I Put Millions Of Pennies In My Friends Backyard
In this YouTube video, MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and his crew, including Chandler Hallow, Chris Tyson, and Chandler's dad, attempt a massive prank: covering Chandler's dad's backyard with roughly $20,000 worth of pennies. The crew struggles to unroll the massive amount of penny rolls within a tight deadline, trying various methods (burning paper, brick, golf club, car tire) to speed up the process. When time runs out, they reveal the unfinished prank to Chandler's dad, who discovers the rolled pennies in his yard. The surprise shifts to a car giveaway: the crew plans to take the collected pennies to a dealership and use them to purchase cars for Chandler and his dad. The video showcases behind‑the‑scenes logistics, the scale of the crew (15‑16 people), the challenges of handling large quantities of coins, and the emotional reactions of Chandler's dad as he learns he will receive a new car. The narrative blends comedic banter, spontaneous problem‑solving, and the signature MrBeast generosity, ending with the reveal of the new cars and celebratory moments.
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This is $1 in pennies. This is $20. This is $100 in pennies. That is $1,000 in pennies. This is $2,000. This is $10,000 in pennies, give or take like 5 grand. I stopped counting. Ah! Ah! Ah! And this is $20,000 in pennies. Wait, no, it's not.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
All right, now it's $20,000. So this is $20,000 in pennies. We're gonna take these $20,000 worth of pennies and empty 'em on the backyard. And Chandler's dad has no idea. So when he gets home, there's gonna be $20,000 in pennies laying across his entire backyard. And then we're gonna help him pick up all the pennies and go buy a car. 'Cause as you remember in the slime video, he said he needs a car.
I bought 6 cars, all for my kids, and I'm the only one without a car now.
So yeah, guys, let's spread the pennies across the yard. I can't wait to see his reaction. I can't wait to buy the car. All right, we're officially going to start covering your dad's yard in pennies. How does that make you feel?
Good.
How do you think your dad's going to react? I don't know, honestly.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a whole lot of pennies. Flashback to Chandler doing that to Chris. Oh, fuck! We currently have 7 people opening up rolls and we have 5 more coming. But even once all 15 people arrive, if we're all going super hard, there's no way we're even gonna do like 10% of that by the time Chandler's dad gets home. Or maybe like 20, 30%, but we're not gonna be able to do like majority of that. So me and Chris are gonna test some ways to crack open these rolls because these are what are taking forever. It's just really time consuming to bust them open and get the pennies out of it. So we're gonna try to find a more efficient way because if we don't figure something out, I guess we're just gonna have to like lay the rolls like out in his backyard, which is kind of lame. It'd be so much funnier if it was just like the pennies, but I don't know, we're running out of time. So now we're gonna see what happens if we try to burn off the paper. 'Cause maybe we can just burn the paper off this whole mound. Apparently you can't just burn the paper off. For whatever reason, it doesn't burn. We got 2 hours left till his dad gets home. We wanted to cover the entire backyard in pennies, but they're still wrapped up. What do we do? All right, we're really desperate. We're gonna see if this works again.
I think it's just putting the fire out.
Are you telling me firefighters should just use pennies?
It looks like it, man. Yeah, you're definitely doing stuff there.
Oh, you're getting them now. I think I am. How do we unravel all these pennies before Challenge Dad gets home?
You having fun?
I'm breaking them open. We're desperate.
What would it be, get the match?
Ow! Damn it!
Hit that direction. Pants first. Ow, my dick fired right at me.
Yeah, I got hit in the eye. How do you think I feel? I feel like this isn't very effective.
Now we're going to test the brick method because the golf club method isn't really working. I missed.
This look like the Ten Commandments.
So I think at this rate we'll cover this whole yard in about a week. Yeah, unfortunately we only have an hour and a half though. Next we're going to test the car method. All right, now let's see, how easy are they?
Is that a good way to pop the tire actually?
That tire looks a little more deflated. I got my secret weapon on my side now.
Chandler, what are you doing?
Elmo's helping. Remember that time when we threw a baseball bat at the car and it almost killed Garrett? Yeah. If we just had a bunch of pickaxes, this might actually work. Surprising my friend's dad with a lot of trash in his backyard.
What do we do?
Um, I want to surprise your dad with a bunch of pennies in his backyard. I don't know what to do. I don't either. We're almost out of time. Should we just leave them in the rolls? Would that make our lives easier?
It would make our lives a 1,000% easier.
But is that what we're about?
We've got that pile, that pile, and then a couple in here. It's currently what, 3 o'clock?
We did this when we bought the car with pennies and we knew this would take forever.
But we did it anyway because we're absolute mad lads.
Yeah, but how did we know this would take forever and not realize it would take forever?
Sprinkler!
Oh God.
I actually didn't get hit by anything.
That's all hit me right in the head.
Again.
Put this in slow-mo. So we've got a mini army over there busting open the rolls, but I really don't think we're going to open up all the rolls in time. His dad's going to be home in an hour. What do we do, Chris?
Even the greats fail sometimes. You think Michael Jordan hit every single dunk? Yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right. Yeah, I guess you just suck.
Just you guys understand, we're trying to put out like multiple really crazy videos every single week. Like, our videos are so crazy that we're working on so many different videos at the same day so we can do at least like 2 videos a week. I really want to get all the pennies unrolled and laid out, but we just simply didn't have time, you know. They're still gonna get the money, still gonna get the cars. The point I'm trying to make is that we're just trying to film so many videos that sometimes it's hard for every video to be perfect. Also, his dad gets home in an hour, so no matter what, even if we didn't have videos for this— yeah, we gotta be done within another hour.
Stick to the end so that way you can see the dealership's reaction to the pennies. And what car Chandler and his dad decide to get.
Can you go back to work? Yeah, yeah, we weren't done.
Dad, you need M&Ms to go with them Cheerios, don't you?
Yeah.
I mean, he's home. I guess we can't keep it a surprise anymore. Let's just— come on. What do you think we're doing at your house? There's 14 people in your in your backyard right now. What do you think they're doing?
I thought y'all were gonna put that slime thing over here.
Yeah, we did. We did put the slime tank in the backyard.
I'm not getting back in there.
We just wanted to put it back there for fun. Come look at it.
Come on. Like a hot— can't see.
You can't see the slime tank until you get closer. 3, 2, 1, surprise! We were gonna put a bunch of pennies in your backyard, but we couldn't unroll them in time, so we're gonna take them back. But then you still came back, so now we don't know what to do. So there's a bunch of rolled up pennies in your backyard. I think we could just leave it here for you, right?
We don't have to clean them up anymore. You can take them to the bank for me.
We're gonna unroll them all and cover your entire backyard in pennies, but apparently it takes a long time. It takes longer than 10 hours, which we didn't know. But you have a lot of pennies now.
Oh, I get to keep them?
Yeah, we're gonna get a car with pennies.
Yeah, it would have made so much more sense if they were just laid out. This is a dollar.
I'll make sure I get at least $1 out of this.
How many pennies do you think were in your backyard?
$1,000.
Oh, times 10.
Keep on going.
Warmer.
For real?
Yeah.
There's 21,000 here. We were going to surprise you with them, but—
Like $21,000 worth of pennies?
Yes. Yeah. We called the dealership. They said they would just take the pennies.
So they're going to come get them?
No, we're going to load them up and just go buy cars right now. Whatever you and Chandler want.
For real?
Yeah, sure. Oh yeah.
Dude, that's awesome, man.
Yeah.
Hold up.
Let's get back to— Oh yeah, look at that.
All right, let's get back to loading them up. I find it hilarious that you thought it was slime.
I really did. You know, yesterday I'm like, oh God, you know what? They said whoever won that thing, they wanted to slam.
Y'all are some good people, Chris.
Yes, sir. What do you think about it?
I've been having to get a ride to class every day because he's using my car.
Uh-huh.
So now that he has his own, let's get it.
What do you think about it? I think it's awesome.
Mid chew there.
MrBeast is a good guy.
I'm glad I get to sit back and watch what he does.
Finally get me a ride. Yes, I am.
You gonna get you a ride?
Yeah, dude, that's crazy.
Oh, I got that.
Oh yeah, this just looks like pennies. What it is is a new car.
It's a new car.
It sure is, brother.
Who's your favorite president now?
Jimmy, MrBeast is. I actually got enough money to get me a sweatshirt now. I get me some merch now.
Nice job, MrBeast merch.
Good boy, man.
Yeah, so I bet you didn't know having a son would get you hooked up, did it?
Having a son work for a YouTuber.
Usually, usually having a child is really expensive.
You guys should have children so they can become friends with YouTubers so you can get cool stuff. Also, both of you guys lost the slime video, so this is, uh, this is redemption.
Dude, I can't believe this. I can't believe this, boy.
How long has it been since you've had a car?
So it's been 6 months. I've been borrowing Hannah's car to get to work in the morning, come back home, then take Zach's car to work, or they drop me off, I gotta ride back with Uncle John. It's been a pain in the butt.
You picked out your car yet?
Uh-uh.
You should probably do that. Oh yeah, in about 20 minutes, we're gonna go buy a car.
Cool.
You kind of gotta pick one.
I haven't given you a hug yet.
Dude, this is just crazy. I swear, man, I don't even know. No, I did not expect none of this. Dude, I thought I was getting kicked out of my house, then I pulled up and saw the U-Haul. Chris finally got rid of me, man.
It's good content, so we all win.
Yeah, I definitely won.
I drank one of your drinks. Here you go.
Hey.
Oh yeah, actually, root beer.
Yeah, your root beer.
I also ate some of your M&M's.
You can have your dollar back.
Oh, thank you.
Give me another quarter though.
You gonna help us?
Heck no, I got a bad back, man. I'm trying to recoup.
He's rich. Rich people don't have to pick up their money.
Boom.
You're right. I'm glad this worked out really good.
This worked out really good. Trust me.
For you.
Yes, it did.
Hey, when's my pennies in the backyard video though?
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
It's coming up.
So I'll give you guys a little behind the scenes peek of one of our videos. This is usually like the amount of people it takes to do these videos. 15 if you include me, 16 if you include Chandler's dad, just move and penny. Like, some of our videos literally require an entire army. Like, we can do it on our own, but if we want to upload 2 to 3 videos a week, there's just no way. Like, this would literally take us about 2 weeks if we, you know, did it ourselves. So we just finished picking up all the pennies, and we put them in all of these boxes. As you'll see, these boxes are full of pennies. We're gonna take all these boxes to the dealership and, uh, hopefully they give us a car. We just got done surprising Chandler's dad with the pennies, and now we're gonna go to the dealership and buy him and Chandler whatever they want. So let's talk strategy. You guys could buy two $10,000 cars, you could buy one $20,000 car, you could put $20,000 down on a car, $10,000 on two cars, or you could just, you know, spend it all on groceries. What's the game plan?
Groceries.
I'm gonna spend $10,000 on a down payment.
Okay, so you're gonna put 10 grand on down payment. So what are you gonna do with the other 10 grand?
I'm gonna try to get a car for 10 grand.
All right, that's the game plan. He wants to put 10 grand down on a car. He wants to buy a car for 10 grand. Let's go see if we can make it happen. Hopefully they take the pennies.
So when I got home from work today, and even after I saw all those pennies in the yard— yeah, I'm like, yeah, it was a mess in my yard. I'm like, oh, we actually get to keep these pennies?
Yeah, well, when I told Chandler I was gonna prank you Chandler's like, "Okay." And I was like, "You get to keep him." He's like, "Oh wait, what?" Hey Chris.
Hey, what's up?
Hey.
Where you guys going?
We're going to get Chandler a car.
No way, me too.
Oh, I'll see you there.
Bye.
Hey, don't forget me.
Oh, Chandler's dad a car. I keep forgetting this is about you.
Yes.
That's the manager of the store. Yeah, we returned a destroyed rental car here and we also bought a car from here. Oh, and then we also smashed my friend's car and bought it from here. Chad, come show us your new car.
Dude, look at this.
Woo.
The interior is black and white.
I love it. Whoa, that's actually a pretty good interior.
Isn't that nice?
Dude, it's got the two-tone. It's got the new car smell.
Dude, I love the interior.
Dude, it does look pretty dope.
What I want to do is make it matte black on the outside. Dude, I've never like bought a new car before.
Really? Yeah.
It's a fun experience.
This is Chandler's special moment. He's about to drive his new car on the road for the first time.
Yeah.
Dude, what if you got in a wreck? What if he just starts—
Oh, shit.
Oh gosh. What the fuck? What is he doing?
Oh, was he getting in a wreck?
It's not meant to move. Shane's like, what did you say, Chris?
You want me to hit him?
Okay, sure, whatever.
Oh yeah.
Oh, it's my jam. So how much is this, Chris? This is 4,000, um, 650. 4,650 are still in the boxes. Are you the accountant? This is our accountant right here.
Sorry, y'all gonna help, right?
Do you have experience with counting pennies?
Yeah, you're not having none of it, right? No, I've got, uh, I've got two kids.
They're gonna, they're gonna help too. Perfect. Yeah, there you go, brother. Money's money, right? That's right, brother. We're buying two cars. How do you like your car? I like it.
Yeah, brother. Todd, what have you done with that nice whip?
It's not bad, is it?
It's not bad at all, man. We've got the, the wood interior, man. You'll be cool.
Air-conditioned seats.
He'll be riding in style, man. Look at this thing. You're gonna pull up to the, uh, the bingo place like you own it, man.
Riding this style, baby.
Hey Jake, what's up, man? I like your car.
Thanks, my brand new car and my brand new Beast Murph.
Hey, that stuff looks fire.
This car amazing. I love it so much, and my dad really loves his car, and I just want to say thank you again for the car. I'm gonna drive it every day of my life for the rest of my life. Every day for the rest Best forever, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. Hey, that's a good horn.
Mr. Beasto! Mr. Beasto! Mr. Beasto!
