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RobMoney$
11-27-2008, 03:15 PM
Float started out with a kids song being sung by a bunch of cartoon looking characters. Next thing you know the song stops and here comes Rick Astley from behind the float singing "Never Gonna Give You Up".
I thought it was pretty funny.

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI
HEIRESS
11-27-2008, 03:25 PM
wow. just wow.
Audio.
11-27-2008, 03:38 PM
This is fucking great! And it was during Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, wow, it just makes those guys behind the show even awesomer for getting Rick to do this. (y) Cartoon Network all ways (y)
roosta
11-27-2008, 06:49 PM
what a surreal life he must lead.

He gets to RickRoll people IN REAL LIFE.

He is RickRolling

I'm betting he's in a mental home by 2011.
Lyman Zerga
11-27-2008, 10:19 PM
ahahahaha oh shit!


now i know why people around here are not dumb enough to celebrate thanksgiving :eek:
DandyFop
11-28-2008, 02:06 AM
Wow..I bet sooo many people had no idea what was going on. Like if I tried to explain something like that to my parents, there's no way they would get it
funk63
11-28-2008, 02:53 AM
That is so good.
monkey
11-28-2008, 12:24 PM
i just got to see this today... wow. just WOW. i am so pleasantly amused right now.
Lyman Zerga
11-28-2008, 11:01 PM
nerds like us gave him a job again

*suicide*
Bob
11-28-2008, 11:11 PM
he was lip synching, what a jerk
Dorothy Wood
11-29-2008, 12:54 AM
oh man, explaining a meme to my mom would be so funny. kinda like when I had to explain was AIDS was.


seriously though, rickrolling maka me laff.
Tzar
12-01-2008, 08:27 AM
everytime i get rick roll'd, i listen to the whole song. honestly.
Laver1969
12-01-2008, 10:14 PM
Wow..I bet sooo many people had no idea what was going on. Like if I tried to explain something like that to my parents, there's no way they would get it

Ha...I'm one of those people. I just don't get it.

So this song just starts randomly playing and bam, gotcha, you're Rick Roll'd. Is that it?
skra75
12-03-2008, 01:49 AM
hahahah amazing
russhie
12-03-2008, 06:18 AM
Yes, explain.

I want to know how one gets rolled by this Rick fellow.
Bob
12-03-2008, 06:55 AM
Yes, explain.

I want to know how one gets rolled by this Rick fellow.

it's kind of hard to explain but i think this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0) video explains it in pretty good detail
russhie
12-03-2008, 08:18 AM
Ok, so I watched a small portion of the video. It showed some ranga in various stages of boogie, wearing an overly large trench coat for his body type, and some rather high waisted jeans. There were also some wayfarers, a black bartender and a blonde girl involved.

Having figured nothing out from the actual content of the video, I'm assuming it's the act of viewing the video that is classified as a rolling. By Rick.

Or something. I'm confused.
Pootytang
12-03-2008, 10:07 AM
Ha...I'm one of those people. I just don't get it.

So this song just starts randomly playing and bam, gotcha, you're Rick Roll'd. Is that it?

From Wikipedia:

Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "Rickrolled" (also spelled Rickroll'd).

As the practice has spread, two of the various Rickrolling videos available online have been viewed more than twelve million times each.[1][2] These figures track the total number of visits, not individual viewers. Rickrolling has extended beyond Web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places[3]; this culminated when Rick Astley and the song made a surprise appearance in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade[4], a televised event with tens of millions of viewers.
RobMoney$
12-03-2008, 05:03 PM
I mean just take a minute to picture the look on the faces of some kids (and even better, their parents) sitting around, watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade, waiting for Santa to show up, and getting ready to sing along with that cartoon show's song when all of a sudden Astley pops out from behind the float.
Lyman Zerga
12-04-2008, 12:20 AM
it only would have been topped if he did his rolling dance moves but you cant have everything i guess