The sad thing about "Crank Yankers" is that the call victims can either be too stupid or too calm and patient to realize they're being trolled or insulted and so the conversations between the victims and callers can start to sound too monotone and ordinary (or dull). I mean, I understand it's hard to find easily agitated victims who will stoop as low as to scream on a telephone (as though that ever solves a communication problem) but a lot of the sketches are hollow like inflated balloons because the prank callers fail to actually do anything to their victims besides confuse them or make the victims talk on and on (Chew the fat, ask more vague questions, express their curiosity in the prank callers' vocabulary).
I think Junkyard Willie did the best job out of all the Crank Yankers, which is why I enjoy writing / typing about him the most on this tropes page. He actually got his callers to yell angry and throw a tantrum on the phone making pathetic fools of themselves, but I'm guessing that's cause Junkyard Willie's puppeteer RECEIVED, NOT DIALED wrong numbers by purchasing very similar-looking numbers to the UPS.
Other than Willie, I think Bobby Fletcher was the best crank caller mainly because he uses the Bait-and-Switch method and tells really hilarious lies but he's still less superior than Junkyard Willie.
I loved how Jimmy Kimmel was able to get his own kids Kevin and Katie to participate in prank calls, I admired the sharp irony in having his own kids use profanity and bad language to mess around with adults on the phone, it shows that sometimes kids can be smarter (and have dirtier minds) than adults. I thought it was sweet that Kevin and Katie got along together so well as siblings but that their idea of playing with each other involves really high-risk prank calls fooling around with innocent people who are working low-pay jobs to survive cause unlike Kevin and Katie, their dad is NOT an Oscar shows host or a millionaire TV talk show host.
Kevin and Katie were one of the best parts of the show because they actually put in irony onto the show (how does a 10 year old even know what the slang terms for "Balls", "Bitch" and "Retarded" mean?), the show seriously lacked irony which is why I scratched and hunted for bits with only Kevin and/or Katie in them in Season 2 and 3 because Sarah Silverman, Adam Carolla and Tracy Morgan are such untalented comedians. If you can't find funny adults todo the prank calls, at least just make children do the prank calls.
GREAT SHOW!! But I think only 15% of the prank calls on the show are actually funny
The sad thing about "Crank Yankers" is that the call victims can either be too stupid or too calm and patient to realize they're being trolled or insulted and so the conversations between the victims and callers can start to sound too monotone and ordinary (or dull). I mean, I understand it's hard to find easily agitated victims who will stoop as low as to scream on a telephone (as though that ever solves a communication problem) but a lot of the sketches are hollow like inflated balloons because the prank callers fail to actually do anything to their victims besides confuse them or make the victims talk on and on (Chew the fat, ask more vague questions, express their curiosity in the prank callers' vocabulary).
I think Junkyard Willie did the best job out of all the Crank Yankers, which is why I enjoy writing / typing about him the most on this tropes page. He actually got his callers to yell angry and throw a tantrum on the phone making pathetic fools of themselves, but I'm guessing that's cause Junkyard Willie's puppeteer RECEIVED, NOT DIALED wrong numbers by purchasing very similar-looking numbers to the UPS.
Other than Willie, I think Bobby Fletcher was the best crank caller mainly because he uses the Bait-and-Switch method and tells really hilarious lies but he's still less superior than Junkyard Willie.
I loved how Jimmy Kimmel was able to get his own kids Kevin and Katie to participate in prank calls, I admired the sharp irony in having his own kids use profanity and bad language to mess around with adults on the phone, it shows that sometimes kids can be smarter (and have dirtier minds) than adults. I thought it was sweet that Kevin and Katie got along together so well as siblings but that their idea of playing with each other involves really high-risk prank calls fooling around with innocent people who are working low-pay jobs to survive cause unlike Kevin and Katie, their dad is NOT an Oscar shows host or a millionaire TV talk show host.
Kevin and Katie were one of the best parts of the show because they actually put in irony onto the show (how does a 10 year old even know what the slang terms for "Balls", "Bitch" and "Retarded" mean?), the show seriously lacked irony which is why I scratched and hunted for bits with only Kevin and/or Katie in them in Season 2 and 3 because Sarah Silverman, Adam Carolla and Tracy Morgan are such untalented comedians. If you can't find funny adults todo the prank calls, at least just make children do the prank calls.