[It took a little too long before this prankster’s mother realized family portraits around their home had been replaced with pictures of Steve Buscemi. / @claremaura/Twitter]



It’s a prank so random that it’s actually quite brilliant.

Twitter user Clare Manion recently shared the head scratching exploits of her older brother Kevin who, for some reason, started replacing various family photos in their home with pictures of actor Steve Buscemi.

My brother has been replacing family photos with pics of Steve Buscemi and my mom hasn’t noticed pic.twitter.com/d533C4yEZW — Clare Manion (@claremaura) 24 July 2016

One-by-one different pictures were replaced with the face of the recognizable star, whose popular films include Fargo, The Big Lebowski and Reservoir Dogs.

The practical joke was apparently intended to see just how long it would take for the sibling’s parents to notice anything was different around the house.

According to the now viral tweet, their mother still hadn’t noticed something odd was happening even after four different photos were plastered with Buscemi’s famous face.

The silly practical joke soon caught on like wildfire and has been shared all over social media as different users praised Clare’s brother’s unique sense of humour.

Ok this should be done in virtually every household in an organized and concise matter! https://t.co/0krlfbpxOa — EQOAnostalgia (@EQOAnostaIgia) 26 July 2016

Someone do this with crying jordan https://t.co/qZao7g2FNW — Anti-Preservationist (@Husaria) 26 July 2016

It looks like he’ll need to be pretty creative if he’s ever going to be able to top this practical joke’s level of online popularity.