[Makeshift Plush Promo] “Phone a Friend”

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First seen is a high contrast image of the side of Mark's house, alongside text reading, "alternate timeline #02894089898024."

[white noise]

[pencil writing on paper]

Mark is seen writing in his notebook at his desk, the footage is in grayscale.

[phone rings]

Mark picks up his phone.

The scene switches to show a singular eye staring at the viewer against a black background, representing Cesar. It switches back to Mark when he is speaking.

Cesar (distorted): Hello, it's Cesar. How distracted are you?

Mark: What's up, are you alright?

Cesar: Yeah, I just need you to do me a small favor.

Mark: Okay?

Cesar: Open the door.

Mark: Like... my bedroom door?

Mark turns to look behind him and his door is then shown.

Cesar: Yes. [laughs]

[call ends]

Mark puts down his phone and gets up. A close up shot of the door handle is seen as Mark opens it.

[door creaks]

A dark hallway is seen. Suddenly, the lights turn on to reveal the Cesar plush in the hallway.

Cesar: [distorted laugh]

The plushy turns into the police sketch of Cesar. The hallway turns dark and a paragraph's worth of red questions marks appear in the top left corner.

Dave: Has this every happened to you? Well, do I have good news you y-[distorts]

The question marks disappear and Cesar's photo gets stretched vertically.

The right half of the MandelaTECH logo is seen against a bright green background.

Then, it zooms out to show "MandelaTECH DAILY 2008," with a picture of Dave Lee in MandelaTECH merch giving a thumbs up. THe text that accompanies him says, "Dave Lee // Senior Representative."

Dave: How's it going, tech geeks? Brought to you by the mysterious voices that tell me funny things at night, the alternate Cesar plush is now available for you to purchase using the link in the description and onscreen now.

The plush appears, with text, "only available until October 8!!!!!" alongside the link.

Dave: Get the full experience of this plush by using... using, uh, by using...

The text, "reuasable drawstrong bag included!!!" appears. Then, the text loops back to the initial message of October 8th and so forth.

Dave: Evelin, what are they supposed to do with the plush?

Evelin: What do you mean?

Dave: Like.. like, what are they supposed to do with it?

Evelin: I think they said it was like, for building tolerance or something.

Dave: Oh, okay. Okay, tech geeks, you can now build up... tolerance... with the alternate Cesar plush. Now available at your nearest [TTS: Makeshift.com] only until [TTS: October 8th] and that's it, no more plushies after that date. So get them now while you still can. Alright, tech geeks, that's all I have for today. Peace out!

The screen turns black.

Evelin: You're done already?

Dave: Yep.

Evelin: That's all you needed me for?

Dave: Yep.

Evelin: Are you— okay, whatever, I'll see you next shift.

[door closes]

Dave: Well, you know what they say. Uhhhh.