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My Boyfriend Is Trapped Inside the TV
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00:00And how do we say goodnight, boys and girls?
00:04We count.
00:06One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:34You won't catch me, I won't catch you.
00:37Look how I roll.
00:45Trends, please.
00:47We don't follow them, we make them.
00:4967 is a whole vibe.
01:0567 is a whole vibe.
01:2067 drops and they've completely lost their minds.
01:23You're right, Zoe.
01:24This stopped being a joke a long time ago.
01:34Come on, get the camera.
01:35Let's do this.
01:43Maple Falls 6-7 is not a curse.
01:45It's a rumor with a beat.
01:47Someone made this record blank so you'd fill in the monster yourselves.
01:49So don't chant it.
01:51Don't copy the hand thing.
01:52Don't pass it on.
01:53Urban legends only live when people repeat them.
01:56Tonight, we kill this one.
02:04Uh, Zoe?
02:09Zoe?
02:20that's not a chance
02:31i ran it six times the frame just froze twice figures don't record zoe
02:42then it's the deck equipment gitch has to be
02:56i got a b 67 is a d miss kovac
03:26you see what you look for
03:29it's called confirmation bias there's a whole chapter on it in a book i own
03:35oh my god what the hell everyone's gone crazy
03:39six seven not at the table honey re refill me doing it at the game dev says i'm gonna be
03:45famous
03:48tell dev fame is a pyramid scheme
04:15if you're watching this
04:16it's already too late
04:26cio
04:26before the song didn't you
04:28on clocks
04:29on receipts that's why it's you
04:59cio mercer
05:00he sat behind me in chem he moved away in august you drove me to his going away thing
05:04honey i've never heard that name in my life
05:13you're warm are you sleeping enough
05:28okay let's try again we need to figure out where theo is now and who he is
05:40sorry it only ends one way
05:43c-o-n-g-r-a-t-t-e-o-e
06:07second night in a row i've seen this guy i need to figure out who he is
06:10don't worry we'll figure this out for sure
06:12okay so i need you to not be weird about
06:16stop
06:18look
06:22this was saturday
06:24he's been gone since
06:27august
06:44okay you found my vr you found riri's photos
06:48find me now
07:09cio
07:11what are you
07:12you shouldn't talk to me out loud it hears rooms with screens in them
07:19now i'm
07:20syndicated
07:22zoe
07:22you finished it too
07:23that means the count started you'll hear it before you see it
07:26two knocks
07:28knocks
07:28great
07:29and then
07:30then it counts to seven
07:37one
07:54and the halloween dance committee still needs volunteers
07:57in sports the breavers fell to crestwood six to uh
08:05six to seven
08:06and then
08:18and the".
08:37Wait, wait, where did he?
08:42Josh.
08:45Announcements, Josh.
08:46He's been doing them all year.
08:48Who?
09:00Uh-huh.
09:00And the knocks come days apart, okay?
09:04And your brother heard four on a Tuesday, and on Friday he was...
09:13They always hang up after the number.
09:16Rule two, it counts to seven.
09:19Nobody's ever heard it say seven.
09:22Because nobody who hears seven is around to be interviewed.
09:25That's called survivorship bias.
09:26I know what it's called, Dev.
09:30Dev.
09:32One more.
09:33Josh went at 6.07 in the morning.
09:35Your studio clock pinned at 6.07 at night.
09:37It doesn't care which half of the day it gets you.
09:43The minute is the minute.
09:47Knock, knock, then palms!
09:49Sell it!
09:50Okay, 6, 7.
10:04Rewind ghosts.
10:06That's a thing.
10:07That's totally a thing.
10:13Video store.
10:14Tomorrow.
10:15Closing time.
10:16Theo!
10:17I'll tell you everything.
10:18What I am.
10:19What it is.
10:20And why it's you!
10:30It hears one channel at a time.
10:32Tonight it's listening to a slumber party in Akron.
10:3867 days.
10:39You couldn't find a TV in 67 days?
10:41I found every TV.
10:42I watched you eat cereal angry at the news.
10:44You throw the spoon in the sink like it owes you money.
10:47I didn't want you to see me like this.
10:49Channel 30-something.
10:50Public access of a person.
10:52I host public access.
10:54I know.
10:55You promised me why.
10:57Why is it me, Theo?
10:58Because of the show.
10:5967 people every single week looking at you.
11:02You're the only kid in this town with a live audience.
11:05It watches you the way it never watched the rest of us.
11:07Not like food.
11:09Like...
11:09Then why hasn't it taken you 67 days, Theo?
11:14It can't take what won't watch it.
11:16I crossed over looking the wrong way.
11:19I've been looking at you...
11:29Zoe, listen.
11:30The count isn't a timer.
11:31It's a lash.
11:32Every new pair of eyes on you yanks it.
11:34A whole crowd watching is a whole crowd pulling.
11:36It goes faster when...
11:40It knows I'm talking to you.
11:41It counts faster when you're loved.
11:48It counts faster when you're loved.
12:20Mom.
12:22Who is that?
12:23Hmm?
12:24Oh, some boy from your school.
12:25It was in with the church bulletin.
12:27So sad.
12:31What's his name?
12:37It's in with the church bell and it's so sad.
12:56To...
12:58To...
12:58Annelies...
13:00Wurch.
13:02Kent.
13:05You're not his channel, Zoe.
13:1727 years of kids leaving Maple Falls.
13:20Except their families can't say where to.
13:21Watch this.
13:41Retraction time.
13:42Ten days ago, I called the 67 thing bunk.
13:44I was wrong.
13:45Don't sing it.
13:46Don't dance it.
13:47And if a tape you didn't rent shows up in your machine, do not finish it.
13:50I don't care if you believe me.
13:52Tell your little brothers.
13:5567 people watch this show, so I'm asking 67 people.
14:00Good night, Maple Falls.
14:04And we're clear.
14:05Zoe, that was good.
14:06That was really.
14:19Turn on channel five.
14:26That's me.
14:27I'm famous.
14:41America, meet the 67 kids.
14:45Six, seven.
14:46Six, six, seven.
14:49And get this.
14:51His hometown thinks it's cursed.
14:53Folks, we found the spooky sister tape.
15:06No.
15:07No, no, no.
15:08We fed it.
15:11He's the one you wanted, right?
15:13The kid?
15:42He's the one you wanted, right?
15:59Phones in the coffee can. Watches, too, if they're digital.
16:06What is this place?
16:07The last room in town that can't see you. Welcome to the Countdown Club.
16:10Roll call. Say your count, not your name. I'm at four.
16:14Two, three, two, five, six.
16:27Nobody came in after.
16:32Runs in the family. My sister Dinah did the exact bit in 86.
16:36Front row, big laugh, then her seat folded up for real.
16:40Nobody remembers her but me. That's the punch gun.
16:47Okay. Science time. We test every rule.
16:50Experiment one, can you drown it out?
17:12Experiment two, starve it. Priya goes full pioneer. No screens, no glass, nothing that shines.
17:17Seven days. If it can't find me, the count can't move.
17:20And if it can?
17:21Then we learn something. That's the deal with science.
17:27Nodded. Mirrors count.
17:29về.
17:33.
17:34〈ゴー〞 〈ゴー〞〞 〞〞 〞 〞 の 〞 〞 〞〞 〞〞
18:01I'm doing trick
18:09You're bunk
18:14I get the ring to myself between 2 a.m. and the farm report
18:18Skate with me
18:20I'm grounded by physics
18:24Cheat
18:36Did you feel?
18:38That's not supposed to happen
18:39Nothing about you is supposed to happen
18:442
18:46It counts, Packer, when you're loved
18:49Good night, Zoe
19:00Some joker keeps stuffing extra tapes in the return slot
19:02No labels, no cases
19:04Fifth one this week
19:10Who rented these?
19:12That's the thing
19:14Nobody
19:24Copies
19:25Somebody's making copies
19:33You sign your work now?
19:35My count was at 5, Zoe
19:37You give it someone else to watch
19:38And yours stops moving
19:39It's in the static
19:40It tells you
19:40It's so easy
19:41They're 10 years old, Riri
19:42Half this town's renters are 10 years old
20:01I stopped
20:02I stopped after the playground
20:04I swear
20:05Tell that to his mom
20:07Oh wait
20:09She doesn't remember him
20:17Guys, guys
20:19While we eat ourselves
20:20It went number one
20:21Every radio
20:23Every rink
20:24Every wedding
20:2540 million a day
20:27Feeding it
20:27We can't unplug America
20:29Then we find its plug
20:38No concert tonight?
20:41The song's for babies now
20:47Since when?
20:50Since we watched the real thing
20:51At Tommy's sleepover
20:53The tape with the boy on it
21:04We watched the whole thing
21:05Even the part at the end with my name
21:30Okay
21:31You
21:32I know you're listening
21:34This house has six screens
21:37Trade me
21:38Whatever his count's at
21:39Move it to mine
21:40Out of Inani
21:40I'll finish anything you want
21:42Just lose his number
21:54That's so nice, Zoe
21:58Take the deal
21:59We counted you already
22:01We counted him already
22:04We'd rather have you both
22:18Zoe
22:19It's a producer
22:20From Rose After Dark
22:21They want the 67 kids family
22:23On the Halloween special
22:33Specifically spooky sister
22:49It's a trap
22:50You know it's a trap
22:51The man replays your warning
22:52For laughs
22:52And now he needs you in studio
22:55We're obviously it's a trap
22:56So we're not going
22:57We're absolutely going
22:58Dev, the man books the whole country
23:00Into one broadcast
23:00He either knows nothing
23:01Or everything
23:02Both are worth the bus fee
23:12The spooky sister
23:13Love the flannel
23:14Very authentic
23:16You finished the tape
23:17On October 10th
23:18That's 19 days
23:19No but last 19 days
23:20The polite ones get a month
23:21If they're boring
23:22You're not born
23:26You want to know
23:27How a person ends up
23:28Like me
23:29Everybody does
23:30Nobody asks
23:361966
23:38A kid in Dayton
23:39Does a radio show
23:39Every night
23:40Into his dad's tape recorder
23:41Weather
23:42Sports
23:42Dedications
23:43You know how many listeners
23:44He had
23:45Zero
23:48One
23:59It listened
24:00Every night
24:01It never tuned out
24:02It never laughed at me
24:03It never said
24:04That's enough
24:04Casey
24:05Go to sleep
24:07You ever been listened to
24:08Like that
24:08It's better than love
24:09It's ratings
24:14What does it cost
24:15Nothing
24:16I spread the sound
24:17My count stays parked
24:19Forever green lit
24:21Same deals open to you
24:22You and the kid brother walk
24:24You just have to help me sing it
24:26To everyone else
24:36Who's Milton Oates?
24:41Kids called him Uncle Milt
25:02Channel 67
25:04Local kids show
25:0561 to 67
25:06Haast vanishes on air
25:07Mid broadcast
25:08At the count of six
25:09The picture went to snow
25:10And 17 children
25:11In that studio audience
25:13Were never
25:13Accounted for
25:15We don't keep the clippings
25:16Out anymore
25:16They kept ending up
25:17By the photocopper
25:27It's not a sample
25:28It's the same recording
25:29The single is the show
25:31And I traced Uncle M's P.O. box
25:33Box 67
25:34Maple Falls post office
25:35Rented continuously
25:35Since 1968
25:36Paid yearly
25:37In cash
25:38Somebody's still paying
25:38Postage for a dead man
25:3927 years of something
25:40Keeping his box
25:41And his song
25:42Alive
25:55Hey
25:55I know him
26:00Lucas
26:01Buddy
26:02Where do you know him from?
26:04He counts me to sleep
26:201967
26:21Accounting show
26:22Is cancelled
26:22One number short
26:231994
26:23The count comes back
26:24With a beat under it
26:25The song didn't come
26:26To Maple Falls
26:27It came from here
26:28We're not victims guys
26:29We're the source
26:30The final broadcast
26:31Epid 67
26:31If recording exists
26:32It shows whatever the copy
26:33And where do you find a tape
26:34That's been missing
26:35For 27 years?
26:38Where it was born
26:56Zoe
27:05It heard the meeting
27:06It hears rooms
27:07With doesn't matter
27:08It's moving the tape
27:09Tonight
27:10Theo
27:10Slow down
27:13And listen to me
27:14Listen
27:16Your count
27:19The clip show
27:2040 million strangers
27:22Watch me become a joke
27:23It fell
27:25It fell
27:26Everyone
27:36Twelve
27:37Twelve
27:57Six o'clock
27:58Episode at six
27:59Show ends at seven
28:01The counting hour
28:02Six to seven
28:05It was never a name
28:06It was instructions
28:17They wrote to him
28:19They wanted to be counted
28:21There's thousands of these
28:27Sixty-seven
28:29On the nose
28:31Sixty-six for the audience
28:32And one for the count
28:37Guys
28:43Somebody beat us to the archive
28:45By decades
28:46Or it ate its own reruns
29:04Boys and girls
29:05They're telling us we have to say goodnight early tonight
29:08But we haven't counted
29:11We always count
29:12One
29:12Two
29:13Three
29:13Four
29:14Five
29:14Seven
29:15Seven
29:16Five
29:19So
29:30Will you help me finish boys and girls?
29:42It's in the glass
29:43Don't look at the glass
29:44Yes! The doors are glass, Dev!
30:10Penny OS. Eyes down.
30:14Walk to my voice. Now.
30:24You're the Tisservor Lady.
30:26And you're trespassing on a grave.
30:36You. The one that's loud around. When did you finish the tape?
30:40October 10th.
30:4320 days.
30:44In 27 years, that's only ever happened to one other person, girl.
30:47And he wasn't lucky either.
30:50Who?
30:57The man whose name is still wet.
31:10I was ten. Front row, every Saturday. You have to understand, he wasn't a monster on the show. He was
31:18the only one who looked at us.
31:24Lonely kids. Lashkey kids. The tallymen saw everyone. And we'd put our little palms up.
31:33Milf was losing the slot. Ratings. So he found a way to make the show... stick.
31:40He fed the puppet the only thing children have worth taking.
31:44Attention.
31:45Full Saturdays of it.
31:48And it worked. God help him.
31:50And help help him. It worked. Until the network pulled the plug.
31:54Mid count...
31:57Six.
32:03A counting thing that never reached seven. It's been finishing that count ever since. One child at a time. Seating
32:09them in the audience.
32:10Now you.
32:11Two.
32:12It counts children to seven, girl.
32:14Twenty days past your number and walking around free. It is not seating you.
32:18Then what's it doing?
32:21It counted me to sixty-six before I shut my eyes. I think it's counting you to sixty-seven.
32:27It's not selling you a ticket, Zoe. It's casting you.
32:38Reel one of the last broadcast. Twenty-seven years in the dark.
32:43Reel one?
32:55And reel two?
32:57Stolen. Last Tuesday.
32:58Lock cut clean. Foil folded politely.
33:03There's exactly one man alive rich enough to want it and damned enough to know it exists.
33:08Rose?
33:11First rule of the original. It shows what the copies hide.
33:19Second rule. Nobody watches alone.
33:39That's a 1985 walk mat. That kid. Look at his shoes. Those are new.
33:45They're not gone. They're seated.
33:48Blessed are् 내 leg problems.
33:55They're dead.
34:00They're dead.
34:03They're dead.
34:0867 days, he's been refusing it.
34:30Halloween night, live, coast to coast, the 6-7 special, 67 million of us...
34:37Casting Real Cursed Kids, regional editions.
34:45He's not booking a show.
34:47He's herding us into one.
34:54Riri Santos, tell me you brought me Halloween gold.
34:58Better.
35:02The network's casting Maple Falls Kids for the special, and I can deliver the 67 kids whole circle.
35:07Exclusive.
35:08One condition, I name the group.
35:10All of us, together, or nothing.
35:12Kid, you just made my career.
35:15Somebody should get one.
35:29Of course it is.
35:40Welcome, Countdown Club.
35:42Make yourselves at home.
35:44He is so excited.
35:46You're tonight's show.
35:48Knock, knock, palm.
35:50Knock, knock, palm, palms.
35:54That's not choreography, that's lethargy.
35:58Keep him busy.
36:03Question.
36:04In the Unisee section, are we counting from the downbeat or from the knocks?
36:08Because rhythmically, those are very different philosophies.
36:36Hi, gorgeous.
36:48So...
36:55I've never signed anything.
36:59The date, Riri.
37:00The date.
37:01Passing is signing.
37:22You found my favorite episode.
37:26You stole it from a woman in a trailer.
37:31I preserved it.
37:33Everything ends up with me eventually.
37:35I'm syndication.
37:38What's the special, Casey?
37:4167 million people.
37:42Live.
37:43Counting in Uninin.
37:44It counts to seven and takes one kid.
37:46So what does it take when the whole country counts with it?
37:52You think I'm the priest of this thing?
37:54I'm the entree?
37:55Aren't you?
37:56Entree.
37:57The deal doesn't park your count, kid.
37:59It compoundates it.
38:00Every person I spread the sound to added to my tab.
38:0330 years of top ratings, though.
38:05Do my math.
38:0967 million.
38:15On Halloween, all debts come due.
38:17Every heaven pays it once.
38:18And I am the single largest serving of attention in the history of the human race.
38:25You wanted to know what I am.
38:26I'm the only man alive more scared than you.
38:40Then you're a Biscuit.
38:46Theo, your seat is cold.
38:54Run, kid.
39:07The gate needs a badge.
39:09Mine's the only one that's real.
39:10Really?
39:11So badge us through and come on!
39:14It doesn't work like that.
39:15I signed, so...
39:17Tuesday they'd take me anyway, or Thursday, or on air with my mom watching.
39:23I rented it to four kids.
39:25Four.
39:26So this once, it doesn't get passed on.
39:28It stops at me.
39:28That's the whole apology.
39:30That's all I've got.
39:30Harry.
39:32Make it count.
39:36God.
39:37Phrasing?
39:41October 30th, 1994.
39:43Riri Santos.
39:43Taking her seat.
39:56Before we left town, I pulled a video store return slot.
39:58Four more copies.
40:00Burned them behind the Orpheum.
40:02For her.
40:03Episode 67.
40:04Complete.
40:08Original shows what the copies hide.
40:10So somebody has to actually watch it.
40:13To the end.
40:14Who...
40:16The one who's already late.
40:20The one who's already late.
40:46You shouldn't be alone for this.
40:50I'm not.
40:52Epshire.
40:53Count.
40:54Allies.
40:55Fame.
41:05No.
41:07No.
41:08No, they don't get to end you mid-count.
41:10Not you.
41:10You're the only one who ever listened to me, too.
41:15New deal.
41:17Take the host.
41:18Let the audience go home.
41:20If someone is seeing this, then it found a person it can't finish counting.
41:24That only happens once a broadcast.
41:26That's the co-host, sweetheart.
41:28That's you now.
41:30He can't sleep until someone says goodnight, and the sign-off was always my line.
41:35It's yours now.
41:36Use it gently.
41:38He was always gentle with me.
41:41Zoe?
41:42Zoe?
41:42Zoe?
41:42Zoe?
41:42Zoe?
41:42Zoe?
41:42Zoe?
41:43Zoe?
41:43Zoe?
41:44Zoe?
41:44Zoe?
41:44Zoe?
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