Jimmy Kimmel Live had a great trick for parents this Halloween.

Tell your kids you ate all their Halloween candy, then film the reaction.

Kids expressed shock, rage, and stunned confusion when their parents told them they’d eaten this year’s haul.

Jimmy Kimmel Halloween prank 2012

“You told me I had to have it later,” screams one outraged boy in his underwear before attacking his mother with a flurry of slaps.

But some stayed sweet even convinced their candy was gone.

“I just want you to be happy,” one boy told his mother.

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