I saw this picture and remembered when I was a kid and bought my fake spilled coffee trick. Is it a trick? Maybe just a joke. But it never seems to work exactly like you think it is. The reactions aren’t quite as freaked out as you imagine when you set it up.
It’s all about the setup. As a kid I would play with those little green army men. And the setup was so much fun. But then when you actually start playing you realize know one really knows what you’re supposed to do. We would just end up throwing rocks in turns and making up rules as we went. The game didn’t work, but the setup was fun.
Whoopee cushions are like that too. So much fun in the setup and anticipation, but rarely do people sit on them correctly for the gag. Or they see it before they sit down.
But we still do it, thinking somehow we did it wrong – and NEXT time will be better. Know what I mean?