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Roommates Pull Epic Makeover Prank on Poor Guy's Bedroom

Emerald Catron — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:47:24 +0000

The one advantage of having super-broke roommates is that they don’t have the extra cash to spring on giving your room a pretty, pretty princess makeover while you’re overseas travelling. This man did not have that advantage. Redditor Twoverend shared these photos, saying this makeover happened while he was overseas for two months. This video [...]

High Schooler's Hot Sauce Prank Makes Him Public Enemy Number One

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:04:24 +0000

A high school student is going from hot sauce to hot water. A 15-year-old at Highland Park High School in Chicago was arrested after three workers in the lunchroom went to the hospital after he put hot sauce in the marinara. The sauce was so hot the workers got sick simply by inhaling its odor. [...]

New Prank Alert: Text the Person You're Dating "I Haven't Been Fully Honest With You" Then Don't Reply For the Next Hour

Big Jim — Fri, 31 May 2013 12:51:05 +0000

Nathan Fielder is a comedian with a Comedy Central show called “Nathan For You” where he just messes with people. And he’s started taking his pranks online . . . with glorious results. Back in April, he proposed a prank where people would text their parents, quote, “got 2 grams for $40″ . . . [...]

News Anchor Tries to Eat World's Hottest Pie

Emerald Catron — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:21:02 +0000

You might recognize a few of these faces from last week, when we showed the man on the right, Karl Stefanovic, pranking his co-anchor from Australia ‘Today’ on the air. He’s back, and this time he’s trying to eat the world’s hottest pie. If this confuses you, in Australia they make delicious savory pies, so it’s [...]

Rigged Elevator Pranks Riders With Donald Duck Sounds and More

Kyle Dowling — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:11:04 +0000

Have you had enough elevator pranks? Well, howzabout just one more? We promise it’s a good one! Set on a Norwegian talk show, this prank doesn’t involve any ghastly ghouls or zombies in coffins like we’ve seen in the past. It merely consists of two jokesters duping elevator riders via a “voice activated” experience they’re [...]

Dad Pulls Off Best April Fool's Prank of 2013

Emerald Catron — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:45:15 +0000

This is the kind of prank we like. Nobody gets hurt, and it didn’t happen to us. This dad pranks his kid so well, and truthfully, we didn’t even see it coming even though we knew it was a prank. Well done, sir. We’re glad you’re not our dad. Source: Dad Pulls Off Best April [...]

See All of Google's April Fool's Day Pranks

Emerald Catron — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:01:00 +0000

If you’re anything like us, you probably have no idea what day it is. Well, it’s Monday, April 1st. Yes, it’s April Fool’s Day, which means that Google is planning to pull the wool over our eyes all day long. Here are some of the pranks they’re pulling, in case you are super-gullible. Google Nose [...]

Some Quick and Easy April Fool's Pranks You Can Do

John Riggs — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:48:36 +0000

Today’s a day where you shouldn’t trust anyone. Some people love the first day in April for that reason. It gives them a chance to prank someone and have an easy way out by saying it’s April Fool’s Day. If you want to join the fun, here are a few fun and easy things you [...]

Ghostly Beauty Shop Prank Will Make You Afraid of Mirrors

Kyle Dowling — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:42:13 +0000

It seems certain that last year stood as the Year of the Prank. With examples ranging from that terrifying zombie corpse to the ghostly little girl terrorizing elevator riders, we were rather nervous that 2013 wouldn't hold up. Luckily, thanks to this hoax pulled off at a beauty salon, there's still hope!

Teens Prank Shoppers With Hilarious Milk Prank

Drew Weisholtz — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:41:43 +0000

Milk does a prank good. In what could potentially be the biggest fad to rock the internet since a little thing called the Harlem Shake, kids have been hitting the supermarket, pretending to slip and then tossing jugs of milk (or juice) they’re carrying, sending the liquid splattering all over the place. Onlookers not wise [...]

Check out the Best Bus Stop Ever

Kyle Dowling — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:27:19 +0000

This surely makes waiting for the bus a little less boring. In a recent video, the folks over at Qualcomm decided to make everyone’s day a little brighter by adding in some crazy stuff. In order to do so, the company placed a URL on the side of a local bus stop and waited for the [...]

Prankster Adds Hilarious Fake Menu to Guy Fieri Restaurant Website

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:40:51 +0000

Guy Fieri has been having a tough time with his new restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, which opened in New York's Times Square last November.

First the eatery was savaged in a New York Times' review. And just when folks were starting to forget about that, Fieri has made an unforced error which is sure to subject him to another round of ridicule.

Valentine's Day Wedding Proposal Prank

Kyle Dowling — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:07:27 +0000

How was your Valentine’s Day? Probably better than this guy’s. At least, that’s what these passersby were thinking… Posted on YouTube just before the day of love, this Valentine’s Day proposal prank video — in which a man asks his “girlfriend” to marry him whilst surrounded by a mass of strangers, only to have her [...]

Here's What Happens When You Order a Salad With Every Topping

Kyle Dowling — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:04:33 +0000

We've all been tempted to do this, have we not?

Seeing the extensive list of salad topping choices on a menu is almost like telling someone not to look down from a ledge; we so badly want to! Sadly, we just can't seem to bring ourselves to spend $229.93 on a salad. However, thanks to this video from College Humor, we don't have to. They've done it for us.

Jokesters Prank Unsuspecting Bystanders With Phony Drug Deals

Emerald Catron — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:15:02 +0000

There’s nothing quite so funny as watching people who think they’re about to be implicated in misdemeanor-level crime. And these pranksters know it. Working with the classic comedic convention of cornering people and trying to give them something they don’t want, these guys basically terrorize an entire shopping mall. Their game? Homonyms you guys. Did [...]

Ellen DeGeneres Pranks Strangers With Taylor Swift Lyrics

Kyle Dowling — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:57:06 +0000

In a recent episode of the Oprah of the 2000's (aka 'Ellen'), the daytime talk show host sent one of her writers to Lowe's in order to stir up some serious confusion in a few unsuspecting people. How so? By speaking to strangers only with the lyrics of Taylor Swift's hit 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.'

Invisible Driver Is the Best Drive Thru Prank Ever

Kyle Dowling — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:55:35 +0000

Jumping on the lengthly line of recent pranks on the Internet — or perhaps moving straight to the front of that line — this one of a driverless car is quickly racking up the views. With just under three million hits in two days, the YouTube user MagicofRahat takes us along for a ride as he’s concealed in [...]

Watch Some Students Pull a Hilarious Prank on Their Principal

Emerald Catron — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:36:19 +0000

Here’s a little gem from the TruTv reality show ‘Principal’s Office.’ We aren’t really sure how the principal thought it was going to go when he brought in two student “leaders” to ask them for help solving the school’s “grinding” problem, but this seems about right. It’s somewhat painful to watch him sit there completely [...]

Meet the World's Most Easily Frightened Man

Emerald Catron — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:03:24 +0000

Here’s a little Norwegian news piece on Basse Andersen, who might just be the most easily frightened man on earth. It’s a real gem. If you like watching prank videos, this is basically that. Only it’s the same guy. Over and over and over again. And he will scream at pretty much anything, including moving [...]

Mistletoe Prank Makes Everybody Make Out

Emerald Catron — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:45:24 +0000

Here's a little video to get you into the spirit of Christmas, if you're kind of trampy. Nate, Caitlin and Stuart set up shop on the campus of Brigham Young University to trick as many people as possible into kissing them by using a sprig of renegade mistletoe that drops down at a moment's notice. They are braver than we -- the whole time we watched this all we could think was "Herpes! Herpes! Herpes alert!"