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June 4, 2007	Articles for deletion	Deleted
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MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Awards have been rickrolled when 4chan, as well as several other forums (I believe ultimate guitar forum actually started it), voted to have Rick Astley nominated. He accepted the nomination and may quite possibly win, which would be probably the largest rickroll ever. Someone add this to the article, I'm not sure where to add it in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.103.47 (talk • contribs) 01:53, 4 October 2008

Family Guy

In an episode of Family Guy where Peter goes into the past, Bryan sings Never Gonna Give you up in its entirety at the end of the episode. I think this would definitely count as a Rick Roll. 75.53.42.191 (talk) 05:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Been discussed. No it isn't. – LATICS talk 05:19, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, it's just a simple use of that song. a rick roll is either the music video, or that song playing in the middle of another song/starting out of nowhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Estemshorn (talk • contribs) 10:22, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would count as a reference though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.251.106.238 (talk) 17:22, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely include it as a reference to the culture. (The Elfoid (talk) 17:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Nancy Pelosi

There is a section detailing that Nancy Pelosi had uploaded a video that contained a rickroll. Forgive my skepticism, but just because the video was uploaded under her username does not necessarily convey intent. It is possible that anyone else could have put the video there, and since the only references there are the video itself and a site talking about the video itself and there are no sources about or from Pelosi herself, I am not sure if this information is notable enough to be on this page yet. Closetoeuphoria (talk) 23:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pork and Beans

Wasn't this one of the many YouTube phenomenons parodied in Weezer's Pork and Beans (song) video? --Crackthewhip775 (talk) 02:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Check this article. Pork and Beans It should have a list of all parodied videos.

-zxcvbnmalex

Video

the wiki page should forward to the video or embed it in the page so they would be rickrolled.

Video

the wiki page should forward to the video or embed it in the page so they would be rickrolled.--Conor Fallon (talk) 17:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rick Roll A La Chilena

Really? Should this be mentioned? No significant third-party sources, and it says it was removed ... but who knows if it's really the video. I'd really like someone's opinion on this. I don't think it should, but maybe somebody else knows something I don't. – LATICS talk 00:35, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]