Not only did he troll an entire nation, but no one got pissed about it. It was the single most successful trolling in human history and not one person took it the wrong way.
Rick Astley himself came up with it! When it was blowing up in 2008, he asked his American friends what they thought so they pulled the strings to let him RickRoll the nation!
+Valentrix See, every Macy's Day Parade since Rickrolling has been invented, they give ol' Ricky boy the chance to pick ANY float he wants and he OF COURSE picks the most RANDOM one!
+Zyzor I have been watching this parade every year for 30+ years and every singer guest that does their song on the floats ALWAYS lip synch. They are not trying to hide anything, they only get to do a part of their song and it has always been this way. They are not on stage with a backing band and time to do their entire song. They are on a moving float that stops for 40 seconds for them to basically make an appearance.
The beauty of this, is that he "Rick Roll'd" probably over a million people in one instance. He Rick Roll'd the Thanksgiving Day Parade. No public holidays are safe. Can't do nothing but respect that.
Alot more then a million people gringo. There a few million there and more then 20 million watching on the TV so Rick just rickolled over 25 million people.
Imagine a crowd of Christmas carolers knocking on your door and Rick Astley is among them Instead of a Christmas classic, it's Never Gonna Give You Up.
+Charles Peter Watson Nah it still a suprise for me. At first i think the supprising song is that imaginary friend song but suddenly rick astley come out.
teamradfordtv It's pretty clear it's a lip sync. It sounds exactly like the studio recording. Maybe it was live at the event but it's definitely not live in the recording we're hearing.
I remember in a Jeep forum a long time ago a guy posted a link to a video titled "My buddy Rick rolls his jeep". Nobody would click on the link and they kept posting mean messages, despite what he was saying. I clicked on it and it WAS his buddy (I'm assuming his name was Rick) rolling a Jeep down a hill by mistake. Pretty funny story.
I remember watching this live and laughing my ass off. The rest of my family had no idea why this was so funny, and my mom actually loved that he was there.... but didn’t understand why he was (of all people) the special guest singer.
If I'm correct Rick Astley only wrote the song and was a last minute add on as the singer too, just like the dancer girls in the video were last minute replacements who didn't know how to really dance, likewise Rick didn't know how to really sing his own song and that could have been why he hate's the Rick Roll, or the other fact that Rick only made like $6.00 out of all the Rick Roll memes because youtube screwed him.
@@jeaxaz1133 True. But I feel like so many people just see it as a joke and not as a good quality song. It really is just a classic song, and the the thing I like about rick rolling is it keeps the song alive and relevant, and is super funny. At the same time, it also makes people get annoyed at the song and see it as a meme rather than a good quality song.
Ah yeah, I remember the day when *the whole world* sat down in front of their TVs and watched that Thanksgiving parade thingy. It was really something.
RighteousPoop Man, I was like 6 watching Halo videos and I got rickrolled when I saw a video that told me how to watch the video on that laptop on one of those maps
Tim Timothy It was a Gears of War 2 teaser trailer. I watched the whole thing thinking that the camera would soon pan out to show the song playing on damaged t.v surrounded by rubble like the trailer was trying to mimic a fallout trailer or something.
See also: Michael Bolton in the Lonely Island song "Jack Sparrow". Apparently he didn't quite understand why they thought it would be so hilarious but he good-naturedly rolled with it and a hysterically funny song came of it lol. (His solo slow ballad version of it is also beautiful and sentimental and worth a watch)
I'm actually sad because of the lip sync :/ I just heard him sing this recently and he sounds a lot more mature and deeper, but sang a wonderful piece of internet history that has truly aged with him...Wish they hadn't lip synced
Saw this on TV live. Fun times. I remember everyone online saying RickRolling was dead after this. And yet 13 years later it is still going strong. Hilarious.
I remember seeing this and laughing when I realized I'd just been RickRolled on Thanksgiving morning along with everyone else watching the Macy's Parade . Who cares if he was lip syncing..that was awesome that he RickRolled that many people at once.
LOL! That record scratch noise at 0:47 worked so well! That should be a mandatory part of the meme! In fact, Rick should add it to the start of the official video! LOL
I remember seeing this live, it was so surreal. It was just before memes and internet culture were increasingly referenced in mainstream TV/movies, and appropriated in advertising. Today we just roll our eyes at pander-y stuff like that.
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he trolled an entire nation.
No... an entire wooorld *Dramatic voice*
naynay sploogle biggest rick roll there will ever be
Not only did he troll an entire nation, but no one got pissed about it. It was the single most successful trolling in human history and not one person took it the wrong way.
I GAVE THIS COMMENT IT'S 420 LIKE WHAT DO I GET
OWNED.
Whoever brainstormed this should get the Nobel Prize for best idea ever.
Thank 4-chan Then
***** Because even though you didn't get what you were hoping for, you could still enjoy the track.
***** That's what I meant.
Nobel Prize in what category? Physics? Chemistry? May I suggest the Polar Music Prize instead? :)
Rick Astley himself came up with it! When it was blowing up in 2008, he asked his American friends what they thought so they pulled the strings to let him RickRoll the nation!
I love how he chooses the most random float to rickroll people from. I mean who would expect Rick Astley to come out of the FHIF float?
+Valentrix yes he CHOSE that. It was Rick Astley's idea...
+Valentrix See, every Macy's Day Parade since Rickrolling has been invented, they give ol' Ricky boy the chance to pick ANY float he wants and he OF COURSE picks the most RANDOM one!
+Alex Coffin
Rick; I pick this one.
Guy 1; Why that one?
Guy 2; Kids like that show. they'll be disa-
Rick; I pick this one.
Guy 2; ... Okay...
I love it how they just picked one to be among the younger viewers who would understand the joke more
I did. That's why I looked up this video. ;)
...Rick Astley is an abandoned imaginary friend? WHAT ELSE DID NOBODY EVER TELL ME
I seriously love this comment.
and your face... wow...
This comment deserves more upvotes, nice comment :)
+Tetsuron :D!
ya he was my 6th grade imaginary friend I was a lonely kid
that moment when the whole nation got rick rolled.
i was not ready!
Tyrone Thompson Nether was I!
The same day the same time the same second a baby was born
Pen L Mommy. What happened when I was born?
Mom:Uh- Well a person ricked rolled us..
What’s rick rolled mommy?
Mom:A long story....
Ash TheAkwardPeep
Mom: And a legendary story
he's lip-syncing his own song, he really is the king of trolls........(I'm bowing down to worship)
They do it because the harsh weather on their vocal cords.
everybody lipsyncs its mandatory
+Zyzor Also, if you ACTUALLY sang and moved at the same time, your voice would become jumpy
+Zyzor I have been watching this parade every year for 30+ years and every singer guest that does their song on the floats ALWAYS lip synch. They are not trying to hide anything, they only get to do a part of their song and it has always been this way. They are not on stage with a backing band and time to do their entire song. They are on a moving float that stops for 40 seconds for them to basically make an appearance.
+Zyzor Ah but singing in this cold weather must be horrible >.
The beauty of this, is that he "Rick Roll'd" probably over a million people in one instance. He Rick Roll'd the Thanksgiving Day Parade. No public holidays are safe.
Can't do nothing but respect that.
Alot more then a million people gringo.
There a few million there and more then 20 million watching on the TV so Rick just rickolled over 25 million people.
Imagine a crowd of Christmas carolers knocking on your door and Rick Astley is among them
Instead of a Christmas classic, it's Never Gonna Give You Up.
The Padres Rick Rolled the Red Sox like 7 months ago
The Roblox Bandit yah
The Roblox Bandit not as big thought tbh.
man how the f*ck was this 8 years ago
I know!! It feels like it was only yesterday
I always though this was in like 2012 holy crap I’m old...
11 years now. You played yourself.
Lmao 11 years now
@@hustlarrr man! Your comment was only two weeks ago? Felt like yesterday
Rick Astley: the walking meme.
+Pedro The Unicorn Fucker thats gonna be a documentary in 10 years
@@spiddyman0079 it already is
Lugeer Ron Howard’s goNna make a movie outta this
@@spiddyman0079 oh wow you responded, also it already is: th-cam.com/video/dCUXNAeB7RE/w-d-xo.html
@@Iugeer I wont click it
I love the Rick Roll but I hate the "special musical surprise" spoiler.
Matt Lauer ruins everything!
+Charles Peter Watson You only hate it because you knew what it was really going to be, admit it!
Shadowkey392 Anyone who read the title of the video knew but it didn't need a spoiler hint to further kill the surprise.
+Charles Peter Watson At least he gave a warning, seeing how the Rick Roll, at this time, started becoming known as an annoyance.
+Charles Peter Watson Nah it still a suprise for me. At first i think the supprising song is that imaginary friend song but suddenly rick astley come out.
Cartoon Network just Rick-Rolled America...
Indeed. Back when CN was actually a good network who did awesome shows and suprises.
The comedy shows were meh to me in 2008-2009
Steven Universe is pretty great.
Madeline Roberts yeahhhh....no
And the entire world. :)
Ahhhh the awesome feeling when you smell turkey cooking and all of a sudden you get Rick rolled. How I miss being Rick rolled.
Ikr..
its 30000x better than screamers and actually fun for the victim
victor anaya Can you please tell WTF is FRIKIN' RICKROLL!!?!?
steven wards leave
BlasterTheGuineapig Nevermind that I've read the wiki page now.
That lip syncing, though.
You're kidding me... looks like he's singing live ;-)
teamradfordtv
It's pretty clear it's a lip sync. It sounds exactly like the studio recording. Maybe it was live at the event but it's definitely not live in the recording we're hearing.
I know, it was a joke... that's why I put a ";-)"
Everyone lip syncs in the parade, it gets too complicated to sync the live performance for television for something like this.
The puppet lip synced better that Rick!!! :D
Yet another reason why Cartoon Network is better than Nickelodeon.
*teen titans go and the powerpuff girls reboot*
mario gamez It's better than the absolute shit that Nick puts out nowadays.
Promiscuous Probiscis
I assume Teen Titans GO! are the Retarted Oranges? XD
Your a fucking idiot @Promiscuous Probiscis
McLovin McW aaay u kno et.
This has got to be the greatest Rick Roll of all time...
+Dino Hurić look up bill o relies one
no the padres one
gaming kid 420 nah it’s the person who Rick rolled Rick astley himself
The float is literally rolling along while he sings :D
there was one about a week ago where it was a youtube ad
I remember in a Jeep forum a long time ago a guy posted a link to a video titled "My buddy Rick rolls his jeep". Nobody would click on the link and they kept posting mean messages, despite what he was saying. I clicked on it and it WAS his buddy (I'm assuming his name was Rick) rolling a Jeep down a hill by mistake. Pretty funny story.
Omg
Haha
I just choked on my gum laughing so hard
...and the award for best random comment goes to @Aggressive Pizza!
LMAO
I feel like no one in the crowd got the reference.
Did you not hear the Screaming?
@ Grant M u still here ???
@Shades of periwinkle he could be dead now.
Ike
@@zeusalmighty2815 yep :)
Is it wrong if I rickroll myself voluntarily??
i put it on my mp3
usagi18 Isn't that called "listening to a song"? :P
+NaiveAmoeba Jajaja
Well its a darn sight less embarrasing than being a bronie or a furry, go ahead!
no
i love Rick Astley for doing this
Hear, hear.
His smile is my favorite part. You can tell he delights in having become such a meme and nobody had to pressure him into participating
I remember watching this live and laughing my ass off. The rest of my family had no idea why this was so funny, and my mom actually loved that he was there.... but didn’t understand why he was (of all people) the special guest singer.
I saw it live on TV and spent the rest of the parade laughing.
Noone RickRolls like the man himself. Pay homage to the king.
I always wondered how he felt about the whole Rick Roll phenomenon...I guess he's cool with it. LOL
D Earnest yeah he is completely cool with it
Harry Jenkins actually at first he absolutely despised it. I think now he’s just accepted that it’s a thing
You heard of the Reddit guy who rick rolled rick astley?
If I'm correct Rick Astley only wrote the song and was a last minute add on as the singer too, just like the dancer girls in the video were last minute replacements who didn't know how to really dance, likewise Rick didn't know how to really sing his own song and that could have been why he hate's the Rick Roll, or the other fact that Rick only made like $6.00 out of all the Rick Roll memes because youtube screwed him.
> I always wondered how he felt...
You should ask him how he's feeling!
Let's appreciate this pinnacle of television history
***** Yeah, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends will always have a special place in my heart.
Oh, you meant the Rickroll...
This was truly the peak of Rick Rolling. You just can't top the man himself showing up to Rick Roll millions of viewers.
Well, there's the time Rick got rickrolled on Reddit.
I will never forget seeing this happen live and screaming “WE JUST GOT RICKROLLED” while my family was just confused as fuck.
That's it ladies and gentlemen, the internet's been won. G'night everybody!
Yeah, but this reply is late. G'morning, as well.
@@jeaxaz1133 Who still loves "Never gonna give you up" in 2019? Just me?
@@speedepitomised Everyone who has the decency to search up "Rick Roll" and watch the original and then watch this.
@@jeaxaz1133 True. But I feel like so many people just see it as a joke and not as a good quality song. It really is just a classic song, and the the thing I like about rick rolling is it keeps the song alive and relevant, and is super funny. At the same time, it also makes people get annoyed at the song and see it as a meme rather than a good quality song.
morning
The Day the World got Rick Roll'd, Nov. 27, 2008
Ah yeah, I remember the day when *the whole world* sat down in front of their TVs and watched that Thanksgiving parade thingy. It was really something.
Americans are the only one who celebrate thanksgiving
Kasian-Productions I know, i just wanted to say "the world" to make it sound more dramatic
2023 and this is the first time I’m seeing this haha
Getting RickRolled is one thing, but having the legend himself do it live is just extraordinarily brilliant.
*Bows Down* I'M NOT WORTHY
Internet's over everyone: pack it up and go home~
*Mission Accomplished*
Hey I didn't see one cat in that video! We must continue...
ImCarrotsforBananas The cat's dead. We found it's body 3 weeks ago. Didn't you get the memo?
Lol
Not if Big Chungus has anything to say
They disguised this perfectly. Fosters home was the best show ever!
CrimsonNecron the guy saying “musical surprise” ruined it
@Pokèmon Master 08 I wish they should revive it as a new season or a reboot.
That feel when your childhood meme makes it on reality Tv
7 years later and this is still one of the best RickRolls ever!
14 years later… And it still stands
7 years later your comment is 7 years old 😮
I love your profile pic
*"I LIKE RICK ROLLING!!"*
xD
Yupp, I remember my first rick roll.
RighteousPoop Man, I was like 6 watching Halo videos and I got rickrolled when I saw a video that told me how to watch the video on that laptop on one of those maps
RighteousPoop I only found this video from wikipedia lol
What was it?
Tim Timothy It was a Gears of War 2 teaser trailer. I watched the whole thing thinking that the camera would soon pan out to show the song playing on damaged t.v surrounded by rubble like the trailer was trying to mimic a fallout trailer or something.
I looked up pikachu evolves into raichu
Reddit, checking in.
checked.
Le redit armie!!! :)
Checked.
check
checked.
Haha that's fantastic, he rick-rolled an entire parade
He didn't just Rick Roll an entire parade, but everyone watching the parade at home too!
And not just "a parade"... the world's largest parade, which also had over 40 million people watching live from home.
@@thomasishere9462 This is Awesome
And he rickrolled the entire Foster's fandom too
I feel so bad for people on the people on the other side
time to bring it back
Any musician that can parody himself and have fun doing it is an awesome person and deserves a special "Rick Roll'd" Grammy of Achievement.
See also: Michael Bolton in the Lonely Island song "Jack Sparrow". Apparently he didn't quite understand why they thought it would be so hilarious but he good-naturedly rolled with it and a hysterically funny song came of it lol. (His solo slow ballad version of it is also beautiful and sentimental and worth a watch)
Lip sync using the 80s voice is even worse
Cory Weston What do you mean?
***** I know, I just wanted to hear from him how HE thinks it works.
I'm actually sad because of the lip sync :/ I just heard him sing this recently and he sounds a lot more mature and deeper, but sang a wonderful piece of internet history that has truly aged with him...Wish they hadn't lip synced
***** the original voice from the song is the essence of rickroll
the sad part is he can actually sing..
By far the most epic Rick roll because Rick astley is doing the rickroll
If only they did it this year
+Brenden Dobbs LOL YES
Saint Nickroll?
Just imagine what the people unfamiliar with the phenomenon must have been thinking.
Imagine sitting at home, watching Cartoon Network and getting fucking Rick Rolled. Amazing.
Still getting rickroll'd in 2013
Never been rickroll'd and never will.
How about 2018!
@@battlepig1014 how about 2021 :/
@@acuradam 2022
Out of all the floats he chooses the Foster's float. There's goes my childhood. And then cheese saves the day that made smile xD
The entire nation just got Rick Roll'd by Rick Astley himself. I have never seen anything more legendary. Give this man an award.
The day the whole world was rick rolled on live tv
Saw this on TV live. Fun times.
I remember everyone online saying RickRolling was dead after this.
And yet 13 years later it is still going strong. Hilarious.
I remember being like
"Oh nice they have a Cartoon Network show in the pa- HOLY S*** RICK ASTLEY NOOOOO
_"I LOVE RICK ROLLING!"_ ~Cheese
I've been Rick Rolled and it feels oh so good!
seems legit
12 years later, still the most legendary Rickroll ever.
Holy hell CN is doing it
The moment I had to explain Rickrolling to my parents, recorded for all time.
probably the most epic rick rolled of all time
that feeling when you realize just how old rick rolling is
that day on everyone got rickrolled
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends has been Rick Rolled! Even Cheese liked it!
This was the moment Rick accepted the meme to further his career and the culture of rickroll
"I LIKE RICK-ROLLING!"
You would, Cheese.
Words can't describe how epic this was
I remember seeing this and laughing when I realized I'd just been RickRolled on Thanksgiving morning along with everyone else watching the Macy's Parade . Who cares if he was lip syncing..that was awesome that he RickRolled that many people at once.
Listen to the way the crowd cheered. They knew what was about to happen to them.
WHY IS IT 2020 AND IM JUST SEEING THIS!!! I never knew i needed this.
Nowadays, whenever people do this, the reaction the Internet has is....
*How do you do, fellow kids?*
LOL! That record scratch noise at 0:47 worked so well! That should be a mandatory part of the meme! In fact, Rick should add it to the start of the official video! LOL
it would have been funnier if he was dancing
this dude rickrolled an entire country. what a mad lad
We were all so innocent and pure back in the rickrolling days
This year we celebrate the 10th Anniversary Of The Thanksgiving Day Rickroll
Rick Astley is not the hero we deserve, but he's the hero we need. I hope he always shows up when needed most.
2008 was a simpler time
I remember watching this when it aired. My jaw was on the floor.
This was actually Rick astley, duck he has changes so much
i remember watching this live as it happened and i had never screamed SO LOUD.
The fact that Rick Astley was in on the joke shows how good of a sport he was lmao.
Cheese: I like Rickrolling!
Me: Me too, Cheese.
0_0 in front of millions of americans
Sounds brilliant performed live - What an artist!
Hate to break it to you but he was lip syncing here.
Still amazing though.
My favorite moment in the history of television.
Foster's home for imaginary friends... I miss that show RIP
That has got to be the best Rick Roll I've ever seen HAHAHAHA!!!!
1:59 WTF 'I like rickrolling"
This was the apex of Rickrolling, it was pretty much done after this. You can't top Rick Astley himself coming out to Rickroll millions of people.
That guy at the end whose like “I like rickrolling”
I just love that
biggest rickroll ever!
He fucking rick rolled the Macy's day parade! How epic is that!!
totally epic!!!
I remember seeing this live, it was so surreal.
It was just before memes and internet culture were increasingly referenced in mainstream TV/movies, and appropriated in advertising. Today we just roll our eyes at pander-y stuff like that.
I'll be waiting for when youtube's weird algorithm recommends this to everyone.
I don't always watch the Macy's parade, but when I do, I see the most epic performance ever.
I forgot about this! It was a beautiful thing.
This is probaly the largest Rick Roll ever.
*Lets make an bigger one*
Honestly Cheese shouting "I like Rickrolling!" at 1:55 is even funnier than the rickroll itself.
Best. Day. ever.
This was my first rickroll. I had known what it was, but this was when I was rickrolled without knowing. 😂
Take me back to 2008 internet culture
What ironic is the fact that even after he was done singing. The "Rick Roll" kept going. 😆