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Oh Hey Dudez Thanksgiving Got Rick Rolled!

by Ken Layne  1:13 pm November 28, 2008


There’s a famous teevee event that is apparently still held every Thanksgiving, called the Happy Thanksgiving Parade of Macy’s Store! So it happened again, yesterday, and the Cartoon Network went ahead and cold rick-rolled all the old people watching broadcast television on Thanksgiving morning, instead of cooking food or whatever, pizza pizza!

{ 42 comments }

Larry Fine November 28, 2008 at 1:18 pm

Will there ever be a Eric Cartman balloon? Its what America wants.

Carleaux The Pup November 28, 2008 at 1:22 pm

This makes me really happy. No snark.

dougbob November 28, 2008 at 1:31 pm

the crazed mob got the wrong guy.

JohnnyMeatworth November 28, 2008 at 1:35 pm

[re=187116]Larry Fine[/re]: What about a Kenny balloon that gets popped or otherwise destroyed every year?

Christastic November 28, 2008 at 1:40 pm

[re=187116]Larry Fine[/re]: What America REALLY wants is a Master Shake balloon.

Bojevus November 28, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Cartoon network deserves some serious credit for this.

Bojevus November 28, 2008 at 1:47 pm

As does Rick Astley I suppose.

InsidiousTuna November 28, 2008 at 1:50 pm

That’s fucking awesome.

HuskyMescan November 28, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Yeah, my little balls and chain (kids) allow me to watch cartoon network without shame. I’m still waiting for the Tom Kenny balloon since he does the voice for almost every cartoon character on that channel.

pepe November 28, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Is he pulling an Ashlee Simpson there?

jagorev November 28, 2008 at 1:52 pm

This made me very, very happy.

LBOtomist November 28, 2008 at 1:53 pm

good job by all…it sounded like about 40 people watching the parade got the joke.

FMA November 28, 2008 at 1:53 pm

[re=187129]Christastic[/re]: Meatwad!

sati demise November 28, 2008 at 2:01 pm

I liked the blue penis singing the intro. cute!

shanemcgowan November 28, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Wonderful! The perfect antidote for Saxby Chambliss.

shanemcgowan November 28, 2008 at 2:06 pm

[re=187139]FMA[/re]: Dethklok.

InsidiousTuna November 28, 2008 at 2:12 pm

[re=187155]shanemcgowan[/re]: Brock Samson.

ShamWow November 28, 2008 at 2:17 pm

I actually saw this live yesterday and had to explain what a “rickroll” was to my parental units.

Keram2 November 28, 2008 at 2:17 pm

[re=187158]InsidiousTuna[/re]: Carl.

Check, and mate.

mattbolt November 28, 2008 at 2:26 pm

This feeling I’m having… it… it must be the feeling Fundies get when they imagine meeting Jesus

schvitzatura November 28, 2008 at 2:27 pm

[re=187155]shanemcgowan[/re]: The Monarch’s Floating Cocoon, natch.

Monarchmobile and complete with Dr. Girlfriend, in the flesh…

bago November 28, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Seeing as the venture brothers is a show primarily about adult failure, I recommend any character from it for the past 8 years.

crikey_booya November 28, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Rick pulling down his pants and striking the goatse pose would have been so much better!!!

mattbolt November 28, 2008 at 2:52 pm

I don’t know who should be sadder. The handful of teenage geeks on 4chan who invented the Rick Roll as a dumb, one-off bit of comic relief between bouts of anime pr0n. Or NBC, for devoting time in one of the year’s biggest and most traditional family television events to rick rolling. Either way, I’m fucking ecstatic.

hockeymom November 28, 2008 at 3:12 pm

Rick’s hair…real or fake?

Hagar77 November 28, 2008 at 3:38 pm

SO wrong, so wrong, placing the phrases “don’t need them any more” and “discarded” in such close proximity to a live appearance by The Rickster. Now I will try to front like I don’t have this and “Together Forever” on my On-the-Go list, having been prompted by “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” to remember how awesome he was.

10-to-1 the announcer had no fucking clue what he was saying when he read “the Rick-rolling phenom” off the teleprompter.

bago November 28, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. Never gonna leave these memes and desert you.

Deepthroat November 28, 2008 at 3:49 pm

leave it to douchey Matt Lauer to ruin a perfectly good Rick Roll by prefacing it with, “watch carefully, we hear there’s a special musical surprise!” Douche.

also, Harvy Birdman, Home Movies, and Venture Brothers are WAY better than Aquateen

sezme November 28, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Ha ha funny or whatever, but I don’t really need to watch this clip to the end, do I? After the “Never gonna give you up” part, watching it is a little too much like work.

getoffmylawn November 28, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Highlight of the whole parade. Be fun to have him jump out at the inauguration.

iaro November 28, 2008 at 6:38 pm

[re=187161]ShamWow[/re]: Me too.
Of course, this means that this is officially an Old Meme.

hardheaded_woman November 28, 2008 at 6:46 pm

oooh rick! does the fun ever end?
no really, stop.

Chuckie Jesus November 28, 2008 at 6:49 pm

It took about a year for it to rise from the stinky dick-cheese basements to the airwaves. Some memes are like White Castle, and slide through the media digestive system with a quickness.

finallyhappy November 28, 2008 at 6:52 pm

[re=187215]Deepthroat[/re]:Astley was the surprise?? No wonder I was disappointed.

badmuthagoose November 28, 2008 at 9:11 pm

When this came on, I was holding raw turkey breasts under the tap and I laughed so hard, I thought I’d snot myself. I had to explain to my teenage daughter why I yelled out “THANKSGIVING GOT RICKROLLED!” I told her the whole thing and she looked as if she totally didn’t believe me. Wanna know why? Because it was an internet-birthed cultural phenomenon SHE didn’t know about. Self-centered damn teens. They think they invented the shit.

putthatonpettycash November 28, 2008 at 10:43 pm

My friend’s sister is the creator of that show, and I heard about earlier this month. very glad to see it went off.

Cranky Little Camperette November 28, 2008 at 11:24 pm

I pretty much laughed myself silly when I saw this, it made me so happy.

Now, is that a good thing?

Borat November 29, 2008 at 3:42 am

This is one of the best Thanksgiving presents ever. We need more inside jokes on family shows. I’m sure the Country Music Channel has some modern equivalent of Hee-Haw someone can infiltrate and bring down from the inside (pink cowboy hats, gay voting and the like)

I liked how RICK! had to push his way past the kids before he started lip-syncing. I’m sure that was planned

Weeping Jesus November 29, 2008 at 3:56 am

[re=187188]hockeymom[/re]: I think he borrowed Gary Numan’s toupee. Looked like it was pushing up in the back when it rubbed against his collar.

c-freak November 29, 2008 at 1:25 pm

does anyone else smell poppers? must be some sort of flashback for me.

Hans the Brinker November 30, 2008 at 5:30 pm

I liked him.

thefrontpage December 1, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Who on earth is Rick Astley? And how much was he paid for that crap? And who are all those people up early on Thanksigiving morning watching this crap? People, that’s the day to sleep in!

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