Joke About Fleetwood Mac Covering ‘The Theme From Formula One’ Totally Goes Over These Guys’ Heads

It isn’t a day on the internet without some dudes completely missing the point of a joke and jumping straight to the predictable “actually…” when insisting upon responding.

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One of the most recent examples of such eye roll-worthy interactions came after Twitter user @DankAckroyd made a fairly obvious joke about a Fleetwood Mac song.

“Never been into Fleetwood Mac but just heard a song where they start playing a cover of the theme from Formula One at the end love it lads let’s have Grandstand next, please,” she wrote.

Never been into Fleetwood Mac but just heard a song where they start playing a cover of the theme from Formula One at the end love it lads let’s have Grandstand next please

— Husko (@DankAckroyd) August 8, 2021

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For those who aren’t in the know, the joke is that “the theme from Formula One” (or the BBC’s coverage of the racing event) is actually an instrumental portion of Fleetwood Mac’s song “The Chain,” released in 1977.

It’s hard to believe anyone who fits the crossover fandom of Fleetwood Mac and Formula One — enough to comment on the joke — wouldn’t have heard some variation of this in the past. Joking that original songs are covers or that you thought a cover was the original are standard Twitter fodder, basically designed to stir up the trolls, and most people have gotten wise to it over the years.

But not guys replying to @DankAckroyd.

You are very good at getting jokes.

— Bethany Black twitch.tv/beffernieblack (@BeffernieBlack) August 13, 2021

No? Reeeeeeally? I bet OP feels foolish now, there’s definitely no way she already knew that.

— Mango The Clown (@Mango_The_Clown) August 13, 2021

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Thank you, sir, for bravely standing by this “methinks”. A lesser man would have deleted the post when he finally realized it was a joke and that people across the Internet were laughing at the replies, but you bravely left it up for others to enjoy. Thank you for your service! pic.twitter.com/HSc4tq2S1C

— TexasTornado (@texido2step) August 13, 2021

Fortunately, others were ready to jump in with their own jokes to make everything even more confusing.

Ah yes. “Yellow pearl” by Phil, I think it was quite a good tune…if memory serves me…will listen again

— Gavin Murphy Songs (@GavinSongs) August 8, 2021

Or her version of Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious”

— Tom Mead (@TOMMEAD1987) August 8, 2021

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Arguably, the worst guns and roses cover ever was when some band called “Wings” covered it. They made it 10times worse and took all of the metal out of it. It was the musical equivalent of the color beige after they were finished with it. No wonder you don’t hear of them any more

— Lady Tano (@sixleggedoutlaw) August 8, 2021

Lmao who was it who even did the cover of it for charmed?? Can’t lie that was the only way I knew it as a kid. Had no clue who Smiths were

— henry – SCARLETT SZN (@hjsbaker) August 8, 2021

Always a coincidence that Fleetwood Mac went out and recruited a drummer named Mick Fleetwood…

— Richard Beveridge (@BiffoProp) August 13, 2021

And some just straight up went off about the reply guys.

The tweets I’ve done about this, darts and saying I think I’m bigger than a horse are working like correctional therapy

— Husko (@DankAckroyd) August 8, 2021

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And they fell for it in their droves as usual

— Matt Keating (@mattkeating81) August 9, 2021

Well, at least there are some things in this world that we know we can always count on to be painfully predictable.

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*First Published: August 13, 2021, 7:52 am