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Pranks are the worst. We know this. There are lots of reasons why: they are not fun, they are not funny, and variations on this theme. But one of the biggest reasons why pranks are the worst is that they are lies. YOU HEARD ME! Pranks are basically doing a mean thing to someone and pretending like you are not doing a mean thing. It is an extension of the “can’t you take a joke?” defense we have been talking about all week. By their very nature, pranks put the onus of legitimizing and de-criminalizing the prank on the person BEING pranked. You got pranked, so that means YOU have to be a good sport about it. What? Come on, prankers, be realistic. You jerks.
That is why I like this video compilation of Russian pranks: very honest about what is going on! It is seriously just a dude shoving people off of bikes and into oceans. He lights someone’s newspaper on fire? Hahha. Good prank. GOTCHA. You should have thought twice before sitting on a bench in Pranks Park. Fuck you.
GET OFF THE BUS! YOU’RE PRANKED! (Thanks for the tip, Chuck Kinbote.)
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BORDER!
The kids of Columbine were way misunderstood. They just thought they were doing a senior prank. Boooooooo, pranks.
too soon.
Too soon.
TOO LATE!
Eh, sometimes the statute of limitations is never, I guess. Win some and lose most.
I want to write something more offensive than your comment so bad, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. Always the downvoted, never the downvotest.
(To clarify, write something more offensive for the sake of being offensive, was my meaning)
Nothing could be more heinous than calling Up a bad movie.
I was going to argue, but I did some research, and it turns out you’re right. Even my anti-feminism, pro-bullying comments didn’t garner as many downvotes. Well done.
This is the Fight Club of pranks.
Isn’t this just assault?
aggravating assault
Assault + Canned Laughter = Prank
It’s simple math, really.
You just know the band that did that cover of “Ghostbusters” was called like Ray Skarker Jr or something lame.
In Soviet Russia, ghosts bust you.
Dogs and cats owning the means of production. Mass hysteria.
We’ve got the tools, but the talent defected to the West.
Mother Russia pus bucket!
There is no Dana, only Lenin
Comrade Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, “no!”
Why are all video montages not set to instrumental versions of the Ghosbusters theme?
We are two for two of videos with the Ghostbusters theme that have made me crack up: this video and the Pumpkin Head dancing guy. It just lends itself to comedy.
“Ghostbusters” is Russia’s “Yakety Sax”
When I was in the Navy, we got training on “horseplay,” including acts that were not appropriate in the workplace. When I challenged the importance of the training, I was told that every example was something that someone had actually done as a “prank” at one point or another. A few of the examples I can remember:
-Joyriding in a helicopter
-Locking someone in a room and lighting it on fire
-Lighting a safety manual on fire while someone is reading it
When I was in the KISS Army, we got reprimanded for NOT playing with fire.
“What’s KISS?” – the Yale undergraduate class of 2012
- Invading Iraq
Man, now I’m mad all over again about the stupid-ass training I had to go through. I also learned why you should not buy and sell people on the black market, and that if I came across a dead bird, I was not to take it home and test it for bird flu myself.
I leave for Navy boot camp in a month. What is the policy on flammable whoopee cushions?
So this show is pretty much “Jackass” but where they only have 10 seconds to plan the stunts?
My favorite part is the weird splayed-armed prank sprint they do after each “gag.”
I’d watch this show if Ed McMahon and Dick Clark were the pranksters
Ed McMahon’s been dead for two years, or was that a prank too?
you’re saying you wouldn’t watch that show?
I just downvoted all your comments. Pranks!
Fake and Russian
totes
There should be an international “Throw An Angry Cat In A Stranger’s Car At An Intersection” day and that day should be tomorrow.
Can I just comment that I love the use of the word “onus” in this post? It’s an awesome little underused word. And it sounds like “anus.”
Holy hell, did anyone look at the other videos that come up related to these “pranks”?
I recommend “Man has loads of fun with local police”, which is actually just someone running around in traffic (like, TRAFFIC) with a bucket on his head. Also Russian ladies forcibly kissing policewomen? I didn’t look for long but I’m convinced at least one of these videos contains footage of a straight up random murder.
In Soviet Russia, gay son stabs You!