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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

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 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zxcvbnmalex (talk • contribs) 01:08, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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]

I agree. I know wikipedia is not supposed to be funny, but honestly, I think we could all agree that throwing a rick roll into the process would be the most "educational". Really people, make it happen.--69.179.55.204 (talk) 17:49, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i second this. It is "Educational", sort of. It teaches them what rick rolling is in video, instead of words. so, yeah, this would be a good idea Estemshorn (talk) 03:48, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No. Wikipedia is a body of reference; not a learning site. It would also be problematic because the video is copyrighted material, so couldn't be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. A reference to an external site is fine, but embedded media would appear to be disallowed. It would also set a precedent for other meme pages to follow suit.--Rfsmit (talk) 19:59, 12 February 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]

Semi Protection

Shouldn't this page be protected? lots of people are vandalizing......................... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilbunnifufu101 (talk • contribs) 00:39, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You could ask for protection, but I don't think they'd grant it; it needs to be pretty heavy vandalism. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 01:16, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chacarooned!

The Rickrolling has died down lately. Instead, people are starting to "Chacaroon" people. Should it be mentioned in this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.131.3 (talk) 02:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2002?

I just stumbled across this 2002 reference in an article about a busted child pornography ring: There was Richard Roll, a male nurse and former scoutmaster from Jamestown, N.Y., who called his pornographic films "Rick Roll Videos."[1] Don't know what to make of that. Could there possibly be a relation?--87.162.48.147 (talk) 10:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]