IWAY Cookies (Episode)

*This article is about the episode. If you're looking for the food, see IWAY Cookies (Food).*

## IWAY Cookies

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"Blue Screen of Death"

**IWAY Cookies** is the third episode of the first series of Microsoft Sam's Misadventure Flavoured Taco. It released on the 21st of October 2022.

## Synopsis

Microsoft Sam enters a competition to win a lifetime supply of IWAY Cookies. However, the actual prize isn't what it seems to be...

## Plot

### Cold open

Microsoft Sam is seen reading about the day he won a million pounds, which he spent on tacos. He then walks down the stairs and says that it "always feels good to get your grubby meat hooks on prizes and rewards" while also claiming that he is a glutton for it.

He is then seen putting a film reel in a movie projector and says that the video is based on that experience, but only can show it "to those who have won the International Lucky Viewer Lottery". However he put it on anyway when he says that they picked you. The main episode then starts.

### Main episode

Sam wakes up and gets out of bed, he then sees Microsoft Mike who was watching TV until an advert for a prize draw for a chance to win a lifetime supply of IWAY Cookies is seen. Sam is excited about this and goes straight to the phone to enter it. Radar Overseer Scotty comes in and asks Sam who he was talking to, and Sam tells him he entered the prize draw. Scotty, at first, is excited because he thinks Sam entered the competition to win three million baloney sandwiches, but is then saddened when Sam tells him that wasn't what he entered.

Microsoft Mary is also briefly excited for Sam for entering the prize draw, until Mike and Sam tell her what the prize is. Mary, confused, asks Sam about there being "like, a thousand of them in the cupboards?" (like with Mike earlier after watching the advert), but Sam decides to let them both have all of them, much to their excitement.

The next day, Sam receives an email stating that he won the competition, and that his prize will arrive tomorrow afternoon. Sam then tells the other two about the good news before having a few tacos to "keep him going" and then "sleeping off the entire day until tomorrow comes". As he leaves off, Scotty comes in and questions why nobody will sign him up for the competition to win three million baloney sandwiches, perplexing Mike and Mary.

The next day, Sam excitedly waits by the front door for his prize to come. However, after hours of waiting, it does not arrive. Mary is saddened for Sam that he has to put up with such a long wait and wonders if the delivery was held up by traffic, but hopes it'll arrive soon. She then goes off to bed.

Meanwhile, Scotty sneaks into Sam's room and notices his computer is still on, displaying the email from earlier. He then notices a typo in one of the sentences and begins to panic, because Sam hasn't won the prize after all, since it was actually a scam.

Back with Sam, the doorbell finally rings, and he, excitedly, gets up from the floor and opens it. The IWAY Cookie Giveaway Announcer (as heard in the advert) apologizes to Sam for making him wait "all day and night" and gives him a bottle of air (which was an additional free gift shown on the advert if viewers called within the next 1000ms). However, as soon as they start saying goodbye, Sam is confused and wonders what happened to his lifetime supply of IWAY Cookies. And as it turns out, the Giveaway Announcer reveals her true colours and reveals to Sam that it was indeed, a scam all along. She then tells the viewers to "never trust an advert" before running off. Sam, devastated, yells "noooooooooo curse you!" at her.

## Appearances

* Microsoft Sam
* Microsoft Mike
* IWAY Cookie Giveaway Announcer
* Phone Number Announcer
* Radar Overseer Scotty
* Microsoft Mary

## Reception

The episode gained 27 views during its first week since it was published.

## Trivia

* The episode title is a reference to the snack "IWAY Cookies" that appears throughout the show.
* Sam waits 691 minutes for his IWAY Cookies to be delivered, which is 11 hours and 31 minutes (almost half a day).
* As Scotty notices in the email, typos are commonly seen in scam and phishing emails.