Power Company Test Prank
7:01A man is asked to perform a series of ridiculous tests by the power company to avoid a shutdown.
Transcript
207 linesHello.
Hello.
I'm trying to reach a uh Quincy, please.
This is Hey, how are you?
My name is Maurice Maurice calling you from the power company.
How are you doing today?
I'm all right.
What's up?
Well, listen, we're doing some testing in your neighborhood.
We're trying to make sure we don't have to actually shut the power down out there.
And uh we're we're calling around to uh quite a few people in your neighborhood running some tests on individual homes and making sure the uh electricity is running correctly.
Um can I get you to do a few things for me and see if uh and the and then the quicker we get through with this, sir, and it's possible we won't have to turn your power off at all.
I know you don't want us to have to come out and turn power off, and you got stuff in your refrigerator that can spoil and things like that.
So we want to try to get this done, and hopefully the power would be with the test that we run, it'll be it'll it'll run correctly and we won't have to do anything, okay?
I don't know nothing about no electricity though, you know what I'm saying?
So no no, I understand that.
Don't worry about that.
All right.
Uh here's what I need you to do.
Now, how big is your house?
What do you how many bedrooms you got?
Four bedrooms.
Four bedrooms.
Now, you have upstairs, downstairs?
It's two stores.
Okay.
All right.
So here's what we need to do.
Um if you can't take long though, right?
I gotta because I'm in a hurry, man.
I ain't gonna have a lot of time.
No, no, no.
This this this this this won't take long at all, sir.
Can I get you to take your breaker and shut down everything upstairs?
And we're gonna run a test on the stuff downstairs right now.
It'll be real quick.
All right.
Just shut just shut everything off.
I want you to keep the downstairs open and keep that so we can so we can run our test on this thing.
All right, everything's shut.
Everything's down.
Okay, you you turned off upstairs.
I just turned off all the switches.
Okay.
Here's what I need you to do.
I need you to uh turn on your television and then turn it off.
Downstairs?
Downstairs.
How many TVs you got downstairs?
I got two TVs downstairs.
Let's turn them both on.
Hell.
Just turn them on.
Yeah, just turn them on.
You got them on?
I got one off.
Let's try to turn that other one on.
All right, they both on.
Okay, now you got a microwave in your kitchen?
Yeah, I got a microwave.
Okay, turn that on.
It's already on, man.
I can see the lights on.
It's got the clock on it.
That's got that double H run.
Thing that's going through there, and it's a whole different type of current.
I just want to know about what you're talking about, but I gotta get to work, man.
So the microwave's on, it's running.
No, no, no.
I want you to actually turn it on.
I want you to actually push like a minute or two on that thing.
What's that gonna do with anything, man?
Come on now.
I mean, what I gotta do.
No, this is a test, sir.
What I don't want to have to do is come out there and turn your power off.
And I don't want to do that.
You got a lot of food in your fridge, I'm sure, right?
All right, all right.
Look, it's on.
Microwave's on, TV's on.
Okay.
Now, open your refrigerator.
The electricity works downstairs.
Okay, but listen now, I know, but what we gotta do is we gotta make sure that this stuff isn't overpowered.
Now, can you open your refrigerator?
Yeah, yeah, man.
Do you see the uh button that that uh actually has I mean you can turn those you can push it and the light will go out.
You know what I'm talking about?
Come on, man.
You ain't got nobody to just be able to check something outside, man.
I mean, I'm in the fridge.
I I understand, but push that button five times for me and see what it does.
The the what the the light button?
Yeah, push that light button five times.
Come on, man.
Yeah, it's off and on, man.
There's electric it ain't nothing wrong with the refrigerator.
Refrigerator is plugged in, man.
Okay.
Now here's what I want you to do.
Right there, uh if you're in the kitchen, turn your sink on for me.
Turn the sink on?
What they gotta do with electricity, man.
See, that's a nitro current.
That's a nitro current.
You wouldn't understand that, but I need you to turn that on for me, too.
Just turn it on full blast.
Got it on?
I got it on.
Okay, now go in your master bedroom.
I can turn it off.
No, let that water run.
Go in your master bedroom and go in the bath for me.
I appreciate you helping me out on this one.
Man, come on, man.
Quincy, I appreciate that.
I'm in a hurry.
I mean, everything it's everything's working.
I'm in the I'm in the bath.
What's up?
Okay.
Flush that toilet for me, Quincy.
Say what?
Flush that toilet for me.
Flush the toilet.
Yeah, flush that toilet.
It ain't even electrical.
What it is, it's a it's a it's an aqua book.
You need to get somebody.
Um okay.
I'm gonna push the toilet.
It ain't no electrical.
Right, I understand that.
You know, see what it is.
This is an aqua boogie current that flows through that water.
Fl flush that thing for me one time.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
Okay.
Alright.
Toilet works, man.
You ain't got nobody in the area that could come out here and just check this out, man.
Quincy, I'm trying my best not to come out and and and and and and turn your power off.
And I know you got somewhere to go, man.
You supposed to be making sure the power stay on.
Right, I understand that.
Now, do you have Quincy?
Do you have a blender?
Yeah, I got a blender, man.
I got a blender, I got a TV, I got a refrigerator, and they all work.
The toilet works, everything works.
Alright, what I want you to do is get this blender.
And well, just throw you a few cues of ice or something in there and turn that thing on for me.
Come on, man.
We're almost done.
I got you get to work, man.
Just work with me, Quincy.
I appreciate it, man.
This is just the blender.
Come on, man.
This is bull.
Yeah, that's that isometric current.
You need to check the next house.
You don't have no problems with no smoothies or nothing in that thing, do you?
You see this, man.
What the hell they got to do with anything, man?
I gotta get to work.
I understand.
Somebody come out here or do this, because I need to get to my job.
And I and I understand that, Quint.
Why I can just call and have people go through the damn house playing scavenger hunt.
I gotta get to work.
Okay.
Now listen, Quincy.
Well one last thing.
Are you able to shut that breaker, put that breaker back on, and then shut off downstairs and then go upstairs and check some stuff for me?
Shut up what?
Shut off the breaker downstairs.
Go ahead and turn it on.
I'm not shutting off no breaker downstairs.
I shut off the one upstairs.
We didn't turn on every damn thing down here.
You didn't have me.
I got the blender.
I didn't turn on the microwave, the refrigerator.
Come on, man.
Flushing the toilets and s I gotta get to work.
Quincy, I need you to lose this attitude you got.
I need you to get somebody down here to do the my electricity in my house work.
It worked for you, call me.
The only thing ain't work is my ain't at work because I'm here doing This bull playing off and all.
Get somebody in here.
This works.
Now don't piss me off and make me turn it all the way off.
You don't my sh work.
And when I get back from work, my s still should be on.
I got one more thing I need to say to you, Queen.
It better be the last thing.
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.
You just got pranked by your sister Gail.
Gail better be in a witness protection program, man.
Let me turn this one off, man.
Hey man, let me ask you something, man.
What is the baddest?
I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land.
That's gotta be the Steve Harvey morning show.