April Foolks jokes - Which ones were good?

[Xelebes]

I understand that there isn't supposed to be April Fools Jokes threads but I understand that no one is supposed to post a thread that is intended to be the joke itself. Instead we can discuss the ones that were created elsewhere.

So far, my favourite was done by PhilosophyTube.



A good gambit into surrealist schmess.

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[John Price]

 

[Bubba Thudd]

Cold Kingdom announcing Lacey Sturm as their new lead singer.
I really wish that was true.

 

[ORRFForever]

That baseball player who could throw at 162 mph in Sports Illustrated. That was the best one ever - I was fooled.

 

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Kyle Kendrick traded to the Japanese league for pitcher Takeru Kobayashi.

(Kobayashi was actually the reigning hot dog eating champ)

 

[Ralph Spoilsport]

WestJet's energy-efficient cost-saving helium-filled airplanes.

 

[HanSolo]

 

[The Nemesis]

WestJet's energy-efficient cost-saving helium-filled airplanes.

WestJet did a bunch of silly april fools ads. I saw one this morning when I was watching some other videos that advertised them doing stuff like "child-free cabins" or a doofy knock-off of the Fyre Festival called "Flyre Festival" that got more and more ridiculous as the ad went on.

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[BostonBob]

That baseball player who could throw at 162 mph in Sports Illustrated. That was the best one ever - I was fooled.

I was fooled too - a lot of people were fooled by the Sidd Finch story. Here's the original article from SI: The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch