--- title: TV Reporters Get the Full Prank Treatment description: TV reporters' green coats provide the ultimate prank opportunity and the results are hilarious. canonical: https://time.com/5551618/green-screen-prank/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-14T15:59:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:05.189Z og:title: TV Reporters' Green Coats Were the Ultimate Prank Opportunity og:description: Flawless execution og:url: https://time.com/5551618/green-screen-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bd89fe530711e98/698946b397cdff80936b77d6/greenscreenprank.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Video Mixer Switcher og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TV Reporters' Green Coats Were the Ultimate Prank Opportunity twitter:description: Flawless execution twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bd89fe530711e98/698946b397cdff80936b77d6/greenscreenprank.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # TV Reporters' Green Coats Provided the Ultimate Opportunity for a Prank  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 14, 2019 3:59 PM UTC  Professional video mixing console, transmission control full. Professional video mixing console, transmission control full.broadcastertr—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 14, 2019 3:59 PM UTC Two reporters wearing green coats while doing a live segment on _CNN_ provided the perfect opportunity for the Internet to have a little fun [using the coats as green screens.](http://time.com/5376300/green-screen-picture-day/) In a clip on Reddit, a user posted a video of the reporters’ green coats being replaced with footage of Jimmy Barnes from Kirin J Callinan’s music video for the electric-country song “Big Enough;” Barnes’ portion of the song had already been [the inspiration for many a meme online](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/big-enough) and several parody remixes, so its use for this green screen prank felt especially fitting. While green clothing/green screen pranks are nothing new, this viral moment felt especially hilarious since there were two different green coats, which provided ample opportunity to alternate green screen footage, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase, “double the trouble, double the fun.” Watch the full green screen trick below. > [](https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/1105902775316213761) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5551618/green-screen-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5551618/green-screen-prank/"},"headline":"TV Reporters' Green Coats Provided the Ultimate Opportunity for a Prank","datePublished":"2019-03-14T15:59:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:05.189Z","description":"TV reporters' green coats provide the ultimate prank opportunity and the results are hilarious.","url":"https://time.com/5551618/green-screen-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bd89fe530711e98/698946b397cdff80936b77d6/greenscreenprank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bd89fe530711e98/698946b397cdff80936b77d6/greenscreenprank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Video Mixer Switcher","caption":"Video Mixer Switcher","creditText":"broadcastertr—Getty Images","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/5551618/green-screen-prank/","name":"TV Reporters' Green Coats Provided the Ultimate Opportunity for a Prank"}}]}] ```