- Crush's get handcuffed for 24 hours.
- [Merle] We don't know why they think
we're crush's, though.
- [Aria] Yeah, we don't know why.
- Oh, oh, I wonder why? (laughing)
(smack)
(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Merle.
- Hi there, I'm Aria.
- [Both] Today (laughs)
we're getting handcuffed
- together for
- [Both] 24 hours.
- That's horrible.
- That's a real treat for you, huh?
Getting handcuffed to me for 24 hours.
I know you've been really anticipating
this day a fair bit.
- We've known each other for, like, what five months?
And we're co-workers, we work on the same team together.
Everybody in the office thinks
that we have crushes on each other.
- Everyone in the comments on the videos, too.
We have been in several videos together.
A barrage of comments seem to always flood
these videos shipping the two of us together.
They seem to sense some sort of chemistry.
- Nothing from my end. - I don't know what they're
talking about.
- We are not dating.
- No, we're co-workers, we're also very good friends.
We know each other very well.
- We do have a really great chemistry.
- You know. - Yeah.
- It's never boring.
- But we're not dating.
Dating in the workplace is
not a good idea. - You're gonna go on
and on and on.
I'll tell you why we're not dating.
We're not dating because I wanted to be single.
- You're gonna make it look like
I'm the crazy one here.
No, yes she needed to be single for a while,
and I just don't think dating in the workplace
is a good idea.
- It's unprofessional.
- [Producer] Do you have a crush on each other?
(laughs)
- We're gonna go plant shopping,
'cause Aria needs some plants for his apartment.
Then we're gonna cook a nice vegan meal.
- Maybe watch a movie tonight.
- We both like horror movies.
- I actually have to pick up some stuff
from a fight shop.
Maybe get yourself some hand wraps.
- Good punching gloves.
- Yeah.
- I'm looking forward to kind of seeing Aria
in his day-to-day life.
I'm not looking forward to getting
in his car with him, because he's a terrible driver.
And also, I don't know about the sleeping situation.
Well, it's like handcuffs in a bed,
we've never slept together, that's intense.
- I'm excited for the cooking,
but I'm also dreading it because the fact
that we're handcuffed together,
cooking multiple dishes, that's gonna be quite
a stressful situation.
- The only rule is that we're allowed
to uncuff three times.
I don't wanna see what goes on
in the bathroom with you.
- Honestly, me too.
That might've been a step too far.
That would've really destroyed anything
from potentially happening
at any point. - What are you talking about?
(laughs)
- Have we ever kissed?
We have not kissed. - No.
- I guess let's get handcuffed.
- Be a gentleman, would you, please?
Handcuff me first. - Yes, absolutely.
- Thank you.
- A magical moment.
(clinking)
(laughs)
(beep)
- Well, we broke the other pair,
'cause we're both so strong.
- These are even more heavy duty.
We got a disclaimer.
- There's only one key.
- There's only one key,
and if we lose this key and we call
a locksmith to let us out, they are legally obligated
to inform the police.
And a police officer has to be present
for that moment.
And so, I would really like to not have
a police officer come to either of our places
to observe us getting uncuffed.
- The stakes just went up.
I'll be holding onto the key.
- Yes, you certainly will be.
Let's try this again.
- Jesus, this feels so much more grave.
These aren't breaking.
No, these are not breaking.
- Yeah, they're not breaking.
- Yeah, we're in this now. - Wow.
Yeah.
Let's go.
(laughs)
That's a mic.
We're stuck together, I forgot.
All right. (laughs)
- Come with me.
- Aren't you guys already handcuffed
24 hours a day?
How is this much different?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- After we got handcuffed,
we went out onto the Buzzfeed campus,
got a lot of remarks, caught a lot of eyes.
- Is it fun, are you having so much fun?
- [Merle] I mean, look at Aria's face.
- It's been a challenging 20 minutes.
Crushes get handcuffed for 24 hours.
- [Merle] We don't know why they
think we're crushes, though.
- Yeah, we don't know why.
- Oh, oh.
- Yeah, people were enjoying it
a little too much around the office.
- Yeah, I think they got a kick out of it.
- What an appropriate shirt.
- [Both] Ah.
- [Merle] Looks like somebody was planning ahead.
- Now we're going to the car.
We're gonna have to try and find a way
to get inside the car.
- [Merle] No, you have to get in the passenger side.
- I have to get in the passenger?
Oh, (beep).
- Oh, nice job, Aria.
Wow, he's so nimble.
Oh, okay.
We did it! - Great.
- Then we went plant shopping.
- All right, now we're going into the plant shop.
- The plant shop that I go to often.
He got three plants for his apartment.
Some really easy to take care of,
low maintenance plants.
- Hello.
- I'm trying to hide this handcuff
behind my back, he won't let me.
- Hello.
- [Woman] Hi.
- [Merle] Sorry, you can go ahead.
- [Aria] Yes.
- [Merle] I really hate this.
I'm humiliated.
- And this is like your place of...
- This is normally my place
of rest and relaxation. - [Aria] It's a safe place.
- I think we're gonna get him one of these
Neon Pothos plants.
This is how I know he likes me,
he spent $40 on plants.
(laughs)
This is low-light, as well.
- Hello, hi I'm Aria from Buzzfeed.
- [Merle] Oh my god, Aria, stop.
I'm stuck to him, I'm (beep) stuck to him right now.
(laughs)
But I should also say, he has these outbursts
where he screams that this is his world.
- This is my world!
(upbeat music)
- Or just screams at the top of his lungs.
And normally I can politely step aside.
I actually do enjoy it.
I find it very entertaining and funny.
But when I'm handcuffed to him
then it looks like I'm also crazy.
- The thing is that you mask your crazy
better than I do.
- You don't mask yours at all.
- Exactly.
- [Merle] Aw, look at that.
Three beautiful plants and their new plant owner.
- I'm the plant owner.
Great, but now I have three real plants.
Will they survive a week?
We'll see.
Okay, then next we went to visit my fight shop.
- That's where I punched him in the head.
- Yeah, but we're looking for some hand wraps.
- I like red, aw but yellow is my color.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Do the red, do the red, do the red.
- [Man] Red? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We just want to try some headgear on
if that's all right?
- Maybe he's a masochist, I don't know.
But he was like, "I'm gonna put on this headgear,
" you're gonna put on this glove
"and I want you to punch me as hard as you can."
This is the most excited I've been all day.
- I just wanted to show A, how wonderfully strong I am.
B, I thought it'd be fun.
- How hard can I punch you?
- As hard as you want.
- No, I'm not gonna punch you that hard.
- You got it.
- Okay, okay.
(smack)
- Great quality headgear.
She enjoyed that too much I think.
- Are you okay?
- I'm good, I'm fine.
- (laughs) That felt so good.
How do you feel, are you excited?
- I feel great, yeah.
I'm kind of aroused.
(laughs)
Not really.
- Aria's doing a nice thing now
and he's helping me make a copy of my house key.
- Okay, so now we're on the way
to get this woman her keys.
- Aria's dreams just came true.
We walked into the store and he let out this yelp.
This must feel very romantic to you.
- I'm very supportive of their love
for the holidays, look at those trees.
Well, apparently Merle has lost the keys.
- I don't. (laughs)
I think I just had them a second ago.
- Oh my lord.
- I don't see them.
We're gonna have to call the police
if we can't find these keys.
- You were so responsible up until. (laughs)
- I know.
Look on the ground, we were looking
at the Christmas tress, remember?
- Good, you know what?
This video needed some drama.
- Yeah, this isn't the drama we wanted.
I don't wanna be dealing with the police today.
Aria's actually thrilled at the idea
that we won't be able to take these off.
- I don't wanna see the cops, though, either.
I'm not on great terms with that right now.
- [Merle] Wait, wait, oh.
- [Aria] Oh, there they are, oh my god.
- Jesus Christ.
We made it out.
We don't need to call the police.
That was almost really bad.
- Yeah, yeah.
Well, back to regularly scheduled program.
- Try not to be too disappointed, Aria.
- I really don't like this woman.
- All right, we got the keys.
So, now I'm gonna go to Aria's place
and that was (laughs)
- Great, yeah.
All right, we are back at my place now.
I guess we have to decide where we're gonna
put these plants.
There aren't very many plants in here.
There are no plants in here. - There are no.
There's only one fake plant in here.
Also, I will say being handcuffed to you
in the privacy of your apartment is a lot more
aggressive than out in public.
- Should we put anything in here?
- [Merle] You need things in here.
Although this is a nice room,
it seems very empty without any greenery.
Rank these in the order.
- Okay.
I think I like this one best.
- The snake plant?
- The snake plant, which is weird
cause I hate snakes.
- Yeah, I know.
- They terrify me.
- That being said, we're gonna put that in his room.
This little Swedish ivy could replace
that fake plant over there.
- Where will the fake plant go?
- You could put it in the bathroom,
there's no windows in there.
- Great.
Plants are in place, we got one here on my desk.
The other one was placed here where
the fake plant used to be,
and then the other one is in the bedroom.
- [Merle] Look at it, so cute.
- In the corner, I'm gonna get a table for it.
Great job.
- Yes, did a great job.
Feels a lot homier now.
- Yes.
This is a hand wrap, so that way it cushions your knuckles.
- He's just trying to hold my hand, I think.
- No.
- This is cool.
- A horrible one, we're not gonna look at that one.
- Great, all right.
Oh. (laughs)
We gotta give Aria a nice point,
because I have a very old cat who isn't doing well
and so I don't wanna leave her alone tonight.
So, we're gonna go stay at my place
so she's not lonely.
- Yeah.
On the way there, we're also gonna pick up
groceries for dinner.
- Oh, yeah, so we have to figure out dinner.
- We just got out of a very healthy
- Supermarket.
Didn't role in there, 'cause it was very stressful already
with these damn cuffs.
This is the haul.
- [Merle] Look at that haul.
- [Aria] Look at that.
- [Merle] Soup and pasta and
dessert. - [Aria] A dessert.
- [Merle] Let's do this together.
All right, so I take one side, you take one side.
- Oh (beep). - [Aria] Oh!
- Time to eat, or time to cook.
- (laughs) We're back at Merle's
and I'm trying to figure out how
we're supposed to cook this.
- We haven't had a lick of alcohol.
- We're supposed to make a dinner
and a dessert while handcuffed.
I'm responsible for dessert.
I'm gonna make these beautiful vegan cinnamon rolls.
I don't know how I'm supposed to do stuff
with my hands.
- [Merle] Your hands are still available.
- Yeah, but you're supposed to be cooking
at the same time.
- Well, that's not gonna happen.
- Last night, I really made some terrible cinnamon rolls.
I butchered these vegan cinnamon rolls.
Okay, yes, we're back.
It is about an hour into the cooking process.
- It was time to check on his dough.
- I think I killed my dough.
So, yeah it's not doing too hot, unfortunately.
But I feel bad. - Meanwhile,
I've made dumpling soup, which looks delicious.
Smells good, doesn't it?
(laughing)
- I'm so sad right now.
- [Merle] So, he's gonna roll this out
and then he's gonna put it in here.
And then, we're gonna layer it
with brown sugar and cinnamon, right?
- Yeah.
- We're eating our soup, our dumpling soup.
- Yeah, it's very good, it's very tasty honestly.
The cinnamon rolls are currently in the oven.
- I love horror movies.
- As do I.
- Turns out he also does.
And it's Halloween season,
so we're gonna watch The Orphanage.
Something tells me he's, like, a jumpy person.
(clacking) - [Both] (yells)
(laughing) - Oh, fuck!
- The moment of truth.
- It actually turned out okay.
Wow. - [Merle] Yay!
- [Aria] We got the icing,
so we're just gonna drizzle this on top.
(upbeat music)
- It's actually pretty good.
It's not bad.
- It's not great.
(laughs)
- If you go for the uncooked parts
it's gooey. - You can taste the cinnamon.
- There was something wrong with that dough.
(laughs)
(music box music)
- And we actually only uncuffed twice
at the end of the night.
Well, we uncuffed once to use the restroom each,
and then we then uncuffed later in the night to shower.
- And change.
- After the movie ended, well we stopped the movie actually
because she fell asleep.
And so, we decided to just get ready for bed.
- So, I'm taking this opportunity
'cause Aria doesn't floss.
- Yes, I don't like the blood.
- I don't know if you know this,
but flossing is more important than brushing.
- Is that true?
- Yes, that is true.
(laughs)
- You're not doing it, I'll do it for you.
Give me it.
- No. (laughs)
I'm really scared right now.
- Hold your hand up.
Like this.
(laughs)
- It's very uncomfortable.
- Now do you understand how it's supposed to go?
- Yeah. (laughs)
- What the (beep) are you doing?
(laughs)
- Handcuffed in bed.
- Stay on your side of the bed.
- (laughs) Ditto.
- Yeah, we're just gonna go to sleep.
- Yup.
We're just going to bed. - I'm tired.
- Yeah, I'm tired, too. - I'm very tired.
- Good. (laughs)
- He snores.
- I do snore.
- Goodnight.
- We started separate from each other.
No cuddling.
- No cuddling, it's a small bed.
- It's a small.
- [Aria] It's a small bed.
- And these are close.
- And her bedsheets, they're not very...
- He was cold.
- I was cold.
- [Both] But we didn't cuddle.
- It's morning, we made it through the night.
Nothing happened.
- Nothing happened.
- Now we're gonna...
- Go to work
and take these things off. - Go to work.
- I mean, honestly, this was a very nice 24 hours.
Before we started this, I was worried
about this possibly just making us hate each other.
But if anything, I think it brought us closer together.
We had a lot of good times.
I will say that I enjoy Merle,
because she is very easy to be around.
We always have a good time.
- Aria makes me laugh more than, maybe, anybody.
He's never boring.
- And it's very easy, it's very natural with Merle.
I feel like I can be myself, like truly.
- We know that we can spend prolong periods of time
with each other outside of the office.
Would you call that dating?
Hanging out. - No, it's just two
buddies hanging out.
- [Producer] Do you have a crush on each other?
- Yes. - No, yeah.
(laughs)
Maybe. - You're saying no.
For camera, course not.
Very small crush.
- Minuscule, so minuscule that HR can't
be annoyed about it.
- (laughs) Yeah, you can't get us for this.
- Honestly, I had a great time,
and there is truly no one else
I would rather be handcuffed to than Merle.
- Great, I can get back to my life now.
- This is my world!
(laughs)
This is my world!
("Nutcracker Suite Op.71a")