--- title: Jimmy Kimmel I Ate Your Halloween Candy Prank 2017 Video description: Jennifer Lawrence helped unveiled this year's installment of Kimmel's evil prank canonical: https://time.com/5008851/jimmy-kimmel-candy-prank-2017/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-03T14:54:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:28.172Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel's I Ate Your Halloween Candy Prank Is Here og:description: Jennifer Lawrence helped unveiled this year's installment of Kimmel's evil prank og:url: https://time.com/5008851/jimmy-kimmel-candy-prank-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41553959913da20/6988e47fcf40a84b7bc4a125/screen-shot-2017-11-03-at-10-34-45-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1735 og:image:height: 976 og:image:alt: Jimmy Kimmel Halloween Candy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel's I Ate Your Halloween Candy Prank Is Here twitter:description: Jennifer Lawrence helped unveiled this year's installment of Kimmel's evil prank twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41553959913da20/6988e47fcf40a84b7bc4a125/screen-shot-2017-11-03-at-10-34-45-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel's Torture Continues With the 'I Ate Your Halloween Candy Prank' and the Joke Holds Up > Sponsored content. 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Once again, Kimmel invited parents to fake-out their kids by telling them that they ate all of their hard-fought [Halloween](http://time.com/5005371/florida-frankenstein-baby/?xid=homepage) candy ([trick or treating](http://time.com/5007018/stephen-colbert-trump-jr-halloween-socialism/?xid=homepage) is hard work, right?), capturing the results on camera for his audience’s viewing pleasure. And once again it turns out there are a lot of parents in the world who are willing to prank their children and stomach the results, sometimes literally in the case of the kid who threw a literal gut punch. 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