[5] Vocalist Deryck Whibley conceived the idea of the video after a conversation with The Strokes singer Julian Casablancas about the trend of bands with numbers and "the" in their names.

[6] The video, directed by Marc Klasfeld, starts with the band members entering the office of a record executive (played by Will Sasso).

He says the "number band thing" is "out" and changes the band's name to "The Sums" and the members' individual names (Deryck is "Sven", Cone is "Thurston", Dave is "Holmes", and Stevo is "Sergio").

The band then plays the song on a set spoofing The Hives, The Strokes, and The Vines and includes various images of arcade games.

Gareth Dobson of Drowned in Sound criticized the song, writing "Worst of all, the band choose to articulate their sense of misplaced rage in the form of a sub-Offspring SoCal punk dirge.