A Slightly Newer Thanksgiving Tradition

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Comments

[aota.livejournal.com]

Totally made of win!!

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I saw this earlier, after which I noted to myself that it's time to retire the rickroll altogether; it's hit its absolute potential peak.

[dlobok.livejournal.com]

Yeah. After that, it's done. Seriously. It can't be topped, and I don't wanna see anyone try.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Which absolutely guarantees somebody will. You just know it.

[packy.livejournal.com]

Only one person has the opportunity to top this: Barak Obama. On January 20th.

[ladypoetess.livejournal.com]

I saw this in Wil Wheaton's twitterstream first, only because I loaded Twitter before LJ. I was dying laughing, and then I had to explain to my nephew what a "rickroll" is before he could understand why this was funny.

[eibii.livejournal.com]

Oh, so much love. Pity nobody else is dancing with him.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

If you're gonna get rickrolled, best it should be by Rick! Astley hasn't gotten this kind of publicity in 20 years, cheers to him for being a good sport and joining the fun.

[cassandra-7.livejournal.com]

I agree. There can be no better RickRoll than an actual "live" one.

Wow. I literally laughed out loud.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

I also laughed out loud. oh my goodness that was so full of win.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

[devospice.livejournal.com]

It's so cool that he has a sense of humor about this whole phenomenon. If some song by Prince had caught on instead of Astley's one you know Symbol Boy would just be a prick about it.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Foster's House of Imaginary Friends! Now I wish I'd watched the parade.

[sophia9847.livejournal.com]

While this means the Rickroll has officially jumped the shark, it was a great way to go out! We actually turned off the parade about 5 minutes before it happened. Ah well, that's why they invented Youtube...

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

It was so great - my housemate found a link to footage earlier today, and insisted I drop what food prep I was doing to come watch. I started squeeing and jumping around like a little girl. Rick Astley was my first pop-star crush when I was 12 years old, and that song will never get old to me.

What was also great is that I called my mom about half an hour ago, and she mentioned that she had emailed me a link to that float/act. She had no idea of the concept of rickrolling - she just knew I'd been a fangirl and so she thought of me when she saw Astley start performing.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I was at the convenience store next to the hotel when Donna called me up and told me "THEY JUST RICKROLLED THE MACY'S PARADE!" :-)

[enjis.livejournal.com]

Okay, maybe it's sad, but I actually LIKE the song Rick sings.....

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

It's not sad! Hell, it was nominated for a Grammy the year it was released - it just had the misfortune of being up against Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car", which ended up sweeping that year.

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

Absolutely fricken' epic.

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is pretty big. May be the biggest Rick Roll ever up to this point; seems fitting that Astley himself would be the one to pull it off. Pop culture is a strange mistress. It can elevate the most unlikely of people to superstardom and give people like Mr. Astley and Journey a shot at a second go-round.

That said, I'm glad they decided to put that together for this year's parade. We needed some epicness this holiday season.

You know what? You should do a song about Rick Rolling in the style of Rick Astley.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

I'll bet that guy LOVES the Internet for restoring him from obscurity back to fame. :-)

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Rickrolling America on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Priceless. :)