Top 10 Essentials For An Epic April Fools' Day

A true classic of pranking is watching a woman (or man) scream like a little girl at the sight of something small and furry running across the floor.

This has been used for endless enjoyment on behalf of cruel friends since the dawn of time, when cavemen painted scary animals on walls to mess with their cavefriends.

It doesn't even need to be a real animal, it just needs to appear real enough to get them screaming and jumping.

After a while, even the most exotic of pranks can get old. The only thing worse than a prank not working, is your target seeing it coming.

So how do you solve this problem of stale abuse?

Let your imagination be your guide, and your victims will be so paranoid that they might need to start taking Xanax, which you could always switch out with white painted Skittles.

The fun of the standard shaving cream prank is a little like Akido, in that you use their own motion against them.

Sure, you're the one who slathered it on their palm and tickled their nose with a feather or worse, but they delivered the coup de grace by smacking themselves in the face with the foamy payload.

It's a classic for a reason.

This is one of the new age prank items. A few years back, some genius decided to raid his office's supply locker and ended up inventing a brand new way of pranking genius.

Post-its have been used to cover just about everything from cubicles to cars to entire rooms. The outcome looks a bit like the entire area is covered with yellow papery shingles that will stop your target dead in their tracks when they see it.

Duct tape can be used to fix anything, and to break other things (like friendships).

Wrapping a friend in this sticky binder is a great way to feel superior to them while you watch them squirm and try to free themselves. Half the fun isn't the helpless feeling they get when the actually can't move, it's the fact that they have to peel all of it off when they finally get free, taking off half their body hair like that one scene in '40 Year Old Virgin'.