LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 17: In this image released on May 17, (L-R) Brian Quinn, Joe Gatto, and James Murray, winners of Best Comedy / Game Show for "Impractical Jokers", pose backstage during the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS)
TV - Movies
The Impractical
Jokers
Punishment Fans
Think Is Too
Painful To Watch
By ANGELA CAMPBELL
truTV’s “Impractical Jokers” has produced many hilarious, memorable, and downright cringeworthy “punishment” pranks since 2011. These punishments vary wildly — from Sal Vulcano feeding a grizzly bear fried chicken to Brian “Q” Quinn dressing as a clown at a kid's birthday party — and there’s one particular punishment that fans have deemed too difficult to watch.
Fans on Reddit came together and selected the prank when Q went to a Little League game and heckled the children as the most cringeworthy. Q shouted horrible things at the players, such as, “Macy, you want daddy to love you or what?” to his “daughter” (who was a paid actor), causing her to cry.
Many fans worried that Q came dangerously close to getting jumped by the other parents. Q later answered some questions regarding the punishment and whether the children knew they were being filmed, saying, “The only one who did was the little girl who played my daughter [...] I believe they did not tell them because they wanted all the real reactions that we got.”