> FCC to investigate potential for foul play in marketing?

...why would this be an FCC issue?

> Surely if any aspect of these episodes turned out to be mischaracterized, let alone staged, there should be consequences, no?

"Any aspect"? No. (Is there a Betteridge's law for statements following "surely"? If not I'm calling it Rumack's Razor [1].)

And we have no evidence so far anything has been staged, much less to the detriment of telecommunications consumers.

[1] https://screenrant.com/airplane-best-quotes-ranked-dont-call...