Lucius Merryweather’s Bob Burgerweather Squares Off With a Bald-Capped Impersonator

INDEPENDENT — Independent Twitch streamer Lucius Merryweather played Day 7 of DistrictV, a Grand Theft Auto V roleplay server, as Bob Burgerweather, and the stream’s biggest scene was a stand-off with a man accused of impersonating him. In the scene, a bald-capped figure whom the streamer’s side called Luca Santos stood facing a crowd of city staff and onlookers, and each man insisted he was the real Bob.

The argument turned on details. One side pointed to the bald cap and the shoes, and a catchphrase of “Guess what? Chicken butt” was offered as proof of who the impostor was. At one point a voice on the stream announced that the man’s hamstrings were stretching as the two squared up. The other side demanded to be shot at or fought, and a voice that sounded like an officer replied that he would not order shots at a civilian who had committed no crime and called identity theft not a crime. The two men then went back and forth over who should throw the first punch, and the scene was treated as mutual combat.

“It’s not a game about winning, you know.” — Lucius Merryweather, explaining why the impersonator should get some wins

Earlier, the stream opened with Bob trying to get a friend’s camera and voice working, and then meeting a group of costumed would-be heroes who handed out color-coded Justice names, including Justice White, Red and Yellow. Later, a bus ride to the hospital and a scene in which medics performed CPR on the mayor, pressing in time to a song playing nearby, drew a run of laughing emotes from chat. After the stream’s closing stretch, the impersonator was reported to be still out impersonating the mayor in a pink truck.

Before signing off, Merryweather stepped out of the scene to say the group should not treat the bit as something to win. He said the stunt works better when the targets of the joke do not know in advance which man is real, and that the impersonator should be given some wins, the way a cartoon chaser like Tom does not always lose to Jerry. He then said he had work for the day and sent his viewers, whom he calls dogs, off with a woof and a raid of another channel.

Chat greeted the face-off with streams of laughing emotes and jokes about the onlookers. Viewers on the stream marked a 365-stream watch streak early in the broadcast, and a viewer subscribed for 70 months near the end.