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.
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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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