Aside from whoopee cushions, I'm not a fan of pranks. I feel like they have the potential to go too far. The older you become, encountering a person who plays all kinds of jokes on other people is more annoying than funny. When I first saw this show I was expecting to be bored or grossed out, so I was surprised at how much it made me laugh. Inspired by Candid Camera, but way quirkier, with innuendos and no sound, Just for Laughs Gags follows a comedy troupe as they go around Quebec playing tricks on its residents. I did take an issue with the pranks that revolved around making people think animals were harmed, which is why I took off one star. That's really disturbing. Otherwise, I enjoyed the show. It is lame and fake looking (I wonder if the people being pranked are actors/actresses. For example, an older man is sitting in a plant nursery holding a cactus in his lap. He keeps nodding off, making his forehead go closer and closer to the cactus. Instead of shaking him on one of his shoulders to wake him up, every person does nothing but watch with a terrified look on their face. Why just stand there and let his head get stuck by the cactus??? Anything that dumb has to be staged) - but hey, nothing else was on and it wasn't the most terrible thing I've ever seen. Remember not to take it so seriously.
