80s Music Video Flashbacks with Rick – Puttin on the Ritz

After promising you it, here it is

TACO – Puttin on the Ritz

 

 

Yes, a cover song of the great Fred Astaire made by a man with a light sabre as a walking cane. How can you go wrong?

Starting off with the obvious stark contrast between poor and homeless vs rich and light-tastically affluent. Obviously money can buy you anything except talent or a faster walking speed, Taco is looking like a really creepy Tim Curry, overdressed for his role as Frankenfurter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I dont know about you, but if a guy that looked like that walked that slow in a poor neighbourhood where i was from, hed have his light sabre walking stick cracked over his skull and his fancy spats stolen. Frankly, i dont know why they just didnt do that in the first place. Im sure you could buy a decent crack rock for the price of his gloves alone.

Breaking into the whole al jolston look-alikes to say “super duper” is creepy and really, unnecessary. Nothing says racial tolerance like a blackface routine!

Tap routines. Tap routines are awesome. Really, this half-arsed review is just about my jealousy at not having a wicked walking stick and doing my own tap routine.

At about 3minutes 20seconds mark, we get to see a Crispin Glover and a really bad Statler and Waldorf (from the muppets) look-alike. It made my night.

So what did we learn from this clip, kids? thats right! Money will buy you bigass dentures, make you look like Tim Curry, get your ass whooped in the ghetto and a really cool light sabre walking stick. Im sold!

-Rick