Just EAT IT!!!
"Weird Al" Yankovic is quite possibly the funniest musician ever to walk the earth, especially since he's willing to go that extra mile with some Black Comedy and Lyrical Dissonance that would disturb if not outright terrify a certain listener.
- "Christmas at Ground Zero" is about Christmastime during an imminent nuclear war. The lyrics describe the urgency of the situation, such as "The radio has just let us know / That this is not a test", and "Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny". It's considered to be one of Al's darkest songs, to the point in which some broadcasters have refused to air it due to its subject matter. The song ends with the following lyrics, and an air raid siren:What a crazy flukeWe're gonna get nukedOn this jolly holiday.
- Weird Al's other Twisted Christmas song is "The Night Santa Went Crazy", which describes how Santa Claus went on a massacre, with rather graphic descriptions of how he killed most of his reindeer. The "Extra Gory" version is especially scary, since it ends in Santa having been shot in the head and killed by a member of the SWAT team, with mention of "his brains on the floor".
- The video to "Foil" starts off as a typical silly song about what to do with leftovers featuring Al on a cooking show. Suddenly, the lights dim, and it takes a Halfway Plot Switch into the subject of conspiracy theories. At the end of the video, it turns out that Al was Properly Paranoid the entire time; after The Men in Black drug him and take him away, the producer turns out to have been a reptilian in disguise. "There's always someone that's watching you", indeed.
- After the halfway point, Al's facial expressions and acting are very disconcerting; he repeatedly stares directly into the camera (including giving a Kubrick Stare early on), and even completely stops blinking, making him look rather crazed.
- During the line "...be aware", when Al is seen in close-up, there are two disturbing Freeze Frame Bonuses shown in quick succession depicting him covered in blood
◊ while appearing to be screaming in pain◊.
- The "Handy" video has an unnerving scene with Al's eyes growing; not widening, see for yourself.
- "Nature Trail to Hell" is about the plot of a fictional horror film, so naturally, it has a creepy atmosphere. It starts out describing the premise of the movie, which involves a slasher who brutally murders a Cub Scout troop. The song also describes the film's 3D effects with the phrases "severed heads that almost fall right in your lap", and "that bloody hatchet coming right at you". And then there's the part where the bridge wraps up, since it features an axe swinging and Al screaming bloody murder.
- "Cavity Search" is nothing more than a detailed visit to the dentist's office, complete with the whirring of drills and excruciating pain one might have with their oral hygiene.
- The video for "Eat It" is a spoof of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and, like his other videos, is downright funny. However, the scare comes at the end of the video with a Shout-Out to MJ's "Thriller" video. Al all of a sudden turns to the camera and has a pair of big, creepy yellow eyes, as pictured above. What makes this even scarier than the aforementioned video is the more disturbing appearance of them and that unlike there, fans of this video weren't expecting it.
- "Melanie" starts off creepy (the narrator had bought a telescope to stargaze, but ended up using it to watch a woman in the building across the street while she showered), gets creepier (he shaves her cat's fur into a mohawk for some reason), constantly phones her (she ignores his calls), gets even creepier (he asks if she's "too dumb" to understand his devotion and has to rummage through her trash to find things out), and when she remains unmoved by his having "Melanie" tattooed on his forehead, finally ends with him committing suicide by jumping off the floor above her apartment. And even that doesn't end the stalking...
- "Trash Day" is just... really something you might not want to listen to if Hoarders gives you the creeps.
- "Do I Creep You Out?" is scary enough as a song on its own as it's about a Stalker with a Crush telling the woman about all the disturbing things he does without her knowledge. The music video is even scarier as we see that the woman Al is following is clearly much younger than him and we actually see him doing all the acts he talks about in the songs. Probably the most frightening part is when we see that he has a Stalker Shrine to her in his apartment and has also mapped out the route from her home all the way to where she works. And let's not forget the creepy Slasher Smile Al does before shoving her fingers in his mouth. The character designs do not help in the slightest.
- "Perform This Way" has the following line which we really hope neither Al nor Gaga would actually do in their concerts.I'll wrap my small intestines 'round my neck and set fire to myself on stage.
- "Jackson Park Express" is told from the POV of a man who thinks that everything a woman does is part of a complicated Facial Dialogue, that she's passionately in love with him and shares his bizarre fantasies. It starts out mostly harmless, but some of the guy's (already-bizarre) ideas of "romantic gestures" become increasingly violent to the point where sound like they came right out of an Eli Roth movie:I could never hold you close enough
Let's have our bodies surgically grafted together
(...)
Oh, I never, ever want to see you cry
So, please let me cauterise your tear ducts with an arc welder
(...)
I'd like to rip you wide open
And French-kiss every single one of your internal organs
Oh, I'd like to remove all your skin, and wear your skin, over my own skin
But not in a creepy way - "One More Minute" mainly fuels on Tear Jerker, but some of the things Al Would Rather Suffer rather than spending, well, one more minute, with his ex girlfriend are extremely gruesome and sound like Happy Tree Friends fates. "Highlights" include spending eternity eating shards of broken glass, and ripping out his intestines with a fork.
- This video where he talks about why his show was cancelled starts out fine... until he takes out a kitchen knife and starts hacking it into his arm, causing it to bleed. And just imagine everyone's reaction to the ending where he collapses...
- Alluding to Nirvana's "Endless, Nameless" from Nevermind, Off the Deep End has a very jarring hidden track named "Bite Me", designed to scare listeners into ejecting the CD if they forgot to. Needless to say, with loud music and Al screaming at top of his lungs, it works pretty well. Basically what happens if you take all punk and metal influence from Grindcore, but keep its aggressive tempo and heaviness.
- The video for "Bedrock Anthem" is a clear parody of "Give It Away" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's mostly lighthearted until you see that there are a few closeups of Al's mouth where there are monstrous teeth.
