What are some crazy antics that can happen in high school dormitories? My script is set in a catholic school dorm, and I need some wild and crazy escapades for my characters to get into, that are decidedly disapproved of by the school administration. When I say "wild and crazy escapades", I mean something more exciting than sticking a roommate's hand in warm water, but less exciting than, say, kidnapping the prime minister and forcing him to battle against a tiger in a no-holds barred cage fight.

I'd imagine that a lot of shaving cream would be involved.

There's the bucket over the door trap. They would probably steal each other's possessions on a regular basis. Rearranging the furniture (which includes removing the furniture, flipping the furniture over etc.)

I could ask my trouble-maker friend. He's... yeah.

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This isn't going to end well, is it? *sighs* I thought not.

If the antics are pranks pulled on others, you could have them redecorate the room with all kinds of occultic symbols and such. Or if it's just general antics, they could be making moonshine or some such.

Or running toilet paper down the hall and dropping the end into a toilet, which is subsequently flushed. That's just stupid fun right there.

Your characters could play Quidditch, Machall style. Turn off all the lights in the hall, and chuck a light up super ball at each other as hard as they can. :D
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My first thought was "Oooh oooh ooh! You should rent Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys!"

Now that I've thought about it for a second, I've realized I watched that movie two or three years ago and don't remember the details. But I do remember there were antics aplenty. Though the one they escalate to is similar to your prime minister v. tiger cage fight idea. I think one of the things they do is steal and/or deface a statue from their school. That's all I can remember though.

Even if it's not directly useful, it's a good movie so you wouldn't be wasting your time watching it.

Secretly recording conversations or someone doing something

Switching rooms, without letting one roommate in on the switch, then acting like that roommate is crazy for imagining s/he ever belonged in that room

Setting off the indoor sprinkler system

Ooh. I just thought of a couple. When my dad was in the air force they used to prank the new guys all the time and some of them could apply here.

For one, they took all the furniture from this guy's room and brought it to the sub-basement and set it up there exactly like it was in his room. My brother once did a similar version at camp where they moved the councellor's bed into the handicapped stall of the bathroom.

If your school had uniforms this could work. They took all of one guy's uniforms and soaked them in water. Then put them all in a garbage bag and put the whole thing in the freezer. Then when they had an inspection (I don't know exactly what you could use to simulate this, maybe just your kid having to go to class or something) and the guy didn't have any uniforms so he had to go in his sweats (your kid showing up to class in his/her undies might work nicely). When the commanding officer asked where his uniforms were, they ended up bringing out the garbage bag full of uniforms which had frozen into a solid block of ice.

Here's a "true" (as it was told to me, would work in a movie I think) story:

Guy is sick of his friends down the hall and decides to get back at them.
He knows they meet at a certain time to study. So when they are all in their room with the door closed, he does the following:

1. Fill a manila envelope with shaving cream - as much as you can get in it - and fold the flap closed (dont seal it).
2. Push the flap end of the envelope under their door, so that it is barely poking out the other side (quietly).
3. With the bulk of the envelope and its shaving cream payload on your side of the door, SMASH the envelope with all your might with the biggest textbook you can find.

The room inside will pretty much turn white in the blink of an eye (or so legend has it).

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Well, seeing as how I'm in a college dorm, I think I could offer a few suggestions that some of my friends (who shall remain nameless) have done.

--Nerfgun fights: they love to shoot each other, and seeing as how you're using a catholic school, I don't see why this couldn't work - but then, it may not be as "wild and crazy" as you might hope.

--duct tape falling into the wrong hands: oh the things you can do with duct tape: like stick people to walls, tape doors shut, tape people to chairs (yes, my friends have done this).

--and of course, trying to "one-up" the last person's prank. Maybe escaping out the windows by fastening a bed sheet to the bed and then drop the other end out the window. And of course, don't forget all the pranks they could do, if they had access to the belltower. XD

Good luck, it sounds like fun.

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Well, depending on how the dorm was laid out, I know last year one of the people on my floor decided to "play" Les Mis and build a barricade in the doorway towards the stairway. Yeah, that was fun.

Fire alarms going off at 4:45 in the morning are always popular too.

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Oh, fun things I did when I was in a dorm.

When I lived like that, the residence hall was divided into houses. The boys lived in three floors, and the girls lived in another three. Of course, no one was to enter a floor that was not of their gender. We still had some crazy things we could do. Each member of the form was in a group of sixteen students and a residence assistant, called a house. Each house shared a floor with two other houses. We would have so many house wars and floor wars, and it made our RA's go nuts.

I remember waking up on the last day I was there, walking out into a TP'ed hallway.

But one particular thing I was involved in that was absolutely magical was one of the spontaneous dance parties we had in the hall of our floor. On one of them, we decided to have our party mainly in the middle of the hall, where the elevators and stairwells were. The girls would usually use the elevator. During this particular party, the elevators accidentally stopped at our floor (which was the third). When the doors opened, about twenty of us boys crowded around at the doors dancing and chanting, "THIRD FLOOR! THIRD FLOOR!" A few minutes after that, it was a floor war dance-off. But during the elevator incident, the girls were shocked like they've never seen males before. They closed the elevator doors and went back up as soon as they could.

Fun times.

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