Banned From CCTV

**Banned From CCTV** is the 36th episode of Season 5 of California City and the 228th episode of the entire series overall. It will air on CCTV Network on September 7, 2022.

## Synopsis

Tommie gains an interest in using twitter to tweet his opinions about things and begins to tweet regularly, He gains little attention until he makes a horribly offensive tweet about Marina Stowers and Summer Bryers' situation in Neopalita and why the country and its government are bad in general before going to bed for the night, in which millions are enraged and begin sending him death threats. While asleep, his phone gets loaded with millions of notifications relating to his tweet, all of them are anger and many of them even death threats. He finds out when he wakes up when his phone still keeps getting notifications, millions have sent death threats and anger towards him, but he is interrupted by a large mob carrying torches and weapons threatening him for his comment. Panicked, Tommie flees, but he finds an even larger mob blocking him from leaving. Tommie goes back inside to delete the tweet and apologize for his comment, but none of them take it as it is too late and the damage had been done, many of them still have screenshots of his tweet and threaten to use them against him.

The tweet then severely impacts his friends and everyone who is associated with him. David is banned from obtaining gas at the gas station by the clerk because of his association with Tommie, and Levar and Travis, who are also there, cut ties with him and begin to treat him like a complete stranger. He tries to tell them that Tommie apologized for the tweet, but the damage had been done, and Levar has screenshots of the tweet on his phone. Lamar leaves to get to CCTV Productions, but Levi, Sean, Dolo, and Ariel angrily start throwing stones at his truck for having ties with Tommie. Lamar explains that he is angry about what Tommie did, but he wants to move on, however they do not buy it as the damage is done and they also have screenshots. Dolo even goes as far as to puncture the right front wheel of his truck to keep him from moving. Eventually, Levar, who is normally Lamar's friend, also goes after him and confronts him about Tommie, stating that he had been warning him and David about him, but ignored. Keith also gets banned from going to the gas station because of his friendship with Tommie.

Levi, Dolo, Sean, and Ariel, along with Cleetus Jr., Levar, Travis, Junichiro, Lapis, and Jared go to Tommie's house and try to attack him. Being unable to take it anymore, Tommie expresses everyone that he has apologized, and he hopes everyone can leave. However, no one buys it and proceeds to destroy his home and attack him. Being left with a difficult choice to make, Lamar and David forcibly cut ties and banish him for life, and the Narrow Alley landowner permanently bans him from the neighborhood. As a result, Tommie proceeds and leaves the country, but even so, the violence does not end, and the mobs also try and attack Millie, forcing her to also flee with Tommie. Despite this however, the hatred still doesn't end, and Lamar, David, and Keith are still forced to deal with death threats from the mobs, and Marina Stowers even walks up to harass the three for having hired him in the first place.

Eventually, Lamar can no longer take the pain and he immediately starts abusing himself and starts doing drugs to the point where he becomes abusive and depressed. Meanwhile, Amelia and Kirin divorce David and Keith for good and treat them like door mats. As a result, David and Keith self-evict themselves and begin drinking. David becomes broke and his CCTV gift shop store closes for good. They are forced to face people harassing them for having hired Tommie, and they have been banned from ever getting a job or even going into many businesses.

Having had enough, Lamar rushes over to Sheeply's house to use his time machine, but he refuses to allow him as he has completely lost trust in him for having hired Tommie in the first place. However, Lamar begs deeply to fix it, to which he agrees to do. The two go back to the day just before Tommie sent the tweet, and together, they stop him from sending the tweet and ask him to discard it completely as it could cause outrage. After having fixed the mistake, they return back to the current day and see that everyone is nice to him and Tommie again and that there are no more rioters. Everyone including his friends are nice to him again, and everyone is still nice to David, Keith, and Tommie.

## Trivia

* Similar to the Family Guy episode The D In Apartment 23, this episode is based on an offensive tweet by Justine Sacco. But unlike in that episode however, Tommie still faces threats even after leaving, and his friends are also continuously harassed even after having cut ties with him. However, the tweet that caused the outrage in this episode is different from the one in Family Guy, as it condemns the country of Neopalita and its government.
* This episode is rated TV-14 instead of the usual TV-PG due to its content.
* The episode's plot was done with permission from Marina Stowers and Summer Bryers, and the former even voices her character in this episode.
* Many of the characters in this episode said that they never want to see Tommie or his friends again, but as with most other episodes however, this is not intended to be canon.
* The rioters in the beginning of the episode are all voiced by both Kirti Mang and Jim Randolph, while the other ones were voiced by either David Burkins, Keith West, or Tommie Del Re himself, the latter of which plays Tommie.
* Unlike in The D In Apartment 23 episode in Family Guy which has a similar plot, Tommie is already aware of the outrage he had caused before he even encounters the mob.
* The character designs of many of the rioters in this episode were recycled from The Not So Great Outdoors.
* This episode was also created to implore viewers to be careful about what they post online, as it can cause global outrage.