Dodge the Bear Rank the Prank

Warning, kids like you are on the loose

with big explosions, big stunts and big laughs.

Please do not try any of these at home.

Except for the laughs.

Imagine if you had the chance to play epic pranks

on an unsuspecting public...

and access to the best special-effects artists

in the world.

And imagine if a panel of Ranksters

thinks your Public Prank is so good

you get to stage a Mega Prank on a target of your choice.

Well, quit imagining - this is Rank The Prank.

Which teams are pranking it up today?

Let's meet the green team.

-My name is Neptune.

-My name is Svetlana.

BOTH: We're the Koala Bunnies.

We've known each other since I was two weeks old and she was one.

-Svetlana's my best friend.

-Neptune's my best friend.

Our prank is going to be a blizzard and then yetis

and then snow and then stopping the snow,

and then yetis and then snow and blah, blah...

If we make it to the Mega Prank,

we want to prank Dan because he's funny and...

..quirky.

-Here's just a really good sport.

-Yeah.

You better watch out, Prank Bosses...

-The Koala Bunnies are coming for you.

-With our wizardly eyes.

BOTH: Zzzzz!

Blizzards with wizards? That is so cool.

Blue team, where you at?

-I'm Caiden.

-I'm James.

We are the Prank Bosses.

James is a very good person to work with.

He plays jokes on a lot of people.

Caiden, he's a magician, so he's a very, very good prank partner.

For our Public Prank, we want people to believe an alien has landed...

In the middle of the city!

If we make it to the Mega Prank,

we want to prank Caiden's dance teacher, Greg.

You know, he may get mad at us after,

but it'll still be pretty funny.

The Prank Bosses don't know what it's like to come in second place.

But the Koala Bunnies are just about to find out.

Now, that's pranking talk!

Both teams are raring to go,

but we're going to need two Hollywood heroes

to jumpstart their pranks.

I'm CJ Goldman, special-effects make-up and prosthetics.

I've worked on a tonne of movies and TV shows,

so if you need a crazy creature or monster, I'm the guy you call.

I use clay and rubber and plastic to make imaginary things come to life.

I can make a young person look old, or an old person young.

Like, really, really young.

Told you.

Listen up, kids, there's a new movie coming out.

It's called Born To Prank,

and it's rated G for Goldman.

There's a new mo... What?

Seems CJ needs help figuring out what he's talking about,

and I know just the special-effects man to lend a hand.

I'm Andy Antoine, special-effects foreman.

If you watch TV or movies, you've probably seen our work.

We do pretty much everything -

weather effects, explosions, fires, you name it.

There's this one effect I've been dying to do.

It's called the Flying Andy. I'm still working out the kinks.

You strap this rocket engine to the bottom of a chair,

and then you hit the switch...

HE SCREAMS

Like I said, I'm still working out the kinks.

While Andy peels himself off the ceiling,

let's introduce the prank location.

A busy neighbourhood.

-Koala Bunnies, Prank Bosses, welcome to the location.

-Hi.

-Are you guys excited?

-Yes.

We know your pranks, but you guys don't know each other's.

-Koala bunnies.

-What you got?

OK, so, basically, we're wizards selling lemonade.

I'm actually going to make a spell to make the lemonade cold.

And then there's a blizzard coming into the lemonade,

making the lemonade cold.

And then there's a yeti that comes in

and drops a few ice cubes in there.

Breaks through the wall

and comes and puts ice cubes into our lemonade.

When I first heard the other team's idea,

I thought it was a very good prank.

About a yeti smashing through a wall

and just delivering ice cubes is really funny.

What do you guys have for us?

Our prank is a guy who's walking down the sidewalk

and he hears a crashing sound from the alleyway.

So he sees a businessman walk out,

and he's, like, all covered in this weird alien slime.

So he goes in the alleyway and he sees an alien plant.

He goes to inspect it.

It opens up, and the alien comes out

and, hopefully, scares him or her, like, really bad.

I'm actually a pretty big fan of aliens myself.

They were some pretty good competition. I like it.

All right. Koala Bunnies, you guys are up first. Let's get busy.

All right, let's go.

So it's wizardly lemonade and an alien alley.

Only one team will go on to stage a Mega Prank,

and only the Ranksters will decide

who faces the ejector button of doom.

Koala Bunnies, hop to it.

We're really excited to see

what those Special Effectors can do to our prank.

The Koala Bunnies' idea is about this magical lemonade stand

offering the coldest lemonade that you can get.

So our goal is to make it look like winter just came upon,

just like that.

Let me run through the snow machine with you.

This is our solution right here. You know what it's made out of?

-Uh, soap and water?

-Exactly. Soap and water.

So we have a pump inside the machine,

and when it blows the solution through this sock,

it will create flakes.

-Whoa.

-You're up.

Three, two, one, snow!

Woo-hoo!

It's snowing.

Woo-hoo!

I've always dreamed that one of my ideas can come to life,

and now it's finally happening.

So, the Koala Bunnies had this really cool idea to be wizards.

So we're using wigs and prosthetic ears and make-up and costumes

to give them this kind of elf-y, fairy-looking appearance.

So let's talk about the prank.

Once we're done with the make-up, costumes, we'll start rehearsing.

But you guys should think about this already.

What if you were like...

-WHISPERING:

-"Come here. We're wizards."

Yeah, that's good.

'CJ's acting tips really helped.'

He told us basically everything that'll happen,

and really prepared us for it, helped us practise.

When you say the thing about the yeti, Svetlana can be like,

"Did you just say 'yeti'? You shouldn't have said 'yeti'..."

"Yeti, steady, go!" Like, wait...

-(did you just say yeti?)

-Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeti, steady, go!

What did you...?

-Oh! Duck!

-Duck!

-Whoa!

-Oh!

-Hey, there's a yeti.

ANDY LAUGHS

The coolest part is probably the yeti,

cos he's just going to burst through the wall.

I have to agree too.

It's time for the first Public Prank.

The hidden cameras are rolling

and our wizards are wielding their wands.

-I'm really nervous.

-Me too.

Here we go.

To draw customers into our shop, we're offering a lemonade for free.

That's a good price.

-Hi.

-Welcome to Blizzard-ade!

Yeah, too bad it's steaming hot.

But don't worry, our two wizards will be able to cool it down.

Oh, it's really hot. I'm sorry, the lemonade's really hot.

Oh, that's OK.

So, I'm going to give you a spell that you might have to say

to make this lemonade cold.

A blizzard would be nice

to make this drink as cold as ice.

Can you say that a tiny bit louder, please?

A blizzard would be nice

to make this drink as cold as ice.

Oh!

-Oh, man, did you say the wrong spell?

-Yeah.

-Let's get the yeti to clean it.

-Yeti, steady, go!

YETI ROARS

Yeti, put some ice in here, please, yeti.

-I laughed.

-I laughed a lot.

On the reaction, I was like...

A blizzard would be nice to make this drink as cold as ice.

-Oh, I know who can clean this up.

-The yeti.

-The yeti.

Yeti, steady, go!

-Yeti, steady, go...

-She actually tried to hide behind me.

I was like...yeti, steady, go...?!

-THEY SCREAM

-Oh, my goodness!

LAUGHTER

-I feel like we got the best reactions.

-We did great.

-You just got pranked...

-BOTH: By Rank The Prank.

Oh, wow, OK!

I was like, "What is going on?"

Hey!

I didn't know what to expect. I was like, "This is really weird."

I was kind of scared that our prank wouldn't go as well,

but it went so well.

We had laughs, we had screams.

-It was, like, amazing.

-Plus I got this magic wand.

That was spellbinding, Koala Bunnies.

Prank Bosses, your turn to take charge.

I am very excited to see what the Effectors have done.

Prank Bosses have a great idea,

making this space pod crash on Earth.

And there's a lot of elements involved in this prank.

When they were talking about the spaceship,

we decided that's going to be the escape pod from the mothership.

It was like a little silvery-black spaceship.

It was so cool.

This ship is actually going to open up so you can reveal what's inside.

To really sell the crash-landing, we got some smoke,

we'll have some debris coming out before,

to simulate the crash.

-Let's see what we've got in there.

-It's going to go bshhh!

Andy is going to make all the garbage fly in the air,

which attracts our target.

To make the prank work, it's all about how real the crash site looks.

So for the Prank Bosses' idea, what I'm going to be doing

is building this alien that sits inside of this pod.

To do that, I'll do a sculpture of the sea creature in clay,

and then we'll make a mould of that

and reproduce this alien in rubber

and paint it to look like skin.

And that way, when the pod opens up,

I can kind of ooze this thing out.

Uh-oh, there's something moving in there. I think he wants to get out.

-All right.

-Oh!

-Oh, my goodness.

That is fantastic!

I think people are going to be pretty scared.

The second they see it, they're going to jump,

and it's going to be really, really good.

Here's Laurent. He's underneath here, moving around the head.

It's basically a head on a stick.

Inside of it, we have a rod that can slide around

and go in and out and turn around and the head can move around.

So the whole thing is really, really simple, but it looks really alive.

We have a really realistic alien,

we've got smoke, we've got air cannons,

we've got explosions.

I think that we're going to win.

Well, we'll see about that,

because it's time for the second Public Prank.

The hidden cameras are rolling, our actor is exercising,

and our pranksters are in the control room, ready to let loose.

INDISTINCT SPEECH

Ah, lunchtime. Lots of hungry people looking for a place to eat.

Too bad today they're the ones who are going to be feasted upon.

This is actually terrifying.

-We have a guy coming. The guy with the cap there.

-Yes! OK.

OBJECT CRASHES

Did you see that?

From there? Right down there.

-This thing here. Right here.

-This thing?

-Yeah.

Come here.

Let's see if we can get it out.

Unbelievable.

THEY SCREAM

Oh, he just screamed!

Whoa! What's happening?

-HE CHUCKLES

-What's that?

He was my favourite reaction,

because he actually jumped and he was very scared about it.

It's real. Looks pretty real to me! Come and touch. Come here.

-No, it's going to spray something on me.

-No, no, come here.

No, I can't get wet - I've got to go to work.

Yes!

That thing just came right down and landed there.

-What's going on?

-I don't know.

This thing just came down. What do you think this is?

-I've no idea.

-Neither do I.

-I'm going to open it up.

-Don't.

Whoa!

I was worried about the alien.

If they don't get scared,

then the whole prank just falls apart.

-There's something moving in there.

-Should I open it up?

-No, I wouldn't.

Come and help. I'm going to pull it out.

Whoa!

-HE GIGGLES

-He just ran off!

Oops!

He was genuinely really scared,

and that's what I was going for.

You just got pranked by Rank The Prank!

Oh! You're a really good actor, mister! Oh...!

-I just saw the alien and I...

-HE GASPS

Then I ran.

I thought he was running after me, so I ran faster.

I was terrified.

I thought it was going to spray me with something.

When that contraption opened, that was absolutely amazing.

Yeah, like there's an instant that, like, I'm terrified.

Our prank just finished, and I feel great.

I mean, I think we're going to win this.

Two great pranks, but there can only be one winner,

and it's up to the Ranksters to decide

which team goes on to stage a Mega Prank.

It's time to rank the prank.

Let's meet today's prank-loving panel.

Ranksters, show yourselves!

When the yeti jumped out,

everyone actually thought it was real.

I think it was funny that some of the people got scared

and they were screaming.

I liked the part when the alien just popped out.

It looked real, and some people got scared.

My favourite part was when the alien popped out and then he runs.

Both great pranks, but the team that is going home today is...

The Ranksters have made a decision. One team is going home.

I feel nervous. I really want to win.

While the other goes on to stage a mind-blowing Mega Prank.

I have a good feeling that we might win.

Green or Blue - Ranksters, it's up to you.

We've made a decision.

The team that is going home today is...

HEARTBEAT

..Prank Bosses.

THEY CHEER

HE SCREAMS, CAIDEN GIGGLES

It's not the end of the Prank Bosses.

The Prank Bosses might be coming for you.

THEY SCREAM

I think that our prank was very imaginative,

a lot of creativity in it.

The Koala Bunnies sent the Prank Bosses packing

and are the Public Prank champs.

But now it's up to the Effectors to create a Mega Prank

on the target of their choice.

Our Mega Prank target is Dan,

cos it's his 40th birthday.

We know Dan cos he's a friend of our parents.

Dan is invited to almost every single party my dad throws.

We picked Dan because he's funny, he's quirky,

and it's 40th birthday today.

Like, that works out perfectly.

Excellent, a birthday boy.

But there's no cake for this kid - just a big old slice of Mega Prank.

Now for the location - a sports arena.

Let's get this prank party started.

-Koala Bunnies, good to see you.

-BOTH: Good to see you too.

Are you guys excited?

We're SO excited for our Mega Prank.

But what do you have in store for our friend Dan?

-We're going to set up this weird obstacle course.

-What?

Now, at the end of this crazy obstacle course,

he enters what we call the mystery tent.

Now, Dan has no idea what's inside this tent.

He has three rounds to play.

The first round, he goes inside the tent, he's covered with cream.

Second round, we have exploding cakes set up

to explode cake all over his face.

And the third round,

we've got a clown...

Launching muffins at him.

Then he ends up in this mystery tent.

What do you think could be in there? A huge bear!

-What?!

-Did you say "bear"?

-Bear.

This bear is awesome.

I called my buddy Joel, who's an animatronics specialist.

You guys are going to love it.

The Effectors' Mega Prank idea's amazing!

I don't think Dan is just going to flip out.

Like, he's going to flip ou-ou-out!

-One, two, three.

-ALL: Koala Bunnies!

So, here's the plan. He's going to walk through the obstacle course.

This thing has to be mega, for mega-pranking.

Then we launch the cannons.

Our boys, they put up these nice air cannons to launch food.

-This is your cupcake cannon.

-It's awesome.

If you hit the target over there, you can have a cupcake.

-Ooh!

-Does that sound good?

-Yeah.

-Hey!

-Hey!

-Very nice shot.

-Yes!

We've got a bunch of things to throw at him today.

It's going to be awesome. He's going to be completely coated.

OK. Stand up.

-OK...

-This pretty big, huh? He's going to get even higher.

-CJ:

-'So, the bear suit is two pieces.

'It's the body, which is the suit,

'and then it's the head, which is really like a robot bear head.'

-That looks...

-Oh...

I touched its nose, and it moved up, and I was like...

-BEAR HEAD ROARS

-Oh!

-Ah!

-Yeah, she jumped back.

-And screamed.

-Oh!

-Ugh!

-CJ:

-Joel can control it with a little device

kind of like a remote control.

Give it facial expressions, make its mouth,

make it roar, make it angry.

It's quite mean. Look. Like, rarrrgh!

I got, like, a heart attack from that.

Calling all prank fans, it's the moment you've been waiting for...

Our birthday boy has arrived.

He's here! He's here! They're here!

Dan thinks he's here for a chance to win

a gift certificate for a new sporting goods store.

But he's actually here to get covered in sweet, stinky gunk.

I want him to be really surprised and, like, annoyed,

and just, like, have a really good time at the end of it all.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the RTP Mega Challenge.

I'm getting ready to have four contestants to go through

some real rigorous stuff...

The rest of the contestants are actors

who have been instructed to lose badly,

because Dan has to win so he can meet our big, hungry grizzly bear.

In three, two, one - go, Dan!

All right, so far so good.

He's got through it. This guy's moving. Wow.

At first, he was like, "All right, I got this."

BOTH: Good job.

He's almost at the end.

Well done.

Now it's time for the mystery tent.

Happy birthday, Dan! Enjoy your first gooey gift.

Ring that bell. Ring it loud.

SVETLANA LAUGHS

And you got it. Well done, Dan!

When Dan got sprayed by the cream,

I just thought it was hilarious

cos, like, he was covered in it and stuff.

Can I shower, or...?

Can I just... Can I have one of these?

Like, he was really annoyed inside - you could tell that.

But he was like, "I'm OK, yeah." But he was like...

SHE EXHALES DEEPLY

If it seems like Dan's the only one getting sprayed,

it's because he is.

I don't know why I got sprayed.

Oh, relax, Dan. The bear will shower you off with its bear saliva.

Eurgh, gross!

Eurgh!

And the bell! He's done it again!

My favourite moment was, like,

when he got blasted with cream pies.

Here comes another contestant.

I wonder if he'll get hit with cream pies.

Nope, clean as a whistle.

Birthday boy is definitely getting picked on,

and he's starting to pick up on that too.

I hope it was worth that.

I'm glad it's edible. Dan, all right...

When Dan realised he was the only person getting sprayed,

he was not happy.

Just one more obstacle to go before you get your prize.

Am I going to get sprayed by anything?

I can promise you, you are not going to get sprayed by anything.

No spraying Dan any more, OK, everybody?

Sure, we promise not to spray you with cream, Dan.

Only cupcakes this time.

All right, here we go.

Whoa, he's a lot faster this time.

Release the clown!

Get him, clown!

Oh, he got the clown! That's bad luck.

Watch out for the zonker.

When that clown came out and started firing cupcakes,

like, it was awesome, and cake went everywhere.

Warning, a grizzly bear has wandered into the arena looking for a snack.

Everyone, EVERYONE - except Dan - leave immediately.

-Are you ready.

-I'm ready. Let's do this.

-This is it. This is it.

-The bear.

BEAR ROARS

Whoa...

I'm hoping that he's like,

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. I hate you guys so much."

Cody is a trained bear. You're perfectly safe.

What a weird birthday.

Now he's got to play basketball against a grizzly bear.

No offence, Dan, but my money is on the bear.

The technique!

Oh, look who... Yay!

BOTH: You just got pranked by Rank The Prank!

-#GettingEatenByABear.

-Whoo!

I wasn't expecting a giant bear - that's for sure.

I figured something was up,

and I knew I was being set up on some level,

but I guess I still wanted to win.

Dan was such a good sport.

Even after getting sprayed with whipped cream

and getting shot at with cupcakes and stuff.

I'm so happy he's not mad at us.

BEAR ROARS

I just got pranked on Rank The Prank.

-Yeah!

-THEY CHEER