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Candid Camera Prank
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A Practical Joke where people are wound-up on hidden camera for entertainment purposes. Can be done with celebrities or members of the public. There's usually the inevitable reveal. Swearing may occur at this point. In fact, given the number of pranks that involve a total waste of time on the part of the prankees — for example, the time Candid Camera managed to turn around people at the border to one state, saying the state was "full" — there might be a question as to how much this whole pranking costs people. (At the very least, it's likely to make a few people late for important appointments.) This stuff isn't just confined to television since radio has done its fair share; in fact, Candid Camera was originally a show called Candid Microphone. Radio has the advantage in that everyone in the world is already set up with an audio device at home; i.e. the telephone. These types of pranks are popular enough that in fictional media, Muggles may assume that they're a part of an elaborate Candid Camera Prank when met with something fantastic. Often a Real Life form of False Crucible. |
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Punk'd, Like Noel's House Party mentioned above, is a take of this that only targets celebrities. | |
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In the Great Tomoko Oppai bonus chapters of Great Teacher Onizuka, Smooth-Talking Talent Agent Munakata pretends to kidnap Tomoko and has a candid camera show film her assistant manager Okinoshima's reaction. | |
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The Simpsons: In its early years, had the Running Gag of Bart prank-calling Moe's Tavern with Double Entendre names, similar to the Red Tube Bar Prank Calls. In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Krusty's TV replacement, Gabbo, gets ready to perform a "patented Gabbo Crank Call" (on Krusty himself). When Bart complains that "he stole that bit from Krusty", Lisa counters that Krusty stole it from Steve Allen. In "Homer Alone", one of the things that stresses out Marge at the beginning is hearing KBBL's Bill and Marty prank-calling a man and telling him that his wife died. |
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A Mr. Show sketch had this as The Reveal: a priest at a party is acting as a slave for a Jerkass party guest who claims he "won" a bet against the guests and forces him to do such things as dance around with a banana stuck out his rear while saying "I was born out of Satan's ass." It turns out the priest actually on camera by said guest and the the other three who were sympathetic towards him were also in on the prank. Only in-universe, it's not on a TV show, they keep the footage on tapes. | |
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Creature Comforts (both versions) was a weird sort of Candid Camera Prank in that the victims knew it was happening — they were told at the time that they were being recorded for a TV show and will be animated as an animal. Where the prank comes in was that neither character designers nor animators ever met the people being recorded. They wanted them to base appearance and performance on voice alone, so they were isolated from the process of recording so they wouldn't get any preconceived notions before setting to work. So there was an even chance you'd either be surprised to find out just how owlish you were, or offended that someone equated you with a gorilla. Thank God for anonymity, eh fellas? | |
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Some of the things they did out of the studio with people in What Would You Do? | |
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Scrubs used this in an Imagine Spot on one occasion - after guiding a couple through a difficult and important medical decision, JD wishes that life were more like his favourite TV shows - cue the unconscious wife sitting up and saying 'you're on candid camera' and JD and Cox pointing cameras out, including one guy with a big shoulder-mounted camera hiding under the bed... | |
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Mamamoo's "Mr. Ambiguous" music video leaves in a scene of Baek Ji Young and the rest of the crew pulling one of these off quite successfully on the girls. The camera crew secretly film them practising for the MV in front of Ji Young who pretends to harshly criticise them. The girls go into Heroic BSoD when they find out they've been fooled. | |
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In the first High School Musical film, after Sharpay and Ryan discover that Troy and Gabriella have made the final audition stages (Sharpay didn't think they'd even auditioned), Ryan remarks, "Maybe we're being Punk'd! Maybe we'll get to meet Ashtonnote Kutcher, the presenter of said show!" | |
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The basis for the SCP Foundation entry SCP-2030, "LA U GH IS F UN", describing an anomalous program that shows up in places like streaming sites and DVD rental kiosks. The "pranks" shown tend to be nightmarish and surreal, with the victims reacting appropriately, only for them to suddenly be relieved and act like whatever horror they just witnessed was a totally normal joke once the host unveils himself (often via even more gore and madness). It's worth noting that all the identified individuals shown in the series are either missing or presumed dead. | |
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In a sketch on The Benny Hill Show Benny approaches a woman sitting in a park, singing to her and kissing her. She is upset until he points out a van parked across the way, saying she's on Candid Camera. She laughs and kisses him. After she goes away Benny admits to another man sitting there that it's not a Candid Camera Prank, he was just trolling her to get her to kiss him. | |
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The Daily Show parodied these shows (and Punk'd specifically) at the end of a "This Week in God" segment, with a fake advertisement for a show called Baptiz'd. Instead of an elaborate prank, the action involved Stephen Colbert throwing a paper cup of water into a coworker's face, then cracking up, showing him the "hidden cameras" (which can't be that hidden since they're just standing in the hallway by a water cooler), and informing him that he "just got Baptiz'd!" (Next week: Circumcis'd!) | |
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The Dick Van Dyke Show: Rob gets a call from one of Buddy's friends at a party, claiming to be from the phone company, who convinces Rob to do more and more ridiculous things to his phone, culminating in putting in in a paper bag and throwing it out the front door. Rob calls home pretending to be a suave Frenchman, in order to see if Laura would hang up on him or flirt. Laura, knowing right away that it's Rob, flirts right back at him. |
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Scare Tactics (2003). Like Candid Camera, but innocent people are tricked into extremely frightening situations. There's been at least one lawsuit by a victim, but the show wasn't stopped until 2013. | |
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In Azumanga Daioh, after Chiyo gets a job as a fast food clerk, one customer thinks that it's part of a hidden camera prank. He even specifically namedrops Candid Camera in the earlier ADV translation. | |
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Just for Laughs: Gags is a Canadian version of these. Because there's pretty much no dialogue at all (overdubbing with music), it's often shown during flights. Its specialty is immense use of public service uniforms and vehicles (and pranks involving nuns that would not work anywhere else except in Quebec). Interestingly though, they also license some content from Australian hidden camera show Just Kidding. The same writers also had a show Surprise Sur Prise, which focused on elaborate pranks on celebrities. |
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The Carbonaro Effect takes this trope up a notch by having unsuspecting people being tricked by the host who happens to be a magician. | |
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In Grrl Power, the engineer Omar makes a habit of occasionally dropping remarks that will draw screams of outrage from Maxima, and then snapping a picture of the rage-face with his smartphone. | |
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One of the most famous practitioners in the United Kingdom is impressionist Jon Culshaw, mostly but not exclusively on Dead Ringers, He once rang up then Prime Minister Tony Blair live on air and pretended to be William Hague, who was then leader of the opposition. The prime minister spotted it pretty quickly. Culshaw is also famous for his scarily accurate impression of the Fourth Doctor from Doctor Who. He's used this several times, including in prank calls to Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor), Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor), Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor) and... Tom Baker, who actually played the Fourth Doctor: | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, the producer of Take-2 TV who was broadcasting Trucy's magic show planned to prank her live on the air by making her believe she had accidentally killed her co-performer, only for him to "come back to life". It doesn't exactly go according to the script, since the co-worker winds up dead for real. Although it's subverted in that this actually the producer's plan all along, as a way to frame Trucy for murder. | |
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Attempted in How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?, when the TV show writer Kutaro Deire and his producer set up a women's punching machine contest with a million yen prize and rig it with a champion prize fighter disguised as an old lady-and then it backfires on them when Hibiki breaks the machine with her punch, as the prize was not in the budget. At least their reaction granted them good ratings... | |
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On The Flintstones, Fred and Barney weasel out of a commitment to attend a bachelor party for a friend (which to have them describe it makes it sound like this friend was about to die), and find themselves on film for the TV show "Peek-A-Boo Camera." They're excited at first but then face the realization that the wives will see it as well. They successfully manage to prevent the wives from seeing it, but the next week, the host says the segment was so well-received that they are repeating it. Cue Wilma and Betty about to thrash the boys. | |
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Candid Candid Camera was the same show, with the same host, only Direct to Video and with nudity. | |
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James Florentine has dabbled in this as well. Crank Yankers has also featured incoming call pranks to people who thought they were calling a package delivery service strongly hinted to be UPS. | |
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Noel's House Party with its "Gotcha" (originally "Gotcha Oscars" until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threatened legal action) feature on celebrities. Memorable ones include a football manager ending up doing the Christine Keeler pose and something involving "Custer's Last Hat Stand". This one is especially notable because it spawned that monstrosity that is Mr. Blobby. | |
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Snopes relays the tale of a woman who called into a radio show on Valentine's Day to have the DJs prank call her boyfriend. The DJ called the man and offered him free flowers, and he chose to send them... to his wife. Oops. | |
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Brent Douglas and the late Phil Stone of KMOD-FM in Tulsa, OK created "Roy D. Mercer," a country bumpkin who calls up businesses, citizens and even celebrities, asking for outlandish recompense for some wrong or another, and threatening an "ass-whoopin'" if he doesn't get it. Some believe that "Roy" is based on "Leroy Mercer," the brainchild of Tennessee native John Bean, who died in 1984 and whose work was disseminated through bootleg tapes in the early '80s. Stone and Douglas claimed their character was original, despite the fact that "Roy's" and "Leroy's" calls share many similarities. | |
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Not the Nine O'Clock News parodied Game for a Laugh by having the "prank" consist of the victim's wife (who was the one who submitted his name to the show) being brutally murdered and left for him to find when he gets home. When he finds out it's all for the show, he bursts out laughing in relief. | |
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Animal Planet once ran a similar special called People Traps, produced and hosted by Trace Beaulieu of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. | |
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The Brady Bunch: Mrs. Brady is home recovering from throat sugrery and is not supposed to talk to anyone. Mike calls home pretendind to be a friend of Carol's passing on some gossip, and Carol can't resist talking to "her." Mike reveals himself, reminding her that she's not supposed to talk. A little while later Mike's boss calls her at home (while Mike is still at work) and to ask about her health in anticipation of an upcoming trip on his boat. Thinking that it's another test from Mike, she insults him and hangs up the phone. | |
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Oversaturated World: Oversaturation: When the human version of Twilight Sparkle is confronted with extraordinary statements, she assumes she's being pranked: | |
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What Would You Do? is a variation of this, in that it's a hidden camera show not done for comedy purposes; instead, it's more along the lines of a sociological/morality experiment. | |
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An episode of Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel has Megumi set one of these up to try and trick the title character into revealing her Secret Identity. | |
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Jackass while not an entire series built on this, did feature gags that relied on the reactions of unsuspecting people passing buy. One example had Johnny Knoxville dress up as an old man and shoplift which ended up serving as the basis for Bad Grandpa years later. Other examples include dressing up a car like it had been involved in a pedestrian Hit and Run and taking it to a car wash and a similar one involving a floor cleaning service coming in to clean up what appeared to be a murder scene. One of the castmembers even carried a visible fake severed hand. There was also a failed one, where he would enter a yoga class and start farting aloud and continuously. The yogi and the other students just keep going as if nothing was happening, so after a while Knoxville just gets up and leaves. |
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Inverted in The Gumball Rally. The Dodge police cruiser team gets an Arizona state trooper to believe that they are filming a movie from a camera hidden on a far-away peak, and ask him to hold still for a face shot, as they make their getaway. | |
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A Saturday Night Live sketch with Christopher Walken had such a show, Pranksters. It starts with a guy pranking his rat-hating sister... and goes into a man who pranks a workmate who kept using his parking space by killing him with a tire iron. It returned years later with Robert De Niro, first a guy pranking his teacher afraid of snakes, and then a guy retributing his neighbor who borrowed and not returned his tools with a chainsaw ("I pranked him into many pieces!"). | |
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Impractical Jokers does this, with the twist of the pranksters often being as much the butt of the joke as the unsuspecting public. It's thus often seen as something of a Reconstruction of the genre. | |
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Stampy's video on the MagicAnimalClub joint YouTube channel, "Ballistic Squid Vs Redstone", features him setting Squid the challenge of making a lever extend a block. It ends up being just over two and a half minutes of Squid trying and ultimately failing to set up the Building Time 'build theme reveal station' setup, which requires one such mechanism. | |
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Originally, Overhaulin' combined this trope with the premise of Pimp My Ride. Upon the request of someone connected to the mark, they would "steal" or "confiscate" the guy's ride (often a car, but trucks are also featured in later episodes) and string him along for a week. At the end of the week, they'd reveal the prank and return the mark's ride...customized. | |
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Subverted in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch. A job interviewer puts an applicant through a bizarre series of tests, with other people watching. After the applicant gets angry he's told that all the positions had been filled weeks earlier. | |
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Trigger Happy TV is a British show that sticks more to the traditional Candid Camera formula, but with much more offbeat and surreal pranks, as well as never showing the pranks being revealed to their victims afterward. | |
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Done in several Disney shows including Sonny with a Chance and Hannah Montana, both with a Punk'd-esque show called 'Gotcha' | |
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The Chaser's War On Everything also does both ordinary people and celebrities. The celebrity targets are often politicians, and the pranks are more satirical than most other shows - most famously, getting into the security zone around the APEC conference thinly disguised as a Canadian motorcadenote For more info on this stunt, see Bavarian Fire Drill.. | |
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Eddsworld: parodied in Punch'd. | |
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Radio personality "Stuttering John" Melendez managed to pull this off on then-president Donald Trump, pretending to be senator Bob Menendez and having a conversation from Air Force One with Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Melendez expressed shock that the prank succeeded, and apparently the incident raised some serious national security concerns with the Secret Service. | |
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Lou claims to know then-First Lady Betty Ford, but Mary doesn't believe him. At the end of the episode Mary gets a call from Mrs. Ford but hangs up on her, believing that it's a prank. | |
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Parodied in Stay Tuned, with a show called "Sadistic Hidden Camera". | |
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Several of the competions between the hosts of Dick & Dom in da Bungalow were this; for example, Om Pom Stick where they would have to try and stick pictures of themselves to members of the public without being noticed, or Bogies! where they would shout "Bogies" (US English= "Boogers") louder and louder in a public place. The producer would do a funny sports-style commentary over the footage. | |
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The Adam and Joe Show included these as a regular feature of the show. | |
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The Fonejacker's entire schtick. | |
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