Second floor common room- Thursday night

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Feeling particularly social today, Stacey had gone into the common room and made popcorn. She'd even made sure there was moddable popcorn seasoning available in case anyone else wanted some, and she could even put some on hers and not have to worry about it. Go Team Diabetes!

With snacks achieved, she found a seat and turned on the TV, and found that the channel was still on those same orange people from class. And when she went to change the channel... the batteries wouldn't work in the remote.

"...This is not funny," she decided, hitting the buttons on the remote again in case it decided to work this time.


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Freddie wandered into the common room with his PearPad in hand. He raised an eyebrow when he saw what was on the TV.

"This is that New Jersey show, right? And sadly not them on Celebrities Underwater?" Freddie said.

Celebrities Underwater was his favorite weird reality show.

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"Yeah, that's..." Stacey paused and looked up from the remote to him. "Celebrities Underwater?"

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"You know, the show where David Schwimmer almost drowned?" Freddie said. "I thought it would go away after that but I guess that was just really good for ratings. I heard Axl Rose is going to be on the new season."

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"I have never heard of that," she said, a little concerned he was making this up. "But it has to be better than this?"

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"I think so," Freddie said. "I've seen both, but I've only ever gone out of my way to watch Underwater. The best season was the one with Vanilla Ice. He's got surprising lung capacity."

He sat down and pressed the screen of his PearPad a few times. "I could try to pull up some clips on SplashFace if you want?"

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"Are you making up words?" Stacey asked.

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"No?" Freddie said, looking slightly confused. "Wait, are you from a time, like, pre-internet? Do I need to explain that first?"

He'd gotten a little more adjusted to that sort of thing in his time here at Fandom.

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Only technically. Sort of.

"No, I have the Internet. I've just never heard of anything you're talking about," she said. "What's a SplashFace?"

To her it sort of sounded like a facial cleanser.

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"It's a site that lets people put up videos," Freddie said. "Whether it's talent show auditions from their school or their cat doing something weird or just people talking to their webcam. It's pretty big where I come from. Almost as big as Zaplook."

Ah, Freddie's universe. A world without Apple, Google, or YouTube...

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Matt decided to take a break from his studies and following the smell of popcorn led him to the second floor.

"Hi," he called out as he walked into the room using his cane to guide him. "Who's here?"

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"Stacey," she replied with a smile. Which, okay fine, he couldn't see. Not the point. "Hi there."

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"I'm Matt," he said returning the smile that he couldn't see. "Do I smell popcorn and-"

He paused a second a tilted his head to listen. "What in the world is on TV?"

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"That reality show with the orange people," she frowned, picking up the remote again. "I think the remote's broken, I can't get it off."

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"Orange people?" Matt asked. "Did they turn orange before or after they lost all their common sense?"

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Stacey paused. "I'm not sure which happened first, really..." she said. "I'm sure they go hand in hand somehow."

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"Then I'm just going to blame genetics," Matt joked. "Have you tried changing the channel at the set itself?"

The he cracked another grin? "Or is it just too far away from the couch?"

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"I," she said with a smile, "am sometimes lazy."

Besides, she used to have to change the channel by getting up and who wanted to go back to those days?

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"We could try throwing things at the TV and see if we get lucky," Matt suggested/joked. "Or I could try and poke it with my cane."

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"I'm Freddie," Freddie said, unhelpfully waving in greeting. "And I'm here. I also didn't choose the TV show, I just want to make that clear right now."

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"I'll excuse you from any blame then," Matt joked. "I'm Matt Murdock."

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"Cool," Freddie said. "I don't think I've seen you around before so, just started this month, I'm guessing?"

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"Yep. I'm a newbie," Matt admitted. "So far I've found the place fairly strange. So are you an alien? Most people I've met are aliens, know an alien or tasered and alien."

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"Well that depends," Freddie said, getting his nerd on. "Because if you're an alien, that would mean I'm an alien to you. So it's sort of a relative thing. But I'm from Earth. Seattle, if you want specifics."

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"Nope. Just a New Yorker," Matt said shaking his head. "I think you might be the first normal guy I've met here. And I hope you realize I think that's a good thing."

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"Hey, I think of it as a good thing too," Freddie said. "I mean, it would be cool to be an alien or move stuff with my mind, but I like just being a guy. I mean, I'm sort of internet famous, I guess, but that's no big thing."

Freddie Benson used 'humble-brag'! It was... not very effective.