The greatest April fools prank ever pulled was performed by the BBC in 1957.
fun fact the greatest April fools prank ever pulled was performed by the BBC in 1957 on April 1st 1957 the BBC show Panorama which is an investigative documentary style show about global issues aired a segment called the spaghetti harvest in t Chino the segment starts by showing spaghetti hanging from trees and talks about how an unseasonably warm spring was causing problems for the spaghetti farmers in Switzerland’s tachino region and goes on to explain how spaghetti is harvested by by hand from spaghetti trees and then laid out in the sun to dry the segment also explains that the reason spaghetti is always the exact same length is due to years of selective breeding by spaghetti Farmers the segment was aired at a time when few people in Britain ate spaghetti or Italian food and after the segment aired the BBC was flooded with calls from people asking where they could buy spaghetti tree seeds and how to grow their own spaghetti trees in their backyard
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Yet, even today, that would still work
Although it wasn’t on April fools, the CBS war of the worlds broadcast caused a lot of chaos
The BBC
Did you know a single spaghetti is a spaghetto?
Your hair is uneven
His shirt reminds me slightly of the flag of Maryland
I'm sure this has been mentioned elsewhere…
But this video was also aired on the Johnny Carson show on about the same time.
People believed that spaghetti was grown on trees!
Thats so sweet. They just wanted to plant trees 😭
my mind:
“The BBC, the BBC, the BBC, the BBC, the BBC, the BBC.”
Damn. If i fell for that, I'd feel pretty stupid. I wonder what today's equivalent would be.
Ok why bro using a batik
Am I only one that thinks this guy looks like he's always hanging upside down
Our local radio station got in trouble in the '80s saying MIcheal Jackson was at the train station and it caused a traffic jam and big crowd in the area , the station got in trouble.
I could see myself briefly falling for this then going “wait a minute!”
Next they are going to try to say pineapples grow on bushes.
Nice shirt Doug
I wouldn't be surprised if next year they chose to grow pizza from trees
This proves it our phones can read our minds .every test I do .and I don't say anything I think of something. and back in the 2000s I saw a show on TV talking about this. So about 3 days ago without saying anything I thought about it. and guess what happens
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the british really trying to demosticate everything 😭
We fr learned about this in school lol
Had to be the parent country of the US of course
Calling the tv station to ask how to grow trees is such a boomer reaction! And yes I know boomers were children in the 50ies, I'm just pointing out the similarities
Why are you wearing batik? Are gonna do kondangan sir?
Although it wasn’t intended as an April fools joke, the 1938 radio show war of the worlds thousands of people, some of them were fleeing their citys
Yea but my water cup on a door is far more impressive
Nice batik dude
Nice batik you got there ❤
Fun fact: Immediately after I heard the setup, I said to myself, "Nope, whatever he's about to say, the BBC spaghetti hoax was the best prank ever."
hell yeah! batik!
I saw this as a kid, and for a few years I genuinely believed pasta grew on trees 😅
So glad we have grown up and become smarter as a species…. Right!??😅
Repping the batik! Looks great on you brah
Did he wearing Batik ??
Am i the only one who doesn't like this guy for absolutly no reason …
"Kids these days are stupid"
Your grandparents and their parents:
who's though
My dad believed for 25 years, the April 1st issue of that one magazine where it featured Antarctic moles that had a big round dome head with hot blood vessels for melting tunnels in the ice and they'd tunnel around penguins and make them fall thru ice and eat them
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spaghetti cat.
Fun fact grass is greener to girls then to boys
Imho the guy who burned old tires in a dormant volcano and faked its awakening was also worthy of greatest april fools joke
I got scared when the he put April Fools and BBC in the same sentence 💀
Looks like this was all made up by BIG spaghetti to sell more pasketti
I think that goes to Orson Wells.
There was a prank in Israel when they said in the news that an asteroid is going to pass next to Earth and it's full of gold or something like that and it's going to sprinkle gold and that people should get out of their house and use a bowl so they could catch the sprinkles of gold.