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Favorite Atlanta Radio April Fools Joke

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I vote for Randy & Spiff announcing that Stone Mountain had split open and that lava was threatening the city.
Their use of industrial smoke bombs sure made it look real.

Any others?
 
Steve and Vikki acting like it was 1978 and was promoting "Grease". They even had Olivia Newton John on the show with them. They talked as if the movie was coming out that week. Olivia was in on the joke.
 
The Morning X free concert at the location the doesn't exist....with 311 and Rage Against The Machine.....and the pissed off mom that called in the next day realizing she was punked.

I thought the Morning X swap was with Sean Hannity. I remember Kimmer making fun of it the next day and playing up to the elderly ladies that called it all serious about how bad they were.
 
tlyle said:
Steve and Vikki acting like it was 1978 and was promoting "Grease". They even had Olivia Newton John on the show with them. They talked as if the movie was coming out that week. Olivia was in on the joke.
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I remember that. The year was 1998. They did a great job with it. ONJ also said that she had been approached to do a movie called "Xanadu".

There were some anachronistic glitches that only a total ATL geek would catch with some of the plugs and spots, such as a traffic report sponsored by "Bank South" (still known as Fulton National in '78), but overall it was well-done.

The one thing that they should have done was refer to the station as "94Q" (except for a sotto voce TOH announcement to keep it legal). That would have made it perfect. Of course, anyone who had not been in the ATL for 10 years or more wouldn't get the joke.
 
Andy said:
The Morning X free concert at the location the doesn't exist....with 311 and Rage Against The Machine.....and the pissed off mom that called in the next day realizing she was punked.

I thought the Morning X swap was with Sean Hannity. I remember Kimmer making fun of it the next day and playing up to the elderly ladies that called it all serious about how bad they were.
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You are right... It was Sean Hannity. Wow that was long time ago.
 
Randy & Spiff announcing that construction on the new Olympic stadium had to be stopped because dinosaur bones had been discovered on the construction site.
 
deadman said:
Andy said:
The Morning X free concert at the location the doesn't exist....with 311 and Rage Against The Machine.....and the pissed off mom that called in the next day realizing she was punked.

I thought the Morning X swap was with Sean Hannity. I remember Kimmer making fun of it the next day and playing up to the elderly ladies that called it all serious about how bad they were.
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You are right... It was Sean Hannity. Wow that was long time ago.
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It was either in 96 or 97. So yes a long time ago. This might have also been when the Kimmer start referrining to Barnes, Leslie and Jimmy as Barry, Cissy and Easy.
 
The gag that the morning mess pulled this morning! Classic!
 
It was either 1994 or 1995 when Sean Hannity and the Morning X switched stations for April Fools Day. I was the sidekick and newsreader when Sean made the switch.

We turned the Morning X into a call-in talk show with angry kids calling to attack Sean for saying Kurt Cobain was a drug addict and not a major loss to the society.

Jimmy Barron defended gay rights on WGST and recieved angry calls from that audience.

What fun and happy memories.
 
99x had some good ones....my favorite was when they "accidentally" gave out Leonardo diCaprio's phone number on the air....then played back all of the voice mails people left for him. Hook, line, & sinker. They built that up for an entire week before April 1st that year. They put the best voice mails on their Morning X CD. Still my favorite.

The fake concert was good too. I remember them even getting Gavin Rossdale from Bush to help them. Bush was the big headlining act at the concert. The lady calling the next day was great.

What about TRG? Did they ever do anything for April 1st?
 
McKee on 94Q, announcingthat Civil War gold had been found in one of the new MARTA tunnels under construction.

Or, Steve McCoy and Rhubarb switching places on Power and Y.
 
I liked it when Barnes punched out Clark Howard in a fake radio boxing match and Clark ended up at Northside Hospital.
 
Mike_Rose said:
It was either 1994 or 1995 when Sean Hannity and the Morning X switched stations for April Fools Day. I was the sidekick and newsreader when Sean made the switch.

We turned the Morning X into a call-in talk show with angry kids calling to attack Sean for saying Kurt Cobain was a drug addict and not a major loss to the society.

Jimmy Barron defended gay rights on WGST and recieved angry calls from that audience.

What fun and happy memories.
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i dont remember that but thats pretty funny.
 
midtownjohn said:
I liked it when Barnes punched out Clark Howard in a fake radio boxing match and Clark ended up at Northside Hospital.
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Didn't they do that at some random part of the year (other than 4/1)?
 
Yep, the Clark Howard boxing fraud was May 2002. I was a part of that whole thing. Pretty funny for an April Fools joke. Except it wasnt April Fools. Therefore, not nearly as funny.
 
Twitch said:
99x had some good ones....my favorite was when they "accidentally" gave out Leonardo diCaprio's phone number on the air....then played back all of the voice mails people left for him. Hook, line, & sinker. They built that up for an entire week before April 1st that year. They put the best voice mails on their Morning X CD. Still my favorite.
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As I'm to understand it, this bit is legendary in radio circles and has been copied many times by other shows around the business in different forms since the Morning X originally did it with "DiCaprio". I think they also did an April Fools stunt once where they said that station management was getting negative research about Leslie Fram's looks on the live webcam and that they were taking her off air to hire someone better looking. And wasn't there another one that somehow involved a redneck chick "coming up to the station" to beat up Jimmy? Anyone remember that one? And my wife now reminds me (okay, we were a bit obsessed with the show for a few years) about one they did where Crash got a call on air from a teenager saying he had gotten her pregnant and he very flippantly was telling her to just go get an abortion.
 
bnaivar said:
Randy & Spiff announcing that construction on the new Olympic stadium had to be stopped because dinosaur bones had been discovered on the construction site.
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I really don't listen that much to the April Fool's gags, but IIRC, THAT joke made it all the way to Augusta stations actually reporting it!
 
wooder said:
And wasn't there another one that somehow involved a redneck chick "coming up to the station" to beat up Jimmy? Anyone remember that one?
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Yeah, that's on their "How You Durrin'?" Best-of CD with Shirley Q. Liquor. Great CD, btw. Has Rich's visit to Ansley Park tour of homes, and him getting kicked out of the mall food court for eating too many chinese food samples, and starts out with Shirley Q's "Ebonics Airways" bit. My friends who've never heard of the Morning X still crack up when I play it for them!
 
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