Next to Christmas and birthdays, Halloween is one of the best times of year to be a kid. When else in your life can you go knock on all your neighbours after dark and demand sweets from them without getting a door in the face?
There were few finer pleasures than emptying your haul out on the floor after the night was up and knowing that you had enough sweets to last you several weeks. But how would you have felt to wake up in the morning and find out one of your parents had eaten your stash?
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Can you imagine the sheer level of betrayal you would feel? Well, that's an emotion that American TV host Jimmy Kimmel feeds off. So much so, in fact, that he encourages everyone to lie to their kids about having eaten all of their Halloween sweets and film the results.
This time It was guest Jimmy Kimmel Live host Channing Tatum's turn to play the villain and it did not go down well with his daughter.
"I'm sorry, but I ate all of your candy," Tatum told his daughter Everly. "I'm sorry. I just got so hungry."
The second she hears the terrible news she mopes over to her mother, who is filming the whole ordeal, and buries her face into her legs in despair.
Tatum lets the anguish last for a few seconds before he can't take it anymore, admitting that he didn't really eat her trick-or-treat haul at all.
But Everly is far from amused.
"Dad, that's not funny," she said.
Tatum, who looked visibly upset by the clip, turned to the cameras after it had finished rolling and said: "You're right. That really was not funny. I'm so sorry baby. I hope you forgive me someday for that."
But he wasn't the only celeb to try their hand at the prank. Pink, another of Kimmel's guests, had a go too. But her daughter wasn't having any of it.
"I don't believe you," she said after she threw the empty bag at her dad.
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But you've got to practise what you preach, so host Kimmel didn't get out of it, even though he wasn't on set.
Kimmel recorded himself pulling the prank on his daughter, who didn't really know how to feel about the whole thing.
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"Daddy only at Skittles and M&Ms and Kit-Kats and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and gum and the eyeballs and the Twizzlers and the lollypops - that's all I ate," Kimmel tells his confused daughter.
But it was all smiles in the end when the host told his daughter that every time he hiccups now, a bubble comes out because he ate her bubble candy, which she found hilarious.
Featured Image Credit: ABC/Jimmy Kimmel LiveTopics: TV and Film, Sweets, Channing Tatum, US Entertainment