History Main / EyepiecePrank

* Done a few times in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in "April Smurf's Day" and "Jokey's Joke Book."

* ''[[ComicBook/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace and Gnasher]]'': In "You and Whose Army," Curly hands Dennis a telescope. Dennis asks Curly if he has put boot polish round the eyepiece. Curly says no and raises the telescope to his own eye to demonstrate, only to find that Dennis has put boot polish on the eyepiece.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "The Joker Is Wild." During a practical joke contest, Colonel Potter gets "Ring Around the Eyes" when he looks through a pair of binoculars.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', if the player character looks through Sans's "premium telescope" in Waterfall, they only see a solid red color. When you exit the telescope, there is a purple ring around their eye.

* ''Literature/{{Arthur}}'': Arthur does this to Binky in "Arthur's April Fools". He was afraid most of the book that Binky would pull a prank on him, and ended up turning the tables at the end. He told Binky to go home and look through the paper tube at the mirror to decode a written message--that said 'April fool's'.

* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': Lindsay gets one of these from her husband, in a prank meant for Adam, the lab tech. She wears glasses the rest of the episode to hide it and spends most of it trying to determine the prankster. She tells Danny she'll find a way to get him back for it.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "The Joker Is Wild". During a practical joke contest, Colonel Potter gets "Ring Around the Eyes" when he looks through a pair of binoculars.
* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'': Darlene did this to catch DJ spying on the neighbor, Molly. It doesn't go as planned though when DJ comes downstairs with no marks on his eye. Then David comes downstairs... [[note]]DUE TO ITS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND VIOLENT NATURE, THE REMAINDER OF THIS SCENE HAS BEEN CENSORED.[[/note]]
* ''Series/HankZipzer'': In "Operation: Prank Adolf", Rosa is attempting to teach Emily to enjoy April Fool's pranks, and basically forces Emily to look through the eyepiece of a telescope, despite the fact that Emily already knows it has boot polish on it.

* A deadly variation in ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'': Jud obtains a "Little Wonder", a telescope-like device with a picture inside. You get your victim to look through the eyepiece to see the picture, and while he's looking, you press a secret release and a blade pops out.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Griffon the Brush Off", Pinkie Pie does this to Rainbow Dash using a telescope that the latter was looking in to see the results of their squirting turtle prank.

* This happens to Spock in the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Practical Joker". After the ''Enterprise'' passes through a mysterious energy field, the ship's computer starts pulling practical jokes on the crew. One example is coating the rim of a viewing device with a black pigment. When Spock looks into it, it leaves rings around his eyes.

* Done a few times in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', in "April Smurf's Day" and "Jokey's Joke Book".
* ''[[ComicBook/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace and Gnasher]]'': In "You and Whose Army", Curly hands Dennis a telescope. Dennis asks Curly if he has put boot polish round the eyepiece. Curly says no and raises the telescope to his own eye to demonstrate, only to find that Dennis has put boot polish on the eyepiece.

* Not an eyepiece, but basically the same prank is pulled by [[ItMakesSenseInContext a wheel of cheese]] in a Cheez-It commercial, using the rim of a mug instead of an eyepiece. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8uPefNv9S4 here]].

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** In Episode 12, Lulu attempts to do this to the [[DrillSergeantNasty mean butler]], but unfortunately for her, [[GenreSavvy he is wise to the trick]], so he sticks the binoculars on Lulu's face, causing this to happen to her a second time.

* ''Series/HankZipzer'': In "Operation: Prank Adolf", Rosa is attempting to teach Emily to enjoy April Fool's prank, and basically forces Emily to look through the eyepiece of a telescope, despite the fact that Emily already knows it has boot polish on it.

* One of the HilariousOuttakes from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 2'' has this happen to Buzz after he looks through Lenny, the toy binoculars.

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* ''Anime/LittleLulu''

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* Mahoney pulls it on Captain Harris in ''Film/PoliceAcademy''.

* ''{{Literature/Arthur}}'' :Arthur does this to Binky in "Arthur's April Fools". He was afraid most of the book that Binky would pull a prank on him, and ended up turning the tables at the end. He told Binky to go home and look through the paper tube at the mirror to decode a written message--that said 'April fool's'.

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* ''{{CSI NY}}'': Lindsay gets one of these from her husband,in a prank meant for Adam,the lab tech. She wears glasses the rest of the episode to hide it and spends most of it trying to determine the prankster. She tells Danny she'll find a way to get him back for it.
* ''Series/{{Mash}}'' episode "The Joker is Wild". During a practical joke contest, Colonel Potter gets "Ring Around the Eyes" when he looks through a pair of binoculars.

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* Used in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' with professional astronomers pulling this prank on each other at work.
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* This happened to Spock in the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Practical Joker". After the ''Enterprise'' passed through a mysterious energy field, the ship's computer started pulling practical jokes on the crew. One example was coating the rim of a viewing device with a black pigment. When Spock looked into it, it left rings around his eyes.

* ''[[DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace and Gnasher]]'': In "You and Whose Army", Curly hands Dennis a telescope. Dennis asks Curly if he has put boot polish round the eyepiece. Curly says no and raises the telescope to his own eye to demonstrate, only to find that Dennis has put boot polish on the eyepiece.

* This happened to Spock in the ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Practical Joker". After the ''Enterprise'' passed through a mysterious energy field, the ship's computer started pulling practical jokes on the crew. One example was coating the rim of a viewing device with a black pigment. When Spock looked into it, it left rings around his eyes.

* ''{{MASH}}'' episode "The Joker is Wild". During a practical joke contest, Colonel Potter gets "Ring Around the Eyes" when he looks through a pair of binoculars.

Examples:

This is a stock practical joke. The victim is asked to look into a kaleidoscope,binoculars or similar item. The eyepiece end has been coated with something that leaves rings around the eyes when the item is pressed to the face.

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** In Episode 6, Lulu is looking through a pair of binoculars while her and the others are looking for fires to fight (long story). When she removes them, she ends up with black rings around her eyes, as the others start yukking it up about it.
** In Episode 12, Lulu attempts to do this to the [[{{Drill Sergeant Nasty}} mean butler]], but unfortunately for her, [[{{Genre Savvy}} he is wise to the trick]], so he sticks the binoculars on Lulu's face, causing this to happen to her a second time.

* ''{{Literature/Arthur}} :Arthur does this to Binky in "Arthur's April Fools". He was afraid most of the book that Binky would pull a prank on him, and ended up turning the tables at the end. He told Binky to go home and look through the paper tube at the mirror to decode a written message-that said 'April fool's'.

* ''{{CSI NY}}'' Lindsay gets one of these from her husband,in a prank meant for Adam,the lab tech. She wears glasses the rest of the episode to hide it and spends most of it trying to determine the prankster. She tells Danny she'll find a way to get him back for it.
* ''{{MASH}}'' episode "The Joker is Wild". During a practical joke contest, Colonel Potter gets "Ring Around The Eyes" when he looks through a pair of binoculars.

* Used in ''TheFarSide'' with professional astronomers pulling this prank on each other at work.

* One of the HilariousOuttakes from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 2'' has thus happen to Buzz after he looks through Lenny, the toy binoculars.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Ed is using a opened-up can as a binocular. When he puts it away, a ring where the can once was is on Ed's eye.
* This happened to Spock in the ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Practical Joker".After the Enterprise passed through a mysterious energy field, the ship's computer started pulling practical jokes on the crew. One example was coating the rim of a viewing device with a black pigment. When Spock looked into it, it left rings around his eyes.
* In an AprilFoolsDay[=/=]ClipShow episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' the employees of the Frying Dutchman Restaurant do this to their boss Captain [=MacAlister=] as he's looking through a telescope. "From this day, I be requiring hairnets."
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