You Kicked My Dog

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"You Kicked My Dog"

Single by Kerpal
Released	1995
Format	.wav
Genre	Prank phone calls
Length	03:17

"You Kicked My Dog" is a prank call released in 1995 by an unknown prank caller known as Kerpal, who used an Indian English accent. Credit of this prank call has not been officially acknowledged by anyone, but "You Kicked My Dog" is sometimes incorrectly attributed to The Jerky Boys, Tom Green and Adam Sandler. The crank call was done in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada in the fall of 1993. The Call was recorded on an answering machine and distributed by the caller on tape in the summer of 1994. It wasn't until 1995 that the call first appeared on-line. An unknown individual who purchased the tape uploaded the file to Napster and the call has been online ever since.

1 The prank call
2 History
3 Variations
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] The prank call

The man in the prank call identifies himself as Kerpal and claims to be of Pakistani descent (highlighted by the last dialogue spoken by him in the call). A man known as Abtar answers the telephone. Kerpal then alleges that Abtar's older daughter kicked his dog. Abtar asks his daughter in Punjabi: "Dog noo kick kita see?" (Did you kick the dog?). After minutes of confusion, it is revealed that the daughter knows nothing about kicking Kerpal's dog, let alone who Kerpal is. The call eventually degrades into a shouting match with Kerpal shouting obscenities.

[edit] History

A screenshot of the 1999 animation by Adam Letalik.

At least three different Flash animations have been created to visualize this call. The simplest one, thought to be the original, was created by Adam Letalik and published on FlatPlanet in late 1999.^[1]

This phone call is still played by radio stations, notably KQRS in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The line "You know damn right!" is a catchphrase of KQRS personality Tom Barnard.

[edit] Variations

Soundboards featuring clips from "You Kicked My Dog" can be found on the internet. Other pranks have been successfully conducted using such soundboards and have been released as alternate versions of the original.

Many sequels to "You Kicked My Dog" exist on the Internet. One popular version features a conversation between two Indian-accented men where the caller, Purpa Sadu (a.k.a kerpal), requests to be picked up from an airport, but the call devolves into another conflict using harsh language.

In May 2006, Canadian teenager Sami Khan posted a similar prank call on video sharing site YouTube, titled "You Ate My Dog". The prank call featured a male caller with an Indian accent calling a Chinese restaurant and alleging that the restaurant cooked the man's blind son's guide dog. The female recipient of the call argues with the caller for several minutes, threatening to call the police to investigate the disappearance of the guide dog. You Ate My Dog