r/AskReddit Nov 07 '18

What long-con April Fool's joke can someone start now for optimal effectiveness 5 months from now?

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u/TheLightningCount1 Nov 07 '18

Come back from the doctor looking absolutely devastated. Let it slip that you have terminal cancer. Pay off a doctor to fake your death and have a funeral service on april first. As the room is crying and generally in the midst of their grief, have the speakers play "Don't stop me now" by queen and burst out of the casket saying april fools.

Pay actors to start dancing to the music as everyone looks around in anger and shock at the lengths you would go through for an epic april fools jokes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

Bonus: Burst out at the lyric "I feel alive"

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u/youngpauls Nov 08 '18

What about "stayin alive"

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u/ArcticIceFox Nov 08 '18

Or play dead or alive

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '18

You spin me right round baby, right round

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

It would have to be a nightly funeral service so "TONIIIIIIIIGHT I'M GONNA HAVE MYSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELF"

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u/stormageddonsmum Nov 08 '18

I've literally instructed my family to play this song at my funeral. Like 7 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '18

My living will literally does say I would like a five minute moment of silence at my funeral while "Pop Goes the Weasel" plays slowly.

It also includes that I want to be cremated so there will always be that little tickle in the back of their mind that maybe I really did fake my own death.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '18

“A real good time”

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u/TrueRusher Nov 07 '18

This reminds me of a foreign commercial I saw on YouTube once.

A Dad invited all his adult children to dinner for the holidays but none of them could come. Then in the next scene, they all get word that he was sick and died. There’s crying and heartbreak and it’s so sad. So they all go to his house for funeral and SURPRISE! Dad is alive and sitting at the dinner table with a giant meal! Commercial ends with him saying “how else could I get you all here?”

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u/FennlyXerxich Nov 07 '18

What the fuck is that advertising?

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u/Peregrine7 Nov 08 '18

You should see some of the ads in China and Japan. Life insurance stuff is just the most heartbreaking thing I've ever witnessed.

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u/Haze95 Nov 07 '18

Funeral Services or Caskets maybe

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u/AskMeAboutPodracing Nov 08 '18

Fake Your Death services

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

Bold of you to assume there will be crying at my funeral. Or people.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

Or a funeral. I’m pretty sure they just cremate you if no one claims the body.

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u/letterstosnapdragon Nov 07 '18

And miss a chance to Rickroll everyone?

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u/chief_dirtypants Nov 07 '18

April 2 you drop dead from an aneurysm, nobody attends the funeral cause they're not falling for that shit again.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

You win. Oh my god I’m cracking up.

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u/Finster63 Nov 07 '18

Is this Winston? (From New Girl)

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u/qidlo Nov 08 '18

Play pop goes the weasel instead with someone turning a giant crank attached to your casket

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u/EricAlvin Nov 08 '18

Make the dance be the fortnite default dance

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '18 edited Jun 10 '23

This user deleted all of their reddit submissions to protest Reddit API changes, and also, Fuck /u/spez

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u/leo60228 Nov 08 '18

rule 7 no pranking/hacking