History Music / DareToBeStupid

* LyricalDissonance: ''Cable TV'' is a peppy, upbeat song about a depressed, borderline suicidal guy whose life is empty and obsessively watches television as an unhealthy coping mechanism.

''Dare to Be Stupid'' is the third studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It was released in 1985 through Rock 'n' Roll Records in the US and Scotti Bros. Records in Europe and was the first comedy album released on UsefulNotes/CompactDisc. It contains the song "This Is The Life", which was featured in the Creator/MichaelKeaton movie ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''. The TitleTrack would later be used as part of the soundtrack of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' in 1986.

-->''So I pulled your name out of my rolodex''\\
''And I tore all your pictures in two''\\
''And I burned down the malt shop where we used to go''\\
''Just because it reminds me of you...''

-->''I'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass''\\
''Than spend one more minute with you''\\

''I'd rather rip out my intestines with a fork''\\
''Than watch you going out with other men''

-->''Well, I left home just a week before''
-->''And I've never ever been a Jedi before''

-->''My friends are getting kinda worried,''\\
''They think I'm turning into some kind of freak.''\\
''Aw, but [[YoureJustJealous they're just jealous]], 'cause I've seen'' Film/{{Porkys}}\\

** The video for “Dare to Be Stupid” has one of Al’s characters watching stock footage on an [[Film/ThisIslandEarth interociter]].

Than spend one more minute with you."

* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Girls Just Want To Have Lunch" is a sort of SelfParody example, as Al was mandated to do a parody of Music/CyndiLauper and so did it in the laziest way possible.

''Aw, but they're just jealous, 'cause I've seen'' Film/{{Porkys}}\\

''Dare to Be Stupid'' is the third studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It was released in 1985 through Rock 'n' Roll Records and was the first comedy album released on UsefulNotes/CompactDisc. It contains the song "This Is The Life", which was featured in the Creator/MichaelKeaton movie ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''. The TitleTrack would later be used as part of the soundtrack of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' in 1986.

''Dare to Be Stupid'' is the third studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It was released in 1985 and was the first comedy album released on UsefulNotes/CompactDisc. It contains the song "This Is The Life", which was featured in the Creator/MichaelKeaton movie ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''. The TitleTrack would later be used as part of the soundtrack of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' in 1986.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Suggested in the lyrics of "One More Minute" when he's stranded in "the gas station of love" and he has to use "the self-service pumps".

** "Dare to Be Stupid's" line "You'd better sell some wine before its time" is a parody of Creator/OrsonWelles's commercials for Paul Masson wines, whose tagline was "We will sell no wine before its time".

** For “George of the Jungle”, Al got Bill Scott, the original voice of George, to do vocal effects.

* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: From "Cable TV,"

* WouldRatherSuffer: “One More Minute” has the singer repeatedly mention all the painful or disgusting things he would rather do to himself than spend... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin one more minute]] with his ex-girlfriend.

Than spend one more minute with you."

* {{Flatline}}: In addition to the HeartbeatSoundtrack at the end of "Like a Surgeon" doing this, the music video begins with Weird Al walking in in an apparently dead patient. He uses PercussiveMaintenance--first on the monitor, then [[MagicalDefibrillator on the patient]]--to revive him.

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''Dare to Be Stupid'' is the third studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It was released in 1985 and was the first comedy album released on UsefulNotes/CompactDisc. It contains the song "This Is The Life", which was featured in the Creator/MichaelKeaton movie ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''. The TitleTrack would later be used as part of the soundtrack of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' in 1986.

# "Yoda"[[note]]Parody of Music/TheKinks' [[Music/LolaVersusPowermanAndTheMoneygoroundPartOne "Lola"]][[/note]]

* BreakupBonfire: From "One More Minute":
-->''So I pulled your name out of my rolodex ''
-->''And I tore all your pictures in two ''
-->''And I burned down the malt shop where we used to go ''
-->''Just because it reminds me of you...''
* BreakUpSong: "One More Minute".

-->''I'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass''
-->''Than spend one more minute with you''
-->[...]
-->''I'd rather rip out my intestines with a fork''
-->''Than watch you going out with other men''

-->''My friends are getting kinda worried,''
-->''They think I'm turning into some kind of freak.''
-->''Aw, but they're just jealous, 'cause I've seen'' Film/{{Porkys}}
-->''Twenty-seven times this week.''

* {{Flatline}}: In addition to the HeartbeatSoundtrack at the end of "Like a Surgeon" doing this, the music video begins with Weird Al walking in in an apparently dead patient. He uses PercussiveMaintenance--first on the monitor, then on the patient--to revive him.

* FilkSong: "Yoda", a parody of Music/TheKinks' "Lola", is one for ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.