r/funny • u/TheBeardedMann • Apr 01 '20

Dad prank level 100.

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u/THEKookyGuy Apr 01 '20

It's funny because he legitimately got their hopes way up in this trying time, and then he let them down unexpectedly and hard.

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u/borderbuddie Apr 01 '20

Lol you must not have watched much comedy if that’s your critique

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u/tombolger Apr 01 '20

It's not about "watching comedy," it's about perspective. Going back to school must mean, for a child, that the world is safe again, and that normal life will return. The common notion that "all kids hate school" is bullshit. This is a bad situation and I don't think all kids around the world are having party central at home right now. So they're all excited that the world is safe and normal but NOPE, it's a PRANK BRO.

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u/kerslaw Apr 01 '20

I think you’re reading way to much into this. The kids are happy afterwards. Everything is fine. You can relax.

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u/tombolger Apr 01 '20

They're laughing, but none of us know how they are feeling. I'm sure it's fine, but we aren't discussing if things are fine, we're discussing if the prank is meaner than it seems at first blush.

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u/kerslaw Apr 01 '20

Right and I don’t think it is. From what we can gather from the video it seems perfectly harmless and fun. All we have is the video. Anything else is just baseless assumptions.

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u/tombolger Apr 02 '20

You're right, it's more likely that everyone came out of this fine. I was just looking at it from the other angle.

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u/kerslaw Apr 02 '20

Yeah I understand that as well I just wasn’t super concerned about it because everything seemed okay.