--- title: Halloween News Bloopers Are Both Hilarious and Frightening description: Tricks and treats make for the best local news bloopers canonical: https://time.com/4977582/halloween-news-bloopers-2/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-11T16:54:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:56.131Z og:title: Halloween News Bloopers Are Both Hilarious and Frightening og:description: News reporters have the best reactions to spooky pranks og:url: https://time.com/4977582/halloween-news-bloopers-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7a372d92f1bb21e/6988e1784ee2623c0630f5b4/hween-news-blooper.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: hween-news-blooper og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Halloween News Bloopers Are Both Hilarious and Frightening twitter:description: News reporters have the best reactions to spooky pranks twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7a372d92f1bb21e/6988e1784ee2623c0630f5b4/hween-news-blooper.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Halloween News Bloopers Are Both Hilarious and Frightening by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 11, 2017 4:54 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 11, 2017 4:54 PM UTC It’s the most wonderful time of the year: When [local news teams](http://time.com/4843463/john-oliver-local-news-last-week-tonight/) get tricked and we get the treats. Imagine that you’re an anchor doing a live broadcast from the comfort of your local television studio and just trying to report the news, when suddenly a giant spider drops from the ceiling on to the desk. Of course, you would jump and possibly scream, only to realize it was a joke, and then to remember that you’re live on the air and your reaction has been broadcast to the entire world. (Unless you’re [this reporter](http://time.com/4874658/news-blooper-spider/), then a spider is nothing to blink at.) Thanks to YouTube channel, [News Be Funny](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKW7smxCcAvvatHJFLlIhw), viewers get to watch that entire cavalcade of emotions plays out over and over again in this compilation of [Halloween](https://www.realsimple.com/holidays-entertaining/holidays/halloween/diy-pumpkin-painting) pranks that plague the sets of [local news outlets](http://time.com/4705266/funniest-snow-bloopers/) across the U.S. each October. Grab some fun-sized treats and watch as news anchors and on-location reporters suffer through Halloween-themed tricks and scares and we get to sit back and laugh at the resulting [bloopers](http://time.com/4603499/best-bloopers-2016/). Watch below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4977582/halloween-news-bloopers-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4977582/halloween-news-bloopers-2/"},"headline":"Halloween News Bloopers Are Both Hilarious and Frightening","datePublished":"2017-10-11T16:54:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:56.131Z","description":"Tricks and treats make for the best local news bloopers","url":"https://time.com/4977582/halloween-news-bloopers-2/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","News","Holidays","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7a372d92f1bb21e/6988e1784ee2623c0630f5b4/hween-news-blooper.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7a372d92f1bb21e/6988e1784ee2623c0630f5b4/hween-news-blooper.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hween-news-blooper","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4977582/halloween-news-bloopers-2/","name":"Halloween News Bloopers Are Both Hilarious and Frightening"}}]}] ```