19 April Fools’ Day Jokes That Completely Missed The Mark

Explore the comical chaos as we recount 19 April Fools’ Day pranks that took unexpected turns, leaving the pranksters in amusingly awkward situations.

1. Period Pranks

2. Pizza Riots

3. Pope Jokes

4. Baby Mama Drama

5. Tesla Tricks

Though Elon Musk is no stranger to bad pranks — remember when he turned Twitter’s logo into Doge … two days after the holiday? — his worst gag yet came back in 2018, when he tweeted that Tesla had gone bankrupt. Musk may have been joking around but his shareholders were not, Tesla’s stock plummeting 7% after the offending post.

6. Nickel-Back To Back To Back To Back

7. Tape Tragedies

8. Ore-Oh No He Didn’t

9. Boss B.S.

10. Taco The Town

10. Taco The Town

12. Heinz H—l

13. Door Drama

14. Hazardous Hijinks

15. Mic Drop Mishaps

2016 was a decidedly chaotic year, however Google decided to make it worse by pranking all Gmail users with a “Mic Drop” function, which let emailers “send and mic drop,” or a gif of a Despicable Me Minion dropping a microphone to signify a conversation was over. Some users may have found the gag funny, but several others — including the bosses of some who were sent the gif by accident — were not amused.

16. For Sale Fiasco

17. Drink — And Shower In — The Kool-Aid

18. Salty Cup Of Joe

19. UFO Uncertainty

Virgin overlord Richard Branson may be no stranger to air and space travel, yet the same cannot be said of the authorities in London, after they were ready to go to war with what they believed to be a UFO full of ETs … that was actually just a hot air balloon. While “the police didn’t see the funny side of it and threatened to arrest us for wasting their time,” per the exec, they ultimately “joined in the fun and left with smiles on their faces.”

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