Wonkette
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!
Will there ever be a Eric Cartman balloon? Its what America wants.
This makes me really happy. No snark.
the crazed mob got the wrong guy.
Larry Fine: What about a Kenny balloon that gets popped or otherwise destroyed every year?
Larry Fine: What America REALLY wants is a Master Shake balloon.
Cartoon network deserves some serious credit for this.
As does Rick Astley I suppose.
That’s fucking awesome.
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.
Is he pulling an Ashlee Simpson there?
This made me very, very happy.
good job by all…it sounded like about 40 people watching the parade got the joke.
Christastic: Meatwad!
I liked the blue penis singing the intro. cute!
Wonderful! The perfect antidote for Saxby Chambliss.
FMA: Dethklok.
shanemcgowan: Brock Samson.
I actually saw this live yesterday and had to explain what a “rickroll” was to my parental units.
InsidiousTuna: Carl.
Check, and mate.
This feeling I’m having… it… it must be the feeling Fundies get when they imagine meeting Jesus
shanemcgowan: The Monarch’s Floating Cocoon, natch.
Monarchmobile and complete with Dr. Girlfriend, in the flesh…
Seeing as the venture brothers is a show primarily about adult failure, I recommend any character from it for the past 8 years.
Rick pulling down his pants and striking the goatse pose would have been so much better!!!
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.
Rick’s hair…real or fake?
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.
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. Never gonna leave these memes and desert you.
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
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.
Highlight of the whole parade. Be fun to have him jump out at the inauguration.
ShamWow: Me too.
Of course, this means that this is officially an Old Meme.
oooh rick! does the fun ever end?
no really, stop.
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.
Deepthroat:Astley was the surprise?? No wonder I was disappointed.
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.
My friend’s sister is the creator of that show, and I heard about earlier this month. very glad to see it went off.
I pretty much laughed myself silly when I saw this, it made me so happy.
Now, is that a good thing?
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
hockeymom: I think he borrowed Gary Numan’s toupee. Looked like it was pushing up in the back when it rubbed against his collar.
does anyone else smell poppers? must be some sort of flashback for me.
I liked him.
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!