April Fool welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 pranks that fool everyone
this year for the first time the
spaghetti crop has failed before we
begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re paying
tribute to the tricks and hoaxes that
got our goats on a larger scale to all
the pranksters watching you could learn
a lot from these japes
3 to 1 april fools
number 10 flint ax and micro sizes at
starbucks
ever wish your coffee cup were just a
little bigger or smaller so did many
customers apparently been he is large no
veggie is 20 large is large in April
2010 Starbucks announced two new cup
sizes for the US and Canada to be
introduced later that year the prenta
and micro cups the size of a shot glass
the Micra held about two fluid ounces
the polenta Cup held 128 fluid ounces
and was essentially a popcorn bucket the
Starbucks blog posted a whole article
about the new cups outlining additional
silly uses for these dream cups of
course it was all a trick but that’s
probably good it’s not even the biggest
caffeine addict could survive the
polenta work I think everybody has had a
little less caffeine this morning number
9 Nixon for president 92 what as you can
plainly see I’ve got a shiny new body
it’s safe to say that Richard Nixon
wasn’t everyone’s favorite president
however what if he decided to come back
to office 95 even though he’d resigned
in 1974 former President Nixon announced
on National Public Radio’s Talk of the
Nation Program in 1992 and he’d be
running for president again claiming
that quote I never did anything wrong
and I won’t do it again
naturally listeners were shocked by this
announcement until the second half of
the broadcast reveals the truth it was
actually comedian and impressionist rich
little doing a spot-on mixin impression
for an April Fool’s prank set up by the
network no wonder they call him the man
of a thousand voices and was an Menace
I gotta tell you within minutes this guy
had me on the floor with his funny
stories as anecdotes and all that shit
that he got number eight spaghetti tree
hoax conditions in the Grampians were
ideal for the growing of spaghetti vine
and after five years the first crop was
harvested money doesn’t grow on trees
but the BBC’s 1957 hoax fooled a nation
into thinking spaghetti does on April
1st 1957 the BBC programme panorama
aired a three-minute documentary about
trees in southern Switzerland that
apparently grew spaghetti the delectable
pasta was still relatively new to
Britain so many believed this was
actually where it came from
they even phoned the BBC for hints on
how to grow it for themselves boy where
their face is red when they found out it
was fake just a cleverly shot prank
thought up by cameraman Charles de jager
others have made their own tributes to
the hoax but you can’t beat the original
for those who love this dish there’s
nothing like real homegrown spaghetti
number 7 taro tsujimoto who knew a fake
hockey player could make such a big
splash back in 1974 when the NHL Entry
Draft was more private than it is today
it was the 11th round of the draft and
the Buffalo Sabres GM was getting
impatient so he decided to play a little
practical joke he drafted an imaginary
Japanese player named taro tsujimoto of
the Tokyo katanas get it Sabres katanas
it is very mischievous or the media
believed it was legit and taro was
drafted 180 third overall nobody ever
believed he was real sadly he was later
labelled invalid when the hoax was found
out since then the fictitious player has
become an in-joke for Sabres fan and is
celebrated to this day number six the
left-handed whopper
this prank promised the ultimate have it
your way four lefties on a certain day
in 1998 Burger King put out a full-page
newspaper ad for the new left-handed
whopper it would have the same
ingredients and taste as the regular
sandwich but all the condiments would be
rotated 180 degrees to accommodate all
left-handed
carnivores silly as it sounds thousands
of people went to Burger King to request
the new sandwich while others even
started requesting a right-handed
version unfortunately you can’t always
have it your way
as the lefty burger hoax was found out
now you have to admire that kind of
dedication number five smell-o-vision by
the BBC
once again the BBC got our goats and our
nostrils in 1965 a professor from London
University was interviewed on BBC TV
claiming he’d perfected smell-o-vision a
television machine that could transmit
the TV studios aromas over the airwaves
we have the technology the professor
demonstrated by putting chopped onions
and coffee beans into his machine and
asked viewers from around the country to
call in if they smelled anything
numerous viewers called in saying they
did pick up these scents proving how
easily a person’s senses can be fooled
I feel innocent this wouldn’t be the
last time this hoax was full and it
makes us wonder how far away we are from
the real thing number four the eruption
of Mount Edgecumbe on April 1st 1974 the
people of Sitka Alaska woke up to unmask
be surprised
smoke was billowing out of the dormant
volcano Mount Edgecumbe possibly
signaling an impending eruption
naturally people panicked and a Coast
Guard helicopter flew up to investigate
what they found was not an erupting
volcano but a pile of burning tires and
the words April Fool painted in snow
turns out a local prankster had had this
trick planned for several years and
finally pulled it off after realizing
there was no real danger everyone had a
good laugh except one resident who sent
a letter to the prankster six years
later when Mount st. Helens erupted
staying he’d gone too far number three
instant color TV to this day this
remains one of Sweden’s most famous
April Fools pranks back in 1962 the only
TV channel in Sweden SBT broadcasted
exclusively in black-and-white
however technical experts shelfs Benson
claimed that by pulling a pair of nylon
stockings over the television set the
images on screen would
here in color they even went so far as
to produce a five-minute broadcast
explaining how to do it properly
thousands of viewers fell for it with a
lot of people frantically searching
their houses for nylon stocking
unfortunately color TV would not come to
Sweden until 1970 number 2 welcome to
Chicago at LAX air travel is stressful
enough now you have to worry about
landing in the wrong City on April
Fool’s Day 1992 passengers arriving into
Los Angeles caught sight of a new
welcome message an 85 foot long yellow
banner hanging over the racetrack a few
miles from the airport written on the
banner and bright red letters was
welcome to Chicago naturally people
panicked at the thought of landing in
the wrong City while the workers at the
racetrack were having their fun where
the fella
the park spokesperson explained how
they’d always wanted to perform a
practical joke like this and they pulled
it off and then some as the banner
stayed up for two days before we unveil
the granddaddy of all pranks here are
some honorable mentions
[Music]
number one Orson Welles the War of the
Worlds broadcast the creatures in the
rocket cylinder at Grover’s mill I can
give you no authoritative information
either to their nature their origin or
the purposes here on earth
the year was 1938 it was the night
before Halloween and it was all over the
radio
Martians had invaded and were laying
waste to the world or were they now
they’re lifting their metal head at the
end now actually it was actor and
filmmaker to be Orson Welles performing
a radio adaptation of HG Wells the War
of the Worlds
disguised as a fun Halloween news report
unfortunately it wasn’t so fun for
listeners they were too busy panicking
thinking it was real despite assurances
that it wasn’t I can see their hiding
place plainly in the glare of the
searchlight air it’s debatable if it
really resulted in mass Asteria but it
does show that it takes a great
performance to fool an entire nation and
an even greater hoax do you remember to
this very day
the devastation is incredible they’re
grinding up the bodies of human beings
now they’re riding horses in the rain do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 pranks that fool everyone
this year for the first time the
spaghetti crop has failed before we
begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re paying
tribute to the tricks and hoaxes that
got our goats on a larger scale to all
the pranksters watching you could learn
a lot from these japes
3 to 1 april fools
number 10 flint ax and micro sizes at
starbucks
ever wish your coffee cup were just a
little bigger or smaller so did many
customers apparently been he is large no
veggie is 20 large is large in April
2010 Starbucks announced two new cup
sizes for the US and Canada to be
introduced later that year the prenta
and micro cups the size of a shot glass
the Micra held about two fluid ounces
the polenta Cup held 128 fluid ounces
and was essentially a popcorn bucket the
Starbucks blog posted a whole article
about the new cups outlining additional
silly uses for these dream cups of
course it was all a trick but that’s
probably good it’s not even the biggest
caffeine addict could survive the
polenta work I think everybody has had a
little less caffeine this morning number
9 Nixon for president 92 what as you can
plainly see I’ve got a shiny new body
it’s safe to say that Richard Nixon
wasn’t everyone’s favorite president
however what if he decided to come back
to office 95 even though he’d resigned
in 1974 former President Nixon announced
on National Public Radio’s Talk of the
Nation Program in 1992 and he’d be
running for president again claiming
that quote I never did anything wrong
and I won’t do it again
naturally listeners were shocked by this
announcement until the second half of
the broadcast reveals the truth it was
actually comedian and impressionist rich
little doing a spot-on mixin impression
for an April Fool’s prank set up by the
network no wonder they call him the man
of a thousand voices and was an Menace
I gotta tell you within minutes this guy
had me on the floor with his funny
stories as anecdotes and all that shit
that he got number eight spaghetti tree
hoax conditions in the Grampians were
ideal for the growing of spaghetti vine
and after five years the first crop was
harvested money doesn’t grow on trees
but the BBC’s 1957 hoax fooled a nation
into thinking spaghetti does on April
1st 1957 the BBC programme panorama
aired a three-minute documentary about
trees in southern Switzerland that
apparently grew spaghetti the delectable
pasta was still relatively new to
Britain so many believed this was
actually where it came from
they even phoned the BBC for hints on
how to grow it for themselves boy where
their face is red when they found out it
was fake just a cleverly shot prank
thought up by cameraman Charles de jager
others have made their own tributes to
the hoax but you can’t beat the original
for those who love this dish there’s
nothing like real homegrown spaghetti
number 7 taro tsujimoto who knew a fake
hockey player could make such a big
splash back in 1974 when the NHL Entry
Draft was more private than it is today
it was the 11th round of the draft and
the Buffalo Sabres GM was getting
impatient so he decided to play a little
practical joke he drafted an imaginary
Japanese player named taro tsujimoto of
the Tokyo katanas get it Sabres katanas
it is very mischievous or the media
believed it was legit and taro was
drafted 180 third overall nobody ever
believed he was real sadly he was later
labelled invalid when the hoax was found
out since then the fictitious player has
become an in-joke for Sabres fan and is
celebrated to this day number six the
left-handed whopper
this prank promised the ultimate have it
your way four lefties on a certain day
in 1998 Burger King put out a full-page
newspaper ad for the new left-handed
whopper it would have the same
ingredients and taste as the regular
sandwich but all the condiments would be
rotated 180 degrees to accommodate all
left-handed
carnivores silly as it sounds thousands
of people went to Burger King to request
the new sandwich while others even
started requesting a right-handed
version unfortunately you can’t always
have it your way
as the lefty burger hoax was found out
now you have to admire that kind of
dedication number five smell-o-vision by
the BBC
once again the BBC got our goats and our
nostrils in 1965 a professor from London
University was interviewed on BBC TV
claiming he’d perfected smell-o-vision a
television machine that could transmit
the TV studios aromas over the airwaves
we have the technology the professor
demonstrated by putting chopped onions
and coffee beans into his machine and
asked viewers from around the country to
call in if they smelled anything
numerous viewers called in saying they
did pick up these scents proving how
easily a person’s senses can be fooled
I feel innocent this wouldn’t be the
last time this hoax was full and it
makes us wonder how far away we are from
the real thing number four the eruption
of Mount Edgecumbe on April 1st 1974 the
people of Sitka Alaska woke up to unmask
be surprised
smoke was billowing out of the dormant
volcano Mount Edgecumbe possibly
signaling an impending eruption
naturally people panicked and a Coast
Guard helicopter flew up to investigate
what they found was not an erupting
volcano but a pile of burning tires and
the words April Fool painted in snow
turns out a local prankster had had this
trick planned for several years and
finally pulled it off after realizing
there was no real danger everyone had a
good laugh except one resident who sent
a letter to the prankster six years
later when Mount st. Helens erupted
staying he’d gone too far number three
instant color TV to this day this
remains one of Sweden’s most famous
April Fools pranks back in 1962 the only
TV channel in Sweden SBT broadcasted
exclusively in black-and-white
however technical experts shelfs Benson
claimed that by pulling a pair of nylon
stockings over the television set the
images on screen would
here in color they even went so far as
to produce a five-minute broadcast
explaining how to do it properly
thousands of viewers fell for it with a
lot of people frantically searching
their houses for nylon stocking
unfortunately color TV would not come to
Sweden until 1970 number 2 welcome to
Chicago at LAX air travel is stressful
enough now you have to worry about
landing in the wrong City on April
Fool’s Day 1992 passengers arriving into
Los Angeles caught sight of a new
welcome message an 85 foot long yellow
banner hanging over the racetrack a few
miles from the airport written on the
banner and bright red letters was
welcome to Chicago naturally people
panicked at the thought of landing in
the wrong City while the workers at the
racetrack were having their fun where
the fella
the park spokesperson explained how
they’d always wanted to perform a
practical joke like this and they pulled
it off and then some as the banner
stayed up for two days before we unveil
the granddaddy of all pranks here are
some honorable mentions
[Music]
number one Orson Welles the War of the
Worlds broadcast the creatures in the
rocket cylinder at Grover’s mill I can
give you no authoritative information
either to their nature their origin or
the purposes here on earth
the year was 1938 it was the night
before Halloween and it was all over the
radio
Martians had invaded and were laying
waste to the world or were they now
they’re lifting their metal head at the
end now actually it was actor and
filmmaker to be Orson Welles performing
a radio adaptation of HG Wells the War
of the Worlds
disguised as a fun Halloween news report
unfortunately it wasn’t so fun for
listeners they were too busy panicking
thinking it was real despite assurances
that it wasn’t I can see their hiding
place plainly in the glare of the
searchlight air it’s debatable if it
really resulted in mass Asteria but it
does show that it takes a great
performance to fool an entire nation and
an even greater hoax do you remember to
this very day
the devastation is incredible they’re
grinding up the bodies of human beings
now they’re riding horses in the rain do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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