# Jimmy Kimmel, you suck. (Making kids cry for yuks.) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 9, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489 "2013-11-09T05:46:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/1 "2013-11-09T05:46:54Z")
Apparently Jimmy Kimmel does this every year - [asks parents to tell their kids they ate all their Halloween candy, then film the results.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK-oQfFToVg) As many people here might know, I’m not a huge fan of kids, but I don’t make them cry their eyes out for my own amusement. On an annual basis. Cause it’s so damned funny. Or as one child so rightly observed, “That’s not kind!” And while I’m at it, you suck for not letting me close down all that shit that’s all over the Youtube screen, too. Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/2 "2013-11-09T06:00:24Z")
I’d put more of the blame on the parents. I can understand asking people to do this as a joke, but not a parent who thinks it’s funny to troll their kid and then put it on TV. The only one of these I actually saw was the ‘dump Father’s Day breakfast on your dad’ one, and that seemed like a real dickhead stunt too. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/3 "2013-11-09T06:12:33Z")
I saw one of these – it was either one of the Halloween candy ones or the one where he had parents give their kid an early, crappy xmas present and film it. One of the parents said, “Jimmy Kimmel told me to do this,” whereupon one of their kids replied, “Well, tell him to suck my balls!” Right on, kid. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/4 "2013-11-09T06:56:34Z")
Yeah, this is as funny as that kid a few years ago who got the box from an X-Box filled with clothes for Christmas (and his mom laughs her ass off while the kid tries not to cry because he thought he was getting an X-Box). Har-de-fucking-har. Okay, I include the dickhead parents in my wrath as well as Jimmy Kimmel - he’s the instigator, but nobody’s making them do this. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/5 "2013-11-09T07:42:58Z")
I LOVE these Jimmy Kimmel homemade videos and couldn’t wait to watch the latest Halloween candy one when the holiday rolled around. Favorite parts are at 2:20, 2:30, and 3:20. ---
**Author:** ![all\_timestamps\_displayed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@all\_timestamps\_displayed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/all_timestamps_displayed)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/6 "2013-11-09T08:19:52Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > I saw one of these – it was either one of the Halloween candy ones or the one where he had parents give their kid an early, crappy xmas present and film it. One of the parents said, “Jimmy Kimmel told me to do this,” whereupon one of their kids replied, “Well, tell him to suck my balls!” > > Right on, kid. Link. (broken because of NSFW, features a child clearly yelling “suck my balls”) http: //www. youtube. com/watch?v=dWqI9NzOCwc Also, Jimmy Kimmel is a jerk and so are all these parents, he lost me as a fan with that cruel shit. Haha I have this hilarious idea guys, you know how kids are vulnerable and gullible? Let’s set them and make them cry, come on you can videotape it, it’ll be great. I don’t know why but that shit pisses me off to the point where in the unlikely event I saw Jimmy Kimmel in public I would probably heckle him. Seriously though, some other comedian should do a series where the kids get back at Jimmy Kimmel through Punk’d like pranks. So I guess Ashton Kucher could do it. But Jimmy Kimmel has to not be in on it. This is actually a goldmine idea and I hope someone runs with it because screw Jimmy Kimmel. Either that or a variation of SNL’s “people getting people getting punched just before eating” [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bynyc7hp3Jg) except it’s Jimmy Kimmel getting punched in the balls, by the children he pranked. “How ya like them apples, Jimmy?” I’d say to my TV. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/7 "2013-11-09T09:10:40Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > And while I’m at it, you suck for not letting me close down all that shit that’s all over the Youtube screen, too. Bastard. Hopefully you’re talking about the annotations. If you click on the gear in the lower right-hand corner, you should get options for quality and annotations on/off. Turn them off and all that pop-up crap goes away! ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/8 "2013-11-09T14:09:13Z")
You can put me in the “How-is-this-shit-funny?” camp. What kind of reaction do these parents think they’re going to get? What’s more is that is so stunningly un-original. Why not tell them that Fluffy got run over or that grandma just kicked the bucket? That’ll make ‘em cry too! Hell, just smack them upside the head. That’s got to be good for some laffs! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/9 "2013-11-09T14:51:00Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I LOVE these Jimmy Kimmel homemade videos and couldn’t wait to watch the latest Halloween candy one when the holiday rolled around. > > Favorite parts are at 2:20, 2:30, and 3:20. Go back to 4chan, where you can watch people troll others for lulz all you want. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/10 "2013-11-09T15:03:19Z")
I don’t have a problem with parents pulling pranks on their kids and even sharing the video amongst close family. Not pranks that would involve a betrayal of trust (like parents eating all the candy) or that would make the kids cry. But nonetheless messing with their heads a little. As a gullible person, I don’t really like [pranks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=395437). But in moderation, I could see well-executed ones fostering a healthy sense of humor. (I think one reason I do have a sense of humor is because my father kidded and joked around with us.) What makes me a bit uncomfortable is putting the video “out” for public consumption, so as to make fun of your own kid. Especially knowing how youtube commentators are. Even if there was only a remote chance the kid would find out, it still seems a little assholish. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/11 "2013-11-09T16:19:02Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I LOVE these Jimmy Kimmel homemade videos and couldn’t wait to watch the latest Halloween candy one when the holiday rolled around. > > Favorite parts are at 2:20, 2:30, and 3:20. I see. And when did you join Al Qaeda, anyway? 🙂 > [@all\_timestamps\_displayed](#): > > \ > Seriously though, some other comedian should do a series where the kids get back at Jimmy Kimmel through Punk’d like pranks. So I guess Ashton Kucher could do it. But Jimmy Kimmel has to not be in on it. This is actually a goldmine idea and I hope someone runs with it because screw Jimmy Kimmel.\ I think it would be hi-larious to film Jimmy Kimmel in his next contract negotiations - tell him he’s getting all of his dreams fulfilled, then yell, “Hah! Gotcha! You’re not getting any of these things!” Now, _that_ would be funny! Well, maybe not funny, but fair. > [@Achren](#): > > Hopefully you’re talking about the annotations. If you click on the gear in the lower right-hand corner, you should get options for quality and annotations on/off. Turn them off and all that pop-up crap goes away! Oh my God, you can turn all that shit off! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/12 "2013-11-09T16:22:06Z")
> [@all\_timestamps\_displayed](#): > > Link. (broken because of NSFW, features a child clearly yelling “suck my balls”) > http: //www. youtube. com/watch?v=dWqI9NzOCwc\ That kid also gets it - “Tell him to suck my balls!” “Who, Jimmy Kimmel?” “Yeah - it’s mean!” Nailed it in one, son. It is indeed mean. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/13 "2013-11-09T16:24:12Z")
> [@all\_timestamps\_displayed](#): > > Seriously though, some other comedian should do a series where the kids get back at Jimmy Kimmel through Punk’d like pranks. So I guess Ashton Kucher could do it. But Jimmy Kimmel has to not be in on it. This is actually a goldmine idea and I hope someone runs with it because screw Jimmy Kimmel. I’d watch that, and I hated Punk’d for the same reason I hate this. I just don’t find these sort of “jokes” funny. Honestly, I have a fantastic sense of humor, but it doesn’t extend to enjoying the creation of actual pain. But karmic schadenfreude? I’m all over that. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/14 "2013-11-09T17:00:25Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Qh2sWSVRrmo/hqdefault.jpg "Children") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo) I’m sure the little dears will survive these horrible times. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/15 "2013-11-09T17:15:38Z")
The Huns cut the cheeks of their male babies with a sword, so that before they received the nourishment of milk they had to learn to endure wounds, and we don’t think America’s children can survive being deceived about having their candy eaten? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/16 "2013-11-09T17:34:36Z")
I used to draw a beard and mustache on my sons while they slept, and then enjoyed the laughter of the rest of the family when they came to the breakfast table. One of them was unaware his mother put a barrette in his hair while he slept and went to school with it! Numb nuts.😛 When I was little adults took great delight in fucking with a kids head. The guy my parents bought their house from was the uncle of a friend of mine. When I was about 4 or 5 he had me convinced he had forgotten to remove a treasure he had buried in the back yard. You should have heard my old man screaming when he found all the divots and holes I spent an entire summer day digging. I think these videos are no more mean then when your kid finally realizes you’ve been lying to them about a fat ass in a red suit. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/17 "2013-11-09T17:44:23Z")
The kids will suffer no harm from this, and they’ll probably laugh their asses off when the grow up and see the videos. Assuming, of course, the parents aren’t child abusers or whatever… Anyway, I laughed. And so did the kids once they found out the truth! ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/18 "2013-11-09T17:50:04Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I don’t have a problem with parents pulling pranks on their kids and even sharing the video amongst close family. Not pranks that would involve a betrayal of trust (like parents eating all the candy) or that would make the kids cry. But nonetheless messing with their heads a little. As a gullible person, I don’t really like [pranks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=395437). But in moderation, I could see well-executed ones fostering a healthy sense of humor. (I think one reason I do have a sense of humor is because my father kidded and joked around with us.) > > What makes me a bit uncomfortable is putting the video “out” for public consumption, so as to make fun of your own kid. Especially knowing how youtube commentators are. Even if there was only a remote chance the kid would find out, it still seems a little assholish. After watching the link in the OP… None of the videos are that cringe-worthy to me. I don’t like seeing small children bawling their eyes out, but they cry, what, fifty times a day on average? Is 10 seconds worth of dramatics really going to damage their psyches that much? I don’t think so. I would feel bad if I were the parent of the one little girl who was crying in a dignified way while saying “It’s okay”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/19 "2013-11-09T17:52:45Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > The Huns cut the cheeks of their male babies with a sword, so that before they received the nourishment of milk they had to learn to endure wounds, and we don’t think America’s children can survive being deceived about having their candy eaten? Suck it, everybody who said the kids were going to be scarred for life and die! ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489/20 "2013-11-09T17:55:27Z")
It’s not a prank, it’s bullying, plain and simple. Not only that, it’s lazy and unoriginal; they’ve got a budget, they should use their imaginations and make their own fucking content. It is possible to do these kind of prank shows without humiliating anyone. Case in point being a show we had in the UK called Trigger Happy TV. Here’s an example of how you do it: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/r-v7w5CL6EU/hqdefault.jpg "Trigger Happy TV - Snail Clip") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-v7w5CL6EU) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-you-suck-making-kids-cry-for-yuks/673489.md?page=2)