Escape Room Actors (with Artoun Nazareth)
Cast & Characters (5)
Bits & Timeline (19)
The 60-Minute Challenge and Roll Call
The panel challenges the audience to figure out which one of them is lying while introducing their characters via a phone-tree style roll call.
"You have 60 minutes to figure out which one of us is not who they say they are."
"Press the pound key for Ginger Rogers."
"Press 69 for Diane DeeDee."
The Love Is Blind Escape Room Experience
The actors discuss the 'Love Is Blind' room, which features silent disco headphones, trauma dumping, and Ginger Rogers' acclaimed performance as Vanessa Lachey.
"Figure out who you're in love with or be murdered or be blinded."
"Vanessa is driving the truck of the show."
"If the drawer doesn't open, it's not meant to be open."
The 365-Room Track Pandemonium
The panel describes the chaotic 'tracks' actors must run, jumping from being an alien witch to Barbara Corcoran to a replica of Guantanamo Bay.
"You take the skirt and you put it up your body. Exactly. And then you're an alien witch."
"How far can we push an escape room before it becomes torture?"
"He's an ex-CIA operative and that's why he also changed his name."
The Jiffy Lube Vampire Chamber Controversy
The actors reminisce about the days when they were allowed to bite customers in the Jiffy Lube room before 'biting got cancelled' by the internet.
"We used to be able to bite them because we got fangs for that."
"You used to sign a bite waiver. But then everyone just stopped signing."
"It was like a light switch. It was like no one... biting got cancelled."
Disney Princesses Are Bitches Room
The panel shares CCTV footage of their most popular room where they all play Disney princesses who verbally abuse the customers to help them find a maroon key.
"I'll tell you what shoe doesn't fit. All of them. You are hopeless."
"Wake me up, bitch! Bitch, wake me up!"
"I'd rather hang out with my mom and she's a bear."
The Jojo Siwa Incident and the Charles Manson Room
The actors discuss the difficulty of giving hints to celebrities like Jojo Siwa and describe the intense immersive experience of the Charles Manson escape room where you must become the criminal.
"Jojo was sitting in there and it was just like a dog with a dog button. Hint hint hint."
"You just got to sit down and talk a lot of secrets."
"I can't believe you have to put on all the tattoos he has in that room."
Ginger's Street Urchin Origins and Dialect Mastery
Ginger Rogers reveals his background as a street urchin for 15 years and demonstrates his vocal range by performing characters from the Oliver Twist, Minions, and Wild Thornberrys rooms.
"The lack of milk kept me small for a very long time."
"Watch it ma'am is that a purse?"
"I've been trying to in some ways get out of the street urchin lifestyle my whole life."
The Wardrobe Song and Measurement Obsession
Barrymore Truce explains his 'wardrobe-pill' background and performs a rhythmic measurement song used to prepare new actors for their fittings.
"I am wardrobe pill, honey. I love wardrobe."
"Head to the neck, inseam to the out seam, arms, arms suit, belly, belly, waist."
"Some people get uncomfortable how long you spend on the belly."
The Engine Girl and the Rogue Robot Dogs
Montenegro Alastair describes her transition from jigsaw puzzles to combustion engines and warns about the sentient robot dogs that have taken over the Loch Ness room.
"What is underneath the hood? But a puzzle."
"Please ignore the robot dogs that seemingly are developing more and more sentience."
"The robot dogs are our lantern fly."
The Circulatory System Duet
Marcello and Diane DeeDee, a former 'best friend doctor duo' from Tampa, perform an educational yet medically inaccurate song about the human circulatory system.
"You can't throw a penny and it not land on a best friend doctor duo in Tampa."
"Here is the large intestines, baby."
"You're the eyeball capillaries."
The Core Systems of Escape Room Design
The actors break down the fundamental archetypes of escape room characters, including the 'Man Who Can't See You But Is Scary' and the 'Naughty Best Friend' who intentionally causes trouble for the group.
"Not every door is an opportunity."
"We have scary thing you don't want to get released as well."
The Tony Hawk and Sperm Bank Breakups
The group discusses the most brutal breakups they've witnessed in character, specifically in the Tony Hawk room where partners must ollie over each other, and a high-stakes sperm bank room.
"One of the partners has to ollie over the other partner to pass it."
"I'm standing there in a giant sperm outfit."
Instagram Emotional Cheating and the Pepsi Room
A tangent about how posting a 'photo dump' on Instagram constitutes emotional cheating leads into the origin story of the 'Pepsi Room,' which is actually just a vending machine in the break room.
"Instagram is all about emotional cheating."
"You have an hour to try to get a Pepsi out of this vending machine, but the power isn't on."
The Margaret Thatcher Funhouse Palate Cleanser
The entire cast performs their synchronized Margaret Thatcher impressions, showcasing the 'Funhouse' room where players must choose between a policy, a prime minister, or a key to escape.
"I believe I shouldn't feed the poor, but maybe I'll feed you an idea."
"Unions. Who needs a union when you've got all the money in the world?"
Safety Warnings and the Zombie Menopause Room
The actors plead with the public to stop assaulting them in character, specifically warning against putting hair dryers in bathtubs in the 'Zombie Menopause' room despite it seeming like the only solution.
"I get grabbed as Margaret Thatcher once a week."
"When you're in the zombie menopausal room, don't put the hair dryer in the bathtub."
Rapid Fire: 100 Escape Room Concepts
The group lists a series of increasingly bizarre escape room themes, ranging from 'Red Robin Back of House' to 'Extensive Orthodontia' and 'Malaysia Flight 357' (which is just a normal flight).
"Malaysia flight 357 room. That's not the flight that got lost. That's just a plane."
"Popeye ate too much spinach and is too strong escape room."
The Ennui Escape Room and Classic Monsters
The panelists discuss their favorite niche escape rooms, ranging from the 'feeling of ennui' to the 'clear your iPhone storage' room, before reminiscing about classic monsters like vampires and werewolves.
"Sometimes I'm in the clear your iPhone storage room and I go, I just miss like vampires and zombies."
The Key Reveal and the Bride's Veil
Marcello reveals that one of them is actually a key, not a person. A delivery arrives for 'the bride,' which Ginger Rogers claims, donning a veil and immediately declaring his hatred for wardrobe.
"They are not a person but a key."
"I have a delivery for the bride."
"I hate wardrobe!"
The Great Lying Cascade
The panel descends into chaos as everyone admits they were lying about their identities. Ginger Rogers is actually Richard, and the street urchins reveal they are actually very wealthy and know nothing of the human body.
"My name is actually Richard. I don't work at escape rooms. They hired me to do this panel."
"I'm very rich. I was never a street urchin."