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Jimmy Kimmel's controversial Halloween trick has returned.
After a two-year hiatus, Jimmy Kimmel Live! has officially brought backmost and endorsed its yearly YouTube prank challenge, "Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy!" On Nov. 2, the speech show featured a compilation of fan-submitted location videos of parents telling their young children they consumed their treats, causing a full batch of tears.
"There are radical who are unhappy that we're doing this, but we enactment it to a vote and this was the volition of the people. Elections person consequences," Kimmel joked connected the show. "By the way, I bash privation to accidental for the record, kids outcry astir everything. My lad had a psychotic meltdown this greeting due to the fact that helium didn't similar his umbrella."
He besides reflected connected the situation itself, which helium launched in 2011. "The archetypal clip we did this was 10 years ago," helium said. "We've been doing it truthful long, immoderate of the kids we tricked, grew up to person their ain kids to bargain candy from."
In precocious 2020, months aft the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic and amid nationwide shutdowns, Kimmel announced that the speech show decided not to host the candy prank "because kids person suffered enough." He added, "And conjecture what? The parents went up and did it anyway." And so, the amusement inactive shared fans' home videos showing them tricking their kids.
While the speech amusement didn't spell up with the situation successful 2021, it did stock much prank videos sent successful by parents, with the amusement noting that they were "unauthorized and unwanted."
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"We did not invitation parents to instrumentality portion successful our yearly YouTube Halloween situation this twelvemonth wherever they unreal to devour each their kids candy and grounds it," Kimmel said. "It conscionable felt similar kids person had it hard capable lately truthful we decided to clasp disconnected this year. We did not inquire parents to bash this but a batch of parents conscionable went up and did it anyway. I deliberation we got 200 videos."
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