Comments on: April Fool’s Jokes

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:51:11 +0000

I didn’t see that night’s Wheel and Jeopardy!

The Price is Right, however, had me LMFAO! As soon as I saw that trip, I somehow knew what was coming! =P

By: Quincy Hughes

Quincy Hughes — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:30:37 +0000

These were all great! Outside of the pranks, that bonus round was the funniest in “Wheel of Fortune” history!

By: Marc Power

Marc Power — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:35:17 +0000

jaymich, I know they did that to Holly once but maybe they did it to Terri too.

and yeah mrquiz I remmebr those tvgameshows.net pranks. my personal fav was they announced that Dick Clark was to host the syndie millionaire (which at the time was very believable) lots of people fell for that. I remmebr the flashgames message baord (which was still running at the time) being pumpeled with excited fans.

By: jaymich

jaymich — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:45:36 +0000

I enjoyed the April Fool’s Day jokes, as well.

However, I thought TPIR had done one a few years ago…I don’t remember when, or the details. However, I do remember Terri Harrison getting SOAKED by a pail of water, at the end of the showcase. I may be wrong, but I thought that showcase was a prank.

By: MrQuiz

MrQuiz — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:44:34 +0000

If you’re familiar with Steve Beverly’s website,(tvgameshows.net) there was an April Fools’ Day prank he pulled several years ago, which was devilishly clever. I bit into it like a starved Great White! (I wasn’t the only one, though.) The gag was that there was going to be a revival of SPLIT SECOND, with a $1M payoff, and the five cars up for grabs to the winner were to be high-end luxury makes (none stipulated). But the hook of the prank, was that the show’s original host, TOM KENNEDY was coming out of retirement to emcee it. As Bugs Bunny would’ve said at trhe time, “…what a Gulli-BULL!”

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:40:47 +0000

I think that they should do a TPIR April Fools Showcase once every few years, so it’s not completely predictable but it’s not a rarity either.

By: Nikolai

Nikolai — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:22:18 +0000

While watching “TPIR” yesterday, I started to catch on when I saw the trip to “Boguslyvania”. Man, I have been waiting to actually see one of these showcases when they first aired. According to the behind the scenes book written by contestant coordinator/music director Stan Blits, he says they stopped doing it after a certain number of years because people were starting to expect it around this time of year.

By: JD Nole

JD Nole — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:29:01 +0000

I happened to tune in to J! and noticed Alex’s mustache, but don’t watch regularly enough to know if he IS indeed trying to grow it back. IIRC, they never mentioned anything about it and he didn’t rip it off (like Pat’s “hairpiece” :) ), so I got fooled!

By: Chris Parsley

Chris Parsley — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:28:50 +0000

You missed that GSN aired the “April Fools” episodes of Whammy, etc last nite (wierd to see Gram Elwood do Whammy!

By: Marc Power

Marc Power — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:10:52 +0000

I wonder how many times did Rich have to rehearse the copy for the april fool’s showcase before he didn’t trip up. lol, trans-rebounder