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@julia.dicesare She doesnt get to lie often #fyp #sketch #sketchcomedy #accents

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Length · 30 Apr 2024
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Video #9122 · Skit

Friend ruins fake apartment reference.from @julia.dicesare

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Overview

The creator asks his friend to act as a fake reference for a landlord, but she takes the role too far by adopting an over-the-top British accent, inventing wild stories about her past with him, and ultimately insulting the landlord, ruining the creator's chance of getting the apartment.

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Simple outline

  1. 1State a simple, high-stakes goal.
  2. 2Helper wildly overcomplicates the task.
  3. 3Helper's actions become actively destructive.
  4. 4Helper delivers an oblivious final verdict.

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Classification

Format
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Elements
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Hook analysis

What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds

Title hook · 35%

Using a Fake Reference to Get an Apartment

Verbal hook · 40%

Okay, the landlord's about to call you.

Visual hook · 25%

A woman stands in a living room looking at her phone, establishing the premise of an impending important phone call.

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Hook and payoff

The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back

Hook

A clear, relatable problem is presented, and a simple, slightly deceptive solution is proposed to a second character. This establishes the stakes and the plan.

Payoff

The Oblivious Conclusion: After completely sabotaging the initial goal, the character ends the interaction and provides a final, comically unaware summary to the protagonist, showing zero recognition of their own disastrous performance.

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Narrative framework

The structural pattern this video runs on

Framework

The Escalating Sabotage

A character is given a simple task to help another but, through a combination of over-commitment and ineptitude, systematically makes the situation progressively worse, culminating in total failure and a comically oblivious final assessment.

  1. 1

    The Simple Request

    The protagonist outlines a straightforward task for a supporting character, defining the clear objective and the specific (and simple) lie to be told.

  2. 2

    The Persona Pivot

    The supporting character immediately deviates from the plan upon execution, adopting a completely unexpected and exaggerated persona that complicates the simple task.

  3. 3

    The Narrative Derailment

    The character abandons the agreed-upon script entirely, introducing irrelevant, self-aggrandizing, and unhelpful personal details that shift the focus away from the original goal.

  4. 4

    The Hostile Turn

    The character's performance escalates from unhelpful to actively antagonistic, directly insulting the third party they are meant to be persuading.

Themes

  • friendship
  • lying
  • unreliability
  • sabotage

Techniques

  • character acting
  • accent comedy
  • escalating absurdity

Trends

  • relatable sketch comedy

Post caption

She doesnt get to lie often #fyp #sketch #sketchcomedy #accents

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  • title · beginning

    Using a Fake Reference to Get an Apartment

Transcript

Okay. The landlord's about to call you. Just tell him that we used to be roommates and that I was clean. Okay. But we weren't roommates. Just lie. Oh, okay. Yeah. I really I really want this apartment. He's calling me right now. Okay. Okay. Hello. Who is this? What? This is Padilla speaking. Oh my god. We lived in, South Braxton. It's a real place. You can look it up probably. Yeah. He's a good guy. Yeah. He's clean. Yeah. Very nice. Very nice guy. Not to women. Me, myself, I'm actually a DJ. I do venues. Yeah. Yeah. I do, like, house mashups. Stop rank get off the phone. I'm trying Yeah. I've got a lot of money, so I don't really need to rent. Probably got more money than you. Maybe not. Oh, no. Maybe not. I mean, because you slumlord, you no. Kidding. That's kind of our British sense of humor. No. You listen to me. You piece of shit. You're wasting my time. Yeah? Well, I looked you up on your fucking website. You look like a muppet. Yeah. Oh, okay. Good day. Good day. I don't know if you're gonna get it.