10 Greatest April Fools Pranks of All Time

the 10 greatest april fool's pranks of. all time let's talk about that. i'm josh. i'm gabe and we're from indianapolis. indiana good mythical morning. good mythical morning unfortunately it's. not as good as it could be because. link's not here today you know i threw. my back out he actually threw his front. out had something to do with his. pectoral muscles and the stomach muscles.

it was it's ugly he's walking funny. nothing wrong with my front my back my. up my down here's a sad thing we did the. same exact joke. last april fools that's the best that we. can come up with happy april fool's day. uh do make sure you check out uh the new. video on our main channel. that i just went out really excited. about that one. go over there but here watch this first. and then then click over there to uh. youtube.com link you know what's up.

people okay listen yeah no more april. fools we're not good at that but what we. are good at is telling you about the 10. greatest april fools. prankicuses of all time i'm getting. these even because people point out. things like oh you're the whole time. your strings are even uneven when they. would have been even. um all right so here here's what we're. going to do instead of just telling you. because i do have a list of the 10. greatest. april fool's day pranks of all time. let's make it a game let's make it more.

interesting. make it true false i'm good at true. false you have i'm gonna tell you an. april fool's day prank and you will tell. me if true it really happened or false. it was never really a prank. but it could be in the future and this. is weird because they're all pranks so. they were all faults but some of them. were truly false and some of them are. just faulty faults so some are. technically true if you think so just. say true false or false faults i really. if you think about this from an. existential standpoint i cannot be wrong. i don't think of things from an. existential standpoint because i can't.

spell it. here we go. uh. true five of these are wrong five of. these are faults true true or false. faults true faults true faults are false. the danish parliament you can play along. at home people i mean do i even have to. tell you that come on get out your paper. and pencil keep score the danish. parliament announced that all dogs in. the city. would have to be painted white by law.

false faults nope. false true. really. 1965 the politican a copenhagen. newspaper reported that the danish. parliament had passed a new law. requiring all dogs to be painted white. the purpose of this it explained was to. increase road safety by allowing dogs to. be more easily seen at night people. believed this they started painting. their dogs white there was an outrage. dogs were harmed i didn't know it was a. parliament i thought it was a.

dictatorship over there that's why i got. that one wrong. the bbc reported that big ben in order. to stay up to date was going to turn. digital. it has hands it's it's analog. big ben. true false. that's correct in 1980 the bbc reported. the big band in order to keep up with. the times. was going to be given a digital readout.

the announcement received a huge. response from lifter listeners shocked. and angered by the proposed change what. do i get for this by the way what am i. playing for bragging rights. just kidding april fools you get nothing. okay uh true false or false faults in. 1996 an email message from time warner. specified that all email in the. continental us would be shut down for. one day due to server maintenance.

it's in 1996 so. you might have fallen for this you were. false faults. that's right never happened. just totally falsified that one. you sniffed something fishy on that one. that's right. in 2001 usa today that's the publication. the newspaper we were in that yeah we. had an article about us heard about it. it published a story that life had been. discovered on neptune and that it had. four hands and squid eyes. citing the hubble telescope for the.

discovery. people will believe anything. false false well it's obviously false. but you really think it was false faults. you don't think usa today would do that. they're journalism they're journal. they're journalists they're so is that. danish. journalism too and they did it nope it's. false faults never happened sorry to get. your hopes up lovers of april fool. pranks that's not one of the greatest of. all times is this next one probably bb's. bbc film crews released a video. revealing the discovery of flying.

penguins who would journey south to to. south america during the winter i didn't. even listen true false. well you should listen dude i'm just you. know because the chances you would have. done three false falses in a row given. that there's total i'm just you know. this is where my mathematical brain. faults false you can't change it on the. fly that's true false. all right so april fooled you it is true. false. no i'm april fooling you on that it's. false false just kidding yeah the bbc i. mean it's one of the greatest pranks of.

all time right they they. convinced their listeners that penguins. could fly they had video to support the. evidence really. video with the evidence i guess it. supported it okay. the city of pennsylvania shut down all. roads that had bridges on april 1 1982. citing safety laws and fear of trolls. that hid underneath them as the cause. the city of pennsylvania. pennsylvania's estate fox faults. jason wrote that one.

i just read. that's right. good job. jason pittsburgh. pittsburgh. the city of pittsburgh shut down all. roads. paul's faults okay that's right. the madison capitol times solemnly. announced that the wisconsin state. capitol building lay in ruins following. a series of mysterious explosions. whoa. true faults. it's kind of violent you think that you. think the madison capital times would. talk about.

a bill the capitol building exploding. yes it was weird and weird and. violent true false it could never happen. now that i mean that was i don't know. when that was 1985 i think. who knows it's not written here. uh. the explosions were attributed to large. quantities of gas blah blah blah blah. how many false pulses have there been so. far no you shouldn't know that. three or four. the april 1985 issue of sports. illustrated that was a swimsuit issue.

contained a story about a new rookie. pitcher who could throw a 168 mile per. hour fastball true true false. why you say true because i read that up. that issue i remember that i was like oh. this is amazing sid finch could could. throw a 168 mile per hour fastball with. pinpoint accuracy. this was 65 that's probably faster than. that. was true true. now it's some i don't know how they got. on your list i heard about that guy it's. impossible right about a minute it's.

illustrated 65 miles faster than the. previous record it's just it's it just. can't ludicrous. uh. great rapper by the way it's it's. wordplay. no ludicrous oh. um a florida man once presided over his. own funeral after he faked his death two. days previously he dressed up as the. minister and gave the service that's. totally true false. no faults faults but you should do that. dude i should totally do it.

okay it's false false there's only one. there's no more false false or there's a. is there one more don't just just just. go with the flow dude the taco bell. corporation you know they make tacos and. bells yup they took out a full-page ad. that appeared in six major newspapers on. april 1996 announcing it had bought the. liberty bell and was renaming it the. taco liberty bell. true false. what makes you say that i remember it no. you don't. i was a junior in high school.

hundreds of outreach citizens called the. national historical park in philadelphia. where the bell was housed to express. their anger yep totally true false prank. yep way to go taco bell or taco bell. depending on where you're from you say. taco bell or you say taco bell. you mean taco bell or taco bell yeah. that's what i'm going for yeah taco bell. 1992 broadcast of npr's talk of the. nation revealed that richard nixon in a. surprise move was running for president. again his new campaign slogan was i.

didn't do anything wrong. and i won't do it again. how many more are there. is it true false or false false. false faults nope. truth faults npr totally did that. they're such pranksters at npr. uh. 1978 newspapers in washington dc. published an article that the secret. laboratory of abraham lincoln had been.

discovered. inside it were plans for a helicopter a. computer and a machine that made your. bed for you oh that abraham lincoln he. wasn't he was not an inventor well. that's the joke dude but did the joke. really would have been a good joke. because he wasn't an inventor he was a. man of truth he wasn't a man he was a. wrestler was. did the prank really happen no false. false. that's right false false. all right. burger king and now that true false. published a full page advertisement in.

the in usa today announcing the. introduction of a new item to their menu. the left-handed whopper. especially designed for the 32 million. left-handed americans true fault sounds. like a great thing to do with burger. king. false false. nope there's a right-handed whopper. april fool's true faults you were right. it really was a prank. there was no left-handed whopper though. i just wanna i just wanna clarify and. finally rhett for the win.

what do i win. bragging rights april fools you win. nothing i've already told you that oh. gosh on march 31 1989 thousands of. motorists driving on the highway outside. of london looked up to see a flying. saucer land in a local field. who reported this. motorists driving on the highway outside. of london. no no but this is not even a prank this. is just like motorists all aliens.

the aliens weren't real. if the prank was real. true thoughts. that's right many of them pulled to the. side of the road. uh blah blah blah blah the stunt. combined. the saucer turned out to be a hot air. balloon that had been specially built to. look like a ufo by richard branson the. 36 year old chairman of virgin records. oh he's a prankster a prankster there. you go what are we gonna do for for. april fool's link this year besides. besides that little thing we did at the.

beginning. i don't know we can like uh. pull like minor pranks all day long and. we can be like april fool. rock paper scissors to the death. dun. okay. no to the death man come on that's a tie. oh. beat you. that was easy i thought i was gonna have. to take the rock and like hit you in the.

face and i would have done that. not that i've ever punched you in the. face or maybe i have. you.