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McDonald's Firing

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The setup

At a McDonald's staff meeting, two cocky counter workers assume the layoff axe is coming for them and use the chance to tear into every coworker to their face.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A manager gathers the crew at a struggling McDonald's and warns that sales are down and some people will have to go. Convinced they are the targets, Dana and Niff decide to go out on top and hand out blunt, bizarre farewell insults to each colleague in turn, from a coworker's cream-corn breath to the sad abandoned-doll vibe of fryer cook Carl. The rest of the staff, the new guy included, can barely get a word in while the manager keeps trying to calm things down. When the meeting finally reaches its decision, Dana and Niff turn out to be the top sellers, so the manager fires the mild-mannered Carl instead, who shrugs it off.

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Yeah, Carl, you remind me of a doll no one wants to buy, so they just stop making that doll eventually.

Don't worry about me, easy come, easy go.

ScriptEnglish · 85 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:01

    Gloria

    Okay, all right, guys, staff, meeting, circle up, everybody, let's go. Oh, but, Carl, you stay on the fryer, you know, just in case, okay?

  2. 00:07

    Carl

    You count on me, boss, all right.

  3. 00:09

    Gloria

    Thanks. Oh, unfortunately, this is the kind of meeting I just, I hate. I, I, I warned you guys I had some bad news. Well, sales are down, so we got to make some cutbacks. I'm going to have to let some people go.

  4. 00:21

    Niff

    Oh, yeah, right. We know who you're going to fire.

  5. 00:24

    Dana

    Yeah, we know it's us.

  6. 00:25

    Niff

    You all hate us.

  7. 00:27

    Dana

    And we hate all you.

  8. 00:28

    Gloria

    you guys guys just please let me finish

  9. 00:31

    Niff

    no no cuz if you fire in us then we going out on top like Seinfeld I got a farewell card for all y'all tricks

  10. 00:38

    Dana

    Angie you a jerk you just mean

  11. 00:41

    Niff

    yeah you as mean as a junkyard dog

  12. 00:44

    Dana

    Angie and I wish you was never born into this world

  13. 00:47

    Niff

    you a bitch

  14. 00:49

    Dana

    yeah

  15. 00:49

    Niff

    you're a bitch Angie

  16. 00:51

    Gloria

    okay guys just please just stop

  17. 00:53

    Niff

    no we just getting started

  18. 00:55

    Dana

    Jordan, Brian.

  19. 00:57

    Niff

    Oh, Brian. Every day I wake up and I think, yo, is today the day that I punch that fool Brian until he dies?

  20. 01:05

    Dana

    Brian, your breath smell like cream corn, and you ain't even eat no cream corn today.

  21. 01:11

    Niff

    Ooh, your turn, Kimmy. Ooh, Kimmy.

  22. 01:14

    Dana

    Kimmy, are you always on your period? Big period.

  23. 01:20

    Niff

    Yeah, you should be at the end of a sentence, you huge period.

  24. 01:23

    Dana

    It'd be creeping me out.

  25. 01:24

    Gloria

    Oh, okay, guys, guys, this is inappropriate.

  26. 01:27

    Niff

    I'll tell you what's inappropriate, Andrew. Oh, Andrew, you ain't got nothing behind those eyes. You a sneak.

  27. 01:36

    Dana

    Yeah, you're Andrew, I'm pretty sure you're a serial

  28. 01:42

    Niff

    a real killer. And if you're looking for someone to kill next, might I suggest Nelliot?

  29. 01:48

    Dana

    Oh, Nelliot. Oh, you are a moosehead moron, Nelliot.

  30. 01:53

    Niff

    And by the way, what the hell kind of name is Nelliot?

  31. 01:57

    Nelliot

    Well, your name is Niff.

  32. 01:58

    Niff

    Yeah, it's short for Kenneth, bitch

  33. 02:02

    Gloria

    Okay, okay, guys Get out of here

  34. 02:05

    Dana

    Okay, who's next?

  35. 02:07

    Niff

    Ooh, Don You look like an ape with a bow cut, man I want to knife you in the chest

  36. 02:14

    Dana

    Don, you a thief You stole my heart I loved you

  37. 02:17

    Don

    What? This is the first I've heard of this, Dana I'm married

  38. 02:21

    Dana

    That's on you

  39. 02:22

    Niff

    Yeah, Don, you dropped the ball, Don You dropped the ball

  40. 02:26

    Gloria

    All right, guys, come on, that's enough

  41. 02:28

    Dana

    Six more Beverly don't you even think you're getting off easy Beverly just cuz you still got no power yeah I know you copied those mad libs Beverly ain't nobody that funny no hell no

  42. 02:42

    Niff

    and now let's talk about Seth Bogan for a minute quit talking about how your name sounds like Seth Rogan's bitch it does but that ain't a story it's a story got a beginning a middle and an end that's barely an anecdote

  43. 02:58

    Dana

    yeah

  44. 02:58

    Niff

    Yeah, you a bitch, Seth Bogans!

  45. 03:00

    Dana

    Bitch!

  46. 03:00

    Gloria

    Guys, guys.

  47. 03:01

    Niff

    No, no, we got rights! And if you're gonna fire us, then you gotta hear us out!

  48. 03:06

    Dana

    Hey, new guy! What's your name again?

  49. 03:08

    Randy

    Uh, I'm Randy. I've worked here for six months.

  50. 03:10

    Niff

    Oh, I'm Randy. I've worked here for six months.

  51. 03:12

    Dana

    Yo, this is Randy talking to Randy.

  52. 03:15

    Niff

    A-duh! Ba-da-ba-ba-ba!

  53. 03:18

    Dana

    Go kill yourself!

  54. 03:20

    Randy

    Damn! Damn!

  55. 03:22

    Gloria

    Did you guys rehearse this?

  56. 03:24

    Dana

    Maybe!

  57. 03:26

    Niff

    Ooh, Martha! I never liked you!

  58. 03:28

    Dana

    Guess what? We all know you're a bitch!

  59. 03:30

    Niff

    I know you smoke in the beef fridge.

  60. 03:31

    Dana

    Yeah, people gotta eat that beef, Martha. And by the way, I saw your weird leg, Martha. Bitch look like a cheese doodle.

  61. 03:39

    Niff

    What did you get, burned?

  62. 03:41

    Martha

    Yes.

  63. 03:45

    Dana

    Patrick at?

  64. 03:49

    Gloria

    He called in sick.

  65. 03:50

    Niff

    Get that fool on the phone.

  66. 03:52

    Dana

    You Get a cheaper haircut! sound dumb on the phone.

  67. 04:00

    Speaker 1

    Who is this?

  68. 04:01

    Niff

    Click.

  69. 04:01

    Gloria

    Right, right, you've insulted everyone.

  70. 04:05

    Niff

    Oh, no, no, no, because then there was Carl.

  71. 04:09

    Dana

    Carl, ooh, Carl, hot dog, my ears are ringing.

  72. 04:14

    Niff

    Carl, you are the worst of them all.

  73. 04:17

    Dana

    Yeah, man, you too old to be working at McDonald's, you hefty numbskull.

  74. 04:21

    Niff

    Yeah, Carl, you remind me of a doll no one wants to buy, so they just stop making that doll eventually.

  75. 04:27

    Dana

    Yeah, you a goofy gus, Carl, and no one wants to come to your above-ground pool, so stop asking.

  76. 04:32

    Niff

    You a mushroom pup.

  77. 04:34

    Dana

    You a old boot.

  78. 04:35

    Gloria

    All right, Dana, Nip, I'm not firing you. and you, you're my top sellers and customers love you. I'm firing Carl.

  79. 04:44

    Carl

    Whoa, well, now I feel like an old boot.

  80. 04:47

    Gloria

    I'm sorry, Carl, that is tough. I know you just bought that above-ground pool.

  81. 04:52

    Carl

    Don't worry about me, easy come, easy go.

  82. 04:55

    Gloria

    Oh, such a good guy. All right, guys, good meeting, okay? But those nuggets ain't gonna make themselves.

  83. 05:02

    Gloria

    Yeah, come on, hands in, McDonald's on three. One, two, three.

  84. 05:06

    Dana

    That makes sense, you didn't do that.

  85. 05:08

    Niff

    I don't understand. We said bitch a lot.

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