In order to avoid confusion with the soap opera (also entitled “Long Road to Ruin”) and the “real world”, the scenes in the soap opera have brown tones to make it more vintage, while the real world retains normal color.Uploader holds copyright (standard license) Creative Commons can be selected. Actress Rashida Jones guest stars as “Racinda Jules” (“Susan Belfontaine”, the doctor’s love interest). Bassist Nate Mendel plays “Ned Bender” (“Saul Goode”, the show’s shady antagonist). Guitarist Chris Shiflett plays “Christopher Mishomotohama” (“Little Jimmy”, a severely injured child). Drummer Taylor Hawkins plays “Ty Hawkstone” (“Les Groper”, Davidoff’s womanizing colleague). Grohl plays “Davy Grolton”, who stars as the main doctor, “Hansom Davidoff”. As seen in the opening credit sequence, the Foo Fighters portray the actors who in turn portray the show’s characters. The music video of the song is a comedic spoof of a stereotypical 1970s-era hospital soap opera (General Hospital in particular), and is essentially a "show within a show”. The only ones left clear-headed are the band, and now they must literally, “learn to fly” a plane. In the video, all the passengers and crew of the plane, including the pilots were accidentally drugged. Jack Black and Kyle Gass from Tenacious D, who are good friends of the Foo Fighters, also appear in this video.
The video features the band playing different characters of different, size, shape, and even gender. This hilarious Eddie Murphy-style video shows just how talented Dave Grohl is he’s a badass drummer (being the drummer of Nirvana), he’s a terrific song writer, a rocking vocalist and one hell of a comedic actor. Those little … things are like pebbles – they hurt. The video’s success led to many fans throwing Mentos at the band whenever they played the song live. For an extended period of time, the band did not play the song live due to this, as Grohl cited: “We did stop playing that song for a while because, honestly, it’s like being stoned. So they decided that the music video should be about a mentos-parody – “Footos, the fresh fighter.”
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When the band wrote the song, they realized that it sounds very much like a mentos TV ad jingle. It also references to other famous videos on the internet, like the Dancing Banana, Soulja Boy Dance and “Will it blend?” Many youtube celebrities joined the band to film the video, including the Chris Crocker (Leave Britney Alone! Guy), the guys that made the diet coke and mentos fountain video, and the Star Wars Geek duo of Ryan and Dorkman. The video is about memes that attained internet fame. And did I mention, it has ELISHA CUTHBERT?! She is eventually replaced by Rivers Cuomo, the band’s actual vocalist, who plays Weeze’s introvert manager. It’s about Weeze, a fictional predecessor to Weezer, with Elisha as the legotistic and unprofessional lead vocalist. This video features Girl Next Door star, ELISHA CUTHBERT! The video was so remarkable, it was parodied in shows such as The Simpsons and The Fairly Odd Parents. It features the band performing a very creative dance choreographed on treadmills. American Pie’s first lines were “A long long time ago, I could still remember how that music used to make me smile.” This parody opens with the lines “A long long time ago, in a galaxy far away, Naboo was under an attack.” He had done such an accurate job with the story line that after the pre-screening, he ended up making only very minor alterations. He based everything solely on internet spoilers. What’s amazing, is that Weird Al wrote the song before the movie’s massive release in 1999. The video recounts the events in Star Wars Episode I, from the perspective of Obi-wan Kenobi. Another of Weird Al’s signature parodies, this one is a parody of Don Mclean’s American Pie. It shows the evolution of rock as a genre of music: rockabilly, British Invasion, psychedelia, funk, glam, punk, goth, hair metal, grunge, and lastly, their own genre which they consider to be a fusion of all those parts. It features the band impersonating huge rock icons playing their most memorable gigs ranging from the Beatles in The Ed Sullivan Show, to Nirvana during their MTV Unplugged performance in New York.
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Trumbo directed the movie adaptation in 1971, from which the footage for the “One” music video is taken. His mind functions perfectly, however, leaving him trapped inside his own body. The song’s theme and lyrics are based on Dalton Trumbo’s 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun, telling the tale of a soldier who is hit by an artillery shell and loses his limbs, eyes, ears and mouth. Probably one of the creepiest music videos ever.
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