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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AllanSherman's ''My Son, The Nut''.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AllanSherman's Creator/AllanSherman's ''My Son, The Nut''.
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** When Al had finished recording "Mission Statement", a parody of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" with a touch of ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}-style office humor, he encountered Graham Nash of Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung, who had coincidentally asked Al to do a parody of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". Al played "Mission Statement" over the phone, and Nash loved the song.
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** At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including VideoGame/PacMan and [[WebOriginal/HomestarRunner Trogdor]].
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** At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including VideoGame/PacMan and [[WebOriginal/HomestarRunner [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Trogdor]].
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* BadassBoast: "Word Crimes" has "'Weird Al' Yankovic has a big dic[[spoiler:tionary]]."
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* BadassBoast: "Word Crimes" has "'Weird Al' Yankovic has a big dic[[spoiler:tionary]]."" Meanwhile, "Handy" is just one long boast about the protagonist's {{Handyman}} skills.
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* LyricalDissonance: Common on all Al's albums, this one included, but he's drawn special attention in interviews to "Mission Statement" -- particularly how he's always wanted to do a song about corporate jargon, and he made it a Music/CrosbyStillsAndNash parody because their expansive, folk-rock aesthetic is stylistically the ''complete opposite'' of big-business gobbledygook.
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We're great (We're great!)
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We're great (We're great!) great!)\\
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-->''I gave her a penetrating stare, which could only mean\\
"You are my answer, my answer to everything,\\
"You are my answer, my answer to everything,\\
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-->''I gave her a penetrating stare, which could only mean\\
"Youmean''
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-->''I gave her a penetrating stare, which could only mean''
-->''"You are my answer, my answer to everything''
-->''Which is why I'll probably do very poorly on the written part of my driver's test"''
-->''"I wanna ride dolphins with you, in the moonlight''
-->''Until the staff at Sea World kicks us out"''
* BaitAndSwitch: "Foil" sounds like a standard food parody song until the WhamLine.
-->''"You are my answer, my answer to everything''
-->''Which is why I'll probably do very poorly on the written part of my driver's test"''
-->''"I wanna ride dolphins with you, in the moonlight''
-->''Until the staff at Sea World kicks us out"''
* BaitAndSwitch: "Foil" sounds like a standard food parody song until the WhamLine.
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-->''I gave her a penetrating stare, which could only mean''
-->''"Youmean\\
"You are my answer, my answer toeverything''
-->''Whicheverything,\\
Which is why I'll probably do very poorly on the written part of my driver's test"''
-->''"I wanna ride dolphins withyou, you in the moonlight''
-->''Untilmoonlight\\
Until the staff at Sea World kicks us out"''
* BaitAndSwitch: "Foil" sounds likea one of Al's standard food food-related parody song songs until the WhamLine.
-->''"You
"You are my answer, my answer to
-->''Which
Which is why I'll probably do very poorly on the written part of my driver's test"''
-->''"I wanna ride dolphins with
-->''Until
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* BaitAndSwitch: "Foil" sounds like
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-->''I pointed to the side of my mouth, as a way of indicating''
-->''"Hey, I think you got something on the side of your mouth"''
* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: "Word Crimes" caused a minor controversy due to the use of "You Stupid Spastic". Weird Al apologised on Twitter, saying he didn't know it was a slur.
-->''"Hey, I think you got something on the side of your mouth"''
* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: "Word Crimes" caused a minor controversy due to the use of "You Stupid Spastic". Weird Al apologised on Twitter, saying he didn't know it was a slur.
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-->''I pointed to the side of my mouth, as a way of indicating''
-->''"Hey,indicating\\
"Hey, I think you got something on the side of your mouth"''
* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: "Word Crimes" caused a minor controversy due to the use of the line "YouStupid Spastic".write like a spastic". Weird Al apologised on Twitter, saying he didn't know it was a slur.
-->''"Hey,
"Hey, I think you got something on the side of your mouth"''
* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: "Word Crimes" caused a minor controversy due to the use of the line "You
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-->''We’re gonna kick your collective posterior''
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-->''Again, of course, we're speaking in the figurative sense''
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-->''We’re gonna grind up your guys into burger meat''
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-->''We’re gonna kick your collective posterior''
-->''Ofposterior\\
Of course you realize we're speakingfiguratively''
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We’re gonna grind up your guys into burger
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** At the beginning of "Word Crimes", a dictionary's pages are turning through the A's. The definition of "Accordion" has a picture of Al next to it. On a shot of a piece of homework paper, the homeroom teacher is listed as "Mrs. Krabappel". The Reddit user goes by the handle George Newman. On the graphic for the lyric "lost cause", which uses a promo graphic from LOST, the print next to the ABC logo reads "learn your [ABC]s, doofus" instead of the network slogan.
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** At the beginning of "Word Crimes", a dictionary's pages are turning through the A's. The definition of "Accordion" has a picture of Al next to it. On a shot of a piece of homework paper, the homeroom teacher is listed as "Mrs. Krabappel". The Reddit user goes by the handle George Newman.[[Film/{{UHF}}George Newman]]. On the graphic for the lyric "lost cause", which uses a promo graphic from LOST, the print next to the ABC logo reads "learn your [ABC]s, doofus" instead of the network slogan.
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-->''I would live-tweet a funeral''
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-->''Takefuneral\\
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-->''I'm so handy''
-->''You already know''
-->''I'll fix your plumbing when your toilets overflow.''
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-->''I'll fix your plumbing when your toilets overflow.''
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-->''I'm so handy''
-->''Youhandy\\
You alreadyknow''
-->''I'llknow\\
I'll fix your plumbing when your toilets overflow.''
-->''You
You already
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I'll fix your plumbing when your toilets overflow.''
** The rap verse of the same song contains a split infinitive, left in by Al to deliberately annoy grammar wonks.
-->''That just makes me '''want to "literally" smack''' a crowbar upside your stupid head!''
-->''That just makes me '''want to "literally" smack''' a crowbar upside your stupid head!''
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** At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including Pac-Man and Trogdor.
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** At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including Pac-Man VideoGame/PacMan and Trogdor.
[[WebOriginal/HomestarRunner Trogdor]].
*** There's also visual references to Doge and the"Use your brains, "Get a brain, morans!" picture.
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-->''Who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon.''
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-->''I know a guy who knows a guy''
-->''Whoguy\\
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-->''Oh, and if somehow we are still failing''
-->''To effectively articulate the points at hand''
-->''Allow us now to summarize them in a manner''
-->''That your feeble brains can understand''
-->''We’re great (We're great!)''
-->''And you suck (You suck!)''
-->''We're great (We're great!)''
-->''And you suck (You suck!)'' [etc.]
-->''To effectively articulate the points at hand''
-->''Allow us now to summarize them in a manner''
-->''That your feeble brains can understand''
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-->''And you suck (You suck!)''
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-->''And you suck (You suck!)'' [etc.]
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-->''Oh, and if somehow we are still failing''
-->''Tofailing\\
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-->''Allowhand\\
Allow us now to summarize them in amanner''
-->''Thatmanner\\
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-->''We’reunderstand:\\
We’re great (We'regreat!)''
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-->''Allow
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-->''Unless you're seven''
-->''Or your name is Music/{{Prince}}''
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-->''Writenever\\
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Or your name is Music/{{Prince}}''
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* ConspiracyTheorist: The entire second verse of "Foil" talks about TheIlluminati finally being primed for world domination, black helicopters coming from across the border, the government's refusal to admit to faking the Moon landing. Just in case aliens get involved, he's got a Tinfoil Hat to protect him, and someday he'll prove there's one giant conspiracy.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: The entire second verse of "Foil" talks about TheIlluminati finally being primed for world domination, black helicopters coming from across the border, and the government's refusal to admit to faking the Moon landing. Just in case aliens get involved, he's got a Tinfoil Hat to protect him, and someday he'll prove there's one giant conspiracy.
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** The video for "Foil" has Al hosting a cooking show which is directed by Patton Oswalt (who is also secretly one of The Reptilians). And then he's later sedated and taken away by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant.
** The video for "Tacky" brings together Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal and Jack Black!
** The video for "Tacky" brings together Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal and Jack Black!
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** The video for "Foil" has Al hosting a cooking show which is directed by Patton Oswalt Creator/PattonOswalt (who is also secretly one of The Reptilians). And then he's later sedated and taken away by [[Series/Reno911 Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant.
Garant]].
** The video for "Tacky" brings together [[{{WesternAnimation/Archer}} AishaTyler, Margaret Cho, Tyler]], Creator/MargaretCho, [[Series/ModernFamily Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal Stonestreet]], Creator/KristenSchaal and Jack Black!Creator/JackBlack!
** The video for "Tacky" brings together [[{{WesternAnimation/Archer}} Aisha
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** The part at the end of the video where Creator/PattonOswalt [[LatexPerfection removes his face]] to reveal a lizard head underneath might seem like a random gag, unless you know the conspiracy theory about shape-changing reptilian aliens who've taken over society.
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* FirstWorldProblems: The title of the song on this album, in which the singer complains about the most insignificant of such problems.
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* FirstWorldProblems: The title of the song on this album, in which the singer complains about the most insignificant of such problems. Things like his apartment being so big he can't get wifi in the kitchen, or buying too much food to fit in his fridge.
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** Mixed in the middle of the absurd ones is staring at her chest to imply "I like your boobs".
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AllanSherman's ''My Son, The Celebrity''.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AllanSherman's ''My Son, The Celebrity''.
Nut''.
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This was also Al's first album to utilize the internet for promotion. A week before the album's official release, eight of the album's twelve tracks has music videos released, each released on a different website.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AlanShermen's ''My Son, The Celebrity''.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AlanShermen's Music/AllanSherman's ''My Son, The Celebrity''.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AlanSherman's ''My Son, The Celebrity''.
With this album, Al fulfilled his contract to his record label and announced that he would no longer be releasing studio albums. Feeling that the landscape of satire had changed so drastically with the internet, he realized that waiting to have a whole album's worth of songs wasn't practical when his material relied so much on relevance. He has since said that all of his future recordings will be released through digital EPs and singles.
With this album, Al fulfilled his contract to his record label and announced that he would no longer be releasing studio albums. Feeling that the landscape of satire had changed so drastically with the internet, he realized that waiting to have a whole album's worth of songs wasn't practical when his material relied so much on relevance. He has since said that all of his future recordings will be released through digital EPs and singles.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2014. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AlanSherman's Music/AlanShermen's ''My Son, The Celebrity''.
With this album, Al fulfilled his contract to his record label and announced that he would no longer be releasing studio albums. Feeling that the landscape of satire had changed so drastically with the internet, he realized that waiting to have a whole album's worth of songs wasn't practical when his material relied so much on relevance. He has since said that all of his future recordings will be released through digitalEPs [=EPs=] and singles.
With this album, Al fulfilled his contract to his record label and announced that he would no longer be releasing studio albums. Feeling that the landscape of satire had changed so drastically with the internet, he realized that waiting to have a whole album's worth of songs wasn't practical when his material relied so much on relevance. He has since said that all of his future recordings will be released through digital
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 2014. It is also considered his final album, as Al has announced that he would start releasing parodies in a more untraditional manner.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 2014. It is also considered his final It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Music/AlanSherman's ''My Son, The Celebrity''.
With this album,as Al has fulfilled his contract to his record label and announced that he would start no longer be releasing parodies in studio albums. Feeling that the landscape of satire had changed so drastically with the internet, he realized that waiting to have a more untraditional manner.
whole album's worth of songs wasn't practical when his material relied so much on relevance. He has since said that all of his future recordings will be released through digital EPs and singles.
With this album,
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* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: "Word Crimes" caused a minor controversy due to the use of "You Stupid Spastic". Weird Al apologised on Twitter, saying he didn't know it was a slur.
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-->''Until the staff at Sea World kicks us out''out"''
* BaitAndSwitch: "Foil" sounds like a standard food parody song until the WhamLine.
* BaitAndSwitch: "Foil" sounds like a standard food parody song until the WhamLine.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 2014. It is also considered his final album, as Al has announced that he would start releasing parodies in a more untraditional manner.
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 2014. It is also considered his final album, as Al has announced that he would start releasing parodies in a more untraditional manner.
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** "First World Problems" - Pixies
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** "First World Problems" - PixiesMusic/ThePixies
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* AssholeVictim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by its end when he doesn't look where he's going with his smartphone.
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* AssholeVictim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by its end when he doesn't look where he's going going, being so engrossed with his smartphone.
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* RandInducingSlight: "First World Problems" contains a long list of utterly trivial annoyances that induce mouth-foaming rage in Al.
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* RandInducingSlight: RantInducingSlight: "First World Problems" contains a long list of utterly trivial annoyances that induce mouth-foaming rage in Al.
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* {{Medley}}: "Now That's What I Call Polka!"
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* {{Medley}}: "Now That's What I Call Polka!"Polka!" Songs featured in it are:
** "Too Fat Polka" by Arthur Godfrey
** "Wrecking Ball" by Music/MileyCyrus
** "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People
** "Best Song Ever" by Music/OneDirection
** "Gangnam Style" by Psy
** "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen
** "Scream & Shout" by will.i.am featuring Music/BritneySpears
** "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra
** "Timber" by Pitbull featuring Kesha
** "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO
** "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz
** "Get Lucky" by Music/DaftPunk featuring Pharrell Williams
** "Mandatory Polka" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
** "Too Fat Polka" by Arthur Godfrey
** "Wrecking Ball" by Music/MileyCyrus
** "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People
** "Best Song Ever" by Music/OneDirection
** "Gangnam Style" by Psy
** "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen
** "Scream & Shout" by will.i.am featuring Music/BritneySpears
** "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra
** "Timber" by Pitbull featuring Kesha
** "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO
** "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz
** "Get Lucky" by Music/DaftPunk featuring Pharrell Williams
** "Mandatory Polka" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
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* TitleOnlyChorus: "First World Problems".
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* TitleOnlyChorus: "First World Problems".Problems".
* TomatoSurprise: A minor one in "Jackson Park Express". The woman on the bus is assumed to have no anomalous features, and more than halfway into the (9-minute) song:
-->''And I'm pretty sure she looked at me out of the corner'' [{{beat}}] ''of her good eye.''
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: "Sports Song" is essentially one long, preemptive parade of this, put into song.
* WhamLine: "Foil" sounds like Al's usual food parody song until the second verse, when Al reveals it is a SelfParody.
-->''"By the way, I cracked the code"''
* TomatoSurprise: A minor one in "Jackson Park Express". The woman on the bus is assumed to have no anomalous features, and more than halfway into the (9-minute) song:
-->''And I'm pretty sure she looked at me out of the corner'' [{{beat}}] ''of her good eye.''
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: "Sports Song" is essentially one long, preemptive parade of this, put into song.
* WhamLine: "Foil" sounds like Al's usual food parody song until the second verse, when Al reveals it is a SelfParody.
-->''"By the way, I cracked the code"''
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* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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* TheOner: The "Tacky" music video. Which is an Homage to the song it's parodying, Pharrell's "Happy", as most of the segments of his "24 Hours of Happy" are Oners.
* ParodyAssistance: Music/ImagineDragons assisted with the creation of "Inactive", a parody of their own song "Radioactive", to help reproduce as authentic a sound of the original as possible.
* PoesLaw: "Foil", if the Website/YouTube comments are anything to go by.
* PrecisionFStrike: An implied one appears in the liner notes to this album, which says "AFP appears courtesy of herself". Anyone familiar enough with Music/AmandaPalmer should know what the F stands for.
* RandInducingSlight: "First World Problems" contains a long list of utterly trivial annoyances that induce mouth-foaming rage in Al.
* RecordProducer: "Weird Al"Yankovic.Yankovic.
* RummageSaleReject: Appropriately enough, everyone appearing in the video for "Tacky," including two different awful outfits worn by Al.
* SelfParody:
** Not Al himself, but his music video for "Mission Statement", which combines every meaningless business platitude under the sun into a Crosby, Stills & Nash pastiche, features whiteboard art from [=TruScribe=], a company famous for laboriously illustrating similar lectures and advertisements on behalf of economic firms and the like.
** His parody "Foil" sounds like a return to Al's old food-themed parodies. At first.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: "Mission Statement" is all about using all sorts of overly-sophisticated corporate buzzwords.
* ShoutOut:
** At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including Pac-Man and Trogdor.
*** There's also visual references to Doge and the "Use your brains, morans!" picture.
*** There's also a grammar exam for [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mrs. Krabappel's]] class.
*** At the point of the song for "literacy's your mission", there's a visual reference to ''Series/MissionImpossible''.
*** Plus the visual reference for ''Series/{{Lost}}'' at the section "you're a lost cause".
** The song "Tacky" includes the line "If I'm bitten by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you." In the video, Al accompanies this line with a dance move taken from Music/MichaelJackson's "Thriller" video.
** One of the two handymen dancing in the backgrounds of the "Handy" music video wears [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario's]] red-overall-blue-dungarees combo.
** "Handy" has the line [[Music/JayZ "I got 99 problems but a switch ain't one!"]]
* SixDegreesOfKevinBacon: In "Lame Claim To Fame", with 6 degrees, no less.
-->''I know a guy who knows a guy''
-->''Who knows a guy who knows a guy''
-->''Who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon.''
* SophisticatedAsHell: "Sports Song" is a reimagining of the classic college fight song, except with lyrics that directly insult the opposing team. After giving a number of different wordy explanations of how much better the home team is than the visitors, it sums up the argument by repeating "We're great, and you suck!" Several times.
-->''Oh, and if somehow we are still failing''
-->''To effectively articulate the points at hand''
-->''Allow us now to summarize them in a manner''
-->''That your feeble brains can understand''
-->''We’re great (We're great!)''
-->''And you suck (You suck!)''
-->''We're great (We're great!)''
-->''And you suck (You suck!)'' [etc.]
* SpiritualSuccessor: "Handy" is this to "Hardware Store". And more directly to the unreleased "I'll Repair For You".
* StealthParody: "Foil" is not just a parody of "Royals," it's also a SelfParody of Al's food-themed parodies.
* SubliminalSeduction: The video for "Foil" intercuts the line "Be aware" with single frame shots of Al covered in blood.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Used for a different purpose in "Word Crimes":
-->''You should never''
-->''Write words using numbers''
-->''Unless you're seven''
-->''Or your name is Music/{{Prince}}''
* TinfoilHat: The second verse of "Foil" focuses around fashioning an aluminum foil hat to protect himself against thought control rays and psychotronic scanning.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "First World Problems".
* ParodyAssistance: Music/ImagineDragons assisted with the creation of "Inactive", a parody of their own song "Radioactive", to help reproduce as authentic a sound of the original as possible.
* PoesLaw: "Foil", if the Website/YouTube comments are anything to go by.
* PrecisionFStrike: An implied one appears in the liner notes to this album, which says "AFP appears courtesy of herself". Anyone familiar enough with Music/AmandaPalmer should know what the F stands for.
* RandInducingSlight: "First World Problems" contains a long list of utterly trivial annoyances that induce mouth-foaming rage in Al.
* RecordProducer: "Weird Al"
* RummageSaleReject: Appropriately enough, everyone appearing in the video for "Tacky," including two different awful outfits worn by Al.
* SelfParody:
** Not Al himself, but his music video for "Mission Statement", which combines every meaningless business platitude under the sun into a Crosby, Stills & Nash pastiche, features whiteboard art from [=TruScribe=], a company famous for laboriously illustrating similar lectures and advertisements on behalf of economic firms and the like.
** His parody "Foil" sounds like a return to Al's old food-themed parodies. At first.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: "Mission Statement" is all about using all sorts of overly-sophisticated corporate buzzwords.
* ShoutOut:
** At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including Pac-Man and Trogdor.
*** There's also visual references to Doge and the "Use your brains, morans!" picture.
*** There's also a grammar exam for [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mrs. Krabappel's]] class.
*** At the point of the song for "literacy's your mission", there's a visual reference to ''Series/MissionImpossible''.
*** Plus the visual reference for ''Series/{{Lost}}'' at the section "you're a lost cause".
** The song "Tacky" includes the line "If I'm bitten by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you." In the video, Al accompanies this line with a dance move taken from Music/MichaelJackson's "Thriller" video.
** One of the two handymen dancing in the backgrounds of the "Handy" music video wears [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario's]] red-overall-blue-dungarees combo.
** "Handy" has the line [[Music/JayZ "I got 99 problems but a switch ain't one!"]]
* SixDegreesOfKevinBacon: In "Lame Claim To Fame", with 6 degrees, no less.
-->''I know a guy who knows a guy''
-->''Who knows a guy who knows a guy''
-->''Who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon.''
* SophisticatedAsHell: "Sports Song" is a reimagining of the classic college fight song, except with lyrics that directly insult the opposing team. After giving a number of different wordy explanations of how much better the home team is than the visitors, it sums up the argument by repeating "We're great, and you suck!" Several times.
-->''Oh, and if somehow we are still failing''
-->''To effectively articulate the points at hand''
-->''Allow us now to summarize them in a manner''
-->''That your feeble brains can understand''
-->''We’re great (We're great!)''
-->''And you suck (You suck!)''
-->''We're great (We're great!)''
-->''And you suck (You suck!)'' [etc.]
* SpiritualSuccessor: "Handy" is this to "Hardware Store". And more directly to the unreleased "I'll Repair For You".
* StealthParody: "Foil" is not just a parody of "Royals," it's also a SelfParody of Al's food-themed parodies.
* SubliminalSeduction: The video for "Foil" intercuts the line "Be aware" with single frame shots of Al covered in blood.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Used for a different purpose in "Word Crimes":
-->''You should never''
-->''Write words using numbers''
-->''Unless you're seven''
-->''Or your name is Music/{{Prince}}''
* TinfoilHat: The second verse of "Foil" focuses around fashioning an aluminum foil hat to protect himself against thought control rays and psychotronic scanning.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "First World Problems".
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* DontExplainTheJoke: In "Sports Song", among the Sophisticated as Hell trash talk, Al twice explains he isn't being literal:
-->''We’re gonna kick your collective posterior''
-->''Of course you realize we're speaking figuratively''
-->[...]
-->''We’re gonna grind up your guys into burger meat''
-->''Again, of course, we're speaking in the figurative sense''
* EpicRocking: "Jackson Park Express".
* EveryoneHatesMimes: One of the lines in "My Own Eyes":
-->''I saw a mime get hacked to death. With an imaginary cleaver.''
* ExpospeakGag: "Mission Statement" is a series of buzzwords and vaguely positive-sounding metaphors that all roughly translate to "we need to make more money".
-->''We’re gonna kick your collective posterior''
-->''Of course you realize we're speaking figuratively''
-->[...]
-->''We’re gonna grind up your guys into burger meat''
-->''Again, of course, we're speaking in the figurative sense''
* EpicRocking: "Jackson Park Express".
* EveryoneHatesMimes: One of the lines in "My Own Eyes":
-->''I saw a mime get hacked to death. With an imaginary cleaver.''
* ExpospeakGag: "Mission Statement" is a series of buzzwords and vaguely positive-sounding metaphors that all roughly translate to "we need to make more money".
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* FacialDialogue: "Jackson Park Express" is about the narrator seeing a woman on a bus. The song is nine minutes long, but describes the "conversations" taking place between a man and a woman discussing the hypothetical process of forming a romantic relationship, engaging in sexual activity, breaking up, and moving on with their lives. All this is implied to all take place over the course of a few minutes.
** ...and that it's all one-sided and all in the narrator's head (and the woman in question probably sees him as a creepy guy staring at her).
* FatSlob: "Inactive" is about a lazy slob who's completely given up on exercising and keeping himself healthy.
* FootballFightSong: "Sports Song" is done in the style of one.
-->''"We're great, and you suck!"''
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** At the beginning of "Word Crimes", a dictionary's pages are turning through the A's. The definition of "Accordion" has a picture of Al next to it. On a shot of a piece of homework paper, the homeroom teacher is listed as "Mrs. Krabappel". The Reddit user goes by the handle George Newman. On the graphic for the lyric "lost cause", which uses a promo graphic from LOST, the print next to the ABC logo reads "learn your [ABC]s, doofus" instead of the network slogan.
** After Al starts singing about TheIlluminati in "Foil", there's a few red frames of Al's face looking the worse for wear.
* TheFunInFuneral: Mentioned in Tacky.
-->''I would live-tweet a funeral''
-->''Take selfies with the deceased''
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Word Crimes" has numerous examples. "Your participle's dangling" (with appropriate visual), "some cunning linguist", and the video ends with "'WEIRD AL' YANKOVIC HAS A BIG DIC... TIONARY".
** "Jackson Park Express" has "I like your boobs" and "I want you inside me [[spoiler:like a tapeworm]]."
* GrammarNazi: The entirety of "Word Crimes" focuses specifically on this trope.
* {{Handyman}}: "Handy" is all about being one, though louder and less laid-back.
-->''I'm so handy''
-->''You already know''
-->''I'll fix your plumbing when your toilets overflow.''
** ...and that it's all one-sided and all in the narrator's head (and the woman in question probably sees him as a creepy guy staring at her).
* FatSlob: "Inactive" is about a lazy slob who's completely given up on exercising and keeping himself healthy.
* FootballFightSong: "Sports Song" is done in the style of one.
-->''"We're great, and you suck!"''
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** At the beginning of "Word Crimes", a dictionary's pages are turning through the A's. The definition of "Accordion" has a picture of Al next to it. On a shot of a piece of homework paper, the homeroom teacher is listed as "Mrs. Krabappel". The Reddit user goes by the handle George Newman. On the graphic for the lyric "lost cause", which uses a promo graphic from LOST, the print next to the ABC logo reads "learn your [ABC]s, doofus" instead of the network slogan.
** After Al starts singing about TheIlluminati in "Foil", there's a few red frames of Al's face looking the worse for wear.
* TheFunInFuneral: Mentioned in Tacky.
-->''I would live-tweet a funeral''
-->''Take selfies with the deceased''
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Word Crimes" has numerous examples. "Your participle's dangling" (with appropriate visual), "some cunning linguist", and the video ends with "'WEIRD AL' YANKOVIC HAS A BIG DIC... TIONARY".
** "Jackson Park Express" has "I like your boobs" and "I want you inside me [[spoiler:like a tapeworm]]."
* GrammarNazi: The entirety of "Word Crimes" focuses specifically on this trope.
* {{Handyman}}: "Handy" is all about being one, though louder and less laid-back.
-->''I'm so handy''
-->''You already know''
-->''I'll fix your plumbing when your toilets overflow.''
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* HypocriticalHumor: In the video for "Word Crimes", a song about proper grammar, one of the degrees on the wall is a "Bachelor of Writing Good". [[note]]Proper grammar would make it a "Bachelor of Writing Well".[[/note]]
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In "Tacky", both described in the lyrics and worn in the video.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In "Tacky", both described in the lyrics and worn in the video.
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* IntimateMarks: The video for "Tacky" has Kirsten Schaal living up to the title by wearing a top with hot pink handprints over the breasts.
* KitschyLocalCommercial: The "Handy" video is done in this style, mainly by way of hammy acting and deliberately bad special effects.
* LastSecondWordSwap: At the end of the "Word Crimes" video:
-->''"Weird Al" Yankovic has a big dictionary.''
* MacGyvering: "Handy" is about a MrFixit who mentions this particular skill by name.
* KitschyLocalCommercial: The "Handy" video is done in this style, mainly by way of hammy acting and deliberately bad special effects.
* LastSecondWordSwap: At the end of the "Word Crimes" video:
-->''"Weird Al" Yankovic has a big dictionary.''
* MacGyvering: "Handy" is about a MrFixit who mentions this particular skill by name.
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* TheMenInBlack: Two agents come and drug Al, then drag him off the stage at the end of the video in "Foil".
* MoodWhiplash: "Foil" starts out as a typical Lorde parody about food before suddenly taking a left turn into Conspiracy Theorist territory. The video emphasizes this, with a television director played by Patton Oswalt who reacts negatively to the new topic. [[spoiler:He's in on the conspiracy.]]
* MoodWhiplash: "Foil" starts out as a typical Lorde parody about food before suddenly taking a left turn into Conspiracy Theorist territory. The video emphasizes this, with a television director played by Patton Oswalt who reacts negatively to the new topic. [[spoiler:He's in on the conspiracy.]]
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* AssholeVictim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by its end.
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* FourOneNineScam: In "Lame Claim To Fame", he claims that the email he got from the Nigerian prince certainly ''sounded'' legit.
* AnalProbing: Mentioned in "Foil".
* AssholeVictim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by itsend.end when he doesn't look where he's going with his smartphone.
* BadassBoast: "Word Crimes" has "'Weird Al' Yankovic has a big dic[[spoiler:tionary]]."
* {{Bathos}}: "Jackson Park Express" has a number of them:
-->''I gave her a penetrating stare, which could only mean''
-->''"You are my answer, my answer to everything''
-->''Which is why I'll probably do very poorly on the written part of my driver's test"''
-->''"I wanna ride dolphins with you, in the moonlight''
-->''Until the staff at Sea World kicks us out''
* BilingualBonus: One of the images in the album's booklet has Al triumphantly holding a wrench in the style of old Chinese Communist posters. The Chinese text beneath him says, "I'm not wearing underwear".
* BrainBleach: "My Own Eyes" is all about this, talking about things the singer wishes he could unsee.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Tacky" goes on at length about stereotypically tacky clothing and behavior, but towards the end we hear "If I'm bitten by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you".
* TheCameo:
** The video for "Foil" has Al hosting a cooking show which is directed by Patton Oswalt (who is also secretly one of The Reptilians). And then he's later sedated and taken away by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant.
** The video for "Tacky" brings together Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal and Jack Black!
* CommissarCap: One of the images for this album shows Al wearing a commissar cap.... while exposing his GoofyPrintUnderwear with his pants around his ankles.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The entire second verse of "Foil" talks about TheIlluminati finally being primed for world domination, black helicopters coming from across the border, the government's refusal to admit to faking the Moon landing. Just in case aliens get involved, he's got a Tinfoil Hat to protect him, and someday he'll prove there's one giant conspiracy.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "Sports Song" can basically be summed up by saying we're great, you suck, you really suck, and in case you missed it, YOU SUCK.
** In "Jackson Park Express":
-->''I pointed to the side of my mouth, as a way of indicating''
-->''"Hey, I think you got something on the side of your mouth"''
* AnalProbing: Mentioned in "Foil".
* AssholeVictim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by its
* BadassBoast: "Word Crimes" has "'Weird Al' Yankovic has a big dic[[spoiler:tionary]]."
* {{Bathos}}: "Jackson Park Express" has a number of them:
-->''I gave her a penetrating stare, which could only mean''
-->''"You are my answer, my answer to everything''
-->''Which is why I'll probably do very poorly on the written part of my driver's test"''
-->''"I wanna ride dolphins with you, in the moonlight''
-->''Until the staff at Sea World kicks us out''
* BilingualBonus: One of the images in the album's booklet has Al triumphantly holding a wrench in the style of old Chinese Communist posters. The Chinese text beneath him says, "I'm not wearing underwear".
* BrainBleach: "My Own Eyes" is all about this, talking about things the singer wishes he could unsee.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Tacky" goes on at length about stereotypically tacky clothing and behavior, but towards the end we hear "If I'm bitten by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you".
* TheCameo:
** The video for "Foil" has Al hosting a cooking show which is directed by Patton Oswalt (who is also secretly one of The Reptilians). And then he's later sedated and taken away by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant.
** The video for "Tacky" brings together Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal and Jack Black!
* CommissarCap: One of the images for this album shows Al wearing a commissar cap.... while exposing his GoofyPrintUnderwear with his pants around his ankles.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The entire second verse of "Foil" talks about TheIlluminati finally being primed for world domination, black helicopters coming from across the border, the government's refusal to admit to faking the Moon landing. Just in case aliens get involved, he's got a Tinfoil Hat to protect him, and someday he'll prove there's one giant conspiracy.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "Sports Song" can basically be summed up by saying we're great, you suck, you really suck, and in case you missed it, YOU SUCK.
** In "Jackson Park Express":
-->''I pointed to the side of my mouth, as a way of indicating''
-->''"Hey, I think you got something on the side of your mouth"''
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''Mandatory Fun'' is the fourteenth album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 2014. It is also considered his final album, as Al has announced that he would start releasing parodies in a more untraditional manner.
!!Tracklist:
# "Handy"[[note]]Parody of Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX's "Fancy"[[/note]]
# "Lame Claim To Fame"
# "Foil"[[note]]Parody of Lorde's "Royals"[[/note]]
# "Sports Song"
# "Word Crimes"[[note]]Parody of Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams' "Blurred Lines"[[/note]]
# "My Own Eyes"
# "Now That's What I Call Polka!"
# "Mission Statement"
# "Inactive"[[note]]Parody of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive"[[/note]]
# "First World Problems"
# "Tacky"[[note]]Parody of Pharrell Williams' "Happy"[[/note]]
# "Jackson Park Express"
!!''Now that's what I call tropes!''
* AssholeVictim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by its end.
* FaceOnTheCover: "Weird Al" in military dictator garb, parodying propaganda posters.
* FirstWorldProblems: The title of the song on this album, in which the singer complains about the most insignificant of such problems.
* HappinessIsMandatory: The album title and cover suggests this.
* InTheStyleOf:
** "Lame Claim To Fame" - Southern Culture on the Skids
** "My Own Eyes" - Music/FooFighters
** "Mission Statement" - Music/CrosbyStillsAndNash
** "First World Problems" - Pixies
** "Jackson Park Express" - Cat Stevens
* {{Medley}}: "Now That's What I Call Polka!"
* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
!!Tracklist:
# "Handy"[[note]]Parody of Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX's "Fancy"[[/note]]
# "Lame Claim To Fame"
# "Foil"[[note]]Parody of Lorde's "Royals"[[/note]]
# "Sports Song"
# "Word Crimes"[[note]]Parody of Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams' "Blurred Lines"[[/note]]
# "My Own Eyes"
# "Now That's What I Call Polka!"
# "Mission Statement"
# "Inactive"[[note]]Parody of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive"[[/note]]
# "First World Problems"
# "Tacky"[[note]]Parody of Pharrell Williams' "Happy"[[/note]]
# "Jackson Park Express"
!!''Now that's what I call tropes!''
* AssholeVictim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by its end.
* FaceOnTheCover: "Weird Al" in military dictator garb, parodying propaganda posters.
* FirstWorldProblems: The title of the song on this album, in which the singer complains about the most insignificant of such problems.
* HappinessIsMandatory: The album title and cover suggests this.
* InTheStyleOf:
** "Lame Claim To Fame" - Southern Culture on the Skids
** "My Own Eyes" - Music/FooFighters
** "Mission Statement" - Music/CrosbyStillsAndNash
** "First World Problems" - Pixies
** "Jackson Park Express" - Cat Stevens
* {{Medley}}: "Now That's What I Call Polka!"
* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
