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* AVerySpecialEpisode: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1Xi_uUUtQ World's Worst Indian Scammer Exposed (animated)]] serves as one, with Russell scolding Rakesh at the end for attempting to scam innocent people, and proceeding to make an announcement for awareness of phone scams.

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* AVerySpecialEpisode: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1Xi_uUUtQ World's Worst Indian Scammer Exposed (animated)]] serves as one, with Russell scolding Rakesh at the end for attempting to scam innocent people, and proceeding to make an announcement for awareness of phone scams.scams.
* VocalEvolution: The portrayal of some characters has changed over the years. This gets Lampshaped in the Tyrone Halloween prank call, where Ownage notes that animation was based off of an older call.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The animated videos portray Ownage as an imp with this ability.
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* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference:
** Earlier animated videos depicted Ownage Pranks' [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm true form]] as a LivingShadow with horns. Later on, his default appearance takes the form of the [[OurImpsAreDifferent orange imp]] that serves as the channel's mascot.
** While he generally retained his design, Buk Lau in his earlier appearances had different colored skin.


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* OrwellianRetcon: The character of Buk Lau was later re-designed to have a more realistic skin color. Thumbnails featuring him were updated to match his new design however he still retains his old appearance within the old videos themselves.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Sometimes, if a situation gets too ridiculous, Russell breaks character and laughs. This is usually represented in the animations with his current character flickering to his avatar before going back to normal.

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* CompromisingCall: As often as Russell [[KarmaHoudini manages to get away with his pranks]], during 2021, there was a MASSIVE exception that led to a 4 month-long hiatus. As a result of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JlzB4ZBoQ attempt to prank call an FBI Agent]], he got into massive trouble after prank calling the target ''during a stakeout'', and it's all but stated he was arrested for a few months.



* RealityEnsues: As often as Russell [[KarmaHoudini manages to get away with his pranks]], during 2021, there was a MASSIVE exception that led to a 4 month-long hiatus. As a result of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JlzB4ZBoQ attempt to prank call an FBI Agent]], he got into massive trouble after prank calling the target ''during a stakeout'', and it's all but stated he was arrested for a few months.
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* TheUnintelligible: Sone of the prank victims are quite difficult to understand, with the victim from "Drunken Racist Voter Prank" being an example.

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* TheUnintelligible: Sone Some of the prank victims are quite difficult to understand, with the victim from "Drunken Racist Voter Prank" being an example.
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* RealityEnsures: As often as Russell [[KarmaHoudini manages to get away with his pranks]], during 2021, there was a MASSIVE exception that led to a 4 month-long hiatus. As a result of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JlzB4ZBoQ attempt to prank call an FBI Agent]], he got into massive trouble after prank calling the target ''during a stakeout'', and it's all but stated he was arrested for a few months.

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* RealityEnsures: RealityEnsues: As often as Russell [[KarmaHoudini manages to get away with his pranks]], during 2021, there was a MASSIVE exception that led to a 4 month-long hiatus. As a result of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JlzB4ZBoQ attempt to prank call an FBI Agent]], he got into massive trouble after prank calling the target ''during a stakeout'', and it's all but stated he was arrested for a few months.
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* RealityEnsures: As often as Russell [[KarmaHoudini manages to get away with his pranks]], during 2021, there was a MASSIVE exception that led to a 4 month-long hiatus. As a result of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JlzB4ZBoQ attempt to prank call an FBI Agent]], he got into massive trouble after prank calling the target ''during a stakeout'', and it's all but stated he was arrested for a few months.

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* RageQuit: Some of the prank victims hang up abruptly.

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* RageQuit: Some of the prank victims hang up abruptly.abruptly, particularly when they're very fed up with Russell's shenanigans.



* UnusualEuphemism: Russell likes to do this a lot with his characters [[RuleOfFunny for comedic value]]. Most notably, "Tyrone" refers to his own penis as his "Sham-lam-doobily".

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* UnusualEuphemism: Russell likes to do this a lot with his characters [[RuleOfFunny for comedic value]]. Most notably, "Tyrone" refers to his own penis as his "Sham-lam-doobily"."Sham-lam-doobily".
* AVerySpecialEpisode: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1Xi_uUUtQ World's Worst Indian Scammer Exposed (animated)]] serves as one, with Russell scolding Rakesh at the end for attempting to scam innocent people, and proceeding to make an announcement for awareness of phone scams.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Sometimes, if a situation gets too ridiculous, Russell breaks character and laughs.

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* {{Corpsing}}: Sometimes, if a situation gets too ridiculous, Russell breaks character and laughs. This is usually represented in the animations with his current character flickering to his avatar before going back to normal.
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* LetsGetDangerous: '''Stage 2'''. Usually when Russell uses this, he does something to startle the target by making them believe he's in the immediate area, such as calling with their store's phone number at midnight, or calling from their girlfriend's phone number.

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* LetsGetDangerous: '''Stage 2'''. Usually when Russell uses this, he does something to startle the target by making them believe he's in the immediate area, such as calling with their store's phone number at midnight, or calling from their girlfriend's phone number.number(As seen below), or even having someone hand the target a flier in real life.
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* LetsGetDangerous: '''Stage 2'''. Usually when Russell uses this, he does something to startle the target by making them believe he's in the immediate area, such as calling with their store's phone number at midnight, or calling from their girlfriend's phone number.
-->'''Rakesh:''' "I'm back. Hello, welcome to stage 2." (Cue ScareChord)
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** This backfires horrendously in the case of the requester behind the call "Angry Dad Goes MENTAL on Pawn Shop Thief", and comes off as extremely mean spirited when you consider that the requester who paid Ownage to make the call to harass the titular dad over a stolen bicycle was the victim's ''own son'', who thought it'd be funny to work up their parent who was already distressed by the theft. By the time the reveal was made, the father had already called the state police in between calls, and would now presumably have to handle the legal trouble that would result.
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* BlatantLies: When a victim hangs up on Russell for the first time, he calls them back and says something to the effect of "I believe we got disconnected ".

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* BlatantLies: When a victim hangs up on Russell for the first time, he calls them back and says something to the effect of "I believe we got disconnected ".disconnected".
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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/OwnagePranks Here is his channel.]] [[https://www.ownagepranks.com Here is his official website.]]

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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/OwnagePranks Here is his channel.]] [[https://www.ownagepranks.com Here is his official website.]]
]] [[https://www.ownagepranks.com/app/ Prank Calling App.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Fuck to you and fuck to your face!'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Fuck to you and fuck to your face!'']]
''#1 Prank Caller in The World!'']]



[[https://www.youtube.com/user/OwnagePranks Here is his channel.]]

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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/OwnagePranks Here is his channel.]] [[https://www.ownagepranks.com Here is his official website.]]
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->''"Duh, hello?"''

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->''"Duh, hello?"''
->''[[AsianSpeekeeEngrish "Duh, herro?"]]''



-->''"Duh, hello. I liek to speek to som-BOO-dee who can speek a-Chiness?"''

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-->''"Duh, hello.herro. I liek to speek to som-BOO-dee who can speek a-Chiness?"''
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: This is a common theme with Russell's Tyrone character, but it's occasionally subverted as well.



* TheUnintelligible: Sone of the prank victims are quite difficult to understand, with the victim from "Drunken Racist Voter Prank" being an example.

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* TheUnintelligible: Sone of the prank victims are quite difficult to understand, with the victim from "Drunken Racist Voter Prank" being an example.example.
* UnusualEuphemism: Russell likes to do this a lot with his characters [[RuleOfFunny for comedic value]]. Most notably, "Tyrone" refers to his own penis as his "Sham-lam-doobily".

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** Though it is worth mentioning that some of the things that the victim ''thinks'' that Russell did ''could'' warrant a police call.



** Though it is worth mentioning that some of the things that the victim ''thinks'' that Russell did ''could'' warrant a police call.
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* DramaQueen: Gary, the boyfriend from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzp3dLs4p4 "Model's Jealous Boyfriend Goes INSANE"]] is one, ''big time.'' For example, after storming out of his model girlfriend's house upon hearing Tyrone offer to photograph her nude, he had this to say:
-->'''Gary:''' I almost ''crashed'' driving out of your house, I'm so upset. I almost ''DIED'' cuz of you!
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'''Ownage Pranks''' is a Website/YouTube channel run by a comedian/impressionist named Russell Johnson. Basically, he utilizes his talent with impressions (all of which are a veritable {{rogues gallery}}) to execute prank calls on people (most of which are requested by his viewers; the rest are mostly employees/managers of an establishment that has terrible reviews, people that answer to Russell's fake Craigslist ads, the gay hotline, and so on), often to hilarious results.

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'''Ownage Pranks''' is a Website/YouTube channel run by a comedian/impressionist named Russell Johnson. Basically, he utilizes his talent with impressions (all of which are make up a veritable {{rogues gallery}}) to execute prank calls on people (most of which are requested by his viewers; the rest are mostly employees/managers of an establishment that has terrible reviews, people that answer to Russell's fake Craigslist ads, the gay hotline, and so on), often to hilarious results.
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** Though it is worth mentioning that some of the things that the victim ''thinks'' that Russell did ''do'' warrant a police call.

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** Though it is worth mentioning that some of the things that the victim ''thinks'' that Russell did ''do'' ''could'' warrant a police call.
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'''Ownage Pranks''' is a Website/YouTube channel run by a comedian/impressionist named Russell Johnson. Basically, he utilizes his talent with impressions to execute prank calls on people (most of which are requested by his viewers; the rest are mostly employees/managers of an establishment that has terrible reviews, people that answer to Russell's fake Craigslist ads, the gay hotline, and so on), often to hilarious results.

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'''Ownage Pranks''' is a Website/YouTube channel run by a comedian/impressionist named Russell Johnson. Basically, he utilizes his talent with impressions (all of which are a veritable {{rogues gallery}}) to execute prank calls on people (most of which are requested by his viewers; the rest are mostly employees/managers of an establishment that has terrible reviews, people that answer to Russell's fake Craigslist ads, the gay hotline, and so on), often to hilarious results.


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* DisproportionateRetribution: Most of the prank victims threaten to call the police or even ''kill'' Russell for the littlest things, such as the Indian restaurant that threatened to kill Russell-as-Rakesh just for criticizing the taste of the naan.
** Though it is worth mentioning that some of the things that the victim ''thinks'' that Russell did ''do'' warrant a police call.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Some of the victims have this.

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