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  • I had a blind date Friday night, was so worried it would be lame or he would be a total loser but he was anything but! Good looking and has a great job! Gracias mi amigo!

    Cannot wait until this Friday YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY Fresno!!

  • Catch the camera persons shadow bottom left at 1:45

  • "Yesterday when we were out on Main Street in Des Moines, he was out buying doggie sunglasses for our dog Boomer, while we were out visiting all of the many business," Bachmann said in her speech following the caucuses.

    I'm glad the dog's future is brighter than Michelle's.

  • i always thought it was my futures so bright mot the future

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  • This song is about Nuclear Bombs. This band is much deeper that you would think.

  • I have all 6 or so Timbuk 3 CDs, ALL of it is great. Too bad only this song made it big. But I highly recommend you find and buy the bands CDs or mp3s Pat MacDonald the singer is a genious.

  • omg, i'm having an 80s flashback, must....resist....urge to buy....tight jordache jeans and tease my hair out.

  • Kuffs brought me here'

    

  • great vid..remember when it first came out...awesome

  • Story of my life... yeah I'm a nerd.

  • haha!

  • I'll give this one a shot:

    "18 people don't have shades."

  • Tommy Boy brought me here!

  • cheesiest song of all time

  • hehe, ik the true meanin' behind this

  • this is about the world ending in nuclear holocaust. Woot!

  • Dam this video is so quiet i have to turn my speakers to max just so i can barely hear it

  • I heard this on the radio yesterday and I have no idea why I just looked it up... lol

  • They are eligible for the rock and roll hall of fame this year!!! Are they getting in?

  • @slowhand496 They should but that wont happen. All of Timbuk3s stuff is fantastic.

  • This is the first ever 'Education Connection' song...they just didn't know it at the time.

  • i understand the copyrights stuff, but be true to that over which you hold the rights or SELL THEM, i beg you....

  • vevo would do well to pay attention to the quality of the youtube videos instead of the current focus, the "paper"..vevo is notorious to me for "dissin' the music", either cutting classic intros or chopping off songs before the true end....mucked up duffy's song, mercy, unmercifully....:P

  • WHEN I WAS A KID I SAW THE MOVIE KUFFS WIT CHRISTIAN SLATER THIS WAS THE SONG THAT MADE ME A FAN

  • 16 people are from the past

  • Isn't this song about a nuclear holucast or something?

  • @Dontmakemecomeover5 partially it is true. it IS about a possible nuclear holocaust. It is also about a warning. Humanity can grow so intelligent that it becomes (sp) a slight bit stupid in its endeavours.

  • my future's so bright I gotta live in a shitty trailer in the middle of buttcrack nowhere just doesn't have the same ring to it

  • MY FUTURES SO BRIGHT...

    I GOTTA SHIT EGGZZZ...I GOTTA SHIT EGGZZZZ

  • i'll shove a motherfucking computer up your ass bish

  • dream a little dream brought me here...

  • @kzdilla agreed, LOVE the Two Corey's <3 RIP Haimster

  • From their Website Timbuk3 is still performing. I've always loved this song. The harmonica on it is terrific and the lyrics are the perfect commentary on the 80s and 90s.

  • This song is in the extremely goofy movie! :D awesomesauce!

  • This song reminds me of the movie Dream A Little Dream.

  • This song was in My Best Friend is a Vampire

  • Haha I guess the song is about the 80's potentially ending due to nuclear stuff, but it's really up beat. Haha nice that they put it in movies like Tommy Boy. -Thought courtesy of cracked.com

  • I smoked a fuckload of pot to this song back in the 90's. don't know why.

  • @theyearofourlordig88 I would guess because you wore shades and that probably hid your stoned eyes pretty good.

  • This song's title is a rather clever enough double entendre. This song is also rather fun and upbeat, especially for one vocalizing about the perhaps reasonable potential of nuclear techs/arsenals/fallouts/conseq­uences.

  • "The future's so bright, you gotta wear a nuclear fall-out bunker..."

  • The McDonalds hit #19 in Billboard, 12-27-86. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a great week!

  • This was the jam back in the day!

  • good song from dream a little dream movie

  • I thought nuclear winter was supposed to be dark...

  • @ap327145 Not while the blast is going off

  • Thumbs up if u love

    Mordecai and the Rigbys!

  • Thumbs up if you knew this song is about nuclear holocaust!

  • Turns out that the future wasn't bright at all.

  • @Jonstradomas Like hell! They've got a DONKEY a TRAILER and a TV set!

  • I saw this band at the legendary 688 club in Atlanta...seems like another world...

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  • dang, 20+ years and this song is even better than it was in the beginning. LOL

  • Watch the 2009 star Trek film.

    Notice all the lens flare.

    this song takes on entirely new meaning.

  • Dream a little dream brought me here!

  • thumbs up if you got here from Hold Me Closer Necromancer (an awesome book)

  • When gay marriage was recently passed in NY, I emailed the band about their song "Legalize Our Love," because I couldn't find it anywhere online and I wanted to share it. And they created a video at my request! Search it out and please share widely! Thank you, Pat, you're awesome! ROCK ON, GAY NEW YORK!

  • did anyone get here from cracked?

  • i'll fucking page rage you

  • thought this was a ZZ Top song :P

  • @arielhentai08 same :O!

  • Its a must-have tune...... And if you just heard it... Where the hell have you been man?

  • My future is so bright...I can't figure out why the volume on this video SUX.

  • Contrary to popular belief, this song's actually about a nuclear holocaust that the writer thought would occur at the end of the 1980s. The reason why the "future's so bright" is because of the detonation of nuclear weapons and the subsequent radiation that dominates the landscape in the post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the song.

  • @KantianEdifice no it wasnt it was a catchy tune and it was clever just like all 80's tunes pepole need to stop looking into things that arnt there.....

  • @TheDerpHero Even the writer of the song, Pat MacDonald, admitted that this song had a dark connotation to it. Why do you think he talks about a guy who studies nuclear science and has a "job" waiting after graduation? Just go to the wikipedia page for this song in addition to cracked.com's 9 Most Inappropriate Soundtracks and you'll see that this song is actually about a nuclear holocaust the writer feared would transpire in the 1980s.

  • @KantianEdifice your a dumbass and know nothing...

  • @TheDerpHero If I'm a dumbass, then that must make you a retard bereft of any erudition and intelligence whatsoever. No, I take that back, even retards are smarter than you.

  • @KantianEdifice U MAD BRO?

  • @TheDerpHero U retarded, asshole? 

  • @KantianEdifice Y u so mad bro?

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  • This is the song you hear when the movie Kuffs opens up.

  • I'm not all right, I'm getting bad grades, my future's so dark I gotta wear night-vision goggles.

  • i gotta sing this in my school

  • dream a little dream <3

  • now this is a record perfect for the summer. just heard it from a comedic movie i was watching called dream a little dream. watch on netflix when you get the chance. :-)

  • On 6/1/87 I heard this song on the radio - right after getting fired from my job. The future WAS bright, but I didnt see it at the time. Getting fired from that shitty job was one of the best things that happened to me. After that, my grades went up. 3 years later I was doing alright, the jerk off manager who fired me was still at the same lousy job.

  • Impagável!

    Adoro esta música!

  • The future is so bright I gotta wear condoms

  • If he has a degree in Nuclear science and he's only making 50,000 year he's either getting cheated of of a shit ton of cash, or the hippies singing have no concept of money haha

  • @aaronrobinson940 this was back in the 80's. when less money was more money, the value of our dollar had yet to take its crap dive.

  • @MultiTates You're joking aren't you? Have you seen the state of the pound? £1 = 1 Euro. Unbelievable exchange rate. £1 = about $1.64 which is well down on a few years ago. I can remember a $1.86 exchange rate a couple of years ago. The Dollar is pretty stable. It's fallen a bit but every other currency has nosedived in comparison. Maybe we should all buy Chinese currency.

  • @nickbaldeagle01 ok? its just a good song man, just ment to be enjoyed and listened to.

  • @MultiTates I'd enjoy it more under a sunny California sky.

  • @nickbaldeagle01 I hear ya there

  • Jesus. What a disturbing music video. LOL

  • What an epic song yo :D

  • the tv was on the donkey in the 80's and after the 80's the donkey got his back..back. since..no more mtv music videos worth watching after that.

  • $50k a year won't buy you shit now lol

  • @shaun3701 It will buy almost 1600 cases of beer lmao

  • awesome video, awesome song.

  • This is like the DHARMA Initiative film "Lost" never had.

  • Great 80's signature tune- "Kuffs".

  • I have been saying this line for years and my wife didnt know it was a song! hahaha I just told her today

  • This is David Hahn's theme song.  YouTube search "The Nuclear Boy Scout."

  • I failed Nuclear Science, I hate my classes, I walk down the halls grabbing cute girls asses. Things are going great but their only getting better Yeah Im doing alright, Getting good lays The futures so bright I gotta close the shades hahahaha This takes me wayyy back to Gr 7 in 1987

  • the audio is to low you tube sucks at volume control

  • I failed Pre-Algebra

    I hate my classes

    My teachers are hot, and they have nice asses

    Things are going great and they're only getting better

    I'm doing pretty bad, getting bad grades

    The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

    (True Story btw. I hated school but I did have some hot teachers that made school bearable.)

  • The arc is so bright, you gotta wear a welding mask!

  • I study WELDING SCIENCE

    I love my classes

    I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses

    Things are going great, and they're only getting better

    I'm doing all right, getting good grades

    The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

    grcc.edu/

  • Dear Vevo, Let me start by saying that your filthy dick-rich corporation sucks youtube dry of democracy and fun. Ever since these big companies started paying off youtube so they could post their shit...etc, we have been getting flagged for infringement every time we include a song we like in our videos. This is YOUtube, the place where we can post OUR videos.To people who want greedy corporations expelled indefinitely from youtube - thumbs up and copy this into Vevo videos.

  • @cervusadfontes Hey buddy this video isn't VEVO...

  • @cervusadfontes ahahahahahahaahaha you rock!!!!! Thanks for not being a sheeple!!!

  • @cervusadfontes Amen brothah.

  • 0:01 use this to skip ads

  • Its hilarious that this song is used in ads, but its about nuclear holocaust.

  • i got to the bar i drink beer from glasses i like to sit and watch the girls shake thier asses lol

  • The future's so bright, I gotta put a TV on a donkey.

  • @seiya1337 Yeah, cracked rules

  • @seiya1337 Hahahahahahaha, ROFLMAO Classic

  • @seiya1337 HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! i GUESS WE ALL ENDING UP IN MEXXXXICO!

  • what are ya'll gonna do next,make me drag up an old song from Think Jet or Drivin and Cryin ?

  • I saw this band "back in the day" at the 688 club in Atlanta...those were the days..underage drinkin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This was a great song in highschool, I quoted it many times, lol

  • the animations were made from a Commodore Amiga.

    -1999 VH1 New year Pop up video

  • @RQBtv I still have my Amiga.

  • I remember them playing this on the Joan Rivers Show with a similar set and Joan asked "What;s the deal with the burro?" He said no idea it was the record company's idea...the video cheapened for me after that

  • tommy boy

  • Really Timbuk 3? My future's so bright I gotta wear shades? I thought it was called global warming.

  • I have to come to my Home soon. Got somebody I wanna see. And Damn, it's bright.

  • follow this one up with "New Frontier" by Donald Fagen!!

  • this is a great song for chernobyl (it was written in the same year as the disaster)

  • Timbuk3, I always felt that was an interesting name for a band, and this tune has a most happening beat, brings out the latent dancing fool, the lyrics are pretty kooky too, " I'm Heavenly blessed and worldly wise I'm a peeping Tom techie with x-ray eyes" just a very original blast of tuneage! Thanks emimusic for the upload and of course, You Tube for both the space and leaving the lights on! Timbuk3 rocks!

  • a good song for the new year

  • i remember singin this song for my graduation form elementary school :)

  • THIS IS IN TOMMY BOY!

  • is it true that they hate each other now?

  • they're so funny, too bad they were only a one hit wonder, they deserve better

  • When this husband/wife band broke through, I was very impressed they even did their stage shows with just the two of them. I still like their style and this song.

  • im majoring that

  • FUCK these lame ass commercials

  • fun fact about this song ... they never sold out to an advertising company, although it's in the movie dream a little dream (though not on the soundtrack)

  • I always thought this was a Tom Petty song...

    It;s excellent though.

  • RIP justin bieber

  • @yogurtshwartz RIP: rot in pieces

  • @LawrenceLugar1 Mine finally turned to dust about two years ago. Seems like that song was livelier 25 years ago. Can it be Grunge actually had an effect on me?? LOL

  • Well its the future and people are wearing Kanye West shades :(

  • I gotta wear shades

  • always reminds me of "My Best Friend's a Vampire"

  • of course Vevo is there if anything is some what powerful only to turn down the volume on the video and Monopoglies it

  • this guy actully lives in my small town still looks the sameway and plays shows every once in a while but man better to have a 1 hit wonder then none i guess

  • i got to the bar i drink beer from glasses i sit and watch the girls shake thier asses!

  • @pauldrake2511 Your doing alright gettin good grades. Your future so bright... Ya gotta wear shades...: )

  • Barbara K played a house concert in my house last night. It was awesome!

  • Loved this song in Dream a little dream! (:

  • Thanks for putting this up!!!!!! How cool, best chill out song ever!

    Brings back some great memories, Thank you

  • I remember a school assembly where some of the teachers put on a show for us when I was in 1st grade singing this song. It was so hilarious!

    "Why did those days ever had to go?" --Stevie Wonder

  • God, I say this way too much

  • Is that the Joker at 0:21 - lol?!

  • At 0:21 - WTF - LOL????

  • Reverend Jack and his Cadillac is very hard to get, but had great music

  • One of the best forgotten songs of the 80's.

    

  • all i can do is listen to this song and suffer through college! lol! oh gotta love this slumpy economy!

  • I started singing a few years ago : (had to quit when the deaf people started shouting for me to shut up)

  • ckeck wiki.com

  • YAY! All of the animation is done on the amazing Commodore Amiga 1000 :P

  • Isn't this song older though?

    Isn't it from the 70s?

  • @musicbox193 1986, and it's supposedly not a positive song either, but a song about future holocausts.

  • @musicbox193 LOL no it's 1986, it was my high school graduation song, I will never forget it. And unless anyone was alive and aware back then, it's very difficult to describe the constant threat and fear none of use could really ever shake or deny that, at any moment, the Reagan-era U.S. and U.S.S.R. could push a single red button & break out into nuclear war, wiping the entire human race off the face of the planet. That is what this song is based on, it was very real.

  • @xeokym No, no, no... All that stuff played into the song a little bit but it was based on what these two heard college kids talking about on 6th Street in Austin, TX. Everybody at UT calls 6th Street "The Drag" and that's where everybody goes to party. Timbuk3 were street musicians who played on The Drag and saw and heard everything that was going on at UT in the'80s. I'm from San Antonio and I've partied on The Drag with my UT friends many times in the early 80s.

  • @daytenmillion ????????????

    maybe you partied a little too hard, I really can't understand a word of your post. o__o;;

  • @xeokym Im 42, The cold war in the 80s was something to fear. My older brother started his first patrol on the SSBN-658 in 1982. But I believe we have way more to fear today from two bit dictators wanting a bomb. The rules of MAD no longer apply today. It used to be if you fuck with America we will vaporize your country. Since 1988 we have had no leaders with a spine or a pair. Reagan put the fear of God into the world. Along with American pride.

  • @22reTOYOTA this song obviously meant a lot of different things to different people. I wasn't trying to suggest it was specifically about the tension of the possibility of WW3. It was about nuclear reactors like 3 Mile Island, it was about what was cool in the mid-80s, it was a sarcastic comment that "my future's so bright" (meaning, atomically bright, as in, NO FUTURE), it was an attitude. Everyone interprets songs differently & they will always have multiple meanings. No one is right or wrong.

  • @xeokym We had alot of "No Nukes" songs along with "Dont drop the Bomb" songs. The fact is MAD stopped any country with a brain from impending doom if they launched, made the arms build up work. Its not USA vs USSR anymore. Its a single warhead launched from Iran into Israel. Trust me Israel does not fuck around. They have well over 60 Jericho 3 ICBMs waiting in response. Maybe you should investigate France. They are a pinko nation with 80% of their power from 235 reactors.

  • @22reTOYOTA dude I'm not arguing with you, why do you keep babbling on like I don't know what I'm talking about? You keep telling me stuff that I know already, assuming I'm ignorant. I'm the same age as you, I graduated HS in 1986. I'm well aware of France testing their nukes out in the ocean trying to hide the explosions underwater, and China getting purified uranium from compromised ex-USSR reactors. I was in Manhattan, a block away from the Twin Towers when the planes hit. So kindly fuck off.

  • @xeokym 50k a year will buy alot of beer.

  • wow, i never the female lead singer really cute...

  • holy schnikes i love this song

  • i'M WEARING SHADES RIGHT NOW BUT, MY ELECTRICITY IS OUT.

  • nuclear war get your shades !

  • @duffweld I live 45 minutes away from a nuclear power plant, and if it ever blew up, I'd probably die a radiation. (Along with the rest of the Lake Huron coast)

  • They have the smallest travel trailer I have ever seen.

  • They were good, I remember one of their songs with the words "both hands on the steering wheel of life" saw them on Austin City limits and I liked them. They pioneered backtracking etc.