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* In 2005, ''[[Magazine/Wizard|Wizard]]'' magazine announced that [[Geoff Johns]] was working on a [[Vertigo Comics]] version of ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'', in which the Crew was disbanded, Little Cheese was murdered by one of his teammates, and a new character called the Bald Eagle had to bring them all back together. Then Johns topped this by actually writing it into an issue of ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' the following year.
* In 2009, the big news on the comics blogsphere was Johns again, now working on ''[http://onceuponageek.com/2009/04/01/geoff-johns-and-ethan-van-sciver-talk-vibe-rebirth Vibe: Rebirth]'' with Ethan Van Scriver. At last, one of the most iconic characters in the DC stable is brought back to glory!
** For those who don't follow DC, Johns has done "Rebirth" stories for [[Green Lantern]] (Hal Jordan) and the [[Flash]] (Barry Allen) and is set to do one soon{{when}} for [[Superboy]]. Vibe is obviously a less prominent character.
* in 2010 [[Top Shelf Productions]] released a cover for ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/04/01/top-shelf-announces-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988/ 1988] featuring among others [[Back to the Future (film)|Doc Brown]] and [[The A-Team|Sergeant Bosco "B.A." Baracus]].
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** 1997: ''Jeopardy!'' host Alex Trebek and ''Wheel'' host Pat Sajak traded places. Pat and co-host Vanna White also played ''Wheel'' that day, with Pat's wife, Lesly, at the puzzle board. The flip-flop was [[Lampshaded]] heavily on both shows: ''Jeopardy!'' had ''Wheel''-themed categories in the first round (such as "Buy a Vowel" and "Before & After," which later became a recurring category on ''Jeopardy!'' itself), and "fool"-themed categories in the second, and a Final ''Jeopardy!'' category of "Trinidadian Amateur Ichthyologists." ''Wheel'' had several gag puzzles, including TRADING PLACES as the [[Bonus Round]] answer.
** 2008: Alex wore a fake mustache (he had shaved off his trademark mustache by this point), and Pat tricked Vanna into believing he was bald by wearing a real wig over a bald wig.
** 2010: ''Wheel'' made 10 things wrong with the show. They invited viewers to print out a worksheet from their website, and write down what they thought were the correct answers. Some were obvious (i.e. the Bankrupt wedges having "Bankrut", the Polish translation of that word), some weren't (Pat wearing a stud earring in the second round), and an eleventh wasn't even pointed out (rodeo footage in the opening montage of Hawaiian activities corresponding to the rest of the week's Hawaii theme). ''Jeopardy!'' spliced in different hosts for Alex Trebek on the same day. Alex still read the clues, but Pat Sajak walked out at the top of the show, Neil Patrick Harris was spliced in during the first round, Jeff Probst (who once hosted ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'' before his ''[[Survivor]]'' fame) during the second round, and a clip from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'s'' ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' sketches featuring Will Ferrell parodying Alex Trebek. There was also an "April Fool!" category concerning joke articles published during the month of April (such as the ''Veterinary Record''{{'}}s "[https://www.everythingzoomer.com/style/home-garden/2006/01/01/whatever-became-of-edward-bear/ Brunus edwardii]" article).
** 2011: Every puzzle on ''Wheel'' (except the [[Bonus Round]]) had the word "fool" in it. Amazingly, the contestants never caught on; you'd think by the third round, they would've been calling L and F, then buying an O.
* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' has a long history of making gag prize Showcases with obviously silly prizes (e.g. egg beaters and paper plates, "six new cars" that turn out to be Matchbox cars, or even an acute case of athlete's foot as a prize). On another episode, the door that host Bob Barker normally walked through revealed a sign that said "April Fools!" before Bob walked onstage through the audience.
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** On 2009, [[YouTube]] stole a page from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' and flipped the site (and videos!) upside down. This lasted even beyond the date itself with a URL suffix. However, it didn't always work (For example, if you're using a YouTube userscript for the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox.).
*** Some videos also weren't completely fixed afterward and will flip upside down when put into high quality.
*** For 4/1/2010,{{verify|reason=Fourth of January 2010? Or is this the format used in only one country on Earth?}} Youtube put a "text-only mode", displaying certain videos as entirely made of text in various colors—including nearly any video with resolution greater than 360p, not just videos [[YouTube]] had done manually. This effectively made [[ASCII Art|Ascii Shading Art]]. Sadly, it was [[Too Good to Last]], and it's not even available by URL anymore.
*** There also was [[Lolcat|a cat]] peeking through the video processing icon. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGF9vAEhRFI See it here.]
*** For 2011, Youtube has a "1911 mode", where the videos are in sepia while music plays over the audio.
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** 2006: ''Hazakura Romantic'', a seemingly original BL novel concept (co-opted with [[Nitroplus|Nitro Plus]]) that left many people wishing for their [[Defictionalization]].
** 2008: Type Moon as a [[Professional Wrestling|girl wrestling promotion]]!
** 2009: moon.cinemas.jp, a site imitating a typical movie theater chain front page, where all the movies were parodies of well known films strarred by their characters (up to including a parody of [[Densha Otoko]] starring [[Fate/Zero|Weaver Velvet and Fate/Zero!Rider]] that was revived as the April Fools joke for [[ufotable]] in 2012). [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] because one of the "movies" announced, one based in the (then book only) epilogue for the movie series of ''[[
** 2010: Rather than fully changing the main page as in former years, [[Twitter]]- sorry, [[Bland-Name Product|TMitter]] feeds were added to the site. Hilarious and very in character Twitter feeds from their most popular characters. This will keep featuring on the following years in addition with whatever joke they play in said year.
** 2011: Instead of a typical joke/parody, for their main page they released a serious short story about the very concept of April Fools, titled "[http://bimyou.blogspot.com/2011/04/room-of-april-witch-type-moon.html The Room of the April Witch]". For their mobile site, on the other side, they reprogrammed it to show a different (parodic) image and accompanying text with each reload.
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