I enjoy seeing mask meltdown videos getting a fresh look in 2023. Two main reasons. One, it's a reminder of how insane some people got. And b) this was the content that got us through the more monotonous parts of the pandemic. Of the eighteen months plus fifteen days to flatten the curve, we're talking months five through twelve. The funny meltdowns. Nothing Australian.

This video is easily in my top three. Becky having a nutty in an elevator is up there. The yuppie flipping out in the pizza place is another. Dorm Room Derp rounds out the trilogy. Usual viral video disclaimers apply. Allow for missing context, and so on.

In fairness, you could hear the girl saying something about the way she's being treated. Hence the missing context. There is a chance the father is in the right. But in my experience, the person obsessed with wearing the mask never is.

I love the fact that it's the "daughter's roommate's boyfriend." That's close as you're going to get to a real-life best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors due to lack of oxygen from wearing a mask last night.

Then you have the dad — who sounds like if an Asian comedian was making fun of a bad stereotype of an Asian father — yelling at the boyfriend to "go back to his country." Like, dude, really? Really. First of all, if we're playing woke bingo, that comment makes the dad the one committing hate speech. But out of the three voices we hear, only one of them sounds like he has a former country to go back to. And it's not my dude with the dreadlocks.

My dude, who scores points for his stunning self-control in the matter. If you're my girlfriend's father disrespecting me like that, you get a free pass this one time. If you're my girlfriend's roommate's father? Your ass is getting dropped and this video is turning into a dramatic interpretation of a Dave Chappelle joke.

The dad, who is afraid of droplets, getting that close to the dude's face is only the third funniest part of this video. I give the whole clip a 7.5.

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