--- description: He encourages their parents to tell them they ate all their candy title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Briefly Ruin Childrens' Lives image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte49170f39cc31fd6/698764090b72e3cbc96db5c4/screen-shot-2014-11-04-at-10-24-11-am.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Briefly Ruin Childrens' Lives by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2014 3:46 PM CUT  by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2014 3:46 PM CUT 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/ "undefined") 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. Watch the full video here: _Read next:_ [_Watch Nick Offerman Star in a Fake Home Depot Ad to Help John Oliver Prove a Point_](http://time.com/3554458/john-oliver-fake-home-depot-ad-nick-offerman/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3556244/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3556244/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Briefly Ruin Childrens' Lives","datePublished":"2014-11-04T15:46:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:20.825Z","description":"He encourages their parents to tell them they ate all their candy","url":"https://time.com/3556244/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral","Pranks","Jimmy Kimmel","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte49170f39cc31fd6/698764090b72e3cbc96db5c4/screen-shot-2014-11-04-at-10-24-11-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte49170f39cc31fd6/698764090b72e3cbc96db5c4/screen-shot-2014-11-04-at-10-24-11-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-11-04 at 10.24.11 AM","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/3556244/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank/","name":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Briefly Ruin Childrens' Lives"}}]}] ```