Comments for Video: Shuffle Fun Shuffle Shuffle Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Just Plane Fun!

Video: Shuffle Fun Shuffle Shuffle Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Just Plane Fun!

2009-01-14T03:45:32Z

Here's an internal pep video for Southwest Airlines from the 80's. It's got representatives from each part of the company rapping about their roles (do this do that we never get hairy we do it for you because we're your secretary), with an interstitial chorus singing "Shuffle fun shuffle shuffle fun shuffle fun fun shuffle fun fun shuffle just plane fun" on my elementary schools' auditorium stage while employees run around in plush airplane costumes. After about 9 minutes of that, it finally culminates in some sort of motivational orgy with singing and jiving and the CEO strutting around and the strobe lights flash and quick edits and a cascade of balloons drops from the ceilings and I can't take it anymore. I think if I step on a Southwest Airlines plane again I'll fall to the floor in like a PTSD-induced epileptic seizure... of excellent customer service! Video, inside, if you dare...

]]> This video breaks destroys your willpower, which, I'm guessing, was its intent; disintegrate your your negative Nelly and replace it with an upbeat and slightly wacked attitude.

(Thanks to Jaspreet!)

Comment from cwlodarczyk on 2009-01-16

2009-01-16T10:56:41Z

My eyes and ears are both bleeding.

Damn you Consumerist! You'll pay for this, oh you'll pay....

Comment from Ghede on 2009-01-15

2009-01-15T15:08:52Z

Internet endurance test. I made it 16 seconds before stopping in horror.

Comment from Devin Caldwell on 2009-01-14

2009-01-15T00:03:04Z

I would have became a hermit after staring in that video. That may be one of the most embarrising videos ever.

BTW does this remind anyone else of "Shake Your Bon Bon"?

Comment from ViperBorg on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T20:59:37Z

@MightyDwarf56: 30 seconds. And those last 10 were spent holding back the vomit until I could control myself enough to stop the video.

Comment from ViperBorg on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T20:58:58Z

@electrogeek77: That's the S.O.P. for fixing the engines.

Comment from flyingphotog on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T20:39:20Z

Well, at least most of their commercials kick ass.

Comment from eddytompkins on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T20:33:07Z

Their CEO raps worse than I do when I'm trying to do it particularly poorly.

It's interesting trying to figure out who got stuck with lines that couldn't possibly scan properly, and who just has no rhythm whatsoever.

There are a few spots where the music just turns into a train wreck too.

Also, you can guess the rhyme about 80 percent of the time (if you can hear it).

Comment from wikkit on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T18:25:02Z

@ChemNerd:

That game (and its many sequels) was craptastic!! I still get occasional impulses to play it in hopes of reaching the upper echelons of dudeness.

Comment from MightyDwarf56 on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T11:43:31Z

@HogwartsAlum: I managed a minute, barely.

Comment from Elusive_Pastry on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T10:54:46Z

I like to imagine there's a certain level in hell where the souls of evil marketing people are forced to watch this for eternity.

Comment from Jim Kehoe on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T09:45:08Z

I could take exactly 32 seconds of that video

Comment from dclamster on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T07:37:25Z

Southwest is my favorite domestic airline (the competition isn't exactly great).

This video only makes SWA my favoritest...ever...period. I want to meet the person who composed this song.

Comment from jhuang on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T07:13:51Z

@chiieddy: Some crews still do the joke speeches -- they're quite entertaining. I wish I could have been around for the hiding-in-overhead-bin gag, though!

Comment from MissTic on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T06:40:37Z

OMG! I remember those Fun Wear uniforms! I used to work for SWA. I thought I had finally gotten that shuffle shuffle fun fun fun earwig out. Damn :-)

Comment from HogwartsAlum on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T06:14:01Z

I only got through 15 seconds before I had to shut it off.

Comment from savdavid on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T05:46:56Z

They may be profitable but at the cost of their dignity.

Comment from chiieddy on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T05:15:42Z

It was stuff like this video that had Southwest recognized as one of the best companies to work for in the country. It wasn't just for this video. The company used to play pranks on passengers, had flight attendants hiding in overheads and even had them do joke speeches to "make sure you were paying attention." The video even highlights some of the business model that leaves Southwest as one of the only profitable airlines today. Their centralized maintenance parts facility.

These videos are infamous. I've never seen one, but there are tons of them. Southwest is one of the biggest case studies MBAs read.

Comment from electrogeek77 on 2009-01-14

2009-01-14T05:04:57Z

@electrogeek77: WHY DID THAT MECHANIC HAVE A RUBBER CHICKEN?!?

Comment from electrogeek77 on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T04:55:22Z

Oh, dear god...no, Herb, no.

Comment from notlazyjustdontcare on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T04:46:31Z

I hope this is the first of many posts tagged with "Shuffle Fun Shuffle Shuffle Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Just Plane Fun".

Comment from midwestkel on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T04:43:48Z

I got a few things to say about this:

1. Internal Marketing Genius
2. They delivered packages?
3. You had to call in to reserve a flight! OMG I am young!
4. These people were in the wrong profession
5. This is why people don't like rap music
6. "My name is Herb big daddy-o"

Comment from dohtem on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T04:31:01Z

And we thought that video of Karl Rove rapping was bad :(

Comment from Xerloq, we are all made of stars. on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T04:21:52Z

@Xerloq: NVMD. I made it work, though I did get "Video no longer available."

Comment from Xerloq, we are all made of stars. on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T04:19:54Z

Dead link already? Please tell me someone mirrored it!

Comment from ChemNerd on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T04:04:31Z

Wow... just wow.

Now I want to play Toe Jam & Earl though...

Comment from WolfDemon on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T03:59:52Z

This video explains a lot about Southwest Airlines' staff. I was only able to watch a part of it because anyone who would actually sit through the whole thing during orientation without turning a gun on themselves just isn't right in the head.

Comment from ScottRose on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T03:59:26Z

W. T. F.

I guess they thought 20 minutes of this would be too much, so they cut it down to 9:22???

Comment from WEGGLES90 on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T03:59:15Z

Proving once again... not everyone can/should rap.

Comment from csyria on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T03:58:58Z

This is worse than "Lazy Scranton":

Comment from TakingItSeriously is Simon on 2009-01-13

2009-01-14T03:51:59Z

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I have nothing productive to say here