An Advent Calendar of Holiday Pranks

      1. Advent calendar: Start the Month of Celebrating out by giving your friend or family member an advent calendar full of chocolate... with no sugar in it! BLEH!!!

     2. ToileTREE: Tell your friend or family member that you will decorate their holiday tree for them... and then wrap it in toilet paper. Then, when they complain, reply, “Well, if you don’t like it, then do it yourself!”

     3. Gift wrap shenanigans: Go to TNT’s office and wrap EVERYTHING in holiday-themed gift wrap. The chairs, the computers, the servers... EVERYTHING. Then run from the angry mob that chases you because you blocked the signal and took the site down temporarily.

     4. Holiday cookies: This prank is inspired by the spooky food “Pumpkin Cookies,” which has an interior made of REAL FROGS to prank your friends with. (I think you know where this is going.) This holiday season would be a great time to fill homemade holiday tree cookies with frogs (or something else disgusting) and serve them. Trust me, the effort will be worth it!

     5. “Mistaken” identity: Purposefully misinterpret your friend or family member’s holiday wish list and give them something silly instead. For example, if they asked for a holiday stocking, stock the shelves of their house with random junk, and then, when they complain, say, “What? I gave you a stocking!”

     6. Enormous gift: Give your friend or family member an enormous gift, containing many boxes inside boxes, only to reveal the final result... a Rotten Berry. Fabulous!

     7. Neggnog: Find a sleeping potion and mix it in with the Neggnog which is being served. Then, once everyone is asleep, draw on their faces with marker.

     8. Santa suit: Go to the NC Mall and put itching powder in all the Santa suits that are about to be worn by the mall Santas who listen to kids’ holiday wish lists. That will teach them a lesson for PRETENDING to be the one and only Santa!

     9. Wicker Toilet: Buy the item “Wicker Toilet,” fill the bowl with lumps of coal, put a bow on the toilet, and present it to your friend or family member for the holidays before giving them their real present. Their reaction will be priceless!

     10. Pop Princess Usuki Set: When your friend or family member asks for a Pop Princess Usuki Set (or anything else that requires batteries, but doesn’t include them), give them a package of batteries and add a note saying, “Usuki Set not included.” Refute their complaints at first, but eventually, say, “Just kidding---here is your Usuki Set.”

     11. Zombie decorations: Paint over all the reindeer decorations in your neighbour’s yard so they look like vicious zombies. They will be SO MAD!!!

     12. Rink Runner: Dull the blades on the Rink Runner Bruce’s skates so he topples over, falls into the ice, and gets disqualified. If you’re into skating, then maybe you can steal the victory from him!

     13. Ice cream cart: Give your friends “coupons” for free ice cream from the cart in Happy Valley, but when they get there, they will discover that you gave them clever fakes. This will be even funnier if you steal Taelia’s coat and pretend to be her!

     14. Scratchcards: Give your friends Terror Mountain scratchcards... containing nothing but blanks. See how many losing cards they scratch before they catch on!

     15. Petpets: Release hundreds of Wintery Petpets into your friend’s house and tell them to babysit them all for the day, then leave before they can say no.

     16. Slushies: Go to the Slushie Shop in Happy Valley and drop ghost peppers into the slushie machine. Then laugh as everyone breathes fire!

     17. Bloat-B-Gone: While your friend is playing Snowmuncher, replace the Bloat-B-Gone with cherry cough syrup, which won’t de-bloat them in the slightest.

     18. Let It Slide: While your friend is playing Let It Slide, replace all the gems with plastic fakes. They’ll be SO MAD once they realize they dodged Gabars for hours on end for nothing. Then sell the real gems and buy something nice for yourself. It’s a win-win!

     19. Ice Crystals: Go to the Ice Crystal Shop and pelt the Shopkeeper with his own snowballs!

     20. The Neggery: Enchant all the Neggs with a dizzy spell so that anyone who eats them begins spinning in circles.

     21. Hannah and the Ice Caves: Go on the boards and tell everyone that you found an easy, safe, and legal way to get the game to work for everyone.

     22. Snow Roller: Simply play Snow Roller, crashing into the unsuspecting townsfolk.

     23. Tarla’s Shop of Mystery: Replace all the items in the mystery bags with piles of dung, then sit back and giggle at the glorious results. Don’t forget a face mask to block the smell from reaching your nose.

     24. Toy Repair Shop: Give Donny a bunch of items that are rigged to be impossible to fix, then laugh as he growls with frustration. Then tell him you’re not paying him for his hours of labour because he couldn’t fix the items, and run out.

     25. Christmas Rocks: Put red bows on lumps of coal and try to pass them off as Christmas Rocks. Alternatively, put a real Christmas Rock in your friend or family member’s stocking. They will initially think you got them a lump of coal for the holidays and therefore become angry, but then you can smile and say, “I got you a rare Petpet. Happy holidays!”

     26. Igloo Garage Sale: Go on the boards and tell everyone that Mika and Carassa started restocking r99 items in their igloo to make up for the loss of the Almost Abandoned Attic... then jump out of the way before witnessing the mad stampede!

     27. Igloo Garage Sale: The Game: Borrowing from Carassa’s playbook, find a location at a high altitude and drop random items (especially pianos!) on the unsuspecting townsfolk below. Just be prepared to run in case someone sees you.

     28. Chia pops: Give your friends Chia pops at subzero temperatures until their brains freeze. Alternatively, mix the contents of a magical Chia pop into a slushie and feed it to an unsuspecting Chia, then giggle as they transform!

     29. Candychans: Tell everyone that you’ll be dropping Candychans on the Money Tree at a certain time... and then dump Old Boots instead. People will be SO ANGRY... but they deserve it for being gullible enough to believe that you’d be giving away so many Candychans to random strangers!

     30. Candychan Stamp: Speaking of Candychans and the Money Tree, donate a fake Candychan Stamp, watch someone flip out because they think they got an expensive item, and then brace yourself for their anger when they inevitably find out the truth.

     31. Christmas Pudding: Buy the item “Christmas Pudding,” ambush someone, and throw the pudding straight into their face! Or, you can use the item “Flaming Christmas Pudding” on someone you utterly despise.

      Lerlifa: So, those are the pranks. I implore you to try at least one of them, preferably several---

     Christine: ---walks into room--- Lerli, are you encouraging your fellow Neopians to play pranks again?

     Lerlifia: Uh, maybe... ---sly grin---

     Christine: ---disapproving look--- That is bound to get you put on the naughty list! ---reads Lerli’s list of pranks--- These are awful...

     Lerlifia: No, they aren’t. They’re funny!

     Christine: Yeah, about as funny as an infestation of Unidentified Petpetpets---

     Lerlifia: That would be a great prank, actually!

     Christine: ---sighs and turns to audience--- Ignore her. This holiday season, DO NOT tamper with food and beverages, give away fake or lookalike items, make false promises and troll boards, throw things at people, sabotage someone’s attempt at ice skating (causing them to fall in), trespass on property (such as TNT’s office), vandalize property, give gross items as “gifts,” pretend to give “dud” or silly items, leave others with a ton of overwhelming, misbehaving Petpets, be rude to others, fill clothing with itching powder (or anything else which will require a visit to the Gelert Doctor, for that matter), and ABOVE ALL, do NOT throw a Flaming Christmas Pudding in ANYONE’S face!!! It is unfortunate that I have to say this. Despite what Lerli may say, please stay on the nice list this holiday season!