Brain Games
Season 8
TV-G
Get ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of seamless reality through our memory, through our sensory perception, and how we focus our attention.
8 Episodes
- Male Brain vs. Female Brain
E1Male Brain vs. Female BrainKristen Bell and Dax Shepard go head-to-head in the Battle of the Sexes, a series of games designed to find out how men's and women's brains differ. Field correspondent Cara Santa Maria plays a game of "telephone" with a group in Los Angeles and mentalist Lior Suchard astonishingly reveals the names of Bell's and Shepard's first crushes. Challenges include solving a math puzzle before a gas balloon explodes. - Ted Danson: Fact or Fiction?
E2Ted Danson: Fact or Fiction?Actor Ted Danson and special guests The Blue Man Group play along with host Keegan-Michael Key as we learn how our brains distinguish fact from fiction. Games include identifying real vs. fake news headlines. Additionally, master mentalist Lior Suchard predicts who's lying when it comes to hiding a treasured object, and Danson takes a ride through the show's mental obstacle course, known as the Gauntlet. - Jack Black: Music
E5Jack Black: MusicJack Black and his Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass join Keegan-Michael Key to learn how music affects the brain. Games and demonstrations include a round of musical mad libs, "Odd-itory" illusions and experiments that show how music can affect our perception of images, emotions and even taste. Mentalist Lior Suchard asks Black to think of any song in the world and tries to guess it correctly. - Mark Cuban: Power and Money
E6Mark Cuban: Power and MoneyKeegan-Michael Key welcomes billionaire CEO and star of "Shark Tank" Mark Cuban to explore how business-savvy, powerful brains might be different from others, and how power can manipulate the way we think. Cuban and Key undergo a series of challenges involving split-second decision-making via rapid hiring and firing and memory mastery. Plus, actor Colin Hanks makes a special guest appearance. - Rebel Wilson: Love and Attraction
E7Rebel Wilson: Love and AttractionActress Rebel Wilson joins Keegan-Michael Key to explore the power of the subconscious when it comes to falling in love. Master mentalist Lior Suchard stuns Wilson by giving her details of a date she remembers - and pairs off potential partners who have a surprising thing in common - before Wilson takes on the Gauntlet, an obstacle course designed to test mental strength and agility.
