Two friends try various creative ways to sneak into a movie theater without tickets. Their methods include hiding under a giant coat, pretending to be a famous NBA player, dressing up as movie characters, calling the theater to distract the ticket taker, using a kazoo to trade for tickets, confusing the ticket taker with deep questions, working as theater maintenance, hypnotizing the ticket taker, and even making one of them a ventriloquist puppet. Eventually, they successfully sneak into the theater.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. A person forgot their ticket to the movie theater.
2. The person's friend had an idea to sneak them in by hiding under a giant coat.
3. The friend pretended to be Juan Bruce and claimed to be a famous NBA player to get into the movie theater.
4. The ticket collector asked for a high-five in exchange for letting Juan Bruce and his friend in.
5. The friend gave the ticket collector a high-five, and they were allowed to enter the movie theater.
6. The movie theater has a rule that eating popcorn adds 5 minutes to the viewing time.
7. A person dressed up as Woody from Toy Story to sneak into the movie theater.
8. A squirrel was involved in a car accident on the highway.
9. The owner of the squirrel received a call from a local news station about the accident.
10. The owner of the squirrel was allowed to enter the movie theater for free after claiming to need to talk to their mom, who was supposedly stuck in the theater.
11. A person tried to sneak into the movie theater by calling the manager and pretending to be a maintenance worker.
12. The manager was tricked into letting the person in to fix a non-existent leak in the theater.
13. A person tried to hypnotize the ticket collector to sneak into the movie theater.
14. A person disguised their friend as a ventriloquist puppet to sneak them into the movie theater.
15. The ventriloquist act was unsuccessful, but the ticket collector let them in anyway.
16. The movie theater was actually empty, and the people inside were mannequins.