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Polina befriends several patients, but this turns out to be counterproductive: she wastes too much time on them — the time which she may use to treat more patients. Irritated Bykov sets a time limit: no more than ten minutes per patient. Polina's patients convinces Bykov to let Polina visit them for longer... only for her to irritate them enough for them to demand changing things back. Meanwhile, Semyon learns about YouTube's monetisation from Phil, and realises that he can raise some easy money by recording Bykov; Phil joins the plan (and provides his phone's camera) on condition that he would receive half the money. But any attempts to enrage Bykov on purpose results in failure, with him just quietly punishing them and going on. The one time when he actually screams on them, happens when they turns the camera off and starts discussing what they're gonna do next. Lobanov suggests a plan "B": use a hidden camera.

Gleb comes to the hospital with his face doodled to imitate a kitty, which he received while being wasted, and of which he's not aware. Neither Phil nor Semyon tries to warn him. Bykov, when he sees this, outright orders everyone to keep silent, seeing a great opportunity to make fun at Gleb's expense. And indeed, everyone constantly laughs whenever they sees Gleb, but never tells him why. Kisegach almost sides with Gleb, but when he lies to her face about visiting his grandmother, she lets the humiliation continue, now seeing it as well-deserved. Eventually, after several failed attempts to learn the truth by asking people, Gleb learns what's going on from Polina, who asks him to not reveal that it was her who told him. Since not even his mother has told him, Gleb decides to "punish" Kisegach, by going to her office without cleaning his face, and act like utter moron in front of her superior from the ministry.

Before Phil and Semyon could proceed with their plan, Gleb rushes in with the bad news: after his "performance" at Kisegach's office, they all are on the brink of being fired! Kisegach only managed to salvage the situation by lying that it was a part of special performance they organised for children (which would be checked by important official), and now both Semyon and Phil must take their parts in it; Gleb can provide pens. After they leaves, Bykov and Kisegach appears (Kisegach to apologise, Bykov just because why not). Gleb interrupts mother's attempts to apologise (and call him out on his childish behaviour, in one go) to tell her and Bykov that he bears no resent towards them; those who really let him down were already punished. Meanwhile, Semyon and Phil realises that all this "performance" story was a prank on them (they stayed like this for twenty minutes, and no one appeared), as Gleb's revenge.


This episode provides examples of:

  • Atomic F-Bomb: Gleb's reaction when he learns why everyone acts so weirdly around him for quite some time already is to scream a very long and loud (yet bleeped-out) profanity.
  • Blatant Lies: Gleb tries to lie to Bykov (and later to Kisegach) that he didn't spend a whole night drinking with friends, but doodles on his face clearly states that it's a complete lie.
  • Cluster Bleep-Bomb: The video which Semyon watches in beginning of his plot contains stereotypical Drill Sergeant Nasty who speaks entirely in bleeped-out profanities.
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty: When watching a video about Russian army instructor, Phil and Semyon realises that he greatly resembles someone they know... Bykov. This gives Lobanov an idea to record Bykov, upload a video on YouTube and raise some money, just how it worked with that army instructor they just watched.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: When Gleb realises that his mother was aware of his humiliation, but never bothered to warn him, he feels that he was just betrayed. But he's even more angry at Phil and Semyon, who also didn't warn him, but had no excuse for that.
  • Face Doodling: Gleb had his face doodled to resemble a kitty when he was drunk. Phil and Semyon lets him keep it, to make fun of him, with Bykov actually enforcing this prank on department scale, so Gleb wouldn't learn too early.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Semyon and Phil tries to exploit Bykov's fiery temper to make him scream on them, so they would record him on camera and upload on YouTube. They fails, cause Bykov reacts disappointedly tame... until after they stops recording him.
  • Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Phil's and Semyon's original plan involved them recording Bykov shouting on people on camera, uploading it on YouTube and receiving some easy money. Instead, they utterly fails at everything they tries this day, and (after another humiliation from Gleb, rather karmic at that) they gets recorded on camera themselves and uploaded into internet.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Invoked by Gleb:
    • Kisegach had an opportunity to warn him about his Face Doodling, but she didn't, making him a fool before everyone; Gleb humiliates her before an official from ministry, simply by appearing like this in her office and starting acting childishly.
    • Since Semyon and Phil were the first ones to notice his Face Doodling, but remained silent, they now must humiliate themselves in a similar manner. Of course, he lies about the actual reason, fooling them into believing that it was an order from Kisegach, so they would have no time to avoid retribution.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When discussing their plan to record Bykov's antics and upload them on YouTube, Phil states that with so much material, they may as well create their own series. Semyon tells him that they can only dream about this.
  • Manchild: While Gleb's revenge on Semyon and Phil is completely justified, revenge on his mother is not: she only allowed his humiliation to continue due to him betraying her trust first, as a punishment (and lying to her face); and him humiliating her before official from the ministry is not merely some awkward prank, it could have endangered her work here — and his as well.
  • No Social Skills: Polina manages to somehow befriend several patients, who actually likes her much. Unfortunately, this results in her wasting too much time on them, so Bykov has to give her ten minutes limit per patient. The patients, to Bykov's surprise, asks to lift restriction. Bykov, thinking that they're idiots to like Polina, agrees — and Polina manages to alienate the patients once she learns about their professions and starts asking for help (again and again), till they asks Bykov to restore the limit.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Gleb and his Face Doodling:
    • Invoked by Bykov. Phil was initially opposed to keeping Gleb in the dark about his Face Doodling, but Bykov stated that in the case where roles would be reversed, Gleb would not do the same for him, and Phil immediately agrees to join the plan with no further objections.
    • Kisegach was initially the only one (if not counting Phil) to defend Gleb, and call Bykov out, but when Bykov states the reason why Gleb was punished in this way, she testes him, asking whether he visited his grandmother as promised; he lies that he did, unaware that the doodle on his face tells otherwise. After this she loses any sympathy for him and lets Gleb suffer further. She still remains angry at Bykov, though.
  • Springtime for Hitler: Semyon's and Phil's plan involves them screwing up on purpose, so Bykov would shout on them (which they would record for their video). Unfortunately, Bykov's reaction is too tame to worth recording (but he doesn't forget to punish them with a night shift). But immediately when they stops bothering, Bykov busts them doing nothing and starts yelling.
    Lobanov: Wow! We can't even enrage Bykov! Are we completely stupid?
  • Status Quo Is God: Polina just can't be good with other people; the only time in her life she actually befriends several of her patients, she ultimately irritates them enough for them to ask to take her away.
  • Troll: Neither Semyon nor Phil nor Bykov reveals to Gleb the truth about kitty-styled doodles on his face, allowing him to go to his patients like this. Semyon even mocks him with cat-related jokes (Gleb doesn't get the clue). And Bykov has a plan how to milk this situation for all its worth: to warn everyone to not reveal the truth to Gleb until the very end. When Gleb finally learns the truth (from Polina) — and that not even his mother bothered to warn him — he goes to Kisegach's office, to humiliate her before important guest just by his presence (still with that Face Doodling) and childish behaviour.

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