Below are the answers to all of the hidden, (and not so hidden), "fooleries" in the latest episode!
(Along with the corresponding panels, so you can see what is being referred to!
PANEL TWO:
1. Eduardo is shown with blue eyes, (they should be brown).
(However, he's not lying...Montana DOES have the highest percentage of people who celebrate April Fools' Day!).
PANEL THREE:
2. Rudy says his ancestors were from Ireland, (they're not. They're from Scotland).
3. April Fools' Day is NOT illegal in Ireland, (OR in Scotland!).
PANEL FOUR:
4. Baseball season does NOT begin on April Fools' Day; this year, opening day was on March 27th.
5. Brad says his team is the Foxes, (incorrect... they're the Wolves).
6. Brad says his team is going to the World Series this year; that would be impossible, because he's on
a minor league team. They aren't eligible to make it to the World Series.
7. Brad is shown with brown eyes, (they should be blue).
PANEL FIVE:
8. Darren says his hometown is San Angelo, Texas, (it's actually San Antonio, Texas).
9. They DON'T wear "crazy hats" on April Fools' Day in San Angelo OR in San Antonio.
10. The Legion of Super-Heroes logo on his sweatshirt is upside down.
PANEL SIX:
11. Siberian Huskies can't TALK!
12. While many Siberian Huskies do have bi-colored eyes, (one blue eye, one brown eye), as Frosty is shown here, that is incorrect.
He actually has two blue eyes.
(However, he is right about one thing: Siberian Huskies DON'T celebrate April Fools' Day!)
PANEL SEVEN:
13. Mannis is shown wearing briefs; he would NEVER wear underwear under a kilt, (which he is about to put on to go to work at the kilt shop).
14. Price didn't go to Harvard; he went to Dartmouth!
15. Price is shown wearing a Princeton jersey; again, he went to Dartmouth!
16. Price didn't play hockey in college; he played lacrosse.
17. Mannis would not use the term "soccer"; he would call it football, as it is called in most of the UK.
18. Neither Harvard, Princeton, OR Dartmouth play a "special April Fools' Day game" of hockey...OR lacrosse!
BONUS POINT: Mannis's game is not soccer/football, as he says here. It is rugby. However, this would be VERY difficult for anyone to know, as he's never explicitly stated it in the comic strip. But he's been shown wearing jerseys with the "Scottish Rugby" logo on it several times. And if you picked up on that, you are a super-fan, and you deserve an extra point!
PANEL EIGHT:
19. Kristian is not in Somalia; he's in Uganda.
20. Neither Somalia OR Uganda celebrate April Fools' Day on April 23rd.
(However, Kristian is right about one thing: the Joker's birthday IS on April 23rd, according to the official DC Comics calendar!). 
PANEL NINE:
21. Drew is from Alabama, not Mississippi.
22. Drew would never be sitting totally NUDE at the kitchen counter, as he is shown here! (Even Price has the discretion to wear at least a shirt and socks!).
23. Drew's tattoo is actually on his left butt cheek, not his right one, (as shown here).
24. Drew's tattoo is not cherries 🍒, as shown here. It's a peach. 🍑
25. Kyle says Northport has "about two months left of SNOW". While Northport does very occasionally get some snow flurries in April, (and very rarely anything more than that), snow in May is unheard of. So, this is really a false characterization.
26. The kitchen in the background is tilted on its side!
27. Also, the kitchen walls are shown as green, (they should be yellow). 
PANEL TEN:
28. Richard asks, "what could be the foolery in this panel?". What, indeed? Could it be his eyecolor? No... that's correct. Something in that brick wall background? No, nothing off about that. Something incorrect in that wacky jester costume he's wearing? No... that's just fine.
So, what is it, you ask? Well, actually... it's something historic. Because, in this panel, you are seeing for the first time ever... Richard with his natural haircolor!!! Yes, that light brown color is Richard's hair un-dyed!
And we KNOW that Is something Richard would NEVER show intentionally. So that, indeed, qualifies as perhaps the greatest "foolery" in this April Fools' Day episode!
OUTSIDE OF THE PANELS:
29. The episode # (in the maple leaf), in the upper right-hand corner is laying on its side!
How'd you do? 😜
6 comments:
...well, unfortunately, I didn't have my Coffee when the April Fool's Ep was posted, so I halfheartedly played along.....So, I didn't get many right.....
...But other commenters (like JM & Alton) were SPOT ON! ...I have a feeling Mannis' blue bikini briefs shouldn't be 'on' when preparing to wear a Kilt....then again, I ALWAYS want 'em off! ....ha-HAAA!
.....hopefully we now get back to the main story arc of the debut of "Fletcher"....something tells me he's gonna be verrrrrrrry familiar........ ; )
I'd mark the Joker's birthdate as "in dispute"; the DC Universe Calendar has it as August 1st (https://5earths.info/about/dc-universe-calendar/), and other sites have it as April 1st or sometime in October (I actually couldn't find it as April 23rd ANYWHERE using Google). But you're the comics professional, not me, so I'll concede the point.
I outsmarted myself on Frosty... I was sure that you were trying to throw us off by explicitly mentioning his breed (and even after I looked up the differences between Siberian and Alaskan Huskys and Malamutes (which should have convinced me Frosty was a Siberian), I still thought I was on to something. Oh, well.
The only one I feel bad about missing was Drew's tattoo... I didn't know it was on the wrong cheek. As much as I admire a nice rear end, I should be quite familiar with Drew's... although I'll admit to disliking tattoos on general principle, which probably encouraged me to forget where it was placed.
Thanks for the challenge, Greg... it was fun!
An interesting conundrum, Alton, as I'm not sure WHERE i found the info about the Joker's birthdate being on April 23rd! I'm guessing it was posted incorrectly somewhere, possibly a mistake tying in with the fact that his first appearance in comics was on April 25th, 1940, (still 2 days off). But I agree that the August 1st date seems to be the proper date, so I will change this before this episode gets published in the book collection. Thank you for pointing it out, and for playing along!
Actually, upon further reflection, (and checking the script for this, which I wrote quite some time before I actually drew it for this episode), I realized that April 23rd date was INTENTIONALLY wrong! It was supposed to be another "foolery", which I somehow overlooked when compiling the answer key for all of this! So, in actuality, what I need to do is correct the answer key, and leave the episode as is, (except to state the number of fooleries is actually 30, not 29!).
I got a few that no one else got:
Panel 5 -- Darren is from San Antonio
Panel 6 -- Frosty has never said anything besides Woof, and both his eyes are blue
Panel 7 -- Mannis plays rugby
Panel 10 -- Richard's hair isn't colored to match his clown suit
Mannis & Drew should NEVER wear clothes. I'd have zero problem with them walking around naked all day
huskies (and mals and all dogs & animals) DO talk, but only to those who listen.
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