Oh boy— one of my favorite holidays of the year: April Fools’ Day. It’s a classic. Every year, the lucky date of April 1 is filled with laughter, bluffing and best of all— angry parents when their child replaces the toothpaste with mayonnaise and makes a ‘fried egg’ that really turns out resembling yogurt and canned peaches. A profound holiday success for me is pranking everyone with some Nicolas Cage pictures everywhere, because who doesn’t love the famous St. Nickie from National Treasure staring back at you in the rearview mirror of your car, or when you’re reaching for the kitchen light switch when you get up in the morning? There are two major ways to go about this day. You can pull a small prank throughout the day that only results in minor complications, or a really bad, big prank that causes great catastrophe.

Here’s a story to start off your holiday season, which is coming up quick. There was a pregnant woman who called her husband saying that she is going into labor. The husband, however, was like, “that’s a good one babe, hahaha. April Fools’!!” But the thing is, it was not a prank. She was really about to have her child and it just happened to be on the day of the good ‘ol prankeroos. Well, the husband did not show up for the birth of his child. I wouldn’t recommend getting inspiration from this very true story, but these suggestions for a prank can help you give your friends and family a nice April Fools’ treat.

• When your family is sleeping, go into the living room and grab the remote control. Find some tape and cover the bottom sensor part of the remote (there’s usually a red dot) that is used to point at the screen. This way, when someone tries to turn on the TV or change the channel they will be really confused and most likely trying to press every button from top to bottom on your remote. This method of comedy also works on computer mouses for your parent’s computer.
• Another fun way to spend your holiday is telling one of your friends that you are pulling something on them but then don’t end up doing anything. This will clearly have them getting very nervous and looking over their shoulder all day to then find nothing is happening at all.

• If you are going for a more professional approach, perhaps for school, I suggest turning in your feeble-minded friend’s paper for your assignment—guaranteed to make any teacher roll on the floor laughing.

Also make sure when pulling any of these on your family to get a nice viewing section from a different room, and some popcorn would do nicely while you’re at it.

Just remember, when April 2 hits and you still got a “D” on that assignment, it’s probably your teacher pulling the ultimate prank on you.