♪ (old-school video game music) ♪
- Oh no.
"This game contains scenes of severe violence and gore."
- Can't be any more violent than what's on the evening news.
- "If you do not wish to view them, please close the game now."
Nah, we're good to go.
- Oh no, no, no. (laughing) He looks postal already.
(shrieking in pain) Splat.
"Don't whack your boss with a super power."
- "Don't whack your boss with super power."
- (Finebros) Does this game sound like a relatable struggle?
- Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho. Uh-huh.
But I'm not naming names.
- There's plenty of people I would like to whack.
Do they have to be my boss?
- (Finebros) Go ahead and hit start.
♪ (ragtime piano music) ♪ (boss complains grumpily)
- The boss is yelling, is yelling at this poor kid.
- He's spittin' at him.
This guy doesn't look like he's really wanting to do it.
I know what he really wants to do!
- Oh, my son's bedroom.
Very messy, filled with action-figures.
- (Finebros) To see how this game works, go ahead and click the object
above the cactus on the desk. - This?
- It looks like a book or-- okay.
(lightsaber hums) - Oh, it's a saber.
- It's a lightsaber. I still--oh!
I just cut off his head.
- This is Star War-- oops! (laughing)
- Ah hah! (laughing) That is disgusting.
- Hit him again. (boss shrieks in pain)
He's using the Force.
- Now he's picking him up like Darth Vader would, by the neck.
(boss chokes loudly) Bringing him close.
Oh!
- Oh, well that's just charming.
(blood splatters) - Ugh.
Kid cut the boss in half.
- I thought it was gonna be cute, but then it turned out to be gory.
- It's not too gory.
It's just black and white with the red for the blood.
- Never mess with a Jedi who has a lightsaber nearby.
- It was surprising. Not bad. Kind of funny.
- (Finebros) There are several more items in the room.
Go ahead and see if you can find them all. - Okay, next.
(boss grumbles angrily) - Okay, come on. What's up here?
- Oh boy, he's really screaming at this kid and I want to shut him up.
- I found one. I bet you that's Superman.
- Superman and his cape. Yay!
- Ooh, okay. The Caped Avenger.
- Okay, great. So now he's flying. He's Superman.
- Take a look at this!
(boss shrieks) (Rock screams)
(boisterous laughter)
(boss shrieks) (laughing)
(boss continues screaming) (cracking up)
- He takes him up through the roof, into the atmosphere.
- Superman has left the Earth.
- (chuckling) It is fun.
- He's screaming his head off.
Oh, he's setting on fire as he comes back through the atmosphere.
(wheezy laughter) (flames whoosh)
(laughing) (flames crackle)
(ka-boom!) Oh ho ho ho ho ho!
(ka-boom!) Oh my.
Take down a few buildings while we're at it.
- Left a hole in the ground, and only Super Boy's left, and a shoe.
- Well, that was interesting, but then it got too violent.
- It was funny rather than violent.
- That's pretty good. Let's choose another.
Can we do the next one now?
- Okay, let's go next to-- what else do we have here?
- What else is there here? Here?
- (murmuring) Maybe here. What is it-- oh, here.
- Can it see what this does?
- What is this? I don't even know what it's from.
- I think we got Hulk-type hands here.
(worker screams aggressively) Oh yeah!
- (boss) ...dare you!
(whump!) (boss screams in pain)
- Kid has an anger problem.
- I am SO upset with you, puny boss!
- This child needs some anger control management classes.
- This is probably a really good thing to prevent workplace violence
because you can vent your frustrations in the game.
- Scan... this guy.
Bookends, books, paper.
- Oh, here's something. (page turns)
It looks like a tube of paint, I think.
He's going over to an easel.
Oh no, it's a headband!
♪ (fierce drumming) ♪ Oh, this must be ninja--
oh, he replicated himself.
- He's multiplied himself many times over.
(boss groans)
(loud clatter) (boss shrieks)
(boss sobs)
- Wow! (laughing)
(laughing) - (boss) Oof! Oof! Oof!
- Whackity, whack, whack.
- They're all hitting him! Boy.
I mean, the boss didn't deserve that.
- They're punching the crap out of him.
(boss shrieks)
(fists of fury) - They all ganged up on him--
kind of a not honorable thing to do.
- Oh yes, peace be with you brother. (laughing)
I don't know what that one was.
- (Finebros) That was from a show called Naruto.
- Never heard of it. Sounds so Japanese to me.
- We gotta look for something that would hit him.
- I can't find them. (boss grumbles loudly)
Oh, I found one.
- Ooh, Thor! (page turns)
Thor's hammer!
(hammer slices through air)
(blood splatters) - Oh god.
- Bonk... (groans in disgust)
(bell rings) - Bingoooooo!
No mas heado! Ah, he lost his cabeza!
(laughing)
(hammer slices through air) - Oh, fr-- oh, that's a great one!
Completely exploded his head.
- This guy's got all kinds of cool toys.
- This really is violent. Thank god it's just a game.
- Let's see. Ooh!
- Oh, I think this is Spider-Man's glove.
(boss gasps) - Ooh! (laughing)
(shelf collapses)
- Here comes the web!
- He put it over his mouth to shut him up.
- AH-HAH! He's stuck!
(wet splat)
(easel splinters) (tsks)
- Huh. (blood splatters)
- Oh yeah, there you go.
Hit him with a copy machine. That's pretty good.
- This guy's a ranger! Use all available assets.
- I've had bosses I didn't like.
I'm not sure I wanted to do that to them.
- We'll try an umbrella. No, that didn't work.
- Oh, I think I found something.
- Ah ha. What's that guy?
- He's picking this up. He's gonna play music.
- Okay, so... ♪ (high pitched note) ♪
(thumping footsteps) Is he calling someone with his flute?
- Oh, he's drawing in a dinosaur or something.
♪ (playing flute) ♪ - Oh my god. Who--?
(boss shrieks)
- Ah, Godzilla?
- Godzilla was summoned with a flute?
(Godzilla gulps) I did not know that.
- Oh-ho, Godzilla. I like Godzilla.
There you go, buddy.
A lizard's gotta eat, you know?
- Oh, and he's riding off into the sunset on Godzilla.
- So there's more in here.
- I got that one already. Come on.
- Horsey? Spongebob's up there.
There's gotta be something else in here that can be used as a weapon!
- It looks like a block of some kind.
(thunder rumbles) (boss whimpers)
- Hmm.
- He created a bunch of robots.
- Oh, this reminds me of the Transformer toys.
Did I get it?
(automatic gunfire)
- I think he's been "transformed". (boisterous laughter)
(metallic clanking)
- (laughing) Got him a smart car out of the deal.
- I liked that one. Lots of blood.
- I'm trying to find an area that I haven't been into
that may have something.
- Okay.
(boss grumbles loudly) Shut up! (laughs)
- A couple things I'd like to use on him, but they don't come on.
- Ah! I found one. (page turns)
- Oh, a little tiny ball here with stars on it.
- It looks like a little ball.
(object shatters) - (boss) How dare you!
- It is a little ball.
(worker screams aggressively) - Yeah, whoo!
Electricity!
- He's getting very powerful.
(shocking zap) - AAAAAAH!
(laughing) (boss screams)
- I don't know what it is.
Some kind of ball of lightening and wacko!
(laughing) Oh jeez. (boss shrieks)
- That's neat. I wish had those powers.
(wind whistle softly) - Who does that?
(warbling)
I haven't a clue who that was.
- Boy, that boy becomes strong. Who was that?
- (Finebros) That was a reference to Dragon Ball Z.
- Don't know that. Is Dragon Ball Z a video game?
- (flummoxed) Dragon Ball Z? Not "ballsy" but "Ball Z".
- Dragon Ball-- oh, okay. I think that's a Japanese anime.
(boss grumbles loudly)
- Oh, okay, we got one here. Let's see what this does.
- Ah-hah! Found another mask.
- We got some kind of a monster face mask.
Come here, buddy! I'm talkin' to you!
(cracking up)
(worker screams in rage) - Oh my goodness.
- It was a little tamer than the others.
- That was from Mortal Kombat, I believe.
I played Mortal Kombat before. Here.
- (Finebros) That was Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat.
- Oh, really?
- Oh yeah. That sounds like-- I think I might have played that.
- I think my son might play it, but I don't watch those things with him.
I have one left.
- One left.
- That man, and this guy... here.
- Ooh, ooh, who's this? (page turns)
Someone with claws.
- Oh, he's putting claws in. Oh, this looks like Wolverine.
Oh, this guy's in trouble.
- Oh yeah, we've got the Wolverine.
(scraping blades) - Oh, I know this one!
It's X-Men with the... (blades slice)
...the claws.
(blades slice rapidly) - (boss) Hmm?
(blood splatters) - Aah.
- Slash! Slash! - (boss) Hmm?
- He's gonna fall in piece-- (cracking up)
Oh, that's disgusting.
(blades slice) (imitating blades)
- (boss) Hmm? (blood splatters)
(laughs)
- Wolverine's my favorite.
- Wolverine, yeah.
My wife's in love with that guy. He's very handsome.
- I got all of them.
- (Finebros) Congrats! You've found them all.
- (laughing) Should I be proud of myself?
- I can imagine coming back after having a fight with your boss
and sitting down for a minute and doing one of these.
- These type of things just are not my cup of tea
and... they're sickening.
- Well, I think it's very violent.
I think it's better than going to whack your real boss!
- I'm not a gamer, but that one was fun.
- It would be great if you could put--- I guess you can these days--
the picture of the head of the person in there
and then just pound on it.
That would be really good! (laughing)
(soberly) No, I'm not thinking of my husband.
- (Finebros snickers)
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