- 20 hours ago
My Boyfriend Is Trapped Inside the TV
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
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
02:31I ran it six times
02:33The frame just froze
02:36Twice
02:37Figures don't record, Zoe
02:42Then it's the deck
02:43Equipment gitch has to be
02:56I got a B
02:5967 is a D, Ms. Kovac
03:0967
03:26You see what you look for?
03:29It's called Confirmation Bias
03:30There's a whole chapter on it
03:31And 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
03:42Re-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, it's already too late
04:26Theo?
04:27Before the song, didn't you?
04:28On clocks
04:29On receipts
04:30That's why it's you
04:59Theo 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
05:30We need to figure out where Theo is now
05:33And who he is
05:40Sorry
05:41It 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
06:08I need to figure out who he is
06:10Don't worry
06:10We'll figure this out for sure
06:12Okay, so I need you to not be weird about
06:16Stop
06:17Look
06:22This was Saturday
06:24He'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
07:11What 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
07:22You finished it too
07:23That means the count's started
07:25You'll hear it before you see it
07:26Two knocks
07:27Nox
07:28Nox
07:28Great
07:29And then?
07:30Then it counts to seven
07:36One
07:37And the Halloween dance committee
07:56Still needs volunteers
07:57In sports
07:58The Breavers fell to Crestwood
08:00Six to
08:04Six to seven
08:09Seven
08:10Kids
08:11Three to turn
08:11Two clues
08:17Two
08:17Three
08:31Let's go
08:33To�
08:35Eight
08:35Two
08:37Wait, wait, where did he?
08:42Josh.
08:45Announcements, Josh.
08:46He's been doing them all year.
08:48Who?
09:00Uh-huh.
09:01And 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.
09:32One 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.
09:51Okay, six, seven.
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.
10:55And...
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 you...
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.
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.
13:46And 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.
13:55Sixty-seven 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...
14:18Turn on channel 5.
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.
14:50His 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?
15:19The kid?
15:34What about you?
15:58Phones in the coffee can.
16:00Watches too if they're digital.
16:06What is this place?
16:07The last room in town that can't see you.
16:09Welcome to the Countdown Club.
16:10Roll call.
16:11Say your count, not your name.
16:13I'm at four.
16:14Two, three, two, five, six.
16:27Nobody came in after.
16:32Runs in the family.
16:33My 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.
16:46Okay.
16:47Science time.
16:48We test every rule.
16:50Experiment one.
16:51Can you drown it out?
17:12Experiment two.
17:13Starve it.
17:14Priya goes full pioneer.
17:15No screens, no glass, nothing that shines.
17:17Seven days.
17:18If it can't find me, the Count can't move.
17:20And if it can?
17:21Then we learn something.
17:22That's the deal with science.
17:27Nodded.
17:28Mirrors count.
17:32Flamel announced.encryptOM
17:45sssssssssssssssssss
17:58Kraux Video posten
18:01I'm doing trick
18:09You're bunk
18:14I get the ring to myself between 2am and the farm report
18:17Skate 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
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
19:24Copies
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 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
20:07Oh, wait
20:09She doesn't remember him
20:17Guys, guys
20:19While we eat ourselves, it went number one
20:21Every radio
20:23Every rink
20:24Every wedding
20:2540 million a day feeding 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?
20:49Since we watched the real thing
20:51At Tommy's sleepover
20:53The tape with the boy on it
21:04We watched the whole thing
21:05Even 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, it's a producer
22:20From Rose After Dark
22:21They want the 67 kids family
22:23On the Halloween special
22:33Specifically
22:34Spooky 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
23:39Every night
23:40Into his dad's tape recorder
23:41Weather
23:42Sports
23:42Dedications
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
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 deal's 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
25:14We 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 since 1968
25:36Paid 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
25:42Alive
25:55Hey!
25:56I know him!
26:00Lucas
26:01Buddy
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
26:31Epid 67
26:31If recording exists
26:32It shows whatever the copy
26:33And where do you find a tape
26:34That's been missing for 27 years?
26:39Where it was born
27:04Zoe
27:05It heard the meeting
27:06It hears rooms with doesn't matter
27:08It's moving the tape
27:09It's moving the tape
27:10Theo, slow down
27:13And listen to me
27:14Listen
27:16You're counting
27:19The clip show
27:2040 million strangers
27:22Watch me become a joke
27:24It fell everyone
27:3612
27:3712
27:3812
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
28:28On the nose
28:31Sixty-six for the audience
28:32And one for the count
28:37Guys
28:44Somebody beat us to the archive by 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, two, three, four, five, seven
29:30Will you help me finish
29:33Boys and girls?
29:42It's in the glass
29:43Don't look at the glass
29:45The doors are glass
29:47Dev
30:11Penny OS
30:12Eyes down
30:13Walk to my voice
30:15Now
30:24You're the tissue 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
30:45That'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
31:12Front row
31:13Every Saturday
31:14You have to understand
31:15He wasn't a monster on the show
31:17He was the only one who looked at us
31:24Lonely kids
31:25Lonely kids
31:26Lashkey kids
31:27The 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
31:38Stick
31:40He fed the puppet the only thing children have worth taking
31:43Attention
31:45All Saturdays of it
31:47And it worked
31:49God help him
31:50And help help him
31:51It worked
31:52Until the network pulled the plug
31:54Mid count
31:56Six
32:03A counting thing that never reached seven
32:05It's been finishing that count ever since
32:06One child at a time
32:08Seating them in the audience
32:09Now you
32:12It counts children to seven, girl
32:14Twenty days past your number
32:15And walking around free
32:16It is not seating you
32:18Then what's it doing?
32:21It counted me to 66
32:22Before I shut my eyes
32:24I think it's counting you to 67
32:27It's not selling you a ticket, Zoe
32:28It'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
32:58Lock cut clean
33:00Foil folded politely
33:02There's exactly one man alive
33:04Rich enough to want it
33:05And damned enough to know it exists
33:08Rose?
33:11First rule of the original
33:12It shows what the copies hide
33:19Second rule
33:20Nobody watches alone
33:39That's a 1985 walk mat
33:41That kid
33:42Look at his shoes
33:44Those are new
33:46They're not gone
33:47They're seated
34:03He's been refusing it
34:0867 days
34:09He's been refusing it
34:30Halloween night
34:32Live
34:32Coast to coast
34:33The 6-7 special
34:3567 million of us
34:37Casting real cursed kids
34:38Regional editions
34:45He's not booking a show
34:47He's herding us into one
34:54Riri Santos
34:55Tell me you brought me Halloween gold
34:58Better
35:02The network's casting Maple Falls Kids for the special
35:04And I can deliver the 67 kids whole circle
35:07Exclusive
35:07One condition
35:08I name the group
35:10All of us
35:10Together 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
35:45Your tonight's show
35:47Knock, knock, palm
35:49Knock, knock, palm
35:51Palms
35:54That's not choreography
35:55That's lethargy
35:58Keep him busy
36:03Question
36:03In the unicy section
36:05Are we counting from the downbeat
36:07Or from the knocks
36:08Because rhythmically
36:09Those are very different philosophies
36:36Hi, gorgeous
36:37Hi, gorgeous
36:48So
36:55I never signed anything
36:59The date
37:00The date
37:00Riri
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 from a man in a trailer
37:33Everything ends up with me eventually
37:34I'm syndication
37:38What's the special, Casey?
37:41Sixty-seven million people
37:42Live
37:43Counting in union
37:44It counts to seven
37:45And takes one kid
37:46So what does it take
37:47When the whole country
37:48Counts 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
38:02Add it to my tab
38:03Thirty years of top ratings, though
38:05Do my math
38:09Sixty-seven million
38:15On Halloween, all debts come due
38:17Every heaven pays it once
38:18And I am the single
38:19Largest serving of attention
38:20In the history of the human race
38:25You wanted to know what I am
38:26I'm the only man alive
38:27More scared than you
38:40Then you're a biscuit
38:46Theo
38:48Your 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
39:19Or Thursday
39:19Or on air with my mom watching
39:23I rented it to four kids
39:25Four
39:25So this once
39:27It doesn't get passed on
39:28It stops at me
39:28That's the whole apology
39:29That's all I've got
39:30Yuri
39:32Make it count
39:36God
39:36Phrasing?
39:40October 30th, 1994
39:42Riri Santos
39:43Taking her seat
39:56Before we left town
39:57I 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
40:46You shouldn't be alone for this
40:50I'm not
40:52Epshur
40:52Count
40:54Allies
40:54Fame
41:05No
41:07No, they don't get to end you mid-count
41:09Not you
41:10You're the only one who ever listened to me too
41:15New 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
41:26That's the co-host, sweetheart
41:28That's you now
41:29He can't sleep until someone says goodnight
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
41:41Zoey
41:41Zoey?
41:42Zoey?
41:42Zoey?
41:42Zoey?
41:42Zoey?
41:43Zoey?
Comments