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April Fools Day

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An April Fools’ Day Round-Up Of the Tricksy Hobbitses Who Tried to Pull One Over On Us

by Rebecca Pahle | 3:38 pm, April 1st, 2013

Here at The Mary Sue a day of work involves hours of scanning our readers, which on April Fools’ Day equates to navigating a minefield of stories that may or may not be true. I feel like I’m in Inception—I need a totem or something to gauge what’s real.

Before I lose my grip on reality entirely, here are some of our favorite April Fools’ jokes that we’ve seen so far today.

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A Lesson in Humility

April Fool’s Roundup: Mars Attacks! Play Is Not Real, Nor Is This Unicorn Recipe

by Jamie Frevele | 11:09 am, April 3rd, 2012

Well, that’s just super disappointing. Remember that story we brought you on Friday about Mars Attacks! coming to Broadway, and how maybe — just maybe — this might not be a bad thing? Guess what? It was a prank. An early April Fool’s Day joke that we didn’t find out was a joke until we had all (or just some) gotten our acky little hopes up. How do we know it was a joke? Because the companies that “announced” the musical on Friday, IDW and Topps, provided the graphic above themselves. Thanks, guys. An April Fool’s Day joke that was not issued on April Fool’s Day, but two days before it. That’s not how that works. After the jump, a much better April Fool’s Day joke that arrived on time and has unicorns in it.

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All this has happened before...

The True History of April Fools Day (Really)

by Susana Polo | 11:28 am, April 1st, 2012

Here at The Mary Sue we will continue our April Fools Day tradition of only posting things that are true, no matter how devilishly hard it is to actually find those things in the news on April Fool’s Day. As a consequence, some of the things we post might be exceedingly silly.

You’re welcome.

(via The Daily What.)

Allow Us To Explain

Viral Videos of 1911

by Susana Polo | 9:40 am, April 1st, 2011

There was no internet in 1911. There were barely any videos in 1911. There were no viral videos. Please enjoy, but remember that today is April Fools Day, when the internet is an even more treacherous place of trollery and false information that usual. And just so you know, here are some of our abandoned April Fools Day Ideas:

  • Transforming The Mary Sue.com into The Manic Pixie Dream Girl.com for a day.
  • Transforming The Mary Sue.com into The Menstrual Syndrome.com for a day.
  • Transforming The Mary Sue.com into The Mary Claire.com for a day.
  • Simply publishing all our posts on Geekosystem.com and publishing all of Geekosystem’s posts over here for a day.
  • Making moe anthropomorphs for both sites.

But we didn’t do any of those things. You are welcome.

(video via Neatorama.)

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