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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
02:31I 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
08:09mahdoll
08:10One
08:11The
08:11One
08:34One
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.
09:32Josh 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.
10:46I 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.
11:49It counts faster when you're into your head.
11:50The question 49 seconds did he move.
11:52It counts faster when you're dead.
11:59I got lavered away.
12:01Let's go.
12:02Let's go.
12:03Let's go.
12:05Let's go.
12:06Let's go.
12:07Let's go.
12:10Let's go.
12:11Let's go.
12:12Low.
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
12:56to
12:59family's work
13:03and you're not his channel zoe
13:1727 years of kids leaving maple falls except their families can't say where to
13:21watch this
13:41retraction time 10 days ago i called the 67 thing bunk i was wrong don't sing it don't dance it
13:46and if a tape you didn't rent shows up in your machine do not finish it i don't care if
13:51you
13:51believe me tell 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 zoe that was good that was really
14:19turn on channel 5
14:25that's me i'm famous
14:41america meet the 67 kids
14:4567
14:48and get this
14:50his hometown thinks it's cursed
14:53folks we found the spooky sister tape
15:06no no no no no we fed it
15:11he's the one you wanted right the kid
15:28and
15:28and
15:28and
15:28and
15:29and
15:29and
15:59Phone's in the coffee
16:25Phone's in the coffee
16:32Phone's in the family
16:33My sister Dinah did the exact bit in 86
16:36Front row, big laugh
16:38Then 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, can you drown it out?
17:12Experiment two, starve 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
17:28Nodded
17:29Mirrors count
17:32Whistling
17:34Whistling
17:35hören
17:43Whistling
17:46Whistling
17:50Throbbed
17:51floating
17:51موسyDC
18:02I'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
18:35Did 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
18:48Good 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
19:25Copies
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, I swear
20:05Tell that to his mom
20:07Await
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
20:37No 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
22:19It'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 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
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 out 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 alive
25:55Hey!
25:56I know him!
26:00Lucas
26:01Buddy
26:03Where do you know him from?
26:04He 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
26:35For 27 years
26:38Where it was born
26:39Where it was born
27:04Zoe
27:05Zoe
27:05It heard the meeting
27:06It hears rooms with
27:08Doesn't matter
27:08It's moving the tape
27:09Tonight
27:10Theo, slow down
27:13And listen to me
27:14Listen
27:16You're counting
27:19The clip show
27:21Forty million strangers
27:22Watch me become a joke
27:24It fell every one
27:3612
27:3712
27:57Six o'clock, episode at six, show ends at seven, the counting hour, six to seven, it
28:05was never a name, it was instructions.
28:17They wrote to him, they wanted to be counted, there's thousands of these, 67, on the nose,
28:3166 for the audience, and one for the count.
28:43Guys, somebody 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 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, Dev!
30:11Penny O.S.
30:12Eyes down.
30:14Walk to my voice.
30:15Now!
30:23You're the Tisservor lady.
30:26And you're trespassing on a grave.
30:35You.
30:37The one that's allowed 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?
30:56The man whose name is still wet.
31:10I was ten.
31:12Front row, every 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.
31:26Lashkey 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...
31:38Stick.
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.
32:14Twenty 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.
32:25Seven.
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.
33:13It shows what the copies hide.
33:19Second rule.
33:20Nobody 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 seated.
34:04He's been refusing it.
34:0867 days.
34:09He's been refusing it.
34:31Halloween night.
34:32Live.
34:33Coast to coast.
34:34The 6-7 special.
34:3567 million of us.
34:37Casting Real Cursed Kids.
34:38Regional editions.
34:39Working together.
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 whole circle.
35:07Exclusive.
35:07One condition.
35:09I 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.
35:46Your tonight's show.
35:48Knock, knock, palm.
35:50Knock, knock, palm.
35:52Palms.
35:54That's not choreography.
35:55That'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 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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