The Best April Fools’ Pranks of 2016
The Best April Fools’ Pranks of 2016
Lexus introduces Velcro seats. Drivers must wear a special suit to sit in them: “While all performance cars use seat bolsters to hold a driver in place during aggressive maneuvering, we’re taking it a step further. In this case, the technology we’re employing is actually over 75 years old.”
• Esurance ‘s “Election Insurance” plan, which will “ protect your home for the next four years while you’re waiting out the next presidential term.”
• Zipcar’s new feature , which uses customers’ selfies to match them with rental cars.
• “Quilted Northern Rustic Weave,” a line of small-batch, “artisanally crafted toilet paper” that’s “genuinely tree to toilet.”
Quilted Northern • Metromile’s walking insurance to “ cover customers in the event of being caught in an unexpected rainstorm, losing footing, wearing out socks and shoes and more.”
• Google’s same-day delivery service Google Express ‘s deliveries via parachute.
• An app for the gym chain Anytime Fitness that allows people who own fitness equipment to open up their homes to people who don’t belong to a gym.
• Toy version of the Tough Mudder obstacle course called Electroshock Therapy, a “compact and lightweight toy that packs over 20,000 volts of electricity,” allowing thrill-seekers to “train for the obstacle at work, at your home, with your children.”
• The restaurant reservation site Open Table ‘s app feature that allows users to lick photos of food (aka “food porn”) on their mobile devices to taste them.
• Food delivery site GrubHub’s new ride-share service in which customers can hitch a ride with its delivery drivers.
• Dating app from CanvasPop that matches users based on the Facebook photos they chose to turn into prints.
• Shipments of puppies or “hot guys” through Boxed.com.
Boxed • An electric canoeing paddle, invented in Ely, Minn.—known for April Fools’ Day pranks like a 2016 Summer Olympics bid and a 2008 warning that Canada was annexing the small town.
Ely Area Tourism Bureau • Adobe ‘s “ Ansel Adams Masterpiece” trick.
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Ha! These are good! I will have to find some of my own.
I wonder how many people they fool with these fake ads. I bet a few.
Probs.. Great Vid
The joke worked
http://www. airliners.net/aviation-forum s/general_aviation/read.main/6661951/ … # VirginAmerica 's new logo is boobs? Seriously? That's not sexist at all.
No one during this entire process went, "Hey, this looks like boobs." NO ONE???? Great job, Virgin America. https:// twitter.com/marisaroffman/ status/715563730084323328 …
10:41 AM - 31 Mar 2016
The video parody of corporate culture shows a mix of real and fake employees commenting on the new logo with lines that come across as suggestive. A “creative director” talks about supporting Virgin America’s guest service with “tech-infused technology” while holding his hands up as if he is cupping someone’s chest. Virgin Group founder Richard Branson points to either side of his chest and says, “I feel it, right in here.”
Many Twitter users appear to think the logo and the video are real.
Donald Trump is the current delegate leader in the GOP! April fools!
oh...wait...
I love the one from Sports Illustrated where they had an article (on their cover too!) in the 1980's where a base ball team had a rookie pitcher who could throw a 120mph fastball. A BUNCH of people fell for that one!
You have to be careful with April Fool's Day jokes - look what happened when Orson Welles took it to an extreme (although maybe he didn't do it on April Fool's Day, which is even worse).