Not quite on TV, but I think this counts
I once attended a house party of a friend of a friend from Uni, and it was here that I saw one of the best practical jokes I've ever seen successfully pulled off.

A bit of background that you need to know is that one of the guys who's party it was had recently split up with his girlfriend, who had been cheating on him with his best friend. Both his ex and his best friend were in attendance at the party and pretty blatent about them now being a couple, leading to a lot of raised eyebrows, and asking if he was alright. He seemed to handle it fine to me, so I got in with being drunk.

A few hours later the party was in full swing, with the majority of people situated in the sitting room having a good time when the housemates of said guy ran into the room turned the music off and announced that the couple had just disappeared into the guys room together. This was met with almost universal dismay, since shagging each other on your ex's and supposedly best friends bed is just about as scummy as you can get under the circumstances. The guests looked toward the guy in a combination of compassion, and anticipation as to what he was going to do about it.

So what did he do about it? Did he get angry? Did he storm to the room and drag them out? No. He knew them both too well, and had hatched a plan so cunning you could think of a Blackadderesque metaphor to describe it.

Twenty minutes later his ex walks into the living room to find everyone gathered around the TV pointing and laughing at her, calling her a slag, and any other name you care to mention. She looks at the TV and see's the guys room on the screen. Assuming that it must have been a live feed, she puts two and two together and now firmly believes that everyone has just been watching her shagging her new boyfriend on her ex's bed. His best friend then walked in and was met with small cock joke after small cock joke. Looking to the screen, he makes the same assumption. She looked to her ex, who with the best response he could have possibly given just went "You were never that dirty when you were with me".

She ran out of that party so fast, you'd have thought the building was on fire. It was brilliant.

In actuallity the video had been filmed hours before, and was just of his empty room. I'll fondly remember the look of slow horrified realisation on her face for years to come though.
( Furness, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 14:14, 9 replies)

Sounds like this!
b3ta.com/questions/evilpranks/post108089

Genius!

*clicks*
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 14:23, closed)

They were always doing stuff like that
They used to have one game called "Hide the Turd" where they'de take a shit somewhere in the house and wait until someone found it. That went on for ages until one guy shat in the bottom of the Anchor Gold Spread tub, and covered it with the rest of the marj. They were using it for about a week before one of them got a shitty knife
( Furness, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 14:29, closed)

Oh god. Oh dear sweet jesus...
The microwave just dinged but I can't eat now. Not now, not ever.
(Helixdaunting, Sat 13 Jun 2009, 4:43, closed)

srrrrrrrrnds lrrrrrrrrrrrk brrrrrrrrrrllshrrrrrrrrrrrrt trrrrrrrrrr mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
b3ta.com/search/answers?q=%22Hide+the+Turd%22
(zombie dave frrrrrrrrrk rrrrrrrrrf yrrrrrrr crrrrrrrntssss, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 4:19, closed)

what a shameless hussy
Embarrassment is the least she deserved. Still, at least your mate-the-ex saw the funny side...although I must say the shit in the tub is really quite rank. Clever, but rank.
(berk, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:03, closed)

....
Good story, but why did he have a video of an empty room?
(crunchcorner is in a hot air balloon to the moon, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:54, closed)

Exactly what I was thinking

(MJPerry was crude but clickable at, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:53, closed)

I, thirdly
'I'm having a party. Right, tidy up, get out the ashtrays, film my empty room....'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 16:46, closed)

They didn't just have a film of his empty room
They'd got one for everybodies bedroom in the house. To put this into context for you, they also had a picture of them all and a few more of their friends standing in front of a waterfall just above the toilet. It was placed so you couldn't help but see it when you were taking a piss. On the other side of this picture, was another picture of the same waterfall with noone stood in front of it. Every time they went for a piss they'd turn the picture over, just to confuse people who didn't know about it. They were just that sort of people.
( Furness, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 10:24, closed)