Top 3 Classroom Pranks of All Time A comedy article
by Luke McKinney 1,891 5 01/27/2010 01:40 PM 3632 views
Nothing livens up a dull lecture or boring exam like a well-executed classroom prank. All you need is courage, a camera, and a costume. (Being insane also helps.) Here are our Top 3 Classroom Pranks that have been captured on film.
1. Too Chicken To Take Exam
The "University of Waterloo Entertainers" finally made good on the infinity of "If I knew I was going to fail anyway" promises that have been made, and then broken, by students since the beginning of time. Arriving at the exam in full "choked chicken costume" the student sat down and studiously prepared until approached by the professor. At which point he reacted as any giant mutant man-sized chicken faced with an exam they haven't studied for probably would.
It's important to acknowledge the considerate behaviour in this prank: they did it before the exam started, so they weren't actually endangering anyone's chances of passing, and they chose a Sociology 101 exam, so that it would make no difference even if they did.
2. The Loudest Laptop In The World
The Master Of Deadpan exists and he studies computer science at Georgia Tech. Possibly the best propped college prank since Cambridge put a car on the roof, he brought an antique typewriter to his CS1301 lecture and started taking notes. When the professor asked him to "turn the noises off" on his laptop he indicated that it wasn't really possible, then delivered the best timed "rrrraack-DING!" since the invention of typeface. And again, with great pranks comes great responsibility: he closed up the typewriter and stopped disrupting the lecture once everyone had had a laugh.
3. Superboy Studying
The University of Michigian Patriots live up to their name, both studying at UM and featuring the most American Patriot there is. There's real commitment here too (or at least an urge to buy a newer phone), with Superman smashing his cellphone in an impressive display of Kryptonian force before dashing from the auditorium. High points for the perfect prank combination of preparation, fast delivery, and not dragging it out -- bonus style points for the dramatic pose by the door!
Luke McKinney has three degrees and pulled pranks collecting two of them. Seven years might be too much preparation just to be the perfect person to write this article, but he enjoyed it.
But the typewriter took me back to a Western Civ final where someone sat back with the grad students and typed throughout the nightmare 3 hour exam. I was pissed royally and fully intended to rip someone a new one after I finished and turned in my exam.
At the end I walked up the room to the back only to see a blind guy typing away on his braille typewriter to take his own exam.
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