Mediocre Films’ Greg Benson, Kim Evey Ask Strangers For Their Kids In Mother’s Day Prank

Mediocre Films’ Greg Benson and his wife Kim Evey are ready to adopt a child in real life. To help get the word out about their pursuit of adoption, the couple created a special Mother’s Day prank video dubbed “Stealing Kids at Disneyland,” where they ask parents at the theme park if they can take their kids home.

In the prank video, Benson, who hosts Break’s popular Prank It Fwd series, and Evey, who co-founded Geek & Sundry and was herself adopted from South Korea at the age of 14 months, approach complete strangers at Disneyland and ask to adopt their kids. This seems like it would be a pretty creepy experience for parents, but the majority of the families at Disneyland seem to play right along with the joke, offering their kids up without much hesitation.

Benson and Evey partnered with the Independent Adoption Center to start looking for a birth parent willing to give up a child for adoption. Benson and Evey completed a home study, as well as an adoption letter and an IAC online profile. While the couple is now ready to be matched with a child, the IAC’s average wait time to adopt a newborn baby is 14.8 months.

“Open adoption is not a straightforward process,” said Evey in a release. “People think we’re on a list and when our number comes up, we get a baby. But with open adoption the birthparents choose the family who will raise their baby so the only power we have to affect the outcome is to increase our visibility so potential birthparents know we exist.”

Benson explained how the IAC suggested he and his wife use social media to spread the word about their adoption plans. “We want to reach as many people as possible so I figured the best way to do that would be to add a prank element to the video and upload it to my Mediocre Films YouTube channel,” Benson said.

You can check out Benson and Evey’s prank video on their Mediocre Films YouTube channel, which currently boasts over 1.3 million subscribers.