Eddie's recurring 'Let Me Show You Chicago' series has covered plenty of odd corners of the city, but this one might be the strangest yet: a full-on block party centered on a guy doing Rodney Dangerfield.
The impersonator works the crowd outside a Chicago brick building, mic in hand, mid-story.
Rodney Dangerfield spent his whole career mining the bit that he never got any respect, a persona so durable it survived him — he died in 2004, and the tie-loosening, eye-bugging delivery is still instantly recognizable more than two decades later. Watching some guy in a rainbow cardigan resurrect the act at a Chicago street party is exactly the kind of bit that only makes sense in the context of a Barstool video series looking for a hook.
Viva La Stool's version of the clip framed it as Big Cat giving the impersonator the respect Dangerfield's character famously never got, which is a pretty good line for what's essentially a guy doing crowd work in front of a brick wall.
Same block party bit, with on-screen captions catching the punchlines as the crowd reacts.
The episode didn't stop at the street performance. Eddie also posted a separate clip of what he called "a hell of a chop at the kitchen table" between Rodney and Big Cat — the two of them sitting across from each other, drinks out, just talking. It's a smaller, quieter follow-up to the block party chaos, and it's the kind of scene that makes these Barstool Chicago videos feel less like a produced bit and more like a hangout that happened to get filmed.
Two guys sit at a kitchen table trading stories, one in the same rainbow cardigan from the block party.
Whether the Rodney Dangerfield bit becomes a recurring character in the 'Let Me Show You Chicago' world or was just a one-off from this episode remains to be seen, but Eddie's series has built its identity on stumbling into exactly this kind of local color. New episode's out now — worth the watch just to see a dead comedy legend's catchphrase get a second life on a random Chicago block.