--- title: People Pranking Dads By Saying They Put Olive Oil In Cars description: The best way to fight dad jokes is with more dad jokes. canonical: https://time.com/5530444/olive-oil-car/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-15T15:54:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:30.660Z og:title: People Are Having Fun With Dads With the Olive Oil Prank og:description: The texts are glorious og:url: https://time.com/5530444/olive-oil-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf15617ea73834463/698945397cdbac5d8bd5f0fb/oliveoilcarprank.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Close-Up Of Oil Bottle On Table og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Having Fun With Dads With the Olive Oil Prank twitter:description: The texts are glorious twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf15617ea73834463/698945397cdbac5d8bd5f0fb/oliveoilcarprank.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Having a Lot of Fun at the Expense of Dads With This Olive Oil Car Prank by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 15, 2019 3:54 PM CUT  Audrey Saracco / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 15, 2019 3:54 PM CUT [Dad jokes](http://time.com/3837526/josh-groban-stages-interview/ "undefined") are the stuff of legend. In fact, a few years ago, Nickelodeon Australia sent out [a fake PSA warning](http://time.com/4025703/dad-jokes-psa-australia-nickelodeon/ "undefined") about the risks of the groan-inducing one-liners, face-palm worthy quips, and quasi-painful puns. That’s right: bad jokes by the people we love are a nearly-universal phenomenon. That said, turnabout is fair play, so when a Twitter user suggested that people prank their dads, by sending them photos that made it look like they had put [olive oil](http://time.com/3894609/extra-virgin-olive-oil/ "undefined") in their cars instead of motor oil, people happily joined in the fun. It all started on Feb. 11, when Twitter user @TheDad [asked](https://twitter.com/thedad/status/1095032187861323782 "undefined") his 73,800 followers to, “Text your dad this pic and ‘I put oil in my car and now it’s makin weird sounds?’” and asking people to tweet the fallout. The results came in quickly with various stages of parental alarm evident in the replies. Some dads were surprising calm about the oil switch: > [](https://twitter.com/BarryFloyd83/status/1095135841716965376) > [](https://twitter.com/rachel%5Ftab/status/1095365702813396992) Others could virtually be heard rolling their eyes at their children: > [](https://twitter.com/RomanBloemke/status/1095049843179962370) > [](https://twitter.com/bdykes19/status/1095424822262333441) > [](https://twitter.com/thedad/status/1095032187861323782) > [](https://twitter.com/thedad/status/1095032187861323782) While others quickly jumped into action: > [](https://twitter.com/%5Fpiscesiscariot/status/1095109680173596672) > [](https://twitter.com/SayRahJack/status/1095116329923813376) > [](https://twitter.com/ashhbake/status/1095119711342342144) > [](https://twitter.com/e%5Fwerd/status/1095121710033063936) > [](https://twitter.com/rachael%5Flevine/status/1095509031567843334) The real pros, though, were the ones who responded with even more dad jokes: > [](https://twitter.com/susiesalas/status/1095097230246248456) > [](https://twitter.com/Carriebot/status/1095209286408359936) > [](https://twitter.com/MyNameIsCJLyons/status/1095073211870457856) > [](https://twitter.com/thedad/status/1095032187861323782) > [](https://twitter.com/misslambkey/status/1095523093970337793) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5530444/olive-oil-car/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5530444/olive-oil-car/"},"headline":"People Are Having a Lot of Fun at the Expense of Dads With This Olive Oil Car Prank","datePublished":"2019-02-15T15:54:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:30.660Z","description":"The best way to fight dad jokes is with more dad jokes.","url":"https://time.com/5530444/olive-oil-car/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twitter","Pranks","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf15617ea73834463/698945397cdbac5d8bd5f0fb/oliveoilcarprank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf15617ea73834463/698945397cdbac5d8bd5f0fb/oliveoilcarprank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Close-Up Of Oil Bottle On Table","caption":"Olive Oil Dad Car prank","creditText":"Audrey Saracco / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm","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/5530444/olive-oil-car/","name":"People Are Having a Lot of Fun at the Expense of Dads With This Olive Oil Car Prank"}}]}] ```