SciShow Tangents - Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 14

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on April 29, 2022 titled "Tangents Bonus Pod Ep 14: April Fool Special!"Original Patreon description: It's the end of April now, but remember how fun the first day was? Here's the Tangents gang on April Fools talking about the science of pranks and jokes!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X

Hello and welcome to the SciShow Tangents bonus episode. We are recording here on April 1st. I know it's not April 1st for you, but it's April 1st for us. And so I wanna tell Sam and Sari about my new project, which is putting my license plate on every car in the Complexly parking lot without anyone having noticed. Ha ha ha.

And you know what I'm gonna get? So I printed out perfect versions of my license plate so that I pay all your speeding tickets that get caught on speed trap cameras. That's a fun project. April Fools! Also seems extremely illegal to tamper with license plate. Pretty illegal, it's gonna be very confusing

for all of the people who work at the license plate Camera speed trap office and that's why when you're listening to this Hank is in prison. Yeah, but at the moment I'm not yet. No These are happier days. You'll want to work out a podcast from from prison. I bet you're rather off Yeah, I have weirdly not seen a single April Fool's thing on my Twitter feed. It's like it's like everybody just gave up I saw the DFTBA one because that's my company. I Saw one that was from like a biologist. I follow because I follow science people on Twitter now cuz I'm such a loser That's a huge win for all of us. Yeah, I said you'll be the science expert Sam Schultz

I don't know. But then I'll have to resign from the show. I'll have to find some new ding-dong. Somebody who was like, the first Welsh dragon has hatched in 175 years or something, and it was like somebody holding a little dragon. But nobody's going to fall for that, right? People will. You would be surprised.

I have never done an April Fool's joke that some people weren't like, really? I used to say we were opening a brewery in South Dakota once and people were so excited. We went a lot of work into that also. We made stickers and we rented out a bar. It was a lot. Yeah, we wouldn't have filmed at Guild. I forgot about that. I'd go to a bar you open though.

I bet you'd have a nice bar. Oh yeah. Well, you know what I want to do is go to Guild right now. No offense, podcast listeners, but I would love for the four of us to be in Guild right now drinking beer, playing video games. That sounds really fun. Also potentially making a podcast. Who knows?

We'll just mic ourselves up. We'll walk around, play pinball. Play some pinball, yeah. Have you ever gotten a big prank played on you, Hank? You know, not re- not that it's coming to mind immediately. You're a bit of a prankster yourself though. You like to hide stuff around the office. I don't know what you're talking about. And somebody put a freaking Cadbury egg on the ground in front of my door.

That's my- this is the prank that's being pulled on me right now. Oh no, that wasn't you was that you know, I every day I've not talked about this publicly because it kind of freaks me out every day I arrived at the office on shoot days, which I'm telling people what my shoot days are but for the last like Two months like eight weeks in a row with one exception. They missed one week I arrive and there's a Cadbury cream egg sitting out front of the door to our office. Oh, I know. That's creepy.

Like outside, the first day it happened, I was like, this must have fallen out of somebody's shopping bag. Yeah. And I ate it immediately. And I made a TikTok about me eating it. But ever since then, I was like, I can't eat this because who knows? But then, Juliette won and she was fine. So I've been eating them since then.

I'll eat mine and see if I die. It's going to be interesting to see what happens when Cadbury cream egg season is over. It's not been. It was happening way before Cadbury cream egg season. I feel like Tuna knows something about this. Look at that. So I was in the office the other day and Faith said, I heard somebody talking about who it was. And I was like, who was it?

And she said, I don't remember. And I was like, that is the biggest fucking lie. And she's like, I'm new, I don't know everybody's names. She doesn't know all of us, yeah. And I was like, no, lie. Lie, lie, lie. So I think it's Faith. I have my thoughts and suspicions, but I won't say.

I thought it was Madison forever, but I've been grilling him hard and he has not cracked. Madison is a... that is my number one guess. He is a vault. He would not tell you. No way. I'm waiting for this man to crack. I'm getting nothing.

I walk in and I'm like, here's your egg, Madison. Pant! Just throw it right in his face. He's like, what are you talking about? I stepped over it when I was coming in today. It's gonna happen. It's Madison. We're gonna have to take matters into our own hands.

I've been thinking about setting up a camera, but I feel like they would know. If they just cover it up before Madison puts it out there. How am I gonna get a camera hidden so Madison can't see it? You need one of those things that catches your leg and like whoop, whoopsie, whoopsie up into the air. Yes, I gotta whoop him up into the loop. Cadbury eggs pouring out of his body. Seriously, has anybody ever pranked you bad?

I don't think so. I think I'm just not really a jumpy person and I'm often a confused person anyway. I'm slow to notice neighborhood changes or things like that. Growing up, there was a gas station that got torn down by my house. And then like six months later, I was like, huh, there used to be a gas station there. And then my dad laughed at me. So like, I'm not very good at situational awareness, which makes me an unlikely prank.

You're unprankable. Yeah, I'm less prankable. She got to do that thing where you put the saran wrap over the toilet. I think you'd notice that. Yeah, I would probably notice that and probably be quite mad. Yeah, it's a bad one.

It'd be bad. Bad feeling, even just on the butt, just sticky. Oh yeah, very bad on the butt. And then who cleans this up? This is always my question about the Saran wrap. I don't think I would pee. Is it my? I think I would pee. Is it my? I think I would, I don't start peeing until I'm firmly on the basin of the toilet.

You gotta get it down, like down a little bit so you don't see it. I see, I see. I think the person getting pranked always cleans it up. I think that's just how it works. That's the, yeah, which is terrible. I'm more than happy to get pranked, but I want to clean up P.

Oh, I did get pranked once, but I didn't notice it. I remember it as we were talking about it. It does not have to do with P, but it was when I was a camp counselor, all the guy counselors thought it'd be funny to prank all the girl counselors. And I was not a very popular person. So I was like one of the last to receive.

Like they gave us a bunch of Oreos and I was like, oh great, an Oreo. But like they definitely gave it to like the more popular people first of like, here's an Oreo. And I was like, I want one too. I guess we got a prank Sari too. Yeah, I guess. She's also here. And I ate the whole thing and I was like, nothing's wrong. But other people were like spitting it out and they replaced the cream with toothpaste. But I was like, oh, mint Oreo. Minty Oreo.

Yeah, and I like mint. So I just ate it and was like, what's it? And then they were making fun of everyone else. And thankfully my ability to fade into the background was just like, no one noticed that I just ate the whole fucking Oreo. It was fine with it. They for sure met later and they were just like, Sari ate the whole thing. What is wrong with her?

We'll never prank her. Sari ate the whole thing, just she wants another one. I was about to take another because I thought they were good. They were minty. That does sound good. So I just didn't notice like the toothpaste tang of it. And I'm enough of a garbage can that... I don't know.

It's a scenario. Sam, have you ever been pranked? I think everybody knows that I'm too sensitive to be pranked. No one's ever pranked me. I don't think I'd take it well. I don't want to break him. Poor boy. I don't think I'd take it well.

I can't think of a big prank anybody's ever played on me. And I don't really prank anybody because I don't want to invite that kind of negativity into my life. Right, right. I'm going to work on something little for you. I bet if you pranked me, I would appreciate it. I think I'd need like an elaborate prank that was like, immerses me in another world, you know? Like an escape room? Like, we could create an escape room for you. Look, I don't really want to be pranked. I want to be taken to another dimension.

Yeah, I think that would be fun. I want to be taken on a journey. Yeah. I want an alternate reality in which I can experience and just like, make me Alice in Wonderland. I want to fall down the wishing well. That's what I want. And then at the end, Hanks waiting there behind the last door and says, April Fools.

Here's your key. Yeah. It's the size of a house. And then I look at the big key I made for you. And then I start crying. Yeah. Because the key is so beautiful. Yes. That's why I mean, totally why you'd have it polished to a mirror shine. I can picture it now.

Yeah, you'd see in the key, you'd see your own beauty for the first time in the mirror of the key. That's the kind of prank I need one that that teaches me that I'm beautiful, too. Thank you. So it is certainly not April Fool's Day where you are, when you are. But regardless, we want to do get you some patron questions about jokes and pranks and humor.

So we had people send us your joke, prank and humor questions, and we're going to try to answer them in sciency ways. Are you ready? Yeah. Oh, you're ready, Sam? You're ready? Ready to hear the answers you have? That was an anti-prank.

I'm sorry. I didn't hold up the shining beautiful key. Julie asks, how and when was the first whoopee cushion invented and did it have anything to do with water balloons and waterproof socks? Oh, right. Yeah. I tried to track down that person who wrote that thing in that Time article and I have not heard back.

I have heard from a couple people on Twitter who have traced the Wikipedia page edits back to sometime in the mid-2000s and being like, uh, it seems like it was just added. So I'm feeling not good about that fact, but it does have to do with balloons, balloons and early balloons. Sure, sure. Makes sense. Which were made out of animal intestines or stomachs or bladders. Oh, early, early balloons. Yeah, prehistoric. Were you fake farting before rubber?

I think we were fake. So this is where it gets into the territory of socks and water balloons, where anecdotal, where people say farts were funny. Historically, farts were funny too. Like humans haven't changed that much. They were like one of the only things that was funny back then I think. They didn't have other jokes.

There wasn't much going on. They weren't sophisticated enough. It's like my five-year-old who farts and then is like, ha ha, every time farts, ha ha. I'm like, did you just fart? And he's like, yeah. That's beautiful. Yeah.

It's the purest form of humor is fart humor. Yes, totally. That's a beautiful wild. Yeah. It's the purest form of humor, is fart humor. Yes, totally. And so balloons have been around for a while, made out of animal bladders and either sewn together or just inflated. And as long as there's a flap or an opening, they will make that farting sound when deflated in the way that if you let go of a rubber balloon, it'll kind of screech and whirl. All over and fart.

Yeah. And so there are various reports of like Roman emperors or court jesters or amirs pranking people with farts of like sneaking these animal balloons under the chairs of their guests. Can you imagine sitting on a whoopee cushion made out of an animal bladder before and without having ever known, like being a fully grown person, being like the first person to sit on a whoopee

cushion. That jester is like a genius, an inventor, the innovation. Yeah, a savant of farts being like, you know what's the funniest thing? Farts. You know what's even better? A surprise one. Yeah. Yeah, and it looks like you did it,

but you didn't, it was me. So yeah, so that's, historically, it probably happened. There are enough people thinking and balloons existed, so there was probably someone at some point who decided, who found out that it makes a fart sound when it deflates and then pursued that further. But modern whoopee cushions with the trademark wet fart sound made out of rubber in the circly shape have been traced back to a Toronto company called J.E.M. Rubber Co. in 1930. I think they were just

like a rubber novelty company, like they produced rubber products for whatever reason, and then including for whimsy. And there was already a novelty industry and there was already like different kinds of seat cushions, like There was something called a musical seat, which let out more of a screech according to the articles that I read. So more of a squeal rather than a fart. Not as funny. Startling, but not as funny. Not as funny.

Yeah, I guess scary. Yeah, I think it was to scare you. But some rubber guys were just like, you know, it'd be hilarious if we seal two pieces of rubber together into a bag with a nozzle. And then they presented it to the SS Adams Company in 1930, and the guy who's in charge of buying tricks or puzzles or jokes, like sourcing them for the company was like, no, no, this is too indelicate.

And so then they brought it to the Johnson and Smith Company who were like, yeah, we'll take your fart bag. They'll buy anything. Yeah. Wow. This is too indelicate. Yeah. I can't get into this business.

Yes, I can't get into the fart cushion, but they regretted it immediately and made their own whoopee cushion separately. But Johnson and Smith Company took the idea and ran it with ads like Poopoo Cushion and Boop Boopa Doop. Boopoo. Which I really like. What, what, what?

What did you say? Boop a doop. Boop a doop. Like boop boop. That's cute. A doop. Yeah, so it was that. And then around 1932, the name Whoopie Cushion came into,

like debuted. And apparently it was inspired by Eddie Cantor's song, Makin' Whoopi, which I think is about marriage, but then became about sex. But like, I've heard Makin' Whoopi as a euphemism for sex. So that's where we think Whoopi from Whoopi Cushion came from, was like, that was popular. And then Whoopi, and then the rest is history. Now we have Whoopi Cushion came from was like that was popular and then

Whoopi and then the rest is history now we have Whoopi Cushions. I think that there is definitely an element of genius in the location of cushion as a word that can apply to this because he's a it's a bag it's a bladder it's a balloon I wouldn't think cushion for a pretty long time if you were like, give me some words about this. So I think it makes sense that whoopee cushion is the one that's stuck. Though the boop boop a dooper or whatever is also great. Please Hank, the boop boop a doop.

It's like Betty Boop. Betty Boop's slogan is the boop boop a doop. Oh, boop boop a doop. Yeah. Wow, gosh. And after all this time, the most lasting of all of these things is the fart bag. Yeah. We don't remember that song anymore.

We don't remember Betty Boop anymore. But everybody that I still have recently bought a whoopee cushion. Oh, for what? Where? For my son. Oh, it was in his it was in his it was a stocking stuff. Has he used it? He immediately broke it. Too excited to fart. That's an amateur... Yeah, beginning whoopee cushion. I think my first whoopee cushion, I also overinflated and then like jumped on it and smashed it.

Yeah. They're that kind of old toy that's really easy to break, or that old kind of like, like, novelty stuff like that. Not made well. Not made to last. You gotta get you buying more of it. On the Wikipedia page it says, if the quote victim happens to sit on the opening blocking the airflow,

it can rupture the cushion instead. For this reason, some pranksters place the cushion so that the opening extends toward the front of the chair where it is less likely to be sat on. However, this can make the cushion more conspicuous. These are like good tips here. This is like a how-to article. You gotta assess the risk. Also, that gets the point, like it gets the noise sort of going toward the room rather

than back into the back into the sofa or whatever. Question number two is from Ms. Brock who asks, how does humor change over time? That sounds like a really easy one to answer, Sari. It definitely does, but it also definitely doesn't. It is very much about the defiance of expectation. And so when expectation changes, humor changes. So that, so I think oftentimes it's not so much

that the humor is changing, it's that what we expect changes. And so humor, like at the base level stays kind of the same, but like a thing that was once funny no longer is because it no longer defies an expectation. Yeah. That makes sense. Like when Sari says, fuck, it's funnier than when I say, fuck.

But she did say that earlier, right? Yeah. Yeah. Does that ring true at all, Sari? Did you learn anything or should I just keep rambling? You're basically right. I feel like anything around the science of humor or jokes comes back to the same principle that you were talking about the idea of

Unexpectedness and defying expectations and like this idea of benign violation which is something we've talked about on the podcast before that you expect one thing and then your Expectations are defied but it's in a way that's safe or harmless or doesn't feel like threatening in any way. And so then that's what makes it funny as opposed to like scary or painful or anything. For part of this question, I looked into how does like personal sense of humor change over time because there's a little bit of research into that. So part of this is speculation, part of this is like cobbled together from psychology papers,

but there is some research into like how your childhood influences your sense of humor, separating the anecdote from the research. The anecdotal thing is you gotta learn what's funny. There's like a learning curve where you're like, okay, what's funny? Farts, okay, what's funny? Yelling and surprising my parents or something like that. What's funny? Word

play. And then you can start layering on the more complicated layers of humor and like reference humor. As you learn about the world then there are more things that you can find funny about it. But then, this made me laugh a lot, there's a study about whether sad kids grow up to be funny adults, which just chuffs me so much. And so... How do you figure this out? Hello, child. They did a study on adults who were in creative performances, and I think that included comedians, but any like a variety of creative professions. And they rated them, they did like qualitative scale

based on like traumatic childhood experiences based on like turmoil at home or financial insecurity or things like that. And the psychologist concluded that different kinds of traumas, like, of course, not in every case. Sometimes your traumatic childhood just leads to, like, a snowball effect.

But it can lead to overcompensation through humor, intellectualization, or overachievement in a number of ways and, like, fortify humor as a defense mechanism, which I feel like I do about being sad. It's like, you gotta laugh at it, otherwise you're gonna cry. Were you a sad child? I don't, I think I was like an angsty child. I was an angsty child and like kind of sad, like low key sad.

But which is why I'm only medium, low-key funny right now. I didn't get enough trauma to be hilarious. You didn't experience enough trauma. But to dig out of this self-pity hole, the other chunk of studies that I looked into was sense of humor changing over time for adulthood. And it seems like it lines up with average trends for conservatism as you age. So in studies done in the 2010s, so I think around 2014 was the main one that I looked at. So recently, where they showed clips from different sitcoms and some of them were more social faux pas or like aggressive or insulting kind

of humor like people making fun of each other or people like the slap bet. Like cringy embarrassment stuff? Yeah like cringy embarrassment stuff but also like startling like physical humor like slapstick comedy kind of but like the nowadays version of that. Like jackass stuff, huh? Like jackass, yeah, I think. And younger folks thought that was funnier while, so middle-aged people, young adults

and middle-aged people thought that was funnier, while the senior citizens thought that was rude and crude. And the senior citizens found less aggressive comedy, so like, kind of awkward situations. Or they gave an example from the Golden Girls, which I haven't seen, but where everyone's in an embarrassing situation together and they like laugh together about it, as opposed to one person insulting another. They found that more humorous. And we're not sure if it's because of generational differences of like as your values change over time, what you find funnier narrows to like more pleasant humor or if it's partially

nostalgic like we were talking about at the beginning like as humor changes over time Our humor tastes change over time and then kind of like music taste we get stuck somewhere and it's like that's gonna be your humor For the rest of your life. So I'm gonna be stuck with my weird absurdist internet humor Even when I'm old Everything about being an old person who knows a lot about Pokemon? I think that's gonna be so weird. That's gonna be us. That's how it works!

I know. There's gonna be so many old people who know a bunch of stuff about Pokemon. Squirtle. I love Squirtle. Yeah, and your grandkids won't care. They'll be like, Grandpa, stop talking about a Squirtle. No one cares. We're in a Betty Boop again, Grandpa.

There's gonna be Pokemon cruises. Oh, I would go on one. Yeah. And then along with talking about Squirtle, when you're old, you like decline in your cognitive abilities too. And so there may be something in like not being able to get the, all the turns of phrases are being confused

by the hip new thing because you're old now. And so it's like, I can't put... And then everyone laughs and laughs at you. And that becomes the new comedy, making fun of your grandpa for not knowing the slang like they do on TikTok all the time. The mean kids on TikTok. Yeah. Like me, I'm one of the mean kids. Like Hank.

I'm like, well, I've looked that up on Urban Dictionary. So I'm in the know and I can make fun of you now because I read about this earlier today. You call up your grandma and say, hey, grandma, that's a lit. And then she goes, what? What does that mean? And then I laugh and laugh.

All right, we got a question from Sarah who asks, so itching powder used to be a popular prank, right? I once heard that it was made from tarantula hairs and they itched because they were barbed. Is that true? Wow First of all, I feel like this is proof that old people were like jackasses Yeah, and then they got out of it because itching powder is a terrible prank that we would never do now No That's an invasion of your personal space too much. Yeah, I feel like that. Yeah, it's like giving people a disease Yeah, and it's a lasting prank. Oh does it stick around? How long do you itch for? I think it's like a shower probably, huh?

Yeah, I think you got to like get it off like clean it off of you somehow Right. Yeah, and like fart spray and stuff like stinky stuff I feel like we know this but we don't do it as much like no Yeah, like when you go into a prank shop, you see only pranks that old people would do like fake poop Fake throw up. What kind of prank is fake throw up? That's such a weird prank. It's a weird prank Well, it's a weird prank. I have not seen a lot of fake throw up around lately No, and if you see real throw up, then what do you do? You just go, OK, I guess I'll walk around that.

I do. You know, you see it. Then some old geezer walks out around the corner and says, ha ha, that was fake. What's the joke? Yeah, no. I'm like, yeah, OK, I have the exact same experience as I did before, which is like, I felt like somebody did

something they shouldn't have done. And now I feel like somebody did something they shouldn't have done. Does itching powder like somebody did something they shouldn't have done. Does itching powder exist, and is it made out of tarantula? So itching powder does exist, and the main use that I found for it besides pranks nowadays is to test anti-itching stuff. So to test the anti-itch stuff, you have to induce the itch somehow

so that you can see how good you relieve it. Uh, because you don't just want to test on itchy people. You want to like see, okay, artificial itch. And tarantula hairs, I can't find evidence of them being used for itching powder. There's like, again, anecdotes, the bane of my existence when it comes to these hoaxes of like them, them being used in military operations, of, like, people, presumably, I would guess, like, crushing up tarantulas and sprinkling them

in, I don't know, enemy sleeping bags. Feels weird to me. Feels like... I don't know. I don't know if that's what they were doing. Okay. I mean... Sneaking up on the enemy,

we can put something in their sleeping bags. We're going to use itching pills. Yeah. So it seems very sus to me, but tarantulas do possess what are called urticating hairs on their abdomen that are used for defense. And so they're not like true hairs, like mammalian hairs, but they are little barbed appendages. Like not even appendage, like nettle sized things, like bristles that they either slam into potential predators or like can eject out and kind of like touching a cactus

with a bunch of nettles, they just stick in your skin and are itchy and are irritating. They can eject. Do they really do the thing where they go... and they like push him at somebody? You know what I'm talking about? Like a... like a Pokemon. Like spraying it. I didn't dig too deep into that. I think... Yes, they said, uh, they can flick hairs. So I think as much as you can like...

Sure. Flick your butt fast enough, you can get some momentum. But not as accurate as like a blow dart or anything like that. But itching powder is mostly made from physical irritants rather than chemical irritants on your skin. So your skin naturally responds to things that are itchy and painful in similar ways because it's like a sign of parasites or it's a sign of something that shouldn't be on your skin that could

be dangerous. So then it's like scratch it or get away from it or whatever. So that's like the sensation behind itching. And a lot of the time itching powder is often little hairs like that, that like stimulate little touches on your skin that then aren't irritating. And the three main sources I could find are a certain family of maple trees, the Acer family has stiff hairs near the base of the like the wing of their helicopter seats that can be collected and sold as an itching powder.

That sounds labor intensive. That sounds expensive, yeah. They an itching powder. That sounds labor intensive. That sounds expensive, yeah. They all are labor intensive. That's the thing. None of these are easy. So itching powder is a premier substance. Another one is rose hips, which are those like little fruits on certain types of wild roses.

They're all around Missoula. So I'm sure you've seen them that you can eat, but they are also dried and like you crack them open and dry it and remove it. And then those like fibery prickles can cause itching sensations and have been shown to be in novelty shops. And then the worst kind, as far as I can tell, is the seed pod of Mucuna prurians, which is named after its itchiness because pruritis is itchy, it's like itchy skin. And it's a type of bean called cowhage.

I don't know, it has a lot of different names, where its entire seed pod is very fuzzy, but these spicules, as they're called, the little fuzzy bits, contain a protein that can activate your immune system and cause itching. So instead of histamine, it causes a different response on your skin. Like normally itching is histamines, which is why you take an antihistamine if you want to stop swelling or itching

or runny noses or things like that. But it's like a different protein that this bean pod, the little hairs have, that can cause itching for like half an hour to an hour, even if you just touch it a little bit. So there was like a case study of some people who had brought the bean pods back from traveling or something and had this big itchy reaction,

and then the EMTs that went to help them got an itchy reaction too, and it was a mess. But I think those are used in itching powders, clinically. I couldn't quite tell. There was just a lot about how itchy they are. But a lot of plants. I like that the main use of itching powder now is clinical. It's like, we need you to itch.

But so much for the pranking, not so much. Yeah, I don't think so. Can I still get itching powder? I bet you can. Because I hope I can't. I shouldn't be able to. I think if you can get fake vomit, you can get itching powder.

I don't know, man. Yeah, apparently you can. Itching, there's a bunch of it. Yeah, you can get itching powder all over the place. Surprise that special friend. Though the top review on Amazon says, doesn't itch. It does not make any type of itchy feeling, period. Came in an envelope inside a sandwich bag,

took a picture, it's hard to tell. The packets are just folded in glued paper from a colored printer. That sounds very sketchy. A sandwich bag inside an envelope? As far as I can tell, the product is sand. It's not even itchy sand. Very Amazon.

Very Amazon. Did I get a bad batch? I attempted to play a joke on my father. It had no effect, so I put some on myself. And nothing! Not sure what happened. Unable to return it as it was opened. A waste of damn time

Please do not waste your hard-earned money on this. Sorry excuse for a product. How much does it cost? There was hardly any powder to do a prank like really this definitely feels like a ripoff because it's a ripoff It's ten dollars for a three pack. Wow powder gag prank. You're gonna want it to work for there for that though Yeah for ten bucks. to want it to work for that though. Yeah, for 10 bucks I want it to work. Hey, you want to know what they do on April Fool's Day in French speaking countries? Please. It's called April fish and they try to attach fish to each other's backs.

That's great. Yeah. I think that's way better than what we do. I think so too. Like a big fish or like a small fish? Any fish? Like a live fish? It just says without being a, oh, it says just a big fish or like a small fish? Any fish? Like a live fish? It just says without being a,

oh, it says just a paper fish, damn. I wish it was a real fish. It probably used to be a real fish and then everybody was like, ah, that's a bit much. Yeah, that's too much. It's a little slimy and gross. Yeah. Too much slime involved in that.

It's like fake vomit. It's just, it's uncouth. What was the word that they used for the whoopee cushion? It was too... Indelicate, indelicate. Indelicate. Yes. Yeah, the fish, the real fish, probably not alive. The dead fish would probably do it.

Just nailing a real fish to someone's back. Not good. Yeah, back in the day, they just used staple guns, but it turns out that's sort of not appropriate anymore. Because humor changes. That's what we've learned. Yes. Yeah, what we consider to be a violation changes. That's what we've learned. Yeah. Yeah, what we consider to be a violation changes.

Because French people used to not mind getting stapled so much. No, now they can't stand it. Now they only want the hint of the fish that once was, because then they can remember their ancestors and be like, oh yeah, my grandpa told me about that giant sturgeon flopping on his back. Hilarious. And I've had a paper fish scotch tape to my back, which while less funny, is still droll enough to make me chuckle. Oh, Lord. Well, I have to say thank you to all the people who support us on Patreon. We love to make

SciShow Tangents and we love to make a little something extra for you. Where we get to find out about the fact that Sari loves Oreos of all kinds. Man, Oreos are some of the best Oreos. So I don't blame you. Yeah, absolutely. I feel like I should go to the store right now. Thank you for having a good old time hanging out, Sari and Sam. Thank you. And also Tuna.

Thanks for showing up for once. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Ah. What a busy time. Tuna's great because you can't hear him, but we can see him and he just loves it.

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