.
02:21Will you be using those skills tonight to just make up on the spot how words are spelled?
02:26Ah, yes I will. Yeah.
02:28I did kind of ask you before the show what are the words going to be,
02:32you didn't really provide much guidance there.
02:35As would be tradition in any sort of competitive spelling bee.
02:38Yeah, I don't know, I just think, you know, like lifting up young women, I thought that might have been...
02:42How old are you?
02:44LAUGHTER
02:47You're going to ask a lady her age?
02:50I wouldn't ask a girl her age.
02:52LAUGHTER
02:55Rhiannon, it's a delight to have you with us.
02:57Which receptacle would you like to spell from?
02:59Hmm, I will go for the middle one.
03:02OK, the person's purse it is.
03:04Your word... Oh, God.
03:06..is dumbbell.
03:08To help you, you can ask for a language of origin, a definition and to hear the word in a sentence.
03:13May I hear it in a sentence?
03:15Oh...
03:17LAUGHTER
03:19You ladies want a couple of tickets to the gun show?
03:22Oh, you do? Just let me put down my dumbbell and I'll get them for you.
03:26Ah, yeah, business has been real slow at the gun show since public opinion turned on guns.
03:30LAUGHTER
03:32Little scene there, dumbbell.
03:34LAUGHTER
03:35D-U-M-B-E-L-L.
03:41That is incorrect. I'm so sorry.
03:43Wait, OK, I'll go again.
03:45LAUGHTER
03:47Dumbbell is spelled D-U-M-B-E-L-L.
03:52Two Bs. I knew it.
03:54Or not two Bs.
03:56That is the question. That's two Bs.
03:58Our second speller is beloved across Aotearoa.
04:01Will the nation's opinion of him change tonight?
04:03It's Ben Hurley!
04:05CHEERING
04:07Hi, guys.
04:08You are, I'm actually the son, I understand, of two English teachers.
04:11Yes, that's correct.
04:12Do you pride yourself on your spelling at all?
04:14I think my spelling career peaked at about age nine
04:18when I was the only person in the class who could spell encyclopaedia.
04:21Anyway, hoping that word comes up tonight.
04:24I don't know if you take requests.
04:26No, sadly, I don't, and the show isn't set in the 1980s.
04:30LAUGHTER
04:31Well, Ben, we are very excited to have you with us.
04:33Which receptacle for you?
04:35I'm going to go Bucket of Bravery to start with.
04:37CHEERING
04:40All right, and your word from the Bucket of Bravery is...
04:46Eczema.
04:47Eczema.
04:48OK. Could you use it in a sentence, please, Guy?
04:51Well, it's another one of my iconic act-outs.
04:53LAUGHTER
04:54Heyya, Cathy. Yeah, a bit of an awkward phone call.
04:57I'm just calling up everyone I've had sex with in the last two years
05:00to let them know I just found out I've got eczema.
05:05What's that? Oh, it's not contagious.
05:07Oh, that is such a relief.
05:09No, no, this is my only phone call.
05:11LAUGHTER
05:13All right. I'll see you at home, darling.
05:15LAUGHTER
05:17You still all right to pick up the kids from swimming?
05:20Yeah, I'm easy.
05:21No, we've still got some of that lasagna in the freezer.
05:23LAUGHTER
05:25I...
05:27All right, I'm going to give this a go.
05:29E-X-C-E-M-A.
05:34That is incorrect, Ben.
05:36I'm so sorry. Eczema is spelt E-C-Z-E-M-A.
05:41Nasty little word. Isn't it?
05:43Well, Ben, I'm sorry, no point awarded to you.
05:45Our next contestant has a strong history with the written word.
05:48She was so thorough with writing in her diary
05:50that her diaries became a whole TV show
05:52from the Jackie Brown Diaries
05:53in every second show on New Zealand television
05:55for the last 20 years.
05:56It's Jackie Brown!
05:58CHEERING
06:00Jackie, you're such a fan of words, you actually published a book
06:03which purported to be a guide to everything,
06:06and yet there was not a single mention
06:08of how to be a contestant on a spelling bee.
06:11Do you not think spelling bees come under
06:13the quite broad banner of everything?
06:15No, obviously not, but recipes, quizzes,
06:18how to scream into pillows, sort of more important things.
06:22How does one scream into a pillow?
06:24Just, well, if, if, if...
06:26LAUGHTER
06:29With love and respect...
06:31With love and respect...
06:33SCREAMS
06:35You can sell that.
06:37You can sell that on trading.
06:39Sorry.
06:40Are you looking forward to explaining that when you get home, Rhi?
06:43Yeah, no, my wife's pretty chill.
06:46Well, Jackie, it's a pleasure to have you on the show with us.
06:49Which receptacle would you like to spell from?
06:52Um, I would like to go for the bucket of bravery!
06:55Bucket of bravery!
06:56CHEERING
06:58Why not? Why not?
07:00Well, because you'll probably get it wrong.
07:02Yes, there is that.
07:04I think only two people have got...
07:06This is a free point in here. I know.
07:08Two people this season.
07:09I can't even count how many people
07:11have made an absolute dog's breakfast.
07:14We prepped a lot of lovely little words for the Cowards' Cup.
07:18In no world at the start of the season
07:20did we think, only two words!
07:22LAUGHTER
07:24Sincere frustration.
07:27I don't do slobby seconds.
07:31OK, from the bucket of bravery,
07:33your word is soliloquy.
07:36Oh, shut up.
07:39Now, that's not even funny.
07:41I tried to warn you for, I would argue,
07:43about three minutes of ranting just then.
07:45Can you use it in a sentence, please, Guy?
07:48LAUGHTER
07:50Better be funny, Guy.
07:52It's not necessarily that it's funny,
07:54but of all of the act outs we've seen so far this evening,
07:57this is, by some margin, the longest.
07:59LAUGHTER
08:03I didn't know these words were all going to be chosen sequentially.
08:06So, hi, I'm Guy, I'm with Jubilee Street Management
08:10and I'm auditioning for the role of Man 2
08:12in the Burger King Taste the Flames campaign.
08:15I will be performing Jacques' soliloquy
08:18from Act 2, scene 7 of As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
08:23All the world's a stage
08:25and all the men and women merely players.
08:28They have their exits and their entrances.
08:30And one man in his time plays many parts,
08:33his ex being seven ages.
08:36At first, the infant mewling and puking
08:39and the nurses are wah,
08:41and then the whining schoolboy
08:44with his satchel and shining morning face
08:47creeping like a snail unwillingly to school.
08:52And then the lover,
08:54sighing like a furnace with a woeful ballad
08:57made to his mistress's eyebrow.
09:00Then a soldier,
09:02full of strange oaths and bearded like the past.
09:06Jealous in all her sudden and quicken quarrels,
09:09seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
09:13Burger King's new double barbecue stack attack,
09:16Taste the Flames.
09:18APPLAUSE
09:23Your word is soliloquy.
09:25S-I-L-I-L-S-L-L-E-I-Q-U-A-Y?
09:32I did have to let you finish, but you got it wrong a while ago.
09:37Soliloquy is spelled S-O-L-I-L-O-Q-U-Y.
09:42I mean, you couldn't get it from that performance.
09:45Nothing's going to help you.
09:47No points awarded. Fair enough, fair enough.
09:49And he's spelled his way into the history books.
09:52It's the back-to-back-to-back champion, Rhys Mathewson!
09:56CHEERING
09:58Hi, darling. Hiya, Rhys.
10:00It's incredible to have you back on,
10:02now exactly half the episodes of the season.
10:05Yeah. To be honest, Guy, this week I'm a changed man.
10:08Oh, you've changed from last time.
10:10Yeah. Because of my historic three-win streak,
10:13the parent company Warner Brothers Discovery
10:15have offered me a spin-off show.
10:17What's it called?
10:18Oh, it's based on counting as opposed to spelling.
10:21It's called Rhys Mathewson's Rhys Maths You Show.
10:24LAUGHTER
10:26I can see the appeal immediately.
10:28Rhys, a delight to have you back with us.
10:31Which receptacle would you like to spell from?
10:33Um, no, I'm going to play tactics.
10:35I've been going back at a bravery a lot,
10:37but since there's no points on the board,
10:39I'll take a person's purse, please.
10:41Wow, sensible Guy.
10:43And your word from the person's purse is...
10:48Can I please have the definition?
10:50Cooking, but for boys.
10:52LAUGHTER
10:55Um, barbecue.
10:57B-A-R-B-E-C-U-E.
11:00That is correct!
11:01CHEERING
11:03Wouldn't expect anything less.
11:04Now, before the break,
11:06I would like to honour all of the hard-working people
11:08at Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee.
11:10Before tonight's episode, I made a pointed effort
11:12of introducing our A-list cast to some of the crew
11:15using their first and last name.
11:17I hope you were paying attention.
11:19It's time for Spell the Crew Member's Name.
11:25For this round, I would like to reintroduce all of you
11:28to our health and safety officer!
11:31CHEERING
11:33There he is!
11:35Oh, no!
11:37Contestants, you have one ad break to remember
11:40and spell his name.
11:41It shouldn't be too hard.
11:42Just when we were about to come out on stage,
11:44I formally made a point of introducing him to all of you.
11:47Your time starts now.
11:48While they're thinking as hard as they can,
11:50you guys can enjoy the break
11:51and we'll find out who this person is right afterwards!
11:54CHEERING
12:08CHEERING
12:11Welcome back!
12:12This week's episode is brought to you by proper nouns.
12:16Better than those inappropriate nouns
12:18you find strewn through most sentences,
12:20proper nouns are so proper,
12:21you can't even play them in Scrabble.
12:23When you're thinking about your next noun,
12:25make it a proper one.
12:26And all your British mates will be saying,
12:28oh, that noun is well proper.
12:30LAUGHTER
12:32Before the break,
12:33we were doing a quick research spelling project
12:36into who on our panel is rude and who isn't
12:38by challenging them all to remember and spell
12:41a health and safety officer's name.
12:43Let's see how they did, starting with Rhiannon.
12:46This man is called...
12:48Zane The Toolman Taylor.
12:51LAUGHTER
12:52Now, you might not be aware of this guy
12:54because you're so busy preparing,
12:56but me and the crew,
12:57we actually came up with, like, a cool name for Zane.
13:00And we, like, us, we all call him The Toolman Taylor
13:03cos he's always on the tool.
13:06So, if you don't get it, that's OK.
13:08OK.
13:09If you don't get his wittle nickname, that's OK.
13:11LAUGHTER
13:13Thank you very much, Rhiannon.
13:15We will move on to Ben.
13:16Pretty confident guy. Yeah?
13:18Very confident, in fact. Oh, my gosh.
13:20So, we met quite a few of the people around
13:22when we came here on the show,
13:24and I committed all their names to memory.
13:26Incredible.
13:27So, pretty confident that this man's name is Sanjay.
13:30LAUGHTER
13:36Not a bad guess.
13:37OK, thank you, Ben.
13:38Jacqui, how have you done?
13:41Saxonal Zane?
13:43You've written... Hang on, hang on.
13:45Can you tell me about your handwriting
13:47on the bottom half of that page?
13:49Saxonal Zach.
13:50LAUGHTER
13:51I don't know what I'm talking about.
13:53There's a z- and a s- noise coming,
13:56and I'm deeply humiliated that I don't remember.
13:59Well, I wouldn't feel too badly about it.
14:01You've made a noble guess. It could yet be right.
14:03Could be.
14:04Zane Brown, who, let I remind everyone at home,
14:07has now been on the show four times.
14:10LAUGHTER
14:11And I can't believe I didn't see this coming.
14:13On no other episode has there been
14:15a health and safety briefing for us.
14:17LAUGHTER
14:18When that happened, I was like,
14:20finally, this ship's getting turned around.
14:22At first, I thought it was Zane Brown,
14:25but I think I got it wrong.
14:27I think it's Zane Fleming.
14:29Wait, how do you know his last name? Yeah.
14:31Cos he was introduced first and last name.
14:33And I specifically told you to write first and last names as well.
14:36Oh, did you? Yeah.
14:38LAUGHTER
14:40Thank you for your guess, Rhys.
14:42Now, everybody, could you please show me your pads once more?
14:45All of these are incorrect.
14:48Our health and safety officer, as it says in the credits,
14:51is, of course, Zane Beaver.
14:53Zane?
14:54Everybody, give it up for Zane Beaver.
14:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
14:58Zane Beaver.
15:00One of the most unforgettable surnames on the planet.
15:04I don't know where I went wrong.
15:06LAUGHTER
15:08And now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a plane to catch
15:11to the whole wide world.
15:16Flags, a tried and true classic.
15:18It's a simple round, I show you some flags,
15:20you pick one and spell it.
15:22But before we meet the flags,
15:23I think we should meet the man who chose them.
15:25It's our citizen of the world,
15:26and exceptionally well-travelled, Sanjay Patel.
15:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
15:31Hiya, Sanjay.
15:32Hiya, Guy.
15:33Chosen some good flags for us this evening?
15:35Yes, Guy, and before we get into it,
15:37I would like to warn any audience members who are wanting to date me,
15:41I have some red flags.
15:43LAUGHTER
15:44OK, thanks, Sanjay.
15:45It's very honest.
15:46What are your red flags?
15:47Turkey, Morocco, Bahrain, China, Tonga.
15:55And how does that affect dating you?
15:57Probably accidentally put them in the wash with your whites.
16:01LAUGHTER
16:02Thank you very much.
16:04Sanjay, would you reveal the flags?
16:08Wow!
16:11We will start the game at the opposite end of the line.
16:13Rhys, you're in the fortunate position of choosing first.
16:17I will take top right, please.
16:19Top right.
16:20Now, to help you in this game,
16:22you can ask for a fun fact about the country or a less fun fact.
16:28I will start with the fun fact, please.
16:30You can still do the accent, and as far as I know, nobody gets upset.
16:34LAUGHTER
16:36I-T-A-L-Y.
16:38That is correct!
16:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
16:41Well done, Rhys.
16:42One point is yours.
16:43You've been to Italy, Sanjay?
16:45I try not to.
16:46You try not to.
16:47Because I don't want to meet my heroes.
16:49Who are your heroes?
16:50Mario.
16:51LAUGHTER
16:53I just got a good impression of him.
16:55I don't want to ruin it.
16:57OK, Jackie, you're up next.
16:59Three flags to choose from.
17:01The bottom right, please.
17:03Give me the clues.
17:04Fun fact, this country has over 70 languages.
17:08Well, that's not helpful at all.
17:10OK, what's the less fun fact?
17:12It is a frustratingly similar flag to another country.
17:15LAUGHTER
17:19LAUGHTER
17:22Lots of languages within the one country?
17:24Oh, yeah.
17:25OK.
17:27India?
17:28I-N-D-I-A?
17:30That is not how you spell Côte d'Ivoire.
17:34LAUGHTER
17:37I would have also accepted Ivory Coast.
17:40That is a brutal guy.
17:42Yeah, it's sort of how the game was designed.
17:44LAUGHTER
17:45Ben.
17:46Hi.
17:47You've had some of your work probably made easier,
17:49I would argue, there.
17:50Eventually, yeah.
17:51Do you recognise either of these?
17:52I recognise one of them.
17:53Which one are you going to be going for?
17:55Ben, be my friend in this moment.
17:57OK.
17:58And who are you?
18:00Ben, we work together.
18:02Please.
18:03Excuse me, I'm talking to Zayn.
18:04Now, look...
18:05LAUGHTER
18:09Zayn, my good man.
18:10Yeah.
18:11I think I'm going to go top left.
18:13Ooh!
18:15I think this country is also one
18:18that you can kind of have a crack at the accent,
18:21but I'm not going to.
18:23But I will spell I-R-E-L-A-N-D.
18:27That is correct.
18:28APPLAUSE
18:32Really showing the full range on tonight's episode.
18:35OK, Rhiannon, you're up last,
18:37and I reckon you've got no idea what flag that is.
18:40You reckon correctly, Guy.
18:42You could try asking Sanjay for some help.
18:44Rhiannon?
18:45Can I have some help, please, Sanjay?
18:48I'm starving.
18:50Oh, my God!
18:51H-U-N-G-A-R-Y.
18:53LAUGHTER
18:55That is correct!
18:57CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
19:04That is...
19:08Naughty, Sanjay!
19:10That is a blatant clue, Gav.
19:13It's allowed!
19:15It's not, but Sanjay did it.
19:17What happened? We've got to roll with the puns, Jackie.
19:20I'm as upset as you are. What a game!
19:23You can see why we brought it back.
19:25Spelling and geography go together just as well
19:27as Danny, Zuko and Sandy.
19:29That's right. Grease is the word.
19:31LAUGHTER
19:35That's also a country.
19:37We're going to go to an ad break
19:39before I make myself any more confused.
19:41We'll be right back with more Localine Spelling!
19:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
19:53MUSIC
19:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
20:00Okamai, welcome back to our penultimate episode for the season.
20:04I love that word.
20:05Penultimate, of course, a fancy way of saying second to last.
20:09Now, that's a cool pen.
20:12The more you know.
20:13But this next round isn't about pens, it's about proposals.
20:17MUSIC
20:21All right.
20:22Split into teams of two, conveniently down the middle.
20:25Rhiannon and Ben, you'll work together.
20:27Jackie and Rhys, you'll also work together.
20:29In your pairings, you'll each take a look at the words
20:31inside of those boxes in front of you.
20:33Do not let your partner see your words.
20:36Do not let your partner see your words.
20:39One of them will be easy to spell, the other quite hard.
20:42It is your job to choose which word your partner will be spelling.
20:46If you both spell your word correctly, you each get two points.
20:50If one of you succeeds and the other fails,
20:52the correct speller gets four points.
20:55If you both err, no points are awarded.
20:58Rhiannon and Ben, I'll give you 30 seconds
21:00to take a look at what you've got
21:02and discuss your strategy with each other.
21:07I don't understand the rules.
21:10LAUGHTER
21:14OK, so one's got a hard word and one's got an easy word, right?
21:17That's true, that's what's in there.
21:19OK, I've got the same, an easy word and a hard word.
21:21I think that we should work together.
21:24This isn't a bluff and I'm being serious.
21:27I respect you, I like you and I'm going to give you the easy option.
21:32I think you're full of shit.
21:34No!
21:36No, come on, let's be... Let's work together.
21:39You lost me at I like you.
21:41LAUGHTER
21:43Let's both go for the easy option, OK?
21:46Please, Ben.
21:48All right. No, hang on.
21:50No, no. Are we both going to go for the easy option?
21:52Yep. Sanjay's approaching you right now.
21:54Hang on, hang on, hang on. Wait, I need to check which one is which.
21:57OK. Have you both made your decision?
21:59Thank you very much. OK.
22:01Thank you, Sanjay. We've got to work together after this.
22:03Ben. Yes?
22:05You trust Ben? Do you know what, Guy?
22:07I think I... No, he just twitched his eye.
22:09LAUGHTER
22:11That's alcoholism.
22:13LAUGHTER
22:15Well, the word you have to spell...
22:17Oh, my...
22:19..is country.
22:21Oh! OK.
22:25LAUGHTER
22:29Do you want to know what it is? Oh, yeah, please. A definition?
22:32Beer, red dirt roads, dog in the back of my pick-up,
22:36flags, cities, civilians, governments occupying a specific bit of territory.
22:40That's country.
22:42LAUGHTER
22:44C-O-U-N-T-R-Y.
22:47That is correct!
22:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
22:52Ben. Yes?
22:54Do you trust Rhiannon?
22:56Anyone who starts off by saying,
22:59I know! I know.
23:0150% I trust her.
23:03Well, the word you're spelling... Mm-hm.
23:05..is sweet.
23:07Aw!
23:09Do you want to know what it is? Yeah, I'd love to know what it is.
23:12Take a look in the mirror, gorgeous.
23:14LAUGHTER
23:16Can I just say this has been my favourite round so far?
23:18LAUGHTER
23:20S-W-E-E-T.
23:22That is correct!
23:24CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
23:27Well done. A beautiful collaboration.
23:30Moving on now to Jackie and Rhys.
23:33You guys know how the game works. Have a little look.
23:35Start talking to each other and let's see what happens.
23:38LAUGHTER
23:46All right, so clearly that box has got the hard word in it,
23:50considering you burst out laughing.
23:52Are you going to give me that box?
23:54First of all, you are incredibly smart,
23:57and I know that you could nail that.
24:00I don't even know how to pronounce it.
24:02That you can do in your sleep.
24:04I want to challenge you.
24:06I want you to raise up.
24:08OK, because you're giving me the hard word,
24:11I'm also going to give you the hard word.
24:14And I have points on the board, so this was a huge error from you.
24:18LAUGHTER
24:20Wait, I haven't decided yet. I have.
24:22LAUGHTER
24:27All right. Let's see how this goes.
24:30Jackie. Yes.
24:31I'd ask if you'd trust Rhys,
24:33but you guys were pretty transparent with each other.
24:36Are you ready? Yes.
24:38Your word is sesquipedalian.
24:40LAUGHTER
24:42I just wanted to challenge you, you know?
24:44LAUGHTER
24:46Rhys, can you say it again slowly?
24:48Sesquipedalian.
24:50Do you want to know what it is first?
24:52Sure, come on, what is it? It's a long word meaning long word.
24:55LAUGHTER
24:57Sesquipedalian.
25:00S-E-S-Q-U-A-P-E-R-D-A-L-L-I-O-N.
25:10That is incorrect.
25:12Sesquipedalian spelt S-E-S-Q-U-I-P-E-D-A-L-I-A-N.
25:18I was close though, right? I was in the kind of general farmyard.
25:21Started with an S, ended with an N.
25:24Rhys. Yeah?
25:25What do you think you've got in here, an easy one or a hard one?
25:27Was Jackie pulling the craziest double bluff of all time?
25:31No, I think I'm getting the hard one.
25:33You are correct.
25:34Your word is simotricus.
25:36LAUGHTER
25:38Oh, no. Sorry, pardon?
25:40Simotricus.
25:42You know, wavy hair.
25:44Can I please get it in a sentence?
25:46No.
25:47LAUGHTER
25:49Simotricus.
25:51S-Y-M-O-T-R-O-C-U-S.
25:58That is incorrect.
26:00Simotricus spelt C-Y-M-O-T-R-I-C-H-O-U-S.
26:06It's like you don't even care anymore.
26:08LAUGHTER
26:10It's incredible what you're capable of when you work together.
26:13It's even more impressive what happens when you don't.
26:16LAUGHTER
26:17We've got some relationships to repair here in the studio,
26:19so give us a few minutes while we work on that.
26:21We'll see you soon with more Spelling Bee!
26:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
26:38Welcome back to The Game on Spelling Bee.
26:40Our contestants have kissed and made up,
26:42but let me tell you,
26:43when these guys aren't working hard on their spelling,
26:45they're working hard on their social media profiles,
26:47and I've just spent the ad break trawling them for content.
26:54Any comedian worth their salt has spent at least some part
26:57of their life or career posting on social media,
27:00and the four contestants in front of us today are no exception.
27:03In this round, Sanjay will present screenshots
27:05from actual historic posts from your actual social media accounts.
27:09You will then be asked to spell a word from or related to that post.
27:13What could possibly go wrong?
27:15No...
27:16Ben!
27:17OK.
27:18LAUGHTER
27:20You grew up on a farm and are older than me.
27:22You must be a big social media guy.
27:24LAUGHTER
27:26I genuinely despise social media,
27:29but I do it because apparently you have to.
27:32Do you dream of leaving?
27:34No, I'm leaving slowly by just becoming more and more irrelevant.
27:37Ah.
27:38LAUGHTER
27:39That's an interesting strategy.
27:40Well, I would like to take you back to the year 2012.
27:43You were a male New Zealand comedian in his mid-30s
27:45with his own TV show,
27:46aka As Good As It Gets.
27:49But it turns out you were not just a comedian and philosopher,
27:52but also...
27:54a chef.
27:55LAUGHTER
27:57You published this image with the caption,
27:59I've created a dish.
28:01I call it chicken **** yeah.
28:03LAUGHTER
28:05That's good, Ben. That's funny.
28:06I've been trying to come up with a name of my own for this dish,
28:09and I have.
28:10Your word is...
28:11abhorrent.
28:12LAUGHTER
28:15Now, in this round, you can ask for a language of origin,
28:17a definition or a sentence.
28:19Let's go for the sentence.
28:20You want to hear an abhorrent sentence?
28:22Imagine Brian Tamaki's pubic hair.
28:25Do you reckon he smooths it all down?
28:27Yeah!
28:28LAUGHTER
28:31Abhorrent.
28:32OK, I'm going to go ahead and spell.
28:34A-B-H-O-R-R-E-N-T.
28:40That is correct!
28:41CHEERING
28:43Well done, Ben.
28:45Now, to Jackie Brown.
28:47You were a serial tweeter for many years.
28:49It's been an absolute pleasure going through your digital diaries.
28:52And did you know that, as far as I can tell,
28:54you haven't deleted a single tweet since 2009?
28:57LAUGHTER
28:58Oh, no!
28:59I had a really good time.
29:00Some of it I thought was fantastic.
29:02Do you go to the mall?
29:03Do you celebrate Christmas?
29:04It's a beautiful life.
29:05LAUGHTER
29:07Oh, just get it over with.
29:08Come on, give it to me.
29:09Let's see what we've got.
29:11Beyone and One Direction coming to play in concert.
29:15How's A Girl Meant To Choose?
29:18July 7, 2013.
29:21LAUGHTER
29:22Beyone?!
29:24Beyone's an amazing artist.
29:26She never quite broke through, unfortunately,
29:29but she had a lot of bangers.
29:31Pretty disrespectful spelling of a celebrity name there,
29:34but as long as that's the only celebrity you've misspelled,
29:37you can probably get a pass.
29:38Oh, no. Oh, no. Come on.
29:40Oh, no!
29:41James Gandalfini.
29:43Dead at 51.
29:44RIP.
29:45This is sad news.
29:47What a loss.
29:48Gandalfini?!
29:50It's a shocking misspelling of James Gandalfini.
29:52What is he, a wizard?!
29:54LAUGHTER
29:56This is cruel.
29:57This is not...
29:58This is so mean.
29:59You'll get your turn, Rhiannon.
30:01No, it's glorious. I love it. Give me more.
30:04You think you've misspelled a third celebrity?
30:06Yes.
30:07You are correct.
30:08LAUGHTER
30:11If my calculations are correct,
30:13Gary Bussey's face is 42% T.
30:17LAUGHTER
30:19Christ Almighty, a misspelled Busey.
30:21Have you no respect for the sanctity of famous people?
30:24Oh, no!
30:27Jackie, thankfully for you,
30:29we can offer you a chance at redemption
30:31with a tasteful, handcrafted celebrity custom-built for you.
30:35I would like to introduce you to...
30:38What?!
30:40..Beyoncé Busey Gandalfini.
30:43A genuine triple threat.
30:45They can sing, they can act, they can die!
30:48LAUGHTER
30:50Your word is Beyoncé Busey Gandalfini.
30:53Oh, come on!
30:55I'd like to remind you, you can ask for a language of origin,
30:58a definition and a sentence.
31:00I'd love it if you asked for all of them.
31:02I would love all of them, please.
31:04Guy, let's start with the sentence.
31:06And the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor,
31:09Best Original Song and Also In Memoriam goes to...
31:13LAUGHTER
31:14..Beyoncé Busey Gandalfini.
31:17Language of origin?
31:18Give me that.
31:19American, American, Italian-American.
31:23Give me the definition.
31:25A celebrity you'd want to shag, marry and kill.
31:28LAUGHTER
31:34Beyoncé Busey Gandalfini.
31:37B-E-Y-O-N-C-E
31:42B-U-S-E-Y-G-A-N-D
31:51D-A-L-F-I-N-I?
31:57No!
31:58Two out of three is quite bad.
32:00LAUGHTER
32:02You got Beyoncé, you got Busey.
32:05You made the same mistake on Gandalfini.
32:09What is that?
32:10G-A-N-D-O-L-F-I-N-I.
32:13The fact you chose not to make any correction
32:16to a word we told you you misspelled is staggering.
32:20Tough luck.
32:21I guess I should have had an inkling you wouldn't be able to get that.
32:24Moving on now to Rhiannon.
32:27No?
32:28I don't want to do it.
32:29You're going to do it.
32:30What can you tell me about your life in the year 2013?
32:34Oh, in 2013, I was living in Switzerland.
32:38And, oh, God, what did I post?
32:42Well, if you take your mind back to June 2013,
32:45according to my 12-minute deep dive into your personal Facebook,
32:48you'd just completed a stint as an exchange student in Neffels.
32:51Neffels is a German-speaking town
32:53in the Glerus Nord region of Switzerland.
32:55And here is your post.
32:58No, no, no, no, no!
33:01Is Hörnion Laubeck das Main?
33:03Letzter Schultag schon vorbei ist.
33:07I feel sick.
33:09Do you want to have a crack at reading it?
33:11No.
33:12Did you enjoy your time in that part of the world?
33:14I loved it.
33:15I loved it.
33:16Perhaps you tried some of Germany's famous Black Forest cake.
33:19Did you have a chance to try any of that?
33:21No, I was in Switzerland.
33:22An educated person such as yourself, though,
33:24you wouldn't call it Black Forest, would you?
33:26You'd call it the Black Forest Gateau.
33:28Or, in German-speaking Switzerland,
33:30they call it a Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.
33:34Rhiannon, your word is Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.
33:40Can I just say that Swiss German is not really a real language?
33:44No, this is true.
33:46It's a dialect and it varies between cantons in Switzerland.
33:50Oh, wow.
33:51That's going to make this extra hard.
33:54Okay.
33:55Schwarzwälder.
33:56Schwarzwälder.
33:57Schwarz.
33:58S-C-H-W-A-R-Z.
34:01Wälder.
34:03Forest.
34:04W-A with an umlaut.
34:06L-D-E-R.
34:08Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.
34:11K-I-R-S-C-H Kirschtorte.
34:17T-O...
34:20Torte.
34:22D-O-R-T-E-R.
34:25That is incorrect.
34:28You spelled it correctly
34:30and then you put an extra consonant on the end with that R.
34:33You got everything else perfect.
34:36It was really impressive.
34:37Sadly, no point for you.
34:39Oh, and the crowd is turning on me now.
34:43Now, Rhys, back in Episode 4, you already played this game
34:47and I encouraged you, on camera,
34:49to scrub your own social media accounts
34:52with absolutely no idea that, A, you would do it
34:55and, B, you would win so many episodes
34:57that we would have to play this game with you again.
35:00Fool me once, guys. Shame on me.
35:02Fool me... Oh, I've got that wrong.
35:04Don't...
35:06Please don't fool me.
35:07So you can imagine my frustration this week
35:10when I found the entire Rhys Mathewson back catalogue
35:13on both Facebook and Twitter completely erased.
35:16LAUGHTER
35:18But, thankfully, one thing you could not delete
35:21is the archives of long-running women's magazine Woman's Day.
35:25LAUGHTER
35:29A magazine in which you gave this gushing interview
35:32with your wife, Chelsea.
35:36Dashing Dancing With The Stars star Rhys Mathewson
35:39reveals how laughs turned to true love.
35:41What do you remember about the interview?
35:43I remember that they had to email me and apologise
35:46cos despite taking notes and recording it on a Dictaphone,
35:50they spelled my wife's name wrong.
35:52Yeah, eat shit, Woman's Day.
35:55One thing that stood out to me
35:57is, A, the misspelling of your wife's name
35:59and, B, the story of how you two met.
36:03Then living in the UK, Kiwi comedian Rhys was back in Aotearoa
36:06for a few months in 2014 when he met his future bride
36:09while they were both making an appearance
36:11on a Mutual Friends podcast to review the film Divergent.
36:14I've also seen and enjoyed the movie Divergent.
36:16What was your favourite bit about the movie Divergent, Rhys?
36:19Oh, all the Divergents.
36:22Yeah, I agree. It had to be the set decoration.
36:25And, Rhys, you'll remember who decorated the set of that film,
36:28wouldn't you?
36:30No? Well, allow me to remind you.
36:33It was Michael Bergini and Anne Coulian.
36:36Oh!
36:37Your word is Michael Bergini and Anne Coulian.
36:41Can you please use the words in a sentence?
36:44I got a big movie idea.
36:46It's called Divergent
36:48and I know exactly who's going to decorate the set.
36:51Michael Bergini and Anne Coulian.
36:55M-I-C-H-A-E-L space B-E-R-Z-I-N-I-A-N-D space A-N-N-E.
37:12C-O-U-L-I-A-N.
37:16You are not going to believe it, but that is incorrect.
37:21Michael Bergini is spelled M-I-C-H-A-E-L-B-E-R-Z-S-E-N-Y-I.
37:28Anne, you nailed.
37:30Anne, A-N-N-E, Coulian, K-U-L-J-I-A-N.
37:36If you like the movie so much,
37:38the least you can do is put some respect on their names.
37:41Never scrub your social media profile again.
37:45Well, as we've learned, anything you post online,
37:49you post forever.
37:50Unless you're smart enough to delete it,
37:52which I assume these three are about to be while we take a break.
37:55We're going to give them three minutes to scrub their profiles
37:57and we'll be back afterwards
37:58with the conclusion of tonight's Spelling Bee!
38:15Welcome back to Guy Montgomery's
38:17Guy Montgomery's Guy Montgomery's Spelling Bee.
38:19Jump on in, the spelling is hot
38:21and you're just in time for the Buzz Round.
38:27The Buzz Round
38:28it's not some practical joke round
38:30where I dress up like a clown
38:31and give these losers four electric shocks.
38:33It is, in fact, a straightforward spelling round.
38:36Limited time, points for a correct spelling,
38:38negative points for an incorrect spelling.
38:40At the end, we will have one winner, one loser
38:42and two people in the middle.
38:44Jacqui, you get the power of choice
38:46because you are coming last.
38:49Would you like the topic to be fashion,
38:51cars, drinks, or biblical times?
38:54I'm going to go with drinks, Guy.
38:55Drinks it shall be.
38:57Everybody ready?
38:58Yes, sir.
38:59Then let's party.
39:01Mai Tai.
39:02Go ahead, Rhys.
39:03M-A-I-T-A-I?
39:04Correct.
39:05Water.
39:07Go ahead, Jacqui.
39:08W-A-T-E-R.
39:11Correct.
39:11I've got a point!
39:12Yay!
39:14Smirnoff Ice.
39:15Go ahead, Rhiannon.
39:17S-M-I-R-N-O-F-E-F-I-C-E.
39:22Correct.
39:23Traffic lights.
39:24Go ahead, Ben.
39:25T-R-A-F-F-I-C-L-I-G-H-T.
39:29Correct.
39:30Pink Panther.
39:31Go ahead, Rhys.
39:32P-I-N-K-P-A-N-T-H-E-R.
39:35Correct.
39:36Whiskey in America.
39:38Go ahead, Rhiannon.
39:39W-H-I-S-K-Y.
39:44Incorrect.
39:45Whiskey in Scotland.
39:46Go ahead, Ben.
39:47W-H-I-S-K-E-Y.
39:50Incorrect.
39:52Up and Go.
39:53Go ahead, Jacqui.
39:54U-P and G-O.
39:57Correct.
39:58V. Go ahead, Ben.
39:59V.
40:00Correct.
40:01Hefeweizen.
40:02Go ahead, Rhiannon.
40:03H-E-F-F-E-R-W-E-I-Z-E-N.
40:08Incorrect.
40:09Mountain Dew.
40:10Go ahead, Rhys.
40:11M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N-D-E-W.
40:15Correct.
40:16Sauvignon Blanc.
40:17Ben.
40:17S-A-U-V-I-G-N-O-N-B-L-A-N-C.
40:23Correct.
40:24Goon sack.
40:25Go ahead, Rhiannon.
40:26G-O-O-N space S-A-C-K.
40:30Correct.
40:31La Croix.
40:32Ben.
40:34L-A-C-R-O-I...
40:39There's more and I don't know what it is!
40:40Incorrect.
40:41Kombucha.
40:42Go ahead, Rhiannon.
40:43K-O-M-B-U-C-H-A.
40:47Correct.
40:47Jagerbomb.
40:48Go ahead, Rhiannon.
40:49J-A-G-E-R-B-O-M-B.
40:53Correct.
40:53Flair White.
40:54Go ahead, Rhiannon.
40:55F-L-A-T-W-H-I-T-E.
40:58Correct.
40:59Single-use straw.
41:00Ben.
41:01S-I-N-G-L-E-U-S-E-S-T-R-A-W.
41:06Correct.
41:06Frappuccino.
41:07Go ahead, Rhiannon.
41:08Frappuccino?
41:10Ah!
41:11F-R-A-P-P-A-C-I-N-O.
41:15Incorrect.
41:16Mangolassie.
41:17Go ahead, Ben.
41:18M-A-N-G-O-L-A-S-S-I.
41:21Correct.
41:21Lager.
41:23Go ahead, Rhiannon.
41:24L-A-G-E-R.
41:26Correct.
41:27And we have ourselves a winner.
41:28Congratulations, Ben Hurley!
41:31Take your ticket and fold it 17 times so it fits in your wallet
41:35because we'll be seeing you back on the show next week.
41:37Congratulations!
41:40Keep that applause going for this beautiful human.
41:43I can't believe it's been nearly two years with this dork,
41:45Sanjay Vettel!
41:49And a loser in the form of Jackie Brown, I'm so sorry.
41:52Go to your corner and sit there for at least 30 seconds.
41:56Gentle applause.
41:58Gentle applause.
42:00Go, Jackie!
42:02I want you to know I planned it this way.
42:04Well, your plan was a roaring success.
42:09Please, let's hear it for all of our spouse this evening.
42:11Rhiannon McCall, Ben Hurley, Jackie Brown and Rhys Ferguson.
42:14Join us next week as our winner takes on Joe Diamond,
42:17Janaye Henry and Paul Igoe for the title of season champion.
42:21For now, you might as well call me Mediterranean fruit fly Montgomery
42:25because I'm one of the most destructive pests in the world.
42:28Ka kite!
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