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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
30th Nov, 2018 02:31:19 AM
well there is Faked Rip Van Winkle
Asherinka
Since: Jan, 2018
30th Nov, 2018 10:11:20 AM
If Bob often does it, he is The Prankster
Asherinka
Since: Jan, 2018
30th Nov, 2018 10:11:20 AM
(double post)
Edited by Asherinka
Do we have a trope for this??
Bob decides to, as a joke/prank, convince Alice, that it's Christmas Eve and resets her computer's clock to Christmas Eve, and makes the house look like it's Christmas, without using any Time Travel to actually take her there. Alice is convinced she's undergone Time Travel forward a few weeks to Christmas Eve.
In a Darker and Edgier setting this would probably be Gaslighting, but do we have a trope for turning back the clock as a prank? Do we have a trope for Alice's reaction?
I looked on Practical Joke but couldn't find any trope that fitted this scenario, except, maybe, for Clock Tampering, but that applies to time, I guess.
Edited by Merseyuser1