Double Meanings
April Fool's Day
Deadpan Snarkers
Before and After
100

To make a selection.

A piece of plastic used to play a string instrument.

Pick

100

On April Fool's Day 1957, the BBC played a news program purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting this pasta from trees.

Spaghetti

100

Aubrey Plaza plays this perpetually sarcastic intern on Parks and Recreation.

April Ludgate

100

Nirvana's breakout single changed the face of rock forever with it's grungy quiet-loud dynamics and lyrics describing a girl forced to work at a mystical bathhouse after her parents are turned into pigs by an evil witch.

Smells Like Teen Spirited Away

200

To prevent contact.

A subdivision of a neighborhood.

Block

200

On April Fool's Day 2016, this monthly environmental magazine announced via Twitter that they would no longer be publishing photographs of naked animals.

National Geographic

200

This boy crazy eldest daughter from Bob's Burgers is known for her monotone delivery, and her obsession with zombies, butts, and writing "friend fiction" about her classmates.

Tina Belcher

200

This hit song from the Backstreet Boys combined a contagious dance-pop beat with lyrics describing an eccentric scientist building a time machine out of a DeLorean.

Backstreet's Back to the Future
300

To observe something with intention, or with difficulty.

An equal in social standing, age, or demographic.

Peer

300

On April Fool's Day 2014, King's College, Cambridge released a YouTube video detailing their decision to discontinue the use of boy sopranos in their choir and instead use grown men who have inhaled this gas.

Helium

300
In the comedy Schitt's Creek, the Rose family loses their money and has to move into a roadside motel staffed by this cynical front desk clerk, who ends up befriending the family and later owning the motel.

Stevie Budd

300

This sitcom from 2000 depicted a dysfunctional working class family and stars Frankie Muniz as a child prodigy making his way through JRR Tolkien's fantasy world.

Malcolm in the Middle Earth

400

To take a quick look.

To bounce off of something at an angle.

Glance

400

On April Fool's Day 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in seven major newspapers announcing that they had purchased this US landmark to "reduce the country's debt".

The Liberty Bell

400

This intelligent and sarcastic high schooler was a breakout character from Beavis and Butthead, and became so popular that she ended up in her own spinoff series.

Daria Morgendorffer

400

Kurt Vonnegut's non-chronological war novel follows Billy Pilgrim, a traumatized soldier who becomes unstuck in time and finds himself traveling to this fast food chain that focuses on burgers, fries, and hot dogs.

Slaughterhouse-Five Guys

500

To make someone feel admiration or respect.

To place a mark on a piece of material using a stamp or seal.

Impress

500

On April Fool's Day 1969, the Netherlands' public broadcast announced that inspectors with remote scanners would drive the streets to detect people who had not paid their radio/TV tax, and the only way to prevent detection was to wrap the TV/radio in this household product, leading to a mass shortage in stores the next day.

Aluminum foil

500

Pepper Ann's younger sister is constantly mistaken for a boy due to her androgynous appearance and low, monotone voice, though she never is bothered by this and spends most of her time skating and reading comic books.

Moose Pearson

500

This poem penned by Walt Whitman gained a new life in Dead Poet's Society, and was originally written as an ode to this tighty-whitey wearing comedy superhero.

O Captain, My Captain Underpants

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