Jimmy Kimmel’s Halloween candy prank is still going strong
By Matt Moore
Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s tradition of encouraging parents to lie to their children celebrated its eighth anniversary this year and it may be the best one yet.
Halloween is a day for children, primarily. They are the ones who get to pick out their costumes and go door to door getting far more candy than they could ever really need. But for eight years now, Jimmy Kimmel has been giving parents a chance to have a little more fun.
Once all the parties are over, the pictures have been posted to Instagram, and the costumes get put away it can seem like Halloween is officially over. That doesn’t have to be the case though. No, the official end of Halloween season comes after watching the “I Told My Kids I Ate Their Halloween Candy” video.
It was only a few days ago that Kimmel reminded everyone of the challenge and asked parents and adults all over to record their pranks and upload it to YouTube. Thousands of videos were added and tagged. The staff at Jimmy Kimmel Live! had the task of going through them all and narrowing it down to the best:
It starts off strong with the little kid in the Superman shirt. He shows some impressive anger control before taking a much more compassionate approach to warning his mom about the side effects of over-eating. That wasn’t quite the reaction of the kid who followed.
Other highlights are definitely the kid who could only shrug, the anti-vegetables reaction, and the boy who tried to send his mother to his room. It’s funny to see kids try to punish their parents or respond with what they hear when they get in trouble. The “I’m disappointed in you” line always stings.
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After eight years it was getting to the point where too many entries in these videos were clearly staged or fake by parents wanting to viral. It seemed like only one kid was being told what to say at the end so that is a good sign. Hopefully all those kids who thought it was real were able to forgive their parents and take back their words. Until next year, well done Jimmy!