Synopsis

Green Day perform "Redundant" in the center of a brightly colored living room while a succession of visitors enters and repeats mundane, disconnected routines around them. A newspaper, a painting, a plant, a box, a vacuum cleaner, and several odd characters pass through the room in carefully timed cycles. The activity gradually builds into a crowded tableau before thinning out again. By the end, the band members leave one by one, and a woman discovers that her newspaper has mysteriously disappeared.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video is an homage to Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film "Tango," which uses a fixed camera and layers people performing repetitive actions in the same room.

• Its static viewpoint makes the choreography the central visual effect. Rather than moving the camera, the video creates momentum by introducing and removing performers at precisely arranged intervals.

• The title is reflected directly in the video's structure: the background characters repeatedly perform ordinary actions, turning repetition into the main visual joke.

• The cast includes burlesque performer Dita Von Teese, who appears as the woman in the bright red dress.

• "Redundant" was released as a single from Green Day's 1997 album "Nimrod" in 1998. It followed "Hitchin' a Ride" and "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" as one of the album's major singles.