Duolingo's April Fools' video makes fun of their owl's aggressive lesson reminders

Call 781-STOP-OWL for legal help.
By Tim Marcin  on 
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Have Duolingo's aggressive reminders — "Learning Spanish requires daily practice. Practice now?" — crushed your life, isolating you from friends and family? There's a lawyer to help with that.

OK, not really. The language-learning app dropped an April Fools' Day video that pokes fun at itself, referencing the popular memes where the app's massive green owl threatens slacking pupils with violence.

The faux commercial from a fake law group promises to help victims of Duo, the company's mascot. It's actually a pretty decent April Fools' joke; it's clearly a gag and not being lame by actually trying to fool people. The faux commercial ends with a phone number, 781-STOP-OWL, and, committing to the bit, it actually works...so give it a ring if you need a good fake lawyer.

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Tim Marcin is a culture reporter at Mashable, where he writes about food, fitness, weird stuff on the internet, and, well, just about anything else. You can find him posting endlessly about Buffalo wings on Twitter at @timmarcin.


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