截止日期

Expiration Date
视频信息
发布日期：	June 17, 2014
时长：	14:58

视频描述

工程师和医生在测试传送装置时发现了一个令人不安的事实。此时此刻，侦察兵不再去羞辱间谍让他感到尴尬；管理员的文书助理/清洁工/杀手期待着保玲小姐给他们隐藏一些犯罪证据；士兵又做了一个金属家伙。

视频字幕

Expiration Date/zh-hans/transcript

剧情梗概

As the Heavy, Scout, and Soldier return from a mission to capture a briefcase, Miss Pauling calls them to ask how the mission went. She is slightly irritated that they left witnesses that she has to take care of for them. After arriving back at the base, Scout tries to ask her out, but he is unable to think of anything to say to her.

At the base, they hear bad news from Engineer and Medic: teleporting bread results in large green tumours inside, leading them to conclude that the mercs have the tumours as well, and will all die. The Medic estimates that each team member has about three days left to live. Engineer provides each team member with a wrist watch that will count down to the time of the mercenaries' demises.

In face of this news, Spy decides to collect a bucket list in a literal bucket. Spy delegated the task of collecting wishes to Scout, who has filled it with drawings of the Spy being hit by a car and having a romantic relationship with the Eiffel Tower. Spy remarks that his time has been wasted, and angrily bids the team farewell.

Afterwards, Scout comes to Spy's smoking room to apologize and seek his help. He confides that he did have a real wish for the bucket list: a date with Miss Pauling. Scout admits to Spy that while he himself is good with girls, he is vastly outclassed by Spy when it comes to ladies. Scout then admits Spy is better than him, and Spy demands that broadcast around the base as payment for his services.

Spy agrees to coach Scout in how to behave around a lady. While Scout shows some progress, Spy ultimately declares Scout a failure.

With two hours left on his death watch, Scout decides to take things into his own hands. He calls Miss Pauling to the base by pressing the alarm button for the briefcase being stolen. She hurriedly arrives on the scene, but is infuriated upon learning that the briefcase is actually secure.

Meanwhile, Medic and Engineer have come to the conclusion that the growths in the bread are, in fact, not tumors at all, but a self-aware organism that can only spread in pure wheat. This means none of the mercs have tumours, and are not going to die. They inform the team that they are fine as long as no more bread has been teleported; Soldier then announces that he has been doing nothing but that for the past three days.

Upset at Scout for wasting her “one day off a year”, Miss Pauling begins to leave. As Scout attempts to get her to stay, they are confronted by a giant bread monster. A fight breaks out, with the mercenaries rushing to their aid. One of the Medic's pet doves ends up eaten by the monster, followed by the Soldier.

During the fight, Miss Pauling attempts to blow up the monster by using a Payload cart, strapping the Scout's death watch to it to serve as a timer. As Scout attempts to help her, she and Scout end up trapped on the wrong side of the blast doors as the bomb is about to blow up. The two notice that the dove that the monster ate is flying harmlessly out of the mouth of the monster. They wordlessly agree to jump into the mouth of the monster.

Stunned by the blast, Miss Pauling and Scout painfully but quickly recover inside the bread monster. Once she recovers, Miss Pauling admits that the experience was fun. Scout tells her about the death prognosis just as the two are helped out of the remains of the bread monster. The Medic informs them of the fact that only bread mutates and that they will all be fine (After the Soldier states that they will live forever).

The story ends with Scout trying to get another date, but Miss Pauling having to decline due to already having spent her one day of vacation this year. She does, however, offer Scout to come along at work, though he declines each task Pauling lists until she comes to the task of killing the one who pulled the briefcase alarm, which Scout will already be at.

琐事

• 视频的开头标题画面右下角写着“版权：LOLOLOL”（原文：COPYRIGHT LOLOLOL），这段搞笑的文字Meet the team视频中均有出现。
• Ashly Burch，宝林女士的配音演员，也帮忙写了些这则短片的剧本。
• Valve制作的视频中，第一次出现了宝林女士，这也是第二次出现了除了红队和蓝队队员之外的人的影片(第一次是在Second Annual Saxxy Awards trailer，其中出现了侦察兵的妈妈。)
• Nolan North在视频中为工程师配音，而不是工程师原来的配音Grant Goodeve。
• 在0:22时，宝林女士的左肩后面似乎有一架活塞发动机式飞机。
• 蓝队士兵在第一幕中并没有出现，但是却在货车进入红队基地后从货车顶部掉了下来。
• The team responsible for the 2013 Best Overall Saxxy award-winning short, Lil' Guardian Pyro, helped animate a small section of Expiration Date.
• The Scout line, "Classic Scout", was improvised by voice actor Nathan Vetterlein as detailed in his Twitch Stream.^{[需要来源链接]}
• Nathan Vetterlein said he worked very closely with Ashly Burch during the short's creation.^{[需要来源链接]}
• The location of the RED Base is in an edited version of the map Hydro.
• The RED Bread van's hood ornament reads 'Sword'. This is a reference to the "Sword Van" comic from KC Green's "Custom Comix".
• At 2:45, the Demoman appears wearing The South of the Border item set.
• The Engineer is seen from 1:36-2:51 wearing Tools of the Trade, before it was released in the update.
• The animation when Scout smiles and looks at Soldier at 3:02 is recycled seconds later at 3:05.
• At 4:16, the Sniper's watch floats in front of his waist instead of being strapped to his left wrist. This is most likely a mistake in model posing.
• At 6:04, a painting can be seen behind the Spy of him riding an unicorn. This painting is a parody of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, a painting by Jacques-Louis David originally featuring Napoleon Bonaparte.
• At 6:23, a lighter is floating under the comic the Pyro is holding, presumably originally intended to be in his hand, to try and light the comic on fire with. This is a reference to "Meet The Medic", in which the Pyro is also attempting to light a comic he's reading.
• When learning to dance, the Scout first performs the dance move from Tom Jones' song "It's Not Unusual".
• At 9:25, the Sniper's hand can be seen falling out of the bag on Miss Pauling's moped, a possible reference to Meet the Engineer.
• At 9:33, the Scout is seen wearing The Retro Rebel item set.
• At 11:59 the Sniper Rifle uses the same firing sound as the AWPer Hand instead of its default firing sound.
• At 12:03-12:37, the Heavy's default Minigun firing sound changes to the Tomislav's firing sound instead. Then changes back to its default firing sound at 12:38.