Coca-Cola Happiness Machine

I enjoyed this stunt by Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola hired interactive marketing agency Definition 6 to create a viral video as part of its global "Open Happiness" advertising campaign. Definition 6's production crew secretly installed a modified Coca-Cola vending machine overnight - along with five hidden cameras - on a college campus. The results were entertaining.
Posted to YouTube on Jan. 12, 2010.
Suggested rating: G.

The "invisible rope" prank

The “invisible rope” prank never gets old.
The premise is simple. Two pranksters pretend to stretch a rope across a road or walkway and videotape how people respond.
The masters of this prank are Dan Podosek and Yuki Palermo of TheInvisibleRope.com. The suburban Chicago guys have stopped cars, bikes and pedestrians with their antics.
Up top is their holiday video, recorded in part at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Ill. It was posted to YouTube on Dec. 22, 2008.
Suggested rating for all: G.
Below are some “invisible rope” gags from other pranksters.

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Verizon Wireless Surprises Customer

The Verizon "Can you hear me now?" guy and network show up and follow someone around, just like on TV. He and everyone else in the park were taken by surprise. Funny stunt.
Posted to YouTube on July 15, 2008.
Suggested rating: G

When good bananas go bad

Another humorous prank video. This one features the Banana Man mascot who appears at Florida Panthers ice hockey games.
Posted to YouTube on March 17, 2008.
Suggested rating: G

Portable toilet prank

Imagine entering a Porta Potty in a park and when you get out ... you're in an office meeting. Great prank.
Posted to YouTube on August 17, 2007.
Suggested rating: G

Mario Kart (Remi Gaillard)

The 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, ended today in Los Angeles.
So here's another video game-themed humorous video.

French prankster Remi Gaillard acts out Nintendo's "Mario Kart" video game in real life.
Posted to YouTube on Dec. 3, 2008.
Suggested rating: G

Almost Transformers - Whitegoods In Disguise

With the new Transformers movie due out in a few weeks, here's a funny video by Australian comedy duo Merrick and Rosso.
Posted to YouTube on Oct. 19, 2008.
Suggested rating: G.

Pac Man

One interesting trend in Internet videos involves people performing wacky stunts in public places and filming the reactions of befuddled onlookers as the action unfolds.
Improv Everywhere is one such group that posts YouTube videos of its stunts. A good example is when the Improv Everywhere crew showed up at a Best Buy electronics store wearing blue polo shirts and khakis like the store staff. They walked around the store, confusing shoppers and store employees alike. I personally didn’t find that video all that entertaining.
But here’s a video I did enjoy. It features people dressed as Pac-Man characters chasing each other around a grocery store, a golf course, a pool hall and elsewhere causing mayhem. It’s pretty funny.
It was created by French comedian and prankster Remi Gaillard.
Posted to YouTube on April 16, 2009.
Suggested rating: PG