April Fools Jokes
Why this page?
Every year on April 1st The Neopets Team tries to pull everyone's leg by changing something to the site that is rather radical. For example in 2006 they told everyone they would have to start paying taxes for every page load. We decided to start making a log of TNT's April fools jokes, starting April 1st, 2007. From the years before 2007 we've tried to gather some information to give you insights in the older jokes.
With the navigation below you can go through the April Fools of previous years.
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April 1st, 2008
On April Fools 2008, TNT released the fuctional NeoBuddy System. It would start with you getting a popup, telling you that you have been selected to try the NeoBuddy Beta Test.
If you decided to ignore this invitation, you would continiously get new popups of different neopets characters who tried to persuade you to enter the NeoBuddy system.
It was not just Master Vex, there were also several other characters who served as potential buddies, you can see them all in the table below.
 Sophie |
 Roxton A. Colchester III |
 Jazan |
 Hannah |
 Scarblade |
 Isca |
 Princess Amira |
 Master Vex |
 Dr. Sloth |
They kept saying different things to you as well, sometimes the font size would even increase to make the popups even more annoying. Here's some of the things the neobuddies could have said to you.
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- I'm not going to stop until you go get your buddy. - A lot of people would love to be in your position... Go get your neobuddy - That's fine. I can wait. I've got nothing better to do. - Let's make this easier on the both of us... just go get your buddy - Just give it a try... |
If you gave in and clicked on the link to the NeoBuddy sign up, you would be taken to page with a questionnaire. You can see this questionnaire below.
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Neobuddy (Beta)
If you are reading this it's because you have been selected to be one of the few Neopets users with an opportunity to join the beta test for Neobuddy. Neobuddy is a new site feature we're trying out where users are matched up with characters with similar personalities to their own who occasionally will pop up and help guide new users through the site, while providing helpful hints and secrets to more advanced users. The beta test is only open to select users and will only be open for a limited time. Match Your PersonalityTo begin, we're going to need to match your personality to one of the available Neobuddies. To do this please answer all of the questions in this quiz so we can get started: |
Afterwards, you will be teamed up with your neobuddy. Most people got teamed up with Bug Eye McGee, very few people got teamed up with Sir Fufon Lui. The other character results were different for each person, not that it mattered, you got stuck with Bug Eye or Sir Fufon Lui. Below you can see an example of the results page for Bug Eye McGee and Sir Fufon Lui.
Your closest Neobuddy match is: Bug Eye McGeeWith a score of: 98%
We found you would also match well with: Dr. Sloth: 96%
Princess Amira: 83% Jazan: 75% Hannah: 72% |
Your closest Neobuddy match is: Sir Fufon LuiWith a score of: 94%
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After you got teamed up with your buddy, the fun really began. Where as the 'potential buddies' were just continously asking you to join, your new buddy Bug Eye or Sir Fufun Lui would start to harass and insult you by contiously popping up on practically every other page.
Below you can read some variations to this example:
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A few different images of Bug Eye would be used in these events. Sometimes the images would grow to 500 x 500 pixels, which is pretty huge.
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Since receiving Sir Fufon Lui was very rare, we have little information about him. Below you can see some images.
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And some of his sayings:
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Interesting to know is that same as in 2007, Premium users could get around the April Fools popups. By using the premium portal view, one was freed from all the annoying popups.
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