List of practical joke topics
This is a list of practical joke topics (also known as a prank, gag, jape, or shenanigan) which are mischievous tricks or jokes played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.[1]
Practical jokes differ from confidence tricks or hoaxes in that the victim finds out, or is let in on the joke, rather than being fooled into handing over money or other valuables. Practical jokes or pranks are generally lighthearted, reversible and non-permanent, and aim to make the victim feel foolish or victimised to a degree, but may also involve cruelty and become a form of bullying if performed without appropriate finesse.
Practical jokes[edit]
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- Caltech–MIT rivalry
- Candid Camera
- Capping stunt
- Josiah S. Carberry
- Chewing gum bug
- Chinese finger trap
- Chinese fire drill
- Confetti eggs/cascerones
- Culture jamming
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G[edit]
- Gag name
- Glitter bombing
- Googly eyes
- Golden rivet
- Great Rose Bowl Hoax
- Great Stork Derby
- Groucho glasses
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I[edit]
J[edit]
K[edit]
L[edit]
- Lace card
- Latex mask
- List of frivolous political parties
- List of Google April Fools' Day jokes
- List of Google Easter eggs
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N[edit]
P[edit]
- Pantsing
- Panty raid
- Part-time job terrorism – Japanese social phenomenon
- Penny under the sink
- Phoenix Five (prank)
- Pieing
- List of people who have been pied
- Pigasus (politics)
- Plate lifter
- Practical joke device
- Prank call
- Pranknet
- Punk'd
- Pythagorean cup
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S[edit]
- Saluting trap
- Senior prank
- Shaft passer
- Shanghai Fugu Agreement
- Shocking gum
- Shoe-lacing
- Skyhook (cable)
- Snake nut can
- Sneezing powder
- Snipe hunt
- Spaghetti Tree Hoax
- Spit ball shooting
- Stink bomb
- Student prank
- Streaking
- Swirly
T[edit]
- Taro Tsujimoto hoax
- The Jerky Boys
- Toilet papering
- Towel snap
- Travelling gnome prank
- Trick candles
- Tube Bar prank calls
- Tickling
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Practical joke". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ "Exploding Cigar advertisement". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines: 136. January 1917. ISSN 0032-4558.