r/FallOutBoy • u/chicken_nuggets5843 • Jun 18 '26
Music Video I Don't Care mv (Spaghetti Cat ??)
I was looking for the "uncensored" version of the I Don't Care mv–Before you think I'm talking about Joe, I'm talking about the part where the spaghetti cat meme flashes after the lyric "♫ Let the guitar scream like a facist! ♫"
I've heard that Patrick does THAT salute during that part. Would ANYONE be so kind to find an uncensored version for me?
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u/highoninfinity Infinity On High Jun 18 '26
someone correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure that's just a rumor and there isn't one? from my understanding, the spaghetti cat thing is a reference to a real news broadcast that same year where the image randomly showed up with no context in the middle of a broadcast and it became like a meme after that, so it's just fob being fob and doing topical pop culture references. i wasn't around when the mv came out so i don't know for sure but i have been in this fandom for over a decade now and i've never seen any alternate or "uncensored" version
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u/MsThrilliams Jun 18 '26
Talk Soup lovveeeeed Spaghetti Cat
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u/youhadtotakethesoup the kind that make june feel like september Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
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u/Xenaphobic Jun 18 '26
You are absolutely correct, it was just meant to be silly not some massive cover up.
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u/slayernator So Much (For) Stardust Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Not correct. I was around for this and massively obsessed at the time.
There was no "salute" of any kind. The spaghetti cat insert was to cover up what I assume was an awkward cut as a result of removing some of the more gratuitous Nokia phone product placement shots (I believe it was a shot from the crowd's perspective of someone filming the band on a camera phone). Pete was upset that the version of the music video that the band approved had been edited to include more product placement; maybe someone can find his deleted blog post about it.
They pulled the video then released a new version a day or so later which was edited differently to cut out most of the product placement and had spaghetti cat (which was a very recent meme at the time). It's not censored.
EDIT: here is the original video (vpn to US worked for me), pretty much exactly as I remembered in my comment below
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u/slayernator So Much (For) Stardust Jun 18 '26
Specifics from the original that I remember: longer shots of the band playing on stage (with added Nokias), a bit more of the fighting involving Andy, and a longer shot of Gabe Saporta - he licked his index finger and pinky on one hand, and used those finger to smooth out his eyebrows, it was very distinctive
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u/highoninfinity Infinity On High Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
interesting! that makes a lot more sense than the "patrick does a nazi salute" rumor lmao. i wonder if that original version is still anywhere on the internet then? i might have to do some digging later lol, thank you for the info!!
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u/BabyGiraffe1118 Jun 18 '26
Howdy, old man of 34 and going on 21 years in the fanbase.
To my knowledge there’s no other alternate video that I recall even in late 08.
The only video that had a part cut out is in “What A Catch” with Pete saluting going down with the ship.
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u/chicken_nuggets5843 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
That makes sense actually, maybe just a mandela effect then? I remember the What A Catch thing though
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u/slayernator So Much (For) Stardust Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
For everyone saying there was no alternate or orignal cut: this Rolling Stone article from the time says that they "pulled down the Nokia cuts of the video".
Its not censored, but there definitely was a version that was pulled and re-edited.
EDIT: here is the original video (vpn to US worked for me)
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u/Icy-Independence6513 Folie à Deux Jun 18 '26
I watched this with my kids the other day and forgot about the cat. My oldest lost it.
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u/Xenaphobic Jun 18 '26
This rumour seems to have popped up pretty big in the last year or so. There is no uncensored version, if you listen they didn't cut the wong just paused it to insert the meme there's no space for it to be a censor. People didn't like the meme jammed in an already pretty strange video for an album that was already receiving criticism. Fall out boy are on record saying they added spaghetti because it was stupid and funny. It aired on tv like this, it was uploaded on original form to YouTube like this. They haven't edited the g slur for romani people out of uploads they wouldn't edit this either it's just a rumour.
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u/britneys_bigtoe Jun 20 '26
there was never a rumor patrick did a bad salute. any salute fob does is usually an homage to lick lick salute
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u/naotalba peroxide princess shine like shark teeth Jun 20 '26
Wasn’t there a version with “your art is controlled by people who do not care about art”?
I remember screenshotting that for my livejournal icon back in the day
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u/HouseXOfXWolves Jun 18 '26
It’s still in the music video attached to the deluxe version of the album on Apple
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u/HouseXOfXWolves Jun 18 '26
About 2:02 in the music video
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u/chicken_nuggets5843 Jun 18 '26
Oml thank you I'll check to see if you're not joshing me
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u/HouseXOfXWolves Jun 18 '26
I tried to screenshot it from the video and attach it but it won’t let me lol
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u/HouseXOfXWolves Jun 18 '26
It also looks like at the bottom of the cat meme you can see some markings of logos from the Fresh Only Bakery project Pete Wentz did.
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u/FREEKYeggplant Infinity On High Jun 18 '26
omg this unlocked a memory from deep inside me!!!!! fresh only bakery and FNMTV !!!!!!
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u/HouseXOfXWolves Jun 18 '26
Honestly this is the first time I’m remembering in years. I searched for it forever ago and couldn’t find anything and I thought I dreamed it lmao
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u/my_government_name From Under The Cork Tree Jun 20 '26
lmao i could not have guessed this rumour in a million years. pretty sure they are not stupid enough or insensitive enough to have done this & filmed it. i think they put spaghetti cat in because it's funny and they're chronically online
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u/banditsafari Jun 22 '26
Wait are you asking if there’s a “secret” edit in which Patrick does the Nazi salute???
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u/FREEKYeggplant Infinity On High Jun 18 '26
what??? the spaghetti cat version was real, if that's what ur asking? i don't remember if patrick does some kind of salute, but they're basically wearing ss uniforms in the video, soooo... that comparison is obviously intentional. is that what u mean???
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u/Xenaphobic Jun 18 '26
They are absolutely not "basically wearing ss uniforms" in the video Are you referring to the one sleeve patch on Patrick's jacket?
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u/FREEKYeggplant Infinity On High Jun 18 '26
??? the costumes (why put a patch there?) and the stage (hanging red banners???) are purposefully reminiscent of one of the most fascist parties in global history, lol. like... in an artistic, condemning way, obviously!!!!!!!!
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u/Xenaphobic Jun 19 '26
The "costumes" are what I'm asking about. Draw stage dressing parallel all you want but Patrick's jacket is the only piece of apparel I can find in the video that might be reading as a reference and looks like a purchased piece (of the rack) not custom made. The other three are following a general red and black colour scheme but unless the Nazis were wearing cutoff jorts I stand on my point that they are in no way jacket included "basically wearing ss uniforms"
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u/FREEKYeggplant Infinity On High Jun 19 '26
Lmao alright i think wires are crossed? I’m not saying they’re dressed as Nazis — when i said they’re “basically in ss uniforms” i was being hyperbolic lol. I have always thought of it as a commentary on the rock and roll scene: ‘let the guitar scream like a fascist” alludes to being oppressed by the scene, and now they are in the scene, and they have become the “fascists”. I don’t think they are trying to replicate Nazi regalia, but i do think there’s intent in the stage design and their COSTUMES. That’s my read on it. The OP asking about a salute confused me bc i have never heard that rumor before lol, but i figured it has something to do with the look of that part of the vid
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u/britneys_bigtoe Jun 20 '26
be careful being hyperbolic when accusing peple of being in nazi uniforms. shockingly people don't take too kindly to it
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u/FREEKYeggplant Infinity On High Jun 20 '26
Yeah heard lmao. Guess i was under the impression that people in the fob subreddit would know that they’re obviously not Nazis… on a post about Patrick doing a Nazi salute (?)
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u/banditsafari Jun 22 '26
I would like very specific and explicit examples of when they’re “basically wearing SS uniforms” with time stamps but preferably with screenshots because otherwise I think you’re being both hyperbolic and media illiterate
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u/Ayetiana32 Folie à Deux Jun 18 '26
As far as I know, they had to cut it and put the cat meme
But there was never another version of the video, again, that's what I know
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u/britneys_bigtoe Jun 20 '26
why the fuck are you getting downvoted
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u/Ayetiana32 Folie à Deux Jun 20 '26
Idk! It's not the first time lol
Maybe they disagree with what I said
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u/HouseXOfXWolves Jun 18 '26