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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
08:09soon
08:15you
08:17you
08:18you
08:37Wait, wait
08:39Where did he
08:42Josh
08:45Announcements, Josh
08:46He's been doing them all year
08:48Who
08:59Uh-huh
09:00And the knocks come
09:02Days apart, okay
09:04And your brother heard four on a Tuesday
09:06And on Friday he was
09:12They always hang up after the number
09:16Rule two
09:17It 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
09:32One 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
09:46Knock, knock, then palms
09:49Sell it
09:50Okay, 6, 7
09:53Okay, 6, 7
10:04Rewind ghosts
10:05That's a thing
10:07That's totally a thing
10:12Video store
10:14Tomorrow
10:14Closing time
10:16Theo
10:16I'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
10:56Why 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, like
11:09Then why hasn't it taken you
11:1167 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 you
11:37It knows I'm talking to you
11:41It counts faster when you're loved
11:49It does still have to have a microphone
11:50It doesn't mean it's a silence
11:53But I haven't seen it
11:53I don't know
11:54It doesn't mean it's a livra Dave
11:54It's Judging
11:55Come on
12:01Every new pair came from
12:03I
12:03Did
12:05I
12:12Did
12:21mom who is that hmm oh some boy from your school it 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
13:04you're not his channel zoe
13:1727 years of kids leaving maple falls except their families can't say where to watch this
13:41retraction time 10 days ago i called the 67 thing bunk i was wrong don't sing it don't
13:46dance it and 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 tell your little brothers
13:5567 people watch this show so i'm asking 67 people good night maple falls
14:04and we're clear zoe that was good that was really
14:18turn on channel five
14:25that's me i'm famous
14:41america meet the 67 kids
14:48and get this his hometown thinks it's cursed
14:53folks we found the spooky sister tape
15:06no no no no we fed it
15:11he's the one you wanted right the kid
15:18so
15:28so
15:29so
15:34I don't know.
15:36I don't know.
15:48I don't know.
15:58Phones 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.
16:13Two, three, two, five, six.
16:18Two, 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.
17:14Priya 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? Then we learn something. That's the deal with science.
17:27Nodded. Mirrors count.
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.
18:59Some joker keeps stuffing extra tapes in the return slot.
19:02No labels, no cases.
19:04Fifth one this week.
19:11Who rented these?
19:13That's the thing.
19:14Nobody.
19:16Nobody.
19:16Nobody.
19:25Copies.
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 and yours stops moving.
19:39It's in the static. It tells you. It'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.
20:08Oh, wait.
20:09She doesn't remember him.
20:17Guys, guys, while we eat ourselves, it went number one.
20:22Every radio, every rink, every wedding, 40 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.
20:48Since 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.
21:08I 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 in Nani.
21:41I'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.
22:02We counted him already.
22:04We'd rather have you both.
22:18Zoe, it's a producer from Rose After Dark.
22:21They want the 67 kids family on the Halloween special.
22:34Specifically, Spooky Sister.
22:49It's a trap.
22:50You know it's a trap.
22:51The man replays your warning for laughs and 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 fee.
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.
25:02Channel 67.
25:04Local kids show, 61 to 67.
25:06Haast vanishes on air mid-broadcast.
25:08At the count of six, the picture went to snow and 17 children in that studio audience were never accounted
25:14for.
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, rented 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 and his song alive.
25:55Hey, I know him!
26:00Lucas.
26:01Buddy.
26:03Where do you know him from?
26:04He counts me to sleep.
26:08I know him.
26:201967.
26:21A counting show is cancelled, one number short.
26:231994, the count comes back with 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, it shows whatever the copy is.
26:33And where do you find a tape that's been missing for 27 years?
26:39Where it was born.
26:40Where 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.
27:12And 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.
29:04Boys and girls, they're telling us we have to say goodnight early tonight.
29:09But 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, Dev.
30:11Penny OS.
30:12Eyes down.
30:14Walk to my voice.
30:15Now.
30:24You're the tisser for a lady.
30:26And you're trespassing on a grave.
30:35You.
30:36The one that's loud around.
30:38When'd 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 10, front row, front row, every Saturday.
31:15You have to understand, he wasn't a monster on the show.
31:18He was the only one who looked at us.
31:24Lonely kids.
31:26Lonely kids.
31:27Lash key kids.
31:28The tallymen saw everyone.
31:30And 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...
31:38stick.
31:40He fed the puppet the only thing children have worth taking.
31:43Attention.
31:45All 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.
32:14Twenty 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, 27 years in the dark.
32:43Real one?
32:55And real two?
32:57Stolen.
32:57Last Tuesday.
32:59Lock cut clean.
33:00Foil folded politely.
33:02There'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.
33:42That kid.
33:43Look at his shoes.
33:44Those are new.
33:45They're not gone.
33:47They're seeded.
34:03He's been refusing it.
34:0767 days, he's been refusing it.
34:16He's been refusing it.
34:31Halloween night, live, coast to coast.
34:34The 6-7 special, 67 million of us...
34:37Casting Real Cursed Kids, regional editions.
34:39Together!
34:45He's not booking a show.
34:47He's hurting us into one.
34:54Riri Santos!
34:55Tell me you brought me Halloween gold.
34:59Better.
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.
35:52Palms.
35:54That's not choreography.
35:56That'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.
36:52So.
36:55I 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.
38:1067 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.
40:19The one who's already late.
40:22The 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.
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?
41:41Zoe?
41:44No.
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