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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
=== Real Life Examples ===
* Allen Funt's ''[[Candid Camera]]'' is pretty much the definer of the genre. It did both ordinary people and celebs. Its [[Catch Phrase]], "Smile, you're on [[Candid Camera]]," is well known around the world.
** ''Candid [[Candid Camera]]'' was the same show, with the same host, only Direct to Video and [[Hotter and Sexier|with]] [[Naked People Are Funny|nudity.]]
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** Allen Funt became so well known for this that when he once got on a plane that was hijacked and flown to Cuba, he was the only passenger who didn't spend the entire flight laughing hysterically, thinking that this was a Candid Camera gag.
* ''[[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".
* ''[[Punk'd]]'' is an entire American series of this.{{context}}<!-- Considering the original Candid Camera was also an American series, this is essentially "this example exists". Please add context to this example, as per ATT:ZCE -->
* ''[[Beadle's About]]'' involved ordinary people.
* Some of the things they did out of the studio with people in ''[[What Would You Do? (game show)
* ''[[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 motorcade.
* [[Dick Clark]] and [[Ed McMahon]] played pranks on celebrities as part of ''[[TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes]]''.
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* ''[[Trigger Happy TV]]'' is a British show that sticks more to the traditional Candid Camera formula.
* ''[[Scare Tactics]]''. 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 continues.
* Subverted in a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' [http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode05.htm#9 sketch]. An 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.▼
* On the [[Discovery Kids]] channel, there's a version of ''Punk'd'' (with kids and animals) called ''[[Skunk'd TV]]''.
* ''[[Videomatch]]''/''Showmatch'' was this before focusing entirely on "Bailando por un Sueño", and now it's back to doing this.
* ''[[The Jamie Kennedy Experiment]]''.{{context}}
* ''[[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...▼
* ''[[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''!)▼
* ''[[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.
* Done in several Disney shows including ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' and ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', both with a ''Punk'd''-esque show called 'Gotcha'▼
* ''[[Improv Everywhere]]'' does it just for the amusement of the participants, bystanders and readers of their website.
* A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch with [[Christopher Walken]] had such a show, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130924210843/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02mpranksters.phtml 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 [[Disproportionate Retribution|by killing him with a tire iron]].▼
* ''[[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.
* Several of the competitions between the hosts of ''[[Dick and 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 [[Captain Obvious|"Bogies"]] (US English= "Boogers") louder and louder in a public place. The producer would do a funny sports-style commentary over the footage.
=== In-Universe Examples ===
▲* Subverted in a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' [http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode05.htm#9 sketch]. An 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.
▲* ''[[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...
▲* ''[[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''!)
▲* A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch with [[Christopher Walken]] had such a show, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130924210843/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02mpranksters.phtml 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 [[Disproportionate Retribution|by killing him with a tire iron]].
▲* Done in several Disney shows including ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' and ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', both with a ''Punk'd''-esque show called 'Gotcha'
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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