Some people like it, and just as many people genuinely hate it. But every year the morning of the day dedicated to hoaxes and practical jokes rises, and so do the thrill-seekers ready to shout “got you!” straight in people’s clueless (and often miserable) faces.
So just in time for April Fools, we wrapped up some of the most prank-inspiring examples of people nailing the fools on April 1st. From shameless cake pops with Brussels sprouts inside to a local burger joint turning into “Bob’s Burgers,” some people go an extra length to bring an element of entertainment to our mundane lives.
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A Relative Of Mine Pranked Me A Couple Of Years Ago On April Fools
I Put This On My Homophobic Dad's Work Truck After He Yelled At Me, And Mainly My Girlfriend, For Being Gay. April Fools, Pop
It's so stupid to be mad that your kid isn't straight. Actually, it's just weird. I don't want to think about my kids having sex. Gross. They got the "talk" and were about as open and honest about everything as you can possibly imagine, but I'm not going to tell them "hey!! You need to find a good woman and give me grand kids!!", because, let's face it, you don't have to be straight to have kids. And besides that, if my they're happy, they won't try to leave this earth too soon, and that's all I care about. This "dad" needs a damn wake up call.
I Just Fell For This April Fools Prank. I Work In The Tech Department
In a previous interview with Bored Panda, Janet M. Gibson, Ph.D., a Professor of Psychology at Grinnell College, explained that it actually takes quite a bit of work to get a joke. According to her, we have to use cognitive, social, and emotional brain power to form expectations of what's supposed to happen.
But that’s not all. We have to be able to “see how the punchline or unexpected event puts a playful spin on things, figure out the social context to know whether the unexpected event was intended or offensive, and we have to empathize with the joke teller, a character in the joke, or audience to know what is going on,” Prof. Gibson explained.
April Fools? Someone Stole My Dad's SD Card From His Trail Camera From The Middle Of Nowhere. Edited This In A Picture, Then Put It Back In The Camera. He Was Scared For An Hour
I Put Vanilla Pudding In A Mayonnaise Jar. My Kids Were Horrified As I Ate It While Watching Them Open Their Easter Presents
My Friend Lost His Leg In A Motorcycle Accident A Few Years Ago. This Was His April Fools Joke To The Kids Playing In The Park
My friend lost her arm in a hiking accident years ago. She likes to rub her nub on me and say, "If nubbin' you is wrong, I don't want to be right."
What’s more, in order for a joke, a prank, or a punchline to be perceived as funny, people have to be ready to have fun. It doesn’t matter whether it has to do with language, social expectations, or simply be amused by the absurdities of the situation.
“If we are lucky, there are cues to help, like the joke teller is smiling or others are laughing, and then we try to figure out why, search for alternate meanings, and pull from memory what other meanings are possible in this context,” Prof. Gibson told us.
My Local Burger Joint Became Bob's Burgers For April Fools
Most definitely would have to join in and eat there as a character from the show. Maybe I could be Teddy and just kinda sit there all day.
I Woke Up Half Asleep And Opened The Door To The Bathroom. My Heart Dropped. Well Played, Roommate
We Hid A Turkey In Our Neighbor's Yard On April Fools. Today I Woke Up To This In My Yard
On the other hand, as a joker or a prankster, you have to be sure that your joke is simple enough. “If the joke requires too much work to figure it out, we are likely to end up feeling puzzled rather than amused or entertained.”
There’s a belief that one's sense of humor can tell us a lot about their personality. And it’s kind of right, but not in the way you probably think. “If you like jokes that poke fun at death, this does not mean you have death anxiety or are sick. If you like the Three Stooges, it does not mean you are a knucklehead,” Prof. Gibson said.
“In fact, people who like sick jokes tend to score high on openness to experience and high on social intelligence,” she added.
I Replaced The Old Family Photo In My Mum's House With This. Still Waiting For Her To Notice
I Made A Little Paper Cutout To Give My Roommate A Good Scare. April Fools Everyone
I Hope My Husband Feels Special When He Wakes Up. All Eyes Will Be On Him. April Fools
April Fools?
my brother did this to me a few years ago and it scared the s**t out of me
I Put A "Caution Wet Floor" Sign On Top Of A Giant Floaty Mat For April Fools. Swimmers And Colleagues Got A Kick Out Of It
My Sister's April Fools Prank On Her Husband
I Work At The Vet Hospital. I Left The Morning Crew A Little April Fools Surprise
My Husband Hates When There Are Small Quantities Of Leftovers In The Fridge. My Son Pranked Him For April Fools By Filling 22 Containers, Each With One Strand Of Spaghetti
my dad would through them in the sink and say, "now youre washing all these"
Last-Minute April Fools Prank I Did For My Husband
For April Fools, My Girlfriend Scared Me This Afternoon
Another fun thing to do is put a scary looking picture on the back up camera.
My Sister Replaced All Of Our Family Photos With Pictures Of Steve Harvey For April Fools. It Took Over 8 Hours For A Single Person Of My 8-Person Family To Notice It
Someone In My Neighborhood Wins April Fools Day
My Parents Recently Got Facebook, So I Thought I Would Give Them A Little April Fools Scare By Posting This
On April Fools, Someone In My Town Decided To Send A Local Megachurch A Humorous Message
For April Fools, A Teacher Told Her Class That The Government Imposed To Wear Of Shower Caps As An Extra Safety Measure
This Year's Prank. Our Two Employee Entrances Are About 150 Yards Apart
My Brother Thought It Would Be A Great Idea To Slash People's Tires For April Fools Day
People Still Fall For This
Oh god. The head chef of a restaurant I worked at did this to one of our hosts. We had touch free paper towel dispensers so chef said towel while waving her hand in front of the machine and the poor new host spent a good five minutes repeating the words "towel" and "paper".
It's My Husband's Colleague's Birthday Tomorrow, And Also April Fools Day. I Made Him Some Prank Cake Pops. They Are Brussel Sprouts Covered In Chocolate
Final Preparations For An April 1st Reveal
I Fooled My Dog
For April Fools, We Froze Their Cereal
My 11-Year-Old Daughter's April Fools Joke. She Hid The Toilet Paper And Replaced It With A Masking Tape
I Rolled The Window Down, Placed Broken Glass On The Ground, And Staged The Area. My Wife Freaked Out
I Got Pranked By My 11-Year-Old Child On April Fools. Super Proud Parent Moment
My Boyfriend Got Me Good. With No Time To Remove Them, I Had To Drive My Car Like This. I Sounded Like A Giant Kazoo Driving Down The Road
Starbucks Changed Outfits To In-N-Out On April Fools
I Sent My Friend A 6' Tall Mr. Bean With No Return Address For April Fools
April Fools. Comcast Said They Will Need To Use My Computer When Installing The Internet At My New Office Today
Someone, Please Tell My Children That April Fools Day Is Over
Mentos Ice Bomb For Your Friends That Love Soda. Happy April Fools Day
An Easy Prank To Pull Off For April Fools
My April Fools Prank
I went into the building where I work on the night before April Fools Day to set up my prank. I'm not proud to say I shimmied under the stall door so that I could lock it from the inside. The great thing about this stall is there are no gaps to glimpse if someone is sitting on the pot. The only way to check is by looking for feet below the stall door.
Day 10 Of Nobody Noticing This April Fools Prank
On April Fools, I Allowed Cookies On An Online Store, Today I Got This In The Mail
Please, tell us which online store this is. I'll postpone my diet for another decade or so.
April Fools Prank At Work
Yeah saw this one IRL. It was a gag our head chef used to pull on our newer and more naive hires.
I Taped My Friend's Door. The Door Opens To The Inside, So After He Opens It, He Will Be Greeted By A Wall Full Of Tape
April Fools Office Prank. It Has Been Called Twice Already
For April Fools, I Put Yogurt Into The Mayo Jar And Watched My Students Gaze In Disgusted Horror As I Casually Ate During The Class
I Told My Husband I Was Pregnant For April Fools Day. We Just Had A Baby A Few Months Ago. He Took It Well
I Made A Dummy Out Of Clothes And Pillows To Scare My Husband
For April Fools Day Get Your "Orange Juice" Ready
I Made My Girlfriend An Easter/April Fools Egg
I see a lot of people getting Easter presents on April fools day? April 1st? Is this an American thing? In the UK we get Easter Eggs or gifts on Easter Sunday, never on April 1st
I Told My Husband That Toilet Had A Leak In It. But It Was Just A Leek
For April Fools Day, I Decided To Replace Hand Sanitizer With Lube For My Co-Workers
Well, My Fiance Just Won April Fools Day. She's The Opposite Of Every Woman I've Ever Met
I'm Not Even Mad. There's A Fish In There
For April Fools Day, My Son Has Hidden About 300 Tiny Pictures Of Nicolas Cage Throughout The House
a person did this at my school with a picture of their dad. There were just tiny little faces under desks, stuck in lockers, and taped on walls...
Our Fridge On April 1st. It's Watching You
Someone Put This Up At Work As An April Fools Joke. One Of My Coworkers Believed And Started Yelling
For April Fools, I Ducked The Bathroom
I Told My Husband We Were Having Breakfast For Dinner. This Is What He Came Home To
April Fools To My Family
If your family gets mad about it you can say "Turn that frown upside down" 🤣🤣
I Submit My April Fools Prank. 2,000 Balloons In My Boss's Office
This is the best one so far. It's so happy, I love it. If that were my office, I'd just announce I couldn't possibly get to my desk, put some party music on, let some of the balloons out into the main office and go get a margarita and a lounge chair and enjoy :)
I Drew This Little Guy To Prank My Husband
April Fools Day A Roommate Edition
April Fools Prank
April Fools Prank
*Brad Garrett tone and style again* Everybody knows Chelsea... XD
Happy April Fools From Netflix. A Twenty-Minute Program Of Bacon Cooking
My Kids Were Waiting For The Bus Today. Happy April Fools Day
A great prank for when April Fools Day falls on a Saturday.
April Fools Prank Made Some Of My Students Cry
August 15th is my birthday! Ill finally celebrate it in school!
Preying On My Coworkers Greatest Weakness. April Fools
I Was On Vacation, And My Team Decided To Wrap Up My Desk While I Was Gone. So This Is What I Walked Into This Morning. My System Froze
April Fools Prank We Played On Our Boss
It Worked Like A Charm
An April Fools Surprise Outside My Parent's Door. I Filled Everything With Water
These "Treats" My Mom Made For Easter/April Fools
I Pranked My Fiance On April Fools. Blame It On The Kids
I Played An April Fools Prank On My Tech Kids With Google Nose
Can someone smarter and/or more awake than me explain what this means?
Mom, There's A Spider In The Lamp. April Fools
This is my go to prank. Really freak people out when you’re like… I’ll take care of it. Then reach your bare hand into the lamp shade and grab it. People’s reactions are awesome!
I Pranked My Wife On April Fools
The story will begin like most mornings. It starts with a seemingly innocuous trip to the throne. The only problem is I rubbed "Chest rub" all over the seat. After such a rude awakening, I'm sure that coffee would be in order. What's coffee without a nice spoonful of sugar? Well, not today. After all that, she should head to work. I can't get her at work, but I emptied the hole punch at my office today, brought the contents home, and loaded them up. I turned ac on max and aimed accordingly. I love you, honey, and April fools.
I Put An Egg In The Ice Dispenser, And My Wife Sent Me This. Successful April Fools Day
I Present To You My April Fools Prank. Putting Our Most Used Containers On The Top Shelf That Nearly No One Can Reach
This Year's April Fools Prank. Filling Glass Cola Bottles With Soy Sauce, And Resealing Them
Note To My Boss. Next Year, You Probably Shouldn't Leave So Early On Friday Before April Fools
I'm Helping My Sisters To Prank Our Parents While They Are At Work
Gross Out Your Significant Other By Filling An Empty Jar Of Mayo With Vanilla Pudding And Eat It Straight From The Jar. Happy April Fools
It's 2 Am, And I Just Snuck Into The Garage And Partially Wrapped My Mom's Car With Tinfoil. I'm Hoping For A Good Reaction In The Morning
Happy April Fools. Coworkers Ate 8 Mayo Donuts, And No One Said Anything Yet
My "Treats" For The Teachers
I Pranked My Wife With A Fake Spider On April Fools
And his wife found another use for that new three-iron he bought.
Aluminum Anyone?
Tomorrow I Will Prank My Teachers By Making The Middle Of These Caramel Cupcakes Spicy
My Coworkers Will Be Surprised Because I've Been Plotting This Prank For Months
The Problem With Having Your Birthday On April Fools Day
Never pull a prank by adding something to food and leave it for others to eat. Allergies are a thing, food sensitivities are a thing. This prank can seriously harm people and it's not funny to waste food by making it inedible. It's funny to make food look like something different, like making a cake that looks like a stapler and eating it or putting yoghurt in a mayonnaise yar and eat it. But making other people eat something without letting them know what they eat is dangerous and cruel. It's not funny. People who risk other people's well being for a 'joke' are not funny jokesters, they're bullies. That also goes for people making others cry for 'fun' or willfully and knowingly making them upset. I do enjoy a well played prank. I do like tricks and jokes and some of those here were really funny. But if things get broken or people get harmed you need to be a very twisted glassbowl to find that funny
You make a very valid point. And bonus points for "twisted glassbowl"
Load More Replies... When I was in second grade, a boy in my class brought in a bottle of Elmer's glue. Whenever anyone asked him what it was for, he simply said "it's my lunch." Then at lunch time, he proceeded to drink the entire bottle of glue. Apparently it was yogurt. I later found out that his dad was on the school board and used to do this in faculty meetings.
From the medical profession: DO NOT mess with: Food, meds, drinks, random substances in clothing, etc. Please. It ain't funny when someone goes into shock due to allergies, and it's even less funny when the panic leads to cardiac issues. TLDR: If it might harm, it's not funny, it's assault & battery in US law.
There are certain foods that if I eat even a bite of, I'll be reaching for my epipen while someone else calls 911. Anything regarding food isn't funny.
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I once took an empty whiskey bottle and filled it with water, then added some food colouring so it looked like whiskey. I took it to a university tutorial with me and gave a presentation on the book we were studying while casually drinking straight from the bottle. The tutor found it so funny she actually gave me an extra mark.
Someone from another department once gifted my work crew a bottle of whiskey as a thank you.. it turned out to be iced tea. It was such a disappointment we were kinda mad at first, but then had to admit they got us good
Load More Replies... Some of these are golden! Also it seems some folks don't understand that in order for a prank to be good, it needs a higher ratio of funny/surprise to irritation/trauma.
Quite. Some "pranks", if they're too one-sided, are simply bullying. Don't play them on people who won't appreciate the joke.
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My dad had been doing some home renovations, resulting in dried plugs from the caulking tubes he’d been using. These happened to look a lot like chalk, so I replaced all the chalk on the ledge in the classroom, so when my teacher picked a piece up to write on the board, it wouldn’t work. Clearly, only worked because I’m old and we still had chalkboards. Other classmates thought it would be funny to put thumbtacks on her chair, which I couldn’t get behind.
Get behind. Thumbtacks on a chair. I don't know if you meant that as a word joke, but I thought it was funny.
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I'm part of an online gaming community and all my clanmates know that my wife has gone away for 6 weeks on holiday. I posted on our discord server that in order make some extra coin I've set up an only fans site and welcomed any constructive feedback they'd care to share with me. The link was a Rick Roll link. They both love and hate me right now.
I put a piece of ducttape around the battery terminals in my dad's truck before reinstalling the battery cables. He spent two hours going over everything he could think of before asking me for help. My dad is a actuary, I'm a mechanic. It was part April Fools part that'll-teach-you-to-micromanage-me-while-I'm-doing-brake-job-for-free petty revenge.
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There has never been a bigger or better prank than this: http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_eruption_of_mount_edgecumbe
The ones against teachers and the one that made the child cry aren't even pranks at that point, you're just being cruel
Isn't April 1st about fooling og tricking people, not just pranking?
A very good prank when introducing someone to your friends, like new partner, is to tell both parties that the other one is hard of hearing, so them both yell to each other the first minutes, untill you can't hold on your laughter.
I was caught with this first thing in the morning as I was about to have my first sip of coffee: 1Apr-64292...c7e59c.jpg 
I clicked on it a few times before the date clicked in my mind.
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Some of these could be irresponsible or even dangerous. I did copy a couple - the toilet roll face and a smiley face sticker over the mouse laser XD
Never pull a prank by adding something to food and leave it for others to eat. Allergies are a thing, food sensitivities are a thing. This prank can seriously harm people and it's not funny to waste food by making it inedible. It's funny to make food look like something different, like making a cake that looks like a stapler and eating it or putting yoghurt in a mayonnaise yar and eat it. But making other people eat something without letting them know what they eat is dangerous and cruel. It's not funny. People who risk other people's well being for a 'joke' are not funny jokesters, they're bullies. That also goes for people making others cry for 'fun' or willfully and knowingly making them upset. I do enjoy a well played prank. I do like tricks and jokes and some of those here were really funny. But if things get broken or people get harmed you need to be a very twisted glassbowl to find that funny
You make a very valid point. And bonus points for "twisted glassbowl"
Load More Replies... When I was in second grade, a boy in my class brought in a bottle of Elmer's glue. Whenever anyone asked him what it was for, he simply said "it's my lunch." Then at lunch time, he proceeded to drink the entire bottle of glue. Apparently it was yogurt. I later found out that his dad was on the school board and used to do this in faculty meetings.
From the medical profession: DO NOT mess with: Food, meds, drinks, random substances in clothing, etc. Please. It ain't funny when someone goes into shock due to allergies, and it's even less funny when the panic leads to cardiac issues. TLDR: If it might harm, it's not funny, it's assault & battery in US law.
There are certain foods that if I eat even a bite of, I'll be reaching for my epipen while someone else calls 911. Anything regarding food isn't funny.
Load More Replies... I once took an empty whiskey bottle and filled it with water, then added some food colouring so it looked like whiskey. I took it to a university tutorial with me and gave a presentation on the book we were studying while casually drinking straight from the bottle. The tutor found it so funny she actually gave me an extra mark.
Someone from another department once gifted my work crew a bottle of whiskey as a thank you.. it turned out to be iced tea. It was such a disappointment we were kinda mad at first, but then had to admit they got us good
Load More Replies... Some of these are golden! Also it seems some folks don't understand that in order for a prank to be good, it needs a higher ratio of funny/surprise to irritation/trauma.
Quite. Some "pranks", if they're too one-sided, are simply bullying. Don't play them on people who won't appreciate the joke.
Load More Replies... My dad had been doing some home renovations, resulting in dried plugs from the caulking tubes he’d been using. These happened to look a lot like chalk, so I replaced all the chalk on the ledge in the classroom, so when my teacher picked a piece up to write on the board, it wouldn’t work. Clearly, only worked because I’m old and we still had chalkboards. Other classmates thought it would be funny to put thumbtacks on her chair, which I couldn’t get behind.
Get behind. Thumbtacks on a chair. I don't know if you meant that as a word joke, but I thought it was funny.
Load More Replies... I'm part of an online gaming community and all my clanmates know that my wife has gone away for 6 weeks on holiday. I posted on our discord server that in order make some extra coin I've set up an only fans site and welcomed any constructive feedback they'd care to share with me. The link was a Rick Roll link. They both love and hate me right now.
I put a piece of ducttape around the battery terminals in my dad's truck before reinstalling the battery cables. He spent two hours going over everything he could think of before asking me for help. My dad is a actuary, I'm a mechanic. It was part April Fools part that'll-teach-you-to-micromanage-me-while-I'm-doing-brake-job-for-free petty revenge.
Load More Replies... There has never been a bigger or better prank than this: http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_eruption_of_mount_edgecumbe
The ones against teachers and the one that made the child cry aren't even pranks at that point, you're just being cruel
Isn't April 1st about fooling og tricking people, not just pranking?
A very good prank when introducing someone to your friends, like new partner, is to tell both parties that the other one is hard of hearing, so them both yell to each other the first minutes, untill you can't hold on your laughter.
I was caught with this first thing in the morning as I was about to have my first sip of coffee: 1Apr-64292...c7e59c.jpg
I clicked on it a few times before the date clicked in my mind.
Load More Replies... Some of these could be irresponsible or even dangerous. I did copy a couple - the toilet roll face and a smiley face sticker over the mouse laser XD
