History Main / PrankingMontage

** Done in "Pranks a Lot" as the invisible [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are tricking the Bikini Bottomites into thinking they're ghosts.

* ''Film/GrumpyOldMen'' and its sequel have these.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' short film ''Mater and the Ghostlight'' begins with a montage of Mater pulling various night pranks on the folks of Radiator Springs, ironically set to Brad Paisley's "Behind the Clouds".

* The ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' episode "Inflatable" features a montage of Saul deliberately annoying and pranking his co-workers in a bid to get himself fired and keep the big bonus he'd forfeit by quitting. We see him intentionally spill coffee on a client, pretend not to know a Latino co-worker speaks English, repeatedly leave the toilet unclogged, and coming the work the whole time in obnoxiously colored outfits that make everyone at the firm look ridiculous.

* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail 206'' has Strong Bad complaining about various internet April Fools Jokes, complaining that they're pointless because no one falls for them. He demonstrates with an old-timey homepage for the website, fake Trogdor merchandise, and a RealTrailerFakeMovie for [[ShowWithinAShow Dangeresque IV]] while [[TheDitz Homestar]] falls for all of them. After that, he decides to bring April Fool's Day back into the real world, "where it can physically hurt people!" He tricks Homestar into running into a full-length mirror by claiming it's his long lost twin brother, gets Marzipan to eat The Cheat by claiming the latter is gluten free, gets the block-like Strong Mad stuck in a head stand, tricks the [[ExtremeOmnivore King of Town]] into ''eating'' a hand mirror by claiming it's his long lost twim brother, and tapes [[TheAllegedCar the gremlin]] shut with Bubs outside wanting to get in and Coach Z ''inside'' wanting to get ''out''.

** "28 Pranks Later": Rainbow Dash pulls off so many individual pranks (including a cake frosted and constructed to look like a realistic sewing machine for Rarity) that she gets hit with a MassiveMultiplayerScam in return.

* ''Series/TheOffice'': In ''Conflict Resolution'', Michael tries to resolve Dwight and Jim's problems with each other by reading out Dwight's complaints. This quickly devolves into him listing off Jim's pranks, which includes replacing Dwight's pens with crayons, trying to convince Dwight he committed murder, tricking Dwight into seeing Meredith on the toilet, tampering with Dwight's handset, changing the autocorrect to spell Dwight as 'diapers', paying everyone to call Dwight 'Dwayne' and moving Dwight's desk every time he leaves to go to the bathroom. Initially, Jim finds it amusing before seeing just how many pranks he's pulled, causing him to feel guilty and realize how bored he is all the time.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Luan Loud's April Fool's Highlight Reel.]]

Often part of an AprilFoolsPlot. Can sometimes overlap with GoodTimesMontage since the pranksters are having a good time as well (although their victims aren't). Compare EscalatingWar; watch out for a PrankGoneTooFar!

->''It's an all-night party that we're gettin' into''\\
''If you think it's all over, then the joke is on you''\\
''It's a dream, it's a scene, and it's all brand-new''\\
''If you think you can't stop it, then the joke is on you!''
-->-- ''Series/{{iCarly}}''

!! Examples:

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* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': The episode "iGet Pranky" has a montage after Spencer gets re-addicted to pranks where he pranks Carly and her friends, set to the song "The Joke is On You."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Luan Loud ABUSES this trope, especially with the April Fool's episodes, which provide the page image. The first one in particular has Lincoln present the viewer an "April Fool's Highlight Reel" where the Louds are suffering her reckless pranks.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Luan Loud ABUSES this trope, especially with the April Fool's episodes. The first one in particular has Lincoln present the viewer an "April Fool's Highlight Reel" where the Louds are suffering her reckless pranks.

** The Time Squad try to give Abraham Lincoln a taste of his own medicine by out-pranking him in secret. He has no idea that it's the Time Squad that's executing the following- Anonymously order a hundred anchovy pizzas to the cabin, ding-dong-ditching Lincoln and leaving a flaming bag of dog poop for him to stomp out, sending over a box of chocolates laced with laxatives from a "secret admirer", and confusingly enough prank call him jokes that wouldn't make sense for another hundred years. The onslaught of constant pranking works, and Lincoln swears off pranking for the rest of his life.

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%%* ''Anime/CellsAtWork'': an episode has a cell meet up with a mysterious cell to perform pranks.

Exactly how it says -- a sequence that shows a character or characters pulling various pranks! Either they can be just for fun, for {{revenge}} on someone, or when someone is being humiliated by TheBully of the show or episode.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Luan Loud's April Fool's Highlight Reel.]]

->''It's an all-night party that we're gettin' into''
->''If you think it's all over, then the joke is on you''
->''It's a dream, it's a scene, and it's all brand-new''
->''If you think you can't stop it, then the joke is on you!''