--- title: April Fools' Day Prank: Student Fakes Pregnancy Call In Classroom description: A group of students expertly pull one over on their cellphone-hating professor canonical: https://time.com/51147/april-fools-classroom-prank/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-07T11:00:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:32.850Z og:title: Professor Tricked in the Best April Fool's Day Prank Ever og:description: A group of students expertly pull one over on their cellphone-hating professor og:url: https://time.com/51147/april-fools-classroom-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4f4cec7eb4152b/6986894d55a859854da8026c/aprils-fool.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: april's fool og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Professor Tricked in the Best April Fool's Day Prank Ever twitter:description: A group of students expertly pull one over on their cellphone-hating professor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4f4cec7eb4152b/6986894d55a859854da8026c/aprils-fool.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # It's Not Too Late For One Last (Really, Really Good) April Fool's Day Prank by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 7, 2014 11:00 AM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 7, 2014 11:00 AM UTC Okay, we know you’re probably over the whole April Fools’ Day prank thing, almost a week after it happened, but this one is incredibly clever and awkward and hilarious no matter the date. A group of students decided to prank their instructor, after he established a policy that if a student’s phone rings during class, he or she must answer it on speakerphone, no matter the consequences. The best part of the prank is the professor’s reaction. Watch above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/51147/april-fools-classroom-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/51147/april-fools-classroom-prank/"},"headline":"It's Not Too Late For One Last (Really, Really Good) April Fool's Day Prank","datePublished":"2014-04-07T11:00:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:32.850Z","description":"A group of students expertly pull one over on their cellphone-hating professor","url":"https://time.com/51147/april-fools-classroom-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Pregnancy","viral","Pranks","April Fool's Day"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4f4cec7eb4152b/6986894d55a859854da8026c/aprils-fool.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4f4cec7eb4152b/6986894d55a859854da8026c/aprils-fool.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"april's fool","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/51147/april-fools-classroom-prank/","name":"It's Not Too Late For One Last (Really, Really Good) April Fool's Day Prank"}}]}] ```