Vanilla Ice hates himself.

February 1, 2007 12:27 PM

In 1999, MTV aired 25 Lame, a show where retired 25 of their worst and most overplayed videos. Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice) showed up to help them retire the video for "Ice Ice Baby." The result - violence, hilarity, and broken mannequins (video, 30-second ad shows before video). Apparently unplanned, nobody knows for sure if this outburst was the product of genuine anger, or if he was just playing around. An unedited version (YouTube, lower quality) leads me to think that it was the former.
posted by Afroblanco (32 comments total)

Metafilter: Every time I go somewhere, it's ding ding ding ding-ding-ding-ding.
posted by EarBucket at 12:33 PM on February 1, 2007

I saw that live and didn't think much of it at all.

Plus, they re-aired that show, thus re-airing the videos, and breaking their "promise"
posted by delmoi at 12:37 PM on February 1, 2007

I thought MTV had gone ahead and retired all videos.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 12:38 PM on February 1, 2007 [5 favorites]

I showed this to my girlfriend a while back, and now "No, Vanilla!" is her standard catchphrase whenever she wants me to stop doing something.
posted by The Card Cheat at 12:50 PM on February 1, 2007 [2 favorites]

Here's a YouTube version, for those of you/us outside the U.S.
posted by The Card Cheat at 12:52 PM on February 1, 2007

Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em.
posted by Ynoxas at 12:55 PM on February 1, 2007

Oops. Didn't see the third link. Feel free to delete that last comment, admins.
posted by The Card Cheat at 12:56 PM on February 1, 2007

John Stewart looks so young there.
posted by boo_radley at 12:57 PM on February 1, 2007

Nice cast.
posted by mr_roboto at 12:58 PM on February 1, 2007

I wish they'd retire that whole freakin channel.
posted by spicynuts at 1:02 PM on February 1, 2007

I can never get those 5 minutes and 51 seconds of my life back. Never. Thanks a lot.
posted by tighttrousers at 1:35 PM on February 1, 2007

Vanilla Ice just personifies so much of what's wrong with America.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 1:36 PM on February 1, 2007

Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope once.
posted by ND¢ at 1:41 PM on February 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

It always seemed obvious to me that this was an attempt to give himself credibility as a rap-metal artist, or whatever he's supposed to be now. If indeed it was not staged, that's pretty cool. It didn't really work, but pretty cool.

By the way, who even watches MTV anymore? I don't mean that as a snarl; I honestly want to know.

I always thought it was still big among the teenyboppers, but an afternoon on Youtube seems to demonstrate that even the kids are too smart for MTV in its current form.
posted by roll truck roll at 1:44 PM on February 1, 2007

That was, umm, lame.

Here's a better video of someone freaking out.
posted by knave at 1:45 PM on February 1, 2007

Always a little fun to watch just because of the rest of the people on the set - Stewart, Kattan, Leary and Garafalo - not bad.

But what is it with today and bad hoax/faux anger videos on MeFi.

Vanilla is about as genuinely mad here as he is any other time he's seeking a little bad boy street cred.

Carefully hitting the mannequin with a baseball bat...pretending he would hit the videotape in Chris's hands, but not actually. And the rest of them aren't scared in the least - "ah yes, it's a the bad boy rock star busting up the room bit...wasn't planned, but it'll spice things up slightly. nice."

O.G. - original goofball.
posted by django_z at 1:47 PM on February 1, 2007

knave...you posted that just to make my blood boil, didn't you?

dang you!

(at least it happened to fast that the little frog in my heart had time to jump free)
posted by django_z at 1:49 PM on February 1, 2007

I'm old, so I saw this live. It didn't seem very convincing to me at the time, and I think Mr. Ice did it on purpose to get attention and media exposure. IIRC, Kennedy speculated the same thing some time later, although she said none of the hosts were expecting it.
posted by smashingstars at 1:52 PM on February 1, 2007

That was a classic moment in mtv history... it's nice to see the Iceman again. (Other than on my ceiling, as I drift off to sleep)
posted by ph00dz at 2:28 PM on February 1, 2007

Sinead O'Connor just personifies so much of what's wrong with Ireland.
posted by jimmythefish at 2:51 PM on February 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

Just so you guys know, in Hell it's all Vanilla Ice all the time. You may want to plan accordingly.
posted by jfuller at 3:36 PM on February 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

Can we please retire the "five people make stupid jokes and offer inane commentary over [insert video here]" genre please? I think they do this for Eurovision or the Brit Awards as well and it'd be much more tolerable if everyone would just shut the hell up.
posted by chrominance at 3:50 PM on February 1, 2007

Vanilla Ice is a bonehead. But the little peanut gallery there is equally annoying. I was kind of hoping that all five of them would be locked ina room and forced to devour eachother.
posted by jonmc at 4:35 PM on February 1, 2007

Hey, all you people who bought his records - this is your fault. You know who you are.
posted by obvious at 4:48 PM on February 1, 2007

How does that seem convincing to anyone? Hell, I used to watch pro-wrestling and even *I* can tell that it was fake!
posted by papakwanz at 5:25 PM on February 1, 2007

It's disconcerting to see Jon Stewart in casual clothes now that he's grown up.
posted by MegoSteve at 6:58 PM on February 1, 2007

I'm old, so I saw this live.

Way back in 1999? Hell, I was down with killing the radio star in 1981 when the whole network launched, whippersnapper! *goes back to gumming his lunch*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:45 PM on February 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

Ooh d'oh, I remember that. Like how they had to keep running Blue Öyster Cult's "Burning for You" and some freakin' Klaus Nomi videos 'cause nobody'd, like, made any yet.
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:50 PM on February 1, 2007

Vanilla Ice is not alone
posted by Dub at 10:55 AM on February 2, 2007

stavrosthewonderchicken : "Way back in 1999? Hell, I was down with killing the radio star in 1981 when the whole network launched, whippersnapper!"

Give her a break. She describes herself as an oldbie who started out on BBS's in the early 90's. The early 90's!! BBS's!!.

(I'm only medium aged on the internet, and I started out with a 300 baud modem in the mid-80s. Old for net-like activities is people who started out logging on to mainframes because "who the hell could ever afford a computer, let alone a storage room to put it in?")
posted by Bugbread at 10:58 AM on February 2, 2007

Hey, all you people who bought his records - this is your fault. You know who you are.

Damnit.
posted by elvolio at 8:42 PM on February 2, 2007

The youtube link is already dead.

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom

Damn. And I didn't get a chance to see it.
posted by Penks at 1:16 AM on February 17, 2007