"Get in Line" is a song by the Canadian alternative rock group Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...

. It was released in 1999 in the soundtrack of the TV series King of the Hill

King of the Hill

King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...

. It failed to get a noteworthy chart position, unlike the band's next single, "Pinch Me

Pinch Me

"Pinch Me" is the title of a song by the Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies. It was released in August 2000 as the first single from their 2000 album, Maroon, which was a follow-up to their hit album, Stunt. As such, "Pinch Me" is often regarded as an attempted follow-up to the hit single "One Week"...

". The song was released as a promo 5" and CD single and later appeared on the band's compilation release, Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991–2001).

Music video

The music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

, the first of many of the group's videos directed by Phil Harder

Phil Harder

Philip Harder is a music video director and commercial director represented by Bob Industries in Santa Monica, California. He had a music video company Harder/Fuller Films, 1985 - 2005...

, features the band playing the song live action in the setting of King of the Hill. It was shot in a warehouse

Warehouse

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 in Seattle. Kevin Hearn has a "puffy" look due to chemotherapy. Their manager Pierre has a cameo dressed as Fidel Castro. Pierre went on to dress up in several more videos. The same day the video was shot, the band did another photoshoot, in the nude, for the now defunct web magazine called Bliss.

The video for "Get in Line" is featured in Barenaked Ladies' DVD Barelaked Nadies

Barelaked Nadies

Barelaked Nadies is the second DVD release from Canadian band Barenaked Ladies, though it is the first full length release. It is a compilation of their music videos from 1991–2002, with one exclusion: the video for the Rock Spectacle version of "Brian Wilson" is missing, and the Gordon version is...

, as well on the King of the Hill Season 1 DVD set as a special feature (Disc 3 w/ Dale Gribble).

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Canadian Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....	18