Essentially the cause of Coolio's beef with Weird Al. Unlike other parody-centric artists, Al and his band (who have been together since the 80s) from the second album on — the first album used accordion on every track, in keeping with Al's trademark talent — stay extremely close to the original melodies and instrumentation of the song they parody. He's also written two children's books, When I Grow Up and My New Teacher and Me. The success of Mandatory Fun launched an online petition asking for Al to play the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, which eventually gathered over 125,000 signatures. Trashy talk shows ('Talk Soup', 'Jerry Springer'). WandaVision First Reactions: Disney+'s First MCU TV Show Praised For Being Weird, Fun, And Bold The first social media reviews of Marvel Studios' WandaVision are here. Another possible example in "I Remember Larry," after he talks about tying the titular pranker's mouth with a rag and leaving him for dead: Most of "Party at the Leper Colony", but especially: From "Perform This Way," regarding Gaga's meat dress, which the woman in the video also wears: "I'll Sue Ya", since it's a style parody of. "Christmas at Ground Zero" is about nuclear war. Al ordering onions on his cheeseburger in "Trapped in the Drive Thru". Add new page. Al calls from time to time, insensitive to what he's put Corky through, and he doesn't even care when informed that he'll be fired if he doesn't come back soon. In the video, Al accompanies this line with a dance move taken from, One of the two handymen dancing in the backgrounds of the "Handy" music video wears, "Midnight Star" featured several headlines originally used in, "Trigger Happy": "I always keep a Magnum in my trunk/. It's done for humorous effect, however; he's holding his sentient disembodied head in his left arm. It showed a little adventure of Weird Al living in a cave 20 miles below the surface of the earth with his hamster, Harvey, then taught An Aesop. Lots of these songs contain raunchy or offensive lyrics, and the lead vocal vaguely sounds like Al; since Al is the most visible parody musician alive, his name gets attached to them, despite having subject matter and lyrics he would never touch. "to not drool" is a split infinitive; the proper phrasing would be "Try your best not to drool". Fm. Al rags on Pauly Shore every once in a while. You are a complete loser!". "I Lost On Jeopardy": The music video takes place on a reproduced version of the 1964-75 set and features both Art Fleming and Don Pardo reprising their roles plus cameo appearances by band members, family members, Demento, and even the guy who sang the song Yankovic was parodying (Greg Kihn). Ben Folds played piano on "Why Does This Always Happen To Me"... which is a parody of Ben Folds songs. During the "Perform This Way" video, after the line, "I'll poke your eye out with a dress like this." The subject of "You're Pitiful" is a 42-year old example. Al is the most visible parody musician alive, UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff, If I'm bit by a zombie, prob'ly not telling you, complain about pointless celebrity cameos, flesh-eating weasels are assaulting Al's face, The Presidents of the United States of America, ffffell way below my standards of quality, "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" and "Once in a Lifetime", pretty much the entirety of Zappa's back-catalog, "The Barry Williams Show" by Peter Gabriel, live-tweeting funerals while taking selfies with the deceased, a list of palindromes done in the style of Bob Dylan. In "A Complicated Song", he describes being beheaded as a "major inconvenience". "White And Nerdy" is the most accurate depiction of a subject that, he, of course, didn't have to do any research for. The last word gets interrupted at the cutoff. Most of us older folks know him better for his parodies, but he's spanned a few generations since his Dr. Demento days and is still going strong.Moreover, knowing that a song is a parody and knowing the song it parodies are two different things. Yankovic himself finally gets one in with the comparatively mild "You cheap bastard!" Most of Weird Al's songs have at least one Funny Moment. Al began recording his own humorous songs in his bedroom with his accordion and mailing them to the good Doctor, who played them on the air; according to Al, Demento appreciated the novelty of a geeky teenager with an accordion thinking he was "cool". "Let Me Be Your Hog", coming in at 16 seconds. The video for "Foil" has Al hosting a cooking show which is directed by, Al has directed several of Ben Folds' videos, and appears as himself in his role as the director in the video for. The DVD commentary even mocked the inclusion of a scene from the "Gump" video of Forrest being carressed by bikini-clad women in a hot tub, wondering how that didn't get flagged for "imitatable behavior. doesn't reveal the true nature of the title and viewpoint character until halfway through the first verse. Special mention for the "Smells Like Nirvana" music video. "Weird Al" Yankovic "interviews" Eminem in this AL-TV clip from 2003. ", two women dressed (and undressed) as characters from UHF, when she asks him to join the Columbia Record Club, which he takes literally and cuts Marty's limbs off with a chainsaw. And I said, "God, please answer me one question... Why'd they have to interrupt The Simpsons just for this? ", I gotta tell ya, life without a head kinda makes me irritated. The humor is both witty and juvenile appealing mostly to tween and teen boys.. "Since You've Been Gone" is a bunch of Weird Als singing a cappella (except for the bass line, which is Steve Jay). "My Balogna" is a parody of "My Sharona" about the meat. He has been involved with the Transformers franchise twice: his song "Dare To Be Stupid" was played in the 1986 movie, and he provided the voice of Wreck-Gar in Transformers Animated. He played a rather annoying yoga practitioner in "Enlightening Strikes", the tenth episode of the 2015, He played the conformist, normal control panel Pal.0 in the eponymous episode of, The predictions in "Your Horoscope for Today" that don't fall under. His producer got permission from Coolio's producer but not Coolio. "Virus Alert" lists, among the other consequences of the virus, making you physically attracted to sheep. You might notice a couple of hits missing this summer from "Weird Al" Yankovic's Strings Attached Tour -- his first trek playing with a full orchestra. "Weird Al" Yankovic "interviews" Jessica Simpson in this AL-TV clip from 2006. "Truck Drivin' Song" is, naturally, in the style of 70's country trucker songs, with Al's low voice sounding a bit like C.W. Wiki Content. The "Smells Like Nirvana" video actually had some of the actors from the original "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video including the janitor. "Albuquerque", but a box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels will do that. Wikis. I mean that in a nice way. Even with the occasional dip into raunchy subtext, he still aims to be (in his words) a "more-or-less family-friendly" performer. "Weird Al" Yankovic "interviews" Kevin Federline in this AL-TV clip from 2006. ", Don't forget "Woofie" the dog: "WOOFIE YOU. Everything You Know is Wrong can be seen as one of these too (if you consider that all the things that happen to be inside his head, maybe after being horrifically injured in the car crash at the beginning). It first appears to be a very straight account of a tragic earthquake in Peru, sung in a very earnest fashion in a song whose melody and tempo is quite fitting to the sad mood....then he reveals himself to be a jerk who's mad that this report about the Peruvian earthquake interrupted his watching and taping, The bridge of "Hardware Store" has Al singing. Al has also won four Grammys in his career: three for various albums and one for a video. ...and even then it's a pun, because Woofie literally is a bitch. He also claimed that he got "great pleasure" from watching Uma Thurman's movies. Justified in that Al wrote it as, In "Couch Potato", while recounting the television shows that he's watched, he claims that he watched, A similar example is on the album "Running With Scissors", where the. With the release of Mandatory Fun, Al fulfilled his record contract, and he now plans to go with completely digital releases in the future, which gives him the opportunity to release new songs as they're completed instead of waiting until he has enough material for a full album. The virus described in "Virus Alert" will have a myriad of negative things happen to you if you get infected, two such things being that it will "make your TV record, There's a brief, easily missable one towards, He was also more than happy to break the rhyming scheme just to take a shot at, "Word Crimes" itself is arguably a big one against, "If That Isn't Love" has Al still attached to his lover even after she forced him to see, The video for "Jurassic Park" has the line "I'm afraid those things'll harm me/Cuz they sure don't act like, "Frank's 2000-Inch TV" is deliberately meant to sound ridiculous— that set would be some 166 feet high, or as tall as Seattle's Pacific Tower building. Explore Wikis; Community Central; Start a Wiki; Search This wiki This wiki All wikis | Sign In Don't have an account? In the music video, after he's done singing, a muscular man comes up to him and puts a hand on his shoulder. Weird Al can hear your heartbeat for the very last time. Trope Namer. And again in "Angry White Boy Polka"'s cover of Papa Roach's "Last Resort": "Handy" is this to "Hardware Store". "Jerry Springer", aside from the talking interlude in the bridge, is a, Following Prince's untimely death in 2016, Al took the high road, simply saying in a tweet that "the music world will miss his prolific genius. Similarly, "Albuquerque" - he saves it for the encore, as it wrecks his throat and makes it difficult for him to sing anything else afterward. TV Theme lyrics to the tune of pop-songs ('The Brady Bunch', 'Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies'). ", Were gonna kick your collective posterior, "My barista didn't even bother to make a design in the foam on the top of my vanilla latte! "Trapped In The Drive-Thru". In "Headline News" John Wayne Bobbitt is physically perfectly fine and merely surprised, annoyed and puzzled over his severed penis. YMMV of course, but the Reality Subtext of the general disappointment of The Phantom Menace and the specific way it ruined Jake Lloyd's acting career, coupled with the elegiac tone of the song it parodies has given that song a mournful quality. !So many people commenting on the fact that he says ditto twice. Michael Jackson gave Al permission to parody any of his work that he wanted for the rest of his life. I read a lot of books and watch a lot of movies and shows. "Your participle's dangling" (with appropriate visual), "some, "Jackson Park Express" has "I like your boobs" and "I want you inside me, "I Can't Watch This" mentions "mindless T&A.". I mean, seriously?" Register Start a Wiki. Hand farts courtesy of "Musical Mike" Kieffer are common, and he can be seen performing in the videos for "I Love Rocky Road" and "Headline News". Awesome Music: While all his songs count, specifics go to the end of Hardware Store, all of White & Nerdy, and without a doubt, Skipper Dan! Chamillionaire, whose song "Ridin'" was the basis for "White & Nerdy", reported that he received praise from people overseas, saying "people were telling me they had heard my version of Weird Al's song". "Trigger Happy" is a take on the style of of, "Bob" is a bunch of palindromes sung like, "Close But No Cigar" is an absolutely spot-on pastiche of the band, "You Make Me" is a parody in the style of, In a lot of cases, his "style parodies" are, For similar reasons, he did the song "Traffic Jam" in the style of, "Wanna B Ur Lovr" is thought by many to be another Prince hit, but is styled more along the lines of, "If That Isn't Love" is mostly a style parody of his close friends, the boys of. On a shot of a piece of homework paper, the homeroom teacher is listed as ". "Christmas At Ground Zero". Subverted in the uncensored version of "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (in which Santa is killed in the shootout), no mention is made of Vixen and Donner's fates, except that Vixen's in therapy and Donner's still nervous. The page for Atlantic Records had to be locked for a while as a result. What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? Also, "Do I … When Al asked Kurt Cobain for permission to parody one of his songs, Kurt asked what it would be about. A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far Far Away... Just blow out the candles and have a piece of cake. In the most extreme example of this attention to detail, "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" (based on R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet") sounds exactly like the original. The original "Dare to Be Stupid" averts this trope. McCall's. Nearly every product shown in the "Whatever You Like" video, which is interesting, since many real-world products are named in the song. You can't have that! A good illustration: "Confessions, Part 3" is all about this. In "Al Plays Hooky", after Cousin Corky stops by and agrees to help with the show, Al suddenly decides to take a vacation, without telling Corky. S/he. When Al went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to earn an architecture degree, he began performing his songs at the campus coffeehouse and worked for the school's radio station as a disc jockey, where he picked up the nickname "Weird Al". Dick Van Patten shows up in a lot of his videos. "The Biggest Ball of Twine In Minnesota". Register Start a Wiki. A scene where he pretends to deface the page for Atlantic Records led to people trying to really deface their page in a similar fashion. It was only on for 13 episodes in … Weird Al Effect/Laconic | All The Tropes Wiki | Fandom. Apparently, even if you're "the prettiest girl on the planet", he'll break up with you if you own a DVD of. Robert Goulet plays piano in the video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore". Sometime in 1966, a door-to-door salesman stopped by the Yankovic household offering either guitar or accordion lessons; according to Al, his parents figured that "the world needed one more accordion-playing Yankovic" (the first being polka legend Frankie Yankovic, to whom Al is not related) and young Alfred received his first lesson the day before his seventh birthday. Also "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long": "One More Minute" was written to get over an ex, and he rips her picture in the video. Melanie is about stalking a woman he barely knows. If you want to … This makes the following line a bit of a. Al's first songs included "Belvedere Cruising" (an original ode to his family's car, a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere) and "Dr. D Superstar", a parody of "Jesus Christ Superstar" rewritten to be about Dr. Demento. The Not Al List was created to catalog these songs and give them the proper attribution. Stalker with a Crush: "Melanie". Also in the middle of "Your Horoscope for Today," also all in one breath: I present to you the tale of his trip to Albuquerque. ALL OF IT. Published lyrics straight outta lynwood. Troper Portals. The weird detachment with which she addresses this piece of Nazi paraphernalia left me totally convinced that she couldn’t possibly be a Jew. ", In "Eat It", Al even mentions Michael Jackson's, The video for "Eat It" also feautures some of the same dancers from the, One of the last lines of "CNR" is "'Cause you can spit in the wind or tug on Superman's cape", a shout-out to the, "Amish Paradise" also includes the line "But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it", a reference to the movie, The gargling-while-singing and exaggerated gulping on "Smells Like Nirvana" are an homage to, At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including. It seems that Skipper, The lyrics and video for "CNR" fittingly give many nods to. Naturally, I see a lot of tropes show up again and again and there are a certain number of them (fourteen, to be exact) that I would be fine if I never saw again. "Ricky", a parody of Toni Basil's "Mickey", is this for, "Isle Thing", a parody of Tone-Lōc's "Wild Thing", is a lesser example of this for. Since 1999, every album has included bonus video content that can be viewed on a computer (if not also a DVD player), though. When the author of a song laughs at its parody, that's a non-subjective Funny Moments right there., Speaking of "Smells Like Nirvana", here's a lyric from the live version:) Weird al: the book: nathan rabin, al yankovic: 9781419704352. Recurseriffic! Al himself has relayed a story of a television appearance he had soon after the surgery and shaving off his moustache (. A 20 Volume set of the Encyclopedia Internationals, A case of Turtle wax, And a years supply of Rice-A-Roni, A San Francisco Treat. In 1989, Weird Al starred in the film UHF, and he had a short-lived CBS "kids' show" in the 1990s, The Weird Al Show. So yeah, basically, the answer to this one is we don’t know if The Handler is Jewish — aside from speaking some Yiddish, in addition to other languages (we see her speaking Swedish and Mandarin), there are no indications that she is. Chuckie wants to grow up / And be a polo star, "I feel almost as bad as I did/When you were still here. Al works his mentor, Dr. Demento, into many of his videos. at the end. The self-titled debut album of "Weird Al" Yankovic, which was released in 1983. Al said he picked getting fast food as the topic of the song because it was the most banal thing he could think of. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheWeirdAlShow. TV-Themed List Songs ('The Brady Bunch' starts this way, 'Can't Watch This', 'Couch Potato', 'Syndicated Inc.', etc.). TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. "Sports Song" can basically be summed up by saying we're great, you suck, you really suck, and in case you missed it, Al also has a habit of leaking one or more songs from his upcoming albums early, usually by posting it to, In "I Remember Larry" he apparently responds to Larry's constant pranks by murdering him. Wikis. "Trapped in the Drive-Thru," "Genius in France," and "Jackson Park Express" also qualify. Also, a hatred of Prince, especially in his fake interviews. "weird al" yankovic (music) tv tropes. Al is very sympathetic to geek communities and frequently gives them recognition in his songs. 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