MediocreFilms is a YouTube channel featuring a variety of hidden camera pranks, hosted by Greg Benson. Common recurring pranks involve "Cell Phone Crashing" (Greg pretending to be on a phone call, while answering questions that another phone caller next to him says), shopping pranks (reading off lists of nonsense items to store employees), and pranks involving a Grumpy Old Man disguise of his called "Yeshmin".
Examples of tropes in MediocreFilms videos:
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In the Moviefone Prank Call video, Greg imitating an automated Moviefone voice says this:Greg: For movies about baseball or dinosaurs, press one. For movies about children or aliens, press two. For movies about the declining civilization of native African tribes, press three.
- Comically Missing the Point: "PROSTITUTE PRANK CALL" has Greg seeing a "for a good time" message written on a stall, and calling the number to express his interests in having a literal "good time".
- Corpsing: A recurring kind of prank is for Greg and a fellow prankster to each write a shopping list of nonsensical items for each other to read to a store employee, with the challenge being to make it through as much of the list without laughing as possible.
- Toilet Humor: From time to time.
- His music video, "I'm Gonna Throw Up".
