What was the best April fools joke did you fell for?

In Sweden they once told people that if you put a nylon stocking over your TV screen, it would turn color… during black and white TV days 😭

P****** years ago acting like you clicked the Share button 

My six year old screams out that there is poop in his bed this morning. I'm talking panic screaming. I spilled my coffee, almost fell over trying to rush to his room.

A local radio station broadcast that the space shuttle was landing at our small executive airport, snarled traffic through town.

There's this YouTube channel, Fascinating Horror it's called. A couple years ago they posted a video basically narrating the plot of Jurassic Park as if it had been a true disaster. I only realized near the end of the video lol that was a pretty good one.

chris pratt being in the new stargate series...

A carpool parent texted me and told me her kids had scabies after I drove them to school.

Didn't fall for it but got a great laugh. Local radio station ran a story that our unofficial N*** Beach was going to be closed so upset nudists were going to march (in the n*** of course) from a nearby park to the legislature. Evidently a joke (And weather was also very cold so . . .) but some people bought into it and lined the streets to catch the protest

Probably 20ish years ago I got up in the morning, made a cup of coffee and sat down at my computer to read the latest on https://slashdot.org. Started the first post and it didn't seem to make any sense so I moved on to the next one. Then I started wondering if I had had a stroke because the text looked like real words and the structure looked like real grammar but it was all gibberish I couldn't understand. Then I realized it was April 1.

Local PC repair shop had a sign on their window saying "first 10 customers to bring their PC will recieve a brand new customs built PC with a NVidia GTX Titan X" I raced home, essentially ripped my PC off the table and raced down only for the guy to burst out laughing

best one I pulled on my dad which he fell for was I cut out brown paper E's and I asked him do you want a brown e. he thought i asked if he wanted brownie 😂😂😂

I don't have a good one I fell for, but I got my mom pretty good before. Told her I was pregnant & didn't know who the father was. That was 10 years ago & I think she's still mad.

Saw an article on an anime news site years ago that President Obama was signing a bill that made it legal to marry anime characters, and it had a photo of him with Misato. It took until I showed both my mum and brother for me to realise it wasn't real!

NPR had a great where they told readers to share an article without a description on Facebook that would call out people who commented on links like know-it-alls without reading the actual articles. When you posted it, the thumbnail said something different titled, “Why Doesn’t America Read Anymore?” But when you clicked on it and read it, it basically let you in on the joke and then gave instructions to others to like it but not comment to show you were in on it. https://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-read-anymore

Got my SO with the old toothpaste in the Oreo prank one year. He wasn’t thrilled, Oreos are his favorite. Currently, my eldest and I are pranking him that the eldest got an F on a crucial exam which then brought the grade down to an F overall. He is talking about taking away phone, friends and computer for two weeks lol.

That I will get 200USDT for a bonus

I was super shy in school and one of the most popular girls who I had a crush on came over to me and asked me if I wanted to part of the pen 15 club and who was I to say no to a girl like that to basically anything so she wrote Pen15 on the top of my hand. Gotta say in hindsight that was a good one lol

The worst one I ever did was to my then 9 year old son. I told him that there ended up being too many boys on his Little League team so he was moved to a different team. To my shock, he immediately started wailing and nearly vomited with sorrow. I had no idea he would be so upset! Of course, I immediately told him it was an April Fool’s joke but he was upset and grumpy all day. I felt like the meanest mom in the world!

April 1st is my birthday, and my oldest son (5 at the time) told me he made me a brownie at school for my birthday. I should've expected him due to his malicious grin, but he opened his backpack and pulled out a brown colored "E"....a brown e... Nearly 5 years later and he's still riding that high

That someone won £10,000 on scratch card.. You should have been the shop keepers face 😂🙈

College Humor sponsored a prank in Manhattan putting up signs that In-n-Out Burger was opening soon in NYC. 

In my childhood my parents packed everything for me to get me admitted to a boarding school, where i definitely didn't want to go, they looked very serious about it and scaring me the entire day, we packed the bags and on the half way suddenly he took me for some shopping like wth 🤦‍♂️ I was so confused nd so sad initially but after that i kmowing it was the april fool prank, i was the happiest that day😭😭

When I was younger, there was one April fools where a website advertised fake products. One of those fake products was a sleeping bag of a Ton Ton from Star Wars.  It has since become a real product. 

For context I recently moved back in with my recently widowed mum for a bit after many years living away, as did my sister who went through a DV situation with her ex. I didn't fall for this April fools gag, it was a spur of the moment joke I pulled. But I'm living in my nans granny flat who's 100 years old this year. She's a fairly active healthy 100 year old with good mental health still too. Mum has been looking after her for 20 years. But first thing in the morning yesterday I went into the main house (attached to nans granny flat) and found my mum and sister talking over the kitchen table. I told them that nan was sitting on the lounge naked in her flat. They both jumped up ready to go check on her, eyes suddenly like dinner plates. And I told them April fools about a second afterwards. Got punched by my sister and called a shithead by mum. But mums told just about everyone she can ring about it, so it went down pretty well. This is the first April fools joke I've pulled in about three decades and I'm pretty happy with the way it went down.

Not one I fell for but great nonetheless: my mum just had a therapy session where she pretended to hallucinate someone else in the room. Ballsy and pretty ignorant/insensitive of those who actually suffer from things like that but totally caught me off guard when she told me about it and she said her therapist had a good laugh after a moment of panic.

They released a fake lineup to the summer music festival i'm most looking forward to hearing about and i got SOO MANY PEOPLE excited about it and then i had to turn around and remind them it was April Fools and i was an idiot. ...it may or may not have happened today lol

Jaden Ivey is signing with the Warriors

All I would say things was nice and more fun back in 90s, early 20s

didn't fully fall for it, but couldn't make sense of it: [https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/history/2015/02/19/plummet-mall-jay-gilbert-jerry-galvin/23685359/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z1134xxe1134xxv002743d--30--b--30--&gca-ft=148&gca-ds=sophi](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/history/2015/02/19/plummet-mall-jay-gilbert-jerry-galvin/23685359/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z1134xxe1134xxv002743d--30--b--30--&gca-ft=148&gca-ds=sophi)

Coming into work only to realize there was no April fools joke that work was still happening.

I tried to buy several products from thinkgeek.com back in the day.

We have an LPG and oil crisis in India rn cuz of the war. So there are a lot of rumors of a lockdown which could happen cuz of it. My sister sent me an official government pdf mentioning a partial lockdown which scared me tbh at the end it was revealed to be a joke. Sent the pdf to my friends as well they were shaken as well cuz of it 😂

The Mets signing a pitcher named Sidd Finch. April 1st addition of Sports Illustrated.

My son gave me whiskas to eat after he offered me breakfast in bed.

This one might not seem like much, but it tapped into a deep seated phobia of mine and was extremely effective! When my now-husband and I first started dating I had been vegan for about 13 years, but I was already easing off the lifestyle when we moved in together and by the time this April Fool’s came along I was regularly eating eggs again. He is a big fan of pranks, so he broke out a classic and hard boiled the last two eggs in the fridge after I had gone to bed and then put them back in the carton. Not groundbreaking, as far as pranks go. What he did not know is that I have long been petrified by the idea of cracking open an egg only to have a cold, wet, dead chick fall into the pan, so when I broke the egg on the edge of pan and it felt solid, full, and nothing came out, I freaked the f*** out! Crying, screaming, lost my mind. That was almost 10 years ago and he still brags out how good it was :)