macy's day parade gets rickrolled (seriously)

[Tetsuo_man]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/27/macys-parade-rickrolled-r_n_146896.html

[titanfan]

It kind of loses it's effect when it's not on the internet...but I appreciated the attempt...

[Tracer Bullet]

I think it's sort of pathetic that the media has just recently picked up on this "phenomenon." Welcome to 5 years ago.

[Spiffy]

I think it's sort of pathetic that the media has just recently picked up on this "phenomenon." Welcome to 5 years ago.
Nevertheless, I'm sure Rick appreciated his first paycheck of the 21st century.

[Tracer Bullet]

Haha, maybe he can resurrect his career.

[Tobias March]

Haha, maybe he can resurrect his career.

He has. The man's on tour.

[Tracer Bullet]

More power to him then.

[Berserk]

I think it's sort of pathetic that the media has just recently picked up on this "phenomenon." Welcome to 5 years ago.



Yup. They just now picked up on the fad even though it became uncool a long time ago.

[Alan Lynch]

Haha, maybe he can resurrect his career.
I'm sure he was recently voted MTV Europe's Greatest Ever Artist. I don't think Rick Rolling has anywhere to go after that.

[Jared_Humpherys]

I'm actually dissapointed that I missed this.

[Chris Hansbrough]

I think I'm offended by the fact people think rick rolling is still funny.

[Chiroptera]

I thought it was hilarious. Particularly since it interrupted a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends float song and that damn show went from funny to moronic in about three episodes flat.
I loved it. :biggrin:

[MartinRedmond]

I think I'm offended by the fact people think rick rolling is still funny.

Or that it was ever funny at all.:confused:
Rick Rollin sounds like the sort of thing some braindead Familly Guy fan would think is funny. ie: "Ahaha reference to the 80s OMG I has moar ROFL 80s, your gaytarded LMOA!"

[Alan Lynch]

Or that it was ever funny at all.:confused:
Rick Rollin sounds like the sort of thing some braindead Familly Guy fan would think is funny. ie: "Ahaha reference to the 80s OMG I has moar ROFL 80s, your gaytarded LMOA!"
I dunno, it was kind of funny when Vince McMahon got RickRolled live on an episode of Raw.

[Charles RB]

He has. The man's on tour.

SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE, INTERNET.

(Astley's even got his own entry on the Transformers Wiki (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rick_Astley) and everything...)

[scout1279]

I thought it was pretty cool, but then, I like the song in a non-ironic sort of way.

[Tyr]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/27/macys-parade-rickrolled-r_n_146896.html

This is just plain wrong, it doesn't even fit the float or the theme, its just wrong.

Being Rick Rolled is wrong, cause misleading an audience is cliche and not nice.

Yet I can't help but approve of this wrongness.

[PatrickG]

I thought it was hilarious. Particularly since it interrupted a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends float song and that damn show went from funny to moronic in about three episodes flat.
I loved it. :biggrin:

...

I love that show. :eek:

Seriously, I don't think Cartoon Network has ever produced something I'd flame, outside of a few dumb Adult Swim shows. And most of those are brilliant too. (12 oz. Mouse and the Squidbillies are probably the only less than worship-worthy works that CN has ever bankrolled.)

[Grazzt]

Being Rick Rolled is wrong, cause misleading an audience is cliche and not nice.

Out of curiousity, how is misleading an audience cliche? It doesn't really happen all that happen, at least to the degree that a Rickroll requires.

[Gail Simone]

I think there should be Rick OLNEY rolling.

[Francis]

In a barrel over Niagra Falls?

[Chris Hansbrough]

wouldn't fit

[Flying Saucers Over Oz]

I think there should be Rick OLNEY rolling.


That's his primary means of transportation.

[PatrickG]

I think there should be Rick OLNEY rolling.

He was busy inflating the floats with hot air.

[Tyr]

Out of curiousity, how is misleading an audience cliche? It doesn't really happen all that happen, at least to the degree that a Rickroll requires.

Being rickrolled is the new "SEX!...now that I have you attention." It’s not a new joke, and it’s one that has never really been all that funny. It’s what I call the gunshot tactic that is using an attention getter to get noticed, like firing a gun in the air. Now for some that might be hilarious even after the 100th time they’ve seen it. But for many it puts them on guard and often on the defensive.