Just thought about this guy
Posted by StatementLazy1797@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 66 comments
The 3 tenors post gave me flashbacks to when Lord of the Dance was the VHS everyone’s mom had to have. Michael Flatley really was incredibly talented, but god he was SO cheesy. He always felt like a tap dancing version of Fabio to me.
anOvenofWitches@reddit
Homer, you’re the real Lord of the Dance
GarminTamzarian@reddit
*Lard
nemonimity@reddit
https://youtu.be/Kiy0hi8UGYM?si=HIxP4D8k3a_mFRFi
This had me rolling, those commercials for lord of the dance were everywhere for a time.
GarminTamzarian@reddit
My favorite:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4Jr64sdAI
PMichaelB89@reddit
Lord Of The Dance, Fabio, and Yanni were the trifecta for 90's moms.
gottarespondtothis@reddit
What no love for our brother Kenny G?!
PMichaelB89@reddit
I feel like Kenny G had broader appeal while Yanni was exclusively a 90's mom phenomenon. Maybe you're right, though. Call it a superfecta.
Muted-Possibility168@reddit
Or a subparfecta…
Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGfNk15krQ&pp=ygUVd2F5bmUncyB3b3JsZCBrZW5ueSBn
gottarespondtothis@reddit
Ahahaha five stars for you.
Basic-Pair8908@reddit
And titanic
BeeP807@reddit
My mom and I love Yanni 🤣🤣 and Enigma. And Celine Dion. I still have a Yanni t shirt!
spotcatspot@reddit
They needed to fight the three tenors.
CheezeLoueez08@reddit
Hey! I was a teen and I liked 2/3 of them
HauntingEngine5568@reddit
Christ on sale what an ego
oakleafwellness@reddit
Riverdance was on our family’s TV, every time it aired on PBS.
Ah, the memories.
john_the_quain@reddit
Blew my mind when I learned he’s American.
gbroon@reddit
Now I get why he's so annoyingly arrogant.
Tetris_Pete@reddit
dotBombAU@reddit
https://youtu.be/koY6kXhQDQo?si=N9Pj6GcCTkk_mVDJ
Right at the end.
Sinead_0_rebellion@reddit
Oh my god it all makes sense now...
uberallez@reddit
Of course that cheese ball is.....
blueyedwineaux@reddit
TIL
Zealousideal_Air_570@reddit
Sorry to hear about your mental state being so bad.
greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit
The fact that I knew his name… too many daytime hours at home in front of the tv
thedudeguy420@reddit
I loved when Conan O'Brien issued a fake apology to Michael Flatley saying: "we meant to call you Lord of the Dance, not Swishy McJackass"
JackSpadesSI@reddit
Chandler’s greatest fear.
Boomgoesmybrain@reddit
The Irish jig guy?
Kade7596@reddit
could only see part of the image before clicking, thought it was this for a sec
DefinitionSuperb1110@reddit
I remember Dennis Leary's bit about this more than anything about Flatley himself.
https://youtu.be/HB9RFRTiW70?si=UdUMfbY-oeJy5c9E&t=9
Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit
I can never seem to find a clip of that.
Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit
Tell me I’m not the first one to post the Third Rock clip!
Mr_SunnyBones@reddit
I saw Riverdance live the night it was performed (I was working in a hotel in Dublin near to where the Eurovision was hosted , and there was a short encore performance there , I was working beside the function room and sneaked in to watch it )
Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit
Now I have that Dennis Leary bit in my head.
Wonderful-Whole7767@reddit
Have you seen the Mike Myers version: https://youtu.be/Kiy0hi8UGYM?si=5hhYttb42Bx9hmWq
PeppermintEvilButler@reddit
Omg just classic
PeppermintEvilButler@reddit
So so so many late night infomercials of this dancing lord.
Bland_moniker@reddit
Flatley my dear, I don't Riverdance.
Top-Telephone9013@reddit
He started in at least one vanity project action movie in the 2000's and it was fucking TERRIBLE. Wish I could remember the name of it. He played a James Bond knockoff
ericthepilot2000@reddit
Good Bad or Bad Bad did a great review of it here
Plane-Post-7720@reddit
It was called Blackbird.
AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit
I really wanted to be part of riverdance growing up.
Ed_geins_nephew@reddit
His legs move as if independent from his body!
0peRightBehindYa@reddit
Ed_geins_nephew@reddit
I knew I flubbed it somehow 😂
TheCynFamily@reddit
Well, it HAS been a while since that episode, don't be too hard on yourself. Of course, my opinion is moo.
"You know how a cow's opinion doesn't matter? It's moo."
BabyScreamBear@reddit
Michael Flatley wrote, directed, produced and starred in a movie, that he self financed, called Blackbird.
Mark Kermode’s review of it is one for the ages
afirelullaby@reddit
I want to see it now it looks sooooo bad 😎
DBE113301@reddit
The Irish jig guy?
hamburgler26@reddit
His legs move as if independent from his body!
Ordinary_Aioli_7602@reddit
He dances like a river
frinkhutz@reddit
I got to see the show live. So flippin' awesome
HopelesslyHuman@reddit
Michael seemed to let the whole thing go to his head but he was an incredible dancer. Riverdance was fantastic. I saw the 30th anniversary tour at the Kennedy Center earlier this year. Still outstanding and the modern adds they've made to it are fun.
I admit that I have strangely nostalgic attachments to Riverdance though and I guess I can see why some people might find it silly or whatever. U always loved it though.
Metzger4Sheriff@reddit
One of my friends in middle school and I both took it super seriously. She was the one that broke the news to me when he left, and I think my response was "Poor Jean. She's going to have to have a new partner" 😂
MF didn't come off great but the fact that the show doesn't appear to credit any choreographer seems shady af and kind of makes me believe his version of the story. There was a biopic series in the works, but not sure if that's still moving forward.
MrsAshleyStark@reddit
I’ve watched this so many times as a kid
FunkoPopDorothy@reddit
Uh. MAGAt.
CheezeLoueez08@reddit
Is he?? No!! Not another one lost to the cult. Please be wrong.
No-Muffin-874@reddit
When my 4 year old son was a little younger we called him Michael Flatley and riverdance, because he would do an oddly similar little dance and he had never seen it! His arms would be straight down and he'd pretty much run in place. His mom and I both have Irish heritage, so maybe it's in his blood lol
CheezeLoueez08@reddit
That’s hilarious 🤣
DickNoodleMcCool@reddit
Is that Michael Nelson?
scaryclown148@reddit
Dave attell: tell a boy to lick the bowl, lick the bowl, lick a man’s hairy balls. That’s how to gay up a kid. Next he’s lord of the river dance
Akiranar@reddit
Saw LotD live... he almost lost his pants on stage.
digitaljestin@reddit
I'm am the true Lord of the Dance, no matter what those idiots at work say!
My horoscope told me so.
WakingOwl1@reddit
We called him Lord of the Pants.
Imaginary-Style918@reddit
We owned this on vhs.
bikeonychus@reddit
I cackled at 'tap dancing version of Fabio' haha!
I lived in the UK, and when Michael Flatley got famous, ALL the mums were trying to sign their daughters up for Irish dance lessons, and there wasn't that many about at first. It was like a collective losing of minds. It's not like they were frothing at the mouth to sign us up to Morris Dancing because they wanted us to remember our roots or something, just Irish dancing - it was absolutely the Michael Flatley effect.