Watch Jimmy Kimmel's 'I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy' prank

For the eighth year in a row, the late-night host shows viewers how to properly take candy from a baby.

November 2, 2018 at 1:54PM
A scene from Jimmy Kimmel's 'I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy' prank.
A scene from Jimmy Kimmel’s 'I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy' prank. (Tom Horgen/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

This never gets old.

For the eighth year in a row, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel asked parents to pull this terrible (and hilarious) prank on their kids. The morning after Halloween, these parents did the unthinkable: they told their children that they ate all their candy.

Immense crying, hysteria and a lot of flailing ensued.

Kimmel said his staff received more than 1,000 videos for the YouTube challenge, debuting the best ones on last night's show. Here's how you take candy from a baby:

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