Synopsis
Imperial Teen perform "Yoo Hoo" while Rose McGowan reprises her role as Courtney Shayne from Jawbreaker. In keeping with Courtney's viciously playful personality, she stalks and torments the band members with brightly colored jawbreakers, turning the candy into a threatening prop. The video mixes performance footage with exaggerated scenes of intimidation, giving the song a mischievous, darkly comic visual counterpart. Its glossy teen-movie styling and deliberately menacing humor connect the clip directly to the world of the 1999 cult film.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was made as a promotional tie-in to Jawbreaker, which featured "Yoo Hoo" on its soundtrack.
- Rose McGowan appears as Courtney Shayne, making the clip a direct extension of her character from the film rather than a conventional band-only video.
- The video uses jawbreakers as its central visual motif, echoing the candy's importance in Jawbreaker, where one is involved in the death of Elizabeth Purr.
- "Yoo Hoo" originally appeared on Imperial Teen's 1998 album What Is Not to Love before gaining wider exposure through the film and its associated video.
- The clip was included among the special features on the Jawbreaker DVD, helping preserve it as part of the movie's home-video legacy.
- The song's association with Jawbreaker became one of Imperial Teen's most recognizable pop-culture connections. The film later developed a cult following, and its stylized use of "Yoo Hoo" became especially well remembered.