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DCUP Dares:
Each short form show, DCUP plays Game-o-matic, where we make up an improv game based on a name provided by the audience. We call it the Dare. Below are all of the Dares we can remember since we started playing it. It should be noted that DCUP is a show that often involves "mature" themes (or simply filthy language, depending on how depraved the audience is to begin with). Top Ten Dares.
Alphabet Foreplay: A scene in Claire's boudoir, where suitors enter, and must pass her acronym tests, by outlining their romantic intentions per her initial setups. If she says "What do you think of my bra?", the suitors must use the letters in BRA to impress her with something... like "I would Be Real Aggressive with that bra", or "I think that bra is Better Removed Afterwards". Hopefully we'd say something better than that.
Ants in my Pants: Naive game, where everyone but the guesser has some object in his or her pants, and they give clues about what it is until guessed.
Assassin's Magical Dance: Three suggestions become the different mystical dances of death that a new assassin must use to get revenge for the murder of his master. Each dance also has an optional side effect that may or may not relate to the name of the dance.
Bachelor Party: Naive game, where the guesser did three heinous things the night before at his bachelor party, but can't remember what they were. The guests at the wedding keep referring to it, until he figures it out.
Bourbon Shots: A selected member of the audience can call out "bourbon shot", at which point everyone in the scene takes on the qualities equivalent to having just taken a shot. The scene itself doesn't involve drinking, but gets progressively drunker in its execution.
ºCrossing the Line: The stage is divided into three sections, and each is given a genre or style. Players must perform in the style of whatever section they are standing, changing as they move.
ºDirty Scissors: A cable show for children has no programming, and must dub over a Brazilian soft-core porn video, giving it educational themes. The "Brazilian" aspect was arbitrary, but we just needed to do a scene in gibberish. It ended up having a slighty Latino sound to it when executed the first time. We did the scene once, in gibberish, then again with dubbing.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Claire and Todd were parents getting a divorce, because each of them did two heinous things. Jack was their child that has to decide with whom to live. He doesn't know what the "things" are, so he's trying to guess them as the parents hint at what they are.
Eleven: An Arms scene, where the two people doing Arms must switch positions, but maintain the same character, every eleven seconds.
Fedayeen Poker: A reality TV show, where one character is from the Fedayeen (Saddam's fanatical army), but the other characters don't know it. It was very obvious to the audience who the Fedayeen guy was (he had a military hat, beard, sunglasses, a sash, whereas the others were dressed as Joe Americans).
Freedom Fries: A scene where all naughty language is replaced with patriotic terms and phrases. "You touched my troops in the Gulf". "We're about to see her purple mountains majesty."
George's Bush: This was a scene where we referred to mundane things with naughty terminology. It's the opposite of Freedom Fries.
ºGroup Sex: The performers are posed in extremely graphic and suggestive positions by young ladies from the audience, and then must start short scenes about mundane activities. Oh, the things we do for improv.
Home Base: A scene where one player is the elusive "Home Base". He's the only player NOT wearing a blindfold. The others try to find Home Base during the course of their scene. When they do, he removes their blindfold and the scene continues on until only one person is left stumbling around like a jackass.
Iron Chef (not the real name): Naive game where one player is guessing as they translate the action of a Japanese cooking show with bizarre ingredients. The other characters are competitors and their Japanese announcers. I can't remember what the real name of this game was. Sorry.
ºIt Burns: Naive game, where the guesser is a doctor trying to diagnose the other characters' ailments. The first time we played it, we got "Vacuum Cleaner Nose", "Math Uterus", and "Pennsylvania Farts" as the ailments. Clues given were things like "I might need an abacus as an IUD" and "I feel like I was sodomized by the Continental Congress."
Jackie's Revenge: A scene where the main character solves problems in a way he imagines Jackie Chan would solve them. This one was created on the fly at the 2005 San Francisco Improv Festival. That scene made great use of the stage’s platforms, cubes, and a stool.
Kiss My Ass: A game-show, where employees try to give the "ass-kissiest" answers to their boss. As the game progresses, the contestants step closer to their boss's ass. First to be able to smooch it wins.
Kleptomania- Hide the Sausage: A Jeopardy-style game show, where the questions seem dirty or disgusting, but the contestant answers must justify things innocuously. In the last round, the loser has the "sausage" in his pants and gets first crack at buzzing in. Other contestants must steal the sausage to respond. We actually played this.
Lake Titicaca: A substitute teacher must show a video of Lake Titicaca and lead a lecture, except the tape has been replaced with a movie called "I Like Titties and Cock, ah!" Players act out the video while the teacher describes their actions in the context of an educational talk about Lake Titicaca.
Laying Flat: A speed-dating scene. One naive player must guess each other player's sexual style preferences. Players rotate through every 30-45 seconds, offering clues during the "date". We got pretty elaborate ones for this, and played until Steve guessed one of them (sex on a surf board with Helen Keller, doing it upside down while eating a taco, doing it in the Himalayas under an elephant while a yeti watches).
Lick It: A reverse Pavlov scene, where every player must lick whoever does their trigger (without knowing what they are). Examples: Jack had to lick whoever got angry. Todd had to lick whoever used profanity. Claire had to lick whoever said a word starting with "J". Jack figured out Claire's pretty quick, and proceeded to use every J word he could think of.
Linus, you got it in my hair: A reunion of the Peanuts characters, where we learn that Linus is a chronic masturbator. And, whenever he "shoots" onto another character, they break out into song. For this scene, Steve played Linus, and had a spray bottle under his blanket, so he could anoint us.
Masquerade: Throughout the scene, characters confess that they really aren't who we thought they were. They then remove their mask, but someone else endows them as who they really are. Example: "I'm not really your boss.. I'm-" "A talking badger!" Other characters that came up: Claire Danes, Tony Danza, Retarded Grandma.
ºMonkey, But...: This is a scene where Steve sits on a stool off to one side. He is the magical Monkey, who periodically advises the other players during the scene. But after the players embark on his advice, he issues a caveat to the audience. "You should ask out the guy at the gym... But! He's gay!"
Monster Truck Suck: Sort of like Final Destination. Four characters are nearly killed at a Monster Truck rally. Then, one by one, the Monster Truck stalks and kills the characters. After each death, the audience shouts out "Monster Truck Suck". In the end, the Monster Truck simply wanted love (and, apparently, a suck).
ºOh my God, where are my pants?: This is Cwazy Quest with the questing player performing tasks to get his pants back before his job interview ends. That player has on no pants. Talk about Cwazy!........Sorry.
Pants Pissing Jamboree: Everyone in the scene is holding a cup of water between his or her thighs. The scene involves a crisis situation, and as it progresses, water is inevitable splattered and spilled. Wet crotches ensue!
Raw Deal: A hidden camera show that depicts how the show has screwed people over. "Turns out Christopher Walken's a creepy bastard, and we coudln't get him."
Redsox Sucks: After we got the name of this game, we sent Steve into the lobby, so he wouldn't even know how the game was played. He was under the impression that it would be a naive game (and in a way it was). What we decided was that like the Redsox, Steve was cursed. He was going to think the game had a point to it, and specific things he was supposed to guess. In reality, we were just gonna fuck with him, feeding him "clues" to nothing (and making him think he sucks at this game). We also cued the audience to say things like "ooooh", "uh-uh", and "Steve, Steve, Steve!" It was fabulous.
Shibby: The word "shibby" is used in some lame way that makes for a shitty scene. I can't remember the exact rules, but this was the worst Dare we ever did, so who cares?
Slap (something or other): Each player has a letter on his forehead, which they don't know, and every time they say any word with that letter, they get slapped by whomever is closest. Note: Men are slapped in the face, and women are slapped on the ass (that wasn't a rule, but just how things turned out). Can't remember that actual name of this one either.
Sleepless in the Saddle: Two players are cowboys riding on a Vision Quest. They have been deprived of sleep so that they will hallucinate and see Spirit Guides. They have also been sent out of the room so we can get a series of suggestions for things they will see in their vision. When they come back, they are singing a Cowboy tune about the visions they are seeing (which are mimed by the other players).
Switch Deity: A naive game where the guesser is the newest deity in Heaven or Valhala or wherever, and must figure out what the other characters are the Gods of.
Take It Bitch: A soap opera about dogs. But since it's Sweeps Week, whenever the bell rings, the dogs have to do a ratings stunt. This involved a lot of sniffing, humping, and Jim scooting across the floor on his ass like a canine wheelie.
That's My Anus: This is a parody of Leave It To Beaver, about a kid named Anus. The scene is replete with ass puns.
Thong: A scene where the players have verbal restrictions (like you can't say any words with "L" in them). When the players mess up, a nice lady from the audience gives them a wedgie, effectively turning our boxers into thongs.
Who Do You Gotta Sleep With In This Town?: Claire is sent out of the room, and we get occupations and famous people (living and dead). Then she does a scene where she needs help with some mundane activity, and is trying to seduce people to get assistance. But in the course of the seduction, the other person is giving clues about who she really needs to help her. Once she guesses it, she moves on to that person, who gives her clues to the next one. Interesting fact: Thomas Jefferson had relations with his slaves.
Who Touched My Ass?: We believe the phrase "Who touched my ass?" is one of the most prevalent ones in history. We present a series of famous historical events, and show the context in which it was said... Titanic, Nuremburg Trials, Last Supper, etc.
Worm Buckets: This is a scene where each player has a weird objective they are trying to get one of the other players to do.
Yo Mama Wears Army Boots: A scene at an office where the employees insult each other, escalating it each time. However, the first adjective of each insult is supplied by one of two audience volunteers, and the players have to complete it. This one took place at a porn telemarketing office (ah, that audience... they yell it out, we take it).