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the outraged parents need to take a look at reality and see that this prank is nothing compared to the child abuse and negligence kids have to endure EVERYDAY throughout the world. These spoiled brats brought home candy from a once a year holiday (trick or treating) and in my opinion the parents telling their kids they ate it is teaching them two LESSONS: a.) don’t be stupid and leave your candy out and b.) appreciate what you have before it’s gone SUCKAS

I was crying because I was laughing so hard while watching this video. Sorry I’m not sorry.

Aw I thought it was really cute! And I’m sure they told their kids the truth right after! Too much candy isn’t good for them anyway

I especially love the last two boys. “you sneakkyy mom!” haha  

Kids will be okay if their parents play a joke every once in a while. It might even teach them to deal with disappointment a little.

I thought it was HILARIOUS! 

I thought it was pretty funny… lol.

@shes_lump@xanga - @FuntimeswithGoldie@xanga - I agree with the both of you.

My friend posted this on my facebook a couple of days ago and I was dying laughing. This is something I have done to my little cousins and their reactions are priceless. I would definitely do this to my kids in the future. Playing a joke on a kid isn’t a big deal and it’s something they can look back on and laugh. People these days are being too serious. Why do we have to be serious with our kids all the time? Why is there no room for fun or a couple of jokes or pranks? When the first toy story came out, my mom could only find Woody, not Buzz for my older brother and so she bought Woody for him and he threw the woody at his bedroom door and started crying “I WANTED BUZZ MOM!!! WHY DID I GET WOODY??” My mom caught the whole thing on tape and we watch it now and laugh.

I seriously couldn’t finish watching this video…that anyone would lie to children about something so trivial just to get a rise out of them is the most upsetting thing to me.  Seriously disturbing.

That criticism is coming from the Christian Post. They’re uppity about EVERYTHING. See also: no sense of humor.

@a_single_raindrop@xanga - That’s totally the best part of the video.

Aren’t they not seeing the big problem?? Why should children be disappointed that they have no candy? Are we really spoiling our kids so much that not having sugary treats is harsh? 

Yeah it’s mean but it’s a good way to see what kind of kid you’ve got on your hands! The ones who lose it needed a reality check anyway!  I love the last two little boys.. they are so funny and mature about the whole situation. 

Seriously, this is just a joke! Its all fun and games! Plus disappointments happen everyday, theyre just preping their kids  

@youandonions@xanga - its called “trick or treat” for a reason. all the parents most likely said sorry and gave the candy to the kids in the end. and can u imagine how happy they would be after knowing there’s candy left after all? its harmless fun. its not like they were mentally abusing the kids by saying ‘youre too fat for candy MUHAHAHAHA’. no. just a prank.

After years of working hard to providing for his family my dad purchased his dream car, a Jaguar. This was a few years back when the radio controls were not commonly found on the steering wheel. My dad made my brother and I firmly believe that his car was voice activated. We tried for months to be able to replicate his voice so the car would listen to us too. It wasn’t until at least half a year later that we found out that he had been joking the whole time. Did this trickery and deceit traumatized me to the point that at a tender age of nine i lost my trust in my father, no, it did not.

According to Erickson children develop a trust in their parents as infants. So long as that trust has been instilled in the child a simple joke is not going to cause irreparable harm to the bond between parent and child. Children play jokes on their parents all the time and vise verse. So long as the parent was able to fulfill the child’s basic need as an infant it would take more than a harmless prank to sever it.

Also, i’m sure those kids were so happy to find out it was a joke and eat to their heart’s content that in the aftermath of their sugar induced coma they forgot all about the joke.

Also, also, I hope these parents complaining about these parent’s “lying” to their children go to little Timmy’s bed on Xmas eve and tell him that they have been lying to him for the past nine years and tell him that not only is Santa Claus not real but he is actually part clever marketing schemes on behalf of corporations and behavioral controlling tool for parents. Oh, the Easter bunny too.

@Twilight_Embers@xanga - i agree. i also think its weird people have a problem seeing other parents play tricks like this on kids, when the holiday itself is meant to scare the green poop out of them.

Yooooou sneaky mom! 2+2=… FIVE!

I love this video!

Growing up, my dad pulled all kinds of stuff like this on me. I definitely think it made me a better person, as I became much better at taking a joke and I don’t take everything so seriously. Also the teasing helped me become more quick witted. So to hear these criticisms is pretty ridiculous. It’s HALLOWEEN CANDY. They didn’t actually eat it, and the kids learned that eventually. Like @shes_lump@xanga said, there could be so many far worse things happening to these children. Let’s keep it in perspective.

And I thought it was hysterical.

@a_single_raindrop@xanga - I love the part when the dad is sitting at the table with all the empty candy wrappers and his daughter comes in and goes, “Where’s all my candy?” and he says, “…what candy?”

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it sparked controversy, but good gracious. These kids will be JUST fine, I’m sure. There’s no reason to get so offended and disturbed by it. I thought it was funny, especially the last two boys, haha. There are a lot more serious things to get offended by than THIS. Please!

the kids will be fine. get the hell over it.

Yeah, maybe this will scar them for life.

…eye roll…

Parents upset about disappointment?? So Santa, the Easter Bunny, leprechauns, and Kim Kardashian’s butt are real?

@xplode_2day@xanga - i don’t see the humor in it.  i’m entitled to my opinion and you’re entitled to yours.

lol this is hilarious, the last one is the best.  that kid sounds so mature lol!  but really, it’s more disturbing that kids get so upset about candy…if anything that’s what people should be bothered by.  the fact is these type of parents are ones that probably take their kids out trick or treating and then let them have a healthy dose of candy to enjoy the holiday.  think about all the other parents who maybe don’t give a crap.

@x_papergirl@xanga - I agree. It was harmless. 5 minutes of them thinking their candy is all gone isn’t going to harm them. Now say if you were telling them their dog died or something like that– I would find cruel and unusual treatment. Kids are extremely resilient and will bounce back from something silly like that. Obviously in cases like this I wouldn’t put them through jokes on a constant/regular basis either. I doubt most parents do.

How about the kids tell Jimmy they spent all his paycheck, and see if he finds it equally funny. 

it seems like everyone above me was fine with the video, but i started crying like twenty seconds into it, i’m not going to lie.  there’s a difference between what jokes or pranks your parents played on you and what these parents played on their kids.  of course this isn’t “abuse” at all.  (just because your parents/your life/the world sucks/sucked doesn’t mean that you can’t feel sympathy for other kids.  your cruel life is not unique.  what happened to you, happened to other people.  so don’t look at this and be like, “well my mom whipped me everyday with a broken bottle, so i don’t feel bad for these kids who are so spoiled that they wanted to eat candy.”)

so of course this isn’t “abuse” but it’s obviously — not nice.  (oooh snap, it wasn’t the n-word).  did your parents jokes that the car is voice activated make you cry?  i don’t think so.

these kids may not be permanently damaged, but that doesn’t mean it was ok to do.  you see those kids that started crying.  they’re not crying because they’re spoiled.  it’s because kids like routines and patterns.  they get all hyped up for halloween.  they wear a costume.  they love it.  they trick or treat.  they get the candy.  they get to eat some.  then even after halloween is over, they still look forward to eating all the rest of the candy over the next few days/weeks…years(?!)

most of the kids didn’t fight the parents or attack them.  they just gave up and cried.  they just collapsed immediately on the ground. no fight in them.  it was so sad.  their expectations were gone.  they were so disappointed!  and it was their parents who did it to them — who disappointed them.  who betrayed them.  and there was nothing they could do about it.  they were powerless.  their parents ate their candy?  all of it?  who knew that that could happen in this world? 

and they know they can’t do anything because they’re small and their parents are big.  they’re wrong, and their parents are right.  they don’t get the candy that they were looking forward to and their parents got to eat it all.  they were just crushed at the (out of the blue) “cruelty” of the world. 

so i thought it was sad.  the last two kids were the best of course, they were some tough and smart kids.  it’s fine for you to play pranks on your kids and all, go do it.  i’ve done it, sure.  but i never did it because some dood on the late night tv box told me to.  and i’ve never gone and filmed my little kid getting their hopes crushed by me for no reason and then posting it on youtube for the rest of the world to see and laugh at.  so i laughed at the last two kids, they’re hilarious!  it doesn’t mean that the other parents, who made their kids cry, weren’t wrong to do it.

Ha! It won’t kill them.

Reminds me of the time when I was young, and we were having leftover pizza for dinner. I went to wash my hands. When I came back, I noticed my father had eaten my slice and there weren’t any more slices. lol

Those two brothers at the end are priceless. also that sweet little kid who is stoked because he still has a tiny box of nerds…..but for the most part…this video just shows how spoiled these children are….these screaming fits especially from older kids are just pathetic thats not how to raise your child.

I wouldn’t make it a regular thing, but messing with your kid and playing a prank once in awhile teaches your kids how to deal with that stuff. Disappointment, someone with a mean sense of humor, confusion of a prank. I think their first experience getting pranked like that is better from their parent then some jerk classmate. I’ve seen people who clearly didn’t understand the concept of a prank and got all irate over something harmless, like “why/how could you do that?” People mess with my head ALL the time, and while it is annoying, I learned from a young age how to deal with it properly without getting upset.

Plus, let’s be real. Your mom eating your candy isn’t something that is upsetting on a deep level. Most of these kids here are having tantrums because something isn’t going their way. As Jimmy Kimmel said, he expected they’d just be angry, because what the hell, you ate my candy, but they wouldn’t break down in tears like that. The kid in the red pajamas at the end shows he is very mature for his age because he reacted how anyone else who is not a kid would. I doubt his parents have to deal with him having tantrums all the time. I feel like his brother did too by not instantly breaking down in tears, but I don’t want to assume he’d be as calm without his big brother there.

@ask_ashleyyy@xanga -  I know! Hahaha that was really funny haha  

LMFAO* i thought it was funny.. just a silly little prank.. 

why do people need to get all butthurt over it? i thought a few 
of the reactions were adorable.. hahaha.

@youandonions@xanga - Like you said, it’s so trivial. It’s not going to devastate them or scar them. It’s also going to teach them to not freak out over everything before asking questions.

I seriously can’t get over how sensitive some people are! Its actually getting to the point of being funny. As if parental pranks are something new?! When I was a little kid, I sucked my thumb non. stop. and my parents were going nuts trying to figure out how to get me to stop when one day my grandpa sat down with me and said, “You know what will happen if you keep sucking your thumb?” and thumb in my mouth, I shook my head no. Bam! He popped out his false teeth.

I quit cold turkey XD bahahaha

I just think it’s ridiculous how upset the kiddos were!  If my parents played that trick on me and I had cried…about

candy

 of all things…I wouldn’t have gotten candy for a month.  It would be there way of teaching me that candy isn’t important.

You know, I can understand where the parents are coming from when it comes to break the trust that a child has with their parents. It is very fragile at such an age where they can’t fully comprehend a joke.

However, I also found the humour… sort of.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m more disgusted with the children’s reactions to their candy being lost by their parents. I guess that if their candy being taken from them leads to such anger and violence towards the people who should be respected, then maybe I’m slightly against letting the kids put Halloween and candy on such a pedestal. I believe that you as parents should not only be loved by your children but respected overall. If you want a piece of their candy, you should be able to take a piece of that candy. I guess it’s a far stretch to take the whole thing, but I find it more strange that the children would react SO horribly and disrespectful to their parents over something as stupid as candy.
I don’t know, that’s just kind of what I noticed. Parents shouldn’t be insulted by the children over something as dumb as Halloween candy.

It’s kinda sad how old some of those crying kids were. I like the little boy who was like, “…What?”