The first way you can tell that he isn't a carpenter is that he cuts the wood between the two saw horses, not off to one side, causing a pinch on the blade as the wood bows. Plus if that happened to me more than the first time I would have been having a good look at that cabinet to see how rigid it was, and noticing that one side slides into a fake wall and it's not free standing!
As a Maker and Furniture Restoration expert this episode brought back lots of problems with "I've cut it twice and it's still too short'" LMAO I have tears in my eyes. I loved the old Candid Camera.
It's so awesome to see non-scripted life from back then - the way people genuinely behaved and acted, not just for a camera (since that's the majority of what we have from back then - commercials, movies, scripted stuff). It makes these even more enjoyable.
"Greatest Generation" traits: They are patriotic They are driven and motivated They show a strong work ethic They live modestly They are frugal consumers and prudent savers They are committed and loyal
@@kevindunlap5525 No, The "punked" shows were vicious, mean and nasty with their schemes. Candid Camera was always just for fun and no one got offended. there is a big difference.
Lol! Yeah, I seen it the first time around. I used to love to watch this show! Do you remember when they took a VW car and made the body and chassis a gas tank? They pulled that thing into a gas station and the driver said, fill er up. The man started to pump the gas and it was okay until he got up to 15 gallon and it kept going and I don't know how many more but it probably went to 30 to 40 gallon and as he was pumping it he'd look around on the ground and the other side to see if it was running out he even held the nozzle out away when they feel spout and he could see gas was coming out in it it was hilarious cuz I think the thing may have held a hundred gallons! But these are clean fun shows to watch! Take care!
Yes, I fondly remember this very one seeing it as a kid! I remember the "giant fuel tank" prank too! Another great car prank was removing the engine of a car and having a lady coast it down the hill into a gas station, stopping next to the pumps - ding ding! The attendant came outside, the lady asked for a fill up and to have the oil checked! 🤯
Me too, in norway it was aired early 1970s i think. but its my favorite too, 😁 my other favorite, a norwegian spinoff i guess. was a wooden package that got deliverd to a shop, and the door opening was ADJUSTABLE. Fun started when the delivery men discoverd they was at the wrong adress and tryed to carry the box out to the car again. 🤣
They had the same show in the UK in the sixties. It was the highlight of the weekend and it was amazing just what good sports people were in those days. In the UK version of this one particular show one of the "victims" got suspicious and took a look behind the wall to find a guy sliding the shelf through a slit in the wall.
@@rachelgarcia4301 The boards that represent the top and bottom shelves do not stop at the wall on the left. The wall has a slit at the top and one at the bottom in which the shelves fit through in such a way that this is not detectable. It's through these slits that the shelves are undetectably moved to vary the lengths of the boards.
This is great! I remember seeing this episode when I was a kid back in the early to mid 70's. I hope the episode at a diner where folks would be served a meal and be told they had a phone call waiting, will be posted here. When the customer left to take the call, a stranger would take his seat and start eating the meal. The look on the faces of the pranked when they returned from the fake phone call was funny!
Other diner pranks: bowl of spoon was glued to the stem with water-soluble glue; victim gets coffee with trick spoon, adds sugar, stirs coffee with spoon and viola! the bowl of the spoon is GONE! Strong coffee served there!! EDIT: That one is posted on this channel... look for one called 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻. Another time, patron is served meal; just as they began to eat the waitress returns and takes half of their peas and apologizes saying "Another customer also just ordered peas, and we are out of them now, so you have to share."
Classic Gold is Right. This was hilarious. I'm so glad I stumbled across these old Candid Camera video clips, and I miss watching with my dad, for these clips brought me back to some great memories.
Back then, people generally had one tv and you watched as a family. All content was family friendly and it was great bonding time, something lacking today as parents and kids are each doing their own thing. This show was a definite family favorite and the cleverness of their pranks was ingenious.
Thanks so much for this one! i was looking for such a long time to find it...i remember watching it and laughing a lot when i was a kid. Thank you so much!
Where i worked many years ago, at a school, a friend of mine, a carpenter was making a new kitchen for one of the classrooms. He was building it in the workshop, then he would transport a short distance to insatll it. He measured accurately. When he was out of the workshop i removed his cutting line on the benchtop and made a new one about 10 millimetres further along. Days later he finished the kitchen and had to install it. I went and had a look a couple of days later, and he had FORCED the kitchen benchtop into the space, and ultimately bowed the walls!! I never told him why it didn't fit properly!! Its amazing how much difference 10 millimetres can make!! LOL!!
Steve i was in the navy and this petty officer who was a real dick injured his foot and had to use a wooden cane for awhile, we took off about an inch a day, after about a week and half a foot later he caught on.
I have seen this test in my work metal industry where someone was looking for work we had a room with mechanical drawings they had to put the parts together in order just like furniture from IKIA ….remember the parts were 1/8” smaller or bigger. He had to measure twice and cut once 👍🏻 😂
He was a good sport. They did something similar over here on the British Candid Camera. Had some men moving large square cardboard boxes around an empty house. Told the men to put them in a particular room. The boxes just about fitted through the doorway. When the men were elsewhere for a moment the boxes were switched for some just very fractionally larger. Then they said, sorry guys, we told you the wrong room. Bring them out and put them in this other room across the hall . . .
Well, thank you pal. It's called functional fixation, which means that he was very focused on a crucial aspect of his work, that is, getting the board to be of the right length. And he succeeded. By the way, I think it was an Italian guy who showed our beloved friends in the USA how to design, build, and work, the first atomic pile in Chicago. That was a while ago, though, I think it happened in 1938. Love from Italy, and a very Happy New Year to you.
@@CB-ck9dg Enrico Fermi. A few of us USA educated people know of his great contributions; I learned about him in 5th grade (that was about 1965 for me). Many kids today aren't receiving a good education; indoctrination is now more important I guess.
@@leeroth5604 Yup, and with all due respect for a Country that was able to send no less than 24 people all the way to and around the Moon (including six moon landings ), and one of its Navy Officers all the way down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench for the first time. And, more importantly, bring ALL of them back alive and well. I doubt Enrico Fermi would have been able to accomplish such a feat had he remained in Italy, notwithstanding his quite remarkable abilities.
Imagine the show doesn’t do the reveal, leaving the poor guy being haunted by this event until his dying days. To make matters worse, when told, no one would believe him. It would be a cruel way to torment someone.
@@moimeme6533 Peter Funt is Alan's son (assuming the poster here is actually him), he co-hosted the show with him for a while and then took over sole hosting when his father fell ill. As for the stunt in this video, I find it hard to believe the guy was not in on it. He made way to many shelves without investigating the case itself. Perhaps people were just more gullible back then? I doubt it.
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So every home project I've ever done has been a Candid Camera prank?!
LOL!
You beat me to it! It was hard for me to laugh at it. I felt more empathy than anything.
Ikr.
Busted six of my seven bellies laughing 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 greetings from Killyglen, County Antrim 🍻
Hahaha.
That's certainly how I've felt at the time.
As a carpenter myself, I really felt for this guy.
You don't know how much anxiety that would cause me.
As the ole carpenter said,
I cut it off twice,
And it's still to short! Lol!
But wouldn't you notice a 4-5" difference of the shelf by looking at it? I was a great gag though.
One of my favorites is, during lunch break, nailing my co-workers bags to the floor, and hiding their hammer and cats paw!
The first way you can tell that he isn't a carpenter is that he cuts the wood between the two saw horses, not off to one side, causing a pinch on the blade as the wood bows. Plus if that happened to me more than the first time I would have been having a good look at that cabinet to see how rigid it was, and noticing that one side slides into a fake wall and it's not free standing!
“Thanks a million!”
... The undisguised gratitude of someone who has been given back his sanity!!
Lol
I agree, this guy has the patience of a saint 😂
He didn't. The harm was already done, you can see it on his face.
A big A+ for his patience.
They wouldn’t be able to air it if it was me….I’d be cussing up a storm
As a Maker and Furniture Restoration expert this episode brought back lots of problems with "I've cut it twice and it's still too short'" LMAO I have tears in my eyes. I loved the old Candid Camera.
Same. My shop is full of pieces of wood that were meant to be the same but turned out to be different.
The original candid camera always was the best!
It's so awesome to see non-scripted life from back then - the way people genuinely behaved and acted, not just for a camera (since that's the majority of what we have from back then - commercials, movies, scripted stuff). It makes these even more enjoyable.
I know!! That's the main reason why I'm obsessed with these videos
Agree. According to science, the human brain has not changed in at least 37,000 years, so even more amazing how our behavior can change in 60 years.
"Greatest Generation" traits:
They are patriotic
They are driven and motivated
They show a strong work ethic
They live modestly
They are frugal consumers and prudent savers
They are committed and loyal
What patience he had, most people would have freaked out. Sympathetic dude.
i used to watch this show and it was always funny. No one got "punked" no one got hurt, it was all in good fun. It was one of my favorite shows.
Actually, the carpenter got punk'd.
@@kevindunlap5525 No, The "punked" shows were vicious, mean and nasty with their schemes. Candid Camera was always just for fun and no one got offended. there is a big difference.
Wow, I remember seeing this on a rerun as a kid. I'll bet it's been 40 some years since then. Still funny.
Lol! Yeah, I seen it the first time around.
I used to love to watch this show!
Do you remember when they took a VW car and made the body and chassis a gas tank?
They pulled that thing into a gas station and the driver said, fill er up.
The man started to pump the gas and it was okay until he got up to 15 gallon and it kept going and I don't know how many more but it probably went to 30 to 40 gallon and as he was pumping it he'd look around on the ground and the other side to see if it was running out he even held the nozzle out away when they feel spout and he could see gas was coming out in it it was hilarious cuz I think the thing may have held a hundred gallons!
But these are clean fun shows to watch!
Take care!
Yes, I fondly remember this very one seeing it as a kid! I remember the "giant fuel tank" prank too!
Another great car prank was removing the engine of a car and having a lady coast it down the hill into a gas station, stopping next to the pumps - ding ding!
The attendant came outside, the lady asked for a fill up and to have the oil checked! 🤯
@@leeroth5604 they had some great funny pranks,
Something we hardly get these days....
Folding measuring "tape". Manual saw. Wood shelving instead of particle board. Ah, things were so different back then.
When we could laugh at each other and ourselves, such innocent times.
Whenever I talk to people about early Candid Camera episodes, this is one episode I always mention.
Yeah, me too. Classic. Alan Funt was a genius.
Use to watch this show all the time as a kid. Way better then the 💩 on TV now.
To me it’s amazing that he can do this well with a hand saw.
3 boards and people today would sneak out the dock door at lunch.
quality steel saw, still good i expect, not like most cheap ones today buckle and twist and snap sooner or later
@@yourkiwimate probably bend it in a 180 and not break it, like you said good steel. Spring steel actually
Such a clever show. Creative and very funny.
I'm old enough to remember watching this and it is hands down my absolute favorite, as I've stated in the comment section of other videos .
Me too, in norway it was aired early 1970s i think. but its my favorite too, 😁
my other favorite, a norwegian spinoff i guess. was a wooden package that got deliverd to a shop, and the door opening was ADJUSTABLE.
Fun started when the delivery men discoverd they was at the wrong adress and tryed to carry the box out to the car again. 🤣
This is my favorite 😅
Brilliant. That is TRUE reality tv. He had no idea he was on camera. Not like todays supposedly reality tv.
I felt his frustration. But couldn't help myself from laughing. 😂
Can you imagine that happening to you, I’d lose it.
@@deborahchesser7375 Don't know if I'd lose it. But I'd definitely go batshit crazy. Because
I used to build shelves. lol
Time has changed, if they did this prank now, the person would’ve gone ballistic and tore the whole place apart.
with blue hair
@@yourkiwimate 😂😂
@@yourkiwimate
And would have been shouting the F word over and over!!!
They had the same show in the UK in the sixties. It was the highlight of the weekend and it was amazing just what good sports people were in those days.
In the UK version of this one particular show one of the "victims" got suspicious and took a look behind the wall to find a guy sliding the shelf through a slit in the wall.
I still don't understand how it was done.
@@rachelgarcia4301 The boards that represent the top and bottom shelves do not stop at the wall on the left. The wall has a slit at the top and one at the bottom in which the shelves fit through in such a way that this is not detectable. It's through these slits that the shelves are undetectably moved to vary the lengths of the boards.
@@mikethespike7579 Gee thanks!
Start taking turmeric every day see what happens to your body bright side
And the Oscar for funniest candid camera skit goes to
This brings back memories. The first ruler I learned how to use was a folding ruler.
This is great! I remember seeing this episode when I was a kid back in the early to mid 70's. I hope the episode at a diner where folks would be served a meal and be told they had a phone call waiting, will be posted here. When the customer left to take the call, a stranger would take his seat and start eating the meal. The look on the faces of the pranked when they returned from the fake phone call was funny!
Other diner pranks: bowl of spoon was glued to the stem with water-soluble glue; victim gets coffee with trick spoon, adds sugar, stirs coffee with spoon and viola! the bowl of the spoon is GONE! Strong coffee served there!! EDIT: That one is posted on this channel... look for one called 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻.
Another time, patron is served meal; just as they began to eat the waitress returns and takes half of their peas and apologizes saying "Another customer also just ordered peas, and we are out of them now, so you have to share."
Classic Gold is Right.
This was hilarious.
I'm so glad I stumbled across these old Candid Camera video clips, and I miss watching with my dad, for these clips brought me back to some great memories.
Back then, people generally had one tv and you watched as a family. All content was family friendly and it was great bonding time, something lacking today as parents and kids are each doing their own thing. This show was a definite family favorite and the cleverness of their pranks was ingenious.
Family friendly for white, heterosexuals.
The "living" room is now dead sadly.
For the first five minutes I thought this was me in my shop.
Then I realized this guy is a better carpenter than I am.
This is funniest thing I've seen for along time, thanks for putting it up.
Humbling to see how this guy handled the situation and not go berserk. 😂
Brilliantly designed stunt.
I must have been on candid camera a thousand times, but nobody told me🤣
I've been waiting for this one. I laugh so hard I can't breathe.
I can't believe there was one that I didn't see.
Pure Gold
I clearly remember seeing this episode as a kid!! I remember my father could not stop laughing!!
Cutting multiple pieces for one shelf!!!! Can't miss!!!😂
Great entertainment. Good days of TV. Pure honest humor. That was the big Sunday night family time.
Such a stoic man, I would've been launching wood across the room by the second attempt😂
If that was my grandpa he would have been cussing up a storm!
This was the first candid camera I remember seeing as a kid ...I'm 64 now
Thanks a million, pointing to his head!
Thought he was going crazy
So freaking wholesome … and funny too 😁👍
Thanks so much for this one! i was looking for such a long time to find it...i remember watching it and laughing a lot when i was a kid. Thank you so much!
That guy was a very stable genius
I wonder if in his day there were also people to lazy to capitalize "I".
Where i worked many years ago, at a school, a friend of mine, a carpenter was making a new kitchen for one of the classrooms. He was building it in the workshop, then he would transport a short distance to insatll it. He measured accurately. When he was out of the workshop i removed his cutting line on the benchtop and made a new one about 10 millimetres further along. Days later he finished the kitchen and had to install it. I went and had a look a couple of days later, and he had FORCED the kitchen benchtop into the space, and ultimately bowed the walls!!
I never told him why it didn't fit properly!!
Its amazing how much difference 10 millimetres can make!! LOL!!
Steve i was in the navy and this petty officer who was a real dick injured his foot and had to use a wooden cane for awhile, we took off about an inch a day, after about a week and half a foot later he caught on.
Nasty people
Such patience!
I remembering seeing this on TV many years ago😂
I do this all the time....but I've never been on Candid Camera.
He tried everything 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have seen this test in my work metal industry where someone was looking for work we had a room with mechanical drawings they had to put the parts together in order just like furniture from IKIA ….remember the parts were 1/8” smaller or bigger. He had to measure twice and cut once 👍🏻 😂
He was a good sport. They did something similar over here on the British Candid Camera. Had some men moving large square cardboard boxes around an empty house. Told the men to put them in a particular room. The boxes just about fitted through the doorway. When the men were elsewhere for a moment the boxes were switched for some just very fractionally larger. Then they said, sorry guys, we told you the wrong room. Bring them out and put them in this other room across the hall . . .
Hand saw? Man have we come a long way.
This man must have gotten PTSD from this! 🤣🤣🤣
Good one thanks for sharing 👍🙏
happens to me every time I do a project
I've had days like that with no camera!
No one mentioned why he never re-cut the long board to make it sorter. He kept cutting a new piece.
It’s easier to cut the longer piece
I think it would have been funny if they made it longer again.
I remember this one watching with my parents. Before there were reruns.
Thanks a million, bub. I thought I was crackin up! 😂
What a good sport he was.
This video is so funny !
Greetings from France.
The narration is SO Funny!
I don't need _Candid Camera_ to produce work of that caliber!
As simple as this is, I’m on the floor 😆
An 18V Cordless Circular Saw would have saved a lot of time!
Measure twice, cut once! LOL
"I cut it three times and it's still too short"
I can feel that mans pain
The innocence of back then
Surprised he didn't notice the reveal at the top of that unit after a few fails.. Must be an Italian guy! 😁
Well, thank you pal. It's called functional fixation, which means that he was very focused on a crucial aspect of his work, that is, getting the board to be of the right length. And he succeeded. By the way, I think it was an Italian guy who showed our beloved friends in the USA how to design, build, and work, the first atomic pile in Chicago. That was a while ago, though, I think it happened in 1938. Love from Italy, and a very Happy New Year to you.
@@CB-ck9dg Enrico Fermi. A few of us USA educated people know of his great contributions; I learned about him in 5th grade (that was about 1965 for me).
Many kids today aren't receiving a good education; indoctrination is now more important I guess.
@@leeroth5604 Yup, and with all due respect for a Country that was able to send no less than 24 people all the way to and around the Moon (including six moon landings ), and one of its Navy Officers all the way down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench for the first time. And, more importantly, bring ALL of them back alive and well. I doubt Enrico Fermi would have been able to accomplish such a feat had he remained in Italy, notwithstanding his quite remarkable abilities.
I’m Italian and I still didn’t figure out what was happening.
After the second cut I would have shelved the project.
The commentary is as funny as the video, if not more. I like this didactic tone with hidden glee.
Those were the days...
Thanks for the laugh, I'm subscribing.
I haven’t seen a foldable measuring stick since my Grandfather passed away.
I watched that live as a kid.
By gone days. People could laugh at themselves.
I have had days like that.
What are humble Carpenter by the end I felt really bad for him right job Candid Camera
Imagine the show doesn’t do the reveal, leaving the poor guy being haunted by this event until his dying days. To make matters worse, when told, no one would believe him. It would be a cruel way to torment someone.
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Fortunately for him it is a nice sharp saw.
Measure twice cut once 😂😂
Brilliant lol
When I saw the original of this decades ago on UK TV, we didn't need a commentator to tell us what we were seeing. Different culture, I guess.
@peterfunt8622 Just put the word original in to catch a fish. It worked.
@Peter Funt Any relation to Alan? :)
@@moimeme6533 Peter Funt is Alan's son (assuming the poster here is actually him), he co-hosted the show with him for a while and then took over sole hosting when his father fell ill. As for the stunt in this video, I find it hard to believe the guy was not in on it. He made way to many shelves without investigating the case itself. Perhaps people were just more gullible back then? I doubt it.
Allen Funt makes me laugh
Steve Jobs before he got into computers
Anyone who is ever done any woodwork knows what 0H-0-OH my oh my oh my!!!
What happened to measure twice, cut once? 😊 very funny sketch
Funny stuff😅
Hey that happens to me without any trickery!
He disobeyed Rule Number One of Woodworking:
Measure twice, cut once.
Not that it would have helped... 😂
that was pretty funny lol poor fellow
That is mean, lol! As a carpenter I would have walked off the job! Actually, he couldn't notice the size change?
the sad truth about prank videos is the only one being pranked is the audience
Good clean fun
He's no card-carrying member that's for sure.
Eah, even back then, I think after a 3rd time the guy would of known its not him or the measuring device
This is pure evil. And awesome.
These days the guy would probably start crying
Anyone else notice as soon as candid camera was mentioned carpenter looks right @ the camera
HOW CAN THIS BE DESCRIBED AS ANYTHING BUT EVIL!?!
ANYONE WHO HAS EVER MEASURED ONCE AND HAD TO CUT TWICE- KNOWS HOW EVIL THIS IS!