You Kicked My Dog

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"You Kicked My Dog" (a.k.a. "Kick-Dog") is a prank call released in 1995 by an unknown prank caller. 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 and Tom Green. The location of the call is unknown but the girl Kerpal is accusing has a North American accent. 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, the unsuspecting victim, seems to be of East Punjabi/Indian origin because he 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 to no-end.

At least three different Flash animations have been created to visualize this call. The simplest one, thought to be the original and generally most liked, was created by Adam Letalik and published by FlatPlanet.org in late 1999. It is linked below.

Soundboards featuring clips from "You Kicked My Dog" can be found on the internet. Various other pranks have been successfully conducted using such soundboards; many have been released as alternate versions of the original. This phone call is still played to this day by several radio stations nationwide, most notably KQRS in Minneapolis, USA, among others.

Many second versions of "You Kicked My Dog" exist on the internet. The version which people consider the real "part 2" is one that features a conversation between two apparently Indian men (one of whom states he is "Purpa"). "Purpa" requests to be picked up from an airport, but the call devolves into another conflict using harsh language.

Recently, a teenager from Windsor, Ontario Canada had posted a similar prank call, dubbed “You Ate My Dog” on the widely popular video blog site, YouTube.com

The prank call featured a young male caller with a fake Indian accent calling a Chinese restaurant and accusing, what seems to be the owners’ daughter, that the restaurant cooked the man’s blind son’s guide dog. The daughter stunned at the accusations argues with the prank caller for seven minutes threatening to call the police to investigate the disappearance of the guide dog.