--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Live Halloween Candy Prank 2014: Video description: He encourages their parents to tell them they ate all their candy canonical: https://time.com/3556244/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-04T15:46:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:20.825Z og:title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Briefly Ruin Childrens' Lives og:description: He encourages their parents to tell them they ate all their candy og:url: https://time.com/3556244/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte49170f39cc31fd6/698764090b72e3cbc96db5c4/screen-shot-2014-11-04-at-10-24-11-am.png?branch=production&width=528&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 528 og:image:height: 297 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-11-04 at 10.24.11 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Briefly Ruin Childrens' Lives twitter:description: He encourages their parents to tell them they ate all their candy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte49170f39cc31fd6/698764090b72e3cbc96db5c4/screen-shot-2014-11-04-at-10-24-11-am.png?branch=production&width=528&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Briefly Ruin Childrens' Lives > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 4, 2014 3:46 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 4, 2014 3:46 PM UTC Well, looks like Jimmy Kimmel kept up his annual tradition of convincing parents to tell their kids they ate all their Halloween candy. He encourages them to film the kids’ reactions — which of course include sadness, despondence, bewilderment and rage — and then send them in so he can air them in one big supercut. Funny? Yes. Incredibly mean and probably exploitative? Yup. **MORE:** [Watch Taylor Swift Perform ‘Out of the Woods’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live!](http://time.com/3536545/taylor-swift-out-of-the-woods-jimmy-kimmel/) Some kids seem like they’ve been trained to deliver a camera-ready response, but others respond with what appears to be raw, genuine emotion, which is completely understandable. They _earned_ that candy. 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