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October 07, 2013

Change of Pace: Best. Prank. Ever.
— Ace

Seriously good.

Now, this is almost certainly an attempt at viral advertising for the reboot of Carrie. (Seriously? Was their a great clamoring for that?)

In fact the uploader is called "CarrieNYC," and I don't think that's a Sex & the City reference.

And yet... it's awesome. I think the reactions are real. I know that would be my own reaction.

Update: Well, I finally watched it all the way through. I guess the 20 second advertisement for Carrie at the end of the clip is a minor clue that this is in fact a viral ad for Carrie.

And yet... it remains Awesome.

Thanks to Chad.

Bonus: A lot of vaginally-oriented viral stuff here today. (Yeah, Carrie was totally vaginal, with the famous shower scene.)

Via @rdbrewer4, the producers of Once Upon a Time want you to really focus on Snow White's Magic Cooch.

Posted by: Ace at 03:16 PM | Comments (199)
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Women would kill for her eyebrows!

Posted by: Elaine Benes at October 07, 2013 03:17 PM (t57/N)

2 Beveragist! English Breakfast Tea or nothing!

Posted by: Adriane... at October 07, 2013 03:18 PM (KoFMU)

3 LOL awesome.

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at October 07, 2013 03:19 PM (GrtrJ)

4 Women would kill for her eyebrows!

So would caterpillars.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2013 03:19 PM (d0Dmj)

5 The Chad?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2013 03:20 PM (g1DWB)

6 Hipster douchebags hardest hit.

Posted by: NCKate at October 07, 2013 03:20 PM (tlIcr)

7 I don't believe in paranormal crap, but that would have absolutely freaked me out. Love it!

Posted by: jakeman at October 07, 2013 03:21 PM (vH4YP)

8 What makes it especially funny is that they're fucking with liberal New Yorkers.

Posted by: zombie at October 07, 2013 03:21 PM (+cx5n)

9 Nothin' but corporate-funded viral marketing for a new movie, however. Due to the phoniness of it, disqualified as best prank ever.

Posted by: zombie at October 07, 2013 03:22 PM (+cx5n)

10 aka that time of the month.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 07, 2013 03:22 PM (SzAZ7)

11 fake

Posted by: Sasck at October 07, 2013 03:22 PM (qQk+U)

12 8 What makes it especially funny is that they're fucking with liberal, hipster, douchebag New Yorkers.

Posted by: zombie at October 07, 2013 07:21 PM (+cx5n)

FIFY

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at October 07, 2013 03:23 PM (GrtrJ)

13 Definitely not a CCW state.

Posted by: Trainer's looking to join a Militia. at October 07, 2013 03:23 PM (7EbAY)

14 Isn't this the second remake of Carrie?

Posted by: NCKate at October 07, 2013 03:23 PM (tlIcr)

15 >>Due to the phoniness of it, disqualified as best prank ever. Aren't pranks by definition phony?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2013 03:23 PM (g1DWB)

16 >>>Nothin' but corporate-funded viral marketing for a new movie, however. Due to the phoniness of it, disqualified as best prank ever. a really good prank is going to require some money to be spent. I don't think it's "phony." I mean, the set up is phony, like any prank's set-up is phony. I think those are real reactions. I don't know why you'd have to fake those. If that happened, that would be your reaction.

Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 03:24 PM (/IWYB)

17 For the remake of Christine, maybe they'll have a Chevy Volt that goes crazy and runs over a bunch of hipsters.

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at October 07, 2013 03:24 PM (GrtrJ)

18 That was funnier than shit.

Who's their liability insurer?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 07, 2013 03:25 PM (8ZskC)

19 >>>sn't this the second remake of Carrie? i keep thinking that, but I think what we're remembering is the failed attempt at a Carrie broadway show/musical (???) like five years back.

Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 03:25 PM (/IWYB)

20 Reactions real? Ace, they are ALL actors.

Posted by: Jesse at October 07, 2013 03:25 PM (A/ga/)

21 Too bad she couldn't light up Hipster Douchebag Central. In keeping with the spirit of the movie of course.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2013 03:25 PM (oFCZn)

22 I would hope that I would be the idiot who went to look for a cable on the guy. I suspect most of the patrons who fell for it voted for Obama.
Still not so bad as being the guy who thinks he missed being the 1 millionth customer.

Posted by: mallfly at October 07, 2013 03:25 PM (bJm7W)

23 I think seeing that would have really set me off.

I mean, Seriously, You Guys. I probably would have just detonated my Tea Party Raaaacist Anti-Obama TNT Vest.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 07, 2013 03:25 PM (5mRmR)

24 Yeah, I'm glad nobody smacked her down or worse. I'm surprised just one guy, the construction worker, seemed to even stand his ground. Ah well, cool stuff.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at October 07, 2013 03:26 PM (Cati5)

25 The real prank was on the janitor. It wasn't coffee he cleaned up.

Posted by: no good deed at October 07, 2013 03:26 PM (k55Fc)

26 meh

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:27 PM (8lmkt)

27 Meh, I can clear a place like that out with a fart.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 07, 2013 03:27 PM (9MLX+)

28 There was a remake of Carrie done for TV as well.

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at October 07, 2013 03:27 PM (GrtrJ)

I think what we're remembering is the failed attempt at a Carrie broadway show/musical (???) like five years back.

Are you talking about Dennehey's one-man staging?

Because that was brilliant.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2013 03:27 PM (t57/N)

30 Isn't this like the third remake of that movie.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 03:27 PM (9XBK2)

31 You know it's been about a year or two since the last one, so when's the new production of Les Miz? Seriously, how many times are they going to remake that boring crap? I know people like it because of "social justice' crapola. Is ee it as a total failure of Europeans to get their fucking revolutions right even though we showed them how. Moobs.

Posted by: Jesse at October 07, 2013 03:27 PM (A/ga/)

32 Not that funny to me until the scream. That put it over the top.

Posted by: Hepcat at October 07, 2013 03:28 PM (Q4mug)

33 And a sequel? Some bullshit sequel.

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at October 07, 2013 03:28 PM (GrtrJ)

34 Please release me
Let me go-o-o-o-o

Posted by: Kraken at October 07, 2013 03:28 PM (6TB1Z)

35 26 Meh, I can clear a place like that out with a fart. Posted by: Purp at October 07, 2013 07:27 PM (9MLX+) ~ Probably moves the tables and knocks books off the shelf as well.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 07, 2013 03:28 PM (SzAZ7)

36 For the remake of Christine, maybe they'll have a Chevy Volt that goes crazy and runs over a bunch of hipsters.

Tesla S that bursts into flames.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2013 03:28 PM (d0Dmj)

37 I thought they already remade Carrie?

Posted by: slippery when soothsayer at October 07, 2013 03:28 PM (g3/1j)

38 So, did they blow out anyone's eardrum, like that one actress in the original?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 03:28 PM (yETln)

39 Wrath of Kahn -- onyl sequel that didnt sux

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 07, 2013 03:29 PM (9MLX+)

40 You know it's been about a year or two since the last one, so when's the new production of Les Miz?

You got something against starving people eating bread?

Posted by: Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura at October 07, 2013 03:29 PM (8ZskC)

41 would have been cooler if there'd been a block of chef's knives. just sayin'

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:29 PM (8lmkt)

42

Unless this "Carrie" also has P J Soles in a shower scene, gonna wait for the DVD.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2013 03:29 PM (kdS6q)

43 She was fine until she went to an obamacare Doctor?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2013 03:29 PM (1RQeV)

44 If they're not all actors, I feel sorry for the people punked that way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2013 03:29 PM (a4Omg)

45 I'd hit it

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 07, 2013 03:29 PM (MhA4j)

46
The rebel rocket attack vid linked on that page is better.

http://tinyurl.com/ltldtjk

Seriously you guys, it's totes awesome.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 07, 2013 03:30 PM (TIIx5)

47 38 Wrath of Kahn -- onyl sequel that didnt sux

I'm waiting for Citizen Kane II: Sled's Revenge

Posted by: pep at October 07, 2013 03:30 PM (6TB1Z)

48 You got something against starving people eating bread? Posted by: Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura at October 07, 2013 07:29 PM (8ZskC) When theater tickets are a couple hundred of bucks and the songs suck -- yeah.

Posted by: Jesse at October 07, 2013 03:30 PM (A/ga/)

49 We've secretly replaced Carrie's coffee with Folger's Crystals. Let's see how she reacts.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2013 03:31 PM (g1DWB)

50 You got something against starving people eating bread? Too many carbs.

Posted by: Michelle 0bama at October 07, 2013 03:31 PM (yETln)

51 I saw an ad for this movie the other day, it's a remake? I'm Charlie Gibson on this franchise.

Posted by: mugiwara at October 07, 2013 03:31 PM (hpYnL)

52 When theater tickets are a couple hundred of bucks and the songs suck -- yeah.

Posted by: Jesse at October 07, 2013 07:30 PM (A/ga/)

That's what rich peoples' money is for.

Posted by: Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura at October 07, 2013 03:31 PM (8ZskC)

53 I don't quite understand the comments on this site about Brian Dennehy. What's the big deal? He was a large man-So?. Whatever films I saw his in he seemed to be a good actor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2013 03:31 PM (a4Omg)

54 JackStraw, ftw.

hey, check this one out, linked on Drudge, 2 seconds, well worth your time

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/10/07/once-upon-promo-blunder-snow-whites-magic-crotch/

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:31 PM (8lmkt)

55 Carrie II-HILLARY!

Posted by: Sven10077 at October 07, 2013 03:32 PM (9jfyN)

56 I don't quite understand the comments on this site about Brian Dennehy. What's the big deal?

Go see Gravity. He's incredible in it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 07, 2013 03:32 PM (8ZskC)

57 Processing 0.01, elapsed 0.0092 seconds. 15 queries taking 0.0037 seconds, 59 records returned. Page size 35 kb. Powered by Minx 0.7 alpha. heheh, queries. that must be you guys

Posted by: slippery when soothsayer at October 07, 2013 03:33 PM (g3/1j)

58 There was a Carrie remake and another movie called The Rage: Carrie 2.

Posted by: no good deed at October 07, 2013 03:33 PM (k55Fc)

59 dated that chick...

Posted by: socalcon at October 07, 2013 03:33 PM (vHlQ5)

60 Feets don't fail me now.

Posted by: baldilocks at October 07, 2013 03:33 PM (Tnlh/)

61 I don't quite understand the comments on this site about Brian Dennehy. What's the big deal? He was a large man-So?. Whatever films I saw his in he seemed to be a good actor. I think the joke is he was in a lot of movies and people mis-remember which ones. So morons say something like, "Brian Dennehy was great as the knife in Carrie."

Posted by: Michelle 0bama at October 07, 2013 03:33 PM (yETln)

62 An update of Carrie in NYC as a hipster dbag with hippie parents would be loltastic. That Vanity Fair article you posted last week, about the soul-dead NYCers? Shows that a prank of drowning someone in pigs blood is still on the table. Especially if Carrie is vegan and thus pissed they killed an animal, on top of the humiliation.

Posted by: LizLem, giving Obamabots the eyeroll at October 07, 2013 03:33 PM (8wqqE)

63 I don't think it's "phony." I mean, the set up is phony, like any prank's set-up is phony. I think those are real reactions. I don't know why you'd have to fake those. If that happened, that would be your reaction. Posted by: ace Maybe "phony" wasn't the right word I was looking for. Of course prank by its very nature is phony. Wht I lamely was trying to say was that the prank did not exist in pure prank-space, where you fool people for the thrill of the game -- but instead it's just a very sophisticated advertisement, and it therefore exists not in prank-space but in ad-space. I therefore can't help but perceive it as an ad -- a brilliant ad -- and not really as a true prank. The surface effect of a prank is what we see. But the intent behind the prank is its meta-message. A particularly cruel prank can be a great "prank" but also be rightfully called bullying or hazing. And in this case, they're selling a product, not pranking for prank's sake.

Posted by: zombie at October 07, 2013 03:33 PM (+cx5n)

64 I work with people like this everyday which is why I switched to decaf.

I tell'em, "you don't need someone to troubleshoot your equipment, you need an exorcist."

Posted by: Fritz at October 07, 2013 03:34 PM (x2W/k)

65 fake fake fake fake fake

Posted by: Elaine Benes at October 07, 2013 03:34 PM (rToC7)

66 I don't quite understand the comments on this site about Brian Dennehy. What's the big deal?

we revere him.

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:34 PM (8lmkt)

67 shitstains galore!

Posted by: socalcon at October 07, 2013 03:34 PM (vHlQ5)

68 >>>I don't quite understand the comments on this site about Brian Dennehy. What's the big deal? it's an in-joke that began because some people thought Brian Dennehy was in more movies than he was -- that is, any older, heavy-set actor was confused as being Brian Dennehy. So the in-joke began of claiming that Brian Dennehy stars in every single movie, including as things like The White House in Independence Day.

Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 03:34 PM (/IWYB)

69 I would like to think that in 2013 my first thought would be hidden camera show. Go give her a hug.

Posted by: Beagle at October 07, 2013 03:34 PM (sOtz/)

70 Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 07:34 PM (/IWYB)

PRO TIP: Never explain a joke

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 07, 2013 03:35 PM (8ZskC)

71 ...But the intent behind the prank is its meta-message... Well, this party's over...

Posted by: t-bird at October 07, 2013 03:36 PM (FcR7P)

72 zombie, I understand your objection, but most elaborate pranks aren't done for the purity of the prank, but to fill up TV hours (like those South American prank shows). This is a great prank. I will not hold it against them that they had self-interested motives for doing it. Why should I? They profit from exposure, but only by giving me something that pleases me. It's an honest transaction, and both parties derive benefit. There isn't even any deception as there's an ad for Carrie at the end.

Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 03:37 PM (/IWYB)

73 38 Wrath of Kahn -- onyl sequel that didnt sux

Bride of Frankenstein

Godfather II

Aliens

...

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at October 07, 2013 03:37 PM (jpc8l)

74 If it were a prank and not acting, how would they get all those camera shots? They wouldn't. It's staged.

Posted by: Jesse at October 07, 2013 03:37 PM (A/ga/)

75 The Road Warrior

Posted by: Null at October 07, 2013 03:37 PM (xjpRj)

76 I like the pranks were the prankers get beat up. Like that guy that put fake house paint on another guy's fancy car. When he explains and points to the cameras he gets hit a couple more times. Or the one where a guy pretends to rob someone and gets wheel kicked to the head by a bystander.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 03:37 PM (yETln)

77 I saw Brian Dennehy open for Ratt back in '83.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 07, 2013 03:38 PM (+lsX1)

78 So they fucked with New Yorkers and the New Yorkers freaked. Big whoopdie too. New Yorkers are so gullible they believe anything. However, they should have set up that prank in San Francisco. Those morons (not the good kind) would still believe it was real even after they showed them the set up

Posted by: Ma Bell at October 07, 2013 03:38 PM (RLdcX)

79 Sadly, in NYC, one has to assume all strangeness is a prank. On the other hand, this IS awesome: http://bit.ly/GEcEir

Posted by: @ParisParamus at October 07, 2013 03:38 PM (Cyhqx)

80 There's a layer of mist that reacts when broken.

Posted by: Null at October 07, 2013 03:39 PM (xjpRj)

81 If it were a prank and not acting, how would they get all those camera shots? They wouldn't. It's staged. Multiple cameras on site.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 03:39 PM (yETln)

82 Pretty great! The chairs and tables moving looked the best. And that dark blue hardback book flying off the shelf? Brian Dennehy.

Posted by: Dang at October 07, 2013 03:39 PM (Hx2XA)

83 Bonhomme, those sound awesome.

Posted by: NCKate at October 07, 2013 03:39 PM (tlIcr)

84 ... and I think they're all actors. Most of their faces photograph a little too well to be just any shlubs off the street.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at October 07, 2013 03:40 PM (jpc8l)

85 A Paul Anka soundtrack would have put this into the history books.

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:40 PM (8lmkt)

86 Not as funny as California liberals discovering that ObamaCare's going to ruin their hopes of retirement, but still pretty funny!

Posted by: Kensington at October 07, 2013 03:40 PM (/AHDz)

87 Now that I think about it, Brian Dennehy played Christine, didn't he?

Posted by: DangerGirl, home sweet home at October 07, 2013 03:41 PM (GrtrJ)

88 @74 If it were a prank and not acting, how would they get all those camera shots?

Maybe by setting up a bunch of hidden cameras?

Posted by: Joshua at October 07, 2013 03:41 PM (oCZ4e)

89 >>>If it were a prank and not acting, how would they get all those camera shots? They wouldn't. It's staged. did you notice all the mounted and hidden cameras in the walls ?

Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 03:41 PM (/IWYB)

90 Prank Truthers.

Posted by: NCKate at October 07, 2013 03:41 PM (tlIcr)

91 71 zombie, I understand your objection, but most elaborate pranks aren't done for the purity of the prank, but to fill up TV hours (like those South American prank shows). This is a great prank. I will not hold it against them that they had self-interested motives for doing it. Why should I? They profit from exposure, but only by giving me something that pleases me. It's an honest transaction, and both parties derive benefit. There isn't even any deception as there's an ad for Carrie at the end. Posted by: ace I understand fully. I don't really have any objections to it - I did say it was funny and brilliant. I guess I'm just a Prank Nazi, because in my real life I'm an inveterate prankster and I always do it for no reason other than the fun of it. (Some of my pranks have even made it to being reported in local newspapers and local TV news shows. There are even two entries in Scopes about two of my pranks.) Maybe I'm just jealous because they had half a million dollars for special effects, stunt men and actors!

Posted by: zombie at October 07, 2013 03:41 PM (+cx5n)

92 Can't wait to see the pranks for Machete Kills.

Posted by: t-bird at October 07, 2013 03:41 PM (FcR7P)

93 However, they should have set up that prank in San Francisco. Those morons (not the good kind) would still believe it was real even after they showed them the set up I love a story about Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini. Doyle was one of those stupid spiritualists. Houdini did a stunt where he appears to slip through something solid and come out the other side. Doyle proclaimed that Houdini actually did it, actually went through something solid. Houdini said, no, it's a trick. Doyle argued that no, it's real, Houdini's mind fakes him out by going through the mechanics of the trick, but it's really Houdini passing through the solid object.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 03:42 PM (yETln)

94 And I think they're all actors. Most of their faces photograph a little too well to be just any shlubs off the street.

If the construction worker was with a cop, an Indian, a biker and a cowboy I'd agree that it was probably a put-on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 07, 2013 03:42 PM (8ZskC)

95 Remember Allen FUNT and Candid Camera?

Posted by: jakeman Plover at October 07, 2013 03:42 PM (vH4YP)

96 New Yorkers are so gullible they believe anything. Yeah, like that commie Di Blasio will be a good Mayor

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2013 03:42 PM (1RQeV)

97 >>>45

Fake. If it was a real video, they would have decapitated Dumbo after taking him down.

Posted by: Xander Crews at October 07, 2013 03:43 PM (SUbHR)

98 You know what tipped me off that it was fake? They actually show the guys making a fake brick wall! Seriously, you see it at the beginning around the 9 second mark. It's real fast, but there's a bit of type there that says a fake brick wall is put up! How stupid! LOLZ!

Posted by: Dang, getting in on it at October 07, 2013 03:43 PM (Hx2XA)

99 86 Not as funny as California liberals discovering that ObamaCare's going to ruin their hopes of retirement, but still pretty funny! Posted by: Kensington Zing!

Posted by: zombie at October 07, 2013 03:43 PM (+cx5n)

100 Remember Allen FUNT and Candid Camera? Posted by: jakeman Plover at October 07, 2013 07:42 PM (vH4YP) Yup. My Dad was in it. Was caught buying a tie next to a basically naked women.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2013 03:43 PM (1RQeV)

101

73...Telekinesis power doesn't exits.

Only people who still have the Ancient Alien gene can still do it.

Posted by: wheatie at October 07, 2013 03:43 PM (7CgKa)

102 If it were a prank and not acting, how would they know that people would come in to buy coffee? Also, that one guy's beard could have totally been fake.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 07, 2013 03:43 PM (+lsX1)

103 Brian Dennehy lied about serving in Vietnam.He did play the PBR in Apocalypse Now though.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 03:44 PM (9XBK2)

104 >>If it were a prank and not acting, how would they get all those camera shots? They wouldn't. It's staged. Why stage it? If I had been in for my pre-wakeup cup of coffee and saw that shit I would have jumped out of my shorts.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2013 03:44 PM (g1DWB)

105 Zombie's pranks are legend.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 07, 2013 03:44 PM (ZshNr)

106 When she screams...someone needs to "borrow" this for the epic tantrums of Obamabots across the land. She has an apple computer and the entire set is made for this. Mock them, recharge, and mock them again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Redneck Queen of Tea Party, Eleventy District at October 07, 2013 03:44 PM (baL2B)

107

Wait for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsF3HspQY6A

Posted by: Max Entropy at October 07, 2013 03:45 PM (QKYRm)

108 Pranker gets kicked in head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enBLNVOBVKE Car paint pranker slapped around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHLewhLfKhk

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 03:45 PM (yETln)

109 Not as funny as California liberals discovering that ObamaCare's going to ruin their hopes of retirement, but still pretty funny! ObamaCare is kind of The Aristocrats of political comedy, isn't it.

Posted by: jakeman at October 07, 2013 03:45 PM (vH4YP)

110 >>>Maybe I'm just jealous because they had half a million dollars for special effects, stunt men and actors! well that's the thing, private pranks have a limited budget and no convincing telekinesis effects.

Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 03:45 PM (/IWYB)

111 Remember Allen FUNT and Candid Camera?

Posted by: jakeman Plover at October 07, 2013 07:42 PM (vH4YP)

Why, yes. Thank you very much.

Posted by: The Mailbox at October 07, 2013 03:46 PM (Oz+LZ)

112 Yup. My Dad was in it. Was caught buying a tie next to a basically naked women. That is wicked cool!

Posted by: jakeman at October 07, 2013 03:46 PM (vH4YP)

113 I can't wait to see what they'll do for the new Godzilla movie.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 03:47 PM (9XBK2)

114 I heard all the Jews left the coffee shop an hour before the prank.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 07, 2013 03:47 PM (SzAZ7)

115 I'd hit that.

Posted by: esch at October 07, 2013 03:48 PM (Qg1n0)

116

I saw that same rocket attack video, freakin hilarious. Watch the little kid.

Posted by: Max Entropy at October 07, 2013 03:48 PM (QKYRm)

117
Woman who directed this Carrie remake also directed "Boys Don't Cry".

So the odds of suck are pretty high.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2013 03:48 PM (kdS6q)

118 Yup. My Dad was in it. Was caught buying a tie next to a basically naked women. I went tie shopping on Saturday. Didn't see any naked women though. I'm doing it wrong I guess.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 03:48 PM (yETln)

119
In Texas there is a town called New Braunfels, with a large German speaking population. One day, a local rancher driving down a country road noticed a man using his hand to drink water from a pond. The rancher rolled down the window and shouted: Â“Sehr angenehm! Trink das Wasser nicht. Die kuehe haben darein geschissen.Â” (Which means: Â“Glad to meet you! DonÂ’t drink the water. The cows have shit in it.)

The man shouted back: Â“IÂ’m from New York and just down campaigning for ObamaÂ’s health care plan. I canÂ’t understand you. Please speak in English.Â”

The rancher replied: Â“Use both hands!Â”

Posted by: Doctor Fish at October 07, 2013 03:49 PM (pJF+c)

120 Brian Dennehy was a good actor, but he was no John Vernon!

John Vernon would have known how to deal with the telekinesis chick.

And yeah, I'd hit her too. But I'd worry that she could hit back.

Posted by: MrScribbler at October 07, 2013 03:50 PM (kaGpp)

121 YouTube has a ton of old Candid Camera clips. Life was so simple and cute back then.

Posted by: jakeman at October 07, 2013 03:50 PM (vH4YP)

122 Pranker gets kicked in head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enBLNVOBVKE

Car paint pranker slapped around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHLewhLfKhk Posted by: bonhomme

Fucking foreigners don't know shit.

Posted by: Allen Funt at October 07, 2013 03:51 PM (Hx2XA)

123 Wait, could this whole Obama thing turn out to be just the most awesome prank ever?

Bivalve, look over in that corner-- IT'S A CAMERA! President Sowell has been leading the country through its five-year revival, California is a shall-issue state, and your lazy layabout kids moved out years ago...

Posted by: Bivalve Curious at October 07, 2013 03:51 PM (aGqSh)

124 I love a story about Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini. Doyle was one of those stupid spiritualists. Houdini did a stunt where he appears to slip through something solid and come out the other side. Doyle proclaimed that Houdini actually did it, actually went through something solid. Houdini said, no, it's a trick. Doyle argued that no, it's real, Houdini's mind fakes him out by going through the mechanics of the trick, but it's really Houdini passing through the solid object. Posted by: bonhomme That was actually VERY similar to one of my best pranks ever. Behold: I was friends with a guy who was an aeronautical engineer in Mountain View, who studied the shape of wings. I convinced him to give a lecture on the Cal campus about how heavier-than-air flight (i.e. airplane flight) is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. We put up flyers around campus for several days with somewhat vaguely misleading and more exciting description of what the lecture was to be about. Got a decent size audience of about a couple hundred. He went up on stage and used all sorts of gobblygook but real-sounding engineering verbiage, and wrote equations and diagrams on the blackboard. After 45 minutes he had conclusively proven that airplanes simply cannot fly. We then took questions from the audience and waited for the shoe to drop -- someone challenging his thesis -- at which point we were going to fess up that the whole thing was a joke. Guess what? Nobody challenged him. Ashen-faced, they started to file out. We said "Wait wait! There's one more thing you need to know. IT WAS ALL A LIE! And you should have know that because planes do in fact fly!!" And just as with Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini, to my utter astonishment, most people remaining said "No, you were right all along -- flying is impossible. Your subsequent denial is the real lie!" We literally could not unconvince many of them Amazing.

Posted by: zombie at October 07, 2013 03:52 PM (+cx5n)

125 Coincidentally, Brian Denehey did star in a prank-filled movie with Bryan Brown called "F/X". Of course, they were vengeful pranks...

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2013 03:52 PM (JRmiD)

126 Woman who directed this Carrie

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix

Thanks for saving me some money.

Posted by: Dang at October 07, 2013 03:53 PM (Hx2XA)

127

106 When she screams...someone needs to "borrow" this for the epic tantrums of Obamabots across the land.

Oh, I think there will be lots of real-life tantrums happening next year.

Just wait till those who have Obamacare can't find a doctor that will accept it...

"I signed up for Obamacare...and the closest doctor who will take it is 40 miles away! Waaaah!"

Posted by: wheatie at October 07, 2013 03:53 PM (7CgKa)

128 In other news just read that Ashley Judd, famous actress, is on her way to her estranged race-car crashing husband in Houston (I think, am only typing this from quick read through. He could be in Walla Walla or Pago Pago).

Our heroine tweeted she was on her way to comfort and save him with just the clothes on her back and her dogs, all she needs. Husband, with a couple of cracked vertebra and broken ankle, tweets after reading her tweet: Help me!!11!! Get me out of here!

I can only imagine the drama of her coming to his aide in the hospital and applying cool cloths to his furrowed brow (while talking selfies of her and dogs...remember her cross country flight where the people in economy class irritated her with their clanking ice cubes? I think she had a poodle or a dog in first class. Or maybe that was her race-car estranged husband, Dario. Dario wishes he was not immobile and trapped in hospital, bless his heart).

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Redneck Queen of Tea Party, Eleventy District at October 07, 2013 03:54 PM (baL2B)

129 12 Definitely not a CCW state. Posted by: Trainer's looking to join a Militia. at October 07, 2013 07:23 PM (7EbAY) Hah, I was thinking the same thing. I sat wondering at what point I'd have pulled.

Posted by: Oedipus at October 07, 2013 03:54 PM (Tjkt6)

130 I still think the best viral prank video was that promotion for the Beach Party Buttfuckers movie.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 07, 2013 03:54 PM (+lsX1)

131 YouTube has a ton of old Candid Camera clips. Life was so simple and cute back then.

Sure, they saved the old Candid Camera shows, but recorded over Super Bowl I. Yes, life was cute, but there was still plenty of stupid to go around . . .

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:54 PM (8lmkt)

132 Now that's pretty good, but let me tell you about the big one I pulled on like 300+ million people

Posted by: Bill Ayers at October 07, 2013 03:55 PM (Pr6hk)

133 Doyle wanted to believe,he was a smart man but deluded.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 03:55 PM (9XBK2)

134 130 I still think the best viral prank video was that promotion for the Beach Party Buttfuckers movie.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 07, 2013 07:54 PM (+lsX1)

enjoy your italicized time in the barrel, buddy . . .

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:56 PM (8lmkt)

135 dammit!

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 07, 2013 03:56 PM (+lsX1)

136 Who's The Dummy?

Posted by: slippery when soothsayer at October 07, 2013 03:56 PM (g3/1j)

137 Carrie for president 2016. Campaign slogan: BURN DC DOWN TO CINDERS AND ASHES!!!

Posted by: angel with a sword at October 07, 2013 03:56 PM (hpgw1)

138 Looks like we're going to get some head in the barrel.

Posted by: esch at October 07, 2013 03:57 PM (Qg1n0)

139 "I signed up for Obamacare...and the closest doctor who will take it is 40 miles away! Waaaah!"

Posted by: wheatie at October 07, 2013 07:53 PM (7CgKa)

Nevermind, as part of the "fix" rammed through next year, Obamacare will cover taxi service to the doctor's office of your choice.

Posted by: Retread at October 07, 2013 03:57 PM (Oz+LZ)

140 Reminds me about the one time I did this "story" about a sitting presidents activities in the Texas Air National Guard

Posted by: Dan Rather at October 07, 2013 03:57 PM (Pr6hk)

141 New Rule: You must put on this Dunce Cap, first.

Posted by: slippery when soothsayer at October 07, 2013 03:57 PM (g3/1j)

142 Arthur Conan Doyle also believed in The Cottingly Fairies.

I think I saw them open for The Smiths in '86.

Posted by: Dang at October 07, 2013 03:57 PM (Hx2XA)

143 >>YouTube has a ton of old Candid Camera clips. Life was so simple and cute back then.

Those were fun. What I hate are those "What Would You Do" shows - forget which news magazine show does them - where they set up fake scenes, like a man coaxing an inebriated teen to leave a bar with him or a person uttering bigoted slurs at a stranger, to see if people intervene.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2013 03:58 PM (JRmiD)

144 OT-

Harking back to the Action Shep Smith post earlier - I thought those desplays looked familiar http://tinyurl.com/n4qycnv

Posted by: chad at October 07, 2013 03:58 PM (gYowz)

145 I think for Carrie ,King basically took that Twilight Zone episode about the kid who could do anything and spun it a bit.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 03:58 PM (9XBK2)

146 "I signed up for Obamacare...and the closest doctor who will take it is 40 miles away! Waaaah!" You're the one 'taking it'. Now, bend over...

Posted by: t-bird at October 07, 2013 03:58 PM (FcR7P)

147

Heh. You think thats funny? Check this.

http://tinyurl.com/oogb8v6

Posted by: maddogg at October 07, 2013 03:59 PM (i5IoF)

148 Now that's pretty good, but let me tell you about the big one I pulled on like 300+ million people

Posted by: Bill Ayers at October 07, 2013 07:55 PM (Pr6hk)

____________________

No contest. You win.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at October 07, 2013 03:59 PM (jucos)

149 "I signed up for Obamacare...and the closest doctor who will take it is 40 miles away! Waaaah!"

Posted by: wheatie

Ha ha ha ha! Because more pollution. Ha ha ha ha!

Posted by: Dang at October 07, 2013 03:59 PM (Hx2XA)

150 The last time I heard a girl scream like that was when I took my pants off for the first time.

Posted by: Jeff B. at October 07, 2013 03:59 PM (n/+FT)

151 "I signed up for Obamacare...and the closest doctor who will take it is 40 miles away! Waaaah!"

Yet another argument for High Speed Rail!!

Posted by: Peaches at October 07, 2013 03:59 PM (8lmkt)

152 What I hate are those "What Would You Do" shows

Yes! John Quinones should have been kicked in the sack for those. It was ABC.

Posted by: no good deed at October 07, 2013 04:00 PM (k55Fc)

153 I remember this one time where I told people that I was running for president, and then fell asleep on the campaign trail... boy was that funny

Posted by: Fred Thompson at October 07, 2013 04:00 PM (Pr6hk)

154 Houdini wanted to believe too,but he debunked the frauds looking for the real thing.Which he never found(at least in life).

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 04:00 PM (9XBK2)

155 It was a good job of fakery. The give away was the obvious abandonment of the tables that were coincidentally hooked up to the machines. If just one person remained seated, the prank would not work.

Posted by: Nanny Hag at October 07, 2013 04:01 PM (39IHH)

156 That is a good prank. BTW, did anyone notice in the Carrie previews that it looks more like mud rather than pig's blood that's spilled on her?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 07, 2013 04:01 PM (DmNpO)

157 We literally could not unconvince many of them Amazing. That's fantastic! I love it.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 04:02 PM (yETln)

158 Just thought this, too, as Ashley is on my mind: somehow she will turn her race-car crashing husband's hospitalization into helping enroll the downtrodden into Obamacare. She will recruit in the emergency dept with her dogs while Dario is in surgery.

I think I met her in a past life in the dorm or something. Somehow I know how she would be. I sort of want to slap her like Scarlett in Gone With The Wind.

#ChristyIsChannelingAshleyAndItIsNotGood

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Redneck Queen of Tea Party, Eleventy District at October 07, 2013 04:03 PM (baL2B)

159 This one time, I told an audience: "We have nothing to fear with Obama in the White House"

Posted by: John McCain at October 07, 2013 04:03 PM (Pr6hk)

160

156...BTW, did anyone notice in the Carrie previews that it looks more like mud rather than pig's blood that's spilled on her?

Maybe it's liquid poo.

She does get really, really pissed off.

Posted by: wheatie at October 07, 2013 04:03 PM (7CgKa)

161 86 Not as funny as California liberals discovering that ObamaCare's going to ruin their hopes of retirement, but still pretty funny! Posted by: Kensington at October 07, 2013 07:40 PM (/AHDz) Carrie was trying to sign up for the exchanges? Coffee on the computer kicks her out of waiting room of doom?

Posted by: LizLem, giving Obamabots the eyeroll at October 07, 2013 04:04 PM (8wqqE)

162 John Quinones- thanks! I wonder if this may inhibit people from responding because they figure its just this show, or one of the other punk'd type shows. Like, that dude isn't really slapping his kid in front of me - where's the hidden camera?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2013 04:04 PM (JRmiD)

163 Look at the sunlight outside the coffee shop, it's obviously 4:15pm. No one drinks coffee then! So fake!

Posted by: Dang, getting in on it at October 07, 2013 04:06 PM (Hx2XA)

164 John Gruden is even worse at interviewing than color commenting.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 04:06 PM (9XBK2)

165 Good FX; horrible acting.

This is why we have to import all our actors from the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at October 07, 2013 04:06 PM (TJw7K)

166 I remember this one time where I ran for elective office as a staunch conservative

Posted by: Marco at October 07, 2013 04:06 PM (Pr6hk)

167

Magic Cooch is rife for a Who parody.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2013 04:07 PM (t57/N)

168 This is why we have to import all our actors from the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Posted by: Tacky Adhesive

I blame community theater.

Posted by: Dang at October 07, 2013 04:08 PM (Hx2XA)

169 Daily reminder: In the empire of lies, all we have left is shitty Stephen King movie remakes.

Posted by: WOW at October 07, 2013 04:08 PM (6sqK6)

170 New one up!

Posted by: Dang at October 07, 2013 04:08 PM (Hx2XA)

171 Brian Denehey did the voiceover for the scream. I'd recognize him anywhere. Big fan, I am.

Posted by: eureka! at October 07, 2013 04:08 PM (hmMJD)

172 I remember the time where I needed some money so I could travel by private jet on my book tour, so I told the people of the nation I was running for president

Posted by: Newt Gingrich at October 07, 2013 04:09 PM (Pr6hk)

173 Ha! Best prank ever!

Posted by: Dang at October 07, 2013 04:09 PM (Hx2XA)

174 156 That is a good prank. BTW, did anyone notice in the Carrie previews that it looks more like mud rather than pig's blood that's spilled on her? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 07, 2013 08:01 PM (DmNpO) That's probably done to get the preview to be approved for all audiences. Making it darker and looking like mud keeps it in that range. I remember reading about them doing that in the last Harry potter movie. For the previews they had to cgi the blood off of hermiones or however you spell it hands and that was their explanation.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 07, 2013 04:09 PM (rGrFG)

175 I think I saw Magic Cooch open for Heart at the Tacoma Dome in 1979.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 07, 2013 04:09 PM (SzAZ7)

176 This is why we have to import all our actors from the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

That's why we have both illegal aliens and H1B visas to do the jobs Americans can't or won't.

Posted by: chad at October 07, 2013 04:09 PM (gYowz)

177 Like, that dude isn't really slapping his kid in front of me - where's the hidden camera? I think watching TV has conditioned most of us to think we'd act in real life. You know that something is going to happen because of the camera angle, or music, or story structure point. You know the hero is going to do something, and you want to identify with the hero. But real life is 99.999% not at all like the movies. I've only seen random strangers fist-fighting a couple of times in my life. I've seen cars in flames, but only rarely. Even combat veterans who know they've acted bravely were in a situation where they knew they had to be aware and ready to act. I don't usually walk around in condition yellow because it's exhausting.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 04:09 PM (yETln)

178 wow...that was much better than I expected.

Posted by: Eton Cox at October 07, 2013 04:10 PM (q177U)

179 That's probably done to get the preview to be approved for all audiences. Making it darker and looking like mud keeps it in that range. I remember reading about them doing that in the last Harry potter movie. For the previews they had to cgi the blood off of hermiones or however you spell it hands and that was their explanation. *** Ahhh. I see. I figured it had something to do with cruelty to pigs.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 07, 2013 04:10 PM (DmNpO)

180

NO! NO! NO! This is NOT COOL. Sooner or later as someone tries to outdo the last hoax, somebody is gonna get hurt and hurt BAD.

Am I the only one out here who sees that these video pranks can only end badly?

Whoopty-didly-doo! I made someone scared. WOW, that makes me talented and I have no concern for ANY possible side effect.

Posted by: Jimmy P at October 07, 2013 04:12 PM (afQ2e)

181 Chris Pine is apparently the current go to American leading man.He's going to be Jack Ryan in the upcoming movie.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2013 04:12 PM (9XBK2)

182 Yep. Just looked it up. Very red pig blood looking goo in the actual photos.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 07, 2013 04:12 PM (DmNpO)

183 ROTFLMAO...

...and I bet most of the terrified patrons are huge fans of the "I Love Fucking Science" Facebook page...

Posted by: TheEngineer at October 07, 2013 04:12 PM (9PNNC)

184 Grow up.

Posted by: jacke at October 07, 2013 04:13 PM (5Cwv4)

185 If there is a red band trailer it is probably also obviously blood red there as well.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 07, 2013 04:14 PM (rGrFG)

186 Carrie, how lame...

Posted by: Slenderman at October 07, 2013 04:14 PM (Dsds2)

187 Remember when I pulled the old L Ron Hubbard, and got hundreds of millions worldwide to believe that man generated enough carbon dioxide to change the weather of the planet, and then got rich fools to invest in my companies?

Posted by: Al Gore at October 07, 2013 04:14 PM (Pr6hk)

188 LOL, you made me think of the Bill Murray death scene in Zombieland. I think they figure it's safe to pull pranks like this in big blue cities, the mayors have confiscated the guns from all the civilians so no accidental shootings. to worry about.

Posted by: LizLem, giving Obamabots the eyeroll at October 07, 2013 04:15 PM (8wqqE)

189 Speaking of pranks, remember that time I said "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan"... crackers sucked it up like it was honey

Posted by: Barky at October 07, 2013 04:17 PM (Pr6hk)

190 LOL, you made me think of the Bill Murray death scene in Zombieland. I think they figure it's safe to pull pranks like this in big blue cities, the mayors have confiscated the guns from all the civilians so no accidental shootings. to worry about. I saw a prank once where they used that to their advantage. They convinced this kid he was going to be on a prank show. They went into a store and one of them had a gun. The kid with the gun gets shot. (Fake shot). Now the pranker is freaking out as the guy who just "shot" his fellow pranker is holding a gun on him. He explains it's a prank and the guy with the gun starts freaking out, why would you do that sort of thing? I just killed a guy and you were joking. Like that. Anyway, pretty extreme for a prank and they finally reveal it's fake and everyone is relieved.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 07, 2013 04:19 PM (yETln)

191 Heh, Al Gore, so true, you clever bastid.. I might have to go post that to my Eco-weenie friends.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 07, 2013 04:19 PM (ZshNr)

192 This isn't a criticism of the post content, really, but am I the only one who finds utterly no humor in "pranks"? Either they are asinine or cruel, or both. This leans toward asinine, but like the one with teh ghost in the elevator, I could see it going very, very wrong if they got the wrong "target" Whatever, I'm a cranky old misanthrope, but this to me just reeks.

Posted by: imp at October 07, 2013 04:20 PM (L9AnB)

193 Update: Well, I finally watched it all the way through.

Heh. I swear I've read that update a thousand times on this site. You'd think Ace would have learned at some point. I mean, it's not even three minutes long.

I liked the tables. Cheapskates/lazy folks would do wires, but their idea was way better.

Posted by: red sweater at October 07, 2013 04:22 PM (oATMN)

194

Have there ever been any Lawsuits filed over pranks?

I would think that there have to have been some, somewhere.

For example...in this one, above...people walk into a coffee shop, and get traumatized by a prank.

The shop Owner was obviously in on it.

So couldn't the Owner get sued?

Posted by: wheatie at October 07, 2013 04:26 PM (7CgKa)

195

Delivery Prank was better. So was Ghost Elevator Girl!

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 07, 2013 04:30 PM (0IhFx)

196 Whatever, I'm a cranky old misanthrope, but this to me just reeks. We can start a club. ;^) I'm right there with you, brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2013 05:50 PM (a4Omg)

197 Heh... Good thing that there were no Christians there, you know, the Pentecostal kind? They would have start rebuking her... in the name of Jesus or something! LOL!

Posted by: Patrick in Michigan at October 07, 2013 07:36 PM (OhrW4)

198 >>>It was a good job of fakery. The give away was the obvious abandonment of the tables that were coincidentally hooked up to the machines. If just one person remained seated, the prank would not work. The people seated at the tables were in fact actors, as the beginning of the prank revealed. The marks for the prank were the customers standing on line by the register.

Posted by: ace at October 07, 2013 10:30 PM (/IWYB)

199 that prank is awesome if you can ignore the fact that every single person involved is an actor, and such bad actors that they can't even fake a natural reaction to seeing something like that IRL. That, and the fact the dumbass director/producer used (at least) 3 cameras and myriad angles so it's immediately obvious that this is a planned shoot on a soundstage, not in a real coffee shop, with cables and lights and crew all around. If this had been done "COPS-style" with hand-helds and grainy footage and no cuts between angles, it might have been worthwhile. As it is, it looks like the the shittiest attempt at a viral vid from a movie studio in... well a few months, anyway. They always get it wrong.

Posted by: docweasel at October 08, 2013 05:06 AM (hlFA8)

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