♪ (upbeat video game music) ♪
- "Tattletail"? I have no idea what this is.
- The font is super happy, but that doesn't look happy at all.
- I don't like the security camera look.
That usually means something's gonna pop up at me.
- I've seen a few gameplays of it. It looked really scary.
- (FBE) We're gonna give you one chance
to see if you can make it through the first four nights
of Tattletail alive. - Okay, alive.
- I'm really good at scary games.
But I hate playing them, because I get jumpscared a lot.
- Let's do it.
- This is so reminiscent of being a kid in the '90s
and putting in VHS tapes. (giggles)
Oh, 1998.
- 1998. I was in first grade.
Oh, this is just like my room!
"Open your Christmas presents early."
That's a first. This is great.
- I'm gonna get out of the room.
- (gasps)
Christmas tree.
- Where are the presents? They're usually--
Yo, where's Santa? Where you at?
- I celebrate Hanukkah.
So I don't even know where the presents are supposed to be.
- If I were a Christmas present, where would I be?
- "Hold Shift to run." Oh, it makes noise. Okay.
So obviously something's gonna be chasing us.
- (sulkily) We gotta go in the basement. Fuh!
- I'm tense right now, bro. I'm tense.
- "Hint: watch the yellow icon on the top right
to see where you're making noise."
- Okay, that's that I'm making noise?
So, like, the killer's gonna find me?
- Where's my Christmas presents?
Mm, there's a microwave.
That's just what I wanted. Can I go now?
- Where them presents at?
They really don't want me to find these.
- Where's the present-- where are the presents at?
Oh, I found them.
- I'm gonna get in trouble.
- Oh! It's-- oh.
Is that like a Furby? I hate Furbies.
- "Talking Tattletail." I don't know.
You don't look creepy at all.
- This is like a demonic Furby.
- This is just like a devil Furby. You could already tell.
- (Tattletail) Playtime for me! - (frightened gasp)
Shut up!
- (Tattletail) Me Tattletail. - (screams) No!
- (Tattletail) Me love you. - Aw, I love you too for now.
Now shh.
- I don't want it. Give it back.
- "He really eats. Grab some food from the upstairs fridge."
- (Tattletail) Give me a treat. - Yes, I know.
I know you want to eat.
- (Tattletail) Give me a treat. - Aah. Okay, okay.
I'll give you a treat.
- Let's keep it down. Let's keep the love just between us.
- Bro, shut up!
- (Tattletail) Give me a treat. - Shut up! Shut up!
- Upstairs fridge. (frantically) Where's the fridge?
Why am I so freaked out?
- (Tattletail) ...a treat. - Come on!
- (Tattletail) Give me a treat. - Don't eat me.
- (Tattletail) Hehehehehe. - Oh, my god.
- "Use the brush in the living room to clean Tattletail."
- This is just like a Furby.
- It's like a Tamagotchi, you know?
You're just taking care of it.
- All right. - (Tattletail) Hehehehehe.
- He's really needy for a toy.
- "Go back downstairs in the box"?
- You want to sleep.
- Bro, me really scared right now. Oh my god.
♪ (eerie chime) ♪
- What was that?
- (Tattletail) It's dark. - Yeah. It's okay.
You're gonna go in a box. You'll be fine.
- Okay, you're back in their house.
- (Tattletail) Tattletail go home. - Can I just put it back
in the box?
- Wrap it up! Bye!
- Go to bed! Go to bed!
- Man, I really don't want a Furby this year.
- Where are the parents of this kid?
Why are they letting him run around the house
without any supervision?
(phone ringing) - Oh, I hear 'em.
Oh, I'm not picking that up.
- "Don't answer the phone." Don't need to tell me twice.
(warble)
(relieved) Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
(falsetto) I don't like this game at all!
- "December 21, 1998, four days before Christmas."
- Why do I got to investigate the clunking noise?
- Probably in the basement,
'cause that's where everything scary is.
- Why would a kid go back to playing this loud-ass toy?
It's like he wants to get in trouble.
- Clunking noise? Clunkity-clunk-clunk.
- That sounds like a washing machine.
- It's getting louder. We're getting somewhere.
Where-- oh, okay.
(washing machine rumbling, rattling)
Those pesky washing machines. - (Tattletail) Hehehe.
- How'd he get out?
- "Please charge."
- He's just as annoying as Furbies were.
- Charging station's over here. All right.
- (Tattletail) ♪ La la la la la la ♪ - Got you! I'm--
shut the [bleep] up!
- I should've just let him die.
- "Let's have some fun. Find a vase in the basement."
- I don't want to play with you, man.
Let's cut this play date short.
- We're heeere.
No, I'm going the same w-- oh, there it is. Found it.
- (Tattletail) Tattletail, that's me.
- (gasps) No!
♪ (resonating chord) ♪
- Da [bleep]? Tattletail?
- (Tattletail) That's me. - Is that a flashlight? Yes, it is.
- (FBE) Right-click to charge the light. - Right-click?
(beeping, Tattletail exclaims)
- "Oh no"? What's the "oh no" bullshit? What's this task?
- Aw, this game just got scary, man. I hate this.
- What the [bleep] is that?
- Aah! (calms down) Okay.
(chuckles) That was too much.
- Wrap Tattletail back up.
- (Tattletail) Tattletail go night-night.
- (imitating) Yes, you do.
- Okay.
- It's getting intense. (laughs)
- "Three days before Christmas."
- Let's go. Let's get this.
- "Grab flashlight." Yes.
Shake that way up.
- "Investigate the grinding noise."
(faint rattling) - Oh, that sounds awful.
- To the basement, where all the kids have fun.
- This is so much scarier than the other night.
- Sounds like... gears?
- Oh. What's over here?
It's getting bigger?!
- The hell is this?
(warble)
♪ (light orchestral music) ♪ - Aah. It's very diabolic.
- This is [bleep]-- no!
- That's Tattletail's mom!
"Find Tattletail upstairs."
- Tattletail, where are you?
- I'm getting too freaked out to even, like, try to run.
- What are you doing, man?
(Tattletail laughs creepily)
Come on.
- (Tattletail) Show me Mama. - Okay, I'll bring you to your mom.
- (Tattletail) Show me Mama. - (testily) I'm gonna!
- If only I remembered where Mama was.
- She was, like, at a door or somewhere.
- Mama's over here.
- (Tattletail) Where's Mama? - Where-- (gasps) where did she go?
- Oh no, Mom!
- Mama's fucking mad at me
for taking Tattletail out and playing with him.
- You gotta wrap him back up.
- Bye, Tattletail, bye.
(warbling)
(flashlight rattles) - I'm running. [Bleep] this.
- "Clean up Tattletail's mess."
- I don't care if I make noise at this point.
I don't think it matters.
(electricity crackles) Wait, what?
(electricity crackles) - (gasps)
"Mama makes a grinding noise when she's nearby."
- I want to breathe.
- (sucks air, groans deeply)
- Aaah. Is that Mama?
- I try to bring your kid to you, and you went away.
- (whimpering) This is freaking me out.
(phone ringing)
(unsettling warble)
- (screams heartily)
[Bleep]! Ugh!
I HATE these games, bro. I HATE this stuff.
Why do you guys make me do this?
- Gosh. This is the worst game invented.
All right, gonna clean up your mess.
- (relieved) Hoo!
- (nervously) She's so scary!
- This is night four. Is this the last one?
(words clacking on screen)
"Investigate the chattering coming from outside."
- Oh, the door's open.
- This is what it's all about. They build up.
♪ (Tattletail singing a ditty) ♪ - God, this is the most
annoying toy ever.
- (affectionately) Oh, another Furby.
- Hey, Tattletail made a friend!
- Is that his girlfriend? (warble)
- (Tattletail, loud voice) Me loves you! - Aah!
- (Tattletail) Let's play a game! - Let's not.
"Hide and seek. Touch the friend to start the game."
- Play hide and seek. - (Tattletail) Oh, hehe.
- "Survive for 30 seconds while Tattletail's--" oh. Oh.
(flashlight rattles) Oh, he just, like, vanished.
Survive what? Mom?
- Oh god.
- I'm gonna have to feed him soon.
- "No peeking."
(loud, unsettling warble) Aah! Okay.
- (Mama, creepy singsong) Mama will look out for you.
- Hi, Mom. She's gone.
Aah! (resonating chord)
(whimpers)
I'm so done with it.
- (Tattletail) Aah! - Shut up, Tattletail!
(rapid beeping) [Bleep]! Shit! Run!
(ominous music subsides)
"Hiding upstairs. Find him."
- (Tattletail) Give me a treat.
(low warble)
Hehehehehehehe.
- Look, now I have to groom him.
- (Tattletail) ...hiding.
- I have to hurry up before the battery goes down.
- Okay, heard you coming from this way.
- I hear you! I just can't find you!
(flashlight rattles)
All right, I'll check a different room.
- Are you hiding in my room? Yeah, you are.
- (Tattletail) ...hiding. - Stupid.
- (Tattletail) You found me.
- That's creepy.
(Tattletail warbles, low-pitched)
- Can we not play anymore?
(words clacking) No-ho-ho-ho.
- (Tattletail) No peeking.
- One and a half minutes while Tattletail's friend hides."
- (Tattletail, muffled) Hi, Mama.
- No, don't say that. Do n-- - (Tattletail) ...bedroom.
- He ratted me out!
- I'm not good at this.
- [Bleep], I have to feed you.
- (Tattletail) Give me a treat.
- Shut up before you make noise.
(flashlight rattles)
(startling warble) - (shrieks) Oh my god.
♪ (horrifying music) ♪
Oh my god, oh my god.
- Where is-- ♪ (resonating chord) ♪
(faint voice)
- Oh! D'oh my gosh!
Aah! I don't want to play.
(beeping) - Stop!
♪ (music intensifying) ♪
I don't even care that I'm in the basement anymore.
(flashlight rattles)
(Tattletail chuckling)
Hell yeah.
- There you are, you little shit.
- Oh, you're where Mama was.
- (Tattletail) You found me.
- All right, I don't want to play again.
- "Grab the VHS."
- "Play the VHS. Bring it to your bedroom TV."
- All right, let's get up there.
- ♪ Da da da ♪
Yeah, let's play a game.
- Now it's like Five Night at Freddy's.
"Tattletail."
- This looks like a bad infomercial.
♪ (upbeat jingle) ♪
(laughs)
- Oh god. - ♪ Tattletail ♪
- (Tattletail) Tattletail, that's me. - This is a commercial.
- Oh. (gasps)
- (Tattletail) ...me. - What was that?
What is that? What is that?
What the?
There was dead people.
- (FBE) You officially survived four nights.
- Oh my god. I don't know how.
- I survived four nights.
- Woo-hoo!
I don't want to wake up. No, no, no, no, that's okay.
You can't make me.
- Thanks for watching us relive childhood trauma
on the React channel.
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- See you-- (ominous laughter)
Oh my...
Was that real?
- Hey, everybody. Derek here, one of the React channel producers.
And I know what all my coworkers are getting for presents.
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