THE LIAM SMITH SHOW
Episode 1.09: "Smack My Glitch Up"
Written by Jason Donner


FADE IN

EXT: TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK: JANUARY 31, 1999
It is a huge party.  Everyone is happy and, for just this moment,
everyone in the city are brothers and sisters.  The camera pans down
through the crowd until it finds a lone man in a coat holding a
microphone.  The man turns to the camera and we see that he is ageless
DICK CLARK.

		DICK CLARK
	...and as the final few minutes of the 
	20th century tick away, all of New York 
	is awaiting the new millennium with a sense 
	of hope and peace.  I truly believe that 
	this will be the dawn of a new age.
		[a beat]
	This new age is brought to you by McDonalds:  
	Have YOU Had a Break Today?  And by America 
	On-line:  All Lines are Busy...  Please Dial 
	Again.

CUT TO:
CIRCUS, CIRCUS: LAS VEGAS
Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year is being transmitted on giant television
screens to the staff who are engrossed in a huge New Years party.  LIAM
SMITH, THAD COFFEY, BIPPO THE CLOWN, and SENESTRA MALEVOUS are there.

		LIAM
	Wow... I can't believe that we're just 
	fifteen minutes away from the year 2000 
	which will start a whole new millennium.

		THAD
	Actually, the new millennium won't start 
	until January 1, 2001 since the first year 
	of the Anno Domini time period was a "1" 
	and not a zero, therefore, the first 
	millennium spanned 1 through 1001, and the 
	second will span from 1001 through 2001.

		LIAM
	Wow... I can't believe that we're just 
	fourteen minutes away from a whole new 
	millennium.

		THAD
	Oy!

Thad gets fed up and walks away.  Bippo the clown walks up with a black
eye.

		LIAM
	What happened to you?

		BIPPO
	Oh, you know. One guy says the new millennium 
	doesn't start until 2001, another gripes that 
	it starts in 2000...  next thing you know, 
	there's a fight and a brutal beating.

Supervillianess and Circus, Circus owner SENESTRA MALEVOLOUS walks up to
them.

		SENESTRA
	Hello, boys.

		LIAM & BIPPO
	Hello Miss Malevolous.

		LIAM
	It was nice of you to throw this party for 
	your employees especially after that nasty 
	business with you and Capeman that I was 
	involved in.

		SENESTRA
	Water under the bridge, my little squirrel.  
	Though, if you thwart my plans for world 
	domination again, I'd hide my nuts if I were 
	you.

		LIAM
	Hee Hee.  Gulp.

Suddenly, there is a commotion from the far side of the room.

		BIPPO
	What's going on over there?

		LIAM
	I don't know.  Let's go see.

LIAM, BIPPO, and SENESTRA walk over to the commotion where a large
number of people have gathered.  They meet with THAD.

		LIAM
	Thad?  What's going on?

		THAD
	I don't know!  I was just spiking... uh, 
	I mean getting some punch and these 
	two guys barge in and start a riot!

Senestra pushes through the crowd to the two men in the middle.

		SENESTRA
	What's going on here?  Who are you people!?

The two men are JERRY FALWELL and PAT ROBERTSON.

		FALWELL
	I am Jerry Falwell one of the most recognized 
	voices of God in the United States.  You may 
	remember me from any one of my anti-Semetic, 
	anti-gay, anti-Hustler, or anti-Teletubby rants.

		ROBERTSON
	...and I am Pat Robertson.  Founding member of 
	the Christian Coalition and The 700 Club.  Kiss 
	my ring, cretins!  You are but worms to me!

		SENESTRA
	What are you two doing here?

		FALWELL
	We've come to the Sodom and Gammora of America, 
	Las Vegas, to usher in the End of Days!

		BIPPO
	Boo!  Arnold Swartzenagger sucks!

		ROBERTSON
	No, you refer to the blasphemous End of Days 
	movie.  We refer to the end of the world... 
	Armageddon!

		LIAM
	What makes you so sure that the Armageddon 
	is going to happen tonight?

		FALWELL
	Because we are evangelists!

		ROBERTSON
	...on TV!

		FALWELL
	...and we speak to God on a daily basis.

A cuckoo clock on a nearby wall goes off.

		CLOCK
	Cuckoo!

		ROBERTSON
	You would know, my children, that the end 
	of days was coming on New Years if you had 
	read my book that I have been selling on 
	The 700 Club.  ($24.99 plus $4.99 shipping 
	and handling. Cash, Check or Money Orders 
	accepted.  No CODs or orders from homosexuals, 
	please.)

		FALWELL
	Yes, my friends, the end of the world will 
	be brought about by...
		[a tense moment]
	...the Y2K Computer Glitch.

There is a pause and then everyone in the room laughs heartily at the
two men.

		MAN #1
	The Y2K bug?

		WOMAN
	Give us a break!

		MAN #2
	What losers.

		ROBERTSON
	Laugh at us if you want, you heretics!  But 
	we shall have the last laugh when this computer 
	glitch brings civilization to it's knees.

		FALWELL
	But all is not lost.  We can still save your 
	souls.

		ROBERTSON
	All for the low, low price of a 100 dollar 
	donation.

		FALWELL
	Unless you're a homosexual...

		ROBERTSON
	...or a Jew...

		FALWELL
	...or a Telletubby.

		ROBERTSON
	If you are then we... uh, I mean GOD decrees 
	that you must burn in hell!

Liam, Thad, Bippo, and Senestra walk away.

		THAD
	You believe that nonsense?

		SENESTRA
	The Y2K bug?  What a lot of bluster and hype 
	designed to panic the stupidest of people and 
	con them into giving their money to...
		[scoffs]
	...religion!

		LIAM
	Don't you believe in the church?

		SENESTRA
	I do, but like most of America's Evil and 
	Wealthy Elite, I worship Pan the Goat God!

		THAD
	But at least you see through Pat Robertson 
	and Jerry Falwell's attempt to bilk the public 
	out of their money by hyping up this stupid 
	little Y2K thing into the second coming of Jesus.

		BIPPO
	Yeah, that's crazy... and that means a lot 
	coming from me!

The four walk by a TV playing Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years show.

		LIAM
	I don't know, you guys...

The camera stays with the TV as the Times Square Clock counts down from
ten minutes.

		LIAM
	...I've got a funny feeling about this.

10:01...  10:00...  09:59... 09:58... 09:57...  09:56...

FADE OUT

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THEME SONG (Sung to the theme of "Auld Lang Syne")

Get ready for another round,
of fun with Liam Smith.
The year 2000's almost here,
it's a force to reckon with.

Folks want you panic and not,
have a great time on the first.
The year 2000 comes but once,
It's a century given birth.

Let's greet the new year with some hope,
for a prosperous century.
Don't think of that Y2K bug,
it's all hype if you ask me.

Enjoy this episode of the show,
I hope it makes you grin.
And Happy New Year to you all,
to your family and your kin.

OLÉ!

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THE LIAM SMITH SHOW STARRING Dian Bachar as "Liam Smith" Ed Asner as "Mister Hilter" GUEST STARRING Michael Nelson as "Thad Coffey" Robert Floyd as "Bippo the Clown" and Marina Sirtis as "Senestra Malevolous" SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY Jerry Falwell Pat Robertson Wayne Newton and Siegfried and Roy SPECIAL GUEST STARS Tiger Woods as "Tiger Woods" and Dick Clark as "Dick Clark"
FADE IN INT. CIRCUS, CIRCUS CASINO Everything is as it was before. Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are still preaching to a less-than-receptive audience. ROBERTSON The Y2K bug will cause America's infrastructure to collapse! Planes will fall from the sky! Street lights will malfunction! Cars won't start! Hospitals won't be able to function! Banks will loose billions of dollars! The Y2K glitch is God's vengeance made manifest! FALWELL He's telling the truth! God told me so, himself! SENESTRA Yeah, yeah, yeah... ROBERTSON Do not mock me! For if you mock me, you are mocking God! LIAM Excuse me, but doesn't the Bible say that man should never compare himself to God in any way, shape, or form and to do so is... FALWELL Heretic! ROBERTSON Blasphemer! FALWELL You will burn in the fires of Hell for all eternity! LIAM I was just saying... ROBERTSON Homosexual! FALWELL Jew! LIAM Look, forget I said anything. Liam walks over to Thad and Bippo. LIAM These guys are a couple of pews short of a congregation. BIPPO You think what they said about Tinky-Winky was true? THAD What? BIPPO You know... that Tinky-Winky the Telletubbie is gay. You think that's true? LIAM I think it's just rhetoric to keep their flocks in line and to keep them in the spotlight. Pathetic. THAD Yeah. BIPPO Oh... well, what about Bert and Ernie? LIAM Gay. THAD Totally gay. LIAM There are none gayer. BIPPO I thought so. THAD Shhh! Look! It's thirty seconds until midnight! LIAM Everyone! Gather round! Thirty seconds to go! Everyone gathers around the big screen TV to watch Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's final countdown to 2000. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson slink around in the back. SENESTRA This is so exciting! 2000 is going to be my year... you just watch! I'll take over Las Vegas in 2000, Nevada by 2001... The West Coast by 2002 or 2003. Then comes Oklahoma! EVERYONE SHHHHHHHHH!!! DICK CLARK [on TV] Ten seconds to go! The ball in Times Square begins to drop. EVERYONE Ten.... MONTAGE OF SCENES: THE PYRAMIDS AT GIZA Hundreds of people are celebrating. EVERYONE Nine.... THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA Another huge celebration. EVERYONE Eight.... SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA It's a party, mate! EVERYONE Seven.... MEXICO CITY Another celebration. EVERYONE Seis.... A CRUISE SHIP IN THE CARIBBEAN You guessed it, another party. EVERYONE Five.... A GOLF COURSE Tiger Woods swings. TIGER FORE!!! LONDON, ENGLAND A party again. EVERYONE Three.... THE EIFFEL TOWER, FRANCE Le Party. EVERYONE Two.... CIRCUS, CIRCUS, LAS VEGAS Liam and company. EVERYONE One.... The second hand hits midnight. EVERYONE Happy New Ye-- EVERYTHING GOES BLACK A woman screams. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMERCIAL BREAK - Raid: The Official killer of the Y2K bug. - Strong enough for a man, made for a woman. - Snap into a Slim Jim! Eat me! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FADE IN: EXT. THE LAS VEGAS SKYLINE The city is in flames. Buildings are falling down, planes are dropping from the sky, street lights are out, traffic lights aren't functioning, and people are screaming. INT. CIRCUS, CIRCUS The place looks decimated. Slot machines, roulette wheels, and craps tables are strewn everywhere. People are crawling out from under the rubble. Liam pulls himself out from under a large stone tiger. LIAM What the hell just happened? Thad staggers over. THAD Don't know. Last thing I remember was the clock striking midnight and... Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell wandle over. ROBERTSON It is as we foretold. FALWELL God has enacted his wrath on the world. Liam looks around at the destruction in the casino. LIAM You mean to tell us that all this was done by the Y2K computer glitch? ROBERTSON It was. THAD This is terrible! SENESTRA and BIPPO wander over. SENESTRA My casino... My beautiful casino! BIPPO Wow, you guys think it's like this all over the world? LIAM God, I hope not! THAD What can we do? ROBERTSON I'll tell you what you can do, my son. Pray to us... I mean, pray WITH us to God and beg him forgiveness and ask him to save your souls. BIPPO Will that fix everything? FALWELL It should... after you donate your life savings to our Church. THAD, BIPPO, LIAM, and SENESTRA WHAT!? ROBERTSON It's a small price to pay for eternal paradise. Thad, Liam, Senestra, and Bippo look at each other. SENESTRA Huddle. They huddle like football players. INT: THE HUDDLE Looking up at their faces from the center. LIAM What do you guys think? THAD No way am I giving into these posers. BIPPO Then how else are we going to fix this Y2K problem? SENESTRA Okay... First, we need to come up with a plan. Second, Bippo... get your hand off my ass. BIPPO Sorry. LIAM What about Mister Hilter? He can fix anything and, if he can't, he always knows who can! SENESTRA Sounds like a plan. THAD But to get to him, we're going to have to walk down the strip! With this Y2K bug in full force, it's going to be dangerous! BIPPO Dangerous? Bah! How bad can it be? EXT. CIRCUS, CIRCUS Liam, Bippo, Thad, and Senestra walk out onto the strip. It's pure madness. People are running up and down the street screaming, engine fires are burning, and an occasional explosion rocks the asphalt. LIAM See? And you were worried that the Y2K would cause Las Vegas to revert into anarchy! THAD Liam, it has! LIAM [slaps Thad lightly on the face] It's called "sarcasm" babe, look it up. The four start walking down the strip. LIAM I can't believe that we've become so reliant on computers! THAD Well, computer chips ARE in everything now-adays. BIPPO Wrist watches... They walk past a man who checks the time on his watch only to have it explode in his face. Screaming and in flames, he runs and jumps into a fountain. SENESTRA Slot machines... They walks past an old lady who puts a quarter into a slot machine and is sucked in through the payout slot. Blood begins spraying out of the slot machine's top. THAD Pacemakers... They walks past a man who grabs his chest in pain. His ribcage erupts in a mass of blood and stuff and his heart and pacemaker jumps out, hits the ground, scampers along the sidewalk, jumps on another man's face, and electrocutes him. LIAM Werewolf patches... Thad stops. THAD Did you say werewolf patches? LIAM Yeah-huh. Why? THAD I wear a werewolf patch! LIAM Since when? THAD Since we found out I was a werewolf two months ago! LIAM What? THAD [shocked] Liam! Don't you remember? The words "EXPOSITION FOR STUPID PEOPLE" begin to flash on the bottom of the screen. THAD Last month, all these hookers were getting killed by a werewolf so we decided to hunt it down but it actually turned out to be me transformed into a werewolf after I was bit by one on the street. I was given this anti-werewolf patch that I wear on my arm to keep me from transforming into a killer and NOW you're telling me it's not Y2K compliant!? LIAM Uh... yes. THAD Oh, fudge. Thad doubles over and begins to turn into a werewolf. The gang reacts in horror. BIPPO Run! Run like hell! They do. SENESTRA You think we lost him? LIAM I would think so... SENESTRA Good. LIAM ...if he wasn't standing in front of us. LIAM, SENESTRA, and BIPPO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! The werewolf is standing in front of them ready to kill and devour them all. A quick-thinking Bippo jumps up and yanks a stick out of a tree. BIPPO [waves the stick around] See the stick, boy? See the stick? The werewolf gets down on all fours and jumps around like a puppy. BIPPO You want the stick? You want it? WEREWOLF Reah! Reah! Row the rick, Raggy! Bippo throws the stick as hard as he can. BIPPO Fetch, boy! The werewolf bounds off after the stick. Liam, Bippo, and Senestra run the opposite direction. EXT. THE RIVERIA Wayne Newton is watching all the devastation in the city. NEWTON This is awful... Awful! A stick lands at his feet. NEWTON Hello? What's...? The werewolf barrels into Wayne Newton, picks him up in his jaws, and slings him around like a chew toy. NEWTON Ahhhh! Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! EXT. THE VEGAS STRIP Liam, Bippo, and Senestra are running. Liam stops. LIAM [panting] Okay... Okay... We lost him. SENESTRA How far away are we from this Mister Hilter? Liam looks around. LIAM Not far now. It's amazing how much ground you can cover when you're absolutely terrified out of your skull. SENESTRA Well, I propose we steal a car and drive the rest of the way. My feet are killing me. A man in the background gets into a car and turns the ignition. The car explodes in a huge fireball. SENESTRA ...on second thought, let's walk. EXT. UPDA CREEK APARTMENTS: AN HOUR LATER Much like the rest of the city, the apartments are more of a mess than usual. INT. MISTER HILTER'S APARTMENT The front door falls apart as Liam turns the knob to open it. He throws the knob down as he, Bippo, and Senestra enters the room. LIAM Mister Hitler? SENESTRA Hilter. LIAM What? SENESTRA Hilter. You called him Hitler. LIAM I did not! SENESTRA You sure did! I heard you with my own ears! LIAM Why would I be calling him "Hitler" after I've known his name for almost three months!? It makes no sense! SENESTRA Listen, you little creep... I heard you plain as... BIPPO Guys... Guys...!!! GUYS!!! Senestra and Liam stop arguing. BIPPO You guys hear something? VOICE [softly] Help... me... LIAM It sounds like it's coming from over here. Liam, Bippo, and Senestra walk over to a big hole in the floor. VOICE Help... me! They look down the hole and see Mister Hilter trapped down there. LIAM Oh my god! BIPPO It's Mister Hilter! FADE OUT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMERCIAL BREAK - SEGA!!! - I'm going to Disneyland! - Snap, Crackle, Pop! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FADE IN INT. MISTER HILTER'S APARTMENT Liam, Bippo, and Senestra have just pulled Mister Hilter out of the gigantic hole. LIAM How the heck did you end up in that hole, Mister Hilter? HILTER Damn floorboards aren't Y2K compliant. Careful where you step, my boy. BIPPO Mister H! It's horrible! The city's in flames! People are dying! HILTER Yes, the Y2K bug. Funny, I've been researching that glitch for over a year and I never found any indication that it would cause any major problems. SENESTRA Well, it has. HILTER Yes. Wait a minute... who the hell are you? SENESTRA Senestra Malevolous. Mistress of Evil. HILTER Mister Hilter. Pleasure to meet you. Now, let's see what we can do about this Y2K problem. Mister Hilter gets out a laptop. Bippo, Liam, and Senestra leap for cover. HILTER Relax... this computer is impervious to the Y2K Bug. I should know... I built it myself out of old soda cans and a busted Nintendo game. Hilter turns the laptop on and types a little bit. HILTER That's odd. LIAM What? HILTER According to this, all of the computer chips in the city are Y2K compliant. There shouldn't be any trouble with the Y2K glitch... [a thought] ...unless! SENESTRA Unless what!? HILTER Unless this isn't a glitch we're looking at! BIPPO Not a glitch? What else could it be? HILTER It's... my God... it's a virus! SENESTRA You mean all of this destruction has been caused by a computer virus? But that would mean that someone wrote it and spread it to all of the computers of the world! LIAM Who would do such a thing? HILTER No, I think the question we should be asking is, Who would profit from such a thing? SENESTRA Of course! LIAM It's so simple! BIPPO My god... who would have thunk it. HILTER You guys don't have a clue who I'm talking about, do you? SENESTRA No. LIAM I'm sorry... no. BIPPO I was thinking it was Scott Thompson of The Kids in the Hall. Ah I right? Huh? Huh? Am I right? CUT TO CIRCUS CIRCUS CASINO Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are there taking a donation from a couple of men. ROBERTSON Absolutely. You see, if you donate your life savings to us... uh, I mean to our church... you will be saved from the horrors of the 21st century. FALWELL Are you sure you two aren't homosexuals. SIEGFRIED Uh... no! ROY No! No! No! SIEGFRIED We're so not gay. ROY If fact, we're going to go out and have sex with females right now. Siegfried gives Falwell and check and he leaves with Roy. SIEGFRIED Oh, Roy... I feel so dirty. ROY I know... I know... They exit. Liam, Bippo, Hilter, and Senestra enters. HILTER Falwell! Robertson! We're on to you! FALWELL What are you talking about? LIAM We know that YOU are responsible for the Y2K glitch! In fact, we know it's not a glitch at all... it's a virus written by the two of you to LOOK like a glitch! ROBERTSON Lies! SENESTRA You were using it to extort money from people by scaring the hell out of them! FALWELL Blasphemers! BIPPO The games up, fellahs! Cash in your chips 'cause your... uh... [he thinks] Your... uh... [angry] Aw, DAMMIT!!! ROBERTSON So what if you've discovered our virus! The world is in ruin and everyone will see us as the men who predicted it! We've won! HILTER Not quite. FALWELL What do you mean? At that moment, the werewolf crashes through the wall and eyes Falwell and Robertson. It growls and advances towards them. ROBERTSON Holy fu-(BLEEP!)-cking sh-(BLEEP!)-t FALWELL You've won this round, Hilter, with your werewolf... thing! But we shall meet again! Robertson picks up a calculator-looking device and presses a button. The two evangelists disappear in a Quantum Leap type special effect. LIAM They're gone! HILTER Hmm... Unless I am mistaken, that device they had was a temporal trans-dislocator. SENESTRA Time machine, huh? When do you suppose they went? BIPPO You mean when do you suppose they went! LIAM Mister Hilter, I don't understand how you were able to tame the werewolf. HILTER Tame the werewolf? LIAM When Robertson and Falwell said that they won, you said "Not quite" and then the werewolf busted in and saved the day. How'd you manage that? HILTER Well... that's the damnedest thing. You see, when I said "Not quite" I meant that I had a way to deactivate their Y2K virus but the werewolf busted in before I got a chance to say that. BIPPO So... the werewolf wasn't part of your plan? HILTER No. Just a happy coinky-dink. SENESTRA So the werewolf isn't under your control? HILTER Nope. It's still a mindless killing machine. BIPPO, LIAM, and SENESTRA Ohhhhhhhhhhh... The werewolf leaps at them growling and snarling. BIPPO, LIAM, HILTER, and SENESTRA OH MY GOD!!! Hilter quickly hits the execute key on his laptop and deactivates the Y2K bug. The werewolf turns back into Thad and flattens Liam. THAD Oh, hey guys. What'd I miss? EXT. THE LAS VEGAS SKYLINE The city reverts back to normal. Fires instantly extinguish, toppled buildings rise back up, and planes levetate back into the air and fly away as if nothing happened. EXT. THE LAS VEGAS STRIP Exploded cars return to one piece, Slot machines spit out old ladies back onto their stools, and traffic lights stop shooting lazer beams. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMERCIAL BREAK - I wanna be a Barbi Girl - I want fish and I want liver, Meow Mix, Meow Mix please deliver. - Pukémon! Gotta catch 'em all! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXT. THE ROOF OF CIRCUS, CIRCUS Liam, Thad, Bippo, Mister Hilter, and Senestra are sitting on the roof drinking champagne with the beauty of the newly restored Las Vegas in the background. SENESTRA Well... this has been one New Years I will not forget. THAD Yeah. BIPPO Well, bottoms up! Bippo gets ready to throw back his champagne, but Hilter stops him. HILTER Wait! We have to toast! It's a New Years tradition. THAD Anyone got a toast? LIAM I do. You see, I learned something today... Humans as a species are a cowardly and jumpy lot and there's many in society that take advantage of that for their own good. I guess what I'm trying to say is, we should look foreword to the promises that the future holds and not be afraid of it. [he raises his glass] To the future. EVERYONE ELSE To the future! They toast. DISSOLVE TO EXT. TIMES SQUARE - NEW YORK: JANUARY 31, 2999 In the futuristic new New York there is a gigantic party going on as the ball begins to drop. The camera centers in on a man and, when he turns around, we see that it is DICK CLARK looking just as he did when we last saw him 1000 years ago. DICK CLARK ...and as the final few minutes of the 30th century tick away, all of New New York is awaiting the new millennium with a sense of hope and peace. I truly believe that this will be the dawn of a new age. [a pause] This new age is being brought to you by the planet Zurg: No One Probes You Like We Do and by UPN: For One Thousand Years, the Solar System's Number One Network. Dick Clark hears something over his headset. DICK CLARK WHAT!? [Clark looks at the camera] Uh... this is amazing! I'm told that two men have just appeared under the Times Square ball! We now go there live! EXT. TIMES SQUARE Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are standing under the lowering Times Square Ball. ROBERTSON Jerry! This doesn't look like an hour ago! You said we'd go back an hour and try the Y2K scam again! FALWELL I don't believe it! Our time machine... it's... it's not Y2K compliant! FALWELL and ROBERTSON Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! The Times Square Ball crushes them. Blood drips down onto the crowd of humans, aliens, and robots. CROWD [singing] Should old acquaintants be forgot and never brought to mind. We hope you like this episode, Happy New Year and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD-BYE! FADE OUT THE END ROLL CREDITS
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