ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Right Now” by SR-71
Whyyyy… why do you always kick me when I’m, highhhh….
Whyyyy… why do you always kick me when I’m, highhhh….
@LauraLowe
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
SR-71 Sounds like the name of a drum machine.
@maxincheese1945
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
Tods interpretation of fake plastic submarine is now in urban dictionary😂
@A1Kangorrilapig
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
"Couldn't make a mel brooks movie today" Mel Brooks is set to release Space Balls 2 in 2027 as of writing this. what a time to be alive
@cocorococoon
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
Damn, this song rules, i used to be such a big Blink 41 fan.
@meriamory
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
The singer of this band went on to produce I'm Good (Blue), Todd's worst song of 2022.
@silentprotagonist6587
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
Maybe she's a fake plastic submarine because she DOESN'T go down 🤔
@Neelo5000
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
Fun fact: Their lead singer placed third in a Johnny Rzeznik lookalike contest. Probably.
@runefaustblack
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
That initial piano melody sounded a lot like a faster, more upbeat Pink Pony Club
@Salem-Sins
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
I figured the fake plastic submarine line as meaning a girl who looks like she’d go down, but won’t. Like how a plastic submarine is shaped after something that goes down under the water, but plastic floats in water so it can’t really. Apparently it’s actually just some inside joke tho so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@halo2GOTY2025
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
Love this Hollister rock, ngl
@The1DonG
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
They were called Sum 41 because that's what you get when you add up the band members' IQ's.
@JoeMama-me2yj
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
I remember hearing this song originally in a rebeltaxi vid lol
@Niles-Nemo
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
I don't know if you'll ever read this comment eight years later, but I have good and bad news.
Bad first: There's still no one who knows for sure what a 'fake plastic submarine' is supposed to be, it will haunt you forever
Good news: Urban dictionary cited your theory two years ago, still the only entry. So you made an impact on this world
🥳
@Ladytron2000
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
1:14 in…. & yeah, no I'm out.
@BiggestCorvid
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
6:33 theyre misquoting Radiohead's song from The Bends. Fake Plastic Trees did noy fit with the meter. Source: Revealed to me in a dream by a talking snowman in an Orioles baseball cap.
@Devergreen1977
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
You watch enough of Todd's vids and you can tell what he'll be shaking his head about lyrically. I knew he'd be commenting on "Fake plastic submarine". You don't disappoint, Todd.
@DukeOnkled
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
Wait, this song WASN'T just some track in Splashdown for the PS2?
@cometark42
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
7:28. Sum 41 would like to talk to you Todd.
@kmmmm150
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
I’m so happy to see coverage of SR-71
@BillAdams-fb3jm
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 am
I remember hearing "Right Now" daily on my drive to school when I was in university in 2002.
"She clings to me like cellophane/ Fake plastic submarine" was probably just a guide vocal to keep the rhythm in the demo phase of songwriting and the band just never bothered to rewrite/change it.
Yeah, the solo in this song sounds good, but SR71 were not the only pop punk band to do it. Sum 41 (who was named as being the answer to how old the band's members were when they got together — they were young, there were four of them and, when they got together, the sum of their combined ages was 41. There are answers to the "why is there a number in the band's name?" in a lot of cases, you just have to look for it) had one really good guitarist in Dave Baksh — he was the metalhead in the band.
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