--- title: This FOX Weather Reporter Got Epically Sassed By His Own Son description: FOX5 Vegas's chief meteorologist Tom Pretty was in for a real burn when he asked his son a question about fireworks during a live segment. canonical: https://time.com/4840108/weather-boy-youtube/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-29T20:03:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:01.856Z og:title: This FOX Weather Reporter Got Epically Sassed By His Own Son og:description: "Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?" og:url: https://time.com/4840108/weather-boy-youtube/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This FOX Weather Reporter Got Epically Sassed By His Own Son twitter:description: "Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This FOX Weather Reporter Got Unflinchingly Sassed By His Own Son On-Air > Sponsored content. 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The camera follows him around the corner of the store, to where a solitary kid stands with a pamphlet of firework options in hand. “What’s the best kind of firework to buy?” the weatherman asks, innocently enough. “Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy?” the kid shoots back. Sick burn. “Where are your parents?” the weatherman responds, taken aback. “Kid’s sketchy. Back to you guys.” The now-viral 12-second clip — first published online by YouTube user [Fireattack142](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py44k46RR%5F0) on Wednesday, where it’s since racked up over half a million views — is already a classic of on-air local news comedy. But it turns out the sassy interaction was actually, well, staged. The tart-tongued kid is chief meteorologist Ted Pretty’s son, as one internet sleuth named Luke O’Neil uncovered, and Pretty himself gamely [confirmed.](https://twitter.com/tedpretty/status/880430636112019456) Ah, well. “Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy?” is the kind of withering retort that the world is better off having in our collective arsenal of internet-birthed comebacks. 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