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 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.
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]