Dad Betided

(Act II Video 1)

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## Overview

**Dad Betided** is the first video in Act II and the 21st episode of Dad's Life overall. There isn't any vocals in the video, just the song "Oceans of Time" by Melodysheep.

## Plot

The video starts with ambience (included in the song) and text showing "DAD FEELS" and then "ACT II" "PT I - DAD BETIDED". The video then cuts to a shot of the sky, which has another unnamed planet very close by. The camera is shaken like the wind is very strong. It pans down to a sandy desert area, where it shows the camera moving very quickly in a direction. The camera, still shaky, pans around like it's looking at the landscape. It finally centers on where it's moving to, which looks like a white figure next to wet sand or dirt. The camera stops shaking and slows down as it approached, what now appears to be a astronaut lying next to scuffed sand, like the astronaut crashed into the ground. The camera then moves to the right, as a person dressed in black's legs are brought into view. The person walks up to the lying astronaut, and the camera crawls from behind. The music builds up as the astronaut's body is tilted, revealing a man who looks like Dad, but with hair.

They seem unconscious. The camera zooms into the their's face, as the music builds up more.
Suddenly, the person opens their eyes. The camera zooms backwards away from the character, with the person dressed in black nowhere to be seen. The video cuts to an unnamed woman in a house, before cutting again to another female astronaut who is staring at somehting offscreen (these are not the same two people). The camera then cuts to show that they were looking at the other astronaut that is lying on the ground. The video then cuts to looping footage of the male astronaut in the air, falling. After a few loops, the video cuts again, now to the same male astronaut not in spacesuit with the unnamed woman from before in the same house. The video cuts to shaky footage of the female astronaut looking up, and then other shots the male astronaut on the ground, including a shot of his hand. The video now cuts to the same male astronaut, but unconscious in a van. Next to the unconscious astronaut is another man who looks like Dad in casual clothes. The video cuts to the unnamed woman looking at the ground with a wall of flowers behind her, more shaky camera footage of the both astronauts looking up, and an 12-pack of FOOD having one can opened.

More video cuts include the unnamed woman in a suburban area with a lot of foliage, the female astronaut looking offscreen, and the male astronaut indoors looking almost at the camera. The video cuts to more footage of the male astronaut crashed on the desert area, which then cuts to looped footage of an astronaut in the air. It's hard to tell which astronaut this is, but it may look like the unnamed woman. The video cuts yet again to the male astronaut crashed, but now with another astronaut walking away. More cuts of the male astronaut lying on the ground, the male astronaut in casual clothes next to the unnamed woman, the desert sky with the nearby planet, and then two shots of the female astronaut and the unnamed woman abruptly looking at the screen.
The last shot is the inside of the van with the unconscious astronaut in the van, but the man in casual clothes isn't. The van drives away with the astronaut, leaving the man passed-out in the desert-like area.

Credits for the music appears, and then a call to subscribe.

## Trivia

* At 0:24 the text **"01000100"** can be seen, which is binary translating to **"D"**. LINK (text is in the bottom left)