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
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.”