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Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade gets Rickrolled by Cartoon Network

November 27th, 2008 · 54 Comments

Tags: Holidays · Video

54 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Knavish Rogue // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:40 am

    Wow! They really jumped the turkey with that!

  • 2 April // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42 am

    Oh I laughed my ass off. But then, I’m on opiates.

  • 3 Speedy Cerviche // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42 am

    That’s just painful to watch.

  • 4 Knavish Rogue // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:47 am

    Yes. Opiates can do that for you. (lucky bastard)

  • 5 April // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Posted: 11:31

    “I don’t like things other people like because I’m smarter than they are” comment from Speedy: 11:42

    Hot damn, Speed, I think that’s a record!

  • 6 JohnnyBoy // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:54 am

    It’s expected….now if someone named Slow-Ass Cerviche did it, that’d be something

  • 7 Speedy Cerviche // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Naw, I just think the sight of a 60 year old pop singer gyrating on a float is extremely unpleasant. He looks like Dracula.

    Now the whole “old, unfunny internet meme” thing is another story. I’d gladly expound upon that if you wished me to.

  • 8 April // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:59 am

    He’s over it. He was over Rickrolling before there even was a YouTube. He was making fun of it when it was just lines of code on a Usenet forum.

  • 9 April // Nov 27, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Speedy was making fun of Rickrolling in AOL chat rooms before Rick Astley even recorded it.

  • 10 pal Jacky // Nov 27, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    let’s just hope they don’t call him speedy for everything.
    PS when I was in LAMCJ, I was called ’speedy’.

  • 11 pal Jacky // Nov 27, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    i’ll I got in the house is three tramadol left over from my dog’s surgery. She’s 15 lbs and I’m 11 times her weight so I don’t think I could even cure a headache let alone hallucinate.

  • 12 Speedy Cerviche // Nov 27, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    AOL? I’ve never been in an AOL chatroom! Though the Usenet thing is somewhat true.

    Also, you neglected to mention the masterful anti-Rick diatribe I composed on the original ARPAnet mainframe back in the ’60s. Not one of my finest hours, but it is historically significant.

  • 13 pal Jacky // Nov 27, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    speedy, you were on AOL. that wasn’t you in ‘96, username ‘fordat’ in the ‘I’ve seen Elvis’ chatroom screaming about seeing him at the food court at the hawthorne mall in ‘85?

  • 14 Speedy Cerviche // Nov 27, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    No Jacky, you must have me confused with someone else. While I did see Elvis scarfing down Sbarro’s back in ‘85, I never screamed about in online. I do have a small amount of dignity.

  • 15 pal Jacky // Nov 27, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    I always thought it was strange that Elvis would hang out at the hawthorne mall when the south bay galleria was just down the street.

  • 16 Mr Pete // Nov 27, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Mr. Astley looks remarkably unchanged 20 years later… I would have expected worse.

  • 17 Stretch99 // Nov 27, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Simply ghastley Rick Ashley

    Rick n roll in its truest form

  • 18 Bitsey // Nov 27, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Meh. Is it a Rickroll when Rick himself appears? I think not. The Rickroll is uniquely Youtubey.

    What is a cerviche, anyway, and why is he doing it so fast?

  • 19 Speedy Cerviche // Nov 27, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Bitsey: “Cerviche” is an Arab-Euro loanword, the modern form of which originated in Olde-Spanish. Roughly translated, it means “invective”.

    Now, if I can be straight with y’all for a second and relate my own observation in regards to the point Bitsey has brought up: I think this video showcases a fundamental misunderstanding of the Rickroll on the part of the Cartoon Network, the Macy’s corporation, the Evil Jewish-Run Liberal Media, and all others involved.

    The whole point of the Rickroll is the act of tricking someone into watching the video. Preferably using the promise of something more desirable as a lure. The bait-and-switch is the whole point of the act. Trotting out Mr. Astley on a parade float so he can lip-sync to a captive and uncaring TV audience really goes against the original intentions of the Rickroll.

    Yeah, the Rickroll died when places like FARK started using it. But when that hideous cartoon thing screamed, “I LIKE RICKROLLING”, methinks the corpse was unearthed for the purpose of hardcore homosexual necrophilia.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make a pie.

  • 20 JohnnyBoy // Nov 27, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    And all the time i thought it was the fish marinated in lime juice

    the only thing I actually enjoy in a Mexican restaurant

  • 21 Stretch99 // Nov 28, 2008 at 12:39 am

    “the only thing I actually enjoy in a Mexican restaurant”

    then you don’t know Rodolfo at the Acapolco restaurant on Olive. You’d love his tamalie

  • 22 Andre // Nov 28, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Dammit! I was expecting “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” theme!

    And Stretch…I prefer Rodolpho’s chorizo to his tamale.

  • 23 Stretch99 // Nov 28, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    ***PULLED PORK SANDWICHES***
    http://tinyurl.com/n7but

    Don’t let just anyone pull your pork!!!

  • 24 pal Jacky // Nov 28, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    having had another horrific holiday with my family, I think I’m gonna’ schedule oral surgery for dec 24. It has got to be better than being with them.

  • 25 pal Jacky // Nov 28, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    the day of the gospel is at hand.
    Today, the Sci-Fi channel is giving us a ‘mork and mindy’ marathon.

  • 26 Stretch99 // Nov 28, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    …and when saying TAMALIE I meant PENIS

  • 27 Stretch99 // Nov 28, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    How about ” Pulled pork and Mindy…!!! :-) :-)

  • 28 John Foley // Nov 28, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Then what is the chorizo?

  • 29 pal Jacky // Nov 28, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Perhaps some genius at NBC has decided to show the world that Robin williams was never funny. Don’t less people watch CNBC than the sci-fi channel?
    However, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared. I figure I’m probably not the anti-christ, but perhaps I could con my way into being one of the four horsemen. I’ll start calling myself ‘rubido’ , I look so good in red. And deep down I know that polliwog park is really a terrible substitute for Megido field, and I only now two trumpet players instead of seven, but John the prophet’s record isn’t all that good anyway. And nostrodamus’s prophesies are easily twisted into whatever one wants them to believe.

  • 30 elvisaintdead // Nov 28, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    That is some of the smartest branding I’ve seen in ages. Fucking brilliant.

  • 31 JohnnyBoy // Nov 28, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    the question is…..Who ARE the Chorizo?

  • 32 pal Jacky // Nov 28, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    while speaking of annoying comics, I’m sick of Jenny McCarthy bitching and moaning about her kid being autistic. Couldn’t all the symptoms just be caused by the father being Jim Carrey.

  • 33 John Foley // Nov 28, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    pal Jacky-
    Even if we can’t directly blame Jim Carrey for the progeny’s autism, we should still be able to admit that anyone who willingly enters into a relationship with Carrey deserves any misfortune that ensues.
    She was asking for it.

  • 34 Stretch99 // Nov 29, 2008 at 8:54 am

    “the question is…..Who ARE the Chorizo?”

    and who is the Chorizo-ee

  • 35 darkkommissar // Nov 29, 2008 at 10:57 am

    you know, I actually liked it…so sue me.

  • 36 JohnnyBoy // Nov 29, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    We are Chorizo….resistance is sausage

  • 37 Andre // Nov 29, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Are we not men? We are Chorizo.

    First off, Stretch, I read penis into just about everything you write, but that could just be me.

    Second, it is in fact spelled “tamale”.

    Third, everyone knows that the Latin-tinged euphemism for penis is “chorizo” (Mexican sausage) and not tamale (minced and seasoned meat packed in cornmeal dough, wrapped in corn husks, and steamed).

    Fourth…when are you going to ask me out?

    (Pulled Pork and Mindy…hee hee!)

  • 38 pal Jacky // Nov 29, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    I’m still giddy at the stupid fathers shooting each other at Toys R’ Us yesterday. I may not understand ‘the spirit of christmas’ but if it makes one thinking shopping on a day called ‘black friday’, I don’t want it.

  • 39 pal Jacky // Nov 29, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Hasn’t ‘tamale’ actually referred to ‘ hispanic vagina’ in slang? Perhaps it comes from the horrid casserole dish ‘tamale pie’ or just the cornmeal wrapper of the thing has got the right look.

  • 40 Doug // Nov 29, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    >Stretch99 // Nov 28, 2008 at 1:15 pm
    >
    >***PULLED PORK SANDWICHES***
    >http://tinyurl.com/n7but

    I’ll have one Face of Cthulhu on a bun, not a plate, and please hold the insanity, thank you.

  • 41 eBayEnigma // Nov 30, 2008 at 9:38 am

    @JohnnyBoy

    CEVICHE (with no “R” after the first “E”) is defined as this:

    Salad made of raw fish “cooked” in limejuice combined with tomatoes, onions, spices, chiles, served with chips as an appetizer.

    Just thought I’d share….=)

  • 42 JohnnyBoy // Nov 30, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Yes, it’s quite good……..Googling “Cerviche” however will bring up numerous recipes, as well as Samurai Pizza Cats.

    Means nothing, since “The Dairy of Anne Frank” gets tons o hits too

  • 43 PeekaBooRevue // Nov 30, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Couldn’t just eat ice cream…

  • 44 Speedy Cerviche // Nov 30, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Oh, admit it JohnnyBoy. You had no idea what ceviche was until eBayEnigma told you. Don’t you try to play it off.

    And as long as we’re talking about ceviche and Cerviche, I might as well share some background on my namesake:

    “There has been controversy over the spelling of [Speedy Cerviche's] name. Initially it was thought that Speedy’s surname was spelled “Service” (“service” pronounced with Italian phonics sounds like “ser-vee-chay,” making the name “Speedy Service” a tidy pun). However, most official packaging (such as the VHS box for the movie) spells his name “Cerviche,” making it the de facto spelling. “ – Wikipedia

    I personally like the “Service” spelling, but that probably wouldn’t translate very well on text based forums like this one.

  • 45 JohnnyQuest666 // Nov 30, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    “Yeah, the Rickroll died when places like FARK started using it. But when that hideous cartoon thing screamed, ‘I LIKE RICKROLLING’, methinks the corpse was unearthed for the purpose of hardcore homosexual necrophilia.”

    The final stake in the heart for that corpse has to be the announcer at the end gleefully calling the song “rickrolling phenom ‘Never Gonna Give You Up!’”

    The meme may still come back as some sort of zombie, though. I’d love to hear the song randomly inserted into unrelated musical greeting cards.

  • 46 JohnnyBoy // Dec 1, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Speedy, clearly I have known since at least “Nov 27, 2008 at 8:44 pm ” as documented previously in this discussion.

    I think I had it first in Acapulco in 1985, thugh I cannot produce receipts

  • 47 JohnnyBoy // Dec 1, 2008 at 11:24 am

    And I bet you didn’t know (until I told you) about how that girl ran a fully operational dairy right under the noses of the nazis until she was turned in by the lactose-intolerant

  • 48 JohnnyBoy // Dec 1, 2008 at 11:27 am

    I think that a good name for a Chinese Restaurant would be Hunan Resources

  • 49 Speedy Cerviche // Dec 1, 2008 at 11:47 am

    Riiiight, JB. If you knew what ceviche was (HA! Fat chance!), then why do you think eBayEnigma felt the need to tell you the definition, copied directly from the first hit on Google?

    Come on, this isn’t the kind of knowledge you just know. You have to be told. Preferably by someone with computer skills so advanced that they know how to do that crazy Google thing.

  • 50 MyMonoclePoppedOut // Dec 1, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Oh, shut the fuck up, already.

  • 51 JohnnyBoy // Dec 1, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    Actually, I never know why eBayEnigma does ANYTHING…it’s an enigma!

    Monocle…who, me? If yes, then you may place said monocle into cloaca

  • 52 Speedy Cerviche // Dec 1, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    But then it might not pop out.

  • 53 JohnnyBoy // Dec 1, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    That’s true…..ok, I take it back

  • 54 davidhazard71 // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Hey….OMG Didn’t he decide to like quit singing?? It’s amazing and funny at the same time to see him singing lol

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