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Dr Tiki gets rickrolled at his own event at Forbidden Island watch!

youtube.com — After Dr. Tiki rickrolled me (and countless other Digg readers), I came up with a plan to rickroll him back -- in public, at his own event -- at Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge in Alameda, California. The video shows the set up, the rickroll, and his reaction.

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  • bakedpajamas, on 04/19/2008, -5/+185Tease us with a Lala shower video will ya...
    • AussieFox, on 04/19/2008, -0/+21Finally, there is justice in this world
    • dOOBiEx213, on 04/19/2008, -28/+1Buried as lame.
      • robeph, on 04/19/2008, -2/+15в советской России, хромой хоронит Вас!
        • satyarth, on 04/19/2008, -1/+16Translation:
          In soviet Russia, burier buries you!
      • threemagic, on 04/19/2008, -1/+3Self prophesizing!
    • randysouth, on 04/19/2008, -0/+15What Ricks around Rolls around.
    • ennTOXX, on 04/19/2008, -6/+1This is LAME! If I see another LAME RickRoll prank my heads going to implode! *KaaaBooooooooooom!*. Uuuhhhh, it just did... :||
  • chadspacey, on 04/19/2008, -3/+116I love that there was a lady asking... "What just happened?" and Dr. Tiki explains the rickroll to her...
    • cyrix, on 04/19/2008, -11/+3The RickRoll has now become a national past time.
      • userperson, on 04/19/2008, -8/+1Richard belongs to the world as he has for two decades.
  • artifishall, on 04/19/2008, -3/+56jukeboxes will never be safe again
  • crobarian, on 04/19/2008, -22/+1must be popular. having trouble loading. Any mirrors?
  • crobarian, on 04/19/2008, -20/+1must be popular. Can't load. Mirror?
  • sprog, on 04/19/2008, -5/+3Thank you hanford.... Thank you very much!
  • traphik, on 04/19/2008, -3/+66I'm scared to touch anything electronic now.

    /me closes laptop for good =[
  • rgsproductions, on 04/19/2008, -10/+1Cool, I got rickrolled three times by Dr. Tiki's posts!
  • Simonft, on 04/19/2008, -20/+9Mirror:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d-eVh_RTwI
    • sandeepg, on 04/19/2008, -1/+16Oh come on. No-one's gonna fall for that.
    • fjeirsou, on 04/19/2008, -1/+6You almost had me, but better sense prevailed.
    • ekravchenko, on 04/19/2008, -1/+3Dude the original link is a freaking youtube link... Who are you trying to fool by posting another youtube link and claiming it's a mirror?
    • userperson, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2fair ... I've seen worse 3 out 10.
  • Nintendoom, on 04/19/2008, -2/+124let be known from here on that April is RickRoll month.
    • noahgelman, on 04/19/2008, -2/+19can it only be April plz? These are starting to get out of hand...... almost....
    • ThatsShitToo, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3It should be made official....
    • NeoCortex, on 04/19/2008, -0/+31It's name shall be changed to Aproll.
  • amanilaenvelope, on 04/19/2008, -2/+35payback is a bitch ain't it Dr..Tiki
  • WarfareArtist, on 04/19/2008, -15/+87Who is this Dr. Tiki if I may ask?
  • cheekyblighter, on 04/19/2008, -27/+4im gay.
    • sq377, on 04/19/2008, -4/+24That's fantastic but hardly relevant. Dugg down.
    • AmICoolNow, on 04/19/2008, -0/+18I have nothing against people who are gay, please note that you aren't being dugg down because of that, but because it's horribly irrelevant.
    • forgiste, on 04/19/2008, -2/+3Really? myspace.com/nazarenusrex
    • cheekyblighter, on 04/19/2008, -4/+1im stil gay.
  • ImTheManWhoRU, on 04/19/2008, -8/+2hmm youtube link comments that are dugg up. must investigate. ahh *****
  • GunDownCCL, on 04/19/2008, -10/+5Excellent; any word on digg's success as to rickrolling the NY mets?
    • robeph, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4and this is a valid question... why is it being dugg down? (no word, anyone know?)
    • benjorino, on 04/19/2008, -0/+6http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HbgM4sZtM4I

      Success!! :P
      They seem less than pleased... wonder why?
    • tetfsu, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1Yeah, they played it at the game once. It won by a landslide but the Mets organization (which wrongly attributed success to Fark instead of Digg) decided that instead of playing it all season they would play the top choices each once and they would decide which song won based on applause of the fans at the game. We tried, we won, we got shafted...
  • Haidoken, on 04/19/2008, -6/+9Revenge for the Lala shower teaser
    • kaplanfx, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1The only revenge for that, would be us actually getting to see the LaLa video.
  • MillionsLivio, on 04/19/2008, -4/+205We should get a donation fund started to buy an ad space for next years Super Bowl and Rick Roll and the entire world.
    • dummptyhummpty, on 04/19/2008, -1/+44I'm in!
    • snareguy17, on 04/19/2008, -3/+21Make donations out to my checking account.
    • whitemage, on 04/19/2008, -0/+11itll be the most expensive rick roll ever but im sure diggers will find a way
    • XenoSNK, on 04/19/2008, -2/+3Or at least the football watching world anyway...
    • fuzzmeister, on 04/19/2008, -0/+18Alright, here are the calculations. 20,000,000 people visit Digg each month (compete.com). Let's say that 5% of them donate, making 1,000,000 people. A Superbowl ad costs about $2.6 million for 30 seconds. So, each of those 1 million people would have to donate $2.60. Could happen, if someone actually organized it. The 5% seems just a bit hopeful, though.
    • Elissar, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3I'd put money to that.
    • tetfsu, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5We should bankroll it to Digg and let Digg take out a one min commercial... have it rickroll the fans in the last 10 seconds or something... that would truely be classified as an EPIC WIN.

      The only bad part is that I would in effect rickroll myself because I'd be watching for it. Which brings up a question... can you rickroll yourself if you know it's coming?
    • hakz, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3lulz at the entire world. I'm from the UK, and hardly anyone watches the superbowl. I don't even know if they show it
    • duggdowncatisad, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1Rick Astley should do the halftime entertainment, he's better than anyone they've had on the past few years anyway.
    • SpeedyG, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Except a few people online fulfilling their duty to the Internet ***** Theory would LMAO, and the rest of the world would all say "huh?" at the same time.

      And then when you try and explain to them that it's the internet equivalent of the "snakes in a tin of peanuts", they'll stare and nod politely, much like I'm guessing the lady did when Doctor Tiki explained the joke.
  • Mr8lack, on 04/19/2008, -19/+50anybody else wondering who Dr. Tiki is?
  • gameradam, on 04/19/2008, -4/+12REVENGE!
  • crazyfoo131, on 04/19/2008, -5/+0funny funny funny
  • Dohko_Xar, on 04/19/2008, -7/+1Did I just get rick rolled?
  • CDoug03, on 04/19/2008, -8/+37did anyone else find that video ***** ANNOYING?
    • piwy, on 04/19/2008, -0/+12Which would be the whole point to a rickroll?
  • jigglemyshizzle, on 04/19/2008, -8/+2reminded me of cloverfield for some reason....
    • Ataxia2008, on 04/19/2008, -0/+7This clip was longer than cloverfield
  • Defuser, on 04/19/2008, -16/+5Ah, the Internet: home to countless dweebs who will continue to do the exact same stupid, pathetic thing, over and over, like an autistic six-year-old. Seriously, learn when a joke is no longer funny. It'll help you later in life, I promise.
  • oldcrows40, on 04/19/2008, -7/+1***** Me. He was in my hometown and I missed it?

    Balls
  • Spamiclese, on 04/19/2008, -13/+28Who the ***** is Dr. Tiki?
  • gundamtsubasa, on 04/19/2008, -4/+9Dr. Tiki (Jeff Macpherson) is one of the people behind the funny video podcast tikibartv.com. Recently he put out a video to everyone that turned out to be a RickRoll
    • tcpip4lyfe, on 04/19/2008, -3/+1What the hell is tikibartv?
      • hakz, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1it's like a show for us geeks that teaches you how to make cocktails
      • Intangible360, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1If only there were hundreds of search engines which could give you that answer in seconds...
  • doritoclock, on 04/19/2008, -3/+3His reaction was good.
  • AmonAmarth, on 04/19/2008, -10/+3How the ***** does retarded ***** like this get on my top 5?
  • Treytor, on 04/19/2008, -7/+4"It's an internet phenomenon"

    www.prankdialer.com
  • internalEr0r, on 04/19/2008, -6/+1my dad actually met Dr. Tiki about 3 days ago he said Dude What the *****? last time I was in this bar (which was a year ago) I ran into Lala!
  • spacefaced, on 04/19/2008, -3/+1wow... 687 diggs... and only 961 views on YouTube?
    • Jassman, on 04/19/2008, -0/+6YouTube views aren't real-time. Which doesn't really make sense to me...
      • Tyrghast, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4YouTube traffic is clogging the tubes so they gotta count the votes that are sent down those tubes after the constipated tubes release their backed up load. Too much to keep track of for real time. Tubes. Tuuuuuuuuuubes.
  • edctj, on 04/19/2008, -1/+3did i just got rick rolled?
  • moush, on 04/19/2008, -10/+3Rickrolling is officially dead.
  • rdubya44, on 04/19/2008, -7/+2OMG I thought this place looked familiar! My friends and I go there all the time! So cool to see somewhere I go make the front page of Digg!!
  • docking, on 04/19/2008, -5/+1Yes!
  • digitaldan87, on 04/19/2008, -1/+6A bet our presidential elections are leading up to one big rickroll... Just watch.
  • OverZealousHobo, on 04/19/2008, -1/+5ironically, we were inadvertently rick rolled for having viewed that video...tricky bastards!
  • OdinEye, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5A lot of time was spent to get to that payoff...
  • kinggimped, on 04/19/2008, -10/+4Most boring video I've ever seen, with the lamest ever payoff.

    Digg, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Please kill yourselves for allowing this to get into the top 5.
  • slipdisc2, on 04/19/2008, -6/+1oh cool, he thought he was looking at some jukebox software and was really tricked into looking at a 80's video of Rick Astley. Oh yeah now thats entertainment. lol. Brilliant. You will have to swallow that sperm before laughing else it will dribble down your chin like always. Mind your manners.
  • Floris, on 04/19/2008, -1/+2Well played sir..
  • randysouth, on 04/19/2008, -1/+3Cheer up Dr. Tiki, he just wanted to tell you how he's feeling.
  • iancorey, on 04/19/2008, -4/+3Buried for Rick Roll.
  • altf4exits, on 04/19/2008, -2/+1I wish the hand circle game caught on again instead of rickrolling
  • K3ITHK, on 04/19/2008, -2/+1So does this mean I just got rickrolled too?
  • thedaemon, on 04/19/2008, -2/+1And I thought I was going to get rick rolled if I clicked on this. But I didn't.
  • xxDogFartxx, on 04/19/2008, -1/+1Realted Videos "2 Girls One 1 Cup Reaction"...............Nice :(
  • RettaBear, on 04/20/2008, -0/+0Heh, it's good to see the whole incident. The bar was so crowded, I only overheard pieces. Jeff's a great guy for taking the joke so well.
  • deadbeatpoet, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1I just hung out with the guy who came up with this idea and programmed the juke's UI! Just thought I'd gloat a little bit, since he's such a cool guy.

    Way to go, Doug! It was a legendary feat!
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