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* ''Punk'd'' is an entire American series of this. |
* ''Punk'd'' is an entire American series of this. |
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* ''Beadle's About'' involved ordinary people. |
* ''Beadle's About'' involved ordinary people. |
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* Some of the things they did out of the studio with people in ''[[What Would You Do |
* Some of the things they did out of the studio with people in ''[[What Would You Do? (game show)||What Would You Do?]]'' |
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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 motorcade. |
* ''[[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. |
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* Dick Clark and Ed McMahon played pranks on celebrities as part of ''TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes''. |
* 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. |
* ''[[Trigger Happy TV]]'' is a British show that sticks more to the traditional Candid Camera formula. |
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* ''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. |
* ''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. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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* Subverted as a part of an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i2k-xXob1c ad]: it begins as the normal "guy hiding in a mailbox and throwing peoples' letters out" gag, complete with canned laughter and several successfully fooled people, but after the expected results, a huge bald guy gets his letter spat out at him. He tries again a few times, but instead of just standing there with a baffled expression, he pulls out a gun and fires several times through the mail slot. |
* Subverted as a part of an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i2k-xXob1c ad]: it begins as the normal "guy hiding in a mailbox and throwing peoples' letters out" gag, complete with canned laughter and several successfully fooled people, but after the expected results, a huge bald guy gets his letter spat out at him. He tries again a few times, but instead of just standing there with a baffled expression, he pulls out a gun and fires several times through the mail slot. |
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* On the Discovery Kids channel, there's a version of Punk'd (with kids and animals) called Skunk'd TV. |
* On the Discovery Kids channel, there's a version of Punk'd (with kids and animals) called Skunk'd TV. |
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