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Once events unfold it’s hard not to get fatalistic about them and see their development as inevitable, and so it is that we now live in a world where it’s impossible to imagine an alternate reality where American Reunion ISN’T the highest-grossing film of all time with a record breaking opening weekend of 9 billion dollars. Go ahead and try to imagine that’s not the case. You can’t do it. But it’s not all dollar signs and history books for American Reunion. It’s also great ON SET PRANKS! From the HollywoodReporter:
While it’s been 13 years since the first film was released, the American Pie cast is still clearly very young at heart. Co-star Alyson Hannigan told THR that when the male stars get back together they “regress not even to high school but more like junior high.”
Klein told THR that he was the victim of a prank on his very first day on the American Reunion set.
“I immediately got hit in the balls,” he said. The perpetrator of the crime? Jason Biggs, who is not only starring in the fourth film, but is also an executive producer along with Seann William Scott.
Another incredible prank. That’s the thing about money and fame is that it frees you up to do other things with your time. You can really pour a lot of effort into passion projects like hitting Chris Klein in the balls. Months, YEARS, of planning just to get it right. And then all of that passion and art goes back into the work, making American Reunion the #1 movie in America for 10 years running. What a wonderful world. (Thanks for the tip, CaliforniaRocks.)
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Please stop putting us through these “reunions” every few years.
Hitting someone in the balls is a prank? And to think for all these years I’ve been holding off because I thought it was assault.
It’s a fine line.
Technically, it’s only a prank if you innocently ask the mark what the capital of Thailand is, then when they say ‘Bangkok’ you punch them in the balls, or, alternately, if they say ‘I don’t know,’ YOU say ‘Bangkok’ then punch them in the balls.
I just got an idea for the Videogum 4th Anniversary Party. Lawblog will be wearing a cup tomorrow night if he knows what’s good for him.
BTW: Everyone should find Kelly and show her their best Michael Caine impression.
She was only sixteen!
Pro tip: saying “my cocaine“ sounds like you are saying Michael Caine in his voice
In retaliation, Chris Klein stole all of the cocaine.
“I really thought that Jason was making an honest inquiry into the location of the capital of Thailand. I was shocked, SHOCKED, that his line of questioning was merely an entreaty to a prank most juvenile.” — Chris Klein
Whoops. I kind of punched a spider boner.
Save it for the movie you guys! That’s comedy gold!
Jason Biggs stole that from my 18-month-old, who “pranked” me with a soccer ball last week.
Eugene Levy was pretty upset he wasn’t around to see this happen. Turns out Biggs had tricked him into driving his Chevy all the way out to the levy, only to discover that it was dry.
I think the biggest prank of all is thinking that Tara Reid would be a box-office draw.
In her defense, watching her get fall down drunk around the Mediterranean made for a wonderful TV show.
Here are some other fun pranks that anyone can play on coworkers, classmates, significant others, or just random strangers on the street!
- Punch in the back of the head
- Any 3 Stooges move
- Poorly executed roundhouse kick, to either body or property
- Straight up smack in the face
- Look in the eye, accompanied with phrase “I will kill you and your whole family.”
- Balled up tootsie rolls, made to look like poop from a small dog or rabbit!
The military likes to train, even when they have nothing to train. So one day we had “horseplay” training, about what is and is not an acceptable prank to play. I generally ignored training like that, but this one was too great, so I paid attention. Here are some of the pranks that are NOT okay with the military:
-Lighting a book on fire while someone is reading it
-Locking someone in a room and setting it on fire
-Joyriding in a helicopter
-Physical assault
-Forced kissing
I swear I did not make any of that up. That’s really stuff that we were explicitly forbidden from doing.
Scary to think that to some people these were not self evident.
It’s more a case of the Navy thinking that these things aren’t self evident to us. They did that stuff all the time. This was one of the best, right up there with our training on why it’s wrong to get involved in human trafficking, and the one on why, if you find a dead bird on the ground, you should not take it home and test it for bird flu.
Wait, why? Asking for a friend with a bird.
It does sound quite a bit like junior high in that the popular kid would hit me in the balls and then tell everyone it was a prank.