This episode of The Callective, broadcast on April 26th, 2025, presents a live session of prank calls, primarily targeting hotels and various businesses, characterised by their absurd, disruptive, and often explicit nature. The show is hosted by RBCP, who, along with other participants, engages in the calls and provides running commentary for the audience.

Show Structure and Guiding Principles: The show operates with specific rules for its callers, mandating no slurs, no violence, and no police involvement. Callers are expected to keep their microphones muted when not speaking and to use text chat for all other conversations. A frequently mentioned, though often disregarded, rule is to keep prank calls under 30 seconds, aiming for rapid comedic impact. Callers are also provided with a specific line to use if they need to reveal the prank: "This is you're call from 101.1 the butt and you just got butts slammed". The hosts acknowledge that calls don't always succeed, as the recipient is an "improv thing where the other party is a complete variable".

Common Themes and Types of Interactions: The episode features a strong emphasis on hotel-themed prank calls, where callers concoct a variety of bizarre and uncomfortable situations:

• Explicit and Bodily Function References: Callers often introduce highly graphic or uncomfortable scenarios. Examples include asking for a "comrag" for "wanking", claiming their "foreskin got caught in the door", describing "percussive diarrhea", or even stating an intention to climb a building and "show my wife my tits".

• Absurd Room-Related Issues: Pranksters invent outlandish problems within their hotel rooms, such as being "trapped under the bed" with a "hand stuck in the toilet" and a "pile of leaves". Other scenarios include ripping a "big hole in the ceiling" while "playing Spider-Man" with suction cups, clogging a bathtub with "ketchup and corn dogs" for an anniversary celebration, or having a toilet overflowing due to "sawdust" and "corn starch".

• Challenges to Hotel Security and Rules: Callers frequently claim to be in restricted areas, like the "electrical room," asking about specific switches, or announcing they are in the "employees only room" and feeling "discriminated against," leading to a threat of police involvement. One caller threatens to "drill a small hole through the window" for an antenna. Another claims to have found a "master key" and used it to enter other guests' rooms, resulting in accidental damage while their "girlfriend" is drunk.

• Lost or Stolen Items: Prank calls involve reporting missing items with unusual descriptions, such as a "wireless listening device magnetically hooked up underneath the lip of the counter", a "fenic fox" that went missing during a "goon sesh", or a stolen "water bottle" attributed to actor Andy Dick.

• Complaint-Based Pranks: Some calls initiate with absurd complaints, like an "ugly pizza" or a hotel parking spot being taken. A memorable instance involves feeding geese nachos, despite a warning sign, leading to them "chasing my daughter".

Beyond hotels, the episode features calls related to selling and buying unusual items:

• Callers contact individuals selling items such as recliners, lawnmowers, cast iron tubs, and "meat variety of baby chicks". These interactions often lead to confusing discussions about pricing, remote delivery (e.g., to Australia), or bizarre intentions for the items, such as "smashing" a horse garden tiller for a rap video.

Interaction Dynamics and Memorable Moments:

• Caller Absurdity and Persistence: The pranksters consistently maintain their bizarre narratives, often refusing to provide standard information like room numbers, which causes increasing confusion for recipients. Callers also use fake names like "Frank Catz" and "Justin Cider".

• Recipient Confusion and Frustration: The most common reactions from call recipients are confusion, politeness, and attempts to follow standard procedures (e.g., asking for a room number). This often escalates into frustration, explicit annoyance, or quick disconnections.

• Automated Systems and Hold Times: Many calls, particularly to businesses like Domino's or larger hotels, are met with extensive automated menus and long hold times, sometimes preventing the prank from even beginning or being effective. This often frustrates the pranksters and generates running commentary from the hosts.

• Meta-Pranks and Audience Interaction: The show frequently features meta-commentary from hosts and callers about the rules, the success or failure of pranks, and real-time reactions to the calls. There's a recurring joke about poor phone audio quality, jokingly attributed to a "tin can and string".

• Coordinated Pranks: A notable segment involves a coordinated "Andy Dick" prank, where multiple callers contact the same hotel sequentially, each reporting a different absurd behaviour attributed to the actor. The hosts observe that the "magic number is three" before the target catches on to the collective prank.

• Technical Issues and Sound Effects: Callers sometimes use sound effects (e.g., overflowing water, burps) to enhance the prank's realism or comedic effect. The hosts also manage their own audio and connection challenges during the show.

The episode provides an immersive experience into the world of live prank calling, demonstrating the callers' inventive approaches to turning ordinary customer service interactions into an unpredictable, humorous, and often cringeworthy improv show. It's like watching a comedy troupe's live performance, where the unsuspecting call recipient is the unwitting straight man to the escalating absurdity.