Fishy Business Prank Patrol

Today, Josh Nimmo joins the Prank Patrol. His mission -

to convince his best friend Ben that a lake lizard is on the prowl

and coming to get him.

Time to get wet and trawl the depths of our imagination.

This is Prank Patrol, where we help people like you

pull off the prank of their lives. Here, fishy!

# Here they come, they're on a roll

# Where they'll strike nobody knows

# If you have a point to prove

# They'll make a plan and see it through

# They'll sign you up to join their crew

# Barney and the Ninjas too

# Here we go - come on, join the Prank Patrol. #

That's definitely our prankster. Let's go get him.

Are you...?

-Are you Josh?

-Yeah.

-Did you apply for Prank Patrol?

-Yeah, I did.

-Congratulations.

Look, that means you're a VIP...

a very important prankster. You also need this.

Right hand first.

Yeah, fits perfectly.

Mum, I need to borrow Josh. Is that all right?

-That's fine.

-Cool. Josh, follow me.

Meet our newest prankster, ten-year-old Josh Nimmo.

Josh is a wrestling nut who tries to take down his big brother Zak.

This big bad boy is not all tough, as he hates sprouts

and he likes nothing more than to stare at the clouds.

Josh, welcome to the Prank Van. Cool, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-Let's talk business. Who are we pranking?

-Ben.

-Ben. Why Ben?

Cos one day in school, he just walked up to me

and said I had stupid toys, which I don't think is kind.

-He said that?

-Uh-huh.

-You're having a lovely day at school...

Well, as much as you can... And he says, "You've got stupid toys"?

-Yup.

-That's not nice. Shall we prank him?

-Yes.

-Let's take a look at Ninja Surveillance

and see what we're dealing with.

Ben and Josh have been friends since they were two

and their favourite hobby is jumping into bushes.

When they're not outside, they'll be rocking out on the drums.

Ben thinks he's the best beater by far.

Well, I reckon he is ripe for the pranking.

-Shall we talk ideas?

-Yup.

What have you thought?

Cos he likes outdoors, something around fishing.

-OK, so he's going fishing. Then what?

-A monster!

I like it. I like monsters on Prank Patrol.

-Is the monster going to be in the water?

-Yeah.

So how's Ben going to know the monster's there?

Well, first, a guy's going to come exploring,

trying to find the monster.

-A monster investigator?

-Yeah.

And warns us, and when the monster's in the water, an actor's fishing,

-then he gets dragged in.

-So we'll have a Prank Patrol actor,

who's fishing on the side of the lake, and our monster drags him in.

-What's Ben going to do when he sees that?

-Hopefully scream!

-What can we do with the monster?

-You know the monster investigator?

-He could've taken the eggs.

-The monster's eggs?

-Yeah.

And his bacon as well!

-Eggs and bacon...

-Do you go out much?

No, no, I don't.

Well, lots to be getting on with. Ninjas!

Take us to Prank HQ.

The blueprint for Josh's fishy prank

is one monster hunter, with one soon-to-be-soaked fisherman.

Add in some monster spawn

and a very grumpy lake lizard who's on the rampage,

and you've got everything you need for a seriously fishy prank.

Here we are, Josh. This is where the magic happens,

where we build everything for your fishy prank.

So what do you think of the PLAICE?

The plaice! Ha-ha! Cos the plaice is a fish.

OK.

-Where would you like to start?

-The monster.

-Of course.

I know just the man. Follow me.

-Hiya, Daz.

-Hello, Barney.

-This is Josh.

-Hello, Josh.

We are excited because you are the man who makes monsters.

Thank you.

We told you we need a lizard-like lake monster

-and you've been working on that.

-That's right.

I've completed the sculpture, I've done the mould.

I need Josh now, so we can get the mask out of the mould.

-This is the latex mask.

-Yes.

To do this, Daz gets a big ball of clay and then sculpts out a mask,

then puts a cast over the top, then turns that inside out

and puts latex on the inside.

Are you ready? There we go.

Do you want to try it on?

Yes, please. So here we go, Josh.

I'm going to jump out at Ben with this scary monster mask.

-Wow!

-It's good, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Aaaaagh!

Very funny! OK, there's the mask.

Anything else we need to do to it?

I think we need to get paint on it, but I'm not sure about the colour.

It's a bit green. Do you want to make it a darky-browny-lakey colour?

-Yeah.

-Do you have a darky-browny-lakey colour?!

-Yeah, I've actually got one mixed up here, how's that looking?

-Nice.

-That's your brush.

-The idea is to make it as realistic as possible.

If you do that side.

Do you want to see my impression of a lizard?

RIBBIT, RIBBIT

To go with this scary mask is a scary costume.

-Josh, come over here and meet Monique.

-Hiya.

-Let's talk about the costume.

-I'm putting the last few snakes on,

then we need to do some painting to match the mask.

-Daz, we need more of that colour for the costume.

-I've got plenty.

Oh, wow, Daz! What a brilliant bird mask.

Bird mask? I've no idea what you're talking about.

You know how modest you are. You're brilliant.

You've got the hair right, the...

Ohh! Oh!

Ninjas!

Now, Josh, a big part of our prank is the monster hunter.

Here we've got four auditionees, all wanting to play the role.

Actor number one, what do you think?

-Too short.

-OK. Number two?

-Nah.

-Number three.

-No way, look at the state of him!

I know, get out. Which leaves us with number four.

Perfect.

If... you dye your hair black and your beard black.

-Yeah, I can do that.

-Rob, everybody.

So that's all sorted. Now let's check out something gooey.

Somebody who likes to make a mess is Nat. This is Josh.

-Hi, Josh.

-Hi.

-What do we need?

-We need some monster spawn.

We could use these ping-pong balls as monster eggs, mix up the jelly,

-put them in and let it set. What do you think?

-Perfect.

-OK, so ping-pongs balls and jelly?

-Yeah.

Josh, you're going to get messy.

I think the prank is going to be exciting.

When Ben sees the lake lizard, I think his face'll look like this...

What else do we need, Josh?

A fisherman to get dragged in.

The Ninjas are training somebody up in the swimming pool.

Here's a prank you can do at home.

Ah, don't you wish you had supernatural powers?

Well, you can with today's recipe.

All you need is a bowl of water, black pepper and some soap.

Tell your friends you can make things move with your mind.

To demonstrate, shake some pepper into a bowl of water,

then say, "I command you to move!"

The pepper will jump.

The pepper floats on top of the water's surface tension.

It's like a layer of skin which keeps the tiny stuff from sinking.

Soap breaks down this layer, so if you secretly place

a drop of soap on your finger, you'll get this effect.

But your friends don't need to know all that.

Oh, and be careful with your new powers

because this kind of thing is nothing to sneeze at.

The Ninjas are sat by a pool and they're very wet.

That's cos they've invented their own martial art called ka-wet-ee.

Ha-ha, "ka-wet-ee"!

Right, Ninjas, thanks very much.

If you step up here, you can meet Stewie

who's a Prank Patrol actor for this prank.

-Hi, guys.

-Now, Stewie's going to be our fisherman,

-what would you like to say?

-Move a bit away.

-I'm not in a soaking mood.

-OK!

-We don't want to get wet.

When you get dragged in, make it look dramatic and realistic and fall back.

In fact, you need a fishing rod, don't you?

-You need to be at the right position.

-Thank you.

So you need to be pulled into the water as if not expecting it,

cos monsters don't just jump out and drag you in, so are you ready?

Stewie, you're fishing, you're waiting for the big catch.

-You don't expect it to be this big...

-Ai-eee!

-I like that.

-I like that.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-I think that's us set. Well done.

Let's get sorted for the prank. Ninjas, load the van and...

Don't forget Prank Two.

Here we are, Prank Location, the Ninjas have picked out your spot.

They've picked it because it's the most convincing place,

because it's a real fishing lake, with real fishermen and fish.

As long as Ben thinks it's just a normal day,

then we can start to bring him into the prank.

First thing is Rob's going to turn up, playing the part of?

Monster hunter.

He's looking out for scary instances.

He'll say, "Anything scary happens, give me a call."

Down here at peg number 14, that's where Stewie's going to be.

What's going to happen to him?

-Gets dragged in by a monster, which is what Ben thinks.

-Exactly.

You, Ben and your dad are going to be there, what are you going to do?

-Phone the monster hunter.

-He's then going to turn up and investigate.

He's then going to say to you, "It's a bit odd, a bit dodgy.

"Let's go back to the medical centre and have some tests."

-What kind of tests?

-Follow me and I'll show you.

This is where we think the medical centre should be,

what do you think it should look like?

A big white tent with a machine with smoke in it.

You and Ben are going to walk in and have a weird medical exam.

Then you'll come this way.

This is the laboratory of Professor Rob Sturgeon, our monster hunter.

The Ninjas have set this up to look like a lab.

We've got a map. Those are supposed sightings of our monster.

-Are you happy with the room?

-Yeah, but it needs more bits and bobs.

To make it look more like a lab. I know the people. Ninjas! Get to it.

-We've got to do it.

-I know.

We're about to make the phone call to Ben.

-Yup.

-What does he think is happening?

-Nothing yet.

-So what are you going to tell him?

-Do you want to come fishing with us tomorrow?

-Just the boys out.

-Yeah.

-Having fun. Do you want to do it?

-Yeah.

-OK, here we go.

'Sorry, I'm not here right now...'

-'Hello?'

-Hello, it's Josh.

-'Hi, Josh.'

Do you want to come fishing with me tomorrow?

-'Do I want to come fishing?'

-Fishing, yeah.

'I'll ask my dad. Dad!

'Can I go fishing with Josh tomorrow?

'I'll have to ask my mum when she comes in. I'll phone you back.'

-OK, bye.

-'OK, bye.'

That could've gone horribly wrong.

It started off with an answer-phone.

I nearly said, "Oh, it's the answer-phone", and he answered.

I've never been as nervous in my life. I'm calling him back. Stop!

Just put that down. Good. Right, let's recap.

We've spoken to Ben, he spoke to his dad, who obviously doesn't know.

-Your mum's going to call his mum.

-Yeah.

-She knows the details.

Hopefully, Ben's going to be here and we're going to prank him.

-How are you feeling?

-So far, so good.

Right, after that we need a bit of support.

Some people want to say some nice things to you. Just press Play...

It's the one that's got Play on it. Just press Play on the thing?

Hi, Josh, it's Mum. Good luck with the prank.

This is your big brother. Let's get Ben back and let's prank him good.

Come on.

Our prankster Josh wants to prank his best buddy Ben,

by taking him on a monstrous fishing trip.

Will Ben fall for our monster hunter,

or will he see through our fishy business and leave us floundering?

Find out now.

Here we are, a location I'm sure you recognise.

Let me show you where the hidden cameras are.

-One in that tree.

-Cool.

-You're going to be stood here.

One in that tree as well.

Here's Rob, our monster-hunter.

-How are you?

-I'm all right.

-You look the part.

-I'm loving this.

-I noticed the black beard.

-No orange.

-Yeah, as requested.

-Yes.

-So you've got everything sorted?

-I've got business cards.

Which of course you need.

-So you're all set?

-Yes.

-Right, into position.

-Thank you.

That is Prank Two, with the Prank Patrol stickers taken off.

-This is Stewie, our fisherman.

-Hello, guys.

-Are you all set?

-Yeah, I think so.

-Let's check out the medical centre.

No centre would be complete without its specialist. Andy, meet Josh.

-Nice to meet you.

-You're our doctor, then?

-Yes.

-How much experience?

-About three or four minutes.

-You're going to do the tests with them?

-Yeah.

Stand on one leg while touching your nose, wiggling your ears

and raising an eyebrow without the other moving.

I noticed this thing.

That's our decontamination tube

which will make them even more stupid-looking.

-Is that where the smoke's going to go?

-Lots of smoke.

Get in position. See you in a bit.

The laboratory is set, the Ninjas sorted that, but look at this.

-Cool!

-Isn't it awesome?

-Yeah.

-That is Rob's command centre, with his laptop and monitors set up.

-On the right-hand side, see those pictures?

-Yeah.

There's going to be a scary monster come through there and scare Ben.

-And that's the prank.

-Cool.

-Are you ready?

-Yeah.

One more thing. Ninjas! Hide the van!

To recap, the blueprint for Josh's fishy prank is...

one monster-hunting man, with one soon to be soaked fisherman.

Add in some monster spawn and a very grumpy lake lizard

who's on the rampage,

and you've got everything you need for a seriously fishy prank.

It's prank time!

So here comes Josh with his dad and his best mate, Ben.

Josh's dad, Steve, is in on the prank.

His job is to take the boys fishing and then make himself scarce

when our stuntman, Stew, makes a splash later on.

Once the boys have finished setting up, it's time to cast off

and let the pranking commence.

So Steve is showing the boys how to fish properly.

Let's send in Professor Sturgeon.

Hi, how are you?

-Guys, how are you?

-All right, thanks.

-Sorry to be a complete pain,

but we've got this area under observation. I'll need you to move.

-Over here?

-Yeah, it's to do with these reeds...

It's because they're set up too far away from our cameras.

-We just got here...

-Thank you, guys.

-OK, no probs.

-Thanks for your understanding.

-No problem.

I think he was Action Man!

With an extra-large stomach! But I'm glad the outfit's fooling you, Ben.

You just concentrate on your fishing...

Woh! Oh, mate.

There is a demonstration of what it is to be ripe for the pranking.

Thanks again for that, guys. Sorry to be a pain. How's it been going?

-OK.

-Yeah?

Yeah.

Seen anything untoward?

We've seen a little bit of movement, could've been a big carp or barbel.

Sure. I'm sure it's just a big fish.

-Or our lake lizard perhaps?

-OK, what's your names, by the way?

-I'm Steve.

-I'm Professor Robert Sturgeon.

-Josh.

-Josh.

-Ben.

-Ben. Nice to meet you.

That's a good fisherman's hand grip there.

I'll give you all one of these.

I'm from the Department of Oceanic-Derived Organisms.

You can all have one of my cards. There you go.

There's a mobile number on there. If you see anything untoward...

You're obviously keen fishermen, if you see anything that isn't right.

-If you phone my top one, I'm here today.

-OK, thanks.

-Thanks.

Nice one, Rob. That's the business cards planted.

Should anything unusual happen, the boys know to call DODO,

our totally made up science institution.

But this is Prank Patrol. What could go wrong?

Woh! Wo-oh! Argh!

Oh, my word!

Something just pulled me in. That's really weird.

-Come on in.

-That was a big...

Can I sit down? I'm a bit shaky.

Listen, are you OK?

-I think so.

-Are you OK?

-I don't know.

-Right, come here.

-What happened?

-Are you OK?

-I've no idea. Did you see anything?

-No.

-Didn't see anything.

-I'm shaking.

-I think I should take you back up...

It's going under!

Ben, Josh, will you do me a favour? Watch my stuff.

Josh's dad sends the boys to watch his stuff, so he can take Stew away

and leave the boys in Professor Sturgeon's capable hands.

All they need to do is call DODO.

Josh, call him, call him, call him.

Hello, Professor Sturgeon.

Hi, it's Josh and Ben. See the guy next to us?

He got dragged in by the water, so do you want to see what's happened?

What, something's happened?

-Yeah.

-Right, stay put, do nothing. I'm on my way.

-OK.

He's on his way.

Here comes intrepid investigator, Professor Sturgeon. His mission...

to make the area secure and check the boys for contamination.

Guys, where's your dad?

He's having a cup of tea and watching the whole prank unfold.

-What happened?

-He was standing there.

-He was on this jetty?

-No, that one.

-You need to show me.

BEEP

Can we have Security, please?

There's fishing tackle here, but I need to bring the kids away.

-He was fishing and then...

-Right, guys, slow down.

-Tell me exactly what happened.

-He was standing fishing normal,

and then his rod got pulled in.

-Did you touch the fisherman?

-Yeah, we helped him out.

You physically pulled him out?

-Yeah, we held his hand.

-Well, Josh's dad did.

Don't stand in his trails! Don't stand in his trails!

-So you've had contact?

-Yeah.

-We had to hold his arm.

Yeah, we have got a Code Seven. There has been contact,

if it is what we think, we need a Code seven lock-down and full decon.

'Full decontamination confirmed. Head immediately to Command Centre.'

OK, follow me, guys. Your kit will be safe.

So Rob and the boys head off to the decontamination tent.

Ben looks like he's buying everything so far,

but what will he make of our doctor's decontamination efforts?

-Doctor.

-Woah-woah!

There's a decontamination unit we're going to have to go through.

It's to make sure that your clothes, your hair, your skin,

there's nothing contaminated.

First, I want you to both check your coordination.

One leg up in the air like that. Does that feel OK?

-Yeah.

-OK, tap the top of your head.

I know it feels a little bit silly. Now slightly hopping, like that.

I'm not sure how coordination has anything to do with decontamination,

but they look stupid, so why not?

Ben seems to be buying the prank, so what else can you do to him?

Ah, he's spraying the boys' hair with compressed air,

which does absolutely nothing.

We'll get you decontaminated now. I hope they aren't new trainers.

-They'll have to go.

-Mine are new!

They don't look very new, but they're going to be binned.

It's OK, it's making sure you're not contaminated. Ben, in you go.

Now let's take the boys inside to Professor Sturgeon

and get to the bottom of this monster mystery.

This has been recording for... Probably about six months now,

watching water levels.

That was the contact that we had about seven months ago.

That was picked up on one of our... On this camera here.

We thought it was a wave ripple or a log, but it had a heat source.

When the red thing comes up and it's in different colours, the picture.

-So what does that mean, if it's warm?

-It's something that's alive.

-Bingo.

-Ben's starting to piece the evidence together

and seems to think there could be something alive out there.

Well, let's see what he thinks of our very own monster eggs.

Professor, is the area decontaminated?

-Yeah, that's fine. Is that cleared?

-The samples are ready for you.

Whilst the boys are distracted by the eggs,

I've put the finishing touches to my lizard suit,

so let's hope Ben's watching the monitors.

Are they eggs?

Yes, they're eggs. Now... Guys, it's OK, it's been decontammed.

I'm not touching them.

-No, I'm not touching that.

-You've got some on your trousers there. Sorry.

-Did you see anything like that?

-Get it away!

While you were fishing? This is a vital scientific...

No, nothing like that.

The boys are pretty grossed out by the eggs,

but what could've caused them?

There's legends of a lake monster,

that's why we've had these monitors on alert.

And it's amazing what you see if you look for long enough.

-What's that?

-What's what?

-It was a big alien head.

-Where?

-There's nothing on there now.

-It was!

-I believe you.

Did the decontamination guy say you were OK?

No, something went past!

-Honestly, on that one!

-That's the perimeter.

Yeah, it is, and guess who's snuck in?

Get ready for fright time, Ben.

-I did see something.

-Well, if you did, the alarms would've...

BEEP 'Check in, Professor'.

Guys, one of the kids is saying he's seen something,

but from these egg samples, if it is what we think it is,

I don't think it can crawl that far.

'Negative. The beast is large, it's mobile. It's the lake lizard.'

-You think it... You think it is the lake lizard?

-'Affirmative.'

A lake lizard?

Who, me?

Aaaaagh!

You're Prank Patrol, aren't you?

I actually scared myself for a second. How are you doing?

-I'm almost crying now!

-It's all over.

Everyone's friendly. That's Rob.

-He's not so friendly, he's the one that set you up.

-Did you?

Do I need to ask you if we got you?

-Yeah.

-You got me.

Everyone, Ben... What a great sport! You can breathe now.

When the lake lizard came crashing through,

I think me and Ben looked like this!

I thought the best bit was when Barney jumped through the door

and it really scared me in that suit.

My favourite bit? Well, I dressed like a lizard,

I ran through a wall and I scared somebody.

That was my favourite bit, apart from Ben's reaction, of course.

I'm quite mean, really, aren't I? I'm not. I am.

Now the prank's over, I'm quite scared in case Ben pranks me.

Josh, watch out, I'm going to get you back.

We love it when a prank comes together, don't we?

-Yeah!

-And who knows? The star next time could be you, on...

Oh, hang on a second. Who's this?

We'll see you next time on Prank Patrol.