The Prank, formerly The Cake, is the 34th episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 4th installment of Season 4.
Synopsis[]
Can Red prank the unprankable?
Plot[]
Red invites The Second Coming for something. He gives The Second Coming a drink and makes a cake and then places a lever that triggers the trapdoor underneath the cake to spring into The Second Coming's face. Red celebrates his victorious prank while The Second Coming protests about it. Red then shows Blue how to make a cake, and when they need an egg, Red asks Blue if he could open a chest, when Blue does, another cake springs out of the chest and Blue is caked straight in the face. Red celebrates with his dance again. Red then introduces Yellow to his new machine and when Yellow flips the lever, a chain reaction happens and a minecart with cake swings by them as a distraction, and Red pies Yellow with another cake. In the mines, Red sets up his cake and signals Green to mine the diamonds he found. When Green runs to the diamonds, Red sticks his leg down and Green trips; when Green got himself "caked," Red dances again but stops because Green had countered the cake with a sword. Red is in disbelief while Green pats Red's arm and leaves, while Red starts protesting about his plan that was foiled.
What follows is a montage where Green effortlessly dodges all the cakes Red throws at him, some of these attempts backfiring onto Red.
- Green shows Blue something on his phone, then Red walks up to Green and throws another cake at him. Green ducks and the cake hits Blue.
- Red then makes a cake while Green passes by. Red asks Green to get him an egg from the chest, Green brings the chest and opens it onto Red, a cake hitting him in the face.
- Green is fishing, while Red swims to the rod's bobber, sets a cake on it, and tugs it. Green reels it in, ducks it, and then swings it back towards Red.
- Green walks in the forest in the dark with a torch. He steps on a rope and was dragged up into the tree. Another rope sends an anvil down on the other side, then Red times when Green comes down and smacks Green with another cake, except it wasn't Green, but an armor stand. Red gets confused, then Green comes from the bushes and scares Red away, getting himself caked in the rear.
- Red sets a lever behind their couch. When Green passes by, Red immediately flicks the lever that drops a cake from the air, but Green freezes in place, allowing the cake to drop harmlessly onto the ground. Green skips off, and Red punches the couch in anger.
- In their house, while Green is sleeping, Red walks slowly to Green holding another cake, and slams it on Green, but Green protects himself with barriers surrounding him.
- Red uses Yellow's staff and puts a cake in it. As Green listens to music on his headphones, Red blasts out lots of cake onto him, but Green deflects them using a shield.
- Green mines two gold ores, but one of them exposes a hole for Red behind them. He throws another cake at Green, but Green blocks it by placing a cobblestone block in the way.
- Green stands in the desktop, while Red on the other side further away throws another cake at Green. But Green ducks, catches the thrown cake, then backflips and sends it towards Red.
- Red, while having a seat with Green, flicks the lever activates the trapdoor with a cake. Expecting the cake to hit on Green, the cake hits Red instead.
- Red is seen defeated, punching the ground in anger, as another cake hit Green's armor stand after it got stuck in cobwebs in the floor.
- Red gets caked once again.
- Green pats Red condescendingly after another plan ended up with Red faceplanted on a cake.
Later, Red decides to directly throw cakes at Green, but he dodges those effortlessly before he and Red fall down a trap door. Green uses a fishing rod to stop himself from landing in a pile of cakes as Red lands on wool. Green continues to dodge the cakes pelted by Red and dispensers before getting Red to fall into his own trap, which is a chair surrounded by cakes. Later, Red explains his problem to Purple, telling him all of his failed plans and asking him how he can cake Green. Purple takes Red's "spoken" image of the cake and tries hitting Green with it, but soon realizes how slick Green is at dodging cakes. Purple, a little exhausted, shrugs, admitting defeat. Disappointed, Red sulks away sadly, but after a moment of thought, Purple comes up with a plan using aspects of Red's failed plans to finally prank Green. Red gets excited, hugs Purple appreciatively, and jumps out of the window of Purple's tree house.
Red later leads Green and prepares to take something out. Green thinks it is a cake and prepares himself, but it turns out to be an empty picnic basket. Green, confused, shakes the basket out, but finds nothing inside. Red then walks over to a chest. gets behind it, and opens it. Green braces for impact, using the basket for cover, but the chest turns out to be normal. Red takes out an apple, bread, a melon slice, and a sandwich and puts them into the basket. Green scratches his head, confused, and Red then walks over to a lever and offers Green to pull it. Green reaches out for it, but he, still suspicious of Red, steps away and tells Red to pull it himself. Red shrugs and pulls it, and out pops a bottle of water from a dispenser in the background. Red takes a sip and offers it to Green, but instead puts in his pocket and gives Green another water bottle from the dispenser. Red raises his arms and urges Green to continue. He does, and Red follows, secretly splashing a cow with a potion of awakening. The cow, now bipedal, follows in the background.
Red marches on, sipping from his bottle, and Green follows, hunched over and visibly nervous. Red steps on a pressure plate, causing a firework to launch from a dispenser below him. Green flinches and puts up a shield in self-defense, not seeing Red toss another potion of awakening onto a chicken nearby, causing it to become sentient as well. Red marches and skips on, while Green's anxiety hasn't wavered. He looks around as if he feels someone watching him. Red finds another chest and opens it. Green ducks, bracing for the worst, but with him distracted, Red splashes a sugarcane with an awakening potion and grabs a blanket from the chest for their picnic. Red slings the blanket over his shoulder, and Green scurries after him, unaware of the sentient sugarcane following them.
The cow, chicken, and sugar cane spy on the strolling Red and paranoid Green as the primary-colored stick figure pauses and urges Green to go on ahead while he folds the blanket. Green does as instructed, and Red drops another awakening potion on a wheat before hurrying off to join Green.
Upon finding a small clearing in the spruce forest, Red spreads out the picnic blanket, Green sets the basket down, and Red hands himself and Green various picnic foods and drinks, all the while the sentient plants and animals sneak around behind them. The two sticks indulge, albeit Green a lot more hesitantly, but upon sampling the sandwich, he finds it safe. Red gives him the green light and the two of them enjoy their picnic, the blocks and animals sneaking away into position. With Green lulled into a false sense of security, Red sits on his knees, stretches out, takes a deep breath, and whistles.
Suddenly, the cow, chicken, sugarcane, and wheat leap onto the tree leaves around them. Using their combined wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs, they create a massive cake right above the picnic area. They raise it into the air and, with their combined forces, slam it into the ground. Green is barely able to avoid getting smashed by the giant cake by leaping out of the way. He breathes heavily, possibly traumatized, grabbing his heart, and stumbles away, but walks headfirst into a cake being held by Red. Green lets his arms hang, realizing he has been bested, and Red starts to leave, but before he does, he turns and pats Green on the back, similar to how Green did it to him. Red walks away, leaving Green frozen, and the cake drops to the ground, Green's face still coated in cake frosting.
Credits[]
Animation[]
- @ARCpersona
- @n8sterAnimates
- @Ellis02Media
- @Fordz
- @eds7236
- Exceld
- @kayalartwork
- @NotSoProishNoob
- @doumaki4501
- @DaSassyOwl
- @Spacedoughnut
- @SimpleFox1
- @tjb7345
- @oxob3000
- @Nemo0501
- @ajanimm
- @Hexalhaxel
- @smoilysheep4670
Minecraft assets[]
Backgrounds[]
- Sushi
- TheKaemble
Redstone machines[]
- Onnowhere
Sound design[]
- e_soundwork
- @dan_loeb
Music[]
- @ScottBuckley
Red's annoying song[]
- @dan_loeb
Production manager[]
- @hatena360
Project lead[]
- @n8sterAnimates
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Other characters[]
Trivia[]
- Alan changed the name of the episode between "The Prank" and "The Cake" several times, before staying with "The Prank".
- Like most videos Alan makes, the thumbnails continuously change.
- This is the first episode of Season 4 to include Purple.
- According to a YouTuber named Filmerandy, Red has wasted 255 cakes in total.
- Including the cakes that Red merged, he has wasted 9494 cakes in total.