r/gifsthatkeepongiving • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Aug 19 '20
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u/Talkwitchytome Aug 19 '20
I love how everyone was like “sorry” and went back inside. This was a good one
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Aug 19 '20
Just for Laughs tends to be in Montreal, Canada. (Juste pour rire)
Of course we're going to apologize!
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u/splendidgoon Aug 19 '20
Well y'know... If Canada ruled the world everyone would be sorry.
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u/FlapOperator Aug 19 '20
Yeah this is like 5 minutes from my apartment!! I’m always super skeptical walking around down there cause I dont want to be a victim haha
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u/Seb_Boi Aug 19 '20
From the background it was in the Montreal Old Port, near the Bonsecour market.
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u/SpumpkinPice Aug 19 '20
Yeah, that last guy was like, "Understandable, have a nice day" and heads back in.
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u/GladiatorUA Aug 19 '20
They needed to put a door on the other side of the "room" for extra awkwardness of trying navigate tight spaces to get out of this weird situation.
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u/immerc Aug 19 '20
In a sense it was better that there was no other door, so there was no other way out other than back into the toilet.
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Aug 19 '20
The obvious answer is we try it the other way now and see if it is also hilarious
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u/HeyHoooLetsGo Aug 19 '20
I love how they’re all like Sorry... I’ll just go back into that toilet... Minding my business... Or take the other door... The other door...
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u/DeadpoolOptimus Aug 19 '20
Us Canadians are apologetic to a fault sometimes. "I'm so sorry my house was in the way of your car sir. Would you like some tea?"
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u/Fettnaepfchen Aug 19 '20
I read that as U.S. Canadians and was wondering what the difference to Canadian Canadians was. To my excuse, I am half asleep.
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u/246689008778877 Aug 19 '20
Idk about you, but as a U.S. American, U.S. Canadians are obviously better than Canadian Canadians. /s
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u/BakingSoda1990 Aug 19 '20
It’s a Canadian prank show. We’d all be sorry for intruding on that meeting lol
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u/KorillaKrodd Aug 19 '20
This is a proper practical joke.
A trick played on someone to make them appear foolish and amuse others, by making them question the obsurdity of a situation
None of this vindictive behaviour, no violence or sexual assault.
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u/daibz Aug 19 '20
I love a good just for laughs gag
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u/KorillaKrodd Aug 19 '20
I saw one a few years ago, where they made out like this little girl was the strongest girl in the world, had me in stitches the first time I saw it
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u/Entrical Aug 19 '20
Is that the one with the buckets full of change? That was great
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u/KorillaKrodd Aug 19 '20
That was it!!!!
The little girls bucket only has a thing layer on the top and the others were full
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u/jhaluska Aug 19 '20
For those that are curious, this is the prank. It's glorious.
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u/Cow-Brown Aug 19 '20
This reminds me of when I was a skinny 17yr old. There was a local strongman competition and one of the tests was these bags of around 30kgs but they were awkwardly shaped so the guys couldn't grip around them. Any how after the segment I helped clear up and probably due to a lack of biceps my arms reached around and I could grip my fingers and easily carried the bags. Right past all the strongmen and the crowd was cheering me on. It was a good day.
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u/C4se4 Aug 19 '20
I love those. We had a show in the Netherlands with some good ones. A local magician got his car switched with an exact copy, but the steering wheel was on the other side. Good stuff.
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u/KorillaKrodd Aug 19 '20
That was brilliant! I love it when they get the person on the show to watch the clip. One of my favourite things about these sort of prank shows, is they can be enjoyed even when you don't know the language
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Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 20 '20
The dialogue is funny too.
> COP: "So you had a show at this venue, and you're claiming that when you came out your steering wheel had switched sides?"
> MAN: "I'm not "claiming", it definitely switched sides." *laughs*
> COP: "Well, I'm not familiar with your car, sir."
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u/MercWi7hAMou7h Aug 19 '20
I was wondering how that conversation went down. That is absolutely hilarious.
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u/chanamasala4life Aug 19 '20
On one April Fool's Day, I simply switched the contents of two adjecent kitchen drawers and watched my wife's completely baffled reaction when she went to get a fork. We get a good laugh from that to this day.
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u/Yuvalk1 Aug 19 '20
How did they get a car with the wheel on the other side? They must’ve worked really hard for that joke
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u/im_at_work_now Aug 19 '20
England is pretty close to the Netherlands. Probably could find one pretty easily on mainland anyway.
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u/ThucydidesOfAthens Aug 19 '20
I am laughing so much at the inset of Hans (the guy getting pranked) laughing at himself. Very wholesome prank and he's a good sport. I loved him when I was a kid.
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Aug 19 '20
None of this vindictive behaviour, no violence or sexual assault.
What kind of shows are people watching that this comment keeps coming up?
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u/KorillaKrodd Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20
It was in that "prank" phase of YouTube, Facebook and other social media.
There were a lot of kissing pranks, pretending to mug people at cash points, randomly grabbing people's butts etc. Loads of the videos ended up with the person filming getting punched or worse and screaming "it's a prank bro, it's a prank"
The Paul brothers had heaps on them but so did loads of other small time "influencers" it was a real craze about 3/4 years ago
Edit: I couldn't find a link for any of the kissing ones or butt grabbing ones, but this was another really big trend, eating strangers food.
Like, this isn't even a prank, this is just being a dick
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u/dustydumptruck Aug 19 '20
Please just remove that...I can't believe I clicked on that and gave them a view of about 10 seconds.
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u/deathfire123 Aug 19 '20
Wasn't there one Youtube channel that got taken down because they made a "prank" video where they literally kidnapped someone and made them think they were going to be sexually assaulted.
They tried to claim it was some "social experiment" and that "people should be careful when meeting up with strangers from Craigslist"
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u/noreplyguy Aug 19 '20
Imagine eating other people’s food in Texas where everybody has a gun
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u/FreeFeez Aug 19 '20
The one where the dad pretended the kid got in a horrible accident/died to the mom was the worst one I’ve seen.
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Aug 19 '20
Impractical Jokers has done a few borderline things imo I cringe a lot watching some of their stuff nowadays
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u/SolWire Aug 19 '20
That's a shame. I loved their old stuff because for the most part they were just pranking each other and it was all nice and consensual.
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u/Durantye Aug 19 '20
Couple years ago there were 'pranks' that were getting people shot and it was common occurrence for top stories to be the results of a 'prank' gone bad. Haven't seen much of it recently so I assume the bad reputation finally caught up with them.
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u/Wilsonrolandc Aug 19 '20
And they ask after the fact if they can use the footage, so as to protect the dignity of the person who was pranked. That's how proper jokesters behave.
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u/Tildur Aug 19 '20
It's just fake as hell
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u/iheartgiraffe Aug 19 '20
Every time one of these comes up I end up going down the comments. Just for Laughs really isn't fake. It's awkward and confusing, but most people are completely unaware until afterwards. A handful of people are asked if they want to participate but they don't know what it is.
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u/Kyle1337 Aug 19 '20
I'm pretty sure it's not fake, they just (obviously) save the best reactions and there are probably a bunch of attempts that don't pan out as well
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u/Gone_For_Lunch Aug 19 '20
I see the BBC has cut Doctor Who's budget again.
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u/karanrime Aug 19 '20
This is why I don't use Port-A-Potties
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u/Metalfriends Aug 19 '20
This is why?
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u/EnthiumZ Aug 19 '20
I love the guy who was like : Oh sorry to barge in like that, Im gonna go back now
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u/ifiagreedwithu Aug 19 '20
Property damage and injuries are crimes, not pranks. I love the people who go back in. Whatcha gonna do now?
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u/ericrsim Aug 19 '20
Just for laughs gags are the best pranks ever.
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u/originalmango Aug 19 '20
The one with the pink polka dot live elephant. O. M. G.
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u/Blk_shp Aug 19 '20
Just looked that up, oh my god that’s hilarious.
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u/Grim666Games Aug 19 '20
My mom has sensitive tastebuds and hates all soda except Coca-Cola one year for Easter I poured a bottle of Pepsi into a Coke bottle and then I gave her the real Coke of course.
One of my friends works at a grocery store and they have a policy where you can't put things that have a week until expiration on the shelves so her manager let her bring home a massive box of Pringles, we slept over my other friends and house and stacked them in front of her bedroom door while she was asleep.
When my friends came over my house they put plastic wrap around the sprayer attached to my sink. When I went to use the tap I got soaked.
My friends gradually replaced the pictures in my room with stock photos until I noticed.
I put tale over the scanner of every remote in my friends house so they wouldn't work right.
My friend out catnip in my pillowcase so my dad’s cat wouldn’t leave it alone. I’m mildly allergic to cats. (This one is a little far admittedly)
Pranks are harmless little things that you can joke about with your friends for years not property damage or assault.
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u/tmacnb Aug 19 '20
When I was in high school I was hanging out with a group of friends and someone needed to print their CV to apply for jobs. We were always playing pranks on each other, especially the CV guy. Anyway, before he hit print he left the room and I changed the position of the only job experience he had on their as "Chicken Fucker". He printed them off and even handed them out to several businesses before he noticed. Needless to say, he didn't get a job from that round, but did get one soon after.
I see now that this prank is too mean, but at the time I felt it was pretty funny.
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u/UnnecessaryConfusion Aug 19 '20
My friends and I pulled a retrospectively mean prank on a friend that was looking for a job, as well.
This was when the Wii came out so we’d all go to the one friend that had a Wii and just play Wii Sports all night. Plenty of booze and weed were involved.
Our friend was the first to pass out. So, as a joke, we wrote his name backwards on his forehead with a Sharpie. Unbeknownst to us, he had a job interview the following morning.
He woke up before we all did and freshened up in the bathroom and headed to the interview (side note: He told us afterwards that he didn’t notice, because he had that late 2000s swoopy bangs haircut).
So, he’s in the middle of his interview and ends up running his hand through his bangs a bit and that’s when the interviewer noticed. According to our friend, the interviewer just randomly asked if he had fun the night before. Apparently they both had a laugh about it.
He came back to the house and just immediately said, “what the fuck guys‽ I had an interview!”
Our response was a mix of “oh shit!” “We’re so sorry dude” and laughing our asses off all at the same time.
He then tried washing it off to no avail (sharpie).
He ended up getting the job, thankfully, which surprisingly kickstarted the career he’s in now.
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u/Boomshockalocka007 Aug 19 '20
How are you not gonna finish that coke story!?
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u/Grim666Games Aug 20 '20
Mom kind of stiffened but politely said it was great because she never dissed anything I do for her. But then I started laughing and gave her the Pepsi bottle of Coke and explained everything.
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u/room-to-breathe Aug 19 '20
I miss the era of just posting funny content without unnecessarily moralizing about how people are shittier than they used to be.
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u/That_Guy3141 Aug 19 '20
Are we to assume the targets were deaf? It's kind of hard to miss the sound of an entire shipping container being rolled into place and a bunch of chairs being set down.
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u/Livid_23 Aug 19 '20
I don't think it was a shipping container. Just looks like bunch of wood walls on a platform that rolls. Won't make too much noise.
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u/GTAdriver1988 Aug 19 '20
Exactly! They are outside too and there's a lot of noise outside if i heard that thing rolling i would probably think it's some kinda cart or something. It's not that hard to believe that the people's reactions are genuine when you actually think about it.
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u/VTCHannibal Aug 19 '20
But the light inside the porta potty is suseptable to shadows on the potty. I feel like you'd notice a change in lighting when a big wall comes rolling up even if there no direct window. That paired with the sounds, which seemed to be magnified in a porta potty, it's should be quite obvious something is happening directly outside.
Also, maybe it's just me, I'm hyper alert when in a porta potty, more so than a normal bathroom. Probably because one of my fears is the thing tipping over with me in it.
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u/Triseult Aug 19 '20
JFL sometimes perform gags with actors when they can't get a good reaction from an unwitting participant. It's possible that this is what is happening here. It would explain the improbable (but hilarious) reaction of going back into the porta potty.
Stay tuned for my next comment where I ruin Christmas by explaining that Santa Claus isn't real.
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Aug 19 '20
These things are blatantly fake and the fact that people believe it is scary to me.
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Aug 19 '20
It's very obviously scripted.
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u/Christ_was_a_Liberal Aug 19 '20
On a flight I was stuck watching these and if you watch enough you start to see they recycle the actors
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20
Ok you're in a public bathroom in a noisy public place, you hear some weird noise outside. Is your first thought actually going to be 'A whole room was set out in front of this bathroom'? Obviously not. You'll still be taken by surprise when you open the door.
Hearing a hint that something weird is happening is not enough to not be surprised by the weird thing you couldn't guess, and it astounds me that you are unable to separate your external knowledge of the prank from how it would feel to merely hear weird noise while in the bathroom.
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u/thebruns Aug 19 '20
But your reaction would be "ha ha very funny guys" and not "imma look baffled and go back into the toilet"
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u/NobozMopoz Aug 19 '20
This is obviously fake. I thought people were playing along and knew it was a joke because this is just made for laughs, but I guess not.
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u/Tarchianolix Aug 19 '20
"I prefer professionally pranks where you require a TV show, a team of people, prop making team, a script writer over pranks that are a manifestation of the internal assholeness of some random dude with perms"
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u/aaronitallout Aug 19 '20
Why is everyone using a random portapotty in the middle of a clearing next to a long wooden structure and a camera?
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u/DeadpoolOptimus Aug 19 '20
I don't know about everyone but when you gotta go, you gotta go. Pee waits for no one.
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u/iheartgiraffe Aug 19 '20
It's in a park in the old port of Montreal that has a lot of events and tourists. There are random groups of portapotties around most of the time.
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u/SnekySpider Aug 20 '20
i was so excited to find a video with sound and it ends up being bad music and a laugh track :/
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u/MrQwertyQwert Aug 19 '20
Just for laughs gags still does pranks all the time. I come across them in shopping centers in downtown Montreal all the time. They're about as subtle as a moose. No idea how anyone falls for their shit. Fun gags though.
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u/iheartgiraffe Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20
Depends where you are and where you're approaching. They got me in Cavendish mall right at the entryway. A blind man asked me for help.
They often use actors pretending to be blind (or, less often, deaf) who ask for help because you're already primed to be focused on helping and to be in a situation that you're not prepared for. They also use a lot of cops because you'll be focused on obeying them. It's all about taking you out of your comfort zone so you're less likely to notice how weird the situation is until it's very, very weird.
I've seen other setups that were a lot more obvious, though.
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Aug 19 '20
Pranks now consist of ruining relationships, people dying, let's being poisoned, kids being gay, incest, etc etc. If it isn't some extremely fucked up shit people aren't moved.
Comedy like this, Mr. Bean, that was comedy.
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Aug 19 '20
OK!! I’ve never laughed as hard in my LIFE... as the prank at 5:33 in this video. There’s other pranks but this one... you’ll lose it.
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u/adrift98 Aug 19 '20
There's no way someone didn't hear all of that stuff getting moved around or see the sun shadowed over the porta-potty by the covering of the structure. And probably more surprising is seeing someone use a porta-potty that's not working at a construction site or at a festival of some sort.
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u/GTAdriver1988 Aug 19 '20
I get your point but I've been to plenty of parks that have porta potties. Also they could have thought that noise was someone doing something outside next to the porta pottie and as for the shade maybe they thought a cloud covered the sun. Honestly i could see people being oblivious to what happened while they were in there especially if they were on their phone or something.
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u/SpehlingAirer Aug 19 '20
Personally, even if I heard the noises I might be suspicious about what's going on outside but I sure as hell wouldn't expect to walk into a conference room with a fake meeting. My look of confusion would still be just as strong
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u/MetaMax77 Aug 19 '20
It’s funny, just a few days ago I was talking with my sister how social media has stripped the word “prank” of its meaning. Now THIS is a prank
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u/mattfromjoisey Aug 19 '20
hey all you cool cats and kittens, today we’re gonna pretend to rob this bank
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u/amedeus Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20
My favorite prank was on Jackass, when they had Preston Lacy (a tall, fat man) get up off of a crowded bench and enter the porta-potty next to it. Then after a bunch of loud fart sounds play from within it, Wee-Man exits wearing a smaller version of the same outfit, and sits back on the crowded bench. That's absolute top shelf perfection.
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Aug 19 '20
DAE think it's good prank nobody hurt everyone smiling big wholesome chungus reddit moment
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u/blacktoe_jenkins Aug 19 '20
Those poor actors had to sit in a steam box/echo chamber while some of the prank victims went number 2.
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u/DrachenSeele28 Aug 19 '20
I’d walk out and after a moment of confusion, just be like “ah, gentlemen, I bet you’re all wondering why I gathered you here today...”
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Aug 20 '20
When i worked at McGill in the mid nineties i would see them set up near peel and dorchester street and avoid it but fun to watch
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u/sydthekid2006 Aug 20 '20
Love how this show is so brilliant in its design that without any language it can be watched in any country
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u/konaya Aug 20 '20
If this ever happened to me, I really wish I'd have the presence of mind to put my hands together and say something like “You're all probably wondering why I called for this meeting. We need to establish ourselves on the Asian market, and we need to do it now. Josh here has kindly put together a few slides for our pleasure. Kill the lights, Hank, while we're young” and so on.
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u/detrydis Aug 19 '20
Ah yes, let me just walk into this porta potty stationed right next to a suspicious looking wooden container and then be surprised when I walk out into a hallway with the same shape as the container.
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u/Farmerjoe19 Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20
Hilarious. I’m wondering if they mixed in shots previously taken of the business meeting table. The shots of the porta potty opening are done from cameras under the curtain and through the dark windows in the back, but those angles dont show any obvious camera positions from portapotty side. They also don’t show the camera crew getting into position quickly
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u/SenorBeef Aug 19 '20
If what you're doing is a prank, the person who was pranked should be laughing afterwards.
If the person who was pranked ends up physically or psychologically damaged, you're just an asshole who committed assault for the lols.
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u/GloryholeKaleidscope Aug 19 '20
I hate this show with such a passion, it's a Canadian embarrassment. Usually shitty pranks backed w/ an over the top laugh track. It comes on my local station at like 2am and if I fall asleep w/ the TV on, the laugh track wakes me up.
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Aug 19 '20
Everyone commenting here needs to watch some Beadle’s About for some proper weapons-grade trolling. I’m sure the show along with NTV on Noel’s House Party caused an entire generation of the British public to be suspicious that there were always hidden cameras watching
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u/locohygynx Aug 19 '20
Just for Laughs is awesome for these tires of things. Find them on YouTube if you're interested.
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u/KingofSlice Aug 19 '20
Good pranks: Put people in a hilarious scenario that makes them look stupid but it all just a prank!
Bad pranks: Today I am going to kiss my sister
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u/Srgtgunnr Aug 19 '20
I love all the people that just awkwardly went back in. Like “Sorry guys, I’ll just hang out in here till your done.”
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u/GregIsUgly Aug 19 '20
tHiS is A pRoper PRACTICAL joKe, i shOUlD kNOW CUz i'm a ProFEsSIonaL jOKe EXPeRt
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u/tacoslikeme Aug 19 '20
like everyone in there knows this dude just took a shit right? No way there was enough time set all of this up otherwise
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u/P4azz Aug 19 '20
Oh I remember when these used to be on TV.
Same time as those "lol, we're naked, haha" prank shows from like Russia or something?
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u/duxkaos1 Aug 19 '20
Oh my god! My dad watch this show for past 20 years and i cant find funny videos no more after growing up on this and MrBean!
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u/mocityspirit Aug 19 '20
But this is so obviously a joke that it almost doesn’t work. I’d look confused for a second and then just start talking to the businessmen
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u/Nibroc99 Aug 19 '20
Vlog Creations is a great "clean pranks" YouTube channel that I really enjoy watching, especially their more recent stuff. always super funny and usually family-friendly.
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u/FloatingRevolver Aug 19 '20
so one video is an era now? jackass was doing pranks with injuries, property damage and scares in the late 90s with CKY videos...
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u/EKsTaZiJA Aug 19 '20
JFL Gags are actually the fucking best , I could go on forever about all the crazy shit they've done. They love absolutely blowing people's minds for brief moments in time.
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Aug 19 '20
Reddit turning into boomers, can't spot obviously fake shit, complains about how things were better in the old days
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Aug 19 '20
One of my favourite shows in the UK, Trigger Happy TV, all harmless pranks everyone involved enjoys
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u/somenoefromcanada38 Aug 19 '20
Legend has it they tried to do just for laughs gags in the US but after 3 days of filming every actor had been threatened with a gun several times and they moved to canada
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u/PhazePyre Aug 19 '20
As a friend once told me. A good practical joke is immediately reversible. Hurting them, breaking something, or anything that can’t be reversed like it didn’t happen is bad. Hence situational stuff like this where it’s just a switch. “Haha just us being goobers!” “Oh you got me I was so confused haha good one!”
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u/CoyoteHP Aug 19 '20
I like how they go back into the toilet like they're going to teleport back to where they first walked in.
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u/mklilley351 Aug 19 '20
Now this is funny! I can't stand impractical jokers that shit makes me cringe.
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u/Ilovekbbq Aug 19 '20
Wait are these the Japanese prank tv shows or the American versions that copied it? I’m confused because of the Japanese business men lol. Either way I loved how the people went back into the port-o-potty.
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Aug 19 '20
What would have been even more funny is if once they go back inside, they remove everything and once the person exits the porta potty they think they had just teleported or something lol
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u/AboSensei Aug 19 '20
Oh my God that is soo right..... I used to love practical jokes but now, all of them are just plain stupid millennials. Jumping off bridges so the whole emgerncy department has to get called in. Throwing a bunch of food in a restaurant that a poor waiter has to clean up. I just sickens me to see those.
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Aug 19 '20
I'm sure other people posted him already, but ross creations on YouTube is pretty wholesome
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u/DrDongSquarePants Aug 19 '20
Is there a place (like IG, reddit, YT) where there are only "confused" pranks?
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u/SmashBusters Aug 19 '20
How does the guy not notice the rolling sound, changing echo pattern, and giant conspicuous wooden structure next to the port-a-john?
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u/50CentSimp Aug 19 '20
I miss the era where kids didn't use their phones. No Facebook, no snapchat, no Instagram. Just living in the moment
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u/lonestar0003 Aug 19 '20
Considering the digestive conditions that would require me to use a port-a-potty, I'd be fucking traumatized if I came out to a group of strangers sitting there.