Jason Ritter doesn’t care about being “cool,” and according to some fans, that’s just part of his natural charm.
On Wednesday, March 12, the Matlock actor uploaded a one-minute-long video of himself dancing with no one else in sight. Wearing a tan cardigan, jeans and a pair of black sneakers, Ritter moved and grooved without missing a beat for the entire duration of the clip.
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It wasn’t until fans peered into the caption that they realized this fun and goofy video was actually Ritter’s response to someone previously telling him that his dancing “was cringe.”
“Sorry to the guy who said me continuing to dance was cringe!!” Ritter began in the long-winded caption of his March 12 TikTok. “Unfortunately for that man I am immune to being called cringe as I went through a long stage of being the most intense cringer at everything I did until one day I thought ‘who has the time?'”
His message, a respectable one, was initially inspired by a famous Beatle when he was just entering his teenage years.
“In ‘Hey Jude’ Paul McCartney says ‘For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder,’ And my little 8th grade brain said ‘oh thank heavens I can stop trying to be something I am just not, which is whatever ‘cool’ is.’ And after that any time I felt worried about doing something, like dancing or anything I would ask myself if what I was afraid of was just being embarrassed, and if it was just that, I’d force myself to go out on a limb and do it!” he explained.”And a lot of times I had to sit in the embarrassment, but I at least learned something from it!! And at least I knew what it was like to try that thing!!”
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Ritter continued, “As far as I could tell, in order to be cool you had to not really care or like a lot of things this beautiful world has to offer, you have to think everything sucks, because even liking anything is putting yourself out there to be made a fool of. So anyway I enjoy being a bit of a fool!”
“Also how do you know if your friends really like you if you’re cool! What if you forget to be cool one day? Are they still around?? I guess cool people might not care that much about true friendships either???? I don’t know, I’ve never been cool!” he joked.
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“How sad to be trying to watch a show or listen to music when all you can think about is people looking and judging!!!” he added elsewhere. “So now I dance like no one’s watching and then I post it for anyone to see because that is BY FAR the most potentially embarrassing option and I am here to embarrass myself as much as possible.”
“ANYWAY!! Sorry to that man, but he can always scroll! He’s responsible for his own eyeballs! I’m just here in a room,” he said, noting this his wife, wife, Melanie Lynskey, “had nothing to do with decorating wise being a dork! I love you guys thank you for reading!”
Fans found his video to be more than amusing, praising him and his “whimsy” nature in the comments.
“that guy who called you cringe has no taste for good dancing,” one TikToker suggested.
“Cringe?” the official account for the CBS drama wrote. “Consider this comment their cease and desist letter!”
“I’m having a blah day (nothing serious, just…blah…) and this made me happy,” a third confessed. “Making people happy is never cringe.”
“He’s just jealous of your dance moves and beautiful wife 🥰,” one more added.
The 45-year-old actor is on a hot streak this month, previously going viral a little over a week ago for defending his relationship from “thirsty” fans online looking to shoot their shot with the Yellowjackets star.
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