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  • If you watch my show, you know that I love pranks.

  • I like scaring people, and I like making

  • celebrities wear an ear piece.

  • And I tell them to say things.

  • And they can only do whatever I tell them to do.

  • I love hiding Andy's phone and watching

  • him have a panic attack.

  • And anyway, I know a great prank when I see one.

  • And recently, I saw this tweet.

  • These two friends made a huge poster of themselves.

  • Hung it up at at a McDonald's.

  • And it stayed up there in the restaurant for two months.

  • McDonald's had no idea until their tweet went viral.

  • And I saw that.

  • And I was like, that's a good prank.

  • Bring them to me.

  • So please welcome Jevh and Christian.

  • First of all, congratulations.

  • Thank you.

  • It's such an honor.

  • That you got away with this.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • It's crazy, trying to say.

  • It is crazy.

  • So how did you come up with this idea?

  • Oh well, Christian and I we actually go to that McDonald's

  • pretty often.

  • And we sit in front of the wall where the picture's at.

  • And we sit there pretty often.

  • And we look up, and it's this blank wall.

  • Yeah.

  • So it's kind of like inviting us to put something on it.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • We looked around.

  • And we saw these other posters on there.

  • And we saw that there's different ethnicities.

  • And we saw that they're all these people having fun.

  • So we decide to represent ourselves as Asians

  • to be up there as well.

  • So we decided to put it ourselves.

  • And he always basically--

  • I play tricks with my friends a lot, so this is crazy.

  • Yeah.

  • He always gets crazy ideas like that.

  • So you had to make the whole thing.

  • You had to have it made.

  • Yes, that's correct.

  • OK.

  • And let's talk about how you went about doing this.

  • All right, so you took pictures.

  • Yeah, we went to our neighborhood event center.

  • We bought our own McDonald's food to take the picture from.

  • And we wanted to make sure that it was like a stock image.

  • Like it looked legit.

  • Yeah.

  • And so we set up a tripod in front of our event center--

  • neighborhood event center.

  • And then we walked 10 feet away.

  • We take pictures.

  • And then we look back to see if it was good.

  • And we kept doing it.

  • I mean, this cost you some money.

  • Yeah.

  • All right.

  • So then, you're putting it in.

  • And you had to make it look like other posters, right?

  • That's correct.

  • Right.

  • And then you had to--

  • how did you put it up?

  • You had to put fake McDonald's uniforms on.

  • So that's pretty funny, Ellen.

  • We went to-- I went to a neighborhood-- or a Goodwill

  • nearby with my friend.

  • And he suggested I should go get a uniform,

  • so I could dress the part.

  • And I went back home.

  • We edited a fake badge.

  • I throw in a tie.

  • Well, wait.

  • They just have McDonald's uniforms for sale anywhere?

  • Yeah, in Goodwill.

  • It was weird.

  • It was the first location we went to.

  • And it was the right size for me too.

  • So it was meant to be.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • It sure was.

  • It was calling him.

  • Yeah, it was legit calling me.

  • And we went back to my house.

  • We made a fake badge.

  • Regional Interior Coordinator.

  • Yeah, I've made that up.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • I don't know--

  • Is that a position?

  • It should be now.

  • It should be now.

  • It sounds pretty real.

  • You already have a badge.

  • Maybe that's what you could be there.

  • OK.

  • So then let's show it going up.

  • Because you had to sneak this up.

  • And so the whole-- the restaurant's open, obviously.

  • You walk in there with this giant poster.

  • Nobody's asking any questions.

  • Nope.

  • All right.

  • And then you were careful, because you

  • put a certain kind of double stick

  • on it so you wouldn't damage the wall.

  • Yeah, we put adhesives in the back.

  • Because if it was to get caught, then we

  • didn't want to make any trouble and have them take it down

  • if they want to.

  • And make no damage to McDonald's whatsoever.

  • Right.

  • Because then that would have been vandalism.

  • Yeah.

  • I don't want to be accused for something like that.

  • No.

  • So you just-- all you did was put a poster up.

  • And it was up.

  • You must have been so nervous.

  • Yeah we were really nervous.

  • Not as nervous as we are right now.

  • Yeah.

  • We were lucky, because there's security cameras that are

  • facing different directions.

  • But that wall, in particular, there was no security cameras.

  • Conveniently.

  • No one cares about that wall anyway.

  • There were no security cameras protecting it.

  • And it needed something.

  • It was an empty wall.

  • Yeah.

  • And now, do you still go back to that McDonald's.

  • And did people recognize you, like you're

  • models or something?

  • When I first went there, I went with my mom.

  • And I was scared that the employee would notice me.

  • So I told my mom to go run over there and order for me,

  • while I hide in the corner or something.

  • Hide in a booth.

  • Your mother knew you did this?

  • Yeah, she did.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • She was not for it at first.

  • But then whenever I told her about it

  • and when the poster came--

  • I didn't tell her I bought it and shipped it over.

  • But when it came to my house, and she saw in person,

  • she couldn't help but laugh with my dad.

  • First of all, I can't believe no one noticed that,

  • and it stayed up for two months.

  • And then, have you heard from McDonald's?

  • Yes, actually.

  • Me and my friends visited that McDonald's location.

  • And we decided to eat.

  • And then, they called us.

  • It was about a week ago.

  • And they talked about--

  • as soon as they called-- it was Chris Stanley.

  • He works for corporate.

  • He called me.

  • And as soon as he answered-- or I answered,

  • I asked him if I was going to get in trouble.

  • Because I didn't know if I was or not.

  • And I wanted to make sure I wasn't.

  • And he said that I wasn't.

  • So that's all that matters.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • And when he told me, I was like--

  • because there was an event, right?

  • Yeah.

  • There is an event that was planned.

  • And he invited both of us to go over

  • to the event at the location.

  • At that restaurant.

  • Yeah.

  • And when he told me, I was like, maybe this is a trap.

  • And maybe cops are going to be there.

  • There's going to be handcuffs.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • But no.

  • The event was actually a great thing to happened.

  • They invited us to go over there.

  • They're going to actually take down the poster.

  • But they're going to renovate their whole restaurant.

  • The renovation was planned months before the poster.

  • Before this whole idea came up.

  • To show much more diversity, which is--

  • this is what you brought to their attention.

  • And Crazy Rich Asians was a really big influence on me.

  • It really pushed me over.

  • Because I watched the movie three times.

  • It's insane.

  • So we wanted to be like crazy middle class.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • That's the next movie.

  • Crazy Middle-Class Asians.

  • We're the stars.

  • Or maybe lower middle class.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • All right.

  • I have a couple of surprises for you.

  • We, first of all--

  • here's our billboard outside.

  • This is me.

  • And then we did this.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • We're loving it.

  • So second, I want you to try to sneak this into another

  • McDonald's.

  • Ooh!

  • This is some fan art.

  • A viewer named Tom sent this to me over the summer.

  • And I shouldn't keep this for myself.

  • This should go somewhere else.

  • So you're going to sneak that into a McDonald's.

  • All right?

  • And finally, McDonald's loves customers like you.

  • And they're committed to diversity

  • and want to represent all their customers,

  • so they're going to use the two of you in a marketing campaign.

  • And since--

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • Are you sure?

  • This can't be happening.

  • This can't be happening.

  • Not only that, but since you're in a campaign,

  • they need to pay you, right?

  • So you're each getting a check for $25,000.

  • Ooh!

  • [APPLAUSE]

If you watch my show, you know that I love pranks.

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