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Carly Rae Jepsen’s summer 2015 song “I Really Like You”isn’t particularly remarkable. The song is cute and catchy, sure, but the same could be said of many pop songs. Honestly, I don’t remember ever hearing it before, even though I know I must have. It is that nondescript.
But I stumbled upon the video purely by accident. (I usually disable YouTube’s auto play function, but somehow, it got turned on, and I forgot to make it go away.) Having moved on to one of my other 20 open tabs, I vaguely registered that something was playing on another tab, so I went looking for the offending media to make it go away. And suddenly, out of the blue, there is Mr. Tom Hanks – who I absolutely adore – lip synching his adorable little heart out. So I watched. Then I watched again.
The song has a kind of mindless adorableness about it, and the addition of TH’s performance makes it well worth 3 minutes and 28 seconds of your life. Honestly, it would be worth it just for his dad-licious dance moves. Oh, yeah. And Bieber’s in it, too, for a little bit at the end.
And if you’d rather watch it without the ear worm, here’s a spoof someone made which purports to be the video without the music. It gets a bit weird toward the end, but the first half is pretty entertaining.
March 2, 2016 at 7:30 am
I adore Mr Hanks and I love this!
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March 2, 2016 at 8:31 am
He’s such a doll!
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March 2, 2016 at 8:33 am
He is – I’ve loved every movie he’s been in 😊
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March 2, 2016 at 8:34 am
I have, too, and there we very few actors about whom that can be said.
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March 2, 2016 at 8:35 am
When I was in agony with my wisdom tooth a couple of weeks ago – I thought of him in Castaway 😄😄
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March 2, 2016 at 10:01 am
How funny!
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March 2, 2016 at 7:57 am
Ahh..thanks for sharing! Had not seen it and the whole family enjoyed it over breakfast this morning! So fun!
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March 2, 2016 at 8:32 am
I’m glad! There’s something so satisfyingly ludicrous about Carly Rae’s voice coming out of his mouth!
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March 2, 2016 at 8:16 am
That song is lame but hats off to TH for doing the video. Too cute!
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March 2, 2016 at 8:32 am
He’s such a good sport!
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March 2, 2016 at 3:14 pm
WILSON!!!!! Cheers
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March 2, 2016 at 5:33 pm
Ha!
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March 4, 2016 at 12:24 am
This video is so far out there. I love it! Thanks for finding it.
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March 4, 2016 at 12:57 am
It was my pleasure!
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March 4, 2016 at 1:46 pm
Oh, Donna–how can anyone not just absolutely LOVE Tom Hanks?! This was adorable! Thanks so much.
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March 4, 2016 at 2:47 pm
He’s my favorite!
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