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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.
01:0667 is a whole vibe.
01:2067 drops and they've completely lost their minds.
01:24You'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?
02:12Zoe?
02:20That's not a chance.
02:32I ran it six times.
02:33The frame just froze.
02:36Twice.
02:37Figures don't record, Zoe.
02:43Then it's the deck.
02:44Equipment getch has to be.
02:57I got a B.
02:5967 is a D, Miss Kovac.
03:08Six-seven!
03:10Six-seven!
03:26You see what you look for?
03:29It's called Confirmation Bias
03:30There's a whole chapter on it
03:32And a book I own
03:35Oh my god, what the hell
03:36Everyone's gone crazy
03:40Six, seven
03:40Not at the table, honey
03:42Re-re-film me doing it at the game
03:44Dev says I'm gonna be famous
03:48Tell Dev fame is a pyramid scheme
04:15If you're watching this
04:17It's already too late
04:26Theo?
04:26Before the song, didn't you?
04:28On clocks
04:29On 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
05:14You're warm
05:14Are you sleeping enough?
05:28Okay, let's try again
05:30We need to figure out where Theo is now
05:33And 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
06:09I 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
06:21This was Saturday
06:23He's been gone since
06:26August
06:44Okay
06:45You found my VR
06:47You found Riri's photos
06:48Find me now
07:10Theo
07:12What 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
07:22Zoe
07:22You 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?
07:31Then it counts to seven
07:54And the Halloween dance committee still needs volunteers
07:57In sports
07:59In sports
07:59The Breavers fell to Crestwood
08:00Six to
08:05Six to seven
08:09Six to seven
08:11Six to seven
08:13Eight
08:15Six
08:16Six
08:17Six
08:18Six
08:18Six
08:19Nine
08:20Nine
08:37Wait, wait. Where did he...
08:42Josh!
08:45Announcements, Josh! He's been doing them all year!
08:48Who?
09:00Uh-huh. And 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. Nobody's ever heard it say seven.
09:22Because nobody who hears seven is around to be interviewed. That's called survivorship bias...
09:27I know what it's called, Dev.
09:32One more. Josh went at 6.07 in the morning. Your studio clock pinned at 6.07 at night. It
09:38doesn't care which half of the day it gets you.
09:43The minute is the minute.
09:47Knock, knock, then palms! Sell it!
09:50Okay, 6.07!
10:04Rewind ghosts. That's a thing. That's totally a thing.
10:13Video store. Tomorrow. Closing time.
10:16Theo!
10:16I'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 Akron.
10:3867 days. You couldn't find a TV in 67 days?
10:41I found every TV. I watched you eat cereal angry at the news. You throw the spoon in the sink
10:46like it owes you money.
10:47I didn't want you to see me like this. Channel 30-something. Public access of a person.
10:52I host public access.
10:54I know.
10:55You promised me why. Why is it me, Theo?
10:58Because of the show. 67 people every single week looking at you. You're the only kid in this town with
11:04a live audience.
11:05It watches you the way it never watched the rest of us. Not like food. Like...
11:09Then why hasn't it taken you 67 days, Theo?
11:14It 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 you're...
11:40It knows I'm talking to you. It counts faster when you're loved.
12:04Don't shoot any stars.
12:21mom who is that hmm oh some boy from your school it was in with the church bulletin
12:27so sad what's his name
12:37it's in with the church bell and it's so sad
13:05you'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 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 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
14:19turn on channel five
14:26that's me i'm famous
14:41america meet the 67 kids
14:4567
14:49and get this his hometown thinks it's cursed folks we found the spooky sister tape
15:06no no no no we fed it
15:11he's the one you wanted right the kid
15:13this is
15:59Phone's in the coffee can. Watch us, 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.
16:15Two, 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.
17:14Experiment two. Starve it.
17:15No 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.
17:28Nodded. Mirrors count.
17:29anderen.
17:44Toss.
17:44Toss.
17:50Potion.
17:50Rot.
17:57What's the matter?
18:02I'm doing trick
18:09You're bunk
18:14I get the ring to myself between 2am and the farm report
18:18Skate with me
18:20I'm grounded
18:21By 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
19:11Who rented these?
19:13That's the thing
19:14Nobody
19:25Copies
19:26Somebody's making copies
19:34You sign your work now?
19:36My 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, I swear
20:05Tell that to his mom
20:08Await
20:10She 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 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
20:51At 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
21:31Okay
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
21:40I'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
22:01We 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
22:23On the Halloween special
22:34Specifically
22:35Spooky 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
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 boring
23:26You want to know
23:27How a person ends up like me
23:29Everybody does
23:30Nobody asks
23:371966
23:38A kid in Dayton
23:39Does a radio show
23:40Every night
23:40Into his dad's tape recorder
23:41Weather
23:42Sports
23:42Dedications
23:43You know how many listeners he had
23:46Zero
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
24:05Casey
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?
24:16Nothing
24:16I spread the sound
24:17My count stays parked
24:19Forever greenlit
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
25:03Channel 67
25:04Local kids show
25:0561 to 67
25:06Host vanishes on air
25:07Mid broadcast
25:08At the count of six
25:09The picture went to snow
25:10And 17 children
25:12In that studio audience
25:13Were never
25:13Accounted for
25:14We don't keep the clippings out anymore
25:16They kept ending up
25:17By the photocopper
25:28It'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
25:34Maple Falls Post Office
25:35Rented continuously since 1968
25:37Paid yearly
25:37In cash
25:38Somebody's still paying postage
25:39For a dead man
25:3927 years of something
25:40Keeping his box
25:41And his song alive
25:55Hey!
25:56I know him!
26:00Lucas
26:02Buddy
26:03Where do you know him from?
26:05He counts me to sleep
26:201967
26:21Accounting show is cancelled
26:22One number short
26:231994
26:23The 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
26:31That put 67
26:32If 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
26:39Where it was born
26:58Where it was born
27:05Zoe
27:05It heard the meeting
27:06It hears rooms with
27:08Doesn't matter
27:08It's moving the tape
27:10Tonight
27:10Theo, slow down
27:13And listen to me
27:14Listen
27:17You're counting
27:19The clip show
27:21Forty million strangers
27:22Watch me become a joke
27:25It fell every one
27:3612
27:3712
27:3812
27:57six o'clock episode at six show ends at seven the counting hour six to seven
28:05it was never a name it was instructions
28:17they wrote to him they wanted to be counted there's thousands of these
28:2867 on the nose 66 for the audience and one for the count
28:37guys
28:44somebody beat us to the archive by decades or it ate its own reruns
29:04boys and girls they're telling us we have to say good night early tonight
29:37but we haven't counted we always count
29:42it's in the glass don't look at the glass
29:45the doors are glass dev
30:11penny os eyes down walk to my voice now
30:24you're the tissue for a lady and you're trespassing on a grave
30:36you the one that's loud around when'd you finish the tape october 10th
30:4320 days in 27 years it'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
31:13front row every saturday you have to understand he wasn't a monster on the show
31:17he was the only one who looked at us
31:25lonely kids
31:26lash key kids the tallymen saw everyone and we 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
31:45all saturdays of it
31:48and it worked
31:49god help him
31:50and help help him
31:51it worked until 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 seating 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
32:56stolen
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
33:09rose
33:11first rule of the original
33:13it shows what the copies hide
33:19second rule nobody watches alone
33:40that's a 1985 walk mat
33:42that kid
33:43look at his shoes
33:44those are new
33:46they're not gone
33:47they're seated
34:04he's been refusing it
34:0867 days he's been refusing it
34:30halloween night live coast to coast
34:34the 67 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
35:07one condition
35:09i name the group
35:10all of us together or nothing
35:12kid you just made my career
35:15somebody should get one
35:30of course it is
35:40welcome countdown club
35:42make yourselves at home
35:44he is so excited
35:45you're tonight's show
35:47knock knock
35:54that's not choreography that's lethargy
35:58keep him busy
36:03question
36:04in the unicy section
36:05are we counting from the downbeat or from the knocks
36:08because rhythmically those are very different philosophies
36:35hi gorgeous
36:48so
36:49i never signed anything
36:59the date
37:00riri the date
37:01passing is signing
37:21you found my favorite episode
37:26you stole it from a woman in a trailer
37:31i preserved it
37:32everything ends up with me eventually
37:34i'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 event pays at once
38:18and i am the single largest serving of attention in the history of the human praise
38:25you wanted to know what i am
38:26i'm the only man alive more scared than you
38:40then you're a viscous
38:46theo
38:47your seat is cold
38:54run kid
39:07the gate needs a badge
39:09mine's the only one that's really
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
39:19or thursday or on air with my mom watching
39:23i rented it to four kids
39:25four
39:25so this once it doesn't get passed on
39:28it stops at me
39:29that's the whole apology
39:30that's all i've got
39:30hurry
39:32make it count
39:36god
39:36phrasing
39:41october 30th 1994
39:42riri santos
39:44taking her seat
39:56before we left town i pulled the 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
40:11so somebody has to actually watch it
40:13to the end
40:14who
40:17the one who's already late
40:46you shouldn't be alone for this
40:50i'm not
40:52epshur
40:52count
40:54lf
40:55fame
41:06no
41:08no they don't get to end you mid-count
41:09not you
41:10you're the only one who ever listened to me too
41:16new deal
41:17take the host
41:18let the audience go home
41:20if someone is seeing this
41:21then it found a person it can't finish counting
41:24that only happens once a broadcast
41:27that's the co-host sweetheart
41:28that's you now
41:30he can't sleep until someone says good night
41:32and the sign off was always my line
41:34it's yours now
41:36use it gently
41:37he was always gentle with me
41:41zoe
41:42zoe
41:43zoe
41:43zoe
41:44zoe
41:44zoe
41:44zoe
41:44zoe
41:44zoe
41:44zoe
41:44Amen.
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