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2002 Coupe de France Final

The final is also famous for a post-game prank by Rémi Gaillard.

2004 Harvard–Yale prank

The prank was covered by newspapers, radio programs, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, MSNBC, and several other TV shows.

Amanda Tanen

The two shared a rowdy Thanksgiving in the office together, drinking champagne, playing with couture gowns, and placing a prank phone call to the mysterious bandaged woman, which placed both their jobs in jeopardy.

AWESOM-O

However, just as Cartman is about to reveal his identity, Butters reveals that he knows one of Cartman's secrets - he has a videotape of Cartman doing a Britney Spears dance routine to a life-sized cutout of Justin Timberlake while dressed as her and actually makes out with the cut-out, which he plans to show to his classmates the next time Cartman plays a prank on him, which Cartman is already doing.

Bruno Bauer

The Trumpet, written by Bauer and published anonymously, was of inspiration to Gianfranco Sanguinetti, for his 1975 pamphlet Veritable Report on the Last Chances to Save Capitalism in Italy, a situationist prank which caused him to leave Italy under the force of political pressure.

Dark Knight Court

Bart repeatedly denies committing the prank, and Lisa eventually decides that the best way to determine his guilt is to hold a trial, which is presided over by Janet Reno.

Delaney card

As a prank, students have been known to obtain extra Delaney cards and create cards using false names or fictional characters such as Clark Kent.

Despoilers of the Golden Empire

Being published in March, the story was, in effect, an early April Fools' Day prank.

Don't Dress for Dinner

The play was famously featured as the basis for a hidden camera prank on Lionel Blair on the television series Noel's House Party.

E. E. Bell

Bell appeared on an episode of Hollywood Squares on April Fools' Day 2003 as part of a prank played on host Tom Bergeron.

Emerald Spring

In 1892 Robert W. Wood, an American optical physicist, used the spring for a prank.

Free Expression Tunnel

Carolina Tar Heel fans have a long history of doing this prank as well as fans from East Carolina University.

Gamestation

Besides the humorous reference to a deal with the devil, the prank was meant to illustrate the problems with fine print in clickwrap license agreements that allow companies to hide unfavourable conditions from their consumers.

Gay Witch Hunt

The third season DVD contains a number of deleted scenes from this episode, including Karen pulling a prank on Jim by setting his dial tone to call Hong Kong, Andy comparing his jumping skills to Michael Jordan to Jim, Michael asking Pam how she is holding up since the wedding broke off, and Jan being furious at Michael.

Gordon Edes

In January 2007, Edes fell victim to a prank by Leslie Epstein, father of Red Sox Executive Vice President/General Manager Theo Epstein.

Grunge speak

The events of Jasper's prank would be documented in the 1996 film Hype!, a documentary about the grunge scene of the early 1990s.

Hot foot

The "hot foot" was brought back by Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander when he played the prank on fellow Tiger Don Kelly in the 2011 season against the Minnesota Twins.

I Could Never Be Your Woman

Already in a foul mood, Rosie is forced to berate Izzie when, during a chance encounter with her friend, Henry Winkler, he reveals that Izzie and her friend had prank-called a number of celebrities in her phone book.

I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer

On July 4, Amber Williams (Brooke Nevin), her friends Zoe (Torrey DeVitto) and Roger (Seth Packard), and her boyfriend Colby Patterson (David Paetkau) stage a prank at the town carnival, with Roger faking the return of the "Fisherman" killer, with the hook Roger says Ben Willis originally used.

Joe Garagiola, Jr.

Garagiola's father and Hart's mother Kitty Carlisle were regular panelists on the show at the time and both appeared as part of a prank on their parents.

Kenny Shea

As one final prank, it is revealed that Lou requested that the bagpipers play "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" at his funeral.

KIOI

Popular show segments during Bleu's morning show include Bleuper calls (prank calls to unsuspecting listeners), The Daily Dish (entertainment gossip), and the Bleu Room, an in-studio lounge session that featured acts including Dido, Natasha Bedingfield, Matchbox Twenty and others performing acoustic versions of their hits.

Lapel pin

In Czechoslovakia the Mao badges/pins were worn in the late 1960s and early 1970s by non-conformist youth as a prank and a way to provoke the "normalisationist" reactionaries of the purged post-1968 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Manolo Cabeza de Huevo

The original set consisted in three prank calls; in these, the presenter of the show (which itself is known for making prank calls of this nature), called a person named Manuel (original for Manolo), a superintendent of a New York City building.

Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds

The prank was actually on Marsha as “Mrs. Batman’s” lawyer provides a fake marriage certificate (thanks to the Batcomputer, which Alfred worked on) to the priest conducting the wedding, showing that Batman is still married.

Miami, Manitoba

Miami was used in a controversial prank contest by Winnipeg radio station Classic Rock 97.5 FM (CJKR) morning man Scruff Connors in 1995.

My Alibi

The core plot of My Alibi revolves around a group of students who are sent to the principal (played by Gabrielle Carteris of Beverly Hills, 90210) after a large prank is pulled during the first period of school.

Rich Ohrnberger

Perhaps his most infamous prank involved impersonating teammate A. Q. Shipley during an October 2008, conference call interview with reporters.

Robert Palfrader

There he has mainly done comedy shows, the most popular being echt fett, a hidden camera prank show (based on British format Trigger Happy TV), and Wir sind Kaiser (We are Emperor), a political satire where the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy is restituted.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Shirva, India

The village was in international news during 2012, because of Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse working in King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes, Westminister, London apparently committed suicide because of prank calls from radio hosts pretending as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles, hailed from this village and she was buried in this village.

Streeter Seidell

He got further attention when his video series Prank Wars went viral, garnering tens of millions of views and a large amount of mainstream television attention all over the world, which eventually led to a TV-series called Pranked on MTV with fellow CollegeHumor editor, Amir Blumenfeld.

The Luis Jiménez Show

At first Rubén was living in his native country (Dominican Republic), and he would do his calls from there, but early in 2009, Rubén moved to Barcelona, Spain, and he has become a permanent resident of this country, so now the prank calls are conducted from Spain.

The Mississauga Blob

Peel Regional Police questioned the family and neighbours and concluded the object was a "flaming Frisbee" thrown into their yard as a prank.

The Princess Mayblossom

The king realized that the ugly woman was the Fairy Carabosse, who had hated him since he played a prank on her as a child.

The Realist

Krassner's most successful prank was The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book, a grotesque article following the censorship of William Manchester's book on the Kennedy assassination, The Death of a President.

The Tim Conway Show

Tim Conway's Funny America, a 1990 American comedic hidden-camera-prank show starring Tim Conway

Tradio

Various Tradio programs have been the target of prank phone calling by The Howard Stern Shows Richard Christy and Sal Governale.

Where is my Gnome?

After TV ads voiced by Harry Enfield were screened nationally on United States networks, and on a website whereismygnome.com, many readers considered it to be a prank of the Garden Gnome Liberation Front.

Yoshi Amao

On April 1, 2009, as an April Fools prank, Yoshi Amao surprised and charmed American audiences by standing in for regular host Jimmy Fallon on Late Night, which succeeded Conan O'Brien's hosting tenure.

Zorn's Law

Zorn's law is a maxim coined by Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as a Wikipedia prank.


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