I had seen bits and pieces of the Prank War between Amir and Streeter of collegehumor.com, but never watched the entire saga unfold serially until last night.
So, I shall share this amazing tale of intrigue, backstabbing, conspiracy, doublecrossing and ruthless diabolical deviousness with the Dope.
It all starts off innocently enough, with Streeter editing in some sex sounds into Amir’s favorite iTunes track.
Amir has his revenge by setting up Streeter on a fake date with a non-existent hot fangirl.
Streeter plays into Amir’s ego by faking a casting call and getting Amir to make a hilariously bad audition tape which he then plays for the whole office (and, of course, the world.)
Amir comes back by convincing the audience not to laugh at Streeter’s open-mic night at the UCB.
Continuing the theme, Streeter convinces Amir to fly with him to LA to play a bit part on a sketch comedy show, wherein the stars relentlessly criticize Amir’s acting while praising Streeter.
In possibly the greatest culmination of a prank war ever recorded on digital video, Amir pranks Streeter in front of a capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium by buying a Jumbotron marriage proposal for Streeter’s girlfriend.
That was almost two years ago, and many people assumed that this war had ended in a truce or several destroyed relationships. But the peace was not to last.
Streeter gets his revenge once again in quite possibly the most sublime prank I’ve ever seen, which I won’t even describe here except to say this: the turtle was in on it.
Those last two are pure evil, especially the Yankee Stadium bit. Still, I have tears streaming down my face from laughter, because they all seem to take it in their good stride.
FWIW, I have it on good authority that the marriage proposal prank did not actually cause Streety Bird’s girlfriend to dump him. (They did break up later though.)
That was pretty damn good (I just watched the last two), but WOW, I’d HATE to see the Yankee’s one happen to me, the Turtle one, I could deal with fine… But getting slapped like that and having that over my head… I might just fake it and fake propose on that spot -_-
The problem with the Yankee Stadium prank is that it “wounded” an innocent bystander* (the girlfriend)–she wasn’t in on it and she ended up embarrassed/humiliated. The best pranks don’t splash ‘innocent victims’. So even though it was hysterical, it was sloppy and inelegant. I gotta give the Basketball the win by a long shot.
*She’s fair game if she participated in earlier pranks–but I didn’t see that she joined in or was part of the war.
You guys believe these are actually pranks? They all, especially the proposal one, seem obviously staged (on both sides) and poor acted. The girlfriend’s reaction makes it look like she was 100% in on it.
That was my idea, too. I don’t think can I recall a woman ever slapping a guy in the face in real life. That’s purely movie stuff. Also, after the Yankee stadium thing, the basketball shot would obviously be a set up.
Just about anyone can put anything on the Internet now and everyone just assumes that it’s real.
I think you’re unduly skeptical. Everything in the clips was plausible, and certainly it was presented as being legitimate, and collegehumor.com is a pretty well known site, so this would be a fairly substantial fraud if it were fake.
Anyway, that’s good enough for me. Maybe I’m naïve.
I admit a part of me was a little skeptical at the part guizot described. (I HAVE seen men hit like that, among other ways, by a women), but it did seem like it COULD have been planned out. I do beleive it’s genuin, but can’t be 100% sure. I question the validity of a lot of things though.
I agree. That’s harsh, and not fair. He seemed really hurt by the last prank and getting choked up about it, but the young lady had nothing to do with it.
Not saying it’s real but I’ve been slapped that way by women before. And it wasn’t for saying “but I don’t want to <expletiving> marry you” when she thought she was being proposed to.