Elaborate Televised Prank On Terrible Phone Company

From BoingBoing:

Belgium's much-reviled phone company Mobistar was elaborately pranked by a program on VRT Belgium; the pranksters hid themselves in a steel container, which they had dropped directly in front of the gates of a large Mobistar office at 5AM. The container had a prominent customer service number printed on the side of it -- a number which rang the pranksters inside the container -- that was promptly called by a series of Mobistar employees who wanted to get the container moved off before 2,000 Mobistar employees reported for work and found the parking lot blocked off.

The pranksters proceed to put the Mobistar employees through a high-art comedic phone hell, disconnecting them, subjecting them to terrible hold music (performed live from within the container on a little synthesizer), gradually ratcheting the misery up in a Dante-worthy re-enactment of every terrible, awful mobile phone company experience.

The program was a huge hit in Belgium (be sure to watch it all the way through for the a killer punchline), and has been captioned in English for those of us in the anglosphere to enjoy.
curiousitysays...

I can't get the English captions to work either as they are pop up instead of normal captions (menu on side "CC" says that there are no options available); however, the English translations do pop up when I watch it directly from YouTube (the yt pop up format vs cc.) Is it a script stripped by VideoSift or NoScript blocking this? I don't know or care since I can see it on YouTube.

Just an FYI for those in same languages-deficient camp as I.

Edit: hilarious!

eric3579says...

I don't think he's even come close. Definitely in my top five films ever.

>> ^Deano:
>> ^HugeJerk:
It's from a movie.>> ^eric3579:
Hey Buck, you from the states by chance? Why do you think the rest of the world think we're asses? Just sayin'
>> ^Buck:
english motherfucker, do you speak it!!??



I was watching Pulp Fiction just an hour ago - still an incredible engrossing and fun film. I'm not sure QT has bettered it since.

Deanosays...

>> ^undefined:

I don't think he's even come close. Definitely in my top five films ever.
>> ^Deano:
>> ^HugeJerk:
It's from a movie.>> ^eric3579:
Hey Buck, you from the states by chance? Why do you think the rest of the world think we're asses? Just sayin'
>> ^Buck:
english motherfucker, do you speak it!!??



I was watching Pulp Fiction just an hour ago - still an incredible engrossing and fun film. I'm not sure QT has bettered it since.



I'm still not sure what it was about though. Just QT's way of telling lurid stories that would hold the viewer's attention?

Bucksays...

>> ^eric3579:

Hey Buck, you from the states by chance? Why do you think the rest of the world think we're asses? Just sayin'
>> ^Buck:
english motherfucker, do you speak it!!??



I guess you've never seen the movie by quinten tarentino called PULP FICTION.

It was a famous line from it

just sayin

EDIT: JUST SAW ALL THE OTHER POSTS ABOUT IT, S'ALL GOOD UP HERE IN CANADA!!!! PEACE!

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