April Fools! - 01/04/09

After my neighbor Marc mentioned to myself and a few friends that he hadn't experienced an "April Fools" prank, we decided to do something about it.

Now Marc and Friday (his stalwart companion, the incredible mini-golden doodle) are a famously untrained pair, so the ever lovely Crystal proposed we set up a scenario where Friday has a chance to audition for a big role in a film being shot locally.

So this morning, while Marc was in a meeting (with Drew, who was also in on this), I sent him a long winded text about how a friend of mine, who is production managing "Hot Tub Time Machine" mentioned they are frantically searching for a replacement "cute dog" for a romantic scene with the two leads (John Cusack and I made up the fact that Reese Witherspoon was the other).

The text went on to explain that Reese needed a cute dog to give a rolled-up love letter to John Cusack, so if Marc could train Friday to do this, we would video it and send it in to the producers.

A few hours later, I sent another text to check it Marc was indeed interested and yes, he was - in fact he was training Friday that very moment, and would continue to do so for the remainder of the day.

I was out for a dinner meeting this eve, so when I returned home, Crystal came for a visit and we had Marc and Friday come over for a test run. To prep for this, we created our own "love note" which I gave to them to use as their prop.

This is the video we shot, where Marc finally finds out he's been duped. he he he...