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  • 'Buddy Holly', obviously, especially the video, which hung about the band's neck for a long time and convinced Rivers Cuomo that they would only be seen as a novelty band. But the band give fine performances and Patrick Wilson is quite the ladies' man behind that kit.
  • Other music videos:
    • The music video for "Hash Pipe", with its fairly surreal concept of the band playing in the middle of a sumo wrestling match.
    • Any of the Spike Jonze-directed videos. And anything Matt Sharp and Pat Wilson do during performance segments of even the more straight-ahead videos like "The Good Life".
      • "The Good Life" video is equal parts Performance Video shots of the band in a studio and Concept Video segments about a hapless pizza delivery driver: At one point, Matt and Pat start doing a slow motion Airplane Arms run around the studio, and it then fittingly cuts to the delivery driver having an accident due to getting distracted by a skywriting airplane.
    • "Keep Fishin'": Weezer performs with The Muppets... And Animal has to sit in on drums because Pat Wilson is being held captive by his Abhorrent Admirer Miss Piggy note . Even Rivers, who tends to look serious even in their silliest of music videos, can't help but have a huge grin on his face most of the time.
    • The video for "Africa" is a re-creation of the video for "Undone", but with actors standing in for the actual band, including "Weird Al" Yankovic playing Rivers. Weird Al's 90's-era Rivers costume is pretty accurate, yet also sort of looks like how Al dressed in the "White And Nerdy" video. Also, he eventually pulls an accordion out of Hammerspace and mimes the synth solo with it.
  • Album covers:
    • The cover of Raditude features a found photo of a dog in mid-air with a goofy expression on his face - this coupled with the fonts used for the cover text makes it almost look like a meme instead of a rock album cover.
    • The cover of Hurley is nothing but a photo of Jorge Garcia.
    • The album cover for Make Believe, it perfectly encapsulates the 2000s Emo trend with the band wearing all-black outfits over what looks like the background of a Myspace page.
    • The "Red Album" cover is also silly looking: They put a twist on the usual "four guys in front of a solid color background" concept by having everyone dress as alter-egos, making them look like a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits you'd never expect to see in the same band - from left to right there's bearded, fedora-wearing hipster Brian, clean cut and overly-serious Dork in a Sweater Pat, Porn Stache cowboy Rivers, and tattooed, skater-clothes-wearing, lost Jackass cast member Scott.
  • 'Troublemaker', from the red album, the joke of which is that the singer thinks he's this unique genius but everything he does is so conventionally rebellious and the song itself is so bog-simple that he comes across as a self-deluding idiot who ends up having a party by himself—which isn't really a party, obviously.
    • The lyrics also include the following ludicrous Bad Ass Boast:
      I pick up a guitar, what does it signify?
      I'm gonna play some heavy metal riffs, and you will die!
  • 'The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived', which is both ridiculous and glorious.
  • The matter-of-fact, Spit Take-inducing way Rivers talks about going into his crush's room and reading her diary in "El Scorcho":
    I asked you to go to the Green Day concert
    You said you'd never heard of them, how cool is that?
    So I went to your room and read your diary!
  • Matt Sharp in this performance of "Say It Ain't So". Especially in contrast to Rivers, who appears stiff and uncomfortable due to having to wear a leg brace - Matt may have been hamming things up even more than usual because the performance might have been boring to watch otherwise.

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