Pranks

Jumping on the lengthly line of recent pranks on the Internet -- or perhaps moving straight to the front of that line -- this one of a driverless car is quickly racking up the views.

2012 was a fantastic year for pranks. Remember that awesomely sassy 'Psh' joke or the adorable Mistletoe setup? We'll say it til we're blue in the face-- we love pranks! They just make life a tad bit more interesting. Now that 2013 has rolled around, we think there's no better way to welcome the year than by bringing you a whole new set of hilarious shenanigans.

Here's a little gem from the TruTv reality show 'Principal's Office.' We aren't really sure how the principal thought it was going to go when he brought in two student "leaders" to ask them for help solving the school's "grinding" problem, but this seems about right.

This Norwegian guy is a real fraidy-cat.

The idea of getting stuck in an elevator when the power goes out is bad enough. But one Brazilian TV show decided to add a second, extremely frightening element, and they filmed it all for our viewing pleasure.

Here's a little Norwegian news piece on Basse Andersen, who might just be the most easily frightened man on earth. It's a real gem. If you like watching prank videos, this is basically that. Only it's the same guy. Over and over and over again...

Here's a little video to get you into the spirit of Christmas, if you're kind of trampy. Nate, Caitlin and Stuart set up shop on the campus of Brigham Young University to trick as many people as possible into kissing them by using a sprig of renegade mistletoe that drops down at a moment's notice. They are braver than we -- the whole time we watched this all we could think was "Herpes! Herpes

Just because it's legal to do it on your own time in Colorado, doesn't mean you can drug your whole class. Two University of Colorado students in Boulder thought it would be funny to bring pot brownies to a morning class to share. Then a bunch of people who ate them had freak- outs. Suddenly it was not so fun.

Where is all that water coming from? Never mind, we don't want to know...

Tis the season to be horrified. Sure, it isn't the traditional saying, but if you were to ask YouTube's own JackValeFilms, the long-established idiom needed a punch up. And why not bring in history's most frightening Christmas character of all time to help out...

You know how much we love pranks. We're not talking about the terrifying kind involving zombies; we're big fans of the innocent variety like posting a picture of a fake lotto ticket. These types of jokes are all in good fun, and they give us awesome ideas for our own everyday pranks. That's exactly why we're loving Pearce Murphy's shenanigans.

With the exception of reality television, it appears that today's small screen is becoming all the more authentic, and thus, relatable. Because of the shows featuring intense storylines and characters that we connect with it's no wonder we feel so heavily for the screen. The above video -- featuring a news team baffled over a plane crash that left a roadway smashed (yet still with no ambulance in