Jimmy Kimmel Finally Reveals His Halloween Challenge for the Year
Jimmy Kimmel
If you're a fan of Jimmy Kimmel, you may have noticed that he failed to issue his traditional Halloween challenge, in which he requests parents to film themselves telling their kids they ate all of their Halloween candy the next morning, this year.
The late-night host has finally revealed what antics he got himself involved in in place of the beloved, previously yearly mischief, but fans made it known that they aren't too impressed by the new shenanigans, which he unveiled in a new clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Kimmel teamed up with Mark Rober, a former NASA & Apple engineer who you may recognize for his viral work trolling package thieves with glitter bombs, to troll kids on Halloween, instead. The YouTuber built an admittedly impressive series of automations in an attempt to prank kids who take too much candy from one house and filmed the reactions from each one, putting the results into a compilation of clips aired on the show.
"If kids taking the whole bowl of candy bothers you, watch the evil genius @MarkRober & me swing the Halloween hammer of justice!" Kimmel teased alongside a preview of the segment uploaded to Instagram.
Rober came up with several options to startle any adolescents deemed too greedy, including a collapsing table, a rotating table top allowing the bowl of candy to be swapped out for a bowl of toothbrushes, flashing red and blue lights accompanied by an intimidating voice instructing kids return the candy, and even a camera linked to the homeowner's television to trick them into thinking that they were being live-streamed on the local news.
Some found the new pranks amusing, with one joking, "Scared straight...the Mark Rober way. Bringing honor back one ghoul at a time," but many fans were disappointed, to say the least, but the change.
"I miss the telling your kids you ate their candy TBH," one admitted in the comments.
"Please bring back the 'Jimmy Kimmel told me to take your Halloween candy' segment next year…nothing beats those reactions! 😂," another pleaded.
One Twitter user was distraught by the change, writing, "the only reason I had kids was to steal their Halloween candy…what am I supposed to do now?"
Another took matters into their own hands, telling their son they ate all of his candy anyway and blaming it on the former mastermind.
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