Meteor Strike! Rank the Prank

Warning - kids like you are on the loose with big explosions,

big stunts and big laughs.

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 pranksters are head-to-head today?

Let's meet the green team.

-I'm Elyssa.

-And I'm Markus.

-And we are...

We really get along, because I live right next to him.

It's like a bond that can never be broken.

We love to do pranks on our siblings.

They do pranks on us, so we're kind of like a pranking family.

For our public prank,

we want people to believe that our bowling alley is haunted.

By the grossest ghosts in the world.

Our mega prank target is my older brother, Cornelio.

I've never pranked Cornelio, so this time I'm going to be pranking him.

He just always pranks me, and I'm going to get him back.

-BOTH:

-Watch out, VIPs. Dukafundis is coming for you!

All right, the green team is serious!

So, let's see what the blue team's got.

-Hi, I'm Evan.

-And I'm Ashazia.

-BOTH:

-And we're...

We're the Very Intelligent Pranksters.

Ashazia, she's nice to me. She's really fun.

And if I'm sad, she'll cheer me up.

Evan is nice also.

Like, when I go see Evan, he's just like, "Yay!"

We can do a lot of pranks together, because we work well together.

Today's prank's going to be making people believe a poster can come to

-life.

-And then he'll get like really, really angry.

Like...

Our mega prank target is my dad.

We want to see if we can prank a prankster.

It's going to be strike three for Dukafundis.

The VIPs are in the house!

Well, get out of the house,

cos it's time to get ready for your prank!

And for that, you'll need some special effects magic,

and I know the perfect people to help.

-I'm Marc Reichel.

-I'm Andy Antoine.

We do special effects and pyrotechnics.

We've done all kinds of effects from movies, television.

-Plays.

-Theatre.

-Music videos.

-Rock concerts.

You name it.

We do special effects,

sometimes called mechanical effects,

sometimes called practical effects.

The real stuff in front of the camera,

-things you can touch and feel.

-Not that CG computer-generated stuff.

So, that's us. We can do pretty much anything.

Basically, we like to make things go boom!

Do you smell that?

I think that's your socks, Andy!

Stinky! So, which unfortunate -

I mean, lucky - Effector is going to be teaming up with these two?

I'm Hassan Aziz, a multimedia artist.

My work includes large scale projections, immersive domes,

3-D mapping on buildings.

We even do interactive installations.

-What?

-We do cool stuff with projectors.

-Oh!

-We're always trying to find ways

to inspire people's imaginations,

with immersive multimedia,

interactive experiences.

And honestly, it's super-fun.

See what I mean?

Come on, Pranksters!

If you need a multimedia superhero -

mission accomplished.

I'm your guy!

So, we have a trio of superhero Effectors helping the teams.

Today's prank location -

a bowling alley.

Team VIP, Team Dukafundis.

Tell us a little bit about your prank.

OK, so our prank is called the Haunted Bowling Alley prank.

There's a specific alley that's haunted.

The lights turn off, smoke comes on the alley.

And then a monster appears and he spits out bowling balls

and pins and, of course, the guy gets scared.

I think some people wouldn't really believe the monster thing,

because it's, like, kind of not really realistic.

VIP, now it's your turn.

OK, so today it's going to be Bobby Bass Day.

And Bobby Bass is a famous bowler.

Somebody's going to be giving out free hot dogs.

And right next to the free hot dog stand,

there's going to be a Bobby Bass picture.

All the mustard or ketchup is going to squirt on the poster,

and then the Bobby Bass picture is going to come to life

and scare them so badly, they're going to be really scared.

If we compared pranks, I feel like we just have the upper edge.

Hopefully, they're not sore losers.

All right, Dukafundis, you're up first. Let's go.

So, we have a haunted bowling alley against a talking picture frame.

But only one team can go through to stage the mega-prank and only

the Ranksters will decide who faces the ejector button of doom!

So, the stakes are high. First up, we have Dukafundis.

Am I nervous?

Yes. Like, what's going to happen?

Dukafundis team had, like, a really crazy idea, OK?

We're going to try to create some sort of ghost.

So, in order to bring that idea to life,

we're going to try to make the ghost as real as possible.

I have a very nice surprise for you.

-All right.

-That's so cool!

-Oh,

-that's awesome.

-I was trying to add, like, some sound effects.

And maybe you guys can help me out, OK?

-Sure.

-We can add your own voices and, like, crazy effects, OK?

That's cool!

That's awesome! We had to use our, like, darkest voice.

Get out of my lane!

Ha-ha, ha-ha!

That's amazing. OK, let's see how it is.

'Get out of my lane!

'Ha-ha, ha-ha!'

I love it, because it'll look spooky.

The Dukafundises' prank has an angry ghost that throws the bowling balls

and pins back at them, so you can't bowl in my alley.

So, we're just going to make this whole atmosphere more spooky

-and lively.

-Have you guys ever heard of something called dry ice?

-Never.

-No.

-Dry ice is made out of carbon dioxide.

It's really, really, really cold.

-Cool.

-I love - completely love - the dry ice!

So, what we're going to do,

we're going to pick up couple of chunks and we'll drop them in there.

-And then pour that water in there.

-Oh, my goodness.

OK, that's good. Let's see it react.

See? So, you can see it boiling.

It feels like those movies where you watch it and it goes...

-SHE IMITATES EXPLOSION

-The spooky stuff? Yeah.

Watch this. You can pour it.

-SHE GASPS

-That's so cool!

It's so heavy, it's so cold. It just wants to go to the ground.

I loved that when he poured it! Like, it was cold.

-Nice reaction, hey?

-It feels amazing.

After we showed them the dry ice, we decided,

let's take them back behind the bowling alley.

What we will do is stuff the air cannon with all these bowling pins,

and then launch them down the alley, like you guys wanted them.

I'm going to love watching people and seeing their reactions.

I'm very, very confident about this.

So, with Dukafundis in good spirits,

it's time for the first public prank.

The hidden cameras are rolling, and the pranksters are in

the control room, ready to direct the action.

I'm confident, because I don't want to test my own luck here,

but I think I'm going to win.

A strikingly normal bowling alley.

-I'm getting goose bumps!

-But hit the pins on lane nine,

and you'll get a ghostly surprise.

Here comes the smoke.

-Smoke!

-OK, the flicker.

Cue the ghost!

EVIL LAUGHTER

-Yes!

-GHOST:

-Get out of my lane!

It worked!

We have a monster, we have smoke.

-Those people got weirded out.

-And they, like, laughed and stuff.

Let's do this.

They look surprised, like, "What?"

EVIL LAUGHER

Get out of my lane!

Yeah! It was good.

Definitely not a strike,

-that's for sure.

-The last people.

Those two girls.

She's just like, "I want to get out of here!"

When smoke started happening, the mom was just like,

"Did you guys break it?"

-What did you do?

-Come on, where's that ghost?

Where's that ghost?

-EVIL LAUGHTER

-Yes! There's the ghost.

She's getting scared, she's getting scared!

-Get out of my lane!

-All right, we're coming.

-All right.

You've just been pranked by Rank The Prank!

I had no idea what it was, honestly.

We thought it was, like, a fire, I don't know.

You just got pranked!

I thought it was something pretty weird.

Everything worked. They got scared.

I feel bad for the other team.

Yeah, because it's most likely that we'll crush them.

That's definitely a strike for Dukafundis,

but spare a thought for the VIPs,

who are also looking to bowl over the Ranksters with their prank.

I'm not quite sure what's going to happen,

but I'm pretty excited it's going to work.

VIP had an idea to bring a bowling legend to life.

What we needed to do was create a fake frame that people on the first

sight might just think "Oh, it's a normal, static picture."

And then we want to have this big surprise effect,

that it's actually not static.

It's going to talk to you, it's going to come back to life.

Good morning, VIPs.

The first thing we did was we met the actor

who was playing Bobby Bass.

The goal is that he's going to be starting from a normal position.

And then he can do something to surprise the people.

We got to just pitch out lines and he will just

repeat them in a more powerful way.

Mustard? Seriously?

Mustard? Seriously?

Hey, be careful. I'm ticklish.

Hey, careful. I'm ticklish!

-That was perfect!

-Hey, easy on the ketchup, will you?

See here, it's like super-tiny screen.

Imagine it's going to be like a big, huge, 50-inch screen.

It's funny watching Bobby Bass.

The actor, his words and his movements, and it was fun.

It's going to be an amazing prank.

-I'm looking forward to it!

-All right, let's do it!

We've all been to these restaurants -

they have those big push-down ketchup dispensers.

So, you're sitting there and you're pumping it,

and no ketchup's coming out.

We're going to take a pressure vessel

and we're going to fill it full of ketchup.

We're going to make sure there's enough pressure and enough ketchup that it sprays.

We've taken the idea of a syringe, which works on a plunger, right?

You fill this up and the plunger pushes whatever liquid you have out

through the hole when the plunger goes up.

We've made big plungers here.

We will just take it off, unscrew it, filling it all up.

Screw it back on. Yellow's for mustard.

Red for ketchup, obviously.

Mike and Andy are doing the ketchup dispenser,

so when they squirt the ketchup and it's not working,

they're going to press a special button and all,

and it's going to push all of the air in the ketchup.

And it's going to go on Bobby Bass.

These valves will take all the pressure

that we put in this cylinder and release it up, to push that plunger.

And the plunger's going to move up.

It's going to send all that mustard up all the way through here,

which will cause the ketchup to shoot out and hit Bobby Bass.

Well, I think we're going to get some confused reactions.

Some that'll be like really jumpy, like, "What? OK, OK, what?"

Now it's time for the second public prank.

The hidden cameras are set, Marc's got his finger on the button.

OK, we can start the prank now.

And the Pranksters are in the control room.

I'm not quite sure what's going to happen,

but I'm pretty excited it's going to work.

Look, it's Bobby Bass Day!

And to celebrate, you can enjoy a free hot dog.

Target is coming in.

-Four hot dogs?

-Yes.

But if you want sauce, you're in for a shock.

-Did you guys know Bobby Bass?

-We've heard of him.

-Really?

Because he's totally made up.

Ketchup and mustard is over there.

You just have to really pump it.

-Going for the ketchup.

-Yeah? OK.

Push harder.

-Yeah, you really have do...

-Squirt it.

What?

Hey! I just washed this shirt last month!

It just...

You! Yeah, you! Clean up this mess!

-What's happening?

-I feel like I'm hyper.

Because I was like, "Oh, my gosh, did I just do that?"

-I just did that.

-Do we have to call someone?

Because I think it's broken.

Some of them were confused.

I mean, it won't go.

Oh, my!

Hey! I just washed this shirt last month!

Hey! Clear up this mess!

My favourite reaction was the lady with the black hair.

So, ketchup is right over there.

Oh! Squirt it.

Oh, I feel so bad for her now!

She's, like, half crying, with kind of like a smile on her face.

Hey, you can't see me, but I can see you!

-Yeah, you!

-She's laughing!

You can't see me, but I can see you!

Get back here!

-OK.

-OK, that's crazy.

You just got pranked by Rank The Prank!

There was mustard and ketchup all over the place.

-Oh, I felt so bad!

-I had to clean up all this mess.

-I'm pretty confident we're going to win.

-I hope we will win.

Well, let's hope the Ranksters agree.

The public pranks are over,

but which pranking pair will go on to play the mega-prank

on a target of their choice? It's now time to rank the prank.

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

Ranksters, show yourselves!

GHOST BURPS

The funniest part is when the ghost burped.

My favourite part is when the monster barfed out the bowling pins.

The reactions of the kid was actually really funny for me.

Probably the best part was when the poster started to talk.

-You! Yeah, you!

-"Hey, I washed this shirt last month!"

Those pranks were great.

The votes are in, and we've made a decision.

The Ranksters' votes have been cast.

The VIP is good. I feel like we just have that upper hand.

And one team will be going home...

Right now, I feel like we're going to win this competition.

-Yeah.

-100%.

-100%.

..while the other goes on to stage a mega-prank.

Green or blue, Ranksters, it's down to you!

The votes have been counted.

We have made a decision.

The team going home today is...

..the Very Intelligent Pranksters.

-We did it! Yes!

-I'm a little bit sad,

but I'm still really proud of the work I did,

because not many people actually get to do a prank that's that well done.

We're going to the mega-prank - I'm so happy!

How can you not be speechless about that?

Dukafundis are triumphant!

So now, it's the Effectors' turn to use all their skills to make

a mega-prank that'll go down in history.

Let's remind ourselves of their target.

Our mega-prank target is Cornelio.

-My brother.

-My cousin.

He always pranks me, so I want to prank him.

I want payback. Mr Grump needs to get out of that grumpy shell.

-We'll have a good reaction out of him.

-Very good.

-Watch out, Cornelio.

Years of pulling pranks on these two is about to come back to haunt you!

Now, for the location.

A carwash.

Time to sprinkle some of that prank magic.

So, what have you got for our mega-prank?

-Bam!

-We're going to let Cornelio think that a meteor strike

-destroyed his mom's car.

-Here's the set-up.

Angeline is going to have Cornelio go pick up some vases

she bought from a woman at a carwash.

And when he comes back to see the car,

it's going to be covered by bird poo.

This is when another assistant is going to come

and let us take the car and put it in the back. And we'll wash it.

So, when he goes into the lobby,

there's going to be a TV screen with a bunch of security camera angles on

it. He's going to see a meteor on the screen right before him.

Then we're going to throw in a super-loud boom!

And the whole building will shake.

So, then run outside to see bam!

Smoke, debris, broken glass, fire everywhere.

-You pumped?

-Yeah.

-Let's do this.

-The story-board idea is really, really cool.

The coolest prank in the world.

Coolest prank ever!

So, what I had to do today to make this mega-prank possible,

we had to take actual pictures and footage of around

the building to make it look like security footage that's live.

And when we do everything in black and white

and noisy so it becomes more integrated,

as if it's one big security footage.

-Hey, Hassan.

-Dukafundis! Here you go.

OK, I'm super-excited, I'm going to show you what we've done.

All Cornelio's going to see on the TV is pictures taken by the security

-camera.

-We added other angles.

So, this is how it's going to look on the TV at the end.

-Are you ready to see the final result?

-Yeah.

Let's go!

See it coming?

It's cool! Meteorite looked really realistic.

It looked so real that, like, I would 100% believe it and freak out.

It just blows my mind.

All right! That's what we want.

Tough day at work? It's OK, we're breaking a car today.

So, you cut it, you smash it.

You chop it, you stretch it, you pull it, you push it, you bend it.

The car just made everything.

-Wow!

-Holy...

My goodness!

It looks like a real meteor.

Throw in some smoke machines and some little burning debris around

there to make it look like there was some real damage

-done when that meteorite hit the car.

-I'm so, so excited!

They actually broke a car for this!

The prank is set and ready to go.

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

Right, here comes Cornelio.

He's borrowed Markus's mother's car to pick up some vases for his auntie

at this local carwash.

Little does he know, in a matter of minutes,

a meteor will crash to earth, aimed directly at the car.

Right before the prank, I felt really, really stressed out,

but excited that we're going to get him no matter what.

-Hi. Millie. Hi.

-Hi. Cornelio.

-OK.

Come on just in here.

-Let's watch this go down.

-Just follow me into the garage.

-He went to go get the vases.

-Hi, Phil.

-Hey, Millie!

But while he picks up the vases,

these guys have a little surprise for Cornelio's car.

They're putting bird poop on the car!

And we'll put that one in there, and this one doesn't have a box.

Millie's doing a great job distracting him.

But the team better hurry,

cos here comes Cornelio!

But how will he react to his car being covered in bird poop?

There we go. Dear!

What's happened? Is that those darned birds?

He's looking at the bird poop!

Oh, isn't that awful?

Oh, that's gross! It's really acidic, that stuff.

Yeah, you've got to have that washed off immediately.

He's just looking at the car like, "I was gone for five minutes!"

Why don't you take it round the back and have it washed?

We can clean it. Would you mind giving me your keys? I'll just drive it around the back.

Of course, giving a stranger your keys. Yeah!

As Cornelio makes his way back into the office thinking his car's

being taken around back to be cleaned,

he's got no idea it's actually been switched with an exact replica.

Only difference is, it has a massive meteor in the side of it.

But for now, Cornelio's more concerned about the car

being covered in bird poop.

-That's crazy. I've never seen something like that before.

-I've never seen that. I know, it's weird.

He should be keeping his eyes on the screen,

as we're are about to have a close encounter of the meteor kind.

I've got it.

He's like, "What the heck is going on?"

There's something, like, fell from the...

You guys got to come see this - come on!

Oh, man, I was inside the car and then I got out, because I had to...

Out the door, at the door, out the door, out the door!

Come look, come look.

-Oh, my!

-Oh, no!

You know what? I'm going to call the fire department.

This looks so real!

That's insane. What are the odds that would happen?

We got a good reaction out of my brother.

-A great reaction.

-Amazing reaction!

I don't drive often. Now that I finally drive...

-Yeah.

-Remember, Cornelio has borrowed Markus's mom's car -

and look who's calling.

You guessed it!

-Hello?

-He's talking to your mom!

Looks like he's got a difficult conversation ahead of him.

-Something just happened.

-'What do you mean, just happened?'

I don't know how to explain it. It looks like a meteorite.

-'What?'

-I'm just looking at a car right now

-that has a meteorite smashed into it.

-'Are you serious?'

-Poor kid!

-I think we've put Cornelio through enough.

Time to reveal it's all been a prank.

I can't believe it. It's insane.

-BOTH:

-You just got pranked by Rank The Prank!

Just a meteor coming down, crashing into my car - that's unthinkable.

Yeah! Done - we did the mega prank that we wanted!

I might get them back later on.

He bit hook, line and sinker.

They just reeled him in.

I didn't even care if it was my car.

I just saw the meteor, you know?

And they should be really proud of themselves.

Well, I'm feeling glad and great that he fell for it.

Then when I came out and I saw the car,

I saw the smoke, I was just like,

-"Oh, my parents are going to kill me."

-It's just been amazing.

I just got pranked on Rank The Prank.

THEY CHEER