The Best Classic Pranks and a Few Others

On this instructable I will show how to set up and pull off the best classic pranks and a few others that I have seen done with great results. These pranks are all completely harmless and will not hurt anyone if they are done how I explain them. All of these are easy to do with materials you should have around your house or they are very cheap.

Have fun with these pranks and remember it's not a prank if you take it too far.

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Step 1 Plastic Wrap Around The Door

This prank is simply where you will have to put some plastic wrap around the door frame of a commonly used door. This is one of my favorite pranks because it is very easy to set up and the people that run into this always have a great look of "What the heck happened?!?!" on their faces.

Materials

-Plastic wrap (any size)
-Masking Tape
-Door Frame
-Victim

First you will need to select a door frame to do this one. Then Get your plastic wrap and just lay it across the part of the door where the victim's face and chest part of their body will be. You do not want to put this were their feet will be because if their feet hit it before their face it will not be very funny. Then around the edges of the plastic wrap put the masking tape over it so it will not come off when they walk through. The trick to this one is to not get any wrinkles in the plastic wrap so it will be almost invisible. Remember we want this to STOP them not wrap them in plastic and suffocate them.

Comments

[MartijnD]

Also funny is to pour half a cup of olive oil in the exhaust pipe, once the exhaust heats up after 5 minutes or so the car will smell like a chinese take away...

[TacticalTrumpet]

THIS is why I wear a watch; among other things..

[arpoky]

My grandma purposely sets her clock 5-10 minutes ahead so she won't be late to whatever she needs to do that day.

[vulcan24]

My Mum does that too but it stresses her out like hell because she forgets she set it that way and she thinks that she is always late XD

[asarris]

Another funny prank, put clock back 3-4 hours now before they go to sleep put cardboard over the window (preferably before they go to sleep) and make sure no light gets through now just wait for them to fall asleep. They will wake up look at the clock and say it is still night. Kept my brother like that until 5 in the afternoon priceless.

[vulcan24]

XD I am soo doing that!

[piperstarwixom]

WOAH! I do not have time to get up, have coffee and put the twist tie on my dads drive-shaft all before 6:30 am!

[TheIronHobo]

what if they run out without any clothes don't think u want to film

[CrazyMachinist94]

you would want to film it and get censor bar put on haha

[TheIronHobo]

theres alwasys that other thing u could do with it ........O_O

[piperstarwixom]

What is the other thing?

[qmounts]

ohhh das nasstie

[TheIronHobo]

if you have access to thier bathroom and the police dont deem it worthy to take the tape. its probably not someone you...yaknow

[[ jack the young idiot ]]

depends how good looking they are

[derkek]

Er, I never really got the point of this. Is this to make it look like the toilet is filled with water? or to well, do the obvious. and keep thing from hitting the water?

[Colonel88]

No, it is so when you try to go poo-poo in the toilet, it will apear as if your poo is floating in mid-air or that it is still there.

[piperstarwixom]

OMG colonel i am cracking up right now.

[piperstarwixom]

ok i am gonna do this to my mom or dad this april fools but what happens if they slap me instead of itching their face?

This also works great with toothpaste

[Editmefree]

loved this one. it was great on afv!

[Super_Nerd]

Classic...

[slayton]

LOL.

[urtlesquirt]

COOOOL! WE HAVE SAME CLOCK!!!

[Air_Assassin]

who is the person in the duct tape?

[vandal1138]

All these physicists that know the natural decay rates of plastic hitting plastic, yet nobody knows simple grammar or spelling. There is a spell check option at the bottom!

[knex_mepalm]

 Thinking of that comment, what if the gas tank bursts and then spills on a high heat object, everyone in the area will get flamed.

[mntbkrguy]

Seriously? Fuel tanks have skid plates to protect them in case of road debris if a zip tie could puncture a fuel tank I think the roads in this country would be painted with fuels of different types.

[liljimy69]

Autoignition temperature of gasoline is average of 495 degrees F. Most things under the hood don't reach that temperature maybe 300F on a really hot day. Exhaust, yes but then again normal leaks would consist of droplets. If it's a stream of gasoline then it might catch itself on fire and flow up into the tank and blow up but it has to hit the exhaust perfectly and flow upwards steadily which is also highly unlikely since an engineer would have to be stupid to put a tank directly above the exhaust pipe. If the car is moving very fast wind turbulance would disrupt the flow of fire. Eventually the gas meter would drop and the driver would know something is wrong. there are far too many things that stop something like this from becoming a disaster that i'd bet real money that a gas tank would never blow up under these conditions

[pproctor]

mythbusters proved exactly that, even after lighting the fule and getting the greenzone air to fule mix perfect they still could'nt get the damn thing to blow, thats in a controlled enviroment

[SpiroExDeus]

Yep. Unfortunately a spell check that will pick up 'Yep' as a spelling error but will see nothing wrong with the phrase "there's a whole in the bottom". ( a whole what?!??!)

[vandal1138]

A whole entire absence of matter. Also known as a "hole" (note the omitted "W", but don't ask. You don't want to know).

[Atarimark]

It's spell checking not grammar checking. LOL

[vandal1138]

Well it should be.

[chicopluma]

how the hell did you get into that ductape spiderweb, i would like to try it

[Foehammer358]

this prank might have bad repercutions : most fire detectors are linked to the local fire department...

[metqa]

Really, Most? maybe some like in say industrial buildings or dorms or some other multiresidential setting. However private dwellings usually have the typical battery operated, removable and replaceable, noise makers that can be bought from the dollar store. I doubt those have any direct connection to the fire department. My alarm ( which is actually hardwired into the houses power) goes off every time I preheat the oven as does all of my neighbors in this apartment building and yet the fire department right down the street takes no notice . . . This prank might have bad repercussions IF the fire detector is linked to an automated response system, but most private homes aren't unless you purchase a security service like ADT or something.

I also want to know about the first duct taped picture. It looks awesome!

[allthegoodnamesaretaken]

 Yeah, this is the only one in the group i wouldn't try.

[emcelhannon]

I would imagine one direction would be better than the other.  Which way will yield maximum noise.  I suppose we should say clockwise or counter clockwise for a person standing behind the vehicle.
I've got just the man to pull this on.  He's the cop in our building.  I already put an exhaust whistle in his tail pipe last year.  He took it to the departments mechanic, who fell over laughing about it.  This one should make him proud.  Thanks for the post.

[cliffordsr]

looking from the back, the crankshaft will turn counter clockwise, so for the loudest noise, apply it like this:
________
| 0
| |
|_|

(if facing from the back, and the 0 is the locking thing)

[thebigflower]

I actually did this to my mother when I was 10 along with several other awesome pranks all in a weeks' span. Love you Mommie!

[jefferzbooboo]

If you want to pull a "prank" on someone thats pissing you off, talk to a buddy that works road construction and have him get some of those reflectors that they put in the middle of the highway after paving and stick them to his tires. They are impossible to get off and will only wear off or he has to get new tires. Or, take some old nasty beer and pour them in the vents in front of his windshield, the smell is impossible to get out and every time they turn on their fan, it smells like beer.