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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?
02:20That's not a chance.
02:30That's not a chance.
02:32I ran it six times.
02:33Sometimes the frame just froze.
02:36Twice.
02:37Figures don't record, Zoe.
02:42Then it's the deck.
02:43Equipment Gitch has to be.
02:57I got a B.
02:5967 is a D, Ms. Kovac.
03:08Six, seven, six, seven.
03:11Six, seven.
03:26You see what you look for.
03:29It's called confirmation bias.
03:30There's a whole chapter on it and a book I own.
03:35Oh my god, what the hell?
03:36Everyone's gone crazy.
03:39Six, seven!
03:41Not at the table, honey.
03:42Riri filmed me doing it at the game.
03:44Dev says I'm going to be famous.
03:48Tell Dev fame is a pyramid scheme.
04:15If you're watching this, it's already too late.
04:26Theo?
04:27You were before the song, didn't you?
04:28On clocks, on receipts.
04:31That's why it's you.
05:00Theo Mercer.
05:00He sat behind me in chem.
05:02He moved away in August.
05:03You drove me to his going away thing.
05:04Honey, I've never heard that name in my life.
05:13You're warm.
05:14Are you sleeping enough?
05:28Okay, let's try again.
05:31We need to figure out where Theo is now and who he is.
05:40Sorry.
05:41It only ends one way.
05:44C-O-N-G-R-A-T-T-E-O-E
06:07Second night in a row, I've seen this guy.
06:08I need to figure out who he is.
06:10Don't worry.
06:11We'll figure this out for sure.
06:13Okay, so I need you to not be weird about...
06:15Stop.
06:17Look.
06:22This was Saturday.
06:24He's been gone since...
06:26August.
06:44Okay, you found my VR.
06:47You found Riri's photos.
06:48Find me now.
07:11Theo, what are you?
07:13You shouldn't talk to me out loud.
07:14It hears rooms with screens in them.
07:19Now I'm...
07:20Syndicated.
07:21Zoe, you finished it too.
07:24That means the count's started.
07:25You'll hear it before you see it.
07:26Two knocks.
07:28Knocks.
07:29Great.
07:29And then?
07:30Then it counts to seven.
07:34Seven.
07:53One.
07:54And the Halloween Dance Committee still needs volunteers.
07:57In sports, the Breavers fell to Crestwood.
08:00Six to, uh...
08:05Six to seven.
08:09Six.
08:11Six.
08:12Six.
08:13Six.
08:13Six.
08:15Six.
08:15Six.
08:16Six.
08:17Six.
08:17Six.
08:19Six.
08:27Six.
08:32Six.
08:38Wait, wait.
08:39Where did he...
08:42Josh.
08:45Announcements, Josh.
08:46He's been doing them all year.
08:48Who?
08:49Six.
08:56Amen.
08:57Wait.
09:00uh-huh and the knocks come days apart okay and your brother heard four on a tuesday and on friday
09:07he was they always hang up after the number rule two it counts to seven nobody's ever heard it say
09:21seven because nobody who hears seven is around to be interviewed that's called survivorship
09:26i know what it's called dev
09:32one more josh went at 607 in the morning your studio clock pinned at 607 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 sell it okay six seven
10:04rewind ghosts that's a thing that's totally a thing
10:12video store tomorrow closing time i'll tell you everything what i am what it is and why it's you
10:30it hears one channel at a time tonight it's listening to a slumber party in acron
10:3867 days you couldn't find a tv in 67 days i found every tv i watched you eat cereal angry
10:44at the news
10:44you throw the spoon in the sink like it owes you money i didn't want you to see me like
10:48this
10:49channel 30 something public access of a person i host public access i know you promised me why
10:56why is it me theo because of the show 67 people every single week looking at you
11:02you're the only kid in this town with a live audience it watches you the way it never watched
11:06the rest of us not like food like then why hasn't it taken you 67 days theo
11:14you can't take what won't watch it i crossed over looking the wrong way i've been looking at you
11:29zoe listen the count isn't a timer it's a lash every new pair of eyes on you yanks it
11:34a whole crowd watching is a whole crowd pulling it goes faster when
11:40it knows i'm talking to you it counts faster when you're loved
11:48so
11:58so
12:00so
12:00so
12:19mom
12:20who is that
12:23hmm
12:24oh some boy from your school it was in with the church bulletin so sad
12:31what's his name
12:37it's in with the church bell in it so sad
13:04you're not his channel zoe
13:1727 years of kids leaving
13:19Maple Falls, except their families
13:21can't say where to. Watch this.
13:41Retraction time.
13:42Ten days ago, I called the 67 thing bunk.
13:44I was wrong. Don't sing it.
13:46Don't dance it. And if a tape you didn't
13:48rent 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
13:56watch this show, so I'm asking
13:5867 people.
14:00Good night, Maple Falls.
14:04And we're clear. Zoe, that was good.
14:06That was really
14:18Turn on channel five.
14:26That's me. I'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.
15:07No, no, no, no.
15:08We fed it.
15:11He's the one you wanted, right?
15:13The kid?
15:22The other you wanted, right?
15:24The other you wanted, right?
15:43The Hastings.
15:58phones in the coffee can
16:00watches too if they're digital
16:06what is this place the last room in town that can't see you
16:08welcome to the countdown club roll call say your count not your name
16:13i'm at four two 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
16:43that's the punch gun
16:47okay science time we test every rule experiment one can you drown it out
17:12experiment two starve it priya goes full pioneer no screens no glass nothing that shines seven days
17:18if it can't find me the count can't move
17:20and if it can then we learn something that's the deal with science
17:28nodded
17:29mirrors count
17:36so
17:44so
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.
18:40Nothing about you is supposed to happen.
18:44Two.
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 five, Zoe.
19:37You give it someone else to watch and yours stops moving.
19:39It's in the static.
19:40It tells you.
19:40It's so easy.
19:41They're ten years old, Riri.
19:42Half this town's renters are ten years old.
20:01I stopped.
20:02I stopped.
20:03I stopped after the playground.
20:04I swear.
20:05Tell that to his mom.
20:07Oh, wait.
20:09She doesn't remember him.
20:17Guys.
20:18Guys.
20:19While we eat ourselves, it went number one.
20:22Every radio.
20:23Every rink.
20:24Every wedding.
20:26Forty million a day feeding it.
20:28We can't unplug America.
20:29Then we find its plug.
20:38No concert tonight?
20:41The song's for babies now.
20:47Since when?
20:49Since we watched the real thing.
20:52At Tommy's sleepover.
20:53The tape with the boy on it.
21:04We watched the whole thing.
21:06Even the part at the end with my name.
21:13We watched the whole thing.
21:31Okay.
21:32You.
21:33I know you're listening.
21:34This house has six screens.
21:37Trade me.
21:38Whatever his count's at, move it to mine.
21:40I'm Inani.
21:41I'll finish anything you want.
21:42Just lose his number.
21:54That's so nice, Zoe.
21:58Take the deal.
22:00We counted you already.
22:02We counted him already.
22:04We'd rather have you both.
22:18Zoe, it's a producer.
22:20From Rose After Dark.
22:21They want the 67 kids family on 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 for 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 into one broadcast.
23:01He either knows nothing or everything.
23:03Both are worth the bus, Faye.
23:04Okay.
23:12The Spooky Sister.
23:13Love the flannel.
23:14Very authentic.
23:16You finished the tape on October 10th.
23:18That's 19 days.
23:19No but last 19 days.
23:20The polite ones get a month if they're boring.
23:22You're not boring.
23:26You want to know how a person ends up like me?
23:29Everybody does.
23:30Nobody asks.
23:371966.
23:38A kid in Dayton does a radio show every night into his dad's tape recorder.
23:41Weather, sports, dedications.
23:43You know how many listeners he 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, Casey.
24:05Go to sleep.
24:07You ever been listened to like 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 forever greenlit.
24:21Same deal's open to you.
24:22You and the kid brother walk.
24:24You just have to help me sing it to everyone else.
24:36Who's Milton Oates?
24:41Kids called him Uncle Milt.
24:43Uncle Milt.
24:45Uncle Milt.
25:03Channel 67.
25:04Local kids show, 61 to 67.
25:06Host vanishes on air mid-broadcast.
25:08At the count of six,
25:09the picture went to snow
25:10and 17 children in that studio audience
25:13were never accounted for.
25:15We don't keep the clippings out anymore.
25:16They kept ending up by the photocopper.
25:27It's not a sample.
25:29It's the same recording.
25:30The single is the show.
25:31And I traced Uncle M's P.O. box.
25:33Box 67, Maple Falls Post Office,
25:35rented continuously since 1968.
25:37Paid yearly in cash.
25:38Somebody's still paying postage for a dead man.
25:3927 years of something keeping his box
25:41and his song alive.
25:55Hey, I know him!
26:00Lucas, buddy, where do you know him from?
26:04He counts me to sleep.
26:211967, accounting show is cancelled,
26:22one number short.
26:231994, the count comes back
26:24with a beat under it.
26:25The song didn't come to Maple Falls.
26:27It came from here.
26:28We're not victims, guys.
26:29We're the source.
26:30The final broadcast, Epoch 67.
26:32If recording exists,
26:32it shows whatever the copy is.
26:33And where do you find a tape
26:34that's been missing for 27 years?
26:39Where it was born.
26:41Where it was born.
27:04Zoe, it heard the meeting.
27:07It hears rooms with doesn't matter.
27:09It's moving the tape tonight.
27:10Theo, slow down.
27:13And listen to me.
27:14Listen.
27:16You're counting.
27:19The clip show.
27:2140 million strangers watch me become a joke.
27:24It fell every one.
27:36Twelve.
27:57Six o'clock.
27:58Episode at six.
28:00Show ends at seven.
28:01The counting hour.
28:03Six to seven.
28:04It 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.
28:33And one for the count.
28:37Guys.
28:43Somebody beat us to the archive by decades.
28:46Or it ate its own reruns.
29:01Or it ate its own reruns.
29:04Boys and girls, they're telling us we have to say goodnight early tonight.
29:08But we haven't counted.
29:11We always count.
29:12One, two, three, four, five, seven.
29:30Will you help me finish, boys and girls?
29:42It's in the glass.
29:43Don't look at the glass.
29:45The doors are glass, Deb.
30:10Penny OS.
30:12Eyes down.
30:14Walk to my voice.
30:15Now.
30:24You're the Tisservo lady.
30:26And you're trespassing on a grave.
30:35You.
30:36The one that's allowed around.
30:38When did you finish the tape?
30:40October 10th.
30:4320 days.
30:4420 days.
30:45In 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 the man whose name is still wet.
31:10I was 10.
31:12I was ten.
31:13I was 10.
31:13Front row.
31:14Front row.
31:14Every Saturday.
31:14You have to understand, he wasn't a monster on the show.
31:17He was the only one who looked at us.
31:24Lonely kids.
31:26Lonely kids.
31:27Lashkey kids.
31:28The tallymen saw everyone.
31:29And we'd put our little palms up.
31:33Milf was losing the slot.
31:35Ratings.
31:36So 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.
31:49God help him.
31:50And help help him.
31:51It worked.
31:52Until the network pulled the plug.
31:54Mid count.
31:57Six.
32:03A counting thing that never reached seven.
32:05It's been finishing that count ever since.
32:07One child at a time.
32:08Seating them in the audience.
32:10Now you.
32:12It counts children to seven, girl.
32:1420 days past your number and walking around free.
32:16It is not seeding you.
32:18Then what's it doing?
32:21It counted me to 66 before I shut my eyes.
32:24I think it's counting you to 67.
32:27It's not selling you a ticket, Zoe.
32:29It's casting you.
32:38Real one of the last broadcast.
32:4027 years in the dark.
32:43Real one?
32:55And real two?
32:56Stolen.
32:57Last Tuesday.
32:59Lock cut clean.
33:01Foil 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.
33:13It shows what the copies hide.
33:19Second rule.
33:20Nobody watches alone.
33:25No.
33:29No.
33:30No.
33:33No.
33:34No.
33:36No.
33:37No.
33:37No.
33:38No.
33:39That's a 1985 walk mat.
33:42That kid.
33:43Look at his shoes.
33:44Those are new.
33:45They're not gone.
33:47They're seated.
33:53They're seated.
34:03He's been refusing it.
34:0867 days, he's been refusing it.
34:12He's been refusing it.
34:37Casting Real Cursed Kids Regional Editions.
34:44He's not booking a show.
34:47He's herding us into one.
34:53Riri Santos.
34:55Tell 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
35:06Whole 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.
36:35Hi, gorgeous.
36:38Hi, gorgeous.
36:49So...
36:56I 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 at 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...
39:18Tuesday 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.
40:52Epshur, count.
40:54Allies, fame.
41:05No.
41:07No, 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?
41:44Zoe?
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