If you were watching TV on June 17, 1994, (and just about everyone was), you were watching one thing, and it wasn’t the NBA Finals, which were actually relegated to a box in the bottom corner of the screen. No, you were watching the infamous O.J. Simpson Ford Bronco car chase, which was viewed by over 95 million people. And, if you happened to be watching it on ABC, you got the added bonus of seeing what may be the most viewed prank call in human history.

As a somber Peter Jennings anchored the breaking news, studiously describing how one of America’s greatest athletes had ended up threatening suicide from the back of an SUV, he was joined by someone claiming to be a neighbor of Simpson’s, who said he could see inside the Bronco. With his bizarre, borderline racist accent and goofy demeanor, something was clearly up, but it took Mr. Higgins ending his confusing commentary with a “Baba Booey to y’all,” for commentator Al Michaels to finally deem the call “totally farcical.”

It would later come out that the caller was “Maury from Brooklyn,” a Howard Stern superfan who was reportedly upset that the NBA was being preempted and decided to do something about it. And that, children, is the story of the “Baba Booey” heard ’round the world.

What happens when Wu Tang tries to make a hotel reservation at the quaintest, quietest, and most certainly whitest bed and breakfast this side of Newhart? Well, thanks to Dave Chappelle’s guest spot on the Comedy Central prank show Crank Yankers, we have the answer.

Chapelle pretended to be Wu Tang’s tour manager, attempting to track down some accommodations for his boys, and we’re talking everybody. Method Man, RZA, the Jizza, Old Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, UGod, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, The Chef — the whole crew.

He encounters Reba May, a friendly proprietor who does her best to accommodate Chappelle’s bizarre requests, even though she only has two rooms to house an enormous band she’s never head of. Thankfully, her daughter teaches swing and might know some of their tunes. Being the pro that she is, Reba even offers up her husband’s bed at one point, which he must have been thrilled about. All in all, poor Reba does her best with a bad situation, and Chapelle somehow makes this call hilarious and heartwarming at the same time.

When Elton John received an unexpected call from Russian President Vladimir Putin back in 2015, he professed astonishment, telling the world leader, “I’m extremely honored that he’s calling me and that I’m speaking to him. It’s a great privilege to be able to speak to one of the most influential people in the whole world.” The only problem was, he’d been had. He was, in fact, on the line with Russian celebrity pranksters Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov and Vladimir “Vovan” Krasnov, taking advantage of John’s professed desire to talk about LGBT rights with the notorious Russian head of state.

The whole episode would cause a bit of confusion when John took to Instagram to thank the Russian leader for the phone call, one the Kremlin knew nothing about. In the end, John was magnanimous, saying, “If this unfortunate incident has helped push this vital issue back into the spotlight, then I am happy to be pranked on this occasion.” The real Putin put in a call to a “Crocodile Rock” singer a couple weeks later.

Richard Christy is a man of many talents. A heavy metal drummer, stand-up comedian, and sidekick for The Howard Stern Show, Christy has spent a life boldly going where others fear to tread. For instance, he once pooped his pants on air before giving Dr. Drew a hearty handshake.

But his crowning achievement may be this prank call, in which he tried to buy some junk from a kind, confused woman, and slowly drove her nuts. Did he want the dryer, the fur coat, or the basketball hoop? That is a question best left for the philosophers.

Using overlapping voices, Christy somehow managed to answer every question the woman asks with opposing reactions, at the same exact moment, increasingly befuddling this poor lady, before driving her downright batty. “It sounds like three people are talking on the phone at the same time!” Prank calls can be mean, and they can be hilarious. This one borders on a work of art.

Sometimes you don’t need to go out of your way and prank somebody, when you can just sit back and wait for the unsuspecting caller to ring you. There’s a whole genre of videos online in which people prank telemarketers and scammers, keeping them on the phone, feeding them nonsense information, and just generally making their lives a living hell.

Troy Hunt, a Microsoft regional director from Australia, may have produced one of the best of these, not because of any overtly silly details or well-crafted characters, but just by slowing things down with sheer incompetence to the breaking point. What does a scammer do when he’s got a live one willing to hand over his information but with the computer skills of an Amish grandmother?

Hunt somehow turns a conversation about whether he should type a dot or the word “dot” into a utter hilarity, like a “Who’s On First” routine if the guy asking who’s on first was also trying to steal your identity.

Get READY for the WWE Super SLAM! Because after you listen to this prank call, you’re never going to want to hear about it again! It’s been called the greatest prank call of all time, and it’s not hard to see why. Back in 2012, the good people at WNVZ’s Z Morning Zoo executed a prank call with such ruthless glee, calling a local woman about John Cena’s upcoming appearance on Super Slam over and over and over again, she was ready to take them on in a cage match of her own.

The twists, the turns, the sheer indignation this poor woman feels at being subjected to John Cena promo after John Cena promo, is the stuff of legend. John Cena has gone on to become a movie star, Today Show regular, and Saturday Night Live host, but it arguably all started with this bit, which would transform Cena into an online meme factory and an eventual comedy superstar.