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((Short description|2008 single by Fall Out Boy))
((More citations needed|date=January 2011))
((Infobox song
| name          = What a Catch, Donnie
| cover         = whatacatchdonnie_coverart.jpg
| alt           = 
| border        = yes
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Fall Out Boy]]
| album         = [[Folie à Deux (album)|Folie à Deux]]
| released      = ((ubl|October 15, 2008 ((small|(US digital)))|September 7, 2009 ((small|(UK)))))
| recorded      = [[Los Angeles]], [[California|CA]]
| studio        = 
| venue         = 
| genre         = [[Emo]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/best-emo-power-ballads/|title=The 12 Best Emo Power Ballads|website=[[Loudwire]] |date=April 28, 2023))</ref>
| length        = 4:50
| label         = [[Island Records|Island]]
| writer        = ((flatlist|
* [[Pete Wentz]]
* [[Patrick Stump]]
* [[Joe Trohman]]
* [[Andy Hurley]]
))
| producer      = [[Neal Avron]]
| chronology    = [[Fall Out Boy]]
| prev_title    = [[Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet]]
| prev_year     = 2009
| title         = What a Catch, Donnie
| year          = 2009
| next_title    = [[Alpha Dog (song)|Alpha Dog]]
| next_year     = 2009
| misc          = ((External music video|((YouTube|_lkJkwnXQZ8|"What a Catch, Donnie"))))
))

"'''What a Catch, Donnie'''" is [[Fall Out Boy]]'s second digital download single and third radio single from their fourth studio album ''[[Folie à Deux (album)|Folie à Deux]]'' (2008). It was first released as part of the buildup to the new album on [[iTunes]] on October 14, 2008, and charted on the [[United States|US]] and Canadian singles charts. The track features numerous musicians performing cameo appearances in the song, singing lines from past Fall Out Boy songs.<ref>Poster that comes with the Limited/Deluxe Edition of [[Folie à Deux (album)|Folie à Deux]]</ref> [[Bassist]] and lyricist [[Pete Wentz]] has said that he wrote the song to remind himself of vocalist and guitarist [[Patrick Stump]]. [[Fall Out Boy]] played the song live on ''[[Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]]''.<ref>[http://idobi.com/video/fall-out-boy-late-night-w-jimmy-fallon-what-a-catch-donnie/ "Fall Out Boy – Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon – What A Catch, Donnie"] idobi.com. Retrieved June 4, 2015.</ref>

==Music video==
The music video was dedicated to [[Atlanta]] rapper [[Dolla (rapper)|Dolla]] who was shot and killed a few months before the song's release.
The band shot the video for the song on July 1, 2009, with [[Alan Ferguson (director)|Alan Ferguson]]. On June 30, bassist [[Pete Wentz]] posted on his [[Twitter]] that the band had 'wrapped up' a video for "What a Catch, Donnie". On July 2, guitarist [[Joe Trohman]] stated via Twitter that they had finished shooting the video, editing will take place in the next couple days, and the video was released on MTV on August 6, 2009.

The video includes [[Spencer Smith (musician)|Spencer Smith]] and [[Brendon Urie]] from [[Panic! at the Disco]]. The two also appeared in the official music video for Fall Out Boy's "[[A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"]]" as some of the dandies, and were featured in the video for "[[Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet]]".

Pete Wentz said in a press statement: -
"It is my time to say that we haven't done a video like this before, a video dedicated to someone's death, the death of our best friend and rapper, [[Dolla (rapper)|Dolla]] (Roderick Anthony Burton II). We hope to shoot the video for 'What a Catch, Donnie' in the same place he was shot and also bring our friends round for the climax."

The official music video was released August 7, 2009,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110925153130/http://www.falloutboyrock.com/media/ Fall Out Boy Media] falloutboyrorock.com (WayBack). Retrieved January 11, 2015.</ref> on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, and MTV Hits.

The video depicts lead singer [[Patrick Stump]] alone at sea trying to find his way home. Throughout most of the video he is fishing, reading in his cabin, playing the piano and suffering from loneliness. Eventually, he finds a seagull trapped in ropes on his ship. He frees and befriends the bird and so the two set sail together and Patrick is no longer lonely. At 0:37 a carousel horse can be seen on deck (from "[[America's Suitehearts]]"). Towards the end of the video, Patrick starts to fish again but finds strange objects such as deer antlers (from Antler Boy in "[[Sugar, We're Goin Down]]"), a black and green striped jacket (the jacket Patrick wore in "[[Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy song)|Dance, Dance]]"), and a bass drum (one of [[Andy Hurley]]'s drums). Finally, he comes across a sign featuring the letters F, O, and B (the sign from "[[Thnks fr th Mmrs]]"). He then looks up and spots a white casket (from "[[This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race]]") as well as a sinking ship. He immediately turns the boat around to rescue the survivors on the lifeboats (who include [[Joe Trohman]], [[Andy Hurley]], [[Spencer Smith (musician)|Spencer Smith]], [[Brendon Urie]], and everyone else (except Pete Wentz) who has worked with Fall Out Boy over the past few years). After all of the survivors are on the boat celebrating because they were rescued, Patrick looks out at the sinking ship. In the top right corner, a man assumed to be the captain in a white uniform is seen saluting. This man is supposedly Pete Wentz, and he had a close up in the original video but was edited out. Once all of the survivors are on the boat, and getting closer to shore, Patrick sets free his Seagull friend and watches him fly off with his family into the coast. At the end of the song it also depicts some of their greatest hits. In the background they sing chorus lines from their songs "[[Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet]]", "[[Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy]]", "[[Sugar We're Goin Down]]", "[[Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy song)|Dance, Dance]]", "[[This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race]]", "[[Thnks fr th Mmrs]]", and "[[Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend|Growing Up]]".

The version of this video was that released on iTunes is missing the portion where Pete Wentz says "Thank you" to Patrick Stump. On the commentary of the ''[[Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits]]'' bonus DVD, the band states that this part was left out because of the poor [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] special effects.

It is one of few ballads by Fall Out Boy. As said in an interview, Pete Wentz said that the song was written in thoughts of his friendship with the lead singer Patrick Stump. He wanted to show his fondness towards "one of his best friends in the business". Although the band were on hiatus (which stretched between 2009 and 2013), Wentz and Stump still supported each other's new music releases.

This was the last music video that Fall Out Boy recorded before going on hiatus, until their reformation in 2012.

==Cameo appearances==
"What a Catch, Donnie" features a long line-up of guest artists. Towards the end of the song from 3:45–4:29, lead singers from other [[DCD2 Records|Decaydance]] bands can be heard singing lyrics from other Fall Out Boy singles, behind the main vocals. The songs and artists are as follow:
* 3:45 "[[Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy]]" featuring '''[[Gabe Saporta]]''' (of [[Cobra Starship]] and [[Midtown (band)|Midtown]]).
* 3:52 "[[Sugar, We're Goin Down]]" (while "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy" fades) featuring '''[[Travie McCoy]]''' (of [[Gym Class Heroes]]).
* 4:00 "[[Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy song)|Dance, Dance]]" (while "Sugar, We're Goin Down" fades) featuring '''[[Brendon Urie]]''' (of [[Panic! at the Disco]]).
* 4:08 "[[This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race]]" (while "Dance, Dance" fades) featuring '''Doug Neumann''', the general management for Crush Management, which claims [[Decaydance]] as part of its roster.
* 4:15 "[[Thnks fr th Mmrs]]" featuring '''[[Alexander DeLeon]]''' (of [[The Cab]]).
* 4:22 "[[Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend|Growing Up]]" (while "Thnks fr th Mmrs" fades) featuring '''[[William Beckett (singer)|William Beckett]]''' (of [[The Academy Is...]]).

At 3:00 '''[[Elvis Costello]]''' sings the overture "I will never end up like him, behind my back I already am..." of Fall Out Boy's song "[[Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet]]". On the band's ''[[Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits]]'' album, Fall Out Boy vocalist [[Patrick Stump]] sings the line on the song as the legal agreements were not made in time.

The title of the song is a reference to [[Donny Hathaway]]. His writing partner, [[Roberta Flack]], is mentioned several times throughout the song.

==Chart performance==
{| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (2008)
!align="left"|Peak<br>position
|-
|align="left"|Canada ([[Canadian Hot 100]])<ref name="BillboardCharting">((cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/2008-11-01/digital-songs?order=gainer|title=Digital Songs Week of November 1, 2008 by Biggest Jump|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=September 28, 2011))</ref>
|align="center"|95
|-
|align="left"|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name=BillboardCharting/>
|align="center"|94
|-
|}

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [http://www.falloutboyrock.com Fall Out Boy official website]

((Fall Out Boy))
((Brendon Urie))

[[Category:2008 singles]]
[[Category:Fall Out Boy songs]]
[[Category:2000s ballads]]
[[Category:Songs about loneliness]]
[[Category:Songs about suicide]]
[[Category:Songs written by Pete Wentz]]
[[Category:Songs written by Patrick Stump]]
[[Category:2008 songs]]
[[Category:Island Records singles]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Neal Avron]]
[[Category:Rock ballads]]
[[Category:Music videos directed by Alan Ferguson (director)]]

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