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* SpokenWordInMusic: A sample of Bart Simpson calling Moe's Tavern from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is used near the latter end of "Phony Calls".

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* SpokenWordInMusic: A sample of Bart Simpson calling Moe's Tavern from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is used near the latter end of plays in "Phony Calls".Calls" where the rap breakdown was on the original song ("Waterfalls" by Music/TLC).
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* YesVirginia: Now Santa's Doing Time. In a Federal prison, for his infamous crime.
** Or... Yes, Virginia: Now Santa Claus Is Dead. Some guy from the SWAT team blew a hole through his head.

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* YesVirginia: Now Santa's Doing Time. doing time. In a Federal federal prison, for his infamous crime.
** Or... Yes, Virginia: Now Santa Claus Is Dead.is dead. Some guy from the SWAT team blew a hole through his head.
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The Alternative Polka" in their song. Sorry about that, I accidentally hit "SAVE" before I had a chance to finish my edit reason.
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The reason I deleted "The Alternative Polka" from Non Appearing Title is that it is a Medley, and no song has ever used the words "


* NonAppearingTitle: "Cavity Search" and "The Alternative Polka".

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* NonAppearingTitle: "Cavity Search" and "The Alternative Polka".Search".

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* OneTakeWonder: The scene in "Amish Paradise" where a barn door falls perfectly around Al was shot in one take because if it went wrong Al legitimately could have died.
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* OneTakeWonder: The scene in "Amish Paradise" where a barn door falls perfectly around Al was shot in one take because if it went wrong Al legitimately could have died.
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* EgocentricallyReligious: Parodied with "Amish Paradise", about an Amish man singing about how much he enjoys his simple life. He's mostly portrayed as a pretty decent upstanding person who happens to prefer the life of a "crazy Mennonite" but he admits at points that the reason he acts like a decent, forgiving person to everyone, even people who mock or assault him, is because he believes he'll be going to Heaven and will be laughing his head off while those people are burning in Hell.

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-->''From his beard to his boots, [[MoreDakka he was covered with ammo]]''
-->''Like big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Franchise/{{Rambo}}''
-->''And I smiled as he said with a [[TwinkleInTheEye twinkle in his eye]]''
-->''“Merry Christmas to all, now you’re all gonna die!”''

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-->''From his beard to his boots, [[MoreDakka he was covered with ammo]]''
-->''Like
ammo]]\\
Like a
big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Franchise/{{Rambo}}''
-->''And I
Franchise/{{Rambo}}\\
And he
smiled as he said with a [[TwinkleInTheEye twinkle in his eye]]''
-->''“Merry
eye]]\\
“Merry
Christmas to all, now you’re all gonna die!”''



** "I Remember Larry" recounts how the singer was bullied (sometimes quite viciously and dangerously) and how he killed the bully.

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** "I Remember Larry" recounts how the singer was bullied repeatedly pranked (sometimes quite viciously and dangerously) and how he killed eventually murdered the bully.prankster.



* DisproportionateRetribution: In "I Remember Larry" he apparently responds to Larry's constant pranks by murdering him.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: In "I Remember Larry" he apparently responds to Larry's constant pranks by murdering him. (Though to be fair, Larry pulled a lot of dangerous and costly "pranks" like cutting his car in half.)



** The last line of "Phony Calls", just before the fade out, is "But you're just a pain in the ass."



-->''There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar,''
-->''Not a single luxury!''
-->''Like Robinson Ca-rusoe,''
-->''It's as primitive as can be!''

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-->''There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar,''
-->''Not
motorcar\\
Not
a single luxury!''
-->''Like
luxury\\
Like
Robinson Ca-rusoe,''
-->''It's
Ca-rusoe\\
It's
as primitive as can be!''
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** The [[Music/GreenDay "Basket Case" ]] segment on "The Alternative Polka" retains the line "Am I just paranoid or am I just stoned?"
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** "Amish Paradise" also includes the line "But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it", a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Witness}}'', in which Creator/HarrisonFord is a police detective placed undercover in an Amish community to protect a murder witness and punches out a tourist who steals his hat.[[note]]Al would later appear on Creator/{{VH1}}'s ''I Love the '80s'' in a segment called "Movies That Should Have Been in [=3D=]," with ''Witness'' being one of them. According to him, the Amish would have still been plain and simple fold, but they'd have been plain and simple ''in your face!''[[/note]]

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** "Amish Paradise" also includes the line "But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it", a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Witness}}'', in which Creator/HarrisonFord is a police detective placed undercover in an Amish community to protect a murder witness and punches out a tourist who steals his hat.[[note]]Al would later appear on Creator/{{VH1}}'s ''I Love the '80s'' in a segment called "Movies That Should Have Been in [=3D=]," with ''Witness'' being one of them. According to him, the Amish would have still been plain and simple fold, folk, but they'd have been plain and simple ''in your face!''[[/note]]
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** "Amish Paradise" also includes the line "But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it", a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Witness}}'', in which Creator/HarrisonFord is a police detective placed undercover in an Amish community to protect a murder witness and punches out a tourist who steals his hat.

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** "Amish Paradise" also includes the line "But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it", a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Witness}}'', in which Creator/HarrisonFord is a police detective placed undercover in an Amish community to protect a murder witness and punches out a tourist who steals his hat.[[note]]Al would later appear on Creator/{{VH1}}'s ''I Love the '80s'' in a segment called "Movies That Should Have Been in [=3D=]," with ''Witness'' being one of them. According to him, the Amish would have still been plain and simple fold, but they'd have been plain and simple ''in your face!''[[/note]]
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Wasn't really a *legal* kerfuffle, as Al doesn't legally need anyone's permission to parody a song (it's covered under Fair Use).


It features his hit "Amish Paradise," a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" which infamously got Al in trouble with the rapper due to a legal kerfuffle over permission and Coolio's feeling that Al was trivializing the gangland drama he was attempting to bring attention to. Despite (or rather [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity because of]]) the controversy, it remains one of his most popular songs and Coolio eventually made peace with it.

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It features his hit "Amish Paradise," a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" which infamously got Al in trouble with the rapper due rapper, who claimed that he rejected Al's proposal to a legal kerfuffle over permission record the parody and Coolio's feeling felt that Al was trivializing the gangland drama he was attempting to bring attention to. Despite (or rather [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity because of]]) the controversy, it remains one of his most popular songs and Coolio eventually made peace with it.

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It features his hit "Amish Paradise," a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" which infamously got Al in trouble with the rapper due to a legal kerfuffle over permission and Coolio's feeling that Al was trivializing the gangland drama he was attempting to bring attention to. Despite (or rather [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity because of]]) the controversy, it remains one of his most popular songs and Coolio eventually made peace with it.

This was Al's last album to feature his "classic" look of a mustache and wire-rimmed glasses. Two years later, he'd have laser eye surgery, which drastically altered his appearance.



* DownerEnding: "The Night Santa Went Crazy". Depending on which version you listen to, it ends with Santa Claus either in jail for several hundred years, or dead.

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* DownerEnding: "The Night Santa Went Crazy". Depending on which version you listen to, it ends with Santa Claus either in jail for several hundred years, years or dead.



** "Callin' In Sick" - Grunge, specifically Music/{{Nirvana}}

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** "Callin' In Sick" - Grunge, specifically Music/{{Nirvana}}Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Come As You Are."



* SelfBackingVocalist: "Since You've Been Gone" is a bunch of Weird Als singing a cappella (except for the bass line, which is Steve Jay).

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* SelfBackingVocalist: "Since You've Been Gone" is a bunch of Weird Als singing a cappella (except for the bass line, which is is, of course, his bassist Steve Jay).
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* AnAssKickingChristmas: “The Night Santa Went Crazy”
-->''From his beard to his boots, [[MoreDakka he was covered with ammo]]''
-->''Like big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Franchise/{{Rambo}}''
-->''And I smiled as he said with a [[TwinkleInTheEye twinkle in his eye]]''
-->''“Merry Christmas to all, now you’re all gonna die!”''
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* SubliminalSeduction: His song "I Remember Larry" has the backwards message "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands."
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Cavity Search" and "The Alternative Polka".
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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Music/TheProdigy Got a lousy haircut]], [[Series/TheWeirdAlShow a really stuid haircut...]]"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Music/TheProdigy Got a lousy haircut]], [[Series/TheWeirdAlShow a really stuid stupid haircut...]]"]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Bad Hair Day'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''Bad Hair Day'']][[caption-width-right:350:"[[Music/TheProdigy Got a lousy haircut]], [[Series/TheWeirdAlShow a really stuid haircut...]]"]]

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* {{Medley}}: "The Alternative Polka".

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* {{Medley}}: "The Alternative Polka". Songs featured, in order:
** "Loser" by Music/{{Beck}}
** "Sex Type Thing" by Music/StoneTemplePilots
** "All I Wanna Do" by Music/SherylCrow
** "Closer" by Music/NineInchNails
** "Bang and Blame" by Music/{{REM}}
** "You Oughta Know" by Music/AlanisMorissette
** "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" by Music/TheSmashingPumpkins
** "My Friends" by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers
** "I'll Stick Around" by Music/FooFighters
** "Black Hole Sun" by Music/{{Soundgarden}}
** "Basket Case" by Music/GreenDay
** [[CouchGag "Ear Booker Polka" by Al Yankovic]]
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* PrankCall: The subject of "Phony Calls".
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** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" - Soul Asylum's "Black Gold" and Ozzy Osbourne's "Mama I'm Coming Home"

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** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" - Soul Asylum's "Black Gold" and Ozzy Osbourne's Music/OzzyOsbourne's "Mama I'm Coming Home"
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Bad Hair Day'']]
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-->''If the cops ever find him, who knows what they'll say//
But I'm sure if ol' Lar were still with us today//

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-->''If the cops ever find him, who knows what they'll say//
say\\
But I'm sure if ol' Lar were still with us today//today\\
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** Ruth Buzzi (as her ''Series/LaughIn'' character Gladys Oomphby) and crooner Pat Boone make cameos in the video for "Gump".

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** Ruth Buzzi (as her ''Series/LaughIn'' ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'' character Gladys Oomphby) Ormphby) and crooner Pat Boone make cameos in the video for "Gump".

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* TheCameo: Florence Henderson in the video for "Amish Paradise".

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* TheCameo: TheCameo:
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Florence Henderson takes Michelle Pfeiffer's place in the video for "Amish Paradise".Paradise".
** Ruth Buzzi (as her ''Series/LaughIn'' character Gladys Oomphby) and crooner Pat Boone make cameos in the video for "Gump".



** "Callin' In Sick" - Grunge

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** "Callin' In Sick" - GrungeGrunge, specifically Music/{{Nirvana}}



** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" - Soul Asylum's "Black Gold"

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** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" - Soul Asylum's "Black Gold"Gold" and Ozzy Osbourne's "Mama I'm Coming Home"



-->''If the cops ever find him, who knows what they'll say''
-->''But I'm sure if ol' Lar were still with us today''
-->''He would have to agree with me - it was a pretty good gag!''
* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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-->''If the cops ever find him, who knows what they'll say''
-->''But
say//
But
I'm sure if ol' Lar were still with us today''
-->''He
today//
He
would have to agree with me - it was a pretty good gag!''
* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.This is the third album to be produced by Al himself.


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** "Syndicated Incorporated" name-drops several classic and then-popular syndicated TV series.


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* StockFootage: Used extensively in the video for "Gump", much like [[Film/ForrestGump the movie it was based on.]]
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* YesVirigina: Now Santa's Doing Time. In a Federal prison, for his infamous crime.

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* YesVirigina: YesVirginia: Now Santa's Doing Time. In a Federal prison, for his infamous crime.

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* MindScrew: "Everything You Know Is Wrong".
* MundaneUtility: The main character of "Everything You Know Is Wrong" is given the chance to go back in time. He decides to go back to the previous Thursday so he can pay his phone bill on time.
* OldTimeyAnkleTaboo: In the music video for "Amish Paradise" two Amish teens are seen looking at a supposedly erotic magazine, with the centerfold girl lifting up her long skirt to show her ankle. This illustrates how the Amish live by very old-fashioned values.
* {{Pun}}: 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:
-->''If the cops ever find him, who knows what they'll say''
-->''But I'm sure if ol' Lar were still with us today''
-->''He would have to agree with me - it was a pretty good gag!''



* SpokenWordInMusic: A sample of Bart Simpson calling Moe's Tavern from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is used near the latter end of "Phony Calls".

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* RewindGag: Near the end of the video for "Amish Paradise", he sings through one scene which obviously plays backwards. Most notably, a buggy rolls past in the background backwards.
* SanitySlippage: "Everything You Know is Wrong" can be seen as one of these (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).
* SelfBackingVocalist: "Since You've Been Gone" is a bunch of Weird Als singing a cappella (except for the bass line, which is Steve Jay).
* ShoutOut:
** To ''Series/GilligansIsland'' in "Amish Paradise":
-->''There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar,''
-->''Not a single luxury!''
-->''Like Robinson Ca-rusoe,''
-->''It's as primitive as can be!''
** "Amish Paradise" also includes the line "But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it", a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Witness}}'', in which Creator/HarrisonFord is a police detective placed undercover in an Amish community to protect a murder witness and punches out a tourist who steals his hat.
* SoundEffectBleep: Al's rendition of "Closer" during "The Alternative Polka":
-->''I want to (POINK!) you like an animal!''
-->''I want to feel you from the inside!''
-->''I want to (CLANG!) you like an animal!''
* SpokenWordInMusic: A sample of Bart Simpson calling Moe's Tavern from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is used near the latter end of "Phony Calls".Calls".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: 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.
* YesVirigina: Now Santa's Doing Time. In a Federal prison, for his infamous crime.
** Or... Yes, Virginia: Now Santa Claus Is Dead. Some guy from the SWAT team blew a hole through his head.
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* ACappella: "Since You've Been Gone".


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* BlackComedy:
** "I Remember Larry" recounts how the singer was bullied (sometimes quite viciously and dangerously) and how he killed the bully.
** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" details Santa Claus going on a killing spree at the North Pole.


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* TheCameo: Florence Henderson in the video for "Amish Paradise".
* CarefulWithThatAxe: The end of "Cavity Search."
* ComedicSociopathy: “I Remember Larry”.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: The suggestive butter-churning in the "Amish Paradise" video.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In "I Remember Larry" he apparently responds to Larry's constant pranks by murdering him.
* TheDogBitesBack: The last verse of "I Remember Larry". [[spoiler:The singer ends up tying Larry's mouth with a rag, "[dragging] him by the ankles to the middle of the forest and [stuffing] him in a big plastic bag".]]
* DownerEnding: "The Night Santa Went Crazy". Depending on which version you listen to, it ends with Santa Claus either in jail for several hundred years, or dead.


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* FilkSong: "Gump" is one for ''Film/ForrestGump''.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Gump" features the line "His girlfriend Jenny was kind of a slut."
* HellOfAHeaven: "Everything You Know Is Wrong" has someone violating Heaven's dress code, and getting stuck with the room next to the noisy ice machine for all eternity. (Suggesting that Heaven is a mid-priced hotel.)


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* KarmicDeath: "I Remember Larry" which has Larry being murdered by the target of many of his malicious gags, with the target making it sound like it was only another malicious gag.
* LyricalDissonance: The last verse of "I Remember Larry". Also "The Night Santa Went Crazy".
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* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.Yankovic.
* SpokenWordInMusic: A sample of Bart Simpson calling Moe's Tavern from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is used near the latter end of "Phony Calls".
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''Bad Hair Day'' is the ninth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 1996.

!!Tracklist:
# "Amish Paradise"[[note]]Parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"[[/note]]
# "Everything You Know Is Wrong"
# "Cavity Search"[[note]]Parody of Music/{{U2}}'s "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"[[/note]]
# "Callin' In Sick"
# "The Alternative Polka"
# "Since You've Been Gone"
# "Gump"[[note]]Parody of The Presidents Of The United States Of America's "Lump"[[/note]]
# "I'm So Sick Of You"
# "Syndicated Inc."[[note]]Parody of Soul Asylum's "Misery"[[/note]]
# "I Remember Larry"
# "Phony Calls"[[note]]Parody of TLC's "Waterfalls"[[/note]]
# "The Night Santa Went Crazy"

!!''Tropin' in an Amish Paradise.''
* AffectionateParody: Coolio wasn't too fond of his song "Gangsta's Paradise" being used by "Weird Al" as a parody without his permission, to put it lightly.
* AntiChristmasSong: "The Night Santa Went Crazy".
* AntiLoveSong: "I'm So Sick Of You".
* BadSanta: "The Night Santa Went Crazy".
* BreakupSong: "Since You've Been Gone".
* FaceOnTheCover: "Weird Al" having [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a bad hair day]].
* InTheStyleOf:
** "Everything You Know Is Wrong" - They Might Be Giants
** "Callin' In Sick" - Grunge
** "I'm So Sick Of You" - Music/ElvisCostello
** "I Remember Larry" - Hilly Michaels
** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" - Soul Asylum's "Black Gold"
* {{Medley}}: "The Alternative Polka".
* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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