Index about pranks.
Compare Stock Jokes, Booby Trap.
Contrast Deadly Prank.
Tropes
- All Just a Prank: A major plot ends up to be a practical joke.
- Banana Peel: Someone slips on a banana peel and gets hurt.
- Banana in the Tailpipe: Blowing up a car's engine by sticking something in the tailpipe.
- Booby Trap: Can range from slapstick comedy as seen in the Home Alone movies, to downright lethal as seen in the climax of Skyfall (also compare that trope).
- Bucket Booby-Trap: Placing a bucket filled with water (or any sort of liquid, depending on the character) atop the edge of a door slightly ajar, then tricking some unwitting schmuck to open the door. Subverted if the intended target closes the door before re-opening, therefore spilling the bucket and rendering the prank useless.
- Bunny Ears Picture Prank: During a group photo, one person raises their index and middle finger behind another person's head to give them bunny ears.
- Burning Bag of Poop: Putting feces in a paper bag, set it alight, and watch some volunteer come over and stomp the fire out.
- Candid Camera Prank: Setting up a secret camera, microphone, etc. to record the victim without their foreknowledge for entertainment purposes.
- Cash Lure: The stray 10-dollar note on the pavement sure looks tempting, especially to some unfortunate schmuck who happens to be passing by and trying to pick it up.
- Clock Tampering: What time is it?
- Covered in Gunge: Someone gets covered in slime.
- Deadly Prank: Practical jokes are fun until someone gets hurt.
- Ding-Dong-Ditch Distraction: Ringing the doorbell and running away before someone answers.
- Egging: Throwing eggs at other people's houses.
- Electric Joybuzzer: How about a handshake?
- Explosive Cigar: You offer someone a cigar, but after it's lit, it makes a small explosion.
- Eyepiece Prank: You trick someone into looking through an eyepiece that leaves a marking around their eye or eyes.
- Fire-Breathing Diner: Making someone eat hot, spicy food so they end up breathing fire.
- Friendly Scheming
- Glitter Litter: Glitter bombs are an exploited form of this, causing the victim to be covered in glitter.
- Halloween Trickery: On Halloween, people do mischievous things like pull pranks on others.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Tricking someone into eating something disgusting.
- It's a Costume Party, I Swear!: Misleading a character into wearing a costume to a non-costume party.
- "Kick Me" Prank: A prank where you put a sign on someone's back that says "Kick Me" or something similar.
- Kneel, Push, Trip
- Laxative Prank: A prank where you trick someone into consuming a laxative.
- Nominated as a Prank
- Overturned Outhouse: Tipping over outhouses and port-a-potties as a joke.
- Pants-Pulling Prank: A prank where you pull down someone's pants (pulling down the underwear as well is optional).
- Pie in the Face: Someone gets hit in the face with a pie.
- Powder Gag: Powder is scattered or exploded all over the victim (and usually the room), entirely coating them.
- Prank Call: A prank where you harass someone over the phone by tricking them into saying something ridiculous.
- Prank Date: Asking someone out just to humiliate them.
- Prank Gone Too Far: It isn't a Deadly Prank, but it does cross a line to the point where the mark isn't laughing.
- Prank Injuries: Someone uses prank items to imitate horrifying injuries.
- Prank Punishment: A punishment in the form of a practical joke.
- Pranking Montage: A montage that shows multiple pranks being pulled.
- The Prankster: What the page is all about. The master of practical jokes.
- Pulling the Rug Out: With someone standing on it, of course.
- Running into the Window: One that is obviously as tall as a person, whose frame is out of sight enough for someone to bump into.
- Scary Surprise Party: A scary prank turns out to be a... surprise party. Like what the title states.
- Screamer Prank: Scaring the daylights out of someone with a video containing a Jump Scare.
- Soda Can Shakeup: Step 1). Give a can of soda a good shake. Step 2). Offer it to some poor sucker. Step 3). Showtime!
- Stink Bomb: It's like a smoke grenade made of farts and leftover cauliflower cheese.
- Squirting Flower Gag: tricking a victim into smelling a fake flower, that squirts water in their face when they try.
- Thumbtack on the Chair: Putting a thumbtack on a chair before someone sits on it.
- Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip: Tying a person's shoelaces together when they aren't looking so that they'll trip and fall over as soon as they try to walk.
- Toilet Paper Prank: Wrapping toilet paper around stuff.
- Trip Trap: Stretching a rope across a path to trip someone up.
- Underwear Flag: Someone puts underwear on a flagpole, usually for laughs at the undie owner's expense.
- Unraveled Entanglement
- Unscrewed Salt Shaker: Loosening the top of a salt shaker so that the next person to use it ends up spilling out all the salt in the container.
- Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Really, really typical in high school dramas. But hey, college frats, right?
- Warm Water Whiz: Putting a sleeping person's hand in warm water in order to make them wet themselves.
- "Wash Me" Graffiti
- Wedgie: Hurting someone by pulling up the back of their underwear (or the front, if it's a Melvin).
- Whoopee Cushion: A small balloon-like object that you inflate and put where someone will sit on it, whereupon the object will make it sound like the person farted.