"[3] Billboard said that Talking Heads "put a minimal post-new wave accompaniment to a bouncy singalong tune.

Taken from the film True Stories, with some additional content, it includes band member Jerry Harrison parodying Billy Idol, Kid Creole, Ralph Macchio's character in The Karate Kid, and Prince.

The video is set in a 1960s ambienced cabaret bar, where a frantic series of unannounced performers lip sync to the song, imitating such singers as Madonna and Prince as disjointed images play across a wall of video screens behind them.

Some gestures and movements are obviously derived from well-known sources: television shows ... movies ... and, most recently, rock videos.

[5] Actor John Goodman, prior to his fame in the sitcom Roseanne, appeared in both the film and MTV versions of the video.