Season seven ends with an ambitious, joke-dense episode that feels like a finale and wrap party. The season-eight premiere, “Don’t Wake Standards & Practices,” chooses escalation over returning to basics, aiming to go bigger and harder than before. The episode uses gleefully crass sexual humor and other boundary-pushing behavior, including on-air drug use and copyright violations, while testing how far bits can go without censorship, fines, or lawsuits. Contestants Jeremy Culhane, Lou Wilson, and Ally Beardsley play a life-size game board, drawing provocative improv prompts and performing them while a panel of lawyers reacts. Points depend on how legally alarming responses are, but responses that scare the lawyers too much cause a bust and banishment to the starting square. The board layout and mechanics reference classic Hasbro-era board game design.
"Contestants navigate a life-size game board, landing on spaces and drawing unusually provocative improv prompts, which they have to play out while worrying a panel of lawyers as much as possible. They earn points based on how legally alarming their responses are, but if they scare the lawyers too much, they “bust” and are banished back to the track's opening square."
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