Macy's Parade Rick Rolled: Rick Astley Sings On Thanksgiving (VIDEO)

The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade has officially been Rick Rolled.

The float for Cartoon Network's "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" seemed normal enough, with a group of muppet-esque characters singing a tune from the show. But the music abruptly scratched to a stop, and Rick Astley emerged on the float to perform "Never Gonna Give You Up."

Watch the video:

Comments

[XME]

Ah...takes me back to my early teens. I always loved Astley. For someone who was know as a "teeny bopper", he has an amazing voice.

[bajanreporter]

ROFLMAO - and yes I like the barack-roll too

[SparkyDash]

I thought it was cute and Rick did a great job...he was good-natured to pull it off. I love the song! If you haven't seen the Youtube BarackRolled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4
or the clever John McCain get Barackrolled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKg&feature=related they are pretty cute videos.

[ChescoMom]

My daughter and I LOAO till tears rolled down. Then she punched this up for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKg

LMAO some more.

[abdiver12]

LOL, so now they're Rickrolling kids at parades now? What the heck, a bunch of puppets singing segwaying to....Rick Astley! Seriously though, its good to see the guy again though I despise lypsyncing in any form. Saw Marie Osmond do it today with a musical medly on TV and it just looked plain dumb.

[TrueThis]

He looks great! I got of bed and start dancing when I heard and saw him singing at Macy's parade! My favorite song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

[sykadelic chic]

XD Omg, Cartoon Network pwned the Macy's parade. That's the best thing I've heard all day.
Most magnificent Rickroll -ever-.

This really makes me wanna work that much harder to get a job at CN or AS. Someday...

[gdaerin]

lol

[chickenpieeggs]

So when will they feature my children's favorite children's music artist?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5cCmbnWTc

[blastocyst]

Rick is a beloved figure and icon. The songs are yet beloved by many and in my own nostalgic bubble I like them as much if not more than I did 20 years ago.
I admire the good-natured aspect of his being in the parade yesterday. I wish that I could say that I saw it as it was happening.
Thanks once more for this Thanksgiving treat.

[janfin]

Great post---I agree!

[jillsond]

Didn't someone just make fun of Rick on Rachel Maddow? And she acted like she didn't know who he was, and very well prolly didn't . Love me some Rick Astley, still have the cassette and still listen to it occasionally. So what if he was lip synching? To the original recording 20 yrs ago. That was just plain fun.

[bjammin]

Why all the hate, folks? Its a bit of fun. Sure, Rick's glory days are in the past, but no-ones more aware of this than Mr Astley himself,

Just RELAX, you big babies.

[jillsond]

No doubt. He looked adorable amongst those little whatchamacallits.

[LJB1977]

the whatchamacallits are "imaginary" friends who have been abandoned by the children who imagined them. So they sit in Mrs. Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends waiting to be fostered or adopted out to other children.

[TrueThis]

The music these artist have been making lately maybe we need to go back to the glory days. I guess that's whay people love Astley he bring back fun memories of good music.

[libsechumanist]

My favorite Rick Roll is the really gutsy guy on the street corner rolling the haters from Fred Phelp's group "god hates f**s" - I just love the guy groovin to the song while these horrible people hold up their disgusting signs. My hero!

[redplanet]

Today's event is already in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

[danielsadicario]

Obama should do this at his State of the Union.

[theone718]

LMAO, that would be CLASSIC

[HawaiianPunch]

Too cool!

:-D !!

[kkuchenb]

Too cute. I have a soft spot for that song, anyway. It was a big hit my first year in college. Good luck to Rick Astley that he's found some kind of secondary fame.

[ck one]

I too have a soft spot for that song and for the exact same reason. I even made up a dance to the song and would crack my friends up every night doing it.