Finally, there is this, first it was Eminem, now it's root beer,
Rudy the great root bear, he serves as the mascot of A&W restaurants.
He's now gonna be wearing pants.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, so Fox News is losing their minds over a 6 ft mythical bear and
pants, it's hilarious by itself, but
it becomes even more juicy because this time the joke is on Fox News.
So it all started with a joke where A&W restaurants announced on
Twitter that Rudy the great root bear would start wearing trousers.
So the post appeared to be mocking a recent decision by Eminem's which put its
spokes candies on indefinite pause after conservatives like Tucker Carlson
griped that the green Eminem character was now wearing tennis shoes instead of
go go boots.
I think he even said you wouldn't want to take her out for a drink anymore,
which is so weird.
But we have the post that was made by A&W restaurants on Twitter.
We can pull that up.
So it's styled exactly like the Eminem's press releases,
which should have been the first indicator that it's a joke, but
I'll just read a little bit of it for you all.
America, let's talk since 1963,
Rudy the great root bear has been our beloved spokes bear.
We knew people would notice because he's literally a 6 ft tall bear wearing
an orange sweater, but now we get it.
Even a mascots lack of pants can be polarizing.
Therefore we have decided that Rudy will wear jeans going forward.
[LAUGH] So that apparently was not enough to tip them off that it was a joke and
also the fact that many corporate characters like Pop'n Fresh,
Chester Cheetah, Cheeto, I don't know,
and the GEICO Gecko have long opted to go pantsless.
So obviously A&W thought most people would recognize that the tweet as a joke,
but the big brains over at Fox News didn't quite grasp the humor.
>> Lack of pants can be polarizing.
My God, first it was Eminem's, it's ridiculous.
Now a bear has to have, what you crying?
I mean, what is the problem?
It's just the woke police cancel culture has gone, ridiculous.
>> [LAUGH] Saying quit your crying after you fell for an obvious joke, it's so
good, it's so good.
But what we can't figure out is what the Fox hosts were actually concerned with,
so I need everyone watching to help us decide, we've got a poll coming,
would it be more woke for the bear to have pants on or
have pants off and Cenk this is a pressing issue.
Really important political discussion and
I need to know which is more woke pants or no pants.
>> Okay, so this story is actually, it's a hilarious story, but
it's also very telling because the right wing talking points now are so absurd.
No one can tell them from obvious parodies,
like because if the parody was MS is going to change their spokes candies,
and get rid of them because Tucker Carlson didn't find them sexy enough,
you think, well, that's an obvious guy, that didn't happen, that did happen.
That did happen, right?
So who knows anymore, look man, I mean you name,
I mean they were attacking Mr potato head because
they weren't sure which gender the potato was.
I got news for you neither, it's a potato.
Okay, so in a sense, I don't blame them for falling for
this gag, I blame them for the rest of their content.
That's so absurd and over the top that this one fits right in.
So like a nice skinny jeans on a root bear,
look, the Fox anchors are unbearable.
Everybody knows that, the station is barely news.
[LAUGH] But I like that guy at the end, he's like, is this a gag,
get him off there, get him off there.
[LAUGH] But back to your question, I don't know either, Ray,
that's why we did the poll, would it be, why is it woke to have pants on?
Is having pants on a bad thing?
If you follow their train of thought here and God help you, okay, by the way,
tyt.com/polls for this very important and serious poll, okay?
And we'll have the link in the description box as well.
Are they saying that it's woke to have pants on a pair, so
they don't want the pants, so Fox is saying we wanna see bear penis,
and if we're not seeing bear penis while drinking root beer,
well, I mean, what are we doing?
Is it really America anymore?
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, if you're drinking a root beer and
eating an A&W burger without seeing a bear naked from the waist down,
you're really not living the American dream.
>> I mean you might as well be living in Somalia or Peru, right?
That's not the America I know and love.
In America, I grew up in, we had bear penises everywhere,
okay, an injury group beer and we drink it right with them would be like, hey,
nice orange shirt, I'm glad you didn't put pants on.
Now these woke guys come in here and they're going to put pants on and so
we don't see the dawn along, I can't stand that.
I need to go back to America the way it was.
[LAUGH] Might as well be living under Taliban rule,
>> [LAUGH]
>> And I know that Senator Nina Turner
always says it's best not to get in the mind of a crazy person cuz you'll get
stuck there, but I need you all to get in the mind of a crazy person and vote in
that poll because I need to know what the hell they were trying to say [LAUGH]
>> Because we're the ones that
are supposed to be woke, so I'd like to know what our agenda is.
So once the pole is in and the results are in,
then I'll know which way to go, I'll wake up and I'm like okay.
Turns out goddamnit, the bear has to have the pants so it's not on,
that's the woke thing to do, okay?
Yeah, we gotta get our talking points in order and
we can't do it unless you help us out.
So please give us some insight.
>> Look, I already did the unbearable puns, etc, right?
But if the bear doesn't have the pants on, it would be barely legal.
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>> [LAUGH] Okay, we'll end on that.