Synopsis

Rivers Cuomo moves through a strange, overstimulated town where ordinary people behave as if they are intoxicated. In a barber shop, on the street, at a party, and in other everyday settings, strangers and band members react with exaggerated energy while miming the song's lyrics. Green-screen effects turn the world increasingly surreal, mixing comic performances with sudden visual chaos. The video ends with a fire-related spectacle, capped by an appearance from producer Rick Rubin as a firefighter.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video presents intoxication as a metaphor for society's dependence on stimulation, including music, technology, partying, relationships, and other distractions. Rivers Cuomo said the song should not be understood as being only about illegal drugs.

• Television censorship produced an alternate version titled "We Are All in Love." The audio was altered to replace the drug reference, but the newspaper headline Rivers reads in the video still says "WE ARE ALL ON DRUGS."

• Rick Rubin, who produced the song, makes a brief cameo near the end of the video in the role of a firefighter.

• Before the main video was available, an interim promotional clip was assembled by re-editing footage from Grim Reaper's 1985 video "Fear No Evil." This version is distinct from the later Weezer video with Rivers wandering through the surreal town.