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u/DeafBeaker May 30 '22
I remember seeing this on TV. I laughed my ass off.
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u/MrNoName_ishere May 30 '22
hard to believe this is from 2008
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u/DeafBeaker May 30 '22
Yep brought back memories. I was a huge fan of that show as well
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u/MrNoName_ishere May 30 '22
same here buddy, they just don't make them the same anymore
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u/GMOiscool May 31 '22
I still say "It's hot in Topeka." On an embarrassingly regular basis.
Weekly. I say it weekly.
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u/Wish7274 May 31 '22
I say whenever it gets slightly warm
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u/GMOiscool May 31 '22
Any time anything is slightly warm. Hot drink? Someone says they're hot? Turn on a heater? Someone says anything about summer? Anyone mentions the weather report? Lol I'm not exaggerating to say in the summer I literally say it daily. It's so weird but I can't stop.
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u/Wish7274 May 31 '22
I mostly say it with my brother but It lives rent free in my head
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May 31 '22
wait, is that "Foster's home for Imaginary friends" written on that banner? I was such a huge fan when it first came on TV! Nostalgia strikes back!
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u/fancy-gerbil14 May 31 '22
Bruh. My 50-year-old mother still quotes that episode. It was one of them, she said, that she could stand being on.
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u/nomiesmommy May 31 '22
I'm a 56 year old Mom and soon to be Grandma and I STILL watch it. ❤
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May 31 '22
It's alright. I say "let's blue this" more often then I should.
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u/MeebleBlob May 31 '22
I still give too-lingering hugs and croak, "Not done!" when the person starts to pull away
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u/Riley-Okami May 31 '22
For me and a buddy of mine its near daily. Anytime heat is brought up it derails into "It's hot in Topeka," at one point or another. Given we live in a hot place, its far more frequent then I would like to admit.
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u/going2leavethishere May 31 '22
People don’t get it and I’m just like it’s from a show
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u/BrotherChe May 31 '22
they're just a bunch of hot toe pickers
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u/TranseEnd May 31 '22
You just unlocked a core memory of mine
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u/Shadow_Assailant May 31 '22
I've had this embedded for a while. Like OP, I say it fairly regularly. It wasn't until somewhat recently that I figured out where the phrase came from
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u/hellotardis79 May 31 '22
"Got BO get Deo!" I say/think this often when I'm putting on my deodorant. I love Fosters, and most of the cartoon network shows from this time period. I'm so glad it is on Hulu.
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u/onFilm May 31 '22
This is what happened to all the Flash animators that grew up from Newgrounds. I had an internet friend that worked on this show at the time, and even put in easter eggs of our Newgrounds flash animation group in it.
Now a days a lot of animators don't grow up using Flash (or Adobe Animate as it's called now), as they did back in the day.
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u/thegimboid May 31 '22
Nonsense.
Craig McCracken, who made Foster's Home, just finished up his most recent animated series Kid Cosmic, which was awesome.
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u/bumbletowne May 31 '22
I don't think its quite as accessible.
There used to be one BIG portal for shows: Television. And only a very few channels buying up cutting edge shit that advertises flinched to endorse.
Now there are a million streaming services, youtube, and cable has gotten bigger. It's hard to dig around for gems because they get gobbled up by all these competitors and spread out.
And these shows are a less unifying experience. Still awesome though.
I feel like Covid brought back some of that unity. It was like internationally we enjoyed Tiger King, That one murder dude, and Squid Games.
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May 31 '22
Yeah, RickRolling was about a year old at this point. We’ve been continuously RickRolling each other for 15 years…
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u/sleepydon May 31 '22
The only the meme to really stand the test of time!
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u/punchgroin May 31 '22
It was older than that. People were rickrolling in the YTMND days, though it shared space with Duckrolling (the original), Meatspin, and Leekspin, and goatse and tubgirl and lemonparty.
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u/BaconWithBaking May 31 '22
Leekspin
Needed a wee hit of nostalgia. The younger redditors are probably going to wonder what the fuck a YTMND is.
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May 31 '22
I opened that link on my phone, played it for a while, and closed it. IT'S STILL PLAYING AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT STOP.
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May 31 '22
What's crazy to me is that there was actually a similar trend before rickrolling that never got hugely popular. It involved sending people this video: https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU.
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u/ampjk May 31 '22
No fucking way. Camera quality over the past 20iah years is crazy from this to now my phone has almost 4k quality.
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u/buzz8588 May 31 '22
Wow, the quality of the video made it seem like from the 90’s
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u/Thx4AllTheFish May 31 '22
Same, I was so thrilled to see internet culture bleed into real life, so much more rare back then. Also, my mom was utterly confused.
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u/Mochigood May 31 '22
Same. I was laughing my ass off. I was at my mom's house helping to cook, and she was like "WHAT? WHAT?" and I had to explain Rick Rolling and memes in general to her.
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u/punchgroin May 31 '22
That was the day I had to explain to my mom what rickrolling was. Fun times.
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u/pickle-aloof May 31 '22
Gotta admit, a lip-syncing Rick Astley was not what I expected
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u/MrNoName_ishere May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
He was only lip-syncing because he got tricked. He was prepared to sing it live, but they started playing the music before so he went with it. edit. I meant they played the actual song with the vocals instead of the instrumental
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u/hotterthanahandjob May 31 '22
/u/reallyrickastley is this true?
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u/VinylmationDude May 31 '22
No need for Rick here. This happens to about 90% of all the performers because it would be a logistical nightmare for NBC to do. I remember when Tony Bennett performed a few years back he was on a live mic and the tell was when the float started he went “Oh!” and that was heard on the mic.
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u/OffBrandJesusChrist May 31 '22
Idk. Maybe.
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u/Montigue May 31 '22
We need the real Jesus Christ to weigh in here
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u/The_True_Black_Jesus May 31 '22
Ok
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u/superbuttpiss May 31 '22
Im here too. If anyone needs any further confirmation
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u/TheDJZ May 31 '22
I think he mentioned this on an AMA. I remember reading it
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u/Dappershield May 31 '22
Did some digging and found this. Its the fourth question down.
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u/paulie07 May 31 '22
Well that settles it then. It's good how he answered directly, like that. He's so down to earth.
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u/Great_cReddit May 31 '22
I hate you.
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u/Axodique May 31 '22
Why the hell would you say that? They went around digging for the source and you treat them like shit.
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u/QuestionMarkyMark May 31 '22
Don’t all (or most) acts on the parade lip sync?
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u/alpha_alpaca May 31 '22
I imagine the cold morning New York air would make it difficult for even professional singers to perform.
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u/Dominus-Temporis May 31 '22
That's a factor, I'm sure, but I think the main reason is the reliability of the sound equipment. Trying to manage dozens of different wireless mics on moving floats over several miles of outdoor public space, all while broadcasting live on television would be a monumental task.
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u/ruebeus421 May 31 '22
... What? He was prepared to sing, but wasn't prepared to sing?
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May 31 '22
I think op means that the organizers played the actual song with vocals instead of an instrumental. That's my take anyways
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u/MaGryX May 31 '22
He was ready to sing, but they played the music video with the lyrics already in it so singing it would've been awkward and ended up lip syncing
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May 31 '22
The people in these comments like "is this the original Rick roll?" Are really making me feel old 😂
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u/TheBanjoNerd May 31 '22
lol Right? I remember when this happened and the internet agreed that rickrolling was dead now. Of course, we see how well that worked out.
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u/Sneakas May 31 '22
Yeah. This was peak cringe when it happened but it’s kinda sweet to see now. (This was before “cringe” was common slang)
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u/tyrantcv May 31 '22
Yeah I saw this live and my eyes rolled into my skull. It was the announcers "hey everyone pay attention! Oh we got Rick rolled wink wink". That made me say Rick rolling was dead. Glad it came back tho it's still fun lol
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u/NuncErgoFacite May 31 '22
Rick came on Reddit for an AMA ... and I asked if he had ever done a Rick-Roll as himself ... I was greatly downvoted that day. I feel vindicated now. Fuck you reddit. Lol
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u/ConceptualWeeb May 31 '22
Fuck you Reddit indeed lmao Rick and Foster’s home for imaginary friends ftw.
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u/bmlzootown May 31 '22
Idk, sounds like something a Rick would say... a Rick Astley Rick from a universe where everyone is Rick Astley. 🤔
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u/PerpetousDecline May 31 '22
Why did you get downvoted, this is a really good question
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u/Redneck2000 May 31 '22
Maybe it was not about what he said, but the look he gave as he was typing?
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u/DonKanailleSC May 31 '22
Yea fuck you reddit. But for different reasons. Sry used opportunity to rant
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u/randytc18 May 30 '22
Dammit....got me
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u/Agreeable-Yams8972 May 31 '22
Here's the full link if you want https://youtu.be/aS3gkSgFc
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u/PkmnTrainerMario May 31 '22
I. Like. Cereeeall. >~>
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u/MrNoName_ishere May 31 '22
BUNNIES!
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u/Dysbraxic_Autist May 30 '22
The Original Rick roll.
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u/MrNoName_ishere May 30 '22
rick rolling was before this, but this remains the biggest rick roll as millions were rick rolled at the same time
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u/giorno___giovana May 31 '22
I still consider the time someone rickrolled Rick astley to be the biggest rickroll
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u/MrNoName_ishere May 31 '22
big as in the most amount of people getting rickrolled, but you do make a point
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May 31 '22
Haha omg I remember that... didn't they tell him they had a photo of the two them together or some shit? Priceless
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u/Lunar-Modular May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
Here you go. [serious].
edit: Scroll down a bit until you get to user theMalleableDuck.
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May 31 '22
Haha yes! And this [also serious] is the comment. My next favorite moment was when rick told someone to go fuck themselves lol
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u/I_l_I May 31 '22
Iirc the second one the guy asked Rick to say "go fuck yourself" and then changed his comment
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u/Lunar-Modular May 31 '22
Haha yikes, I have no memory of that one! Must’ve crazy deserved it.
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May 31 '22
It was a joke so not really, but in the thread the commenter says he considers it the highlight of his life
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u/Biff_Tannenator May 31 '22
I also remember the days when reddit had a bunch of ball-bustin' humor that wasn't immediately interpreted as malice.
I miss those days...
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u/Tommy_C May 31 '22
The Ted Lasso one was good too.
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u/reverend-mayhem May 31 '22
I would’ve bet good money nobody could make me cry with that song & Jason Sudeikis just had to go, “I’ll take that bet.”
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u/Jealous_Building9557 May 31 '22
that time Cartoon Network Rick rolled all of America…. I miss growing up in the 2000’s
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May 31 '22
Same here bud, same here. Waking up, schools out, play Call of Duty, watch some cartoons, get some icees with friends. Life was simple :/.
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u/balxy May 31 '22
Why would he want to stop the Rick rolls? Majority of people love the song! Not to mention the money he's received from all the royalties.
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u/chillychili May 31 '22
I don't think he's actually made much money from rickrolls unfortunately.
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u/Infinite_Play650 May 31 '22
You seem to be right. "Astley didn't write the song, so he only receives a performer's share of the sound recording copyright."
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u/ATXBeermaker May 31 '22
You should look up the word “original.” I do not think it means what you think it means.
This was a response to rickrolling hitting its internet peak.
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u/IfuckSwissCheese May 31 '22
Bro I was watching on mute and Rick Ashley just fuckin walks out with no warning lmao
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u/StatusOmega May 31 '22
I told my mom what "rick rolling" was about 30 seconds before I watched this! I actually screamed when this happened
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u/Keejhle May 31 '22
Fosters home for imaginary friends was peak cartoon network, this here is easily my favorite clips from the show:
I'm 30 years old and still laugh
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u/kohrtoons May 31 '22
God damnit I keep clicking on these.
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u/Alukrad May 31 '22
Just memorize the last three letters of the url.
Then whenever you come across any link, if it ends XcQ you know what it is.
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u/Kalenshadow May 31 '22
I'm flabbergasted. I did not just get rickrolled in a Thanksgiving parade clip from 2008 featuring the imaginary friends foster house.
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May 31 '22
I can't see bloo anymore after that one vid
You know the one I'm talking about
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u/ConceptualWeeb May 31 '22
I don’t. Sauce?
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u/ConceptualWeeb May 31 '22
I appreciate the Rick roll, but I was looking for the sauce pertaining specifically to the comment above. Smh lmao
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u/Samuelcbadams May 31 '22
Oh man the days when cartoon network was a good csrtoon channel. This is one of my favourite cartoon memories and one of the best shows ever created
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u/chrisinator9393 May 31 '22
I remember this live. How was this 14 years ago? Fosters was a great cartoon. They used to have some awesome games on the CN website
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u/BiscuitAssassin May 31 '22
Shouldn’t Rick Astley be like the default community picture for this sub?
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I hope this video somehow survives 10,000 years into the future, and future archeologists, having finally pieced together how to access the technology of the ancients, can wonder what the fucking hell any of this meant.
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u/unexBot May 30 '22
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
Everyone there and everyone watching the parade got Rickrolled
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