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April 14, 2009

OK, Who Is Behind The F.U.S.B.I. "Come On Back" Video?

People on the internet keep calling this "the worst music video ever made." Well if by worst they mean best then yeah.

Total perfection. But what is this?

At first it seems like this video is so bad it's hilarious, and all you want is to make fun of it all day long with your mom and her friends. Lots Of Love. "It's amazing that these guys don't know how ridiculous they look!" Is what you write in an email to your mom. Except they do. Obviously. This is Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job-caliber terrible. Richard Dunn is at home saying "why didn't I think of that?" into his morning fiber. By the time the bass playerguitarist takes off his turtleneck (but not his beret) to play shirtless at the end the game is over, we are in full-on fake out territory, although you probably had your suspicions the first time you saw that happy young keyboardist singing along. If someone was really smart, this whole thing would be an ad for 20-oz bottles of Diet Pepsi, but I think that's just there to throw us off the trail. I refuse to believe that Diet Pepsi is this talented.

So, the question remains: WHO HAS MADE THIS WONDERFUL JOKE?

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trevormail

that's not jon benjamin?

Posted by: trevormail profile link at 04/14/09 1:52 PM | Reply
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I think she's saying "Yeah... I'd rather you keep the twenty than come back."

Posted by: faith at 04/14/09 1:53 PM | Reply
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RobinRubbermaid

By "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job-caliber terrible" you mean "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job-caliber awesome," right? Okay. Just checking.

Posted by: RobinRubbermaid profile link at 04/14/09 1:59 PM | Reply
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Mcluskyist

The sound engineer is wearing a Slipknot shirt! This is tits. Whoops. Wrong post.

Posted by: Mcluskyist profile link at 04/14/09 2:13 PM | Reply
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I'm wasting my time pointing out that the shirtless guy is not playing bass.

Posted by: Sebastian Paper at 04/14/09 2:13 PM | Reply
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zaws!

I think i just fell in love with the keyboard guy

Posted by: zaws! profile link at 04/14/09 2:17 PM | Reply
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dude sounds deaf

Posted by: matt at 04/14/09 3:02 PM | Reply
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All these people have disabilities, right? Thats the only way this makes sense.

Posted by: Lizzie at 04/14/09 3:19 PM | Reply
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Don't know who they are, but this was definitely shot at the McCormick-Tribune center at Northwestern University:

http://www.northwestern.edu/fm/design/completed/tribune/images/IMG_0818.jpg

Posted by: NUgrad at 04/14/09 3:34 PM | Reply
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Um, I spent so many hours in that building. Nice catch! The music part isn't filmed in the MTC Studio though. I was on NNN and I know what that studio looks like.

Posted by: Katherine in reply to NUgrad's comment at 04/14/09 5:36 PM | Reply
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Looks like the studio stuff was shot in the Marshall Film Theater at John J. Lewis Hall.

Posted by: NUgrad in reply to Katherine's comment at 04/15/09 9:30 PM | Reply
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moonmaster

I could tell it was fake from the moment they cut to the keyboard player's fingers.

And the keyboard player is my fucking hero. I want to be that guy.

Posted by: moonmaster profile link at 04/14/09 4:17 PM | Reply
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Jeb

viral marketing for the bandanna and goatee corporation of america.

Posted by: Jeb profile link at 04/14/09 4:59 PM | Reply
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i thought she'll give him a blowjob for those twenty bucks. what a twist!

Posted by: cellchild at 04/14/09 5:22 PM | Reply
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inglorius basTURD

Do you think this girl just signed her name on the dotted line, not knowing that it was going to be used for the greatest music video ever, a la Bikini Girl in "Without You?"

Posted by: inglorius basTURD profile link at 04/14/09 5:26 PM | Reply
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dafs

robbie coltrane?

Posted by: dafs profile link at 04/14/09 6:00 PM | Reply
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Maybe I'm stating the obvious and totally missing the point of the post but this video was not made as a joke. To think that people wouldn't do this and be serious is just giving humanity too much credit. Whoever posted this video, however, was probably doing it as a joke. And I thank that individual from the bottom of my heart.

Posted by: Nick at 04/14/09 6:24 PM | Reply
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The only thing that has got to make it a joke is the shirtless guy at the end. Either or, amazing.

Posted by: eddie at 04/14/09 6:51 PM | Reply
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lizzing

this is legit. you can't fake singing out of sync with the soundtrack like that. there is nothing but earnestness coming from the keyboardist's blank stares.

Posted by: lizzing profile link at 04/14/09 7:18 PM | Reply
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Why does he keep saying, "away?"

Posted by: Michael Bluth at 04/14/09 8:02 PM | Reply
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I always wondered what the kids at widney high looked like

Posted by: kevin at 04/14/09 8:51 PM | Reply
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IF you're so interested in who made it, why don't you just ask the guy who uploaded it?

Posted by: Dave Schotten at 04/14/09 10:14 PM | Reply
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here are other videos by the brains from F U S B I :

http://www.youtube.com/SigEdForever

Posted by: Jon Richardson at 04/15/09 9:38 PM | Reply
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Sorry Jon,
doesn't seem to be the same guys and/or brains

Posted by: FUSBI FAN at 04/16/09 6:06 PM | Reply
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I have seen the future of rock music - and it’s name is F.U.S.B.I.

Posted by: Chris at 06/02/09 7:06 AM | Reply
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