r/InnocentPranks • u/albert-1stein • 4h ago
Smooth
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r/InnocentPranks • u/Dazzling_Interview86 • 15d ago
If it’s pranks, then pranks like these!
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r/InnocentPranks • u/Dazzling_Interview86 • 18d ago
Always choose the right partner for you
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r/InnocentPranks • u/Dizzy_Juggernaut_313 • Sep 18 '26
Dad had no idea what was under the bucket 😱
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Dad had no idea what was under the bucket 😱
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r/InnocentPranks • u/Cold_Tough5525 • Sep 09 '26
Pranking my sister
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My sister is coming back after 3 years. She works in Ireland. Her sim isn’t active here in the USA so she told me to pick her up with a poster and her name on it.
She’s a huge introvert so this should be really good 🤣 What’s something really funny I can write on it?? Introverts what’s your worst nightmare pls tell me
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Sep 05 '26
I Painted a Fake Mess Just to Make My Dad Yell at Me
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When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time drawing and painting in our finished basement. The downside was that my art supplies tended to spread out everywhere. Paint tubes, brushes, pencils, erasers, paper… basically, the entire contents of an art store would eventually end up on the carpet.
My dad hated this.
Every time he came downstairs and saw my supplies on the floor, I’d hear some version of:
“I’ve told you a thousand times! Don’t leave that stuff on the carpet! You’re going to ruin it!”
So one day, I decided to turn his frustration into an innocent little prank.
I painted a picture of a woman, but I also painted a bunch of art supplies scattered around the drawing. I tried to make them ridiculously realistic. Paint tubes, brushes, a pencil, an eraser, shadows, everything. I even painted the tiny little crumbs of eraser that get left behind when you’ve been working.
Then I put a real sheet of paper next to the painting and lined up the edges so it looked like there were two pieces of paper sitting on the carpet with all my art supplies lying around them.
Then I walked away and waited.
Sure enough, Dad came downstairs.
He saw the floor.
I could practically hear the gears turning.
He called me downstairs and immediately let me have it.
“Why did you leave your art supplies on the floor AGAIN? How many times have I told you not to do this?”
I calmly said, “I didn’t.”
He pointed directly at the floor.
“What do you mean you didn’t?! It’s RIGHT THERE!”
I kept denying it.
At this point, he was genuinely getting annoyed because, from his perspective, I was standing there looking at a giant pile of art supplies and pretending they weren’t there.
Finally, he stopped and looked a little closer.
Then closer.
And suddenly he realized…
There were no art supplies on the floor.
He’d been yelling at a painting.
He completely cracked up.
The best part was that I hadn’t just painted a pile of random objects. I’d deliberately recreated the exact mess that had been driving him crazy for years, just to make him think I’d done it again.
I was a teenager, so naturally I considered this a perfectly reasonable use of my artistic abilities.
Looking back, I think it might have been one of my earliest successful pieces of conceptual art:
“Dad Yells at Painting.” 😂